New York: Published by Harper & Brothers … and Sold by the principal Booksellers throughout the United States. 1834. Original Cloth. First American Edition of Bulwer’s hugely successful novel, complete in two duodecimo volumes. xii,[2],9–240; 201,[3],28(publisher’s catalogue),[8][further advertisements)pp. Original publisher’s peach-colored cloth, printed paper spine labels, contemporary manuscript ex-libris to..... more

London: John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, M DCCC LXIII [1863]. First Edition thus. First Edition (under this title) of this "foundation stone" of The New English Dictionary. Slim demy 8vo (219 x 139mm); vii,[1],102,[2]pp. Contemporary green quarter roan over marbled paper-covered boards, recent red leather lettering piece gilt, top edge gilt..... more

London: John Murray, 1882. Original Cloth. Second Edition (Revised), Fifth Thousand, two volumes complete in fine original bindings, featuring first occurrence of the phrase "survival of the fittest." Crown 8vo (188 x 118): xiv,473,[1]; x,495,[1]pp, with 43 woodcut illustrations. Publisher's green cloth, covers paneled in blind (arches style), spine stamped..... more

New York: D. Appleton, 1868. First Edition thus. Pictorial Wrappers. Scarce printing of "one of the most famous and important examples of travel-writing in the nineteenth century, documenting simultaneously a particular moment in the development of the United States and what was surely a major turning-point in Dickens's career." (Literary..... more

London: Chapman & Hall, 193 Piccadilly, 1865. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Issue (with all issue points per Smith, and November, not December, catalog at end of volume II). Demy 8vo (211 x 134mm): xii,320,3-36(first advertisement leaf not bound in); viii,312,4pp, with 20 full-page plates in each volume. Publisher's original..... more

London: Published for the author, by Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, MDCCCXLVI [1846]. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Issue, with all correct points (see Eckel, Smith, and Podeschi, referenced below). Foolscap 8vo: [8],270,2]pp, with four woodcut vignettes by Samuel Palmer (showing Villa d'Este, Colosseum, Street of the Tombs at Pompeii, and..... more

London: Chapman & Hall, 193, Piccadilly [from 1860], 1866. First Edition thus. Decorative Cloth. New Edition of this collection of literary sketches and reminiscences. Crown 8vo (190 x 121mm): viii,204pp, with frontispiece by G. J. Pinwell. Original green cloth, covers elaborately stamped in blind with publisher's medallion: "The Works of..... more

London: Lawlor and Quick, 9, Old Broad Street, and Stephen Couchman, 10, Throgmorton Street, 1823. First Edition. Cloth-Backed Boards. Expurgated edition of this controversial contemporary indictment of gambling clubs in Regency London, which named some of the more profligate nobility. Not including pages 311 to 438, which in most copies..... more

London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1863. Early Reprint. Decorative Cloth. Thick 8vo: xvi,528pp, with two full-page wood-engraved plates and 58 figures in the text. Original green heavily embossed, pebble-grained cloth, upper cover with two gilt fossil vignettes, spine lettered in gilt, marbled end papers renewed with period examples. Near Fine..... more

Cambridge & London: Macmillan, 1861. First Edition. Original Cloth. Scarce First Impression of this spectacularly successful anthology, collecting the best-loved English poems from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries (from Shakespeare to Shelley, with a heavy dose of the Romantics), establishing a canon of the "best" poems in English..... more

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1864. Original Cloth. First American Edition of this controversial account, but an "absolutely vital source of evidence on the history of east Africa in the nineteenth century." (ODNB) Thick demy 8vo (233 x 140mm): xxx,31-590,[6]pp. with tissue-guarded photogravure portraits of Speke (frontispiece) and James Grant..... more

London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1858. First Edition. Three-Quarter Morocco. First Printings, complete in three volumes, one of only 1,000 sets. 8vo's: iv,340; iv,322; iv,334pp. Three-quarter blue morocco over French blue cloth, spines in six compartments paneled in gilt (four with central gilt ornament, two lettered directly in gilt)..... more