Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday, 1970. First Edition (so stated). Hardcover. First Printing of the polymath's idiosyncratic guide to the Bard's plays and narrative poems, complete in two volumes. Thick royal 8vo (233 x 145mm): xiv,723,[1]; xiv,843,[1]pp, with 40 full-page maps by Raphael Palacios and 16 charts. Publisher's brown finely woven..... more

London: printed for C. Hitch, G. Hawkins, C. Bathurst, J. Tonson, J. Worral, R. Baldwin, T. Longman, J. Bathoe, C. Corbett, T. Lownds, G. Kearsly, T. Becket, W. Nichol, and M. Richardson, MDCCLXIV [1764]. Full Calf. "Best edition" (Lowndes), with Grey's annotations and Hogarth's plates, of the most celebrated satire..... more

London. Early Reprints. Paper-Covered Boards. Collection of five plays by Cibber, of various editions, dates, and imprints, each with copper-engraved frontispiece and title page printed in red and black (except Perolla and Izadora). 12mo: 72; 71[1]; 70,[2]; xxxvi,[2],58; 83,[1]pp. Xerxes: printed for W. Feales, at Rowe’s-Head, over-against St. Clement’s Church..... more

London: printed for S. Illidge, under Serle’s Gate Lincolns-Inn New-Square, 1723. Quarter-Calf. The Third Edition, "illustrated with several new copper cuts," of Brathwait’s most famous work, featuring "perhaps amounts to the world’s most celebrated pub crawl.” (Bowes). Foolscap 8vo (149 x 89mm): [20],175,[11]pp, with frontispiece (reproducing the original engraved title..... more

London: Kegan Paul,Trench,Trubner, MDCCCXCV [1895]. First Edition thus. Decorative Cloth. Crown 8vo (179 x 115mm): xiii,[5],120pp, with 49 illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Publisher's forest green cloth and end papers, gilt lettering and vignettes to spine and upper cover, all edges gilt. Book label of Wiston Old Rectory (a Grade II..... more

London: printed for Bernard Lintott, between the Temple Gates, in Fleetstreet, 1716. Cambridge-style Calf. Second Edition, revised and enlarged, of Dryden's prose translation of du Fresnoy's poem on the art of painting, prefaced by Dryden's Parallel of Poetry and Painting and with Richard Graham's biographical chronology of painters, "A short..... more

London: printed for T. Wotton, at the three Daggers, and Queen’s-Head; J. Lacy, at the Ship; J. Shuckburgh, at the Sun; and C. Motte, at the Middle Temple-Gate, all in Fleet-Street, M.DCC.XXVI. [1726]. First Edition thus. Half-Calf. The first edition of the key to interpreting Garth's famous and widely reprinted..... more

London: Jacob Tonson, 1721. Third Edition. Small, slim 8vo: [16],60,[4]pp, with frontispiece, six full-page copper-engraved plates, woodcut head- and tail pieces. Later polished calf, flat spine (rebacked) lettered in gilt, speckled boards framed with French fillet, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt, marbled end papers (end papers and fly leaves renewed)..... more

London: Printed for W. Griffin, at Garrick's Head, in Catharine street, Strand, MDCCLXX [1770]. First Edition. Morocco. First Issue (with erroneous catchword "Careless" for "Thus" on p. 9) of one of the most influential poems of the eighteenth century. 4to: vii,[1]-23[1]pp, with half-title (bulked at end with 22 blank leaves)..... more

London: Groombridge and Sons, Paternoster Row, 1853. Decorative Cloth. First Edition of this scarce and unusual geography primer. Foolscap 8vo (161 x 98mm): x,100pp, with engraved folding frontispiece depicting the globe's hemispheres. Original publisher's burgundy cloth stamped in gilt and blind, citron yellow end papers. Spine sunned, first few leaves..... more

Boston: Roberts Brothers [through 1871], 1870. First Edition thus. Decorative Cloth. First and Early Printings of the first American edition of this Victorian reworking of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, four parts in three volumes (as issued), the complete Author's Edition, with title pages dated as follows: Volume I (1870); Volume II..... more

London: printed for E. Curll, in Covent-Garden, MDCCXLIV. [1744]. Full Calf. 12mo: xxx,42;72pp, with frontispiece portrait of the poet, frontispiece to the separately paginated Cyder, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary speckled calf, covers framed with double fillets in gilt, spine with five raised bands ruled in gilt, recent red morocco..... more

London: Printed for Bernard Lintott at the Cross Keys between the Two Temple Gates in Fleetstreet, 1710. First Edition. Sheep. First Edition in English of this neo-Latin poem on procreation, pregnancy, and the raising of children, the translation of which (from the French) is attributed in subsequent editions to William..... more