London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1916. First Impression. Original Wrappers. First Separate Edition, with double-page woodcut by Noel Brooke, one of 2900 copies issued. Foolscap 8vo (170 x 124mm): 14pp. Stitched in publisher's stiff grey paper wrappers printed in black. Bottom edge of upper wrapper lightly spotted, one corner bumped, but..... more

London: Printed for R. Dodsley in Pall-mall, and sold by M. Cooper in Pater-noster-row, MDCCLI [1751]. Six parts in one volume. 4to: xvi,31,[1]; 31,[1]; 31,[1]; 32; 32; 27,[9]pp, each book with separate title page, frontispiece, and pagination, the seven full-page plates engraved by Boitard after drawings by Boitard & J...... more

London: Printed for Obadiah Blagrave at the Sign of the Bear in St. Paul s Church-Yard, near the Little North Door, 1677. First Edition. Full Calf. Best edition of Cleveland's works, "Purged from the many false & spurious ones which had usurped his name, and from innumerable errours and corruptions..... more

London: Printed for J. Hatchard, Bookseller to Her Majesty, 190, Opposite Albany, Piccadilly, 1810. Full Calf. First Edition of Crabbe's best known work, dedicated to the Duke of Rutland, a series of twenty-four verse letters, including Peter Grimes, the poem that Benjamin Britten used in 1945 as basis for his..... more

London: printed for Jacob Tonson at the Judge’s Head in Chancery-lane, near Fleet-street, 1682. First Edition. Marbled Wrappers. Presumed second issue (two lines of Latin verse on final page) of this satirical poem lampooning the Earl of Shaftesbury. Small 4to: [12],20pp. There are at least two issues: the first (Macdonald..... more

Perth: Printed by R. Morison, Junr. For R. Romison and Son, Booksellers; and Sold by J. Murray, No. 32, Fleet-street, London, M,DCC,LXXXVIII [1788]-89. First Edition thus. Full Leather. First Printing of this uncommon edition (published for Morison's Edition of Scottish Poets), with no copies currently on the market and Rare..... 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 C. Chapple, Pall Mall, by B. McMillan, Bow Street, Covent Garden, Printer to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, 1808. Paper-covered boards. First Edition of this scarce history, a "biographical and critical account of all dramatic writers from 1660 and also of the most distinguished performers..... more

London: printed for J. and R. Tonson, 1758. First Edition thus. Full Calf. First Annotated Edition, illustrated (grangerized) with the full suite of 32 double-page plates by William Kent for the 1751 edition of Spenser’s Faerie Queene, published by Stephen Wright and John Brindley (ESTC T35152). 4to: xlii,(68, including glossary),673,[1];..... 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

London: printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper in the Strand, MDCCXLIX [1749]. Early Edition. Full Calf. First Newton Edition, complete in two volumes, the first definitive edition of Milton's magnum opus (see below), an epic running nearly 11,000 lines. Medium 4to (295 x 230mm): [128],lxi,[5],16,[12],459,[1]; 444,[132]pp (including..... 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