English Literature
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British literature and history from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, with an emphasis on poetry, fiction, and drama.
We usually have a selection of literary works from the STC and Wing period (i.e. before 1701), and a broad range of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century fiction and poetry, particularly the Romantics. We also have a selection of historical manuscripts, prints and broadsides, and works in translation.
Among important works which have passed through our hands are the editor's presentation copy of Milton's Lycidas, Swift's Modest Proposal, the autograph draft of Byron's She walks in beauty, the autograph manuscript of Jane Austen's only play Sir Charles Grandison, Dickens’s copy of Vanity Fair, Trollope's classical library, and, over the years, some fifty Shakespeare First Folios.
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[LANDOR, Walter Savage.]
Savonarola e il priore di San Marco.
[Florence, Barbèra, 1860.]
First edition of a Landor rarity, a fabulous...
£1800
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LAWRENCE, D[avid] H[erbert].
Pansies.
London, P. R. Stephensen, 1929.
No. 91 of 500 signed copies of this privately...
£600
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LEWIS, Wyndham.
One-Way Song. With a Foreword by T. S. Eliot.
London, Methuen, [1960].
Second edition, ostensibly an unaltered...
£150
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LUCK, Robert.
A Miscellany of new Poems, on several Occasions...
London, Edward Cave for the Author, and...
First edition, the rare first issue, without...
£1500
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MACDIARMID, Hugh.
A Lap of Honour.
[London,] MacGibbon & Kee, [1967].
First edition, published to coincide with...
£40
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MACDIARMID, Hugh.
Three Hymns to Lenin …
Edinburgh, Castle Wynd Printers, [1957].
First collected edition, inscribed ‘With...
£200
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MACDIARMID, Hugh.
Poems to Paintings by William Johnstone 1933 …
Edinburgh, K.D. Duval, [1963].
First edition.
£25
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MACDIARMID, Hugh.
Direadh I, II and III …
[Stamperia Valdonega for] Frenich, Foss,...
First edition, no. 29 of 200 signed copies...
£175
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MACDIARMID, Hugh [i.e. Christopher GRIEVE], and Valda TREVLYN GRIEVE.
Three Christmas cards, signed from Christopher...
undated.
Three Christmas cards to Douglas Geoffrey...
£100
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MACLEISH, Archibald.
Conquistador.
Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1932.
First edition, signed ‘Archibald MacLeish...
£300
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MARIO, Jessie White.
Sepolcri inglesi in Roma.
Rome, Tipografia Barbèra, 1879.
A presentation copy of this very rare essay...
£1500
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MEREDITH, George.
Poems …
London: John W. Parker and Son … [1851].
First edition of Meredith’s first book,...
£700
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MEREDITH, George.
Modern Love, and Poems of the English Roadside,...
London, Chapman & Hall, 1862.
First edition of a daring and innovative...
£450
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MOORE, Thomas.
Lalla Rookh, an Oriental Romance … eleventh...
London, [A. & R. Spottiswoode for] Longman,...
An early edition of Thomas Moore’s popular...
£450
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[ORDE, John Powlett.]
A collection of 111 original compositions...
Eton, 1818–1820.
A delightful insight into classical education...
£1750
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OVERBURY, Sir Thomas.
Sir Thomas Overbury His Wife. With Additions...
London, Printed by John Haviland, for...
Sixteenth edition of the most popular character...
£600
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OWEN, John.
John Owen’s Epigrams for Prince Henry....
Douglas, Isle of Man, published by Bernard...
Printed here for the first time is the...
£20
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[OXFORD UNIVERSITY.]
Pietas Universitatis Oxoniensis in obitum...
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1761.
First edition, one of fifty copies on large...
£9500