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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[LONDON.]
Indenture tripartite concerning ‘two...
[London], 20 May 1659
In 1641 Richard Baskerville, described...
£650
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[LOQUET, Marie-Françoise].
Voyage de Sophie et d’Eulalie, au Palais...
Paris, Charles-Pierre Berton, 1781.
First edition of this rare utopian voyage...
£1500
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LUCRETIUS.
Titi Lucretii Cari de rerum natura libri...
Padua, Giuseppe Comino [for Volpi], 2...
First Volpi–Comino edition of Lucretius’s...
£450
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[LYTTELTON, George, Lord Lyttelton, attributed author].
The Court-Secret: a melancholy Truth. Now...
London: Printed for T. Cooper … 1741
First edition of a political satire in...
£350
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MACAULEY, Auley.
A Sermon on the peculiar Advantages of...
London, Printed for C. Dilly … and...
First edition of a rare sermon to promote...
£250
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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.]
WESTON, John C. MacDiarmid’s A Drunk...
Preston, Akros Publications, 1970.
First edition, inscribed ‘To Joyce and...
£100
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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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[MACDIARMID, Hugh.] WESTON, John C.
Hugh MacDiarmid’s A Drunk Man looks...
Preston, Akros Publications, 1970.
First edition, inscribed ‘To Joyce and...
£100
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[MACDONNEL, David Evans.]
A Dictionary of Quotations, in most frequent...
London, G. G. and J. Robinson, 1797.
First edition, rare, of the first English...
£650
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MACFARLANE, Patrick.
A new and copious English and Gaelic Vocabulary,...
Edinburgh: Printed [by R. Menzies] for...
First edition of this early English-Gaelic...
£175
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[MACKENZIE, Lieutenant-Colonel George, and others, defendants.]
The Trial, before the High Court of Justiciary...
Aberdeen: Printed by J. Burnett ... for...
Sole edition. This controversial trial...
£150
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MACLEISH, Archibald.
This Music Crept by me upon the Waters.
Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press,...
First trade edition, inscribed ‘To Geoffrey...
£250
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MACLEISH, Archibald.
Conquistador.
Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1932.
First edition, signed ‘Archibald MacLeish...
£300
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MACNEICE, Louis.
Christopher Columbus, a radio play …
[London,] Faber & Faber, [1944].
First edition of MacNiece’s early radio...
£300