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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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
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MACNEICE, Louis.
Out of the Picture. A Play in two Acts.
London, Faber and Faber Limited, [1946].
First edition, third impression.
£25
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MADDEN, Dodgson Hamilton.
The Diary of Master William Silence: A...
London, New York, & Bombay, Longmans,...
First edition of Madden’s reimagination...
£120
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[MAGRATH, Cornelius.]
‘Ein Irländer Riss …’
Nuremberg, 1756.
A delightful promotional image for the...
£3000
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MARINO, Giambattista; Gasparo MURTOLA.
La Murtoleide fischiate del cavalier Marino...
‘Norinbergh’ [i.e. Venice], Ioseph...
Rare first edition of these Baroque burlesque...
£900
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MARIVAUX, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de.
Le Paysan parvenu: or, the fortunate Peasant....
London: Printed for John Brindley …...
First edition in English, originally published...
£650
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MARKHAM, Gervase.
Cavalarice, or the English Horseman: Contayning...
London, Edward Allde for Edward White,...
A beautiful copy of the second edition,...
£9750
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MARKISH, Peretz Davidovich.
Brat’ia [Brothers].
Moscow, Goslitizdat, 1935.
First edition in Russian of Markish’s...
£1200
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MARSHALL, W.
Monsell Digby. A Novel, in three Volumes ...
London: Remington and Co. ... 1880.
First edition. Set in industrial and rural...
£400