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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SCOTT, Sir Walter.
The Lady of the Lake … with all his Introductions...
Edinburgh, Robert Cadell, 1851.
An attractive Scottish 'Mauchline ware'...
£750
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[SHEFFIELD, John, Earl of Mulgrave, afterwards Duke of Buckingham.]
An Essay on Poetry.
London, Printed for Joseph Hindmarsh … 1682.
First edition, a verse satire in imitation...
£1200
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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe.
Queen Mab.
London, W. Clark, 1821.
First published edition, a piracy second...
£950
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SHENSTONE, William.
The Works, in Verse and Prose… in three...
London: Printed for J. Dodsley … 1777.
Fifth edition of the Works (1764),...
£325
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SHERBURNE, Edward, Sir.
Salmacis, Lyrian & Sylvia, Forsaken Lydia,...
London, W. Hunt, for Thomas Dring, 1651.
First edition of a charming book of Caroline...
£4250
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[SHIPLEY, William].
Comparative Observations on two of the...
York: Printed in theYear 1767
First edition of an undergraduate prank...
£350
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SMITH, Albert.
A large archive of printed and manuscript...
[1820s to 1860s.]
Albert Richard Smith (1816–1860) trained...
£15000
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SOUTHEY, Robert.
The Lay of the Laureate. Carmen Nuptiale …
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees,...
First trade edition of Southey’s laureate...
£200
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SPENSER, Edmund.
The Works of Edmund Spenser.
Oxford, The Shakespeare Head Press, 1930...
Limited edition, numbered 123 of 375 copies,...
£875
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SULLIVAN, J.P., editor.
Ezra Pound, a critical Anthology.
[London, Penguin, 1970.]
First edition.
£30
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[SWIFT, Jonathan].
Miscellanies in Prose and Verse.
London: Printed for John Morphew ... 1711.
First edition, ordinary paper issue, the...
£1250
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SWIFT, Jonathan.
The Works of J. S, D. D, D. S. P. D. in...
Dublin: Printed by and for George Faulkner,...
First 12mo. edition of the first collected...
£1250
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[SWIFT, Jonathan.]
On Poetry: a Rapsody.
Printed at Dublin, and Re-printed at London:...
First edition. On Poetry, one of...
£750
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SWIFT, Jonathan (attr.).
The Life and genuine Character of Doctor...
London: Printed for J. Roberts … and...
First edition. Authorship of this fine...
£1000
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SYMONS, Arthur, editor.
The Savoy.
London, Leonard Smithers, 1896.
First edition of this outstanding, though...
£3000
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TENNYSON, Alfred, [later Lord]; A. L. BOND, illustrator.
The Miller’s Daughter …
London, Published by W. Kent & Co late...
A handsome edition of The Miller’s...
£120
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TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord.
Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington…
London: Edward Moxon … 1852.
First edition of Tennyson’s ode to the...
£100
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TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord.
Maud, and other Poems …
London: Edward Moxon … 1855.
First edition, containing the first appearance...
£150
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TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord.
Ballads and other Poems.
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. … 1880.
First edition. Wise, Tennyson 138; Tinker 2093.
£75