London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1745. First London edition, this issue with "off from being ruined" as the final line of text; there is a Dublin edition dated 1744 noted in Kress and on the ESTC. 8vo, removed pamphlet, xii + 52 pages. A defense of the policies of the..... More
[London: J. Sewell? 1792-1793]. Perhaps first edition of each number. 5 numbers extracted together from a nonce volume, still bound together with traces of calf along the spine, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16 pages. General title lacking, presumably not printed (along with the prelims) until the completion of the first..... More
London: Printed for J. Wright, 1798. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet, [ii] + 92 pages. Beeke is best remembered for his financial writings, especially for his Observations on the Produce of the Income Tax, and on its Proportion to the whole Income of Great Britain (1799). He here argues that..... More
London: Printed and Sold by H. Hills, [n. d.]. Stated seventh edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet, [16] pages, untrimmed. Small ink number in a contemporary hand at the foot of the title page. The register of the final leaf a trifle high; the pagination may have been trimmed from the upper..... More
London: Printed by H. Hills, 1708. 2 vols in 1, 8vo, extracted from a larger nonce collection, 15 [i.e. 16] + 16 pages, untrimmed. Black-ruled border to the title page of the first item, which was published the year of Beveridge's death; Hills does not refer to Beveridge as "late"..... More
Edinburgh: Privately Printed, 1884. First edition thus, one of 75 large paper copies published in the Bibliotheca Curiosa series. 8vo, original printed parchment wrappers, 29 pages, untrimmed. A new edition of the 1610 English translation of a French anti-Roman Catholic tract in the wake of the assassination of Henri IV..... More
London: Smith, Elder, 1871. First edition. 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt lettering. A lengthy dramatic monologue. Later bookplate on the front paste-down. NCBEL III, 443. More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1904. First edition. 2 vols, 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt lettering, xii, 390 & ix, [1], 372 pages. Frontis portrait in each volume, 38 plates. Illus. The first standard biography of the painter, from his widow Georgiana Burne-Jones (née Macdonald--she was one of the remarkable Macdonald..... More
London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and Thomas Heath, 1656. First edition of the Carey translation. Small folio, early calf rebacked with a new spine and recornered, gilt morocco spine label, [20], 176, 167-201, 200-214, 217-452 pages. LACKS the frontis portrait. A translation of portions of Boccalini's satirical De' ragguagli di..... More
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London: Printed at the "Catnach Press," by W. S. Fortey, [ca. 1850-1865?]. Broadside, approx. 7.5 x 10.13 inches, wove paper. Woodcut headpiece. "I am dressed in my best, tho' I cannot pretend, That my costume is quite comme il faut; You observe that my watch has been left with a...... More
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[London]: Taylor, Printer, 93, Brick Lane, Bethnal Green, [1859]. First edition. Broadside, approx. 10 x 7.25 inches on stock falling somewhere on the fragile side between India paper and tissue paper. Small woodcut device. A rousing slip ballad attacking the fashionable elite and touting the controversial radical English attorney Edwin..... More
[London?]: Printed in the Year, 1713. First edition in English. 8vo, later brown wrappers, 128 pages. Folding table. A pamphlet widely circulated as Whig propaganda, attacking the plans of the Tory administration to give up Spain to the House of Anjou; cf. Moore's article on the attribution to this item's..... More
London: Printed for the Proprietors, and sold by the Booksellers in Town and Country, 1753. Stated eighth edition. 12mo, removed (no wrappers), 60 pages. Perhaps published in competition with the Foulis edition of the same year, this cheap edition of the ballad opera with the book only (without the music)..... More
London: Sold by J. Hatchard & Son; by J. Parker, Oxford; and by J. & J. J. Deighton, Cambridge, 1832. First edition. 8vo, disbound, 31, [1] pages. Inglis was a long-time Tory member of the House of Commons, and came down repeatedly against both Catholic relief and, as here, electoral..... More
[London? n. p., 1680]. First edition. Folio, removed, 4 pages. Who ever heard a Brother (which is of so remote a degree) call Heir apparent? Lastly, how wild is this? If we were bound as aforesaid to the D. because he may be Heir; so there being thousands may be..... More
London: Published for the Early English Text Society, by Trübner & Co., 1870. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 139 pages. Partially unopened. Middle English pieces, with glossary, etc. More
Oxford;: B. H. Blackwell; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1903. First edition. 8vo, publisher's binding of 18th century decorated Italian paper, printed paper label, untrimmed, 66 pages. A drama from the English writer long resident in Italy; a Spanish story involving a hidden identity. A few neat marginal pencil marks..... More
London: Printed for J. Stockdale, 1782. First edition. 8vo, recent blue wrappers, [2] + 35 pages. Pitt's conservative response to Sinclair's call for Parliamentary reform (see below); he here argues that universal suffrage will inevitably lead to demagoguery: "It will then be too late to reason or remonstrate, when the..... More
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1704. First edition. 8vo, 19th century half calf, marbled boards, gilt spine, black morocco spine label, gilt lettering, [6], 616, [8] pages. Engraved frontispiece. “A Stranger to the looser Joys of Love, / My Thoughts alone the Warmth of Friendship prove.” A miscellany including the..... More
Bury: Printed by J. Kay, Fleet Street, 1838. Second edition? Unbound pamphlet, approx. 6.5 x 4 inches, 8 pages, unopened. "The Kingdom to be divided into Unions for the purposes of this Act, and Guardians to be chosen for each, as the Commissioners may appoint; *provided always,* that no such..... More
London: Published by Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, and Egerton, 1814. Stated second edition at the head of the title. 8vo, contemporary black morocco spine, marbled boards, vellum corners, gilt lettering. Folding table. Quentin had been charged with incapacity and misconduct in the field, charges stemming in part from his opposition..... More
London: Printed for John Joseph Stockdale, 1807. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet, 13 pages + 2 pages of ads. A poem written to commemorate Pitt, who had died in 1806; this title was erroneously attributed to Canning. More
London: Printed and Sold by H. Hills, 1707. 8vo, disbound, [16] pages, untrimmed. One small ink number and another small ink mark in a contemporary hand at the foot of the title. More
London: Printed and Sold by H. Hills, 1707. 8vo, removed pamphlet, 16 pages, untrimmed. One small ink number in a contemporary hand at the foot of the title. More
London: Printed for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co., 1871. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, xlvii, [1], 100 pages. NCBEL I, 413. More
