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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[SHIPLEY, William].
Comparative Observations on two of the...
York: Printed in theYear 1767
First edition of an undergraduate prank...
£350
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[SIBYLLINE ORACLES.]
Σιβυλλιακοι χρησμοι hoc...
Paris, [Compagnie du grande navire,] 1607.
Second edition, handsomely printed in three...
£1200
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SILIUS ITALICUS, C.; John CAREY, editor.
Punicorum libri XVII, sedulâ recensione...
London, T. Davison for Rodwell & Martin,...
First and only ‘Regent’s Classics’...
£100
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SIMEONI, Gabriele.
Comentarii di Gabriello Symeoni Fiorentino...
Venice, Comino da Trino di Monferrato, 1546.
Scarce first edition of Gabriele Simeoni’s...
£550
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[SINO-VIETNAMESE.]
‘朱柏盧家訓 Instructions familières...
[Vietnam?, late nineteenth century.]
A set of manuscript lessons and exercises...
£3500
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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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SMITH, Arthur Henderson.
Chinese characteristics …
Shanghai, printed and published at the...
First edition of this important and influential...
£550
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SMITH, William.
The Speeches of Mr. Smith, of South Carolina,...
Philadelphia printed, London reprinted...
First London edition, a rebuff to the punitive...
£175
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[SMOLLETT, Tobias].
The Adventures of Roderick Random … in...
London: Printed for J. Osborn … 1748.
Second edition, with ‘major imaginative...
£500
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SMOLLETT, Tobias.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker … The...
London, Printed for W. Johnston … and...
Second edition of Smollett’s acknowledged...
£275
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SOPHOCLES.
‘Αι του Σοφοκλεους τραγωδιαι...
Eton, Joseph Pote; and sold by C. Bathurst...
An attractive Eton-printed edition of Thomas...
£400
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SOPHOCLES; Adrien TURNÈBE, editor.
Τραγωδιαι. Αιαξ μαστιγοφορος....
Paris, Adrien Turnèbe, 1553 [(colophon:)...
A wide-margined copy of Sophocles in Greek...
£1850
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SOPHOCLES; Ezra POUND, translator.
Women of Trachis. A Version by Ezra Pound.
London, Neville Spearman, [1956].
First edition of Pound’s version of Sophocles’...
£1000
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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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SPRAT, Thomas.
Observations on Monsieur de Sorbier’s...
London, Printed for John Martyn, and James...
First edition. When Samuel de Sorbière...
£850
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STILLINGFLEET, Edward.
Sermons preached on several Occasions to...
London, Printed by Robert White, for Henry...
First edition thus, comprising twelve sermons...
£200
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[STRASBOURG.]
Souscription patriotique de la part du...
[S.l., s.n., 1789?.]
Rare first edition of this entertaining...
£165
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STRYPE, John.
The Life of the learned Sir John Cheke,...
London, John Wyat, 1705.
First edition of Strype’s biography of...
£450