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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POUND, Ezra; Forrest READ, editor.
Pound / Joyce. The Letters of Ezra Pound...
London, Faber & Faber, [1969].
First English edition.
£40
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POUND, Ezra, and Ernest FENELLOSA.
Introduzione ai Nô, con un drama in un...
Milan, All’insegna del pesce d’oro...
Third edition, translations of Pound’s...
£30
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[POUND.]
Ezra Pound at Seventy.
[New York, New Directions, 1955.]
A small celebratory booklet printing tributes...
£30
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SULLIVAN, J.P., editor.
Ezra Pound, a critical Anthology.
[London, Penguin, 1970.]
First edition.
£30
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KIPLING, Rudyard.
A Kipling Note Book, No. 2.
New York, M.F. Mansfield & A. Wessels, 1899.
Contains notes on Kipling’s early works,...
£25
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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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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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COBDEN-SANDERSON, Annie; Marianne TIDCOMBE, editor.
The Prison Diary of Annie Cobden-Sanderson,...
[Marlborough,] Libanus Press, 2017.
The imprisonment of Annie Cobden-Sanderson,...
£25
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OWEN, John.
John Owen’s Epigrams for Prince Henry....
Douglas, Isle of Man, published by Bernard...
Printed here for the first time is the...
£20
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ALBERT, Sidney P.
‘Shaw’s Advice to the Players of Major...
Reprinted from Modern Drama, XIV, 2 (1791).
£20
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POUND, Ezra; Fausto MELOTTI, illustrator.
Prospectus for Homage to Sextus Propertius.
Milan, m’arte edizioni, [1976].
Prospectus in English and Italian for the...
£20
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FREEMAN, Arthur.
Catullus Carmen 17.6 and Other Mysteries....
London, The Author, 2020.
This partly historical, partly philological...
£15