Literature & Language

Poems on several occasions. Written by the Reverend John Donne, D. D. Late Dean of St. Paul’s. With elegies on the author’s death. To this edition...

Vorst, Johannes: De Latinitate merito suspecta, deque vitiis sermonis Latini, quae vulgo fere non animadvertuntur, liber, quem alter, De Latinitate...

Anthony Wood, who sometimes chose to style himself “à Wood”, is described as “a very strong lusty man, of uncouth manners and appearance ... not av...

The text of this comprehensively illustrated edition follows the sixth edition (1811) revised by Boswell’s son. It is accompanied by the notes of v...

Quintilian; Marcus Fabius Quintilianus: [Institutio Oratoria] [colophon: impressum Florentaie [Florence] opera & sumptu Philippi Iuntae …] 1515...

Johnson’s last great work contains a great deal of anecdotal information which might otherwise have been lost. It was first published as ‘Prefaces,...

A handsome example of the best and most beautiful – according to Brunet – edition of Spenser’s works. The Reverend Henry Todd’s ‘Poetical Works of ...

15 volumes, in 8vo, of Turgenev’s novels. Printed in 250 copies. Comprising: Rudin A House of Gentlefolk On the Eve Fathers and Children Smoke Vir...

Sammelband comprising five pamphlets bound together, of which four are inscribed to Rudolph Kommer: Lammasch, Henrich: La Maintien de la Paix, Gen...

This is the first French edition, second state, of the first part of Paine’s Rights of Man, with a preface specially written by Paine for this tran...

A dictionary of the English language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, explained in their different meanings, … Abstracted from...

Rogers' poem was printed in both quarto and octavo formats in 1819, the year of its first publication. Eclipsed by some of his great contemporaries...

[Greek title] Dictionarium Varini Phavorini Camertis Nucerini episcopi, magnum illud ac perutile multis variisque ex autoribus collectum, totius li...

Condition & Materials Rider, Cardanus: Riders (1737.) British Merlin: adorn'd with many delightful varieties and useful verities, for the year ...

First edition of Wilkie Collins’ No Name. One of Bryars & Bryars' favourite novels, and in our opinion better than his more well-known works Co...

Probably the first collected edition in English of Gandhi’s speeches and writings. You know a lesser bookseller would omit the qualification, but n...

Condition & Materials 8vo. pp. xi, 482. Abridged version of J.T. Molesworth's work of 1857. Quarter vellum over marbled boards, short split to...

Hobson-Jobson: being a glossary of Anglo-Indian colloquial words and phrases, and of kindred terms; etymological, historical, geographical and disc...

Condition & Materials 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s cloth, with dustwrapper. The colonial issue, with unpriced dustwrapper and white blockin...

One of those Victorian novels which is both rare and interesting.  The novel deals with (somewhat traditionally) a disputed inheritance, but also (...

Presentation copy inscribed to the Cecils This copy was sold at Sotheby's rooms in 1986 for £260 plus buyer's premium. Condition & Materials Pr...

Condition & Materials First edition, 8vo. A couple of leaves roughly trimmed (evidently a production fault), very slight fading to cloth spine...

The Bending of the Bow A Version of the Closing Books of Homer’s Odyssey. Condition & Materials 4to. Number 15 of 75 copies signed by Neil...

Condition & Materials Very nice copy in unclipped dustwrapper by Leonard Rosoman; spine lettering to dustwrapper faded as often, and chipped at...

Illustrated limited edition Condition & Materials Folio, wrappers; loose as issued in a paper folder, cloth chemise and slipcase. Text printed ...

Gothofredus, Dionysius (ed.): Auctores Latinae linguae in unum redacti corpus: quorum auctorum veterum & neotericorum Elenchum sequens pagina d...

Diogenes Laertius; Eunapius of Sardis: [...] De Vitis, dogm. & apophth. clarorum philosophorum, Libri X. Heschyii ill. de iisdem philos. & ...

Presentation copy inscribed to Edmund Grosse. The Brotherton Library in Leeds possesses another copy, inscribed "From the author", and with Gosse's...