[various 1840s-70s]. Sammelband of 6 pamphlets containing 1) A Few Examples of Mediaeval Deeds, by Fairless Barber [signed with some annotations by Barber], 1879, 2) John Ruskin: A Bibliographical Biography, by Willam Axon, 1879, 3) Comparison of the Earliest Inscribed Monuments of Britain and Ireland, by D.H. Haigh 1876, 4).....

London: Henry Colburn, 1818. First edition. First edition, the Abel Berland copy (Christies, 10/9/2001). The second most celebrated English diarist, Evelyn’s Diary remained unpublished until 1818, when editor William Bray obtained permission from Evelyn’s family to publish a small portion thereof in the instant two volumes. The diary covers a......

Banstead, Surrey: By the author [Essex House Press], 1905. First Edition. First edition. #9 of 300 hand-numbered copies, of which this one of an unstated few bound in full stiff vellum with green silk ties and gilt-lettered spine. Filled to the brim with 50 illustrations of buildings and.....

London: A. Wilson, 1831. Revised edition to include history through the end of the reign of George IV who died a year prior to publication, amassing an fifteen additional pages. Includes hand colored "chronological chart of the history of England executed purposely for this work." While Goldsmith's work is.....

Oxford and London: Printed for R. Clements, 1753. Hall boldly and incorrectly claimed, when the book was first issued in 1597, that he was the first English satirist (writing in the Latin tradition), “I first adventure, follow me who list; And be the second English satirist.” At the time.....

London: William Pickering, 1851. First Edition. Based on the author’s research into Druid temples on her native British island of Jersey. This work includes the perhaps more influential poem “The Dying Druid” by R.A. Davenport: “. . . this little poem . . . published some years ago in a......

Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1825. First American Edition. Scarce American printing the same year as printed in London. 12mo. Vol. 1: iv, 306pp.; Vol. 2: vi [i.e. iv], 303pp., [1, blank].

London: William Tweedie, 1857. First edition. An expose on the underworld of Victorian London. “It will certainly astonish the reader to find what innumerable sins are committed daily and nightly [in London].” The Observer, Sunday, May 30, 1869. However, as later scholarship notes, “annals of the slums ....

London: Lackington, Allen, and Co., 1805. Second Edition. Notable for containing a lengthy biography of Mary Wollstonecraft by the feminist biographer Mary Hays (1759-1843). 8vo. v, [3], 653pp., [11, index, errata, ad]. Scarce with less than a dozen copies held worldwide per Worldcat in May 2021.