![Item #352 [Unrecorded]. Early Snow Drops; or, Spring’s Offerings. Anonymous, “Lady...](https://nelsonrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/352.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1713284889)
London: 1854. First edition. An apparently unrecorded collection of four vignettes as well as a poem on Wellington’s death. An apparently amateur work, the preface asks for a “humble apology for having placed before you a great deal of bad grammar, and, no doubt, worse writing.” No. 1 in.....
![Item #321 [Purported First English Novel about a Dog]. The History of Pompey the Little; Or, the...](https://nelsonrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/321.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1713287822)
London: M. Cooper, 1751. First Edition. London: , 1751. First edition. Purportedly the first English novel about a dog. Grolier notes this work is “one of the earliest examples of that type of satirical novel in which abuse is hurled at real persons through the medium of animals or inanimate.....
![Item #340 [Autographed Letter Signed by Maria Edgeworth]. Maria Edgeworth](https://nelsonrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/340.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1713284897)
[n.p.]: [n.d.]. Partial autograph letter signed by Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849), the prolific Anglo-Irish novelist of adult and children’s literature. 6.75” x 4.25”. [2].
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1744. First Edition. First edition. Henry wasn’t the only talented writer in the family, as his sister demonstrates in David Simple. This edition precedes those later editions which were substantially revised by Henry. Sabor, ed., The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last (1998.....
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824. First Edition. First edition. A historical romance set in the 17th-century Balkan Peninsula, about the Duke Christian of Luneburg’s efforts to free the Bohemians, Croats, and others from domination by the Turks. “His Majesty George IV was so pleased with.....
