First edition of the Ur-Gothic, the literary sensation credited by many for inaugurating one of the first major trends of the English novel — and the literary heart of Austen's NORTHANGER ABBEY, which is both a satire of and homage to it.
First edition, first issue of the notorious bungled literary hoax, purporting to have discovered portions of PARADISE LOST plagiarized from earlier works by Hugo Grotius et al., which Lauder had found, but only after putting them there himself.
Lovely three-volume pocket edition of Dryden's translation of the AENEID, ECOLOGUES, and GEORGICS, printed by the famed Scottish Enlightenment printers, the Foulis brothers.
Reduced fascimile of Tchemerzine's complete ten-volume work, reproducing 12 pages of the original on each page of this reprint edition.
First edition, first state, of this landmark work in the history of biography, an engaging and humanizing account of the great critic, lexicographer, and author of the Georgian era.
Deluxe limited edition of the great French classic, with eleven refined and debauched illustrations by Alastair.
Early Knopf Pocket Book edition, in the lovely and uncommon Art Deco jacket, of Casanova's account of his bold midnight escape from solitary confinement in 1750s Venice.
Fourth edition of this collection of all the issues of THE ADVENTURER, a bi-weekly paper featuring some of Bluestockings member Hester Chapone's earliest writing.
First printing of the first French edition of ROBINSONÂ CRUSOE, one of the first ever translations of the book that has more translations than any work except the Bible.
