Biography Books

The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's gathers a series of literary and historical essays by the Scottish scholar David Masson...

A smart copy of this detailed biography of Lord Macaulay — the eminent 19th-century historian, essayist, and politician best known for his History ...

This late Victorian edition of The Complete Works of William Hogarth presents the artist’s celebrated oeuvre in 150 finely detailed steel engraving...

The Letters and Friendships of Sir Cecil Spring Rice; A Record. Edited by Stephen Gwynn.  Sir Cecil Spring Rice (1859-1918), was a British Diplomat...

A collection of historical documents relating to Mary Queen of Scots, King James the Sixth, King James VI and Queen Anne, King Charles I, and King ...

Ancient Deeds and Other Writs in the Mackenzie-Wharncliffe Charter-Chest. With Short Notices of Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh; The First Earls ...

Scott's importance to literature really cannot be overstated - his work was highly influential and immensely popular across Europe at the time of w...

Robert Chambers, along with his elder brother William, were Scottish Publishers, and highly influential figures in 19th Century Scottish Society. A...

Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to 'The Edinburgh Review' by Lord Macaulay. Authorised Edition. Published by Longmans, Green, and Co., L...

The Table-Talk and Bon-Mots of Samuel Foote. (With an Introductory Memoir.) Edited by the Late William Cooke. Illustrated. Samuel Foote was born in...

Polyhistor Literarius Philosophicus et Practicus. Maximam Partem Opus Posthumum. Accurate Revisum, Emendatum, ex Autoris Annotationibus... Morhofii...

Byron's "Corbeau Blanc", The Life and Letters of Lady Melborne. Edited by Jonathan David Gross, Presentation copy to William St Clair. Provenance; ...

Erichthonius and The Three Daughters of Cecrops, by Benjamin Powell, A.B., A.M. A Thesis presented to the University Faculty of Cornell university ...

England in 1819; The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism, by James Chandler. Provenance; from the library of the late...

The Clairmont Correspondence; Letters of Claire Clairmont, Charles Clairmont, and Fanny Imlay Godwin; Volume 1, 1808-1834 & Volume 2, 1835-1879...

At John Murray's; Records of a Literary Circle 1843-1892, by George Paston. Preface by The Rt. Hon. Lord Ernle. SOLD Provenance; from the library o...

Early Letters of Marcus Dods, D.D. (Late principal of New college, Edinburgh), 1850-1864, selected and edited by his Son, Marcus Dods, M.A., Advoca...

Athens from Alexander to Antony, by Christian Habicht. Translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider. Provenance; from the library of the late William St C...

Poet and Orator; A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratoc Athens. Edited by Andreas Markantonatos and Eleni Volonaki. Provenance; from the library of...

Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities, Volume IX; Demetrius of Phalerum; Text, Translation and Discussion. Edited by William W. Forten...

Mary Wollstonecraft; Mary, A Fiction and The Wrongs of a Woman. Edited with an Introduction by Gary Kelly. SOLD Provenance; from the library of the...

England's First Family of Writers; Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Mary Shelley, by Julie A Carlson. Provenance; from the library of the late ...

The Regent Library; Mary Wollstonecraft, by Camilla Jebb. SOLD Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British his...