Biography Books

Acts of Light brings together selected poems by Emily Dickinson with luminous colour paintings by Nancy Ekholm Burkert, accompanied by an appreciat...

A substantial volume of the works of the English poet and author Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400). The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer with an Ess...

A scarce early copy of this edition of Robert Burns' poetry. Two volumes bound as one. Printed by J. Crerar, Kirkaldy, 1802. First edition thus. Sc...

Acknowledged as one of the foremost classicists of his age, this is a smart copy of a biographical sketch of the life of Alfred Edward Housman (185...

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

The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, Volume I, containing His Juvenile Poems; Translations and Imitations. Published by J. Balfour, Edinburgh, 1764. A...

Amusements of Leisure Hours; or Poetical Pieces, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect; By the Late Reverend John Skinner; at Longside, Aberdeenshire. To...

The Works of John Milton in Verse and Prose. Printed from the Original Editions with a Life of the Author by the Rev. John Mitford. In Eight Volume...

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

Maria Gisborne & Edward E. Williams; Shelley's Friends; Their Journals and Letters. Edited by Frederick L. Jones.  Provenance; from the library...

Shelley in England; New Facts and Letters from the Shelley-Whitton Papers. With Illustrations and Facsimiles. By Roger Ingpen. Volume I. Provenance...

A collection of 2 books related to Iona and Peter Opie:  A Nursery Companion; Provided by Iona and Peter Opie, Oxford University Press, 1980 first ...

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

Salzburg Studies in English Literature Under the Direction of Professor Erwin A. Sturzl: Romantic Reassessment editor: Dr. James Hogg; 110; The Bar...

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...

Letters of Edward Dowden and his Correspondents. Edited by Elizabeth D. Dowen and Hilda M. Dowden. Also included with the book is an autographed ca...

After Shelley; The Letters of Thomas Jefferson Hogg to Jane Williams. Edited with a Biographical Introduction by Sylva Norman. Provenance; from the...

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...

The Byron Journal; Large Collection from Sir William St. Clair, 1973-2017. A group of 36 issues of the journal (to which William St Clair has contr...

Milton & Wordsworth, Poets and Prophets; A Study of Their Reactions to Political Events by Sir Herbert J. C. Grierson. This copy carries the 's...

Arthur Miller; A Critical Study, by Christopher Bigsby. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian,...

Andrew Lang, A Critical Biography with a short-title bibliography of the works of Andrew Lang, by Roger Langelyn Green. Published by Edmund Ward, L...

A Clyack-Sheaf by Hugh MacDiarmid, Not for Publication; Uncorrected Proof. Includes a signed letter from William McCreadie, dated 22nd April 1969) ...