Biography Books

A compact and elegantly produced India Paper edition of one of the most important and entertaining historical diaries in the English language. The ...

The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Consisting of Original Pieces, and Selections from Performances of Merit, Foreign and Domestic, A Work c...

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

This early and more comprehensive collected edition of Jonathan Swift’s writings represents a significant moment in the dissemination of his satiri...

Hudibras was originally published between 1663 and 1678, and is Butler's classic satirical poem, which has remained admired and influential for ove...

This two-volume English edition of Memoirs of the Baron de Tott on the Turks and the Tartars, published in London in 1786, offers a fascinating win...

The Spectator began publication in 1711 and ended in 1713, and at its height sold 20,000 copies a day, according to its authors, covering all manne...

An impressive, and imposing, large folio volume of the engravings from the classic work by David Hume - almost 'elephant folio' in size. This large...

A handsome copy of this early book of British Peerage. The book has been professionally rebound in the mid 20th Century, in full calf leather, very...

An impressive, and imposing, large folio volume from the classic work by David Hume - almost 'elephant folio' in size. This large tome was part of ...

The Spectator began publication in 1711 and ended in 1713, and at its height sold 20,000 copies a day, according to its authors, covering all manne...

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 substantial volume of the works of the English playwright and poet Ben Jonson (1572-1637), with a biography of his life. The Works of Ben Jonson;...

The Company of Merchants was formed to protect and promote the rights of merchants of the burgh of Edinburgh. The company still exists today as a m...

A collection of historical documents relating to Mary Queen of Scots, King James the Sixth, King James VI and Queen Anne, King Charles I, and King ...

Hudibras in Three Parts. Written in the Time of the Late Wars. By Samuel Butler, with Select Notes by Zachary Grey, L.L. D. The Author's Remains; a...

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

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...

Miniature Painters British and Foreign, With Some Account of Those Who Practised in America in the Eighteenth Century. Illustrated by Numerous Exam...

Lochleven, and Other Poems (also known as 'Life and Poems' from the half title page), Michael Bruce, Rev. William Mackenzie. Poetry by the Scottish...

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

Sammlung von Johann Christian Günthers, aus Schlesien, bis anhero herausgegebenen Gedichten. Auf das neue übersehen, und in einer bessern Wahl und ...

The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins. Complete in One Volume.  Published by John Grigg, Philadelphia, 1831. Stereotyped ...

Four Topographical Letters, written in July 1755, Upon a Journey thro' Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire,...