Pre-1800 Books & Documents

2023 saw the 400th anniversary of the publication of the first collected works of Shakespeare. Copies of that surviving book are now so precious th...

A smart copy of this sammelband bringing together 5 uncommon mid-18th Century printings of Shakespeare's works.  SOLD Comprises: A History of King ...

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 very smart copy of Goldsmith's poetry, which has been professionally rebound in brown cloth, and presents the book beautifully. The Poetical Work...

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;...

A smart copy of this epic historical Portuguese poem, by Camões, based on Vasco de Gama's 1497/98 discovery of the sea route to India. First publis...

The Works of Alexander Pope. With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes. the Text edited by Charles Cowden Clarke. In Two Volumes (b...

A beautifully produced book of the complete poetic works of George Herbert (1593-1633), a Church of England priest. First published in 1633. This v...

The Bijou Shakespeare; The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Illustrated. In Six Volumes. With Biographical Introduction and an Essay on Shake...

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...

A Translation of the Inferno of Dante Alighieri, in English Verse, with Historical Notes, and the Life of Dante. To Which is Added, A Specimen of a...

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

Pia Desideria: or, Divine Addresses In Three Books. Illustrated with XLVII Copper-Plates. Written in Latin by Herm. Hugo. Englished by Edm. Arwaker...

Index Poeticus, Exhibens Compendio Nomina Propria, Genealogiam, Mythologiam, Astrologiam, Geographiam, Poeticam, et Alia ad Eruditionem, Copiam &am...

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 ...

Cyder. A Poem in Two Books, by John Philips (John Phillips). Author uncredited, as issued. Philips (1676-1709) was an English Poet, and Cyder his b...

The Whole Genuine Works of Virgil, The Famous Roman Poet: Including New and Complete Editions of The Aeneid, Georgics, and Pastorals, Bucolics, or ...

The Complaint; or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality. To Which are added, Some Thoughts on the late Rebellion and a Paraphrase on Part...

Musae Seatonianae; A Complete Collection of The Cambridge Prize Poems, from the First Institution of that Premium by The Rev. Mr. Tho. Seaton, in 1...

Paradise Lost; A Poem in Twelve Books by The Author John Milton. With Notes of Various Authors, by Thomas Newton, D.D., Late Lord Bishop of Bristol...

The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith; Now First Uniformly Collected. Collecta Revirescunt. Vol. I. Containing the author's life and his essa...

The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, Volume III, containing the Dunciad, in Four Books. SOLD Published in London 1764. Presumed first edition thus. Pr...

Aristophanis Comoediae - The Comedies of Aristophanes. Edited by Immanuel Bekkerus (August Immanuel Bekker 1785-1871). 4 Volumes (from 5 - missing ...

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.; A New Edition in Twelve Volumes. With An Essay on His Life and Genius by Arthur Murphy, Esq. Complete.  SOLD P...

Samuel Butler, and His Hudibras and Other Works by A. Ramsay. Published by Charles Knight & Co, London, 1846. Bound by Maclehose of Glasgow. A ...

The Plays of William Shakspeare, accurately printed from the text of the corrected copies left by the late George Steevens, Esq., and Edmund Malone...

Herrn B. H. Brockes, Com. Palat. Caes. und Rahts-Herrn der Kayserl. freyen Reichs-Stadt Hamburg, aus dem Englischen übersetzte Jahres-Zeiten des He...

The Poets of Ayrshire from the Fourteenth Century till the Present Day, with Selections from their Writings. Compiled and edited by John Macintosh....

New Letters of Mr Alexander Pope, And Several of His Friends. Vellem Nescire Litteras!; Mr Pope's Literary Correspondence, Volume the Fifth, with L...

Songs and Poems of John Dryden, Chosen and Introduced by Gwyn Jones. Drawings by Lavinia Blythe. SOLD Published by The Golden Cockerel Press, 1st e...