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1,350John Gay.- Fables-
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Publisher: London, Chiswick Press, 1812., 1812 Vignette engravings. Contemporary greenish binding, with gilt lettering to the spine. John Gay’s most successful play was The Beggar’s Opera, produced in London on Jan. 29, 1728, by the theatre manager John Rich at Lincoln’s Inn Fields Theatre. It ran for 62 performances (not consecutive, but the longest run then known). A story of thieves and highwaymen, it was intended to mirror the moral degradation of society and, more particularly, to caricature the Prime Minster, Sir Robert Walpole and his Whig administration. It also made fun of the prevailing fashion for Italian opera. The play was stage worthy, however, not so much because of its pungent satire but because of its effective situations and “sing-able” songs. The production of its sequel, Polly, was forbidden by the lord chamberlain (doubtless on Walpole’s instructions); but the ban was an excellent advertisement for the piece, and subscriptions for copies of the printed edition made more than £1,000 profit for the author. (It was eventually produced in 1777, when it had a moderate success.) His Beggar’s Opera was successfully transmitted into the 20th century by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill as Die Dreigroschenoper (1928; The Threepenny Opera). “Honest” John Gay lost most of his money through disastrous investment in South Sea stock, but he nonetheless left £6,000 when he died. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, next to the poet Geoffrey Chaucer and his epitaph was written by Alexander Pope. This book I offer for $250

The Year’s Poetry-1937’
Compiled by Denys Kilham Roberts & Geoffrey Grigson.

Published by John Lane. Original dust-jacket. With clear-plastic wraps. Very Rare, some of the Poets are; de la Mare, Garcia Lorca, C. Day-Lewis, Auden, Stephen Spencer, and Dylan Thomas, Pablo Neruda; and many more. A beautiful copy of a very scarce collectable book of Poetry. Stunning/ Rare.If you like more information then please contact us

The Works of Lord Byron;-
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Publisher: JOHN MURRAY, LONDON, 1819 London: John Murray, 1819. 3 Vols. Octavo, some foxing, and wear, otherwise very good. brown leather, gold gilt lettering and decoration on spine. gold gilt decoration on front and back cover. three edges gold gilt. volume i: (479 pages, 7 plates) childe harold's pilgrimage. volume ii: (486 pages, 21 plates) the gaiour, the bride of abydos, the corsair, lara, the siege of corinth, parisina, the prisoner of chillon, beppo. volume iii: (330 pages,...This is the 1st. Edition of Lord Byron’s Poems, in 3 Vols. Published in his lifetime. A beautiful 3 Vols. Set, very collectable. I offer the 3 Vols. For $1,350. Rare. George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, later George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was a British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. Amongst Byron's best-known works are the brief poems She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, and So, we'll go no more a roving, in addition to the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan. He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential. Byron's notability rests not only on his writings but also on his life, which featured aristocratic excesses, huge debts, numerous love affairs, and self-imposed exile. He was famously described by Lady Caroline Lamb as "mad, bad and dangerous to know".[1] Byron served as a regional leader of Italy's revolutionary organisation, the Carbonari, in its struggle against Austria. He later traveled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero.[2] He died from a fever contracted while in Messolonghi in Greece.

Byron, Lord
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers: a Satire
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Published in Paris ;- by Galignani 1819;- Third Edition;- At the French, English, Italian, German, & Spanish Library;- With an engraved portrait of Lord Byron by G. Engelmann;- 84 pages. Original brown leather binding with a red label with gilt lettering within;- This Edition is very Rare no other to be found;- Slight foxing throughout the book, otherwise a highly collectable copy;- $150

Lord Byron, 1788 - 1824. & Samuel Rogers,
1763 - 1855. LARA,
A Tale. JACQUELINE, A Tale.
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Published by John Murray;- in London: 1814 - Published anonymously; "Lara" was written by Byron, and "Jacqueline" by Samuel Rogers

First Edition of LARA; JACQUELINE, which is by Samuel Rogers, had previously been privately printed. LARA was the fourth of Byron's Levantine tales, following THE SIEGE OF CORINTH, THE GIAOUR and THE CORSAIR; "it was also the first poem for which he agreed to accept payment for himself from a publisher -- 700 pounds. Pride had hitherto forbidden him."~An outcast from society -- that is the essential nature of the Byronic hero and lover. Childe Harold is self-outcast, having drugged himself into world-weariness through the 'concubines and carnal company, kept at his ancestral abbey. The Giaour has banished himself to a monastery both for causing the death of his lover, Leila, and for slaying her murderer, the Pasha. Conrad once possessed an ancestral castle but he chose to become an outlaw, a corsair; under the name Lara he returns to his castle in a sequel to The Corsair, to find that the hidden past has put the old feudal life beyond his reach. In the sense that all four of them, the Childe, the Giaour, the Corsair, and Lara are self-exiled, the Byronic hero is a beacon to every subversive leader and enemy of society. These fallen angels, with their secret sense of being both more glorious and more villainous than ordinary mortals, must of necessity be presented as creatures apart. Loneliness is the beginning and end of youthful Byronism. [quotes from Longford]~Original orange-brown marbled paper covers with re-bound dark leather spine and original brown leather corners;- A fine copy of a highly collectable book, Rare in such fine condition;- $250

The Fable of The Bees:
or, Private Vices,
Publick Benefits by Bernard Mandeville;-
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6th. Edition of 1729. Publisher is J. Tonson;- London;- Consisting of the poem The Grumbling Hive: or, Knaves turn’d Honest and prose discussion of it. The poem was published in 1705 and the book first appeared in 1714. The poem elucidates many key principles of economic thought, including division of labour and the invisible hand, seventy years before Adam Smith (indeed, John Maynard Keynes argues Smith was probably referencing Mandeville. It also describes the paradox of thrift centuries before Keynes, and may been seen as part of the school of under-consumption. At the time, however, it was considered scandalous. Keynes reports in his General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, that it was "convicted as a nuisance by the grand jury of Middlesex in 1723, which stands out in the history of the moral sciences for its scandalous reputation. Only one man is recorded as having spoken a good word for it, namely Dr. Johnson, who declared that it did not puzzle him, but 'opened his eyes into real life very much'." In the Dictionary of National Biography, Leslie Stephen describes it as follows: Mandeville gave great offence by this book, in which a cynical system of morality was made attractive by ingenious paradoxes. ... His doctrine that prosperity was increased by expenditure rather than by saving fell in with many current economic fallacies not yet extinct. Assuming with the ascetics that human desires were essentially evil and therefore produced “private vices” and assuming with the common view that wealth was a “public benefit”, he easily showed that all civilization implied the development of vicious propensities.... Keynes observes that this is a precursor to his theory of effective demand. He notes that the book describes the paradox of thrift—showing that a community that forsakes luxury for savings achieves neither. Mandeville's famous book originated in a 433-line poem published as a pamphlet in 1705, "The Grumbling Hive: or Knaves Turn'd Honest, " which made the central argument of the Fable that selfishness and private vices resulted in public virtues, a direct pre-figuration of Adam Smith's laissez-faire economics. Mandeville's defence of the numerous attacks against his pamphlet led to his vastly expanding his original poem into a full-scale book, the 1714 Fable of the Bees. 2 pounds 10.0 ounces = 1.2 kg. 7.8 x 5.2 x 2.6 inches = 19.6 x 13 x 6.5cm. One of the most influential 18th century British contributions to social & economic thought and a direct precursor of the liberal economic tradition, the first edition of which is very rare. Though strongly favoring free trade and the production of luxuries, Mandeville opposed educating the poor on the grounds that knowledge multiplies our desires without providing the means for fulfilling them. Adam Smith was much influenced by Mandeville. This is indeed a very Rare Collectable book in original binding with front cover loose, other wise a fine collectable copy. $600

Human Shows Far Phantasies.
Songs and Trifles. Thomas Hardy

280 pp. + 3 pp. publisher's ads at rear.

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The later poems of Thomas Hardy in their first edition. His last work published in his lifetime. Uncut pages. Original Jacket in brown with TH design to the front of the jacket . Beautiful condition. I offer this book for £150. Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural. While he regarded himself primarily as a poet who composed novels mainly for financial gain, during his lifetime he was much better known for his novels, such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, which earned him a reputation as a great novelist. The bulk of his fictional works, initially published as serials in magazines, were set in the semi-fictional land of Wessex (based on the Dorchester region where he grew up) and explored tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances. Hardy's poetry, first published in his fifties, has come to be as well-regarded as his novels and has had a significant influence over modern English poetry, especially after The Movement poets of the 1950s and 1960s cited Hardy as a major figure.

Abbotsford Series of the Scottish Poets:
Scottish Poetry of the Eighteenth Century,
7 Volumes 1890?
by Editor George Eyre-Todd
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Published by Sands & Company. London & Edinburgh. No year ( ca. 1890 ). Published in Original gren cloth covers, with a gilt Crest to the front of each Vol. Paper label to the top of each spine, Containing poems by; Sir David Lyndsay, John Bellenden, King James The Fifth, Sir Richard Maitland, Alexander Scot, Alexander Montgomerie, Sir Robert Aytoun, Sir David Murray, Sir Robert Ker, Sir William Alexander, William Drummond, The Marquis of Montrose, The Semples of Beltrees, Lord Yester, Lady Grizel Baillie, Lady Wardlaw, William Hamilton of Gilbertfield, Sir John Clerk, Allan Ramsay, Robert Crawford, Robert Blair, Alexander Ross, James Thomson, David Mallet, William Hamilton of Bangour, Alexander Webster, George Halket, Alison Rutherford, John Wilson, Sir Gilbert Elliot, Tobias Smollett, Adam Skirving, William Wilkie, Thomas Blacklock, John Skinner, John Home, Jean Elliot, John Lapraik, William Falconer, William Julius Mickle, James Beattie, Alexander Geddes, James MacPherson, James Muirhead, John Ewen, Isobel Pagan, Alexander Watson, James Fordyce, Hector MacNeil, Michael Bruce, Adam Austin, Susanna Blamire, Richard Hewitt, James Tytler, John Logan, Elizabeth Hamilton, John Lowe, Robert Graham of Gartmore, Lady Anne Lindsay, William Dudgeon, Robert Fergusson, John Dunlop, Mrs.Grant of Laggan, Jean Glover, John Pinkerton, John Mayne, Robert Burns, Gavin Turnbull, John Hamilton, Andrew Scott, Andrew Shirrefs, William Beattie, Alexander Wilson, Carolina Oliphant, Ebenezer Picken and Richard Gall

The Seven Volumes are
1.Scottish Poetry of the 18th. Century;- 2VOLS.
2. Scottish Ballad Poetry
3. Mediaeval Scottish Poetry
4. Early Scottish Poetry
5. Scottish Poetry of the 16th. Century
6. Scottish Poetry of the 17th. Century

RARE in this Collection of 7 Vols. no other set to be found on the World wide web.$500

THE POETICAL REGISTER AND REPOSITORY
OF FUGITIVE POETRY
FOR 1801 to 1811
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8 VOLS. Printed separately from 1802 to 1811. Printed by F & C. Rivington; London. Original black leather bound to spine only, dark-red paper to the rest of the covers. Gilt lettering to all the spines, A Stunning collecting; RARE in the 8 VOLS. Very fine condition. Numbered 1-8 Vols. None to be found on the world-wide web as a collection, some are sold as a single book. $950The first of fourteen annual volumes. Contributors of original verse include Anna Seward, Erasmus Darwin, Anna Maria Porter, Egerton Brydges and the young Leigh Hunt - six pieces, of which one had in fact been published before. Also contains a long and hostile critique of Southey's Thalaba by Mrs Seward, brief reviews of new work by Bowles, Southey, Cottle, M.G. Lewis, Hunt and Thomas Moore, a catalogue of 'the whole of the poetical publications of the year 1801' and a 'Chronological List of Living Poetical Writers'.

Laurence Sterne:
THE SERMONS OF Mr. YORICK.
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Published in London: by J.DODSLEY in Pall Mall. (1768). Seven volumes .. First volume: copperplate frontispiece with portrait after Reynolds star. Otherwise a nice and decorative books. All seven volumes are in original brown leather bindings, with red labels and gilt lettering within. Fine copies of a highly collectable set of works. $500

Laurence Sterne (1713 Clonmel / Ireland - 1768 London). First clergyman, then a writer with his own highly stylistic full of humor and whimsical erudition."I suppose it is needless to inform the publick, that the reason of printing these sermons, arises altogether from the favourable reception, which the sermon given as a sample of them in TRISTRAM SHANDY, met with from the world; -- That sermon was printed by itself some years ago, but could find neither purchasers nor readers, so that I apprehended little hazard from a promise I made upon its republication, 'That if the sermon was liked, these should be also at the world's service;' which, to be as good as my word, they here are..." - author's preface.

Laurence Sterne (24 November 1713 – 18 March 1768) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He is best known for his novels The life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and Sentimental Journey Through france & Italy;- but he also published Many Sermons, wrote memoirs, and was involved in local politics. Sterne died in London after years of fighting consumption.

Don Juan in Sixteen Cantos
by Lord Byron
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Published by Cornish & co.1840?;- London;- with an engraved frontispiece of Byron. A miniature book 2” x 4” Original red leather spine & corners with marbled paper to the covers. Black label with gilt lettering and decoration to the spine. 544 pages. This Edition is rare and highly collectable. $150