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Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
An exceptional copy of one of the scarcest and most desirable books in all of English literature, with engraved frontispiece portrait of Gulliver, six plates (four maps and two plans), in beautiful, unrestored, full contemporary calf bindings. Exceptionally rare in first issue, and most rare and desirable in contemporary bindings. Almost never seen in such beautiful condition. $182,000. | More...
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
First edition, first issue, of Dickens’ classic, with the “Fireside” plate and “Boz” title pages, beautifully bound by Morrell. $7800. | More...


Novels and Letters
Jane Austen

Stoneleigh edition of Austen’s writings, number 1201 of 1250 copies, illustrated with over 60 color plates by C.E. and H.M. Brock. $7500. | More...

The History of Tom Jones,
A Foundling

Henry Fielding

Handsomely bound edition of Fielding's Tom Jones, "a milestone in the development of the English novel." $1750. | More...
King Lear, Othello & Anthony and Cleopatra, from the Second Folio
William Shakespeare
The complete text of three of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies, King Lear, Othello, and Antony and Cleopatra, from the rare and important Second Folio, on 43 original leaves, attractively bound in modern half morocco-gilt. $33,000. | More...

The Plays of William Shakespeare
Edited by George Steevens

Lovely ten-volume edition of George Steevens' Shakespeare, with engraved frontispiece portrait of the Bard in Volume I, also with Rowe's Life of Shakespeare and Samuel Johnson's famed preface from his 1765 edition, very handsomely bound in morocco-gilt. $2800. | More...
The Essayes
Sir Francis Bacon

Scarce 1639 edition of Bacon’s Essays, a classic work of English literature, this copy one of those remaining from the suppressed Beale edition, which was confiscated when his “right to the title was disputed and his press taken down” (Pforzheimer 29). Attractive in contemporary calf covers. $2000. | More...

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe

Cooke’s edition of Defoe’s classic story of survival, with five engraved plates, handsomely bound in full contemporary tree calf. $2000. | More...

A Dictionary of the English Language
Samuel Johnson

Sixth edition of Johnson's monumental Dictionary—the work that "had, in philology, the effect which Newton's discoveries had in mathematics" (Noah Webster)—the last edition to be prepared by Johnson himself, handsomely bound. $3500. | More...
Vivien & Guinevere
Alfred Tennyson, illustrated by Gustave
Doré
First edition of Doré’s haunting and dramatic illustrations, on 18 steel-engraved plates, for two of Tennyson’s “Idylls of the King,” in original cloth. $2600. | More...
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