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...
The Tempest
John Dryden & William D'Avenant's adaptation of Shakespeare
Third edition of D’Avenant and Dryden’s Restoration adaptation of The Tempest, the Bard’s bewitching tale of shipwreck and sorcery. The Foyle copy. $12,000. | More...
The Works
Jane Austen
Later illustrated edition, with a colored frontispiece and 15 colored plates in each novel by C.E. Brock, beautifully bound by Bayntun. $4800. | More...
Hide and Seek
Wilkie Collins
First edition of the first version of Collins' enduring and popular work, handsomely bound by Riviere and Son. $2000. | More...
Posthumous Poems
Percy Bysshe Shelley
First edition, first issue, edited and with a preface by Mary Shelley, containing the first publication of much of Shelley's work, handsomely bound in full morocco-gilt by Root & Sons. One of fewer than 500 copies printed and fewer than 300 actually sold before Mary Shelley acquiesced to Shelley's father's demands to publish nothing more about his son during his own lifetime. $4200. | More...
The Works
Geoffrey Chaucer
First printing of Urry’s illustrated folio edition of Chaucer’s works, one of only 250 large-paper copies issued. The first collected Chaucer in the easier-to-read Roman typeface, with three previously unpublished tales. $6500. | More...
Little Dorrit
Charles Dickens
First edition, first issue, in the original serialized parts, with cover design and illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne. An excellent copy, complete with all ads present. $4200. | More...
A Dictionary of the English Language
Samuel Johnson
Third edition of the first great dictionary of the English language, Johnson's "audacious attempt to tame his unruly native tongue… combining huge erudition with a steely wit and remarkable clarity of thought" (Hitchings, 3), in beautiful contemporary calf-gilt. $13,500. | More...
A Complete Collection of the
Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works
John Milton
Expanded second edition of Milton's collected prose works, published only one year after the first edition. $4000. | More...
