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Poems breathed forth by the nobel Hadassas, and The unfortunate Florinda, by Lady Hesther Pulter
Pulter, Lady Hester (1605-1678); Madan, Judith (1702-1781)
1645?-1665
Lady Hesther Pulter was the sixth daughter of James Ley, 1st earl of Marlborough. F.1r bears a note of the author being aged 71 in 1667 and dying March or April 1678 aged 82. Bound in reversed calf,...
Poems breathed forth by the nobel Hadassas, and The Unfortunate Florinda, by Lady Hesther Pulter
Pulter, Lady Hester (1605-1678); Madan, Judith
c.1645-1665
A collection of poetry, beginning on flyleaf and then on ff.2r-130v; from back, inverted, on f.1r, 2v-36v, is an incomplete prose romance, The Unfortunate Florinda. Detached, previusly inserted matter...
The agreeable variety : in two parts : containing, first, discourses, characters, and poems, relating to the most useful subjects; and extracted from many worthy authors. Consisting, secondly, of letters, poems, &c. by several private persons, on divers occasions. Never before printed
1717
Reissued in 1724 with new t. p.: The Agreeable variety... collected and published by a lady. London. Printed for A. Bettesworth. Dedication of 1724 ed. signed J. M. Cf. Case, 293(b).
Gossip in a library
Gosse, Edmund (1849-1928)
1893
Contents: Introductory -- Camden's "Britannia" -- A mirror for magistrates --A poet in prison -- Death's duel --Gerard's Herbal -- Pharamond -- A volume of old plays -- A censor of poets -- Lady Winch...
Gossip in a library
Gosse, Edmund (1849-1928)
1892
Contents: Introductory -- Camden's "Britannia" -- A mirror for magistrates --A poet in prison -- Death's duel --Gerard's Herbal -- Pharamond -- A volume of old plays -- A censor of poets -- Lady Winch...
The common reader
Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941)
1929
Contents: The common reader.--The Pastons and Chaucer.--On not knowing Greek.--The Elizabethan lumber room.--Notes on an Elizabethan play.--Montaigne.--The Duchess of Newcastle.--Rambling round Evelyn...
The poems, epistles & satires of Alexander Pope
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Rhys, Ernest (1859-1946)
[1924]
"The collected poems of Alexander Pope with an introduction by Ernest Rhys." -- Added title page [p.i]. "Pope's published works": pages xiii-xv.
Literary studies (v.1)
Bagehot, Walter (1826-1877)
[19--]
Introduction by George Sampson. Bibliography: v. 1, p. xviii.
Literary studies (v.2)
Bagehot, Walter (1826-1877)
[19--]
Introduction by George Sampson. Bibliography: v. 1, p. xviii.
Of books and humankind : essays and poems presented to Bonamy Dobrée
Butt, John (1906-1965)
1964
Contents: Was Clytaemnestra a liar? / A.N. Jeffares -- The incomparable Lady Ranelagh / K.M. Lynch -- Prologues, epilogues and audience in the restoration theatre / J. Sutherland -- In defence of Moll...
Catalogue of nineteenth-century and modern English and French first editions, presentation copies, autograph letters, literary manuscripts etc, comprising... the property of Leonard Amster ... John Sparrow ... Michael Sadleir ... J. Middleton Murry ... Messrs. Chatto & Windus ... Archibald Douglas ... J.M. Dawkins ... Lady Cynthia Asquith and Peter Davies ... : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. ... at their large galleries, 34 & 35, New Bond St., W.1 on Monday, the 25th November, 1957, and the following day ... [etc.]
Sotheby & Co. (London, England)
1957
Cover title: Catalogue of nineteenth-century and modern English and French first editions, presentation copies, autograph letters, literary manuscripts, etc.... and the final portion of the J.M. Barri...
Whartoniana, or, Miscellanies, in verse and prose
Wharton, Anne (1632?-1685); Plantin, Arabella; Wharton, Philip Wharton Duke of (1698-1731); Curll, Edmund (1675-1747); Norris, John (1657-1711); Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Wharton family
1727
With a dedication by E. Curll, which appears to belong rather to the second volume. In it Curll states that the work is a translation from the French, by J. Morgan. Vol. 2 has title: Letters to the ...