[Rarebooks] fa: UNCOMMON 18th & 19th CENTURY BRITISH LIT: Johnson, Sterne, Coleridge, Dickens, etc.

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

On eBay now, a selection of Brit Lit titles 1752-1860, ending Monday, 
June 4 -- with no reserves and crazy low minimum bids. They can be 
found at the URL below or by searching under the seller name arch_in_la.

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZarchQ5finQ5fla

Many thanks,
Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A.

Including:

S.T. COLERIDGE: THE STATESMAN'S MANUAL; or The Bible the Best Guide to 
Political Skill and Foresight : A Lay Sermon, Addressed to the Higher 
Classes of Society, with an Appendix, containing Comments and Essays 
Connected with the Study of the Inspired Writings. London: Printed for 
Gale and Fenner ... J.M. Richardson ... and Hatchard ..., 1816. First 
Edition.

Rare AYRSHIRE Title & Imprint w/ Poems in SCOTS DIALECT
John M'Millan [or MacMillan]: Original Poetical Works: Containing 
Christmas, Easter; With a View of Christ's Ascension, &c. &c. &c. In 
the Poem of Easter, is introduced, a Speech of the Queen of Terrors, on 
Her Defeat at Christ's Resurrection. Kilmarnock [Scotland]: Printed by 
H. Crawford, Bookseller, for the Author, [no date, but ca. 1820?]. A 
fascinating and very uncommon collection of poems from Robert Burns 
country and published well within living memory of him.

Peter Pindar [John Wolcot:] A Poetical and Congratulatory Epistle to 
JAMES BOSWELL, Esq. on his Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides. With the 
Celebrated DR. JOHNSON. London: G. Kearsley, 1786.

CHARLES DICKENS: Hard Times. For These Times. London: Bradbury & Evans, 
1854. First Edition.

LAURENCE STERNE - Sermons of Mr. Yorick - 7 vols. 1760-69

COLLEY CIBBER'S APOLOGY - Deluxe Edition 1/305 - 1889
An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber : Written by Himself. 
London: John C. Nimmo: 1889. First edition thus. One of 305 
hand-numbered copies (this being no. 26) printed on royal 8vo paper 
with the portraits in duplicate, one on Japanese paper in brown ink 
before lettering, the other on plate paper as India proofs after 
lettering.

The Works of RICHARD SAVAGE, Esq. Son of the Earl Rivers. With an 
Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, by SAMUEL JOHNSON, 
LL.D. London: Printed for T. Evans in the Strand, 1777. 2 vols.

HISTORICAL & LITERARY CURIOSITIES - 98 Engravings - 1840
Smith, Charles John: HISTORICAL AND LITERARY CURIOSITIES; Consisting of 
Fac-similes of original Documents; Scenes of Remarkable Events and 
Interesting Localities; and the Birth-Places, Residences, Portraits and 
Monuments, of Eminent Literary Characters; with a Variety of Reliques 
and Antiquities connected with the Same Subjects. Selected and Engraved 
by the Late Charles John Smith, F.S.A. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1840. 
First Edition. ... An extraordinary collection of exquisitely engraved 
facsimiles, portraits and views, with accompanying descriptive text. 
Included are items related to: Napoleon Bonaparte, Chatterton, Thomas 
Gray, William Penn, Benjamin Franklin, Smollett, Pope, Sterne, Swift, 
Milton, Robert Burns, Locke, Hume, Steele and Addison, Isaac Newton, 
Cowper, Christopher Wren, Hogarth, Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, 
etc., etc.; plus color facsimiles of the Historia Naturalis of 
Secundus, Alcuin's Bible, the 9th-century Bible of Charles le Chauve, 
15th-century paintings of the Sacred Furniture and Vessels of the 
Tabernacle...

And more...