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Our stock covers world literature from the earliest times to approximately 1890. For books published after this date please see 'Modern First Editions'.

  • L'ESTRANGE, Roger

    Selections from The Observator (1681-1687)

    Introduction by Violet Jordain. [Facsimile reissue].

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  • L'ESTRANGE, Roger

    Citt and Bumpkin (1680)

    Introduction by B. . Rahn. [Facsimile reissue].

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  • LA NOUVELLE REVUE FRANCAISE

    Hommage a Paul Claudel 1868-1955

    1 September 1955. 3 Annee No. 33.

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  • LABE, Louise

    The Debate between Folly and Cupid

    Written by Louise Labe of Lyons about 1550 and now first completely done into English by Edwin Marion Cox.

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  • LAMB, Charles

    Charles Lamb

    Prose and Poetry. With Essays by Hazlitt and De Quincey. With an Introduction by George Gordon and Notes.

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  • LAMB, Charles

    The Essays of Elia and Eliana

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  • LANDOR, Walter Savage

    The Longer Prose Works of Walter Savage Landor

    Edited with Notes and Index by Charles G. Crump. [Large Paper Edition.]

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  • LANG, ed., Andrew

    The Book of Romance

    Edited by Andrew Lang. With numerous Illustrations by H.J. Ford.

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  • LANGBAINE, Gerard

    Momus Triumphans: or, The Plagiaries of the English Stage (1688 [1687])

    Introduction by David Stuart Rodes. [Facsimile reissue].

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  • LANGBAINE, Gerard

    An Account of the English Dramatick Poets (1691)

    Introduction by John Loftis. [Facsimile reissue].

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  • LANGLAND

    Piers Plowman

    Edited with an Introduction, Notes and New Prose Translation by Stella Brook.

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  • LANGLAND, William

    The Vision of Piers Plowman

    Newly rendered into modern English by Henry W. Wells. With an Introduction by Nevill Coghill and Notes by the Translator.

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  • LASCELLES, Mary

    Jane Austen and her Art

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  • LAURENCE,, Anne

    John Bunyan and his England 1628-88

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  • LAWRENCE, William John

    The Elizabethan Playhouse and other Studies

    [First and Second Series. Complete set.]

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  • LEAR, Edward

    The Book of Nonsense

    Thirtieth Edition. With all the original Pictures and Verses.

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  • LEAR, Edward

    The Book of Nonsense

    Comprising One Hundred and Twelve Humorous Illustrations. Fortieth Edition. With Biographical Sketch of the Author.

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  • LEAR, Edward

    The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear

    [With Lear's original Illustrations]. Edited and introduced by Holbrook Jackson. [Eighth Impression.]

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  • LEAR, Edward

    The Book of Nonsense to which is added More Nonsense. With all the Original Pictures and Verses

    Copyright Edition.

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  • LEE, Sir Sidney

    A Life of William Shakespeare

    Rewritten and Enlarged Edition: Second Impression.]

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  • LEE, William

    Daniel Defoe. His Life and Recently Discovered Writings extending from 1716 to 1729

    [Complete Set].

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  • LEMON, Charles

    A Centenary History of the Bronte Society 1893-1993

    [Supplement to Volume 20, Bronte Society Transactions].

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  • LEMPRIERE], [John

    Bibliotheca Classica; or, a Classical Dictionary, containing all the Names in antient Authors

    [With] Tables of Coins, Weights and Measures in Use among the Greeks and Romans.

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  • LESAGE, Alain-Rene

    Aventuras de Gil Blas de Santillana robadas a Espana, y adopteras en Francia por Monsieur Le Sage, restituidas a su Patria y a su Lengua nativa for un espanol zeloso que no sufre se burlen de su Nacion. VOLUMES 3, 4, 5, 6 ONLY.

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  • LESKOV, N. S.

    The Musk-Ox and other Tales

    [Translated from the Russian by R. Norman].

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