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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'.

  • PISAN, Christine de

    Christine de Pisan’s Ballades, Rondeaux, and Virelais

    An Anthology. Edited by Kenneth Varty.

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  • PLUTARCH.

    Plutarch’s Lives

    Translated from the original Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical; and a Life of Plutarch. By S[amuel] Langhorne, William Langhorne, John Dryden etc. New Edition, with Corrections and Improvements.

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  • POLLET, Maurice

    John Skelton

    Poet of Tudor England. Translated by John Warrington.

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  • POPE, Alexander

    The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

    Edited, with a Critical Memoir, by William Michael Rossetti. Illustrated by Thomas Seccombe.

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  • POPE, Alexander

    The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

    [Aldine Edition].

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  • POPE, Alexander

    The Beauties of Pope. Selections from his Poetical and Prose Works [with] The Beauties of Byron. Consisting of Selections from his Works.

    Selected by Alfred Howard.

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  • POPE, Alexander

    Pope’s Own Miscellany

    Being a Reprint of 'Poems on Several Occasions' 1717 containing new Poems by Alexander Pope and Others. Edited by Norman Ault. [Designed by Francis Meynell].

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  • POPE, Alexander

    A Collection of Essays, Epistles and Odes

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  • PORPHYRY

    On Abstinence from Animal Food

    Translated from the Greek by Thomas Taylor. Edited and introduced by Esme Wynne-Tyson.

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  • POTTLE, Frederick A.

    Boswell and the Girl from Botany Bay

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  • PRITCHETT, V. S.

    The Gentle Barbarian

    The Life and Work of Turgenev.

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  • PUNCH MAGAZINE.

    Punch, or the London Charivari. 1910-1939 inclusive [2 volumes per year]

    WANTING ONLY JAN-JUNE 1931; JAN-JUNE 1939.

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  • PUNCH MAGAZINE.

    Punch, or the London Charivari. 1866. Vol. L 50 (January-June) [with] Vol. LI 51 (July-December).

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  • PUNCH MAGAZINE.

    Punch, or the London Charivari. 1904. Vol. 126 (January-June).

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  • PUSHKIN, Alexander

    Pushkin’s Fairy Tales

    Translated by Janet Dalley. Introduction John Bayley. Lithographs Arthur Boyd.

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  • RABY, F.J.E.

    A History of Secular Latin Poetry in the Middle Ages

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  • RACINE, Jean

    Oeuvres de Racine d’Apres l’Edition de 1760

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  • RALEIGH, Walter

    Style

    Fourteenth Impression.

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  • READE, Brain

    Sexual Heretics

    Male Homosexuality in English Literature from 1850 to 1900. An Anthology selected with an Introduction by Brian Reade.

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  • READE, A.L.

    Johnsonian Gleanings

    Part X. Johnson's Early Life: The Final Narrative.

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  • REESE, M. M.

    Shakespeare. His World and his Work

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  • REGNARD, Jean-Francois

    Theatre de Regnard suivi des Poesies diverses de la Provencale, es Voyages en Laponie, en Suede etc, avec une Introduction par M

    Louis Moland.

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  • RHYS, Grace

    A Celtic Anthology

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  • RICHARDS, I.A. [Ivor Armstrong]

    Principles of Literary Criticism

    Fifth Edition.

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  • RICHARDSON, Samuel

    The History of Sir Charles Grandison

    In a Series of Letters. [By the] Author of Pamela and Clarissa. In Seven Volumes. The Fifth Edition.

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