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Literature

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

  • RICHARDSON, ed., R.E.

    Sir Eglamour of Artois

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  • RIDER], [William

    An Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Living Authors of Great-Britain (1762)

    Introduction by O.M. Brack, Jr. [Facsimile reissue].

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  • RITSON, Joseph

    Fairy Tales, now first collected: to which are prefixed Two Dissertations: 1. On Pygmies. 2. On Fairies

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  • ROBB, Graham

    Victor Hugo

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  • ROBB, Graham

    Blazac. A Biography

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  • ROBBINS, ed., Rossell Hope

    Secular Lyrics of the XIVth and XVth Centuries

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  • ROBERTI, G.

    Della Probita Naturale

    Libri Due. Di Giambatista AB. Conte Roberti.

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  • ROBERTS, S.C.

    Doctor Johnson in Cambridge

    Essays in Boswellian Imitation.

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  • ROBERTS, W. Wright

    Charles and Fanny Burney in the Light of new Thrale Correspondence in the John Rylands Library

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  • ROBINSON, Joseph B.

    Epitaphs collected from the Cemeteries of London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hull, Leicester, Sheffield, Manchester, Nottingham, Birmingham, Derby etc

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  • ROE, Nicholas

    John Keats. A New Life

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  • ROGERS, Samuel

    Italy

    A Poem. [First Complete Edition and First Illustrated Edition].

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  • ROGERS, Benjamin Bickley

    The Acharnians of Aristophanes

    The Greek Text revised with a Translation into corresponding Metres, Introduction and Commentary. [Second Edition].

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  • ROGERS, Benjamin Bickley

    The Peace of Aristophanes acted at Athens at the Great Dionysia BC 421

    The Greek Text revised, with a Translation into corresponding Metres, Introduction and Commentary.

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  • ROUSSEAU, Jean Jacques

    The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau

    Now for the first Time completely translated into English without Expurgation.

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  • ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques

    The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    Translated from the French. With a Preface by Edmund Wilson.

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  • ROWE, Nicholas

    Tamerlane. A Tragedy

    The Third Edition.

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  • ROWLEY, Thomas

    Cursory Observations on the Poems attributed to Thomas Rowley (1782)

    Introduction by James M. Kuist. [Facsimile reissue].

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  • ROWSE, A.L.

    William Shakespeare

    A Biography.

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  • RUSKIN, John

    ‘A Joy for Ever’ (and its Price on the Market)

    Being the Substance (with Additions) of Two Lectures on the Political Economy of Art. Fourth Edition.

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  • RUSKIN, John

    The Rights of Labour according to John Ruskin

    Arranged by Thomas Barclay.

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  • SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita

    The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf

    Edited by Louise DeSalvo and Mitchell A. Leaska. Introduction by Mitchell A. Leaska.

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  • SAGON, Amyot

    Under the Roman Eagles

    With Six Illustrations by Wal Paget.

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  • SALE, A. de la

    Little John of Saintre

    Le Petit Jean de Saintre. Translated for the First Time into English with an Introduction by Irvine Gray.

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  • SALT, H.S. [Henry Stephens]

    Richard Jefferies

    With a Portrait.

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