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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'.

  • SHAKESPEARE, William

    Antony and Cleopatra

    Edited by M.R. Ridley. Based on the Edition of R.H. Case.

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  • SHAKESPEARE, William

    Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century. Vol. VII Parts I and ii

    Introduction to the Smock Alley 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' Collations [with] Text of the Smock Alley 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. Edited by G.Blakemore Evans.

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  • SHAKESPEARE, William

    The Tragedies [with] The Histories [with] The Comedies

    Woith Photogravures by E.J. Sullivan.

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  • SHAKESPEARE, William

    King Henry V

    Edited by J.H. Walter.

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  • SHAKESPEARE, William

    Antony and Cleopatra

    Edited by M. R. Ridley.

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  • SHAKESPEARE, William

    The Merchant of Venice

    Edited by John Russell Brown.

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  • SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley

    Complete Plays

    With an Introduction by Tyrone Guthrie [Collins New Classics Edition].

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  • SHERIDAN, Thomas

    A Discourse

    Being Introductory to his Course of Lectures on Elocution and the English Language (1759). Introduction by G.P. Mohrmann. [Facsimile reissue].

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  • SHIPP, G.P.

    Studies in the Language of Homer

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  • SHORTHOUSE, J.A.

    John Inglesant

    A Romance.

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  • SIDNEY, Philiip

    The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney and Hubert Languet

    Now first collected and translated from the Latin with Notes and a Memoir.

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  • SIMMONS, Jack

    Southey

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  • SISAM, ed., Kenneth

    Fourteenth Century Verse and Prose

    Edited by Kenneth Sisam. [With Glossary by J.R.R. Tolkien.]

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  • SISAM, ed., Kenneth

    Fourteenth Century Verse and Prose

    Edited by Kenneth Sisam. [With Corrections.]

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  • SKILLING, M. R.

    Hardy’s Mellstock on the Map. A Topographical and Biographical Notebook for ‘Under the Greenwood Tree’

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  • SMITH, Henry

    Fair Warnings to a careless World:

    in the pious Letter written by James Earl of Marleburgh, a little before his Death; to Sir Hugh Pollard, with the Last Words of CXL of the most learned Persons of the World

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  • SMITH, John Thomas

    Nollekens and his Times. Comprehending a Life of that celebrated Sculptor, and Memoirs of Contemporary Artists from the Time of Roubillac, Hogarth and Reynolds to that of Fuseli, Flaxman and Blake

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  • SMITH, ed., David Nichol

    The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse

    Chosen by David Nichol Smith. [Second Impression.]

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  • SMITH-DAMPIER, J. L.

    Who’s Who in Boswell?

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  • SMOLLETT, Tobias

    The Adventures of Roderick Random

    With a Life of the Author.

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  • SMOLLETT, Tobias

    The Adventures of Roderick Random

    [Shakespeare Head Press edition].

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  • SOMERVILE [SOMERVILLE], William

    The Chase, to which is annexed Field Sports

    With a Sketch of the Author's Life; including a Preface, critical and explanatory, and some Annotations on the Text and Nature of the Poem by Edward Topham.

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  • SOUTHAM, B.C.

    Jane Austen’s Literary Manuscripts

    A Study of the Novelist's Development through the surviving Papers.

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  • SOUTHEY, Robert

    Omniana or Horae Otiosores

    Edited by Robert Gittings.

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  • SPENSER, Edmund

    The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser

    In Five Volumes.

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