CLEVELAND, John.

Clievelandi Vindiciae: or, Clieveland’s Genuine Poems, Orations, Epistles, &c. purged from the many false and...

London, Printed for Robert Harford ... 1677.

First edition, the issue with Robert Harford’s imprint. This ‘vindicatory’ text was prepared by Cleveland’s former students John Lake and Samuel Drake from authentic manuscripts to restore true readings to poems that had degenerated through six editions of The Character of a London-Diurnall...

£950

CLEVELAND, John.

Clievelandi Vindiciae: or, Clieveland’s Genuine Poems, Orations, Epistles, &c. purged from the many false and...

London, Printed for Nath. Brooke ... 1677

First edition, the issue with Nathaniel Brooke’s imprint. This ‘vindicatory’ text was prepared by Cleveland’s former students John Lake and Samuel Drake from authentic manuscripts to restore true readings to poems that had degenerated through six editions of The Character of a London-Diurnall...

£250

COBDEN-SANDERSON, Annie; Marianne TIDCOMBE, editor.

The Prison Diary of Annie Cobden-Sanderson, with a Facsimile of the Original.

[Marlborough,] Libanus Press, 2017.

The imprisonment of Annie Cobden-Sanderson, daughter of the famous Victorian statesman Richard Cobden, prompted a wave of letters of protest to the newspapers, giving the women’s suffrage campaign the major boost she had hoped for. The ten women with whom Cobden-Sanderson was arrested (and of whom...

£25

[COCHRAN, Charles B.]

OSTROWSKA, Wanda and Viola G. GARVIN. London’s Glory.

London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1945.

First edition, a poignant collection of paintings of war-torn London by the Polish artist-in-exile Wanda Ostrowska, accompanied by extracts from her own writings and narrative by Viola Garvin.

£75

COLERIDGE, S[amuel] T[aylor].

The Watchman. No. I [III, IV]. Tuesday, March 1 [17, 25], 1796. Published by the Author …

Bristol: and sold by the Booksellers and Newscarriers in Town and Country.

Three (of ten) issues of The Watchman, Coleridge’s first journalistic endeavour, very rare: published in March to May 1796.

£750

COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor.

Biographia Literaria; or biographical Sketches of my literary Life and Opinions … Vol I[-II].

London: Rest Fenner … 1817.

First edition. Coleridge’s estimates of contemporary German poets and philosophers are justly celebrated, and the long autobiographical passages and critical analyses of Wordsworth and of Lyrical Ballads are of primary interest. ‘Though maddeningly unsystematic in structure, the book is a touchstone...

£450

COLERIDGE, S[amuel] T[aylor].

The Statesman’s Manual; or the Bible the best guide to political Skill and Foresight: a Lay Sermon,...

London: Printed for Gale and Fenner … J. M. Richardson … and Hatchard … 1816.

First edition of the first of Coleridge’s ‘Lay Sermons’, written in Highgate at the house of James Gillman, to whom Coleridge had come as an in-patient for his opium addiction.

£200

COLLECTION (A)

of Poems: viz. the Temple of Death: by the Marquis of Normanby with several Original Poems, never before printed,...

London: Printed for Daniel Brown … and Benjamin Tooke … 1701.

Fourth edition of the important ‘Temple of Death’ miscellany of Restoration poetry, retaining most of the poems from the third edition (1693) and adding much material, including all the poems on pp. 172-282 – with contributions from Stepney, Arwaker and Congreve – and the poems at the end (pp....

£500

[COLLEGIO DEI NOBILI DI MODENA.]

Il buon’ uso della vittoria, ossia Publio Cornelio Scipione nella nuova Cartagine: azione accademica...

Modena, eredi di Bartolomeo Soliani, [1776].

First edition. A scarce play with music and ballet, prepared and performed by the Collegio dei Nobili di Modena for celebrations of the birthday of Francesco III d’Este, Duke of Modena. The work comprises a play in three acts on Scipio Africanus by Alessandro Guinigi, three short ballets drawn...

£450

[COLVIL, Samuel.]

‘Mock Poem, or Whiggs Supplication Part ii’.

1670s?

A fine early manuscript of the second part of Colvil’s rollicking ‘Scottish Hudibras’, a satire on Scots Presbyterianism and sectarian wrangling between non-conformists in general. It circulated widely in manuscript before its first publication in 1681, when Colvil complained of ‘Transcribers,...

£1250

COMIDAS DE CARBOGNANO, Cosimo.

Primi principi della gramatica Turca ad uso dei missionari apostolici di Costantinopoli ...

Rome, stamperia della Sac. Congr. di Prop. Fide, 1794.

The first complete Ottoman Turkish grammar published in Italian, compiled by the Catholic Armenian dragoman Cosimo Comidas de Carbognano (translator to Count de Ludolf, minister of the Two Sicilies to the Ottoman Porte in the late eighteenth century) and published by the Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda...

£1500

CORNEILLE, Pierre.

Nicomède tragedie.

Rouen, Laurens Maurry (and Paris, Guillaume de Luyne), 1653.

Second edition (first 1651) of Corneille’s tragedy of sibling rivalry and the conflict of political and aristocratic ideals, set in Rome in the second century BC. It was written after Corneille moved to Paris in 1647 and was first staged at the height of the Fronde rebellion, after which he wrote nothing...

£750

[COTTLE, Joseph.]

Poems, containing John the Baptist. Sir Malcolm and Alla, a Tale, shewing to all the World what Woman’s Love...

Bristol, Printed by Bulgin and Rosser, for J. Cottle, Bookseller … and G. G. and J. Robinson … London, 1795.

First edition. The Bristol bookseller Joseph Cottle (1770-1853) had been introduced to Coleridge and Southey by Robert Lovell in 1794 when the two poets ‘were in Bristol courting the Fricker sisters and preparing for Pantisocracy (as they called their scheme to marry and set up a community on...

£6000

[COTTON, Charles].

Scarronnides: or. Virgile Travestie. A Mock-Poem. In Imitation of the fourth Book of Virgils Æneis in English,...

London, Printed by E. Cotes for Henry Brome … 1665.

First edition of the second part of Cotton’s famous burlesque, an imitation of Aeneid book IV.

£250

[COURTESAN.]

Les confessions d’une courtisane devenue philosophe.

‘London’ and Brussels, Le Francq, 1784.

First edition (another appeared in the same year with a 'Londres et se trouve à Paris' imprint) of this anonymous novel describing the ascent (or perhaps descent) of a courtesan into the world of the philosophe.

£850

[COURTILZ DE SANDRAS, Gatien de.]

Les dames dans leur naturel, ou la galanterie sans façon. Sous le regne du Grand Alcandre.

‘A Cologne’ [but The Netherlands], ‘chez Pierre Marteau’, 1686.

First edition, uncommon, of this tale of the debauchery of the ladies at Louis XIV’s court, purportedly ‘found in a cabinet, long after it had been written’ by the author.

£685

CROMARTY, George Mackenzie, Earl of.

An historical Account of the Conspiracies by the Earls of Gowry, and Robert Logan of Restalrig,...

First edition, dedicated to Queen Anne, ‘and to all the Princes who share in her royal blood’. The Vindication of Robert III was first published in 1695.

£150

[CUMBERLAND, Richard.]

Arundel. By the author of the Observer.

London, Printed for C. Dilly … 1789.

First edition. Richard Cumberland (1732–1811) was the grandson of the great scholar Richard Bentley, and great-grandson of the Bishop of Peterborough; he had already made his name as a playwright in London, and was also the author of a periodical paper the Observer when he published this,...

£1500

CUMMINGS, E. E.

i: six nonlectures.

Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard University Press, 1953.

First trade edition, inscribed to the BBC radio producer Douglas Geoffrey Bridson ‘Wishing Geoffrey Bridson good luck / E. E. Cummings’. There was also a signed limited edition of 350 copies.

£750

[CURLL, Edmund, editor.]

Impartial Memorials of the Life and Writings of Thomas Hearne, M.A. by several Hands.

London, Printed in the Year 1736.

First separate edition, amusing but in no way ‘impartial’, of this biography of the age’s leading antiquary, Thomas Hearne (1678–1735).

£450