Recent Arrivals from Regency Books 1811
Recent Arrivals from Regency Books 1811
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The Corsair. A Tale
by George Byron
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- 2023
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The Corsair. A Tale.
Warsaw, Rambler Press, 2023
The Corsair (1814) is a long tale in verse written by Lord Byron and published by John Murray in London. It was extremely popular, selling ten thousand copies on its first day of sale, and was influential throughout the following century, inspiring operas, music and ballet.
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Persuasion
by Jane Austen
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- 2023
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Persuasion [Jane Austen]
Jane Austen
Persuasion is the last novel completed by Jane Austen. It was published on 20 December 1817, along with Northanger Abbey, six months after her death.
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Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
by John Cleland
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- 2020
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Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill]
John Cleland
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Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure - popularly known as Fanny Hill - is an erotic novel by the English novelist John Cleland first published in London in 1748. Written while the author was in debtors' prison in London. There has been speculation that the novel was at least… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
by Edmund Burke
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Edmund Burke
Rambler Press, Warsaw 2023
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is a 1757 treatise on aesthetics written by Edmund Burke. It was the first complete philosophical exposition for separating the beautiful and the sublime into their own respective rational… Read more about this item Item Price
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Lyrical Ballads with other Poems
by William Wordsworth
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- 2023
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Lyrical Ballads with other Poems
William Wordsworth
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Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. It became and remains a landmark, changing the course of English literature. Most of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Castle of Otranto
by Horatio Walpole
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- 2022
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Castle of Otranto
Horatio Walpole
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The Castle of Otranto is a novel by Horace Walpole. First published in 1764, it is generally regarded as the first gothic novel. Walpole himself applied the word 'Gothic' to the novel in the subtitle of the second edition: A Gothic Story. Set in a haunted castle, the novel merged medievalism and terror in… Read more about this item Item Price
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Memoir of the early campaigns of the Duke of Wellington in Portugal and Spain
by John Fane, lord Westmorland
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Memoir of the early campaigns of the Duke of Wellington in Portugal and Spain
John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland was a British soldier, politician, diplomat, composer and musician. He was educated at Cheam School and then at Harrow from 1797 to 1799. On 9 May 1803, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Northamptonshire, and after the breakdown of the… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy [Laurence Sterne]
by Laurence Sterne
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- 2022
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A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
Laurence Sterne
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A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy is a novel by Laurence Sterne, written and first published in 1768. In 1765, Sterne travelled through France and Italy as far south as Naples and after returning determined to describe his travels from a sentimental point of view. The novel was extremely… Read more about this item Item Price
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Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818,… Read more about this item Item Price
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CHRISTABEL. KUBLA KHAN, A VISION. THE PAINS OF SLEEP
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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- 2021
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Christabel. Kubla Khan, a Vision. The Pains of Sleep
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Christabel" is a long narrative ballad by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in two parts. The first part was reputedly written in 1797, and the second in 1800. Coleridge planned three additional parts, but these were never completed. It was published in a pamphlet in 1816, alongside "Kubla Khan" and "The Pains… Read more about this item Item Price
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Overtures of Peace with France
by William Pitt the Younger
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Overtures of Peace with France
William Pitt the Younger
William Pitt the Younger (28 May 1759 – 23 January 1806) was a British statesman, the youngest and last prime minister of Great Britain from 1783 until the Acts of Union 1800 and then first prime minister of the United Kingdom from January 1801. He left office in March 1801, but served… Read more about this item Item Price
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The War with Jugurtha
by Sallust
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The War with Jugurtha
Sallust
Translated by John John Carew Rolfe
The Jugurthine War (Latin: Bellum Iugurthinum; 112–106 BC) was a military conflict between the Roman Republic and king Jughurta of Numidia, a kingdom on the North African coast approximating to modern Algieria. The conflict was a significant phase in the Roman conquest of northern Africa and the ascendancy of the Roman Empire.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
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Northanger Abbey [Jane Austen]
Jane Austen
Perhaps the first full-length novel written by Jane Austen is Northanger Abbey. The book was written between 1798 and 1799, and the copyright was sold to Benjamin Crosby & Son in 1803. The publisher did not bring it to print, and sold the rights and manuscript back to Austen in 1815. The first edition was published… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Life of David Hume, Esq.
by David Hume, Adam Smith
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The Life of David Hume, Esq. Written by Himself
David Hume, Adam Smith
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The Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, and librarian David Hume (1711–1776) is best known for his influential system of philosophical empiricism, doubt, and naturalism. His curiously detached autobiography, The Life of David Hume, Esquire, Written by Himself (1777; the title is his own), is dated April… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Revival of Caslon Types
by Justin Howes
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- 2013
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"The Revival of Caslon Types. Three Essays from Matrix: A Review for Printers and Bibliophiles" is Rambler Press's first book, printed in 2013 thanks to the courtesy of John Randle from Whittinghton Press. It includes three essays by Justin Howes on William Caslon's fonts. The volume has an introduction by John Randle of Whittington Press and an afterword by Nicolas… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
by Samuel Johnson
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- 2018
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
Samuel Johnson
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775) is a travel narrative by Samuel Johnson about an eighty-three-day journey through Scotland, in particular the islands of the Hebrides, in the late summer and autumn of 1773. The sixty-three-year-old Johnson was accompanied by his thirty-two-year-old friend of many years James Boswell.
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The War with Catiline
by Sallust
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The War with Catiline
Sallust
Translated by John C. Rolfe
The War with Catiline, also known as the Catiline (Latin: De coniuratione Catilinae or Bellum Catilinae) is the first story published by the Roman historian Salustius. It is a chronicle of the attempt to overthrow the Roman rule taken by Catiline in 63 BC, probably written between 44 and 40 BC, 20 years… Read more about this item Item Price
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Two Letters Addressed To a Member of The Present Parliament on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France
by Edmund Burke
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- 2018
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- Quarter-bound by hand in leather and marbled paper boards, in a slipcase.
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Two Letters Addressed To a Member of The Present Parliament on the Proposals...
Edmund Burke
Letters on a Regicide Peace or Letters ... on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France were a series of four letters written by Edmund Burke during the 1790s in opposition to Prime Minister William Pitt's seeking of peace with the revolutionary French Directorate.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Letter to a Member of the National Assembly
by Edmund Burke
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- 2017
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Letter to a Member of the National Assembly in Answer to Some Objections to...
Edmund Burke
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The letter to a member of the National Assembly was published in February 1791 and is notable for its open condemnation of Rousseau and his influence on French politics and ethics. Burke avoids any punches, calling Rousseau a man driven by vanity and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Designs by Mr. Bentley for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray
by Thomas Gray
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- 2017
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- 9788362751495
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Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray
Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray (1716 – 1771) was an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar, and fellow at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is widely known for his Elegy Written In a Country Churchyard, published in 1751.
Gray was a self-critical writer who published only 13 poems in his lifetime, despite being very… Read more about this item Item Price
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