Prepared for the Grolier Club, these notes describe the first editions of a hundred landmark works of English literature, from Chaucer, Gower and Malory through Shakespeare and Milton to the novelists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Each entry gives the title page and printing details along with publishing anecdotes, such as Bishop Warburton’s preface for Richardson.
A browsable companion for book collectors and lovers of English literature’s great first editions. Download the free EPUB.