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  • by Sharon Joffe
    £120.99 - 218.49

  • by Paul H Barrett
    £83.49 - 91.99

    The 21st volume in a 29-volume set which contain all Charles Darwin's published works. Darwin was one of the most influential figures of the 19th century. His work remains a central subject of study in the history of ideas, the history of science, zoology, botany, geology and evolution.

  • - The Last of Defoe's Performances
    by G A Starr
    £18.49 - 93.99

    This critical edition is the first such version of Christianity Not as Old as the Creation and the first time it has been reprinted. Starr's attribution is not only a significant contribution to Defoe scholarship, but in making it he provides an excellent 'how to' guide for scholars wishing to add other non-attributed works to the Defoe canon.

  • by Robin C Dix
    £48.99 - 185.99

    This volume contains a newly-edited cache of over 30 manuscript essays on a diverse range of topics and descriptions.

  • - Volume I
    by Adam Komisaruk
    £142.99 - 174.99

  • - With a Fragment of William Wotton's 'Lost Life of Boyle'
    by Michael Hunter
    £48.99 - 115.99

    The image of Robert Boyle owes much to a series of evaluations of him written shortly after his death by men who had known him well, such as John Evelyn, Gilbert Burnet and Sir Peter Pett. This book includes a selection of these previously unpublished texts.

  • by John Aplin
    £185.99 - 650.49

    Philip Webb was a British architect known as a founder of the Arts and Crafts movement and also a key member of the Pre-Raphaelite circle. He had a long association with William Morris and was responsible for the design of the hugely influential Red House, Morris's first home. Webb's letters will be of interest to art and architecture historians.

  • by Nicole Pohl
    £185.99 - 326.49

    Sarah Robinson Scott was a writer, translator and social reformer. While Scott's legacy presents her as a committed Anglican philanthropist, the letters she wrote reveal her to have been a witty, even savage, commentator on eighteenth-century life.This is the first edition of Scott's letters to be published and presents all extant copies.

  • by William Christie
    £18.49

    Contains letters from Francis Jeffrey (1773-1850) to Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) and Jane Welsh Carlyle (1801-1866). The letters in this title present a personal and intellectual narrative of nineteenth-century Britain.

  • by George Eliot & Antonie Gerard van den Broek
    £50.99 - 185.99

    In 1864, George Eliot began writing her longest poem, "The Spanish Gypsy". This project exhausted her, and her partner took the manuscript away from her for fear it was making her ill. This work explains what Eliot read to research the poem, which parts caused her particular problems and summarises the poem's critical reception.

  • by Todd Avery
    £43.49 - 185.99

    A core member of the Bloomsbury Group, Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) is recognized for his radical influence on the new school of psychological biography. This volume collects for the first time Strachey's previously unpublished essays, dialogues and stories.

  • by David O'Shaughnessy
    £50.99 - 185.99

    Best known for "Enquiry Concerning Political Justice" (1793) and "Caleb Williams" (1794), William Godwin (1756-1836) is one of the most important figures of the Romantic period. This book offers academics the chance to build a complete picture of Godwin as a writer and political figure.

  • by Betty T Bennett
    £839.49

    These eight volumes contain the works of Mary Shelley and include introductions and prefatory notes to each volume. Included in this edition are "Frankenstein" (1818), "Matilda" ((1819), "Valperga" (1823), "The Last Man" (1826), "Perkin Warbeck" (1830) and "Lodore" (1835).

  • by Janet Todd
    £542.49

    Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was one of the most successful dramatists of the Restoration theatre, a popular poet and author of the influential novel "Oroonoko". This is a seven-volume set of all her works. Volumes 5,6 and 7 are scheduled for publication in early 1996.

  • by Marilyn Butler
    £380.49

    This collected edition makes available all of Maria Edgeworth's major fiction for adults, much of her juvenile fiction, and also a selection of her educational and occasional writings. A dual pagination system indicates original page numbers for scholars.

  • - Volume III
    by BELSON
    £120.99

    This is the third volume of a three volume collection of the correspondence of Caroline Norton, covering the period February 1858-June 1877.

  • - Volume II
    by BELSON
    £185.99

    This is the second volume of a three volume collection of the correspondence of Caroline Norton, covering the period January 1838-November 1857.

  • - Volume I
    by BELSON
    £185.99

    This is the first volume of a three volume collection of the correspondence of Caroline Norton, covering the period July 1828-Deember 1837.

  • by Ann Hawkins
    £704.49

    Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81) was one of the most important political figures in 19th century Britain. However, before rising to political prominence he had established himself as a major literary figure. This set takes a critical look at Disraeli's early work.

  • by Corinna Wagner
    £569.49

    John Thelwall was London Corresponding Society's most prominent orators and was tried for high treason along with Thomas Hardy and John Horne Tooke in 1794. This edition brings together Thelwall's most important political writing ranging from scientific pamphlets and writings on the art of elocution, to political philosophy and journalism.

  • by John Aplin
    £191.49

    Philip Webb was a British architect known as a founder of the Arts and Crafts movement and also a key member of the Pre-Raphaelite circle. He had a long association with William Morris and was responsible for the design of the hugely influential Red House, Morris's first home. Webb's letters will be of interest to art and architecture historians.

  • by John Aplin
    £191.49

    Philip Webb was a British architect known as a founder of the Arts and Crafts movement and also a key member of the Pre-Raphaelite circle. He had a long association with William Morris and was responsible for the design of the hugely influential Red House, Morris's first home. Webb's letters will be of interest to art and architecture historians.

  • by John Aplin
    £185.99

    Philip Webb was a British architect known as a founder of the Arts and Crafts movement and also a key member of the Pre-Raphaelite circle. He had a long association with William Morris and was responsible for the design of the hugely influential Red House, MorrisaEURO (TM)s first home. Webb's letters will be of interest to art and architecture historians.

  • by Gregory Claeys
    £142.99

    Robert Owen (1771-1858) was the founder of British socialism, and one of the most influential reformers in Britain and America in the first half of the 19th century. This book contains all Owen's key writings on the ideal community, socialism, religion, and the capitalist economic system.

  • by Gregory Claeys
    £142.99

    Robert Owen (1771-1858) was the founder of British socialism, and one of the most influential reformers in Britain and America in the first half of the 19th century. This book contains all Owen's key writings on the ideal community, socialism, religion, and the capitalist economic system.

  • by Gregory Claeys
    £142.99

    Robert Owen (1771-1858) was the founder of British socialism, and one of the most influential reformers in Britain and America in the first half of the 19th century. This book contains all Owen's key writings on the ideal community, socialism, religion, and the capitalist economic system.

  • by Gregory Claeys
    £142.99

    Robert Owen (1771-1858) was the founder of British socialism, and one of the most influential reformers in Britain and America in the first half of the 19th century. This book contains all Owen's key writings on the ideal community, socialism, religion, and the capitalist economic system.

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    £185.99

    Tobias Smollett (1721-71) is best known as a novelist; however this prolific and talented author was also a notable historian, literary critic, translator, medical writer and satirist. This volume will help us to reassess our understanding of Smollett by presenting some of his most significant miscellaneous writings in a new critical edition.

  • - Poems and Lucan's Pharsalia (Books I-III)
     
    £158.99

    Nicholas Rowe was the first Poet Laureate of the Georgian era. A fascinating yet largely overlooked figure in eighteenth-century literature, his plays are important both for the way they address the concerns of the day and for reflecting a period in which the theatre was in crisis. This is the first scholarly edition of all Rowe's plays and poems.

  • - The Late Plays
     
    £158.99

    Nicholas Rowe was the first Poet Laureate of the Georgian era. A fascinating yet largely overlooked figure in eighteenth-century literature, his plays are important both for the way they address the concerns of the day and for reflecting a period in which the theatre was in crisis. This is the first scholarly edition of all Rowe's plays and poems.

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