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Duke University Libraries, British Romantic Literature

Works from and about the British Romantic era of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, from the holdings of the Duke University David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The collection is espec ially rich in the works of Lord Byron and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, including some unique copies, but also includes significant editions of works by Leigh Hunt, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley, Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, and others. Many items in the colle...



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by Polidori, John William, 1795-1821; Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824; Mitford, John, 1782-1831
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The "Extract of a letter to the editor" (p. [v]-xvi) and "Extract of a letter, containing an account of Lord Byron's residence in the island of Mitylene" (p. [73]-84) have been ascribed to John Mitford, R. N. cf. British Museum Catalogue and Notes & queries, 3d ser., v.7, p. 201
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by Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834; Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.)
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"Five hundred and forty copies printed at the Riverside Press Cambridge."
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by Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822; Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859
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xxx, 47 p. 17 cm
Topic: Peterloo Massacre, Manchester, England, 1819
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by Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850; Moxon, Edward, 1801-1858
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Added illus. t.-p.: The poetical works of William Wordsworth, dated 1847
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by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
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Cantos I-II
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by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
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First edition. Wise, v. 1, p. 50
Topics: Greek literature, Modern, English literature
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by Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834
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Poems by Wordsworth and Coleridge
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by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834
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Originally issued in 28 parts, from June 1, 1809 to March 15, 1810
Topics: Philosophy, Ethics, Political science
In 3 parts, each with special t.-p. Pages partly blank
Topics: St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England), genealogy
Duke University Libraries, British Romantic Literature
by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
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The life of Lord Byron: p. v-xliii
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by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824; Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824. Armenian exercises and poetry
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Translations from Armenian literature into English and from his poetry into Armenian, accompanied in each case by the original text
Topics: Armenian language, Armenian literature, English poetry
Duke University Libraries, British Romantic Literature
by Maturin, Charles Robert, 1780-1824
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by Maturin, Charles Robert, 1780-1824
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Three of the poems, Address to a child, The mother's return, and The cottager to the infant, are by Dorothy Wordsworth
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by Combe, William, 1742-1823; Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
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Originally published in 24 monthly parts, 1814-16
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Topic: Dance of death
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by Tymms, W. R. (William Robert); Wyatt, M. Digby (Matthew Digby), Sir, 1820-1877
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Illustrated t.-p. in colors
Topics: Illumination of books and manuscripts, Alphabets, Initials
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by Maturin, Charles Robert, 1780-1824
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by Maturin, Charles Robert, 1780-1824
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"In 1796 Hunter began the publication in parts of ... 'History of London and its environs,' which he did not live to complete. The publisher John Stockdale, with the assistance of other hacks, issued the discreditable compilation as a complete work ... in 1811."--Dict. nat. biog
Topic: London (England) -- History
Duke University Libraries, British Romantic Literature
by Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822
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Added engraved t.p.: Queen Mab : a philosophical poem / by Percy Bysshe Shelley. New York : Printed and sold by J. Baldwin, 1821
Duke University Libraries, British Romantic Literature
by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834; Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834; Lloyd, Charles, 1775-1839
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xx, 278 p. 16 cm
Duke University Libraries, British Romantic Literature
by McKay, William Darling, 1844-1924; Roberts, W. (William), 1862-1940
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"Exhibits at the Royal Academy": p. [313]-319
Topics: Hoppner, John, 1758-1810, Portraits
Duke University Libraries, British Romantic Literature
by Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834
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By Wordsworth and Coleridge
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by Foster, J. J. (Joshua James), 1847-1923; Tilt, A. P
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Illus. by A.P. Tilt, Sir Antonio More, Janet, [etc.]
Topics: Miniature painting, Miniature painting, Painters
Duke University Libraries, British Romantic Literature
by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
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First American edition
Duke University Libraries, British Romantic Literature
by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
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First edition, second issue
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by Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822
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Originally published in 1818 as "Laon and Cythna," subsequently withdrawn and altered, and reissued with a new title and 26 cancel leaves. cf. T.J. Wise's "A Shelley Library."
Duke University Libraries, British Romantic Literature
by Awgerean, Harutʻiwn. Grammar, Armenian and English; Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
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In English and Armenian with text on facing pages
Topics: Armenian literature, English literature, English poetry, Armenian poetry
Duke University Libraries, British Romantic Literature
by Southey, Robert, 1774-1843
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Signatures: 3 leaves unsigned, a-c , B-L
Topic: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Contains passages supposedly taken from Byron's unpublished memoirs (p. 19-21, 165-167) and an article about his published letters (p. 41-42)
Topic: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
Duke University Libraries, British Romantic Literature
by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
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First edition, first issue with me for I in line 300, p. 15 and 20 lines of text on p. 47
Duke University Libraries, British Romantic Literature
by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834; Ashe, T. (Thomas), 1836-1889; Campbell, James Dykes, 1838-1895
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Interleaved, and with many ms. notes by the editor
Duke University Libraries, British Romantic Literature
by Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822; Housman, Laurence, 1865-1959
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"Of this special edition on Japanese paper only 50 copies have been printed for the Guild of Women-Binders"--P. [2]
Duke University Libraries, British Romantic Literature
by Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850
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2 v. 17 cm
Running title: Spirit of discovery by sea
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by Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822
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182 p. ; 23 cm
Duke University Libraries, British Romantic Literature
by Britton, John, 1771-1857
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Each volume has special and engraved title pages
Topics: Cathedrals, Church architecture
[12], 331, [12] p. 32 cm
Topics: Monasteries, Church buildings, genealogy
Duke University Libraries, British Romantic Literature
by Billings, Robert William, 1813-1874
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Engr. title-pages
Topics: Architecture, Church architecture
Duke University Libraries, British Romantic Literature
by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834; Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834. Poems on various subjects
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Four of the sonnets, nos. 7, 11-13, were written by Charles Lamb, and part of sonnet 15 by Robert Southey. cf. p. xi
v.1. Juvenile poems. Poems collected in 1796-1797. Sonnets. Miscellaneous poems (1794-1797).-v.2. Poems published in 1798. Sibylline leaves. Epigrams.-v.3. The fall of Robespierre. Translation of Schiller's "Wallenstein."-v.4. Remorse: a tragedy. Zapolys, a Christmas tale
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by Southey, Robert, 1774-1843; Southey, Charles Cuthbert, b. 1818 or 19
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Extracts from six volumes bound in 2 parts
Topic: Southey, Robert, 1774-1843
Duke University Libraries, British Romantic Literature
by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
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Publisher's advertisement: p. [55]-[56]
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by Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822
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120 p. ; 15 cm
Duke University Libraries, British Romantic Literature
by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
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Printer's imprint of Thomas Davison, Whitefriars
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by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
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Corresponds to the 1st edition, described by E. H. Coleridge in the bibliography appended to his edition of Byron, v. 7 (1904) p. 210
Duke University Libraries, British Romantic Literature
by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834; Coleridge, Derwent, 1800-1883
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7th ed
Duke University Libraries, British Romantic Literature
by Combe, William, 1742-1823; Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827; Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856; Riviere & Son. DLC; A. Edward Newton Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
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Caption title: Doctor Syntax in London
Topic: Combe, William, 1742-1823
Duke University Libraries, British Romantic Literature
by Britton, John, 1771-1857
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Each volume has special and engraved title pages
Topics: Cathedrals, Church architecture
Duke University Libraries, British Romantic Literature
by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
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First edition, fourth issue, with three line errata on p. 236 and with signature designations *P and *Q unadjusted. Wise, Byron, v. 1., p. 62
Issued in 28 parts, from June 1, 1809, to March 15, 1810, and numbered 1 to 27. The issue dated January 11, 1810, considered as a supernumerary essay, is not numbered
Topics: Philosophy, Ethics, Political science
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by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
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Signatures: []2, B-C8
Duke University Libraries, British Romantic Literature
by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834; Ellis, Frederick Startridge, 1830-1901; Morris, William, 1834-1896; Kelmscott Press
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ii, 100 p. 21 cm
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by Southey, Robert, 1774-1843
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An anonymous, unauthorized ed. of a play written by Robert Southey in 1794 but never published by him. Cf. DNB
Topics: Tyler, Wat, d. 1381, Tyler's Insurrection, 1381
"In 1796 Hunter began the publication in parts of ... 'History of London and its environs,' which he did not live to complete. The publisher John Stockdale, with the assistance of other hacks, issued the discreditable compilation as a complete work ... in 1811."--Dict. nat. biog
Topic: London (England) -- History
Duke University Libraries, British Romantic Literature
by Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822
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[1]-vi p., 1l. [1]-101 [1]p. 16 cm
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The author's "Early recollections", 1837, is embodied in the present work
Topics: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834, Southey, Robert, 1774-1843
Duke University Libraries, British Romantic Literature
by Bowles, William Lisle, 1762-1850
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8, 121 p. ; 19 cm
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by Britton, John, 1771-1857
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Each volume has special and engraved title pages
Topics: Cathedrals, Church architecture
Duke University Libraries, British Romantic Literature
by Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870; Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882
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Added t.p., engr
Topic: France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Fiction
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by Baxter, G. R. Wythen (George Robert Wythen), 1815-1854; Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824. Don Juan
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First edition. Mathews, Byron, 343
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by Polidori, John William, 1795-1821; Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824; Mitford, John, 1782-1831
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The "Extract of a letter to the editor" (p. [v]-xvi) and "Extract of a letter, containing an account of Lord Byron's residence in the island of Mitylene" (p. [73]-84) have been ascribed to John Mitford, R. N. cf. British Museum Catalogue and Notes & queries, 3d ser., v.7, p. 201
Duke University Libraries, British Romantic Literature
by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
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Wise, Byron, II. p. 46; Mathews, Byron, 442
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by Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822; Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
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Pref. signed: Mary W. Shelley
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by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
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First edition, second issue
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by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834; Coleridge, Henry Nelson, 1798-1843
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First ed., cf. Wise 88
Topic: Bible
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by Southey, Robert, 1774-1843
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Errata leaf bound at end
Topic: Joan, of Arc, Saint, 1412-1431
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by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
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On spine: Ld Byron's poems. Childe Harold
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by Britton, John, 1771-1857
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Each volume has special and engraved title pages
Topics: Cathedrals, Church architecture
Duke University Libraries, British Romantic Literature
by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
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Wise, p. 10
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by Broughton, John Cam Hobhouse, Baron, 1786-1869; Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824; Horace; Juvenal
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Includes imitations of Sat. XI of Juvenal, Sat. III, book I, and Epistle XIX, book I of Horace, with the original Latin, translations from Horace, Ovid, Tibullus, Voltaire and others
Topic: College verse, English
Duke University Libraries, British Romantic Literature
by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834
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Caption title
Topics: Encyclopaedia metropolitana, Methodology, Classification of sciences
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by Bowles, William Lisle, 1762-1850
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First published under title: Fourteen sonnets, elegiac and descriptive, written during a tour. Cf. CBEL
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by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834; Coleridge, Derwent, 1800-1883; Coleridge, Sara Coleridge, 1802-1852
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Title and text within line border
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by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
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15 p. ; 21 cm