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Poetry
ADDISON, JOSEPH: The Poetical Works. With the Life of the Author. Cooke's Edition. Embellished with Superb Engravings.
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London: for C. Cooke, [1796]. Engraved portrait after Kneller, engraved plates after Corbould. 12mo (5 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches), contemporary full tan marbled calf, spine gilt ruled with burgundy lettering piece. Joints cracked but very firm. Engraved armorial bookplate on front pastedown. £12.00 |
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ALLINGHAM, WILLIAM: Fifty Modern Poems.
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London: Bell and Daldry, 1865. First edition. Small 8vo, pp.viii:183:32 (Bell & Daldry's catalogue dated Jan. 1865), original green cloth ruled in blind; some very light spotting to upper cover, head a base of spine a trifle bruised, inner joint cracked between pages 112 & 113 nonetheless a very nice copy £125.00 |
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ANON: A Reminiscence and Other Verses.
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[Privately Printed] circa 1895. 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 inches), 36-pages, original blue cloth, the upper cover blocked in gilt with a coronet above the letter S. |
A volume of Sporting verse comprising: A Reminiscence, Glen Fiddich, October 1892; The Angler's Lament. Gordon Castle, October 1892; Waiting for Orders. Gordon Castle, October 1892; Festina Lente. Gordon Castle, October 1893 (annotated in ink "this refers to Lord Hardwicke"); & A Reverie. November, 1893.
The printed dedication: "To My Brother Sportsmen" is inscribed in ink "To H.M.F With the Author's Compliments March /97". With autograph letter signed, "Seth" to "My dear Bab" re. fishing etc. dated Gordon Castle, Oct. 18th /96. Very rare.
£55.00
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ANON: Mail Train Memories by "Poisson".
No publisher or place, c.1913. 12mo, pp.15, original printed wrappers. Verse.
£15.00
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ARLETT, VERA I: Sussex Poems.
Hove, Sussex: Combridges, 1934. First edition. Small 8vo, pp.39, original wrappers; very good.
£10.00
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ARMSTRONG, MARTIN; RAVILIOUS, ERIC: 54 Conceits. A Collection of Epigrams and Epitaphs Serious and Comic by Martin Armstrong with Engravings by Eric Ravilious.
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London: Martin Secker, 1933. First and only edition. Woodcuts by Eric Ravilious throughtout. 12mo (7 x 5 1/2 inches), 72-pages. Original black cloth-backed blue boards, uncut. In the original dust jacket with woodcuts by Ravilious to front and rear panels. Small ink monogramn on front pastedown. Some light fading to edges of blue cloth boards, light foxing to endpapers. The dust jacked browned and spotted, with some light edge wear, tiny puncture to dust jacked at spine. Internally excellent, the woodcuts bright and clean. An extremely rare Ravilious work containing some of his finest woodcuts. £900.00
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ASKWITH, BETTY: First Poems. With autograph letter.
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London: Martin Secker, 1928. First edition. 8vo (7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches), 49-pages. Original cloth-backed art deco patterned boards; a trifle rubbed. With autograph letter from the author tipped-in in which she states that these poems were written between the ages of 15 and 18. Attractive bookplate on front pastedown. £15.00 |
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[AUSTRALIAN POETRY] - GRANT, JAMIE (Editor): 100 Australian Poems you need to know.
Prahan, Victoria: Hardie Grant Books, 2008. First edition. 8vo ( 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches), 245-pages. Original orange cloth with applied illustration as issued; corners bumped else excellent.
£25.00
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BARKER, SEBASTIAN [Elizabeth Frink]: Poems.
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Reepham, Norfolk: Cygnet Press, 1974. Number 93 of a limited signed edition of 100 copies. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches), original black cloth lettered in gilt. Excellent.
Elisabeth Frink's copy inscribed to her and her husband by the poet, "To Lis & Alex with many thanks for their help, Sebastian Oct. '75".
£40.00
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BARNES, WILLIAM: Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1893. 8vo (7 3/4 x 5 inches), 467-pages, original green cloh; ragged splits to outer joints, rubbed. Inner joints firm. Signature on half-title.
£12.00
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BEATTIE, JAMES: The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius. A Poem. Book the First.
London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1771. Second edition. 4to (10 x 8 inches), pages: vii:32, disbound. With the half-title. A few very short marginal tears, generally good. Anon.
£35.00
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BEAUMONT & FLETCHER: Lyric Poems. Edited by Ernest Rhys. In the "Lyric Poets" series.
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London: J. M. Dent, n.d. Etched portrait with tissue guard. 8vo (6 x 4 inches), 143-pages. Publisher's full white vellum elaborately blocked urn gilt, red silk ties. Spine very slightly dulled. A very pretty and attractive binding. Some warping to boards, as usual, but generally in very good and bright condition. Inscription on front free-endpaper dated 1909 and small personal book label to reverse. Bound-in red silk bookmark. £45.00 |
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BOILEAU-DESPREAUX, (NICOLAS): Oeuvres de M. Boileau Despreaux.
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Paris: No publisher stated, 1778. Two volumes 12mo (5 x 3 inches), pages: 200 & 171, contemporary full tan sheep with lettering pieces; rubbed, 2 inch split to lower joint of volume 1, headbands chipped. £15.00 |
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BOWDLER, JANE: Poems and Essays by the late Miss Bowdler. Published for the Benefit of the General Hospital at Bath.
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Bath: Printed by Richard Cruttwell, 1811. 13th Edition. 8vo (8 x 5 inches), 273-pages. Contemporary full tan calf, decorative gilt border to sides, spine gilt and lettered direct; light rubbing to joints, overall well and attractively bound and in very good condition. Contemporary gift inscription on front fly. £40.00 |
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BOWRING, JOHN (Trans.): Specimens of the Russian Poets: with Preliminary Remarks and Biographical Notices.
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London: Printed for the Author, 1821. First edition. 12mo (6 1/2 x 4 inches), pages: (6):xxii:(1):240. Contemporary full diced calf; rubbed, upper cover detached. Internally very good. £75.00 |
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BRIDGES, ROBERT: The Testament of Beauty. One of 50 Signed.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1929. Limited edition of 250 of which 50 signed by the author; this being No. 30 of the 50 signed copies; published at 4 gns. 4to, pp. 154, original green cloth. A very good copy in foxed and slightly edgeworn d.w. With an attractive etched bookplate by A. Airy signed by the artist. With, loosely inserted, the "Publisher's Note on the Text".
£125.00
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BROWNING, ROBERT: The Ring and the Book. Four volumes.
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London: Smith Elder, 1869. First edition. 4 volumes 8vo (7 x 4 1/2 inches), original green bevelled cloth blocked in black. Head of spine of Volume 3 bruised, other headbands a little bruised, tiny puncture to the spine of Volume 2, lower joint of Volume 1 split, inner joints of Volume 4 split and therefore text block detached, some foxing to the prelims. of Volume 1; apart from all the bindings are really quite good and sharp. |
£48.00
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BROWNING, ROBERT: Poems, containing Dramatic Lyrics, Dramatic Romances, Men and Women, Dramas, Pauline, Paracelsus, Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day, Sordello and Dramatis Personae.
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Oxford University Press, 1919. Portrait with tissue guard. 8vo ( 8 x 5 1/4 inches), 696-pages, contemporary half green morocco; spine lettered direct, ruled and with gilt ornaments in compartments, top edge gilt; the binding by Birdsall. Spine uniformly sunned to olive. An attractive binding in very good condition. £25.00 |
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BURNS, ROBERT: Poetical Works. With Glossary, Notes, Memoir etc. The "Albion" Edition.
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London: Frederick Warne, n.d. circa 1900. Portrait. 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches), 614-pages. Contemporary full tan calf. Narrow gilt rule on sides enclosing the the name of a school in gilt, spine gilt with lettering piece; some rubbing to extremities but strong and sound. Some foxing to prelims. Prize label on front pastedown. £20.00 |
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BURNS, ROBERT (Alexander Smith Editor): Poems, Songs and Letters being The Complete Works. The Globe Edition.
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London: Macmillan, 1900. 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 inches), contemporary full crimson prize calf, sides gilt ruled enclosing gilt school arms, spine floral gilt with lettering piece. Prize inscription on verso of front free endpaper. Extremities lightly rubbed, the binding very sound however, attractive. One leaf slightly proud (binding fault). £28.00 |
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BUTLER, SAMUEL: Hudibras. The First Part. Written in the time of the Late Wars. Corrected and Amended, with Several Additions and Annotations. Bound with the 2nd and 3rd parts.
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Part 1 London: Printed by T. Warren for Henry Herringman, and to be Sold by R. Bentley, J. Tonson, F. Saunders and T. Bennet, 1694. Part 2 for R. Chiswell 1693, Part 3 for Thomas Horne 1694. 8vo, pp.412 (parts 1 & 2 with continuous pagination): 254, bound in later unlettered brown grained cloth with raised bands; slight marks to binding; the word "Fury" on page 1 circled in ink and with one word written in ink on right margin. First leaf of text a little soiled and creased. £90.00 |
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BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD: Waltz: An Apostrophic Hymn by Horace Hornem.
London: Benbow, 1821. 12mo, pp.36, disbound. [Anon.]
£80.00
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CAMPBELL, ROY: Taurine Provence. LIMITED SIGNED EDITION.
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London: Desmond Harmsworth, 1932. Limited signed edition, this being No. 24 of 100 copies. 4to (10 x 7 1/2 inches wide), pp.79, original cream cloth lettered in red on spine and a bull blocked in black on front cover; binding poor, with areas of damp-staining to each corner and leading edge of both covers (which is mirrored to some extent on the internal pastedowns), spine slightly darkened and with a slight bow to the covers; internally, page edges slightly browned, neat ink name on front free-endpaper, else generally very good. £95.00 |
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CAMPBELL, THOMAS: The Poetical Works.
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London: Henry Colburn, 1828. First collected edition. Engraved portrait. Two volumes. 8vo, contemporary full blue polished calf, three triple gilt rules to sides enclosing gilt blocked floral wreath, spines gilt on wide bands and with crimson lettering and numbering pieces. Very short crack to one joint but very firm. A most attractive binding in very good condition. £70.00 |
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CAUSLEY, CHARLES: Collected Poems 1951-1975 ( with inscribed poem).
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London: Macmillan, 1977. Reprint. 8vo (9 x 5 3/4 inches), 289-pages. Original cloth, good in edge worn dustwrapper. The poet has inscribed his poem "Keats at Teignmouth Spring 1818" , 4 verses (16-lines) on the front free endpaper; signed and inscribed with good wishes at Launceston, 27th March 1979. With the recipients bookplate, designed by Reynolds Stone, on front pastedown. £225.00 |
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CHAMBERS, WILLIAM: The Scottish Ballads.
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Edinburgh: William Tait, 1829. First edition. Small 8vo (6 1/2 x 4 inches), pages: vii:399, with the half-title. 19th Cenrury half crimson calf, marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments with lettering piece. Corners rubbed, slight scuffing to spine but generally very attractive and in very sound condition. Inscriptions on front free endpaper and fly. Prelims. foxed. £38.00 |
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CONDON L.G. [Lizzie]: Killeeny of Lough Corrib and Miscellaneous Poems.
Dublin: McGlashan & Gill, 1872. First edition. 8vo (7 1/4 x 5 inches), 207-pages. Original green cloth. Corners worn, headbands chipped, joints rubbed, lacks front free endpaper, signature on half title, foxing, inner joints cracked but firm.
£35.00
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COWPER, WILLIAM: Poems. A New Edition in three volumes.
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London: F.C. & J. Rivington (& many others), 1817. Three volumes. Strangely bound without the title and first 24-pages of Volume 1. 8vo (6 1/4 x 4 inches), pages: 25-368; 368; & 359. 19th Century half green calf, marbled boards, spines gilt with crimson lettering pieces; a pretty binding in good condition. The last leaf of Volumes 1 & 2 dust marked and a little edge chipped. £30.00 |
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CUST, NINA: Not All the Suns. 1917 Poems 1944. With 6-line manuscript verse "An Epitaph" signed by Nina Cust.
London: Nicholson & Watson, 1944. First edition. 8vo, pp. 51, original cloth; binding faded, corners bumped.*With 6-line manuscript verse "An Epitaph" signed by Nina Cust, pasted to endpaper.
£25.00
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DE LA MARE, WALTER: Peacock Pye, A Book of Rhymes with Illustrations by W. Heath Robinson.
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London: Constable [1916]. First edition. Coloured frontispiece and b&w plates and illustrations. 8vo (8 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches), original green cloth gilt, white panel pictorially blocked in gilt on upper cover. Contemporary brief inscription on half-title. Foxing to prelims. and at end. Headbands a little bruised, the binding however good and bright. £18.00 |
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FOWKE (later SANSON), MARTHA - (1689 – 1736): The Epistles of Clio and Strephon, being a Collection of Letters That passed between an English Lady, and an English Gentleman in France who took an affection to each other, by reading accidentally one another's Occasional Compositions both in Prose and Verse.
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London: J. Hooke, at the Flower-de-Luce, in Fleet Street [& 2 others], 1720. First edtion, First Issue. Engraved head and tail pieces. 8vo (7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches), pages: xxiv (Dedication to Sir Richard Steele):xxv-lxviii (A Critical Essay .... by way of Letter from Mr. John Porter ...):131, contemporary full panelled tan calf, 20th Century very neat reback in tan calf with lettering piece. Contemporary signature, 'Nichs Marshall' on front fly. Anon. Rare. |
Clio was Fowke's "literary" name for herself while Strephon was the poet and journalist William Bond. The work is an exchange of letters in verse and prose. Fowke's poetry sometimes expresses her frustration with the conventional expectations of a woman's place in 18th Century society; her former friend and fellow-writer Eliza Haywood attacked Fowke in a scandalous account of her relationships which affected the poet's reputation badly.
£1200.00
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GENTLEMAN, FRANCIS: Royal Fables.
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London: for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1766. First edition. Engraved frontispiece and engraved headpiece. Small 8vo (6 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches), pages: (8):184, old half calf, marbled boards. Spine lacking 1 inch from headband, boards rubbed warped and marked. Endpapers discoloured, marginal damp-marking and browning. Later name & address on rear free endpaper. A relatively poor copy of this rare work by Francis Gentleman (1728-1784), Irish actor, poet, and dramatic writer.
£60.00
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GIBBON, MONK: The Branch of Hawthorn Tree.
London: Grayhound Press. One of a limited numbered edition of 460 copies. Hand-coloured illustrations by Picart Le Doux. Large 8vo, original wrappers; excellent in glassine wrapper; the glassine wrapper with some damage.
£20.00
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GOLDSMITH, OLIVER: The Beauties of English Poesy. Selected by Oliver Goldsmith. First edition.
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London: William Griffin, 1767. First edition. Two volumes. 12mo, pp.iv:167(actually 267):(2) & 262:(2), contemporary full tan calf, spines gilt with lettering pieces. Spines dulled and lacking numbering pieces. With the half-titles. Hinges cracked, all but one firm. Chipped at head and base of spines. Volume 1 with some water staining affecting title and first 4 leaves and final 5 leaves and endpapers. £120.00 |
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GOLDSMITH, OLIVER: The Traveller, The Deserted Village, and other poems. Embellished with Engravings from Designs by Richard Westall.
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London: for John Sharpe, 1819. Extra engraved vignette title, engraved vignettes throughout. 8vo (6 3/4 x 4 inches), 166-pages. A pretty binding of contemporary full polished tan calf, narrow gilt rules to sides enclosing a wider ornamental border in blind, spine elaborately gilt extra with green lettering piece, all edges marbled; upper joint partially cracked but very firm, small chip out of headband. Some foxing to prelims. and vignettes. £30.00 |
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GORELL, LORD: 1904 - 1936 Poems.
London: John Murray, 1937. First edition. Portrait. 8vo, pp.592, original cloth in dustwrapper; binding good; dustwrapper browned with short tear to top edge and bumped top headband; internally, endpapers lightly browned, else good. Presentation slip signed by the partners of the Publishers including Gorell, tipped-in on front free-endpaper.
£10.00
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GRAN, MRS GEORGE: The Song of a Woman.
London: Elkin Mathews, 1909. First edition. 12mo ( 5 1/4 x 4 inches), 47-pages. Prelims. and title tanned. Original boards, headband rubbed else good.
£18.00
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GRANT, CHARLES: A Poem on the Restoration of Learning in the East; which Obtained Mr. Buchanan's Prize.
Cambridge: Printed by R. Watts, at the University Press; and sold by Deighton., 1805. First edition. 4to , pp. 29, disbound; old inkstamp "Sunderland Library" on title and first leaf of verse; first two leaves detached; good.
£25.00
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GRAY, THOMAS: Poems.
Eton: Printed at the College Press, 1902. Portrait & plates. Tall 8vo (11 x 7 1/4 inches), 164-pages printed on heavy stock. Contemporary full tan calf, decorative gilt border to sides enclosing the Eton arms, spine gilt in compartments and on raised bands with lettering piece, all edges gilt, decorative gilt turn-ins, the binding by Spottiswoode. Light foxing to prelims. Scuff and a little surface loss to lower cover otherwise very good and attractive.
£25.00
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GRAY, THOMAS: The Works of Thomas Gray. Edited by the Rev. John Mitford. 4 volumes.
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London: William Pickering, 1836. Engraved portrait. 4 volumes. Small 8vo (6 1/2 x 4 inches), pages: xvi:cxxiv:223; cxvii:192; viii:311; & viii:312. Contemporary full tan calf, decoratively gilt on wide bands and with black lettering and numbering pieces; all boards blocked in gilt with University College, London. Joints rubbed but very sound.
Damp marking to portrait, foxing to endpapers, slight crease to headband of volume 4. With engraved University College London prize label on front pastedown of Volume 1 awarding these volumes to Frederick John Wood in 1837/8. The Aldine edition; an attractive set.
£125.00
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HALL-STEVENSON, JOHN: The Works containing Crazy Tales, Fables for Grown Gentlemen, Lyric Epistles ....... corrected and enlarged with several original poems here first printed. Volumes 1 & 2 only (of 3).
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London: by J. Nichols for J. Debrett and T. Beckett, 1795. Two volumes. 8vo, pp.xi:(1):288 & vi:265, early 19th Century half tan calf, marbled boards, spines gilt ruled and blocked in blind; upper joint of volume 1 cracked but firm; generally good. With the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Robert Johnson Eden Bart. (1774-1844). £90.00 |
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HARE, KENNETH: Three Poems. Owlglass; The Wee White Thing; & Song.
London: Printed for C.L.F. and A.F. by A.T. Stevens, 1916. Illustrations by C. Lovat Fraser. 16mo, original wrappers also illustrated by C. Lovat Fraser; fine.
£25.00
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HARE, KENNETH: The Ballad of Sir John Philpot. With manuscript verse, signed & inscribed.
London: Robert Hale, 1952. First edition. 8vo, pp. 48, original cloth-backed patterned boards; very good in slightly worn & chipped d.w. Inscribed, signed, & dated by the author on front pastedown and with 18-line manuscript verse "To the Grasshopper" signed with initials on front free endpaper.
£20.00
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HARTE, BRET: The Complete Works in Prose and Poetry. Now First Collected.
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London: John Camden Hotten, 1872. First collected edition. Plates. 8vo, pp.xxvi:575, contemporary half vellum with crimson leather lettering piece, all edges red. Prelims. foxed, one plate edge dusty and a little chipped on fore-margin. Binding a little dusty. Armorial bookplate. £45.00 |
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HARTE, BRET: Complete Works. Collected and revised by the Author. A New Edition in 5 volumes.
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1885. 5 volumes (complete). 8vo (7 3/4 x 5 inches). pages: 448; 395; 486; & 480; 4 of the volumes having a 32-page publisher's catalogue at end. Original blue fine pebble grain cloth blocked in black and gilt; a few corners bumped and rubbed, overall a very good set. £50.00 |
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HASLAM, ANTHONY [Compiler]: Anthology of Empire.
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London: Grayson, 1932. 8vo, pp.493, contemporary half black morocco, spine gilt within raised bands, gilts arms on upper cover, prize label on front pastedown. Very good. £15.00 |
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HAYLEY, WILLIAM: The Life and Letters of William Cowper, with remarks on epistolary writers; and an Appendix. New edition, complete in one volume.
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London: for Longman, Rees (& others), 1835. Engraved portrait. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches), pages: xlvi:664. Contemporary full plum calf, the sides with elaborate gilt corner and central ornaments, the spine gilt with black lettering piece. Most of the spine gilt now faded away, some rubbing to the extremities, foxing to prelims. but text unaffected. One gathering of two conjoined leaves detached but undamaged. A very sound and attractive binding. Contemporary gift inscription on front fly. £40.00 |
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HERBERT, A.P. [Sir Alan Patrick] (1890-1971; Humorous poet & novelist): Unusual (to say the least) autograph poem signed with initials. Undated. Two-pages folio (8 verses, each of 4-lines). Fold marks, a few slight edge chips.
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The first leaf is headed, "The Professor's Rebuke" against the layman's use of an uncouth 4-letter word for a part of the female anatomy: "The portions of a woman that appeal to Man's depravity / Are fashioned with considerable care / And what at first appears to be a simple little cavity / Is really an elaborate affair / And Doctors who have troubled to examine the phenomena / In various experimental dames / Have made a list of all the things in feminine abdomena / And given them delightful Latin names / [etc. etc. another verse] / Why it it then that when we common people chatter / Of the mystery to which I have refered / We use of such a delicate and complicated matter / Such a very short and unattractive word". |
The second leaf is headed, "The Layman's Defence of his Vocabulary" the verse commencing: The Erudite and Others who have studied the geography / Of that obscure but interesting land / Are able to indulge a taste for topography / And view the scenic details close at hand / But the ordinary person, though aware of the existence / Of complexities beneath that pleasant knoll / Are normally contented to survey them from a distance / And to treat them, roughly speaking, as a whole / [etc. etc. - another 2 verses] ".
£200.00
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HERRICK, ROBERT: Flower Poems, with a Note on Herrick by Algernon Charles Swinburne. Illustrated with Twelve Colour Plates by Florence Castle.
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London: Routledge, n.d. c. 1910. 8vo (8 1/2 x 6 inches), original cloth-backed boards. Headbands rubbed, boards a little marked. Text uniformly tanned, endpapers and tissue guard to frontispiece foxed, the guard creased. £15.00 |
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HOOD, THOMAS: Poems again illustrated by Birket Foster.
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London: Moxon, 1872. First edition. Engraved vignette plates with tissue guards by Birket Foster throughout. 4to (11 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches), 180-pages plus advertisements. Original red cloth elaborately blocked in gilt, black and blue, all edges gilt, Headbands softened and a littlw worn, lower corderns rubbed, some wear to upper joint. Overall hoever the binding very sound and bright and internally remarkably clean and fresh. Near contemporary gift inscription on front free endpaper, a gift from a father to his son. |
£45.00
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HOPE, A.D: The Damnation of Byron. Illustrated by Virgil Burnett.
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Stratford, Ontario: The Pasdeloup Press / The Coach House Press, 1973. Number 233 of a limited edition of 250 signed by the illustrator. Plates (of which three coloured) and illustrations. Narrow slim folio (12 1/4 x 7 1/4), original orange cloth; excellent. £30.00 |
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JENNER, CHARLES: Town Eclogues.
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London: T. Cadell, 1773. Second edition. 4to (10 x 8 inches), disbound, pages: (1):40. A few corners turned, some browning, small piece torn from blank margin of last leaf. £18.00 |
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JOHNSON, SAMUEL: The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson LL.D., now first collected in one volume.
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Dublin: L. White, P. Byrne, & R. Marchbank, 1785. Small 8vo, pp.viii:196, contemporary full sheep with crimson lettering piece. Upper inner hinge cracked but very firm, contemporary inscription on title, small pale stain to prelims; generally a very good copy however. The first Dublin Edition, a reprint of the London edition which was published in February of the same year. £55.00 |
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JOHNSON, SAMUEL: The Lives of the most eminent English Poets with critical observations on their works. A New Edition, Corrected.
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London: Nichols & Son (& many others), 1816. Engraved portrait. Three volumes 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches), pages: 460; 408; & 391. Contemporary half tan calf, marbled boards, spines gilt ruled and with black lettering pieces; some light rubbing and marking, the bindings very sound. Foxing to portrait which has offset to title, foxing to prelims. and at end; the main body of the text however quite free from foxing. £90.00 |
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LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH: Poetical Works.
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London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1921. Portrait with tissue guard. 8vo (7 3/4 x 5 inches), 886-pages, contemporary full purple calf, double gilt rules to sides, spine with three raised bands with ornamental gilt borders, central floral decoration, burgundy gilt lettering piece, all dges gilt; the binding by Birdsall. Extremities a little rubbed, lower cover scuffed, some foxing, spine uniformly sunned; very attractive nonetheless and well and strongly bound. £25.00 |
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LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH: The Song of Hiawatha.
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London: David Bogue, 1855. First Edition (preceding the American Edition), First Issue . 8vo (7 x 4 1/2 inches), pages: 316:24 (David Bogue's catalogue dated March 1855). Original fine grain blue cloth blocked in blind to sides, in gilt on spine. Upper fore-corner of title and contents leaf torn away but present and undamaged, no doubt easily restored by a professional. Otherwise an exceptional copy.
£325.00
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LORAINE, AMELIA MARY: Lays of Israel; or, Tales of the Temple and the Cross.
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London: Joseph Masters, 1847. First edition. 12mo, pp.xii:94, contemporary grained black roan, all edges gilt. Some foxing, binding edge rubbed and chipped at base of spine. Armorial bookplate. £25.00 |
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M.F.M: The Rhymes of Rufus [by] M.F.M.
Oxford: for Private Circulation, 1902. Small 8vo, pp.32, original cloth-backed boards, t.e.g. Byng familly inscription on front free-endpaper.
£20.00
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MANSFIELD, J.S: Ballads, Bagatelles, and Kindergarten by J.S.M.
No place or date. Privately published. ca. 1877. 8vo, pp.103, original cloth; inner joints cracked but firm, spine faded. Inscribed on endpaper, "Morton John Mansfield June 1877" and numbered 53.
£35.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 7112
MANSFIELD, J.S: Ballads, Bagatelles, and Kindergarten by J. S. M.
No place or date. Privately published. ca. 1877. 8vo, pp. 103, original cloth. Spine faded, inner joints cracked, foxed, some leaves stained or marked. The author's own copy with extensive annotations, manuscript verse, etc.
£65.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 7111
MASON, W: The English Garden: a Poem. Book the First.
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London: R. Horsefield (& others), 1772. Second edition. 4to (10 x 8 inches), 35-pages, disbound. With the half-title. Good. £25.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 11575
MILES, ALFRED H. (Editor): The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. 12 volumes complete, as under.
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London: Routledge, 1906. 12 volumes small 8vo (6 1/8 x 4 inches), each olume of approx. 600-page. Original red cloth, spines decorated in gilt; spines a trifle dulled, overall vry good. Contemporary gift inscription on front free endpapers dated 1908. The 12 volumes are: Crabbe to Christian;Crabbe to Coleridge; Morris to Buchannan; Bridges to Kipling; Bailie to Ingelow; Rossetti to Tynan; Southey to Shelley; Plumtre to Image; Tennyson to Clough; Montgomery to Waring; Keats to Lytoon; & Kingsley to Thomson. |
£100.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17037
MILLER, ETHEL: Collected Poems.
London: Printed by the Women's Printing Society, n.d. c. 1926. 12mo, pp.44, original wrappers; some foxing.
£10.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 4492
MILTON, JOHN: Poetical Works. With Memoir, Notes, Bibliography. The "Albion" Edition.
London: Warne, 1896. Portrait. 8vo (7 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches), 608-pages. Full contemporary tan prize calf, arms of St. Paul's School in gilt on upper cover, spine floral gilt with burgundy lettering piece. Very tiny chip at headband, covers unevenly faded but attractive on the shelf. Prelims. browned. Prize label on front pastedown; very sound.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17802
MILTON, JOHN: Poetical Works. Edited after the Original Texts by H.C. Beeching.
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London: Oxford University Press, 1935. Portrait. 8vo, pp.554, publisher's full burgundy fine grain morocco, sides ruled in gilt , spine gilt in compartments. Eton prize label to front pastedown, later inscription to verso of front free endpaper. A very good copy. £20.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 1850
MOORE, THOMAS: Poetical Works. With a Life of the Author. Illustrated by Thomas, Corbould etc.
London: George Routledge, n.d. ca. 1865. 8vo, pp.xxvii:528, contemporary full green morocco, ruled in blind and gilt to sides, spine gilt ruled within raised bands, all edges gilt. Upper inner hinge cracked but very firm indeed. Generally a good copy in a good strong binding.
£20.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 10052
MORE, HANNAH: Poetical Works; with a Memoir of the Author.
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London: for Scott, Webster and Geary, 1830. 12mo (5 1/2 x 3 1/4 inches), 504-pages. Contemporary full dark blue morocco elaborately gilt, all edges gilt. Contemporary gift inscription on front fly. Very good. £18.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17142
NORRIS, [GEORGE] LESLIE (1921-2006; prize winning Welsh poet; Christiansen Professor of Poetry, Brigham Young University 1984-2000): Autograph poem signed. Undated.
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Titled: "Cardigan Bay (for Kitty*)" and commencing: "The buzzard hung crossed / On the air and we came / Down from the hills under.....". 25-lines. 1 page folio with two light fold marks. *Kitty, his wife Catherine. £225.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 14081
NORRIS, [GEORGE] LESLIE (1921-2006; prize winning Welsh poet; Christiansen Professor of Poetry, Brigham Young University 1984-2000): Autograph poem signed. Undated.
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Titled: "Water" and commencing: "On hot summer mornings my aunt set glasses / On a low wall outside the farmhouse / With some jugs of cold water ....." 48-lines. 2 pages folio with three light fold marks. With on the last leaf a pen & ink drawing of the farmhouse. The two leaves stapled together on the upper left blank margin
£295.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 14082
NORRIS, [GEORGE] LESLIE (1921-2006; prize winning Welsh poet; Christiansen Professor of Poetry, Brigham Young University 1984-2000): Autograph poem signed. Undated.
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Titled: "Alert" and commencing: "Rain mutters on the roof. I am alert / For God knows what unseemliness ...." 9-lines. 1 page 4to with two light fold marks. £150.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 14078
NORRIS, [GEORGE] LESLIE (1921-2006; prize winning Welsh poet; Christiansen Professor of Poetry, Brigham Young University 1984-2000): Autograph poem signed. Undated.
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Titled: "Winter Song" and commencing: "Over the bluff hills / At the day's end / The diffident snow / Swirls before dropping..." 21-lines. 1 page 4to with two light fold marks. £200.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 14079
NORRIS, [GEORGE] LESLIE (1921-2006; prize winning Welsh poet; Christiansen Professor of Poetry, Brigham Young University 1984-2000): Autograph poem signed. Undated.
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Titled: "Clymping, Sussex" and commencing: "I wait on the wet beach and watch the sun / Lie in a long blood on the reflecting sand ...." 9-lines. 1 page folio with two light fold marks. Holed on blank lower margin £150.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 14080
OGILVIE, WILL H: The Collected Sporting Verse. With 32 plates in full colour by Lionel Edwards.
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London: Constable, 1932. Ist edition thus. 8vo, pages: xix:396, original green cloth; headband a little bruised, overall very good. £12.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No.17020
ORMSBY, IRENE: A Thrush Sings and other verses.
London: British Authors' Press, 1950. First edition. Small 8vo, pp.41, original printed wrappers; very good. Inscribed and signed by the author.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 2838
POPE, ALEXANDER: Pastorals. LIMITED EDITION.
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Chelsea: The Swan Press, 1930. Number 55 of 100 copies printed. 8vo, pp.(15), original cloth backed patterned boards, uncut; spine and edges slightly browned, corners rubbed; internally, fore-edges of text and endpapers browned, otherwise very good. £20.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 7092
ROBERTS, ALBERT F: Reflections [Verse].
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Poole [Dorset]: J. Looker, 1939. First edition. Plates. 8vo (9 3/4 x 6 inches), 68-pages. Original pictorial card wrappers; yapp edges a litle creased else excellent. With an additional printed verse loosely inserted. £12.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16794
ROBERTS, J. SLINGSBY: Persephone and Other Poems.
Hove: Combridges, 1937. First edition. 8vo (9 x 5 1/2 inches),96-pages. Original half linen, grey/blue boards, uncut; very good. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed and signed on front fly, front free endpaper removed. Fly foxed.
£21.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13073
ROCHE, M.A: Les Poetes Francais. Recueil De Morceaux Choisis dans les Meilleurs Poetes. Avec une Notice sur Chaque Poete par M.A. Roche.
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Londres: R. Rolandi, 1844. Title vignette. 8vo (7 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches), 524-pages. Contemporary half tan calf, marbled boards, spine blocked in an all over design in gilt with burgundy lettering piece; some scuffing to the sides and foxing within. Sound and attractive on the shelf. £15.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17148
ROCHE, PAUL: The Rat and the Convent Dove and Other Tales and Fables. [Signed by the Author and with A.L.S. loosely inserted].
Aldington, Kent: The Hand and Flower Press, 1952. First edition. Illustrated by Anne Scott in black & white. 4to, pp.51, original cloth in dustwrapper; binding excellent; dustwrapper spine and edges lightly browned, with some spotting and marks, headbands slightly chipped and with a short tear along the side of the spine; internally, very good with a presentation inscription signed by the author on the front free-endpaper; generally a very good copy. With a hand-written postcard (plain and unaddressed) from the author, signed, loosely inserted.
£30.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 10673
RODD, THOMAS: The Poet's Album.
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London: Printed by J. Compton, 1825. 8vo (6 3/4 x 4 inches), pages: viii:193, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt ruled and with crimson lettering piece; some rubbing but very sound. Old pencil annotations on endpapers, a litle light foxing.
A reprint, without author attribution and with a different title, of Thomas Rodd's 'Sonnets Amatory, Descriptive & Religious, Odes, Songs & Ballads' printed by Compton for the author in 1814. Rodd had died in 1822 and obviously Compton had seized the opportunity to re-issue without attribution. Both editions are scarce; of the 1st of 1814 three copies are cited by Copac, of this 1825 edition only one copy is cited (Cambridge Univ. Library).
£40.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16983
ROGERS, SAMUEL: Italy, a Poem. A New Edition.
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London: Edward Moxon, 1859. Engraved portrait, engraved illustrations. 8vo (8 x 5 1/2 inches), 327-pages. Contemporary full tan calf, elaborate double gilt borders to sides, spine gilt extra with lettering piece, all edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles; a few light scuff marks; overall a handsome binding in excellent condition. Gift inscription dated 1860 on front fly. £30.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 15580
RUSSELL, PETER (1921-2003; poet & translator): Acts of Recognition, Four Visionary Poems (Inscribed).
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Ipswich: Golgonooza Press, 1978. First edition. 8vo (9 x 6 inches), 23-pages, original printed orange wrappers, stitched as issued; very good. Inscribed by the author on front free endpaper "for Dick Wheeler who by the wizardy of accountancy broke me in as a poet! All good wishes these twenty years after, Peter Russell, Venice 1983". £20.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 15570
RUSSELL, PETER (1921-2003; poet & translator): Images of Desire. (Inscribed).
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London: Gallery Bookshop, 1962. First & limited edition, No. 101 of 125 copies signed by the author & further signed and inscribed on the front free endpaper. 8vo (7 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches), original orange wrappers wire-stithed as issued, with the black dustwrapper; very good. Together with a copy of "Agenda" - Vol.2 Nos. 9 & 10, Sept.-Oct. 1962 in which the main contribution is Peter Russell's "Elegy". £25.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 15571
SCOTT, SIR WALTER: Poetical Works in 11 volumes, complete.
Edinburgh: Cadell, 1830. Engraved frontispieces and vignette titles. This edition complete in11 volumes; small 8vo (6 x 4 inches), contemporary half tan calf, marbled boards, spines blocked in black, gilt on raised bands, gilt lettered direct. Some rubbing, some gilt dulled, 2-inch split to one joint but very firm. Overall strongly bound and very good. Armorial bookplate on front pastedowns.
£45.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17743
SCOTT, SIR WALTER: Poetical Works, complete in one volume.
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Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1847. Engraved portrait, extra engraved title, plates with tissue guards. Large 8vo (10 x 6 3/4 inches), 823-pages. Contemporary half grained burgundy calf, spine gilt with military trophies within ornate ornate gilt border, marbled boards. Light scattered foxing, corners a little scuffed. A handsome binding in very good condition. Later inscriptions on front free endpaper. £30.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 15709
SCOTT, SIR WALTER: Poetical Works, with the Author's Introduction and Notes.
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London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1913. Portrait with tissue guard. 8vo (8 x 5 1/2 inches), 970-pages. Contemporary half brown calf, spine lettered and decorated with thistles in gilt, top edge gilt; the binding by Birdsall. Foxing to prelims. Very slight white marking at very base of spine, scuff to cloth of lower cover, otherwise an attractive binding in very good condition. £20.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13391
SCOTT, WALTER: Rokeby, a Poem.
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Edinburgh: John, Ballantyne, London: Longman, Hurst, 1813. First edition. Engraved portrait. 4to (10 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches), pages: (8):230:cxvi, with the half-title. Contemporary half tan calf, marbled boards; upper cover detached. Some foxing to prelims. Overall very good. Engraved armorial bookplate of Richard Astley, Inscribed on half-title "Ann Astley the gift of Mr. Joseph Astley, 1813".
Heavy, extra overseas postage will be requested.
£30.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16345
SCOTT, WALTER: The Lady of the Lake; a Poem.
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Edinburgh: for John Ballantyne and Co. and Longman, Hurst, London, 1810. First edition. Engraved portrait. 4to (10 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches), pages: 290:cxxix. Contemporary full speckled calf very neatly rebacked retaining the original backstrip, the sides with decorative gilt border enclosing the small gilt armorial device of the Rev. Guy Bryan whose engraved armorial bookplate is affixed to the front pastdown. A good large copy with the half-title. Some light foxing, overall very good.
£150.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16316
SCOTT, WALTER: The Lady of the Lake; a Poem.
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Edinburgh: for John Ballantyne and Co. and Longman, Hurst, London, 1810. First edition. Engraved portrait. 4to (10 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches), pages: 290:cxxix.Later half black calf spine gilt with double burgundy lettering pieces; some damp marking to margins of portrait, some foxing, old sellotape repair to blank front fly. The corners of the binding are brown calf so perhaps, very neatly, rebacked. Inner joints cracked but very firm. £75.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16315
SCOTT, WALTER: The Vision of Don Roderick.
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Edinburgh: James Ballantyne for Jon Ballantyne, 1811. First edition. 4to (10 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches), pages: ix:(1):122, contemporary half tan calf, marbled boards; spine gilt on raised wide bands with green lettering piece. Headband chipped, occasional foxing, heavier to prelims. Endpapers discoloured. £60.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16451
Poems for Shakespeare: PRINGLE, ROGER and HAMPTON, CHRISTOPHER (Editors): A Selection from Poems for Shakespeare, Volumes 1 to 6 with original drawings.
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London: Globe Playhouse, 1978. Number 463 of a limited edition of 500 copies. 8vo (8 x 51/4 inches), softback; wrappers a little marked, spine slightly canted else good. £25.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17539
Poems for Shakespeare: FRINK, ELISABETH; WANAMAKER, SAM; OSBORNE, CHARLES (Editor): Poems for Shakespeare 10.
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£95.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17541
Poems for Shakespeare: FRINK, ELISABETH; WANAMAKER, SAM; FAWCETT, GRAHAM (Editor): Poems for Shakespeare 2.
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London:Globe Playhouse, 1973. First edition. 8vo (8 x 51/4 inches), softback; very good.
Elisabeth Frink's copy inscribed to her & her husband by Sam Wanamaker, "for Lis and Alex love Sam & Charlotte".
£25.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17536
Poems for Shakespeare: FRINK, ELISABETH; WANAMAKER, SAM; THWAITE, ANTHONY (Editor): Poems for Shakespeare 3.
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London:Globe Playhouse, 1974. First edition. 8vo (8 x 51/4 inches), softback; very good.
Elisabeth Frink's copy inscribed to her & her husband by Sam Wanamaker, "for Lis and Alex in admiration Sam & Charlotte".
£25.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17537
Poems for Shakespeare: FRINK, ELISABETH; WANAMAKER, SAM; PRINGLE, ROGER (Editor): Poems for Shakespeare 6.
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London:Globe Playhouse, 1977. Number 513 of a limited edition of 1000 copies. 8vo (8 x 51/4 inches), softback; very good.
Elisabeth Frink's copy inscribed to her & her husband by Sam Wanamaker, "for Lis and Alex in memory of a lovely day Sam & Charlotte".
£25.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17535
Poems for Shakespeare: FRINK, ELISABETH; WANAMAKER, SAM; SILLITOES, ALAN (Selected by): Poems for Shakespeare 7.
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London: Bear Gardens Museum, 1979. Number 299 of a limited edition of 500 copies. 8vo (8 x 51/4 inches), softback; backstrip sunned else fine.
Elisabeth Frink's copy inscribed to her & her husband by Sam Wanamaker, "for Lis and Alex from Sam & Charlotte".
£25.00
Enquire - please quote Item No.17533
Poems for Shakespeare: FRINK, ELISABETH; WANAMAKER, SAM; BEER, PATRICIA (Selected by): Poems for Shakespeare 8.
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London: Bear Gardens Museum, 1980. First edition. 8vo (8 x 51/4 inches), softback; very good.
Elisabeth Frink's copy inscribed to her & her husband by Sam Wanamaker, "for Lis and Alex love Sam & Charlotte".
£25.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17538
Poems for Shakespeare: FRINK, ELISABETH; WANAMAKER, SAM; ABSE, DANNIE (Editor): Poems for Shakespeare 9.
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London:Globe Playhouse, 1981. First edition. 8vo (8 x 51/4 inches), softback; very good.
Elisabeth Frink's copy inscribed to her & her husband by Sam Wanamaker, "for Lis and Alex with thanks and love Sam & Charlotte".
£25.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17534
SHANKS, EDWARD: Images from the Progress of the Seasons. With Decorations by Charles Berry.
London: The Dropmore Press, 1947. One of 450 copies on hand-made paper. Illustrations on tinted backgrounds. 8vo, publishers quarter green morocco; binding a little unevenly faded, cloth to the upper fore-edge of upper cover with a 1/2 inch split and with some creasing, else very good.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 2570
SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE - Edited by Richard Garnett: Original Poetry by Victor & Cazire [Percy Bysshe Shelley & Elizabeth Shelley].
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London: John Lane, 1898. 8vo (9 x 5 1/2 inches), 66-pages, original blue/grey boards with printed paper labels to spine and upper cover; a little light foxing; overall very good indeed. £14.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16268
STEELE, RICHARD: Poetical Miscellanies, consisting of Original Poems and Translations. By the Best Hands. Published by Sir Richard Steele. The Second Edition.
London: for J. Tonson, 1727. Engraved frontispiece. 8vo, pp.(20):346, contemporary full speckled calf; boards almost detached, vertical crack to spine, some browning and foxing, old inscriptions to endpapers.
£45.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 4095
STEEL, RICHARD: Poetical Miscellanies, Consisting of Original Poems and Translations. By the best Hands. Publish'd by Mr. Steele.
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London: for Jacob Tonson, MDDCXIV [ i.e. 1714 ]. First edition. Engraved frontispiece. 8vo,pp. (16):318, contemporary full panelled tan calf, spine with raised bands, unlettered. Upper joint cracked, board held on three cords; some foxing and dustmarking. With the contemporary signature J. Eden on upper margin of title. The miscellany containing new poetry by Pope, Gay and others. £150.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 7962
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS: Songs of Travel and other Verses.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1905. Seventh edition. Small 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches), 85-pages. Contemporary half brown morocco, spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Upper joint cracked but very firm.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 11236
SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES: The Springtime of Life, illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
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London: Heinemann, 1918. First edition. Colour plates and b&w illustrations. 4to (10 x 7 1/2 inches) 133-pages. Original green cloth blocked in gilt. Headbands and extremities rubbed, some rippling to cloth of upper cover, stitching cracked at gutter between pages 70 & 71 else internally good apart from some light foxing to endpapers. Gilt to spine dulled with a few minor dents.
£30.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17025
SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES: Selections from the Poetical Works. Fifth Edition.
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1894. 8vo (7 x 4 1/2 inches), 230-pages. Contemporary three quarter olive green morocco, marbled boards, top edge gilt. Binding now pleasantly and evenly faded to brown. Attractive and strongly bound. Inscription on front free endpaper. £15.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16987
TASSO, TORQUATO. Translated by Edward Fairfax. Edited by Charles Knight.: Godfrey of Bulloigne; or, the Recovery of Jerusalem: Done into English Heroical Verse, from the Italian of Tasso, by Edward Fairfax. The Seventh Edition. To which are prefixed a Glossary, and the Lives of Tasso and Fairfax by the Editor.
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London: Charles Knight, 1844. Two volumes in one. Frontispiece to volume 1, woodcuts in the text. Small 8vo (6 x 3 3/4 inches), pages: 300 & 277. Contemporary half tan calf, marbled boards, the spine blocked in gilt with burgundy lettering piece. Text of title lightly offset on frontispiece. An attractive well bound copy. £30.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17149
TEMPLETON-TURNER, A: The Boughs of Freedom.
Uppingham: John Hawthorn, 1940. Limited edition of 150 copies; this un-numbered out of series. First edition. 8vo (9 1/4 x 6 inches), 16-pages, original brown wrappers lettered in gilt; edges bumped. Verse.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 11413
TENNYSON, ALFRED, LORD: Poems. The Oxford Edition.
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Oxford University Press, 1908. Portrait. 8vo (7 1/4 x 5 inches), 696-pages, contemporary full tree calf, decorative gilt border to sides, that on the upper cover enclosing gilt school arms, spine gilt extra with crimson lettering piece; some rubbing to joints but overall very sound and attractive. Prize label on front pastedown. £30.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13643
TENNYSON, ALFRED, LORD: Poems. The Oxford Edition.
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Oxford University Press, 1918. Portrait. 8vo ( 7 1/4 x 5 inches), 696-pages, contemporary full tree calf, decorative gilt border to sides, spine gilt with crimson lettering piece; overall very sound and attractive. Prize label on front pastedown. £30.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13646
TENNYSON, ALFRED, LORD: Works of.
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London: Macmillan, 1906. Portrait. 8vo (7 1/4 x 5 inches), 899-pages. Contemporary full purple diced calf, sides gilt ruled with gilt corner devices, spine gilt extra and lettered direct, all edges gilt; spine lettering rubbed, some light discolouration to backstrip, short cut to blank margin of last few leaves; overall very sound and attractive. Harrow prize label on front pastedown. £16.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 14527
THOMSON, JAMES: The Seasons.
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Glasgow: by Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1776. 12mo (5 x 3 inches), 203-pages. Early full green calf, gilt rules to sides, spine gilt in compartments, crimson lettering piece; rubbing to extremities but very sound. 1835 gift inscription on title. £15.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17002
THURLOW, EDWARD HOVEL, LORD: Select Poems.
Chiswick: Printed by C. Whittingham, 1821. First edition. 8vo (8 x 5 inches), 92-pages. Original rose boards with morocco gilt label. Some foxing, binding chipped on extremities, short split to lower joint. Contemporary gift inscription on front free endpaper.
£55.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 15262
WALLER, EDMUND: Poetical Works from Mr. Fenton's Quarto Edition, 1729. With the Life of the Author. Cooke's Edition. Embellished with Superb Engravings.
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London: for C. Cooke, 1796. Engraved portrait, engraved extra title, and engraved plates. 12mo (6 x 3 /4 inches), pages: xxxvi:180, contemporary full marbled tan calf, spine gilt with crimson lettering piece; a trifle light rubbing, overall very sound and attractive. Signature, Cicely Wallers, and date 1938, on front free endpaper £35.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16637
WARING, S: The Wild Garland; or, Prose and Poetry connected with English Wild Flowers.
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London: for Harvey & Darton, 1827. First edition. Engraved frontispiee and 11 plates. 8vo (7 x 4 1/4 inches), 80-pages. Contemporary full tan calf, sides ruled in gilt, rubbed, some foxing to prelims. Overall good.
£35.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17079
WILKIE, WILLIAM: The Epigoniad. A Poem in Nine Books.
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Edinburgh: Printed by Hamilton, Balfour, & Neill, 1757. First edition. 8vo, pp.xlii:289, contemporary full speckled calf, spine gilt , bound without the half-title. Lacking lettering piece, spine gilt dulled, headband chipped, joints cracked but very firm, a number of upper fore-corners of the text leaves turned over, some foxing and browning. With the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir John Eden Bart (1740-1812). Actually a pleasing unsophisticated copy. Wilkie the "Scottish Homer". £110.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No.7894
WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM: The White Doe of Rylstone; or The Fate of the Nortons. A Poem.
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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815. First edition. Engraved frontispiece. 4to (11 1/2 x 9 inches), pages: xi:162, original cloth-backed boards, with calf-gilt lettering piece, uncut. With the half-title. Boards dusty and chipped, cloth backstrip lifting, holed and stained, lettering piece rubbed. Endpapers foxed. Frontispiece and title foxed and browned, a little foxing and browning elsewhere although generally good.
£250.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16319
YOUNG, ALBERT: The Red Dawn. A Book of Verse for Revolutionaries and others.
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Harringay, London: The Northern Division "Herald League". 1915. First edition. 8vo (7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches), 84-pages. Original red pictorial wrappers. Foxed, wrappers faded and rubbed, some chipping. £25.00 |
