Handsome special edition of Gogarty's collected poems. Limited to 500 copies. Gogarty was a well known figure around Dublin and Trinity College in the early 20th century. He pursed his own literary career as well featuring in the memoirs of other Irish writ [more...]
Charming Folio Society edition of Mary and Charles Lamb's enduring prose adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, first published in 1807. Though intended for younger readers, the fairy-story style renderings have a timeless appeal. With an introduction by Kather [more...]
Handsome publisher's deluxe leather binding of Shelley's collected poetry including Prometheus Unbound and Ozymandias as well has his translations, juvenalia and fragments. Printed on India-style paper and occasionally in double columns. Full leather. all edg [more...]
Charming collection of nature themed poetry chosen from a wide variety of authors including Bryant, Wordsworth, Holmes, Lowell, Keats plus some lesser known poets. Interesting prize binding. Half leather with marbled boards and matching marbling to endpapers [more...]
Together with a life of the author. Small 32mo. [xliv] 216pp with one advertisement to rear. Mottled (acid treated/tree calf style) leather with gilt decoration. Engraved frontispiece. outer dentelles. Rubbing to covers and spine. Contents clean within, [more...]
Attractive quarter vellum binding of Gordon's poetry with art-deco style gilt decoration to spine. With a short biography of the Australian poet. Top edge gilt. Gilt crest to cover. small 8vo. (190x130mm). Some toning and fading to spine. Light marking to c [more...]
'To which is prefixed a life of the Author'. Contains Milton's poetry, including Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes and his sonnets. No date but c. 1822. Compact 32mo. Half leather with gilt decoration to spine. Raised bands. Rubbing to leather and extremi [more...]
Pleasant Heron edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works. Containing all his plays; his longer poems, The Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis; and all of his sonnets. Faux-leather burgundy cloth with gilt decoration. Infinitesimal foxing to top edge, very li [more...]
Small 16mo. Full leather, tree calf binding of Falconer's significant nautical poem describing a beleaguered ship and its fate. With b/w illustrations and a fold out diagram of a ship. Patrick O'Brian re-used some of Falconer's verse in his naval stories. G [more...]
Handsome full leather binding of Thomas Hood's selected serious poems, including his sonnets and Bridge of Sighs. With Bookbinders Jame Hayday's mark to front pastdown. Red dimpled leather (pin headed grain?), gilt decoration to covers and spine. Raised b [more...]
Pleasant edition of Akenside's popular meditative poem on imagination. Full leather binding with gilt decoration and blind-stamped rolls. Outer dentelles. Marbled endpapers with matching marbling to page edges. Frontisportrait. Some toning to cover. Rubb [more...]
Impressive and robust full leather binding of Roberts' collection of ballads that may (or may not) date back to an oral tradition. With raised bands, all edges gilt. Marbled end-papers. Inner dentelles, blind-stamped decoration to cover. With numerous b/w [more...]
Attractive Heron edition of the monumental anthology of Poetry in the English Language, selected by W. H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson in 1952. Mustard faux-leather cloth with gilt titling and decoration. Very faint foxing to top edge, else crisp and cle [more...]
Charming rare volume of verse on the animals of a Zoo. With b/w illustrations throughout by L. R. Brightwell. No dust jacket. Title page a trifle loose. Some light shelfwear but otherwise bright and clean. Binding sound. Good condition [more...]
Together with a life of Gray.Small 32mo. [xxxii] 93pp. Mottled leather with gilt decoration. Engraved frontispiece. Inner dentelles. Rubbing to covers and spine. Titling to spine faded. Previous owner's name to ffep. Last page torn with loss. But ot [more...]
Handsome full leather binding of Thomson's poetical works, including The Seasons, The Castle of Indolence and other poems. A Scot in the English court, Thomson sought to promote a British identity which can be seen in his poem Britannia here and in his lyrics [more...]
Nice little half-leather binding of Keat's poems including the Endymion, sonnets and various other works published between 1817 and his death with further posthumously released pieces, arranged chronologically. Marbled boards and marbled end-papers. Polishe [more...]
Nice set of Boswell's ground-breaking biography of Samuel Johnson. Three volumes, 8vo. With a copy of the title page from the original quarto edition. Cloth covers are variously bumped and rubbed, especially at the top of spine. Gilt decoration and blind s [more...]
Neat little 32mo. leather bound set of Tennyson's complete cycle of narrative poems concerning the Arthurian legends and the Holy Grail. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Rubbing to extremities and slight sunning to spines, some extremely light foxing to [more...]
Stanhope Press for John Sharpe, Suttaby, Evance and Fox, Taylor, Hessey 1812
Printed at the Stanhope Press. Neat edition featuring both volumes of Gay's fables, the second only appearing 1738, six years after his death. Featuring 68 fables told in rhyming verse, these satirical pieces take aim at the politics and society of Gay's tim [more...]
