Splendid edition of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam with eight colour illustrations by Frank Brangwyn. Printed over decorated pages. With Dust jacket with tipped in illustration. White cloth with gilt decoration. Top edge gilt. Fore edge uncut. 12mo. 127pp [more...]
Special limited edition half leather binding of the selected poems of Ronsard. Recueillies Sur Un Plan Nouveau Et Annotées Par Pierre de Nolhac. Limited to 1000 copies of which this is number 249. Text IN FRENCH. Edition limitee a mille exemplaires numero [more...]
'Printed from the original editions with a life of the author by A. Chalmers'. Handsome full leather binding of Milton's works, done by Bickers and son. Tissue guarded frontisportrait of the author. Decorated initials and devices throughout. Red leather wit [more...]
Terrific limited edition volume of the thirty pastoral and mythologically themed poems originally attributed to Theocritos, though some are now thought to be the work of other authors. With b/w woodcuts by Lionel Ellis and an introduction by Edward Hutton. 4t [more...]
Elegant tree-calf, leather binding of Austin's appreciation of the poetry of his peers, written in 1870 prior to becoming his becoming Poet Laureate in 1896. Contains essays on Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Algernon Swinburne and more. With raised b [more...]
Special limited edition of Masefield's collection of poetry. Featuring A letter from Pontus, an extended piece on Ovid's exile to Tomi. Limited to 100 copies of which this is number 55. Quarter Vellum with decorative paper. Top edge gilt. Fore-edge rough [more...]
Handsome divinity style binding of Milton's works, including Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes and his sonnets, odes and minor poems. With a life of the author and a critical dissertation by George Gilfallan. Blind-stamped design to cover. Marbled endpapers. [more...]
Full leather prize binding done by Bickers and Son. Containing Tennyon's collected works, including Ulysses etc. Printed in double columns. Raised bands and gilt decoration to spine. Inner and outer dentelles. Marbled endpapers with matching marbling to pa [more...]
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...]
The surviving work of the 17th century Scots-Gaelic poet. In original Gaelic and english translation. Mild toning to DJ. Mild foxing to top edge. Very Good. [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...]
Nicely produced Irish Texts society edition, Vol. L. Gaelic and English text side by side. With copious notes. Green cloth with gilt decoration. some foxing to top edge. Sunning to spine and toning to covers. Contents clean and tight. Good [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...]
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...]
Collection of bardic poems appearing in the late 16th century in honour of the O'Hara family. Text in Gaelic with an English Translation. With copious notes. Frontisportrait. DJ has some rubbing to edges and mild toning. Occasional light spotting within. [more...]
Nicely produced reprint/facsimile of the 1913 Irish Texts society edition, Vol. XII. Gaelic and English text side by side. With copious notes. Green cloth with gilt decoration. some foxing to top edge. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [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...]
Rare edition of Burns' poetry with a brief biography of the author and his letters to rear. Verse printed in double columns. Neatly rebound in a pattern green cloth. With A terrific large fold-out frontispiece and b/w illustrations. A small tear to foldout-w [more...]