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...]
'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...]
Illustrated edition of Shakespeare's The Tempest featuring the songs and music of Joseph Moorat. With twenty tipped in colour illustrations by Paul Woodroffe, including some double page spreads, all with tissue guards. Top edge gilt. decorated endpapers. 4 [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...]
Handsome leather binding of T. E. Brown's poems, famous for their Manx (isle of Mann) dialect and curious rhythms. Green leather with gilt decoration. Marbled page edges with matching marbled endpapers. Previous owner;s name to ffep. Very light foxing with [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...]
Full leather binding of Coleridge's poetry, attractively present with red borders and b/w engravings. With an introductory memoir. Contains his juvenile poems, his sonnets, rhymed prose and significant works including Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan [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...]
In depth study of the work and technique of Andrew Marvell. DJ is price-clipped. Light foxing to page edges but contents otherwise crisp and clean. Very good. [more...]
