Jaunty, illustrated collection of verse on Animals by the prolific Parkers. With colour illustrations. Oblong 4to. No date but c. 1910. Backstrip missing. Lacks ffep and title page. Some toning and spotting within. Text-block sound. Fair. [more...]
The Guinness Doctor's book for 1956. An annual promotional exercise devised by the agency SH Benson, where humourous pamphlets were sent to Doctors so as, they say, to solicit recommendations that 'Guinness is good for you.' A witty pastiche of notable vers [more...]
Collection of verse/songs by the great comic song-writer and performing. No date but c. 1935. With stylish colour illustrations and decoration by Clarke Hutton. Quarter cloth. Heavy spotting/toning to covers. Tanning to page edges, contents clean and tigh [more...]
Tremendous Quarter leather edition of Folio's Golden Treasury featuring poems and song from the 16th century to the 20th. With b/w engraving by a variety of artists. With slipcase. In fine condition. [more...]
Collection of short verse with colour illustrations by Neilson. 4to. Tearing to joints. Rubbing to edges. Marking and toning to covers. Previous owner's name to ffep. Toning within, else text-block sound. Fair. [more...]
No date but c. 1900. From the Moxon's Popular Poets series. Decorative cloth binding of Moore's collected verse, including Lalla Rookh, The Two-penny postbag etc. Beveled edges, all edges gilt. Decorated end-papers. With frontispiece and b/w illustrations [more...]
Pleasing Oxford edition. Padding leather covers, rounded corners, gilt to page edge and gilt dentelles to inner boards. Marbled endpapers. Some rubbing to top and bottom of spine but otherwise clean and bright. Good/very good overall. [more...]
Handsome leather binding of Longfellow's poems, including his translations, ballads, song of Hiawatha. Gilt decoration to cover, inner dentelles, all edges gilt. Nicely printed in double columns with gothic headings. Some slight sunning to spine. Rubbing to [more...]
Pleasant quarter cloth binding of Hood's humourous poems with b/w illustrations. Marbled boards. rubbing and wear to extremities. Offsetting to endpapers. Contents clean and binding tight. Good. [more...]
Handsome Blackie volume featuring a selection of notable 18th century poetry, selected and introduced by Austin. Elegant cover design by Talwyn Morris. Top edge gilt. Decorative end-papers. With red titles. Rubbing to edges. Faint marking to covers. Tann [more...]
Pleasant decorative edition Milton's works. No date but c. 1875. Contains Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, Poems, Psalms and other writings. With 8 b/w illustrations. Gilt design to covers. All edges gilt. Sunning to spine. Mild marking [more...]
No date but c. 1880. Nicely produced poem with sepia and colour illustrations by W. J. Hodgson. Toning to covers, rubbing to edges. Mark to top edge Toning and mild foxing to edges within. Binding sound. Good overall. [more...]
Collection of humourous verse on various subjects, with illustrations by Joan Hassall. No date but c. 1940. Rubbing to edges. Price stamps to cover. Toning to covers. Contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
No date but c. 1920. From the little wonder books series. A tale of a a boy and his horse. Told in verse with 30 colour illustrations by G. E. Shepheard. Small 12mo. Mounted illustration to cover and illustrated end-papers. Rubbing to joints with loss to t [more...]
Charming little volume containing many popular shorter poems. With DJ. 32mo. 80pp. Red cloth boards. Some shelfwear, bumping and small tears to DJ. Contents clean and prim. Very good overall. [more...]
Broadway booklets edition of Gray's enduring elegiac poem, engraving to soft cover. No date but c. 1903. Spine is rubbed with some loss to edges.Rear cover detached. Binding sound, contents clean. Fair. [more...]
Charming collection of extracts and poems, one each day of the year. With 6 colour illustrations by Ellen Warrington. Some mild rubbing to edges. Foxing within. Previous owner's bookplate to ffep. Good. [more...]
