Collection of Ruskin's numerous essays on topics including Travel, Painting, Poetry, Sculpture and ethics. Top edge gilt. Fore edge-rough cut. Offsetting to free end-papers. Mild foxing to front matters. Binding sound. Good. [more...]
Magazine of humorous cartoons, stories, poetry and images. With numerous WWII advertisements including those for the RAF and Guinness. Some mild wear and toning to covers. Good+ [more...]
Narrative, semi-autobiographical poem, describing the different paths a woman's life may have taken. Limited to 1500 copies of which this is unnumbered. With illustrations by Anna Zinkeisen. DJ has tears and chips to edges. Cream cloth boards are prim and [more...]
Edifying verse for children with colour illustrations by violet jacobs. Toning and rubbing to spine. very light foxing for fore-edge. Contents clean and sound. Good. [more...]
Nicely produced Classics Club edition of Browning's selected verse, with an introduction by Pierre Loving. Grey cloth with Gilt decoration and titling, top edge tinted. Mark to fore-edge, else crisp and clean. Very good. [more...]
First printing From the Folio Society series of Shakespeare's complete plays. Illustrated with the designs by Loudun Sainthill. With an introduction by John Gielgud. Complete with Dust Jacket. DJ has tears to edges, with slight loss. Some light foxing [more...]
Near Traveller's Library edition of Pater's study of various aspects and figures of the Renaissance, including Da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Winklemann and more. Marking and bumping to covers. Tanning to page edges, otherwise contents clean and sound. Good. [more...]
Reprint of Betjemen's selected works. From the library of Dorothy Wellesley, with her signature to front pastedown. Toning to spine, tanning to page edges, else clean and sound. Good. [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...]
Pleasantly chunky edition of Scott's poetry. Printed on nice textured paper. Gilt and blind-stamped decorated covers. Spine sunned and staining marks to front and rear covers. Some foxing to endpapers. Tanning to page edge. But binding sound and contents [more...]
Poetry selected by R. N. Green-Armytage. Toning to DJ. Light marking and tape repairs. Rubbing to edges. DJ is price clipped. Previous owner's name to ffep. Contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Nicely produced selection of verse presenting sacred poetry from the middle ages to the present day. Includes work by Tennyson, Rossetti and other plus many anonymous early pieces. Quarter cloth. Previous owner's inscription to ffep. White cloth is a littl [more...]
Charming Folio Society edition of Joanna Richardson's life of Keats with frequent reference to his letters and poetry. Quarter cloth with Cockerell marbled paper boards. With b/w images. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has some rubbing and heavy toning. [more...]
Milton's 1634 play and 1638 poem. With notes and glossary. General shelf-wear. Previous owner's name to end-papers. Contents clean and sound. Good. [more...]
First edition of Masefield's collection of arthurian tales told in verse. Bumping and light rubbing to edges. Previous owner's name to ffep. Else clean and tight. Good. [more...]
A selection of longer poetry from England and America from the fourteenth century to the present day, From Chaucer to Ginsberg. Nice volume and an interesting selection. Limp blue leather, top edge gilt. Some light bumping to covers. Contents bright and cl [more...]
Neat little 32mo. leather bound People's edition of Tennyson's long poem The Princess, inspiration for the opera Princess Ida. In two parts bound as one, the first dated 1911, the second 1896. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Rubbing to extremities but c [more...]
'With essays on several aspects of Browning's genius.' Volume of essays on Browning with detailed line by line notes from a selection of his poems. Quarter cloth with marbled boards. Rubbing and bumping to edges and light scratching/marking to cover. Bindi [more...]
