Nice little 16to. edition of John Gay's verse Fables. With a memoir by Austin Dobson. Top edge gilt. Other edges uncut. Red and black title page. Facing portrait of Gay. Previous owner's name to ffep. Covers a trifle grubby but contents clean and tight. [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...]
Neat little 32mo. leather bound People's edition of Tennyson's collections of poems. In two parts bound as one. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Rubbing to extremities but contents tight and clean. good overall. [more...]
Pleasant soft leather suede binding of Browning's verse drama Pippa Passes. With frontispiece. No date but c. 1910. covers have some rubbing and nicks but contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
W. S. Gilberts beloved light verse featuring his own b/w illustrations. Elements from the poems would go on to inspire his work with Arthur Sullivan. Top edge gilt. Light marking to covers. Contents clean and tight. Good/very good. [more...]
Collection of poetry with b/w images of various places and artworks related to the verse. Top edge gilt. Rubbing to edges. Some fraying and splitting to joints. Toning to covers . Contents clean and binding sound. Good. [more...]
Collection of literary essays, including pieces on Johnson and Boswell, John Dunton , Bath and more; plus verse and speeches. No DJ. Some mild shelf-wear. Contents clean and tight. Good+ [more...]
Broadway booklets edition of Macaulay's dramatic historical poems based on heroic episodes from early roman history, engraving to soft cover. Spine is rubbed with some loss. Binding starting but contents clean. Fair. [more...]
Pleasing edition of Dobson's selected poems. Red leather ith gilt decoration. Top edge gilt. Tissue guarded frontispiece. Marbled end-papers. Rubbing and toning to spine, with slight loss. Previous owner's stamp to half-title. Contents clean and tight, [more...]
Shakespeare Head Press; Odhams; Basil Blackwell 1947
Printed in double columns. With all Shakespeare's plays and poetical works, including the Sonnets. Sunning to spine. Wear, bumping and rubbing to edges, Light foxing to fore-edge. Binding sound. Fair+ [more...]
Collection of Dobson's verse from various works. With 25 b/w illustrations by Bernard Partridge. First thus. Red cloth with gilt decoration. All edges gilt. Previous owner's name to half-title. Some fading to spine. Rubbing to joints and corners. Mild t [more...]
No date but c. 1942. Collection of humorous verse with b/w illustrations. Oblong 4to. Staining and wear to covers. Mild toning within. Contents clean and sound. Good. [more...]
No date but c. 1930. Collection of whimsical verse and illustrations. oblong 4to. Rubbing and chipping to edges. Mild tanning within. Binding sound. Good overall. [more...]
No Date but c. 1900. Nicely produced collection of verse, with chromolithographic plates and further decoration in sepia tones. 12mo. Toning and light marking to covers. Stapled binding broken, with text-block loose. Fair. [more...]
No date but c. 1900. From the Moxon's Popular Poets series. Decorative cloth binding of Pope's collected verse, including The Dunciad, The Rape of the Lock etc. Plus some of his translations (excluding the Iliad & Odyssey). Beveled edges, all edges gilt. Dec [more...]
Handsome but worn volume of Swinburne's selected poems. Decorated cloth covers are creased, Spine is sunned and marked. Contents clean and binding sound. Good overall. [more...]
