24 volumes bound as 8. Nice set of Chamber's miscellany 'containing a choice selection of interesting and instructive reading for the old and the young.' Featuring hundreds (thousands) of short stories, poems and articles on a variety of subjects. Rather di [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...]
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...]
Early edition of verse by the scottish academic, published under a pseudonym. Contains the sonnet, True love. Handsome red cloth covers with gilt and blind stamped decoration with cartouche. Colour frontispiece. 32mo. Frontispiece is coming loose. Tanning t [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...]
Nicely done deluxe leather binding of Tennyson's selected works, including Ulysses, Morte D'Arthur and The Lady of Shalot. With decorative devices throughout. Red leather with raised bands to spine, Gilt monogram of Tennyson to cover. All edges gilt. Mar [more...]
Horace's works with substantial notes and annotations by Doring. Rebound in neat blue cloth. Verse and notes in Latin. Engraved frontisportrait and title page. Slight occasional spotting within. Mild tanning to page edges. Contents clean and tight. Good [more...]
Engaging volume, edited by Ellis, of verse and engravings on the theme of travel and notable sights, including Rome, Pisa as well as notable mosques and churches. All edges gilt. 4to. Boards detached, some slight loss to spine. Some tanning to page edges, ot [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...]
Elegant special Lambskin edition of Browning's collected poetry. Full blue leather with floral gilt decoration to spine. Top edge gilt. Complete with slipcase. 8vo. (220x145mm) Slipcase has some wear, rubbing and marking to edges. One page creased within o [more...]
Revised and updated version of Aytoun's collection of Scottish Ballads with brief introductions. Full leather with raise bands to spine. All edges gilt. Inner dentelles. Marbled end-papers. 12mo. Mild toning to spines. Small mark to top of spine of vol. [more...]
Handsome edition of Yeats' verse and dramas up to 1894, that were subsequently revised by the author. Contains Countess Cathleen, The Rose, The Land of Heart's Desire, Crossways and the Wanderings of Oisin. With terrific gilt and blind-stamped design to spi [more...]
First edition from the Folio Society series of Shakespeare's complete plays. Illustrated with the designs for costumes and stages by Tanya Moiseiwitsch done for the Stratford Company's tour of Australia and New Zealand. With an introduction by Ivor Brown. [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...]
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...]
