No date but c. 1900. Nicely rebound, half-leather binding of Lowell's poetical works. Including A Fable for Critics etc. With b/w illustrations. Blue Half leather with raised bands and gilt decoration. Marbled end-papers and matching marbling to boards an [more...]
Nicely produced reprint/facsimile of the 1939 Irish Texts society edition, Vol. XXXVIII. No date but c. 1984. Gaelic and English text side by side. With copious notes. Green cloth with gilt decoration. some foxing to page edge. Contents clean and tight. V [more...]
Handsome leather binding of Gostwick's overview of German Literature. Red leather with raised bands and gilt decoration to spine. All edges gilt. Marbled end-papers. 8vo. Prize plate to front pastedown. Rubbing to edges. Light spotting to front matter. [more...]
Collection of humorous verse about WWI and specifically the work of women taking on traditionally male roles. With numerous colour illustrations by Joyce Dennys. No date but c. 1917. Printed on khaki coloured paper. Rubbing to edges, toning/marking to cove [more...]
Collection of verse for children, including nursery rhymes. Generously illustrated throughout by Blanche Fisher Wright in colour. 4to. Heavy rubbing to edges, marking to covers. Previous owner's inscription to ffep. Mild spotting within, binding sound. G [more...]
Oxford At the Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press 1902
Half Vellum edition of Quiller Couch's popular collection of english verse from Chaucer and anonymous poets of the 13th century to Kipling and his contemporaries. With gilt decoration to spine. Marbled paper to boards and end-papers. Top edge gilt. Toning [more...]
Pleasant, scarce illustrated edition of Stevenson's collection of poetry for children. With numerous colour and b/w illustrations by Eulalie Minfred Banks. Lacks DJ but with a protective jacket. Some light shelf-wear to spine. Contents bright and clean. [more...]
Humourous poems describing children from all over the world. With 30 colour plates. Quarter cloth. Oblong 4to. Heavy rubbing, toning and spotting to edges of covers. Tanning and spotting to page edges and within. Binding sound. Fair/ [more...]
Pleasant collection of verse to accompany the months and seasons of the year. Illustrated and decorated by the author with b/w images and colour plates. All edges gilt, decorated end-papers. square 4to. No date but c. 1882. Spine is toned with rubbing and [more...]
Pleasant collection of verse to accompany the months and seasons of the year. Illustrated and decorated by the author with b/w images and colour plates. All edges gilt, decorated end-papers. square 4to. Decorative cloth, beveled edges. No date but c. 1882. [more...]
Impressive decorative binding of Cowper's poems, with a memoir of the author plus b/w illustrations by Hugh Cameron. Decorative purple cloth with gilt design and terrific debossed gilt emblem to cover. Beveled edges. All edges gilt. Toning to spine. Mild [more...]
Pleasant Tauchnitz edition of selections from Morris' poems, including Sigurd the Volsung, Guenivere and parts of the Earthly Paradise among others. With a memoir by Hueffer. Sunning to spine. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown and name to title [more...]
Nicely produced edition of Motion's second collection of poems. One of a run of 600 hardback editions. With decorated endpapers. Signed by the author on the title page. DJ has a small closed tear to top edge and a smudge to cover. Contents clean and tight [more...]
Collection of humorous verse about WWI and specifically the YMCA, who provided support to the army and war effort both at home and at the front lines. With numerous colour illustrations by Joyce Dennys. No date but c. 1917. Printed on khaki coloured paper. [more...]
The Guinness Doctor's book for 1939. 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...]
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...]
First Kegan, Paul vellum edition of Tennyson's acclaimed verse requiem for a deceased friend. Containing of course, the line: 'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all'. Top edge gilt. Other edges uncut. Toning and mild creasing to [more...]
The Guinness Doctor's book for 1953. 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 popular song [more...]
No Date but c. 1880. Collection of charming verse for Children with chromolithographic illustrations by Charles Kendrick. Rubbing to edges with some fraying to joints. Front hinge split. Toning and spotting within. Fair. [more...]
Charming collection of French verse and song, with music, translated into English. With colour illustrations. With maps to end-papers. 4to. Mild rubbing to page edges. Light tanning to page edges. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
