No date but c. 1900. Nicely rebound, half-leather binding of Hood's collected poetical works. Including The Bridge of Sighs etc. Red Half leather with raised bands and gilt decoration. Marbled end-papers and matching marbling to boards and page edges. Wit [more...]
No date but c. 1900. Nicely rebound, half-leather binding of Scott's collected poetical works. Including his ballads and verse from his novels. Red Half leather with raised bands and gilt decoration. Marbled end-papers and matching marbling to boards and p [more...]
No date but c. 1880. From Routledge's Red Line Poets series. Contains Spenser's 1596 epic poem plus his Epithalamion. Decorative cloth covers, all edges gilt. With b/w illustrations by Corbould. Beveled edges. 8vo. Some light water damage to cover and s [more...]
No date but c. 1900. From the Moxon's Popular Poets series. Decorative cloth binding of Campbell's collected verse, including The Battle of the Baltic, Pleasures of Hope etc. Beveled edges, all edges gilt. Decorated end-papers. With frontispiece and b/w il [more...]
Charming compact volume of 17th century lyric poet Herrick's selected work on a romantic theme, including, of course, his 'To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time'. With decorated initials and devices throughout. Full leather with an intricate blind-stamped des [more...]
Charming Oxford Miniature edition of Browning's selected poems, including pieces from Pippa Passes, Poems, Men and Women and more. Red leather with all edges gilt. Inner dentelles. Small 32mo. (110x75mm). Rubbing to edges, slight cracking to tail front hin [more...]
Nicely produced reprint/facsimile of the 1917 Irish Texts society edition, Vol. XIX, edited from the Book of Lismore and other manuscripts. No date but c. 1984. Gaelic and English text side by side. With copious notes. Green cloth with gilt decoration. som [more...]
Charming collection of verse on Brown Bears by the prolific Parkers. With sepia toned illustrations throughout. Oblong 4to. No date but c. 1900. Rubbing to edges. cracking to hinges but binding sound. Some mild toning within but text-block generally clea [more...]
Archibald Constable & Co.; William Miller; John Murray 1810
Fifth edition. Early reprint of Scott's epic 1808 historical poem concerning the Battle of Flodden Field. Complete in one volume with notes to rear. Half leather binding with marbled paper to boards, matching marbling to end-papers and page edges. 8vo. Rubb [more...]
Collection of whimsical verse, with b/w and colour illustrations throughout. 4to. Mild rubbing to edges. Very light foxing to page edges. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
No date but c. 1900. Nicely rebound, half-leather binding of Longfellow's poetical works. Including Hiawatha and the Courtship of Miles Standish etc. Blue Half leather with raised bands and gilt decoration. Marbled end-papers and matching marbling to board [more...]
No date but c. 1900. From the Moxon's Popular Poets series. Decorative cloth binding of Keat's collected verse, including Endymion, Ode to a Grecian Urn etc. Beveled edges, all edges gilt. Decorated end-papers. With frontispiece and b/w decorations. Advert [more...]
Literary magazine featuring poetry and short stories, including Florence Warden's The Secret of Princess Paul. With advertisements to front and rear. Paper covers are rubbed and cracked around spine. Rear cover detached and in two pieces but complete. Conten [more...]
Elegant collection of significant english verse from a variety of poets, from Chaucer to Arnold. Limp blue leather. Top edge gilt. Fore-edge uncut. Decorated end-papers. Toning and creasing to spine. Light bumping and rubbing to edges. Contents clean and [more...]
With stylish colour illustrations by Anne Harriet Fish. Collection of verse and short stories. Mild staining to covers. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Half-title loosening. Contents clean and sound. Good. [more...]
Illustrated collection of verse describing the adventures of a family of Kangeroos. With chromolithographic plates and b/w illustrations. to. No date but c. 1910. Rubbing to edges with backstrip missing. Cracking to hinges. Toning and light spotting with [more...]
Charming collection of verse for each day of the week. With colour plates by Millicent Sowerby. No date but c. 1900. Previous owner's name to ffep. Toning to covers. Tearing to spine. Contents clean and sound. Fair+ [more...]
The Guinness Doctor's book for 1950. 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 traditional nursery rhymes and other verse, illustrated throughout in b/w with numerous colour plates. Rubbing to spine and edges. Pen marks to covers. Hinges split, ffep missing. Binding loosening. Some toning and light spotting to page edg [more...]
No date but c. 1900. Half leather binding of Burns' poetical works. Green Half leather with raised bands and gilt decoration. Marbled end-papers and matching marbling to boards and page edges. With b/w illustrations. Tissue guarded frontisportrait. 8vo. [more...]
