No date but c. 1890. Charming collection of popular nursery rhymes with b/w and chromolithographic plates. 4to. Spine is torn with loss, binding loosening. Frontispiece and half-title apparently bound in later, tape repairs, small tears to edges. Foxing wi [more...]
Broadway booklets edition of Gray's enduring elegiac poem, engraving to soft cover. No date but c. 1903. Spine is rubbed with some loss to edges.Rear cover detached. Binding sound, contents clean. Fair. [more...]
Charming collection of extracts and poems, one each day of the year. With 6 colour illustrations by Ellen Warrington. Some mild rubbing to edges. Foxing within. Previous owner's bookplate to ffep. Good. [more...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
Illustrated Christian themed novel, framed around several lectures on Biblical events and themes. With b/w illustrations and decorated initials. 8vo. Light tanning within, binding tight. Good+ [more...]
Tremendous Folio Society edition of Carroll's nonsensical poem, featuring lavish b/w illustrations throughout by Quentin Blake. Pictorial cloth covers. Complete with slipcase. Spine is sunned, as is common, and slipcase has some shelf-wear and marking. Mil [more...]
