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The Horkey.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1882. [Children's illustrated] ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE CRUICKSHANK (the younger). Slim quarto (25 x 21cm), pp.48. Printed with colour illustrations to every page. Illustrated paper-covered boards, green cloth spine, all edges green. Blind stamp of W.H. Smith Library to flyleaf, some toning and light spotting. Boards rubbed..... More
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Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs [and] The Farmer's Boy, A Rural Poem.
Paris: Parsons and Galignani, 1804. [Poetry]. FINELY BOUND, early editions, two volumes bound as one. Octavo (16 x 10cm), pp.75-146 [2]; pp.74 [4]. With an etched vignette title page for each volume. In contemporary marbled boards, recently re-backed in light brown calf with black titles to cream paper label on..... More
Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs.
London: Printed for Vernor and Hood, 1803. [Poetry] THIRD EDITION. Small octavo (16 x 11cm), pp.[2] xii; 119 [1]. With an etched frontispiece portrait of the author, and numerous woodcuts. Contemporary full marbled calf, with gilt titles to a red label and further gilt decoration to spine. All edges speckled..... More
After the Bombing. And other short poems.
London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1949. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 51; [1]. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket with printed price of 6s. net. Internally fine, some toning to rear endpapers. Cloth lightly rubbed to bottom edge. Wrapper darkened to spine, some bruising along..... More
Pit-Head Poems.
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1927. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 80 [4]. Publisher's cream cloth with brown titles to spine, and brown wheel device to upper. Top edge brown. With the matching cream dust-jacket, priced at 3s. Toning and spotting to edges, with a strong tobacco..... More
A Rough Walk Home, and Other Poems
London: Jonathan Cape, 1946. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 31 [3]. Publisher's colour-decorated paper covers, priced at 2/6. Light handling, with some additional rubbing and toning to spine. Near fine. More
Poetry of the Magyars, preceded by a Sketch of the Language and Literature of Hungary and Transylvania.
London: Printed for the Author, and sold by Robert Heward [etc.], 1830. [Hungarian Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.xvi; lxxxiii; 312 [4]. Recent plain grey pasteboards, with a plain hand-written title label to spine. All edges untrimmed. Preliminary leaves very poorly opened. Light spotting throughout. Minimal wear to..... More
Varied Verse.
London and Tunbridge Wells: The Reliance Press, no date [1925]. [Kent and Sussex Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.63 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to title page: 'To Major Heron, with the author's | kindred regards & in remembrance | of many a hearty..... More
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Letters of Fanny Brawne to Fanny Keats [1820-1824].
London: Oxford University Press, 1939. [Literary Correspondence] NEW EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xxviii; 77 [3]. With four illustrated plates including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth with red titles to spine and publisher's device to upper. Top edge red, others untrimmed. With the plain dust-jacket printed in red, priced at..... More
Saraband & Satyricon: Poems and Verses, Orthodox and Heterodox.
Kineton: The Roundwood Press, 1970. [Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 235 [1]. Number 190 of 250 copies SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's white cloth with gilt titles to spine and green endpapers. With the light green typographic dust-jacket. A few..... More
Poetry. The First of the Broadcast National Lectures delivered on 28 February 1929.
London: The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1929. [Poetry Lecture] FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (19 x 13cm), pp.27 [1]. Publisher's green card covers, priced at 1s. A nice clean copy. Some toning and rubbing to spine and cover edges, with a few small marks. Near fine. More
The Testament of Beauty.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1929. [Poetry] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 23cm), pp.[8] 154 [2]. Number 100 of just 250 copies on fine hand-made paper. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the 'Publisher's Note on the Text' loose to preliminaries. Light handling, with a hint..... More
"1914" Five Sonnets by Rupert Brooke.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1915. [War Poetry] FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Pott octavo pamphlet (15 x 12cm), pp.[8]. Publisher's grey card covers, sewn, with blue titles to front cover. Small black ink ownership to front cover. Covers lightly rubbed and thumbed. Lightly toned internally. Very good. The larger collection '1914 and..... More
The Collected Poems of T.E. Brown.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1901. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND, second impression thus. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] xxvi; 736 [2]. With a photographic frontispiece portrait of the author. Contemporary Art Nouveau binding of green full calf, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and some decoration to boards including red..... More
The Poetical Works of Robert Browning.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1896. [Poetry] LETTERS FROM THE AUTHOR. In two volumes. Octavo. Bound in publisher's green cloth, with gilt motif to front board and gilt titles to spine; top edge gilt. Portrait frontispieces to both volumes. Accompanied by Robert Browning's dried buttonhole decoration from June '86, preserved..... More
The Poetical Works of Robert Browning.
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1899. [Poetical Works] FINE PRIZE BINDING, an india paper edition. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] xvi; 748; pp.viii; 786 [2]. With a frontispiece portrait of the author to each volume. Small print in two columns. Finely bound for Harrow School..... More
John Clare and Picturesque Landscape.
Oxford: the Clarendon Press, 1983. [Literary Criticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 158 [2]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Light blue endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket titled in red and black. Light spotting to edges. Jacket a little bruised and rubbed, with a closed tear..... More
Unfinished Poems. "Musings" by William Cullen Bryant, and "Godfrey of Boulogne" by Henry D. Thoreau.
Boston, MA: The Bibliophile Society, 1907. [American Poetry] LIMITED PRIVATE PRESS EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.[4] xxviii [4]. With a double-sided facsimile plate of the manuscript of each poem, and an engraving for each, together with the printed texts. One of 470 copies thus, finely printed on Japanese..... More
The Piper of Hamelin: A Fantastic Opera in Two Acts.
London: William Heinemann, 1893. [Illustrated Drama] FIRST THOMSON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.64. With 12 wood engraved plates by Thomson, as well as a decorated title page. Publisher's light green cloth with darker green titles to spine and upper board. Top edge green, others untrimmed. Black ink ownership..... More
The works of robert burns. Illustrated by an Extensive Series of Portraits and Authentic Views. With a Complete Life of the Poet: An Essay on his Genius and Character, by Professor Wilson. Numerous Notes, Annotations, and Appendices.
London: Blackie and Son, 1866. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Two volumes. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.cclxxvi; iv; 149; [1]; pp.xx; 412. With a total of 83 engraved plates by various artists, including a frontispiece and vignette title page to each volume, and a facsimile example of Burns' handwriting..... More
Songs of Robert Burns. With a Prefatory Notice, Biographical and Critical, by Joseph Skipsey.
London: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., no date [1902]. [Scots Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Sextodecimo (14 x 11cm), pp.[2] 354 [2]. With a frontispiece portrait of Burns. Contemporary quarter vellum, with gilt titles to a brown label, as well as delicate green and gilt decoration to spine. Striped green cloth over..... More
Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect.
Newport, RI: John Brown, 1970. [Poetry] PUBLISHER'S PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.240. A facsimile of the 1786 Kilmarnock edition. Handsomely bound by Bayntun-Riviere for Lauriat in tan half calf over buckram sides, gilt to spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Contents toned, some thumbmarks, neat repair to corner..... More
The Poetical works of robert burns, in two volumes with a complete glossary, and Life of the Author.
London: W. Lewis and Co., 1816. [Poetical Works] EARLY EDITION, publisher's original boards. Two volumes. Sextodecimo (17 x 11cm), pp.viii; 199 [1]; pp.viii; 165 [3]. With an engraved frontispiece and vignette title page to each volume. Publisher's blue quarter paper-covered spine, with plain grey paper over boards. Plain paper title..... More
The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Edited with A Memoir by George A. Aitken.
London, Covent Garden: George Bell and Sons, 1893. [Verse]. FINELY BOUND. 3 volumes; small octavo (17 x 11 x 8cm). Engraved portrait frontispiece to first volume. Elegantly bound by Morrell for bookseller Charles Lauriat in half mid blue morocco, spine gilt-titled in six compartments with raised bands, gilt rules and..... More
The Poetical Works of Lord Byron. Collected and Arranged, with Notes and Illustrations.
London: John Murray, 1855. [Romantic Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[2] viii; 827 [3]. With an engrave frontispiece portrait of the author and a vignette title page, as well as two double-sided facsimile plates showing the author's handwriting at different ages. Very small print over two columns. Finely..... More