Poetry & Drama
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Selected Poems.
London: The Folio Society, 2016. [Russian Poetry in translation] FIRST THUS. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xxii; 161 [1]. With six black and white photographic plates, and an illustrated title page by Modigliani. Publisher's black cloth with blue and white titles and decoration to spine, and a photographic image of the..... 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
The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray, English and Latin. Illustrated.
Eton: E.P. Williams, 1854. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND FIFTH EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] viii; c; 142 [4]. With 15 steel engravings and woodcuts after drawings by Charles Radclyffe, including a frontispiece and vignette title page, each with a tissue guard. Good-sized print on good paper. Contemporary tan full calf..... More
The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray, English and Latin. Illustrated.
Eton: E.P. Williams, 1847. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND SECOND EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[4] x; lxvi; 142 [2]. With 15 steel engravings and woodcuts after drawings by Charles Radclyffe, including a frontispiece and vignette title page, each with a tissue guard. Good-sized print on good paper. Contemporary red full morocco..... More
First Hymn to Lenin and Other Poems.
London: The Unicorn Press, 1931. [Scottish Poetry] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 12cm), pp.[10] 44 [2]. Number 221 of 450 copies thus. With a portrait illustration of the author as a frontispiece. Publisher's black quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine, and to red cloth over boards. Top edge..... More
The Poetical Works of John Milton.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1911. [Poetry] FINE PRIZE BINDING, reprint. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 626. Contemporary navy full calf, boards gilt-ruled, with gilt armorial device of Marlborough College to upper. Spine with brown label lettered in gilt, raised bands, and gilt tooling. Dentelles in blind to turn-ins. Marbled endpapers..... More
Twelve Poems.
Stoke Ferry: Daedalus Press, 1968. [Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.[22]. Number 8 of 300 copies SIGNED by the author. Publisher's plain soft covers, with the grey dust-jacket titled in gilt to front cover. Bumped to corners, with some light handling. Near fine. More
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces of our Earlier Poets; together with some few of Later Date. Reprinted entire from the Author's Last Edition.
Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1867. [English Ballads] FINELY BOUND. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xcvi; 290 [2]; pp.viii; 318 [4]; pp.xxxvi; 340 [2]. Contemporary red full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spines and upper boards, and elaborate blind tooling all over. All edges gilt; dark brown..... More
Collected Poems. With an Introductory Memoir by Dan Davin.
London: Oxford University Press, 1971. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xxvi; 149 [1]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £3.00. Some associated news clippings loose to preliminaries. A crisp, clean copy showing some light wear to jacket extremities..... More
Poems by Isaac Rosenberg.
London: William Heinemann, 1922. [Great War Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 186 [2]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece of the author. Publisher's black cloth with plain printed title label to spine. Fore and lower edges untrimmed. A nice clean copy with just a little toning..... More
The Lemon Tree.
London: J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd, 1937. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[18]; 29; [1]. Publisher's grey cloth with blue titles to spine, dust-jacket made by The Temple Press, with printed price of 2s 6d to flap. Light toning to board edges and spine, slight sunning to dust-jacket..... More
The Leopold Shakespeare. The Poet's Works in Chronological Order, from the text of Professor Delius, with "The Two Noble Kinsmen" and "Edward III.," and an Introduction by F.J. Furnivall.
London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin & Co., no date [circa 1880s]. [Shakespeare's Works] FINELY BOUND, with illustrations. The thirty-second thousand. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[4] cxxviii; 1056 [2]. With a frontispiece etching of the Bard, and frequent in-text wood engravings. Contemporary tan full calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to..... More
The Seasons, Odes, Songs, and Hymns.
London: Printed for John Bumpus, 1822. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Duodecimo in half-sheets (16 x 11cm), pp.[2] xxiv; 192 [4]. With a frontispiece portrait of the author, and an introductory biography by Aikin. Contemporary tan full calf, with gilt titles to a black label, further gilt decoration to spine, and gilt..... More
Love Lyrics from Five Centuries.
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., printed at the University Press Oxford, 1932. [Illustrated Poetry Anthology] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.198 [2]. With five mounted colour plates, including a frontispiece, by Rosenkrantz. INSCRIBED by the editor in black ink to the half-title: 'To Charles &..... More
Five Overs & 2 Wides.
Compton Chamberlayne: the Compton Press, 1975. [Cricket Poetry] LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xx; 72 [4]. With occasional woodcuts by Gili. One of just 500 copies thus. Publisher's marble-effect pastepaper over boards, with titles in black to spine. Deep pink endpapers. A fine, as-new copy. A collection of poems..... More
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