"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book"
— Stephan Mallarme
Poetry & Drama
A Child's Book of Hours.
London: Humphrey Milford, n.d. [1921]. FIRST EDITION. Folio (37 x 25cm), unpaginated, printed on 16 thick card leaves with 12 fine chromolithographic plates. In publisher's quarter tan cloth with tan paper-covered boards. Titles and clock illustration printed in colour to upper board. With rare original dust-jacket, mirroring upper board. Very..... More
Streams.
Lindfield: Lemon Publications, 1975. [Poetry] INSCRIBED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.145; [1]; unpaginated blanks to rear. Publisher's printed wrappers. Signed and inscribed on the title page: "To Guy | Have a jolly jubilee | mate | Peter | The Bend | Lindfield. 77." With a foreword by Spike..... More
The Key Keeper. A Masque for the Opening of Britain's Burse, April 19, 1609.
Tunbridge Wells: The Foundling Press, 2002. [Drama] LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.xii; 25; [3]. With illustrations by Gentleman. Number 53 of just 300 copies in this edition. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the brown dust-jacket also illustrated by Gentleman. Light bruising and a couple..... More
The Works of Ben Jonson, with a Biographical Memoir by William Gifford.
London: George Routledge, 1869. NEW EDITION. Octavo, pp. viii, 819. With a frontispiece engraved portrait of the author and a title-page vignette. In full red morocco by Wiseman, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and gilt coats of arms stamped to both boards. Gilt dentelle to inner fore-edges and..... More
The Great Hunger.
Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1942. [Poetry]. Limited edition. Number 235 of 250 copies. Octavo (22x 15cm), pp.[8]; 33; [15]. Blue paper covered boards with cream linen spine, paper title label, blue endpapers, glassine wrapper. With a laid in ad sheet for O'Connor's "A Picture Book". Internally clean, an unopened copy..... More
The Poetical Works of John Keats.
London: Oxford University Press, 1973. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xxix; [1];477; [1]. Bound by Bayntun's in mid-blue full calf, gilt titles on red leather square and gilt tooling to spine, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Internally fine, some quite heavy rubbing to the bottom corners. Very good..... More
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Translated into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [circa 1910]. [Metaphysical Poetry] EDMUND DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION, a later printing. Quarto (28 x 23cm), unpaginated. With 20 tipped in colour plates by Dulac, all with captioned tissue guards; quatrains with green border decoration instead of the usual brown. Navy half morocco with raised..... More
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Translated into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [circa 1910]. [Metaphysical Poetry] EDMUND DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Text follows the second edition of Fitzgerald's English translation.Quarto (28 x 23cm), unpaginated. With 20 tipped in colour plates by Dulac, all with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's gilt-stamped red cloth, illustrated dust-jacket. Book is fine with..... More
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Illustrated and Decorated by Frank Brangwyn.
London: T.N. Foulis, 1920. 4to. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine and pictorial upper board, edges untrimmed. With 15 illustrations in colour tipped on to grey laid paper. Decorative frame to text. Slight rubbing to extremities; corners bumped. A lovely copy. More
The Dead King.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910. [Poetry]. FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (20 x 15cm), unpaginated, with 22 leaves, most with marginal illustrations by W. Heath Robinson. In original publisher's lilac card covers with titles to front cover and the original glassine jacket. Covers lightly sunned with some chips and tears to..... More
Departmental Ditties. And other verses.
Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co., 1890. [Poetry] FOURTH EDITION WITH NEW ADDITIONS. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[viii]; 121; [24] publisher's catalogue. Publisher's burgundy cloth titled in gilt to spine, gilt illustration to upper board, black monogram to lower board, floral patterned endpapers. Ownership inscription to half title, toning to edges..... More
The Seven Seas.
London: Methuen and Co., 1896. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xviii; 230; [40] publisher's catalogue dated October 1896. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Some leaves roughly cut or thumbed. Blind W.H. Smith stamp to flyleaf. Rubbing to cloth, suuned to spine..... More
Rosamund Grey. And Old Blind Margaret.
London: Frank Holllings, 1928. GOLDEN COCKERELL PRESS. Small octavo (18 x 12cm). Green boards and vellum spine. Printed on handmade pure Irish linen paper. Frontispeice portrait printed on Chine appliqué. Some rubbing and bumping; near fine. More
Lyra Australis; Or, Attempts To Sing In A Strange Land.
London: Bickers and Bush, 1854. First Edition. Octavo. Bound by Bone and Son in publisher's green cloth, with embossed foliage in the outline of a lyre, with gilt titles and further embossed foliage to spine; pale yellow endpapers, uncut and unopened. Binding is rubbed and a little grubby, worn at..... More
Tales of a Wayside Inn.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo pp. 225, 22 adverts. Publisher's embossed dark green cloth, with gilt titles to spine, brown endpapers and top edge gilt. A little rubbing to head and tail of spine. Offsetting from tissue guard to illustrated title page. Thin faint waterstain..... More
The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1858. [American Literature / Verse] FIRST EDITION, First Issue, with "treacherous" for "ruddy", l.3, p.124. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.215; [1], blank; 12, advertisements dated October 1858. Publisher's brown cloth decoratively blocked in blind, gilt-lettered to spine, brown endpapers. This copy with the additional inserted ad..... More
The Song of Hiawatha. With Illustrations by Harrison Fisher. Decorations by E. Stetson Crawford.
London: Grant Richards, no date [1906]. [American Literature] FIRST HARRISON FISHER ILLUSTRATED EDITION, British issue using the US sheets. Quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.189; [1]. Profusely illustrated including colour plates. Pictorial brown cloth blocked in gilt and blind, colour plate laid down to upper, decorative endpapers. A lightly handled copy..... More
The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1867. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, a new edition. Small quarto (22 x 18cm), pp.[2] iv; 556 [2]. With frequent in-text wood engravings by the Dalziel Brothers after illustrations by Gilbert, and a frontispiece etching of the author. Contemporary green full panelled calf with..... More
Longfellow's Poetical Works. Author's Complete Copyright Edition.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1883. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[2] viii; 680; [2]. With 14 engraved plates. Contemporary red full morocco with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Elaborate gilt decoration to spine and boards. Gilt textured endpapers; all edges gilt. Spotting to preliminaries and..... More
The Poetical Works. Complete Copyright Edition.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press Warehouse, 1901. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.viii; 878. Beautifully bound by in contemporary brown full morocco, raised bands and gilt titles to spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece engraving of the author. Printed in double columns. Internally nice and clean..... More
The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. A New Complete Edition, including Miles Standish and Other Poems.
London: Routledge, Warnes and Routledge, 1859. [American Poetry]. FINELY BOUND. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[2] viii; 669 [3]. With seven wood engravings after illustrations by John Gilbert, and a frontispiece portrait of the author after E. Evans, all engraved by the Dalziel brothers. Contemporary green full morocco with elaborate panelled..... More
The Song of Hiawatha. With Illustrations by Harrison Fisher. Decorations by E. Stetson Crawford.
Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1906. [American Literature] FIRST HARRISON FISHER ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.189. Profusely illustrated including colour plates. Pictorial green cloth blocked in gilt and colours to spine and upper, decorative endpapers. Ownership to second blank, some shelfwear, light rubbing, bumped at crown. A very..... More
The Song of Hiawatha.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with textual points and November 1855 catalogue. Octavo pp. iv, 316, (12 ads.). Publisher's elaborately blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and pale yellow endpapers. A little rubbing to corners; head and tail of spine gently bumped. Occasional..... More
Longfellow's Poetical Works. New Edition Containing "Michael Angelo".
London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1891. Octavo, pp.viii; 763. Prize binding by Bickers in full brown calf with two-line gilt border adorning front and rear boards, attractive gilt detailing to board edges, blind tooling to leather turn-in, green title label to spine with extra gilt tooling in panels, five..... More
The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca. The New Hogarth Library Vol. XI.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1943. [Spanish Poetry] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.56. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket printed in red, priced at 3/6. Blue ink ownership inscription to flyleaf; a little spotting. Gilt to spine oxidised. Jacket browned, especially to..... More