"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C. S. Lewis
Poetry & Drama
Summoned By Bells.
London: John Murray, 1960. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 18cm), pp.[8]; 111; [1]. Publisher's blind-stamped green cloth with gilt titles to spine, decorative endpapers, dust-jacket printed in red and black with printed price of 16s net. Decorative chapter headings. Edges a touch toned, else a remarkably fine and bright..... More
The Sonnets of Shakspere.
London: C. Kegan Paul and Co., 1881. [Love Poetry] FIRST DOWDEN EDITION, finely bound and printed. Small octavo (16 x 10cm), pp.[6] lxii; 251 [5]. With a frontispiece etching of the Bard, as well as extensive notes and an introduction. Printed by A. and T. Constable at the Edinburgh University..... More
Paradise Lost. An Illustrated Edition with an introduction by Philip Pullman.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. [Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.374. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, red endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket. Text printed in red and black. Reproduction plates of twelve engravings from the first illustrated edition. Autograph in blue ink to the title page..... More
The Odyssey of Homer. To which is added The Battle of the Frogs and Mice.
London: Printed for J. Walker [et al.], 1811. [Classics] FINELY BOUND. Duodecimo (13 x 7cm), pp.[6] 426 [2]. With an etched frontispiece and decorated title page after Thomas Uwins, by Anthony Cardon. Contemporary brown diced full calf, with gilt titles and decoration to spine. Marbled endpapers. Small contemporary booksellers' label..... More
Poetry of Byron.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1892. [Poetry Selection] FINELY BOUND, third impression thus. Octavo (16 x 11cm), pp.xxxvi; 276. With a vignette title page. Contemporary green full calf by BUMPUS of London, with titles and decoration to spine. Top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Spotting to preliminaries. Light rubbing to binding; spine..... More
The Siege of Carthage (An Historical Episode), and Other Poems.
London: Remington and Co., 1880. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[6]; 124. publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Dark brown endpapers. Bookplate of Jonathan Mark Hall to front pastedown, neat ownership inscriptions to verso of flyleaf and to first blank, some light spotting within..... 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
The Works of Shakespeare, with three hundred and forty illustrations by Sir John Gilbert.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1889. [Complete Works] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Two volumes. Quarto (28 x 20cm), pp.560; pp.560. With a frontispiece engraving of the Bard by E.W. Robinson to volume I, and frequent vignette wood engravings by Gilbert throughout. Text printed in two columns. Contemporary red half calf..... More
The Holy Grail. And Other Poems.
London: Strahan and Co., Publishers, 1870. [Arthurian Legend] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[8] 222 [2]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Brown endpapers. Heavy pencil ownership to first blank. Rubbing to cloth, small split to top of lower joint. Very good. Begun in 1859, Tennyson's classic..... More
The Poetical Works of John Dryden. The Globe Edition: Edited with a Memoir, Revised Text, and Notes.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1873. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND, a new edition. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.lxxxviii; 662. Contemporary red half morocco by MUDIE, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. All edges and endpapers marbled. Lightly browned throughout. Pencil ownership to first blank dated..... More
Home Truths.
Hessle: The Marvell Press, 1957. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.61 [3]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the cream dust-jacket, not priced. A damp mark to lower spine corner. Cloth and jacket spine lightly toned; bruising and closed tears to jacket edges. Very good..... More
Fairies and Fancies.
London: A. and C. Black, 1929. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (24 x 18cm), pp.x; 67 [1]. With 8 half-tone colour plates by Broman, including a frontispiece, as well as numerous further black and white illustrations. Publisher's blue quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over..... More
Glyndebourne. A History of the Festival Opera Founded in 1934 by Audrey and John Christie.
London: Methuen, 1965. [Opera] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.307; [1]. Beautifully bound for Asprey and Company, likely by Bayntun or Sangorski, in red half morocco over cloth boards, raised bands, gilt titles and tooling to spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Illustrated photographs in colour and..... More
The Poetical Works of John Milton. Printed from the original editions with a life of the author by the Rev. John Mitford.
London: Bickers and Son, no date [1873]. [Poetical Works] FINELY PRINTED EDITION, with the colophon of the Chiswick Press. Two volumes. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii; v-ccii; 270 [2]; pp.x; 417 [1]. With an engraved frontispiece of the author to volume I, and dichromatic title pages. Publisher's green cloth with..... 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
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
Hebrew Melodies.
London: John Murray, 1815. [Romantic Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[6] 53 [1]. Recently re-backed in tan calf with raised bands and gilt titles to black label; incorporating contemporary tan calf boards by W. Nutt, marbled endpapers and edges. Bound without the advertisement and without the half title..... More
Christina Rossetti Poems.
London: Blackie and Sons Ltd., 1910. [Illustrated Verse] FIRST HARRISON ILLUSTRATED EDITION, SIGNED LIMITED ISSUE. Quarto (30 x 22cm). Illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, each with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's full parchment over boards pictorially blocked in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Contents very clean, expected marking/browning to..... More
A Midsummer Night's Dream. With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, 1908. [Fantasy drama] First Rackham Illustrated Edition, SIGNED LIMITED ISSUE. Large Quarto (30 x 24cm), pp.134; [1], blank; [1], imprint. With forty tipped-in colour plates, each with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's full parchment over boards pictorially blocked in gilt, fore-edge ties, top edge gilt. Number 712 of..... More
William Blake, Mystic: A Study. Together with Young's Night Thoughts: Nights I and II with illustrations by William Blake and frontispiece Death's Door, from Blair's 'The Grave.'
Liverpool: The Liverpool Booksellers Co., 1911. [Biography] LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (28 x 21cm), pp.[6] 14 [5]; [2] 42. The first part printed and paginated to recto of each leaf only. Number 190 of 250 copies of the first edition, hand-numbered to verso of fly-leaf. With a copper engraved frontispiece..... More
A Child's Garden of Verses.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1908. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST SOWERBY-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Large octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 125 [3]. With 12 colour plates including a frontispiece, as well as occasional vignette illustrations. Contemporary crushed blue half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. Top edge..... More
Wordsworth's Poems for the Young.
London: Alexander Strahan and Co., 1863. [Children's Poetry] FIRST EDITION THUS, with first issue advertisements at rear dated December 1862. Octavo (20 x 16cm), pp.x; 92 [10]. With 50 illustrations engraved on wood by the Dalziel Brothers. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. Blind..... More
The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1884. [Humorous Poetry] VINTAGE EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.43 [1]. With 11 etched illustrations by Cruikshank, and several lines of music as a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with titles and decoration in gilt and blind to upper. Cracked-earth-patterned endpapers. Browning to preliminaries. Repair to..... More
Birthday Letters.
London: Faber and Faber, 1998. [Poetry] SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. First edition, second impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.ix; [1]; 198. Publisher's light blue paper covered boards, titles in cream to spine, dust-jacket featuring a painting by Frieda Hughes with printed price of £14.99. Signed by the author to the..... More
The Day's Alarm.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949. [Poetry] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.53; [3]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's blue quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine, and red and cream patterned paper over boards. With the cream decorated dust-jacket with red titles, priced..... More