"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book"
— Stephan Mallarme
Poetry & Drama
Poems.
London: The Faun Press, 1950. INSCRIBED. Small octavo, pp.[2] 25 [1]. One of just 250 copies. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to the recto of the first leaf: 'To Chloe, remembering in / friendliness and gratitude / many occasions, and the / once that told us that /...
The Metropolis. And the Second Part of the Metropolis.
Dublin: John Barlow, 1805 and 1806. SECOND EDITION. Duodecimo. pp. 69, 87. In recent marbled paper-covered boards with navy titles to cream paper label on spine. Top right corner of title page to part two damaged and repaired. Text unaffected. Otherwise a near-fine example in an attractive new binding. An...
Cyder. A Poem in Two Books
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1708. FIRST EDITION. Small, slim octavo pp. 89. Later half brown calf, cloth sides, gilt titles to spine. Engraved frontispiece showing and orchard and workers, woodcut head-pieces and capitals. Light rubbing to extremeties, two holes neatly repaired to title page where a previous owner's name...
Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold.
London: Macmillan, 1913. [Poetry]. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[xii]; 510. Riviere binding of contemporary brown half morocco over purple cloth boards, with raised bands, gilt title and extra gilt to spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Presentation note to "Miss D.M. Lapage", the commandant of the Kent 142 Volunteer Ambulance...
Collected Longer Poems.
London: Faber and Faber, 1968. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.356. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, typographic dust-jacket, repriced by Faber at £2.50 net with a sticker over the original printed price of 45s / £2.25 net. First and last leaves faintly creased at the...
Autumn Songs. With Music from 'Flower Fairies of the Autumn'.
London, Blackie and Son Limited, n.d. Quarto. With 12 mounted colour plates. Publisher's cloth over illustrated card boards. Some light foxing. A very fine copy. FIRST EDITION.
Spring Songs. With Music from 'Flower Fairies of the Spring'.
London, Blackie and Son Limited, n.d. Quarto. With 12 mounted colour plates. Publisher's cloth over illustrated card boards. Some light foxing. A very fine copy. FIRST EDITION.
Summoned By Bells.
London: John Murray, 1960. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 18cm), pp.[8]; 111; [1]. With a small vignette illustration for each chapter heading. Publisher's blind-stamped green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the elegant dust-jacket printed in red and black. Very light occasional spotting within, spotting to edges. Some...
The Horkey.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1882. [Children's illustrated] ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE CRUICKSHANKS (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...
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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...
The Works of Time Bobbin, Esq., in Prose and Verse: with a Memoir of the Author, by John Corry.
Rochdale: J. Westall, 1819. PROVINCIAL IMPRINT. Octavo, pp.[4], 4, 494 [2]. With 11 copper engraved plates including a frontispiece portrait of the author. In near-contemporary light brown full calf with raised bands, gilt titles to green label on spine, and gilt decoration to spine. All edges and endpapers marbled. Spine...
The Warlock of Love.
No place [Printed in Plymouth]: Lupus Music, 1969. [Psychedelic verse] FIRST EDITION. Slim octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.64. Publisher's photographic hardcovers in dust-jacket. A notoriously fragile production- this copy has a little dustiness to top edge but is essentially fine. Uncommon thus. Chameleon songwriter and guitarist Marc Bolan went through...
Nudes.
New York, NY: The Arts Publisher, 1986. [Art]. INSCRIBED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (38 x 34cm), Unpaginated, with 21 drawings, etchings, photographs, and chromolithographic reproductions of watercolours by Brandt, and a poem by Guest printed over four leaves at rear. Number 195 of 750 copies, signed by the artist in pencil...
The Works of.... With introductions by F.G. Kenyon.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1912. Centenary edition. Limited to 276 sets for the US, of which this is number 244. Printed on antique laid paper, with sepia-toned portrait frontispiece in each volume. 10 volumes. Handsomely bound in the 'West End' style in dark blue half morocco, gilt on spine...
The Pied Piper of Hamelin.
London: George Harrap and Co., 1939. First Edition thus. Octavo. Bound in pictorial paper covers, showing the piper compelling the mice to dance, with titles to the front cover. With coloured frontispiece and numerous inset black and white illustrations. Paper covers show very well, bright and vivid, with a small...
The Poetical Works of Robert Browning.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1896. 2 Vols. 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 in a contemporary envelope, with two...
The Poetical Works of Robert Browning.
London: John Murray, 1919. Two vols. Octavo. Bound by Riviere in half brown morocco over brown cloth boards, with raised bands and gilt titles to spine; top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Portrait frontispieces to both volumes. Bindings show well, with bumping to corners, joints rubbed, rear joint of volume two...
Poems and Songs.
Dundee: Printed by John Leng and Co., 1886. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.338 [2]. In publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Yellow endpapers. Title page browned; some very light external wear. A super near-fine copy, likely unread. A diverse collection of poems by...
The Odes and Epodes of Horace. A Metrical Translation into English with Introduction and Commentaries.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1872. FINELY BOUND, a duel English and Latin edition. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[4] xlvi; 487 [5]. With an introduction and a short preamble to each poem, as well as extensive footnotes. In contemporary brown full morocco with raised bands and gilt titles to spine...
Hudibras, in Three Parts. Written In the time of the Late Wars. Corrected and Amended. With large annotations and preface by Zachary Grey.
London: Printed for C. Bathurst et al. 1772. Third Edition. 2 Vols. Octavo. Bound in brown calf, with red title label and black volume label and extra gilt to spine; front edge of board gilt. Illustrated with copper plates by Hogarth. Binding is rubbed, corners worn, joints starting, spines cracked...
The Works of Lord Byron. With His Letters and Journals, and his Life, by Thomas Moore.
London: John Murray, 1835. [Verse] FINELY BOUND. 18 volumes, being the poetry complete in 17 volumes, with Galt's Life of Byron (First Edition) as the 18th volume. Octavo (17 x 11 x 45cm). Engraved frontispiece and engraved title page to every volume. Finely bound by Kaufmann for booksellers Estes and...
Rhyme? and Reason?
London: Macmillan and Co., 1888. [Children's Illustrated] SECOND EDITION, the fourth-thousand. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.xii; 214 [6]. With sixty five wood engraved illustrations by Frost and Holiday including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt illustration to upper board. All edges gilt; black...
The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.
London: Bell and Daldy, n.d. (ca.1880). Six volumes, octavo (17 x 11 x 13cm). New and Revised edition of the Aldine Poets, with a memoir by Sir Harry Nicolas. Original red calf, twin title labels, full gilt backs, marbled sides, edges and endpapers. School prize label to pastedown, bindings pleasingly...
The Canterbury Tales.
London: E. Grant Richards, 1907. First Clark Illustrated Edition. Quarto, pp.xiii, 235. Bound in recent red half calf over red cloth boards, with raised bands and gilt titles to spine; top edge gilt, other edges uncut, original frontboard and spine bound in at rear. Illustrated with six colour plates by...
Beowulf and the Finnesburg Fragment.
London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1950. NEW EDITION, completely revised and notes and an introduction by C.L. Wren, and prefatory remarks by J.R.R. Tolkien. Octavo, pp.194. Handsomely bound in recent half black morocco, gilt titles and raised bands to spine, matching cloth sides. Occasional editorial remarks in pencil to margins.....