Humourous poems describing children from all over the world. With 30 colour plates. Quarter cloth. Oblong 4to. Heavy rubbing, toning and spotting to edges of covers. Tanning and spotting to page edges and within. Binding sound. Fair/ [more...]
Pleasant collection of verse to accompany the months and seasons of the year. Illustrated and decorated by the author with b/w images and colour plates. All edges gilt, decorated end-papers. square 4to. No date but c. 1882. Spine is toned with rubbing and [more...]
Pleasant collection of verse to accompany the months and seasons of the year. Illustrated and decorated by the author with b/w images and colour plates. All edges gilt, decorated end-papers. square 4to. Decorative cloth, beveled edges. No date but c. 1882. [more...]
Pleasant Tauchnitz edition of selections from Morris' poems, including Sigurd the Volsung, Guenivere and parts of the Earthly Paradise among others. With a memoir by Hueffer. Sunning to spine. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown and name to title [more...]
Nicely produced edition of Motion's second collection of poems. One of a run of 600 hardback editions. With decorated endpapers. Signed by the author on the title page. DJ has a small closed tear to top edge and a smudge to cover. Contents clean and tight [more...]
Collection of humorous verse about WWI and specifically the YMCA, who provided support to the army and war effort both at home and at the front lines. With numerous colour illustrations by Joyce Dennys. No date but c. 1917. Printed on khaki coloured paper. [more...]
Handsome special edition of Gogarty's collected poems. Limited to 500 copies. Gogarty was a well known figure around Dublin and Trinity College in the early 20th century. He pursed his own literary career as well featuring in the memoirs of other Irish writ [more...]
First Kegan, Paul vellum edition of Tennyson's acclaimed verse requiem for a deceased friend. Containing of course, the line: 'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all'. Top edge gilt. Other edges uncut. Toning and mild creasing to [more...]
The Guinness Doctor's book for 1953. An annual promotional exercise devised by the agency SH Benson, where humourous pamphlets were sent to Doctors so as, they say, to solicit recommendations that 'Guinness is good for you.' A witty pastiche of popular song [more...]
No Date but c. 1880. Collection of charming verse for Children with chromolithographic illustrations by Charles Kendrick. Rubbing to edges with some fraying to joints. Front hinge split. Toning and spotting within. Fair. [more...]
Charming collection of French verse and song, with music, translated into English. With colour illustrations. With maps to end-papers. 4to. Mild rubbing to page edges. Light tanning to page edges. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
Splendidly and brightly coloured, illustrated collection of nursery rhymes by the well known artists and inventor, Kubasta. 4to. Rubbing and tearing to spine, rubbing to edges. Wear to front hinge. Mild toning within, else sound. Good overall. [more...]
No date but c. 1900. Nicely rebound, half-leather binding of Scott's collected poetical works. Including his ballads and verse from his novels. Red Half leather with raised bands and gilt decoration. Marbled end-papers and matching marbling to boards and p [more...]
No date but c. 1900. From the Moxon's Popular Poets series. Decorative cloth binding of Campbell's collected verse, including The Battle of the Baltic, Pleasures of Hope etc. Beveled edges, all edges gilt. Decorated end-papers. With frontispiece and b/w il [more...]
The first six volumes of the Tauchnitz copyright edition of Tennyson's collected works (bound as three[two subsequent volumes were published in 1872]). Including The Idylls of the King, Maud, Ulysses, In Memorandum, Enoch Arden, The Holy Grail and poems. Hal [more...]
Nicely produced reprint/facsimile of the 1917 Irish Texts society edition, Vol. XIX, edited from the Book of Lismore and other manuscripts. No date but c. 1984. Gaelic and English text side by side. With copious notes. Green cloth with gilt decoration. som [more...]
No date but c. 1900. Nicely rebound, half-leather binding of Longfellow's poetical works. Including Hiawatha and the Courtship of Miles Standish etc. Blue Half leather with raised bands and gilt decoration. Marbled end-papers and matching marbling to board [more...]
Collection of verse in German, with beautiful illustrations of anthropomorphic/fairy flowers. Oblong 4to. Toning to covers, mild shelf-wear and rubbing. Contents clean and tight. Good+ [more...]
No date but c. 1885. Beautifully illustrated edition of Whittier's poem, with full page chromolithographic images by Carline. Beveled edges, patterned end-papers. 4to. Hinges split contents disbound, although this was likely intentional as the plates were [more...]
No date but c. 1880. Extracts of Burns' poetry with brief descriptions of his life and work by Bell, with colour illustrations by Paget. Oblong 8vo. Bound with cord and bow. Toning to covers. Blue stain to bottom of title page, not affecting text/image. [more...]
