Fourteenth edition of the Scottish Poet Pollok's final and most successful work, a blank verse epic on a religious theme. Handsome full leather binding with Inner dentelles, and gilt decoration to cover. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Rubbing and bumping to e [more...]
Beautifully illustrated account of Columbus' voyages told in verse illustrated throughout by Melrose with colour plates and b/w drawings around the text. Portion missing to front cover. Hinges, split. Tanning to page edges but text block sound. Poor/fair [more...]
Handsome produced edition of Riley's poem featuring his civil war Solider, Jim. With colour illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy with decorations by Bertha Stuart. Some very light shelf-wear. Tanning to page edges. Else clean and tight, Very good. [more...]
Collection of verse/songs by the great comic song-writer and performing. No date but c. 1935. With stylish colour illustrations and decoration by Clarke Hutton. Quarter cloth. Heavy spotting/toning to covers. Tanning to page edges, contents clean and tigh [more...]
Collection of short verse with colour illustrations by Neilson. 4to. Tearing to joints. Rubbing to edges. Marking and toning to covers. Previous owner's name to ffep. Toning within, else text-block sound. Fair. [more...]
Spectacularly illustrated collection of verse, with colour plates, intricate b/w illustrations and further decorations. Illustrated end-papers. large 4to. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Toning to covers. Inscription to half-title. Close tear to one page n [more...]
Together with a life of Gray.Small 32mo. [xxxii] 93pp. Mottled leather with gilt decoration. Engraved frontispiece. Inner dentelles. Rubbing to covers and spine. Titling to spine faded. Previous owner's name to ffep. Last page torn with loss. But ot [more...]
Pleasant quarter cloth binding of Hood's humourous poems with b/w illustrations. Marbled boards. rubbing and wear to extremities. Offsetting to endpapers. Contents clean and binding tight. Good. [more...]
Handsome Blackie volume featuring a selection of notable 18th century poetry, selected and introduced by Austin. Elegant cover design by Talwyn Morris. Top edge gilt. Decorative end-papers. With red titles. Rubbing to edges. Faint marking to covers. Tann [more...]
No date but c. 1880. Nicely produced poem with sepia and colour illustrations by W. J. Hodgson. Toning to covers, rubbing to edges. Mark to top edge Toning and mild foxing to edges within. Binding sound. Good overall. [more...]
No date but c. 1920. From the little wonder books series. A tale of a a boy and his horse. Told in verse with 30 colour illustrations by G. E. Shepheard. Small 12mo. Mounted illustration to cover and illustrated end-papers. Rubbing to joints with loss to t [more...]
With one volume on grammer, another on issues with spellings of certain words, and a guide to usage. Nice quarter faux-leather binding. Some mild shelf-wear. Small nick to spine on one volume Else clean and prim. Near fine, [more...]
No date but c. 1890. Charming collection of popular nursery rhymes with b/w and chromolithographic plates. 4to. Spine is torn with loss, binding loosening. Frontispiece and half-title apparently bound in later, tape repairs, small tears to edges. Foxing wi [more...]
Broadway booklets edition of Gray's enduring elegiac poem, engraving to soft cover. No date but c. 1903. Spine is rubbed with some loss to edges.Rear cover detached. Binding sound, contents clean. Fair. [more...]
Charming collection of extracts and poems, one each day of the year. With 6 colour illustrations by Ellen Warrington. Some mild rubbing to edges. Foxing within. Previous owner's bookplate to ffep. Good. [more...]
Nice little 16to. edition of John Gay's verse Fables. With a memoir by Austin Dobson. Top edge gilt. Other edges uncut. Red and black title page. Facing portrait of Gay. Previous owner's name to ffep. Covers a trifle grubby but contents clean and tight. [more...]
Neat little 32mo. leather bound People's edition of Tennyson's collections of poems. In two parts bound as one. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Rubbing to extremities but contents tight and clean. good overall. [more...]
Pleasant soft leather suede binding of Browning's verse drama Pippa Passes. With frontispiece. No date but c. 1910. covers have some rubbing and nicks but contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
