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...]
No date but c. 1880. A collection of verse for children from a variety of writers. With b/w, duo-tone and colour illustrations. Rubbing to covers. Front hinge split. Text-block holding. Tanning to page edges. Fair. [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...]
Charming compact volume of 17th century lyric poet Herrick's selected work on a romantic theme, including, of course, his 'To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time'. With decorated initials and devices throughout. Full leather with an intricate blind-stamped des [more...]
Collection of poetry with b/w images of various places and artworks related to the verse. Top edge gilt. Rubbing to edges. Some fraying and splitting to joints. Toning to covers . Contents clean and binding sound. Good. [more...]
Collection of literary essays, including pieces on Johnson and Boswell, John Dunton , Bath and more; plus verse and speeches. No DJ. Some mild shelf-wear. Contents clean and tight. Good+ [more...]
