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THE LADY OF THE LAKE by Sir Walter Scott, Bart. With all his introductions, various readings, and the editor’s notes. Illustrated by numerous engravings by Birket Foster and John Gilbert.
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1853. 375 pages. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, an additional engraved pictorial title, and numerous engravings throughout. Original pictorial gilt panelled cloth. All edges gilt. Octavo. Little wear at head and heel of spine; on of the front endpapers has been removed; else a near fine copy.
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THE LORD OF THE ISLES.
London: Provost & Co, 1871. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. [8], 186, [2], [8 ad's listing books illustrated with original photographs] pages. Illustrated with a circular photograph on the title-page and 8 other original albumen photographs. Original pictorial cloth, very elaborately gilded. All edges gilt. First edition. Some spotting to endpapers and to tissue guards, some of the latter transferred to the borders of the plates; but a very good copy nevertheless.
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THE MORNING OF THE POEM
New York.Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1980. [ix], [2], 3-117pp. Original cloth-backed boards. Dust wrapper. First edition. The faintest traces of sellotape outlines on front and rear endpapers; spine of wrapper faded but lettering still perfectly clear; else a near fine copy. From the library of Paul Edwards (English poet) and with loosely inserted obituary and photo-copied reviews etc.
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THE OLD SMITHY and Other Poems.
Allerton: S. Priestley, Newsagent, Stationer, etc, 1914. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 71 pages. Portrait frontispiece. Original cloth, gilt. 16.7 x 10.5 cm. First edition. Ownership details in pencil on endpaper; cloth a little worn; else a very good copy.
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THE OWL, A Miscellany. No.s 1 & 2.
London.Martin Secker. 1919. 2 volumes. No. 1: [4], 5-29pp; No. 2: [2]. 3-54pp. Both illustrated throughout with colour and black & white plates. No. 1 in limp pictorial wrappers; no. 2 in paper-covered pictorial boards; both housed in blue cloth folding chemise. Quarto. First editions. Bottom outer corner of front cover of No. 1 slightly turned; small tear to back cover. Corners of No.2 a trifle bumped with slight rubbing to head and heel of spine; else an excellent set. The cloth case is splitting and the ties are torn.Edited by Robert Graves, The Owl contains literary contributions by Beerbohm, Blunden, Sassoon, Graves himself, and many others. Illustrators include Caldecott, Belcher, Orpen, Nancy Nicholson; Rockwell Kent. The covers designs are by William Nicholson.
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THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION. To which is prefixed a critical essay on the poem, by Mrs. Barbauld.
London: T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1795. xxxvi, viii, [3], 12- 156, [1 ad’] pages. Illustrated with 4 engraved plates. Full calf gilt with a black title label to the spine. Octavo. The plates have some foxing; else a very good copy.
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THE POEMS OF ERNEST DOWSON. With a memoir by Arthur Symons, four illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley and a portrait by William Rothenstein.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1905. xxxviii, 166, [2 ad’s] pages. Original decorative green cloth gilt. Octavo. First edition. Head of spine a little worn; some occasional light browning; else very good.
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THE POEMS OF FRANCOIS VILLON. Translated by H. B. McCaskie. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
London: The Cresset Press, 1946. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First edition. Some spotting to front endpaper and to the blank recto of the frontispiece; else very good.
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THE POETICAL WOKS OF JOHN KEATS given from his own editions and other authentic sources and collated with many manuscripts. Edited by H. Buxton Forman. Fifth edition. With seven portraits and ten other illustrations.
London: Reeves & Turner, 1896. xxxi, 597 pages. Original decorative cloth gilt. Octavo. Tiny split at heel of spine; else an excellent copy.
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THE POETRY OF NATURE Selected and Illustrated by Harrison Weir.
London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, 1868. 72 pages. Illustrated throughout with black & white engravings. Original full elaborately decorative blue morocco, gilt. All edges gilt. Octavo. Some spotting to blank tissue leaves; light rubbing to extremities of binding; else a handsome copy.
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THE POETS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Selected and Edited by Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, incumbent of Bearwood. Illustrated with one hundred engravings drawn by eminent artists, and engraved by the Brothers Dalziel.
London: George Routledge & Co, 1857. xv, [1 blank], 399 pages. Bound in contemporary full Morocco elaborately gilded to both panels and spine. All edges gilt. Quarto: 226 x 176 mm. Just a touch rubbed at corners and at head and heel of spine; else a very good copy.
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THE POETS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Selected and edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, incumbent of Bearwood. Illustrated with one hundred engravings, drawn by eminent artists, and engraved by the brothers Dalziel.
London: George Routledge and Co, 1857. xv, [1 blank], 399, [1] pages. Illustrators include Millais, Arthur Hughes, Gilbert, Foster, Tenniel, Dalziel. Bound in full burgundy morocco with elaborate gilt decoration to the spine and panels. All. Edge gilt. Quarto. First edition. Light foxing to the endpapers; corners of the binding very lightly worn; else an excellent example in a fine binding.
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THE PRINCE’S BALL. A Brochure. From “Vanity Fair.” With illustrations by Stephens.
New York: Rudd & Carelton, 1860. 63, [1 blank, [4 d’s] pages. Illustrated. Original grey boards gilt. 190 x 128 mm. First edition. Bookplate. Slight marking to end-papers, else a fine copy.
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THE REMAINS OF THE LATE TOBIAS MARTIN of Breage, in Cornwall, Mine Agent, with a Memoir of the Author.
Helston: Printed at the Temple of the Muses by W. Penaluna. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 258 pages. Original blue paper-covered boards, re-backed in plain brown cloth. with a printed paper label. Octavo. First edition. Boards corners knocked and worn; inscription on front fixed endpaper; some occasional soiling and, generally, a little tired; else a good plus copy of a remarkably scarce book in first edition form. WorldCat records only the British Library copy and three others in the United States.
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THE REVIEW A bi-monthly magazine of poetry and criticism. No. 1. April/May 1962 to No. 29/30.
Oxford/London:1962-1972. A complete run of 30 issues including the three individual pamphlet series that comprise No. 13 [in the original printed envelope], the three individual pamphlet series that comprise no. 19 [lacking envelope if required], the three individual pamphlet series that comprise No. 21 [lacking envelope if required], and the supplement to No. 25, by Douglas Dunn. Short tear in the cover of the supplement to No. 25 - not affecting text; generally lightly used; but a very good set indeed. This set once belonged to the writer Julian Symons, and number 16 contains a signed letter from Ian Hamilton to Julian Symons thanking him for his contribution to the 'rescue fund.'.
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THE ROSE-WINGED HOURS English Love Lyrics Chosen by St. John Lucas. Second impression.
London: Edward Arnold, 1908. 312 pages. Frontispiece. Bound by Bumpus in full red morocco with elaborate gilt decoration of rose motifs to the spine and panels and to the inner dentelles. All edges gilt. Octavo. 185 x 125 mm. Ownership inscription to the flyleaf; foxing to the title and frontispiece; else a very copy in a fine binding.
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THE SAILOR’S TRAGEDY; To which are added, Highland Mary. The Irish Wedding.
Stirling: Printed by W. Macnie, 1825. 8 pages. Woodcut of a ship on front cover/title. Uncut at top edge and not stitched. A very good copy of this chapbook. ‘Highland Mary is a song composed in 1792 by Scottish poet Robert Burns. It is one of three works dedicated to Mary Campbell, with whom Burns was in love in the 1780s. The others, "Highland Lassie, O" and "Will Ye Go to the Indies My Mary?", were composed in 1786.’ Wikipedia
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THE SEASONS.
London: A. Millar, 1746. 230, [6 ad’s] pages. 4 engraved plates. Contemporary sheep sometime re-backed. 12mo. A very good copy.
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THE SENSITIVE PLANT. Introduction by Edmund Gosse. Illustrations by Charles Robinson.
London: William Heinemann. Philadelphia. J. B. Lippincott Co, No date [circa 1911]. 128 pages. Illustrated with 18 tipped-in colour plates and numerous other illustrations in muted colours. Original green cloth with a pictorial design in black. Quarto. First edition but later issue as the primary binding has a gilt design. Spine slightly cocked; tiny crease-mark to the corner of one colour plate; else a very good copy.
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THE SONGS OF EXPERIENCE. With Designs by Celia Levetus.
London: David Nutt, No date [1902]. 84 pages. Illustrated in black & white. Original pictorial green cloth with design and lettering in black. 230 x 150 mm. First edition. Touch of wear to head and heel of spine; ownership name and date (1904) on endpaper; else very good. Scarce.
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