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By: ONE-TIME PRESS : Peter Wells.
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Suffolk, One-Time Press 2007.:
Seller ID: 9265
Edition Limited to 70 copies : handsomely produced in Bembo on Somerset laid paper : with the binding designed by the author and made by the Fine Book Bindery. *** Peter Wells was born in 1919 in London : his poems appeared in a number of major anthologies edited by Tambimuttu for Poetry London; Peter de Vries for Poetry Chicago; John Middleton Murry for The Adelphi &c &c. View more info
By: PEACOCK, Thomas Love : Marilyn Butler.
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Routledge 1979.:
Seller ID: 7936
Important ground-breaking study of novelist Thomas Love Peacock 1785-1866 : based on much new research. View more info
Price: £200.00
Publisher: Rivington, Longman &c 1812.:
Seller ID: 8980
Profoundly important ground-breaking collection of early English Poetry : produced with the assistance of Johnson, Shenstone, Garrick, Goldsmith &c : and of enormous influence on Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Scott and many other Romantic poets. *** Originally published 1765 : this is the first 19thC Edition. Endpapers with an attractive 19thC armorial bookplate of a dragon's head holding a severed bleeding hand : and with 20thC calligraphic-style woodcut booklabel of ... View more info
By: PHILIPS, Ambrose : John Sparrow Association.
Price: £175.00
Publisher: London, printed and sold by H. Hills, in Black-fryars, near the Water-side 1710.:
Seller ID: 9523
Blank prelim signed in ink by John Sparrow, the notable bibliophile and Warden of All Souls, Oxford. And with his pencil note on the endpaper thus : 'The first separate edition of Ambrose Philips' Pastorals, four of which first appeared in Fenton's Oxford & Cambridge Miscellany [1707 or 1709] and six in the 1709 Tonson's Miscellany (though the order is changed in T. to 2, 3, 1, 4 and the text is changed). This reprints Tonson of course'. *** This is the 'First separate... View more info
By: PROCTER, Adelaide Anne : Charles Dickens.
Price: £175.00
Publisher: George Bell 1875.:
Seller ID: 8436
Scarce : This 1875 Edition is not noted by Lister : Palmer Catalogue Raisonne. In fact Lister states in the Catalogue Raisonne, published in 1988, that he had found no other edition between the 1866 Edition and the so-called 8th Edition of 1881. Includes the plate Sowing & Reaping after Samuel Palmer : and a portrait of Procter and 19 other full-page plates by Charles Keene, Tenniel, Du Maurier, Millais &c. Edited by Dickens who had published most of Procter's poems whil... View more info
By: RUSKIN, John.
Price: £30.00
Publisher: Orpington, Kent, George Allen 1884 & 1885.:
Seller ID: 9505
Pocket Edition - edited down by Ruskin himself - of the original very extensive text of The Stones Of Venice. View more info
Price: £24.00
Publisher: Privately Printed 1959.:
Seller ID: 9535
100 copies attractively printed by Brooke Crutchley at Cambridge University Press. A series of poems by Victor Scholderer, the well-known Caxton scholar. View more info
By: SCOTT, Sir Walter : and Reginald Heber.
Price: £95.00
Publisher: Scott's Field Of Waterloo, Edinburgh, Constable &c 1815 : Heber's Europe, London, Hatchard 1809 : Gentleman's Magazine, London, John Nichols 1822.:
Seller ID: 9288
Scott was fascinated by Napoleon and later wrote a 7-volume biography of him. This famous poem resulted from Scott's trip to the site of Waterloo - in fact his very first trip abroad - a mere six weeks after the battle. The proceeds of the poem went to support the dependents of those who had been slaughtered there. 'Like many of his generation, he saw the Emperor's defeat by Wellington as the decisive moment of history. At Waterloo, Scott found the ground still torn with... View more info
By: SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe : Middleton, Charles S.
Price: £300.00
Publisher: Newby 1858.:
Seller ID: 9545
Early and very scarce Newby-published Shelley biography. With the Errata slip as described by Wise. View more info
Price: £500.00
Publisher: Ascham 1834.:
Seller ID: 5121
Rare : a piracy, but the first attempt at a Collected Edition. Ascham was 'the first to offer the London reader a nearly complete collection of Shelley's Poems. These volumes prove to be the most interesting of all the pirated editions'. Texts in general are taken from the original authorised editions & are therefore the 'most fully corrected of all the pirated texts'. The complex make-up of the book, deriving from Ascham's original part-issue plan [virtually no copies i... View more info
Price: £500.00
Publisher: Ascham 1834.:
Seller ID: 5120
Rare : especially in the original binding as here. A piracy, but the first attempt at a Collected Edition. Ascham was 'the first to offer the London reader a nearly complete collection of Shelley's Poems. These volumes prove to be the most interesting of all the pirated editions'. Texts in general taken from the original authorised editions & are therefore the 'most fully corrected of all the pirated texts'. The complex make-up of the book, deriving from Ascham's origina... View more info
By: SHENSTONE, William : Robert Dodsley.
Price: £90.00
Publisher: Cadell & Davies 1798.:
Seller ID: 9059
First Cadell Edition. With 6 plates all by Stothard : and engraved variously by Heath, Neagle, and Bromley. Both volumes with handsome heraldic bookplate signed Anne Pinsell 1807 : endpaper with later neat signature E. A. Stabler dated 1886 : and a neat little modern booklabel. View more info
By: SITWELL, Sacheverell : Thomas Lowinsky.
Price: £95.00
Publisher: Curwen Press for Fleuron 1926.:
Seller ID: 7762
350 numbered copies handsomely printed by Curwen on quality paper. Fine series of slightly surreal illustrations in Lowinsky's idiosyncatic and somewhat 'pointilliste' style. View more info
Price: £1,100.00
Publisher: Brackley, Northamptonshire 1972 - 1981.:
Seller ID: 8667
Sitwell had a total of 56 booklets printed privately at Brackley between 1972 and 1981. Most were Limited Editions of c.100 copies only, of which a few were issued numbered and signed [see Ritchie : Sitwell Bibliography A72 &c]. This collection includes five titles dated and inscribed variously 'For Josette with much love from Sachie' : and also includes two of the scarcest titles [of which only 25 and 30 copies respectively were issued] signed & numbered by Sitwell. ** ... View more info
By: SMITH, William.
Price: £75.00
Publisher: London, Jarrold & Sons [1887].:
Seller ID: 9531
Scarce children's book : only 3 copies located in Copac. * A relatively early example of Animal Rights in which Smith states 'man's duty towards all animals kept by him for his use, comfort or pleasure - not forgetting to show the many unnecessary sufferings that are caused to these poor dumb creatures by men and children, through want of thought for, and utter ignorance of, their nature, habits, and requirements.' With chapters on the avoidance of cruelty to many com... View more info
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Macmillan's 'Cranford Series' 1892.:
Seller ID: 8607
With 65 illustrations by Hugh Thomson. First book in the charming 'Cranford Series'. See Ray : Illustrator & Book 296. View more info
By: THOMSON, James : Isaac Taylor illus.
Price: £36.00
Publisher: London, Suttaby, Evance & Fox; and Baldwin, Cradock & Joy 1818.:
Seller ID: 9456
Scarce edition. With tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece and engraved title-page by Isaac Taylor after Hamilton and after H. Singleton. With a 14pp Life of Thomson. *** Not listed in Cambridge University Library : see Copac listing 2 copies only. View more info
By: VARIOUS Authors.
Price: £135.00
Publisher: W. Kent 1860.:
Seller ID: 8441
* Inscribed by the publisher 'Kate Temple from her affectionate friend Wm. Kent. 6 Dec 1859'. The book includes particularly two illustrations by Samuel Palmer : see Lister's Palmer Catalogue. An outstanding book designed by Joseph Cundall : and employing a complex double printing system by Edmund Evans : and with each page set within a gold border, many with large and elaborate head & tailpieces also in gold all by Albert Warren. McLean describes the book as 'Bibliograp... View more info
By: VAUGHAN, Henry & Thomas : J. R. Tutin.
Price: £42.00
Publisher: Hull, Tutin 1893.:
Seller ID: 7314
1/500 Small Paper copies. View more info