Literature & History
One of the most exciting and expanding areas of rare book collecting at Shapero Rare Books has to be Literature.
We specialise in the best examples of key works of literature, including literary classics from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, modern first editions in their original dust-jackets, fine bindings, alongside children’s and illustrated literature from the 19th & 20th centuries.
Contact Roddy Newlands or Angus Robb for more information about Literature at Shapero Rare Books.
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First edition, first impression; 8vo; partial browning to endpapers; publisher's brown boards, titles to spine gilt, dust-jacket with artwork by Edward Bawden, somewhat tanned at spine and edges, but upper panel bright and clean.
£375 -
Thick 4to (245 x 165); portrait frontispiece of the poet after Romney, additional pictorial title and 4 further plates after J. Gilbert, offsetting from frontispiece to pictorial title and a few spots to both, otherwise fine; mid-twentieth century full morocco, foliate gilt-panelled, gilt-tooled spine panels and dentelles, mild rubbing to extremities, a very handsome volume.
£250 -
Second edition. 12mo., viii, [324]; 57, [3] pp., contemporary calf, green morocco label, spine extremities worn, lightly rubbed, browning to title edges, occasional foxing, a very good copy.
£450 -
Second edition. 5 volumes, 12mo, contemprary sprinkled calf, red morocco lettering pieces, small defects to extremities, a little worn, a very good set.
£1,250 -
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8 volumes, 12mo, engraved frontispiece, contemporary sprinkled calf gilt, red morocco lettering pieces, a little rubbed, one label defective, an excellent set.
£1,250 -
First edition; 8vo; frontispiece and 9 plates, 5 illustrations, 32pp. publisher's catalogue at end, blind-stamped 'presentation copy' on title, some foxing, tape burns to free endpapers, small contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper; publisher's brown pictorial cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, a very good copy, with facsimile dust-jacket.
£650 -
First edition, first impression; 8vo; 16pp. advertisements, small paper flaw to margin of front free endpaper, small stain to tip of the final few leaves, small blindstamp to front free endpaper; publisher's yellow cloth, decoration and titles to upper board and spine in blue and black, a little rubbed and marked, spine slightly browned, small stain to lower fore-corner of lower cover, but a very good copy of a very pretty book.
£180 -
First edition; small 8vo; some minor toning and thumb-marking, text-block trimmed; rebound in later red morocco-backed cloth.
£950 -
3 vols, first edition; 8vo; splitting to a few endpapers, each front free endpaper with contemporary ownership inscription; publisher's green cloth blocked in black wit gilt letting to spines, some minor bumping, a few minor marks upper cover of vol.II, overall very good.
£750
