Victorian Poetry
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First edition; 12mo; decorative title printed in red & black, device by the authir printed in red at end, light browning to free endpapers; publisher's drab boards with printed title label to spine, slightly browned, a good copy.
£225 -
First edition; 8vo; 20pp. advertisements with pictorial page, unopened, a little marginal toning, contemporary gift inscription in neat hand to front pastedown; publisher's paper-backed boards with 'O' corner-piece motif, printed paper spine label, spine tanned, some light marking, but a sharp copy.
£250 -
First edition, one of 800 copies; 8vo; title printed in red & black, 7pp. advertisements, mild marginal toning; publisher's boards, a bit spotted and browned, slight edge wear.
£95 -
First edition, number 36 of 95 large paper copies; 8vo; unopened, mark to foot of one page, half-title with minor paper-flaw to fore-edge; original card wrappers with publisher's French folded printed dust-jacket, a little dust-soiled but overall very good.
£195 -
First edition; small 8vo; ink & pencil name to list of contributors, a little minor spotting to extremities, ink initials and name to front free endpaper; publisher's boards with pattern to upper cover, spine slightly browned, some rubbing and marking.
£125 -
First edition, number 27 of 75 copies on handmade paper, from an overall limitation of 1075; 8vo; title printed in red & black, woodcut decoration and device, slight darkening to page edges; publisher's half vellum and boards, light edge wear to boards, uncut.
£125 -
First edition, one of 250 copies on paper; small 8vo (175 x 105 mm.); some foxing; publisher's cream cloth lettered in gilt, partly uncut, a little minor marking & bumping, but overall very good.
£850 -
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 -
Thick 8vo (220 x 155); engraved frontispiece portrait by W. Humphreys from a print by Faithorne, title printed in red black, elegant MS presentation to front free endpaper dated 'Xmas 1879', a few random spots to preliminary and terminal leaves, otherwise fine; publisher's full polished calf, gilt-panelled, gilt-tooled spine panels and lettering-piece, marbled endpapers and matching edges, stamped Bickers and Son on verso of upper enpaper, mildly rubbed, a few marks from use, otherwise a most attractive volume in very good order.
£300 -
New edition; 6 volumes, 8vo (220 x 150 mm); engraved frontispiece portrait, slight spotting to the preliminary pages in several volumes, marbled endpapers; attractively bound in later brown half calf, spine lavishly gilt decorated and lettered, lower board in vol. I and II slightly scuffed; otherwise a very good set.
£675