Victorian Poetry
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Small 8vo (160 x 110); engraved vignette title-page by Stopford A. Brooke; near-cotemporary full green morocco, inlaid with red carnations to covers, gilt-panelled dentelles, lined in ivory moire, all edges gilt, small, light stain to lower, outer corner of front free lining, with offsetting to following page, otherwise a most handsome volumes and internally fine.
£275 -
First edition, first impression, limited issue, being number 7 of only 110 copies; 8vo; portrait frontispiece by Jack B. Yeats, tissue-guard; publisher's red buckram, spine lettered in gilt, light sunning to spine, light rubbing to spine tips and corners, light browning to endpapers & bookplate removed from front pastedown, otherwise internally fine and sound, rare.
£1,750 -
First edition, one of 75 large paper copies; 8vo (210 x 145 mm); frontispiece by G.F. Watts with tissue guard, 16pp. publisher's catalogue with pictorial title, purple endpapers; publisher's buckram, lettered in gilt to spine, some toning, uncut & unopened, a very good, sharp copy.
£180 -
First edition, one of 400 copies; 8vo; foxing to first and last leaves; publisher's dark green cloth lettered in gilt to spine, a fine sharp copy.
£150 -
First edition; 8vo; title printed in black & red, some minor toning, foxing to a few leaves, bookplate to front pastedown; publisher's buckram, lettered in gilt to spine.
£225 -
First edition; 8vo; 2pp. facsimile of the ms. 'The Toys' by Coventry Patmore as frontispiece, title vignette, further decorations; publisher's near-black cloth with yapp fore-edges, gilt decoration to one corner, printed spine label (browned), a little bumped & rubbed, top edge gilt, partly uncut.
£125 -
First edition; 8vo; woodcut decoration to title-page, 20pp. advertisements, bookplates to front pastedown; publisher's black buckram stamped in gilt replicating the title-page design, very slight rubbing, partly uncut, very good.
£85 -
First edition, one of 650 copies; 8vo; 15pp. advertisements dated May 1894, some marginal toning; publisher's brown buckram lettered in gilt to spine, partly uncut.
£275 -
First edition; 8vo (200 x 155 mm); frontispiece by Laurence Housman with tissue guard, decorative title printed in orange, 16pp. advertisements; publisher's bevelled buckram with gilt leaf motif reminiscent of Charles Shannon, a little sunned, partly uncut.
£225 -
Sole issue; 8vo, single leaf folded vertically and printed on all sides; some toning; loose as issued.
£125