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1895réf. 56883NY: Dodd Mead & Co. Very Good. 1895. Hardcover. Original green cloth decorated in gilt. Limited to 450 copies. Bookplate and PO inscriptiion. Slight rubbing/soil to cloth mild corner wear. Title page in red and black. B/w illustrations throughout. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Dodd, Mead & Co hardcover
1930réf. 17586London: Cresset Press Ltd. 1930. Hardback vellum spine over silk covered boards. With a removable clear protective wrapper. 33.5 x 20.5cm. xxiii 135pp. Titlepage and 12 illustrations by John Nash coloured by pochoir. No. 214 of a limited edition of only 350 copies on handmade paper. Binding slightly marked frayed silk to bottom corner of rear board. Contents very clean a nice bright copy. Limited. Hard Cover. Very Good. Cresset Press Ltd. Hardcover
1860réf. 059211London: Ward and Lock 1860. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. Frontispiece. FIRST EDITION. LONDON : 1860. FINE BINDING by Leighton son & Hodge Shoe Lane'. "Petter and Galpin printers Playhouse Yard" -- title page verso. Hardback. Introductory Essay. With an illustrated engraved frontispiece plate with tissue-guard. With an initial half-title leaf. Contemporary full red Morocco-leather; gilt lettered and decorated spine. Full gilt decoration to covers; gilt dentelles. All page-edges gilt. Original yellow end-papers. NEAR FINE. i i xxxiv 472 pages. Index of First Lines. SCARCE. Only the Bristh Library holds a copy in the UK. 8vo. Will be well-packed for posting. London: Ward and Lock. VERY SCARCE. Ward and Lock hardcover
1750réf. p024.066GB: J. & R. Tonson & S. Draper 1750. 134 x 82 mm. Old ful leather. Spines with raised bands are lettered in gold All edges gold. Frontispiece. No other plates. Clean tight texts are quite closely trimmed. All bindings are sound but a bit rubbed. Set is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES MAY APPLY Packed weight 1200g. . Hardback. VG-/No DW. J. & R. Tonson & S. Draper, Hardcover
1778réf. 033153Edinburg: John Bell at the Apollo Press 1778 A complete set of Spenser from the Bell's Edition - forming Vols 15 to 22 of the original 109 volumes. In very good condition. This set looks to be from the traveling library - with each volume being slim and bound in full red leather with gilt lines to boards and spine and gilt decoration at the board edges and inner edges. Gilt titles and volume and series numbers to spine. All page edges gilted - in circa 3 of the volumes the gilting has resulted in the occasional page appearing unopened at the top edge. All the volumes have their original page markers and all are very clean and sound. Spines tend to be darkened and there is light wear/scuffing at corners and spine ends - occasional bumping or greater wear at corners and occasional scuff or pit to boards. Endpapers marbled. Each volume has 2 initial and 2 or 3 final blanks an engraved title and 2 further title pages - one for the series and one for the Spenser set. Vol I has a portrait of Edmund Spenser. All volumes are complete with a contents listing at the end - Vol I containing introductory material and Vol VIII containing a Glossary of 'Old and Obscure Words'. Vol I: 257pp scuff to top spine end. Vol II: 243pp. Vol III: 258pp bump to top corner of back board. Vol IV: 266 pp - couple of tiny top page edge tears where gilt has partly held a couple of pages together at the top edge. Vol V: 261pp more pronounced scuffing to an area of the front board and slight warp to boards. Vol VI: 252pp more pronounced pitting on back board engraved title has lost the bottom edge below the picture frame with its text. Vol VII: 236pp. Vol VIII: 248pp pitting to front board. Please enquire if you would like to see additional images. Board size 13.2 cm x 8 cm. John Bell at the Apollo Press hardcover
réf. #[36744]London Smith Elder & Co. 1884. Original decorated green cloth. With folding map. XIV343 pp. First edition. - St. John wrote this account of Haiti after spending several years there as a chargé d'affaires and later resident minister. Included are chapters on population voodoo worship and cannibalism and a general description of the country and its history. The book caused outrage because of its sensational tales of vodoo and cannibalism and is described as 'a savagely hostile account' in O.D.N.B. Cundall 507; Afro-Americana 9066. hardcover
1819réf. 66274London: Suttaby Evance & Fox 1819. Hardcover. Very Good. Two Volume Set. 3/4 brown leather over marble paper-covered boards with 6 bands lined in gilt gilt titling and gilt decorations to spine. Top corner creased at pages 107-143 of volume one and light scattered foxing to margins of a few pages throughout but are otherwise clean and unamrked. Marbled endpages have previous owner's sticker to top edge of front pastedown and light sunning to edges. Text block has light sunning to fore edge and top edge light scuffing to lower edge and light soiling to lower edge of volume two. All edges marbled. Boards are clean with light cracking and chipping to leather at spine bumping and moderate rubbing to corners and light rubbing to edges. Binding is tight boards slightly bow outward at fore edge. Suttaby, Evance & Fox hardcover
1902réf. 1006531902. SPENCER Edmund. Prothalamion and Epithalamion. 28 2 pp. Small folio bound in deluxe three-quarter teal morocco matching buff paper over boards. Deckled edge. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1902. A fine edition of Spencer's famous poetical celebrations of marriage designed and printed by Bruce Rogers with delicate headpiece illustrations and vignettes by Edwin Howland Blashfield. A fine copy in a deluxe binding printed on handmade paper. One of 419 copies. hardcover
1960réf. 226863Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1960. Hardcover. Prof. Schoeck's tidy ownership information in each volume with some neat notes marginalia and typed inserted notes else V.1: very good plus with chipped and price-clipped dust jacket. V.2 and 3 have light shelfwear without dust jackets. From the library of Prof. Richard J. Schoeck. Three volume set. V.1 Minor Poems: 1960 corrected printing of the 1910 edition 528pp. V.2 Faerie Queen Bks I-III: 1910 518pp. V.3 Faerie Queen Bks IV-VII: 1910 519pp. Oxford at the Clarendon Press hardcover
1902réf. 1006531902. SPENCER Edmund. Prothalamion and Epithalamion. 28 2 pp. Small folio bound in deluxe three-quarter teal morocco matching buff paper over boards. Deckled edge. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1902. A fine edition of Spencer's famous poetical celebrations of marriage designed and printed by Bruce Rogers with delicate headpiece illustrations and vignettes by Edwin Howland Blashfield. A fine copy in a deluxe binding printed on handmade paper. One of 419 copies. hardcover books
1930réf. ARC93016The Cresset Press London 1930. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first edition with these delightful Nash stencil-coloured illustrations limited to 350 numbered copies on Barcham Green handmade paper this being #68 and printed at The Sign of the Dolphin. 4to. 133pp. Vellum-backed cream linen lettered in gold at the spine. With a full-colour title page decoration and twelve coloured header-piece illustrations. Top edge gilt others untrimmed. Backstrip darkened and the base of the spine a little rubbed. A very good copy lacking the dust wrapper and slipcase. The Cresset Press, London Hardcover
1909réf. P5BLKBRN10London: Cambridge University Press 1909. Hardbacks quarter cloth paper labels to spines. With removable clear protective wrappers. 2 volume set. 33cm x 23cm. Pp. 543; 493. Title vignettes and decorative tailpieces. An unnumbered copy of a limited edition of only 350 copies. Bindings are a little marked and worn to extremities. Inner margins split across end-papers but bindings firm and secure. Some foxing to end-papers but rest of contents is clean. Not all pages yet opened. A very heavy set 5.9kg additional postage may be required for orders outside the UK. p5. Limited. Hard Cover. Very Good. Cambridge University Press Hardcover
1930réf. 21773London:: Cresset Press 1930. Limited ed. Half Cloth. Very good. Number 344 in edition of 350. Bound in silk and vellum. Printed on barcham green handmade paper. Coloured illustrations. Pages clean binding tight. Some dampstaining to cloth at the bottom. Silk and vellum soiled. Tiny amount of fraying at bottom corners. Top corners slightly bumped. Cresset Press, hardcover
1943réf. 1019N11Baltimore: The John Hopkins Press 1943-1961. Cloth. Very Good. 10.5" by 7.5". None. Two attractive volumes of the scarce variorum edition of pioneering Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser including The Shepheardes Calendar. Volumes I and II of the Minor Poems within the Variorum edition of The Works of Edmund Spenser edited by scholars Edmund Greenlaw Charles Grosvenor Osgood Frederick Morgan Padelford and Ray Heffner published between 1943-1961. In the publisher's original blue cloth. A pioneering poet Spenser rapidly expanded English literary culture with his ambition and penchant for classicism and was the namesake of both the Spenserian stanza and sonnet. This charming variorum edition offers the different readings of each text as well as literary commentary. - Volume I: Contains The Shepheardes Calendar his first major work and Astrophel among others 1943 first printing. - Volume II: Contains A Theatre for Worldlings and Complaints among others 1961 third printing. In the publisher's original blue cloth. Externally the odd small mark and fading patch to boards. Bumping to the heads and tails of the spines and to the extremities with minor rubbing to joints. Fading to II spine with library sticker. End papers are generally bright and clean with faint offsetting to end paper hinges of I a little heavier to front free end paper. Library bookplate to II front pastedown. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good The John Hopkins Press hardcover
réf. SB05P-00843The Johns Hopkins Press. Collectible - Acceptable. Collectible - Acceptable. Book Good. No dust jacket. Variorum edition. 9 Volume Set: Faerie Vols 1-5 Minor Vol 1 Life Vol Prose Vol and Index. Faerie volumes 1-3 and 5 and Minor vol: Bookplate inside. Writing inside. Faerie volume 4 Life vol Prose vol and index: Bookplate inside. literature poetry poems NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES. The Johns Hopkins Press unknown
1898réf. 1717First American edition. Octavo. 12 full-page b/w illustrations text borders pictorial endpapers and cover designs by Walter Crane. Original pictorial green cloth with color illustrations on spine and both covers top edge stained green uncut joints cracked. No dust jacket. Good. Ink inscription of the first preliminary page: "Abbie Burr from Clara F. Palmer." Harper hardcover
1898réf. 1717First American edition. Octavo. 12 full-page b/w illustrations text borders pictorial endpapers and cover designs by Walter Crane. Original pictorial green cloth with color illustrations on spine and both covers top edge stained green uncut joints cracked. No dust jacket. Good. Ink inscription of the first preliminary page: "Abbie Burr from Clara F. Palmer." Harper hardcover books
1859réf. 248899James Nichol Edinburg/James Nisbet London/ W. Robertson Dublin 1859. First of this edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 volumes. First Gilfillan edition. 3/4 fine brown morocco with marbled boards and endpapers. Raised bands. Gilt spine title reads British Poets Spenser I-V. Very good condition. Minor rubbing at edges. No former owner marks. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis Minnesota. Due to the size/weight of this set extra charges may apply for international shipping. James Nichol, Edinburg/James Nisbet, London/ W. Robertson, Dublin hardcover
1731réf. OB122London: Printed by Will Bowyer MDCCXXXI 1731. Hard Cover. 8vo; xiv 4 240 245-254 pages 12 engraved plates portrait front. A-Q8 R5. Translated by Theodore Bathurst d. 1651; published by John Ball. Added title-page in English: The Shepherd's Calendar. English and Latin texts on facing pages. ESTC T135116; Alston III.67; NUC 561: 495. Spenser's English work was first published in 1579 and dedicated to Sir Phillip Sidney; this Latin translation was first published in 1663. Bound in contemporary full calf; spine worn hinges tender; interior VG. Stock#OB122. Printed by Will Bowyer, MDCCXXXI hardcover
1953réf. 017393Oxford: Limited Editions Club 1953. Hardcover. The spines of the dustwrappers slightly darkened with some chipping to the tips and the typical foxing to the side panels. Near Fine in Very Good dustwrappers and a Near Fine intact slipcase with foxing to the paper spine label. Agnes Miller Parker. Two large quarto volumes 7-3/4" x 11-3/4" bound in gilt-decorated green cloth and illustrated with pen decorations by John Austen and wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. Copy #916 of 1500 SIGNED by Parker on the colophon page. A nicely printed set retaining Spenser's original English and beautifully illustrated. The uncommon dustwrappers are present as is the slipcase. One of the underrated books of the press. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1874réf. 038786Covent Garden London: Bell and Daldy 1874. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. c 1874 five volumes of the Aldine edition. Bound in handsome half calf blue leather with matching marbled paper covered boards red spine labels and gilt decoration fore-edges marbled. Bindings very good with a little general wear. Contents clean and tight no inscriptions no spotting marbled endpapers present in all. A very good set. Bell and Daldy Hardcover
réf. DADAX0198118244OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1922-02-22. hardcover. New. 0.00x0.00x0.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS hardcover
1966réf. 29000John Hopkins Press Baltimore 1966. New edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. This edition of the 'Faerie Queene' is volumes 1 to 6 from the Hopkins Press 'Works of Edmund Spenser : A Variorum Edition' first published in 1932 but reprinted several times our copies being from 1966. The editors were Edwin Greenlaw Charles Osgood and Frederick Padelford. Many scholarly additions alongside the main text ie commentaries source notes critical notes bibliography etc etc. Presentable clean and sound copies with only minor wear. The gilt lettering to the spines is faded. No inscriptions. About 2400 pages in the 6 vols. - full collation on request. Not an ex library set but from the private collection of John Manning. Dr Manning was professor of English at the University of Wales Lampeter and the author of The Emblem Reaktion Books . His particular interests were Spenser Donne and other writers of that period emblem books etc. For more books from the collection use the keyword SLMANNING215 to search my inventory. Approx. size 10" by 7". Heavy set which will incur extra postal charges. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Poetry; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 29000. . John Hopkins Press hardcover
1909réf. 6503Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1909. Hardcover. Fair. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. A limited edition of 350 copies this is unnumbered. The text is from the 1596 edition. The fragment of Book VII is from the folio edition of 1609. Bound in buff paper over card with hessian to spine and paper spine labels. Edges are bumped and there is staining to both volumes. Printed on heavy laid paper rough cut. Bindings are beginning to crack. Handsome bookplates to both volumes. In fair only condition but apart from some foxing of the prelims the pages are clean and bright. Folio size. Please enquire about postage as these books are large and heavy. 1909 Cambridge University Press hardcover
réf. 475460london routledge and sons. Hardcover. Good. The book is bound in warm burgundy cloth with black and gilt framing and titles on cover and spine. The page edges are full gilt all-round. There are a number of charming engravings as illustrations dispersed throughout the book. london routledge and sons hardcover