POEMS, TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF MADAME DE LA MOTHE GUION, BY THE LATE WILLIAM COOPER, ESQ. AUTHOR OF THE TASK To Which Are Added, Some Original Poems of Mr. Cooper, Not Inserted in His Works by Cooper, William [William Cowper] - 1808

London: Ward Lock & Co (3500 gram rate, so 3.5 X standard cost) uniform set published by Ward Lock and sometimes also Bowden, green cloth bevelled edges, black decoration to boards, extra gilt to spines, all edges gilt, decorative endpapers, tissue frontis guards, illustrated, 1- The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, edited with a memoir, by William Michael Rossetti, illustrated by Thomas Seccombe, xxxix 600pp, minor pencil to margins of a few pages; 2- The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, edited with by William Michael Rossetti, xiv 568pp + frontis, tissue guard slightly stained to top edge; 3- The Poetical Works of Lord Byron, edited with a memoir, by William Michael Rossetti, vii 604pp+ frontis, tissue guard slightly stained to top edge; 4- The Poetical Works of John Milton, edited by William Michael Rossetti, viii 460pp + frontis, tissue guard; 5- The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited by William Michael Rossetti, xxiv 616pp + frontis, tissue guard slightly stained to top… Read More

London: Gerald Duckworth Co. Ltd.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Owner signature (N. M. Darling) and . date on front free endpaper, jacket and several pages lightly soiled.. 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth binding. Acton was a vibrant member of the Aesthetic movement and a pal of Evelyn Waugh, Nancy Mitford, Brian Howard, Lady Cunard and many others. An Indian Ass is the author's second book, and second book of poems, published while he was still a student at Oxford. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 80 pages .

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1855 1855 first edition, full leather rubbed to joints, spine ends and corners, all edges gilt, gilt border to both boards, marbled endpapers, some light foxing mainly to prelims, viii 159pp, collated as complete, original wrappers are not present. First Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

Nicholas L.Brown, New York, 1920. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 190pp + iv publisher's advertisements at the rear. Paper-covered boards with paper spine and title labels. Boards just a little marked, with a little wear to the base of the backstrip, and a little chipping to the head of the backstrip. A lovely crisp copy. No dust wrapper. An outstanding anthology of American verse, including much material which originally appeared in Kreymborg's influential journal 'Others: A Magazine of the New Verse' which ran from 1915-1919, plus some contributed directly to this present anthology. Contributors include Conrad Aiken (two poems, one of which is hitherto unprinted), Witter Bynner (ten poems), Robert Frost (three poems, two of which are hitherto unprinted in bookform), Wallace Gould (six poems), Marsden Hartley (six poems), Fenton Johnson (eight poems), Marianne Moore (five poems), Carl Sandburg (four poems), William Saphier (ten poems),… Read More

Harper & Brothers, Publishing, New York, 1876. Book condition: Good+, First Edition. 123 pp plus four pages other Centennial Readings published by Harper & Brothers, New York. Text slightly tanned typical of age, clean and unmarked. Former owner attribution on front free endpapers. Front free endpaper has dark discoloration triangle caused by a piece of newsprint left in book. Illustrated throughout with b/w etchings and drawings. This title is very rare. Unable to locate existence of any other copies for comparison.

London: Ward Lock & Co (3500 gram rate, so 3.5 X standard cost) uniform set published by Ward Lock and sometimes also Bowden, green cloth bevelled edges, black decoration to boards, extra gilt to spines, all edges gilt, decorative endpapers, tissue frontis guards, illustrated, 1- The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, edited with a memoir, by William Michael Rossetti, illustrated by Thomas Seccombe, xxxix 600pp, minor pencil to margins of a few pages; 2- The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, edited with by William Michael Rossetti, xiv 568pp + frontis, tissue guard slightly stained to top edge; 3- The Poetical Works of Lord Byron, edited with a memoir, by William Michael Rossetti, vii 604pp+ frontis, tissue guard slightly stained to top edge; 4- The Poetical Works of John Milton, edited by William Michael Rossetti, viii 460pp + frontis, tissue guard; 5- The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited by William Michael Rossetti, xxiv 616pp + frontis, tissue guard slightly stained to top… Read More

London: Gerald Duckworth Co. Ltd.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Owner signature (N. M. Darling) and . date on front free endpaper, jacket and several pages lightly soiled.. 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth binding. Acton was a vibrant member of the Aesthetic movement and a pal of Evelyn Waugh, Nancy Mitford, Brian Howard, Lady Cunard and many others. An Indian Ass is the author's second book, and second book of poems, published while he was still a student at Oxford. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 80 pages .

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1855 1855 first edition, full leather rubbed to joints, spine ends and corners, all edges gilt, gilt border to both boards, marbled endpapers, some light foxing mainly to prelims, viii 159pp, collated as complete, original wrappers are not present. First Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

Nicholas L.Brown, New York, 1920. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 190pp + iv publisher's advertisements at the rear. Paper-covered boards with paper spine and title labels. Boards just a little marked, with a little wear to the base of the backstrip, and a little chipping to the head of the backstrip. A lovely crisp copy. No dust wrapper. An outstanding anthology of American verse, including much material which originally appeared in Kreymborg's influential journal 'Others: A Magazine of the New Verse' which ran from 1915-1919, plus some contributed directly to this present anthology. Contributors include Conrad Aiken (two poems, one of which is hitherto unprinted), Witter Bynner (ten poems), Robert Frost (three poems, two of which are hitherto unprinted in bookform), Wallace Gould (six poems), Marsden Hartley (six poems), Fenton Johnson (eight poems), Marianne Moore (five poems), Carl Sandburg (four poems), William Saphier (ten poems),… Read More

Harper & Brothers, Publishing, New York, 1876. Book condition: Good+, First Edition. 123 pp plus four pages other Centennial Readings published by Harper & Brothers, New York. Text slightly tanned typical of age, clean and unmarked. Former owner attribution on front free endpapers. Front free endpaper has dark discoloration triangle caused by a piece of newsprint left in book. Illustrated throughout with b/w etchings and drawings. This title is very rare. Unable to locate existence of any other copies for comparison.