Search Results: POETRY from E C Books

London : T Cadell Jun. and W Davies, 1802 A good to very good copy of the first translation into English of Dante's Divine Comedy. This copy retains the original marbled boards, with new calf spines and corners, so the bindings are clean, sound and tight with some light scuffing to the boards. The translation was completed by Henry Boyd, then Vicar of Rathfryland in County Down. The contents are complete with frontispiece portrait by Stothard and titles and half titles to each volume. Vol I: frontispiece; title; dedication; half title to Inferno; text 408pp. Vol II: title; half title; preliminary essay and text 384pp. Vol III: title; half title; preliminary essay and text with index, errata and addenda 420pp (more detailed collation available on request). All the volumes retain their original endpapers with repair at the joints and stamped ownership details of Richd Hopkins of Huntingdonshire. All the endpapers have some marking and Vol II has lost the corner tip of the rear free endpaper.… Read More

London : William Heinemann, 1919 A good copy of the 1st edition with colour frontispiece, 7 further colour illustrations and numerous full page and in-text black and white illustrations by Pamela Bianco. Bianco was known as a child prodigy and an exhibition of her work at the Leicester Galleries in spring 1919 (when she was 12) inspired Walter de la Mare to write a series of poems. This book is a selection of her artwork accompanying the poems. It is undated but 1919/20. This copy is lacking the wrapper and is in the original decorative card binding, which is rubbed and lacking around 4 cm at the top of the spine. It is a little grubby and with bumped corners. The contents are complete and have occasional light marks. The tissue guard to the frontispiece is very browned, creased and is lacking the bottom corner. There is a long pencil note to the front pastedown endpaper about the book's purchase and stating that this book contains the full version of the final poem, as opposed to other volumes… Read More

London : Eton College , 1967 A good to very good copy of Eton College's liimited edition of the poems of Thomas Gray, printed in the Riccardi Press Fount of the Medici Society. In the original cream cloth binding with gilt shield to front board and gilt titles to spine. Top page edges gilt. The binding has some brown marking towards the bottom of the boards - particularly noticeable on the back board. Internally the poet John Bate has signed the front endpaper. Contents in very good condition.

Edinburg: 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… Read More

Edinburgh: William P Nimmo, 1869 A good copy, recently rebound in full leather, with colour frontispiece and 5 further colour Kronheim plates. All page edges gilt. The binding, with gilt-lined raised bands to spine, and title labels, is in quarter leather style, with green leather to spine and tan to the boards. The binding is in very good condition with a little surface loss in some places. Contents with frontispiece, engraved title and printed title page are in fair to good condition. They are complete with generally clean text. The plates and tissue guards have some staining - this is generally to the back of the plates and to borders. Final text leaves with some spotting - and final page brown-toned.

London : T Cadell; Scatcherd and Whitaker; G and T Wilkie; W Miller; and J Murray, 1793 A fair copy in contemporary full leather binding with title label to spine. New edition, published less than 20 years after the author's death. Oliver Goldsmith's writings are not particularly in fashion now, but he was extremely popular in his time - known for his poems - for example The Deserted Village; his books eg The Vicar of Wakefield and his plays eg She Stoops to Conquer. This book incorporates a sample of his poetry - some with dedications, and writings about Goldsmith. The binding is very worn, with leather loss to the top and bottom of the spine and wear to spine joints, edges and corners. The remnants of gilt compartments are just visible on the spine and there is some gilt decoration to board edges. There is an armorial bookplate to the front pastedown with the name erased. Contents are complete bar the fep and initial blank and include: half title, title with ink initials to top corner,… Read More

London : C Cooke A fair copy of the scarce Cooke's Edition of Nicholas Rowe's work. Undated but circa 1797. In contemporary full leather binding with bookplate of John Ashley Warre to the front pastedown. John Ashley Warre was a founder member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which became the RSPCA in 1840. The binding is splitting at the spine joints although the boards are still attached. The spine is lacking some leather at the top and the boards are worn at the corners. Contents: 2 title pages (it may be lacking an extra engraved title); Life of Rowe; Recommendatory Poems pp 19-138 with 2 full page plates; contents list iv pp. Generally clean internally with slight marking to endpapers.

Edinburg: John Bell at the Apollo Press, 1777 Complete 2 volume set of Waller's poetical works from the Bell's Edition - forming Vols 26-27 of the original 109 volumes. The volumes look to be from the travelling 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. The bindings are bright and clean with darkening to spines and light wear at the corners. Endpapers marbled. Both volumes have 2 initial blanks and 2 title pages - one for the series and one for the set - and frontispieces by M Lowe. Vol I 187 pp; Vol II 200 pp. Contents are complete with an additional portrait of the author in Vol I to accompany text on the author's life. Both volumes have a page marker - the marker to Vol I has torn but the torn piece is present in the volume. There is toning to the paper where the page markers have rested.

London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, and Taylor & Hessey, 1822 A scarce copy of the 1st edition of this work in 2 volumes in the original publisher's boards. The title page states that the work was 'by a young lady. Also by her father' - the young lady in question was Mary Roberts (related to the Mary Roberts of natural history fame). It was sold by subscription. This copy has a small ink signature of Mary Alderson to both volumes - who is possibly related to one of the subscribers - Revd. J Alderson. The publisher's binding is in very poor condition - it was not intended to last - and the contents are untrimmed - awaiting proper binding. Vol I: frontispiece (detached and with foxing); title page; description of frontispiece (note first few leaves beginning to detach); dedication to Mrs Hannah More; Note on the Aged Female Society; subscribers; preface; half tiltle; Sketch of Mary's Life (note there is a mark affecting pp 7/8); Dissertation; Observations on the… Read More

London : Hodder and Stoughton A very good early copy of the smaller octavo edition of the Dulac- illustrated Rubaiyat in dust-wrapper. It is undated but with a gift inscription dated March 1914. With tipped-in frontispiece and 11 further tipped-in colour plates by Edmund Dulac. The wrapper is in a protective sleeve. It is slightly grubby and with some repaired edge tears/nibbles. There is a crease in the back flap. The decorative purple cloth binding is in very good clean condition with a slightly faded spine. Internally the original decorative endpapers are present - they are slightly browned. Contents are in very good to near fine clean condition. A very nice copy.

London : Hodder and Stoughton A nice copy in the original dark red gilt decorated cloth binding with 20 beautiful tipped in colour plates by Edmund Dulac. Undated but ?1909/1915. The binding has been rebacked to make a very sound copy.The gilt decorated front board has some light fading to top and spine edges and a slight warp at the top corner, and the spine has fading. There is some very light marking to the back board. Internally, the original endpapers are plain and clean. Text pages are printed on one side only with the text in decorative borders. The plates have descriptive tissue guards and have stunning decorative borders. There is some light spotting to some text pages but the plates are in fine condition.

Edinburgh: Charles Elliot, 1787 A fair copy in contemporary half leather binding. The binding has wear and scuffing and has lost its title label. The spine has the remains of gilt lines and blind stamped designs. The leather is fragile at the spine ends with fraying and loss. There is wear to joints. The marbled boards are scuffed with some paper loss at the edges. Corners worn. Contents: initial blank; title with signature of Allan Duncan Stewart; dedication with further signature; advert 2pp; index 1p; text pp 1-348. There is a stain at the top page edge from the fep to the advert, and a lot of brown spotting in the margins from p 282-290 and 346-8. Otherwise text is clear and clean with occasional marks and spots.

Kirkwall: W R Mackintosh, the Kirkwall Press, 1957 A near fine copy of Robert Rendall's third volume of verse in a very good wrapper, with his signed inscription at the front endpaper. The inscription is particularly nice because it is in the form of a small poem to his two cousins, John and Jean, to whom he gave the book. The book has a bright clean binding with slight fading to the bottom edges. Contents are very clean with just some faint foxing spots to preliminaries. The jacket has a browned spine with slight loss at the spine ends. There are small edge tears with no loss. It is in a removable protective wrap.

London : Hodder and Stoughton Limited edition signed by W Heath Robinson. Undated but 1909. Numbered 89 out of 500 in decorative vellum binding, with 30 tipped in colour plates as called for by Heath Robinson and numerous black and white illustrations. The binding is faded on the spine with some cracking at the top and base. It is slightly grubby on the boards with some fading. Ties are present but they could be replacement ones (golden yellow). Internally the text pages are untrimmed and unpaginated apart from the top edges which are gilt edged. Some of the black and white illustrations have offset slightly onto the preceding page and some of the pages have slight marking (sometimes it is not clear if this was part of the original paper). The tipped in plates are all paper guarded (each guard has the title of the plate and a little design) and are in excellent condition with beautiful colouring.

London, Calcutta and Sydney: George G Harrap & Co Ltd A very good to near fine copy in original decorative full leather binding with 12 colour plates, 10 greyscale plates and numerous full page and in text illustrations. Undated but circa 1915. The binding has an elaborate design to the front board and spine. It is very clean. There is a slight warp to the top of the boards, slight darkening to the spine and slight wear at the top front spine joint. Top page edges gilt; remainder untrimmed. Internally the original lightly-marbled endpapers are present with a decorative bookplate to the front pastedown. The contents are in lovely clean condition with the very occasional slight mark. The stitching is slightly loose in a couple of places but the book is sound.

London : George G Harrap & Co Ltd, 1920 A very good copy of the limited edition signed by Harry Clarke. Number 182 of 250. In the original full vellum binding with gilt illustration and titles to the front board and spine. With 24 full page illustrations by Harry Clarke - 12 in colour including the frontispiece and 12 in sepia. There is also a full page black and white illustration and numerous black and white designs. Harry Clarke (1889-1931) is also known for his work with stained glass and he was a major figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts movement. The work includes poems by Walter de la Mare, Rupert Brooke, Thomas Hardy and John Masefield. The binding is bright and clean with minimal dulling to the vellum. There is some warping to the boards. Top page edges are gilted; remainder untrimmed. Internally the contents are complete and clean. The free endpapers have some browning and there is light marking towards the page edges particularly where the lack of trimming means that some pages are bigger… Read More