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The Clarendon Edition of the Novels of the Brontes: SHIRLEY.
Oxford: Clarendon Press. First edition thus, 8vo., pp.xii,835, navy cloth, gilt, five b/w plates, comprising the facsimile of one ms. page from Volume III, facsimiles of the original title pages to each volume, and a photograph of Rawfolds Mill; foxing to top edges, an otherwise fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine, with light rubbing to corners.
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THE NOVELS OF I. COMPTON-BURNETT. [Set of Nineteen Volumes]
Slipcase I.: Pastors and Masters (1925); Brothers and Sisters (1929); Men and Wives (1931); More Women Than Men (1933); A House and Its Head (1935). Slipcase II.: Daughters and Sons (1937); A Family And A Fortune (1939); Parents and Children (1941); Elders and Betters (1944). Slipcase III.: Manservant and Maidservant (1947); Two Worlds and their Ways (1949); Darkness and Day (1951); The Present and the Past (1953). Slipcase IV.: Mother and Son (1955); A Father and His Fate (1957); A Heritage and its History (19590; The Mighty and Their Fall (1961); A God and His Gifts (1963); The Last and the First (1971).
London: Victor Gollancz Limited, 1972. Limited edition of 500 sets, of which this is no.58, each volume hand-numbered to title verso, complete in nineteen volumes, 8vo., red cloth, gilt, ribbon bookmarks, top edges magenta; a fine set, in unclipped dust-jackets, which are uniformly lightly sunned to spines, but complete and otherwise near-fine, with just slight chipping to Volumes 17 and 18 at head of spines. The set is housed in four slipcases, all of which show sunning to edges and upper panel, but are otherwise very good. ‘This limited and numbered edition of 500 copies has been produced posthumously in accordance with Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett’s wishes. It wgas her express desire that her first novel, Dolores, should be excluded from this edition.’
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THE TEMPLE OF NATURE
Or, The Origin of Society; A Poem With Philosophical Notes.
Menston and London: The Scolar Press Limited, 1803. Scolar Press facsimile; 8vo., pp.174,124 (Additional Notes), tan cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece and one further plate; light foxing to endpapers, tiny closed tear to head of rear blank, light foxing and toning to edges otherwise very good, in an unclipped dust jacket, which has chipping and diagonal closed tear for apx. 24mms to head of spine, slight rubbing to edges, else very good.
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HENRY JAMES AND H.G. WELLS.
A Record of their Friendship, their Debate on the Art of Fiction, and their Quarrel.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959. 8vo., pp.272, cream cloth, black lettering, b/w frontispiece; light foxing to top edges, very slight bruising to upper corner of front board, a very good, clean copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which is slightly foxed.
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THE COMPLETE POEMS OF LIONEL JOHNSON.
London: The Unicorn Press, 1953. Limited edition of 1000 copies, 8vo., pp.xlv,395, navy cloth, silver lettering, pictorial title; light toning to rear free endpaper, light foxing to prelims, foxing to edges of text block, otherwise internally clean, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy in a vg unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly chipped to extremities, with slight loss and occasional small closed tears.
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THE MUSIC OF HUMANITY.
A Critical Study of Wordsworth’s Ruined Cottage incorporating texts from a manuscript of 1799-1800.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1969. 8vo., pp. xvi,293, dark green hardcover, gilt; very light foxing to front free endpaper, foxing to top edge, otherwise internally clean, minor bruise to tail of spine, a very good copy, in a vg price-clipped dust-jacket with light foxing to front flap and rear of jacket, very slight rubbing to extremities and clean 1cm closed tear to rear lower margin, as well as small closed tear to head of spine.
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LECTURES & ESSAYS IN CRITICISM
University of Michigan Press, 1962. 8vo., pp.vi,578, disbound stitched text block in dust-jacket; edges foxed, light toning to inner margins of endpapers, else very good, in lightly edgeworn unclipped dust jacket.
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POEMS AND FRAGMENTS.
Bi-lingual Edition with a Preface, Introduction and Notes.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966. First English edition, 8vo., pp.xviii,624, navy leather with gilt-lettered label, top edges blue; very good indeed, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities, with two small closed tears to front lower edge.
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THE POEMS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1974. First printing of the much revised second edition, 8vo., pp.xxviii,496, navy cloth, gilt; slight spotting to top edges, else very good indeed, in vg price-clipped dust-jacket,
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SHAKESPEARE'S OVID.
Being Arthur Golding’s Translation of the Metamorphoses.
London: Centaur Press, 1961. Facsimile reprint of the 1567 edition, small 4to., pp.(vii),vi,321, navy cloth, gilt; light toning and foxing to free endpapers, light foxing to top edges, in good+ unclipped dust-jacket, which is chipped and rubbed to edges, and now in a protective cover.
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FABLES ANCIENT AND MODERN; Translated into Verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer: With Original Poems. John Dryden, 1770.
A Scolar Press Facsimile.
Ilkley: Scolar Press, 1973. Facsimile reprint after the Bodleian Library copy, 4to., pp.(v),(xxxviii),646,(ii), grey cloth, gilt; foxing to top edges and to spine, light partial sunning to cloth, with slight warping to upper margin of rear board, a good+ copy, which is internally fresh and very good. (No dust-jacket).
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THE POEMS OF WILLAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN [Two Volumes].
The Muses’ Library.
London/New York: Lawrence and Bullen/Chas. Scribner’s Sons, 1894. Limited edition, no. 14 of 100 large paper copies, 12mo., pp.cxxv,245;348, uncut, quarter brown morocco with stamped title-bands, gilt, brown cloth boards, t.e.g., marbled paste-down and endpaper, illuminated pictorial device to title pages, titles in red and black, engraved frontispiece portrait to Volume I. by R. Gaywood; occasional light foxing to fore-edges, light rubbing to extremities, a very good, internally clean set.
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THE BOTANIC GARDEN; A Poem, in Two Parts. [1791] In Two Parts (bound as single volume):
Part I. Containing ‘The Economy of Vegetation’; Part II. The Loves of the Plants. With Philosophical Notes.
London: 1973. Limited facsimile edition, no.414 of 500 copies, second impression of the Scolar Press reprint, 4to., pp.xii,184, vii,214,127(Additional Notes to Part I),ix,197, pictorial green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., b/w plates, including folding plates; slight foxing to fore-edges, slight sunning to spine, light creasing to headband, a near-fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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THE POEMS OF GEORGE CHAPMAN.
New York: Russell & Russell, 1962. 8vo., pp.xii,488, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece portrait; light bruising to extremities, with bump to upper corner of rear board and slight creasing to upper margin of front board, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy (no dust-jacket).
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THE NOTEBOOKS OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. [Two Volumes in Four]
I. 1794-1804 (2 Parts: TEXT and NOTES); II. 1804-1808 (2 Parts: TEXT and NOTES).
London/New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul/Bollingen Foundation, 1957. Four volumes, 8vo., pp.xlii,546;xlv,615;xx,478;xxxiv,548, burgundy cloth, gilt, coloured top edges, ribbon bookmarks to b/w plates (Vol I. (Text) contains four b/w plates, Vol. II (Text) includes b/w frontispiece and nine b/w plates, with b/w folding map to Vol. II (Notes)); mixed set: the first two parts are uniformly lightly sunned, foxed and mottled to cloth, and slightly musty though internally clean, good(+), the second two parts show some creasing to spines, else are very good indeed. All volumes have slight foxing to fore-edges. No dust-jackets.
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THE SALISBURY PLAIN POEMS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH,
Salisbury Plain, or A Night on Salisbury Plain; Adventures on Salisbury Plain (including The Female Vagrant); Guilt and Sorrow or, Incidents upon Salisbury Plain.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press/Harvester Press, 1975. 8vo., pp.xviii,310, teal cloth, gilt, b/w ms. facsimiles; Harvester Press blindstamp to half title, foxing to edges, internally clean, a very good copy, in a very good, partially sunned unclipped dust-jacket, which has archival tape repair to closed tear at foot of rear flap-fold.
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THE BORDERERS.
(The Cornell Wordsworth)
Ithaca/London: Cornell University Press. 8vo., pp.xv,815, teal cloth, gilt, b/w ms. facsimiles; foxing to top-edges, slight production fault to cloth covering of front board, a very good, fresh copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine
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THE VARIORUM EDITION OF THE POEMS OF W.B. YEATS.
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co, 1973. Sixth impression, 8vo., pp.xxxv,884, blue cloth, gilt; foxing to top edges, slight roll to spine, a very good copy, in very good gently price-clipped dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed and chipped to extremities.
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THE PROSE WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH [Set of Three Volumes].
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1974. First edition, three volumes, 8vo., pp.xxiv,415;vi,465;vii,475, navy cloth, gilt; foxing to top-edges, internally clean, a very good set, in very good price-clipped dust-jackets, of which the jacket to Vol. I has superficial paper damage to front upper right corner and a 0.5 cm closed tear at headband.
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BLASTING AND BOMBARDIERING.
London: Calder and Boyars Ltd, 1937. Best edition, with new material, 8vo., pp.(vi),343, green hardcover, gilt, b/w plates; foxing to fore- and top-edges, creasing to head and foot of spine, lower corners lightly bumped, a very good copy, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly toned to spine, and lightly chipped and rubbed to lower edge, else very good.
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