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BLAKE RECORDS.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969. First edition, 8vo., pp.xxviii, 678, illustrated throughout in b/w, cloth, gilt, with pictorial gilt stamped to spine, minor rubbing to extremities, minor foxing to fore-edges, o/w a very good copy in very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket with minor scuffing in a clear book protector
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FOOLS AND JESTERS: With a Reprint of Robert Armin’s Nest of Ninnies, 1608. With an Introduction and Notes.
London: Printed for the Shakespeare Society, 1842. 8vo., pp.xx,67, uncut, brown cloth, gilt; pencilled underlinings and marginal annotation, boards marked, partially sunned, with light loss to headband and slight wear to tailband, a good working copy.
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THE DOUBLE MAN.
A New Volume of Poetry.
New York: Random House, 1941. First edition, preceding the UK edition, 8vo., pp.189, red cloth, gilt; foxing to edges, first couple of leaves rather roughly opened, with closed tear to fore-margin of Prologue title page, crease to headband, light rubbing to extremities, a near-very good copy, in edge-worn unclipped dust-jacket, with chipping and light loss to extremities, and 4cm tear to head of upper flap fold.
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GAELIC BARDS, And Original Poems. [Includes translations of poems by: Alexander MacDonald; Ducan Ban MacIntyre; Dugald Buchanan; Rob Donn; William Ross; Mary MacLeod; MacGregor’s Lullaby; Fugitive Songs; plus Ancient Gaelic Bards: Ossianic Poetry; Original Poems.]
Glasgow: Archibald Sinclair, 1890. Second edition, 8vo., pp.278, pictorial blue cloth, lettered in gilt, with illustration and borders in black, b/w frontispiece; spine dulled, light rubbing to extremities, contemporary ink inscription to front free endpaper, toning to endpapers,
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W.H. AUDEN: THE MAP OF ALL MY YOUTH.
Early Works, Friends and Influences. Auden Studies 1.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. Reprint, 8vo., pp.xi,245, navy hardcover, gilt; slight spotting to top edge, very good indeed, in very good+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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VISIONS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ALBION.
San Marino: Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 2002. 4to.,pp. v,78, brown cloth, silver lettering, b/w and colour illustrations, b/w frontispiece; a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial, which has small scuff mark to lower spine and foxing to reverse.
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POEMS. The Centaur’s Booty; The Rout of the Amazons; The Gazelles, & Other Poems; Pan’s Prophecy; To Leda, and other Odes; Theseus, Medea, and Lyrics.
London: Duckworth and Co, 1904. 8vo., box set comprising six paperback volumes in brown paper wrappers; all volumes contain a neat ink gift inscription to their half title page, all dated 1910, slight wear to paper wrappers at foot of spines, a very good, fresh set, in lightly worn slipcase, with printed title label to spine.
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RAPTURES. A Book of Poems.
Beaumont Press, 1918. Limited edition, no.173 of 272, 8vo., pp.38, quarter buckram, with paper labels to spine and front board, cover design by Pickford Waller, binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; label to spine faded, upper margins of boards toned and faded, else a very good copy.
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THE POETICAL WORKS OF GILES FLETCHER AND PHINEAS FLETCHER. [Two Volumes] Cambridge English Classics
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970. 8vo., pp. xxiii, 309, xxii, 368, black cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; light toning to endpapers of both volumes, faint stain to fore-edge of Vol. I, light spotting to boards of both volumes, overall a very good set, no dust-jackets.
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MARVELL AND LIBERTY.
Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, in association with Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 1999. 8vo., pp.xiii,365, black hardcover, gilt, 12 b/w plates; slight bruising to corners, a very good, internally clean copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly creased to upper margin.
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TARES. Poems.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1961. Signed second impression, 8vo., pp.48, printed paper-covered boards; a very good, clean copy, autographed to front free endpaper, in unclipped dust-jacket, which has paper price-label to front flap, 2cm and 4cm tears with creasing between to front upper margin, small closed tear to rear upper edge, and some foxing to the pale paper.
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THE DIVINE WEEKS AND WORKS OF GUILLAUME DE SALUSTE, SIEUR DU BARTAS.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979. Two volumes, 8vo., pp.xvi,488;489-940, navy cloth, gilt, b/w frontispieces, two further b/w plates to Volume II; a very good, clean set, in good unclipped dust-jackets, which are toned and with splash-marking to spines, and light chipping to headbands, and closed tear to front upper margin of jacket to Volume II.
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THE POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS OF THOMAS STANLEY.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1962. 8vo., pp.lxiv,416, navy cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; ex University departmental library, with bookplates to paste-down endpapers and gilt stamp to spine, otherwise unmarked, slight ring mark to rear board, a very good copy, without dust-jacket.
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THE POEMS OF SIR JOHN DAVIES.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1975. First edition, 8vo., pp.lxvii,451, navy cloth, gilt; from the library of David Lindley, with ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a very good copy, in edge-worn unclipped dust-jacket, now in a protective cover.
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SELECTED POEMS OF BARNABE GOOGE.
Denver: Alan Swallow, 1961. 8vo.,pp. 61, beige cloth, green lettering; toning to margins, light foxing to endpapers, toning and lightly rubbed to extremities, otherwise very good. No dust-jacket.
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BEN JONSON 11 VOLUMES: Volume I & II: The Man and His Work; Volume II:I A Tale of a Tub; The Case is Altered; Every Man in His Humour; Every Man out of His Humour; Volume IV: Cynthia’s Revels; Poetaster; Sejamus; Eastward Ho; Volume V: Volpone; Epocoene; The Alchemist; Catiline; Volume VI: Batholomew Fair; The Devil is an Ass; The Staple of News; The New Inn; The Magnetic Lady; Volume VII: The Sad Shepherd; The Fall of Mortimer; Masques and Entertainments; Volume VIII: The Poems; The Prose Works; Volume IX: Survey of the Text; Stage History; Commentary; Volume X: Commentary; Volume XI: Commentary; Literary Record; Notes; Index.
Oxford: At the Claredndon Press, 1952. 11 volumes, the set, 8vo., green cloth, gilt lettering with gilt emblems to front boards, b/w frontispieces; light foxing to edges of text block, otherwise near-fine, in mostly price-clipped dust-jackets, with some surface scuff marks and rubbing to extremities, overall a very good set.
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THE CHINESE CLASSICS, IV. THE SHE KING, Or THE BOOK OF POETRY.
Taipei: SMC Publishing Inc, 1991. Reprint (third impression), 8vo., pp.xii,785, red hardcover, gilt, b/w map; light marking to fore-edges, else fine, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is sunned to spine and front upper margin.
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POEMS BY ARTHUR SYMONS. In Two Volumes.
London: Heinemann, 1921. Two volumes, 8vo., pp.x,219;vii,227, uncut, paper-covered boards with printed paper labels to spines, frontispiece portrait with tissue guard to first volume; toning to endpapers, with neat ownership nameplate to front paste-down endpaper of both volumes, foxing to prelims and edges, a very good set, in rudimentary printed dust-jackets, bearing bookseller’s inkstamp to front and rear panels (Miller & Gill, Charing Cross Road), split and lightly chipped along joints, with small sellotape reinforcements at extremities, and with small area of loss to rear upper margin of jacket to Volume I.
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THE PRELUDE.
Or, Growth of a Poet’s Mind.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959. Second edition, 8vo., pp.lxxiv,650, navy cloth, gilt, 7 b/w illustrations, including frontispiece portrait, and MS. facsimiles; foxing to endpapers and edges, an otherwise very good copy, in a price-clipped dust-jacket, which is chipped to extremities, with just slight loss, and now in a protective cover.
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AN ANTHOLOGY OF NINETIES VERSE.
London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, Ltd, 1928. First edition, 8vo., pp.176, uncut, pictorial yellow paper-covered boards backed in yellow cloth, design and lettering in black, b/w pictorial title; foxing to edges and margins of boards, occasional foxing within, splash-mark to top-edges, slight splash-marking to spine, a very good copy.
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