DE QUINCY, Thomas

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

New York, Heritage Press, (1950). Decorated cloth. Illustrated with 12 lithograph reproductions by Zhenya Gay. Ill.: 12 gravures by Zhenya Gay. Spine sunned. About Fine in a Fine slipcase .

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Book number: 007146

Catalogue: 19th Century British Literature

Keywords: 12 gravures by Zhenya Gay Drugs Illustrated Books

STEVENSON, Robert Louis

Select Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson. Virginibus Puerisque, Crabbed Age and Youth, an Apology for Idlers, and Walking Tours

Bangor, PA, Bookman Press, 1937. Hardcover. Quarto bound in green morocco leather-backed cloth boards. Of a total edition of 200 copies, this is one of only 50 printed on Charles I paper handmade in England. Attractive title page printed in red and black. Minor rubbing to spine tips; tissue dustwrapper with some tears along spine. Near Fine in original tissue dustwrapper and slipcase .

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Book number: 010419

Catalogue: 19th Century British Literature

Keywords: Essays, Robert L. Stevenson, Books on Books, 19th Century British Literature, 19th Century Literature, Limited, Fine Press, Robert Louis Stevenson 19th Century British Literature Fine Press Limited Literature: English

SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles

A Song of Italy

London, John Camden Hotten, 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. In the remainder binding of blue cloth with the date at the heel of the spine; 8 pages of ads bound at the front between the endpaper and the half-title page and 16 pages at the rear. Housed in a cloth chemise and gilt-lettered and decorated quarter blue morocco slipcase. Fine, bright copy, entirely unopened. In chemise and attractive slipcase .

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Book number: 014502

Catalogue: 19th Century British Literature

Keywords: Italy, Algernon Swinburne Victorian Literature Literature: English 19th Century Literature Poetry

SYMONDS, John Addington (translator)

The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella

London, Smith, Elder, & Co. 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Now for the First Time Translated into Rhymed English. Original smooth purple cloth stamped in black and gilt, including publisher's name on spine. This copy also without the initial bracket at the base of the title page per Babington 20. A collection of homoerotic poetry by the middle-aged Michelangelo, better known of course as an artist rather than an author, for the much younger Cavalieri, who perhaps embodied the ideals of masculine beauty that the artist had searched for throughout his career. Symonds's translation of the poems was one of the first to overcome the censorship that had plagued previous editions. This copy INSCRIBED "Edith H. Cave/From the Translator" on the half-title page in what is likely not Symonds's hand. Mild rubbing to spine edges. Near Fine .

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Book number: 012666

Catalogue: 19th Century British Literature

Keywords: 1890s, Decadent Literature, J. A. Symonds, Inscribed, Michelangelo, Art, Literature: English Gay Literature Homosexual Literature Italian Literature Poetry

TENNYSON, Alfred Lord

[Timbuctoo, a Poem]. Prolusiones Academiæ PræMiis Annuis Dignatæ Et in Curia Cantabrigiensi Recitatae Comitiis Maximis

Cambridge, John Smith for the University Press, 1829. First Edition. Wraps. String-tied pamphlet in publisher's blue wraps (5-3/8" x 8-1/2"); 41, [3] pages. Tennyson's second published work, presented in company with the other Chancellor's prize-winners of the year, and the first to appear under his own name. Tennyson was too shy to read his prize-winning poem in blank verse aloud in the Senate House and asked Charles Merivale to undertake the reading of his work as well as Merivale's own Latin poem, also published here. William Harris Arnold's copy, with his small bookplate on the inside of the front wrapper. Uncommon in original wrappers. Some fraying to the spine of the wrappers with loss, minor creasing. Near Fine .

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Book number: 021640

Catalogue: 19th Century British Literature

Keywords: Poetry, Victorian Poetry, 19th Century British Literature, 19th Century Literature 19th Century British Literature Victorian Poetry Literature: English 19th Century Literature

THACKERAY, William Makepeace

The Adventures of Philip on His Way Through the World; Shewing Who Robbed Him, Who Helped Him, and Who Passed Him by

London, Smith, Elder and Co. 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Three volumes in the Second Issue binding (Sadleir 3186) of brown morocco cloth with more conventional blocking than the first issue. According to Carter (BINDING VARIANTS, pages 158-159), 1520 copies were printed. All hinges are cracked to varying degrees with several covers loose but all attached. Uncommon in original cloth. But for the cracked hinges, this would be a Near Fine set .

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Book number: 014512

Catalogue: 19th Century British Literature

Keywords: William Thackeray, Victorian Literature, Triple Decker, Victorian Novels Literature: English Triple Deckers 19th Century Literature Victorian Literature

WORDSWORTH, William (COLERIDGE, Samuel T.)

Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems: In Two Volumes

Philadelphia, James Humphreys, 1802. First American Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes bound in one in contemporary calf recently rebacked. The First American Edition printed from the Second London Edition and including the first printing of Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" in America. Shaw & Shoemaker, 3593. This copy sold at the George H. Conley sale, 12 January 1911, lot #1623. Armorial bookplate of William Richards Castle on the front pastedown and pencil signature on the front endpaper dated 1907 of American poet Alan Seeger who, as a member of the French Foreign Legion, was killed in action 4 July 1916 on the Somme at the age of 28. Seeger's poem, "I Have a Rendevous with Death," was the most popular and widely-quoted American poem of World War I. In 1907 Seeger was a freshman at Harvard, and Castle's son was finishing his doctoral studies there. Also an early owner inscription on the front blank to Ann Wharton from "C. H. W." . Wharton's name neatly excised on the blank margins of two text pages. Some staining on a few pages at the rear. Very Good or better and quite scarce Volume 1, page 96 misnumbered "78"; volume 2, page 96 misnumbered "57." .

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Book number: 014549

Catalogue: 19th Century British Literature

Keywords: 19th Century Literature, Alan Seeger, 19th Century British Literature, First Book, Samuel T. Coleridge, Poetry, Romantic Poets William Wordsworth Literature: English 19th Century Literature Romantic Poetry

WORDSWORTH, William

The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth

London, Longman, Hurst et. al, 1820. First Edition. Hardcover. Four volumes bound in contemporary half black morocco leather with matching corners and marbled boards. Complete with an engraved frontispiece in each volume and half-title pages in the second and third volumes. Includes some revised poems as well as a selection of new sonnets. Splitting to one or two joints, a few hinges fragile, but all covers secure; text quite clean. Very Good or better .

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Book number: 014535

Catalogue: 19th Century British Literature

Keywords: 19th Century Literature, Romantic Poetry, 19th Century British Literature, William Wordsworth Literature: English Romantic Poets 19th Century British Literature 19th Century Literature

WORDSWORTH, William

Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author with Additional Poems, a New Preface, and a Supplementary Essay

London, Longman, Hurst et. al, 1815. First Edition. Hardcover. Two 5-1/4" x 8-1/4" volumes bound in period calf leather, rebacked with later brown morocco tooled and lettered in gilt, endpapers renewed. With an engraved frontispiece in each volume. The First Collected Edition of Wordsworth's poetry including the contents of LYRICAL BALLADS (1805) and POEMS (1807), often considerably revised, as well as a selection of new poems and a long new preface. With the final revised version of his famous “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.” Ink name of Henry Reed on front blank of second volume with several small ink corrections in the first volume. Likely the Henry Reed (1808-1854) who was a professor of English literature and vice provost of the University of Pennsylvania. Contents quite clean. Scuffing to covers, edges worn; each volume with front hinges cracked after the title or preliminaries; covers tight. Very Good .

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Book number: 021659

Catalogue: 19th Century British Literature

Keywords: Romantic Poetry, 19th Century Literature, 19th Century Literature, William Wordsworth, Romantic Poets 19th Century British Literature Literature: English 19th Century Literature Romantic Poetry