Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1905. First Edition. Full-Leather. Octavo. Full navy-blue French Levant with wide gilt decorated border to both upper and lower boards, 5 raised bands with gilt decorated compartments, gilt title direct to spine, large turn-ins with 5 gilt rules, marbled endpapers. All edges gilt, with gilt to..... More

London: William Pickering, The Aldine Edition of the British Poets, 1839. Second Aldine Edition. Full Leather. 12 mo. The second Aldine Edition with the anchor/dolphin device to title-pages, and which includes the poems "Tam o' Shanter" and "Jolly Beggars". Bound by Zaehnsdorf in smooth golden tan calf with gilt thistle..... More

London: Henry Colburn & Co., 1857. New Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 18.5 cm x 11.5 cm, frontispieces in vols. 1 & 2, folding family tree in vol. 2 All four volumes in half navy-blue calf and blue cloth, gilt panelled spine with gilt-stamped titles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Bound by..... More

Salisbury: Printed By B. Collins, for F. Newbery, in Pater-Noster-Row, 1766. First Edition. Full Leather. 12mo. 2 volumes. 16.2 cm x 9.5 cm bound in 12's. Vol. 1 pp.: [blank], title-page, [2] - Advertisemant signed Oliver Goldsmith, 214, [blank]; Vol. 2 pp.: [2 blank], title-page, 223, [2 blank]. An exquisite..... More

St. Louis: Printed by the author and Lyman Mason at the Mound City Press, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed. 8vo. 39pp. Loyd Haberly binding of full scarlet morocco with gilt design of circles interlaced, with other tools and dots. Top edge gilt. Gilt titles to spine, green patterned endpapers, printed..... More

J.M. Dent, 1927. Aubrey Beardsley. Hardcover. Quarto. Third edition, limited to 1600 copies. Black cloth with gilt front board and spine decorations by Aubrey Beardsley. Spine re-backed with the original spine laid down and touched up in a couple of spots. Front board touched up in a couple of places..... More

London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1897. Half Leather. Octavo. Pp. 623. Bound by Zaehnsdorf in half red leather over red cloth, French curl marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, frontispiece portrait, richly illustrated throughout with many drawings and photo reproductions from the collection of Dr. Wills. Loosely inserted is a handwritten "poem"..... More

London: William Pickering, 1831-53. Leather. 12 mo. 53 volumes bearing Pickering device iv on each title-page, complete with tissue-guarded engraved portraits of each poet (except for Falcone - see below). Bound in an unsigned binding of full mustard-coloured calf with double roll-tooled gilt borders, 5 raised bands, ornate gilt-tooled compartments..... More

[Devon, UK]: Christopher Sandford at the Boar's Head Press, 1934. First, Numbered Edition. Leather. Octavo. Signed. No. 84 of an edition limited to 150 copies (for subscribers only), signed and dated by Sandford at the colophon. Woodcut illustrations throughout by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Custom bound by master book artist, Robert Wu..... More

London: David Bogue, Fleet Street (Late Tilt and Bogue), 1839. Full-Leather. 12 mo. Full maroon leather, gilt Armorial arms of Scott of Branxholm, ancestor of the Duke of Buccleuch to upper cover framed and bordered with gilt rules, gilt dentelles, yellow coated endpapers. All edges gilt, with FORE-EDGE PAINTING: pastoral..... More

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1858. Hardcover. Small Folio. Two volumes. Titles in red and black, 94 colour-printed, hand-coloured, and tinted full-page plates (including added title), with descriptive text embellished with coloured initials, ornaments, and vignette illustrations. Bound in contemporary half crimson morocco over marbled paper boards, with finely gilt-tooled spine..... More

London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1893. Full Vellum. Octavo. Edition of 100 copies. Pp. xi, 212, 5 engravings by Ricketts, the 6th engraving being a bookplate designed and engraved by William Bell Scott, all with tissue guards, printed on Japon vellum. Full vellum covers, stamped to both upper and..... More

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, (The Riverside Press, Cambridge), [ca. 1890s], 1890. Leather. Octavo. Pp. 383. Gorgeous tree calf binding with gilt Greek Key border, ornate gilt stamped spine, double gilt-stamped leather spine labels, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges bright gilt, ribbon bookmark. Engraved frontispiece with..... More