Search results for: 'the poetical works and letters'
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COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor (trans.); GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. Faustus: from the German.London : 1821
First edition in English of Goethe's Faust, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. When Faust, Part I first appeared in a finished form (1808) Coleridge expressed concern for the apparent immorality. Despite this, he briefly entertained a proposal in 1814 to translate the work, and returned to and completed the task in 1820-21. Coleridge denied that... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 132612
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COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor (trans.); GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. Faustus: from the German.London : 1821
First edition in English of Goethe's Faust, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The book is most often met with in the publishers' reddish-brown paper boards, the flimsy backstrip having perished. This copy, however, has an attractive contemporary polished calf binding by the London binder Charles Murton, who Ramsden notes specialised in blind stamping.... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 134583
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KEATS, John. The Poetical Works and Other Writings.New York : 1938-39
The Hampstead Edition, number 268 of 1050 sets, the best collected edition of Keats's works, here one of a smaller number of sets issued in half morocco (most issued in cloth), retaining the rare glassine jackets. Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 141381
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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Poetical Works.London : 1839
First collected edition, an appealing copy in the deluxe red cloth. Mary Shelley's collected edition of her husband's poetical works established Shelley finally and irreversibly amongst the great poets of the English language.
Pirate editions of Shelley's works had persuaded his father, Sir Timothy, that all hope of obscurity had passed, and... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 147575
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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Poetical Works.London : 1839
First collected edition, handsomely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Mary Shelley's collected edition of her husband's poetical works established Shelley finally and irreversibly amongst the great poets of the English language.
Pirate editions of Shelley's works had persuaded his father, Sir Timothy, that all hope of obscurity had passed, and... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 146618
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COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor; Percy Bysshe Shelley; John Keats. The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats.Paris : 1829
First edition of the first anthology of the Romantic writers, also comprising the first collected edition of the poems of John Keats. Each poet is prefaced with a memoir, that of Shelley incorporating Mary Shelley's preface to his Posthumous Poems. Galignani's Paris editions of the English poets were piracies (he also pirated Crabbe, Hazlitt, Washington... Learn More£1,350.00Stock Code: 135668
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DONNE, John. Poems. With Elegies on the Authors Death.London : 1633
First edition of the principal collection of Donne's poetical works, issued two years after his death, here in a contemporary calf binding. With the exception of a few rare small pieces "none of Donne's poems was printed in his lifetime" (Hayward), and this posthumous collection presents the first publication of some of the greatest love poems in the... Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 82696
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CHAUCER, Geoffrey. [The workes, newlie printed,London : 1532
First complete collected edition of Chaucer and the first attempt to collect into a single volume the complete writings of an English author, this copy in contemporary blind-tooled calf being much the most complete to have appeared in commerce in the past 40 years.
The editor was William Thynne, clerk of the kitchen and of the green cloth to... Learn More£150,000.00Stock Code: 108308
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GILLRAY, James. The Gordon Knot, or The Bonny Duchess hunting the Bedfordshire Bull.London : c.1851
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, fertility of resource, and beauty of execution, at once gave... Learn More£165.00Stock Code: 57356
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GILLRAY, James. "Citizens Visiting the Bastille."1851
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, fertility of resource, and beauty of execution, at once gave... Learn More£120.00Stock Code: 55469
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GILLRAY, James. A Bouquet of the last Century,c. 1851
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, fertility of resource, and beauty of execution, at once gave... Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 57343
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GILLRAY, James. The National Assembly Petrified. The National Assembly Revivified.c.1851
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, fertility of resource, and beauty of execution, at once gave... Learn More£220.00Stock Code: 57357
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GILLRAY, James "The Apparition. A Cabinet Picture from the Downing St. Collection."c.1849
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, fertility of resource, and beauty of execution, at once gave... Learn More£145.00Stock Code: 55476
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GILLRAY, James. Flannel Armour; Female Patriotism, or Modern Heroes accoutred for the Wars -c.1851
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, fertility of resource, and beauty of execution, at once gave... Learn More£220.00Stock Code: 57355
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GILLRAY, James. "Elements of Skating. Making the most of a passing Friend, in a case of Emergency."c1849
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, fertility of resource, and beauty of execution, at once gave... Learn More£120.00Stock Code: 55472
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GILLRAY, James. Patriotic Petitions on the Convention.c1851
Four scenes showing "The Cockney Petition! Enter Mr.Noodle & Mr. Doodle", "The Westminster Petition - a kick out from Wimbleton", "The Chelmsford Petition" and "The Middlesex Petition!"
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver... Learn More£145.00Stock Code: 57436
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GILLRAY, James. The ESPLANADE.c. 1851
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, fertility of resource, and beauty of execution, at once gave... Learn More£145.00Stock Code: 57442
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GILLRAY, James. "The finishing Touch."c. 1849
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, fertility of resource, and beauty of execution, at once gave... Learn More£85.00Stock Code: 69840
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GILLRAY, James. The Daily-Advertiser.1851
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, fertility of resource, and beauty of execution, at once gave... Learn More£195.00Stock Code: 57957
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GILLRAY, James. The Effect of Imagination. A Gown metamorphosed into a Ghost!!c.1851
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, fertility of resource, and beauty of execution, at once gave... Learn More£95.00Stock Code: 57247
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BACON, Mary Ann. The Legend of St. Bernard.Norwich : [1840]
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title, "Mrs Howlett from her affectionate friend MAB". We can trace ten copies in institutions worldwide, just one of those a presentation copy, inscribed from the author's father (see below).
The little-known British poet Mary Ann Bacon (fl. 1839-1870, d. 1875) was born into... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 136220
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ILDREWE, Miss (ed.) The Language of Flowers.Boston : 1865
First edition of this significant American botanical compendium, complete with the 12 colour plates and in the bright, decorative original cloth. Miss Ildrewe champions the significance of her native flora, an effort which was applauded by contemporary reviewers: "this pretty gift-book is the first really American contribution to the language of flowers"... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 143182
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SASSOON, Siegfried. The War Poems.London : 1919
First edition, first impression. Collects a number of the author's best known war poems and much previously unpublished work. This in many ways is Sassoon's key poetical statement on the war. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 119624
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GILLRAY, James. "Tender Annuals" (Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha)<br><br>c.1843
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, fertility of resource, and beauty of execution, at once gave... Learn More£145.00Stock Code: 55477
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GILLRAY, James. [Caricature]c. 1851
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, fertility of resource, and beauty of execution, at once gave... Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 57341
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GILLRAY, James. Pizarroc. 1851
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, fertility of resource, and beauty of execution, at once gave... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 57344
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GILLRAY, James. Affability.c. 1851
Text below the title: "Well, Friend, where a'you going, Hay?what's your Name, hay?where d'ye Live, hay?hay?"
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to support his studies at the Royal Academy. Gillray's... Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 57359
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GILLRAY, James. State-Jugglers,c.1851
Text below the title: "Who wrought such wonders as might make Egyptian forcerers forsake Their baffled mockeries, & own The palm of magick our's alone."
James Gillray (1757 - 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. He started his career as a letter engraver which later helped him to... Learn More£185.00Stock Code: 57353
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BURKE, Thomas. Limehouse Nights:London : 1916
First edition, first impression, presentation copy from the author to the publisher, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To Grant Richards, novelist and patron of letters. Thomas Burke". Examples in the jacket are rare and we have been unable to trace another inscribed copy. Grant Richards's first novel, Caviare, was published in 1912, followed by... Learn More£20,000.00Stock Code: 136021
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DE BOSIS, Lauro. Icaro.New York : 1933
First edition in English, US issue, first printing, presentation copy from the translator Ruth Draper, inscribed on the front free endpaper "To Walter Oakley, with the regards of Ruth Draper. October 1931." Oakley was the US-based sales manager of the Oxford University Press. A lovely copy in the very scarce jacket of the 1928 Olympic Prizewinning verse-play... Learn More£400.00Stock Code: 143414
