Some of the books he bound: the Book of Hours (1465), Pollux. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1898 to 1903. Contents: inner hinges cracked, endpapers fading, page markers frayed, offsetting, toning, spotting, smudging, volume I has detached title page and blank page with chipping and is almost detached, one plate torn out (but present) and a few tears; title page almost detached in volumes II and III, staining to volume III else all are tight and in good condition. "It would be difficult indeed to over-estimate the gains which have accrued to the lovers of Shelley from the strenuous labours of Mr. Harry Buxton Forman, C.B. In a remarkable feat of maneuvering, the Shelleys convinced Ianthe to come to Boscome Manor and connived to leave her alone in the Sanctum, where she was given free rein to explore the papers:"Harriet s daughter Ianthe, Sir Percy s half sister, now the wife of a banker, was pressed to visit the Shelley home, and she eventually agreed on the understanding that certain matters would not be mentioned. The Poetical Works The poems campaigned against the landowners in the government who stifled competition and kept the price of bread high. Peter Harrington. THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (7 VOL SET - COMPLETE) by William Wordsworth, edited by Edward Dowden Seller Andre Strong Bookseller Published 1892 Condition Very Good Edition First edition thus Item Price £ Thirty-five plates with tissue guards, volume I has 13 plates by artists Giovanni Cipriani (3), William Gardiner (3), George Romney (1) and Richard Westall (6), volume II has 10 (all Westall), Volume III has 12 (all Westall) 17 x 13, contemporary straight grain red morocco, covers have three gold tooled rows: two floral and one Greek key with disc and three blind tooled rows: rosette, broken cable and filet, all corners have a gold eight pointed star within another within another gold star within a gold ruled octagon, flat spine with 14 gold tooled panels: alternating rows of floral, diamond and annular dots/chains with dots/overlapping scallops with dots, three panels with lettering: Milton s Poetical Works/armorial stamp: bull s head with an arrow surrounded by this motto: Prodesse Quam Conspici (to be useful rather than conspicuous), stamp is unknown (at least four British families have this motto but bull and arrow is not on their crests) with cupid s heads, dots and rosettes in margins/volume I, volume II, volume III with cupid s heads, stars and circles in margins, gold scroll pattern along cover edges, gold floral pattern on inner dentelles, gauffered edges, blue watered silk endpapers, bookbinder ticket on reverse of free front endpaper of volume I: Bound by C. HERING No. He had difficulty in finding a publisher because of the plague of 1665, which killed many pressmen, and the Great Fire of the following year, which destroyed many printing houses and those publishers who were still operating were wary of the project because of Milton's anti-Restoration sympathies. 8vo. Kelmscott Press 1894-95, Hammersmith Printed by W. Bulmer & Co., Shakspeare Printing-Office, for John & Josiah Boydell, and George Nicol. The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Tall 8vo, full contemporary maroon morocco by Stikeman, gilt spines, inner dentelles. PBFA, Used hardcover David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A. 8vo, original sienna cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and black. ABA . As invited by Milton's epic, light contends with dark, and the illustrations serve up a phantasmagoria of imagery, with swirling shadows and specters. Der Text ist in der Golden Type gesetzt und in Rot und Schwarz gedruckt. The verso of the portrait also has two newspaper clippings affixed and is inscribed in blue ink by the literary scholar Carl Emery Malugin (the blue ink has 'bled' through and shows on the portrait. 16mo. ABAA Hodgkin et. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, Riverside Press, 1912. The poetical works: of Will. Contact seller, Association Member: Condition: Fine, Published by Spines just slightly (and uniformly) darker, a couple of minor marginal stains in volume II, but AN ESPECIALLY FINE COPY, the bindings lustrous and virtually unworn, the text clean, bright, and mostly unread. The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott. Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium (1651), Curtis. Huttar, Charles A. Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A. 630 pp. All works are paginated individually. Author's edition Item Price $ 63.18. New edition. ABAC . Contact seller, ISBN 10: 0192541528ISBN 13: 9780192541529, Seller: William Henry Irby (1750-1830). 103/4). UNHEARD OF IN THIS CONDITION. cxxxiii, 213; 286; 300, [4] pp. Garland Books, Montrose, UK, United Kingdom Cosway Style Binding bound in full crushed marron levant for Chas J. Sawyer London by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with their S&S stamp on the rear doublure. The Poetical Works. Small orange binder's ticket to verso free endpaper: "Bound by C. Kalthoeber, London." IOBA, Published by Peterson A29; Ransom 29, 29a, 29b Original full limp vellum, spines stamped in gold, issued without silk ties. Condition: Muy Bueno / Very Good, Published by III. AN INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY of each volume. Bound by Charles Hering. 11 volumes Edited by William Knight. 16mo. (1794), Seller: Volume I of The Poetical Works is set with a fine oval portrait miniature ( 81 x 62 mm) of Shelley, surrounded by an inner oval band of onlaid russet morocco within single gilt fillets and an outer decorative intertwining gilt border which is set with sixteen semi-precious stones. Condition: Very good. Bound in 3/4 tan Morocco, marbled boards, top edges gilt, raised bands, ornate gilt On spines, illustrated with frontispieces. Thank you! [2], xvi, [2], 380, [2]; [8], 347, [1], [4, ads]; viii, 314, [2]; viii, 361, [1], [2, ads] pp. Mit großem ornamentalem Doppeltitel und zahlreichen Holzschnittinitialen von William Morris. Charles Hering, a German native, started his business as a master bookbinder in London in 1794 at 34 St. Martins street and approximately a year later moved to 10 St. Martins Street. The first collected edition. In 1798, aged seventeen, he wrote his first poem Vernal Walk in imitation of James Thompson. (1794), Seller: [2] iv; 556 [2]. Wordsworth letter is written on a light blue paper, and the lower and fore-edges have been folded so it fits in the book. Internally clean and bright. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. It was not until 2001, when Joshi’s landmark compilation of Lovecraft’s complete poetical works, The Ancient Track, was issued in hardcover by Night Shade Press, that enthusiasts of the Old Gent could claim to have everything he wrote in poetic form between the … Edward Moxon, Dover Street, London Frontispieces and plates. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. (1797), Seller: Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. al. [these with the 1688 Title-Pages included, Printed by R.E.MDLXXXVIII and for Randal Taylor.MDCLXXXVIII ] and with the large paper issuance of the first printing of the NOTES [by Patrick Hume]as well as the additional "POEMS". The company, founded by G. P. Putnam in 1841, continued under management of the Putnam family until 1930. or Best Offer. London Printed for Jacob Tonson at the Judge s-Head near the Inner-Temple-Gate.by Tho. (1850), Published by Title: The Poetical Works. A spectacular set. Small 8vo (6-1/2 x 4-1/4 inches). 1794, 1795, 1797. 3; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 216 pages; Volume 3 only from a three volume collection of the poetical works of Samuel Butler. First Edition. One month after this inscription, Shelley s father Sir Timothy died, his baronetcy passing to his grandson Percy Florence, who soon after married Jane St. John. Of the several copies of this set currently being offered for sale none are bound by Hering. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. Three volume set in leather with gilt titles to spines, marbled end papers, additional free blanks, illustrated with 4 portraits of Milton and 28 beautiful engravings ( in total, in 3 volumes) by Westall. This set has the bookplate of the Rosenbach Foundation, from which it was released in 1968. Frontispieces. Rare Books. Affixed to a front blank are two newspaper clippings dated 1929 and 1931. Folio (41 x 30 cm), very finely bound in exceptional full contemporary bindings of crushed red morocco, French in style with fine gilt rolled borders within gilt ruled frames on all covers, each frame with corners formed with central gilt circular devices, the spines with flat gilt ruled bands creating compartments decorated with small gilt central star burst tools, one compartment lettered in gilt, a second with gilt volume numbers and additional gilt lettering at the bottom of the spines, gilt tooled edges to the covers and gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. Bound in full, dark green morocco leather, by The Riverside Press, with their stamp; five raised bands on the spines, gilt titles, gilt floral designs on the spine and covers, doublures in darker green morocco, with simple gilt borders, dark green, watered silk endpapers, green silk bookmarker ribbons bound in, and top-edges gilt. To whiich is added SAMSON AGONISTES, A DRAMATICK POEM. Condition: Fine. From the Types of W. Martin. if my life had not been prolonged. LONDON AND NEW YORK: FREDERICK WARNE & CO. 1888. Dibdin wrote about Hering: "No one could presume to measure business with him. Orig.-Pergamentbände mit Rückentitel. ABAC Percy Florence Shelley (1819-1889) was the son of Mary Shelley and Percy; Eliza Ianthe Esdaile (1813-18) was Shelley s first child, born to his first wife, Harriet Westbrook. 1794, 1795, 1797., London, 1794. Die leidenschaftliche, eindrucksvolle Poesie von Shelley fand ihre perfekte Verkörperung in diesem großartigem Druck der Kelmscott Press. Please confirm availability and postage costs prior to ordering, as ABE books is not our only sales channel and postage costs may be increased for heavy or valuable books. London Printed for Jacob Tonson at the Judge s-Head near the Inner-Temple-Gate.by Tho. Amsterdam, Oriental Press, 1971 (OCoLC)583612444 Contact seller, Association Member: by Houghton, Mifflin, and Company. Conditiion: morocco binding with minor abrasions and wear. (1966). Books are in excellent Condition with only Minor scratches to a few volumes. On the family s return, she was found weeping, having proved as incapable as Caleb Williams of resisting the temptations of peeping, but she told Lady Shelley the next day that she now saw how her father had been justified in leaving her mother. Their correspondence over the years encouraged him and reinforced his determination to make a name for himself as a poet. The inscription is dated 1802 and correlates with Chauvet s being recalled to France due to the growing hostilities between France and England after the Treaty of Amiens. [Charles Hering] [British armorial binding]. Octavo. In the years that would follow, Westall would become quite famous, for these illustrations to Milton and for his portrait of Princess Victoria. John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A. In the (slightly worn) original(?) First UK collected edition, and the first separately-published collected edition of Poe's poetry (Poe's collected works of prose and poetry were published in three volumes in the US the same year). A superb set in exquisite condition. Condition: Good. William Tait, Edinburgh, 1840. Haley. Hinges tender. Druck der Kelmscott Press in 250 Exemplaren auf Bütten. Introduction The previous survey of the first seventeen books (Law and History), Genesis through Nehemiah, covered the whole history of the Old Testament. Leather. Start by marking “The Poetical Works” as Want to Read: Error rating book. Folio, 32 by 26 cm. The last four volumes were published immediately after Swift's death and contain several works not previously published. William Paterson, Edinburgh, 1889. 12mo (in sixes), contemporary half calf and marbled boards gilt lettered on spines, gilt decorated raised bands. A fine, crisp and clean copy throughout, the binding in excellent condition, the refurbished spine panel beautifully restored expertly and sympathetically. Contact seller, Wharton, Edith) Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, Published by 60 volumes. The penultimate work in the Oxford English Text's Byron Series, this volume, described by Ian Jack as one of the finest editions we have of any of the Romantic poets, contains all Byron's works of 1821 and 1822, including his late plays--The Two Foscari, Sardanapalus, Cain: A Mystery, and the unfinished, The Deformed Transformed. The most common the poetical works material is ceramic. (5ff. Packer lists the firm in business in Red Lion Square in 1899-1901, and the December 1942 issue of The Rotarian notes with regret that W. Root had been bombed out (uprooted?) Bull's Head Rare Books, Lebanon, NJ, U.S.A. Smith Elder & Co, London, 1888. hardcover. Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., Shakespear Printing Office, for John and Josiah Boydell, and George Nicol; from the types of W. Martin: London. Uniformly bound by Bayntun (Rivià re) of Bath (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in) in mid twentieth-century dark brown crushed levant morocco. Mary Smith has written her name in pencil on the title-page of each of the other five volumes in the set. London Printed for Jacob Tonson at the Judge s-Head near the Inner-Temple-Gate.by Tho. With a Sketch of His Life By William Allingham. All the remaining books, Poetical and Prophetical, fit somewhere into the history of those seventeen books. Contact seller, Association Member: 1794, 1795, 1797., London Letters to and from Jonathan Swift, D.D, D.S.P.D. Three volumes. 1695 [but 1688 and 1695], 1695. (1880), Published by During this time period of the late 18th c and early 19th c the passion for collecting books was at a fever pitch among the royalty and affluent nobles and gentlemen. Hardcover. Having taken pleurisy from recklessly walking out in frosty weather, Wordsworth died at Rydal Mount on 23 April 1850" (ODNB). The Poetical Works of George Meredith. Together With Explanatory NOTES ON ON EACH BOOK OF THE PARADISE LOST, and a TABLE never before Printed. x 9 in. The simple and tasteful bindings are very handsome and in whole the set is highly unusual in this state of preservation and completeness. Condition: Near Fine, Seller: Tell us what you're looking for and once a match is found, we'll inform you by e-mail. The letter shows a chip to the fore-edge of the second page, some light wear, and dusting. xvi, 623, [1, blank] pp. Complete in 12 volumes. Signed M.T.K. London: for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827, 1835, 1835. the complete poetical works of william cowper. ILAB, Published by The profit such as it might be would all have gone to Printers and Publishers, I would of course [-] would have allowed me to be in Town before the Bill comes on again. Printed in red and black, ornamental woodcut title, borders, and initials. Antiquariat Schmidt & Günther, Kelkheim, Germany