DISCOURSES IN AMERICA.
London: Macmillan, 1885. Green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. First edition. Some humidity spotting to the cloth sizing along the fore-edge of each cover, light foxing to endsheets, else a good copy.
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IRISH ESSAYS AND OTHERS.
London: Smith, Elder, 1882. Blue cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. First edition. Small ink name on pastedown, edges a bit rubbed, light scattered foxing. A good copy. Tinker's copy was in brown cloth with variant stamping; Smart and Colbeck describe this binding.
IRISH ESSAYS AND OTHERS.
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1882. Blue cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. First edition. With the bookplate and ownership signature of John Sparrow. Cloth lightly soiled, slight foxing, else very good.
PASSAGES FROM THE PROSE WRITINGS OF MATTHEW ARNOLD.
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1880. Original cloth. Clipped biographical notice pasted to front endsheets, cloth a little worn at edges, some foxing early and late, otherwise a good copy. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front blank "To William Smith Esq. with thanks & kind.....
POEMS ... SECOND SERIES.
London: Longman [et al], 1855. Small octavo. First edition. Early ink inscription on pastedown, front inner hinge cracked, small book label of John Sparrow; page 198 is numbered in this copy. Small nick toward crown of lower joint, else a very good copy.
POEMS...THE FIRST VOLUME EARLY POEMS, NARRATIVE POEMS, AND SONNETS [with:] THE SECOND VOLUME LYRIC, DRAMATIC, AND ELEGIAC POEMS.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1877. Two volumes. Bright green cloth, gilt. Second collected edition, with additions to the text of the 1869 collected edition. Small nick at crown of one spine, tiny ink signature, dated 1878, on each half-title, neat book label in each volume, otherwise a very good, bright.....
POEMS...THE FIRST VOLUME NARRATIVE AND ELEGIAC POEMS [with:] POEMS...THE SECOND VOLUME DRAMATIC AND LYRIC POEMS.
London: Macmillan, 1869. Two volumes. Small octavo. Green cloth, stamped in gilt. First collected edition. Lower joint of one volume a bit worn, top edges a bit dusty, otherwise a very good, bright set.
A POETICAL EPISTLE ON MAJOR MONEY'S ASCENT IN A BALLOON FROM THE CITY OF NORWICH; AND HIS DESCENT INTO THE SEA, SEVEN LEAGUES OFF LOWSTOFF.
[Los Angeles: Lake Mojave Press, 1986]. Printed wrappers. Facsimile plates. Fine. First edition in this format. One of 200 copies printed for the joint meeting of the Zamorano Club and Roxburghe Club. An offset facsimile reprinting of the then second known copy of the 18th century ballooning rarity, with an.....
COBWEBS FROM A LIBRARY CORNER.
New York: Harper & Bros. 1899. 12mo. Blue cloth, lettered and decorated in silver. Frontis. First edition. Quarter-size discoloration on lower board, otherwise a good copy, with the bookplate of 19th century American literary arbiter, Edmund C. Stedman. A good association.
SONGS OF CHEER.
Boston: Sherman, French & Company, 1910. Cloth and boards, decorated in gilt, t.e.g. Decorative title printed in red and black. First edition. Endsheets faintly foxed, otherwise very good or better in dust jacket.
THE VISION OF COLUMBUS. A POEM IN NINE BOOKS ...TO WHICH IS ADDED, THE CONSPIRACY OF KINGS: A POEM ....
Paris: Printed at the English Press... 1793. [4],300 [of 304]pp. Octavo. Old worn calf (chipped and with upper board detached). Frontis portrait by Ruotte after Barbier. Some foxing and marginal offsetting to prelims and terminal leaves, lacking the last two leaves (the terminal "Note on Mr. Burke), else good and.....
THE VISION OF COLUMBUS. A POEM IN NINE BOOKS...TO WHICH IS ADDED, THE CONSPIRACY OF KINGS: A POEM....
Paris: Printed at the English Press... 1793. [4],304pp. Octavo. Extracted from bound volume. Lacking the portrait, as often, some foxing and marginal offsetting to prelims and terminal leaves, otherwise a very good, crisp copy. First Paris edition (denoted the "Fifth editions, corrected") of Barlow's most popular undertaking in verse, including.....
POEMS OF RURAL LIFE IN THE DORSET DIALECT.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1887. Thick octavo. Forest green cloth, lettered in gilt, ruled in black. Later impression of this collective edition (first published in 1879). A very good, bright copy.
LE DEUX DÉCEMBRE.
Paris: Typographie Plon Frères, 1852. 29,[3]pp. Large octavo. Decorated printed wrappers. Two tax stamps on half-title, and again in one margin, edges a bit dusty and creased, some foxing and spine a bit chipped, but a good copy. First edition of this late poem by the satirist. OCLC/Worldcat locates only.....
LE QUINZE AOUT.
Paris: Typographie Plon Frères, 1852. 16pp. Large octavo. Decorated printed wrappers. Two tax stamps on verso of title, edges a bit dusty and creased, light foxing, but about very good. First edition of this late poem by the satirist. OCLC/Worldcat locates only the BN copy.
NAPOLÉON IV.
Paris: Typographie de Henri Plon, 1856. 15,[1]]pp. Large octavo. Decorated printed wrappers. Two tax stamps on half-title, edges a bit dusty and creased, some foxing and spine a bit chipped, but a good copy. First edition of this late poem by the satirist. OCLC/Worldcat locates only the BN copy.
UNE IMPÉRATRICE.
Paris: Typographie de Plon Frères, 1853. 15,[1]]pp. Large octavo. Decorated printed wrappers. Two tax stamps on half-title, edges a bit dusty and creased, slight foxing, but a very nice copy. First edition of this late poem by the satirist. OCLC/Worldcat locates only the BN copy.
ORLANDO FURIOSO.
Birmingham: Da' Torchj di G. Baskerville, Per P. Molini Librajo dell' Accademia Reale, e G. Molini, 1773. Four volumes. [6]lviii,362; [2],450; [2],446; [2],446,[26]pp. plus engraved frontis and forty-six plates. Octavo. Full contemporary straight grain crimson morocco, spines ruled in gilt, a.e.g., gilt inner dentelles, marbled endsheets. Spines a bit darkened.....
POETRY OF THE BELLS.
[Boston]: Riverside Press Printed in Aid of the Cambridge Chime by H. O. Houghton and Company, 1858. 70,[2]pp. Small octavo. Blue cloth with decorative gilt vignette of bells within blindstamped frame, a.e.g. Pictorial title vignette. Decorative borders. Significant foxing early and late, endsheets darkened, crown of spine a bit worn.....
BAUDELAIRE.
[New York]: New Directions, [1958]. 622pp. Cloth. Portrait. Black & white illustrations and photographs. First US edition of the revised text. Fine, in slightly rubbed dust jacket.
SONGS, BALLADS, AND OTHER POEMS ... EDITED BY HIS WIDOW. WITH A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR.
London: Richard Bentley, 1857. Thick octavo. Two volumes bound in one. Original publisher's cloth (a remainder binding), decorated in gilt and blind. Portrait. Light wear to extremities, portrait foxed and offset to tissue guard and title, but a very good copy. Poet Ralph Hodgson's copy, with his ownership signature on.....
SONGS AND BALLADS, GRAVE AND GAY ... WITH A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR.
Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1844. viii,[17] -167,[9]pp. Contemporary boards, printed spine label. Engraved frontis. Endsheets foxed, spine extremities worn (with surface chips), still a sound copy. First U.S. edition, with a "Notice of the Author," by "R.W.G." and dated at Philadelphia, Nov. 1843, suggesting the edition may not simply be.....
THE THANKLESS MUSE.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1885. Gilt cloth, t.e.g. Properly deaccessioned institutional duplicate, with small label and bookplate on pastedowns, marked "withdrawn," otherwise a very good, bright copy. First edition. Inscribed and signed by the author, with four lines of verse, in 1915. A collection of new verse, with selections from his.....
THE THANKLESS MUSE.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1885. Gilt cloth, t.e.g. Bookplate of the Author's Club, otherwise a very good, bright copy. First edition. A collection of new verse, with selections from his ill-fated first collection, ODDS AND ENDS, of which half the edition was destroyed in Houghton Mifflin's 1879 fire.
THE THANKLESS MUSE.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1885. Gilt cloth, t.e.g. A very good, bright copy. First edition. Signed and dated by the author in 1916. A collection of new verse, with selections from his ill-fated first collection, ODDS AND ENDS, of which half the edition was destroyed in Houghton Mifflin's 1879 fire...