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Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Brown bevelled buckram with leather spine label gilt, small 4to., xx, 213, (3) pages, engraved portrait. One of 1,050 numbered copies printed by R. & R. Clark on Dutch rag paper. A clean, unopened, very good copy with toned endpapers, a darkened and mildly edgeworn label, and moderately soiled and worn covers.
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$22.84 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited edition 851/1050 copies. xx, 213pp A very good copy with a previous owners bookplate ( anna mary stewart of kinlochmoidart ). Front board is a little marked. Binding is sound. Dutch Rag paper is clean.
Seller: Karl Eynon Books Ltd, tywyn, United Kingdom
Price: US$24.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing. #695 of 1050 copies. 8vo. xx, 213 pp. Original brown cloth binding on beveled boards. Gilt stamped leather spinal label. Spine darkened, some scattered wear to cloth surface on front cover, free endpapers with browning, else very good minus.
Seller: Thomas Dorn, ABAA, Canton, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: London, 1926; 213 pages; limited edition #250/1050; brown cloth covered boards; corner and spine edge wear; back strip and edges shelf darkened; text block edges deckled; 4to,9 3/4" to 12" tall; Interior is clean and unmarked
Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 644 of 1050 copies. Wear and rubbing to brown cloth boards, chipping and wear at spine ends, endpapers and page edges browned, but otherwise clean internally. An attractively printed book. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 041914.
Seller: Pazzo Books, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$32.21 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Numbered limited edition (number 35 (of 1050). Very good condition, large octavo, brown cloth, bevelled edges, title in gilt on red leather label on spine (some losses to label), book plate on front end paper and offsetting to front free end paper, untrimmed handmade paper (Dutch Rag) throughout, xx plus 213 pages. A very good earlt copy.
Seller: Portman Rare Books, Tonbridge, United Kingdom
Price: US$33.49 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Sparrow, John. The Mistress With Other Select Poems of Abraham Cowley 1618-1667. The Nonesuch Press, 1926. 8vo, 1st edition. Limited edition of 1050 of which this is number 50. Cream cloth binding with red label to spine with gilt titles; spine sunned. All edges uncut, dutch rag paper in Monotype Bodoni Half title, Title page with portrait vignette of Cowley, table of contents v-vii verso blank, introduction ix-xx, pp213, edition statement [I]. A few small light fox marks to a few pages, both free end papers darkened, otherwise all pages bright and clean.
Seller: Roz Hulse, Plymouth, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$38.89 + shipping
Description: The Mistress with Other Select Poems of Abraham Cowley rare Nonesuch Press published in London 1926. Limited edition #241 of 1050.Clean pages, tight binding, cloth boards clean with light bumping Clean pages, tight binding, clot
Seller: HGG Books, Slingerlands, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: First edition thus. Tall 4to. Orig. publisher's tan cloth with small leather title label on spine. Very good copy, tissue between title page and frontispiece present, former owner's name (writer Meyer Liben) at top right corner of front free endpaper. No. 245 of 1050 copies on Dutch rag paper, which is a pleasure to handle.
Seller: Alexanderplatz Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.99 + shipping
Description: 270mm x 170mm (11" x 7"). xx, 213pp. Poet and essayist Abraham Cowley (1618 -1667). His first collection of poetry, Poetical Blossoms was published in 1633, at the age of 15. Cowley was stripped of a Cambridge fellowship during the English Civil War and expelled for refusing to sign the Solemn League and Covenant of 1644. He accompanied Queen Henrietta Maria to France, spending 12 years in exile as her secretary. During this time, Cowley completed The Mistress (1647). Arguably his most famous work, the collection exemplifies Cowleys metaphysical style of love poetry. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Modern rebind with new endpapers. Sporadic light foxing. Edges untrimmed Brown hardback cloth spine on decorative marbled boards
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$46.38 + shipping
Description: This edition consists of 1050 numbered copies on Dutch rag paper. It has been printed and made in Scotland by R. amp; R. Clark, for the Nonesuch Press in Monotype Bodoni. This is number 923. Hardback clothbound with red pastedown title band to spine and gilt tooled title. Engraved portrait vignette to title page. Pages untrimmed. A little light shelf wear and rubbing to cover and spine. Some fade marks and chipping to title label not affecting text. Endpapers are toned. Pages are a little toneddarkened to edges but otherwise clean and bright. Overall very good condition. 213 pp.
Seller: St Marys Books And Prints, Stamford, United Kingdom
COWLEY, ABRAHAM. The Mistress with other Select Poems 1618-1667. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1926.
Price: US$49.01 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4to. xx, 213pp. Limited to 1050 copies of which this is number 792. Brown buckram with darkened spine and worn title label. Bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown. A wonderful example. Clean throughout. Binding tight and square. Edited by John Sparrow.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: #488/1050cc. Two pages browned by a tissue sheet. Covers shelfworn.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Brown buckram, titled in gilt on a red spine panel. Etching on title page. Some spots to cloth, discoloration of end papers, a very good copy. Limited to 1050 numbered copies.
Seller: William Matthews/The Haunted Bookshop, Sidney, BC, Canada
Price: US$51.53 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Limited edition. xx, 213 pp. No. 643 in an edition of 1050 copies. Full brown cloth with a red panel and gilt lettering to spine. Scratching to the rear board and chipping, markings to panel at spine. Leaves crinkled with darkening to edges and endpapers. Binding firm. Large 8vo. Limited Edition
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$55.24 + shipping
Description: 4°. XX, 213(3) S. (meist unbeschnitten). OLn. m. verg. RSch. (minimal berieben u. bestoßen, etwas fleckig). Nr. 285 v. 1050 Exemplaren. - Vorsätze mit Abklatsch u. kl. roter asiatischer Stempel auf Schmutztitel, hinterer Vorsatz mit Adress-Eintrag.
Seller: Daniel Osthoff, Wuerzburg, BY, Germany
Price: US$57.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Set in Monotype Bodoni with SB type flowers for ornament and printed on Van Gelder rag paper. Number 109 of 1,050 copies. Portrait on title page reproduced from an engraving. Full light brown buckram over bevelled boards, red leather label (a trifle worn) titled in gilt. A very good copy. [FM in Century:] 'An essay in the use of Bodoni material in an un-Bodoni fashion. I think it works.'
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$60.50 + shipping
Description: Limited edition, number 117 of 1050 copies on Dutch rag paper; large 8vo; portrait on title page reproduced from an engraving, manuscript page written in French tipped in, occasional slight browning to fore-edge; original brown cloth over bevelled boards, red title label with gilt lettering, endpapers browned, overall a very good copy. Abraham Cowley was one of the first English poets to use the Pindaric ode form. The Mistress, his popular collection of love poems, was originally published in 1647. Dreyfus 34.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$69.60 + shipping
Description: THE MISTRESS WITH OTHER SELECT POEMS OF ABRAHAM COWLEY 1618 - 1667, Nonesuch Press, 1926, first edition, some offsetting to the end-papers, else a near fine copy. 1/1050 on rag paper.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 213 pages; Copy #979 of 1050. Brown buckram with leather spine label. Some browning to front and rear endpapers, otherwise fine.
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Edited by John Sparrow. 4to. 213 pp. No. 256 of 1050 numbered copies on Dutch rag paper. VG- in brown buckram, spine somewhat darkened, some wear to spine head.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: #873 of 1050 numbered copies on Dutch rag paper. Engraved title-page. [xx], 213 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Tan cloth, beveled boards, uncut. Red leather label rubbed, endpapers lightly foxed, else fine Engraved title-page. [xx], 213 pp. 1 vols. 4to #873 of 1050 numbered copies on Dutch rag paper.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$77.30 + shipping
Description: A limited edition collection of poetry by the leading seventeenth century poet, Abraham Cowley. A limited edition work published by Nonesuch Press, this being copy 434 of 1050 printed on Dutch rag paper. Abraham Cowley was an English poet in the seventeenth century, being one of the most popular and influential of his time. Cowley showed poetical promise from a very young age, writing impressive poems as a child, and publishing his first collection, 'Poetical Blossoms', in 1633, when he was fifteen. He went into exile as a Royalist during the Civil War, during which time he busied himself by writing a history of the Civil War. This collection includes 'The Mistress', 'Friendship in Absence', 'A Dream of Elysium', 'The Vain Love', 'The Rich Rival', 'My Fate', 'Impossibilities', 'Counsel', 'Sors Virgiliana', and many more. With a portrait of Abraham Cowley to the title page, drawn and engraved by John Hall from a painting from the collection of Horace Walpole. The Nonesuch Press specialised in limited edition and private press. They were founded by Francis Meynell, his second wife Vera Mendel and their friend David Garnett. Their aspiration was for their publications to be aligned with the same aesthetic standards as the private press movement. They were unusual as they used a small Albion press to design the books, but had them printed by commercial printers. In doing so, books with the quality of a fine-press were produced, but available to a wider audience at lower prices. In the original cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light marking to the boards, with very light tidemarking to the head of the boards. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Light discolouration to the spine. Spine label is lightly chips and discoloured. Discolouration to the endpapers, with light tidemarking to the top edge of the pastedowns and endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$77.30 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st, Limited and Numbered Edition 402 of 1050 to final leaf, Nonesuch 1926. 4to. xx 213pp. Steel engraved vignette portrait to title page. Printed on thick creamy Dutch Rag paper with wide margins in Bodoni Type. Internally very good clean tight sound square, attractive scrolled armorial bookplate of John Richard Sofio to pastedown, with ownership inscription of J. Stuart Williams upon, browning limited to free endpapers not intruding or detracting, edges of leaves attractively untrimmed. Bound in original full wide weave brown cloth, with bright gilt text on red calf leather label. Abraham Cowley was a leading poet of the 17th century, indeed Milton held that Cowley, Spenser and Shakespeare were the three best English poets. Nonesuch Press, publishers of the volume in hand, were unusual amongst private press, in that it used a small Albion Hand Press to exquisitely design and produce books which were then commercially printed, since the owner Francis Meynell wanted to demonstrate that Mechanical means could be made to serve fine ends.
Seller: Richard Booth's Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
Price: US$81.16 + shipping
Description: A limited edition collection of poetry by the leading seventeenth century poet, Abraham Cowley. A limited edition of this work published by Nonesuch Press (311 of 1050 printed on Dutch rag paper), in the publisher's original cloth binding. Abraham Cowley was a seventeenth-century English poet, one of the most popular and influential of his era. Cowley showed poetical promise from a young age, publishing his first collection, 'Poetical Blossoms', in 1633, when he was fifteen. He went into exile as a Royalist during the Civil War, during which time he wrote a history of the Civil War. This collection includes 'The Mistress', 'Friendship in Absence', 'A Dream of Elysium', 'The Vain Love', 'The Rich Rival', 'My Fate', 'Impossibilities', 'Counsel', 'Sors Virgiliana', and many more. With a portrait of Abraham Cowley to the title page, drawn and engraved by John Hall from a painting from the collection of Horace Walpole. The Nonesuch Press specialised in limited edition and private press. They were founded by Francis Meynell, his second wife Vera Mendel and their friend David Garnett. Their aspiration was for their publications to be aligned with the same aesthetic standards as the private press movement. They were unusual as they used a small Albion press to design the books, but had them printed by commercial printers. Books with the quality of a fine-press were produced, but available to a wider audience at lower prices. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally very smart, with just some light bumping to the boards. Spine label is still bright and intact. Offsetting to the free end papers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with the odd spot to the first and last few pages, and to the fore edge. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Abraham Cowley. The Mistress with Other Selected Poems. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1926.
Price: US$83.74 + shipping
Description: A bright limited edition copy of this anthology of poems by Abraham Cowley. Abraham Cowley was a leading poet in seventeenth-century England, authoring fourteenWorks in the span of fifty-three years. The present copy is an anthology of his poems, published in a limited edition of one-thousand-and-fifty copies on Dutch rag paper, this out of series. Edited by John Sparrow.Containing songs, satirical lyrics, anacreontiques, miscellaneous, odes, and 'The Mistress.' In the original publisher's full cloth binding, titles on calf label to spine. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear, spine and boards bumped to extremities, general light soiling, darkening to back-strip, title label slightly chipped. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$103.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A limited edition copy of Abraham Cowley's poetry. A limited edition copy of Abraham Cowley's poetry. The seventeenth century poet showed promise as a poet from a young age, achieving fame for his collection entitled Poeticall Blossomes at just fifteen years old. As well as these early poems, the volume includes The Mistress, and verses on several occasions. Number 692 of 1050 copies printed on Dutch rag paper. The Nonesuch Press specialised in limited editions and private press and aimed to achieve the same standards as the private press movement, despite using commercial presses. With a sticker from a Birmingham branch of W. H. Smith to the recto of the rear endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. A little bumped to the head and tail of the spine, with some light rubbing to the spine label. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages throughout. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Larger 8vo pp. (2), half-title, (v), 213, linen covered boards somewhat spotted end-papers foxed, contents bright and clean, red/gilt spine label, edited by John Sparrow, The Nonesuch Press, London, 1926, "This edition consists of 1050 numbered copies on Dutch rag paper. It has been printed and made in Scotland by R. & R. Clark for the Nonesuch?
Seller: Edmonton Book Store, Edmonton, AB, Canada
COWLEY, Abraham. The mistress, with other select poems. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1926.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Engraved vignette on title. Original tan buckram with calf label; an uncut and partially unopened copy. Ownership inscription on fly-leaf. MEMORABLE LOVE POEMS. One of a limited edition of numbered copies. The Mistress is a collection published in 1647 that quickly became the favorite love-poems of the age. In addition to the full text of The Mistress, the present work includes every poem of eminent merit, drawn from every period of Cowley's work. Milton apparently held that Cowley, along with Spenser and Shakespeare, were the three greatest English poets. Cowley's other works include Pindarique Odes, Pyramus and Thisbe, Poetical Blossoms, Naufragium Ioculare , and his unfinished epic on King David, Davideis. He was among the first to use the Pindaric ode form in English poetry. Cowley (1618-67), who wrote his first poem at age 10 and was first published at 15, was known as a precocious talent. As a royalist, he left for Oxford, and then served the English court in Paris, going on Royalist missions, and carrying the Queen's correspondence in cipher to the King. When he returned to England, he was arrested and imprisoned for a short time. He returned to Oxford where he received his medical doctorate, though he never practiced.
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$128.81 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 'The Mistress with Other Select Poems of Abraham Cowley 1619-1667' edited by John Sparrow for the Nonesuch Press. The Nonesuch Press specialised in limited edition and private press. They were founded by Francis Meynell, his second wife Vera Mendel and their friend David Garnett. Their aspiration was for their publications to be aligned with the same aesthetic standards as the private press movement. They were unusual as they used a small Albion press to design the books, but had them printed by commercial printers. In doing so, books with the quality of a fine-press were produced, but available to a wider audience at lower prices. This edition consists of 1050 numbered copies on Dutch rag paper, printed and made in Scotland by R. & R. Clark for the Nonesuch Press in Monotype Bodoni. This is number 462. First edition thus. Abraham Cowley was an English poet born in the City of London late in 1618. He was one of the leading English poets of the 17th century, with fourteen printings of his Works published between 1668 and 1721. In 1647 a collection of his love verses, entitled 'The Mistress', was published. In a buckram binding. Externally, generally smart but with slight wear to extremities and marks to boards. Internally, firmly bound. Bright and generally clean throughout but with spotting to text block edges and foxing to endpapers. Pages untrimmed. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$175.57 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
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Seller: LiBooks, Carling, France
Sparrow, John. The Mistress with Other Poems of Abraham Cowley 1618-1667. Nonesuch Press, 1926.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
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Seller: M & M Books, ATHENS, GA, U.S.A.
COWLEY, Abraham. The mistress, with other select poems. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1926.
Price: US$257.65 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: FIRST AND LIMITED EDITION. Large 8vo; 213 pp. Engraved vignette on title page; slight offsetting of the engraving. Number 227 of 1050 numbered copies. Pages untrimmed; Dutch rag paper, printed and made in Scotland by R. & R. Clark for the Nonesuch Press in Monotype Bodoni. Slight foxing and browning especially on first and last flyleaves, otherwise very clean and crisp pages. Original tan buckram with calf label. An excellent copy. Abraham Cowley (1618 1667) was one of the leading English poets of the 17th century. The Mistress is a collection published in 1647 that quickly became extremely popular it has been described as the last and most violent expression of the amatory affectation of the 17th century . The present book includes not only The Mistress but also other selected poems by Cowley. Other works by Cowley include the Pindarique Odes (also in this volume), Pyramus and Thisbe, Poetical Blossoms, Naufragium Ioculare , and his unfinished epic on King David, Davideis. He was among the first poets to use the Pindaric ode form in English poetry.
Seller: Symonds Rare Books Ltd, London, United Kingdom