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Goldsmith, Oliver. The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith. George Routledge, London, 1859.
Price: US$32.07 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Tangerine decorated bevelled boards bright but worn at the top of the spine with a 2" tear to the leading edge. Note that the fep is the only page still attached to the boards, the rest of the pages are now individually extractable. Small binders label (Harrisons, Bookseller to the Queen) at top of front pastedown. Pages have gilt edges and form a reasonably solid text block, pages generally clean but showing states of foxing or foxing splodges throughout (title page is worst) Ideal for someone to test their binding skills.160pps, 970 gms. Covid 19 - Please see "More Information" for current shipping terms
Seller: Broadwater Books, Southampton, United Kingdom
Price: US$33.07 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 160 S., 23 cm, Ganzledereinband mit Goldprägung. Umlaufender Goldschnitt. Marmorierte Vorsätze. Illustrations by Birket Foster and H. N. Humphreys, printed in colors from wood-blocks. Ecken und Kanten berieben, teils bestoßen. Buchblock nach den ersten drei Blatt mit Bruchstelle. Eines der frühesten Bücher mit in Farben gedruckten Holzschnitten. Graesse III, 116.
Seller: Dennis Wolter, Hardegsen OT Gladebeck, Germany
Robert Aris Willmott (ed.). The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith. George Routledge and Co., London, 1859.
Price: US$60.90 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: George Routledge and Co., 1859. First Edition. Hard Cover. All edges gilt. Cover has considerable shelfwear, front board fully detached at front spine edge. Pages are clean unmarked and foxed. Color wood block illustrations. One inch chip missing at top of spine. Good reading/research copy. Excellent candidate for re-binding.
Seller: PJK Books and Such, Murrells Inlet, SC, U.S.A.
Willmott Robert Aris (editor). The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith. George Routledge & Co,, London, 1859.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This collection contains Goldsmith's famous poems such as The Traveller, The Deserted Village, The Haunch of Venison, The Hermit and The Retaliation and many others. Full leather binding for Buffalo Female Academy with date: June 25th 1863, the name: Elizabeth Folley and the institution name: 2nd Academic Department Buffalo Female Academy, engraved with tooling on front panel, five raised bands. All edges gilt with original marbled endpapers. Edjes are rubbed and there is scattered foxing throughout. Printed in color from woodblock plates by Birket Foster and head and tail ornamentations by Noel Humphries.
Seller: Sekkes Consultants, North Dighton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$198.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A charming copy of this collection of Goldsmith's poetry, illustrated in colour throughout and bound in full calf. Illustrated throughout by Birket Foster and H. N. Humphreys. Printed in colours from wood blocks. Birket Foster was a British illustrator, water colourist, and engraver, known for his scenes of rural life. This paired nicely with Humphrey's work as a naturalist and they enjoyed a successful working relationship. In a handsome full red calf binding, with gilt detail. A smart collection of the poetry of Oliver Goldsmith, featuring some of his best known works, including The Deserted Village and The Traveller. In a full calf binding with gilt detail. Externally very smart with rubbing to the extremities and the joints. The odd light mark to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with scattered spotting. Ink mark to page 77, not affecting the text. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Oliver Goldsmith. The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith. George Routledge and Sons, London, 1859.
Price: US$205.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: An attractively bound edition of the collected poetry of the Anglo-Irish writer and poet Oliver Goldsmith. First thus, the first edition of this particular format. Oliver Goldsmith spent the majority of his life in debt and produced a large literary output as a hack writer for many publishers of London. He was referred to by Horace Walpole as 'an inspired idiot'. Includes one of his foremost works, the pastoral poem 'The Deserted Village'. Complete with 40 gilt bordered, colour woodblock illustrations by Birket Foster and H. N. Humphreys, the former of whom was incredibly popular in Victorian Britain, famed for his idyllic images of rural England. In a full morocco binding with attractive gilt detailing to the spine. Externally, generally smart with some shelfwear and just a little rubbing to the boards and spine. Hinges are slightly strained. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages that have just the occasional handling mark. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$248.04 + shipping
Description: Fine Binding - Colour Lithographs Small 4to. p.p. xvi - 160. Cntp. bevelled green and orange morocco, heavily embossed and decorated in gilt and black. A.E.G. Raised bands, gilt spine. Beautiful colour lithographs by Birket Foster and H.N. Humphreys. Marbled end papers.
Seller: Healy Rare Books, Galway, Ireland
Goldsmith, Oliver. THE POEMS OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH. George Routledge and Co., London, 1859.
Price: US$250.14 + shipping
Description: xvi, 160pp. Printed by Edmund Evans. llustrated by Birket Foster (1825-99). Half-calf green morocco with green buckram boards. Raised bands with gilt dec. compartments. Corners rubbed and bumped. Marbled end-appers. Printed in colour from wood blocks plates by Birket Foster and H.N.Humpreys. Armorial bookplate for Veates. Please email for photos. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Description: Engraved title with gilt borders, numerous text woodcuts in contemporary colour, decorative initials, borders, ornaments, text within gilt rules. Original bright green cloth over beveled boards, decorated in blind, central panels in leaf sprays, central frame and title gilt, outer frame of gilt roundels with stars in gilt and black, lightly soiled at edges and worn at corners; yellow endpapers, some foxing throughout. Armorial bookplate of Richard Foster, small bookseller's label "Andrew C. Glover" to front paste-down. FIRST WORK TO INCORPORATE COLOURED PRINTING BY EVANS. First edition. The present volume, which Goldsmith dedicated to his brother, the Rev. Henry Goldsmith, contains all of his poems, including The deserted village; The hermit; An elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaze; Threnodia Augustalis and Birds. llustrated by Birket Foster (1825-99), the most celebrated English painter of nineteenth-century rustic scenes, engraved in colors from wood blocks and printed by Edmund Evans (1826-1905).This was the first book with important pictorial colour printing by Evans. NSTC, I&II, 2G12291.
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.