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Price: US$77.30 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ex library with the usual blemishes. Ten volumes in uniform library bindings. This set is heavy and will attract postal surcharges. Foxing, especially to prelims. Volumes 1 and 2, published 1837. Volumes 3 - 10 published 1838. Page 191/2 of Volume 10, present but detached.
Seller: Webbooks, Wigtown, Wigtown, United Kingdom
Price: US$85.15 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 10 Vols, very good matching hardbacks, dark leather spines with bright gilt lettering & a patterned gilt design. Leather continues over the covers and in the corners of the boards. The boards have a marbled design which is also on the end papers. Top page edges are gold gilt. From a university library.
Seller: G. & J. CHESTERS, TAMWORTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Leather volumes with marbled edges on text block. Marbled end papers. Some volumes have moisture stains. Printed in 1837 and 1838. Overall a very nice set.
Seller: Yes Books, portland, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 10 vols.: xxxiii, 346, [2]; xviii, 284, [16]; 4, xv, 321; xvi, 440; xxi, 453; xvi, 285; xxiv, 294; xxv, 339; xxiv, 406; xxi, 264, [16] p. 18 cm. Vol. I has frontispiece portrait of the poet and engraved frontispiece. All further volumes have a frontispiece and title page showing scenery. Green cloth with blank impressing to boards. Lettering in gilt on spines. Corners bumped, a few small marks or dents. A few pages uncut. Vol. X frontispiece and title page are detached. First pages usually somewhat thumbed. In general, clean and neat, still a good looking set.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1837-1838. No edition stated. A beautiful, complete set consisting of 10 volumes which have been bound in full leather with marbled end papers and edges. From the library of George Twycross, whose crest is under the front board of each volume. The boards are rubbed and worn, but remain strong and sturdy. Internally, there is age-related tanning throughout, but the pages remain neat and complete across all volumes. The bindings are secure. A handsome set indeed! Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Robert Southey.. THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT SOUTHEY, COLLECTED BY HIMSELF.. , 1837.
Price: US$251.21 + shipping
Description: 1837, 1838, London, printed for Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, ten volumes, complete, ppxxxiii + 346 + (ii); xviii + 284 + 16; 4 + xv + 321; xvi + 440; xxi + 453; xvi + 285, xxiv + 294; xxv + 339; xxiv + 406; xxi + 264 + 16, steel engraved frontispieces, vignette title-pages, original green cloth, ornately blind-stamped, bound by T. P. Baily, Cirencester. Some foxing, slight damp marks on endpapers, otherwise very good.
Seller: Graham York Rare Books ABA ILAB, Honiton, United Kingdom
Price: US$322.07 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Ten volumes. Octavo ( 165mm. ) Pp. [5] vixxxiii [3], [1] 2 - 346 ; [7] viii - xviii, [2], [5] 6 -284 ; [7] viii - xv, [2] 3 - 321 ; [9] x - xvi, [3] 4 - 440 ; [11] xii - xxi, [2], [3] 4 - 453 ; [13] xiv - xxiv, [3] 4 - 295 ; [7] viii - xvi, [1] 4 ( pagination in error ) - 285 ; [11] xii - xxv [1], [1] 2 - 339 ; [9] x - xxiv, [1] 2 - 406 ; [5] vi - xxi, [6], [3] 4 - 264. All volumes with a tissue guarded frontispiece and extra engraved title page all by Finden, all of which are spotted. Dusty in the head margins.Contents - Volume One: Joan of Arc; The Vision of the Maid of Orleans. Volume Two: Juvenile and Minor Poems, vol.I Volume Three: Juvenile and Minor Poems, vol.II Volume Four: Thalaba the Destroyer. Volume Five: Madoc. Volume Six: Ballads and Metrical Tales, vol.I Volume Seven: Ballads and Metrical Tales, vol.II Volume Eight: The Curse of Kehama. Volume Nine: Roderick, the Last of the Goths. Volume Ten: Waterloo; Carmen Nuptiale; A Vision of Judgement. Contemporary goatskin rubbed, corners bumped. The spines with five raised bands, lettered direct some volumes chipped and frayed at the head and toes. Two volumes mis-numbered on their spines. Armorial bookplate of William Charles Cotton an all front pastedowns. A near very good set. Volume VI includes a ' Tale of Paraguay ' , a poem on which Southey had laboured at intervals for several years. ' The result, however, justified the exertion ; the piece is amongst the most elegant and finished of his works ' - ODNB. Lowndes Vol.V,2458/
Seller: Roger J Treglown, ABA., MILNTHORPE, CUMBR, United Kingdom
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: One-half red morocco over red cloth by Stikeman spines gilt decorative surrounds and thistle central devices.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [Fine Bindings] 10 volume set. Bound in fine contemporary, embossed leather. Gilt stamped spine, covers. All edges gilt. Clean, unmarked pages. Includes original invoice from the Heritage Bookshop from 2000. Contents: v. 1. Joan of Arc. The vision of the Maid of Orleans --v. 2-3. Juvenile and minor poems --v. 4. Thalaba the destroyer --v. 5. Madoc --v. 6-7. Ballads and metrical tales --v. 8. The curse of Kehama --v. 9. Roderick, the last of the Goths : a tragic poem --v. 10. The poet's pilgrimage to Waterloo. Carmen nuptiale. Funeral song, for the Princess Charlotte of Wales. A vision of judgement. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Southey, Robert. The Poetical Works of .. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London, 1837.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: Each volume with frontispiece and title page engravings. 10 vols. 8vo. Volume One flyleaf inscribed "With the author's compts [compliments] /Anna Eliza Bray/ Ded. 1837." A complimentary copy sent by the publisher to Anna Eliza Bray (1790-1883), novelist and friend of Southey. Southey carried on an extensive correspondence (now in the University of Rochester archives) with her, visited her home, and encouraged her republication of her husband's Dartmoor researches. Original green blind-stamped cloth. Some spines lightly chipped, hinges cracked, else fine Each volume with frontispiece and title page engravings. 10 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1055.69 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 12 mo. 16.2 cm x 9.5 cm. Each volume with engraved frontispiece (portrait in vol. 1), and extra engraved title-page. Half-bound in maroon morocco and combed marble boards, gilt-framed spine panels with gilt-stamped titles and volume numbers, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers, ribbon bookmark in each volume. A fine set, handsome on the shelf.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
SOUTHEY, Robert. The Poetical Works of Robert Southey. Longmans, London, 1837.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 10 volumes. Illustrated with engraved frontispieces and title pages. Small 8vo, full mottled red calf, gilt borders on covers, gilt-dec. raised bands; (corners lightly rubbed). London: Longman, Orme, 1837. Near Fine.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.