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Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 399 pages. Illustrated with wood engravings. Leather bound with gilt embellishment and gilt edges. Boards have rubbing, edge wear, erosion at corner tips and top spine end. Owner library plate on inside front cover. Owner inscriptions on fly leaf and half title page. Damp stains and foxing throughout. Front and rear hinges cracked. A few rear pages are loose. (C1)
Seller: Jeff Jeremias Fine Arts, RMABA, Aurora, CO, U.S.A.
Thomas Percy. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. George Routledge and Sons, Limited, London, 1857.
Price: US$40.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Consisting of old heroic ballads, songs and other pieces of our earlier poets, together with some few of later date, edited by Robert Aris Willmott. Maroon cloth hardcover, gilt titles and decorations on spine, and only very minor edge wear. lxxi, 610 clean pages with only some browning of page borders; and several pages of advertisements at rear. Overall this book with preface dated 1857 is in very good to fine condition.
Seller: McGonigles', Cerne Abbas, United Kingdom
Rev Robert Aris Willmott. The Poets of The Nineteenth Century. George Routledge, 1857.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "The Poets of The Nineteenth Century" by Rev Robert Aris Willmott George Routledge, London - 1857 first thus edition - 394p, 20cmx15cm - condition; good, original binding with some wear and rubbing, some page foxing, some scribbling and inscription endpapers.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Price: US$54.27 + shipping
Description: Cloth binding, 23 cm, 397 pp. Ills.: black and white illustrations. Illustrated with one hundred engravings, drawn by eminent artists, and engraved by the brothers Dalziel. All edges gilt. Spine a bit damaged, nice gold decorative binding. Corners bumped. This collection includes works from Cowper, Radcliffe, Hannah More,Rogers, Byron, Spencer, Shelley, Coleridge, Wordsworth and many moreeminent poets. Cond.: goed / good.
Seller: Bij tij en ontij ..., Kloosterburen, NL, Netherlands
Price: US$61.48 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A beautifully illustrated collection of poetry from the nineteenth century. Illustrated with one hundred engravings. A series of poems from the most prominent British writers in the nineteenth century, including Byron, Shelley, Cowper, Coleridge, Moore, and others. Selected and edited by Robert Aris Willmott, an English author and cleric. Illustrated by the Brothers Dalziel, English wood-engravers who set up a prolific business in Victorian London. Bound by Edmonds & Remnants, London. In the original blue cloth binding with gilt decoration. Externally, sound with rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the odd mark to the board. Minor loss to the head and tail of the spine. Front hinge tender but firm. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Light age toning to the endpapers. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Bound by Edmonds & Remnants, London. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st edition thus. 12mol volume bound with cream-colored gutta percha boards; the front is richly decorated in gilt, red, blue, green and black. The edges of the boards are trimmed with brass metal; all edges gilt. B&W illustrations. Condition: spine strip of binding is missing & boards are loose; some minor foxing; else good. Pages: lxxvi, 610.
Seller: Arnold M. Herr, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$96.06 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: xv + 398 pages. Book has a forward lean. Slight FOXING/slight BLOTCHING throughout some pages of volume. Rebound with original ornately impressed gilt decorated (but dulled/lightly rubbed) front board & spine & plain impressed decorated rear set onto new binding with darkened beige cloth showing to hinges & ends of spine which have losses to original binding. Heavy wear to corners or new binding with frays exposing card of underlayer, wear through to card at bottom edges in places. Ink presentation inscription dated 1856 to free end-paper. Gilt to all page-edges. Outstanding b/w illustrations within text. Slight blotching to a good percentage of pages, but text is otherwise nice & clean. Binding a little strained in places. Well used.
Seller: Sarah Zaluckyj, KINGTON, United Kingdom
Price: US$115.11 + shipping
Description: Illustrated with 100 engravings drawn by eminent artists, and engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. xv, 399 pp. Poets include: James Beattie, William Cowper, Charlotte Smith, Anna Seward, Erasmus Darwin, George Crabbe, Ann Radcliffe, Hannah More, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Charles Lamb, Walter Scott, Thomas Moore, Robert Southey, William Southeby, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Allingham etc. etc. Spots of foxing on prelims and throughout text. Inscription to previous owner at top of title page. Binding sound. All edges gilt. Beautifully bound in heavy brown bevelled cloth boards with elaborate gilt decoration on front board and spine. Top and bottom of spine and corners bumped. Overall condition VG.
Seller: Owl Books, County Leitrim, Ireland
Robert Aris Willmott. The Poets of the Nineteenth Century. George Routledge & Co., London, 1857.
Price: US$153.70 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition of this collection of famous poems selected by Robert Aris Willmott, with illustrations. A series of poems from the most prominent British writers in the nineteenth century, including Byron, Shelley, Cowper, Coleridge, Moore, and others. Selected and arranged by Robert Aris Willmott, an English cleric and author.The first edition of this work.Illustrated with numerous in-text engravings by Brothers Dalziel.Prize binding awarded to Henry Jackson for Latin Hexameters at Cheltenham College in 1857. In full straight up grain morocco binding, with five raised bands, gilt tooling to spine, gilt embossing to front board, marbled edges and endpapers. Externally sound with some shelf wear, boards and spine rubbed to extremities, rubbing to joints, general light soiling. Henry Jackson's bookplate to front pastedown. School prize inscription to recto front blank page. Internally, firmly bound. Minor light foxing scattered to the leaves. With numerous vignette engravings in text. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$160.11 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 400pp, full-morocco, bevelled boards, raised bands, spine in six panels, title in gilt to second panel and upper cover, a.e.g. comb and curl marbled endpapers. Spine very slightly faded, slightly rubbed to extremities. Title lightly browned and foxed, some light sporadic foxing, but generally quite bright and clean. Engravings by Dalziel Brothers of illustrations by Birket Foster, Tenniel and others. Bookplate of Percival F. Hinton to front pastedown, from the library of Eric Quayle. Includes one of Ford Madox Brown's few book illustrations for Byron's Prisoner of Chillon (Goldman - Victorian Illustrated Books 1850-1870 - Pg 82) Size: 8vo
Seller: Zetetic Books, Berkhamsted, United Kingdom
Price: US$160.11 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition of this collection of the works of various 19th poets, including James Beattie, Mary Tighe, Erasmus Darwin, Hannah More, Leigh Hunt, Wordsworth, Sotheby, James Hogg, Walter Scott, Gerald Massey, Elizabeth Barrett Browning etc. Illustrated with 100 engravings drawn by eminent artists of the time (including Birket Foster, Sir John Tenniel, T Dalziel, Millias, etc) and engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. Includes one of Ford Madox Brown's rare illustrations for Byron's Prisoner of Chillon [Goldman - Victorian Illustrated Books 1850-1870, p. 82]. In blue cloth binding over bevelled boards, richly decorated with gold leaf, design by by John Sliegh, whose initials appear as part of the design at the base of spine. All edges gilt. xvi, 400pp. An important volume in this history of English book illustration [See Gleeson White, English Illustration, --105-107.] (Boards worn, rubbed at edges, a little frayed at spine tips, still attractive volume). Previous owner's bookplate on front paste down, gift inscription dated 1866 on front free endpaper, with small bookseller's ticket indicating the volume was once retailed by Napper and Wright Stationers and Booksellers on New Street, Birmingham. Small ticket on rear paste down indicating the volume was bound by leading binders, Edmonds & Remnants, London. Pencil note on title page. Some spotting around gutters but otherwise neat, clean, bright and tight internally. Large 8vo. A large and heavy volume which will likely incur an additional charge for overseas delivery.
Seller: BookAddiction (ibooknet member), Canterbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$164.44 + shipping
Description: Hardcover 4to. xv, (i), 398, (1) pages. Plein chagrin rouge d'époque, dos à cinq nerfs orné de caissons dorés, double filet dore en rectangle, pièce de titre en veau havane, toutes tranches dorees. LContributing artists include J. R. Clayton, Arthur Hughes, James Godwin, and J. E. Millais. Légers frottements aux coiffes et aux mors, coins légèrement émoussés, coupes frottées. Intérieur frais (qqs rares rousseurs).- A fine copy (foxing). [BU-10]
Seller: Librairie Pique-Puces, Belfort, France