Paris: Chez Le Prieur, 1807. One of many translated and illustrated editions (first published in German in 1758). 12mo. 295, (1, table), (4, publisher’s catalogue) pp. Eight engraved plates. Gessner (1730-1788) was “the most successful and typical representative of a rococo movement. His pastorals were translated into 20 languages” (Britannica..... More
Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1908. 12mo. xxxv, 491, (1) pp. All of the poems, by Berenger, Corneille, Hugo, Moliere, Nerval, Racine, Ronsard, Verlaine, Voltaire, and many others, are in French. Brown crushed morocco, gilt spine title between raised bands, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, by Riviere..... More
London: Reeves and Turner, 1880. First edition, author’s first book. 12mo. (8), 184 pp. Errata slip tipped in. Original blue-green cloth (crease to front endpaper, front joint chipped). Still very good. More
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1878. 4to. iv, 665, (1, publisher’s ad leaf) pp. [printed double column]. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Inscribed by the author on the title page “G. B. Buckton / from / A. Tennyson / I am sorry to say that there are a great many mistakes..... More
London: Printed for Henry Herringman, 1676. Small 8vo. (6), 3-135 [Fragmenta Aurea, 1648, but lacking title page, Letters to Diverse Eminent Personages, 1658, and An Account of Religion by Reason, 1658], 82 [Aglaura, 1658], 190 [The Goblings, 1658, and Brennoralt, 1658], (4), 37 [The Last Remains of Sir John Suckling..... More
NY: 1895. First edition with the Edwards illustrations, 1/450 unnumbered copies. 8vo. (56) pp. Original cloth-backed tan boards (rubbed and scraped, spine ends somewhat frayed), floral endpapers, gilt spine title. Bookplate of Fitzroy Carrington and his inscription on front pastedown, but a good copy only. More
New York: Printed & Sold by J. Baldwin [false imprint, actually printed in London], 1821. First edition with an American imprint. 12mo in sixes (16 cm). (12), 181, (1, publisher’s ad leaf) pp. Engraved title leaf on thicker paper. American Imprints 6784. Grannis 22. Wise Shelley Library, p. 92. OCLC..... More
London: Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner, 1886. First edition thus (with several issues of varying size printed), this 1/300 copies, Shelley Society’s Publications, Second Series, No. 5. 8vo. lviii, xi, 60 pp. 7-page Shelley Society publications catalogue at rear. Original printed blue-green boards (rubbed, some soiling..... More
London: Printed for T. Cadell, Jennings and Chaplin, and E. Moxon (Poems, by Cadell and Moxon), 1830 and 1834. First illustrated editions (first issue of Italy with transposed plates on pp. 88 and 91). 8vo in fours. vii, 284; viii, 295, (1, ad leaf) pp. Illustrated with in-text steel engravings..... More
Philadelphia, (PA): John Grigg, 1831. 8vo. (2), [John Milton:] xxxii, 170, [Dr. Edward Young:] viii, 208, [Thomas Gray:] x, 47, [James Beattie:] ix, 23, [William Collins:] iv, 19, (3, publisher’s ad) pp. [printed double-column]. Ownership signature of A. Cleveland Cox (1818-1896, second Episcopal Bishop of Western new York) at the..... More
London: Edward Moxon, 1854. First edition with the Milnes memoir and these illustrations. 8vo. xii, xl, 375 pp. Frontispiece portrait, in-text illustrations and vignettes, head and tail-pieces. Contemporary (publisher’s?) green pebbled leather, boards framed with a wide ornamental rule between a pair of gilt double-rules and an inner small ornamental..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1928. First edition. 8vo. xi, 202 pp. Armorial bookplate of Ian Maxwell Campbell on verso of front endpaper. Contemporary polished calf, boards framed by a thin triple-rule, spine richly gilt with ornaments, rules and leather labels between raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, by Riviere..... More
Eton, England: Printed at the Eton College Press, 1894. 4to. xiv, 164 pp. Frontispiece portrait and three engraved plates mounted on thick stock. Prize-binding leaf completed in ink for Herbert Ivo de Keaton Bond (1879-1953) and signed by Eton’s headmaster, Edmond Warre in 1897. Publisher’s tan calf, boards framed with..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Truebner & Co., 1892. First edition, with the printed slip: “This copy of BEAU BROCADE is part of the English Edition. In deference to the wishes of collectors it is issued with the English imprint solely, but it is published in United States by arrangement with..... More
