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Zustand: Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original colour illustrated paper covered boards, emerald green thin linen cloth spine, Green's Cake Sponge Mixture advertisement to the rear cover. Quarto. 9½'' x 7¾''. Contains 208 pp with monochrome, single and twin colour illustrations and 4 full-page colour plates throughout. Front free end paper absent, frontispiece taped back in, corners rubbed and in Good condition. Playbox 1st series had 2 issues in 1898. Playbox 2nd series ran from 1905-1913. Playbox 3rd series (merged with Jack and Jill) ran from 1925-1955. The 2nd and 3rd series realised 48 annuals from 1909 to 1956. Member of the P.B.F.A. ANNUALS & YEARBOOKS.…

Cloth. Zustand: Good Only. First edition. This uncommon, first thus edited and titled edition of the poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt in two volumes, with illustrations, an introduction, and commentary. The first thus edited and titled edition of the poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt in two volumes.With 11 monochrome plate illustrations across the two volumes, including a facsimile letter by Wyatt; a reproduction of the Holbein portrait; and a facsimile frontispiece of Leland's "Naeniae" as the frontispiece to Volume I. Collated complete.Includes a six-page table of first lines from the Egerton MS., with approximate dates of composition and the various sources, at the rear of Volume I.With an errata slip tipped in between pp. [xvi] and xvii of Volume I, and between pp. xxii and xxiii of Volume II.Uncommon.Sir Thomas Wyatt was a sixteenth-century English politician and lyric poet who is often credited with introducing the sonnet to English literature, and whose most famous verse includes 'Whoso List to Hunt', 'They Flee From Me', and 'What No, Perdie'. His family, and in particular his father, had a tumultuous relationship with the English royals, with the latter having been both a Privy Councillor to Henry VII and been tortured and imprisoned by Richard III. These two volumes offer a reader both an excellent survey of Wyatt's poetic works, from his satires to his sonnets, as well as an illuminating commentary and an appendix of the poet's Italian sources. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, sound with significant staining and resultant discolouration, heaviest to the rear board of Volume II, and to the front board and backstrip of Volume II, as well as some minor handling marks. Slight bumping to the heads and tails of the spines and the extremities, causing some splitting of and loss to the cloth. Hinges starting. Internally, sections of the binding are strained. Pages are generally bright and clean barring light age toning, the odd marginal spot or mark, and some significant pencil annotations e.g. to pp. 265r-272v of Volume II and pp. 196 of Volume I. Good Only. None (illustrator). book.…

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original colour illustrated paper covered boards, emerald green thin linen cloth spine, Green's Cake Sponge Mixture advertisement to the rear cover. Quarto. 9½'' x 7¾''. Contains 208 pp with monochrome, single and twin colour illustrations and 4 full-page colour plates throughout. In Very Good condition. Playbox 1st series had 2 issues in 1898. Playbox 2nd series ran from 1905-1913. Playbox 3rd series (merged with Jack and Jill) ran from 1925-1955. The 2nd and 3rd series realised 48 annuals from 1909 to 1956. Member of the P.B.F.A. ANNUALS & YEARBOOKS.…