Southey robert editor (16 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Poor. 1st edition. Full calf, P+. 2 volumes, xvi+336pp, xii+370pp, engraved frontis & engraved title ( with vignette ) to each volume, leather rubbed & marked to both volumes with the top compartment missing to volume I & the upper board detached to volume II, both engraved titles & frontis are tanned & marked, a working set. The life & works section of the complete Southey edition ran to 3 volumes ( with 12 further volumes covering Cowpers poems, translation & letters ). William Cowper [ 1731 - 1800 ] English poet and Anglican hymnwriter. 750 grams.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. 201 pages, b/w/sepia illustrations throughout. A paperback copy incorporating the dust jacket and therefore perhaps a proof or advanced reading copy, but in all other respects identical to the hardback edition. Binding very good with a little wear to the spine. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A very good copy. Size: 4to (approx. 21 x 26cm). Book.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 260 pages. 8.40x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Centaur Classics edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth, top edge blue (Fine), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, price clipped). Pp. 360 (previous owner's neat inscription on front paste-down).

Zustand: Fine. Limited Editions Club 1958 Binding: Hardcover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. Robert Southey was an English poet of the Romantic school and was considered one of the Lake Poets. He was poet laureate from 1813 until his death in 1843. He was also a historian and prolific biographer, including biographies of the life and works of John Bunyan, John Wesley, William Cowper, Oliver Cromwell and Horatio Nelson. Octavo. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt title on dark red leather label to spine. Cover shows light wear and a few minor stains. Chipping to spine ends and browning to spine. Pages are clean, but show toning. Minor rubbing to front and back endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. 433 pages, with book advertisements at end. ENGHIST/081322.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Handsome collection of extracts from various great histories by eminent authors describing key events, including The Fire of London, The Discovery of America, The South Sea Bubble, The Salem Witch trials and dozens more. Decorative blue cloth. Bevelled edges. All edges gilt. With frontispiece. Printed in double columns. No date but c. 1900. Some rubbing to edges and bumping to corners. Contents clean and tight. Very good.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Half leather, marbled boards, covers worn and titles in manuscript across spine, split between front end papers and front cover attached but loosening, previous ownership book plate on front fee end paper and later ownership on front free end paper, text block tight, clean with occasional foxing, 330 pages. [QP].…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First edition. Very good or better in good dustwrapper. Hardcover has dustwrapper with 1 inch closed tear top front, bottom front, frayed, smudged on back/ Volume I.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Leather binding.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Leather binding.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 557 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Two vols, 12mo, (viii), 300; (vi), 299 pp., names of the contributors added in a later hand, some light foxing, contemporary calf, spines gilt, spines rubbed and a trifle worn at ends, upper joint of vol. I attached, but loose. First edition. A major collection of original new verse, edited by Southey, and with contributions from most of his early circle of friends. Prominent among these is Coleridge, who provided no fewer than twenty-seven poems. Other contributors, aside from Southey himself, include Joseph Cottle, Humphry Davy, Thomas Beddoes, George Dyer, Charles Lamb, Charles Lloyd, Robert Lovell, Amelia Opie, Mary Robinson, and Francis Wrangham. CBEL3, IV, 457.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine, handsomely bound. First Edition. Two volumes (4" x 6-1/2") bound in recent half brown morocco with matching corners retaining the original marbled boards, all edges marbled. Leaf B8 (pages 31-32) lacking in first volume, as usual; C3 in second volume in uncancelled state, with word "wicked" present on page 37, line 9. [Tinker 1953; Wise, Coleridge, 15]. Contributions by Samuel T. Coleridge (27 poems, some previously unpublished), Poet Laureate Robert Southey, Charles Lamb, Robert Lovell, Humphry Davy, Amelia Opie, and others. Pages 31-32 contained Southey's "War Poem," but were canceled in all but two known copies as the poem was considered unpatriotic. A third volume was advertised but never published. A remarkable and important collection of early Romantic poetry, here in unusually nice condition.…

Zustand: Good. Other Contributors include Charles Lloyd, Amelia Opie, George Dyer, Joseph Cottle, Robert Lovell, A.S Cottle, Humphrey Davy, Dr. Beddoes, Joseph Hucks, & Mary Robinson. 2 vols. pp. (viii), 300; (vi), 299. 8vo. Full calf, spines with gilt decoration and labels. All hinges rubbed. In Vol 1. pp. 31/32 (Sig. B8) is cancelled as usual. It carried Southey's War Poem, which was deleted because of the extreme lack of patriotism it expressed. There are 27 poems included by Coleridge of which This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison, A Poem, Addresses to Charles Lamb, of the India-House, London; Sonnet to W.L. Esq. while he sung a Song to Purcell's Music; Somethiong childish, but very natural. Written in Germany; Home-Sick. Written in Germany; and four of the Epigrams were all printed for the first time in these volumes. A third volume was considered but never published.With the bookplate of Edward J. McCutchen and the binders label C. Kalthoeber, London. Wise p. 56.…

First editions. First editions. [viii], 300 (B8, pp. 31-2, canceled as usual); [vi], 299, [1] pp., on wove paper, watermarked "LLOYD 1795". 2 vols. 8vo. First edition of the two volumes, all published, of Southey's anthology of new poetry. Besides Southey himself, the most important contributor is Coleridge, with no fewer than 27 poems, including the first printing of "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison." There are also poems by Charles Lamb, Charles Lloyd, Joseph Cottle, Robert Lovell, George Dyer, Francis Wrangham, Humphry Davy, Mary Robinson, and Amelia Opie. A third volume was planned but never appeared. The canceled leaf, excised in all but Southey's own copy, contained his "War Poem" and was deleted because of its insufficient patriotism. A fine copy in the original boards with distinguished provenance. Ashley I, pp. 199-200; Wise, Coleridge 15; Tinker 1953. Provenance: William Henry Covington (bookplate); Frank Brewer Bemis (bookplate); Harold Greenhill (bookplate); David & Lulu Borowitz (bookplate, their sale Sotheby's New York, 15 November 1977, lot 232); John Davidson (bookplate) Publisher's paper-backed gray (vol. I) and rose (vol. II) boards, skillfully rebacked to style. Fine, in custom blue morocco gilt pull-off cases [viii], 300 (B8, pp. 31-2, canceled as usual); [vi], 299, [1] pp., on wove paper, watermarked "LLOYD 1795". 2 vols. 8vo.…