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Lot 192
[POETRY-BINDINGS] Fourteen works, mostly poetry, by various authors.
Publication dates range from the early 19th to the mid-20th century. Including: BURNS, ROBERT and CROMEK, R. H. Reliques of Robert Burns; Consisting Chiefly of Original Letters, Poems, and Critical Observations on Scottish Songs. London: J M'Creery for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1808. Contemporary calf. 8 1/4 x 5 inches (21 x 13 cm). [i]-xxiii, [1], [1]-453, [1], [1]-5, [1] pp.; 6 pp. ads at rear, offering subscriptions for an engraving by Louis Schiavonetti of Thomas Stothard's painting "Chaucer's Pilgrims to Canterbury," and announcing the recently published edition of William Blake's engravings of Robert Blair's poem, "The Grave." Rebacked retaining original boards and spine, the corners replaced and endpapers renewed, contents unevenly toned with occasional spotting, bookplates of Angus Roy-Shannon and William Safire; SCOTT, WALTER. The Lay of the Last Minstrel, A Poem. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811. Later edition. Contemporary calf. Rebacked, lightly toned, bookplate of George Compton; BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT. Aurora Leigh. London: Smith Elder & Co., 1885. Later edition. Finely bound in cream colored calf gilt; HUNT, LEIGH. Imagination and Fancy. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1845. Second edition. Half calf over marbled boards; HUNT, LEIGH. Poems [and] Essays. London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1891. 2 volumes, number 97 of 150 on large paper. Full calf gilt, all edges gilt, illustrated with etched plates. HENLEY, WILLIAM ERNEST. Poems. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. Later edition. Half calf gilt; frontispiece; BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, Lord. The Poetical Works. London: Henry Frowde, 1907. The Oxford edition. Quarter vellum, pictorially gilt; frontispiece; SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE. The Poetical Works. London: Henry Frowde, 1907. The Oxford edition. Quarter vellum; SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE and MCMAHAN, ANNA BENNESON. With Shelley in Italy ... 1818 to 1822. Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1905. Frontispiece and plates. In half red calf gilt; KIPLING, RUDYARD. Rudyard Kipling's Verse. Definitive Edition. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1940. Full calf; WHITMAN, WALT with an introduction by COWLEY, MALCOLM. The Complete Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman as Prepared by Him for the Deathbed Edition. New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1948. 2 Volumes. In blue half calf with decoratively gilt spines; and KIPLING, RUDYARD. Kipling's Verses Miniature Series - IF. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1954. In red imitation leather. All volumes lightly worn, but most sound and generally well-preserved.
C From the Collection of the late William Safire
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