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Auction No 370, Category: Poetry

12 Lots (displaying 1 - 12)

A selection of Antiquarian books all in need of rebinding and restoration including "Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect", 1808;

Lot: 21

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £130
SOLD £850
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A selection of Antiquarian books all in need of rebinding and restoration including Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect, 1808; A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Jerome Lobo, London, 1735; Memoirs of North-Britain, London, 1715; Priscilla Wakefield Perambulations in London, and its Environs, 1814, with all plates; and Lazarus Riverius The Practice of Physick In Seventeen several Books, quarto, 1655 to which is appended an original manuscript by Tobias Wolrich A Collection of Choice and Approved receipts in physic and chirurgery, 1725, 90pp. Mixed condition. (6)

Annibal Caro "Rime del Commendatore Annibal Caro". Bernardo Giunti e Fratelli, Venice, 1583

Lot: 135

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £86
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Annibal Caro Rime del Commendatore Annibal Caro. Bernardo Giunti e Fratelli, Venice, 1583, octavo, complete with endpapers but lacking boards; contemp.ownership inscription to front endpaper; title and 5pp dedication adorned with woodcuts; first endpaper dust-affected; fine internally; (8),103,(8)pp

Alexander Pope "The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated in a Dialogue..."

Lot: 139

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £68
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Alexander Pope The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated in a Dialogue….A.Dodd & E.Nutt, London, 1733, First Edition; folio, 20th Cent half-morocco, gilt, new endpapers, fine; 19pp.

Phinehas Fletcher "Piscatory Eclogues, with other Poetical Miscellanies", Edinburgh, 1771

Lot: 140

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £12
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Phinehas Fletcher Piscatory Eclogues, with other Poetical Miscellanies, Edinburgh, 1771, quarter-calf, worn; ownership signature dated 1898 top of title page; front inner hinge weak; clean text; [4],viii,151, [4]pp, plus errata slip. 

D. Fulvio Testi "Delle Poesie Liriche", Giulian Cassiani, Modena, 1645, 12mo, contemporary red leather, gilt

Lot: 143

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £72
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D. Fulvio Testi Delle Poesie Liriche, Giulian Cassiani, Modena, 1645, 12mo, contemporary red leather, gilt, showing later repairs, VG; previous owners’ bookplates; issued as two parts, bound together, each with its own title page; b/w portrait dated 1645; decorated throughout with head & tail pieces; fine internally. pp.(14),175,166. 

John Fawcett Skelton "The Gleaner: A Selection of Poems & Songs", Simpkin Marshall & John Heywood, 1876

Lot: 145

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £20
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John Fawcett Skelton The Gleaner: A Selection of Poems & Songs, Simpkin Marshall & John Heywood, 1876, First Edition, quarto, original gilt cloth: two copies, one uninscribed, the other with presentation inscription by the author and a few manuscript alterations to the text in the same hand, together with an autograph letter from W.T. Hampson to a friend recalling Skelton’s activities in Edgworth, Bolton, in the late-19th Century. Occasional fox mark otherwise good/VG. (2)

"Poems by Christina Rossetti, illustrated by Florence Harrison", Blackie & Son, 1910, tall quarto, full vellum, gilt, darkened,

Lot: 148

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £400 - £500
SOLD £460
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Poems by Christina Rossetti, illustrated by Florence Harrison, Blackie & Son, 1910, tall quarto, full vellum, gilt, darkened; No.157 of 350, signed by Florence Harrison on limitation page; t.e.g., uncut elsewhere; small monogram bookplate to front pastedown; fine internally with 36 colour plates mounted on thick grey paper & titled tissue guards and 34 tipped-in b/w plates on cream-coloured paper. Additional line-drawn vignettes as head & tail pieces. One colour plate with a corner crease. Lacks ribbon-ties. Damp stain to centre of rear board affects pastedown and last three leaves (plates unaffected)

J.M. Barrie "Quality Street", Hodder & Stoughton [1913], illustrated by Hugh Thomson, large quarto, full vellum, gilt, fine;

Lot: 149

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £86
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J.M. Barrie Quality Street, Hodder & Stoughton [1913], illustrated by Hugh Thomson, large quarto, full vellum, gilt, fine; No. 337 of 1000, signed by Hugh Thomson on limitation page  ; t.e.g., uncut elsewhere; ribbon-ties intact; fine internally, complete with 22 tissue-guarded colour plates. Some bowing to boards 

Edward Chicken "The Collier's Wedding, a Poem", T. & J. Hodgson, Newcastle, 1829, New Edition with corrections

Lot: 163

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £62
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Edward Chicken The Collier’s Wedding, a Poem, T. & J. Hodgson, Newcastle, 1829, New Edition with corrections, octavo, contemp. paper cover, frayed at periphery; fine internally; includes 12pp preface. Engraved title; xii, 32pp. VG

Thomas Warton "The Hamlet, an ode written in Wichwood Forest, Illustrated with fourteen etchings by Birket Foster"

Lot: 166

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
UNSOLD
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Thomas Warton The Hamlet, an ode written in Wichwood Forest, Illustrated with fourteen etchings by Birket Foster, Sampson Low, 1859, octavo, original gilt cloth VG, gutta percha binding weak with few loose plates, a few minor tone spots, plates unaffected.

Vernon Scannell "Ring of Truth", 1983, signed First Edition in fine d/jkt, and other signed Firsts by Scannell

Lot: 170

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
UNSOLD
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Vernon Scannell Ring of Truth, 1983, signed First Edition in fine d/jkt, and other signed Firsts by Scannell, most in VG/fine d/jkts, comprising The Loving Game 1975, The Winter Man 1973, The Face of the Enemy 1961 (worn d/jkt), and Views and Distances 2000, s/bk; also Of Love & War 2002 unsigned 1st Edition. (6)

"The Poetical Works of John Critchley Prince", Abel Heywood, Manchester, 1880, quarto, 2 Vols

Lot: 171

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
UNSOLD
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The Poetical Works of John Critchley Prince, Abel Heywood, Manchester, 1880, quarto, 2 Vols, original gilt cloth, VG; large paper edition, No.45 of 100 issued; front inner hinge to Vol. 1 frayed o/w fine. (2)