Auction No 419, Category: Poetry

4 Lots (displaying 1 - 4)

John Harland "Ballads & Songs of Lancashire, Chiefly Older than the 19th Century", Whittaker & Co.,1865, one of 100 large paper copies,

Lot: 37

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Aug 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
SOLD £80
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John Harland Ballads & Songs of Lancashire, Chiefly Older than the 19th Century, Whittaker & Co., 1865, one of 100 large paper copies, signed by John Harland on front endpaper; manuscript alterations and annotations in the author's hand to “The Blessed Conscience” extending from pp.47 to 55 based on a manuscript provided to the author after the book's initial publication. Original gilt cloth; binding weak between pp.112-113; small ownership stamp to top of half-title. VG. A unique copy.

English & American Poetry published by Easton Press 1995, a small format series in full leather with gilt decoration.

Lot: 46

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Aug 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £58
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English & American Poetry published by Easton Press 1995, a small format series in full leather with gilt decoration. Previous owner's ink inscription to the half-title of each volume but still an attractive group. (12)

Easton Press editions of Milton’s "Paradise Lost" and collected poems of W.B. Yeats, John Donne, William Blake and Robert Browning, all full leather

Lot: 51

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Aug 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £24
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Easton Press editions of Milton's Paradise Lost and collected poems of W.B. Yeats, John Donne, William Blake and Robert Browning, all full leather, gilt. Mostly VF but the William Blake has inked annotations to one page of the text. (5)     

"Lord Byron: Selected Poems", The Folio Society, 2013, quarto, bound in quarter-leather, gilt, decorated cloth sides, in slipcase, very fine.

Lot: 55

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Aug 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £34
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Lord Byron: Selected Poems, The Folio Society, 2013, quarto, bound in quarter-leather, gilt, decorated cloth sides, in slipcase, very fine.