Search Results: POETRY / 19TH CENTURY from Chilton Books

London: Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row, 1893 .. Original 19th century quarter leather binding. pp.14/pp.204. 5.75" x 3.50" x 1.00". Brown leather spine with gilt title, over dark green buckram boards. Top page edges gilt, all other edges deckled. Bookplate to verso of the front board: "Samuel Davies, Frodsham". Clear English text througohut on lightly toned paper, with half title and portrait frontis. VG. ** "Samuel Davies (1857 - 1929) was born in Frodsham, Cheshire, the son of Thomas and Ellen Davies. Samuel Davies was articled to Peter Bradshaw Alley of Manchester. Educated at Manchester School of Art and won prizes awarded by the Manchester Society of Architects and the Manchester Architectural Association. Samuel Davies commenced independent practice at Frodsham about 1891 and on 1 July 1893 his partnership with C E Linaker was dissolved. In 1894 he was elected a member of the Society of Architects and the following year opened a branch office in Runcorn. In 1907 he suffered severe… Read More

London: Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row, 1895 .. Original 19th century quarter leather binding. pp.16/pp.232. 5.75" x 3.50" x 1.00". Brown leather spine with gilt title, over dark green buckram boards. Top page edges gilt, all other edges deckled. Bookplate to verso of the front board: "Samuel Davies, Frodsham". Clear English text througohut on lightly toned paper, with half title and portrait frontis. VG. ** "Samuel Davies (1857 - 1929) was born in Frodsham, Cheshire, the son of Thomas and Ellen Davies. Samuel Davies was articled to Peter Bradshaw Alley of Manchester. Educated at Manchester School of Art and won prizes awarded by the Manchester Society of Architects and the Manchester Architectural Association. Samuel Davies commenced independent practice at Frodsham about 1891 and on 1 July 1893 his partnership with C E Linaker was dissolved. In 1894 he was elected a member of the Society of Architects and the following year opened a branch office in Runcorn. In 1907 he suffered severe… Read More

London: Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars, For John Murray, Albemarle-Street, 1814 .. A very good later quarter calf binding. 8vo. 222mm x 144mm x 12mm. pp.2-11/[1p.]/pp.108. Brown calf spine over marbled boards. Smooth spine with gilt titles: "The Corsair. Byron". Clean English text throughout. Colophon to base of last leaf: "T. Davison, Lombard-street, Whitefriars, London." Half-title and Advertisments absent. VG.

Hanley [England] : Allbut and Daniel , Printers And Publishers, MDCCCXCIV [1894 ] .. Limited first edition. 8vo. 9.0" x 6.0" x 1.0". [2pp.]/pp.190/[12pp. - Subscriber's List] . "Of this book only 250 copies have been printed." with 'Erratum' slip inserted. A very good original full vellum binding. Printed title and decoration to the front board and title also to the spine. Corners bumped and and boards soiled. Top page edges gilt. All other page edges deckled (rough-cut). Light toning to endpapers. Title-page in red & black. Clean text throughout, plus all 5 plates (as called for). A very good copy of this scarce book.

London : Printed for James Cawthorn, British Library, No. 24, Cockspur Street 1810 [1818] .. Third Edition." A very good full leather binding. 7.0" x 4.25" x 0.25". 8vo. pp. iv-vii/[1p.]/pp.85/[3pp. - Adverts Dated 1810 ] . Polished maroon calf with bright gilt border. Spine with gilt titles, 5 raised bands and gilt decorated compartments. All page edges gilt. Inner gilt dentelles. Marbled paste-downs Front endpaper removed. Small armorial crest of inter-twined initials (with silvered finish): "NW". Printed title dated 1810. Colophon to verso of title and base of last leaf: "Printed By T. Collins, Harvey's Buildings, Strand, London." Clear English text throughout, just light toning to first few leaves. VG. ** Wise I.38-39: the eighth 'spurious' third edition, watermark J & R Ansell 1818.

London: Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row, 1894 .. Original 19th century quarter leather binding. pp.16/pp.173/[3pp. - Adverts]. 5.75" x 3.50" x 1.00". Brown leather spine with gilt title, over dark green buckram boards. Top page edges gilt, all other edges deckled. Bookplate to verso of the front board: "Samuel Davies, Frodsham". Clear English text througohut on lightly toned paper, with half title and frontis. VG. ** "Samuel Davies (1857 - 1929) was born in Frodsham, Cheshire, the son of Thomas and Ellen Davies. Samuel Davies was articled to Peter Bradshaw Alley of Manchester. Educated at Manchester School of Art and won prizes awarded by the Manchester Society of Architects and the Manchester Architectural Association. Samuel Davies commenced independent practice at Frodsham about 1891 and on 1 July 1893 his partnership with C E Linaker was dissolved. In 1894 he was elected a member of the Society of Architects and the following year opened a branch office in Runcorn. In 1907 he suffered severe… Read More

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, Crown Buildings, 188, Fleet Street, 1881 .. Clean parchment covered boards with black and red titles to front cover. pp.192. Browning to endpapers. Bookplate to verso of the front board: "Ex Libris Gulielmi Fingland." Clean text throughout. VG. ** Bookplate: A scene in which an older man dressed in a long fur-trimmed coat and cap, carrying a satchel, is standing at a lab bench. Laboratory glassware and books are in front of him. Additionally he is surrounded by animal specimens, both live and preserved. A skeleton is in the lower left-hand corner, offering him a round bundle. Behind him, in the upper right-hand corner, appears the head of an angel cast in a heavenly light.

London: Printed For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, And Brown, Paternoster-Row; And A. Constable And Co. and John Ballantyne And Co. Edinburgh'; BY James Ballantyne & Co. Edinburgh, 1812 .. A very good quarter leather binding with excellent provenance. 8vo. pp.350 . Green cloth boards. Spine in brown calf . Spine with 5 raised bands, gilt decorated compartments and tan leather title label. Green marbled endpapers. Neat inked dedication to front free-endpaper: "Dudley Gladstone Hamilton Gordon From George W. E. Russell - 1907 ." Light spotting to endpapers, otherwise clean text throughout. VG. ** "Lieutenant-Colonel Dudley Gladstone Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair DSO (6 May 1883 � 16 April 1972), styled Lord Dudley Gordon from 1916 to 1965, was a British peer, soldier, and industrialist...in 1907 he was working for J. and E. Hall Ltd (an engineering company based in Dartford, Kent) " - See Wikipedia *** "George William Erskine Russell PC (3 February 1853 � 17 March 1919) was a British… Read More

London: William Tegg, 1865.. Seventh edition. 'The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence'. 24cms x 16.5cms. Pp.xx/736, engraved portrait frontispiece + title page and further 5 engraved illustrations, occasional mild spotting, loss to lower corner of margin pp.735/736. Purple blind-stamped bevelled cloth, gilt title to front and spine, uneven sunning to front board, sunning to spine, wear to top and tail of spine and corner tips. G+.

London : Cassell, Petter, and Gilpin, Ludgate Hill And 596, Broadway, New York, [c. 1883] .. A reissue of the edition of 1866. A very good folio half leather binding . 14.75" x 11.75" x 1.75". pp.lxii./pp.329 + 46 full-page illustrations by Gustave Dore. Black morocco spine and corners over green buckram boards. Gilt title to front board. Spine with 5 raised bands, gilt decorated compartments and gilt title. Corners and hinges carefully strengthened. Red page edges. Marbled endpapers. Title in red & black. Light foxing to title-page and most illustrations, otherwise clean text throughout. A well preserved copy of this Victorian classic.

London: Wells, Gardner and Darton & Co., nd (c.1905).. Edited by E.V.Lucas. Top edge gilt. Pp.xl/411, *colour illustrated title page and frontispiece by F.D.Bedford + many further black & white illustrations throughout, small bookseller's label (A.Brooker, Hastings) to inside front board, gift message to inner front endpaper, light spotting to endpapers and a few other minor spots. Blue illustrated cloth a little dulled with gilt title to front and similarly to spine, rubbing to top and tail of spine. G+., ** "Jane Taylor (1783 � 1824) was an English poet and novelist. She wrote the words to the song "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star", which is known worldwide, but its authorship generally forgotten. The sisters and their authorship of various works have often been confused, in part because their early works were published together. Ann Taylor's son, Josiah Gilbert, wrote in her biography, "Two little poems�'My Mother,' and 'Twinkle, twinkle, little Star,' are perhaps, more frequently quoted than… Read More

Gainsborough : Printed for the author by W. H. Caldicott, 1851 .. A very good original Victorian cloth binding. 12mo. pp. 102. 6.25" x 4.0" x 0.25". Blue cloth boards with bright gilt decoration of bows and a central gilt urn. Spine with similar gilt decoration and gilt title. Boards lightly rubbed and edges bumped. Original yellow endpapers. Small binder's label to recto of the rear board: "Bound by Westleys & Co., Friar Street, London." ** Frederick John von Sturmer, 1829-1897. Born 8 Apr 1829 in Oxford, England. Died in Hamilton, New Zealand, 1897.

London: Reeves & Turner 196 Strand, 1886 .. Second edition with the notes of Mry Wollstonecraft Shelley". Two volume set in matching gilt decorated bindings. 7.75" x 5.5" x 2.0". 8vo. Vol. I. : Frontispiece - Portrait Of Shelley By Miss Curran, Etched By William Bell Scott. pp.xcvii/[3pp.]/pp.572 . Vol. II. : Frontispiece - Shelley's Grave, Painted And Etched by W. B. Scott, pp.xiv/[2pp.]/pp.580/[2pp.]/pp.14 (Adverts). Matching brown buckram bindings with gilt stylised countryside images. Each spine with gilt title volume number and publication date. Deckled (rough cut) page edges. Previous owner's details to each half-title: "Arthur G. Taisley from his Mother August 15th 1891." Clean text throughout. VG. Full Title reads: "The poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley : given from his own editions and other authentic sources : collated with many manuscripts and with all editions of authority : together with his prefaces and notes, his poetical translations and fragments and an appendix of… Read More

London : Printed For John Miller, 25, Bow-Street, Covent Garden, 1814 .. Signed first edition. A very good half leather binding. 8vo. 725" x 4.75" x 0.2". pp. xi./[1p.]/pp.102/[2pp. - Errata / Adverts] . Brown Morocco spine and corners over green buckram boards. Spine with 5 raised bands, gilt decorated compartments, gilt title and gilt publication date. Board edges lightly rubbed. All page edges gilt . Original green endpapers. Handwritten dedication to verso of the half-title: "To the Honble. Thomas Gaskin From his obliged Fried The Author." Light spotting to half title and title-page, otherwise clean English text throughout. ** Referenced by: National union catalog, pre-1956 imprints 0406619 *** "Horace Twiss KC (28 February 1787 � 4 May 1849) was an English writer and politician. Twiss was born at Bath, Somerset, the son of Francis Twiss (1760�1827) and his wife Frances n�e Kemble (sister of Sarah Siddons n�e Kemble). He was a Shakespearian scholar. In his youth he wrote light… Read More

London : Printed For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1811 .. Third edition. A very good half leather binding. 8vo. pp.xv /[1p.]/pp.314 + portrait frontis . Brown calf spine and corners over orange marbled boards. Edges rubbed and bumped. Smooth spine with old red leather title label: "Tighe's Poems". Armorial bookplate to verso of the front board: "Frederick Lovell Keays." With motto: "In Deo Solo Spes Mea" . Inked owner's inscription also to verso of front board: "Mrs Gyles, 64 Upper Seymour St., Portman Sqr." Rough inked notes to front free-endpapers. Portrait frontis "Composed after Romney pinx. Caroline Watson Engraver to her Majesty sculpt." Light foxing to endpapers and frontis, otherwise cleane English text throughout. VG. ** Family History records show that Frederick Lovell Keays 1842-1905 . Born in Islington, London, England on 27th March 1842 to Frederick Keays and Elizabeth Austin Smith. Frederick Lovell Keays is listed as a Soliictor in the census reurns. He… Read More

London : Ward, Lock, Bowden & Co., Warwick House, Salisbury Square, [ c. 1891 ] .. A very good original Victorian binding. 13.50" x 9.75" x 0.5". [4pp.]/pp.68 plus 6 full-page engravings. Blue cloth coverd boards, with gilt titles and decoration to the front board. Just a couple of small bumps and blemishes, corners carefully strengthened, and gilt rubbed. Original brown endpapers. Six steel-engraved plates. Plate before "The Haunted House" carefully trimmed and laid-down to matching card. All plates drawn by Gustave Dor� engraved by: J. Godfrey; Lumb Stocks A.R.A.; J. Sadler; W. Ridgway; J. Godfrey; and G. C. Finden. Light foxing to margins of all of the engravings. Clear English text on lightly toned paper, with a few brown spots and blemishes. VG. ** Date of publication assumed after 1891: "In 1891, James Bowden came in to a three-way partnership. He had started working at Ward and Lock in 1869 and after he became a partner, the company became Ward, Lock and Bowden. "By the last decade on… Read More

London: C. Tilt, Fleet Street, MDCCCXXVII. [1827 ] .. Scarce first edition. A very good original half leather binding. 12mo. 16.5cm x 10.0cm x 1.0cm. [8pp.]/pp.132. Dull green calf spine and corners over marbled boards. Smooth spine with gilt decoration and original brown leather title label. Marbled page edges and matching endpapers. A single number '6' ink stamp to front free-endpaper. free-endpapers lightly soiled. Printed title page. Preface signed: W.C.D. Colophon to verso of the title-page and at base of the last leaf: "Tickle, High Street, Lambeth." Clean English text throughout. VG. ** "Walter Cooper Dendy (1794�1871) was an English surgeon and writer... Dendy was not a mere surgeon; he was conspicuous for cultivated taste and polished manners. He published a poem of much merit entitled �Zone,� and the �Philosophy of Mystery,� 1841, a treatise on dreams, spectral illusions, and other imperfect manifestations of the mind. He held some peculiar religious views, but his mind was too… Read More

Edinburgh : Published by William Oliphant, 22 South Bridge-Street; and sold by M. Ogle, Chalmers and Collins, and J. Hewit, Glasgow; J. Finlay, Newcastle; J. Hatchard & Son, T. Hamilton, J. Nisbet, Ogle, Duncan, & Co., B. J. Holdsworth, et al, 1823 .. Second Edition. A very good original half leather binding. 5.5" x 3.5" x 0.25". 12mo. pp.108 . Brown calf spine and corners over dulled and darkened marbled boards. Spine with gilt banding and original black leather title label. Edges rubbed and bumped. Light soiling to endpapers. Notes to front free-endpaper: "The Copy of a song at the end of this book is in the handwriting of Alithea Maria Graham, wife of Leonard Graham." Engraved frontis, lightly soiled. Clear English text throughout on lightly toned paper, with a few small blemishes from previous use. ** DOBBIN, Sir Alfred Graham, Knt. (1900); D.L., J.P., Co. Borough of Cork; High Sheriff of Cork, 1900; is a Director of Dobbin, Ogilvie and Co., Ltd., manufacturers and wholesale merchants, and of… Read More

London : A. W. Bennett, Bishopsgate Street. / Sudbury: J. Wright, 1864.. First edition. A very good original Victorian Binding. 8vo. 7.5" x 4.5" x 0.75". pp.8/pp.156 . Green cloth covered boards, with blind-stamped decoration. Gilt title: "Sudbury Leaflets." to top of the front board. Edges rubbed and corners bumped. Original brown endpapers. Printed title page with 20 % loss to top edge, but not affecting text. (someone has removed a previous owner's details). Clean English text througohut. Colophon to base of the last leaf: "J. Wright, Printer, Market Hill, Sudbury." A very good copy of this scarce publication.

London: Longman, Green, Longman And Green, Paternoster Row, [no date c. 1865] .. A very good original Victorian cloth binding. 8vo. 6.75" x 4.25" x 0.75". pp.8/pp.184. Green cloth over bevelled boards, with a few small blemishes. Edges rubbed and bumped. original black endpapers. Engraved portrait frontis. Clean English text throughout. Colophon to verso of the title and at the base of the last leaf: "Printed By H. S. Pratt, Sudbury." VG ** John Watson Dalby(1799-1880). In 1812 J. W. Dalby was placed with a bookseller in the West End of London. He was a contributor to and later editor of the Literary Chronicle, which in a review of his Poems (1822) describes him as laboring "under all the disadvantages of privation, disease, and domestic calamity." In 1828 the Literary Chronicle was incorporated into the Athenaeum, edited by Frederick Denison Maurice. Dalby met Leigh Hunt in 1834 and became a life-long friend and supporter. In later years he was acquainted with Keats's friend Charles Cowden… Read More