[Rarebooks] FS: Finely bound volumes of Browning, Keats, Shelley, and Wordsworth

[Charles Agvent]

 From our recent catalog--WINTER MISCELLANY 2010--with 56 select items, 
all new arrivals.  See it on our home page:

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BROWNING, Robert. THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING. COMPLETE FROM 
1833 TO 1868 AND THE SHORTER POEMS THEREAFTER. London: Humphrey 
Milford/Oxford University Press, (1940). Reprint. Octavo (4-3/4" x 7") 
bound in full light brown morocco with double gilt-ruled borders, a 
gilt-decorated and lettered spine with three raised bands, gilt 
dentelles, top edge gilt, and marbled endpapers; xiv, 698 pages. 
Includes an index to first lines. Illustrated with a frontispiece 
portrait of the poet. Bound as an exact match, though a different color, 
to our items 015737 Shelley and 015738 Keats. Fine in a marbled paper 
slipcase. A beautifully bound edition of this poet's works.         $150.00

KEATS, John. THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN KEATS. London: Humphrey 
Milford/Oxford University Press, (1940). Reprint. Octavo (4-3/4" x 7") 
bound in full red morocco with double gilt-ruled borders, a 
gilt-decorated and lettered spine with three raised bands, gilt 
dentelles, top edge gilt, and marbled endpapers; lxxxii, 496 pages. 
Edited with an introduction by H. Buxton Forman and including an index 
to first lines. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the poet, 
Haydon's Life-Mask of Keats, and facsimile title pages of the poet's 
three books. Bound as an exact match to our item 015737 Shelley. Two 
small nicks to the spine. About Fine in a marbled paper slipcase. A 
beautifully bound edition of this poet's works.         $200.00

KEATS, John. THE SHORTER POEMS OF JOHN KEATS. London: George G. Harrap & 
Co. Ltd., n.d [@1920]. Small octavo (3-1/2" x 5-1/2") bound by Riviere 
and Son in half calf dyed blue-green with matching corners, gilt-ruled 
borders, a heavily gilt-decorated spine, marbled endpapers, top edge 
gilt; 224 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the poet. 
Bound as an exact match to our item 015736 Shelley. Part of the series 
The King's Treasury of Literary Masterpieces. A charming little book. 
Spine a bit rubbed and dull. Very Good or better.         $75.00

SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. SELECTED POEMS OF P. B. SHELLEY. London: George 
G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., n.d [@1920]. Small octavo (3-1/2" x 5-1/2") bound 
by Riviere and Son in half calf dyed blue-green with matching corners, 
gilt-ruled borders, a heavily gilt-decorated spine, marbled endpapers, 
top edge gilt; 224 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece drawing. Bound 
as an exact match to our item 015735 Keats. Part of the series The 
King's Treasury of Literary Masterpieces. A charming little book. Spine 
a bit rubbed and dull. Very Good or better.         $75.00

SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE 
SHELLEY. London: Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, (1940). 
Reprint. Octavo (4-3/4" x 7") bound in full red morocco with double 
gilt-ruled borders, a gilt-decorated and lettered spine with three 
raised bands, gilt dentelles, top edge gilt, and marbled endpapers; 
xxiv, 912 pages. Edited with a preface by Thomas Hutchinson and 
including two prefaces by Mary Shelley and an index to first lines. 
Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the poet. Bound as an exact 
match to our item 015738 Keats. Fine in a marbled paper slipcase with 
part of the top edge lacking. A beautifully bound edition of this poet's 
works.         $200.00

WORDSWORTH, William. THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. London: 
Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, 1920. Reprint. Octavo (4-3/4" 
x 7-1/8") bound in full tree calf with gilt-decorated borders on both 
covers, a gilt-decorated spine of a lighter calf with a gilt-lettered 
morocco spine label, all edges gilt, and marbled endpapers; xxxii, 986 
pages. Edited with a preface by Thomas Hutchinson and including a 
chronological table. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the 
poet. Fine.         $200.00

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