PERFECT AND IMPERFECT ENJOYMENTS: POEMS BY JOHN WILMOT EARL OF ROCHESTER by WILMOT JOHN:

London: The Poetry Bookshop, 1916 The author's first book. Internally very good subject to moderate browning and dustiness and a few small stains to the title page (couple mirrored on inside front cover) . Binding firm. Cover is somewhat shelfworn and a little scuffed with a small stain; the Claud Fraser design on the front cover is reasonably bright.

LONDON. DAVID BOGUE 1846. WITH MEMOIRS WITH THEIR LIVES AND WRITINGS BY THOMAS MILLER. ENGRAVINGS BY SAMUEL WILLIAMS FROM DRAWINGS BY JOHN ABSOLON. A VERY FINE BINDING IN FULL RED MOROCCO BY J WRIGHT. ALL EDGES GILT AND FINE GILT DECORATIONS TO BOTH BOARDS AND THE SPINE. FIVE RAISED BANDS TO THE SPINE. EXTERNALLY AND INTERNALLY VERY BRIGHT. NEAT INSCRIPTION OF PREVIOUS OWNER.

EDINBURGH 1812. THIRD EDITION. CORRECTED AND ENLARGED. TWO VOLUMES - SMALL OCTAVO. FINELY REBOUND IN HALF LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARDS. A VERY HANDSOME SET.

LONDON, MOYES, 1823. FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY, 32 ENGRAVED PLATES, PROOFS ON INDIA PAPER. T.E.G. QUARTER MOROCCO, RAISED BANDS, TIGHT AND CLEAN. LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS, BOOKPLATE TO FRONT PASTEDOWN. SCARCE.

LONDON. CADELL 1834 AND 1830. TWO VOLUMES (ITALY A POEM) AND POEMS BOTH BOUND IN FULL HANDSOME GREEN LEATHER WITH ELABORATE GILT DECORATION TO BOTH BOARDS AND SPINES. ALL EDGES GILT. NICE TIGHT BINDINGS. SCHOOL BOOKPLATE ON FRONT PASTEDOWN OF EACH VOLUME. FOXING THROUGHOUT. THE PRICE IS FOR BOTH VOLUMES.

New York, New York / Bombay, India: Longmans, Green, And Co.. Very Good with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1902. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 106 pages: 5 x 7.5 in.: 1.2: KB#010210: No Jacket As Issued. Book binding is spine and quarter cream paper with blue cloth boards (with gilt ship embossed on front cover) plus decorated gilt lettered spine. Top edge of page block is gilt. Book is protected in a custom brown cloth gilt-lettered clamshell book box. Copy has prior owner's bookplate (Oliver Brett) neatly affixed to front endpaper and a stamp on front flyleaf, p. 103, and rear endpaper of "College For Working Women", along with a "Bought Davis 1921 and K195" notation at the front. Otherwise, clamshell box, boards and pages are clean, unmarked (except as indicated), bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Has a tissue-protected frontispiece illustration about twenty dancing fairies by Richard Doyle, entitled "Under the Dock Leaves." This… Read More

LONDON. DAVID BOGUE 1846. WITH MEMOIRS WITH THEIR LIVES AND WRITINGS BY THOMAS MILLER. ENGRAVINGS BY SAMUEL WILLIAMS FROM DRAWINGS BY JOHN ABSOLON. A VERY FINE BINDING IN FULL RED MOROCCO BY J WRIGHT. ALL EDGES GILT AND FINE GILT DECORATIONS TO BOTH BOARDS AND THE SPINE. FIVE RAISED BANDS TO THE SPINE. EXTERNALLY AND INTERNALLY VERY BRIGHT. NEAT INSCRIPTION OF PREVIOUS OWNER.

EDINBURGH 1812. THIRD EDITION. CORRECTED AND ENLARGED. TWO VOLUMES - SMALL OCTAVO. FINELY REBOUND IN HALF LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARDS. A VERY HANDSOME SET.

LONDON, MOYES, 1823. FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY, 32 ENGRAVED PLATES, PROOFS ON INDIA PAPER. T.E.G. QUARTER MOROCCO, RAISED BANDS, TIGHT AND CLEAN. LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS, BOOKPLATE TO FRONT PASTEDOWN. SCARCE.

LONDON. CADELL 1834 AND 1830. TWO VOLUMES (ITALY A POEM) AND POEMS BOTH BOUND IN FULL HANDSOME GREEN LEATHER WITH ELABORATE GILT DECORATION TO BOTH BOARDS AND SPINES. ALL EDGES GILT. NICE TIGHT BINDINGS. SCHOOL BOOKPLATE ON FRONT PASTEDOWN OF EACH VOLUME. FOXING THROUGHOUT. THE PRICE IS FOR BOTH VOLUMES.