Search Results: Victorian Poetry from Charles Agvent

n.p., n.d. Manuscript. Some edgewear to the paper with a small piece, containing part of the title, detached but present. Paper somewhat fragile but still Very Good. HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT Poem in Swinburne's hand of 25 lines titled "After Sunset" on two sides of a 5-3/8" x 11-3/4" sheet of plain paper. The poem is identical to the version published in Swinburne's collection TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE AND OTHER POEMS, but for one word which is crossed out with the published version above it and the omission here of the last three lines of the poem.

Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1974. Hardcover. About Fine in worn glassine and a Near Fine slipcase. Reynolds Stone. Quarto (6-1/2" x 10-3/4") bound in quarter maroon goatskin and terra cotta linen boards with the front board embossed with an oval relief portrait of Tennyson; 308 pages. Selected and introduced by John D. Rosenberg; designed by John Dreyfus. Illustrated with 25 wood-engraved vignettes by Reynolds Stone. Copy #1087 of 2000 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1974. Hardcover. Spine sunned. Near Fine in a close to Fine slipcase. Reynolds Stone. Quarto (6-1/2" x 10-3/4") bound in quarter maroon goatskin and terra cotta linen boards with the front board embossed with an oval relief portrait of Tennyson; 308 pages. Selected and introduced by John D. Rosenberg; designed by John Dreyfus. Illustrated with 25 wood-engraved vignettes by Reynolds Stone. Copy #887 of 2000 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1974. Hardcover. Spine mildly sunned. About Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Reynolds Stone. Quarto (6-1/2" x 10-3/4") bound in quarter maroon goatskin and terra cotta linen boards with the front board embossed with an oval relief portrait of Tennyson; 308 pages. Selected and introduced by John D. Rosenberg; designed by John Dreyfus. Illustrated with 25 wood-engraved vignettes by Reynolds Stone. Of a total of 2000 copies SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page, this copy is not numbered but in place of the number is written in ink "S. S." The colophon lacks the presentation blindstamp that usually accompanies lettered copies.

London: Henry Frowde/Oxford University Press Warehouse, 1905. Reprint. Hardcover. Light rubbing to spine and corners. An attractively bound edition of this poet's works in Near Fine condition. Octavo (5-1/4" x 7-3/4") bound in 3/4 green morocco with double gilt-ruled borders, a gilt-decorated and lettered spine with three raised bands, top edge gilt, and marbled endpapers; viii, 623 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the poet.

Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1974. Hardcover. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Reynolds Stone. Quarto (6-1/2" x 10-3/4") bound in quarter maroon goatskin and terra cotta linen boards with the front board embossed with an oval relief portrait of Tennyson; 308 pages. Selected and introduced by John D. Rosenberg; designed by John Dreyfus. Illustrated with 25 wood-engraved vignettes by Reynolds Stone. Copy #1657 of 2000 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

London: Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, (1940). Reprint. Hardcover. Fine in a marbled paper slipcase. A beautifully bound edition of this poet's works. Octavo (4-3/4" x 7") bound in full light brown morocco leather 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.

Cambridge: John Smith for the University Press, 1829. First Edition. Wraps. Some fraying to the spine of the wrappers with loss, minor creasing. Near Fine. String-tied pamphlet in publisher's blue wraps (5-3/8" x 8-1/2"); 41, [3] pages. Tennyson's second published work, presented in company with the other Chancellor's prize-winners of the year, and the first to appear under his own name. Tennyson was too shy to read his prize-winning poem in blank verse aloud in the Senate House and asked Charles Merivale to undertake the reading of his work as well as Merivale's own Latin poem, also published here. William Harris Arnold's copy, with his small bookplate on the inside of the front wrapper. Uncommon in original wrappers.