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Auction No 362, Category: Poetry

8 Lots (displaying 1 - 8)

[Joseph Aston] "Metrical Records of Manchester in which its History is traced (Currente Calamo) from the Days of the Ancient Britons

Lot: 73

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
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[Joseph Aston] Metrical Records of Manchester in which its History is traced (Currente Calamo) from the Days of the Ancient Britons to the Present Time London, 1822, 1st Edn, small 4to, half-leather, gilt, over marbled boards, VG; bookplate of William Garnett; 105pp + 3pp index; title page and final index page a little dust-affected. 

William Congreve "A Pindarique Ode, Humbly Offer'd to the King On His Taking Namure" Jacob Tonson, London, 1695,

Lot: 108

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
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William Congreve A Pindarique Ode, Humbly Offer'd to the King On His Taking Namure Jacob Tonson, London, 1695, folio, untrimmed; title+11pp+publisher's list; title and publisher's list dust-affected; some tone marks; bound in 20th century boards with leather backstrip. (Wing 5871)

John Dryden "The Medall. A Satyre Against Sedition" Jacob Tonson, London, 1682, First Edition (2nd Issue);

Lot: 110

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
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John Dryden The Medall. A Satyre Against Sedition Jacob Tonson, London, 1682, First Edition (2nd Issue); small quarto, disbound from a combined colume; [12] + 20pp. Title page dust-affected o/w VG. (Wing D2311)

John Smith "The Dark Side of Love" 1952, and "The Birth of Venus", both First Editions in d/jkts;

Lot: 111

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
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John Smith The Dark Side of Love 1952, and The Birth of Venus, both First Editions in d/jkts; slight wear to corners of dustjackets; both with the bookplate of Walter De La Mare. (2)

Diana White "The Descent of Ishtar" Eragny Press, 1903, small octavo, one of 226 printed;

Lot: 112

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £200
SOLD £100
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Diana White The Descent of Ishtar, Eragny Press, 1903, small octavo, one of 226 printed; original patterned paper covered boards & title label, VG; red & black lettering on handmade paper, uncut; woodcut frontispiece designed by Diana White, the ornate double border and initials by Lucien Pissarro, engraved by Esther Pissarro; browning to endpapers o/w fine internally. 32pp

John Dryden "Annus Mirabilis. The Year of Wonders, M.DC.LXVI., An Historical Poem.

Lot: 114

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £180 - £220
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John Dryden Annus Mirabilis. The Year of Wonders, M.DC.LXVI., An Historical Poem. Also a Poem on the Happy Restoration and Return of His Late Sacred Majestey Charles the Second. Likewise a Panegyrick on His Cononation. Together With a Poem to My Lord Chancellor Presented on New-Years-Day. 1662. Henry Herringman and Jacob Tonson, London, 1688. Small 4to, stitch bound in wraps, [20], 116pp, each poem with its own title page. The initial title page dust-affected and small ink-mark at foot o/w VG. (Wing 2240)

Richard Morris (Ed.) "The Story of Genesis and Exodus, an Early English Song. About A.D. 1250"

Lot: 116

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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Richard Morris (Ed.) The Story of Genesis and Exodus, an Early English Song. About A.D. 1250 Trubner & Co, 1865; bound with Walter Skeat (Ed.) The Romans of Partenay, 1866; full panelled calf, gilt, worn at periphery, rear board detached; bookplate of Anthony Trollope; fine internally

Publications of Philip Lee Warner and the Riccardi Press comprising Ludovic C. Purser (Ed.) "Psyche et Cupido"

Lot: 122

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £40
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Publications of Philip Lee Warner and the Riccardi Press comprising Ludovic C. Purser (Ed.) Psyche et Cupido, 1913, (numbered 204 but one of only 12 bound in vellum with fabric ties) fine, in slipcase; and Boccaccio The Story of Griselda, no. 473 of 500. (2)