Auction No 403, Category: Poetry

4 Lots (displaying 1 - 4)

Arthur Waley (trans.) "One Hundred & Seventy Chinese Poems", Constable, 1936, inscribed to Virginia Woolf; original cloth,

Lot: 10

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Sep 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £250 - £300
SOLD £1050
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Arthur Waley (trans.) One Hundred & Seventy Chinese Poems, Constable, 1936, inscribed to Virginia Woolf; original cloth, slight mark to rear cover o/w VG; inscribed on title page for Mrs Virginia Woolf, Sincerely, Arthur Waley, May 2 1937; fine internally, free of any additional inscriptions.

James Badnall (Ed.) "The Poems of George Heath, the Moorland Poet. Memorial Edition". Bemrose & Sons, 1870, 1st Edn.

Lot: 11

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Sep 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £20
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James Badnall (Ed.) The Poems of George Heath, the Moorland Poet. Memorial Edition. Bemrose & Sons, 1870, 1st Edn. Octavo, recased employing most of the original gilt cloth, now faded; VG internally with lithographed frontispiece & three other plates; vi,263,(2)pp; together with the expanded 2nd Edition of 1880 published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co in VG condition. (2)

[Elijah Fenton] "An Ode to the Sun, for the New-Year", Jacob Tonson, London, 1707; folio, 20th Century marbled boards, gilt leather title label,

Lot: 15

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Sep 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £72
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[Elijah Fenton] An Ode to the Sun, for the New-Year, Jacob Tonson, London, 1707; folio, 20th Century marbled boards, gilt leather title label, new endpapers; browning to title page and publisher's advertisement o/w fine internally. Very scarce. 13,(1)pp

"Poems of Thomas Gray with Watercolour Illustrations by William Blake", Folio Society, 2013, No. 205 of 1000 issued, quarter-morocco, gilt,

Lot: 20

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Sep 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £250 - £300
SOLD £340
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Poems of Thomas Gray with Watercolour Illustrations by William Blake, Folio Society, 2013, No. 205 of 1000 issued, quarter-morocco, gilt, the sides in pictorial cloth, together with a companion commentary on Blake's illustrations by Irene Tayler, both contained in the issued cloth bound box with gilt leather title. Very fine, no internal markings. 46x36cm