Edited John Sparrow (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good hardcover. No DJ. LIMITED EDITION #266 OF 900 COPIES. PAGES CLEAN AND UNMARKED. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/tanning. Small tear on upper spine. Covers show slight bending. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 202 pages. 9.20x7.40x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Creme vegetable parchment printed in black and blind, small 4to., xxvii, (2), 197 pages. One of 900 numbered copies printed by Walter Lewis at the Cambridge University Press on Dutch mould-made paper. A clean, unopened, very good copy with the usual bowing of the vegetable parchment boards and small surface splits at the front boards, minor wear and mild spotting.

Duckworth. London. 1979. First edition. Hardback with DW. Wrapper slightly browned with a sunned spine. Pages browned but overall a nice clean copy.

1926, a numbered copy from a limited edition of 1050. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 213pp. Light brown buckram with a spine label which is scuffed and chipped along the left edge (with no loss of text). Illustrated title page, notes, index of first lines. Edited by John Sparrow. Illustrations by John Hall (Title Page Illustration). (Poetry).

VERY GOOD CONTENT WITH DARKENED VELLUM COVER. COVER HAS DISHED SLIGHTLY AND THERE IS SOME SPLITTING TO THE TOP AND BOTTOM OF SPINE - ABOUT AN INCH. LIMITED EDITION OF 900 COPIES OF WHICH THIS IS 818. HK DEVICE ON BOTH BOARDS, ROUGHTCUT PAGES.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Two large octavo-sized volumes measuring aprox. 9.7 inches tall, bound in very dark green cloth with front covers and spines lettered in gilt, tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece in Vol. I, page edges not trimmed; clean tight and unmarked with a very minor amount of speckling to the covers [usually from moisture], but no age spotting or toning to the pages; bindings square and tight, all cover edges lightly rubbed, but with somewhat more rubbing to the outer corners and front edge of the front cover to Vol. II [see photos].

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 202 pages. 9.20x7.40x0.50 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

Condition: Very Good. No jacket. First Edition. 1st, Limited and Numbered Edition 402 of 1050 to final leaf, Nonesuch 1926. 4to. xx 213pp. Steel engraved vignette portrait to title page. Printed on thick creamy Dutch Rag paper with wide margins in Bodoni Type. Internally very good clean tight sound square, attractive scrolled armorial bookplate of John Richard Sofio to pastedown, with ownership inscription of J. Stuart Williams upon, browning limited to free endpapers not intruding or detracting, edges of leaves attractively untrimmed. Bound in original full wide weave brown cloth, with bright gilt text on red calf leather label. Abraham Cowley was a leading poet of the 17th century, indeed Milton held that Cowley, Spenser and Shakespeare were the three best English poets. Nonesuch Press, publishers of the volume in hand, were unusual amongst private press, in that it used a small Albion Hand Press to exquisitely design and produce books which were then commercially printed, since the owner Francis Meynell wanted to demonstrate that Mechanical means could be made to serve fine ends.