Robert Southey Editor (31 results)

Condition: Poor. 1st edition. Full calf, P+. 2 volumes, xvi+336pp, xii+370pp, engraved frontis & engraved title ( with vignette ) to each volume, leather rubbed & marked to both volumes with the top compartment missing to volume I & the upper board detached to volume II, both engraved titles & frontis are tanned & marked, a work…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 201 pages, b/w/sepia illustrations throughout. A paperback copy incorporating the dust jacket and therefore perhaps a proof or advanced reading copy, but in all other respects identical to the hardback edition. Binding very good with a little wear to the spine. Contents clean and t…

Cloth. Condition: Good +. 1st edition thus, 1849. A Good+ book. 8vo., 693 pp., bound in publishers green cloth with title in gilt on spine. Tips, edges and top/base of spine rubbed and bumped. Call letters at base of tanned spine. Previous owners bookplate inside front cover, blind stamp on title page. Text edges dusty. Text app…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Robert Southey was an English poet of the Romantic school and was considered one of the Lake Poets. He was poet laureate from 1813 until his death in 1843. He was also a historian and prolific biographer, including biographies of the life and works of John Bunyan, John Wesley, William…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. It was written to provide young seamen with a clear concise account of the exploits of one of England s greatest hero's, is a model among short biographies. . With illustrations. / This is a cloth-bound 'reprinted' hardback with its slip-case in good condition-one of the slipcases edges is…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2. Two volumes of appr. 550 pages each. The collected letters of Robert Southey- 497 in all. Covers period 1792-1838. Dust jackets are bright, complete and clean. Red cloth exteriors with title in gold within…

420 pages. Hardcover: H 21.75cm x L 13.75cm. Contemporary full leather binding; boards decorated with gilt stamped border but scuffed at edges; bright gilt stamping to spine with slight furrows and some dryness/brittleness to surface leather; past owner's age-toned personal library label affixed above spine heel. Slender abraded…

3 vols. Folio, publisher's decorated boards in glassine and publisher's slipcase. Volumes fine; two glassine wrappers split at spine and chipped; slipcase splitting at one joint and worn at corners. Blindstamped on each colophon page: "One of 15 copies for presentation Out of Series." Jean Hersholt has signed and inscribed all t…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 31 x 20.5 cm. Limited to 2500 sets of which this is set 1729. Lacking slipcase. "Joseph" is illustrated with mounted color plates by Arthur Szyk "Bears" is illustrated by William Moyers. Small stain to bottom edge of cloth of "Bears". There is also a brown marker mark over a paragraph symbol (lik…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Octavo, contemporary cittron half morocco, rubbed, joints lightly cracked, spine gilt, added engraved frontispiece portrait of Southey (this work was issued without a frontispiece) at front, good. This is one of the most difficult books to find in the entire Southey canon, either in the f…

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Poetry, essays, biographies. Four volumes complete. First editions, First Series - 1849, Second Series - 1849, Third Series - 1850, Fourth Series 1851. Uniform fine leather bindings lightly scuffed, top of the first spine slightly chipped, covers edges gilt decorated, m…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st ed. [8], 300, [6], 299p. Later full green leather with gilt-stamped inner dentelles. 17cm. Backstrip toned to brown. Joints showing slight tenderness. Edges lightly rubbed. Letter dated 5/3/1891 from E. D. North at Charles Scriber's Sons to an unnamed recipient (indicating that he was sending…

Two vols, 12mo, (viii), 300; (vi), 299 pp., names of the contributors added in a later hand, some light foxing, contemporary calf, spines gilt, spines rubbed and a trifle worn at ends, upper joint of vol. I attached, but loose. First edition. A major collection of original new verse, edited by Southey, and with contributions fro…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine, handsomely bound. First Edition. Two volumes (4" x 6-1/2") bound in recent half brown morocco with matching corners retaining the original marbled boards, all edges marbled. Leaf B8 (pages 31-32) lacking in first volume, as usual; C3 in second volume in uncancelled state, with word "wicked" prese…

Condition: Good. Other Contributors include Charles Lloyd, Amelia Opie, George Dyer, Joseph Cottle, Robert Lovell, A.S Cottle, Humphrey Davy, Dr. Beddoes, Joseph Hucks, & Mary Robinson. 2 vols. pp. (viii), 300; (vi), 299. 8vo. Full calf, spines with gilt decoration and labels. All hinges rubbed. In Vol 1. pp. 31/32 (Sig. B8) is…