Selected Cecil Charles (2 results)

Softcover. Condition: Good. Undated but circa 1900. 68pp, with page decorations and borders on every leaf. Colour illustrated endpapers, bordered in gilt. Light card covers with yapped edges, illustrated. 32mo. Covers a little worn and faded, scuffed at spine ends and bumped all round protruding yapped edges. Text block edges lightly toned and pages a little creamy. Front hinge/backstrip partially cracked. A sweet, pocket-sized selection of some of Percy Bysshe Shelley's best-loved poetry with unexpectedly richly illustrated endpapers. The publisher, J Hewelson & Son, based in Hampstead, London, seems little recorded, although they did publish some other similar volumes of poetry (perhaps also in Ye Booklover's Biblot series) including a volume of D G Rossetti's.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Elizabeth B. Browning's Poems, Selected by Cecil Charles, The Poet Series, The Domes of Silence Ltd., London. No date circa 1910. 62pp. 32mo up to 5" tall. Brown leather boards with gilt and blind-stamped decorative boards and spine; all edges gilt; attached pink silk reading ribbon; pictorial coloured endpapers. 2 pages of end ads for The Poet Series has top layer paper loss in a few spots. Light wear to boards, text block fine. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) was one of the most prominent English poets of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime. Also see: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Browning; Back Lane Book Listing: 001742. The Complete Works of Robert Browning; Back Lane Book Listing: 001743.