Author Robert Thomas, First Edition (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Reprint of the 1725 first edition. ccxxvi, 230; (231-) 714, 4. Contents clean and in good order. Publishers' foxed advertisement slip printed in red tipped in at title page. Endpapers stained and bear an early name stamp. Soiling to uncut edges. In contemporary paper-covered boards, very scuffed and eroded, with recent greenish brown cloth spine and paper label. Good firm copy. [Heavy Item].

3 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, ON LARGE PAPER, with 3 copper-engraved portrait frontispieces (original tissue guards present), title in red and black, 47 fine copper-engraved portraits (all original tissue guards present), and 80 fine wood-engravings in the text, free endpapers lightly browned; original Roxburghe binding of blue cloth boards, maroon cloth backs with new printed paper labels, uncut AND PARTIALLY UNOPENED, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 300 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 66) WITH ALL PLATES PRESENT IN TWO STATES: ON JAPANESE PAPER AND PLATE PAPER, AS INDIA PROOFS. With personal pictorial boookplate on front paste-downs, and 24pp publisher's catalogue (dated October 1887) bound in at end of third volume.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Two Volumes of the Two Volume Set - Conditions the same unless noted: Heavy dark blue cloth on boards with black leather title labels and gilt lettering to spines. Books are tight, square, sharp-cornered and free of markings or flaws inside and out - books are Fine. This edition consists of fifteen hundred copies printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club under the direction of Bruce Rogers at The Marchbanks Press, the decorations having been engraved in wood by Thomas W. Nason. This copy is number 1133 and is signed by Frost, Nason and Rogers. Signed on the Limitation page. Original slipcase box covered in marbled papers in good condition - square but loose with shelf wear and scuffing to edges. The Limited Editions Club Newsletter (No. 216) is laid-in - fine condition, along with a small single sided description of this book, detailing that it's "Number Twelve - The twelth, and therefore final, of the books distributed to the members of this Club in the Nineteenth Series is The Complete Poems . . ., with the preface by the poet and a long new introduction by Louis Untermeyer. The type used in the 12-point size of linotype Scoth, and it is printed on Worthy's Hadrian rag paper. The covers are made of blue overalls-denim on which the titles are stamped in gold leaf.". Signed by Author(s).