A Collection of Issues of The Bibelot: A Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers

A collection of fifteen issues of The Bibelot from Thomas Bird Mosher. Fifteen volumes. First edition. The Bibelot was a yearly literary anthology published between 1895 and 1914. It featured the lesser known works of writers such as Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Morris, Arthur Symons, D. G. Rossetti, Austin Dobson, J. A. Symonds, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, and Fiona MacLeod. Produced and edited by Thomas Bird Mosher, an American publisher, notable for his contributions to the private press movement in the United States, and as a major exponent of the British Pre-Raphaelites and Aesthetes as well as other British Victorians. This set contains: Volume VIII: October No. 10. Volume XII: April No. 4 and November No. 11. Volume XIII: February No. 2. Volume XIV: February No. 2, May No. 4, and December No. 12. Volume XV: February No. 2, March No. 3, May No. 4, June No. 6, August No. 8, October No. 10, November No. 11, and December No. 12. In the original blue paper wraps. Externally, sound with light wear and chipping to the extremities. Sunning to the spines and board edges with the odd mark to the boards. The odd small closed tear to the binding. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot and minor age toning to the extremities. Good. …