Sales catalogue 559: Maggs Bros

Date:
1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/104
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 559: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Swinburne (Algernon Charles)—-continued. 734. Posthumous Poems. [Edited by Edmund Gosse and T. J. Wise. Royal 8vo, ovzginal half vellum, uncut. London, 1917. £1 One of 300 copies. 735 The Ride from Milan and other Poems. FIRST EDITION, 4to, omgznal wrappers, uncut. London, Printed for Private Circulation, 1918. £7 10s One of 30 copies only. 7360 Robert Burns. A Poem. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, original wrappers. Edinburgh, Printed for the Members of the Burns Centenary Club, 1896. £7 10s 737 Rosamund, Queen of the Lombards. A Tragedy. FIRST EDITION. Post 8vo, cloth. London, 1899. 15s 738 The Sailing of the Swallow. The original Proof Sheets of this long Poem which appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine. Comprised on 22 pp., 8vo, with one or two corrections by Swinburne. (Enclosed in a buckram portfolio), N.D. £E 10s 739 Selections from A, C. Swinburne. Edited by Edmund Gosse and Thomas James Wise. 8vo, original half vellum, uncut, ¢.e.g. London, 1910. £2 15s One of 500 copies only. 740 A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning, FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, ovzginal wrappers, uncut. London, Printed for Private Circulation, 1890. £10 10s Mr. Wise in his Bibliography states :—‘‘ A few copies only have been printed in this separate form more befitting the occasion. It may safety be prophesied that these ‘few copies’ forming, as they do, a connecting link between two of the foremost poets of the age, will at no distant date prove to occupy a conspicuous position in the list of modern poetical rarities.”’ 741 Siena, aS FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION. 15 pp., crown 8vo, zz the original orange-coloured paper wrappers. London, 1868. £3 3s Of the five known copies of the pamphlet, two are in cream-coloured, and two in orange-coloured wrappers. The fifth known copy, preserved in the British Museum, lacks the original cover.
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