The Remains of Henry Kirke White of Nottingham, Late of St. John's College, Cambridge, Volumes 2-3 by Robert Southey, Henry Kirke White - 2010-01-12

Boston / New York: Lee and Shepard, Dillingham, 1874. Book. Illus. by Birket Foster, Illustrator. Very Good+. Hardcover. Clean brown pebbled cloth boards with elaborate gold and black decoration and gold lettering on cover and spine, blind-stamped decoration to clean rear board. Bevelled board edges. A few tiny spots of wear to corners and spine edges. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Clean chocolate brown endpapers, with 1-1/2" closed tear to rear free endpaper. No names, writing or bookplates. All page edges gilt. All pages are clean. Illustrated with beautiful engravings by Birket Foster. 456 pages. Henry Kirke White (March 21, 1785 - October 19, 1806) was an English poet, who died at a young age..

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees Orme and Brown. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed. 1830. 12th edition. Brown hardback half-leather cover with marbled boards. 130mm x 80mm (5" x 3"). lxiii, 493pp. .

London: Scott, Webster & Geary, 1839. Hardcover. VERY GOOD MINUS. REPRINT, PROBABLE 2ND EDITION. 5.5 x 3.25", LEATHER. All edges gilt. Gilt lettering and design on spine. In-blind decoration to brown leather boards. Book is very tightly bound with no markings save one tape repaired page (frontis). Frontis and title page engravings by H. Corbould and C. Heath. Light rubbing to extremities, corners mildly nudged. Foxing to frontis and title page. Fore-edges of two pages chipped a bit. Family letter, of 1910 laid-in, which states this belonged to Grandpa Fletcher who was in the Civil War imprisoned in Andersonville prison. 379 pp. Very nice. Solid binding. Henry Kirke White 1785 -- 1806. "White's poems contain many allusions to himself that they may almost be considered an autobiography, " (wikipedia).

London: Jones and Company, 1824. Leather. Good. 9" by 5.5". None. The Poetical Remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham bound together with The Prose Remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham Containing his Letters, Essays &c. &c. with an engraved portrait to frontispiece. Two volumes bound in one. With an 'inscription' by William Smyth, Esq, Professor of Modern History, Cambridge from a monumental tablet, also in Cambridge followed by Line by Lord Byron. Henry Kirke White (1785 - 1806) was an English poet, who died at a young age. His Remains were posthumously published with his letters and an account of his life. In a quarter calf binding with marbled paper covered boards. Externally, sound but with some wear to extremities and rubbing and slight marks to boards. Joints starting with slight evidence of past worming to joints and head of spine only with minor loss. Internally, generally firmly bound. Bright but with a slight tidemarks and foxing to frontispiece and other… Read More

London: G. Routledge & Co., 1857. Stated fourth edition. Title page dated 1857. Handsomely bound in full red grained leather lettered and extensively decorated in gilt, slightly raised spine bands, all edges gilt, tilt tooled inner dentelles, full page black and white illustrations, book about 6.5 inches tall. Modest edge rubbing, spine a little darkened, hinges secure but with surface cracks at the endpapers, binding firm, pages clean with just a few minor instances of light foxing (age speckling), name neatly written at top of front free endpaper, tiny personal library label of W. West, Maidstone, at upper corner of front pastedown, no other markings.. Hard Cover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. Leather. Good. 5" by 3". None. The eleventh edition of this collection of poetic fragments from Henry Kirke White, with a biographical sketch from Robert Southey. Eleventh edition. Complete in one volume. With a portrait frontispiece and vignette title page. A collection of poems, letters, prose compositions, reflections, and poetic fragments from Henry Kirke White, an English poet and hymn-writer who died at the young age of twenty-one. With an account of his life written by Robert Southey, an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the Lake Poets, and Poet Laureate for thirty years. Bound in full red calf with gilt. Externally, sound with rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine with marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot. Minor age toning to the endpapers. Good

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1823 Tenth Edition. Hard cover, Octavo (5 ⅛" x 8 ½"). In full salmon pink calf "extra" binding with a broad neoclassical gilt decoration of intertwined leaves and flowers bordering both boards,stamped gilt dentelles and board edges, all edges gilt. Five raised bands to the spine enclose compartments of similar decoration, with the title and volume numbers onlaid with black calf labels. Blue paste downs with engraved bookplate of the important nineteenth-century Boston book collector, Henry B. Humphrey, with the original pencilled ref. number of the book sale catalogue of 1871. Includes the frontispiece portrait, and engraved title pages, 344pp. and 402pp. Condition: Very Good. Engraved bookplate to each front pastedown, and a more modern owner's embossed stamps to the second title (plus one additional to p. A2, Vol. 2.) Overall, the exterior shows some small areas of discoloration or edge wear and small losses as seen in the photos. Spines are… Read More

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1856. Hard Cover. BOOK VERY GOOD/No Dustjacket. 12mo - over 6¾"" - 7¾"" tall. Very clean, nice copy. This was a library book though there are no markings to the interior pages and minimal other markings . Embossed, decorative leather bound cover with lettering in gilt. 456 pages. Annotated. Illustrated by Birket Foster. Decorative endpapers. Early printing edition.

London: G. Routledge & Co, 1857. Hardcover. Very Good. Fourth edition. 12mo. viii, 456pp., engraved frontispiece and 7 additional plates designed by Birket Foster and engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. Contemporary full gilt decorated leather with gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt. Binder's ticket: "Leighton Son and Hodge" on the rear pastedown. Rubbing to the joints and board edges, moderate foxing to the front fly leaves, frontispiece plate and tissue guard, very good. A handsome copy with fine clean impressions of Foster's illustrated plates.

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816. Seventh Edition. Leather bound. Very Good +. Thomas Barber. Two vols. 8vo. Vol. I: vii, 376 pp. Vol. II: viii, 316. Frontis. portrait of Southey by Freeman after Thomas Barber. Title vignette is that used in the 1813 Longman's edition, by J. Scott. Bound in 20th C. sumptuous three-quarter dark green morocco over marbled boards, five raised bands, tooled-gilt decoration on spine with maroon title labels. New endpapers. Former owner name in pencil on front free endpaper of second volume. A bit of foxing to preliminaries, but not extreme. Corners slightly worn. An exquisite set, with eminently readable typography and luxe shelf appeal.