Poetry from Duck Cottage Books

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1900. 10th. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 263 12mo. Edited by W W Skeat with notes, a glossariala index and an index of subjects explained in the notes; ex-library (University of Lancaster) with the donor's label to front paste down. Brown, black-decorated cloth-covered boards, 7 inches high, 206 pages. Condition notes: Library shelf label to… Read more about this item

London: Brimley Johnson and Ince. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 212 16mo. Undated, and with no editor etc credited. There is a note from the publisher ("R.B.J.") to the page following the title page. Portrait of Spenser as frontispiece. A small book, 146 mm by 108 mm, green faux (?) leather-covered boards, printed on heavy paper.… Read more about this item

London, 1941. 2nd. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 292 8vo. Edited with notes by Robert Bridges. Second edition, with an Appendix of Additional Poems, and a Critical Introduction by Charles Williams. Mushroom coloured boards, red motif to front board, 159 pages (including an Index), small octavo in size. Condition notes: Boards soiled and bumped, internally clean and bright.… Read more about this item

London: Oxford University Press, 1913. very good/No Jacket. 668 8vo. Dark green morocco binding, gilt titles, pretty gilt decoration to spine, all edges gilt, decorative endpapers, portrait of Scott as frontispiece. Small octavo in size. Condition notes: A little wear to edges of the boards, some age darkening to earlier pages, overall still an attractive copy. … Read more about this item

London: Ward, Locke and Co., 1882. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 577 8vo. Edited, with a critical memoir, by William Michael Rossetti and illustrations by Thomas Seccombe. With full page illustrations, tailpieces and page decoration. Undated, but clearly 1882 (the year of Longellow's death), given that a postscript to the Prefatory Notice is dated 1882. Tree… Read more about this item

London: Chatto and Windus, 1937. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. A Phoenix Library edition. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 135 pp plus publisher's advertisements. No dust jacket. Condition notes: A little damage to front board, boards rubbed and bumped, age-tanning to pages. Binding sound, pages unmarked. Previous owner's name and address to front free… Read more about this item

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1929. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. With an introduction by Alfred Noyes. Condition notes: A little rubbing to the boards. External page edges rather grubby (especially top edges), some spotting to fore edges, just a little spotting to some pages. Gift inscription to front free end paper, and previous owner's bookplate with… Read more about this item

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1868. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 962 8vo. A new edition, with notes by the Rev.W. A. Hill, M.A. Illustrated by twenty vignette engravings, from designs by J. M. W. Turner, R. A. Russet leather (morocco), generous gilt decoration, spine with five raised bands, all edges gilt, end papers marbled. Prize… Read more about this item

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1876. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 233 16mo. Quarter leather, marbled end papers. Volume 1570 of the Tauchnitz edition. Condition notes: Leather rubbed, corners of boards a little bumped, binding tight and firm, some spotting to one or two pages. Previous owner's name to half title.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 194 8vo. Blue cloth-covered boards. 61 pages. Condition notes: Blue boards faded around edges, as is spine. Boards rubbed and bumped. Text pages clean. Externally, a tired and grubby copy, although sound; internally, occasional foxing, especially to early pages, otherwise very good.

London: Florence Press, Chatto and Windus, 1928. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 1355 8vo. Arranged in chronological order with a preface by Sidney Colvin. Reprinted from the edition of 1925. Condition notes: Externally, very dispiriting; boards rubbed and knocked, with damp staining, spines sunned and frayed. Internally, things look much better- there is a little foxing, especially to… Read more about this item

London: Heinemann, 1933. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 184 8vo. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles. New edition, with five additional poems not included in the earlier edition. Condition notes: Boards a little bumped and grubby, foxing to prelims and end papers, otherwise a clean, tight, tidy copy.

London: Bloomsbury, 1988. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Poor. 830 4to. Year-by-year examples of the poetry, with each poet's work being introduced with a biographical essay. Illustrated with photographs and other contemporary material. Condition notes: Dust jacket torn, some tendency to age-darkening of pages at margins, but otherwise the book is clean, sound and bright inside and out.… Read more about this item

London: London Literary Editions Ltd., 1972. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good. 408 8vo. An anthology of poems submitted for the first Keats Poetry Prize Competition in March 1972. Note that this volume is described as Volume 1 on the fly leaf. It contains the 43 prize-winning poems and almost 200 others selected as highly commended… Read more about this item

C. Cooke. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 180 16mo. Embellished with superb engravings". Cooke's edition of select British Poets. Undated. Publisher's paper-covered boards. Condition notes: A somewhat knocked-about copy, with many pages unopened and all still rough-trimmed. Previous owner's name to front free end paper. Spotting to prelims and to rear end papers. Binding sound, text block… Read more about this item

London: J. Hatchard, 1810. 5th or later edition. Hardback. Poor/No Jacket. 376 12mo. Fifth edition. Publisher's boards and paper covers. Contains The Village, The Parish Register, The Library, The Newspaper, Reflections upon the subject "Quid juvat.....", Sir Eustace Grey and The Hall of Justice. Condition notes: Paper wrappers only present as remnants; no spine strips. … Read more about this item

Edinburgh and London: Sylvester Doig, 1812. 3rd edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 244 12mo. Publishers Sylvester Doig and Andrew Stirling, Manners and Miller, A. Constable & Co (all in Edinburgh) and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, and John Murray (both in London). Volume 2 ONLY. Includes Scotland's Scaithe. With engraved frontispiece and other illustrations. Binding… Read more about this item

London: John Sharpe, 1823. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 232 12mo. With engravings from the designs of Richard Westall. 'The Minstrel' was Beattie's most successful poem, praised by Samuel Johnson. Condition notes: Re-backed (not recently), with original blind-stamped calf, gilt decoration, relaid and with new spine strip. The calf is chipped and rubbed. A sound, clean copy overall,… Read more about this item

London: J. Dodsley, 1768. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 262 12mo. London, Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall. Half title, title, Ode on the Spring, Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Ode on a Distant prospect of Eton College, Hymn to Adversity, The Progress of Poesy, The Bard, The Fatal Sisters, The Descent of Odin, The Triumphs of… Read more about this item

London: Henry Frowde, 1890. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 840 8vo. Old morocco binding, all edges gilt. With memoir, explanatory notes etc. Condition Notes: Binding worn, with spine especially very rubbed, with half an inch or so chipped at the top. However the binding is sound and the book has a pleasant feel to it- a nice reading copy.… Read more about this item