Category: Poetry

The Decision and the Consequence

Price: £3.00

Publisher: London, Mr R D Cole : 1925

Seller ID: 014148

Binding: Cloth

. 129 pages, in brown print, back cover dampstained (minimal smell). Three extended non-rhyming poems 1) The Voice of the People (on the trial of Jesus); 2) The Voice of God - Grace (on the second chapter of Acts); 3) The Voice of God - Judgement (imagining the experiences and thoughts of captives from the fall of Jerusalem). Cecil Belton belonged to the "Needed Truth" (Churches of God) Brethren movement.
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A Book of Scottish Verse

By: Burnett, George

Price: £3.75

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co Ltd : 1937

Seller ID: 467498

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Average Minus

. xiv + 208 pages, including 11 page glossary, colour frontispiece. Exterior and preliminaries grubby.
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Selected Poems of William Cowper

By: Cowper, William

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, A A Balkema : 1945

Seller ID: 210204

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

. 45 pages. Handwritten inscription to flyleaf: 'Published in "The House on the three canals" in Amsterdam by my predecessor Balkema; G Postma since 1947'. Gerke Postma (1920-2002) ran a famous bookshop in the Huis aan de Drie Grachten, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 249, Amsterdam, initially as a staff-member and then successor of August Aimé Balkema (1906-1996) as owner of the bookshop.
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The Poems of William Cowper: Volume 1: 1748-1782

By: Cowper, William; Baird, John D (editor); Ryskamp, Charles (editor)

Price: £55.00

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford University Press : 1980

Seller ID: 014454

ISBN-13: 9780198118756

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Average Plus

. xliii + 597 pages. Ex Buckinghamshire County Reference Library; library stamps to page edges and title pages; bookplate to inside front cover; dust jacket flap price-clipped; otherwise appears in little-used condition; the dust jacket is protected with a clear sleeve and external library markings are on the outside of this, so hopefully the jacket spine itself is unmarked. The first volume of a companion set to King and Ryskamp's 5-volume Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper, also from Oxford.
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The Works of William Cowper: Poems: Vol 6

By: Cowper, William; Grimshawe, Thomas Shuttleworth (editor)

Price: £4.75

Publisher: London, Saunders and Otley : 1835

Seller ID: 211278

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Average

. lviii + 281 pages; lacks frontispiece, illustrated title page and normal title page; ex Cowper Museum (duplicate copy). Olive brown embossed cloth with gilt lettering and border to spine title panel; top and bottom of spine slightly damaged, a small amount of foxing, mainly to back endpaper and last page. Vol 6 of the Grimshawe edition contains an essay On the Genius and Poetry of Cowper by Rev J W Cunningham, and a preface by John Newton which originally appeared in the first volume in 1782; followed by Cowper's lengthy poems Table Talk; The Progress of Error; Truth; Expostulation; Hope, ...
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The Works of William Cowper: Set of 8 Volumes

By: Cowper, William; Grimshawe, Thomas Shuttleworth (editor)

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, Saunders and Otley : 1835

Seller ID: 211365

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

. 8 volumes measuring 6½ x 4½ inches; rebound in maroon cloth, probably in the late 20th century; heavy foxing to frontispieces and surrounding pages and to last few pages. Volumes 1-5 of this 8 volume set are "Life and Letters" while Volumes 6-8 are "Poems". Some volumes have one or two stamps of "Fulneck Girls School", part of a Moravian settlement in Pudsey on the edge of Leeds.
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Cowper: Poetry & Prose: With Essays by Hazlitt & Bagehot

By: Cowper, William; Hazlitt, William; Bagehot, Walter; Milford, Humphrey S

Price: £1.00

Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press (Oxford University Press) : 1953

Seller ID: 211398

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Average

. 196 pages, a little pen annotation.
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The Works of William Cowper: Vol 10 (only, of 15)

By: Cowper, William; Southey, Robert (editor)

Price: £4.75

Publisher: London, Baldwin & Cradock : 1837

Seller ID: 210483

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Average

. xii + 387 pages, containing posthumously published poems, and a translation of Andreini's Adam. Front internal hinge broken.
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The Works of William Cowper: Vols 1-5, 8-10 (only, of 15)

By: Cowper, William; Southey, Robert (editor)

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, Baldwin & Cradock : 1837

Seller ID: 211366

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

. 8 out of 15 volumes of the set edited by Southey; measuring 6½ x 4½ inches; rebound in maroon cloth, probably in the late 20th century. Heavy foxing to frontispiece of Vol 9; a little foxing in other volumes; most do not have a frontispiece present. Volumes 1 to 5 contain Cowper's life and his letters up to August 1786 (we lack Vol 6 & 7 of letters 1786-1799). Volumes 8 to 10 contain poetry (we lack Vols 11-14 - Cowper's translation of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and Vol 15 which contains further letters and a handful of papers). Volumes 3 and 8 have title page signed Saml Wilberforce. W...
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William Cowper: The Continuing Revaluation: An Essay and Bibliography of Cowperian Studies from 1895 to 1960

By: Hartley, Lodwick

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press : 1960

Seller ID: 210210

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

. x + 159 pages.
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The Life and Letters of William Cowper Esq: with Remarks on Epistolary Writers (set of 4 volumes)

By: Hayley, William

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, J Johnson and Co : 1812

Seller ID: 210762

Binding: Leather

Condition: Average Minus

. xxxvi + 383 + 410 + 443 + 430 pages. One inch pieces of leather missing from two spines. A large part of these volumes consists of 466 letters of Cowper.
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Cowper Country: An Introduction to the Town of Olney and the Immediate Neighbourhood

By: Osborn, Gordon

Price: £4.50

Publisher: Olney, A. G. H. Osborn : 1976

Seller ID: 210293

ISBN-13: 9780950553030

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

. 96 pages.
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The Later Te Deums

By: Oxenham, John (Dunkerley, William Arthur)

Price: £3.75

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co Ltd : 1920

Seller ID: 013191

Binding: Pamphlet

Condition: Average

. 12 pages, overlapping parchment-style cover, staple rusted. Undated. William Arthur Dunkerley (1852-1941) wrote under the pen-names John Oxenham and Julian Ross, and his daughters, Erica and Elsie (of 'Abbey Girls' fame), both adopted the Oxenham pen-name.
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Milton

By: Pattison, Mark

Price: £1.00

Publisher: London, MacMillan and Co : 1887

Seller ID: 493919

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Poor

. vi + 220 pages. Front board almost detached; warped.
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Milton; Goldsmith; Cowper (English Men of Letters Vol 2)

By: Pattison, Mark; Black, William; Smith, Goldwin

Price: £9.50

Publisher: London, MacMillan and Co : 1895

Seller ID: 211394

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

. 220 + 160 + 131 pages. Combined volume of Pattison on John Milton; Black on Oliver Goldsmith; Smith on William Cowper.
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The Misery of Job and the Mercy of God

By: Piper, John

Price: £1.75

Publisher: Leicester, Crossway Books : 2002

Seller ID: 018641

ISBN-13: 9781856842167

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

. 79 pages, imaginative poem based on on the story of Job, with colour photographs. No CD is included with this item.
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Reflected Lights from "The Face of the Deep"

By: Rossetti, Christina; Jay, W M L [pseudonym of Julia Louisa Matilda Woodruff] (compiler)

Price: £17.50

Publisher: London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK) : 1900

Seller ID: 452194

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Average

. 251 pages, edges rough cut and foxed, endpapers foxed, edges of spine rubbed, small stain an inch from bottom of spine. A mixture of extracts from "The Face of the Deep: A Devotional Commentary on the Apocalypse" and various lyrics and sonnets, all by Christina Rossetti. Scarce.
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