. 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. View More...
. 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. View More...
. 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. View More...
. 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, ... View More...
. 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. View More...
. 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... View More...
. 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. View More...
. 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. View More...
. 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. View More...