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London: Frowde, 1908. Full calf, 7 inches tall. A classic tree calf by Galt with gilt raised bands, label and lovely floral gilt tooling to the panels. With a gilt prize armorial block on the upper board and prize bookplate. An extraordinarily advanced anthology of English verse for Children. Complete in 3 parts.

London: Longman et al, 1848. Full calf, 7 inches tall. A particularly neat and tidy Victorian binding by Hatchard with gilt raised bands, label and curious gilt tooling to the panels. Armorial bookplate of Meteorologist and Zoologist Charles Henry Gatty. A charming little copy of this classic collection of ballads of Roman heroic episodes.

Cambridge & London: Macmillan, 1865. Full morocco, 6 inches tall. A fine hard grain morocco by Leighton with gilt raised bands, twin calf labels and very fine and delicate tooling to the panels and boards. Gilt dentelles and all edges. There is some rubbing, a clumsily removed bookplate and a name cut out of the first blank, but still a lovely copy of this delightful anthology.

London: Suttaby, 1821; Suttaby, 1821; Suttaby, 1826; Suttaby, 1820. Full calf, 5 inches tall. A delightful little Georgian binding with gilt raised bands, gilt tooled panels and boards. Each title is separately paginated and has its own frontispiece.

London: Edward Moxon, 1850. Full morocco, 6.5 inches tall. An elegant little volume bound by Hayday and with a neat bookseller's ticket. Raised bands, superb floral gilt tooling to the panels and rolls framing the boards. Dentelles and all edges gilt. A delightful copy of the third edition.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1900. Half calf, 6.75 inches tall. A delightful little volume with gilt raised bands and fine floral gilt tooling to the spine. Gilt top edge. Ink inscription to the reverse of the free endpaper dated 1902.

London: John Bell, 1787. 2 volume set, 5 inches tall. Full 18th century tree calf with gilt bands, twin labels and fine gilt tooling to the panels. Engraved portrait and title pages.2 early neat owner's names on the title pages. Some rubbing to the volume label and a nick to the tail of volume 1. A most attractive little set.

London: Alexander Moring, The De La More Press, 1925. Half morocco, 8 inches tall. A delightful and simple binding with 2 raised bands, gilt title and gilt top edge. Embellished with 12 illustrations by Blanche MacManus.

London: Charles Noble, 1867. Full morocco, 4 inches tall. An exceptional Victorian binding with gilt raised bands, very fine floral gilt tooled panels and dentelles. The print is tiny and there is some offsetting making it doubly unreadable but housed in a delightful little binding.

London: George Bell, 1892. Half morocco, 7 inches tall. A very neat half morocco by Sotheran with gilt raised bands, Aldine Leaf centre tools and gilt top edge. A charming copy of the poetical works of this great 17th century devotional poet.

London: Bohn, 1853. Full morocco, 8.5 inches tall. A most sumptious binding from the early Victorian period with gilt raised bands, dense gilt tooled panels. finely gilt boards, dentelles and all edges. A anthology of verse by the greatest British poets of the period, illustrated by some of the most illustrious artists. As is usually the case with this edition there is foxing, some severe, throughout.

London: John Sharpe, 1827. Full crushed morocco, 5.5 inches tall. A delightful little volume in a simple yet very elegant binding with raised bands, gilt titles, dentelles and all edges. With 6 engravings by Westall. In the minor poems, pages 143 to 165 were not bound in.

Edinburg: The Apollo Press, 1781. Full speckled calf, 5 inches tall. With gilt bands and label. A pristine copy.

Edinburg: The Apollo Press, 1781. Full speckled calf, 5 inches tall. With gilt bands and label. A pristine copy.

Edinburg: The Apollo Press, 1780. Full speckled calf, 5 inches tall. With gilt bands and label. Some scratching and marking of the leather on the lower board, otherwise a very clean copy in a charming 18th century binding.