Swinburne (Charles Algernon), approx. 65 volumes by, mostly ...

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Swinburne (Charles Algernon), approx. 65 volumes by, mostly first editions in their original publisher's bindings, verse and some drama, including Clarke (Harry, illustrator), Selected Poems, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1928, plates and vignettes, original publisher's pictorial dustjacket over pictorial scarlet cloth gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, 8vo, [association copy] A Century of Roundels, presented by the author's mother Lady Jane Swinburne (1809-1896) to Elizabeth Missing Sewell (1815-1906), the authoress and a neighbour on the Isle of Wight, original cloth, uncut, 8vo, Hugh Walpole's copy of The Sisters, 1892, both the author's armorial bookplate and cypher book label, original cloth, 8vo, Ode on the Proclamation of the French Republic, 1870, original wrappers, 8vo, Note of an English Republican on the Muscovite Crusade, 1876, original wrappers, 8vo, A Word for The Navy, popular edition, 1896, original wrappers, 8vo, Studies in Prose and Poetry, 1894, original cloth, uncut, 8vo, two Mosher imprints on Van Gelder hand-made paper, some secondary studies of the man and his literary work, various, etc., mixed sizes

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Auction Date: 15th Aug 2023 at 10am

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