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25 copies A. C. Swinburne Algernon Charles Swinburne Aquatint in colours Artist Author Autograph Autograph Letter Ballads bound by Riviere Browning buckram Charles Charles Dickens Circa coloured plates copies printed Crown 8vo crushed levant morocco Dickens Earl Edinburgh EDITION English Etching F'cap famous Frederick Locker French Frontispiece g. e. London George Cruikshank half calf handsomely bound Henry inches inscription on fly-leaf inserted issued James John John Leech Kelmscott Press King Lady Large Paper Copy levant morocco extra Lord Manuscript margins Mezzotint numerous illustrations original boards original buckram original cloth original half original vellum original wrappers Paris Poems Poet Portrait Post 8vo Presentation Copy Printed for Private printed in colours Private Circulation Privately Printed proof published Queen Riviere in full Robert Royal 8vo Shelley Signed Sketches Small 4to Small 8vo Songs Swinburne t. e. g. London Thackeray Thomas Trans translation uncut vellum verses vols William woodcuts written
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Page 160 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 229 - I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower, — Before, milk-white; now, purple with love's wound ; And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
Page 135 - LIFE IN LONDON : or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his Elegant Friend, Corinthian Tom.
Page 214 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Page 96 - This royal infant, (heaven still move about her !) Though in her cradle, yet now promises Upon this land a thousand thousand blessings, Which time shall bring to ripeness...
Page 268 - THE STORY OF THE GLITTERING PLAIN, which has been also called The Land of the Living Men, or The Acre of the Undying.
Page 27 - THE ROOTS OF THE MOUNTAINS, wherein is told somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale, their Friends, their Neighbours, their Foemen, and their Fellows-in-Arms. Written in Prose and Verse. Square crown 8vo., 8s. A TALE OF THE HOUSE OF THE WOLFINGS, and all the Kindreds of the Mark.
Page 79 - Spencer. i [THE CHASE, and WILLIAM AND HELEN. Two Ballads from the German of Gottfried Augustus Burger.
Page 56 - A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And fills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast; And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. O for a soft and gentle wind!
Page 26 - The Excellent HISTORY OF THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. With the extreme cruelty of Shylocke the Jew towards the saide Merchant, in cutting a just pound of his flesh. And the obtaining of Portia, by the choyse of three caskets. Written by W. Shakespeare. Printed by J. Roberts. 1600.