Lot 185
Dowson, Ernest
Decorations: in Verse and Prose, London: Leonard Smithers and Co, 1899
£813
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
First edition, one of 300 copies, 4to (19 x 13.7cm), contemporary half morocco gilt, half-title, colophon leaf, edges untrimmed, original vellum front cover bound in at rear. Together with 26 others, poetry, 19th and early 20th century, including: Algernon Charles Swinburne, Atalanta and Calydon, London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1865 (first edition, 4to, original cream cloth gilt to a design by D. G. Rossetti, bevelled boards, bookplate of Bruce Gardyne, covers marked, first two quires shaken); Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, London: Leonard Smithers, 1899 (with author's name on title, 7th edition or later), 8vo original cloth); Charles Baudelaire, Les fleurs du mal, Paris: Louis Conard, 1922 (8vo, contemporary half morocco, inscribed by Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892-1988), British composer, 'You ought to possess a good copy of this remarkable poet's work, bless you, yours ever, K' on initial blank); J. E. Flecker, The Letters of J. E. Flecker to Frank Savery, London: Beaumont Press, 1926 (one of 80 copies printed on japon and signed by editor, artist and publisher, 8vo, original half vellum); [Lady Margaret Sackville], Bertrud and Other Dramatic Poems, Edinburgh: William Brown, 1911 (first edition, out-of-series copy from the total edition of 200, 8vo, original limp vellum, tawed deerskin ties, printed on Van Gelder paper, partly unopened, photogravure frontispiece offset); Robert Eyres Landor, Selections from his Poetry and Prose ... by Eric Partridge, London: Fanfrolico Press, 1927 (one of 155 copies on handmade paper, signed); [Australiana], The Explorer and Other Poems, by M. C., Melbourne: George Robertson, 1874 (first edition, 8vo, original blue cloth, largely unopened); and similar, many signed by the author (27)
