Oscar Wilde, John Keats, Alfred Tennyson

Grouping of notable works, including first editions, from some of Britain's most famous authors covering topics of literature, poetry and history.

• Sold as a set of 10.

Thomas Gray (English).

Poems by Mr. Gray/Gray's Poems.

London: printed for J Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, 1768.

119 pages.

First edition.

Bound in full tan calf, raised bands, gilt tooled with burgundy spine label.

Sarah Green (English).

Private History of the Court of England, vols. I-II.

London: printed for the author, 1808.

287 (vol. I), 252 (vol. II) pages.

Bound in full tan calf, raised bands, gilt tooled with burgundy and navy spine labels with tooled rose motif.

John Keats (English).

Selections from Keats; note by JR Tutin.

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1889.

254 pages.

Bound in half red morocco with tan boards, raised bands with gilt lettering and gilt tooled rose motif.

William Watson (English).

Lyric Love.

London & New York: MacMillan and Co, 1892.

238 pages.

First edition.

Bound in full red calf with raised bands, black morocco spine label, ornate gilt tooling on spines and boards.

James Russell Lowell (English).

Poems.

Cambridge: John Owen, 1843.

279 pages.

First edition.

Bound in full tan morocco, raised bands, ornate gilt tooled floral motif on spine and boards with green morocco inlay.

Andrew Lang (English)

Aucassin & Nicolete.

London: David Nutt, 1887.

70 pages.

First edition, 550 copies on Japanese paper.

Bound in full red morocco, raised bands with ornate floral motif on boards and spine with green morocco inlay.

Engraved frontispiece and additional engraving bound in.

Thomas Pecke (English).

Parnassi Puerperium.

London: J Cottrel for Tho[mas?] Baffet in St. Dunflans Church-yard in Fleet-ftreet [street], 1659.

184 pages.

Includes portrait frontispiece.

Inscription in pen reads: "See the British Bibliographers Vol. 2, p. 309 for an account of this book by JW Hardwood [?] & of "the very portrait of the author" which "an eminent collector was above seven years" in obtaining. There was not a copy in the Duke of Roxburghe's library. A copy without the portrait produced at Colonel Stanley's sale in May 1813. £1.15

Bound in full tan calf, raised bands, gilt lettering.

Alfred Tennyson (English).

The Princess.

First edition.

London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street, 1847.

164 pages.

Bound in full green morocco, raised bands, gilt lettered and tooling on spine with floral motif and gilt tooled doublures.

Laurence Sterne (English).

Engravings by Thomas Rowlandson (English).

A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy.

London: Thomas Tegg, 1809.

179 pages.

First published in 1768, this edition includes two full-color caricature prints by Rowlandson.

Bound in full speckled brown calf, raised bands, burgundy morocco label, gilt tooling on spines and boards with pomegranate motif.

Oscar Wilde (English).

Sebastian Melmoth: [Oscar Wilde].

London: Alfred L. Humphreys, 1908.

221 pages.

First published 1905.

Bound in full green morocco, raised bands, ornate gilt tooling on spine and boards.