DOWSON, ERNEST; ARTHUR O’SHAUGHNESSY; ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON; AND JAMES THOMSON | A Group of Late 19th Century Poetry

The Property of a Gentleman

DOWSON, ERNEST; ARTHUR O’SHAUGHNESSY; ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON; AND JAMES THOMSON 

A Group of Late 19th Century Poetry

Dowson, Ernest. Verses. London: Leonard Smithers, 1896. 8vo. Half-title, title printed in red and black. Cream paper covered boards, upper cover decoratively gilt in design by Aubrey Beardsley, spine gilt lettered; some rubbing to extremities, minor toning. In custom buff linen covered clamshell case. First edition, second second issue, one of 300 copies printed. Hayward 307. Judith Adams Nowell–Smith and Simon Nowell-Smith (book labels to front pastedown) — O’Shaughnessy, Arthur. Music and Moonlight. Poems and Songs. London: Chatto and Windus, 1874. 8vo. Half-title, advertisement for An Epic of Women at end; minor toning. Original dark blue-green cloth over bevelled boards, upper cover ruled in gilt, lower in blind, spine gilt lettered, black coated endpapers. First edition. W. Van R. Whitall (book label to front pastedown) - Stanley Sredzinski (Rockwell Kent bookplate to front free endpaper) — Stevenson, Robert Louis. Underwoods. London: Chatto and Windus, 1887. 8vo. Half-title, publisher's advertisements to end; minor toning. Original blue cloth, spine gilt lettered, brown coated endpapers; spine just sunned, small stain to foot of spine. First edition, first issue, the Esher copy. McKay 445. Oliver Brett, Viscount Esher (bookplate to front pastedown) —Thomson, James. The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems. London: Reeves and Turner (Ballantyne Press), 1880. 8vo. Half-title, errata slip tipped in; minor toning. Full blue -green cloth over bevelled boards, covers ruled in blind, spine gilt lettered, brown coated endpapers. In custom clamshell case. First edition of Thomson’s first book of poetry. Dobell & Wheeler 3; Hayward 290

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