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One page, gray paper with red letterhead: Sandhills, Witley, Godalming. Allingham, noted English poet and Pre-Raphaelite associate, writing to a host for a recent dinner, begging their forgiveness in not thanking sooner. "July 5, 1884, Dear Mrs. Hunter, It was a delightful and interesting dinner and we have been longing..... (Item #2245)

London: Chapman and Hall, 1850. First edition. Presentation Copy: "To Mrs. Ferguson from W. Alllingham," on front free endpaper. Mrs. Ferguson was the wife of Samuel Ferguson, noted Irish poet and most important Ulster poet of the 19th Century. Letters from Allingham to Samuel Ferguson are well documented. Bound in..... (Item #2501)

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1893. First edition thus. Original smooth green cloth, parchment backed with gilt lettering. Presentation Copy from William Allingham's wife, Helen: "Harrie Musgrave from H. Allingham, June, 1899." Woodcut vignette on title page, other headpiece woodcuts and flourishes throughout. Side and bottom edges untrimmed. A near..... (Item #2407)

London: G. Philip & Son, 1884. New Edition. Original blue cloth, beveled boards with superb gilt cover illustration of sun and sun rays and stars, gilt lettering and design on spine. Presentation Copy from the Author: "To Mrs. Hunter, from W. Allingham, Midsummer, 1884." A brilliant almost mint cover with..... (Item #2392)

London: Reeves and Turner, 1888. First edition. Large Paper Copy. Original white parchment spine, blue paper covered boards. Contains the famous "Maids of Elfin-mere" illustrations (frontispiece) by D. G. Rossetti. At front there is a presentation insciption tipped-in from a Mrs. Fredsham? dated 1890. Some wear to corners, about very..... (Item #2027)

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861. First American edition. 12mo. Original ornately blindstamped blue cloth, gilt stamped similar motif on spine. AEG. 276pp + 16pp ads at back. Near fine. Scarce thus. (Item #2396)

London: G. Philip & Sons, 1884. First edition thus. Blue cloth with superb sunrise design and lettering in gold on cover, gilt spine and rear design emblem. Head and tailpieces, initials throughout. Covers sl. wear, else very good. Scarce. (Item #255)

London: David Stott with Longman's & Co. Cancel, [1883]. First edition. Original gray paper card wrapers printed in red and black with circular design on cover. Contains the cancel tab pasted over the original David Stott imprint, to "Longmans & Co., Paternoster Row," on both front cover wrapper as well..... (Item #4054)

London: Bell and Daldy, 1860. Original publishers green embossed cloth, gilt lettering on spine. A total of nine full-page wood-engraved plates, as well as vignette at the end by noted Pre-Raphaelite illustrators, including title-page by Arthur Hughes, as well as seven others by Hughes, the famed, D.G. Rossetti's "The Maids..... (Item #4816)

London: D. D. Cellars, [1875-95]. First thus. 12mo. Original yellow printed wrappers (on both covers) with border design of rats and spider webs, and lettering. 8pp. Exceedingly scarce chapbook-style imprint by D. D. Cellars (printed by Roberts Steam Lithograph, London. Two other copies located. An interesting and noteworthy piece consisting..... (Item #3510)