Featuring predominantly newly acquired items sure to please. Catalogue 25 contains a wide variety of rare books from a diverse span of history featuring fine bindings and illustrated books, scarce children's books, 19th century literature and one-of-a-kind offerings in many different genres from the 18th to 20th Centuries. We think this is our best to date, so please take some time and enjoy!
![Item #1922 [Arnold, Edwin] The Feast of Belshazzar. A Prize Poem. Edwin Arnold](https://nudelmanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1922.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1619542531)
Oxford: Francis Macpherson, 1852. First printing. Original printed wrappers with cover decorative vignette wood. 16pp. With original envelope face to Mr. F. Dobson with clipped signature "With Best complm., E. Arnold." Arnold, [1832-1904] was an English poet winning the famed Newdigate Prize for poetry with this poem. Fine. (Item #1922)
![Item #1286 [Browning, Elizabeth Barrett] Two Poems. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert](https://nudelmanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1286.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1372277758)
London: Chapman & Hall, 1854. First edition. Original printed wrappers. Contains first appearances of two poems, "A Plea for the Ragged Schools of London," by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and "The Twins," by Robert Browning. Fine. (Item #1286)
London: George Bell & Sons, 1877. First edition. Original brown mauve cloth with black embossed ruling, gilt lettering on spine, cream endpapers. Frontispiece engraved portrait, 306pp. The anonymous editor (signed C.P." in prreface) was Coventry Patmore. Contains the 19 unpublished poems of Barry Cornwall, pseudoname for Bryan Waller Procter (1787-1874)..... (Item #2180)
![Item #4648 [Elston Press Rarity] Sir Galahad, A Christmas Mystery. William Morris](https://nudelmanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4648_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1619542327)
New Rochelle: Elston Press, 1902. First edition thus. Large quarto. Original publisher's holland backed gray paper boards printed label on spine. Only 180 copies printed on handmade paper, fully designed and illustrated by Helen M. O'Kane, including a superb two-color double-spread title page with large Kelmscott-style border designs, initials, etc...... (Item #4648)
London: Printed for the Author for Private Circulation, 1902. First edition. Gray printed wrappers. #9 of Only 25 Copies Printed, on handmade paper, edges uncut. A supplement to the Poetical Works of John Payne (printed by himself). Payne was an English poet and translator and became associated with Dante Gabriel..... (Item #2203)
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