Search Results: Lyra Elegantiarum by Frederick Locker

No dust jacket. Tan boards with black print and gold embossed pictures front and spine. Gilt edges. Previous owner's name on first paper. Embossed picture on title page. No markings or writing in text. No loose or dog eared pages.

1886. LOCKER, Frederick. LYRA ELEGANTIARUM. NY: White, Stokes, & Allen, 1886. 8vo., red cloth with gilt title on spine; top edge gilt. Later Edition. Contains poetry of more than 100 authors, including Lord Byron, Suckling, Coleridge, Thackeray, Swift and others. With the personal bookplate of Robert Briggs Worthington of Dedham on the front pastedown. Very Good (contents clean & tight; large, clean scratch mark on front cover, with minor discoloration to edges). $45.00.

White, Stokes, & Allen, 1884. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1884. 360 pages. No dust jacket. Green marbled boards half bound in brown leather. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards have been moderately rub worn. Noticeable shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are bumped and a little frayed Spine ends are crushed, with noticeable splits and chips. Surface tears to leather.

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paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: Edward Moxon & Co, 1867. First Edition. Leather. Near Fine. 12mo (163 x 103mm). Pp. xx, 360. Full midnight blue morocco, beautifully gilt, with fleur-de-lis, and circular floral devices, with small stars in between, with a large harp in the middle, within double ruled borders, similarly styled spine and matching rear board. All edges gilt. Generous turn-ins with matching designs, dark blue silk endpapers. Original brown cloth cover and spine bound-in at rear. Title-page stamped by the New England Conservatory of Music Library, appearing again on p.67. Nice clean copy in a lovely little binding by Zaehnsdorf, signed and dated 1910.

London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1867. xx, 360pp. With a half-title. Attractively bound by Marius Mitchel in contemporary gilt-tooled orange levant morocco, red morocco floral onlays, A.E.G., gilt-tooled green levant morocco doublures, free end-leaves of coloured brocaded silk, housed in custom morocco-backed slipcase. Two morocco bookplates to front marbled paper fly-leaf, one unidentified, the other of Francis Kettaneh, printed booksellers description pasted to verso. A fine copy. An exquisitely bound copy of the first edition of poet Frederick Locker's (1821- 1895) anthology composed of specimens of vers de société and vers d'occasion gleaned from his ample experiences of high society, including poems by, inter alia, Byron, Coleridge, Thackeray, and Swift. The scarcity of this first edition is no doubt accounted for by its near immediate withdrawal from sale as it contained poems by Walter Savage Landor (1775-1865) printed without permission of the copyright holder,… Read More