Wellesley Dorothy Editor (15 results)

Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Boards, VG. 80pp, colour frontis, 3 colour plates, 22 b/w illustrations, bright copy. The English Poets In Pictures - Britain in Pictures vol 19. Another volume in the popular Britian in Pictures series. 175 grams.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 80pp, 4 colour plates (inc. frontispiece); 17 black and white illustrations. Light green paper-covered boards with dark green titles on spine and front board. 12mo. Heavy foxing on boards, corners and spine ends rubbed and bottom right corner of front board bumped. Text block edges foxing. Moderate foxing on front prelims and occasional lighter foxing throughout but otherwise internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Paper dust jacket has significant wear, heavily foxed, chipping at spine ends and corners. With an introduction on the life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and a compilation of many poems.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Neat volume on Tennyson from The English Poets in Pictures series, with a selection of his key poems including Maud, Ulysses etc. Illustrated with 4 colour plates and 22 b/w images. Selected and introduction by Dorothy Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington and an feted poet herself. Complete with DJ. Inscribed by Wellesley to the ffep, with recipient neatly scratched out. DJ has some toning, rubbing to edgesr. Light rubbing to edges of volume. Tanning to page edges, else clean and sound. Good+. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. no date given (circa 1941?); 80 clean, unmarked pages/indices. 4 Full Color plates + 12 b/w illustrations. Frontis - Percy Bysshe Shelley Crayon Drawing By Edwin Beyerhaus (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Neat volume on Byron from The English Poets in Pictures series, with a selection of his key poems including Extracts from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Manfred etc. Illustrated with 4 colour plates and 20 b/w images. Selected and introduction by Dorothy Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington and an feted poet herself. Complete with DJ. Inscribed by Wellesley to the ffep. DJ has some toning, rubbing to edges. A closed tear to cover and some wear to top/tail of spine. Light rubbing to edges of volume. Tanning to page edges, else clean and sound. Good. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Neat volume on Byron from The English Poets in Pictures series, with a selection of his key poems including Extracts from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Manfred etc. Illustrated with 4 colour plates and 20 b/w images. Selected and introduction by Dorothy Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington and an feted poet herself. Complete with DJ. Signed by Wellesley to the ffep. DJ has some toning, rubbing to edges. Small stain to DJ cover. Light rubbing to edges of volume. Tanning to page edges, else clean and sound. Good+. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Neat volume on Tennyson from The English Poets in Pictures series, with a selection of his key poems including The Rime of the Ancient mariner, Kubla Khan etc. Illustrated with 4 colour plates and 17 b/w images. Selected and introduction by Dorothy Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington and an feted poet herself. Complete with DJ. Inscribed by Wellesley to the ffep. DJ has some toning, rubbing to edges. Light rubbing to edges of volume. Tanning to page edges, else clean and sound. Good+. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. No date of publication shown. 12mo volume in green paper covered boards. B&W illustrations. Contributors include Lord Byron, Mrs. Hemans, S. T. Coleridge, John Keats, T. Hood, P. B. Shelley, etc. 296 pages. Condition: minor soiling to spine; else VG. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Neat volume on Shelley from The English Poets in Pictures series, with a selection of his key poems including Ozymandias, Ode the West Wind etc. Illustrated with 4 colour plates and 12 b/w images. Selected and introduction by Dorothy Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington and an feted poet herself. Complete with DJ. Signed by Wellesley to the ffep. DJ has some toning and foxing (mainly inside), rubbing to edges and a closed tear to cover. Light rubbing to edges of volume. Tanning to page edges, else clean and sound. Good+.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. NEAR FINE in a near fine dust jacket wrapped in protective mylar. Appears to be first printing, first edition. Binding tight and square. Mild shelf wear to dust jacket. Interior bright and clean. Unmarked on inspection.

hardback, small 8vo, 76pp, illustrated, 4 colour plates, 20 b/w illustrations, slight foxing, no inscriptions, printed board covers; Very Good / Good dustwrapper, wrapper edges rubbed .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hogarth Living Poets series number 17. An early media tie-in ! Spine darkened.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 12mo. The English Poets in Pictures Series. 76 p.p. Cloth. Some marks to dust-jacket cover. Tiny nick to top edge of rear dust-jacket cover. No marks to boards or interior. Book filled with paintings and illustrations by Alfred Tennyson, as well as some notable poems. Tennyson was a British poet. He was the Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during a lot of Queen Victoria's reign and is still one of the most well known British poets.…

Boards. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 80 pp. Publisher's boards in printed dust wrapper. Bright and clean copy. No ownership marks. With four colour plates and eighteen black & white illustrations. List of 'Britain in Pictures' titles to rear of jacket. Scarce, especially in this condition. 12mo. …

First edition. Hogarth Press, London. 1930. Lilac paper-covered boards with black type to spine and upper. 238 pages. Spine and margins of boards sunned to pale blue; small mark to upper board; 1931 ownership inscription to front free end-paper. An attractive period piece with Bloomsbury associations and a fine selection from the poets of the day.…