GOSSE Edmund
£1,528
Auction: 21 July 2004 at 11:30 BST
Description
A collection of first editions of the works of Edmund Gosse, including two items with his bookplate and one with a presentation inscription, uniformly bound in half dark blue morocco, blue cloth boards, t.e.g., with 2 items in matching solander boxes, by Riviere, mostly with the bookplate of Oliver Brett, afterwards 3rd Viscount Esher, 8vo. (unless otherwise stated), comprising:
On viol and flute, 1873; King Erik, 1876; New poems, 1879; Studies in the literature of Northern Europe, with signature of T.H. Ward in pencil, 1879; Gray, 1882; Seventeenth century studies, 1883; Firdausi in exile and other poems, 1885; From Shakespeare to Pope, 1885; Raleigh, 1886; Life of William Congreve, 1888; A history of 18th century literature, 1889; Gossip in a Library, 1891; The life of Philip Henry Gosse, 1890; Robert Browning personalia, 12mo., 1891; The secret of Narcisse; a romance, inscribed "J.A. Blaikie from E.W.G. Nov: 2.92", 1892; Questions at issue, 1893; The Jacobean poets, 1894; Critical Kit-Kats, 1896; A short history of modern English literature, 1898; The life and letters of John Donne, 2 vols., 1899; Hypolympia or the gods in the island, 1901; Jeremy Taylor, 1903; With Edmund Garnett, English literature: an illustrated record, 4 vols., 1903; In russet & silver, 1904; Coventry Patmore, 1905; Sir Thomas Browne, 1905; French profiles, 1905; Father and son: a study of two temperaments, with Edmund Gosse's bookplate, 1907; Ibsen, 1907; Biographical notes on the writings of Robert Louis Stevenson, original paper boards, printed paper label, uncut and unopened, preserved in a solander case, No 46 of 50 copies, with Edmund Gosse's bookplate, London: privately printed at the Chiswick Press, 1908; The autumn garden, 1909; Collected poems, 1911;Two visits to Denmark, 1911; Portraits & sketches, 1912; Inter arma: being essays written in time of war, 1916; Life of Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1917; Three French moralists and the gallantry of France, 1918; A catalogue of the works of Algernon Charles Swinburne in the Library of Mr. Edmund Gosse, original printed paper wrappers, preserved in a solander case, no. 43 of 50 copies, London: privately printed at the Chiswick Press, 1919; Some diversions of a man of letters, 1919; Books on the table, 1921; Aspects and impressions, 1922;The continuity of literature, presidential address, 1922, 1922 [bound with] Tallemant des reaux or the art of miniature biography, the Zaharoff lecture, 1925, 1925 [bound with] Malherbe and the classical reaction in the 17th century, the Taylorian lecture 1920, 1920; More books on the table, 1923; Silhouettes, 1925; Leaves and fruit, 1927; CHARTERIS E., The Hon., Life and letters of Edmund Gosse, 1931 [50]
Footnote
Provenance: Purchased Henry Sotheran Ltd, 43 Piccadilly, London, June 1928