London, printed for J. Dodsley, 1781. Bound together with four contemporary works by Hayley, uniformly published with the Dodsley imprint. 1) 'A Poetical Epistle to an Eminent Painter'. 1779 (second edition, corrected and enlarged); iv, 84, [1] (addenda, verso blank). 2) 'Ode inscribed to John Howard, Esq., F.R.S., Author of..... More
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London, Albion Press, 1804 [first thus]. William Somerville '(1675-1742), poet; of an ancient Gloustershire family; ... his poem of four books in blank verse, "The Chase", published first in 1735; his hawking poem, "Field Sports", a kind of supplement, published, 1742' ('Concise Dictionary of National Biography'). More
Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1857 [first thus]. A poem in six cantos on Robert Bruce, first published in 1815; this edition, 'as we now have it in the Author's MS' is published 'with all his introductions, and the editor's notes'. More
Adelaide, Andrews, Thomas, and Clark, 1865. Almost half the book (58 pages) is given over to verse by Stephenson, who died at the age of 18 in May 1865. With a contemporary inscription (in Charles Todd's hand?) to 'Lizzie Todd 4th Decr 1865' in ink on an early blank; the..... More
Adelaide, Andrews, Thomas, and Clark, 1865. With the contemporary ownership details of 'Revd Henry Pollitt, Woodville, 4th Decr 1865' on the flyleaf. One of the earliest Australian imprints illustrated with original photographs (see Holden: 'Photography in Colonial Australia' [Sydney, 1988]), where the author is incorrectly referred to in the text..... More
Melbourne, Clarson, Massina, 1868. With the bookplate of Thomas Thornton Reed, sometime Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide. More
London, John Camden Hotten, [c. 1871]. With the 'cMGee' misprint, and the 1s. price against 'Sensation Novels'. More
Brisbane, Watson, Ferguson, 1880. With the bookplate and pencilled signature of Thomas Thornton Reed, sometime Archbishop of Adelaide (and Kendall scholar). More
Adelaide, W.K. Thomas, 1883. Not least, 'The Wreck of the Gothenburg (happened February 24, 1875, on the Great Barrier Reef, not far from Cape Bowling Green ...)' (6 pages). This copy has the contemporary ownership signature of J.A. Bagshaw (1884) on the title page. Adelaide-born John Augustus Bagshaw (1838-1920) was..... More
Adelaide, Scrymgour and Sons, Printers [for the Author], 1884. With a contemporary inscription by, and signature of, a family member. More
Adelaide, Wigg and Melbourne, Mullen, 1884. With the armorial bookplate of Thomas Thornton Reed, sometime Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide. More
Adelaide, E.S. Wigg and Son, 1884. The author's second book of verse; he was Dean of Adelaide at the time. More
Sydney, William Maddock, 1885. More
Sydney, William Maddock, 1885. This copy is inscribed in ink on the verso of the title page 'To / George Augustus Sala / From the author. / With sincere regards. / P.J.H. / 2.5.'85'. George Augustus Sala (1828-1895), the 'Prince of Journalists', spent nine months in Australia in 1885; his..... More
Adelaide, Sands & McDougall, 1886. The list of 60 "Subscribers to this Volume for Five Copies and Upwards" on page 64 includes many of the leading lights of Adelaide. More
Adelaide, printed by Sands & McDougall [for the Author], 1891. The last page is a list of subscribers 'for five copies and upwards'; there are 24 names. (And another thing: clearly, 'Spicy' is not now what it used to be ...). More
Melbourne, George Robertson, 1892. With the amorial bookplate of Thomas Thornton Reed, sometime Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide (and with his pencilled note on the flyleaf). More
London, George Robertson, 1893 and 1894. The title leaves are laid down on fine blank paper to mask advertising on the verso; the contents leaves are numbered xxiii-xxiv and xiii-xiv respectively, with the running title 'The Antipodean - Advertisements' at the head of each page. Contributors include Rolf Boldrewood, Ernest..... More
London, Ward, Lock and Bowden, 1895. Not least, 'The Wild White Man. An Australian Tale' (pages 101-196, concerning convict William Buckley (1780-1856). More
Adelaide, J.L. Bonython and Co., 'Advertiser' Office, 1898. A collection of humorous verse (topical and localized) by a son of the South Australian novelist Maud Jean Franc (Mrs E. Evans). More
London, George Allen, 1899. Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. More
London, John Lane, 1900. Introduction by A.C. Benson. Illustrated by Henry Ospovat. More
Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1903 (twelfth thousand)/ 1896. The publisher's catalogue at the rear of this copy is dated November 1905, suggesting sheets of the 1903 edition were retained for later binding. More
Adelaide, Vardon and Sons (printers), 1908. "The didactic undertakings of the women poets are minor in comparison with the extensive Pumblechookian productions of Robert Caldwell (1843-1909)" (Depasquale). More
London, Chatto Windus/ Longmans, Green, 1908. More
London, Oxford University Press, 1909. With the later (1954) ownership signature of (Professor) Brian Medlin. More
Sydney, George Robertson, 1911 (fifth edition). More
London, Constable, 1913 (second impression). With the pencilled ownership signature of Professor Heinz Kent, inscribed 'Cambridge, 1961'. More
San Francisco, Paul Elder and Company, 1913 (first edition). 'Oh, not your spangle of Existence spend/ Upon what Secret her Good Looks depend ...' (VI). More
Sydney, Angus & Robertson Ltd., 1916. Inscribed on the front flyleaf; 'For Review, The Editor, The Chronicle'. Presumably this refers to 'The Cobargo Chronicle' (1898 - 1944). More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1917 (first edition). This is a review copy, inscribed to 'The Editor, The Advertiser' on the half-title (with the small ink-stamp of the Adelaide booksellers E.S. Wigg and Son). The first edition comprised 20,000 'ordinary' copies and 5000 Blue Wrens; the six colour plates and the..... More
Auckland, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1918. The last five sonnets are war poems: August 1914, Anzac, Glory, Peace, and Roses. More
London, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1919. With the ownership signature of Professor Heinz Kent. More
Melbourne, Byrne and McCubbin, 1919 [first edition]. The frontispiece is a tipped-in plate of the triptych 'The Pioneers', by F. McCubbin. More
Goodwood, The Author, [1920s]. The author's address, printed on the title page, is crossed out; the new address is written (in his hand) on the blank verso of the front cover. More
London, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1920. Frederick William Harvey (1888-1957), English poet and officer in the 5th Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment; 'he was captured on 17 August 1916 and spent the remainder of the war in prisoner-of-war camps. His first volume of poems, "A Gloucestershire Lad", was published shortly after..... More
London, Warne, 1922. More
Edinburgh, Foulis, 1922 /1922. More
Boston, Cornhill Publishing, 1922. Inscribed and signed by the author and an original photograph, presumably of the author, laid-in on the front pastedown. More
London, Collins, 1922 [revised edition]/ 1910. Number 218 of 250 copies signed by the author. More
London, Selwyn and Blount, 1924. Number 96 of only 300 copies numbered and signed by the author, and the pencilled ownership signature of Professor Heinz Kent. More
London, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1924 [first edition]. More
Melbourne, Edward A. Vidler, 1924. More
London, Constable, 1925. Number 183 of only 278 copies signed by the author. More
London, Heinemann, 1926/ 1923. With the bookplate and ownership signature of Harry Muir. More
London, Constable, 1927. Number 82 of only 275 copies signed by the author. More
