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 about The Triumphs of Temper. A Poem in Six Cantos
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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 about The Chase [a Poem]. To which is annexed Field Sports .. With a Sketch of the Author's Life;...
London, Septimus Prowett, 1827. 'Martin's illustrations to John Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost" represent a turning point in his career. The vast majority of Martin's most famous works were based upon either Miltonic or Biblical subject matter. The "Paradise Lost" series are of particular importance both as one of his... More about The Paradise Lost of Milton. With Illustrations designed and engraved by John Martin
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 about The Lord of the Isles
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 about Essays and Miscellaneous Pieces by the late Edward R. Stephenson. With a preface by his friend,...
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 about Essays and Miscellaneous Pieces by the late Edward R. Stephenson. With a preface by his Friend,...
Melbourne, Clarson, Massina, 1868. With the bookplate of Thomas Thornton Reed, sometime Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide. More about The Warden of Galway. A Metrical Tale in Six Cantos, and other Poems
London, John Camden Hotten, [c. 1871]. With the 'cMGee' misprint, and the 1s. price against 'Sensation Novels'. More about That Heathen Chinee and Other Poems, Mostly Humorous
Brisbane, Watson, Ferguson, 1880. With the bookplate and pencilled signature of Thomas Thornton Reed, sometime Archbishop of Adelaide (and Kendall scholar). More about Miscellaneous Poems
Adelaide, Webb, Vardon & Pritchard [for the Author], 1881. More about Poems, &c
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 about Australian Poems
Adelaide, Scrymgour and Sons, Printers [for the Author], 1884. With a contemporary inscription by, and signature of, a family member. More about Songs of the South
Adelaide, Wigg and Melbourne, Mullen, 1884. With the armorial bookplate of Thomas Thornton Reed, sometime Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide. More about Voices of Doubt. Australian Scenes and Other Poems
Adelaide, E.S. Wigg and Son, 1884. The author's second book of verse; he was Dean of Adelaide at the time. More about Voices of Doubt. Australian Scenes and Other Poems
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 about Station Hunting on the Warrego; Australia; At the Valley of the Popran, and other Poems
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 about Scenes in Scotia (Part First). Archibald Forbes and his Lecture, 'Kings and Princes I have met';...
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 about Autumn Leaves and Christmas Joys. Being a Miscellaneous Collection of Short, Spicy Poems, &c
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 about Australian Verses
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 about The Antipodean. An Illustrated Annual [1892, bound together with the Annual for 1893]. Edited by...
Adelaide, printed by Vardon and Pritchard, 1895. 'To Dear Emma With the best of good wishes from her old friend Racey' is writ large across the top half of the title page. Not least, 'To Glenelg', the view from the window on the train journey from the city for a.... More about Poems
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 about Songs of the South. Second Series. The Wild White Man and Other Poems
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 about Rhymes without Reason
London, George Allen, 1899. Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. More about Peg Woffington
London, John Lane, 1900. Introduction by A.C. Benson. Illustrated by Henry Ospovat. More about Poems by Matthew Arnold
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 about In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses
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 about The German Band and The Morning Minstrels. Also Occasional Pieces
London, Chatto Windus/ Longmans, Green, 1908. More about Poems. Underwoods. Ballads. Songs of Travel [and] A Child's Garden of Verses
London, Oxford University Press, 1909. With the later (1954) ownership signature of (Professor) Brian Medlin. More about Campion's Works
Sydney, George Robertson, 1911 (fifth edition). More about 'Twixt Heather and Wattle. Poems by
London, Constable, 1913 (second impression). With the pencilled ownership signature of Professor Heinz Kent, inscribed 'Cambridge, 1961'. More about Peacock Pie
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 about The Social Rubaiyat of a Bud
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 about The Australian and Other Verses
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 about The Glugs of Gosh
Eaglehawk, The Author, [c.1917]. Not least, 'Gallipoli', pp 8-10. More about A Bit o' Worn Khaki and other Poems
Auckland, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1918. The last five sonnets are war poems: August 1914, Anzac, Glory, Peace, and Roses. More about Twelve Sonnets
London, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1919. With the ownership signature of Professor Heinz Kent. More about Rupert Brooke and the Intellectual Imagination. A Lecture
Melbourne, Byrne and McCubbin, 1919 [first edition]. The frontispiece is a tipped-in plate of the triptych 'The Pioneers', by F. McCubbin. More about The Early Pioneer
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 about Saint Mum. A Poem in Praise of Mother.. Republished from the 'Aussie'
London, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1920. Frederick William Harvey (1888-1957), English poet and solicitor. "He was a friend of Ivor Gurney and the composer Herbert Howells. In the 5th battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment; after being commissioned as an officer he was captured on 17 August 1916 and spent the remainder... More about Comrades in Captivity: A Record of Life in Seven German Prison Camps
London, Warne, 1922. More about Dreams of Outback
Edinburgh, Foulis, 1922 /1922. More about The Poems of Adam Lindsay Gordon
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 about My Christmas Wish and Other Rhythms
London, Collins, 1922 [revised edition]/ 1910. Number 218 of 250 copies signed by the author. More about The Return
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 about Ding Dong Bell
London, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1924 [first edition]. More about Up Hill and Down Dale
London, Constable, 1925. Number 183 of only 278 copies signed by the author. More about Broomsticks and Other Tales
London, Heinemann, 1926. 'I sing the cycle of my country's year' - a book-length poem divided into the four seasons. More about The Land
