Collection: Literature

“That it was sacrilege to Chop a Leek”: William King - The art of cookery, in imitation of Horace's Art of poetry : with some letters to Dr. Lister and others (1709?)

Spooky Ladies : Gorey - Ladies of the Gothic (1975)

1816 edition of William Somervile's The Chace

Victorian Bound Poetry : Longfellow - Kavanah (1858)

The Darling of 19th c. Medievalism : Tennyson - Crossing the Bar (1901?)

Spooky Stories from a Spooky Medievalist: M.R. James - Thin Ghost (1925)

Mauchline Binding for the Ladies: Gift of Love and Friendship (1874)

Ghoulishly Witty: Dehn & Gorey - Quake, Quake, Quake (1961)

Some Crime, No Cats : Bowen - The Cat Jumps (1949)

“Some love is fire, some love is rust. But the finest, cleanest love is lust” : Fleming - Goldfinger (1959)

Another Prize for an Edinburgh Lady: Beauties of Poetry and Gems of Art (1870s?)

A Victorian Compendium in Pretty Binding : Favourite English Poems and Poets (1870)

“There will not always be scientific men, perhaps, but there always will be poets.” : Jules Verne - Five Weeks in a Balloon (ca. 1869)

: Laurence Sterne - Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - 1928

German Chapbook Printing in Ohio: Drei Nützlich Erzählungen für Kinder (1858)

"Waft me some soft and cooling Breeze" : Various - The Fields and the Woodlands Depicted by Painter and Poet (1873)

Fine Binding, Fine Poetry, Fine Engravings: Tom Taylor & Birket Foster - Birket Foster’s Pictures of English Landscape (1864)

Poetry from Chaucer to Eliza Barrett Browning : Multiple Authors - The Book of Poets (n.d.)

Touring Time Through Poetry : W. H. Wills - Poets' Wit and Humour (1865)

Suppressed Books & Victorian Libraries: William Thackeray & Jospeh Grego - Thackerayana (1875)

"I met with a literary tinker": Jeffery Farnol - The Broad Highway (1912)

American Arthuriana: Mark Twain - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889)