Mimes by Marcel Schwob (1901)
An English translation of a collection of twenty short “prose-songs” (as the Foreword declares them) from the French writer Marcel Schwob (1867-1905), a key figure …more
Poetry
The First New Year (1885)
A short little poem meditating on the inevitable end of all things and the power of new beginnings….more
Snowflakes: A chapter from the book of nature (1863)
A collection of poems, extracts, anecdotes and reflections on the theme of snow and the snowflake (most often in a religious direction)….more
The Sonnets of Michelangelo (1904 edition)
Most famous for painting the Sistine Chapel and his sculpture of David, the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo was also a prolific poet, in his lifetime pennin…more
Illuminated version of Lord Tennyson’s Morte d’Arthur (1912)
Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Morte d’Arthur, written as early as the spring of 1835, was a retelling of the third, fourth and fifth chapters of the twenty-first book of M…more
The Whole Booke of Psalmes collected into Englishe Metre (1584)
The first book printed in British North America, commonly known as the Bay Psalm book….more
The Faerie Queene (1596)
Original 1596 first edition of the second part to Edmund Spenser’s epic poem The Faerie Queene – disposed into twelue bookes, fashioning XII. morall vertues – a bo…more
A Burlesque Translation of Homer (1797)
Homer’s Iliad set to bawdy verse by Thomas Bridges (c.1710-c.1775), originally published in 1762 under the pseudonym Caustic Barebones….more
Quarles’ Emblems (1886)
Francis Quarles was an English poet most famous for his emblem book originally published in 1635. This 19th century edition has been embellished with new illustrati…more