Winter's Gift

winter's Gift

Catalogue Number 167

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CONTENTS Christmas Books.......................................................................................................... 1 Varied books, alphebetical by author/subject ....................................................6 Select Index.............................................................................................................44

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Charles Dickens’ Timeless Annual Favorite A Christmas Carol - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham Delightfully Illustrated Throughout in His Best Fashion [Rackham, illus.] Dickens, Charles. A CHRISTMAS CAROL (London and Philadelphia: William Heinemann and J. B. Lippincott Co., 1915) First edition of the holiday classic with Arthur Rackham’s illustrations, First Issue with the frontispiece tipped-in as called for and Heinemann on the spine panel. With 12 haunting colour plates, illustrated endpapers, 18 black and white illustrations and line drawings by Arthur Rackham. The colourplates with tissue-guards captioned in dark red/brown. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth lettered and pictorially decorated in black on the upper cover with a ringing Christmas bell motif and on the spine in black in a holly and berry motif. xi, 147 pp. A very nice copy indeed, the cloth is bright and unfaded with strong decoration and lettering, the edges are crisp with tight corners, the text very clean and fresh with the spotting to which the book is highly prone being only occasional and very mild, the plates in wonderful condition. $1250.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN VERY PLEASING CONDITION. A shining example of what you get when a true masterpiece of literature is complemented by one of the world’s greatest book illustrators. An inspiring combination.

Dickens writes of A Christmas Carol in his preface: “I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book to raise the Ghost of an Idea which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their house pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it.” Surely, the author would be pleased with the perennial delight his little Christmas tale has stirred in the hearts and imaginations of generations of readers. Originally, Rackham’s illustrated edition of Dickens’ classic was published during the war years (1915) and was quite well received. The artist successfully incorporated the ‘Phiz’ and Cruikshank styles into his own to create striking renditions of Victorian London with ample room to uniquely evoke ghostly fantasy images as well. His almost characterized depiction of Scrooge, features chiseled and grotesque, are as bone-chilling as his fantastic entourages of moaning ghouls. The muted, shadowed atmospheric tones so characteristically Rackham, support Dickens’ eerie tale wonderfully. Some examples of Rackham’s emerging special talent for silhouette are also included.

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Haunted Man and the Ghost Bargain A Fancy for Christmas-Time A Charles Dickens Holiday Classic - 1848 First Edition in a Beautiful Binding by Riviere Dickens, Charles. THE HAUNTED MAN AND THE GHOST’S BARGAIN. A FANCY FOR CHRISTMAS-TIME. (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848 ) First edition. With 16 engraved illustrations including a fine title-page and frontispiece. Small 8vo, in a fine full red morocco binding by Riviere with gilt fillet border at the cover edges surrounding a double fillet frame in gilt, corner pieces tooled in gilt, border tooling in gilt within the framework, the spines with elaborate gilt decorated panels within compartments separated by raised bands gilt stopped, gilt ruled and gilt lettered, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. (10),188, (2) advertisements. A fine, well preserved copy only lightly aged. $1850.

FINE FIRST EDITION IN A VERY HANDSOME AND APPEALING BINDING BY RIVIERE. THE HAUNTED MAN was Dickens’ fifth and final Christmas book. It, like the others proved very popular and went into re-print many times after its original introduction in 1848.

And The First Edition of Dickens’ Holiday Classic The Cricket on the Hearth - 1846 Dickens, Charles. THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846) First Edition, with the second state of the advertisement leaf as is normally found. Complete with 14 engraved illustrations including a fine frontispiece and title-page, by John Leech, R. Doyle and others. 12mo, rebound in red morocco, preserving most of the original cloth to the boards including the gilt vignette on the upper cover, the spine with tall gilt stippled raised bands and gilt ruled and decorated compartments, lettered in gilt in two compartments. A fine clean copy. $950.

FINE FIRST EDITION IN A VERY HANDSOME AND APPEALING BINDING BY RIVIERE. THE HAUNTED MAN was Dickens’ fifth and final Christmas book. It, like the others proved very popular and went into re-print many times after its original introduction in 1848.

The Chimes - First Edition A Beloved Dickens Holiday Classic Dickens, Charles. THE CHIMES. (London,: Chapman and Hall, 1845) First Edition, with the second state of the vignette titlepage as usual. Engraved frontispiece and title page, 11 other illustrations by John Leech, Richard Doyle, and others. 12mo,, original red cloth, enclosed in a cloth slipcase with paper label. 175 pp. A solid very good copy, the corners rubbed, and light soiling, the cloth a bit worn along the joints. $795.

THIS WAS DICKENS’ SECOND INSTALLMENT IN THE “CHRISTMAS BOOKS” SERIES, and his labors in creating THE CHIMES were “very arduous” in order to make it a worthy successor to A CHRISTMAS CAROL. He wrote to one of his friends that he believed he had “written a tremendous book and knocked the ‘Carol’ out of the field. It will make a great uproar I have no doubt.” Of course, it did not exceed the CAROL in any way except in initial sales, but it is a charming tale nonetheless.

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Charles Dickens - The Christmas Books Containing All Five Works - Chapman & Hall - London Handsomely Bound - A Pleasing 19th Century Printing Dickens, Charles. CHRISTMAS BOOKS and HARD TIMES (London: Chapman & Hall, [n.d., ca. 1880]) Early edition, complete in one volume. Complete with the illustrations by the original illustrators, Maclise, Stanfield, F. Stone, Doyle, Leech, and Tenniel. Tall 8vo, handsomely bound in contemporary tan three-quarter crushed morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, with marbled end-papers, the spine with raised bands ruled in gilt, gilt tooling in each gilt ruled compartment, two compartments lettered in gilt, t.e.g. [8], 465 pp. A fine copy, well preserved, the text-block spotless, the binding in uncommonly fine condition, tight and strong. $450.

EARLY SINGLE VOLUME EDITION OF THE GREAT CHRISTMAS BOOKS OF CHARLES DICKENS. The text includes ‘A Christmas Carol’, ‘The Chimes’, ‘The Cricket on the Hearth’, ‘The Battle of Life’, and ‘The Haunted Man’.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL IS ONE OF THE GREATEST BOOKS IN ALL OF LITERATURE. John Leech illustrated Dickens’ classic “Christmas Carol” with four etched plates and several woodcuts within the text.

THE CHIMES was Dickens’ second installment in the “Christmas Books” series and his labors in creating THE CHIMES were “very arduous” in order to make it a worthy successor to A CHRISTMAS CAROL. THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH was third in Dickens’ Christmas Book Series. The title grew out of Dickens’ idea to begin a weekly periodical named “The Cricket”. It was extremely popular when issued. Within one year there had been twenty two editions printed.

THE BATTLE OF LIFE was the fourth installment in Dickens’ series of Christmas Books. Dickens managed to find the time to complete the manuscript while working on DOMBEY AND SON in Switzerland and in December of 1846 the book was released, selling 23,000 copies in the first 24 hours.

THE HAUNTED MAN AND THE GHOST’S BARGAIN was the last of Dickens’ popular Christmas books and one that returns to the themes that brought him such success with A CHRISTMAS CAROL--misery and wrongdoing, realization, redemption and peace as a man blighted by sorrow discovers the true value of his life and of those around him.

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens With Arthur Rackham’s Haunting Illustrations In a Very Handsome Morocco Binding by Bayntun-Riviere [Rackham, illus.] Dickens, Charles. A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott and William Heinemann, [1915]) First edition, the English sheets with the added Lippincott imprint for American distribution. With 12 haunting colour plates and 18 black and white illustrations and line drawings by Arthur Rackham. 8vo, finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere in appropriate bright red threequarter morocco over red feathered marbled boards, the spine with handsome raised bands ruled in blind, two compartments gilt lettered and additional gilt lettering at the tail, matching feathered marbled endpapers, t.e.g. xi, 147 pp. A very handsome and very fine copy, the morocco binding in excellent preservation and pristine, the text completely free of any spotting, unusual for the title. $1650.

AN ALL TIME FAVORITE OF GENERATIONS IN A VERY DESIRABLE BINDING BY BAYNTUN-RIVIERE OF BATH. DICKENS AND RACKHAM, ONE OF THE GREATEST COMBINATIONS OF AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR YET PUBLISHED.

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’Twas The Night Before Christmas A Giant Colouring Book With the Artwork of Vern Henkel Moore, Clement C.; [Christmas; Colouring]. ‘TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS Giant Story Coloring Book (Edison, N.J.: Colorful Fund Raising Inc., 1977) First Edition. Additionally including the rare iron-on colour transfer of jolly ol’ Saint Nick still in its original sleeve.

With 20 full page drawing to be colored, including the titlepage, and additional decorative elements to be colored on the text pages, all by Vern Henkel and the t-shirt transfer in colour. Giant folio (21.5 by 16.75 inches), original glossy front wrapper illustrated in colours by Vern Henkel and plain paperboard rear cover backed in black paper, the text leaves with the inside margins perforated for easy removal and display. 20 leaves, printed with the full page artwork to be coloured on the rectos and Moore’s decorated text on the versos. A very fine copy, extremely well preserved for an item of this type, the pages all pristine, unused and untouched by crayon or paint, the perforations all fully intact and the iron-on transfer also pristine and unused, the festively printed upper cover bright and clean with only with some very minor creasing at the edges and lower corner to be expected on something so large yet so thin and a few spots on its blank rear. $395.

RARE, NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND IN UNUSED CONDITION IF AT ALL. Clement Moore’s classic Christmas poem (originally published as A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS) gets first class treatment as a giant colouring book with the artwork provided by Vern Henkel, best known for his work with DC/National, Harvey and Quality Comics. This copy includes the iron-on transfer and is exceptional in its state of preservation.

The Greatest Classics of the Season in Fine Facsimiles Dickens’ Beloved A Christmas Carol as the 1843 Original Moore’s Visit of St. Nick’ as in Two Original States Dickens, Charles [and] Moore, Clement C. [Two Christmas Classics; Being] A CHRISTMAS CAROL, A Facsimile of the First Edition with an Introduction and a Bibliographical Note by Edgar Johnson [And] A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS, Facsimiles of the Earliest Printed Newspaper and Pamphlet Versions and a Holograph Manuscript with Commentary by Clifton Fadiman (Ann Arbor: University Microfilms Library Services / Xerox, 1967) Two volumes with two pocketed inserts, complete. Giniger Books, and the first edition thus. Christmas Carol illustrated as the original with engravings by John Leech including fine colour reproductions of the four hand-coloured plates of the original and with the 1843 titlepage printed in red and blue. The pamphlet printing of “Visit” with the original cuts by by Boyd reproduced along with the original orange printed cover, the newspaper printed as the original and Fadiman’s commentary illustrated with woodcuts reproductions and bound with the manuscript reproduction. Two octavos, pamphlet and folded leaf, “Christmas Carol” bound in a reproduction of the original edition’s gilt decorated red cloth, the commentary with the holograph facsimile for “Visit” bound similarly though a different size and with a pocket in the front cover containing the pamphlet and newspaper sheet, all contained in a red cloth slipcase lettered within a decorative frame on the spine in gilt and the front and back each decorated with colour pastedowns by John Leech of Mr. Fezziwig’s Ball and Marley’s Ghost. Very fine, the bound items plus the inserts all pristine and as new, one small bump on the slipcase only otherwise it being very fine as well.. $145.

A VERY HANDSOME PRODUCTION PUBLISHED FOR CHRISTMAS, 1967. These two holiday classics are staples of the season everywhere throughout the English-speaking world. True copies of the three main pieces included here in fine facsimile would cost many, many thousands to collect. These were also fine examples of the capabilities of the Xerox process for publishing. A lovely little set, perfect to bring out and enjoy each year at Christmastime.

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Washington Irving’s Sketches of an Old English Christmas With the Beautiful Illustrations of Randolph Caldecott 1878 - In a Pretty Three-Quarter Red Morocco Binding [Caldecott Illus.]; Irving, Washington. OLD CHRISTMAS: From the Sketch Book (London: Macmillian and Co., 1878) Early Printing. Beautifully illustrated with over 100 engraved images by Randolph Caldecott either on plates or within the text arranged and engraved by J. D. Cooper. Small 8vo, very handsomely bound, probably

by Robert Riviere in fine 3/4 crushed red morocco for Charles Lauriat, the spine with raised bands gilt stopped, gilt lettering in two compartments, those remaining with gilt panels incorporating central gilt, tooled devices, top edge gilt. xiv, 165 pp. A very handsome, bright and fine copy, clean and very well preserved. $350.

A VERY BEAUTIFUL PRODUCTION OF IRVING’S HOLIDAY MEMORIES ILLUSTRATED BY ONE OF THE MOST RESPECTED ILLUSTRATOR’S OF HIS DAY. Randolph Caldecott was acknowledged as a major influence and inspiration by many of the 20th centuries greats, such as Potter, Shepard and Greenaway. His reputation is such that the American Library Associations annual award for outstanding children’s book illustrations is named The Caldecott in his honor.

Washington Irving wrote this tale, and the other stories in THE SKETCH BOOK under the pseudonym of Geoffrey Grayon. Narrated in the first person, it was a series of stories that relate to the author’s travels in England. It was also his most successful work. This tale is replete with old English holiday traditions, many of which were already fading into memory during the time of Irving’s visit. In the author’s opening words, “There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times.”

Irving does a fine job of describing these joyous occasions, and thus helped to preserve them for the generations to come.

A Christmas Book by William Makepeace Thackeray The Kickleburys on the Rhine - First Edition - 1850 [Christmas Books; Thackeray, William Makepeace]. THE KICKLEBURYS ON THE RHINE by Mr. M. A. Titmarsh (London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1850) First Edition, with the half-title. Illustrated with 15 hand-coloured plates throughout. 8vo, bound by Wallis in full polished calf, the covers with double gilt fillet rules at the borders, the spine with raised bands, gilt stopped, separating the compartments which are richly decorated in panel designs incorporating gilt corner and center-tooling, morocco lettering label gilt, all edges gilt. [6], 87, [2 ads.] pp. A handsome an well preserved copy, only very light evidence of age. $325.

FIRST EDITION. One of Thackeray’s Christmas Books, written under the name of Titmarsh. The characters are like those with which the author loves to surround himself. For fans of the author’s work “The Kickleburys on the Rhine will afford an agreeable treat.”

Extra-Illustrated with the Plates in Two States Thackeray’s Christmas Book - Doctor Birch - 1849 [Christmas Books; Thackeray, William Makepeace]. DOCTOR BIRCH AND HIS YOUNG FRIENDS [A Christmas Book] (London: Chapman & Hall, 1849) First Edition. Written under the pseudonym of M.A.Titmarsh. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 32 illustrations, the engravings being in two states, both black and white and coloured by hand. 8vo, bound later to style in three-quarter green morocco over marbled paper covered boards, the spine with gilt bands separating the compartments and a red morocco lettering label gilt, all edges gilt. (6), 49 pp. A handsome and pleasing copy, lightly mellowed by time. $295.

FIRST EDITION. One of Thackeray’s Christmas Books. This copy is extra-illustrated with the plates in two states.

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One of Ansel Adams’ Most Beautiful Works Images 1923-1974 - First Edition A Very Fine Copy in the Original Slipcase 1 Adams, Ansel. IMAGES 1923-1974. Foreward by Wallace Stegner (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1974) First edition, first issue.

With 106 plates, three portraits, and endpapers and dustjacket photos by Adams. Oblong folio, original black and grey cloth, in the dustjacket, in the original slipcase. 128 pp. A very fine copy, beautifully preserved in the original slipcase. The slipcase with some wear and the typical splitting evident.

FIRST EDITION. An eloquent representation of Adams oeuvre, including scenery, portraits, and still-life photographs. “These are the finest images of one of the great artists of the 20th century - Ansel Adams’s selection of the important works of his career to date, presented in the best possible printed reproductions. The extraordinary presence that characterizes every Adams photograph emerges from these pages.” $275.

Jane Austen’s Complete Work - A 12 Volume Set Beautifully Illustrated with Engraved Frontispieces First of the Edition - Finely Bound and Presented in Morocco Gilt - 1892 2 Austen, Jane. THE WORKS OF JANE AUSTEN. [Being: SENSE AND SENSIBILITY; PRIDE AND PREJUDICE; MANSFIELD PARK; EMMA; NORTHANGER ABBEY/PERSUASION; LADY SUSAN; THE WATSONS; WITH A MEMOIR, LETTERS] (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892) 12 volumes. First of this Deluxe Edition, Limited to 250 copies only. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece illustrations to each volume. 8vo, very handsomely bound for Estes & Lauriat at the time of publication in three-quarter rich brown crushed morocco over fine marbled boards, the spines with wide raised bands gilt ruled and tooled, compartments lettered in gilt and decorated with floral device gilt at the foot, marbled end-leaves to match the covers of green, gold and gray and tan, top edge gilt. A very handsome set in very pleasing condition. Beautifully preserved, bright, fresh and clean with only very minimal evidence of age.

A VERY HANDSOME SET INDEED, WITH FINE BINDINGS AND DELIGHTFUL ENGRAVED FRONTISPIECES. An attractive and authoritative set of Austen’s novels and letters. This edition printed the novels in the order of their publication and from the last editions revised by the author.

Originally, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY appeared in 1811, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE in 1813, MANSFIELD PARK in 1814, EMMA in 1815, and NORTHANGER ABBEY and PERSUASION, LADY SUSAN, THE WATSONS and THE LETTERS appeared posthumously in 1818, 1871 and 1884. Here we find them all perfectly united in this attractively bound set.

“Recognition came to Miss Austen slowly. But she is now firmly established as an English classic… Miss Austen had always her panegyrists among the best intellects-such as Coleridge, Tennyson,Macaulay, Scott, Sydney Smith, Disraeli and Archbishop Whitely, the last of whom may be said to have been her discoverer. Macaulay, whose adoration of Miss Austen’s genius was almost idolatrous, considered MANSFIELD PARK her greatest feat; but many critics give the palm to EMMA. Disraeli read PRIDE AND PREJUDICE seventeen times. Scott’s testimony is often quoted: ‘That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements, feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I have ever met with. The big bow-wow I can do myself like any one going; but the exquisite touch which renders commonplace things and characters interesting from the truth of the description and the sentiment is denied to me.’” - EB $2850.

Le Morte D’Arthur - A Brilliant Masterpiece The Best Edition With Aubrey Beardsley’s Illustrations 3 [Beardsley, illus.] Malory, Thomas. LE MORTE D’ARTHUR… Introduction by Prof. Rhys and a note on Aubrey Beardsley by Aymer Vallance (London and New York: J. M. Dent and Sons, Aldine House and E.P Dutton and Co., 1927) Third and most complete edition, limited to 1600 copies, with 10 extra illustrations not included in the two first printings. 22 full page and double-page illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley including the fine frontispiece, the Merlin drawing and the design for the original cover, also with numerous designs and illustrations throughout the text, as well as a profusion of decorated initials and chapter headings. Thick, large 4to, publisher’s original dark green polished cloth with spine and covers beautifully and fully decorated in gilt after designs by Beardsley. lv, 538 pp. A very handsome, superior copy, beautifully preserved, the cloth bright with strong gilt and no fading. The textblock very clean and crisp, the hinges tight and strong, corners sharp, only the most minute bit of age evidence along the tips or extremities.

AN IMPORTANT PRINTING OF THIS VERY BEAUTIFUL BOOK, and this a very desirable and strong copy. The third edition contains an extra 10 illustrations added in the text, the first edition to do so, as well as the original binding design (which was never used) and a full size facsimile of the Merlin drawing, previously used on a smaller scale. The text is that of Caxton’s printed for the first time in 1485 at Westminster in London.

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This book represents Aubrey Beardsley’s first commissioned work, undertaken when he was not yet twenty. While working at an insurance office in London, Beardsley frequently visited the Jones and Evans bookshop in Cheapside, where he got to know Frederick Evans. Mr. Evans allowed the artist to trade drawings for books on occasion, and it was Evans who suggested to J. M. Dent that Beardsley should be the artist for Mr. Dent’s new edition of the Arthurian tales. A suggestion well made and one to which 20th century printing owes much.

The commission, which came in 1892 was to “design and illustrate an ambitious edition of Malory’s ‘Le Morte d’Arthur’ which was intended to rival the Kelmscott Press books on their own ground… (E)lements beside the pale remnants of Pre-Raphaelitism were at work fertilizing (Beardsley’s) developing talent, and what was seen by its devisers as an emulation of Morris and Burne-Jones turned out in the execution more like a parody of them-a parody which annoyed Morris to the point at which he contemplated legal action. It may well not have been a deliberate parody: it is simply that already, willy-nilly, the ‘strong medieval decorative feeling’ of Morris was mixed, as Walter Crane noted, ‘with a curious weird Japanese-like spirit of diablerie and grotesque, as of an opium dream’.”

Beardsley’s life was short, he died of tuberculosis at the age of 26. In those few years he managed however to leave a great and lasting artistic legacy and a fascinating personal history as well. $3250.

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen A Pleasing Version of the Classic Novel 4 [Brock, Illus.] Austen, Jane. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (London & New York: J.M. Dent & Sons and E.P. Dutton & Co., 1931) An early printing of this edition. 8vo, in the publisher’s original crimson cloth lettered and decorated on the spine in gilt. 336, 4, 8 pp. A very fine, very pleasing copy of this perennial favorite.

A LOVELY ILLUSTRATED COPY OF JANE AUSTEN’S CLASSIC ROMANTIC COMEDY. This story of first impressions, society and manners is a timeless favorite. Charles Brock’s illustrations capture the characters, costume and atmosphere of the novel perfectly. The text is that of the third edition, considered the definitive edition and the last to be revised by the author herself. $95.

A Fine and Handsome Set in Morocco Gilt The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Published in London and Illustrated with Engravings 5 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. THE POETICAL WORKS (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889-1890) 6 volumes. With an engraved frontispiece in each volume (mostly portraits of Browning at various periods of her life) and a number of other full page engravings. 8vo, handsomely bound and signed by Estes & Lauriat in contemporary three-quarter crushed dark-green morocco over marbled boards, gilt lettered in two panels of the spines, the remaining four with a small gilt floral tool inlaid with red morocco, the raised bands of the spine nicely tooled in gilt, t.e.g. xviii, (2), 306; vi, 287; viii, 293; vi, 294; vi, 290; (iv), 393 pp. including general index and index to first lines. A fine set, the backs as usual, mellowed to a handsome and pleasing honey colour.

A FINE SET, HANDSOMELY BOUND OF THE WRITINGS BY THIS GREAT POET OF 19TH CENTURY ENGLAND. This is the most complete edition of Browning’s works. It first appeared in 5 volumes in 1866, and was extended to 6 as here in 1889. It includes the preface to the first collected edition of 1844 and the advertisement to the 1856 edition. Also in this edition, appearing for the first time, is a 4-page prefatory note by Robert Browning correcting several biographical errors. An especially attractive set.

Browning’s poetry was already critically and publically accepted while she was alive; for example, she was considered Wordsworth’s successor as poet laureate upon his death. However, Browning’s more advanced ideas may appeal to readers of this generation. Browning was sympathetic to the ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft, politically progressive in her views and in the literary realm, transformed poetic style and content. Thus, her work is by no means a mere curiosity but rather representative of the highest literary and intellectual achievements. $650.

Charles Bukowski’s Selected Letters - Autographed All Three Volumes in Limited Format - With Serigraph First Editions in Very Fine Condition and as Pristine 6 Bukowski, Charles. SCREAMS FROM THE BALCONY Selected Letters 1960-1970 [and] LIVING ON LUCK Selected Letters 1960s-1970s Volume 2 [and] REACH FOR THE SUN Selected Letters 1978-1994 Volume 3 (Santa Rosa, CA.: Black Sparrow Press, 1993; 1995; 1999) Together three volumes.

First editions, Volume I is one of 600 special hardcover copies numbered and SIGNED by the author, this copy with a small drawing by Bukowski, Volume 2 is one of 1000 special hardcover copies, Volume 3 is one of 376 special hardcover copies hand-numbered and with an original colour serigraph print

by Charles Bukowski. Each volume with a frontispiece featuring artwork by the author, a photograph of the author and copies of letters, titlepages printed in black and red. 8vo, each in decorated paper-covered boards featuring colour artwork by the author, backed in orange, yellow and red cloth with paper spine labels artistically decorated. 372, [3]; 283, [3]; 309, [3] pp. All three volumes are very fine, pristine and essentially as mint

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FIRST EDITIONS OF ALL THREE VOLUMES OF BUKOWSKI’S SELECTED LETTERS IN LIMITED FORMAT. With signature and drawing by the author with serigraph by the author and all are limited. These titles were all very handsomely published by Black Sparrow Press and were all designed by Barbara Martin. $895.

Robert Burns’ Poems and Songs In Extra Gilt Exquisitely Decorated Victorian Cloth Published in London 1861 7 Burns, Robert. POEMS AND SONGS

BY ROBERT BURNS. (London: W. Kent & Co, 1861) First edition thus.

Frontispiece engraving, engraved title, and over 50 other engravings

by Birket Foster, Harrison Weir, S. Edmonston and other famous artists of the period. 4to, publisher’s beautiful original Victorian red cloth, lettered and elaborately decorated in all-over designs in gilt on the spine and on both covers, a.e.g. xvi, 272 pp. In very fine and exemplary condition, the gilt and cloth are undiminished by time, the pages clean and fresh, just a touch of light aging to the extremities.

A BEAUTIFUL VICTORIAN D E C O R AT E D B I N D I N G W I T H WONDERFUL TEXT AND ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT and a very desirable copy of the “Poems and Songs”, complete with charming illustrations throughout. The large format

and clear type make this copy a pleasure to read.

Burns, a ploughman poet, to this day ranks high among the greatest poets of Great Britain. Whether employing his flawless 18th century English or his native Scots dialect, his writings speak to us eloquently. “His finest work springs from his own soil, from his compassionate and generous nature, and from the Scots’ poetic tradition... He employed the Scottish vernacular with great skill and range… he was in direct contact with its source and the themes of Scots rural life provided an inexhaustible field for poetic expression.”-Michael Stapleton.

Burns’ most famous collection was a tremendous success and was reprinted many times during his lifetime. Just prior to its first publication in 1786 he was preparing to leave Scotland for Jamaica to escape several scandalous affairs involving a number of young ladies. With the money from the publishing of his Poems, he was able to remain in Scotland and build a new (though perhaps none the more chaste) life in Edinburgh. $495.

A Complete Set of the Memorial Edition Works of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton Published in London from 1893-1894 Iconic Works from a Genius in Many Fields 8 Burton, Capt. Sir Richard F. THE MEMORIAL EDITION OF THE WORKS OF CAPTAIN SIR RICHARD F. BURTON. [Comprising]: Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah; A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome; Vikram and the Vampire, or, Tales of Hindu Devilry; First Footsteps in East Africa. (London: Tylston and Edwards, 1893-1894) 7 volumes. A complete set of the Memorial Editions. With frontispieces, maps and illustrations throughout, each as in the first edition of the title. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth bindings with gilt pictorial designs on upper covers, the spines gilt lettered and decorated. xxviii, 436; xii, 479. 256; 211, extensive appendices. xxi, [2], 243, [3, including advertisements, “opinions of the press”]. xxxiv, 209; 242, 245-276 Index pp. A very handsome set, well preserved, bright and clean with some light evidence of age, primarily to some of the spine tips and a few corners, “Vikram” with slight separation at join of the front end-leaves, Vol. I of “Pilgrimage” with rear blank lacking.

FIRST OF THE EDITION AND COLLECTION. A COMPLETE SET OF ALL OF BURTON’S WORKS PUBLISHED IN THE ICONIC MEMORIAL EDITION FORMAT. A very important edition of Burton’s most famous and important works created by Isabel Burton in honour of her husband’s great work and extended oeuvre. She had hoped to continue on with the project, publishing many more of Burton’s writings, but the seven volumes included here are the only ones ever printed. This is a fine set of the scarce Memorial Editions. Not only did they include the full text of the originals, but they also included the original illustrations. $1950.

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Sir Richard Francis Burton - Norman Penzer The Annotated Bibliography of Sir Richard Francis Burton The Limited Large Paper Issue, Signed and Numbered 9 [Burton, Sir Richard Francis] Penzer, Norman M., M.A., F.R.G.S., F.G.S. AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON K.C.M.G., Preface by F. Grenfell Baker, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., & C. (London: A.M. Philpot Ltd., 1923) First edition, limited issue, one of only 500 copies signed by the author. Portrait frontispiece from the painting of Burton by Lord Leighton, with several black and white plates throughout. 4to, publisher’s original brown polished buckram, board edges beveled, the spine lettered in gilt. xvi, 351.

A very fine and very bright copy of the scarce limited edition with only some very minor evidence of shelving to the spine tips.

THE DEFINITIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR THE WORKS OF RICHARD F. BURTON AND A “MUST HAVE” REFERENCE FOR ANY COLLECTOR. Norman M. Penzer was a Joint Secretary of the Burton Memorial Fund; Member of the Royal Asiatic Society; Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and Member of the Hakluyt Society. F. Grenfell Baker, who wrote the preface to this book, was the traveling medical adviser to R. F. Burton and was the founder of the Burton Memorial Fund. $975.

Lord Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Exquisitely Bound and Illustrated With Superb Engravings 10 Byron, George Gordon, Lord. CHILDE HAROLD’S PILGRIMAGE. A Romance (London: John Murray, 1841) First edition with the illustrations. With 61 very fine engravings on steel and one fold-out map all by W. Finden. Thick 8vo, luxuriously bound by Tout in dark turquoise-blue morocco, the covers and spine with elaborate all over gilt arabesque decorations and corner tooling, the spine with raised bands separating the compartments, lettered and richly gilt designs, edges with double gilt fillet rules, elaborate gilt turnovers, a.e.g. xvi, 311. A very fine and beautiful copy in a luxurious, very bright and clean. Some very light, quite unobtrusive and only occasional foxing.

A SUPERB AND EXTREMELY APPEALING COPY of Lord Byron’s classic poetic work. The poet began writing ‘Childe Harold’ in Albania in 1809 and the first two cantos were issued in 1812. Cantos three and four appeared in 1816 and 1818 respectively. Upon its initial publication in 1812, Byron became instantly famous. “The effect was electric, his fame seemed to spring, like the palace of a fairy king, in a night.”-Moore. A fifth edition was issued later in the same year. “Just turned twenty-four he found himself famous, a great poet, a rising statesman. Society, which in spite of his rank had neglected him, was now at his feet.” -EB This volume, profusely illustrated by one of the best known steel-engravers in London, is a visual treat. Through the viewing of the illustrations, the reader is able to travel through Albania, Spain, Porugal, Greece, Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy enjoying through the lyrical voice of the poet and also through the evocative illustrations. $2500.

Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking Glass Early Illustrated Edition - M. L. Kirk and John Tenniel 11 Carroll, Lewis. THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (New York: Frederick A Stokes, [c 1910]) With twelve full-page illustrations in colour by M. L. Kirk and fifty illustrations throughout by John Tenniel. 8vo, original beige-gray cloth, lettered in gilt and pictorially decorated in orange, yellow and black on the upper cover and spine. 271 pp. A lovely copy with only a minimal amount of age-wear or mellowing to cloth and inner hinges.

A CHARMING EDITION FEATURING CHARMING COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS

BY M L KIRK AND CLASSIC PICTURES BY JOHN TENNIEL. Tenniel’s illustrations are some of the most charming to ever appear in children’s literature.

The Alice books have proven themselves to be among the most enduring classics of literature--for children or adults. ALICE’s importance might be gauged by the fact that it is one of only three books written for children (five, if one includes Aesop’s Fables and Froebel’s “Mutter- und Kose-Leider”) included in the “Printing and the Mind of Man” exhibition.

ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND and its sequel, THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS, are “unique among ‘juveniles’ in appealing equally--if not more strongly --to adults. Written by an Oxford don, a clergyman, and a professional mathematician, they abound in characters--the White Knight, the Red Queen, the Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty--who are a part of everybody’s mental furniture. And the philosophic profundity of scores, if not hundreds, of these characters’ observations, long household words wherever English is spoken, gains mightily from the delicious fantasy of their setting” (PMM 354). $295.

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George Catlin - The North American Indians - Two Volumes Original Red Cloth Gilt and Pictorially Decorated With 320 Engraved and Coloured Illustrations 12 Catlin, George. THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS: Being Letters and Notes on Their Manners, Customs, and Conditions, Written During Eight Years’ Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America, 18321839. (Edinburgh: John Grant, 1926) 2 volumes. First edition thus, first with the colour plates issued by Grant, in the 1903 imprint the illustrations were supplied only in black and white. With 320 illustrations in colour, carefully engraved from the author’s original paintings and including 3 colour maps, one of which is folding. Thick royal 8vos, publisher’s original red cloth lettered and elaborately and pictorially decorated in gilt and black on both the upper covers and the spines featuring Indian warriors, t.e.g. ix, 298; ix, 290, appendices pp. A very handsome, well preserved, fine and bright set, the gilt and cloth, textblock and colour plates, all in very pleasing condition.

VERY UNCOMMON IN SUCH NICE CONDITION, GRANT’S 1926 IMPRINT IS ONE OF THE FINEST PRODUCED SINCE THE 1841 ORIGINAL. “Catlin visited forty-eight tribes in the Mississippi and Missouri valleys and on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains during his eight years’ travel. His object was to paint portraits of men and women in every tribe, together with views of villages, games, etc. The two volumes are a series of fifty-eight letters written while the author was among the Indians. They form an unusually entertaining narrative of travels in an almost unknown region, and at the same time are of great value in their descriptions of Indian life” (Larned 616). sold $2850

Cervantes’ “Don Quixote” - A Very Handsome Set The Fine Motteux Translation in Lovely Period Bindings 13 Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. THE HISTORY OF THE RENOWNED DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA. Translated By Several Hands: and Published By the Late Mr. Motteaux.

Revised Anew From the Best Spanish Edition, by Mr. Ozell: With Explanatory Notes From Jarvis, Oudin, Sobino, Pinedo, Gregorio, The Royal Academy &c.&c. (Edinburgh: Alex.

Lawrie and Co, 1803) 4 volumes. Early English Edition. Small 8vo, handsomely bound in contemporary polished calf, the spines with gilt bands separating compartments decorated with a central gilt decoration, lettered in gilt in one compartment, numbered in gilt in another, the cover borders roll tooled in gilt. (2), 262; 246; 276; 285. A very pleasing set. Handsome and very well preserved with only minor age evidence.

A FINE AND HANDSOME SET OF THIS CLASSIC WORK. Motteux’s translation is one of the most famous of the period, and here, the book is presented in pleasing period bindings still preserved in unusually nice condition.

There is a ‘Life of Cervantes’ preceding the text as well as the author’s preface. DON QUIXOTE ranks among the greatest literary works of Western Civilization. “What had begun as a simple satire on the tedious chivalric romances of the time broadened into a sweeping panorama of Spanish society. It was for this, the liveliness, and the gibes at the famous, which one it instant fame. Its larger claims, the subdued pathos, its universal humanity, were slower to be appreciated. But within months Don Quixote and Sancho Panza had become legendary… Don Quixote is one of those universal works which are read by all ages at all times, and there are very few who have not at one time or another felt themselves to be Don Quixote confronting the windmills.” (PMM).

The content of the notes is of significant interest to the reader as they have been taken from the most important and scholarly editions prepared by individual academicians and the Academy. In addition, significant content was gained from researching the old histories and chronicles with which the Spaniards of the 16th century were familiar. Thus, many of the period poetical nuances have here

been included in English for the first time.

Blackwood’s said of the translation that “This is, we think, out of all sight, the richest and the best... Motteux, the translator of Cervantes and Rabelais, possesses a native humour which no other translator that we ever met with has approached.” And William Prescott said that “The most popular versions in English are those of Motteux, Jarvis, and Smollett. Perhaps the first is the best of all. It was by a Frenchman who came over to England in the time of James the Second. It betrays nothing of its foreign parentage, however, while its rich and racy diction, and its quaint turns of expression, are admirably suited to convey a lively and very faithful image of the original. The slight tinge of antiquity, which belongs to the time, is not displeasing, and comports well with the tone of knightly dignity which distinguishes the hero.” Miscellanies, 1845 $1250.

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Abbott’s Great History of the Civil War in America A Popular and Well Received Contemporary Account 14 [Civil War] Abbott, John S. C. THE HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA; Comprising a Full and Impartial Account of the Origin and Progress of the Rebellion, of the Various Naval and Military Engagements, of the Heroic Deeds Performed by Armies and Individuals, and of Touching Scenes in the Field, the Camp, the Hospital, and the Cabin (New York: Henry Bill, 1863; 1867) 2 volumes.

First edition, Vol. I the first printing and Vol. II a very early printing. Illustrated with a great profusion of maps, diagrams, and numerous steel engravings of battle scenes, from original designs by Darley, and other eminent artists, and with portraits of distinguished men, engraved expressly for Abbott’s ‘Civil War’. Large 8vos, publisher’s original blind-stamped brown morocco, with an elaborate all-over tooled design on both covers and spines, the spines additionally decorated with gilt lettering and ruled frames in two of the compartments, edges and endpapers marbled. xiv, 507pp., 4 ads; xvi, 629pp., 2 ads. A very good set, rarely found in collectible condition, some occasional and light spotting or toning, much less then typical, the bindings with some general light wear and mellowing.

A HIGHLY READABLE AND USEFUL ACCOUNT OF THE CIVIL WAR WRITTEN WHEN THE EVENTS WERE MORE NEWS THEN HISTORY. although well researched, the author makes use of colourful narrative style giving these more the feel of a popular account then a sober and authoritative text. His writing style “did much to popularize the reading of history.” - Dictionary of American Biography. The two large, thick volumes of well illustrated text covers events leading to the cause of the conflict through Lincoln’s assassination in April of 1865 and with a final chapter on the results of the conflict as of the date of publication.

Abbott, a clergyman and historian was well respected for his historical writings even prior to the publication of this tome. His previous works on the French Revolution and Napoleon Bonaparte were widely popular and very well received. DAB I:23; Dornbusch III, 175; Sabin 36. $395.

The Most Important Civil War Atlas of All Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Armies First Edition - Washington, D.C. - 1891-1895 - 3 Vols. Folio 15 [Civil War] Cowles, Captain Calvin D. [Compiler]. ATLAS TO ACCOMPANY THE OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE ARMIES. Published Under the Direction of the Hons.

Redfield Proctor, Stephen B. Elkins, and Daniel S. Lamont, Secretaries of War (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1891-1895) 3 volumes.

FIRST EDITION. With 175 numbered double-page lithographed color maps and plates on 178 sheets by Bien. Large folio, original bright red cloth covered boards lettered in gilt on the upper covers, the backs and corner pieces in red morocco, the spines ruled in blind on tall bands, with two black morocco lettering labels gilt ruled and boldly lettered, endpapers renewed. 29 pp preface and contents, plates 1-70; plates 71135; plates 136-175. A beautiful set of this rare and impressive collection of maps of the Civil War. The maps are all well preserved, fresh and bright, some expected minor wear to the cloth, otherwise the bindings are also fine.

AN EXTREMELY IMPRESSIVE ATLAS PRODUCED BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE TO ILLUSTRATE THE OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. A beautiful and fascinating accompaniment to the official records of the Civil War. Each massive plate is either an impressively detailed and informative map or contains multiple images providing detailed plans of cities, towns and fortresses, views, panoramas, uniforms, battlefields, bridges, engagements, lookouts, etc., etc.

The maps and plans were primarily reproduced from those that had been drawn during the war by engineers, draftsmen, and sometimes even generals themselves for actual military use. Only a few maps, drawn later by cartographers, were added for historical purposes. Tactical and strategic maps indicate troop disposition; defense lines, redoubts, and fortifications of key sites are clearly shown. Terrain maps often contain picket positions, signal stations, and lines of march. Some were taken from what had been only rough sketches, some from cartographic masterpieces. All are informative and reveal the knowledge, or lack of knowledge, that both sides possessed about the terrain, and the strength and the position of opposing troops. The index to the maps refers to campaigns and battles, rivers, creeks, lakes, bays, islands, bridges, fords, ferries, landings, roads, railroads, mountains, towns, churches, forts, and much more.

An indispensable source of information and imagery from the American Civil War. The atlas was not reprinted till 1958. Howes, C816; Rumsey Collection; Later editorial review; reviewer unknown; Library of Congress; U.S. National Archives. $9500.

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The Voyages of Christopher Columbus First Edition of the Translation One of the Most Scholarly Histories of Columbus 16 [Columbus, Christopher]; Jane, Cecil. THE VOYAGES OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS BEING THE JOURNALS OF HIS FIRST AND THIRD, AND THE LETTERS CONCERNING HIS FIRST AND LAST VOYAGES, TO WHICH IS ADDED THE ACCOUNT OF HIS SECOND VOYAGE WRITTEN BY ANDRES BERNALDEZ. Now newly Translated and Edited, with an Introduction and Notes by Cecil Jane. (London: The Argonaut Press, 1930) Limited edition, one of 1050 numbered copies, printed on fine Japanese Vellum. Illustrated with five maps and an original woodcut by William Monk on title page. 4to, publisher’s original grey cloth backed in white vellum gilt lettered, with a pictorial coat-of-arms design on the top right quadrant of the upper cover in 5 colours and gilt, edges uncut. (6), 347 pp., limitation leaf. A very handsome copy, well preserved, only light mellowing or evidence of age to the vellum, a touch of light background foxing to the endleaves.

FIRST OF THE EDITION. A BEAUTIFUL PRINTING OF THIS HIGHLY IMPORTANT TEXT. Includes Columbus’ journals from all four voyages as well as a section on the second voyage from Andrés Bernáldez. An important primary source for any study of Columbus.

Cecil Jane notes that such a mythology has arisen around the figure of Columbus that “the process of distortion has so advanced that the real Columbus is more hidden from view than he was in the period.” Because so little is known about the discoverer, he retains a shroud of mystery and he played a part in this obfuscation through silence regarding his personal life and origins. Jane has done painstaking research to piece together Columbus’ words and actions.

Of Columbus he writes, “it must be remembered that with all his faults, with all his errors, with all his shortcomings, he yet gave to Castile the greatest gift that she ever received, and that he laid the foundation of the most remarkable and the most enduring colonial dominion that the world has ever seen. Nor did he give to Castile or to Spain alone; all Europe is his debtor, all Europe and all the world beside. He bore across the Atlantic the language, the faith and the civilisation of the country of his adoption; he thereby rendered possible the creation of a spiritual empire which still endures.

Of that spiritual empire, the members are those nations which to-day play so great a part in the world, which in the future must inevitably play a part even greater, and upon which, indeed, to no small extent, the destiny of mankind depends.” $450.

Rare First Edition of These Early English Poems Charles Cotton - Poems on Several Occasions - 1689 17 Cotton, Charles. POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS (London: printed for Thos. Basset, 1689) First edition. 8vo, bound in full contemporary calf. 729, advertisement pp. A desirable copy in this rare period binding.

RARE FIRST EDITION ISSUED IN 1689. Including, on page 14, a poem dedicated to “my dear and most worthy friend,” Isaac Walton. Cotton and Walton co-authored what is perhaps the most famous fishing book of all time, entitled THE COMPLEAT ANGLER. Cotton’s reputation as a burlesque writer may account for the neglect his poems were met with in the 18th and 19th centuries, but their excellence was not, however, overlooked by good critics. Coleridge praises the purity and unaffectedness of his style in the ‘Biographia Literaria’, and Wordsworth gave a copious quotation from the ‘Ode to Winter’. The ‘Retirement’ is printed by Walton in the second part of the Compleat Angler.

Over two hundred poems, sonnets, odes and epitaphs are printed here, including ‘On Tobacco’, a damning poem to the pernicious weed, a debauch of such a stinking kind. $2150.

The First Trade Published Edition - Large Paper Copy And the First ‘Modern’ Translation Into English - 1819 Dante’s Divine Comedy - The Great Cary Translation 18 Dante Alighieri, (1265-1321). THE VISION; OR HELL, PURGATORY AND PARADISE OF DANTE ALIGHIERI. Translated by the Rev. Henry Francis Cary, A.M. (London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1819) 3 volumes. A LARGE PAPER COPY of the FIRST TRADE EDITION of the FIRST MODERN TRANSLATION of Dante into English in its complete form including all the parts of the trilogy. Preceded only by the privately printed edition issued by the author. Additionally, for this edition is affixed a Life of Dante, Notes and an Index. Tall 8vo, very handsomely and beautifully bound in three-quarter burnt-red morocco by Bayntun early in the last century, the covers with fine French marbled paper over boards and morocco at the corners, the spines decorated with raised bands ruled in blind, gilt lettered and numbered in two compartments of each volume, marbled end-leaves, t.e.g. lii, 303; xi, 309; 297, (28) index pp., with all three half-titles as called for. A fine and very handsome set in excellent condition, essentially as pristine. The bindings and text-blocks are in wonderful condition, very finely preserved.

RARE FIRST EDITION AND COMPLETE SET IN A VERY HANDSOME EARLY BAYNTUN BINDING. ONE OF THE GREAT BOOKS OF ALL TIME. Cary’s famous translation has long been considered the first modern rendering of Dante’s timeless epic into English. While previous English translations prior to Cary’s had been accomplished in the 18th century, none were able to transfer into the English language, the beauty and richness of language for which Dante has forever been revered.

It took Cary many years to make the complete translation. Indeed, the parts of the COMEDY were released over a number of years from 1805 on. Cary was influenced greatly by the Romantics and by

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Coleridge in particular. Though the text was finished in mid-1812, Cary was unable to secure a publisher and was, after some years, obliged even with his very modest means to publish the work at his own expense. It at first excited little attention, but it came under great notice primarily because of the applause of Coleridge whom Cary had met while pacing the beach reading Homer to his son. ‘Sir,’ said Coleridge, attracted by the sound of the Greek, ‘yours is a face I should know. I am Samuel Taylor Coleridge.”

“During the rest of the day, the wondrous stranger discoursed on Homer making young Cary ‘feel as one from whose eyes the scales were just removed,’ and inthe evening carried home the translation of Dante, of which he had never even heard. The next day he was able to repeat whole pages, and his winter course of lectures gave it celebrity.

The new and first edition published by a general publisher was secured in 1819, and ever since,...it has remained the translation which, on Dante’s name being mentioned, occurs first to the mind.” Cary’s translation allowed the rediscovery of Dante’s masterpiece by the British of the Romantic Era and it was praised not only by Coleridge, but by Shelley, Byron and Wordworth as well.

Copies of this, the first generally published edition of the book in its original three-decker format are extremely scarce. This is a still more scarce large paper copy. $1650.

The Important Longfellow Translation of Dante The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri Three Volumes - Original Green Cloth - Fine and Bright 19 Dante Alighieri, [Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, Translator]. THE DIVINE COMEDY OF DANTE ALIGHIERI Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, Late Ticknor & Fields and Fields, Osgood & Co., 1877) 3 volumes.

Early printing of Longfellow’s great translation, issued by Osgood, in the original three volume format as in the first printing. This a large paper set with fine broad margins. Title-pages printed in black and red. Large 8vo, bound in the publisher’s original dark-green cloth, the spines lettered and ruled in gilt, upper covers gilt lettered, coated brown endpapers, t.e.g. vii, [2], 414; vi, [2], 410; vi, [2], 452 pp. A very handsome and fine set, the green cloth in excellent state of preservation, no fading, hinges strong and firm, only the lightest evidence of age whatsoever, the text-blocks in very nice condition too, clean and fresh.

THE FINE AND IMPORTANT TRANSLATION OF ONE OF THE GREATEST LITERARY WORKS, BY THE RENOWN AMERICAN LITERARY GIANT HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, America’s “Fireside Poet”, turned to his translation of Dante for solace after the tragic death of his second wife. He met weekly with the Dante Society, which he formed with Lowell and C.E. Norton. His translation of the greatest of all Italian literary figures is treasured to the present day and is largely credited for beginning a trend in bringing the world’s great literary treasures to American readers. Pulitzer Prize winning poet and Dante enthusiast James Merrill praised the rare “priceless fidelity” of Longfellow’s groundbreaking translation.

This is a beautiful work by the great American poet and one of the few three volume presentations of Longfellow’s famed translation. It also includes Longfellows extensive notes and Illustrations from Voltaire, Ozanam, Stehelin, etc., and an index. $1650.

Doré’s Magnificent Holy Bible Two Volumes In Superb Bindings Gilt Extra With Spectacular Illustrations - Rare in this State 20 [Doré, Gustav. Illus]. THE HOLY BIBLE containing the Old and New Testaments, according to the Authorised Version. With illustrations by Gustav Doré. (London and New York: Cassell, Petter and Galpin, N.D. [ca.1878]) 2 volumes. Doré’s magnificent illustrated Bible in full morocco bindings. With the 220 very fine full-page engravings by Gustave Doré, additionally with four leaves of family registries within decorative borders with Biblical scenes. With a general titlepage and separate titles for the Apocryphal and New Testament. Folio, in very attractive full contemporary black morocco gilt extra, the thick and sturdy boards with a wide ornate vine and flower framework border in gilt, the spines lavishly and handsomely gilt decorated in a vine motif within compartments separated by gilt tooled raised bands, gilt ruling to each compartment, two of which are gilt lettered, gilt tooled wide board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. 4, ix, 645; viii, 645-878; [1], 163; [1], 279 pp. A very handsome copy of this great Doré creation. This book is typically found with heavy foxing, but in this case it is only barely evident with in the text and only lightly to the prelims, uncommonly clean.

The text is very sound and sturdy and the bindings are well preserved and very attractive with only minor age and that being mostly at the edges.

PERHAPS THE MOST MAGNIFICENT OF THE DORÉ ILLUSTRATED BOOKS. THE HOLY BIBLE is a huge testament to Doré’s talent and a most impressive accomplishment in size and scope. The grandeur of Doré’s artwork is perfectly suited to accompany the greatest work of literature.

These books are not commonly found in such condition due to the stress caused by the bulk of the text, but this copy is nearly as bright and solid as the day it was made and surely as beautiful a copy as one could hope to find. $2850.

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Cervantes’ Classic ‘Don Quixote’ With the Heroic Illustrations of Gustave Doré In a Handsome Full Morocco Binding, Gilt Decorated 21 [Doré, illus.] Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel. THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE. The Text Edited by J. W. Clark and A Biographical Notice of Cervantes, by T. Teignmouth Shore (London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, [c. 1880]) A very early issue of this wonderfully illustrated Cervantes. With 118 spectacular illustrations by by Gustave Doré. Royal 4to. (32 x 25 cm), half green morocco by Maclehose of Glasgow, green cloth boards, upper cover titled in gilt, spine with raised bands, gilt rules and lettering, marbled edges and endpapers. xxviii, 737 pp. A very handsome and sturdy copy, as fine and fresh and bright, the binding is very strong and well preserved, beautiful and of fine craftsmanship.

AN UNUSUALLY HANDSOME COPY. VERY SCARCE IN SUCH WELL PRESERVED CONDITION. Gustave Doré was one of the greatest illustrators of his day. He was born in Strassburg in 1832. In 1848, he moved to Paris where “his facility as a draughtsman was extraordinary.”

He was a prolific worker and his subjects were usually religious or historical.

He died in January of 1883.

His grand and magnificent style is a perfect complement for Cervantes heroic tale. This great tome presents one of our favorite printings of the Spanish classic and, because of the weight of the text block, is usually found broken and loose. This copy is as sturdy as one could hope for and is especially handsome as well. $1250.

Pirates of the New England Coast A Beautiful Copy of the Rare Large Paper Issue - 84 Only First Edition - Bound in Moire Navy Silk 22 Dow, George Francis and Edmonds, John Henry. THE PIRATES OF THE NEW ENGLAND COAST 1630-1730 With an Introduction by Capt. Ernest H. Pentecost, R.N.R. (Salem, MA.: Marine Research Society, 1923) First edition, ONE OF ONLY EIGHT-FOUR NUMBERED LARGE-PAPER COPIES of which only 75 were for sale. Extensively illustrated from contemporary sources on glossy plates, including a beautiful double-page map of Cape Cod. Very large 8vo (12 by 9 inches), in the original binding of moire navy silk on beveled boards, the spine with a black morocco label gilt ruled and lettered. xxii, 394, [1] pp. A very handsome copy, clean and solid with only minor mellowing.

RARE, THE ONLY LARGE-PAPER COPY WE KNOW OF ON THE MARKET of this fascinating history of seventeen pirates including the likes of Kidd, Tew and Roberts. Also includes valuable information on Pirate life, their haunts and cruising grounds. While the Caribbean seems to get so much attention these days the authors note that, “there is scarcely a sandy beach on New England’s long and deeply indented coastline that has not connected with it some traditionary tale of the landing of pirates or their buried treasure.” Gosse. $895.

Marvelous Stories from the Arabian Nights - 1907 In the Most Rare Binding Colour of Forest-Green Illustrated by Edmund Dulac - 50 Colour Plates - Fine 23 [Dulac, Edmund illus.] Housman, Laurence. STORIES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS, Retold by Laurence Housman (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1907) Second Issue (November), only one month after the first (October), formatted identically as the first. Rare issue in original green cloth. With the full complement of all 50 colour plates by Edmund Dulac tipped-in on sturdy green stock. Large 4to, in the publisher’s most elusive original green cloth lettered and pictorially decorated in beautiful Arabian style in gilt and black on the both the spine and upper cover. xvi, 133 pp. A very good and attractive copy of this wonderful book, the plates are all perfect and as pristine, no spotting or foxing whatsoever, a little age mellowing to some text pages, tissue guards all present and generally in fine condition, the binding sound with firm hinges and just a little age mellowing, a little wear to the cloth at the tips and along the shoulders BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED BY EDMUND DULAC, this second issue only one month after the first is identical to it but for the colour of the cloth, we find the green to be a pleasant variant. Here we find a collection of stories from the ARABIAN NIGHTS superbly illustrated by Edmund Dulac. STORIES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS is especially important in understanding Dulac’s creative growth as it is believed that here, for the first time, he imposed an inner order and self-discipline. The success of the work was astonishing for its time and overshadowed other publication events for some time thereafter. “Leicester Galleries displayed the Dulac watercolors for THE ARABIAN NIGHTS in the autumn of 1907, at the same time the book was (originally) released. With unanimous praise the book was received by the critics and every picture sold even before the exhibition

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was opened to the general public. In light of this overwhelming success, Leicester Galleries promptly signed a contract with Dulac for one book a year, the subject to be chosen jointly between them and in consultation with Hodder & Stoughton.”-Susan Meyer.

Dulac treated each picture with a seriousness that brought him great praise, showing that he, like any fine easel painter could accomplish great art, even for use in the book arts. The book sealed his reputation and set him permanently on the long course of success he would enjoy throughout his career.

This lovely edition of STORIES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS, liltingly illustrated by Dulac, will be a cherished addition to any library. $695.

Leitch Ritchie - Windsor Castle 1848 - With Fine Engravings Throughout Handsomely Bound in Full Black Morocco 24 [England; Windsor]; Ritchie, Leitch, Esq. WINDSOR CASTLE, And It’s Environs; Including Eton College (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1848) A new edition, with additions, by Edward Jesse, Esq. Illustrated throughout with16 exquisite full page steel engravings, and 36 woodcuts. 8vo, in a very handsome binding of full black morocco, the covers richly adorned in fine Edwardian style. The covers feature a distinctive gilt arabesque pattern surrounded by multi-ruled border lines in gilt, alternating wide and narrow, the turn-ins also gilt tooled, the spine with gilt ruled raised bands creating compartments decorated with ornate panels of gilt design, gilt lettering in two compartments, all edges gilt. vii, 312 pp. A very appealing and attractive copy, internally quite well preserved with only the occasional bit of offset or foxing here and there.

A MARVELOUS ILLUSTRATED WORK DEPICTING THE HISTORY AND PICTURESQUE ENVIRONS OF WINDSOR CASTLE. $225.

The Sensual Engravings of John Buckland Wright One of Only 40 Copies - With Original Engraved Plates A Beautiful Catalogue Raisonné of His Intaglio Prints 25 [Fleece Press] Buckland Wright, John.

SENSUOUS LINES ∽ A Catalogue Raisonné of the Intaglio Prints of John Buckland Wright Compiled and Introduced by Christopher Buckland Wright (Upper Denby: The Fleece Press, May, 2014) LIMITED FIRST EDITION, THIS THE BEST ISSUE other then six copies reserved for family, this being one of only 40 copies bound specially bound with a tipped in copper-engraved frontispiece and including four original prints housed in an accompanying folder.

This copy with manuscript note from printer Simon Lawrence to the original recipient laid in.

Beautifully illustrated throughout with Buckland Wright’s sensual engravings, including the special frontispiece, numerous tipped-in plates, full-page plates and prints within the text, all plates printed

by Jeremy Blighton and Anthony Dyson at the Black Star Press, and with the extra plates in the folder for this issue. Oblong 4to, in the deluxe binding of quarter vellum with false Suminagashi marbled paper made specifically for the book

by Antonio Velex Celemin of Madrid, the spine lettered in gilt, with the stiff handmade paper folder holding the extra plates descortated with a paper label, all contained in the printer’s original buckram-covered slipcase with paper label, and prepared by the Fine Book Bindery of Finedon, Northants. 278, [1] pp. A pristine and perfect copy, flawless in every detail.

RARE FIRST EDITION AND A VERY BEAUTIFUL PRODUCTION FROM THE FLEECE PRESS AND ONE OF ONLY 40 COPIES SPECIALLY BOUND AND WITH FOUR ORIGINAL ENGRAVED PLATES. This is the sixth, and as of this printing, final collaboration between Simon Lawrence of the Fleece Press and Christopher Buckland Wright presenting the engravings of John Buckland Wright. It was the winner of the Best British Book award at the 2014 BPIF British Book Design and Production Awards.

This volume collects John Buckland Wright’s most sensuous Intaglio prints with over 400 listed and illustrated. The special copper-engraved frontispiece is ‘Venus Calling the Sea Gods’, the four large extra engraved plates, directly from the artist’s original engravings, are; ‘Dionysus III’; a rejected design from the Golden Cockerel’s “Rubaiyat”; ‘Judgement of Paris No. IV’; ‘The Petticoat’. $1850.

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Salmonia - One of the Best Fishing Books of its Century A Work Ranking ‘High in the Scale of Angling Literature’ 26 [Fly-Fishing] An Angler [Davy, Sir Humphrey]. SALMONIA: Or Days of Fly Fishing. In a Series of Conversations. With Some Account of the Habits of Fishes Belonging to the Genus Salmo (London: John Murray, 1829) The second edition, improved with six plates not included in the first edition of the previous year. Illustrated with three woodcut plates of the author’s drawings of 11 real flies and their hooked imitations. Also with the 6 fine Finden steel-engraved scenic plates of British lakes and rivers which were not included in the first edition, and with engravings of fish throughout the text also from the author’s own studies. 8vo, in a handsome Bayntun-Riviere binding of three-quarter brown polished calf over cloth covered boards, the spines with gilt tooled devices of a fish with rod and net in five compartments separated by blind ruled raised bands, a seventh compartment with red morocco label gilt lettered and ruled, fine marbled endpapers. xiii, [2], 335 pp. A very attractive and desirable copy, the text is clean, fresh and solid, free of any foxing but for an unobtrusive hint of it on a few of the plates and not effecting the steel-engraved images, the binding in excellent state of preservation, very fine indeed.

A CLASSIC WORK OF BRITISH ANGLING AND “A WORK OF GREAT SCIENTIFIC INTEREST AND HAPPILY POPULAR IN ITS TREATMENT” -DNB, 643.

This edition contains six plates not included in the first edition, and like the first, was published anonymously. After the author’s death subsequent editions had his name attached. This is possibly due to Davy not wanting to detract from his more serious scientific endeavors. Davy is known for isolating a series of substances for the first time: potassium and sodium in 1807 and calcium, strontium, barium, magnesium and boron the following year, as well as discovering the elemental nature of chlorine and iodine. He also made important discoveries relating to nitrous oxide and other gases, electromagnetism (his laboratory assistant Michael Faraday would later become rather well known in the field) and electrochemistry. The later led to significant improvements in agriculture, shipbuilding, battery science and even mining. He was knighted for his scientific achievements in 1812. In 1820 he was made president of the Royal Society.

Davy wrote SALMONIA while taking a break from his scientific duties to recover from a stroke. It has come to be known as one of the most important angling books of the nineteenth century and now likely the best remembered publication of his career. In the words of Westwood and Satchell, “SALMONIA ranks high in the scale of angling literature.” DNB; Westwood and Satchell 77; Gingrich, Fishing in Print 85-96. $425.

Birket Foster - With an Original Etching, Colourplates & More The Scarce Edition De Luxe Limited to 500 Copies 27 [Foster] Cundall, H. M., I.S.O., F.S.A. BIRKET FOSTER (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1906) LIMITED DE LUXE FIRST EDITION, one of only 500 handnumbered copies SIGNED by publishers A. & C. Black. With an original etching

by Birket Foster produced from the original plate in the author’s possession, 73 fine colourplates reproduced from Foster’s paintings in various collections, 20 black and white plates from sketches, drawings and photographs and 58 illustrations throughout the text, most of which from pencil drawings in Foster’s sketchbooks, the colourplates with captioned tissue guards. 4to, in the publisher’s original ivory cloth decorated on the upper cover and spine with leaves and flowers in pink, green and gilt within a geometric framework in red, gilt lettering to both cover and spine, beveled edges, t.e.g. xx, 215 pp. A beautiful copy, the cloth with only the mildest age mellowing. The white cloth still beautifully preserved, internally very fresh and bright, a fine copy indeed with only the plates and text-block as pristine.

DE LUXE LIMITED EDITION OF THIS BEAUTIFULLY PRODUCED ARTIST BIOGRAPHY. Foster was one of the most popular artists of the Victorian period, he excelled as an illustrator, painter and engraver. The trade edition did not include the original etching. The artist traveled widely and painted in Scotland, the Rhine Valley, Venice and other areas in Italy and Switzerland. He was best loved however for his sentimental views of English country life. His obituary in The Times referred to him as “certainly the most popular water-colour artist of our time”.

This extensively illustrated work contains not only Cundall’s finely crafted biography but also a list of the principal books containing illustrations by Foster, a list of watercolour paintings exhibited at the Royal Society of Painters, a list of oil paintings exhibited at the Royal Academy and an extensive index.

The trade issue does not include the etching printed from Foster’s original plate. $450.

Signed by the Author - His First Book - First Edition Cold Mountain - One of the Most Acclaimed Recent Novels 28 Frazier, Charles. COLD MOUNTAIN (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997) First Edition and First Printing, SIGNED AND DATED

BY THE AUTHOR IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION. With the sticker and blurb by John Berendt. With cartographic end-papers showing the Blue Ridge Mountains. 8vo, publisher’s original blue boards backed in blue-black linen, lettered in gilt on the spine. In the original

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dustjacket. 336 pp. A very fine copy, essentially as mint and pristine.

SIGNED FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST ACCLAIMED NOVELS OF RECENT TIMES. COLD MOUNTAIN was the author’s first book and took the National Book Award honours for the year. It was said of the novel that it is “so magnificent---in every conceivable aspect, and others previously unimagined--that... the shadow of this book, and the joy... in reading it, will fall over every other book ever read.” And Willie Morris wrote that “COLD MOUNTAIN is the most impressive and enthralling first novel I have red in a long time. It is a magnetic story, ambitious in scope, with richly developed characters and beautiful evocations of landscape… it is contemporary in the profoundest sense, with resonance of A FAREWELL TO ARMS.” The novel quickly became an international best seller. $695.

A Classic in the Gardening Ouvre Every Man His Own Gardener - Published London - 1818 Handsomely Bound in Full Contemporary Calf 29 [Gardening]; Mawe, Thomas & John Abercrombie. EVERY MAN HIS OWN GARDENER; BEING A NEW AND MUCH MORE COMPLETE GARDENER’S CALENDAR AND GENERAL DIRECTORY THAN ANY ONE HITHERTO PUBLISHED. (London: F. C. and J. Rivington; G. Wilke; et al, 1818) The revised and improved edition. Engraved frontispiece. Small, thick 8vo, handsomely bound in full contemporary speckled calf, the covers with gilt rolled border, the spine with double gilt fillet lines separating the compartments, red morocco lettering label gilt. [viii], 727 pp. A very handsome and very well preserved copy. Little evidence of use or age, a bit of rubbing to the tips primarily from shelving, clean and crisp and clean internally.

A CLASSIC AND A FINE COPY OF THIS EARLY ISSUE BOUND IN CONTEMPORARY CALF. $250.

Gardens of England - First Edition - 1908 - A Fine Copy Illustrated with Colourplates - Adam and Charles Black 30 [Gardens; England]; Parsons, Beatrice (Illustrator) and Cook, E. T. (text). GARDENS OF ENGLAND (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1908) First Edition. With 20 picturesque illustrations in full colour from paintings by Beatrice Parsons. 8vo, publisher’s original dark green cloth decorated in a stylized pattern with flowers and trellises in light green and white on the upper cover and spine, lettered in gilt on both the spine and upper cover. ix, 199, 4 ads. pp. A very lovely and fresh copy, the cloth bright and in excellent condition, the text-block and plates all in good order.

FIRST EDITION WITH TWENTY FULL COLOUR PLATES OF SOME OF ENGLAND’S MOST BEAUTIFUL AND VARIED GARDENS. Included are sections describing cottage gardens, herbs, roses, waterside plantings, and gardening through the four seasons. $95.

Profusely Illustrated Throughout - A Scarce Work Gettysburg What They Did Here - L.W. Minnigh - 1924 31 [Gettysburg; Civil War]; Minnigh, L. W. GETTYSBURG WHAT THEY DID HERE. (Gettysburg: N.A. Meligakes, 1924) First Edition, The People’s Popular Edition. With a large folding map of the battle printed in black and red, and a profusion of illustrations from period photographs. 8vo, in the original printed wrappers elaborately decorated in colours. 168 pp. A fine copy with only light evidence of age or use.

PROBABLE FIRST EDITION. An historical guide book on Gettysburg and the decisive battle during the American Civil War. “The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.” Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg. $95.

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A Superior Set in the Best Deluxe Bindings Ulysses S. Grant’s ‘Memoirs of the Civil War’ ‘The Finest Memoirs of War Ever Penned’ 32 Grant, U.S. PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U. S. GRANT (New York: Charles L. Webster and Co., 1885, 1886) 2 volumes. First edition of both volumes in publisher’s deluxe bindings. With 49 maps and illustrations, including two steelengraved frontisportraits and two etched views, all with tissue-guards. Also with the dedication from Grant in printed holograph. Tall, thick 8vo, publisher’s very scarce and best original deluxe bindings of full tan sheep, the spines with gilt ruled raised bands and red and blue morocco labels lettered in gilt. 584; 647, index. An unusually handsome and pleasing set in the scarce publisher’s deluxe and most expensive and best binding state. An unusually well preserved set. About as fine as could be expected, some evidence of age, but without question, one would be hard pressed to ever find a better copy.

RARE FIRST EDITION IN UNUSUALLY NICE CONDITION. VERY SCARCE IN THIS FORMAT AND DELUXE BINDING STATE. ‘THE FINEST MEMOIRS OF WAR EVER PENNED’. An important historical memoir of the Civil War, arguably the most important, and the best thing that Grant ever wrote. General Norman Schwartzkopf has recently called this the finest memoir of war experiences that has ever been penned.

Collectible copies of these books are becoming increasingly difficult to obtain. Copies in this binding, especially so.

The earliest days of the Civil War were a hard lesson in hubris for the Union Army. After the appointment of Grant to overall command of the Union forces, the war would quickly turn to their favor. In the years following the war Grant would move into the political arena, even against his best judgement and would, with great public accaim be elected President of United States for two full terms. Larned 2351; Eicher, Civil War in Books, 492. $2750.

Kate Greenaway A Beautiful Biographic Catalogue Raisonné 33 [Greenaway, Kate] Spielmann, M. H. and Layard, G. S. KATE GREENAWAY (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905) First edition.

With 53 fine plates of Ms. Greenaway’s paintings in colour, 34 additional black and white plates and an additional 56 thumb-nail drawings and sketches throughout the text and endleaves in colour reproducing Greenaway nursery wall paper in miniature. Large 8vo, in the original blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and in yellow, red and light blue on both the upper cover and spine, Greenaway illustrated endleaves in colours and top edge gilt. xx, 300 pp., 2 ads. Internally fine and bright, the paper clean and fresh and the plates pristine, the blue cloth attractive and very well preserved with very little evidence of age or wear, some mellowing to the blue cloth at the spine panel.

FIRST EDITION AND AN ABSOLUTE MUST-HAVE FOR FANS AND COLLECTORS OF ARTIST/ILLUSTRATOR KATE GREENAWAY. This thick volume combines a catalogue raisonné with extensive biographic writings, particularly in regard to her relationship with John Ruskin, of which letters and correspondences are also included. But, as one would expect, Greenaway’s own artwork, so much of which is excellently reproduced here on fine plates, takes center seat. $195.

Hemingway on Bullfighting - The Dangerous Summer The Scarce First Appearance in Print - LIFE Magazine September 1960 - 15 Years Prior to Publishing in Book Form 34 Hemingway, Ernest. “THE DANGEROUS SUMMER” appearing complete in three issues LIFE Magazine (New York: Life Magazine, September 5, 12 and 19, 1960) First Edition, First Issue of the novel in the Original three volumes of LIFE Magazine. The true first appearance in print, not published in book form until 1985 The first volume with colour portrait photograph of Hemingway, taken in Spain, as the front cover, all three installments feature colour photos of Hemingway’s Spain and additional black and white photos as well.

4to, in the original pictorial wrappers, each featuring colour photography, that of the first volume being a fine portrait of Hemingway. An essentially fine set, all three issues very well preserved indeed. The original subscription labels and ink stamps still present, very bright and clean with only minimal mellowing from time.

EARLIEST FIRST EDITION AND FIRST PRINTING OF THIS FINE HEMINGWAY NOVEL. Hemingway describes the rivalry between bullfighters Luis Miguel Dominguín and his brother-in-law, Antonio Ordóñez, during the “dangerous summer” of 1959. It is often cited as his “last book” but was publisheed here first in 1960. The story charts the rise of Antonio Ordóñez (the son of Cayetano Ordóñez, the bullfighter whose technique and ring exploits Hemingway fictionalized in his novel, The Sun Also Rises) during a season of bullfights during 1959. During a fight on May 13, 1959, in Aranjuez, Ordóñez is badly gored but remains in the ring and kills the bull, a performance rewarded by trophies of both the bull’s ears, its tail, and a hoof.

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Along with the work by Hemingway some other highlights of these issues include the Rome Olympics and the 100th Birthday of Grandma Moses. $150.

With Ernest Hemingway on Marlin Fishing - 1935 American Big Game Fishing - A Very Handsome Copy One of the Best Books Ever on Big Game Fishing 35 [Hemingway, Ernest]. [Derrydale Press]. Connett, Eugene V., editor. AMERICAN BIG GAME FISHING (New York: The Derrydale Press, 1935) LIMITED EDITION, one of 850 copies only. Handsomely Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, four colour plates and a number of other drawings by Lynn Bogue Hunt, and with a profusion of photographs, drawings and maps on glossy plates. Large 4to, publisher’s original ribbed royal blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine and elaborately lettered and decorated in gilt on the upper cover with a border incorporating corner designs of game fish, pictorially decorated endpapers, t.e.g. xxii, 236, index pp. A bright, and handsome copy, internally largely unopened, the cloth bright and fresh with only the lightest evidence of shelving at the extremities, the spine gently mellowed to a pleasing navy-blue.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN HANDSOME COLLECTOR’S CONDITION. WITH THE IMPORTANT CHAPTER ON MARLIN FISHING

BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY. Includes contributions from Lynn Bogue Hunt, Van Campen Heilner, S. Kip Farrington, Jr., as well as a chapter on fishing for marlin off Cuba by Ernest Hemingway. A wonderful and justly sought-after production by the Derrydale Press. $1150.

Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table - Oliver Wendell Holmes An American Literary Classic - Illustrated by Howard Pyle 36 Holmes, Oliver Wendell; [Pyle, Howard]. THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLE. With Illustrations by Howard Pyle (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894) First Edition. Illustrated with a portrait frontispieces, full page gravures throughout, and a profusion of illustrations throughout the two volumes and within the text, all by Howard Pyle. 8vo, publisher’s original terra-cotta cloth, the covers and spines elaborately decorated with gilt designs and gilt lettering, t.e.g., the binding design by Sarah Whitman. xvi, 219; vi, [221]-474 including index pp. A very fine, unusually clean and bright set of this classic work.

A VERY PLEASING SET OF THIS FAMOUS EDITION, ILLUSTRATED BY ONE OF AMERICA’S GREATEST ARTISTS OF THE PERIOD. One of the quirkiest and most charming books in American literature. The Grolier Catalogue of One Hundred Influential American Books Printed Before 1900 calls it the “distillation of the intellectual and cultural life of New England at its Brahmin zenith.” “Autocrat” first appeared in serial form in the first issue of the Atlantic Monthly. It blends the discursive and whimsically comprehending talk of a boardinghouse sage with verses, both light and serious.

As to the illustrator-- Pyle emphasized to his “art students the importance of total immersion, a kind of physical and mental projection into the picture until the artist senses that he has actually become the object. Only in this manner, Pyle emphasized, can the subject come to life in the painting. ‘Pictures are the creations of the imagination and not of technical facility...I subordinate that technical training entirely to the training of the imagination.’”-Susan Meyer. BAL 9215. $175.

The Greatest and Most Satisfying Book of the Press The Shakespeare Head Homer - Five Volumes - A Fine Set Replete with Illustrations - Printed on Hand-Made Paper 37 Homer, [Shakespeare Head Press]. THE WHOLE WORKS OF HOMER; PRINCE OF POETS, IN HIS ILIADS, AND ODYSSES. Translated according to the Greeke by George Chapman [with] THE CROWNE OF ALL HOMER’S WORKES, BATRACHOMYOMACHIA or the Baattaile of Frogs and Mise, his Hymns & Epigrams. Translated According to the Original by George Chapman (Oxford: by the Shakespeare Head Press for Basil Blackwell, 1930-31) Together 5 volumes. One of 450 copies only. Printed on Batchelor handmade paper and illustrated throughout with full-page wood engravings, portrait frontispieces and decorative title-page borders, all by John Farleigh, tissue-guard to elaborate frontispiece and title-page design of the first volume. Crown 8vo, original brick-red calf over and cream cloth covers, gilt lettered on the spines, protective glassine jackets. xxxix, 262; [vi], 289; xvi, 325; [vi], 307; xvi, 200 pp. A fine set, unusually nice, very handsome and clean and unusually well preserved. The calf bindings are in excellent condition with some honest and perfectly attractive age, though near as pristine as could be hoped. Crisp and fresh, an excellent set of a book rarely found in fine condition.

FIRST EDITION OF THE GREAT WORK OF THE PRESS AND A FINE SET INDEED. Colin Franklin, writing in THE PRIVATE PRESSES, says that in the years after the death of A. H. Bullen (the Press’s founder), the Shakespeare

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Head Press “became the most mature and sophisticated of the private presses, producing some works in the grand manner which are a great pleasure to read and examine now” (p. 147). This set indeed is “in the grand manner,” printed in D. B. Updike’s stately Centaur typeface, with large initials and shoulder notes, complemented perfectly by Farleigh’s large wood-engravings. Typographically this is perhaps the most satisfying book of the press.

GEO. CHAPMAN’S GREAT ENGLISH TRANSLATION. The final and most complete state of “Chapman’s Homer.” It took Chapman 25 years to finish his master translation, meanwhile it was published in segments as he completed them. Seven books of the ILIADS (1-2 and 7-11) first appear in quarto in 1598, then books 1-12 in folio in 1609, and finally all 24 in 1611. Books 1-12 of the ODYSSES were first printed in c.1614 and then reissued with books 13-24 in 1615. Homer’s hymns and verses were separately published, c.1624 as was the BATRACHOMYOMACHIA. As the translation progressed, these works were also published together, so the ILIADS could be found alone, with the first 12 books of the ODYSSES, with the complete ODYSSES and finally with the ILIADS, ODYSSES and CROWNE of minor poems all together. ansom Checklist 70; Poole. Wood Engravings of John Farleigh, p. 116. Franklin. The Private Presses $4500.

One of the Best Works on Harry Houdini - With Ephemera A Prepublication Review Copy of the First Printing A Pictorial Life - With More then 250 Illustrations 38 [Houdini] Christopher, Milbourne. HOUDINI A PICTORIAL LIFE (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1976) First edition and first printing, PUBLISHER’S PRESENTATION REVIEW COPY with inserted prepublication compliments slip, along with a Thomas Crowell Company representative’s business card, photograph of the author in magician garb and photographic reproduction of a Houdini broad sheet. Extensively illustrated throughout, with more then 250 illustrations covering nearly every page, primarily from original photographs and ephemera from the author’s personal collection, and with colour frontispiece and colour decorated half-title. 4to, original scarlet cloth lettered on the upper cover in blind and on the spine in gilt and in the original colour pictorially decorated dustjacket. 218 pp. A fine and beautifully preserved copy of this exciting book, the jacket with just a hint of age.

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION REVIEW COPY WITH ADDED EPHEMERAL ITEMS OF ONE OF THE BEST WORKS AVAILABLE ON THE WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS ESCAPE ARTIST. Houdini was also a skilled magician, actor, film producer, spiritualist, medium and debunker of mediums and paranormal claims. The author was one of the foremost authorities on Harry Houdini’s career and public life. He was a prominent escape artist himself as well as being president of the Society of American Magicians, an honorary vice-president to The Magic Circle, and one of the founding members of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is considered one of the foremost historians of magic of the previous century. This fascinating work is entirely illustrated from items in the author’s personal collection of magic memorabilia, the largest such collection in private hands. $125.

David Hume’s Great History of England - 1846 A Rare One Volume Edition Grandly Bound 39 Hume, David and Smollett, T[homas]. THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND, From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688.

By David Hume, Esq. Continued to the Death of George the Second, by T. Smollett, M.D. With the Last Corrections and Improvements of the Authors… and a Short Memoir of Hume, Written by Himself. (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1846) A very attractive and rare edition complete in one volume. With two fine engraved portraits, one of Hume as frontispiece and one of Smollett at the start of the section dating from 1688 and with a separate half-title for Smollett’s sectional portion of the book. Large, thick 4to, regally bound with Tudor roses and crowns in contemporary red morocco harking back to the Regency period of English history. The covers with multiple gilt fillet borders, the inner with large ornate corner-pieces, this surrounding a central gilt device of a coronet and Tudor rose on the upper cover and coronet and portcullis on the lower cover, the spine incorporating both rose and portcullis coronets again in the uppermost and lowermost of six floral gilt decorated and framed compartments between wide raised bands, one compartment gilt lettered and additional gilt lettering at the tail, and with gilt stippled board edges and wide elaborate gilt tooled turn-ins and a.e.g. xiv, 9pp contents, 1354pp, 60pp index.

A very handsome and collectible copy, very finely bound, the binding strong and sturdy and well preserved with just a bit of expected and attractive age evidence, the hinges firm, the text fine and fresh with only a little spotting at the prelims and to the paper used for the portrait plates, that of Hume with a bit of light marginal staining not affecting the image.

FIRST OF THE EDITION. A HIGHLY IMPORTANT HISTORICAL WORK, RARE IN ONE VOLUME FORMAT. It is especially unusual to discover a copy so firm and sturdy and in a binding clearly made for a gentleman of considerable wealth and importance.

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Charles Kendal Adams in his Manual of Historical Literature perhaps best describes this important work, “This work has enjoyed the rank of a classic in historical literature from the day of its completion to the present time. In point of clearness, elegance, and simplicity of style it has never been surpassed.”

This edition features many corrections by the author. Hume’s corrections were not so much on factual matters dealing with dates or events but an attempt to soften or correct some seditious Whig sentiments that he had allowed to creep into it. Speaking of his first edition Hume admitted, “I am sensible that [his writings] were too full of those foolish English prejudices which all nations and all ages disavow.”

The work is considered by many to be the first truly great history of England, and that although historically imperfect, of outstanding intellectual conception. It is not a simple chronicle of events but instead an attempt by Hume to trace the many steps leading to the state of England as it was in his present time. He views history not only as a chain of actions and reactions but delves as well into the material and intellectual state of the nation throughout the various points of the time period covered. $795.

The Armies of India - Majors A.C. Lovett and G.F. MacMunn A Handsome Publication by Adam & Charles Black 40 [Imperial India; Army]; MacMunn, Major G. F. THE ARMIES OF INDIA. Painted by Major A. C. Lovett. Described by Major G. F. MacMunn. With a Foreword by Field-Marshal Earl Roberts (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1911) First Edition. With 72 highly impressive tissue captioned colour plates by Major Lovett and 19 smaller line drawings throughout the text. Large 8vo, in the publisher’s original blue cloth lettered and pictorially decorated on the upper cover in yellow within a blind framework and lettered and decorated on the spine in gilt and blind. xiv, 224 pp., 8 pp ads. A fresh and handsome copy, the text fine and with fine plates, the binding handsome and attractive with no fading to the dark blue and with the gilt and yellow decorations all still very bright, the textblock only slightly shaken.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS SUPERB WORK ON THE INDIAN REGIMENTS. The author and artist have joined forces to create here a fine review of the armies fielded by the Empire, the history of their battles and their administration. The book is a costume designer’s dream-come-true as the very impressive colourplates bring vividly to the life the men, the many regimental uniforms and accouterments, and the scene of Imperial India. This is also an invaluable work for anyone interested in the colonial armies and military histories at the height of the English Age of Empire.

Major General Sir George Fletcher Macmunn (1869-1952) KCB, KCSI, DSO, British General, scholar, military historian and writer was also one of the founders of the Kipling Society. Major Alfred Crowdy Lovett (1862-1919) was of the Gloucestershire Regiment. The watercolours by Lovett illustrate the full dress and field service dress uniforms of the Indian Army. $395.

Ireland - Described by Frank Mathew - 1916 With 50 Wonderful Colourplates by A. Heaton Cooper 41 [Ireland] Mathew, Frank and Cooper, A. Heaton (Illus.). IRELAND (London: A & C Black, LTD, 1916) First Edition with the new illustrations by A. Heaton Cooper. With 50 wonderful colourplates from paintings by A. Heaton Cooper with captioned tissue-guards. Large 8vo, in the publisher’s beautiful original dark purple cloth decorated in a all-over design on the front cover of shamrocks in green, surrounding an Irish harp in yellow and with lettering in yellow, the spine decorated to match but with lettering in gilt. xix, 212 pp. A well preserved copy, clean, tight and strong internally, the covers retain the full blue, green and yellow colours, the lettering is in fine order, the spine lightly mellowed down as is typical with the purple cloth, the gilt and green decorations are very well preserved, light bumping to two corners, the edges and tips all in good order, a pleasant copy indeed.

THE BEST EDITION OF THIS RARELY SEEN TITLE. IRELAND represents one of the best of Adam and Charles Black’s fine illustrated travel books. The enchanting countryside of the Emerald Island is laid out before us in words and wonderful paintings. Cooper was one of the highest acclaimed landscape artist of his time and over the last century has become one of the venerated by modern critics as well.

While this was the third time Frank Mathew’s text was printed, it is the first time his words were accompanied with Cooper’s paintings. $175.

Irving’s History of the Life and Voyages of Columbus The First Edition - Complete in Four Volumes 42 Irving, Washington. A HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND VOYAGES OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS (London: John Murray, 1828) 4 volumes. The first edition, preceding the American edition (and exceeding it in bulk by one volume) Fold-out maps in volumes I and II. 8vo, in contemporary three-quarter olive-brown calf over marbled boards, the spine with raised bands ruled in blind and decorated with panel designs executed in blind in the compartments, double red morocco lettering labels gilt, blind trim on the backing and corner-pieces, speckled edges. With the fine engraved bookplates of Irish Baron Mount-Florence, Earl of Enniskillen, and most likely being that of The

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Rt. Hon. William Willoughby Cole, 3rd Earl of Enniskillen, FRS, known by his courtesy title of Viscount Cole from 1807 to 1840, who was an Irish palaeontologist and Conservative Member of Parliament. viii, 473 pp; 490 pp; viii, 413 pp; vii, 489 pp. A handsome, attractive and well-preserved set. A little expected rubbing to the edges and extremities, internally very fresh and clean, all very solid.

THE IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION OF THIS GREAT TESTAMENT TO IRVING’S OFT’ NEGLECTED ABILITIES AS A HISTORIAN. This was a scholarly but popular biography based primarily on the work of the Spanish writer Navarrete. Navarrete had published his work on Columbus, which contained a number of previously unknown and significant documents. However, Irving felt that “the whole presented rather a mass of rich materials for history, than a history itself..[and] the sight of disconnected papers and official documents is apt to be repulsive to the general reader, who seeks for clear and continued narrative.” In fact, he felt that nearly every account had been incomplete while many important documents and manuscripts had been ignored. Thus, he hoped to offer a more rigorous and yet accessible account.

Written while Irving was a diplomatic attaché in Spain (1826-29), “it was the most painstaking effort of Irving’s life, and it won him election to the ‘Real Academia de la Historia’, the friendship of Navarrete, and a literary reputation in Spain where the work is still quoted respectfully” (DAB). The American edition, published the same year in three volumes, had only one map. BAL 10123. $1000.

Italy From the Alps to Mount Etna A Journey Through Italy - Art, Architecture, and Landscape Fully Gilt Decorated Original Cloth Profusely Illustrated 43 [Italy; Italian Views and Travel], [Italian Surveys]. ITALY FROM THE ALPS TO MOUNT ETNA. It’s Arts, It’s Cities, It’s Lakes, It’s Rivers (London: William Glaisher, 1903) First edition. With 164 black and white illustrations. 4to, original gray-blue cloth gilt lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt and black on the spine and upper cover, a.e.g. viii, 302 pp. A very fine copy, unusually bright and clean the gilt very bright and beautifully preserved and with no sign of fading to the spine. A tight and as pristine example with little evidence of age.

AN UNUSUALLY BRIGHT AND HANDSOME COPY. This is an extremely attractive Italian travel book with beautiful engravings on almost every page. The first-hand narrative enters Italy through Mont Cenis, and moves on to Trentino, Verona, Venice, Mantua, Milan, the lakes, Genoa, Florence, Siena, and many others ending at the Island of Etna. The text is written in a clear and congenial style, with great awareness of literature and the arts as it moves from one historic town to the next. A lovely addition to any Italian collection. $325.

With the Bright Watercolour Landscapes of Alberto Pisa Sicily - A Scarce and Exceptional A. & C. Black Travel Book 44 [Italy; Sicily]; Pisa, Alberto [illus.] and Musson, Spencer C. SICILY Painted by Alberto Pisa Described by Spencer C. Musson (London: Adam & Charles Black, 1911) First edition. With 48 very impressive illustrations from the paintings of Alberto Pisa finely produced on colourplates tipped to sturdy gray stock, each with a captioned tissue guard, and with a folding map. Large 8vo, in the publisher’s beautifully decorated gray cloth lettered in gilt on the upper cover and spine, which are both decorated in an all-over vineyard and orchard motif in green, black, purple and tan, t.e.g. xii, 312 pp. An especially fresh and very fine copy, very bright, very clean and beautifully preserved.

FIRST EDITION AND ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF BLACK’S IMPRESSIVE TRAVEL BOOKS, in this uncommon entry the ancient land of Sicily is described and illustrated in vivid and colourful detail. Pisa’s exquisite paintings of gardens, ruins, landscapes, churches and villages are really quite exceptional and are here reproduced at the finest quality. $195.

Gertrude Jekyll on Some English Gardens A Beautiful Book in the Genre First Edition 45 Jekyll, Gertrude. SOME ENGLISH GARDENS After Drawings by George S. Elgood, R.I. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1905) Third issuance, one year after the first and in the identical format in all ways. With 50 beautiful colour plates after watercolours by Elgood. Folio, in original polished blue buckram, the spine and upper cover lettered and ruled in gilt, t.e.g. xii, 131 pp. A very handsome copy, the cloth bright with very little evidence of age or wear, the corners still quite sharp, the gilt fresh, internally clean and quite fresh throughout with a bit of toning to the endpapers as is the case in nearly all of the early printings.

AN IMPORTANT BOOK, AND A VERY BEAUTIFUL ONE TOO. A horticultural tour through Edwardian England, with notes by the preeminent Ms.

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Jekyll, who has been described as a premier influence in garden design by English and American gardening enthusiasts. She created over 400 gardens in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States, and wrote over 1,000 articles for magazines such as ‘Country Life’ and ‘The Garden’.

The book is equally well know for the wonderfully reproduced garden paintings by George Elgood, a member of both the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Coloursand the Royal Institute of Oil Painters.

This is by far one of the most famous, and beautiful, works of the gardening genre. The first edition has become quite difficult to find, this edition, formatted identically, is every bit as impressive. $895.

Garden Ornament - Gertrude Jekyll A Lovely Copy of Jekyll’s Great Treatise The Best Edition Garden Design in Relation to Architecture 46 Jekyll, Gertrude and Christopher Hussey. GARDEN ORNAMENT (London: Country Life, 1927) Second and best edition, revised. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos. Large Folio, publisher’s original green buckram, gilt decorated with pictorial designs and lettering on upper cover, lettered in gilt on spine. With a dustjacket made expressly for this copy, at a later date. x, 438, including index pp.

An excellent copy, fresh and fine inside and with just light evidence of age to the binding. The jacket remains in fine condition.

A HANDSOME AND WELL PRESERVED COPY OF THIS BEAUTIFUL BOOK. Hussey and Jekyll created this impressive pictorial treatise dealing with “garden design in relation to architecture, and, to some extent, with architectural design in relation to gardening.” Jekyll’s books are highly collectible and remain among the most important of all writings in the oeuvre of the garden. This is the most famous book on the subject. $895.

Gardens for Small Country Houses One of Gertrude Jekyll’s Best Books

47 Jekyll, Gertrude and Weaver, Sir Lawrence. GARDENS FOR SMALL COUNTRY HOUSES (London: Country Life LTD., 1924) A reprint of the revised and enlarged edition. With a handsome colour frontispiece and a profusion of black and white illustrations, designs, photographs and reproductions throughout, at least one on every page, and generally a number. Small folio, publisher’s original blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover, with triple fillet lines and ornamental tools on the upper cover in blind. L, 262, pp. A beautiful copy, very clean and handsome, the blue cloth very fresh and bright, internally very clean with hinges still sound and strong, a slight bump to a corner.

FINE PRINTING OF THE REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION OF THIS PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED WORK, SUPERIOR TO THE FIRST. and one of Jekyll’s best books. It is a masterpiece on English gardening by an author whose expertise on the subject has never been eclipsed. All of her books are highly collectible and remain among the most important of all writings in the oeuvre of the garden. This title is also an especially wellillustrated guide to garden construction and upkeep which discusses several well-known country house gardens and gives chapters on such subjects as hillside gardens, steps and stairways, climbing plants on walls and houses, retaining walls and their planting, methods of paving, gates and gateways, garden-houses, and as well, a chapter on rock gardens. $295.

The Works of Ben Jonson In Elusive Period Calf in Original State - 1716 - London 48 Jonson, Ben. THE WORKS OF BEN JONSON. With a Biographical Memoir by William Gifford (London: Printed for J. Walthoe, M. Wotton. . . J. Tonson, and W. Innys, 1716) 6 volumes. Early antiquarian edition. Adorned with frontispieces and plates, including a frontispiece portrait in Volume I. 8vo, bound in fine period polished calf in very pleasing and handsome style, the spines with raised bands and lettering on contrasting red and green morocco labels in gilt, board edges tooled in blind, edges sprinkled red. A fine handsome set and rare in this condition, the joints sometime refurbished. The textblocks are only very lightly mellowed and the extremities lightly rubbed.

SCARCE EARLY PRINTING HANDSOMELY BOUND. A beautiful presentation of one of the English language’s greatest writers. Jonson of course is most remembered for his plays and poetry. His first play to be produced “Every Man Out of His Humour” featured William Shakespeare in its cast. Along with Jonson’s great body of work is William Gifford’s memoir, a selection of Commendatory Verses on Jonson written by his contemporaries, a fine glossary and extensive index. Jonson, dramatist, lyric poet and literary editor is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare. $1250.

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Karsh Portraits - The Best of the Great Photographer First Edition - A Warmly Inscribed Presentation Copy 49 Karsh, Yousuf. PORTRAITS OF GREATNESS (New York and London: The University of Toronto Press, 1961) First Edition, first reprint. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED AND AUTOGRAPHED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER/AUTHOR FOR HIS FRIENDS OF MANY YEARS, [K. AND C. G.] and with the prospectus for the book inserted. with over 200 full page photographs by Karsh, all with extensive commentary. Large 4to, publisher’s original black cloth lettered in silver and with the decorated dustjacket printed in black and red and with a portrait of Karsh to the upper cover. 207, (1) pp. A handsome copy, the weight of the book causing a number of the plates and pages to come free from the binding. Internally clean and in good order, the binding well preserved and bright, the dustjacket with wear and some loss to the tips and edges.

RARE INSCRIBED AND AUTOGRAPHED PRESENTATION COPY, AND A PLEASING ASSOCIATION COPY. “There is little doubt that Yousuf Karsh has focused his camera on more great persons than any other photographer. The title of this exhibition, ‘Men Who Make Our World’, describes with no exaggeration the scope of Karsh’s intercontinental activity. An assemblage of his portraits provides a fascinating sidelight on current history. For his gift of understanding and then revealing a personality in photographs brings us face to face with leaders of the social, political, literary, arts and intellectual scenes. His perception, his command of the medium, his flair combines to create portraits that in many cases have already taken their place as lasting images, and thus constitute a brilliant contribution to the art of our time.

Like the true artist, his work carries intimations of his own personality: a warm heart, a vibrant curiosity about life, and abundant faith, indeed a love for his fellow man.”-Rathbone $350.

The Poems and Letters of John Keats - Three Volumes Limited Edition on Whatman Paper Signed by the Printer In Very Handsome Contemporary MacDonald Bindings 50 Keats, John. THE LETTERS AND POEMS OF JOHN KEATS. With the Annotations of Lord Houghton and a Memoir by Jno. Gilmore Speed, Edited by Jno. Gilmore Speed (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1883) 3 volumes. LIMITED EDITION, one of only 55 hand-numbered copies on Whatman paper of a total edition of only 350 copies signed by the printer. Volume one with frontispiece portrait in colour from the oil by Severn, volume two with frontispiece engraved portrait from the life mask made by Haydon and volume three with frontispiece portrait after a sketch by Severn. Large 8vo, in beautiful contemporary threequarter green morocco over marbled boards by MacDonald of New York, corner-pieces and backs gilt ruled, the spines wonderfully gilt decorated in a fine art nouveau floral and vine motif in gilt framed compartments between gilt tooled bands, two compartments gilt lettered, endpapers marbled, t.e.g. xv, 322; xxxi, 252; vii, 287 pp. A very fine and handsome set the text essentially pristine and perfect with large broad and clean margins, the fine bindings very attractive and solid with only some light wear or rubbing to the extremities and edges, one volume with minor cosmetic edge wear at the upper spine tip.

RARE, AND IN BEAUTIFUL CUSTOM BINDINGS FITTING THE POETRY CONTAINED WITHIN. An extremely appealing printing of Keats on fine paper, this being one of only 55 copies on Whatman paper. Volume one contains Keats’ letters edited by Speed, volumes two and three the poems, Lord Houghton’s notes and the Memoir. $1250.

Limited De Luxe Edition With 75 Colour-Plates R. Talbot Kelly’s Paintings and Descriptions of Egypt 51 Kelly, R. Talbot. EGYPT PAINTED AND DESCRIBED (London: Adam & Charles Black, 1902) The “Edition De Luxe” which is limited to 500 copies signed by the author/artist. With 75 beautiful colour-plates after watercolors by R. Talbot Kelly. 4to, publisher’s original tan cloth, lettered and decorated on upper cover and spine in scarab designs in gilt, brown, blue and orange, and with the Winged Sun Thebes flanked with uraeus in two styles, one in gilt and orange, the other in orange, blue and brown, t.e.g. xiii, 240 pp. A very attractive copy, the cloth with bright gilt and color and only a touch of uniform mellowing to the light tan cloth as one would expect, internally fresh, bright, clean and fine with the plates, light and typical spotting at the end-leaves, a bit of separation to the free-fly and pastedown.

FIRST EDITION OF One of A. & C. Black’s finest illustrated travel books in the Limited De Luxe format. The 75 colour-plates and accompanying text vividly express an Englishman’s views and impressions of this fascinating nation at the turn of the Twentieth Century. We are given first hand accounts and charming illustrations of the daily life and interests of the Egyptian people. Kelly intimately depicts the sights and sounds of city bazaars, Arab cafes, congested city streets, and dusty desert panoramas. We are irresistibly drawn into the exotic world of Arab customs, religion, and cuisine.

The Spector reviewed the book and commented: “This is beyond question the most beautiful book of modern Egypt that we have ever seen.” $450.

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The Magnificent Basilisk Press Kelmscott Chaucer “One of the Great Books of the World’ “Its Splendor..Hardly..Matched” A Brilliant Copy of the Finest Facsimile - Limited to 515 Copies With Companion Volume of Original Drawings by Burne-Jones 52 [Kelmscott Press; Basilisk Press] Chaucer, Geoffrey.

THE WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER. [Together With,] A COMPANION VOLUME TO THE KELMSCOTT CHAUCER by Duncan Robinson (London: The Basilisk Press, 1974, 1975) 2 volumes. FIRST BASILISK PRESS EDITION, A LIMITED EDITION, AND THE FINEST FACSIMILE PRODUCTION OF THE G R E AT K E L M S C O T T PRESS CHAUCER. This being one of only 515 copies printed. The Chaucer is illustrated just as the original with 87 woodengravings after Sir Edward Burne-Jones, redrawn by Robert Catterson-Smith and cut by W.H. Hooper, wood-engraved title page, fourteen large woodcut borders, eighteen different woodcut frames around the illustrations, twentysix nineteen-line initial words, and numerous threeline, six-line and ten-line woodcut initial letters, and woodcut printer’s device, all designed by William Morris and cut by C.E Keates, W.H. Hooper, and W. Spielmeyer, with shoulder and side titles. Printed in red and black in Chaucer type, the titles of longer poems printed in Troy type. Text in double columns. The companion volume is illustrated with two tipped in portraits and 85 tipped in plates reproduced from the original pencil drawings by Burne-Jones and with several other illustrations within the text. Large folios (423 x 292 mm), uniformly bound in the original floral patterned red and tan ‘Larkspur’ patterned cloth, designed by William Morris in 1874, with gray paper spine labels lettered in black. The two volumes housed together in the original slipcase of hard boards covered in blue paper. [4], ii, [2], 554, [1]; 146, [2] pp. An absolutely as new and mint set, both volumes pristine and perfect in all regard, the slipcase with only some separation of the blue paper along the seam of the upper joint and very mild age.

THE MAGNIFICENT AND BEST FACSIMILE OF THE KELMSCOTT CHAUCER, “the most famous book of the modern private press movement, and the culmination of William Morris’s endeavor” -(The Artist and the Book).

This fine and full-size facsimile was printed for The Basilisk Press, London, by The John Roberts Press in Clerkenwell and completed on the 31st day of December, 1974. The blocks made by John Swain and Son, London. The paper specially made at Saint Cuthbert’s Mill at Wells in Somerset by The Inveresk Paper Group. The cloth printed by Liberty of London, and the binding executed by A.W. Lumsden in Edinburgh from designs by and under the direction of, Peter Guy. Much has been written of the famed Kelmscott Chaucer, considered by many to be the most beautiful book produced in the English language. “[F] rom first appearance, the Chaucer gained a name as the finest book since Gutenberg. It has held its place near the head of the polls ever since. The terms which critics used in the eighteen-nineties to welcome it simply show us what an impression Morris’s printing made upon late Victorian bookmen” (Colin Franklin, The Private Presses, p. 43).

The Kelmscott Press produced forty-eight books in its brief life. Morris had toyed with the idea of a Shakespeare in three folio volumes; a suggestion for a King James version of the Bible was in his pending file; and preliminary work had begun on editions of Froissart and Malory, both of which would have formed a triumvirate with the Chaucer. But on October 3, 1896, Morris died, and for all intents and purposes the Kelmscott Press died with him, the Froissart and Malory unfinished. The Chaucer, regretfully, remained the only “titan” among Kelmscott books.

Morris dedicated his life to poetry and the decorative arts, but he did not exhibit an active interest in the design and production of books until he was fifty-five years old. He died eight years later, but in that brief fragment of time he established a standard and prestige that still make him one of the most powerful and pervasive influences in book design in the English-speaking, English-reading world. $2850.

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In a Hand-Decorated Binding of Full Vellum Florentine Sonnets - Replete with Photogravure Illustrations 53 Leighton, William. FLORENTINE SONNETS (Florence: by Pellas for the shop of Giulio Giannini & Son Publishers and Booksellers, 1911) Early Printing. With 21 fine photogravure photographs by Leighton. 8vo, bound in full contemporary vellum, the spine lettered in black and red, the upper cover with an all over design of a griffin in green and red, lettering in black and red, leather ties, hand-printed and decorated end-leaves. Each photograph is accompanied by a page of text discussing the object of the picture. A very good and pleasing copy, well preserved, strong and tight and very readable.

A VERY NICE PRINTING AND DECORATED BINDING. $125.

Abraham Lincoln by Carl Sandburg A Beautifully Bound Copy of All Six Volumes of the Work A Pulitzer Prize Winner and Literary Masterpiece 54 [Lincoln, Abraham]; Sandburg, Carl. ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE PRAIRIE YEARS and THE WAR YEARS (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, ca. 1926-1943) 6 volumes. Early issues of THE WAR YEARS and in the matching format of THE PRAIRIE YEARS. With 426 halftones of photographs, and 244 cuts of cartoons, letters and documents, and with over 100 maps, additional photographs, and facsimiles. Large 8vo, beautifully bound in three-quarter red crushed morocco for Charles E. Lauriat, the spines righly gilt with raised bands gilt tooled, separating the compartments, which are lettered in two panels and decorated in the remaing four with gilt ornamental devices at the centers, sides with gilt lines bordering the morocco, t.e.g. xvi, 480; vi, 482 including index; xxxi, 660; xi, 655; xiii, 673; xii, 515 + index A very fine, pleasing and handsome set, the bindings very attractive with very little indication of use, internally uncommonly fresh with no foxing whatsoever.

AN EXTREMELY PLEASING AND FINELY BOUND SET OF THIS CLASSIC WORK, STILL THE BEST AND MOST DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY OF THE GREAT AMERICAN PRESIDENT. Carl Sandburg was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his Complete Poems (1950), and then again for his Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (1939). The Prairie Years’ covers Lincoln’s life from his birth to his first inauguration. Originally printed in two volumes, the author himself has this to say about this edition, “I first planned this book for one large volume. When completed, however, it was necessary for initial publication to issue it in two. It is [here] made available to a large part of the public I had in mind all the time.” The War Years covers the Civil War period until Lincoln’s death by assassination shortly after war’s end.

In a real sense, this is the definitive biography of Lincoln, illustrated with photographs and reproductions of paintings, drawings and sketches. Carl Sandburg felt a close tie to Abraham Lincoln because of similar childhood experiences. Sandburg’s and Lincoln’s youths had not been easy. Their understanding of the common man was mutual. Each in his own lifetime would think of himself as a common man, a struggler from among ordinary people, according to one historian. Sandburg put it this way: “There’s a certain level of human existence below which one must sometime have lived if one is to really know the ways of the masses.”

Reviewers from all over the world called Sandburg’s book a classic. Sandburg, with a reputation as a labor advocate, gained favor with Republicans.

After the first two volumes were published, William Randolph Hearst offered Sandburg a job with substantial pay and the Republican Party invited him to be the main speaker at the Lincoln Dinner. When Sandburg died in 1967, it was said of him what he had once said of Lincoln: “Now he belongs to the ages.”.Franchere Franchere, Carl Sandburg: Voice of the Peoples; Golden, Carl Sandburg; Hacker, Carl Sandburg; Zehnpfennig, Carl Sandburg: Poet and Patriot $2250.

A Pulitzer Prize Winner and Literary Masterpiece Abraham Lincoln by Carl Sandburg The War Years - Four Volumes - First Edition 55 [Lincoln, Abraham]; Sandburg, Carl. ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE WAR YEARS (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939) 4 volumes. First edition. With 426 half-tones of photographs, and 244 cuts of cartoons, letters and documents. Large, thick 8vo, publisher’s original full blue polished buckram with Lincoln’s signature embossed in blind on the upper covers, and with gilt lettered and ruled spines. xxxi, 660; xi, 655; xiii, 673; xii, 515 + index pp. A fine and very handsome set, extremely well preserved, the cloth is clean and with bright gilt, the text is very fine and clean.

FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE GREAT HISTORICAL WORKS CONCERNING ABRAHAM LINCOLN, WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE. Carl Sandburg was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his Complete Poems (1950), and then again for his Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (1939).

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In a real sense, this is the definitive biography of Lincoln, illustrated with photographs and reproductions of paintings, drawings and sketches. Carl Sandburg felt a close tie to Abraham Lincoln because of similar childhood experiences. Sandburg’s and Lincoln’s youths had not been easy. Their understanding of the common man was mutual. Each in his own lifetime would think of himself as a common man, a struggler from among ordinary people, according to one historian. Sandburg put it this way: “There’s a certain level of human existence below which one must sometime have lived if one is to really know the ways of the masses.”

Reviewers from all over the world called Sandburg’s book a classic. Sandburg, with a reputation as a labor advocate, gained favor with Republicans.

After the first two volumes were published, William Randolph Hearst offered Sandburg a job with substantial pay and the Republican Party invited him to be the main speaker at the Lincoln Dinner. When Sandburg died in 1967, it was said of him what he had once said of Lincoln: “Now he belongs to the ages.”.Franchere Franchere, Carl Sandburg: Voice of the Peoples; Golden, Carl Sandburg; Hacker, Carl Sandburg; Zehnpfennig, Carl Sandburg: Poet and Patriot $595.

The Wood Engravings of Eric Ravilious Handsomely Produced For the Lion and Unicorn Press A Fine Press Gem and A Superb Catalogue Raisonné 56 [Lion and Unicorn Press] Ravilious, Eric. THE WOOD ENGRAVINGS OF ERIC RAVILIOUS [Introduction by J. M. Richards] (Kensington: The Lion and Unicorn Press, Royal College of Art, 1972) First edition, LIMITED, number 80 of the second issue, which was limited to 500 copies.

With 113 leaves displaying over 400 of Eric Ravilious’ engravings, each leaf printed one side only, with fold-out index leaves. The title-page, front free-fly and colophon page also decorated with Ravilious engravings. Tall folio, in the original binding by Henry Brooks Ltd. of course gray cloth with a large woodcut block on the upper cover in black, the spine lettered in gilt, decorated endpapers. 19pp., 113 ff., 4 ff. index, 2ff. pp. A fine copy, the boards very slightly bowed and with trivial aging, internally very fine and as new.

FIRST EDITION AND AN IMPORTANT CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ OF ENGRAVER ERIC RAVILIOUS AND ARGUABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT WORK OF THE PRESS. Six of the over 420 engravings here were reproduced from Ravilious’ original blocks, the others (for which the blocks likely no longer existed) were painstakingly reproduced from other sources, all are in their original size and the collection comprises all of his engraved works which could be found and should be considered as complete as could be made possible.

The print work was beautifully done by the Curwen Press on Grosvenor Chater’s Basingwerk parchment.

Ravilious engraved most of these illustrations for books and other publications.

His first commission, in 1926, was to illustrate a novel for Jonathan Cape.

He went on to produce work both for large companies such as the Lanston Corporation and the smaller, less commercial “Fine Presses”, such as the Golden Cockerel, the Curwen Press and the Cresset Press. A handful of the engravings included here were never previously published.

Ravilious’ career was cut tragically short when, while working as a War Artist, the RAF patrol he was flying on failed to return. After four days of searching, he and the plane’s four crewmen were declared lost in action. $1195.

Edinburgh - Painted by John Fulleylove - 1912 A Beautiful Adam and Charles Black Title - Fully Decorated 57 Masson, Rosaline. EDINBURGH (London: Adam & Charles Black, 1912) Early printing. With twenty lovely plates reproduced from the paintings of John Fulleylove in full and finely rendered colour. 8vo, in the publisher’s original decorated blue cloth, the upper cover featuring lettering, Scottish lions, thistle and the Church of St. Giles all in gilt within a chain framework in tan, the spine lettered and similarly decorated in gilt and tan, t.e.g. viii, 176 pp, 8 ads. A handsome copy, the plates are all fresh and fine, the cloth in very nice condition, showing only light evidence of age, sturdy with firm hinges and bright gilt.

A BEAUTIFUL BOOK ON A GREAT HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT CITY. Royal Academy artist John Fulleylove’s paintings bring to vivid life Ms. Masson’s verbal tour of the Scottish capital. Divided into two parts, we are first taken through the old town and shown the Castle, palaces, churches and abbeys. In part two we are shown the Edinburgh of Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson. In all Adam and Charles Black have provided us here with a truly wonderful combination of words and pictures. $125.

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The First Edition - Limited and Signed by the Author W. Somerset Maugham - A Writer’s Notebook - 1949 58 Maugham, W. Somerset. A WRITER’S NOTEBOOK. (New York: Doubleday, 1949) First American Edition. The LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Royal 8vo, original polished red buckram cloth, the spine with labels in black and gilt, the covers stamped with an ornamental device and beveled at the edges, top edge gilt. xvi, 367 pp. A very fine, as pristine copy, the slipcase with little evidence of shelving.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED AND SIGNED BY W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM. $750.

A Classic of Classics - One of the Great Travel Books The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile, Knight A Fine Copy of the First Edition with Halliwell’s Additions 59 Maundevile, John [Mandeville, Sir John].

THE VOIAGE AND TRAVAILE OF SIR JOHN MAUNDEVILE, KT. Which Treateth of the Way To Hierusalem; and of Marvayles of Inde, With other Ilands and Countryes. Reprinted from the Edition of A.D. 1725. With an Introduction, Additional Notes, and Glossary, by J. O. Halliwell (London: Edward Lumley, 1839) First edition with Halliwell’s introduction and additions. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, vignette title-page and many illustrations throughout the text in the style of medieval woodcuts. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth, the upper cover with large coat of arms in gilt and additional decoration in blind, blind decoration on the lower cover and in gilt with gilt lettering on the spine. vxii, xii, 326, 2 ads pp. An unusually handsome and well preserved copy, as fine and highly unusual for a book of the period, especially as this copy is preserved in its original early cloth binding.

FIRST EDITION WITH HALLIWELL’S INTRODUCTION AND ADDITIONS AND A BEAUTIFULLY PRESERVED COPY. ‘In his preface the compiler calls himself a knight, and states that he was born and bred in England, of the town of St Albans.

Although the book is real, it is widely believed that ‘Sir John Mandeville’ himself was not. Common theories point to a Frenchman by the name of Jehan a la Barbe (or other possibilities discussed below).

The most recent scholarly work suggests that The Travels of Sir John Mandeville was “the work of Jan de Langhe, a Fleming who wrote in Latin under the name Johannes Longus and in French as Jean le Long.”] Jan de Langhe was born in Ypres early in the 1300s and by 1334 had become a Benedictine monk at the abbey of Saint-Bertin in Saint-Omer which was about 20 miles from Calais. After studying law at the University of Paris, de Langhe returned to the abbey and was elected abbot in 1365. He was a prolific writer and avid collector of travelogues, right up to his death in 1383.

John de Mandeville crossed the sea on 1322; had traversed by way of Turkey (Asia Minor), Armenia the Little (Cilicia) and the Great, Tartary, Persia, Syria, Arabia, Egypt upper and lower, Libya, great part of Ethiopia, Chaldea, Amazonia, India the Less, the Greater and the Middle, and many countries about India; had often been to Jerusalem, and had written in Romance as more generally understood than Latin.

In the body of the work, we hear that he had been at Paris and Constantinople; had served the Sultan of Egypt for a long time in his wars against the Bedouin, and had been offered, and declined, a princely marriage and a great estate on condition of renouncing Christianity, and had left Egypt under Sultan Melech Madabron (al-Muzaffar Sayf-ad-Din Hajji I who reigned in 1346-1347); had been at Mount Sinai, and had visited the Holy Land with letters under the great seal of the sultan, which gave him extraordinary facilities; had been in Russia, Livonia, Kraków, Lithuania, “en roialme daresten” (Dristra or Silistra in Bulgaria), and many other parts near Tartary, but not in Tartary itself; had drunk of the Well of Youth at Polombe (Quilon on the Malabar coast), and still seemed to feel the better for it; had taken astronomical observations on the way to Lamory (Sumatra), as well as in Brabant, Germany, Bohemia and still farther north; had been at an isle called Pathen in the Indian Ocean; had been at Cansay (Hangchow-fu) in China, and had served the emperor of China for fifteen months...had been through a haunted valley, which he places near “Milstorak” (i.e. Malasgird in Armenia); had been driven home against his will in 1357 by arthritic gout; and had written his book as a consolation for his “wretched rest”.’

Copies of this work are scarce in the marketplace. $750.

Paris - The Limited Edition-de-Luxe - One of Only 500 Copies One of the Most Beautiful of the A. & C. Black Books 60 Menpes, Mortimer [Illus.] and Dorothy [text]. PARIS (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1909) First Edition, Large Paper, Limited and Best edition, the Edition-de-Luxe on handmade paper and limited to 500 hand-numbered copies. SIGNED by the Artist. With 75 beautiful

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plates in colour with captioned guards and line drawings throughout the text all but Mortimer Menpes. 4to, publisher’s original white cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and red on the upper cover and spine. xii, 185 pp. A beautiful volume, bright and clean internally, the plates and pages near as pristine, some minor darkening or handling to the binding as would be expected of white cloth only.

FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER, LIMITED. THE EDITION-DE-LUXE ON THE CITY OF LIGHT MAGNIFICENTLY CAPTURED IN COLOUR BY RENOWNED ARTIST MORTIMER MEMPES. The accompanying text is his daughter’s reflections of the city with a special emphasis on its life and art. Between the two so many aspects and sights and memories of Paris are here captured forever. We see the great gardens, cathedrals and other landmarks of course, but equally important to the Menpes were the potato peelers and gossipers, fruits and markets and flowers, the bookseller and fish stalls and factories. This is one of Adam and Charles Black’s finest productions, well fitting to the city it illustrates. $925.

The Durbar - Signed, Limited Edition of 1000 Copies Mortimer & Dorothy Menpes Record a Great Moment of Empire With 100 Magnificent Plates in Full Colour 61 Menpes, Mortimer [illus] and Dorothy [text]. THE DURBAR (London: Adam & Charles Black, 1903) First Edition, LIMITED ISSUE DELUXE OF 1000 COPIES of this beautiful A & C Black title. This copy No.830 signed by Mortimer Menpes. With 100 wonderful plates in full colour by Mortimer Menpes with captioned tissue guards. 4to, in publisher’s deluxe binding of ivory cloth with elaborate decorations in Delhi style in gilt, red and blue on the upper cover and spine, the decoration featuring golden peacocks and a magnificent flowering tree, also lettered in gilt on both cover and spine, t.e.g. xii, 210 pp. An excellent copy, fine, bright and clean, the text and plates beautifully preserved, the ivory cloth in wonderful state of preservation with only the lightest hint of mellowing at the spine, an unusually well preserved and beautiful copy, internally as pristine and unused.

FIRST EDITION DELUXE OF THIS BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED WORK OF ONE OF THE GREATEST CEREMONIAL PROCEEDINGS FROM THE AGE OF BRITISH IMPERIAL INDIA. The Menpes recorded in words and paintings their experiences from Camp Number One during the Coronation Durbar, held in Delhi to celebrate the accession of Edward VII to the British throne and title of Emperor of India. This ceremony was presided over by the Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon. This was the second of the Delhi Durbars, which were great ceremonial gatherings held as demonstrations of loyalty to the crown. The first was held in 1877 for the proclamation of Queen Victoria as the first Empress of India. The second was far more splendid with increased ceremony and grandeur. The two full weeks of festivities were devised in meticulous detail by Lord Curzon. It was a dazzling display of pomp, power and split-second coordination. Neither its predecessor nor the Durbar held in 1911 could match the pageantry of Lord Curzon’s 1903 festivities.

Mempes’ paintings include many portraits, military processionals, shows, events, marches and state functions. While very impressive in artist talent and style, they are also historically important artifacts of one of the grandest moments of the British Empire at its pinnacle. $895.

With Superb Illustrations by Edmund Dulac The Masque of Comus - His Last Illustrated Book 62 Milton, John; [Dulac, Edmund (Illustrator)]. THE MASQUE OF COMUS, The Poem by John Milton With a Preface by Mark Van Doren & The Airs by Henry Lawes with a Preface by Hubert Foss. [With], the Announcement leaf sent prior to the release of the book, the Monthly Letter from the L.E.C. providing a fine write-up on the work and its illustration, and an obituary leaf about the artist, Edmund Dulac. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1954) First Dulac Edition and limited to 1500 copies printed for the Limited Editions Club.

Illustrated with six fine colourplates from original watercolours by Dulac. This was the last book to be illustrated by Dulac. 4to, in the publisher’s original parchment backed marbled boards, the spine lettered in gilt and housed in the original black slipcase lettered in gilt. 58, [16] pp. + inserts. A very fine copy, essentially as pristine, light mellowing from age at the spine panel, the box also in very nice condition with only a touch of rubbing to the tips.

A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THIS FIRST EDITION OF HIS LAST ILLUSTRATED BOOK, A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THIS FIRST EDITION OF HIS LAST ILLUSTRATED BOOK. Dulac is considered one of the most original and prolific book illustrator’s of the first two decades of the 20th

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century. His name is often linked with Arthur Rackham, as they both produced illustrations for lavish gift books for children and adults which were of the highest quality and commercial success. Dulac, born a Frenchman, settled in England to build his artistic career. He quickly caught the eye of J.M Dent publishers and produced illustrations for an illustrated edition of Jane Eyre in 1905. But it was when he was discovered by Leicester Galleries that his career actually took off. They had been seeking another talented artist of the stature and appeal of Arthur Rackham for children’s gift book illustrations. At that time, children’s books were purchased by the wealthy as symbols of good taste and there was a huge market to be captured by a new, imaginative artist. Dulac was the perfect choice. $395.

Morocco - 1904 - First Edition - Scarce A & C Black Title A Fine Copy - 74 Striking Colourplates by A. S. Forrest 63 [Morocco Illustrated Travel]; Forrest, A. S. (illus), Bensusan, S. L. (text). MOROCCO (London: A. & C. Black, 1904) First edition. 74 full-page coloured illustrations from paintings by A. S. Forrest. 8vo, publisher’s original tan cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover and elaborately decorated with all-over pictorial designs in red and blue. xv, 230pp. A beautifully preserved copy, the exterior colors still very bright, the textblock secure, the plates all very fine and bright, the endpapers just slightly toned.

VIBRANTLY ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION. One of the most difficult to obtain in the A. & C. Black series of beautifully illustrated and decorated travel books. $350.

Captain Sir John Narborough - 1694 An Account of Several Late Voyages & Discoveries A Fine Facsimile of the Rare 1694 First Edition 64 Narborough, Sir John, Captain Jasmen Tasman, Captain John Wood and Frederick Marten. AN ACCOUNT OF SEVERAL LATE VOYAGES & DISCOVERIES TO THE SOUTH AND NORTH. Towards The Streights of Magellan, the South Seas, the vast Tracts of Land beyond Hollandia Nova, &c. Also Towards Nova Zembla, Greenland or Spitsberg, Groynland or Engrondland, &c. (New York,: Da Capo Press, [1694] 1969) First Modern Reprint. As in the original 1694 edition, the volume is complete with a profusion of large folding plates and maps. 8vo, publisher’s original white parchment, the spine and upper cover with royal blue panels lettered and ruled in gilt. xxix, 207 pp. A very fine copy, essentially as mint.

FIRST OF THE EDITION. An important work seldom seen in first edition format. $100.

The Complete Writings of William Blake The Fine Nonesuch Press Illustrated Edition 65 [Nonesuch Press] Blake, William. THE COMPLETE WRITINGS OF WILLIAM BLAKE With All the Variant Readings, Edited by Geoffrey Keynes (London and New York: The Nonesuch Press and Random House, 1957) First edition thus, newly edited by Geoffrey Keynes. With pictorially decorated titlepage and colophon, and with reproductions after Blake within the text. 8vo, publisher’s original orange cloth over marbled boards gilt ruled, and gilt lettered on the spine, bound at Beccles in Suffolk. xv, 936, [1] pp. A very fine copy, very bright and beautifully preserved. A lovely example.

THE NONESUCH BLAKE, designed by Francis Meynell, composed in the Ehrhardt types and printed by William Clowes and Sons on paper specially made by Robert Fletcher. The text was newly edited for this edition by Geoffrey Keynes.

“Almost everything that was printed in the edition of 1925 has been included in the present text, there are a few interesting, if minor, additions, such as a recently discovered advertisement of A Descriptive Catalogue, 1809; some letter.; and Blake’s list of subjects for A History of England.

More important additions than these are the two series of annotations written as marginalia in his copies of Bacon’s Essays, 1798, and of Boyd’s translation of Dante’s Inferno, 1785 (annotations about 1800.)” - from Editor’s Preface.

In the three-volume ‘Writings of William Blake’ very little editing was done and variant readings were given, to maintain the integrity of the texts and provide a framework for scholarly analysis; in this edition Mr. Keynes felt a bit more at liberty to make such changes as the elimination of bracketed interpolations, or giving a more appealing arrangement to a poem Blake left in disarray. $225.

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The Nonesuch Century - The First 100 Books of the Press A Fine Copy of this Limited Edition Bibliographic Prize 66 [Nonesuch Press]; Symons, A. J. A.; Flower, Desmond; Meynell, Francis. THE NONESUCH CENTURY: AN APPRAISAL, A PERSONAL NOTE AND A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE FIRST HUNDRED BOOKS ISSUED BY THE PRESS, 1923-1934 [With, the Original Bound Sales Prospectus and a Copy of the Nonesuch News announcing publication of the book] (London: The Nonesuch Press, 1936) First edition, LIMITED, one of only 750 copies for sale, this copy being number 155. Included with this copy is the publisher’s original sales prospectus which features two tipped in leaf reprints. Also included is a copy of the Autumn 1935 Nonesuch News letter which also announces this work along with other famous Nonesuch printings such as the Nonesuch Herodotus. Wonderfully illustrated, with an engraved portrait of Francis Meynell by Eric Gill, three pages of printer’s devices, six photogravure plates of bindings, 52 pages reproducing text and title pages, and 45 inserts of flawlessly reprinted leaves from the original works tipped on sturdy gray stock, many of which are bifolia. Folio, in the publisher’s original polished green buckram with a black morocco spine label gilt lettered and tooled, and in the rare original dust jacket. xi, 80, [20], [54], [45] pp. A very fine copy, the jacket has done its job properly and the green cloth which is almost always found faded is bright and fresh with only the slightest touch of mellowing only just at the very tips of the spine, very unusual thus, internally very fine, the prospectus and news letter fine as well, the jacket handsome and well preserved with some very minor rubbing or shelf-wear at the edges and folds.

FIRST EDITION AND AN UNCOMMONLY BRIGHT AND APPEALING COPY OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK ON THE NONESUCH PRESS. The appraisal is by A. J. A. Symons, publisher, biographer and bibliogapher. The Personal note is byFrance Meynell who co-founded and was the primary printer for the Nonesuch Press. The Bibliography is by Desmond Flower, noted publisher, book-collector, scholar and writer. The inserted printed leaves from the various publications are of highest interest in the work and are perfect in their execution.

The Nonesuch Press was founded in 1922 by Francis Meynell, his second wife Vera Mendel, and their mutual friend David Garnett. Their first book, a volume of John Donne’s Love Poems was issued in May 1923. The press was at its peak throughout the 1920s and 1930s, but would remain operating through the mid-1960s and eventually produced over 140 books. But their finest and now most prized works are within the first 100 covered in this work. $1050.

London Vanished & Vanishing - A Unique and Rare Copy Limited First Edition - Very Handsomely Bound - 1905 The Plate Printer’s Own Copy - With 75 Elegant Colourplates 67 Norman, Philip. LONDON VANISHED & VANISHING (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905) First Limited Deluxe Edition and one of only 250 printed, but this copy both RARE AND UNIQUE, as it is the PLATE PRINTER’S OWN COPY. WITH AUTOGRAPH SIGNIFICATION. With 75 colour paintings depicting charming scenes of the people, scenes and places throughout the city of London at the turn of the century. 4to, publisher’s original white polished cloth, gilt lettered on the spine and the upper cover. xvi, 294 pp. A very handsome and beautiful copy, impressive in its size and profusely illustrated, internally clean.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, UNIQUE AND RARE, THE PLATE PRINTER’S OWN COPY. AN EXCELLENT AND WELL ILLUSTRATED DEPICTION OF LONDON AND ITS PEOPLE. The paintings by Philip Norman are charming and profuse and show the many sides of this city. The book shows beautifully the many parks, towns, squares and shops and is a tour de force journey through one of the greatest cities in the world. $650.

A Beautiful Collection of the Finest English Lyrics Palgrave’s Golden Treasury and “Second Series” In Beautiful Polished Tree Calf by Morrell of London 68 Palgrave, Francis T. THE GOLDEN TREASURY. Selected From the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and Arranged With Notes [With] THE GOLDEN TREASURY... SECOND SERIES (London: Macmillan and Co., 1904, 1905) Together two volumes. Revised and enlarged editions. Each with a decorated title-page in a delightful “chapbook” style. Volume 1 with an engraved vignette of a nude with panpipes and volume 2 with “The Muse and Her Genius” by Raphael Sanzio engraved in chiar’ oscuro. 12mo, in handsome English bindings of three-quarter dark green crushed morocco over marbled boards, the spines with raised bands, each volume lettered in gilt in one compartment, marbled end-leaves, t.e.g. [xii], 387; [x], 279 pp. A handsome and pleasing set, very well preserved.

HANDSOMELY BOUND AND VERY WELL PRESERVED. Palgrave’s delightful collections of English lyrical poetry contain many of the most beloved verses from well more than 100 of the best loved English poets from several centuries. Over 500 poems are included.

These lovely simple printings are very handsome in their presentation and the London binder Morrell’s beautifully styled bindings decorate this impression significantly. $295.

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Plato - The Republic - Designed by Bruce Rogers Illustrated by Fritz Kredel - Signed by Rogers and Kredel Limited to Only 1200 Copies - First Edition 69 Plato; [Rogers, Bruce, Designer]; [Limited Editions Club]. THE REPUBLIC. Translated out of the Greek by Benjamin Jowett. (New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1944) 2 volumes. LIMITED EDITION, designed and produced by Bruce Rogers and SIGNED by him and also by Fritz Kredel, one of only 1200 copies. Illustrated with medallions cut on wood by Fritz Kredel. 8vo, publisher’s original black French levant morocco over terracotta boards, the spines decorated with gilt medallions and black lettering, the covers pictorially decorated in the corners with stamped medallions by Fritz Kredel. 286; 622, pp. A very fine and near as pristine set, each volume protected in clear plastic covers.

DESIGNED BY BRUCE ROGERS AND ILLUSTRATED WITH A SERIES OF WOOD-CUT MEDALLIONS HEADING EACH SECTION

BY FRITZ KREDEL. Plato’s most important and certainly best-known dialogue, being an exposition of the principles on which an ideal state should be based. The concept of the Good, his notions of justice and virtue, and the Allegory of the Cave have influenced thinkers from Aristotle to Martin Luther King in his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” What’s more, Plato’s ideas of a meritocracy based on education and skill reflect the ideals of the modern nation state. In the end, however, Plato/Socrates will be known for commanding us to question ourselves, to awaken ourselves from apathy and stand up for what we believe. As the translator Hary Spens remarks, the study of Plato’s principles “may give us the knowledge of ourselves, and raise the mind to the sublimest contemplations.” $250.

Pogany Illustrations - The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam In the Publisher’s Original Peach Silk Cloth 70 [Pogany, Willy Illus.]; Fitzgerald, Edward, trans. Khayyam, Omar. THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM The First and Fourth Renderings in English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, ND (circa 1930s)) First edition thus, the American trade issue from the British sheets printed in Edinburgh.

Beautifully illustrated with 12 very fine full color tipped-in plates, and with 44 wonderful decorative woodcuts printed in black on gold foil and paste down, and with further incidental illustrations, all by artist Willy Pogany. 4to, publisher’s original peach silk lettered in gilt on the spine within elaborite gilt arabesque decoration, the upper cover gilt lettered and with black on gold woodblock pastedown. 171, [2] pp.

A handsome copy, internally very fresh and clean, especially so for this title, the cloth in nice shape with little or no wear but a bit of overall mellowing, and with the mild spotting caused by the glue used in production as is almost always the case.

A VERY PRETTY ISSUE OF THE POGANY ILLUSTRATED RUBAIYAT. An exquisite volume, based on Fitzgerald’s translations, Pogany has filled nearly every page with decorations, accompanied by 12 very fine full page tipped-in colour plates. The gold and black woodcuts bring a sense of richness and depth to the issue as well. $150.

Captain Nathaniel Portlock’s Voyage Round the World Discoveries of the Greatest Importance - 1789 71 Portlock, Captain Nathaniel. VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD; But More Particularly to the North-West Coast of America; Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon. (New York and Amsterdam: Da Capo Press / N. Israel, 1968) A fine facsimile of the original edition and the First Modern Reprint. Portrait frontispiece, 6 folding maps and charts, and 15 plates after the originals. 4to, bound in white polished parchment with royal-blue lettering labels gilt on the spine and upper cover. A very fine as pristine copy in original clear jacket.

FIRST OF THE EDITION. Both Portlock and Dixon were employed by the “King Geoge’s Sound Company” to secure furs on the Northwest coast of North America--Alaska, British Columbia, Vancouver, and Queen Charlotte Islands--which were to be sold in the China market. “In the furtherance of the trade the ships separated and worked independently of each other. Their voyages were important for the supplementary detail to be added to the geographical explorations of Cook. $125.

The Love Letters of a Nobel Prize Winner - First Edition Published in Italy - The Love Letters of Quasimodo 72 Quasimodo, Salvatore. LE LETTERE D’AMORE DI QUASIMODO. (Milan: Edizioni Apollinaire, 1969) First Edition, one of 1000 copies only. Profusely illustrated, with letters in reproduction by this Nobel Prize winner. 75 photographs and 40 love letters written to the dancer Maria Cumani. Folio, publisher’s original stiff printed wrappers, lettered in black on the upper cover and spine, and housed in the original slipcase. [228] pp. A fine copy in the original slipcase, a bit of light wear.

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FIRST EDITION. BEAUTIFULLY PRINTED IN MILAN, ITALY. With 75 photographs and reproductions of 40 love letters written to the dancer Maria Cumani in the 1930’s.

‘Traditional literary critique divides Quasimodo’s work into two major periods: the hermetic period until World War II and the post-hermetic era until his death. Although these periods are distinct, they are to be seen as a single poetical quest. This quest or exploration for a unique language took him through various stages and various modalities of expression.

As an intelligent and clever poet, Quasimodo used a hermetical, “closed” language to sketch recurring motifs like Sicily, religion and death.

Subsequently, the translation of authors from Roman and Greek Antiquity enabled him to extend his linguistic toolkit. The disgust and sense of absurdity of World War II also had its impact on the poet’s language. This bitterness, however, faded in his late writings, and was replaced by the mature voice of an old poet reflecting upon his world.

In the 1950s Quasimodo won the following awards: Premio San Babila (1950), Premio Etna-Taormina (1953), Premio Viareggio (1958) and, finally, the Nobel Prize for Literature (1959). In 1960 and 1967 he received honoris causa degrees from the Universities of Messina and Oxford, respectively.

In his last years the poet made numerous voyages to Europe and America, giving public speeches and public lectures of his poems, which had been translated in several foreign languages. $175.

Arthur Rackham’s Illustrated Tour de Force - 1909 Gulliver’s Travels - The Limited and Signed First Edition 73 [Rackham, Arthur, illus.] Swift, Johnathan. GULLIVER’S TRAVELS Into Several Remote Nations of the World (London: J.M. Dent and Co., 1909) LIMITED SIGNED LARGE-PAPER ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION, one of only 750 numbered copies SIGNED by Arthur Rackham. This being one of the 600 copies for sale in England. With 13 impressive colour plates, two black and white illustrations and several line drawings as chapter heading or tail pieces, all by Arthur Rackham. 4to, publisher’s original ivory buckram decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt on the front cover and the spine, t.e.g., others untrimmed, pictorially decorated endpapers with Rackham illustrations printed in gold, original rose silk ties. xv, 291pp. Internally a very good and fresh copy, the paper very clean and plates all very fine, the binding a bit shaken and neatly reinforced at the inside hinges both front and back, the ties lacking, the ivory cloth with the typical wear, somewhat dusty and mellowed.

THE SCARCE SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION, this being one of the copies reserved for sale in Great Britain. This fine deluxe issue included one additional colourplate not included in the trade issues.

Rackham has created a very special printing of Jonathan Swift’s 18th century satire. In 1899 an edition of this book had been issued with Rackham’s early drawings and no colour plates. As his reputation grew, the publisher asked for additional drawings and paintings and issued this new version.

Rackham created a fresh set of illustrations which employed high-contrast linear designs tinged with washes of subtle color. The result was a collection of powerful images with striking emotional contrasts, well-suited to the spectacular travels of Gulliver. Rackham was able to graphically depict Gulliver kneeling on the floor with the Lilliputian tailors gazing up at him while measuring him for a new suit. And in his painting, ‘Gulliver’s Combat With The Wasps’, he dramatically portrays a handful of huge wasps swirling menacingly around Gulliver’s teetering form. The trials, tribulations, and exploits of Gulliver’s travels are magnificently portrayed here by the master illustrator. $650.

Irish Fairy Tales - First Edition, Signed Deluxe Issue Imaginatively Illustrated by Arthur Rackham A Copy in Exceptional Condition 74 [Rackham, illus.] Stephens, James. IRISH FAIRY TALES (London: Macmillan, 1920) LIMITED FIRST EDITION, one of 520 numbered copies SIGNED by illustrator Arthur Rackham. With 16 very fine colour plates and 21 black and white illustrations within the text by Arthur Rackham. Large 4to, in the publisher’s original deluxe limited edition binding of vellum backed parchment covered boards, lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt on both upper cover and spine, t.e.g. Now housed in a fine custom clamshell box of maroon cloth over boards with a morocco label gilt lettered. x, 318 pp. A very fine copy, unusually bright and fresh, the binding clean, the covers and spine much brighter and more clean than is the usual. The textblock in fine order, the plates fresh and very well preserved. An excellent copy.

THE SCARCE FIRST EDITION, IN THE SIGNED LIMITED FORMAT AND IN A WONDERFUL STATE OF PRESERVATION. Rackham’s friend James Stephens wrote his collection of Irish Stories drawing from a rich oral tradition and also from the original Gaelic texts. He succeeded in presenting the old tales in a poetic and accessible form for the general modern reader. The collection is an excellent introduction to traditional Irish Fairy Stories and includes: The Story of Tuan Mac Cairill, The Boyhood of Fionn, The Carl of the Drab Coat, Mongan’s Frenzy, and many more.

Rackham brought forth another collection of dazzling and imaginative illustrations.

The Dublin Independent wrote a warm review of Rackham’s Irish Fairy Tales: “We read English tales with appreciation because pictures have familiarized us with English imagery. A Fenian tale lacks imagery because we have no art to give it colour and shape

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to what are presently only names. Some of Mr. Rackham’s pictures are pure poems - they set you dreaming.” $3850.

A Marvelous Copy of Mr. Pickwick - Limited First Edition Richly Illustrated by Frank Reynolds - Colourplates - Vellum 75 [Reynolds, Frank, Illus.]; Dickens, Charles. MR. PICKWICK Pages from The Pickwick Papers (London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1910]) First edition, the Deluxe Issue Limited to 350 copies only, Signed by the Artist. Illustrated with 25 tipped-in colour plates by Frank Reynolds with opaque lettered tissue guards and a colour vignette title page. Thick 4to, beautifully bound in bright white vellum lettered in gilt on spine and cover, with gilt and black pictorial decorations on the upper cover, top edge gilt, the others untrimmed, effectively a large paper copy. Still housed in the original and now rare publisher’s slipcase. xv, 174 pp. A fine and especially bright copy with just the slightest evidence of use, one tie lacking.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED AND VERY HANDSOMELY BOUND IN FULL WHITE VELLUM GILT. This fine gift edition of MR PICKWICK, is handsomely illustrated with Frank Reynolds’ magnificent illustrations. On these colourful and energetic pages, the exploits and antics of Pickwick, Tupman, Winkle, and Snodgrass come to life. For Dickens lovers, PICKWICK is often the favorite, filled as it is with delightful humor and adventure.

And surely, this illustrated edition will provide endless visual delight to its readers as they encounter the four members of the Corresponding Society of the Pickwick Club in their many amusing escapades.

Frank Reynolds was an important illustrator of the period, Art Editor of Punch and a member of the Royal Institute. $650.

Ancient Stone Crosses of England - Profusely Illustrated A Fine Copy in Original Gilt Decorated Cloth - 1875 76 Rimmer, Alfred. ANCIENT STONE CROSSES OF ENGLAND (London: Virtue and Co., 1875) First edition. Profusely decorated throughout with seventy-two woodcut illustrations. 8vo, in publisher’s original forest-green cloth with gilt lettering and pictorially decorative tooling to the spine and upper cover, fillet borders and corner tooling to the upper cover in black and to the lower cover in blind. xii, 159 pp. A fine copy, very handsomely preserved with very little evidence of age or use.

FIRST EDITION AND A CHARMING COPY OF THIS BOOK OF ANCIENT ENGLISH CROSSES. Rimmer explores the history, use, and locations of the ubiquitous Christian Crosses to be found throughout England and Scotland as well. A fascinating history of early Christian architecture. $100.

Highly Important Artwork from Significant Early Travels David Roberts - Temples at the Summit of Mt. Sinai From the Great Standard Folio Edition Limited to 500 Copies 77 Roberts, David; [Egypt]. Christian and Mahometan Chapels on the summit of Mt. Sinai [An Original Hand-Coloured Lithograph From] THE HOLY LAND, SYRIA, IDUMEA, ARABIA, EGYPT AND NUBIA (London: F.G. Moon and Co., 1845) From the Standard Folio First Edition, limited to 500 sets only. A single original hand-coloured lithographic plate drawn on stone by Louis Haghe after David Roberts’ paintings done on location in 1839. Printed on a half folio sheet 17” x 11”, the captioned image, is 14” x 10”, now presented in cream mounting boards 20” x 18” glazed behind clear mylar. Beautifully hand-coloured to the highest standards of the time. An example in excellent condition, clean, fresh, beautifully preserved.

FROM One of the most desirable of all travel and COLOURplate books. This is an excellent plate with the impressive content of one of the world’s great holy sites, according to Jewish, Christian, and Islamic tradition, the biblical Mount Sinai was the place where Moses received the Ten Commandments. An excellent plate with exceptional detail and depth of colour.

We have a good number of impressive images from the Standard Folio Edition of this classic work available for purchase. As well as many other views of Petra and Sinai there are also available views of Egypt,Tyre, Nubia, the Jordan, Sidon and Baalbec. Please inquire for further details.

Roberts set sail for Egypt on 31 August 1838, a few years after Owen Jones. His intent was to produce drawings that he could later use as the basis for the paintings and lithographs to sell to the public. Egypt was much in vogue at this time, and travellers, collectors and lovers of antiquities were keen to buy works inspired by the East or depicting the great monuments of ancient Egypt.

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Roberts made a long tour in Egypt, Nubia, the Sinai, the Holy Land, Jordan and Lebanon. Throughout, he produced a vast collection of drawings and watercolour sketches.

On his return to Britain, Roberts worked with lithographer Louis Haghe from 1842 to 1849 to produce these lavishly illustrated plates. He funded the work through advance subscriptions which he solicited directly. The scenery and monuments of Egypt and Holy Land were fashionable but had hitherto been hardly touched by British artists, and so Roberts quickly accumulated 400 subscription commitments, with Queen Victoria being subscriber No. 1. $400.

With the Very Beautiful Illustrations of W. Heath Robinson First Edition - Rudyard Kipling - A Song of the English 78 [Robinson, W. Heath, illus.]; Kipling, Rudyard. A SONG OF THE ENGLISH (London: Hodder and Stougton, [1909]) First edition.

With 30 color plates tipped-in within ornamental borders, and with black and white drawings on almost every page, all by W. Heath Robinson. Large 4to, original royal blue cloth lettered and elaborately decorated in gilt with fine pictorial designs on the upper cover and spine. A fine and very bright, beautifully preserved copy of this lovely book, the textblock clean and the plates all pristine, the cloth and gilt in excellent condition.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS VERY BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED WORK BY RUDYARD KIPLING. THE W. HEATH ROBINSON ILLUSTRATIONS ARE SUPERB BY ANY MEASURE. The trade edition of this volume was issued to benefit the “Daily Telegraph” National Bands Fund, and includes the text of a speech given by Kipling on the subject: “From the lowest point of view, a few drums and fifes in a battalion are worth five extra miles on a route march.” Robinson’s highly sensuous illustrations perfectly complement Kipling’s poems of British seafaring around the world. The grand poem, SONG OF THE ENGLISH is followed by six subsidiary poems likely composed while the Kiplings were living in Vermont.

The theme underlying much of this collection is that the English are the Chosen under the Lord. This is one of Kipling’s earliest verses specifically setting out his vision of the British Empire, and the duties which it imposes on the English people. His definition of ‘the English’ is wide, certainly embracing the people of the overseas Empire, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, but arguably also the Americans among whom he lived in the years working on the collection. $750.

Roscoe’s Great Work - The Life of Lorenzo De’ Medici First Edition - 1795 - London - Handsomely Bound Including the Poems of Lorenzo the Magnificent Illustrated Throughout with Fine Engravings 79 Roscoe, William. THE LIFE OF LORENZO DE MEDICI CALLED THE MAGNIFICENT (London: Printed for A. Strahan; T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1797) 2 volumes. Early Printing of this important work. Illustrated throughout with engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved vignettes on title pages, engraved chapter heads. 4to, contemporary full polished speckled calf, the spine decorated with multi-ruled gilt bands and lettered in gilt on a black morocco lettered label.

Gilt rules to the boards. Marbled edges. xxvi, (2), 320, 136 appendix; (2), 312, 48 Poesie [Poems of Lorenzo], 111 appendix, 11 index. A handsome set, very clean internally. Some rubbing to the calf.

AN IMPORTANT CLASSIC, HANDSOMELY BOUND. The principal work in the author’s long history of historical writings. Roscoe began publishing this at his own expense in 1793, with the first edition produced in February of 1796 (though marked as 1795). This volume drew great attention both in England and abroad, and went into many subsequent editions.

Included are two appendix of documents in the original Italian and Latin and a number of poems in Italian. $1650.

Poems by Christina Rossetti Beautifully Illustrated by Florence Harrison 80 Rossetti, Christina, [Florence Harrison, Illus.]. POEMS BY CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (London: Blackie and Son Limited, 1910) First edition. Profusely illustrated with 36 color plates by Florence Harrison. 4to, publishers original white cloth, extensively decorated in gilt with an all-over elaborately designed illustration and lettering in gilt on the upper cover, the spine beautifully lettered and extensively decorated in gilt, also in an all-over design, t.e.g. xxiv, 369 pp. A very attractive copy, the plates all pristine and the text very fine, the white cloth with just a little expected evidence of handling.

A BEAUTIFUL COLLECTION OF ROSSETTI’S POEMS, BEAUTIFULLY PRESENTED IN A VERY ATTRACTIVE BINDING AND REPLETE WITH WONDERFUL ILLUSTRATIONS. Florence Harrison illustrated books by several notable notable Pre-Raphaelite circle poets.

Along with Christina Rossetti she also illustrated poems by William Morris and Sir Alfred Tennyson. This book in particular is an especially pleasing work in the oeuvre of illustrated books of the early 20th century. $1150.

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A Visit to the Roycrofters Community - 1907 With Vintage Photos and Laid in Ephemera The Book of the Roycrofters - First Edition - Very Pleasing 81 [Roycrofters] Farrar, Francis, and Abigail. THE BOOK OF THE ROYCROFTERS ([East Aurora, NY.: By the Roycrofters at their shop, 1907]) First edition. With Roycrofters printed envelope laid-in. With a beautifully designed two-colour rose motif title-page, board cover, final leaf and large opening initial all designed by Dard Hunter, also with 22 tipped in black and white photographs of the Roycroft compound on heavy handmade stock with red printed captions and frames. Small folio (9 x 7 in.), original printed paper-covered boards backed in tan cloth. 17pp text plus photo-plates. A very pleasing copy, the stock used for the plates causing the usual offsetting on the facing pages of text stock, otherwise fine and very clean, the binding with very light age evidence, but a beautifully preserved copy nevertheless.

FIRST EDITION. A WONDERFUL WORK ON THE ROYCROFT ARTS AND CRAFTS COMMUNITY. The photographs of the community are especially interesting and show us the Roycroft Shop, Bindery, inn, rooms, blacksmith, furniture shop, etc. The community was founded in 1895

by Elbert Hubbard, a wealthy businessman who happened to meet William Morris while on a trip to England and hoped to duplicate in America much of what Morris had created.

The Roycroft community produced some of the finest hand-crafted furniture, books, lamps and metal work of the Arts and Crafts Movement. The community reflected the Movement’s ideals of art and craftsmanship as instruments of social reform in its organization as well as in its products. The high quality and unique artistry of the Roycroft creations made them very popular. But it was the business acumen and charismatic personality of its founder, Elbert Hubbard, that made Roycroft one of the most successful artistic enterprises of the Arts and Crafts era.

Hubbard edited and published two magazines, ‘The Philistine’ and ‘The Fra’. An envelope from the magazines’ advertising department is laid into this book. The book, like both of those publications, was probably used primarily as a fundraising tool for the community. $395.

The Dramatic Works and Poems An Early American Issue of Shakespeare’s Plays - 1833 Handsomely Bound in Period Decorated Full Calf Gilt 82 Shakespeare, William. THE DRAMATIC WORKS AND POEMS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy left by the late George Stevens, Esq., with a Glossary and Notes, and a Sketch of The Life of Shakespeare.

(Hartford: Andrus & Judd, 1833) 2 volumes. A very early American issue. Engraved frontispiece of the Bard and many black and white engravings throughout and for each play. Tall 8vo, contemporary full polished American calf, the spine with bands gilt lined elaborately tooled in gilt, lettered in gilt in two compartments, marbled endleaves, the covers with double gilt fillet rules at the borders. v, 466; 478pp + glossary. A very handsome and attractive early American issuance of Shakespeare’s works, with only light aging and very clean and crisp textblocks. An unusually well preserved set. The bindings in especially nice condition.

SCARCE AND EARLY AMERICAN PRINTING OF SHAKESPEARE IN UNUSUALLY HANDSOME STATE. A BEAUTIFUL SET INDEED. $1350.

The Chiswick Edition of 1823 Beautifully Bound in Full Straight-Grain Morocco The Dramatic Works of William Shakespere 83 Shakespeare, William. THE DRAMATIC WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, WITH A GLOSSARY. (Chiswick: C. Whittingham, 1823) First edition thus. Additional woodcut title, vignette on printed title, and cul-de-lampe. 8vo, a beautiful edition in contemporary straight-grained maroon morocco; richly gilt with blind stamped flower borders on upper and lower covers; gilt floral designs between raised, gilt stamped bands on spine and gilt lettering; edges beautifully gilt and gauffered; soft purple endpapers. 2 ff, 666 pp. A fine, elegant edition in excellent condition.

A FINE COPY OF SHAKESPEARE’S WORKS. Charles Whittingham was the “‘uncle’, printer and founder of the Chiswick Press.” However, even before setting up this press, Whittingham had set precedents in printing, typography, types of paper used and for being the “‘first printer to develop fully the overlaying of wood engravings for book illustration,’ and was the first to print woodcuts perfectly.” [Dict of Nat’l Bio] Whittingham also distinguished himself for producing compact editions of authors put out by rival booksellers for less money. Thus, he made it possible for more people to read contemporary authors.

A very beautiful and complete edition. This binding is in the style of the best London binders of the period. Jaggard, Shakespeare, p. 514 $1050.

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Shakespeare’s Plays - A Fine Staunton-Routledge Printing A Handsome Set with Charming Illustrations - 1858 84 Shakespeare, William. THE PLAYS OF SHAKESPEARE. (London: George Routledge & Co. Farringdon Street, 1858) 3 volumes. First edition edited by Howard Staunton and illustrated by John Gilbert. Engraved frontispiece of the Bard and a great profusion of engraved illustrations throughout, both within the text and as full page plates. 8vo, original midnight-blue three-quarter morocco edged in gold over pebbled cloth boards, spines richly gilt, separated into compartments with gilt lettering, gilt ruled raised bands, and elaborately decorated gilt panel designs within the compartments, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. lxviii, 746; 768; 816 pp. A fine set, all gilt and all bindingsstill very handsome and bright, with only expected minor foxing to the prelims.

A HANDSOME SET INDEED. Staunton has painstakingly researched Shakespeare’s original language and manuscripts (when possible) in an attempt to wrap himself around the Bard’s mind, “to explain his obscurities, to disentangle his intricacies and to illustrate his allusions” [preface].

The result is a well-glossed and intelligently edited set of Shakespeare’s plays, complete with an extensive biographical section about Shakespeare, miscellaneous documents relating to his estate, and a reprint of his famous will in which he bequeaths to his wife his “second best bed, with the furniture.”

This edition also contains a plethora of intricate and delightful illustrations by John Gilbert. A truly beautiful set. $1250.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare An Exquisite Copy in Very Beautiful Full Gilt Binding 85 Shakespeare, William; [Craig, W.J.]. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (London: Oxford University Press, 1935) Early printing of the edition. Illustrated with a black and white frontispiece of Shakespeare. 8vo, beautifully bound in full dark-green crushed morocco, the spine with raised bands richly gilt, separating compartments with fully gilt panels incorporated broad central gilt tools and elaborate borders, one compartment lettered in gilt, the covers fully gilt with elaborately tooled borders enclosing very finely and broadly tooled inner designs in gilt, all edges gilt, end-leaves of fine marbled paper. 1352 pp. including a very extensive glossary. A very fine copy, especially well preserved, very handsome and a beautifully bound book.

A WONDERFUL COLLECTION OF THE COMPLETE WORKS OF THE VENERABLE BARD. Besides of full complement of the plays, the Sonnets and the longer poems are all included. There is a fine glossary, an index of first lines, and an index of characters. $695.

The Superb Printing by the Shakespeare Head Press The Works of Shakespeare Stratford-on-Avon - 1904 - Very Handsomely Bound 86 [Shakespeare Head Press] Shakespeare, William.

THE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (Stratford-On-Avon: The Shakespeare Head Press, 1904) 10 volumes. First Edition printed by the Shakespeare Head Press. Limited and Numbered, this being copy number 131. Illustrated with the Droeshout and Chandos portraits as frontispieces as well as the additional gravure frontispieces of known portraits of Shakespeare to every volume.

4to, beautifully bound in three-quarter red morocco

by Bayntun of Bath. The spines are decorated with panel designs separated by raised bands gilt stopped, two compartments lettered in gilt, t.e.g. A very fine and very handsome copy of this beautifully printed work.

FIRST AND BEST EDITION PRODUCED BY THE SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS IN STRATFORD-ONAVON. The Shakespeare Head Press was the dream child of A. H. Bullen, who wished to produce beautiful editions of Shakespeare’s works-- set, printed and bound in the famed author’s home town of Stratford-Upon-Avon. The press expanded significantly over the years and printed many wonderful editions by a plethora of writers.

The books were printed for A.H. Bullen and F. Sidgwick at the press, in the house of Julius Shaw the poet’s friend and one of the witnesses to his will.

The text with essays by H.C. Beeching, Robert Bridges, Henry Davey, E.K. Chambers, J.J. Jusserand and M.H. Spielmann. The type was composed under the supervision of T.E. Summerton. The whole was printed by F.S. Cooper. The work was begun in July, 1904 and finished in January 1907.

Colin Franklin, writing in THE PRIVATE PRESSES, says that in the years after the death of A. H. Bullen (the Press’s founder), the Shakespeare Head Press “became the most mature and sophisticated of the private presses, producing some works in the grand manner which are a great pleasure to read and examine now” (p. 147). This set indeed is “in the grand manner,” beautifully printed on fine paper, and very handsomely bound and presented.

This is a very pleasing binding from the period before Bayntun and Riviere were joined as a bookbinding concern. Such bindings are rarely seen in the marketplace preceding as they do, those of the joined firms. $6500.

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The Very Scarce Limited Printing of The Shriners’ History A Very Fine Set of These Beautifully Illustrated Volumes History of Aleppo Temple - 1915 - First Edition 87 [Shriners; Aleppo Temple; Hall], E. J.]. HISTORY OF ALEPPO TEMPLE Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Preceded by History of the Ancient Arabic Order and History of the Imperial Council Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America (Boston: Hall Publishing Company, 1915) 2 volumes. First and only edition, numbered and limited. Extensively illustrated.

Volume 1 includes two large and handsome tipped-in lithographic plates in full colour, images of Near Eastern sites and events, and an extensive number of portraits, many embellished in red, of organizers of the Order of Shriners, pioneers and first officials of the Order, Imperial Council officers and Nobles of the Aleppo Temple. The Volume 2 includes views of Syria, Aleppo and Boston, colour portraits of Potentates embellished with gilt, additional portraits embellished in red, and many more scenes, portraits, plans, etc., several of which are in colour or colour embellished. Folio, in the original brown ribbed and embossed cloth, the upper covers with vivid pictorial decoration and lettering in gilt, the spines gilt lettered, pictorial endpapers. xiv, 516, p. xvii-xxi p. Vol. II: viii, p. 577-1039. A superior copy, very fine, very bright and unusually well preserved, the interior clean and fresh, the cloth essentially without wear or fading, the hinges firm and strong.

THE VERY SCARCE AND IMPRESSIVE FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF THIS HISTORY OF ALEPPO TEMPLE AND THE Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, now known as Shriners International. This set with both of the fine tipped in colour lithographic plates which are sometime lacking. These are “‘The Pilgrimage to Mecca”’ and ‘An Outpost on Guard’. There are extensive portraits of order members in their festive red fezzes, which are often printed in red over their black and white portraits. Large full page portraits are found of important Freemason founders of the order, such as Walter M. Fleming, M.D., and actor William J. Florence.

Despite its Orientalist theme, the Shrine is a men’s fraternity, not connected to either Arab culture or Islam. Its only religious requirement is that as Masons members must profess a belief in a Supreme Being. $850.

First Edition of A Significant Ornithological Work Charles Stonham - The Birds of the British Islands Handsomely Bound by Bumpus in Green Morocco 88 Stonham, Charles. THE BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS. Illustrated by Lillian M. Medland (London: E. Grant Richards, 1906-1911) 5 volumes. First editions. With 318 superb engraved plates by Lilian M. Medland with captioned tissue-guards, 2 full-page anatomical woodcuts printed in red and black, and 2 coloured folding engraved maps. Large 4to, bound by Bumpus in contemporary three-quarter green morocco over green cloth covered boards, the spines pleasantly toned to honey-brown, spines with tall raised bands ruled in bind, lettered in gilt in two compartments, t.e.g. A handsome set, there is some extremely minor toning or spotting almost entirely confined to the prelims and occasionally on the very outer edges of the margins but otherwise the books are internally fresh and clean, the fine Bumpus bindings with some general age rubbing mainly to the corner-pieces, the books are solid and firm and still very attractive.

FIRST EDITION AND AN IMPORTANT WORK. A SCARCE COMPLETE SET, INCLUDING THE SUBSCRIBER’S LIST AT THE END OF VOLUME V. The work was originally published in 20 monthly parts, this set must have been bound by Bumpus almost immediately after the publication of the final part.

Lillian M. Medland was a leading British Ornithological artist and, although also being well know for her extensive work on Australian Birds, BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS is her masterpiece. She was married to distinguished ornithologist Tom Iredale and also worked with G.M. Mathews.

Though best known for Ms. Meldland’s plates, the book is also well organized, authoritative and full of useful information. $2500.

The Lake of Geneva - 1909 - A Scarce and Elusive Work A Beautifully Illustrated A. & C. Black Travel Book 89 [Switzerland & France] Gribble, Francis and Lewis J. Hardwicke and May Hardwicke. THE LAKE OF GENEVA Painted by J. Hardwicke Lewis and May Hardwicke Lewis Described by Francis Gribble (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1909) First Edition. The most elusive book in the series published by A. and C. Black. Only one third as many copies were printed as normal. With sixty very fine colour plates by either J. or May Hardwicke Lewis and with a folding map. Large 8vo, in the original blue cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in light blue and cream on both the upper cover and spine. x, 360pp., 4pp. ads. A very bright and clean copy, internally very

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fine but for the lightest of mellowing, the cloth attractive and fresh with only a little light wear at the corners and spine tips.

FIRST EDITION AND ONE OF THE VERY BEAUTIFUL TRAVEL BOOKS OF ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK. This title takes us to one of the largest lakes in Western Europe and features chapters on the towns and villages along both the Swiss and French shores. The writings are richly brought to like by the artistic team of John and May Hardwicke Lewis, who provide a full suite of 60 wonderful colourplates. $325.

Arthur Szyk’s Largest and Most Majestic Illuminated Masterpiece The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America The Scarce Broadside Printing in Full Colour 90 [Szyk, Arthur, Artist]. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA [Fine Art Print, The Historic Work to Celebrate Szyk’s Adoptive Home of America.] (New Canaan, CT.: Julia Szyk, 1953) The second and posthumous printing of Szyk’s patriotic masterpiece authorized by his wife Julia. Beautifully done in the style of a medieval manuscript but with more modern themes and imagery. The document with which the fledgling United States proclaimed its independence from Great Britain, this illumination features a portrait of George Washington, scenes of the Revolutionary War, and national symbols such as the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, and the bald eagle. The complete text of the Declaration of Independence is framed by iconic elements excerpted from the great seals and flags of the U.S. states and territories: 41 along the top and right, 13 others adjacent to the names of the Declaration’s signers. The Image measures 19 inches x 15 1/2 inches on paper 25 inches x 19 inches. In very fine condition.

THE SCARCE PRINTING OF SZYK’S LARGEST AND MOST MAJESTIC ILLUMINATION. Polish born Jewish artist Arthur Szyk originally gained popularity through his World War II caricatures, in which he often depicted the leaders of the Axis powers. After the war, he devoted himself to political issues in his beloved new home of America. Szyk’s profound respect for America, its history, and its people culminate in this majestic illumination of one of the nation’s most important documents. The original artwork of The Declaration was dedicated in New Canaan, Connecticut, in a festive celebration on July 4, 1950; it is the largest of all Szyk’s illuminations and was one of his last works before his death in 1951.

Alongside the signers of the Declaration Szyk provides a visual history of the United States flag. The left column shows three flags said to have flown during the Revolutionary War. The predominantly blue one is called the Bunker Hill flag, whose upper left corner contains symbols both of new country (the pine tree) and of Great Britain (St. George’s cross). The pine tree appears also on the flag below with the phrase “An Appeal to Heaven.” Adopted in 1775, this banner was designed by George Washington’s secretary, Colonel Joseph Reed. The pine tree is prominent because it was a longtime symbol of New England, and sacred to the Native Americans. “An Appeal to Heaven” is a reference to John Locke’s political writings which defended the right to revolt. The Gadsden flag (designed by General Christopher Gadsden) features a rattlesnake and the words “Don’t Tread On Me.” The rattlesnake, like the bald eagle, is unique to America and representative in that its rattles, like the U.S. states, come together to sound warning when disturbed and while it will not attack unless provoked, its strike is deadly.

The right column is topped by the Continental Colors flag (also known as the Grand Union flag). Considered the first U.S. flag bearing resemblance to the Stars and Stripes, it combines Great Britain’s Union Jack in the upper left with the stripes of the United States, and was in use from December 1775 to June 1777. Below is the famous Betsy Ross flag, in use from June 1777 through May 1795. Last, but not least, is the nation’s flag in its contemporary form.

It is said that this work and his Proclamation on the Statehood of Israel hung side by side in the Szyk household until his death in 1951. $350.

Proclamation of the Establishment of the State of Israel The Commemorative Lithograph by Arthur Szyk 91 [Szyk, Arthur, Artist]. PROCLAMATION OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL [Fine Art Print, The Historic Lithograph to Commemorate Jewish Statehood.] (New Canaan, CT.: Arthur Szyk, 1948) An original lithograph by the artist, Arthur Szyk, plate signed “Arthur Szyk, New Canaan, 1948.” Beautifully done in the style of a medieval manuscript but with modern themes and imagery. The renowned historic proclamation is illuminated in numerous colours and exquisite details. The central Hebrew text of the Declaration is surrounded by miniature vignettes telling of both Jewish history and the newborn State of Israel. The images include Moses, with his brother Aaron the High Priest and the warrior Hur; Ezekiel, the prophet who called for restoration to the Land; skulls and bones as a reminder of the Holocaust; King David, the first King of the Jewish People in Jerusalem; and the symbols of the twelve tribes of Israel; the present day is represented with the pioneer (chalutz) who sows the land on the right and the soldier who defends the land on the left. The image measures 14 inches x 18 1/2 inches on paper 16 1/2 inches x 21 inches, accompanied by a copy of the original English

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translation as issued at the time of printing. The lithograph and English translation all are in very fine condition.

THE SCARCE LITHOGRAPHIC PRODUCTION OF SZYK’S FAMOUS COMMEMORATIVE OF THE PROCLAMATION OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL. Polish born Jewish artist Arthur Szyk originally gained popularity through his World War II caricatures, in which he often depicted the leaders of the Axis powers. After the war, he devoted himself to political issues, such as supporting the creation of Israel. He first visited Israel in 1914 from his native Poland and after permanently resettling in America became the leading activist artist in America to help the cause of bringing about the State of Israel.

In her memoirs, Julia Szyk records that on the day the independence of the Jewish state was declared, her husband wept and then sat down to begin this masterwork, devoting more than six months to its completion, the lithographs were printed within the first year of Statehood. It is said that this work and his completed Declaration of Independence of the United States hung side by side in the Szyk household until his death in 1951. $350.

Handsomely Bound - Morte D’Arthur - The Idylls of the King Tennyson’s Great Work on King Arthur - 1873 92 Tennyson, Alfred. IDYLLS OF THE KING (London: Strahan & Co., 1873) A fine early printing handsomely bound and presented.

8vo, beautifully presented in a deluxe binding of full pebbled red morocco, the upper cover lettered in gilt and with small gilt tool within a triple-blind-ruled framework with floral corner-pieces, the spine with raised bands triple-ruled in blind and gilt lettered in one compartment, blind tooled turn-ins and a.e.g. viii, 261 pp. A very fine and very pleasing copy, the binding very handsome and especially well preserved, the text-block in excellent order.

A VERY ATTRACTIVE EARLY EDITION OF THE FIRST FOUR POEMS OF HIS FAMOUS IDYLLS OF THE KING CYCLE, which would eventually comprise twelve narrative poems and which was not finished until 1885. As in the first edition, this collection contains, ‘Enid’, ‘Vivien’, ‘Elaine’ and ‘Guinevere’.

Tennyson remains one of the most popular British poets. The ‘Idylls’ were based on the Arthurian legends, and retell the story of King Arthur, his knights, his love for Guinevere and her tragic betrayal of him in blank verse. The dramatic narratives are not an epic either in structure or tone, but derive elegiac sadness in the style of the idylls of Theocritus. ‘Idylls of the King’ is often read as an allegory of the societal conflicts in Britain during the mid-Victorian era. $195.

Henry David Thoreau - Walden - First Edition A Highlight of American Renaissance Thought A Clean and Handsome Copy of an Iconic Work - 1854 93 Thoreau, Henry David. WALDEN, Or, Life In the Woods (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854) First edition, first state of the text, September ads (the various ads are of “no known bibliographical significance” -BAL, 20106). Illustrated with the map of Walden Pond printed on a separate leaf and inserted at p. 307 and with title vignette of the cabin in the woods. 8vo, publisher’s original brown cloth lettered in gilt and ruled in blind on spine, bordered and decorated in blind on all covers. 357, [8 ads} pp. A handsome copy of this important work, internally very pleasing and very fresh and essentially free of the browning which so often effects this title, the binding with gentle and expert restoration at the head and tail of the spine and with a little touching up of the tips but with brighter gilt then is typically seen and with sturdy, solid hinges..

HIGHLY IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION OF A SEMINAL WORK IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. WALDEN IS AN ICONIC BOOK and it has taken its place as one of the greatest books of American literature and a highlight of American thought. In attempting an experiment in simple living Thoreau became the embodiment of the American quest for the spiritual over the material; and his book, ostensibly a simple record of his experiment, has earned the reputation as a work of great philosophical import.

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

Walden is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance. By immersing himself in nature, Thoreau hoped to gain a more objective understanding of society through personal introspection. Simple living and self-sufficiency were Thoreau’s other goals, and the whole project was inspired by transcendentalist philosophy, a central theme of the American Romantic Period. As Thoreau made clear in his book, his cabin was not in the wilderness, but at the edge of town, only about two miles from his family home. $9500.

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An Artist in Italy - Limited and Signed by the Artist In the Publisher’s Deluxe Full Vellum Binding The Best Issue of this Exceptionally Beautiful Book 94 Tyndale, Walter. AN ARTIST IN ITALY (London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1913)) Limited deluxe First Edition, number 29 of 250 hand-numbered copies SIGNED

BY WALTER TYNDALE. Illustrated throughout with 26 very beautiful tipped in full-page coloured plates with tissue guards from paintings by Walter Tyndale. 4to, publisher’s original limited issue deluxe binding of full white vellum beautifully decorated with elaborate all over pictorial designs and border decorations in a Venetian motif done in vivid gilt on the spine and the upper cover, t.e.g., Venetian decorated endpapers, ties lacking. (xvi), 307, (1). A lovely copy of the scarce limited issue, vellum only lightly aged not unpleasantly, the text with mild toning and occasional minor spotting as is always found on this title, the colour plates all pristine and perfect with tissue guards.

FIRST EDITION, THE DELUXE AND BEST ISSUE LIMITED TO 250 COPIES OF THIS EXCEPTIONALLY BEAUTIFUL BOOK AND AN OUTSTANDING COPY. AN ARTIST IN ITALY is one of the finest examples of the decorative travel gift books of the period. Tall and handsome with extensive text and reminiscences it is none the less best loved for the absolutely marvelous colour plates. They portray not only natural and manmade beauties but also capture the spirit, the “feel”, of this timeless sea-bound peninsula.

Tyndale’s work is to do chiefly with Venice and the hill towns of Tuscany, high among the most beautiful areas in all of Italy, or for that matter, in all of Europe. The paintings, reproduced so competently in this large volume, are a record of those places and of the treasures they contain in the way of architecture, art and environment. $750.

Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass The Fine Limited Folio Edition - A Beautiful Printing 94 Whitman, Walt. LEAVES OF GRASS (Mount Vernon, NY: The Peter Pauper Press, n.d.) Commemorative edition limited to 1100 hand-numbered copies, this being copy 22. With woodcuts by Boyd Hanna, printed directly from the block. Printed on mouldmade paper specially produced for this book by the Hurlbut Paper Company. Folio, very handsomely bound in the publisher’s half brown morocco over patterned boards decorated in a “grass” motif, elaborately designed lettering in gilt on the spine. In the original slipcase of stiff boards covered by blue paper and with a cream paper lettering label printed in brown. [viii], 400, [3]. A fine and bright copy essentially as pristine and mint internally, the binding in excellent condition, only the slipcase shows some light wear. An especially pleasing copy.

A BEAUTIFUL PRINTING OF THIS CORNERSTONE WORK IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. This very attractive edition of LEAVES OF GRASS, arguably the greatest work of poetry by an American author contains the complete poems following the arrangement of the edition of 1891-1892. Hanna’s powerful charcoal-style illustrations in burnt umber are both a pleasing and a moving addition to this great work of poetry. The Peter Pauper Press had great influence on the Fine Press Movement in America. Their works are an excellent combination of quality type, printing, artwork and materials. This production of Whitman’s great work is a truly impressively designed printing and may well be the finest achievement of the Press.

This edition of LEAVES OF GRASS contains the final revisions of Whitman’s body of poems--he died shortly before the release of the first issue in 1892 ---and has been the format for most standard editions since. Whitman’s LEAVES OF GRASS portrayed America at the crossroads between an old world, soon to be caste off, and the new world of our future present.

“Always the champion of the common man, Whitman is both the poet and the prophet of democracy. The whole of LEAVES OF GRASS is imbued with the spirit of brotherhood and a pride in the democracy of the young American nation. In a sense, it is America’s second Declaration of Independence: that of 1776 was political, this of 1855 intellectual. ...The poems are saturated ‘with a vehemence of pride and audacity of freedom necessary to loosen the mind of still-to-be-formed America from the folds, the superstitions, and all the long, tenacious, and stifling anti-democratic authorities of Asiatic and European past’. To the young nation, only just becoming aware of an individual literary identity distinct from its European origins, Whitman’s message and his outspoken confidence came at a decisive moment.

“LEAVES OF GRASS was Whitman’s favorite child. From the time of its original publication until the year of his death, he continued revising and enlarging it. If (his) reputation has fluctuated over the years and his position among, if indeed not at the head of, the list of great American poets was not assured until some time after his death, there was never any doubt of the matter in his own mind. ‘I know I am deathless’, he wrote. ‘Whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait.’ Time has vindicated his conviction.” PMM Myerson C89 $1250.

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Miriam Macgregor’s Wonderful Pochoirs Hand-Coloured One of Only 100 Copies Ever Produced 95 [Whittington Press] Macgregor, Miriam. NEW CASTLE A Brief Encounter (Risbury, Herefordshire: The Whittington Press, 1998) FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND NUMBERED AND LIMITED, one of only 100 copies, and the only issue as no trade edition has been printed. With eleven beautiful hand stenciled pochoir illustrations coloured in watercolours by artist Miriam Macgregor, and with one initial in colours. 4to, in the original binding by the Fine Bindery of artist designed brick-red paper over boards, hand-stenciled in a pattern resembling brick paving stones, in the original slipcase. 12 ff, unpaginated. A pristine and perfect as new copy of this lovely book.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED AND SIGNED. A VERY BEAUTIFUL AND SCARCE CONTEMPORARY EXAMPLE OF POCHOIR AND WATERCOLOUR ILLUSTRATION. Macgregor and the Whittington Press have jointed talents to produce a book that can stand proudly beside the wonderful art deco period productions of the Curwen Press. These lovingly hand-coloured pages capture Ms. Macregor’s impressions in both words and images of her brief visit to New Castle, Delaware, to attend the Oak Knoll Fest, a bi-annual celebration of book arts, fine press, and beautiful books.

The text was hand-set in 14 point Walbaum and was printed at Whittington on heavy Zerkall mould-made paper. Macgregor’s eleven pochoir illustrations include four that are full page and one that is a two page spread. $850.

One of Only 50 Copies With the Extra Portfolio of Prints The Whittington Press - A Fine Press Gem 96 [Whittington Press] Macgregor, Miriam. WHITTINGTON Aspects of a Cotswold Village (Risbury, Herefordshire: The Whittington Press, May, 1991) FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND NUMBERED AND LIMITED, one of only 50 copies specially bound and including a portfolio of hand pressed and initialed woodcut prints by the Author/Artist. Including the normal copies, only 350 copies were produced. With 34 beautiful woodcut engravings by artist Miriam Macgregor, one of which is printed in colours, and with a view of Whittington.

Also with the portfolio containing the twelve woodcuts printed and initialed by Macgregor and a large folding panoramic woodcut in colours (the dustjacket design of the cloth-bound copies) which is signed by Macgregor. 4to, in the original binding exclusive to the fifty deluxe copies of gray-green paper-covered boards backed in fine brick red morocco, the spine gilt lettered, the portfolio in a binding of brown paper-covered boards, both housed together in the original slipcase. 24 ff., + unpaginated full-page plates + plates in portfolio. A pristine and perfect set, the book and portfolio both as mint, the slipcase also pristine.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED, SIGNED AND NUMBERED. A VERY BEAUTIFUL AND SCARCE WORK BY A CONTEMPORARY MASTER OF WOODBLOCK ENGRAVING AND PRINTING. Macgregor and the Whittington Press have again joined talents to produce a book that can stand proudly beside the Fine Press books of decades long past. These lovingly hand-printed pages capture Ms. Macgregor’s impressions of Whittington, the home of the Whittington Press and Macgregor’s occupation. She began working at the press in 1972 as a compositor and wood-engraver but has since also ventured into the art of pochoir. Wood engravings by Miriam MacGregor highlight the greatest of intricacies. Cats and nature and the varied aspects of country life are favored subjects, where workers are often captured mid-task and one can almost hear the village bustling with life and activity.

The text is set in 12 point Bell and was printed at Whittington on fine Zerkall mould-made paper. $950.

A Book of Posters Printed at Whittington This Being One of Fifty With 25 Original Posters Included Limited to Only 50 Copies in Thus 97 [Whittington Press] Randle, John. A BOOK OF POSTERS PRINTED AT WHITTINGTON With an Introduction by John Randle (Risbury, Herefordshire: Whittington Press, 1996) 2 volumes. First Edition, LIMITED TO ONLY 50 HANDNUMBERED COPIES, the “B” collection numbered 51-100 and containing 25 tipped in posters. With wood engravings on the half-title and colophon by Hellmuth Weissenborn along with the 20 tipped-in posters on various papers, many of which printed in colours, many are large and fold out.

Super folio, in the original binding by the Fine Book Bindery of half buckram over paper covered boards with woodblock on upper cover, coloured endpapers, contained in the original matching slipcase. 6, [1] + posters preceded by captioned leaves pp. A very fine copy, pristine and perfect. As mint.

FIRST EDITION. A BEAUTIFUL PRODUCTION AND VERY SCARCE DUE TO VERY LIMITED NUMBER PRODUCED. The Whittington Press produces posters mostly as a form of distraction from their more complex projects and typically in very small numbers. Over time these have become an important tool for spreading word of the Press’ activities and goals. This collection includes posters printed between 1979 and 1995, and has been selected to display the great variety of typefaces and papers used by the press. $950.

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Posters From Whittington Press - 1996 - 2013 One of Sixty Copies Only With 30 Posters Included A Fine Press Gem of a Collection 98 [Whittington Press] Randle, John and Patrick, Compilers. POSTERS FROM WHITTINGTON 1996 - 2013 With an Introduction by John and Patrick Randle (Risbury, Herefordshire: Whittington Press, 2013) First Edition, ONE OF ONLY 60 COPIES WITH 30 POSTERS INCLUDED. Including the normal copies, only 140 HANDNUMBERED COPIES were issued. Included with this copy is also the publisher’s large illustrated prospectus with tipped-in specimen sheet. With wood engravings on the half-title and colophon by Hellmuth Weissenborn along with the 30 tipped-in posters on various papers, many of which printed in colours, many are large and fold out. Super folio, in the original binding by the Fine Book Bindery of half buckram over paper boards with woodblock on upper cover, coloured endpapers, the book is contained in a folding chemise-style case with silk ties. 2 + posters preceded by captioned leaves pp. A very fine copy, pristine and as from the press.

A BEAUTIFUL PRODUCTION AND VERY SCARCE DUE TO THE VERY LIMITED NUMBER PRODUCED. The Whittington Press produces posters mostly as a form of distraction from their more complex projects and typically in very small numbers. Over time these have become an important tool for spreading word of the Press’ activities and goals. In the eighteen years of printing and design represented in this collection the Press produced approximately 150 posters, but selected the 30 with the greatest variety of typefaces and papers to be collected here. $1150.

Superb Dark Green Morocco by Bayntun-Riviere of Bath The Medici - Colonel G.F. Young’s Classic Work The Best Biography of the Great Renaissance Family 99 Young, Colonel G. F. THE MEDICI (London: John Murray, 1930) 2 volumes. An early printing, with the January, 1930 imprint, but using the original English sheets. With over 100 illustrations from numerous sources on finely produced black and white plates, and with 2 folding genealogical charts. Tall, thick 8vos, very finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere of Bath in signed contemporary three-quarter dark green morocco over green cloth, all covers with a gilt fillet lines at the borders of the morocco, the spines with six gilt framed compartments separated by raised bands gilt stopped, four compartments with gilt central fleur-de-lis and two gilt lettered, additional gilt rules at the head and tails and additional gilt lettering at the tail, endpapers marbled, t.e.g. xxix, 538; xii, 576 pp. A very fine, clean, bright and handsome set, very well preserved and unusually appealing.

AN IMPORTANT TEXT IN EXCELLENT SIGNED BINDINGS BY BAYNTUN-RIVIERE OF BATH, one of the most important bookbinding companies of the 19th and 20th centuries, famous for their materials and tooling used in binding. The elegance of the bindings is especially fitting to the subject.

This is considered the foremost biography of the Medicis, and is the first history of the whole family, rather than one dealing with only the very famous or infamous members. Leaders of the city-states of Italy, they were merchants, warriors and patrons of some of the most famous and influential artists of all time. The powerful Medici family shaped not only the history of Italy, but the history of the world.

They lie at the very center of all cause to the flowering of the Renaissance. $950.

Alone in the Forest - First Edition A Magical Fairy Tale by Isaac Bashevis Singer Illustrated With Fantastic Drawings by Margot Zemach 100 [Zemach, Illus.] Singer, Isaac Bashevis. ALONE IN THE WILD FOREST (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971) First edition.

With imaginative pencil drawings throughout by Margot Zemach. 8vo, publisher’s original brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. In the publisher’s dustjacket illustrated by Zemach. 80. A very nice copy, clean and fresh, the dustjacket is slightly faded at the spine and turnovers and and has a closed tear at the head of the dustjacket upper hinge.

A STORY OF ENCHANTMENT AND MAGIC FOR CHILDREN. Singer’s story is sure to captivate young reader’s with its spiritual tests and mysterious characters and adventures.

“Long ago, in the days of the saintly Bal Shem, lives a boy Joseph of Singer’s magical tale. Orphaned and alone, Joseph finds his life transformed when an angel he meets in the wild forest gives him an amulet that will bring him whatever he desires: a prayer book, bountiful meals, even an eagle which carries him to the kingdom of Good King Maltuch. Before he can win the hand of the Princess Chassidah, Joseph comes face to face with good and evil, in this world and in the world to come.”-Publisher $75.

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Select Index: Abbott, John S. C. 11 Abercrombie, John 17 Adams, Ansel 6 Aleppo Temple 38 Arabian Nights 14 Argonaut Press 12 Austen, Jane 6, 7 Basilisk Press 25 Bayntun of Bath 12, 37 Bayntun-Riviere 3, 16, 43 Beardsley, Aubrey 6 Bensusan, S. L. 30 Bible 13 Birds 38 Black, Adam & Charles 16, 1 7, 18, 21, 22, 24, 27 , 28, 29, 30, 31, 38 Black Sparrow Press 7 Blackwell, Basil 19 Blake, William 30 Brock, Charles 7 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett 7 Buckland Wright, John 15 Bukowski, Charles 7 Bullfighting 18 Bumpus Binding 38 Burne-Jones, Edward 25 Burns, Robert 8 Burton, Sir Richard F. 8, 9 Byron, Lord 9 Caldecott, Randolph 5 Carroll, Lewis 9 Cary, Henry Francis 12 Catlin, George 10 Catterson-Smith, Robert 25 Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de 10, 14 Chaucer, Geoffrey 25 Chiswick Press 36 Christmas 1, 2, 4, 5 Christopher, Milbourne 20 Civil War 11, 17, 26 Civil War Novel 16 Colouring Book 4 Columbus, Christopher 12, 21 Connett, Eugene V. 19 Cook, E. T. 17 Cooper, A. Heaton 21 Cotton, Charles 12 Country Life 23 Cowles, Captain Calvin D. 11 Cumani, Maria 32 Cundall, H. M. 16 Da Capo Press 30, 32 Dante Alighieri 12, 13 Davy, Sir Humphrey 16 (617) 536-4433

Declaration of Independence 39 Derrydale Press 19 Dickens, Charles 1, 3, 4, 34 Doré, Gustave 13, 14 Dow, George Francis 14 Doyle, Richard 2 Dulac, Edmund 14, 29 Durbar 29 Edinburgh (Scotland) 27 Edizioni Apollinaire 32 Edmonds, John Henry 14 Egypt 24, 34 Elgood, George S. 22 England 15, 17, 20, 22, 31, 34, 35 Farleigh, John 19 Farrar, Francis, & Abigail 36 Finden, W. 9 Fishing 16, 19 Fitzgerald, Edward 32 Fleece Press 15 Fly-Fishing 16 Forrest, A. S. 30 Foster, Birket 8, 16 France 28 Frazier, Charles 16 Fulleylove, John 27 Gardening 17, 22, 23 Geneva (Switzerland) 38 Gettysburg 17 Giannini & Son Publ. 26 Gilbert, John 37 Gill, Eric 31 Gordon, George 9 Grant, Ulysses S. 18 Greenaway, Kate 18 Gribble, Francis 38 Haghe, Louis 34 Hall, E. J. 38 Hanna, Boyd 41 Hardwicke, Lewis J. 38 Hardwicke May 38 Harrison, Florence 35 Hemingway, Ernest 18, 19 Henkel, Vern 4 Holmes, Oliver Wendell 19 Homer 19 Hooper, W. H. 25 Houdini, Harry 20 Housman, Laurence 14 Hume, David 20, 36 Hunt, Lynn Bogue 19 Hussey, Christopher 23 India 21, 29 Indians, American 10 Ireland 21, 33 Irving, Washington 5, 21 Israel 39

Italy 22, 26, 41 Jane, Cecil 12 Jekyll, Gertrude 22, 23 Jesse, Edward 15 Jonson, Ben 23 Karsh, Yousuf 24 Keats, John 24 Kelly, R. Talbot 24 Kelmscott Press 25 Keynes, Geoffrey 30 Khayyam, Omar 32 Kipling, Rudyard 35 Kirk, M. L. 9 Kredel, Fritz 32 Leech, John 2, 3, 4 Leighton, William 26 LIFE Magazine 18 Limited Editions Club 32 Lincoln, Abraham 26 Lion and Unicorn Press 27 London (U.K.) 31 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 13 Lovett, Major 21 MacDonald of New York 24 Macgregor, Miriam 42 MacMunn, Major G. F. 21 Malory, Thomas 6 Mandeville, Sir John 28 Marine Research Society 14 Marten, Frederick 30 Masson, Rosaline 27 Mathew, Frank 21 Maugham, W. Somerset 28 Maundevile, John 28 Mawe, Thomas 17 Medici, Lorenzo De’ 35 Medici, the 43 Menpes, Dorothy 28, 29 Menpes, Mortimer 28, 29 Meynell, Francis 31 Milton, John 29 Minnigh, L. W. 17 Moore, Clement C. 4 Morocco (Africa) 30 Motteaux, Mr. 10 Musson, Spencer C. 22 Narborough, Sir John 30 New York Graphic Society 6 Nonesuch Press 30, 31 Norman, Philip 31 Palgrave, Francis T. 31 Paris (France) 28 Parsons, Beatrice 17 Peter Pauper Press 41 Photography 6, 24, 26 Pirates 14 Pisa, Alberto 22 Plato 32

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