Kelmscott Press.- Syr Perecyvelle of Gales, edited by F.S.Ellis, one of 350 copies on Flower paper, printed in red and black in Chaucer type, wood-engraved frontispiece designed by Edward Burne-Jones and borders and initials by William Morris, with A.N.s. from Edward Burne-Jones to Robert Catterson Smith "...could you come on Monday - instead of tomorrow - tomorrow is awkward for me...E.B.J." loosely inserted, very light spotting to first two leaves, bookplate of Harry Currie Marillier, original holland-backed boards, upper cover titled in black, uncut, a little rubbed and marked, lower corners bumped and worn, [Peterson A33], 8vo, Kelmscott Press, 1895. ⁂ Robert Catterson-Smith (1853-1938), artist, socialist and principal of the Birmingham School of Art. He worked with William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones on the Kelmscott Chaucer, preparing Burne-Jones's original drawings for engraving.
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Kelmscott Press.- Ancoats Brotherhood. When Adam Delved and Eve Span..., 4pp., one of 250 copies, with wood-engraved frontispiece to 'John Ball' (When Adam Delved...) by Burne-Jones on first page and extracts from Tennyson and Ruskin, wood-engraved initials, borders & press device designed by William Morris, small stain to outer edge of first page, final page a little browned, slight damp-staining to upper outer corner, [Peterson D5], Kelmscott Press, March 1894-March 1895; and a small bundle of 8 Kelmscott Press prospectuses with accompanying A.L.s. from Sydney Cockerell on press notepaper dated Dec. 11th 1895, all damp-stained at lower outer corner, 8vo; sold not subject to return (10) ⁂ The Ancoats Brotherhood was a socialist workers' organization in Manchester founded by Charles Rowley in 1878. It provided lectures, concerts and exhibitions for the working classes and lecturers included William Morris, Ford Madox Brown, Peter Kropotkin and George Bernard Shaw. Freeman Bass notes on the envelopes that there were 2500 copies printed but Peterson says 250 (quoting a note by Cockerell). Cockerell's letter with the prospectuses is in reply to an inquiry concerning the Kelmscott Press Shakespeare and accompanies all those prospectuses mentioning it, although the information supplied is somewhat limited: "...It is not likely to be in the press for many months, & it is impossible to say how many volumes it will be in - or what will be the price...".
Ellis (Frederick Startridge, bookseller and author, friend of the Pre-Raphaelites, 1830-1901) [Fairy Tales in Verse from Grimm Brothers], autograph manuscript signed, 143pp., written on rectos only, numerous crossings out and corrections, autograph manuscript poem: "To Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1892 For the Shelley Centenary" loosely inserted and initialled "E.", browned, original cloth, remains of paper label on spine, sm. 4to, F.S. Ellis, Chelston, Torquay, 8th October 1894. ⁂ Unpublished. "For many years Ellis was official buyer for the British Museum, which brought him into rivalry with trade opponents in the auction rooms. He was also commissioned to edit the catalogue of Henry Huth's famous library, which was printed in 1880 in five volumes. Ellis was a publisher on a limited scale, and brought out the works of William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, with whom he was on terms of close friendship. Among other friends were A. C. Swinburne, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, and John Ruskin, whose Stray Letters to a London Bibliopole were addressed to Ellis and republished by him in 1892. Ruskin called him Papa Ellis (E. T. Cook, Life of John Ruskin, 1911, 1.371). It was in 1864 that William Morris was first introduced by Swinburne to Ellis, who later took over from Dante Gabriel Rossetti the joint tenancy, with Morris, of Kelmscott Manor in Oxfordshire. They shared an enthusiasm for fishing. Ellis advised Morris on his purchases of manuscripts. In Morris's last illness in 1896 he was with him every day, discussing a projected edition of the Border Ballads, and Ellis was one of the poet's executors (J. W. Mackail, Life of W. Morris, 1899, 1.193)." - Oxford DNB.
London.- Newcourt (Richard) Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense; An Ecclesiastical Parochial History of the Diocese of London , 2 vol., first edition, vol.1 with engraved portrait, 4 plates (2 folding) and folding map, errata leaf at end, vol.2 with half-title, some browning particularly in vol.2, old ink inscriptions of M.Wood on front pastedown and note on front free endpaper of vol.1, contemporary panelled calf, red morocco labels, a little worn, joints split, folio, by Benj. Motte..., 1708-10. ⁂ The second volume covers Essex.
Brontë (Charlotte) Watching and Wishing, proof copy of the poem for publication in the Cornhill Magazine, 1p., some browning and creasing, preserved in folding chemise and custom morocco-backed drop-back box (some fading), 8vo, [1860]. ⁂ Rare Watching and Wishing was first published in the Thackeray-edited Cornhill Magazine vol.2, p.741, December 1860.
![Pausanias. Graeciae descriptio accurata, 2 parts in 1, collation: a-c4, A6, B-Z4, Aa-Zzzzz4 Aaaaaa-Tttttt2; [26], 898 pp., 89](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dee7acb7-0eba-4924-bdfc-a79000f74b48/7cbaf4c9-6513-4a8c-ff58-3a7044721196/468x382.jpg)
Pausanias. Graeciae descriptio accurata, 2 parts in 1, collation: a-c4, A6, B-Z4, Aa-Zzzzz4 Aaaaaa-Tttttt2; [26], 898 pp., 899-943 numbered as columns, [76] pp., title in red and black with engraved printer's device, double column text in Greek and Latin, handsome contemporary Dutch vellum prize binding, covers within gilt frames, central gilt arms of the city of Amsterdam, lacking ties, joints cracked, folio (332 x 212mm.), Leipzig, Thomas Fritsch, 1696. ⁂ Monumental edition of this celebrated work, edited by Joachim Kühn, and supplemented with the Latin translation by the humanist Romolo Quirino Amaseo, which first appeared in Rome in 1547. The editio princeps had been published in 1516 by Aldus's heirs. "Since its rediscovery in the Renaissance Pausanias' work has been recognised as a valuable source for ancient Greece, a mine of antiquarian, historical and topographical information on various purposes. [...] From the seventeenth century onward visitors to Greece found Pausanias' work an excellent resource for the reconstruction of the country's ancient topography. Its usefulness for this purpose was easy to recognise, and by the early nineteenth century [...] Pausanias' Periegesis not only served as a travel guide but it was also used systematically to discover and identify ancient remains" (M. Pretzler, Pausanias. Travel Writing in Ancient Greece, London 2007, pp. 11-12). This copy is a fine example of a 'prize binding'. Provenance: a printed leaf bound before the half-title states that this copy was given as a gift to Jan Vreelant 'ob spectatos in Graecis literis progressus', by the Rector of the Amsterdam Gymnasium in October 1734. Literature: Brunet IV, 455; Schweiger I, 224: Dibdin II, 272 ( "emphatically and justly called the 'ed. opt. of Pausanias'").
Aesop. Esopi appologi sive mythologi cum quibusdam carminum et fabularum additionibus Sebastiani Brant, collation: a8, b-p8.6, q-s6; A-B8, C6, D-I6.8, K6, L4, M6 (lacking final blank M6), 2 parts in 1, woodcut portrait of Aesop to verso of first title, woodcut illustrations and initials, small portrait to verso of A1 in part 2, repairs to some leaves with occasional loss to text or image, a few leaves remargined, C4 with hole affecting woodcut to recto and text to verso, with the blank leaf s6 present at end of part 1, a few leaves with ink annotations, underlining or scoring out of text, a couple of leaves misbound, some light browning, good margins and apart from the faults and repairs mentioned generally a clean copy, 19th century dark blue straight-grain morocco, gilt, g.e., folio (297 x 201mm.), Basel, Jacob Wolff de Pfortzheim, 1501. ⁂ A handsome copy of the first edition with Brant's new section of 140 fables. The woodcuts which accompany Brant's part are richer and more sophisticated than the rather naïve illustrations to the first part, which were based on Zainer's cuts for the first illustrated edition (printed in Ulm, c.1476). Literature: Adams A291; Fairfax Murray German, 20
![Numismatics.- Budé (Guillaume) Libri V de Asse, collation: aa8, bb4, a-t8,u6, A-N8; [12], 262 [i.e. 260] ff., Aldine device o](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dee7acb7-0eba-4924-bdfc-a79000f74b48/33d41de4-95c3-41f0-8795-25de4b19e30f/468x382.jpg)
Numismatics.- Budé (Guillaume) Libri V de Asse, collation: aa8, bb4, a-t8,u6, A-N8; [12], 262 [i.e. 260] ff., Aldine device on title and at end, blank space for capitals with printed guide letters, gutter and lower margin water-stained and spotted throughout, heavier at beginning and end, repairs to lower blank margin of title and final leaf, early shelfmark 'I.II.21' in ink on title, contemporary Venetian binding executed by Andrea di Lorenzo (the Mendoza Binder) of brown morocco over pasteboards, covers within blind and gilt fillet border, small Aldine leaves and rosettes at corners, central gilt panel of single fillet with cornerpieces and three tools in knotwork pattern, titled in gilt 'Guil. Budaei De Ass' at top, rebacked preserving original spine with three double raised bands alternating with three single bands, tooled in gilt, gilt gauffered edges, pastedowns and endpapers renewed, 4to (214x130 mm), Venice, Aldus Manutius's heirs and Andrea Torresano, September 1522. ⁂ The Aldine edition of the pioneering treatise by the antiquarian, and Royal secretary Guillaume Budé (1468-1540) in a fine contemporary binding by the Mendoza Binder. This is one of the earliest works devoted to the study of ancient coins and measures, and more generally to the economics of antiquity. The first edition of De Asse (the 'as' or pound is a Roman bronze coin) was published in March 1515 by Josse Bade in Paris, and the publication achieved a wide success, as evinced by its numerous editions and translations. This copy is in a strictly contemporary morocco binding executed by Andrea di Lorenzo, called the 'Mendoza Binder'. There was a close relationship between this Venetian binder and the Manutius-Torresano partnership. Until c.1525 Andrea di Lorenzo seems to have mainly worked for the Anchor and Dolphin bookshop near the Rialto Bridge, decorating the bindings with characteristic features such as rectangular frames of fillets, rosettes, arabesque leaves, fleurons, and lozenges. For distinguished customers he added, at the head of the upper cover, the author and title in gilt lettering, or their names at the foot of the same cover. Literature: Renouard, 94.3; Ahmanson-Murphy 212.
![Isocrates. Orationes tres, collation: A4, βb-νn4; 51, [1] ff., text in Greek and Latin, woodcut device on title and at end, w](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dee7acb7-0eba-4924-bdfc-a79000f74b48/4dc93281-624d-4768-958c-0fd398aa72a1/468x382.jpg)
Isocrates. Orationes tres, collation: A4, βb-νn4; 51, [1] ff., text in Greek and Latin, woodcut device on title and at end, woodcut animated initial on verso of title, blank spaces for capitals with printed guide letters, minor soiling, a few water-stains, numerous marginal and interlinear annotations, contemporary blind-tooled calf, covers within fillets and frame decorated with dots and small floral tools, floral cornerpieces, central panel divided into compartments and decorated in knotwork pattern, traces of ties, spine with two raised bands, 2 corners worn, some worming to covers, preserved in suede-lined drop-back box, 8vo (148 x 100mm.), Venice, Heirs of Pietro Ravani, 1555. ⁂ The first bilingual edition of Isocrates' Orationes to be printed. The Greek texts of the three orations is supplemented with their Latin translation, and the edition was widely used as a schoolbook, as declared on the title-page ('ad discentium utilitatem'). The publishing initiative of Ravani's heirs had an immediate success, and was imitated by other printers, such as Giovanni Varisco in Venice and Orazio Salviani in Naples. Provenance: 'Nicolai Iani' (early ownership inscription on title); Carlo Chiassa (ex-libris on front flyleaf). Literature: G. Rosa, La fortuna di Isocrate, no. 117; Traduzioni umanistiche, p. 803, no. 2
Hume (David) Political Discourses, second edition, with Contents and advertisement leaves following title, contemporary ink note on title "with Ms observations of Mr Hampton, translator of Polybius" and annotations by him throughout, worming to inner margin of first two essays affecting a few letters, D4 defective at head and U3 with tear, neither affecting text, engraved bookplate of William Graves with name of Rev. H.Strangways pasted over, contemporary calf, a little worn, rebacked preserving old red roan label, 12mo, Edinburgh, R.Fleming, for A.Kincaid and A.Donaldson, 1752. ⁂ Most of the essays concern economics. James Hampton (1721-1778), argumentative English cleric, writer and translator of the Greek historian Polybius. On his death he left his property to William Graves of the Inner Temple.
![Ruskin (John) Letters on Art and Literature, [one of 33 copies on paper], 1894; Letters...to Ernest Chesneau, [one of 33 copi](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dee7acb7-0eba-4924-bdfc-a79000f74b48/5e68dc63-fe45-42c5-f320-bfe7ecd6c046/468x382.jpg)
Ruskin (John) Letters on Art and Literature, [one of 33 copies on paper], 1894; Letters...to Ernest Chesneau, [one of 33 copies on paper], facsimile leaf, 1894; Letters...to Rev. F.A. Malleson, M.A., "limited to a few copies", 1896; Aratra Pentelici. Six Lectures on Sculpture, vol.III of 'The Works...', signed and inscribed by the author "Henry Acland with John Ruskin's love, and gratitude, 29th January 1872" on front free endpaper, for the author, Keston, 1872; Val d'Arno: Ten Lectures on Tuscan Art, inscribed to S.A.Acland by various other Aclands, Orpington, 1882, the first three all edited by Thomas J.Wise, device of Ashley Library at end, original cloth, uncut, very slightly rubbed, [Todd 212d, 213d & 217d], privately printed [for T.J.Wise], the last two with plates and bookplate of Sarah Angelina Acland (daughter of Henry), original blue calf ruled in blind, g.e., rubbed; and 7 others by or relating to Ruskin (mostly pamphlets), and a photogravure of Ruskin with Sir Henry Acland from a photograph taken by Sarah Acland at Brantwood in 1893 (foxed), 8vo & 4to (13) ⁂ Sir Henry Acland (1815-1900) was appointed Lee's reader in anatomy at Christ Church in 1845 and physician to the Radcliffe Infirmary. He met Ruskin while a student at Oxford and they became life-long friends. Acland also encouraged the study of art at Oxford and was instrumental in Ruskin's appointment as the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford in 1869.
Italy.- Merigot (James) A Select Collection of Views and Ruins in Rome and its vicinity, 2 parts in 1, first edition, aquatint pictorial additional title and 61 plates, good dark impressions, light marginal foxing to plates, contemporary diced russia, gilt, rubbed at edges, rebacked, [cf. Abbey, Travel 178, large paper coloured issue], 4to, 1797-99.
Caesar's military tactics.- Ramus (Petrus) Liber de Cæsaris militia, collation: à a-o8 P4, Roman type, title with woodcut printer's device, final errata f., à4 and P4 blank, some staining and light foxing, 17th century calf, richly gilt spine in compartments, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo (157 x 97mm.), Paris, Andreas Wechel, 1559. ⁂ First edition of this treatise on Caesar's military tactics., which is rare at auction. Literature: Adams R102.
Americana.- Vespucci (Amerigo) S'ensuyt le Nouveau Monde et navigations faictes par Emeric de Vespuce, Florentin des pays et isles nouvellement trouvez, auparavant a nous incongne uz tant on l'Ethiopie que Arrabie, Calichut et aultres plusieurs régions estranges. Translaté de italien. [Paris, ?Jean Trepperel, c. 1516-1525]; bound after Hetoum (Prince) S'ensuyuent les fleurs des histoires de la terre d'Orient... Paris, Philippe le Noir, [c. 1530]; bound with Ferrieres (Henry de) S'ensuyt le livre du roy Modus et de la royne Racio qui parle du déduit de la chasse a toutes bestes sauvaiges, comme cerfz, biches, daims, chevreulx, liévres... Paris, Jean Trepperel Imprimeur, [c. 1530], 3 works in 1, I. (bound second) collation: a-d4, e8, f-l4, m8, n-s4, t8; CXC [i.e. 89] ff., text complete but lacking title and first three prefatory leaves, II. (bound first) collation: A-C4, D8, E-Q4, R6; [3] (of [4] ff., lacking A4 with index and portrait on verso], lxx ff., title in red and black, large printer's device on verso of final leaf, numerous woodcut illustrations in text, III. collation: A-V4, AA-BB4, CC6. xciiii leaves, lacking title, unnumbered preliminary leaves and E4, numerous woodcut illustrations in text, but those on fols. C4, D1 and M1 cut away, causing loss of text on each verso, some water-staining, last work with some fore-margins slightly frayed, contemporary limp vellum, title inked on the spine and bottom edge, hole in spine/lower joint, corners worn, remains of leather ties, 4to (180 x 126mm.) ⁂ A remarkable composite volume, which contains three unrelated works probably printed in Paris between c.1520 and 1530, all of the greatest rarity and which seldom appear on the market. I. The first work is one of the earliest reports in French of the travels and discoveries made by the Florentine navigator Amerigo Vespucci in America. The first edition had been published in 1516/17 by Galliou Dupré, who was granted the Royal privilege to print Le Nouveau Monde. Despite this privilege, the work was immediately pirated, and some editions appeared on the market without privilege or imprint, all exceendingly rare, and recorded nowadays only in two or three copies. The present edition was in all likelihood issued by the Parisian Jean Trepperel, somewhere between 1516 and 1525. II. Very rare edition of the Histoires de la terre d'Orient by the Prince Hetoum, printed by Philippe le Noir. This copy is seemingly of a different issue from the one in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (coll. Rés. O2R 18 B), with slight variations to the title-page. II. The third work is an early and lavisly illustrated edition of the first hunting book to be printed in France. It was issued by Jean Trepperel, and is datable between 1525 and 1529. Of this edition two different issues are recorded. The present copy belongs to the first issue, with printer's device printed in black on the colophon leaf. Despite their individual defects, this is an outstanding sammelband of truly rare works. Literature: Thiébaud, 396-399.
![Hardy (Thomas) The Hand of Ethelberta. A Comedy in Chapters, 2 vol., first edition in book form, [one of 1000 copies], half-t](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dee7acb7-0eba-4924-bdfc-a79000f74b48/639ee185-cfd9-4e24-dbb3-2b733f045094/468x382.jpg)
Hardy (Thomas) The Hand of Ethelberta. A Comedy in Chapters, 2 vol., first edition in book form, [one of 1000 copies], half-titles, wood-engraved frontispieces and 9 plates by George du Maurier, vol.1 with *B4 & *F1 cancels, advertisement leaf at end of each vol., X1 in vol.1 with short tear to fore-edge, O2 in vol.2 torn across text and rather crudely repaired, foxed (particularly vol.1), vol.2 with light water-staining to lower edge of a couple of plates and with central portion (signatures I-S) quite severely damp-stained (mostly to margins), original red-brown cloth, upper covers and spines blocked in gold and black (primary binding), rubbed (particularly vol.2, ?mixed set), slight traces of labels to upper covers, corners and spine ends worn, recased, new endpapers (with later ownership signature), preserved in modern cloth drop-back box, [Purdy p.20], 8vo, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1876. ⁂ One of Hardy's scarcest titles, first issued in monthly instalments in the Cornhill Magazine, from July 1875 to May 1876.
![Austen (Jane) [Novels], 6 vol., 'Series of English Idylls', colour frontispieces, decorative titles and plates by Charles E.B](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dee7acb7-0eba-4924-bdfc-a79000f74b48/04e3ff33-62d1-4eae-ebea-8c2abd0513d0/468x382.jpg)
Austen (Jane) [Novels], 6 vol., 'Series of English Idylls', colour frontispieces, decorative titles and plates by Charles E.Brock, original grey cloth, upper covers with central design of basket of flowers in gilt, spines gilt, t.e.g., decorative endpapers printed in green (a little browned), very slightly soiled, [Gilson E114, 116, 120, 124, 127 & 129], 8vo, London, J.M.Dent & Co.; New York, E.P.Dutton & Co., 1907-09. ⁂ Brock originally illustrated Pride and Prejudice for Macmillan in 1895, with black and white line drawings, and again with his brother H.M.Brock in an Austen set for Dent in 1898. He was commissioned by Dent again in 1907 to illustrate all the novels in colour, as here. Emma retains the dedication to the Prince Regent from the first edition, omitted in many of the intervening editions.
![Galenus (Claudius) [Opera], 5 vol., pagination: I. [4], 24, 181, [1 blank] ll.; 108 ff., II. [3], [1 blank], 184 ff.; 106 ff.](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dee7acb7-0eba-4924-bdfc-a79000f74b48/e156b543-e9e9-4ea8-cf39-eaa2bdb22403/468x382.jpg)
Galenus (Claudius) [Opera], 5 vol., pagination: I. [4], 24, 181, [1 blank] ll.; 108 ff., II. [3], [1 blank], 184 ff.; 106 ff., Greek and Roman type, woodcut Aldine device on title and on verso of final leaf. III. [4], 106 ff.; 155, [1] ff., IV. [4], 113, [1 blank] ff.; 74, 6, 57, [1] ff., V. [4], 346, [6] ff., final quire AAA bound between quires Τττ and Υυυ, Greek and Roman type, woodcut Aldine device on title and on verso of final leaf of all volumes (Fletcher f4; A3c), capital spaces, all blank leaves present, vol.2 stain at top of a2 and a3, repair to b1 and in blank gutter of n1, wormhole through last several leaves slightly affecting text, 20th-century brown morocco blind-tooled in period style by Bernard Middleton, folio (314-318 x 218-224mm.), Venice, Heirs of Aldus Manutius and Andrea Torresano, April-August 1525. ⁂ Editio princeps of Galen of Pergamum, one of the 'biggest' books printed by the Aldine Press, directed by Aldus's father-in-law Andrea Torresano. It is one of the rarest of all Aldine editions, "only two or three complete sets have been sold during the past 30 years [...] It is so rare and consequentely so expensive because of the limited number of originally printed copies. Being an exceptional case for Aldus- editions, the initial print run remained the only one." (L. Perrilli, A Risky Enterprise. The Aldine Edition of Galen, p. 447). The works of Galen appeared for the first time in Latin translation in 1490 (Goff G, 37), and only a few of his writings were available in Greek, e.g. the Περὶ φιλοσόφου ἱστορίας, printed in the second volume of the Aldine Aristotle Corpus, and the Θεραπευτικά published in Venice by Zacharias Kallierges and Nicolaos Vlastos (Goff G, 38). The delay was due to the partial disappearance of the written heritage of Greek medicine, and the great difficulty in finding Greek medical manuscripts, "and then there was a gap of a generation until the Aldine firm put out a series of medical authors, Galen in 1525, Hippocrates in 1526, Paul of Aegina, and the first half (only) of Aetius in 1534" (V. Nutton, Greek Science in Sixteenth Century, p. 20). Literature: Adams G, 32; STC Italian 285; Renouard Alde, pp. 101-102; Ahmanson-Murphy, 231-233, 235-236; Cataldi Palau, 95; Finazzi, 51; PMM 33; Wellcome I, 2507; Durling 1748; Grolier-Norman, n. 5B; Hoffmann II, 122; V. Nutton, John Caius and the Manuscripts of Galen, Cambridge 1987, pp. 39-42; Ead., Greek Science in the Sixteenth-century Renaissance, in Renaissance and Revolution, ed. J.V. Field-F.A.A.J. James, Cambridge 1993, pp. 20-24; P. Potter, The editiones principes of Galen and Hippocrates and their Relationship, in Text and Tradition. Studies in Ancient Medicine and its Transmission, ed. K.D. Fischer-D. Nickel-P. Potter, Leiden 1998, pp. 243-261; V. Nutton, Ancient Medicine, London 2004, pp. 230-247.
Kent Estate Maps.- Twitham and Uffington in the Parishes of Goodnestone & Wingham, 2 estate maps on vellum, hand-coloured in outline, each 2 sheets joined together, some soiling, a few stains in margins, a few margins chipped, slightly creased, 495 x 700mm., and 500 x 695mm., 1773 and 1775; and 10 others, architects drawings and plans for a clergyman's house at Goodnestone Park, v.s., v.d. (12). ⁂ One of the first mentioned maps mentions Sir Brook Bridges, Bart. (1733-91), politician; his daughter, Elizabeth, married Jane Austen's brother, and Austen visited them on their estate at Goodnestone regularly.
China.- Davis (Sir John Francis) Chinese Novels, translated from the Originals...Observations on the Language and Literature of China, first edition, half-title, spotting to a few leaves, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked with gilt spine and roan labels, [Lust 1097; Cordier 1770], 8vo, 1822. ⁂ Including proverbs and maxims, and the novels 'The Shadow in the Water', 'The Twin Sisters' and 'The Three Dedicated Chambers'.
Themistocles. Epistolae ex Vetusto Codice Bibliothecae Vaticanae, woodcut arms of Pope Urban VIII on title, some light foxing and browning, some minor worming, mostly marginal, modern vellum, 4to, [Hoffmann III, 472; Schweiger I, 308], Rome, Lodovico Grignani, 1626. ⁂ First edition of the collected Epistolae by the brilliant Athenian general and controversial politician Themistocles, the hero of the battle of Salamis in 480, edited by Giovanni Matteo Cariofilo or Cariophyllis from Crete.
![[Evans (Arthur Benoni)] The Cutter, in Five Lectures upon the Art and Practice of Cutting Friends, Acquaintances, and Relatio](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dee7acb7-0eba-4924-bdfc-a79000f74b48/7017e8e0-9293-4b8a-bc5b-c00adb2b2634/468x382.jpg)
[Evans (Arthur Benoni)] The Cutter, in Five Lectures upon the Art and Practice of Cutting Friends, Acquaintances, and Relations, first edition, with initial imprint (otherwise blank) leaf, hand-coloured etched frontispiece and 5 folding aquatint plates by and after John Augustus Atkinson, 8pp. publisher's catalogue at end, some light soiling and browning, modern calf-backed marbled boards, roan label (original paper label mounted on front pastedown), uncut, joints a little rubbed, 8vo, for J.Carpenter, 1808.
Brontë (Charlotte) Jane Eyre ou les Mémoires d'une Institutrice, translated by Mme. Lesbazeilles-Souvestre, 2 vol., first French edition, half-titles, light foxing, contemporary morocco-backed boards, spines gilt, a little rubbed, Paris, D. Giraud, 1854; and 2 others, French editions of Wuthering Heights, 8vo (3)
Brontë (Rev. Patrick) Cottage Poems, first edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author to J. E. Greenwood on front free endpaper, half-title, some light marginal browning, very occasional spotting, original printed boards, spine worn but holding firm, upper joint a little weak, light marking and surface soiling to covers, extremities rubbed, preserved in custom drop-back box, 8vo, Halifax, P.K.Holden, for the Author, 1811. ⁂ Scarce, this appears to be the only known presentation copy in commerce. Patrick Brontë's first collection of poems, these were chiefly intended to be read by his parishioners and reflect the author's somewhat austere outlook. The identity of the recipient here is difficult to confirm, however it is tempting to speculate that it was Joseph Greenwood (1786-1856), chairman of the Church trustees at Haworth and a friend of the author.Saleroom Notice: The presentation inscription is not in Patrick Bronte’s hand, but probably in that of the recipient J.E. Greenwood
Brontë (Emily) The Outcast Mother, 3 proof copies of the poem for publication in the Cornhill Magazine, each 1p., 1 with manuscript corrections, 1 sheet with damp-staining and loss to head, 1 sheet with loss to corner, surface soiling, preserved in folding chemise and custom morocco-backed drop-back box, 8vo, [1860]. ⁂ Rare. First published in the Cornhill Magazine vol.1, p.616, May 1860.
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[Brontë (Charlotte)], "Currer Bell". The Professor, first American edition, 1p. advertisements at front, 6pp. advertisements at rear, light foxing, original cloth, spine slightly faded, spine ends and corners a little bumped, a little rubbed and marked, still very good overall, [Smith 7 pp.172-173], 8vo, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1857.
William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones.- Catterson-Smith (Robert, artist, socialist, principal of the Birmingham School of Art and Director of Art Education in that city, worked with William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones on the Kelmscott Chaucer. 1853-1938) Archive of letters and other material relating to Catterson-Smith, including: (1). Morris (William) Autograph Letter signed "Wm" to Catterson-Smith, 2pp., 8vo, Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, 28th December 1895, regarding the production of the Kelmscott Chaucer, "I forgot to say last night please look after and let Hooper [wood-engraver] have the first of the House of Fame as soon as possible, as we shall be wanting it soon, in fact as soon as possible", and then turns his attention to the production of his work, The Well at the World's End, "Re the lady's foot in the 'Well', I was thinking if there were any thing in the designs already done which would help you. I find there is in Griselda going back home you will find pretty much the same action turned the other way of course, and the foot is very pretty there. I send on a proof at once for your benefit, and I think by the help of it you need not bother Sir E. [Edward Burne-Jones], browned; (2). Burne-Jones (Sir Edward) 33 Autograph Letters signed (?1 in Geogiana's hand and signed by Burne-Jones) & 2 Autograph Postcards signed to Catterson-Smith, on his assistance with various projects for the Kelmscott Press, 38pp. and 20 envelopes, 8vo, Kensington, 1898, meeting for consultations etc., "Dear CS, I wonder if it would be possible for you to come tomorrow Tuesday & do a little work for me apart from the Chaucer", (3). Burne-Jones (Georgiana, wife of Edward Burne-Jones, 1840-1920) 16 Autograph Letters signed & 2 Autograph Postcards signed to Catterson-Smith, relating to his work on The Beginning of the World, 58pp. and 9 envelopes, 8vo, Rottingdean, 1902-16, "I have seen the proofs, and am greatly pleased with them... Mr. Mackail is having a 'dummy' page or two printed for me at the Chiswick Press with the two proofs and some type. He is well forward with the letter press..." and Catterson-Smith's design of a mace for Birmingham; and a quantity of other letters and notes from May Morris, W.R. Lethaby, Sydney Cockerell, Philip Webb, Sir Henry Wood etc., manuscript notes by Catterson-Smith on sex and marriage, Burne Jones Cupid and Psyche, etc., v.s., v.d. (qty).
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[Brontë (Charlotte)], "Currer Bell". Shirley. A Tale, first American edition, 2pp. advertisements at front, 13pp. advertisements at rear, foxing, original second state wrappers with 135 titles listed on inside lower cover, covers and spine creased and with some toning, spine ends chipped, rubbed, still a very good copy of a fragile book, preserved in custom morocco-backed drop back box, [Smith 5 pp.125-128], 8vo, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1850 [but 1849]. ⁂ This copy with the rare additional lines on p. 206 mentioned by Smith p.125 n.6. Smith can trace no other edition with these lines.
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Mendoza Binder.- Cicero (Marcus Tullius) Rhetoricorum..., collation: *8, **8, a-k8, l4, m-z8, A-G8, H10; [16], 245, [1] ff., complete with blank leaf **8 blank, Aldine device on title and at end, blank spaces for capitals with printed guide letters, some light foxing, title slightly water-stained, early Latin and Greek marginalia, contemporary Venetian binding by Andrea di Lorenzo, known as the Mendoza Binder, of brown morocco over pasteboards, covers within multiple blind and gilt fillets, rosettes at each corner, central gilt corner-pieces and large fleuron, upper cover lettered in gilt 'm.t.c. rhetoricor.', spine with three double raised bands alternated with four single bands underlined by dotted fillet in gilt (widely restored), compartments decorated with blind-tooled floral frieze, 19th-century endpapers and pastedowns, blue edges, 4to (212 x 123mm.), Venice, Aldus Manutius's heirs and Andrea Torresano, October 1521. ⁂ The second Aldine edition of the rhetorical writings of Cicero, in a copy with a distinguished provenance, and marvellously bound by one the best and most sought after Venetian binders, Andrea di Lorenzo, known as the 'Mendoza Binder' after his principal client Diego Hurtado de Mendoza. He was active in Venice between 1518 and 1555, and his decorative patterns and innovative style were very influential, inspiring generations of binders in France and Germany. The binding can be dated back to the Mendoza Binder's first years of activity and the decoration is identical to another copy of the Aldine Cicero of 1521, now preserved in the John Rylands Library in Manchester. This is a binding with a decorative scheme used by the Mendoza Binder almost exclusively for editions issued by the Aldine press between 1518 and 1526, "made either for display and sale in the bookshop employing him or to be ordered through it" (A. Hobson, Renaissance Book Collecting, p. 99), most of them commissioned by Jean Grolier, the 'Prince of Bibliophiles'. "The commonest pattern [...] consists of a gilt rectangular frame, rosettes and leaves at the corners, often a smaller leaf in silver at the outer corners, with the title gilt at the headcap of the upper cover. Customers might have their name or initials added at the foot of the same cover. Other stock patterns involved massed arabesque leaves, fleurons, bud-tools, large open fleurons, or a circle containing a title. Of the fifty-two recorded instances of these stock bindings on books printed before 1526, all but five, or over 90 per cent, are on Aldine Press books, mostly printed by Aldus Manutius' successor" (ibid.). Literature: Renouard 93.13; Ahmanson-Murphy 207; A. Hobson, Renaissance Book Collecting. Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, their Books and Bindings, Cambridge 1999, pl. 48 (for an identical binding). Provenance: Joaquim Gomez de la Cortina, Marquis de Morante (1808-1868; Hans Fürstenberg (1890-1982), Charles Filippi (ex-libris of each on recto of front endpaper).
Eliot (T.S.) The Cocktail Party, first issue with typographical error on p. 29, signed by the author on title with printed name crossed through, 2 dust-jackets, light browning to jacket spine, some minor chipping and creasing to head and foot, 1950; The Confidential Clerk, first issue with typographical error on p. 7, signed presentation inscription to P. T. R. Gillett from the author to title, dust-jacket, spine slightly faded with small internal chip, minor chipping to spine ends and corners, 1954, first editions, original cloth, [Gallup A55a & A64a]; and 4 others, plays by the same, 8vo (6)
Morris (William).- Magnusson (Eirikr) and William Morris, translators. The Story of the Volsungs & Niblungs..., first edition, one of 750 copies, with 1 ½pp. A.L.s. from Philip Webb (who designed the binding) to Charles Canning Winmill tipped in at beginning, half-title, 2 advertisement leaves at end, occasional light soiling, original dark green cloth elaborately decorated with birds and flowers in gilt, designed by Philip Webb, uncut, slightly rubbed at corners and spine ends but a good bright copy, 8vo, 1870. ⁂ Philip Webb (1831-1915), architect, regarded as the father of Arts & Crafts architecture. He was a close friend of William Morris and designed the Red House at Bexleyheath for him in 1859. Webb and Morris were the main founders of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in 1877. Charles Canning Winmill (1865-1945) was an Arts & Crafts architect greatly influenced by Webb.
Soane (Sir John) Designs for Public and Private Buildings, first edition, half-title, engraved title with vignettes and 55 plates, one misbound, list of plates at end, plates foxed, some light damp-staining at beginning affecting lower inner margin of title and first few leaves and plates, modern boards with contemporary morocco spine (repaired), recased, [Fowler 338], folio, 1828.
Japan.- Silk.- Sira-Kawa de Sendai (Osyou) Traité de l'Éducation des Vers a Soie au Japon, translated by Léon de Rosny, 22 lithographed plates, most chromolithographed, some tinted, one with folding flap, light spotting to text, original printed wrappers, uncut and unopened, rubbed and soiled, slightly frayed at edges, 8vo, Paris, 1868. ⁂ Rare work on silk and its production, with attractive plates; the first edition in translation. COPAC lists only 5 copies.
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[Brontë (Charlotte)], "Currer Bell". Villette, 3 vol., first edition, 16pp. advertisements dated March 1854, bookplates to pastedowns, original cloth, vol.1 a little cocked, spines browned, vol.1 & 2 with neat repairs along lower joints, minor bumping to spine ends and corners, rubbed, still in effect an excellent set, [Smith 6 pp.138-142], 8vo, Smith, Elder & Co., 1853. ⁂ Scarce in the original cloth and in such good condition, potentially a late issue with the advertisements dated March 1854. Charlotte began writing Villette in earnest in the spring of 1852, she had begun to dislike the celebrity that the Currer Bell name brought with it however and asked that the novel be published anonymously. George Smith however managed to persuade her that this would harm the novel's chances and lead to a subsequent drop in sales. The novel was ultimately published under the Currer name in January 1853. Provenance: Robert Carter (armorial bookplate).
Austen (Jane) Sense and Sensibility: A Novel...By the Author of "Pride and Prejudice", 3 vol., second edition, half-titles, vol.2 & 3 with final blank but lacking in vol.1, foxing (as usual) and with occasional soiling, two old cataloguing entries mounted on front free endpaper, vol.1 with hinges repaired, Augustine Birrell's copy with his bookplate, near contemporary red-brown cloth, paper labels on spines (chipped), uncut, rubbed and faded (mostly to spines), a few small marks to upper cover of vol.1, vol.3 with nick to upper edge of both boards, spine ends a little worn and frayed, vol.2 chipped at foot, [Gilson A2], 12mo, Printed for the Author, by C.Roworth...Published by T.Egerton, 1813. ⁂ Sense and Sensibility was Austen's first published work, originally issued in 1811 with "By a Lady" on the title-page. By July 1813 it was sold out and the second edition was published in October of that year, with some alterations and revisions, as advertised in The Star on Friday 19th October 1813 along with the second edition of Pride and Prejudice (see next lot). It was again published at the expense of the author, prompting Austen to write to her sister Cassandra on 6th November 1813, "I cannot help hoping that many will feel themselves obliged to buy it. I shall not mind imagining it a disagreeable Duty to them, so as they do it". However, it was still being advertised by Egerton in November 1815 and Austen received a royalty payment as late as March 1817. The c.1830 binding is possibly a publisher's remainder binding, suggesting that sheets were still being bound and distributed for several years, almost until it was reissued by Bentley as part of his 'Standard Novels' series in 1832. Augustine Birrell (1850-1933), essayist and politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1907 to 1916 when he resigned following the Easter Rising.
Alberti (Leon Battista) The Architecture...Of Painting...Of Statuary, edited by James Leoni and translated into Italian by Cosimo Bartoli, 3 vol. in 1, second edition, engraved allegorical frontispiece by B.Picart, titles and text in English and Italian with woodcut device, printed in double column, 75 engraved plates, some by Picart, contemporary ink signature at head of title, frontispiece defective at inner edge and laid down with ink hatching filling missing area, ex-library copy with unobtrusive blind stamp at head of title and first leaf of each vol., some light spotting and browning, modern half calf, [Harris 14; Millard, British 5], folio, Thomas Edlin, 1739.
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[Brontë (Emily)] Wuthering Heights. A Novel. By the author of "Jane Eyre", 2 vol., first American edition, foxed, occasional creasing and chips to margins, vol.1 first gathering damp-stained at top corner, original printed wrappers, cocked, vol.1 spine chipped and worn with loss to some text and lacking lower cover, vol.3 spine a little worn and chipped at ends, ink ownership inscription to upper cover, light marking to covers, creasing and some wear to extremities, [Smith 3 pp.73-74], 8vo, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1848. ⁂ By far the scarcer of the two first editions, the wrappered issue appears to have been prepared in haste: vol.1 breaks off mid-sentence and vol.2 was printed without its own title page. Provenance: Philip Wells (ink ownership inscription to upper covers).
Japan.- Netto (C.) Papier-Schmetterlinge aus Japan, first edition, chromolithographed additional pictorial title, plates and illustrations by Paul Bender, one chromolithographed, 3 etched, light spotting at beginning and end, original half morocco over pictorial boards, g.e., slightly rubbed at edges, with the original dust-jacket printed in gold (a little stained, frayed at edges), 4to, Leipzig, 1888.
Rossetti (Dante Gabriel).- Marillier (H.C.) Dante Gabriel Rossetti..., first edition, plates, original decorated blue cloth, gilt, designed by Laurence Housman, t.e.g., others uncut, with the rare dust-jacket, a little browned and soiled, slightly frayed at edges, 1899 § Rossetti (Dante Gabriel) The Early Italian Poets..., small water-stain to upper outer corner of title and dedication, bookplate of George Livingston Nichols, contemporary vellum, spine gilt, lightly soiled, upper joint cracked, 1861 § Shelley (P.B.) The Poetical Works..., edited by Harry Buxton Forman, 4 vol., frontispieces, original pictorial turquoise cloth, gilt, designed by Rossetti, slightly rubbed, 1876; and a pamphlet by Rossetti, folio & 8vo (7)
Austen (Jane) Pride and Prejudice, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, light foxing at beginning and end, 1894; Emma, later ink inscriptions to front free endpaper, bookplate, 1898; Sense and Sensibility, half-title browned, 1899, all with plates and illustrations, those in the last two by Chris Hammond, all original pictorial dark green cloth, gilt, the first with peacock design on upper cover, the other two with floral designs, spines gilt, g.e. or t.e.g., all slightly rubbed but bright copies, the last a little spotted by damp and with small gouge to upper cover, [Gilson E78, 92 & 94], 8vo, George Allen (3) ⁂ Only these three Austen novels were issued in this format by George Allen. Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey & Persuasion were both illustrated by Hugh Thomson and published in similar style in 1897, but by Macmillan and Co.
Knight (Richard Payne) The Landscape, a Didactic Poem...addressed to Uvedale Price, Esq., second edition, 3 etched plates by B.T.Pouncy after Thomas Hearne, one plate soiled and frayed at edges, some foxing, 1794; The Progress of Civil Society, a Didactic Poem, first edition, half-title, 1796, together 2 works in 1 vol., modern half calf, 4to, W.Bulmer & Co. for G.Nicol
Swinburne (Algernon Charles) Poems and Ballads, first edition, first issue with Moxon imprint, 8pp. reviews at beginning, foxing, original green cloth, slightly rubbed, small ink stain to head of upper cover, preserved in cloth folder and slip-case with pull-off top, spine gilt, rubbed and rather stained, Edward Moxon & Co., 1866; A Channel Passage and other poems, second edition, signed and inscribed by the author on half-title (causing small hole and ink mark on title beyond), contemporary burgundy calf, gilt, by Zaehnsdorf, spine gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, rubbed at edges, 1904, 8vo (2)
Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet de) A Treatise on Toleration..., translated by Rev. David Williams, 2 parts in 1, title browned and with contemporary ink signature at head, some spotting, H2 of first part torn and repaired, contemporary half sheep, a little worn, rebacked, Fielding and Walker, 1779; La Raison par Alphabet, 2 vol., sixth edition, engraved bookplate of Sir George Shuckburgh Bart., contemporary calf, gilt, spines gilt with red morocco labels, spine ends a little worn, 1769, 8vo (3) ⁂ The second part of the first mentioned contains both The Ignorant Philosopher and A Commentary on the Marquis Becaria's Treatise on Crimes and Punishments.
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London.- Regent's Park.- House of Commons. First [-Fifth] Report of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, 10 folding hand-coloured engraved plans, some light offsetting, 1812-26; The Reports of the Surveyor General of His Majesty's Land Revenue, reprints of First-Fourth Reports (1797-1809) with Index, 2 folding engraved plans, one with partial hand-colouring, 1812, together 6 works in 1 vol., modern half calf, folio ⁂ Concerning improvements on the Crown Estates, proposing development along Piccadilly, Hyde Park, Park Lane, and Regent's Park by John Nash.
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Austen (Jane) [Novels], introductions by Austin Dobson, 6 vol. in 5, "Peacock Series", frontispieces and full-page illustrations by Hugh Thomson and Charles E.Brock, original red "cloth elegant", upper covers and spines with elaborate floral designs by A.A.Turbayne in gilt, endpapers with peacock design in yellow, g.e., light stain to lower covers of 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Mansfield Park', spines a little faded, [Gilson E79, 82, 86 & 88 & 89], 8vo, Macmillan and Co., 1897-98. ⁂ Macmillan started to issue the Austen novels in 1895 in their 'Illustrated Standard Novels' series, with Pride and Prejudice illustrated by Brock and the others by Thomson. Apart from Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, which is the first Macmillan edition of 1897 (Gilson 89), the others in the set are all reprints of 1898. From 1896 the volumes were also issued in this "cloth elegant" Turbayne binding with the peacock endpapers, hence known as the 'Peacock Series'.
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Wise (Thomas James).- Stevenson (Robert Louis) Familiar Epistle in Verse and Prose, [one of 27 copies], facsimile leaf, Ashley Library device at end, original cream boards, uncut, browned, spine worn and defective, [Todd 286d], privately printed [for T.J.Wise], 1896 § [Evans (Mary Anne)], "George Eliot". Agatha, 16pp., third edition (reprint of the Wise/Forman fake of the rare original, with comma after "behind" but not after "thinking" on page 11), unbound, spine ends slightly frayed, preserved in later cloth folder and morocco-backed cloth slip-case (spine rubbed and faded), [Todd 156c(3)], Trubner & Co., 1869 [New York, ?printed for Max Harzof, c.1935] § Horne (Richard Hengist) Galatea Secunda, an Odaic Cantata, addressed to H.R.H. Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, on his first arrival in the Colony of Victoria, 4pp., second issue of title with Virgil quote corrected to "hiems", on Joynson 1873 paper, book-labels of Graham Pollard and J.O.Edwards to upper outer corner of p.2, Melbourne, For Private Circulation, 1868 [Richard Clay, c.1880] § [Austin (Alfred)] Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, 8pp., drophead title, final leaf browned, [COPAC lists BL copy only], Chiswick Press, [c.1893], 8vo & 4to (4)
Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) Poems by the Way, one of 300 copies on Flower paper, printed in red and black in Golden type, wood-engraved border and initials designed by Morris, front free endpaper very slightly defective at lower outer corner (lacking tip), original vellum with silk ties, yapp edges, spine titled in gilt, uncut, a little yellowed, slight staining to lower edge of rear cover, [Peterson A2], small 4to, Kelmscott Press, 1891. ⁂ The first book to feature the famous Kelmscott printer's mark; in fact it appears twice, at the end of the table of contents and on the colophon leaf at end. It was also the first Kelmscott book to be printed in two colours.
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[Brontë (Charlotte)] Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. Edited by Currer Bell, first American edition, advertisement f. with Webster's Dictionary to recto and Harper's New Catalogue to verso, occasional foxing or spotting, light damp stain to foot, modern calf-backed boards, [Smith 2 pp.41-45], 8vo, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1848. ⁂ The rare first American edition, the first of three to be rushed out by separate publishers in the space of a year.
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[Brontë (Emily and Anne)], "Ellis and Acton Bell". Wuthering Heights; Agnes Grey, together 3 vol. (as issued), first editions, a mixed set, some light soiling and creasing to corners (heavier to Agnes Grey), Agnes Grey with marginal browning to title, C7 and O5 with neatly repaired tears to margins and E2 with closed tear to foot, vol.1 & 2 contemporary half calf, rebacked preserving original backstrip, extremities rubbed, vol.3 modern antique-style half calf to match, spines gilt, [Smith 3 pp.60-63], 8vo, Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847. ⁂ The rare first editions of the two sisters' first novels. Wuthering Heights is one of the great romantic works and remains one of the most popular novels in the English language. Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey were written during the remarkable 1846-47 period that also saw Charlotte write The Professor and Jane Eyre. These two novels, along with The Professor were sent as a trio to publishers from July 1846, meeting with uniform rejection until around a year later the publisher Thomas Cautley Newby expressed an interest in the novels of Emily and Anne. The terms offered to the sisters were poor: between them they had to raise £50 to cover publication costs, to be repaid if and when the novels raised enough money through sales (neither sister saw a penny). Nevertheless the sisters accepted, however Thomas Cautley Newby, essentially a one-man operation, moved slowly and their novels were not published until two months after Jane Eyre (despite this , and even then filled with the errors the authors had hoped would be expunged at the proof stages. The exact number of copies printed is unclear although Charlotte would later mention in a letter of September 1850 that Newby had undertaken to print 350 copies before subsequently declaring that he had printed only 250.
Philo Judaeus. In libros Mosis De mundi opificio, Historicos, De legibus. Eiusdem libri singulares, collation: α6, Α-Ζ8, a-y8, z4; [12], 736 [i.e.720], [48] pp., woodcut printer's device on title, occasional foxing, contemporary limp vellum, title inked on spine and repeated on later paper label, edges violet, tears to spine and yapp edges, lacking leather ties, folio (342 x257mm.), Paris, Adrien Turnebe, 1552. ⁂ Rare and estimeed editio princeps of the works of the hellenistic philosopher Philo Alexandrinus, also called Philo Judaeus. His attempt to reconcile Greek philosophy and Judaism was greatly influential in early Christianity. The volume was edited and magnificently printed by the outstanding philologist Adrien Turnèbe (1512-1565), responsible for the Typographia Graeca established by François I, King of France. The texts are set in the famous type known as Grec du Roi, designed by Claude Garamond in 1541. "Turnèbe was not a professional printer, but a teacher of Greek and Latin at the Royal College at Paris who abandoned his teaching in order to promote Greek literature through the printing press" (K. Sp. Staikos, Greek Philosophical Editions in the First Century of Printing, Athens 2001, p. 87). Provenance: 'Ex libris Johannis Baptistae' (partly erased ownership inscription on title); ex-libris 'Principis Burghesii' and 'Louis Grossmann Cincinnati' on front pastedown; Hebrew Union College Cincinnati (blind-stamp on title and duplicate stamp on front pastedown). Literature: Adams P1033; Pettegree-Walsby, French Books III & IV, 82807; J. Lewis, Adrien Turnèbe, Genève 1998.
Austen (Jane).- Horatius Flaccus (Quintus) Opera, 2 vol., second issue with "potest" on p.108 of vol.2 and without 'List of Antiques' in vol.1 as usual, engraved throughout with frontispieces, vignette titles, dedications, several lists of subscribers, portraits & illustrations (some full-page) and numerous head- & tail-pieces and initials, titles with faint inscription to Haggerston Robertson dated 1860 at head, one or two pencil annotations, some very light offsetting (mainly in vol.1), bookseller's ticket of R.D.Steedman of Newcastle upon Tyne, fine contemporary red morocco, gilt, spines gilt in compartments with morocco labels, g.e., turquoise silk endpapers, a little rubbed, light mottling to upper cover of vol.2, spines very slightly faded, a very good copy, [Cohen-de Ricci 498; Ray, England p.3; Rothschild 1548], 8vo, John Pine, 1733-37. ⁂ A lovely copy of Pine's magnificent work, beautifully balancing the text with the numerous engraved illustrations and Rococo ornaments. Ray describes it as "the most elegant of English eighteenth-century books" and "a high point of Augustan taste". John Pine (1690-1756) started his career as a goldsmith and became one of the finest English engravers of the first half of the 18th century. He was close friends with William Hogarth, and both were Freemasons which assisted in making connections for his expensive publications, financed by subscription. The extensive lists of subscribers include Continental buyers as well as British and feature George II, the Prince of Wales, various royals and nobles (British and foreign), and notable literary and artistic figures such as Lord Burlington, Colley Cibber, James Gibbs, G.F.Handel, Edmond Halley, Hogarth, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift and Horace Walpole. Also included in the subscribers is "Mr. John Gowland, Apothecary to his Royal High. the P. of Wales". John Gowland (d.1776), who attended Handel in his last illness, was the inventor of Gowland's lotion which is mentioned by Jane Austen in Persuasion chapter XVI, when Sir Walter Elliot recommends it to his daughter Anne on the grounds that it had improved Mrs.Clay's freckles.
Hoare (Sir Richard Colt).- Giraldus Cambrensis. The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales A.D. MCLXXXVIII, translated and edited by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2 vol., first edition in English, lacking half-titles, with 55 engraved plates and plans, 5 engraved maps hand-coloured or partly so, 2 folding (one large at end of vol.2 with short tear at edge), extra-illustrated with 10 attractive watercolour views bound in, one or two signed by I. or J.Thornton but all apparently by the same hand, most captioned in pencil and/or ink, plus a few additional engravings tipped into blank leaves or loosely inserted, some foxing, mostly at beginning and end of vol.2, frontispiece to vol.2 creased and becoming loose, U1 with short tear to lower margin, large engraved bookplate of Castle Freke Library MDCCCVII, handsome contemporary diced russia with Greek key borders in gilt, spines gilt in compartments, g.e., a little rubbed, joints cracked, 4to, 1806.
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Austen (Jane) The Novels, 2 vol. in 1, first American collected edition, [one of 1500 copies], printed in double column, a little browned, pencil note to title of vol.1, staining to first few leaves of first work, occasional foxing, modern half crimson morocco, g.e., old gilt spine laid down ("William Vicent Thacher" [sic] at foot), with original yellow endpapers, [Gilson E1], large 8vo, Philadelphia, Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1838. ⁂ The second American edition of Austen's novels. All were issued individually by Carey & Lea (later Carey, Lea & Blanchard) from 1832-33, pre-dating the reissue of the novels in England by Richard Bentley in his 'Standard Novels' series. Rev. William Vincent Thacher (1815-39), minister of the Unitarian Church, Savannah, Georgia, who died at sea on a passage home from Savannah to New York.
Slavery.- Clarkson (Thomas) The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament, 2 vol., first edition, presentation copy from the author " To Wm. Wilberforce Esqr. M.P., an unwearied Fellow-Labour[er] and the parliamentary Leader in the great Cause of the Abolition of the Slave-Trade this work is affectionately present[ed]" inscribed on title of vol.1, 3 engraved plates, 2 folding, inscription very slightly cropped with loss of a couple of letters, a few markings and numberings in ink or pencil to vol.1, some foxing and soiling, a few light stains to text and marginal defects, plates with a little offsetting, one folding plate frayed at edge, the other (plan of slave ship) torn and repaired at edge, modern half calf (in style of previous binding), with Wilberforce's engraved bookplate on preserved front pastedown tipped in at beginning of vol.1, [Goldsmiths' 19725; Kress B.5319; Sabin 13486], 8vo, 1808. ⁂ A superb association copy, between two of the leading lights in the campaign against slavery. Thomas Clarkson (1760-46) devoted most of his life to fighting for the abolition of slavery and toured the country assembling evidence, interviewing 20,000 sailors and acquiring equipment used on the slave-ships. He persuaded Wilberforce (1759-1833) to take up the cause in Parliament and in 1807 the Slave Trade Act was passed, banning the transportation of slaves in British ships. Eventually the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 abolished slavery in most parts of the British Empire, being passed three days before Wilberforce died.
δ Designer Binding.- Brockman (James).- Devauchelle (Roger) La Reliure en France de ses origines a nos jours, 3 vol., [one of 900 copies], plates and illustrations, some colour and mounted, original printed wrappers bound in at end, bound in variously-coloured goatskin, by James Brockman, vol.1 in tan, vol.2 purple and vol.3 ochre, each with bands of thin tooled lines in gold and onlaid strips of goatskin in black and other colours running across covers and spine but to different design on each volume, spines titled and numbered in gilt, signed and dated "James R.Brockman 1981" at foot of rear turn-in, preserved in black goatskin-backed drop-back cloth boxes, spines with 6 raised bands and titled in gilt, 4to, Paris, 1959-61. ⁂ Important history of bookbinding in France by a renowned binder, often found incomplete. James Brockman (born 1946) studied under Ivor Robinson at Oxford Polytechnic. He was assistant to Sydney Cockerell in Cambridge from 1968-73, Arts Fellow at Gwasg Gregynog, the University of Wales, 1982-83 and the first visiting lecturer at the Institute of Fine Binding and Book Conservation, Humanities Research Centre, University of Texas in 1987. He is a Fellow of Designer Bookbinders and past President of both Designer Bookbinders and The Society of Bookbinders. δ This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.
Isocrates. Orationes, Basel, Michel Isengrin,1550; bound with Camerarius (Joachim) Libellus scolasticus utilis et valde bonus, Basel, Johannes Oporinus, 1551, together 2 works in 1, I. collation: α-γ8, a-z8 A-N8, O4; [48], 563 [i.e. 583], [1] pp., II. collation: A-M8, N10, O4; 214 [i.e. 212], [8] pp., both with woodcut decorated initials, slightly browned, pale water-stain to first leaves of first work, fine contemporary German pigskin over wooden boards, covers blind-tooled and decorated with plaque, lower cover with letters 'NV' and date '1551' stamped in blind, spine with three raised bands, metal clasps intact, 8vo (173 x 107mm.) ⁂ This fine miscellaneous volume, in its strictly contemporary German binding, opens with the edition of Isocrates' Orationes printed by Isengrin, supplemented as an introduction by the Isocratous bios by Plutarch. The present copy is complete with the final leaves containing the Index (often lacking) and belongs to the issue bearing the place and date of printing on the title-page. The second work is a very rare schoolbook edited by the outstanding philologist and editor of Greek classics Joachim Camerarius. It includes a collection of short Greek texts extracted from Theognis, Phytagoras, Simonides and Callimachus. Provenance: ownership inscription barely legible, but dated '28 Aug. 1559' on recto of front free endpaper; engraved ex-libris of Pope Pius VI (1717-1799) on front pastedown. Literature: I. VD16 ZV 8607. II. VD16 C 451.
Egyptology.- Champollion (Jean François) Dictionnaire Égyptienne en Écriture Hiéroglyphique, first edition, half-title, lithographed hieroglyphs throughout, title lightly soiled, ex-library copy with unobtrusive blind-stamp on title, modern calf, uncut, folio, Paris, Firmin Didot, 1841-43. ⁂ Lithographic reproduction of Champollion's manuscript, published after his death, with an index at the end of the hieroglyphs sorted by type including celestial, anatomical, animal, architectural, household objects etc.
Taaffe (John, poet, friend of Shelley and Byron, son of John Taaffe of Smarmore Castle, Co. Louth in Ireland, officer in the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, 1787-1862) Adelais, 2 vol., autograph manuscript signed, title and c. 800pp., numerous autograph corrections, ruled throughout, 1f. cut, browned, vol. I original half cloth, vol. II vellum-backed boards, both edges rubbed, 4to, 20th August 1841 - 1st April 1848. ⁂ A Byronesque historical poem on Alice, sister of King Philip II of France and Richard I, her intended husband. Richard I repudiated Alice and instead married Berengaria of Navarre. Inscription reads: "This belongs to the Author, John Taaffe - and contains the 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 or last Canto of Adelais - as likewise the notes on those seven cantos. The first nine, with preface and notes to those nine are in a book in the custody of... Lucrezia Bembo, neé Grimani of Venice - and is without the author's final revision which would be the same operation already performed on this; namely cutting it down, fully one half... April 1st. 1848. That is, this forms the second part of Adelais; the first part being in Vednice, as above J Taaffe." Published as a privately printed edition in 1852. Taaffe was part of a celebrated encounter with Byron and Shelley and an Italian Dragoon in Pisa in 1822. Following a customary ride out of the city on a Sunday afternoon, Byron, Shelley and Trelawny, Byron's friends Count Pietro Gamba, John Taaffe, and Captain John Hay were strung out across the road, trotting their horses back into Pisa, when an Italian dragoon, racing back to Pisa, galloped through the group, spooking Taaffe's horse. Affronted, the party set off in pursuit of the dragoon. Catching up with him at the gate, they immediately began haranguing him and demanding his name. Sergeant-Major Stefano Masi-the dragoon-would answer only in Italian and French insults, but once Byron and Trelawny began demanding satisfaction, he commanded the guards that they all be arrested. Furious, Count Gamba attacked Masi with his whip while Shelley launched his horse at him. Shelley was knocked from his horse, while Captain Hay, wielding nothing but a riding crop to Masi's sabre, was slashed across the face.
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