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Scarce Napoleonic Poem — Bodoni Printing
Presented by the Author, Owned by Nobility
Tadini, Placido Maria. Genethliacon Regis Romae ode alcaica. Parmae: Typis Bodonianis, 1811. Folio (42 cm, 16.5"). [8 (2 blank)] pp.
$2500.00
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Sole Bodoni and sole book edition: Written in Horatian-inspired Alcaic stanzas, this Napoleonic birthday tribute in honor of the “King of Rome” was the third Latin ode from Cardinal Tadini to be printed by Bodoni. Never reprinted in book form and apparently otherwise printed only once in a contemporary periodical, the poem is now scarce, most especially in this large, imposing Bodoni production: A search of NUC, WorldCat, COPAC, KVK, and SBN finds only six libraries worldwide reporting ownership
none in the U.S., one in Britain, one in Switzerland, and four in Italy.
Provenance: Inscribed on the title-page “Donné par L'Auteur.” Front pastedown and free endpaper with bookplates of Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater and Prince of the Holy Roman Empire; John Egerton-Cust, 2nd Earl Brownlow, Ashridge, 1876; Crosby Gaige (Broadway producer, book collector, and co-founder of the Watch Hill Press); abd Grolier Club member Leroy Arthur Sugarman. Additionally, the large, neat, elegant rubber-stamp of the Ashridge Library at foot of title-page.
Brooks 1100; De Lama, II, 196. Not in Brunet, not in Graesse. Original Bodoni orange paper–covered boards, front cover with gilt-stamped title and author and paper now more brown than orange — rubbed at extremities and spine with loss of paper in top 7". Bookplates, ownership markings, and inscription as above. Pages clean.
An uncommon item, with extended, interesting provenance. (40199)

Inscribed by the Author Housed in a
Spine-Gilt-Extra Slipcase
Tarkington, Booth. Monsieur Beaucaire. New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1900. 8vo (19.8 cm, 7.75"). 3–127 pp.; 6 plts.
$250.00
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First edition, first issue and inscribed by the Pulitzer Prize–winning Hoosier author: a short novel about a mysterious French gambler in 18th-century Bath, Monsieur Beaucaire, who has a reputation for honesty. When he threatens to reveal the Duke of Winterset’s cheating, he trades his silence for an introduction to the beautiful Lady Mary Carlisle; after many complications his true royal rank is eventually revealed.
Booth Tarkington (1869–1946) is one of just three writers to receive more than one Pulitzer Prize in fiction. Immensely prolific and popular, he was known for his quintessentially Midwestern fiction; Monsieur Beaucaire, set notably far from the American heartland, was his second published work.
This first edition was
inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf: “’And live men are jus’ — names!’ said M. Beaucaire. Booth Tarkington, Kennebunkport, Oct. 17, 1940.” (Tarkington spent much of his later life in Kennebunkport, ME.)
The novel is
illustrated with six plates (including a frontispiece) by C.D. Williams, printed in violet with dark green frames and and all having tissue guards. The other decorations in the book were designed by Charles Edwin Hooper.
Binding: Publisher’s red cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spine and front board; illustrated endpapers and top edge gilt. Housed in a chemise within quarter red morocco openback slipcase with five raised bands, gilt lettering and decoration to spine.
Wright, III, 5370; Merle Johnson, p. 489; Russo & Sullivan, pp. 6–9. Bound as above; corners slightly bumped, slipcase edges lightly rubbed. Very minor gutter crack at p. 44 and a more notable one at p. 62, without affecting strength of binding. Charmingly cased and signed by its celebrated author, a nice copy
attractive and smart. (37920)

A Classic of Italian Renaissance Literature
Bodoni
Super-Royal Folio Format Copy
Tasso, Torquato. Aminta favola boschereccia ... ora alla sua vera lezione ridotta. Crisopoli: Impresso Co' Topi Bodoniani, 1793. Folio extra (44.5 cm, 17.75"). xxxv, [1], 117, [1] pp.
$2500.00
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Bodoni's super-royal folio format edition of Tasso's best-known work. This folio extra is a reprint of the press's edition of 1789, with a handsome engraved headpiece done by Lucatelli; Brooks notes that this edition is found both with and without a frontispiece portrait, and the latter is the case here.
Binding: Contemporary brown calf, covers framed in blind fillets surrounding a wide blind roll, with large areas of blind-tooled arabesques in corners; covers with blind-stamped supra-libros (see below). All edges gilt.
Provenance: Covers with armorial supra-libros of Henry Welbore Agar-Ellis, 2nd Viscount Clifden (1761–1836), with his motto: “Non haec sine numine.” Front pastedown of deep blue with armorial bookplate and “C” shelf-list tag at one corner, front free endpaper with bookplates of Robert Wayne Stilwell and Brian Douglas Stilwell.
Brooks 514; Brunet, V, 673; Giani 46 (p. 48). Binding as above, rebacked with original spine laid down and recent gilt-stamped red leather labels; corners and lower edges rubbed. Bookplates as above. Free endpapers with offsetting from turn-ins. Pages notably clean clean and crisp.
A striking copy of this dramatic presentation. (40163)

A Classic of Italian Literature — Bodoni Printing — Exceptional Binding
Tasso, Torquato. Aminta favola boschereccia di Torquato Tasso ora per la prima volta alla sua vera lezione ridotta. Crisopoli: Impresso co' Caratterei Bodoniani, 1789. Large 4to (30.2 cm, 11.89"). [12], 14, [2], 142, [2 (blank)] pp.
$1500.00
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First Bodoni edition of Tasso's best-known work. This widely read 16th-century play, a pastoral set in the time of Alexander the Great, features a wedding at its conclusion — perfect for
this present printing done in honor of the marriage of the niece of a celebrated and influential noblewoman, Marchesa Anna Malaspina della Bastia. Bodoni dedicated the graceful production to the Marchesa, a devotee of his work. While it was subsequently reprinted in 1792 with a frontispiece bearing the original printing date of 1789, this example is identifiable as the first issue (with the small signature number on p. 13 of the preface, and the correct “novi lumi” on p. 38). Brunet cites this as “une des plus belles éditions” produced by the legendary printer-typographer.
Binding: Contemporary speckled calf, spine with gilt-stamped red leather title label and gilt-stamped strawberry compartment decorations; covers framed with a narrow gilt flower-and-diamond roll and panelled incorporating
unusual marbled calf onlays. Paneling of front cover demarcated using the border roll with a wider Greek key roll, and that of the back cover created using the flower-and-diamond roll in combination with a pattern of circles between fillets. Marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of private collector Brian Douglas Stilwell.
Brooks 379; Brunet, V, 673; Giani 11 (p. 39); Renouard, IV, 305. Binding as above, unobtrusively rebacked preserving original spine; light wear to joints and extremities, sides with small scuffs refurbished with a restrained hand. Bookplate as above; front free endpaper with pencilled reference annotations. The wide-margined, crisply printed and engraved pages are notably clean.
Distinctive for its occasion and and desirable for its lovely production. (40138)

Uncommon Version of Bodoni's Aminta
Tasso, Torquato. Aminta favola boschereccia ... ora alla sua vera lezione ridotta. Crisopoli: Impresso Co' Topi Bodoniani, 1796. 4to (24.2 cm, 9.52"). xxxvii, [1], 142 pp.
$575.00
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Limited Bodoni edition of Tasso's best-known work. Bodoni first published this widely read 16th-century play in 1789, in honor of the Marchesa Anna Malaspina della Bastia. Vincenzo Monti supplied a dedicatory poem, and Pierantonio Serassi the preface. The text here was reset in different characters from the 1789 and, according to Brooks, limited to 100 copies
on carta velina and 2 on vellum. This is a paper copy, with the engraved portrait of Tasso present on the title-page.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of Joseph H. Hamilton (an oak tree being cut by a saw, with the motto “Through”; bookplate attributed to Richard Joseph Ablett by the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts). Title-page with early inked inscription of Catherine Cowper.
Brooks 650; Giani 92 (pp. 57/58). Contemporary green calf, covers framed in gilt double fillets with gilt-tooled corner fleurons, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-tooled compartment decorations between gilt-ruled raised bands, board edges and turn-ins with gilt rolls, all edges gilt; spine and board edges browned, spine label chipped, joints and extremities rubbed. Pages faintly age-toned, otherwise clean. (40176)

Tasso's Masterpiece, with a
Dellacruscan Scholar's Take
Tasso, Torquata. Aminta: Favola boscareccia ... con le annotazioni d'Egidio Menagio accademico della Crusca. Venezia: Gio. Battista Pasquali, 1736. 8vo (18.8 cm, 7.4"). xlii, [2], 387, [1] pp.
$350.00
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Tasso's best-known work, accompanied by Ménage's analysis. Gilles Ménage (Italianized as “Menagio”) was a French man of letters, salonnier, and member of the influential Accademia della Crusca. Here, he supplies scene-by-scene commentary on the hugely successful pastoral, with extensive annotations incorporating significant quotations in Greek, Latin, and French — and even a (very) few words of Arabic and Hebrew.
This is
the first Venetian edition: “accresciuta & migliorata” from the first Parisian edition of 1655, and in a handsomely accomplished printing. The title-page is printed in black and red, with Pasquali's “La felicità delle lettere” printer's mark, and each section is decorated with head- and tailpieces.
This ed. not in Brunet. Contemporary vellum-covered boards, spine with delightful hand-inked title and
ship and whale silhouettes; extremities rubbed, one corner bumped, spine with small chip affecting one word of title. All edges sprinkled red. Front pastedown with the Haverford College institutional bookplate (properly deaccessioned in 2017 with rubber-stamp marking) and adhered traces of now-absent bookplate, title-page and one other pressure-stamped. A very few instances of light spotting and one pencilled annotation in Italian, pages otherwise clean.
An engaging copy. (38979)
Jerusalem Delivered & Illustrated
Tasso, Torquato. Godfrey of Bulloigne, or, Jerusalem delivered ... translated by Edward Fairfax. London & New York: George Routledge & Co., 1858. 8vo (16.5 cm, 6.5"). Frontis., xlviii, 445, [1] pp.; 7 plts.
$100.00
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Fairfax’s English translation of the great Italian Renaissance epic, originally printed in 1600 and here edited by Robert Aris Willmott for the “Routledge’s British Poets” series. The volume is illustrated with a frontispiece and seven steel-engraved plates done from designs by Edward Henry Corbould, drawing and painting instructor to Queen Victoria’s children.
Contemporary half calf over marbled paper–covered sides, gilt spine extra; sides and edges of paper showing light scuffing, spine leather a bit darkened; attractive. Marbled endpapers; all edges marbled to match endpapers and sides of covers. Front pastedown with small paper adhesions. One signature separated.
An attractive edition, a pretty copy. (19130)

Epic Artistry
Tasso, Torquato. La Gerusalemme liberata. Parma: Nel Regal Palazzo, 1807. Large 4to (30 cm, 11.8"). 2 vols. in 1. [18], 331, [3], 337, [1] pp.
$975.00
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Luxurious Bodoni edition of the great Italian Renaissance epic, with the text edited by distinguished scholar Abbot Pier Antonio Serassi. Bodoni first printed folio and quarto editions of the Gerusalemme in 1794, having previously published Tasso's Aminta in 1789. Giani and other sources consider the present grand quarto edition worthwhile as both a useful text and a generally faithful reprinting; it hews very closely to the 1794 quarto design, though the original Roman stanza numerals are here replaced by Arabic. The work was printed in two volumes — here bound as one — on laid paper.
Binding: Contemporary green textured calf, covers framed in gilt triple fillets with gilt-stamped corner fleurons, spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather author label. Board edges and turn-ins with gilt roll.
Textblock edges delightfully marbled in a bright, impressive, tour-de-force match to marbling of endpapers.
Brooks 1017; Brunet, V, 667; De Lama, II, 175; Giani 179 (page 72). Bound as above, rebacked with original spine sunned to brown reapplied; sides with scuffs (some showing signs of refurbishing) and with edges and extremities moderately rubbed.
A monument of both literature and typography in a very clean and handsome copy. (40192)

The House of the Walderings
Tautphoeus, Jemima Montgomery, Baroness. At odds. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1897. 8vo (18.4 cm; 7.5"). 473, [6 (ads)] pp.
$22.50
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Baroness Tautphoeus (1807–93) was an Irish novelist whose stories focused on Bavarian life. This, her final novel, first appeared in 1863 with the first U.S. appearing in that same year.
WorldCat locates only five institutional copies of this edition.
Binding: Speckled grey cloth stamped in brown and blue with blue lettering; unsigned, but well designed.
Bound as above, slightly cocked and spine ends bumped. Ownership stamp to front free endpaper with offsetting to pastedown; interior otherwise clean.
A lovely, clean copy. (37488)

America's First “Homosexual Novel”?
Taylor, Bayard. Joseph and his friend: a story of Pennsylvania. New York / London: G.P. Putnam & Sons / S. Low, Son & Marston, 1870. Small 8vo (19 cm, 7.5"). vi, 361, [1], [2 (ads)] pp.
$900.00
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“America's first [openly published] homosexual novel” is the tag most often applied to this novel. It recounts the story of Joseph, a young man who marries a wealthy woman and as a result of a train crash develops a strong relationship with his new friend Philip. The tension that arises within Joseph is between his love for his wife, despite her manipulative nature, and his increasing feelings for Philip, which may be an even more powerful love.
The ambivalence of the presentation of the relationship has led some scholars to say that the novel falls within the nineteenth-century genre of non-sexual romantic friendships between men, while others come down squarely saying it is a novel of homosexuality.
Joseph and His Friend was Taylor's only novel that was serialized before publication (The Atlantic Monthly, January–December 1870). There are “points” in the first edition. The present copy is BAL printing A, purple C cloth, with tan endpaper.
BAL 19713; Wright, II. 2433; Young, Male Homosexual in Literature, 3752. Publisher's cloth as above; frayed at joints (outside) and along board edges, at points exposing underlying board, and at top and bottom of spine. Fore-edge of front free endpaper bent. Age-toned as expectable, with a few light stains; a good copy. (40313)

Ultra-Patriotic Verse Tribute to the
Spirit of America
Taylor, Bayard. The national ode. The memorial freedom poem. Boston: William F. Gill & Co., 1877 (copyright 1876). 8vo (22 cm, 8.7"). Frontis., 744 pp.; illus.
$125.00
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“The Memorial Freedom Poem, which may be fittingly termed the poem of the centennial year, was written for the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of American Independence” (p. 5). This is the first edition standard book-form printing, it having been preceded by a heliotype facsimile of Taylor's manuscript in 1876, following the piece's smashing success at the festivities in Philadelphia. Electrotyped by Smith & McDougal and printed by Filmer & Class, the volume is illustrated with
more than 70 engravings done by a variety of hands, including at least one woman.
Provenance: Front free endpaper (now separated) with bookplate of Dr. Martin J. Loeb, a prominent New York physician and philanthropist, with an explanatory “Legend of the Bookplate” label affixed to opposing fly-leaf.
BAL 19807. Publisher's brown morocco, bevelled boards, covers framed in decorative blind rolls, spine with raised band and gilt-stamped title, turn-ins with gilt roll; light wear overall with extremities rubbed and spine title dimmed. All edges gilt. BAL binding C, the others being cloth. Front free endpaper (with bookplate) separated; back pastedown with small (upside-down!) numerical paper label. Foxing, as the paper is inclined to it, and a little soiling; a “decent” copy. (40360)

“They Rambled on about
Soho, a Much Frequented Track”
[Taylor, John]. Monsieur Tonson. A new version. Illustrated with beautiful copper-plates. Philadelphia: Morgan & Yeager, [1821–24]. 16mo (17 cm, 6.75"). [12] pp; 12 plts., illus.
$875.00
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The online catalogue at the American Antiquarian Society writes of this work: “An adaptation for children of the comic narrative poem Monsieur Tonson, by John Taylor (1757-1832). For his authorship see the Dictionary of national biography.” It also notes that “Morgan and Yeager published together from 1815 to 1824" and that the work was “probably issued after 1820.” Another observation is that the hand-colored plates “might be by William Charles, who worked with Joseph Yeager” but that the title is “not listed in Harry B. Weiss' William Charles: Early caricaturist, engraver and publisher of children's books (1932).”
The title-page (i.e., the front wrapper) informs that the publication price was “25 cents plain, 37 1/2 coloured.” The text and illustrations are mostly printed only on one side of a leaf.Provenance: 19th-century signature of Richard H. Downing on verso of frontispice; most recently in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
WorldCat locates only three U.S. libraries reporting ownership (Yale, Free Library of Philadelphia, AAS).
Shoemaker 2310; not in Welch; not in Rosenbach, Children's. Buff printed paper covers; text block recased. Wrappers and text age-soiled and with stains; still, a (now) solid and appealing period piece. (38923)

The La Crosse Morning Leader's Leader Speaks
Taylor, Lute A. Lute Taylor's chip basket; being choice selections from the lectures, essays, addresses, editorials, and public and social correspondence. Hudson, WI: Star & Times Printing House, 1874. 8vo (17.4 cm, 6.75"). Frontis., 218 pp.
$40.00
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First edition: Collected writings of a beloved Wisconsin newspaperman (and stutterer, who writes with good humor about that here). A steel-engraved portrait of the author opens the volume.
Binding: Publisher's green cloth, covers framed in blind, front cover with gilt-stamped decorative title and basket vignette, spine with gilt-stamped author and title.
Light wear only to joints and extremities, cloth showing small spots of faint discoloration. Front free endpaper with pencilled ownership inscription dated 1910, front fly-leaf with same owner's inked inscription. Pages gently age-toned, otherwise clean. (30499)

Birket Foster: “Green Grass Below, Green Leaves O'erhead
Green Banks on Either Side”
Taylor, Tom; Myles Birket Foster, illus. Birket Foster's pictures of English landscape. London: Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, 1863. 4to (26.3 cm, 10.4"). [74 (2 adv.)] pp.; 30 plts.
$1450.00
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First edition. One of the most popular artists of his day, Myles Birket Foster (1825–99) was famed for his idealized views of rural England. For this deluxe volume
30 of Foster's most accomplished illustrations were wood-engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. Among the Foster designs here are “The Green Lane,” “The Country Inn,” “Cows in the Pool,” “The Gleaners at the Stile,” “Old Cottages,” etc. Accompanying the plates are verses by the popular playwright, biographer, and critic Tom Taylor (1817–80) — with two of the poems, “The Smithy” and “At the Brookside,” signed “L.W.T.”: Laura Wilson Taylor (née Barker), Taylor's wife. Both text and plates are on heavy paper, mounted into this substantial volume.
Binding: Contemporary dark green morocco, covers framed and panelled in blind fillets surrounding central panel of fleurs-de-lis in latticework, upper corners of that panel with gilt corner fleurons, base of panel with gilt wreath (possibly of English elm leaves, referring to the “elm-branches” of the first poem in the volume); spine with gilt-stamped title, raised bands, and blind-stamped compartment decorations. Board edges with gilt-dotted roll, turn-ins with single gilt fillets defining three bands, of which the central band is brown leather rather than green; innermost edge with small gilt dentelle roll. All edges gilt; marbled paper endpapers.
Provenance: Front free endpaper with garter-encircled pressure-stamp of Manchester bookseller Edwin Slater; front fly-leaf with early inked gift inscription to Ellen I. Moscrop [?] “from her sincere friend, Arabella Ble[???].” Most recently in the collection of Hubert Dingwall.
Ray, Illustrator and the Book in England, 191. Binding as above, spine gently sunned; joints and edges mildly rubbed, corners somewhat more so. Stamp and inscription as above. Foxing/spotting variously, pages ranging from quite clean to bearing a few small spots to being more broadly affected, although the hue of this is generally light and the action is mostly confined to margins.
Quintessentially and delightfully Victorian: a lovely collection of some of this beloved artist's best work. (38851)

“To the Admirers of
Real GENIUS, & Lovers of Poetic Harmony,
the Poem of Gilbert will be a Standing Dish”
(Lovers of Wood-Engraving will Find it a Little Feast)
Templeman, James; Miles Sapman, ed. Gilbert, an amatory rural poem, in eight cantos. London: Sherwood, Neely, & Jones (pr. by C. Whittingham), 1809. 12mo (14.8 cm, 5.82"). [2], xxxv, [1], 107, [1] pp.; 8 plts.
$150.00
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Scarce pastoral poetry, printed by Charles Whittingham. While the title piece was originally published in the previous year, this appears to be the first edition with Sapman's revisions and with the additional poems “The Story of Ancient Pluto,” “The Gods' Revenge; or, the Trial of Cupid,” and “The Winter Hermit.” The front cover label gives “Rural Tales & Poems, in Imitation of Bloomfield,” although only one institution (Yale) records the work by that title, while most other institutional holdings are given under the main title as here. A second volume, not present, followed in 1810 (containing “Alcander and Lavinia,” “Farmer Hobson,” and miscellaneous pieces).
This text is illustrated with eight finely rendered wood-engraved plates by R. Austin: in this copy, all except the frontispiece are bound in between the introduction and the first poem. Miles Sapman supplied the lengthy introduction in which much praise of “Gilbert” is sung and a number of defenses against criticism are offered. Curiously, Sapman appears to be something of a mystery (neither WorldCat nor Google find any other literary efforts under that name), as does Templeman himself — perhaps both were pseudonyms disguising one person! Whoever was responsible, this work is now uncommon; WorldCat reports only six U.S. libraries reporting ownership.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabels (“AHA”) at rear.
Not in NCBEL. Contemporary plain brown paper–covered boards with lighter paper shelfback of later date and front cover with printed paper label as above; binding moderately scuffed and darkened. Back pastedown with bookplate as above and with small “Dupl.” rubber-stamp not clearly showing whose. Some signatures roughly opened; occasional small spots of foxing.
A solid copy of this literary curiosity, with all plates and in its original binding. (40570)

First U.S. Standalone Printing — Three Versions
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron. A dream of fair women. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1880–85. 8vo (22.9 cm, 9.01"). 3 vols. All 3: Frontis., 103, [1] pp.; illus.
$250.00
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First American edition of Tennyson's fantastical evocation of an array of great ladies of song and story, here in
a trio of publisher's variations. The poem was originally published in The Lady of Shalott, and Other Poems in 1833; Osgood's ornate production features numerous in-text and full-page illustrations drawn and engraved by a variety of hands including Mary Hallock Foote, Martha Ritchie Simpson, Thomas Moran, and others, under the supervision of Anthony Varick Stout Anthony.
Bindings: Publisher's cloth (one 1880 copy in green and one in chestnut, with 1885 copy in darker brown), front covers with three rectangular panels, the title gilt-stamped in center panel on a dotted background, the top and bottom panels embossed in a complex foliate and strapwork design picked out with black stamping against a white background; spines with with gilt-stamped title. All edges gilt.
Provenance: Green 1880 copy with pencilled inscription of Mariou Pierce of “B'ville, Mass.” (Baldwinsville), dated 1916. 1885 copy with Carroll Institute of Reading, PA, PRIZE AWARD BOOKPLATE, noting gift in that year to Frederick Clymer for excellence in arithmetic. Later in the library of Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.
NSTC 741843. Bindings as above; one spine with gilt dimmed, two volumes with extremities rubbed, hinges of green copy tender. Bookplate and inscription as above. Pages clean.
An unusual gathering, of interest to scholars and lovers of binding and publishing history as well as to aficionados of late 19th–century illustration. (40629)

The LEC Goes to
Camelot among Other Places
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron. The poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1974. 8vo. 285, [3] pp.; illus.
$130.00
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Selected and introduced by John D. Rosenberg for the British Poets series, here illustrated with
25 in-text, wood-engraved vignettes by Reynolds Stone. The volume was designed by John Dreyfus and printed at the Cambridge University Press in monotype Perpetua on English wove paper, and bound by Tapley-Rutter in quarter maroon goatskin with terra-cotta linen sides, the front cover bearing
a black leather oval medallion embossed with a portrait of the author and the spine a gilt-stamped leather title-label.
This is numbered copy 972 of 1500 printed, signed at the colophon by the illustrator; the appropriate LEC newsletter, in its (unstamped) envelope, is laid in.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 483. Binding as above, in original glassine dust wrapper and publisher's slipcase; wrapper with spine darkened and torn with loss, front panel crumpled; book clean and fresh, one leaf not with damage but a natural paper flaw at edge; slipcase showing only minimal shelfwear. A very nice copy. (30124)
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron. Maud, and other poems. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1856. 8vo (18.7 cm, 7.4"). 160, [2 (blank)], 12 (adv.) pp.
$100.00
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Second U.S. edition: The first volume of Tennyson’s verse that was published. after his acceptance of the poet-laureateship.
Publisher’s cloth, covers blind-stamped, spine with gilt-stamped title; binding lightly scuffed overall, spine with extremities worn and one compartment gently faded, back joint with small ink blotch and corner of front cover with traces of old adhesion, as a sticker. Front pastedown with private collector’s bookplate and institutional bookplate, front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription dated 1859, title-page verso stamped (no other markings). Pages slightly age-toned. (19078)
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Tennyson Juvenilia from
the Chaucer Press, Bungay
Tennyson, Alfred. The devil and the lady. London: Macmillan & Co., 1930. 8vo. Frontis., xv, [1], 67, [3] pp.
$35.00
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First edition of this verse comedy written by the poet at the age of 14, edited by his grandson. 1500 copies were printed by R. Clay & Sons at the Chaucer Press, Bungay, on “Whitman hand-made paper”; an attractive label inside the back cover indicates that this copy was acquired (and/or the edition was distributed) by way of “The Times Book Club, 42 Wigmore Street, London, W.1.”
Binding: Publisher's quarter parchment over handsome, textured, swirl-printed tan paper; spine with gilt-stamped author and title. Edges uncut.
Bound as above; corners bumped, spine darkened and rubbed, joints also rubbed. Title-page with small paper adhesion, one other page with light smudge, a little light dust-soiling along the uncut lower edges, otherwise clean. (29724)



Starting with, “How First Love May Interrupt Breakfast”
Thackeray, William Makepeace. The history of Pendennis. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1849]. 8vo (23.5 cm, 9.25"). [10]–104 pp.; illus.
$125.00
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First number of the first U.S. edition of this charming, humorous Bildungsroman, here in the publisher's original wrappers. 16 in-text wood engravings adorn the text; like the illustration on the front wrapper here, they are based on the
originals done by Thackeray himself. The front wrapper states “To be completed in seven numbers,” although in actuality it took eight. A nice example of a “part” of a book issued in parts.
Publisher's printed paper wrappers; wrappers darkened with corners bumped, front wrapper with small ink spots, short edge tears, and faint rings of discoloration. Faint intermittent foxing with one signature (only) more notably age-toned.; final leaf with portion torn out of outer margin, not touching text.
A pleasing touchstone for Victorian literature and its “production.” (33259)

Up & Down
Pocklington Gardens Street
Hand-Colored Plates — Zaehnsdorf Binding
Thackeray, William Makepeace. Our street. London: Chapman & Hall, 1848. 8vo (18.7 cm, 7.4"). 54, [2 (adv.)] pp.; 16 plts.
$750.00
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First edition, illustrated with 16 hand-colored plates: Thackeray's second Christmas book, published under the pseudonym “Mr. M.A. Titmarsh,” is a collection of trenchant observations on the follies of his neighbors, upper crust and lower class alike. The illustrations were engraved by Henry Vizetelly after Thackeray's drawings.
Binding: Oxblood morocco with covers simply framed in gilt double fillets, spine with gilt-stamped title and gilt-ruled compartments; board edges with double-rule fillet. Wide turn-ins with gilt roll, double-fillets, and dentelle roll; silk pastedowns and free endpapers. All edges gilt. Original wrappers bound in; binding
signed by Zaehnsdorf.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
NSTC 2T6768. Binding as above, spine sunned to a rosy tan color, extremities lightly rubbed. Old cataloguing affixed to front free endpaper verso (i.e., to paper, not silk). Small line of staining to upper margins of most leaves, pages and plates otherwise clean save for three instances of offsetting from plates.
A pretty little book; a nice thing in 1848 and a nice thing now. (38635)
Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair. A novel without a hero. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1848. 8vo (23.8 cm, 9.3"). Add. engr. t.-p., 332 pp.; 31 plts.
$750.00
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First U.S. edition of Thackeray’s first great literary success. This classic Victorian novel, illustrated with the author’s own designs, had originally appeared in London in serialized form commencing the year before this publication.
NCBEL, III, 857. Contemporary half goat with marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title label; binding worn and rubbed, but sturdy. Title-page with early inked ownership inscription. Front free endpaper excised, back free endpaper torn. Pages with scattered light pencil markings and some spots of mild foxing, with most of the plates browned. (8294)

First Edition Thackeray in
Riviere Dress
Thackeray, William Makepeace. The Virginians: A tale of the last century. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1858–9. 8vo (21.9 cm, 8.625"). 2 vols. I: Frontis., illus. t.-p., viii, 382 pp.; 48 plts. II: Frontis., illus. t.-p., [2], viii, 376 pp.; 22 plts.
$550.00
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First book edition following its issuance (1857–59) in 24 monthly fascicles. The British author's historical novel tells the tale of American-born twins who — after a lengthy period of dealing with troublesome relatives and financial issues — find themselves on opposing sides of the Revolutionary War. The work is a sequel to Thackeray's Henry Esmond. Each volume is illustrated with many plates and vignettes, all of which were drawn by the author himself.
Binding: Full red morocco with gilt lettering and five raised bands to spine; four of the panels with a gilt decoration of Thackeray (wearing his small, round glasses) in a jester's costume, holding the mask and a baton. Simple double-rule gilt border along board edges and gilt dentelles to turn-ins. Top edge gilt and endpapers marbled. Signed by
Riviere & Son.
Provenance: On the front pastedown of each volume, a charming bookplate of Alfred and G. Ivy Clark, the former (1873–1950) being the pioneer in music recording and cinema whose work with Thomas Edison produced the first “moving pictures” having continuity and plot; he also helped Emile Berliner with the development of the gramophone, and he assembled one of the most important collections of Chinese ceramics in the West.
Bound as above; spines slightly darkened, front joint of vol. II neatly and unobtrusively refurbished. Interiors age-toned, some offsetting to pages opposite illustrations, several leaves in vol. I pulling from the binding but still attached; in vol. II, small closed tear to frontispiece, the corner of one plate torn away not affecting illustration and laid in, small slim marginal waterstain to last few leaves.
HANDSOME. (38687)

“We May Peep Here & There into That Bygone World of the Georges”
Thackeray, William Makepeace; Joseph Swain, illus. The four Georges: Sketches of manners, morals, court and town life. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1860. 12mo (21.9 cm, 8.625"). [2], 20, 175–92, 257–78, 385–406 pp.; 4 plts., illus.
[SOLD]
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The “original issue in The Cornhill Magazine”: A book-form collection, with printed title-page, of the serialized first printing of Thackeray's witty, entertaining biographies of Kings George I through IV, incorporating much commentary on the social and cultural life of each era. Charles Dudley Warner said of these essays that they “do not profess to be history in any sense — certainly not in that in which Macaulay understood or McCarthy understands it, still less in that which Mr. Kidd predicts it will some day assume: they express the thoughts of the kindly satirist, of the novelist who sees not too deeply, but whose gaze misses nothing in the field it scans. Written in much the manner of ‘Esmond’ or ‘Vanity Fair,’ and in the author’s inimitable style, they give delight which their readers never afterward wholly lose” (Warner, Library of the World's Best Literature). The four sections were printed in the July through October 1860 issues of the magazine (although the original Cornhill wrappers bound in here are for the no. 18, June 1861 issue).
Each sketch opens with a wood-engraved plate, and also includes smaller vignettes. Two of the four wood-engraved plates were signed by Joseph Swain, and many of the other in-text illustrations here were likely that prolific engraver's work.
Binding: 19th-century half dark red morocco with marbled paper–covered sides, spine with raised bands continued in blind onto boards, gilt-stamped title, and gilt-stamped trefoil decorations in compartments; binding stamped by Donnelley.
Provenance: Original front wrapper with inked inscription of R[obert] G[eorge] Moger (ca. 1811–85), a Highgate physician and philanthropist. Most recently in the library of Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.
NCBEL, III, 858. Binding as above, front joint and extremities a little rubbed, upper outer front corner bumped. Pages slightly age-toned. A pleasing piece of Thackeriana. (39838)

A Beloved Victorian Author on an
Equally Beloved Victorian Illustrator
Thackeray, William Makepeace; W.E. Church, ed.; George Cruikshank, illus. On the genius of George Cruikshank ... reprinted verbatim from “The Westminster Review.” Edited with a prefatory note on Thackeray as an artist and art-critic. London: George Redway, 1884. 8vo (22.5 cm, 8.875"). Frontis., [6], xvi, 60, [2 (adv.)] pp.; 1 plt.
$125.00
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First book-form edition of a tribute originally published in The Westminster Review in 1840 — advertised by the publisher as “the most delightful of Thackeray's critical essays” (Book-Lore, Dec. 1884). In addition to the
more than 40 woodcut illustrations, this printing includes a “new portrait” of Cruikshank, etched by F.W. Pailthorpe.
Binding: 19th-century half red morocco and marbled paper–covered sides, leather edges ruled in gilt double fillets, spine with raised bands, gilt-stamped title, and gilt-stamped floral compartment decorations. Signed binding: front free endpaper stamped by Root & Son.
Provenance: From the library of Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.
NCBEL, III, 856. Binding as above, joints and extremities rubbed. Pages mildly age-toned; two leaves with very small chips from outer margins; two pages with one small
spot of staining each. A very nice copy of a work of both literary and artistic interest. (39846)

Humor, Pathos, Redemption & Local MID-WEST Color
Thanet, Octave (i.e., Alice French). The missionary sheriff; being incidents in the life of a plain man who tried to do his duty. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. Small 8vo (19 cm; 7.5"). [3] ff., 248 pp., frontis., 14 plates.
$45.00
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Thanet (1850–1934) was the nom-de-plume of Alice French, a granddaughter of Massachusetts Governor Marcus Morton. She was a novelist and short story writer who at the age of six moved with her family to Davenport, Iowa; however, she was educated in New England and at Vassar, returning to live in Iowa and summering in Arkansas, both states providing her with settings and dialects for her writings.
The present work is a series of short stories (“The Missionary Sheriff,” “The Cabinet Organ,” “His Duty,” “The Hypnotist,” “The Next Room,” and “The Defeat of Amos Wickliff”) set in Iowa The black and white illustrations are by A.B. Frost and Clifford Carleton.
Binding: Publisher's blue-gray cloth stamped in white with an overall pattern of an exuberant vine hiding the repeating image of an eagle with a palm branch in one talon and arrows in the other. Title and author in gilt on cover and on spine.
Wright, III, 2046. Binding as above, very bright and nice; without the dust jacket. Very good condition. (34607)

Perishable Press . . .
Thayler,
Carl. The drivers. Mt. Horeb, WI: The Perishable Press, 1969.
8vo (21.8 cm, 8.6"). [24] pp.
$50.00
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First
edition: 11 poems from a
California-born poet and professor. Decorated with a title-page illustration
done after an etching by Jack Damer, these pieces were hand-set in Palatino
and printed in black, brown, red, and orange on handmade Shadwell paper. This
is
one
of 220 copies printed, of which only 130 copies were for sale;
Walter Hamady's distinctive
Perishable
Press pressmark, calligraphed by Sheikh Nasib Makarem, appears
in blind at the colophon.
Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 23.
Publisher's gray Fabriano paper wrappers, front wrapper with title
stamped in blind. A clean, fresh copy. (30800)

Seaside Imagery
Theobald, John. A second light. Newark, VT: The Janus Press, 1977. 8vo (25.9 cm, 10.2"). [24] pp.
$700.00
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First edition of these poems from a professor at San Diego State University; the first piece is “La Jolla Shores.” This is one of
75 copies set in Gudrun Zapf's Diotima by Susan Johanknecht and printed on French-folded Fabriano paper, with the front cover being a portion of an original ocean-inspired
lithograph by Claire Van Vliet, done in blues, greens, white, and silver.
Fine, Janus Press 1975–80, 41. Publisher's navy cloth, front cover with illustration on paper as above; spine very slightly sunned, outer front corners showing most minimal wear.
Van Vliet's lithograph bright and beautiful. (32333)

“Exact Portraitures of the
Very Peculiarities of Temper That Are
Every Day Passing under Our Own Observation”
American Edition, Uncredited
Theophrastus. The characters of Theophrastus; illustrated by physionomical sketches. Boston: Frederic S. Hill (stereotyped by Jenkins & Greenough), 1831. 12mo (16.9 cm, 6.7"). xiv, 64 pp.; 31 plts.
$100.00
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The earliest surviving character studies, translated from the original Greek into English. This appears to be an unauthorized American reprinting of the 1824 London edition attributed to “Francis Howell” but actually done by artist and theologian Isaac Taylor; Taylor's preface (signed “T”) appears here but his appended commentary on human nature does not, and his
31 wood engravings — a bust of Theophrastus and 30 caricatures — have been recut.
Evidence of Readership: One sketch in this copy bears a pencilled identification (“The Dissembler” = Dr. Baker); in addition, many of the images have been traced in pencil on the reverse of their plates.
American Imprints 9398. Contemporary tan paper–covered boards with brown cloth shelfback; cloth worn, paper lost over rear board and wrinkled/chipped on front board. Front pastedown and free endpaper with early inked and pencilled inscriptions; tracing and annotation as above. Pages age-toned; one plate with upper portion excised, just shaving top of image.
A quirky copy of a quirky work. (36683)

“The Bat . . . Is a Murderous Plaything”
“Thine, Bawlingly.” Something for the admirers of base ball. New York: Glenn Horowitz, 1990. 16mo (21.5 cm, 8.5"). 12, [4] pp.; illus.
$125.00
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Dedicated to the memory of Bart Giamatti and reprinted from the Salem Register of 15 August 1867: a comic account of the trials and tribulations of the game of baseball in its formative years. This is one of 150 copies printed at the Kelly/Winterton Press.
Publisher's paper wrappers.
A fresh, clean copy. (37134)

Welsh Press / Anglo-Welsh Poet
Thomas, Edward. Selected poems of Edward Thomas. [Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales]: The Gregynog Press, 1927. 8vo (23.6 cm, 9.3"). xix, [1], 95, [1] pp.
$275.00
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An early production from the
Gregynog Press, being 67 pieces by an acclaimed early 20th-century poet. The introduction, by Edward Garnett, includes letters from Thomas to Garnett.
This is
numbered copy 173 of 275 printed. The text was set in Garamond type with decorative initials in red and page ruling in blue, and printed by Robert Ashwin Maynard on Japanese vellum.
Harrop, Gregynog Press, 6. Publisher's yellow buckram, spine with gilt-stamped title; sides mildly dust-soiled, spine slightly darkened, back cover with two areas of discoloration near upper edge. Pages gently age-toned and entirely clean. (35245)

Brought to You by the
Royal Asiatic Society
Thomas, Frederick William, ed. & trans. Tibetan literary texts and documents concerning Chinese Turkestan. Part I: Literary texts. London: The Royal Asiatic Society, 1935. 8vo (21.6 cm, 8.5"). x, 323, [1] pp.
$125.00
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First edition of the first part (only) of a four-part series on Tibetan literary texts presented by the Royal Asiatic Society in their “Oriental Translation Fund” series, this being its vol. XXXII. The Royal Asiatic Society, created in 1823, connected significant scholars of Asian Studies, such as Sir Aurel Stein and Sir Richard Francis Burton, to share science, art, and literature related to Asia.
For this volume, Frederick William Thomas (1867–1956), an English Indologist and Tibetologist, collected and translated all the Tibetan literary texts then known. Several translations are prefaced by explanations of the text's origin and/or or notes on previous studies of it.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear. A portion of Howard's receipt for purchase, dated 1955, is laid in.
Publisher's navy blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine; edges rubbed and extremities bumped, fading to front board, minor gutter crack at p. 96. This offering is pt. I only. A sound, decent copy of this first volume of an intriguing series. (38078)
Thomas, Joseph. A poetical descant on the primeval and present state of mankind; or, the pilgrim’s muse. Winchester, Va.: A. Foster, pr., 1816. 12mo (13 cm; 5.25"). 219, [1 (errata)] pp.
$850.00
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Somebody had to be North Carolina’s first native born poet and the task/honor was Joseph Thomas’s, and he did it with A Poetical Descant! It is scarce, having been printed in small format in a small town by a very small-time printer for a rather small audience. Thomas’s other publications include a hymnal and short works of theology (totally fitting given that he was an itinerant preacher), and an autobiography.
Wegelin, American Poetry, 1168; Shaw & Shoemaker 39076. Recent quarter cloth with blue-green paper sides, in the style of early 19th-centry American books. Ex–mercantile library with a few stamps, including on title-page. Two letters of title abraded and mostly invisible, yet, still, a clean copy. (10217)
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Printed for The Philobiblon Club by Edmund Thompson at
HAWTHORN HOUSE
Thompson, Lawrance. Emerson and Frost: Critics of their times. Philadelphia: The Philobiblon Club, 1940. Small 8vo (20.5 cm; 8"). 44 pp.
$35.00
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“An essay read before a meeting of the Philobiblon Club at Philadelphia on 24 October 1940, and now privately printed for the Members of the Club” (title-page). The colophon tells us: “Two hundred and fifty copies, printed by Edmund Thompson at Hawthorn House, Windham, Connecticut, were complete on the last day of the year nineteen hundred and forty. The type is Bulmer, hand set; the paper Worthy Charta. The portrait of Emerson is a wood-cut by James Britton, and is issued through the courtesy of Edwin Valentine Mitchell.”
The title-page is printed in black with two blue lines; the portrait of Emerson is in blue on a pale ochre field; the colophon incorporates a large blue “H.”
Lawrance Thompson (1903–73) was a member of the English faculty at Princeton University and the official biographer of Robert Frost.
New. Publisher's gray cloth shelfback with orange-red marbled paper sides. Deckle edges. In the original gray cloth openback slipcase. (35754)

“The Great Archer of England”
[Thoms, William John]. The noble birth and gallant atchievements [sic] of that remarkable outlaw
Robin Hood. London: William Pickering, 1827. 8vo (21.8 cm, 8.56"). [2], xix, [1], 53, [1] pp.
$750.00
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“Together with a true account of the many merry and extravagant exploits he play'd in twelve several stories: to which is added, the life of Robin Hood, from a manuscript in the British Museum”: A 19th-century printing of a 1678 prose account, offering a particularly roguish take on Robin as a “bold and licentious” outlaw in the days of Henry VIII.
This is the first printing of Thoms' edition; the work was issued separately, and later reprinted as part of the three-volume Collection of Early Prose Romances (1828). WorldCat locates
only four U.S. institutional holdings.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
NSTC 2H28672. This edition not in Kelly, Checklist of Books Published by William Pickering (see 1828.22 for three-volume collection); likewise Keynes, William Pickering (rev. ed.), (see p. 92 as above). Modern pebbled black morocco, front cover with gilt-stamped green morocco title-label, in matching morocco and marbled paper–covered slipcase; slipcase rubbed, volume spine sunned and rubbed. Pages faintly age-toned with scattered small spots of light foxing. (37602)

“Come, Gentle Spring, Ethereal Mildness, Come”
Thomson, James. The poetical works of James Thomson: comprising all his pastoral, dramatic, lyrical and didactic poems and a few of his juvenile productions: with A life of the author. London: William Tegg & Co., 1850. 18mo (16.3 cm, 6.375"). lxxii, 681, [3] pp.
$125.00
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Handsome second edition of this collection of poetry by James Thomson (1700–48), writer of the British patriotic song, “Rule, Britannia!” and best known as author of “The Seasons” — a tetralogy of lengthy blank-verse celebrations of the countryside's landscape that influenced not only poets but artists such as Thomas Gainsborough, J.M.W. Turner, and Joseph Haydn.
Patrick Murdoch's short biographical piece on Thomson is included here, as well as a preface by James Nichols and notes from the editor.
Stunning engravings signed by English engravers John Gilbert and William Greatbach appear throughout, protected by tissue guards.
Binding: Dark teal(?) morocco darkened to black with beveled boards and intricate decoration in blind; gilt lettering and additional blind decoration to spine. Marbled endpapers, all edges gilt and gauffered. Binder's ticket of Poulter of Leamington on front pastedown.
Evidence of Readership: Two rather interestingly late-dated notes of reading completion (August and September 1942), in pencil in margins.
Provenance: Signature and initials of V.C. Turnbull on verso of front free endpaper; another owner's notes on place/price of purchase on the same page.
Bound as above, refurbished. Lacks half-title; frontispiece and several plates lightly foxed, offsetting to tissue guards from plates, and small, sparse spots of staining to several leaves. Pencillings as above plus one pencilled marginal rule.
A lovely collection, delicately detailed plates, and an excellent binding. (37350)

Original
PRINTED
Boards &
Three Plates
Signed by Anderson
Thomson, James. The seasons; with The castles of indolence by James Thomson. Embellished with engravings from the designs of Richd. Westall R A. New York: W. B. Gilley (Daniel Fanshaw, printer), 1817. 12mo. Front., added engr. t.-p., 287, [1 (blank)] pp.; 4 plts.
$125.00
Later American edition and in early American printed boards, now VERY scarce as such. James Thomson (1700–48), Scottish poet and dramatist, was one of the most influential poets of his day; he is perhaps best remembered for “The Seasons” whose sections were published separately — Winter in 1726, Summer in 1727, Spring in 1728, and Autumn in 1730. The complete poem was published in 1730 and inspired numerous imitators and admirers, such as Coleridge and Haydn, who composed an oratorio from its German translation.
The added engraved title-page here is embellished with engravings from the designs of Richard Westall, and the frontispiece and added title-page were engraved by John Scoles. Among the four wood-engraved illustrations for the seasons, three are definitely by Alexander Anderson.
“Spring” and “Summer” are signed “Anderson” and “Winter” is signed “A.”
Shaw & Shoemaker 42282; Pomeroy, Alexander Anderson, 565a. Uncut and partially unopened copy. Publisher's printed paper over boards softly rubbed, obscuring some printing detail; very fragile, with joints cracked and weak, paper of spine cracked and chipped. Initials “JSH” inked on front free endpaper; a different monogram inked at top of title-page. All plates in nice impressions and frontispiece with protective tissue guard; some foxing/offsetting to this and engraved title-page opposite. Very evocative. (9907)

“Spectacle de la Nature” — Illustrated
Thomson, James; Marie Jeanne de Chatillon Bontemps, trans. Les saisons, poème traduit de l'anglais de Thompson. Paris: Didot Jeune, 1796. 8vo (24 cm, 9.45"). 272 pp.; 4 plts.
$300.00
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French prose rendition of Thomson's massively popular sequence The Seasons, done by Marie Jeanne de Chatillon Bontemps. The four poems were first published together in 1730, with Bontemps's translation appearing in 1759; this is the first edition (here in its second issue, following the first of the previous year, with a new half-title and title-page) illustrated with
four seasonally themed, copper-engraved plates designed by Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier (l’aîné) and engraved by Pierre Baquoy, Dupréel, Dambrun, and Patas under his direction. A search of WorldCat finds only two U.S. institutions reporting holdings, both in New York (Columbia University and the Morgan Library).
Binding: Early 19th-century quarter sheep with marbled paper–covered sides, spine neatly, handsomely ornamented with gilt-stamped title and date in roman numerals, blind-tooled raised bands, and elegantly gilt-stamped stylized floral motifs in five compartments.
Provenance: From the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).
Brunet, V, 836; Cohen-de Ricci 991–992. On Le Barbier, see: Ray, I, 76–77. Bound as above; joints and spine extremities refurbished, sides lightly rubbed and edges more so. Pages faintly age-toned; edges untrimmed. Plates with spots of foxing mostly confined to margins.
A beloved 18th-century work in an interesting French form, with striking plates and very attractive on the shelf. (40598)

Prize Copy — Handsome Binding — A Victorian Treasury of Song
Thornbury, Walter, ed. Two centuries of song: Or, lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years. London: Sampson, Low, Son, & Marston, 1867. 8vo in 4s (23.7 cm, 9.3"). xii, 307, [1] pp.; 19 plts.
$275.00
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First edition of this gift book: a “carefully-culled and pleasantly-contrasted nosegay” of vers de société, or “poems written for refined circles of educated people,” with brief notes about the poets' lives and personalities. McLean notes that this volume's production was supervised by Joseph Cundall, calls it “an unusual [example] of mid-Victorian commercial book design,” and describes the letterpress machining (done by Richard Clay) as “superb.” Henry Shaw designed the color-printed borders for the text pages, as well as the engraved half-title and various other decorations for the book, which also features
19 engraved plates done by Orrin Smith, H. Harral, W.J. Linton, W.J. Palmer, and W. Thomas after designs by William Paton Burton, George Bouverie Goddard, Edmund Warren, Edmund Morison Wimperis,and Joseph Wolf (the acclaimed wildlife artist, here represented by a nice scene of a stork winging away from a fox on the prowl).
Binding: Contemporary green morocco, covers framed in gilt triple fillets with gilt-tooled corner fleurons surrounding a central foliate medallion, spine gilt extra. Turn-ins with gilt roll. All edges gilt. Signed binding: “Bain, Binder” small stamp in lower margin of verso of front free endpaper.
Provenance: Prize copy: front fly-leaf with inked inscription reading “Jno. Hy. Lloyd [/] Prize for proficiency in English and British History. July, 1872 [/] A.R. Abbott [/] Grove House”; beneath inscription, affixed paper label inscribed “George B. Lloyd.” Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
McLean, Victorian Book Design, 68 & 146. Binding as above, showing light wear overall with joints, spine bands, and extremities rubbed, spine slightly darkened. Front fly-leaf with inscription and label as above. Fly-leaves and half-title foxed; a few faint spots of foxing scattered through pages.
A distinguished example of this quintessentially Victorian present. (38060)

With a List of Members of the Philobiblon Club in 1945
Thorp, Willard. The lost tradition of American letters. Philadelphia: Privately Printed for The Philobiblon Club, 1945. 8vo (24 cm; 9.5"). 26, [1] pp.
$25.00
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Thorp (1899–1990) was a literary historian, an editor, and a critic who taught at Princeton University for more than 40 years. Here he seeks to resurrect interest in 19th-century American literature. He gave this paper as a talk to the Philobiblon Club in 1945, and the last three pages contain a list of members of the club at that time.
New. Bound, as issued, in quarter blue linen with marbled paper boards, title stamped in gold on spine. With the glassine wrapper. (35759)

“The Proprietor of the Late Edition of Puckle's Club . . . Trusts [This]
Cannot Fail to Interest the Lovers of the Fine Arts. . . .”
Thurston, John. Illustrations to Puckle's club: printed (for the proprietor) in colours, from the original blocks, and limited to one hundred impressions. [London?]: Printed (for the proprietor) [by R. Ackermann], 1820. 8vo (24.6 cm; 9.75"). [3] pp, 24 color plates.
$750.00
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The engraved illustrations from the 1817 edition of James Puckle's The Club. This is an
alphabet of fools, knaves, and other types of immoral or unpleasant characters with one “wise” exception only, presented in
25 wood engravings printed in colors, produced from the original blocks and mounted on India paper. English engraver and illustrator John Thurston designed them and John Thompson, the English wood engraver best known for his work in History of British Birds, cut them; each rectangular image is set within a printed double-ruled border and its subject is labelled (e.g., “Buffoon,” “Hypocrite,” “Swearer,” etc.).
Puckle's story, a moral dialogue between a father and son, has been reprinted numerous times. The edition with Thurston's illustrations was reprinted as recently as the year 1900; the wood-engraved monogram of Edward Walmsley, editor of the original 1817 edition, appears on the title-page of this volume.
Binding: Original red paper–covered boards with black lettering and double-ruled border to title on front board.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
WorldCat has located only ten institutional copies.
Bound as above; rubbed, soiled, and scraped with wrinkling to rear board. Minor gutter crack at the seventh illustration. Pages untrimmed. Housed in a modern red cloth slipcase, faded, with lettering on spine reading “Illustrations to Puckle's Club — Original Boards — 1820.
A copy complete, clean, and in original boards, containing wonderful engravings. (37777)

Saxon Heptateuch *&* MORE
Thwaites, Edward, ed. Heptateuchus, liber Job, et evangelium Nicodemi; Anglo-Saxonice. Historiae Judith fragmentum; Dano-Saxonice. Oxoniae: E Theatro Sheldoniano ... typis Junianis, 1698. 8vo (22.6 cm, 8.9"). Frontis., [8], 168, 32 pp.
$1750.00
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First edition: A landmark work of Anglo-Saxon scholarship, edited by one of the most prominent early Oxfordians in the field of Old English literature. The Heptateuch (i.e., the Pentateuch, Joshua, and Judges) and the Book of Job, believed to have been translated into the vernacular by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham, are followed by the Gospel of Nicodemus and a fragment of the poem “Judith.” Thwaites' inclusion of “Judith” marked
the first printing of Anglo-Saxon poetry from an English press. Additionally, this only the fifth work to print a portion of the Bible in Anglo-Saxon.
While Wing claims that there was a previous Sheldonian edition in 1696, identical except for the absence of the “typis Junianis” on the title-page, all other sources we consulted give the publication date as 1698, and no institutionally held copies of a 1696 edition could be located (ESTC gives a “place-holder record” based on the Wing number). In addition, The History of Oxford University Press, which agrees with 1698 as the first appearance of the work, notes that due to alarm over Thwaites' having dedicated it to the nonjuring George Hickes, it was almost suppressed and had to be issued with a new title-page removing the Vice-Chancellor's imprimatur — which might well explain the confusion.
This production was modestly but beautifully embellished with
engravings done by Michael Burghers, being a dramatic engraved frontispiece (signature trimmed in this copy) and a pairing of large headpiece and decorative capital opening both the preface and the text, all of which preserve Burghers' attribution.
Darlow & Moule 1606; Wing (rev. ed.) B2198; NCBEL, II, 1792; ESTC R4371. See Terry, Poetry & the Making of the English Literary Past, p. 114. Contemporary mottled calf, covers framed and panelled in blind with blind-tooled corner fleurons, rebacked in 20th century with gilt-stamped title, black-ruled raised bands, and black-stamped floral decorations in spine compartments; original leather worn and (expectably) acid-pitted. Modern plain endpapers; frontispiece tipped in. Frontispiece and title-page with a sprinkling of unobtrusive pinhole worming in upper portions, and a few instances only of light soil, spotting, or staining. Paper strong and bright, notable as having provided a good base for crisp taking of the ink of the type and engravings. (39008)
Much on
“The Great Buzaglo”
[Tickell, Richard]. The project. A poem. Dedicated to Dean Tucker. The fifth edition. London: Pr. for T. Becket, 1779. 4to. [2] ff., 12 pp.
$175.00
Unusual: ESTC gives listings for fourth and sixth editions, but not for a fifth edition.
The "Buzaglo" referred to in the poem is the eponymous
cast-iron stove designed by London inventor/ironmaster Abraham Buzaglo, which the author of the poem contends will, once installed, quell party strife in the House of Commons by warming the uncomfortable chill that provokes and riles the more partisan members.
Recent marbled paper wrappers. Very light foxing on first three leaves. Two page numbers shaved. (3689)
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“Is it Best to be Laughing-Mad, or Crying-Mad, in the World?”
Titmarsh, M.A. [pseud. of William Thackeray]. Mrs. Perkins's ball. [London]: Chapman & Hall (pr. by Vizetelly Brothers & Co.), [1847]. 4to (21.6 cm, 8.5"). [2], engr. t.-p., 46, [2] pp.; 1 fold. col. plt., 20 col. plts.
$400.00
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First edition, first issue of this Thackeray publication, intended as a
Christmas gift book. The wry satire on the attendees of a society ball commences when our humble narrator is strong-armed into taking the Mulligan of Ballymulligan — a bumptious Irishman — to an upper-crust dance featuring young maidens on matrimonial lookout, frivolous society men, old maids, members of the Foreign Office, illustrious literary rivals, those who polka and those who don't, plus a host of other characters captured in brief but telling detail. Each of the delightfully droll vignettes features an illustration
engraved after Thackeray's own design, along with a frontispiece, engraved title-page, and oversized folding plate, for a total of
22 hand-colored plates.
Van Duzer 140; NCBEL, III, 857. Publisher's printed pink paper–covered boards, in red cloth clamshell case with gilt-stamped publication information on spine; binding faded, rubbed, and dust-soiled though not “sad,” with case showing moderate shelfwear, spotting, and signs of handling. Inside cover of clamshell case with pencilled annotations regarding issue points; front free endpaper with 19th-century inked inscription of Mrs. James Tradut [?] and with another pencilled annotation on points in a different hand. Light foxing and occasional smudges to pages and plates; overall a very reasonable copy of this delightful first edition. (37999)

Angels & Allegories for
Children
Todd, John. The angel of the iceberg: and other stories, illustrating great moral truths. Northampton: Bridgman & Childs; New York: Sheldon & Co.; Philadelphia: E.H. Butler & Co., 1859. 8vo (17.3 cm, 6.8"). 376 pp.; 2 plts.
$55.00
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First edition. This collection of edifying Christian tales includes “Niblan the Great and the Little Angel,” “The Day Lily and the Old Mahogany-Tree,” “Little Mufta and the Valley of Sorrow,” “The Island of Convicts and the Young Prince,” “The Angel of Toil and the Great Mill,” and others, along with the title story, mostly written by the pastor of the First Congregational Church in Pittsfield, Massachusetts — although he notes in the preface that some (which are unidentified) were written by one of his children. The volume opens with a steel-engraved tropical view and an additional engraved title-page done by S. Cloues.
Provenance: Front free endpaper and front fly-leaf each with contemporary pencilled inscription: “Miss L. Hart, Poughkeepsie, New York.”
Publisher's textured olive cloth, covers with embossed strapwork medallion surrounded by blind-stamped ivy border, spine with gilt-stamped title and ivy decoration; cloth attractively faded, extremities slightly rubbed, binding cocked with sewing loosening slightly. Pages with scattered instances of spotting, generally clean. (34793)

Seeing a
Renaissance Man's MIND through His Letters
Tolomei, Claudio. Delle lettere di M. Clavdio Tolomei libri VII. Vinegia: Presso Altobello Salicato, 1572. 8vo (16 cm, 6.25"). 296, [8] ff.
$900.00
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Emily Dickinson famously observed that “a letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.” So it is that here in this collection of Renaissance-era letters we meet the mind of Tolomei (1492–1555), a Humanist poet, diplomat, philologist, literary critic, and Catholic bishop. He counted among his many correspondents such notables as Anibal Caro, King Francis I, Aretino, Paolo Manuzio, Girolamo Ruscelli, and Bernardino Ochino; and among the women of his era Giulia Gonzaga, Vittoria Farnese, Camilla Saracini, Catherine de' Medici, Lavinia Sanvitale, Countess Olimpia Tolomei, and the Archduchess Margaret of Austria (1480–1530).
Topics found in this collection of correspondence are wide ranging: Dante and terze rime, poetic style, preference for the Tuscan dialect, the fountains and viaducts of Rome, proper use of honorifics in letters, the letter “H” in Tuscan Italian and whether it is aspirated or not, teaching the alphabet to beginners, how a prince should react to those who speak ill of him, and the use of Greek words and terms.
This edition “con nuova aggiunta ristampati, & con somma diligenza da molti errori corretti” is printed in italic, and divided into seven “books,” each “book” beginning with a woodcut factotum initial. The printer's handsome woodcut device graces the title-page and the volume ends with three useful indices.
Provenance: Black-stamped supra-libros (faded to “silver”) of Paulus von Pruan (1548–1616), the Nuremberg merchant and collector, and his signature on the front free endpaper; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Adams T789; EDIT16 CNCE 30511. Contemporary limp vellum (lacking front pastedown) with slightly yapp edges; evidence that an old manuscript leaf was repurposed in construction of spine and of now-absent ties. Occasionally a little old very light staining or foxing; clean and nice.
A desirable copy. (38143)

REPULSED by Shakespeare!
Tolstoy, Leo; George Bernard Shaw; & Ernest H. Crosby. Tolstoy on Shakespeare. Christchurch, Hants: The Free Age Press; London: Everett & Co., [1907?]. 8vo (18.2 cm, 7.1"). Frontis., 120, viii (adv.) pp.
$90.00
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Designed for the masses: An early printing of a populist edition, approved by the author himself, of Tolstoy's essay on Shakespeare's flaws. The title piece is accompanied by Ernest H. Crosby's “Shakespeare and the Working Classes,” 'Mr. G. Bernard Shaw on Shakespeare,” and “The Press against Shakespeare.”
Publisher's printed paper wrappers, faded and chipped, front wrapper separated. Pages browned and embrittled, some leaves separated. (33312)

Killed by a Large Spider — A Thing of Childhood Nightmares
Tom Thumb. Philadelphia: Williard Johnson, 1832. Square miniature (6.5 cm, 2.5"). 16 pp.; illus.
$275.00
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Illustrating this miniature chapbook are 15 wood engravings. The story follows the trials of Tom — there are many threats to his small life before the spider gets him — and ends with an illustration of Tom's coffin. The text is in prose, with a printed alphabet and numbers at the start and a verse “Epitaph on Tom Thumb” at the end. The first and last leaves are mounted to the inside of the wrappers, as usual.
This little book exemplifies an ad hoc make-up not uncommon in such productions: Completely unrelated to the story, it offers a fish on the front wrapper, a turkey opposite the title-page, a crow on the back wrapper, and a nursery rhyme about Arthur O'Bower and the king of Scots (with portrait cut of the king) inside the back wrapper — though it may be that that last is dimly connected with other contents as in this version of Tom's tale he is “born in the reign of King Arthur” and Arthur O'Bower is sometimes identified with that ancient figure!
The AAS tells us that it was issued as one of a set of four toy books that Johnson published in 1832.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
Rosenbach, Children's, 778. Orange paper wrappers; rear one detached and reattached using archival tissue that at points overlays type. First leaf creased at bottom edge, some light foxing, otherwise internally very good; two leaves are still partially uncut. (38781)

The EARLIEST Known
Historical, Mythological, Poetical, & Geographical DICTIONARY
Torrentinus, Hermannus. Elucidarius vel vocabularius poeticus ... co[n]tine[n]s fabulas, historias, prouincias, vrbes, insulas, fluuios, et montes illustres; Item vocabula et interpretaiones Grecoru[m] & Hebraicoru[m], una cu[m] vocabulis co[m]munibus Saracenoru[m], in latinu[m] translatis et alijs in fine adiunctis. [colophon: Hagenaw: per ... Henricu[s] Gran, impe[n]sis ... Joanis Rynman, 1518]. 4to (20 cm; 8"). [57] ff. (without final blank).
$1200.00
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Torrentinus' Elucidarius vel vocabularius poeticus, also published under the title Parvum dictionary poeticum, is the earliest known historical, mythological, and geographical dictionary. First published in 1498 in Deventer where Torrentinus (a.k.a. Herman van Beek, Herman van der Beeke), a Netherlandish grammarian, taught in Hegius' school, it had by 1540 had more than 30 editions. Primarily given over to literature — especially poetry, which caused Renouard to call it the “first . . . attempt at a poetic dictionary” — it contains literary references to numerous provinces, cities, islands, mountains, and rivers, with this edition being enlarged over earlier ones by inclusion of a supplement on Latin numbers and weights, and lists of trees, bushes, herbs, and stones.
There are two states of the colophon of this edition, one as above, the other reading “Impressus Argentine per Joannem Knoblugh”; but the states are otherwise identical, page for
page, line for line, including use on both title-pages of an architectural woodcut border incorporating Heinrich Gran's device!
The text is printed in black letter with large, handsome running heads, attractive initials, and usefully large-lettered captions in the supplement.
Searches of WorldCat and NUC locate no copies in North America of the Hagenau issue and only one (at Harvard) of this one.
Because this was designed for students, few copies of the early editions survive.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
VD16 T1606; Benzing, Hagenau, 39, 184. On Heinrich Gran's device, see: Heitz & Barack 2. 20th-century boards covered with vellum-like paper. Light age-toning with very light waterstaining across corners at end and some light foxing to margins elsewhere; very good and in fact for a “student book” remarkably good.
A rare and attractive item. (37834)

Presages of Death — Strange & Unexplainable Apparitions
[Tregortha, John]. News from the invisible world; or interesting anecdotes of the dead; containing a particular survey of remarkable and well authenticated accounts of apparitions, ghosts, spectres, and visions, together with some remarkable dreams, impulses, and other ominous circumstances which have led to the most remarkable discoveries, some of which has been extracted from the works of the Rev. John Wesley, and other eminent divines. York: C. Croshaw, [1810]. 8vo (18.2 cm, 7.16"). Col. frontis., 34, [2] pp.
$250.00
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Shocking tales of frightful figures, distressing but accurate premonitions, and foul murders — interspersed with dire warnings against “putting off religion to another day” (p. 35). The work opens with
a hand-colored wood-engraved frontispiece depicting a family reacting to a glowing specter in the woods.
This little pamphlet was extracted from a longer (and also more specifically Christian) collection of ghost stories originally published ca. 1806 by Tregortha, an itinerant Methodist preacher who later became a printer and bookseller. The present York printing is extremely scarce, with WorldCat and NSTC both finding
only one reported location (the British Library). Our suggested publication date is based on that listing.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
NSTC N860. Later red leather–covered boards, front cover with gilt-stamped title; lightly worn, with a few small scuffs. Pages age-toned with scattered light spots, some upper outer corners bumped. One lower outer corner torn away, not touching text; final leaf with upper two-thirds torn away and repaired with blank paper with significant loss of text, though the verso does show the printer's “finis” vignette as almost entirely preserved.
Unusual, intriguing, and priced with an eye more on its faults than on its fascinations. (40705)

Juvenile Adventures — Decorative Binding
Trowbridge, John T. A pair of madcaps. Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1909. Sm. 8vo (19.5 cm, 7.625"). Frontis., [3]–359, [9] pp.; 7 plts.
$40.00
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Collection of one longish and a number of short works written for juveniles by Trowbridge, an American author who wrote for many different audiences, with illustrations by Frank T. Merrill. Included are his “A Pair of Madcaps,” “A Lost Reputation,” “The Corner of the Column,” “How the Hart Boys Saw Great Salt Lake,” and more.
Binding: Periwinkle publisher's cloth, gilt lettering on spine and front cover; white, black, and red illustration on front cover of two teenagers addressing a crate for shipment.
BAL 20522. Binding as above, mildest rubbing, minor scratches to front cover illustration. Spotting on a handful of pages. Without d/j. A popular offering of early 20th-century juvenile literature, and an attractive copy. (35990)

Noble Knights & Fair Infantas
Trueba y Cosío, Joaquín Telesforo de. The romance of history: Spain. London: Frederick Warne & Co., [1872]. 8vo (19.75 cm, 7.7"). viii, 579, [1] pp.; 8 plts.
$75.00
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Melodramatically thrilling romantic vignettes, some quoting poetry from Lockhart's renditions of “ancient Spanish ballads,” with accompanying historical summaries covering each period of time. The work is illustrated with eight plates and a number of in-text engravings; this is a single-volume edition, part of the Chandos Classics series.
NSTC 0647541. Contemporary half green goat and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title and compartment decorations, top edge gilt; joints and extremities rubbed, inner portion of leather on front cover with patches of light discoloration. Front free endpaper with adhesions from now-absent label. Pages mildly age-toned, with a few instances of light spotting.
Indeed a very romantic view (in both text and image) of Spanish fact mixed with fiction. (34883)

“Complementary Opposites. At Least I Hope So.” — One of Fifty Copies Only
Tucker, Alan, & Morris Cox. In line. Stroud; Gloucestershire: The Stilt Press [& The Gogmagog Press], 1988. Sm. 4to (26 cm; 10.25"). 2 vols. I: [10], 11–21, [4] pp.; illus. II: [11] ff.; illus.
$300.00
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Wickedly original collages from artist and
Gogmagog Press owner Morris Cox, here published with some Alan Tucker poems inspired by them; an introduction supplies notes on the somewhat “complicated” process of collaboration from the participants' points of view. Illustrations here were “designed and photoprinted at the Gogmagog Private Press” by a process using Cox's original collages and a copy machine, and have been printed on double-folded Japanese handmade paper. One volume contains illustrations by Cox and Tucker's poems, while the other offers Cox's illustrations and the Gogmagog Press mark as a colophon.
The poem volume colophon states “Published in one edition only, fifty copies signed and numbered,” of which this is
number 39. Bookseller Bertram Rota was responsible for distribution.
Binding: Publisher's lime green cloth with a black and while collage-inspired paper label on each front cover; the pair housed in lime green cloth slipcase with black paper sides and paper labels on front and spine.
Chambers 70. Bound as above, ink on pastedowns somewhat tacky with some offsetting, one leaf attached to pastedown with partial tear to fold; light to moderate age-toning affecting Japanese paper, otherwise bright and clean. Definitely an engaging piece of art. (37197)

Turgenev in Love
Turgenev, Ivan; Alec Waugh, intro.; Lajos Szalay, illus. The torrents of spring. Westport, CT: The Limited Editions Club, 1976. Tall 8vo (24.8 cm, 9.75"). xiii, [3], 186, [4] pp.; 8 col. plts., illus.
$100.00
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This Limited Editions Club edition of Turgenev's story of romantic love and regret— one of his few works without political nuance — is illustrated by Hungarian artist Lajos Szalay with
eight full-page illustrations in beautiful, rich color, and ten line drawings within the text. British novelist Alec Waugh provides an introduction to the Russian novel translated by Constance Garnett.
This is numbered copy 1063 out of 2000 printed,
signed at the colophon by the illustrator. The monthly newsletter is laid in.
Binding: Publisher's quarter green calf with marbled paper–covered sides and gilt lettering to spine, done by the Tapley-Rutter Company.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 502. Binding as above. In original green paper–covered slipcase with cream label printed in black; some fading to sides.
A bright and appealing copy. (39031)

Twain, PYLE, & La Pucelle
Twain, Mark, & Howard Pyle, illus. Saint Joan of Arc. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1919. 8vo (24 cm, 9.45"). xiii, [3], 32 pp.; 4 col. plts.
$700.00
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First edition: Twain's favorite of all his books — Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — with the text excerpted for younger readers, giving the introductory essay and the final chapter of that work in order to provide an overview of St. Joan's life and accomplishments. The attractively printed volume is illustrated with
four mounted, color-printed plates by Howard Pyle and with additional tinted decorations by Wilfred J. Jones. In Twain's negotiations with Harper's Monthly about the original serialized publication of the full-length work, the author specified that Pyle was, as the magazine later informed the artist, “the one man in this or any other country who can make pictures for [the piece].”
This is the first edition, first issue, with the copyright page marked May, 1919, “D-T,” and the endpapers printed in green.
BAL 3683; McBride 247. Publisher's cloth, front cover with affixed color-printed illustration framed in wide gilt border, in original sage-colored dust jacket with affixed color-printed rondel vignette; volume showing (only) minimal shelf wear, jacket with upper edges chipped, one small hole in back wrapper, and extremities reinforced with cellophane tape some time ago. Top edge gilt. Some signatures unopened. Pages gently age-toned, otherwise clean.
Classic Twain, classic Pyle. (38399)

ANOTHER KIND of
“Student Social Activism” @ Berkeley —
Hey, Gang! Let's Build a Fountain!
University of California magazine. Under the Berkeley Oaks. Stories by students of the University of California; selected and edited by the editorial staff of the University of California magazine. San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1901, ©1900. 12mo (19 cm, 7.25"). Frontis., [2] ff., 227, [1] pp.
$110.00
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Not many student publications are listed in the Bibliography of American Literature, but this one is. And that is because the lead-off entry in this anthology of stories is Frank Norris' “Travis Hallett's Half-back.” Norris (1870–1902) was class of '94.
It may interest the reader to know that half of the writings in this volume are by women.
Sole edition. The volume was a fund-raising effort: “The principal reason that these stories have been gathered together and given to the public, is to start a fund wherewith to erect a fountain on the Campus of the University of California to be in harmony with the great Hearst architectural plan.”
Binding: Publisher's blue cloth stamped in gilt with title and a scene of a rolling hill with trees on it. Binding signed “Kales.”
BAL 15035. Binding as above: gilt a little rubbed or dulled. Overall, very good. (34834)

Signed, Illustrated
Updike Poem
Updike, John. In the cemetery high above Shillington. Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1995. 8vo (26.2 cm, 10.25"). [16] pp.; illus.
$200.00
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First and only stand-alone printing, following an appearance in the Ontario Review, here illustrated with three relief engravings by
Barry Moser. The edition was designed by John Kristensen and letterpress printed in Baskerville type at the Firefly Press, where it was also bound. 150 copies were printed altogether; the present example is one of 100 copies
signed by the author and the artist, printed on Molino paper, and handsewn in wrappers.
Publisher's cream paper wrappers in folded heavy taupe paper wraps, front wrapper with gilt-stamped title. Front free endpaper with pencilled annotations. A clean, crisp copy. (32675)

A Family & Friends Production — Signed by Richard Ellis
Upham, Francis Bourne. Fenestrae: Windows through which a friend may see the soul of a busy man. New York: Privately printed, 1939. Small 4to (25.3 cm, 10"). [10], 94, [2] pp.
$65.00
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A limited-edition collection of poetry privately printed by Richard Ellis, a friend of the poet's son, at the Haddon Craftsmen Press. Francis Bourne Upham, Jr., writes in his introduction that his father's poetry was here reprinted
in only 40 copies for a small number of family members and close friends, this second edition (the first appeared in 1930)
newly including intimate explanatory notes at the end of each poem. The volume is
signed by Richard Ellis at the colophon.
WorldCat has located one institutional copy in the U.S. (Temple).
Original tan cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front board, top edge gilt, with original brown slipcase; very minor rubbing to slipcase corners.
In excellent condition! (39526)

A Family & Friends Affair — Morocco Bound
Upham, Francis Bourne. Fenestrae: Windows through which a friend may see the soul of a busy man. New York: Privately printed, 1939. Small 4to (25.6 cm, 10"). [10], 94, [4] pp.
$75.00
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The above (perhaps) oddly without Ellis's signature, specially bound . . .
Original tobacco-brown morocco with gilt lettering to spine and front board, top edge gilt, with unusually handsome marbled endpapers and deckled edges. Two facing pages with faint marginal stain, perhaps from something that was once laid in.
A bright, tight copy in a wonderfully clean and elegant binding. (39522)

“Listen, Ye Who Look for Jesus”
Van Dyke, Henry. The toiling of Felix: A legend on a new saying of the Christ. New York: Privately printed, 1898. 12mo (19.2 cm, 7.5"). 34 pp.
$200.00
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A presentation copy of one of only 125 copies total “printed from type at the De Vinne Press.” Henry van Dyke (1852–1933) was an American author and clergyman who also taught English literature at Princeton University. His works, which include several Christmas stories, are deeply reflective of his religious devotion. Here, through rhyming verse, he tells of a man's revelation during his quest seeking God. After failed attempts to find Him through books and solitude, Felix finally achieves what he's looking for through daily labor. God tells him, “Raise the stone, and thou shalt find Me; cleave the wood, and I am there.”
This is copy no. 7.
Provenance: Presentation copy to Arthur H. Scribner, a president of Charles Scribner's Sons and a Princeton alumnus, signed by Van Dyke, “March 17, 1898, Dies Sancti Patricii.”
Quarter “vellum” paper over gray paper–covered boards, dark teal lettering to front board; corners a bit bumped, very faint dirtying of boards. Interior bright, with fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. An unassumingly simple production from a good press, now uncommon and here inscribed by the author. (38239)

The
JOYS of
Hard Work in
a
Deluxe
Edition
Van
Dyke, Henry. The toiling of Felix. New
York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913. 8vo (22 cm, 8.6"). [6], 70 pp.; 4 col.
plts. (incl. in pagination).
$100.00
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First illustrated edition of this poem — based on the lines “Raise the stone, and thou shalt find me; cleave the wood, and there am I” — about finding Christ through selfless manual labor. Printed on heavy, deckle-edged paper within wide Art Nouveau-style borders, the text is additionally decorated with mounted chromolithographed painted illustrations by Herbert Moore.
Provenance:
Front free endpaper with inked inscription reading “A Thanksgiving
Appreciation to Miss Alta Anderson from the Parents and Pupils of the Emerson
St. Presbyterian S.S. Nov. 28, 1917.”
Signed binding:
Publisher's deep violet-blue cloth, front cover with wide
gilt border of floral and vine design, spine with gilt-stamped title and fleurons.
Signed “EE,” with the second E reversed: Edward B. Edwards, who
also designed the interior frames.
Binding as above, spine slightly dimmed. Pages and plates clean. A lovely copy. (28954)
Vanière, Jacques. Praedium rusticum. Editio nova longè auctior & emendatior. Tolosæ: Petrum Robert, 1742. 12mo (17.3 cm, 6.8"). [4] ff., 319, [7 (index)] pp.
$350.00
Attractive edition of the Jesuit Vanière's agriculturally themed neo-Latin poetry, originally published in 1696. This printing features woodcut headpieces, along with decorative capitals and a title-page vignette.
Goldsmiths’-Kress 7892.2; DeBacker-Sommervogel, VIII, 444. Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title-label; binding scuffed and rubbed, with leather cracking over joints and spine extremities chipped. All edges speckled red. Front free endpaper and fly-leaf partially affixed to front pastedown; front pastedown with inked initials. Pages beautifully clean. (13629)
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The Title Says It All
Various Hands. A paradise of daintie devices. A collection of poems, songs, ballads. New York: Imprinted [by the Press of Francis Hart & Co.] for Charles Pratt & Co., Christmas, 1882. 8vo (20.6 cm; 8.125"). [6], 9–97, [7] pp.
$125.00
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Promotional gift book created by Charles Pratt & Co. for “patrons of ours already, or shall become such hereafter” to celebrate the Christmas season (p. [5]). The text contains a variety of poems and songs — some about Christmas, some not — from Longfellow, Robert Burns, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Keats, and more. A surprising number of poems discuss death, and one from the Cottonian MS. beseeches women not to be “wilful wives.”
Following the poetry section there is a series of advertisements for products such as Pratt's Astral Oil and double-deodorized benzine. This is an interesting, attractive little relic of an era when manufacturers of such humble products sought surprisingly often to associate themselves with Much Higher Things — often going to real trouble and expense to do so!
Beige printed wrappers with “1888" written on the front cover in ink and a small pink stain at top edge; light age-toning. (36736)

A Lovingly
ILLUSTRATED Fables Collection
Verdizotti, Giovanni Mario. Cento favole morali de i piu illustri antichi, & moderni autori Greci, & Latini. In Venetia: Appresso Sebastian Combi, 1599. 12mo (14.1 cm, 5.5"). 253, [11] pp.; illus.
$1000.00
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Scarce, charmingly petite edition of Italian artist and writer Verdizotti's popular collection of illustrated fables taken from classical sources, here with
one hundred in-text woodcuts — one for each tale, with a few repeated images. These cuts are based on his earlier designs, sometimes said to have been inspired by his friend Titian. The text is printed in single columns using italic type for the fables, with morals printed in roman; decorative initials and endpieces complete the work.
While the work was popular enough to merit reprintings throughout the 16th and 17th centuries following the first edition of 1570, the present edition is now uncommon: Searches of Worldcat and NUC Pre-1956 reveal only one U.S. institution that reports holding this printing, with EDIT16 finding only one additional international institution with holdings.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
EDIT16 CNCE 60555; Mortimer, Italian 16th-Century Books, 523 (note); USTC 862550. This edition not in Adams. Contemporary limp vellum, title inked on spine with red painted shelfmark, title inked on fore- and bottom edges in an early hand; vellum stained and cockled, heavily chipped at spine head and very loosely attached, endpapers torn and soiled with evidence of worming and a few bibliographical notes in ink and pencil. Booklabel as above; light age-toning throughout, with waterstaining to lower and outer portions of the very faint to moderate level that reduces price but not pleasure. This was printed on inexpensive paper, as evidenced by one leaf with a small hole and a few examples of uneven edges; it has also been well read, with a few loosely attached quires, worn edges, occasionally a spot or a tear. A scarce edition that in this copy has had plenty of adventures and is ready for more; the illustrations are
wonderful. (39635)

“The French Virgil”
Does Virgil
Vergilius Maro, Publius. Les Géorgiques de Virgile,
traduction nouvelle en vers françois, enrichies de notes & de figures. Paris: Chez Bleuet, 1770.
8vo (21 cm, 8.25"). [2], 366 pp.; 5 plts.
$650.00
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Fourth edition, revised and corrected, of Jacques Delille's acclaimed verse
translation of the Georgics, first printed in the previous year. Delille was one of the great names
of late 18th-century French literature, famed for his translations of Latin classics; Brunet calls
him a “versificateur élégant et facile.”
The work is here illustrated with
a copper-engraved frontispiece and four plates,
generally bucolic, done by Joseph de Longueil after Francesco Giuseppe Casanova and Charles
Eisen. The text is additionally decorated with pictorial headpieces and fruit and floral tailpieces.
Brunet, V, 1303; Cohen & de Ricci 1022; Graesse, VII, 359; Schweiger, II,
1221/22. Contemporary mottled calf framed in gilt triple fillets with gilt-stamped corner fleurons, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-stamped floral
compartment decorations; joints and extremities rubbed, spine leather with small cracks, sides
with expectable moderate acid-pitting. All edges gilt. Front hinge (inside) tender; a few
scattered light spots, pages overall clean. An early, attractive edition of an excellent translation,
with
crisp, lovely, well-impressed plates. (30949)

“Striving His City's Walls to Build, / And Give His Gods a Home”
Vergilius Maro, Publius; John Conington, trans. The Aeneid of Virgil translated into English verse. London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1873. 8vo (19.4 cm, 7.6"). xx, 455, [1] pp.
$225.00
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Conington's renditions of the works of Virgil, as well as his associated commentary thereon, were the standard for Victorian readers. A Latin professor at Oxford, this translator (1825–69) made use of “the metre which [Sir Walter] Scott has made popular” (p. x) for his version of the classic epic, here in its fourth edition, following the first of 1866 — with a number of minor alterations and revisions made by him after the initial publication.
Binding: Contemporary olive calf, covers framed in blind and gilt rolls with gilt-tooled corner fleurons, spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped black leather title-label. Board edges with gilt roll and turn-ins with blind roll; all edges marbled.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of Robert Alfred Herman, a fellow of Trinity College, known for his success in coaching students in the grueling Cambridge Mathematical Tripos; also with small bookseller's ticket of D. McWatters. Later in the library of Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.
NCBEL, III, 516; NSTC 2C34000 (for first ed.). Bound as above; back joint starting from foot, boards with unobtrusive mottling, edges and joints showing mild to moderate rubbing. Pages slightly age-toned, otherwise clean.
A suitably elegant appearance of this early edition. (39876)
Italian Travels Englished, 1825
Villemarest, Charles Maxime Catherinet de. The hermit in Italy, or observations on the manners and customs of Italy .... London: Geo. B. Whittaker, 1825. 12mo (19.9 cm, 7.9"). 3 vols. I: vii, [1], 267, [1 (blank)] pp. II: [4], 281, [1 (blank)] pp. III: [4], 295, [1 (blank)] pp.
$450.00
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First English edition of L’Hermite en Italie, a sequel to Etienne de Jouy’s L’Hermite de la Chaussée d’Antin, ou observations sur les mœurs et les usages français. These engaging vignettes of travel experiences throughout Italy are interspersed with historical digressions as well as with personal anecdotes. A fourth volume later appeared in the original French, but was not yet available to be translated as part of this edition.
Many sources, including OCLC, attribute this work to de Jouy himself, but the Monthly Review of May, 1825 admits that the “similarity of title, of decorum, of form, and of manner,” as well as the title-page’s claim that this is a continuation of de Jouy’s work, all misled their reviewer and a number of others into that incorrect and much-perpetuated citation. The travelogue has more recently been attributed to Louet de Chaumont, among others, while Barbier and Quérard suggest that it may have been compiled by de Villemarest from de Chaumont’s notes and manuscripts.
NSTC 2H18614. Publisher’s plain paper-covered boards, sometime rebacked with speckled paper and old printed paper labels laid on, the set now in a recent case with sides covered in blue cloth and speckled paper; extremities rubbed, covers with spots of discoloration, retained spine labels chipped and darkened. Front pastedowns each with institutional bookplate (no other markings). Hinges (inside) reinforced some time ago. Vol. II with one signature separated. Pages untrimmed and clean save for scattered small spots of foxing. A strong, agreeable set. (20256)

“The Most Villainous of Poets”
Villon, François. The lyrical poems of François Villon. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1979. 8vo (28.4 cm,11.1"). 145, [3] pp.
$60.00
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Limited Editions Club printing: 36 of Villon's lyrics in English translation, with the original French on facing pages. The poems were selected by Léonie Adams and appear here with an introductory essay by Robert Louis Stevenson; the translations were done by Adams, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Ernest Henley, and John Payne.
This is numbered copy 538 of 2000 printed — this volume, designed by Stephen Harvard, being the first ever set by the Stinehour Press in the then-new Galliard typeface, created by Matthew Carter after the work of the 16th-century punchcutter Robert Granjon; Carter also designed the endpaper ornaments.
Bound in green linen imported from Holland, spine with gilt-stamped title and front cover with gilt-stamped author's name, the volume is
signed by Harvard at the colophon. The appropriate LEC newsletter is laid in.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 513. Binding as above, in original dust wrapper and matching slipcase; back upper edge of wrapper torn, slipcase and volume clean and crisp. A very nice copy. (32031)

TWO Classically Inspired, Bodoni–Printed Poems
Viviani, Niccolò. Ero, e Leandro poema. Parma: Nel Regal Palazzo Co' Tipi Bodoniani, 1794. 8vo (16.8 cm, 6.61"). Frontis., [8], 40 pp. [bound with] La Faoniade. Inni ed odi di Saffo tradotti dal testo Greco in metro Italiano. [colophon: Crisopoli (i.e., Parma): Co' Caratteri Bodoniani, 1792]. 8vo. xv, [1], 99, [1] pp.
$500.00
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In 1794, Bodoni published the first edition of Ero, e Leandro in folio, following up in the same year with quarto and octavo versions — three of the latter, each using a different type, the present example featuring
notably minute verses. The text was written by the Marchese Niccolò Viviani, governor of Pisa, and the frontispiece engraved by Delvaux after Harriet.
Ero, e Leandro is here followed by an original Italian work
claiming to be a translation of recently discovered verses by Sappho. This piece was actually the work of Vincenzo Maria Imperiale (1683–1749) — although sometimes attributed instead to Giovanni Vincenzo Imperiali (1582–1648) — with the “translator” using the pseudonym S.I.P.A.: Sosare Itomejo pastor arcade. The Faoniade was originally published in 1784 and appears here in its
first Bodoni printing.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of Francesco Paolo Ruggiero (1798–1881), an influential lawyer and minister of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, bookplate dated 1850.
Brooks 551 & 459; De Lama, II, 96 & 74–75; Giani 59 (p. 51, with a typographical mistake listing the book as number “50") & 30 bis (p. 44). Ero: Brunet, V, 1335–36. Contemporary half brown calf and attractive tan and brown marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped title, gilt-ruled raised bands, and gilt-stamped compartment decorations; extremities rubbed, back outer edge with small dent, one spot of staining to leather on front cover. Bookplate as above. Mild foxing.
A very nice little book. (40166)

TICE Illustrates
VOLTAIRE
Voltaire. Candide, or All for the best. New York: Bennett Libraries, 1927. 8vo (23 cm; 9.25"). 2 vols. in 1. 182 pp., [4] ff., color plates.
$725.00
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Sole edition illustrated by Clara Tice, the illustrations numbering ten, printed in color, and definitely of an erotic nature. This copy (no. 130) is one of 250 copies “on special deckle-edge Pannekoek paper.” The title-page, printed in black and red, announces this is an “Exact reprint of the earliest English text” and tells us that it was “printed in Holland by Joh. Enschede en Zonen for the Bennett Libraries, Inc.”
In the early decades of the 20th century, Tice was a sensation because of her provocative art and as the embodiment of bohemian Greenwich Village — gaining, indeed, the sobriquet “The Queen of Greenwich Village.”
Binding: Publisher's black goat, round spine with raised bands lettered in gilt and with a gilt-stamped female nude figure in center area of spine; front cover with two gilt-stamped reclining female nude figures reminiscent of those on big-rig mud guards! Elegant gilt turn-ins, top edge gilt and other edges deckle. Housed in a brown paper–covered open-back case.
Case rubbed but sound; binding as above with spine a little pulled, corners a little bumped, and front joint (outside) a little abraded. First leaves separated and tipped in; possibly, cancels? All illustrations eye-popping in several senses; all tissue guards present. (33447)

Voltaire's Ferocious “Dictionary,” in English
Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet. The philosophical dictionary for the pocket. Written in French by a society of men of letters, and translated into English from the last Geneva edition, corrected by the authors. With notes, containing a refutation of such passages as are any way exceptionable in regard to religion. London: S. Bladon, 1765. 8vo (20.8 cm, 8.2"). [4], 335, [1] pp.
[SOLD]
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First edition of the first English translation of Voltaire’s much-read, oft-censored Dictionnaire philosophique portatif — described in 1764 by Jean-Robert Tronchin as “un monument déplorable de l’abus qu’on peut faire de l’esprit et de l’érudition,” in acknowledgment of both the brilliance of its writing and the provocation of its controversial stances on religion. Voltaire's incendiary literary-philosophical mini-essays, alphabetically arranged in “dictionary” format as per the title, run from “Abraham” to “Wicked, Wickedness,” with entries between dilating on (e.g.) “China,” “Convulsion Fits,” “Luxury,” “Socratic Love,” and “Superstition.”
The work appears here in one of its two 1765 printings, each of which has the text after [A] typeset identically; that is, only the title-page and preliminary advertisement differ between the two. The present version bears Bladon's imprint and the other that of Thomas Brown, with Evans not citing Bladon and noting regarding the latter that “the Monthly Review has this mysterious comment about the publisher: 'A fictitious name: — the booksellers having been intimidated from openly engaging in any translation of this book, by certain measures taken (though ineffectually) to prevent its appearing in an English dress.'” This version is uncommon: Only seven U.S. institutions report holding physical copies.
Provenance: Front fly-leaf, title-page verso, and final text page with rubber-stamps of James A. Peden (possibly the Florida-born diplomat who served as Minister Resident to Argentina, 1854–58); title-page with early inked inscriptions of Peden, Peter Spence, and Robert Ross (the latter two lined through in ink by an early hand); upper margin of first advertisement page with Peden inscription; first page of text with Spence inscription in upper margin and Peden rubber-stamps between lines of page header. Most recently in the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).
ESTC N20652; see Evans 167 (for Brown imprint). Period-style quarter dark brown calf with blush, tan, dark brown and cream marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title and author labels, gilt-ruled raised bands, and gilt-stamped decorations in compartments. Pages gently cockled and age-toned, with some light foxing; lower outer portion of one leaf torn away,
with loss of about 20 words of text and significant loss to one footnote. A few instances of pencilled brackets and annotations, with one inked annotation towards close of volume.
A handsome copy of this English-language debut. (39863)
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