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GENERAL MISCELLANY
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A Game with Forfeits, a Dictator, & Mirth 
(Illustrated Rhyming Game). The gaping, wide-mouthed, waddling frog: A new and entertaining game of questions and commands with proper directions for playing the game and crying forfeits: Embellished with thirteen coloured engravings. [London]: Republished by Field & Tuer, 1887. Small 8vo (18.5 cm, 7.25"). [4], iv, [7]-29, [2] pp., [4 (ads)] ff.; [1] plt., col. illus.
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each printed page has a hand-colored illustration.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
• Buff-color printed wrappers with hand-colored vignette on front wrapper; stitched, head and foot of spine chipped, rear wrapper detached and reattached with archival tissue. A good++ copy. (38873)
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A Victorian Favorite, in a Stunning Edition Ingelow, Jean. Poems. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, & Dyer, 1867. 8vo (23.6 cm, 9.29"). Frontis., xiv, [2], 318, [2] pp.; illus.
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uncommon deluxe edition lavishly illustrated by G.J. Pinwell, J.W. North, J. Wolf, E.J. Poynter, E. Dalziel, T. Dalziel, A.B. Houghton, and W. Small, all designs engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. The striking decorated binding is unsigned, although confirmed by Longman ledgers to have been the work of Albert Warren.
Provenance: Front free endpaper with inked inscription reading “To Elizabeth Watson Travis from F.H. Leedham — With pleasant memories and happy anticipations,” dated 1867. Later in the library of Hubert Dingwall, as part of his collection of publishers' cloth bindings, the endpaper notes noted below being his.
• Ray, Illustrator and the Book in England, 155; McLean, Victorian Publishers' Book-bindings in Cloth and Leather, 108; King, Victorian Decorated Trade Bindings (1830-1880), 703; for firm binding attribution to Warren, we thank Dr. Graham Dry. Binding as above; blue of spine slightly sunned but designs bright, with corners rubbed and joints and extremities lightly so. Front free endpaper recto with inscription as above, verso with pencilled purchase and bibliographical notes. Intermittent light foxing, pages otherwise clean. 
Worthwhile reading, remarkable illustrations, gorgeously composed binding — a triple threat! (37852)
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Prison-Printed — Pertinent Contents!Iowa. Board of Control of State Institutions. State of Iowa. Bulletin of state institutions. Vol. XXXIV, No. IV. October, 1932. Anamosa, IA: Men’s Reformatory Print, [1932]. 8vo (23 cm, 9"). 173, [7] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. Provenance: Most recently in the library of Robert Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.
• Publisher's gray wrappers printed in black; interior very lightly age-toned. Very good. (40584)
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No More Betting the Estate on theOutcome of a Tennis MatchIreland. Laws, statutes, etc. Acts and statutes made in a Parliament begun at Dublin the twenty first day of September, anno Dom. 1703. In the second year of the reign of ... Queen Anne ... and continued ... to the twenty third of June, 1707 ... And further continued ... until the twelth [sic] of July, 1711, being the sixth session of this present Parliament. Dublin: Printed by Andrew Crooke, 1711. Folio (29 cm; 11.5"). [4], 8, [2], 9–16, [2], 17–20, [2], 2–28, [2], 29–38, [1], 39–41, [2], 42–45, [2], 45–54 [i.e., 53], [1 (blank)] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. Printed largely in black letter and each act preceded by its own title-page.
• ESTC T193918. Near-contemporary brown calf, rebacked in caramel-colored calf with a red leather gilt title-label; modestly tooled in gilt on covers with a double-rule and a center rope rectangle with flower corner devices, gilt rolls on board edges. Some cockling of paper and discoloration of endpapers (from the tannin of the turn-ins, and occasional marginal thumb- or other soil from use. (34488)
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Beauties
ofthe
Thames IllustratedIreland,
Samuel. Picturesque views on the river Thames, from its source
in Glocestershire to the Nore; with observations on the public buildings and other
works of art in its vicinity. London: T. & J. Egerton, 1792. 4to (25 cm, 9.8").
2 vols. I: Add. engr. t.-p., xvi, 209, [3] pp.; 1 map, 27 plts., illus. II: Add.
engr. t.-p., viii (incl. t.-p.), 258, [4] pp.; 1 map, 25 plts., illus.
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52 aquatint plates engraved by C. Apostool after drawings by Ireland, 2 maps, and
a number of in-text cuts. 
This supplies both handsome, interesting pictures and good, now quaint reading. (15107)
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“May the Blessing of Light Be on You”An Irish blessing. [Newark, VT: The Janus Press], 1981. 8vo (25.6 cm, 10.1"). [1] f.
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a wood-engraved illustration of birds flying over a field of lilies and roses, with the text printed in slate blue and black and the vignette printed in ochre. The slate blue wrapper features, on its front, a small vignette of two birds fluttering against a cross.
• Not in Fine, Janus Press 1981–90. Publisher's blue paper wrappers as above, spine and edges lightly sunned; the leaf pristine on its thick creamy paper. (41053)
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Children, THANKSGIVING, Glad Times!!
Irish, Marie, & Lenore K. Dolan. The glad time Thanksgiving book. Syracuse, NY: Willis N. Bugbee Co., © 1932. 12mo. 100 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Publisher's printed cream-colored paper wrappers, front wrapper with cornucop ia design in navy and gold; back lower outer corner bumped, light dust-soiling to back wrapper. One page with small affixed sticker in upper portion, partially obscuring header but no other text. (30227)
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Sumptuously BoundFirst American Edition of Irving's FIRST HISTORICAL WorkIrving, Washington. A history of the life and voyages of Christopher Columbus. New York: G. & C. Carvill, 1828. 8vo (22 cm; 8.625"). 3 vols. I: xvi, 399 pp., 1 folded map. II: viii, [1], 10–367. III: viii, [1], 14–419, [1] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. large folding map of Columbus' route through the Bahama Islands.
Binding: Gorgeous 19th-century acid-stained autumnal binding: Covers framed with a gilt floral roll and brilliantly crossed with bands of walnut brown, ochre, deep green, russet red, black, and grey, all
very bright. Spines gilt extra with compartment devices and multiple interesting rolls, and bearing black leather gilt labels; board edges touched at corners with gilt; marbled endpapers.
Provenance: Signature of Sam Baird on front endpaper and title-page of vol. I and half-title of vol. II.
As described in the BAL, signature sign 6 is not present on p. 41 in vol. I and the last page of vol. III is unnumbered.
• BAL 10124. Bound as above, bindings moderately rubbed with one sliver of leather lost at a joint and a small patch lost near the bottom of one back cover. Age-toning, foxing, and some other spotting; some corners creased (some corners improperly trimmed during manufacture. Inscriptions as above, light pencilling on endpapers of one volume; map wrinkled with some old light staining and a tear repaired some time ago from back, with cloth tape — folds strong. A classic semi-historical work most strikingly bound. (36170)
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WithHoward Pyle's Illustrations; Without Some Other BitsIrving, Washington. A history of New-York from the beginning of the world to the end of the Dutch dynasty; containing, among many surprising and curious matters, the unutterable ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the disastrous projects of William the Testy, and the chivalric achievements of Peter the Headstrong — the three Dutch governors of New Amsterdam; being the only authentic history of times that ever hath been or ever will be published. New York: Printed for the Grolier Club, 1886. 8vo (23.5 cm; 9.125"). 2 vols. I: Frontis., [4 (of 6)] ff., 312 pp., 1 plate; lacks the two prelim. states of the frontis., the half-title, and the colophon leaves. II: [6], 275, [5] pp., [4] leaves of plates l lacks the two prelim. states of the frontis. 
Click the images for enlargements. the edition contains previously unpublished authorial corrections. 
Binding: 1920s-era half brown morocco with marbled paper sides and matching marbled endpapers; round spines, raised bands accented with gilt rules and gilt beading, and a gilt center device in each spine compartment. Top edges gilt, others uncut; binding unsigned, but elegantly accomplished.
• Bound as above. Vol. I lacks half-title, colophon leaf, and the two states of the frontispieces before the lettering. Vol. II lacks the cancelled title-page, the two states of the frontispieces before the lettering, and the instructions to the binder. A lesson of a set, as the lacking elements that so affect the price of this handsome duo are so not-obviously “missing”: One must *know* they're supposed to be there! (35436)
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Irving's
Tales of
New
York, Paris,
Granada,
Etc.
Irving,
Washington. Wolfert's roost and other
papers, now first collected. New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1855. 12mo
(19.3 cm, 7.6"). Frontis., add. engr. t.-p., [2], [7]–383, [1], 12 (adv.)
pp.
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the images for enlargement.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplates of prominent Philadelphia collector Robert R. Dearden and Philip Justice Steinmetz, an Episcopal clergyman; the latter design shows a view of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Elkins Park, PA, of which Dr. Steinmetz was the pastor.
• BAL 10188. Publisher's slate-green cloth, covers with blind-stamped rococo frame, front cover with gilt-stamped scenic vignette, spine with gilt-stamped author/title and embossed decorations; binding very slightly cocked, extremities rubbed, cloth somewhat faded overall. Front pastedown with bookplates as above and with affixed slip of old cataloguing. Frontispiece and added title-page with margins lightly stained; pages faintly age-toned, otherwise clean. (29557)
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ExcoriatingFréron the Destroyer Isnard, Maximin. Isnard a Fréron. Paris: L'Imprimerie de Du Pont, IV [i.e., 1795/96]. 8vo (19.3 cm, 7.6"). 28 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. the infamously vicious journalist and agent of
the Reign of Terror, Louis-Marie Stanislas Fréron
(1754–1802). Prompted by accusations Fréron had made against him,
Isnard (1755–1825), a prominent Girondist who became President of the
National Convention in 1793, here decries Fréron's many atrocities in
southern France, which included the demolition of a large number of Marseilles's
most beloved edifices — but most particularly the massacre at Toulon.
The pamphlet is rather nicely printed, with an engraved title-page vignette,
one headpiece, and footnotes set in small but neat and attractive type. WorldCat
and NUC Pre-1956 locate only eight U.S. institutional holdings.
• Martin & Walter 16971. Removed from a nonce volume; title-page with affixed paper shelving label in lower inner corner, not touching text. Faint spotting throughout. An impassioned expression of horror and dismay. (30682)
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H. Estienne's FinalFOLIO TextGreek, Latin, & Impressive Isocrates. [two lines in Greek, then] Isocratis Orationes et epistolae cvm Latina interpretatione Hier. VVolfij, ab ipso postremùm regognita. Henr. Steph. in Isocratem Diatribæ VII: quarum van obseruationes Harpocrationis in eundem examinat. Gorgiae et Aristidis quædam, eiusdem cum Isocraticis argumenti. Guil. Cantero interprete. [Geneva]: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, 1593. Folio.
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4a.4b.6 (-b.6, blank); [14] ff., 427, [1 (blank)], 131, [1 (blank)], xxxiiii pp., [1 (blank)], [4] ff., 31, [1 (blank)] pp., [9] ff. (without the final blank).
Click the images for enlargements. The texts of the orations and “letters” of the great Athenian orator (436–338 B.C.) are printed in double-column format, with the Greek presented in exquisite Greek type in the inner columns and the Latin translation in roman type in the outer ones. A version of the famous Estienne printer's device graces the title-page.
• Adams O219; Renouard (2nd ed.), Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne, 155.1; Schreiber, Estienne, 225; Schweiger, Handbuch der classischen Bibliographie, I:181; Dibdin (4th ed.), An Introduction to . . . Greek and Latin Classics, II:126. 18th-century plain calf, recently rebacked; round spine, raised bands accented with gilt ruling. Gilt-tooled center devices in spine compartments. Two gilt-lettered spine labels. Title-page dust-soiled; a library's blind pressure-stamps; properly deaccessioned with no additional stamps. A covetable exemplar. (2129)
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