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GENERAL MISCELLANY
History of the Roman Empire — Bodoni Printing
Tacitus, Cornelius. C. Cornelii Taciti opera. Parmae: Ex Regio Typographeo, 1797. 8vo (22 cm, 8.66"). 2 vols. I: [4], xii, [4], 379 (i.e., 376) pp. II: [4], 328 pp.
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only seven U.S. institutions reporting holdings.
• Brooks 692; Brunet, V, 638. This ed. not in De Lama, not in Schweiger. Modern quarter green morocco and green pebbled cloth–covered boards, spines with gilt-stamped title and gilt rule–framed compartments; spines sunned (not unattractively), volumes lightly rubbed overall. Some pages creased in the press, with variable spotting/soiling/foxing, the last generally speckle-type; still a
solid, dignified set. (40179)
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Bodoni Tacitus — Three Volumes Nicely BoundTacitus, Publius Cornelius. C. Cornelii Taciti opera. Parmae: In Aedibus Palatinus, Typis Bodonianis, 1795. Imp. 4to (32.38 cm, 12.75"). 3 vols. I: [2], xii, [6], 284 pp. II: [4], 297, [1] pp. III: [4], 281, [3] pp.
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• Brooks 594; De Lama, II, 106; Giani 71 (p. 54); Schweiger, II, 1006. Bound as above, rebacked with the original spines laid down; sides and edges with moderate scuffing. Faint spotting, occasionally more pronounced, to many page edges; pages overall clean. Bodoni's unadorned typesetting embodies classical elegance. (40168)
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Scarce Napoleonic Poem — Bodoni Printing Tadini, Placido Maria. Genethliacon Regis Romae ode alcaica. Parmae: Typis Bodonianis, 1811. Folio (42 cm, 16.5"). [8 (2 blank)] pp.
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none in the U.S., one in Britain, one in Switzerland, and four in Italy.
• 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)
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Gilt Vellum Binding withthe Papal Coat of Arms[Tagliaferri, Johannes Baptista]. Manuscript on paper, in Latin. “De executiva et inspectiva ecclesiae potestatibus disputatio.” [Rome?: ca. 1831–44?]. Folio (32 cm; 12.5"). [7] ff., 371 pp.
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executive and investigative powers of the Church, a topic dear to his heart, dovetails nicely with ultramontanism and was dedicated to him. Signed by Tagliaferri at the end of the dedication, it is written in a single easy-to-read hand on a single stock of high quality wove paper with a watermark bearing the date of 1822. 
An extended text apparently unpublished, at least separately.
Provenance: Gilt supra-libros of Pope Gregory XVI. Circa 1930 acquired by John Howell, bookseller in San Francisco, and added to his personal library (bookplate on front pastedown). He later sold it to the Pacific School of Religion (bookplate on front pastedown; stamps).
Binding: Full vellum over boards, round spine, no raised bands; spine richly gilt using a variety of tools. Papal coat of arms in the center of each board. All edges gilt.
• Binding as above, spine darkened as are the boards, front joint repaired; gilt faded but still attractive and “legible.” Small stamp on a blank page and another in upper margin of the first page of the dedication; charge pocket on rear pastedown. An impressively bound copy of an interesting and very nicely produced manuscript. (35975)
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Shapers of Early American Religious SINGINGTwo “Harmonies”Tans'ur, William. The American harmony: Or, royal melody complete. Newbury-Port [MA]: Daniel Bayley, 1771. Oblong 8vo (13.3 cm, 5.23"). 6, 10 pp., [44] ff., [4], 96 (lacking pp. 71/72) pp.
Click the images for enlargements. great influence on the New England singing school, in part thanks to Bayley's reworking of their texts and tunes.
At hand is the stated seventh edition with additions, with a separate title-page for the second work (the Williams American Harmony). The first portion opens with a glossary of musical terms and “a new introduction to the grounds of music” by Tans'ur, followed bymusic leaves engraved by John Ward Gilman. There were numerous small variations among the early American appearances — Lowen and Brittons note that the printing history is “a tangled skein of editions which has ever since eluded orderly bibliographical classification”! — and the collation here seems to line up partially with that given by the aforementioned authors for their “Edition H” of 1771 and partially with their “Edition I” (more details below).
An important work, here in a clearly much-used and incomplete but also strong and untattered copy of an early printing. (41545)
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A Classic of Italian Renaissance Literature — 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.
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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)
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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.
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• 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)
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A Classic of Italian Literature — Bodoni Printing — Exceptional BindingTasso, 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.
Click the images for enlargements.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. 
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)
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Tasso's Masterpiece, with a
Dellacruscan Scholar's TakeTasso, 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.
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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 andship 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)
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Epic ArtistryTasso, 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.
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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)
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Printed in LONDON by ITALIANS for Lovers of ITALIAN . . .Tasso, Torquato. La Gerusalemme liberata. Londra: Polidori e Nardini, 1796. 12mo (15.1 cm, 5.94"). 2 vols. I: ix, [1], 245, [1] pp. II: [2], 251, [1] pp.
Click the images for enlargements.a home press in London and produced editions including works by his grandchildren Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Rossetti (although not including the famous vampire short story by his son John William Polidori). Here, he worked with Leonardo Nardini (1762–1834), who went on to direct the Stamperia Reale in Milan, to print this elegant Anglo-Italian set, dedicated to Sir John (“Giovanni”) Macpherson, 1st Baronet, “cultore e patrono” of Italian letters. 
A nice little duo from an interesting press. (41636)
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King Edward I of England'sWELSH Castles Taylor, Arnold Joseph. Four great castles. [Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales]: Gwasg Gregynog [The Gregynog Press], 1983. Folio (26.9 cm, 10.5"). [2], vi, 70, [2] pp.; 8 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. GREGYNOG edition of this essay on the architecture and history of Caernarfon, Conwy, Harlech, and Beaumaris, opening with a foreword by Charles, Prince of Wales. Illustrated with eight delicately, precisely etched views by David Woodford, printed by him on his own press in Snowdonia, the volume was designed and otherwise printed by Eric Gee on Zerkall mould-made paper with deckle edges. The present example is numbered copy 96 of 165 printed — 150 bound as here, with an additional 15 copies specially bound.
• Publisher's grey marbled paper–covered sides, front cover with gilt-stamped coat of arms, spine with black-stamped title; spine a touch sunned with unobtrusive small scuff towards foot, sides very slightly sprung, slipcase lacking. Front pastedown with bookplate as above. Volume clean and unworn, beautiful and uncommon. (30597)
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Ultra-Patriotic Verse Tribute to theSpirit of AmericaTaylor, 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.
Click the images for enlargements.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)
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“Christians
Unjustly Accused of Polytheism” — On the Unity of Jehovah Taylor, Henry. The apology of Benjamin Ben Mordecai to his friends, for embracing Christianity; in seven letters... London: J. Wilkie, 1771–74. 4to (26.5 cm, 10.4"). vii, [1], 128, [2], v, [1], 60, lxiii–lxv, [1], 63–115, [1], cxxi–cxxiv, 125–205, [1], v, [1], 48, xlix/l, 49–94, xcv–xcvii, [1], 95–187, [1 (adv.)] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. Letters II–IV and V–VII have separate title-pages, dated 1773 and 1774 respectively.
• ESTC T101252; Allibone 2344; Lowndes 2581–82. On Taylor, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. Recent quarter calf with marbled paper–covered sides, leather edges tooled in blind, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-stamped decorations in compartments. Outer (closed) edges institutionally rubber-stamped; title-page and one other pressure-stamped in an old style. 
Very clean and with wide margins. (25083)
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Highlights of the New WorldYouthful Edification & EntertainmentTaylor, Isaac. Scenes in America, for the amusement and instruction of little tarry-at-home travellers. London: J. Harris & Son (pr. by H. Bryer), 1821. 12mo (17 cm, 6.69"). viii, 122, [2 (adv.)] pp.; fold. map, 28 plts.
Click the images for enlargements.illustrated with 28 copper-engraved plates laid out in double-page spreads, each side of the opening with three images, as issued uncolored in this copy.
• Osborne Collection, p. 190; Opie H 140; Gumuchian 5535; Sabin 94469. Publisher's printed tan paper–covered sides with red roan shelfback, hinges (inside) tender; sides dust-darkened, spine and extremities rubbed with leather chipped and cracking. Interior with expectable age-toning and foxing/spotting, and title-page with some offsetting from map; map in good sturdy condition. Overall a very reasonable, indeed attractive copy of this first edition. (41180)
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Anglican Moral Theology from“the Shakespeare of Divines” Taylor, Jeremy. Ductor dubitantium, or the rule of conscience in all her generall measures; serving as a great instrument for the determination of cases of conscience. London: Pr. by James Flesher for Richard Royston, 1660. Folio (32 cm, 12.6"). 2 vols. I: Add. engr. t.-p., [6], xl, 559, [1] pp.; 1 plt. II: [2], 558, [2] pp.
Click the interior images for enlargements. The portrait of the author was engraved by Pierre Lombard, while the added engraved title-page is unsigned. Each of the four books here (in two volumes) has a separate title-page; the main title-pages are printed in black and ruled in red. The text is in English, Greek, and Latin. A printed addenda slip is affixed to the final text page of vol. II, above the catalogue of books sold by Richard Royston. Leaf L6 in vol. II is a cancel (and separated).
Provenance: Vol. I added title-page recto with inked ownership inscription dated 1781 (“T. Moore”); vol. II front fly-leaf with inked ownership inscription dated 1696 (“Guilel. Rayner”) and another (of “T. Moore's”) dated 1781.
• ESTC R20123; Wing (rev.) T324; Allibone 2348. On Taylor, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. Recent quarter calf and marbled paper–covered sides, leather edges tooled in blind, spine with gilt-stamped title and volume labels and gilt-stamped decorations between raised bands. Ownership inscriptions as above. First few leaves of vol. I (including regular and added title-pages) with tiny spots of worming; slightly larger sections of same to inner margins of some subsequent leaves; a number of pages in both volumes with scattered spots of worming, touching letters but not affecting sense. Light waterstaining to outer margins of some leaves. One leaf in vol. II separated. Significant and attractive. (24889)
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The One NecessityTaylor, Jeremy. Vnum necessarium. Or, the doctrine and practice of repentance. Describing the necessities and measures of a strict, a holy, and a Christian life. And rescued from popular errors. [with his] A further explication of the doctrine of originall sin. London: James Flesher for R. Royston, 1655. 8vo (19 cm, 7.5"). A–Z8Aa–Zz8Aaa4; engr. t.-p., [46], 448, [8], 449–690 (i.e., 746), [6 (index)] pp. (pagination incorrect); 1 fold. plt.
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either image above for an enlargement. The engraved frontispiece by P. Lombart depicts Jesus in shepherd guise, and is followed by a title-page printed in red and black. An oversized, folding plate shows a contrite heart accompanied by scriptural figures and allegorical images; this is also signed, Lombart. Both works came off the press with incorrect pagination, the latter with apparent page count being thrown significantly off.
Provenance: Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Charles Grave Hudson.
• ESTC R203751; Wing (rev.) T415. Contemporary speckled calf, framed in blind, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; leather cracked over joints and spine. Occasional pencilled bracketing. (12659)
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“They Rambled on aboutSoho, 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.
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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)
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“Begar! Here's MONSIEUR TONSON Come Again!”Taylor, John; Robert Cruikshank, illus. Monsieur Tonson. London: Marsh & Miller; Edinburgh: Constable & Co. (pr. by Samuel Bentley), 1830. 12mo (15 cm, 5.9"). Frontis., 19, [1] pp. (1 adv. f. lacking); 6 plts.
Click the images for enlargements.frontispiece and six plates after designs by Cruikshank (with assistance from brother George, as per Cohn), wood-engraved by George Wilmot Bonner and Samuel Machin Slader.Binding: Contemporary olive calf, covers with gilt-stamped corner fleurons, spine with gilt-stamped title, turn-ins with gilt roll; marbled endpapers and all edges gilt.
Provenance: Bookplate of artist, collector, and art dealer Samuel Putnam Avery laid in. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
• Cohn, George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 783. Bound as above, spine and board edges sunned and rubbed with small scuffs to sides. Bookplate laid in as above, final leaf of publisher's advertising lacking; endpapers and fly-leaves lightly foxed, with a few faint spots to pages and plates. A lovely little book and one with nice provenance. (41590)
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“A Volume of Canine Anecdotes . . . Instances of Sagacity & Faithful Attachment”[Taylor, Joseph]. The general character of the dog: Illustrated by a variety of original and interesting anecdotes of that beautiful and useful animal, in prose and verse. New York: Mahlon Day, 1836. 12mo (15.7 cm, 6.18"). 144 pp.; 4 plts.
Click the images for enlargements.four wood-engraved plates, each showing two dogs, preceding the title-page, and it is now uncommon: a search of WorldCat found only three reported U.S. institutional holdings (American Antiquarian Society, Duke, William & Mary).
• Osborne Collection, p. 838 (for first ed.). Contemporary ribbon-embossed cloth, front cover with printed red paper label; binding rubbed overall and spotted with light discolorations, label dimmed, cloth split at front joint with front hinge (inside) tender and back hinge cracked. Front fly-leaf with early pencilled inscription, now much faded. First plate separated and torn across lower portion, without loss and with pencilled scribble on verso, repaired from rear; foxing throughout. 
A worn and somewhat fragile copy, still ready for faithful service. (41587)
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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.
Click the images for enlargements. 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)
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Birket Foster: “Green Grass Below, Green Leaves O'erheadTaylor, 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.
Click the images for enlargements.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.
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)
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Childhood Amusements & Lessons — Charming & Intricate IllustrationTeller, Thomas [pseud. of George Tuttle?]; Purcell, Edward B., illus. A parent's offering; or my mother's story of her own home and childhood. New Haven: S. Babcock, [1845]. 16mo (13.7 cm, 5.4"). 64 pp.; 8 plts. (incl. in pagination).
Click the images for enlargements.first edition of this sweet story of domestic life in which seven children grow up in a country house in Connecticut, learning appropriate lessons and writing letters to one another via their in-house “post office.” Set near New Haven, CT, this chapbook was also printed there, and bears a wood-engraved vignette of theNew Haven Green (done by Lossino) on the title-page; it isillustrated with eight plates with central designs of family members at lessons or play both indoors and out, each surrounded by a complex frame composed of variable small renderings of amusements and equipment representing (only “for example”) archery, marbles, fishing, swinging, stilt-walking, boating, kite flying, jump-rope, tug-of-war, bubble-blowing, and — these last showing multiple games or exercises — gymnastics, hoops, and racquet sports including(??) lacrosse. The cover illustration is signed E[dward B.] Purcell. 
• American Imprints 45-6531. Publisher's charmingly printed tan paper wrappers; corners rubbed, sides with light staining, spine paper chipped. Plates age-toned; pages with light to moderate foxing and staining. This was not a “luxury” production but it was quite a nice one — appealing both textually and visually. (41445)
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First U.S. Standalone Printing — Three VersionsTennyson, 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.
Click the images for enlargements.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.
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)
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WithExtensive Book Advertising at the End — “New BooksTennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron. Maud, and other poems. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1856. 8vo (18.7 cm, 7.4"). 160, [2 (blank)], 12 (adv.) pp.
Click the images for enlargements. • 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 fromthe Chaucer Press, Bungay Tennyson, Alfred. The devil and the lady. London: Macmillan & Co., 1930. 8vo. Frontis., xv, [1], 67, [3] pp.
Click the images for enlargement.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)
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Early American Edition: German Reformed Hymnal Tersteegen, Gerhardt. Geistliches Blumen-Gärtlein inniger Seelen; oder Kurze Schluss-Reimen, Betrachtungen und Lieder, ueber allerhand Wahrheiten des inwendigen Christenthums; zur Erweckung, Stärkung und Erquickung in dem verborgenen Leben mit Christo in Gott; nebst der Frommen Lotterie. Germantaun: Gedruckt und zu finden bey Peter Leibert, 1791. 12mo (14 cm, 5.5"). [12], 126, [20], 127–534, [8] pp. (pagination erratic, several pages out of order).
Click the images for enlargements. • Evans 23823; ESTC W21016; Arndt & Eck 805. Contemporary mottled sheep, covers framed in blind, with remnants of original clasp, spine with later gilt-stamped leather title and publication labels; leather mildly rubbed, spine leather with small cracks, spine and joints unobtrusively repaired. Front free endpaper with pencilled ownership inscription dated 1835; afterwards, ex–theological library: Old-fashioned bookplate on front pastedown, title-page pressure-stamped, pocket on back pastedown. Pagination erratic; several pages appearing out of order. A few corners bumped or dog-eared; a good many sections moderately browned and stained as is commonly seen with these Germantown imprints. (27905)
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Presented by the Author — Owned by an Eminent Malpighi ScholarTesta, Antonio Giuseppe. M. Malpighius sermo habitus Bononiae. Bononiae: Ex typographia Josephi Luchesinii, [1810]. 4to (21.2 cm, 8.35"). 45, [1]
pp.
Click the images for enlargements.Provenance: Front free endpaper with early inked inscription in Latin, above caption “ricevuto dall'autore” dated 24 April 1811. Half-title with later pencilled ownership inscription of Howard Bernhardt Adelmann (1898–1988), author of Marcello Malpighi and the Evolution of Embryology and editor of The Correspondence of Marcello Malpighi. Later from the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).
• Contemporary speckled light blue paper–covered sides with sheep shelfback, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt roll; spine and extremities rubbed, spine head and front joint with insect damage. Front pastedown with modern pencilled annotations, front free endpaper with inscription as above. Moderate foxing throughout. A very nice association copy. (40664)
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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.
Click the image for an enlargement. 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)
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Up & DownPocklington Gardens StreetThackeray, William Makepeace. Our street. London: Chapman & Hall, 1848. 8vo (18.7 cm, 7.4"). 54, [2 (adv.)] pp.; 16 plts.
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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)
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Presenting Thackeray “In the Aspect His Ambition Preferred — As a SKETCHER”Thackeray, William Makepeace; [Joseph Grego, ed.]. Thackerayana: Notes & anecdotes illustrated by nearly six hundred sketches. London: Chatto & Windus, 1875. 8vo (19.5 cm, 7.67"). [v]–xx, 492, 40 (adv.) pp. (half-title lacking); illus.
Click the images for enlargements.illustrated with hundreds of previously unseen vignettes and doodles Thackeray had sketched in the books in his library.
Binding: Brown morocco framed in triple gilt fillets, spine gilt extra (spine label attributing the work to Masson); board edges with gilt fillets, wide turn-ins with gilt roll, deep blue endpapers and top edges gilt. The publisher's original gilt-stamped red cloth covers and spine are mounted on leaves bound in at the back. Signed binding by Riviere & Son.
Provenance: From the personal library of Dr. Robert Sadoff, sans indicia.
• NCBEL, III, 860. Binding as above, minor rubbing only, half-title lacking; bound-in original covers with light wear to gilt. Pages evenly age-toned; one early pencilled shouldernote with light offsetting to facing page. A handsome, “collector's” example of an uncommon true first. (41674)
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Becky! Comes to AmericaThackeray, 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.
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First Edition Thackeray inRiviere DressThackeray, 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.
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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)
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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.
Click the images for enlargements. 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)
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Perishable Press . . . Thayler,
Carl. The drivers. Mt. Horeb, WI: The Perishable Press, 1969.
8vo (21.8 cm, 8.6"). [24] pp.
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of 220 copies printed, of which only 130 copies were for sale;
Walter Hamady's distinctivePerishable
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)
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Theatre Luminaries Mark a Special Night(Theatrical Souvenir: “Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep”). Manuscript on paper, in English: “Sleep” [/] Miss Graves's 'Dear Ones.'” [New York]: 1950. 8vo (25 cm, 9.84"). [5 ff. used (of approx. 100)].
Click the images for enlargements.presented by Fredric March to his wife Florence Eldridge on the occasion of the opening night of their play “Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep.” The production was adapted by Elaine Ryan from a novel by Ludwig Bemelmans (best known for his beloved children's books about Madeline) and directed by Hume Cronyn. Clifford Odets was an enthusiastic fan (“one of the best entertainments I've seen in years”), as was Eleanor Roosevelt, who wrote in her diary: “Last evening Miss Thompson and I had the pleasure of dining and going to a play with Henry Morgenthau Jr. and his family. At my request we went to see 'Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep,' with Fredric March and Florence Eldridge. I enjoyed the evening very much . . . The play was fantastic and amusing in spots and serious in others.”
March inscribed this volume to “my Leonora” from “Leonidas” (though the Oscar and Tony winner did also provide his own real signature on the next leaf). Among the other signers were Barbara Bemelmans (Ludwig's daughter), actor-playwright Elliott Nugent, George Nichols III (the show's producer), actress Betty Wharton and her husband the theatre lawyer John F. Wharton, socialite Pamela T. Colin (later Lady Pamela Harlech), New York Times correspondent Delbert Clark (who signed himself “a new friend, perhaps, but nonetheless true”), actress-author Cornelia Otis Skinner, publisher George Macy (who left a charming bit of doggerel), cast member Charlie Chaplin Jr., and many other famous names.
Binding: Green morocco with unusual partly bevelled edges, front cover framed and panelled in blind and gilt with central blind-stamped diamond medallion in enclosing gilt-stamped decorations; spine with gilt-tooled raised bands, turn-ins with gilt roll, green marbled endpapers and all edges deckle. Binding stamped by London Harness Company, marked “made in Italy.”
• Bound as above, sunned to varying degrees, leather split across front joint but secure to spine, sides scuffed, edges and extremities rubbed. While only a few leaves of this remarkable volume have been used, what is here is a treasure trove of theatrical association. (41670)
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Seaside ImageryTheobald, John. A second light. Newark, VT: The Janus Press, 1977. 8vo (25.9 cm, 10.2"). [24] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. 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-inspiredlithograph 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)
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Classic Illustrated GermanBOTANICAL GUIDE — Some Early Hand-ColoringTheodorus, Jacobus, called Tabernaemontanus. Neu vollkommen Kräuter-Buch: Darinnen uber 3000 Kräuter, mit schönen und kunstlichen Figuren, auch deren Underscheid und Würckung samt ihren Namen in mancherley Sprachen beschrieben: dessgleichen auch wie dieselbige in allerhand Kranckheiten beyde der Menschen und des Viehs, sollen angewendet und gebraucht werden angezeigt wird. Basel: Johann Ludwig König, 1731. Folio (38.4 cm, 15.1"). 3 vols. in 1. [12], 663, [5], 665–1529, [97 (index)] pp.; illus.
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3000 plants are described herein — including, among the Americana, tobacco, New World gourds and melons, and “Indian corn” — many among which are illustrated with attractive woodcuts reproduced from Bock, Fuchs, Mattioli, and others. 53 of the numerous illustrations have been hand-colored in a pleasing and competent but not professional style, in naturalistic hues of green, brown, blue, yellow, red, violet, and charcoal. There does not appear to be any immediately obvious pattern underlying which illustrations have been selected for this coloring!
A worn and aged but still appealing, venerable, and entirely usable copy, with the added interest of contemporary coloring. (36429)
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Interpreting the Prophets Theophylactus of Achrida; Lonicer, Jean (trans.). Theophylacti Bulgariae archiepiscopi In quatuor Prophetas enarrationes. Parisiis: Apud Iacobum Bogardum, sub insigni D. Christophori è regione gymnasij Cameracensium, 1549. 8vo (17.5 cm, 6.75’’). [8], 112 ff.
Click the images for enlargements.Binding: 16th-century polished calf expertly rebacked in slightly lighter leather; spine plain with raised bands accented by blind rules above and below each band. Covers blind-ruled with large gilt fleurons to corners and gilt floral centerpieces. All edges gilt.
Provenance: Contemporary inscription “Perrot” to title-page (possibly Charles Perrot, 1541–1608, a Protestant minister in Geneva who preached religious tolerance and so fell out of favor with Calvin); slightly later name “Langloir” also inked to same. Small 19th-century photographic portrait of a military officer pasted to verso of front free endpaper. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Pettegree & Walsby record two copies, one in the U.S. (Harvard); WorldCat and COPAC find no copies with Bogard’s imprint.
• Renouard, Imprimeurs & libraires Parisiens du XVIe siècle, 281; Pettegree & Walsby, French Books, 8834. Bound and rebacked as above, with onetime cracking to covers near joints also strengthened/refurbished with darkening to leather; minor repair to corners, and later endpapers. Text double-ruled in red, with occasional slight toning and a little foxing to the title-page and last three leaves; a slender waterstain to the upper blank margin of the last two leaves and a small repair to the outer blank margin of the last.A very nice copy in an interesting binding. (40794)
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Considering theA--------n R---------n Thickell, Richard. Anticipation: containing the substance of His M------y's most gracious speech to both h-----s of P----l-----t, on the opening of the approaching session.... London: Pr. for T. Becket, 1778. 8vo. vi pp., [1] f., 74 pp. .
Click the image for an enlargement. • Adams, American Controversy, 78-102b; Sabin 95788. Sewn, later wrappers applied; some foxing. Four leaves chipped along the outer margin, not affecting text. Without the final blank (only); with the half-title. A very good, clean copy. (25497)
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“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.
Click the images for enlargements. • Publisher's paper wrappers. A fresh, clean copy. (37134)
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“That Magnificent Canticle of the Middle Ages”Thomas of Celano. Dies irae in thirteen original versions. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1859. 8vo (19.3 cm, 7.59"). xxxiv, 65, [3] pp.; 2 plts.
Click the images for enlargements.New Jersey poet-physician Abraham Coles has included an introduction to the hymn, a history and comparison of various translations, a note on the nature of the sequence as a liturgical piece and as a piece of music, and finally a version in modern notation with a simplified melody. The work is illustrated with two sepia photo plates, reproducing “The Last Judgment” (by Peter Cornelius) and “Christus Remunerator” (by Ary Scheffer).
Binding: Contemporary pebbled red roan, covers framed in gilt fillets with corner fleurons and gilt-stamped decorative title, spine gilt extra, board edges and turn-ins with gilt roll. All edges gilt and boards supportingnotably attractive endpapers with gilt- and red-stamped vine and berry design.
Provenance: Front fly-leaf with pencilled gift inscription, attractively written: “To Samuel Hibben from John Boyd Smith, Peoria Jan.y 1st 1862.”
• Bound as above, spine and edges darkened and lightly rubbed with joints rubbed moreso. Pages age-toned, with mild foxing to and around plates. Showing signs of having been read and loved, still a striking production. (41555)
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Pickering–Chiswick Imitation — Signed BindingThomas, à Kempis. De imitatione Christi et contemptu mundi omniumque ejus vanitatum libri IV. Codex De-Advocatis saeculi XIII. Londini: Guil. Pickering (pr. by C. Whittingham at the Chiswick Press), 1851. 12mo (14.4 cm, 5.67"). xxii, 322, [2] pp.
Click the images for enlargements.first Pickering edition printed by Whittingham at the Chiswick Press and “from the edition of Lambinet, with a strict adherence to the text “ (p. xv).
Provenance: Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
• Kelly, Checklist of Books Published by William Pickering, 1851.9; Keynes, William Pickering (rev. ed.), p. 75. Binding as above, original silk bookmark present. Pages gently and evenly age-toned, otherwise clean and fresh. A desirable copy. (40820)
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Welsh Press / Anglo-Welsh PoetThomas, Edward. Selected poems of Edward Thomas. [Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales]: The Gregynog Press, 1927. 8vo (23.6 cm, 9.3"). xix, [1], 95, [1] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. Gregynog Press, being 67 pieces by an acclaimed early 20th-century poet. The introduction, by Edward Garnett, includes letters from Thomas to Garnett.
This isnumbered 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)
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SomeoneHAD to Be . . . 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.
Click the images for enlargements.• 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)
Printed for The Philobiblon Club by Edmund Thompson atHAWTHORN HOUSEThompson, Lawrance. Emerson and Frost: Critics of their times. Philadelphia: The Philobiblon Club, 1940. Small 8vo (20.5 cm; 8"). 44 pp.
Click the images for enlargements.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)
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“The Great Archer of England”[Thoms, William John]. The noble birth and gallant atchievements [sic] of that remarkable outlawRobin Hood. London: William Pickering, 1827. 8vo (21.8 cm, 8.56"). [2], xix, [1], 53, [1] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. 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 locatesonly 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)
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“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.
Click the images for enlargements. 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)
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“Spectacle de la Nature” — IllustratedThomson, 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.
Click the images for enlargements.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)
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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.
Click the images for enlargements.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)
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BEWICK-Illustrated HERBALThornton, Robert John. A new family herbal: Or popular account of the natures and properties of the various plants used in medicine, diet, and the arts. London: Richard Phillips (pr. by Richard Taylor & Co.), 1810. 8vo (24.1 cm, 9.5"). xvi, 901, [1 (adv.)] pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. illustrated with 261 wood engravings by Thomas Bewick. According to Johnston, this represents Bewick's “only attempt at botanical wood engravings,” based on designs by Peter Charles Henderson. Dr. Thornton was the author of A Grammar of Botany and The Philosophy of Botany, as well as The Temple of Flora, 
• NSTC T941; Hugo, Bewick Collector, 253; Johnston, Cleveland Herbal, Botanical, and Horticultural Collections, 745; Nissen 1954; Pritzel 9238; Rohde, Old English Herbals, 224 (listing Crosby ed. only). Contemporary calf, covers framed in blind roll and single gilt fillet, spine with blind-tooled compartment decorations; binding rubbed and scuffed overall, spine label now absent with traces remaining, repair work to splits in spine leather and to short tear from inner margin of front free endpaper, joints and extremities refurbished. Front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription (“C.M.W.”) dated 1912. Dedication tipped in. Pages gently age-toned with scattered foxing; small inkstain to upper fore-edge of first 30 ff., barely extending onto pages. One contents leaf with short tear (just touching text, without loss) and old repair in lower outer corner. A now solid, even rather distinguished-looking copy of a desirable pharmacopeiaexquisitely illustrated. (36043)
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With a List of Members of the Philobiblon Club in 1945Thorp, Willard. The lost tradition of American letters. Philadelphia: Privately Printed for The Philobiblon Club, 1945. 8vo (24 cm; 9.5"). 26, [1] pp.
Click the images for enlargements.• New. Bound, as issued, in quarter blue linen with marbled paper boards, title stamped in gold on spine. With the glassine wrapper. (35759)
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Dispatches from the FrontierThorpe, Thomas Bangs. Our army on the Rio Grande. Being a short account of the important events transpiring from the time of the removal of the “Army of Occupation” from Corpus Christi, to the surrender of Matamoros; with descriptions of the battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma, the bombardment of Fort Brown, and the ceremonies of the surrender of Matamoros: with descriptions of the city, etc. etc. Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1846. 8vo (17.7 cm, 7"). [2] ff., ix, [10]–300 pp.; 9 pls.
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nine full-page wood-engraved plates by Gilbert and Gihon (counting the frontispiece), and17 engravings in text, including one full-page plan of Matamoros, Fort Brown, and environs.
This copy has the officers'official reports (pp. 197–300), sometimes lacking.
• Howes T-236; Sabin 95665; Basic Texas Books 205. Recently rebound in glazed black moiré cloth, title gilt on leather spine label, edges lightly speckled brown. Ex-library with pressure-stamps on added illustrated title-page and title-page; no other markings. Browning at edges throughout and light cockling from sometime damp on all leaves; brown-liquid spatters not impairing reading on ten or so pages. Only a “good” copy and so priced, this gives a fine glimpse of Mexico at the onset of theMexican-American War. (26481)
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“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.
Click the images for enlargements.alphabet of fools, knaves, and other types of immoral or unpleasant characters with one “wise” exception only, presented in25 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.).
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)
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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.
Click the images for enlargement.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 illustrationengraved after Thackeray's own design, along with a frontispiece, engraved title-page, and oversized folding plate, for a total of22 hand-colored plates.
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