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Makes the Weak Strong Peculiar to Itself
C.I. Hood & Co. Hood's pansy. Lowell, MA: C.I. Hood & Co., [ca. 1890]. 16mo (10.5 cm, 4.2"). [16] pp.; illus.
$95.00
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Shape book in the form of pansies gold and purple: A promotion of Hood's Sarsaparilla, following one page dedicated to tips on growing pansies. The sales spiel is illustrated with
steel-engraved views and vignettes printed in dark blue and dark green. A tipped-in slip advertises B.F. Taylor's general merchandise store in Wheelock, VT.
Publisher's half-tone color-printed paper wrappers as above, with a river scene glowing in the “eye” of one of the pansies; spine rubbed, one tiny spot of staining or fading near front upper edge. Pages gently age-toned.
A patent medicine give-away not, originally, meant to be much less ephemeral than the little flower it celebrates. (36568)

A Peterborough-Based 19th-Century Writer's Pithy Sayings
Clare, John. Aphorisms of John Clare. Market Drayton [England]: Tern Press, 2002. 8vo (25 cm, 10"). 117, [1] pp., [1] f.; illus.
$475.00
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Clare (1793–1864), a Peterborough-based writer, is remembered for “expressing his thoughts in succinct and memorable states and idiomatic phrases” (p. [5]). David Powell has compiled a large number of these, which he classifies as aphorisms, and Nicholas and Mary Parry have printed them at their Tern Press in an edition of
only 75 copies. The text is set in Caslon by Brian Russell: Clare's words in italic and the source of the italicized text in smaller roman.
Nicholas Parry has supplied line illustrations. The colophon is signed by Nicholas & Mary Parry. This is copy 5.
Sole edition.
Binding: Publisher's white linen with blue leaf and flower vine pattern; paper title-label on front board.
WorldCat locates only eight libraries worldwide reporting ownership (Universities of Delaware, Iowa, Missouri, and North Carolina; Vanderbilt, Indiana, and Texas Tech Universities; and Swarthmore College).
Bound as above, very elegantly; volume clean, virtually
pristine. (40439)
Clarendon's Rebellion — Three Folio Vols. from Oxford “at the Theater”
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of. The history of the rebellion and civil wars in England, begun in the year 1641. With the precedent passages, and actions, that contributed therunto, and the happy end, and conclusion thereof by the King's blessed restoration, and return upon the 29th of May, in the year 1660. Oxford: Pr. at the Theater (by Ro. Mander & Guil. Delaune), 1702–04. Folio (39.7 cm, 15.75). 3 vols. I: Frontis., [4], xxiii, [1], 557, [1] pp. II: Frontis., [14], 581, [1] pp. III: Frontis., [22], 603, [23] pp. (half-titles lacking).
$2000.00
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First edition of this crucial account of the tumultuous 1640s and 50s in England, written by an author whom Allibone lauds as “one of the most illustrious characters of English history”; Allibone also quotes the Edinburgh Review's description of the present work as “one of the noblest historical works of the English nation.”
Each volume commences with a copper-engraved frontispiece and title-page vignette, the former done by Robert White after a painting by Lely, the latter signed M[ichael] Burg[hers]. Burghers also engraved a substantial number of head- and tailpieces for the work, as well as decorative capitals.
ESTC N9847, N9850, T147811; Brunet, I, 81; Allibone 385. Contemporary speckled calf panelled in blind with plain calf, decorated with blind-tooled corner fleurons, spines with gilt-stamped leather title-labels; edges and extremities rubbed, joints cracked or starting, some acid-pitting to speckled portions, spines each with small paper shelving label. Each front pastedown with institutional bookplate over private collector's bookplate, and with early inked gift inscription. Title-pages with small institutional rubber-stamp in lower margin; half-titles lacking. Pages generally clean; occasional minor spotting mostly confined to margins. One instance of early
inked marginalia. (24574)

Capturing an Age
One Biography at a Time
[Clarke]. The Georgian era: Memoirs of the most eminent persons, who have flourished in Great Britain, from the accession of George the First to the demise of George the Fourth. London: Vizetelly, Branston, & Co., 1832–34. 8vo (19.5 cm, 7.65"). 4 vols. I: Frontis., 582 pp.; 12 plts. II: Frontis., [2], 588 pp. III: Frontis., [2], 588 pp. IV: Frontis., 588 pp.
$450.00
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First edition: Concise yet entertainingly anecdote-laden biographies recounting the accomplishments and characters (foibles and all) of the most prominent figures of the age: nobles, churchmen, politicians, dissenters, military and naval officers, jurists, physicians, voyagers and travelers, scientists, writers, economists, architects, artists and musicians, etc. All the expectable princesses, duchesses, and countesses are present, along with a handful of women represented in other categories — the preponderance falling under the “Vocal Performers” and “Actors” headings.
The first volume is illustrated with
12 plates each offering four rows of small portraits, some intriguingly expressive; each volume opens with an engraved frontispiece portrait of a royal George.
NSTC 2C23867. Recent textured maroon cloth, spines with gilt-stamped black leather title and volume labels; title-pages institutionally pressure- (not rubber-) stamped. Scattered light spots of staining, pages generally clean; first few leaves of voI. \ II with outer margins chipped.
A hefty, substantive evocation of Georgian life and times. (30012)

Apes, Foxes, Crabs, ETC. — Clean, Fresh Copy
A collection of fables, for the instruction and amusement of little misses & masters. Adorned with cuts. York: Printed by J. Kendrew, [ca. 1820]. Near miniature (10 cm, 3.875"). 32 pp.; illus.
$150.00
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Penny chapbook of instructive, Aesopian animal fables (many in rhyme), first published in 1760 and here illustrated with
23 woodcuts. The work, from Kendrew of York, opens with upper- and lower-case alphabets in both roman and italic.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
Osborne Collection p. 2; Davis, Kendrew of York, 6; Gumuchian 1790. Publisher's printed paper wrappers, front one with an accidental enclosure between wrapper and affixed frontispiece revealed by a small bump; removed from a nonce volume with sewing holes showing, and with evidence by way of the enduring impression of its long-felt pressure that this was therein bound with something smaller following it. A little dust-soiling to some bumped lower corners, towards end, and last page with old spot/adhesion; otherwise
remarkably clean and apparently
unread unless by a very careful child. (38807)

FAIRYLAND by
“the Mouth of Tappan Bay,
Just Above the Little Town of Nyack”
Cone, Spencer Wallace; Jacob A. Dallas, illus. The child's book of fairy tales. Philadelphia: G.G. Evans, 1860. 8vo (19.4 cm, 7.64"). Col. frontis., add. engr. col. t.-p., 223, [1], 22 (adv.) pp.; 8 col. plts.
[SOLD]
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Containing “Little Tom Grubb and His Wonderful Dog,” “The Magic Tea-Pump of the Island of the Manahattoes,” “Patty and Her Pitcher,” “Tiny and Her Vanity,” “The Giant and the Dwarf,” “The Selfish Man,” “Peter and His Goose,” and “The Giant Hands.” The first two stories, taken from Cone's book The Fairies in America, are
set in and around New York City; this marks their second appearance in combination with the other pieces here, following the first of 1859.
The stories are
illustrated with a total of ten hand-colored, wood-engraved plates, some of which are signed N. Orr Co., done after designs by Jacob A. Dallas. The added engraved title-page reads “The Fairies in Council,” giving the same date and publication information as the main title-page.
Binding: Publisher's dark green textured cloth, covers blind-stamped with publisher's “GGE” shield, spine with gilt-stamped fairy-surrounded decorative title and a large harp-playing fairy in lower portion.
Provenance: Front free endpaper with inked inscription of Maggie Tarlsbury, dated 1862.
Binding cocked, gently worn overall with small closed tear to back cover cloth, gilt dimmed yet still pleasing. Front pastedown with bookseller's ticket of Hudson Taylor, Washington City; inscription as above. Pages age-toned, with a few very short edge tears not extending into text and occasional small spots.
Early printings of this collection, with its graceful bows to American children, are now scarce. (40996)

Cortés' Second Letter: The Conquest of Mexico
Cortés, Hernando, & Peter Martyr. Praeclara Ferndinandi Cortesii De Nova Maris Oceani Hyspania Narratio. [colophon: Impressa in Nurimberga: per Fridericum Peypus], 1524. Folio (30.3 cm; 11.875" ). [4], 49, 12 leaves.
$40,000.00
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The first Latin edition of Cortés's second letter, after its original Spanish-language publication in Seville in 1522; the work was translated by Petrus Savorgnanus, Secretary to the bishop of Vienna (1523–30).
Cortés was the first conqueror since Julius Caesar to write a description of his conquests.
Cortés's second letter, dated 30 October 1520, provides a vivid account of the people he encountered and fought en route to Tenochtitlán, painting a picture of an impressive empire centered around a great city. He relates his scrape with rival Velázquez and gives a wonderful description of the buildings, institutions, and court at Tenochtitlán.
It is here that Cortés provides a definitive name for the country, calling it “New Spain of the Ocean Sea.” This letter is also important for making reference to Cortés's “lost” first letter, supposedly composed at Vera Cruz on 10 July 1520. Whether that letter was actually lost or was suppressed by the Council of the Indies is unknown, though there is little doubt it once existed.
It is the text of this “second” letter, THE FIRST SURVIVING ONE, that was the first major announcement to the world of the discovery of major civilizations in the New World — and, as such, is a work of surpassing importance.
This copy bears the full-page woodcut portrait of Pope Clement VII on the verso of the fourth preliminary leaf, which is not found with all copies. Additionally, the title-page bears an interesting 14-piece composite woodcut border and the verso of that page has a stunning full-page woodcut of the coat of arms of Charles V, the Holy Roman emperor, to whom the letter is addressed. The coat of arms is surrounded by the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece. The text is printed in roman with side- and shouldernotes; the lay-out is elegant and there is one large, handsome woodcut initial.
As usual, the letter is here bound with Peter Martyr's De Rebus, et insulis noviter repertis, which provides an account of the recently discovered islands of the West Indies and their inhabitants. It is often considered a substitute for the lost Cortés letter.
One of the most important early descriptions of Mexico and of the first encounter of the West with the Aztec civilization, this is a work of bedrock importance to the New World.
No complete copy has appeared for sale since 1985.
Alden & Landis, European Americana, 524/5; Sabin 16947; Harrisse, BAV, 125. Sanz 933–34; Medina, BHA, 70; Church 53; Burden 5; JCB, German Americana, 524/4; Streeter Sale 190. 18th-century half vellum and sprinkled paper over boards, gilt red leather label. Map supplied in expert facsimile; blank leaf H8 lacking. Bookplate of John Carter Brown (Library) on front pastedown, with deaccession stamp. Occasional very minor soiling in the text, else very good — a copy clean and even crisp. (26808)

Limited Edition
Gamester's Guide to Cards —A Printing “Project”
Cotton, Charles. Twenty card games: An extract from 'The compleat gamester'. Oxford: Oxford School of Art, 1955. 8vo (20.5 cm, 8.125"). [8], 51, [5] pp.; illus.
$300.00
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Limited to 100 copies, signed on the title-page by the book's designer Peter Tysoe. Originally printed in 1674, English writer Charles Cotton's Compleat Gamester was a frequently consulted reference book on 17th-century games, from billiards, to table games, to racing, and more. Presented here is the card game section containing 20 games, such as “Bone-Ace,” “French-Ruff,” and “Lanterloo,” with illustrations by Tysoe. The
twelve black-and-white woodcuts are reproductions of 15th-century French cards — all face cards, produced in Lyons.
The colophon notes that “this book has been produced as
a complete exercise in book production at the Department of Printing, Oxford School of Art. Peter Tysoe who planned the typography and executed the twelve woodcuts has thereby been afforded an opportunity to assist in all the various stages of production . . . The typeface used for the text is 12-pt. Bembo set solid and composed on the Monotype with a three-unit minimum space.”
Uncommon: WorldCat locates
only one institutional copy, not in the U.S.
Publisher's boards covered with cream “vellum” paper, front board with black woodcut within gilt frame and black lettering; paper of boards lightly soiled/foxed, spinea little darkened. Endpapers and half-title foxed; text block not so, with all text and illustrations clean and nice.
A very satisfactory copy of this scarce, limited edition. (38192)

Early Nonesuch — The First Book
Gooden Illustrated
Cowley, Abraham, trans. Anacreon done into English out of the original Greek. Soho: Nonesuch Press, 1923. 8vo (24 cm, 9.5"). [108] pp.; 5 plts.
$150.00
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Nonesuch edition with original
copperplate engravings by Stephen Gooden (four full-page plates, an additional engraved title-page, and two decorations), the whole printed on heavy paper with deckle edges; Dreyfus says, intriguingly, “printed but unacknowledged by the Pelican Press.” This may well be Gooden's finest work as a book illustrator; certainly press director Francis Meynell thought so in the Nonesuch Century. The present example is numbered copy 430 of 725 for sale.
Provenance: Calligraphic bookplate of Norman J. Sondheim, American collector of fine press books.
McKitterick/Rendall/Dreyfus 12. Quarter vellum with gold paper sides; edges rubbed, wrapper lacking. Top edge gilt on the rough. Minor offsetting to endpapers, otherwise clean. (32037)

LEC: American Expatriate Literary Culture
Cowley, Malcolm. Exile's return: A literary odyssey of the 1920's. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1981. 8vo (25.2 cm, 9.9"). Frontis., xx, [2], 281, [3] pp.; 9 plts.
$400.00
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Limited Editions Club production of one of the earliest American works about the Lost Generation, here with an introduction by Leon Edel and
contemporary photographs by Berenice Abbott, Man Ray, André Kertész, and others, in a volume designed by Laurie Rippon and printed by Daniel Keleher at the Wild Carrot Letterpress. Numbered copy 538 of 2000 printed, this is
signed at the colophon by both Cowley and photographer Abbott. The appropriate LEC newsletter and prospectus are laid in.
Binding: A. Horowitz & Sons bound the work in quarter brown cloth with gray Fabriano Ingres paper, the front cover stamped in brown to reproduce the front cover of a 1920s literary magazine.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 523. Binding as above, in original glassine dust jacket with very minor chipping to corners. Also in original slipcase of brown cloth and gray paper with brown printed lettering to spine. A clean, fresh, indeed
wonderful copy. (39039)

One of the
40 Special Copies
Cox, Morris. 14 triads. London: Gogmagog Private Press, 1967. Narrow small 8vo (19.5 cm; 7.625"). [13] double leaves; illus.
$325.00
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Illustrated with three offset, full-page illustrations, printed in black and green, “[t]his edition is limited to 100 numbered copies.” Numbers 1–40 were “reserved for members of the Society of Private Printers.”
This is number 35. The text was printed on dampened Japanese Hoso-shi paper and the author's woodcut illustrations on blue-green Mingei paper.
The work, including the illustrations, is printed on the outside of double leaves unopened at fore-edge. The justification (pp. [2–3]), title (pp. [4–5]), and copyright notice (pp. [6–7]) extend across two pages. The text is set in Madura, the title in Jefferson Gothic, and the preliminaries in Gill Sans Medium Condensed.
The “triads” are three-line minimalist poems that now seem very 1950s/60s “coffee house” in style.
Chambers, Gogmagog, 18. Publisher's light boards covered with patterned Japanese Hana-asa paper.
A fine copy. (35836)

Jack Cuts Off the Giant's Head *&* Razes His Castle
Craig, William Marshall, illus.; John Lee, engraver. Jack the giant killer, a hero. Banbury: Pr. by J.G. Rusher, [ca. 1820]. Near miniature (8.8 cm, 3.5"). 15, [1] pp.; illus. (wood engravings).
$325.00
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The tale is told in verse and prose in this chapbook version and is illustrated with six wood engravings (one repeated on title-page). On the rear wrapper there is an additional, unrelated full-page engraving of a fugitive soldier, attributed in the Osborne Collection to John Lee after W.M. Craig. So, that is, there are a total of
eight cuts.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
Osborne Collection p. 33; Pearson, Banbury Chap Books, p. 33. As issued, age-toning at edges; spine splitting at very top but all sewing present and holding. A good+++ copy. (38797)

“Just 25 Yards of Sail to
Carry TWO People Across the ATLANTIC OCEAN!”
Crapo, Thomas. Strange, but true. Life and adventures of Captain Thomas Crapo
and wife. New Bedford: [self-published] Capt. Thomas Crapo, 1893 [but, really, 1899 or later]. 8vo (20 cm, 7.9"). 151, [1] pp.; illus.
$60.00
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A
whaler's account of his life and times, culminating with the voyage he and his wife made from New Bedford, MA, to Penzance, England. Joanna Crapo was the first woman to cross the Atlantic in a dory boat, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. This is an early reissue of the first edition, with a postscript written by Mrs. Crapo sometime after the captain's death in 1899.
Forster 32; Toy 156. Publisher's brown cloth, covers stamped in blind, spine with gilt-stamped title; edges and extremities slightly rubbed, spine with small spots of discoloration. Pages faintly age-toned, otherwise clean; a nice copy. (33301)
Crawfurd, John. Journal of an embassy from the governor-general of India to the courts of Siam and Cochin China; exhibiting a view of the actual state of those kingdoms ... second edition. London: Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, 1830. 8vo (23 cm, 9"). 2 vols. I: Fold. frontis., vii, [1], 475, [1] pp.; 3 fold. plts., 8 plts., illus. II: [2], v, [1], 459, [1] pp.; 4 fold. plts., 7 plts., 1 fold. chart.
$5000.00
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Second edition, following the first of 1828: Description of a diplomatic voyage through Thailand, Vietnam, and the Malay Peninsula, undertaken by a Scottish surgeon who had worked for the East India Company before becoming an envoy and colonial administrator. Following his retirement from public service, Crawfurd dedicated himself to Oriental studies, and published such works as A Grammar and Dictionary of the Malay Language, A Descriptive Dictionary of the Indian Islands and Adjacent Countries, and A History of the Indian Archipelago.
The present account is one of the most important descriptions of the region in the early 19th century, incorporating cultural and religious assessments as well as economic and political. The two volumes are illustrated with 8 oversized, folding plates; 1 folding chart; 15 plates (many depicting variations in regional costume for both men and women), and a number of in-text engravings.
NSTC 2C42639; Goldsmiths’-Kress 26080; not in Maggs, Bibl. Asiatica. On Crawfurd, see: Dictionary of National Biography. Publisher’s dark green cloth, blind-stamped, spines with gilt-stamped title; spines very slightly sunned and showing faint traces of now-absent paper labels, cloth lightly rubbed at corners and spine extremities. Hinges cracked (inside). Front pastedowns rubber-stamped (no other institutional markings). Title-pages with pencilled owner’s name in upper margins; contents pages with inked owner’s name dated 1865. Frontispiece, plates, and a few pages in proximity to plates lightly to moderately foxed; one plate in vol. II torn from inner margin, tear not touching image.
Absorbing reading, evocative images. (19179)

Lovers in Disguise, Lost Children, Ghosts, Shrews, & More
Illustrated in COLOR
Crawhall, Joseph. Crawhall's chap-book chaplets. London: The Scolar Press, 1976. Large 4to (29 cm, 11.4"). [8], 27, [5], 21, [3], 25, [3], 30, [6], 27, [5], 20, [8], 15, [5], 48, [4] pp.; col. illus.
$75.00
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First facsimile edition of this gathering of folksongs and ballads, redone in quirkily illustrated versions by Joseph Crawhall II (1821–96), an antiquarian, writer, and artist — who has supplied his own woodcuts. According to the preliminary note, “Crawhall's Chap Book Chaplets were originally issued uncoloured as eight separate chap-books and as a bound volume containing the eight parts. A small number of volumes were made up with the illustrations hand-coloured: there is considerable variation between copies. The present edition, printed by lithography follows a hand-coloured original.” That original was published in 1883 by Field & Tuer et al.
This bright and cheerful facsimile reproduces “The Barkeshire Lady's Garland,” “The Babes in the Wood,” “I Know What I Know,” “Jemmy & Nancy of Yarmouth,” “The Taming of a Shrew,” “Blew-Cap for Me,” “John & Joan,” and “George Barnewel,”
all with their remarkable, rambunctious, good-humored illustrations.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Publisher's quarter very light grey linen and printed paper–covered sides; small faint spot of staining at lower edge of front cover, otherwise clean and unworn. Pages age-toned (not unattractively or indeed inappropriately!).
A thoroughly delightful production in a very nice copy. (41201)

Bite-Sized
Theatrical Morsels
in
Fancy
Dress — Signed
Bindings
Cruz, Ramón de la. Sainetes de D. Ramón de la Cruz. Barcelona: Biblioteca “Arte y Letras” E. Domenech y Ca., 1882. 8vo (20.5 cm, 8"). 2 vols. I: [4], xliii, [1], 338, [2] pp.; 16 plts. (some incl. in pagination). II: [4], 343, [5] pp.; 5 plts.
$275.00
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Resplendent
collection of
clever, satiric 18th-century theatrical vignettes, originally intended to be
performed as intermedios during longer plays. The pieces, which include
“La Comedia de Maravillas,” “El Café de Máscaras,”
“La Duda Satisfecha,” “Manolo,” and many others, appear
here illustrated with
21
plates and numerous in-text engravings by José Llovera
and A. Lizcano, most depicting lively social scenes, musicians, dancers, and
flirtatious maidens. Although the second volume contains fewer plates than the
first, it makes up for the difference with extra in-text images.
Signed Binding: Publisher's teal pebbled cloth, front covers with striking chariot and armorial scene in light blue, tan, and gilt. The “Cibeles” statue found in Madrid's Cibeles Plaza and the coat of arms (and gilt monogram) of the city of Madrid appear with de la Cruz's name stamped in gilt below; spines offer gilt-stamped title and black-stamped griffin decoration. Cover of vol. II is signed “J. Orba.” All page edges are stamped in a Greek key pattern in blue and gilt.
Provenance:
Half-titles each with old-fashioned rubber-stamp of José Carmona y
Ramos.
Palau 65340. Bindings as above, edges and extremities
showing minor shelfwear, back cover of vol. I with small spots of faint discoloration,
front joint of vol. II rubbed. Collector's stamp as above, each front pastedown
with small paper label bearing hand-inked numeral. Pages age-toned; edges
slightly embrittled, occasionally with small chips or short tears. Scattered
light smudges in vol. I; vol. II with mild to moderate foxing.
A
peacocky set. (29262)

A Gift from One Coleridge to Another — Victorian Color & Song
Cundall, Joseph, ed. Songs, madrigals, and sonnets. A gathering of some of the most pleasant flowers of old English poetry. London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Co., 1849. 32mo (13.8 cm, 5.5"). [72] pp.; illus.
[SOLD]
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Plenty stunning and a charming provenance: A garden of England's finest poets and their poems, gathered together to create a beautiful collection of color and song as an excellent example of
Victorian color printing. Each song, madrigal, and sonnet has an ornamental border “of an Italian character of design” featuring bright yellow, blue, green, pink and purple and “printed by means of woodblocks.” The half-title, also illustrated with beautiful bright colors, features two elegant statues on plinths surrounded by garden beauty. Compiled by Joseph Cundall and printed by Charles Whittingham, the collection contains works by favorites such as Milton, Shakespeare, and Coleridge.
According to McLean, it was one of the few books Chiswick printed in color.
Binding: Brick red morocco, five bands, gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Four sets of gilt double-rule borders to beveled boards with three smaller decorative borders between each double-rule set: dots (between inner set), leafy vine (very middle), dots (between outer set). Gilt cut-off sheaves and foliate design to turn-ins with rule of short dashes/dots bordering pastedowns. Marbled endpapers and all edges gilt. Signed by
Riviere.
Provenance: On the verso of the half-title, an inscription reading, “F.G. Coleridge, from his affect[ionate] cousin Edwin E. Coleridge, Christmas Day, 1849.” Francis George Coleridge (1794–1854) and Edwin Ellis Coleridge (1803–1870) were
nephews of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Underneath, there appears to be an inscription written in Greek. A penciled note indicates F.G. Coleridge was the grandfather of “Dorothy H. S[mith?].” However, our research could not find a granddaughter named Dorothy. The initials “G.S.,” also in the same penciled hand, are below that. Most recently from the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
McLean, Victorian Book Design and Colour Printing, pp. 70–71, 143; Not in Ing, Charles Whittingham. Bound as above with rubs and scrapes refurbished; spine darkened and rubbed with missing or darkened gilt, small hole to spine-head. Interior mildly age-toned and with some minor, occasional, light spotting and dirtied edges; minor gutter crack at the half-title. Provenance as above.
A nice, still-sturdy Riviere binding and a beautiful, colorful interior. (38395)

A Celebration of Fine Education — Inscribed by the Author
Cunningham, Frank H. Familiar sketches of the Phillips Exeter Academy and surroundings. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1883. 8vo (20.1 cm; 7.875"). xiv, 360 pp. illus.
$200.00
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First edition and inscribed by the author. One of the oldest secondary schools in the United States is celebrated in this handsome, illustrated volume; first established in 1781 in New Hampshire, Phillips Exeter Academy is known for its conference-style classes and professed tradition of diversity.
Over 20 illustrations of buildings, interiors, and portraits illustrate the beauty of the campus and its history, many offering two images (or more) per plate leaf (with a tissue guard). A fold-out “Table of Athletic Tournaments” listing events from 1874 to 1881 is also included.
Binding: Original brown cloth with beveled edges, stamped in gilt and black with gilt lettering to front board and spine; gilt vignette of the Academy to front board.
Provenance: Cunningham, an affectionate and appreciative graduate of the Academy, has inscribed the front free endpaper
“With the compliments of the author, 6/22, '83.” Later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Extremities lightly rubbed, minor bumping; gilt bright on spine and brighter on cover.
Very nice, clean copy “personalized” by the author. (37760)

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