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Galsworthy, John. The plays.... London: Duckworth, 1929. 8vo (22 cm, 8.6"). [8], 1150, [2] pp.
$100.00
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27 plays by the Nobel laureate and author of the Forsyte Saga.
Signed binding: Contemporary half tan morocco with marbled paper–covered sides, spine with raised bands each accented above and below with single gilt rule and single black rule; gilt-stamped title, spine compartments framed in gilt with gilt dots in each corner and each with gilt center device. Front free endpaper stamped “Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.” Top edge gilt; silk ribbon place marker.
Binding as above, spine slightly sunned, corners and extremities showing minor rubbing. Front pastedown with private collector’s armorial bookplate. Pages clean. (19752)

A Major Play in the
Reemergence of Spanish Tragedy
[García de la Huerta, Vicente Antonio]. Raquel, tragedia española en tres jornadas. No place [Madrid]: No publisher/printer [Antonio de Sancha], no date [1778]. Small 8vo. 103, [1 (blank)] pp., plate.
$250.00
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Raquel occupies an important place in the mid-18th-century rebirth of the writing of tragedies for the stage in Spain, notably for reestablishing the classical (i.e., Aristotelian) unities.
This particular edition has long been a mystery, but a fine cataloguer at the University of Salamanca has worked out what many others have not: This printing of Raquel, is a “separada del vol. I. de las “Obras poéticas” de Huerta, editadas por Sancha en 1778–79,” and this is why it seems complete by the pagination and signature collation, but yet seems to lack a title-page. It doesn't: One was never printed for it.
Aguilar Piñal, IV, 862; Herrera Navarro, Autores teatrales, 205; Palau 99106; Rodríguez Moñino, Antonio Sancha, 162. Contemporary acid-stained sheep (“pasta espanola”), spine label lost. Light foxing and old staining. Upper margin of the plate closely cropped, taking upper portions of all letters of first line of caption but not rendering reading impossible. A nice copy. (34987)

“But Make Haste to Newgate”
Gay, John. The beggar's opera. London: Daniel O'Connor (London: Charles Whittingham and Griggs, Chiswick Press), 1922. 4to (29 cm; 11") ; xxxiv, viii, 99 pp., [24] leaves of plates, ill., facsims., ports.
$100.00
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One of 1000 copies: This one is not numbered. Edited and with an introduction by Oswald Doughty, “with
28 plates in collotype and a facsimile title of the first edition,” this was printed at the Chiswick Press with its title-page in black and red and using a type evoking the style of English books of the early 18th century.
Includes bibliographical references (pp. xxxiii–xxxiv) and bears illustrated endpapers.
Binding: Publisher's quarter white linen with blue-green paper sides, printed paper label on spine; the variant binding without the embossed medallion on the front cover and bearing instead a paper label that gives full publication details and describes the book as in “imperial 8vo” costing “two guineas net.” Top edge gilt, others deckle.
Bound as above, without the d/j. A very good copy. (34706)

ALDINE Attic Nights . . .
Gellius, Aulus. Auli Gellii noctivm Atticarvm libri vndeviginti. [colophon: Venetiis: in Aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Soceri, mense Septembri 1515. 8vo (17 cm; 6.625"). [32], 289, [51] ff. (errors in foliation, but complete).
$3000.00
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First of two Aldine editions published in 1515 of Gellius' only known work, with “duerniorem” on the final leaf as prescribed by Renouard. The iconic Aldine printer's device appears on both the title-page and the final leaf of text, with the fore-edge of the title-page having been slightly repaired long ago at the margin.
Gellius's Attic Nights, supposed to have been written for the entertainment and education of his children, offers a rich tapestry of the life and times of the Roman Empire under the five good emperors. In an informal style Gellius ranges from law, grammar, history, and literary criticism to evening chats with fellow students and visits to the awe-inspiring villas of Herodes Atticus, the most famous philanthropist of Athens. Editor Giovanni Battista Egnazio (1478–1553), an important part of the Aldine literary circle and executor of Manuzio's will, here presents a newly revised text — complete with two indexes and explanation of the Greek passages.
Renouard, Alde, 73.9; Brunet, II, 1523; Adams G344; Graesse, Trésor de Livres Rares, III, p. 45; Schweiger, Handbuch der classischen Bibliographie, II, p. 376; on Egnazio, see: Contemporaries of Erasmus, pp. 424–25. 18th-century vellum over boards with red and green gilt leather spine labels, one edge with one very small chip to vellum; fore-edge of title-page repaired, light age-toning, a few words in old ink to front endpapers, some unevenly trimmed pages with the occasional (chiefly light) marginal stain or spot. “A. Gellius” in old ink to fore-edge of volume.
A worthy Aldine. (37243)

Polenta before It Was Made with
“Turkey Wheat”
& Woodcuts from the
Moretus Press
Gerard, John. The herball, or, General historie of plantes. London: Printed by Adam Islip, Joice Norton & Richard Whitakers, 1636. Large folio (35.5 cm; 14"). [19 of 20] ff., 1630 [i.e., 1634] pp., [24 of 25] ff. (without the initial and final blank leaves).
$13,500.00
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“When reading Gerard we are wandering in the peace of an Elizabethan garden, with a companion who
has a story for every flower and is full of wise philosophies” (Woodward, p. viii). And indeed, Gerard's herbal is written in “glorious Elizabethan prose, [with] the folk-lore steeping its pages'” (Woodward, p. vii), these factors going a long way towards making it one of the best-known and -loved of the early English herbals. The “herbs” surveyed include plants aquatic and terrestrial, New World and Old, embracing shrubs, plants, and trees, each with a description of its structure and appearance, where it is found (and how it got there), when it is sown and reaped or flowers, its name or names (often with engrossingly exotic etymologies), its “temperature,” and its “vertues” or uses (often curious).
The story is famous: John Norton, Queen's printer, wished to bring out an English language version of Dodoen's Pemptades of 1583 and hired a certain “Dr. Priest” to do so, but the translator died with the work only partially done. A copy of the manuscript translation made its way into John Gerard's hands and he seized the opportunity, reorganizing the contents, obscuring the previous translator's contribution, incorporating aspects of Rembert and Cruydenboeck's works, and commandeering the result as his own.
Gerard abandoned Dodoen's classification, opting for l'Obel's instead, and, in a stroke of ambition and brilliance, illustrated the work with
more than 2500 woodcuts of plants. Many of these are large and all are attractive but more than a few were of plants he himself did not know, thus leading to considerable confusion between illustration and text in the earliest editions, this being third overall and the second with Thomas Johnson's additions and amendments. For both Johnson editions
a large number of the woodcuts were obtained from the famous Leyden printing and publishing firm of Moretus, successors to the highly famous firm of Plantin. As Johnston notes: “Most of the cuts were those used in the botanicals published by Plantin, although a number of new woodcuts were added after drawings by Johnson and Goodyer” (Cleveland Herbal . . . Collections, #185).
The large thick volume begins with a handsome engraved title-page by John Payne incorporating a bust of the author, urns with flowers and herbs, and full-length seated images of Dioscorides and Theophrastus and of Ceres and Pomona. Replacing the missing initial blank is a later leaf on which is mounted a large engraving of Gerard. The text is printed in italic, roman, and gothic type.
There is, to us, a surprising and very interesting section on grapes and wines. The first part of our caption delights partly in discovery that maize, the “corn” of the U.S., is here called “turkey wheat” — with further note that you can make bread of it, but that the result is pleasing only to “barbarous” tastes! The entry as a whole shows
Gerard at his characteristic best, at once scientifically systematic and engagingly discursive.
Provenance: Neatly lettered name of “W. Younge” at top of title-page; it is tempting to attribute this to William Younge, physician of Sheffield and Fellow of the Royal Linnean Society, whose online correspondence shows him to have been an eager collector of botanical books.
STC (rev. ed.) 11752; Alden & Landis, European Americana, 636/25; Nissen, Botanischebuchs, 698n; Pritzel 3282n; Johnston, The Cleveland Herbal, Botanical, and Horticultural Collections, 185; Woodward, Gerard's Herball: The essence thereof distilled (London, 1964). On the source of the blocks, see: Hunt Botanical Catalogue and Bowen, K. L., & D. Imhof, The illustration of Books Published by the Moretuses (Antwerpen, 1997). For “Turkey Wheat, “ see: Gerard, p. 81; for polenta, p. 71. Late 17th-century English calf, plain style; rebacked professionally in the 20th century, later endpapers. As usual, without the first and last blank leaves. Three leaves with natural paper flaws in blank margins. A very good copy. (34500)

One Writer's Prose is
Another's Poetry
Gessner, Salomon. Salomon Gessners auserlesene Idyllen in Verse. Berlin: Gedrukt und verlegt von J.F. Unger, 1787. Small 8vo (16.5 cm; 6.5"). 192 pp.
$200.00
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Karl Wilhelm Ramler (1725–98) was a Prussian poet, lyricist, editor, and anthologizer. He here turns a selection of Salomon Gessner's prose Idyllen into poetic hexameters! Gessner (1730–88) was a Swiss painter and prose writer of considerable success.
A volume of modest production values, this begins nicely with a handsome title-page bearing an engraved vignette by Johann Wilhelm Meil (1733–1805) that sets the tone for the contents: lyricism in an idyllic setting.
Leemann-van Elck, Salomon Gessner, 584. Slightly later green paper–covered boards, rubbed and abraded but volume sound. Early leaves lightly soiled and with light foxing, all edges red. (34204)

Medieval Literature, Famous Sources, Accounts of Chess TOO!
Gesta Rhomanorum cu[m] applicatio[n]ib[us] moralisatis ac misticis. [Strasbourg]: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (i.e., Georg Husner)], 1499. Folio (27.5 cm, 10.75"). [8], XCIII, [1] ff. (the last leaf blank and missing here) .
$8750.00
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Preaching is work, and for some it is hard work that can be made less hard with the use of preaching aids, such as published sermons that can be cribbed in whole or in part, collections of fables and stories with moral lessons to be woven into a sermon, lives of saints to provide inspiration to the congregation, Bible commentary to illuminate a point being made, and so forth. In the late 13th or early 14th century, either in England or somewhere on the European continent, someone or some people compiled one such preaching aid, a volume of exempla (moralizing or illustrative stories) we now know as Gesta romanorum.
The demand for this work, whether in aid of preaching or simply because it was “a good read,” is attested to by its 25 printed editions in Latin, French, German, and Dutch produced between 1473 and 1501. And its significance does not end with its service in aiding preachers and those “just" wanting a good story, for various of its tales were
sources for Chaucer (Man of Law’s Tale), Gower (the story of Darius and his three sons), Hoccleve (the story about Apollonius of Tyre), Shakespeare (Merchant of Venice, King Lear), and other medieval and Renaissance writers.
The compiler(s) of Gesta romanorum cast such a wide net for its contents that it contains two stories about
chess (chapters 166, “De ludo schacorum,” and 178, “De omnium divitiarum matre, providentia”), bringing the book into the canon of early books of the game. Despite the descriptions being somewhat garbled, one is notable for establishing that by the time the compilation was made the queen had the power to move both to squares of different colors and diagonally to squares of the same color.
This incunable edition is basically a page-for-page reprint of the Husner editions of 6 August 1489 and 25 January 1493. The date of publication as given in the colophon has caused some confusion: “Anno nostre salutis .Mccccxcix. In octaua epiphanie d[omi]ni ” Goff and the BMC interpret this to mean 7–12 January 1499.
The text is printed in double columns, in gothic type, 46 lines per column. There are initial spaces, some with guide letters; all initials are indited in neat red ink.
Provenance: Ownership inscription in the top margin of leaf [pi]2r, in Latin, dated 1500 of Matthew Schach, the Carthusian Prior at Prüll, and “tit. Bp. of Salona (Dalmatia), suffragan Bp. of Freising” according to Paul Needham's Index Possessorum Incunabulorum; mid-19th-century ownership signature on title-page of A. De Welles Miller, Charlotte, North Carolina, a Doctor of Divinity, but we do not know of which denomination. He was a devoted collector of early printed books. (Sincere thanks to Eric Johnson [Ohio State University Library] and Eric White [Princeton University Library] for assistance with the Shach provenance note.)
Evidence of readership: Early marginalia next to chapters (or their morals) 15, 16, 28, 33, 36, 43, 47, 55, 72, 80, 91, 92, 106, 111, 125, 128, 135, 144, 164, 173, and 178. A correction to the moral of 115 and an interlinear addition to moral 55.
Goff G-296; GKW 10902; BMC I, 146 (IB. 1928); ISTC ig00296000. Recent ebony-brown calf old style: Round spine with raised bands accented by gilt rules, cream leather title label, fillets extending onto covers from each band to terminate in trefoils; a vertical blind-tooled “rope” to covers beyond the trefoils and covers framed in blind double fillets. Title-leaf stained and with old repairs, pencilling, and ownership indicia as above; very old bookseller's description glued to same not approaching type or inkings. Variable waterstaining throughout; pinhole-type worming, minor and not costing letters; leaf l4 torn in upper margin extending into text with loss a very few words in the top two lines of one column on each page of the leaf. Lacks the final blank (only).
A significant book, and a handsome incunable in a very interesting copy. (39525)

Neil Gaiman Thought
THIS Art Perfectly Matched Howard's Vision
Gianni, Gary, illus. The Solomon Kane sketchbook. London: Wandering Star, [1997]. 8vo (21 cm, 8.25"). [16] pp.; illus.
$35.00
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Gianni's black-and-white sketches and designs for a deluxe illustrated edition of Robert E. Howard's The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane, opening with introductions by Neil Gaiman and Mike Mignola and featuring excerpts from Howard's text.
Pre-publication advertising ephemera at its best.
Publisher's textured navy paper wrappers, in original brown paper envelope printed in red; envelope corners slightly worn. Wrappers and pages clean and crisp. (31228)

The Lyf of Seynt Katerine
Gibbs, Henry Hucks. The life and martyrdom of Saint Katerine of Alexandria, virgin and martyr. Now first printed from a manuscript of the early part of the fifteenth century in the possession of Henry Hucks Gibbs, with preface, notes, glossary, and appendix. London: Nichols & Sons, 1884. 4to (26.6 cm, 10.5"). [8], xix, [1], 86, [2], lxii, 188 pp.; 1 col. plt.
$500.00
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First edition, printed for the members of the Roxburghe Club: a 15th-century prose rendition of one of the most popular virgin martyr legends, transcribed from the original manuscript and extensively annotated. The title-page is printed in black and red, and the main text — which preserves the spelling and special characters of the Middle English — is preceded by a color-printed facsimile of the first leaf of the illuminated manuscript. The volume closes with a reissue of the Early English Text Society's printing of Einenkel's edition of an Early Middle English verse rendition of the saint's life, given in Latin and Middle English.
NSTC 0458171. Later full navy morocco, spine with gilt-stamped title; spine gently sunned. Top edges gilt. Two pages with small spots of faint staining, overall gentle age-toning. A nice example of the Roxburghe Club's
impeccable publication standards. (33492)

The Prophet INSCRIBED
by This Much Admired Lebanese-American Poet,
Artist, & Mystical Writer
Gibran, Kahlil. The prophet. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. Square small 8vo (25 cm, 8.25"). 84 pp., 12 plates; illus.
$10,000.00
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Gibran was born in Lebanon in 1883 and emigrated to the U.S. with his mother and siblings in 1895. His best-known work is The Prophet, a collection of philosophical, spiritual, mystical, and inspirational poetic essays that have been treasured by generations around the world since being first published in September, 1923. Its illustrations “are reproduced from the original drawings by the author.”
Inscribed copy: “With the kindest thoughts of Kahlil Gibran[,] 1926.”
Provenance: Christmas gift inscription reading, “For my friend Cecile from Barbara Young, Christmas, 1926.” Barbara Young was the pen name of Henrietta Breckenridge Boughton, an American art and literary critic in the 1920s and a poet; she served as Gibran's secretary from 1925 until his death, revised and published his book The Garden of the Prophet, and published a study of his life (This Man from Lebanon).
Publisher's black cloth; gilt faded, top of spine pulled with small loss. Corner of one leaf torn away. Else a very nice copy of
a book not often found inscribed, and with a provenance that goes straight back to the inscriber. (40911)

A Tour of French Colonial Africa
Gide, André. Travels in the Congo. New York: Modern Age Books, Inc., 1937. 12mo. [12], 305, [4] pp.
$30.00
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“Red Seal” paperback edition of this classic travelogue, translated from the original French by Dorothy Bussy.
Publisher's printed paper wrappers, in original printed dust wrapper; dust wrapper partially split along front outer fold and nicked at corners. Pages age-toned. (28931)

Eric Gill Writes, His Son-in-Law Draws
Gill, Eric, & Denis Tegetmeier. Unholy trinity. London: J. M. Dent & Sons (for Hague & Gill Ltd. [prs.]), [colophon: 1938]. Square 8vo (21 cm; 8"). [12] ff. (i.e., [24] pp.), illus.
$145.00
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In this collaborative work Gill supplied eleven short essays and his son-in-law (husband of Petra) provided the eleven full-page illustrations. The essays are: “Unholy trinity,” “Unholy alliance,” “Work and leisure,” “Paradox of plenty,” “Wheels within wheels,” “Yes, we have no bananas,” “Europa and the bull,” “Swine,” “Cannon fodder,” “Safe for Christianity,” and “Melancholia.” They treat of social problems, war and society, and capitalism.
Gill (second ed.) 37. Publisher's pink paper wrappers printed on front in blue, housed in matching pink and blue paper envelope. Pamphlet in fine condition; envelope with bumped edges and corners and a few spots of smudging. (35362)

Poems of Town, Country, & Church from the
Bodoni Press
Giordani, Luigi Uberto. Versi di Luigi Uberto Giordani. Parma: Co' Tipi Bodoniani, 1809. 8vo “piccolo” (17.3 cm, 6.8"). 4 vols. in 2. I & II: [8], 99 (9-16 supplied twice), [9], 103, [1] pp. III & IV: [2], xx, 133, [7], 123, [1] pp.
$250.00
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SOLE EDITION, Bodoni printing: Verses from a poet-lawyer (1753–1818) known in his day both as an orator and as a jurist who taught criminal law at the University of Parma, now remembered primarily as the author of the funeral oration for Ferdinand, Duke of Parma. The first two volumes comprise four pieces “fatti in Villa” (“Il Monte,” “Il Bosco,” “Il Colle,” and “Il Torrente”), and four pieces “fatti in Città” (“Il Teatro,” “Le Tombe,” “Il Passeggio,” and “Il Foro”), while the third volume offers psalm translations (with
Latin and Italian given on facing pages) and the fourth a collection of miscellaneous poems. The author's dedication (“Agli amici l'autore”) is set in a beautiful rounded italic, and the main text in a minute but legible roman.
Provenance: Front pastedowns each with bookplate of Robert Wayne Stilwell.
Brooks 1063; De Lama, II, 187; Giani 189 (p. 74). Modern full crimson morocco, covers framed in single gilt fillet, spines with gilt-stamped title and volume numbers, gilt-dotted raised bands, and gilt-stamped floral decorations in compartments, in a matching cloth slipcase; original paper spine labels for the four volumes affixed to front pastedowns. Page edges untrimmed; one leaf in vol. I with chip out of lower margin and with signature 2 (pp. 9–16) bound in twice. A very few scattered small spots to first three volumes, fourth volume slightly more noticeably so affected, pages overall clean and crisp.
A handsome set. (40196)

Freed from GRINDING Poverty in London,
a Writer
Looks Back at Life
Gissing, George, ed. The private papers of Henry Ryecroft. Portland, ME: Thomas Bird Mosher, 1921. 4to (19.4 cm, 7.6"). lxiv, 246, [2] pp.
$45.00
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“Gissing's last and most beautiful book,” according to Mosher. The lightly fictionalized memoir — stylized as an edited, seasonally organized presentation of a deceased author's journal — is preceded by an introductory survey of Gissing's work, written by Thomas Secombe. This edition was printed on handmade Van Gelder paper, with the type distributed afterwards; only
700 copies were printed on paper, with an additional 25 on Japan vellum.
Hatch, Mosher, 688; Bishop, Mosher, 313. Publisher's quarter tan paper and blue paper–covered sides, spine with printed paper label; spine moderately sunned, with extremities rubbed and one tiny fleck to one compartment. Back hinge (inside) cracked, front hinge tender, volume yet holding firmly; as usual, without the dust jacket or the slipcase. Overall, a very good copy of
an interesting book and an attractive Mosher production. (34463)

Bodoni Edition: “All' Amica” “Il Rossetto” “La Chitarra” & Other Poems
Giusti, Giovanni Battista. Versi di Gio. Batista Giusti. Parma: Co' Tipi Bodoniani, 1801. 16mo (13.3 cm, 5.23"). [2], 67, [1] pp.
$150.00
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Twelve pieces from a
Bolognese engineer, scientific instrument maker, and amateur poet in a graceful, petite 16mo variant printed in the same year as the Bodoni quarto first edition.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplates of Brian Douglas Stilwell and Robert Wayne Stilwell.
Brooks 818; De Lama, II, 145; Giani 141 (p. 66). Contemporary marbled paper–covered boards, spine with hand-inked paper label, rubbed and fadedl; front joint cracked with spine wanting to pull away from text block although still attached. Back pastedown with small inked annotation and pencilled collation note. Scattered minor foxing, two pages with light offsetting from now-absent laid-in item, pages overall clean with untrimmed edges.
An uncommon Bodoni production. (40185)

Beautifully
Bound & Illustrated FRENCH Edition
“Tr. by Mme. Bachellery”
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Les souffrances du jeune Werther. Tr. by Mme. Bachellery. Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1886. 8vo.
$2250.00
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Edition limited to 220, this one of 10 on papier du Japon. Illustrated with eaux-fortes by Lalauze, and each plate
present in four states.
Binding: Bound by Lortic Frères in red morocco with filigree gilt tooling on covers and in spine compartments; a gilt rose also in each spine compartment. Blue morocco in-laid doublures, turquoise watered silk endpapers, and marbled fly-leaves; very wide turn-ins with gilt dentelles. All edges gilt over marbling.
A copy in lovely condition, imperceptibly rebacked with the original spine retained. Original wrappers bound in. Protected in a crimson morocco-edged slipcase. (2933)
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A Pioneer of
Russian Realism
Gogol, Nikolai. The overcoat. The government inspector. Westport, CT: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club, 1976. 8vo (27.2 cm, 10.75"). xiii, [3], 187, [3] pp.; illus.
$65.00
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Classic Russian literature in a Limited Editions Club version translated by Constance Garnett, with an introduction by Alfred Kazin and nine color engravings hand-pulled
by artist Saul Fields, who used a hardened-collage technique of his own design. The volume was designed by Charles Skaggs and printed by the Meriden Gravure Co. in linotype Janson on
cream-toned rag paper; the binding is green and brown buckram stamped in aluminum foil, done by the Tapley-Rutter Co.
This is numbered copy 801 of 2000 printed, signed at the colophon by the artist. The appropriate Club newsletter is laid in.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 500. Binding as above, in publisher's green paper-covered slipcase. A handsome copy. (31987)
A Classic Presented in
Classic Fashion
Goldsmith, Oliver. The deserted village. Boston: J.E. Tilton & Co., 1866. 8vo. 53, [1] pp.; illus.
$49.50
Attractive Boston printing of Goldsmith's popular poem, here illustrated with a number of engravings
Publisher's green cloth binding, front cover stamped in black and gilt; bright and clean, with cloth showing only very minor wear to corners and extremities. All edges gilt. (14437)

Presentation Copy Bound by
HAYDAY
Goldsmith, Oliver. The vicar of Wakefield. London: John Van Voorst, 1843. 8vo (8.25"; 21 cm). xv, 306 pp.
$500.00
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A presentation copy signed by the publisher, “Dr. W. Cooke Taylor / from John Van Voorst,” on the half-title. This is likely addressed to William Cooke Taylor, the Irish journalist and historian who wrote extensively for the AntiCorn Law League.
There are
32 illustrations provided by William Mulready, “the most distinguished talent of British Art applicable to this purpose . . .” (p. v).
Binding: Bound by Hayday in green pebbled morocco, spine with raised bands; two compartments with title and author and four with rich and elaborate gilt decoration; wide gilt composite borders to boards, board edges with gilt hatching, gilt zig-zag design on turn-ins. All edges gilt.
Bound as above; light rubbing particularly to spine-head, one slim scrape to front board and several to rear one. Endpapers lightly foxed, silk placemarker present with end a little frayed, old pencilling to verso of front free endpaper. Interior and illustrations clean and unmarked.
A very good presentation copy of this classic. (37320)
Thomson's Illustrations The Vicar
Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. London & New York: Macmillan & Co., 1892. 8vo. Frontis., xxxiv, [2], 305, [7] pp.; illus.
$40.00
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With a preface by Austin Dobson and illustrations by Hugh Thomson. The back pastedown bears the ticket of a Hartford, CT, bookseller.
Publisher's teal cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title and decorative floral motifs; back cover and corners showing very slight scuffing. Back hinge cracked and front hinge starting; front free endpaper excised. Still, an attractive copy. (18393)
Gordon, George Gordon, duke of. Broadside. Begins: “February 4th 1709. Unto the right honourable the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of George Duke of Gordon...” [Edinburgh, 1709]. Folio (31.5 cm, 12.4"). [1] p.
$775.00
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Broadside documenting a legal action over the rents of Aboyne, involving the first Duke of Gordon, ancestor of Lord Byron.
Scarce: No holdings were located by ESTC, WorldCat, or NUC Pre-1956.
Creased with slight soiling along crease, edges slightly ragged, otherwise in good condition; now in a Mylar folder. Tipped onto a blank leaf bearing a watermark of 1826. (6523)
First Edition
Gosse, Edmund. Firdausi in exile and other poems. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885. 12mo. Frontis., x, 224, [2 (1 blank)] pp.
$75.00
NCBEL, III, 1432. Publisher's green cloth over beveled boards, gilt-stamped on the spine and front cover. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Spine dull. Early inked ownership signature on the front fly-leaf. Frontispiece with a protective tissue guard. Clean and tight; a very good copy. (8241)
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Limited Edition
French Symbolist Essay
Gourmont, Remy de. Le livret de l'imagier. Paris: Aux Éditions du “Sagittaire” chez Simon KRA, 1920. 16mo (16.5 cm; 6.5"). 49 pp.; illus.
$75.00
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Essay from a French Symbolist poet with an introduction by Gabriel Albert Aurier (1865–92), printed on Holland paper in a limited edition of 950 copies, of which this is number 909.
The little volume also offers a
striking wood-engraved frontispiece in orange and black by Jean Gabriel Daragnès (1886–1950) who additionally provided the wood-engraved headpieces, and the colophon notes the item was printed by Ducros, Lefèvre, & Colas.
Red and black printed cream wrappers, gently worn around edges; light age-toning with a few occasional spots, frontispiece offset onto title-page. A very nice copy. (36392)

His Masterpiece
Granada, Luis de. Introduction [sic] del symbolo de la fe, en la qual se trata de las excelencias de la fe, y de los dos principales mysterios della, que son la creacion del mundo, y la redempcion del genero humano, con otras cosas anexas a estos dos mysterios, repartidas en quatro partes ... de nuevo ... corregida y emendada en esta tercera impression. Salamanca: por los herederos de M. Gast, 1585. Folio. 4 parts in 1 vol. I: [10] ff., 188 pp., [2] ff. II: 221, [1] p., [1] f. (lacking pp. 3–18). III: 153, [1] pp., [1] f. IV: 126 pp., [1] f.
$1500.00
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The Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature calls this work “the devotional masterpiece of Luis de Granada” and expands: “The Dominican's longest work, it [is] . . . an encyclopedia of Christian religion in the light of the Spanish conception of the world” ( p. 293). It was first published in 1583: This edition contains parts one through four; a fifth part appeared in 1588.
Printed in double-column format, roman type, this has headlines in italic and offers woodcut headpieces and initials.
Binding: Late 19th- or early 20th-century mottled calf, spine brightly gilt extra with author and title gilt on red leather label, speckled edges. Binder's label of Jaime M. Alves, Lisbon.
Provenance: Contemporary ownership signatures of Ruy Gago and Cristobal Martinez at top of title-page; 20th-century bookplate of Alfonso Cassuto.
Palau 108157. Bound as above, a little scuffed with boards lightly bumped at corners and spine still notably shiny. Bookplate “Biblioteca Alfonso Cassuto” on front pastedown and small embossed stamp of same to main title-page and section titles. Some sections browned or with foxing, and with light, limited waterstaining in others; last section and a few other places with generally marginal worming that can or cost a few letters; lacking the prologue leaves of part II. Short closed tear in bottom margin of one leaf from a natural paper flaw; last leaf with corner repaired. A solid, handsome volume though not quite complete, offering a text of great repute and importance. (32627)

Cowper's Life a “Striking Instance of
the Instability of Earthly Hopes”
Greatheed, Samuel. A practical improvement of the divine counsel and conduct, attempted in a sermon, occasioned by the decease of William Cowper Esq; preached at Olney, 18 May 1800. Newport-Pagnel: J. Wakefield, [1800]. 8vo (22.5 cm, 8.9"). [4], 47, [1] pp.
$175.00
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First edition. A dissenting minister and founding member of the Eclectic Review, the Rev. Samuel Greatheed was a close friend of Cowper's; this memorial piece includes affecting descriptions of the poet's mental illness. This is the first issue of the first edition, with “sermon” in solid type on the title-page and a semi-colon after Wakefield in the imprint.
ESTC lists no publication prior to this occurring in Newport-Pagnel.
ESTC T44132; NCBEL, II, 598. Uncut copy and stitched as issued. Title-page with rubber-stamped numeral and internal tear touching the first line of title without loss; first and last pages dust-soiled, fore-edges chipped and slightly ragged. Not pristine, but a desirable example of this uncommon piece in its original state. (29490)

Poetry from Springfield, Massachusetts
& the “Mansion” Hotel at Pas'comuck
Greene, Aella. After night, a summer-place talk, with other poems. Boston: Lee & Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard & Dillingham, 1873. 8vo. Frontis., 93, [1] pp.; 2 plts. (incl. in pagination).
$50.00
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First edition: Verses from a poet and journalist whose work was, in its day, considered to “most faithfully embody the genuine spirit of New England country life” (New England Homestead, 1881).
Sickness is a theme here, along with the pain of it bravely borne; and the last piece expresses the hope that “all the allopaths” would vanish from the earth and that only “pleasant herbs” and “mild botanics” be given to the sick, rather than calomel and drugs.
The volume is illustrated with a total of three wood-engraved depictions of New England buildings.
Publisher's pebbled terra cotta cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title; spine darkened and worn with gilt rubbed, sides with small spots of discoloration, cover gilt nice and bright. Some light smudging to margins, pages otherwise clean. All edges gilt. (27649)
"The Military Service Publishing Co." (1945)
Greene, Graham. This gun for hire. Harrisburg, Pa.: The Military Service Publishing Co., [1945]. Small 8vo. [6 (2 blank)], 216, [2 (blank)] pp.
$30.00
Mass market paperback; first Superior Reprints edition. M652 in this series. First published in 1936. List of Superior Reprints in print as of June, 1945, on inside of back cover.
Original wrappers, all edges stained red. Spine slightly cocked and lightly rubbed, covers with a little faint creasing. Mildly age-toned. No tears, internally clean. Very good. (7179)
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Early Study of Tuscan Literature from the
Giunta Press
Gualteruzzi, Carlo; Vincenzo Borghini, ed. Libro di novelle, et di bel parlar gentile. Nel qual si contengono cento nouelle altrauolta mandate fuori da Messer Carlo Gualteruzzi da Fano ... Con aggiunta di quattro altre nel fine. Et con una dichiaratione d'alcune delle voci piu antiche. In Fiorenza: Nella Stamparia dei Giunti, 1572. 4to (22.5 cm, 8.875"). [28], 153 (i.e., 165; 79–88 repeated), [3] pp.
$2250.00
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Neatly printed collection of French-, Provençal-, and Italian-inspired stories primarily edited by Carlo Gualteruzzi, with four other stories edited by Vincenzo Borghini and an introduction for “alli studiosi della lingua Toscana” by Filippo and Jacopo Giunti. Considered by Dionisotti to be the first critical edition of an ancient text of Tuscan prose, this “nuovo ricorrette” edition comes after the first of 1525. Brunet notes of this edition that “l'auteur a réformé l'orthographe de celle de 1525,” and Gamba points out the two have varying content — that this printing features
four new tales not found in the first edition. Boccaccio is believed to have borrowed the “Three Rings” story for his Decameron.
The text is printed in single columns of roman and italic font with initials of varying decorative quality and size, some historiated, with different Giunta devices present on the title- and final pages.
Binding: Rich green morocco, spine stamped and lettered in gilt with compartmental fleurons, covers framed and panelled in blind double fillets with gilt decorative corner stamps, board edges with single gilt fillet, turn-ins with decorative gilt rolls, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.
Signed binding by Capé, name camouflaged in lower front turn-in.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
EDIT 16 CNCE 47120; Adams G1358; Gamba, Serie dei testi di lingua e di altre opere importanti nella italiana letteratura scritte dal secolo XIV al XIX (4th ed.), 687; Brunet, I, 1737. Bound as above, moderately rubbed especially corners and spine. Light pencilling on endpapers and one blue crayon mark over a numbered stamp with another stamp at back; provenance as above, old oval rubber-stamp (imperfect) on two leaves of text. Two small marginal paper flaws; leaves with a few instances of light marginal waterstaining or the occasional spot and light age-toning generally.
An elegant production, an attractive volume. (37997)

The Ideal Prince Novelized — A Multi-Publisher Edition
Guevara, Antonio de. L'Horloge des princes, avec le très renommé livre de Marc Aurèle, recueilly par don Antoine de Guevare ... traduict en partie ... par feu N. de Herberay ... et depuis reveu et corrigé nouvellement ... Paris: Chez Jean Borel, 1578. 8vo (17.3 cm, 6.75"). xxxii, 395, [1] ff.
$750.00
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Nicolas de Herberay first published his Middle French–language translation of Guevara's famous Spanish Renaissance work Relox de principes (Dial of Princes) in 1555, with subsequent editions appearing as late as 1676. This Golden Age classic didactic novel, designed after the manner of Xenophon's Cyropaedia, attempts to delineate the ideal prince, an exercise attempted by several writers of various nations in the 16th century and a topic that found wide readership.
This Paris 1578 edition seems to have been a joint publication of at least five publishers (G. Beys, Buon, Jean Poupy, Jean Borel, & Michel Sonnius) who all in that year issued an edition of the same collation with only small changes to the title-page.
Provenance: Manuscript purchase note on front pastedown: “Emp. 20 stuf. 30 a Junii 1592"; 17th-century ownership signature on title-page of H. Van Etten (possibly the compiler of Recreation mathematiques); unidentified bookplate of circa 1890. 20th-century collation note of Quaritch.
Palau 110191; Grendlere, Schooling . . . 1300-1600, 300-4. Contemporary calf, very worn and scuffed, with a 17th-century rebacking and pasteboards showing at corners and edges; spine with modest gilt ruling and lettering and covers panelled with three sets of blind rules embracing an outermost acanthus-leaf border in blind and a central black-stamped lily, black corner fleurons accenting the lily's panel. Worming to inside area of rear board and two leaves opposite, and also to leather of front cover in lower outer corner; text block unwormed, untattered, and clean. (41499)

The Life of the Courtier —
Guevara, in Italian
Guevara, Antonio de; Vincenzo Bondi, trans. Aviso de favoriti, e dottrina de cortegiani, opera non meno vtile, che diletteuole. In Venetia: Per Comin da Trino di Monferrato, 1562. 8vo (15.6 cm, 6.1"). 205 (i.e., 207), [1] ff.
$750.00
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Fray Antonio de Guevara (ca. 1481–1545) was a historian, bishop, court historiographer of Charles V, and acclaimed Golden Age literary figure. This volume presents an early Italian translation of his Aviso de prevados y doctrina de cortesanos — in which Guevara lays out the duties of courtiers (specifically, of the secular rather than religious members of a royal entourage) — along with
the first Italian translation of the author's Menosprecio de corte, a popular, critical satire on courtly life. This printing is not common in the U.S., with WorldCat locating only six reported institutional holdings (Columbia, UCLA, UMichigan, UIllinois, Harvard, UWisconsin-Milwaukee, Huntington).
Provenance: Title-page with traces of partially effaced early institutional armorial rubber-stamp; later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
EDIT16 CNCE 22234; Palau 110317; USTC 835287. Not in Adams. Contemporary limp vellum, evidence of ties now gone; spine with some sections chipped away, remnants of blue and white printed label, and inked title; binding stained, rubbed, and worm tracked with title-page, last two leaves of text, and endpapers also tracked. Interior overall rather nice with age-toning, intermittent foxing or faint marginal waterstaining, and a few leaves creased along corners. Otherwise a few flawed leaves, probably from paper manufacture, and pagination erratic; provenance indicia as above, front free endpaper with early
inked annotation in Italian, and one marginal accent in ink Sound, despite noted binding flaws, and an interesting work. (39705)

“In the reign of good King René . . . ”
Guiney, Louise Imogen. The secret of Fougereuse: A romance of the fifteenth century; from the French. Boston: Marlier, Callanan & Co., 1898. 12mo (18.7 cm, 7.375"). Frontis., 347, [1] pp.; 4 plts.
$45.00
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First edition. Louise Imogen Guiney was an American Catholic poet and essayist active in the Boston literary circle of the late 19th century. This is her translation of Louis Morvan's Jehan de Fougereuse from the original French. The text is
illustrated with a frontispiece and four plates in black and white.
Binding: Decorated publisher's binding: blue cloth with “silver”-stamped lettering and fleur-de-lis decorations to front board and spine, front cover with large “silver”-stamped vignette of a medieval gentleman holding a cage with two owls. “Silver” work actually aluminum and very bright!
Provenance: On front free endpaper, two ownership stamps of Sarah E. Lembeck.
BAL 6747 (state A imprint, state A binding). Bound as above; spine cocked and extremities and joints lightly rubbed. Stamps as above. Crease to p. 42; interior otherwise unspoiled.
A handsomely medieval-esque production. (37506)
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