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Teaching Spanish to U.S. Students Using Canonical Writers
Sales, Francisco, comp. & ed. Colmena española; ó, Piézas escogídas de vários autóres españóles, moráles, instructívas, y divertídas. Boston: Munroe y Francis, 1825. 24mo (14.5 cm, 5.5"). 216 pp.
$300.00
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First edition of this pocket-sized Spanish reader prepared by an instructor in French and Spanish at Harvard. Sales has edited this selection of the great Spanish writers “con la vária significacion en ingles de las partículas, vóces y fráses idiomáticas al pié de cada pieza, y en el índice general; todo acentuado con el mayor cuidado al uso de los principiántes.” This latter clause means
the edition has accents on the emphasized syllable of each word, even if such accents are usually absent in written Spanish.
Among the authors excerpted are Cadalso, Antonio Solis, Lope de Vega, Cervantes, Luis de Granada, López de Gómara, Gracián, and Feijóo.
Provenance: Early 19th-century bookplate of James Bruce.
Shoemaker 22193. Publisher's sprinkled sheep, flat spine with red leather title-label; binding scuffed and abraded, joints (outside) open but sewing seemingly strongly holding. Age-toning, and one leaf with an ink-drop not preventing reading; now in a basic phase case. By nature, expectably scarce, and in fact especially so out of the eastern U.S. (38424)

The Face of
Battle
Sassoon, Siegfried; Paul Hogarth, illus.; David Daiches, intro. Memoirs of an infantry officer. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1981. 4to (25.9 cm, 10.125"). xvii, [1], 224, [4] pp.; 8 plts., illus.
$110.00
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Siegfried Sassoon was one of a celebrated group of soldier-poets who experienced firsthand the ghastly realities of life in the trenches and whose words form an important part of Britain's cultural memory of the Great War. Sassoon's Memoirs, a fictionalized version of what the poet experienced, covers some of the war's most significant actions, including its single bloodiest day, when 60,000 British soldiers were killed on 1 July 1916, at the Battle of the Somme.
Paul Hogarth's
eight full-page watercolors and over a dozen black and white vignettes vividly illustrate the bomb-churned landscape of no-man's land, the explosions of rifle and gunfire, and the irony of well-fed generals enjoying life behind the lines. Dennis J. Grastorf designed the book using a 12-point Baskerville font with two points leading space in between the lines. David Daiches wrote the introduction.
This is numbered copy 538 of 2,000 printed, and
signed by the artist on the colophon. The monthly newsletter and prospectus are laid in.
Binding: A natural-tone rough linen, stamped in black on each cover with a bugle design, and with black lettering to spine.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 519. Binding as above, in original glassine dust jacket and brown paper–covered slipcase with linen bottom and top edge, gilt lettering to spine; minor spot of rubbing and dent to spine of slipcase.
Really in wonderful condition, superbly illustrated and designed. (39032)

Popular Odes — Petite Bodoni Printing
Savioli, Ludovico. Amori. Crisopoli: Co' Tipi Bodoniani, 1795. 16mo (12.4 cm, 4.88"). Frontis., [8], 134, [2] pp.
$350.00
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Amorous canzonetti — first published in their final count of 24 poems in 1765, and best-selling in their day — here in
the first Bodoni 16mo edition. Count Ludovico Vittorio Savioli (1729–1804) was classically inspired, and contemporary critics noted the grace and lightness of his verse, particularly these melodious pieces. The Amori are here preceded by a dedication to the Count from the printer, and followed by Savioli's “Amore e Psiche.” Bodoni's first quarto edition was printed in the same year, with the present example offering a daintier, more delicately minute setting; the stipple-engraved title-page portrait of the author, which Giani particularly praised, appears in this edition as a frontispiece.
Binding: Contemporary mottled brown calf, spine with gilt-ruled compartments and gilt-stamped compartment decorations; covers framed in gilt roll, upper cover lettered “A. M. Ad. Etereocle,” board edges with gilt roll. All edges speckled red, original green silk bookmark laid in.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of Robert Wayne Stilwell, front free endpaper with bookplate of Brian Douglas Stilwell. Front fly-leaf with faded inked gift inscription dated 1837.
Brooks 598; De Lama, II, 107; Giani 72 (pp. 54-55); Brunet, V, 156; Graesse, VI, 279. Bound as above, extremities unobtrusively refurbished; front joint unobtrusively starting from head. Bookplates and inscription as above, front and back free endpapers with later pencilled bibliographical notes.
Charming. (40170)

GERMAN Romanticism
Volume ONE
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von, & L. Tieck, eds. Musen-Almanach, für das Jahr 1802. Tübingen: in der Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1802. 12mo (16cm; 6.25"). vi, 293, [1] pp.
$900.00
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Poetry, including lyric poetry by the two editors and such others as “Inhumanus,” “Sophie B[ernhardi],” “Bonaventura,” “Mnioch,” and “Novalis.” Bonaventura was the pseudonym of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Novalis the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg; the latter's two poems were from his as then unpublished novel, Heinrich von Ofterdingen.
This is
the first issue of Schlegel & Tieck's literary annual, patterned on the original Musen-Almanach (1796–1800) of Schiller, to which both were contributors. They broke with Schiller's adherence to the “old” and championed Romanticism in their publication.
All of the poems are early entrants in the German Romantic movement.
Besides being the title of both those annuals, “Musen-Almanach” is a long-established genre term for these literary annuals published in Germany from ca. 1770 to the middle of the 19th century.
Original publisher's wrappers with printed paper spine labe, grey-green outside, light blue inside; dust-soiled with spine darkest. Uncut and partially unopened, with occasional light foxing (only). A very good copy. (33117)

Sensory Reading
Scott, Robert. Poems from last summer. Saint Paul, MN: Midnight Paper Sales Press, [May] 1982. Square 12mo (15.5 cm, 6.06"). [10] ff. Illus.
$200.00
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This series of short, wonderfully atmospheric poems, was collected into a slim volume designed and hand-printed by
Gaylord Schanilec in a
Midnight Paper Sales edition of 120 copies, illustrated by two colorful, abstract relief collographs: a large centerfold and a small title-page ornament.
Rulon-Miller, Quarter to Midnight, A.44. Sewn in tan textured wrappers, in a matching jacket with a blue stamp of a well-dressed man on the front echoing the centerfold illustration. Pristine. (30774)

On
WINGS of Verse
Scott, Walter. Miscellaneous poems. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co., and Hurst, Robinson, & Co. (pr. by James Ballantyne), 1820. 8vo (22.2 cm, 8.75"). viii, 510, [2] pp. (pagination skips 66-85).
$600.00
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Beautiful edition of gathered verses by Sir Walter Scott, containing “The Bridal of Triermain,” “Harold the Dauntless,” “William and Helen,” and what the advertisement calls “all the Smaller Pieces, collected for the first time in the recent edition of the Author's Poems” — decorated with a fore-edge painting.
The Fore-edge: Simple but charming design of six bright butterflies in red, orange, yellow and blue.
Provenance: Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of John Train.
Binding: Contemporary maroon straight-grain morocco framed in wide gilt border and panelled in gilt single fillet, spine with gilt-stamped title and decorations, board edges (at corners) and turn-ins with gilt roll. All edges gilt.
NSTC 2S9246. Binding as above, moderately rubbed; hinges (inside) slightly tender. Front free endpaper verso with inked ownership inscription. Light to moderate foxing throughout, pages otherwise clean. (30141)

“A Family of Beauties Interesting to Us for Almost
Every Reason That Can Render Women Interesting”
Scott, Walter; Charles Heath, illus. The Waverley gallery of the principal female characters in Sir Walter Scott's romances. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1864. 8vo (26.8 cm, 10.55"). 230 pp.; 36 plts.
[SOLD]
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“From original paintings by eminent artists — engraved under the superintendence of Charles Heath”: Sir Walter Scott's beloved heroines, depicted in
36 steel-engraved portraits. Heath, a prominent artist and engraver, illustrated a number of Scott's works during the course of his prolific career and was much noted for his work on the Waverley Novels, although for the present volume he focused on works done by other hands. The plates here, offering
a range of maidenly beauties from demure to maniacal, are each accompanied by several pages of Scott's most descriptive writing about the character portrayed. This is an early American edition, following the first London of 1840–41.
Binding: Publisher's brown morocco, BOTH covers framed and panelled in gilt and blind and with decorative gilt-stamped title and geometric motifs; spine with gilt-stamped title and gilt-framed compartments with blind-stamped motif in each. Board edges and turn-ins with gilt roll, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.
Provenance: Front fly-leaf with pencilled inscription: “Sarah & Thomas [/] From Father E [/] 'Merry Christmas' [/] 1864.” Later in the library of Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.
Bound as above, a little very light rubbing; gilt bright. Some offsetting to guard leaves and minimal foxing to margins of some plates — actually, remarkably little!
A clean and attractive copy of this aesthetically pleasing collection. (39861)

“Neither Romance Nor Pure History” — The Pilgrims
& Their Departure from England
Sears, Edmund H. Pictures of the olden time, as shown in the fortunes of a family of the Pilgrims. Boston: Crosby, Nichols & Co.; Cincinnati: George S. Blanchard; London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 1857. 12mo (19.8 cm, 7.75"). viii, 342 pp.
$100.00
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First edition: Historical novel based on the author's genealogical researches, with chapters entitled “The Exile,” “The Adventurer,” and “The Pilgrim.” Sears later in the same year issued a now-rare private edition of this work which included a spurious pedigree of Richard Sears, not present here.
The Massachusetts-born Sears was a Unitarian minister and author of the words of the famous carol, “It Came upon the Midnight Clear.”
Wright, II, 2174; Sabin 78641. Publisher's brown cloth, covers blind-stamped with star-shaped design, spine with gilt-stamped title and blind-stamped decoration; binding cocked and rubbed, spine extremities chipped. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate and call number on pastedown and fly-leaf, front free endpaper lacking, title-page pressure-stamped. No other markings. Pages faintly age-toned, otherwise clean. (26565)
Seward, Anna. Louisa, a poetical novel, in four epistles...the second edition. Lichfield: J. Jackson & G. Robinson, 1784. 4to (27.2 cm, 10.7"). vi, 95, [1 (blank)] pp.
$350.00

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Second issue (with a cancel title-page) of this attempt to “unite the impassion’d fondness of Pope’s ELOISA, with the chaster tenderness of Prior’s EMMA,” written by a Romantic poet often called the Swan of Lichfield. Louisa went through no fewer than four printings in 1784, the year of its initial publication.
ESTC T95509; NCBEL, II, 682. Old-style marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped leather title and date labels. Light waterstaining to upper and lower margins of first and last few leaves; title-page and a few others stamped by a now-defunct institution. Author’s name inscribed in an early hand at the end of the poem. (8562)

Foremost Shakespearean Scholars — Handsomely Bound with Embroidered Onlays
Shakespeare, William; Samuel Johnson; George Steevens; Isaac Reed; & Mary Cowden Clarke. The complete works of William Shakespeare, from the text of Johnson, Steevens, and Reed. Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, [1880s]. 16mo (17.5 cm, 6.875"). 2 vols. I: xxxviii, 841 pp. II: 919, [1] pp.
$75.00
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Two-volume set of Shakespeare's complete works edited by Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, and Isaac Reed, with a biographical sketch by Mary Cowden Clarke. The three editors were notable Shakespearean scholars; Steevens and Johnson edited a collection of Shakespeare's works together in 1773, an edition that Reed would later re-edit in 1803. Cowden Clarke, in addition to working on Shakespearean studies with her husband, published an invaluable Shakespeare concordance.
The first volume begins with a 16-page index to the characters in the plays and includes
an engraved frontispiece of Shakespeare, with additional small engravings on the title-pages and at the end of each work. The title-page vignette in vol. I is signed by J.M. Corner.
Binding: Brown (vol. I) and red (vol. II) morocco with beveled boards, five raised bands to spines and gilt lettering/devices in compartments; front covers with gilt tripled-rule borders, gilt lettering, blind-stamped corner decorations, and, within central oval frames defined by beaded gilt swags, compound recessed medallions each composed of a (faux?) tortoise shell oval surrounding and securing an inlaid silk panel embroidered with a
differently colored colorful wreath of flowers. Rear boards bear same borders and corner devices in blind, with a blind-stamped central quatrefoil medallion; all edges of both volumes gilt, with bookmarks of purple (vol. I) and green (vol. II) silk ribbon present.
While the bindings are clearly intended as a pair, the differing colors of the leather, bookmarks, and flowers in the insets make this an interesting sort of set.
Evidence of Readership: On verso of front fly-leaf of vol. I, a previous owner's neat pencil notes on purchase history. Small, marginal pencil marks throughout the middle section of vol. I.
Bound as above, rubbed; vol. II lacking tortoise frame on front board, leaving board underneath exposed and embroidery slightly soiled (although, usefully, this shows some of the area's underlying construction). Minor foxing throughout, with more severe foxing to title-page and frontispiece of vol. I; bookmarks with fading and loss at ends. Charmingly bound set; blemished, still pleasant and sturdy. (37361)

SHAKESPEARE with Contributions from Two Leading Lights
of
English Humanities
Shakespeare, William. Shakespeare's comedy of The merchant of Venice. New York & London: Hodder & Stoughton (pr. by T. & A. Constable), [ca. 1910]. 4to (25.5 cm, 10"). xxxiv, 144 pp.; 36 col. plts.
$375.00
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Both handsome and eminently readable: One of the most debate-provoking of Shakespeare's comedies, here printed in large and legible type and illustrated with
36 particularly lovely, mounted, color-printed plates by Sir James D. Linton. This is the trade edition, rather than the numbered limited; it opens with Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch's prose retelling of the play's plot.
This example preserves the now-uncommon original publisher's box, with affixed color illustration.
Publisher's cream paper–covered boards with green linen shelfback, front cover with gilt-stamped title and vignette, spine with gilt-stamped title, in original publisher's box as above; box and lid worn with several corners split (now neatly repaired) and edge label chipped; volume with very faint traces of wear to spine extremities, otherwise notably fresh and clean. A beautiful presentation. (36008)

Riccardi Press — Shakespeare's Sonnets
Shakespeare, William. The sonnets of William Shakespeare. London: Pub. for the Medici Society Ld. by Philip Lee Warner [Riccardi Press], 1913. 4to (23.1cm, 9.1"). [4], 78, [4] pp.
$150.00
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Attractive edition of the sonnets, produced with the Riccardi Press's attention to fine typography. The poems were edited by W.J. Craig, and printed by C.T. Jacobi in the Riccardi fount, with a
Kelmscott-style opening page.
This is
numbered copy 974 of 1012 printed (1000 on paper, 12 on vellum), this copy being on Riccardi handmade paper.
Publisher's light blue paper–covered boards with blue-grey cloth shelfback, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Binding mildly sunned overall especially to spine and outer board edges, the latter also a bit dust-soiled; spine cloth worn at extremities and endpapers with offsetting, front endpapers smudged. Internally clean and crisp.
An elegant production. (36891)

INDIANA Fine Press Shakespeare
Shakespeare, William; Fredric Brewer, ed. Mr. William Shakespeare's songs. Published according to the true original copies. Bloomington, IN: The Raintree Press, 1976. 16mo (17.1 cm, 6.73"). [2], 26 pp.; illus.
[SOLD]
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Scarce: 24 songs from Shakespeare's plays (text only), edited, handset, and printed by Brewer at his Raintree Press. This is
numbered copy 81 of 100 printed, decorated with an engraving of a print-shop scene and a color-printed woodcut portrait of Shakespeare after the Chandos image.
Provenance: From the collection of Gerson Leiber, the artist, engraver, sculptor, and book collector, sans indicia.
Publisher's cream-colored paper dust jacket, front panel printed in red and brown, over glossy paper wrappers printed in green and blue; jacket slightly darkened, wrappers and pages pristine.
A very nice copy of this now-uncommon item. (41525)

Behind the Scenes: Shaw vs. Chesterton — Postcards Signed by Shaw
Shaw, George Bernard. ALS: Two postcards sent to Richard Mealand. Ayot St Lawrence: 1933. (14.2 x 9.2 cm & 11.3 x 8.8 cm). 2 cards.
$650.00
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Two handwritten cards from Shaw to Mealand, regarding “this proposed G.B.S. – G.K.C. page.” At the time, Mealand was editor of Nash's Pall Mall Magazine (owned by the National Magazine Company, to which these cards are addressed); G.K.C. was Gilbert Keith Chesterton, famously one of Shaw's favorite philosophical sparring partners and possibly his most beloved enemy. The first card, from 15 May 1933, takes a lightly ridiculing tone in stating that the author cannot possibly interrupt his “serious work” to engage in such commercial business unless paid “an enormous sum” — whatever Mealand is paying Chesterton, to be specific; the second, from 21 June 1933, notes that Shaw's reply to Chesterton has already run long and “too heavy for the occasion,” and suggests his plans for revising it.
Sent from Shaw's home in Ayot St. Lawrence and postmarked in Hertfordshire, both cards are
inscribed in Shaw's distinctive hand and signed with his initials.
Cards crisp and clean, one with pair of staple holes.
Delightful and characteristic Shavian ephemera. (37045)

The Rain in Spain (Plus)
Shaw, George Bernard; Clarke Hutton, illus.; Alan Strachan, intro. Pygmalion and Candida. Avon, CT: The Limited Editions Club, 1974. 8vo (29.8 cm, 11.75"). ix, [7], 169, [3] pp.; 8 col. plts., illus.
$75.00
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“One of the most popular of the 'Plays Pleasant' of Shaw's early dramatic period, and . . . the dramatist's first major commercial success in England, written at the height of his
powers” (p. v): Two Shavian classics from the Limited Editions Club, here with an introduction by Alan Strachan. Clarke Hutton illustrated both works with a total of
eight color-printed paintings and many black and white in-text drawings; the volume was designed by John Dreyfus, and printed by the Stinehour Press in Vermont.
This is numbered copy 733 of 2000 printed,
signed by the artist at the colophon. The appropriate Club newsletter is laid in.
Binding: Bound in quarter Irish natural linen with paper-covered sides bearing portraits of Eliza and Candida; the burgundy leather spine label is stamped in pure gold leaf.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 478. Binding as above, minor rubbing to linen. In original brown paper–covered slipcase with tan paper spine label printed in brown; small bump to one case corner, very slight rubbing to edges.
A crisp, bright copy. (39041)

LEC: “Mad Shelley”
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Cambridge: The Limited Editions Club, 1971. 8vo (28 cm, 11"). xxvii, [1], 312, [4] pp.;
illus.
$150.00
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Handsome Limited Editions Club collection of Shelley's verse. Selected, edited,
and introduced by
Stephen Spender for the British poets series, the poems are here illustrated
with wood engravings by Richard Shirley Smith, in a volume designed by John Dreyfus and
printed at the University Printing House in Cambridge, using monotype Bembo on English wove
paper. The binding is quarter maroon goatskin with terra-cotta linen sides, the front cover
bearing
a black oval medallion embossed with a portrait of the author (matching the LEC's
other British poets offerings) and the spine a gilt-stamped title.
Numbered copy 1082 of 1500 printed, this is
signed at the colophon by the
illustrator. The appropriate LEC newsletter and prospectus are laid in.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 443.
Binding as above, in original glassine wrapper and slipcase; wrapper with spine sunned and a few
small edge chips, slipcase with one small nick at upper edge and label lightly rubbed, volume
clean and fresh. A very nice copy. (30712)

A Micro-Carved Ivory Love Gift: Remember Me
Shen Zhong-Xing, artist. “Love Seeds”: Ivory micro-engraving. China: [ca. 1990?]. Small case (14.5 cm, 5.6").
$750.00
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Classical Chinese poetry in calligraphed format: This tiny rectangle of ivory (only about 4mm tall) is impossibly delicately etched with both the Chinese original and Fletcher's English translation of Wang Wei's Tang Dynasty-era poem “Xiang Si” (given here as “Love Seeds”). The xiang si bean (Abrus precatorius) is a Chinese symbol of love and longing; its small, shiny, red seeds were used as tokens of love, hence the reference in this poem: “The red bean grows in southern lands / With spring its slender tendrils twine / Gather for me some more, I pray / Of fond remembrance 'tis the sign.”
Additionally, both the Chinese and English texts are presented on a folded slip of paper, with additional commentary in Chinese characters only.
The ivory is mounted within a black frame affixed to a small square of gold paper, on red velvet, and contained in a beautiful, eminently displayable case covered in olive-green silk with a woven Asian-inspired knotwork pattern in bronze and blue, decorated with a Chinese-printed label on the front cover. The case closes with a fabric loop and white-painted wooden toggle.
Box as above, showing the faintest hint of rubbing to one corner, overall in excellent condition. Small compartment beneath presentation window seems to indicate a long slender item was at one point laid in, but it is difficult to say what that might have been. (30544)

English REFORMATION Satire
Printed in the 19th Century ON VELLUM
[Shepherd, Luke, fl.1548]. [drop-title] John Bon and mast person. [London]: [colophon: J. Smeeton, Printer], n.d. [1807 or 1808]. Small 4to (27 cm; 10.5"). [5] ff.
$1950.00
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One of either 12 or 25 copies printed on vellum (as per Alston in the former case, as per Oxford cataloguer and a contemporary note on title-page in the latter). John Bon was originally printed by Daye and Seres in London in 1548 (STC 3258.5) and is here reproduced in letterpress facsimile from a copy formerly owned by Richard Forster
Attributed to Luke Shepherd by Halkett and Laing, this is a satirical poem, a dialogue in verse, on the Eucharist, and could even be seen as a short play. It is printed in gothic (black letter) type with
a large woodcut of a procession of the Eucharist on the title-page.
None of the copies reported to WorldCat, COPAC, or NUC are described as printed on vellum. The copy that Alston found at the British Library is not findable via the BL OPAC.
Provenance: Early 19th-century manuscript ownership on front fly-leaf: “Thomas Briggs Esq., Edgeware Road.” Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Alston, Books Printed on Vellum in the Collections of the British Library, p. 35; Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.), III, p. 192; Halkett & Laing (3rd ed.), J21 (var.) l NSTC, I, S1667. Original dun colored boards with beige linen shelfback; rebacked, and binding discolored. “25 copies Printed on chosen Parchment” written in ink in an early 19th-century hand in lower margin of the title-page. Foxing, heaviest on last three leaves; last page (a publisher's note and colophon) lightly inked and so a little faint.
A nice find for the collector of printing on vellum, letterpress facsimiles, or reprints of rare 16th-century English tracts. (34699)

“A Glass of Fashion to the
Beau Monde”
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. The school for scandal. Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1930. Folio (29.2 cm, 11.5"). xxvii, [1], 145, [1] pp.; illus.
$125.00
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Handsome edition of Sheridan's famed comedy of manners, decorated and illustrated with wittily pointed drawings by Thomas Lowinsky. R. Crompton Rhodes's lengthy,
informative introduction offers much background detail on the play's original costuming, language, stage business, etc.
This is
one of 475 copies on Batchelor's handmade Kelmscott paper; an additional seven were printed on vellum.
Publisher's half vellum with printed paper sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; dust jacket lacking as now seen with most copies, vellum dust-soiled with a little rubbing, paper slightly darkened and with two small chips., small chip to paper at bottom edge of front cover and one to lower outer corner of back cover. Internally clean and crisp.
Enjoyable. (34010)

Early in the
FIRST English Annual Series — This Copy in Its Box
Shoberl, Frederic, ed. Forget me not;
A Christmas and New Year's present for 1828. London: R. Ackermann, [1828]. 12mo (14.4 cm, 5.75"). Engr. presentation leaf, engr. frontis., x, 418, 4 (advertisements) pp.; 14 plts. including presentation leaf and frontis.
$350.00
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An exemplar of an early and important English gift book series, one Faxon describes as “The first attempt to rival the numerous and elegant publications of the continent,”
in only its sixth annual appearance. This volume includes pieces by Mary Russell Mitford, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and Felicia Hemans, among others. It is illustrated with a total of
14 engraved plates, including the beautiful embossed presentation leaf here in unused state. Several engravers, including E. Finden, S. Davenport, and A.W. Warren, modeled their work after various artists.
Binding: Publisher's glazed green paper–covered boards, pictorially printed in black, all edges gilt. Housed in publisher's cardboard slipcase with green glazed paper sides pictorially printed in black.
Owner's modification: The word “Pax” is neatly printed in black ink on the book's back cover, gently arced above the engraving; and “Roosevelt” has been similarly added to the back of the slipcase, with “Post Lux Tenebras” being artfully placed below the engraving.
Faxon 1303. Binding as above, back inside cover with brown silk pull-tab intact, joints very skillfully refurbished with long fiber and then toned; extremities gently rubbed. Front free endpaper pencilled with old bookseller annotations. Pages and plates generally clean with very occasional light foxing; guard leaves with predictable offsetting. Case somewhat rubbed with extremities chipped at corners but completely sound and with the described embellishments.
A lovely little gift book, with the original (and early for its kind) slipcase. (36042)

Nonesuch Sonnets
Sidney, Philip. Astrophel & Stella. London: Nonesuch Press, 1931. 8vo (23.2 cm, 9.1"). xxxviii, [2], 193, [3] pp.
$100.00
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Handsome Nonesuch edition of the sonnet sequence — this being one of the works chosen for celebration on the cover of the Nonesuch bibliography. The text was edited by Mona Wilson, and printed by the Kynoch Press in Bembo and Union Pearl Italics on Van Gelder paper.
This is
numbered copy 970 of 1210 printed (725 for sale in England and 485 in the United States).
Dreyfus, History of the Nonesuch Press, 73. Publisher's printed paper–covered boards, front cover with printed paper label, in green paper–covered chemise lined with paper matching the book's, the whole in a likewise covered slipcase. Chemise with spine rubbed and slightly sunned, slipcase darkened with corners rubbed but quite solid. Volume itself fresh and unworn; mild offsetting to endpapers, pages otherwise clean and crisp. (36909)

Flavian Epic, Georgian Scholarship
Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius; Richard Heber, ed. Caji Silii Italici Punica. Londini: Gul. Bulmer (pr. by R. Faulder), 1792. 16mo (16.5 cm, 6.5"). 2 vols. I: xxiv, 240 pp. II: [4], 270, [2] pp.
[SOLD]
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Sole printing of Richard Heber's edition of this Silver Age epic Latin verse about the Second Punic War — so epic that it is now the longest known extant poem of Classic Latin literature, in fact. Heber (1774–1833), himself one of the most notably epic bibliomaniacs of the era, was just 18 when he tackled the project, as per the Bibliotheca Heberiana. He based his work on Arnold Drakenborch's. Dibdin found this a “useful little edition, which exhibits the text very elegantly printed by Bulmer.” Printed on wove paper.
Binding: Contemporary mottled calf, covers framed in beaded gilt rule, spines with gilt-stamped leather black and red title and volume labels, gilt-stamped crossed-arrow decorations in elegantly gilt-ruled compartments.
Provenance: Front pastedowns each with inked inscription: “George Sinclair, April 11th, 1805"; first two books of vol. I with early inked annotations in both Latin and English, no subsequent annotations. Later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear of each volume.
Brunet, V, 383; Dibdin, II, 407–08; ESTC T147242; Schweiger, II, 956. Bound as above; minimal wear overall, vol. II with small scuff to back cover. Inscriptions and marginalia as above. Back pastedown and final 40 (approximately) leaves of vol. I with small area of pinhole worming to upper outer margins, not approaching text.
A handsome set of this uncommon Heberianum. (40254)

A Curious Combination of Whimsy & Morality
Sinclair, Catherine. Holiday house: A series of tales. Dedicated to Lady Diana Boyle. Edinburgh: William Whyte & Co., 1849. 16mo (16.4 cm, 6.5"). Col. frontis., xii, 346 pp.
$160.00
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Tremendously popular in its day, this children's book is often cited as one of the first pieces of juvenile literature to realistically depict youthful shenanigans — the preface describes our protagonists as “noisy, frolicsome, mischievous children . . . like wild horses on the prairies, rather than like well-broken hacks on the road” (p. vii).
Modern readers may well find themselves taken aback by the harshness of the punishments doled out by a stern governess to Harry and Laura for such unforgivable (and amusingly depicted!) sins as inviting friends over to tea, tearing their clothes, or breaking a plate — although occasionally the siblings' boisterousness leads to genuine crises like a fire in the nursery. In the end, while neither the severity of the governess nor the kindness of their grandmother and uncle serve to dampen the children's spirits, the loss of their beloved older brother transforms them from “merry, thoughtless, young creatures” to mourners convinced of the frailty of earthly joy and the necessity of religion (p. 345).
Sinclair was Scottish-born and this is an early Scottish edition (stated fifth thousand) of this work, following the London first of 1826 and the Edinburgh first of 1839. The frontispiece here features two engraved vignettes, done by Lizars Lithography of Edinburgh, both scenes with
early hand-coloring.
Binding: 19th-century half green calf, sides covered with veined and rippled marbled paper in shades of blue-green, cream, and gold, spine with gilt-stamped red leather title-label, gilt-dotted raised bands, and gilt-stamped floral compartment decorations. Marbled endpapers matching binding, with all page edges likewise marbled.
Provenance: Title-page with early inked inscription of Marian Rogers, Beawell Rectory; most recently in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Opie A 1081. For 1844 ed., see Osborne Collection, p. 304. Bound as above; spine sunned evenly to olive, spine label with small chip, joints and edges rubbed. Pages showing minor to moderate spotting and staining.
A landmark of children's literature, in a surprisingly formal, adult binding. (41232)

Signed First Edition — PASSIONS
Singer, Isaac Bashevis. Passions. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975. 8vo (21.5 cm, 8.4"). [8], 312 pp.
$100.00
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First edition: 20 stories incorporating some of Singer's favorite themes, many translated by Singer himself in collaboration with his nephew or with other authors and editors. This copy is
inscribed by the author on the half-title, dated 1975.
Publisher's quarter orange cloth and dark green paper–covered sides, spine with title stamped in silver, in original dust jacket; jacket with spine extremities lightly worn, edges of back panel darkened, upper inner front corner and upper back corner each with short tear. One page with light smudge to lower outer margin. A nice copy of a signed Singer first edition. (34092)

Signed by
Singer & Soyer
Singer, Isaac Bashevis; Raphael Soyer, illus.; Harry T. Moore, intro. The gentleman from Cracow / The mirror. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1979. 8vo (26.6 cm, 10.5"). xi, [1], 59, [5] pp.; 11 col. plts., 23 plts.
$200.00
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“The quintessence of Singer's genius”: two supernatural tales by the Nobel Prize winner, with an introduction by Harry T. Moore.
The stories are illustrated with 11 plates after watercolors by Raphael Soyer, and followed by 23 plates after Soyer's pencil sketches.
The volume was designed by Bruce Campbell and set in Centaur and Arrighi types, with the text printed by Hampshire Typothetae (under Harold McGrath's supervision) and the watercolors by the Princeton Polychrome Press; the binding was done by the Tapley-Rutter Company. This is numbered copy 1063 of 2000 printed, and it is
signed at the colophon by author and artist. The monthly newsletter and prospectus are laid in.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 514. Publisher's grey-green marbled paper–covered boards with grey natural-finish buckram shelfback, spine with title stamped in silver, in original gray paper–covered slipcase; slipcase faded lightly on one side.
A fresh and attractive copy. (38939)

“Shakspearean” Inspiration? — A Special Copy
[Singer, Samuel Weller, ed.]. Shakspeare's [sic] jest book. Chiswick: A. & G. Way, prs., 1814. 8vo (20 cm, 7.875"). xxxii, 116, [2] pp.
$550.00
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First appearance of this cleverly marketed and in fact valuable Chiswick Press reprint of a humorous Elizabethan short story collection: Tales, and Quicke Answeres, Very Mery, and Pleasant to Rede from the edition printed by Berthelet around 1535. There were two subsequent volumes edited by Singer under the general title of “Shakspeare's Jest Book” and published in 1815 and 1816.
The introduction here explains the text's Shakespearean connection and origin story, with canvassing also of the editor's scholarly processes and his decisions to offer his tale with original orthography, in its full “licentiousness,” and with its original “moral reflections.” A short glossary of Elizabethan words is provided.
This is one of six copies printed on blue paper of an edition of 250 copies.
Provenance: Ca. 1930 bookplate of Henry Pennell Frank; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Late 19th-century half black morocco and marbled paper–covered sides, spine lettered in gilt; blue endpapers; rubbed at corners and edges.
A testament to 19th-century Shakespeare mania. (40233)

“Shakspearean” Inspiration?
[Singer, Samuel Weller, ed.]. Shakspeare’s [sic] jest book. Chiswick: From the Press of C. Whittingham, 1814–15. 8vo (20 cm, 7.875"). xxxii, 116, [2], xi, [1], 26, [2], xxviii, 121, [3] pp.
$225.00
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Cleverly marketed and in fact valuable Chiswick Press reprint. of two humorous Elizabethan short story collections, first Tales, and Quicke Answeres, Very Mery, and Pleasant to Rede from the edition printed by Berthelet around 1535, and second A C. Mery Talys from John Rastell’s edition, printed about 1525. Singer had in 1814 issued the first title alone as Shakspeare’s Jest Book, believing it was quite probably a collection of facetiae drawn on for Much Ado about Nothing; then, in 1815, after a scholar had discovered the second work disguised within a pasteboard, he promptly
printed the two together to correct “the fallacy of our [first] gesture” — for, surely, the second was the referenced text!
This offering consists of the aforementioned two parts and
a supplement with 26 extra tales taken from a newly discovered (in 1815) edition printed in 1567 by H. Wykes of theTales, and Quicke Answeres. Each section has a separate title-page and introduction explaining its Shakespearean connection and origin story, with canvassing also of the editor’s scholarly processes and his decisions to offer his tales with original orthography, in their full “licentiousness,” and with their original “moral reflections.” A short glossary of Elizabethan words is provided, and the second preface is signed in type “S.W.S.,” i.e., Samuel Weller Singer.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
19th-century half black morocco and marbled paper–covered sides, spine lettered in gilt, with differently patterned marbled endpapers and black silk placemarker, top edge gilt; rubbed at corners and edges. Light age-toning with very occasional off-setting and a few spots, light pencilling referencing a 1925 Goodspeed’s price on title-page.
A testament to 19th-century Shakespeare mania and a resonant, even cautionary tale for scholars of any ilk in any era. (37850)

“I'd Go Cross the Tisza” & Other Songs — JANUS PRESS
Snodgrass, W.D. Traditional Hungarian songs. Newark, VT: Pr. for Charles Seluzicki by the Janus Press, 1978. 8vo (29.6 cm, 11.7"). [24] pp.; col. illus.
$100.00
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Sole edition: Eleven Hungarian folk songs translated into singable English, with the music and lyrics accompanied by masonite relief cuts done by Dorian McGowan and printed in rose. Snodgrass has supplied an afterword explaining the songs' origins and offering performance suggestions.
The volume was printed for Charles Seluzicki, a poetry bookseller in Baltimore, MD, by Claire Van Vliet and Victoria Fraser at the Janus Press. This is
numbered copy 236 of 300 printed (of which 15 were hors commerce), signed at the limitation statement by Snodgrass.
Offered with the prospectus.
Fine, Janus Press 1975–80, 43–44. Publisher's natural Zaan paper wrappers, front wrapper with mauve-stamped decorations; wrappers with a few tiny spots blending rather well into the paper's heavy texture. Pages crisp and clean.
A nice copy. (37268)
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