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An English Incunable Leaf — Wynkyn de Worde, 1498
Jacobus de Voragine. Golden legend [single leaf]. [Westmynster: Wynkyn de Worde, 1498]. Chancery folio (27.3 x 19.5 cm; 10.75" x 7.675"). [1] f.
$1650.00
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The collection of saints' lives called the Legenda sanctorum, or Golden Legend (Legenda aurea) — “worth its weight in gold”! — was composed in the 13th century by the Dominican hagiologist Jacobus de Voragine (ca. 1230–98, elected Archbishop of Genoa in 1292), and first printed in Latin at Basle in 1470 with William Caxton printing the first English version in 1483. This is folio ccxlviii of the 1498 London (Westminster) edition
printed by Wynkyn de Worde (a.k.a., Jan van Wynkyn), England's first typographer and successor to Caxton, whose press he formally took over in 1495 after a difficult three years of litigation following Caxton's death.
This leaf of The Golden Legend has on its recto, and continuing on the verso, the final portion of account of the nativity of the Virgin, which recounts episodes from her mature adulthood and
shows the Mother of God as a powerful figure with a powerful sense of what is due her. She promises death within 30 days to a bishop who has removed from office an unsatisfactory priest that she appreciates as specially devoted to her (he is reinstated and the bishop lives); she intercedes in another vision with her “debonayre sone” to reverse the damnation of a “vayne and ryotous” cleric who, on the other hand, has been specially devoted to her and her Hours (he reforms). In a third case, she redeems from the grasp of hell a bishop's vicar who, disappointed of promotion in office, had engaged “a Jewe [who was] a magycyan” to facilitate his signing in his own blood a soul-sacrificing deal with “the devyll” (the vicar repented). The Marian section closes with an account of “Saynt Jherom's” devotion to her. All this is followed on the verso by the beginning of the life of St. Adrian of Nicomedia, who before his conversion to Christianity and subsequent martyrdom was a Herculian Guard of the Roman Emperor Galerius Maximian. He is the patron saint of soldiers, arms dealers, guards, butchers, victims of the plague, and epileptics. The text is printed in double-column format in
English gothic type.
Provenance: From an offering of leaves from this edition of The Golden Legend by the Dauber & Pine Bookshops, New York City, in ca. 1928 .
English incunable leaves are increasingly difficult to obtain.
STC (rev. ed.) 24876; ESTC S103597; Duff 411; Copinger 6475; Goff J-151; ISTC ij00151000. Removed neatly from a bound volume. With a “cover leaf” in approximation
of a title-page, reading “The Golden Legende. J. de Voragine. Printed by Wynkyn de Worde 1498. Dauber & Pine Bookshops, Inc. New York.”
A striking relic recounting multiple miracles and presenting Mary as a most interesting personality. (40744)

One of the
First Two Books Printed at ETON
John, Mauropus, Metropolitan of Euchaita (active 11th century). Joannis Metropolitani Euchaitensis versus iambici in principalium festorum pictas in tabulis historias atq[ue] alia varia compositi. Etonae: In Collegio Regali, excudebat [M. Bradwood for] Ioannes Norton, in Gr[a]ecis, &c. regius typographus, 1610. 4to (22.8 cm; 9"). [4] ff., 73, [1] pp., [4] ff.
$3500.00
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One of the first two books printed at Eton, both in Greek and both printed in 1610. The Byzantine poetry here is from the pen of John, Mauropus, an 11th-century teacher, hymnographer, orator, Byzantine Greek poet, and correspondent of scholars.
This, the editio princeps, was edited by and has the notes of Matthew Bust (1543 or 1544–1613), Fellow of Eton College and father of his namesake who was Master of Eton (1611–30). The prefatory matter and notes are printed in Latin in italics and the main text is in a large greek face; the actual printer's name is from STC.
Searches of STC, WorldCat, and ESTC locate many copies in Britain and even Europe, but only five in U.S. libraries.
Provenance: 18th-century ownership inscription at top of title-page: “Petri Bonifantii.” Most recently in the collection of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
An amazing early English schoolbook!
STC (rev.) 14622; ESTC S103427. 20th-century quarter red morocco with red cloth sides. Light age-toning and some stray ink spots. In fact, very good. (37309)
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A “Golden-Mouthed” Aldine
John Chrysostom, Saint; Giulio Poggiani, trans. Sancti Joannis Chrysostomi De virginitate liber, a Julio Pogiano conversus. Romae: Apud Paulum Manutium, Aldi F., 1562. 4to (21.8 cm, 8.625"). [8], 64 ff.
$2250.00
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First Aldine edition: Chrysostom's meditations on the religious aspects of virginity, De Virginitate liber, along with a letter from Poggiani to Cardinal Bishop of Augsburg Otto Truchsess von Waldburg and a note to the reader. Essentially an extension of the papacy, the Roman Aldine press capitalized on its fame to disseminate — with great cachet — Vatican-approved texts in the publication war that was such an integral part of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation.
John Chrysostom (349–407) was one of the four doctors of the Greek Church and the foremost preacher among the Church Fathers, the name “Chrysostom” meaning “golden-mouthed.” The subject of some controversy, he fell afoul of the Empress Eudoxia and was exiled. Italian humanist and Greek scholar Poggiani (1522–68), secretary to Carlo Borromeo, led a much calmer life editing texts related to the Council of Trent, and even translated into Latin a catechism organized by the council.
The text is neatly printed in roman in single-column format with capital spaces with guide letters (unaccomplished) and marginal notes; the title-page contains the iconic Aldine device.
Provenance: Early ink signature “Alexii Feni” on title-page; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear of both the text and its clamshell housing.
Adams C1559; UCLA, Aldine Press: Catalogue of the Ahmanson-Murphy Collection (2001), 674; EDIT 16 CNCE 27775; Renouard, Alde, p. 186, 5; Goldsmid, Aldine Press at Venice, *546. On John Chrysostom, see: New Catholic Encyclopedia, VII, 1041–44. 16th-century limp vellum with title label on spine and evidence of ties; vellum wrinkled and stained, significant portions lacking on spine, edges of endpapers tattered with some paper loss and text block recently reattached. Housed in a maroon cloth clamshell with black leather labels. Light to moderate age-toning and staining with the occasional spot, several leaves with waterstaining to bottom corner or small marginal worm tracking; a handful of creased corners, a few examples of hurried paper manufacture, chipping to edges of first and last few leaves of text including title-page. Provenance marks as above, one early inked correction to a marginal note. (38092)

“The Last Augustan” According to
T.S.E.
Johnson, Samuel. London: a poem and The vanity of human wishes ... with an introductory essay by T.S. Eliot. London: Frederick Etchells & Hugh MacDonald, 1930. Folio (35.2 cm, 13.8"). 44, [2] pp.
$200.00
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Limited edition: Johnson's enduring verse satires, here with an interesting foreword by Eliot. The volume was printed at the Chiswick Press as part of the Haslewood Books series.
This is
numbered copy 262 of 450 printed.
Olive cloth–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; spine and board edges sunned, extremities slightly rubbed, lower front board edge with small dent. Front pastedown with bookplate of one of Harvard's undergraduate houses (with small deaccession stamp); title-page with pressure-stamp from the same house, with deaccession stamp on the reverse. Pages gently age-toned. Clean. (33613)
The LIST
Jonah & the Woolly whale were breakfasting. . . . New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, [ca. 1934]. 12mo. 12 pp.
$25.00

Editio Princeps Estienne Printing
Justin, Martyr, Saint. [in Greek, romanized as] Tou hagiou Ioustinou philosophou kai martyros, Zēna kai Serēnō, Logos parainetikos pros HellēEx Officina Roberti Stephani nas. Pros Tryphōna Ioudaion dialogos. Apologia hyper Christianōn pros tēn Rhōmaiōn sygklēton [etc., i.e., Opera omnia] ... ex Bibliotheca Regia. Lutetiae: ex officina Roberti Stephani typographi Regii, Regiis typis, 1551. Median folio (34.5 cm, 13.5"). [4] ff., 311, [1] pp., [2] ff.
$2000.00
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The editio princeps, printed using the first font of the “grecs du roi” (i.e., Claude Garamond's “gros-romain” font of the “grecs du roi,” as per Mortimer), and based on the manuscripts in the French Royal Library. Schreiber notes that its publication resulted in a “sensation . . . among the learned [that was] still remembered . . . over 40 years later” by Henri Estienne and noted in the preface to his edition in 1592 of Pseudo-Justinus.
Adding to the wonderful Greek typography, Robert Estienne has enhanced his text with gorgeous woodcut foliated and grotesque Greek initials and harmonious headpieces. “The edition was complete and published by Charles Esteinne after Robert's final departure for Geneva” (Schreiber).
Provenance: 18th-century bookplate of Beilby Thompson of Eserick (1742–99 ), who may famously be remembered for having gradually bought up and relocated the village of Eserick to move it away from his house. Later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Binding: 18th-century calf in a modified Cambridge-style binding. The covers' central panels, stained black and outlined in a filigree roll, are surrounded by a wide frame of tan calf; beyond that, at the boards' edges, is a 1.5" outer border of sprinkled calf. Blind-tooled rules and beading articulate the intersections, with black(?)-stamped devices accenting the tan compartments' corners, in the speckled section, and with the chains connecting those devices to the innermost panel being also (sometimes?) blackened. The round spine has raised bands accented by gilt rules above and below each band, and a gilt-stamped label with the author's name abbreviated.
Renouard, Estienne, 79/2; Adams J494; Hoffmann, Bibliographisches Lexicon der gesamten Literatur der Griechen, II, 502–503, & 648; Shaaber, Sixteenth-century Imprints, J111; Armstrong 138, 222; Mortimer, French, II, 335; Schreiber, Estienne, 107. Bound as above, front board recently expertly reattached; endpapers chipped and front one with upper outer corner torn away.
A very nice, very wide-margined copy. (40074)
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BANYAN PRESS: Meditations on Impermanence
Kamo, Chomei; Donald Keene, trans. An account of my hut. Pawlet, VT: The Banyan Press, 1976. 8vo (26.5 cm, 10.4"). [30] pp.
$500.00
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One of the great classical Japanese essays: Kamo no Chōmei's Hōjōki, translated into English by Donald Keene and here in an elegantly minimalist fine press limited edition from Claude Fredericks of the Banyan Press.
Some describe the work as “the Walden Pond of medieval Japan.” This is the
first book-form edition of the translation, following its original appearance in Keene's Anthology of Japanese Literature; three hundred copies were set by hand in Garamond and printed on Masa paper by Fredericks and David Beeken.
Original hand-stitched wrappers resembling bamboo grain, with paper label on front wrapper, in paper overlay matching the endpapers; outer overlay with minor edge wear and with small annotation (possibly from publisher) on label. A lovely and uncommon production. (35979)
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“Moods of One's Mind! You Know I Hate Them Well . . . ”
Keats, John. Dear Reynolds, as last night I lay in bed. New Rochelle, NY: James L. Weil, June 1991. 4to (26.1 cm, 10.25"). 9, [2] pp.
$135.00
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This insomniac sonnet by John Keats (1795–1821) is addressed to his friend John Hamilton Reynolds (1794–1852), a lesser but still notable light among England's Romantic poets. Keats sent him the verses with a letter dated 25 March 1818, at Teignmouth, Devon, England, where he spent a few weeks and completed the epic poem Endymion.This limited edition keepsake pamphlet is one of 50 printed by Martino Mardersteig at the
Officina Bodoni, handset using a variant of Dante type on Magnani handmade paper.
On the poem, see: Milnes, ed., Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats, pp. 83–86. Stitched in gray paper wrappers with author and title printed in black on front cover.
Fine. (30803)

Kelmscott Press: Posthumous William Morris Work
Burne-Jones Frontispiece
(Kelmscott Press). Ellis, Frederick Startridge, ed. Syr Ysambrace. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1897. 8vo (21.1 cm, 8.3"). [4], 41, [1] pp.
[SOLD]
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Kelmscott Press first edition: This stunning, “long-expected” production from William Morris, finished in the year following his death, was described by a contemporary reviewer (in a clipping laid into this copy) as “something very like a voice from the dead.”
Printed in an edition of 350 copies on paper (with an additional eight on vellum), this Middle English tale of the woes of Sir Isumbras serves as a perfect subject for the unmistakable Kelmscott borders, decorative capitals, and gothic type, as well as the
wood-engraved frontispiece done by William Hooper after a design by Edward Burne-Jones. The text was “edited by F.S. Ellis after the edition printed by J.O. Halliwell from the MS. in the Library of Lincoln Cathedral, with a few corrections” according to the colophon.
Peterson, Kelmscott Press, A48. Original blue paper–covered boards with linen backing, showing almost no wear. Small, neatly pencilled ownership inscription in upper outer
corner of front flyleaf, dated '97; printed clipping regarding publication laid in. Pages very clean and fresh.
A desirable copy of a beautiful production. (41191)

The Last Romance Written by William Morris
Edited by May Morris
(Kelmscott Press). Morris, William. The sundering flood. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1897 [i.e., 1898]. 8vo (21 cm, 8.26"). [2], 507, [1] pp.
$3000.00
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First edition of this groundbreaking medieval-inspired fantasy, partially dictated by Morris on his deathbed and published following his death. As noted by the colophon, the manuscript was
edited by the author's daughter May Morris — herself an accomplished artist and designer — and printed at the Kelmscott Press. Ornamented with one full and several partial woodcut borders as well as numerous decorative capitals, the text is set in the Chaucer type with chapter headers and shouldernotes printed in red.
Like many of the modern fantasy novels to follow it, this volume opens with
a map of the imaginary land in which the action is set, in this case drawn by H. Cribb and engraved by Walker & Boutall to serve as front pastedown.
Peterson, Kelmscott Press, A51. Original blue paper–covered boards with linen shelfback, spine with printed paper label; lower outer corners a little bumped, spine label with minor rubbing over sewing band, a few small spots of very minor discoloration. Offsetting to outer portions of front pastedown front free endpaper, and front fly-leaf, not reaching other front blanks or half-title; lighter offsetting to rear endpapers. Front free endpaper with small pencilled initials (F.S.?), dated 1898.
Pages throughout very crisp and clean, a handsome copy. (41193)

Standard Bibliography — Nonesuch First Edition
Keynes, Geoffrey. Bibliography of William Hazlitt. London: Pr. for the Nonesuch Press, 1931. 8vo (22.7 cm, 8.9"). Frontis., xix, 135, [3] pp.; 32 plts.(1 fold.).
$145.00
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First edition of this authoritative reference work on the essayist and literary critic, written by the great British surgeon who pioneered blood transfusions and a rational approach to breast cancer. He was also a noted book collector, bibliographer of Blake, brother of the economist Maynard Keynes, and the man who saved Virginia Woolf's life following her first (i.e., 1913) suicide attempt. The volume is illustrated with reproductions of many of Hazlitt's first edition title-pages, as well as a portrait and a folding facsimile of one of Hazlitt's letters.
This is
numbered copy 298 of 750 printed by R. & R. Clark in Edinburgh for the Nonesuch Press, with the four collotype illustrations printed by the Chiswick Press.
Provenance: Front pastedown with calligraphic bookplate of Norman J. Sondheim, American collector of fine press books.
Dreyfus, History of the Nonesuch Press, 75. Publisher's quarter blue-grey paper with taupe paper–covered sides, spine with printed paper label, in original dust wrapper with black-stamped spine label; binding very slightly cocked with corners rubbed; wrapper sunned with edge chips and short tears, and interior tape reinforcements to two tears at spine and one at back fold. Offsetting from jacket flaps to endpapers; front pastedown with previous owner's pencilled annotations. A clean, solid, and
quite pleasant copy. (33868)

In Search of a Spanish Barber's Basin
King, Clarence. The helmet of Mambrino. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1938. 12mo (20.3 cm, 8"). xx, [2], 21, [3] pp.
$100.00
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Originally composed as a letter to King's friend, the “Bachelor of San Francisco,” and first published in Century Magazine in 1886,
this delightful tale was inspired by Cervantes and his account of Don Quixote's encounter with the legendary helmet of the Moorish king; Francis P. Farquhar
introduces it here. The present example is
one
of 350 copies printed at the University of California Press for the Book Club
of California. Prior to this edition, the story — which
opens with a recollection of an encounter in San Francisco — had only
appeared in book form once before, in 1904.
Provenance: Front free endpaper
with inked gift inscription from historian Carl Wheat, author of Mapping
of the Trans-Mississippi West, to Joe Blumenthal (of Spiral Press fame),
a “fellow member of WOOFFB.”
Publisher's quarter vellum and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped author/title; minimal shelfwear to
outer corners. A fresh, clean copy with an interesting inscription.
(30622)
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BIBLIO–BEDTIME READING — WOOLLY WHALE
Klinefelter, Walter. The Fortsas bibliohoax. With a reprint of the Fortsas catalogue and Bibliographical notes and comment by Weber de Vore. New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1942. 8vo (21 cm; 8.25"). [6], 71, [3] pp.
$80.00
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The Whale's very handsome edition of one of the most substantial treatments of this famous and elaborate auction hoax. Including bibliographical descriptions of the catalogue, its subsequent printings, and the literature on the affair, it is limited to 200 copies, printed in Centaur types on rag paper, and bears a title-page decoration by Fritz Kredel.
The Fortsas hoax is legendary for having fooled many renowned collectors and dealers near the mid-point of the 19th century (1840, to be precise) into travelling to the small town of Biche, Belgium, for an auction of
nonexistent unique books that were bibliographically unknown!
Publisher's quarter off-white cloth and rose-colored paper over boards, with map endpapers. Top edge gilt. (36339)

158 (Religious) Images from
TWO Fantastic Designers
Koch, Rudolf, & Fritz Kredel. Christian symbols. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1996. 4to (28.6 cm, 11.25"). [9], 158, [5] pp.; illus.
$125.00
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“One hundred and fifty-eight graphic images from the history of Christianity.” These important religious emblems drawn by Rudolf Koch with the help of Fritz Kredel are presented in a bound book from the
Arion Press for the first time. They were previously published as a folder of plates between 1932 and 1935; the reproductions here were reduced to ninety percent of the original. Koch intended for the book to be used as a reference for other artists and churches.
Typographer Koch (1876–1934) and graphic designer Kredel (1900–73) previously collaborated on their well-known Book of Signs. Koch's preface, translated to English from the original German by Kevin Ahern, is provided, as well as a foreword from Andrew Hoyem.
The prospectus is laid in.
Publisher's blue-green cloth, white spine label with blue lettering; one very faint scuff to front board. In original tan paper slipcase; light spot of sunning to one side. Interior is bright. A beautiful copy! (38304)
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Miniature Designed by Bruce Rogers — About Miniatures — BEAUTIFUL Printing
Koopman, Harry Lyman. Miniature books. Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1968. Miniature (5 cm, 1.9"). [4], viii, [2], 103, [1] pp.
$250.00
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This remarkably tiny treatise on miniatures was originally conceived by Bruce Rogers as what would have been his final work. Instead, it was printed twelve years after his death by
Grabhorn-Hoyem of San Francisco from Rogers' original galleys, which had been set in letterpress type by Mackenzie and Harris.
This is one of 400 copies printed.
The paper is of an extremely high quality, and near-vellum-like in its feel; the title-page and several others are given touches of red; every page bears a beautiful border of swooping vines printed in blue.
Bradbury 32. Publisher's limp vellum, spine with blue-stamped title; slightly (and unsurprisingly) sprung. A clean, crisp copy. (35731)
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Commedia Dell'Arte & Other Expressive Figures
Kredel, Fritz. Dolls and puppets of the eighteenth century as delineated in twenty four drawings. Lexington, KY: The Gravesend Press, 1958. 12mo (16.5 cm, 6.5"). [20] pp.; 24 plts.
$225.00
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Sole edition: A famed illustrator's marvelous images of 18th-century dolls and puppets from the “Mon Plaisir” doll village, the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam), the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), the Museo Civico (Venice), and the Cooper Union Museum (New York), with a preface by Joseph C. Graves. This charming little volume was designed by Gotthard de Beauclair and printed by Ludwig Oehms at Frankfurt am Main. The 24 drawings were copper-engraved for these reproductions and
hand-colored through stencils by Schauer & Silvar.
This is numbered copy 110 of 500 printed and
signed at the colophon by the artist.
Publisher's blue linen–covered boards, front cover with gilt-stamped vignette, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, in striped paste paper–covered slipcase; volume crisp and clean. (35259)

Janus Press Livre d'Artiste Leporello
Kronfeld, Susan. Spaghettiana. West Burke, VT: The Janus Press, 1976. 8vo (26 cm, 10.2"). [1] f.
$125.00
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Unusual and delightful Janus Press production: one long accordion-fold (i.e., leporello) rendition of a sinuous linecut illustration, printed from six original drawings by by Susan Kronfeld. The printing was done by Claire Van Vliet and Nancy Southworth at the Stinehour Press, and the binding by Jim Bicknell; the linecut is printed in black, and the text portions (title, colophon, and instructions) in violet, red, and silver. This is
numbered copy 52 of 150 printed, signed at the colophon by the artist.
Fine, The Janus Press 1975–1980, 38. Publisher's red cloth–covered boards, front cover with purple paper inset, spine with printed paper label; spine label and edges of purple inset faded (not unattractively).
A solid and pleasing copy, with artwork in excellent condition. (35934)

“A Delectable Tale”
La Harpe, Jean-François de; Frank Swettenham, trans.; Clément-Pierre Marillier, illus. Three gifts: An Arab love story. London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd., 1928. 8vo (22.5 cm, 8.75"). 76 pp.; 5 col. plts.
$30.00
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An old Arabic tale, transmitted by way of Provençal storytellers and here translated by Sir Frank Swettenham (1850–1946) from de la Harpe's French version, Tangu et Félime. The translator notes in his preface that he believes this to be the first appearance of the work in English. The text is nicely printed on heavy paper, and illustrated with five daintily color–printed plates done after the original designs by Clément-Pierre Marillier, crafted to “give the effect of the hand-painted steel engravings [and] to reproduce the delicacy of effect imparted by hand-colouring” (p. [11]).
This edition was
limited to 1500 numbered copies, of which this is number 545.
Publisher's quarter tan cloth with marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped black leather title-label; outer edge of front cover sunned, spine slightly darkened with label a little rubbed on one side. Very occasional spots of foxing, with pages otherwise clean and crisp and the
illustrations fresh. (40534)

Required Reading — Impeccable Printing
La Rochefoucauld, François, duc de. Maximes et réflexions morales du duc de la Rochefoucauld. Parme: De L'Imprimerie Bodoni, 1811. Large 4to (32.1 cm, 12.6"). [10], xxxii, 175, [1] pp.
$1750.00
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Bodoni edition of a classic of the genre: Rochefoucauld's dry, pragmatic observations on human nature — at the time of this printing, a mandatory entry in any well-bred philosopher's library. Bodoni produced two separate editions in this same year, the present example being
one of only 255 copies printed in the quarto format, which Brooks considers equally attractive as that in folio.
Provenance: Front pastedown with small oval blue-paper label lmbossed in gold with a monogram of “PB,” and with bookplates of Robert Wayne Stilwell and Brian Stilwell.
Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate only four U.S. libraries (Wesleyan, Boston University, Johns Hopkins, The Bridwell) reporting ownership of this quarto format edition.
Brooks 1105; Brunet, III, 846; De Lama, II, 199; Giani 199 (p. 77). Contemporary quarter vellum and Bodoni orange paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-ruled bands and gilt-stamped leather title and date labels; corners and edges much rubbed, sides with light scuffing, vellum slightly darkened. Bookplates as above; front free endpaper with small oval of offsetting from monogram label. Occasional faint foxing, pages overall giving a clean, fresh impression. (40200)
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Amour & a Greeting
Lassalle, Ferdinand. Une page d'amour de Ferdinand Lassalle. Recit - Correspondance - Confessions. Stamford, CT: Overbrook Press, 1959. 8vo. [8], 86, [2] pp.
$45.00
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One of 250 copies printed of these ardent love letters, in French, allegedly written by Lassalle to a young girl he met while taking the water cure at Aix-la-Chapelle in 1860. This copy has Frank & Helen Altschul's printed keepsake of December 1959 — “With friendly greetings from The Overbrook Press” — laid in.
Publisher's cloth, without glassine dust-wrapper and with top edge just a little darkened; unworn and otherwise clean. Insert present as noted, a bit browned or age-toned at lower left edge. (34768)
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Laughlin's
Only Perishable Press Printing
Laughlin, James. The pig. Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1970. 8vo (21.7 cm, 8.5"). [26] pp.
$175.00
Fine press edition: a gathering of short poems by Laughlin, founder of the New Directions publishing company. The type is Smaragd and Palatino, printed in red, black, tan, cream, and blind on white Shadwell paper (there were some additional copies on beige paper); the colophon features Walter Hamady's distinctive Perishable Press pressmark, calligraphed by Sheikh Nasib Makarem. The binding was done by Elizabeth Kner, using Japanese decorative paper.
This is
one of 183 copies total, signed on the half-title by the author.
Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 32. Publisher's navy and white patterned paper–covered boards, front cover with blind-stamped and printed paper title-label. A crisp, clean copy. (31277)

Humanism & the Early Church
Laurentius Mellifluus?; St. Lawrence, bishop of Novara? Sancti Laurentii presbiteri Novarum, scriptoris perantiqui, Homiliae duae. [Parisiis]: Prostant apud Michaelem Vascosanum, 1522. 4to (18.5 cm, 7.25’’). [31 of 32] ff., lacks final blank leaf (only).
$875.00
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The first edition of two homilies widely ascribed to one of the most venerated saints in Europe. St. Lawrence of Novara (225–58 A.D.) was a disciple of Pope Sixtus II, who appointed him archdeacon of Rome. Strongly committed to the poor, he was punished for distributing among them wealth belonging to the Church; his martyrdom, ordered by Emperor Valerian, was
slow death by roasting on a gridiron. His works and life, which had been in print since the late 15th century, were inspirational for the pastoral care and charity they advocated, with this edition presenting his homilies on penitence and alms and celebrating the pure principles, explained in clear, refined Latin, of the early Christian Church much admired by 16th-century Catholic and Protestant humanists alike.
A cataloguer at the University of Illinois dissents from the opinion of Bibliotheque National and other national libraries as to authorship and writes, “The two homilies De poenitentia and De eleemosuma, here ascribed to Laurentius, Bishop of Novara, are medieval compositions by an unknown author usually designated as Laurentius Mellifluus, who cannot be identified with the Bishop of Novara nor with Laurentius, Bishop of Milan.”
An elegant edition in Roman type, with historiated woodcut initials, including one of a bear chasing a boy and another of a very “busty” seraph.
Provenance: Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Evidence of readership: Occasional early underlinings.
WorldCat locates only one U.S. library (University of Illinois) reporting ownership.
Pettegree & Walsby, French Books, 77263; Moreau, IV, 461. 20th-century grey paper boards; edges sprinkled red. Text clean, save for a few scattered spots on title-page and verso of last leaf; wanting final blank. Lower outer corner of one leaf torn away, just touching one letter, small paper flaw to outer blank margin of one leaf.
A handsome Vascosan production. (40843)
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Poems by a
U.S. Poet Laureate
Levine, Philip. Blue. West Chester, PA: Aralia Press, [February] 1989. 8vo (24.2 cm, 9.5"). [10] ff.
$85.00
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Detroit-born poet Philip Levine (b. 1928) has won myriad awards for his dark poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was the
Poet Laureate of the U.S. for 2011–12.
Some of the poems collected here were previously published in Field, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, and Western Humanities Review. For this edition from the
Aralia Press, 175 copies were printed by Michael Peich at West Chester University using Spectrum types on dampened Frankfurt. Nadya Brown contributed the blue title-page vignette of a man in a rowboat. This copy is
signed by Levine in pencil below the colophon.
Gray paper wrappers with Nadya Brown's drawing reproduced in black on front cover. Fine, in mylar wrappers. (30802)
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LEC Memorabilia — An Evocative Small Archive
Limited Editions Club. Ephemera, 29 items. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1971–95. Various.
$350.00
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Interesting collection of uncommon ephemeral material from The Limited Editions Club, one of the 20th century's great “fine books for the middle classes” concerns. Some of the items here are from the Club's later livres d'artistes heyday; many describe the Club's mission and its processes; the Club's typical attention to typographic clarity and elegance is well displayed.
The 29 letters, catalogues, and offprints gathered here are
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collection of COLLECTIONS, here. (30413)
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Celebrating
250 Fine Books
Limited Editions Club. Quarto-Millenary: The first 250 publications and the first 25 years 1929–1954 of the Limited Editions Club. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1959. Folio (31.6 cm, 12.45"). xiii, [5], 295, [3] pp.; illus.
$175.00
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First edition of a marvelous tribute to the accomplishments of the Limited Editions Club, including a bibliography and essays by Paul Beaujon, Paul A. Bennett, Edward Alden Jewell, James Laver, Thomas Craven, and John T. Wenterich. The rest of the volume is dedicated to reproductions of various title-pages, text pages, illustrated pages, full-page illustrations, and bindings, showcasing the wide range of techniques and aesthetics used by the artisans who produced the Club's publications.
Robert L. Dothard designed the volume, which was printed on specially made Curtis Archer white paper and bound by Frank D. Fortney of the Russell-Rutter Co. This is numbered copy 1557 of 2250 printed, one of the 750 copies intended for institutional and professional distribution outside the Club.
Provenance: Laid in is a promotional letter from the Club addressed to Leonard F. Bahr, proprietor of the Adagio Press; the original, unused subscription form and envelope are also present.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 294. Publisher's quarter black morocco with red cloth sides, front cover with embossed leather medallion, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; spine sunned with label scuffed and a spot, front joint gently refurbished, slipcase worn with one joint broken and reinforced. Cover and contents bright and clean. (33425)

A Very Large University Broadside
Printed on SILK
Linares Montefrio y Martinez, Evaristo. Broadside. Begins, Excmo. domino ac semper domino meo, D. Josepho Moñino, comiti de Florida Blanca ... Exoptat hihi iam diu illuxit dies ... quo publicum oc non tantum mei in studiies, profectus, verum etiam grati animi significationes testimonium exhiberem. Toleti [i.e., Toledo]: apud Nicolaum de Almanzano, typographum universitatis, 1782. Folio (76 x 57 cm, 31" x 22.5" ). [1] p.
$5500.00
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On 19 June 1782 at the Universidad de Toledo, Linares Montefrio stood to defend his Bachelor's degree and this
letterpress broadside on rose-colored silk was the official announcement of that test. The oral examination centered on Justinian's Institutes, specifically book three, title 26.
It is handsomely printed using several point sizes of roman and italic, with center justification in the top portion and full justification below. Around the printed area are wide margins on the four sides, which margins contain
16 large, crisp, evenly spaced impressions of the city of Toledo's double-headed eagle, with crown above, sword in its right talon and mace in its left.
Broadsides were an important source of income for handpress-era printers in Europe and Spanish America and the printers offered “package deals” to the families of the graduate and post-graduate degree postulants; the packages were geared to the students' families' economic means. Broadsides could be large (folio) or small (8vo), have an engraving or not, have a border of type ornaments or not, and be printed on standard paper or colored paper (usually blue); if one splurged, one could get the announcement printed, as here, on silk. The usual total number of copies printed for each candidate is unknown at this time, but is likely to have been only one or two dozen, and we also don't know if more than one silk copy was printed when that top option was in fact ordered. In extravagant cases, one can imagine one for the degree candidate, one for the parents, one for each godparent, etc.; still, such cases would probably have been few.
Certainly, the printers would have been willing to rake in as much money as possible, on each happy occasion, and these richly beautiful silk mementos — doubtless proudly displayed for years going forward in homes or offices — would have been excellent ongoing advertisements. Equally clearly, however, the number of copies of all of the defense broadsides surviving is small, and
the survival of those on silk is very small.
No copies of this broadside are traced via the usual bibliographies, nor via NUC, WorldCat, COPAC, KVK, CCPB, or the OPACs of University of Toledo and the national library of Spain.
Rose-colored silk, with old folds; sun-fading variously and rather attractively approaching pinks and apricots. Sides “accented” by an attractive retained green and white selvage edge; bottom edge hemmed and top one, possibly once so, now with fraying and a bit of ravelling; near the broadside's center, a round hole costs six letters.
Still, at 230+ years old, frankly gorgeous. (39844)
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Still Thoughtful Still Thought-Provoking
Lippman, Walter. The scholar in a troubled world. An address delivered as the Phi Beta Kappa oration at the commencement exercises of Columbia University May 31, 1932. New York: Press of the Wooly Whale, 1932. 8vo. [40] pp.
$25.00
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One of three hundred copies printed and privately distributed.
Metallic marbled paper-covered boards, front cover with printed paper label. Clean and pleasant, in original glassine dustwrapper remarkably intact. (31136)
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Letters to the Literati — Plantin–Moretus Press
Lipsius, Justus. Epistolarum selectarum centuria prima [–quinta] miscellanea. Antwerp: Ex officina Plantiana, apud Ioannem Moretum; viduam & filios
Ioannis Moreti, 1605–14. 4to (25.8 cm, 10.2"). 5 parts in one vol. [4] ff., 119, [1] pp.;
[121]–213, [3] pp.; [4] ff., 108, [4] pp.; [6] ff., 83, [5] pp.; [6] ff., 112, [8] pp.
$1250.00
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This is the collected correspondence of the Belgian humanist Lipsius (Joost Lips, 1547–1606) — “one of the most eminent representatives of classical philology between 1550 and 1650" (NCE) — containing nearly
500 letters to the most illustrious intellectuals of his day, with an index of correspondents at the beginning of each part, including: Carolus Clusius (Charles de l'Ecluse, 1526–1609), Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540–1609), Abraham Ortelius (Ortels, 1527–98), Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin (1547–90), Hugo Grotius (de Groot, 1583–1645), Jacob Pontanus (1542–1626), Jacques Auguste de Thou (Thuanus, 1553–1617), and the printer Balthasar Moretus (1574–1641), who would inherit the Plantin press from his father Jan . . .
Printed by Jan Moretus, with the last three parts produced by his widow and children, all five “centuries” feature the famous Plantin device engraved or woodcut on their sectional title-pages, and at the ends of the second and fifth (final) parts. The text is in Latin printed in roman and italic with sparse sidenotes and elaborate woodcut initials and tailpieces.
The correspondence was also issued in separate parts, and as part of the Opera omnia in seven volumes with a general title-page dated 1614.
Bibliotheca Belgica, L406 (Opera), L257 and L258. Contemporary vellum single-ruled in blind with an ornate central cartouche and four fleurons stamped in black on each cover, manuscript title on spine with raised bands accented by black ruling; red speckled edges, and evidence of four ties.
Front joint repaired and new endpapers, text with dust-soiling and a handful of small stains, mild
foxing on a few leaves and browning in some sections; faint curves of waterstaining along edges
in a few places, small marginal tear on one leaf.
A nice copy of a handsome
Plantin–Moretus printing. (30963)

“The First Public Manifestation” of the
Liverpool First Edition Club
Signed by Eric Gill
Liverpool First Edition Club. Catalogue of the first exhibition by members of finely printed books from modern presses May 12–24, 1930 with a foreword by Eric Gill. Liverpool: The Basnett Gallery (pr. at the Fanfare Press), 1930. 8vo (21 cm, 8.25"). 31, [1] pp.
$100.00
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Catalogue of the Liverpool First Edition Club's debut exhibition, with a foreword by Eric Gill including his thoughts on the nature of Art and book production.
Provenance: Signed by Eric Gill (“Eric G”) at the end of his foreword; additionally, elegantly inscribed to rare book collector Clark Stillman by the artist's brother and biographer Evan R. Gill, dated 28 September 1937.
Searches of NUC and WorldCat located only three copies in U.S. libraries.
Publisher's printed paper wrappers; wrappers detached, sunned, and chipped. Pages clean. (36969)

The Dedication Has
NOT Been Removed — The Folio EXTRA Format
Longinus. [title in Greek, romanized as] Dionysiou Logginou [sic] peri hypsous. Parmae: In Aedibus Palatinos Typis Bodonianis, 1793. Folio extra (43 cm, 17"). [1] f., xxviii, 113, [1 (blank)] pp.; [1 (blank)] f., [1] f., 89, [1 (blank)] pp. Lacks the initial blank and final blank.
$7500.00
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One of only two Bodoni editions of De Sublimitate, the other being the 1793 printing in quarto format. It is printed on laid paper with a Latin translation following the Greek text, each with a separate title.
Brooks reports “Copie 15 in carta sopraffina e 15 in carta d’Anonnay.” Brunet says the dedication to the pope “a été supprimée dans beaucoup d’exemplaires”; it is present here.
Binding: Contemporary navy morocco, spine with six raised bands — an ornate gilt fleuron decoration in five compartments and gilt lettering in two. The covers are decorated with a gilt center panel of rectilinear and curved tooling that is framed by a thicker blind-tooled and a single-ruled gilt border. The board edges are tooled with a gilt double fillet and the turn-ins with a lacy gilt tulip-like motif. All edges are gilt, endpapers marbled.
A lovely, solid binding.
Provenance: On the front pastedown, the bookplate of Brian Douglas Stilwell.
Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate only four U.S. libraries reporting ownership of this edition (Harvard, Kansas, University of Texas-HRHRC, Princeton Theological).
Brooks 507; Giani 44 (pp. 47–48). Binding as above, rubbing to extremities and to spine/joints; somewhat noticeable scrape to length of front board and bump to bottom edge, very small spot of discoloration to top edge of front board, small scrape to rear board and rubbing to fore-edge. Without the initial and final blanks (i.e., two blank leaves total). Provenance marks as above; occasional light foxing to leaves, interior otherwise in very nice condition. (40159)
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On the
Nature of Things
Lucretius Carus, Titus. T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex. [Lugduni Batavorum, i.e., Leyden]: Ex officina Plantiniana Raphelengii, 1611. 16mo (10.7 cm, 4.4"). 176 pp.
$400.00
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Uncommon pocket-sized rendition of this Epicurean-inspired poem. Lucretius's materialistic, anti-superstitious philosophy was much favored by the disciples of the Enlightenment.
The Plantin Press first published this work in 1566, and the title-page here bears Christopher Plantin's “Labore et constantia” compass device. The edition is rather rare, being reported in only three U.S. institutions.
Binding: 18th-century mottled calf, spine with gilt-stamped red leather spine label and gilt floral decorations in compartments. Marbled endpapers and all edges red.
Schweiger, II, 574. This edition not in Brunet or Graesse. Bound as above, extremities rubbed; back free endpaper with old repair and front fly-leaf affixed to front free endpaper with early inked ownership inscription showing through on verso. Pages age-toned with mild staining; a few small, early inked marks of emphasis and one early inked marginal annotation.
An elegant little production in a sound and pleasant copy.
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Baskerville's Twelvemo Lucretius, Morocco Bound
Lucretius Carus, Titus. Titi Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex. Birminghamiae: Typis Johannis Baskerville, 1773. 12mo in 6s (18 cm, 7"). [1] f., 131, 128–214 (i.e., 218) pp. (text continuous despite pagination).
$300.00
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This long didactic poem in six books (almost completely preserved) was composed by Titus Lucretius Carus in the first century B.C. and is the most important exposition of the Greek philosophic system of Epicurus.
The work also serves as testimony to the transmission of the ideas of Epicureanism into Roman thought and society, and as evidence that the forms of Greek poetry had become at home in the Latin language. Lucretius's materialistic, anti-superstitious philosophy was much favored by the disciples of the Enlightenment.
This is Baskerville's second printing of Lucretius and the first in twelvemo format: The 1772 first printing had been a quarto. The text is printed using his Bourgeois font and the Greek seems to be Caslon's Long Primer. Gaskell tells us that following Baskerville's death, 980 copies were remaindered in 1775.
Provenance: Bequest to Yale University of Norman Holmes Pearson, properly deaccessioned.
Binding: 18th-century red morocco with a gilt roll forming a border on the perimeter of the boards; round spine divided into compartments using a roll featuring chain links, with author's name gilt in one compartment and the five others each with the center device of a lyre, Greek key roll in gilt at base of spine. Board edges tooled in gilt with a rope design; turn-ins tooled using two rolls, one of which is dentelles. Green stone-pattern endpapers and all edges gilt.
Gordon 20A; Gaskell 50; ESTC T50366. Binding as above. Front joint (outside) cracked, abraded, and with loss of most leather; scuffing to both joints and to spine ends. Library bookplate on front pastedown, discreet deaccession stamp on verso of title-page. A “decent” copy of a good press book. (39839)

“'Ye Nymphs!' He Cry'd, 'Ye Dryads!'”
Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron. The poetical works of George Lord Lyttelton with additions: To which is prefixed, an account of his life. London: Pr. by C. Whittingham for Cadell and Davies, Longman and Rees, et al., 1801. 8vo (16.4 cm, 6.45"). Engr. title-page, x, [4], 147, [1] pp. (half-title lacking); 4 plts.
$225.00
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Elegant collection of verses from the much esteemed poet-statesman, this edition marking its
first appearance from Whittingham's press. The volume features a brief biography of the author, a title-page vignette engraved by J. Collyer after B. West, and
four copperplates engraved by Dadley, Collyer, and Angus after Burney.
Provenance: Front free endpaper with inked inscription of Caroline Duffield, dated Feb. 22, 1830; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
NSTC L2746. Contemporary treed calf, covers framed in gilt rolls, spine with gilt-stamped red leather title-label and gilt-ruled compartments, turn-ins with gilt roll; leather — sometime shellacked or otherwise “sealed” — showing expectable acid-pitting and crackling, front joint cracked (sewing holding) and leather chipped along back joint, edges and extremities rubbed, spine head chipped. Half-title lacking. Two leaves each with short tear from upper margin, not touching text. Pages lightly age-toned, with minor offsetting from plates; minor foxing to plates.
A dignified and attractive copy, reflecting an 18th-century aesthetic. (41042)

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