List 31: Recent Acquisitions McNaughtan’s Bookshop & Gallery 3a & 4a Haddington Place Edinburgh EH7 4AE +44(0)131 556 5897
[email protected] http://www.mcnaughtans.co.uk a b x @mcnbooks McNaughtan’s Bookshop & Gallery List 31: Recent Acquisitions 1. Anacreon. The Works of Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, FIRST BLOMFIELD EDITION, 8vo, Moschus, and Musaeus. Translated from the original pp. xii, 400. Contemporary Greek. By Francis Fawkes, M.A. The second edition. straight-grained navy morocco, London: Printed for J. Walker, J. Wallis, and J. Binns, boards with a wide gilt border 1789. composed of a series of repeated pallets within triple gilt rules, 12mo, pp. x, [ii, blank], 321, [3]. Some gatherings printed on four-pointed tools in the corners, blue paper. Contemporary sheep, spine divided by gilt rules, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label. Somewhat browned and spotted through- second and fourth gilt-lettered out. Extremities a bit rubbed, corners just a touch worn, tidy direct, edges gilt, green endpa- repairs to joints and spine ends. Early ownership inscription of pers. Occasional foxing and light Alex. Brown to flyleaf. £150 browning. Extremities a bit rubbed. Large printed prize label estc T85627. to front pastedown, award- ing the book to Henry Gott for The posthumous, scarcer second edition of this highly-respected distinguishing himself in reading the Medea of Euripides and translation, first published 1760. Although Fawkes (bap. 1720-1777) had two books of Livy, at Winchester College in 1820. £350 been widely read in his lifetime and formed a friendship with Samuel Johnson, he left little at his death for his widow to live upon, leading to A lovely prize binding with an publication of his unfinished works and and then this reprinting.