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www.peterharrington.co.uk Quarto. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrated with monochrome photographs by Bingham. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with a crease on the lower back panel. first edition, presentation copy to christopher lee, inscribed by muhammad ali on the title: “To Christopher from Muhammad. 11–15–93” together with Ali’s sketch of Lee in his most famous role as Dracula; further inscribed by the author: “For Christopher & Gitte. Our friend for many years. Best wishes always. Howard L Bingham. 11–15–93”. Lee married Birgit “Gitte” Kroncke in 1961. (See previous item 1 2 on the friendship between Lee and Ali.) £2,000 [115356] Presentation copy to Christopher Lee porter shoved a mike under Ali’s face . . . ‘Do 1 you have anything to say to your fans?” Ali 3 says, “Yes. I just want to say that I won this (ALI, Muhammad.) HAUSER, Thomas. fight for Christopher Lee, who’s out there ANDRÁSSY, Mano. Reise in Ostindien: Muhammad Ali. His Life and Times. watching me now.’” Ali subsequently invited Ceylon, Java, China und Bengalen. Aus With the Cooperation of Muhammad Lee to his third wedding, in Los Angeles dem Ungarischen übersetzt. Pest: Her- Ali. London: Robson Books, 1991 in 1977, and remained friends with him for mann Geibel, 1859 many years, visiting him often when he was Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. Elephant folio (595 × 429 mm). Original dark red in England. With the dust jacket. Spine a little cocked, front half morocco, matching morocco-grain cloth free endpaper torn out. An excellent copy in the £1,500 [115354] sides, flat bands within gilt rules to spine, second lightly toned jacket. compartment lettered in gilt, titles and pictorial first edition, presentation copy to Presentation copy to Christopher Lee, with vignette gilt to front board, white moiré cloth endpapers. Tinted lithographic frontispiece after christopher lee, inscribed by muham- Ali’s sketch of Lee as Dracula mad ali on the half-title: “To Christopher 2 Lee from Muhammad Ali. London. 5–27–92” (27 May was Lee’s birthday). A superb asso- (ALI, Muhammad.) BINGHAM, How- ciation: Muhammad Ali was a huge admirer ard L. Muhammad Ali. A Thirty-Year of the actor Christopher Lee, whom he con- Journey. Introductions by Muhammad sidered one of the all-time great film stars. and Lonnie Ali, Henry Cooper, Bill and They first met in 1975 in Cleveland, when Lee Camille Cosby, Reg Gutteridge, Harry was promoting a film and Ali was about to Carpenter, Jim Murray, Jarvis Astaire, fight the 40–1 no-hoper Chuck Wepner (the Gordon Parks, George Plimpton, Budd fight that inspired Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky Schulberg and Nelson Mandela. New series). According to Lee’s recollection, “At York: Simon & Schuster, 1993 the end of the fight – which Ali won – this re- 3

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Andrássy, hand-coloured as issued, with tissue- the rich colouring very well-preserved indeed. A and Calcutta, dancers at the courts of Nazim, guard, 15 similar plates, wood-engraved vignette very good copy. the Nawab of Bengal, and Murserabat, and an to title, similar illustrations throughout the text. first edition in german of this striking Arab encampment near Suez. Publisher’s large engraved label and bookplate of Rare. Six copies only traced in libraries L. V. Ledeboer, Rotterdam, to front pastedown. illustrated account of big-game hunting in world-wide (Danish Union Catalogue, Her- Presentation plate to the front pastedown from Asia. Andrássy (1821–1891, his name spelled James B. Ford to the Explorers Club (of which here as Emanuel Andrásy) was a Hungarian zogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek, Leiden, Leip- he was president 1926–7, and whose library he count who, having participated in his coun- zig, National Library of India, and Staatsbib- founded). Joints and extremities sympathetically try’s revolution in 1848, fled to England dur- liothek zu Berlin); perhaps five institutional restored, text-leaves toned, pale tide-mark to ing the Austrian invasion the following year, copies traced for the first edition, published lower outer corner of plate 6 (Chasse à l’éléphant and thence travelled east. The plates depict el- in Hungarian in 1853, and none in commerce. à Logalla), marginal spotting to most plates, oc- ephant hunting in Ceylon, rhinoceros, croco- Nissen ZBI 111; not in Abbey, Czech, or Tooley. casionally encroaching on the top half of images, dile and deer hunting in Java, tiger-stalking the figures and detail generally unaffected, and £12,500 [115779] near the Ganges, street scenes in Hong Kong

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4 5 6 ARAKI, Nobuyoshi, & Nan Goldin. To- ARCHER, Thomas. Pictures and Royal ARNOLD, Eve. Marilyn Monroe. London: kyo Love. Spring Fever 1994. Tokyo: Ohta Portraits illustrative of English and Scot- Halcyon Gallery; Magnum Photos, 2005 Publishing Company, 1994 tish History, from the introduction of Together 3 items. 1) Quarto. Original green Oblong quarto. Original white wrappers, titles Christianity to the present time. En- boards, title to spine silver, “M.M.” monogram to to spine black and grey. With the dust jacket graved from important works by dis- front cover blind, all edges silver, pictorial endpa- and publisher’s wraparound band. Photographs tinguished modern painters, and from pers. With the dust jacket. 2) Silver gelatin print, mounted and framed as issued (241 × 233 mm). 3) throughout. Wraparound band a little rubbed. An authentic state portraits. London: Blackie excellent copy. Octavo, pp. 20. Original pictorial wrappers, front & Son, 1886 cover lettered brown and white. All housed in the first edition of this photographers’ col- 2 volumes, quarto. Publisher’s deluxe binding of handmade black lacquered presentation box, as laboration between the American Goldin red full morocco over bevelled boards, elaborately issued. Illustrated thoughout with photographs and the Japanese Araki when the former gilt and blind tooled spines and covers, all edges by Eve Arnold. In superb condition. spent some time in Japan. Loosely inserted gilt, richly gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers. With first edition, signed limited issue. are a two-page folded leaflet and a publish- 69 engraved plates (complete) printed in sepia. A Number 469 of 500 sets signed by the pho- touch of foxing in places. An excellent set. er’s bookmark. tographer on the inside of the lid of the pres- £750 [115444] first edition. A handsomely produced entation box. The book, with text and nearly work, presented here in the publisher’s 100 photographs by Eve Arnold, chronicles striking deluxe binding and no doubt issued the six photography sessions that took place by Blackie with an eye on Queen Victoria’s over her ten-year relationship with Marilyn, forthcoming Golden Jubilee in 1887. and features 28 images released for the first time. The original negative for the silver £750 [116054] gelatin print is now retained by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript library at Yale Uni- versity. The book and print are accompanied

4 Peter Harrington 132: Spring Miscellany 6 8 by the exhibition catalogue for the display of plate paper and tissue-guard slightly foxed, clean circulating libraries still had copies of the limited edition prints at the Halcyon Gallery. contents throughout, a very good copy. originals. Bentley later reissued the volumes as a set, but this copy is from the original £2,000 [115306] first bentley edition, third overall, also the first one-volume edition. Bentley bought individual issue, numbered XXIII in the Standard Novels series. 7 the copyrights of all Jane Austen’s works to include them in his Standard Novels series, Sadleir 3734. AUSTEN, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. A apparently aiming at the private buyer, as Novel. London: Richard Bentley (successor to £3,000 [115923] Henry Colburn); Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh; 8 Cumming, Dublin; and Galignani, Paris, 1833 Octavo. Original vertical fine-ribbed purple cloth, AUSTEN, Jane. The Complete Novels. scroll ornament and Greek key border to boards London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1928 in blind, spine divided by quadruple blind rule Octavo (205 × 130 mm). Finely bound by Bayntun- and lettered in gilt with series title, an ornament Riviere in recent blue crushed morocco, title to and title of the work (Gilson’s third state binding). spine gilt with gilt raised bands, gilt rules to cov- Engraved frontispiece and extra engraved vignette ers and turn-ins, all edges gilt, marbled endpa- title, on plate paper, inserted between half-title pers. Bookplate to front pastedown. An excellent and title. Both signed “Pickering” at left foot copy, internally fresh and attractively bound. and “Greatbatch” at right. Armorial bookplate of English sportsman, soldier and politician William first one-volume edition, attractively Slaney Kenyon-Slaney to pastedown. Tanned spine bound. with bumped ends, dampstains to boards, ink Gilson E160. smudge to rear board, top edge dusty, inner hinge cracked after half-title but holding, endpapers, £1,250 [117150] 7

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9 an important piece of ballet history: Quarto (297 × 225 mm). Contemporary green an original souvenir programme buckram, title gilt to the spine, original card (BALLETS RUSSES.) Souvenir Serge De from the first american tour of the wraps bound in. Close to 350 pages in all, Diaghileff ’s Ballet Russe: With Originals ballet russe, with full-colour illustra- profusely illustrated throughout, colour plates, some tipped-in, illustrations in colour and by Leon Bakst and Others. 1916 Ameri- tions of the sumptuous costumes designs of can Tour Programme. New York: Metro- black and white. Some mild cropping, around Leon Bakst. The programme includes brief 30 pages with light damp-staining on the fore politan Ballet Company Inc., 1916 ballet synopses, an itinerary, and two pages edge, some of these pages also consequently a Quarto (300 × 230 mm). Original mottled brown of illustrated advertisements. This is an little fragile and with minor splits and chips, but hammer-finish card wraps, green silk cord tie, unusual and highly desirable variant in that overall very good. it features the superb Nijinsky illustration of cover image of Nijinsky in Scheherezade by Robert highly attractive bound volume Montenegro in brown with embossed gilt work, on the cover. The more commonly encoun- collecting together six deluxe title lettering similarly embossed. Sepia frontis- tered version has an illustration of a seated souvenir programmes from british piece from a photograph – Nijinsky in Spectre de la Bodhisatva. Attractive and highly desirable. Rose – and 8 other similar full-page illustrations, and american tours of the various including one of Lydia Lopokova; 15 full-page £1,250 [116317] incarnations of the celebrated rus- colour illustrations, one of them double-page, the sian ballet company between 1933 and majority costume designs by Bakst, among them 10 1941, billed as the “Ballet Russe de Monte- the famous image of Nijinsky as the Faun in L’Après Carlo,” “Col. W. de Basil’s Ballets Russes” or (BALLET RUSSE DE MONTE CARLO.) Midi. A little rubbed, particularly at the spine, and “Col. W. de Basil’s Ballets Russes (de Monte with a small – 10 mm square – skinned patch to Bound volume of deluxe souvenir pro- Carlo),” “Covent Garden Russian Ballet the cover, unfortunately to the face of the figure, grammes. Various: 1933–41 Company,” and “Original Ballet Russe”. overall very good. The four American and two British tour

6 Peter Harrington 132: Spring Miscellany 10 10 programmes contain numerous portraits of The programmes are as follow: W. de Basil’s Ballets Russes (de Monte- the artistic leadership, choreographers, and Carlo)”. Glossy cover with an illustration a. Undated programme from an American dancers, together with colour plates of strik- of two dancers by Christian Bérard. 58pp. tour, c.1933, billed as “Ballet Russe de ing set and costume designs by Christian Including 20 tipped-in colour plates of Monte-Carlo”. Gold cover with a blue Bérard, Cecil Beaton, Picasso, Leon Bakst, set and costume designs, all in very fine line drawing of two ballerinas by André Raoul Dufy, Natalia Gontcharova, J. M. Sert, condition. Derain. 38pp. Joan Miro, and others. e. 1939 programme of the “Covent Garden The Original Ballet Russe (originally b. Undated programme from an American Russian Ballet Company” (not a produc- named Les Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo) tour, c.1934, billed as “Col. W. de Basil’s tion of W. Basil), directed and choreo- was established in 1931 by René Blum and Ballets Russes”. Cover with a colour graphed by Michel Fokine with David Colonel Wassily de Basil as a successor to illustration of onion-domed towers by Lichine, with the London Philharmonic the Ballets Russes, founded in 1909 by Sergei Natalia Gontcharova. 78pp. conducted by Antal Dorati, and produced Diaghilev. The company assumed the new c. 1936–1937 programme from the 4th by Serge Grigorieff. Cover illustration of name Original Ballet Russe after a split be- American season, billed as “Col. W. de Cinderella by Natalia Gontcharova. 46pp. tween de Basil and Blum in 1937. De Basil led Basil’s Ballets Russes (de Monte-Carlo)”. With 8 tipped-in colour plates. the renamed company, while Blum and oth- Cover with a bold colour illustration of a ers founded a new company under the name f. 1940–1941 programme from the 6th knight in full armour by Natalia Gontch- Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. The large-scale American tour, billed as “Original Ballet arova. 74 pp. professional ballet company toured exten- Russe”. Colour cover illustration from sively in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, d. 1937 programme from the 4th season, Coq d’Or by Natalia Gontcharova. 52pp. the United States, and Central and South Coronation Season at the Royal Opera £825 [116318] America until 1947. House, Covent Garden. Billed as “Col.

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11 decorative brass brads in each corner, preserved as a sequel to the Boston Post’s Fighters of with original brass hanger, and tan cardboard Mars, a plagiaristic take on Wells’s War of BARRITT, Leon, Garrett Putnam Ser- shipping case: with landscape octavo pamphlet, 16 the Worlds, but became influential in its own viss, Hugh S. Rice, & Dorothy Bennett. pages, unpaginated, with tables, in quarter-width right – who teamed up with Leon Barritt red printed wraps as issued: and smaller plani- The Barritt–Serviss Star and Planet Find- (1852–1938), a highly-regarded political er Northern Hemisphere. The Heavens sphere (223 × 223 mm), composed of die-cut blue & white printed outer card, black & white hemispher- cartoonist, and amateur astronomer who without a Telescope, the only Practical ic celestial map volvelle disk, with central brass founded the long-lived astronomical journal Combination, Star, Planet, and Sun and rivet, instructions printed in white on the back. All Monthly Evening Sky Map after paralysis of Moon Map . . . [together with:] Planet very good in the original mailing box for the large the right hand had robbed him of his ability Tables, Moon Phases and the Sun’s Daily planisphere, the box a little worn, lacking one side to draw. The planisphere offered both the strip, old paper tape repairs. Position; [&] Star Explorer, Revised Edi- amateur and professional astronomer a star chart computing instrument, based on an tion [planisphere]. New York & Brooklyn, a beautifully preserved example of adjustable volvelle that could be adjusted NY: Maria Barritt, Sky Map, 244 Adams the barritt–serviss star and planet finder in its original plain card to display the visible stars for any time and St.; American Museum, Hayden Planetarium date. This example includes printed instruc- c.1906; 1947, 1955 mailing box; a superb, complex Edward- ian planisphere. This device was developed tions around the edges of the card front. 3 items. Large elaborate planisphere (382 × 382 originally in 1906 by Garrett P. Serviss Leon Barritt continued to produce and sell mm), composed of die-cut lithograph printed (1851–1929), an American astronomer and these planispheres into the 1930s, the earli- outer card, with die-cut, hemispheric celestial early science fiction writer – his first book est versions have more decorative elements map volvelle disk, mounted on black decorative Edison’s Conquest of Mars was commissioned such as the patterned black silk moire for silk moiré board, pinned by brass central rivet, and the base, and decorative brass brads, while

8 Peter Harrington 132: Spring Miscellany 12 13 the later versions were typically of much sides and matching slipcase. Small split to head 13 plainer materials. The Planet Tables included of spine, text block sound, front wrapper with here were published by Maria Barritt, Leon some light foxing, thin mark and nicks to fore BECKETT, Samuel. How It Is. Trans- Barritt’s wife, who took over as publisher of edge, occasional light foxing to contents. An lated from the French by the Author. excellent copy. his magazine on his death, being an amateur London: John Calder, 1964 astronomer and author in her own right. The first edition in book form of Baudelaire’s Octavo. Publisher’s deluxe binding of light brown smaller Star Explorer planetarium included defence of Wagner. The essay, written after morocco over bevelled boards, gilt lettered spine, here was a popular souvenir available for sale the opera was withdrawn following three top edges gilt, others untrimmed. With the at the American Museum, Hayden Planetar- heavily-criticised performances in Paris in original matching slipcase. Light bump to foot of ium during the 1950s, and was continually 1860, first appeared in the Revue Européenne spine, slight wear to extremities of slipcase. An being updated with planetary tables on back. in April 1861 and Baudelaire had it issued in excellent copy, largely unopened. Biographical Encyclopaedia of Astronomers, p. 1043; Smith, book form in May. It has been “hailed as the first uk edition, signed limited is- A Brief History of Saugerties, pp. 130–2; The Brooklyn Daily finest summary of all the tenets of Baude- sue. Number 80 of 100 copies signed by Eagle, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 1938, p. 11. laire’s own aesthetic, and as a fascinating the author and bound in morocco. The £1,500 [115607] exposition of all the recurring issues of the English translation was first published in literary response to Wagner” (Breatnach, the US earlier the same year, and originally 12 p. 49). Scarce, with just seven copies traced published as Comment c’est (Paris: Éditions in commerce since 1975; just three copies de Minuit, 1961). BAUDELAIRE, Charles. Richard Wag- traced in Copac (BL, Aberdeen and Leeds), Federman & Fletcher 384.101. ner et Tannhauser a Paris. Paris: E. Dentu, and none in OCLC. £1,500 [115937] 1861 Breatnach, “Writing About Music: Baudlaire and Duodecimo. Original grey paper wrappers, title to Tannhauser in Paris” in Word and Music Studies, eds. Bernhart, Wolf, & Mosley. front cover printed black. Housed in a custom red crushed quarter morocco chemise with marbled £3,250 [115329]

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From the library of a prominent Liverpool a handsomely printed georgian slave trader bible in a grand period binding, with 14 a fascinating provenance: from the library of the prominent Liverpool merchant and slave 15 (BIBLE.) The Holy Bible, containing trader John Sparling (1731–1800). Sparling was the Old and the New Testaments; newly involved in the Virginia trade from the 1750s, Herbert 1188; Jane Longmore, “Rural retreats: Liverpool translated out of the original tongues, importing turpentine, tar and tobacco and slave traders and their country houses”, chapter 3 of and with the former translations dili- exporting salt, hardware and woollen goods. Slavery and the British Country House, Dresser & Hann eds., gently compared and revised, by His Sparling had interests in at least 29 slaving English Heritage 2013, pp. 47–8. Majesty’s Special Command. Cambridge: voyages between 1767 and 1793, as well as in £4,000 [116480] Printed by John Archdeacon; and sold by John privateering and land speculation. During Beecroft, John Rivington, Benjamin White, and this period he served as High Sheriff of Lan- 15 cashire (1785) and Mayor of Liverpool (1770 Edward Dilly, in London; and T. & J. Merrill, and 1790). He bought the St Domingo estate, (BIBLE; illustrated.) The Holy Bible. in Cambridge. 1768 two miles from Liverpool in the village of Containing the Old & New Testament & 1 volume bound as 2, quarto (310 × 243 mm). Con- Everton in 1773, later remodelling the house the Apocrypha. London and Edinburgh: The temporary red morocco, richly gilt spines incor- into “an imposing classical mansion, simul- Ballantyne Press, 1911 porating floriate and drawer-handle motifs, dark taneously indulging his passion for beautiful 3 volumes, octavo. Contemporary purple mo- green and olive green morocco twin labels, sides trees”. Both volumes lettered in gilt on front rocco by Zaehnsdorf, raised bands gilt to spine, with gilt Greek key border enclosing broad gilt bor- cover: “John Sparling, Esqr.” and with dark der of repeated fan and urn motifs, all edges gilt, titles and Hebraic motifs gilt to spines, three-line brown morocco labels lettered “St. Domingo gilt roll tool turn-ins, marbled endpapers, broad gilt frame to sides, around elaborate gilt octofoils sage green silk page markers. Frontispiece by Gri- House, 1790. Lancashire”; armorial bookplate enclosing crown, book and intertwining snake gnion after Hayman; printed in double columns. A of William Sparling (Petton) in the second devices on green morocco ground, all edges gilt, few scrapes and light abrasions to bindings, couple volume; brief family genealogy down to 1815 broad turn-ins gilt with fillet dog-tooth rolls, of old ink stains to front cover of volume II, corners in volume I (verso of front free endpaper). See olive-branch cornerpieces, purple satin endpa- lightly bumped. A very good set. the website for full description. pers. With 96 lithographic colour plates. Spines sunned to tan, a few very small areas of rubbing

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A splendidly bound and illustrated Bible. first facsimile edition, number 40 17 The appealing plates are mostly signed by of 50 special copies with an additional either John Fulleylove (1845–1908), who “ex- volume (containing an original negative (BLAKE, William.) GRAY, Thomas. hibited drawings of the Holy Land in 1902” – here showing The Earth engraving – a Water-colour designs for the Poems. (ODNB), or by R. Talbot Kelly (1861–1934) copperplate, and collotypes without plate- Clairvaux, Jura, France: Trianon Press, 1972 with the date 1896 or 1902, this last being the mark) and the first three bound in full 3 volumes, folio. Publisher’s tan quarter morocco, year that A & C Black published his popular morocco, from a total edition of 726 copies. marbled sides, titles gilt to spines. With the work, Egypt Painted and Described. The engravings for Blake’s visionary allegory publisher’s matching slipcases. With 116 colour £1,250 [115378] of human life and death (which includes the facsimile leaves reproduced by colotype and famous “I Want! I Want!” image) are here hand-stencil colour, the text of the poems repro- 16 finely reproduced in collotype. duced from the copper-plate with three additional printings to reproduced Blake’s pencillings and The Trianon Press reproductions are rec- the tone of the paper. Fine condition. BLAKE, William. The Gates of Paradise. ognized as the finest facsimiles – each leaf For Children. For the Sexes. Introduc- is hand-coloured through stencils, working first edition thus, number 234 of 352 tory volume by Geoffrey Keynes with from the originals in Paul Mellon’s collec- copies issued thus or unbound in the French Blake’s preliminary sketches. Clairvaux, tion. The Times Literary Supplement stated at style, from a total edition of 518 copies Jura, France: The Trianon Press, 1968 the time that nothing like these books had on Arches pure rag paper made specially to match the paper used by Blake. In this 4 volumes, 1 octavo and 3 duodecimo. Original been printed before, and that it was unlikely light brown calf for the first three volumes, brown that they could ever be printed again. extravagant tour de force Blake used Gray’s poems, the printed text mounted on a large cloth for the fourth, titles to spines gilt. Housed £2,250 [115013] in the publisher’s brown cloth slipcase. Facsimi- sheet, as the jumping off point for character- les of Blake’s art throughout. Fine. istically epic and imaginative watercolours. £2,250 [114929]

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18 (BLAKE, William.) KEYNES, Geoffrey. 19 A Study of The Illuminated Books of William Blake. Poet, Printer, Prophet. the accompanying bibliographical texts and probation leaves. With 20 maps and charts, most of them folding, and 3 engraved plates of boats. London and Paris: The Trianon Press, 1964 contributing material from his own collection. This copy unnumbered (from a limited Skilful restoration to head and tail of spine, front Large quarto. Original orange full morocco, top edition of 525 copies). joint and fore edge of rear board, 100 mm closed edge gilt. With the original marbled slipcase. tear to one of the folds of the world map (facing Colour frontispiece and 31 plates reproducing £1,250 [114943] p. 18), loss to bottom corner of sig. Xxii, not af- Blake’s original illustrations, with an additional fecting text, small nick to head of inner hinges of 20 variant plates. Some trivial scuffs to spine, The first French circumnavigation two gatherings. A very good copy. otherwise fine. 19 first edition of the first french first edition, unique copy specially BOUGAINVILLE, Louis Antoine de. circumnavigation. In 1766 Bougainville had been ordered to return to the Falkland bound, with 20 additional plates, Voyage Autour du Monde, par la Frégate and inscribed by keynes, “This is a spe- Islands to formally deliver the French settle- du roi La Boudeuse, et la Flûte L’Étoile; cial copy bound in full morocco with added ment to Spain, and afterwards to continue material showing progressive stages of the en 1766, 1767, 1768 & 1769. Paris: Saillant into the Pacific and around the world. He printing of the plates. Geoffrey Keynes.” & Nyon, 1771 was in Buenos Aires when the order of the Keynes (1887–1982) was an academic, Quarto (250 × 185 mm). Contemporary mottled expulsion of the Jesuits of Paraguay arrived, biographer, and the younger brother of John calf, tan morocco label, spine gilt in compart- which he describes in detail. He entered the Maynard Keynes. He was a world authority ments, triple-ruled gilt panel to the boards, edges Pacific in 1768 and landed on Tahiti, claim- on Blake, and was instrumental in the pro- and endpapers marbled, woodcut head- and ing it for France, unaware of the visit of Sam- duction of the Trianon facsimiles, writing tailpieces and historiated capitals. With the uel Wallis nine months earlier. On Tahiti it half-title, errata, binder’s instructions, and ap-

12 Peter Harrington 132: Spring Miscellany 19 20 21 was discovered that the botanist’s valet was mirail” to title and last page. An attractive 21 a woman, Jeanne Barre; she stayed with the copy with bright contents. BRANDT, Bill. The English at Home. In- expedition and became the first woman on Hill 163; Howgego I, B142; Sabin 6864. record to have circumnavigated the globe. troduced by Raymond Mortimer. London: Bougainville continued due west through Sa- £7,500 [115032] B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1936 moa and the New Hebrides, eventually mak- Quarto. Original laminated photographic boards, ing the first recorded European encounter 20 spine and front cover lettered in red, photographic with the Great Barrier Reef. Turning north BOYD, William. A Good Man In Africa. endpapers. With 63 plates. A little wear to spine ends, light scratches to front and rear covers, slight 100 miles from the coast of Queensland, he London: Hamish Hamilton, 1981 passed through New Guinea to the Solomon foxing to top and fore edges; a very good copy. Octavo. Original yellow boards, titles to spine Islands, thence to the Moluccas where the first edition. Brandt’s first book moves Dutch allowed him to refit. Bougainville gilt. With the pictorial dust jacket. Spine ends very lightly bumped, light foxing to edges and across social classes as well as between then proceeded to Djakarta, then to Mauri- few small spots to prelims. An excellent copy in rural and urban milieus. “Mr. Brandt shows tius and home to St Malo. Only seven of the the bright dust jacket with a hint of creasing on himself not only to be an artist but an an- original 200 crew died on the voyage. The the spine. thropologist. He seems to have wandered book is notable for the influential descrip- about England with the detached curiosity first edition, inscribed by the author tion of Tahiti, which Bougainville christened of a man investigating the customs of some “To Philip Murray, with all very best wishes, New Cythera after the abode of Aphrodite. remote and unfamiliar tribe” (Raymond William Boyd” on the title page. The recipient His account of the islanders “echoed Rous- Mortimer, Introduction). The majority of was Irish bibliophile Dr Philip Murray, author seau’s concepts of the ‘noble savage’ and the photographs printed in this volume ap- of Adventures of a Book Collector (2009). A Good inspired Diderot to write his denunciation of peared here for the first time. European contact with indigenous peoples” Man in Africa was Boyd’s first novel. Parr & Badger I p. 138; Roth 101 p. 90. (Hill). Provenance: 18th- or early 19th-cen- £750 [115769] tury stamp of the “Bibliothèque de Mont- £650 [116392]

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[BRONTË, Charlotte.] Jane Eyre: An 23 24 Autobiography. By Currer Bell. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1848 second and third editions on 22 January 1848 first edition thus. Leighton’s woodcuts 3 volumes, octavo. Original purple-brown vertical and around 15 April 1848 respectively. With inspired the set design of the 1939 film adap- fine-ribbed cloth, titles to spines gilt, geometric a 16-page publisher’s catalogue (dated May tation of the novel, starring Laurence Olivier. 1848) at the rear of volume I and eight pages design and rules to covers in blind, cream endpa- £1,500 [115956] pers. Binder’s ticket to rear pastedown of Vol. I, of reviews to the rear of volume III. ownership signature to half-titles of vols I and III. Smith 2. Spines rolled and faded to brown, edges of covers 24 faded, very minor wear to tips, evidence of book- £4,500 [116141] BURGESS, Anthony. A Clockwork Or- plate removal to front pastedowns of vols I and ange. London: Heinemann, 1962 II, rear hinges cracked but holding, text blocks 23 sound, light foxing to contents. An excellent set. Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. BRONTË, Emily. Wuthering Heights. With the dust jacket. A little foxing to edges of third edition (lacking the “9” in pagina- New York: Random House, 1931 text block; an excellent copy in the price-clipped tion on p. 279 of volume I, Gothic letters “n” jacket with some small nicks to spine ends, and inverted in “An” and “h” instead of “b” on Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in slightly faded spine panel. title page of volume II, as listed by Smith). green morocco, titles to spine gilt, raised bands, The author’s powerful and highly influential twin rule to turn-ins, floral endpapers, gilt edges. first edition, first issue binding in novel was first published around 19 October With 12 wood engravings by Clare Leighton. A the first issue dust jacket. Three issues fine copy. 1847; owing to the work’s immense immedi- exist: two in black boards – the first with a ate success among critics and the reading jacket with wide flaps and priced 16s, the public alike, it was quickly followed by the second with the flaps trimmed and re-priced

14 Peter Harrington 132: Spring Miscellany within, E8 and F1 with small section cut from bottom margin, but on the whole quite fresh, and overall a very good copy. first edition, published in what Todd calculates to have been “a rather small edition, possibly limited to 500 copies”, in the original binding with the half-title stating “price-bound three shillings”. The Philosophi- cal Enquiry is Burke’s first truly successful work, winning praise in many quarters: Dr Johnson, “an example of true criticism”; Hume, “a very pretty treatise”; Reynolds, “the admirable treatise”; and Kant describ- ing Burke as “the foremost author” in “the empirical exposition of aesthetic judg- ments” (Writings and Speeches, 1.187–8). “His enduring achievement was to have tackled a difficult subject in a fashion accessible to any 26 educated reader” (ODNB). The book was also fundamental to subsequent discourse about first edition. Carey is often considered the the sublime in Romantic literature and art. founder of the American school of econom- 25 Todd 5a; Draper, p. 15. ics, notable for his criticism of British classical economic theory, his support of Alexander 18s – and the third issued in 1971 in purple £2,000 [116977] Hamilton’s idea of protectionism in relation boards with a decimal price sticker. to American industry, and for his position Boytinck 75. Easily the most perverse and the most original as Lincoln’s chief economic advisor. This is American political economist before Veblen his second major work, the first being his £2,750 [115181] 26 treatise Principles of Political Economy, published from 1837 to 1840. Principles of Social Science CAREY, Henry Charles. Principles of 25 was translated into five European languages Social Science. In three volumes. Phila- [BURKE, Edmund.] A Philosophical as well as Japanese. “Carey’s economic views delphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1858–9 Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of were sharply at variance with those of Ricardo the Sublime and Beautiful. London: for R. 3 volumes, octavo. Original purple cloth, spine and Malthus, and reflect the optimistic char- and J. Dodsley, 1757 lettered in gilt, front boards decorated in blind, acteristic of American conditions favourable cream endpapers, top edge brown. Two plates. to economic expansion . . . In the Principles Small octavo (184 × 114 mm). Contemporary dark Book labels and bookseller’s tickets to front of Social Science Carey expands his vision of a sheep, spine in compartments with gilt tooling, pastedowns, library stamps to rear free endpa- harmonious order to apply to the universe later red morocco title label, double gilt rule pers, Fraser Institute blindstamp to p. ix of vol. . . . Carey has been characterized as ‘eas- bordering sides. With the half-title. Ink owner- III. Spines slightly faded, very minor wear to spine ily the most perverse and the most original ship inscriptions to front endpapers. Repair to ends and tips, a couple of pencil annotations to headcap, ends and corners worn, covers generally contents, vol. I with marginal tear to p. 425, tiny American political economist before Veblen’ somewhat rubbed and scratched, front joint split chip to fore-corner of rear free endpaper, vol. II (Conkin)” (The New Palgrave I, p. 370). but holding, repair to front hinge and front free rear free endpaper lightly creased. An excellent set. £1,250 [117073] endpaper, some marks, spots and light cockling

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27 leaf spray roll, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. first printing of the celebrated Engraved portrait, 4 extra engraved titles, 31 ibarra edition. Printed for La Real Aca- CERVANTES, Miguel de. El Ingenioso engraved plates by Antonio Carnicero, Joseph demia Española (the Spanish Royal Acad- Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Castillo, Bernardo Barranco, Joseph Brunete, emy) by Joaquín Ibarra y Marín, this edition Gerónimo Gil, and Gregorio Ferro, engraved Madrid: Joaquín Ibarra, 1780 was intended to be a supreme example of head- and tailpieces, ornamental initials, en- 4 volumes, quarto (294 × 216 mm). Contemporary graved map. A little wear in places with slight loss Spanish craftsmanship lavished on the na- mottled calf, smooth spines divided in compart- of gilt border, the leather skilfully re-polished, tion’s greatest literary work. This edition ments by decorative rolls in gilt, red morocco small stain to fore-edge of first few leaves in vol. excels in beauty of type, design, paper, illus- numbering- and lettering-pieces, compartments 3, small light water stain to upper margin of last tration and printing, as well as incorporating at head and tail richly gilt with massed wavy rolls, two gatherings of vol. 4, else clean and fresh a carefully edited and corrected text. The sides bordered in gilt with a flower-head and throughout, an excellent set. illustrations and ornaments were designed

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by the best Spanish artists of the day, the 6 volumes, large quarto. Original tan cloth, titles paper milled expressly for this edition, and to front covers and spines in black. With the pic- the type was specially cut. It contains the torial dust jackets. Volumes 1 to 4 housed in plain first map depicting the route taken by Don card slipcases. Profusely illustrated throughout and with 24 original lithographs by Chagall. Vol. Quixote and Sancho Panza through Spain. II with just a small tear to foot of front hinge; an Palau 52024. excellent set in the bright jackets, vol. I price- clipped. £22,500 [75500] first editions. The complete catalogue 28 raisonné of Chagall’s lithographic work, a monumental feat of publishing which took (CHAGALL, Marc.) CAIN, Julien. The more than two decades to complete. Lithographs of Chagall. Introduction by Marc Chagall. Notes and catalogue by £5,750 [117004] Fernand Mourlot, Charles Sorlier. Monte Carlo; Boston; New York: André Sauret; Boston Book and Art Shop Inc.; Crown Publisher’s 27 Inc., 1960–86

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29 underside of the transparent vellum, but on raphy is a highly entertaining account of his paper which was attached to the binding and childhood, schooldays at Harrow, military (CHIVERS BINDING.) DICKENS, covered with vellum. The surface of the vel- training at Sandhurst, experiences as a war Charles. The Cricket on the Hearth. A lum was then tooled in gold, thus enhancing correspondent in Cuba, and service attached Tale of Home. With illustrations by C. E. the impressive effect. to the Malakand field force on the northwest Brock. London: J. M. Dent, 1906 frontier of India, charging with the 21st lanc- £1,250 [116099] Octavo (178 × 113 mm). Contemporary art nou- ers at Omdurman, and as a POW in South Africa during the Boer War. veau-style vellucent binding by Cedric Chivers of 30 Bath, hand-painted crest design of holly branches Cohen A91.1.c; Woods A37(a). to front board and spine, the former framed CHURCHILL, Winston S. My Early Life. within mother-of-pearl onlay, title to front board A Roving Commission. London: Thornton £1,250 [115161] and spine in red on a light green background, Butterworth Limited, 1930 front board elaborately tooled in gilt, single gilt 31 fillet to rear board, bevelled edges, top edge gilt, Octavo (212 × 131 mm). Late 20th-century red double gilt fillet to turn-ins with fleuron corner- full morocco by Bayntun-Riviere for Sotheran, CHURCHILL, Winston S. The War pieces. Illustrated title page, colour frontispiece decorative gilt-tooled and panelled spine, single- Speeches: Into Battle; The Unrelenting and 7 plates, black and white illustrations to text. line gilt border on sides, facsimile of Churchill’s Struggle; The End of the Beginning; On- With 1930s prize label to front pastedown. Spine signature in gilt on front cover, all edges gilt, wards to Victory; The Dawn of Libera- a little darkened, small glue residue to front free decorative gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers. endpaper, light spotting to endleaves. An excel- Frontispiece and 15 plates from photographs, tion; Victory; Secret Session Speeches. lent copy. maps and plans. Slight pale blemish to front London: Cassell & Company Ltd, 1942–6 cover (from a previous attempt at polishing); an 7 volumes, octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to A fine vellucent binding by Cedric Chivers, excellent copy, handsomely bound. delicately embellished with mother-of-pearl. spines gilt. With the dust jackets. Frontispieces in The vellucent technique was developed by first edition, second state as usual, with first five volumes along with other photographs. Contents slightly foxed, jacket of Into Battle with Cedric Chivers in the early 1900s. In contrast volume I of The World Crisis present on the list of Churchill’s works on the half-title verso. some shallow chips and closed tears, The End of the to the earlier method used by Edwards of Beginning rubbed on the front panel with discreet Halifax, the painting was not done on the Churchill’s first volume of sustained biog-

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tape-repair verso, the others with some creasing and 32 short closed tears. An excellent set in bright jackets. first editions, signed by churchill on the King, the Library of the House of Com- elaborately gilt than the present copy. The laid the front free endpaper of the final volume, mons and those who took part in the cer- paper of this “limited edition” – watermark of Secret Session Speeches. emony” and signed by the speaker, Douglas a hand surmounted by a quatrefoil – is clearly Woods A66(a), A89, A94, A101, A107, A112, A114. Clifton Brown, on the front free endpaper superior than the wove of the other issue, and verso. Copac shows just five locations in the the photographs, rather than being repro- £4,750 [115205] UK: BL, Oxford, Cambridge, Guildhall, and duced in collotype, are original press photo- Chartwell; OCLC adds Houghton Library, graphs with the relevant agency wet stamps 32 Harvard, Toronto and Alberta universities, verso, together with the Ministry of Works CHURCHILL, Winston S. The Laying of and Milwaukee Public Library Service. docketing. Four are credited to the Ministry of the Foundation Stone of the New Cham- The exact details of publication seem Works itself, two to the Graphic Photo Union, ber of the House of Commons by the somewhat muddied. Cohen explains that “the and one each to The Times, the Westminster normal edition of the work, for distribution to Press, Reuter, and Planet News Ltd. Speaker 26th May 1948. London: printed the Members of Parliament, was in wrappers. The text reprints Churchill’s speech as for H.M. Stationery Office by the Curwen Press By order of the Speaker, however, 24 copies Leader of the Opposition: “The House of Ltd, 1948 were printed and bound in full green morocco Commons is a living and deathless entity; it Foolscap folio. Original pale green buckram, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe for presentation survived, unflinching, the tests and haz- title gilt to the spine and front board, Palace of . . . I have also examined a cloth-bound copy. ards of war; it preserved our constitutional Westminster portcullis centre-tool gilt the lower. A folder of loose photographs of the occa- liberties under our ancient monarchy in a Pocket mounted inside the rear board with en- sion (reproduced by collotype at the Chiswick manner which has given a sense of stability, velope containing 10 original silver gelatin press Press) was attached to the inside back cover”; not only in this island, but as an example to photographs. Very slightly rubbed, pale toning, this is much the same as Woods’s account nations in many lands”. He features in all but light foxing to the endpapers, overall very good. of the piece. This cataloguer has previously two of the images. first and only edition, this one of the handled just two copies of the “normal edi- Cohen D132; Woods D(b)70/2. “twenty-four copies . . . printed on hand- tion” which were in green buckram rather made paper for presentation to His Majesty than wraps, and if anything were a little more £2,750 [117210]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 19 ity. Copies were issued in leather bindings (sheep or three-quarters morocco), in blue cloth for those who wanted it uniform with Tom Sawyer and, as here, in green cloth. There is no priority between them: all were first available to the public on the same day in February 1885. At some stage it was realised that the Uncle Silas illustration on p. 283 had been mischievously tampered with. In this copy, the illustration is in the second (or arguably third) state, with the changes removed. Laid in is a copy of the suppressed “priapic” plate, from an edition of 100 copies produced by Merle Johnson from the original leaf in the 33 34 collection of Willard S. Morse. BAL 3415; Grolier, 100 American, 87; Johnson, pp. 43–50; 33 Photogravure frontispiece of Karl Gerhardt’s por- Kevin MacDonnell, “Huck Finn among the Issue- trait bust of Clemens, 173 text illustrations after E. Mongers,” Firsts; The Book Collector’s Magazine, Volume 8, CLARK, Larry. Tulsa. New York: Lustrum W. Kemble. Small label pasted to front free end- Number 9 (September 1998), pp. 28–35. Press, 1971 paper. A little wear to spine ends and tips, front £3,750 [116712] hinge cracked but holding. An excellent copy. Quarto. Original black paper wrappers, titles to spine white, title to front wrapper black. Black first us edition, first printing. Only 35 and white photographs throughout. Light rub- three substantive changes were introduced (CLIVE, Robert.) MALCOLM, Sir John. bing to extremities, some surface wear. A very after the first printing: at p. 13 the erroneous good copy. page reference “88” was changed to “87”; at The Life of Robert, Lord Clive: Collected first edition of Clark’s first book. p. 57, 11 lines from the bottom the misprint from the Family Papers communicated by The Earl of Powis. London: John Murray, Parr & Badger I, 260; Roth, p. 208 (first edition). “with the was” was corrected to “with the saw”; and at p. 9 the misprint “Decided” 1836 £1,500 [115693] was corrected to “Decides” (this last change 3 volumes, octavo (209 × 129 mm). Contemporary overlooked by Johnson, Blanck et al.) These red straight-grained morocco, titles direct to flat 34 are the only points to distinguish between spines, scrolled foliate panels with floral centre- [CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne.] the first two printings, and our copy has tool to the compartments, attractive seashell and seaweed gilt rolled panel to the boards, edges TWAIN, Mark. Adventures of Huckle- all three in first state.The first printing of 30,000 copies was done using electrotype sprinkled red, marbled endpapers. Housed in red berry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). plates, produced simultaneously on different cloth drop-back box, black morocco label to the With one hundred and seventy-four presses, hence minor variations within the spine. Engraved portrait frontispiece after Reyn- illustrations. New York: Charles L. Webster olds and a folding map to Volume I. A little rubbed, first printing due to damaged plates. all front joints started to various degrees, that of and Company, 1885 The frontispiece is in the first state with volume I cracked to the cords, but holding, pale Square octavo. Original green pictorial cloth the table cloth visible and unsigned on toning, the occasional spot of foxing, folding map blocked in black and gilt, titles to spine and front the finished edge of the bust, but this was with a short closed tear, professionally repaired cover in gold and black. Housed in a custom separately printed and inserted in copies at verso, but overall very good, remaining attractive. green quarter morocco and cloth pull-off box. random, and so has no bearing on prior-

20 Peter Harrington 132: Spring Miscellany 35 first edition of the official life of Clive of India, compiled from original sources by Sir John Malcolm, another great Indian admin- istrator. With the ownership inscriptions, “ex dono matris”, of Henry Milford of Exeter, who served in the Bengal Civil Service from 1838 to 1840; he died at Meerut aged 20, on 27 December of that year. £1,500 [116971]

Signed by Conrad 36 CONRAD, Joseph, & Ford M. Hueffer. 36 The Inheritors: an extravagant story. first edition, signed boldly by the pulous Duc de Mersch” (Jeffrey Myers, Joseph New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1901 author on the half-title “Joseph Conrad”. Conrad: A Biography, 2001, p. 96). Copies in- Octavo. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered in Although The Inheritors is “generally regarded scribed by Conrad are decidedly uncommon. black, front cover with large pictorial block in as a science fiction tale of a group of people As usual this copy is the second issue, with black, red & gilt, fore and bottom edges un- from another, apparently parallel, world who the corrected dedication (Harvey notes that trimmed. Housed in a custom brown quarter mo- call themselves The Dimensionists” (Locke) “only four copies known of the first issue”), rocco solander box. Title page printed in orange and black. Spine toned (old label removed), covers it is also related to Heart of Darkness (seri- predating the UK edition by five weeks. showing light signs of handling (small old red ink alised 1899, published in book form 1902) Harvey, Ford Madox Ford, A9a; Locke, Spectrum of Fan- stain on back cover, front cover lightly rubbed), in that Conrad and Hueffer – in their first tasy, I p. 57; Wise, Conrad, 8. inner joints cracked but sound, one or two leaves a collaboration – “satirised Leopold II [King of £3,750 [117097] little carelessly opened. A very good copy. the of Belgians] as the greedy and unscru-

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37 slight dampstains to boards, top edges dusty, first edition, presentation copy, overall a very good set. inscribed by the author on the front COOPER, James Fenimore. [Collection first bentley editions, second editions free endpaper, “For William with my love, of his novels:] The Last of the Mohicans; Noel.” The recipient was William Armstrong Pilot; Spy; Pioneers; Borderers; Water- overall. The Atlas said of the Standard Novel series: “We cannot sufficiently applaud a de- (1882–1952), director and producer of the witch; The Bravo; Headsman; Heiden- sign that is primed to give us the best stand- Liverpool Playhouse from 1922 to 1944, mauer; Precaution; Pathfinder; Deer- ard works of fiction at the cheapest rate and where he directed several Coward plays slayer; Two Admirals; Jack o’Lantern. in the most elegant form”. James Fenimore in the 1930s. He received an honorary MA London: Richard Bentley (successor to Henry Cooper created a unique and most popular from Liverpool University in 1930 and was Colburn); Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh; Cum- form of literature; the set includes his most appointed CBE in 1951 for services to local ming, Dublin; and Galignani, Paris, 1831–45 famous work The Last of the Mohicans, often theatre. After leaving Liverpool in 1944 he regarded as his “masterpiece” (Hale, 1896). directed in London, then became assistant 14 individual titles, octavo. Original vertical fine- director at Birmingham Rep Theatre from ribbed purple cloth, scroll ornament and Greek Sadleir 3734. 1945 to 1947. His portrait hangs in the Walker key border to boards in blind, spine divided by Art Gallery in Liverpool. quadruple blind rule and lettered in gilt with £1,250 [115932] series title, an ornament and title of the work £975 [114999] (Sadleir’s third state binding) except Precaution: 38 original vertical fine-ribbed maroon cloth, scroll COWARD, Noël. Post-Mortem. A Play in 39 ornament to boards and spine in blind, spine lettered in gilt with series title, an ornament and Eight Scenes. London: William Heinemann COWARD, Noël. Pomp and Circum- title of the work (Sadleir’s second state binding). Ltd, 1931 stance. London: Heinemann, 1960 Each volume contains an engraved frontispiece Octavo. Original purple cloth, titles to spine gilt. on plate paper, 14 of which have an extra engraved Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine white. With the dust jacket. Spine a little faded, a few vignette title. Armorial bookplate of English With the dust jacket. Slight crease along spine with spots to fore-edge, an excellent copy in the jacket, sportsman, soldier and politician William Slaney tiny nick to tail, an excellent copy in the jacket with lightly dust-soiled, spine-tanned and with tiny Kenyon-Slaney to pastedown of each volume. tiny nicks to ends and corners, and the bottom edge chips to the ends and corners. Tanned spines with gently bumped ends and of the rear panel with small tears and a crease.

22 Peter Harrington 132: Spring Miscellany 39 40 41 first edition, presentation copy of 40 and tailpieces, all by Crane. Numerous woodcuts, Coward’s comic novel inscribed to the ac- some full-page. Light soiling to covers, slight fox- tress Joyce Carey, “For Miss Joyce Carey with COWARD, Noël. Waiting in the Wings. ing to endpapers and endmatter. An excellent set. London: Heinemann, 1960 the cordial sentiments of The Author. Bessie first crane edition, limited issue, – Bessie – Bessie”. The meaning of this latter Octavo. Original grey boards, titles gilt to spine. one of 1,000 copies printed on handmade part may have something to do with the With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the paper. Crane wrote his very own Spenserian advent of Queen Elizabeth II into the novel’s jacket with minute chips to the corners and small stanza on his triumphant attempt to illustrate tears to the bottom edge. plot. Joyce Carey, OBE (1898–1993) is best Spenser’s great poem, which appears fol- known for her long professional and per- first edition, inscribed by the au- lowing the general title page in volume one: sonal relationship with Noel Coward. In the thor on the front free endpaper, “For Harry “Great Spenser’s noble rhyme have I essayed midst of her stage career, which lasted 1916 from Noel”. / To picture, striving still, as faithful squyre, / to 1987, she rejoined Coward in 1942 to tour Each faerie knight to serve, in armes arrayde £400 [114997] in his three newest plays: This Happy Breed, / ‘Gainst salvage force, and deathful drag- as Sylvia, Blithe Spirit, as Ruth, and Present ons dire, / Or Blatant Beast with poisonous 41 Laughter, as Liz (a character based partly on tongues of fire; / To limn the Lion mylde with Carey herself ). After the war she played in (CRANE, Walter.) SPENSER, Edmund. Una fayre, / The False Duessa, and the War- Coward’s new plays Quadrille and Nude with Spenser’s Faerie Queene. A Poem in Six like Mayd. / “Be Bolde,” I read, and did this Violin (alongside Gielgud in London and Books. With the Fragment Mutabilitie, emprise dare, / And now the door is oped, so Coward himself in New York). Her New York edited by Thomas J. Wise. London: George let the masque forth fare.” A beautifully illus- Times obituary noted that she “excelled in Allen, 1897 trated production, encompassing both an Art Coward plays” and that “her constructive Nouveau and Arts and Crafts aesthetic. comments helped shape” them. 6 volumes, quarto. Original cream cloth, titles to spine gilt, titles to front cover red in decorative £2,250 [116100] £750 [114996] vignettes gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, original pink covers bound in at front. Double page illustrated title pages, woodcut front, head

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42 44 godson and one of the dedicatees of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. It is uncommon DAHL, Roald. James and the Giant DAHL, Roald. The Twits. London: Jona- to encounter this title with a contemporary Peach. A Children’s Story. New York: than Cape, 1980 inscription by both Dahl and Blake. Alfred A. Knopf, 1961 Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine gilt. £4,750 [115992] Quarto. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt, front With the pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. An excellent copy in the jacket cover with design copied from the frontispiece 46 blocked in blind, apple green endpapers. With the with faded spine. printed colour dust jacket. Colour frontispiece, 4 first edition, inscribed by the au- DAHL, Roald. Matilda. London: Jonathan colour plates, 1 tinted, 19 illustrations to text, of thor in blue Sharpie to the front free end- Cape, 1988 which 10 are tinted, by Nancy Ekhol Burkert. An excellent copy in the bright jacket with a couple of paper, “Magnus, Love Roald Dahl”. Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine gilt. short closed tears to head of spine panel. £3,000 [116997] With the dust jacket. Illustrations by Quentin Blake. Bookplate to front pastedown. An excel- first edition, with the five-line colophon lent, bright copy in the price-clipped jacket with 45 on the last page. small tape mark to front flap. £2,500 [114897] DAHL, Roald. The BFG. London: Jonathan first edition, signed by the author Cape, 1982 on the front free endpaper. Matilda won 43 Octavo. Original light grey boards, titles to spine the Children’s Book Award in the year of its DAHL, Roald. The Enormous Crocodile. gilt. With the illustrated dust jacket. With black publication. It formed the basis for both the and white illustrations by Quentin Blake. An 1996 film directed by Danny DeVito and the London: Jonathan Cape, 1978 excellent copy in the jacket with a little toning to successful stage musical which premiered Quarto. Original pictorial boards, spine lettered head of panels. at the RSC’s Courtyard Theatre in Stratford- in black, front board lettered in red and black, first edition, signed by the author upon-Avon in November 2010. green endpapers. No dust jacket issued. Illus- trated throughout the text in colour by Quentin and illustrator in the year of publica- £3,000 [115577] Blake. An exceptionally bright copy. tion on the front free endpaper. Though unmarked as such, it is from the library of first edition. Dahl’s literary agent Laurence Pollinger. £500 [115919] His son, Edmund Pollinger, was Dahl’s

24 Peter Harrington 132: Spring Miscellany 47 DARWIN, Charles. Journal of Research- es into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voy- age of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World. Under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy. Tenth Thousand. London: John Murray, 1860 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt, boards blocked in blind, brown coated endpapers. Engravings in the text. Front hinge partly split but holding, text block sound, light foxing to contents; an excellent copy in exceptionally bright cloth. second edition, the final definitive text. The Journal of Researches was first published as volume III of Fitzroy’s Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adven- ture and Beagle in 1839, and also issued as an independent volume at the same time. The 47 48 second edition, extensively revised and reduced from about 224,000 words to 213,000, was first published in 1845 in the scarlet 48 monly met with, bearing 1860 on the title page (a very few copies bear 1859). The sec- cloth of John Murray’s Colonial and Home DARWIN, Charles. On the Origin of Library. It was reprinted in the same series ond edition “can be recognised immediately Species by Means of Natural Selection, by the date, by the words ‘fifth thousand’, in 1852, stated on the title page as a new edi- or the preservation of favoured races tion, instead of second, although no changes and the correct spelling of ‘Linnean’ on in the struggle for life. Fifth thousand. had been made. The present edition is the the title page . . . The misprint ‘speceies’ is next issue of the same second edition, and London: John Murray, 1860 corrected and the whale-bear story diluted, is the final text as Darwin left it. The parts Octavo in twelves. Original diagonal-wave-grain an alteration which Darwin later regretted, from the original stereos are the same, but a green cloth, covers blocked in blind, spine let- although he never restored the full text. The postscript, dated 1 February 1860, is added tered and decorated in gilt, brown coated endpa- story is not found again in any printing, ex- to the preliminaries, and it is issued for the pers, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Folding cept in the American editions of 1860, until first time in a green cloth case of the same diagram to face p. 117, 32 pages of publisher’s the end of copyright”. advertisements to rear, dated January 1860. Freeman 376. style as the first three editions of the Origin. Faint ownership inscription to front pastedown, “The page height is nearly two centimetres binder’s ticket to rear pastedown. Spine a little £9,750 [116127] greater than before and the wider margins darkened, a couple of marks to rear cover; an give the book a much better appearance.” excellent copy in unusually bright cloth. Freeman 20. second edition of “the most important £2,500 [116126] biological book ever written” (Freeman), one of 3,000 copies printed, the issue most com-

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 25 plates in early states with page numbers as called for, but no titles or imprints, and the vignette title-page with the signboard reading “Veller” (corrected to “Weller” in later issues). Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens’s first novel, transformed the obscure journalist into England’s most famous writer in a matter of months. The first monthly instalment was issued in an edition of 1,000 copies in April 1836. The book became a publishing sensation after the introduction of Sam Weller in chapter 10, the fourth instalment, issued in July 1836, after which the publishers reprinted the earlier instalments so that readers could catch up. For that reason, even in parts, copies are almost impossible to find 49 50 in uniform first state. By the time the book was issued in November 1837, many textual 49 was low, with only 1,500 copies selling in the corrections had been made. Booksellers first year. DARWIN, Charles. The Effects of Cross often list numerous (and confusing) text and Self Fertilization in the Vegetable Freeman 1249. points that might conceivably apply to a per- Kingdom. London: John Murray, 1876 £2,000 [115022] fect set of Pickwick Papers as originally issued in parts, but all these points could never be Octavo. Original green cloth, covers blocked with found together in the issues in book form. a blind panel, spine lettered and decorated in 50 The serial was originally intended to be gilt. Errata slip inserted at p. 1; diagram at p. 53; DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous 109 letterpress tables. Spine slightly darkened, a primarily a vehicle for the cartoons of Robert couple of black marks to front cover, very minor Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Seymour, until he committed suicide after wear to spine ends and lower tips, hinges cracked Chapman and Hall, 1837 the first number was published. Robert but holding. A very good copy. Octavo (220 × 140 mm). Bound by Birdsall in William Buss then took over, but he was inexperienced in steel engraving and had to first edition. Darwin’s research on mid 20th-century green crushed half morocco, be replaced. The final choice, Hablot Knight fertilisation in plants was an offshoot of his title and compartments to spine gilt, gilt rules to covers, green cloth sides, marbled endpapers, Browne (Phiz), was to be Dickens’s chosen work on evolution and natural selection. top edge gilt. With the original wrappers bound collaborator for the next two decades. For To demonstrate that genetic variation gave in, the announcements in parts II and III, and later issues Phiz illustrated parts IV–XX, organisms an advantage in the struggle for some advertisements from parts XI–XV, XVII–XX. re-engraved the Seymour plates and entirely survival, he performed experiments dem- Etched vignette title page, frontispiece, 41 plates replaced the Buss plates. onstrating that self-fertilisation weakened with tissue-guards by Robert Seymour, R. W. Buss, plants in comparison with those that had and H. K. Browne. Bookplate of John Platt to front Smith I.3. been cross-fertilised. Darwin considered pastedown. Occasional light foxing to contents; an £2,750 [116167] this volume to be a complement to his 1862 excellent copy, very handsomely bound. book, Fertilisation of Orchids, though this one first edition, bound from parts, with the was more technical and the initial print run Seymour and Buss plates present and all the

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DICKENS, Charles. Mr. Pickwick. Lon- 52 don: Hodder & Stoughton, [1910] Quarto (268 × 200 mm). Later 20th-century red 52 bound in at p. 260 and p. 288, one signed, and one with a watermark dated 1838. The calf by Bayntun, decorative gilt spine with blue DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adven- and green twin labels, two-line gilt panel on drawings are for the illustrations “Affection- sides, all edges gilt, richly gilt turn-ins, marbled tures of Nicholas Nickleby. With Illustra- ate behaviour of Messrs Pyke and Pluck” endpapers. Housed in a custom made fleece- tions by Phiz. London: Chapman and Hall, and “Nicholas hints at the probability of his lined red linen slipcase. Decorative colour title 1839 leaving the Company”. page, 25 mounted colour plates (with captioned Octavo (223 × 137 mm). Bound by Riviere & Son in The book was originally issued in monthly tissue-guards) by Frank Reynolds. Abrasion to late 19th-century red crushed morocco, title and parts, and, once serialization was complete, title label, joints cracked but sound, corner of rich decoration to spine gilt, raised gilt bands, issued as a book in cloth. With the following frontispiece creased. A very good copy. gilt rules to covers, gilt dentelles, top edge gilt, first issue points: publisher’s imprint to the first trade edition of this adaptation green coated endpapers, original cloth bound first four plates: “visiter” for “sister” p. 123 of Pickwick Papers, featuring illustrations by in at rear. Engraved frontispiece by Finden after line 17: “flys” for “flies” p. 245 line 10: “visit- Frank Reynolds, best-known for his Dicken- D. Maclise; 39 plates and 2 original drawings by ers” instead of “visitors” p. 272 line 2: “in- Phiz. An exceptional copy, handsomely bound, sian illustrations, and handsomely bound. contestible” for “incontestable” p. 297 line with just a little foxing and offsetting contents. 22: “suprise” for “surprise” p. 586 line 24. £575 [115828] first edition, first issue in book Eckel pp. 64–5; Smith 5. form, this an exceptional copy with two original ink and wash drawings by Phiz £6,000 [117127]

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54 DICKENS, Charles. Pictures from Italy. With Vignette Illustrations on Wood, by Samuel Palmer. London: for the author by Bradbury & Evans, 1846 Octavo (172 × 106 mm). Original blue fine-diaper cloth, gilt-lettered spine, covers and spine decora- 53 tively blocked in blind, pale yellow coated endpapers. Wood-engraved title page vignette and three 53 An attractively bound set of Dickens’s fa- other vignettes by Samuel Palmer. Gift inscription mous sequence of annual Christmas books, dated 1846 to front free endpaper. Extremities very DICKENS, Charles. [The Christmas including the rare first Bradbury and Evans lightly bumped, spine darkened, and with a few books:] A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; edition of A Christmas Carol (stated eleventh small nicks at headcaps, cockling to cloth on rear The Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle of edition). It was issued after Dickens fell board, free endpapers creased, contents toned, still a very good copy in the bright original cloth. Life; The Haunted Man. London: Bradbury out with Chapman and Hall over dwindling and Evans; Chapman & Hall, 1845–87 returns, and he had Bradbury and Evans first edition of Dickens’s second travel 5 volumes, small octavo (159 × 103 mm). Bound publish separate issues of the “Eleventh” and book. Dickens toured Italy between 1844 by Bayntun in recent red half calf, red cloth “Twelfth” editions under their imprint. The and 1845. “Clarkson Stanfield had agreed to sides, twin morocco labels to spines lettered Chimes and The Battle of Life are first editions; illustrate the text for Dickens but, when he gilt, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Christmas The Cricket on the Hearth tenth edition; and The read those passages of the narrative in which Carol with hand-coloured frontispiece, 3 full-page Haunted Man a later reprint from the stereo- Dickens satirises the excesses of Catholic hand-coloured plates, illustrations in the text; type plates of the first edition. devotion, he resigned from the project. other titles with frontispiece, engraved title, Gimbel A79; Smith II.5; 6; 8; 9. Stanfield was himself a prominent English and illustrations in the text. Faint contemporary Catholic, after all, as Dickens knew, and he ownership inscription to half-title. An excellent £2,500 [115796] could scarcely be connected with a publica- set, attractively bound.

28 Peter Harrington 132: Spring Miscellany 55 56 tion which treats his Church’s ritual as little 56 55 more than a parade of mummers . . . As usual, [Dickens] went at once into action in DICKENS, Charles. David Copperfield. “Phiz” (H. K. Browne), and extra-illustrated with order to find a substitute; fortunately and With illustrations by H. K. Browne. Lon- 12 other engraved plates by Phiz. Nicks to ends don: Bradbury & Evans, 1850 curiously, he chose a young artist who then and corners, sound and clean, and excellent copy. had no real reputation, Samuel Palmer, Octavo (210 × 132 mm). Contemporary green half whose wonderful illustrations are not the first edition, handsomely bound by calf, marbled paper boards, spine gilt-lettered least of the merits of Pictures from Italy in its bayntun and extra-illustrated with direct, blind rules to boards, green endpapers, final state” (Peter Ackroyd, Dickens, 1990, pp. the 12 character plates by “phiz” (eight edges marbled. Frontispiece with tissue-guard, 491–92). The “young” Palmer was, in fact, engraved solely by him and dated 1848, four vignette title page. Bookplate to front pastedown, 41 years old at the time and had travelled to vignetted within an oval frame and engraved ownership inscription to half-title. Head of front joint partly cracked, front hinge cracked but hold- Italy with his wife in late 1837. by both “Phiz” and Robert Young). “With the author’s sanction, ‘Phiz,’ co-operating with ing, boards a little scuffed, light foxing to contents, Smith II 7. Robert Young, etched four extra plates for this oxidisation to plates as usual; a very good copy. £750 [116540] work. They were fine portraits of Little Paul, first edition, early issue, with most Edith, Florence and Alice, and much praise (but not all) of the errata listed by Smith. In Extra-illustrated with the two sets of supple- was bestowed on them. Also were made eight the preface to a later edition (1867), Dickens mentary plates by “Phiz” additional full length portraits of the other would call the novel his “favourite child”. 55 leading characters” (Eckel p. 76). The two sets It is generally considered to be his master- went on sale at one shilling and two shillings piece, and is his first first-person novel. DICKENS, Charles. Dombey and Son. respectively and “sold briskly” (Paul Schlicke Smith I 9. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848 ed., The Oxford Companion to Dickens, 2011, p. Octavo (204 × 130 mm). Handsomely bound by 61). With all the points for the first issue as £1,250 [116677] Bayntun of Bath in early 20th-century blue half listed by Smith. morocco, spine gilt in compartments with titles Smith I 8. direct, blue cloth sides and endpapers, all edges gilt. Etched vignette, frontispiece and 38 plates by £1,000 [115413]

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57 that the book’s illustrator John Tenniel was 58 dissatisfied with the quality of the printing, [DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge.] CAR- so decided to suppress the whole edition of [DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge.] CAR- ROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in 2,000 copies. He recalled the few pre-publi- ROLL, Lewis. The Complete Works. Wonderland. Illustrated by John Tenniel. cation copies he had sent out to his friends With an Introduction by Alexander London: (Richard Clay for) Macmillan and and donated them to hospitals, where most Woolcott and the Illustrations by John Co., 1866 perished. Only 23 of those original “1865 Tenniel. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1939 Octavo (183 × 123 mm). Bound by Bayntun Alices” are now extant, mostly in institutional Octavo (187 × 116 mm). Bound in red calf by Frost (Riviere) in recent red crushed morocco, title to holdings, thus creating one of the most & Co., brown morocco spine label lettered gilt, spine and motifs to compartments gilt, multi- famous black tulips of book collecting. The elaborate decoration to spine gilt in compart- coloured morocco onlay of Alice and the Dodo to book was entirely reset by Richard Clay for ments separated by raised bands, gilt rules to front cover, turn-ins and all edges gilt, pale pur- this authorized Macmillan edition which, covers, marbled endpapers, all edges and turn-ins ple silk doublures, original cloth bound in at rear. although dated 1866, was in fact ready by gilt. Housed in a custom red cloth slipcase. Il- Frontispiece and 41 illustrations by John Tenniel. November 1865, in time for the Christmas lustrations by John Tenniel. Small gift inscription Odd spot of faint foxing to contents; an excellent market. The unused Oxford sheets were to first blank. A little rubbing to edges of spine; copy, handsomely bound. an excellent copy. sold to Appleton’s for use in their New York first published edition, with the edition, published the following summer. first collected edition, in a handsome inverted “S” in the last line of the Contents The Macmillan edition was published in an binding. page. The publication of the first Alice book edition of 4,000 copies. £600 [115024] set a pattern for many of Dodgson’s succeed- Printing and the Mind of Man 354 (note); Williams– ing publications. The book was originally Madan–Green–Crutch 46. printed in Oxford at the Clarendon Press in £8,750 [117083] June 1865. On 19 July 1865, Dodgson heard

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60 DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles. Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, Limited, 1902 Octavo. Original red cloth, titles and art nouveau decoration to spine after a design by Alfred Garth Jones, enlarged on front board incorporating sil- 59 houette of hound stamped in black. Frontispiece and 15 plates after Sidney Paget. Contemporary 59 first editions of the first two great collec- gift inscription to front free endpaper. Spine tions of Holmes stories. The first collection, faded, very faint foxing to endpapers and edges. DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Adventures Adventures, is the first issue with the misprint An excellent copy. of Sherlock Holmes; [together with] The “Miss Violent Hunter” on page 317, and the first edition in book form. The Hound Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. London: blank street sign in the vignette to the front was Sherlock Holmes’s “comeback” novel af- George Newnes Ltd, 1892 & 1894 cover. The textual error continued through ter his shocking demise on the Reichenbach Together 2 works, quarto. Original pale and dark three further printings, but from the second Falls stunned his loyal Victorian readership. blue cloth respectively, titles to spines and front impression onwards the street sign was When first serialised in the Strand Magazine in covers gilt, pale grey patterned endpapers, top corrected to read “Southampton Street”. 1901 it was an “unprecedented success”, with edges gilt. Illustrated throughout the text by There are no corresponding issue points for queues at the publisher’s office and through- Sydney Paget. Ownership inscription to front free Memoirs. out the country. endpaper of Memoirs. A couple of hinges cracked, with small repair, light foxing to contents. An Green & Gibson A10; A14. Green & Gibson A26. unusually bright and clean set, far better than £13,500 [117114] £3,750 [117081] usually met with.

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 31 gorillas and of the Pygmy peoples, French- American explorer Du Chaillu (1835–1903) travelled extensively across Scandinavia between 1871 and 1878. His account pays special attention to the antiquities of the prehistoric and Viking ages; it was followed in 1889 by a specialised study, The Viking Age. The Land of the Midnight Sun was originally published in the United Kingdom the previous year; there were several further editions and a German translation. Some com- mentators have believed Du Chaillu to have been Edgar Rice Burroughs’s inspiration for Tarzan. Howgego IV D32. 61 62 £400 [114848] 61 October and 7 November 1942. It included 62 paintings and sculptures by more than 30 DU CHAILLU, Paul B. The Land of the DUCHAMP, Marcel, & André Breton. artists, and featured Duchamp’s famous Midnight Sun. Summer and Winter Jour- First Papers of Surrealism. New York: “mile of string” installation, festooning the neys through Sweden, Norway, Lapland Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies, venue, the Whitelaw Reid Mansion, with a and Northern Finland. New York: Harper Inc., 1942 tangled web of twine. & Brothers, 1882 The title of the exhibition derived from Small quarto. Original stapled yellow pictorial the application for American citizenship 2 volumes, octavo (222 × 145 mm). Original blue perforated wrappers, green endpapers. Slight cloth, gilt titles and dark red coat of arms to – immigrants had to file a declaration of surface ribbing down spine and to corners, but an intention, also called first papers, in which spines, sun and bird blocks to front boards in gilt exceptional copy. and dark red respectively, further bird tools to rear they renounced allegiance to foreign govern- boards, pale brown endpapers. Engraved frontis- first edition, moma director mon- ments; many surrealists like André Breton, piece to each volume (double-page in volume 1), roe wheeler’s copy, of this exhibition Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst had fled 51 similar plates, profuse illustrations to the text, catalogue of the First Papers of Surrealism Europe with the outbreak of the Second coloured folding map in end-pocket to volume 1. exhibition, with the bullet-hole wrappers World War. Later ownership inscriptions of A. D. Exton and designed by Duchamp. Wheeler’s ink in- Franklin Curtiss to the initial blank. Spines slightly £1,500 [116563] faded, extremities a touch rubbed and bumped, scription is dated October 1942, the month that the exhibition opened. Wheeler was rear covers lightly marked, staining from removed 63 bookplates to front pastedowns, contents toned, Director of Exhibitions and Publications at pale tide-mark to lower outer corners in volume 2 the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and DULAC, Edmund (illus.) Stories from the from page 100. A very good copy. almost certainly would have been in attend- Arabian Nights. Retold by Laurence Hous- ance at the exhibition’s opening. Indeed, first us edition of the book noted for man. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1907 the museum is thanked for the loan of some coining the titular phrase. Following a series exhibits. The exhibition was organised by Quarto. Original full vellum, titles and decora- of celebrated expeditions to Gabon, in which tions to spine and front board in gilt with blue André Breton and “his twine” Marcel Du- he provided the first external account of highlights, dark green endpapers, top edge gilt, champ; it was held in New York between 14

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pastedowns. Light marks to cloth, very minor wear to tips, hinges repaired, occasional faint foxing to contents. An excellent set in bright cloth. first edition of the author’s first novel. The condition of this set is surpris- ingly good, given its provenance from a lending library; the title is second on Sadleir’s list of comparative scarcity for fine condition in 63 original cloth, due to the high proportion of copies that were acquired by lending libraries. others untrimmed, silk ties renewed. Colour modelling his pictures in colour rather than Sadleir notes that whereas Eliot’s first book, frontispiece and 49 other plates tipped-in on dark adding colours to a linear design’” (ODNB). Scenes of Clerical Life, was bought by the public green paper, all with captioned tissue-guards. in a much higher proportion than normal, and Scattered light spotting to tissue-guards, the oc- £3,000 [116101] only a small proportion went into circulating casional minor marks. An excellent copy. libraries, Adam Bede made “a hit with a different 64 signed limited edition, number 309 of and much larger public: the Libraries re-order 350 copies numbered and signed by the artist. ELIOT, George. Adam Bede. Edinburgh and second and third editions follow quickly. It was this book that first announced Dulac’s and London: William Blackwood and Sons, I venture a guess that the cognoscenti, slightly status as a popular artist, confirming him as 1859 resentful that an author they had spotted “a direct challenger in the illustrated gift book should now have become popular, bought 3 volumes, octavo. Original brown diagonal market to the work of Arthur Rackham. Susan Adam Bede sparingly, taking the line that as it ripple-grain cloth, titles to spines gilt, floral was a Library success they might as well bor- Lambert noted that, compared to Rackham, border to covers in blind, yellow coated endpa- Dulac ‘made greater use of the breakthrough pers. Binder’s ticket to rear pastedown of vol. I. row a copy and save their money”. in four-colour printing, conceiving and Contemporary lending library labels of All Saints Sadleir I, pp. 377–8. Church, Glencarse (Diocese of Brechin) to front £2,500 [116177]

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65 ELIOT, George. The Mill on the Floss. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860 3 volumes, octavo. Original brown diagonal ripple- grain cloth, titles to spines gilt, floral border to covers in blind, yellow coated endpapers. Binder’s ticket to rear pastedown of volume I. A little rubbing to spines, a couple of tiny splits to spine ends, faint trace of bookplate removal to front pastedowns with no loss to surfaces, a couple of hinges cracked but holding, occasional light foxing to contents. A particularly nice, bright set. first edition of Eliot’s third published novel, following Scenes of Clerical Life (1858) 66 and Adam Bede (1859). The Mill on the Floss met with both critical and commercial success. 66 sea Bindery. Edges of wrappers faded and lightly Sadleir 816. chipped, professional repair to the fold where ELIOT, T. S. Poems. Richmond: Printed & once split but an excellent copy of a particularly £2,500 [116170] published by L. & V. Woolf at The Hogarth vulnerable publication. An excellent copy. Press, 1919 first edition, a family copy, with the Octavo. Single quire sewn, original blue and ownership signature of Eliot’s cousin, the white marbled paper wrappers, cream paper title educationalist Abigail Adams Eliot (1892– label to front wrapper printed in red. Housed in a 1992), possibly given to her by Eliot during black quarter morocco solander box by the Chel-

34 Peter Harrington 132: Spring Miscellany 67 her brief stay in England (she studied at Oxford for the academic year 1919–20). This copy is the first impression, first 68 issue text with the misprints on p. 13 uncorrected, first issue wrappers with the title 67 and black. November 1898 advertisements at label printed in red. The precise details of the rear. Spine a little darkened, light rubbing to the earliest issues of this book are typically ELIOT, T. S. Four Quartets. New York: extremities, endpapers faintly spotted, otherwise a little unclear. Both Gallup and Woolmer Harcourt, Brace and Company, [c.1945] internally fresh, rear hinge superficially cracked but still a sound copy, very good condition. state that “Earliest copies were bound in pa- Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in per wrappers of varying texture and design black morocco, titles to spine gilt, raised bands, first edition, presentation copy with a label lettered in red”. Apparently the twin rule to turn-ins gilt, black and white pat- inscribed by the author on the front free initial plan was to use the same Japanese terned paper, gilt edges. A fine copy. endpaper, “Reginald J. Smith, from the au- papers in which Two Stories had been issued. inscribed by the author on the title thor, 1st December 1898”. Smith was editor But the Woolfs also experimented with the page “Inscribed for Allen Hawkridge by T. of The Cornhill magazine (in which Falkner marbled paper in which this copy is bound. S. Eliot 7. vi. 47”. A later printing: the first subsequently published a story) and head The Hogarth account book records 180 cop- collected edition was published in the US in of Smith Elder publishing house from 1894. ies sold, plus 12 review or presentation cop- 1943. This copy bears several pencilled marginal ies distributed within a year of publication. corrections in the hand of Falkner, whose From the scant number of copies extant of £3,750 [114849] attention to detail was legendary. It has the this book in the early issue, it is tempting to later bookplate of G & N Ingleton, and was consider them to be these 12 copies. A com- 68 number 11237 in the prestigious Ingleton pelling copy of a key book and in this issue FALKNER, J. M. Moonfleet.London: Library Catalogue. one of the great rarities in Eliot’s canon. Edward Arnold, 1898 Ingleton Library Catalogue vol. 5, Swain’s Bookshop Gallup A3; Woolmer 4. 1977. Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and £17,500 [71416] front board gilt, crest to front board in silver £8,500 [115523]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 35 Service Station, but otherwise the family seems to have lived quietly. The fact that Faulkner uses the familiar form of his own forename suggests that he was on easy terms with the younger Dink. Faulkner employed the unusual forename for the character Dink Quistenberry in The Town, who marries into the Snopes family and runs the Jefferson (formerly Snopes) Hotel. Dink takes Byron Snopes’s children into his car when they ar- rive at the Jefferson depot. The Marble Faun is the author’s first book, of which only 500 of the projected 1,000 copies were printed and some 300 of those were later pulped. The official publication date was, after some delay, fixed as 15 December 1924 and the earliest dated presentation copies were signed on the 19th. With our thanks to John Ward, professor in the English department at Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT, for information about the recipient. £67,500 [96512]

70 FEYNMAN, Richard P. Surely You’re 69 Joking Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character. New York & London: W. Inscribed to the Oxford jailor’s son signed presentation inscription to the front W. Norton & Company, 1985 69 free endpaper, “To Dink Cearley from Bill Faulkner”. Octavo. Original red cloth-backed red boards, title FAULKNER, William. The Marble Faun. C. L. (“Dink”) Cearley was in 1924 the to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. A beautiful copy, rarely seen in such excellent condition, in the bright Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1924 19-year-old son of Abb W. Cearley (69 years jacket with just a little rubbing to head of spine. Octavo. Original mottled green boards, white old, married at age 36) and Mollie Cearley. paper title labels to front board and spine printed Abb was the jailor in Oxford and would first edition of Feynman’s classic volume in green. With the dust jacket. Housed in a black probably have been elected to that position. of memoirs, including humorous and in- quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Abb and Mollie were both born in Missis- sightful stories from his childhood, educa- Bindery. Front hinge starting, small production sippi, as were all four of their parents. The tion at MIT, work on the Manhattan Project, flaw to rear hinge but a stunning copy in the dust Cearley family (including several siblings) and his teaching and research career. The jacket of a famously vulnerable publication. lived on the premises of the jail. In 1931 there title refers to the bafflement of an adminis- first edition, sole printing. signed is a record of a minor ($2) payment to a Mr trator’s wife at MIT when the inexperienced and dated 31 December 1924 by the au- Woodward “in the Dink Cearley Case” and young Feynman requested both lemon and thor on the title page and with his further there are occasional references to Cearley cream in his tea. Other memorable stories

36 Peter Harrington 132: Spring Miscellany 70 include his lock-picking escapades at Los Alamos, his request to see a “map of the cat”, and the poignant death of his beloved first wife, Arlene. The New York Times review of this volume describes him as “a storyteller in the tradition of Mark Twain” who “proves once again that it is possible to laugh out loud and scratch your head at the same time” (NYT, January 27, 1985). 71 £1,250 [117087] the type intact on pages 38 and 248. All the exuberant stories of youth which created a 71 Sad Young Men “was Fitzgerald’s strongest new type of American girl and the later and FITZGERALD, F. Scott. All the Sad collection, with four major stories (“The more serious mood which produced The Young Men. New York: Charles Scribner’s Rich Boy,” “Winter Dreams,” “Absolution,” Great Gatsby and marked him as one of the and “The Sensible Thing”) as well as five half-dozen masters of English prose now Sons, 1926 commercial stories . . . As was his custom, writing in America . . . What other writer has Octavo. Original dark green cloth, gilt lettered Fitzgerald polished the magazine texts of shown such unexpected developments, such spine, blind lettered front cover, fore edge these stories. He was convinced that the versatility, changes of pace, etc., etc., etc. I untrimmed. With the dust jacket. Ownership sig- book publication of stories affected his repu- think that, toned down as you see fit, is the nature to front free endpaper. An excellent copy, tation, whereas the magazine appearances general line” (quoted in Turnbull, Letters of F. in the exceptional jacket with a few trivial nicks to extremities. were ignored by the critics” (Bruccoli, Some Scott Fitzgerald, 189–90). Sort of Epic Grandeur, 272). Bruccoli A.12.I.a. first edition, first state dust jacket In a playful letter to his editor Maxwell with the girl’s lips entire (later states show Perkins, Fitzgerald instructed him to have £4,250 [115007] the inking of the lips deteriorating) and the jacket “show transition from his early

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“Perhaps one of the best dog stories ever written” 72 FITZPATRICK, Sir Percy. Jock of the 73 Bushveld. London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1907 morocco labels to spine, top edge gilt, marbled 73 endpapers. Colour frontispiece with tissue-guard, Octavo (207 × 150 mm). Contemporary tan half 22 monochrome plates and fully illustrated mar- FLEMING, Ian. From Russia, With Love. calf by Riviere and Son, buff cloth sides, spine gins by E. Caldwell. Bookseller’s stamp to front London: Jonathan Cape, 1957 fully gilt in compartments, titles gilt to black free endpaper verso. Slight rubbing to tips, light Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine and foxing to contents; an excellent copy. revolver and rose motif to front board in metallic first edition, first impression. A red and silver. With the dust jacket. Spine a little popular book, scarce in the first impression, dulled, occasional faint spot of foxing to contents distinguished by having three uncorrected and edges of text block. An excellent copy in the marginal illustrations of a dung beetle at pp. jacket with toned spine, some small chips to head of spine and tips, minor tape repairs to verso. 65, 337 and 457. Later impressions show him rolling his load correctly – with his back not first edition. This is the first of Fleming’s front legs. novels for which Richard Chopping designed Mendelssohn describes it as “perhaps one the jacket – as he would go on to do for virtu- of the best dog stories ever written.” ally all the subsequent Bond books. Mendelssohn I, p. 550. Gilbert A5a (1.1). 72 £1,250 [117212] £6,500 [115889]

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74 The scarcest issue of any of the James Bond which was abandoned very early in the binding run for economic reasons. FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty’s Secret books 75 Service. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963 Gilbert A13a (1.1). Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine in FLEMING, Ian. The Man with the £10,000 [116031] silver, decoration to front board in white. With Golden Gun. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965 the dust jacket. In a quarter red morocco solander Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine and case. Paper slightly darkened at the edges and gun design to front board gilt, green and white verso of the rear free endpaper. An excellent copy endpapers. With the dust jacket. Small ownership in the dust jacket. inscription to front pastedown. Bump to head of first edition, presentation copy spine, edges of text block slightly foxed. An excel- inscribed by the author on the front lent copy in the jacket with small mark to spine free endpaper: “To Kay with all my love, panel and just a little creasing to spine ends and rubbing to tips. from Ian.” The recipient was Fleming’s aunt (his mother’s sister), Mrs Kathleen St Croix first edition, first issue, first state, Rose. with the gilt gun design to the front board,

£12,500 [115716] 75

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76 the original manuscript maquette illustrations to the text by Weedon Grossmith. of goodall’s wordless picture book, Old bookseller’s catalogue description laid in. GOODALL, John Strickland. Manu- Creepy Castle, published in 1975 by Macmil- Spine rolled, mild commensurate cockling along script maquette for Creepy Castle. To- lan in London and Atheneum in New York. joints, headcaps and tips lightly bumped, front board slightly bowed, with a small indentation gether with a smaller manuscript book While the published book conveys the inven- proposal and the US first edition. Lon- to the fore edge, half-title and rear free endpaper tive approach of Goodall (1908–1996) to the browned, but an excellent, crisp copy in the at- don: Macmillan, 1975 picture book format, it fails to fully transmit tractive original cloth. the delicate lines and colouring of the artist’s 2 pen and watercolour manuscripts, 1 oblong first edition in book form, first issue, octavo (190 × 140 mm) and 1 square octavo (135 lively illustrations, as evident in the current with the terminal leaves used as pastedowns × 126 mm). Volume I: loose gatherings with manuscript. and no blank leaf at the front. With Weedon illustrated wrappers, 15 double page drawings £9,750 [98985] (368 × 134 mm), of which all but one feature a Grossmith’s Canonbury Place letterhead flap which changes the scene, and 2 single page mounted to the front free endpaper, inscribed drawings (182 × 134 mm). Volume II: bound with With Weedon Grossmith’s inscription by him “With great pleasure . . . Weedon illustrated self-wrappers, 4 double page drawings 77 Grossmith, April 27”, above the book label of (253 × 134 mm), one of which features 3 flaps that GROSSMITH, George & Weedon. The Noel Lloyd, possibly the author and booksell- change the scene. Together with a copy of the US er who ran the Compton Bookshop on Upper Diary of a Nobody. Bristol: J. W. Ar- first edition of the completed book in the original Street, Islington, in the 1970s. pink boards and pictorial dust jacket. Housed in a rowsmith, and London: Simpkin, Marshall, “In conjunction with his brother Weedon, red quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Hamilton, Kent and Co. Limited, [1892] Bindery. Extremities slightly rubbed and bumped, Grossmith produced the work by which he a few small nicks and light creases to wrappers of Octavo. Original orange cloth, decoration and is most obviously remembered today: the Volume I. An excellent set with bright and crisp titles to front cover and spine gilt, black and comic novel The Diary of a Nobody. The Diary of watercolour drawings. blue. Double portrait frontispiece of the authors, a Nobody first appeared as a serial in Punch in

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1888–9 and was published (in considerably others untrimmed. Etched frontispiece (with cap- apparent that there was more than one impres- expanded form) as a book by J. W. Arrow- tioned tissue-guard) by H. Macbeth-Raeburn, map sion of the novel. It is difficult to say if these smith of Bristol in June 1892. It was at once at the end. Mid-20th-century bookseller’s receipt are distinguishable. Signature A–H do exist recognized as one of the most amusing nov- (George’s of Bristol) laid in. Spine gently rolled and in two distinct states, however – with page a touch creased, extremities lightly bumped, a few els in the English language . . . [Weedon’s] numbers on partially blank pages and (con- very faint marks to covers, the rear with a couple of main contribution to the novel in its finished light scores, contents toned, front inner hinge su- forming to usage throughout the remainder of form being the illustrations. In their precise perficially cracked, a small numbers of signatures the volume) without these. These 8 signatures and careful detail these illustrations (thirty- faintly dog-eared, a few trivial marks to margins, are often found mixed (first and second state) three black and white line drawings) rein- short closed tear to bottom edge of sig. K3, the text . . . [but] all are first state in the first state force the text to perfection” (ODNB). unaffected. A very good copy. in Hardy’s own copy, 5 presentation copies Wolff 2818 (later issue). first edition in book form, first state, inscribed by him in November 1895, and in the British Museum, Bodleian, and Cambridge £800 [116529] with all 17 pages noted by Purdy retaining their pagination: uncommon thus. Hardy’s copies . . . Signatures A–H in the first state may possibly be an indication, therefore, of the first 78 last novel originally appeared as a bowdlerised serial in Harper’s Magazine from December 1894 impression” (Purdy). HARDY, Thomas. Jude the Obscure. to November 1895, when the European and Purdy pp. 86–91. With an Etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn American editions were published simultane- £500 [116522] and a Map of Wessex. London: James R. ously in London and New York, and post-dated Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., [1895] 1896. “The records of neither printer nor publisher have survived in the case of Jude, Octavo. Original vertical-ribbed green cloth, gilt- but from Osgood, McIlvaine’s advertisement lettered spine, gilt roundel of Hardy’s monogram within a floral wreath on front cover, top edge gilt, . . . (Saturday Review, 15 February 1896), it is

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79 HAYEK, Friedrich August von. The Pure Theory of Capital. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1941 Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Ownership signature to front pastedown, a cou- 80 ple of marginal pencil marks to text. An excellent copy in bright cloth. able quantity, he derives a meaningful ‘mar- first edition, published in an edition of first edition of this scarce wartime ginal productivity of investment’” (IESS). 10,300 copies on 23 September 1932. This publication which showed “the very com- IESS 1941b. edition includes the Cubist frontispiece by plex nature of capital and its importance in Juan Gris and the distinctive dust jacket that economic booms and slumps, and stands as £1,250 [117113] was redesigned for all subsequent editions a classic in the field” (Butler). Austrian-born and printings. British economist Hayek, whose free-market 80 Grissom A.10.1.a.; Hanneman A10a. theories influenced a political generation HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Death in the and earned him a share in the Nobel Prize £5,000 [116729] Afternoon. New York: Charles Scribner’s for Economics in 1974, “provides lucid expositions of his notions of ‘inter-temporal Sons, 1932 81 equilibrium’, the ‘physical productivity of Octavo. Original black cloth, titles and decoration HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Across the River investment’, and the ‘vertical or successive to spine gilt, facsimile signature to front board and Into the Trees. New York: Charles division of labor’. Although Hayek rejects the gilt. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece by Juan concept of a ‘supply of capital’ as a measur- Gris with tissue-guard. Bookplate removed from Scribner’s Sons, 1950 front pastedown, small blemish affecting rear Octavo. Publisher’s presentation binding of blue endleaves. An excellent copy. cloth, titles and horizontal ruling to spine and

42 Peter Harrington 132: Spring Miscellany 81 82 author’s name to front board gilt. In a blue half edition and has the above errors in the pages 82 morocco solander box. An excellent copy. which caught and corrected after 24 sheets HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Old Man first edition, one of 24 copies only in had been run. Hemingway and I have given these 24 sheets to friends – none were sold and the Sea. New York: Charles Scribner’s the presentation binding. Tipped-in to Sons, 1952 the rear free endpaper is a pencilled note by – Charles Scribner”. Grissom records an Charles Scribner below a printed list of the apocryphal anecdote from David Randall, Octavo. Original light blue calico-grain cloth, errata, noting that “this is one of 24 copies, manager of Scribner’s Rare Books Division, spine lettered in silver, author’s name to front bound in a different cloth from the regular who claimed that 25 copies were bound up board in blind. With the pictorial dust jacket. from the discarded sheets of the entire first Trivial rubbing to ends and corner, an excellent edition. Grissom noted that “it would be copy with the price-clipped jacket in excellent much more likely that the presentation cop- condition, nicked at the ends and corners, a little more so to head of spine. ies were printed, per usual, as advance copies from the flawed early plates”; it is clear first edition (with Scribner’s “A” to colo- from this copy that this was indeed the case. phon), and the jacket making no mention of Hemingway’s Nobel Prize. Grissom A22.1.d note. Grissom A24.1.a; Hanneman A24a. £9,500 [65570] 81 £2,000 [116627]

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83 HOCKNEY, David, & Stephen Spender (ed.) Hockney’s Alphabet. London: Faber and Faber, 1991 Folio. Original yellow buckram cloth, spine lettered in blue and gilt. With the grey cloth slipcase. 26 colour drawings, one for each letter of the alphabet by David Hockney. Written contri- butions by Douglas Adams, Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, William Boyd, Margaret Drabble, Patrick Leigh Fermor, William Golding, Seamus Heaney, David Hockney, Kazuo Ishiguro, Erica Jong, Doris Lessing, Norman Mailer, Ian McEwan, Arthur Miller, Iris Murdoch, Nigel Nicolson, John Julius Norwich, Joyce Carol Oates, V. S. Pritchett, Craig Raine, Susan Sontag, Stephen Spender, John Updike, Anthony Burgess, Ted Hughes, Paul Th- eroux, Gore Vidal, and T. S. Eliot. A fine copy. first edition, signed limited issue, specially bound in yellow buckram and signed by hockney and spender. Spender invited several British and American 84

44 Peter Harrington 132: Spring Miscellany writers to contribute texts to accompany Hockney’s specially drawn alphabet in a collaborative venture to raise money for the AIDS Crisis Trust. Writers who contributed include several Faber authors such as Wil- liam Golding, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, and Kazuo Ishiguro, as well as Ian McEwan, Iris Murdoch, and Gore Vidal; Norman Mail- er declined, but his “letter refusing seemed such a good model for Polite Rejection” that it was nonetheless published as his contribution (Preface). £600 [116631]

84 HOCKNEY, David. A Bigger Book with Untitled 516 [lilies] ink-jet print. Cologne: Taschen, 2016 Elephant folio (70 × 50 cm). Original illustrated boards, titles to front cover and spine in white. 85 With the dust jacket. Together with the bookstand designed by Marc Newson. All housed in the and Yorkshire landscapes. Together with first edition, number 175 of 200 num- original packing box. Illustrated throughout by Hockney with 13 fold-outs. All in excellent condi- a supplementary illustrated chronology of bered copies signed by sontag and tion. The print presented in a lime wax frame more than 600 pages. hodgkin, from a limited edition of 243 copies in total. Hodgkin and Sontag’s beau- with conservation mount and Perspex. £8,500 [115406] tifully produced collaboration is considered first edition, signed limited issue. one of the great livres d’artiste of the century, 85 This is Art edition D limited to 250 cop- and though this copy lacks the separate ies signed by Hockney, with an 8-colour HODGKIN, Howard, & Susan Sontag. lithograph which almost always is lacking ink-jet print after an iPad drawing of lilies The Way We Live Now. London: Karsten (invariably framed and thus disconnected on cotton-fibre archival paper (sheet size: Schubert, 1991 from the book), it is preserved in the origi- 56 × 43.2 cm), signed and dated by Hockney nal publisher’s box. Sontag’s short story, Quarto. Original plain beige boards. With the lower right, numbered lower left. The total an account of an AIDS sufferer, originally edition was 10,000 copies including Art edi- dust jacket hand painted by Hodgkin. Complete with the original acetate guards for the front appeared in the New Yorker in 1986, and was tions A, B, C and D, each of these limited to included in the Best American Short Stories of the 250 copies. flaps of the jacket laid in, and the tissue-guards between the plates. With the original card box Twentieth Century edited by John Updike. Hockney takes stock of more than 60 years bearing the numbered limitation label. With 6 Riva Castleman, A Century of Artist’s Books. of work, from his teenage days at the Brad- double-page hand-coloured aquatints, 2 of which ford School of Art, through his breakthrough folding. A fine copy in the jacket, with the box £1,750 [115550] in 1960s swinging London, life by Los only a little tanned on the title label and part of Angeles pools in the 1970s, up to his recent the cardboard torn from opening. extensive series of portraits, iPad drawings,

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86 nally, sig. 4f1 Odysseias with two small marginal burgh for the best-printed and most correct paper flaws just touching a couple of letters on Greek book. “As the eye is the organ of fancy, HOMER. Iliados . . . Odysseias . . . [in verso, overall a fine set. I read Homer with more pleasure in the Greek]. Glasguae: excudebant Robertus et first edition of the foulis press Glasgow edition. Through that fine medium, Andreas Foulis, 1756–8 homer, described by Edward Harwood the poet’s sense appears more beautiful and Together 2 works, 4 volumes bound in 2, folio as “One of the most splendid editions of transparent” (Gibbon, Miscellaneous Works). (315 × 200 mm). Contemporary or perhaps late Homer ever delivered to the world . . . its Gaskell 319. 18th-century vellum over thick boards, dark green accuracy is equal to its magnificence” (Har- £5,000 [115338] morocco labels, smooth spines, sides with outer wood, 4–5). The text was carefully edited frame formed with a twin fillet in red, spot-mar- by the Glasgow professors James Moor and bled endpapers, binder’s blanks of laid paper with 87 Pro Patria watermark in the “Maid of Dort” form, George Muirhead (Moor was Robert Foulis’s red-brown burnished edges, pink silk bookmarks. brother-in-law) and the book was printed HOUGHTON, William. British Fresh- Without the general title (issued in 1758), as in a new fount of Greek type designed and Water Fishes. London: William Mackenzie, usual. Bookplate of St Andrew St John, 14th Baron cut by the Glasgow typefounder Alexander [1879] St John of Bletso (1759–1817), to each pastedown. Wilson, the fount being noted for its beauty Vellum lightly marked, silk bookmarks detached and regularity. The brothers jointly won the 2 volumes, folio (365 × 265 mm). Original red- brown morocco-grain cloth over bevelled boards, and laid in with resulting thin tan-lines to one silver medal of the Select Society of Edin- spread in each volume, a few minor marks inter- spines and front boards lettered and decorated

46 Peter Harrington 132: Spring Miscellany 87 89 in black and gilt, rear board blocked in blind, all or not it was edible, and if so, how, it tasted was Hughes’s controversial collection of po- edges gilt, dark green coated endpapers. With 41 . . . In a delicate balancing act, Houghton ems about his relationship with his deceased chromolithographic plates heightened in gum avoided ‘God-talk’ as well as any discussion first wife, the poet Sylvia Plath. This signed arabic including frontispieces, all by A. F. Lydon, of evolutionary theory . . . He also deferred limited edition was published simultane- title pages printed in red and black, engravings to to professional scientists in order to bolster ously with the first trade edition. the text. Spines gently rolled, and lightly frayed at his own authority” (Lightman, Victorian ends, tips bumped and rubbed, scattered markings £750 [115831] to text, and occasional browning apparently from Popularizers of Science, pp. 84–6). There was a second edition in 1895, and a third in 1900. laid-in plant pressings (now gone), a few plates 89 slightly soiled in margins, vol. 1 half-title spotted, Nissen ZB1 2009. vol. 2 front free endpaper creased, half-title and HUGHES, Ted. Tales from Ovid. Twen- title marked, pale tide-mark to fore margins of a £1,500 [115760] ty-four Passages from the Metamorpho- few plates, sometimes just touching the images. ses. London: Faber and Faber, 1998 Overall a good copy with vivid colour plates. 88 Octavo. Original grey cloth-backed green boards, first edition of this “classic and beauti- HUGHES, Ted. Birthday Letters. London: printed label to spine, orange endpapers. Housed fully illustrated” work (Everard and Knight, Faber and Faber, 1998 in the publisher’s matching slipcase. A fine copy. Britain’s Game Fishes), “even more lavishly illustrated [than Houghton’s previous titles]. Octavo. Original dark blue cloth-backed blue first edition, signed limited issue. boards, titles to spine gilt on black, yellow endpa- Full-page coloured plates of each species Number 256 of a limited edition of 300 cop- pers. With the original acetate jacket. Housed in a ies signed by the author and specially bound were included, as well as a landscape scene blue cloth slipcase. Fine condition. in black and white of a freshwater location by Smith Settle. It won the Whitbread Award where the fish could be found. Each section signed limited edition, number 191 of in 1997. of the book discussed where the fish thrived 300 copies signed by Hughes, from a total £600 [116940] in Britain, its size, its colour, and whether signed limited edition of 310. Birthday Letters

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With an original watercolour “The Derrydale Press was a small publisher Folio (358 × 285 mm). 20th-century blue crushed 90 of finely crafted sporting books featuring morocco by Birdsall, title gilt to spine, raised topics such as hunting, fishing, sailing, bands, double gilt ruled panels to the compart- HUNT, Lynn Bogue. An Artist’s Game skiing, polo, tennis and horseback riding. ments, attractive concentric gilt panels to the boards with large laurel wreath corner-pieces, Bag. New York: The Derrydale Press, 1936 The press was started by Eugene V. Connett, beaded edge-roll, top edge gilt, others uncut, Small quarto (274 × 204 mm). Publisher’s deluxe III in 1927 and between then and 1942, The wide-turn-ins with gilt rolls and laurel wreath binding of green morocco over bevelled boards, Derrydale Press published 169 books, 30 of corner-pieces, marbled endpapers. Engraved gilt panelled spine with flying duck motifs, six- which were privately printed. The mission title page with hand-coloured vignette, 55 hand- line gilt border on sides, gilt flying duck motif on of the Derrydale Press was ‘to create works coloured aquatint plates by Sutherland, Jeakes front cover, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. of the highest quality for the enjoyment of and Bailey after Whitcombe, all with wove-paper With 4 colour plates (with captioned tissue- contemporary sportsmen and their descend- guards, 2 uncoloured etched plans of the Bom- guards), 44 monochrome plates by the author. ants’” (Cleveland Public Library online). bardment of Algiers and Battle of Trafalgar. Tips Spine and periphery of covers slightly faded to and board-edges lightly rubbed, a few very light brown (as usual), lightly rubbed at extremities. £5,950 [115522] markings to rear board, text-leaves slightly toned, An excellent copy. a little pale foxing to title, a few trivial spots to first and limited edition, deluxe 91 text and to margins of a very small number of plates, the images spared, offsetting to guards, issue: number 14 of 25 copies; with a fine JENKINS, James. The Naval Achieve- sig. × and leaf the containing the etched plans original watercolour signed by Lynn Bogue ments of Great Britain. From the Year repaired in fore margins. An excellent copy with Hunt, showing a pair of mallard on a river- 1793 to 1817. London: for J. Jenkins by L. bright and vivid plates. bank. Hunt (1877–1960) was one of America’s most admired and popular sporting artists. Harrison, [after 1817]

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of boards bumped, a few minor marks to cloth, small loss and glue residue to rear endpaper, the occasional finger mark and sporadic light foxing 91 to contents. A very good copy. first edition. Jevons (1835–1882), whom first edition, early issue of this copies having been seen with watermarks of Schumpeter describes as “one of the most magnificent publication, the apo- the date” (Abbey). The very earliest issues genuinely original economists who ever gee of the coloured aquatint, illustrating can be identified by the title-page vignette lived” (History of Economic Analysis, 1997, first the high-water mark of Britain’s maritime remaining uncoloured; otherwise, the key published 1954, p. 826), here presents his hegemony. “As a record of naval events span- consideration for collectors is the quality of marginal utility theory of value. Palgrave ning a period of over twenty years [it] has the colouring, which is extremely good in claims that in this work Jevons “attempts no precedent. At no time prior to 1817 had a the present copy. nothing less than the reconstruction of the publisher attempted such a complete volume Abbey, Life 337; NMM, V, 2159; Tooley 282. science of economics as the calculus of hu- of documentary naval prints. It is the quality man satisfactions”. While often acclaimed as £9,750 [115370] of accuracy which makes Jenkins so valua- the discoverer of marginal utility theory, it ble” (Roger Quarm, curator of pictures at the would be truer to say that Jevons was the first 92 National Maritime Museum, quoted in the to publish his findings. Walras was work- introduction to the 1998 facsimile edition). JEVONS, W. Stanley. The Theory of ing in the same direction, as was Menger, It was disappointingly slow to sell on its Political Economy. London and New York: and, in 1854, Gossen had already broached first issue in 1817, and Jenkins chose to issue Macmillan & Co., 1871 the subject in his Entwicklung der Gesetze des copies as demand necessitated. The text menschlichen Verkehrs. leaves in this copy are watermarked “What- Octavo. Original brown pebble-grain cloth, titles to spine gilt, boards panelled in blind, black Cossa, p. 254 (78); Einaudi 3070; Menger, col. 468; see man 1812” or “Whatman 1816”, as in the first Palgrave II, 474ff. issue; the plates are undated but bear the wa- coated endpapers. Contemporary Irish bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown. Extremities termark H S & S, seemingly from the 1820s. £2,750 [116488] a little worn, front joint slightly tender, corners “The book was reprinted as late as 1840,

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94 JOYCE, James. Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1930 Quarto (206 × 164 mm). Mid 20th-century black crushed half morocco, grey cloth sides, title to spine gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, original wrappers bound in at front and rear. Hand-traced map of Dublin tipped-in to verso of first blank, pencilled annotations to contents. Spine slightly faded, rubbing to spine ends. An excellent copy. 93 eleventh printing, the final shake- 93 corded in Sylvia Beach’s notebook as sent to speare and company printing, released Miss Weaver on 3 March 1922; this is almost in May 1930, eight years after the publication JOYCE, James. Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare certainly Joyce’s editor and patron, Harriet of the first edition. and Company, 1922 Shaw Weaver. £1,250 [115315] Quarto (235 × 185 mm) in eights. Contemporary Of the edition of 1,000 copies, in addition blue half morocco, spine gilt in compartments to the 750 copies on handmade paper, there 95 with titles direct, blue cloth sides ruled in gilt, were 100 signed copies on thicker Dutch top edge gilt, others untrimmed, marbled endpa- handmade paper numbered 1–100 and 150 (KING, Jessie M.) STEELE, Isobel K. C. pers. Extremities very lightly rubbed, endleaves large paper copies on vergé d’Arches num- The Enchanted Capital of Scotland. A a little finger-marked. An excellent copy in an bered 101–250. Tale of Mystery and Adventure. From a attractive binding. Slocum & Cahoon A17. story told by a Merchant of Edinburgh. first edition. One of 750 copies printed Edinburgh: Plaid Stationery of Scotland Ltd, on handmade paper, this number 811, re- £16,500 [96666] [1945]

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Octavo. Original blue cloth, front board lettered focus on fantasy. Since the first retrospective 97 in gilt. With the dust jacket, 8/6 price ticket to shows in the 1970s, King’s art has steadily front flap. Illustrated throughout. Minor rubbing risen in critical and commercial favour. KIPLING, Rudyard. Just So Stories. Lon- to board extremities, some nicks and tears to dust don: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1902 jacket extremities, small tape repairs to verso, a £650 [116387] Octavo (224 × 169 mm). Finely bound in late 20th- very good copy. century red full crushed morocco by Bayntun 96 first edition. “A story written to please (Rivière), titles and decoration gilt to spine sepa- the child and perhaps to bring back memo- KIPLING, Rudyard. The Jungle Book; rated by raised bands, single gilt rule to boards ries of similar adventures to all who have [together with] The Second Jungle Book. with pictorial block to front cover gilt, turn-ins spent their childhood in Edinburgh”. Steele’s and all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Housed London: Macmillan and Co., 1894 & 1895 in a custom red cloth slipcase. With 12 black and dialogue is infused with the distinctive white illustrations by the author. Spine slightly Scottish accent and dialect as she retells the 2 works, octavo. Original dark blue cloth, spines lettered and blocked in gilt, large pictorial blocks faded, a touch of rubbing to extremities, faint story of a group of school children exploring to front covers gilt, twin wavy rules to spines foxing to final few pages. An excellent copy. Edinburgh for the first time. The children’s extending over front covers, all edges gilt, dark first edition, handsomely bound. Ki- imagination conjures up the historical Scot- green coated endpapers. Housed in custom red pling’s famous collection of 12 stories and tish figures of Mary, Queen of Scots, J. M. cloth chemises and red quarter morocco slipcase. Barrie, and Robert Louis Stevenson, “the Illustrated throughout by J. L. Kipling, W. H. 12 poems includes “How the Camel Got true guardians of the Castle and of Scot- Drake and P. Frenzeny. Spines rolled, a touch of His Hump” and “How the Leopard Got His land’s memory”, to congratulate them on wear to tips, vol. I with front hinge cracked but Spots.” the completion of their quest. With black holding, small split to rear hinge but text block £975 [115278] and white line drawings throughout and four sound, some occasional light foxing to contents. An excellent set. double page colour illustrations, this is an excellent example of Jessie M. King’s style. A first editions of Kipling’s classic tales. student at Glasgow School of Art from 1892 Martindell 61 & 63; Stewart 123 & 132. to 1899, King was herself influenced by folk- loric tales, which can be seen in her work’s £4,000 [115003]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 51 meaning “reliure armorial”, i.e. an armorial binding like this). The printer’s note at the end reads: “G.I.C.P. O. – No. 72 P.S. to V. – 15.2.94 – 110”, i.e. Government of India Central Printing Office, with the date and the number of copies printed (110). This collection of speeches, given while Lansdowne (1845–1927) was governor-general of India, was almost certainly a valedictory publication commemorating the conclusion of his tenure in office, and intended for presentation to a select coterie of friends and officials. In subject matter they range widely from addresses to such bodies as the Bombay School of Art, Mahomedan Literary 98 Society and chambers of commerce, by way 99 of various unveilings, banquets, and durbars, Rare collection of speeches by one of the last to the opening of hospitals, colleges, water the dust jacket. With 124 photographic plates, mainly in colour; 4 folding index leaves to the Victorian viceroys of India works, and railways. 98 rear. Text-leaves toned, damp-stain to fore edges, Riddick sums up succinctly the high- only touching the text-block in the index leaves LANSDOWNE, Henry Charles Keith points of Lansdowne’s career in India: “He and rear free endpaper, small spot to half-title. concluded a boundary settlement with Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th marquess of. A very good copy with bright plates, in the dust Afghanistan, put down a minor rebellion at jacket which is slightly rubbed along the joints Speeches of the Marquis of Lansdowne, Manipur, and ably handled problems regard- edges, with a few nicks and shallow chips, a short Viceroy and Governor General of India. ing Indian currency and control of opium”. closed tear to the foot of the front joint, and a few Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Gov- His speeches give a fascinating insight into pale marks. ernment Printing India, 1894 the duties of a British viceroy during the first edition, inscribed by the artist 2 volumes, octavo (212 × 131 mm). Contempo- heyday of the Raj. “With its remarkable com- in Catalan at the request of Pere Portabella, rary (almost certainly “native”) brown morocco, bination of popular, patrician, and imperial “a Christopher Lee, amb afecte i admiracio, spines with decorative gilt roll tool at head and elements, his career graphically symbol- Miró, 11/iv/72” on the front free endpaper, tail, gilt ruled either side of the raised bands ized the significant political role played by with an original drawing. With a laid-in and roll tooled on the bands themselves, sides Britain’s old aristocracy until well into the facsimile of a typed letter from Portabella, with concentric gilt panels, gilt Lansdowne arms twentieth century” (ODNB). dated 27 April 2015, together with a facsimile on front covers, gilt roll tool turn-ins, brown coated endpapers. Covers of volume I just slightly Riddick, Who Was Who in British India, p. 288. of a covering letter from his assistant. The first reads “I, Pere Portabella, Director and sprung. An excellent set, unopened in places. £1,250 [116668] Producer of Films 59 in Barcelona, Spain, first and only edition, one of 110 cop- certify that many years ago I purchased two 99 ies, rare. Among British and Irish institu- art books. One by Antonie Tàpies and the tional libraries Copac locates only the copy (LEE, Christopher.) MIRÓ, Joan. Joan other by Joan Miró. Both were signed by the at the British Library; OCLC adds a single Miró. Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafia, 1970 artists themselves. Joan Miró also made a copy worldwide, at Bibliothèque de docu- small drawing inside his book. I gave both Quarto. Original broad-weave cream cloth, spine mentation internationale contemporaine at of these books to Sir Christopher Lee after and covers lettered and decorated in black. With Nanterre (described in a note as “Rel. arm.” we spent time together since he appeared as

52 Peter Harrington 132: Spring Miscellany the main character in two of my films shot in 1970 and 1972”. The films mentioned were Vampir-Cuadecu, an experimental film with Lee reprising his role as Dracula, and Umbra- cle, a companion piece. This monograph was published as part of the publisher’s Fotoscop series. The editor was Joan Prats Vallès. £3,000 [115482]

100 (LEE, Christopher.) TÀPIES, Antoni. Antoni Tàpies. O, l’Escarnidor de Dia- demes. Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafia, 1967 Quarto. Original broad-weave cream cloth, titles to spine in black, decoration to front board in dark red. With both the paper and acetate dust jackets. With 64 photographic plates, mostly in colour and all but one double-sided; 4 folding index leaves to the rear. A few small spots to board-edges, toning to text leaves, pale marking to front endpapers, rear inner hinge reinforced. A very good copy in the paper dust jacket slightly rubbed at the extremities, with a few nicks to the head of the spine panel, a short closed tear to the foot of the front, and pale staining to the front flap, the acetate jacket slightly marked and with a 60 mm closed tear to the front panel, and a shal- 101 low chip to the rear. first edition, inscribed by the artist 101 you may share with us the rare fun and lift in at the request of Pere Portabella “A Chris- the discovery of a new talent” (publisher’s LEE, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. blurb). With a printed slip laid in giving the topher Lee, Souvenir amical [sic] de Tapies, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1960 Barcelona, Avril 1970” on the half-title. With publication date of 11 July 1960. There were a laid-in typed letter from Portabella, dated Octavo. Original white wrappers, front cover two prepublication issues: this one, set in 27 April 2015 with his signature, reading: printed black. Housed in a custom green quarter Courier typeface, announced the publica- morocco and cloth solander box, with matching “I, Pere Portabella, Director and Producer tion date on the front cover as “in July”, and chemise. Faint mark to fore-edge and lower fore- of Films 59 in Barcelona, Spain, certify that the cover text is directed at booksellers; the corner at pp. 136–40. An excellent, fresh copy, second issue had a sheet overlaying the front many years ago I purchased two art books uncommon in such nice condition. . . .” (see previous item). This monograph cover in a more polished typesetting, speci- was published as part of the publisher’s Fo- advance reading copy, first issue. fied the publication date as 11 July, and the toscop series. The text is by Francesc Vicens “It will . . . furnish a jackpot of bestseller text on the front cover was aimed at readers. sales for you during the summer . . . We are and the photographs by Joaquim Gomis. £12,500 [116696] rushing this paper-bound copy to you so that £500 [115479]

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102 first edition, signed by the author ot’s Ara Vos Prec. Fifteen Drawings is the second on the front free endpaper. This was John of Lewis’s three non-literary publication, LEE, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. Lennon’s first book. preceded by Timon of Athens (1913) and fol- London: Heinemann, 1960 lowed by Thirty Personalities and a Self-Portrait £5,000 [115917] Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered silver. (1932); it is the scarcest of his portfolios to With the pictorial dust jacket. Housed in a find complete. Apart from titles, the plates 104 custom red quarter morocco and cloth solander are unaccompanied by text and have no ap- box and matching chemise. A couple of very faint LEWIS, Wyndham. Fifteen Drawings. parent thematic unity, covering a variety of marks to endpapers; an excellent copy in the un- London: The Ovid Press, [1920] commonly bright, very slightly rubbed, jacket. 15 unnumbered plates printed in various colours first uk edition. It was first published in and mounted on grey, textured card. Contained the US earlier the same year. within a vellum-imitation board portfolio, titles £1,250 [116699] in black and with a Lewis design pasted to the front cover, publisher’s device designed by Ed- ward Wadsworth to rear cover in black. Portfolio 103 tanned and rubbed along extremities, slight loss LENNON, John. In His Own Write. to fore wing flap and bottom of spine panel, a Introduction by Paul McCartney. London: couple of small closed tears to top and bottom wing folds. Occasional light spots to plates. In Jonathan Cape, 1964 excellent condition. Octavo. Original blue laminated boards, sepia sole edition, number 16 of 250 copies. tone picture of Lennon and titles to front board Rodker’s Ovid Press was an interesting affair in light blue, titles to spine in light blue. No dust jacket issued. Illustrated throughout by John Len- which, despite only lasting between 1919 and non. Minor wear to corners and spine ends, a few 1921, produced a number of important and minor marks to the boards, light spotting to front deeply influential publications, among them free endpaper. A very good copy. the present title, Pound’s Mauberley, and Eli- 104

54 Peter Harrington 132: Spring Miscellany subject matter and ranging in date from 1913 to 1919. Morrow A5. £7,500 [90901]

Uniformly bound and inscribed by the author 105 LINDSAY, [Nicholas] Vachel. The Congo; [together with] The Chinese Nightingale; [and] The Golden Book of Springfield. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914–1920 3 works, octavo (188 × 123 mm). Uniformly bound in contemporary black hard-grained morocco, ti- 105 106 tles gilt to spines, low bands, devices to the compartments, gilt panels to the boards, recipient’s Rutter, was a Princeton-educated lawyer who edges. Some light rubbing round the extremities, monogram within a laurel wreath to the front at one time served on the staff of the Judge sound and on the whole internally clean but for boards, marbled endpapers. City flag in colours Advocate General of the US Army, before some minor worming, very good condition. to the title page of the last-named. Lightly rubbed at the extremities, pale toning of the text-blocks, becoming an attorney for the American Sugar very scarce early edition, ada love- but overall very good. Refining Co. He retired to California in 1927, lace’s copy, of the memoirs of the Duchess sometime commodore of the Newport Beach of Montpensier (1627–1693), the greatest first editions, except The Chinese Nightin- Yacht Club. All of the inscriptions are dated 12 heiress in 17th-century France, who received gale, 1919 (first published 1917). Uniformly May 1921 in Plainfield, NJ, home town of his the suit of numerous European kings but bound for Thomas Rénaud Rutter, and each wife Abbie, née Holstein. eventually fell in love with a comparatively signed and inscribed by Lindsay on the first A not unattractively, if rather stiffly, bound lowly courtier and soldier. The memoirs were blanks: the first to Renaud’s mother, Mrs group of the works of the “Prairie Trouba- first printed in Paris in 1728 – any early edition Louise Warren Rutter, with her bookplate to dour”, who was famed for his declamatory, is very scarce complete. verso of the front free endpaper facing; the performance poetry, with a pleasing Spring- Each volume bears the stamps of Ada second with “My most fraternal good wishes field association. Lovelace’s now demolished Exmoor summer to Thomas Rutter”; the last “Good wishes retreat, Ashley Combe House, and the later and good will to Thomas Rutter” with the £650 [115267] stamps of Ben Damph Forrest, the later sport- first three lines from Lindsay’s ambiguous ing lodge of her husband William King, Earl paean to the city of both his and Rutter’s 106 of Lovelace (1805–1893). birth, “Magical Springfield”: “In this – the (LOVELACE, Ada.) MONTPENSIER, Ada Lovelace was the only legitimate child city of my discontent | Sometimes there Anne Marie Louise d’Orléans, Duchess of Lord Byron. A mathematician and writer, comes a whisper from the grass | Romance, of. Memoires. Amsterdam: Jean-Frederic she is chiefly known for her work on Charles romance is here”, initialled on the front free Babbage’s proposed mechanical general-pur- endpaper verso. The latter two works have Bernard, 1730 pose computer, the Analytical Engine. Rutter’s nautically-themed bookplate. 6 volumes, duodecimo (175 × 95 mm). Early 19th- Springfield native Thomas Rénaud Rutter, century half calf, spines gilt in compartments with £475 [114833] the son of tea importer and engineer J. E. T. orange morocco labels, marbled sides, speckled

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107 important American strategist of the nine- Octavo. Original black quarter morocco with teenth century”, and by Barbara Tuchman as green cloth, titles to spine gilt, map of South Af- MAHAN, Alfred Thayer. The Influence “the Clausewitz of naval warfare”. Mahan’s rica as endpapers, top edge gilt. With numerous of Sea Power Upon History 1660–1783; development of the concept of “sea power” photographic illustrations. A fine copy. [together with:] The Influence of Sea has been identified as one of the major fac- first uk edition, signed limited is- Power upon the French Revolution and tors in the outbreak of the naval arms race at sue. Number 305 of 1,000 copies signed by Empire 1793–1812; [and:] The Life of the end of the 19th century. the author. It was first published earlier the Nelson, the Embodiment of the Sea All three works were first published in same year in South Africa. Boston. The editions offered here are: a sec- Power of Great Britain. London: Sampson £3,000 [115543] Low, Marston & Company, Limited, 1892–2– ond London edition, 1892, of The Influence of Sea Power Upon History (first published 1890), 9–1905 109 using American sheets with cancel titles, Together 3 works in 5 volumes, octavo. Original mentioning The Influence of Sea Power upon the (MARLOWE, Christopher, & George blue cloth, titles gilt to spines, gilt pictorial de- French Revolution on the title; an unidenti- vices to the front boards, top edges gilt, black sur- Chapman, trans.) MUSAEUS. Hero & fied early London edition of The French Revolu- face-paper endpapers. Numerous plates, maps, Leander. London: by Charles Ricketts and plans diagrams, some of them folding, as called tion and Empire; and a first London edition, Charles Shannon at the Vale, printed by the 1897, of The Life of Nelson. for. Armorial bookplates of Robert Balloch to Ballantyne Press and sold by Elkin Mathews the front pastedown of the first two named. Just Hattendorf & Hattendorf A2d, A4[?], A6b. and John Lane, 1894 a little rubbed, corners bumped, a few slightly dings to the front board of the first-named, one £1,250 [115778] Octavo. Original full vellum, gilt titles and or two hinges a touch strained, but overall a very decoration designed by Ricketts to spine and good group. 108 both sides, fore edge untrimmed. Housed in a custom light blue card slipcase. Woodcut full- early london editions of some of MANDELA, Nelson. Long Walk to Free- page frontispiece, woodcut vignettes, initials mahan’s most influential texts. dom. The Autobiography. London: Little, and device at the end, all by Ricketts & Shannon. Described by John Keegan as “the most Brown and Company, 1994 Spine a little faded, a few small spots and marks

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Some very minor rubbing or creasing to some edges, one corner of Feast of Crows bumped, but an excellent set. first editions, first printings, an ex-

109 cellent presentation set, the first three titles inscribed to the same recipient, respectively “To Kim, may your to covers, boards slightly bowing, sprays of small the first printing of Musaeus’s sixth century winters be short, George R. R. M.”, “To spots to some leaves nearer the end, nonetheless Greek text of Hero & Leander by Aldus Ma- Kim, may your summers be bright, George a very good copy, attractive and with the hinges nutius in Venice. all sound. R. R. M.”, “To Kim, keep your sword sharp, £1,875 [116972] George R. R. Martin”, and the latter two first edition thus, one of 200 copies titles signed. In addition, the third title, for sale (another 20 were hors commerce) of “If you think this has a happy ending, you A Storm of Swords, is signed on the dedica- Ricketts & Shannon’s printing of Christo- haven’t been paying attention” tion leaf by the dedicatee Phyllis Eisenstein pher Marlowe’s famous 1598 English render- 110 (b. 1946), who like Martin is a significant ing of the romantic mythological legend Hugo- and Nebula-nominated American of Hero & Leander, with the contemporary MARTIN, George R. R. [The Game of author of science fiction and fantasy. The continuation by poet and translator George Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire saga:] A printed dedication reads “for Phyllis, who Chapman (well known for his Homer). This Game of Thrones; A Clash of Kings; A made me put the dragons in”. These five scarce and beautiful fine press printing, Storm of Swords; A Feast for Crows; A books make up, to date (with two forth- which was one of three such productions Dance with Dragons. New York: Bantam coming), the complete Game of Thrones: A by Ricketts and Shannon done “at the Vale” Song of Ice and Fire saga. (their Chelsea home) before the official Spectra, 1996–2011 establishment of The Vale Press, was done 5 works, octavo. Original variously coloured £4,500 [115684] to commemorate the 400 year anniversary of boards. With the dust jackets. Map endpapers.

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“Aerial transport will be accomplished because the air is a solid if you hit it hard enough” 111 112

MEANS, James. The Problem of Man- aviation was far from assured – but Means 112 flight.Boston, Mass: W. B. Clarke & Co., 1894 had faith, finishing his text with the line “Aerial transit will be accomplished because MELVILLE, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, Octavo. Original wrappers, titles and an illustrations The Whale. New York: Harper & Brothers; printed in black to front wrapper. Illustrated plate the air is a solid if you hit it hard enough.” and several vignettes in the text. Pencilled line of Means’s works “had a significant impact. Richard Bentley, London, 1851 music to margin of page 5. Small chip to front wrap- Orville Wright, writing as the Wright Broth- Duodecimo. Original purple-brown cloth, pub- per fore edge, some very light dust soiling, internally ers, sent a letter to James Means in 1910 lisher’s devices and rules to each board in blind, sound and fresh, excellent condition. acknowledging the part that the Aeronautical titles to spine gilt, orange coated endpapers. Housed in a black quarter morocco solander first edition, presentation copy, Annuals had played in spurring and sustain- box by the Chelsea Bindery. Faint gift inscrip- inscribed by the author on the front wrapper, ing their interest in aeronautics. The devotion which James Means had to encouraging tion (“For Cragin”) to title page. Spine darkened “H. L. Mason, esq, with the regards of James to brown, spine ends, edges, and tips a little aerial experimentation and to document- Means”. James Means was an industrial- worn, short split to front hinge at head but text ist from Dorchester MA who left his shoe ing the work of others, as well as his own, block sound, covers faded with two small marks manufacturing business to focus on the new has secured him a place of importance and to front cover, foxing to contents. A very good, and exciting field of aviation. He published respect among those who have pondered the unsophisticated copy. history of flight” (Flymachines website). The the Aeronautical Annuals of 1895–7 with the first american edition, in the first hopes that the material printed there would pamphlet is well represented institutionally, but is scarce in the trade, and rare inscribed. binding with orange endpapers and the inspire others to investigate and advance publisher’s device stamped centrally on the the field. This pamphlet includes a design £1,250 [116023] sides. With the author’s clipped signature for a soaring machine which could be used laid in. The American edition was the first by readers to conduct flying experiments. In to appear under the familiar title and was 1894, when this was published, the future of

58 Peter Harrington 132: Spring Miscellany 113 set from Melville’s original manuscript. The Whale, issued a month previously in Lon- don, was set from New York sheets, with 114 Melville’s alterations. The American edition contains some 35 passages and the epilogue, a beautifully bound copy. The Australi- 114 an-born Mortimer Menpes was one of Whis- which were expunged from the English edi- MILNE, A. A. When We Were Very tion. tler’s pupils and strongly influenced by him to study Japanese art. Modern Japanese crit- Young; Winnie-the-Pooh; Now We Are BAL 13664; Grolier American 60; Johnson High Spots 57. ics have objected that, like Whistler, Menpes Six; The House at Pooh Corner. London: £35,000 [115940] did not understand Japanese painting Methuen & Co., 1924–8 techniques and merely imported trappings 4 volumes, octavo. Original cloth (blue, green, red 113 of Japanese art into his realistic paintings and pink respectively), titles to spines gilt, rules MENPES, Mortimer & Dorothy. Japan: a and graphics. But back in London after his and illustrations to boards gilt, top edges gilt. second trip to Japan, Menpes adventurously With the dust jackets. Housed in a quarter green Record in Colour. London: Adam & Charles built a studio and home according to what morocco solander case. Illustrated throughout by Black, January 1905 he perceived as Japanese style, and deco- E. H. Shepard. Lower corners bumped, faint par- Octavo (217 × 152 mm). Contemporary blue mo- rated it with Japanese fittings. The text here tial tanning to endpapers. Cloth bright and fresh, contents clean. An excellent set in the jackets rocco, richly gilt spine, sides with concentric roll is edited by his daughter, Dorothy, Whis- tool and three-line rule panels, flower-and-dot which are very lightly rubbed with minor toning tler’s goddaughter. This copy is from the to the spine panel of The House at Pooh Corner. ornamentation at corners with circular morocco fifth printing; the book was first published in onlays, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. 100 December 1901, one of the early productions first editions. A beautiful set of the four colour plates (with captioned tissue-guards) from Pooh books, uncommon in such nice condition. watercolours by Mortimer Menpes. Burgundy of A & C Black’s expensive 20 shilling series. morocco book label of Doris L. Benz. An excellent £750 [115925] £17,500 [80536] copy.

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115 and Irish country houses in their late Victo- published with a price of 900 francs printed rian heyday, Lydon’s superbly detailed and on the rear covers, but a sudden currency MORRIS, F. O. A Series of Picturesque carefully composed plates – projecting an fluctuation meant that the books had to be Views of Seats of the noblemen and image of supremely placid and untroubled re-priced to 1200 francs. Copies of the first gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. estates – were printed with considerable issue appear either without a price change or With descriptive and historical letter- subtlety by Benjamin Fawcett, “the leading with the bookseller’s hand-written correc- press. London: William Mackenzie, [1880] provincial colour printer of the age” (ibid.) tion, as here (the price correction has been 6 volumes, quarto. Publisher’s deluxe binding Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914, lightly erased from the first volume). The of red full morocco over bevelled boards, spines 104 (“it may fairly be said that these volumes accom- second issue appeared with the publisher’s gilt ruled and decorated with crown motifs, plish for colour printing what Pyne’s Royal Residences did over-price sticker to the rear covers. for aquatint engraving”). sides elaborately panelled in gilt and blind, large £4,750 [114994] central gilt stamp bearing the title and the royal £1,500 [116080] arms, all edges gilt, gilt roll tool turn-ins, mar- Inscribed by Nansen bled endpapers. Coloured woodblock vignette 116 title pages, 240 coloured woodblock plates 117 (heightened with gum arabic) by Alexander Fran- NABOKOV, Vladimir. Lolita. Paris: The NANSEN, Fridtjof. Norway and the cis Lydon, printed by Benjamin Fawcett. Covers Olympia Press, 1955 of volume II just a little dished, minor rubbing to Union with Sweden. London: Macmillan extremities, scattered foxing. An excellent set. 2 volumes, octavo. Original green and white and Co., Limited, 1905 wrappers printed in black. Some rubbing to spine first edition in book form: “the book’s ends and edges of wrappers, small chip to fore- Small octavo. Original red linen cloth, spine and publishing history is complicated. It is corner of vol. II, faint tape residue to free endpa- front cover lettered in black. Spine slightly rolled described as having been issued in parts be- pers, otherwise internally fresh. An excellent set. and sunned, a little rubbed at extremities. A very tween 1864 and 1880, but selections from it good copy. first edition, published three years like The Ancestral Homes of Britain of 1868 also before the American edition and four before first english edition, presentation appeared during this period” (Ray). Morris’s the London edition. Lolita was originally copy inscribed by the author on the front Seats offers an unparalleled survey of British free endpaper: “To the Attorney-General,

60 Peter Harrington 132: Spring Miscellany Wm. H. Moody with the compliments of edge of volume II a little dusty, touch of foxing to Fridtjof Nansen, Lysaker 22 June, 1905”. fore-edges. An excellent copy. Moody was Secretary of the US Navy from first edition in english, presenta- 1902 to 1904, and US Attorney General from tion copy inscribed by the author on the 1904 to 1906, under Theodore Roosevelt. half-title of volume I: “To Mrs. G. Lewis from “The independence of Norway in 1905 was her friend Fridtjof Nansen, London Nov. 3rd. an important turning point for Nansen, 1911”; volume II inscribed on the front free when he was called on to ease the diplomatic endpaper (in a secretarial hand): “For Mrs. crisis over independence; the next year he George Lewis in sincere friendship from the was named independent Norway’s first min- Publisher 2. 09. 1911”. ister to Great Britain” (Grolier Club, Books on A very appealing provenance that high- Ice, 2005, p. 66). Nansen’s biographer, Ro- lights a well-documented aspect of Nansen’s land Huntford, writes that the great explorer character: the great Norwegian explorer cut “put his name to a small book – Norway and a striking figure and enjoyed a reputation as the Union with Sweden – a pamphlet prepared a womaniser. Roland Huntford writes in his once more by officials, elaborating the biography of Nansen that, when in London, 118 legalities of the Norwegian case for separate he “had at last moved out of his hotel into consuls. It appeared in English, French and suitable rooms. They were modest enough, Published in the same year as the Norwe- German, early in June” 1905. Nansen’s “small in a block of service flats at 36 Victoria Street, gian original, In Northern Mists is a hand- book” is not common commercially and convenient for Parliament, Whitehall, the somely produced book and was under- inscribed copies are decidedly elusive, this Foreign Office – and Buckingham Palace. taken by Nansen at the request of the Royal being a particularly attractive exemplar in The premises had been found by an admirer Geographical Society: “this book owes its being addressed from the home that Nansen called Marie Lewis. She was the German- existence to a rash promise made some years designed and built at Lysaker. born daughter-in-law of Sir George Lewis, a ago to my friend [the geographer] Dr. J. Scott £875 [116837] famous . . . criminal lawyer, who belonged to Keltie”. It is an historical survey of the open- King Edward’s raffish set, had infiltrated the ing of the Arctic from classical antiquity to Inscribed by Nansen to an intimate admirer underworld, had saved his Majesty himself Cabot and the Portuguese discoveries in the 118 from various scrapes, and was said to know north-west, and includes an account of the enough to ruin half the Dukes and Duchesses Viking discovery of America. NANSEN, Fridtjof. In Northern Mists. of England. During the summer, Nansen had There appear to have been two variants Arctic Exploration in Early Times. broken a genuine engagement with [Sir John] of the cloth binding: with the front cover Translated by Arthur G. Chater. London: Scott Keltie, where he would have been intro- lettered and panelled in black or – as here William Heinemann, 1911 duced to Captain Scott, in order to go down – lettered in gilt and panelled in blind; the and see Marie Lewis at the seaside resort latter could be classified the superior of the 2 volumes, large octavo. Original grey-blue two. We have had another copy signed, to Sir combed cloth, spines lettered in gilt, front boards of Sheringham [Norfolk] instead. ‘I cannot with semi-circular gilt design of low sun over sea blame you,’ was Keltie’s mild reproach. ‘I Edward Grey (also dated 3 November 1911) in and mountains with approaching Viking long- think Sheringham is an excuse for commit- the same binding. A very smart copy with a ship, lettered in gilt, enclosed within concentric ting any crime’. For her part, Mrs Lewis had piquant provenance. blind double panels. Tipped-in coloured frontis- reported to Nansen chattily after his depar- Arctic Bibliography 11993. pieces (with tissue-guards), numerous illustra- ture: ‘we have been bathing every day and of tions and maps in the text; title pages printed course my sister has missed you in the water £4,250 [116842] in blue & black. Volume I with very short nick at and also for giving her the finishing touches head of spine, corners very slightly bumped, top with powder’”.

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The first significant post-Trafalgar life of presented here in the original boards. Char- 120 nock was prompted to write his biography by Nelson (NIELSEN, Kay.) ANDERSEN, Hans. 119 Nelson’s “teacher, friend, and correspondent” (ODNB), Captain William Locker (“by him the Fairy Tales. London: Hodder and Stoughton, (NELSON, Horatio.) CHARNOCK, present work was suggested”): “the informa- [1924] John. Biographical Memoirs of Lord tion and the letters communicated by Locker Quarto. Original green cloth in imitation of moiré Viscount Nelson, &c. &c. &c. With obser- gave the book, at the time, a value far above silk, spine and front cover lettered and decorated vations, critical and explanatory. London: that of the numerous instant memoirs which in gilt, decorative endpapers. With the dust H. D. Symonds; J. Hatchard; and Black and were produced after Trafalgar” (ibid.) jacket. Housed in a contemporary custom-made slipcase. Colour frontispiece and 11 mounted Parry, 1806 John Charnock (1756–1807) was one of the most highly regarded naval authors of the colour plates (with captioned tissue-guards), full- page illustrations, decorations and initial letters Octavo (225 × 137 mm). Original boards, paper period, although, as ODNB rather mournfully spine label, uncut. Fine stipple-engraved portrait throughout from line drawings by Kay Nielsen. relates, “he died . . . in great poverty, and not frontispiece of Nelson by Hopwood (based on Jacket spine toned, some soiling, nicks, chips and the Piercy Roberts engraving after the Abbott impossibly in a debtors’ gaol or an insane tears (a few old tape repairs on verso), extremities portrait, used to illustrate a memoir in the Naval asylum . . . Charnock’s career may be seen as of spine lightly sunned. An excellent copy. Chronicle of 1800), one plate (the “boat fight” off a warning of the perils of professional naval Cadiz), 4 plans (Cape St Vincent, Aboukir, Copen- authorship”. His book precedes the better first trade edition of one of the most hagen, Trafalgar), facsimile of Nelson’s handwrit- known biographies by Clarke and McArthur beautiful editions of Andersen’s fairy tales, ing. Extremities of spine chipped, joints partially (1809) and Robert Southey (1813) and is an work for which Nielsen had begun in 1912. split but sound, a couple of gatherings slightly important milestone in the creation of the “Though Dulac only indirectly used Art toned, light offsetting from letterpress to plans. A Nelson mythos. Nouveau, Kay Nielsen, the Danish artist, very good, tall copy, with the publisher’s 32-page combined the bizarre side of the movement catalogue (dated 1805) at the end. Cowie 129 (mistakenly dating this edition to 1802): and its exquisite motifs, as used by Beard- NMM 906 (mistakenly calling the engraved portrait first edition of the first significant frontispiece an additional engraved title page). sley, with oriental influences in pattern post-trafalgar life of nelson (the fron- and decoration. Like Dulac, Nielsen also £950 [116665] tispiece is dated 7 January 1806), attractively designed stage sets and costumes, and this

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121 OBAMA, Barack. Dreams From My Father. A Story of Race and Inheritance. New York: Times Books for Random House, 1995 Octavo. Original black cloth-backed grey boards, titles to spine gilt, yellow endpapers. With the dust jacket. Corners very gently bumped, single small faint mark to bottom of front board; an excellent copy. first edition, inscribed by the author, 120 “To Melody – You are wonderful to be so sup- portive! Best wishes for the future. Barack”. theatrical interest showed itself in his book ents” (Walley & Chester, A History of Children’s illustration in exotic, stage-like settings and Book Illustration, 1988, p. 156). £9,750 [115261] the use of symbolism. Nielsen also chose the £1,400 [115524] fairy tale as the vehicle for his elaborate tal-

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122 ORWELL, George. Down and Out in Paris and London. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1933 Octavo. Original black cloth, title to spine green. Spine gently rolled and slightly faded, a couple of marks to front cover, occasional light foxing to contents. An excellent copy. first edition of orwell’s first full- length work, a two part memoir of his 123 life among the poor and destitute in and around the two cities; one of 1,500 copies 123 first edition. Copies of the first impres- printed. An “immensely interesting book . . . sion were issued either in green or dark a genuine human document, which at the ORWELL, George. Nineteen Eighty- red dust jackets. To judge from surviving same time is written with so much artistic Four. A novel. London: Secker & Warburg, examples, this was done in proportions of force that, in spite of the squalor and degra- 1949 about two green to one red. The red jackets dation thus unfolded, the result is curiously Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in red, are far more susceptible to fading; as a con- beautiful” (Compton Mackenzie). top edge red. With the red dust jacket. Spine ends sequence, surviving copies in nice condition Fenwick A.1a. a little faded; an excellent copy in the jacket with are uncommon. unusually bright spine panel, spine ends and tips a £2,750 [116133] little nicked and chipped, spot of rubbing to centre £5,000 [116130] of spine panel, closed tear to head of rear panel.

64 Peter Harrington 132: Spring Miscellany 124 OUTRAM, Sir James. Lieut-General Sir James Outram’s Campaign in India, 1857–1858; comprising General Orders and Despatches relating to the Defence and Relief of the Lucknow Garrison, and Capture of the City, by the British Forces; also Correspondence relating to the Relief, up to the Date when that Ob- ject was effected by Sir Colin Campbell. London: printed for private circulation only, by Smith, Elder and Co., 1860 Octavo. Original red-brown pebble-grain cloth, gilt-lettered spine refurbished and relined, covers panel-stamped with blind borders and floral centrepieces, red sprinkled edges, brown coated endpapers. Ownership inscription of William 124 124 Simpson (dated 1864) to p. iii, and his bookplate to the front pastedown above the contemporary bookseller’s ticket of Myers & Co.; blindstamp of without] his Correspondence, both episto- September he reached Cawnpore” (ODNB). Aberdeen University Library to front cover. Light lary and telegraphic, which he had main- From there he advanced with Havelock to toning, a few trivial spots. A very good copy. tained during the recent stirring events” Lucknow, graciously subordinating himself (preface). It survives in three copies in and accompanying Havelock only in his civil first uk edition, greatly improved and libraries worldwide (British Library, London capacity as commissioner. Havelock’s death expanded from the unprocurable Calcutta Library, and University of Minnesota), and is left Outram to hold the Alambagh position edition of 1858, and “printed for presenta- untraced in commerce. until reinforced by Colin Campbell in March tion to personal friends of Sir James Outram, Outram was the resident at Lucknow from 1858. “The kaisarbagh fell to Sir Colin Camp- who begs that it may be regarded as a private 1854 to 1856, when he became commis- bell on the morning of 14 March. On 16 communication, and not a publication” (title sioner at Oudh. Shortly before the Mutiny he March Outram, having recrossed the Gumti, page). It remains uncommon: five cop- was appointed commander in the Anglo- advanced through the Chattar Manzil and ies traced in British and Irish institutional Persian War. He returned to Bombay in June carried the residency. On the morning of 19 libraries (Aberdeen, British Library, Leeds, 1857, “reached Calcutta on 31 July, and on 8 March Outram attacked the Musabagh, held National Library of Scotland and Oxford), August was given command of two divisions by 5,000 men and thirteen guns, and carried OCLC adding a dozen worldwide. of the Bengal army occupying the country it, capturing twelve guns. So ended the cap- After the relief of Lucknow Outram was from Calcutta to Cawnpore inclusive, while ture of Lucknow” (ibid.) He was then made prevailed upon by his colleagues and subor- he was also made chief commissioner of military member in the governor-general’s dinates to produce a digest of “authoritative Oudh in succession to Sir Henry Mont- council, and retired to England in 1860. statements regarding the recent campaign” gomery Lawrence, killed in the defence of (preface). In the original Calcutta printing Bruce 4266; Riddick, Who Was Who, p. 279; Sorsky 820. Lucknow. He took with him Robert Napier “the Despatches and other documents were as his military secretary and chief of staff, £1,500 [116085] given, without reference to the chronological and arrived at Dinapore on 19 August. On 1 order of the events they described . . . [and September he was at Allahabad, and on 15

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“By God, sir, I’ve lost my leg!” 125 (PAGET, Henry, marquess of Anglesey.) KELLY, Christopher. A Full and Cir- 125 cumstantial Account of the Memorable Battle of Waterloo: the second restora- guard), vignette title, 17 (0f 18) engraved plates provenance: inscribed “Anglesey” at head tion of Louis XVIII; and the deportation (lacking the Bust of Wellington), folding plan of of vignette title. Henry Paget (1768–1854), as of Napoleon Buonaparte to the island of Waterloo (with coloured troop elements); printed the Duke of Uxbridge, was the Allied cavalry in double column. Neat library stamp of Miln- commander at Waterloo and one of the most St. Helena, and every recent particular town Hotel (Isle of Man) on a preliminary blank; memorable characters of that battle. relative to his conduct and mode of life binding a little rubbed, front cover sunned, back in his exile. Together with an interest- cover patchily faded, some light foxing to plates, “On 18 June, at perhaps the most critical moment of the great battle, when Lieu- ing account of the affairs of France, old wine glass stains to verso of plan, a few gatherings lightly browned. tenant-General Thomas Picton’s infantry and biographical sketches of the most of 3,000 were facing some 10,000 enemy distinguished Waterloo heroes. London: first edition of this attractively illustrated infantry about to pour through a gap left by Thomas Kelly, 1818 (the plates are a little naïve but certainly spir- the flight of Rijlandt’s Netherlanders, Ux- ited) and popular early account of the battle, bridge ‘galloped up to the Heavy Cavalry’, as Quarto (261 × 195 mm). Mid-19th-century red described by Wellington’s bibliographer as half calf, richly gilt spine, green morocco label, he later wrote, ‘and ordered the Household “a bombastic and pro-English account” – red straight-grain cloth sides, marbled edges & Brigade to prepare to form line, passed on to endpapers. Engraved frontispiece (with tissue- although surely little else could be expected [the Union Brigade]’, told its commander ‘to at the time.

66 Peter Harrington 132: Spring Miscellany wheel into line when the other Brigade did, marquess of Anglesey . . . Anglesey was the instantly returned to the Household Brigade, only senior commander present at Waterloo and put the whole in motion’ (Siborne, 8, to outlive his chief ” (ODNB). A highly evoca- 238). He put himself at the head of the two tive association copy. brigades as they poured over the ridge and Partridge, Wellington, 603 (“includes a copy of the Water- crashed headlong into the enemy’s serried loo despatch and a biography of Wellington”; citing the ranks. Thus, 2000 ‘heavies’ swept 15,000 edition of 1828); Sandler 1905. French soldiers in wild disorder before £1,500 [116840] them, destroying two field batteries and taking more than 2000 prisoners and two 126 eagles. The enemy’s casualties numbered about 4500, but the cavalry lost 700 men and PEPYS, Samuel. Memoirs. Comprising 900 horses. his Diary from 1659 to 1669, deciphered These high casualties are accounted for, in by John Smith of St. John’s College, part, by Uxbridge placing himself at the head Cambridge, from the Original Short- of the first line instead of the second: ‘a great hand MS in the Pepysian Library, and a mistake’, as he put it . . . Selection from his Private Correspon- For the rest of the battle Uxbridge gal- dence. Edited by Richard, Lord Bray- loped from regiment to regiment of his light brigades, leading numerous counter-attacks brooke. London: Henry Colburn, 1825 126 against the massed cavalry which again and 2 volumes, large quarto. Uncut in original drab again assaulted the British ‘squares’. He had paper boards, printed paper labels to spines. Each eight or nine horses shot under him . . . volume housed in a custom blue cloth solander first edition of this key historical As the battle was ending, a grapeshot box with gilt-lettered spine. Engraved portrait record of restoration london, which frontispiece after Godfrey Kneller, 12 plates includ- passed over the neck of Wellington’s horse remained unprinted for more than 150 years ing portraits, genealogies, facsimiles and views, after its original composition. The text was and smashed into Uxbridge’s right knee of which one double-page, all with tissue-guards; as he rode beside the duke. ‘By God, sir, painstakingly deciphered from Pepys’s short- engraved vignette portrait to volume 1 p. xv, similar hand by a penniless student who did not re- I’ve lost my leg!’ he is supposed to have vignette of the “Loving Cup” to p. xlii. Volume 1: exclaimed. The duke momentarily removes c20 book-label of collector Perry Molstad to front alise that the manual for the system, Thomas the telescope from his eye, considers the pastedown, joints cracked but holding, small mark Shelton’s Tutor to Tachygraphy (1642), was easi- mangled limb, says ‘By God, sir, so you to front board, pale spotting to sigs. C-3N and a ly accessible in his own college library. Pepys’s have!’ (marquess of Anglesey, 149), and few small nicks and chips to edges, as usual in diary is the chief source for our knowledge of resumes his scrutiny of the victorious field. untrimmed books, slightly longer closed tear to day-to-day life in Restoration London, but it fore edge of sig. 2N2, the text unaffected, sig. b4 The leg had to be amputated that night and is much more than just a record of quotidian browned in fore margin, the vignette spared, small life: “As a diarist he is simply the best there was buried in a Waterloo garden under an mark to lower margin of Index p. xxii. Volume 2: elaborately inscribed ‘tombstone’. For its was, with the good fortune to be close to the contemporary ownership inscription of ?William centre of momentous events” (ODNB). loss Uxbridge was offered and refused an Beebey to front pastedown, covers slightly marked annual pension of £1,200, thus saving the overall, extremities rubbed, tips lightly bumped, £7,500 [116143] nation £47,000. superficial splitting to front joint, p. 282 very Within three weeks Uxbridge was back in slightly marked, else internally clean. Box joints London. Later, the first articulated artificial split and frayed. Withal a very good copy, entirely limb ever devised – the ‘Anglesey leg’ – was unrestored in its original binding. fitted to his stump. On 4 July he was created

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127 been turned down by several publishers and in his own style. Warne were now prepared looked as if it might never be published did to publish it (though in a slight to Rawnsley, POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Peter Potter turn to this private printing. they preferred Potter’s prose to his verse), Rabbit. [London: privately printed,] February on the proviso that Potter provide colour £17,500 [63311] 1902 illustrations for the entire story; Potter finally agreed, knowing the book would first Sextodecimo. Original olive green boards pictori- 128 ally stamped and titled in black to front cover. appear as she had envisioned, but in turn Spine rounded (not flat). Housed in a green half POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Peter insisted that the illustrations be printed in morocco solander box. Colour frontispiece and 41 Rabbit. London: Frederick Warne and Co., the more expensive three-colour process, full-page black and white illustrations. Spine and [1902] and the price must be one that “little rabbits edges a little rubbed, light foxing to first couple could afford”. In 1903, to make room for of leaves, bookplate of Henry Frederick Thynne, Sextodecimo. Original grey paper-covered the introduction of the illustrated endpa- 6th marquess of Bath. An excellent copy of this boards, titles to spine and front board white, extremely rare edition. grey leaf-patterned endpapers. Frontispiece and pers, four plates (including the one of Mrs 30 colour illustrations by the author. Ownership McGregor and the pie) were withdrawn from first (privately printed) edition, sec- inscription to front free endpaper. Small tear the publication. The first trade edition has ond printing; one of 200 copies printed. and a little wear to head of spine, tiny split to leaf-pattern endpapers and the text “wept The first printing was issued in December head of front joint, but sound, covers and tips a big tears” on p. 51 (the text reads “cried big 1901 in a edition of 250 copies. The Tale of Peter little rubbed, a couple of small marks to p. 44, tears” in the privately printed edition: “wept Rabbit was developed from a picture letter otherwise internally bright. An excellent copy, in big tears” in the first three impressions of sent to Noel Moore on 4 September 1893. A unusually nice condition. the trade edition; and “shed big tears” from few years later, Beatrix Potter thought it might first trade edition. Warne had recon- the fourth impression onwards). make a small book. She contacted Moore to sidered the “Bunny book”, as they called it, Linder, p. 421; Quinby 2. see if he had kept the letter and if she might following a second approach from Potter’s borrow it back; the letter was then expanded friend Hardwicke Rawnsley, an author of £5,000 [116062] into the book. Only when the manuscript had children’s verses who had rewritten the text

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129 130 131 POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Benjamin (RACKHAM, Arthur.) GOLDSMITH, RAND, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged. New York: Bunny. London: Frederick Warne and Co., Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. London: Random House, 1957 1904 George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1929 Octavo. Original green cloth boards, spine let- Sextodecimo. Original grey paper-covered Quarto. Publisher’s original vellum boards, gilt tered in gilt on black, monogram to front board boards, titles to spine and front cover in dark title to spine and front board, triple rule to front gilt, top edge blue, yellow endpapers. With the green, pictorial label to front board, illustrated board, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others dust jacket. Small bump to centre of spine, front endpapers. Frontispiece and 26 colour illustra- untrimmed. Housed in the original card box with hinge cracked, not affecting endpapers but visible tions by the author. An excellent, clean copy. printed label. Colour frontispiece and 12 colour at gutter of title page, text block sound, internally plates, black and white illustrations in the text, fresh; a very good copy in the bright jacket with first edition, with “muffatees” (“muf- by Rackham. The occasional minor blemish, a two short closed tears to head of spine, a couple fetees” in the second impression onward) bright clean copy with a couple of light marks to of shallow chips and rubbing to extremities. and “we” in Roman type (italics in the the spine. The card box is split at two corners and first edition, inscribed by the au- second impression onward) on page 15. The slightly tanned. An excellent copy. thor on the front free endpaper, “To Bill regular trade binding of the first impression deluxe edition, number 490 of 575 cop- Davidson – cordially – Ayn Rand.” was either grey or tan paper boards, with no ies signed by arthur rackham. priority between them. £6,000 [115004] Latimore and Haskell p. 65; Riall p. 170. Linder, p. 424; Quinby 6. £1,000 [115989] £2,000 [117111]

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133 132 (ROBINSON, W. Heath.) POE, Edgar Allan. The Poems. Illustrated and deco- 132 handcoloured with considerable delicacy and attention to detail. Lovell Reeve (1814–1865) rated. With an introduction by H. Noel REEVE, Lovell. Conchologia Systemati- was one of the leading conchologists of his Williams. London: George Bell & Sons; The ca, or Complete System of Conchology: day and this was his first book: “the publi- Macmillan Co., New York, 1900 in which the lepades and conchiferous cation costs [of which], however, used up Octavo. Original light green boards decorated in mollusca are described and classified all the moneys left to him by his father and gilt and darker green to spine and sides, illustrat- according to their natural organization compelled him to make a fresh start in life. ed endpapers, top edge gilt. Illustrated frontis- and habits. London: Longman, Brown, Green An opportunity to make some money came piece, title page, plates and vignettes by Robinson and Longmans, 1841–42 from his purchase, at Rotterdam, of a large throughout. Spine sunned, some light rubbing to collection of shells amassed by the Dutch ends and corners, a little spotting within, but a 2 volumes, quarto (274 × 206 mm). Contemporary governor-general of the Moluccas, General smart copy in excellent condition. dark green morocco-grain skiver, spines gilt and blind ruled, marbled sides, edges and endpapers. Ryder. Its profitable sale enabled Reeve to first robinson edition of the poems of 301 handcoloured engraved plates (including open a shop in King William Street, Strand, Edgar Allen Poe, scarce, and attractive in numbers 114 & 114*), some heightened with gum where he established himself as a dealer in the original decorated cloth. This copy has arabic, large folding letterpress table. 20th-century natural objects and as a publisher specializing a charming contemporary gift inscription presentation inscription on front pastedowns, neat in natural history books” (ODNB). His later with an apparently original six-line poem ownership stamp of “C. Anthony” at head of titles. monumental Conchologia iconica (1843–78) ran signed “E.V.H.”: “Thou knewest not the Bindings lightly rubbed at extremities, a few small to 20 volumes and “remains a valuable record haven hush | of those who make the port of scrapes, occasional offsetting from plates to letter- of descriptive conchology in the middle years peace; | Thine ever was the fever flush, | The press, a touch of foxing in places but a very good set. of the nineteenth century” (ibid.) throb of thought without release; | But now first edition of one of the most at- Nissen ZBI 3332. that passion-brimming cup is spilled, | Thy tractive and elusive shell books of life’s storm-stricken solitude is stilled.” This the 19th century, the beautiful plates £5,750 [117034]

70 Peter Harrington 132: Spring Miscellany One of the most famous of all big-game hunting epics 135 ROOSEVELT, Theodore. African Game Trails. An account of the African wanderings of an American hunter-naturalist. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1910 2 volumes, large octavo. Original brown half pigskin, pale grey-brown sides, untrimmed. With the dust jackets, card chemises and original slipcase. Photogravure portrait frontispiece, 47 photogravure plates (8 of them from drawings by the great wildlife artist Philip R. Goodwin, the rest “from photographs by Kermit Roosevelt

134 and other members of the expedition”), all with captioned tissue-guards; title pages printed in red & black. Contemporary presentation inscription 135 illustrated edition was published as part of on front free endpaper of volume I, light tan-burn the Endymion Series. from the corners to the endpapers, slipcase and chemises with splits now professionally restored, £750 [116492] some staining and minor stripping from old tape 135 repairs, however overall a remarkably well-pre- 134 served set of this handsome production. scientific in his scrutiny of every aspect of the (ROLLING STONES.) GRUEN, Bob. 25 first and signed limited edition, African wilderness, and often movingly lyri- Years of the Rolling Stones in the USA. number 129 of 500 copies signed by the cal. The density of recorded details, whether Crossfire Hurricane. Guildford: Genesis author, printed on Ruisdael Paper by the ornithological, paleontological, botanical, Publications Limited, 1997 De Vinne Press. Absenting himself from poli- or anthropological, was almost overwhelm- tics for a year, Roosevelt set off on an elabo- ing. Most came not from notes, but from the Quarto. Original full white leather screenprinted author’s movie-camera memory, which in in three colours with Mick Jagger on the front rate hunting trip to gather specimens for the cover and Keith Richards on the back, titles to Smithsonian. The huge party, including over advance of any system yet available in nick- spine in black and white. Housed in a four colour 250 porters and guides, was partly under- elodeons, registered both sight and sound. screenprinted slipcase featuring all of the Stones. written by Scribner’s who gave Roosevelt a Over and above its documentary appeal, the With the original packing box. Photographs by $50,000 commission for a series of 12 articles book exuded a kind of savage romance new to Bob Gruen throughout. Book and slipcase in on the safari which form the basis of this American readers” (Edmund Morris, Colonel excellent condition. book. The party crossed British East Africa, Roosevelt, 2010). Sets in such collectable condi- first edition, signed limited issue, into the Belgian Congo, and traced the Nile tion and with the surviving chemises and one of 1,750 copies; together with the origi- across the Sudan to Khartoum. slipcase are most uncommon. nal prospectus. “Lavishly illustrated, African Game Trails was Czech, African Big Game, p. 138–39 (“one of the most fa- irresistible to readers who could stomach the mous of all big-game hunting epics, this, with its larger £600 [114858] meticulous descriptions of bullets drilling than life sportsmen, was almost continually in print hearts and brains. Even those who could until the 1930s. Roosevelt’s total bag was enormous even by the liberal standards of that era”). not . . . had to concede that Roosevelt was £10,000 [117116]

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136 137 137 ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the RUSKIN, John. The Stones of Venice. Philosopher’s Stone. London: Bloomsbury, London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1873–4 tects, who began to introduce Romanesque forms and Venetian and Veronese colour 1997 3 volumes, octavo. Contemporary dark green half and sculptural features into their designs” Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers, titles to front morocco, spine gilt in compartments with titles (ODNB). In the most famous chapter, “The cover in yellow, white and dark green, titles to direct, double gilt rule to sides with marbled spine yellow, white and black. Issued without a cloth, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Numer- nature of Gothic”, which was twice reprinted dust jacket. Spine a touch faded, laminate lifting ous plates by Thomas Lupton, J. C. Armytage, R. in his lifetime (first for the inauguration of very slightly at fore edge, small crease to front P. Cuff and others after Ruskin, illustrations in the London Working Men’s College in 1854, wrapper at upper tip and rear wrapper at lower the text. Some scuffs and rubbing to ends, joint and second by William Morris in 1892), tip, internally fresh. An excellent, bright copy. and corners, but sound and internally clean, a “Ruskin argued that under conditions of very good set. first edition, paperback issue, one of industrialization and the division of labour, 5,150 copies. With all the requisite points signed limited edition, one of 1,500 social disharmony and industrial unrest were of first printing: Bloomsbury imprint, copies signed by the author at the end of the bound to occur, because the previously ex- 10-down-to-1 number line, and the list of preface. Ruskin’s magnum opus, one of the pressive craftsman – Ruskin’s ideal working equipment on p. 53 with “1 wand” appearing key texts of the aesthetic movement, was man – had been reduced to the condition of twice in the list. first published 1851–3. Ruskin’s The Stones a machine” (ibid.) of Venice and The Seven Lamps of Architecture £1,250 [116769] Errington A1(aa). “with their obsession with the function and £4,950 [116120] aesthetics of architecture, over and beyond 138 its history and practice. . . proved a revolu- tionary success” (PMM). “The importance of SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. The Edward- The Stones of Venice lies . . . in its celebration ians. London: The Hogarth Press, 1930 of the Byzantine and the Gothic, which had Octavo. Original japon-backed red cloth, titles to an immediate effect on Victorian archi- spine gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Gift

72 Peter Harrington 132: Spring Miscellany 138 139 140 inscription to front free endpaper. Tips lightly 140 emphasis on the Volksgeist and their applica- bumped; an excellent copy. tion of the historical method, had expressed SAVIGNY, Friedrich Carl von. System signed limited edition, number 18 of his reaction, influenced by romanticism, des heutigen Römischen Rechts. [With:] against the natural law theories of the French 125 copies signed by the author. This novel HEUSER, O. L. Sachen- und Quellen- “celebrated the lavish style of country house Revolution and of liberalism generally. In his life that she had observed in her parents’ Reister zu von Savigny’s System des dogmatic teaching, however, he not only af- heyday at Knole” (ODNB). heutigen römischen Rechts. Berlin: Veit firmed the doctrines of 18th-century rational- und Comp., 1840–49, 1851 ist jurisprudence but made these doctrines Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme, A20(b). the basis of his system. 9 volumes, octavo (200 × 122 mm). Contemporary £1,250 [117118] marbled boards, spines ruled gilt, gilt lettered The System is “based on fundamental no- paper labels, top edges stained red. Ownership tions of German natural law theory as well as 139 inscription of Malikow Michael Weltzien dated on Kant’s legal philosophy. Within the frame- 1841 to first free endpaper, with his occasional work of these categories, Savigny transcended SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. The Garden. contemporary underlining and marginalia in ink, Roman law in many respects, adapting it to London: Michael Joseph, 1946 bookplate of August Weltzien to front past- modern requirements or developing new Octavo. Original tan buckram, titles and illustra- edowns. Volume I neatly rebacked preserving the solutions, many of which have become influ- tion to front board and spine gilt, top edge gilt, original spine, two spine labels replaced with gilt ential in German and other legal science; for lettered cloth labels to style; spine ends, corners others uncut. Vignettes throughout. A fine copy. example, his doctrines of contract and corpo- and board edges somewhat worn, marbled paper first edition, signed limited issue. of the last 4 volumes slightly different. Some ration, and particularly his system of private Number 352 of 750 copies printed on hand- marginal dampmarking, occasional offset and international law – which, like the systems of made paper and signed by the author. A long spotting; withal a very good set. Story and Mancini, counts among the classic theories in this branch of law” (IESS 14, p. 22). poetical sequence on the author’s favourite first edition of savigny’s massive work subject, beautifully produced. – over 4,000 pages long – which demonstrat- Goedeke VI, 233; Walker, the Oxford Companion to Law, p. 1103f. £750 [115321] ed the great and living unity of much of the Roman law. His earlier writings, with their £2,500 [114911]

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141 142 143 SCHWARZ, Georg. Almost Forgotten SCOTT, Sir Walter. The Poetical Works. SEUSS, Dr. On Beyond Zebra. New York: Germany. Translate by Laura Riding and Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co.; Long- Random House, 1955 Robert Graves. Deyá: The Seizin Press, for man, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, J. Murray, Quarto. Publisher’s pictorial paper-covered Constable & Co., Ltd, London, 1936 and Hurst, Robinson & Co., London, 1823 boards, titles to spine and front cover white, illustrated endpapers. With the dust jacket. Il- Octavo. Original orange cloth, spine lettered in 10 volumes, small octavo (140 × 88 mm). Con- lustrated throughout the text by the author. Spine black. With the dust jacket. Photographic fron- temporary red full streaked morocco, titles gilt- ends lightly bumped, some wear to spine ends tispiece. Spine-ends very lightly bumped, small tooled in compartments with titles direct, sides and tips. An excellent copy in the jacket with marking to upper outer corner of pp. 267–74. bordered with elaborate gilt and blind rolls, gilt- short closed tears and creasing to head and foot An excellent, tight copy in the dust jacket with rolled board edges and turn-ins, brown coated of front panel, trivial loss and creasing to spine a slightly toned spine and rear panel, and tape endpapers, all edges gilt. Engraved portrait ends, some rubbing to extremities. repaired verso at head and foot of spine, and at frontispiece to the first volume, and a vignette head of both joints. title page to each volume. Illustrated bookplate first edition, inscribed by the au- of Robert J. Hayhurst to front pastedown of first first edition of this memoir by a Ger- thor on the verso of the front free endpa- volume. Some minor rubbing, marks and scuffs per, “For David Bolton with Best wishes from man art-dealer who fled Nazi Germany and to covers, but a very attractive set in excellent Dr. Seuss.” became Graves’s neighbour in Majorca, “a condition, internally sound and fresh. charming, individual and informative book £2,500 [115025] which never received its due” (Seymour- A very handsomely bound library set of Smith, Robert Graves: His Life and Works, p. 245). Scott’s poetical works, printed in Edinburgh Graves and Riding actually worked from a during his lifetime. literary rendering prepared by Kenneth Gay £600 [116383] (born Karl Goldschmidt), Graves’s personal secretary, companion and editor on Majorca.

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74 Peter Harrington 132: Spring Miscellany (Nimrod) was reviewed on publication by the Manchester Guardian as “the best book of Polar travel which has ever been written”. The sledge expedition “to the south magnetic pole was one of the three foremost achievements of this expedition. The other two achievements were, first, the ascent and survey of Mount Erebus (12,448 feet), the active volcano on Ross Island and, second, the southern sledge journey, which reached within 100 miles of the south pole” (ODNB). The expedition established Shackleton as a “bona fide English hero,” but the success of the book did little to alleviate “the financial problems left to him by the expedition” 144 (Books on Ice). Books on Ice 7.4; Rosove 305.B1b; Spence 1097; Taurus 58. 144 £1,500 [116656] 145 SHACKLETON, Ernest H. The Heart 145 of the Antarctic. Being the story of the January 1915, due to exceptionally cold and British Antarctic Expedition 1907–1909. SHACKLETON, Ernest H. South. The icy conditions, the Endurance was trapped With an Introduction by Hugh Rob- Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition in ice. Ten months later, the pressure of ert Mill, D.Sc. An Account of the First 1914–1917. New York: Macmillan Company, the ice crushed the ship which sank, leav- Journey to the South Magnetic Pole by 1920 ing Shackleton stranded some 1,600 km Professor T. W. Edgeworth David, F.R.S. from any human activity. “Shackleton now Octavo. Original green cloth, title to spine and showed his supreme qualities of leadership. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1909 front board. Colour frontispiece and 87 half-tone plates, folding map at the rear. A little rubbed, With five companions he made a voyage of 2 volumes, large octavo. Original blue cloth, 800 miles in a 22-foot boat through some of silver lettered spines, front covers lettered and corners bumped, head and tail of the spine with large pictorial block in silver, top edges gilt, crumpled and just starting to split, a little give the stormiest seas in the world, crossed the untrimmed. Photogravure frontispiece to each in both hinges, mild tape residue marks to the unknown lofty interior of South Georgia, volume, 12 colour plates (with captioned tissue- free endpapers, pale toning throughout and the and reached a Norwegian whaling station on guards), 255 black and white plates, 3 folding occasional spot of foxing, short closed tear to the the north coast. After three attempts, Shack- maps and folding panorama in end-pocket of map, overall very good. leton succeeded (30 August 1916) in rescuing volume II, numerous illustrations and diagrams first us edition, presentation copy, the rest of the Endurance party and bringing throughout; title pages printed in brown & black. inscribed by the author on the front free them to South America” (ODNB). Amazingly, Without the errata slip in volume II. Inner joints all members of the Endurance party survived of volume I cracked but sound. A very good set. endpaper: “To Miss Jacobs with best wishes from E.H. Shackleton 21st June 1920”. In the ordeal. first us edition, first printing; a 1914, Shackleton and a 28-man crew had set Books on Ice 7.8; Conrad p. 224; Spence 1107; Taurus 105. superior copy: the attractive original cloth out on the Endurance in the hope to be the £5,000 [116960] bindings very bright. Shackleton’s account first to cross the Antarctic continent – an of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1907–9 1,800 miles journey, sea to sea. However, in

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 75 Heath’s Shakespeare – published by “the bookselling blacksmith” John Stockdale 146 SHAKESPEARE, William. The Plays. From the corrected text of Johnson and Steevens. London: for John Stockdale, 1807 6 volumes, quarto (320 × 250 mm). Contemporary diced russia, richly gilt spines, three-line gilt border on sides enclosing a broad floriate roll tooled border, pretty gilt roll tool turn-ins, marbled endpapers and edges. 22 copperplates engraved by James Heath after Stothard (16), William Ham- ilton (4) and Henry Fuseli (2). Armorial bookplates of J. P. Brown Westhead (1807–1877), MP and deputy chairman of the London and North Western Railway and the Buenos Aries Great 146 147 Southern Railway Company (listed in the Journal of the Society of Arts for February 1856). Front joint of not claim any textul revision, instead using the That book in many’s eyes doth share the glory, volume VI cracked but sound, covers of volume III Johnson–Steevens text. Its main appeal was that in gold clasps locks in the golden story rather mottled, a few light abrasions, some foxing its format – six large quarto volumes, clearly 147 and browning in volume II but withal an excellent designed to appeal not to the lower economic set, the russia bindings – notoriously fragile – in groups but to those who might justifiably be SHAKESPEARE, William. [Romeo & Ju- unusually good condition. called the upper middling sort, who had the liet and As You Like It extracted from] The first heath edition in book form; it was money to purchase these expensive volumes, Plays of William Shakespeare, with the originally issued in parts by Robinson between space to display them and leisure to read them purest text, and the briefest notes. Ed- 1802 and 1804. The London-born son of a . . . [Eleven of the plays are illustrated,] the ited by J. Payne Collier. London: Privately bookbinder, James Heath (1757–1834) became only tragedy being Macbeth and the only history Printed for the Subscribers, 1876 one of the most widely-employed engravers King John. Those with illustrations are A Mid- of the age, producing illustrations for such summer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, Two Small quarto. Finely bound by Ramage c.1924 in red full morocco, spine gilt in compartments, celebrated works as Lavater’s Essays on Physi- Gentlemen of Verona, The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth sides bordered with double gilt rule, Romeo & ognomy (1789), Vancouver’s Voyage of Discovery Night, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Merchant of Venice, Juliet quotation and date “13th August 1874” gilt (1798), Bruce’s Travels (1790), and the frontis- The Tempest and The Winter’s Tale. Some are to front board, As You Like It quotation and dated piece portrait to Boswell’s Life of Johnson (1790). remarkable as much for the moment shown as “13th August 1924” gilt to rear board, 9 ct. gold This handsome edition – with engravings for their visual or interpretive quality” (Stuart clasps, gilt-rolled turn-ins, all edges gilt. A few after works by Thomas Stothard, William Sillars, The Illustrated Shakespeare 1709–1875, Cam- minor marks to rear board, excellent condition. Hamilton and Henry Fuseli, and letterpress bridge 2008, p. 165). a lavish and extraordinarily by the distinguished printer Thomas Bens- Jaggard, p. 511. thoughtful golden wedding anni- ley – is a substantial demonstration of his £4,750 [115551] versary gift: privately printed versions of huge popularity. His engravings of the two Shakespeare’s romantic plays Romeo & Juliet brooding Fuseli plates for Macbeth are the and As You Like It bound together in a fine standout illustrations. “Like the great majority Ramage binding, with 9 carat gold clasps of illustrated editions from the half-century bearing the initials of the married couple en- after [Bell’s edition], Heath’s Shakespeare did

76 Peter Harrington 132: Spring Miscellany graved in them. The front board bears an ap- posite quotation from Romeo & Juliet, “That book in many’s eyes doth share the glory, | That in gold clasps locks in the golden story”, and the rear one from As You Like It, “‘Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, | And after one hour more ‘twill be eleven; | And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe.” The dates of the wedding and anniversary are also given to front and rear, 13 August 1874 to 13 August 1924. Within the book is inscribed “To John & Euphans, Husband & Wife for 50 years. With appreciation & Joy & Love, from George. 13th August 1924. Having attained, attain.” There is also a touching autograph letter laid in from George to the recipients, sending the 148 book “as a belated supplementary Golden Wedding Gift, for I don’t like a mere third first edition with the imprint of the part share in spoons. Bless your hearts. Live printer T. Davison on the verso of p. 235, vol. up to your high calling.” I, and with the Hanway Street address in the £1,750 [115593] final adverts. The Tales were chiefly the work of Charles’s sister Mary Lamb, who had pre- 149 148 viously written Mrs Leicester’s School and edited Poetry for Children for William Godwin’s Juve- Quarto (275 × 215 mm). Later 20th-century (SHAKESPEARE, William.) LAMB, nile Library. Fourteen of the 20 adaptations dark green crushed morocco, gilt lettered spine Charles [& Mary.] Tales from Shake- were by Mary, the rest by Charles. “Originally decorated with theatrical motifs, gilt stamp of speare: Designed for the use of young the Tales were to be anonymous but Godwin the mask of tragedy on front cover, top edges gilt, persuaded the unreluctant Charles to have untrimmed, richly gilt turn-ins, marbled endpa- persons. Embellished with copper-plates. pers. Colour frontispiece and 29 mounted colour his name printed on the title-page” (St Clair, In two volumes. London: printed for Thomas plates (with captioned tissue-guards), head- and Hodgkins, at the Juvenile Library, 1807 The Godwins and the Shelleys). The Tales quickly tailpieces by W. G. Simmonds; title page printed became a favourite and have been in print in red & black. Embossed library stamp of “LBJ” 2 volumes, duodecimo (160 × 99 mm). Con- ever since. on front and rear endpapers. An excellent copy. temporary black straight-grain half morocco, marbled sides, titles to spines gilt, gilt ruled to Ashley III.42; Gumuchian 3614; Muir, English Childrens’ A handsomely bound copy of this attractively Books 102–3. spines and covers, marbled edges. 20 engraved il- illustrated edition. William G. Simmonds lustrations by William Mulready. Faint ownership £4,500 [116180] (1876–1968) studied under Walter Crane at signature to front pastedown and contemporary the RCA and later assisted with tank and ownership inscription to title page of each vol- 149 ume. Spine ends and tips rubbed, boards scuffed aircraft design during the Great War. The and rubbed, a little wear to edges, a couple of SHAKESPEARE, William. Shake- introduction is by Arthur Quiller-Couch. tiny worm holes to joints, a little worm-tracing to speare’s Tragedy of Hamlet. Illustrated £875 [115390] hinges, occasional faint mark or spot of foxing to contents. An excellent set. by W. G. Simmonds. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [c.1910]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 77 Mary Shelley’s “ardent defence” of Percy Bysshe 150 SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Posthumous Poems. London: Printed for John and Henry L. Hunt, 1824 Octavo (220 × 142 mm). Early 20th-century dark blue morocco by Riviere & Son, richly gilt spine with a dot-and-flower pattern radiating from a central point within each compartment, sides with single-line gilt rules and dot-and-flower pattern corner pieces, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, gilt turn-ins with trailing floriate motifs at the corners, deep burgundy coated endpapers. Binding just a little rubbed at extremities, inner joints partially cracked but sound, occasional spot of foxing. 151 A very good, tall copy, bound without the errata. 151 first edition, one of 500 copies, published by John and Henry Leigh Hunt. (SHEPARD, Ernest H.) GRAHAME, “Posthumous Poems, which included those Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. inspired by Claire, Emilia Viviani, Sophia 150 London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1931 Stacey and Jane Williams, their identities Large octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bind- discreetly masked by asterisks and initials, This collection “includes ‘Julian and ery in dark green morocco, titles and decoration was published in an edition of five hundred Maddalo’, ‘The Witch of Atlas’, ‘Letter to to spine gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards in June 1824. Mary wrote the Preface herself. Maria Gisborne’, ‘The Triumph of Life’, gilt, pictorial block gilt to front board, inner Opening it with a mild rebuke to [Leigh] dentelles gilt, floral endpapers, top edge gilt, ‘Prince Athanase’, ‘Ode to Naples’, ‘Mont Hunt, she offered an ardent defence of others untrimmed. Illustrated throughout by E. Blanc’, as well as fifty-nine ‘Miscellaneous Shelley’s name. Praising him as a fearless H. Shepard. The occasional minor blemish, an Poems’, nine ‘Fragments’, five translations, crusader for the ‘improvement of the moral excellent copy in a fine binding. and ‘Alastor’, which was included because and physical state of mankind’, she gave the original volume, published in 1816, was signed limited edition, number 57 this as ‘the chief reason why he, like other now very scarce (even Mary had found it of 200 large paper copies signed by both illustrious reformers, was pursued by hatred difficult to track down a copy)” (Bodleian Grahame and Shepard. It was through A. A. and calumny’. The chief aim of the Preface Libraries exhibition online: Shelley’s Ghost). Milne’s involvement with Toad of Toad Hall, was to defuse the image of Shelley the athe- A choicely-bound copy with an excellent the dramatic version of The Wind in the Wil- ist, the troublemaker, the rebel . . . Three provenance: from the library of the distin- lows, that Shepard was first introduced to hundred copies of Posthumous Poems had been guished bibliophile Roderick Terry (1849– Kenneth Grahame. This led to their partner- sold when Sir Timothy [Shelley, the poet’s 1933), president of the Newport Historical ship in producing a new edition illustrated father], furious that his wishes [to stop pub- Society and the Redwood Library, with his by Shepard, still one of the most popular of lication] had been disregarded, ordered the fine engraved bookplate. all versions of The Wind in the Willows. remainder of the edition to be withdrawn only two months after publication” (Miranda £1,750 [115209] £6,750 [115497] Seymour, Mary Shelley, 2000, pp. 341–2).

78 Peter Harrington 132: Spring Miscellany civil war, but his reports to this effect were badly received in Washington, being seen as an over-involvement in factionalism, and led directly to his recall. Churchill and his wife returned to Brooklyn, where he would meet Slocum again four years later; in the mean- time, the loss of his position was a great blow, and he suffered a breakdown in 1898. Thomas Trood, a resident of Samoa and sometime 152 acting British consul, recalled in his memoir Island Reminiscences that Churchill was “a man Joshua Slocum.” Slocum visited the couple of most versatile talent and a linguist . . . when he made landfall in Samoa on 16 July unfortunately after leaving here he became 1896, recording their initial meeting in the insane and had to be placed in an asylum.” As book on p. 154, having been invited to dine he recuperated, Churchill completed his most 152 with them: “There was a lady’s hand in things famous work, Polynesian Wanderings, the first about the consulate at Samoa. Mrs Churchill major study to employ linguistic analysis to Inscribed to “the best authority in the islands” picked the crew for the general’s boat, and establish the origins of the Polynesian races in on Samoan culture saw to it that they wore a smart uniform and Indonesia. 152 that they could sing the Samoan boatsong, During the First World War, Churchill’s which in the first week Mrs Churchill herself unworldliness led him into a honey-trap in SLOCUM, Joshua. Sailing Alone Around could sing like a native girl.” 1917, involving Despina Davidovitch, a Ger- the World. Illustrated by Thomas Fog- William Churchill (1859–1920), a scholar man spy. Churchill, as head of the Foreign arty and George Varian. New York: The who “produced substantial work while in near Language Newspaper Division for the Com- Century Co., 1900 total obscurity”, became Consul General to mittee on Public Information, passed copies Samoa in 1896. His commission was extended of his work to her under the impression that Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles and decoration in 1897, making him also Consul General to she was a British journalist. Late one night, to spine and front board in silver and green, top edge gilt, others uncut. Housed in a custom blue Tonga. Slocum’s comment on “a lady’s hand Churchill was severely beaten by a German quarter morocco and cloth slipcase. Half-tone in things about the consulate” is revealing: agent, suffering a fracture to his skull, and a frontispiece, 64 illustrations. Contemporary globe- despite, or perhaps because of, Churchill’s few days later the watchman who had been on shaped advertisement for the book and various ability to command “vast amounts of linguis- duty was murdered. Davidovitch was arrested newspaper articles about the voyage and Slocum’s tic data”, he was paralysed when it came to his but died on Ellis Island in suspicious circum- life laid in. Spine slightly darkened, small mark day-to-day affairs. Llewella once noted that stances before she could be deported. to upper tip of front cover, some speckling to rear he was “the best and dearest man in the world cover, internally fresh. An exceptionally nice copy. Morris & Howland, p. 126 *; Toy 462; Theroux, “William and the very worst manager of business”. Churchill: A Fractured Life”, The Hawaiian Journal of His- first edition, presentation copy, Churchill, was “a brilliant man, though tory, vol. 29 (1995). inscribed by the author on the front free flawed in those areas the world considers £7,500 [115598] endpaper to the brilliant American Polynesian necessary for success.” Samoan chiefs and ethnologist and philologist William Church- missionaries alike acknowledged him “to be ill and his wife Llewella Pierce, who feature the best authority in the islands” on cus- in the book: “To Genl and Mrs Churchill in toms, language, and genealogy. His intimate kind recollection of our meeting in Samoa knowledge of local customs and the language 1896 and again New York this April 5th 1900. enabled him to discern the signs of coming 152

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153 first us edition of the account of Stan- case, printed paper spine label. Slipcase corners ley’s controversial trans-African expedition worn and with blemish on rear board, the book STANLEY, Henry Morton. Through the of 1874–7, originally published in the UK ear- fine, an excellent copy. Dark Continent. Or the Sources of the lier the same year. Stanley finally dispelled first edition, signed limited issue. Nile around the Great Lakes of Equatori- Livingstone’s notion that the “Lualaba was Number 4 of 99 copies signed by the author al Africa and down the Livingstone River the source of the Nile and vindicated Speke’s and specially bound. to the Atlantic Ocean. New York: Harper & claim that the lake seen on his expedition Goldstone & Payne A5a. Brothers, Publishers, 1878 with Burton was indeed one of the sources” (Howgego). However, acclaim for his suc- £7,500 [116734] 2 volumes, octavo. Original dark green cloth with wraparound pictorial design in red, black cess in “solving the remaining mysteries of and gilt, title gilt to spine and front cover, African geography” (ODNB) was tempered 155 brown coated endpapers. Portrait frontispiece by criticism that his manner of carrying STEINBECK, John. The Grapes of in each volume and 32 plates, numerous wood- through the expedition amounted to “explo- engravings to the text, many full-page, 10 maps ration by warfare”. Wrath. New York: The Viking Press, 1939 in all, one double-page and 3 folding, the 2 larger Howgego IV S59; Mendelssohn II, p. 380. Octavo. Original buff cloth, titles to spine and folding coloured maps in end-pockets to each pictorial design to boards dark brown, yellow volume. Spines very gently rolled, front board of £875 [114841] and brown decorated endpapers, top edge yellow. vol. 2 faintly bowed, light rubbing to joints and With the dust jacket. An exceptionally bright copy extremities, headcaps slightly nicked and worn, 154 in the jacket with just a hint of rubbing to spine inner hinges cracked but holding, neatly repaired ends and tips. in vol. 2, marginal foxing to vol. 2 frontispiece, STEINBECK, John. In Dubious Battle. else the occasional trivial spot, maps in end- New York: Covici, Friede, 1936 first edition. pockets with small closed tears at intersections Goldstone & Payne A12. of folds, the other folding map with a few short Octavo. Original black cloth backing beige cloth nicks to the fore edge. Overall a very good copy in boards, spine in gilt, red top edge, clear acetate £6,000 [115985] the spectacular publisher’s binding. jacket as issued. With original black board slip-

80 Peter Harrington 132: Spring Miscellany 156 STEUART, Sir James. An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Oeconomy: Being an essay on the science of Domes- tic Policy in Free Nations. In which are particularly considered population, ag- riculture, trade, industry, money, coin, interest, circulation, banks, exchange, public credit, and taxes. In two volumes. London: printed for A. Millar, and T. Cadell, 1767 2 volumes, quarto (283 × 220 mm). Contemporary tree calf, twin red and dark blue morocco labels, smooth spines richly gilt, boards with gilt roll border, edges yellow. 2 errata leaves (at the end of the Preface in Volume 1 and at the end of Volume 2). Volume 1 with new pagination from p. 562 onwards but text and register are continuous. 2 folding letterpress tables. A few contemporary or early marginal annotations in pencil. Mild rubbing to boards, repaired tear to sig. a1 in Volume 2, slight dampstaining to bottom margins of both volumes, occasionally affecting text, foxing to pp. 453–5 in Volume 1. A very good copy with an attractive provenance. first edition of the masterpiece of this important proto-economist. “Sir James Steuart had the misfortune to be followed by Adam Smith in less than a decade. 156 Otherwise [Steuart’s Inquiry] would probably have served as the standard English economic cosmopolitan perspective later attracted the economy in the years following the treaty of text” (Carpenter). Its later influence “proved well-documented attention of Marx, while it Paris (1783)” (ODNB). to be most considerable on the continent. is known that Hegel spent some three months From the library of Sir William Forbes During the 1770s the text was translated into studying one of the German editions. But per- (1739–1806), sixth Baronet of Pitsligo, an German (twice), and into French in 1789. haps the most intriguing link is with North eminent Scottish banker and philanthropist One authority has noted that ‘until the final America. The Dublin edition of the Inquiry mentioned in Boswell’s Tour to the Hebrides. decade of the eighteenth century, Sir James (1770) was widely circulated in the colonies. Steuart’s Inquiry was better known and more Blaug, Great Economists before Keynes, pp. 241–2; Einaudi The book also attracted the attention of Alex- 1527; ESTC N797; Goldsmiths’ 10276; Kress 6498; Pal- frequently cited than Smith’s Wealth of Nations’ ander Hamilton, whose protectionist position grave III, pp. 475–6; Sabin 91387 (for the first US edition, (Tribe, 133). The admiration of the members was adopted with a view to counterbalancing 1771); Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis p. 176. of the 19th-century German historical school the competitive advantages of the British £17,500 [115900] is now well known. Steuart’s historical and

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157 would receive an initial sum of £20 from the pale spotting to prelims and terminal advertise- publishers, with royalties of one shilling per ment leaves, very occasional pale finger- and other STEVENSON, Robert Louis. An Inland copy commencing after the sale of the first marks to margins. A very good copy. Voyage. [With the original agreement 1,000 copies. An Inland Voyage is a pioneering for the copyright bound in.] London: C. work of outdoor literature about a canoeing Kegan Paul & Co. 1878 trip through France and Belgium in 1876. Octavo (185 × 122 mm). Finely bound by San- £4,500 [117155] gorski & Sutcliffe in blue crushed morocco, title and compartments to spine gilt, rules and floral 158 decoration to covers gilt with onlaid red morocco, turn-ins and top edge gilt, blue silk doublures, STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Treasure original cloth bound in at rear. Housed in a cus- Island. Illustrated Edition. London: Cassell tom card slipcase. Handsomely bound; a beautiful copy with very slightly faded spine. and Company, Limited, 1885 Octavo (187 × 120 mm). Original red cloth, spine first edition of stevenson’s first and covers lettered and decorated in black and book; exceptionally, this copy con- gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, yellow tains the original copyright agree- surface-paper endpapers. Colour map frontispiece ment, signed by Stevenson and mounted on with tissue-guard, engraved additional title, 25 a stub before the half-title. The agreement engraved plates after F. T. Merrill and others. Spine between the author and the publishers, rolled and slightly faded, traces of effaced label at dated 28 January 1878, states that Stevenson foot, tips bumped, cloth very lightly soiled overall, 158

82 Peter Harrington 132: Spring Miscellany 159 160 first illustrated uk edition of Steven- plates by Hammatt Billings. Occasional foxing to the United States was greater than that of son’s classic, which was originally serialised contents; an excellent set, attractively bound. any book before or since” (PMM). in the magazine Young Folks between October first edition. “Even before the publica- Printing and the Mind of Man 332; Grolier American 100, 61. 1881 and January 1882, and published in tion of the serial [in the abolitionist news- £2,000 [116175] book form the following year. The first US paper The National Era] the Boston publisher edition, issued by Roberts Bros in 1884, was John P. Jewett had expressed an interest in 160 also illustrated, but contained four plates publishing in book form. The two volumes, only. Uncommon. issued both in brown cloth and paper TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. The Poetical £1,250 [116537] wrappers, appeared on 20 March 1852, two Works. London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, instalments before the conclusion of the 1896–1910 159 serial in The National Era. The first printing of 12 volumes, small octavo (133 × 101 mm). Quarter five thousand copies was exhausted in a few vellum, green morocco labels, gilt tooling to STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s days and a second printing of the same size, Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly. Boston: spines, blue cloth boards, plain cream endpapers, indicated by ‘ten thousand’ on the title-page, top edges gilt. Housed in a blue cloth slipcase. John P. Jewett & Co., 1852 was completely disposed of by the end of Spines very slightly tanned, an excellent set. March. The sale of the book was indeed phe- 2 volumes, octavo (188 × 115 mm). Recent brown The People’s edition. A particularly attractive crushed half morocco, brown cloth sides, titles to nomenal . . . In the emotion-charged atmos- set of Tennyson’s works. spines gilt, gilt raised bands and compartments, phere of mid-nineteenth-century America gilt rules to covers, top edges gilt, marbled Uncle Tom’s Cabin exploded like a bombshell £600 [116491] endpapers. Title vignettes and 6 wood-engraved . . . the social impact of Uncle Tom’s Cabin on

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96). Tetens (1736×1738–1807) was professor of philosophy and mathematics at the Uni- versity of Kiel from 1776 to 1789. Ziegenfuss II, 687. £2,500 [115140]

161 162 THACKERAY, William Makepeace. Van- An influence on Kant first edition of Tetens’s “extended inquiry ity Fair. A Novel without a Hero. With 161 into the origin and structure of knowledge. [Tetens] distinguished three faculties of the Illustrations on Steel and Wood by the TETENS, Johann Nicolaus. Philoso- human mind: understanding, free will, and Author. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848 phische Versuche über die menschliche feeling of pleasures and pains. He stressed Octavo (209 × 132 mm). Contemporary green Natur und ihre Entwickelung . . . Leipzig: the independence of the third faculty from half calf, flat bands gilt to spine, compartments M. G. Weidmann’s heirs and Reich, 1777 the first two. The three may be reducible to blind-tooled, red morocco label, comb-marbled sides, edges and endpapers. Etched frontis- 2 volumes, octavo (200 × 116 mm). Contemporary one, but if so, according to Tetens, we can- piece, vignette title, 38 plates, 83 wood-engraved sheep, spines ruled gilt in compartments, red not know it . . . Tetens discussed with great vignettes and 66 similar initials after Thackeray. and green morocco labels, marbled endpapers, insight many other extremely complicated Sides and board-edges edges lightly rubbed in all edges gilt. Woodcut printer’s device to titles. problems in metaphysics, ethics, the phi- places, tips slightly bumped and worn, plates Contemporary ownership inscription (Bibliothecae losophy of education, and the philosophy of foxed in margins, the images only affected in one Collegii Episcus) partly erased on titles, ownership language. His Philosophische Versuche exerted or two instances. A very good copy. inscription H. R. Schmitzan on free endpaper. a tremendous influence on Kant when he Spine ends slightly chipped and corners worn, was writing the Critique of Pure Reason, and the first edition in book form, with the covers a little soiled and abraded in places, very many similarities between their doctrines three points traditionally taken to denote occasional spotting, the occasional side rule in first issue (drop-head title in rustic lettering pencil and in ink; a very good copy. are evident” (Encyclopedia of Philosophy VIII,

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164 VERNE, Jules. Clovis Dardentor. Illus- trated. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1897 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and illustrations to spine and front in gilt, grey, black and 163 orange, florally patterned endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated title page and 45 plates. Slight to page 1, the “Marquis of Steyne” vignette 163 rubbing to the ends and tips, slight rubbing from on page 336, later suppressed, and “Mr. Pitt” the colour illustrating the front board, some faint for “Sir Pitt” on page 453, line 31), although, TOLKIEN, J. R. R. The Hobbit or There spotting to tissue-guard and minimally else- as the novel was originally published in 20 and Back Again. London: George Allen and where, but an exceptionally smart and fresh copy, sound and generally in excellent condition. parts between January 1847 and July 1848, Unwin, 1937 such points conceivably would have been Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in first english edition of this Verne caper amended before serialization was complet- green morocco, titles and decoration to spine first published in French in the previous ed. “Modern editions of this classic novel gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, year. This is an exceptionally nice copy in the almost invariably omit Thackeray’s vignettes burgundy endpapers and original map endpapers scarce green variant cloth. and often give only a selection from his etch- bound in, edges gilt. With an elaborate onlay to £1,250 [116440] ings. The reader is deprived thereby not only both the front and back boards. Frontispiece and 9 other illustrations in black and white by the of much amusement but also of important author. A fine copy. clues to the meaning of the story” (Ray). Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914, first edition, one of 1,500 copies. 121; Wolff 6699. Hammond & Anderson A3a. £1,250 [116533] £12,500 [115489]

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165 sessments, but he graciously acknowledged 166 his debt to Wallace, to which Wallace replied 165 in the lengthy appendix here. “This polite Octavo. Original green sand-grained cloth over exchange was widely celebrated as a model bevelled boards, title gilt to the spine together [WALLACE, Robert.] A Dissertation on for the pursuit of truth in an enlightened with a block of Warburton Beetle – Stigmodera the Numbers of Mankind in antient and age. Montesquieu supervised the translation Murrayi – and in black to the front board within modern Times: in which The superior of both works into French. In the Confes- an elaborate frame in black and with a gilt block Populousness of Antiquity is main- sions Rousseau acknowledged the spirit of of The Dust Storm, frame repeated to the rear board in blind, marron surface-paper endpapers. tained. With An Appendix, Containing the debate, praising Hume in particular for having helped edit Wallace’s text” (ODNB). Steel-engraved portrait frontispiece and eight Additional Observations on the same other steel-engraved plates, vignette of the beetle Wallace’s emphasis on the geometrical rate Subject, And Some Remarks on Mr. to the title page, folding map, coloured in outline, of population growth was a direct influence Hume’s Political Discourse, Of the Popu- at the rear. Bookplate of W. P Bodkin, barrister on Thomas Malthus’s population calculus in and son of the legal writer Sir William Bodkin to lousness of antient Nations. Edinburgh: the Essay on the Principle of Population. the front pastedown. Just a touch rubbed at the for G. Hamilton and J. Balfour, 1753 Goldsmiths’ 8782; Higgs 619; Kress 5318. extremities, head and tail of the spine crumpled, Octavo in half-sheets (198 × 120 mm). Contem- hinges just starting, one plate loose, the map with porary sprinkled calf, red morocco label, double £2,250 [115596] a few short splits, now professionally repaired, gilt rules to raised bands, all edges speckled red. the publisher’s catalogue sprung after the map, Joints and head of spine neatly restored, joints a 166 but overall a very good copy. little tender, partial tanning to endpapers. A very WARBURTON, Peter Egerton. Journey first edition. In 1853, after nearly 30 years good copy. across the Western Interior of Australia. of service in the Royal Navy and the army first edition. Robert Wallace (1697–1771) With an Introduction and Additions by of the HEIC, Warburton (1813–1889) retired to Adelaide. He was soon appointed Com- was an interesting figure in the Scottish Charles Eden Esq. Edited by H.W. Bates. Enlightenment, a founding member of missioner of Police in the Colony of South London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & the Rankenian Club during his university Australia, a position that he held for 14 years days and also active in the Philosophical Searle, 1875 before being dismissed in controversial

86 Peter Harrington 132: Spring Miscellany circumstances, later being appointed chief staff officer of the volunteer force of South Australia. “In 1872 Warburton was selected by the government of South Australia to command an expedition to open up overland communication between that colony and Western Australia. When the project was abandoned by the government and taken up by two colonists, Thomas Elder and Walter Hughes, Warburton remained in command” (ODNB). Some 16 months later they finally reached Roebourne, ravaged by scurvy and having survived only through having eaten their camels. “They were the first explorers to cross the continent from the centre to the west and to survive a crossing of the Great Sandy Desert and nearly 1000 miles of country hitherto unknown to Europeans. On their return to Adelaide they were entertained at a public banquet, at which Warburton, who had lost the sight of one eye, attributed his survival to his Aborigine companion Charlie. The legislative assembly voted him £1000, and the Royal Geographical Society awarded him their gold medal for 1874”. Physically undermined by his privations Warburton “had neither the health nor desire to undergo the further literary labour necessary to elaborate a complete narrative for general readers” (Preface), so the present account was worked up from his report to 167 Elder and Hughes by his brother-in-law, Charles H. Eden, with verbal additions “of considerable interest and importance” from 167 limited issue, from an edition of 190. Plate from the book 25 Cats Name Sam and One Warburton, the text finally edited by the WARHOL, Andy. Sam. [Sitting red cat famed collector-naturalist H. W. Bates. Blue Pussy. Printed by Seymour Berlin; the with green eyes.] New York: The Artist, calligraphy was done by Warhol’s mother, Ferguson 18187; Wantrup 201. 1954 Julia Warhola. £1,500 [115160] Offset lithograph on wove paper hand coloured Feldman & Schellmann IV.53A. by Warhol and friends with Dr. Martin’s aniline watercolor dye. Sheet size: 22.9 15 cm. Excellent £7,500 [115720] condition. Presented in a handmade white gold leaf frame with conservation mount and glass.

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169 WAUGH, Evelyn. A Handful of Dust. London: Chapman & Hall, 1934 Octavo. Original red and black snakeskin patterned cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece. A beautiful copy in the jacket, with exceptionally bright spine panel and just a few tiny nicks or closed tears along edges. first edition of the author’s masterpiece. Exceptionally scarce in the jacket, and rarely encountered in such nice condition (it is usually tanned to the spine and otherwise marked or grubby). This is perhaps the brightest that we have handled. £18,000 [117207]

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obvious recipient of Edmund Campion, which won the Hawthornden Prize and foreshad- owed Campion’s canonization in 1970. Amory notes that “she wrote many serious letters to Waugh, but his to her have been lost”. Following a dinner with Lamb, Waugh described her in a letter to Nancy Mitford on 27 November 1946 as “thin old half starved clever shy”. 169 Amory, The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, p. 241. £4,500 [115284] 170 first edition, limited issue, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on WAUGH, Evelyn. Edmund Campion. the first blank, “Pansy, with best love from London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1935 Evelyn”; number 34 of 50 copies specially Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt, top bound for private distribution. Lady Pansy edge red. Spine faded and gently rolled, head of Lamb, neé Pakenham (1904–1999), had been rear board faded, partial abrasion and discoloura- sharing a flat with Evelyn Gardner, Waugh’s tion to covers, light foxing to endleaves. first wife, at the time of their engagement. A Catholic convert like Waugh, she was an

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by the cultivation of a distinct American language, and so, under the influence of his friend Benjamin Franklin, turned his attention to “a reformed mode of spelling” and gave many printed American words their distinctive appearance. “The book marked a definite advance in modern lexicography, as it included many non-literary terms and paid great attention to the language actu-

171 ally spoken. Moreover, his definitions of the meanings of words were accurate and 171 border, marbled endpapers, the fore and lower concise (Sir James Murray, editor of the edges entirely untrimmed. Portrait frontispiece. Oxford English Dictionary, called him ‘a born WEBSTER, Noah. An American Dic- With the additions leaf but without the initial definer of words’) and have for the greater tionary of the English Language. New advert leaf. A few minor spots here and there, an part stood the test of time superbly well. In York: Published by S. Converse, Printed by excellent copy, handsomely bound, with un- fact, Webster succeeded in breaking the fet- Hezekiah Howe, New Haven, 1828 trimmed edges. ters imposed upon American English by Dr first edition of the dictionary that almost Johnson, to the ultimate benefit of the living 2 volumes, quarto (295 × 230 mm). Attractively re- languages of both countries” (PMM). bound to style in full diced russia, spines divided at once became, and has remained, the into compartments by wide bands, gilt-lettered standard English dictionary in the United Grolier, American 36; Printing and the Mind of Man 291; direct in two compartments, others with gilt States; one of 2,500 copies. Webster wanted Skeel 583; Sabin 102335. centrepieces, covers with wide gilt decorative roll to stress the political separation from Britain £18,000 [76291]

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172 school friend George Gissing. When Wells occasional spot of foxing to contents. An excel- became ill on a cycling holiday in 1898, he lent copy. WELLS, H. G. When The Sleeper Wakes. recuperated at Hicks’s house in New Rom- first edition, presentation copy, in- A story of the years to come. With il- ney, where he was visited by Edmund Gosse lustrations. London and New York: Harper & scribed by the author with one of his and Henry James. characteristic “picshuas”, a caricature Brothers Publishers, 1899 £4,500 [115303] portrait, on the first blank: “H. Hick from Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and front cover H. G. Wells”, adorned with a small sketch lettered in gilt. Frontispiece and 2 plates. Spine 173 of a medicine bottle with label reading “To faded and gently rolled, some foxing to edges be taken as required” below. The “picshua” of text block, rear hinge starting but text block WELLS, H. G. Tales of Space and Time. is likely a reference to the summer of 1898, sound, some light foxing to contents. A very London & New York: Harpers & Brothers when Wells had been taken ill on a cycling good copy. Publishers, 1900 holiday and had recuperated at Hicks’s house first edition, presentation copy, in- Octavo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in in New Romney (see previous item). Though scribed by the author on the half-title, brown, front cover lettered in gilt and blocked in dated 1900, the book was actually published “Henry Hick, from H. G. Wells”. Dr Henry brown. Spine gently rolled and darkened, very in November 1899. Hick came to know Wells through his old minor wear to tips, a little faint soiling to covers, £7,500 [115293]

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174 first edition of one the great english Octavo (194 × 121 mm). Contemporary half calf books of the 18th century, “the first and marbled boards, red morocco label, sprinkled [WHITE, Gilbert.] The Natural His- book which raised natural history into the edges. Engraved frontispiece depicting a vineyard tory and Antiquities of Selborne, in the region of literature” (Ency. Brit.) White’s Selborne with grape pickers. Engraved bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to front pastedown. Front joint partly County of Southampton: with Engrav- is arranged into three sequences of letters, cracked but very firm; a crisp, clean copy. ings, and an Appendix. London: by T. those addressed to Pennant and to Barrington Bensley; for B. White and Son, 1789 forming the natural history portion of the re-issue of the first edition sheets of 1727 with a cancel title page, a work includ- Quarto (258 × 190 mm). Early 20th-century olive- volume, the remainder forming an account of green crushed morocco by Riviere & Son, spine parish antiquities. “White’s Natural History of ing the first detailed description in English richly gilt in compartments with urn tools and Selborne is open to everyone, for everyone has of wine-making in Champagne, based on floral sprays, French fillet border to sides gilt, all observed much of what it describes. Writer and first-hand observation. The dedication is edges gilt, turn-ins richly gilt with a succession reader each share the inheritance of the natural signed “S.J.” but Blanche Henry tentatively of decorative rolls, marbled endpapers. Engraved world, and delight in what is given, so that attributes it to the botanical writer Richard vignette title to each section (Natural History & Selborne becomes an expression of universal Bradley (1688–1732), primarily as the pub- Antiquities), 7 engraved plates of which 2 fold- thanksgiving, treasured by all” (ODNB). lisher Mears was associated with a number ing, one these a panoramic view of Selborne as of Bradley’s books. But the book is dedicated frontispiece. Complete with the terminal errata Freeman, British Natural History Books, 3976; Grolier, to Bradley’s most munificent patron, James leaf. With the usual misprints: p. 292 misnum- English, 62. Brydges, first duke of Chandos, and it is bered 262, sig. Ppp 2 misassigned Pp2, and pp. £2,000 [115179] 441–2 omitted from pagination sequence but therefore unclear why Bradley should adopt text continuous. Spine sunned, partial fading a pseudonym for it. 175 along joint and top edge of front board, frequent Gabler G40200 note; Henrey 871. uniform browning from variations in the paper (WINE & SPIRITS.) J., S., attributed £3,500 [116003] stock, sympathetically repaired tears to frontis- author. The Vineyard: a Treatise . . . Be- piece and to margins of sigs. A2 and 2L3, folding plate facing p. 259 expertly tipped-in, still a very ing the Observations made by a Gentle- good copy, in a handsome binding. man in his Travels. The Second edition. London: D. Browne, 1732

92 Peter Harrington 132: Spring Miscellany 176 bounties, premiums and allowances. The year 1784 saw the introduction of the (WINE & SPIRITS.) “Report from the Wash Act, one of the formative moments Committee upon the Distilleries in Scot- in the history of the distilleries. It lowered land. Reported by the Right Honour- whisky duties in England and the Scottish able Sylvester Douglas, 11 June 1798” In: Lowlands, but maintained the taxes on all Reports from Committees of the House distilleries above a rigid “Highland Line”. Pro- of Commons. Re-printed by Order of the duction in the Lowlands increased enormous- House. Vol. XI. Miscellaneous Subjects: ly, leading to protests by the English distillers 1782–1799. [London:] House of Commons, and the Scotch Distillery Act of 1786, which 1803 imposed an extra duty on liquor exported to England. As a consequence the Lowland Folio (425 × 260 mm). Recent half calf, raised distillers developed a shallow still which bands within gilt rules to spine, second and could be worked off in minutes, producing fourth compartments gilt-lettered direct, spirit of reduced quality but still sufficient marbled sides. Text in double column. Engraved hand-coloured folding map, 11 engraved plates for English distillers to rectify it into gin. depicting distillery apparatus, tables throughout. Exports therefore by no means ceased, and Short worm-track to top margin of first 5 leaves, the Lowland Licence Act was passed in 1788, the text never affected, the occasional spot or forcing Scottish distilleries to give a year’s no- mark. A very good copy. tice before exporting, a measure which led to mass bankruptcies among the major Lowland first collected edition of these 15 distilleries, and a renewed increase in illegal parliamentary reports, including Sylvester distillation and smuggling. 176 Douglas’s indispensable two-part survey Faced with the confusion of lobbies and of the Scottish whisky industry, and three counter-lobbies, in 1797 the government is worthy of detailed analysis in its own right further reports, together illustrating the appointed Whig politician Sylvester Doug- . . . Eventually the Committee’s recommenda- culmination of parliament’s continued atlas, Baron Glenbervie (1743–1823) to chair a tions . . . were for a continuance of the licence tempts to regulate the Scottish distilleries select committee with a brief “to enquire into system, increased surveys by excise officers, over the course of the 18th century following the best mode of levying and collection the higher Lowland taxes, additional taxes on the Act of the Union in 1707. duties upon the distillation of corn spirits in excess production above the limits set by the First is a series of three reports submitted Scotland”. “Under the chairmanship of the distilling licence and abolition of the High- by William Eden between 24 December 1783 Rt Hon. Sylvester Douglas, whose energy one land line” (Buxton and Hughes, The Science and 23 March 1784, discussing the smuggling can only marvel at, evidence was taken, wit- and Commerce of Whisky, p. 59). Legislation was of various commodities, including whisky. nesses called and examined, excise records enacted in 1800, and although repeated bans The first of these three also touches on poured over and two substantial reports over the next decade hampered its effective- “frauds in the internal duties on brewery, dis- (June 1798 and July 1799) produced. They are ness, further legislation, measures taken by tillery, malt”; the second focuses on Scotland, a remarkable, detailed and lively record of the large estate-owners (including clear- demonstrating “both the forcible and pirati- the state of the industry at the end of the 18th ances), and the establishment of modern, cal practices, as also the inland smuggling of century, wonderfully illustrated and with a licensed distilleries such as Breackla (1812), foreign goods”, and outlines details regarding wealth of information. The Committee heard Teaninich (1817) and Clynelish (1819) meant exemption from and evasion of distillery du- from every figure of substance in the industry that “the foundation for the modern industry ties; the third proposes methods of prevent- and received a mass of contradictory submis- had now been laid” (ibid., p. 61). ing the smuggling trade, and gives a list of sions and evidence from interested parties. It £2,500 [114987]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 93 other liquor sellers. It features information on how to make various forms of alcohol, tips on purchasing them, how to ad- just and compute the proof of liquor, how to obtain a liquor license and other important skills for running an inn. There is a notable section devoted to early recipes of cocktails (shrubs, ratafias and punches). It also includes reference tables for use when brewing using thermometers and saccharometers. The preface notes that, “we trust that the trifling cost incurred by purchasing our book may be amply repaid by the instruction that it will impart in its perusal”. Uncommon: located in only three institutions worldwide on OCLC, and appears twice at auction. Not in Bitting or Cagle. £975 [117146] 178 178 laughter, Mike is Wodehouse’s first mas- WODEHOUSE, P. G. Mike. Contain- terpiece. George Orwell called it ‘perhaps 177 ing Twelve Full-Page Illustrations by the best light school story in the English T. M. R. Whitwell. London: Adam and language’. Of his own books it was Wode- 177 Charles Black, 1909 house’s favourite. It also introduced one of his most memorable characters, Psmith – (WINE & SPIRITS.) The Innkeeper and Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and picto- Public Brewer. Containing – Hints for rial decoration to spine and front board in gold, the letter ‘P’ was added by Psmith himself, but was not to be pronounced . . . Psmith managing spirits and wines, the prepar- black, red, and white. Frontispiece and 11 plates. was unstoppably talkative, and had a splen- ing of compounds, liqueurs, &c. The Light rubbing to the corners, a few minor marks to cloth at rear board, colours and gilt decorat- did conversational line in mandarin orotun- brewing and management of beer . . . By ing the covers for the most part nicely distinct, dity” (ODNB). Mike is, of all Wodehouse’s a Practical Man. London: G. Biggs, [c.1855] internally sound and, but for some tanning and stories, the most given over to his beloved spotting to edges and some endleaves, fresh. Octavo. Original brown cloth, decorative floral cricket. Withal an excellent copy. frame stamped in blind to covers, titles and £2,750 [116375] vignette gilt to front cover, edges sprinkled red, first edition. “Each of Wodehouse’s yellow endpapers. Near-contemporary owner- school stories is a superior example of the 179 ship inscription to front free endpaper. Spine and genre, and still readable; but in his last edges of boards sunned, light bumps to extremi- public school novel, Mike (1909), something WODEHOUSE, P. G. [Complete set of ties, mark to foot of front cover continuing onto spine and rear cover; a very good copy. extraordinary happened: Wodehouse, as Jeeves and Wooster titles.] London: George a writer, moved into a higher and dazzling Newnes / Herbert Jenkins, 1919–74 first edition of this comprehensive sphere. In its narrative energy, dialogue, business guide for innkeepers and 17 separately published works, octavo (slightly characterization, and ability to create sunny varying sizes: 164 × 100 mm to 192 × 121 mm).

94 Peter Harrington 132: Spring Miscellany Recent burgundy morocco, titles and decoration to spines gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Some minor spotting and browning, an excellent set. first editions of the complete set of Jeeves and Wooster titles, from the first collection, My Man Jeeves (1919), to the last story, Aunts Aren’t Gentlemen (1974); it includes the short story collections in which Jeeves and Wooster appear alongside other characters, all in their first London editions. £7,500 [115198]

180 WOOD, Ronnie. Wood on Canvas. Every Picture Tells a Story. Guildford: Genesis Publications Limited, 1998 Octavo. Original quarter black leather with blue art 180 paper covered boards, titles to spine in silver, titles to front cover on printed label. Together with the and cracked due to the cheap leather perishing first edition, signed limited issue. CD and black leather slip case with titles screen- otherwise internally bright and clean. One of 2,500 copies signed by Wood. To- printed to the cover in orange and blue. With the gether with the original prospectus. original packing box. Illustrated throughout by Ronnie Wood. Leather spine and slip case mottled £750 [114863]

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181 and of the people who lived in it and the 182 regimes under which they lived. In Greece WORDSWORTH, Christopher. Greece: especially he absorbed much local folklore”. YEATS, W. B. The Collected Works in Pictorial, Descriptive, & Historical. With Wordsworth’s comprehensive study of Verse and Prose. London: Chapman & Hall numerous engravings illustrative of the Greece was first published in book-form in Limited, imprinted at the Shakespeare Head scenery, architecture, costume, and 1840. Christopher Wordsworth – nephew of Press, 1908 fine arts of that country and a History the poet – travelled extensively in Italy and 8 volumes, octavo. Publisher’s vellum-backed of the Characteristics of Greek Art by Greece “and made his mark in the field of boards, grey cloth sides, gilt titles to spines and George Scharf. A New Edition, revised, inscriptions and exploration: in 1832 he went sides, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Four with notes of recent discoveries, by H. F. to Paestum and to Pompeii, where he was portrait frontispieces in the set. An exceptionally nice set with only minimal rubbing at the extremi- Tozer. London: John Murray, 1882 the first to decipher the graffiti. . . During a prolonged visit to Greece and the Ionian ties and the spines all clean and white, endpapers Large octavo (241 × 152 mm). Contemporary red Islands he made a conjecture as to the site toned but otherwise internally fresh. Excellent condition. Contemporary ownership inscriptions crushed morocco by Riviere, richly gilt spine, of Dodona which was later corroborated. three-line gilt border on sides, all edges gilt, to the front free endpapers of volumes 5 and 6. He was the first Englishman to be presented richly gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Steel- first collected edition of yeats’s engraved vignette title page, 19 steel-engraved to King Otho. Passing over the heights of plates, numerous full-page wood-engraved plates Mount Parnes in deep snow, he and his party work, signed by yeats on the half- and illustrations in the text. Gilt supralibros of were attacked by brigands; Wordsworth title of volume iv (very scarce thus), the Berwick Academy, Maine. One or two very was injured in the shoulder by a stiletto, but one of the 250 first issue sets in the minor abrasions to covers. An excellent copy. managed to escape capture. Two books of a deluxe quarter vellum binding, with pictorial and descriptive kind . . . followed the publisher’s imprint on the spines and first edition, edited by the distinguished his return” (ODNB). title pages, from a total edition of 1,060 sets geographer, classical scholar and friend of printed at the Shakespeare Head Press. The Edward Lear, H. F. Tozer (1829–1916). “He £750 [115934] signature to the half-title of volume IV reads was a keen observer of the landscape (in- “W. B. Yeats, Nov 16 1916”. This volume also cluding the flora – he was a skilled botanist) bears the illustrated bookplate of Lady Violet

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Leconfield (1892–1952), who married Charles Henry, 3rd Baron Leconfield (1872–1952) in 184 1911. They lived at Petworth House (shown on her illustrated bookplate), one of Eng- 183 184 land’s greatest aristocratic houses. She was YEATS, W. B. The Trembling of the Veil. The YELLOW BOOK. An Illustrated friend to numerous authors including Alice London: T. Werner Laurie, Ltd, 1922 Quarterly. London: Elkin Mathews & John Meynell, and co-wrote a book of poems, A Lane; [later] John Lane, The Bodley Head, Petworth Posie (1918), with Rudyard Kipling. Octavo. Original cream parchment half-binding, Yeats may have been introduced to Lady light blue paper boards, paper label to spine, light 1894–7 blue endpapers, untrimmed edges. With the dust Leconfield through Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, 13 volumes, octavo. Original yellow cloth, spines jacket. Portrait frontispiece from a picture by and covers lettered and illustrated in black, top who was born at Petworth, or through Charles Shannon. Very slight toning and a very edges untrimmed. Illustrations throughout with Leconfield’s lifelong friend “Ettie” Lady few minor marks around the edges of the boards, tissue-guards. Slight bumps to ends of the spines Besborough, who had been attracting Yeats faint partial toning to endpapers, otherwise fresh with none of the usual tanning, cloth unusually as a party guest since 1911. and fine, with the dust jacket a little spine-toned bright, a couple of hinges cracked but holding; an and bearing a small stain at the tail, but excellent. As a production, this collected edition is excellent set. regarded as a marvellous piece of publishing first edition, signed by the author, (Yeats himself was proud of it, remarking, “I first editions. This famous epochal number 766 of 1,000 subscribers’ copies on think nobody of our time has had so fine an and notorious periodical includes work by handmade paper. This is an exceptional copy edition – I believe it will greatly strengthen all the great figures of the 1890s including in the dust jacket. The Trembling of the Veil was my position”), collecting, with the poet’s Beerbohm, Beardsley, Henry James, Yeats, the second of the many original instalments own selection and arrangement, a substan- Gissing, Kenneth Grahame, Ernest Dowson, of Yeats’s autobiographical works, an honest tially complete corpus (poems, plays and Lionel Johnson, Baron Corvo, and H. G. retrospective from the poet’s late middle-age prose) of his first canon of work, before the Wells. offering an imaginative critique of a chang- finding of his later voice. ing world. £2,250 [117018] £5,000 [116497] £2,250 [116481]

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