List 36: Recent Acquisitions McNaughtan’s Bookshop & Gallery 3a & 4a Haddington Place Edinburgh EH7 4AE +44(0)131 556 5897 [email protected] http://www.mcnaughtans.co.uk a b x @mcnbooks McNaughtan’s Bookshop & Gallery List 36: Recent Acquisitions with an als Foolscap 8vo, pp. [iv], 250, [2, ads]. Near-contemporary polished calf, 1. Amis, Kingsley. Collected Poems 1944-1979. Lon- boards bordered with a double gilt don: Hutchison, 1979. rule, spine divided by raised bands, green morocco label, other compart- FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. [ii], 154. Original brown boards, spine ments with central thistle tools. A lettered in gilt, cream dustjacket printed in dark and light little light spotting. A few marks brown. A couple of tiny edge-tears to dustjacket, small area and scratches, small area of surface of front pastedown lightly abraded. Short ALs from the author damage to foot of front joint. Modern loosely inserted. £50 bookplate to front pastedown, Glas- gow University prize inscription The letter from Amis, addressed to a Mr Jordan, politely declines an invitation to address the Poetry Society. on flyleaf dated 1777 and signed by William Richardson. £225 2. Anacreon. The Works of Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, Gaskell 438; estc T106062. Moschus, and Musaeus. Translated from the original Greek. By Francis Fawkes, M.A. London: Printed for J. Newbery, 1760. 5. Burke, Edmund. A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful: with an Introductory Discourse concerning Taste: and several FIRST EDITION, 12mo, pp. x, 321, [3]. Contemporary sprinkled other additions. A new edition. London: Printed for F. calf, spine gilt in compartments with central flower tools, red and C. Rivingintom, Longman and Rees [et al], 1801. morocco label. Some light spotting. Spine ends a bit worn, some surface scrapes and nibbling to boards. Modern bookplate to front pastedown, pencilled ownership inscription to flyleaf, 12mo, pp. xix, [i], 273, [1] + frontispiece. Contemporary diced earlier inscription of Thomas Scotman, Christ’s, Cambridge, to russia, boards bordered with a double gilt rule, spine divided title-page. £150 by gilt rolls, lettered in gilt direct, marbled endpapers, edges mottled. Toned, some spotting, dampmark to frontispiece. estc N25547. Front joint just cracking at head, small crack to spine. £120 Thomas Scotman (d. 1848) took his B.A. from Christ’s College Cam- 6. Campbell, Roy. Choosing a Mast. Drawings by bridge in 1776 and his M.A. three years later; he went on to be Rector of Barnett Freedman. London: Faber & Faber Ltd, 1931. Buckland, Gloucestershire. FIRST EDITION, NO. 191 OF 300 LARGE-PAPER COPIES SIGNED BY 3. Aytoun, William THE AUTHOR, pp. [24]. Full-page illustration printed in black Edmondstoune. Lays of and three colours. Stitched in plain paper wrappers. £50 the Scottish Cavaliers and other poems. Twenty-sixth The final Ariel Poem, number 38 in the series. The large-paper Ariel edition. Edinburgh: Wil- Poems were normally issued in boards; this copy appears to have been liam Blackwood and Sons, simply stitched into plain paper wrappers instead, with no signs of a binding having been removed. 1877. with an als 8vo, pp. viii, 359, [1]. Contemporary green peb- 7. Gosse, Philip. My Pirate Library. London: Dulau ble-grain morocco, boards and Company, Ltd, 1926. with a gilt border made up of rules and small rolls, spine FIRST EDITION, NO. 198 OF 300 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, gilt in compartments, mar- 4to, pp. 75, [1] + frontispiece. Original red buckram, spine bled endpapers, edges gilt. A lettered in gilt. Limitation leaf toned, a few minor spots. touch of rubbing to spine ends. £100 Extremities slightly rubbed, spine a touch sunned. An ALs from the author loosely inserted. £250 glasgow university prize binding A bibliographical catalogue of the collection formed by Philip Gosse 4. Buchanan, George. Paraphrasis Psalmorum Da- (1879-1959), son of the writer Edmund Gosse. By profession a physician, vidis Poetica; Glasguae [Glasgow]: In aedibus academicis Philip was by calling an expert on piracy, and his collection is now in the excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1765. Royal Maritime Museum at Greenwich. 2 McNaughtan’s Bookshop & Gallery List 36: Recent Acquisitions twice signed bodoni printing, fine binding 8. Graves, Robert. Poems 11. Hesiod. Opera Omnia. [Parma]: Ex regio Parmensi (1914-1927). London: William Typographio [Bodoni], 1785. Heinemann, Ltd, 1927. FIRST EDITION, NO. 92 OF 115 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 8vo, pp. xii, 229, [1]. Original quarter vellum, white paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, cream dustjacket printed in blue. Light foxing to endpapers and edges. A touch of foxing to boards, dustjacket faintly soiled and spine panel slightly darkened, one or two short edge tears. Later inscription by the author on the front flyleaf: ‘Poems -Robert Graves-’. £1,000 4to, pp. [iv], xxxv, [i], 110, [ii], 16, [ii], 248. Contemporary red Higginson & Williams A24. straight-grained morocco, boards bordered with a triple gilt rule enclosing a frame with arch corners and sides interrupted Very scarce in the dustjacket. by swirl and arch tools surrounding a sunburst, spine divided by double raised bands between gilt rules and enclosing black 9. (Greek Poetry). Poetae Minores Graeci... Quibus dyed stripes with gilt rolls, second compartment gilt-lettered subjungitur eorum potissimùm quæ ad philosophiam direct, green endpapers, edges gilt. One leaf (p1, final sequence) moralem pertinent, index utilis. Accedunt etiam observa- with an old paper flaw repaired, one or two other torn corners. tiones Radulphi Wintertoni in Hesiodum. Cantabrigiae Extremities the merest touch rubbed, a few small marks. [Cambridge]: Ex Officina Joan. Hayes, 1684. Modern bookplate to front pastedown, armorial bookplate of Sir Joseph Vardin, Bart. to verso of flyleaf, pencil note to facing binder’s blank attributing the binding to Bradel. £3000 8vo, pp. [viii], 224, 227-533, [91]. Final blank discarded. Contemporary Cambridge-style panelled calf, unlettered spine divided by raised bands between blind rules. Some soiling and Brooks 290. light staining. Somewhat rubbed and scratched, extremities a bit worn, rear flyleaf torn and repaired. Ownership inscrip- tions of Allen Park Paton to pastedown (1884) and to a small slip pasted to title-page, earlier inscriptions of Robert Coven- try (1716) and Robert Walker to flyleaf and title-page, a few lines of verse and pen trials in early hands to endpapers. £200 estc R31123. The seventh surviving printing of this textbook, initially published in 1635 and edited by Ralph Winterton from an Estienne edition. It remained in use well into the eighteenth century. 10. Harris, James. Hermes: or a Philosophical Inquiry concerning Universal Grammar. The fourth edition. Re- An elegant binding on an elegant edition; the first paginated section vised and corrected. Dublin: Printed for James Williams, contains the Greek text of Hesiod, the second a dedication to Ferdinand 1773. of Austria in a calligraphic italic type, and the third a Latin translation by Bernardo Zamagna. Dibdin calls it ‘splendid and correct’ and cites Renouard in identifying four issues on different paper: bluish, fine white, FIRST DUBLIN EDITION, 8vo, pp. xvi, 442, [30] + frontispiece. strong white, and large-paper. Brooks does not mention any paper vari- Contemporary calf, spine divided by double gilt rules, red ation, but this copy seems likeliest to be the strong white. The binding is morocco label. A little minor spotting. Spine slightly creased, a unsigned and without ticket, and the attribution to Bradel (successor to Derome) seems unlikely, though it is a fine piece of work. few marks and scratches to boards. £120 The previous owner Sir Joseph Vardin, 1st Baronet (1838-1920) was a estc T128044. wealthy salt industrialist from Cheshire. 3 McNaughtan’s Bookshop & Gallery List 36: Recent Acquisitions 12. Homer. Opera quae extant omnia. Graece et 14. Juvenal & Persius. Latine... curante Jo. Henr. Lederlino... & post eum Satirarum libri quinque. Stephano Berglero. Amstelaedami [Amsterdam]: Ex Ex Recognitione Steph. Officina Wetsteniana, 1707. And. Philippe. Luteti- ae Parisiorum [Paris]: 2 vols., 12mo, pp. [iv], 12, 619, [9]; Sumptibus Joan. August. [ii], 23, [1], 569, [7] + frontispiece Grangé, 1747. in each vol. and 1 folding map in vol. 2. Near-contemporary 12mo, pp. lxviii, 224 + fron- straight-grained red morocco, tispiece. Engraved head- boards bordered with a gilt rule and tail-pieces. Contem- enclosing a frame of a dotted roll, porary red morocco, boards flat spines divided by a triple gilt bordered with a triple gilt rule, second and fourth compart- rule, spine divided by raised ments gilt-lettered direct, the bands, second compartment others infilled with dot and circle gilt-lettered direct, the tools surrounding a crescent and others with central flower small flower tool, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. Some spotting tools and small corner ferns, endpapers printed in green and and toning, headlines and sidenotes occasionally shaved (no gilt with a pattern of stars and dots, edges gilt. Slight creasing loss of sense), a few leaves with marginal paper flaws. A little to spine, one or two tiny spots of rubbing. Modern bookplate to rubbed, some creasing to spines, tiny chip to head of spine of verso of flyleaf, armorial bookplate of William Peter to front vol. 2. Gift inscription to endpaper dated 1868, ownership pastedown. £200 inscription of H.L. Long (author of the gift inscription) and earlier inscription of Thomas Brewster of Merchants’ School 15. Marcus Aurelius. Marci Antonini Imperatoris London to recto of frontispiece (the latter dated 1723 and later eorum quae ad seipsum libri xii. Glasguae [Glasgow]: In struck through). £500 aedibus academicis excudebat R. Foulis, 1744. A finely-bound copy of this pocket edition of the works of Homer, edit- ed by the Transylvanian classical scholar Stephan Bergler (c.1680-1738). 8vo, pp. [iv], 342, [14, index & ads]. Contemporary brown morocco, boards bordered with a gilt toothed roll, spine divided by raised bands, second compartment gilt-lettered direct, the 13.