THE VENDOR'S APOLOGY "Needs must when the Devil drives"-and this War has been the Very Devil, hasn't it? So, I am compelled to part with very many of the things I have enjoyed so long, but, perhaps, have had long enough; to sell my Fancy books, my Firsts, my few MSS. and my fewer unique things; an "omnium gatherum" of scarcities, all intrinsically interesting, whatever their extrinsic value may prove to be. But why sell in America? Why not sell at home? For several reasons. One: that there is, I fancy, a greater lack in America of the kind of wares I have to offer than here in England; and therefore their field of usefulness and pleasure will be the greater. Secondly that a kind of Sentiment prevails mightily with me, urging me to avoid the risk of ever meeting a fellow book-lover gloating over something that was once a cause for gloating to myself. When I have parted with these few small treasures, I want to have really parted with them, and not to have their ghosts haunt me in the guise of catalogues lusciously describing the things that I have had to see the last of. There may be a third reason at the back of my mind: that a higher, a much higher, figure will be gotten for them in the States than here at home, because the desire and lack of them is so much the greater. And as it is only the need of "Filthy Lucre" that compels my parting with them, this last reason may,-is, I suspect-the most moving of the lot! For I am quite sure that, Sentiment or no Sentiment, IF I was sure of a higher, a much higher, figure here than in New York, I should sell here to a dead certainty; showing clearly enough what a horrible, what a stupid, thing this enforced slavery to Money is that we are all suffering from. What a wonderful world it might be, it WILL be, when we have reached Sanity at last, and have accomplished the Disestablishment of Money! London, 1919. FREDERICK H. EVANS THE LIBRARY OF FREDERICK H. EVANS FIRST SESSION LOTS 1-217 1. AUGUSTINE (ST.). Les Confessions de. Engraved Title. Old calf gilt. 12mo. 2. ARNOLD (MATTHEW). Friendship's Garland. Edition. Original white cloth. Fine copy. Very Scarce. 1649 First 1871 3. ART; Some Works of: in the Possession of George A. Cooper at 26 Grosvenor Square. By Francis Bennett-Goldeney, F.S.A. 45 Full-page Photogravures. Hand-made paper. Folio. [1903] 25 copies only printed for private circulation. 4. ARABIAN NIGHTS (The). Translated from the Arabic by Sir R. F. Burton. Reprinted from the original (with some expurgations) by Leonard C. Smithers. 12 vols. Full gilt cloth. Demy 8vo. 1893 One of a few sets specially bound for my shop with edges quite uncut and therefore in larger binding cases. 5. ABBEY (EDWIN A.). Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer: a Comedy. With Decorations by Alfred Parsons and Illustrations by E. A. Abbey. The Full-page Plates on India-paper. First English Edition. Folio. S. Low, 1888 6. ABBEY (EDWIN A.). Goldsmith's Deserted Village: a Poem. Portrait on Japan vellum and 35 Illustrations by E. A. Abbey. First Edition. Harpers, 1902 7. ABBEY (EDWIN A.). Selections from the Poetry of Herrick, with drawings by E. A. Abbey. First English Edition. Folio. S. Low & Co., 1882 8. ABBEY (EDWIN A.). Abbey and Alfred Parsons. broken.) Old Songs. With Drawings by E. A. 9. ABBEY (EDWIN A.). Old Songs. First English Edition. Macmillan, 1889 Gilt leather binding differs from the Harper edition. 10. ABBEY (EDWIN A.). The Quiet Life. Certain Verses by Various Hands; The Motive set forth in a Prologue and Epilogue by Austin Dobson. With Drawings by Abbey and Parsons. First Edition. Harpers, 1890 11. ABBEY (EDWIN A.). The Quest of the Holy Grail. Illustrated description of the Paintings done for the Boston Public Library. With catalogues of the two London Exhibitions, Conduit Street Galleries, 1895, and Guild Hall Art Gallery, 1901. Oblong Folio. 1895 12. BAIN (F. W.). A set of the First Editions in 4to as below. All clean as new in original white boards. 12 volumes. 13. BALZAC. Les Contes Drolatiques. First Edition with the 425 Illustrations by Gustave Doré. Half morocco extra, gilt edges. Rare. Paris, 1845 Immaculate copy with perfect impression of the wonderful engravings. Doré's finest work. 14. BALZAC. Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine. Translated into English Complete and Unabridged (by George R. Sims). Illustrated with 425 designs by Gustave Doré. First English Edition. Very Scarce. 1874 15. BARHAM (R. H.). Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels by Thomas Ingoldsby. Edited by his daughter, Mrs. Bond. 3 vols. 8vo. 1891 Has all the original illustrations as well as those by Tenniel and Du Maurier in the quarto issues. 16. BEARDSLEY (AUBREY). The Early Work of. With Preface by H. C. Marillier. Japan vellum edition, limited to 120 copies. Portrait frontispiece. Demy 4to. 1899 EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by 11 unmutilated or other subjects given in the book in different or inferior form. 17. BEARDSLEY (AUBREY). The Later Work of. Handcolored frontispiece. No. 58 of 100 copies on Japan vellum. Demy 4to. 1901 EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by 13 unmutilated or better versions of subjects in the book or not given at all therein. One of these is a platinotype reproduction by myself of "A Footnote" from the original, once in my possession, to show how this fine and most interesting self-portrait is mutilated though given completely when it appeared in the Savoy. WITH ORIGINAL DRAWING BY BEARDSLEY 18. BEARDSLEY (AUBREY). Bon Mots from Sheridan: Sidney Smith; Chas. Lamb: Douglas Jerrold: Foote and Hook. 3 vols. No. 1 of 100 sets on Large Paper, with many grotesques by Beardsley. 16mo. 1893-4 The "Lamb-Jerrold' volume has the ORIGINAL DRAWING of the design on p. 191 inserted at beginning of the volume. 19. BEARDSLEY (AUBREY). The Story of Venus and Tannhauser. A Romantic Novel. Now first printed from the Original M.S. No. 3 of 50 copies only; on Japan vellum. Rare. For Private Circulation, 1907 This is the full text of the work published under the title of "Under the Hill,' WITH ORIGINAL DRAWING BY BEARDSLEY 19A. BEARDSLEY (AUBREY). Gallatin's Catalogue: the Special interleaved edition. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 53 reproductions and 1 original drawing. These include 18 platinotype facsimiles by F. H. Evans of unmutilated versions; full-sized facsimiles of designs much reduced when published; several unpublished designs; several designs not given in the "Early" or "Later" volumes; two designs in proof on China paper, one having the Artist's signature in pencil added. The Original Drawing is that of the Full-page Border on p. 879 Le Morte Darthur, with portrait of the artist added. A unique volume of great importance and interest and of course absolutely impossible to be duplicated. WITH ORIGINAL DRAWING BY BEARDSLEY 20. BEARDSLEY (AUBREY). Le Morte Darthur by Sir Thomas Malory. Introduction by Prof. Rhys, with many designs by Aubrey Beardsley. No. 1 of 300 Large Paper copies on Dutch Hand-made paper. 3 vols. 1893 This copy has the original drawing for the letter T of p. xli, mounted and inserted opposite thereto. Original covers preserved, and I have inserted a platinotype reproduction by myself of a first but unsued Cover Design in the possession of Aymer Vallance, Esq., (whose copyright it is), but unpublished. Full vellum binding, bevelled boards, with the fine gold design stamped on all covers specially for me. Unique copy. 20A. BEARDSLEY (AUBREY). A Collection of 140 Proofs and special reproductions of his drawings; mounted on stout grayblue paper with deckle edges; unbound. Large 4to. Includes 17 Jap vellum proofs; the "Lucian" L. P. print of "The Snare of Vintage"; "Albert" No. 4 of 13 proof copies; linen covers and end-papers of Stacpoole's "Pierrot'; Covers of the Yellow Book, vols. 1-4; All covers and title-pages of "The Savoy ''parts, etc., etc. Interesting and unique collection. 21. BEARDSLEY (AUBREY). Book" Prospectuses. Volumes 1-4, in its First State marked Private. A set of the Original "Yellow with second copy of Volume 1 Clean as issued. Rare. (5) The Bee: a Magazine of the 22. BEARDSLEY (AUBREY). Blackburn Technical School. With a Frontispiece by Beardsley, "Hamlet" (in sanguine). Complete, with covers, as new. Rare. 23. BEARDSLEY (AUBREY). The Brighton Grammar School Annual Entertainment, Dec. 19: 1888. Programme. Contains "The Pay of the Pied Piper." Illustrated by A. V. Beardsley. A Present Boy. Half morocco, uncut. Very Scarce. 1888 Bound up with above in the Special paper re-issue of the Illustrations only, with Cover. Also three letters from Gleeson White, etc., relative thereto. 23A. BEARDSLEY (AUBREY). A second set of the specialpaper re-issue of above mounted. 24. BEARDSLEY (AUBREY). Ben Jonson: His Volpone: or the Foxe. With a critical essay by Vincent O'Sullivan and Illustrations by Beardsley, with an Eulogy of the Artist by Robert Ross. 4to. 1898 First Edition, No. 5, of 1,000 copies. 25. BEARDSLEY (AUBREY). Tristan and Isolde. Pianoforte Score of Wagner's Music Drama. Half morocco. n. d. Beardsley has printed his name on title and has decorated the brown paper cover of the score with 2 designs in body color and black ink, which now form the front end-paper. There was a design on the back cover, a peacock design of great beauty and delicate color, but I have removed it as too delicate to be lost there and now have it framed. has not been reproduced. It 26. BEARDSLEY (AUBREY). Rare proof in black and white of "Yellow Book" poster. Rare proof in yellow and black of "Yellow Book" poster. One of 6 copies on Japan vellum. (3) 27. BEARDSLEY (AUBREY). By Arthur Symons. New edition, revised and enlarged. No. 6 of 150 Large paper copies Illustrated. 4to. 1905 Inserted is a Japan vellum engraver's proof of "Evelina at the Theatre." |