Immagini della pagina
PDF
ePub

additional matter now printed for the first time from the original manuscripts. With an introduction by Richard le Gallienne. Portrait and facsimile of the 1823 title page, one of 400 copies. 4to. Privately Printed. 1894. £3

HELIODORUS (The Aethiopica) Literally and Completely translated from the Greek. With Introduction and Notes. 8vo. Athens, 1897. £3 10s. Number 39 of 250 copies privately printed for distribution amongst the members of the Athenian Society.

• HEPTAMERON, The, of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre. Newly Translated into English from the Authentic Text of M. Le Roux De Lincy. With an Essay upon the Heptameron by George Saintsbury, M.A. Also the original 73 full-page engravings designed by S. Freudenberg, and 150 head-pieces and tail by Dunker. 5 vols., 8vo. London, Printed for the Society of Bibliophilists, 1894.

£4 IOS.

HERALDRY. Decorative Heraldry. A Practical Handbook of its Artistic Treatment, by G. W. Eve. Five Coloured Plates and numerous other Illustrations in the Text. 8vo, sewed. London, 1897. 12s. 6d. • HERBERT (GEORGE). The Temple. Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. The second edition, 12mo, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked. Cambridge, 1633.

£4 IOS.

HERCULANUM et Pompei. Recueil general des Peintures, Bronzes. Mosaiques, etc., gravés au trait sur Cuivre, avec texte explicatif par Barré, 8 vols., Roy. 8vo, boards. Paris, 1840.

£10 IOS. HERODIANUS. Historia Græce. Well printed, and ruled throughout in red, 16mo. Choice copy, bound in red morocco, extra, gilt edges, by Roger Payne, J. Valderus, Basul, N.D.

£5 155.

From the "Syston Park" Library, with bookplate. HEYWOOD. The Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood, now first collected, with illustrative notes and a Memoir of the Author. Large paper, uncut. 6 vols., 8vo, half calf, gilt. John Pearson, 1874. £11 IIS.

A very fine set of the rare large paper edition.

HISTORY OF WOMEN, The, from the Earliest Antiquity, to the Present Time; giving Some Account of almost every interesting particular concerning that sex, among all Nations, ancient and modern. Third Edition with Alterations and Corrections. By William Alexander, M.D 2 vols., 8vo, half blue morocco extra, gilt arms on sides, SCARCE. 1782. £3 10S HOOD (THOMAS). Whims and Oddities in Prose and Verse. Post 8vo, picture boards. 1832.

£2 Presentation copy from the Author to his wife's father and mother. "Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds, with love from Tho. Hood."

HORACE, PINE'S. Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera. Numerous Illustrations, 2 vols., 8vo, original calf gilt, joints strengthened, but EXCELLENT, TALL COPY. Londini, Aeneis Tabulis Incibat, Johannes Pine, 1733-1737.

£10 IOS.

A British Museum duplicate; with the stamp on verso of the title. The FIRST ISSUE, before "Post est" was corrected to "Potest."

HORAE B.V.M. CUM CALENDARIO. "Ces presentes heures a lusage de Romme tout au long sans riens requerir, avecques les XV oraisons Sainte Brigade," lit. goth., lettres batardes, PRINTED UPON VELLUM, without borders,

device on last leaf and 21 large woodcuts, all painted and illuminated, with numerous illuminated ornamental letters and details, sign, e vII. defective at top, red morocco gilt, g. e., sm. 8vo. Imprimez a Paris pour Guillaume Eustace, 1520.

£70

At the end is an additional Oraison in manuscript. The book is a little stained in places. It carries two bookplates.

manner.

¶ HORAE B.V.M. CUM CALENDARIO. "Les presentes heures sont a lusaige de Romme tout au long sans riens requerir." FINELY PRINTED, IN gothic lettres, batardes, 82 LEAVES OF VELLUM, with exquisite borders throughout. Seventeen large engravings, beautifully coloured and illuminated, in addition to five large marginal borders and eleven small miniatures treated in a similar 8vo (8in. ×4 in.), velvet binding, with clasps and gauffered edges, the ends formed of red straight-grained morocco, richly gilt (by Hering, with his ticket). Imprimees a Paris p. Gilles hardouyn, pour Germain hardouyn (circa 1500). £75 ¶ HORNE (R. H.). Ballad Romances. Post 8vo, cloth. Ollier, 1846. £2 Browning's copy inscribed “from R. H. Horne, who feels it a gladness and good fortune to live in the same day with Robert Browning."

¶ HOUSMAN (LAURENCE). Echo de Paris. A Study from Life. 8vo. 1923.

Large paper edition of 250 copies, signed by the author.

155.

¶ HOWELL (J.). Epistolae Ho-Elianae. Familiar Letters, Domestic and Forren. FIRST EDITION, sm. 4to, calf, rebacked. With the late Maurice Hewlett's bookplate.

1645.

£3 35.

¶ HUGHES (THOS.). Memoir of a Brother. Portrait. Cr. 8vo, cloth. 1874.

[ocr errors]

Presentation copy to G. H. Boughton, the well-known artist. Inscription in handwriting of Hughes, the author of "Tom Brown's School Days."

¶ HUNT (LEIGH). A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla. Illustrated by Richard Doyle. 8vo. 1848.

An extremely fine copy of the first edition.

£5

4to, half morocco

¶ IRVING, The Life of Henry, by William Winter. extra, arms of former owner on side, LARGE PAPER, limited to 50 copies signed by the author. N.Y., 1885.

etc.

£25 This copy is extra illustrated with 128 old and modern engravings, photographs,

In addition there are autographs of SALVINI, EDWIN Forrest (2), Jefferson, MARY ANDERSON, WALLACK, WENDELL PHILLIPS, C. COQUELIN, HENRY IRVING (2), ELLEN TERRY, JOHN TOOLE, GENEVIEVE WARD, HELEN MODJESKA, and JANANSHECK.

There are also two MS. Poems, one by WILLIAM WINTER, the other by JOHN GILBERT.

There are A.L.s of the following :-JOHN GILBERT, CHARLES FECHTER, THOMAS BARRY, W. E. BARTON, W. C. MACREADY, CHARLES Kemble (2), CHARLES KEAN, EDWIN BOOTH, MCCULLOGH, ADA CAVENDISH, DION BOUCICAULT, Charlotte Cushman, Edmund Davenport, William Terris. The mounting of the plates has been done very skilfully, and the collection made with great care.

d'Italie, ou l'on trouve une description exacte des Villes, Bourgs, Villages et Rivieres, etc., en vingt six cartes topographiques. Text in French and Italian. The finely engraved folding maps are printed on thick paper and are therefore not torn or damaged, sm. 8vo, calf. 1774.

With Maurice Hewlett's bookplate.

[ocr errors]

¶ JAMES (HENRY). Novels and Stories. Complete edition. 35 vols. cr. 8vo, new.

Each volume sold separately.

£13 2s. 6d.

7s. 6d.

¶ JAPANESE COLOUR PRINT, THE. (In the Louvre.) By Gaston Migeon. 17th to the 19th Centuries. With 75 full-page plates, many beautifully coloured. 2 vols. in 1, square 8vo, half morocco, gilt. Paris, 1923. £1 175. 6d.

¶ JEFFERIES (RICHARD). The Gamekeeper at Home. Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life. With Illustrations by Charles Whymper. First edition. Cr. 8vo. London, 1880.

95.

¶ JEHAN DE SAINTRÉ, son Histoire et de la Dame des Belles-Cousines -extraite de la veille Chronique de ce nom par M. de Tressan, ornée de figures par Moreau le jeune 16°. Green morocco. Paris, 1791.

IOS. 6d.

JESSE (J. HENEAGE). George Selwyn and his contemporaries; with Memoir and Notes. Portraits, 4 vols., 8vo, half calf, gilt backs. 1843. £3 35. With Maurice Hewlett's bookplate in the first volume.

¶ JOHNSON (SAMUEL), LL.D. Lives of the English Poets. Edited by G. Birkbeck Hill. Revised edition, 3 vols, 8vo, new. £1 165. ¶ JOHNSON (SAMUEL). Political Tracts. Containing The False Alarm; Falkland's Islands; The Patriot; and Taxation no Tyranny. 8vo, original calf. TALL FINE COPY. 1776. £4 45. ¶ JONSON (BEN). Works and Epigrammes. Lacks general title-page. 2 vols. in 1, folio, 19th century calf, gilt, sides nicely decorated. London, printed for Richard Bishop, 1640. £3 10S.

With the bookplate of Maurice Hewlett.

¶ JOSEPHUS, The Famous and Memorable Works of-. A Man of Much Honour and Learning among the Jewes. Faithfully translated out of the Latin, and French, by THO. LODGE, Doctor in Physicke. Folio, calf, well-rebacked. 1609. £1 155.

JUVENALIS (Junii) Aquinatis, Satyrarum Liber Primus. Italian Manuscript (16th Century), neatly written in italics on 15 leaves of vellum, (size 9 in. × 5 in.), 30 lines to a page. Five beautiful capitals in blue and gold, and at the foot of page one is a rich decoration. AN INTERESTING AND RARE MANUSCRIPT. Brown morocco, blind-tooled, edges gilt. £50

¶ JUVENALIS SATIRAE perpetuo Commentario illustratae a G. A. Ruperti. Frontispiece, 2 vols., vellum paper, FINE COPY in green morocco super extra, leather joints, gilt marbled edges, by J. Clarke, with arms and crest of Rev. T. Williams in gold on sides. Lipsiae, 1801.

£6

VERY SCARCE. This copy sold for £15 in Williams's Sale, and Sir M. Syke's for the same sum. It carries the autograph of Theodore Williams on the flyleaf, and the bookplate of the Earl of Cromer.

Small 4to, cloth gilt. London, 1888.

1878.

IOS. 6d.

KEATS (JOHN). Letters to Fanny Brawne, written in 1819 and '20, and now given from the original MS., with Notes by H. Buxton Forman. Portraits, post 8vo, cloth. £3 10s. ¶ KELMSCOTT PRESS. The Golden Legend. 3 vols., 4to, half crimson morocco, extra, arms on sides (by Zaehnsdorf). 1892. VERY

With Maurice Hewlett's bookplate.

FINE COPY.

£18

¶ KELMSCOTT PRESS. William Morris' the Earthly Paradise. 8 vols., large 8vo, MAGNIFICENT COPY in brown morocco, crushed and polished, with silk ends and ornamental design in gold on inside roll, arms on sides (by Zaehnsdorf). 1896-7.

[ocr errors]

£28

¶ KELMSCOTT PRESS. Morris (William). News from Nowhere ; or, an Epoch of Rest. Woodcut initials and borders, and frontispiece of The Old House by the Thames." 8vo, vellum, with ties. Kelmscott Press, 1892. £13 10s. KELMSCOTT PRESS. Some German Woodcuts of the 15th Century. 30 in all, chosen by William Morris to appear in the catalogue of his Library; with Foreword, etc., by S. C. Cockerell. T. J. Cobden Sanderson's copy, with his Ex-libris. Folio, boards. Kelmscott Press, 1897. £12 125. ¶ KETCH (JACK), The Autobiography of. With fourteen illustrations from designs by Meadows, fcap. 8vo, polished calf extra, arms on side. London: Churton, 1835. £3

1779.

KISSES (THE): A Poetical Translation of the Basia of Joannes Secundus Nicolaius. With the original Latin; and an Essay on his Life and Writings. The Third Edition, with additions. Engraved title and plate (both stained at the top), imp. 8vo, half calf gilt, VERY TALL COPY. £5 KNIGHTS OF MALTA, A History of the-; or, The Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem. By Major Whitworth Porter. Front. 2 vols., 8vo, calf, gilt. 1858.

£1 105. KNOWLES (JAMES SHERIDAN). The Hunchback: a Play in five acts. 8vo, half calf, repaired. Moxon, 1833.

£2 12s. 6d. Inscribed on title "S. T. Coleridge, Esq., with the publisher's best respects." The copy afterwards belonged to J. H. Green, Coleridge's literary executor.

LAFAYETTE (GENERAL), Recollections of the Private Life of-. By M. Jules Cloquet, M.D. With forty-five engravings, extra-illustrated by the insertion of twenty portraits, 2 vols., fcap 8vo, "solidly" bound in full levant, arms on side. New York, 1836. £3 10S. LAING (SAMUEL). The Heimskringla; or, Chronicle of the Kings of Norway, translated from the Icelandic. 3 vols., 8vo, cloth. 1844. With Maurice Hewlett's bookplate.

£4

LAMBIANA. Gli Elogi Dei Porco Capitoli Berneschi di Tigrinto Bistonio.

4to, original wrappers. In Modena, 1761.

£3

The previous owner was of the firm opinion that this book came from Charles Lamb's Library. There is a pencil note on the inside of the front cover "Given to me by Th. Moxon," and then initials which might be C. L. The paper is rough and the impression faint. A signature of Lamb is pasted on. Inserted is a page of comparisons between this volume and Lamb's Dissertation on Roast Pig.

plates and illustrations, Number 209 of 500 copies on hand-made paper, 4to. green levant (by Zaehnsdorf), raised bands on back, deep border within, and gilt top, arms on side, FINE COPY. Paris: Goupil, 1912. £6 10s.

LANG (ANDREW). Perrault's Popular Tales. Edited from the Original Editions, with Introduction, etc. By Andrew Lang. Cr. 8vo, original boards. Oxford, 1888. 9s.

¶ LANGLAND (WILLIAM). The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman, together with Richard the Redeless. Edited with preface, etc., by W. W. Skeat. 2 vols., 8vo, new. £2 10S.

LASSELS (RICHARD). The Voyage of Italy; or, a Compleat Journey through Italy. With the characters of the people, and the description of the chief towns, churches, palaces, gardens, etc. Frontispiece, 8vo, original calf, well rebacked.

1686.

With Maurice Hewlett's bookplate.

£I IS.

LATIN BIBLE. Biblia Cum Tabula oviter Edita. Roman Letter. Fine printer's device at end, thick 4to, 8in × 6 in., vellum gilt, clean crisp copy. Venetiis: per Symonem beuilaqua papiensem, 1494.

£6 10s. LAWRENCE AND BULLEN'S beautifully printed and illustrated editions of French and Italian Masterpieces. Each limited to one thousand copies, printed at the Chiswick Press. A COMPLETE SET, 9 vols., bound in moiré silk, as published. 1892, etc. £19

Titles as under :

MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS. Translated by Urquhart and Motteux, with Introduction by Anatole De Montaiglon. 2 vols.

THE DECAMERON OF BOCCACCIO. Translated by John Payne. 2 vols.
Both the above are illustrated by Louis Chalon.

2 vols.

2 vols.

THE NOVELLINO OF MASUCCIO. Translated by W. G. Waters.
THE PECORONE OF SER GIOVANNI. Translated by W. G. Waters.
THE NIGHTS of StrapAROLA. Translated by W. G. Waters.
The above three works are illustrated by E. R. Hughes, A.R.W.S.
LAZARILLO DE TORMES, The Adventures of-Translated from the
Spanish. Portrait and 2 plates. (2) The History of the Devil (Defoe),
2 vols. in 1. Post 8vo, half old-style calf, marbled sides, double-lettering
pieces. 1821 and circa 1820.

With Maurice Hewlett's bookplate.

15s.

LEE (SIDNEY). A Life of William Shakespeare. Coloured frontispiece and numerous illustrations. Royal 8vo. 1908. Published 15s. net. Offered at

7s. 6d.

LE GALLIENNE (RICHARD). The Student and the Body-Snatcher, and other Trifles. By Robinson K. Leather and Richard Le Gallienne. Fcap. 8vo; scarce. 1890. 155. LELAND (CHARLES GODFREY). Gypsy Sorcery and FortuneTelling. Illustrated by numerous Incantations, Specimens of Medical Magic, Anecdotes and Tales. Copiously Illustrated by the Author. Folio, decorated boards, as issued. 1891. £I IS.

Number 70 of 150 signed copies, printed on large paper.

LE SAGE. Asmodeus; or, The Devil on Two Sticks. Translated by Joseph Thomas. With a Biographical Notice by Jules Janin. Illustrated by Tony Johannot. 8vo, half levant extra, arms on side, FINE COPY. 1841. £4

« IndietroContinua »