Sales catalogue 444: Maggs Bros

Date:
1923
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/25
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 444: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    19/350 page 349
    Lang (Andrew)—continued. 1827 Old Friends: Essays in Epistolary Parody. Frontts piece. FIRST EDITION. Large Paper. 8vo, ovzginal boards, uncut, ¢. é. g. London, 1800. 18s *** One of 150 copies on Japanese Vellum. 1828 Perrault’s Popular Tales. Edited from the Original Editions, with Introduction, etc., by Andrew Lang. FIRST EDITION. Post 8vo, ovzginal half vellum, uncut. Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1888. 12s 6d 1829 Prince Prigio. With 27 illustrations by Gordon Browne. PinsT, EDITION... Sq. 12mo, o7zg7nal cloth. ‘Bristol, 1880. 6s 1830 Tenui Victu Contentus Ingluuiem Fuge. Papae Leonis XIII. ad Fabri- cium Rufum Epistola. Translated into English by Andrew Lang. Sq. post 8vo, ov7ginal wrappers, uncut. 18097. £1 10s *** Mr. Andrew Lang’s translation of Pope Leo XIII.’s Latin “ Epistle to Fabricius Rufus” was originally published in the New York World, to which it had been transmitted by cable from England, and it was reprinted in the Daily News, and partially in other English newspapers. It has, however, never appeared in any collected edition of Mr. Lang’s poems. 1831 XXXII. Ballades in Blue China. Frontispiece. FIRST EDITION. F’cap. 8vo, ovzginal wrappers, uncut. London, 1881. £1 5s rosa ™ The Barbarous Bird-Gods.”’ Autograph Manuscript Signed. Comprising some 78 lines on 3 pp., folio. Unbound. £6 10s Of unusual and peculiar interest, giving the song of the Bird-Gods. Lang, in an Intro- duction, says :— “The myth in the ‘ Birds’ of Aristophanes, which represents Birds as older than the Gods, may have been a genuine Greek ''radition. The following lines shew how pre- valent is the myth among widely severed races.” “We would have you to wit, on eggs though we sit And are spiked on the spit, and are baked in the pan. Birds are older by far than your ancestors are And made love and made war e’er the making of man! For when all things were dark, not a glimmer nor spark, And the world like a barque without rudder or sail Floated on through the night, t’was a Bird struck a light, T’was a flash from the bright feather’d Tonatiu’s tail! ”’ Etc., ete.
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3