Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
July 1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/744
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    488 439 490 A9OA 491 492 iinglish translation, with an Introduction by Mdward Hutton, facsumile frontispiece, limited edition, original oloth, \g: t. : Privately printed for the Navarre Society, 1926 [Borrow (GEORGE) | CELEBRATED ‘TRIALS, 6 vol. FIRST EDI- TION, with the omitted leaves wn vol. IV, plates, some folding, two or three leaves loosely wmserted im vol. IV are from a smaller copy, original boards (except vol. IV in original cloth), back strips defective and two covers detached, UNCUT Kmght and Lacey, 1825 [Borrow (G.)| Faustus; translated from the German, FIRST EDITION, coloured frontispiece, red morocco, folate pan- elled back, wnside dentelles, g.e. by Riviere 12mo. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1825 [Borrow (G.)] TALES oF THE WILD AND THE WONDERFUL, FIRST EDITION, a few shght stains, new boards, with remains of the original paper label, UNCUT Printed for Hurst, Robinson, and Co. 1825 ** VERY RARE. Not in Wise. See Mr. Clement Shorter’s Bibiographical Note to vol. XV of the Norwich edition of the Works of George Borrow, also Mr. Walter Jerrold’s article on George Borrow’s “ Joseph Sell” in the Corn- hill Magazine for January, 1921. [ Borrow (G.)| Tales of the Wild and the Wonderful, frontis- piece, original cloth, g. e. | 16mo. Milner and Sowerby, 1867 ** This edition contains two Tales at the end not attributed to Borrow. Borrow (G.) Tarcum. Or Metrical Translations from thirty Languages and Dialects, one of 100 copies, 1835—THE TALISMAN. From the Russian of Alexander Pushlin. With other Pieces, 811. the last a blank, one of 100 copies, 1835, 2 vol. in 1, both FIRST EDITIONS, red morocco guli, go @: St. Petersburg ** These copies were presented by Borrow to Sir George Villier’s, later 4th Earl of Clarendon, who as British Minister at Madrid during Borrow’s journeys in Spain, gave him valuable assistance. The vol. carries Lord Clarendon’s book-plate. Borrow (G.) THe TaLisMAN. From the Russian of Alex- ander Pushkin, 8 ll. the last a blank, one of 100 copies printed, UNCUT AND UNOPENED, in a cloth folder St, Petersburg, Printed by Schulz and Beneze, 1835 m2
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