Sales catalogue 443: Maggs Bros

Date:: 1923

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/24

Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 443: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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157 BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY OF BOSTON. Thoreau (Henry D.). The First and Last Journeys of Thoreau, lately discovered among his Unpublished Journals and Manuscripts, edited by F. B. Sanborn. With facsimiles. 2 vols, Boston, 1905. Sir Walter Raleigh, by Henry David Thoreau; introduction by F. B. Sanborn. Edited by H. A. Metcalf. Portrait. Boston, 1905. Together 3 vols., royal 8vo, ovzgznal half calf, uncut. Boston, Printed for the Bibliophile Society, 1905. £7 7s 158 BINYON (Laurence). Persephone: The Newdigate Poem, 1890. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, o77ginal wrappers. London, 1890. £2 2s 159 BIRRELL (Augustine,. Aphorisms on Authors and their Ways; with some general Observations on the Humours, Habits, and Methods of Composition of Poets—Good, Bad, and Indifferent: Diligently collected trom Johnson's “~ Lives.”’> By 2.78. Post 8vo, ovzgznal boards. One of One Hundred Copies Privately Printed, 1917. £3 3s *** With Presentation Inscription on flyleaf, and a long Autograph Letter from Augustine Birrell concerning the book. R. D. BLACKMORE. 160 Gradock Nowell, A Tale of the New Forest. FIRST EDITION. 3 vols., post 8vo, ovzgznal cloth London, 1860. £2 10s 101 Fringilla: Some Tales in Verse. Pictured by Louis F. Muckley, with 3 drawings by James Linton. First EDITION. Square 8vo, original ictorial cloth. London, 1895. 8s 6d A PRESENTATION COPY. 162 Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. Twenty-first Edition. Post 8vo, orzgznal cloth. London, 1883. £5 5s ** * Presentation Copy from the Author to Frederick Locker, with signed inscription on title-page; inserted is a letter from R. D. Blackmore to Locker thanking him for a copy of his Poems, also at end another letter from Blackmore to Isbister concerning the publication of one of his books.

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