Sales catalogue 563: Maggs Bros

Date:
1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/108
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 563: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    169 GOLDSMITH (Oliver). The Comic Romance of Monsieur Scarron, trans- lated by Oliver Goldsmith. FIRST EDITION. 2 vols., sm. 8vo, feme copy in original calf. London, Printed for W. Griffin, 1775. £8 10s 170 ———— Poems for Young Ladies. In three parts. Devotional, Moral, and Entertaining. The Whole being a Collection of the Best Pieces in our Language. With engraved frontispiece. FIRST EDITION. Sm. 8vo, original calf. London, Printed for J. Payne, 1767. £9 9s The section of this book entitled ‘‘ Moral,’’ begins with Goldsmith’s own poem, ‘‘ Edwin and Angelina,’’ a ‘‘ cireumstance,’’ comments Austin Dobson, ‘‘ which lends a.certain piquancy to the artless statement in the preface that ‘ every poem in the following collection would singly have procured an author great reputation.’ ’’ 171 ———— The Vicar of Wakefield: a Tale. Supposed to be written by Himself. The Second Edition. 2 vols., 8vo, fixe tall copy in original calf. London, Printed for F. Newbery, 1766. £18 18s 172 GRACIAN (Lorenzo). The Critick. Written Originally in Spanish by Lorenzo Gracian, one of the Best Wits of Spain, and Translated into English, by Paul Rycaut, Esq. With engraved portrait of Rycaut. Small 8vo, oviginal calf. London, Printed by T. N. for Henry Brome, 1681. £2 2s 173 GRAMMONT (Comte de). Memoires du Comte de Grammont, par le C. Antoine Hamilton. With the 72 finely engraved portraits in proof state. LARGE PAPER Copy. Thick 4to, contemporary red morocco, g.é. A Londres, Chez Edwards (1793). £8 10s 174 GRAY (Thomas). Elegia scripta in coemeterio rustico latiné reddita. FIRST EDITION IN LATIN. The Latin and English Versions on opposite pages. . 4to, fine copy in calf. Cantabrigiae, Typis Academicis excudebat J]. Bentham, Le 44s Translated into Latin by Christopher Anstey and Dr. William Hayward Roberts of King’s College, Cambridge. It is the first translation into Latin of Gray’s famous ‘* Elegy written in a country church-yard ’’—a translation which had the advantage of Gray’s criticisms and the good fortune to elicit an interesting letter from the poet.
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