Sales catalogue 629: Maggs Bros

Date:
1936
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/166
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 629: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    RUDYARD KIPLING. With AvuTOGRAPH LETTER TO THE ILLUSTRATOR. 214 “ Soldier and Sailor Too.” The Set of six illustrations (in proof state), by G. Montbard, together with the Text. Folio, wrappers. London, 1896. £10 10s With autograph letter signed from Rudyard Kipling to G. Montbard. “I have to-day received the charming originals of your illustrations to ‘ Soldier and Sailor too,’ and I write to thank you most heartily for these.” Etc. The Poem and Illustrations were. published in Pearson’s Magazine, March, 1896; the Poem was afterwards printed in ‘‘ The Seven Seas.” 215 Soldier Tales. Illustrated. First EpiITion. Post 8vo, original cloth gilt, g.e. London, ie Ss 216 Wee Willie Winkie and other Child Stories. FIRST EpITION. Post 8vo. Fine copy in original pictorial wrappers. Allahabad: A. H. Wheeler and Co. [1888]. £15 15s 217 The Years Between. First EDITION. 8vo, original half vellum, uncut, t.e.g. London, 1919. &3 10s One of 30 copies only on Japanese vellum. 218 Kipling’s College. Being an Account of Kipling’s School-days at the United Services College, and giving a facsimile of pages of one of his school books, in which Kipling has made numerous crude sketches, extracts from the School Magazine, etc., by W. M. Car- penter. With many illustrations. 8vo. Evanston, 1929. ao Only 100 copies printed. - CHARLES LAMB. 219 The Annual Anthology. First EDITION. 2 vols., feap. 8vo. Full morocco, uncut, t.e.g. Bristol, 1799-1800. £9 9s This work contains contributions by Charles Lamb, Charles Lloyd Southey, and others; pages 31 and 32 in Vol. I were cancelled. 220 Beauty and the Beast: or, The Enchanted Rose. A Poetical Version of an Ancient Tale. Illustrated with a series of engravings, and Beauty’s Song at her Spinning Wheel; set to music by Mr. Whittaker. Second Edition. 16mo, boards, leather back. London: William Jackson and Co., at the Juvenile Library, 1825. £85 This is a copy with the plates in colours, and with the Music of Beauty’s Song printed on two sheets. Both covers carry the woodcut illustration, with the lettering “‘Go, be a Beast! Homer.” The text of the present copy belongs to the ‘“ Surprise ”’ issue of the first edition, the words Second Edition on the title-page being therefore misleading. Probably the unsold copies were bought up by Jackson after Godwin’s failure as publisher in 1822, and issued with a new title-page. No other copy with this title-page appears to be known. 221 Final Memorials of Charles Lamb: consisting chiefly of his Letters not before published, with Sketches of some of his Companions. First Epirron. 2 vols., post 8vo, original cloth, uncut. London: Edward Moxon, 1848. &2 10s
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