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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    WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR. 229 Letter from W. S. Landor to R. W. Emerson. 24 pp., post 8vo, sewn, uncut, as issued. Bath: Published by E. Williams (1856). £15 15s 230 A Reply from the “ Den.” FIRST SEPARATELY PUBLISHED EDITION (Reprinted from the “ Daily News,” March 15, 1858). On 1 page, 8vo. £10 10s The leaflet is headed as follows:— [“‘ At the time when Orsini’s name became famous in Europe, England was called by the French Government a ‘Den of Assassins,’ and certain French Colonels threatened to put in a personal appearance in London. The following reply was given by Walter Savage Landor.’’] Neither Wise and Wheeler’s Bibliography of Landor, or T. J. Wise’s Landor Library, record this printing of the poem as a leaflet. Enclosed in buckram case. 231 A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Walter Savage Landor, by Thomas James Wise and Stephen Wheeler. Illustrated with numerous facsimiles. Small 4to, original boards, uncut. London, 1919. SF, 2S JOHN LEECH. OriGINaAL Drawincs For A’BEcKETT’s “‘ Comic Rome.” 232 A Series of Sixty-five Original Spirited Drawings (in pencil), to illustrate Gilbert A’Beckett’s Comic History of Rome, including the large design for the elaborate title. On several of the drawings, John Leech has written the titles. The whole carefully mounted and bound folio size, in red morocco, by Riviere. Circa 1850. £350 233 A’BECKETT (Gilbert A.). The Comic History of England. With 20 coloured plates and 240 wood engravings by John Leech. Comic History of Rome. With 10 coloured plates and 98 woodcuts by John Leech. (1852). Together, First EDITIONS, 3 vols., 8vo, full morocco, uncut, t.e.g. With the original monthly wrappers bound in at end. 1847-52. £25 234 ———— The Comic History of England. With 20 coloured plates and 240 woodcuts by John Leech. First EpITIon. 2 vols., 8vo, original cloth, uncut. London: Punch Office, 1847-8. £12 12s 235 HOLE (Dean). A Little Tour in Ireland: Being a Visit to Dublin, Galway, Connamara, Athlone, Limerick, Cork, etc., by an Oxonian. Coloured folding frontispiece, full-page and other illustrations by John Leech. First EDITION. Square crown 8vo, original cloth. are 3 3S 236 SMITH (Albert). The Struggles and Adventures of Christopher Tadpole, at Home and Abroad. Portrait and 32 plates by John Leech. First EDITION. 8vo, original cloth, uncut. London: gee 3 3s [ 26 ] MAGGS BROS. LTD. LONDON +
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