Sales catalogue 588: Maggs Bros

Date:
1933
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/131
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 588: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Books with CoLourED PLatTEs—continued. [261] VIEWS ON THE RHINE. The set of 24 finely coloured plates from Gerring’s Rhine, drawn by Schutz, engraved by Sutherland, mounted as drawings. Oblong folio size. Half morocco. (1820.) £5 18s [262] WOODWARD (G. M.). Eccrenrric Excursions; or, Literary and Pictorial Sketches of Countenance, Character, and Country in different parts of England and South Wales, interspersed with Curious Anecdotes. Illustrated with upwards of 100 highly humorous coloured plates by Isaac Cruikshank after Woodward. First Epirton. 4to. Calf. London, 1796. 49 9s JOSEPH CONRAD. AvuTHor’s CorrecTED PRooF SHEETS. [263] THE SHOCK OF WAR THROUGH GERMANY TO CRACOW. One of 25 copies Privately Printed. 1919. TO POLAND IN WAR-TIME. One of 25 copies Privately Printed. 1919. THE NORTH SEA ON THE EVE OF WAR. One of 25 copies Privately Printed. 1919. MY RETURN TO CRACOW. One of 25 copies Privately Printed. 19109. Proof Sheets of these four Privately Printed Pamphlets, corrected by Conrad for the printer for ““ Notes on Life and Letters.” Together, £20 Conrad has marked these I., II., III., IV., and at head of the first pamphlet he has written :— “Poland Revisited— “The Daily News,” March 2oth, 31st, April 6th, oth. 1915. j. C-TIFE:” The others are correspondingly marked II, III, IV, and there are a number of textual corrections throughout the four pieces. On the final leaf Conrad has again written his initials “J.C.” [264] ALPHONSE DAUDET. II pp., small 4to. Original wrappers. London, Printed for the Author, 1920. £3 10s One of 25 copies privately printed for Joseph Conrad. [265] ANATOLE FRANCE. 18 pp., small gto. Original wrappers, uncut. London, Printed for Joseph Conrad, 1919. £3 108 One of 25 copies privately printed.
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