The book collector's guide : a practical handbook of British and American bibliography / by Seymour de Ricci.

  • Seymour de Ricci
Date:
1921
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Credit: The book collector's guide : a practical handbook of British and American bibliography / by Seymour de Ricci. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    B B. (R.) A new tragical Comedy of Apius and Virginia. London, W. How for R. Jones, 1575. 4°. Only three copies known: 1. Brit. Mus.; 2. £ 101 Sotheby’s, 27 June 1906, n. 959 (now W. A. White) ; 3. £ 72 Sotheby’s [Mostyn] 31 May 1907, n. 426 (now Elizabethan Club, Yale). For a later play on the same subject, see J. Webster. BACCHUS AND THE TEETOTALLERS Bacchus and the Teetotallers, by Rumfusticus Bibulus Esq. London, 1841. 40. 6 coloured pi. ascribed to Cruikshank. $40 Pope (May 1910, n. 176) mor., by Riviere. BACON (Francis). 1561-1626 Essays. London, for H. Hooper, 1597. 8°. One of the rarest books in the English language. Copies are in the Brit. Mus., Cambridge (two copies) and the Huntington Coll. (Park- Eaing-Rowfant-Church copy). Only one copy has been sold for many years: $1950 Huth (Nov. 1911, n. 385) mor. (now Elizabethan Club, Yale). A 12° edition with the same date and imprint is known by the unique copy at Trinity College, Cambridge. \ The following editions also command high prices: - Second edition. London, for H. Hooper, 1598. 120. $1575 Hoe (Apr. 1911,1, n. 154) mor.; £200 Huth (Nov. 1911, n. 386) mor.; £250 Pearson (Nov. 1916, n. 21) mor., by Bedford. - London, J. Jaggard, 1606. 8°. £ 100 Huth (Nov. 1911, n. 387) mor.; $675 Hoe (Jan. 1912, II, n. 295) mor. (now Huntington); £81 S'otheby’s, 22 July 1918, n. 1039, calf; $860 H. V. Jones (Dec. 1918, n. 60) calf. - London, for /. Jaggard, 1612. 8°. £ 30 Huth (Nov. 1911, n. 389) mor.; $225 Hoe (Apr. 1912, III, n. Ill) mor., by Riviere; £44 Pittar (Nov. 1918, n. 49) orig. veil., showing un- d'escribed variations. - London, J. Beale, 1612. 8°. £70 Huth (Nov. 1911, n. 388) mor.; $400 Hoe (Jan. 1912, II, n. 296) orig. vellum, resold $525 Huntington (Febr. 1918, VII, n. 10) ; $360 H. V. Jones (Dec. 1918, n. 61) old calf.
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