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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    tation copy, with autograph corrections, resold £ 14 Sotheby’s, 2 June 1908, n. 193; £56 Browning (May 1913, n. 1156) presentation copy to Browning. Property. N. p., n. d. [1864]. 10 pp. Of this trial edition only one copy is known (X. T. Wise, from the Rowfant coll.). A Selection from the Works of Alfred Tennyson. London, E. Moxon, 1865. i6°. In orig. cloth $4-5 but much more in 8 parts in lilac printed wrappers. Morte d’Arthur. Canford Manor, 1866. 8°. A reprint made at the private press of Sir Ivor Guest. — $410 Morgan (Apr. 1902, n. 393) mor., said to be the only copy known. The Window or the Loves of the Wrens. Canford Manor, 1867. F°l. Likewise printed at the private press of Sir Ivor Guest and very scarce. £ 46 Sotheby’s, 22 Apr. 1895, n. 786, mor., presentation copy to Sir J. Simeon; $400 Morgan (Apr. 1902, n. 394) mor. (then Halsey, now Plunt- ington coll.) ; £ 56 Samuel (July 1907, n. 168) presentation copy, resold £49 Sotheby’s, 2 June 1908, n. 194; £30 Samuel (July 1907, n. 169) corrected proofs. The Victim. Canford Manor, 1867. Fol. £32 Sullivan (June 1890, n. 6221) mor., uncut; £75 Crampon (June 1896, n. 450) mor., uncut; £ 51 Puttick’s, 23 Nov. 1904, mor. The sheets had first been set up as an 8°: of this small size impression only one copy is known (W. H. Arnold coll.). Lucretius. Cambridge, Mass., 1868. 16°. Cloth. Privately printed, about 20 copies. In orig. brown cloth $35-40. — £ 12 Crampon (June 1896, n. 451). The Last Tournament. N. p., n. d. [1868]. 8°. A “trial” edition of which only one copy is known (T. J. Wise, from the Rowfant coll.). The Birth of Arthur. N. p.} n. d. [1868]. 8°. A “trial” edition of which likewise only one copy has been traced (T. J. Wise, from the Rowfant coll.). The Lover’s Tale. London, 1869. Of this the second private edition, Tennyson destroyed all copies ex¬ cept two, one he kept (subsequently in the Rowfant collection, then Sothe¬ by’s, 4 March 1920, n. 276, now Messrs. Maggs) and the other retained by his publisher Strahan (now T. J. Wise coll.).