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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    The Cup and the Falcon. London, Macmillan, 1884. 160. The first published1 edition of these two plays. In orig. green cloth $4-5. — £21 Browning (May 1913, n. 1152) pre¬ sentation copy to Browning. The Passing of Arthur. London, Macmillan, 1884. 160. A rare separate impression. In orig. printed wrapper $25-30 and more. — £ 14 Sotheby’s, 3 July 1899, n. 1472) ; $77.50 Ives (Apr. 1915, n. 988) wrapper. Tiresias and other Poems. London, Macmillan, 1885. 160. In orig. green cloth $4-5. — £ 19 Red Cross Sale (Apr. 1916, n. 2320) presentation copy. —— * Gordon Boys’ Morning & Evening Hymns. London, Boosey and Co., 1885. Fol. 8 pp. No wrapper. Scarce. To H. R. H. Princess Beatrice. London, July 1885. A 40 broadside. Very scarce. Of 100 copies printed, only 3 or 4 are extant (Brit. Mus., T. J. Wise, etc.). A second issue of 50 copies (on paper without a watermark) is equally scarce. Ode on the Opening of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition. London, W. Clowes, 1886. 40. 4 pp. Very scarce. $205 Walpole Galleries, 16 Febr. 1917, n. 263, unbound. Locksley Hall sixty Years after, etc. London, Macmillan, 1886. 16°. Contains the first published edition of “The Promise of May.” In orig. green cloth $5-6. — £31 Browning (May 1913, n. 1153) pre¬ sentation copy to Browning. Carmen Saeculare, an Ode in Honour of the Jubilee of Queen Victoria. London, Macmillan [1887]. 8°. Fifty copies were printed. Carmen Saeculare, an Ode in Honour of the Jubilee of Queen Victoria. London, printed for private distribution, 1887. 120. Wrapper. About 20 copies were printed. $155 Morgan (Apr. 1902, n. 421) wrapper; $245 Lapharn (Dec. 1908, n. 1378) mor., by Riviere.