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 Antechamber. London, printed for private circula¬ tion, 1906. 8°. Orange wrapper. See also Kermscott Press. TENNYSON (Charles). 1808-1879 Sonnets and Fugitive Pieces. Cambridge, B. Bridges, [for John Richardson, London], 1830. 160. Copies exist with and without Richardson’s name in the imprint. In orig. brown boards $6-8. — £ 300 Hodgson’s, 22 Oct. 1902, n. 113, Thackeray’s copy with 3 sketches by him and an autograph poem of 12 verses, resold £ 140, Sotheby’s, 17 June 1903, n. 71 and $600 Anderson’s 7 Dec. 1904, n. 445. THACKERAY (William Makepeace). 1811-1863 Richard Herne Shepherd, The bibliography of Thackeray (London, Elliot Stock, 1880. 8°) viii-62 pp., is no longer of much value. It can be supplemented by Charles Plumptre Johnson, Hints to collectors of original editions of the works of William Makepeace Thackeray. (Lon¬ don, G. Redway, 1885. 8°). 48 pp. # By far the most reliable information is to be found in [Ruth S. Gran- niss], Catalogue of an exhibition commemorating the hundredth anni¬ versary of the birth of William Makepeace Thackeray (New York Gro- lier Club, 1912. 8°). xii-141 pp. The most important collection of Thackerayana sold in recent years was that of Major Lambert of Philadelphia (New York, 25 February 1914) ; the finest series in private hands belongs to H. S’. Van Duzer, of New York and is described by him in A Thackeray Library, belonging to Henry Sayre Van Duzer (New York, 1919. 8°). xiii-198 pp. The Snob, a literary and scientific Journal, not “conducted by Members of the University.” Cambridge, W. H. Smith, 1829. 120. 11 weekly parts (9 April-18 June). Printed on variously tinted papers, with coloured wrappers; the first page of each part bears in most copies the words second, third or fourth edition, but a set is known without any such designation (Cambridge Free Library). Also found in book form, in buff printed boards, but with margins trimmed. This magazine, and the Gownsman contain Thackeray’s first printed productions. $150-200. — $1000 Borden (Febr. 1913, n. 776) boards; $2000 Lam¬ bert (Febr. 1914, n. 774) boards.