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 Gownsman, formerly called “The Snob/’ a literary and scientific Journal now conducted by Members of the University. Vol. II. Cambridge, W. H. Smith, 1830. 120. Published in 17 weekly parts (5 Nov. 1829-25 Febr. 1830). Exists in book form, in green printed boards, with margins trimmed. $480 Hermann (March 1909, n. 564) boards; $1000 Borden (Febr. 1913, n. 777) boards; $850 Lambert (Febr. 1914, n. 775) boards. Flore et Zephyr, Ballet mythologique . . . par Theo- phile Wagstaff. London, /. Mitchell, and Paris, Rittner et Goupil, 1 March 1836. Folio. 9 plates (including wrapper title) lithographed by Edward Morton after Thackeray. In nearly all copies these lithographs are coloured. The title exists in at least two states. £226 Hodgson’s, 17 Nov. 1911, n. 81; £250 Sotheby’s, 27 June 1912, n. 349; $1325 Borden (Febr. 1913, n. 778) mor., by Riviere, an orig. draw¬ ing inserted; $1200 Lambert (Febr. 1914, n. 780) now J. L. Clawson. King Glumpus, an Interlude in one Act. London, for private circulation only, 1837. 120. 3 pi. Yellow wrapper. Contains 16 lithographed pp. of text (doubtless by John Barrow) on blue wove writing-paper, with 3 lithographed plates by Thackeray col¬ oured by hand. Extremely scarce. — £ 101 Sotheby’s, 23 July 1906, n. 240; £ 153 Sothe¬ by’s, 15 March 1907, n. 449; £ 148 Hodgson’s, 26 Nov. 1908, n. 469; £90 Sanderson (Febr. 1912, n. 22) ; $1900 Lambert (Febr. 1914, n. 782) mor. (now Van Duzer). The Yellowplush Correspondence. Philadelphia, E. L. Carey and A. Hart, 1838. 8°. In orig. boards with label $50-60. The Whitey-Brown Paper Magazine. London, [1838- 1839]. 40. This magazine never came into being; all that remains of it are the proofs of ten lithographed leaves with 9 illustrations, formerly in Joseph Grego’s collection and sold for $3800 Lambert (Febr. 1914, n. 806) ; the 9 original drawings, formerly in the Burgess coll., belong to Mr. H. E. Huntington. The Exquisites, a Farce in two Acts. London, for private circulation only, 1839. 8°. 4 plates, plain yellow wrapper. Contains 22 leaves, printed on blue wove writing-paper, with 4 litho¬ graphs by Thackeray; the text is doubtless by John Barrow.