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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    Extremely scarce. Of this edition the Carter-Brown copy was long the only one on record. The Halsey copy is in the Huntington coll. £650 Bishop White Kennett (July 1917, n. 159) unbound. Of the two 1638 editions several copies are known. VIRGILIUS or VERGILIUS (Publius) MARO i The XIII Bukes of Eneados of the famose poete Virgill (translated by Gawin Douglas). London, [W. Copland], 1553- 4°. Perfect copies have an extra leaf x4, numbered CLXIII. £53 Ashburnham (May 1898, n. 3878) mor., with the additional leaf; $950 Hoe (Apr. 1911, I, n. 1149) mor., by The Club Bindery (Herbert’s copy, with the add. leaf) ; $415 Hagen (May 1918, n. 378) mor., by The Club Bindery (Crawford-Stewart copy) ; $560 H. V. Jones (Dec. 1918, n. 506) mor., inlaid, by Riviere (now Pforzheimer). The Works of Virgil, translated into English verse by Dry- den. London, for J. Tonson, 1697. Fob PI. by Lombart, Hollar and others. $25 Hagen (May 1918, n. 459) half-calf (now W. A. Clark, Jr.). The Pastorals of Virgil adapted for Schools, 3rd ed. Lon¬ don, J. McGowan, 1821. 160. 230 engravings. Contains 17 woodcuts by W. Blake. VORAGINE (Jacobus de). 1230(?)-1298 The Golden Legend. Westminster, William Caxton, 1483. Folio. About 40 copies known, nearly all imperfect. £ 1300 Gott (March 1908, n. 58) perf. Other editions printed by W. de Worde (1493, 1498, 1512, 1527) and by Julian Notary (1503). A fine copy of the 1527 ed., £ 176 Lord Jer¬ sey (May 1885, n. 1876), russia, resold $3100 Hoe (Apr. 1912, III, n. 579). See also Kermscott Press. W w. (J.) The Valiant Scot [a play]. London, T. Harper for J. Water son, 1637. 40.