Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
December 1926
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/693
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    684. 686 688 689 690 691 {Dodgson (C. L.)} Through the Looking-Glass, FIRST EDI- TION, plates by J. Tenniel, a few very slight stains, ori- ginal cloth, frayed and stained, q.e. Macmillan and Co. 1872 [Dodgson (C. L.)| Phantasmagoria and other Poems, PRES- ENTATION COPY with inscription in the handwriting of the author “Miss M. B. Smedley with the Author's affte. regards. Jan. 1869,” name of a later owner on half-title and title, original cloth, frayed, g. e. Macmillan and Co. 1869 [ Dodgson (C. L.)] The Hunting of the Snark, FIRST EDITION, plates by H. Holiday, original cloth, Macmillan and Co. 1876; and another (2) Swinburne. Books from the Library of Algernon Charles Swinburne, including Mourey (G.) Flammes Mortes, with long presentation inscription to Swinburne, 1888—Reul (P.) Swinburne et la France, inscribed copy with long A. Ll. s. 1904—Dorian (T.) Vespérale, inscribed copy. 1894 —Lebey (André) Chansons Grises, inscribed copy, 189%7— Reul (X. de) Le Peintre Mystique, inscribed copy, 1906— Blind (Mathilde) The Prophecy of Saint Oran, imscribed copy, 1881; and others (8) Swinburne. Lucani Pharsalia, 2 vol. in 1, calf, 1822— Martialis Epigrammata, 1829; and another (3) ** Both the above books are from A. C. Swinburne’s library, and each bears hig boyish signature on fly-leaf “ Algernon C. Swinburne, Jan. 29 (and Jan. 30) 1850,” when he was a schoolboy 13 years of age. Whittier (J. Greenleaf) Voices of Freedom, calf gilt, Phila- delphia, 1846—Wilcox (Ella Wheeler) Poems of Pleasure, and Poems of Passion, 2 vol. 1900—Sparrow (A. G.) The New Crusade (from Swinburne’s library), 1907; and others | Conrad (Joseph) Typhoon and other Stories, FIRST EDITION, (no advertisements at end), original cloth 1903 Byron (Lord) Complete Works, with a Biographical and Critical Note by J. W. Lake, 7 vol. portrait, calf gilt, Paris, 1825—Dante Alighieri. La Divina Commedia col comento del P. Baldassarre Lombardi, 3 vol. portrait, half vellum git, Firenze, 1830 (10)
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