Sales catalogue 13: Andrew Block

Date:
1932
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/26/7
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 13: Andrew Block. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    200 Fairy Tales.—Jacobs (Joseph) English Fairy Tales, dlus. by J. D. Batien, Ist Edn., Lond., 1890, sm. 4to, orig. cl. 6/- 201 [Fitzgerald (Edward)]| Euphranor: a Dia- logue on Youth, lst Edn., Lond., 1851, 8vo, orig. cl. (tiny piece cut from the blank end-paper), fine copy. £6 John Drinkwater’s copy, with his name and the following note in his hand:—‘‘A fine copy of the First Edition of Edward. Fitzgerald’s first published book, as issued. Very rare. Perfect.”’ ' 202 Fitzgerald (Edward) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and the Salaman and Absal of Jami, rendered into English Verse, front., Lond., 1879, sm. 4to, orig. hf. roan. £2 The 4th Edn., but the Ist Edn. to contain the “Salaman and Absal.’’ Rare. 203 Flecker (James Elroy) The Letters of J. K. Flecker to Frank Savery, Ist Edn., Beaumont Press, 10th Oct., 1926, 8vo, orig. decorated bds., uncut, fine. £2/2/- One of 80 copies signed by the Editor, Artists (Claudia Guercio and Randolph Schwabe), and publisher. 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