Sales catalogue 599: Maggs Bros

Date:
1934
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/139
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 599: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Bennetr (Arnold)—continued. [71] A MAN FROM THE NORTH. First Epirion. Crown 8vo. Original cloth, uncut. London, 1898. £25 Presentation copy from the Author, with inscription on fly-leaf :— “To Arthur Hooley, from E. A. B., 20 Apl., 98.” [72] THE OLD WIVES’ TALE. A Novel. First Eprrion. Post 8vo. Original cloth. London, 1908. ¢ £45 [73] BESANT (Sir Walter) and POLLOCK (Walter). THe CHarM AND OTHER Drawinc-Room Puays. Illustrated by C. Hammond and A. J]. Goodman. First Epition. Small 8vo. Original cloth gilt, g. e. London, 1896. 15S [74] BEWICK. THe Fansites or AESOP AND OTHERS, with designs on wood by Thomas Bewtck. A Larce Paper Copy oF THE First Epition. Royal 8vo. Fine copy in full calf extra, top edges gilt. London, 1818. 42 Tos With Bewick’s thumb-mark receipt inserted. [75 | A GENERAL History oF QuaprupEps. With numerous woodcuts by Thomas Bewick. | Larce Paper Copy oF THE First Epirion. Royal 8vo. Fine copy in the original boards, with label, uncut. Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1790. Z15 158 From H. W. Bruton’s Collection, with the following note in his autograph on fly-leaf: ‘Extremely rare on large paper—the only copy in the original boards I have ever seen. The only copy in such state, I have been able to trace is that sold in Ford’s Sale, in 1904, for £51.” [ 76 | History oF British Birps. Numerous uncut engravings of the birds and the very numerous vignette tail pieces, by Thomas Bewtck. First Epirion. 2 vols., 8vo. Half calf. Newcastle, 1797-1804. £1 6s [77] BINDING. COBDEN-SANDERSON (T. J.). GASKELL (Mrs.). Cran- FORD, with a Preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Large Paper Copy. Imperial 8vo. Bound by Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Bindery, in full levant morocco extra, full gilt panel back, gilt lines on sides, with panel centre, decorated with gilt ornamentations, g. e. London, 1891. $32 [ 78 ] TENNYSON (Alfred, Lord). Maup anp oTHER Poems. First Epition. i12mo. Full red morocco extra, full gilt floral back, gilt lines and dots on side, inside dentelles, g. e., by Cobden-Sanderson (Doves Bindery, 1896). London, 1855. $32 An early specimen from the Doves Bindery.
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