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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    WITH THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT. [79] BIRRELL (Augustine). | ApHorisMs oN AUTHORS AND THEIR Ways: With some general Observations on the Humours, Habits, and Methods of Composition of Poets—Good, Bad and Indifferent; diligently collected from Johnson’s “‘ Lives.” By A. B. The original manuscript entirely in the autograph of the Author, bound up with the book as printed, together with two letters from Birrell to Clement Shorter. Small 4to. Half morocco, t. e. g. 1917. 416 16s Only 100 copies of the book were printed for Private Circulation. WILLIAM BLAKE. | [80] AMERICA: A Prophecy, by William Blake, 1793. Facsimiled at Edmon- ton, Anno 1887, by W. Muir, H. T. Muir, E. Druitt, and M. Hughes. 20 plates printed in dull blue. Folio. Original wrappers. (Muir facsimile). 1887. £7 10s Only about 50 copies printed. [81] THE BOOK OF THEL. 12 coloured plates, facsimiles of the originals. 4to. Original boards. Printed and published by F. Hollyer. London, 1924. 410 Ios One of 25 copies only. [ 82] ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BOOK OF JOB. With Descriptive Letter- press, and a Sketch of the Artist’s Life and Works, by Charles Eliot Norton. 4to. Original half roxburghe. Boston, James R. Osgood and Company, 1875. LI 58 [83] DESIGNS FOR GRAY’S POEMS, reproduced full size in Monochrome or | Colour from the Unique Copy belonging to His Grace the Duke of Hamilton. Upwards of 100 fine and spirited drawings. Large folio. Original buckram. London, 1922. 43 10s One of 650 copies. [84] ELEMENTS OF MORALITY, FOR THE USE OF CHILDREN; with an Introductory Address to Parents. Translated from the German of the Rev. C. G. Salzmann. Illustrated with 50 copper plates by William Blake. First Epirion. 3 vols., 12mo. Bound in full levant morocco, gilt, g. e. London, 1791. 414 14s [85] HAYLEY (Wm.). Batiaps. With 5 plates by William Blake. _ Foolscap 8vo. Full levant morocco gilt, g. e. Chichester, 1805. 410 10s Original Impressions of the plates now issued for the first time in 8vo.
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