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[Sale Catalogue of] The William P Davisson Collection. The History of Transportation in France and related Subjects.
4to., with several coloured and monochrome facsimiles in the text; original printed wrappers, a very good copy. The sale comprised 344 lots; the remainder of the collection was made available through private treaty.
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SCHRODER John
Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts by Rupert Brooke, Edward Marsh and Christopher Hassall. Collected, compiled and annotated by John Schroder, with a frontispiece by Joan Hassall. (Joan HASSALL, illus.).
4to., First and Sole Edition, with a frontispiece and 11 plates and facsimiles in the text; buckram, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 400 COPIES ON RAG PAPER. Chambers 85.
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[Sale] Catalogue of valuable printed Books from the Broxbourne Library. Illustrating the Spread of Printing. The Property of John Ehrman.
2 vols., 4to., with coloured frontispieces (one folding) and very numerous facsimiles (the majority full-page) in the text; original boards, a very good, clean copy. With the printed lists of estimates, and of purchasers and prices. The four-day sale realised a total of £1,297,000.
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PETERBOROUGH ABBEY.
Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues. Volume 8. Peterborough Abbey. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; burgundy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, vol. 8.
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HORNE H.P.
The Binding of Books. An Essay in the History of Gold-Tooled Bindings. Second Edition.
8vo., Second Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 8 plates, free endpapers mildly browned; original brown buckram, backstrip with paper label, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. With the art nouveau-style pictorial bookplate of E H Glover on front paste-down. A very nice copy of Horne' famous essay, first published (with three extra plates) a year earlier in the 'Books About Books' series edited by A W Pollard.
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WANLEY Humfrey
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley, 1715-1726. Edited by C.E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright. NEAR FINE COPY; SIGNED BY ROGER SENHOUSE
2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and facsimile plate; original series binding of navy cloth, gilt backs, a near fine copy. Vol. I IS SIGNED BY ROGER SENHOUSE. The set comprises Vol. I: 1715-1723; Vol. II: 1723-1726. The first full printing of the journal of the Library-Keeper of Robert Harley.
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CAXTON] [William
The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers. A Facsimile Reproduction of the First Book printed in England by William Caxton, in 1477. [With a Preface by William Blades]. [Second facsimile re-issue].
8vo., on laid paper, black-letter throughout, neat signature on front free endpaper; original buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. The first facsimile of Caxton's famous work was published by Elliot Stock in 1877.
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AUGUSTINIAN CANONS.
Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues. Volume 6. The Libraries of the Augustinian Canons. [Edited by M.T.J. Webber and A.G. Watson]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; burgundy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, vol. 6. VERY SCARCE.
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MUNFORD W.A.
Edward Edwards 1912-1886. Portrait of a Librarian.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 8 plates; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dust- wrapper. Even now, the fundamental role of Edwards in the creation of the Public Library system in the United Kingdom is scarcely understood. This detailed biography, by an acknowledged authority on library history, is based on Edwards' diaries and other unpublished sources. It is the first account of Edwards for over sixty years. Uncommon
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BODLEIAN LIBRARY OXFORD
Fine Bindings 1500-1700 from Oxford Libraries. Catalogue of an Exhibition.
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece and 52 fine plates in monochrome; original blue cloth, a very good, clean copy.
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The Magnificent Botanical Library of the Stiftung fur Botanik, Vaduz, Liechtenstein. Collected by the late Arpad Plesch. COMPLETE SET
3 vols., 4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome plates; original white boards blocked in gilt, small pull at headband of one volume else a very good, bright, clean set. The sale of this outstanding botanical library comprised no fewer than 863 lots.
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WHITE Newport J. D.
A Short Catalogue of English Books in Archbishop Marsh's Library, Dublin printed before MDCXLI. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
4to., First Edition, on laid paper, sewed as issued in the Society's dove-blue wrappers, uncut, backstrip lightly browned else a very good, clean copy of a scarce work. 'Bibliographical Society, Catalogues of English Books', No. I. Newport White was Marsh's Librarian.
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TAHAN Ilana
Memorial Volumes to Jewish Communities destroyed in the Holocaust. A Bibliography of British Library Holdings. Introduction by Sir Martin Gilbert.
4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, and monochrome photographs and a map in the text; cloth gilt, gilt back, a fine copy.
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ZAEHNSDORF LTD
A Short History of Bookbinding and a Glossary of Styles and Terms used in Binding, with a brief Account of the celebrated Binders and Patrons of Bookbinding from whom the various Styles are named, Description of Leathers. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with engraved illustrations in the text, first and last few leaves lightly spottted; handsomely bound in full burgundy morocco, gilt back, original pictorial wrappers preserved (upper wrapper with small loss from lower outer corner), a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Printed for Zaehnsdorf at the Chiswick Press. A hybrid copy. The title-page is dated 1895 so the text is the original edition; the wrapper is dated 1913. This copy includes the final 10pp survey of the company's famous Cambridge Works (in Shaftesbury Avenue) with photographs of the various departments accompanied by sales text. AN ATTRACTIVE COPY OF A RARE SURVIVAL
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SCAPULA] [Johann
Appendix ad Lexicon Graeco-Latinum, a Joanne Scapula constructum, et ad alia Lexica Graeca, e Codice Manuscripto, olim Askeviano, in lucem nunc primum vindicata.
8vo., First [?and Sole] Edition, on laid paper, some very mild age-staining; late eighteenth century full calf, neatly rebacked in calf to style, original leather label gilt preserved, red edges, a remarkably fresh, crisp copy. With the engraved armorial bookplate of a town museum and the donor's original signed presentation slip on front paste-down. Scapula's 'Lexicon' was first published by Henri Stephanus in 1557. This Appendix is dedicated to Anthony Askew (1722-1774), founder of the Bibliotheca Askeviana, and an eminent Classical scholar educated at Emmanuel College Cambridge and at Leiden. He became MD in 1750 and was appointed physician to St. Bartholomew's and Christ's hospitals, and registrar of the College of Physicians. Himself the author of a manuscript volume of Greek inscriptions, his outstanding library was sold by Baker & Leigh in 1775. See Quaritch (DEBC, p. 323). 'Askew's house was crowded with books up to the garrets. The collection was chiefly Classical, and it was its possessor's aim to have every edition of a Greek author' ([Sale catalogue of the] Bibliotheca Askeviana. Sive Catalogus Librorum Rarissimorum, Baker & Leigh, 1775). The sale of his library lasted twenty days and realised a total of £3,993 0s 6d; the principal purchasers were Dr. Hunter, Mr. Cracherode, the British Museum, and the kings of England and of France. Askew's manuscripts (presumably including those pertinent to the present work) were catalogued separately; their sale took place in 1785. The sale catalogue indicates that an appendix to Scapula's Lexicon was edited by Dr. Chas Burney in 1789 so it is likely that the present work is the title referred to. Charles Burney (1757-1817), classical scholar, was the son of Charles Burney the musician and musicologist. Since Burney the younger published numerous tracts and papers relating to Greek literature he could well be the author, but we have been unable to verify this attribution from any other source. Extremely scarce.
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PAUL PROUTE SA
Jacques Callot. Printemps 1992. [Trade catalogue]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, text in French, with facsimiles in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. The catalogue lists 178 items.
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BARTHOLOMEW A.T.
Catalogue of the Books and Papers for the most Part relating to the University, Town and County of Cambridge. Bequeathed to the University by John Willis Clark. NEAR FINE COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece; tan buckram, original gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a near fine copy. This renowned collection, comprising over 10,000 books and pamphlets, was particularly strong in tracts relating to the Cambridge 'controversies'. The catalogue identifies the authors of numerous anonymous publications.
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CARTOGRAPHY.
[Sale Catalogue of] Cartography. I June 1999. Sale Code: BOWEN-6109. FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and very numerous coloured and monochrome facsimiles (a number full-page) in the text; original printed wrappers, a fine copy. The sale comprised 64 lots, including a fine coloured copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493), Blaeu's Tooneel der Steden (Amsterdam, 1649-51) and a pair of Cartaro globes (estimate £120,000-150,000).
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JAMES TREGASKIS AND SON
The One Thousandth Caxton Head Catalogue. Containing a Selection of Books from the Stock of James Tregaskis and Son. With a Prolegomenon by A. Edward Newton. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
4to., First Edition, text in red and black, with coloured portrait frontispiece, 11 plates in monochrome and several illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, some occasional light spotting; original printed wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Lists 164 outstanding items including bindings, English literature, manuscripts, science and books illustrating the history and development of printing. Tregaskis, 'at the sign of the Caxton Head', was one of Newton's favourite booksellers
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MORGAN, ed. F. C.
[Catalogue of] Children's Books published before 1830 exhibited at Malvern Public Library in 1911. Edited by F.C. Morgan (Librarian Malvern 1910-1925). NEAR FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece and 10 plates of facsimiles on 6; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. The catalogue comprises 317 items. UNCOMMON.
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CHRISTIE-MILLER S.R.
[Sale] Catalogue. Early English Works on the Arts and Sciences formerly at Britwell Court, Burnham, Bucks.. 30 March - 3 April 1925. Sale Code: MAGO. BRITWELL COURT IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition [Illustrated Issue], with 59 fine collotype facsimiles on 44 plates; ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS, sewed as issued, covers a trifle faded else a very good, bright, clean copy. WITH THE SEPARATELY PRINTED REQUEST SLIP LOOSELY INSERTED. The catalogue lists 797 lots and is fully indexed. RARE.
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CHRISTIE-MILLER S.R.
[Sale] Catalogue of a further Selection of Early English Poetry and other Literature formerly at Britwell Court, Burnham, Bucks.. 23-26 March 1915. Sale Code: LEO. BRITWELL COURT IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition [Illustrated Issue], with 30 fine collotype facsimiles on 24 plates (not 25 as incorrectly called for; one folding); ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS, sewed as issued, covers a trifle faded, backstrip a little scuffed else a very good, bright, clean copy. WITH THE SEPARATELY PRINTED REQUEST SLIP LOOSELY INSERTED. The catalogue comprises 692 lots. RARE.
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CREATON, ed. Heather
Bibliography of Printed Works on London History to 1939. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. An important and impressive bibliography.
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CURRIE C.R.J.
A Guide to English County Histories.
4to., First Paperback Edition, with a frontispiece and 25 plates; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. An important and extremely useful study which, in addition to its historial and bibliographical surveys of the counties, includes a moving tribute by Susan Reynolds to Christopher Elrington, general editor of the Victoria County History.
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DAVENPORT Cyril
Royal English Bookbindings.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a fine coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 7 fine coloured plates, and 27 monochrome illustrations in the text;, free endpapers faintly browned; original plum cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, covers unevenly faded at backstrip else a very good, bright, clean copy. A very nice, bright copy of a standard reference. Uncommon in this condition.
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DEACON Richard
A Biography of William Caxton. The First English Editor, Printer, Merchant and Translator. EDITOR'S WORKING COPY WITH A.L.s
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and numerous illustrations and plans (a number full-page) in the text; cloth, a very good, clean copy. EDITOR'S WORKING COPY, WITH NUMEROUS ANNOTATIONS AND REVISIONS IN A NEAT HAND THROUGHOUT; PAGES 97-98 CUT TO EXCLUDE ONE ILLUSTRATION ('Caxton and his Press from a painting by Vivian Forbes). SOLD WITH TWO A.L.s. FROM THE AUTHOR TO HIS EDITOR AUDREY WILLIAMSON (AT FREDERICK MULLER) DISCUSSING WORKS IN PROGRESS (IN PARTICULAR THE AUTHOR'S 'THE HISTORY OF THE JAPANESE SECRET SERViCE' ALSO PUBLISHED BY MULLER IN 1982) AND A RELEVANT CUTTING.
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CONCISE DNB
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography from earliest Times to 1985. BRIGHT, CLEAN SET IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
3 vols., 8vo., original printed wrappers, a very good, clean copy in publisher's printed board slip-case, the slip-case torn at two edges. This paperback issue of the latest OUP edition (1992) was issued by The Softback Preview.
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DOBELL Bertram
Catalogue of a Collection of Privately Printed Books; compiled and annotated by Bertram Dobell. Part III. [THIS PART ONLY]. FIRM COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, uncut, covers a trifle dusty else a good, clean copy. As much a scholar as a bookdealer, Dobell sought to distinguish his catalogues in the scope and quality of his editing. His remarkable five-part Catalogue of Privately Printed Books was issued between 1892 and ?1895; this part contains alphabetical sequence Napier-Why.
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DOBSON William T.
History of the Bassandyne Bible. The First Printed in Scotland, with Notices of the Early Printers of Edinburgh. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece and 33 facsimiles in the text and decorative endpapers, endpapers lightly browned; pictorial cloth blocked in gilt and black, gilt back, uncut, covers a little age-soiled and backstrip mildly browned else a very good, firm copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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FORDE H.
Domesday Preserved.
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations (a number full-page) in the texct; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. Deceptively detailed and well-illustrated account of the restoration and preservation of England's foremost MS record
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DRINKWATER John
A Book for Bookmen. Being edited Manuscripts & Marginalia with Essays on several Occasions [dedicated to Thomas J Wise].
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, bevelled boards, a very good, clean copy.
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ABRAMS George
[Sale Catalogue of] The George Abrams Collection. 16-17 November 1989. Sale Code: VENETIAN. [Introduction by Paul Needham]. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, very numerous fine coloured and monochrome plates (a number full-page) in the text, and monogrammed endpapers; burgundy buckram, upper board lettered in gilt with mounted coloured illustration, gilt back, partially unopened, a near fine copy. The catalogue of this outstanding collection of fine fifeenth and sixteenth century books is printed in Abrams Venetian, the typeface designed by Abrams for the use of the Printer of the Royal Danish Court. The sale, held 16-17 November 1989, comprised no fewer than 238 lots. The catalogue includes full indexes and a bibliography.
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[Sale Catalogue of a Manuscript of] Einstein's Theory of Relativity. 16 March 1996.
4to., with a coloured facsimile as frontispiece, a full-page portrait in monochrome, and 8 fine coloured facsimiles (6 full-page); original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. The earliest surviving autograph manuscript on (arguably) the principal scientific theory of the twentieth century, the longest of the three major manuscripts on relativity theory, and the only one not in an institutional collection. The estimate was US$4m-6m.
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[Sale Catalogue of] The Evelyn Library. COMPLETE SET
4 vols., 4to., with 4 frontispieces (2 in colour and one folding), 108 plates of facsimiles, 32 fine coloured plates of bindings and numerous facsimiles in the text; original printed boards, joints of two volumes worn and rubbed else a very good, clean set. This series of sales was confined to books printed before Evelyn's death in 1706.
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BONSER Wilfred
A Bibliography of Folklore as contained in the first eight Years of the Publications of the Folklore Society.
8vo., First Edition; cloth blocked in gilt and blind, gilt back, a fine copy. Publications of the Folk-Lore Society, CXXI.
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FUSSELL G.E.
More Old English Farming Books from Tull to the Board of Agriculture: 1731 to 1793.
8vo., First Edition, with 8 plates, free endpapers lightly browned; cloth, gilt back, backstrip sunned else a very good, clean copy. Sequel and complement to 'The Old English Farming Books' (1947)
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HOSKING Michael
David Garnett C.B.E. [Sale Catalogue of] A Writer's Library. [With an Introduction by Nicolas Barker]. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, a fine copy. This valuable catalogue, no. 22 issued by Hosking from his Golden Hind bookshop, lists 3,407 items covering a wide range of subjects. It includes a check-list of books by members of the Garnett family. With a relevant cutting laid in.
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MORAN James
Henry George. Printer, Bookseller, Stationer and Bookbinder, Westerham 1830-c.1846. An Essay by James Moran with Illustrations by Thomas Streatfeild and George Cruikshank.
8vo., First and Sole Edition, with a frontispiece, and several plates ands facsimiles in the text; original cloth, paper label on upper board, a near fine copy.
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HARLING Robert
The Letter Forms and Type Designs of Eric Gill. Notes by Robert Harling.
Sm. 4to., with a portrait frontispiece and numerous illustrations and facsimiles in the text, signature on front free endpaper and title; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. Harling's study was first published in 'Alphabet & Image 6' (1948); this is a considerably revised and expanded edition
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GODDARD Canon H.
Wiltshire Bibliography. A Catalogue of Printed Books, Pamphlets and Articles bearing on the History, Topography and Natural History of the County. Part I: Wiltshire as a Whole; Part II: Individual Parishes arranged alphabetically.
8vo., Sole Edition, very small cancelled stamp on title only; cloth, a near fine copy. Canon Goddard's monumental bibliography was never published in full. The complete work exists only as two typescript copies, one held in the Library of the Wiltshire Archaeological Society at Devizes, the other in the Library of the Society of Antiquaries at Burlington House. The present work, although an abridgement, remains the most comprehensive published compilation
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CHAMBERS, D.
Gogmagog. Morris Cox and the Gogmagog Press.
Roy. 8vo., Sole Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, title-vignette and numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; original decorative cloth, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 1650 COPIES (550 FOR SALE). Includes a bibliography and a checklist.
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GRAHAM Gordon
Burma Campaign Memorial Library. [Checklist of] A Collection of Books and Papers about the War in Burma 1942-1945. FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, a fine copy. The Burma Campaign Memorial Library was assembled jointly over many years by the Burma Star Association and the Burma Campaign Fellowship Group. With funding from the Sasawaka Foundation, the comprehensive collection is now housed in Bloomsbury at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies. Although marred by the lack of a workable index, this is the best single-volume checklist of Britain's 'forgotten army' and its operations.
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GRAHAM Gordon
Burma Campaign Memorial Library. [Checklist of] A Collection of Books and Papers about the War in Burma 1942-1945. [Second, Revised, Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Second and Best Edition; original printed wrappers, a fine copy. The best single-volume checklist of Britain's 'forgotten army' and its operations. This is the substantially enlarged version of the original catalogue of 1999, with (for the first time) indexes by name and title. The Burma Campaign Memorial Library was assembled jointly over many years by the Burma Star Association and the Burma Campaign Fellowship Group. With funding from the Sasakawa Foundation, the comprehensive collection is now housed in Bloomsbury at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies.
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SABBE M.
Die Civilite-Schriften des Robert Granjon in Lyon und die Flamischen Drucker des 16 Jahrhunderts. 250 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Sm. folio, First Edition, on laid paper, with title-vignette and 29 full-page facsimiles in the text; original blue-grey boards, backstrip with paper-label lettered in black, uncut, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 250 COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 153).
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SOCIETIES FOR THE PROMOTION OF HELLENIC AND ROMAN STUDIES
A classified Catalogue of the Books, Pamphlets and Maps in the Library of the Societies for the Promotion of Hellenic and Roman Studies.
Roy. 8vo., with a large folding ley; boards, cloth back, covers somewhat age-marked but internally a very good, clean copy of a scarce work. THE SIGNET LIBRARY COPY, with its ownership inscriptions on cover and paste-down. The catalogue, which is well classified by subject, contains over 80,000 items of which some 200 are pamphlets
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GREG W. W.
A Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to the Restoration. [Second Edition. Complete set]. NEAR FINE SET OF THE SECOND EDITION
4 vols., roy. 4to., Second Edition, with 4 frontispieces, titles in red and black , and 133 fine plates of facsimiles; original series binding of dark blue cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set. Much-needed re-issue of the standard reference first published in 1939 as the Bibliographical Society's: Illustrated Monograph 24. Besterman, p.1067; NCBEL IV, p.1049.
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HARRISON Frederic
The Choice of Books and other literary Pieces. 250 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, LARGE PAPER; buckram, uncut, back worn and upper joint weak else a very good, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 250 COPIES. With the engraved bookplate of John Bamford Slack.
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HARRISON H.G.
A select Bibliography of English Genealogy, with brief Lists for Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
8vo., original cloth, gilt back, a fine copy.
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HOUGHTON Jr Arthur A.
[Sale Catalogue of] Books and Manuscripts from the Library of Arthur A Houghton Jnr. [Foreword by W H Bond, Houghton Library Librarian]. NEAR FINE SET WITH PRICE LISTS
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces (one in colour), 5 coloured plates, 93 plates in monochrome, and very numerous reproductions and facsimiles (many full-page) in the text; original printed boards, upper boards with triple gilt frame border, lower boards blocked in gilt, one small tear at tail of second backstrip else a near fine set. WITH THE PRINTED LISTS OF PURCHASERS AND PRICES REALISED LOOSELY INSERTED (first list present in photofacsimile). The set comprises: Part I: A-L (1979); Part II: M-Z (1980). This remarkable sale comprises 850 lots. 'The collection is primarily of English literature, with emphasis on the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The few excursions outside that range are exceptional books and manuscripts. Almost all that Houghton acquired is of superlative quality and interest - frequently the kind of item that causes one to be astonished that it should even exist. For example, of just over seventy-five Short-title Catalogue books appearing in the first part of the sale, more than a dozen are either unique, or the only known perfect copy, or the only one yet remaining in private hands'. Foreword. Houghton's watchwords were association, condition and rarity. Among the manuscripts are long runs of letters from Elizabeth and Robert Browning, two letters from Evelyn to Pepys, and the earliest holograph draft of Locke's 'Essay', arguably the most important of all English philosophical manuscripts in private hands. The descriptions are appropriately detailed, with full collations and standard references for virtually every item, making the two volumes a valuable bibliographical resource. A BRIGHT SET OF AN IMPORTANT CATALOGUE.
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HAVLICE P.P
And So To Bed. A Bibliography of Diaries Published in English. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. SCARCE.
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