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1931rif. 5506Routledge 1931. 8vo. First English Edition on laid paper with a frontispiece title-vignette and 7 plates neat signature on front free endpaper; patterned boards buckram back gilt uncut a near fine copy in unclipped somewhat age-browned dustwrapper. Published in the series 'Broadway Medieval Library' edited by G G Coulton and Eileen Power. First English translation of one of the great medieval prose romances. 'Its realism is a welcome change from the extravagant fantasy into which Arthurian romance had degenerated'. Scarce in this condition. Routledge, hardcover
1826rif. 6125Johanneau Paris 1826. 12mo. text in French on laid paper small strip clipped from upper edges of blank preliminary and title some very light age-staining; most attractively bound in contemporary half calf back with five gilt rules second compartment with red leather label lettered and tooled in gilt marbled boards marbled edges covers very lightly rubbed else a remarkably well-preserved crisp clean copy. RARE. Johanneau, Paris, hardcover
1889rif. 5975Longmans Green 1889. Roy. 8vo. First Edition Large Paper on laid paper with a fine etched portrait by Strang on vellum as frontispiece original tissue guard present but heavily spotted title in red and black neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper free endpapers only lightly browned; original half vellum gilt straw boards gilt back gilt top uncut covers mildly age-marked and scuffed else a very good clean copy. LARGE PAPER EDITION LIMITED TO 200 COPIES THIS COPY NO. 84. MILLER & MATTHEWS RECORDS THAT OF THE 200 COPIES PRODUCED A TOTAL OF ONLY 102 COPIES WERE ACTUALLY ISSUED. Miller & Matthews B26.2; NCBEL III 1061. Longmans Green, hardcover
1836rif. 6977Printed for Thomas Tegg Cheapside; R. Griffin & Co. Glasgow; and Tegg Wise & Co. Dublin 1836. 3 vols. 8vo. with an engraved portrait of the author and 19 engraved plates; publisher's original boards cloth backs paper labels labels worn and faded but most lettering just legible uncut boards lightly soiled and age-marked corners lightly bruised long split in lower joint of third volume but all bindings entirely sound a very good clean entirely unrestored set in scarce and fragile binding. In line with the convention of the period all the plates in each volume are placed together at the front since it was intended that the publisher's binding should be replaced on purchase by a house family or other 'style' binding. Accordingly each volume has the 'Directions to Binder' leaf indicating the proper position of each plate. COPIES IN THE ORIGINAL BINDING AND IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE Printed for T[homas] Tegg, Cheapside; R. Griffin & Co., Glasgow; and Tegg, Wise & Co., Dublin, hardcover
1879rif. 4921Smith Elder & Co. 1879. 8vo. First Edition label removed front front free endpaper; original decorative green cloth upper board blocked in gilt and black gilt back chocolate endpapers joints very faintly rubbed else a very good bright clean copy. Sold from an institution with trace of label on half-title small neat stamps on title cancelled on verso and last leaf of text only. Miller & Matthews B9.1 binding variant 'b'. Smith Elder & Co., hardcover
1912rif. 4929Duckworth 1912. Roy. 4to. First Limited Illustrated Edition Large Paper with coloured frontispiece and 7 fine coloured plates all tipped-in to gilt framed platemarks on Japan vellum leaves all original captioned tissue guards present minimal dust-browning to fore-edges free endpapers very faintly spotted; decorative white parchment gilt covers blocked in gilt to a floral design enclosing author and title lettered in gilt back gilt extra gilt top uncut covers a little age-soiled as is inevitable with this binding two corners bruised hinges starting but binding entirely sound a very good clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 160 NUMBERED COPIES THIS COPY NO. 72. With a charming contemporary inscription written in a neat hand on front paste-down. The first illustrated edition with artwork by Waite was published simultaneously in November 1912 in two forms: the standard trade edition in cloth and this de luxe limited edition. As a result of the considerably larger format the plates here are mounted in landscape format that places them the correct way up rather than sideways-on in the trade edition. Miller & Matthews B18.31 Duckworth, hardcover
1928rif. 7095Privately Printed for Subscribers by T. Werner Laurie 1928. 8vo. First and Sole Edition thus on laid paper with a frontispiece original tissue guard present contemporary gift inscription on blank preliminary fore-edges a little dusty and browned; original paper boards faux-vellum back paper label chipped at edges but not affecting lettering uncut a very good bright clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY SYMONS THIS COPY NO. 7 Privately Printed for Subscribers by T. Werner Laurie, hardcover
1816rif. 2978Printed for John Sharpe Piccadilly by C. Whittingham Chiswick 1816. 16mo. with engraved and printed titles and 5 engraved plates some minor spotting; strongly bound in cloth boards morocco back gilt uncut original free endpapers preserved. A most attractive copy. Printed for John Sharpe, Piccadilly, by C. Whittingham, Chiswick, hardcover
1735rif. 6927Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch at the Red-Lion in Pater-Noster-Row; T. Ryles in Hull; and T. Hammond in York 1735. 8vo. text in Latin and English throughout with woodcut head- and tail-pieces to each book neat eighteenth century signature and annotation on title neat eighteenth century signature on blank preliminary; contemporary full calf sides with double gilt frame border skilfully rebacked to style with five raised bands red leather label lettered in gilt compartments tooled in blind corners neatly reinforced with calf insets to style a firm crisp and remarkably clean copy with virtually no age-staining. Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, at the Red-Lion in Pater-Noster-Row; T. Ryles, in Hull; and T. Hammond, in York, hardcover
1878rif. 4925Smith Elder & Co. 1878. 8vo. Third Impression small blind book-stamp on front free endpaper; original pictorial green cloth upper board and backstrip blocked and lattered in gilt and black chocolate endpapers uncut joints lightly rubbed upper hinge starting but binding entirely sound else a very good clean copy. Miller & Matthews B8.3 Smith Elder & Co., hardcover
1879rif. 6406Smith Elder & Co. 1879. 8vo. First Edition; attractively bound in mid-twentieth century half calf back gilt with five raised bands second compartment with leather label lettered and ruled in giltuncut a very good bright clean copy. Miller & Matthews B10.1 Smith Elder & Co., hardcover
1878rif. 4928Smith Elder & Co. 1878. 8vo. First Edition bound without half-title some mild occasional spotting; original pictorial green cloth upper board board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and black chocolate endpapers uncut joints mildly rubbed corners lightly bruised else a very good bright clean copy. Miller & Matthews B8.1 Smith Elder & Co., hardcover
1894rif. 6627Swan Sonnenschein 1894. Sm. 8vo. First Edition with portrait frontispiece; original crocodile cloth gilt back bevelled boards black endpapes a near fine copy. With the contemporary trade ticket of Rose & Sons of Hertford on rear paste-down. SCARCE ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Miller & Matthews E8.1 Swan Sonnenschein, hardcover
1822rif. 7211C. Whittingham College House Chiswick for R. Jennings and others 1822. 16mo. with engraved title by Rhodes after Thurston and printed title with engraved vignette by Thompson; original early nineteenth-century patterned cloth expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down original leather label gilt gilt edges new endpapers to style A NOTABLY CRISP CLEAN COPY. The earliest Whittingham/Chiswick Press edition was apparently 1806 see Courtney p.89 after which that well-known house produced several editions for various consortia of leading booksellers. The present edition was printed for R. Jennings Poultry; T. Tegg Cheapside; A K Newman & Co. Leadenhall Street all of London; J Sutherland Edinburgh and Richard Griffin and Co. Glasgow. It should be noted that this is not the relatively common issue of the same date produced by Whittingham for Sharpe of Piccadilly with illustrations after Westall. A delightful and expertly restored copy of an uncommon and most attractive edition. C. Whittingham, College House, Chiswick [for] R. Jennings [and others], hardcover
1860rif. 5340William Tegg 1860. 8vo. with an engraved frontispiece; splendidly bound in mid-nineteenth century tree calf sides with decorative border comprising double gilt rules linked by curlicue and enclosing institutional arms in gilt all edges marbled skilfully rebacked in calf with original decorative backstrip gilt extra and original leather label laid down marbled endpapers a clean and handsome copy in fine contemporary binding. Bound for the Oxford Diocesan Board of Education William Tegg, hardcover
1897rif. 6411Longmans Green & Co. 1897. 8vo. with portrait frontispiece very lightly spotted; original tissue guard present neat signature on half-title; plum cloth upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in silver backstrip lightly sunned else a very good bright clean copy. With personal bookplate on front free endpaper and 32pp of publisher's advertisements as called for. Miller & Matthews B26.8; binding variant b with endpapers brown on white. Longmans Green & Co., hardcover
1894rif. 6629Swan Sonnenschein 1894. Sm. 8vo. First Edition with portrait frontispiece; original crocodile cloth gilt back bevelled boards a near fine copy. An apparently scarce binding variant with laid white endpapers rather than the usual black a tissue guard to frontispiece and a noticeably lighter shade of crocodile cloth. Miller & Matthews E8.1 Swan Sonnenschein, hardcover
1813rif. 6879Seguin Avignon 1813. 2 vols. in 1. 12mo. text in Italian; contemporary tree calf sides with elaborate gilt frame border back elaborately tooled in gilt with two red leather labels marbled edges patterned endpapers skilfully rebacked with original backstrip laid down corners of upper board bruised else a remarkably bright crisp copy. With separate half-titles to each book and the early nineteenth century trade ticket of Berard & Mondon 'French Spanish Italian Books etc' of New York. French issue of the major work of Alessandro Tassoni Modena 1565-1635. First published in 1614 this mock-heroic poem which translates loosely as 'the captured bucket' uses the theft of a well-bucket to satirise petty warfare between the towns of Modena and Bologna. The satire belongs to the same category as the ancient 'Battle of the Frogs and Mice' de Vega's 'Gatomaquia' Boileau's 'Lutrin' and Pope's 'Rape of the Lock'. 'The poem is pervaded by an exuberant satirical and often brilliant humour. There are passages in which the humour is sustained and cumulative and others in which an apparent seriousness finds its climate in a sudden hilarious absurdity' Wilkins 'Italian Literature' pp. 298-9. THIS EDITION IS RARE. Seguin, Avignon, hardcover
1839rif. 6961Whittaker and Co. 1839. 8vo. First Edition text in Latin introduction and notes in English; contemporary full calf sides with triple frame border stopped at corners by rosettes all in blind back gilt with compartments ruled in gilt and blind wanting original label but impressed lettering just legible doublures tooled in blind speckled edges one or two slight scuffs to covers small ink mark on lower board else a remarkably clean crisp and highly desirable copy in unrestored period binding. EDWARD VESEY BLIGH'S COPY WITH HIS SIGNATURE ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. A NOTABLE COPY OF ONE OF KEIGHTLEY'S FINEST CLASSICAL COMMENTARIES. Remembered today primarily for his 'Fairy Mythology' 1828 Thomas Keightley 1789-1872 was also a classical historian and scholar of note; his editions of Greek and Roman texts were produced mainly from Trinity College Dublin. His 'Fasti' is based on the Krebs text and Keightley notes the most important variant readings of the fifty-eight collated MSS of the poem together with not unnaturally appropriate references to his own 'Mythology of Greece and Italy' published eight years previously. The edition received several laudatory reviews notably in the 'Gentleman's Magazine' and was adopted for use by at least one major public school. The Hon. Edward Vesey Bligh brother to 6th Earl of Darnley was vicar of Birling in Kent and Chairman of the Prayer Book Revision Society Whittaker and Co., unknown
1909rif. 6451Duckworth 1909. 8vo. First Edition free endpapers mildly browned; original black cloth gilt back gilt top joints lightly rubbed small tear in lower hinge very neatly repaired corners lightly chafed else a very good bright clean copy. SCARCE. Eckert p.267; Miller & Matthews B32.1. Duckworth, hardcover
1913rif. 6631Arthur C Fifield 1913. Sm. 8vo. on laid paper; original brown boards upper board and backstrip lettered in darker brown a very good bright crisp copy. With publisher's advertisement leaf preceding title. Salt's 'Richard Jefferies. A Study' was first published by Swan Sonnenschein in 1894. In 1905 Fifield re-issued the work under the present title without the portrait and bibliographical appendix but with a new preface. This in turn was republished in wrappers in 1906 with a final edition in boards as here. VERY SCARCE ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. See Miller & Matthews E8.1 Arthur C Fifield, hardcover
1700rif. 5946Printed for J. Tonson at Gray's Inn Gate in Gray's Inn Lane; and A. and J. Churchil at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster Row and R. Simpson at the Harp in S. Paul's Church-yard 1700. 2 vols. 8vo. First Edition with portrait frontispiece engraved on wood by Robert White after Lely some moderate foxing throughout; attractively bound in early eighteenth-century panelled tree calf tooled in blind backs gilt extra with five raised bands compartments tooled to a floral design leather labels gilt sprinkled edges joints of first volume worn and cracked but binding entirely sound corners of first volume lightly bruised a very good crisp copy with broad untrimmed margins. With a fine engraved armorial bookplate. The work considered to be Swift's first publication is dedicated to William III. A third volume 'Letters to the King the Prince of Orange' was published in 1703 but the present work is complete in itself. CBEL II p.570; Teerink 469; Wing T641. Printed for J. Tonson, at Gray's Inn Gate in Gray's Inn Lane; and A. and J. Churchil, at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster hardcover
1880rif. 5606Smith Elder & Co. 1880. 2 vols. 8vo. First Edition small neat institutional stamp in blind on title of first volume only; original pictorial brown pebbled cloth blocked in gilt and black gilt backs uncut expertly recased with new black endpapers to style joints lightly rubbed covers lightly frayed at extremities else a good clean sound copy. With 4pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Miller & Matthews B12.1 binding variant a; Sadleir 1309 'this is one of the few two-or-three volume books of which the front cover blocking is not uniform' vol. I: horse ploughing team; vol. II: steam ploughing machine. Smith, Elder, & Co., hardcover
1789rif. 7210Printed by J. Nichols for George Leigh and John Sotheby 1789. 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 £3993 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. [Printed by] J. Nichols [for] George Leigh and John Sotheby, hardcover
1884rif. 6877Longmans Green & Co. 1884. 8vo. First Edition neat contemporary signature on contents; handsomely bound in full red crushed morocco back gilt with five raised bands second and fourth compartments letterd in gilt all other compartments tooled in with a gilt rosette original pictorial cloth cover mounted on new leaf at front uncut a most attractively copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Splendid copy of the second issue with cancelled title; only two copies of the first issue with title dated 1883 are known. Miller & Matthews B19.2 printing variant b; NCBEL III 1061; Sadleir 1311; Wolff 3263. Longmans Green & Co., hardcover
