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The Works of Jonathan Swift: Including Gulliver’s Travels.

1778réf. 119642Edinburgh: Printed by Mrs. Mundell 1778. First of 4 issues Scotch editions from the library of Robert R. Livingstone with his bookplate to the pastedown of each volume. Small octavo bound in contemporary calf spine compartments ruled with Greek key tooling morocco spine labels. From the library of founding father Robert R. Livingston. As one of the Founding Fathers of the United States Livingston played an important role in the early development of the newly formed country. He was known as "The Chancellor" after the high New York state legal office he held for 25 years. He was a member of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence along with Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Franklin John Adams and Roger Sherman. Livingston administered the Oath of Office to George Washington when he assumed the presidency in 1789.He was a member of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence the administrator for George Washington’s Oath of Office when he assumed presidency in 1789 and the chief negotiator of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. In very good condition. An exceptional set with noted provenance. Jonathan Swift's masterpiece will "last as long as the language because it describes the vices of man in all nations" DNB. "A remarkable feat in the creation of imaginary worlds as a vehicle for satire upon the political and religious establishments of the day" Clute & Grant 914. "Gulliver's Travels has given Swift an immortality beyond temporary fame". For every edition designed for the reader with an eye to the historical background 20 have appeared abridged or adapted for readers who care nothing for the satire and enjoy it as a first-class story" PMM 185. "Of all Swift's writings it best shows the merits of his mind and his gifts of expression". It is important to realize that it could be written only by one who had the highest ideals for human achievement and who despaired of the achieving" Baugh et al. 865-66"although Swift himself expressed this hope for his "Travells" to a friend: "They are admirable Things and will wonderfully mend the world" Rothschild 2104. Printed by Mrs. Mundell unknown

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[Arion Press] Eliot, TS; Vendler, Helen, essay; Marco Livingstone, essay T SABAA

The Waste Land

réf. 37472San Francisco: Arion Press 2007. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. Number 297 of 300 numbered copies of this deluxe edition of Eliot's seminal poem. There were also 26 lettered copies for complimentary distribution. This is the 79th publication from the acclaimed Arion Press. In the prospectus the book is described as the first illustrated edition of Thomas Stearns Eliot's most important work. This is a complex and elegant presentation of Eliot's literary masterpiece that he wrote in the aftermath of the carnage and violence of the first world war and the devastation of a global pandemic. The book is in sections described by the publisher as partitions. There first is an essay on the poem by noted poetry scholar Helen Vendler. The poem is interspersed with in detail and entire the painting "If Not Not" by R.B. Kitaj. Kitaj 1932 - 2007 was an American artist who spent much of his life in England. He had a significant influence on British pop art with his figurative paintings featuring areas of bright color economic use of line and overlapping planes which made them resemble collages but eschewing most abstraction and modernism. Allusions to political history art literature and Jewish identity often recur in his work mixed together on one canvas to produce a collage effect. Wikipedia In an essay by Marco Livingstone describing the poem written by Kitaj in 1975-76 as an ambitious mysterious and haunting work that occupies a key position in his history as The Waste Land does in Eliot's. Kitaj in fact took inspiration from Eliot's poem and stated that his picture bears a certain allegiance to it. The Waste Land was edited designed and produced by Andrew Hoyem at his Arion Press. The types are handset 18 point Bauer Bodoni for the poem with larger sizes for display and 12 point Bodoni Book for subsidiary text. Printed on Somerset Book for the text with Mohawk Superfine for the pictorial pages printed by color offset lithography. Bound in gray cloth with the title in brown on the front cover and the title author and artist on the spine. The binding and the text and pictorial pages are all in fine condition. Accompanied by the prospectus. Measures 12 x 12.5 inches. 68 pages. PRI/092024. Arion Press hardcover books