A Bookman's Catalogue: The Norman Colbeck Collection of Nineteenth-Century and Edwardian Poetry and Belles Lettres, Volume 1: A-L

A BOOKMAN'S CATALOGUE: THE NORMAN COLBECK COLLECTION

William E. Fredeman (left) and Norman Colbeck at the time of the collection's arrival at The University of British Columbia. Jack Yeats's Broadsides are in the foreground.

A Bookman's Catalogue THE NORMAN COLBECK COLLECTION OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY AND EDWARDIAN POETRY AND BELLES LETTRES in the Special Collections of The University of British Columbia VOLUME 1 A-L

Compiled with a Preface by Norman Colbeck Edited by Tirthankar Bose with an Introduction by William E. Fredeman

UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS VANCOUVER 1987

A BOOKMAN'S CATALOGUE: THE NORMAN COLBECK COLLECTION © The University of British Columbia Press 1987 All rights reserved

CANADIAN CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION DATA University of British Columbia. Library. Special Collections Division. A bookman's catalogue ISBN 0-7748-0274-X (v. 1) ISBN 0-7748-0282-0 (v. 2) 1. English literature - 19th century Bibliography - Catalogs. 2. English poetry 19th century - Bibliography - Catalogs. 3. English literature - 20th century Bibliography - Catalogs. 4. English poetry 20th century - Bibliography - Catalogs. 5. University of British Columbia. Library. Special Collections Division - Catalogs. 6. Colbeck. R. Norman (Reginald Norman), 1903- - Library - Catalogs. I. Colbeck, R. Norman (Reginald Norman), 1903II. Bose, Tirthankar, 1937- III. Title. Z2013.U55 1987 016.820'8 087-091186-4

Volume 1 ISBN 0-7748-0274-X Printed in Canada

Foreword and Acknowledgements As University Librarian, I am delighted to have the opportunity of launching this Bookman s Catalogue of the Colbeck Collection, which is one of the highlights of the Library's Special Collections Division. Norman Colbeck's generous bequest of his splendid library to the University of British Columbia, complementing our extensive manuscript holdings, has brought the U.B.C. Library recognition as a major research centre for 19th-century studies. It is entirely fitting that there should be such a handsome record of the contents of this distinguished collection of Romantic, Victorian, and Edwardian books. I am pleased also to have the chance to acknowledge the many members of the university community who have contributed to the preparation of these volumes. Besides Mr. Colbeck himself, who prepared the catalogue, Dr. Tirthankar Bose, who edited it, and Professor William E. Fredeman, who was in large part responsible for securing the collection and who has been a member of the publication committee from the outset, many others have given freely of their time and talent to bring this project to fruition. Special recognition must be given to Brian Owen of the Library Processing Centre who has had almost sole responsibility for computerizing the catalogue. In addition to supervising the initial inputting of the entries, he has monitored the production at all stages, developed programs to insure a readable and attractive format, and displayed a Job-like patience in handling the numerous revisions suggested by several readers. Acknowledgements should also be made to Mima Wilson who did most of the data entry work. Among the many others who have contributed to the catalogue in a variety of ways, I should like to thank my predecessor Basil Stuart-Stubbs, the University Librarian at the time the collection was acquired, who has had a long-standing interest in the publication of the catalogue; the former Director of the School of Librarianship, Roy Stokes, who was involved in the early planning stages; Mrs. Joan Selby, the Curator of the Colbeck Collection, and Dr. Jane Fredeman, Managing Editor of the U.B.C. Press, both members of the publication committee, whose advice and practical assistance as proof readers have been invaluable; and the Assistant Librarian for Technical Services, Robin W. MacDonald, without whose willing assignment of priority to the catalogue it could not possibly have been produced on schedule.

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The single condition Mr. Colbeck made in presenting his books to the library was that the university should publish a catalogue of the collection. While its preparation and production have extended over two decades, the published catalogue will be a useful permanent record of the collection and a valuable reference tool for scholars working in the field. Its publication now is a tribute to the collaboration of Mr. Colbeck, the faculty and librarians and the Director and staff of the University of British Columbia Press. To all these I extend my gratitude and best wishes. Douglas Mclnnes

Contents: Volume 1 Lascelles Abercrombie Francis William Lauderdale Adams Arthur St. John Adcock Percy Addleshaw (Hemingway) Grant Duff Douglas Ainslie Henry Alford Grant Allen William Allingham Laurence Alma Tadema John Redwood Anderson Sir Edwin Arnold Matthew Arnold Joseph Asby-Sterry Thomas Ashe Alfred Austin William Edmondstoune Aytoun Walter Bagehot Philip James Bailey John Eveyln Barlas (Evelyn Douglas) Jane Barlow William Barnes Sir James Matthew Barrie Bernard Barton Clifford Bax Aubrey Vincent Beardsley Thomas Lovell Beddoes Henry Charles Beeching Max Beerbohm H.T. Mackenzie Bell Hilaire Belloc Arthur Christopher Benson

Laurence Binyon Augustine Birrell John Stuart Blackie Algernon Blackwood Robert Blatchford Mathilde Blind Robert Bloomfield Edmund Charles Blunden Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Gordon Bottomley Francis William Bourdillon Hon. Eleanor Vere Gordon Boyle Robert Seymour Bridges Rupert Brooke Stopford Augustus Brooke Thomas Edward Brown Elizabeth Barrett Browning Robert Browning Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges Robert Williams Buchanan Arthur Henry Bullen Osbert Burdett John William Burgon Thomas Burke Charles Stuart Calverley Joseph Campbell William Canton Edward Carpenter Edward Caswall Charles Bagot Cayley Nora Chesson (nee Hopper)

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton Wilfred Rowland Childe Mary Cholmondeley Richard William Church John Clare Austin Clarke Sir Hugh Charles Clifford Arthur Hugh Clough Arthur Glutton-Brock Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Churton Collins Mortimer Collins Padraic Colum Sir Sidney Colvin Arthur Compton-Rickett Alfred Edgar Coppard Daniel Corkery Francis Crofts Cornford William Johnson Cory William John Courthope James Henry Cousins William Cowper Hubert Montague Crackanthorpe Pearl Mary-Teresa Richards Craigie (John Oliver Hobbs) Walter Crane Arthur Shearey Cripps Thomas Crofton Croker Nina Cust (Mrs. Henry Cust) Charles William Dalmon Ella D'Arcy George Darley Lord Charles John Darling John Davidson William Henry Davies Walter John De La Mare William Frend De Morgan Thomas De Quincey Lord De Tabley (Leicester Warren) Aubrey Thomas De Vere Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson

Isaac Disraeli William MacNeile Dixon Henry Austin Dobson Alfred Domett John Lyle Donaghy Hilda Doolittle Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas Edward Dowden Ernest Christopher Dowson Sir Francis Hastings Charles Doyle John Drinkwater Mary Duclaux (Robinson, Darmesteter) Lord Dunsany (Edward J. Plunkett) Matilda Barbara Betham Edwards Oliver Elton Florence Farr Emery John Meade Falkner Hon. Julian Henry Charles Fane Eleanor Farjeon Sir Samuel Ferguson Michael Field (Katherine H. Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper) Darrell Figgis Edward Fitzgerald James Elroy Flecker Frank Stewart Flint Robin Flower Claud Lovat Fraser John Freeman Cecil French James Hain Friswell James Anthony Froude Roger Eliot Fry Norman Rowland Gale John Galsworthy Richard Garnett William Monk Gibbon Wilfrid Wilson Gibson Lady Gilbert (Rosa Mulholland)

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Eric Gill Alfred Denis Godley Oliver St. John Gogarty Douglas Goldring Eva Gore-Booth Sir Edmund William Gosse Philip Henry Gosse Gerald Gould R.B. Cunninghame Graham Kenneth Grahame Alfred Perceval Graves Charles Larcom Graves Robert Graves John Gray Kate Greenaway Dora Greenwell Lady Augusta Gregory Sir Edward Grey Viscountess Pamela Wyndham Grey Francis Grierson Philip Guedalla Lousie Imogen Guiney James Joshua Guthrie Thomas Anstey Guthrie (F. Anstey) Stephen Lucius Gwynn Thomas Gordon Hake Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall Sir George Rostrevor Hamilton James Hannay Thomas Hardy Kenneth Hare Beatrice Harraden Frederic Harrison Frances Ridley Havergal Robert Stephen Hawker Euphrasia Fanny Haworth Benjamin Robert Haydon Alfred Hayes Edmund Sidney Pollock Haynes William Hazlitt William Carew Hazlitt Reginald Heber

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Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans William Ernest Henley Hon. Florence Ellen H.M. Henniker Maurice Henry Hewlett Emily Henrietta Hickey Nesta Higginson (Moira O'Neill) James Hilton Charles Lewis Hind Reginald Leslie Hine James Hinton Ralph Hodgson James Hogg Samuel Reynolds Hole Thomas Hood Herbert Percy Home Richard Henry Home James Dryden Hosken Lord Houghton (Richard Monckton Milnes) Alfred Edward Housman Laurence Housman Mary Botham Howitt William Howitt J.H. Leigh Hunt Isabel Violet Hunt Aldous Leonard Huxley Thomas Henry Huxley Douglas Hyde William Joseph Ibbett Selwyn Image William Ralph Inge Jean Ingelow Holbrook Jackson Douglas William Jerrold Lionel Pigot Johnson James Joyce Sheila Kaye-Smith John Keble May Kendall Frank Kendon

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Coulson Kernahan Thomas M. Kettle Charles Kingsley Rudyard Kipling Charles Knight William Angus Knight Ronald Arbuthnott Knox Robert Eyres Landor Walter Savage Landor Andrew Lang Lord Latymer (F. Burdett Money-Coutts) Alice Law Hon. Emily Lawless

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Francis Ledwidge Eugene Lee-Hamilton Edward Cracroft Lefroy Richard Le Gallienne Sir Shane Leslie Amy Levy Lady Lindsay (Caroline B.E. Fitzroy) William James Linton Frederick Locker-Lampson Samuel Lover Henry Dawson Lowry Sidney Royse Lysaght Henry Francis Lyte Lord Lytton (E.R. Bulwer-Lytton; Owen Meredith)

Contents: Volume 2 Lord Macaulay (Thomas Babington Macaulay) Justin Huntly McCarthy Mary Warre Cornish MacCarthy Thomas MacDonagh Geroge MacDonald Greville MacDonald Ronald Campbell Macfie JohnWilliam Mackail Eric Mackay Sir Compton Mackenzie James Allen Mackereth Anna J. Macmanus (Ethna Carbery) William K. Magee (John Eglinton) William Maginn Sir John Pentland Mahaffy William Hurrell Mallock James Clarence Mangan Katherine Mansfield Philip Bourke Marston Eva M. Martin Sir Theodore Martin Edward Martyn John Masefield Eugene Mason Gerald Massey David Masson Annie Matheson Theodore Maynard George Meredith Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell Wilfrid Meynell

A. Bernard Miall Richard Barham Middleton John Stuart Mill Alice Milligan Henry Hart Milman Harry Christopher Minchin Susan L. Mitchell Allan Noble Monkhouse William Cosmo Monkhouse Harold Monro George Moore Thomas Sturge Moore Charles Langbridge Morgan Sir Lewis Morris William Morris Arthur Morrison Louise Chandler Moulton John Moultrie William Garden Blaikie Murdoch Thomas Cornelius Murray Elizabeth Myers Frederic William Henry Myers John Mason Neale Henry Woodd Nevinson Sir Henry John Newbolt John Henry Newman John Nichol Bowyer Nichols Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols Sir William Robertson Nicoll James Ashcroft Noble

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Hon. Roden B.W. Noel Hon. Caroline Norton Alfred Noyes Sean O'Casey Eimar O'Duffy Standish James O'Grady Seumas O'Kelly Alfred Ollivant Alfred Richard Orage Conal O'Connell O'Riordan Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy Seumas O'Sullivan (James S. Starkey) Vincent O'Sullivan John Paget Violet Paget (Vernon Lee) Francis Turner Palgrave Walter Horatio Pater Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore Mark Pattison James Payn John Payne Joseph Henry Pearce Padraic Pearse Stephen Phillips Marmaduke William Pickthall Herbert Moore Pim Ruth Pitter Victor Gustave Plarr Joseph Mary Plunkett Walter Herries Pollock Frederick York Powell John Cowper Powys Llewelyn Powys Theodore Francis Powys May Probyn Bryan W. Procter (Barry Cornwall) Edward Bouverie Pusey Dollie Radford Ernest Radford Mark Andre Raffalovich Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh

Arthur Ransome Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley Lord Redesdale (A.B. Freeman-Mitford) Forrest Reid Lord Rennell (James Rennell Rodd) Ernest Rhys Lady Ritchie (Anne I. Thackeray) Morley Roberts John Mackinnon Robertson Wai ford Graham Robertson Edwin Arlington Robinson Lennox Robinson Thomas William Hazen Rolleston Christina Rossetti Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Michael Rossetti Sir William Rothenstein George William Russell (A.E.) Lady Margaret Sackville Hon. Victoria Mary Sackville-West George Edward Bateman Saintsbury George Augustus Henry Sala Nina Ruth Davis Salaman George Santayana Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon Charles Edward Sayle Olive Schreiner (Ralph Iron) Cyril Meir Scott Geoffrey Scott William Bell Scott John Campbell Shairp William Sharp (Fiona Macleod) George Bernard Shaw Dora Sigerson Shorter Joseph Henry Shorthouse Fredegond Maitland Shove Edith Sitwell Sir Osbert Sitwell Sacheverell Sitwell John Huntley Skrine Alexander Smith

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Ernest Bramah Smith Logan Pearsall Smith Charles Hamilton Sorley Caroline Anne Bowles Southey Henry De Vere Stacpoole William Stebbing Sir Leslie Stephen James Stephens Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret McNair Stokes Edward Storer Giles Lytton Strachey John St. Loe Strachey George Slythe Street Leonard Alfred George Strong Muriel Stuart Geroge Sturt (George Bourne) Anna Swanwick Algernon Charles Swinburne John Addington Symonds Alphonse James Albert Symons Arthur William Symons John Millington Synge John Banister Tabb Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd Sir Henry Taylor Rachel Annand Taylor Alfred, Lord Tennyson Charles Tennyson (later Turner) Sir Charles Tennyson Frederick Tennyson Hallam, Lord Tennyson Philip Edward Thomas Francis Thompson James ("B.V.") Thomson John Todhunter Henry Duff Traill

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Edward John Trelawny Frederic Herbert Trench Richard Chenevix Trench Robert Calverley Trevelyan Martin Farquhar Tapper Walter James Redfern Turner Katharine Tynan (Mrs. Hinkson) George Tyrrell Arthur Bingham Walkley Samuel Warren Sir Thomas Herbert Warren Henry Brereton Marriott Watson Rosamund Ball Marriott Watson Sir William Watson Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton Arthur Waugh Augusta Webster Sir Frederic Wedmore Dorothy A. Wellesley, Lady Gerald Herbert George Wells Charles Whibley James Abbott McNeill Whistler J.W. Gleeson White William Hale White (Mark Rutherford) Anna Wickham Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde Charles Williams lolo Aneurin Williams Humbert Wolfe Margaret Louisa Bradley Woods Virginia Stephen Woolf Thomas Woolner Theodore Wratislaw Jack Butler Yeats William Butler Yeats

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APPENDICES

William Pickering, Printer and Publisher High House Press Periodicals Publications in Series Publications of Societies Publications of the Sette of Odd Volumes

Books Relating to Ireland Critical Works, Monographs, etc. Year-books, Gift-Books, Anthologies Sir Thomas Browne Authors Omitted from the Catalogue

Preface I am sometimes asked "Why did you come to Canada?" by people who are perhaps less than satisfied with the answer received to their earlier question: "When did you first start to collect books?" These are not unexpected or unreasonable enquiries, nor should they occasion evasive, unsatisfactory responses, though it is an undoubted fact that decisions of profound significance for the individual are frequently unheralded and inconsequent, stemming from no very clear process of deduction and precipitated by no particular crisis in events. At an early age, perhaps before I had reached my tenth year, I was consciously (or even unconsciously?) imitating the practices of librarians. Having inherited from my maternal grandparents a small collection of books, which I housed in the lower cupboard of a kitchen fitting, I proceeded to lend volumes, for periods of one week only, to various school friends. One voluminous work, I well remember, which was borrowed systematically week after week by a German youth two years my senior, was Dr. Lardner's Museum of Science and Art. There was also a superb presentation set, in crimson cloth, all edges gilt, of The Century Bible in twenty-five volumes, which I never induced anyone to sample; nor can I remember opening a volume myself. But this phase proved unsatisfying and soon passed. After I left school and had a monthly salary derived from a junior clerkship which took me to Fenchurch Street daily from 10 till 5, it was succeeded by a craving to possess more and ever more books. World War I was in its last stage, and there were not many sailings to Australia: we shipping-clerks had abundant leisure, and mine was spent in the Minories. This was a stonecobbled thoroughfare extending from the end of Fenchurch Street almost to the Tower of London; and along it huge drays, with their iron-shod wheels, rumbled incessantly. More importantly, there was "Old Davey," so called, to my certain knowledge, for the next twenty-five years. There were two brothers, and which was. the elder I never knew, though I soon identified the sharper-witted. They presided over an emporium consisting of basement and a ground floor crammed with hundreds of thousands of old books, many of which were on shelves along the side walls, but the most that I sampled were in troughs down the centre, roughly tumbled out from the sacks in which they arrived. Soft-hearted Davey, perhaps the younger, rarely charged me more than a shilling for a book, and my

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collection waxed famously. Where are they now, those companionable tomes? I sometimes wonder. Tastes mature, and what pleased me once was soon disqualified by my accumulating knowledge. What was the first "book" I ever bought—in the sense of an item significantly marked "scarce 21/-," or some such legend; which incidentally involved the price of several mid-day luncheons in the A.B.C. teashop in Walbrook, by the side of the Mansion House? Time has muted that excitement, and the recollection is blurred, but I can never handle a set of Francis Thompson's Works—two of verse and the third of prose—without a quickening of the pulse. "The sweet sharp sense of a fugitive day" floods back upon me, transforming the commonplace. Could I recall it, the title of the first "association" copy I ever owned might also be significant, but this too has gone. Very early, before I came to accept the fact that the business of book-selling was to be my vocation, a pattern of collecting had been formed. The dedication copy of any work was my ultimate goal, one which would remain, in the great majority of cases, unattainable. Who hopes to possess Leigh Hunt's copy of Keats's Poems of 1817, and does Thackeray's copy of the second edition of Jane Eyre even exist? A copy of a book which its author had handled and used; had inscribed as a gift to an acquaintance—preferably well known; had annotated or corrected, was the next possibility, and again, one rarely achieved. In the majority of cases, a copy of the first edition was the most that could be hoped for, in which case its condition was paramount. I am proud of the fact I was early convinced of this. One learned that merely because a book was fifty, or even a hundred, years old, it was not necessary to assume that nearly all copies must have some features of dilapidation or soiling from use. Assiduous patience would unearth pristine copies of the "right" editions; and even of popular works, copies are found to survive—still in their dust-jackets, without a trace of use—in the most unlikely places. Further down the scale, there were occasions when an early reprint of a rare title revealed the limit of my success: occasionally it was also a hint of the range of my reading. I was barely advanced into my twenties when I became the possessor of a rebound set of Mrs. Browning's Poems, 2 volumes 1850—a New Edition, as the title-pages proclaim. I wonder where that battered specimen is now? Should I even recognize it? Earlier still those slightly mystifying words "A New Edition," on the title-page of an 1853 Matthew Arnold had thrilled me, particularly as it was combined with a bookshop's pencilled price of 2/6d. And at this point it is impossible to proceed without at least a passing acknowledgement to "Penguin"—Dr. A.W. Evans—that revered bookman, without whose example and freely imparted wisdom I might have missed a great deal. About this time—his clerical collar laid aside—he had become the new owner of the somewhat neglected book-business of C. Elkin Mathews. To me, after more than half a century, this Arnold edition is still "his" book, just as are the three folio volumes of Clarendon's History, 1702-1704, of which he frequently used to dispossess other booksellers, who sighed with relief at the final departure of those heavy volumes which had for too long encumbered

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their shelves. All this was, of course, some years before we had been indoctrinated into "Books of Under-estimated Importance." Thus, and mainly from the resources of bookshops discovered in the northern suburbs of London—in Highgate and Hampstead and sometimes further afield, even in Letchworth Garden City, where, incredible as it now seems, was once a "Book-Nook"—my collecting developed famously. I believe I was conscious of some significance in what I was doing, and I realize now it was the first expression of a life-long passion, which today finds an outlet in the preparation of unique hand-written anthologies of English poetry, in the making of which I delude myself that I am refining pure gold. I was early aware that it was "right" to collect Walter Pater: equally aware, if not without some guidance from Max Beerbohm, that it was possible to entertain more than one opinion of the merits of Rudyard Kipling. I must acknowledge that the harvest of those early years is not physically represented on the shelves at U.B.C., save in a few isolated instances. They were formative years, during which good fortune brought me friendships which were to prove significant in my life. And I can recall no red-letter day more clearly than that on which a chance encounter in Pall Mall East opened for me an association with A.J.A. Symons. I see the first-floor room, almost under the shadow of the National Gallery, which not many now living will connect with the First Edition Club, that ill-starred venture of which AJAY was Director. From him I received my first true encouragement and directive; and though, after an early revelation of the slenderness of my purse, I was not aware of any great interest on his part in my library, I can look back on a friendly association through many years, broken only when I quitted the London scene and certainly not terminated until his premature death in 1941. I was still employed by the Orient Line, whose tiny West-End office was in Cockspur Street, just around the corner from the Club (and not to be confused with the present imposing headquarters of the P & O). I still had considerable leisure and was even closer to the book Mecca of Charing Cross Road than I had been in the firm's city office. Perhaps I was aware that I suffered some diminution of status in AJAY's eyes when, shortly afterwards, I entered the book-trade; but fortunately the firm in whose service I commenced a four-year apprenticeship was selected by AJAY to be trade agents for the productions of his Club, of which the imprimatur and first publication was then a recent event. My humble and inexpert collaboration was soon recruited for several of AJAY's early ventures: notably, and most extensively, for the great projected bibliography of the writers of the eighteen-nineties. At this time my personal ambition was straying into earlier centuries, and to be known as a collector of the Eikon-Basilike or of the then still-obtainable little duodecimo Religio Medici flattered my exclusiveness more than adventures into dubious Corvine fields or even the more tangible excitement of Sheridan Lefanu; but my new mentor prevailed. So we ploughed through our collations of George Moore, of Yeats, and

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of Arthur Symons, from the multiple copies of most of their books on our shelves (oh! happy abundance of those days), registered our quite shattering discoveries of "points," and sat back to wait for the world to be impressed. It was not. Very soon my private collecting settled down somewhere between the extremes envisaged, and I became, for good or ill, a 19th-century man. Thus the collection began to assume definite shape, and I to be content, as indeed I still am, with what will always appeal to me as a great period of outpouring of genius and talent. Which is not to deny that there are times when one longs, almost, for some astringency in one's taste—perhaps to be a little more like John Synge, and to turn to Crashaw or Corbet, to Nash or Greene, as a restorative. But I am anticipating events, and must go back some years. The brothers Foyle had recently graduated from Owen's school, then in Owen's Row at the Angel Junction in Islington, when I commenced my secondary education there; and, without their barely justified confidence some years later, I might have had difficulty in achieving entrance into the trade I followed for fifty years. This opportunity occurred unexpectedly, and without any preparation. In the summer of 1922 I commenced my servitude at 119 Charing Cross Road. These years are recalled chiefly for the incalculable advantages derived from frequent encounters with colourful and distinguished characters amongst collectors and bookdealers from both sides of the Atlantic, whose like one meets nowadays with ever-diminishing frequency. Here my narrative might easily become a catalogue of names, but I will resist this and confine myself to one name, not only because of its importance to me, but because it is unlikely to figure prominently in other narratives of the London book-scene in the 'thirties and 'forties—that of the late lamented Raphael King. Rivalries and jealousies have denied him much of the credit which was his undoubted due, and his end was distressingly tragic. However, my recollections of our months of active collaboration still give me unalloyed pleasure. We first met in the Frith Street bookshop of Andrew Block, who died in London, a month before his ninety-third birthday, on 26 May 1985. Author (or compiler) of several bibliographical works, he leaves an affectionate memory of his vivid personality with his many colleagues. This meeting was only some few yards from my domain in Charing Cross Road, and for several months Raphael King and I worked and studied closely together, he being perhaps more of a beginner even than I. Towards the spring of 1927 I was growing restless in my occupation and also had become aware my friend was eager for an entry into the trade, if for no greater reason than to convince his father, the resolute custodian of finances, of the wisdom of his already considerable investment. I spoke to my employers and was assured of release as soon as our private plans required it, consulting also with my friend Gilbert Fabes, whom the Foyles were willing should take over my position with the firm. So we two youngsters joined forces, finding our first premises in Bloomsbury Street at the south end between Great Russell Street and Oxford Street. By December the first catalogue was mailed in order to arrive before

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Christmas to a select circle of our friends and anticipated clients. It was unpretentious, compared with other "firsts" of today, an assembly of some five hundred books described on forty-four pages, but it was a success. To our shared disappointment, I found it impossible to regularize my position with the senior and all-important partner, and we were obliged to go our ways separately. I secured premises only some yards away, above the long-familiar landmark of the artist's sundries shop on the corner of Gower Street—No. 92 Great Russell Street, as the cover of my first catalogue proudly proclaims, two doors from the British Museum. This list was in the same format as Raphael's, printed by our friend G.B. Flower in Verulam Street, who served us both for some years: King's No. 15 of 1931 is before me as I write, as also is a copy of my own No. 9, issued in the same year. I was gratified to receive an indulgent notice by lolo Williams in his bibliographical column in the March London Mercury; and scanning my pages again, I find no reason to apologize for them. Defoe's Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain, 1724-1725, at £3.15.0 still persuades irresistibly, and, if the early books are somewhat thin, Rousseau's Du Contrat Social, 1762, at five guineas was significant. The modern books were better, and I should like to have back the copy of Robert Frost's North of Boston, for which one guinea was asked, and I find no less desirable the whole back page, where twenty-two Yeats items are described, eleven by W.B. with unusually strong support from his artist-brother, Jack. If the bookseller's function is to serve his clients, I think I discharged it adequately here. The set of the twenty-four Broad Sheets, 1902-1903 was worth the five guineas asked—after fifty years I have not succeeded in completing another—and the lovely Life in the West of Ireland, 1912, was one of the 150 which have an additional coloured and signed drawing. I see also Ernest Rhys's The Great Cockney Tragedy of 1891 is inscribed by the artist "First book illustrated by me, Jack B. Yeats," which permanently resolves a debated bibliographical problem. After this, Dana—twelve parts in wrappers, 1904-1905, is just makeweight! Some months after the Wall Street debacle of 1929, my family decided to remove to the seacoast, to celebrate my father's retirement from his profession; being myself a bachelor still residing under the family roof, I elected to accompany them. A new home was soon established in Bournemouth on the south coast, and I completed the removal of my considerable accumulation of books without undue difficulty, though the change involved in the type of my trading was considerable. Bournemouth is only slightly more than a hundred miles from London, but, in the conditions of transport then prevailing, this placed it outside the London orbit. I had always sold books through correspondence, but now the issue of catalogues became imperative. I also provincialized myself completely by becoming a country dealer, dependent on auction sales over a wide area for the renewal and maintenance of my stock. But I had become sufficiently well known in several countries (though mainly in the western hemisphere) to be visited annually, and bi-annually, by quite a procession of trade and private clients,

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amongst whom university professors were very soon dominant. My premises were always spacious and comfortable, and there was no difficulty in keeping my personal library distinct and secure. This was achieved principally by keeping almost the whole of it where I resided, if for no other reason than that of my own pleasure. There was always, of course, the insidious temptation to part with a cherished possession with little other excuse than to bask in the flattery of some distinguished and friendly visitor, who might otherwise have endured a long and tedious journey to no avail. I announced my retirement plans in the summer of 1966 to Professor Robert Wolff, who positively demanded some memorable book, besides the wine which was being drunk in celebration. When he and Mrs. Wolff left that evening they took with them three superb three-deckers of Eliza Lynn; and I never felt quite sure that it was the unreliability of the mails, and not some emotional instability of their host, which they feared most. When I consulted the professor's library catalogue, some time after his lamented death, I was gratified to read appropriate acknowledgements in his Linton entries, and I had already pacified myself in the acceptance of the fact that it was only my Landorana which had suffered. Though I had collected the faithless husband, William James Linton, who was a poet and miscellaneous writer, I had never really attacked the problem of Mrs. Linton, considering her primarily a novelist. At this juncture I feel sure that my distinguished patron, the late Dr. Gordon N. Ray, would not resent the introduction of his name and a statement that, on the occasion of our first meeting in my Bournemouth house in 1942, I was sufficiently bemused to take his advice and abandon the latest author I had added to my canon—a Catholic cardinal—and to concentrate more on the minor poets in which I was well advanced. Thus, Urbana gained a few Newmans which might have caused them difficulty or long delay, and Gordon also a few titles on which he is unlikely ever to have improved. And I must add that my schedule of authors was always thereafter studiously respected. My collections progressed well, and annotations to the more significant items in the pages which follow go some way towards tracking the journeys which were made and the estates and mansions which were visited. One of the initial excitements of many journeys was the anticipation of a visit to an estate frequently passed on earlier journeys and surveyed with interest and admiration, but where death or change had not before disturbed the even tenor of passing years. The London auction rooms of Sotheby's, of Christie's, and of Hodgson's were never quite neglected, and when catalogues were received bearing honoured names, I frequently attended, with varying degrees of success. The Hugh Campbell sale comes first to mind, quickly followed by those of Viscount Esher, Clement K. Shorter, Lord Berwick, Pickford Waller, and, very importantly, of Sir Edmund Gosse. These were all held by Sotheby's, but Hodgson's had the Cobden-Sanderson sale, also the Charles Whibley, Augustine Birrell and Thomas Hardy sales. I see I have omitted the Charles Plumptre Johnson sale, which came slightly later in 1942, from the Sotheby's list, but this is because Johnson was a

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very particular customer, and on his death I attended the sale (held by Maples) in his residence, Park Grange, Sevenoaks—a lovely manor house looking down on Knole Park. The occasion was indeed the most unforgettable event in my life as far as book sales are concerned: and though I do not suppose anybody present was more sensitive than I to condition in books of the eighteen-nineties, I am sure there are several collectors still living who recall those days as vividly as I do. However, I was generally more stimulated when I headed northwestward from Bournemouth towards the black mountains of Wales or with further destinations in Herefordshire or Shropshire, and sometimes in the Lake District. Here, the horizons were unlimited, and one never knew what might be in store. The famous Lowther Castle dispersal at Penrith, when the Earl of Lonsdale's collections were auctioned—again, and unexpectedly, by Maples—yielded some important titles—handsome quartos which are now conspicuous on the shelves by their brilliantly preserved contemporary early 19th-century bindings: Clumber, near Doncaster, with the Duke of Newcastle's books; Hopton Court, which housed the last remnants of the Payne-Knight collections—all these swim into recollection. When I look in other directions—South and East—Crabbet Park with the Blunt estates, Brooke Hall and Northcourt in the Isle of Wight, and others clamour for mention. The gloom of Manchester and Liverpool was not shunned: the Earl of Derby's vast accumulation at Knowsley Hall marks the occasion of an accession of knowledge and experience which renders it memorable, though it did not, in fact, add a single volume to the collections. Scotland, also, was visited, though rarely further north than Glasgow and Edinburgh. So the additions slowly filtered through, and sometimes not so slowly. The main function of my books in Bournemouth, though the library rooms were not unsightly to view, appeared to be to exclude all air from dark cupboards, in which the ranges were three and four deep, with folios along the tops, as ideal dustcatchers. When I finally acknowledged that it was becoming impossible any longer to boast that I had at least opened each volume once a year, I conceded that the time had come to seek a better home for them; and, but for the fortuitous intervention, at the psychological moment, of a customer—my very good friend Dr. William E. Fredeman—the books might have gone elsewhere, would, indeed, never have left England. The action of Basil Stuart-Stubbs, the Librarian of the University of British Columbia at Vancouver, in an art I had not great experience of—the art of persuasion—was indeed exemplary; and before many weeks had passsed I had deserted England, for the first time in my life, to enjoy a holiday abroad, luxuriously vacationing in Vancouver with the object of assessing the problems of residence there. Negotiations governing the unconditional gift of my library to the University were speedily resolved, leaving little more than the physical task of safe transportation for well over one hundred large wooden crates which contained it. I had sometimes wondered with Thomas Hardy "what will be done when it comes to an end?" And now I know that the end had become simply a beginning. The

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books are here and here will remain, in the fastness and security of a great institutional foundation which U.B.C. provides. Norman Colbeck, 1986

Introduction Of Dr. Johnson, Boswell writes, "He thought it necessary to collect many editions of a book, which were all the same, except as to the paper and print; he would have the original, and all the translations, and all the editions which had any variations in the text"; and, Boswell continues, Dr. Johnson believed that "Every man should try to collect one book in that manner and present it to a publick library." This catalogue is the record of the private library of an extraordinarily private British bookseller, Norman Colbeck, who, through his generous bequest of his equally extraordinary collection of 19th-century and Edwardian poetry and belles lettres to the University of British Columbia in 1967, out-Johnsoned Dr. Johnson by many thousand volumes. Private collectors have long been the benefactors of public institutions, as they have of individual scholars; indeed, their books are often the centrepieces of the great research libraries. In England, the British Library, the Bodleian, the John Rylands, the Brotherton Library at Leeds, and many others would be significantly impoverished but for the private benefactions of major collectors, as would be in America the Bancroft Library at Berkeley, the Lilly Library at Indiana, the Berg Collection in the New York Public Library, the Houghton and Widener Libraries at Harvard, the Beinecke Library at Yale, the John Carter Brown Library at Brown, and scores of other university and public libraries, the nuclei of whose rare book collections were formed by discriminating, often wealthy, collectors. On a larger scale, in the United States, the Pierpont Morgan Library, the Henry E. Huntington Library, the Folger Library, the William Andrews Clark Library at U.C.L.A., and the Carl Pforzheimer Library are lasting monuments to the magnificent collections of books and manuscripts formed by their namesake scions of industry in the first half of this century. Most modern collectors cannot, given the limitations of post-tax income and the lilliputian dimensions of most contemporary domestic architecture, aspire to amass libraries of the size, scope, and quality of these great collections any more than they can compete with the omnivorous collecting propensities of such giants in the previous century as Richard Heber, W.H. Miller (of Britwell Library fame), or Sir Thomas Phillipps, whose collections were so massive that they often took several years to disperse in the sale rooms. These limitations,

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coupled with radical shifts in taste, the virtual disappearance of early printed books, and the increasing scarcity of even post 17th-century printings, have altered the scope of collecting appreciably over the last eighty years and have led to a higher degree of specialization among collectors, who are turning more and more to "cabinet" collections of highlights, press volumes, and discrete subject areas. In the context of these changes, the Colbeck Collection is all the more remarkable, for not only did Mr. Colbeck stake out as his domain the literature of the most indefatigable century in history, he also selected a genre in which the prodigality of the Victorian Age is as apparent as in its fiction. At once a memorial to Mr. Colbeck's munificence, a tribute to his bibliophilic devotion to his chosen areas of interest, a testimony to his bibliographical acuity and erudition, and a reflection of his taste, the Catalogue of the Colbeck Collection will fill a respectable niche on Victorian reference shelves alongside the more famous libraries of Thomas J. Wise (the Ashley Library) and Chauncey Brewster Tinker and the two great Victorian collections of fiction formed by Michael Sadleir and Robert Lee Wolff. Since the advent of serious collecting in the area of "modern literature"—a period extending roughly from 1800 to the present—only a handful of collections has passed intact to institutions, and of these many have been sold rather than bequeathed to the libraries that house them; fewer still have been commemorated in published catalogues. More often these collections have been dispersed in the sale rooms or through booksellers, whose catalogues, like tombstones, seem frail memorials to the once great libraries they record, now scattered to the winds. Leafing through the pages of the sale catalogues of the libraries of Robert Hoe (1911), Buxton Forman (1917), John Quinn (1923-24), William Harris Arnold (1924), Jerome Kern (1927), and A. Edward Newton (1941)—to cite only the most immediately obvious examples on my reference shelves—engenders, in me at least, a sense of loss and an awareness of the ephemerality of human endeavours. Francois Villon's haunting question, "Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?", applies with equal poignancy to these no longer extant libraries, whose catalogues are bibliographical ghosts on a far grander scale than individual titles that never existed. Rather than transferring their libraries to institutions, some collectors elect to disperse their books in the manner of Edmund De Goncourt, who in his will was peremptory in demanding that his prints, drawings, curiosities, and books—"in a word, these things of art which have been the joy of my life—shall not be consigned to the cold tomb of a museum, and subjected to the stupid glance of the careless passer-by"; instead, he directed that all his possessions should come "under the hammer of the Auctioneer; so that the pleasure which the acquiring of each one of them has given me shall be given again, in each case, to some inheritor of my own tastes." While such sentiments are legitimate and perfectly understandable, were they shared by all collectors, scholars in search of rarities would often be disappointed. Through the benefaction of collectors like Mr.

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Colbeck, accessibility to the rich resources of a few private libraries has been permanently assured; and, as an added benefit, interested scholars can browse actual books rather than often unbeatable items in a retrospective catalogue. II "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" is William Butler Yeats's conclusion to his famous poem "Among School Children." A similar question might be posed regarding Mr. Colbeck and his library, for while his collection is the undoubted showcase of U.B.C.'s impressive holdings in 19th-century literature, complementing the extensive manuscript archives of the Rossetti family in the Angeli-Dennis Papers and the materials in the Penkill and Leathart Papers, together with the books the university also acquired the man, who, in a quite literal sense, is their living embodiment: the collector and the collection are virtually indistinguishable. Given his temperament and natural reticence, Mr. Colbeck will doubtless resist any attempt to eulogize him in this introduction, but it would be quite improper to issue this catalogue of his collection without recording at least a few of his biographical particulars; and, candidly, I cannot pass up the single opportunity I am likely ever to have to get into print some of my personal recollections of our twenty-year friendship. Mr. Colbeck's career as a bookseller was not such as to win him an entry in Who's Who, but he has twice been singled out for distinction, once by the late and immediate past president of the Guggenheim Foundation, Gordon N. Ray, who was himself a great collector, in a Sedgewick Memorial Lecture entitled Tennyson Reads "Maud, "delivered on this campus in 1968, and once by a younger fellow dealer, George Sims, in a series on three prominent British booksellers—Percy Muir, Bertram Rota, and Norman Colbeck—in the Antiquarian Book Monthly Review, recently reprinted in a volume entitled The Rare Book Game (1985). Both collector and dealer praise Mr. Colbeck's store of knowledge and the treasures of his collection, which, unlike his extensive stock, was mainly unavailable for viewing and definitely not for sale—(I learned only recently that I alone of all his customers had the privilege of being shown his private books); George Sims refers to him as a "bibliographical wizard." Sims's observation that Norman (I abandon formalities from this point) "never tried to sell a book" is central to an understanding of his career as a bookseller, for he was a collector by instinct, a dealer by expedience. Born in London on 13 June 1903, the son of a pharmacist-dispenser at the Archway Hospital, Norman grew up in Highgate and attended Owens School in Islington to age sixteen. His bookish propensities, as he mentions in his preface, manifested themselves while he was still a young boy, when he opened for his school chums a lending library formed from a small group of books given him by his grandparents. After leaving school, he worked for three years as a clerk with the Orient Steam

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Navigation Company in the City. Two events of these early years, involving a man and an institution, altered the eventual course of his life. In 1921, when he was transferred by his firm to their Cockspur Street office in the West End, he met and came under the magnetic influence of A.J.A. Symons, the founder of the First Edition Club, whose offices were then in Pall Mall East. Symons encouraged, as Norman confirms, his love affair with books and even drafted him to read proofs for his abortive giant bibliography of the eighteen-nineties. In the following year, having obtained his reader's ticket to the British Museum, he began a year-long period of self-education, perusing the wonders of the Museum's case books, which could be read only in the North Library; there too he read the Ashley Library catalogue, then less than half completed. In 1923, at age twenty and with no experience in the trade, he was hired as Manager of the Rare Book Room of Foyle's Bookshop in Charing Cross Road, where he began his metamorphosis into a bonafide bookman. After four years with Foyle's and a false start in business with a friend and fellow bookseller, Raphael King, he launched out on his own with first-floor premises at 92 Great Russell Street in 1927. In the next year, he opened his first book shop in Sutton Street, Soho Square, a move he quickly regretted. A year later he left London for Bournemouth, where, with only a brief hiatus when he took rooms at the White Hall on Catherine Street in Salisbury, he remained until his departure for U.B.C. in the summer of 1967. Accompanied by my wife, Jane, and the American Literature scholar and collector, Matthew Bruccoli, I first visited Norman at the second of his Bournemouth residences, No. 42 Ophir Road, in early April 1966, having met him a few weeks earlier by arrangement, when we attended the Lytton Strachey sale together. Gordon Ray and others had years before, when I was working on the PreRaphaelite bibliography, recommended him as the bookseller most likely to have the printed books and ephemera I sought, but for reasons now inexplicable to me I had never managed to make that pilgrimage to Bournemouth from London, which in retrospect I now realize might have foreshortened, perhaps by many months, the labours involved in collecting my materials. Fate, however, takes strange twists, and it may well be that we were not destined to meet before we did. The chain of events that brought me to Ophir Road in 1966 had not been forged in 1959, and had we met then, the Colbeck Collection would almost certainly now reside on other shelves than ours. Since I encountered Norman only in the latter stages of his career as a bookseller, most of my knowledge about him is secondhand, gleaned from interviews conducted and taped during his first year in Vancouver, when he shared our home and from discussions with friends and acquaintances—scholars, collectors, and booksellers—among them Bill Fletcher, Colin Franklin, Franklin Gilliam, Cecil Lang, Percy Muir, Anthony Newnham, Simon Nowell-Smith, Gordon Ray, and Anthony Rota. All were agreed on one point: that, as a bookseller, Norman was sui generis. His principal sources were country auction sales, at which, as George Sims notes, he was "ubiquitous." During the three

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decades from 1930-1960, literally dozens of important collections were dispersed at on-site auctions instead of through the London rooms. At these sales, a few of which are mentioned in Norman's preface, treasures were disgorged beyond the wildest dreams of today's collectors, who are conditioned to paying top dollar in the rooms of Sotheby's and Christie's, which now make entire catalogues of books then knocked down in bundles for a song, and single lots of many items which in those years dealers would often not bother to take away as "furniture." Essentially a wholesaler to the trade, Norman had a reputation for possessing an enormous stock of quality books at moderate to ridiculously cheap prices; but his main reason for dealing in books, beyond the need to make a living, was to support his burgeoning collection. It is typical of Norman's modesty that he preserved almost no archives of his years in trade. For this reason, the few that do survive have a special relevance to the formation of the collection. Before me as I write is a volume which I have had bound up containing six printed catalogues together with a single duplicated list—all that survive from a total of ten catalogues and lists that he produced. Of these, four date from his London period—two from Great Russell Street (1928), two from Sutton Street (1928-1929)—and one from Salisbury (1931), all printed by George B. Flower. Fifteen years would pass before he issued another catalogue. Perusing these documents in the light of this comprehensive catalogue of his private collection, one is struck with a sense of dejd vu, for the books catalogued clearly indicate that from his entry into the trade, Norman's tastes and interests were directed towards the literature, principally the poetry, of the 19th and early 20th centuries: the bookseller's catalogues are a pale reflection of the collector's library. While it would be fascinating to linger over some of the items, a few of which are not represented in his collection, his last catalogue, the first in a new series and the only one issued from his Bournemouth address, commands the greatest attention, not only for its contents, which are tantalizing in terms of desirability and price, but because of its association with the prototype of the annual book fairs sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association in 1956, the twentyseventh of which was held last year. Compared with today's extensive and sophisticated book fairs, held in grand surroundings and involving dozens of exhibitors, who hoard their most precious items for the annual showing and often issue handsome catalogues of their offerings, this exhibition was very much an impromptu and experimental event. Held in Sotheby's old bookroom, the fair attracted only about twenty, mainly absentee, exhibitors. Norman, who was elected to membership in the ABA in 1940, was invited to oversee the exhibits, and he was the only dealer to issue a catalogue specifically for the occasion. His prominent role in the history of the ABA book fairs has not been previously recorded, but it is a mark of the position he occupied in the trade during his bookselling career. The negotiations that succeeded in seducing Norman from Bournemouth to

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Vancouver need not be rehearsed here; that they were successful made U.B.C. a significant research centre for 19th-century studies. I still recall with nostalgia (as do, I feel certain, my departmental colleague, J.A. Lavin, and my former Ph.D. student Allan Life, now at the University of North Carolina) the excitement of that heady summer in 1967, after Norman stepped off the Orsova on the second of July, when together we unpacked and arranged on the moveable shelving in the special area refitted to house them above the Ridington Reference Room the thousands of volumes from 118 large wooden packing cases in which they were transported. During the five years Norman served as curator of his collection, the room remained intact and was visited by a number of distinguished scholars. In the years since his superannuation, Norman has spent most of his working days tending his books and preparing this catalogue, which began life as a holograph manuscript occupying some two thousand foolscap pages. The "Colbeck Room," alas, was lost several years ago to retrenchment, but, while the books occupy somewhat humbler quarters on the running shelves in Special Collections, they are now more favourably housed in terms of air-conditioning and security than they were in Norman's day; and for the last fifteen years they have been professionally attended by the dedicated Curator of the Colbeck Collection, Joan Selby, who (also alas) will be retiring from the library this spring. Only those who know Norman Colbeck well can appreciate the enormous wrench involved in his decision to move to Canada and take up a position at U.B.C. Throughout most of his life, books had been almost a monastic preoccupation with him. When I first met him, the number of non-events in his life was legion: though he was not lacking in academic customers, he had, for example, never been inside one of the Oxford or Cambridge colleges; he had not travelled outside England since his twenty-second year, and then only briefly on a pilgrimage to Ireland, where he visited all the places mentioned in Yeats's poems; he had never been in an airplane; never had a passport, or a vaccination; never even received a transatlantic telephone call, though he had many American customers; and he had never been married. Overnight, his life and life-style were transformed. His acceptance of the university's invitation to visit the campus in the fall of 1966 marked, in effect, the end of a long self-imposed retreat; and within three years of his arrival, he married Dr. Mabel Laura Mackenzie, an Associate Professor in the Department of English, a liaison that, together with his own university appointment, not only opened academic doors, traditionally closed in England to booksellers, but also transformed him into a world traveller, with successive trips to England, summers in Spain, and winters in Hawaii. For the last fifteen years the Colbecks have occupied a magnificent penthouse on the University Endowment Lands with a panoramic view of the mountains and the sea. Norman's intention on coming to Canada was to return to England after his tenure with the university expired, but since to do so would have meant abandoning the books which for so long had been the focus of his life, he chose, with "no regrets," as he now readily

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admits, to stay in Canada; and in 1976, he became a Canadian citizen. On 28 May 1987, the University of British Columbia, in formal and public recognition of his singular contribution to the scholarly life and reputation of this university, represented by his bequest of the magnificent collection recorded in this catalogue, will award him the degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causae. Ill The Colbeck Collection consists of nearly 500 author collections, 465 of which are listed in the catalogue, concentrating on the poets and essayists of the Romantic, Victorian, and Edwardian periods. Fiction is included only when written by novelist-poets such as Meredith and Hardy, but novels by these writers were not collected systematically. In addition to books relating to individual authors, nine subject headings ranging from books issued by William Pickering and the High House Press to periodicals, to publications in series and of societies (including extensive holdings of the Sette of Odd Volumes), works on Ireland, year-books, gift-books, and anthologies, together with a group of books by an author totally outside the context of the remainder of the collection, the 17th-century writer Sir Thomas Browne, are listed in the Appendices. It should be stated at the outset that the collection reflects not only the taste but also the limited financial resources and the idiosyncrasies of the collector. Norman's interest in Sir Thomas Browne, for example, derives from his father's fascination with Robert Blatchford (himself a collected author), who makes frequent reference to Browne in his own writing. Readers of the catalogue will note immediately that Coleridge alone of the great Romantic poets is strongly represented in Colbeck, Byron, Shelley, and Keats were always beyond the range of Norman's aspiration; Wordsworth, whom he might have collected—both An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches having passed through his hands—was excluded for personal reasons, but a few, such as one listed under "Omitted Authors" (who has always been a private joke between us), were collected principally because their books were available. It is also probably fair to state that Norman, with his virtually encyclopaedic knowledge of 19th-century publishing and literary history, always had a kind of instinctive attraction to the minor poets and essayists of the period, for whom, lacking the first edition, the collector has no text. Indeed, one of the many strengths of the Colbeck Collection is the large contingent of minor writers not in NCBEL. Beyond its comprehensiveness—the catalogue contains 13,291 numbered items, many of which contain multiple sub-items or volumes—a number of other features distinguish the collection. Most obvious to anyone viewing the books is their remarkable condition. Like Michael Sadleir, though less meticulously exacting, Norman sought to preserve in his personal library pristine copies in their original state; but, unlike Sadleir and more in the vein of Robert Lee Wolff,

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he was willing to compromise on condition or rebinding rather than exclude a title. The collection also contains a vast number of presentation and association copies, many of which add appreciably to the interest of the volumes. Finally, the collection includes, as in the case of the eight copies of Cardinal Newman's Apologia and the differing editions of George Meredith's A Reading of Life and George Moore's Evelyn Innes, a great many bibliographical variants essential to an understanding of the printing and publication history of the volumes in question. It is difficult within the scope of a brief introduction to provide a serious analysis of the thousands of books in the Colbeck Collection. However, given the decision not to provide an index to the catalogue, singling out a few of the highlights will give the reader at least some inkling of the rarities embedded in its entries. Of the 465 author sections in the catalogue, 21 are represented by 100 or more items; 46 by 50 or more; 124 by between 20 and 49 items. For roughly 10 percent of the authors in the collection the holdings are either perfect, nearcomplete, or very full; and many of these comprise, in addition to the printed books, large numbers of presentation and association copies as well as manuscript material. The collections of the following authors are particularly strong: Edward Carpenter, G.K. Chesterton, S.T. Coleridge, Austin Dobson, Michael Field, Edmund Gosse, Philip Guedalla, Thomas Hardy, Charles Kingsley, Andrew Lang, Frederick Locker-Lampson, Lord Macaulay, Sir Theodore Martin, Harold Monro, George Moore, Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Vernon Lee, Francis Turner Palgrave, Coventry Patmore, William Bell Scott, George Bernard Shaw, Robert Louis Stevenson, A.C. Swinburne, John Addington Symonds, Edward Thomas, Oscar Wilde, and W.B. Yeats. The number of presentation and association copies is too extensive to allow for more than a cursory listing, but attention should be specifically drawn to Rossetti's Poems (1870) presented to Browning, one of six firsts of this title in the collection; the two Elizabeth Barrett Browning presentations (Prometheus Bound and Poems [1844], one of two copies); Hardy's presentation of Time's Laughingstocks to Florence Henniker, complemented by two other Hardy association items in her collection; what may be a unique contemporary presentation of Bridge's Poems (1873) to Willoughby Furner, a fellow medical student; Allingham's presentation of his first volume, Poems (1850), to Lady Shelley, with the manuscript of his poem to her; William Morris's presentation of The Roots of the Mountain to Georgiana Burne-Jones; an extremely interesting association copy of William Michael Rossetti's second book, Swinburne: A Criticism, with marginal caricatures of Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Burne-Jones; the copy Mary Gordon presented to Swinburne's sister and her cousin, Alice, of The Children of the Chapel, for which the poet wrote all the verses; the Gosse family copy of William Bell Scott's earliest book, Hades (1838), presented to Gosse's in-laws, Dr. and Mrs. Epps; and Yeats's presentation of The Land of Heart's Desire (1894) to Constance Gore Booth.

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Such copies are, of course, unique because of their inscriptions, but the collection also contains a number of printed items, many privately issued, either unique or so limited that they count as such. Among these, perhaps the most exceptional, because no other copy is known, is T.E. Brown's Betsy Lee (1871), presented to his wife; equally scarce is A.H. Bullen's Hakewill's "Apologie" (1915), of which no other copy has been located. Examples of books with exclusive limitations, such as the vellum set of Henley's works (No. 4 of six copies), abound in the collection, but the scarcest are probably Robert Blatchford's Merry England (1894), one of only two copies set in double columns from newspaper type; R.S. Hawker's 1836 broadside, And Shall Trelawny Die, which survived by virtue of being bound up in a scrapbook; and William Hazlitt's Select British Poets (1824), which was suppressed for copyright infringements. The collection also contains such rarities as the two Pre-Raphaelite magazines— The Germ and The Oxford and Cambridge — and the trial number of The Century Guild Hobby Horse, which accompanies the later run of that journal; a wide assortment of other nineties periodicals; unbound sheets of Christina Rossetti's Verses (1847), privately printed at the Polidori Press, with the rare cancellandum; two copies of Swinburne's Atalanta (the edition of which, until John May field disproved the claim, was thought to be limited to 100), one in white buckram, the other in pigskin; and two sets of the Cuala Press Broadsides, one a partial proof set of the eighty-four numbers, the other lacking only six issues. The listing could be extended indefinitely, as it could for multiple copies and editions represented in the collection, but the titles cited are sufficient to indicate the range of entries for printed books. And the printed books are buttressed by impressive manuscript holdings, including, besides smaller caches and stray letters and manuscripts by many writers, the manuscript and typescript of Philip Guedalla's Palmerston; fifty-five letters from Edward Dowden to W.K. Magee; twenty letters and cards from Forrest Reid to Andre Raffelovich; a large collection of letters from W.H. Mallock to his agent, C.D. Cazenove; another from John Keble and his wife to Katharine Hedger; three albums of letters from Edward Thomas to Harry Hooton, the last one of which is probably Thomas's last letter to Hooton from the front before he was killed; St. Anthony and several works by William Bell Scott; and an assortment of documents—seven manuscripts, proofs, and a near-complete run of The Irish Statesman (11 volumes)—which provide an unequalled history of A.E.'s (George Russell) most important work, The Living Torch (1937), which, because he edited the book for publication, is entered under Monk Gibbon. Scholars with a bent for literary prospecting will find the Colbeck Catalogue indeed a mother lode. IV The title A Bookman s Catalogue has been carefully chosen to reflect both the nature and emphasis of the descriptions in the catalogue entries. Norman

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Colbeck was and remains a bookseller, whose concerns throughout most of his lifetime centred on practical matters connected with book-dealing. During the course of his career, he garnered an amazing store of knowledge which in turn enabled him to amass a collection of major dimensions; but he is not, as he would be the first to admit, a trained bibliographer, and this catalogue does not aspire to the standards of description that characterize the volumes of, say, the Soho bibliographies. Rather, it is the catalogue of an exceptionally well-informed and sensitive bookseller, who, during his period in the trade, recorded, and frequently retained, often in multiple copies, thousands of books that passed through his hands. Through him, I have come to realize that an observant and discerning bookseller, by simple virtue of his propinquity to the book market, has an enormous advantage over the ordinary bibliographer, who may in a lifetime see no more than two or three copies of a rare or scarce book. The entries in the Colbeck Catalogue differ in kind from full-dress bibliographical descriptions, at once less formal and more anecdotal, but they are not necessarily inferior because of this distinction. Ideally, one might like to have for the books in the collection a catalogue more along the lines of Robert Metzdorf's The Tinker Library. But Norman's entries, which provide title-page transcriptions, pagination, facts of publication, and notes on other significant bibliographical points, including provenance, are informative, unambiguous, and perfectly adequate for identification; and students, scholars, and collectors who require more precise information than is provided by the descriptions in A Bookman's Catalogue can always consult the books themselves in the Colbeck Collection. Vancouver, 30 January 1987

William E. Fredeman Professor of English

Authors

Yonder a maid and her wight Come whispering by: War's annals willfade into night Ere their story die. 1915

THOMAS HARDY, O.M.

ABERCROMBIE (Lascelles) 1881-1938 ABERCROMBIE (Lascelles) 1881-1938 1. Interludes and Poems. John Lane, 1908. Light green cloth, t.e.g., others uncut. Orange dust-jacket, spine lettered as binding. 2. Another copy, identical but without dust-jacket. 3. Mary and the Bramble. Much Marcle, Herefordshire: the author, 1910. Single gathering of 6 leaves, sewn into dark blue wrappers. Inscription on title-page: "From Helen Key." 4. Another copy, centre recto title-page, identical with First Edition, save "Second Impression." 5. The Sale of Saint Thomas. Ryton, Dymock, Gloucestershire: the author, 1911. Single gathering of 16 leaves, sewn into dark blue wrappers. Original perforated (unused) prospectus/order form inserted. Inscription on title-page: "John Lane from Lascelles Abercrombie." 6. Another copy, identical but without presentation inscription.

Gloucestershire. February [to December] 1914. Above title is taken from the third number. A complete set of the 4 numbers comprising volume 1 (all published) together with an additional copy of the first part bearing "(Second Edition)" at foot of upper cover-the only part to be so reissued. Tipped-in is a printed receipt form for sets of New Numbers (1914), made out to H. Russell Smith, Esq., who subscribed 15 shillings. This publication was managed by Abercrombie, the imprint incorporating his address at Dymock, as in his own The Sale of Saint Thomas, published in 1911. The 5 parts are uniform large 8vo in light blue wrappers lettered in black, with imprint of Crypt House Press, Gloucester. Pagination is continuous, 1-[204], which includes half-title and title-page in No. 1, but excludes those 2 leaves in the following 3 numbers. Four paginated leaves at the end of the last part designed to replace preliminaries when parts are bound in volume form. The parts, dated respectively February, April, August and December 1914, contain 41 poems~4 by Abercrombie, 15 by Brooke, 8 by Drinkwater and 14 by Gibson, all printed for the first time.

7. Emblems of Love Designed in Several Discourses. John Lane, 1912. Light green cloth, t.e.g., others uncut. Paler green dust-jacket, lettered and designed in dark green, repeating cover lettering which is gilt. Inserted is Wilfrid Wilson Gibson's review of the book on 2 leaves, abstracted from a journal.

12. The Art and Craft of Letters: The Epic. Martin Seeker [1914]. Smooth black linen with label lettered in red (partly upwards) on spine, top edges cut, fore-edges trimmed, lower edges uncut. With orange dust-jacket lettered with series adverts, price I/- net. On verso of half-title 5 uniform series titles are announced, on the dust-jacket 22 titles. Printer's imprint of William Brendon in 2 lines at foot of last page [96].

8. Thomas Hardy: A Critical Study. Martin Seeker, 1912. Dark blue cloth, t.e.g.( others uncut. Photogravure frontispiece portrait. Publisher's Autumn Books catalogue in 8 leaves at end, printed on text-paper, including the present title, price 7s. 6d. net.

13. An Essay towards a Theory of Art. Martin Seeker, 1922. Buff coloured boards, half yellow linen, top edges stained, others uncut.

9. Deborah: A Play in Three Acts. John Lane, 1913. Pale blue boards, half green linen, 2 printed title labels, all edges uncut. Final leaf carries adverts only; 2 spare lettering labels at end. Gatherings unopened throughout. 10. Speculative Dialogues. Martin Seeker, 1913. Brown cloth, printed spine label; top edges stained to match binding, others only lightly trimmed. The Esher copy, with Brett bookplate. 11. New Numbers. A Quarterly Publication of the Poems of Rupert Brooke, John Drinkwater, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Lascelles Abercrombie. Published at Ryton, Dymock,

14. Four Short Plays. Martin Seeker, 1922. Buff coloured boards, half yellow linen, top edges stained, others uncut. Printed dust-jacket (6/- net). 15. Principles of English Prosody. Part 1: The Elements. Martin Seeker, 1923. Buff coloured boards, half yellow linen, top edges stained, others uncut. 16. Phoenix: Tragicomedy in Three Acts. Martin Seeker, 1923. Buff coloured boards, half yellow linen, top edges stained, others uncut. Inscription on end-paper: "Marie Busch from Lascelles Abercrombie."

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ABERCROMBIE (Lascelles) 1881-1938 17. Another copy, identical with above, but with printed dust-jacket, (5/- net). From John Freeman's library, with his full autograph signature on the end-paper. 18. The Theory of Poetry. Martin Seeker, 1924. Buff coloured boards, half yellow linen, top edges stained, others uncut. Bookplate of William Blathwayt (20th century minor poet). 19. The Idea of Great Poetry. Martin Seeker, 1925. Buff coloured boards, half yellow linen, top edges stained, others uncut. 20. Romanticism. Martin Seeker, 1926. Buff coloured boards, half yellow linen, top edges stained, others uncut. 21. Anderson, J. Redwood. Babel: A Dramatic Poem. E. Benn, 1927. Black cloth, 2 printed title labels. Dedicated to Abercrombie, and with a 3 page Preface by him. 22. Twelve Idyls and Other Poems. Martin Seeker, 1928. Buff coloured boards, half yellow linen, top edges stained, others uncut. 23. Progress in Literature. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1929. Stiff light grey wrappers lettered in black (Price two shillings and sixpence net). The laid-down end-papers at front and back are part of the collation of this book which thus has 30 leaves, though the pagination is 52. The Leslie Stephen Lecture delivered at Cambridge, 10 May 1929. 24. The Poems. Oxford University Press, 1930. Dark blue cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece photogravure portrait. First Collected Edition. The author's Preface states, "The poems and plays are reprinted almost without alteration." 25. A Plea for the Liberty of Interpreting. Humphrey Milford [1930]. 32 pages, sewn into light grey wrappers printed in black on upper and lower sides (Price Is. 6d. net). Annual Shakespeare Lecture of the British Academy, volume 16. From the Proceedings of the British Academy. 26. Withers, Percy. Friends in Solitude. With an Introduction by Lascelles Abercrombie. Jonathan Cape, 1930. Bright blue cloth, fully gilt spine, all edges cut. First issue in the publisher's pocket series~the Travellers' Library. This is, in fact, the Second Edition of this notable work, its first reprinting since 1923; 38 page Advertiser of the series (in which it is No. 131) at end. For a copy of

ABERCROMBIE (Lascelles) 1881-1938 the First Edition of 1923 see the Hale White (Mark Rutherford) collection, where the copy is inscribed to Mrs. Hale White "for delight in 'The Groomsbridge Diary' and other things," dated February 1925, and with 2 long ALS to her dated in the same month. 27. Another copy, blue cloth, trimmed edges, in designed dust-jacket, price 3s. 6d. net. The 6 page Introduction was specially written for this new Travellers' Library edition of the book. 28. The Sale of Saint Thomas: In Six Acts. Martin Seeker, 1930. Imperial 8vo, light blue bevelled buckram, gilt-lettered down the spine, t.e.g., others uncut. This is the completed play, of which the first act had been printed for the author in 1911. Edition limited to 480 copies; this copy is No. 172, signed by the author. It is also autographed on title-page, which is not normal for the whole edition. 29. New English Poems: A Miscellany of Contemporary Verse Never before Published. The Collection Made by Lascelles Abercrombie. Gollancz, 1931. Blue cloth, trimmed edges. Second impression dated the same month (October) as the First Edition. Includes work by 46 poets, preceded by a 4 page Preface by Abercrombie. There is also a Note: "All the poems in this collection are here printed for the first time, with the exception of one or two that have been printed privately." In the case of Clifford Bax, 2 notably fine lyrics, "The Town Maid" and "Full Moon," had appeared 3 years earlier in the author's Eight Poems, issued privately from 72 Addison Road, London, W. 14, and sent out as a Christmas greeting. 30. Scott, W. Dixon. The Letters. . . Edited by Mary McCrossan. With a Preface by Professor Lascelles Abercrombie. Herbert Joseph, 1932. Dark blue cloth, top edges stained to match, others lightly trimmed, frontispiece portrait. Abercrombie's Preface is on pp. vii-xiii. 31. Principles of Literary Criticism. Gollancz, 1932. Pink boards, lettered in black, Is. 6d. net. A volume in the Outline Series, of which the first 11 titles are advertised on the lower cover. 32. Hsiung, S. I. Lady Precious Stream: An Old Chinese Play Done into English According to Its Traditional Style. Preface by Lascelles Abercrombie. Methuen, 1934. Black cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, illustrations in

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ADAMS (Francis William Lauderdale) 1862-1893 7. A Child of the Age. John Lane, 1894. Dark green cloth, a volume of the Keynotes series with title-page design by Aubrey Beardsley, which is repeated on cover. All edges uncut, 3 leaves of publisher's adverts at end, followed by their 16 page 1894 catalogue.

1. Leicester: An Autobiography. 2 vols. George Redway, 1885. Light blue cloth, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed. Binder's ticket of Westleys on rear yellow end-paper of volume 2. Volume 1 has a half-title, the verso of which advertises the author's Poems, published by Elliot Stock at 5s.; final leaf [21-28] carries adverts only. Volume 2 has publisher's 16 page January 1885 catalogue at end. The First Edition appears to have been published in Melbourne, Australia in 1884 in one volume.

8. Tiberius: A Drama. With Introduction by W. M. Rossetti. Fisher Unwin, 1894. Smooth white bevelled buckram, gilt-lettered and designed, t.e.g., others uncut, photogravure frontispiece portrait. A leaf before half-title carries certificate of issue—No. 90 of 250 copies.

2. Australian Essays. Melbourne: W. Inglis; London: Griffith Farrow, 1886. Pp. x, (168). Lacks leaf before half-title. Rebound by former owner in blue boards.

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3. Songs of the Army of the Night. Vizetelly, 1890. Sage green cloth, light grey geometrical-design end-papers. Inscribed on half-title: "H. W. Nevinson from H. S. Salt." Salt wrote the introduction to the second London edition of the book. 4. Songs of the Army of the Night. William Reeves, 1894. Bevelled bright red cloth. Frontispiece portrait printed in blue ink. The Preface printed in the 1890 edition is reprinted here and dated Sydney, Christmas 1887. It is followed by an Introduction, 7 pages, by H. S. Salt. Additional poems included. 5. Songs of the Army of the Night. William Reeves, 1894. A reissue of the same sheets, considerably cut-down, as No. 19 of the Bellamy Library. Deep cream paper wrappers. Lettering on upper side includes: "One Shilling (Superior edition in cloth, 3/6)." This copy has the attractive bookplate of Frederic Chapman, the translator of Anatole France. 6. The Australians: A Social Sketch. Fisher Unwin, 1893. Tall 8vo, patterned blue cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, designed light brown end-papers. The author's Preface is dated Cairo, Egypt, Christmas 1892.

9. Essays in Modernity: Criticisms and Dialogues. John Lane, 1899. Dark green vertically ribbed cloth, all edges uncut. Blank leaves before half-title and after end of text.

1. The Shadow Show. Frontispiece by Starr Wood. Elkin Mathews, 1907. Green cloth, top edges cut, others uncut. Author's autograph dated 1916 on end-paper. 2. Famous Houses and Literary Shrines of London. With 74 Illustrations by Frederick Adcock, and 16 Portraits. Dent, 1912. Red cloth, gilt spine, blind-stamped ornament centre upper side, trimmed edges. 3. Modern Grub Street and Other Essays. Herbert & Daniel [1913]. Red cloth, trimmed edges. Inscribed: "With kind remembrances from A. St. John Adcock. May 1913." 4. The Booklover's London. 2nd ed. With 20 Illustrations by Frederick Adcock. Methuen, 1913. Red cloth, publisher's 32 page catalogue at end. Published same year as First Edition. 5. Songs of the World-War. Cecil Palmer & Hayward, 1916. Parchment wrappers folded over stiff cream linen, gilt-lettered, l/6d. net. Inscribed: "Wilfrid Meynell, Esq., with kindest regards from A. St. John Adcock. March 1916." 6. For Remembrance: Soldier Poets Who Have Fallen in the War. Hodder & Stoughton, 1918. Mauve blue cloth, lettered and designed in darker blue, trimmed edges, 20 portraits in photogravure. In pictorial dust-jacket, price 7/6 net.

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ADCOCK (Arthur St. John) 1864-1930 7. Another copy, without discernible variation save that it is printed on cheaper paper (thickness 1" against about 1 1/2 " in first copy) and cloth ordinary light blue. No dust-jacket. The variation probably only attests to war-time shortages of materials. 8. Exit Homo. Selwyn & Blount, 1921. Red cloth, all edges uncut. The laid-down front and rear end-papers appear to be part of the collation, i.e., A-D8, though the pagination is [xiv], 47. Inscribed: "Wilfrid Meynell, Esq., with kindest remembrances from A. St. John Adcock. 1921." 9. The Bookman Treasury of Living Poets. Edited by Arthur St. John Adcock. Hodder & Stoughton [19253. Blue cloth, trimmed edges. There is a 5 page Introduction by the editor. 10. City Songs. Selwyn & Blount, 1926. Buff boards, grey Holland spine, 2 lettering labels. 11. The Glory That Was Grub Street: Impressions of Contemporary Writers. With 32 camera studies by E. 0. Hoppe. Sampson Low [1928]. Light brownish cloth; publisher's announcements on 4 leaves at end. 12. Collected Poems. Hodder & Stoughton, 1929. Black cloth, trimmed edges, red printed dust-jacket (7/6 net). An unrevised Second Edition followed in 1930. 13. London Memories. With Illustrations by Frederick Adcock. Hodder & Stoughton [1931]. Light stone coloured holland, black lettered. 14. Hodgson, W. Hope. The Calling of the Sea. With an Introduction by Arthur St. John Adcock. Selwyn & Blount [1920]. Light blue boards, lettered on label down the spine, in dust-jacket (2/6d. net). Frontispiece photo portrait and 4 page Introduction by Adcock. ADDLESHAW (Percy, pseud. Hemingway) 1866-1916 1. Out of Egypt: Stories from the Threshhold of the East. By Percy Hemingway. Elkin Mathews, 1895. Pale blue flecked linen, designed in reddish brown by Gleeson White, all edges uncut, publisher's 16 page catalogue at end dated 1894-5.

ADDLESHAW (Percy, pseud. Hemingway) 1866-1916 Inscribed: "C. W. Hiatt from Percy Hemingway. 1895." On end-paper the author has transcribed a poem of 3 lines, published in the following year in his first book of verse, where there is a revision in the last line. 2. The Happy Wanderer and Other Verse. By Percy Hemingway. Elkin Mathews, 1896. Grey boards, half cream parchment with label lettered in 7 lines, all edges uncut. Pictorially designed title page by Herbert P. Home. Edition limited to 500 copies with certificate on verso of half-title. Inscribed: "Walter Hay, Esq. from his friend & pupil Percy Addleshaw ('Percy Hemingway')." 3. Another copy, identical in all particulars, but without inscription. 4. The Cathedral Church of Exeter. By Percy Addleshaw, B.A. George Bell, 1898. Light green cloth, designed in black, a volume of the publisher's Cathedral Series edited by Gleeson White and E. F. Strange. 5. Thomas Chaloner, Scholemaster. Chiswick Press, 1904. Privately printed Opuscula of the Sette of Odd Volumes, No. 51, limited to 199 copies (of which this is No. 14). Pale blue wrappers, all edges uncut. The inscription reads: "Presented unto J. W. Addleshaw, Esq. by Percy Addleshaw." 6. A Salopian Worthy, or, A Week in Eldorado. Imprinted at ye Bedford Press, 1909. Privately printed Opuscula of the Sette of Odd Volumes, No. LIX. This is a misprint; it is actually No. 60. Limited to 151 copies, of which this is No. 13. Pale blue wrappers, all edges uncut. 7. Sir Philip cloth, top edges edges uncut. 12 catalogue of 46 1909, advertises net.

Sidney. Methuen, 1909. Blue cut, fore-edges trimmed, lower illustrations. Publisher's pages at end, dated September the present title at 10s. 6d.

8. Last Verses. Elkin Mathews, 1920. Brown wrappers lettered in black, only lower edges uncut, frontispiece photograph portrait of author taken in 1908. There is a 20 page biographical Preface by Arundel Osborne.

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AINSLIE (Grant Duff Douglas) 1865-1948 1. Escarlamonde and Other Poems. George Bell, 1893. Buff coloured parchment wrappers over stiff white boards, lettered up spine and on upper side in red. Author's compliments slip inserted. 2. John of Damascus. 3rd ed. At the Unicorn, 1903. Revised and enlarged edition. Cream parchment boards, t.e.g., others uncut, spine gilt-lettered in 7 lines. 3. The Song of the Stewarts: Prelude. Edinburgh: Printed by Turnbull & Spears, 1909. Tall 8vo, half cream vellum, blue linen sides, leather spine label, t.e.g., others uncut. No. 14 of 50 copies on Whatman paper, signed by the author. The certificate is on verso of leaf before half-title, which is blank in the published edition. 4. The Song of the Stewarts: Prelude. Constable, 1909. Tall 8vo, bright red cloth, t.e.g., other uncut. Price (7/6 net) on printed dust-jacket. This ordinary First Edition is printed from same types as in the foregoing item and by the same printers-Turnbull & Spears. 5. Mirage: Poems. Special Edition. Edinburgh: Turnbull & Spears, 1911. Green cloth, t.e.g., others trimmed. As this book was printed in Edinburgh by Turnbull & Spears, it seems likely that the edition bearing their imprint as publishers is the First Edition. 6. Mirage. Elkin Mathews, 1911. Identical in all respects with the foregoing item (including adverts leaves at end, which are printed on text-paper) save for title-page. Inscribed: "To Mrs. Dinmuir with all best wishes from Douglas Ainslie, August 31, 1919." On title-page (in pencil) the author has crossed out the Elkin Mathews imprint and written, "A. Constable, Orange Street, Haymarket." With the hint of the late-dated inscription one might assume that this note too was written late, after Elkin Mathews's death in 1917, at which period the firm had ceased to be effective as publishers. 7. Croce, Benedetto. The Essence of Aesthetic. Translated by Douglas Ainslie. Heinemann, 1921. Blue cloth, all edges trimmed. 8. Croce, Benedetto. The Poetry of Dante. Translated by Douglas Ainslie. Allen & Uwin, 1922. Brown boards, half beige linen, spine with lettering label, top edges cut, others uncut, frontispiece portrait of Dante. Printed in the U.S.A.

AINSLIE (Grant Duff Douglas) 1865-1948 9. Chosen Poems. With a Preface by G. K. Chesterton. Hogarth Press, 1926. Multi-coloured marbled boards, mainly yellow and green, with printed title label. 10. Another copy of the First Edition, identical in every respect save that marbling is red and mauve, not yellow and green. 11. Pleasure. Printed & Published at the Chiswick Press [1938]. Pink boards, red linen spine, trimmed edges. Frontispiece has combined portraits of the author and his mother. Manuscripts &c. 12. Original autograph manuscript on uniform sheets of ruled small 4to exercise paper, of a work entitled Aesthetic as the Science of Expression and General Linguistic Theory. In 16 separately titled sections; the sheets are numbered 1-240, but the MS is imperfect, lacking 40 sheets-i.e., only 200 sheets present. The missing sheets are 88, 107, 163-198, 218 and 219. Though very heavily corrected (by the author and in ink) the MS is clearly legible and has been used by compositors for typesetting. 13. A collection of MSS of works in prose and verse, signed in several places, on 79 sheets—66 small 4to exercise paper (same quality as MS on Aesthetics) and 13 longer foolscap sheets of ruled blue paper. There are drafts of a considerable portion of The Song of the Stewarts; other poems are entitled Socialism, John of Damascus, The Wryneck, and Ischia (dated 22 November, 1907). Association Item 14. Reynard the Fox. After the German Version of Goethe. By A. Douglas Ainslie. Macmillan, 1886. Light blue cloth, top edges uncut, others trimmed. Inscribed: "From A. D. A., Jan. 7th, 1890." This is by the father of Grant Duff Douglas Ainslie. ALFORD (Henry) 1810-1871 1. Poems and Poetical Fragments. Cambridge: Deighton, 1833. Drab boards, uncut, the printed spine label slightly defective. Errata slip inserted. First Edition of the author's first book, issued anonymously.

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2. The School of the Heart and Other Poems. 2 vols. Cambridge: Printed at the Pitt Press, 1835. Two slim volumes, bound together contemporarily in half maroon morocco; perfect, both half-titles present.

3. Colin Clout's Calendar: The Record of a Summer, April-October. Chatto & Windus, 1883. Light green cloth, pictorially decorated. Publisher's 32 page list at end dated September 1884.

3. Memorial of the Late Rev. Henry Alford, A.M. . . . and a Memoir by His Eldest Son. Printed for Subscribers, 1854. Wine coloured blind-stamped cloth, frontispiece portrait. A Notice following the title-page reads: "This work is not published; but Subscribers can obtain additional copies of it . . . at Messrs Rivingtons, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, London."

4. Charles Darwin. Longmans Green, 1885. A volume of Andrew Lang's English Worthies series of biographies. This issue in boards, pictorially designed and lettered in red, was the same price (2s. 6d. net) as that in the more usual green cloth. The only cloth copies noted are dated 1886 and have September 1885 adverts at end; the present specimen in boards is dated 1885 on title-page and has April 1885 adverts.

4. Letters from Abroad. Strahan, 1865. Dark green cloth, edges uncut, binder's ticket of Burn attached. 5. The Poetical Works of Henry Alford. Fifth Edition, containing many pieces now first collected. Strahan, 1868. Blue cloth, edges uncut. The First Edition had been dedicated, in 1852, to Alfred Tennyson. 6. Life, Journals and Letters. . . . Edited by his Widow. Rivingtons, 1873. Dark red cloth, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed, frontispiece portrait. Secondary Material 7. Hare, Augustus J. C. Biographical Sketches: Being Memorials of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Henry Alford, &c. George Allen, 1895. Black cloth, red ruled, top edges uncut, others trimmed, 24 illustrations. ALLEN (Grant) 1848-1899 1. Physiological Aesthetics. H. S. King, 1877. Dark bluish green cloth, top edges uncut, others trimmed. Publisher's 32 page list at end dated October 1876. First Edition of the author's first book. "Published at his own risk, the sale did not reach three hundred copies, leaving him some £50 to the bad. But the book escaped the inglorious fate of a 'remainder1 by a fire at the publishers, who awarded him £15 as compensation." See Clodd's Grant Allen below. 2. Vignettes from Nature. Chatto & Windus, 1881. Pink cloth, pictorially decorated in reddish brown, binder's ticket of Burn & Co. Publisher's 32 page list at end dated November 1881.

5. Buckle, Henry Thomas. The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of A. J. Buckle. A New and Abridged Edition, edited by Grant Allen. 2 vols. Longmans Green, 1885. Dark blue cloth. The First Edition of this work was issued in 3 volumes in 1872, but this is the first Grant Allen edition, with his Preface dated 1885. 6. For Maimie's Sake: A Tale of Love and Dynamite. Chatto & Windus, 1886. Pictorially designed red cloth, pale leaf-designed end-papers, publisher's 32 page list at end dated January 1886. 7. The White Man's Foot. With 17 Illustrations by J. Finnemore. Hatchards, 1888. Green cloth, pictorially lettered and designed in gilt and colours, pale green fern-leaf designed end-papers, publisher's 32 page list in which the first title is the present work ("Just published"). 8. Falling in Love, with Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science. Smith, Elder, 1889. Reddish brown cloth, black end-papers. 9. The Great Taboo. Chatto & Windus, 1890. Blue cloth, pictorially designed, light grey fern-leaf designed end-papers, publisher's 32 page list at end dated October 1890. 10. Science in Arcady. Lawrence & Bullen, 1892. Green cloth, all edges uncut, publisher's 4 pages adverts at end. 11. Catullus, Caius Valerius. The Attis. Translated into English Verse, with Dissertations, &c. David Nutt, 1892. Bibliotheque de Carabas series, designed parchment wrappers over stiff boards, all edges uncut. Edition limited to 500 copies.

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ALLEN (Grant) 1848-1899 Slip inserted with Grant Allen's autograph inscription: "Thomas Bloom, with the Perpetrator's very kind Regards. Venice, November, 1892." 12. Post-Prandial Philosophy. Chatto & Windus, 1894. Beige coloured linen, top edges uncut, others trimmed. O4 at end carries adverts of [16] "Grant Allen's Novels." 13. At Market Value: A Novel. 2 vols. Chatto & Windus, 1894. Blue crocodile-skin patterned cloth, pale fern-leaf designed end-papers, publisher's 32 page list at end of first volume dated September 1894. 14. The Lower Slopes: Reminiscences of Excursions round the Base of Helicon, Undertaken for the Most Part in Early Manhood. E. Mathews & J. Lane, 1894. Light brown cloth, all edges uncut, publisher's 16 page list for September 1893 at end. Edition limited to 600 copies. 15. In Memoriam George Paul Macdonell. Percy Lund, 1895. Cream wrappers over stiff boards, gilt-lettered and designed, uncut, frontispiece portrait. The 4 Appendices contain testimonials by other writers, of which the last is Frederic Harrison's Funeral Address. Presentation slip inserted: "From Mrs. G. P. Macdonell." 16. The Story of the Plants. George Newnes, 1895. Blue designed cloth. The Library of Useful Stories series. 17. The Woman Who Did. John Lane, 1895. Green cloth with Beardsley design on title-page, repeated in white enamel on upper cover, all edges uncut. A volume of the Keynotes Series, with the 8 page advertiser at end, followed by publisher's 16 page 1895 catalogue. 18. Moorland Idylls. Chatto & Windus, 1896. Light blue pictorially designed cloth. The last 3 leaves of gathering S at end carry adverts of "Good Novels by Good Authors." 19. An African Millionaire: Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay. Grant Richards, 1897. Dark green cloth elaborately designed in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. 20. Another copy, from the library of Egerton Castle, with bookplate and name stamp.

ALLEN (Grant) 1848-1899 21. Grant Allen's Historical Guides: Paris. Grant Richards, 1897. Pocket 8vo, rounded corners and edges, dark green cloth. The first volume of a newly projected series. Upper cover of this copy is blind-stamped "File," by the publisher. 22. Flashlights on Nature. With 150 Illustrations by Frederick Enock. Newnes, 1899. Green cloth with design and lettering in gilt, t.e.g., others trimmed, black end-papers, publisher's 32 page catalogue at end dated 11.99. 23. Rosalba: The Story of Her Development. . . . by Olive Pratt Rayner, author of The Typewriter Girl. C. Arthur Pearson, 1899. Pink cloth designed in red, trimmed edges. A pseudonymous publication. Inscribed in Grant Allen's autograph: "Ellen Thornycroft Fowler, this sincere flattery from Olive Pratt Rayner." 24. White, Gilbert. The Natural History of Selborne. Edited with Notes by Grant Allen. Illustrated by Edmond H. New. John Lane, 1900. Royal 8vo, deep cream smooth buckram with overall lettering and design in green, top edges green, others uncut. Allen's Introduction is a 14 page essay, and there are extensive notes, also appendices reprinting for the first time S. T. Coleridge's Marginalia to the work, and a Bibliography, 1789-1899. 25. In Nature's Workshop. With 100 Illustrations by Frederick Enock. Newnes, 1901. Green cloth, t.e.g., others trimmed, black end-papers, 32 page publisher's list at end. 26. County and Town in England. Together with Some Annals of Churnside. With an Introduction by Frederick York Powell. Grant Richards, 1901. Smooth mauve buckram, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece. York Powell's Prefatory Note states: "The chapters that make up this book were first printed in the Pall Mall Gazette, 1881-82. I asked Grant Allen more than once to reprint them, and he would have done so had he lived to complete them." 27. Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Grant Richards, 1902. Mauve cloth, gilt spine, first issue of this work in the World's Classics series. With a one page Note by Grant Allen.

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ALLEN (Grant) 1848-1899 28. Evolution in Italian Art. With 65 Reproductions from Photographs. Grant Richards, 1908. Dark blue cloth, t.e.g., others uncut. Publisher's Note on verso title-page: "Evolution in Italian Art was practically complete at the time of the author's death, but its chapters have been revised and brought up to date in the light of recent knowledge and research, by Mr. J. W. Cruickshank." 29. The Hand of God and Other Posthumous Essays. Together with Some Reprinted Papers. Watts, 1909. Large 8vo, printed in double columns, light blue cloth lettered in black, edges cut. The Prefatory Note, dated August 1909, is by Edward Clodd. Secondary Material 30. Clodd, Edward. Grant Allen: A Memoir. With a Bibliography. Grant Richards, 1900. Smooth fawn bevelled buckram, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait. 31. White, Gilbert. The Natural History of Selborne. Edited with Notes by Grant Allen. John Lane, 1902. Crown 8vo, pale blue cloth, t.e.g., others uncut. This is a reset and cheaper form, but still unabridged, of the definitive library edition issued in 1900. ALLINGHAM (William) 1824-1889 1. Poems. Chapman and Hall, 1850. First Edition of the author's first book, dedicated to Leigh Hunt. Green blind-stamped cloth, top edges uncut, others trimmed. Contains the first form of many of the author's revised and oft reprinted poems, including "The Fairies," by which he is perhaps best known. 2. Another copy, contemporarily bound in dark blue morocco, all edges gilt. The half-title is not present. Regrettably, this copy has no clear provenance, but in 17 of the poems are found Allingham's unmistakable autograph corrections. Several, but not all, of these new versions, are followed in the editions of 1855 and 1860. 3. Day and Night Songs. George Routledge, 1854. Last part of a volume bound in contemporary red cloth, with 2 English First Editions of works by Longfellow—The Song of Hiawatha (1855), and The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858). Allingham's uncommon pamphlet is without pagination, but consists of 4 gatherings (A-D) in 8's, 32 leaves. The contents are 32 poems, numbered i-xxxii, and a note reads: "Some of these poems appeared in a volume published in 1850, which has

ALLINGHAM (William) 1824-1889 since been withdrawn; others in Household Words, Fraser's Magazine, &c. All these are now revised, and some new compositions are added." 4. The Music Master, A Love Story, and Two Series of Day and Night Songs. With nine woodcuts, seven designed by Arthur Hughes, one by D. G. Rossetti, and one by John E. Millais, A.R.A. G. Routledge, 1855. Bright red blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 5 lines in a surrounding gilt ornament, top edges uncut, others trimmed, pale yellow end-papers. The final leaf (P8) carries publisher's adverts. In the list of woodcuts (p.[15]) the page number given for Hughes's "Lady Alice" illustration is 6, the 4 having dropped out of 64, which is the page on which the poem begins. The plate is found at page 6 in all copies examined. 5. Another copy. Similar bright red cloth, but the blind-stamping of sides is different, there being a central ornament in the frame. The gilt spines of the 2 varieties appear identical. In the present copy the 4 in 64 (on the "Woodcuts" page [15]) is in place, though the illustration is again found at p. 6. The end-papers are of a much deeper yellow-not primrose, as in first copy. 6. Poe, Edgar Allan. The Poetical Works, with Original Memoir. Sampson Low, 1858. Large 8vo, heavily gilt embossed bevelled green cloth, all edges gilt, cream glazed end-papers with binder's ticket of Bone & Son. One of the "Sixties Woodcut Book," with Illustrations by Tenniel, Birket Foster, &c. (8 artists' names). Allingham's name does not appear anywhere, but the 14 page Memoir, dated June 1857, is by him. Inscribed on end-paper: "J. A. S. from E. H. S., J. A. S., B. S. & S. G. Christmas 1857." This came from the Symonds family home at Clifton and was a gift to John Addington Symonds, then 17 years old, from his sisters and the children's governess, Mile. Sophia Girard, who lived with the family. 7. Day and Night Songs, and The Music-Maker: A Love Poem. With nine Woodcuts. . . . Bell and Daldy, 1860. Dark green cloth, all edges uncut (were not many fore-edges still unopened, this might hastily have been described as a trimmed copy). An almost identical reprint of the 1855 volume, from the same printing-house of Saville and Edwards, and with identical pagination, though from a new publisher. The Dedication to the Earl of Carlisle no longer appears, and the woodcuts are re-arranged; the Preface, though entirely reset, is substantially unchanged, even to the dating from Ballyshannon, 1855.

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8. Nightingale Valley: A Collection Including a Great Number of the Choicest Lyrics and Short Poems in the English Language. Edited by Giraldus [William Allingham]. Bell & Daldy, 1860. First Edition and first issue. Reddish brown blind-stamped cloth, uncut, brown end-papers.

15. Another copy. The similar catalogue at end is dated July 1865, and the gilt ornament on spine is the slightly wider variety measuring 1/5". Tipped-in following p.[184] is a MS poem of 3 quatrains entitled "A Song for Amy" in the author's autograph in ink, dated at end: "W. A., December 5 1869." Inscribed on half-title: "To Lady Shelley from William Allingham. Wood Vale, December 1868." This copy was on the shelves at Avington Park on the occasion of the auction sale in 1958. Clearly, it had been in the Shelley library in Bournemouth (housed in Boscombe Manor), and had come to the Shelley-Rolls mansion outside Winchester with the books and manuscripts of Shelley which Ingpen and Peck incorporated into their Julian Edition of Shelley in 1927.

9. Another copy of the first issue, this being the simultaneous issue in green cloth but with identical blind-stamping, spine gilt-lettering, and colour of end-papers. Signature of Augusta May Marsden. 10. Another copy. First Edition sheets with newly printed half-title and title-page inserted. The revised and reset title-page reads: "Nightingale Valley. A Collection of Choice Lyrics and Short Poems. From the Time of Shakespeare to the Present Day. Edited by William Allingham. . . . Bell & Daldy, 1862." The quotation from Ariosto is replaced by the publisher's bell ornament. Inscribed: "To Allan Skinner from W. Allingham (N.B. I have not a clean copy). Lymington, Dec. 31/68." The copy may have had a soiled cover, as the recipient apparently had it rebound in green cloth, edges left untrimmed. 11. Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland: A Modern Poem. Macmillan, 1864. Green diagonal bead-grain cloth, only lower edges trimmed. Chocolate brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. Inscribed: "From the Author"-on half-title in the handwriting presumably of a publisher's clerk, not of the author's. Errata slip inserted. 12. Another copy, virtually identical with above. Though the end-papers are the same, the binder's ticket of Burn is not present. There is an exactly similar autograph presentation inscription on half-title, and same errata slip inserted. 13. The Ballad Book: A Selection of the Choicest British Ballads. Edited by William Allingham. Macmillan, 1864. A volume of the publisher's Golden Treasury Series, plum red cloth, gilt, uncut, slate blue end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. Errata on p.[xxxvi] lists 12 errors. 14. Fifty Modern Poems. Bell & Daldy, 1865. Green cloth, uncut edges. Probably an example of the earliest binding, as the 32 page publisher's catalogue at end is dated January 1865. The gilt ornament on spine below author's name is of the compressed variety.

16. Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland, or, The New Landlord. New and Cheaper Issue, With a Preface. Macmillan, 1869. Similar green cloth, though differently lettered from First Edition (1864), and with addition of the price 4/6 at foot of spine. A revised errata now appears on verso title-page. The 1864 Preface is replaced by a much longer 8 page one dated May 1869. 17. Rambles. By Patricius Walker. Longmans Green, 1873. Red cloth, trimmed edges, toned end-papers. Z6 at end carries adverts only. This pseudonymously issued work was not reprinted until it appeared in 1893, comprising the first 2 volumes of Allingham1 s 3 volume Varieties in Prose. 18. Campbell, Thomas. The Poetical Works. . . . Edited by his Nephew-in-Law, Rev. W. Alfred Hill. With a Sketch of his life by William Allingham. G. Bell, 1875. Rebound in light brown morocco, all edges gilt, frontispiece portrait. Allingham's work is a 66 page essay, here first printed. A volume of the Aldine Series of British Poets. 19. Doyle, Richard. In Fairyland. A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World, With a Poem by William Allingham. 2nd ed. Longmans Green, 1875. Folio, 15" x 10 3/4", green cloth, gilt, gilt edges. An extravagant production with 16 coloured lithographs, engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. The First Edition, with which this is virtually identical, was dated 1870. The 36 leaves of this gutta-percha fastened (not sewn) book comprise 16 coloured plates with 20 leaves of text paginated viii, 32, printed on rectos only. The long poem in sections variously titled is by Allingham.

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20. Songs, Ballads and Stories. Including Many Now First Collected, the Rest Revised and Rearranged. G. Bell, 1877. Dark green cloth, all edges gilt, slate coloured end-papers. Corrigenda slip (11 errors) tipped-in and one line erratum printed at end of Contents. Other copies of First Edition sheets are found in a binding 1/4" taller, with all edges uncut (frequently unopened also!). These have primrose yellow end-papers and the same one line erratum, but normally lack the corrigenda slip. Examination of other copies suggests that these constitute a late issue, after the supply of slips was exhausted.

25. Blackberries Picked off Many Bushes. By D. Pollex and Others. Put in a Basket by W, Allingham. G. Philip & Son, 1884. Dark green cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, reddish brown end-papers. Uniform format with Day and Night Songs.

21. Evil May-Day. . . . David Stott [1882]. Small 8vo, grey wrappers printed in red and black. In his Bibliography O'Hegarty states, "all edges trimmed," but the top edges are actually uncut, and in the present copy, mainly unopened. Narrow slip pasted over Stott's imprint on title-page and wrapper, indicating that the publication had been transferred to Longmans & Co. Evil May-Day advertises Ashby Manor on verso half-title as, "To follow, By The Same, In like form: Ashby Manor: A Play.IB ramble berries." There is no reciprocal advertisement in Ashby Manor. Inscribed on half-title: "To Lucy Orrinsmith. W. Allingham. Hampstead, March 1 1884."

27. The Ballad Book. Macmillan, 1887. This unspecified reprint is a fair example of the rebinding which the series particularly attracted. Dark blue grained morocco, all edges gilt, by MacLehose, Glasgow. All 12 errors are corrected in text, but typesetting almost identical with the 1864 edition, save that adverts have been removed from verso p. 393 and half-title reset. Many reprints had intervened since 1864.

22. Ashby Manor: A Play. David Stott [1883]. Small 8vo, issued uniformly with Evil May-Day in grey wrappers, top edges uncut and mostly unopened. Longman & Co. slip pasted over Stott's imprint on title-page and outer wrapper. Inscribed on half-title: "To Harvey Orrinsmith. W. Allingham, Hampstead, March 1 1884." 23. The Fairies: A Child's Song. Illustrated by E. Gertrude Thomson. Thos. de La Rue [1883]. Large oblong 8vo, glazed green printed wrappers, edges trimmed, the illustrations partly in colours. 24. Day and Night Songs. A New Edition. G. Philip & Son, 1884. Cream parchment, gilt designed and lettered, t.e.g., others uncut. This may be taken as an Edition-de-luxe; ordinary copies are found in blue cloth with the same design. In copies like the present the fore and lower edges have been slightly trimmed so that the book is smaller in both dimensions. Copies in parchment were 7s. 6d., whilst cloth copies were 5s.

26. Rhymes for the Young Folk. With Pictures by Helen Allingham, Kate Greenaway, Caroline Paterson and Harry Furniss. Cassell [1887]. Red pictorially designed boards, red cloth spine, edges stained to match covers, dark blue end-papers, 8 leaves of publisher's catalogue at end dated 8 '86.

28. Flower Pieces and Other Poems. With Two Designs by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Reeves & Turner, 1888. Half white parchment, blue board sides, all edges uncut. This is the uniform binding of the author's Poetical Works (6 volumes). O'Hegarty describes only an issue in green cloth with trimmed edges. Inscribed: "Miss Moore from Helen Allingham, February 1918." 29. Life and Phantasy. With Frontispiece by Sir John Millais, R.A., a Design by Arthur H. Hughes and a Song for Voice and Piano-forte. Reeves & Turner, 1889. Half white parchment, blue boards sides, all edges uncut. Verso of half-title reads: "A few copies only are printed of this Large Paper edition of Life and Phantasy." Publisher's contemporary lists indicate limitation was 30 copies, but O'Hegarty's Bibliography suggests 50. Frontispiece is a mounted proof impression and author's name on title-page is "W. Allingham" in autograph (not type). Allingham died on 18 November 1889, and his widow inscribed this copy in the new year to the engraver, an old family friend: "To Mr. Orrinsmith from H. Allingham. March 1890." 30. Irish Songs and Poems. 2nd ed. Reeves & Turner, 1890. Half white parchment, blue linen sides, all edges uncut. Loosely inserted copy of the Prospectus for the First Edition of this work (1887). Photographic frontispiece of the waterfall of Asaroe. Inscribed: "Sir John & Lady Simon from Helen Allingham. March 1891."

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31. Blackberries. Reeves & Turner, 1890. Half white parchment, light blue board sides, all edges uncut. Consists of unsold sheets of the First Edition (G. Philip, 1884) provided with newly printed preliminaries, 8 pages, by the new publishers. Copies of these sheets were again reissued with Longmans title-page, dated 3 years later still.

38. Poems by William Allingham. Selected and arranged by Helen Allingham. Macmillan, 1912. A volume of the publisher's Golden Treasury Series. Blue cloth, lower edges lightly trimmed, otherwise uncut, frontispiece portrait. Macmillan's 4 page series advertiser at end dated 10.4.'12. There is a blind circular presentation copy stamp on title-page.

32. Thought and Word, and Ashby Manor: A Play in Two Acts. With Portrait, Four Designs for Stage Scenes by Mrs. AHingham and A Song with Music. Reeves & Turner, 1890. Half white parchment, blue board sides, all edges uncut. The Large Paper issue, limited to 50 copies; some were still unsold 3 years later, and were reissued with Longmans title-page. Inscribed on half-title: "To Mr. Orrinsmith from H. AHingham. March 1890." A MS certificate of issue inserted, Copy No. 17 of 50 Large Paper copies, signed by Helen Allingham.

39. Another copy, without the blind stamp. Inscription on front end-paper: "From Margaret."

33. Varieties in Prose. 3 vols. Longmans Green, 1893. Dark blue cloth, all edges uncut, frontispiece portrait in first volume. Inscribed-again to the oldest family friends: "To Lucy and Harvey Orrinsmith, with Helen Allingham's love. Dec. 1893." 34. Irish Songs and Poems. 3rd ed. Longmans Green, 1901. Half cream parchment, blue boards, all edges uncut. Inscribed: "Arthur & Edyth Rackham, from Helen AHingham. June, 1917." 35. Sixteen Poems by William Allingham. Selected by William Butler Yeats. Dundrum: Dun Emer Press, 1905. Blue boards, half-holland, title label printed in red upwards on spine, all edges uncut. The edition consisted of 200 copies. 36. A Diary. Edited by H. Allingham and D. Radford. Macmillan, 1907. Blue cloth, uncut, lower edges lightly trimmed, 8 illustrations. 37. Letters to William Allingham. Edited by H. Allingham and E. Baumer Williams. Longmans, 1911. Blue cloth, top and lower edges cut, 5 illustrations. From a different publishing house, but in uniform format with A Diary. Price on printed dust-jacket (7/6 net). Inscribed: "Mrs. Elizabeth Chettle from Helen Allingham. April 1915." Correction on p. 278. Also inserted is an autograph postcard from Mrs. Allingham to Mrs. Clough dated 2 December 1911 about the same and other errors in the book.

40. Letters from William Allingham to Mr. & Mrs. Browning. [1913]. An 8vo pamphlet (same size as Letters, 1911), paginated to 12, sewn with white thread. Heading on first page: "The following letters from William Allingham to Mr. & Mrs. Browning could not be acquired unfortunately till the Browning sale in May 1913, some months after the publication of the Letters to William Allingham. Helen Allingham." The text of 7 long letters follows on pages [2] to 12. Inscribed on first page: "Please return this to H. Allingham," in her handwriting. Manuscripts, &c. 41. An early MS, possibly the first draft of "Sonnet on Learning of the Death of the Poet Wordsworth." On a small sheet of laid writing paper, signed at end W. Allingham. The entry in Allingham's Diary for Sunday, April 28, 1850 reads "Lines on Wordsworth's death." Wordsworth had died on 23rd April. 42. The original MS of a poem, "A Song for Amy," is inlaid in the second copy of Fifty Modern Poems (1865). 43. ALS, 4 pages (pp. 3 and 4 blank), dated from Sandhills, Witley, Godalming, 27 April 1882 to "My dear Scott" mentioning "the event at Birchington" [i.e., D. G. Rossetti's death]. See the William Bell Scott collection. Association Items 44. A Tale of the Irish Famine, in 1846 and 1847, Founded on Fact, [not published] Reigate: Printed by William Allingham [1847]. 4to, dark green cloth, gilt, trimmed edges, pale cream end-papers with binder's ticket of Westleys & Clark. This work is not by the poet.

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45. Allingham, Hugh. Ballyshannon: Its History and Antiquities. Londonderry: James Montgomery. 1879. Reddish brown cloth, gilt, trimmed edges, frontispiece. William Allingham was born in this Irish town.

2. The Wings of Icarus. William Heinemann, 1894. Dark green cloth, lettered and designed in pale blue enamel, lower edges lightly trimmed. A volume of the publisher's Pioneer Series, of which 5 titles are listed on verso of half-title, 3 of them-including the present volume-published; 2, including The Green Carnation announced for publication in September.

46. Ewing, Juliana Horatia. Jan of the Windmill: A Story of the Plains. With eleven Illustrations by Helen Allingham. G. Bell, 1876. Green cloth, gilt, uncut. 47. Ewing, Juliana Horatia. A Great Emergency and Other Tales. With four Illustrations [by Helen Allingham]. G. Bell, 1877. Green cloth, uncut. 48. Happy England. As Painted by Helen Allingham, R.W.S. With Memoir and Description by Marcus B. Huish. A. & C. Black, 1903. A volume of the publisher's Colour Books series. Royal 8vo, bound by Zaehnsdorf (1904) in crimson levant morocco elaborately gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. No. 7 of 750 copies, signed H. Allingham. Frontispiece portrait and 80 coloured reproductions of the artist's work. 49. Ritson, Joseph. Pieces of Ancient Popular Poetry: From Authentic Manuscripts and Old Printed Copies. Adorned with Cuts. Printed by C. Clarke, 1791. Original pale blue boards, entirely uncut, white spine. The First Edition, issued without the editor's name. 50. Ritson, Joseph. Pieces of Ancient Popular Poetry. . . . 2nd ed. William Pickering, 1833. Floral-patterned pink cloth, entirely uncut. This and the foregoing item are Allingham copies, though there is regrettably no authentication for this in the first. The Pickering reprint, which carries the words, "By Joseph Ritson, Esq" on title-page but is otherwise virtually identical with the 1791 edition, bears Allingham's autograph signature. ALMA TADEMA (Laurence) d. 1940 1. One Way of Love: A Play. Privately printed, 1893. Small 4to, brown wrappers lettered in mauve, entirely uncut. Inscribed: "Mrs. W. B. Scott, with kindest remembrances from Laurence Alma Tadema. 29/12/93." From the William Bell Scott papers, Morse Collection, Sotheby sale, 1952.

3. Maeterlinck, Maurice. Peleas and Melisanda, and The Sightless: Two Plays. Translated from the French. Walter Scott [1895]. Dark green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others trimmed. A volume of the Scott Library, possibly the earliest issue; 4 leaves of adverts at end list the series up to 98-the present title being No. 97. This is followed by publisher's 10 page catalogue. 4. Realms of Unknown Kings. Grant Richards, 1897. Blue buckram, entirely uncut. The final leaf, E8 (pp. 79-80), carries adverts only. 5. Another copy, identical. With presentation inscription dated 14 March 1898, but with initials only and not identifiable. 6. Another copy of First Edition; this is the simultaneous issue in light grey printed wrappers, uncut. 7. The Fate-Spinner. E. B. Mortlock, 1900. Blue wrappers lettered black on upper side same as title-page, all edges uncut. Author's full signature in violet ink on half-title. 8. The Herb O'Grace: A Monthly Miscellany. Vol. 1, Fairseat, Wrotham, Kent, 1901. Vol. 2, 48 Grove End Road, London, 1902. Two volumes, tall 8vo (all issued). A complete set of the 18 parts bound in 2 volumes, half blue calf, blue linen sides, edges lightly trimmed. The first contribution to the first number-January 1901-is Arthur Symons's 24 line poem, "Prologue: Before the Curtain." (First line: "We are the puppets of a shadow-play"). This remarkable poem, by a somewhat neglected poet, became the Prologue to his volume London Nights, but it is not found in the First or Second Editions of that book, published respectively in 1895 and 1897. The significance of its appearance here is appreciated when one realises that it was not written until 1901, and not printed by the author until 1902, in the first volume of his Collected Poems, where it takes its rightful place. With Carl and Adele Meyer bookplates. First volume inscribed in the familiar violet ink: "For Adele Meyer with grateful thanks for help towards a 'Hall of Industry & Happy

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ALMA TADEMA (Laurence) d. 1940 Hours' from Laurence Alma Tadema. Jan. 1909." Laurence Alma Tadema, daughter of Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema, the Royal Academician, had been a life-long friend and became a neighbour of Arthur Symons at Wittersham; and to her he gave his poem, to encourage her new venture, this being its first printing. 9. The Herb O'Grace. Second Year, 1902. A perfect set of the 6 numbers of the second volume, each with blue printed wrappers, uncut as issued. 10. Songs of Womanhood. Grant Richards, 1903. Blue buckram, all edges uncut. The final leaf H4 is blank. 11. Another copy. Presentation inscription dated Christmas 1903 from Edmond New, the artist, probably to Octavia Gregory, the poet. Also inserted, the artist's Christmas card with his woodcut of Lichfield Cathedral, 4 pages dated from Green Hill, Evesham, December 1903. 12. Another copy, simultaneous issue in light grey printed wrappers, uncut. Inscribed in the customary violet ink: "To Henry D. Davray in kind remembrance. Laurence Alma Tadema. May 1903." 13. Four Plays. 3 Park Mansions Arcade, Knightsbridge: The Green Sheaf, 1905. Pale blue printed wrappers, entirely uncut. Author's full signature on half-title in customary violet ink. Imprint of the Green Sheaf is that of Pamela Colman Smith's short-lived publishing venture. 14. Another copy of the First (and only) Edition. A long inscription in the usual violet ink: "For Mrs. Blake Wirgman. . . from Laurence Alma Tadema. Wittersham, April 1909." 15. The Meaning of Happiness: A Discourse. Elkin Mathews, 1909. Blue linen, gilt-lettered, top edges cut. 16. A Few Lyrics. Elkin Mathews, 1909. Issued uniformly with the prose essay above. Autograph Letter 17. ALS 2 pages 4to on a large sheet of blue writing paper watermarked "Nevada Hill/Fine," dated Wittersham, 7 April 1909, to "Dear Mr. Wirgman." Hopes for an early recovery for Mrs. Wirgman and sends several books. Mentions there are no copies left of her

first book, One Way of Love. In the usual violet ink and signed in full. ANDERSON (John Redwood) 1883-1964 1. The Music of Death. Clifton: J. Baker and Son; London: Simpkin Marshall, 1904. First (and only) Edition of author's first book. Sage green wrappers lettered in black (2s. net.), all edges uncut. 2. Another copy; 4 pages printed press opinions on The Music of Death and The Legend of Eros and Psyche loosely inserted at end. 3. The Legend of Eros and Psyche: A Poem. Oxford: J. Thornton; London: Simpkin Marshall, 1908. The author's second book, cream parchment wrappers gilt-lettered, all edges uncut. 4.

Another copy, identical with above.

5. The Mask. Oxford: J. Thornton; London: Simpkin Marshall, 1912. Pale blue boards, 2 lettering labels, all edges uncut. Inscribed: "To my friend Cuthbert Heel, on his birthday October 26th, 1912, with every good wish, J. Red wood-Anderson." 6. Another copy. Gatherings unopened throughout. Inscribed: "To Norman Colbeck, with best wishes from J. Redwood-Anderson, 4th July, 1961." 7. Flemish Tales. George Allen, 1913. Dark red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others cut. Inscribed: "To Alice Meynell, with the Author's compliments. Redwood Farm, Handborough, Oxon, 17 Oct 1913." 8. Walls and Hedges. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1919. Blue-grey boards, 2 printed title-labels, edges trimmed. Bookplate of Edith Cooper and inscribed: "To my friend Edith Cooper with best wishes J. Redwood-Anderson. Hull, Dec. 1919." Mrs. Cooper founded the Poetry Bookshop, Hull, modelled on that opened some years earlier in London by Harold Monro. 9. Haunted Islands. Parts 1 and 2 (complete). Oxford: Blackwell, 1923-1924. Nos. 3 and 5 of the Adventurers All New Series, light slatey blue wrappers, each with 2 lettering labels, all edges uncut. Both volumes are inscribed: "Seumas O'Sullivan, with all good wishes from J. Redwood-Anderson, 1933."

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10. Babel: A Dramatic Poem. Ernest Benn, 1927. Black cloth, 2 printed title labels, trimmed edges. This work is dedicated to Lascelles Abercrombie and there is a 3 page Preface by him, though nowhere stated on title-page &c. Bookplate of Edith Cooper and inscribed: "Edith Cooper, very cordially from J. Redwood-Anderson. Hull, Apr. 12, 1927." 11. Another copy, identical with above, save bookplate and inscription. 12. The Vortex. Gollancz, 1928. Light stone coloured rough linen, pink printed spine label, edges cut. Bookplate of Edith Cooper. 13. Transvaluations. Oxford University Press, 1932. Bright red cloth, gilt-lettered up spine. 14. The Human Dawn. Oxford University Press, 1934. Issued uniformly with Transvaluations. Inscribed: "Edith Cooper from her friend J. Redwood-Anderson, Nov. 24th, 1934," and has her bookplate. 15. English Fantasies. Oxford University Press, 1935. Issued uniformly with Transvaluations. Inscribed: "Edith Cooper, with cordial good wishes from J. Redwood-Anderson. Hull, Oct., 1935," and has her bookplate. 16. Winter Evening. A poem of 36 lines printed on a sheet of card paper, folded once to form a 4 page booklet. P. 1 with woodcut and inscribed: "Greetings from Jack and Eileen Redwood-Anderson, Christmas 1936." 17. Christmas-Tree. A poem in 3 stanzas printed on a sheet of card paper folded once to form a 4 page booklet. P. 1 with woodcut and inscribed: "Greetings from Jack and Eileen Redwood Anderson, Christmas 1937." 18. The Curlew Cries. Oxford University Press, 1940. Green cloth, gilt spine, edges cut. Inscribed: "Edith Cooper with greetings from J. Redwood Anderson, Nov. 1940." A photograph of the author is inserted loosely and inscribed by him: "This was taken on the hills just behind Settle. It strikes me as particularly characteristic of the man who wrote The Curlew Cries. J. R. A." 19. The Principle of Uniformity in English Metre. Reprinted by permission, from the Durham University Journal, June and December, 1941. Large 8vo, 32 pages, light gray printed wrappers, edges cut. Inscribed: "Edith Cooper from J. Redwood Anderson." Also inserted is a brief ALS from

ANDERSON (John Redwood) 1883-1964 the author, 5 lines initialled at end, about the difficulties of the subject. 20. The Third Visitor. A poem of 49 lines printed on a sheet of card paper, folded once to form a 4 page booklet. A Christmas 1942 Greeting, inscribed on first page: "Bob and Edith Cooper, with all good wishes from J. Redwood and Eileen Anderson." 21. My Friend is Dead: An Elegy on the Death of Lascelles Abercrombie. Printed on both sides of a single sheet of card paper (15" x 10") folded once to form a 4 page booklet. Inscribed at head: "Edith Cooper with all good wishes from Anderson, March 2nd, 1944." Dedication to Catherine Abercrombie, 16 lines; the 115 line poem is dated Goathland, April 1939 at end and is printed on the inside pages, with imprint on verso "Reprinted from English, Vol. 4 No. 24, in GB at Oxford University Press, Oxford." 22. Triptych I: Approach. Fortune Press, 1946. Synthetic dark green cloth, gilt-lettered up spine, in printed dust-jacket {7s. 6d.). Inscribed: "Margaret Sackville with all good wishes from J. Redwood Anderson. Corwen 4.vii.47." 23. Tryptych II: The Figure of Time. Fortune Press [1946]. Synthetic cloth binding as in above entry but in patterned dull red shade, in printed dust-jacket (7s. 6d.). Inscribed exactly similarly to above. 24. Tryptych III: An Ascent. Fortune Press [1947]. Binding as above in black, (7s. 6d.). Inscribed exactly as above. 25. Paris Symphony. With a Foreword by John Cowper Powys. G. G. Harrap, 1947. Light bluish green cloth, in dust-jacket (6/net). Frontispiece portrait. Inscribed: "To Margaret Sackville, with good wishes from J. Redwood Anderson, Corwen 14.vi.47." 26. Another copy, identical with above, but without inscription. 27. Pillars to Remembrance. Oxford University Press, 1948. Scarlet cloth, gilt-lettered up spine, edges cut. In printed dust-jacket (10s. 6d. net). Inscribed: "Margaret Sackville with all good wishes from J. Redwood Anderson, Corwen 21.X.48."

15 ANDERSON (John Redwood) 1883-1964 28. Pillars to Remembrance. Oxford University Press, 1948. Light blue printed wrappers, inscribed, "Proof. J. Redwood Anderson." Printed on paper 1/2" wider than the published book. There is a considerable number of handwritten corrections throughout, most of them minor. Those in red ink are presumably by a proof reader; those in black ink are in the author's hand and more interesting, occasionally inserting a word or more to be added. All are found incorporated in the published book. 29. The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Graunia. Oxford University Press, 1950. Greenish blue cloth, cut edges, in printed dust-jacket (10s. 6d. net). Inscribed: "Lady Margaret Sackville with every good wish from J. Redwood Anderson. Corwen, llth Aug. 1950." 30. The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Graunia. Revise. [Oxford University Press, 1950]. Above taken from printed wrapper, title-page not being present in this proof copy. Inscribed: "J. Redwood Anderson. Feb. 10th, 1950. Please return." Date stamped by the printer is "8 Feb. 1950." Also inscribed, by the author, on half-title: "J. Redwood Anderson. Lamb Cottage, Sible Hedingham, Essex, England." With many corrections in red ink, all of which appear in the published book. 31. To the Dyfrdwy: The River I Love. Grasshopper Press, 1951. 12 pages (unpaginated), sewn into light grey printed wrappers. Edition limited to 200 copies. Inscribed: "For Norman Colbeck and all good wishes from J. Redwood Anderson." 32. Almanac and Other Poems. Macdonald, 1956. Green linen, gilt-lettered down the spine, edges cut, in pictorial dust-jacket (15/- net). Inscribed: "To Norman Colbeck with all good wishes from J. Redwood Anderson." 33. While the Fates Allow. Bee and Blackthorn Press, 1962. White buckram, gilt-lettered up spine, in printed dust-jacket. (18/- net). Original prospectus inserted. Inscribed: "Margaret Sackville, with gratitude and all good wishes from J. Redwood Anderson, 11 July 1962." 34. Another copy. Inscribed on half-title: "No. 7 of 10 special copies. J. Redwood Anderson." On the Contents page (xi) the author has added the title, "One Word More"; a typewritten setting of this 110 line poem on

ANDERSON (John Redwood) 1883-1964 4 pages dated April 1962 is bound-in at end. This is the state of all 10 special copies. 35. The Poetry Review. October/December, 1946. Printed wrapper, uncut. Inscribed on upper cover: "Edith, with old remembrances from Anderson. Pp. 161-166." Contains the first printing of the author's poem "Lazarus," which was the Greenwood Prize Poem for 1944. Autograph Letters and Miscellaneous Papers 36. Original holograph MS, on 3 sheets of his Watendlath, North Ferriby notepaper, of his poem "In a Friend's Garden: To Edith Cooper," 6 stanzas of 6 lines each, signed and dated 3 July 1927 at end. 37. Original holograph MS, on a sheet of same notepaper, of his "Dialogue with a Sun-dial," similarly signed and dated. 38. Typescript (July 1940-probably the original) of his 22 line poem, "A Prayer in Wartime." 39. Typescript copy, dated from Clevedon 19 July 1961, and autographed at end, of his 43 line poem "Apostrophe before Nightfall," on 2 small 4to sheets. This originally accompanied his letter of 6 August 1961, part of ALS in the next entry. 40. A series of 9 letters addressed to Norman Colbeck and dated between 4 July 1961 and 6 September 1962. On eleven 4to sheets, 6 pages typewritten (autograph signatures) and 12 pages in his autograph, with 2 addressed envelopes. Letters of interest, dealing in detail with his work in poetry. ARNOLD (Sir Edwin) 1832-1904 1. The Feast of Belshazzar. A Prize Poem, Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, 23 June 1852. Oxford: Francis Macpherson, 1852. Small 8vo, 16 pages, bound in a half-calf composite volume of 24 Newdigate and other prize poems, by various authors. 2. Poems Narrative and Lyrical. Oxford: Francis Macpherson, 1853. First Edition of the author's first book, and presumed earliest state of binding. Reddish brown cloth, sides blind-stamped with wide ornamental border, spine gilt-lettered in 5 lines with short rule above and small ornament below the author's name, glazed primrose end-papers, edges uncut.

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3. Another copy of First Edition, presumed second state of binding. Brown cloth, printed spine label with Pickering's name as publisher. Otherwise identical: has same leaf (M8, pp.[175-176]) at end carrying imprint of Chiswick Press, Charles Whittingham, 1853.

10. The Indian Song of Songs. . . . With other Oriental Poems. Trubner, 1875. Bright red cloth, gilt, slate brown end-papers. Text printed in red and black.

4. Congratulatory Addresses . . . at the Installation of the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Derby, Chancellor of the University. Oxford: J. Vincent, 1853. 12 contributions, one of which is a poem of 92 lines by Edwin Arnold, University College. Bound in a composite volume in half-calf, marbled sides, containing more than 30 Oxford pamphlet publications: Prize Essays and Poems, Orations delivered in the Sheldonian Theatre, Gaisford Prize poems &c., by James Bryce, John Cunnington, Goldwin Smith and others. Most bear the signature of R. F. Hessey of Magdalen College, whose signature dated July 4th 1863 is on front end-paper. His one contribution is Tubus Astronomicus, a Latin poem delivered in the Sheldonian Theatre 5 July 1848. The pamphlets are variously dated between 1846 and 1863. 5. Griselda, a Tragedy and Other Poems. David Bogue, 1856. Dark blue cloth, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed, publisher's 32 page catalogue at end dated February 1856. 6. The Book of Good Counsels: From the Sanskrit of the Hitopadesa. With Illustrations by Harrison Weir. Smith Elder, 1861. Heavily blind-stamped green cloth, gilt designed spine and upper side, uncut. Inscribed: "Mrs. R. C. Arnold with the author's best love. London, June 28, 1861." 7. The Poets of Greece. Cassell, Fetter, and Galpin, 1869. Tall 8vo, reddish brown bevelled cloth, sides black designed, spine gilt, uncut. Dark blue end papers, 16 page publisher's catalogue at end. 8. Another copy in a different variety of publisher's binding, with all edges gilt (standing appreciably shorter and less wide on shelf). Reddish brown cloth, spine with gilt ornaments (but without publisher's 3 line name at foot) and with title in gilt ornament, centre of upper cover. This variety has no catalogue at end, and probably represents a later binding issue. 9. Hero and Leander: From the Greek of Musaeus. Cassell, Fetter and Galpin [1873]. 4to, light stone coloured bevelled cloth, all edges gilt, frontispiece, red border to text throughout. Dedicated: "To Robert Browning, Esq. In Tribute of Respect and Admiration."

11. The Light of Asia, or, The Great Renunciation: Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama. Trubner, 1879. Yellow cloth, gilt, only lower edges trimmed, slate brown end-papers. Inscribed in the author's autograph on p. 1: "From the Author, July 1878." The collection holds 2 further copies with original inscriptions dated respectively 5th September and 22 October 1879. 12. Another copy; this is the simultaneous issue in yellow paper wrappers. Upper side lettered precisely as the title page, surrounded by a single rule frame with corner ornaments. Loosely inserted a stamped and postmarked envelope addressed to J. G. Dalzell, Esq., The Clock House, written in 5 lines in Arnold's hand initialled "E. A." in left corner. 13. Indian Poetry. Containing a New Edition of The Indian Song of Songs &c. Trubner, 1881. A volume of Trubner's Oriental Series, in which the volumes normally have a series advertiser bound in front. In the present copy the 6 leaves of advertisement are dated 1,000-14/5/81. Signature of original owner is dated Winchester, June 1881. 14. Another copy. Same slatey brown end-papers, with signature: "M. A. Green, 1881." But in this copy the 6 leaves are dated 500-21/6/81. 15. Pearls of the Faith, or, Islam's Rosary. Trubner, 1883. Green cloth elaborately gilt-stamped, top edges stained to match, others lightly trimmed, grey patterned end-papers, 8 page adverts of books "By the same Author" at end. Text within green rule border throughout. Inscribed: "Miss Janet Brotehie, from her faithful Friend the Author." 16. Indian Idylls from the Sanskrit of the Mahabharata. Trubner, 1883. Orange cloth, gilt, produced in a format similar to the Oriental Series. Dark slate blue end-papers, with original owner's signature dated Winchester, 6 November 1883. 17. The Song Celestial, or, BhagavadGita. Trubner, 1885. Ochre coloured cloth, edges uncut, brown end-papers, 8 page adverts of books "By the same Author" at end.

17 ARNOLD (Sir Edwin) 1832-1904 18. The Secret of Death (From the Sanskrit), With Some Collected Poems. Trubner, 1885. Greenish brown cloth, uncut edges, slate brown end-papers. Signature on blank leaf: "John H. Snowden Feb. 26th, 1885." 19. Lotus and Jewel . . . With Other Poems. Trubner, 1887. Green cloth, gilt, lower edges trimmed, slate brown end-papers with owner's signature dated Winchester 1887. 12 pages adverts of the author's books at end. 20. Death—and Afterwards. Reprinted from the Fortnightly Review (August 1885). With a Supplement. Trubner, 1887. Red cloth, trimmed edges, dark slate end-papers. 21. With Sa'di in the Garden, or, The Book of Love. Trubner, 1888. Blue bevelled cloth with pictorial design in silver and green, lower edges trimmed, bronze leaf-designed end-papers. 22. Another copy, identical in all respects except that colour of cloth is red, not blue. Title-page inscribed: "For Kate, October 15, 1888." Endorsed: "First Copy, E. A.," in the author's autograph. 23. The Light of the World, or, The Great Consummation. Longmans, Green, 1891. Dark green cloth, fore and lower edges trimmed, dark slate end-papers, 16 page catalogue at end dated 12/'90. From the library of the Irish poet Monk Gibbon, Swanage, Dorset in September 1953. Autograph on half-title, "W. M. Gibbon, 34 Lower Leeson St, Spring 1891," is that of his father, a Dublin cleric. 24. The Imitation of Buddha. Compiled by Ernest M. Bowden, with Preface by Sir Edwin Arnold. Methuen, 1891. Pott 8vo, 4" x 5", black cloth with overall design, t.e.g., others uncut. 25. Potiphar's Wife and Other Poems. Longmans, Green 1892. Uniform format with The Light of the World, 24 page catalogue at end dated 10/'91. 26. Adzuma, or, The Japanese Wife: A Play in Four Acts. Longmans Green 1893. Uniform format with above 2 volumes, but with light grey end-papers and no catalogue bound-in.

ARNOLD (Sir Edwin) 1832-1904 27. The Book of Good Counsels. A New Edition, with Dlustrations by Gordon Browne. W. H. Allen, 1893. Tall 8vo, cream vellum covers with pictorial gilt-design, t.e.g. others uncut, marbled end-papers. No. 12 of a Large Paper edition limited to 100 copies, with a new Preface by the author dated September 1893. Inscribed: "To Miss Winifred Irby, with best good wishes from the author, Edwin Arnold, Oct 7, 1896." 28. Another copy. This is the ordinary state, crown 8vo, in bevelled red cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, slate blue end-papers. With the Winchester bookplate of Thomas Stopher, from whose collection come many of Arnold's books catalogued here. 29. Wandering Words. Reprinted by permission from papers published in the Daily Telegraph and foreign journals and magazines. Illustrated. Longmans Green, 1894. Tall 8vo, red cloth with gilt ornamental bands, lower edges trimmed, dark slate end-papers. 30. The Tenth Muse and Other Poems. Longmans Green, 1895. Dark green cloth, lower edges trimmed, dark slate end-papers, publisher's 24 page catalogue at end dated April 1895. 31. Another copy, identical with the foregoing but has been bound without the publisher's catalogue at end, and has a one line erratum slip inserted at p. 4, which the first copy does not appear to have had. 32. The Chaurapanchasika: An Indian Love Lament. Translated and Illustrated by Sir Edwin Arnold. Kegan Paul, 1896. Oblong 4to, bevelled black cloth, gilt, trimmed edges. Original text is on versos, with Arnold's translation in facsimile script on facing rectos. Coloured illustrations throughout. 33. East and West. Being Chapters Reprinted from the Daily Telegraph and Other Sources. With 41 Illustrations by R. T. Pritchett. Longmans, Green, 1896. Tall 8vo, red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, format similar to Wandering Words (1894). Slatey brown end-papers. 34. The Gulistan: Being the Rose-Garden of Shaikh Sa'di. . . Translated in Prose and Verse. Thomas Burleigh, 1899. Dark blue cloth, silver designed, gilt-lettered, trimmed edges.

18 ARNOLD (Sir Edwin) 1832-1904 35. The Queen's Justice: A True Story of Indian Village Life. Thomas Burleigh, 1899. Dark red cloth, fore and lower edges trimmed. 36. The Voyage of Ithobal. John Murray, 1901. Greenish blue cloth, t.e.g., lower edges trimmed. 37. The Imitation of Buddha. 4th ed. Methuen, 1901. A re-arranged and revised edition, but with a format identical with First Edition, and Arnold's contribution unchanged. 38. Poems National and Non-Oriental (With Some New Pieces). Kegan Paul, 1906. Blue cloth, uncut edges. The author's original Preface to this selection is dated May 1888. 39. The Light of Asia. New Edition, with Illustrations by Hamzeh Carr. Introduction by Sir E. Denison Ross. John Lane, 1926. Royal 8vo, red cloth, top edges stained to match, others uncut. The illustrations, all coloured, are titled on the thin-paper guards. Copy No. 217 of 3,000 copies for England and America. Secondary Material 40. Wilkinson, William Cleaver. Edwin Arnold as Poetizer and as Paganizer. New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls, 1884. Crown 8vo, dark bluish green cloth, gilt, No. 26 of the Standard Library. Autograph Letters 41. ALS, one page 12mo, on a blue sheet of writing paper, from Woodville, Gravesend, Kent, undated (c. 1870) seeking to subscribe to Chevalier de Chatelain's Les beautes de la poesie anglais. 42. ALS one page 8vo, on a folded sheet of blind-embossed Daily Telegraph notepaper, dated 28 June (no year) to "Dear Mr. Edwards" beginning, "Here is the letter which I have sent to the Governor of Ceylon and to Lord Dufferin about Buddha-Gya." &c. 43. ALS, 4 pages, on 5 West 51st Street, New York notepaper to "My dear Lawley" (Hon. F. Lawley) and dated 7 February, 1892. A long and interesting letter beginning, "I had travelled 9,000 miles within 7 weeks, and had appeared before 65 audiences. . . . I shall sail for Japan and India on March 1st."

ARNOLD (Matthew) 1822-1888 1. Alaric at Rome. A Prize Poem. Rugby, 1840. Type-facsimile reprint of the original, edited by Thomas J. Wise. Printed for Private Circulation only, 1893. Japanese vellum boards, uncut. In his 1895 catalogue Wise states that 35 copies only were printed (including the 5 on pure vellum), but he does not make this claim in his final Ashley Library Catalogue entry (volume 9, p. 5, 1927). 2. Cromwell: A Prize Poem. Recited in the Theatre, Oxford 28 June 1843. 2nd ed. Oxford: Shrimpton, 1863. [Smart 3.] Small 8vo, 16 pages, bound in a half-calf composite volume of 24 Newdigate or other prize poems. Smart states that only 500 copies of Second Edition were printed. 3. The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems. By A. B. Fellowes, 1849. [Smart 6.] Bound by Zaehnsdorf (c. 1890) in blue crushed levant morocco, spine with raised bands and red inlay ornaments, t.e.g., others lightly trimmed. 500 copies were printed. 4. Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems. By A. B. Fellowes, 1852. [Smart 7.] Bound by Zaehnsdorf (c. 1890) uniformly with The Strayed Reveller. 500 copies were printed. This copy has a leaf at end advertising The Strayed Reveller, but the blank which should follow it has been sacrificed by the binder. Smart ignores both these leaves, which are Q7 and Q8, giving the collation as pp. viii, 236-which should read [240]. 5. Poems. A New Edition. Longman, 1853. [Smart 8.] Green cloth, uncut edges, glazed yellow end-papers, laid-down portions printed with adverts, 32 page catalogue at end dated 31 March 1853. Binder's ticket of Westleys & Co. The first collection of Arnold's poems, known as the first series after the publication of the second series in 1855. First printing of the 27 page Preface. Inscribed by Mrs. Arnold to her sister-in-law: "M. Cropper from her affectionate F. Arnold, Fox How, Nov. 1864." 6. Poems. 2nd ed. Longmans, 1854. Green cloth, uncut edges, glazed yellow end-papers, laid-down portions printed with adverts, 24 page catalogue at end dated March 1854, binder's ticket of Westleys & Co. Presumed first binding state. There is a new Preface and variations in the contents, and one poem added.

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7. Another copy, green cloth, uncut edges. Probably second binding batch, as it has the 24 page catalogue at end dated November 1854. End-papers are the brick red variety (adverts-printed) and with same binder's ticket.

Farrar." Inscribed by the author in ink: "Matthew Arnold, June 28th, 1887," in an unusual place, at end of the poem "Morality" on p. 207. Presumably a requested inscription.

8. Another copy, identical with the above in all details but no catalogue bound in. Inscribed: "This book belonged to dear Mr. Bradshaw and was bought for me after his death at the sale of his books. Howard Sturgis, 1886." With autograph on title-page: "Henry Bradshaw, Cambridge."

14. Another copy, of a similar binding batch, with the words "First Series" dropped to foot of spine, and with a 24 page catalogue, for October 1858. Third Edition sheets were not exhausted for many years, and copies are found with the catalogue at end dated variously between March 1856 and January 1863, and possibly even later.

9. Another copy, clearly of a later (1855) binding batch, as spine is lettered in 5 lines, with the addition of "First Series." 24 page catalogue at end dated September 1855, same brick red end-papers and binder's ticket. Bookplate of Frederick Collins Wilson and a one page ALS inserted, from the author on Education Department, Whitehall embossed notepaper, dated 3 January 1879, Cobham, Surrey, to the Rev. Ed. Bronsquist. 10. Poems. Second Series. Longman, 1855. Green cloth, edges uncut, brick red end-papers with binder's ticket of Westleys & Co., 24 page catalogue dated November 1854. Presumed first binding batch, with "Second Series" at top of spine below Arnold's name. 11. Another copy, but of a late binding batch, with a 32 page catalogue at end dated November 1857. The words "Second Series" are dropped to the foot of spine, and the rule below the author's name is no longer present, also the type used for spine lettering is much smaller. P. 199, numbered in first copy, is without numeration here, possibly a feature of late copies. The Irish poet Seumas O'Sullivan's copy with his engraved bookplate. 12. [Poems.] First and Second Series, Longman, 1853-1855. A pair of First Editions of both series, from the library of Lord Esher (with Oliver Brett bookplates). Uniformly bound by Riviere (c. 1900) in three-quarter dark green morocco, lighter green linen sides, marbled end-papers, t.e.g., others untouched, errata slip inserted in 1853 volume at p.[l]. This slip is uncommon and not mentioned by Smart. 13. Poems. 3rd ed. Longman, 1857. Green cloth, edges uncut. Smart 10. This edition contains one new poem, "To Marguerite." Brown end-papers, binder's ticket as in above items. Catalogue 24 pages dated September 1859. Dean Farrar's copy and has his bookplate, but later in the library of his son and with autograph on half-title: "Reginald

15. Merope: A Tragedy. Longman, 1858. [Smart 12.] Dark green cloth, uncut, brick red end-papers with binder's ticket of Westley & Co.; 32 page catalogue at end dated November 1857. Smart fails to note K6 at end carrying adverts. The end-papers are coded 15 and 16. In the copy which Arnold inscribed to Clough (preserved in the Tinker Library, item 140) they are coded 13 and 14, though the copy appears otherwise identical. Merope was never separately reprinted and remainder copies of First Edition sheets were still available in 1883, when the work was transferred to Macmillan. They were bound in blue cloth. 16. England and the Italian Question. Longman, 1859. [Smart 34.] 8vo, 48 pages, the 3 gatherings issued stabbed and threaded, without outer wrapper. Smart ignores the final blank leaf. John Drinkwater's copy with bookplate, autograph signature dated 1923, and pencil notes of collation, pointing out measurements which are 8 5/8" x 5 1/2", against the much smaller dimensions given by Wise in the Ashley Library Catalogue. Preserved in a red linen case, gilt-lettered up spine. 17. The Popular Education of France. Longman, 1861. [Smart 42.] Tall 8vo, green morocco-grained cloth with blind-stamped borders, edges uncut, light brown adverts-printed end-papers with binder's ticket of Westleys & Co., 24 page catalogue at end dated October 1860. Title-page is a cancel pasted on stub. Smart does not note U4 blank at end. Inscribed on end-paper: "With the Author's Compliments and Respects," but not in Arnold's hand. 18. On Translating Homer. Longman, 1861. Green cloth, sides blind-stamped, edges uncut, brown end-papers adverts-printed, coded 5 and 6, 24 page catalogue dated October 1860.

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ARNOLD (Matthew) 1822-1888 Inscribed on half-title: "with the Author's regards," in Arnold's autograph, and also with recipient's signature: "Wyndham Slade, May 8, 1861." 19. Another copy, identical in all details but with the addition of binder's ticket of Westleys & Co. at end. Inscribed: "E. P. Arnold from M. A. Feby. 1861," in the author's autograph. 20. Another copy, identical in all details (including binder's ticket) save for coding on end-papers, which is 7 and 8. 21. On Translating Homer: Last Words. Longman, 1862. A late bound copy of First Edition, the blind-stamped green cloth lettered on spine in 6 lines with 2 rules, plain brown end-papers, 32 page catalogue at end dated September 1870. Tinker notes that end-papers in primary bindings were adverts-printed. The earliest binding cases were lettered up the spine. Smart states that some sheets were still unused in 1891, and were bound by the publisher in cloth of a darker shade and lettered differently. 22. A French Eton. Macmillan, 1864. Maroon morocco-grained cloth, gilt, dark green end-papers, publisher's 24 page catalogue at end dated 25.4.64. Inscribed on half-title: "From the Author," but not in author's autograph. 23. Essays in Criticism. Macmillan, 1865. Reddish brown cloth, dark green end-papers, binder's ticket of Burn & Co., edges uncut. 24. Another copy. Signature, "Elizth. White," on title and with the unusual armorial bookplate of H. M. White, LL.D. Inscribed on half-title: "Alexandra College, Dublin." 25. New Poems. Macmillan, 1867. Bright green cloth, uncut, chocolate brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn & Co. The binding is of the presumed earliest variety, geometrical ornament on spine below author's name and publisher's circular device at foot. In the Second Edition, published in the following year, the ornament is butterfly shaped. Both appear with equal frequency in First Edition copies, and the geometrical may be accepted as disinguishing the earlier binding batch. Inscribed: "Mortimer Collins, Knowl Hill, 26 July 1867." Inserted are 2 ALS of the author to Mortimer Collins, dated from West Humble, Docking, 5 July 1867 and 31 January 1870.

ARNOLD (Matthew) 1822-1888 26. On the Study of Celtic Literature. Smith, Elder, 1867. Bevelled cloth of a rich shade of dark brown, top edges uncut, fore-edges trimmed. The 3 copies in the collection serve to demonstrate the not unexpected fact that sheets were made up in several batches. The lettering of the publisher's 2 line imprint at foot of spines is in different sizes. Two of the copies have the same pale slate blue end-papers without binder's ticket; the third has the terra-cotta coloured matching cloth described by Tinker with binder's ticket of Hanbury and Simpson. 27. New Poems. 2nd ed. Macmillan, 1868. Bright green cloth, brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn & Co. As noted in item 25 above, this edition has-invariably-the butterfly variety of spine ornament. 28. Poems. 2 vols. Vol. 1: Narrative and Elegiac. Vol. 2: Dramatic and Lyric. Macmillan, 1869. Bright green cloth, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed, brown end-papers. The First Collected Edition. 29. Another copy, the volumes bound together contemporarily in bevelled maroon morocco, all edges gilt. Inscribed by Howard Overing Sturgis: "To R. S. B. H. C. leaving Eton, from H. O. S. In tender memory of much loving kindness. X'mas, 1871." This is followed by 2 verse quatrains. 30. Culture and Anarchy. Smith, Elder, 1869. Bevelled brown cloth, gilt, end-papers to match, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed. The Second Edition was not called for until 1875, when it appeared entirely reset in a smaller crown 8vo size at reduced price. Original owner's signature dated February 1869 on title page, bookplate of Oscar Browning, designed by Simeon Solomon, 1870. 31. Friendship's Garland. Smith, Elder, 1871. White ribbed cloth, brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Hanbury and Simpson. Inscribed in the author's autograph: "F. W. Farrar, with kindest regards." Later bookplate of Dean Farrar's son, Reginald Anstruther Farrar, M.A., M.D., and an inscription from him signed Reggie. 32. Anotner Another copy, in the white binding, same end-papers and ticket. 33. Another copy, but in one of the variant bindings mentioned by Smart of lavender blue cloth. This is said to be a late issue, but there is no evidence for this; lettering, ornaments, ruling in black, end-papers and binder's ticket correspond in all known copies.

21 ARNOLD (Matthew) 1822-1888 34. Literature and Dogma. Smith, Elder, 1873. Brown cloth, grey-blue end-papers. The slip regarding the printing of the work in the Cornhill Magazine is not inserted in this copy. Tinker states that p. 347 is misnumbered 341 in the edition; this appears to have been the result of a disintegration of type, which in the present copy results in an impression scarcely clearer than 34. 35. Higher Schools and Universities in Germany. 2nd ed. Macmillan, 1874. With a new 66 page Preface and other additional material. Terra-cotta cloth, dark bluish green end-papers, publisher's 84 page catalogue at end dated October 1873. 36. God and The Bible. Smith, Elder, 1875. Cloth uniform with Literature and Dogma, 1873; p. 25 misnumbered 52, as noted by Tinker. 37. Poems. New and Complete Edition. 2 vols. Macmillan, 1877. Second collected edition, green cloth. Bookplates of Henry Edward Platt, M.A., LL.D., of Wellingborough and inscription to him: "Henry E. Platt from A. H. Maturin, Easter 1879. A trifling token In Memoriam, 1877-1879." 38. Last Essays on Church and Religion. Smith, Elder, 1877. Binding uniform with God and The Bible, 1875, grey-blue end-papers. 39. Selected Poems. Macmillan, 1878. Dark blue cloth, gilt, brown end-papers, binder's ticket of Burn & Co. Inscribed in author's autograph: "Matthew Arnold, December 16th, 1878." First state of First Edition of this selection, made by Arnold himself, which forms a volume of the publisher's Golden Treasury series, though lacking the familiar medallions which would have indicated the fact. Tinker's description is involved and erroneous. He examined only the Large Paper state (250 copies) which, he says, has 2 leaves of series advert at end and brown end-papers, both features of small paper copies only. 40. Another copy, dark blue cloth, gilt. This is the second printing, though without bibliographical statement. The sonnet "To George Cruikshank" does not appear and "A Question: To Faustina" is added. Fly-title to "Early Poems" no longer signed 'B'; Q is 2 leaves only and R 4 leaves, and the 4 pages of series adverts which follow are (as always) not printed on text-paper. Tinker suggests they are Q7 and Q8. As an added confirmation of priorities it may be noted that the list in this later edition advertised 3 more Golden Treasury titles-itself, Charlotte Yonge's

ARNOLD (Matthew) 1822-1888 Christians and Moors, and Charles Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, the last as "nearly ready." Armorial bookplate of Herbert Wilson Greene and presentation inscription to him from his brother, George Arthur Greene, who was secretary to the Rhymers' Club. 41. Selected Poems. Macmillan, 1878. Blue cloth, all edges uncut, white wove end-papers, binder's ticket of Burn & Co. The Large Paper edition, 250 copies printed 3 June 1878, with certificate on verso of half-title. The vignette on title-page is on india paper, and there is no reproduction of it in gilt on cover (a feature of small paper copies only). Text in first state, with "To George Cruikshank" on p. 6. There are no adverts leaves at end. 42. Mixed Essays. Smith, Elder, 1879. Blue cloth, brown end-papers. Inscribed: "With kind regards, M. A.," in Arnold's autograph. 43. Another copy. This copy belonged to John Drinkwater and carries his black and gold bookplate, autograph signature dated 1922 and a pencilled bibliographical note. 44. Wordsworth. Macmillan's Magazine, July 1879. The first printing of Arnold's essay on Wordsworth, which, later in the year, was to form the Preface to the Golden Treasury volume with considerable rearrangement and revision, but remaining substantially the same. 45. Poems. New and Complete Edition. 2 vols. Macmillan, 1881. Blue cloth, all edges uncut. The end-papers of first volume are plain white wove, but of second volume slate brown. 46. Irish Essays and Others. Smith, Elder, 1882. Dark blue cloth, all edges uncut, slate brown end-papers. Smart notes blue cloth, but Tinker describes terra-cotta buckram with publisher's gilt device at foot of spine, top edges trimmed. A signature on the title-page is dated 6 July 1882. 47. Isaiah of Jerusalem: in the Authorised English Version. With an Introduction, Corrections and Notes by M. A. Macmillan, 1883. Reddish brown cloth, dark slate blue end-papers. 48. Selected Poems. Macmillan, 1884. Blue cloth, Golden Treasury series, a reprint of the First Edition of 1878 without bibliographical statement, but with addition of series medallion on half-title. "John Eglinton's" (W. K. Magee) copy, with prize-label inside cover of the High School, Dublin. Awarded to Magee, Lower

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Sixth Form, for proficiency in essay-writing, Christmas 1884. He was then 16 years old and had as a fellow scholar W. B. Yeats, aged 18.

57. Matthew Arnold's Notebooks. With Preface by the Hon. Mrs. Wodehouse. Smith, Elder, 1902. White cloth, uniform format with Friendship's Garland, frontispiece portrait.

49. Poems. 3 vols. Macmillan, 1885. Blue cloth, uncut edges, brown end-papers. This came to be known as the Library Edition; it was reprinted in 1888, and in 1895 the 3 volumes were included in the publisher's Eversley Series.

58. The Note-Books of Matthew Arnold. Oxford University Press, 1952. Smooth red buckram, top edges stained to match, others cut. The enlarged edition, edited by H. F. Lowry, K. Young and W. H. Dunn.

50. Discourses in America. Macmillan, 1885. Dark green cloth, white wove end-papers.

59. Essays Literary and Critical. With an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. J. M. Dent [1906]. First impression in Everyman's Library, red cloth, gilt spine, edges cut, top edges stained matching cloth, designed end-papers.

61. Essays in Criticism: Second Series. Macmillan, 1888. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine, dark slate end-papers. The leaf of adverts at end is not part of the final gathering Y. Copies are recorded with publisher's catalogue at end dated April 1888, but this copy has none. That there was more than one binding batch of First Edition sheets is demonstrated by the existence of copies with the different varieties of the ampersand in Macmillan & Co. imprint at foot of spine. 52. Poetical Works. Macmillan, 1890. Green cloth, only lower edges trimmed, frontispiece portrait, first issue of the Globe Edition, the popular edition of Arnold's poems. Contains all the poems of the 3 volume Library Edition of 1885, with the addition of 2 new poems, "Horatian Echo" and "Kaiser Dead." 53. Letters by Matthew Arnold, 1888. 2 vols. Collected and Arranged W. E. Russell. Macmillan, 1895. The printing (December), dark blue cloth, uncut.

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54. Alaric at Rome and Other Poems. With an Introduction by Richard Garnett. Ward, Lock & Bowden, 1896. Sage green cloth, gilt, t.e.g. A volume of Clement K. Snorter's XEXth Century Classics. This was Lytton Strachey's copy, with his bookplate: "Giles Lytton Strachey, 1899." 55. Another copy, identical with above but in red cloth. 56. Friendship's Garland. 2nd ed. Smith, Elder, 1897. White cloth binding, identical format with First Edition.

60. Poems. With an Introduction by Alice Meynell. Blackie and Son, 1906. Green cloth, spine and upper side gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, designed end-papers. The frontispiece portrait and title page printed together on a half-sheet of plate paper. A volume of the publisher's Red Letter Library. 61. The Letters of Matthew Arnold to Arthur Hugh Clough. Edited by Howard Foster Lowry. Oxford University Press, 1932. Dark blue cloth, white spine label, top edges cut, others uncut. 62. The Works of Matthew Arnold. 15 vols. Macmillan, 1903-1904. Edition-de-luxe, limited to 775 sets; blue silk-cloth, gilt. The final volume contains a reprinting of T. B. Smart's Bibliography. 63. The Poetical Works. . . . Edited by C. B. Tinker and H. F. Lowry. Oxford University Press, 1961. Third reprinting of the edition first published in 1950. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine, edges cut, top edges stained to match cloth, in printed dust-jacket (16s. net). Books Edited 64. Johnson, Samuel. The Six Chief Lives. From Johnson's Lives of the Poets. Edited with a Preface by M. A. Macmillan, 1878. Brick red cloth, cream end-papers, trimmed edges. 65. Wordsworth, William. Poems. Chosen and Edited by Matthew Arnold. Macmillan, 1879. A volume of the Golden Treasury series, blue cloth, gilt; lettering at foot of spine is "Macmillan" (all other states have "Macmillan & Co."). Presumed earliest state, p. xxv ending "neighbourhood" and p. xxvi with only 15 lines of text. No facsimile MS signature below portrait on title. Fly-title Index of First Lines not included in pagination, hence book ends on p. 317.

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66. Wordsworth, William. Poems. Macmillan, 1879. Presumed second state. This is the state of the whole of the Large Paper edition, 750 copies printed 20 September 1879, of which this is an example (certificate at foot of half-title). The only change in typesetting is that the Index to First Lines leaf is included in pagination, causing last page to be numbered 319 instead of 317.

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67. Wordsworth, William. Poems. Macmillan, 1879. Presumed third state. "Macmillan & Co." at foot of spine, still no facsimile signature on title-page. Preface setting as in Large Paper edition. Contents p. xxxviii. "The Primrose of the Rock. . . 167" added at foot of page. Pp. xxix-xxx, all pagination advanced by 2 to accommodate this extra poem. P. xxxi, "A Poet's Epitaph" inserted at p. 290 —advancing pagination 3 more. Hence Index ends on p. 325 instead of 317, fly-title being counted.

74. ALS one page, dated from Fox How, Ambleside, 31 August 1884, on Education Department, Whitehall embossed notepaper, to Samuel Brandram, Esq., giving permission to make use of the "Forsaken Merman" in a School Reciter Brandram was preparing for publication.

68. Wordsworth, William. Poems. Macmillan, 1880. Presumed fourth state. Facsimile signature added below portrait on title-page, on which date is changed to 1880. With the 2 additional poems, and following third state in all details. The book is still without any bibliographical statement. 69. Wordsworth, William. Poems. Macmillan, 1888. Another edition, which probably represents the final text. Golden Treasury series, blue cloth, gilt. "The Green Linnet" is added, also new poems, "To the Daisy" and "To The Cuckoo." 70. Wordsworth, William. Poems. Macmillan, 1892. Later Large Paper edition, No. 186 of only 250 copies, printed March 1892. From same type as the small paper 1888 edition above. Smooth fawn buckram, spine titling label printed in red, all edges uncut. 71. Byron, Lord. Poetry of Byron. Chosen and arranged by M. A. Macmillan, 1881. Another volume of the Golden Treasury series, blue cloth, gilt, only lower edges trimmed. Inscribed: "With kindest regards, M. A.," in the poet's autograph. In the first state without the series medallion on first page, or printer's imprint on verso title-page. 72. Burke, Edmond. Letters, Speeches and Tracts on Irish Affairs. Collected and Arranged by M. A. With a Preface. Macmillan, 1881. Dark blue cloth, slate brown end-papers.

73. Arnold, Matthew. ALS on a single sheet of black-edged notepaper (Athenaeum Club stamped), dated 17 November (no year) to the Hon. F. Lawley, "My dear Lawley," with a significant post-script: "P.S. If you feel how dreadful the condition of the middle class is, help to try to lift them out of it."

75. Also see the William Bell Scott collection. ALS, 3 pages (p. 4 blank), on embossed Athenaeum Club notepaper, dated 2 May 1882 to "My dear Mr. Scott," together with another 3 page ALS to "My dear Miss Simcox" on Wesleyan Training College notepaper dated 6 July 1882. Accompanying these is Miss Simcox's original letter to William Bell Scott, postmarked Kensington, 2 May 1882. All 3 letters are concerned with the same matter. Secondary Material 76. Fanshawe, Reginald. Corydon: An Elegy in Memory of Matthew Arnold and Oxford. Oxford University Press, 1906. Dark red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Autograph inscription: "Clara Fanshawe from R. F. April 19, 1906." 77. Paul, Herbert W. Matthew Arnold. Macmillan, 1902. Bright red cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others trimmed. The leaf of adverts at end is dated 20.6.02. 78. Tinker, C. B., and Lowry, H. F. The Poetry of Matthew Arnold: A Commentary. Oxford University Press, 1940. Green cloth, gilt spine, edges cut. Association Item 79. Arnold, Thomas, D. D. Fragment on the Church. B. Fellowes, 1844. Dark blue vertically ribbed blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 5 lines, uncut edges, pale blue end-papers, 8 pages publisher's adverts at end. In a copy in the Tinker Library it is incorrectly noted as "With 'Advertisement' by the editor, Matthew Arnold (dated 5 October 1844) on p.[lll]." The initials are those of his mother, Mary Arnold, who prepared the MS for publication.

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ASHBY-STERRY (Joseph) 1838-1917 1. The Shuttlecock Papers: A Book for an Idle Hour. Tinsley Bros., 1873. Green designed cloth, gilt, only lower edges trimmed. Inscribed in violet ink: "To Edward Marston, Esquire, with the Author's kind regards." 2. Tiny Travels. Tinsley Bros., 1874. Dark red cloth, gilt. 3. Boudoir Ballads. 2nd ed. Chatto & Windus, 1877. Blue cloth with overall gilt design, 36 page catalogue at end dated October 1876. 4. Boudoir Ballads. 3rd ed. Chatto & Windus, 1877. Binding identical with Second Edition, 32 page catalogue at end dated March 1877. Inscribed (in similar violet ink): "To Mrs. Mortimer Collins, with the Author's kind regards." Inlaid is his 3 pp. ALS to the same lady, dated from 45 Albany Villas, Brighton, 21 November 1880. 5. The Lazy Minstrel. Fisher Unwin, 1886. Tall 8vo, half parchment, smooth grey board sides, all edges uncut. No. 27 of only 50 copies on special large paper, numbered and signed by the author. India-proof impression of the frontispiece. 6. The Lazy Minstrel. 4th ed. Unwin, 1888. Small 8vo, pink cloth, lettered in blue, only top edges cut. Inscribed: "To James Christie, with the Author's kind regards." The author adds to the title the following: (in a new dress, and entirely fresh scenery by Edwin A. Abbey)." The "scenery" must refer to the new artist's frontispiece, which is dedicated to the author and dated 1887. Later in the library of Harry Hooton (Edward Thomas's friend) and with his annotations, also an original poem of 16 lines to his wife Janet, signed and dated 3 November 1897. 7. Cucumber Chronicles: A Book to be Taken in Slices. Sampson Low, 1887. Bevelled dark blue cloth, t.e.g., others trimmed, 4 illustrations. Inscribed: "To Mrs. Clarkson, with the Author's kind regards." 8. A Tale of the Thames. Bliss Sands, 1896. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, 15 illustrations. Erratum slip inserted. Inscribed: "To Edward Marston, Esquire, with J. Ashby-Sterry's kind regards."

ASHBY-STERRY (Joseph) 1838-1917 9. The Bystander, or, Leaves for the Lazy. Sands, 1901. Red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. 10. The River Rhymer. W. J. Ham-Smith, 1913. Small 8vo, dark green cloth, trimmed edges, 2 leaves of "Books Published by W. J. Ham-Smith" at end. ASHE (Thomas) 1836-1889 1. The Sorrows of Hypsipyle. Bell and Daldy, 1869. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine, uncut edges, slatey brown end-papers. Pagination is [8], 116, [4]. 2. Songs Now and Then. George Bell, 1876. Slate grey bevelled cloth, only lower edges trimmed, dark blue end-papers. 3. Poems. Complete Edition. George Bell, 1886. Tall 8vo, green cloth, gilt spine, only lower edges trimmed, dark slate end-papers. Pp.[2], vi, 334, [2]. Printed at the Chiswick Press in a rather small type in double columns, this is a decidedly uncommon book at the present time. 4. Songs of a Year. Privately printed at the Chiswick Press, 1888. Plain semi-stiff wrappers, uncut. Pp.[4], viii, 84, [4]. Note: For S. T. Coleridge's Works edited by Thomas Ashe see the Coleridge collection, Poetical Works (the Aldine Edition, 2 vols. Bell, 1885) and Miscellanies, Aesthetic and Literary. (Bohn's Standard Authors, Bell, 1885). AUSTIN (Alfred) 1835-1913 1. The Season: A Satire. With Frontispiece of "The Modern Muse" by Thomas George Cooper. Robert Hardwicke, 1861. Mauve cloth, green end-papers, lower edges trimmed. 2. The Season: A Satire. 2nd ed. revised. George Manwaring, 1861. Dark blue cloth, dark slate end-papers, same tinted frontispiece plate as in First Edition. With a Dedication to Benjamin Disraeli and a 12 page Preface. 3. My Satire and Its Censors. George Manwaring, 1861. Mauve cloth, same format as preceding volumes, brown end-papers; 8 pages of Manwaring's adverts, of which the first leaf is a setting of the title-page of The Season (1861), which suggests that he was the original publisher of the poem.

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4. The Human Tragedy. A Poem. Robert Hardwicke, 1862. Tall 8vo, bevelled light brown cloth, end-papers to match, with binder's ticket of Burn & Co., only lower edges trimmed. Errata slip of 6 lines inserted. 5. A Vindication of Lord Byron. Chapman & Hall, 1869. 68 pages, issued in pale green printed wrappers, of which the upper side is preserved. Bound in a volume of 8 tracts in contemporary half brown morocco, marbled sides, t.e.g., others trimmed. 6. The Poetry of the Period. R. Bentley, 1870. Mauve cloth, all edges uncut, light brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Edmonds and Remnants. 7. The Golden Age: A Satire. Chapman & Hall, 1871. Orange-brown cloth, gilt, uncut edges, dark green end-papers, erratum slip inserted. Inscribed on title-page: "To John Dennis from his friend the Author"; with the recipient's armorial bookplate.

AUSTIN (Alfred) 1836-1913 13. The Tower of Babel: A Poetical Drama. Blackwood, 1874. Same format as Madonna's Child, but colour dark green, same end-papers and binder's ticket. Inscribed on half-title: "To Minna Lane, with the Author's affectionate regards, Sept. 24th 1885." Armorial bookplate of Charles T. Lane. 14. Leszko the Bastard: A Tale of Polish Grief. Chapman & Hall, 1877. Green cloth, gilt, only lower edges trimmed, cream end-papers. Inscribed on half-title: "With the kind regards of the Author, Sept. 1885." 15. Soliloquies in Song. Macmillan, 1882. Blue cloth, spine gilt, top edges uncut, others trimmed, 3 leaves of adverts at end, white wove end-papers. From Lord Latymer's library with his F. B. Money-Coutts bookplate. 16. Another copy, with Lord Wolseley's crested circular label and inscribed: "To Lady Wolseley, with the affectionate regards of her friend the Author."

8. Interludes. Blackwood, 1872. Purple bevelled cloth, gilt, uncut edges, dark slate end-papers.

17. Another copy. From the Rowfant library with the inscription: "Frederick Locker. With the Author's kind regards."

9. Another copy in a late binding-up of sheets in bright blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. With the circular device of the Times Book Club on upper side.

18. At the Gate of the Convent and Other Poems. Macmillan, 1885. Uniform format with Soliloquies in Song. A leaf inserted, with the heading, "From the Author."

10. Blagden, Isa. Poems. With a Memoir. Blackwood, 1873. Dark red cloth, gilt, slatey brown end-papers, only lower edges cut. Alfred Austin's name appears only at the end of the 18 page Memoir.

19. Days of the Year. A Poetic Calendar from the Works of Alfred Austin. Selected and Edited by A. S. With Introduction by William Sharp. Walter Scott, 1886. A volume of the Canterbury Poets series, brown designed cloth, end-papers to match, red stained edges.

11. Madonna's Child. Blackwood, 1873. Large square 8vo, bright blue bevelled cloth, top edges uncut, brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. Inscribed on title-page: "Flora E. Oxenden: with the cordial regards of her sincere friend, the Author." 12. Madonna's Child. 2nd ed. Blackwood, 1873. Format and binding similar to First Edition, though end-papers are green and no binder's ticket affixed. Same 8 pages of adverts at end, but the 2 leaves of Preface (pp.[iii]-vi) are not present, though there is no evidence of their removal. Inscribed on verso of Dedication page: "To Mrs. Earle: with the best wishes of her friend the Author. New Year's Day 1889."

20. Love's Widowhood and Other Poems. Macmillan, 1889. Uniform format with Soliloquies in Song. With the Wolseley label and inscribed on half-title: "To Viscountess Wolsely: from one of the oldest and not the least devoted of her friends, A. A., February 14th,'89." 21. English Lyrics. Edited by William Watson. Macmillan, 1890. Green cloth, glazed white printed spine label, all edges uncut The poems are taken mainly from Austin's published volumes. Preface by William Watson is a 20 page essay of critical significance. With the Courtenay F. Wilson armorial bookplate.

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22. Savonarola: A Tragedy. 2nd ed. Macmillan, 1891. Dark blue cloth, gilt, all edges uncut. Author's Dedication is dated Christmas 1890. Inscribed: "To M. C. F., A Birthday offering and a Consolation For Old Age from A. A. Candlemas Day, 1891."

31. Victoria the Wise. Eyre & Spottiswoode [1901]. 4to, cream bevelled parchment, gilt with inlay maroon leather border on upper cover and raised bands on spine, t.e.g., others uncut. Inscribed: "To Walter E. Jones from Alfred Austin, Christmas 1902."

23. Lyrical Poems. Macmillan, 1891. Uniform format with foregoing item. Inscribed: "To 'Violet Fane1, Herself a Singer, I tender these songs as a small token of Friendship and Admiration. Alfred Austin, February 24, 1899."

32. Haunts of Ancient Peace. Macmillan, 1902. Blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, in dust-jacket lettered and designed as cover.

24. Fortunatus the Pessimist. Macmillan, 1892. Green cloth, all edges uncut. 25. The Conversion of Winckelmann and Other Poems. Macmillan, 1897. Dark green cloth (watered-silk pattern), all edges uncut, erratum slip inserted. 26. Lamia's Winter-Quarters. Macmillan, 1898. Light green cloth, pictorially designed in black, all edges uncut, 10 full page illustrations and other head-pieces &c. A particularly pleasing association copy, inscribed by the author to his wife: "To H. J. A., my constant companion in Lamia's Winter-Quarters, A. A." With Hester J. Austin's bookplate, which incorporates a fine engraving of Swinford Old Manor, showing the gardens. There are a number of the author's MS corrections throughout in pencil, mainly of names and spellings. 27. Another copy, in a contemporary binding of three-quarter green crushed morocco, marbled sides and end-papers, t.e.g., others uncut. 28. Lamia's Winter-Quarters. A. & C. Black, 1907. A Large Paper Edition-de-luxe in 4to, cream bevelled designed buckram, t.e.g., glazed white end-papers. Printed from the same type-frames as the original edition, this has a special author's "Introduction to the Edition Illustrated by George S. Elgood, R.I," of 7 pages. 16 plates printed in colours. Copy No. 249 of only 250 printed, autographed by Alfred Austin. 29. Songs of England. Macmillan, 1898. Pale blue cloth lettered in darker blue, all edges uncut. 30. Spring and Autumn in Ireland. Blackwood, 1900. Green designed cloth, all edges uncut, publisher's 32 page catalogue at end dated 2'00.

33. A Tale of True Love and Other Poems. Macmillan, 1902. Produced uniformly with The Conversion of Winckelmann (1897), 34. Flodden Field: A Tragedy. MacmiUan, 1903. Produced uniformly with foregoing item. Inscribed: "To The Hon. Mrs. W. Lowther: In slight acknowledgment of prized and unfailing kindness. Alfred Austin, June 13, 1903." From Lord Ullswater's sale at Campsea Ashe, October 1949. 35. An Eighteenth Century Anthology. With an Introduction by Alfred Austin. Blackie [1904]. A volume of the publisher's Red Letter Library, with a 31 page Introduction by Austin. 36. The Door of Humility. Macmillan, 1906. Cream buckram, gilt, all edges uncut. Erratum slip at p. 28. Inscribed: "To H. J. A.: Another Love-Gift. A. A. May 1906." As item 26 above, a presentation to his wife. 37. Sacred and Profane Love and Other Poems. Macmillan, 1908. Produced uniformly with Flodden Field (1903). 38. The Bridling of Pegasus: Prose Papers on Poetry. Macmillan, 1910. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, only lower edges trimmed. 39. The Autobiography of Alfred Austin. 2 vols. Macmillan, 1911. Dark blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others trimmed, 9 illustrations, both volumes in printed orange dust-jackets (24/net). Blind circular "Presentation Copy" stamp on title-pages. Autograph Letter 40. ALS on first page of a folded sheet of laid notepaper, dated from "Head Quarters of the King of Prussia, Versailles, Nov. 26th [1870]." Austin was a press correspondent during the Franco-Prussian War.

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Secondary Material 41. Crowell, Norton B. Alfred Austin, Victorian. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1955. Orange cloth, cut edges, in pictorial dust-jacket (18s. net). AYTOUN (William Edmondstoune) 1813-1865 1. Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems. Blackwood, 1849. Dark blue cloth with overall gilt design, deep cream end-papers with binder's ticket of Remnant & Edmonds. 2. Firmilian, or, The Student of Badajoz: A Spasmodic Tragedy. By T. Percy Jones. Blackwood, 1854. Mottled dull red cloth, deep cream end-papers, binder's ticket of Edmonds & Remnants. A pseudonymous publication. 3. Bothwell: A Poem in Six Parts. Blackwood, 1856. Royal blue cloth, gilt, brown end-papers.

AYTOUN (William Edmondstoune) 1813-1865 4. Bothwell. 3rd ed. revised. Blackwood, 1858. Red cloth, uncut, cream end-papers, binder's ticket of Edmonds & Remnant, publisher's 16 page catalogue at end. With a new Preface dated Edinburgh, 1 January 1858. 5. The Ballads of Scotland. Edited by W. E. A. 2 vols. Blackwood, 1858. Contemporary binding of half green morocco, green linen sides, from Lord Ducie's library with name stamp. 6. Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems. With Illustrations by Sir Joseph Noel Paton and W. H. Paton. Blackwood, 1870. A handsome 4to edition in bevelled purple cloth, gilt, all edges gilt, dark blue-green end-papers. There is an otherwise identical reissue dated 1881. Note: For works written in collaboration with Sir Theodore Martin, see under Martin.

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1. The English Constitution. Reprinted from the Fortnightly Review. Chapman & Hall, 1867. Dark red blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine, only lower edges cut, primrose end-papers with binder's ticket of Virtue & Co.

11. Walter Bagehot: In Memoriam. Printed for Private Circulation only, 1878. Dark brown cloth, gilt, dark blue end-papers, only lower edges cut, frontispiece portrait. A collection of articles by R. H. Hutton, Inglis Palgrave, Percy Greg and others, reprinted from journals and newspapers, with a supplement of foreign and colonial notices.

2. Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market H. S. King, 1873. Orange-brown cloth, black designed, gilt-lettered, dark blue end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. Publisher's 32 page 1873 catalogue at end. 3. Literary Studies. With a Prefatory Memoir by Richard Holt Hutton. 2 vols. Longmans, 1879. Dark blue cloth, end-papers to match, Woodbury Type frontispiece photograph in volume 1, 24 page catalogue dated September 1878 at end of volume 2. 4. Economic Studies. Edited by R. H. Hutton. Longmans, 1880. Uniform format with Literary Studies (1879). 5. Biographical Studies. Edited by R. H. Hutton. Longmans, 1881. Uniform format with Literary Studies (1879). 6. The Postulates of English Political Economy. Student's Edition. With a Preface by Alfred Marshall. Longmans, 1885. Green cloth, dark blue end-papers, only lower edges cut. 7. Biographical Studies. 2nd ed. Longmans, 1889. Format uniform with First Edition. 8. Literary Studies. 4th ed. 2 vols. Longmans, 1891. Similar format and same pagination as the First Edition, but there is a new Advertisement by R. H. Hutton regarding corrections, dated 1 November 1890. 9. Estimations in Criticism. Edited by Cuthbert Lennox. 2 vols. Andrew Melrose, 1908-9. Vol. 1. Poets and Poetry, 1908. Vol. 2. Prose Writers, 1909. Dark red cloth, gilt spines, edges cut. The Introduction states: "It has been considered expedient to adhere to the original text more strictly than other editors have done, and to indicate editorial interference where that has been deemed necessary." 10. The Love-Letters of Walter Bagehot and Eliza Wilson. Edited by Their Sister Mrs. Russell Harrington. Faber & Faber, 1933. Bright red cloth, top edges green, others uncut, 2 portraits, green printed dust-jacket.

12. Barrington, Mrs. Russell. Life of Walter Bagehot. Longmans, 1914. Mauve cloth, trimmed edges, 8 portraits and illustrations. Inscribed: "For the kind acceptance of Sir Clifford and Lady Allbutt, with the affectionate remembrances of the Author. Melbury House, Kensington W., May 1914." With the Carr Manor bookplate of Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt. Association Items Note: The following books are from Bagehot's library. 13. Brown, Thomas. Inquiry into the Relation of Cause and Effect. 4th ed. A. G. Bohn, 1835. Prize calf, gilt with University College medallions on sides. Prize certificate inside cover made out to Mr. Walter Bagehot of Langport, Somerset, Class of Philosophy of Mind and Logic, signed by Professor John Hoppers, 1845-46. 14. Maiden, Henry. On the Origin of Universities and Academical Degrees. Printed for John Taylor, 1835. Dark blue cloth, printed spine label. Bagehot's autograph signature on half-title. 15. Heraud, John A. Substance of a Lecture on Poetic Genius as a Moral Power. . . to which is Added An Ode. James Fraser, 1837. Disbound from a volume of tracts; Walter Bagehot's signature on title-page. 16. Gilbert, J. W. The Philosophy of History. Not Published. Printed by R. Clay, 1857. Semi-limp green blind-stamped cloth, gilt-lettered on upper side, glazed cream end-papers, cut edges, frontispiece portrait. Inscribed: "To W. Bagehot, Esq, with the Author's best compts." 17. Greg, W. R. Miscellaneous Essays. Trubner, 1882. Dark brown cloth, dark green end-papers. Inscribed: "Eliza, with Julia's love. November 1881." A presentation from Mrs. Greg to Mrs. Bagehot.

29 BAGEHOT (Walter) 1826-1877 18. Wilson, Mrs. James Glenny. Themes and Variations. Griffith Farran Okeden & Welsh, 1889. Light blue bevelled cloth, dark blue end-papers. Author's name on title-page is followed by: "(Austral.) Rangitikei, New Zealand." Inscribed: "To Eliza Bagehot, with love from her uncle Geo. Wilson, Nov. 1889." BAILEY (Philip James) 1816-1902 1. Festus: A Poem. Pickering, 1839. Tall 8vo, dark blue blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered in a single word within gilt ornament (same as half-title). Printer's imprint of Wilmot Henry Jones, Printer, Manchester occurs only at foot recto of final leaf. An anonymous publication. Inscribed in ink on front yellow end-paper: "J. R. Lowell, Nov. 9, 1841." 2. Festus: A Poem. 2nd ed. Pickering, 1845. Dark blue blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine, uncut. Printed by C. Whittingham, Tookes Court, Chancery Lane. The final leaf Cc8 [pp. 399-400] contains notices of the First Edition of Festus on recto and verso. 3. Festus: A Poem. 3rd ed. Pickering, 1848. External format similar to Second Edition, but an entirely reset text printed by R. Allen, Nottingham. A leaf at end [pp. 369-370] carries a single line erratum, with imprint at foot and verso blank. 4. The Angel World and Other Poems. Pickering, 1850. Pale green stamped cloth, gilt spine and sides, all edges gilt, primrose end-papers with binder's ticket of Bone & Son. Engraved frontispiece. Copies of this book, otherwise identical, are found in a blue cloth binding, with same binder's ticket. 5. The Mystic and Other Poems. Chapman & Hall, 1855. Dark blue cloth, elaborately blind-stamped, spine gilt, uncut edges, slate brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Bone & Son. 6. The Mystic and Other Poems. 2nd ed. Chapman & Hall, 1855. Interleaved with blanks throughout and rebound contemporarily in a plain blue cloth. The first 5 blanks (10 pages) are closely filled with MS annotations on the poems in an unidentified but very distinctive hand in ink. Inscribed on title-page: "Annie Andrews from the Author."

BARLAS (John Evelyn, pseud. "Evelyn Douglas") 1860-1914 1. Poems Lyrical and Dramatic. Trubner, 1884. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine, floral-patterned grey end-papers. This book is a tangle of starred leaves and cancels. A pencil note indicates that it compares precisely with the copy in the British Library, of which the reception date is 10 December 1884. The Esher copy, with bookplate. 2. The Queen of the Hid Isle: An Allegory of Life and Art. Love's Perversity, or, Eros and Anteros: A Drama. By Evelyn Douglas. Trubner, 1885. Produced in identical format with above, same end-papers &c. Errata slip inserted at p.[3]. The Esher copy, with bookplate. 3. Punchinello and His Wife Judith: A Tragedy. Chelmsford: 1886. [Additional imprint below date, set in 2 lines: "Published By/A. Driver, Tindal Street, Chelmsford." Appears to have been added subsequently in a different type.] Green cloth, gilt, stamp of Poole, bookbinder, on rear end-paper. The Esher copy, with bookplate. 4. Bird-Notes. Chelmsford, Essex: Printed by J. H. Clarke, 1887. Tall 8vo, cream wrappers lettered in black, entirely uncut. The Esher copy, with Brett bookplate, in a linen case, gilt-lettered. 5. Holy of Holies: Confessions of an Anarchist. Chelmsford, Essex: Printed by J. H. Clarke, April 1887. Red wrappers, upper side lettered and designed in black, all edges cut, 48 pages. The author's name does not appear anywhere in this book. The Esher copy, with Brett bookplate, in linen case, gilt-lettered. 6. Phantasmagoria: Dream-Fugues. Chelmsford, Essex: A. Driver, 1887. Light blue cloth, gilt-lettered diagonally across upper side, trimmed edges, pale greenish grey end-papers with binder's stamp of Poole. The Esher copy, with Brett bookplate. 7. Love Sonnets. Chelmsford, Essex: Printed by J. H. Clarke, February 1889. Cream wrappers, produced uniformly with Bird-Notes (1887). The Esher copy, with Brett bookplate, in linen case, gilt-lettered. 8. Songs of a Bayadere and Songs of a Troubadour. Dundee: Printed by James P. Mathew & Co., 1893. Stiff cream wrappers lettered in black on upper side, all edges cut. The Esher copy, with Brett bookplate, in linen case, gilt-lettered.

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BARLAS (John Evelyn, pseud. "Evelyn Douglas") 1860-1914 9. Selections from the Poems of John E. Barlas ("Evelyn Douglas"). Elkin Mathews, 1925. Light blue boards, cream linen spine, 2 printed title labels, top edges cut, others uncut. With a 5 page Editor's Preface by Henry S. Salt. BARLOW (Jane) 1857-1917 1. Irish Idylls. Hodder, 1892. Bevelled dark green cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, dark green end-papers. apers. 2. Bog-Land Studies. 2nd ed. revised and enlarged. Hodder, 1893. Bevelled scarlet cloth, t.e.g, others uncut. 3. The End of Elfmtown. Illustrated by Laurence Housman. Macmillan, 1894. Light brown cloth with overall gilt design, all edges gilt, with printed dust-jacket on which cover design is reproduced in orange. 4. Another copy. Large Paper issue, of which only 50 copies were printed in December 1894. In a handsome dark orange morocco binding (signed "E. W. 1900"). Spine with raised bands, upper side lettered in 3 lines with an oblong panel of floral ornaments, all edges gilt on the rough. 5. The Battle of the Frogs and Mice. Rendered into English by Jane Barlow. Pictured by Francis D. Bedford. Methuen, 1894. 4to, sage green cloth, designed in darker green, lettered in red, all edges uncut. 6. Another copy, a binding variant. Colour of cloth is pale green fading to light brown. Mice ornament top of spine is a different block with entwined tails, and a similar pair is impressed on upper cover in reverse, with the tails inwards. 7. Kerrigan's Quality. With 8 Illustrations. Hodder, 1894. Bevelled sage green cloth, t.e.g., others uncut. 8. Strangers at Lisconnel: A Second Series of Irish Idylls. Hodder, 1895. Bevelled smooth green buckram, t.e.g., others uncut, dark blue-green end-papers. 9. Maureen's Fairing and Other Stories. With Illustrations by Bertha Newcombe. J. M. Dent, 1895. A volume of the Iris Series, pale silver green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, patterned end-papers.

BARLOW (Jane) 1857-1917 10. From the East unto the West. Methuen, 1898. Sage green cloth, top edges cut, others uncut, publisher's 40 page catalogue at end dated September, 1898. Inscribed on half-title: "Professor W. F. Barrett, with kind regards from the Author." 11. From the Land of the Shamrock. Methuen, 1901. Sage green cloth, top edges cut, fore-edges lightly trimmed, lower edges uncut, publisher's 48 page catalogue at end dated October, 1901. 12. Ghost-Bereft, with Other Stories in Verse. Smith Elder, 1901. Light blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges uncut (leaves unopened throughout). 13. The Founding of Fortunes. Methuen, 1902. Sage green cloth, only lower edges uncut, publisher's 40 page catalogue at end dated September, 1902. 14. By Beach and Bog-Land: Some Irish Stories. Fisher Unwin, 1905. Dark green cloth, t.e.g., others cut. T8 is blank at end, with 4 leaves of publisher's adverts sewn-in before it. Coloured frontispiece, title-page printed in red and green. 15. Irish Neighbours. Hutchinson, 1907. Green cloth, upper side blind-stamped, only lower edges uncut, Z4 at end carries publisher's adverts, followed by 32 page August 1907 catalogue. 16. The Mockers and Other Verses. George Allen & Sons, 1908. Bluish green cloth, t.e.g., others uncut. 17. Irish Ways. With 16 Plates in Colours by Warwick Goble. George Allen, 1909. Tall 8vo, green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Final leaf R4 is blank at end. 18. Flaws: A Novel. Hutchinson, 1911. Sage green cloth, trimmed edges, publisher's 32 page March 1911 Spring Announcements at end. BARNES (William) 1801-1886 1. Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect. With a Dissertation and Glossary. John Russell Smith, 1844. Purple cloth with heavily embossed overall pattern of ferns, spine titling label in 7 lines (the last being the price 10s.) between double rules top and bottom and with author's name between short rules. All edges uncut, primrose yellow glazed end-papers. GG8 [?] is blank at end and

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conjugate with last leaf of text. The inscription on front end-paper is to Major R. M. Wooley, the Salisbury auctioneer, who died in 1961 and from whose library the book was purchased.

5. Poems in the Dorset Dialect. Third Collection. John Russell Smith, 1862. Purple blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered 7 lines, frontispiece and engraved title on one sheet of plate paper inserted before printed title-page: date on engraved title is 1863. Cream end-papers with binder's ticket of Bone. The catches throughout this book are printed "Vol III." Last leaf of final half-sheet carries adverts only; in some copies following this is a 16 page J. R. Smith catalogue. From the poet Gerald Massey's library, with his signature in ink on end-paper,

2. Poems of Rural Life. . . . 2nd ed. Dissertation and Glossary Enlarged and Corrected. John Russell Smith, 1847. Purple cloth with conventional blind-stamped borders, spine gilt-lettered in 7 lines, including "Second/Series" [sic] at foot, yellow end-papers with binder's ticket of Bone & Son, edges uncut. It is surprising that a new edition was demanded after only 3 years; again that this reprint filled the demand for the following 15 years, during which time the same publisher issued Barnes's second collection. A still greater puzzle is how a copy of the 1847 book came to be lettered "Second/Series" on spine of binding, which closely resembles the binding of the 1859 second series, both in blind-stamping of sides and gilt-lettering (in same 7 lines) of spine. Were it not for the fact that the first book is nearly twice the thickness of the second, the solution might be that the cases were interchangeable. The provenance of this particular copy of 1847 (Hargreaves's "Cuffnells" bookplate and signature on title-page of A. N. Hargreaves, with the later armorial bookplate of Henderson Sedgewick Park), gives no hint as to how early the copy was bound, and in circulation (accepting the hypothesis that an edition which lasted 15 years would not all be sent to the binder in one batch, ready for the day of publication). However, the examination of multiple copies of these 2 books may produce an explanation. 3. Notes on Ancient Britain and the Britons. John Russell Smith, 1858. Dark green blind-stamped cloth, edges uncut, reddish brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Bone & Son, 16 page publisher's catalogue at end. Inscribed on half-title: "Charles Warne, Esq, with the Author's best regards," in Barnes's handwriting. Bought at the sale of the library of Charles Warne, Junior, Hove, Brighton, 15 July 1949. As the inscription is undoubtedly contemporary, it must have been a gift to Charles Warne senior. 4. Hwomely Rhymes. A Second Collection of Poems in the Dorset Dialect. John Russell Smith, 1859. Purple cloth, blind-stamped in same pattern as the 1847 Poems of Rural Life, yellow glazed end-papers, printed adverts, with binder's ticket of Bone & Son, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed. Gilt-lettering of spine is similar to the 1847 book, but as the volume is much thinner, binding cases are not interchangeable.

6. Tiw, or, A View of the Roots and Sterns of the English as a Teutonic Tongue. John Russell Smith, 1862. Light red embossed cloth, top edges unopened, others lightly trimmed, cream end-papers with binder's ticket of Bone, 2 leaves of adverts for the Library of Old Authors at end. Charles Warne's copy with his signature dated "10/11/70" on title-page. From the Hove 1949 sale. 7. A Grammar and Glossary of the Dorset Dialect: With the History, Outspreading, and Bearing of South-Western English. Published for the Philological Society. Berlin: A. Asher, 1863. Tall 8vo, contemporary binding of half-calf, marbled sides, gold circular bookplate of Edward Hailstone. 8. Poems of Rural Life in Common English. Macmillan, 1868. Bright blue cloth, top edges uncut, others only lightly trimmed, brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. PI and P2 at end carry adverts of other poets' publications only, followed by Macmillan's 48 page catalogue dated January 1868. 9. Another copy. This has been bound without the 48 page catalogue at end; the end-papers are much darker slatey brown and there is no binder's ticket. This is an admirably conclusive example of variant binding cases for a book of which there was only one edition printed. The brass ornament used below author's name in the first copy is also the one used in the First Edition of Matthew Arnold's New Poems (1867), and the publisher's monogram circle at foot is less than 3/5". In the second copy (without catalogue) a diamond ornament is used, and the circle at foot is above 3/5", i.e., a larger brass was used from amongst the many in the printer's trays. The inference would reasonably be that the copy with the catalogue was of the earlier binding batch.

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10. Early England and Saxon-English. John Russell Smith, 1869. Wine coloured blind-stamped cloth, all edges uncut, cream end-papers with binder's ticket of Bone. N2 at end carries adverts only, followed by 56 page catalogue. Inscribed: "Charles Warne Esq, with the Author's very kind regards." The recipient was Charles Warne senior, Barnes's close friend. From his son's library sold by auction at Hove in 1949.

17. Twenty Poems in Common English. With an Introduction by John Drinkwater. Oxford: Blackwell, 1925. Pink boards, decorated white, printed title label. A volume in the Little Nineteenth Century Classics series.

11. An Outline of English Speech-Craft. Kegan Paul, 1878. Dark red bevelled cloth, top edges uncut, others trimmed, dark blue end-papers, publisher's 32 page catalogue at end dated 4.78, following H3-a blank. From the library of Edward Clodd, with his autograph signature on title. 12. Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect. Kegan Paul, 1879. Dark green cloth, slate brown end-papers, top edges uncut, others trimmed. The First Collected Edition: this book sold but slowly, and the 32 page publisher's catalogue bound at end of this copy dated 2.79 is the earliest date noted. 13. Select Poems of William Barnes. Chosen and Edited with a Preface and Glossarial Index by Thomas Hardy. Henry Frowde, 1908. Dark red lambskin, gilt spine with blue leather lettering label, in blue printed dust-jacket (3s. 6d. net). This is the superior issue: ordinary copies were in cloth, 2s. 6d. net. 14. Another copy, in the normal series binding of the Oxford Classics series, green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others trimmed, frontispiece portrait. This is in earliest state. Most volumes in this series sold slowly, and later bound copies of the Barnes are found with top edges plain, no red silk bookmarker and central ornament on upper cover blind-stamped instead of gilt. Inscribed: "E. C. C. from Crompton, April 1909." The recipient was Mrs. Eleanor C. Clough, widow of Arthur Hugh Clough (Junior). 15. A Selection from Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect. By William Barnes. Edited by His Son. Kegan Paul, 1909. Light blue cloth, t.e.g, others uncut, frontispiece portrait. 16. Another copy of First Edition sheets, but a much later binding batch, all edges cut. The binding case is only 3 3/5" thick, against 3 4/5" in the uncut copy.

18. Poems Grave and Gay. Selected and Edited with Foreword and Biographical Notes by Giles Dugdale. Dorchester: Longmans, 1949. Light green cloth in printed dust-jacket. Autograph Letter 19. Autograph Letter, one page crown 8vo, undated, on his Rectory, Winterborne Came notepaper, to "My dear Friend Mr. Charles Warne." The letter is a Christmas greeting and the recipient has noted its receipt in red ink at foot: "1 Janry 1882. C. W." Secondary Material 20. Baxter, Lucy. Leader Scott: The Life of William Barnes, Poet and Philologist. By his Daughter. Macmillan, 1887. Dark blue cloth, frontispiece portrait, dark slate end-papers, publisher's 32 page catalogue dated September 1887. 21. Levy, William Turner. William Barnes, the Man and the Poems. Dorchester: Longmans, 1960. Bright yellow cloth, spine black lettered, edges cut, in pictorial dust-jacket (10/6d.). 22. Badham-Thornhill, D. G. B. William Barnes of Dorset. Beaminster: J. S. Cox, 1964. Printed wrappers, 20 pages, illustrated. 23. Hearl, Trevor W. William Barnes, 1801-1886: The Schoolmaster. Dorchester: Longmans, 1966. Bright green cloth, spine gilt, edges cut, map end-papers, illustrated. In pictorial dust-jacket (30s.). Association Items Note: The following books are from Barnes's library. 24. Savage, James. Dorchester and Its Environs. Dorchester: Weston, Simonds & Sydenham, 1832. Half green morocco, marbled sides, t.e.g., others lightly trimmed. Barnes's name appears in the list of subscribers, and he also made the woodcut illustrations, his initials appearing below the frontispiece and 2 other plates. Charles Warne's copy with his signature dated June 1850 and neatly written notes in text in his autograph.

33 BARNES (William) 1801-1886 25. De Vertot, Abbot. History of the Revolutions that Happened in the Government of the Roman Republic. Translated by Mr. Ozell. 6th ed. 2 vols. Printed for C. Bathhurst & others, 1770. Tall 8vo, neat contemporary binding of mottled calf, gilt spine with red lettering label. Barnes's copy, with his bookplate. 26. Letters from a Lady who Resided Some Years in Russia. 2nd ed. Dodsley, 1777. Small 8vo, contemporary calf, blue lettering label, Barnes's copy with his bookplate. The author of this anonymous work was Mrs. Vigor. At end is the separately paginated "Eleven Additional Letters. . . never before published. . . by the late Mrs. Vigor." 27. March, Lieut. A Walk across the French Frontier into North Spain. R. Bentley, 1852. Light red cloth, gilt spine, uncut, red end-papers with binder's ticket of Remnant & Edmonds. Barnes's copy with his autograph signature in ink. BARRIE (Sir James Matthew) 1860-1937 1. Auld Licht Idylls. Hodder, 1888. Bevelled dark blue buckram, t.e.g., other uncut, dark slate end-papers. 2. Another copy, identical save that end-papers are dark green. Inscribed on half-title: "T. J. Gillman 29/1 of 88. from J. M. B." but in the handwriting of the recipient, not of the author. 3. When a Man's Single: A Tale of Literary Life. Hodder, 1888. Produced uniformly with above; end-papers dark green. 4. A Window in Thrums. Hodder, 1889. Produced uniformly with above. Presentation slip inserted: "To D. R. Clark, Esq, 12th Sept 1889," and with armorial bookplate of David Robert Clark., M.A. 5. An Edinburgh Eleven. Pencil Portraits from College Life. Office of the British Weekly, 1889. No. 3 of the British Weekly Extras. Light grey cloth, gilt and dark red lettered. 6. My Lady Nicotine. Hodder, 1890. Produced uniformly with items 2 to 4 above. 7. Better Dead. Swan Sonnenschein, 1891. Produced uniformly with above, but dark blue end-papers, coloured frontispiece. Presumed Second Edition [without bibliographical statement]. First published at the price of Is. in yellow wrappers, 1888.

BARRIE (Sir James Matthew) 1860-1937 8. The Little Minister. 2nd ed. 3 vols. Cassell, 1891. Light brown cloth, only lower edges lightly trimmed. 9. A Window in Thrums. Illustrated by William Hole, R.S.A. Hodder, 1892. The Tenth Edition was issued in 1892. The present is First Illustrated Edition, imperial 8vo, engraved title and 17 plates; No. 485 of 550 copies printed. 10. Barrie, J. M. The Tillyloss Scandal. Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry [c. 1893]. Dull red cloth, spine gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others cut. From the Esher library with Brett bookplate and a note by him: "Circa 1893, 3rd Edition, without 'It1. 0. S. B." 11. Auld Licht Idylls. Illustrated by William Hole, R.S.A. Hodder, 1895. Produced uniformly with item 9 above, in blue cloth, uncut. No. 175 of 550 copies printed. 12. Jane Annie, or, The Good Conduct Prize. A New and Original English Comic Opera Written by J. M. Barrie and A. Conan Doyle. Music by Ernest Ford. Chappell, 1893. Tall 8vo, light green wrappers lettered in blue, 50 pages followed by one leaf of adverts. Freshly printed text "Procter's Song" &c. superimposed on lower half of p. 9. An uncut copy, neatly cased in light blue linen, gilt-lettered up spine. The state printed on 48 pages may have preceded this, making the present the Second Edition. 13. An Edinburgh Eleven. Hodder, 1894. This unspecified edition is the Second. From the same type as item 2 above, (Unwin Brothers, printers) and same pagination. Pale pink cloth. 14. An Edinburgh Eleven. 3rd ed. Hodder, 1896. Printed from same type as above and in the same pale pink cloth. 15. Sentimental Tommy: The Story of His Boyhood. Cassell, 1896. Bevelled dark blue buckram, publisher's device-patterned grey end-papers, t.e.g., only lower edges trimmed, DD3 and DD4 at end carry adverts, followed by 8 leaves of Cassell's Publications marked 6G and dated 8.96. The catalogue includes the present title (price 6s.). The catalogue more frequently found in copies is dated 10.96. 16. Gable, George W. The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life. With an Introductory Note by J. M. Barrie. Hodder, 1898. Bevelled dark blue buckram, t.e.g., others uncut, dark blue end-papers.

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BARRIE (Sir James Matthew) 1860-1937 17. Margaret Ogilvy. By Her Son J. M. Barrie. Hodder, 1896. Bevelled dark blue buckram, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait. N7 and N8 at end carry adverts of other works by the author. 18. Tommy and Grizel. Cassell, 1900. Black bevelled buckram, t.e.g., others trimmed, publisher's device-patterned grey end-papers; Cassell's 8 page catalogue at end dated 9.00. 19. The Little White Bird. Hodder, 1902. Blue-black bevelled buckram, t.e.g., others trimmed, frontispiece plate, white wove end-papers. 20. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. With Drawings by Arthur Rackham. Hodder, 1906. 4to, red cloth, gilt-lettered and designed, edges stained to match brown paper mounts of illustrations, brown end-papers (the upper one free, printed with map of Kensington Gardens in mauve ink). There are 50 coloured reproductions of Rackham's illustrations. 21. Walker London: A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts. New York & London: Samuel French, 1907. Green wrappers printed in black, edges cut, frontispiece plate. This copy has "Revised Price, Two Shillings Net" rubber-stamped on upper wrapper, which may indicate that it was not one of the earliest batch. The New York and London addresses of Samuel French are printed in that order on title-page, while they appear in the reverse order on upper wrapper. 22. George Meredith, 1909. Constable [1909]. Cream cloth, ruled in red and lettered in gilt, edges uncut. Text bordered in red, and imprint of Chiswick Press foot of final page [16]. Armorial bookplate of C. E. J. Esdaile. 23. George Meredith. Box Hill, May 22, 1909. Leicester: The Art School Press, 1912. Possibly an unauthorised reprint. 12 pages, text within ornamental borders, sewn into grey wrappers, upper side lettered in black. 24. The Novels, Tales and Sketches of J. M. Barrie. 12 vols. New York: Scribner; London: Hodder, 1896-1911. No. 135 of 150 copies for America and England, autographed in ink by the author. Pale blue boards, half cream parchment, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait. Printed throughout on Imperial handmade Japan paper. This is the Author's Edition, also known as the Thistle Edition. First 8 volumes dated 1896; volumes 9 and 10, 1900; volume 11, 1903 and volume 12, the final one, titled Peter and Wendy, illustrated by F. D. Bedford, is dated 1911.

BARRIE (Sir James Matthew) 1860-1937 25. Williamson, Robert. The J. M. Barrie Calendar. A Quotation for Every Day in the Year Compiled by Robert Williamson. Frank Palmer, 1912. In the special binding of purple suede, blind embossed, gilt-lettered upper side in 3 lines. 26. Quality Street: A Comedy in Four Acts. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Hodder [1913]. 4to, mauve cloth, gilt designed, edges cut, pictorial end-papers, 22 plates in colours on white mounts with protective titling leaf before each, not of text-paper. 27. Another copy, No. 460 of 1,000 copies signed by the Artist. These are printed on considerably larger paper than the foregoing item, with t.e.g., others uncut, bound in cream vellum with same gilt cover design. 28. Half Hours. Hodder [1914]. Dark blue buckram, spine lettered in light green enamel, top edges cut, lower uncut. Blank leaf before half-title. 29. Another copy, with addition of 2 leaves (of text-paper) at end carrying adverts of other books by Barrie. 30. The Admirable Crichton. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Hodder [1914]. 4to, bright red cloth with gilt cover design, edges cut, 20 coloured reproductions on white mounts with protective titling leaf (not on text-paper) before each. 31. Der Tag, or, The Tragic Man. New York: Scribners, 1914. Grey boards, lettered in black. This edition has the stage-direction at end of text in 6 lines. 32. Der Tag: A Play. Hodder [1916]. Grey boards, linen spine gilt-lettered downwards, in printed dust-jacket. This is the second state of the London edition in which the final leaf of text is a cancel pasted on stub. It has the shortened stage-direction in 3 sentences, set in 3 lines only, and printer's imprint in 2 lines at foot: "Printed 1914." 33. Another copy (? of First Edition) in identical binding and pagination. In this copy the final gathering is reprinted, last leaf no longer a cancel and with same text but imprint at foot reads "Printed 1915." Both states have same 4 leaves of adverts at end. This is the presumed third state.

35 BARRIE (Sir James Matthew) 1860-1937 34. Marcosson, Isaac F., and Frohman, Daniel. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man. With an Appreciation by James M. Barrie. John Lane, 1916. Dark green cloth, illustrated. Inscribed by the author: "I. F. Marcosson." In May 1915, 20 copies of Barrie's introduction had been printed for private circulation by Clement Shorter. 35. Echoes of the War. Hodder, 1918. Light blue cloth, 2 printed title labels, in blue printed dust-jacket (Six Shillings net), trimmed edges. 36. Merrick, Leonard. Conrad in Quest of His Youth. With an Introduction by J. M. Barrie. Hodder [1918]. Dark blue cloth, gilt; the uniform reissue of Merrick's fiction. Barrie's essay contributed to this edition for the first time. 37. What Every Woman Knows: A Comedy. Hodder, 1918. Light blue cloth, 2 printed title labels, in white printed dust-jacket (Three Shillings and Sixpence net). In the series, The Plays of J. M. Barrie. 38. Flower, Newman. The Boy Who Did Grow Up. With an Introductory Note by Sir J. M. Barrie. Cassell [1919]. Green cloth, gilt spine. Author's autograph inscription on half-title: "To Dearest Bee. This story of a Pilgrimage, from Newman." 39. Another copy, in a later binding of First Edition sheets in which the cover lettering is in blue. 40. Alice Sit-by-the-Fire. Hodder, 1919. Light blue cloth, 2 printed title labels, in white printed dust-jacket (Three Shillings and Sixpence net). 41. Ashford, Daisy. The Young Visitors, or, Mr. Salteenas Plan. With an Introduction by J. M. Barrie. Chatto & Windus, 1919. Marbled red boards, half black cloth, printed spine label, in pictorial dust-jacket. 42. A Kiss for Cinderella. Hodder, 1920. Light blue cloth, 2 printed title labels, in white printed dust-jacket (Five Shillings net). This and the previous item are volumes in the uniform series of Barrie's works. Volumes that are merely reprintings, e.g., The Twelve-Pound Look and Other Plays (1921), a reissue of Half-Hours (1914), are not described, though present in the collection.

BARRIE (Sir James Matthew) 1860-1937 43. Chapin, Harold. The Comedies of Harold Chapin. With an Introduction by J. M. Barrie. Chatto & Windus, 1921. Tall 8vo, dark green cloth, printed spine label, top edges stained, others uncut. 44. Courage. The Rectorial Address Delivered at St. Andrews University, 3 May 1922. There are 4 editions, all by Hodder, undated, in the collection, which the wise who come after us will arrange in their correct sequence; here they are described but no chronological order is assumed. a. 32 pages, cream paper wrappers (Price Sixpence Net) printer's imprint of Wyman on p. 31. b. 48 pages, cream cloth, lettered in red (including down the spine lettering), in printed dust-jacket (21- net). Page setting of 22 lines of text, Wyman imprint on p. 47. c. Similar to above but text ending on p. 45 with printer's imprint of Constable at foot. This is a 24 line setting; same binding but spine not lettered, same dust-jacket (21- net). d. An Edition-de-luxe variety, on thick paper (manifestly much higher price). Large Paper, t.e.g., others uncut. Printed by Constable, no pagination, 22 leaves with register in 4's. Textually, this appears to be a late variety, with "as is ordained" in second paragraph, instead of "so it is ordained"; and in fourth paragraph the longer sentence, "That to gain courage is what you come to St. Andrews for-with some alarums and excursions into college life." This is variously printed in the earlier editions, either as 2 separate sentences, or one sentence with a comma, not with the spasm as here. 45. Dear Brutus: A Comedy in Three Acts. Hodder [1922]. Light blue cloth, 2 title labels, a volume in the Uniform Edition of Barrie's plays. This copy does not state "Printed in 1922" on verso title-page (see Cutler, Bibliography, 1931). 46. Mary Rose: A Play in Three Acts. Hodder, 1924. Light blue cloth, 2 title labels, in printed dust-jacket (Five Shillings net). This copy does not state "First Edition, December 1924" on verso title-page (see Cutler, Bibliography, 1931). 47. Peter Pan, or, The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up. Hodder, 1928. Light blue cloth, 2 title labels, in printed dust-jacket (Five Shillings net). Has "First Edition. . . October 1928" on verso title-page.

36 BARRIE (Sir James Matthew) 1860-1937 48. The Plays of J. M. Barrie. Hodder, 1928. The Edition-de-luxe in full blue morocco, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others cut, frontispiece portrait. Pale mottled green end-papers. "First Edition" on verso title-page. Contains 20 plays. 49. Shall We Join the Ladies? Hodder, 1929. Light blue cloth, 2 printed title labels, in printed dust-jacket (Five Shillings net). This is only a First Separate Edition, the play being the last item in the collected 1 volume Plays of 1928. 50. The Life Entrancing. Address Delivered on Installation as Chancellor of Edinburgh University, 25 October 1930. Hodder, 1930. Cream linen, lettered in dark blue, in printed dust-jacket (One Shilling Net). "First Edition. . . 1930" on verso of title-page. 51. The Greenwood Hat: Being a Memoir of James Anon, 1885-1887. Fifty Copies Privately printed, 1930. Green padded leather, gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others cut, frontispiece portrait and 9 other illustrations. 52. Farewell Miss Julie Logan: A Wintry Tale. Hodder, 1932. Light blue cloth, 2 printed title labels, the last volume of the Uniform Edition published by Hodder. 53. Farewell Miss Julie Logan. New York: Scribner, 1932. The first American edition, printed at the Scribner Press. Green cloth, gilt. 54. Robey, George. Looking Back on Life. With an Introduction, "Mr. Robey, Auctioneer," by Sir James Barrie. Constable, 1933. Light blue cloth, illustrated. 55. Lytton, Earl of. Antony (Viscount Knebworth): A Record of Youth. By his Father, the Earl of Lytton. With a Foreword by J. M. Barrie. Peter Davies, 1935. Dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered, cut edges, illustrated. 56. The Greenwood Hat. With a Preface by The Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, K.G. Peter Davies, 1937. Dark blue smooth buckram, edges cut, 9 illustrations; facsimile of a letter to Barrie from Captain Scott, the Antarctic explorer, present in the 1930 private edition, is omitted. 57. McConnachie and J. M. B. Speeches by J. M. Barrie, with a Preface by Hugh Walpole. Peter Davies, 1938. Dark blue smooth buckram, edges cut, blue printed dust-jacket (7/6 net).

BARRIE (Sir James Matthew) 1860-1937 58. The Boy David: A Play Acts. Peter Davies, 1938. Light printed title labels. This is the the Uniform Edition of Barrie's one from the new publisher.

in Three blue cloth, 2 final volume of plays-the only

59. Another copy, but in dark blue leather with gilt spine, author's circular monogram on upper cover, t.e.g., others trimmed, mottled grey-blue end-papers. 60. Letters. Edited by Viola Meynell. Peter Davies, 1942. Dark blue cloth, cut edges, frontispiece. Autograph Letter 61. ALS, 2 pages, on a folded sheet of black-edged "Leinster Corner" notepaper, dated 4 September, 1904 addressed to "Dear Mr. Smith," and with Wandsworth Borough Council receiving stamp dated 5 September 1904. About the death of a member of the family in Kirriemuir, the letter reads in part: "It is a pleasure to me to know that you are one of those who remember him so affectionately." Secondary Material 62. May, Phil. Theatre Royal, Haymarket Souvenir Portfolio of the Production of "The Little Minister." By J. M. Barrie. Saturday evening, November 6, 1897. [No publisher: imprint of Nassau Press, 1898]. A red board folder lettered in white containing 15 drawings by Phil May of the characters, preceded by 2 photographs. 63. Hammerton, J. A. J. M. Barrie and His Books. Horace Marshall, 1900. Bevelled black buckram, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait. 64. Moult, Thomas. Barrie. Jonathan Cape, 1928. Green cloth, only lower edges uncut. 65. Hammerton, J. A. Barrieland: A Thrums Pilgrimage. Sampson Low [1929]. Orange cloth, black lettered, in pictorial dust-jacket, 16 plates from photographs. 66. Chalmers, Patrick. The Barrie Inspiration. Peter Davies, 1938. Dark blue buckram, edges cut, 8 illustrations. 67. Mackail, Denis. The Story of J. M. B.: A Biography. Peter Davies, 1941. Light blue cloth, edges cut, frontispiece portrait.

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BARRIE (Sir James Matthew) 1860-1937 Association Item 68. The Fifth of November, or, The Gunpowder Plot. An Historical Play supposed to be written by William Shakspeare. Baldwin & Cradock, 1830. Original green stiff wrappers, all edges uncut, printed title label on upper side. The book is from Barrie's personal library, with an interesting early etched bookplate of Valentine Smith, of Thatched Cottage, Virginia Water.

BARTON (Bernard) 1784-1849 9. Selections from the Poems and Letters of Bernard Barton. Edited by his Daughter. Hall, Virtue, 1849. Light blue blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine and ornament on upper side, all edges uncut, primrose yellow end-papers, errata slip at end, frontispiece portrait and 3 other engraved plates. The 28 page Memoir, signed E. F. G., is the work of Edward Fitzgerald, the "one who knew Father well" of Lucy Barton's Preface. Secondary Material

BARTON (Bernard) 1784-1849 1. Metrical Effusions, or, Verses on Various Occasions. Woodbridge: S. Loder, 1812. Contemporary binding of half green calf, sprinkled edges. Pp. viii, 224, followed by 2 leaves of "Books Printed by and for S. Loder." P.[224] carries the 11 line errata, with Loder's imprint at foot. The First Edition of the poet's rare first book. 2. Poems. Harvey & Darton, 1820. Drab brown boards, printed spine label, all edges uncut. 3. Poems. 3rd ed., with additions. Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, 1822. Contemporary binding of green calf, red spine lettering label. 4. Poems. 4th ed., with additions. Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, 1825. Green cloth, uncut, printed spine label.

10. Lucas, Edward Verrall. Bernard Barton and His Friends: A Record of Quiet Lives. Edward Hicks, Jr., 1893. Smooth olive green buckram, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait. This book sold slowly and was never reprinted. Some copies have a Publisher's Notice slip inserted, dated March 1896, announcing Headley Brothers "Having purchased the stock of Edward Hicks, Jr, together with the copyrights vested in him." Presentation copy to A. B. Walkley with autograph inscription: "E. V. Lucas to A. B. W." 11. Another copy of First Edition sheets. When this book was taken over by Headley Bros., there were apparently unbound sheets as well. These were bound-up in exactly similar buckram, save that upper cover is without lettering and imprint at foot of spine is "Headley Bros." The present copy is in that state.

5. Napoleon and Other Poems. Thomas Boys, 1822. Diced brown calf with gilt spine and borders. Probably lacks a half-title.

BAX (Clifford) 1886-1963

6. Poetic Vigils. Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, 1824. Original drab brown boards, uncut edges, spine label rubbed.

1. Ruskin, John. The Crown of Wild Olive. J. M. Dent [1908]. Everyman Library edition, with 8 page introduction by Clifford Bax. Light red cloth, gilt spine, edges cut, top edges stained to match cloth.

7. Devotional Verses. Founded on and Illustrative of Select Texts of Scripture. B. J. Holdsworth, 1826. Original blue boards, drab spine with printed title label, all edges uncut. An engraved title precedes the printed one. Holdsworth's 4 page catalogue at end. 8. Mornings in the Library. By Ann Knight. With Introduction and Poems by Bernard Barton. Darton & Clark [1830]. Original wine coloured stamped cloth, gilt spine, edges trimmed.

2. Steiner, Rudolf. Initiation and Its Results: A Sequel to "The Way of Initiation." Translated from the German by Clifford Bax. Theosophical Publishing Co., 1909. Mauve cloth, blue and gilt designed, edges cut, frontispiece portrait. 3. Twenty Chinese Poems. Paraphrased by Clifford Bax. With Four Illustrations in Colour by Arthur Bowmar-Porter. W. Budd, Orpheus Press, 1910. Light blue boards, Holland spine with lettering label, trimmed edges. No. 3 in the Orpheus Series; pp. 53-54 at end advertise these followed by a leaf with Women's Printing Society imprint centre recto, otherwise blank.

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BAX (Clifford) 1886-1963 4. Twenty-five Chinese Poems. 2nd ed., revised and enlarged. Hendersons [1916]. Blue printed wrappers, uncut. 5. Poems Dramatic and Lyrical. The Orpheus Press, 1911. Square 8vo, cream holland, gilt designed and lettered, t.e.g., others uncut. No. 9 in the Orpheus Series. Inscribed by the author's first wife: "Daphne G. Bax. Broughton Gifford, Wilts." Below this a later inscription in the author's hand: "Mavis Yorke (2nd Dryad) with love from Clifford Bax, July the llth, 1912." Loosely inserted, a 4 page leaflet, "Some Press Notices. Miss Mavis Yorke, 15 Seymour Road, Hampden Hill." 6. Another copy, in dark blue smooth cloth, spine gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. This is the Edition-de-luxe, printed on Aldwych handmade watermarked paper. 7. The Poetasters of Ispahan: A Verse-Comedy in One Act. Evelyn Benmar, 1912. Large square 8vo, light blue holland with coloured ornament centre of upper cover and without lettering anywhere. Top edges unopened throughout. 8. Friendship. B. T. Batsford [1913]. Dark blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others trimmed. Laid, white end-papers with ornamental borders, blue silk bookmarker, A volume of the Fellowship Books edited by Mary Stratton. Imprint of the Ballantyne Press, 1913 on recto of final leaf, otherwise blank. 9. Japanese Impromptus. By Clifford and Daphne Bax. Speen, Bucks.: 1914. No pagination, 18 leaves, issued stabbed and sewn with green silk into light grey semi-stiff wrappers lettered on upper side. Printed at the Abbot's Hill Press, Speen, Bucks. 10. Square Pegs: A Rhymed Fantasy for Two Girls. Hendersons, 1920. Light reddish brown wrappers lettered black, uncut. 11. A House of Words. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1920. Light blue boards, darker blue linen spine, 2 printed title labels, edges uncut. Blind-stamped "For Review" on title-page. 12. Old King Cole. C. W. Daniel, 1921. Stiff orange wrappers, 2 blue titling labels, edges uncut. No. 15 of Plays for a People's Theatre. In printed dust-jacket (3/6 net).

BAX (Clifford) 1886-1963 13. Antique Pageantry: A Book of Verse-Plays. Hendersons, 1921. Green boards, half-holland, 2 printed title labels, edges uncut. From the library of Rutland Boughton (the musician) with his autograph signature. 14. Gleanings. Printed for the Author by Philip Sainsbury at the Favil Press, Kensington, 1921. Blue cloth, upper side gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others uncut. The edition is stated to be limited to 40 copies, but this copy is inscribed: "No. 42. Two extra copies printed for the Press. Philip Sainsbury. Bound by Samuel Cousins. W. King Alton Mill. Hand made paper c. 1880. Spicer." Also in the same handwriting on endpaper: "Ex Architypographia Favilana, June 4, 1921." 15. Shakespeare: A Play in Five Episodes. By H. F. Rubinstein and Clifford Bax. With a Preface by A. W. Pollard. Benn, 1921. Bright blue cloth, spine titling label, top and lower edges cut. 16. The Traveller's Tale. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1921. Dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered up spine and in 4 lines on upper side, all edges uncut. 17. Goldoni, Carlo. Four Comedies. Edited by Clifford Bax. Cecil Palmer, 1922. Tall 8vo, pale grey boards, half-holland, spine titling label, top edges cut, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (25/- net). Printed at the Curwen Press. No. 75 of 500 copies, signed by the publisher. The Address to the Reader is by Bax, who also translated 2 of the plays. 18. Polite Satires. The Medici Society, 1922. Patterned boards with 2 titling labels. From the library of Rutland Boughton, inscribed: "R. Boughton, Glastonbury." 19. Up Stream: A Drama in Three Acts. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1922. Red patterned boards, half cream parchment, gilt-lettered upwards on spine, all edges uncut. No. 8 of 50 copies, printed at the Shakespeare Head Press on Kelmscott Handmade Paper, numbered and signed by the author. 20. Midsummer Madness: A Music. E. Benn, 1923. No. 3 in Contemporary British Dramatists blue cloth, 2 titling labels, edges

Play For the series, bright trimmed.

21. Gay, John. Polly: An Opera by Mr. Gay, Being the Sequel to the "Beggar's Opera." Now Freely Adapted by Clifford Bax. Chapman & Hall, 1923. Pale blue boards, half white linen, lettered in blue (3/- net). The second printing, but same month (January) as first.

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22. Studio Plays: Three Experiments in Dramatic Form. With designs for costumes and one scene by Dorothy Mullock. Cecil Palmer [1924]. 4to, cream parchment with elaborate design in red and gold, top edges cut, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (Price: Two Guineas net), 10 plates in colour. Edition-de-luxe limited to 250 copies, numbered and signed by author and artist. The ordinary edition was in 3 separate booklets in semi-stiff designed wrappers at 3/6d. net each, 2 of which are in the collection.

31. Inland Far. Lovat Dickson, 1933. Half cream linen, light blue sides, green titling label, top edges stained green, others cut. Originally published in 1925, this is the first in the uniform Bedford Edition of the author's works. Inscribed: "Helen Chisholm~a friend whom I found too late to praise in this volume. Clifford Bax."

23. Inland Far: A Book of Thoughts and Impressions. Heinemann, 1925. Light brown smooth cloth, gilt spine, cut edges, 8 portraits. 24. Mr. Pcpys: A Ballad-Opera. Heinemann, 1926. Glazed pink boards, 2 titling labels, edges cut. 25. Bianca Cappello. Gerald Howe, 1927. Dark green cloth, gilt spine, top edges stained to match, lower edges trimmed, in designed dust-jacket (3s. 6d. net). Representative Women series, edited by Francis Birrell. 26. Many a Green Isle. Heinemann, 1927. Green cloth, only lower edges uncut. 27. Eight Poems. 12 pages stapled into deep cream wrappers lettered in red. No printer's imprint. Sent as a Christmas Greeting 1928 from 72 Addison Road, W. 14. Title-page so laid-out, the fifth line being filled in by the author in ink for Sybil and George Sheringham. At foot Mrs. Bax has written: "and from Vera Bax, too, with every good wish." This rare booklet contains the first printing of some of the author's best poems. 28.

Socrates: A Play in Six Scenes.

Gollancz, 1930. Black cloth, pink spine titling label, cut edges. 29. Pretty Witty Nell: An Account of Nell Gwyn and Her Environment. Chapman & Hall, 1932. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, half cream linen, gilt-lettered, top edges cut, others uncut, frontispiece and 12 plates. Inscribed: "Irene Gosse, with very warm thanks for getting me well. Clifford Bax. March 1933." With the recipient's bookplate: she was Mrs. Philip Gosse. 30. Twelve Short Plays: Serious and Comic. Gollancz, 1932. Black cloth, issued uniformly with Socrates (1930). In printed dust-jacket (5/- net).

32. The Rose without a Thorn: A Play. Samuel French, 1933. Pale blue wrappers lettered in darker blue, edges cut. French's Acting Edition No. 1,731. 4s. net. 33. Ideas and People. Lovat Dickson, 1936. Red cloth, spine lettered in white enamel, top edges stained to match cloth, others cut, in pictorial dust-jacket (10s. 6d. net). 34. Highways and Byways in Essex. With Illustrations by F. L. Griggs and S. R. Badmin. Macmillan, 1939. Light blue cloth, spine lettered in darker blue, all edges cut, map end-papers. 35. The Life of the White Devil. Cassell, 1940. Dark blue cloth, spine red lettered, cut edges, in printed dust-jacket (8s. 6d. net), 9 illustrations. A life of Vittoria Accoramboni, immortalized by John Webster. 36. Evenings in Albany. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1942. Pale grey-blue cloth, lettered up spine in black, edges cut, in pictorial dust-jacket, frontispiece plate. 37. Time with a Gift of Tears: A Modern Romance. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1943. Bright blue cloth, cut edges, in printed dust-jacket (10s. 6d. net). 38. Vintage Verse: An Anthology of Poetry in English. Compiled with Commentary by Clifford Bax. Hollis & Carter, 1945. Mauve red cloth, gilt, top edges stained to match, others cut, patterned end-papers. 39. The Beauty of Women. Frederick Muller, 1946. Light stone coloured linen, gilt-lettered, top edges cut, others uncut, 16 illustrations. 40. All the World's a Stage. Theatrical Portraits, Edited with an Introduction by Clifford Bax. Frederick Muller, 1946. Red cloth, gilt-lettered up spine, in dust-jacket (10s. 6d. net)

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41. Golden Eagle: A Drama. Home & Van Thai, 1946. Cream wrappers lettered red, in additional dust-jacket (5s. net).

50. Children of the Hills: Tales and Sketches of Western Ireland in the Old Time and the Present Day. Maunsel [1913]. Light brown boards, half-holland, printed spine titling label, only lower edges uncut.

42. The Silver Casket: Being Love-Letters and Love-Poems attributed to Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, now Modernized or Translated. With an Introduction by Clifford Bax. Home & Van Thai, 1946. Blue cloth, silver lettered, in printed dust-jacket (6/- net). 43. The Buddha: A Radio Version of His Life and Ideas. Gollancz, 1947. Black linen, gilt-lettered up spine, in pictorial dust-jacket (6/- net). 44. Rosemary for Remembrance. Frederick Muller, 1948. Brick red cloth, spine and upper side lettered in green, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (12/6d. net). Frontispiece and one other plate. 45. Circe: A Play in Three Acts. Frederick Muller, 1949. Bright yellow linen, lettered up spine in dark green, edges cut, in green printed dust-jacket (7/6d. net). Association Items Note: The following items, save the first, are by Sir Arnold Bax, brother of Clifford Bax, all published under the pseudonym of Dermot O'Byrne. 46. Bishop, Gwendolen. From Gardens in the Wilderness: Poems and Prose-Pictures. Orpheus Press, 1910. No. 4 of the Orpheus Series. Light brown boards, half cream buckram, lettered with coloured design, edges cut. The author became the wife of Clifford Bax. 47. Seafoam and Firelight. With cover design by Arthur Bowmar-Porter. W. Budd, Orpheus Press [1909]. The superior issue in green linen, black designed, edges cut. No. 2 of the Orpheus Series. 48. Another copy, the cheaper issue in green paper wrappers. Copies issued thus are considerably larger, having all edges uncut. 49. The Sisters and Green Magic. [Orpheus Press, 1909]. Large square 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt. No. 8 of the Orpheus Series.

51. A Dublin Ballad and Other Poems. Dublin: The Candle Press, 1918. Large square 8vo, light reddish brown wrappers lettered in darker red, all edges uncut. 52. Wrack and Other Stories. Dublin: Talbot Press; London: Fisher Unwin, 1918. Orange boards, half dark brown cloth, gilt spine, upper side lettered in brown, trimmed edges, in printed dust-jacket (3/6d. net). BEARDSLEY (Aubrey Vincent) 1872-1898 1. Bon-Mots of Sydney Smith and R. Brinsley Sheridan. Edited by Walter Jerrold. With Grotesques by Aubrey Beardsley. Dent, 1893. Pott 8vo, cream cloth, lettered and designed gilt and red, t.e.g., lower edges trimmed. Patterned end-papers. 2. Bon-Mots of Charles Lamb and Douglas Jerrold. Edited by Walter Jerrold. With Grotesques by Aubrey Beardsley. Dent, 1893. Produced uniformly with above. 3. Bon-Mots of Samuel Foote and Theodore Hook. Edited by Walter Jerrold. With Grotesques by Aubrey Beardsley. Dent, 1894. Produced uniformly with above. 4. The Birth, Life, and Acts of King Arthur. . . . Text by Sir Thomas Malory. . . Embellished with many original designs by Aubrey Beardsley. 2 vols. Dent, 1893-1894. Royal 8vo, light fawn bevelled cloth, gilt designed, t.e.g., others uncut. Inscribed in Richard Le Gallienne's handwriting: "To Dear Jim, with the old Love from Dick, Nov. 6th '95." From Sotheby's sale, 2 April 1958, Lot 299, comprising books from the library of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Welsh, Le Gallienne's sister and brother-in-law, to whom he dedicated his first book, My Ladies' Sonnets (1887). 5. Another copy, the Large Paper edition, in 3 volumes. As issued in 12 parts, Copy No. 192 of 300 copies on Dutch handmade paper, pale grey-blue wrappers designed and lettered in brown, all edges uncut. This was an incomplete set, lacking Part 3, which has now been acquired, but only a copy on ordinary paper. While it constitutes a defect in the set, it does show what the size and wrappers (pale green) were in the

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ordinary copies. The majority of the 300 were used to form the 3 volume deluxe edition, bound in full cream vellum; hence very few still survive in wrappered parts.

collection, illustrating the history of this book. The present copy is in the first state, with the Black Coffee drawing as frontispiece. A comparatively rare book. Inscribed: "7th November: 1895. In sending this my first book for review, I wish to accompany it with my cordial thanks to Mrs. Beer for her kindly encouragement when it was still in MS. Walter Ruding." Acquired at the sale of Mrs. Beer's books in 1961 at Boveridge Park, Cranborne, Dorset. She was a well-known reviewer and journalist of the Nineties, in all probability the Mrs. Bernard Beer who was a friend of Oscar Wilde.

6. Bjornson, B. Pastor Sang. Translated into English by William Wilson. Longmans, 1893. Frontispiece by Aubrey Beardsley. Smooth straw coloured buckram, spine and upper side lettered and designed in black. 7. The Wonderful History of Virgilius the Sorcerer of Rome. Englished for the First Time. David Nutt, 1893. No. 2 in the Mediaeval Legends series. Light brown wrappers, uncut, frontispiece plate by Aubrey Beardsley. 8. Hickes, Francis. Lucian's True History. Illustrated by William Strang, J. B. Clark and Aubrey Beardsley. With an Introduction by Charles Whibley. Privately printed, 1894. No. 97 of 251 copies, smooth greenish brown buckram, all edges uncut. 9. {Original announcement of] The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly. Vol. 1, April 1894. A 4 page small 4to pamphlet, sewn into yellow wrappers, upper side with book-stall drawing by Beardsley, printed for the first time. 10. The Cambridge A.B.C. Cambridge: Elijah Johnson. No. 1, 8 June 1894. No. 2, 9 June, 1894, No. 3, 11 June 1894. No. 4, 12 June 1894. Original binding of light green cloth with lettering and design similar to title-page, though without the Beardsley signature. Continuously paginated 1-76 with each first leaf (title-page) and each final leaf (adverts) unpaginated, altogether 92 pages (no register). Each title-page carries the same black and white illustration signed in lower left hand corner: "Aubrey Beardsley." 11. Wharton, H. T. Sappho: Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings. . . . 3rd ed. Lane, 1895. Blue cloth, gilt cover design by Beardsley, first used in this edition. The First Edition of Wharton's Sappho had been published in 1885. 12. Sharp, Evelyn. At the Relton Arms. Lane, 1895. Sage green cloth, title-page and cover design by Beardsley. A volume in the Keynotes Series. 13. Ruding, Walt. An Evil Motherhood: An Impressionist Novel. Frontispiece by Aubrey Beardsley. Elkin Mathews, 1896. Dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered, with design in light blue, all edges uncut. Only one edition was printed, of which 3 copies are in the

14. Another copy. The second state, with the substituted plate. Otherwise identical; both plates are by Beardsley. 15. Another copy. The third state, identical with second state, but with the "Suppressed" Black Coffee plate tipped in. Evidently the publishers sold copies in this state at a later date (? after Elkin Mathews's death in 1921), the supply of the first plate not having been destroyed. It is unlikely that sophisticated copies are in circulation, as the process would require the unsewing and re-casing of the copy. 16. Original prospectus for the First Edition (no copy present in collection) of Beardsley's edition of Pope's Rape of the Lock (Leonard Smithers, 1896). A folded sheet forming a 4 page booklet (5 1/4" x 8"), of which the second leaf is the perforated Order Form (paper copies 10s. 6d. net; Japanese vellum copies, limited to 25 only, 2 guineas). 17. Christmas Card plate, issued as a supplement with the first number of The Savoy. Leonard Smithers, January 1896. Semi-stiff card (6 1/8" x 9 1/4"), engraved surface (5 1/8" x 8"), with "Aubrey Beardsley" in white panel, lower right hand corner. 18. A Book of Fifty Drawings. With an Iconography by Aymer Vallance. Leonard Smithers, 1897. 4to, bright red cloth, with cover drawing in gilt by Beardsley, t.e.g., others trimmed. Limited to 500 copies. 19. Pope, Alexander. The Rape of the Lock: An Heroi-Comical Poem in Five Cantos. Embroidered with Eleven Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. 2nd ed. Leonard Smithers, 1897. Crimson cloth, gilt, all edges gilt. Reduced in size from First Edition to pott 8vo, and with a new cover design by Beardsley. The original cover design (of 1896) is printed as an additional illustration in the book. Limited to 1,000 copies on art paper and 50 on Japanese vellum.

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BEARDSLEY (Aubrey Vincent) 1872-1898 20. A Second Book of Fifty Drawings. New York: John Lane, 1899. 4to, bright red cloth, with cover drawing in gilt by Beardsley, (different from item 18 above), t.e.g., others trimmed. 1,000 copies printed. 21. Ben Jonson: His Volpone, or, The Fox. Critical Essay on the author by Vincent O'Sullivan, Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, together with a Eulogy of the Artist by Robert Ross. Leonard Smithers, 1898. 4to, blue cloth, gilt, top edges uncut, others trimmed. No. 71 of 1,000 copies. 22. The Collected Work. 3 vols. Lane, 1899-1925. All volumes in uniform 4to format, cream buckram, gilt designed, t.e.g., others uncut. Vol. I: The Early Work. With a Prefatory Note by H. C. Marillier. 1899. Limited to 120 copies on Japanese vellum. Vol. II: The Later Work. With a one page Note by John Lane. 1901. Limited to 100 copies, of which this is No. 68 (the certificate in mauve ink at lower foot, recto of frontispiece plate). Vol. Ill: The Uncollected Work. With an Introduction by C. Lewis Hind. Lane, 1925. Limited to 110 copies. This copy not numbered but marked "complimentary" (in ink). 23. Pope, Alexander, The Rape of the Lock. . . . [3rd ed.] Lane, 1902. Green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. With Beardsley's illustrations. Following p.[72] are 2 leaves of adverts which include the Flowers of Parnassus series, in which this slightly smaller (4 1/2" x 5 1/2") reprint is No. 10. The edition is unspecified. With inscription from Dr. Philip Napier Waggett S.J. to his sister Margaret. 24. Last Letters of Aubrey Beardsley. With an Introductory Note by the Rev. John Gray. Longmans, 1904. Mauve cloth, gilt, t.e.g., other edges trimmed, publisher's 8 page adverts at end dated 4/04. 25. Malory, Sir Thomas. Le Morte Darthur. 2nd ed. Dent, 1909. 4to, green cloth, gilt designed, t.e.g., others uncut. With Beardsley's designs. Issued as a single volume, limited to 1,000 copies for the United Kingdom and 500 for America. 26. Malory, Sir Thomas. Morte Darthur. 3rd ed. Dent, 1927. 4to, dark blue cloth, gilt designed, t.e.g., others uncut, limited to 1,600 copies. With 6 page Foreword by Aymer Vallance and a note by R. A. Walker on the designs omitted from the First Edition (and here restored).

BEARDSLEY (Aubrey Vincent) 1872-1898 27. Letters from Aubrey Beardsley to Leonard Smithers. Edited with Introduction and Notes by R. A. Walker. First Edition Club, 1937. Square 8vo, black cloth, gilt, facsimile MS end-papers, all edges uncut (unopened throughout). Secondary Material 28. Gallatin, A. E. Aubrey Beardsley's Drawings: A Catalogue and a List of Criticisms. New York: Wieners; London: Elkin Mathews, 1903. 4to, grey boards, half cream parchment, uncut. No. 231 of 250 copies, printed by J. J. Little & Co., New York in March 1903. 29. Ross, Robert. Aubrey Beardsley. With 16 Full-page Illustrations and a Revised Iconography by Aymer Vallance. John Lane, 1909. Red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Signature 'H' at end appears to consist of only 3 leaves carrying "A list of Volumes containing Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley," followed by 2 leaves of adverts of works by Anatole France. 30. Catalogue [of] Loan Exhibition of Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. Millbank: National Gallery, November 1, 1923-March 1, 1924. Descriptive catalogue of 56 exhibits, 24 pages (last leaf blank) metal fastened into gold coloured wrappers, upper side lettered in black, price Six Pence. There is a 2 page Introduction, contributed anonymously. 31. MacFall, Haldane. Aubrey Beardsley: The Man and His Work. John Lane, 1928. 4to, cream smooth buckram, t.e.g., others uncut, spine titling label. No. 82 of the Edition-de-luxe limited to 100 copies, with 6 extra illustrations. 32. Walker, R. A. Le Morte Darthur with Beardsley Illustrations: A Bibliographical Essay. Bedford: Published by the Author, 1945. 24 pages, stapled into light grey printed wrappers. Limited to 350 copies. Inscribed: "L. M. Hawkins, with the best wishes of the author, Sept. 1949." BEDDOES (Thomas Lovell) 1803-1849 1. The Brides' Tragedy. Printed for F. C. & J. Rivington, 1822. Contemporary brown calf, gilt spine with lettering label, marbled end-papers, all edges gilt. Bookplate of E. H. Firth.

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2. Death's Jest-Book, or, The Fool's Tragedy. Pickering, 1850. Wine coloured cloth (faded), spine titling label, all edges uncut. Four pages publisher's adverts at end. Issued anonymously.

10. The Complete Works. Edited with a Memoir by Sir Edmund Gosse. Fanfrolico Press [1928]. Imperial 8vo, No. 11 of the special issue of only 75 copies in original binding of mottled morocco, t.e.g., others uncut. This edition, continuously paginated, is in 2 parts, with separate title-pages and contents lists. The editor died while the work was in the press. Publisher's Note by Jack Lindsay states that a facsimile is included of Gosse's last letter about the production. However, a typed letter from the Press loosely inserted states that the accidental loss of Gosse's original renders them unable to carry out their original intention. From the library of Sir Francis Meynell, with his bookplate.

3. The Poems Posthumous and Collected. 2 vols. Pickering, 1851. Contemporary binding of half hardgrain morocco, gilt spines, t.e.g., others lightly trimmed. Volume 2 made up from the unsold balance of sheets of Death's Jest-Book to page 174, the single leaf of the original title-page being the only one removed, followed by a new setting of The Brides' Tragedy pp.[175]-288. 4. Poems by the Late Thomas Lovell Beddoes. Author of Death's Jest-Book, or, the Fool's Tragedy. With a Memoir. W. Pickering 1851. Dark blue cloth, spine titling label, edges uncut. The size of the 2 volume edition being restricted by the quantity of Death's Jest-Book sheets remaining, the publisher printed a fresh title-page for the issue of the rest of Beddoes's work in one volume, Thomas Kelsall's anonymous "Memoir" again prefacing it. In this form the pagination therefore becomes [2], v-cxxxiv, 232, 175-288 = 239 leaves. 5. Another copy. Belonged to Thomas Woolner and has his autograph signature dated 1856 on title-page. 6. The Poetical Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes. Edited with a Memoir by Edmund Gosse. With Etchings by Herbert Railton. 2 vols. Dent 1890. Contemporarily rebound (for Bumpus, Ltd.) in three-quarter red morocco, spines with raised bands, marbled sides and end-papers, t.e.g., others uncut. In the Temple Library series. No. 87 of 125 copies on large paper for England.

11. Thomas Lovell Beddoes: An Anthology. Chosen by F. L. Lucas. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1932. Dark green cloth, top edges stained to match, others trimmed. In printed green dust-jacket. 12. The Browning Box, or, The Life and Works of T. L. Beddoes as Reflected in Letters by His Friends and Admirers. Edited with an Introduction by H. W. Donner. Oxford University Press, 1935. Tall 8vo, dark red cloth, top edges stained to match, others trimmed. 12 illustrations. 13. Plays and Poems. Edited with Introduction by H. W. Donner. Routledge, 1950. Muses' Library series, dark blue cloth, gilt spine, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (12s. 6d. net). BEECHING (Henry Charles) 1859-1919

7. Another set, but this is the small paper edition in grey-blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut.

1. Mensae Secundae: Verses Written in Balliol College. Oxford: Blackwell, 1879. 32 pages, sewn into drab brown wrappers, titled in black on upper side. Issued anonymously. The Esher copy, with bookplate, preserved in a light brown linen case, gilt-lettered.

8. The Letters of Thomas Lovell Beddoes. Edited with Notes by Edmund Gosse. E. Mathews & J. Lane, 1894. Vertically ribbed light brown bevelled cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 6 lines with one short rule, t.e.g., others uncut. R8 is blank at end, following p. 270. Edition limited to 600 copies.

2. Love in Idleness: A Volume of Poems. Kegan Paul, 1883. Half cream parchment, salmon pink board sides, all edges uncut. Inscribed: "E. W. Gosse, Esq., with the Authors' Compliments. Feb. 1883," in Beeching's autograph.

9. The Poems of Thomas Lovell Beddoes. Edited with Introduction by Ramsay Colles. Routledge [1907] Blue cloth, gilt spine, edges cut. The new Muses Library edition, gilt spine, edges cut.

3. Another copy of First Edition sheets, illustrating the second binding issue. Similar coloured materials, but the red titling on spine is all in caps, and of a different size, in the 3 lines at top, while publisher's imprint at foot is set in 2 lines.

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4. Love's Looking Glass: A Volume of Poems. Percival, 1891. Smooth greenish brown buckram, all edges uncut, spine gilt-lettered in 4 lines. Inscribed: "Alfred Waterhouse, Esq., with affectionate regards from H. C. B. 19 July '91." The above 3 collections, which have poems in common, are by H, C. Beeching, J. W. Mackail and J. B. B. Nichols. The first 2 are issued anonymously; in the third there is a note on authorship, signified in the Table of Contents by initials. The note refers to Love in Idleness (1883) but Mensae Secundae is not mentioned, though 15 of the poems are from that work. The dedication there was to Evelyn Abbott, Fellow and Tutor of Balliol. The larger second collection (of 69 poems) was dedicated to A. C. Bradley.

11. Conferences on Books and Men. By the Author of Pages from a Private Diary. Smith Elder, 1900. Light blue cloth, dark slate end-papers, published without Beeching's name.

5. Seven Sermons to Schoolboys. With Preface by Henry Scott Holland. Methuen, 1894. Dark blue cloth, edges uncut, publisher's 24 page catalogue dated April 1894 at end. The Esher copy, with bookplate. 6. In a Garden and Other Poems. Lane, 1895. Pale green cloth, the title-page and cover design by Roger Fry. Limited to 500 copies, publisher's 16 page 1895 catalogue at end. The Esher copy, with Brett bookplate. 7. St. Augustine at Ostia: Oxford Sacred Poem. Lane, 1896. 28 pages, semi-stiff blue wrappers, upper side lettered in darker blue, all edges uncut. P.[27] carries advert of In a Garden, verso blank save for imprint of Birmingham Guild of Handicraft. John Lane's bookplate inside cover. Later in Lord Esher's library (Brett bookplate), preserved in brown linen case, gilt-lettered. 8. Another copy, in a contemporary binding (inscribed: "Dec. 12th 1896") of full cream vellum, gilt. Wrappers have not been preserved, and top edges have been gilded, but the copy is otherwise uncut. 9. Pages From a Private Diary. Smith Elder, 1898. Crown 8vo, green cloth, dark slate end-papers. Published anonymously. 10. A Selection from the Poetry of Samuel Daniel and Michael Drayton. With Introduction and Notes by H. C. Beeching. Dent, 1899. Light green cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut, 2 plates.

12. Inns of Court Sermons. Macmillan, 1901. Blue cloth, only lower edges trimmed, publisher's 40 page catalogue at end dated lO.'Ol. 13. A Note upon Waller's Distich. Off-print from An English Miscellany. Presented to Dr. Furniual in Honour of his Seventy-Fifth Birthday. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1901, pp.[4]-9. Pale grey-green wrappers, upper side lettered as a title-page. Undated 3 page ALS from A. C. Bradley inserted, acknowledging the article: "Very many thanks. As usual it is delightful." 14. Two Lectures Introductory to the Study of Poetry. Cambridge University Press, 1901. Bright red cloth, gilt, only lower edges trimmed. 16. Religio Laici. Smith Elder, 1902. Light blue cloth, all edges uncut. S8 at end followed by Tl and T2 carry adverts only. 16. The Apostles' Creed: Six Lectures given in Westminster Abbey. John Murray, 1905. Blue cloth, gilt-lettered, all edges cut. 17. Another copy, bound in green cloth. The lettering, both on spine and upper side, is from smaller type, and spine is lettered in 6 lines only, omitting "London." Possibly a later binding-up of First Edition sheets. 18. Ainger, Alfred. The Gospel and Human Life. Macmillan, 1904. Blue cloth, uncut edges. Beeching's name appears only at the end of the 8 page Preface. 19. St. Augustine. The Confessions. Edited by E. B. Pusey. With an Introduction by H. C. Beeching. Blackie [1904]. Green cloth, gilt, t.e.g,, others trimmed. A volume of the publisher's Red Letter Library, with 5 page Introduction. 20. Thomas a Kempis. The Imitation of Christ. With Introduction by H. C. Beeching. Blackie [1905]. The superior issue in red lambskin, gilt, t.e.g., others trimmed. A volume of the publisher's Red Letter Library, with 6 page Introduction.

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21. Ainger, Alfred. Lectures and Essays. 2 vols., Macmillan, 1905. Blue cloth, all edges uncut. Beeching's name appears only at the end of the 9 page Preface.

freshly printed title-pages, after the publisher's change of style to Rivington Percival & Co. The reissues were smaller sized volumes with top edges cut and gilt, binding dark blue buckram with elaborate gilt cover design. This would account for the considerable scarcity of the earlier style. The Norwich Public Library Bibliography (1919) does not list it, but records only the New Impression (Rivingtons, 1907).

22. Crashaw, Richard. The Poems. Edited by J. R. Tutin. With an Introduction by H. C. Beeching. Routledge [1905]. A volume of the new Muses' Library, blue cloth, gilt spine, edges cut. Beeching's introduction is 35 pages. 23. The Sermons. gilt, edges copy, with

Grace of Episcopacy and Other James Nisbet, 1905. Green cloth, cut, frontispiece portrait. The Esher bookplate.

24. Provincial Letters and Other Papers. By the Author of Pages from a Private Diary. Smith Elder, 1906. Blue cloth, only lower edges uncut. Y4 at end carries adverts only. 25. The Bible Doctrine of Atonement. Six Lectures given in Westminster Abbey by H. C. Beeching and Alexander Nairne. John Murray, 1907. Dark red cloth, gilt, trimmed edges. 26. George Borrow, A Sermon Preached in Norwich Cathedral on July 6, 1913. Jarrold & Sons [1913]. 12 pages, sewn into beige printed wrappers (Threepence Net). 27. Norwich Public Library Readers' Guide. 5 numbers: for March 1916, June 1916, March 1917, April 1918, and April 1919. Original printed wrappers of differing colours, each issue separately paginated. The first 4 contain contributions by Canon Beeching; the last, issued some months after his death, contains an "In Memoriam" address by Sir Sidney Lee and a Bibliography of Beeching's writings, based on the collection in the Norwich library. 28. Smith-Masters, Rev. J. E. Yattenden and Its Church. Cornwall Press [1929]. Dark red cloth, gilt, illustrated. Autograph postcard of the author dated The Rectory, Yattenden, 24 January 1930 inserted. Beeching was Rector from 1885 until 1900, and the book contains poems by him, notice of the Beeching Memorial and other relevant matters. Books Edited 29. A Paradise of English Poetry. Arranged by H. C. Beeching. 2 vols. Percival, 1893. Smooth olive green buckram, all edges uncut. The Preface and Notes, 20 pages, are by Beeching. From the evidence of an odd volume 1 also in the collection, it appears this work was reissued later in the same year with

30. A Book of Christmas Verse. Selected by H. C. Beeching. Ten Designs by Walter Crane. Methuen, 1895. Green smooth buckram, designed red and black and lettered gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Publisher's 32 page catalogue at end dated September 1895. This is the first issue binding; there were various later binding styles for the same First Edition sheets, one (at least) without the Walter Crane design. 31. Another copy. No. 10 of the special Japanese vellum issue of 15 copies only. Bound in cream parchment with gilt spine, all edges uncut, 1 1/4" taller than the ordinary edition. Gerard Manley Hopkins's "Wild air, world-mothering air" (126 lines) is here first printed from MS. 32. Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. Methuen, 1895. Smooth blue buckram, gilt-spine, t.e.g., others uncut, publisher's 32 page catalogue dated January 1895. The first binding variety with "London" in the 2 line imprint at foot of spine. In 1895, Canon Beeching published, through Methuen, 2 verse-anthologies: Lyra Sacra in the spring, and in the autumn A Book of Christmas Verse. No contemporary reprints were called for; both were financial failures, the sheets of the single editions taking several years to disperse, as is testified by variant and cheaper bindings with catalogues bound-in dated as much as 6 years later. A cheaper pocket edition of Lyra Sacra was issued in Methuen's Library of Devotion in 1903, but not until 1926 was a Second Edition Christmas Verse, with considerable additions, published by the Oxford University Press. Lyra Sacra may be the second anthology to print Hopkins's poems, preceded only by a volume of Miles's Poets and Poetry of the Century. It was certainly the first book to print any poem of Digby Mackworth Dolben, who was omitted by Miles. 33. Another copy, with a 48 page catalogue dated October, 1901.

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34. Another copy. As this is in a binding-case with the second variety of lettering (only "Methuen" at foot and no "London," as in the first binding), it must be a late issue.

42. Another copy, the second state. In this the first gathering has been reprinted and folded differently so that the blank [al] becomes [a3]. Pp.[v]-vii now carry Newman's Postscript to his edition of 1879, which had been omitted. The half-title and title-page (printed on plate paper) are included in counting of preliminaries in both states, hence collations are unchanged.

35. Herbert, George. The Country Parson. Edited by H. C. Seeching. Oxford: Blackwell, 1898. Half white boards, pale blue sides, spine titling label, all edges uncut. Inscribed in Beeching's hand: "Austin Dobson, Esqr. with the compliments of the editor," and with the recipient's bookplate inside cover. 36. Another copy, in the alternative variety of binding, cream parchment, yapp edges, edges of leaves trimmed and stained blue, green leather spine titling label. 37. A Paradise of English Poetry. Arranged by H. C. Beeching. New Edition. Rivingtons [1899]. Red smooth buckram, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. A popular pocket-sized reprint of the 2 volume work of 1893. 38. A Paradise of English Poetry. . . . Rivingtons [1907]. A later issue of the same sheets, identical pagination, xii, 690, [2], an original blank. Rebound in blue morocco, all edges gilt, spine with raised bands. Inscribed in Beeching's hand: "In Memory of Murren, from H. C. & M. B." This book was acquired from the library of Mrs. Stephens [Thomas Woolner's daughter] at Fordingbridge, Hants., in 1948. 39. Another copy, its significant feature being a reset title-page. The 3 lines below Beeching's name are omitted and the publisher's imprint is simplified and in 2 lines only: "London/Rivingtons," at foot of title-page. Identical with the inscribed copy in every detail; hence only serving to demonstrate what the original binding was: smooth blue buckram, with gilt blocking identical with the 1899 edition. 40. Milton, John. Poetical Works. Edited after the Original Texts by H. C. Beeching. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt, top edges cut, others uncut, frontispiece MS plate. Final leaf, pp.[555-556], carries printer's 4 line imprint centre recto, verso blank. 41. [Newman, J. H.] Lyra Apostolica. Edited by H. C. Beeching. With an Introduction by H. S. Holland. Methuen [1901]. A volume of the Library of Devotion, dark green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Blank leaf before half-title.

43. Milton, John. The Minor English Poems of John Milton. With an Introduction and Notes by H. C. Beeching. Methuen, 1903. A volume of the Little Library; superior issue in mauve leather, t.e.g., others cut, frontispiece portrait. 44. Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 2nd ed. revised. Methuen, 1903. A volume in the publisher's Library of Devotion series; superior issue in dark green leather gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. The 20 pages of Notes are omitted in this edition, but the poems of Dolben and Hopkins, which would else be lost, are brought into the main body of the work; also, the poem, "Margaret, are you grieving," added without comment to the Hopkins selection which, in 1895, Beeching had been content to leave in Poets and Poetry of the Century. 45. A Book of Christmas Verse. 2nd ed. revised. Oxford University Press, 1926. Dark green cloth, gilt, all edges uncut. Canon Beeching died in 1919 and the basis for this new edition is an 1895 copy with his corrections and deletions, and with a quantity of new material inserted. BEERBOHM (Max) 1872-1956 1. The Grey-Friar. A Chronicle in Black and White by Carthusians. Vol. 1. Godalming: printed for the Proprietors by R. B. Stedman, August 1884-December 1889. Large 4to, original binding full red morocco, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. This copy belonged to a Carthusian and contributor, Struan Robertson (see p. 89), and bears his signature and address. In the feature, "Humours of School-Life," there are 2 full pages of caricatures by H. M. Beerbohm [Max Beerbohm], and at p. 160 a smaller drawing of A. Bedesman. The author's earliest published work. 2. The Works of Max Beerbohm. With a Bibliography by John Lane. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. First Edition of the author's first book. Bright red cloth, all edges uncut, spine titling label, 16 page catalogue

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for 1896 at end. Bookplate of Maurice Francis Yorke (by D. Y. Cameron).

Inscribed on half-title: "A Ford Maddox Hueffer, Hommage du traducteur, M. Boulestin."

3. The Works of Max Beerbohm. 2nd ed. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. Second Edition certificate added centre verso title-page. No other apparent distinction between the 2 editions in printing, binding, laid end-papers, catalogue at end, or any other feature. This copy is unopened throughout.

11. Yet Again. Chapman & Hall, 1909. Blue cloth, top edges cut, others uncut, spine titling label.

4. The Happy Hypocrite. 2nd ed. New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1896. Gallatin 3a. Green wrappers, uncut, blank before half-title, November 1896 colophon.

13. Another copy of the First Edition but this is the issue in rough red brown cloth, blind-stamped upper side, spine with the larger lettering set in 5 lines and an ornamental frame stamped in gold oxidizing to green.

5. The Happy Hypocrite. 3rd ed. New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1896. Gallatin 3b. Identical with Second Edition save edition statement. 6. More. London and New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1896. Green cloth, all edges uncut, half-title but no adverts leaves at end, spine titling label (also spare at end) printed in one size type. No rubrication on title-page. With the Maurice Francis Yorke bookplate, also Osman Edwards book-label on free end-paper, with his address, 10 Yarrell Mansions, Queen's Club Gardens, W. 14. 7. Another copy, the issue without half-title page. Spine titling label printed in one type (no spare at end). Conforms with Gallatin 4b. Bookplate of Muriel Beckett. 8. Another copy, "Second Edition" centre verso title-page, top edges cut, others uncut. Collation as Gallatin 4c, 108 leaves, but without printer's imprint of Ballantyne, pp.[203-204] carrying University Press, Cambridge, U.S.A. imprint, pp.[205-206] carrying advert of More and 2 other works of the author, pp.[207-208] blank. Spine titling label has the author's name in smaller type (no spare label at end). This would appear to be the true Second Edition-not the edition of 1907 described by Gallatin. 9. The Poet's Corner. Heinemann, 1904. 22 single sheets, stapled; the issue in light grey stiff boards, with design by Beerbohm, edges cut. 10. L'Hypocrite sanctifie traduit de 1'anglais par X. Marcel Boulestin. Paris: Soci6t6 du Mercure de France, 1905. Gallatin 3t. Sage green wrappers lettered in red and dark green, all edges uncut, caricature plate.

12. Zuleika Dohson, or, An Oxford Love Story. Heinemann, 1911. Smooth brown cloth with the small spine lettering, top edges cut, others uncut.

14. Lynch, Bohun. Max Beerbohm in Perspective. With a Prefatory Letter by Max Beerbohm. Heinemann, 1912. Square 8vo, decorated blue and cream boards, black linen spine with titling label in printed dust-jacket (10/6 net). Coloured frontispiece portrait of Max Minimus, and many caricatures in black and white. 15. A Christmas Garland. Heinemann, 1912. Bright blue cloth, gilt, grey-green dust-jacket printed as cover with addition of the price (5/- net), top edges cut, others uncut. 16. Fifty Caricatures. Heinemann, 1913. Green cloth, gilt, edges cut. The first and last gatherings [A] and O are in 4's on white paper; the rest of the gatherings are brown paper mounts, with the drawings tipped-in. 17. The Happy Hypocrite. Illustrated by George Sheringham. John Lane [1915]. 4to, smooth cream buckram, upper side designed in blue, pink and green, top edges cut, others uncut, pictorial end-papers. 24 coloured illustrations. "This big new presentment of a little old story is of course for the sake of Mr. Sheringham's illustrations": From the author's Note, dated Rapall's, 1915. 18. Scott, Dixon. Men of Letters. With an Introduction by Max Beerbohm. Hodder & Stpughton, 1916. Tall 8vo, dark red cloth, gilt spine, top edges cut, others lightly trimmed. Frontispiece portrait. 19. Seven Men. Heinemann, 1919. Bright blue diced cloth, gilt spine and upper side, publisher's circular device in blind on lower cover. The last 2 leaves of final gathering carry adverts only. Top edges cut, others uncut. The issue bound in slatey blue cloth is stated by the publisher to be secondary.

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20. And Even Now. Heinemann, 1920. Yellow cloth, spine titling label (extra label at end), top edges cut, others uncut.

29. Life and Letters. Edited by Desmond MacCarthy. Vol. 1, No. 1, June 1928. Printed wrappers designed in red. The first number of a new magazine, giving the names of the 4 principal contributors on upper cover: Max Beerbohm, Thomas Hardy, George Santayana, Clive Bell. Beerbohm's essay is entitled "Two Glimpses of Andrew Lang," printed on 11 pages.

21. Herbert Beerbohm Tree: Some Memories of Him and of His Art. Hutchinson [1920]. Purple cloth, spine gilt, edges cut, glazed white pictorial dust-jacket printed in mauve (21/ net). Frontispiece and 57 illustrations. 22. A Survey. Heinemann [1921]. 4to, purple bevelled cloth, all edges gilt, in light drab dust wrapper lettered in purple. Copy No. 41 of 275, signed by the author. 23. Rossetti and His Circle. Heinemann, 1922. 4to, cream bevelled cloth, all edges gilt. Copy No. 226 of 380 copies, signed by the author. A copy, loosely inserted, of the 4 page Prospectus, which also has an original coloured drawing. 24. The Works of Max Beerbohm. Vol. 1. Heinemann, 1922. The first volume of the collected edition, No. 158 of 780 sets signed by the author. Bright red cloth, all edges uncut. 25. Around Theatres. 2 vols. Heinemann, 1924. The eighth and ninth volumes of the collected works. Blue and red cloth, spine titling labels, all edges uncut, limited to 780 copies. Both volumes in printed dust-jackets. These volumes are first editions, the material not having been collected before into volumes. 26. Observations. Heinemann, 1926. 4to, bevelled light green cloth, all edges gilt. No. 19 of 280 copies, numbered and signed by the author, and with an additional illustration, autographed by the author in pocket of lower cover. 27. Sieveking, L. de Giberne. Bats in the Belfry: The Collected Nonsense Poems. Illustrated by John Nash. With Introductions by G. K. Chesterton and Max Beerbohm. Routledge, 1926. Imperial 8vo, No. 11 of 50 copies, signed by author and artist. Half blue morocco, blue linen sides, gilt designed, t.e.g., others uncut. 28. The Dreadful Dragon of Hay Hill. Heinemann, 1928. Tall 8vo, scarlet cloth spine, silver grey sides, cut edges, in grey dust-jacket lettered in red (7/6 net).

30. Richards, Grant. Memories of a Misspent Youth, 1872-1896. With an Introduction by Max Beerbohm. Heinemann, 1932. Scarlet cloth, gilt, edges cut, 16 illustrations. 31. The Poet's Corner. King Penguin Books, 1943. Small 8vo, grey boards with original cover design (reduced). This reprint has frontispiece portrait of Beerbohm, preface by John Rothenstein with 4 additional caricatures by Beerbohm, also 4 additional plates from Rossetti and His Circle (1922). 32. Lytton Strachey: The Rede Lecture, 1943. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1943. Plum coloured wrappers lettered in black (Is. 6d. net). Inscribed: "For Philip and Nellie with Max's love, June 1943." A gift to the present cataloguer by Mrs. Guedalla in September 1963 on leaving Little Easton Park, 33. Another copy. Verso of title-page has: "First Edition, June 1943/Reprinted, August 1943." Wrappers, pagination &c. identical with First Edition. 34. William Rothenstein: An Address Delivered by Max Beerbohm at the Memorial Service held at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Tuesday, March 6th 1945. Curwen Press: Privately printed, 1945. Four leaves, sewn into pale blue wrappers lettered in black, edges cut. Edition limited to 100 copies. 35. Mainly on the Air. Heinemann, 1946. Orange-red cloth, cut edges, cream dust-jacket, lettered in red (8s. 6d. net). 36. A Christmas Garland. Heinemann, 1950. Scarlet cloth, cut edges, in printed dust-jacket (10s. 6d. net). With the author's Postscript and one additional parody of Maurice Baring. 37. Seven Men and Two Others. Heinemann, 1950. Green cloth, cut edges, in cream dust-jacket lettered green (10s. 6d. net).

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38. Mainly on the Air. Heinemann, 1957. New Enlarged Edition (containing 8 additional broadcast essays or talks). Green cloth in light blue printed dust-jacket (21s. net). Edges cut.

4. Charles Whitehead: A Forgotten Genius. New Edition, with an Appreciation of Whitehead by Mr. Hall Caine. Ward, Lock & Bowden, 1894. Green buckram, gilt, trimmed edges, folding frontispiece plate of MS. Inscribed: "To Davenport Adams, Esq. from Mackenzie Bell, 8th June 1894."

Miscellaneous 39.

Supplements to Vanity Fair Magazine: a) Coloured drawing of A. E. W. Mason, M.P., entitled "Four Feathers" and signed "Max." Size 10 1/2" x 15 3/4" printed on toned paper, the coloured surface measuring 7 1/2" x 12 1/4". Imprint of Hentschel-Colourtype, London. b) Coloured Drawing of Maurice Maeterlinck, entitled "The Belgian Poet" and signed "Max." On same paper with same dimensions as the above caricature. Secondary Material 40. Bottome, Phyllis. From the Life. Faber & Faber, 1944. Bright red cloth, gilt-lettered down spine, edges trimmed; 6 studies, of which the second is entitled "Max Beerbohm." 41. Moers, Ellen. The Dandy: Brummell to Beerbohm. Seeker & Warburg, 1960. Red cloth, in printed dust-jacket (36s. net). 15 illustrations. 42. Hart-Davis, Rupert. A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm. Macmillan, 1972. Dark brown cloth, gilt spine, edges cut, in pictorial dust-jacket (£8.50 net). BELL (H. T. Mackenzie) 1856-1930 1. A Forgotten Genius: Charles Whitehead. A Critical Monograph. Elliot Stock, 1884. Blue cloth, gilt, trimmed edges, pale green fern-designed end-papers. Inscribed: "Charles G. Leland, Esq., with Mackenzie Bell's compliments, 7th September 1891." Inserted is a 2 page ALS to the same, on same date, on author's black-edged Putney notepaper. 2. Spring's Immortality and Other Poems. Ward, Lock & Bowden, 1893. Blue cloth, gilt designed, all edges uncut. Inscribed: "To Victor Plarr, with Mackenzie Bell's best wishes. 9th November 1894." 3. Another copy. Inscribed: "To Herbert Ticborne, Esquire, from Mackenzie Bell. 28 October 1893."

5. Spring's Immortality and Other Poems. 2nd ed. With a New Prefatory Note. Ward, Lock & Bowden, 1895. Silver green cloth, gilt, with a design entirely different from the First Edition (1893) and a taller 8vo size, t.e.g., others uncut. In printed dust-jacket on which the cover design is in green. Inscribed: "To Sir Lewis Morris with friendly greetings from Mackenzie Bell, 15 Oct 1895." 6. Spring's Immortality and Other Poems. 3rd ed. Ward, Lock & Bowden, 1896. Format similar to the above. Besides a new Prefatory Note, this edition has a frontispiece portrait and an engraved title-page. Inscribed: "To F. A. Atkens from Mackenzie Bell, 13th April 1896." 7. Pictures of Travel and Other Poems. Hurst & Blackett, 1898. Light green bevelled cloth, lettered darker green, t.e.g., others uncut, slatey brown end-papers. A presentation copy to Sir Lewis Morris, inscribed on an inserted sheet of notepaper: "To Sir Lewis Morris with Mackenzie Bell's good wishes, 2nd Sept 1898." 8. Christina Rossetti: A Biographical and Critical Study. Hurst & Blackett, 1898. Tall 8vo, dark green cloth, gilt, top edges uncut, others trimmed, dark slate end-papers. Author's copy, with a late signature on half-title: "Mackenzie Bell, 4 Wetherby Road, 9th February, 1921." Also a cancelled signature from a cheque. On end-paper a note dated 24/1/98: "One of 50 copies bound in green at Smith's request." Normal copies of the book are in blue cloth. 9. Collected Poems of Mackenzie Bell. Francis Riddell Henderson, 1904. Red bevelled buckram, all edges uncut, pale green fern-designed end-papers. Inserted is the author's 3 page ALS to "Dear Mr. Taylor" (Rev. Charles Reeve Taylor) on his embossed Putney notepaper dated 23 November 1903. This letter may settle the problem of issue-priority as it reads: "when next you are passing 27, Paternoster Sq., give Mr. F. H. Henderson the accompanying 1/9 in stamps. . . and he will give you a copy of my Collected Poems. . . . "

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10. Collected Poems. Kingsgate Press, 1904. The title-page appears to be a cancel leaf. The binding case and designed end-papers in the 2 copies appear to be identical.

17 May 1899. Contains 63 poems by members-3 by Belloc, 5 by John Buchan and others by York Powell, A. D. Godley &c. The edition consisted of 500 copies, and the book will be ever memorable because on pages 53-55 were printed, for the first time, 10 stanzas commencing: "When I am living in the Midlands/That are sodden and unkind."

11. Half Hours with Representative Novelists of the Nineteenth Century. Being passages from their works, with brief biographies and introductions and a critical essay. 3 vols. Routledge, 1927. Tall 8vo, scarlet cloth, gilt spines, trimmed edges in red-printed dust-jackets (21/- net the set). 12. Poems of Consolation and of Religion. James Clarke [and the Kingsgate Press~a joint imprint], n.d. 32 pages, sewn with silk cord into pale blue stiff wrappers, edges cut. In the printed envelope, as issued. Manuscript and Autograph Letters 13. Typescript of a poem of 16 lines entitled "Friends" on a 4to sheet, with 4 lines of manuscript addition. Together with a similar sized 4to sheet containing a letter to Bell from the London Liberal Federation, dated October 1924. On blank verso, Bell has written a prose commentary which reveals the poem was written to Christina Rossetti. Signed and dated 2 March. 14. Two ALS, each one page, and one autograph piece (postmark 28 March 1925), all addressed to F. Patterson Webb, Esq. Secondary Material 15. Smythe, A. Egerton. The Balance of Life: A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Work of the Poet and Literary Critic Henry Thomas Mackenzie Bell. Curlew Press [1955]. Smooth blue cloth, gilt-lettered down spine, top edges stained red, others cut, in silver printed dust-jacket. BELLOC (Hilaire) 1870-1953 1. A Moral Alphabet. By H. B. with illustrations by B. B. Edward Arnold, 1899. Glazed cream pictorially designed boards, holland spine, trimmed edges. 2. The Book of the Horace Club, 1898-1901. Oxford: B. H. Blackwell [1901]. Stiff cream parchment, gilt, yapp edges. Inserted, ALS on a folded sheet of Balliol College notepaper, from A. S. W. to "My Dear Baker, . . . Belloc has joined. May llth seems unfortunately too early to meet out of doors." Also inserted are two 4-page "Notices of Meetings" of the Club dated 6 March and

3. Paris. Methuen, 1902. Dark green cloth, top edges cut, others uncut, frontispiece, maps and plans. The title-page is a cancel leaf, pasted on stub. First published by Arnold in 1900; present issue consists of original sheets with a newly printed title-page. 4. Esto Perpetua: Algerian Studies and Impressions. Duckworth, 1906. Dark sage green cloth, gilt, top edge cut, others uncut. Coloured frontispiece on mount. 5. On Everything. Methuen, 1909. Green cloth, top edge cut, lower edges uncut. 6. The Pyrenees. Methuen, 1909. Tall 8vo, green cloth, gilt, only lower edges uncut. 46 illustrations by the author, and 22 maps, publisher's catalogue at end, 40 pages dated March 1909 (copies are also found with an October 1908 catalogue). 7. Belloc, Hilaire, and Chesterton, Cecil. The Party System. Stephen Swift, 1911. Bright red linen, gilt-lettered spine in 8 lines, black lettered upper side in 5 lines, all edges cut. Gathering 15 at end consists of 3 leaves only, of which the last is a blank save for publisher's monogram centre recto. Probably printed together with the preliminaries, which consist of 9 leaves. In this gathering, the numbering 15/16 and the text thereon is in duplicate. Inscribed: "To Lizzie with best love from Cecil," in Cecil Chesterton's autograph, and with signature of recipient, Lizzie Firmin, on half-title. 8. The Four Men: A Farrago. T. Nelson & Sons [1912]. Brown cloth, gilt spine, trimmed edges. Photographic illustrations tipped-on to brown mounts. 9. Warfare in England. Williams & Norgate [1912]. A volume in the Home University Library. The superior binding of mauve leather, gilt, t.e.g., others cut.

51 BELLOC (Hilaire) 1870-1953 10. The Last Days of the French Monarchy. Chapman & Hall, 1916. Tall 8vo, red cloth, gilt spine, top edges stained, others uncut, 50 illustrations, in red printed dust-wrapper (12/6 net). 11. The Emerald of Catherine the Great. With 21 Drawings by G. K. Chesterton. Arrowsmith, 1926. Black cloth, green lettered, top edges green, others trimmed. In printed pictorial dust-wrapper stamped "First Impression" on spine and upper side. From the Blunt sale at Crabbet Park, November 1959. Signature on dust wrapper: "Lady Wentworth. Already reviewed." 12. The Haunted House. Arrowsmith, 1927. Smooth black cloth, lettered in white enamel on spine and upper side, top edges stained yellow, others cut, 25 illustrations by G. K. Chesterton. The ascription to the artist is solely in the spine lettering. 13. But Soft-We Are Observed. With 37 Drawings by G. K. Chesterton. Arrowsmith, 1928. Ochre cloth, spine lettered in brown, es cut. 14. Lewis, D. B. Wyndham. Franjois Villon: A Documented Survey. With a Preface by Hilaire Belloc. New York: Coward-McCann, 1928. Tall 8vo, dark reddish brown cloth, blind-stamped upper cover, top edges stained to match cloth, others uncut. Frontispiece map. 15. Survivals and New Arrivals. Sheed & Ward, 1929. Bright orange cloth, spine black lettered, top edge stained to match cloth, other edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (7/6d. net). 16.

The Missing Masterpiece: A Novel.

With 41 Drawings by G. K. Chesterton. Arrowsmith, 1929. Brown cloth, spine lettered in cream enamel, top edges stained to match cloth, other edges cut. With author's autograph signature dated October 1941. 17. A Conversation with a Cat, and Others. Cassell, 1931. Blue cloth, 2 printed title-labels, only lower edges untrimmed. 18. The Postmaster-General. With Thirty Drawings by G. K. Chesterton. Arrowsmith, 1932. Crown 8vo, dark green rough linen, spine lettered in 8 lines in cream coloured enamel, all edges cut. S8 at end is a final blank.

BELLOC (Hilaire) 1870-1953 19. Ladies and Gentlemen: For Adults only and Mature at That. Verses by H. Belloc. Pictures by N. Bentley. Duckworth, 1932. Cream pictorial boards, linen spine lettered downwards, in dust-wrapper printed as cover (5/- net). 20. A Shorter History of England. G. G. Harrap, 1934. Tall 8vo, light blue cloth, lettered in darker blue, all edges cut. Secondary Material 21. Lewis, D. B. Wyndham. Francois Villon: A Documented Survey. With a Preface by Hilaire Belloc. Sheed & Ward, 1945. Black cloth, spine gilt, folding frontispiece map, in coloured pictorial dust-jacket (12/6d. net). 22. Mandell, C. Creighton, and Shanks, Edward. Hilaire Belloc: The Man and His Work. With an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. Methuen, 1916. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine, 8 page publisher's list at end. Note: The Edward Thomas collection contains 2 typed letters of Belloc with autograph signature regarding a proposed Civil List Pension for Thomas in 1912. BENSON (Arthur Christopher) 1862-1925 1. Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge. . . . By His Friend Christopher Carr, of the Same College. Kegan Paul, Trench, 1886. Half black cloth, light blue sides, all edges uncut, dark blue end-papers. This may not be the earliest state of binding, as imprint at foot of spine is set in 2 lines as "Kegan Paul/Trench, Trubner & Co." Benson's first book, issued pseudonymously. 2. William Laud, Sometime Archbishop of Canterbury: A Study. Kegan Paul, Trench, 1887. Bevelled green cloth, top edges uncut, others trimmed, green end-papers, frontispiece portrait. This may not be the earliest state of binding, as imprint at foot of spine is "Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co." 3. Benson, Mary Eleanor. At Sundry Times and In Divers Manners. Kegan Paul, 1891. Red cloth, all edges cut, 2 volumes in one (apparently a published state: both half-title and title-pages preserved in place). Frontispiece portrait. The 40 page Memoir is by A. C. Benson, the author's brother.

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4. Men of Might: Studies of Great Characters. By A. C. Benson and H. F. W. Tatham. Edward Arnold, 1892. Red cloth, only lower edges trimmed, dark slate end-papers. Publisher's 8 page catalogue at end dated October 1892.

12. Essays. William Heinemann, 1896. Smooth brown buckram, all edges uncut. Blind Presentation Copy stamp on title.

5. Le Cahier Jaune: Poems. Eton: Printed by George New, 1892. Glazed yellow wrappers lettered in black as title-page, both having "Privately printed" at head. No. 192 of 200 copies, top edges cut, others uncut. 6. Poems. Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1893. Light grey boards, lettered black, all edges uncut, limited to 550 copies, publisher's 16 page July 1893 catalogue at end printed on text-paper; though a complete gathering, it is unsigned. Presentation copy to Colonel White Thomson, with Benson's letter to him on Eton college notepaper dated 9 October 1893. Also the original MS of his 16 line poem, "To Colonel White," dated Eton 1893, with full signature. The poem may be unpublished; the long letter is about the poems in the book, and considerably about Edmund and Nellie Gosse. 7. Lyrics. John Lane, 1895. Smooth brown buckram, all edges uncut, limited to 550 copies, publisher's 16 page 1895 catalogue at end. 8. Another copy. This was the author's own copy and carries his armorial bookplate (printed in orange). It was later in the English Library, Cambridge (but bears their cancellation stamp). At the end of each poem is a pencilled note in the author's handwriting, giving time or place of original composition, and, more importantly, names of people implied—but not named—in the text. 9. The Professor. Eton: George New, Privately printed, 1895. 4to, green wrapper lettered in black, all edges uncut. No. 45 of 100 copies, inscribed to Dr. Duckworth: "S. A. D., from the Author, 1895." 10. Thomas Gray. Eton: R. Ingalton Drake, Privately printed, 1895. 4to, 16 pages, the outer wrapper (not included in pagination) is quite plain. All edges uncut. 11. Babylonica. Eton: George New, 1895. 20 pages, small 4to, green wrappers with upper cover lettered in black, trimmed edges, 75 copies Privately printed.

13. Monnow: An Ode. Eton: R. Ingalton Drake, Privately printed, 1896. 4to, green wrappers, upper side lettered in black, all edges uncut. 14. Benson, Edward White. Cyprian: His Life, His Times, His Work. Macmillan, 1897. Tall 8vo, dark brown cloth, all edges uncut, dark slate blue end-papers, woodcuts and folding maps. There are Prefatory and Editorial Notes by A. C. Benson, dated 1 January 1897 and 12 February 1897. 15. Lord Vyet and Other Poems. John Lane, 1897. Smooth brown buckram, all edges uncut, publisher's 12 page 1896 catalogue at end. G2 is blank leaf following catalogue. Inscribed: "Dr. Warre, with the author's affectionate regards. Eton, December 1896." With Edmond Warre's armorial bookplate. 16. Ode in Memory of the Rt. Honable William Ewart Gladstone. Eton: R. Ingalton Drake, Privately printed, 1898. 4to, light blue wrappers, upper side lettered in black, edges uncut. Inscribed: "From the Author" in Benson's handwriting. 17. Fasti Etonenses: A Biographical History of Eton, Selected from the Lives of Celebrated Etonians. Eton: R. Ingalton Drake, 1899. Tall 8vo, light blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Frontispiece and 71 portraits (including 2 in colour). 18. The Life of Edward White Benson, Sometime Archbishop of Canterbury. 2 vols. Macmillan, 1899. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, dark blue end-papers, publisher's blind Presentation Copy stamp on title-pages. 19. The Professor and Other Poems. John Lane, 1900. Smooth brown buckram, t.e.g., others uncut. Inscribed: "C. H. Athill, from Arthur C. Benson, March 21, 1907." This first collected edition reprints the contents of 4 Privately printed Eton 4tos (items 9, 10, 11 and 13). 20. The Aschamite's Dream: A Bicentenary Ode, 3 June 1901. Eton: Spottiswoode [1901]. Eight pages, metal fastened.

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BENSON (Arthur Christopher) 1862-1925 21. The Ascham Society: Two Hundredth Meeting. College Hall, 3 June 1901. Eton: Spottiswoode, 1901. 32 pages, sewn into pale blue wrappers, upper side lettered in black, edges trimmed. Contains the 43 stanzas of The Aschamite's Dream, of which the separate edition entered above is not an off-print, and has a different typesetting. Also contains another Ascham poem, 78 lines, by Benson entitled "Ode." Presentation copy to Howard Overing Sturgis inscribed in the author's hand: "H. O. S. from A. C. B." 22. The Schoolmaster. John Murray, 1902. Blue cloth, top edges cut, others uncut. 23. Ode to Japan. Privately printed at the Chiswick Press, March 1902. Eight pages, sewn into light blue wrappers, upper side lettered black, all edges uncut. No. 20 of only 50 copies printed. Inscribed: "Howard Sturgis from A. C. B., Eton, 2 May 1902." 24. The Hill of Trouble and Other Stories. Isbister, 1903. Blue cloth, designed darker blue, lettered gilt, top edges cut, other trimmed. The last 5 leaves carry publisher's adverts only. Presentation copy from the author to his brother E. F. Benson, inscribed: "E. F. Benson from A. C. Benson, Eton, 8 March 1903." 25. The Myrtle Bough: A Vale. Eton: Private] (sic). Spottiswoode, 1903. Tall 8vo, blue wrappers, upper side lettered in black, all edges uncut. 26. The Olive Bough. Eton: Private] (sic). Spottiswode, Christmas 1904. Uniform format with The Myrtle Bough. 27. Alfred Tennyson. Methuen, 1904. A volume of the Little Biographies series, the superior issue in padded red leather, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, gold designed end-papers, 8 illustrations. 28. Rossetti. Macmillan, 1904. A volume in the English Men of Letters series. Bright red cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others cut, 2 leaves of series adverts at end dated 10.3.04. The blank leaf following these is P8, the final leaf of the gathering. 29. Another copy. With bookplate of Lionel Henry Gust and an ALS from Benson to him inlaid, on Benson's Old Granary, Cambridge notepaper dated 2 April 1904: "My Dear Cust. I am sending you a copy of my Rossetti, and I write just a line to thank you once more for all the courtesy and kindness you showed

BENSON (Arthur Christopher) 1862-1925 me in the matter, for which I am very grateful." Cust was Director of the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, in which appointment he was succeeded by Laurence Binyon. 30. Edward Fitzgerald. Macmillan, 1905. A volume of the English Men of Letters series. Bright red cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others cut, 2 leaves of series adverts at end dated 10.3.05. 31. The Upton Letters. 2nd ed. Smith Elder, 1906. Seventh impression. Green cloth, only lower edges trimmed. First published in 1905, the present edition contains a new 9 page Preface. Inscribed by the author: "Arthur C. Benson, Hinton, Sept 3, 1906." 32. The Gate of Death: A Diary. Smith Elder, 1906. Dark blue-green bevelled cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut. Published anonymously. 33. Walter Pater. Macmillan, 1906. A volume of the English Men of Letter series. Bright red cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others cut. The final leaf at end, P2, carries series adverts only, with verso blank. 34. Hymns and Carols. Eton College: Spottiswoode [Privately printed], 1907. Green wrappers, upper side lettered in black, all edges uncut. No. 10 of only 50 copies printed. 35. The Altar Fire. Smith, Elder, 1907. Green cloth, top edges cut, others lightly trimmed. 36. Beside Still Waters. Smith, Elder, 1907. Green cloth, top edges cut, others lightly trimmed. 37. Queen Victoria. Letters: A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the year 1837 and 1861. Edited by A. C. Benson and Viscount Esher. 3 vols. John Murray, 1907. Tall 8vo, red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, illustrated. 38. The Isles of Sunset. Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1908. Blue pictorially designed cloth, trimmed edges, publisher's 24 page catalogue at end dated February 1909. Armorial bookplate of Thomas Parkin; inserted is an ALS of the author to him on Magdalene College notepaper with original stamped envelope.

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39. At Large. Smith, Elder, 1908. Green cloth, top edges cut, others trimmed. Inscribed: "E. F. Benson (from the author) Oct 1, 1908" in the handwriting of the recipient. This volume came from the Stuart McDowall sale (Winchester, 1955) consigned from Lamb House, Rye.

51. Hugh: Memoirs of a Brother. Smith, Elder, 1915. Green cloth, top edges cut, others trimmed, 18 illustrations.

40. The Poems of A. C. Benson. John Lane, 1909. Light blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait. Gatherings X (4 leaves) and Y (2 leaves) at end carry adverts only. 41. The Silent Isle. Smith, Elder, 1910. Green cloth, top edges cut, others trimmed; 3 leaves at end carry adverts only. 42. Tatham, H. F. W. The Footprints in the Snow, and Other Tales. With a Memoir by A. C. Benson. Macmillan, 1910. Blue cloth, all edges uncut, frontspiece portrait. 43. The Leaves of the Tree: Studies in Biography. Smith, Elder, 1911. Green cloth, top edges cut, others trimmed. X7-8 at end carry adverts only. 44. Ruskin: A Study in Personality. Smith, Elder, 1911. Green cloth, top edges cut, others trimmed; 3 leaves at end carry adverts only. 45. Thy Rod and Thy Staff. Smith Elder, 1912. Green cloth, top edges cut, others trimmed. Ql-2 at end carry adverts only. 46. The Child of the Dawn. Smith Elder, 1912. Green cloth, top edges cut, others trimmed. U6-8 at end carry adverts only. 47. Joyous Card. John Murray, 1913. Mauve cloth, gilt, all edges cut. Last 2 leaves of the final gathering 16 are pp. 1-4 and carry adverts only.

52. Bronte Poems: Selections from the Poetry of Charlotte, Emily, Anne and Branwell Bronte. Edited with an Introduction by A. C. Benson. John Murray, 1915. Dark red cloth, gilt, edges cut, frontispiece portraits and 2 facsimile MS pages. 53. Life and Letters of Maggie Benson. John Murray, 1917. Green cloth, only lower edges uncut, 16 illustrations. Final leaf at end, 2F8, carries adverts only. 54. Cambridge Essays in Education. Edited by A. C. Benson. With an Introduction by Viscount Bryce. Cambridge University Press, 1918. Cream boards, half green holland, all edges uncut, in printed dust-jacket. (This is the second printing; the first was dated 1917.) Contains Benson's "The Training of the Imagination," 19 pages, besides his Preface. 55. The Reed of Pan: English Renderings of Greek Epigrams and Lyrics. John Murray, 1922. Blue cloth, gilt, lower edges trimmed. 56. The Trefoil: Wellington College, Lincoln and Truro. John Murray, 1923. Tall 8vo, green cloth, in pictorial dust-jacket (12/net), 11 illustrations. This copy is of the second printing (same month as first), with 2 line bibliographical statement verso title-page. 57. Memories and Friends. John Murray, 1924. Tall 8vo, green cloth, top edges stained to match, others uncut, 19 illustrations. This copy is of the second printing, with 2 line bibliographical statement verso title-page. 58. The House of Menerdue. Heinemann, 1925. Blue cloth, edges cut.

48. Along the Road. James Nisbet, 1913. Red cloth, top edges cut, others uncut, frontispiece portrait. The title-page is a cancel leaf pasted on stub.

59. The Diary of Arthur Christopher Benson. Edited by Percy Lubbock. Hutchinson [1926]. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, only lower edges uncut, 8 illustrations.

49. Where No Fear Was. Smith Elder, 1914. Green cloth, top edges cut, others trimmed. Ql-4 at end carry adverts only.

60. Extracts from the Letters of Dr. A. C. Benson to M. E. A. Jarrolds [1926]. Pale blue boards, half-holland, spine titling label, edges cut. Foreword by M. E. Allen.

50. Escape and Other Essays. Smith Elder, 1915. Green cloth, top edges cut, others trimmed. T5-6 at end carry adverts only.

61. Rambles and Reflections. John Murray, 1926. Green cloth, gilt, top edges cut, others uncut, in pictorial dust-wrapper. This posthumous publication has a Foreword by the author's brother, E. F. Benson.

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62. Essays of To-Day and Yesterday: A. C. Benson. G. G. Harrap, 1926. This series was published in black wrappers; but this is the superior form in grained reddish brown cloth, top edges cut, others uncut. Contents are 7 essays selected from earlier publications.

"Conventionality in Emotion," "Work and Life," "Mrs. Holland's Letters"; also essays on Charlotte Bronte, William Morris, Augustus Hare, Theocritus &c. The volume, which is about the same thickness as the first, contains several hundred sheets, typewritten on rectos only.

63. Cressage. Heinemann, 1927. Blue cloth, edges cut. 64. Basil Netherby. Hutchinson [1927]. Red cloth, top edges cut, others trimmed. Publisher's 20 page Autumn 1926 catalogue at end. This copy is from the library of the author's brother, E. F. Benson, and carries his Pierrot bookplate. 65. Whittier, John Greenleaf. Poems by Whittier. Selected with an Introduction by A. C. Benson. T. C. & E. C. Jack [1906]. Mauve cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Coloured illustrations. A. C. Benson's essay fills 31 pages. 66. Saint Francis of Assisi. The Little Flowers, Translated from the Italian by William Collinge. Introduction by A. C. Benson. Blackie, 1909. A volume of the Red Letter Library. Green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., designed end-papers. Manuscripts and Autograph Letters 67. Two large thick 4to volumes, the first lettered "Various Papers, Poems and Addresses. A. C. Benson, Vol. l"-the second "Miscellaneous Essays. Unpublished. A. C. Benson. Vol. 2." The first contains off-prints and corrected Proofs and Revises of some dozen articles: "An Eton Education, 1905." "An Old Parson's Day-Book," "The New Poets," "Sir Oliver Lodge," "Walter Pater," "Ariel," and others from Cornhill Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, National Review and other magazines. Also one 8 page 4to printed pamphlet, the Cambridge Daily News (1914), "An Address delivered on speech-day 3 December 1914." There are also a few MSS (total 50 pages) and corrected typescripts with substantial amounts of manuscript material (100 pages). Of one article, "Education after the War," there is the corrected typescript (48 pages), also the first typesetting marked "Proof 5/1916." There is a corrected typescript of a vote of thanks at Lord Robert Cecil's Lecture, August 1916, and many ephemeral items. Also a long typescript "Carawash: A Tale of the Far East," without any manuscript additions. Volume 2, which also dates from 1909 onwards, consists entirely of typescripts with varying amounts of manuscript corrections. Some titles are: "Place of Classics in Secondary Education," "Aims in Art,"

68. Another similar 4to volume in mottled red-black cloth, lettered "The War, 1914. A. C. B." Above 200 sheets of thick quality paper, typed on rectos only, with varying amounts of manuscript corrections and additions. 69. A similar sized 4to volume, bound red boards, containing only 16 sheets of typescript of one address, but not titled. With a very considerable amount of manuscript additions, but in pencil only. Nearly all articles &c. throughout these 4 volumes are totalled in words at end; the present volume gives 2 pencilled numbers, 1483 and 1268, and their total, 2751. 70. Two early ALS on his Eton College, Windsor notepaper, dated 17 June and 29 September 1893, about his book, Poems (1893), to his publisher John Lane, 6 pages in all. Many suggestions as to where to send copies for reviews; "I have a friendly reviewer A. R. Ropes by name-he works for the 111. Lond. News and other papers. . . . Also directions for despatch of gift copies: "my father; one to Mrs. Benson, Addington Park, one to Hon. M. Baring, Northcourt, Abingdon. I should like William Watson to have an early copy." 71. Three ALS to E. Lonsdale Deighton, Esquire, during 1923. One stamped envelope preserved. The letters appear to relate to contributions to an anthology. 72. One 4 page letter, dated 4 October 1911 to "Dear Madam" [Miss Chaffey], regretting he cannot undertake to write reviews for her magazine. Also 2 ALS from his brother E. F. Benson to the same lady, on his 102 Oakley Street, Chelsea notepaper, on the same subject "I think I could probably review your magazine for October. . . . " 73. One 2 page letter to Thomas Parkin, Esq. (with original stamped envelope) on Benson's Old Lodge, Magdalene College, Cambridge notepaper, dated 27 October 1914.

56 BENSON (Arthur Christopher) 1862-1925 Secondary Material 74. Arthur Christopher Benson as Seen by His Friends. G. Bell, 1925. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, top edges cut, others uncut. The Appendix is a 10 page essay by A. C. Benson entitled "Pensioners." Association Item 75. Benson, Mary Eleanor. Streets and Lanes of the City. With a Brief Memoir by Her Father. Privately printed for her Friends, 1891. Dark red cloth, all edges uncut, dark green end-papers. Inscribed: "Edw. Frederic Benson, from his loving father. Addington, Dec. 11, 1891." [This volume has strictly no connection with A. C. Benson.] BINYON (Laurence) 1869-1943 1. Lyric Poems. Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1894. Light blue cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, publisher's January 1894 16 page catalogue at end. Edition limited to 300 copies. Title-page designed by Selwyn Image. Binyon had contributed to Primavera: Poems by Four Authors in 1890 (see the Stephen Phillips collection), but this is his first independent publication. 2. Poems. Oxford: Daniel, 1895. Tall 8vo, mauve-blue wrappers, upper side lettered and designed in black, all edges uncut. No. 163 of 200 copies. Daniel Press Bibliography states that the light orange printing of wrappers proved unsatisfactory and later copies were printed in black. 3. First Book of London Visions. Elkin Mathews, 1896. Brown wrappers lettered and designed in black, all edges uncut, No. 1 of the Shilling Garland series. 4. Second Book of London Visions. Elkin Mathews, 1899. Format uniform with preceding, but wrappers green. No. 10 of the Shilling Garland.

BINYON (Laurence) 1869-1943 7. Elkin Mathews' Garland of New Poetry. Vol. 2. Elkin Mathews, 1899. Red cloth, t.e.g., others uncut. Contains original sheets of 5 of the Shilling Garlands, Nos. 6-10, with original front and back wrappers at end. They are First Editions with the single exception of No. 8, Henry Newbolt's Admirals All, which is in its Fifth Edition, with additions (noted on upper wrapper and on verso of half-title of book.) The process of collection could be reversed, but "First Editions" thus manufactured would be betrayed by their top edges being cut and gilded. The 2 Binyon titles involved are The Praise of Life and London Visions. Second Book. No separate copy of The Praise of Life (Elkin Mathews, 1896) is in the collection at present. The First Edition is 32 pages, preceded by a half-title, not reckoned in pagination and not part of either of the 2 gatherings. The wrappers are green, printed in black. 8. Odes. The Unicorn Press, 1901. Pink cloth, gilt, all edges uncut. The last 3 leaves of gathering 5 at end carry publisher's adverts only. With bookplate of William Barclay Squire and author's autograph presentation inscription to him: "To W. B. S., L. B., Nov. 1900." 9. The Death of Adam. Pp. 171-190 removed from the Monthly Review (February 1902). Neatly bound in crimson cloth, gilt-lettered up spine. Bookplate of Eugene Strong. Binyon's poem occupies the whole of these 20 pages, with his name at foot of p. 190, below which is his autograph signature. 10. The Death of Adam and Other Poems. Methuen, 1904. Blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. First issue binding. This is the earliest binding variety; First Edition sheets bound up later have Methuen's imprint at foot of spine in a much larger type. Inscribed: "To W. B. S., L. B. Octr 1903," and with the recipient's bookplate. 11. Another copy. Heraldic bookplate of the Earl of Cranbrook, and the later plate of his son Robert Gathorne-Hardy.

5. John Crome and John Sell Cotman. Seeley, 1897. Imperial 8vo, dark red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., only lower edges uncut. Profusely illustrated.

12. Penthesilea. Constable, 1905. Bright red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Inscribed: "To W. B. S., L. B., April 1905," and with the recipient's bookplate.

6. Porphyrion and Other Poems. Grant Richards, 1898. Mauve cloth, gilt spine, upper side red designed, all edges uncut, L4 at end carries adverts only.

13. Paris and Oenone. Constable, 1906. Purple wrappers lettered on upper side in silver. (II- net), 24 pages, all edges uncut.

57 BINYON (Laurence) 1869-1943 14. Attila: A Tragedy in Four Acts. John Murray, 1907. Light brown boards, half white linen, spine gilt, upper side titled in black, top edges cut, others uncut. 15. London Visions: Collected and Augmented. Elkin Mathews, 1908. Dark green cloth, gilt, top edges cut, others uncut. 16. England and Other Poems. Elkin Mathews, 1909. Grass green cloth, gilt, top edges cut, others uncut. G6 is blank at end. 17. Auguries. Heinemann, 1913. Red cloth, gilt, all edges cut. Preserved in original dust-jacket (3/6 net) on which the author's name is misspelt in 2 places. 18. Odes. Elkin Mathews, 1913. Mauve cloth, gilt, top edges cut, others uncut. This is a revised and re-arranged edition of the book originally published by the Unicorn Press in 1901. 19. The Winnowing-Fan: Poems on the Great War. Elkin Mathews, 1914. Light blue wrappers, upper side lettered in black, top edges cut, others uncut. In this book was first collected the much anthologized poem, "For The Fallen," of 7 stanzas, the fifth of which is engraved at the portals of the British Museum, through which the author passed daily on the duties of his office. 20. The Anvil. Elkin Mathews, 1916. Pale blue wrappers lettered in black, top edges cut, others uncut. Inscribed: "Offered with all admiration for the splendid soldiers of India. Laurence Binyon, Deer 1916." This volume was probably sold in one of the Red Cross auctions. 21. Another copy, in light green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges cut, others uncut. Though both styles are uncut, the cloth copy is printed on larger paper and stands 3/4" taller on shelf. 22. The Cause: Poems of the War. Elkin Mathews [1917]. Light stone coloured boards lettered black, top edges cut, others trimmed. Printed in America (Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass.), this book reprints the contents of previous booklets. 23. For Dauntless France. With a Preface by His Excellency Paul Cambon. Hodder & Stpughton [1918]. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, gilt spine, trimmed edges, coloured and other illustrations.

BINYON (Laurence) 1869-1943 24. The New World: Poem. Elkin Mathews, 1918. Green cloth, upper side lettered black, in printed dust-jacket. Top edges cut, others uncut. There was also a simultaneous issue in brown paper covers. 25. The Four Years. War Poems Collected and Newly Augmented. Elkin Mathews, 1919. Red cloth, spine gilt, top edges stained, others uncut, frontispiece portrait by William Strong. M6 is blank at end. 26. The Secret- Sixty Poems. Elkin Mathews, 1920. Blue boards, buff holland spine with label lettered upwards, top edges cut, others uncut. 27. Sakuntala. By Kalidasa. Prepared for English Stage by Kedar Nath Das Gupta in a New Version written by Laurence Binyon. With an Introductory Essay by R. Tagore. Macmillan, 1920. Blue cloth, gilt, all edges uncut. 28. Another copy, blind-stamped tion Copy" on title-page.

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29. The Court Painters of the Grand Moguls. Historical Introduction and Notes by T. W. Arnold. Oxford University Press, 1921. 4to, bright red cloth, gilt spine, edges cut, coloured and other plates. 30. Kapp, Edmond X. Reflections: A Second Series of Drawings. With Introductory Comments by Laurence Binyon and W. H. Davies. J. Cape, 1922. Black boards, half cream linen, 2 titling labels, in dust-jacket (10s. 6d. net). 31. Rosenberg, Isaac. Poems. Selected and Edited by Gordon Bottomley. With an Introductory Memoir by Laurence Binyon. Heinemann, 1922. Black cloth, spine titling label, top edges cut, others uncut, in blue printed dust-jacket. 32. The Sirens: An Ode. Chelsfield: At the Stanton Press, 1924. Imperial 8vo (12" x 7 1/2"). Half brown linen, decorated board sides, titling label, all edges uncut, original prospectus (September 1924) inserted. Bookplate of J. A. Fuller-Maitland and inscribed: "J. A. Fuller Maitland from Laurence Binyon, Octr 1927." 33. The Golden Treasury of Modern Lyrics. Selected and Arranged by Laurence Binyon. Macmillan, 1924. Green blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others cut. There is a 6 page Preface and 5 pages of Notes at end.

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BINYON (Laurence) 1869-1943 34. Another copy. The superior issue in blue leather, gilt spine, all edges gilt. 35. The Sirens: An Ode. Macmillan, 1925. The Second Edition, though not so described. The text of the Stanton Press edition has been revised for this reprint. Square 8vo, light brown boards, lighter brown holland spine, all edges uncut. 36. Little Poems from the Japanese. Rendered Into English Verse. Leeds: Swan Press, 1925. Cream wrappers lettered red and black, No. 21 of 200 copies for private circulation only. 37. Maine, Basil. Receive It So. With a Preface by Laurence Binyon. Noel Douglas, 1926. Cream cloth, spine gilt-lettered, edges cut. 38. The Wonder Night. With drawings by Barnett Freedman. Faber & Gwyer [1927]. No. 3 of the Ariel Poems. Mauve pictorial wrappers. 39. The Idols: An Ode. Macmillan, 1928. Light brown boards, half lighter holland, lettered in brown up spine and on upper side, in printed dust-jacket (5/- net), all edges uncut. 40. The Poems of Nizami. Described by L. Binyon. The Studio, 1928. Folio, light stone coloured holland, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others trimmed, in printed dust-jacket, 16 plates in colours. 41. Shakuntala, or, The Lost Ring: An Indian Drama. Introduction by Laurence Binyon. British Broadcasting Corporation, 1929. Green printed wrappers, edges cut. No. 6 in the Great Play Booklets. 42. Persian Art. Edited by E. Denison Ross. Luzac, 1930. Pink boards lettered and designed red, dark red linen spine, edges cut, profusely illustrated. Ten essays, of which Binyon's contribution is "Painting," 13 pages. 43. Image, Selwyn. Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition of Drawings. . . . Cotswold Gallery, November-December 1930. Eight pages, with frontispiece portrait, sewn into purple wrappers, presentation copy from the Gallery inscribed by H. F. Finberg 2 February 1931. The 2 1/2 page Preface is by Laurence Binyon, and verso of last leaf prints a sonnet by T. Sturge Moore-"Selwyn Image: Died August 21, 1930." This poem was duly

BINYON (Laurence) 1869-1943 collected into the first volume of the author's collected poems (4 volumes, 1931-1932). The printing in the catalogue was presumably the earlier. 44. Collected Poems. 2 vols. Macmillan, 1931. Tall 8vo, green cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut. It is noted that the top edges of volume 2 are plain cut, not gilt, and texture of green cloth is smoother and colour a shade darker. 45. Palgrave, Francis Turner. The Golden Treasury. . . . With a Supplementary Fifth Book, selected, arranged and annotated by Laurence Binyon. Macmillan, 1931. Dark red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others cut, in printed dust-jacket (5/- net). 46. Akbar. Peter Davies, 1932. Black cloth, spine with green lettering labels, top edges stained green, others cut, frontispiece portrait, in green printed dust-jacket (5/- net). 47. Three Poems. Derby: At the Hampden Press, 1934. Tall 8vo, semi-stiff mottled dark blue wrappers with large titling label on upper side, 16 pages including blanks but without pagination, uncut edges. No. 37 of 90 copies printed, only 50 for sale, signed by the author. With presentation inscription from John R. Biggs, the artist-printer and engraver of the wood-blocks. 48. The Young King: A Play. Canterbury: H. J. Goulden, 1934. Deep cream wrappers lettered brown, 60 pages (including blanks), edges cut. Acting edition for Friends of Canterbury Cathedral. 49. The Young King: A Play. Macmillan, 1935. Tall 8vo, half black cloth, decorated board sides, top edges cut, other edges uncut, 148 pages. 50. Chinese Art. Edited by Leigh Ashton. Introduction by Laurence Binyon. Kegan Paul, 1935. Yellow wrappers lettered in red, edges cut, profusely illustrated. 51. The North Star and Other Poems. Macmillan, 1941. Tall 8vo, half cream linen, light blue sides, trimmed edges, in printed dust-jacket (4s. net). 52. The Burning of the Leaves and Other Poems. Macmillan, 1944. Tall 8vo, light buff wrappers lettered in red and black, trimmed edges.

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53. The Madness of Merlin. With an Introduction by Gordon Bottomley. Macmillan, 1947. Tall 8vo, bright red cloth, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (6s. net).

Players" is not restored, i.e., the main text follows precisely the 1885 text. Inscribed: "To Charles W. Dilke, with the Author's good wishes, March 1896," and with armorial bookplate of the recipient. These editions of the first series of Obiter Dicta and several issued later, omit the author's name, but the authorship was disclosed by the publication of the second series.

Association Item 64. The Mind of the Artist: Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on their Art. Collected and Arranged by Mrs. Laurence Binyon. With a Preface by George Clausen, R.A. Chatto & Windus, 1909. Mottled boards, green linen spine with titling label, all edges uncut, 8 illustrations. Included in the collection as an association volume. The last sentence of Mrs. Binyon's Preface is: "Above all, I thank my husband for his advice and help." BIRRELL (Augustine) 1850-1933 1. Obiter Dicta. Elliot Stock, 1884. Green bevelled cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, floral patterned pale green end-papers. First Edition, probably limited to 250 copies; 124 leaves; no other state has the 5 leaves carrying verses at beginning. Tiny inscription on title-page: "L. P. from Mr. West." 2. Obiter Dicta. 2nd ed. Elliot Stock, 1884. Identical format as above, but 120 leaves. Bookplate of Robert Sinclair and note at end of text: "A. S. Rome, October 17 1884." 3. Obiter Dicta. 4th ed. Elliot Stock, 1884. Identical format as above; 120 leaves, but this edition has a half-title, and no blank at end. With ex libris of James Kenneth Stephen and inscription to him from J. A. D. 4. Obiter Dicta. [Unspecified edition] Elliot Stock, 1885. Identical format and follows Fourth Edition in arrangement of leaves; but introduction of a new footnote on p. 150 and removal of the longer note "Vagabonds and Players," from pp. 153-154 advances the setting, so that the text ends at top of p. 233—leaving verso blank. Collation remains the same, 120 leaves. The note that the "Falstaff" essay is by "Another hand" is also first added here. Inscribed: "To William Slader, with the kind regards of Augustine Birrell, October 1930." 5. Obiter Dicta. Elliot Stock, 1887. The issue on large paper (unspecified edition) 8 1/2" x 7". The 4 poems at the beginning now re-appear, but not the 8 line poem at end. Hence collation is 125 leaves. The note remains on p. 150 but the "Vagabonds and

6. Life of Charlotte Bronte. Walter Scott, 1887. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine, top edges cut, others uncut. The last 3 leaves of gathering 12 at end carry publisher's adverts only. The Large Paper library edition (8 1/4" x 5 1/2"), in the Great Writers series edited by E. S. Robinson. Inscribed: "To William Slader, who bought this book himself, & has asked me to write his name in it, which I do with thankful heart. Augustine Birrell." 7. Obiter Dicta. Second Series. Elliot Stock, 1887. Bevelled green cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, floral-patterned pale green end-papers. First state, with the errors in text on p. 92 and 215. Errata slip inserted before Preface, which also contains an omitted Note on the Pope lecture. 8. Obiter Dicta. Second Series. Elliot Stock, 1887. The issue on large paper, 8 1/2" x 6 3/4". Bevelled green cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, thick cream laid end-papers. This "edition" is the sole exemplar of the true second state. The error on p. 215 is corrected and the note on the Pope lecture is added on p. 51. A new erratum slip on handmade paper is provided, which corrects the sole remaining error on p. 92. This copy has the signature of Arthur Croome, November 1889. 9. Another copy of the Large Paper issue. Inscribed: "To Charles W. Dilke, with the Author's good wishes, March 1896," and with armorial bookplate of the recipient. 10. Obiter Dicta. Second Series. Elliot Stock, 1887. Another copy of the small paper edition; an example of the third state. Both errors are corrected and on p. 51 the note on the Pope lecture appears below title. No errata slip is required or present. 11. Lamb, Charles. The Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia. 2 vols. Dent, 1888. Uniform grey bevelled cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Each limited to 750 copies. Volumes in the Temple Library, with 15 page Introduction by Birrell and etchings by Herbert Railton. In the Preface to his own Collected Essays (1922), Birrell claims to have edited the first

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BIRRELL (Augustine) 1850-1933 book published by Dent, which must be a reference to this work by Lamb. 12. Res Judicatae: Papers and Essays. Elliot Stock, 1892. Three-quarter cream parchment, lettered in green, dark green linen sides, t.e.g., others uncut. From Sotheby's sale 22 December 1952, with the John and Margaret Mackail ex libris, also autograph inscription by J. M. Mackail: "Margaret, 26 August 1892." 13. Another copy, the issue on large paper, 8 3/4" x 6 3/4". Same style binding as in small paper and green lettering from same type, all edges uncut. 14. Essays about Men, Women and Books. Elliot Stock, 1894. Bevelled green cloth, gilt, all edges uncut. Inscribed on end-paper: "T. G. Overton, March 1894." 15. Another copy, the issue on large paper, 8 3/4" x 6 3/4". Bevelled green cloth, gilt, all edges uncut. 16. The Duties and Liabilities of Trustees. Macmillan, 1896. Dark blue cloth, uncut edges. Publisher's blind circular "Presentation Copy" stamp on title-page. With signature and pencil notes of Harry K. Hudson. Hudson was parliamentary private secretary to Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, and the Birrell presentation copies were from his library (see also Autograph Letters section). 17. Borrow, George. Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest. Macmillan, 1896. Light blue cloth, gilt, all edges gilt, orange peacock-designed end-papers. 16 page Introduction by Birrell, illustrations by E. J. Sullivan. 18. Boswell, James. Life of Johnson. 6 vols. Constable, 1896. Bright red cloth, gilt spines, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece and illustrations. 18 page Introduction by Birrell. publisher's blind embossed Presentation stamp on title-pages. The first form of this frequently reprinted edition. 19. Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. The School for Scandal, and The Rivals. Macmillan, 1896. Dark green cloth with elaborate gilt cover design, all edges gilt, dark slate end-papers. 16 page Introduction by Birrell, illustrations by E. J. Sullivan.

BIRRELL (Augustine) 1850-1933 20. Sir Frank Lockwood: A Biographical Sketch. Smith Elder, 1898. Bevelled dark blue-green cloth, all edges uncut (unopened throughout), dark blue end-papers, 14 illustrations, leaves at end carry publisher's adverts only. 21. Collected Essays. 2 vols. Elliot Stock, 1899. Dark red cloth, all edges uncut. The final leaf of gathering 21 in first volume is a blank. 22. Seven Lectures on the Law and History of Copyright in Books. Cassell, 1899. Light reddish brown cloth, edges cut, 9 leaves publisher's adverts at end dated 9-98. Bookplate of G. E. Mitton [Lady Scott]. 23. Miscellanies. Elliot Stock, 1901. Bevelled green cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, dark blue end-papers, last leaf of gathering 18 at end carries adverts only. 24. Broadhurst, Henry. Henry Broadhurst, M.P.: The Story of His Life from a Stonemason's Bench to the Treasury Bench. Told by Himself. With an Introduction by Augustine Birrell. Hutchinson, 1901. Bevelled light red buckram, t.e.g., others trimmed, frontispiece. 25. William Hazlitt. Macmillan, 1902. Bright red cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others cut. Leaf of series adverts inserted at end dated 20.6.02. A volume in the English Men of Letters series. 26. Emerson: A Lecture. Philip Green, 1903. Dark blue cloth, spine and upper side lettered in white enamel, trimmed edges, frontispiece portrait. The last leaf carries adverts of the Essex Hall Lectures on recto, the last noted being the present lecture. 27. In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays. Elliot Stock, 1905. Green cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, dark blue end-papers. Final leaf carries only adverts, with verso blank. 28. Andrew Marvell. Macmillan, 1905. Bright red cloth, gilt spine, t,e.g., others cut. Q2 at end is blank. A volume in English Men of Letters series. 29. Lamb, Charles. The Last Essays of Elia. With an introduction by Augustine Birrell. Blackie, 1905. Padded red leather gilt, t.e.g., fore-edges uncut, lower edges cut, designed end-papers. A volume in the Red Letter Library; 4 page Introduction by Birrell, and 36 pages of notes at end.

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30. Selected Essays, 1884-1907. Nelson, 1909. Blue stamped cloth, gilt spine, top edges uncut, others cut, frontispiece portrait, patterned end-papers. The author's Preface, dated at end Sheringham, Christmas Day, 1908, states that the book originated "When lately asked by my friend Mr. John Buchan to allow a selection from my Essays (made by him) to be added to this series, . . . "

37. Aphorisms on Authors and Their Ways. . . . Diligently Collected from Johnson's Lives by A. B. Privately printed, 1917. Light grey boards with 2 titling labels, all edges uncut. 100 copies printed on handmade paper watermarked "Aldwych." Inscribed: "To A. S. W. from A. B. Christmas, 1917." Also on blank leaf at end, pp.[61-62], a 10-item errata in Birrell's handwriting in pencil. The recipient is the "Mr. West" of item above, and of the following item.

31. Locker Lampson, Mrs. Godfrey. A Quaker Post-Bag. Letters to Sir John Rodes. . . Selected and Edited by Mrs. Godfrey Locker Lampson. With a Preface by Augustine Birrell. Longmans, 1910. Tall 8vo, smooth fawn buckram, gilt spine, top edges cut, others trimmed, 6 illustrations. 32. John Bright. An Address delivered at Rochdale on November 16, 1911. T. Fisher Unwin, 1911. Blue wrappers, upper side lettered in black, top edges cut, others uncut, 32 pages, sewn. 33. A Rogue's Memoirs. . . . Humphreys, 1912. This attractively produced booklet, in parchment wrappers folded over stiff boards, and in a blue slip-case with large lettering label, is inessential in a Birrell collection. Besides the title-essay, it contains "Charles Lamb" and "Actors." The first and last are from Obiter Dicta (1884), and the other from the second series of the same collection. 34. Essays. Humphreys, 1912. Another attractively produced book, printed on unbleached paper watermarked "Arnold," but inessential in a Birrell collection for similar reasons to the above. Contents are 5 essays. This copy bound in three-quarter purple morocco, top edges uncut. A volume in the Royal Library, Belles Lettres series. 35. On a Dictum of Mr. Disraeli's and Other Matters: An Address Delivered before the University of Glasgow on December 5, 1912. Humphreys, 1912. Light brown wrappers, upper side lettered in blue, 24 pages, only lower edges uncut. 36. Self-Selected Essays. A Second Series. Nelson [1917]. Red cloth, gilt spine, edges cut, No. 134 in Nelson's Library, in printed dust-jacket with author's portrait (1/3 net). Though in a quite different size and format, this is a successor to the volume of 1909. The author's Preface, dated Sheringham, September 1916, refers to Buchan's earlier selection (1909).

38. Frederick Locker-Lampson: A Character Sketch. Composed and Edited by his Son-in-Law, the Right Hon. Augustine Birrell. Constable, 1920. 4to, dark brown boards, holland spine with titling label printed in red, all edges uncut, 4 illustrations. Inscribed: "To Alfred S. West. In commemoration of an unbroken friendship of sixty years, 13 June 1920." Below this is written, on a sheet pasted in: "23 June 1920. My dear Alfred. I forgot to add my name with above truthful declaration. Augustine Birrell." Also inserted is a full 4to sheet of corrigenda in ink, some 26 lines in author's autograph. 39. Another copy, No. 81 of 100 copies signed by the author. Smooth cream buckram, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Inserted is the "Author's Note to the Limited Edition [Inserted after publication]," Dated at foot 25 June 1920. It lists 11 errors but omits others, a variant of the author's list in above copy of the ordinary edition. 40. The Collected Essays and Addresses. 1880-1920. 3 vols. Dent, 1922. Tall 8vo, red cloth, gilt spines, top edges stained green, others trimmed, frontispiece portrait in volume 1. 41. Some Early Recollections of Liverpool. In a Letter Addressed to the Lord Mayor of that City. Liverpool: Henry Young, 1924. Tall 8vo, light grey boards, titling label on upper side, uncut edges, frontispiece and 2 other plates. 42. More Obiter Dicta. Heinemann, 1924. Light orange-brown cloth, only lower edges uncut, in printed dust-jacket (7s. 6d. net). 43. Essays of To-day and Yesterday: Augustine Bin-ell. Harrap, 1926. A selection of Birrell's essays in this series. The superior issue in crocodile-skin patterned brown cloth, gilt, top edges stained, other edges uncut, light brown end-papers. The cheaper form of these booklets was in black paper wrappers with large titling label.

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44. Et Cetera: A Collection. . . . Chatto & Windus, 1930. Light brown cloth, top edges stained, lower uncut. An ALS to "My dear Mrs. Franklin," on the author's Sherringham notepaper dated 4 June 1927 is inserted, also a typed letter to the same correspondent, dated 21 August 1936.

52. Lamb, Charles. The Last Essays of Charles Lamb. With an Introduction by Augustine Birrell and Illustrations by Charles E. Brock. Dent, 1902. Birrell first edited Lamb's essays in 2 volumes in the same publisher's Temple Library, 14 years earlier. The illustrations in the present volume are by a different artist and, despite the title-page claim, there is no introduction by Birrell. It has in fact no place in a Birrell collection.

45. Another copy, with printed dust-jacket (7s. 6d. net). 46. Things Past Redress. Faber, 1937. Tall 8vo, brick red cloth, trimmed edges, 8 illustrations. Manuscripts and Autograph Letters 47. ALS (4 pages) on his 3 New Square, Lincoln's Inn notepaper dated 6 January 1896 to "Dear Sir Charles Dilke." This letter was loosely inserted in Duties and Liabilities of Trustees (1896). 48. ALS (2 pages) on a folded sheet of his 3 New Square, Lincoln's Inn notepaper to "Dear Paul" about a theatrical production. 49. Holograph MS poem, on verso of a sheet of 70 Elm Park Road, Chelsea notepaper with the title, "The Answer of one of the 'Brown Books' to this Prayer," initialled and dated at end 29 October 1924. This was loosely inserted in Birrell's copy of Andrew Lang's Ballads of Books (1888). See Lang entry. 50. Holograph MS, on 9 small 4to sheets, of a review of The Laureatiship: A Study, by E. K. Broadus Oxford University Press, 1921. The sheets bear compositors' marks and the stamp of Holbrook Jackson's magazine To-Day, where the essay appeared in the December 1921 issue (Vol. 8, No. 48). Association Items 51. [Clive, Mrs. Archer.] Two anonymous works by this author, bound together in three-quarter brown calf, pink linen sides, t.e.g., others trimmed: IX Poems. By V. 2nd ed., with Some Additions. Saunders & Otley, 1841. / Watched the Heavens: A Poem. By V. Saunders & Otley, 1842. Perfect copies with both half-titles. The first also has the blank E8 at end. With Birrell's bookplate and his 5 line note about Gladstone's appreciation of the author.

BLACKIE (John Stuart) 1809-1895 1. Lyrical Poems. Edinburgh: Sutherland and Knox, 1860. The collection contains 3 copies but, regrettably, none with any claim to be called first state, which presumably is in a binding with Sutherland and Knox imprint. The book was transferred to David Douglas, another Edinburgh publisher, and all 3 copies were issued by him, but the binding cases were clearly lettered in 3 different operations, the first having gilt bands top and bottom of spine and "Edinburgh/David Douglas" whilst in the other 2 this is reversed to "David Douglas/Edinburgh," and bands are blind-stamped. This first copy is inscribed: "To Robert F. Horton with sincere esteem from John S. Blackie. 'Weep with those who weep and rejoice with those who rejoice.' London, 12 June 1889." 2. Another copy, inscribed at length (including lines in Greek) to a "human-hearted young lady. . . from her admiring uncle John S. Blackie. Edinburgh 17 May 1887." 3. Another copy, inscribed: "To Mrs. Walker with pleasant memories of Brixton hospitality from John S. Blackie. London, 4 June 1889." With bookplate of the recipients, John and Alice Walker. 4. Lays of the Highlands and Islands. Strahan, 1872. Dark green cloth, gilt spine, only lower edges trimmed, brown end-papers. Presentation copy to Andrew Young (1807-1891) inscribed: "To the Author of 'There is a happy land' from John S. Blackie. Edinburgh, 28 September 1883." 5. Horae Hellenicae: Essays and Discussions on Some Important Points of Greek Philology and Antiquity. Macmillan, 1874. Tall 8vo, bright blue cloth, gilt spine, top edges unopened, others cut.

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BLACKIE (John Stuart) 1809-1895 6. On Self-Culture, Intellectual, Physical, and Moral. Edinburgh; Edmonston & Douglas, 1874. Bright red cloth, spine titling label, top edges unopened, others cut, 24 page publisher's catalogue at end dated October 1873. Spine label is printed: "The/Culture/of the/Intellect/By/J. S. Blackie/Price 2/6." 7. The Wise Men of Greece, in a Series of Dramatic Dialogues. Macmillan, 1877. Light brown cloth, black designed, spine gilt-lettered, only lower edges untrimmed. Inscribed: "To Tom Taylor with sincere regards from John S. Blackie. Edinburgh Nov. 1877," followed by a Greek quotation from St. Paul. Also inserted is a 2 page letter to "My dear Taylor," on Blackie's 24 Hill Street, Edinburgh notepaper, which accompanied the gift. 8. Another copy, with signature on half-title of J. Wight Duff. 9. Another copy, inscribed: "To Rose J. Butcher, with best wishes and sincere esteem from John S. Blackie. February, 1890." Identical with the other 2 copies save that it has publisher's 32 page catalogue at end dated October 1888, and a different ampersand in Macmillan's imprint at foot of spine. 10. The Wisdom of Goethe. Blackwood, 1883. Green cloth, gilt-lettered and black designed, all edges gilt, dark slate end-papers. Q4-Q6 at end carry publisher's adverts only.

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Lays of the Highlands and Islands.

Walter Scott, 1888. Dark blue cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, slate end-papers, 4 leaves of publisher's adverts at end. This is an entirely reset reprint of the original 1872 issue, from a different publisher and printer. 12. Life of Robert Burns. Walter Scott, 1888. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, spine lettered in 4 lines. This is the Large Paper library edition in the Great Writers series. 13. Another copy. This is the ordinary small paper style, with lettering on spine in 6, not 4, lines. Though manifestly from the same type-frames, and therefore the same edition as the Large Paper, variations can be detected, e.g., on p. 113, where in the small paper issue the line "domestic life all the images" &c. is removed to top of p. 114. The 3 leaves of publisher's adverts at end, printed on text-paper, are identical.

BLACKIE (John Stuart) 1809-1895 14. A Song of Heroes. Blackwood, 1890. Dark red cloth, gilt spine, only lower edges trimmed, dark blue end-papers. Dedicated "To Robert Browning, Poet, Philosopher, and Scholar." 15. The Selected Poems of John Stuart Blackie. Edited with an Appreciation by Archibald Stodart Walker. John MacQueen, 1896. Dark green cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, frontispiece portrait, glazed primrose end-papers, publisher's adverts dated March 1896 at end. This posthumous volume inscribed on half-title by the author's widow: "To Mr. Capp with kind regards from Mrs. Blackie. May 1896." 16. The Day-Book of John Stuart Blackie. Selected and Transcribed from the Manuscript by his Nephew, A. Stodart-Walker. Grant Richards, 1901. Blue-black buckram, gilt spine, top and lower edges uncut, fore-edges trimmed, frontispiece portrait. N4-N6 at end carry adverts only. 17. The Letters of John Stuart Blackie to His Wife. Selected and Edited by his Nephew, A. Stodart-Walker. Blackwood, 1909. Tall 8vo, green cloth, gilt, edges cut, 3 portraits, dark plum red end-papers. 18. Notes of a Life. Edited by his Nephew, A. Stodart-Walker. Blackwood, 1910. Green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece. Y4 at end is blank. BLACKWOOD (Algernon) 1869-1951 1. The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories. Eveleigh Nash, 1906. Pictorially designed green cloth, top edges cut, others lightly trimmed, publisher's 32 page Autumn 1906 catalogue at end. 2. The Listener and Other Stories. Eveleigh Nash, 1907. Black cloth, titled on upper side in a red panel, gilt spine, only lower edges uncut, Y8 blank at end. 3. John Silence, Physician Extraordinary. Eveleigh Nash, 1908. Red cloth, gilt, only lower edges uncut, pp.[391-392] blank at end. 4. The Education of Uncle Paul. Macmillan, 1909. Light red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others cut, Al blank before half-title.

64 BLACKWOOD (Algernon) 1869-1951 5. Jimbo: A Fantasy. Macmillan, 1909. Uniform format with Uncle Paul, but all edges cut. Al blank before half-title and leaf at end carries adverts only. In printed orange dust-jacket (3/6 net). 6. The Lost Valley and Other Stories. With 8 Illustrations by W. Graham Robertson. Eveleigh Nash, 1910. Green cloth, only lower edges uncut. 7. The Human Chord. Macmillan, 1910. Light blue cloth, gilt, all edges cut, Al blank before half-title, Y4-Y8 at end carry adverts only. 8. The Centaur. With a Design by W. Graham Robertson. Macmillan, 1911. Light blue cloth, gilt, all edges cut, Al blank before half-title, Z7 and Z8 at end carry adverts only, followed by 4 leaves of "New Macmillan Novels" dated 20.8.11. The design referred to on title-page appears to be the pictorial end-papers.

BLACKWOOD (Algernon) 1869-1951 15. Julius Le Vallon: An Episode. Cassell, 1916. Light brown cloth, edges cut, printer's imprint at foot of last page (332) has "F30.416" as a second line. 16. The Wave: An Egyptian Aftermath. Macmillan, 1916. Green cloth, blind-stamped like Incredible Adventures, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, edges cut. Pp.[437-440] carry adverts of other books by Blackwood, followed by 4 pages of publisher's adverts dated 10.8.16. Al before half-title also carries adverts of other books by Blackwood on verso. 17. Day and Night Stories. Cassell, 1917. Blue cloth, only lower edges uncut, printer's imprint at foot of last page 332 has a second line: "F30.117." 18. Karma: A Re-Incarnation Play. By Algernon Blackwood and Violet Pearn. Macmillan, 1918. Dark blue cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, Al blank before half-title and pp.[231-232] carry publisher's adverts only.

9. Pan's Garden: A Volume of Nature Stories. With Drawings by W. Graham Robertson. Macmillan, 1912. Green cloth, gilt with black design panels on spine and upper side, edges cut. The illustrations, including the frontispiece, are all printed on text-paper; pp.[533-536] at end carry adverts only.

19. The Promise of Air. Macmillan, 1918. Green cloth, blind-stamped like The Wave, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, edges cut. Al before half-title carries adverts of other books by Blackwood on verso, pp.[277-280] at end carry publisher's adverts.

10. A Prisoner in Fairyland. Macmillan, 1913. Uniform format with Pan's Garden, all edges cut, pp.[507-508] carry adverts only, followed by 8 pages of Macmillan's "New Fiction."

20. The Bright Messenger. Cassell, 1921. Light brownish cloth, lettered and designed black, only lower edges uncut. Al blank before half-title, printer's imprint centre of p.[350] set in 4 lines, the fourth being "7.5.1221," followed by blank leaf.

11. Incredible Adventures. Macmillan, 1914. Green cloth, blind-stamped like Jimbo (1909), edges cut, pp.[367-368] carry adverts only, followed by 8 pages of Macmillan's adverts.

21. The Wolves of God and Other Fey Stories. By Algernon Blackwood and Wilfred Wilson. Cassell, 1921. Uniform format with The Bright Messenger. Printer's imprint foot of p. 328 has "F35.421" as second line.

12. Ten Minute Stories. John Murray, 1914. Light blue cloth, edges cut. The last 4 leaves at end carry adverts only.

22. Episodes before Thirty. Cassell, 1923. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt, cut edges, in printed dust-jacket (15/- net). Al blank before half-title, printer's imprint on last leaf [312] set in 4 lines, the fourth being "F20.1023."

13. The Extra Day. Macmillan, 1915. Light blue cloth, blind-stamped like Incredible Adventures (1914), edges cut. Pp.[359-360] carry adverts, followed by publisher's "New Recent Works of Fiction," 8 pages, dated 15.8.15. 14. Another copy, in a darker shade of blue cloth, but same blind-stamping and gilt-lettering, save that on spine there is no circular wreath ornament between title and author's name nor catalogue at end.

23. Tongues of Fire and Other Sketches. Herbert Jenkins, 1924. Light green cloth, lettered and designed black, edges cut, U5-U8 at end carry publisher's adverts. In pictorial dust-jacket (7/6d. net). 24. Ancient Sorceries and Other Tales. Collins [1927]. Light brown cloth, cut edges, a volume of the publisher's King's Way Classics. 6 tales selected from previous volumes.

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25. The Dance of Death and Other Tales. Herbert Jenkins, 1927. Bright red cloth, a volume of the Fireside Library, top edges stained red, others uncut, pictorial end-papers, in yellow printed dust-jacket (5/- net).

1. Merrie England. By Nunquam. Dedicated to A.M. Thompson (Dangle). Clarion & Walter Scott [1894], Small 4to, half maroon leather, dark green linen sides, gilt lettered on upper side, all edges gilt. Double column printing from the type of The Clarion, 101 pages plus title-page. Verso of title-page carries the Contents and the last page is laid down on the end-paper (end-papers are dark blue where facing). This is believed to be one of only 2 copies specially prepared and bound for presentation. Inscribed on title-page: "To W. T. Wilkinson from Robert Blatchford. Jany 94."

26. Full Circle. Being No. 11 of Woburn Books. E. Mathews & Marrot, 1929. Pale blue boards lettered and designed in darker blue, in printed dust-jacket, all edges uncut. No. 460 of 530 copies, signed by the author. 27. Dudley and Gilderoy: A Nonsense. Benn, 1929. Tall 8vo, half black cloth, patterned grey sides, edges cut. Pp.[283-284] blank at end. 28. The Fruit Stoners: Being the Adventures of Maria among the Fruit Stoners. Grayson & Grayson, 1934. Black cloth, gilt spine, top edges stained green, others cut, in pictorial dust-jacket (7/6 net). 29. The Tales of Algernon Blackwood. Martin Seeker, 1938. Blue cloth, gilt spine, top edges stained to match, fore-edges uncut, lower edges cut. Frontispiece portrait. 21 tales selected from previous publications, with author's new 7 page Introduction. Autograph Letters 30. ALS to Harold Monro. On Savile Club notepaper, dated 6 November 1913. 31. Letter to Harold Monro. Typewritten with autograph signature, beginning, "I have just read your poem, and it is interesting to see how we feel exactly together about trees." Some 180 words. Association Item 32. Forman, H. Buxton. A Few Words about the late Sir Arthur Blackwod, Secretary of the Post Office. St. Martin's-Le-Grand: W. P. Griffith, Printed for Friends, New Year's Day, 1894. Tall 8vo, cream parchment, gilt-lettered up spine, all edges uncut, 32 pages including blanks, frontispiece portrait. Only 50 copies printed, all in mauve ink. Inscribed: "Irene Osgood with the author's kind regards. 6 December 1897"; also on title-page (in the recipient's hand) "Irene. Guilsborough Hall." Algernon Blackwood was the son of Sir Arthur Blackwood.

2. Merrie England. By Robert Blatchford (Nunquam). Dedicated to A. M. Thompson (Dangle). Clarion & Walter Scott, 1894. Maroon cloth, cut edges, spine gilt-lettered in 5 lines with short rule, upper side in 3 lines with short rule. 210 pages plus final leaf of adverts. This is presumably the Second Edition of the work, published at one shilling. The first 2 leaves carry adverts only. Bookplate of Herbert Haig, of Quarmby, a well-known Sheffield socialist. 3. Merrie England. Clarion & Walter Scott, 1895. Smooth light green buckram, spine gilt-lettered in 7 lines, t.e.g., others uncut. 206 pages plus final blank leaf; the blank before title is included in pagination. This is probably the Third Edition. There is a 2 page Preface by R. Blatchford dated London 1895 and verso of Contents contains a further letter "To Readers of Merry England." The typesetting of the body of the work is the same as in the 1894 edition up to p. 204, but the Appendix is reset and slightly revised, and the Index is omitted. 4. Pink Diamonds: A Romance without a Story. By McFaddyen O'Flatherty McGinnis. Clarion & Walter Scott, 1897. Dark red vertically ribbed cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, all edges uncut. Published pseudonymously. 5. A Bohemian Girl. By P. McGinnis. Clarion & Walter Scott, 1898. Dark blue cloth, spine and upper side gilt-designed and lettered, t.e.g., others uncut. Does not bear Blatchford's name anywhere. 6. Land Nationalisation. Clarion, 1898. 16 pages, metal fastened into pale blue printed wrappers, upper side serving as the only title-page. Clarion Pamphlet No. 26.

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7. A Bohemian Girl and McGinnis. By Robert Blatchford. Clarion & Walter Scott, 1899. Presumed Second Edition of A Bohemian Girl (1898) same size and printed from same type by Morrison and Gibb Limited, Edinburgh, but on a thinner paper, making the volume little more than one-half the thickness of the earlier edition. Bright red cloth with same gilt design but lettering changed to accommodate changes on the title-page. Pagination is identical, 252 pages. Despite varation in titling, the contents of these 2 editions appear identical.

2. George Eliot. W. H. Allen, 1883. Yellow cloth, lettered in black spine and upper side, edges cut, designed pale blue end-papers. Final leaf Q2, pp.[219-220], advertises the author's Prophecy of Saint Oran. Signature, "Lucy Harrison, 1883," on half-title. This book is the first in a new series, and a slip is inserted advertising 5 titles, of which the first 2 are "Now Ready." Errata slip inserted (8 errors).

8. Dismal England. By the author of Merrie England. Walter Scott, 1899. Dark red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others lightly trimmed. 9. Dismal England. By the author of Merrie England. Walter Scott, 1901. Dark blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others lightly trimmed. This is the second printing of the book, with date on verso of half-title changed from 1899 to 1901 and a bibliographical statement added on verso of dedication page, which was previously blank. Printed on a laid paper, whereas the First Edition was on a toned paper. Imprint at foot of spine is still in 4 lines but is changed from "1899/Walter/Scott/London" to "Clar-/ion/Press/London." 10. A Book about Books. Clarion, 1903. Red cloth, spine and upper side elaborately gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. 11. As I Lay A-Thinking: Some Memories and Reflections of an Ancient and Quiet Watchman. Hodder & Stoughton [1926]. Light blue cloth, black lettered on spine and upper side, edges cut. Secondary Material 12. Thompson, Laurence. Robert Blatchford: Portrait of an Englishman. Gollancz, 1951, Tall 8vo, bright red cloth, lettered in black up spine, edges cut. BLIND (Mathilde) 1841-1896 1. The Prophecy of Saint Oran and Other Poems. Newman, 1881. Dark blue cloth, top edges uncut, others trimmed, slatey brown end-papers. Inscribed on title-page: "Algernon Charles Swinburne with Mathilde Blind's friendly regards," and initialled M. B. in bottom corner. With Swinburne's bookplate of The Pines, Putney Hill inside cover.

3. George Eliot. W. H. Allen, 1883. This is the alternative style of binding for the series, dark green cloth with same lettering in gilt, edges cut, same end-papers. "Second Edition" on recto title-page. All but one of the errors on the errata slip are found corrected here; p. 217 is no longer signed 'Q', printer's imprint no longer at foot on verso, and the conjugate leaf, which advertised Blind's volume of poems, now advertises 10 volumes of the series on recto, with other publications of W. H. Allen on verso. It has not been established that either edition exists exclusively in one binding. 4. Shelley's View of Nature Contrasted with Darwin's. Printed for Private Circulation, 1886. Tall 8vo, pale blue printed boards, lettered up the spine and on upper side, lower cover with Clay's imprint set in 3 lines in centre. One of only 25 copies printed; although not here stated, 3 copies were printed on pure vellum, one of which Wise describes in the first volume (1922) of his Ashley Library Catalogue. According to him it contains 22 pages, but 2 years later in volume 5 of the same catalogue, where he describes an ordinary paper copy, his collation is corrected to "22 pages plus leaf carrying printer's imprint." Our copy consists of the same 11 leaves and end-papers of the same laid quality as in Wise's description. It is paginated incorrectly 10 to 22, followed by final leaf carrrying Clay's imprint centre recto. Inscribed: "To Jas. Stanley Little, with kindest regards from Thos. J. Wise, 18/12/86," and with the recipient's armorial bookplate. This is the date of the signed certificate in the vellum copies. 5. Madame Roland. W. H. Allen, 1886. Dark green cloth, gilt, cut edges, designed end-papers; 2 conjugate leaves of series adverts at end list the present volume as "in preparation." In the same series as the author's George Eliot (1883). 6. Byron, Lord. The Letters and Journals. With an Introduction by Mathilde Blind. Walter Scott, 1886. Red cloth, lettered gilt and black, edges cut. Belonged to Harry Hooton (Edward Thomas's friend) and with his signature dated 1886 as well as notes.

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7. The Ascent of Man. Chatto & Windus, 1889. Half dark green cloth, lighter green linen sides, gilt-lettered and designed, all edges uncut, orange floral-patterned end-papers. Inscribed: "To Mrs. Hills, in remembrance of sunshine human and atmospheric, Mathilde Blind. Corby August 1892," and with bookplate of Anna Hills, the recipient.

followed by publisher's 32 page catalogue dated Dec. 1894. Inscribed: "To Anna Hills with Mathilde Blind's affectionate greetings, July 1895," and with the recipient's bookplate. Mrs. Hills of Corby Castle is mentioned by Richard Garnett in his memoir of the authoress.

8. The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff. Translated with an Introduction by Mathilde Blind. 2 vols. Cassell, 1890. Tall 8vo, half green cloth, patterned paper sides, only lower edges cut, 2 portraits. The presumed first state, in which printer's imprints on pp. 424 and 463 respectively are set in one line (i.e., without coded date). Publisher's 8 leaf adverts sewn in at end of each volume are dated 3.90. The lettering on spines is ornamental, but the 2 line imprints at foot lack serifs. Armorial bookplate in each volume of David Charles Guthrie. 9. Another set of First Edition, presumed second state. Each volume has the dated imprint at end (25.8.90). Neither has the 8 leaf catalogue sewn in, and the type of spine lettering is in plain Roman, though the 2 line imprints at foot in each volume have 3 conspicuous serifs. 10. Dramas in Miniature. With a Frontispiece by Ford Madox Brown. Chatto & Windus, 1891. Dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges uncut. Pp. 113-[114] at end appear to be a singleton signed "I," followed by an 8 page advert, "Books by Mathilde Blind," printed on text-paper, and a 32 page publisher's catalogue dated September 1891. Inscribed: "To my dear friend Harold Rathbone from Mathilde Blind. November 1891." On blank leaf the author has transcribed: "In Memory of the Gotthardt Pass, August 1891," followed by the sonnet "The storm which shook the silence of the hills." This poem does not appear to be printed in her Poetical Works (1900). 11. Theuriet, Andre. Jules Bastien-Lepage and His Art: A Memoir. T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. Imperial 8vo, pale blue cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, illustrated. Mathilde Blind's contribution is a 42 page study of Marie Bashkirtseff. 12. Birds of Passage: Songs of the Orient and Occident. Chatto & Windus, 1895. Pale blue cloth with silver design on spine and upper side, all edges uncut. Edition limited to 250 copies. The last 4 leaves of gathering L at end, numbered [1] to 8, carry adverts of other books by Mathilde Blind,

13. A Selection from the Poems of Mathilde Blind. Edited by Arthur Symons. T. Fisher Unwin, 1897. Cream parchment, gilt-lettered and designed, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait. Arthur Symons's Introduction is dated Rome, 13 February 1897. 14. Another copy, but this is one of a small number printed for presentation on Japanese vellum, with binding of bevelled cream vellum, gilt. All edges are cut and gilt, and as a result the volume stands more than half an inch shorter on shelf than ordinary paper copies. Inscribed: "Lady Robinson in remembrance of Mathilde Blind, with best wishes for Christmas from Mrs. Ludwig Mond. The Poplars, London, Dec 1898." Dr. Ludwig Mond was literary executor of the deceased authoress and a friend of the editor of the book, Arthur Symons. 15. The Poetical Works of Mathilde Blind. Edited by Arthur Symons. With Memoir by Richard Garnett. T. Fisher Unwin, 1900. Green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others trimmed, medallion frontispiece portrait. Symons's Preface is dated 4 November 1899. BLOOMFIELD (Robert) 1766-1823 1. The Farmer's Boy: A Rural Poem. Vernor & Hood, 1800. 4to, half blue morocco, marbled sides, sprinkled edges. O4 at end carries adverts only, with Thomas Bensley's imprint on verso dated 1 January 1800. Capel Lofft's Preface (16 pages) is dated 21 December 1799. Though edges have been trimmed before the red sprinkling, this is a Large Copy, and many edges have just escaped the guillotine. Armorial bookplates of Edward Barrett Curteis and William Fred D'Arley. 2. The Farmer's Boy. 3rd ed. Vernor & Hood, 1800. This edition is in small 8vo, and the copy is in an attractive contemporary tree calf, gilt spine with red lettering label. Amongst material added is Bloomfield's "On Revisiting the Place of My Nativity," dated 30 May 1800 and a 24 page Appendix by Capel Lofft dated from Troston, 22 August 1800.

68 BLOOMFIELD (Robert) 1766-1823 3. Rural Tales, Ballads and Songs. Vernor & Hood, 1802. Small 8vo, contemporary tree calf, gilt spine with red lettering label. Frontispiece portrait. p.[xii] is blank, without erratum. 4. Rural Tales, Ballads and Songs. Boston: Printed for Joseph Nancrede, 1802. Small 8vo, contemporary half-calf, marbled sides, same frontispiece portrait with Vernor & Hood imprint dated 1 January 1802, and same printer's imprint of T. Bensley at foot of p. 119. This copy, also, is without erratum. 5. Rural Tales, Ballads and Songs. 2nd ed. Vernor & Hood, 1802. Small 8vo, contemporary tree calf, gilt spine. This edition has same frontispiece portrait with Vernor & Hood imprint, but the book was printed by James Swan, Angel Street, and there are some changes in Capel Lofft's notes. 6. Wild Flowers, or, Pastoral and Local Poetry. Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, 1806. Small 8vo, contemporary brown polished calf, gilt borders, round sides, double blue lettering labels. This is the variant issue printed by W. Wilson (No. 5a in the bibliography by the Earl of Cranbrook and John Hadfield, Some Uncollected Authors, XX, 1959). 7. May Day with the Muses. Printed for the Author; and for Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, 1822. Original pink boards, printed spine label, all edges uncut. 8. Another copy, identical with above, save that it is in the alternative binding of blue boards, drab spine, with same printed titling label. 9. May Day with the Muses. 2nd ed. Printed for the Author; and for Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, 1822. Contemporary polished brown calf, gilt-lettered up the spine. Appears to be identical with First Edition in all respects, save the edition statement on title-page. This is a presentation copy from the author, inscribed in his handwriting on verso of blank leaf before title-page: "From Robert Bloomfield, Shefford, Beds, Jany 13, 1823." 10. The Remains of Robert Bloomfield. 2 vols. Printed by Thomas Davison for the exclusive benefit of the family of Mr. Bloomfield and published by Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, 1824. Small 8vo, green cloth spines with titling labels, drab board sides, all edges uncut; 6 folding leaves of music at end of volume 1. This appears to be the earliest of the 3 states, with £184.13.0 at foot of N7 and £284.13.0 as the carried forward figure.

BLOOMFIELD (Robert) 1766-1823 11. Poems by Robert Bloomfield. With 13 Illustrations. John Van Voorst, 1845. Green blind-stamped cloth, uncut, spine gilt-lettered in 9 lines. Publisher's 4 leaves of adverts at end dated 1 September 1844. Inscribed on half-title: "To Millicent Wedmore. In Memory of her Grandmother, Bristol 9th Aug. 1886." 12. The Poetical Works of Robert Bloomfield. A Complete Edition. Illustrated by Birket Foster. Routledge, 1857. Red blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine, top edges uncut, others trimmed. Has an anonymous 14 page Life of Bloomfield. 13. The Horkey: A Provincial Ballad. With Illustrations by George Cruikshank. Macmillan, 1882. 4to, glazed light greenish boards with green cloth spine, all edges stained green, pictorial designs on both covers, 48 pages of coloured drawings with interwoven text. This poem was first published in Wild Flowers (1806). 14. Another copy, appears to be identical printing from same plates. Colour of covers is blue rather than green and cloth spine is dark brown. Publisher's imprint on upper cover is dated 1882 in both copies, but in the present the date is omitted from foot of title-page. Secondary Material 15. Brayley, E. W. Views in Suffolk, Norfolk and Northamptonshire, Illustrative of the Works of Robert Bloomfield. . . . To Which is Annexed a Memoir of the Poet's Life. Vernor, Hood & Sharpe [1806]. 4to, light brown boards, red spine, all edges uncut; 13 engraved plates, plus frontispiece. Association Item 16. Bloomfield, Nathaniel. An Essay on War, in Blank Verse. Honington Green, a Ballad. Printed for Thomas Hurst & Vernor and Hood, 1803. Small 8vo, contemporary half-calf, marbled sides, engraved frontispiece. The author was a brother of Robert Bloomfield, and this is his sole publication. The Preface (24 pages) is by Capel Lofft.

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1. The Harbingers: Poems. By E. C. Blunden. [no publisher] 1916. Pott 8vo, mauve wrappers lettered in darker blue, all edges cut. Preserved in a linen folder and drop-case, spine gilt-lettered.

9. On the Poems of Henry Vaughan . . . with his Principal Latin Poems Carefully Translated into English Verse. Cobden-Sanderson, 1927. Brick red cloth, spine titling label, top edges cut, others uncut, frontispiece plate, in printed dust-jacket. Signed by the author in full in ink on end-paper.

2. Pastorals: A Book of Verses. By E. C. Blunden. Erskine Macdonald, 1916. Light brown wrappers lettered and designed in blue, all edges uncut. 1,000 copies were printed. Preface signed by S. Gertrude Ford. 3. The Waggoner and Other Poems. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1920. Green cloth, spine titling label, edges trimmed (though some fore-edges remain unopened), in printed dust-jacket (5/- net). Spare titling label at end. The earliest copies of this book were issued in blue cloth, with fore and lower edges untrimmed. 4. The Shepherd and Other Poems of Peace and War. Cobden-Sanderson, 1922. Dark blue cloth, spine titling label, all edges uncut, in printed dust-jacket (6s. net). 5. The Bonadventure: A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday. Cobden-Sanderson, 1922. Light blue cloth, spine titling label, all edges uncut, in pictorial dust-jacket (6s. net). The Introductory Letter is by H. M. Tomlinson, as stated on the dust-wrapper, but not on the title-page; and the finale is by Ralph Hodgson, which is stated on neither. Autograph presentation copy to John Middleton Murry, inscribed: "J. M. M. with the voyager's kindest regards: Deer. 22nd, 1922. Errata slip sadly wanted." 6. To Nature: New Poems. Beaumont Press, 1923. Decorated boards, half cream vellum, all edges uncut. No. 8 of 80 copies printed on Japanese vellum and signed by the author, by Randolph Schwabe, the artist, and by the publisher. 7. English Poems. Cobden-Sanderson, 1925. Rough red cloth, spine titling label, all edges uncut, copy unopened throughout. In printed dust-jacket (6s. net). 8. Masques of Time: A New Collection of Poems Principally Meditative. Beaumont Press, 1925. Decorated boards, half cream vellum, all edges uncut. No. 25 of 80 copies signed by author, artist and publisher.

10. Undertones of War. Cobden-Sanderson, 1928. Tall 8vo, rough black cloth, spine gilt, top edges cut, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (10s. 6d. net). 11. Japanese Garland. Beaumont Press, 1928. Silver designed boards, half cream vellum, edges uncut. No. 59 of 80 copies on Japanese paper, signed by the author, Eileen Mayo, the artist, and by the publisher. 12. Leigh Hunt's "Examiner" Examined . . . 1808-1825. Cobden-Sanderson, 1928. Tall 8vo, smooth red buckram, spine titling label, top edges cut, others uncut, frontispiece portrait, spare label at end. S8 at end carries a list of other books by Blunden, with verso blank; Al at beginning is blank. 13. Retreat. Cobden-Sanderson, 1928. Smooth straw coloured buckram, all edges uncut, No. 92 of 112 copies printed on handmade paper and signed by the author. In drab brown printed dust-jacket. 14. Winter Nights: A Reminiscence. With Drawings by Albert Rutherston. Faber & Gwyer, 1928. Pale blue boards gilt-lettered, edges uncut. No. 17 of the Ariel Poems. No. 339 of 500 copies printed on handmade paper and signed by the author. 15. Nature in English Literature. Hogarth Press, 1929. Orange cloth lettered in red, edges cut. No. 9 of Hogarth Lectures on Literature. 16. Near and Far: New Poems. Cobden-Sanderson, 1929. Rough green cloth, spine titling label, all edges uncut, spare label at end. In printed dust-jacket (6s. net). 17. Collins, William. The Poems. Edited with an Introductory Study by Edmund Blunden. Etchells & Macdonald, 1929. Smooth blue cloth, spine titling label, top edges cut, others trimmed, in printed dust-jacket, frontispiece portrait. No. 514 of 550 copies, of which the first 50 were on Van Gelder Japon. Printed at Chiswick Press on all-rag paper.

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18. Lamb, Charles. The Last Essays of Elia. Edited with an Introduction by Edmund Blunden and Notes by Frederick Page. Oxford University Press, 1929. Green cloth, gilt spine, all edges cut. A surprisingly hard book to find in new condition, having been "set" as a text-book.

25. To Themis: Poems on Famous Trials. Beaumont Press, 1931. Designed boards, half cream vellum, all edges uncut. No. 8 of 80 copies printed on parchment vellum, signed by the author and by the artist, Randolph Schwabe.

19. The Poems of Edmund Blunden. Cobden-Sanderson, 1930. Light stone coloured rough cloth, spine gilt-lettered, top edges stained blue, others uncut, in blue printed dust-jacket (10s. 6d. net).

26. Votive Tablets: Studies Chiefly Appreciative of English Authors and Books. Cobden-Sanderson, 1931. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, gilt spine, top edges cut, fore-edges trimmed, lower uncut. In printed dust-jacket (10s. 6d. net).

20. Another copy, No. 179 of 210 signed by the author. Smooth dark blue buckram, spine gilt-lettered, all edges uncut, pale blue end-papers. This issue stands a half inch taller on the shelf than the ordinary edition. 21. A Summer's Fancy. Beaumont Press, 1930. Decorated boards, half cream Holland, gilt-lettered up spine. No. 166 of 325 copies printed on handmade paper. 22. Another copy. No. 77 of 80 copies on parchment vellum, signed by the author and by the artist, Randolph Schwabe. Boards decorated as in above copy, half cream vellum. This copy is one of 10 that have an additional first section of 8 pages loosely inserted. This is again signed by author and artist, but in place of the copy number appears the word "Cancelled." At bottom of this page is a further 12 line note in the publisher's autograph: "As first conceived this title-page was printed with a border as on the facing page. But when this sheet was printed I came to the conclusion that the border made the title-page too heavy. I therefore decided to cancel the title and print a new one without the border. The signed portion of the sheet was cut out and guarded in. There were 10 overs of the signed sheet, of which this is one, which I kept to give to a few friends. The cancelled titles of the ordinary edition have all been destroyed. This is for a very old friend of the Press. H. S. Bell. C. W. B[eaumont]." 23. Great Short Stories of the War. With an Introduction by Edmund Blunden. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1930. Half black cloth, mottled board sides, t.e.g., others cut, No. 16 of 250 copies, signed by Edmund Blunden. 24. In Summer: The Rotunda of the Bishop of Derry. With Decorations by Edward Carrick. Privately printed, 1931. Pale grey boards, lettered in green, edges cut. No. 234 of 290 copies on Basingwerk Parchment, signed by the author. The work was printed for Terence Fytton Armstrong.

27. Owen, Wilfred. The Poems of Wilfred Owen. A New Edition, including many pieces now First Published, and Notices of His Life and Work by Edmund Blunden. Chatto & Windus, 1931. Smooth purple cloth, gilt spine, frontispiece portrait, in printed dust-jacket. 28. Fall In, Ghosts: An Essay on A Battalion Reunion. White Owl Press, 1932. 32 pages, sewn into plain semi-stiff wrappers. In yellow printed dust-jacket, edges cut. No. 1 in the Contemporary Essays series, edited by Sylvia Norman. 29. Halfway House: A Miscellany of New Poems. Cobden-Sanderson, 1932. Rough orange cloth, spine titling label, top edges cut, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (6s. net). 30. Gawsworth, John. Backwaters: Excursions in the Shades. With an Essay by Edmund Blunden and a Translation by Arthur Machen. Denis Archer, 1932. Slate grey cloth, gilt, all edges cut, in pictorial dust-jacket (5/- net). The notes at end purport to supply biographical details of "Sir" William Allingham! 31. Keats's Publisher: A Memoir of John Taylor (1781-1864). Cape, 1936. Rough dark red cloth, top edges stained to match, only lower edges uncut, 8 illustrations. 32. Wade, Aubrey. The War of the Guns: Western Front, 1917 and 1918. With an Introduction by Edmund Blunden. B. T. Batsford, 1936. Rough black cloth lettered in red, top edges stained pink, others cut. 33. An Elegy and Other Poems. Cobden-Sanderson, 1937. Rough black cloth, spine titling label, top edges cut, others uncut.

71 BLUNDEN (Edmund Charles) 1896-1974 34. Ware, Fabian. The Immortal Heritage. With an Introduction by Edmund Blunden and 32 Photographs. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1937. Light blue cloth, gilt, edges cut. 35. Poems, 1930-1940. Macmillan, 1940. Green cloth, gilt spine, top edges stained to match, others cut. 36. Romantic Poetry and the Fine Arts: Warton Lecture on English Poetry. From the Proceedings of the British Academy. Milford, 1942. Tall 8vo, 20 pages, sewn into light grey wrappers lettered in black, top edges cut, others uncut. 37. Smith, F. Seymour. An English Library: An Annotated List of 1300 Classics. Foreword by Edmund Blunden. National Book Council, 1943. Light stone coloured holland, edges cut, in green printed dust-jacket (21- net). 38. Shells by a Stream: New Poems. Macmillan, 1944. Green cloth, gilt, trimmed edges, in printed dust-jacket (5s. net). 39. Cricket Country. Collins, 1944. Orange cloth, only lower edges uncut, in pictorial dust-jacket (8s. 6d. net). 40. Shelley: A Life Story- Collins, 1946. Brick red cloth, gilt spine, only lower edges uncut, in pictorial dust-jacket (12s. 6d. net). Frontispiece portrait. 41. Brodribb, C. W. Poems. With an Introduction by Edmund Blunden. Macmillan, 1946. Dark blue cloth, gilt, edges cut, frontispiece portrait. In printed dust-jacket (6/-). 42. Crabbe, George. The Life of George Crabbe. By his Son. With an Introduction by Edmund Blunden. Cresset Press, 1947. Dark blue smooth buckram, gilt, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (8/6 net). No. 4 in the Cresset Library, edited by John Hayward. 43. Poems of Many Years. Collins, 1957. Pink cloth, gilt spine, all edges cut, in printed dust-jacket. 44. William Crowe (1745-1829). Beaminster, Dorset: Toucan Press, 1963. Four pages, loosely inserted into printed pale green wrappers, of which upper side serves as the title-page.

BLUNDEN (Edmund Charles) 1896-1974 Autograph Letters 45. ALS, 2 pages, on separate sheets of small 4to ruled exercise paper, dated from the Athenaeum 13 February 1921 to "Dear Whitehead." A long letter of interest and importance in Blunden's admirably clear handwriting, entirely relating to the text of John Clare. The letter was enclosed in Whitehead's presentation copy of Blunden's 1920 edition of Clare catalogued in the Clare section. 46. ALS, one page, on Merton College, Oxford notepaper, dated 15 November 1939 to "Dear Dr. Rosslyn Bruce." Deals with Wordsworth-Coleridge books and papers, and accompanying it are letters from Hy Cecil Wyld, also on Merton notepaper, and Henry Guppy, on John Rylands Library notepaper, both to Dr. Bruce on the same matters. BLUNT (Wilfrid Scawen) 1840-1922 1. Sonnets and Songs. By Proteus. John Murray, 1875. Bevelled bright yellow cloth, gilt-lettered and designed, trimmed edges, dark green end-papers. First Edition of the author's first book, inscribed by his wife to their only child: "Judith Anne Dorothea Blunt, February 6th 1880," followed by a long inscription in 7 lines signed at end. 2. Another copy of First Edition, inscribed: "George Brackenbury from Lady Anne Blunt, June 1877." These 2 copies were on the library shelves at Crabbet Park on the occasion of the sale, 26 November 1959. From the evidence of recorded copies of author presentations contemporarily dated (1875), it would appear that the first batch of copies supplied had slate brown end-papers, but binding cases are identical. The book was never reprinted. 3. Proteus and Amadeus: A Correspondence. Edited by Aubrey de Vere. Kegan Paul, 1878. Reddish brown cloth, gilt and black lettered and designed, top edges uncut, others trimmed, publisher's 32 page catalogue at end dated April 1878, dark blue end-papers. Lady Blunt's copy, inscribed on half-title: "A. I. N. B., 1878," and in her handwriting again on upper cover: "this is A. I. N. B's property."

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4. Another copy, identical in all respects with above. Affixed to front end-paper is Kegan Paul's book-post parcel label addressed to Lord Wentworth, 58 Rue de Lafayette, Paris, dated 10 June by the clerk and franked 13 June 1878 by the French post office-evidently the label used in sending the book to him. Wentworth was Blunt's brother-in-law. Both these copies were on the library shelves at Crabbet Park on 26 November 1959.

9. The Future of Islam. Kegan Paul, Trench, 1882. Light green bevelled cloth, top edges uncut, others trimmed, publisher's 44 page catalogue at end dated August 1886. This is the second state of the book, in which title-page is a cancel, pasted on stub and carries 2 lines of type: "Published by permission of the Proprietors of the/Fortnightly Review." This did not appear on title-page as first printed. Inscribed: "Presented to the New Cross and Brockley Reform Club by Lady Anne Blunt, with best wishes for its prosperity. Jan. 26th, 1888."

5. Blunt, Lady Anne. Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates. Edited, with a Preface and Some Account of the Arabs and their Horses by W. S. Blunt. 2 vols. John Murray, 1879. Bright red cloth, gilt and black designed, gilt-lettered, only lower edges trimmed, dark green end-papers, folding map and illustrations, 32 page publisher's catalogue at end of volume 2, dated May 1878. 6. The Love Sonnets of Proteus. With a Frontispiece by the Author. Kegan Paul, 1881. Bevelled cream cloth, designed blue and brown, lettered gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, pale green patterned end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn & Co. The first issue binding, with "C. Kegan Paul & Co." at foot of spine. Inscribed: "Emma 'Campbell from the Author, Wilfrid Blunt, 29th May 1881." The inscription may be in the recipient's hand; it is certainly not the author's. Robert Browning inscribed his copy: "From the author, unknown, May 15th, 1881." 7. Another copy of the First Edition, identical in every respect save one (same pattern of end-papers, though the shade is grey rather than green, same binder's ticket). But this is the second binding state, with "Kegan Paul Trench & Co." at foot of spine. Trench had joined the firm earlier this year. Bookplate of Charles Plumptre Johnson. 8. Blunt, Lady Anne. A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the Cradle of the Arab Race. 2 vols. John Murray, 1881. Slatey blue cloth, gilt and black designed and lettered, top edges uncut, others trimmed, light slate grey end-papers, illustrations and folding map. Only the first volume is present in the collection; but the second volume contained nothing by Blunt. There is a 20 page preface by the editor, signed: "Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Crabbet Park, August 1, 1880," though there is no statement on title-page regarding this.

10. Another copy, a later state of First Edition sheets; the bevelled green cloth stands 1/4" taller on shelf and edges of leaves are entirely uncut, and unopened throughout. Plain white wove end-papers (not brown), no catalogue bound in, gilt-lettering on spine has "Paul, Trench/Trubner & Co." at foot; upper cover lettering, including the Arabic, is in 4 lines in black. 11. Egypt: Letters to the Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone and Others. 1882. 60 pages, including final blank leaf. Privately printed and unpublished, the only imprint being that of the printer at foot of p. 58: "F. Chifferiel & Co. London." Sewn into pale grey-blue wrappers lettered exactly as the title-page in 8 lines with 2 short rules. 12. The Love Sonnets of Proteus. 2nd ed. Kegan Paul, Trench, 1882. Format identical with First Edition (1881) in every respect save for edition statement on recto title-page, and setting of imprint on verso title-page. Shade of end-papers is grey, not green; same binder's ticket. Bookplate of Mary Edmunds. 13. The Love Sonnets of Proteus. 3rd ed. Kegan Paul, Trench, 1882. Similar to First and Second Editions. Inscribed, in Blunt's autograph: "Judith from her affec. Pappa on leaving home. Oct. 13, 1891." The daughter left home, but the book may not have; if it did leave, it returned again-certainly in time to be on the library shelves at Crabbet Park on the occasion of the sale on 26 November 1959. What the occasion of the inscription was is also unclear, Judith being 18 at the time. Her marriage to Neville Lytton was not until 1899. 14. The Love Sonnets of Proteus. 4th ed. Kegan Paul, 1885. This, the first edition to disclose authorship, was produced from sheets of the Third Edition which remained unsold. Title-pages were cut out and a freshly printed one pasted on stub; another leaf was also inserted carrying the Preface to Fourth

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BLUNT (Wilfrid Scawen) 1840-1922 Edition, dated "Crabbet Park, March 13th, 1885. W. S. B." This copy belonged to Lady Anne, and came from the Crabbet Park sale. It bears her initials in ink on cover: "A. I. N. B., 1886"~this being a favourite practice of hers. 15. The Wind and the Whirlwind. Kegan Paul, 1883. Black cloth, upper side gilt-lettered, edges stained red, dark blue end-papers. 16. Ideas about India. Kegan Paul, 1885. Blue cloth, top edges uncut, others trimmed, frontispiece plate, dark slate end-papers, publisher's 44 page catalogue at end dated February 1885. Bookplate of Sir W. G. Gordon Gumming, Bart. 17. A New Pilgrimage and Other Poems. Kegan Paul, 1889. Cream wrappers, black lettered, all edges uncut. No. 28 of 50 copies printed October 1889 on large handmade paper, signed by Charles Whittingham & Co. (The Chiswick Press). 18. Another copy of First Edition, the small paper issue, bevelled green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Belonged to the Irish poet John Todhunter, with his autograph on title-page: "J. Todhunter. Orchardcroft." 19. Another copy of First Edition sheets, in a late binding with "Paul, Trench/Trubner & Co." at foot of spine. The top edges are stained green instead of gilded and upper cover is devoid of lettering and ornament, save for one blind-stamped line: "A New Pilgrimage." 20. In Vinculis. Kegan Paul, 1889. Produced uniformly with the Large Paper New Pilgrimage, No. 14 of 50 copies. Frontispiece portrait of the author in his prison clothes. 21. Another copy of First Edition, small paper issue, bevelled cream buckram, green designed and gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others uncut. Same frontispiece portrait. Inscribed: "Anne Isabella Blunt in remembrance of Loughrea and Galway, Sheykh O'Beyd, Dec. 28th, 1888. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt." The certificate of printing in the Large Paper copy is dated December 1888. The inscription records the fact that Blunt's wife accompanied him in his Irish campaign, which resulted in his arrest, trial and imprisonment.

BLUNT (Wilfrid Scawen) 1840-1922 22. Another copy of First Edition, identical with above. Inscribed: "The Lady Dorchester. New Year 1889. From a kinsman of the prison poet." I bought this with a small library of books, transacting personally with Lord Dorchester (then 85 years) at his seat, Greywell Hill, Basingstoke, 12 October 1961. The inscription is to his mother-not the then [1961] Lady Dorchester, but I have not discovered the identity of the Irish donor. 23. Another copy of First Edition sheets, green bevelled cloth, gilt spine, top edges stained green, others uncut, upper side blind-stamped "In Vinculis." As with A New Pilgrimage, sheets remained in the publisher's warehouse and were not finally released until early in the present century-and then in plainer cloth binding. Neither New Pilgrimage nor In Vinculis was ever separately reprinted. Inscribed: "To Fr. John O'Connor, a true 'Priest of Ireland' & therefore dedicatee thereof. Christmas 1918. R. N. Green-Armitage." The recipient was the "Father Brown" of Chesterton's detective stories, and the book came from the sale of his library, Bradford, December 1952. 24. The Love Lyrics and Songs of Proteus. By Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, with the Love Sonnets of Proteus by the Same Author. Now Reprinted in Their Full Text, with Many Sonnets Omitted from the Earlier editions. Kelmscott Press, 1892. Vellum covers with green silk ties, all edges uncut. Only 300 copies were printed, and there was no copy on vellum. It is the only Kelmscott book with initial letters printed in red: this was done at the author's express wish. Besides his own, Blunt's was the only living poet's work that Morris printed at his press. Inscribed in purple ink: "To Gwendolen Irene Bourke from her affec. cous. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt," and with the recipient's Irish bookplate. 25. The Celebrated Romance of the Stealing of the Mare. Translated from the Original Arabic by Lady Anne Blunt. Done into Verse by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. Reeves & Turner, 1892. Smooth red buckram, gilt, all edges uncut. Inscribed: "Arthur Corfe Caffin, with kind regards from A. I. N. B. Newbuildings Oct. 27, 1897" in Lady Anne's handwriting. Caffin was estate-agent to the Blunts. 26. Esther, Love Lyrics, and Natalia's Resurrection. Kegan Paul, 1892. Bevelled brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine in 5 lines, upper side in 4 lines without any publisher's ornament, t.e.g., others uncut, white wove end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn & Co.

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BLUNT (Wilfrid Scawen) 1840-1922 Inscribed in red ink: "For Anne, the first copy, with much love from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Crabbet, Oct. 6, 1892." This is perhaps the most exciting of the many personal inscriptions in the Blunt books at Crabbet Park on the occasion of the sale, 26 November 1959. I have never heard of another copy in this binding, which may reasonably be presumed to be a unique "trial" book. The lettering is from a different type and with wording different from the published form, and there seems no doubt that the dedication leaf was never present in this copy. This leaf, however, is an insertion in the published book (not an integral part of gathering A), but I have not seen another copy without it. The dedication reads: "To the hand that has forgotten, the ears that cannot hear, and the lips that shall speak of love no more for ever." 27. Another copy of the First Edition, bevelled green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. The normal published state. There is no binder's ticket on rear end-paper. 28. Poetry of the Crabbet Club. Printed for Private Circulation only, 1892. 56 pages, sewn with blue silk tape, edges uncut, printer's imprint of Penny and Hull. Blunt may have been the nominal editor. Edith Finch refers to the work in her W. S. Blunt, (1938, pp. 275-280). Inserted is a 3 page letter from "Christie" to "Dearest Judith" dated 13 July 1949 from which it would appear this was Vernon Harcourt's copy, bought from Blackwell's after his death. It was on the shelves at Crabbet Park in 1959. 29. Griselda: A Society Novel in Rhymed Verse. Kegan Paul, 1893. Bevelled green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Issued anonymously. 30. The Poetry of Wilfrid Blunt. Selected and Arranged by W. E. Henley and George Wyndham. Heinemann, 1898. Dark blue cloth, gilt, all edges uncut. Henley's Prefatory [sic] occupies 5 pages. "The Quatrains of Youth" (pp. 234-268) and other poems are here printed for the first time. 31. Satan Absolved: A Victorian Mystery. With a Frontispiece after G. F. Watts. John Lane, 1899. Smooth straw coloured buckram, gilt-lettered up spine, all edges uncut. Inscribed: "Madeline Wyndham from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. Fernycroft, Oct. 20, 1899." I bought this book at the sale of George Wyndham's library at Clouds, Shaftesbury, in 1935.

BLUNT (Wilfrid Scawen) 1840-1922 32. The Shame of the Nineteenth Century. 24 December 1900. Eight pages, sewn into pale blue wrappers, uncut edges. The upper wrapper serves as the only "title-page," and is printed in 5 lines. 33. Love Poems of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. John Lane, 1902. Green cloth gilt, all edges gilt, mauve patterned end-papers. Printed throughout in green ink with ornaments top and bottom of page in mauve. No. 10 of the Lover's Library, edited by Frederic Chapman, who supplies the 7 page Prefatory Note. 34. The Military Fox-Hunting Case at Cairo: Mr. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt to the Marquess of Lansdowne, K.G. A Supplement to Blue Book Egypt 3, 1901. 2 vols. Printed for Presentation to Both Houses of Parliament, March 1902. Uniform light blue wrappers lettered in black, all edges uncut. Printed at the Chiswick Press and paginated separately, pp. viii, 29 + 3; pp. 45 + 3. Inscribed: "Sydney Cockerell from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, March 25, 1902." 35. The Seven Golden Odes of Pagan Arabia, Known also as the Moallakat. Translated from the Original Arabic by Lady Anne Blunt. Done into English Verse by W. S. Blunt. Chiswick Press, 1903. Blue boards, lettered black in 6 lines, holland spine with label lettered upwards, all edges uncut. Inscribed: "This book belonged to Wilfrid Blunt and was given to Mary Murray after his death in 1923." I bought it, still on the library shelves at Crabbet, 26 November 1959. 36. Fand of the Fair Cheek: A Three-Act Tragedy in Rhymed Verse. Written for the Irish National Theatre Society. Privately printed, December 1904. Light green printed wrappers, edges cut, 52 pages, no printer's imprint. Inscribed: "Sydney Cockerell from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Sept. 15, 1912." 37. Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt. T. Fisher Unwin, 1907. Dark blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece in printed dust-jacket (15/- net). 38. Atrocities of Justice under British Rule in Egypt. 2nd ed. T. Fisher Unwin, 1907. With a new preface. Grey-blue printed wrappers (price One Shilling net), trimmed edges, 68 pages. Inscribed in ink in Blunt's handwriting: "With the author's compliments." The First Edition is dated 1906.

75 BLUNT (Wilfrid Scawen) 1840-1922 39. The Bride of the Nile: A Political Extravaganza in Three Acts of Rhymed Verse. Privately printed, 1907. Blue Printed wrappers, 44 pages, edges cut, no printer's imprint. Blunt has inserted 7 names in the Dramatis Personae. Everard Meynell (Alice Meynell's son) played Benjamin the Samaritan and Lady Margaret Sackville played Belkis. Inscribed: "Sydney Cockerell from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. Sept. 15, 1912." 40. Francis Thompson. Burns & Gates, 1907. 12 pages, sewn into light blue printed wrappers, trimmed edges. This obituary notice was reprinted from The Academy, 23 November 1907. Inscribed: "W. M. Rossetti, from the author, 1909"—but the handwriting is that of the recipient. 41. Mr. Blunt and the "Times": A Memorandum as to the Attitude of the "Times" Newspaper in Egyptian Affairs. Published by the author at the Chiswick Press, 1907. 36 pages, sewn into blue printed wrappers, edges uncut. 42. The New Situation in Egypt. A reprint from The Manchester Guardian, September 1908. Burns & Dates [1908]. 20 pages, sewn into blue printed wrappers, edges uncut. 43. India under Ripon: A Private Diary. T. Fisher Unwin, 1909. Light blue boards, buff Holland spine, lettered black spine and upper side, all edges uncut, in printed dust-jacket (107- net). 44. Extracts from Mr. John Baker's Horsham Diary. Reprinted from Volume 52 of the Sussex Archaeological Society's Collections. 48 pages, sewn into light fawn coloured printed wrappers, trimmed edges, no printer's imprint or date. Inscribed: "Sydney Cockerell from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Xmas, 1909." 45. The Fiasco in Egypt. [1910]. Eight pages, sewn into pale blue printed wrappers, edges trimmed, no date or printer's imprint. 46. Gordon at Khartoum: Being a Personal Narrative of Events in Continuation of "A Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt." Stephen Swift, 1911. Light blue boards, buff coloured holland spine, lettered spine and upper side in black, all edges uncut, frontispiece. From the Hursley Park sale, Winchester, with Library stamp on end-paper.

BLUNT (Wilfrid Scawen) 1840-1922 47. The Italian Horror and How to End It. Bonner, 1911. 24 pages, metal fastened, issued without outer wrappers. 48. The Land War in Ireland: Being a Personal Narrative of Events in Continuation of "A Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt." Stephen Swift 1912. Issued uniformly with Gordon at Khartoum, (1911). Inscribed: "Hilda Housin with kind regards from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, 23 September, 1912." 49. The Poetical Works of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. A Complete Edition. 2 vols. Macmillan, 1914. Blue cloth, gilt, all edges uncut. Inscribed: "For Lord Grey of Falloden, wishing him the true happiness which comes of wisdom, from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. Newbuildings Place, November 29, 1921." Less than a year after writing this inscription, the author died. 50. My Diaries: Being a Personal Narrative of Events, 1888-1914. 2 vols. Martin Seeker, 1919-1920. Blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece to each volume. Bookplates of Dr. L. L. Price of Oriel College, Oxford. Volume 1 is in first state, without the errata on p. x. 51. Another set, with bookplates of Beatrice Eleanor, Countess of Pembroke. In this set volume 1 is in second state, with a 6 line errata at end of Preface (p. x). In Lady Gregory's edition (see next item), the error regarding P. H. Gosse is corrected and the 5 line note of Mr. Meynell is transferred into the text at p. 76. 52. My Diaries. 2 vols. Martin Seeker [1921]. Half black cloth with spine titling labels, marbled sides, top edges stained blue, others uncut. Same 2 frontispieces. For this edition (which may be considered the Second), printed in the United States, Lady Gregory wrote a special 8 page Preface, dated 12 June 1921. Autograph Letters 53. ALS, 2 pages, on Crabbet Park notepaper to an unnamed correspondent about vice-presidency of a political club, dated 13 September 1886. 54. Two ALS on Crabbet Park notepaper dated 1 November 1887 and 8 December 1887 to "Dear Sir," and in all probability to Alfred H. Miles, about a selection of his poems. He gives titles of 12 from the Sonnets of Proteus

76 BLUNT (Wilfrid Scawen) 1840-1922 and says: "These, I think, would give a fair idea of the volume." 55. ALS, one page, on Crabbet Park notepaper, dated 9 November 1892 to "Dear Middleton" sending a copy of his Esther, Love Lyrics and Natalia's Resurrection (1892) as a wedding-gift. 56. Two ALS on his Newbuildings Place, Southwater notepaper to "Dear Mr. Norman," dated 10 March 1908 and 11 June 1908. Secondary Material 57. Finch, Edith. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. Cape, 1938. Green cloth, gilt, top edges stained to match, only lower edges uncut, 13 illustrations. Inscribed on end-paper: "Gilbert Murray from Mildred Hartley, 1938." 58. Lytton, Earl. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. Memoir by his Grandson the Earl of Lytton. Macdonald, 1961. Bright red cloth, green spine titling label, all edges cut, in pictorial dust-jacket, 18 illustrations. Association Items 59. Dennis, John. English Sonnets: A Selection. Henry S. King, 1873. In a contemporary rebinding of half crimson hard-grain morocco, marbled sides and end-papers. Lady Blunt's copy, inscribed: "Anne I. N. Blunt. Oct. 20, 1876." 60. Fane, Violet [Lady Currie]. Sophy, or, the Adventures of a Savage. 3 vols. Hurst & Blackett, 1881. Purple cloth, gilt, slate brown end-papers. Inscribed on title-page: "To Wilfrid S. Blunt, with good wishes for a prosperous journey, from his friend 'Violet Fane.1 Nov. 5 1881." One correction in text in the author's hand. 61. Fane, Violet. Thro' Love and War. 3 vols. Hurst & Blackett, 1886. Purple cloth, gilt, dark blue end-papers. Inscribed: "To 'Proteus' (as a sedative & mental rest after the fatigues of electioneering), from 'Violet Fane' November 24th 1885." This and the above are the author's first and second novels. They were on the shelves at Crabbet Park in 1959. 62. Correspondence Respecting the Murder of Professor E. H. Palmer, Captain Wm. Gill &c. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1883. Bound half red leather, linen sides. From the Parliamentary Blue Book. With the Scawen Blunt, Crabbet Park bookplate and considerable annotations revealing Blunt's use: on p. 26 he

BLUNT (Wilfrid Scawen) 1840-1922 has a long 3 line note in ink about omissions from the text. Also inserted is a long galley sheet, 16" x 6 1/4", filled on both sides with Blunt's notes in mauve ink on this case. Much later this furnished matter for some dozen pages in his Secret History (1907). 63. Rutton, William Loftie. Three Branches of the Family of Wentworth. Privately printed, 1891. Dark blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g., uncut. No. 5 of 100 copies, signed by the author. With bookplate of Baroness Wentworth and the Crabbet Library label. Inscribed by Blunt: "Mary Wentworth from her affectionate uncle Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, March 9, 1909." 64. Buckman-Linard, Sara. My Horse, My Love. T. Fisher Unwin, 1898. With the Crabbet Park bookplate and inscribed: "For Lady Anne Blunt with sincere regards of the author. Sara Buckman-Linard." There are considerable annotations in Lady Anne's handwriting and on p. 53 she has corrected the misspelling of her husband's name as Wilfred. She has inscribed the spine: "Preserved on account of photographs, 1898." Inserted is author's ALS, 4 pages, to "Dear Lady Anne," dated from 20 Powis Square 22 July 1899. An interesting letter regarding the photographs of the horses. 65. Bain, F. W. A Digit of the Moon. James Parker, 1899. The 4to First Edition, boards with spine titling label. Inscribed by Lady Anne Blunt: "A. I. N. B. Newbuildings, Sussex." 66. Bain, F. W. A Heifer of the Dawn. James Parker, 1904. Uniform with above, save that colour of sides is brick red. 67. Milbanke, Ralph, Earl of Lovelace. Astarte: A Fragment of Truth Concerning George Gordon Byron, Sixth Lord Byron. Recorded by his Grandson. Chiswick Press, 1905. 4to, blue boards, holland spine with titling label, 6 plates. Only 320 copies were Privately printed. The red-printed Chiswick Press slip dated December 1905 inscribes the copy for Sydney C. Cockerell, Esq. and his autograph dated "Richmond, Surrey, Dec. 1905" is on end-paper. Inserted is an important ALS headed "Private" on 37 Chapel Street, Belgrave Square notepaper from Blunt to "Dear Cockerell," dated 6 May 1902, stating: "I lunched with Lord Lovelace & he imparted to me as a secret a plan of publishing some very important Byron documents. . . and I urged him, before entering into any negotiations with publishers, to talk the matter over with you. . . . " Also inserted is

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BLUNT (Wilfrid Scawen) 1840-1922 a long letter of Lord Lovelace to "Dear Mr. Cockerel," dated 20 January 1904 about the proposed book. From the Sotheby sale of Sir Sydney's books. 68. Lytton, Constance and Warton, Jane. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann, 1914. Purple cloth with medallion on upper side, 2 portraits. Author's presentation copy of an intensely moving narrative of devotion to an ideal, and suffering in the hands of insensitive bureaucracy. Inscribed: "For Darling Judith with love from Con. March 1914." 69. Lytton, Neville. The English Country Gentleman. With 12 Illustrations. Hurst & Blackett [1925]. Tall 8vo, red cloth, only lower edges uncut. The seventh chapter is an important contribution on his father-in-law, W. S. Blunt, of whom there are 2 portraits; 48 pages which commence with the text of Blunt's poem "The Old Squire." BOTTOMLEY (Gordon) 1874-1948 1. The Mickle Drede and Other Verses. Printed in Kendal by T. Wilson at his Press in Highgate, 1896. Grey boards, white parchment spine, lettered in 6 lines on upper side, all edges uncut. First Edition of the author's first book. Only 150 copies printed. Inscribed: "To Mrs B. S. Brigg from G. B. Feb. 10th, 1897." 2. Poems at White-Nights. At the Sign of the Unicorn, 1899. No. 5 of the Unicorn Books of Verse, green cloth, spine and upper side gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. The edition was 500 copies, but only 80 had been sold before the publishers went into liquidation. The fate of the unbound sheets is conjectural, but no alternative binding has yet been noted after 75 years, so they were presumably treated as waste. 3. The Crier by Night: A Play in One Act. At the Unicorn, 1902. Pale blue boards, half cream parchment, gilt-lettered up spine and in 2 lines in black on upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. The edition was 500 copies, but no more than 200 were bound by publishers for sale. Remaining sheets were probably pulped and destroyed. Inscribed: "To W. J. Adcock from his ancient friend Gordon Bottomley. Oct. 21st 1902."

BOTTOMLEY (Gordon) 1874-1948 4. The Gate of Smaragdus. Decorated by Clinton Balmer. At the Sign of the Unicorn, 1904. Pale green boards, green linen spine, titling label printed upwards, also lettered in one line in darker green on upper side, all edges uncut. The edition was 400 copies, every copy provided with an inserted leaf before title, printed on verso only, stating: "The First and Sole Publisher of the book is Elkin Mathews, Vigo Street, London W, 1904," above a drawing of the illustrator. Inscribed: "To Jack Lindsay, with good wishes out of a sympathetic past, from Gordon Bottomley. Silverdale: 13th November 1928." 5. Chamber of Imagery. Elkin Mathews, 1907. Deep cream wrappers, upper side black lettered in 6 lines, top edges cut, others uncut. Edition 500 copies. Inscribed: "Mme Harriet Solly, for a remembrance of August 1920 at Silverdale; from Emily and Gordon Bottomley. The Sheiling, Silverdale." A 3 page draft of a letter of condolence from Harriet Solly on the death of Emily Bottomley is inserted; also 2 photographs (1920) of the 2 couples-Mr, and Mrs. Bottomley and Mr. and Mrs. Morse (Harriet's married name). 6. Laodice and Danae*: Play in One Act. Printed for Private Circulation, 1909. Blue semi-stiff wrappers, black lettered in one line, all edges uncut. Only 150 copies printed. 7. Laodice and Danae". Portions of 3 sets of proof sheets, 26 pages in all, loose in a proof wrapper with a 3 line inscription by Bottomley about the paper. These sheets have many corrections and over 150 words of directions to printer in his hand in ink. They reveal that the printer was Titus Wilson of Kendal (published book is without any imprint); that an engraved or decorated title-page as well as printed title was planned, and other significant facts. 8. The Riding to Lithend. With Drawings by James Guthrie. Flansham: Pear Tree Press, 1909. Grey boards, holland spine, titling label printed in brown on upper side, all edges uncut. Copy signed by author at end (p. 39) and dated 8 May 1931. The edition was 120 copies and there was an Edition-de-luxe of 20 copies with title-page printed in blue and gold, the woodcuts signed by the artist-printer, and an additional one, "The Witches," inserted. 9. A Vision of Giorgione: Three Variations on Venetian Themes. Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1910. Mauve boards with 2 titling labels, all edges uncut,

78 BOTTOMLEY (Gordon) 1874-1948 edition 500 copies printed on Van Gelder handmade paper. This work was not printed in England in its complete form until 1922. 10. Chambers of Imagery. Second Series. Elkin Mathews, 1912. Uniform format with the first series, 1907, and with a similar autograph presentation to Mme. Solly. 11. Laodice and Danae: Play in One Act. Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1916. Pink printed wrappers over stiff boards, edges cut. Appears to be first publication of the work Privately printed in 1909, and first American edition. 12. King Lear's Wife. The Crier by Night. The Riding to Lithend. Midsummer Eve. Laodice and Danae. Constable, 1920. Stone coloured boards, designed and titled in blue, all edges uncut. First Collected Edition. Inscribed: "To the Rt Honble The Lord Howard de Walden, with the writer's compliments. Gordon Bottomley. Silverdale, July 24th, 1920," and with armorial bookplate of the recipient. "King Lear's Wife" had appeared in Georgian Poetry (1913-15) and 50 copies had been off-printed for the author's use in 1915. 13. Another copy, identical with above. Inscribed: "John Freeman's Book. Gordon Bottomley. 3rd August, 1922. Silverdale." 14. Another copy, the Edition-de-luxe, No. 37 of only 50 copies signed by the author. Cream buckram with the blue design here printed in gold. 15. Gruach, and Britain's Daughter: Two Plays. Constable, 1921. Red cloth with design and lettering printed in ochre, all edges uncut, green end-papers. Inscribed: "To Miss May Morris at Kelmscott; with Gordon Bottomley's regards. Silverdale, 23rd December, 1921." 16. Another copy, the Edition-de-luxe, No. 46 of 50 copies signed by the author. White and gold bevelled buckram. 17. To Clinton Balmer and the Dear Memory of James Hamilton Hay, For the Summer of 1900 at Cartmel. 1921-1922. Printed on a sheet of laid paper watermarked "Abbey Mills/Greenfield" folded once to form a 4 page 4to booklet. A poem of 110 lines dated at end Summer 1921-Spring 1922.

BOTTOMLEY (Gordon) 1874-1948 18. A Vision of Giorgione: Three Variations on a Venetian Theme. Constable, 1922. Light green cloth, spine gilt, upper side blind-stamped, all edges uncut. Inscribed: "To Edmund Gosse with Gordon Bottomley's regard. Silverdale, Christmas 1922." With the recipient's bookplate. 19. Another copy, the Edition-de-luxe bound in white and gold this being the publisher's own description. No. 13 of 50 copies signed by Gordon Bottomley. 20. Hallward, F. M. Poems. With a Preface by Gordon Bottomley. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1922. Pale blue boards, half dark blue cloth, 2 titling labels, all edges uncut. 21. Poems of Thirty Years. Constable, 1925. First Collected Edition, with a Preface by Author dated Silverdale 30 July 1924. Light green cloth, uniform format with the 1922 book, t.e.g., others uncut. Inscribed: "To May Morris in Kelmscott [Poem of 18 lines] Gordon Bottomley, The Sheiling, 20 April, 1925." The poem "In the Still House So Far From Here," was presumably first written into this copy. It was first printed and published in the following year (1926) in Atalanta's Garland: The Book of the Edinburgh University Women's Union, where one may note that, in line 14, "Their visions light me too" becomes "Their vision lights" &c. 22. King Lear's Wife [and 4 other Plays]. Constable, 1925. Orange cloth, spine gilt-lettered, all edges uncut. Inscribed: "To May Morris with Gordon Bottomley's regard. Silverdale, 31st March, 1928." This is a reprint of item 12 above. 23. Frescoes from Buried Temples. By James Guthrie. With Poems by Gordon Bottomley. Flansham, Bognor Regis, Sussex: Designed and Printed from Plates and Blocks by hand at the Pear Tree Press, 1928. This folio volume is issued loose and unsewn, in a drop-case of blue linen with lettering label. It is intended to be bound, and designed end-papers are provided. In the colophon at end, the names of author and artist are autograph signatures. No. 33 of only 55 copies printed. Bottomley's poems are printed on 33 sheets; Guthrie's drawings and incidental leaves total 44, printings being only on rectos. There is also a sheet of grey paper on which is printed "A List of Titles and Descriptions."

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24. Waugh, Evelyn. Rossetti: His Life and Works. Duckworth, 1928. Plum coloured cloth, gilt spine, only lower edges uncut, 8 plates. This was May Morris's copy, and Bottomley borrowed it. He returned it later, with considerable pencil notes in his neat hand throughout. (See ALS item 46).

33. Nichols, Wallace B. The Speaking of Poetry. With a Preface by Gordon Bottomley. Methuen, 1937. Light yellow cloth, red lettered down spine, edges cut.

25. Scenes and Plays. Constable, 1929. Cream linen, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. This is the last of the issues stated by the publisher to be "bound in white and gold." It is signed by the author, and the limitation is increased from 50 to 100 copies, this being No. 87. 26. Another copy of First Edition. This is the ordinary state in wrappers, designed red and green and with 2 titling labels, edges cut. Inscribed: "To May Morris in Kelmscott, with Gordon Bottomley's regard, Silverdale: 26th June, 1929." 27. Another copy, identical with above. Inscribed: "To John Maclntyre, in admiration and regard, from Gordon Bottomley. Inchnadamph: 29th May, 1929." 28. Festival Preludes. Fanfrolico Press, 1930. Decorated boards, half blue linen, gilt-lettered up spine, edges uncut. No. 104 of 110 copies. Bookplate of H. W. G. Kenrick. 29. Lyric Plays. Constable, 1932. Light brown designed wrappers with 2 titling labels, edges cut. Inscribed: "To May Morris in Kelmscott from Gordon Bottomley. Christmas 1932. The Shelling, Silverdale." 30. The Acts of Saint Peter: A Cathedral Festival Play. Constable, 1933. Light green wrappers, lettered spine and upper side in darker green, edges cut, frontispiece plate. Preserved in a linen case, with Lord Esher's bookplate. 31. The Falconer's Daughter. An excerpt, pp. (101)-141, with verso blank. 1937. Black designed wrappers, edges cut. Preserved in a linen case with Lord Esher's bookplate. 32. Hsiung, S. I. The Romance of the Western Chamber. Methuen, 1935. Dark blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, in designed dust-jacket (8s. 6d. net). 21 illustrations. With a 4 page preface by Gordon Bottomley. Inscribed in author's hand: "Twenty One-Act Plays: Edited by John Bourne. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1937" and signed on last page: "Gordon Bottomley, Silverdale 17th November, 1938." Three pages have several corrections in author's hand in ink.

34. Charles Ricketts (1866-1931). 1940. Reprinted by permission from the Durham University Journal (June 1940, pp. 169-184). Metal fastened into light stone coloured wrappers lettered in black, edges cut. Inscribed in author's hand: "To Ben and Joan-from Gordon." The recipients were his old friends, Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Fletcher. 35. I. M. Lascelles Abercrombie. 1941. Single leaf, folded to form a 4 page booklet. Reprinted by permission from the Durham University Journal (December 1941). Signed by Gordon Bottomley on title-page; he has dated the 34 line poem at end, June 1939. Preserved in a green cloth case with Lord Esher's bookplate. 36. Queen Mary's Book for India. With a Foreword by Rt. Hon. L.S. Amery. G. G. Harrap, 1943. Dark blue cloth, edges cut, frontispiece and profuse illustrations. Contains Gordon Bottomley's "Salute to India," a poem of 56 lines. 37. Ping-Ying, Hsieh. The Autobiography of a Chinese Girl: A Genuine Autobiography. With a Preface by Gordon Bottomley. Allen & Unwin, 1944. Fourth impression, dark green cloth, gilt spine, edges cut, illustrated. In pictorial dust-jacket (12s. 6d. net). 38. Kate Kennedy: A Comedy in Three Acts. Constable, 1945. Light green wrappers lettered in darker green, edges cut. This is the second impression printed in September; the first was in February. Inscribed: "From Gordon Bottomley to Harriet Solly; remembering a fine artist gratefully. The Sheiling: Silverdale. Carnforth, 5 December, 1947." 39. Crookback's Crown: A Tragi-Comedy. 1946. Reprinted by permission from the Durham University Journal (December 1946). 28 pages, sewn in bright red wrappers, upper side lettered in black. Inscribed: "To Ben Fletcher; from his Ancient, Gordon Bottomley. The Sheiling: 25th March, 1947." Correction on p. 2 in author's hand.

80 BOTTOMLEY (Gordon) 1874-1948 40. Another copy, identical with above. Inscribed: "To Ben from Gordon: 8th January, 1948. The Last Fruit Off An Old Tree." Nine months after sending one gift copy he inscribed and sent another; perhaps a pardonable slip for an old and ailing writer, who had always appeared somewhat age-conscious. A few months later he died. 41. A Stage for Poetry: My Purposes with My Plays. Privately printed for the author by Titus Wilson & Son, Kendal, 1948. Imperial 8vo, grey designed boards, half darker grey linen, gilt-lettered down spine, top edges stained, only lower edges uncut. Profusely illustrated. Inscribed: "To Michael Sadleir, with warm remembrance as well as regard, from Gordon Bottomley. llth June, 1948." The printer of his first book also printed his last 52 years later. 42. Rosenberg, Isaac. The Collected Poems. Edited by Gordon Bottomley and Denys Harding. With a Foreword by Siegfried Sassoon. Chatto & Windus, 1949. Fawn coloured linen, spine gilt-lettered on red label, top edges stained, others cut. In printed dust-wrapper (10s. 6d. net). Bottomley "selected and edited" Rosenberg's poetry in 1922, to which book Lawrence Binyon contributed a 50 page Introductory Memoir. 43. Poems and Plays. With an Introduction by Claude Colleer Abbott. Bodley Head, 1953. Tall 8vo, dark green cloth, spine gilt-lettered on red label, top edges stained, others cut, frontispiece portrait. 44. Poet and Painter: Being the Correspondence between Gordon Bottomley and Paul Nash, 1910-1946. Edited by Claude Colleer Abbott and Anthony Bertram. Oxford University Press, 1955. Light green cloth, spine gilt, illustrated, all edges cut. 45. Maids of Athens. From The Dublin Magazine (Vol. 20, No. 3, New Series, October-December 1945, pp. 3-21), edited by Seumas O'Sullivan. Dublin: Printed by Alex. Thorn & Co. [1945]. Grey printed wrappers lettered in dark blue, edges cut. Autograph Letters 46. A series of 4 letters to Miss May Morris, closely filling 12 pages: 31 March 1928; 25 June 1929 (this accompanied Scenes and Plays, item 26); 18 May 1932 (this accompanied Waugh's Rossetti, item 24); 22

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December 1932 (this accompanied Lyric Plays, item 29). Long letters of considerable interest. 47. A series of 5 letters to Lord Esher, closely filling 11 pages: 24 July 1920; 29 October 1938; 22 November 1938; 28 November 1938; 17 January 1942. Letters of interest, the particularly long one of 22 November 1938 going into the bibliography of his own works in considerable detail. 48. ALS, 2 pages, 11 June 1948, to Michael Sadleir. This letter accompanies A Stage for Poetry (item 41 above). BOURDILLON (Francis William) 1852-1921 1. Prize Translations, Poems and Parodies. Reprinted from the Journal of Education. John Walker, 1881. Blue cloth, gilt, all edges gilt, pale green patterned end-papers. Contains 4 poems by Bourdillon on pp. 11, 29, 77 and 78. Inscribed: "Lewis Morris with Editor's kind regards." 2. Prizes and Proximes for Prose and Verse Translations, with some Original Poems by Contributors to the "Journal of Education." John Walker, 1882. Dark blue cloth, gilt, all edges gilt, pale green patterned end-papers. Poems by Bourdillon appear on pp. 28 and 43. 3. Aucassin and Nicolette: A Love Story. Edited in Old French and Rendered in Modern English. Kegan Paul Trench, 1887. Bevelled dark slate coloured buckram, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. R4 at end, pp.[247-248], carries Chiswick Press imprint centre recto, with verso blank. This is an example of the later binding variety in which imprint at foot of spine reads: "Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co." 4. Young Maids and Old China. Verses by F. W. Bourdillon, Pictures by J. G. Sowerby. Marcus Ward [1889]. Glazed yellow pictorially designed boards, bronze cloth spine, all edges stained blue, blue designed end-papers, in dust-jacket lettered in 3 lines on upper side. Text is printed on rectos and versos of 16 semi-stiff cards in red and blue, illustrations in various colours. 5. Ailes d'alouette. Oxford: H. Daniel, 1890. Overlapping cream wrappers lettered on upper side, edges of the much smaller text-paper entirely uncut. No. 3 of 100 copies, printed at the Daniel Press. Inscribed: "T. W. J. from F. W. B." followed by Greek quotation. Bookplate of Leonard James Shrubsall.

81 BOURDILLON (Francis William) 1852-1921 6. A Lost God. With Illustrations by H. J. Ford. Elkin Mathews, 1891. Green cloth, half cream parchment, spine gilt-lettered, all edges uncut. One of 500 copies on small paper, inscribed: "G. B. from F. W. B. Nov. 1891." 7. Another copy of First Edition, No. 36 of 50 copies on large paper, signed by the publisher. Green cloth, half dark red suede leather, all edges uncut. In this issue the plates are in duplicate, one impression in sepia and the other black and white. 8. Love Lies Bleeding. Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1891. Stiff off-white wrappers, upper side lettered in light red in 5 lines in a double rule frame, all edges uncut. Issued anonymously. 9. Ailes d'alouette. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892. Cream bevelled linen, gilt spine and upper side, all edges gilt, illustrations by Edmund H. Garrett. First reprinting of the Daniel Press book; first American and first illustrated edition. 10. Love in a Mist. Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1892. Identical format with Love Lies Bleeding save that upper wrapper lettering is in blue. Again, the issue was anonymous. 11. Sursum Corda. T. Fisher Unwin, 1893. Pale blue cloth, gilt spine and upper side, fore-edges trimmed but top and lower are uncut, dark green end-papers. Engraved and printed title-pages, the former consisting of a border design after William Blake surrounding the 2 words of the title. Bookplate and signature of Herbert Wilson Greene. 12. Another copy. This is the issue on large paper, No. 9 of only 50 copies, signed by the author. Full cream vellum, gilt, all edges uncut. 13. Nephele. George Redway, 1896. Light blue smooth buckram, gilt spine and upper side, top edges cut, others uncut. Signature on title-page: "Geraldine FitzGerald, 1896." 14. Minuscula: Lyrics of .Nature, Art and Love. Lawrence & Bullen, 1897. Dark green cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 7 lines, gilt ornament on upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. 15. The Smithereens: A Drawing-Room Farce in Three Scenes. [Privately printed], 1898. Smooth red buckram, upper side gilt-lettered in 3 lines, edges cut. Only 25 copies, Privately printed, with 2 line statement on verso title-page, printer's imprint on last leaf, p.[32] "Malvern:/Printed by Stevens &

BOURDILLON (Francis William) 1852-1921 Co., Church Street." Inscribed: "By, and belonging to, F. W. Bourdillon. Buddington, Midhurst." 16. Through the Gateway. Essex House, Bow: Press of the Guild of Handicraft, 1900. Cream vellum covers lettered gilt up spine, all edges uncut. No. 28 of 50 copies only, inscribed: "given to F. Storr for presentation F. W. Bourdillon, Feb. 1901." 17. Through the Gateway. Arthur L. Humphreys [1902]. The Second Edition, though not so certified. Green cloth, gilt spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. To this edition the author added a dedication to his wife and 6 new poems. 18. Ailes d'alouette Second Series. Oxford: Printed at the Private Press of H. Daniel, Fellow of Worcester College, 1902. Pale blue wrappers lettered in black, all edges uncut. No. 32 of 130 copies printed. 19. Moth-Wings (Ailes d'alouette). Elkin Mathews, 1913. Pale blue boards, half darker blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side. This appears to be the sole reprint of the 2 Daniel Press volumes combined, with an author's preface added and a third section of 19 new poems. Inscribed: "Lisa Blunt from F. W. Bourdillon," but the handwriting may be that of the recipient. 20. Preludes and Romances. George Allen, 1908. Bright blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 7 lines and across upper side between rules, all edges uncut. Inscribed: "B. E. Bourdillon with love from F. W. B. Buddington, April 1908." 21. Verses by V. Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1910. Stiff mauve wrappers with 2 titling labels, yapp edges to wrappers, all edges uncut. Limited to 150 copies, of which 100 only were for sale. No disclosure of authorship anywhere. 22. Christmas Roses for Nineteen Hundred and Fourteen. A. L. Humphreys [1914]. Stiff blue wrappers with large lettering label on upper side, top edges cut, others uncut. Inscribed: "With kind regards from F. W. Bourdillon." 23. Easter Lilies for Nineteen Hundred and Fifteen. A. L. Humphreys [1915]. Uniform format with the above booklet.

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24. Russia Re-Born. A. L. Humphreys, 1917. Uniform format with the above booklet. Inscribed: "Elizabeth Bourdillon, with love from F. W. B." 25. Gerard and Isabel: A Romance in Form of Cantefable. Alexander Moring, De La More Press, 1912. Blue boards, half cream parchment, gilt-lettered up spine, blue lettered across upper side, t.e.g., others uncut, in blue printed dust-wrapper. Inscribed to May Morris in the handwriting of Gordon Bottomley: "To dear May, with all loving messages by the best of messengers, Israel & Alide, 25/9/1921." BOYLE (Hon. Eleanor Vere Gordon) 1825-1916 1. Child's Play. Seventeen Drawings by E. V. B. 2nd ed. Addey, 1853. Glazed light blue boards, all edges gilt. Printed on stiff cards, not sewn. The First Edition of this work was dated 1852. Inscribed: "S. E. Duckworth from E. V. B. Marston, 1860." 2. Woodland Gossip. Being a Free and Easy Translation from the German by Mary Louisa Boyle. Illustrated by Frederick Leighton, Lady Marion Alford, The Hon. Mrs. Richard Boyle and Rev. Spencer Cautley. Thomas McLean, 1864. Dark green cloth, gilt, all edges gilt. Contains 3 illustrations by the Hon. Mrs. Richard Boyle, i.e., Eleanor Boyle. The illustrations are mounted photographs. Inscribed: "Susanna Jones, from her affectionate husband I. Winter Jones, 25 April 1865." 3. Child's Play. By E. V. B. Sampson Low, Son & Marston, 1865. Dark red cloth, gilt, all edges gilt. In this edition, which carries no bibliographical statement, the illustrations are re-arranged somewhat, and printed in colour, whereas the 1853 edition was in black and white. 4. In the Fir-Wood. By E. V. B. Illustrated with Eight Photographs by Cundall and Fleming. Macmillan, 1866. Dark green cloth, gilt, all edges gilt, cream end-papers with binder's ticket of Westleys & Co. Inscribed: "Hamilton Aide from E. V. B., in grateful recollection of Easter 1868." 5. Austin, Sarah. The Story without an End. From the German of Carove. With illustrations printed in colours after drawings by E. V. B. Sampson Low, 1868. Bright blue cloth with elaborate gilt cover design, all edges gilt, brown end-papers, 15 coloured

BOYLE (Hon. Eleanor Vere Gordon) 1825-1916 plates. There was a later binding variety without the spider's web design on upper cover, which it replaced by title lettering on an enamel panel. 6. Anderson, Hans Christian. Fairy Tales. Newly translated by H. L. D. Ward and Augusta Plesner. Illustrated by Twelve Large Designs in Colour after Original Drawings by E. V. B. Sampson Low, 1872. 4to, red cloth, upper side elaborately gilt designed, all edges gilt, dark blue end-papers with binder's ticket of Brown. 7. Beauty and the Beast: An Old Tale New Told. With Pictures by E. V. B. Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle [1875]. 4to, black bevelled cloth, gilt designed with oblong lettering panel in red and white across upper side, all edges gilt, dark blue end-papers. 10 coloured plates printed by Leighton Bros. 8. A New Child's-Play. Sixteen Drawings by E. V. B. Sampson Low, 1877. 4to, green cloth, gilt, all edges gilt. 9. Austin, Sarah. The Story without an End. Sampson Low, 1879. Red cloth with the same design as in original edition of 1868, but mainly printed in black, all edges gilt, patterned green end-papers. 15 coloured plates. Without bibliographical statement, but this is probably the second edition illustrated by Boyle. 10. Days and Hours in a Garden. By E. V. B. Elliot Stock, 1884. First Edition of a frequently reprinted book. Cream vellum covers, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges uncut. 11. Ros Rosarum ex Horto Poetarum: Dew of the Ever-living Rose, Gathered from the Poet's Gardens of Many Lands. Elliot Stock, 1885. Deep cream parchment folded over stiff boards, lettered gilt and designed red, all edges uncut. 12. Ros Rosarum. . . . 2nd ed. Elliot Stock, 1896. Parchment binding as above, but the red panel on upper cover in First Edition here is in gilt. Some variations in Preface and also towards the end of the volume, where "An Aftermath of Roses" is included. 13. An Address to the Children of the Burnham Band of Mercy. R. Ingalton Drake, 1885. 24 pages (the outer wrapper being counted in pagination) sewn. The designed

83 BOYLE (Hon. Eleanor Vere Gordon) 1825-1916 upper wrapper is lettered "for A Band of Mercy." Autograph presentation: "from E. V. B." 14. An Address to the Children of the Burnham Band of Mercy. On the Third Anniversary of its institution, 8 November 1886. 16 pages, sewn. Similar format to above, but verso of title has printer's imprint of Hazell, Watson and Viney. Autograph presentation: "from E. V. B." 15. A London Sparrow at the Colinderies. Sampson Low, 1887. Pale blue wrappers lettered and designed in brown, t.e.g., others uncut, 64 pages (including blanks). Imprint of Chiswick Press on p.[61]. Inscribed: "Arthur, from E. V. B." 16. A Garden of Pleasure. Elliot Stock, 1895. Green cloth, gilt, uncut edges. Inscribed: "For dear Hal from E. V. B., 9 September 1895." 17. Seven Gardens and a Palace. With illustrations by F. L. B. Griggs and Arthur Gordon. John Lane, 1900. Light green pictorially designed cloth, top edges stained, others uncut. 18. In Praise of Birds. By E. V. B. Christmas 1900. 28 pages (including blanks) light grey printed wrappers, uncut. A paper read at the Sesame Club, 23 May 1898. Privately printed; imprint of R. Folkland & Son at foot last leaf of text, p. 24. 19. Sylvana's Letters to an Unknown Friend. Macmillan, 1900. Mauve cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut, illustrations. N8 at end is blank. 20. The Peacock's Pleasaunce. John Lane, 1908. Green cloth, gilt-lettered and designed spine and upper side, t.e.g., others lightly trimmed, 8 illustrations. R2-4 at end carry adverts only and are numbered 1-6, followed by 8 further unnumbered leaves of adverts. In orange dust-jacket, lettered as cover but in green. Inscribed: "For Mr. Reginald Smith, With Pleasant Memories, from E. V. B., 6 May 1908."

BRIDGES (Robert Seymour) 1844-1930 1. Poems. Basil Montagu Pickering, 1873. [Ewelme 1.] Light blue smooth linen, spine titling label, edges uncut. First Edition of the author's first book. 2. Another copy, identical with above. Inscribed: "To Willoughby Furner, my companion in four years of medical studentship in London, from Robert Bridges, Dec '73, 50 Maddox Street." Dr. Willoughby Furner (1848-1920) was a close friend and colleague of the future Laureate, with whom he once ran a race at 2 a.m. from Oxford Circus to Holborn Circus (see Sir Norman Moore's History of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Vol. 2, p. 716). A foolscap sheet of MS notes on Turner is loosely inserted. 3. The Growth of Love: A Poem in 24 Sonnets. Bumpus, 1876. [Ewelme 2.] 14 leaves (without pagination), issued stitched without wrappers and without author's name. Bound with Carmen Elegiacum (Londini: Eduardi Bumpus, 1877): Ewelme 5. 12 leaves, with imprint at foot of otherwise blank p. 24: "John Childs and Son, Printers." The 2 pamphlets bound together in an elaborate binding of reddish brown morocco, signed on lower cover, "AP," spine with 5 raised bands, both sides ornamented with 4 inlay green leaf panels at corners and similar larger diamond panel in centre. 4. Poems. By the Author of The Growth of Love. Bumpus, 1879. [Ewelme 6.] Pale blue printed wrappers, edges uncut, 52 pages. This is the First Edition of Shorter Poems. C. H. Wilkinson's copy, with a brief ALS from Emily Daniel to him dated 29 Nov 1931 inserted. 5. Poems. By the Author of The Growth of Love. First Series. 2nd ed. Bumpus, 1880. Bluish grey printed wrappers, top edges uncut, others trimmed. The only issue of this edition in separate form. Contains 13 poems, of which 9 are in the final version of Shorter Poems: Book 1. The printing is on a white paper, with a wide toned surround. 6. Prometheus the Firegiver. Bell, 1884. Not in Ewelme or McKay. Cream linen with salmon pink spine, gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others uncut. This is the Second Edition, or first published edition, of the book privately issued by Dr. Daniel in 1883. Inscribed: "C. Henry Daniel, from the Author, Yattendon "84." There is also a later inscription by Dr. Daniel's widow: "Mr. Wilkinson in Memory of his friend, Emily Daniel." From the C. H. Wilkinson sale, Sotheby's, 27 March 1961.

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BRIDGES (Robert Seymour) 1844-1930 7. Poems. Oxford: Printed at the Private Press of H. Daniel, 1884. [Ewelme 9.] Blue boards, half cream parchment, edges uncut, No. 41 of 150 copies. A selection from the Four Series of Shorter Poems-the 7 poems forming the fourth series not having been published before. With signature of Sir Dyce Duckworth, and armorial bookplate. He was the original subscriber for this copy. 8. Eros and Psyche. Bell, 1885. [Ewelme 11.] Blue linen, half cream parchment, gilt, edges uncut. In some copies the sides are green linen; such copies appear to be decidedly uncommon. C. H. Wilkinson's copy, with bookplate. On end-paper is a long note in 11 lines in his neat script in pencil. 9. Nero. [Part 1.] Bumpus [1885.] [Ewelme 10.] Grey-blue printed wrappers, 36 pages, t.e.g., others uncut. Neatly cased in grey boards, half cream vellum, with J. A. Fuller-Maitland's bookplate. 10. The Feast of Bacchus. Oxford: Privately printed by H. Daniel, 1889. [Ewelme 13.] Grey boards, half cream parchment, edges uncut. No. 16 of 105 copies. 11. On the Prosody of "Paradise Regained" and "Samson Agonistes." Oxford: Blackwell, 1889. [Ewelme 15.] Grey wrappers lettered in black, edges uncut. 12. The Growth of Love. Oxford: Printed by H. Daniel, 1890. [Ewelme 3.] No. 43 of 100 copies, smooth grey boards, half cream parchment, gilt-lettered up spine, edges uncut. This is the second Daniel Press edition of the enlarged cycle of 79 sonnets, reprinted with corrections from the 1889 issue, of which only 22 copies were made. 13. Palicio: A Romantic Drama. Bumpus, 1890. [Ewelme 16.] Grey boards, half cream vellum, t.e.g., others lightly trimmed. Uniform with Nero (1885). Bookplate of J. A. Fuller-Maitland.

BRIDGES (Robert Seymour) 1844-1930 16. The Shorter Poems. Bell, 1890. [Ewelme 24.] Red cloth, gilt spine, edges uncut. Red printed slip regarding published price, and errata slip (2 errors) inserted. C. H. Wilkinson's copy with his neat 2 line note. He bought it in the Gosse sale in Sotheby's, 3 December 1928. I bought it in the same auctioneers' rooms, 27 March 1961, after Wilkinson's death. 17. Another copy, identical with above. The signature on half-title suggests that it was bought by Austin H. Johnson in October 1890. In 1894 he acquired a copy of the Fourth Edition, from which he removed pp.[87]-116, containing the newly published Fifth Book, which he then had carefully bound in red cloth, making a matching pair. 18. The Shorter Poems. Bell, 1890. The Van Gelder handmade paper issue, with limitation certificate. Copy No. 32 of only 110 printed. Thomas Hutchinson's copy with book label and numbering. An important 3 page letter from the author to him, dated Yattendon, Newbury, 7 October 1890 is inserted, containing among other matter, 14 lines about Burns, concluding, "and this is why I am not an enthusiastic admirer of his works." There is a whole page about his own poetry, which concludes somewhat ambiguously: "About these sonnets, I still hope that you will not print them." 19. Another copy of the special issue, No. 56 of 110 copies, green cloth, spine titling label. I bought this copy at the sale of Charles Plumptre Johnson's library in Sevenoaks in 1957, but there is no bookplate to confirm this. He was a distinguished O.V. and a Thackeray expert, and his books without exception were immaculately preserved. This one, still in its original flimsy protecting wrapper is inscribed to him in pencil by his great friend Elkin Mathews, the publisher.

14. The Return of Ulysses. Bumpus, 1890. [Ewelme 17.] Grey boards uniform with above. Bookplate of J. A. Fuller-Maitland.

20. The Shorter Poems. 2nd ed. Bell, 1891. [Ewelme 27.] Red cloth, spine titling label, uncut. Inscribed: "Charles Strachey, Feb 1891. Won at California Jack from W. A. Raleigh, Terrick House, Jan 7 or 8, 1891." See Raleigh's Letters (1926, Vol. 1. p. 157), where this interesting copy is mentioned.

15. The Christian Captives: A Tragedy in Five Acts in a Mixed Manner. Bumpus, 1890. [Ewelme 18.] Grey boards, half cream vellum, uniform with above and same bookplate. Bound with Achilles in Scyros: A Drama in a Mixed Manner (Bumpus, 1890; Ewelme 19).

21. Eden: An Oratorio. Bell, 1891. [Ewelme 41.] Cream parchment, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. No. 46 of 110 copies. This is No. 20 in McKay's bibliography of Bridges (1933) and he is probably in error in stating "lettered in red." The present copy is certainly gilt-lettered.

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22. Eden: An Oratorio. Bell, 1891. [Ewelme 40.] The ordinary First Edition, blue printed wrappers, edges uncut. Has been neatly cased in dark green cloth, gilt lettered. Verso of front wrapper is printed: "This edition is limited to 110 copies on handmade, and 820 on ordinary paper, and the type has been distributed." This has been altered in ink by hand by the publisher, 820 crossed through and 1,000 inserted, and initialled at end "GB & S." The 110 appears to be 210 overprinted with a 1, but no attempt has been made to alter this to 109. This is probably an early proof copy.

29. Another set of First Editions, No. 7. This belonged to Falconer Madan, bibliographer of the Daniel Press, each part having his small circular stamps-"F. Madan, B.N.C. Oxford." He has preserved each part in a board folder lettered in his hand with bibliography numbers 27-29, 31-32, each with its issuing date. This very fine set is in first state, page CLIX reading "o'ermaster" in the third line of the poem there. The bound set catalogued above is in the state normally found, part 5 having the correctly printed 2 conjugate leaves, with the reading "oermaster."

23. Another copy of the ordinary First Edition. The numbers in the certificate are 109 and 1015. This is the normal published state of the book. 24. Achilles in Skyros. 2nd ed. Bell, 1892. [Ewelme 20.] Red cloth, spine titling label, edges uncut. Author's note to this edition at end, p.[69], initialled and dated 1892. 25. The Humours of the Court: A Comedy in Three Acts. Bell and J. & E. Bumpus [1893]. [Ewelme 44.] Blue wrappers black lettered, neatly cased in grey boards, half cream vellum, gilt-lettered up spine. Bookplate of J. A. Fuller-Maitland. 26. The Humours of the Court: A Comedy, and Other Poems. Bell, 1893. [Ewelme 45.] Cream parchment, gilt-lettered spine and upperside, edges uncut. This volume contains Book V of the Shorter Poems, and was published in London in December 1893. The sheets were printed at the Norwood Press, in Boston, Mass, in November. Certificate on verso title-page: "100 copies printed on handmade paper." Bookplate of George Kitchin. 27. Milton's Prosody. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1893. [Ewelme 46.] 4to, smooth red buckram, upper side gilt-lettered t.e.g., others uncut. No. 210 of 250 copies on large paper. An errata slip is loosely inserted, taken (in all probability) from an ordinary small paper copy. 28. Shorter Poems. Oxford: Daniel Press, 1893-1894. [Ewelme 30.] Issued in 5 parts; contents of part 5 here printed for the first time. 4to, contemporarily bound by Zaehnsdorf in half crimson morocco, spine with raised bands, t.e.g., others uncut. Charles Plumptre Johnson's set, with bookplate, No. 135 of 150 sets, with all 10 back and front numbered wrappers preserved at end.

30. The Feast of Bacchus: A Comedy in the Latin Manner. G. Bell and J. & E. Bumpus [1894]. [Ewelme 14.] Pale grey wrappers black lettered, edges uncut and entirely unopened. No. 7 of the Plays; this was missing from the Fuller-Maitland set (each of which had been cased in boards with cream vellum spine-similar to Daniel Press bindings), and this fine copy has been supplied, making the set complete. 31. Nero. Part 2. Bell and J. & E. Bumpus [1894]. [Ewelme 50.] Grey wrappers black lettered, t.e.g., others lightly trimmed. Cased in grey boards, half cream vellum, gilt lettered up spine. The general title-page and dedication leaf, printed with this part, have been transferred to the first play, Nero. Part 1 (1885). 32. The Shorter Poems. 4th ed. Bell, 1894. [Ewelme 31.] This, with the edition statement printed on verso half-title, is the first published edition of Book 5. Pale grey-green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, uncut. Inscribed: "R. Bellairs from R. Bridges, Dec 12 "94." The issue date of Book 5 by Daniel Press was, as shown in above set, 1 December 1893. 33. Eros and Psyche. Bell, 1894. [Ewelme 12.] Beige linen, upper side ornamented in gilt, with 2 cream panels, uncut handmade paper watermarked "Van Gelder Zonen." Author's note is dated Yattendon, 1894. 34. John Keats: A Critical Essay. Privately printed, 1895. [Ewelme 52.] Smooth red buckram, t.e.g., others uncut.] No. 42 of 250 copies. Inscribed: "Lionel Muirhead from R. B. 30 Ap '95." In the Muirhead sale, Hodgsons 31 May 1940, this sold for the unexpectedly low price of £2.8.0. Later in the library of Michael Sadleir, and with his bookplate. I purchased it in Sotheby's, after his death, in the sale of a portion of his library.

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35. Keats, John. Odes, Sonnets and Lyrics. Oxford: Daniel, 1895. [Ewelme C.I.] Pale blue wrappers, black lettered and designed, t.e.g., others uncut. No. 79 of 250 copies. Bound by Morley of Oxford in bevelled cream vellum, spine gilt-lettered in 9 lines and with the 7 thongs of the sewing visible on both sides, the book entirely untouched and wrappers in place. With an inscription to Murial Paget Bowman dated January 1896 on end-paper. The original prospectus states that the selection was made by Robert Bridges.

40. Hymns from the Yattendon Hymnal. Oxford: Daniel, 1899. [Ewelme C.5.] Bluish grey wrappers lettered black, uncut, No. 42 of 150 copies.

36. Keats, John. Poems. Edited by G. Thorn Drury. With An Introduction by Robert Bridges. 2 vols. Lawrence and Bullen, 1896. [Ewelme D.10.J Half cream parchment, green linen sides, t.e.g., others uncut. A volume of the Muses Library, No. 74 of 200 copies on large paper. 37. Ode for the Bicentenary Commemoration of Henry Purcell, with Other Poems. Elkin Mathews, 1896. [Ewelme 53.] Greenish wrappers, t.e.g., others uncut, neatly encased in red linen, gilt-lettered up spine. The tan wrappers described by McKay (No. 31) were, in all probability, merely faded green. It appears certain that only one, not 2 styles was published. No. 2 of the publisher's Shilling Garland. Lord Esher's Brett bookplate inside cover, and on verso title-page an earlier variety of bookplate of Betty and Michael Sadler (1915). 38. The Pageant. Edited by C. Hazelwood Shannon and J. W. Gleeson White. Henry, 1896. [Ewelme D.8.] No. 95 of 150 copies, pink cloth, gilt, all edges uncut. Contains the first printing of "The South Wind" by Bridges, collected into Ode for. . . Henry Purcell later in the same year. 39. Poetical Works. 6 vols. Smith Elder, 1898-U905]. [Ewelme 59.] Blue cloth, spines gilt, all edges uncut (this set entirely unopened). The adverts leaves at end of each volume are printed on text-paper, and are part of final gatherings. In the one-volume collected Poetical Works (Oxford Press, 1912), the set is advertised as being in 7 volumes, 6/- each, with a note: "This volume completes the Uniform Edition of Mr. Robert Bridges' Works." The book was, however, never published. There are textual revisons in this edition, and in volume 2 the inclusion of previously unpublished poems gives the set bibliographical significance.

41. The Small Hymn-Book: The Word-Book of the Yattendon Hymnal. Oxford: Blackwell, 1899. [Ewelme C.6.] Tan boards with beige holland spine, edges uncut. One of 100 copies printed on handmade paper signed by Robert Bridges. 42. Milton's Prosody. By Robert Bridges. Classical Metres in English Verse. By William Johnson Stone. Oxford University Press, 1901. [Ewelme 48.] Light green cloth, spine lettered in white enamel, uncut. 43. Another copy. Robert Bridges's signature at end of his new Introduction (1901) on p. vi. Bound in cream parchment vellum with green moire silk ties, t.e.g., other edges rough trimmed. This signed edition is a published state of the book-see McKay [37]. From Lytton Strachey's library, with his bookplate and shelf numbering. 44. A Practical Discourse on some Principles of Hymn-Singing. Oxford: Blackwell, 1901. [Ewelme 61.] Light blue wrappers lettered in blue, edges uncut. 45. Buckton, A. Through Human Eyes. Oxford: Daniel, 1901. [Ewelme D.12.] No. 7 of 130 copies, light blue wrappers, uncut. With an Introductory Poem by Robert Bridges, "Along the meadows lightly going," of 10 quatrains. Inscribed: "To W. Stebbing with kindest regards from A. Buckram, July 1901." 46. The Garland of Rachel. By Divers Kindly Hands. Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1902. [Ewelme D.3.] Special issue. Parchment boards with green silk ties, uncut, in slip case with titling label. One of 450 copies on Van Gelder handmade paper. The original edition was printed by Henry Daniel (Oxford, 1881) in an edition of 36 copies. Bridges contributed "Press thy hands and crow," a poem of 24 lines. 47. Peace Ode Written on the Conclusion of the Three Years' War. Oxford: Daniel Press, 1903. [Ewelme 64.] Small 4to, 12 pages (without pagination) sewn into pale blue wrappers, lettered upper side in black, all edges uncut. Edition consisted in all probability of 100 copies with 10 printed on pure vellum.

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BRIDGES (Robert Seymour) 1844-1930 48. Wayfarer's Love: Contributions from Living Poets. Edited by the Duchess of Sutherland. Constable, 1904. [Ewelme D.17.] Bevelled green cloth with gilt design by Walter Crane, all edges uncut. Contains the first printing of Bridges's "The Portrait of a Grandfather." 49. Demeter: A Masque. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1905. [Ewelme 66.] Blue cloth, lettered spine and upper side in a white enamel. Edition consisted of 1,500 copies (most of which were issued at the cheaper price of one shilling in paper wrappers.) 50. Dixon, Richard Watson. Poems. A Selection with Portrait and a Memoir by Robert Bridges. Smith Elder, 1909. [Ewelme C.13.] Blue cloth, gilt, edges trimmed. This is the first issue; in 1916 the remaining balance of 584 copies were taken over by John Murray, who, in his turn, handed over the unsold balance of 287 copies to the Oxford Press in 1931. 51. The Musical Antiquary. October 1909. Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1909. [McKay 96.] Tall 8vo, brown wrappers lettered in black. Contains the first printing of "A Letter to a Musician on English Prosody" by Bridges (pp. 15-29). 52. About Hymns. Oxford: Church Music Society, 1911. [McKay 42.] Single sheet folded once to form a 4 page 8vo booklet, edges uncut. Laid paper with nude figure watermark. No. 2 of the Society's Occasional Papers. From the C. H. Wilkinson sale, Sotheby's, March 1961. The inserted note on Magdalen College, Oxford notepaper, possibly from George Gordon, dated 25/9/35, appears to bear no relation to the book. 53. Dolben, Digby Mackworth. Poems. Edited with a Memoir by R. B. Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1911. Blue boards, holland spine with titling label, all edges uncut, in grey printed dust-jacket (Price 10/net). With a loosely inserted 4 page leaflet, "Variant Readings in Dolben's Poems" by Bridges dated October 1912. 54. The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges. Excluding the Eight Dramas. Henry Frowde, 1912. [McKay 44.] Conforms in all respects save that colour of cloth is dark blue (not green), and end-papers are to match, and there is no apostrophe after Bridges on spine. McKay describes this as a Large Paper issue, though it was not so described by publishers.

BRIDGES (Robert Seymour) 1844-1930 55. The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges. Excluding the Eight Dramas. Henry Frowde, 1912. [Ewelme 76.] Red cloth, the india paper issue with red edges under gilt, same frontispiece portrait as above. Title page is set in a smaller type in 10 lines with "The" (not in 9 lines) and has an ornamental border. 56. Poetry and Drama. Vol. 1, No. 4, December 1913. Poetry Bookshop, 1913. [Ewelme D.21.] Brown wrappers lettered black, top edges cut, others uncut. Robert Bridges's "Flycatchers" is first printed here (p. 395). In the following year it was collected into the Ashendene Press volume, Poems Written in the Year MCMXII. 57. A Tract On the Present State of English Pronounciation. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913. [Ewelme 81.] Golden brown boards, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. In pale blue printed dust-jacket (3/6 net). The edition consisted of 750 copies. It contains a 4 page Prefatory Note to Second Edition, dated December 1912. 58. Dolben, Digby Mackworth. Poems. Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1915. The Second Edition, though not so described. Bright red cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side. Spine gilt designed, upper side stamped in blind, edges cut. The principal difference, so far as Bridges is concerned, is the new note (pp. cxv-cxviii) dated Chilwell, June 1914, which commences "The second edition of this book enables me" &c. 59. Another copy, the issue on india paper, dark blue cloth, gilt, red edges under gilt. 60. Another copy, a war-time late issue of sheets in a plain dark green cloth with spine lettered "Dolben's/Poetical/Works." 61. An Address to the Swindon Branch of the Workers' Educational Association. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1916. [Ewelme 87.] Green boards, holland spine, titling label on upper side, edges uncut. Also issued in light blue wrappers at 6d. net, the whole edition consisting of 1,500 copies. This superior issue is decidedly uncommon. 62. Ibant Obscuri, an Experiment in the Classical Hexameter. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1916. [Ewelme 70.] Grey boards with beige holland spine, titling label on upper side, spine black lettered, top edges uncut, others trimmed (McKay states, "uncut"). Edition consisted of 500 copies. The C. H. Wilkinson copy, with armorial bookplate.

88 BRIDGES (Robert Seymour) 1844-1930 63. The Spirit of Man. An Anthology. . . made by the Poet Laureate in 1915. Longmans Green, 1916. [Ewelme 16.] Tan boards, cream linen spine with titling label, cut edges, no pagination. The edition appears to have consisted of 4,000 copies, of which 3,000 were in this form. 64. Another copy, the issue (1,000 copies) printed on Oxford india paper and board in green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others cut. 65. Weaving, Willoughby. The Star Fields and Other Poems. With an Introduction by Robert Bridges. Oxford: Blackwell, 1916. [McKay 109.] Green cloth, gilt spine, edges cut.] The book is dedicated to Bridges. 66. Keats, John. The Poetical Works. Edited by Laurence Binyon, with a Critical Essay by Robert Bridges. Illustrated in Colour by Claude A. Shepperson. Hodder & Stoughton, 1916. [Ewelme D.ll.] Grey cloth with overall design spine and upper side in brown, trimmed edges. Bridges's Introduction is a revised version of the original essay of 1895 with a note dated Chilswell, 1914 and a further long note of 30 lines regarding additions to his criticism on "Ode to Melancholy" (p. xxx). This addition, dated December 1915, was made possible by war-time delays in the publication. 67. Another copy of the First (and only) Edition, in a (presumed) later variety of binding. Pale green cloth, lettered in darker green. The lettering is from an entirely different type and the sole ornament is a small design of a tree on upper side. Has the same 10 coloured plates hinged-on to light brown mounts. 68. The Necessity of Poetry: An Address. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1918. [Ewelme 89.] Pale blue wrappers lettered darker blue (Price Two Shillings net), edges uncut. Edition of 1,500 copies. 69. Hopkins, Gerard Manley. Poems . . . now First Published. Edited with notes by Robert Bridges. Humphrey Milford, 1918. [McKay 117.] Pale blue-grey boards, holland spine with titling label, edges uncut, 2 portraits. 70. Britannia Victrix. Oxford University Press [1919]. [Ewelme 90.] Sewn into light brown wrappers, uncut, lettered upper side in dark blue. Published in March in an edition of 350 copies. Loosely inserted is the galley from the Times (25 November 1918) of the original printing of the poem.

BRIDGES (Robert Seymour) 1844-1930 71. Society for Pure English. S. P. E. Tracts. Nos. 1-19, 21, 23, 28-33. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1919-1929. [Ewelme 91.] 27 tracts, grey wrappers lettered black, uncut edges. During his lifetime Bridges was general editor of this series; many were written by Bridges, by him in collaboration, or contain contributions by him. 72. October, and Other Poems. Heinemann, 1920. [McKay 57.] Green boards with spine titling label lettered in blue, top edges cut, others uncut, green printed dust-jacket (5/- net). 73. Another copy of First Edition [Ewelme 92.] No. 14 of 65 copies on handmade paper signed by the author. Grey boards, top edges cut, others uncut, printed spine label. 74. Milton's Prosody, with a Chapter on Accentual Verse. Oxford University Press, 1921. [Ewelme 49.] "Revised Final Edition." Blue cloth, gilt, edges uncut. 75.

The Chilswell Book of English

Poetry. Compiled and annotated by ...

Robert Bridges. Longmans Green, 1924. [Ewelme C.20.] Green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others cut, in printed dust-jacket (9/- net). The india paper issue. 76. Green-Kirtled Spring. Elkin Mathews, 1924. [Ewelme D.34.] 4to, light green boards, darker green linen spine, gilt-lettered, in mauve dust-jacket, lettered white, edges uncut. This anthology contains "Cheddar Pinks" by Bridges, here first printed and later collected into The Tapestry (1925). 77. New Verse. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1925. [Ewelme 100.] Cream parchment, gilt, all edges uncut (and unopened throughout), in grey printed dust-jacket. Frontispiece portrait. No. 33 of 100 numbered copies, signed by the author. 78. Another copy of First Edition [Ewelme 99.] The ordinary paper issue, of which 2,000 copies were printed. Inscribed: "To John Freeman, with R. B.'s compts, Dec 1925." The book was published in December. 79. Collected Essays, Papers. . . . 10 vols. Oxford University Press, 1927-1936. [Ewelme 105.] Grey boards, blue linen spines with titling labels lettered upwards, edges uncut. All volumes in this set are first printings.

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80. The Testament of Beauty. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1929. 4to, green bevelled buckram, top edges uncut, other edges lightly trimmed. In grey dust-wrapper, printed in red. Edition limited to 250 copies, priced £2.2.0 net. This copy is numbered on p.[155] No. 101.

This was Col. Wilkinson's copy in which is inserted an ALS from Mrs. M. M. Bridges dated Chilswell 28 January 1932, presenting it to him, mentioning the type-designer George Jones, Mrs. Daniel and others. Also inserted is a 2 page ALS from Simon Nowell Smith about this book, addressed to Wilkinson.

81. Another copy of First Edition, No. 18 of 50 copies, signed by the author on p.[155]. In this state the dust-jacket is pale green, lettered in black and red, and published price is £4.4,0. net. Both these editions have same loosely inserted 4 page publisher's Note on the Text.

89. Verse Written for Mrs. Daniel. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1932. [Ewelme 122.] Pale blue boards, cream line,n spine gilt-lettered upwards, MS facsimile sheets, edges uncut. No. 132 of 300 copies.

82. Another copy of First Edition, the regular issue [Ewelme 108], Cream covers, blind-stamped, gilt-lettered, uncut, in blue printed dust-jacket. 83. Poetry. British Broadcasting Corporation, 1929. [Ewelme 119.] Green wrappers lined with white, 28 pages, edges cut, edition limited to 1,000 copies. 84. The Testament of Beauty. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1930. [Ewelme 116.] Large square 8vo, text reset. Marbled boards, half cream parchment, spine gilt-lettered. In dust-jacket lettered in green, with: "Second Edition, with the author's final corrections" and "Price 10s. net." Frontispiece portrait. 85. The Testament of Beauty. New York: Oxford University Press, 1930. [Ewelme 118.] Marbled red boards, black cloth spine, lettered gilt (bronzed or faded), top edges stained red, others uncut. Printed by Wiliam Edwin Rudge, Inc., New York. See item 88 below, The Message of one of England's Greatest Poets to a Printer (1931). 86. Hopkins, Gerard Manley. Poems. Edited with Notes by Robert Bridges. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 1930. [Ewelme C.21 (the special issue).] Blue cloth, gilt, edges uncut. Contains an Appendix of additional poems and a critical introduction by Charles Williams. 87. Shorter Poems. Enlarged Edition. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1931. [Ewelme 39.] Red cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., only lower edges uncut. Frontispiece portrait. The Esher copy with bookplate. 88. The Message of One of England's Greatest Poets to a Printer . . . . Printed by George W. Jones at the Sign of the Dolphin [1931]. [Ewelme (part)ll?.] Imperial 8vo, light grey boards, half darker grey linen, uncut. One of 600 unnumbered copies.

90. Three Friends: Memoirs of D. M. Dolben, R. W. Dixon and Henry Bradley. Oxford University Press, 1932. [Ewelme 124.] The issue in blue-green cloth, Holland spine with titling label (not described by McKay). 91. Correspondence of Robert Bridges and Henry Bradley. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1940. [Ewelme 127.] Cream boards, spine black lettered, uncut.] Autograph inscriptions on end-paper dated 10 June 1940 and Christmas 1944 by Bradley's son and daughter-Arnold Eastwood Bradley and Florence Helen Bradley. Also inserted is the Memorial Notice for A. E. Bradley, 4 pages, black-edged, who died 13 November 1944. 92. Hopkins, Gerard Manley. Poems. The First Edition with Preface and Notes by Robert Bridges. Enlarged . . . by W. H. Gardner. 3rd ed. Oxford University Press, 1956. [Ewelme C.22.] Fifth impression, revised with additional poems. Blue cloth, dust-jacket (16/- net). Autograph Letters &c. 93. ALS, 3 pages, to "Dear Sir," dated from Yattendon, 16 December 1892, entirely about his "Milton's Prosody," published the next year: "I send you what I trust is the last revise of the Prosody. I send it to you rather than Mr. Hart, as on p. 50 there is a place" &c. 94. Visiting card of Robert Bridges on which he has altered his address for August 1919 only to Postmasters Hall, Merton St., Oxford. On verso he has written and initialled a brief note of some 40 words. 95. ALS, 2 pages, dated from Chilswell, Oxford, 8 February to "Dear Miss Thompson" dealing at length with a proposed Lecture which he does not feel he can undertake.

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96. ALS, 2 pages, dated from Chilswell, Oxford, 24 August to "My dear Palmer" giving bibliographical details: "It is very important to have all your references strictly correct. Any carelessness will ruin your reputation."

104. Kable, William S. The Ewelme Collection of Robert Bridges. University of South Carolina Bibliographical Series No. 2, 1967. Inscribed: "For the Colbeck Collection, W. S. Kable."

97. Two photographs of Bridges and a third with Mrs. and Miss Bridges, all with inscriptions on backs, signed by the photographer, Percy Withers, dated 1924.

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Secondary Material 98. Brett Young, F. E. Robert Bridges: A Critical Study. Martin Seeker, 1914. Dark blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, publisher's Autumn 1914 one page catalogue at end. Inscribed: "Henry Newbolt from Francis Brett Young, Sunday 7 Oct 1917." 99. Grant, Rev. Cecil. The Beauty by Which Men Soar. St. Albans: W. Cartmel & Sons [1930]. 12 pages, sewn into blue wrappers, titling label on upper side, engraved portrait of Bridges by Van Der Straeten. This is an address by the Headmaster of St. George's School, Harpenden.

105. Weaving, Willoughby. The Bubble and Other Poems. Oxford: Blackwell, 1917. Green cloth, gilt spine, edges cut. Inscribed: "Henry Bradley from Robert Bridges, 7 Nov 1917." In 1916 Bridges had edited and introduced this poet's first book. There is no evidence of his involvement in this volume other than the inscribing of the copy to his friend Dr. Bradley. 106. Bridges, Elizabeth. Sonnets from Hafez and Other Verses. Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1921. Grey boards with large titling label, grey linen spine, edges uncut. Poems by Bridges's daughter, with a preface dated from Chilswell, September 1920. BROOKE (Rupert) 1887-1915

100. Kelshall, T. M. Robert Bridges. R. Scott [1924]. Blue boards, half cream parchment, top edges cut, others uncut. Inscribed: "R. D. Pringle, Esq, from the Author, 16 June 1924, San Fernando, Trinidad."

1. Poems. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1911. Dark blue cloth, spine titling label, trimmed edges.

101. Smith, Nowell Charles. Notes on "The Testament of Beauty." Oxford University Press, 1931. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine, only lower edges uncut.

3. "1914." Five Sonnets by Rupert Brooke. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1915. Eight pages without pagination, sewn into blue-grey wrappers lettered in darker blue.

102. Warren, T. Herbert. Robert Bridges, Poet Laureate: Readings from His Poems. A Public Lecture. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1913. [Ewelme E.16.] Light blue wrappers lettered in darker blue, edges uncut. Inscribed: "To Sir Frederick Wedmore, with the Lecturer's kind regards. T. H. W. Dec 27, 1914. p. 32." The page reference here is to the quotation from one of Bridges's poems, which occupies the whole page. It is annotated in pencil. Also inserted are the 5 sheets (pp. 113-122) of Warren's essay on Bridges from Miles's Poets and Poetry of the Century.

4. The Old Vicarage, Grantchester. With a Woodcut by Noel Rooke. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1916. 16 pages, sewn into light grey wrappers lettered in black.

103. Thompson, Edward. Robert Bridges (1844-1930). Oxford University Press, 1944. [Ewelme E.15.] Dark blue cloth, gilt spine, in printed dust-jacket.

2. 1914 and Other Poems. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1915. Uniform format with above, top edges cut, others uncut, frontispiece portrait.

5. Letters from America. With a Preface by Henry James. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916. Dark green vertically ribbed cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, top and lower edges cut, fore-edges uncut. Frontispiece portrait. 6. Letters from America. by Henry James. Sidgwick & Black smooth buckram, spine t.e.g., others lightly trimmed. spine is dated 1915, and has with a 6; the duplicate label correctly printed 1916.

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7. Another copy of the London First Edition. This has no spare titling label at end, and the spine label is initially printed 1916. 8. The Collected Poems. With a Memoir. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1918. Smooth black buckram uniform with Letters from America, edges cut, frontispiece portrait. 9. Lithuania: A Play in One Act. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1935. Bright yellow wrappers lettered black up spine and on upper side, edges cut. Wrapper lettered, "With a Prefatory Note/By John Drinkwater," but this does not appear on title-page. 10. Democracy and the Arts. With a Preface by Geoffrey Keynes. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1946. Dark green cloth, gilt-lettered up spine, top edges cut, others uncut, frontispiece portrait. In printed dust-jacket (6s. net). 11. Letters from Rupert Brooke to His Publisher, 1911-1914. New York: Octagon Books, 1975. 32 leaves, large square 8vo, without pagination or register, bound quarter white parchment, gilt-lettered downwards on spine, black cloth sides, red designed end-papers. No. 347 of 400 copies with frontispiece portrait of the author and profuse facsimiles of ALS, also an Introduction by Geoffrey Keynes. In board drop-case, as issued. Secondary Material 12. Marsh, Edward. Rupert Brooke: A Memoir. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1918. Dark blue cloth, top edges cut, others uncut, frontispiece portrait. The Collected Poems was issued in July 1918, and this separate edition of the memoir not until November. Though re-paginated, the text-setting is not revised. 13. Casson, Stanley. Rupert Brooke and Skyros. With Woodcut Illustrations by Phyllis Gardner. Elkin Mathews, 1921. Grey boards, cream vellum spine, gilt-lettered upwards, t.e.g., others uncut. No. 17 of 100 copies printed on handmade paper. Note: Rupert Brooke was one of the 4 poets contributing to New Numbers. See the Lascelles Abercrombie collection.

BROOKE (Stopford Augustus) 1832-1916 1. Life and Letters of Frederick W. Robertson. Edited by Stopford A. Brooke. 2 vols. Smith Elder, 1865. Bevelled brown cloth, gilt, edges uncut, dark green end-papers with binder's tickets of Burn. Frontispiece portraits. Bb2 at end of volume 2 carries adverts only. The author's first (and much reprinted) work, written by him, though only claimed on title-pages as "edited." 2. Life and Letters of Frederick W. Robertson. Smith Elder, 1868. New Edition, in one volume, with an Introduction (16 pages). Thick tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt, only lower edges trimmed, brown end-paper with binder's ticket of Burn. Frontispiece portrait. This appears to be the Fifth Edition and the first in one volume. A few letters and notes (not available in 1865) added; nothing omitted. Inscribed: "Patty Clapham from Frederick Wedmore. Whitby 29 August 1868." Also with his interesting note, initialled "F. W.," on p. 493. 3. The Fight of Faith: Sermons Preached on Various Occasions. 3rd ed. C. Kegan Paul, 1878. Dark brown cloth, gilt spine. Inscribed: "Frederick Wedmore from the writer, Stopford A. Brooke." 4. Milton. Macmillan, 1879. Dark blue cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, binder's ticket of Burn. A volume in the Classical Writers series, edited by J. R. Green. Special issue printed on handmade paper, 25 March 1879. Only 40 copies done. Inscribed: "Frederick Wedmore from the Writer. April 1879." 5. Riquet of the Tuft: A Love Drama. Macmillan, 1880. Dark blue cloth, gilt, all edges uncut. Issued anonomously. 6. English Literature. Macmillan, 1880. Dark blue cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, attractively printed on watermarked Van Gelder handmade paper. This edition, without bibliographical statement, is a reset and somewhat revised version of the shilling booklet in the Literature Primers series, first published in January 1876. 7. Shelley, P. B. Poems. Selected and Arranged by Stopford A. Brooke. Macmillan, 1880. Grey boards, half white parchment, spine lettering label Poems From Shelley, all edges uncut. Engraving of Field Place on title-page in an india-proof impression. In the Golden Treasury Series, special Large Paper issue printed 24 April 1880, 500 copies only. Armorial bookplate of Harry Lushington Stephen.

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8. Notes on the Liber Studiorum of J. M. W. Turner. Autotype Company & Henry Sotheran, 1885. Cream parchment, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. This is the first issue of the Notes as a volume, apart from the facsimile reproductions issued in 4 volumes at 16 guineas, and contains a new introduction dated July 1885. Frontispiece photogravure plate. Inscribed: "William Canton from Stopford A. Brooke, October 1898."

17. The Sea-Charm of Venice. Duckworth, 1907. Green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others cut, pictured end-papers. A volume in the Roadmender Series.

9. Poems. Macmillan, 1888. Blue cloth, gilt, edges uncut, slate brown end-papers. T7 and 8 at end carry adverts only, the first of which reveals the authorship of Riquet of the Tuft (1880). 10. Tennyson: His Art and Relation to Modern Life. Isbister, 1894. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut. 2H6-2H8 at end carry adverts only. 11. Wordsworth, William. Poems Dedicated to National Independence and Liberty. Reprinted on behalf of the Greek struggle for the Independence of Crete. With an Introduction by Stopford A. Brooke. Isbister, 1897. Cream parchment, lettered spine and upper side, with Greek flag in blue, all edges uncut. 12. The Gospel of Joy. Isbister, 1898. Bluish green cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut, dark blue end-papers. 13. Religion in Literature and Religion in Life: Two Lectures. Philip Green, 1900. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others cut, dark blue end-papers. 14. A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue. Edited by Stopford A. Brooke and T. W. Rolleston. Smith Elder, 1900. Green cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, dark blue end-papers. 15. The Poetry of Robert Browning, Isbister, 1902. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, uniform format with the Tennyson of 1894. 16. Warren, Kate M. A Treasury of English Literature (From the Beginning to the Eighteenth Century). Selected and Arranged, with Translation and Glossaries. Introduction by Stopford A. Brooke. Constable, 1906. Dark green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others cut. Brooke's Introduction occupies 11 pages.

18. Studies in Poetry. Duckworth, 1907. Smooth bevelled red buckram, gilt spine, t.e.g., others lightly trimmed, frontispiece portrait. Q8 at end is blank. 19. A Study of Clough, Arnold, Rossctti and Morris, with an Introduction to the Course of Poetry from 1822 to 1852. Sir Isaac Pitman, 1908. Tall 8vo, red cloth, gilt, all edges uncut. The last 6 leaves of gathering 18 at end carry adverts only, the first fp. 261] being left blank. In green printed dust-jacket (6/- net). It is only on half-title and the dust-jacket that the work is titled Four Poets. 20. The Onward Cry and Other Sermons. Duckworth, 1911. Uniform format with Studies in Poetry, and with the same frontispiece portrait. 21. Naturalism in English Poetry. Dent, 1920. Dark red cloth, gilt spine, top edges stained, others trimmed. There is an unsigned Foreward to this posthumous publication, indicating that the main basis of the 12 essays are lectures delivered in 1902 at University College, London. 22. English Literature from A.D. 670 to A.D. 1832. With a Chapter on Literature since 1832 by George Sampson. Macmillan, 1924. Light blue cloth, lettered darker blue. One of the Literature Primers edited by J. R. Green, this is Brooke's much reprinted Primer of 1876, with the first printing of Sampson's additional chapter. Secondary Material 23. Jacks, Lawrence Pearsall. Life and Letters of Stopford Brooke. 2 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917. Dark blue cloth, gilt spines, top edges cut, others uncut, in printed dust-jackets ($4.75). 12 illustrations, continuous pagination. The First American edition of an English work, printed by William Clowes & Sons. Association Item 24. Maeterlinck, Maurice. The Treasure of the Humble. Translated by Alfred Sutro. With Introduction by A. B. Walkley. Allen, 1897. Designed light green cloth, t.e.g., others uncut. From Brooke's library with his signature dated Danster, May 1897 on blank leaf before half-title. At end of Introduction is

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BROOKE (Stopford Augustus) 1832-1916 his significant note on Walkley in 5 lines in ink. BROWN (Thomas Edward) 1830-1897 1. Betsy Lee: A Fo'c's'le Yarn. Cockermouth: I. Evening, Printer, [1871]. 50 pages, red white and blue combed paper wrappers, brown end-papers. Inscribed in the author's handwriting on title-page: "Finished at Paignton, Jan 1871." The author's 2 surviving daughters gave this to me in Bournemouth in 1947, together with the copies of The Doctor and Old John entered below. These precious books might more properly have gone to the Manx Museum, or to the British Library in London, where no copy of Betsy Lee is yet held.

BROWN (Thomas Edward) 1830-1897 Brown crocodile-skin cloth, spine gilt-lettered. In 1891 the sheets were issued as 2 separate volumes; hence the volume which follows. 7. Kitty of the Skerragh Vane, and The Schoolmasters. Swan Sonnenschein, 1891. Newly printed title-page followed by text, pp. 247-[386], the final leaf Cc being still a singleton. Uniformly bound in crocodile-skin brown cloth, cut edges. The reason for the separate re-issuing is unclear, as also the reason for shortage of original title-page which caused some copies of the thicker volume to have the new title-page. 8. The Manx Witch, and Other Poems. Macmillan, 1889. Smooth blue cloth, gilt, publisher's monogram above their imprint at foot of spine, dark green end-papers.

2. Betsy Lee: A Fo'c's'le Yarn. Macmillan, 1873. Green sand-grain cloth, gilt-lettered up spine and in 3 lines on upper side, brown end-papers, top edges uncut, others trimmed. The first published edition, the text considerably condensed from the private printing.

9. Another copy of First Edition sheets in a later binding with plain white wove end-papers. Lettering on spine is slightly variant, imprint in a larger type with a different ampersand, the Macmillan monogram is omitted altogether, also the gilt and black rules of spine and sides axe here all in blind.

3. Another copy of first published edition. The book sold slowly and was never separately reprinted. This is an example of a later binding batch, spine lettering identical, but upper cover plain, save for a wide rule blind frame (round both sides). The 2 horizontal divisions on upper side are no longer found, and end-papers are plain white wove. Top edges of this copy are unopened throughout.

10. Old John, and Other Poems. Macmillan, 1893. Smooth blue cloth, gilt and black ruled, publisher's monogram on spine above their imprint, green end-papers. Inscribed: "M. & E. Stowell, from the author, March 22/93." The 2 lady-recipients were nieces of the author.

4. Fo'c's'le Yarns, including Betsy Lee, and Other Poems. Macmillan, 1881. Smooth blue cloth, gilt, anchor ornament below title and publisher's monogram above their imprint on spine, edges uncut, brown end-papers. U3 and 4 at end carry adverts only. This First Edition was published in April; no reprint appeared until 1889. F. W. H. Myer's copy with his signature dated Leckhampton, May 1881 on half-title. 5. The Doctor, and Other Poems. Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, 1887. Smooth reddish cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others trimmed, grey-black end-papers. The author's gift-copy to his wife Alice, inscribed: "To A. Brown, Th. B. May 12/87." 6. The Doctor: A Manx Poem. Swan Sonnenschein, 1891. Identical First Edition sheets, with a new title-page prepared for the separated volumes issued in 1891, but inapplicable to this volume. The half-title and final leaf Cc are same singletons (as in 1887).

11. Letters of Thomas Edward Brown. Edited with an Introductory Memoir by Sidney T. Irwin. 2 vols. Constable, 1900. Smooth fawnish brown buckram, t.e.g., others cut. 12. The Collected Poems. Macmillan, 1900. Green cloth, gilt spine, only lower edges cut, frontispiece portrait. A volume of the publisher's uniform Globe Editions of the Poets. 13. The Collected Poems. Macmillan, 1901. This reissue, of which title-page verso reads, "First Edition 1900/Reprinted 1901," has the same note of thanks by the author's 3 daughters, and Advertisement, but these are followed by an introductory 10 page Memoir by W. E. Henley. This only alters the Roman pagination of the preliminaries. 14. Poems of T. E. Brown. Selected and Arranged with an Introduction and Notes by H. G. B[rown] and H. G. Dfakyns]. Macmillan, 1908. Blue cloth, gilt, frontispiece portrait, only lower edges cut. A volume of the publisher's Golden Treasury Series.

94 BROWN (Thomas Edward) 1830-1897 Secondary Material 15. Simpson, Selwyn G. Thomas Edward Brown, the Manx Poet: An Appreciation. With a Preface by Rev. J. M. Wilson, D.D. Walter Scott, 1906. Green cloth, gilt, trimmed edges. 16. Thomas Edward Brown. A Memorial Volume, 1830-1930. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1930. Tall 8vo, green cloth, gilt spine, all edges cut, 6 illustrations. 17. Wilson, Canon J. M. Supplement to "The Cliftonian," July 1914. Containing text of the Address delivered at the Unveiling of the Memorial Tablet to T. E. Brown in Windsor Mount, Ramsey. 12 pages, crown 8vo, metal fastened. Printer's imprint of J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd. at foot of p. 10. 18. Caine, Hall. The Little Manx Nation. Heinemann, 1891. Dark green cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, publisher's 16 page catalogue dated June 1891 on first page and 29/5/91 at end. Author's dedication in the form of a letter dated June 1891 is to Brown. 19. Nowell-Smith, Simon. Some Uncollected Authors XXXIII: T. E. Brown. Off-printed from The Book Collector, Autumn 1962. Eight pages, cream wrappers lettered black. Inscribed: "Norman Colbeck with gratitude for assistance. Simon Nowell-Smith, October 1962." Note: See the Claud Lovat Fraser collection for Vespers by T. E. Brown, Poetry Bookshop Rhyme Sheet, Second Series, No. 1. BROWNING (Elizabeth Barrett) 1806-1861 1. An Essay on Mind, with Other Poems. James Duncan, 1826. Published without the author's name. The Esher copy with Brett bookplate, bound in polished brown calf, gilt spine with 2 titling labels, gilt borders inside covers, all edges gilt. 2. Prometheus Bound. Translated from the Greek of Aeschylus, and Miscellaneous Poems by the Translator, Author of An Essay on Mind. A. J. Valpy, 1833. Dark blue watered-silk cloth with spine titling label lettered in 3 lines upwards, all edges uncut. First state typesetting p. 154 line 13 and first issue binding. With the J. E. H. Graham-Clarke armorial bookplate and inscribed on end-paper: "Jno. A. Graham Clarke B. N. C. Given him by the author." This book remained in the family possession, and I bought it on 5 June

BROWNING (Elizabeth Barrett) 1806-1861 1962 from the library shelves at Frocester Manor, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, the occasion being the auction-sale after the death of Captain Graham-Clarke. The recipient of the gift was, of course, the young authoress1 Uncle John-John Altham Graham-Clarke. 3. The Seraphim and Other Poems. By Elizabeth B. Barrett. Saunders & Otley, 1838. Blind-stamped wine coloured cloth, uncut edges, spine gilt-lettered in 4 lines between ornaments, bright yellow end-papers. The blind-stamping of sides is the ornamental frame variety, without geometrical figure. 4. Another copy, in a contemporary binding of purple calf, sides and spine ornamentally gilt-panelled, all edges gilt, neat early signature top corner of title-page, "Jane Aislabia." 5. Poems. By Elizabeth Barrett Barrett. 2 vols. Moxon, 1844. Green cloth, sides blind-stamped with large oval ornamental frame, edges uncut. Moxon's 8 page list of books sewn in front in volume 1 dated 1 June 1844. This copy is in first state with reading in volume 1, p. 141: "O angels, let the flood/Of your salt scorn dash on me!" Also, volume 2, p. 275 is without "The End." Inscribed: "With the author's kind regards to Mrs. Ricardo August 1844." The recipient was the author's friend Harriet Mallory, who became Mrs. Ricardo when she married Osman Ricardo (1795-1881), son of David Ricardo, political economist. They were her near neighbours at Bromesbarrow, 5 miles from Ledbury. Maria Edgeworth had visited the household earlier at Gatcombe (see her Life and Letters, Vol. 2, p. 379). I bought these volumes at an auction-sale in Winchester, where they were in an entirely unsophisticated condition, the original sewing being completely firm. As the green cloth spines had cracked-off, they have now been skilfully renewed by a binder and correctly gilt-lettered. 6. Another set, original green cloth (same blind-stamping) spines a little faded, edges uncut; 8 pages of adverts in volume 1 are dated 1 January 1845. These volumes have a library-stamp of an eagle on a crown with initials "W. H. M.," also signature, "W. H. Madden, M.D. South Lane Manor, 5 November 1846." An example of second state; volume 1, p. 141 has reading: "0 angels, let your flood/Of bitter scorn dash on me!" and volume 2 has "The End" on p. 275.

95 BROWNING (Elizabeth Barrett) 1806-1861 7. Poems. By Elizabeth Barrett Browning. New Edition. 2 vols. Chapman & Hall, 1850. Dark blue vertically ribbed blind-stamped cloth, edges uncut, spines gilt-lettered in 6 lines with one short rule. This New Edition is the Second Edition, and the first under author's married name. Its importance is in the second volume, pp. 438-480, where the Sonnets from the Portuguese were first printed and published. Inscribed: "With Elizabeth Barrett Browning's kind regards to Mr. Allingham, London 1852." From the Sotheby sale, 24 May 1965, of the Allingham books, which were retained by the family until then. The occasion of the inscription was during Allingham's visit to London in 1852, when the Brownings were in lodgings in Welbeck Street, and D. G. Rossetti took the young Irish poet for his first visit to Mrs. Browning. Perhaps this publication of 1850, and Adelaide A. Procter's Victoria Regia of 1861 may be considered key books in the Wise tragi-comedy, without the suggestions of which he might never have embarked on his miserable career of deception. It suffices to remark that pp. 95-99 of the first volume of the Ashley Library Catalogue (1922) contain a display of bibliographical duplicity unlikely ever to be equalled. 8. Casa Guidi Windows: A Poem. Chapman & Hall, 1851. Blind-stamped vertically ribbed dark blue cloth, gilt spine, edges uncut, publisher's 36 page catalogue of books at end dated 1851 in 3 places. The Esher copy, with Brett bookplate. 9. Another copy, in cloth with identical blocking and lettering, though shade of cloth is more a greenish blue, and the book has never had adverts at end. Lacking 36 pages, it is perceptibly thinner. Same primrose yellow end-papers, with signature, "Henry Landford, 1852." 10. Poems. 3rd ed. 2 vols. Chapman & Hall, 1853. Dark green cloth, sides blind-stamped with wide ornamental border, spines gilt-lettered in 5 lines with one short rule, "Third Edition" at foot, yellow end-papers, circular armorial bookplates: "Liber bibliothere Henrici Smales Armigeri." This reprint is of considerable importance, many poems having been revised. 11. Poems. 4th ed. 3 vols. Chapman & Hall, 1856. Green blind-stamped cloth, gilt spines, primrose yellow end-papers, uncut. New Advertisement in volume 1 is dated "E. B. B. London 1856" at end. Of importance owing to revisions; the whole of Casa Guidi Windows and 3 new poems have been added. Tickets of Kelly, Bookseller, 8 Grafton St., Dublin,

BROWNING (Elizabeth Barrett) 1806-1861 affixed, and there is an inscription on title-page: "Annie M. Dolan, Mountpleasant Square, Dublin, Jan 1860." 12. Two Poems. By Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Chapman & Hall, 1854, 16 pages, sewn into cream wrappers, upper side black lettered, edges cut. The Esher copy, preserved in a cloth case, gilt-lettered. 13. Aurora Leigh. Chapman & Hall, 1857. Light red grained cloth, sides blind-stamped, spine gilt, uncut edges. 14. Aurora Leigh. 2nd ed. Chapman & Hall, 1857. Red cloth, identically blocked and lettered, uncut edges. This edition closely follows the First, almost the sole discernible difference being in the adverts on verso of the otherwise blank leaf preceding half-title. In the First Edition Mrs. Browning's Poems in 3 volumes was advertised without price, whereas in the Second Edition the price, 18s., is added. Signature and date 16 February 1857 on end-paper. 15. Aurora Leigh. 4th ed., revised. Chapman & Hall, 1859. Green cloth, gilt spine, top edges uncut, others trimmed. Frontispiece portrait. This edition, which stands one inch shorter on shelf than Second Edition, is printed by William Clowes & Sons (not by Bradbury & Evans). Binder's ticket at end of Bone & Son. 16. Poems before Congress. Chapman & Hall, 1860. Bright red blind-stamped cloth, lettered on upper side in 2 lines separated by short rule, edges uncut. F2 at end carries adverts only, followed by publisher's 32 page catalogue dated February 1860, the earliest date noted so far. The Esher copy, with Brett bookplate on the brown end-paper. 17. Last Poems. Chapman & Hall, 1862. Purple blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt, edges uncut, brown end-papers. K8 at end (Wise's mention of K4 in Browning Library, 1929, is a misprint) has adverts of books by the Brownings. 18. The Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets. Chapman & Hall, 1863. Blind-stamped morocco-grained green cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 9 lines with one short rule between triple bands top and bottom, edges uncut, dark brown end-papers. The unsigned Advertisement dated London February 1863 is by Robert Browning. This particularly fine copy belonged to the publisher, with bookplate of Edward Chapman inside front cover.

96 BROWNING (Elizabeth Barrett) 1806-1861 19. Essays on the Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets. New York: James Miller, 1863. Dark blue blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine, all edges gilt. Besides the Preface, reprinted from the London edition, this first American edition has a note by Robert Browning, certifying James Miller as the appointed United States publisher and adding, "it is hoped there will be no interference with the same." 20. A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Chapman & Hall, 1866. Mauve cloth, gilt, uncut edges, dark green end-papers. Engraved title-page and frontispiece portrait precede the printed title; there is a one page note by Robert Browning dated London, November 1865. Frederick Wedmore's copy with his signature on half-title. 21. A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1872. Half dark blue morocco, linen sides, frontispiece portrait. The printed wrappers have been sacrificed by the binder. This is the same selection of 68 poems as the above and contains the same note by Robert Browning.

BROWNING (Elizabeth Barrett) 1806-1861 27. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Edited with Biographical Additions by Frederic G. Kenyon. 2 vols. Smith Elder, 1897. Green cloth, gilt spines, uncut edges, dark slate end-papers, 4 plates. 28. Poetical Works of E. B. Browning. Smith Elder, 1897. First complete one volume edition, dark green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., other edges uncut, frontispiece. Editor's Preface by F. G. Kenyon. 29. Aurora Leigh. New Edition, with Prefatory Note by Algernon Charles Swinburne. Smith Elder, 1898. Light brown cloth, spine gilt-lettered, border round upper side in gilt and lower in blind, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait. 30. Lubbock, Percy. Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Her Letters. Smith Elder, 1906. Dark green cloth, gilt spine, dark blue end-papers, frontispiece portrait. 31. Lubbock, Percy. Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Her Letters. John Murray, 1917. Remaining sheets of First Edition were taken over by the new publisher, who issued them with his own title-page inserted.

22. Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Addressed to Richard Hengist Home. With Comments on Contemporaries. Edited by S. R. Townshend Mayer. 2 vols. R. Bentley, 1877. Purple cloth, gilt spines, uncut edges, slate brown end-papers.

32. The Poets' Enchiridion. A Hitherto Unpublished Poem. Boston, Mass.: The Bibliophile Society, 1914. Golden brown linen boards, cream parchment spine, t.e.g., others uncut. Contains the title poem and 3 others. The Esher copy, with Brett bookplate.

23. Another set, in a secondary binding of dark blue cloth, spine titling labels, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed, plain white wove end-papers.

33. Hitherto Unpublished Poems and Stories, with an Inedited Autobiography. 2 vols. Boston, Mass.: The Bibliophile Society, 1914. Light brown calf bindings, gilt-lettered, in boxes and slip-cases as issued. Only 453 copies printed. The Esher set, with Brett bookplates.

24. The Earlier Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1826-1833. Bartholomew Robson, 1878. Dark blue cloth, uncut, spine titling label. Pp. vii-viii is a cancel pasted on stub. 25. Prometheus Bound and Other Poems. With an Introduction by Alice Meynell. Ward Lock & Bowden, 1896. Sage green cloth, gilt, t.e.g. uncut, frontispiece portrait. In the Nineteenth Century Classics series, edited by Clement K. Shorter. 26. The Religious Opinions of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, as Expressed in Three Letters Addressed to Wm. Merry, Esq., J.P. Edited by W. Robertson Nicoll. Privately printed, 1896. Cream parchment boards, gilt-lettered up spine. Ashley Library book-mark on p.[29]. Only 30 copies printed.

34. The Art of Scansion. With an Introduction by Alice Meynell. Privately printed by Clement Shorter, December 1916. Bright green wrappers, upper side lettered black, edges cut. One of only 25 copies printed. 35. Alfred Tennyson: Notes and Comments, with a Defense of the Rhyme System of "The Dead Pan." Printed for private circulation only, 1919. 20 pages, sewn into pale blue wrappers lettered in black, uncut. One of 30 copies printed for T. J. Wise.

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BROWNING (Elizabeth Barrett) 1806-1861 36. A Note on William Wordsworth, with a Statement of Her Views on Spiritualism. Printed for private circulation only, 1919. 20 pages, sewn into pink wrappers lettered in black, uncut. One of 30 copies printed for T. J. Wise. 37. Letters to Her Sister, 1846-1859. Edited by Leonard Huxley. With Portraits. John Murray, 1929. Dark green cloth, gilt, edges cut. With the J. E. H. Graham-Clarke armorial bookplate and his signature dated February 1930. 38. Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford: The Unpublished Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford. Edited and Introduced by Betty Miller. John Murray, 1954. Bright red cloth, gilt, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (25s. net). Secondary Material 39. Ingram, John H. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. W. H. Allen, 1888. Dark green cloth, gilt, a volume of the Eminent Women series. Bookplate of E. H. Firth, and a note inserted: "From later editions the Appendix was withdrawn and the equally erroneous paragraphs on p. 1 altered to read-In 1806 &c.' [10 more lines]." 40. Creston, Dormer. Andromeda in Wimpole Street: The Romance of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Thornton Butterworth, 1929. Black cloth, pink spine titling label, top edges stained pink, 2 portraits. 41. Clarke, Isabel, C. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Portrait. Hutchinson [1929]. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine, edges cut, 8 portraits. Contains 6 unpublished letters of Mrs. Browning to Mrs. William Wentworth Story in the Appendix. 42. Lenanton, C. Miss Barrett's Elopement. Hodder & Stoughton [1929]. Pink cloth lettered in black, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket. 43. Kelley, Lachlan Phil. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Catalogue of the Centenary Exhibition held at St. Marylebone Central Public Library, May 31st~July 8th, 1961. 1961. Green printed wrappers, 24 pages. 44. Heydon, Peter N., and Kelley, Philip. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Letters to Mrs. David Ogilvy, 1849-1861. New York: Times Book Co. & Browning Institute, 1973.

BROWNING (Elizabeth Barrett) 1806-1861 Light reddish brown cloth, spine lettered in cream enamel, all edges cut, pictorial dust-jacket, 9 illustrations. Association Items 45. Boyd, Hugh Stuart. Select Poems of Synesius and Gregory Nazianzen: Translated from the Greek. To which are added some original Poems by the Translator. Rivington, 1814. Dark green cloth, uncut; probably a secondary binding. The author, 25 years older than Elizabeth Barrett, had been a close friend from the earliest days at Hope End. The memorable letter written by Elizabeth to Robert Browning after the secret marriage (12 September 1846) indicates the closeness of her association with the now old and totally blind scholar. 46. Spence, Rev. Joseph. Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters, of Books and Men: Collected from the Conversation of Mr. Pope, and Other Eminent Persons of His Time. Now First Published by Samuel Weller Singer. W. H. Carpenter, 1820. Contemporary marbled boards, the calf spine and corners skilfully renewed, frontispiece portrait. This is the only book in the collection which was once on the library shelves at 50 Wimpole Street. I bought it at the sale of Col. Moulton Barrett's books at Westover, Isle of Wight. On verso of half-title are the signatures of E. B. Barrett, and a later one in pencil of her brother "Occy" (Octavius M. Barrett). 47. Price, Uvedale. An Essay on the Modern Pronunciation of the Greek and Latin Languages. Oxford: W. Baxter, 1827. Bluish grey linen with spine titling label, all edges uncut. Sir Uvedale Price was a friend of Miss Barrett frequently mentioned in her letters to Miss Mitford: "Dear Sir Uvedale used to say that I was a very good ferret" (letter from Torquay in 1839). 48. Kenyon, John. Rhymed Plea for Tolerance. In Two Dialogues. 2nd ed. Edward Moxon, 1839. Dark green blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine, only lower edges cut. Inscribed: "To the Rev'd John Eagles, with the author's affectionate regards." Kenyon was a cousin of Elizabeth Barrett, and a patron and benefactor of the Brownings until his death-and beyond it.

98 BROWNING (Elizabeth Barrett) 1806-1861 49. Braun, Emil. The Ruins and Museums of Rome. Brunswick: F. Vieweg, 1854. Red cloth, gilt, trimmed edges. Inscribed: "Mrs. Browning with Mrs. Emil Braun's best love and good wishes. Rome, Jany 1855." The author and his English wife-Miss Thomson, a niece of Miss Bayley, often mentioned in Barrett and Kenyon circles in earlier years-visited the Brownings to the last in Florence. This particular book is the subject of a letter of Mrs. Browning's; see Letters (Vol. 2, 1897, p. 195). Exhibited at the Elizabeth Barrett Browning Centenary Exhibition, Marylebone 1961; see the Exhibition Catalogue (item 43 above, p. 14). 50. Lucien, H. M. Hints on Illuminating. With an Essay on the Art of Ornamenting on Gold or Metals. J. Barnard & Son [I860]. Semi-stiff wrappers lettered in red and blue. Inscribed: "Octavius Moulton Barrett, 1860." This was Elizabeth Barrett's favourite brother "Occy." With a postcard inserted, addressed to Lt. Col. Moulton Barrett, D.S.O., Westover, Calbourne, Isle of Wight (at the auction sale of whose books I obtained the book). BROWNING (Robert) 1812-1889 1. Strafford: An Historical Tragedy. Longmans, 1837. Bound in light brown polished calf, gilt, marbled end-papers with gilt dentelles, t.e.g., other edges lightly trimmed, binder's stamp of Jones & Evans, Ltd. 2. Sordello. Moxon, 1840. Wine coloured sand-grain cloth, spine titling label, all edges uncut, cream coloured end-papers with publisher's 8 page List of Books sewn in front dated October 1851. The earliest copies were in drab boards. This state in cloth has the same printed label as the 1840 copies, and in view of the fact that by 1855 only 243 copies had been distributed-by sale and gift-of the 500 printed, according to Moxon's statement of 1855, it might not be unreasonable to assume that this is the second binding state: there is a signature dated 24 October 1852 on half-title. But this identification of the state is not positive, as the University of Texas has 5 binding varieties not including this. 3. Another copy. Green cloth, sides with wide ornamental frames, spine with 6 sets of rules (including top and bottom) and gilt-lettered "Sordello/[short rule]/R. Browning," all in caps, in second panel. All edges uncut but no adverts bound in and no inscription.

BROWNING (Robert) 1812-1889 Clearly a later binding, c. 1850-1860. University of Texas has one example apparently identical with this. Bookplate of Ethel Wigram. 4. Bells and Pomegranates. Moxon, 1841-1846. A complete set, bound (probably c. 1885) by Riviere & Son in olive green morrocco, all edges gilt, plum red end-papers with gilt borders, spine with 5 raised bands. Probably rebound from one of the copies remaindered by Moxon at a later date in black cloth, as it displays the 2 familiar features, e.g., King Victor and King Charles lacks half-title, and title-page to A Blot in the 'Scutcheon is marked "Second Edition." Bookplate of Ethel Wigram. 5. Poems. 2 vols. New Edition. Chapman & Hall, 1849. Slate greenish blind-stamped cloth with oval design on sides and 3 line blind borders, spines gilt-lettered in 4 lines with short rule, edges uncut, yellow end-papers, Cc2 at end of volume 1 is dated 1 January 1849 and carries adverts only. This is the first collected edition of Browning's poems. 6. Another set, in contemporary brown calf, marbled edges and end-papers. The binder has sacrificed the half-titles and the leaf of adverts at end. The set belonged to William Morris, who inscribed each volume to his friend: "Wilfred Heeley from William Morris." With the recipient's book-labels: "Mr. W. L. Heeley No. 29 [No. 30]." Wilfred Heeley was a Birmingham school-friend of Burne Jones; he contributed later to the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine. 7. Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day: A Poem. Chapman & Hall, 1850. Dark slatey brown cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 7 lines with short rule above author's name, edges uncut, publisher's 32 page catalogue dated April 1850 bound-in at end. This is the first binding state; sides have same blind-stamped oval ornament as found in the 2 volume Poems of 1849. University of Texas catalogue records adverts dated August 1849 and November 1849, as well as the present date. 8. Another copy. This was the Forman copy and bears signatures of both the brothers on end-paper: "A. W. Forman, March 1863. H. Buxton Forman, 7 May 1863." This is a specimen of the second issue binding; the cloth is a lighter shade of green, spine gilt-lettered in 6 lines only, without "London" at foot, and blind blocking of sides is a much wider ornamental frame without central ornament. No adverts bound-in.

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9. Men and Women. 2 vols. Chapman & Hall, 1855. Green blind-stamped cloth, spines gilt-lettered in 6 lines with author's name between short rules, and with one gilt ornament, edges uncut. This is normally considered the first state of binding, with publisher's name in very small type at foot of spines. University of Texas catalogue records binding varieties with volume numbering in Arabic and with "London" in imprint at foot; also without the "Robt." before author's name. Signature in each volume: "Eady W. Morley, 31 December 1855, 14 Eldon Square, Reading."

16. Poetical Works. 6 vols. Smith Elder, 1868. Uniform bevelled brown cloth, spines gilt, edges uncut, light brown end-papers. Frederick Wedmore's set, with his signature in each volume. One also inscribed: "T. F. Wedmore from his affect. Mamma, July 9 1868."

10. Another set. Same blind-blocking of sides but publisher's imprint at foot of spines is in much larger type, the same as the "And" of title. 11. Selections from the Poetical Works of Robert Browning. Chapman & Hall, 1863. Purple blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 6 lines with triple bands top and bottom and one gilt ornament, all edges uncut, slatey brown end-papers. This is the first selection from Browning's poems to be published; John Forster and Barry Cornwall were the anonymous editors and their 3 page Preface is dated November 1862. To the former Stafford had been dedicated, and to the latter Colombe's Birthday. 12. Dramatis Personae. Chapman & Hall, 1864. Dark reddish blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 4 lines between triple rules top and bottom and with short rule above author's name and ornament below, slatey brown end-papers, R6 at end carries adverts only. Armorial bookplate of T. W. Jex Blake. 13. Another copy, identical with above save no bookplate. 14. A Selection from the Works of Robert Browning. Moxon, 1865. Blue bevelled cloth, design stamped in gilt on upper side and in blind on lower, slate grey end-papers. Frontispiece portrait; prefatory note by author dated 21 March 1865. A volume of Moxon's Miniature Poets: this is the presumed earliest variety of binding, without titling in ornamental panels on sides. 15. Another copy, with "Selections From Browning/Moxon's Miniature Series" added in the 6 panels on both sides (in blind on lower). The end-papers in this copy are a lighter blue-grey. It is likelier that the titling was added to the blocks, rather than removed after being in the original design.

17. The Ring and the Book. 4 vols. Smith Elder, 1868-1869. Bevelled green cloth, gilt spines, edges uncut, brown end-papers, bookplates of the Earl of Portsmouth. Third volume spine lettered in Roman, all others in Arabic. 18. Another set. Frederick Wedmore's signature in each volume, in volume 1 the signature being dated Hampstead, December 1868, in 3 and 4 dated respectively February and March 1869. The first volume has his pencil note, "Given me by Miss Egerton Smith, who wrote my name in the second volume. She is the A. E. S. at whose death Browning wrote La Saisiaz. F. W." The second volume has the signed inscription referred to. Third volume spine lettered in Roman as in the situation above. Writing of Miss Egerton Smith many years later in his Memories (1912, p. 59), Wedmore said, "My copy of The Ring and the Book has, pencilled in it, an inscription from her hand, because she was kind and I was young." Also inserted are 2 ALS of Browning to "My dear Wedmore," both dated 27 February 1886 on his 19 Warwick Crescent notepaper, 4 pages closely written. One is a covering letter; the other actually to be sent on as a testimonial in support of Wedmore's application for the Slade Professorship at Cambridge. Also with an earlier, important ALS on which Wedmore has written in pencil "To be kept." It is on black-edged note paper headed 19 Warwick Crescent, Upper Westbourne Terrace, W., dated 9 December 1868, and runs: "Dear Wedmore . . . If you would like to review my book for a provincial paper of great circulation and repute, the Liverpool Mercury, they will be glad to pay you liberally-I am instructed to say,-and will send you the book from their office . . . I shall not wrong either of us by adding that you will say of the book absolutely what you think fit without fear or favour. Ever yours, R. Browning." The letters were indeed "kept," and were still loosely inserted in the book when I purchased the small library of his daughter Millicent Wedmore after her death.

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BROWNING (Robert) 1812-1889 19. The Ring and the Book. 4 vols. 2nd ed. Smith Elder, 1872. Bevelled brown cloth, gilt spines, slate blue end-papers. An important edition, textually, having many additional lines. 20. Helen's Tower, Clandeboye. Privately printed [? 1861]. A 4to pamphlet (7 3/4" x 9 1/2") in original salmon pink glazed wrappers without lettering, gilt edges, gilt-starred end-papers. Engraving of a tower on title-page. Possibly a new edition, with Browning's poem dated 26 April 1870, printed on recto of p.[l] of a single folded sheet, 4 pages, sewn in and the remaining pages blank. Loosely inserted is a poem by G. F. Savage-Armstrong, dated July 1892, on a thinner quality of toned paper, same typography with red line frame round text and first initial in red. This is the Esher copy (with Brett bookplate) preserved in linen case, gilt-lettered. It is virtually identical with the copy in the Tennyson collection, save that that has never had the Browning poem sewn in. 21. Balaustion's Adventure: Including a Transcript from Euripides. Smith Elder, 1871. Reddish brown bevelled cloth, slate grey end-papers. Frederick Wedmore's copy, with a family inscription to him dated August 1871. 22. Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society. Smith Elder, 1871. Bright blue cloth, gilt spine. University of Texas catalogue records 2 binding variants; the present collection has 4 distinct binding variants, which include the 2 in Texas. There are 3 varieties of the spine ornament, and of the word "By" before author's name and various sizes of type used for publisher's imprint at foot. End-papers are slate brown, slate green (2 shades) and plain white wove. 23. Fifme at the Fair. Smith Elder, 1872. Smooth dark brown bevelled cloth, dark slate green end-papers, bookplate of Ethel Wigram. This is the variety with the single rule black frame round sides and across spine. 24. Red Cotton Night-Cap Country, or, Turf and Towers. Smith Elder, 1873. Dark green bevelled cloth, brown end-papers. Stopford Brooke's copy, inscribed on the dedication page: "Stopford A. Brooke, 5 May 1873." Browning's inscribed copy at University of Texas to Mrs. Corkran is dated 3 May 1873, while the copy inscribed to Alfred Domett is dated 7 May 1873.

25. Aristophanes' Apology. Smith Elder, 1875. Dark green bevelled cloth, slate grey end-papers. This is the variety with ornamental border black-stamped on upper side, blind-stamped on lower. Mortimer Collins's copy with the "Cotton" armorial bookplate (as have many of his books). Inscribed in his hand on blank leaf before half-title: "Mortimer & Frances Collins, 14 April 1875, Knowl Hill." (I believe Mrs. Collins became Mrs. Cotton.) 26. The Inn Album. Smith Elder, 1875. Dark green cloth, bluish grey end-papers, top and fore-edges unopened throughout. 27. Pacchiarotto and How He Worked in Distemper. Smith Elder, 1876. Two copies in the collection, with slightly variant shades of cloth and of end-papers, though not quite conforming with the Texas University catalogue descriptions. Moreover, they both have the same "O" in publisher's imprint at foot of spine. Variant ornaments appear below title in spines. 28. Elder, black slatey

The Agamemnon of Aeschylus. Smith 1877. Green cloth, ornamental border in on upper side and in blind on lower, blue end-papers.

29. La Saisiaz: The Two Poets of Croisic. Smith Elder, 1878. Bluish green bevelled cloth, slate end-papers. Frederick Wedmore's copy with signature on half-title. 30. Dramatic Idyls. Smith Elder, 1879. Yellowish brown cloth, slate blue end-papers. Frederick Wedmore's copy with signature dated 26 April 1879 on half-title. This is the date also of the author's inscribed copy to Evelyn Abbott (in the Ashley Library) and to Alfred Domett (in the University of Texas). 31. Dramatic Idyls. Second Series. Smith Elder, 1880. Dark slatey brown cloth, grey-blue end-papers. Another Wedmore copy, with a family inscription dated Christmas, 1880. 32. Another copy, identical in every detail, save that the spine lettering is without "Robert/Browning" in centre. 33. The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Illustrated by Jane E. Cook. Printed for private circulation, 1880. Oblong 4to, 10 1/2" x 16", dark green bevelled cloth, gilt, all edges gilt, dark slate end-papers. Loosely inserted is a photocopy of Browning's original letter of thanks to "Dear Miss Cook" for his gift copy of her book, dated from 19 Warwick Crescent, 12 December 1979.

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BROWNING (Robert) 1812-1889 34. Jocoseria. Smith Elder, 1883. Red cloth, blue-grey end-papers, top and fore-edges unopened throughout. 35. Ferishtah's Fancies. Smith Elder, 1884. Dark olive green cloth, blue-grey end-papers. 36. Strafford: A Tragedy. With Notes and Preface by Emily H. Hickey and an Introduction by S. R. Gardener. G. Bell, 1884. Green cloth, black lettered, edges cut. Some copies appear to have been issued with edges stained red. 37. Jones, Thomas. The Divine Order and Other Sermons and Addresses. With a Short Introduction by Robert Browning. Isbister, 1884. Dark green cloth, edges uncut, dark blue end-papers, frontispiece mounted photograph portrait. 38. Pauline: A Fragment of a Confession. Saunders and Otley, 1833. Reprint. Edited by Thomas J. Wise. R. Clay & Sons, 1886. Light brown boards, spine titling label, uncut. Only 400 copies were printed. 39. Reid, Andrew. Why I am a Liberal: Being Definitions and Personal Confessions of Faith. . . . Collected and Edited by Andrew Reid. Cassell [1885]. Red cloth, black lettered, dark slate end-papers, 8 leaves publisher's adverts at end dated 10.85. Browning's sonnet "Why I am a Liberal" is the first piece in the anthology. 40. Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day. Smith Elder, 1887. Light reddish brown bevelled cloth, top and fore-edges unopened throughout. In the publisher's imprint at foot of spine there is a comma after "Smith." 41. Another copy, identical save that most fore-edges are opened, apparently because of trimming. No comma follows "Smith" in publisher's imprint at foot of spine. 42. Parleyings with Certain People. . . . Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1887. Brown cloth, gilt, end-papers to match, t.e.g., others trimmed, publisher's 14 page catalogue at end. First American edition, with a note by the author on verso of title-page, dated 15 January 1887. Printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass. Reset, probably using English sheets as copy, as the English edition's curious error in date in the Dedication is repeated.

BROWNING (Robert) 1812-1889 43. The Pied Piper of Hamelin. With 35 Illustrations by Kate Greenaway. Routledge [1888]. Glazed light brown pictorially designed boards, brown linen spine, edges stained dark green, bluish green end-papers. Presumed first state. There is an inscription on end-paper dated 13 December 1888. Appears to collate as 4 gatherings in 8's. There is no "Manchester" in publisher's imprint on title-page, and verso of title-page has no rectangular frame, as has every other page. 44. Another copy; has "Manchester" in imprint on title-page; edges appear to be stained blue, rather than green, and end-papers are of a much darker green than in above issue. Verso of title-page has the rectangular frame; the one line regarding copyright is the same as in above issue. Pagination identical, 64 pages. Collation appears to be 8 gatherings in 4's. 45. An Essay on Percy Bysshe Shelley. Edited by W. Tyas Harden. Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves & Turner, 1888. Green boards lettered in black, uncut, limited to 500 copies. This is a reprint of the Introductory Essay prefixed to the Letters of Shelley, published by Moxon in 1852, and promptly suppressed when it was revealed that the letters were forgeries. 46. The Poetical Works of Robert Browning. 20 vols. Smith Elder, 1888-1914. Uniform format of olive greenish brown cloth, gilt spines, end-papers matching cloth, top edges uncut, others trimmed. This set consists of the maximum number of volumes obtainable in this format. Volumes 1-8 are dated 1888; volumes 9-16 are dated 1889; volume 17, containing Asolando (1894); these are followed by 3 unnumbered volumes, viz.: Prose Life of Strafford, with an Introduction by C. H. Firth and Foreword by F. J. Furnival (Published for the Browning Society by Kegan Paul, 1892); Essay on Shelley, edited by Richard Garnett (Alexander Moring, 1903); New Poems by Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, edited by Sir Frederic G. Kenyon (Smith Elder, 1914). 47. Asolando: Fancies and Facts. Smith Elder, 1890. Red bevelled cloth, uncut, blue-grey end-papers. Inscribed on half-title: "Frederick Wedmore, With love from his wife, Christmas 1889." The book was published 12 December 1889, the day of Browning's death.

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48. Another copy, with "Seventh Edition" on title-page; appears to be identical with First Edition. Texas University catalogue records a Fifth Edition, This copy belonged to Sir Harry K. Hudson and bears his signature on half-title; he was Parliamentary private secretary to Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke.

edges were cut when preparing copies uniform with the other 17 volumes of the Poetical Works.

49. Orr, Mrs. Sutherland. Life and Letters of Robert Browning. Smith Elder, 1891. Dark olive green cloth, only lower edges cut, slate grey end-papers, 2 illustrations. Bookplate of J. A. Fuller-Maitland. 50. Letters from Robert Browning to Various Correspondents. Edited by Thomas J. Wise. 2 vols. Privately printed, 1895-1896. Dark plum red bevelled cloth, all edges uncut. One of 30 sets on Whatman's handmade paper. Inscribed: "To William Ward, with the Editor's kindest regards, 12-6-95." 51. Poetical Works of Robert Browning. 2 vols. Smith Elder, 1896. This is the issue on thin paper in one volume, dark red cloth, gilt, red edges under gilt, matching end-papers, half-titles, title pages and the 2 frontispiece portraits left in place. Though not stated on title-pages, there is an Editor's Note by Augustine Birrell. 52. Bells and Pomegranates. First and Second Series. 2 vols. Ward Lock, 1896-1897. Uniform sage green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. In the Nineteenth Century Classics series, edited by Clement K. Shorter. Preface and Notes by Thomas J. Wise. 53. Poems by Robert Browning. With Introduction by Richard Garnett and Illustrations by Byam Shaw. G. Bell, 1897. Printed on Japanese vellum, bound in white stone coloured Holland, spine lettered in red and black, all edges uncut. A volume in the Endymion Series, No. 2 of 125 copies. 54. Poems by Robert Browning. With an Introduction by Oscar Browning. Routledge, 1897. Dark red cloth, gilt spine, pink patterned end-papers, edges cut. Oscar Browning's Introduction is dated from King's College, Cambridge, 19 November 1896. 55. Browning's Essay on Shelley. Edited with an Introduction by Richard Garnett. Alexander Moring, 1903. Green boards, half green linen, gilt-lettered upwards on spine, all edges uncut. This is the Large Paper form of the edition of the Poetical Works (1888); it stands nearly one inch taller on shelf. The

56. A Miniature. Privately printed, 1904. Single sheet folded once to form a 4 page booklet, paper watermarked "John Hodgen/Air-Dried/Vellum." Reprinted from The Sibyl, edited by Members of Rugby School, No. 16, 1 April 1893. Prefixed by a Note, signed F. J. Furnival, 16 February 1904. The poem of 17 quatrains occupies the remaining 3 pages. The Esher copy with Brett bookplate; preserved in a cloth case, gilt-lettered. 57. Letters from Robert Browning to Various Correspondents. Edited by Thomas J. Wise. Second Series. 2 vols. Privately printed, 1907-08. Issued uniformly with the first series (item 50 above). One of 30 sets on Whatman's handmade paper. Inscribed: "J. B. Smart, from his Friend Thos. J. Wise, 19/XIA907," and with the recipient's bookplate. These volumes, as the 2 in the first series, are from the Esher library, with bookplates. 58. Orr, Mrs. Sutherland. Life and Letters of Robert Browning. New Edition, Revised and in Part Rewritten by Frederic G. Kenyon. Smith Elder, 1908. Dark green cloth, 2 portraits. 59. Poems of Browning. Selected and with Introduction by Augustine Birrell. Edinburgh: T. C. & E. C. Jack [1908]. Purple cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, illustrations in colours by Edmund J. Sullivan. A volume of the Golden Poets, edited by Oliphant Smeaton. Birrell's Introduction is dated Sheringham, New Year's Day, 1908. 60. Wallis, N. Hardy, ed. Pauline. By Robert Browning. The Text of 1833, Compared with that of 1867 and 1888. Edited with Introduction and Notes by N. Hardy Wallis. University of London Press, 1931. Dark blue-black cloth, gilt, in printed dust-jacket (51- net). Inscribed: "From the editor, with many happy recollections of pleasant talks on Browning. N. Hardy Wallis 31/1/31." Inserted are 3 ALS, the first (of same date) which accompanied the gift to Rev. W. de Kilpeck, Rector of Corfe Castle, Dorset; the others dated subsequently, relating to the writer's work on Browning's Paracelsus.

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61. Wise, Thomas J. Letters of Robert Browning. Collected by Thomas J. Wise. Edited with Introduction and Notes by T. L. Hood. John Murray, 1933. Tall 8vo, green cloth, gilt, in printed dust-jacket (18s. net). Secondary Material 62. [Campbell, J. Dykes, ed.] Some Portions of Essays Contributed to the Spectator by Mr. Joseph Addison. Now First Printed from his MS Note Book. Done at Glasgow, 1864. One of 250 copies printed by Bell & Bain. Polished brown calf, gilt, all edges gilt. Inscribed by the anonymous editor: "To Robert Browning, Esq. with the editor's warmest regards." Also with notes in pencil in the text, initialled "J. D. C." 63. Nettleship, John T. Robert Browning: Essays and Thoughts. Elkin Mathews, 1890. Tall 8vo, bevelled olive green buckram, uncut. No. 67 of 75 copies on large handmade paper, with handwritten certificate signed by the publisher. 64. Griffin, W. Hall, and Minchin, H. C. Life of Robert Browning. With 37 illustrations. Methuen, 1910. Green cloth, gilt, top edges cut, others uncut. 65. DeVane, William Clyde. Browning's Parleyings: The Autobiography of a Mind. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1927. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, edges cut. 66. Duckworth, F. R. G. Browning: Background and Conflict. E. Benn, 1933. Reddish brown cloth, top edges cut, others uncut. 67. DeVane, William Clyde. A Browning Handbook. New York: F. S. Crofts, 1935. Dark blue cloth, edges cut. 68. Curie, Richard, ed. Robert Browning and Julia Wedgwood: A Broken Friendship as Revealed in Their Letters. Murray & Cape, 1937. Light blue cloth, gilt spine, top edges stained to match, in printed dust-jacket (10s. 6d. net). 69. Miller, Betty. Robert Browning: A Portrait John Murray, 1952. Fawn coloured cloth, spine lettered red in printed dust-jacket (21/- net).

BROWNING (Robert) 1812-1889 70. Honan, Park. Browning's Characters: A Study in Poetic Technique. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1962. Tall 8vo, dark red cloth, gilt spine lettered downwards, in printed dust-jacket ($7.50). The First Edition was dated 1961, this is the second printing. Inscribed: "To Norman Colbeck, with very good wishes, Park Honan, May 1964." 71. Alma Murray: Portrait as Beatrice Cenci. With Critical Notice Containing Four Letters from Robert Browning. Elkin Mathews, 1891. Scarlet wrappers lettered in black, uncut, frontispiece plate. 72. Mosely, B. L. Miss Alma Murray's Constance in Robert Browning's "In a Balcony." For private circulation only. Reprinted from The Theatre for May 1885. 8 pages, sewn into cream wrappers lettered in black, uncut. 73. Kelley, Lachlan Phil. Robert Browning and George Smith: Selections from an Unpublished Correspondence. Reprinted from The Quarterly Review [1961]. 16 pages, stapled into pale blue wrappers lettered in black. Inscribed: "To Norman Colbeck, from his sincere friend Lachlan Phil Kelley. London, July '61." 74. Crosse, Mrs. Andrew. Red Letter Days of My Life. 2 vols. R. Bentley, 1892. Dark red blind-stamped cloth, gilt spines, uncut, red patterned end-papers. The fifth section of volume 1, pp. 225-280, is entitled "The Wedded Poets." Armorial bookplates of J. E. H. Graham-Clarke in each volume, also signature of another member of of the family dated September 1905. From the Frocester Manor sale. 75. [Temple, Archbishop William.] Robert Browning: An Essay. Oxford: Printed for private circulation, 1904. 32 pages, sewn into semi-stiff cream wrappers, upper side lettered in red, edges cut. The title-page gives only the initials of the author. 76. Omond, T. S. Browning's "La Saisiaz": A Lecture to Students. Tunbridge Wells: R. Pelton, 1905. 24 pages, sewn into light grey wrappers lettered in black. 77. Sotheby & Co. The Browning Collections. Sale Catalogues of the Pictures, Drawings and Engravings . . . Autograph Letters and Manuscripts . . . Books. . . Works of Art. 1-8 May 1913. Catalogue of the Pictures, Drawings and Engravings: Thursday 1 May 1913. Catalogue of the Autograph Letters and Manuscripts: second day's sale, 2

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May 1903. Catalogue of the Books: 5, 6 and 7 May, 1913. Catalogue of ... Works of Art, sixth day's sale, 8 May 1913. The 4 catalogues, each in original wrappers, uncut. Neatly bound together in dark blue cloth, gilt spine.

the whole Browning Society. . . . Sad news of Ruskin's mental state. Mind probably gone for ever. Did you see my Recollections in Pall Mall Gazette 14 & 18 Dec?"

78. The Armstrong Browning Library. Waco: Texas, Baylor University, n.d. An illustrated catalogue, 32 pages 4to (8 1/2" x 10"), glazed pictorial wrappers, as issued.

85. Three ALS on variously headed London notepaper, dated 1932 and 1933, from N. Hardy Wallis to "Dear Mr. de Kilpeck" [Rector of Corfe Castle, Dorset]. Compares his work on the text of Paracelsus with that on Pauline. These letters were inserted in the copy of the latter work (see Pauline, By Robert Browing. The text of 1833, item 60 above).

Autograph Letters &c. 79. ALS on a single sheet of black-edged laid note paper, dated from 19, Warwick Crescent, 9 December 1868 to "Dear Wedrnore." Regarding a proposed review of the first volume of The Ring and The Book, (see item 18). 80. ALS, one page, crown 8vo, on first page of a folded sheet of laid paper (watermark of horizontal and vertical lines), dated from Villa Berry, St. Moritz, Engadin, 30 August 1884. To Samuel Brandram, Esq. (a known anthologist), with regard to a selection being made from his poems, which he would be glad to see. 81. Two ALS, 4 pages in all, on first leaves of folded sheets of his 19 Warwick Crescent, W. notepaper, both dated 27 February 1886 and signed, "Yours truly ever, Robert Browning." Letters of considerable interest in connection with Frederick Wedmore's application for the vacant Slade Professorship at Cambridge. In the second, Browning writes: "Pray tell me-with all frankness-if it will serve its purpose. I can add or alter,~will, at all events, try again." 82. A single sheet, clearly the torn second of the 4 pp. pale grey-blue headed Warwick Crescent notepaper, with 5 lines of verse transcribed in ink and signed: "Robert Browning, 2 March 1889." The poet died 9 months later. Begins: "Above all crowding-crystal silentness," (Aristophanes' Apology, 1875, lines 46-50). 83. Photographs of Robert and Sarianna Browning, the first dated 1872 on reverse in handwriting. Photographic surface 2 1/4" x 3 1/2". On Elliott & Fry card mounts, with address, 55 Baker St., Portman Square. 84. ALS on both sides of a single 12mo sheet, from F. J. Furnival, initialled and dated 20 December 1889, addressed to William Ward (Ruskin's one-time secretary): "No chance whatever of tickets for reserved seats [in Westminster Abbey]. Only four are sent for

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BRYDGES (Sir Samuel Egerton) 1762-1837 1. Sonnets and Other Poems; with a Versification of the Six Bards of Ossian. By S. Egerton Brydges, Esq. of the Middle Temple &c. A New Edition, with Additions. G. & T. Wilkie, 1785. Contemporary brown polished calf, gilt spine with red lettering label, armorial bookplate of Sir Thomas Miller, Bt. Collation A--H4, 13, K3 (stubs of cancellations at pp. 1, 40 & 64). Pp.[viii], 67 (verso blank). An 8vo printed on half-sheets. The First Edition was a shorter work issued anonymously earlier in same year. 2. The Paradise of Dainty Devices [by Richard Edwards and others.] A Transcript of the First Edition of 1576 . . . with Appendix containing additional pieces from the editions of 1580 and 1600. Introductory remarks, biographical and critical, by Sir Egerton Brydges. R. Triphook, 1810. 4to, all edges uncut, neatly rebound in dark blue buckram, red titling label. A note by Brydges states that 250 copies in 8vo were printed for issue with the British Bibliographer, and that this separate issue in 4to is limited to 120 copies. 3. Restitute, or, Titles, Extracts and Characters of Old Books in English Literature Revived. 4 vols. T. Bensley for Longman, 1814-1816. Uniformly bound half-calf, marbled sides, spine titling labels, red sprinkled edges. Circular bookplates of Edmund Fitz-Moore Armegeri and later armorial bookplate of William Garnett, Esq. in each volume. 4. Raleigh, Sir Walter. Poems. Now First Collected. With a Biographical and Critical Introduction by Sir Egerton Brydges. 2nd ed. From the Private Press of Longman, 1814. Small 8vo, contemporary mottled blue calf gilt. Advertisement dated 12 May 1814 states that the book was reprinted, by Sir Egerton

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BRYDGES (Sir Samuel Egerton) 1762-1837

Brydges's permission, from the First Edition (Lee Priory Press, 1813), a 4to, of which only 100 copies had been printed.

12. Beltz, G. F. A Review of the Chandos Peerage Case, adjudicated 1803, and of the pretensions of Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges to designate himself Per Legem Terrae Baron Chandos of Sudeley. R. Bentley, 1834. Drab brown cloth, spine titling label, all edges uncut. Armorial bookplate of William Cripps.

6. Recollections of Foreign Travel, on Life, Literature and Self-knowledge. 2 vols. Longman, 1825. Contemporary half-calf, marbled sides, pink sprinkled edges, armorial bookplates of Francis Fortescue Urquhart, Balliol College. 6. An Impartial Portrait of Lord Byron as a Poet and a Man. Paris: A & W. Galignani, 1825. Contemporary half-calf, marbled sides. Author's Preface dated from Paris, 20 January 1825. This is the first printing of the work, which is different from the one with a similar title published in London in 1824. 7. The Autobiography, Times, Opinions and Contemporaries of Sir Egerton Brydges. 2 vols. Cochrane & M'Crone, 1834. Original wine coloured cloth, gilt spines, uncut, 4 pages of adverts at end of volume 2. Frontispiece portrait in each volume. 8. Imaginative Biography. 2 vols. Saunders & Otley, 1834. Contemporary half blue calf, marbled sides, armorial bookplates of Sir Edward W. Watkin, later in the library of Sir Samuel Fay. 9. Milton, John. Poetical Works. Edited by Sir Egerton Brydges. With Imaginative Illustrations by J. M. W. Turner. 6 vols. John Macrone, 1835. Contemporary binding of green morocco, gilt-panelled sides and spines, all edges gilt. Bookplate of James Jamieson, with inscription dated April 1836 in each volume. 10. Another set, in original wine coloured cloth, all edges uncut. The first volume has publisher's 16 page 1835 catalogue at end, which was not retained in rebound set above. The first 5 pages are the Prospectus of this new edition of Milton—dedicated to Wordsworth and Southey-dated London, May 1835. A document of significance. 11. Ellis, George. Specimens of the Early English Poets. . . . 4th ed. 3 vols. Longman, 1811. Corrected edition. Original pale blue boards, spine titling labels, all edges uncut. Brydges's set with his autograph signature: "S. E. Brydges, Jan. 6, 1812," also notes in his hand on 3 pages. In volume 1 he has transcribed a table of names of 28 authors "deceased since 1800."

Lee Priory Publications Note: The following are books printed at the author's private press at Lee Priory, all written or edited by him. 13. The Sylvan Wanderer: Consisting of a Series of Moral, Sentimental and Critical Essays. 2 vols. Lee Priory, 1813-17. Tall 8vo, contemporary half-calf, marbled sides, red sprinkled edges. The 38 essays were apparently issued in 4 parts (or 2 volumes). Frontispiece portrait, the separate title pages printed on india paper, only 100 copies. Part 1 is the first work to be printed at the Press. 14. Greene, Robert. Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit; Bought with A Million of Repentance. Lee Priory, 1813. 4to, bound by Roger de Coverly & Sons in three-quarter calf, green linen sides, red sprinkled edges. Edition limited to 61 copies. Bookplate of Walter Henry James. 16. Raleigh, Sir Walter. Poems. Now First Collected. Lee Priory, 1813. 4to. Similar binding and same bookplate as in above. Limited to 100 copies. 16. Excerpta Tudoriana, or, Extracts from Elizabethan Literature. 2 vols. Lee Priory, 1814-18. Tall 8vo, 2 volumes bound in 1, contemporary half dark green morocco, marbled sides, t.e.g., uncut. Limited to 100 copies. Title pages to both volumes are on india paper. 17. Drayton, Michael. Nymphidia: The Court of Fairy. Lee Priory, 1814. Tall 8vo, original semi-stiff yellow printed wrappers, all edges uncut. Limited to 100 copies. 18. Davison's Poetical Rhapsody. Edited by Sir Egerton Brydges. 3 vols. [issued in 2] Lee Priory, 1814-1817. Tall 8vo, original light brown boards, entirely uncut and top edges unopened throughout. Volumes 2 and 3 were issued together, as the lettering labels read. Limited to 100 copies.

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BRYDGES (Sir Samuel Egerton) 1762-1837

19. Select Poems. With a Preface. Lee Priory, 1814. Limited to 100 copies. 4to, edges cut and red sprinkled, size 9 1/2" x 11 1/2". Bound uniformly with Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit ) and with same bookplate.

27. Speeches Delivered to Queen Elizabeth on Her Visit to Giles Brydges, Lord Chandos at Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire. Lee Priory, 1815. 4to, bound in three-quarter dark red morocco by Ramage, t.e.g., others uncut. Uniform with the uncut copy of Brydges's Select Poems (item 21).

20. Another copy, very likely a proof copy, though there are no printing variants detected. It consists, however, of 28 leaves-one more leaf than normal copies. This is a fly-title, with "Select Poems/By/Sir E. Brydges, K. J." in 2 double line frames with an attractive wreath ornament having stag's head and antlers at top. This leaf follows the Contents. The book is composed of 28 singletons, sewn by virtue of having folded-over stubs, edges either uncut or lightly trimmed, and is smaller than a normal copy (8" x 9 3/4"). Bound in contemporary grey boards, spine with 5 raised bands, and without lettering. 21. Another copy, t.e.g., other edges entirely uncut. Bound in three-quarter dark red morocco, marbled sides and end-papers. Size 9 3/4" x 12"-otherwise identical with first copy described. This and the foregoing copy are printed on same quality wove paper, whereas the first (? unique) copy is on a thicker paper. 22. Occasional Poems. Written in the Year MDCCCXI. Lee Priory, 1814. Issued anonymously, and consists of title-page and 9 leaves of text, numbered [1]-17 (verso blank), and without table of contents. Bound uniformly with Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit and with same bookplate. 23. Breton, Nicholas. Longings of a Blessed Heart: Which, loathing the world, doth long to be with Christ. Lee Priory, 1814. Uniform 4to, edges entirely uncut, bound in contemporary grey boards. Limited to 100 copies. Bound with the author's Melancholike Humours (item 25 below). 24. Another copy, identical with above. Bound uniformly with Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit and with same bookplate. 25. Breton, Nicholas. Melancholike Humours. With a Critical Preface by Sir Egerton Brydges. Lee Priory, 1815. 4to, only 100 copies printed. Bound with the author's Longings (item 23 above). 26. Browne, William. Original Poems. Never before Published. With Preface and Notes by Sir Egerton Brydges. Lee Priory, 1815. 4to, limited to 100 copies, contemporary half red morocco, marbled sides, t.e.g., others uncut.

28. Wither, George. Select Lyrical Poems. Lee Priory, 1815. 8vo, original ochre coloured stiff wrappers lettered in black, edges uncut. Printed on blue tinted paper on rectos only. Limited to 100 copies. Bound in three-quarter dark red morocco, marbled sides and end-papers, by Ramage. Wrappers are in place and edges untouched, and this slender volume has been suitably padded with leaves of blue paper by the binder. 29. Percy, William. Coelia; Containing Twenty Sonnets by W. Percy. First printed in 1594. Lee Priory, 1818. 4to, bound by Bradstreet in three-quarter dark red morocco, marbled sides and end-papers, t.e.g., others lightly trimmed. This slender volume has been liberally padded with blanks by the binder. It consists of 16 leaves. Limitation not stated but appears to be 100 copies. BUCHANAN (Robert Williams) 1841-1901 1. Undertones. Moxon, 1863. Smooth dark green cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, primrose yellow end-papers, R2 blank at end, 8 page adverts dated December 1863 sewn in front. 2. Idyls and Legends of Inverburn. Strahan, 1865. Smooth dark green cloth, gilt, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed, dark brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. O8 blank at end. 16 page publisher's list at end dated May 1865. 3. London Poems. Strahan, 1866. Dark green cloth, black and gilt designed, light brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. "Second Thousand" below date on title-page. The leaf of adverts following p. 272 is presumably a singleton. Frederick Wedmore's copy with his signature "Frederick Wedmore, August 1867" on half title. 4. Ballad Stories of the Affections. From the Scandinavian. With Illustrations by G. J. Pinwell [and 6 others]. Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. Routledge [1866]. 4to printed on toned paper, bevelled dark red cloth, gilt, all edges gilt, cream end-papers with binder's ticket of W. Bone & Sons. Two leaves of adverts at end.

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BUCHANAN (Robert Williams) 1841-1901

5. Wayside Posies: Original Poems of the Country Life. Edited by Robert Buchanan. Pictures by G. J. Pinwell [and 2 others]. Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. Routledge, 1867. 4to, bevelled mauve cloth, gilt, titled ornamental cream panels on both covers, all edges gilt. Printed on heavily toned paper on cream panels with white surrounds on rectos only throughout; 2 leaves text-paper carry adverts at end.

13. Balder the Beautiful: A Song of Divine Death. William Mullan & Son, 1877. Bright blue cloth, only lower edges cut, dark brown end-papers. The last 4 leaves of gathering 20 at end carry adverts devoted entirely to "Mr. Buchanan's Poems."

6. North Coast and Other Poems. With Illustrations Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. Routledge, 1868. 4to, green bevelled heavily embossed cloth, red and gilt design and lettering, all edges gilt, cream end-papers. First binding state, in which cover design of upper side is repeated identically on lower. 7. Another copy, in second state of binding. Cloth a lighter green and lower cover blocking in blind only and with certain features of the design omitted altogether. 8. The Book of Orm: A Prelude to the Epic. Strahan, 1870. Bright blue cloth, gilt and black designed, only lower edges lightly trimmed, brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. S4 at end carries adverts only, followed by publisher's 12 page catalogue dated May 1870. 9. Napoleon Fallen: A Lyrical Drama. Strahan, 1871. Black cloth, gilt designed, red lettered, only lower edges cut, dark blue end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. K8 and LI to 4 are 10 numbered pages of adverts at end. 10. The Land of Lome, Including the Cruise of the "Tern" to the Outer Hebrides. 2 vols. Chapman & Hall, 1871. Green cloth black and gilt designed, only lower edges trimmed, light slate coloured end-papers with binder's ticket of Leighton & Hodge. Photograph frontispiece to each volume. T4 at end of volume 2 carries adverts only. 11. The Fleshly School of Poetry and Other Phenomena of the Day. Strahan, 1872. Binder's blue cloth, trimmed edges; the original printed wrappers have not been preserved by binder. 12. Saint Abe and His Seven Wives: A Tale of Salt Lake City. Strahan, 1872. Bright blue cloth, gilt and black lettered, only lower edges trimmed, dark brown end-papers. M6 and M7 at end carry adverts only; possibly printed with the first gathering [A] which consists of 5 leaves. The book was issued anonymously.

14. Ballads of Life, Love and Humour. With a frontispiece by Arthur Hughes. Chatto & Windus, 1882. Bright blue cloth, gilt and black designed, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed, slatey brown end-papers. The leaf before half-title carries adverts only, and the 2 leaves of adverts at end printed on text-paper following p.[256] were probably printed with [A] and transferred by binder. There is a 32 page publisher's catalogue at end dated November 1881, of which final pagination is 2, the 3 having dropped out. 15. The City of Dream: An Epic Poem. Chatto & Windus, 1888. Dark blue smooth buckram, gilt, all edges uncut. The title-page and frontispiece are separately printed on a quarter-sheet of plate paper. [Al] before half-title carries adverts on verso, with recto blank. 16. On Descending Into Hell: A Letter . . . Concerning the Proposed Suppression of Literature. George Redway, 1889. 40 pages, metal fastened into light blue printed wrappers, edges cut. 17. The Outcast: A Rhyme for the Time. With illustrations. Chatto & Windus, 1891. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, uncut, spine titling label, dark brown end-papers. 18. The Outcast: A Rhyme for the Time. Robert Buchanan [1896]. Tall 8vo, black cloth, red lettered, silver panel ornament on upper side. This edition appears to consist of unsold copies of First Edition for which the author printed 8 fresh pages of preliminaries, which include a new 2 page Preface dated July 1896. Published from Buchanan's 36 Gerrard St., London address. 19. Come Live with Me and Be My Love. Heinemann, 1892. Pink cloth, lettered and designed gilt and blue, all edges uncut, 16 page publisher's catalogue at end dated June 1892. A volume in the Crown Copyright Series [1891], In the author's Prefatory Note the last syllable of "following"-in the penultimate line-is missing.

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BUCHANAN (Robert Williams) 1841-1901

20. The Piper Of Hamelin: A Fantastic Opera in Two Acts. With Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Heinemann, 1893. Small 4to, pale green smooth boards, half cream linen, gilt spine, all edges uncut. No. 42 of 55 copies printed on Whatman paper. In this issue the illustrations, including frontispiece and engraved title, are printed on india paper and mounted. The printed title-page is in blue ink. Bookplate of Charles Plumptre Johnson.

26. Complete Poetical Works. 2 vols. Chatto, 1901. Smooth red buckram, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portraits in each volume, 32 page catalogue at end of volume 1 dated September 1901. Printed in double columns, total pagination 984.

21. The Piper of Hamelin: A Fantastic Opera in Two Acts. Heinemann, 1893. Another issue, but same collation and pagination as above. Pale green paper wrappers, all edges uncut, with the special title design reproduced in red and black on upper side, lower wrapper with Chiswick Press imprint in red. The title page is reset in a different type in black ink and imprint is "London:/Printed at the Chiswick Press,/1893." A presentation copy from the artist, in a brown board binding of his own devising, half pink linen, titled in 11 lines in red and black ink on upper side. On the white end-paper Hugh Thomson has drawn a full-page piper in motion, and inscribed it: "To W. Heighway with H. Thomson's kind regards. Deer. 1904." With William Heighway's bookplate. 22. The Wandering Jew: A Christmas Carol. Chatto, 1893. Bright blue cloth, gilt and black designed, only lower edges trimmed, dark green end-papers, publisher's 32 page catalogue at end dated October 1892. Bernard Shaw's copy with author's very pleasantly phrased letter presenting the book inserted, on his Maresfield Gardens notepaper dated 3 January 1893. Postscript reads: "This is an advance copy-the book doesn't appear till next Monday." 23. The Devil's Case: A Bank Holiday Interlude. Robert Buchanan, and all Booksellers [1896]. Smooth black cloth, red lettered, silver designed, end-papers to match, all edges uncut, frontispiece plate. M8 at end, pp.[175-176], is blank save for printer's ornament on verso. 24. The Ballad of Mary the Mother: A Christmas Carol. Robert Buchanan, 1897. Smooth black cloth, produced uniformly with The Devil's Case. Pp.[155-156] at end are blank. Published from Buchanan's 36 Gerrard St., London address. 25. Father Anthony: A Romance of To-Day. John Long, 1898. Dark green cloth, gilt, only lower edges trimmed, publisher's 8 page catalogue at end dated October 1898.

27. The Ballad of Judas Iscariot. Reigate: The Priory Press, 1904. 24 pages, metal fastened into grey wrappers, upper side designed green, all edges uncut. Secondary Material 28. Stodart-Walker, Archibald. Robert Buchanan: The Poet of Modern Revolt. An Introduction to his Poetry. Grant Richards, 1901. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine, top edges cut, others uncut, pp.[335]-[340] at end carry adverts. 29. Murray, Henry. Robert Buchanan: A Critical Appreciation and Other Essays. Philip Welby, 1901. Black cloth, sides ruled in blue, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut. 30. Jay, Harriett. Robert Buchanan. T. Fisher Urwin, 1903. Light blue designed cloth, top edges cut, others uncut. Frontispiece and 8 illustrations. Association Item 31. Buchanan, Robert [Sr.]. The Past, The Present and the Future: A Poem. Manchester: Printed by A. Heywood [1841]. 72 pages, sewn into semi-stiff green wrappers, upper side lettered in black, yellow end-papers, trimmed edges. Errata slip at end. The work of Robert Buchanan senior, issued undated in the year of his son Robert's birth. ATofe: See the Hon. Roden Noel collection for Poems, selected with Introduction by Robert Buchanan [1892]. BULLEN (Arthur Henry) 1857-1920 1. Hakewill's "Apologie." [Privately printed. ? Shakespeare Head Press 1915]. Crown 8vo, single gathering of 8 leaves, paginated to 16, sewn with thread. No title-page, the title, "Hakewill's Apologie" appearing first as a dropped head, then as a running headline on pp. 2-16. Signed (in type) "A. H. Bullen, March 1915" at end. Probably Shakespeare Head Press printing, as there is no printer's imprint. Autograph presentation copy, inscribed: "Ralph Edwards from A. H. Bullen, 19.iii,'15."

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BULLEN (Arthur Henry) 1857-1920

Very rare; no other copy has been traced. The anonymous Preface to the author's posthumous collection, Elizabethans (Chapman & Hall, 1924), which includes an essay on Hakewill, acknowledges indebtedness to the editor of the Nation, in which his text had appeared in 1915. That text is only half the length of the present pamphlet, though they clearly had a common origin. It is strange that Bullen was writing (revising?) this work early in 1915, printing it himself and inscribing at least one copy to a valued friend, whilst at the same time permitting a short unsatisfactory version to be printed in America. 2. The Willow. . . . Written by A. H. Bullen. Stratford-upon-Avon: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, December 1916. Small 8vo, 16 pages (not paginated), printed on handmade paper watermarked "Aldwych," sewn into stiff cream boards, with the title lettered on upper side in gilt (bronzed). First and last leaves are laid-down as end-papers. Limited to 25 copies. Autograph presentation copy, inscribed on the certification page: "Ray Edwards from A. H. Bullen, Christmas, 1916." 3. Another copy. Inscribed: "Dr. W. H. D. Rouse, with New Year Greetings from A. H. Bullen, 31.xii.16." 4. Weeping Cross. . . . Written by A. H. Bullen. Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-upon-Avon, December 1917. 12mo, cream parchment wrappers lettered bronze-gilt on upper side, all edges uncut. Edition limited to 30 copies. Inscribed: "A Happy New Year to Dr. W. H. D. Rouse from A. H. Bullen, 29. xii.'17." 5. Another copy, inscribed: "To Ray Edwards, with all good New Year wishes from A. H. Bullen, 28/xii/1919." Note: The incidence of the 5 private booklets described above happens well to span my whole book-searching career. Dr. Rouse's 2 copies I first saw, one bright cold spring Saturday morning, tumbling from a sack onto old David's stall in Cambridge market-place—a scene as familiar, from essays of bibliographical reminiscences, as any in England. Ray Edwards's copies I acquired on an equally fortuitous day in October 1984, in Vivian Meynell's book-emporium, situated within the ancient Roman walls of the fair cathedral city of Chichester. Vivian, as older readers may know, is a grandson of Alice Meynell (1847-1922)-his father having been Everard, author of the first memoir of Francis Thompson and proprietor of the London

Serendipity bookshop. In the intervening decades I have not seen or heard of other copies, though Bulleniana has always been high on my list of desiderata. When I bought the first copies, before I reached adulthood (circa 1922 or 1923) I already possessed a copy of the collected Weeping Cross (1921), and was well aware of the treasure I was carrying away-but not that it was at about one fortieth the subsequent price; and now I am equally gratified in being able to place all 5 on a shelf from which they may never stray. 6.

Weeping-Cross and Other Rimes.

Sidgwick & Jackson, 1921. First published edition, marbled boards, half cream linen, black lettered, top edges cut, others uncut, frontispiece portrait. This book has 40 poems, and a Memoir of the Author, 7 pages initialled "M. T. D." The private booklets from which it derives have 6 and 18 poems respectively; but of those 24, as many as 7 are not reprinted here, the 40 poems consisting of 17 previously published poems and 23 new. Books Edited 7.

Day, John. The Works of John Day.

Now first collected, with an Introduction and Notes by A. H. Bullen. Privately printed at the Chiswick Press, 1881. Issued in 6 parts, here bound together contemporarily in half-calf, gilt spine with titling label, maroon linen sides, top edges stained to match, others uncut. The famous editor's first work. Original prospectus inserted with a 5 line addition in Bullen's hand. Also an ALS dated 29 May 1881 from Clarence House, Margate (where Bullen held his first tutorial appointment) to an original subscriber, confirming the issue of 150 copies only (none on large paper) and the price of 6 parts as 18/- (raised to 24/- before completion). At end is a prospectus of Old English Plays, 4 volumes, price 4 guineas, also showing that the price of remaining copies of Day's Works had been raised to 2 guineas. 8. Drayton, Michael. Selections from the Poems. Edited by A. H. Bullen. Privately printed by Unwin Brothers, Chilworth, 1883. Small 4to, half dark red calf, gilt spine with titling label, t.e.g., others uncut. Armorial bookplate of John Dennis, editor of the Aldine Dryden &c. Only 155 copies printed.

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BULLEN (Arthur Henry) 1857-1920

9. A Christmas Garland: Carols and Poems from the Fifteenth Century to the Present Time. Edited by A. H. Bullen. J. C. Nimmo, 1885. Bevelled cream parchment, designed red and green, t.e.g., others uncut, marbled end-papers, publisher's 20 page catalogue at end dated September 1884. Frontispiece plate and 6 illustrations. In the Preface Mrs. Hawker is thanked for permission to include 2 Carols. The poems of Christina Rossetti, William Morris and Swinburne are from their published works, but the lullaby on pp. 143-144 by John Addington Symonds was from MS, hitherto unpublished.

16. Speculum Amantis: Love Poems from Rare Song-Books and Miscellanies of the Seventeenth Century. Edited by A. H. Bullen. Privately printed, 1889. No. 272 of 500 copies, produced uniformly with Musa Proterva.

10. Carols and Poems. J. C. Nimmo, 1886. For this unspecified reissue (at a lower price) the general title A Christmas Garland was dropped. Title-page is reset, but the body of the book, with text in orange border, appears untouched. The List of Illustrations, and the plates, no longer appear. Light blue designed cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, plum red end-papers. A new Prospectus for this edition is inserted. The 30 page catalogue at end is dated February 1885.

18. Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, from Romances of Elizabethan Age. With Chosen Poems of Nicholas Breton. Edited by A. H. Bullen. J. C. Nimmo, 1890. No. 411 of 780 copies, issued uniformly with above (save colour is dark blue). Same Allbutt bookplate.

11. Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age. Edited by A. H. Bullen. J. C. Nimmo, 1887. No. 475 of 500 copies, bevelled fawn buckram, t.e.g., others uncut. 12. More Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age. Edited by A. H. Bullen. J. C. Nimmo, 1888. No. 717 of 750 copies, issued uniformly with above. With the Carr Manor bookplate of Dr. Thomas Clifford Allbutt. 13. Lyrics from the Dramatists of the Elizabethan Age. Edited by A. H. Bullen. J. C. Nimmo, 1889. No. 50 of 520 copies, issued uniformly with above (save colour is red). Same Allbutt bookplate. 14. Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age. Edited by A. H. Bullen. J. C. Nimmo, 1889. New and revised edition. Black bevelled cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut. The interesting 16 page Prospectus for this edition is inserted. 15. Musa Proterva: Love-Poems of the Restoration. Edited by A. H. Bullen. Privately printed at the Chiswick Press, 1889. Blue cloth, half dark blue leather spine, t.e.g., others uncut. No. 675 of 780 copies. Bookplate of Charles Plumptre Johnson.

17. Campion, Thomas. Works. Edited by A. H. Bullen. Privately printed at the Chiswick Press, 1889. No. 240 of 400 copies, bound (for Hatchards) in light green morocco, spine with 5 raised bands, artistically tooled gilt dentelles, mottled end-papers, t.e.g., others uncut.

19. Cobbes Prophecies. . . . R. Wilson, 1614. Reproduced in facsimile by Charles Praetorius. With a Preface by A. H. Bullen. Printed for private circulation, 1890. No. 1 in the series, Ancient Drolleries, 48 pages, sewn into light blue wrappers, upper side black lettered, edges uncut. Limited to 300 copies. 20. Davison, Francis. Davison's Poetical Rhapsody. Edited by A. H. Bullen. 2 vols. Bell, 1890. Darkest blue smooth bevelled buckram, t.e.g., others uncut. No. 326 of 520 copies. Uniform format with Lyrics and More Lyrics, and with the same Allbutt bookplates in each volume. 21. Lyrics from the Dramatists of the Elizabethan Age. Edited by A. H. Bullen. Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. Dark blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. This is the first of Bullen's anthologies to be published by the new firm in which he was a partner. There is a new Note, dated 22 September 1891, stating that it contains most of the poems from the earlier editions of Elizabethan Dramatists (1889) and Elizabethan Romances (1890). 22. Pimlyco, or, Runne Red-Cap. Tis a Mad World at Hogsdon. 1609. Reproduced in Facsimile by the Oxford University Press. With a Preface by A. H. Bullen. Oxford: Printed for private circulation, 1891. Uniform format with Cobbes Prophecies (1890), and limited to the same number of copies. No. 2 in Ancient Drolleries.

Ill BULLEN (Arthur Henry) 1857-1920 23. Lyrics from the Dramatists of the Elizabethan Age. Lawrence & Bullen, 1893. Reissue of the 1891 volume. Dark red cloth, elaborately gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. 24. Stanley, Thomas, tr. Anacreon. Edited by A. H. Bullen. Illustrated by J. R. Weguelin. Lawrence & Bullen, 1893. No. 54 of 110 copies printed on Japanese vellum. 4to, cream bevelled buckram, gilt, all edges uncut. 25. Another copy, No. 910 of 1,000 copies, same 4to size. Blue cloth, gilt, uncut. 26. Browne, William, of Tavistock. Poems. Edited by Gordon Goodwin. Introduction by A. H. Bullen. 2 vols. Lawrence & Bullen, 1894. Muses Library edition, half cream parchment, pale green linen sides, t.e.g., others uncut. No. 85 of 200 copies on large paper. 27. Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age. Lawrence & Bullen, 1897. A reissue uniform with item 23 above. 28. Englands Helicon. Lawrence & Bullen, 1899. The final volume of the uniform reissues. 29. Speculum Amantis. Privately printed, 1902. Half cream parchment, pale green linen sides, t.e.g., others uncut. This and the following item are editions in a new uniform format, printed by R. Clay & Sons, of Bullen's 2 anthologies originally published in 1889. No. 3 of 400 copies. 30. Musa Proterva. Privately printed, 1902. See item above. No. 45 of 400 copies. 31. Campion, Thomas. Songs and Masques, with Observations in the Art of English Poesy. Edited by A. H. Bullen. A. H. Bullen, 1903. Dark green cloth, t.e.g., others uncut. A slightly reduced version of the editio princeps issued in 1889, excluding the Latin poems. 32. Shorter Elizabethan Poems. With an Introduction by A. H. Bullen. Constable, 1903. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, all edges cut. A volume in the reissued series, Arber's English Garner. 33. Some Longer Elizabethan Poems. With an Introduction by A. H. Bullen. Constable, 1903. Issued uniformly with above. The Introductions to these volumes are wholly new and specially written for this issue.

BULLEN (Arthur Henry) 1857-1920 34. Shakespeare, William. The Works of William Shakespeare. 10 vols. Stratford Town Edition. Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1904-1907. 4to (or Imperial 8vo; the collation is in 4's). Smooth red buckram, gilt, all edges uncut. The first work issued from Bullen's new press-the work for the production of which, indeed, the press was founded. No. 387 of 1,000 sets printed on handmade paper. The bulk of the original material is contained in the Essays and Notes section in the final volume, pages 261-451. This includes Henry Davey's "Memoir," Robert Bridges's "On the Influence of the Audience," H. C. Beeching's "The Religion of Shakespeare," and A. H. Bullen's "Notes on the Text," which alone fills 52 pages. 35. Shakespeare, William. Venus and Adonis. Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1905. Half cream linen, blue cloth sides, all edges uncut. No. 38 of 510 copies printed on handmade paper. There is a 7 page note by A. H. Bullen at end, dated October 1905. 36. Shakespeare Head Press Booklets. Nos. 1-6. Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1906. Bound together in stiff parchment boards with ornamental leather thongs, all edges uncut. The editorial work on these various poems and carols was done by Bullen, but there is little of his actual writing in the way of notes. No. 3 (Shakespeare's Songs) has a one page note, but the Note to No. 4 (The Nutbrown Maid) is initialled "F. S." (probably Frank Sedgwick), 37. Shakespeare, William. Shakespeare's Songs. Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1907. Soft brown leather, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. No. 392 of 500 copies printed on handmade paper. There is a one page Note by Bullen. 38. Drummond, William. A Cypress Grove. Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1907. Drab brown boards, cream parchment spine, t.e.g., others uncut. Uniform size with the above 2 entries, and printed on handmade paper, but there is no limitation certificate. Frontispiece portrait; 2 page Prefatory Note by Bullen, dated 16 January 1907. 39. Shakespeare, William. Sonnets. Stratford-Upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1912. Bound in orange stained morocco, spine with 4 raised bands, mottled end-papers, all edges uncut. An attractive miniature edition, but there is no editorial material by A. H. Bullen.

112 BULLEN (Arthur Henry) 1857-1920 Association Items 40. MacKenna, Stephen. Plotinus on the Beautiful: Being the Sixth Treatise of the First Ennead Literally Translated. Shakespeare Head Press, 1908. No. 93 of 300 copies printed. Drab brown boards, half cream parchment, gilt-lettered in 2 lines on upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. There is a one page Note by the translator, dated Dublin 1908, also in ink on end-paper a signed inscription by him in Gaelic in 6 lines. 41.

Another copy. No. 273 of 300 copies.

42. MacKenna, Stephen. Plotinus on the Beautiful. Shakespeare Head Press, 1914. The third impression. No. 206 of 510 copies. This edition is entirely reset, but there do not appear to be any revisions. Inscribed: "F. W. Atterbury from A. H. Bullen, 8/X/1915." BURDETT (Osbert) 1885-1936 1. The Last Ten Years of English Literature. Printed by Spottiswoode & Co., 1907. Small 4to, 20 pages, sewn into dark slate grey wrappers, upper side lettered in black, uncut edges. Limitation certificate inside cover: No. 6 of 34 copies. First (and only) Edition of the author's first book. He was employed as reader to Spottiswoode, and composed the type of this book and printed it himself. Inserted is the second half of this work as originally printed in The New Age (4 July 1908, pp. 191-192) and sent to Chistopher Millard on that day by Durrani's Press Cuttings agency. The first half, which formed this private booklet, had been printed in the 13 June issue of The New Age. Presentation inscription on title-page: "Osbert Burdett to C. M." This is a gift copy to Christopher Millard ("Stuart Mason"). 2. The Idealist. [No publisher, c. 1908]. Printed on one side of a single sheet of watermarked laid paper, 5 1/4" x 8 1/4", perhaps set and pulled by the author himself, who was at the time employed by Spottiswoode, the printers. 36 lines of type; possibly unique and unpublished. 3. The Silent Heavens: A Divine Comedy. With a Postscript on Mystery Plays for Modern Readers. A. D. Fifield, 1914. Brown wrappers lettered in black, top edges cut, others uncut. Inscribed: "To C. S. M. from Osbert Burdett. Bushey, Herts, Autumn 1914."

BURDETT (Osbert) 1885-1936 4. Songs of Exuberance, Together with The Trenches. Op. 1. A. C. Fifield, 1915. "I have copied Samuel Butler in following the mode with which musicans indicate by the term "op" followed by a numeral, the order of the composition of their works." However, the title page of the earlier book, The Silent Heavens, has "Op. 2," while the first, The Last Ten Years, has no designation at all. Perhaps the logic of this reasoning is a little illuminated by the Preface to the Songs being dated Bushey, 1913-1915. 5. The Idea of Coventry Patmore. Oxford University Press, 1921. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine, frontispiece plate. Inscribed: "To Francis Crease from his friend Osbert Burdett, February 4, 1921. Lewes, Sussex." 6. The Beardsley Period: An Essay In Perspective. John Lane, 1925. Black cloth, upper cover with Beardsley design in blind, gilt spine, top edges stained yellow, others cut. 7. Critical Essays. Faber & Gwyer, 1925. Smooth black cloth, gilt ruled and lettered, top edges cut, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (7/6 net). 8. William Blake. Macmillan, 1926. Dark red cloth, gilt spine, top edges stained to match, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket, 5/net. A volume of J. C. Squire's new series of English Men of Letters. O4 at end carries series adverts only in which this volume is the first of 5 "Now Ready," with 11 "In Preparation"-certain of which were abandoned whilst others were finally produced by different writers. 9. W. E. Gladstone. Constable, 1927. Black cloth, gilt spine, only lower edges uncut. 10. The Brownings. Constable, 1928. Issued uniformly with the life of Gladstone. 11. The Very End and Other Stories. Scholartis Press, 1929. Bluish green boards, black cloth spine, top edges stained, others uncut. Limited to 1,960 copies. The last 3 leaves of final gathering contain only a colophon followed by 2 blanks. This book, and the Edition-de-luxe catalogued below are disfigured by a register in grotesquely large numerals. 12. The Very End and Other Stories. Scholartis Press, 1929. Smooth red buckram, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Edition-de-luxe limited to 100 copies signed by the author. This copy has an additional inscription on half-title: "For Olive with her brother's love, Osbert Burdett."

113 BURDETT (Osbert) 1886-1936 13. The Two Carlyles. Faber & Faber, 1930. Produced uniformly with the Constable editions of W. E. Gladstone and The Brownings. All edges cut. 14. The Brownings. Constable, 1933. New edition, revised. Black cloth, gilt spine, top edges stained blue, others uncut. Publisher's 24 page undated catalogue at end. Z6 at end is blank, as also Al before half-title. This is a reset crown 8vo by a different printer (Lowe & Brydone) from the 8vo First Edition, and with a new Note regarding the additions. 15. The Art of Living. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1933. Smooth black cloth, gilt spine, all edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (7/6 net).

BURDETT (Osbert)

1885-1936

Association Item 20. Partridge, Eric. The Old and The New: Christmas and New Year Greetings (1929-1930) on behalf of Eric Partridge, Ltd. (The Scholartis Press), from Eric Partridge. [Scholartis Press, 1929]. 28 pages with printed wrappers folded over blanks at beginning and end. Printed at the Crypt House Press (1929) but not published. Copy No. 7 of only 150 printed, inscribed: "Osbert Burdett with kind regards from Eric Partridge, Xmas 1929." BURGON (John William) 1813-1888

16. The Rev. Smith, Sydney. Chapman & Hall, 1934. Smooth black cloth, gilt spine, all edges cut, 10 illustrations.

1. Petra, A Poem. 2nd ed. To which a few short poems are now added. Oxford: F. Macpherson, 1846. 64 pages (including final adverts leaf), dark brown cloth, gilt, edges uncut.

17. Memory and Imagination. Chapman & Hall, 1935. Issued uniformly with the previous item, with 2 illustrations. Al before half-title and O8 at end are blanks. These 2 works are disfigured by registers in surprisingly large letters, a liability to which this author seems prone-for no known reason.

2. Another copy. This is one of only 20 on special large paper (7" x 10 3/4"), cream glazed boards, uncut, without lettering. Inscribed on half-title: "The Reverend Richard Greswell, from his much obliged & most affectionate friend and servant, The Writer, J. W. B. Oxford, Mar. 1846."

Autograph Letters &c.

3. Letters from Rome to Friends in England. Murray, 1862. Brown ecclesiastical calf with red titling label, red edges, marbled end-papers. Bookplate of C. E. G. Esdaile.

18. Four ALS addressed to Christopher Millard ("Stuart Mason"), who was an intimate friend. Long letters filling 14 pages-the first dated 13 December 1908 from Hotel-Buol, Duvos-Platz; later ones on his notepaper headed Vernon Road, Bushey and The Lodge, Porchester Square. Letters of considerable interest and importance, mentioning Wilde, Ross and others, with particular reference to Millard's work on the Collected Edition of Wilde. One states: "It is good of you to have introduced me to the Russian with the name like an Egyptian cigarette." Also a typescript, with corrections, of Burdett's sonnet "Saint Sebastian." 19. ALS, one page, dated from Clarendon Road, Harrow-on-the Hill, to A. J. A. Symons, Esq., about a proposal involving Rothenstein-John R., the son, not the father. Asks, "Is all well with you and the great Bibliography?" [In reference to a work eventually abandoned.]

4. Scott, G. Gilbert. Personal and Professional Recollections by the Late Sir George Gilbert Scott. Edited by his son. With an Introduction by John William Burgon. Sampson Low, 1879. Tall 8vo, dark green cloth, gilt spine, edges uncut, 32 page publisher's catalogue at end dated April 1879. This handsomely produced book is, however, not sewn but metal fastened. 5. Poems (1840 to 1878). Macmillan, 1885. Red cloth, gilt-lettered, uncut, the first (and only) collected edition: it was never reprinted. Inscribed: "To Janie Campion with my love-from her friend the writer. Deanery, May Day 1885." Burgon was dean of Chichester.

114 BURKE (Thomas) 1886-1945 1. The Small People. . . . Chosen, Edited and Arranged by Thomas Burke. Chapman & Hall, 1910. Orange-brown cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, brown silk marker. 2. The Contented Mind: An Anthology of Optimism. Edited by Thomas Burke. Truslove & Hanson [1914]. Blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, pale green designed end-papers. 3. Another copy, an issue of First Edition Sheets-probably later, though present copy has inscription on half-title dated Christmas 1914. Red cloth with similar cover design and lettering, all edges gilt, coloured pictorial end-papers. The sheets have been cut down quite half an inch. 4. Nights in Town: A London Autobiography. Allen & Unwin, 1915. Purple cloth, pictorially designed, gilt-lettering on spine, white enamel on upper side, all edges cut, 12 leaves of publisher's adverts at end. 5. Another copy. Inscribed: "E. J. Tytherleigh, with the Author's Compliments." 6. Limehouse Nights: Tales of Chinatown. Grant Richards, 1916. Light brown cloth, lettered spine and upper side in darker brown, only lower edges uncut. Armorial bookplate of Sir Herbert Leon, Bart. Al is blank before half-title. 7. Twinkletoes: A Tale of Chinatown. Grant Richards, 1917. Produced uniformly with Limehouse Nights. O4 is blank at end. Signature on end-paper of Rathmell Wilson, Liverpool, November 1917. 8. London Lamps: A Book of Songs. Grant Richards, 1917. Orange cloth, black lettered up spine and in 2 lines on upper side. Inscription of Rathmell Wilson on end-paper. 9. Out and About: A Note-Book of London in War Time. Allen & Unwin, 1919. Mauve boards, half darker blue cloth, white enamel lettering, edges cut. Inscription of Rathmell Wilson on end-paper. 10. Broken Blossoms: A Selection of Stories from "Limehouse Nights." Grant Richards, 1920. Red boards, black lettered and designed, all edges cut, in coloured pictorial dust-jacket (21- net).

BURKE (Thomas)

1886-1945

11. The Song Book of Quong Lee of Limehouse. Allen & Unwin, 1920. Orange patterned wrappers over stiff boards, pictorial label by Lovat Fraser on upper side, titling label up spine, edges cut. Circular imprint of Curwen Press on free portion of rear end-paper and adverts of books "By the Same Author" on free portion of upper end-paper combined with the fact that end-papers are of text-paper quality, render them part of the collation, which therefore is 4, 40, 4, that is, 24 leaves. 12. The Outer Circle: Rambles in Remote London. Allen & Unwin, 1921. Blue cloth, lettered in red, edges cut. Final leaf carries adverts only. Inscribed: "Rathmell Wilson, May 17, 1921." 13. In Chinatown: More Stories from "Limehouse Nights." Grant Richards, 1921: Pale blue boards, black lettered and designed, in coloured pictorial dust-wrapper (21- net) edges cut. Broken Blossoms (1920)and In Chinatown together constitute the whole of the original 1916 volume (item 6 above). 14. Life and Art. Edited by Thomas Burke. Cape, 1921. Decorated boards, half orange cloth with titling label. 15. Whispering Windows: Tales of the Waterside. Grant Richards, 1921. Produced uniformly with Limehouse Nights. Inscription of Rathmell Wilson on end-paper dated May 25, 1921. 16. The Wind and the Rain: A Book of Confessions. Thornton Butterworth, 1924. Pale slatey blue cloth, spine lettered in green, top edges stained green. 17. The Sun in Splendour. Constable, 1927. Light blue cloth, lettered in orange, edges cut. 18. The Book of the Inn. . . . Selected and Edited by Thomas Burke. Harrap, 1928. Green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others cut. 19. Essays of Today and Yesterday: Thomas Burke. Harrap, 1928. Black wrappers with large titling label on upper side, edges uncut. 11 selected essays with Introductory Note by F. H. P. 20. East of the Mansion House. Cassell, 1928. Green cloth, edges cut. Inscribed "Rathmell Wilson, Feb. 19, 1928."

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21. The Flower of Life. Constable, 1929. Tall 8vo, patterned orange cloth, top edges stained to match, others uncut. Inscribed: "Rathmell Wilson, London, Dec. 8, 1929."

26. The Streets of London, through the Centuries. B. T. Batsford, 1940. Pink cloth, top edges stained to match, others cut, profuse illustrations.

22. The Pleasantries of Old Quong. Constable, 1931. Orange cloth, only lower edges uncut, spine lettered in blue. Inscribed: "Rathmell Wilson, Salisbury Dec 9th, 1932."

27. English Night Life. B. T. Batsford, 1941. Light blue cloth, edges cut, in pictorial dust-jacket (10/6 net).

23. City of Encounters: A London Divertissement. Constable, 1932. Light blue cloth, gilt spine, top edges stained red, only lower edges uncut. Inscribed: "Rathmell Wilson, London, May 22nd, 1932." 24. The Real East End. 16 Lithographs by Pearl Binder. Constable, 1932. Blue cloth, gilt spine, top edges stained, others uncut. Inscribed: "Rathmell Wilson, Nov. 22, 1932." 25. The Beauty of England. Harrap, 1933. Pink cloth, top edges cut, others trimmed. Inscribed: "Rathmell Wilson, Bath, July 6th, 1933."

28. Travel in England. B. T. Batsford, 1942. Ochre cloth, spine black lettered, in pictorial dust-jacket (10/6 net). 29. Son of London. Herbert Jenkins [1946]. Plum red cloth, in pictorial dust-jacket (12/6 net), all edges cut.

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1. Verses and Translations. By C. S. C. Deighton Bell, 1862. Reddish brown cloth, end-papers to match, edges uncut.

9. Verses and Fly Leaves. New Edition. George Bell, 1887. Issued in same format as above; combined edition of the author's first and third publications.

2. Theocritus. Translated Into English Verse. By C. S. Calverley. Deighton Bell, 1869. Green cloth, spine gilt, upper side black designed with central oval urn in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, slate coloured end-papers, N4 at end carries adverts of 2 other "Works by the same author." 3. Another copy of First Edition sheets, presumably later issue. Binding similar to above item, but without the gilt ornament on upper side, and all edges uncut (not t.e.g.), similar end-papers of darker shade, George Bell's 20 leaf catalogue at end dated September 1875 and paginated [65]-104. 4. Fly Leaves. By C. S. C. Deighton Bell, 1872. Green cloth, uncut edges, gilt spine, slate coloured end-papers. Armorial bookplate of Thomas John Puckle, and his signature dated 23 August 1872. 5. Fly Leaves. 2nd ed. Deighton Bell, 1872. Uniform with First Edition, but with the edition number on recto title-page. This edition has a half-title, though the roman pagination does not take it into account; also at end is included the "Examination Paper" on Pickwick Papers, which extends the pagination to 124, followed by one leaf of adverts. This is the first printing of the "Examination Paper." 6. Fly Leaves. 3rd ed. Deighton Bell, 1873. The edition number appears on recto title-page. As this edition is also styled Third Thousand (on verso half-title) it might be assumed that the first 3 editions consisted of 1,000 copies each. Though reset in a different type by another printing-house (Chiswick Press) it closely follows the second, and has same collation and pagination, save that the leaf of adverts, which was at end, now appears to have been printed on Al. 7. Theocritus. 2nd ed., revised. George Bell, 1883. Olive green cloth, gilt, top edges uncut, others trimmed, cream end-papers. 8. The Literary Remains of Charles Stuart Calverley. With a Memoir by Walter J. Sendall. With Portrait & Illustrations. George Bell, 1885. Issued in same format as the above item.

10. Complete Works. With Biographical Notice by Sir Walter J. Sendall. George Bell, 1901. Blue cloth, t.e.g., only lower edges uncut. 11. Ince, Richard B. Calverley and Some Cambridge Wits of the Nineteenth Century. Grant Richards & Humphrey Toulmin, 1929. Tall 8vo, light blue cloth, only lower edges uncut. CAMPBELL (Joseph) 1879-1944 1. The Garden of the Bees and Other Poems. By Seosamh MacCathmhaoil. Belfast: W. Erskine Mayne; Dublin: M. H. Gill [1905]. Brown wrappers folded over first and last blanks, all edges uncut. 2. The Rush-Light. Dublin: Maunsel, 1906. Small 4to, grey Holland, designed and lettered brown on upper side, all edges uncut. 3. The Man-Child. Being No. 1 of the Loch Press Booklets, March 1907. Fawn coloured wrappers lettered brown, all edges uncut. Inscribed, probably in the author's hand: "A Poet [sic] for a Poetess from a Poet. 27.iv.07." 4. Calendar of the Saints: Patric. Dublin: Maunsel, 1907. Oblong 8vo, cream boards, lettered in brown, Holland spine, edges cut. Signature of the Irish artist A. M. Wentworth-Sheilds on end-paper. 5. The Gilly of Christ. Dublin: Maunsel, 1907. Cream linen, lettered and designed in green, 3 plates printed in pink by Ada M. Wentworth-Sheilds. With autograph presentation inscription from the artist dated Christmas, 1907. 6. The Mountainy Singer. Dublin: Maunsel, 1909. Square 8vo, imitation parchment boards, lettered in brown with floral design on upper side in red and green, edges trimmed. 7. Mearing Stones: Leaves from My Note-book on Tramp in Donegal. By Joseph Campbell. With 16 Pencil Drawings by the Author. Dublin: Maunsel, 1911. Square 8vo, light blue boards with matching end-papers, top edges cut, others uncut. With the Salisbury bookplate of Matthew Henry Whitty Devenish.

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CANTON (William) 1845-1926

8. Irishry. Dublin: Maunsel [1913]. Blue boards, 2 titling labels, top edges cut, others uncut. Al (blank) not included in pagination, and 2 leaves of adverts of other "Books by Joseph Campbell" may have been printed with the first gathering and transferred by binder.

7. Children's Sayings. Edited with a Digression on the Small People. Isbister, 1900. Light green cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece.

9. Earth of Cualann. With 21 Designs by the Author. Dublin: Maunsel, 1917. Tall 8vo, slatey mauve boards with matching end-papers, half cream parchment, gilt spine, all edges uncut. No. 167 of only 500 copies printed. In grey printed dust-jacket (5/- net). Note: See the Padraic Pearse collection for Collected Works edited by Joseph Campbell. CANTON (William) 1845-1926 1. A Lost Epic and Other Poems. Blackwood, 1887. Bevelled dark red cloth, gilt, top edges uncut, others trimmed, dark blue end-papers. Publisher's compliments stamp on title-page. 2. The Invisible Playmate: A Story of the Unseen. Isbister, 1894. Beige coloured linen, lettered black, all edges uncut, dark slate end-papers. 3. The Invisible Playmate: A Story of the Unseen. 2nd ed. Isbister, 1894. Green cloth, t.e.g., uncut upper side gilt-lettered in a quite different type and with ornaments, dark slate end-papers. This edition appeared in June 1894, following the April, 1894 First Edition. The only variation between the editions appears to be the bibliographical statement on verso of half-title. 4. The Invisible Playmate: A Story of the Unseen. 3rd ed. Isbister, 1895. This edition reverts to the precise format of the First Edition. Inscribed: "To Miss Holdsworth with kind regards from William Canton, Oct. 15 "95." 5. W. V. Her Book and Various Verses. With illustrations by C. E. Brock. Isbister, 1896. Sage green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. 6. A Child's Book of Saints, With 19 Plates by T. H. Robinson. Dent, 1898. Beige cloth with coloured pictorial design, t.e.g., others uncut.

8. Another copy, identical in all respects save colour of cloth is pink. Late issued copies in this variety of cloth are found with top edges plain. K8 at end is blank in all states. 9. In Memory of W. V. Dent, 1901. Light green cloth, designed blue and gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, 4 portraits. Bookplate of William J. Adcock. 10. The Comrades: Poems Old and New. Isbister, 1902. Red cloth, t.e.g., others uncut. P6 is blank at end. In this book the author's most anthologized poem, "Heights and Depths," was first printed. 11. The Story of the Bible Society. With Illustrations. John Murray, 1904. Blue cloth, gilt, only lower edges uncut. 12. Another copy of First Edition sheets, but a late issue. The supply of plates presumably being exhausted, the 2 words on recto title-page were overprinted with an ornament. Edges are all cut and gilt-lettering is similar but there is no 2 line imprint at foot of spine and the ornament used on the upper cover is smaller triangular shape. 13. The Story of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary. With 8 coloured plates by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale. Herbert & Daniel [1912]. Brick red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others cut, light stone coloured end-papers. 14. Another copy, identical in every detail save that colour of cloth (and of silk bookmarker) is blue. 15. The Bible and the Anglo-Saxon People. Dent, 1914. Pale greenish cloth, t.e.g., others trimmed, spine and upper side designed in gilt, green and brown, frontispiece and 24 illustrations. 16. The Five Colours. Bible House, 1924. Light brown cloth, edges cut, coloured frontispiece and 10 photographic plates. 17. Yesterday, To-Day and For Ever. Hodder & Stoughton, 1926. Dark red cloth, gilt spine, edges cut.

118 CANTON (William) 1845-1926 18. Another copy of First Edition sheets, presumed second issue binding. Light blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 5 lines with one short rule. This state has no publisher's imprint at foot of spine and the author's name appears as "W. Canton," in one line. 19. The Poems of William Canton. Harrap, 1927. Blue cloth, gilt, only lower edges uncut, frontispiece portrait. There is a 4 page Foreword by the author's son, Guy D. Canton, dated January 1927. 20. Another copy of First Edition. Publisher's superior binding of mottled blue leather, spine and upper side gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Both states have L8 blank at end. Association Item 21. A dummy (unprinted) copy of an Oxford Press Bible, with oval stamp on end-paper of Oxford University Press, 27 October 1910. India paper issue in black semi-limp leather, all edges gilt, 6 1/4" x 4 1/4". Canton has used this for his Notes on the Renaissance, also his Bible Notes. All the writing is neat and legible and in ink, and there are many newspaper cuttings inserted; but more than half the book remains unused. CARPENTER (Edward) 1844-1929 1. The Religious Influence of Art. By Edward Carpenter, B.A. Fellow of Trinity Hall. Cambridge: Deighton Bell, 1870. Stiff cream boards, upper side lettered in black (Price Two Shillings). Top edges uncut, others trimmed. Neatly cased in blue linen, gilt-lettered up spine. First Edition of the author's first book. Bookplate of C. R. Ashbee inside upper board and library label of Janet and C. R. Ashbee (printed at Essex House Press) inside cover. 2. Narcissus and Other Poems. H. S. King, 1873. Bevelled dark green cloth, gilt-lettered, black designed, dark brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. R3 & R4 at end carry adverts of "New Poetry." 3. Moses: A Drama in Five Acts. Moxon [1875]. Dark red cloth, gilt and black lettered and designed, slate blue end-papers. The author's copy, almost every leaf bearing corrections or additions in his hand as copy for the New Edition of 1909. The leaves are all detached and have been used by the compositor. Several corrections are lengthy and have been made by Carpenter on inserted sheets. His "copy" for the new title-page and Preface is also present on 8 sheets of ruled

CARPENTER (Edward) 1844-1929 4to exercise paper. The register of the book is in figures up to 8 in 8's = 64 leaves. One leaf (pp. 25-26) is missing; original blank is at end following p. 126. A photocopy of pp. 25-26 has been inserted to complete this most important copy. Carpenter's lay-out for the new title-page (1909) was made before the decision to change the title to The Promised Land. 4. Towards Democracy. Manchester & London: John Heywood, 1883. The First Edition of the first part, issued anonymously. Light green cloth, black designed and gilt-lettered on upper side, edges cut, deep cream end-papers. Inscribed: "H. W. Nevinson with much gratitude from Ed: Carpenter, 27 Feb., 1925." 5. Another copy, identical with above, though cloth appears to be a somewhat darker shade of green. Carpenter dated it 17 April 1883 on end-paper (presumably the date of publication) and commenced listing in ink the names of friends to whom copies had been sent: "Edward Dowden, William M. Rossetti, John Ruskin, Albert Fearnebough, Bessie and Emily Ford, Charles G. Oakes, H. S. Foxwell, Edward Maitland, P. Arunachalam." Most of these and others of the 60 names appear in the index to My Days and Dreams, Carpenter's autobiography. 6. Towards Democracy. 2nd ed., enlarged. Manchester & London: John Heywood, 1885. Green cloth, similar in format to First Edition but, being a thicker book, now gilt-lettered up the spine as well as on upper side. Pale green end-papers, edges cut. Text to p. 114 is from 1883; reset and revised, but not substantially changed. Pp. (115)-260 contain the new second part. Still issued anonymously. 7. Modern Science: A Criticism. Manchester & London: John Heywood, 1885. Stiff light blue wrappers, upper side black lettered. Neatly cased in blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered upwards, edges as originally cut (not further trimmed). With the Essex House bookplate of the Ashbees. 8. England's Ideal and Other Papers on Social Subjects. Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co., 1887. Red cloth, gilt spine, upper side lettered in black, top edges uncut, others trimmed. This is the state with a Contents leaf (presumably conjugate with title-page). The circular gilt ornamental imprint at foot of spine is without "& Co." End-papers are cream thin wove.

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9. Another copy; this is the state with floral patterned greyish green end-papers, and without Contents leaf. The top edges are unopened throughout. Publisher's circular imprint at foot of spine incorporates "& Co."

also publisher's imprint in one word, "Sonnenschein," which is not found in normal copies. Inscribed on half-title: "Bessie H. Ford from E. C. Dec.'92."

10. Another issue of First Edition sheets; without the Contents leaf, but at end has 8 pages of Swann Sonnenschein adverts headed "Part IV." The binding is bright blue cloth, gilt-lettered up spine in large caps and on upper side in 2 lines and with a gilt floral ornament below (where red cloth copies have publisher's oblong imprint ornament in black). End-papers are slatey brown.

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11. Chants of Labour: A Song Book of the People, with Music. Edited by Edward Carpenter. With 2 designs by Walter Crane. Swan Sonnenschein, 1888. Beige linen with Crane's design in red, all edges stained red, reddish brown end-papers. Inscribed on half-title: "Cecil Reddie from E. C. May /88." There was an almost identical reissue of those sheets in wrappers, with date altered to 1892. Such copies are without printer's imprint on p.[100]. 12. Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure and Other Essays. Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1889. Red cloth, gilt spine, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed. Presumed first binding issue in which upper cover is plain and the publisher's circular imprint at foot of spine is the one including "& Co." 13. Another copy of First Edition sheets, upper cover lettered black in 2 lines with rules top and bottom and publisher's oblong ornament lower right hand corner. Same primrose yellow end-papers as above copy. Gilt circular device foot of spine is without "& Co." The whole of the Second Edition of 1891 was presumably put up in these binding cases. The sheets, however, cannot be confused with the First Edition, as the printer had changed his style, and the imprint on p. 156 includes "Limited." 14. The Enchanted Thicket: An Appeal to the "Well-to-do." Being a reprint, by permission, from England's Ideal. Swan Sonnenschein, 1889. For private circulation. 12 pages, sewn into drab brown wrappers, uncut. 15. From Adam's Peak to Elephanta: Sketches in Ceylon and India. Swan Sonnenschein, 1892. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, pictorially designed in gilt, all edges cut, dark blue end-papers. This may be an early copy; the frontispiece is bound in at p. 4, an anomaly corrected in most copies. There is

Another copy, in normal state.

17. Homogenic Love and Its Place in a Free Society. Printed for private circulation only. Manchester: Labour Press, 1894. 52 pages, sewn into brown wrappers lettered in gilt on upper side, edges trimmed. Inscribed on title-page: "Saml. Hodgkinson with kind regards from the Author. June "95." 18. Sex-Love and Its Place in a Free Society. 2nd ed. Manchester: Labour Press, 1894. 28 pages, sewn into brown wrappers, upper side gilt-lettered, trimmed edges. Neatly cased in blue linen, with the Essex House book label of Janet and C. R. Ashbee. This edition has an Appendix and other slight revisions. 19. A composite volume in half brown morocco, spine with 5 raised bands, containing copies of Carpenter's 4 sex psychology pamphlets Sex-love, Woman, Marriage, Homogenic Love, all First Editions printed in Manchester in 1894. C. R. Ashbee's large Essex House bookplate and his inscription: "Given me by Edward Carpenter in 1894." One of the pamphlets also has Carpenter's autograph inscription: "C. R. A. from E. C., 1894." Ashbee apparently preferred to sacrifice the separate wrappers when binding-up this set; but each is perfect in collation and pagination. 20. Marriage in Free Society. Manchester: Labour Press, 1894. 48 pages, sewn into brown wrappers, upper side gilt-lettered, edges lightly trimmed. 21. Woman and Her Place in a Free Society. Manchester: Labour Press, 1894. 44 pages, sewn into brown wrappers, upper side gilt-lettered, edges lightly trimmed. 22. Love's Coming-of-Age: A Series of Papers on the Relations of the Sexes. Manchester: Labour Press, 1896. Smooth light bluish green cloth, gilt-lettered, green floral-patterned end-papers, all edges uncut. K5 carries adverts on recto with verso blank and the following leaf is blank.

120 CARPENTER (Edward) 1844-1929 23. Another copy, in a variant (and much less common) binding of rough light brown cloth, all edges uncut, dark blue end-papers. Publisher's monogram is in blind in same places on lower spine and corner of upper side, also rules and lettering on upper side identical with above copy. But the 3 line titling on spine is in smaller type. 24. An Unknown People. A. & H. B. Bonner, 1897. 40 pages, sewn into pale green wrappers, upper side lettered and designed in brown, all edges uncut. Reprinted from The Reformer. Neatly cased in blue linen with the Essex House label of Janet and C. R. Ashbee. 25. Forecasts of the Coming Century. By A Decade of Writers, [here follow 10 names: William Morris, Grant Allen, Bernard Shaw, Edward Carpenter and 6 others], Manchester: The Labour Press; London: Clarion Office, 1897. Dark green cloth, pictorially designed gilt and black, all edges uncut, pale green floral-patterned end-papers, frontispiece. 26. Another copy, the presumed second state. Title-page and Prefatory Note, which are printed together on a quarter-sheet have been reset in a slightly variant type (note cross-bars of F, R, E and A in "Forecasts"); also, imprint has been entirely reset, making it a London publication (rather than Manchester) with Walter Scott's name added. In the following leaf of the Preface some alignment also varies. Confirmation of the order of the 2 states is provided by the changed address of the Manchester Labour Press which removed from Tib Street to Miller Street (see the Labour Press pamphlet included in next item). 27. [Pamphlets. 1883-1895] A composite volume of 10 pamphlets by Edward Carpenter. Tall 8vo, neatly cased in dark blue cloth with the Essex House book label of Janet and C. R. Ashbee. The items, which considerably vary in size, are hinged-in, and entirely uncut (unless issued trimmed), and are as follows: Co-operative Production, with Reference to the Experiment of Leclaire: A Lecture (Manchester: John Heywood, 1883), 24 pages. England's Ideal: A Tract reprinted from "To-Day" (Manchester: John Heywood, 1885), 24 pages. Modem Money-Lending (2nd ed. Manchester: John Heywood, 1885), 28 pages. Social Progress and Individual Effort (Modern Press, 1886), 16 pages. Desirable Mansions (2nd ed. the Modern Press, 1886), 16 pages. England Arise: Socialist Marching Song. Words and Music by Edward Carpenter (Modern Press, 1886), 4 pages, printed on pink paper. A Letter to the Employees of The Midland and other Railway Companies (Sheffield: John

CARPENTER (Edward) 1844-1929 Fullingham, 1886), 4 pages. The Growth and Present Position of the Manchester Labour Press (Manchester: Labour Press, 1897), 16 pages, sewn into cream coloured "Compliments" wrappers on which Carpenter has added "and of E. C." He is one of the 8 signatories, and probably the sole author. Affection in Education Reprinted from the International Journal of Ethics, (July 1899), 12 pages. Boer and Briton (Manchester: Labour Press, 1900), 4 pages, a Labour Press Leaflet. 28. Angels' Wings: A Series of Essays on Art and Its Relation to Life. Swan Sonnenschein, 1898. Dark blue cloth, gilt, top edges cut, others uncut, 9 plates. 29. Angels' Wings: A Series of Essays on Art and Its Relation to Life. 2nd ed. Swan Sonnenschein, 1899. Virtually identical in every detail with First Edition. Inscribed: "E. Carpenter Nov. '98. Corrected for New Edition Oct., 1907." Though the corrections, on the whole, are not of an important nature, the author's list in pencil on rear end-paper gives 39 page number references, on which changes are found. 30. Towards Democracy. 3 vols. Swan Sonnenschein [1898]. In 3 parts, uniform green cloth in a similar format to the 1883 edition, as issued in green linen slip-case. Each volume has the circular red leather bookplate of C. R. and J. E. Ashbee, and volume 1 is inscribed: "Janet & Charlie Ashbee from Ed: Carpenter, 1898." 31. The Story of Eros and Psyche, from Apuleius, and the First Book of the Iliad of Homer. Done into English by Edward Carpenter. Swan Sonnenschein, 1900. Light brown linen, lettered spine in gilt and upper side in darker brown, t.e.g., others uncut. Frontispiece plate. From the Library of Thomas Nicholson, inscribed: "Tom N, Love from Ed: May, 1900." 32. Another copy, inscribed: "Clara Mayers from her friend E. C. 3 May 1910." This book was not reprinted, but the First Edition stock appeared to last for some time at the publishers and there are binding variants. One such has ornament in brown on upper side; others have one, or 2, ornaments gilt-stamped on spine. 33. Who Shall Command the Heart. Being Part IV of Towards Democracy. Swan Sonnenschein, 1902. Green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., only lower edges cut.

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34. lolaus: An Anthology of Friendship. Edited by Edward Carpenter [followed by a long imprint in 8 lines, including Swan Sonnenschein, the author himself in Manchester and Goodspeed in Boston, Mass.], 1902. Beige cloth, gilt and brown lettered, t.e.g., only lower edges cut. With Janet and C. R. Ashbee bookplate. This book sold slowly and copies of First Edition sheets are found in a similar binding but with all spine lettering in brown, including author's name in a larger italic variety of type. The whole of the Second Edition (1906) appears to be in this binding.

p.[508] has the 58 Sackville Street address, whereas in the india paper—both 1905 and 1909 editions-the address is 41 Granby Row, to which they removed.

35. lolaus: An Anthology of Friendship. Author's Edition, 1902. Another copy of First Edition, No. 51 of a special issue of 150 copies numbered and signed by the author. Printed on paper watermarked "Strathmore" and bound in half cream parchment, pale blue linen sides, t.e.g., others uncut. Title-page reset and simplified as above, the lettering being in only 6 lines.

42. Days with Walt Whitman. With Some Notes on his Life and Work. G. Allen, 1906. Green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others trimmed, 3 portraits. Inscribed: "To my friend Henry W. Nevinson from E. C. August, 1906."

36. The Art of Creation. Being the Second Anniversary Lecture of the Larner Sugden Memorial delivered at the William Morris Labour Church at Leek. Hanley, 1903. Square 8vo, light blue-grey wrappers lettered and designed in black, uncut. 37. The Art of Creation: Essays on the Self and its Powers. G. Allen, 1904. Green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. 13 essays, of which the second is the Leek lecture reprinted. All copies have gilt tops but a proportion of the edition certainly had fore-edges trimmed, whereas here they are uncut. 38. Prisons, Police and Punishment: An Enquiry into the Causes and Treatment of Crime and Criminals. A. C. Fifield, 1905. Pink cloth, gilt and black lettered, only lower edges uncut. 39. Towards Democracy. Complete Edition in Four Parts. Swan Sonnenschein, 1905. Dark green morocco-grained cloth, rounded edges and corners. The india paper pocket edition and first complete edition of the work. Author's own copy inscribed: "1 March 1905 E. Carpenter." On the rear end-paper he has noted the page references for the 8 corrections he has made in pencil in the text. 40. Another copy; this is the library format (8" x 5") and on thick paper, but printed from same type, and before the india paper issue; certainly all the errors enumerated in Carpenter's copy are found in this one. Also (more importantly) the printer's imprint on

41. Vivisection: Two Addresses Given before the Humanitarian League. A. C. Fifield, 1905. Styled "Revised Edition" on title-page, this appears to consist of the text of Carpenter's 2 lectures, published respectively in 1893 (jointly with Edward Maitland's Address) and the different one published in 1904.

43. lolaus: An Anthology of Friendship. 2nd ed., enlarged. Swan Sonnenschein, 1906. Beige cloth, lettered gilt and darker brown, t.e.g, only lower edges cut. The additions occupy pp. 185-224. 44. Sketches from Life in Town and Country, and Some Verses. G. Allen, 1908. Green cloth, gilt spine, top and lower edges cut, fore-edges lightly trimmed, frontispiece portrait. Al is blank: S2 at end carries adverts of "Works by E. C.," with Allen's imprint on verso. 45. British Aristocracy and the House of Lords. A. C. Fifield, 1908. 36 pages, bound (without the wrappers) in a brown buckram volume of 7 pamphlets. Inscribed on half-title: "T. Seccombe, Esq., Camberley," and the volume is clearly from his library. One pamphlet, Ford Madox Hueffer's Songs From London (1910), bears the autograph presentation: "Mr. & Mrs. Seccombe, with the Compliments of the Season from Ford Madox Hueffer, Xmas 1909." Another pamphlet, Charles Sayle's The Vatican Library (Cambridge, 1914) is entered with the Sale collection. 46. Socialism And Agriculture. By Edward Carpenter [and others]. A. C. Fifield, 1908. Fabian Socialist Series No. 2. Grey boards, orange buckram spine, black lettered, t.e.g. First in the collection is Carpenter's The Village and the Landlord, which is apparently Fabian Tract No. 136 (1907)-though it is stated to be "Reprinted by permission from the Albany Review, April 1907." In fact, it is an adaptation of an earlier publication-"0ur Parish and Our Duke" (1889).

122 CARPENTER (Edward) 1844-1929 47. The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women. 2nd ed. Swan Sonnenschein, 1909. Pale green cloth, gilt, t.e.g. Inscribed: "Joe Clayton from E. C., June 1909." 48. The Promised Land: A Drama of a People's Deliverance, in Five Acts. New Edition with Additions. Swan Sonnenschein, 1909. Light blue cloth, gilt spine, trimmed edges. This is the Second Edition of Moses (1875). 49. Towards Democracy. Complete Edition in Four Parts. Swan Sonnenschein, 1909. India paper, dark green cloth, gilt, t.e.g. Appears to be merely a reprint of the 1905 edition. 50. From Adam's Peak to Elephanta. New edition, revised. Swan Sonnenschein, 1910. Dark blue cloth, gilt, edges cut. Has the Preface to the Second Edition of 1903. 51. A Visit to a Gnani, or, Wise Man of the East. George Allen, 1911. Dark green boards, half cream buckram, top edges cut, others trimmed. This is reprinted from the above book, but there is a new Preface by the author, dated February 1911. 52. The Drama of Love and Death: A Study of Human Evolution and Transfiguration. George Allen, 1912. Pale silver blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g., other cut. Errata slip inserted at p. 1 (3 errors). The errors appear to be common to all copies of the edition; but errata slips do not appear to have been printed early enough to be found in all copies. 53. Sharland, Hose E. Voices of Dawn over the Hills. With an Introduction by Edward Carpenter. Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith, 1912. Green wrappers, spine and upper side lettered in black, all edges uncut. 54. Intermediate Types among Primitive Folk: A Study in Social Evolution. George Allen, 1914. Dark blue cloth, t.e.g., others cut. Al blank before half-title; an unsigned quarter-sheet at end, pp. 185-E188], carry final page of Index and a leaf of "Works by the same Author." 55. The Healing of the Nations, and the Hidden Sources of their Strife. George Allen, 1915. Light blue cloth, spine lettered in blue on 2 paper labels, all edges cut. Pp.[268-272] at end carry adverts only.

CARPENTER (Edward) 1844-1929 56. Towards Democracy. George Allen, 1915. An identical reprint of the 1905 india paper pocket edition in dark green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others cut. Inscribed: "Henry W. Nevinson from his friend Edward C, July 1916." Carpenter had also presented Nevinson with a copy of the First Edition of 1883. 57. My Days and Dreams: Being Autobiographical Notes. George Allen, Tall 8vo, blue cloth, gilt, top edges cut, trimmed, 17 illustrations. Pp.[341-344] at carry adverts only. Inscribed: "Clara M. Mayers, 1 July Affte best wishes from Edwd. C."

1916. others end 1916.

58. Never Again! A Protest and a Warning addressed to the Peoples of Europe. George Allen, 1916. 24 pages, sewn into semi-stiff wrappers lettered in black. Cased in dark blue linen, gilt-lettered, with the Janet and C. R. Ashbee bookplate. Author's printed Compliments slip inserted. 59. Towards Industrial Freedom. George Allen, 1917. Dark blue cloth, gilt, edges cut. 60. Three Ballads (An Intermezzo in War Time). E. C. October, 1917. 16 pages, sewn into buff coloured wrappers lettered in black, edges cut. A private pamphlet, printed by S. Clarke in Manchester. The second of these ballads, "Lieutenant Tattoon, M.C.," is a thinly-veiled commentary on the case of Siegfried Sassoon. 61. Intermediate Types among Primitive Folk: A Study in Social Evolution. 2nd ed. George Allen, 1919. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine. This appears to be an almost identical reissue of the First Edition of 1914 save that the top edges are not gilt, the net price—printed on half-title in lower light-hand corner-is raised from 4s. 6d. to 5s., also publisher's imprint on title-page slightly variant. Inscribed: "H. W. Nevinson, from his ancient friend Ed. Carpenter, 29 Aug '26." 62. Another copy. Presentation copy to Gilbert Beith, inscribed: "Gilbert, from his friend Ed. C., 12 May 1926." 63. Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning. George Allen, 1920. Light grey-blue cloth, gilt, all edges cut. Erratum slip inserted at p. 146.

123 CARPENTER (Edward) 1844-1929 64. Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. Dark red cloth, all edges cut. The author's own copy, inscribed on end-paper: "Edward Carpenter, April 1920." The first American edition of his book. It would appear to have been set up by the new printer from English sheets, as the error on p. 146 persists. There are further corrections on 8 pages in the author's handwriting; some of the errors stem from the London edition, while others might have resulted from the American setting. 65. Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning. 2nd ed. George Allen, 1921. Identical format with the First Edition. It is an interesting illustration of the author's meticulousness that all the errors are corrected here before printing. Inscribed: "To my dear friend Evelyn Sharp, 1928, from Edward Carpenter." The recipient was Mrs. H. W. Nevinson. 66. The Teaching of the Upanishads: Being the Substance of Two Lectures to Popular Audiences. George Allen, 1920. 32 pages, of which the first and last are laid-down on stiff boards, over which are folded light grey-blue wrappers lettered in darker blue. This is the Appendix to Pagan and Christian Creeds, separately paginated and off-printed in December, the book having appeared earlier in same year. Inscribed: "To Jean & Edwd. Lewis. All greetings and hearty remembrance, Xmas 1920," in the author's autograph. 67. The Reality of Self. Wirksworth, Derbyshire: Printed and published by the Brooks Press, 1920. An anthology compiled from the work of 6 authors. Brown boards, 2 titling labels, all edges uncut. Printed on Arnold unbleached watermarked paper, limited to 600 copies. Edward Carpenter's copy with his note on the source of the quotations from his work. 68. Civilization: Its Cause and Cure. Newly enlarged and complete edition. George Allen, 1921. Light green cloth, gilt, all edges cut. This is the Sixteenth Edition of the book; the final chapter, "The New Morality," appears for the first time, and there is a new 5 page Preface, dated December 1920. 69. The Story of Eros and Psyche (Retold from Apuleius). Together with Some Early Verses. George Allen, 1923. First Edition in this form, beige cloth lettered in red, top edges cut, other uncut, in pictorial dust-jacket.

CARPENTER (Edward) 1844-1929 With an Author's Compliments slip inserted and inscribed: "Tom Nicholson from Edward Carpenter, October 29th 1923," but this is in the handwriting of recipient. 70. Another copy, identical with above but without dust-jacket. Inscribed: "Gilbert Beith from Ed: Carpenter. Dec '24." 71. The Psychology of the Poet Shelley. By Edward Carpenter and George Barnefield. George Allen, 1925. Pale blue cloth, lettered in darker blue, all edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (4/6 net). Inscribed: "H. W. Nevinson from his friend Edw: Carpenter, 1925." 72. Arunachalam, Hon. P. Light from the East. Edited by E. Carpenter. George Allen, 1927. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine, in printed dust-jacket (6s. net). Frontispiece portraits of the writer and the editor. The 20 page Introduction, and much else, is by Carpenter. Inscribed: "Clara M. Mayers from Edwd. Carpenter, 15 January 1927." Manuscripts &c. 73. Pagan and Christian Creeds. 1920. Limp blue board covered notebook containing above 100 pages of ruled exercise paper filled with notes and early drafts of this work, entirely in Carpenter's hand and mainly in pencil. Together with several loosely inserted sheets containing a draft of the terms for the contract of publication and notes regarding the diagrams and illustrations which were originally intended for inclusion. 74. Pagan and Christian Creeds. 1920. Light brown notebook titled "Notes in Preparation." About 80 pages with some slips inserted, entirely in Carpenter's hand, mainly in pencil. 75. Pagan and Christian Creeds. 1920. Black covered notebook, 26 pages of ruled exercise paper filled in Carpenter's hand, mainly in pencil. Consists of extracts and notes from various authors and books, used as sources for this work. 76. Desire and the End of Desire. A Dialogue by Edward Carpenter. 31 sheets, 6 1/2" x 8". The original manuscript, entirely in Carpenter's handwriting in ink, a clearly legible text with very few additions and deletions, with autograph at beginning and with "From Edward Carpenter, Holmesfield, near Sheffield" on verso last leaf.

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77. A Dialogue on Desire and the End of Desire, II. Notebook of a size similar to above item, consisting of 40 sheets of ruled exercise paper, filled on rectos in Carpenter's neat handwriting in ink, apparently complete but not signed at end. This and the previous item are preserved together in a brown folder.

82. A well-finished water-colour sketch, 6 7/8" x 4 7/8", on a sheet of stiff cartridge paper, inscribed on verso in Carpenter's autograph: "The Cam, at foot of Trinity Hall garden (on the left). (Watercolour by E. C.!)." Probably c. 1865. Preserved together with a 4 page folder. "The First Annual Memorial Service to be held at Millthorpe (Holmesfield). Sunday 29 June 1930." At this service the Chairman was supported by Henry Nevinson, Evelyn Sharp, E. M. Forster and W. A. Peacock, and the last item on the programme is "Reminiscences of Edward Carpenter. By Henry Nevinson."

78. The Gods as Apparitions of the Race-Consciousness. I and II. The original manuscripts on 36 and 32 sheets respectively of ruled exercise paper, 6 1/2" x 8". Clearly written in ink on rectos only, with a fair number of deletions and some additions on slips, not signed. The second essay is additionally titled on verso of last leaf, "The Gods and the Race-Life." 79. Manuscript notebook of 54 leaves filled in ink in Carpenter's autograph and followed by a similar number of blanks. Plain thick wove paper, 5" x 8", bound into light brown wrappers lettered on upper side-again in his handwriting~"Bibliography." This work was published as Appendix II of My Days and Dreams (1916). It is the MS used by compositors, and as a preface (in pencil) Carpenter has fitted a page of "Directions to the Printers," and signed it, on verso of first (unnumbered) sheet. 80. Dark blue leather book cover, 6 3/4" x 8 3/4". Inside, Carpenter has lettered it "Towards Democracy: Verses already published." The contents are 45 loose sheets filled on versos in Carpenter's autograph in ink, entirely from this work save for the final sheet which commences: "The genial-looking large-hearted Belgium cure finds himself in the railway carriage with an English lad of 19," which seems to be from an unidentified work. The sections of Towards Democracy are signed in many places and sometimes marked on verso, "From Edward Carpenter, Millthorpe, Holmesfield, nr. Chesterfield," appearing to indicate that they might have been posted away or submitted as contributions for publication. They are variously dated between 1886 and 1894 and titled: "Arenzano," "Who will learn Freedom," "The Theban Band," "Easter," "The Dead Christ," "Philoans to Diocles," "Love in Absence," "In a Scotch Fir Wood," "The Open Secret," "Out of the Pavement Crowd," "Love's Prison-House," and others. 81. ALS, 2 pages, to A. Petrie Watson, Esq., on his Millthorpe notepaper, dated 26 January 1907, with original stamped and postmarked envelope.

Secondary Material 83. Swan, Tom. Edward Carpenter: The Man and His Message. Manchester, 1902. 44 pages, grey-blue wrappers, top edges cut, others uncut, 2 portraits. Neatly cased in blue linen, gilt-lettered. Bookplate of Janet and C. R. Ashbee. 84. Swan, Tom. Edward Carpenter: The Man and His Message. With Two Portraits. A. C. Fifield, 1910. 48 pages, sewn into light brown wrappers, edges cut. 85. Two printed items, both congratulations to Carpenter on his 70th birthday (29 August 1914). A sheet of handmade paper watermarked "Palmer, Howe & Co.", (13" x 16 1/4"), folded once. Text on p.[l] and the 296 names of signatories fill pp.[3] and [4]. The second item is a similar 4 page folder (slightly smaller) on a sheet watermarked "Royal Vellum," containing on all 4 pages the text of Carpenter's acknowledgement, dated from Millthorpe, 1 September 1914. 86. [Carpenter, Edward.] A Bibliography of the Writings of Edward Carpenter. George Allen, 1916. 20 pages 8vo (including laid-down blanks) stiff buff coloured wrappers, lettered in black, all edges uncut. First published in My Days and Dreams (1916). No. 29 of 150 copies on unbleached Arnold handmade paper. The authorship of this compilation is confirmed by its manuscript original, in Carpenter's handwriting, which is part of the collection. 87. Sime, A. H. Moncur. Edward Carpenter: His Ideas and Ideals. Kegan Paul, 1916. Red cloth, spine gilt-lettered (now oxidizing), upper side blind-lettered, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket. Frontispiece portrait.

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CARPENTER (Edward) 1844-1929 88. Swan, Tom. Edward Carpenter. The Man and His Message. Cape, 1922. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine, top edges cut, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (5s. net). Alvin Langdon Coburn's photograph of Carpenter serves as frontispiece to this, the new and revised edition of the work. The 1902 issue was privately produced by the writer; it was not published until 1910, and a fourth impression appeared in 1913. This 1922 publication is the definitive edition. 89. Beith, Gilbert, ed. Edward Carpenter: In Appreciation. George Allen, 1931. Light brown cloth, top edges cut, 2 portraits. A collection of 28 essays by friends of E. Carpenter, including several to whom books in this collection are inscribed. Association hems 90. Biagi, Guido. The Last Days of P. B. Shelley: New Details from Unpublished Documents. T. Fisher Unwin, 1898. Light grey cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, 19 illustrations. Dedicated to Lady Shelley. An uncommon book, printed in Florence. Carpenter's copy with his signature dated December 1900. 91. Cust, Robert H. Hobart. Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, Hitherto Usually Styled "Sodoma": The Man and the Painter, 1477-1549, A Study. John Murray, 1906. Blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, 56 plates. Inscribed: "To Edward Carpenter with the greetings of his devoted admirer and grateful friend the Author, R. H. H. C. Easter 1906." 92. Ellis, Mrs. Havelock. Kit's Woman: A Cornish Idyll. Alston Rivers, 1907. Green buckram, spine titling label, trimmed edges. Inscribed: "Edward Carpenter from E. M. O. Ellis. Feb 1907." 93. Binns, Henry Bryan. Botticelli. Illustrated with Eight Reproductions in Colours. T. C. & E. C. Jack [1907]. Brown boards with coloured reproduction, top edges cut, others uncut. Inscribed: "E. Carpenter from H. B. B.," in the handwriting of the recipient. 94. Lodge, Sir Oliver. Continuity: The Presidential Address to the British Association, Birmingham 1913. Dent, 1913. Light stone coloured cloth, lettered in blue, edges cut. Inscribed: "Edward Carpenter from Oliver Lodge, Nov. 1917."

CASWALL (Edward) 1814-1878 1. A New Art, Teaching How to be Plucked. Being a Treatise . . . writ for the Use of Students in the Universities. To which is added A Synopsis of Drinking. By Scriblerus Redivivus. 6th ed. Oxford: J. Vincent, 1836. Pp. viii, 50, [20]. Black binder's cloth, trimmed edges. 2. Sketches of Young Ladies. By "Quiz." With Six Illustrations by "Phiz." 7th ed. Chapman & Hall, 1838. Contemporary half-calf, marbled sides. 3. The Art of Pluck . . . . By Scriblerus Redivivus. 8th ed. Oxford: J. Vincent, 1843. Pp. xii, 72. Original light stone coloured wrappers. An enlarged edition. 4. The Masque of Mary and Other Poems. By Edward Caswall, of The Oratory, Birmingham. Burns & Lambert, 1858. Light reddish brown, blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine, edges uncut. Binder'sf?) ticket of Straker & Son. Inscribed: "For Charles Hicks, Esq., with the respectful Compliments of The Author, April 23, 1858." CAYLEY (Charles Bagot) 1823-1883 1. Dante's Divine Comedy: The Vision of Hell. Translated in the Original Ternary Rhyme. Longman, 1851. Wine coloured blind-stamped cloth, adverts printed end-papers with binder's ticket of Westleys, all edges uncut, publisher's 32 page catalogue dated 31 March 1851. R4 at end carries list of 17 errata. Inscribed: "To Henry Feild with the Translator's kind regards." 2. Dante's Divine Comedy: The Purgatory. Longman, 1853. Uniform format with above, but end-papers are yellow (same binder's ticket). Neat small initials on title-page: "H. F." [Henry Feild] 3. Dante's Divine Comedy: The Paradise. Longman, 1854. Uniform format with above; end-papers yellow (same binder's ticket). R7 at end carries an Advertisement of the fourth volume (Notes &c.) dated February 1854, followed by blank R8. Blocking and lettering on spines of these volumes is uniform, except that the one and 2 stars respectively in Hell and Purgatory are in blind, while the 3 stars on the Paradise are in gilt.

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4. Psyche's Interludes. Longman, 1857. Wine coloured blind-stamped cloth, blocking identical with the Dante volumes. Gilt-lettered up spine in 3 lines, edges uncut, yellow end-papers with binder's ticket of Westleys, publisher's 24 page catalogue at end dated March 1856. H8 at end is blank. Publisher's blind circular presentation stamp.

4. A Dead Girl to Her Lover, and Other Poems. Alston Rivers, 1906. Volume 2 of the Selected Poems, produced uniformly with above item, 40 pages, in similar slip-case.

5. The Iliad of Homer. Homometrically Translated. Longmans, 1877. Tall 8vo, black cloth, gilt design on upper cover, top edges uncut, others trimmed, dark slate end-papers. The first gathering appears to consist of 3 leaves, and the final gathering of 7 leaves.

6. The Happy Maid, and Other Poems. Alston Rivers, 1906. Volume 4, produced as above. 46 pages.

6. The Sonnets and Stanzas of Petrarch. Longmans, 1879. Black cloth, upper cover silver designed, spine gilt-lettered, top edges uncut, others trimmed, reddish brown end-papers. P.[475] at end is blank, with books by the same author advertised on verso. CHESSON (Nora, nee HOPPER) 1871-1906 1. Ballads in Prose. By Nora Hopper. John Lane, 1894. Light green cloth, lettered and designed in ochre, with top edges stained to match, others uncut. Publisher's 16 page December 1894 catalogue at end. Inscribed by the publisher: "Evelyn Sharp from J. L. February 1895." 2. Aquamarines. By Nora Chesson. Grant Richards, 1902. Grey-blue boards, half cream parchment, all edges uncut, R2 at end is blank. Inscribed on blank Al before half-title: "Mr. Willeby with the author's kind regards, June 6, 1902." 3. Dirge for Aoine and Other Poems. Alston Rivers, 1906. Sage green wrappers lettered in dark blue. "Selected Poems/By Nora Chesson/volume 1. London: Alston Rivers Ltd./MCMVI." 36 pages, paginated in Roman numerals. All edges trimmed. In sage green board slip-case, spine with titling label. This, the first of the author's 5 volume Selected Poems, contains a 3 page Biographical Note by the editor, her husband, W. H. Chesson, and a 6 page Introduction by Ford Madox Hueffer. Inserted in this volume is a cheque of the author, drawn on the Kew Gardens branch of the London & Provincial Bank, 10 March 1906 and signed Eleanor Chesson.

5. Jack O'Lanthorn, and Other Poems. Alston Rivers, 1906. Volume 3, produced as above. 48 pages.

7. The Waiting Widow, and Other Poems. Alston Rivers, 1906. Volume 5, produced as above. 48 pages. CHESTERTON (Gilbert Keith) 1874-1936 1. Greybeards at Play: Literature and Art for Old Gentlemen. Brimley Johnson, 1900. Orange boards with pictorial design, cream buckram spine, lettered upwards, trimmed edges. Pp.[203-212] at end carry adverts only. 2. Another copy, identical with above in all details. Inscribed: "To Annie from G. K. Chesterton. The Elementary Laws never apologise." This is an intimate presentation copy to Mrs. Robert Kidd, who, as Annie Firmin, was the playmate of his boyhood days in Sheffield Terrace (see Autobiography, 1936, p. 28: "one of my first memories is playing in the garden under the care of a girl with ropes of golden hair. . . she is now living in Vancouver as Mrs. Kidd"). 3. The Wild Knight and Other Poems. Grant Richards, 1900. Pale grey-blue boards, half cream parchment, all edges uncut. L2 at end is blank. 4. The Wild Knight and Other Poems. 2nd ed. Brimley Johnson & Ince, 1906. Not strictly a new edition; the publishers acquired unsold printed sheets from Constable of pp. 1-[156] and reissued them with freshly printed preliminaries, i-viii, which include new author's Prefatory Note dated Battersea, 1905. In reprinting the Contents leaf they seized the opportunity of including the last poem and its page number, "Good News, p. 152," which had inadvertently been omitted before. Binding cases appear identical with the 1900 edition, but do not have imprint at foot.

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5. The Defendant. Brimley Johnson, 1901. Smooth sage green bevelled buckram, all edges uncut.

13. The Napoleon of Netting Hill. John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1904. Green cloth, lettered in black, designed pictorially in black and red, top edges stained green, others uncut. 7 plates by W. Graham Robertson; map of the Seat of War at p. 190. Title-page is a cancel pasted on stub.

6. The Defendant. 2nd ed. Brimley Johnson, 1902. Bright red cloth, gilt, edges trimmed. Contains "In Defence of a New Edition." 7. Twelve Types. Arthur L. Humphreys, 1902. Light green cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, t.e.g., only lower edges cut. This copy has the signature of M. E. Medlycott, dated 1902, and is in the normal binding. 8. Another copy of First Edition, identical in all respects with above save binding. This has an inscription with date 19 July 1903-though it is not necessarily a late-issued copy. Binding is of similar light green linen, but upper cover has overall gilt floral and leaf design. The lettering, in a much smaller type, is in a central panel, and the author's name appears only on spine. As observed by John Sullivan (Chesterton Continued, University of London Press, 1968) these copies stand fractionally taller on shelf; but no name, either of the Royal Library or Belles Lettres Series, appear anywhere in either variety. 9. Robert Browning. Macmillan, 1903. Red cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others cut. Al is blank before half-title, but single leaf of series adverts at end dated 20.11.02, though printed on text-paper, is an insertion. 10. The Resurrection of Rome. Hodder & Stoughton [1903.] 8vo, bright red smooth cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 10 lines and upper side in one line, all edges cut, top edges stained dark green. Blank leaf completing the gathering following p. 346 at end. From Mrs. Robert Kidd's books, with her signature: "Anne H. Kidd," and an inscription to her in an unrecorded handwriting. She was the Annie Firmin of Chesterton's childhood years. 11. Charles Dickens. By G. K. Chesterton & F. G. Kitton. Hodder & Stoughton, 1903. Light green cloth, profuse illustrations. One of the Bookman Biographies, this is presumably the Second Edition; it first appeared as No. 4 of the Bookman Booklets in the same year. 12. "The Philosophy of Islands," in The Venture (John Bailie, 1903), 8 pages.

14. Another copy of First Edition, presumed second state. Identical in every respect save that fore and lower edges are cut, hence the volume standing fractionally shorter on shelf. 15. The Religious Doubts of Democracy. Edited by George Haw. Macmillan, 1904. Pale blue wrappers lettered in red, cut edges. Printed in double columns. There are 15 contributors, Chesterton supplying 4 essays: "Christianity and Rationalism," "Why I Believe in Christianity," "Miracles and Modern Civilization" and "The Eternal Heroism of the Slums." 16. "Secrecy," in Wayfarer's Love: Poems Edited by the Duchess of Sutherland (Constable, 1904), a poem in 4 quatrains, not included by Chesterton in his Poems (1915). 17. Heretics. John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1905. Light red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Pp.[307-312] at end carry adverts only. This first London edition consisted of 2,000 copies; Harper's edition in New York was published 2 or 3 months earlier. From the library of Harry Hooton, though without his signature; the profuse and significant pencil annotations throughout are in his autograph. The note on end-paper, "Thomas, 2:6:05 51- net," invites investigation; publication date was actually 6 June, and Edward Thomas did review the book. 18. The Club of Queer Trades. New York & London: Harper, 1905. Sage green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side lettered in a yellow enamel frame, edges cut, 6 illustrations. Inscribed: "Love to Desmond & his mother from F. A. C. and G. K. C." This is in the handwriting of Mrs. Chesterton, save for the final initials which are in the author's hand. Later in the possession of Mrs. Annie Kidd (see the presentation copy of Greybeards At Play, item 2 above). It has her autograph on end-paper. 19. Charles Dickens. With 2 Portraits in Photogravure. Methuen, 1906. Light green cloth, gilt, only lower edges uncut. Publisher's 40 page catalogue at end dated July 1906. Published on 30 August 1906 in an edition of 1,250 copies. A Second Edition was called for

128 CHESTERTON (Gilbert Keith) 1874-1936 immediately and was out by October. It is virtually identical with this and has same catalogue at end, in which the present title is still described as being "In the Press." 20. Lang, Elsie M. Literary London. T. Werner Laurie [1906]. Has a 7 page Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. 21. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare. Bristol: Arrowsraith, 1908. Red cloth, spine gilt, upper side black lettered. Pp.[331-332] at end carry adverts only. Published February 1908 in an edition of 4,000 copies. A copy is recorded with title-page dated at foot 1907-probably a trial; others exist in which imprint at foot of spine is in 2 words only: "Arrowsmith/Bristol." Copies in blue cloth lettered in black constitute an official "remainder." The spine lettering on above copy is in first state: "J. W. Arrowsmith/Bristol." 22. All Things Considered. Methuen, 1908. Blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g., only lower edges uncut. Published 10 September, in an edition of 2,000 copies. 23. "W. E. Henley: Poet," in The Bibliophile (No. 1, Vol. 1, March 1908), 4 pages in printed wrappers as issued. 24. Ruskin, John. Poems. With an Essay on the Author by G. K. Chesterton. Routledge [1908]. Blue cloth, gilt spine, all edges cut. Printer's imprint at foot of p. 197 is of C. F. Hodgson & Son. This state is styled "The/Muses'/Library" centre of spine, but not at top of half-title page. Pagination of preliminaries is in Roman figures [i] to [xx]. Chesterton's essay occupies 12 pages. 25. Another copy. This state bears imprint in same place at foot of p. 197, but of Butler & Tanner, the Selwood Printing Works, Frome and London, and is the normal state with "The/Muses'/Library" on half-title. The pagination of preliminaries is confused, being [i]-xvi, followed by Contents leaves paginated v-vii. In the first copy described, pp. ix of Preface is starred in lower margin, but in Butler & Tanner's issue it is not. 26. Orthodoxy. John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1909. Light green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Pp.[299-304] at end carry adverts only. Later issued copies of First Edition sheets have all edges cut. Apparently published 25 September 1908 in an edition of 5,310 copies, though the British Museum reception date is as late as 4 December; present copy has inscription dated 25 December 1908.

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27. Masters of Literature: Thackeray. Edited by G. K. Chesterton. G. Bell, 1909. Bright red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait. Introduction of 24 pages by Chesterton. 28. Tremendous Trifles. Methuen, 1909. Light red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Published 23 September in an edition of 2,000 copies. 29. George Bernard Shaw. John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1910. Light blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g,, others uncut. Pp.[259-264] at end carry adverts only. Published August 1909 in an edition of 5,000 copies. Present copy carries bookplate of Alani H. Coltart and has his neat signature: "Alani H. Coltart, August 1910." The American edition published by John Lane is actually dated 1909. 30. The Ball and the Cross. Wells Gardner, 1910. Light green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. This is the state with erratum slip inserted at p. 93 and title-page and pp. 357-358 are not cancels. From the library of "Francis Prevost" [B. Paul Newman]. Title-page has "Presentation Copy" embossed stamp; the copy was probably sent to Newman for review. 31. Alarms and Discursions. Methuen, 1910. Light red cloth, t.e.g., others uncut. Published 3 November 1910 in an edition of 2,500 copies. Preliminaries consist of 3 leaves (paginated to vi), and stub of a cancelled leaf visible before p. 1. 32. William Blake. Duckworth [1910]. Green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others cut. Published November 1910 at 2s. 32 reduced facsimile illustrations. Verso of half-title and adverts leaf at end list 21 titles in this popular Library of Art series. 33. Another copy of First Edition sheets, but in a cheaper binding of light brown boards with same gilt design and lettering, cut edges. In original dust-jacket lettered in dark blue. 34. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens. Dent, 1911. Dark green cloth, t.e.g., others lightly trimmed, 8 portraits. These critical essays are the introductions to the various works published in the Everyman Library series. Titling of book in gilt on spine is reversed: "Criticisms/And/ Appreciations/of/Charles Dickens'/Works/[small ornament]/G. K. Chesterton/[at footU. M. Dent & Sons Ltd." The heading to the Introduction repeats the inversion. First blank before title is not included in pagination. Published

129 CHESTERTON (Gilbert Keith) 1874-1936 February 1911 at 7s. 6d. in an edition of 2,500 copies. Late issued copies of First Edition sheets have top edges stained green, not gilt. 35. The Ballad of the White Horse. Methuen, 1911. Olive green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Published 31 August 1911 at 5s. in an edition of 1,500 copies. 36. Another copy, identical with above in all details. Inscribed: "To Annie-with feelings inexpressible, G. K. C." The inscription, with drawing, occupies the whole front free end-paper. Headed "King Alfred wondering whether to eat his cake or have it," it is a humorous pen-drawing of the king seated on a stool with his cake, crown and sword still buckled on. 37. Thackeray, W. M. The Book of Snobs. With an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. Blackie & Son [1911]. A volume of the publisher's Red Letter Library in the superior binding, dark green leather, gilt, t.e.g., frontispiece portrait. 38. Manalive. Thomas Nelson, 1912. Blue blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered, edges cut, coloured frontispiece, green printed monogram end-papers. Published in February 1912 in Nelson's New Two-shilling Novels. 39. Another copy of First Edition sheets, but late issue in green cloth differently blind-stamped, spine similarly gilt-lettered, plain white wove end-papers. The blue cloth was unobtainable due to war-time shortage, and these green cloth copies may not have been bound-up until 1914-1915, or even later. 40. A Miscellany of Men. Methuen, 1912. Dark blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g., fore-edges trimmed, lower edges uncut. Published 10 October 1912 at 5s. in an edition of 2,000 copies. This may be considered as a freak copy, rather than an early issue; the 8 page publisher's catalogue sewn-in at end is dated August 1910; it includes 3 titles by Chesterton, but (naturally) not the present title. 41. Another copy of First Edition, identical in all respects save that the 8 page catalogue at end is dated July 1912. This is the normal state; the catalogue includes the present title under "Types of Men," forthcoming at 5s. 42. Aesop's Fables. A New Translation by V. S. Vsrnon-Jones. With Introduction by G. K. Chesterton, and Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Heinemann, 1912. Light green cloth, gilt, top edges stained to match, others trimmed, green designed end-papers.

CHESTERTON (Gilbert Keith) 1874-1936 Frontispiece and 12 other coloured plates, other illustrations in black and white. 43. The Victorian Age in Literature. William & Norgate [1913]. No. 70 in the Home University Library. Light green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, top edges stained green, others cut. Published in February 1913 at Is. (cloth) and 2s. 6d. (leather). The 8 page catalogue at end lists 60 titles published and various titles "In Preparation," the latter including this book as "The Victorian Age." 44. Magic: A Fantastic Comedy. Martin Seeker [1913]. Square 8vo, smooth blue linen, printed spine label, only lower edges uncut, pp.[73-80] at end carry adverts only. Presentation copy inscribed in Frances Chesterton's autograph: "To Annie & Lizzie and the Kids with love from G. K. C. and F. C. Nov 7th, 1913." This is a presentation to the Firmin sisters; Chesterton himself kept an imaginary diary purporting to be written by these 2 sisters, sending it to them day by day. Alas, it has disappeared (see Maisie Ward, Return to Chesterton, London & New York: Sheed & Ward, 1952, p. 38.) 45. Another copy. Buff wrappers, upper side pictorially designed and lettered in black, spine lettered downward's in black. This is the cheaper issue printed at the Ballantyne Press, price Is. The signed Edition-de-luxe, again issued without date, was printed at the Westminster Press in 1920. 46. The Flying Inn. Methuen, 1914. Red cloth, gilt spine, upper side blind-stamped, top edges cut, fore-edges lightly trimmed, lower edges uncut. U8 at end is blank, followed by 8 page catalogue Methuen's Popular Novels, dated Spring 1914, and by a 32 page catalogue dated September 1913. Published January 22 at 6s. in an edition of 3,000 copies. 47. The Wisdom of Father Brown. Cassell, 1914. Blue cloth, spine gilt, upper cover blind-stamped, edges cut, coloured frontispiece. It is stated that some copies were bound in dark blue cloth. All copies appear to lack the first numeral of 12 in the last item on Contents page. 48. The Trial of John Jasper. . . for the Murder of Edwin Drood. Heard by Mr. Justice Gilbert Keith Chesterton. . . . Verbatim Report of the Proceedings from the Shorthand Notes of J. W. T. Ley. Chapman & Hall, 1914. Large square 8vo, blue wrappers lettered in black, trimmed edges. Price 2/6d. net. Bernard Shaw was Foreman of the Jury in this reconstruction from Dicken's novel.

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CHESTERTON (Gilbert Keith) 1874-1936 49. Poems. Bums & Gates, 1915. Red smooth buckram, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait. P.[157] at end carries Chiswick press ornament and imprint, pp.[ 159-166] carry adverts and final leaf M8 is blank. Published in April at 5s. in an edition of 2,000 copies. 50. Wine, Water and Song. Methuen, 1915. Cream parchment vellum, upper cover with elaborate frame in blue, green and red, t.e.g., others uncut. Spine gilt-lettered in 5 lines with rule and ornament. Published 6 August in an edition of 2,000 copies, but the bulk of these were put-up in orange paper wrappers at Is. 51. The Crimes of England. Cecil Palmer & Hayward, 1915. Light brown wrappers lettered black down spine and on upper side, top edges cut, others trimmed. 52. Another copy; this is the issue in crimson cloth, gilt-lettered down the spine and in 2 lines on upper side with gilt emblem. The publisher's monogram is blind-stamped in lower right-hand corner of upperside. Inscribed by Mrs. Chesterton (though unsigned): "With our love to Lizzie." The recipient has added her name, Firmin, after the Christian name. 53. Maynard, Theodore. Laughs and Whifts of Song. Erskine MacDonald, 1915. Blue printed wrappers, uncut. The book is dedicated to G. K. Chesterton, and there is a 4 page Introduction by him, though there is no reference to this on title-page. Inscribed: "To Mr. & Mrs. Wilfrid Meynell from the author." 54. A Shilling for My Thoughts: Being a Selection from the Essays, Stories and Other Writings of G. K. Chesterton. Methuen, 1916. Light blue cloth, spine lettered darker blue, cut edges. The selection was made by E. V. Lucas. 55. Another copy, identical with above. On end-paper is a humorous drawing, entitled "Scene in Beaconsfield" of the author himself out walking, followed by his dog. The inscription is: "With love from Frances" in his wife's autograph, and "& Gilbert" in his autograph. This was acquired with the books of Mrs. Robert Kidd (Annie Firmin), which confirms that it was sent to her, the old friend of his childhood years.

CHESTERTON (Gilbert Keith) 1874-1936 56. Cobbett, William. Cottage Economy. With an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. Douglas Pepler, 1916. Green boards, half green cloth, spine titling label, trimmed edges. This edition was reissued by Peter Davies in 1926. 57. The Book of Job. With an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton and Illustrated in Colour by C. M. Tongue. Cecil Palmer & Hayward, 1916. Large square 8vo, light brown boards designed in darker brown, beige linen spine, trimmed edges. Though proclaiming itself "First Edition 1916" on page v, this book is an illustrated reprint of the edition issued in 1907. 58. Mandell, C. C., and Shanks, Edward. Hilaire Belloc. With an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. Methuen, 1916. Blue cloth. 59. Merrick, Leonard. The House of Lynch. Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. Hodder & Stoughton [1918]. Uniform Collected Edition, dark blue cloth, gilt. 60. Chesterton, Cecil. A History of the United States. With an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. Chatto, 1919. Light red cloth, black lettered, only lower edges uncut, frontispiece portrait, in pictorial dust-jacket (6s. net). 61. The Superstition of Divorce. Chatto & Windus, 1920. Blue-black cloth, lettered in pink, top edges cut, others trimmed. Published 5 January at 5s. in an edition of 5,000 copies. 62. Magic: A Fantastic Comedy. Martin Seeker [1920]. A new edition, printed at the Westminster Press, of the work first issued in 1913. Tall 8vo, blue boards, spine titling label, No. 104 of 150 copies printed on Japon paper and signed by the author. 63. The Uses of Diversity: A Book of Essays. Methuen, 1920. Blue cloth, spine gilt, upper side lettered blind, only lower edges uncut. Undated 8 page publisher's catalogue at end. Published 21 October at 6s. in an edition of 2,500 copies. 64. The New Jerusalem. Hodder & Stoughton [1920]. Tall 8vo, light blue cloth, gilt spine, edges cut. Al before half-title is blank. Published 19 November at 12s. 6d. in an edition of 5,000 copies.

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65. Jones, M. E. Monckton. Life in Old Cambridge. Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. Cambridge: W. Heifer, 1920. Semi-limp blue cloth, designed in black, printed dust-jacket (l/6d. net). Illustrated.

74. St. Francis of Assisi. Hodder & Stoughton [1923]. Light blue cloth, a volume of the People's Library. Published 26 October at 2s. 6d. in an edition of 2,000 copies. Some copies of First Edition have blue end-papers, but in present copy they are plain white wove. Copies issued later advertise further volumes in the series on verso of half-title.

66. The G. K. Chesterton Calender: A Quotation from the Works of G. K. Chesterton for Every Day of the Year. Selected by Cecil Palmer. 2nd. ed. Cecil Palmer, 1921. Designed cream parchment wrappers lettered down the spine and on upper side in red and green, frontispiece portrait, edges cut, bibliographical statement on verso of title-page. Inscription to Mrs. Robert Kidd.

75. Hernaman, Irene. Child Mediums. Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. S. Dominic's Press, 1923. Light brown wrappers lettered and designed in black, uncut edges. Chesterton's preface is 7 pages.

67. Eugenics and Other Evils. Cassell, 1922. Dark red ribbed cloth, top edges stained to match, others uncut.

76. The End of the Roman Road: A Pageant of Wayfarers. Classic Press, 1924. Light blue cloth, upper side gilt-lettered, top edges cut, others uncut, marbled end-papers, coloured frontispiece. H3 and H4 at end are blank.

68. Another copy, cloth a plain linen texture without blind-rule border round upper cover, and no gilt band top and bottom of spine, all edges cut. Such copies stand appreciably less tall on shelf and constitute a secondary issue. The whole edition consisted of 4,000 copies published at 6s.

77. Krasinski, Z. The Un-Divine Comedy. Preface by G. K. Chesterton. Harrap [1924]. Large square 8vo, blue cloth, top edges stained, others uncut. Printed in Poland. Blind circular Review stamp on title-page. Chesterton's preface is 6 pages.

69. The Ballad of St. Barbara and Other Verses. Cecil Palmer, 1922. Decorated boards with black cloth spine, gilt-lettered, top edges stained yellow, others lightly trimmed. The first and last leaves are blank.

78. MacDonald, Greville. George MacDonald and His Wife. With Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. Allen & Unwin, 1924. Imperial 8vo, blue cloth, gilt.

70. The Man Who Knew Too Much and Other Stories. Cassell, 1922. Green cloth, lettered spine and upper side in dark blue. The first and last leaves are blank. Published 22 November at 7s. 6d. in an edition of 4,000 copies.

79. The Victorian Age in Literature. Williams & Norgate, 1925. Crown 8vo, bright red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait. First issued in 1913 as No. 70 of the publisher's Home University Library, it was reprinted in that format 6 times. The present edition is in a larger crown 8vo format.

71. Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol. Facsimile of the original edition with Introduction by G. K. Chesterton and Preface by B. W. Mate. Cecil Palmer, 1922. Red cloth, gilt, all edges gilt, green end-papers, coloured illustrations. 72. Austen, Jane. Love and Friendship and Other Early Works, Now First Printed from the Original MS. Preface by G. K, Chesterton. Chatto & Windus, 1922. Red boards, elaborately gilt designed, half red cloth, in printed dust-jacket (6s. net). 73. What I Saw in America. Hodder & Stoughton, 1923. Dark green cloth, gilt spine, edges cut, produced in uniform format with The New Jerusalem save for colour of cloth. In printed dust-jacket (12/6 net). The earliest copies of this book to be issued were dated 1922. Publication date was 1 September 1922.

80. The Everlasting Man. Hodder & Stoughton [1925]. Tall 8vo, dark red cloth, spine gilt, edges cut. Published 30 September at 12s. 6d. in an edition of 3,000 copies. 81. Tales of the Long Bow. Cassell, 1925. Light green cloth lettered in dark green, only lower edges uncut. Al blank before half-title. Published June 1925 at 7s. 6d. in an edition of 7,500 copies. 82. The Incredulity of Father Brown. Cassell, 1926. Black cloth, red lettered and ruled, only lower edges uncut. Published in June 1926 at 7s. 6d. in an edition of 7,500 copies.

132 CHESTERTON (Gilbert Keith) 1874-1936 83. The Outline of Sanity. Methuen, 1926. Green cloth, spine gilt, upper cover blind-lettered, edges cut. P4 at end is blank save for imprint of Morrison & Gibb on verso, followed by 4 leaves of Methuen's General Literature dated at end 10.26, which complete the gathering. Published 2 December at 6s. in an edition of 4,000 copies. 84. The Queen of Seven Swords. Sheed & Ward, 1926. Purple boards with orange spine and titling label on upper side, top edges cut, others lightly trimmed, in printed dust-jacket (Price 2/6). Also issued in several other bindings which include blue buckram at 4s. 6d. 85. The Catholic Church and Conversion. Burns, Dates & Washbourne, 1926. Dark blue cloth, gilt, cut edges. A volume of the Calvert Series, with a 5 page note by the General Editor, Hilaire Belloc. Printed in America; the publisher imported sheets from Macmillan of New York in December 1926 and issued the book in January 1927 at 4s. 86. Ainslie, Douglas. Chosen Poems. With a Preface by G. K. Chesterton. Hogarth Press, 1926. Marbled boards, spine titling label, trimmed edges. 6 page Preface by Chesterton. 87. Johnson, Samuel. The History of Rasselas. Illustrations by D. P. Bliss. Dent, 1926. Black cloth, gilt, top edges stained to match, others cut. Chesterton's Introduction is 4 pages. 88. Groom, G. Laurence. The Ship of Destiny. Preface by G. K. Chesterton. Leeds: Swan Press, 1926. No. 36 of 250 copies, pale orange boards, designed green. Author's autograph inscription on end-paper. 89. Gloria in Profundis (Chorus from an Unfinished Play). Faber & Gwyer [1927]. No. 5 of the Ariel Poems, sewn into yellow wrappers lettered on sides in black. With full page engraving by Eric Gill, also small block on cover. 90. The Return of Don Quixote. Chatto & Windus, 1927. Light blue cloth, gilt spine, top edges stained to match, only lower edges uncut, 2 leaves of publisher's adverts at end. Published 6 May at 7s. 6d. in an edition of 7,500 copies. 91. The Secret of Father Brown. Cassell, 1927. Black cloth, spine gilt, only lower edges uncut. T8 at end is blank. Published in September at 7s. 6d. in an edition of 8,000 copies.

CHESTERTON (Gilbert Keith) 1874-1936 92. The Judgement of Dr. Johnson: A Comedy in Three Acts. Sheed & Ward, 1927. Brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, edges cut. F7 and F8 are blank at end. 93. Another copy, identical save that the 2 blank leaves are not present. This appears to be a published state rather than an imperfection. Published in October at 2s. 6d. (in wrappers) and 3s. 6d. (cloth). Copies of the cloth edition are also found in which spine is blank. 94. Robert Louis Stevenson. Hodder & Stoughton [1927]. Light blue cloth, spine and upper cover gilt, edges cut. Published 8 November 1927 at 6s. in an edition of 2,800 copies. The biographies of Savonarola and Napoleon, announced as "In Preparation" in William Cobbett in 1925-which never appeared-are here still similarly advertised. 95. The Collected Poems of G. K. Chesterton. Cecil Palmer, 1927. Tall 8vo, light blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, top edges stained to match cloth, others trimmed. Pp.[365-366] at end blank save for printer's imprint on verso at foot. 96. Generally Speaking: A Book of Essays. Methuen, 1928. Foolscap 8vo, dark blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 5 lines with small leaf ornament, between double rules top and bottom, also lettered in blind on upper side in 2 lines, with blind rule round edge, lower cover blank. In printed dust-wrapper (61net). With an inscription to "My dear Lizzie" [Firmin]. 97. Webb, Mary. The Golden Arrow. With an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. Cape, 1928. Light green cloth, gilt, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket. Uniform Collected Edition. 98. The Poet and the Lunatics: Episodes in the Life of Gabriel Gale. Cassell, 1929. Crown 8vo, black rough linen, spine gilt-lettered in 6 lines between rules top and bottom, edges cut. Printer's imprint in 3 lines below rule at foot of last page [282]. Code lettering is F60.629. 99. The Father Brown Stories. Cassell, 1929. Red cloth, gilt spine, top edges stained, others cut. The first omnibus edition, 1,048 pages, containing the stories of the 4 separately published volumes. It was reset and reissued in 1947 to include "The Scandal of Father Brown."

133 CHESTERTON (Gilbert Keith) 1874-1936 100. Christmas Poems. Burns, Dates & Washbourne [1929]. 24 pages, of which the first and last leaves are folded into the wrappers, sewn into cream parchment wrappers lettered and designed in gold, edges uncut, frontispiece portrait. These poems are selected from Chesterton's Poems (1915). Mrs. Robert Kidd's copy, with her inscription. 101. The Thing. Sheed & Ward, 1929. Light blue cloth, lettered dark blue, edges cut, in yellow printed dust-jacket (7s. 6d. net). 102. G. K. C. as M. C.: Being a Collection of Thirty-Seven Introductions. Methuen, 1929. Purple cloth, gilt spine, top edges cut, others uncut. Frontispiece drawing of the author. Published 31 October at 7s. 6d. in an edition of 2,500 copies. 103. Bentley, E. Clerihew. More Biography. With Illustrations by G. K. Chesterton. Methuen, 1929. Large square 8vo, buff coloured boards, grey linen spine, 2 titling labels. 104. The Grave of Arthur: A Poem. Drawings by Celia Fiennes. Faber [1930]. No. 25 of the Ariel Poems, 8 pages, sewn into mauve wrappers folded over first and last blanks. There was also a Large Paper edition dated 1930 and limited to 350 copies signed by the author. Published September 1930 at Is. and 7s. 6d. respectively. 105. Chaucer. Faber, 1932. Bright green cloth, gilt spine, top edges stained red, others cut. Published 11 April at 12s. 6d. 106. Sidelights on New London and Newer York and Other Essays. Sheed & Ward, 1932. Light red cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 4 lines with drawing between rules in dark blue. Top edges stained to match cloth, others cut, in yellow pictorially designed dust-jacket (6/- net). 107. St. Thomas Aquinas. Hodder & Stoughton, 1933. Bright blue cloth, blind-stamped. Spine lettered in black, edges cut. In yellow printed dust-jacket. Published 21 September at 2s. 6d. in an edition of 10,000 copies. Produced uniformly with St. Francis of Assisi (1923), though the series title does not appear anywhere. 108. Johnson Society. Report of the Speeches at Third Annual Dinner. Johnson Society, 1933. Light blue printed wrappers. G. K. Chesterton responded to the Toast (pp. 6-11).

CHESTERTON (Gilbert Keith) 1874-1936 109. The Way of the Cross: An Interpretation by Frank Brangwyn. With a Commentary by G. K. Chesterton. Hodder & Stoughton [1935]. Cream vellum, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, in smooth white board slip-case. No. 7 of 250 copies, signed by artist and author. Published 5 December 1935 at £7. 7s. 0. An ordinary edition followed this Editionde-luxe on 12 March 1936, of 2,500 copies at 12s. 6d. 110. The Scandal of Father Brown. Cassell, 1935. Dark blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 8 lines between rules top and bottom, edges cut. Al is blank before half-title. 111. Autobiography. Hutchinson, 1936. Black cloth, spine gilt, 9 plates, edges cut, in pictorial dust-jacket (10s. 6d. net). There is another state of First Edition with Burns, Gates imprint on title-page and foot of spine. These copies are otherwise identical dated 1936 and with same errors in titles of books by Chesterton on verso of half-title. 112. Autobiography. Burns, Gates & Washbourne, 1937. An unspecified edition, identical in all respects with above (including errors in list of titles) save for date 1937. 113. The Autobiography of G. K. Chesterton. New York: Sheed & Ward, 1936. Tall 8vo, red cloth, spine and upper side gilt, edges cut, 10 illustrations. The American edition (Haddon Craftsmen, Camden, New Jersey), is in a different typesetting from the London edition with different pagination and partly different illustrations. 114. The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond. Cassell [1937]. Black cloth, spine lettered in mauve, edges cut. Published in March 1937 at 7s. 6d. in an edition of 5,000 copies. Imprint of Chapel River Press set in 4 lines; verso of title has register F.1236. 115. The Coloured Lands. Illustrated by the Author. Sheed & Ward, 1938. Large square 8vo, decorated boards, half yellow cloth lettered black, cut edges, in coloured dust-jacket. Coloured and plain plates. Eight page Introduction by Maisie Ward. 116. Father Brown: Selected Stories. With Introduction by Ronald Knox. Oxford University Press, 1955. Dark blue cloth, in green pictorial dust-jacket (6s. net). A volume in the World's Classics series, first impression. The 11 page Introduction is dated April 1954.

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Secondary Material

Association Items

117. Hutton, John A. Ancestral Voices. Hodder [1915]. Dark red cloth, gilt spine. Contains "Tertium Quid, the Message of G. K. Chesterton," pp. 95-130.

119. Titterton, W. R. G. K. Chesterton: A Portrait. Alex Ouseley, 1936. Sage green cloth, edges cut, frontispiece portrait.

124. Reed, E. T. Mr. Punch's Animal Land. Drawn and Written by E. T. Reed, maker of "Prehistoric Peeps." Bradbury, Agnew, 1898. Small 4to (7 3/4" x 10 1/4") bevelled light red cloth, gilt, all edges gilt, dark blue end-papers. A "gutta-percha" book, printed on single sheets glued on to linen spine, the whole printed in red and black with drawings &c., the text in facsimile MS. Given by Chesterton's brother Cecil to Elizabeth Firmin, inscribed: "The Lizz from her very sincere friend The Cecichest, Xmas 1899." The inscription, which incorporates amusing caricatures of recipient and donor, fills a whole blank page.

120. Ward, Maisie. Gilbert Keith Chesterton. New York: Sheed & Ward, 1943. Tall 8vo, light red cloth, spine lettered in blue, upper side lettered and designed in blue, edges cut, illustrations. Printed by Burr Printing House, Inc., New York. With Mrs. Robert Kidd's bookplate and inscribed by the author to her: "For Annie Firmin (now Kidd) with gratitude for much help. Maisie Ward Sheed. Michaelmas Day, 1943."

125. White, J. W. Gleeson, ed. The Pageant. Art Editor C. Haselwood Shannon. Henry, 1896. 4to, light brown cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered and designed, all edges uncut, designed end-papers. The first number of the gift-book of which the second (and final) appeared in the following year. This was another presentation to Elizabeth Firmin. It is inscribed on the first leaf (a) before half-title: "Lizzie Firmin from Cecil E. Chesterton. Xmas, 1897."

121. Ward, Maisie. Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Sheed & Ward, 1945. Orange cloth, gilt, in printed dust-jacket (21/- net). This is the third printing; the first was dated 1944.

126. Chesterton, Cecil. Gladstonian Ghosts. Printed at the Lanthorn Press, and published in London by S. C. Brown Langham & Co. Ltd. [1905]. Bluish green cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 9 lines, upper side in 2 lines, edges cut. 08 at end is a final blank.

118. Braybrooke, Patrick. The Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton. Cecil Palmer, 1929. Bright blue cloth, spine titling label, edges cut. Inscribed: "To Rathmell Wilson [a long inscription] Patrick Braybrooke: Publication Day, 23rd April 1929."

122. Ward, Maisie. Return to Chesterton. London & New York: Sheed & Ward, 1952. Tall 8vo, reddish brown cloth, gilt-lettered up spine, edges cut, in pictorial dust-jacket, 8 illustrations. 123. Mackey, Aidan. Mr. Chesterton Conies to Tea, or, How the King of England Captured Redskin Island. Written to accompany 16 hitherto unpublished pencil drawings by G. K. Chesterton. With an introductory essay on Chesterton as Artist by Richard Ingrams. Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press, 1978. Oblong 4to, 10 1/2" x 7 1/2", coloured decorated boards, black buckram spine, titling label on upper side and gilt-lettered down spine, top edges stained pink, others uncut, in board slip-case as issued. Frontispiece portrait of G. K. Chesterton. No. Ill of 370 copies printed, signed by the author and the writer of the Introduction.

127. [Rhys, Ernest, ed.] Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen. London: J. M. Dent; New York: E, P. Dutton, 1909. A copy of the Everyman's Library edition, blue cloth, gilt spine. A somewhat dilapidated copy, once in Chesterton's possession and inscribed by him for the daughter of his childhood friend Annie Firmin (Mrs. Robert Kidd): "To Honor Kidd commonly called Molly, from G. K. Chesterton. I bring you peace with Molly. Lord Beaconsfield. But it be a sin to covet Molly/I am the most offending soul alive. Henry V." For a long letter to her, see Maisie Ward, Gilbert Keith Chesterton (New York: Sheed & Ward, 1943), p. 633. 128. Chesterton, Cecil. The Story of Nell Gwyn. T. N. Foulis, 1911. Foolscap 8vo, cream boards, green linen spine, spine and upper side gilt-lettered and with oval coloured mounted portrait, t.e.g., others uncut, in designed dust-jacket. A volume of the Queens of Beauty and Romance series, published at 2/6d. net. 20 illustrations.

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Author's autograph presentation to Elizabeth Firmin, inscribed: "To Lizzie with every good wish from Cecil." 129. Chesterton, Frances. Poems. Beaconsfield: For private circulation only [1915]. 8vo, 24 pages, sewn into dark green wrappers, upper side lettered in 3 lines in black, trimmed edges. The Firmin copy, with Mrs. Kidd's signature on half-title. Below the author's name on this leaf (which serves as the only title-page) is her autograph inscription: "With her love to you. Christmas, 1915." 130. Chesterton, Mrs. Cecil. The Chestertons. Chapman & Hall, 1941. 8vo, rough red linen, spine lettered in 6 lines in silver with one small ornament, all edges cut, 8 illustrations. Bookplate of Mrs. Robert Kidd, who is the Annie Firmin mentioned on page 37 of this book. Note: Cecil Chesterton's essay "Democracy and the Great State" was first printed in The Great State: Essays in Construction (Harper & Bros., 1912). See the H. G. Wells collection. For Cecil Chesterton's The Party System (1911) in collaboration with Hilaire Belloc, see the Hilaire Belloc collection.

CHILDE (Wilfred Rowland)

1890-1952

5. The Song of the Magi. [No publisher, 1939]. Poem of 4 quatrains, printed on a single sheet of laid paper, folded once to form a 4 page booklet. Christmas and New Year (1939-1940) Greeting from the author. 6. The Blessed Pastures. Hull: The Lotus Press, 1950. Pale blue semi-stiff wrappers lettered in darker blue. No. 49 of 50 copies numbered and signed by the author. This is the first number of the Acadine Poets, edited by Robin Skelton and Derrrick Metcalfe. 7. Another copy, the unsigned issue, limitation not stated. Virtually identical with above save no certificate on verso of title, and in colophon on p.[24] the price is 2/-, whereas it is 3/6 in the superior issue. Small inscription on first page probably in author's hand. 8. For the Bestowal of a Doctor's Degree on Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles. [no publisher, no date]. Poem of 6 stanzas (36 lines) printed on one side of a single sheet (6 3/4" x 8 1/2") of fine quality paper watermarked "Made in England." CHOLMONDELEY (Mary) 1859-1925

CHILDE (Wilfred Rowland) 1890-1952 1. The Little City. Oxford: Blackwell, 1912. Second impression, an uncut copy bound (without the wrappers) in cream coloured buckram with green leather lettering label. A composite volume from the library of Reginald L. Hine (with bookplate), the other items being Arrows of Adolescence by H. B. S. Nutt (1909), and volume 23 of the Cambridge Christ's College Magazine (1909), which is the Milton Centenary number. 2. The Gothic Rose and Other Poems. Oxford: Blackwell, 1922. Pink decorated boards, spine titling label, uncut. Inscribed: "To Mrs. Leverson, with the best wishes of the author, Wilfred Childe, 5:9:25." 3. Blue Distance. Swan Press, 1930. Pale blue mottled boards, half parchment gilt-titled, label printed in blue on upper side, in printed dust-jacket (5s. net). 4. Selected Poems. Nelson, 1936. Blue-grey boards, lettered in darker blue, top edges cut, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket.

1. Diana Tempest. 3 vols. R. Bentley, 1893. Half blue cloth, spines gilt-lettered, patterned board sides, trimmed edges, publisher's grey monogram end-papers, half-titles in all volumes. 2. Red Pottage. Edward Arnold, 1899. Light red bevelled cloth, silver lettered and designed spine and upper side, green patterned end-papers, edges cut. No blank before half-title. Probably secondary state. Early copies appear to have had 32 page catalogue at end dated October 1899, which is lacking here. 3. Moth and Rust, together with Geoffrey's Wife and the Pitfall. Murray, 1902. Light blue cloth, gilt-lettered and designed, white enamel 7 line frame round upper side, 3 line similar band top and bottom of spine, top edges cut, others uncut. Al blank; U5-U6 at end are 2 leaves of adverts, followed by one printer's imprint leaf and a final blank. 4. Prisoners (Fast Bound in Misery and Iron). Hutchinson, 1906. Smooth red cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, trimmed edges. Fourth leaf of final gathering 22 at

136 CHOLMONDELEY (Mary) 1859-1925 end carries adverts only, followed by publisher's 24 page catalogue dated August 1906. 5. The Romance of His Life and Other Romances. Murray, 1921. Light bluish cloth black lettered spine and upper side, trimmed edges. Dedicated "To Percy Lubbock." The author's last publication. Secondary Material

CHURCH (Richard William) 1815-1890 5. Bacon. Macmillan, 1888. The New Edition, first in the publisher's dark red cloth Eversley Series format, in which it became volume 5 of the author's Miscellaneous Writings. 6. Dante, and Other Essays. Macmillan, 1888. Eversley Series format, in which it is volume 2 of the Author's Miscellaneous Writings. The other 2 essays are on Wordsworth and on Browning's Sordello.

6. Lubbock, Percy. Mary Cholmondeley: A Sketch from Memory. Cape, 1928. Rough cloth, gilt-lettered down spine, trimmed edges, frontispiece photograph. In printed dust-jacket (3/6 net).

7. The Oxford Movement: Twelve Years, 1833-1845. Macmillan, 1891. Tall 8vo, bright blue cloth, uncut edges, dark green end-papers. 2A4 at end carries adverts only, followed by publisher's 64 page catalogue dated November 1890 at head and 11/90 on p. 64.

Note: See the Sir Theodore Martin collection for his translation of the Poems of Giacomo Leopardi (Blackwood, 1904) with author's presentation inscription to Mary Cholmondeley.

8. The Oxford Movement: Twelve Years, 1833-1845. Macmillan, 1904. Eversley Series format: this is a reprint of the Third Edition.

CHURCH (Richard William) 1815-1890 1. Essays and Reviews. J. & C. Mozley, 1854. Tall 8vo, blind-stamped rich wine coloured cloth, uncut, primrose end-papers, binder's ticket of Edmonds and Remnants, OO6 at end blank. Armorial bookplate of H. G. Davies, Elmley Castle. The author's first acknowledged book. His Life of Wulston (1844) was contributed anonymously to Lives of the English Saints (q.v. the Newman collection). 2. Hooker, Richard. Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity: Book I. Edited by R. W. Church. 2nd ed. London: Macmillan for University of Oxford, 1876. Dark red cloth, trimmed edges. A volume of the Clarendon Press series. 16 page Clarendon Press catalogue at end dated October 1876. Belonged to T. W. H. Rolleston, the Irish philosopher, and has his autograph in ink dated May 1877 (when he was aged 20), also his extensive pencil annotations in the text. 3. Spenser. Macmillan, 1879. The superior issue in cream linen with spine titling label, edges uncut. In the 4 pages of Macmillans' adverts at end, this volume in the English Men of Letters series is listed as "Ready." 4. Bacon. Macmillan, 1884. English Men of Letters series; the superior issue in cream linen with spine titling label, edges uncut. In the 4 pages of Macmillans' adverts at end 33 volumes of the series are offered, the last of which, Mrs. Oliphant's Sheridan (1883), is described as "Just ready."

9. The Beginnings of the Middle Ages. Macmillan, 1895. First published by Longmans in 1877, this is the first printing (by permission) in Macmillan's Eversley Series, in which it is volume 6 of the author's Miscellaneous Writings. T. J. Cobden-Sanderson's copy, inscribed in ink: "T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, The Doves Bindery, January 1897." Also with his neat pencil annotations on end-leaves. 10. Life and Letters of Dean Church. Edited by his Daughter Mary C. Church. With a Preface by the Dean of Christ Church. Macmillan, 1895. Half ecclesiastical calf, marbled sides, red leather spine titling label, red edges, frontispiece portrait. Canon Alderson's copy with his signature dated March 1899; from the sale of his library at The Close, Salisbury in October 1962, from which source the copy of The Oxford Movement (1891) is also derived. 11. Life and Letters of Dean Church. 2nd ed. Macmillan, 1897. Entirely reset and now included in the publisher's Eversley Series. 12. Pascal, and Other Sermons. Macmillan, 1895. Dark red cloth, uncut edges, dark blue end-papers. 13. Occasional Papers. Selected from The Guardian, The Times, and The Saturday Review, 1846-1890. 2 vols. Macmillan, 1897. Dark red cloth, uncut. A volume in the Eversley Series where it forms volumes 8 and 9 in the author's Miscellaneous Writings. In the 2 leaves of publisher's adverts at end these volumes are listed as "Immediately."

137 CHURCH (Richard William) 1815-1890 Association Items 14. Witte, Carolum. Dantis Alligherii de Monarchia, Libri 3. Vindobonal, 1874. Half dark blue morocco; Church's copy with his Deanery, St. Paul's bookplate and autograph inscription dated January 1876. Also with a later pencil inscription: "Given to me June 1878 by Dean Church, in memory of our Italian journey, M. M. Adams." 16. Church, F. J., tr. The "De Monarchia" of Dante. Macmillan, 1879. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt, uncut. Inscribed: "C. Comyns Tucker, from the translator, May 17 1879." F. J. Church was Dean Church's son. CLARE (John) 1793-1864 1. Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery Taylor & Hessey, 1820. Contemporary half blue calf, marbled sides, sprinkled edges. No leaf before half-title, but with the 5 leaves of adverts at end, L4 to L8, and an otherwise perfect copy of the poet's first book. 2. Another copy, in an attractive contemporary half blue calf binding, gilt spine with raised bands and red titling label, but imperfect. No half-title, no p. xxiii-xxiv, and no adverts leaves at end. 3. The Village Minstrel and Other Poems. 2 vols. Taylor & Hessey, 1821. Contemporary green morocco, gilt-panelled spines and sides, all edges gilt. No adverts leaves but an otherwise perfect set of the poet's second work, with both half-titles and frontispiece plates.

CLARE (John) 1793-1864 but are now in 10 lines with "Second Edition" above the price. The 12s. is without the word "Price" before it. This is not the true Second Edition, which did not appear until 1823 and in which the title-pages bear edition statement. 6. The Shepherd's Calendar. With Village Stories, and Other Poems. John Taylor, 1827. Original drab brown boards, entirely uncut, frontispiece plate after half-title, L12 at end carries publisher's "Poetical Work" adverts only, which include the Fourth and Second Editions of Clare's 2 earlier works and Keats's Endymion, "Price 9s. boards." Copies of The Shepherd's Calendar are extant with the original title-page, dated 1826, which may fairly be described as exceptionally rare. The present copy has the cancel title-page pasted on stub. 7. The Gem: A Literary Annual. W. Marshall, 1830. A fair sample of the bindings lavished 150 years ago on the annuals and gift-books of the period. Maroon grained morocco, gilt-panelled spine, wide gilt borders round sides with corner ornaments, blue end-papers with gilt dentelles, all edges gilt. Keats's "In a drear-nighted December," 24 lines in 3 stanzas, was printed here (p. 80) but had been previously published in Galignani's 1829 compendium. But Clare's 2 sonnets printed as the 2 stanzas of "Boston Church," which the author collected into his 1835 volume, The Rural Muse, appear to have been printed here for the first time. There are many substantive textual variants in the 2 printings, besides accidentals such as punctuation and capitalization. The editor (Hood) had already published poems by Clare in his first volume of The Gem in 1829 (see the Hood collection).

4. Another copy, but only of volume 2. Original pale grey-green boards, entirely uncut, spine titling label in 9 lines (including Price 12s.) with 2 short rules, between a thick and thin band top and bottom. Untouched state with the adverts leaves Til and T12 at end, but there is no indication that the frontispiece plate was ever bound in.

8. The Rural Muse. Whittaker, 1835. Dark green vertically ribbed cloth with spine titling label printed in 7 lines (including 7s.) with 2 short rules and between wide and narrow bands top and bottom. All edges uncut. Frontispiece and title-page are printed together on a quarter-sheet of plate paper; the leaf at end advertising Clare's 3 earlier publications on its recto, and with verso blank, appears to be an insert.

5. Another set of First Edition sheets, perfect with both half-titles and frontispiece plates, though without Til and T12 at end of volume 2 (adverts). In untouched original state, green vertically ribbed cloth with blind-stamped sides, all edges cut and sprinkled. The titling labels on spines are similar to the above-described odd volume label

9. Another copy of First Edition sheets in the secondary binding of darker bluish green cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 3 lines: "Clare's Rural Muse." Yellow end-papers, all edges uncut; this issue is without the adverts leaf at end.

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10. Poems by John Clare. Selected and Introduced by Norman Gale. With a Bibliography by C. Ernest Smith. Rugby: G. E. Over, 1901. Light blue boards lettered in darker blue, all edges uncut. Publisher's slip inserted, regarding the numerous errors in the Introduction.

16. The Poems of John Clare. Edited with an Introduction by J. W. Tibbie. 2 vols. J. M. Dent, 1935. Red buckram, spines gilt-lettered, top edges stained to match cloth, others cut, frontispiece plates, 8 line errata on p. xvii of volume 1.

11. Poems by John Clare. Edited with an Introduction by Arthur Symons. Henry Frowde, 1908. Green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others cut, red silk marker. Symons's contribution is an important 24 page essay; also, from his Notes at end, it appears that the text of 26 of the poems is taken from an unpublished manuscript volume. 12. Another copy of First Edition sheets, but in the secondary binding. The volume stands slightly shorter on the shelf, top edges are not gilded, the 6 line frame round upper side is in blind, not gilt, and there is no book-marker. At end is bound a 4 page list of the series~The Oxford Miscellany-dated October 1935, and containing new titles published up to that date. 13. Poems Chiefly from Manuscript. Cobden-Sanderson, 1920. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, spine titling label lettered in blue, only lower edges uncut, frontispiece portrait. The prefatory Note is signed (in print) by Edmund Blunden and Alan Porter, and the 37 page biographical introduction is signed B, but neither of these names appear on title-page or elsewhere. Inscribed: "George O. Whitehead from Edmund Blunden. 31:1:1921." Inserted is the ALS on two 4to sheets which accompanied the gift: a letter of interest, mainly about Blunden's work on Clare. 14. Madrigals and Chronicles: Being Newly Found Poems Written by John Clare. Edited with a Preface and Commentary by Edmund Blunden. Beaumont Press, 1924. No. 294 of 310 copies on handmade paper, decorated boards, half beige holland, all edges uncut. 15. Sketches in the Life of John Clare. Written by Himself, Now First Published. With Introduction, Notes and Additions by Edmund Blunden. Cobden-Sanderson, 1931. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, spine titling label printed in blue, top edges cut, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (6s. net).

17. Grigson, Geoffrey. Selected Poems of John Clare. Edited with Introduction. Routledge, 1950. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine, all edges cut, frontispiece. A volume of the new Muses' Library. 18. The Prose of John Clare. Edited by J. W. and Anne Tibbie. Routledge, 1951. Tall 8vo, bright blue cloth, gilt spine, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (30s. net). 19. The Letters of John Clare. Edited by J. W. and Anne Tibbie. Routledge, 1951. Uniform format with above volume, save colour of cloth is red, in printed dust-jacket (30s. net). 20. Lines Written in Northampton County Asylum. 2nd ed. Printed by Douglas Martin at the Orpheus Press, 1959. No. 31 of 100 copies, 8 pages sewn into beige wrappers. Illustrations by Rigby Graham. Secondary Material 21. Martin, Frederick. The Life of John Clare. Macmillan, 1865. Smooth green buckram, spine titling label printed in green, all edges uncut. Presentation copy from Edmund Blunden to John Middleton Murry, neatly inscribed in ink (initials only) on end-paper. Particularly fine copy of this important first book on Clare, containing first printing of much new material. 22. Dack, C. The John Clare Centenary Exhibition Catalogue. Peterborough, 1893. 28 pages (including the frontispiece and 2 adverts leaves at end) sewn, in grey wrappers with upper side lettered in black. The price was 6 pence, and 50 Large Paper copies are advertised at 2/6d., each numbered and signed. 23. Clark, Charles. Mirth and Mocking on Sinner-Stocking . . . . The Whole Assembled for the First Time by W. L. Hanchant. Desmond Harmsworth, 1932. Mottled blue-black cloth, edges cut, in pink printed dust-jacket (3/6 net). Contains the author's letters to Clare and one letter from Clare.

139 CLARE (John) 1793-1864 24. Tibbie, J. W., and Tibbie, Anne. John Clare: A Life. Cobden-Sanderson, 1932. Tall 8vo, rough light green cloth, spine gilt, top edges cut, others lightly trimmed, in printed dust-jacket (21s. net). Five plates. CLARKE (Austin) 1896-1974 1. The Vengeance of Fionn. Maunsel, 1917. Sage green boards, cream holland spine with titling label, top edges cut, others uncut. First Edition of the author's first book. 2. The Fires of Baal. Maunsel & Roberts, 1921. Purple cloth, gilt-lettered in 3 lines on upper side, top edges cut, others uncut. The book consists of 2 gatherings in 8's (32 pages), the leaf following at end and advertising the author's previous publication being a singleton pasted in. 3. The Cattledrive in Connaught and Other Poems. Allen & Unwin, 1925. Light brown holland, gilt-lettered up spine and in 3 lines on upper side, top edges cut, others uncut, in green printed dust-jacket (7s. 6d. net). No. 8 of 50 copies, numbered and signed by the author. 4. The Son of Learning: A Poetic Comedy in Three Acts. Allen & Unwin [1927]. Light blue rough cloth, gilt, in printed dust-jacket, top edges cut, others trimmed. Edition limited to 1,000 copies, of which the first 25 were signed by the author. 5. The Flame: A Play in One Act. Allen & Unwin, 1930. Bright orange wrappers sealed over stiff boards, top edges cut, others uncut. No. 76 of 250 copies, of which the first 25 were signed by the author. 6. Collected Poems. With an Introduction by Padraic Colum. Allen & Unwin, 1936. Green rough cloth, top edges stained to match, others trimmed, in printed dust-jacket (7s. 6d. net). Frontispiece portrait. 7. Later Poems. Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1961. Dark plum red cloth, spine gilt, edges cut, printed dust-jacket.

CLIFFORD (Sir Hugh Charles) 1866-1941 1. In Court and Kampong, Grant Richards, 1897. Green cloth, gilt-lettered, upper side pictorially designed in black, t.e.g., others uncut. Pp.[257-260] at end, first carrying publisher's adverts and second blank, are on a quarter-sheet, presumably part of the preliminaries, transferred by the binder. 2. Studies in Brown Humanity. Grant Richards, 1898. Green cloth, designed in brown, lettered in gilt and brown, edges uncut. S5-S8 at end are numbered 1-8 and carry adverts only, followed by a 16 page publisher's catalogue dated Autumn 1897. This would appear to be the earliest binding batch; copies are more commonly found with a different 24 page catalogue dated Spring 1898. 3. In a Corner of Asia. Fisher Unwin, 1899. Yellow holland lettered in red and designed in green, only lower edges uncut. This is the superior issue; the larger portion of First Edition sheets was put-up in green paper wrappers at a lower price. The front and rear end-papers are of text-paper (same chain-lines) and the upper is printed with a 2 page note, "The Over-Seas Library," initialled by Editor at end: "E. G. 1899. 11 Paternoster Buildings, London." This was, of course, Edward Garnett. A question of significance for bibliographers is: what is the true collation? 4. Sally: A Study and Other Tales of the Outskirts. Blackwood, 1904. Brownish orange cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 10 lines, upper side lettered in black in oblong panel, edges trimmed, dark red end-papers, publisher's 32 page catalogue at end dated 9/04. 5. Heroes of Exile, being Certain Rescued Fragments of Submerged Romance. Smith Elder, 1906. Light blue cloth, trimmed edges. Al is blank before half-title, and signed 'a'. 6. Saleh: A Sequel. Blackwood, 1908. Light red cloth, trimmed edges, 32 page publisher's catalogue at end dated 6/08. First leaf blank before half-title, and not reckoned in pagination. 7. The Downfall of the Gods. John Murray, 1911. Light blue cloth, designed in cream enamel, spine gilt-lettered, trimmed edges. The first leaf, a blank before half-title, is reckoned in pagination.

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8. The Gold Coast Regiment in the East African Campaign. John Murray, 1920. Tall 8vo, light brown cloth, gilt, trimmed edges. Illustrations and Maps.

in 1862 he printed "Say not the struggle nought availeth" among the miscellaneous poems, dating it 1849-though it had not been printed in Ambarvalia in that year. Thus, the Poems of 1862 was where these famous lines first saw print; they appeared again in the Second Edition of the Poems in 1863, when for some reason Palgrave removed the date 1849.

9. In Days That are Dead. John Murray, 1926. Light red cloth, top edges cut, others trimmed, spine gilt-lettered, upper side black lettered in ornamental panel. 10. A Talk on Joseph Conrad and His Work. Colombo: H. W. Cave, 1927. 16 pages tall 8vo, sewn into printed grey-green wrappers, trimmed edges, frontispiece portrait of Conrad. Printed for the Ceylon Branch of the English Association. Red printed slip inserted regarding supply of copies. CLOUGH (Arthur Hugh) 1819-1861 1. The Bothie of Toper-Na-Fuosich: A Long-Vacational Pastoral. Oxford: Macpherson, 1848. Tall 8vo, dark blue linen, upper side gilt-lettered in 2 lines of caps, plain white wove end-papers. Inscribed: "F. Espinafre from A. H. Clough. Manchester Feby 13th, 1849." The MS notes on pp. 17, 18 and 51 of Greek sources &c., also spelling corrections on pp. 26, 36, and 50, all in ink, appear to be in the author's handwriting. 2. Ambarvalia: Poems. By Thomas Burbidge and Arthur H. Clough. Chapman & Hall, 1849. Blind-stamped dark brown cloth, edges uncut, spine gilt lettered in 5 lines, cream end-papers with binder's ticket of Bone & Son. Autograph signature, "George Brimley, Trin. Coll.," and with his bookplate bearing the motto "Esse Quam Videri." Brimley (1819-1857) had been appointed Librarian of Trinity in 1845. 3. Poems. With a Memoir [by F. T. Palgrave]. Macmillan, 1862. Green cloth, gilt, edges uncut, dark reddish brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn, 16 page undated catalogue at end. Signature on title of J. H. Crowder, Bath 1862 and a poem in his handwriting on end-paper, with a reference to page 211 in the text. Crowder appears to have been a cousin of Clough. 4. Another copy, identical in every respect, save no inscription. "From the Publisher" in ink on half title. Clough was not eligible for inclusion in Palgrave's Golden Treasury (1861) as he lived for some months after that book appeared. When Palgrave prepared his edition of Clough

5. Poems. 2nd ed. Macmillan, 1863. Green cloth, gilt, uncut, a very similar volume, down to the "6/-" stamped below publisher's name on spine, but actually containing 58 more pages; there are considerable changes, both in Palgrave's Memoir and in Contents. This copy came from the Bagehot sale at Herds Hill, Langport, immediately prior to its demolition. Inscribed on title-page: "Mrs. Bagehot from A. H. Clough, Dec. 1912," in the handwriting of the poet's son. 6. Letters and Remains. For private circulation only. Spottiswoode, 1865. Green cloth, gilt, reddish brown end-papers. Bookplate of Captain W. St. P. Bunbury, Royal Artillery. 7. Poems and Prose Remains. Edited by His Wife. 2 vols. Macmillan, 1869. Dark green cloth, gilt, edges uncut, dark reddish end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. Frontispiece portrait and title-page in volume 1 printed on a quarter-sheet of plate paper; errata to both volumes printed on verso of Contents page. "Say not the struggle nought availeth" is printed as the last poem in volume 2. 8. Plutarch's Lives, the Translation called Dryden's. Corrected from the Greek and Revised. 5 vols. J. C. Nimmo, 1893. Tall 8vo, bevelled blue cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, blue end-papers. First published in 1859; the present is the reprint generally known as the Library Edition. 9. Selections from the Poems. London and New York: Macmillan & Co., 1894. Blue cloth, gilt, uncut; 4 page series advertiser at end dated 10.7.93. Author's engraved portrait on title-page, which is printed with the half-title on plate paper. A volume in the publisher's Golden Treasury Series (with blind Presentation Copy stamp). When the volume was reprinted in 1904, the portrait became a separate frontispiece, facing title-page. With a 2 page preface by "B. M. S. C.," that is, Mrs. Clough.

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10. Poems. With an Introduction by Charles Whibley. Macmillan, 1913. Green cloth, gilt spine, frontispiece. Publisher's bibliographical statement verso title-page lists this as the Sixth Edition of Palgrave's volume of 1862. It contains the first printing of Whibley's 29 page essay and "Say not the struggle nought availeth" again reverts to become the last poem in the book.

4. Shelley, P. B. Poems. Edited with Notes by C. D. Locock. Introduction by A. Clutton-Brock. 2 vols. Methuen, 1911. Tall 8vo, green cloth, gilt spines, trimmed edges, frontispiece to each volume, in printed dust-jackets (2II- net).

Secondary Material 11. Osborne, James Insley. Arthur Hugh Clough. Constable, 1920. Tall 8vo, dark red cloth, gilt spine, top edges cut, others uncut. In this copy the title-page is a cancel pasted on stub; the earliest copies issued carried the original title-page which was dated 1919. Association Items 12. Lucretius. T. Lucretii Cari. De Rerum Natura. Paris: Lefevre, 1822. Contemporary brown calf, all edges gilt. Inscribed: "A. H. Clough. Ball. Coll. Ox. Cal. Mart. MDCCCXXXVIII." Clough left Rugby and proceeded to Balliol in the previous October, when he was 18. 13. Andrews, Lancelot. Preces Privatae Quotidianae, Graece et Latine. Pickering, 1828. Dark blue cloth, spine titling label. Inscribed: "A. H. Clough. In Dominica Passionis, 1840." Later in the library of Canon Cornish, with his armorial bookplate and autograph inscription. CLUTTON-BROCK (Arthur) 1868-1924 1. The Cathedral Church of York. G. Bell, 1899. Light green cloth, black lettered and designed, 41 illustrations. First Edition of the author's first book; a volume in the publisher's Cathedral Series edited by Gleeson White and E. F. Strange, and with a preface signed by them. 2. Eton. G. Bell, 1900. Blue cloth, designed gilt and darker blue, t.e.g., other edges cut. One of the publisher's Handbooks to the Great Public Schools, with 46 illustrations from photographs. 3. Shelley: The Man and the Poet. Methuen, 1910. Tall 8vo, red cloth, gilt, only lower edges uncut, 8 illustrations. The last leaf of final gathering, pp.[295-296] is blank save for printer's imprint centre verso; 48 page publisher's catalogue at end dated September 1909.

5. William Morris: His Work and Influence. Williams & Norgate, 1914. Pale green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side blind-stamped, top edges stained to match cloth, others cut. Copies bound-up later, with identical 8 page Home University Library advertiser at end, have spine and upper side lettering in black-a war-time economy. 6. Thoughts on the War. [Reprinted from the Times Literary Supplement.] Methuen, 1914. Light blue wrappers lettered down spine and on sides in darker blue, top edges cut, others uncut. 7. More Thoughts on the War. [Reprinted from the Times Literary Supplement.} Methuen, 1915. Produced uniformly with above, save that wrappers are orange. 8. Simpson's Choice: An Essay on the Future Life. Woodcuts by Roald Kristian. Omega Workshops, 1915. 4to, black boards with white design, half smooth fawn Holland, edges uncut. The end-papers are of text-paper with the same watermark-"Van Gelder Zonen"-and the upper free one is used for the limitation certificate, but this is in manuscript: "Edition limited to 500 numbered copies. No. 54." 9. Socialism and the Arts of Use. The Fabian Society. January, 1915. Fabian Tract No. 177, 1C pages, metal fastened. 10. The Ultimate Belief. Constable, 1916. Brown boards, lettered spine and upper side in black, top edges cut, others uncut. 11. Immortality: An Essay in Discovery. [By 5 writers.] Macmillan, 1917. Tall 8vo, blue cloth lettered in gilt and green, trimmed edges. The editor was Canon Streeter, who contributes the Introduction and 2 essays. Clutton-Brock contributes "Presuppositions and Prejudgments" and "A Dream of Heaven." The fourth impression (1925) is identical with this in format, pagination &c. 12. Letters of a Soldier, 1914-1915. Authorized Translation by V. M. Introduction by A. Clutton-Brock, Preface by Andre Chevrillon. Constable, 1917. Blue cloth, spine and upper side lettered in white enamel, top edges cut, others uncut.

142 CLUTTON-BROCK (Arthur) 1868-1924 13. Studies in Christianity. Constable, 1918. Purplish blue cloth, lettered spine and upper side in light blue, top edges cut, others uncut. 14. Faith and Freedom, being Constructive Essays in the Application of Modernist Principles to the Doctrine of the Church. [By 7 writers.] Macmillan, 1918. Dark blue cloth, spine gilt, trimmed edges. Clutton-Brock contributed "The Church and Morality" (41 pages). 15. Essays on Art. Methuen, 1919. Orange-brown cloth, gilt spine, upper side blind-lettered, only lower edges uncut. Publisher's 8 page catalogue at end, also "Presentation Copy" stamp on title-page. 16. What is the Kingdom of Heaven? 4th ed. Methuen, 1919. Purplish blue cloth, same date and format as First Edition. 17. The Spirit. [Essays by 7 writers.] Macmillan, 1919. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt spine, trimmed edges. The editor was Canon Streeter. Clutton-Brock contributed 2 essays—"Spiritual Experience" and "Spirit and Matter." 18. Essays on Books. Methuen, 1920. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine, upper side lettered in blind, only lower edges uncut. Pp.[183-184] at end are blank. 19. More Essays on Books. Methuen, 1921. Produced uniformly with the 1920 volume; 8 page publisher's catalogue at end. 20. Another copy, identical with above in all respects save that spine lettering is in white enamel in 7 lines, and without the ornament. In the printed orange dust-wrapper (6/- net). There is no evidence that this was a secondary binding, though it is probable. 21. Shakespeare's "Hamlet." Methuen, 1922. Dark green cloth, gilt spine, upper side lettered in darker green, only lower edges uncut. H8 at end [pp. 127-128] is blank. 22. Essays on Life. With an Introduction by J. L. Hammond. Methuen, 1925. Half grey linen, blue board sides, spine titling label, fore and lower edges uncut. Errata slip (6 errors) inserted at p. 1.

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23. Essays on Literature and Life. Methuen, 1926. Produced uniformly with the 1925 volume, though only lower edges uncut. By permission of Roger Fry an earlier book, Simpson's Choice (1915), is included here. 24. Essays on Religion. With an Introduction by Canon B. H. Streeter. Methuen, 1926. Produced uniformly with the 2 previous collections. 25. The Miracle of Love and Other Poems. Introduction by Evelyn Clutton-Brock. Published for the Julian Editions, 1926. Tall 8vo, light brown boards, black buckram spine elaborately gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Limited to 450 copies printed at the University Press, Cambridge. COLERIDGE (Mary Elizabeth) 1861-1907 1. The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus. Chatto & Windus, 1893. Pink cloth lettered and designed in black, edges uncut, publisher's 32 page catalogue at end dated January 1893. First Edition of the author's first work; a volume in the Handy Novels series. 2. Fancy's Following. By Anodos [in Greek characters]. Oxford: Daniel, 1896. Tall 8vo, light blue wrappers lettered in black, t.e.g., others entirely uncut. No. 107 of 125 copies. Bound by Morley of Oxford in green crushed levant morocco, gilt spine with 5 raised bands, mottled end-papers with gilt dentelles. 3. The King with Two Faces. Edward Arnold, 1897. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine, edges uncut. The last leaf carries adverts only, followed by publisher's 32 page catalogue dated October 1897. Bookplate of Sir Walter Parratt. 4. The King with Two Faces. 7th ed. Edward Arnold, 1898. Binding is identical with First Edition and the only changes, beside the edition number, are in the adverts leaf (which now advertises this novel in Seventh Edition on recto), and in the 32 page catalogue, now dated June 1898. 5. Fancy's Guerdon. By Anodos. Elkin Mathews, 1897. 32 pages (last leaf a blank) sewn into blue printed wrappers, edges uncut. A volume of the publisher's Shilling Garland series. Following title-page is a leaf with "Note" on recto which is inaccurate and misleading. Theresa Whistler's note in the Collected Poems of Mary Coleridge (1954) corrects this.

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Speaking of the poems of Fancy's Following, she writes of these 48 poems: "Eleven . . . with seven more made up Fancy's Guerdon in 1897."

13. Holman Hunt. Illustrated with 8 Reproductions in Colour. T. C. & E. C. Jack [1908]. Light brown boards with coloured reproduction on upper side, top edges cut, others uncut. A volume of the Masterpieces in Colour series, edited by T. Leman Hare. This is the presumed first state, in which only 17 titles of the series are advertised on verso of half-title.

6. Non Sequitur. James Nisbet, 1900. Light green cloth, designed in darker green, gilt-lettered. Autograph presentation copy from Arthur Coleridge, the author's father, inscribed: "Katherine Alderson from her affectionate friend A. D. Coleridge. January 1901." From the sale of Canon Alderson's Library, The Close, Salisbury, 5th October 1962. 7. Another copy. In both copies pp.[215-216] are blank at end. This copy also is inscribed by the poet's father: "F. J. C. from A. D. C. 1st October 1900." 8. The Fiery Dawn. Edward Arnold, 1901. Dark blue cloth, produced uniformly with The King with Two Faces (1898). Top edges cut, others uncut, 32 page publisher's catalogue at end dated October 1901. Inscribed: "A. J. F. M. (sic) from A. D. C. November 1901," and with the J. A. Fuller Maitland bookplate. 9. Another copy. This also has presentation inscription from the author's father: "Horace Smith, from his old friend A. D. Coleridge, November 5th 1901." 10. The Shadow on the Wall. Edward Arnold, 1904. Produced uniformly with The Fiery Dawn (1901).The final leaf, pp.[287-288], carries adverts only, followed by publisher's 16 page catalogue dated October 1904. With the J. A. Fuller Maitland bookplate. 11. Dixon, Richard Watson, D.D. The Last Poems. Selected and Edited by Robert Bridges. With a Preface by M. E. Coleridge. Henry Frowde, 1905. Blue cloth flecked with white, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, trimmed edges, frontispiece portrait. Loosely inserted are 4 pages of Arthur Coleridge's notepaper with his autograph inscription: "with A. D. Coleridge's compliments." 12. The Lady on the Drawingroom Floor. Edward Arnold, 1906. Green cloth, pictorially designed black and white, top edges cut, others uncut, publisher's 16 page catalogue at end October 1906. With the J. A. Fuller Maitland bookplate.

14. Another copy of First Edition, but a later state, in which 28 titles are advertised, with a further 10 "In Preparation." In these 2 copies the half-title is without the artist's dates, (as he was still living); these were added later. Also, the imprint on p. 78 is Bemrose Dalziel and Ballantyne Press. 15. Holman Hunt. T. C. & E. C. Jack [? 1910]. Identical binding, pagination &c. It can hardly be described as First Edition, though it bears no contrary certification. The more noticeable differences are on the half-title page, where on recto the artist's dates are added-1827-1910~and on verso where 48 titles in the series are advertised. Presumably the artist's death prompted the issue, which cannot have been earlier than 1910. The most significant variation is in the imprint at foot of last page where Bemrose Dalziel, Ltd. becomes Bemrose & Sons, Ltd., Derby & London. 16. Poems. Elkin Mathews, 1908. Green cloth, gilt, only lower edges cut. First leaf of 'a1, signed before half-title; P4 at end blank save for printer's imprint in 3 lines centre recto. Inscribed: "Mrs. Wickham with A. D. Coleridge's kind regards. In piam memoriam. 20th December 1907." Mrs. Wickham preserved, with this presentation copy, the letter she had received from the poet's father shortly after her death. On black-edged paper and dated from St. Mary's, Wimbledon, 13 September 1907, it is a long letter of considerable interest. "Please read an 'Appreciation' in this week's Guardian. It is by an ex-chorister of St. Paul's much befriended by my darling child." The friend was, of course, Walter de la Mare. Also inserted is a 4 page leaflet printing of a poem to Mary Coleridge inscribed by her father to Mrs. Wickham. This 50 line poem occupies the first 3 pages, with "B. H. H. May 1909" at the end and last leaf blank. The author was Benard Holland. The paper is watermarked "Original/Milton Hill/Note."

144 COLERIDGE (Mary Elizabeth) 1861-1907 17. Another copy. There is no evidence it was a presentation copy to Sir Walter Parratt, but it bears his bookplate and with it he preserved a much earlier letter he had received from Arthur Coleridge. Dated from 12 Cromell Place, 15 December 1886 [when Mary was 25] it is of 2 pages, and entirely about Church Music—a preoccupation of Parratt's and Coleridge's—but does contain one reference to "Mary's verses." Both copies bear the words "First Edition" centre verso title-page, and there is an 8 page Preface by Henry Newbolt, the editor, though there is no reference to this on title-page. 18. Gathered Leaves from the Prose of Mary E. Coleridge. With a Memoir by Edith Sichel. Constable, 1910. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, gilt, all edges uncut. The first leaf of the first gathering is a blank before half-title, and second leaf of Y at end is blank. Frontispiece portrait. Inscribed: "Mrs. H. Holland with the kindest regards of A. D. Coleridge, June 1910." This is a presentation copy of some significance, Bernard Holland's poem to Mary Coleridge (50 lines) being printed on pp. 337-338. 19. Another copy. Two reprints of this book were required in quick succession (July 1910 and March 1911), but the sheets of the third impression seem to have sufficed for some years, as copies are found in which gilt-lettering of spine is considerably bronzed (suggesting war-time shortage of materials). In these copies publisher's 2 line imprint at foot of spine is from a larger fount of type. 20. The Collected Poems of Mary Coleridge. Edited with an Introduction by Theresa Whistler. Hart-Davis, 1954. Light blue rough linen with red spine lettering label, top edges stained to match cloth, others cut, in printed dust-jacket (15s. net). Frontispiece portrait. 21. Another copy. An early "traveller" specimen copy. Brown wrappers with large lettering label on upper side, all edges cut (slightly smaller than the published edition). Page 5 is plain (without the Dedication to Margaret Newbolt), monogram on title-page is plain (without the pink background panel), Theresa Whistler's Introduction is not initialled at end, and there are many other variations indicative of a proof copy.

COLERIDGE (Mary Elizabeth) 1861-1907 Association Items 22. Petrarca, Francesco. Le Rime. Firenze, 1882. A pretty miniature edition, 516 pages, original cream parchment, gilt, frontispiece portrait, red edges. Inscribed: "M. E. Coleridge from M. Robertson, Xmas 1890." Below this in a different handwriting: "Eleanor Clough. In memory of M. E. Coleridge, August 25th, 1907." This was the day of the poet's death. From the library sale of Mrs. A. H. Clough (junior) at Winterslow, Salisbury, 1948. Note: The Favil Press Christmas Card collection (Poetry Book Shop, 1928) contains (No. 5) Mary Coleridge's Christmas Dawn with wood-engravings by Ursula Birnstingl. COLERIDGE (Samuel Taylor) 1772-1834 1. Southey, Robert. Joan of Arc: An Epic Poem. Bristol . . . for Joseph Cottle, 1796. 4to, contemporary (or original) binding of tree calf, fully gilt spine with red lettering label, sprinkled edges. Eee 6 at end, pp.[411-412], carries an errata of 23 items, followed by the original blank leaf of 1794 watermarked paper. The footnote to p. 64 is initialled "S. T. C.," and he claimed to have written many lines in all 4 Books of the epic. Southey stated Coleridge had written the first 450 lines of Book 2, and they were reprinted in Sibylline Leaves (1819) under a new title, The Destiny of Nations. Bought at the sale of the Duke of Devonshire's library, Compton Place, Eastbourne, and with signature on title-page: "G. H. Cavendish, 1797." 2. The Watchman. No. 1. [Tuesday, 1 March 1796-13 May 1796]. This is an imperfect set, consisting of 9 instead of 10 numbers. The set runs pp. 1-292 and lacks the final number, which was paginated 293-324. Contemporary half-calf, marbled board sides, the spine cracked-off. Size 5 1/8" x 8". From the library of Edward Harding Firth with his bookplate and signature dated 1885. The missing number has been supplied in photocopy through the courtesy of the Newberry Library. It may be noted that the first number of The Watchman was set-up on more than one occasion, variant types being used. The present copy might be designated the "Ampersand" state, from the use of that sign in the imprint~"Newscarriers in Town & Country." The other variety, which has a much smaller "Bristol:" followed by a colon-not semi-colon—has the word in full-"Town and Country." These facts are given by Dr. Lewis

145 COLERIDGE (Samuel Taylor) 1772-1834 Palton in his Introduction in volume 2 of Coleridge's Collected Works (Princeton University Press, 1970). 3. Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems. Printed for J. & A. Arch, Gracechurch-Street, 1798. Contemporary cream vellum binding, gilt ruled and lettered. Marbled end-papers with oval bookplate of William Hulme Bodley. This is the second issue of First Edition, from which the Bristol title-page has been removed and the London one substituted. It is in a rare state with Gl (pp. 97-98) uncancelled (line 2 reading "Than fifty years of reason"). In the addenda to his Wordsworth section (Ashley Library Catalogue, Vol. 8, p, 48). Wise describes his copy with the note: "It is quite possible that other specimens may exist in the same condition, though I have never come across one." The first poem in this book is "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, in Seven Parts," which must be an acceptable excuse for putting Wordsworth's book in a Coleridge collection. 4. The Annual Anthology. 2 vols. Bristol: Printed by Biggs & Co., 1799 [and 1800]. Contemporary mottled brown calf, gilt borders round sides, spines gilt, grey-blue end-papers. P. 37 in volume 2 ("The Battle of Blenheim") has the corrected reading in stanza X—"Why 'twas a very wicked thing!" and the leaf is clearly a cancel pasted on a stub. This volume contains 27 poems and epigrams by Coleridge. 5. Robinson, M. E. The Wild Wreath. Dedicated (by Permission) to H. R. H. the Duchess of York. Printed for Richard Phillips, 1804. A (possibly) unique copy of the First Edition of this anthology, which included Coleridge's poem "The Mad Monk." It had been printed in The Morning Post (13 October 1800) under title "The Voice from Etna," but this is its first appearance in a book, where it was given its final title. This attractive copy, in contemporary mottled calf, red titling label, is an unrecorded setting in which the first page of Contents contains 12 items only and is not signed. In the published form it contains 13 items and is signed 'A2'. The pagination of both states is the same-viii, 228-but the present copy is machined in 8's, whereas the published form is in 12's. It is also in a considerably smaller fount of type and has different rules &c., though the major engraved ornaments are used in both. Collation is A4, B-P, 14 gatherings in 8's=118 leaves.

COLERIDGE (Samuel Taylor) 1772-1834 6. Robinson, M. E. The Wild Wreath. 1804. Another edition, the normal published form, agreeing with the copy in the British Library. Contemporary brown calf, gilt borders round sides, gilt spine with red titling label, yellow edges (size of page 4 1/2" x 7"). In this state the gatherings are in 12's. 7. The Friend: A Literary, Moral, and Political Weekly Paper. . . . Conducted by S. T. Coleridge, of Grasmere, Westmorland. Penrith: J. Brown, 1809-1810. A complete file of 28 numbers, save for one only (No. 26), which is missing. Royal 8vo (size of page 5 1/2" x 8 3/4"), edges cut, bound half brown calf, spine with raised bands and lettering label. 19 of the numbers have the Government duty stamp in reddish brown ink stamped in lower margin. The missing number (pp.[417J-432) has now been replaced in photocopy by courtesy of the University of Texas. 8. Omniana, or, Horae Otiosiores. 2 vols. Longman, 1812. Original grey-blue paper boards, entirely uncut, the printed spine titling labels badly rubbed. This work was projected and edited by Robert Southey and to it Coleridge contributed 45 of the articles. 9. Remorse: A Tragedy, in Five Acts. W. Pople, 1813. Modern brown wrappers, edges cut (leaves measure 5" x 8 1/4"), a perfect copy. Page 3 is misnumbered 6 (as in all copies of First Edition examined); the 2 page Prologue is by Charles Lamb. 10. Remorse: A Tragedy, in Five Acts. 2nd ed. W. Pople, 1813. Old (but not quite contemporary) dark blue morocco, marbled sides, t.e.g., others entirely uncut. An important edition, for which Coleridge re-wrote the Preface, added many new lines, also an Appendix. However, the present copy ends on p. 73 with the words "The End," verso blank and appendix pages not present. 11. Another copy, in contemporary tree calf, edges cut. This copy is quite perfect with the 4 page Appendix. 12. Remorse: A Tragedy, in Five Acts. 3rd ed. W. Pople, 1813. Modern drab wrappers, edges cut. This edition is of little importance; pagination, text &c. follow closely the previous edition. 13. Christabel. Kubla Khan: A Vision, The Pains of Sleep. John Murray, 1816. Original drab brown wrappers (spine badly worn) all edges uncut. With the copper-plate inscription of the original owner, Mary Sophia Bury, and a later signature on same

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end-paper of John Bury, 1856. These are members of the family of John Bagnell Bury (1861-1927), classicist and historian. Inserted after blank p. viii is a 4 page advertiser of Limborch's History of the Inquisition (1 volume, published by Simpkin & Marshall, Price 13s. boards). At end following p. 64 are 4 pages of John Murray's adverts dated February 1816 with printer's imprint of Dove, St. John's Square.

18. Biographia Literaria. Prepared for Publication in Part by the Late Henry Nelson Coleridge. Completed and Published by his Widow. 2nd ed. [2 volumes in 3] William Pickering, 1847. Dark blue cloth, edges uncut, spine titling labels. The third volume, though styled "Vol. II" on its separate title-page, is separately paginated vi, 447. This is the most important edition of the Biographia, and besides much critical material, contains the first printing of 22 letters of Coleridge. Each volume with the Magdalen College, Oxford library stamp of Robert Cholmeley and first volume inscribed: "Robert Cholmeley from his affectionate sister Maria Russell, June 1847."

14. The Statesman's Manual: A Lay Sermon. Gale & Fenner, 1816. Pp. 66, ii, xlvii. A copy of the combined "remainder" state issued in one volume with the second of the Lay Sermons (see next item). Blue-black cloth, edges only very lightly trimmed (page dimensions almost as Wise quotes for separate copies in original printed wrappers), spine titling label reading "Coleridge's/Lay/Sermons./ [short rule]/Eight Shillings," the whole between rules top and bottom. This is a variant of the remainder state described by Wise in his bibliography of Coleridge (1913), the state to which he assigns the date 1839. Pickering's 8 page adverts sewn in present copy is undated but suggests a rather earlier date-i.e., Coleridge's Literary Remains described as "nearly ready," is a 2 volume work-not 4 volumes, as it became in 1838-1839. 15. A Lay Sermon Addressed to the Higher and Middle Classes, on the Existing Distresses and Discontents. Gale & Fenner, 1817. Pp. ii, xxxii, 134. A copy of the remainder state, as issued in black cloth, and sewn in front of the above item, The Statesman's Manual. 16. Another copy of the First Edition, issue indeterminate, as it has been rebound separately (by Zaehnsdorf) in three-quarter purple morocco, marbled sides and end-papers, all edges gilt. 17. Biographia Literaria, or, Biographical Sketches of my Literary Life and Opinions. 2 vols. Rest Fenner, 1817. 2 volumes bound into one in nearly contemporary brown calf, gilt spine with red lettering label, edges cut and sprinkled. Measuring 9 1/4" x 5 3/5", this is clearly one of the Large Paper copies in Royal 8vo, subscribed at 30s. It has been bound without the half-titles. Volume 1 is the work of a Bristol printer whilst volume 2 bears the imprint of Curtis of Camberwell. The Lushington copy, with signature, "E. L. Lushington," on end-paper. Edmund Law Lushington was one of the Cambridge "Apostles" and an early friend of Tennyson (he became his brother-in-law.)

19. Biographia Literaria. Edited with his Aesthetic Essays by J. Shawcross. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907. Blue cloth, gilt spines, only lower edges cut. 20. The Bijou, or, Annual of Literature and the Arts. Pickering, 1828. Red boards, designed and lettered in black, red morocco spine gilt-lettered in 3 lines, t.e.g., others uncut, pale green end-papers, Y5 and Y6 at end carry publisher's adverts. There are 15 engraved plates, 2 of which serve as frontispiece and title-page. The Preface states: "Mr. Coleridge, in the most liberal manner, permitted the Editor to select what he pleased from all his unpublished MSS." According to Wise, this contains the first printing of "The Wanderings of Cain" and 3 other poems (Wise 114). Inscribed: "To Daniel Moore, Esq., F. R. S. &c. &c. As a slight but sincere token of gratitude and respect, from his obliged humble servant Robert Balmanno, 13 Deer 1827." Balmanno was the art editor of the volume. 21. The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, Including the Dramas of Wallenstein, Remorse and Zapolya. 3 vols. Pickering, 1829. Red smooth linen, spine titling labels lettered in 5 lines with 2 short rules, the whole in a single line frame. Each volume with the bookplate of Garnons, Herefordshire. The first Pickering Collected Edition was in 3 volumes (1828), but this text, according to J. Dykes Campbell, "was very deliberately discarded by the poet, and the edition of 1834 was the work not of Coleridge but of his son-in-law. . . . The conclusion to which I am led is that the edition of 1829 alone contains the author's final text." 22. Trollope, Rev. William. The History of the Royal Foundation of Christ's Hospital. Pickering, 1834. 4to, smooth blue linen, spine titling label, all edges uncut, 10 engraved plates. On p. 192 was first printed Coleridge's poem of 32 lines commencing: "Julia was blest

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28. Letters, Conversations and Recollections of S. T. Colerige. [Edited by Thomas Allsop.] 2 vols., Moxon, 1836. Drab brown boards, all edges uncut, spine titling labels. The last leaf of volume 1 carries Moxon's adverts. The Second Edition, published in 1858 in one volume, was the first to disclose the editor's name. 29. The Literary Remains of S. T. Coleridge. Collected and Edited by Henry Nelson Coleridge. 4 vols. Pickering, 1836-1839. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, edges uncut, spine titling labels dated same as title-pages, i.e., 1836, 1836, 1838 and 1839 respectively. It had been proposed to issue this work in 2 volumes, and the title-pages to these 2 volumes, in the present set, are cancel leaves pasted on stubs. 30.

Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit.

Edited from the Author's MS by Henry Nelson Coleridge. Pickering, 1840. Dark blue cloth, spine titling label, edges uncut. This is an example of the earliest binding-up, with the 8 leaves of publisher's catalogue at end bearing the 57 Chancery Lane address. It lists the Aldine Poets up to volume 43. First 2 leaves are ignored in pagination and p. vii is misnumbered ii, the v having dropped out. 31. Another copy. But this exemplifies the later binding-up in which the 8 leaves of publisher's catalogue at end bear the new 177 Piccadilly address, and the Aldine Poets advertised include the Churchill (46 volumes). It must also be noted that the first leaf [Al] in these copies is identical, advertising on recto the Aldine Poets up to 43 only, 32. Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit, and Some Miscellaneous Pieces. Edited from the Author's MS by Henry Nelson Coleridge. Pickering, 1849. Dark purplish cloth, spine titling label, edges uncut. The Second Edition, though not so described. Foolscap 8vo, printed on half-sheets and collating in 4's. The first gathering as folded in this copy consists of title-page with verso blank; Advertisement with verso blank; Contents, 2 pages; adverts leaf of Works by S. T. Coleridge, 2 pages. The only one of these pages which has pagination is the last, numbered 2. This is followed by J. H. Green's Introduction, pp.[v]-xlii; Advertisement &c. pp.[xliii]-[xlviii]; text 289 pages followed by a final leaf PP2 carrying publisher's adverts. The copy described by Wise in his Coleridge bibliography (1913) was in olive green cloth, gilt-lettered (surely a secondary binding?) and with a variant collation.

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COLERIDGE (Samuel Taylor) 1772-1834 33. The Encyclopaedia of Mental Philosophy: Comprising "The Science of Method" by S. T. Coleridge [and other works by Richard Whately, F. D. Maurice &c.]. J. J. Griffin, 1847. 4to, disbound. Pp. vii, 28. Coleridge's Treatise on Method was first published in the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana (Vol. 1, 1818, pp. 1-43), and a few copies were struck for private distribution in pamphlet form. A Cabinet Edition of the Encyclopaedia was issued in shilling weekly parts in 1849, and copies of the General Introduction (i.e., Coleridge's essay) were put up in pale blue wrappers at one shilling, the book reaching its final and Sixth Edition in 1854. Wise describes all these issues in detail in his Coleridge bibliography (1913), but makes no reference to the edition of 1847. 34. Hints Towards the Formation of a More Comprehensive Theory of Life. Edited by Seth B. Watson, M.D. John Churchill, 1848. Wine coloured blind-stamped vertically ribbed cloth, spine gilt, edges uncut, yellow end-papers, 8-page publisher's adverts at end dated October 1848. The final leaf [95-96] is blank. 35. Another copy, identical with above save that the catalogue at end is dated November 1848. Also after p. 94 and before the blank is inserted a leaf of a slightly thinner paper carrying on recto the Postscript, dated from 16 Norfolk Street, Park Lane, 17 October 1848. There may be a third state of this book: Wise's Coleridge bibliography (1913) and his later Ashley Library entry describe a copy in which the Postscript is printed on recto of final blank leaf, and there is no insertion. 36. Notes and Lectures upon Shakespeare. 2 vols. Pickering, 1849. Dark purplish cloth, spines with titling labels, edges uncut. 37. Another set of First Edition, bound by Zaehnsdorf (about 1900) in light orange-brown polished calf, elaborately gilt spines with blue and green titling labels, t.e.g., others uncut, gilt dentelles inside covers. Bookplates of Charles Plumptre Johnson. 38. The Friend: A Series of Essays. 3 vols. Pickering, 1850. Foolscap 8vo, dark purplish cloth with printed spine labels, edges uncut. In the Fourth Edition (1844) the title-pages are so lettered. In this edition the title-pages bear no statement, but each half-title is lettered "Fourth Edition." This is an error by some copy-editor who overlooked the 1844 issue.

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39. The Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited by Derwent and Sara Coleridge. A New Edition. Moxon, 1852. Dark blue blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered, uncut. The editorial work was by Sara Coleridge, and this posthumous publication carries her Preface signed "S. C., Chester Place, Regent's Park, March 1852." Three poems of Coleridge were first collected here, and the edition was frequently reprinted. 40. The Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited by Derwent Coleridge. Edward Moxon, 1852. Issued uniformly with the Poems, and as frequently reprinted under later dates. Both the above Collected Editions have the publisher's 8 page catalogue sewn in front dated July 1852 but only the Poems was provided with frontispiece portrait. 41. Notes, Theological, Political, and Miscellaneous. Edited by Derwent Coleridge. Edward Moxon, 1853. Reddish brown cloth, gilt, edges uncut. Wise describes a dark olive green cloth binding for this volume, and the present style may be a secondary issue as publisher's imprint foot of spine is "E. Moxon, Son & Co." Rather more than two-thirds of the contents are printed here for the first time. The remainder had appeared in The Literary Remains (1836-39). 42. The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 4 vols. Basil Montagu Pickering, 1877. Dark blue cloth, spine titling labels (Price 30s.) The anonymous editor and author of the 110 page "Memoir" was Richard Herne Shepherd. 43. Unpublished Letters from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to the Rev. John Prior Estlin. Communicated by Henry A. Bright, Transactions of the Philobiblon Society, 1884, A 118 page contribution to the Transactions; 50 copies were printed as a separate volume for private distribution. A perfect set of proof sheets, save that the final blank leaf [pp. 119-120] is not present; the volume is, however, padded with some 60 blanks, and is in a contemporary binding of half green calf, gilt spine with red titling label. The running headlines throughout differ from the final form. Some engraved initial letters are blank, and there are some 20 or more MS corrections of minor importance-in Greek quotations &c., all of which are found correctly printed in the book as published. From the library of Dr. Maud Sellers (of York) with her signature dated 19 July 1884.

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44. The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited with Introduction and Notes by T. Ashe, B.A. 2 vols. George Bell, 1885. Green cloth, gilt, top edges uncut, others trimmed, frontispiece plate to each volume. First issue of Coleridge in the Aldine Poets series. 45. Miscellanies, Aesthetic and Literary: To which is added the Theory of Life. Collected and Arranged by T. Ashe, B.A. George Bell, 1885. Bevelled red cloth, gilt, top edges uncut, others trimmed, publisher's 24 page catalogue at end dated July 1884. Reissued subsequently with dated and later with undated title-page. This collection includes fresh Marginalia published for the first time. 46. Letters from the Lake Poets: S. T. Coleridge, W. Wordsworth, Robert Southey to Daniel Stuart. Printed for private circulation. West, Newman & Co., 1889. Tall 8vo, sage green cloth, spine titling label, top edges uncut, others trimmed, pale blue end-papers. Inscribed: "W. Hale White from Ernest Hartley Coleridge, July 5, 1896," and with the recipient's bookplate and his widow's note: "From his library 1913. D. V. W." There are corrections and annotations in "Mark Rutherford's" neat MS in pencil on some dozen pages throughout. This book was edited by E. H. Coleridge. 47. Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge. 2 vols. Heinemann, 1895. Tall 8vo, dark blue-green cloth, gilt, edges uncut, 16 illustrations. The volumes were printed in Cambridge, Mass. There is no register of gatherings, no half-titles, and the last leaf in each volume is blank and not accounted for in pagination, which is continuous. 48. Anima Poetae. From the Unpublished Note-books of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge. Heinemann, 1895. Green cloth in 2 shades, gilt-lettered and designed, t.e.g., others uncut. The final 2 leaves of the last gathering [pp. 333-336] carry adverts only. Blind "Presentation Copy" stamp on title-page; the neat pencil annotations are in the handwriting of Harry Hooton. 49. The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt, only lower edges trimmed. Portrait frontispiece to volume 1. There was a simultaneous binding of terra-cotta buckram with spine titling labels.

COLERIDGE (Samuel Taylor) 1772-1834 Miscellaneous Editions 50. Christabel, and the Lyrical and Imaginative Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Arranged and Introduced by Algernon Charles Swinburne. Sampson Low, 1869. Flexible blue cloth, gilt, all edges gilt, reddish brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. A volume of the publisher's Bayard Series; their 16 page catalogue at end, dated March 1864, lists 9 titles published but not the present one. Swinburne's 19 page "Essay on Coleridge" was first printed here; a letter from him in the Athenaeum, 9 October 1869, disavows authorship of the Note on p. 150. 51. Sandford, Mrs. Henry. Thomas Poole and His Friends. 2 vols. Macmillan, 1888. Dark brown cloth, gilt spines, all edges uncut, an unopened set. A considerable body of letters from Coleridge was first printed here, together with one poem not collected until 1912 (Poetical Works, Vol. 2, p. 978). 52. Lyrical Ballads. Edited by Edward Dowden. D. Nutt, 1890. Tall 8vo, half cream parchment, spine titling label, all edges uncut. No. 21 of 60 copies on large paper, signed by the publisher. The certificate is on recto of an inserted sheet of handmade text paper at end. There was also an issue of 500 copies on small paper. 53. Lyrical Ballads. Edited by Edward Dowden. D. Nutt, 1891. Bright blue cloth, gilt, edges uncut, blue end-papers. One of 1,000 copies, this Second Edition does not attempt to imitate the old-face type of 1798, as had been done in the 1890 book. Dowden's 11 page Preface is reprinted slightly revised to suit the new plan. 54. Lyrical Ballads. Edited with Certain Poems of 1798 and an Introduction and Notes by Thomas Hutchinson. Duckworth, 1898. Buff coloured linen, gilt-lettered and designed, t.e.g., others uncut. Inscribed by the editor: "W. Hale White, with heartiest thanks for his invaluable help. T. H. June 10, 1898." With the recipient's bookplate and inscription by his widow: "From his library 1913. D. V. W." There are a number of interesting notes in "Mark Rutherford's" neat MS in pencil throughout Hutchinson's 43 page Introduction. 55. The Lyrical Ballads, 1798-1805. With an Introduction and Notes by George Sampson. Methuen, 1903. A volume of the publisher's Little Library, green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut.

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56. The Golden Book of Coleridge. Edited with an Introduction by Stopford A. Brooke. Dent, 1895. Pink silk-cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut. Brooke's essay occupies 64 pages.

64. Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. With an Introduction by Ernest Hartley Coleridge. Heinemann, 1905. A volume of the Favourite Classics series, in the superior binding of scarlet lambskin, gilt, t.e.g.

57. The Poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited by Richard Garnett. Lawrence & Bullen, 1898. Muses's Library edition; No. 16 of 100 copies on large paper. Publisher's half brown morocco, brown linen sides, t.e.g., others uncut, marbled end-papers.

65. Poems of Coleridge. Selected with an Introduction by Edward Dowden. Edinburgh: T. C. & E. C. Jack [1906]. A volume of the Golden Poets, edited by Oliphant Smeaton. Coloured illustrations by Charles Pears. Dowden's Introduction is a 32 page essay.

58. Another copy; this is the ordinary issue, limitation not stated. Light blue cloth, gilt extra, t.e.g., others uncut. Printed from same type, but title-page has been reset to accommodate joint imprint of Scribners of New York who also marketed the edition. Imprint of Richard Clay on verso in 2 lines; it is blank in Large Paper copies.

66. Biographia Literaria. Introduction by Arthur Symons. Dent [1906]. First issue of the Everyman Library edition, light brown cloth, gilt spine.

59. The Rime of The Ancient Mariner. In Seven Parts. Ballantyne Press. Sold by Hacon & Ricketts at the Sign of the Dial, 1899. Light blue boards, 2 printed titling labels, edges uncut. Printed in red and black with woodcut decorations by Charles Ricketts. The edition was limited to 210 copies. 60. Coleridge's Poems: A Facsimile Reproduction of the Proofs and MSS of Some of the Poems. Edited by the late James Dykes Campbell. With Preface and Notes by W. Hale White. Constable, 1899. Only 300 copies printed; this is No. 26 of the first 50, which are on large handmade paper. Smooth cream buckram, spine titling label, edges uncut and unopened. Inscribed: "Given to my aunt Dorothy V. White, 6th October 1930. Simon Nowell Smith." 61. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Illustrated by Herbert Cole. Gay & Bird, 1900. No. 1 of 200 copies in handmade paper, 6 plates in sepia. Half cream vellum, and buckram sides, t.e.g., others uncut. 62. Poems of Coleridge. Selected and Arranged with an Introduction and Notes by Arthur Symons. Methuen, 1905. Green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait. Symons's Introduction is a 42 page essay and his Notes fill 18 pages. 63. Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. With an Introduction by Alice Meynell. Blackie & Son [1905]. Grey pictorially designed cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, pictorial end-papers. Printed in black, with headlines in red throughout. A volume of the Minerva Poets.

67. Coleridge's Literary Criticism. With an Introduction by J. W. Mackail. Henry Frowde, 1908. A volume of the Oxford Miscelleny. This is the first issue binding, dark green cloth, gilt spine, 6 line gilt fillet round upper side with central gilt ornament, t.e.g., red silk marker. Mackail's Introduction is a 17 page essay. 68. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Edited with Introduction and Notes by Margaret A. Keeling. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912. Dark blue cloth, spine lettered in white enamel. The editorial material fills 24 pages. Secondary Material 69. Cottle, Joseph. Early Recollections; Chiefly relating to the late S. T. Coleridge, during his long residence in Bristol. 2 vols. Longman, 1837. Contemporary binding of half cream parchment, fully gilt spines with leather titling labels, marbled sides and end-papers, yellow edges, bookplates of Edward Harding Firth and his signature in each volume. Six portraits. 70. Cottle, Joseph. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey. 2nd ed. Houlston & Stoneman, 1848. Black cloth, spine titling label (with "10s. 6d.") top and lower edges uncut, fore-edges trimmed, 4 portraits. Cottle's Introduction is dated Bristol, 1 January 1848. 71. Gillman, James. The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. W. Pickering, 1838. Deep wine coloured blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered, edges uncut. The final leaf [pp. 363-364] carries an 11 item errata centre recto with verso blank. The words "Vol. 1" have been ereased from title-page; no second volume was published.

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72. Green, Joseph Henry. Mental Dynamics, or. Groundwork of a Professional Education. W. Pickering, 1847. Tall 8vo, dark blue blind-stamped cloth, gilt-lettered up spine, edges uncut. Inscribed: "Captain Smith, with the Author's regards," and on p. 13: "I am free to confess however that I should scarcely have ventured on the difficult task of portraying the leading requisites and final intention of a liberal education, were I not cheered by the example, and aided by the lessons of my revered teacher, and lamented friend, Samuel Taylor Coleridge." This sentence is followed by a Note regarding views advocated "which have been derived more or less from an unpublished and unfinished work on Logic by S. T. C." 73. Green, Joseph Henry. Spiritual Philosophy: Founded on the Teaching of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited with a Memoir of the Author's Life by John Simon, F.R.S. Macmillan, 1865. Volume 1 [of 2 volumes]. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, gilt spine, edges uncut. 74. Caine, Hall. Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Walter Scott, 1887. A Large Paper copy (5 1/2" x 8") smooth blue cloth, t.e.g., others uncut. 75. Brandt, Alois. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the English Romantic School. English Edition by Lady Eastlake. John Murray, 1887. Dark green cloth, gilt, uncut edges, frontispiece portrait, black end-papers. 76. Another copy. There was only one edition of this book, but it sold slowly and copies of First Edition sheets were put-up later in a similar binding, but with 2 line black border round upper side, instead of the 6 line gilt border. A quite different type was used for lettering, together with a square spine ornament, instead of the triangular one used in first issue. End-papers in these later copies are green to match binding. 77. Campbell, James Dykes. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Narrative of the Events of His Life. Macmillan, 1894. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut, greenish blue end-papers, frontispiece portrait. 78. Gillman, Alexander W. The Gillmans of Highgate. With Letters from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, &c. . . . Elliot Stock [1895]. Square 8vo, dark green cloth, gilt, all edges gilt, portraits and illustrations. Inscribed: "Henry Harben, Esq, with the Author's compliments" and with armorial bookplate of the recipient.

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79. Johnson, R. Brimley. Christ's Hospital: Recollections of Lamb, Coleridge and Leigh Hunt. G. Allen, 1896. Dark blue cloth, gilt extra, t.e.g., others trimmed. With 40 illustrations. 80. Haney, John Louis. The German Influence on Samuel Taylor Coleridge. [Lancaster], Philadelphia: [Printed by the New Era Printing Co.], 1902. Tall 8vo, 48 pages, pale grey printed wrappers. Inscribed: "T. Hutchinson, presented by the Author, March 1903." This would appear to be in the handwriting of the recipient, as it is the same as that of the profuse annotations through the text. 81. Brown, Wilfred. From Ottery to Highgate, with S. T. C. Ottery St. Mary: Coleberd & Co. [Privately printed for the author], 1903. Brown wrappers lettered in black, edges cut, 11 illustrations. 82. Williams, Orlo. Lamb's Friend the Census-Taker: Life and Letters of John Kickman. Constable, 1911. Tall 8vo, green cloth, gilt, frontispiece and 8 illustrations. Seven letters from Coleridge to John Rickman were printed here for the first time. 83. Royds, Kathleen D. Coleridge and His Poetry. Harrap, 1912. Light sage green cloth, gilt, in printed dust-jacket. A volume in the Poetry and Life series, edited by W. H. Hudson. Belonged to Monk Gibbon, the Irish poet, and has his signature on end-paper: "Willie M. Gibbon, Jan. 1914." 84. Morris, H. N. Flaxman, Blake, Coleridge and Other Men of Genius Influenced by Swedenborg. New-Church Press, 1915. Square 8vo, the superior binding of dark green leather, gilt, t.e.g. Profusely illustrated. 85. Watson, Lucy E. Coleridge at Highgate. Longmans Green, 1925. Tall 8vo, red cloth, trimmed edges, 4 illustrations. Mrs. Watson is the grand-daughter of James Gillman, Coleridge's physician. Several letters of Coleridge are printed here for the first time. 86. Muirhead, John H. Coleridge as Philosopher. Allen & Unwin, 1930. Tall 8vo, dark red cloth, gilt spine, edges cut, frontispiece portrait.

152 COLERIDGE (Samuel Taylor) 1772-1834 Works by Hartley Coleridge (1796-1849) 87. Poems. Vol. 1. Leeds: F. E. Bingley &c., 1833. Tall 8vo, bound contemporary half calf, marbled sides, sprinkled edges. Pp.[159-160] at end carry 7 line errata on recto and printer's imprint in 3 lines centre verso. First Edition of the author's first book; the second volume was not proceeded with. On p. 60 is printed the author's most anthologized poem, "She is not fair to outward view"; this had first appeared in Thomas Hood's literary annual, The Gem (1829). 88. Poems, Songs and Sonnets. Leeds; John Cross, n.d. The author's first publication being a complete failure and the publisher being declared bankrupt, it appears that at an early date sheets were on the "remainder" market. A certain number were acquired by John Cross, another printer in the city, who preceded to print a title-page calculated to promote the sale, without the words "Vol. 1." From these he removed the final leaf as it carried F. E. Bingley's imprint on verso. Hence these copies lack the list of errata; the 7 errors have persisted in normal copies. This copy is in a nearly contemporary binding of half brown morocco, linen sides, marbled end-papers, all edges gilt. Armorial bookplate of James Watson, and 3 pages of his notes on the author. The textual errors have been corrected by erasure and pen. 89. Poems. With a Memoir of his Life by his Brother [Derwent Coleridge]. 2 vols. Edward Moxon, 1851. Reddish brown blind-stamped cloth, spines gilt-lettered, edges uncut, frontispiece portrait. 90. Poems. 2nd ed. 2 vols. Edward Moxon, 1851. Green blind-stamped cloth, spines gilt-lettered, edges uncut, frontispiece portrait. Reprints the original Advertisement of 1 February 1851, but adds on p.[viii]-previously blank-the Advertisement to the Second Edition, dated 1 December 1851. The Memoir is here extended some 27 pages and the Poems "appear with the advantage of a greatly amended text." This edition of Hartley Coleridge's works appears in cloth with uniform blind-stamping. This is changed in the Second Edition of Poems. Here, in the blind-stamping of sides, the ornamentation is inside the frames, the half-inch frames being plain. In the First Edition the design is entirely in the frame, with the centres empty.

COLERIDGE (Samuel Taylor) 1772-1834 91. Essays and Marginalia. Edited by his Brother [Derwent Coleridge]. 2 vols. Edward Moxon, 1851. Green blind-stamped cloth, spines gilt-lettered, edges uncut, frontispiece portrait. Volume 1 has publisher's 8 page List dated April 1851 sewn between front primrose yellow end papers. 92. Poems. S. Wellwood, 1907. Red cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, edges uncut. A selection with an unsigned prefatory Note, 3 pages, probably by the publisher. 93. The Complete Poetical Works of Hartley Coleridge. Edited with an Introduction by Ramsay Colles. G. Routledge & Sons, [1908]. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine, edges cut, pp. xliii, 371. A volume of the new Muses' Library series, dedicated to William Michael Rossetti. 94. Essays on Parties in Poetry and On the Character of Hamlet. With an Introduction by John Drinkwater. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1925. Brick red boards with overall design in white, titling label on upper side, one of the Little Nineteenth Century Classics series. Works by Sara Coleridge (1802-1852) and Derwent Coleridge (1800-1883) 95. [Coleridge, Sara.] The Right Joyous and Pleasant History of the Feats, Gests and Prowesses of the Chevalier Bayard. By the Loyal Servant. 2 vols. John Murray, 1825. Bound by Morrell in polished light brown calf, gilt spines with red and blue lettering labels, all edges gilt. Perfect set with both half-titles and the imprint leaf at end of volume 1. With the red and gold circular bookplates of Dudley C. Marjoriebanks. 96. [Coleridge, Sara.] Phantasmion. William Pickering, 1837. Dark green cloth, spine titling label, all edges uncut. Neither this nor the above book by Sara Coleridge bears the author's name. 97. Praed, Winthrop Mackworth. Poems. With a Memoir by the Rev. Derwent Coleridge. 2 vols. Edward Moxon, 1864. Dark reddish brown bevelled cloth, gilt, uncut, frontispiece. Dark bluish end-papers with publisher's 8 page adverts dated August 1864 sewn in front. Each volume carries the circular Lowther bookplate and autograph inscription: "William Lowther from Charles Howard. Ampthill, 24 December 1864."

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COLLINS (John Churton) 1848-1908

98. Poems. Chertsey [not published] 1881. Half cream coloured boards, blue board sides, titling label lettered up spine, all edges uncut. Inscribed: "Nicholas Bradford, from the Author." This was Privately printed by a Chertsey printer, and only 50 copies were done.

1. Herbert, Lord. The Poems of Lord Herbert of Cherbury. Edited with an Introduction by John Churton Collins. Chatto & Windus, 1881. Cream parchment boards, lettered and ruled in red and black, all edges uncut. From George Wyndham's library at Clouds, inscribed: "George from Charles. F. G. Xmas 1892."

99. Poems. John Lane, 1898. Pale green smooth buckram, spine gilt-lettered, gilt frame round upper side, all edges uncut. Al and 2 are 2 blank leaves before title-page.

2. Bolingbroke: A Historical Study, and Voltaire in England. John Murray, 1886. Plum red cloth, gilt spine, fore-edges trimmed, only lower edges cut, bright yellow end-papers.

100. S. T. Coleridge as a Lake Poet. Transactions of the Royal Society for Literature, Vol. 24, n.d. 36 pages sewn into light stone coloured wrappers, upper side lettered in black, edges cut. Inscribed: "Thomas Hutchinson, Esq, from Ernest Hartley Coleridge. June 1, 1903." There is no title-page and no printer's imprint anywhere. In the "summary of poems" at end, pp. 29-35, there are numerous corrections and additions, presumably in the handwriting of Thomas Hutchinson.

3. The Study of English Literature: A Plea for Its Recognition and Organization at the Universities. Macmillan, 1891. Red cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut, green end-papers. M5 and M6 at end carry publisher's adverts and are numbered 1 to 4, followed by 56 page catalogue dated Sept. 1891.

101. The Life of Thomas Coutts, Banker. 2 vols. John Lane, 1920. Tall 8vo, 5 1/4" x 8 3/4", blue cloth, gilt spines, top edges stained to match cloth, others cut, 47 illustrations. 102. Coleridge, Wordsworth, and the American Botanist William Bartram. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, Vol. 2, n.d. 24 pages sewn into light grey wrappers lettered in black on upper side, edges cut. 103. Poetry: The Vision and the Faculty Divine. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, Vol. 21, n.d. 24 pages sewn into light grey wrappers lettered in black on upper side, edges cut. Inscribed in the author's hand in ink: "From Ernest Hartley Coleridge." Neither of these 2 pamphlets was provided with a title-page (other than front wrapper) and neither has a printer's imprint. Note: The editions of Letters from the Lake Poets (1889), Letters of S. T. Coleridge (2 vols, 1895), and Complete Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge (2 vols, 1912)-all edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge-are entered with the main body of Coleridge's works.

4. Jonathan Swift: A Biographical and Critical Study. Chatto & Windus, 1893. Pink cloth (faded), blind ruled spine and both sides, spine gilt-lettered, all edges uncut, green end-papers, 32 page publisher's catalogue at end dated April, 1893 in which the present title is advertised: "8s.[Shortly." 5. Essays and Studies. Macmillan, 1895. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut, end-papers matching cloth, 2B2 at end carries adverts only. 6. Pope, Alexander. Pope's Essay on Criticism. Edited with Introduction and Notes by John Churton Collins. Macmillan, 1896. Light stone coloured cloth, lettered in blue up spine and on sides, edges trimmed (but some fore-edges unopened), 2 leaves of adverts at end dated 10 May 1896. Publisher's blind presentation copy stamp on title. 7. A Treasury of Minor British PoetrySelected and Arranged with Notes by J. Churton Collins. Edward Arnold, 1896. Blue cloth, gilt extra, t.e.g., others uncut, publisher's 16 page catalogue at end dated March 1897, end-papers to match cloth. P.[vi] carries a 7 line errata, with verso blank. 8. Ephemera Critica, or Plain Truths about Current Literature. Constable, 1901. Sage green cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut, publisher's 48 page catalogue at end. In the List of Contents the pagination given from Chapter VIZI (p. 140) onwards requires to be advanced by 5 in the first instance and 4 in all others through to the end. It would appear that the essay, "Log-Rolling and Education,"

154 COLLINS (John Churton) 1848-1908 was extended at the last moment, and pagination not corrected. 9. An English Garner: and Literary Fragments. Introduction by J. Churton 1903. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, others uncut.

Critical Essays With an Collins. Constable, gilt spine, t.e.g.,

10. Another copy of same sheets, but a later issue. Edges have been cut down so that the book stands 1/4" shorter on shelf. Gilt-lettering on spine is from same type and arranged in same 11 lines but the short rule is missing and the 3 lines, "An/English/Garner," are dropped to foot. 11. Studies in Poetry and Criticism. G. Bell, 1905. Light blue cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut, X4 at end is blank. Al is signed and A6 carries list of 4 errata on verso. 12. Poems of Shelley. Selected and with an Introduction by Professor J. Churton Collins. Edinburgh: T. C. & E. C. Jack [1906]. A volume of the Golden Poets, edited by Oliphant Smeaton. Purple cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, with 8 plates by Jessie M. King. 13. Voltaire, Montesquieu and Rousseau in England. Eveleigh Nesh, 1908. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges cut, others uncut. This book is not provided with a list of illustrations, but there are 5 plates. 14. Greek Influence on English Poetry. By the late John Churton Collins. Edited with a Preface by Michael Macmillan. Sir Isaac Pitman, 1910. Light blue cloth, spine and upper side lettered in white enamel, edges cut. 15. Life and Memoirs of John Churton Collins. Written and compiled by his son L. C. Collins. John Lane, 1912. Tall 8vo, light blue cloth, spine and upper side lettered gilt and ruled in white enamel, t.e.g., others uncut, 2 portraits. Inscribed: "To A. T. Pollard, Esq. who read this book in the manuscript, and for whose advice and many happy suggestions the author will feel forever grateful." 16. The Posthumous Essays of John Churton Collins. Edited by L. C. Collins. J. M. Dent, 1912. Light brown cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others trimmed, frontispiece portrait.

COLLINS (Mortimer) 1827-1876 1. Idyls and Rhymes. Dublin: J. McGlashan &c., 1855. Pink cloth, sides blind-stamped, upper side lettered in 3 lines (in what appears to be white enamel or gilt), edges trimmed. Printed by H. C. Linfitt in Guernsey; title-page with imprint of 3 publishers, in Dublin, London and Guernsey. Issued without List of Contents. Inscribed in the author's autograph: "From the Author." The First Edition of his first book. 2. The Ivory Gate. 2 vols. Hurst & Blackett, 1869. Light red cloth, gilt spines, only lower edges trimmed, dark blue end-papers with binder's ticket of Leighton & Hodge. Publisher's 16 page catalogue at end of volume 2, paginated only from 1-12. 3. The Inn of Strange Meetings and Other Poems. H. 8, King, 1871. Dark reddish brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, only lower edges trimmed, dark blue end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. Frederick Locker's copy with his bookplate and a few of his light pencil annotations (such as "I don't like this" to one of the poems). Locker is mentioned in the Notes (p. 189), to which he also calls attention. The preliminaries consist of 3 leaves, of which final verso is paginated viii and final gathering N is 8 leaves of which the last carries adverts only and is dated "Winter Season, 1871." 4. The British Birds: A Communication from the Ghost of Aristophanes. The Publishing Company, Ltd., 1872. 4to, dark reddish brown cloth, gilt-lettered and black designed, edges uncut, light blue end-papers. 5. Sweet and Twenty. 3 vols. Hurst & Blackett, 1875. Green cloth, spines gilt, sides black lettered and designed, top edges uncut, others trimmed, plum red end-papers with binder's ticket of Leighton & Hodge. Publisher's 16 page catalogue at end of volume 3. Inscribed in the author's hand: "To Mrs. Gale, Knowl Hill, llth April 1875." On the first half-title he has written a poem in 3 quatrains, headed "Dear Lady" and signed in full. 6. Pen Sketches by a Vanished Hand. From the Papers of the late Mortimer Collins. Edited by Tom Taylor. 2 vols. R. Bentley, 1879. Dark blue diced cloth, white spines gilt-lettered, top edges uncut, others trimmed, grey designed end-papers, leaves unopened throughout. Frontispiece Woodbury type photograph of the author.

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The significance of "H. L. & Co.," with both of the printer's imprints is not known. 7. Attic Salt, or, Epigrammatic Sayings in Prose and Verse. Collected from the Works of Mortimer Collins by Frank Kerslake. B. Robson, 1880. Fawn coloured cloth, lettered and designed in black, floral design end-papers. Inserted are cuttings of 10 original reviews of this book from London journals during November and December 1880. 8. Selections from the Poetical Works of Mortimer Collins. Made by F. Percy Cotton. R. Bentley, 1886. Bevelled dark red cloth, gilt, all edges uncut. Primrose yellow end-papers. Autograph Letters 9. A series of 6 ALS to J. Bertrand Payne, Esq., some signed in full, one as "M. C.," and the remaining 2 even more ambiguously, from his residence, Knowl Hill, Berks, and dated 1866-1868. Literary correspondence, if somewhat scrappy; mentions writing to Miss Quillinan, calling in on Martin Tupper, his own Idylls and Rhymes and Sweet Ann Page, William Rossetti's Shelley &c.: "I should very well like to do a critique of A. T. putting him in his precise place—which, as you say, is not quite so close to the summit as people think. But it should be a supersubtile critique, I think, suggestive and ironic; if too slashing, people would say 'twas spiteful . . . ." Association Items 10. [Lawrence, George Alfred.] A Bundle of Ballads. Edited by the Author of Guy Livingston. Tinsley Brothers, 1864. Reddish brown cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut, end-papers matching cloth. Mortimer Collins's copy with his autograph inscription. Published without the author's name. 11. Mayer, S. R. Townshend. The Trials of Margaret Brandreth. The original printing of the novel in 7 instalments in The Churchman's Shilling Magazine. Presumably made up for the author in a half-calf binding, with his presentation inscription to Mortimer and Frances Collins, and his autograph card inserted (postmarked 23 November 1875). The card-with some 200 words-is of considerable interest. Also an original poem in Mortimer Collins' autograph, "The Critic's Reply to the Bigamist," 16 lines. Later in the library of F. Percy Cotton with his signature dated 1879. This gentleman was a cousin of Collins by marriage, and later editor of his poetical works (1886).

COLUM (Padraic) 1881-1972 1. The Land: A Play in Three Acts. Dublin: Maunsel, 1905. No. 3 of the Abbey Theatre Series, light brown wrappers, upper side lettered and designed in darker brown, all edges uncut. First Edition of the author's first book, 4 page list of Maunsel's books inserted at end. 2. The Land: A Play in Three Acts. 2nd ed. Dublin: Maunsel, 1905. "Second Edition" printed on upper wrapper at foot and on verso title-page; 4 page publisher's list at end-a different list, though from the same printer, Hely's. It may also be noted that the lower wrapper is blank; in the First Edition it advertised 1 and 2 of the series centre recto, with verso only blank. 3. Wild Earth: A Book of Verse. Dublin: Maunsel, 1907. Dark brown boards, upper side lettered in 4 lines in dark green, plain Holland spine, only top edges cut. Errata slip (4 errors) inserted before the dedication. 4. Another copy, indistinguishable from above, save that no errata slip appears to have been inserted. 6. Studies. Being No. 2 of the Tower Press Booklets, Second Series. Dublin: Maunsel, 1907. Pale blue wrappers lettered in darker blue, all edges uncut. 6. Wild Earth: A Book of Verse. Dublin: Maunsel, 1909. Reprinted with additions, i.e. Second Edition. Same format as 1907 and same binding: frontispiece portrait by J. B. Yeats has been added, also 4 new poems. 7. The Land, and The Fiddler's House. Dublin: Maunsel, 1909. Brown boards, upper side lettered in dark green, Holland spine lettered upwards in dark green, top edges cut, others uncut, frontispiece portrait by J. B. Yeats. These sheets may have served for several binding batches, and no second impression is recorded. In the present copy the end-papers are of text-paper quality, with watermark. The lettering up spine is in larger type than in others examined, the setting measuring 4 7/8". 8. Another copy of First Edition sheets. The end-papers are of a thinner wove paper; smaller lettering up spine, the setting only measuring 3 7/8", also author's name on upper cover in a much smaller type.

156 COLUM (Padraic) 1881-1972 9. Thomas Muskerry: A Play in Three Acts. Dublin: Maunsel, 1910. Volume 13 of the Abbey Theatre Series, brown wrappers, upper side designed and lettered in dark green, all edges uncut. 10. Another copy of First Edition sheets. Brown boards, all edges cut-a substantially smaller book. Spine lettering is in similar dark green, but in 3 lines only-2 above and one below the smaller Abbey Theatre design. There appears to be no variation in internal printing. 11. Eyes of Youth. A Book of Verse by Padraic Colum, Shane Leslie [and 8 other names]. With Four Early Poems by Francis Thompson and a Foreword by G. K. Chesterton. Herbert & Daniel [1910]. Light blue boards, holland spine, 2 titling labels, top edges cut, others uncut. Inscribed on end-paper: "John Stratford Collins from Shane Leslie." On the fly-title [p. 19] to his section of 9 Poems, Shane Leslie has transcribed another poem [to the recipient?] "Mi Careme," 4 quatrains signed "S. L., Lent 1911." This is probably the original manuscript of the poem. In this book, also, was first printed Colum's memorable poem, "Fleet Street." 12. Another copy; this is the Second Edition, limited to 500 copies. The certificate on verso of title-page discloses that 750 copies of First Edition were printed, published in December 1910. Contents of the 2 editions appear similar but one poem by Monica Saleeby [Monica Meynell] is added in Second Edition and "Early Press Notices" are printed on verso of first leaf (which had been a blank). The adverts at end are no longer found-this leaf having been required to accommodate the new poem, "Rebuke." 13. The Desert: A Play in Three Acts. Dublin: Devereux, Newth & Co., 1912. 64 pages, metal fastened into light reddish brown wrappers lettered in black. The otherwise blank lower wrapper has on verso, "Printed For The Author/(500 copies)." Inscribed on title-page: "To O'Leary Curtis from Padraic Colum." 14. Broad-Sheet Ballads. Being a Collection of Irish Popular Songs, with an Introduction by Padraic Colum. Maunsel, [1913]. Green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, only lower edges uncut, frontispiece by J. B. Yeats. In Sir Samuel Ferguson's name on p. vi the "1" is missing.

COLUM (Padraic) 1881-1972 15. Wild Earth and Other Poems. Dublin: Maunsel, 1916. Blue boards, holland spine (titling label rubbed-off). Top edges cut, others uncut. This volume is printed in the U.S.A.. The contents differ considerably from those in the Dublin editions of 1907 and 1909. 16. Wild Earth and Other Poems. New York: Henry Holt, 1916. Dark green cloth, spine gilt, Irish harp in gilt centre upper cover, top edges cut, others uncut. This is the American issue of the same sheets as Maunsel's edition, in which only the title-page is slightly variant, having Holt's imprint, with the Owl ornament. Also on verso the Quinn & Boden imprint, whereas the issue for Dublin merely reads, "Printed in the U.S.A." Inscribed: "For Joseph MacGaheran. 'A song is more lasting than the voice of the birds.' Padraic Colum." With bookplate of the recipient. 17. Poems of the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood. Edited by Padraic Colum and Edward J. O'Brien. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1916. Green boards, upper side lettered in 9 lines, all edges uncut. Colum's "Introduction" is a 28 page essay. 18. Poems of the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood. Edited by Padraic Colum and Edward J. O'Brien. New & Enlarged Edition. Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., 1916. Published in similar format to the First Edition, this reprint has several additional poems-the body of the work extended from p. 60 to p.[74], with the last 3 pages blank. This copy preserved in original printed dust-jacket. 19. Griffin, Gerald. The Collegians. With an Introduction by Padraic Colum. Dublin: Talbot Press [1918]. Light green cloth, blind-stamped, gilt-lettered, top edges stained dark green, other edges cut. A volume of Every Irishman's Library series. 20. The Children of Odin. Illustrated by Willy Pogany. New York: Macmillan Co. [1920]. Square 8vo, red cloth, spine gilt and upper side black lettered and designed, edges cut, pictorial end-papers; 4 coloured plates and many other illustrations in text. 21. Dramatic Legends and Other Poems. Macmillan, 1922. Brown boards, spine titling label, all edges uncut, in printed dust-jacket (7/6 net). Printed in the U.S.A.. and verso of title-page carries imprint of the Conde Nast Press.

157 COLUM (Padraic) 1881-1972 22. Cross Roads in Ireland. New York: Macmillan Co., 1930. Green cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, top edges stained red, others trimmed. 15 plates by A.E., Estella Solomons, Paul Henry and other artists. 23. Poems. Macmillan, 1932. Half green cloth, rough orange designed cloth sides, top edges stained to match, others uncut. There are 3 pages of Notes by the author at the end of this Collected Edition. 24. MacKenna, Stephen. Journals and Letters. Edited with a Memoir by E. R. Dodds and a Preface by Padraic Colum. Constable, 1936. Tall 8vo, green cloth, gilt spine, top edges cut, others lightly trimmed. Four portraits of MacKenna. 25. Irish Elegies. Royal 8vo, semi-stiff red and black; large Glencamac Cartridge copies signed by the

The Dolmen Press [1958]. cream wrappers lettered paper, printed on Irish paper. No. 25 of 50 author.

Association Item 26. Colum, Mary. Life and the Dream. Macmillan, 1947. Tall 8vo, brown cloth, spine and upper side lettered and There was also an issue of 250 ordinary copies, designed gilt, partly on blue backgrounds, brick red end-papers designed in white, top edges stained red, fore-edges uncut, in printed coloured dust-jacket (15/- net). Printed in the U.S.A.. Note: Padraic Colum made 6 contributions to the Cuala Press Broadsides, in the numbers for May and November 1911, March, April and May 1912, and August 1914. See the J. B. Yeats collection. COLVIN (Sir Sidney) 1845-1927 1. Landor. Macmillan, 1881. In the English Men of Letters series edited by John Morley. The superior issue in cream linen, spine titling label, all edges uncut (and unopened throughout). Four pages publisher's adverts at end. This book is sewn, whereas the cheaper red cloth issue was metal fastened. 2. Keats. Macmillan, 1887. In the English Men of Letters series edited by John Morley. The superior issue in cream linen, uncut (and unopened throughout). Q6 at end carries publisher's adverts.

COLVIN (Sir Sidney) 1845-1927 3. Keats, John. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends. Edited by Sidney Colvin. Macmillan, 1891. Red cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut; a volume in the publisher's Eversley Series Format. 2B6 at end carries adverts only. When issued this was an important piece of editing, omitting only the letters to Fanny Brawne; reprinted in 1891 and many times subsequently. Colvin's preface is a 9 page essay. 4. Cust, Lionel. History of the Society of Dilettanti. Compiled by Lionel Cust. Edited by Sidney Colvin. Macmillan, 1898. Imperial 8vo, light green smooth buckram, all edges uncut, 17 plates (principally photogravures). No. 181 of only 350 printed. Armorial bookplate of Edward Wyndham Penruddocke. 5. John Keats: His Life and Poetry, His Friends, Critics and After-fame. Macmillan, 1917. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut, 13 illustrations, in yellow dust-jacket printed in red (18/- net). Corrigenda slip (10 errors) inserted at p. 1, 2P4 at end carries adverts only. 6. Memories and Notes of Persons and Places, 1852-1912. Edward Arnold, 1921. Tall 8vo, light green cloth, gilt, top edges cut, others uncut, corrigenda slip (9 errors) inserted at p. 7, publisher's 16 page Autumn Announcements, dated September 1921, at end. Secondary Material 7. Lucas, E. V. The Colvins and Their Friends. Methuen, 1928. Tall 8vo, red buckram, spine titling label, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece and 25 other plates. Z8 at end is blank. Note: Much of Sidney Colvin's work will be found in the W. S. Landor, R. L. Stevenson and other collections. COMPTON-RICKETT (Arthur) 1869-1937 1. Lost Chords: Some Emotions without Morals. By Arthur Rickett. A. D. Innes, 1895. Yellow cloth, black lettered and designed, all edges uncut, publisher's 8 page 1895 catalogue at end. Dedicated: "To my Father." This is the Dedication copy, inscribed: "J. Compton-Rickett, from his affectionate son Arthur, in grateful remembrance of much sympathetic encouragement. November, 1895." This interesting volume, in its title-page and cover design, must present one of the earliest parodies of Aubrey Beardsley's manner, the publisher probably rivalling (with

158 COMPTON-RICKETT (Arthur) 1869-1937 the tuning-fork device) the then popular Keynotes Series, issuing from John Lane. 2. Prophets of the Century. Essays edited by Arthur Rickett, M.A., LL.B. Ward Lock [1898]. Red cloth, gilt, all edges uncut. 12 essays, among the authors of which are, besides the editor and his father, J. R. MacDonald-a future Prime Minister-and Walter Jerrold. 3. Personal Forces in Modern Literature. J. M. Dent, 1906. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait of D. G. Rossetti. 4. The Vagabond in Literature. J. M. Dent, 1906. Uniform format with Personal Forces, which was issued earlier in the same year. Six portraits (Hazlitt, DeQuincey, Borrow, Stevenson, Jefferies and Walt Whitman). Inscribed: "Rev. W. Marshall, with the Author's compliments. Oct. 1909." 5. William Morris: A Study in Personality. With an Introduction by R. B. Cunninghame Graham. Herbert Jenkins, 1913. Rough green buckram, gilt spine and upper side, all edges cut, in printed dust-jacket. Inscribed: "To Hubert Painter, with the Author's best wishes, Xmas 1922." 6. Our Poets at School and Other Fancies in Prose and Verse. Bournemouth: Ernest Cooper, 1921. Brown boards, 2 titling labels, edges cut. Inscribed: "To Mr. Guy Heaton, with all good wishes from the Author. December, 1921." 7. A Primer of English Literature. Thomas Nelson, 1925. Dark blue cloth, gilt, printed dust-jacket (2/- net). A volume of Sir Henry Newbolt's Teaching of English series, this is actually a re-writing of the author's History of English Literature issued in the People's Books. 8. Portraits and Personalities. Selwyn & Blount [1937]. Rough red buckram, gilt spine, edges cut, frontispiece portrait and 11 other illustrations. Publisher's 32 page Spring List 1937 at end. The Appendix (pp. 331-320) consists of letters of D. G. Rossetti addressed to Swinburne between 1864 and 1871. Note: For Thomas Hake and Arthur Compton-Rickett, Life and Letters of Theodore Vfatts-Dunton, see the W. T. Watts-Dunton collection.

COPPARD (Alfred Edgar) 1878-1957 1. Adam and Eve and Pinch Me: Tales by A. E. Coppard. Golden Cockerel Press, 1921. Orange boards, 2 titling labels, edges uncut (save fore-edges lightly trimmed). The First Edition of the author's first book, and the first publication of the Press. Limited to 550 copies, which included both binding styles. In this copy "Eve" is misprinted "Ene" in headline on p. 12, but "changed" at foot of page is correctly printed. 2. Another copy, with "Second Edition" on verso title-page. An example of the alternative style of binding, white smooth buckram, spine titling label printed in red (not green, as in first copy). Copies of both editions are found in this binding. The colophon is necessarily reset, but still includes Birrell & Garnett's name, which however is dropped from the imprint on title-page. The errors are corrected on p. 12. 3. Hips and Haws: Poems by A. E. Coppard. Golden Cockerel Press, 1922. No. 352 of 500 copies, half red linen, glazed yellow board sides, spine titling label, all edges uncut, in yellow printed dust-jacket. Unopened throughout. 4. The Black Dog and Other Stories. J. Cape, 1923. Half black cloth, pale mottled green board sides, spine titling label, top edges cut, others uncut. T4 at end carries printer's imprint, with blank verso, title-page is an unsevered part of first gathering-not the forged insert, which is frequently encountered. 5. Fishmonger's Fiddle: Tales. J. Cape, 1925. Issued uniformly with The Black Dog, save that colour of boards is red. Printer's imprint is on verso of title-page only. 6. Yokohama Garland and Other Poems. Philadelphia: Centaur Press, 1926. Imperial 8vo, printed on one side only of each leaf with the top edge left unopened. Pale blue boards with orange design, yellow buckram spine with titling label. No. 168 of 500 copies signed by both author and artist, Wharton Esherick. 7. Silver Circus: Tales. J. Cape, 1928. Half black cloth with titling label, silver board sides, top edges cut, others uncut. 8. The Collected Poems. J. Cape, 1928. Blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, top edges cut, others uncut. Bookplate of Irene Gosse (wife of Philip Gosse).

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9. Count Stefan. Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. Half yellow smooth buckram, gilt-lettered upwards, marbled sides, top edges cut, others uncut, illustrations by Robert Gibbings. In red printed dust-jacket. No. 560 of 600 copies (which included the American edition).

17. Consequences. A Complete Story . . . in Nine Chapters, Each by a Different Author. Golden Cockerel Press, 1932. Tall 8vo, pink cloth, spine lettered downwards in black, top edges cut, others uncut, in printed yellow dust-jacket (6/- net). One of 1,000 copies.

10. Pink Furniture. Illustrated by Nancy Bankart Gurney. J. Cape, 1930. Rough pinkish linen, lettered in pale blue, only lower edges uncut. The binding is in first state. Inscribed: "Don Suddaly from A. E. Coppard 4.7.32," and with a 3 line verse quotation.

18. Rummy: That Noble Game, Expounded in Prose, Poetry, Diagram and Engraving by A. E. Coppard and Robert Gibbings, with an Account of Certain Diversions into the Mountain Fastnesses of Cork and Kerry. Golden Cockerel Press, 1932. Produced in uniform format with Consequences, save that colour of cloth is green. In printed yellow dust-jacket (6/- net). One of 1,000 copies.

11. Another copy, the special issue of 260 signed copies, this being No. 141, in cream vellum binding, top edges gilt, others entirely uncut. In both styles pp. 252-256 are blank. 12. Fares Please! J. Cape, 1931. Bright yellow linen, lettered spine and upper side in red, only lower edges uncut. An omnibus edition, 884 pages, of the short stories published as The Black Dog (1923), The Field of Mustard (1926) and Silver Circus (1928). 13. The Hundredth Story. With Engravings by Robert Gibbings. Golden Cockeral Press, 1931. Half green leather, green patterned board sides, t.e.g., others uncut. Edition limited to 1,000 copies, of which this is No. 799. Inserted is the Notice to Subscribers leaf, dated January 1931. 14. Nixey's Harlequin: Tales. J. Cape, 1931. Cream parchment with green leather spine titling label, t.e.g., others uncut. No. 273 of 304 copies on English handmade paper, signed by the author. 15. Easter Day. [Ulysses Press, 1931]. 4to, 8 pages (without pagination) sewn, half dark green linen, pale green board sides, lettered in red. Limited to 145 copies, though this is not stated. A lithographic reproduction of 4 leaves of the original manuscript, with the concluding fifth page in author's actual MS, signed and dated "A. E. Coppard, Oct. 1931, No. 119." 16. The Writings of Alfred Edgar Coppard. A Bibliography by Jacob Schwartz, with Foreword and Notes by A. E. Coppard. Ulysses Bookshop, 1931. Light red boards, holland spine with titling label, top edges cut, others uncut. No. 374 of 650 copies, signed by Coppard.

19. Dunky Fitlow: Tales. J. Cape, 1933. Cream parchment, green leather spine titling label, t.e.g., others uncut. No. 46 of 300 copies signed by the author. 20. Another copy of First Edition, the issue on ordinary paper, half black linen, light blue cloth sides, spine titling label, top edges cut, others uncut. 21. Polly Oliver: Tales. J. Cape, 1935. Uniform format with Dunky Fitlow, save that colour of sides is yellow, in patterned dust-jacket (7s. 6d. net). Four leaves of publisher's list at end. 22. Ninepenny Flute: Twenty-one Tales. Macmillan, 1937. Dark plum red cloth, spine gilt-lettered, all edges cut, in pictorial dust-jacket (7s. 6d. net). 23. Ugly Anna and Other Tales. Methuen, 1944. Light blue cloth, spine lettered in cream, all edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (8s. 6d. net). 24. Selected Tales. From his Twelve Volumes Published between the Wars. J. Cape, 1946. Light green cloth, black lettered spine and upper side, only lower edges uncut. Y8 at end is blank. 25. Lucy in Her Pink Jacket. Peter Nevill, 1954. Yellow cloth, spine lettered in dark green, all edges cut. 26. It's me, O Lord! An Abstract and Brief Chronicle . . . of A. E. Coppard, written by himself. Methuen, 1957. Yellow cloth, spine titled in blue, all edges cut, 2 portraits of the author; R7 and R8 are blanks at end.

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1. The Threshold of Quiet. Talbot Press & Fisher Unwin, 1917. Green cloth, spine and upper side lettered and designed in black, all edges cut, slate-grey end-papers.

3. Death and the Princess: A Morality. Cambridge: Bowes & Bowes, 1912. Tall 8vo, brown boards, lettered up spine and on upper side in 5 lines in black, trimmed edges, frontispiece plate by Mrs. Bernard Darwin.

2. The Hounds of Banba. Talbot Press & Fisher Unwin, 1920. Brown cloth, spine and upper side lettered in black, edges trimmed. K8 at end carries adverts of "Daniel Corkery's Masterpieces."

4. Spring Morning. With Woodcuts by G. Raverat. Poetry Bookshop, 1915. Green wrappers, upper side lettered and designed in black, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed.

3. The Labour Leader: A Play in Three Acts. Talbot Press & Fisher Unwin, 1920. Dark blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side with embossed lettering in a panel, edges cut. 4. The Yellow Bittern and Other Plays. Talbot Press & Fisher Unwin, 1920. Uniform format with The Labour Leader. Pp.[95-96] at end are blank. Autograph: "John Maclntyre, 13/5/21," on end-paper. 5. Synge and Anglo-Irish Literature: A Study. Cork: Cork University Press; London: Longmans Green, 1931. Tall 8vo, dark green cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 9 lines between double rules top and bottom, trimmed edges, frontispiece portrait of Synge. 6. O'Farachain, Roibeard. Thronging Feet. With an Introduction by Daniel Corkery. Sheed & Ward, 1936. Square 8vo, green cloth, spine lettered in 8 lines in white enamel, in printed dust-jacket (3/6 net). From the library of John O'Connor, inscibed: "With homage to Monsignor O'Connor. Roibeard O'Farachain, 16/1/38." CORNFORD (Frances Crofts) 1886-1960 1. Poems. Hampstead: The Priory Press; Cambridge: Bowes & Bowes [1911]. Light grey boards, linen spine, edges cut, lettered in green upwards on spine and in 3 lines on upper side. 2. Another copy of First Edition, one of a small (unspecified) number of copies printed on a superior handmade paper watermarked "Unbleached Arnold." Edges entirely uncut and cover measurement is 5 7/8" x 7 5/8" (whereas copies on ordinary paper measure 5 1/2" x 7 3/8"). Bindings are similar with grey end-papers matching boards, and collation is the same [A]-F4, 24 leaves including blanks.

5. Autumn Midnight. The Poetry Bookshop, 1923. Pink wrappers lettered and designed black, all edges uncut. Printed at S. Dominic's Press, Ditchling, Sussex, the colophon dated "Sl.vii, 1923." The frontispiece, initials and other woodcuts by Eric Gill. A. T. Bartholomew's copy with his Cambridge bookplate. 6. Different Days. Hogarth Press, 1928. Light blue boards, black lettered up spine and on upper side, edges trimmed. No. 1 of the Hogarth Living Poets. 7. Mountains and Molehills. Illustrated with Woodcuts by Gwen Raverat. Cambridge University Press, 1934. Light blue linen, gilt-lettered up spine, top edges cut, others uncut, in pictorial dust-jacket (5s. net). Pp.[67-68] at end are blank. 8. Poems from the Russian. Chosen and Translated by Frances Cornford and Esther Polianowsky Salamen. Faber, 1943. Salmon pink linen, silver lettered down spine, top edges cut, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (3s. 6d. net). E6 at end is blank. 9. Travelling Home and Other Poems. Illustrated by Christopher Cornford. Cresset Press, 1948. Tall 8vo, red cloth, gilt-lettered down spine and on upper side, edges cut. In pictorial dust-jacket (8/6 net). 10. Collected Poems. Cresset Press, 1954. Tall 8vo, light stone coloured cloth, gilt spine, edges cut. In printed dust-jacket (10s. 6d. net). Association Item 11. Litchfield, Henrietta. Emma Darwin: A Century of Family Letters, 1792-1896. Edited by her daughter Henrietta Litchfield. 2 vols, John Murray, 1915. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, trimmed edges, 18 illustrations. This work is dedicated: "To my niece Frances Cornford, my wise and sympathetic counsellor in editing this book." In the first volume appears the 6 page "In Memoriam for Erasmus Darwin" (by Bernard Darwin), dated 10 May 1915 printed on a folded quarter-sheet

161 CORNFORD (Frances Crofts) 1886-1960 preceded by a singleton, paginated a repeated i-vi, and inserted before p. xi. CORY (William Johnson) 1823-1892 1. lonica. Smith Elder, 1858. Green vertically ribbed blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed, primrose yellow end-papers. Issued anonymously, but below title is written in ink in Cory's autograph: "by William Johnson/Eton." 2. lonica. 1858. lonica II. 1877. First Editions of both parts. The 1858 book consists of partly unopened sheets of original printing. The second part is a Privately printed booklet, without pagination, from the Cambridge University Press-this copy entirely unopened. As issued together, circa 1887, in light grey boards, spine lettered with the single word title. Inscription on end-paper to G. J. Talbot, dated Christmas Day, 1887. 3. lonica. George Allen, 1891. First Collected Edition of the 2 series, light blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, top edges uncut, others trimmed, erratum slip inserted. Inscribed in pencil: "M. C. B., Jan. 1891," and to the erratum slip is added "and many others." One of these, "task" in place of "toil" (p. 186), is in the same hand as are initials for the autobiographical poems on pp. 61, 126 and 131. 4. lonica. George Allen, 1891. No. 32 of 100 large handmade paper copies. 4to, half cream parchment, pale blue linen, all edges uncut. This is the Second Collected Edition (though in Large Paper copies the words "Second Edition" do not appear). Title-page is reset with publisher's imprint in 3 lines only, also there is a half-title which the earlier edition did not have. The error of the erratum slip is corrected, as are several others, notably the word on p. 186. This confirms that small paper copies were printed (and published) before the Large Paper. 5. lonica. George Allen, 1891. The small paper edition, in which "[Second Edition. All rights reserved.]" appears on verso title-page at foot-which in Large Paper copies is blank. Contemporary binding of crushed blue morocco, spine with 5 raised bands, all edges gilt, gilt dentelles inside covers. The binding is signed inside front and back covers: "T Ingelton Drake, Binder, Eton" (front) and "Morrell, Binder" (back). The London firm was presumably the actual binder.

CORY (William Johnson) 1823-1892 6. lonica. By William Cory. With Biographical Introduction and Notes by Arthur. C. Benson. 3rd ed. George Allen, 1905. Light blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others trimmed. This is the first edition to bear the author's name and first printing of Benson's 22 page essay. 7. Another copy of the same sheets and in similar binding, but imprint at foot of spine is "George/Allen," whereas in above copy it is "George Allen/1905" in a smaller type. 8. lonica. George Allen & Unwin, n.d. Dark blue designed cloth, gilt spine, all edges cut. This reprint, in the Sesame Library, is probably circa 1913. It may be the Fourth Edition, though unspecified. Pagination is identical with the 1905 edition, though it is by a different printer-Ballantyne Hanson & Co. Two paragraphs (14 lines) are added to the prefatory Note on the poems. 9. Eton Reform. Longman Green &c., 1861. A 34 page 8vo pamphlet, bound first in a volume of 14 Eton and St. Paul's School pamphlets (1845-1866). Contemporary half calf, marbled sides. Signed (print) on p. 34: "W. Johnson, Jan 11, 1861." Probably lacks its final blank leaf (C2). 10. Extracts from the Letters and Journals of William Cory. Selected and Arranged by Francis Warre Cornish. Oxford: Printed for the Subscribers, 1897. Eoxburghe style binding, half green leather, green linen sides, matching end-papers, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait. The list of subscribers contains only 23 names, but the edition must have consisted of considerably more copies, possibly 100. 11. Hints for Eton Masters. By W. J. Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1898. 32 pages, sewn into pale blue wrappers, upper side lettered as is title-page, with the addition of "Price One Shilling, net." Edges uncut. 12. Reginald, Viscount Esher. lonicus. John Murray, 1923. Tall 8vo, half holland, pale blue linen sides, spine titling label, top edges cut, others uncut, in blue printed dust-jacket (15/- net). Frontispiece portrait. Contains a collection of letters (1868-1892) from Cory to Lord Esher. 13. Eton under Hornby: Some Reminiscences and Reflections. By 0. E, A. C. Fifield, 1910. Green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. Frontispiece portrait of Dr. J. J. Hornby. The "Old Etonian" pseudonym disguises the identity

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of Henry S. Salt. One chapter (pp. 55-63) is entitled "The Author of 'lonica'."

First Edition, as above, remains largely unknown.

14. Mackenzie, Faith Compton. William Cory: A Biography. With a Selection of Poems, Some Unpublished, others from lonica, and a List of Cory's Printed Works Compiled by John Carter. Tall 8vo, red cloth, gilt spine, all edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (21/- net).

3. Ludibria Lunae, or, The Wars of the Women and the Gods: An Allegorical Burlesque. Smith Elder, 1869. Blue bevelled cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut, reddish brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn.

Association Item 15. May, Thomas Erskine. The Constitutional History of England. 2 vols. Longman Green &c., 1863. Tall 8vo, in a finely preserved contemporary Riviere binding of tree calf, elaborately gilt spines with double lettering labels, gilt borders, all edges gilt. An Eton "Leaving Prize," inscribed in Cory's handwriting; "Given to Herbert E. F. Lewis, with W. Johnson's best wishes. Eton, July 27, 1863." COURTHOPE (William John) 1842-1917 1. The Three Hundredth Anniversary of Shakespeare's Birth: A Prize Poem Recited in the Theatre, Oxford. June 8, 1864. Oxford: T. and G. Shrimpton, 1864. 16 pages, sewn into white wrappers, upper side lettered within ornamental frame, entirely in blue ink; the binder has sacrificed the rear wrapper. See the Year-Books, Gift-Books and Anthologies section, where 2 collections of Oxford Prize Poems contain examples of Courthope's Newdigate prize—his first publication. 2. The Genius of Spenser. [Privately printed for the author, ? 1868]. Tall 8vo, an undated anonymous pamphlet of 98 leaves, in light stone coloured wrappers, upper side titled in black in a frame with 7 lines of verse below title, all edges cut. Title-page printed on Al repeats wording of upper wrapper, followed by "Analysis of Contents" printed on an inserted leaf misleadingly paginated v on verso. Collation is A-C (3 gatherings in 8's), D-l (6 gatherings in 4's) and one singleton pasted in. Printer's imprint at foot of p. 96: "London: Benjamin Pardon, Printer, Paternoster Row." Courthope's essay gained the Chancellor's prize, and was duly read in the Theatre, Oxford, 17 June 1868. Rivington's edition-the official edition-followed later in the same year. Similar in setting, though in a smaller type, pp. iv, 95 (B-G, 6 gatherings in 8's, preceded by 2 leaves carrying title and contents), it shows considerable verbal revision, the omission of whole sentences and correction of errors. A facsimile of this has been issued (Folcroft Library Editions, 1975); but the true

4. The Paradise of Birds: An Old Extravaganza in a Modern Dress. Blackwood, 1870. Square 8vo, blue cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, similar end-papers to above and same binder's ticket. First leaf is conjugate with half-title and carries adverts of books "Lately Published," with verso paginated 2, though this is ignored in counting of the preliminaries. Lord De Tabley's copy with his signature: "J. L. Warren, 1870." 5. The Paradise of Birds: An Old Extravaganza in a Modern Dress. 2nd ed. Blackwood, 1873. Still an 8vo, though it is little more than half the size of the 1870 book, and entirely reset in a smaller type. Dark brown end-papers, all edges cut. 6. Addison. Macmillan, 1884. Cream coloured linen, all edges uncut, spine titling label. Two leaves of publisher's adverts inserted at end list 35 volumes in the English Men of Letters series, only one being after Addison, the Bacon of R. W. Church, which is described as " Nearly ready." 7. The Life of Alexander Pope. John Murray, 1889. Tall 8vo, dark purplish blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut, end-papers matching cloth, frontispiece bust of Pope on Japanese vellum. Issued as volume 5 of the Elwin and Courthope edition of Pope's works; there are printer's catches for volume 5, though title-page is not so lettered. 12 item errata on p. xii. Collation is same as that of author's presentation copy to Francis Turner Palgrave, now in the British Library~pp. xvi, 444. When issued with the 10 volume set of Pope's Works the pagination was extended to p. 538 to accommodate the lengthy Index. Inscribed : "J. A. Godley, Esq, C.B., with the Author's compliments." 8. A History of English Poetry. 6 vols. Macmillan, 1895-1910. Complete set of First Editions dated 1895, 1897, 1903, 1903, 1905, 1910. Uniform dark blue cloth, gilt spines, all edges uncut, end-papers matching cloth in first 4 volumes, white end-papers in last 2. Volume 1 has slip regarding proposed publication of second volume "in the course of next year," and is inscribed: "The Right Honourable Sir M. E. Grant-Duff, G.C.S.I. with

163 COURTHOPE (William John) 1842-1917 the Author's kind regards." Other volumes have publisher's blind circular Presentation Copy stamp and printed slip inserted: "With the Author's Compliments." Loosely inserted is an original 8 page Prospectus of the work, sewn, Macmillan, 1895. 9. Life in Poetry: Law in Taste. Macmillan, 1901. Blue cloth, similar format with the History, all edges uncut. 2G5 and 2G6 at end carry adverts only. Three item corrigenda at foot of p. 444. Armorial bookplate of Robert Ellis Cunliffe. 10. A Consideration of Macaulay's Comparison of Dante and Milton. Published for the British Academy by Henry Frowde [1908]. 16 pages, tall 8vo, sewn into printed grey wrappers, edges cut. 11. The Country Town and Other Poems. By the late W. J. Courthope. With a Memoir by A. O. Prickard. Oxford University Press, 1920. Blue cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, frontispiece portrait. Inscribed: "G. S. S. with A. 0. P.'s sincere regards, May 1920." Autograph Letters 12. ALS, 2 pages crown 8vo, on black-edged notepaper, dated 13 December 1883, from The Droft, West Wickham, to: "Dear Mr. Richardson," regarding his paper on "Extraordinary Tithes," and promising to find room for it in the National Review, of which he was then editor. 13. ALS, 4 pages crown 8vo, on Civil Service Commission embossed notepaper, dated 4 December 1891, to "Dear Sir" [undoubtedly to George Ravenscroft Dennis, son of John Dennis]. A long letter of considerable interest, dealing in detail with the new Aldine Edition of Pope in 3 volumes: "You have every reason to congratulate yourself on the result of your labours." COUSINS (James Henry) 1873-1956 1. Ben Madighan and Other Poems. With an Introduction by John Vinycomb, M.R.I.A. Belfast: Marcus Ward [1895]. Blue cloth, gilt, edges cut, frontispiece portrait and illustrations. First Edition of the author's first book, limited to 1,000 copies. Limitation certificate is unusually placed, on p. 12. It would appear that only the early copies were numbered and signed by the author; this one is inscribed: "No. 265. J. H. C."

COUSINS (James Henry) 1873-1956 2. Another copy of the First Edition, identical with above. This copy is No. 528, numbered in a different handwriting and not signed by the author. 3. Sung by Six. S. K. Cowan, J. H. Cousins, W. M. Knox, L. J. McQuilland, W. T. Anderson, J. J. Pender. Belfast: R. Aickin, 1896. Green buckram, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges uncut. Frontispiece photographic plate. 4. The Voice of One. T. Fisher Unwin, 1900. Blue linen, gilt-lettered in 2 lines on upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. 5. The Quest. Dublin: Maunsel, 1906. Half cream linen, light green cloth sides, all edges uncut. Signature on end-paper: "A. M. Wentworth-Sheilds" [the Irish Artist]. 6. The Awakening and Other Sonnets. Dublin: Maunsel [1907]. Text, which is printed within ornamental borders, on 8 semi-stiff cards, of which first and last are laid-down on the purplish wrappers, of which upper side is ornamented in gilt with same design as title-page. 7. Another copy of First Edition, identical save that colour of wrappers is cream. 8. The Bell-Branch. Dublin: Maunsel, 1908. Light blue boards, lighter blue holland spine, top edges cut, others uncut, end-papers matching boards. Upper cover lettered in 2 lines in dark blue. Inscribed: "With warmest regards from James H. Cousins. Dublin 30 Nov.'08." 9. Etain the Beloved and Other Poems. Dublin: Maunsel, 1912. Light blue cloth, gilt-lettered and designed spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait. 10. Straight and Crooked. Grant Richards, 1915. Dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered up spine and in 2 lines on upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. 11. Sea-Change. Madras: Ganesh, 1920. 56 pages, sewn into pale blue-green wrappers, upper side lettered in green, edges cut. 12. Modern English Poetry: Its Characteristics and Tendencies. Madras: Ganesh [1921]. Light stone coloured linen, spine and upper side lettered in green, edges cut. Frontispiece caricature portrait of W. B. Yeats. Errata slip (5 errors) inserted at p. 1.

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13. Forest Meditation and Other Poems. Adyar, Madras: Theosophical Publishing House, 1925. Green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges uncut. 14. Above the Rainbow Poems. Madras: Ganesh & blue wrappers, titling label frontispiece plate, top edges

and Other Co., 1926. Pale on upper side, cut, others uncut.

15. A Tibetan Banner. Madras: Ganesh, 1926. Red wrappers, titling label on upper side, frontispiece plate, top edges cut, others uncut. Inserted is author's brief note, on his printed Adyar notepaper, requesting reviews of the above 2 booklets. COWPER (William) 1731-1800 1. Olney Hymns. In Three Books. W. Oliver &c., 1779. [Russell 21.] 12mo, old sprinkled calf (not quite contemporary). One or 2 headlines are slightly shaved, but this is a satisfactory copy, perfect save for lack of the half-title. 67 hymns have the initial "C" and are accepted as Cowper's; the Preface is signed: "John Newton, Olney, Bucks, Feb. 15, 1779." The name of the (probable) original owner of this copy is on the blank page 180: "Sarah Wheatley. Her Book. Melton Mowbray, March 8, 1780." Editions of the Two-volume Poems (1782-1785) up to 1821 2. Poems. By William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq. J. Johnson, 1782. [Russell 68.] Contemporary tree calf, red and green titling labels, yellow edges, armorial bookplate of Madalene Dowdeswell and later one of Richard Austin. This copy is in the rare first state, with the original leaves, pp. 59-60 and 123-124. The text readings are: With memorandum-book to minute down The sev'ral posts, and where the chaise broke down, on the first, and again on p. 123: Hast thou admitted with a blind, fond trust, The lie that burn'd thy father's bones to dust. . . . 3. Another copy of the First Edition, contemporary sprinkled calf, fully gilt spine with red and green titling labels, marbled end-papers, yellow edges. In this copy the stubs of the 2 cancelled leaves are clearly visible, and the cancellans (as found in the great majority of copies)

COWPER (William) 1731-1800 carry the reading: With memorandum-book for ev'ry town, And [sic] ev'ry post, and where the chaise broke down and also on p. 123: Hast thou, when heav'n has cloath'd thee with disgrace, And long provok'd, repaid thee to thy face. . . . In both states pp. 162 and 343 are misprinted 161 and 344; also the errata on p.[368] is common to both. 4. The Task: A Poem in Six Books. J. Johnson, 1785. [Russell 69.] Uniform with the first copy of Poems (1782) above, with Dowdeswell and Austin bookplates. The half-title (the only place where this is styled "Vol. II") has been sacrificed by the binder. 5. The Task: A Poem in Six Books. J. Johnson, 1785. This copy is uniformly bound with the second listed copy of 1782, and is quite perfect, with half-title reading: "Poems,/By/William Cowper, Esq./[spasm]/Vol. II." In both copies the (possible) variants are uniform, viz: "Argument" bound as p.fviii] with [vii] blank; catchwords on pp. 304 and 306 both read "And." 6. Poems. 6th ed. 2 vols. J. Johnson, 1794. [Russell 78.] Contemporary tree calf, fully gilt spines with double green titling labels, green sprinkled edges. Signature: "Edward O'Bryen, June 1798" on title-page in each volume; armorial bookplates of Colonel Hamilton Forsyth. In volume 1 signature T4 is misprinted T and p. 160 misprinted 162. An important edition, as it is the first to contain additional poems, 9 hitherto uncollected poems being added to The Task volume. 7. Poems. A New Edition. 2 vols. J. Johnson, 1798. [Russell 81.] Pott 8vo, contemporary tree calf, double green titling labels, marbled end-papers. The 2 new poems, "On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture," and "The Dog and the Water-Lily," which had been published together in pamphlet form ("Price Sixpence") earlier in the year, are first included here-the first in volume 1, and the second in volume 2. An attractive edition, printed on superior paper; there are 10 engraved plates by Stothard, which are not found in all copies. 8. Poems. A New Edition. 2 vols. J. Johnson, 1800. [Russell 85.] Demy 8vo, in contemporary binding of blue grained morocco, all edges gilt, marbled end-papers, Trinity College, Dublin, arms in gilt on sides. This copy has the 10 engraved plates after Stothard. Volume 1 ends on p. 407, with "The

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End" and Bensley's imprint at foot; volume 2 ends on p. 420 with a different setting of Bensley's imprint, including "London."

15. Another set, virtually identical with above, save that colour of morocco is dark red, and end-papers pink.

9. Another set of above issue, with same imprints &c., but without the engraved plates. Bound in contemporary tree calf, gilt spines with red titling labels, sprinkled edges. With armorial bookplates and library stamps of Burden, The Hall, Clevedon, Somerset.

16. Poems. 2 vols. With Life of the Author by Rev. T. Greatheed. Printed by W. Wilson for J. Bumpus &c., 1821. [Russell 132.] Contemporary crimson morocco, wide gilt borders, gilt edges. Each volume inscribed: "Mary Law from the Rev. W. S. Horner, May 1835." This edition completes the present section of the Cowper collection.

10. Another set, printed by Bensley but in 12mo. Volume 1 ends on p. 294 and volume 2 on p. 316. This has the title-page imprints reading, "In St. Paul's/Church-Yard." Size 3 1/8" x 5 1/8", contemporary binding of tree calf, gilt, marbled end-papers, sprinkled edges. 11. Poems. A New Edition, with Head and Tail-Pieces designed by Thurston &c. 2 vols. J. Johnson, 1808. [Russell 100.] Crown 8vo, contemporary dark blue calf, gilt spines and borders round sides, all edges gilt. This is the second of the Bensley printed editions of 1808, volume 1 ending on p. 432 and volume 2 on p. 412. 12. Another set of the same edition in contemporary diced russia with elaborate gilt borders, all edges gilt. The importance of this edition lies in the inclusion in volume 2 of 3 new poems, "On a Mischievous Bull," "Annus Memorabilis," and "Hymn for the Use of the Sunday School at Olney." 13. Poems. Vols. 1 & 2. Chiswick: Printed by C. Whittingham. Sold by R. Jennings, 1817. Poems. Vol. 3. [Russell 111.] Containing his posthumous poetry and a sketch of his life by his kinsman, John Johnson, LL.D. Rivington &c., 1815. Original owner's composite set, uniformly bound in contemporary blue morocco, all edges gilt. Signatures of Salome Goodriche, September 1819. These are the miniature editions (in 18mo) and the usefulness of the third volume is that it reprints the poems and translations from Hayley's Life. 14. Poems. 2 vols. W. A. Reid, 1820. [Russell 130.] Demy 8vo, contemporary dark green morocco, gilt spines and borders round sides, gilt edges. 12 engraved plates by Storer and Greig of the smaller size and additional engraved titles as in Cowper Illustrated. Profuse wood-engraved tail-pieces throughout.

17. Homer. The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer. Translated into English Blank Verse. 2 vols. J. Johnson, 1791. [Russell 276.] Demy 4to, volume 1, pp. xxviii, 668, volume 2, pp.[iv], 584.] Original pale blue boards, drab spines lettered by hand in ink: "Homer/by/ Cowper/1 [11]." In fine state, edges uncut and top edges unopened almost throughout. Each volume preserved in a red linen folder inserted in a half red morocco book-box. 18. Original Poems on Various Occasions. By A Lady. Revised by William Cowper. J. Deighton &c., 1792. [Russell 329.] Contemporary calf, marbled end-papers with inscription on verso: "H. B. K. Pacey e donis W. F. Major, June 12, 1797." 19. The Power of Grace Illustrated in Six Letters . . . to John Newton. . . . Translated from the Original Latin by William Cowper. J. Johnson, 1792. [Russell 285.] Original light grey-blue wrappers, all edges uncut. The author was H. R. Van Lier; Newton's Preface is dated 5 June 1792 and the book was published soon afterwards, and before the Edinburgh edition bearing same date. 20. Darwin, Erasmus. The Botanic Garden. Part 1, Containing The Economy of Vegetation: A Poem, with Philosophical Notes. 3rd ed. J. Johnson, 1795. Not in Russell, which gives, under 238, the Fourth Edition (1799) followed by an erroneous statement on Cowper's contribution, "published for the first time." 4to, 8 3/8" x 10 7/8", a handsome copy from Lord Lonsdale's library at Lowther Castle, tree calf, gilt spine and borders, red lettering label, Lowther crests on sides and armorial bookplate of Hugh Cecil, Earl of Lonsdale. The general title to the 2 Parts is of the Third Edition, 1795, and separate title to Part 1 is the same. Title to Part 2 is of the Fourth Edition, 1794. The collation of the whole volume is 288 leaves plus 21 engraved plates. Cowper's poem, "To Dr. Darwin," dated Weston Underwood, Olney, Bucks., 23 June 1793 was first printed here.

166 COWPER (William) 1731-1800 Keynes's Bibliography of William Blake (1921) records that this edition (of the whole poem) is much scarcer than the 2 preceding ones, Blake's plate, "Tornado," being first inserted here. 21. Adelphi: A Sketch of the Character . . of the late Rev. John Cowper. Written by his Brother the late William Cowper, Esq. Printed by C. Whittingham . . . 1802. [Russell 299.] An entirely uncut copy, the first item in a bound volume of 10 tracts, ^ialf calf, marbled sides, red titling label. This is the First Edition and the superior 8vo state; also it was issued in 12mo. The second tract in the volume is John Corry's Life of William Cowper (1803), entered below (item 56). 22. Guion, Madame. Poems. Translated from the French. . . by the late William Cowper, Esq. 2nd ed. Newport-Paquel: J. Wakefield, 1802. [Russell 295.] 18mo, contemporary calf, frontispiece portrait.] P. 83 is correctly numbered (not 38), but p. 126 is misprinted 129. 23. Guion, Madame. Poems. Translated from the French. . . . 4th ed. J. Johnson, 1811. [Russell 297.3 Foolscap 8vo, contemporary calf, gilt spine. 24. Guion, Madame. Poems. From the French. . . . With Prefatory Essay by D. Macfadyen. James Clarke [1904]. Original green lambskin, gilt, all edges gilt. This is the first separate reprint since the Fourth Edition of 1811, and the Introduction is a useful 31 page Essay, dated Highgate, 1904. The text was never substantially altered, though the Second Edition of 1802 corrected a number of textual errors. The 9 original poems by Cowper are common to all 4 contemporary editions, but were excluded in 1904. 25. Poems. By William Cowper. A New Edition to which are now first added Olney Hymns and Translations from Madame Guion. J. Johnson, 1806. [Russell 95.] Demy 4to, 8" x 10". Contemporary diced brown calf, fully gilt spine with double red titling labels, frontispiece portrait by Bartolozzi after Lawrence (this is only found in a few copies). Armorial bookplate of Richard Cope Hopton, Esqr., of Can-frome in the county of Hereford. This is the most complete edition of the Poems to date, the publisher advertising it as a companion volume to Hayley's Life.

COWPER (William) 1731-1800 26. Latin and Italian Poems of Milton. Translated into English Verse. . . by the Late William Cowper, Esqr. J. Johnson, 1808. [Russell 291.] Royal 4to, 9". x 11 1/2", contemporary green grained morocco, all edges gilt, pink end-papers, armorial bookplate of James Hawkins Wilson. There are 3 line engravings after Flaxman. The work is edited by Hayley who signs the Dedication (and writes the 21 page Preface). Inscribed; "To George Rose, a token of kind remembrance & friendly good wishes from the Editor, 1812," in Hayley's autograph. 27. Cowper's Milton. 4 vols. Chichester: Printed by W. Mason for J. Johnson. . . London 1810. [Russell 292.] 8vo, contemporary calf, fully gilt spines with double red titling labels, each volume with armorial bookplate of Edward Morris Moulton Barrett. Lacks the frontispiece portrait of Cowper, which is found in only very few copies. The volumes were reissued with new title-pages in the following year, 1811, and again in 1835 with title-pages by Henry Washbourne. 28. Memoir of the Early Life of William Cowper, Esq. Written by Himself, and Never before Published. R. Edwards, 1816. [Russell 304.] Original blue boards, cream parchment paper spine with titling label printed in 7 lines with one short rule, all edges uncut, frontispiece portrait (engraved 4 July 1816). Signature Dl is signed and the last word on p. 36 is followed by period: "me." It has the variety of title-page in which the 6 of 1816 is higher, and has "undistinguishing" on (p. xvii) where other copies read "indiscriminating." Final leaf, pp.[127-128], is blank. 29. The Letters of the Late William Cowper, Esq. to his Friends. New Edition. Revised by his Kinsman J. Johnson, LL.D. 3 vols. Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, 1817. A remarkably fine set in original drab boards with white titling labels, "£l.ls. Boards," with all half-titles (conjugate with title-pages), frontispiece portrait in volume 1 dated 1 January 1817. This is the sectional issue of what were the fourth, fifth and sixth volumes of the first Collected Edition of Cowper's Works, 10 volumes, 1817. Russell (p. 221) says, "Apart from the Letters, however, this edition of the works has no textual or literary importance." 30. The Minor Poems of William Cowper. Printed for John Sharpe, Piccadilly, 1818. [Russell 119.] Two parts in one volume (pp. vi, 108 and iv, 108). Bound contemporary hard-grain morocco, t.e.g., others uncut, with both half-titles, titles and vignette plates (which are dated 1 October 1817).

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31. Private Correspondence of William Cowper, Esq. Now First Published from the Originals in the Possession of his Kinsman John Johnson, LL.D. 2 vols. Henry Colburn, 1824. [Russell 314.] 8vo, original drab boards, white spine titling labels printed in 6 lines between double rules top and bottom, all edges uncut, frontispiece portrait to each volume. The last leaf in volume 2 [pp. 351-352] carries adverts only.

additional leaves, pp. 341-348; as has volume 3, 321-328; volume 4, 355-362; and volume 7, 361-379.

32. Poems: The Early Productions of William Cowper. Now First Published from the Originals in the Possession of James Croft . . . . Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, 1825. [Russell 144.] Original drab boards, entirely uncut (but spine titling label rubbed beyond deciphering lettering). 12mo, a clean and perfect copy but has been re-cased with new end-papers. 33. The Letters of the late William Cowper, Esq. to his Friends. Revised by his Kinsman J. Johnson, LL.D. New Edition. Longman &c., 1827. [Russell 313.] A rare miniature edition, giving the text verbatim of the 479 letters in the 1820 edition. 24mo, size 2 3/4" x 5 1/2", frontispiece and engraved title, contemporary purple calf, gilt spine with green lettering label, signature of Charles Bagot Phillimore, 1843 and with his armorial bookplate. 34. The Miscellaneous Works of William Cowper, Esq. With a Life and Notes by John S. Memes. 3 vols. Edinburgh: Fraser, 1834. [Russell 340.] Contemporary polished brown calf, dark red titling labels, marbled edges, frontispiece portraits and engraved titles. There are no half-titles (see Dr. Russell's query on this, Bibliography, p. 226). 35. The Autobiography of Cowper, or, an Account of the Most Interesting Part of His Life. Written by Himself. Hamilton Adams, 1835. [Russell 311.] Pink watered-silk pattern cloth, edges uncut. 36. Another copy, with identical blocking of gilt titling on upper side, but in a variant pink cloth with hexagonal fish-net pattern. 37. The Life and Works of William Cowper. Revised, Arranged and Edited by the Rev. T. S. Grimshawe, A.M. 2nd ed. 8 vols. Saunders & Otley, 1835-1836. [Russell 342 or 343.] Perhaps an intermediate state between First and Second Editions. Volume 1 is the sole example of "Second Edition, 1836" on title-page, all other volumes being dated 1835. Hence first volume has the "Advertisement to the Second Edition" dated at end Biddenham, 21 January 1836 and Notes extension at end to p. 344. But volume 2 also has the

38. The Poetical Works of William Cowper. Edited with Notes and Biographical Introduction by William Benham. Macmillan, 1870. First Globe Edition, and first issue of Canon Benham's edition. Dark green cloth, all edges uncut, pp. Ixxvi, 536. Reddish brown end-papers with binder's label of Burn. The third printing (Macmillan, 1879) was from the same plates, unrevised. 39. The Poems of William Cowper. Edited by J. S. Memes. Glasgow & London: W. R. M'Phun & Son, 1873. Thick 8vo, dark green cloth, gilt extra, all edges gilt, pp. xii, 607, 5 (blanks). With "Preface to the Fourth Edition" by Memes. This contains the hymns and poems the editor could not include in his 3 volume edition of 1834 because of copyright difficulties. "On the whole, the present edition of the Poems of Cowper is believed to be the only perfect and complete publication, of its class, yet before the world" [from Memes's Preface]. 40. Olney Hymns. In Three Books. New Edition. Edinburgh: James Taylor, 1877. Crown 8vo, dark red cloth, gilt and black designed and lettered, cut edges, 472 pages. This edition reprints John Newton's Preface, but by an error it is dated at end, "Olney, Bucks, Feb. 15, 1799" [for 1779]. 41. Selections from Cowper's Poems. With Introduction by Mrs. Oliphant. Macmillan, 1883. Blue cloth, gilt, edges uncut, dark slate end-papers. The first Golden Treasury Series edition and first printing of Mrs. Oliphant's 19 page Preface. 42. The Letters of William Cowper. Edited with Introduction by Rev. W. Benham, B.D., F.S.A. Macmillan, 1884. First issue of Canon Benham's edition and first Golden Treasury Series edition. Blue cloth, gilt, edges uncut, dark slate end-papers. Inscribed: "Mrs. Pigott, with the kindest regards of the Editor, William Benham, June 3, 1885." 43. The Diverting History of John Gilpin. By William Cowper. Illustrated by Chas. E. Brock. Printed for the Guild of Women-Binders, 1899. Square 8vo, smooth cream buckram, all edges uncut. No. 51 of 100 copies on Japanese paper. There are 12 page plates and other illustrations in the text.

168 COWPER (William) 1731-1800 Later Editions of the Poems 44. The Unpublished and Uncollected Poems. . . . Edited by Thomas Wright. T. Fisher Unwin, 1900. Cameo Series, green boards, half cream parchment, t.e.g., others uncut, yapp edges, frontispiece portrait. 46. Poems by William Cowper. With an Introduction by Alice Meynell. Blackie & Son [1904]. A volume of the Red Letter Library, green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., lower edges cut, patterned end-papers. 46. The Poems of William Cowper. Edited with Introduction and Notes by J. C. Bailey. With 27 illustrations. Methuen, 1905. Smooth olive green buckram, t.e.g., pp. xxx + ix-xci, 741 + 3 (blanks). Al before the half-title is blank and not counted in pagination. Inscribed: "Lionel Oust from John Bailey, Christmas 1905," and with the recipient's armorial bookplate. Inserted is the interesting 4 page ALS which accompanied the gift to "Dear Lionel" signed "John C. B.," on his Grangegorman, Overstrand, Cromer notepaper: "I wanted to give myself the pleasure of sending you my poor magnum opus; and I think or hope that for Blake's sake if not for mine you may be willing to find a place for it." 47. Another copy of the J. C. Bailey edition; this one belonged to Esther Meynell and has her autograph. Both these copies are of the first binding issue. The work sold only slowly; later binding of First Edition sheets have top edges cut (not gilt), are in a rough cloth of similar shade (not the smooth buckram), and have the 6 line lettering on spine from a smaller type. 48. The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper. Edited by H. S. Milford, M.A. Oxford University Press, Henry Frowde, 1905. First Edition in the Oxford Poets and the issue on india paper, green silk-cloth, gilt, all edges red under gilt, pp. xxxii, 672, frontispiece portrait. One might style this the "Mark Rutherford" copy, though the inscription is only to the lady who became his second wife: "Dorothy Horace Smith, from the Editor, Xmas 1905." 49. The Diverting History of John Gilpin. . . . Embellished with 30 woodcuts by Robert Seaver. Constable [1906]. 12mo, pink decorated linen with woodcut titling label.

COWPER (William) 1731-1800 50. The Poetical Works of William Cowper. Edited by H. S. Milford. 3rd ed. Oxford University Press, 1926. The india paper issue, maroon cloth, gilt, all edges red under gilt, in printed dust-jacket. Though more complete than the First Edition, the claim of completeness is dropped from the title of this reprint after 21 years. A different portrait (after Romney) serves as frontispiece, a 20 line note dated November 1926 is appended to the original 1905 Preface, and the pagination is extended to 680 (including final blank Z4). 51. Two Poems Printed in 1798. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926. A facsimile, printed from type, of the original edition of 1798. Marbled wrappers, titling label on upper side, all edges uncut, limited to 550 copies. 52. New Poems. Oxford University Press, 1931. Pp. iv, xx (including final blank C6). Marbled wrappers with title label, all edges uncut; an unopened copy. Produced uniformly with the Two Poems of 1926; no limitation stated. Contains 7 poems, of which 6 had not been printed before. Later Editions of the Letters 53. Letters of William Cowper: Being a Selection from His Correspondence, with a Sketch of His Life and Biographical Notices of His Correspondents. Religious Tract Society, n.d. Foolscap 8vo, pp. xxviii, 416. Contemporary binding of crimson hard-grain morocco, spine with raised bands, all edges gilt, frontispiece portrait. 54. The Correspondence of William Cowper. . . . With Annotations by Thomas Wright. 4 vols. Hodder & Stoughton, 1904. 8vo, red buckram, spine titling labels, t.e.g., others uncut. 55. The Unpublished and Uncollected Letters of William Cowper. Edited by Thomas Wright. C. J. Farncombe, 1925. Tall 8vo, smooth red buckram, gilt-lettered up spine and on upper side, top edges cut, others uncut. Secondary Material 56. Corry, John. Life of William Cowper. Printed for B. Crosby . . . 1803. 12mo (4 1/4" x 7 1/4"), 72 pages, frontispiece portrait, entirely uncut. This pamphlet is the second item in the volume of tracts described under Adelphi (1802).

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57. Hayley, William. The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper, Esq. 3 vols. Chichester: Printed by J. Seagrave for J. Johnson &c., 1803-1804. [Russell 347/349.] 4to, a Large Copy with marbled edges (some lower edges uncut), page measuring 8 7/8" x 11 1/2". Contemporary russia gilt with gilt arms on sides of Sir Simon R. B. Taylor, Bart, and his bookplates inside covers. There are 3 portraits and 3 other engravings, all by William Blake. The plate of Cowper's Oak is not engraved by Blake. This set has been bound without the half-titles.

61. Hayley, William. The Life and Letters of William Cowper, Esq. New Edition. 4 vols. Printed for J. Johnson &c., 1812. [Russell 354.] This edition was issued without half-titles. A fine set, 8vo, 5 1/8" x 8 1/4", in green grained morocco, all edges gilt, pink marbled end-papers. With autograph signature of William Hayley, 1812 in volume 1, also signature, "M. Hayley, the Gift of her Husband." Signature of M. Hayley is also in volumes 2, 3 and 4 and signature of J. R. Wellford in all 4 volumes.

58. Hayley, William. The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper, Esq. 2nd ed. 3 vols. Chichester: Printed by J. Seagrave for J. Johnson &c., 1803-1804. [Russell 348.] 4to, a smaller copy-page measuring 8" x 10 1/4". Contemporary diced calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spines with double red titling labels, armorial bookplates of Richard Cope Hopton Esq. of Can-frome in the County of Hereford. With the same engraved plates &c., and bound without the half-titles. The weather-house plate (by Blake) is of the second variety, with double downstroke in the "t" of "thought," whereas in the copy above it is in the first state. Both these sets have the separately paginated "Supplementary Pages &c." with title-pages dated 1806, bound at end of third volume. 59. Hayley, William. The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper. . . . New and Enlarged Edition. 4 vols. Chichester: Printed by J. Seagrave for J. Johnson &c., 1806. 8vo (the first 8vo edition—Russell 352). Contemporary mottled green and brown polished calf, gilt spines with double titling labels, sprinkled edges (page measures 5" x 8 1/8"). This set, also, has been bound without the half-titles; each volume has signature with date, 25 December 1813, on end-paper. 60. [Anon.] Cowper, Illustrated by A Series Of Views, in, or near, the Park of Weston Underwood, Bucks. Printed for Vernor, Hood &c., 1810. [Russell 378.] 8vo, contemporary half red morocco, green linen sides, all edges gilt; the engraved title still dated 1803, the date of the First Edition. Signature of (Bishop) Handley, C. G. Moule and number of insertions (including Thomas Wright's Appeal for the preservation of Cowper's summer house at Olney).

62. Potter, John Phillips. Essays on the Lives of Cowper, Newton and Heber. . . . Printed for B. Fellowes, 1830. [Russell 371.] 8vo, drab boards entirely uncut, spine titling label. The anonymous author was John Phillips Potter and the first 45 pages are titled "On the Despondency of Cowper." 63. Taylor, Thomas. The Life of William Cowper. . . . Smith Elder, 1833. [Russell 362.] 8vo, polished dark blue calf, fully gilt spine with double red titling labels, marbled edges and end-papers, frontispiece portrait. Bookplate of Edward Ridsdale Harding. A fine example of contemporary binding. 64. [Storer, James.] The Rural Walks of Cowper: Displayed in a Series of Views near Olney, Bucks. Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper [c. 1835]. [Russell 383.] 12mo, purple grained cloth with a (slightly variant) titling label on upper side: "Storer's/Rural Walks/of/Cowper./Seventeen Engravings,/Price 6s." 65. Hayley, William. Life and Letters of William Cowper. . . . New Edition, Complete in One Volume. Longman &c., 1835. [Russell 356.] The first issue of this work in one volume. An Eton "leaving" prize and a superb example of contemporary crimson hard-grain morocco, gilt extra, all edges gilt. Inscribed: "William Vivash Maskelyne from his sincere friend Amhurst D. Tyssen, on his leaving Eton, Election 1849." 66. [Seeley, R. B.] The Life of William Cowper, with Selections from his Correspondence. Seeley, Jackson & Halliday, 1855. Foolscap 8vo, dark green blind embossed cloth. The anonymous author's Preface is dated London 23 December 1854, and it appears he was the publisher, R. B. Seeley. Cowper's "Memoir of the Early Life &c" is reprinted as a 35 page Appendix.

170 COWPER (William) 1731-1800 67. [Wright, W. S.] The Loved Haunts of Cowper, or, The Photographic Remembrancer of Olney and Weston. Olney: Photographed, Compiled and Published by William Samuel Wright, 1867. Bevelled green cloth, gilt, all edges gilt. Illustrated with 18 mounted photographs.

COWPER (William) 1731-1800 75. Wright, Thomas. The Life of William Cowper. 2nd ed. C. J. Farncombe, 1921. A considerably revised edition; 30 illustrations, 8vo, bevelled dark green cloth, gilt, trimmed edges.

68. Smith, Goldwin. Cowper. Macmillan & Co., 1880. In the English Men of Letters series, the superior issue in cream linen, spine titling label, all edges uncut, an entirely unopened copy.

76. Wright, Thomas. Guide to the Cowper and Newton Museum, Olney. C. J. Farncombe, 1918. Green cloth, gilt, illustrated. Inscribed: "R. Colbeck, Esq, from Thomas Wright, with kind wishes. Olney 29 Sept., 1923." Inserted are 2 ALS (1923) to the same, one on Blake Society notepaper.

69. Wright, Thomas. The Town of Cowper, or, the Literary and Historical Associations of Olney and its Neighbourhood. Sampson Low, 1886. Green cloth, gilt, illustrated.

77. Cecil, David. The Stricken Deer, or, the Life of Cowper. Constable, 1929. Tall 8vo, blue rough cloth, gilt spine, top edges cut, others uncut, 4 illustrations.

70. Wright, Thomas. The Life of William Cowper. T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. The special Large Paper issue (cover dimensions 7 1/8" x 10 1/2"), full cream parchment, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece, printed on watermarked Van Gelder handmade paper.

78. Owlett, F. C. Chattel-ton's Apology. With a Short Essay on Blake and a Note on Cowper. [Privately printed for the author], 1930. 40 pages 8vo, sewn into buff coloured wrappers, upper side lettered in dark blue.

71. [Wright, W. S.] The Loved Haunts of Cowper. . . . By Thomas Wright. T. Fisher Unwin, 1894. Light brown cloth, black lettered, illustrated. This work, of almost identical title, bears little or no relation to the work of 1867, which was presumably by the present author's father.

79. Thomas, Gilbert. William Cowper and the Eighteenth Century. Ivor Nicholson & Watson, 1935. Tall 8vo, green rough cloth, spine lettered in 10 lines in white enamel with 2 ornaments, edges cut, frontispiece. Inscribed: "W. H. Balgarnie, with warmest regards and gratitude from Gilbert Thomas. 5:ix:35." The recipient is specially mentioned in the Foreword.

72. Bailey, J. C. Studies in Some Famous Letters. Thomas Burleigh, 1899. Red rough cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 6 lines, edges uncut. The first chapter (33 pages) is on Cowper. Inscribed: "P. E. Matheson from the Author." 73. Symington, Andrew James. The Poet of Home Life: Centenary Memories of William Cowper. Home Words Office [1900]. Half cream parchment, bevelled red linen sides, t.e.g., others uncut. There are Centenary contributions by Dean Farrar, Canon Wilton and others. 74. Letters of Lady Hesketh to the Rev. John Johnson, LL.D. Concerning their Kinsman William Cowper, the Poet. Edited by Catharine Bodham Johnson. Jarrold & Sons, 1901. Square 8vo, bevelled blue cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, 8 illustrations.

CRACKANTHORPE (Hubert Montague) 1870-1896 1. Wreckage: Seven Studies. Heinemann, 1893. Light brown cloth, designed in green, lettered gilt and green, all edges uncut. This is an example of the earliest binding batch, in which the 16 page catalogue at end is dated October 1892. 2. Sentimental Studies and A Set of Village Tales. Heinemann, 1895. Light green cloth, spine lettered gilt, upper side in black, all edges uncut. T4 at end [pp. 279-280] carries only extracts from reviews of the author's first book, and is followed by 8 leaves of publisher's adverts. 3. Vignettes: A Miniature Journal of Whim and Sentiment. John Lane, 1896. Orange boards with cream spine lettered in orange in 6 lines, all edges uncut, publisher's 16 page 1896 catalogue at end.

171 CRACKANTHORPE (Hubert Montague) 1870-1896 4. Last Studies. Heinemann, 1897. Produced uniformly with Sentimental Studies. Frontispiece portrait. With a Poem by Stopford A. Brooke and an Appreciation [13 pages] by Henry James. At end publisher's 16 page Autumn Announcements 1897. 5. The Albemarle. Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1892-Vol. 2, No. 3, September 1892. Edited by W. H. Wilkins and Hubert Crackanthorpe. Swan Sonnenschein, 1892. Large 8vo, 7 1/4" x 9 1/2", contemporary binding of half brown calf, green linen sides, edges cut and sprinkled. There is no title-page; this is a complete file of the 2 volumes, or 9 numbers. Pagination is 1-232; 1-126, less the first pp. 73-74, which, being the final leaf of No. 2, presumably contained advertising material only, and has been sacrificed by the binder. There is a plate to each part-Whistler's "Song on Stone" for the opening number-Sickert, Shannon and Fantin Latour amongst the other artists. This copy, from the library of Leonard Jordan (a noted Fabian) of Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight has his manuscript Index, 2 pages, in front; and he has adapted the final leaf (Vol. 2, p. 126) for a list of contributors' name, in manuscript. These include Cunninghame Graham, Ernest Dowson [his fine poem, "To One in Bedlam"], John Gray, Lionel Johnson and G. B. Shaw [his "Shaming the Devil about Shelley"], amongst others. A rare periodical of considerable importance. CRAIGIE (Pearl Mary-Teresa Richards) 1867-1906 1. A Study in Temptations. By John Oliver Hobbes. T. Fisher Unwin, 1893. No. 23 of the Pseudonym Library, yellow wrappers lettered in black, all edges uncut. Series adverts on verso of half-title list as far as No. 22, which is the previous title. 2. A Bundle of Life. By John Oliver Hobbes. T. Fisher Unwin, 1893. No. 34 of the Pseudonym Library, and the superior issue in light stone coloured linen, ruled and lettered in blue, t.e.g., others uncut. Series adverts on verso of half-title include this title as No. 34. 3. The Tales of John Oliver Hobbes. 2nd ed. T. Fisher Unwin, 1894. Dark green cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut. The pictorially designed half-title lists the 4 separate tales: "Some Emotions and A Moral"; "The Sinner's

CRAIGIE (Pearl Mary-Teresa Richards) 1867-1906 Comedy"; "A Study in Temptations"; "A Bundle of Life." It does not give the general title. Frontispiece portrait of the author by Walter Spindler. 4. The Gods, Some Mortals and Lord Wickenham. Henry, 1895. Green rough cloth, designed in blue enamel, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. The first leaf is blank save for printer's imprint in 3 lines centre verso, followed by the half-title which is printed in orange. The final gathering 19 carries one leaf of text followed by publisher's 14 page catalogue dated April 1895. 5. The Herb-Moon: A Fantasia. T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. Produced uniformly with the Tales of 1894, this volume again has the author's portrait by Walter Spindler, but it is a different one, signed and dated 1895. 6. The School for Saints. T. Fisher Unwin, 1897. Produced uniformly with The Herb-Moon; 2K2 at end of text carries Author's Note regarding sequel (Robert Orange, 1900), with printer's imprint in one line centre verso. 7. The Ambassador: A Comedy in Four Acts. T. Fisher Unwin, 1898. Dark grey flecked cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. Frontispiece portrait of George Alexander as Lord St. Orbyn in the original production at the St. James's Theatre, 2 June 1898. The last 4 leaves of the final gathering carry only publisher's adverts of "Books for Recreation and Study." 8. Osbern and Ursyne: A Drama in Three Acts. John Lane, 1900. Light stone coloured linen, spine and upper side lettered and designed in dark green, all edges uncut. 9. Robert Orange. T. Fisher Unwin, 1900. Produced uniformly with The School for Saints, to which it is the sequel, though the volume stands half an inch shorter on the shelf. Pp.[410-428] at end carry publisher's adverts "Books for Recreation and Study." Inscription on end-paper by Harry Duncan O'Neill dated Christmas 1900 and his pictorial bookplate. 10. The Serious Wooing: A Heart's History. Methuen, 1901. Blue cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered and designed, top edges cut, others uncut. Publisher's 48 page April 1901 catalogue at end. Signature of Elizabeth Drummond Angus and with her uncommon circular bookplate.

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11. The Wisdom of the Wise: A Comedy in Three Acts. T. Fisher Unwin, 1901. Red cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered and designed, t.e.g., others uncut. This appears to be the first of her title-pages to read: "By Mrs. Craigie."

18. Another copy of the First Edition, this one in original printed dust-jacket on which the coloured Beardsley illustration is reproduced as on cover. The last 2 leaves of final gathering, pp.[445-448], carry publisher's adverts only.

12. Love and the Soul Hunters. T. Fisher Unwin, 1902. Bright red blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others lightly trimmed. The last 7 leaves [pp. 347-360] of final gathering carry publisher's adverts only.

19. The "John Oliver Hobbes" Memorial. Printed for Private Circulation, 1908. Dark blue cloth, gilt, trimmed edges, marbled end-papers. An account of proceedings at the unveiling of the portrait-medallion in University College, London, with the text of Lord Curzon's speech, a letter dated 29 June 1908 from Ellen Terry, lists of subscribers' names &c. Three engraved plates. Inscribed by the author's father: "To Ethel C. Hargrove from John Morgan Richards, Steephill Castle, Isle of Wight, May 6, 1913."

13. Sand, George. Mauprat. Translated from the French by Stanley Young. With a Critical Introduction by John Oliver Hobbes. W. Heinemann, 1902. Tall 8vo, light blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, portraits and coloured illustrations. A volume in the Century of French Romance series; there is a 4 page Biographical Note by Edmund Gosse. 14. The Artist's Life. T. Werner Laurie, 1904. Light blue cloth with yapp edges, spine and upper side lettered and designed in darker blue, and lettered on upper side in 4 lines in gilt, top edges cut, others uncut. Frontispiece plate of Dante. The upper end-paper (but not the lower) has publisher's rectangular ornament in blue. 15. The Vineyard. T. Fisher Unwin, 1904. Produced uniformly with Love and the Soul Hunters. Four illustrations, but no list; Al before half-title carries publisher's adverts on verso. 16. The Flute of Pan: A Romance. T. Fisher Unwin, 1905. Produced uniformly with The Vineyard. The leaf before half-title page again carries publisher's adverts on verso, with recto blank. Ul and U2 at end carry lists of the Publisher's "Popular Novels." 17. The Dream and the Business. T. Fisher Unwin, 1906. Three-quarter cream linen, the remaining narrow strip of each cover being blue, t.e.g., other edges cut. Spine lettered in red, upper side with pictorial drawing by Aubrey Beardsley, printed in 4 colours. Edmund Gosse's copy with his bookplate; inserted is a typed letter from the publisher to him, dated 21 August 1906, sending the copy as a gift from the author. In the letter, which is on a folded sheet of 1 Adelphi Terrace notepaper, the words: "My dear Gosse" and "T. Fisher Unwin" are in the latter's autograph. Three weeks later Mrs. Craigie was dead.

20. Richards, John Morgan. The Life of John Oliver Hobbes. Introduction by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Welldon. John Murray, 1911. Tall 8vo, sage green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others trimmed, frontispiece and 12 plates. Association Item 21. Levi, Eugenia. Lyrica Italiana Antica. Firenze: Presso Leo S. Olschki, 1905. Parchment wrappers lettered and designed red and black, all edges uncut, profusely illustrated with photographic reproductions. Armorial bookplate of A. et E. Wilson. Inscribed: "To Miss Shuster with every good wish from Pearl Mary-Teresa Craigie, April 5, 1906." CRANE (Walter) 1845-1915 1. Wise, John. R. The New Forest: Its History and Its Scenery. Smith Elder, 1863. Tall 8vo, contemporary binding of half green calf, red titling label, marbled sides. Profusely illustrated. The map, which should be inserted at p. 276, is missing. There are 63 illustrations, all drawn by Walter Crane and engraved by W. J. Linton, to whom the young artist was apprenticed. This is the first book to bear Walter Crane's name. 2. Mayhew, The Brothers. The Magic of Kindness, or, The Wondrous Story of the Good Huan. With Illustrations by Walter Crane. London & New York: Cassell, Petter & Galpin [1869]. Small square 8vo, green bevelled cloth, gilt, edges cut.

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3. The Quiver of Love: A Collection of Valentines Ancient and Modern. With illustrations in Colours from Drawings by Walter Crane and K. Greenaway. Marcus Ward, 1876. Square 8vo, bevelled green cloth with overall gilt design spine and upper side, title on white inset panel centre of cover, all edges gilt, dark blue end-papers. Inserted is a letter from Walter Crane to Mr. George Belt, Hon. Secretary of the Daily Herald League, from 13 Holland Street, Kensington, 26 October 1914, preserved in its original stamped and postmarked envelope. "With regard to your query as to which are mine in The Quiuer of Love. . . "Cupid and My Dame,' 'The Herald,' 'Lady and the Named Tree' and 'Lovers at a Style' were mine, and all the rest K. G.'s, I think. I can't lay my hands on the book just now . . . ." There are 8 coloured plates, hence the remaining half are by Kate Greenaway. None of the 8 prints bears any signature or identification.

9. The First of May: A Fairy Masque. Presented in a Series of 52 Designs by Walter Crane. Henry Sotheran, 1881. Folio, 24" x 17", india proofs, size of printed surface 10 5/8" x 8 7/8", on 57 stiff mounts-one being the limitation certificate signed by the artist. No. 46 of 200 copies, price 10 guineas. Enclosed in original linen case with large lettering panel printed in blue, white and brown. There is a Dedication from author and artist to Charles Darwin. According to Massl's Bibliography, the anonymous author was John R. Wise, whose New Forest Crane had illustrated in 1863.

4. The Baby's Opera: A Book of Old Rhymes with New Dresses, the Music by the Earliest Masters. George Routledge & Sons [1877]. Oblong 8vo, glazed reddish brown boards with picture design in cream and black, dark red cloth spine, red stained edges, dark green end-papers.

11. Pan-Pipes: A Book of Old Songs. Newly Arranged and with Accompaniments by Theo. Marzials. Set to Pictures by Walter Crane. Routledge, 1883. Oblong, size 8 5/8" x 13 3/4", bevelled glazed green boards, lettered and designed with a set of pipes on which an angel figure is blowing. Brown linen spine, edges stained green, orange patterned end-papers.

5. [Molesworth, Mrs. Mary Louisa.] The Cuckoo Clock. By Ennis Graham. Illustrated by Walter Crane. Macmillan, 1877. Red cloth, lettered and designed in gilt and black, edges cut, slate blue end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. Final leaf, R2, carries adverts only.

10. Another copy of the First (and only) Edition, No. 25 of 200 copies signed by the artist. Contemporary binding (by Smith of Brighton), half red morocco with inlay design, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges gilt. The 57 cards are linen hinged and sewn. The work is engraved and printed by Goupil & Co.

7. The Baby's Bouquet. Routledge [1878]. Produced uniformly with The Baby's Opera, save for colour changes noted in First Edition. The half-title reads, in top right-hand corner, "Second Edition Revised," but the revisions are not readily discernible. In some pages, however, the music is printed in red or blue, which in First Edition was all in black.

12. Another copy of First Edition in a variant binding of orange and brown, same reddish brown linen spine, same designed end-papers but printed in pink, not orange. Inserted is the last fragment of an ALS-presumably to Randolph Caldecottreading: "and Mrs. Caldecott. Yours truly Walter Crane." The distinguishing feature of this state is the cover design (same on upper and lower sides). The pipes are not of the conventional shape, but fill the whole cover-hence no room for the angel-head, and the panel carrying the title has 3 figures, the additional one being a stork. It is probable that this is the first state, as several similar copies examined bore owners' inscriptions dated 1882, one as early as 11 October 1882.

8. Molesworth, Mrs. The Tapestry Room: A Child's Romance. Illustrated by Walter Crane. Macmillan, 1879. Produced uniformly with The Cuckoo Clock (1877), though no longer under the pseudonym.

13. Molesworth, Mrs. Two Little Waifs. Illustrated by Walter Crane. Macmillan, 1883. Uniform format with The Cuckoo Clock. Dark slate end-papers, publisher's 32 page catalogue at end dated October, 1883.

6. The Baby's Bouquet. Routledge [1878]. Produced uniformly with The Baby's Opera, save colours are green and orange, with yellow edges and blue patterned end-papers.

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14. Slateandpencilvania: Being the adventures of Dick on a Desert Island. Decyphered by Walter Crane. Marcus Ward, 1885. Walter Crane's New Series of Picture Books No. 1. Oblong sized, pale blue designed boards, dark blue linen spine, blue pictorial end-papers, edges stained pink.

advertising Flora's Feast and Legends For Lionel. Pink designed end-papers, publisher's 8 pp. adverts at end dated 10.91.

15. Pothooks and Perseverance: or the A.B.C-Serpent. Penned and Pictured by Walter Crane. Marcus Ward, 1886. Picture Books No. 3, similar format to No. 1, but cloth of spine yellow and edges pale green. 16. Baby's Own Aesop. Being the Fables Condensed in Rhyme, with Portable Morals Pictorially Pointed by Walter Crane. Routledge, 1887. Oblong sized, glazed picture boards, light blue linen spine, edges to match, and blue patterned end-papers. 17. Legends For Lionel, in Pen and Pencil. Cassell, 1887. 4to, pale grey-blue picture boards, dark red cloth spine, red lion-designed end-papers, 8 pages publisher's adverts at end dated 9.87. The title-page is a single leaf with blank verso and final leaf at end is a blank. The book is printed on one side of folded sheets, with the fore-edges not intended to be opened. There are 20 such, numbered 1-40, and none is opened. 18. Flora's Feast: A Masque of Flowers. Penned and Pictured by Walter Crane. Cassell, 1889. Similar format to above, but the cloth spine is pale blue and end-papers designed in orange. Again 20 sheets numbered 1-40; no fore-edge has been opened. However, in this instance, the title-page is conjugate with the first text page and the final singleton has recto blank and verso advertising Legends for Lionel. Publisher's adverts at end, 8 pages dated 10.88.

21. Renascence: A Book of Verse. Elkin Mathews, 1891. 4to, blue boards, half cream parchment, spine gilt-lettered in 12 lines with one floral ornament, all edges uncut. The Large Paper issue limited to 100 copies for England and America; this is No. 29 of the English copies. 22. Renascence: A Book of Verse. Elkin Mathews, 1891. The small paper issue limited to 500 copies for England and America: this is No. 190 of the English copies. Blue boards similar to Large Paper issue, but the spine is cream linen and the lettering in 10 lines only in red and on a label. All edges uncut. In this issue there are 3 pages of publisher's "New & Forthcoming Books" dated May 1891 printed on the 3 pages which are blank at end of Large Paper issue. 23. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys. With 60 Designs by Walter Crane. Osgood Mcllvaine, 1892. Pale green heavy boards with embossed design in cream and brown, top edges green, others lightly trimmed, pale green designed end-papers. There are 2 blank leaves before half-title not reckoned in pagination and final leaf at end, pp.[211-212], is blank. Two line imprint on verso of title-page of the Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass. 24. The Claims of Decorative Art. Lawrence & Bullen, 1892. 4to, light stone coloured smooth linen, spine and upper side lettered and designed in blue. The fine paper edition, printed on paper watermarked "Arnold Unbleached," No. 39 of 110 copies, signed by R. & R. Clark. The head-pieces are printed in red throughout.

19. The Book of Wedding Days. With Devices and Decorations by Walter Crane. Longmans, Green, 1889. 4to, bright red bevelled cloth, spine and upper side lettered and designed in silver, top edges silver, others trimmed. Printed in red on rectos and versos of 54 stiff cards, each linen hinged. The register is [A]-N4, 13 gatherings in 4's, with a half-title in front and a designed leaf at end not in the gatherings.

25. Johnson, Effie. In the Fire and Other Fancies. With a Frontispiece by Walter Crane. Elkin Mathews, 1892. Smooth cream linen, lettered and designed in red, edges cut, deep cream end-papers, limited to 500 copies. Inserted is a postcard from the author to the publisher, stamped and postmarked 7 January 1892, clearly about the book and mentioning an unsuccessful visit to Mr. Crane's establishment.

20. Queen Summer, or, the Tourney of the Lily and the Rose. Cassell, 1891. 4to, printed on one side of 20 folded leaves paginated 1-40, with fore-edges left unopened. There is a final leaf with recto blank, verso

26. De Gruchy, Augusta. Under the Hawthorn, and Other Verse. E. Mathews & J. Lane, 1893. Smooth cream buckram, all edges uncut, No. 11 of only 30 copies, printed on Japanese parchment. The title-page is a fine design by Walter Crane, though this fact is nowhere noted (save in publisher's adverts

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which are not present in this Edition-de-luxe). The book is printed by George Over in Rugby.

31. Art and Life, and the Building and Decoration of Cities: A Series of Lectures. Rivington, Percival, 1897. Smooth red buckram, spine titling label, all edges uncut. Contains Walter Crane's On the Decoration of Public Buildings and 4 other Lectures by Cobden-Sanderson, Lethaby, Bloomfield, and Halsey Ricardo. Inscribed by W. R. Lethaby to Sir Sydney C. Cockerell, dated June 1897, and with the recipient's signature: "S. R. Cockerell, Richmond, Surrey."

27. Deland, Margaret. The Old Garden and Other Verses. Decorated by Walter Crane. Osgood Mcllvaine, 1893. Smooth light green designed boards, white spine lettered in red and black, top edges stained green, others trimmed, pink and green designed end-papers. Printed in various colours on one side only of 65 folded sheets (including the unnumbered blanks) paginated [x], 114, of which the fore-edges are left entirely unopened. Printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass. From the sale at Campsea Ash, with inscription: "William Lowther from James W. Lowther, 14 Dec/93." 28. Ellis, F. S. The History of Reynard the Fox: A Free Rendering into Verse of the Translation . . . by William Caxton. . . . With Devices by Walter Crane. David Nutt, 1894. 4to, rough dark blue Holland, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges uncut, printed on Spalding watermarked paper at the Chiswick Press. Inscribed in the handwriting of F. S. Ellis: "W. Winwood Smith, Esq, with the Author's kind regards, Aug. 23, 1894." Pages 193-194 and 201-202 are cancels pasted on stubs (not noted in Ashley Library catalogue). 29. Green, Gertrude. The History of the Poor Law. With Other Lectures Delivered to Working Class Audiences, and a few Collected Verses, by the late Gertrude Green. Manchester: Labour Press [1894]. Crown 8vo, brown cloth, gilt-lettered, edges cut, dark slate end-papers. There is an inserted double sheet of plate paper with a photograph of the deceased author and an "In Memoriam" design by Walter Crane. This book is not noticed in Masse's Bibliography (1923). 30. Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene. Edited by Thomas J. Wise. Pictured by Walter Crane. 6 vols. George Allen, 1897. 4to, limited to 1,000 copies on handmade paper, issued in 19 parts at 10/6 net each in pink wrappers designed by Crane in red, to which the separate title-pages are dated 1894-1896. Paper watermarked "Unbleached Arnold." As issued by publisher in 6 volumes in cream buckram with Walter Crane's design (as on the wrappers) in gilt, lettered in gilt and red, t.e.g., others uncut. The wrappers are all left in place by the binder.

32. Spenser, Edmund. The Shepheard's Calender. Newly Decorated with Twelve Pictures and Other Devices by Walter Crane. Harper & Bros., 1898. 4to, light green cloth with coloured pictorial design by Crane, top edges stained green, others uncut, end-papers also designed by the artist. Inscribed: "To Mr. & Mrs. Francis H. Newbery, as a little memento of pleasant dialogues under their hospitable roof, from Walter Crane, December 1897." 33. The Bases of Design. G. Bell, 1898. Tall 8vo, dark blue smooth buckram, gilt designed, t.e.g., others uncut, red end-papers designed in white, profusely illustrated. 34. Catalogue of Works Exhibited by Members of the Northern Art Workers Guild, at the City Art Gallery, Manchester. Charlton & Knowles, 1898. Large square 8vo, green designed wrappers, edges cut. Printed in double columns. "Notes on Needlework in the Present Century" is contributed by Walter Crane, who had founded the Guild in 1896. 35. A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden. Set Forth in Verses and Coloured Designs by Walter Crane. Harper & Bros., 1899. Royal 8vo, printed in colours on one side only of 23 folded sheets (not intended to be opened at the fore-edges). The end-papers also have coloured design by the artist. Cream linen with pictorial design in green, red and brown, in printed pictorial dust-jacket. Inscribed: "Edith A. Duckworth from J. D., Xmas 1898." 36. Townsend, W. G. Paulson. Embroidery, or, the Craft of the Needle. With Preface by Walter Crane. Truslove, Hanson & Combe, 1899. Crown 8vo, buff coloured Holland, lettered and designed in dark red, edges cut, profusely illustrated.

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37. Flora's Feast: A Masque of Flowers. Penned and Pictured by Walter Crane. Cassell, 1899. Royal 8vo, printed in colours on one side only of 20 folded sheets, numbered 1-40, of which the fore-edges are not intended to be opened. Cream boards with picture design in blue and brown, blue linen spine. One leaf at end advertising Queen Summer, followed by publisher's 8 page catalogue dated 9.00. This is a reissue of the volume published 10 years earlier under same title.

43. An Artist's Reminiscences. 2nd ed. Methuen, 1907. Tall 8vo, light blue cloth, spine and upper sides designed and lettered in white enamel, t.e.g., others lightly trimmed, publisher's monogram red designed end-papers. Profusely illustrated. The First Edition had been issued in September, and this virtuallyidentical reprint in October. Errata leaf (9 errors) inserted at p. 1.

38. Line and Form. George Bell, 1900. Royal 8vo, smooth blue buckram, spine and upper side gilt-lettered and designed, t.e.g., others uncut, pink end-papers designed in white, profusely illustrated. 39. Goody Two Shoes Picture Book: Containing Goody Two Shoes, Aladdin, and The Yellow Dwarf. With 18 Colour Plates by Walter Crane. John Lane [1901]. 4to, reddish brown cloth, designed in black. Walter Crane's Picture Books, Large Series. A reissue of early work, first published in 1875, the 3 volumes combined in one, with a new Foreword by Crane dated August 1901. 40. Ideals in Art: Papers Theoretical, Practical, Critical. George Bell, 1905. Identical format with Line and Form (1900). Profusely illustrated, red patterned end-papers. 41. A Flower Wedding: Described by Two Wallflowers. Decorated by Walter Crane. Cassell [1905]. Royal 8vo, printed in colours on one side only of 20 folded sheets, of which the fore-edges are not intended to be opened, numbered [1]-40. Green glazed boards with pictorial design, darker green linen spine, red designed end-papers. 42. Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden. A Posy from the Plays, Pictured by Walter Crane. Cassell, 1906. Similar format to A Flower Wedding, though colour of glazed boards is blue, and spine green. Printed in colours on one side only of 20 folded sheets, numbered 1-40, of which the fore-edges are not intended to be opened. In this instance the white verso of the green Crane-designed front end-paper is used to carry an illustration and the Dedication to the Countess of Warwick. Hence, in this book, the end-papers must be considered part of the collation. The copy is preserved with its printed dust-jacket.

44. Squire, Jack. C. Socialism and Art. With an Introduction by Walter Crane. Twentieth Century Press [1907]. Light green wrappers lettered in reddish brown, all edges uncut. 16 pages, metal fastened. The first printed work by the author later to become notable as Sir John Collings Squire, issued at One Penny, and (in view of "10,000/9/07" printed on cover) presumably in an edition of 10,000 copies in September 1907. Crane's Foreword is dated August 1907. 45. The Song of Sixpence Picture Book. John Lane [1909]. 4to, green cloth, lettered and designed in black, edges cut. This is a collection of 3 of Walter Crane's Picture Books, Sing a Song of Sixpence, Princess Belle-Etoile, and An Alphabet of Old Friends, with their original blue stiff wrappers preserved, preceded by the artist's Preface, dated September 1909. 46. William Morris to Whistler: Papers and Addresses. With Illustrations from Drawings by the Author and Other Sources. G. Bell, 1911. Large Paper issue, No. 314 of 350 copies. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, gilt spine, upper side lettered and designed in blind, top edges cut, others uncut, blue designed monogram end-papers. 47. Gould, F. J. Pages For Young Socialists. With Prefaces by H. M. Hyndman and J. Kerr Hardie, and Illustrations by Walter Crane. National Labour Press, 1913. Red cloth lettered and designed black and gilt, cut edges. Five plates by Crane. Autograph Letter 48. ALS to "My dear Mr. Ross," dated from 13 Holland St., Kensington W., 1 July 1913, 3 pages crown 8vo. An interesting letter about the Arts and Crafts Show at Ghent, from which Crane has just returned, about the Tate Gallery Hanging of his Renascence of Venus and the prospects for his son as an architect in Victoria, B. C.

177 CRANE (Walter) 1845-1915 Secondary Material 49. Catalogue of a Selection of the Recent Work of Walter Crane. Dorg Gallery, November, 1902. 16 pages, sewn with orange silk thread. An interesting priced catalogue of 85 items of the artist's work. Printer's imprint on p.[15] of 0. Anacker, 2 Gresham Bldgs., B.C. Note: The H. C. Beeching, Edward Carpenter, William de Morgan, William Morris, Ernest Radford, R. L. Stevenson, and Oscar Wilde collections all include items in which illustrations by Walter Crane were first reproduced. CRIPPS (Arthur Shearey) 1869-1952 1. Primavera: Poems by Four Authors. Oxford: B H. Blackwell, 1890. See the Stephen Philips collection. The 4 poets are: Stephen Phillips, Laurence Binyon, Manmohan Ghose, and Arthur S. Cripps. 2. Magic Casements. Duckworth, 1905. Green cloth, t.e.g., others uncut; a volume in the Roadmender Series. M6 at end, pp.[187-188], is blank save for printer's imprint in 3 lines centre recto.

CRIPPS (Arthur Shearey) 1869-1952 8. Lake and War: African Land and Water Verses. Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1917. Drab boards, half pink linen, spine titling label, all edges uncut. CROKER (Thomas Crofton) 1798-1854 1. Researches in the South of Ireland. With an Appendix Containing a Private Narrative of the Rebellion of 1798. John Murray, 1824. 4to, original boards with new linen spine gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others uncut. Frontispiece and 16 other engraved plates, 8 line errata below the "Directions to the Binder." No half-title is present, and possibly none is called for. From the library of A. M. Broadley, with his 1902 bookplate, The Knapp, Bradpole [Dorset]. 2. The Adventures of Barney Mahoney. Fisher, Son, & Jackson, 1832. Foolscap 8vo, original drab boards entirely uncut, spine cracked off (and missing). The work is dedicated in a sonnet to the Honble. Mrs. Norton. Collation: [A]2, B-T, 18 gatherings in 8's, U6. Label of the Purneah Book-Club inside cover.

3. Faerylands Forlorn: African Tales. Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1910. Red cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut. Q6 at end, pp.[235-236] is blank save for printer's imprint in 3 lines centre recto.

3. The Popular Songs of Ireland. Collected and Edited, with Introductions and Notes by T. Crofton Croker, Esq. Henry Colburn, 1839. Green blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 7 lines, all edges uncut, yellow end-papers, woodcuts in text.

4. Pilgrimage of Grace: Verses on a Mission. Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1912. Green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Slip with "Author's Note" inserted at p. 44. An inserted quarter-sheet at end, pp.[109-112], carries adverts of other books by the author on first page with following 3 pages blank.

4. Romulus and Remus, or, Rome Was Not Built in a Day: Burlesque in One Act. By T. F. Dillon Croker. Printed for Private Circulation, 1859. Tall 8vo, 50 pages, blue bead-grained cloth, gilt, yellow end-papers. There is no printer's imprint. The author was the son of Thomas Crofton Croker.

5. A Martyr's Servant: The Tale of John Kent (A.D. 1553-1563). Duckworth, 1915. Green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others cut, pictorical end-papers printed in reddish brown. A volume in the Roadmender Series.

5. A Walk from London to Fulham. By the Late Thomas Crofton Croker, Revised and Edited by his son, T. F. Dillon Croker. With Additional Illustrations by F. W. Fairholt. William Tegg, 1860. Heavily embossed green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges uncut (or lightly trimmed). With an interesting bookplate of John and Alice Walker, 357 Brixton Road, S.W., and MS note, "John Junior is to have this book." Photograph, inserted, of Putney Bridge, 1910 is by the same John Walker.

6. Pilgrim's Joy: Verses. Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1916. Blue linen, lettered gilt up the spine, all edges uncut. 7. A Martyr's Heir: The Tale of John Kent (A.D. 1563-1594). Duckworth, 1916. Produced uniformly with A Martyr's Servant.

178 CROKER (Thomas Crofton) 1798-1854 Autograph Letter 6. ALS on a folded sheet of notepaper watermarked "G. Wilmot," dated from 4 Hyde Park Gate, 13 August 1847, to "My dear Fairholt," signed "very sincerely yours, T. Crofton Croker": " . . . I have some new things to show you-fresh from Ireland-come on Sunday and take an early dinner at 3 o'clock. . ." Preserved with this is a sheet of drawings and 3 long and interesting ALS (1853) from F. W. Fairholt to "My dear Mr. Rolfe" about archaeological work in Ireland, Dr. Bruce and the Roman Wall and the injustices to Eoach Smith. CUST (Nina, Mrs. Henry Cust) 1867-1955 1. Breal, Michel. Semantics: Studies in the Science of Meaning. Translated by Mrs. Henry Cust. With a Preface by J. P. Postgate. Heinemann, 1900. Dark blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 3 lines between quadruple blind bands top and bottom, all edges uncut, publisher's 32 page 1900 catalogue at end; [al] and Z4 are blanks at beginning and end. Charles Whibley is thanked for his "constant advice & assistance" in Nina Gust's "Translator's Note," as is Professor Postgate for reading the proof-sheets. But though the title-page acknowledges the professor's 53 page Preface, it makes no mention of his 26 page Appendix, "The Science of Meaning." This copy belonged to Mrs. W. K. Clifford and has autograph inscription to her: "Lucy Clifford from Nina Cust." 2. Wanderers: Episodes from the Travels of Lady Emmeline Stuart-Wortley and her Daughter Victoria, 1849-1855. By Mrs. Henry Cust. Preface by Sir Ronald Storrs. J. Cape, 1928. Tall 8vo, dark green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, only lower edges uncut, in

CUST (Nina, Mrs. Henry Cust) 1867-1955 pictorial dust-jacket (12/6 net). This account of the American Journey is a skilful compilation, from a variety of sources, published and unpublished, including the family papers of the Duke of Rutland. 3. Dilectissimo. [Privately printed, 1932]. Dedicated to the memory of Henry Cust (1861-1917). 28 pages, sewn into light green wrappers, upper side titled in black, all edges uncut. The final leaf carries imprint of Macmillan & Co., 1932 centre recto, with "Impressed by/The Mercury Press, Ltd./ Chelmsford, England." at foot. There is an error in pagination, the number 15 being used 3 times. 4. Not All the Suns: Poems, 1917-1944. Nicholson & Watson, 1944. Tall 8vo, pale blue linen, upper side black lettered in 6 lines, in printed dust-jacket (6/- net). This book is printed at the Richmond Hill Printing Works, Bournemouth. Five of the 19 poems of the privately printed Dilectissimo are reprinted here. 5. A Tub of Gold Fishes. Collected by Nina Cust. Introduction by Sir Ronald Storrs. James Bain [1950]. Autograph Letter 6. ALS, 2 pages, on Denton Manor, Grantham notepaper, dated 5 February 1928, addressed to "My dear Mr. Hendricks," a bibliophile, many specimens of whose bookplate are found in the collection.

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D'ARCY (Ella) 1857-1937

1. Song Favours. John Lane, 1895. Square 16mo, light green smooth buckram, gilt spine and upper side, all edges uncut, limited to 450 copies for England and America. Publisher's 16 page 1895 catalogue at end.

8vo edition, even to the unpaginated adverts leaf at end.

2. Flower and Leaf. Grant Richards, 1900. Tall narrow 16mo, collates in 4's, drab brown wrappers with lettering and coloured design on upper side, all edges uncut. An uncommon booklet, printed at the Chiswick Press, Charles Whittingham & Co.

1. Sylvia, or, the May Queen: A Lyrical Drama. Introduction by John H. Ingram. J. M. Dent, 1892. Smooth fawn buckram, gilt, all edges uncut. No. 25 of 100 copies on large paper watermarked "Spalding," in the Lovers' Library series.

3. A Poor Man's Riches: A Bundle of Lyrics. Methuen, 1922. Pale blue boards, holland spine, 2 titling labels, top edges cut, others uncut. The 4 page Foreword is largely a transcript of what "the late Edward Thomas, writing in 1914, said of Charles Dalmon."

2. Nepenthe: A Poem in Two Cantos. With an Introduction by R. A. Streatfeild. Elkin Mathews, 1897. Light blue boards, spine titling label, all edges uncut, frontispiece plate designed and cut on the wood by L. Binyon. E8 at end, pp.[63-64], is blank.

D'ARCY (Ella) 1857-1937 1. Monochromes. John Lane, 1895. Sage green cloth, cover designed in blue, lettered gilt and blue, all edges uncut. Volume 12 in the Keynote Series; publisher's 16 page 1895 catalogue at end lists it as "in rapid preparation," and, in the 10 page series advertiser bcund in front of catalogue it is the first of the titles "in preparation." Title-page and cover design by Aubrey Beardsley. 2. The Bishop's Dilemma. John Lane, 1898. Smooth blue buckram, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges uncut, publisher's 12 page 1898 catalogue at end. Inscribed: "To Mr. Hannay from the Author, 1898." 3. Modern Instances. John Lane, 1898. Issued uniformly with The Bishop's Dilemma, and with the same 12 page publisher's catalogue at end. 4. Maurois, Andrd. Ariel: A Shelley Romance. Translated by Ella D'Arcy. John Lane, 1924. Light blue blind-stamped linen, gilt spine, top edges stained ochre, others uncut, X4 at end, pp.[311-312], carries adverts only. 5. Maurois, Andr€. Ariel: A Shelley Romance. Translated by Ella D'Arcy. John Lane, 1925. Tall 8vo, half black linen, marbled boards sides, top edges stained blue, others uncut. This is the fourth printing of the translation, and first illustrated edition, with 8 plates in colour by Jacquier. The typesetting appears to be identical with the smaller crown

DARLEY (George) 1795-1846

3. Leventhal, A. J. George Darley: Memorial Discourse delivered Trinity College, Dublin, 5 June 1950. Dublin: Dublin University Press, 1950. 20 pages (including blanks), sewn in grey wrappers, upper side black lettered, edges cut. DARLING (Charles John, 1st Baron) 1849-1936 1 . Scintillae Juris. B y x x x x x x S x x x N x x x x x x G , Esquire, o f t h e Inner Temple, Barrister-at-law. Davis & Son, 1877. Small 8vo, smooth cream linen, lettered and ruled in black, top edges cut, fore-edges uncut. First Edition of the author's first book. 2. Scintillae Juris. By Charles J. Darling. 3rd ed., enlarged. Davis & Son, 1879. Printed in a larger 8vo size (gatherings in 4's) by the same printers, with the Preface no longer signed "S. N. G.", though otherwise unchanged, and the chapters increased to 12 by the addition of "Of Courts." Light stone coloured boards without lettering, boards with yapp edges, all edges uncut. 3. Meditations in the Tea Room. By M. P. W. Pickering, 1879. Dark green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges uncut. Attractive Chiswick Press printing with ornamental borders top and bottom of page throughout. 4. Scintillae Juris and Meditations in the Tea Room. Stevens & Haynes, 1900. First combined edition, the works reprinted separately-Fifth Edition of the first and Third Edition of the second-though with continuous pagination. Light green boards, holland spine

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with titling label, upper side black lettered in 6 lines, all edges uncut.

13. Acton, C. R. Sport and Sportsmen of the New Forest. With a Foreword by the late Rt. Hon. Lord Darling, P.C. Illustrated by Eric Meade-King. Heath Cranton, 1936. Light green cloth, lettered and ruled in black, cut

5. Seria Ludo. By a Dilettante. Longmans Green, 1903. Large square 8vo, smooth olive green buckram, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. Inscribed: "To Lord Montagu of Beaulieu-with the Author's compliments. Charles Darling."

edges.

Manuscript

6. Another copy of the First Edition; appears to be identical in every detail save that colour of buckram is dark red. Inscribed: "To Sir Robert Finlay-with the author's compliments. C. D."

14. MS poem, entitled "Pecunia non olet," 5 quatrains, written in ink on both sides of a sheet of St. Austin's, Lymington, Hants., notepaper entirely in Lord Darling's autograph, but not signed. This was found in the presentation copy to Mrs. Firth of On the Oxford Circuit. The verses are presumably written to or for her.

7. On the Oxford Circuit and Other Verses. With Illustrations by Austin O. Spare. Smith Elder, 1909. Square 8vo, dark green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges uncut. Inscribed; "Dorothy Hanbury-Tracy from C. D."

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8. Another copy of First Edition, identical in all details with above. Inscribed: "To Mrs. Firth-with kind regards. C. D." A small number of early copies were put up in an alternative binding of half cream parchment with board sides. 9. Ventures in Verse: Poems by Members of the Scratch Society. Introduced by Lord Darling. A. H. Stockwell [1925]. Orange boards with titling label on upper side, edges cut. The Preface by Lord Darling indicates that the poets are all young ladies-with a single exception. This must be Michael Dugdale, who contributes 3 poems. 10. A Pensioner's Garden. Hodder & Stoughton [1926], Square 8vo, blue cloth, lettered gilt on spine and black on upper side, all edges uncut. Errata slip inserted (6 errors). 11. Reconsidered Rimes. Hodder & Stoughton, 1930. Square 8vo, green cloth, gilt-lettered and designed spine and upper side, frontispiece portrait, top edges cut, others uncut, in green printed dust-jacket (7/6d. net). 12. Autumnal Leaves. Hodder & Stoughton, 1933. Dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered and designed spine and upper side, all edges uncut.

1. The North Wall. Glasgow: Wilson & McCormick, 1885. Small crown 8vo, light stone coloured glazed wrappers lettered in black, edges cut. K4 at end, pp.[159-160], carries publisher's adverts, and end-papers also are adverts-printed. 2. Bruce: A Drama in Five Acts. Wilson & McCormick, 1886. Rebound (without wrappers) in three-quarter cream parchment, red linen sides, gilt spine with green titling label, t.e.g., others trimmed. A quite perfect copy, with blank Al before half title (reckoned in pagination) and, following adverts leaf at end, the 2 original blanks K7 and K8, pp.[165-168]. Inscribed on title-page: "To Mr. Hadden, with the Author's compliments." 3. Another copy of the First Edition, in original binding, as issued. Pale grey-blue boards, Holland spine with titling label, all edges uncut. From Lord Esher's library, with the Brett bookplate: on last leaf of text appears his usual inscription in pencil: "0. S. B. Dec. 1923." 4. Smith: A Tragedy. Glasgow: Frederick W. Wilson and Brother, 1888. Foolscap 8vo, cream parchment wrappers, upper side lettered in black, all edges uncut. D8 at end, pp.[71-72], is blank. The Esher copy, with Brett bookplate, preserved in a linen case, gilt-lettered up spine.

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6. Plays. Greenock: John Davidson, 12 Brisbane Street, 1889. Stiff cream coloured wrappers lettered in red in 2 lines on upper side, all edges uncut. Contents are the 3 plays, An Unhistorical Pastoral, A Romantic Farce and Scaramouch in Naxos. Inscribed on title-page: "Ernest Rhys, Esq. With the author's compliments."

11. Sentences and Paragraphs. Lawrence & Sullen, 1893. Olive greenish brown vertically ribbed cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 7 lines with one short rule, all edges uncut. K4 at end is blank.

6. Scaramouch in Naxos: A Pantomime. And Other Plays. 2nd ed. T. Fisher Unwin, 1890. This is strictly a second issue of First Edition, rather than a Second Edition as title-page describes it. The original sheets unsold were transferred to London and issued with Fisher Unwin's quarter-sheet half-title and title-page inserted in place of author's title-page, which was cancelled. Pink flecked linen lettered in red up spine and in 4 lines with publisher's monogram on upper side, edges uncut, dark slate end-papers. 7. Perfervid: The Career of Ninian Jamieson. With 23 Illustrations by Harry Furniss. Ward & Downey, 1890. Blue bevelled linen, spine and upper side pictorially designed and lettered in gilt and black, t.e.g., lower edges only uncut, grey fern-leaf designed end-papers. Frontispiece and one of the illustrations (p. 135) are on plate paper, the rest of the illustrations are in the text. R8 at end, pp.[255-256], carries adverts only. Lord Esher's copy, with Brett bookplate and his inscription at end of text: "O. S. B., Feb. 1924." 8. In a Music-Hall and Other Poems. Ward & Downey, 1891. Bevelled red cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges uncut, toned cream end-papers. 9. The Great Men and A Practical Novelist. With Four Illustrations by E. J. Ellis. Ward & Downey, 1891. Dark red heavily blind-embossed cloth, spine gilt-lettered and ruled, all edges uncut, patterned end-papers. T7 at end carries adverts only and T8 is blank. Lord Esher's copy, with Brett bookplate and his inscription on last leaf of text: "O. S. B., Feb. 1924." 10. Fleet Street Eclogues. Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1893. Dark blue smooth buckram, spine gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Limited to 300 copies (certificate on verso of half-title). Errata slip inserted before p. 1 (4 errors). First leaf is blank before half-title, G5 at end carries only printer's ornament on verso and G6 advertises "Books by John Davidson."

12. Ballads and Songs. John Lane, 1894. Smooth dark blue buckram, uniform format with Fleet Street Eclogues, all edges uncut, gilt spine, upper side lettered and designed in gilt. First leaf before half title is blank, errata slip (2 errors) inserted at end before the 2 adverts leaves, pp.[133-136], which are numbered [l]-4, following which is publisher's 16 page 1894 catalogue. This copy belonged to Cobden-Sanderson and has his autograph: "T. J. CobdenSanderson, 49 Frognal, N.W." 13. Baptist Lake. Ward & Downey, 1894. Smooth dark blue buckram, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges cut, others uncut, grey patterned end-papers. 14. A Random Itinerary. Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1894. Fawn coloured rough cloth, gilt-lettered and designed, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece plate, limitation certificate (600 copies) on verso of half-title. N7 at end blank save for printer's ornament centre verso, and N8 carries adverts of other books by Davidson, followed by publisher's 16 page September 1893 catalogue. 15. Plays by John Davidson. Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1894. Large square 8vo, contains 5 plays: An Unhistorical Pastoral; A Romantic Farce; Bruce: A Chronicle Play; Smith: A Tragic Farce; and Scaramouch in Naxos: A Pantomime. First collected edition of the plays, now provided with a frontispiece plate by Aubrey Beardsley. Edition limited to 500 copies. Bevelled purplish (faded) cloth, spine gilt-lettered, design by Beardsley on upper side, all edges uncut, the copy unopened throughout. Between T3-pp. 293-294-and T4, which is blank, is sewn publisher's 16 page 1894 catalogue, printed on text paper by the printers of the book. A small number of early copies were issued in cream coloured buckram, identically gilt blocked &c. 16. A Full and True Account of the Wonderful Mission of Earl Lavender. With a Frontispiece by Aubrey Beardsley. Ward & Downey, 1895. Smooth light blue buckram, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges uncut, plum coloured end-papers, T2 at end carries adverts only.

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17. St. George's Day: A Fleet Street Eclogue. New York: John Lane, 1895. 16 pages, metal fastened into pale orange wrappers, upper side lettered in black. Limited to a small number of copies printed to protect copyright; the poem duly appeared, some months later, in the second series of Fleet Street Eclogues.

little doubt that only a small number of early copies were so bound.

18. A Second Series of Fleet Street Eclogues. John Lane, 1896. Issued uniformly with the first series, but all edges uncut. G4 at end is blank, followed by publisher's 16 page 1895 catalogue. 19. A Second Series of Fleet Street Eclogues. 2nd ed. John Lane, 1896. Apparently identical in all respects with above, save that on blank verso of contents leaf now appear the words, "Second Edition." 20. Foster, Birket. Pictures of Rustic Landscape. With Passages in Prose and Verse Selected by John Davidson. With Portrait and Thirty Engravings. J. C. Nimmo, 1896. Bevelled green buckram, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges gilt, gold designed end-papers. Frontispiece portrait of Foster. Pp.[239-240] at end blank save for printer's imprint set in 3 lines centre verso, followed by 2 more blank leaves. Davidson's Introductory Note is dated June 1895 and he inserted 2 pieces of his own prose into this anthology, which is mainly of nineteenth-century writers. 21. Miss Armstrong's and Other Circumstances. Methuen, 1896. Bright red vertically ribbed cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges uncut, publisher's 40 page March 1896 catalogue at end. Late-issued copies of First Edition sheets were bound in blue cloth and are without the catalogue. 22. New Ballads. John Lane, 1897. Issued uniformly with the second series of Fleet Street Eclogues, publisher's 12 page 1896 catalogue at end. 23. Godfrida: A Play in Four Acts. John Lane, 1898, Issued uniformly with New Ballads, publisher's 12 page 1898 catalogue at end. Printed by John Wilson in Cambridge, U.S.A. (imprint in 2 lines verso of title-page at foot). 24. The Last Ballad and Other Poems. John Lane, 1899. Issued uniformly with Godfrida, but colour of buckram is maroon. This has the reputation of having been withdrawn from circulation and there seems

25. Another that colour of blue. Inscribed Richards from 26.

copy, identical with above, save buckram is the normal dark on title-page: "To Mrs. Grant John Davidson 25/12/1899."

Selfs the Man: A Tragi-Comedy.

Grant Richards, 1901. Green cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 7 lines, all edges uncut. In original pink dust-jacket (5/- net). P8 at end is blank. Signature on end-paper of Harry Hooton, (Edward Thomas's friend), 1901. 27. Testaments by John Davidson: No. 1. The Testament of a Vivisector. Grant Richards, 1901. Square 8vo, light grey wrappers lettered black on upper side, all edges uncut. 30 pages, including the final unpaginated inserted leaf advertising Selfs the Man. Between the double rules on upper wrapper, the title is lettered in 2 lines in normal copies, whereas in this copy it is blank. Lord Esher's copy, with his pencil note on half-title: "First issue, without the title in red on the front cover. E." Preserved in a linen case gilt-lettered, with the Brett bookplate. 28. Another copy of First Edition, identical with above, save that it is in normal published state, with title in 2 lines in red on upper wrapper. John Drinkwater's copy, preserved in a red linen case, spine gilt-lettered. With his black and gold bookplate and inscribed: "John Drinkwater 1912. The First Edition, perfect, as issued." Later in Lord Esher's library, who has added his bookplate in case. 29. Testaments by John Davidson: No. 2. The Testament of a Man Forbid. Grant Richards, 1901. Uniform format with No. 1. John Drinkwater's copy, with similar inscription, and similar case with Lord Esher's bookplate. 30. Testaments by John Davidson: No. 3. The Testament of an Empire-Builder. Grant Richards, 1902. Uniform format with above. John Drinkwater's copy, with similar inscription, and similar case with Lord Esher's bookplate. 84 pages including final blank leaf. 31. The Knight of the Maypole: A Comedy in Four Acts. Grant Richards, 1903. Square 8vo, dark red boards, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges uncut. H2 at end is blank. The 12 pages of preliminaries are unpaginated and include 2 leaves of adverts before the half-title.

183 DAVIDSON (John) 1857-1909 32. A Rosary. Grant Richards, 1903. Square 8vo, smooth red buckram, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., only lower edges uncut. P3 and P4 at end carry adverts only. 33. The Testament of a Prime Minister. Grant Richards, 1904. Uniform format with A Rosary. Pp.[105-108] at end carry adverts only. 34. Another copy of First Edition, identical with above. Inscribed: "Conal O'Riordan. Read at a sitting the day I bought it, 7th February, 1910." Also a later inscription: "John Hayward from Christopher Dobson, March 1959." From the sale of John Hayward's library, Sotheby's, December 1966. 35. A Queen's Romance: A Version of Victor Hugo's "Ruy Bias." Grant Richards, 1904. Pink linen, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others lightly trimmed. The 2 leaves of adverts of other books by John Davidson, inserted at end, are conjugate (i.e., a quarter-sheet) and are printed on text-paper. Loosely inserted is a copy of the 4 page Programme of the original production at the Imperial Theatre, Thursday 14 February 1904, with Lewis Waller as Ruy Bias and Mrs. Patrick Campbell as Dona Maria. 36. Theatrocrafc A Tragic Play of Church and Stage. E. Grant Richards, 1905. Red vertically ribbed cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., fore-edges lightly trimmed, lower edges uncut. 37. The Ballad of a Nun. With Illustrations by Paul Henry. John Lane, 1905. Green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. A volume of the Flowers of Parnassus series. This poem was first published in 1894 in Ballads and Songs. 38. Holiday and Other Poems: With a Note on Poetry. E. Grant Richards, 1906. Foolscap 8vo, smooth blue buckram, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., fore-edges trimmed, lower edges uncut. Erratum slip inserted at p. 1. The first leaf is a starred blank before half-title, not reckoned in pagination. 39. God and Mammon, A Trilogy: The Triumph of Mammon. With a Personal Note by Way of Epilogue. E. Grant Richards, 1907. Green cloth, top edges gilt, others uncut, publisher's Autumn Announcements 1907, 32 pages, at end. Gilt-lettered spine and upper side. Some copies have publisher's imprint at foot of spine, "E. Grant/Richards." Others— perhaps later batches-are without the "E."

DAVIDSON (John) 1857-1909 40. Another copy of First Edition, with "Grant/Richards" at foot of spine. This copy, which is brilliantly fine with original printed dust-jacket (5/- net), is bound without the adverts at end. The dust-jacket, however, does have "E. Grant Richards" at foot of spine. 41. God and Mammon, A Trilogy: Mammon and His Message. Grant Richards, 1908. Dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. In tan printed dust-jacket (5/- net). 42. The Testament of John Davidson. Grant Richards, 1908. Bright red smooth buckram, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. In tan dust wrapper lettered in red (3/6 net). 43. Fleet Street and Other Poems. Grant Richards, 1909. Green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. The first state of the book, in which the title-page, verso of which is blank, is an unsevered portion of the first gathering. Before many copies were circulated, the title pages were excised and freshly printed ones pasted in; these have notice of copyright printed on verso. 44. The Man Forbid and Other Essays. With an Introduction by Edward J. O'Brien. Boston: Ball Publishing, 1910. Bright red cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others cut. Autograph Letter 45. ALS, 2 pages crown 8vo, addressed to "Dear Sir" and dated 17 April 1896 from 18 Warrington Crescent, W.: ". . . It is a rare thing to find bowels of mercy in the collector, and you have my sincere thanks. . . I do not know how you are to get a copy of For The Crown. I have not even a typewritten one." Note: In the Angeli papers, preserved in the University of British Columbia, is a holograph letter of considerable interest addressed to W. M. Rossetti, Esq., from 15 Burton Crescent, W.C. Dated 8 July 1889, it must have been written within some few days of Davidson's arrival in London from Scotland. In the final paragraph he appeals to W. M. Rossetti for recommendation to enable him to get "the green ticket for the British Museum."

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DAVIES (William Henry) 1871-1940

1. New Poems. Elkin Mathews, 1907. Green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, trimmed edges. Inscribed on end-paper: "V. Locke Ellis. April 1911." Ellis was a publisher and friend of many poets then living, besides being a "versifier" himself. See The Open Window in periodicals section.

Hooton and Davies were both in Edward Thomas's intimate circle, as the correspondence of Edward Thomas (catalogued here) amply documents. The blank leaves bear interesting pencil notes in Hooton's autograph.

2. Another copy of the First Edition; the lettering on upper covers is not absolutely identical in these 2 specimens. Inserted is a brief note "With thanks," undeniably in the poet's autograph, probably sent to Jessy Lina Young (a minor poet) whose bookplate is inside cover. 3. Another copy of the First Edition, in an original (but highly uncommon) variety of binding; the book is both taller and less broad than the normal, all edges are gilt, and the gilt-lettering on spine is again slightly variant. 4. The Soul's Destroyer and Other Poems. Alston Rivers, 1907. Dark sage green wrappers lettered in blue, trimmed edges, 48 pages numbered in Roman numerals. The final leaf, C8, is blank. Inscribed by the author on half-title: "W. H. Davies, 1912." This edition, which is without bibliographical statement, is the Second Edition, being preceded only by the author's own privately subscribed undated printing of the previous year. 5. Nature Poems and Others. A. C. Fifield, 1908. Grey boards, black lettered down spine and in 3 lines on upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. Inscribed: "To Mrs. Podmore, from the author, William H. Davies." 6. Another copy of First Edition, identical with above. This copy came from the books of Pauline Smith, the South African novelist. It is inscribed on end-paper: "Urmson Smith. Vevey, February 1909." 7. Another copy of First Edition, identical with above. With original grey dust-jacket, same lettering as cover, with the addition of "One Shilling Net." 8. The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp. With a Preface by Bernard Shaw. A. C. Fifield, 1908. Beige coloured buckram, lettered on spine and upper side in red, only lower edges uncut. From the library of Harry Hooton, with his signature dated 1908, below which is the autograph signature of the author, dated 1912.

9. Beggars. Duckworth, 1909. Rough green blind-stamped cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, in black on upper side, and with publisher's ornament in blind, centre of lower cover. Frontispiece photograph of the author, edges cut. Al is blank before half-title and U7 and U8 at end carry adverts only. Copies of First Edition sheets are noted, bound in smooth light blue cloth lettered in darker blue. In these the publisher's ornament is in blind in lower left-hand corner of lower cover. They do not contain the frontispiece portrait, and (by other inferences also) are late issues.

10.

Farewell to Poesy and Other Poems.

A. C. Fifield, 1910. Issued uniformly with Nature Poems (1908). In original printed dust jacket. Author's autograph signature dated 1912 on end-paper.

11. Another copy of the First Edition, identical with above, and in dust-jacket. The lettering of wrapper closely follows that of the boards, with the addition of "One Shilling Net." An uncommon feature of this book is that the rear cover (and wrapper) are filled with Mr. Fifield's Spring List 1910, dated at top "February 21, 1910." This is in substance similar to the 2 leaves of adverts at end, printed on D7 and D8, and similarly dated "February 21, 1910." 12. The Soul's Destroyer and Other Poems. Alston Rivers, 1910. According to certificate centre verso of half-title, the third printing of the book (this, of course, ignoring the author's private printing). Closely follows the edition of 1907, and from the same printing-house of Bradbury Agnew, but colour of wrappers is light brown. Author's autograph signature on half-title. Upper wrapper is rubber-stamped, "New Price 1/3 net." 13. Songs of Joy and Others. A. C. Fifield, 1911. Light green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. In green printed dust-jacket (2/6 net). With an intimate presentation inscription dated Christmas 1911 from Janet Hooton to Helen Thomas. (See the Edward Thomas correspondence.) Below this in ink the author has transcribed his poem "Thunderstorms," signing it at end "William H. Davies, 1912." These 2 stanzas of 10 lines became the opening poem in the author's next volume of

185 DAVIES (William Henry) 1871-1940 verse, Foliage (1913). There is one alteration, in first line of second stanza. 14. Another copy of First Edition sheets and in same dust-jacket (2/6 net) but overprinted, "New Price 3/6 net." This is an example of the second binding issue in which top edges are plain, not gilt. The cloth, also, is of a much more grass green shade, and although both are protected by dust-jackets, gilt-lettering on the later one has much more oxidized. In the earlier state there was a blue silk bookmarker, which was not provided, in the later binding, for reasons of economy. 15. Foliage: Various Poems. Elkin Mathews, 1913. Green flecked cloth, gilt-lettered up spine and in 2 lines on upper side, top and lower edges cut. 16. The Bird of Paradise and Other Poems. Methuen, 1914. grey-blue boards, lettered in black down spine and in 3 lines on upper side, top edges cut, others uncut. In printed dust-jacket (One Shilling Net). 17. Nature. B. T. Batsford [1914]. A volume of the publisher's Fellowship Books. Edited by Mary Stratton. Blue cloth, gilt extra, t.e.g., others cut, blue silk bookmarker. 18. Child Lovers and Other Poems. A. C. Fifield, 1916. Light brick red wrappers lettered in black, edges cut. B8 at end, pp.[31-32], carries adverts only. 19. Collected Poems. Frontispiece portrait by Will Rothenstein. A. C. Fifield, 1916. Light blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges stained to match cloth, others uncut. 20. Raptures: A Book of Poems. Beaumont Press, 1918. Green and blue floral decorated boards, half holland, 2 printed title labels. No. 221 of 250 copies on handmade paper. 21. Forty New Poems. A. C. Fifield, 1918. Light blue cloth, similar format to the Collected Poems (1916). In printed dust-jacket (Four shillings net). 22. A Poet's Pilgrimage. Andrew Melrose, 1918. Smooth blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side lettered in blind, edges cut. In printed dust-jacket (6/- net). Aa6 at end, pp.[379-380], is blank.

DAVIES (William Henry) 1871-1940 23. A Song of Life and Other Poems. With Frontispiece from a Portrait by Laura Knight. A. C. Fifield, 1920. Mauve cloth, gilt spine, top edges cut, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (5/- net). D8 at end carries adverts of other books by Davies on recto with verso blank. 24. Farewell to Poesy and Other Pieces. 2nd ed. J. Cape, 1921. A volume of Cape's Life and Colour series, decorated boards, half tan cloth, spine titling label, top edges cut, others uncut, in printed dust jacket (2/6 net). From a different publisher, but this appears to be an unaltered reprint of the First Edition of 1910. 25. Foliage: Various Poems. J. Cape, 1922. Uniform with above and in the same series; described on title page verso as "New and Revised Edition." 26. The Hour of Magic and Other Poems. With Designs by William Nicholson. J. Cape, 1922. Smooth cream boards, 2 printed title labels, blue designed end-papers, t.e.g., others uncut. In printed dust-jacket (7/6d. net). 27. New Poems. J. Cape, 1922. Another reprint in the publisher's Life & Colour series, uniform format. There had been a reprint in 1913, and the present is described as New Edition, revised. 28. Shorter Lyrics of the Twentieth Century, 1900-1922. Poetry Bookshop, 1922. Pinkish boards, lettered and designed in black, top edges stained yellow, others uncut. Davies's Foreword fills 4 pages. Signed by the author and dated 1922. 29. True Travellers: A Tramps Opera in Three Acts. With Decorations by William Nicholson. J. Cape, 1923. Large square 8vo, marbled green boards, green linen spine, 2 titling labels, top edges cut, others uncut. No. 81 of 100 copies signed by author and artist. In a green box with lid, as issued, additional titling label on upper side. 30. Collected Poems. Second Series. J. Cape, 1923. Mauve cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges stained to match cloth, others uncut, frontispiece portrait after a painting by Augustus John. K8 at end is blank. 31. Secrets. J. Cape, 1924. Patterned boards, green cloth spine, titling label, top edges cut, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (3/6 net).

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32. A Poet's Alphabet. With Decorations by Dora. M. Batty. J. Cape, 1925. Light green rough linen, darker green parchment spine, gilt-lettered, top edges gilt, others uncut. In printed dust-jacket (9/- net). The dust-jacket reads: "signed by the author"; but the limitation certificate on verso of blank leaf before half-title reads: "Of this edition of A Poet's Alphabet 125 copies have been printed for sale, each copy signed and numbered by the Artist. Copy No. 57 W. H. Davies." The numbering and signature is in author's autograph.

40. Moss and Feather. Faber & Gwyer [1928]. Eight pages sewn into yellow wrappers black designed. No. 10 of the Ariel Poems. A poem of 18 lines with coloured illustration by William Nicholson.

33. Later Days. J. Cape, 1925. Blue linen, spine gilt-lettered, only lower edges uncut. This is the second impression. Al is blank before half-title. 34. The Adventures of Johnny Walker, Tramp. J. Cape, 1926. Blue linen, uniform format with Later Days, in printed dust-jacket (7/6 net). 35. The Song of Love. With Decorations by Dora M. Batty. J. Cape, 1926. Mottled mauve cloth, 2 titling labels, top edges cut, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (3s. 6d. net). John Freeman's copy with autograph signature on end-paper. 36. Another copy of First Edition. No. 104 of 125 copies, numbered and signed by the author. Green boards, half darker green parchment, gilt-lettered, top edges gilt, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (9s. net). Exactly as in the case of A Poet's Alphabet, the dust-jacket is printed, "signed by the Author," whilst limitation certificate reads, "signed and numbered by the Artist." 37. A Poet's Calendar. J. Cape, 1927. Pink mottled boards, half dark red parchment, gilt-lettered, top edges gilt, others uncut. No. 104 of 125 copies, numbered and signed by the author. 38. Dancing Mad: A Novel. J. Cape, 1927. Blue linen, uniform format with Later Days, save that all edges are cut. 39. Forty-Nine Poems. Selected and Illustrated by Jacynth Parsons. The Medici Society, 1928. Rough fawn linen, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (8/6 net). There is a Preface by Davies, dated August 1928. This beautiful book was not entirely successful, and copies were sold off later in a cheaper binding. It was never reprinted.

41. Ambition and Other Poems. J. Cape, 1929. Rough green flecked cloth, spine titling label, top edges cut, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (3/6 net). 42. Jewels of Song: An Anthology of Short Poems. Compiled and with an Introduction by W. H. Davies. J. Cape, 1930. Patterned rough cloth, darker blue cloth spine, gilt-lettered, only lower edges uncut. Q6 at end is blank. 43. In Winter. Privately printed, 1931. Tall 8vo, orange boards, upper side lettered in black, edges cut. No. 234 of 290 copies, numbered and signed by the author. For the first printing of this poem see No. 6 in the Poetry Bookshop series of Christmas Cards, Favil Press, 1928. 44. Poems, 1930-31. J. Cape, 1932. Blue patterned boards, blue linen spine with titling label, top edges cut, others uncut. 45. My Garden. With Illustrations by Hilda Quick. J. Cape, 1933, Light green linen, spine lettered in orange, top edges cut, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (3s. 6d. net). 46. The Poems of W. H. Davies. J. Cape, 1934. Green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, top edges cut, others uncut. In printed dust-jacket (7s. 6d. net). GG7 and 8 at end are blank. 47. Another copy of the First Edition, appears absolutely identical with above save that imprint at foot of spine is the publisher's monogram ornament, while in above copy it is "Jonathan/Cape" (in 2 lines). 48. Love Poems. J. Cape, 1935. Blue rough linen, lettered and decorated in silver, top edges cut, others uncut. In printed dust-jacket (3s. 6d. net), which states: "decorated by Elizabeth Montgomery." 49. Another copy. With bookplate of H. Leslie Hendriks. 50. The Birth of Song: Poems, 1935-36. J. Cape, 1936. White blue-flecked rough cloth, darker blue linen spine gilt-lettered, in printed dust-jacket (5s. net).

187 DAVIES (William Henry) 1871-1940 51. An Anthology of Short Poems. Compiled by W. H. Davies. J. Cape, 1938. This is a new edition, or, rather, a reissue of the sheets of the 1930 edition, with newly printed preliminaries carrying a re-arranged title, also an author's Preface to the New Edition. Blue linen, spine gilt-lettered, only lower edges uncut, in printed dust-jacket (3s. 6d. net). It may be noted that this is a special (reduced) price for this issue. Q6 at end is blank (as before). 52. The Loneliest Mountain and Other Poems. J. Cape, 1940. Second impression (a virtually identical reprint of the First Edition, which was published in October and dated 1939). Flecked blue rough holland, blue linen spine gilt-lettered, top edges cut, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (3s. 6d. net), which is still dated 1939. 53. The Poems of W. H. Davies, 1940. J. Cape, 1940. Blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, top edges cut, others uncut. Frontispiece from a portrait by Laura Knight. This is a reprinting of the Poems of 1934 with the contents of the 3 subsequent volumes added. Pagination is 525 (with verso blank), which ignores the half-title. A page for page reprint was issued in 1942, but re-titled Collected Poems. 54. Moult, Thomas. W. H. Davies. Thornton Buttersworth, 1934. Grey-blue cloth, black lettered and designed, top edges stained, others cut, in printed dust-jacket (4/6 net). A volume of the Modern Writers and Playwrights series. Autograph Letters 55. Correspondence with Harry Hooton: 3 ALS on W. H. Davies's Sevenoaks notepaper, 15 June 1910-18 October 1912 and one typed letter signed on Nailsworth notepaper, 18 December 1929. References to de la Mare, and to Edward Thomas's brother. With 2 original stamped and postmarked envelopes preserved. DE LA MARE (Walter John) 1873-1956 1. Songs of Childhood. By Walter Ramal. With Frontispiece. Longmans Green, 1902. Half cream parchment, pale blue linen sides, gilt-lettered and designed, t.e.g., others uncut. Pp.[107-108] at end carry printer's imprint in 2 lines centre recto, verso blank. First Edition of the author's first book.

DE LA MARE (Walter John) 1873-1956 2. Henry Brocken. By Walter J. de la Mare ("Walter Ramal"). John Murray, 1904. Blue cloth, fully gilt spine, t.e.g., others trimmed. 3. Another copy of First Edition, but presumably a later binding batch in which the top edges are cut but not gilded. The second half of the brackets round the author's pen-name on title has gone astray in the frame and is not impressed at all. 4. Poems. By Walter de la Mare. John Murray, 1906. Green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges trimmed. The author's third book, dedicated to his first editor, and the first in which his name takes this precise form-which became the commonly accepted one. 5. The Return. Edward Arnold, 1910. Dark green cloth, gilt-lettered on spine in 5 lines and on upper side in white enamel in 2 lines, top edges cut, fore-edges lightly trimmed, lower edges uncut. The last 4 leaves of final gathering carry publisher's adverts. 6. The Three Mulla-Mulgars. Duckworth, 1910. Smooth light green cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 7 lines, upper side in 2 with a black design, top edges gilt, others cut, 2 coloured plates by J. R. Monsell and a slip inserted at p. vii relating to them. 7. The Listeners and Other Poems. Constable, 1912. Pott 8vo (described by publishers as 32mo), dark red cloth, spine and upper side gilt ruled and lettered respectively in 7 and 2 lines, top edges gilt, others cut. There are 2 blank leaves before half-title and one at end following p. 92, the first and last of which are not in the folding of the quires. This is the book that established de la Mare as a major poet. The pagination is x, 92, which ignores one blank leaf before half-title; gatherings are 6 leaves unsigned, A-E in 8's, F6. I bought this copy at the Vanessa Bell sale as described below in note to Rupert Brooke and the Intellectual Imagination (1918). It has the ink monogram "M 1912." Similar marking in ink was noted on front end-paper of many of the books in the library. 8. Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes. Constable, 1913. Large square 8vo, bright blue cloth, spine and upper side gilt, all edges uncut.

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9. The Old Men. Flying Fame Broadside, Second Series. 1913. [Millard 29.] Poem of 24 lines by Walter de la Mare with 2 hand coloured decorations by Claud Lovat Fraser; 1,000 copies (in all). Size 11 2/5" x 5 9/10", Flying Fame imprint at foot in 4 lines. When the poem was collected into The Sunken Garden (1917), it was divided into quatrains and there were minor revisions in punctuation and capitalization.

13. Peacock Pie. With Illustrations by W. Heath Robinson. Constable [1916]. Large square 8vo, dark green cloth, gilt spine and upper side (which also has a white panel with gilt drawing), only lower edges uncut. Coloured frontispiece and 20 plates in black and white, with many other drawings in text. There was a second impression, dated 1920. With signature of Edith M. Cooper [Mrs. Priestley Cooper] and her bookplate; one of de la Mare's letters is addressed to her (see under Letters below).

10. Whitman, Walt. Drum Taps. Chatto & Windus, 1915. Pott 8vo, half orange cloth, decorated board sides, top edges stained yellow, only lower edges uncut. 12 page Introduction by de la Mare. There is a Note indicating the essay had been printed in the Times Literary Supplement 1 April 1915, but nowhere is there any statement of de la Mare's authorship of the essay. 11. Songs of Childhood. By Walter de la Mare (Walter Ramal). With Frontispiece. New Edition. Longmans Green, 1916. Dark green cloth, gilt spine, upper side blind-stamped, t.e.g, others cut. This is the Second Edition of the book and there is a Note regarding revision of contents and re-writing of certain poems. There were subsequent reprints in this publisher's Pocket Library, dated 1918, 1920, 1922 and 1924. The present copy is possibly in an early or proof state in which the preliminary gathering has only 7 leaves, viz: blank leaf; half-title with series adverts on verso; frontispiece on plate paper but pasted on stub of cancelled leaf; title-page with verso blank; Dedication "To Jill" with verso blank; Note with verso blank; Contents, pp. vii-ix with verso blank. The First Edition of 1902 contains no dedication, and as this pocket reprint was normally issued it has none (see next item). This dedication does not appear to have been "resurrected" until 1942, in a new edition of the book, illustrated by Marion Rivers-Moore. 12. Another copy; collation of preliminaries is 8 leaves, viz: 3 blank leaves; half-title with series adverts on verso; frontispiece on plate paper (but apparently sewn in); title-page with verso blank; Note with verso blank; (stub of leaf visible?-connected with insertion of frontispiece plate) Contents pp. vii-ix with verso blank. In both copies H6 at end is blank. It may also by noted that though the spine lettering is identical, different versions of the 4 3/4" ornamental block have been used. In the copy with the Dedication the swan figure on the ship's mast-head is a larger variety. It is not clear whether this is only a "proof state.

14. The Sunken Garden and Other Poems. Beaumont Press, 1917. Tall 8vo, pale designed green and red boards, holland spine, 2 titling labels, all edges uncut, No. 228 of 250 copies. Contains the first printing of many now-famous poems; "The Old Men," however, had previously appeared as a Flying Fame Broadsheet. 15. Motley and Other Poems. Constable, 1918. Light green boards, spine and upper side ruled and lettered in blue, all edges uncut. Reprints the poems of the Beaumont Press volume, with 25 notable additions, amongst them "The Scribe." 16. Motley and Other Poems. Constable, 1919. Third impression, otherwise identical binding, pagination &c. with the First Edition. I purchased this copy in the library of Harry Hooton and it is a reasonable hypothesis that the author sent it to him after he had completed the revisions for his Collected Poems (2 vols. 1920). On p. 1 there are some 25 words in the poet's handwriting in ink, followed by small verbal corrections in 10 places throughout. Clearly, from pencil numbers and marking, the volume has been used subsequently by compositors. 17. Rupert Brooke and the Intellectual Imagination: A Lecture. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1919. Grey boards, spine and upper side ruled and lettered in black, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (2/6d. net). From the sale at Cleeve House, Seend, Devizes, 26 June 1962, with signature of Vanessa M. Bell in ink on end-paper. This is the first state of binding. 18. Another copy of the First Edition; in this state the cover lettering &c. is in blue, a change made at the author's request (see National Book League catalogue of de la Mare Exhibition, 1956, p. 6). Both these copies are in new condition with printed dust-jackets; in my experience the jackets are always printed in blue, never in black.

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19. Poems, 1901 to 1918. 2 vols. Constable, 1920. Tall 8vo, grey boards, Holland spines with green titling labels, all edges uncut. Limited to 210 sets, each volume No. 36 signed by the author.

27. The Riddle and Other Stories. Selwyn & Blount, 1923. Tall 8vo, cream coloured smooth buckram, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges cut, others uncut. Copy No. 1 of 310 numbered and signed by the author. T6 is blank at end, pp.[307-308],

20. Story and Rhyme. A Selection from the Writings of Walter de la Mare, chosen by the Author. J. M. Dent [1921]. Kings Treasuries of Literature series, green cloth, gilt spine, cut edges, front end-paper printed with series emblems. "Sam's Three Wishes" is the first poem printed here, but it had prior publication in Twelve Poets: A Miscellany (1918). The short story, "The Riddle," was printed here before its inclusion in the volume of that title in 1923.

28. Come Hither: A Collection of Rhymes and Poems for the Young of All Ages. Embellished by Alec Buckels. Constable, 1923. Green cloth, spine gilt, t.e.g., others trimmed. The second (and normal) state of the First Edition, in which author's name is at foot of spine. The first state consists of a very small number of copies in which title is in a panel top of spine, with publisher's name at foot.

21. Crossings: A Fairy Play. With Music by C. Armstrong Gibbs. Beaumont Press, 1921. Green and red decorated boards, holland spine, gilt-lettered, all edges uncut. No. 146 of 250 copies on handmade paper. 22. The Veil and Other Poems. Constable, 1921. Tall 8vo, grey boards, holland spine, green leather titling label, all edges uncut. No. 223 of 250 copies signed by the author. 23. Another copy of First Edition, the ordinary small paper issue, decorated boards, black linen spine with titling label in red, all edges uncut, in printed dust-jacket. Unopened throughout, and with author's full signature in ink on end-paper. 24. Memoirs of a Midget. W. Collins, 1921. Blue cloth, ruled and lettered in red on spine and upper side, cut edges, in printed dust-jacket (8/6 net). First state of First Edition with "Copyright 1921" centre verso of title-page, which is otherwise blank. 25. Down-Adown-Derry: A Book of Fairy Poems. With Illustrations by Dorothy P. Lethrop. Constable, 1922. 4to, cream parchment, gilt-lettered and designed spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. No. 291 of 325 copies signed by the author; 3 coloured plates and many black-and-white drawings. 26. Thus Her Tale: A Poem. Designs by William Ogilvie. Edinburgh: The Porpoise Press, 1923. Broadsheet No. 3. Eight pages small 4to, sewn into smooth white wrappers lettered in black, edges cut. Price One Shilling.

29. Some Thoughts on Reading. Yellowsands Press, Bembridge School, 1923. No. 234 of 350 copies, 8 pages, folded but not sewn. First page serves as title with limitation certificate on verso, followed by the text of the lecture paginated 1-5, with verso blank. 30. The Three Mulla-Mulgars. Selwyn & Blount, 1924. Pale grey boards, half holland with green leather titling label, all edges uncut. No. 199 of 260 copies signed by the author. Coloured frontispiece and other line illustrations by J. A. Shepherd. The leaf before limitation certificate in front and the final leaf, pp.[275-276], are blanks. 31. Ding Dong Bell. Selwyn & Blount, 1924. Red cloth, spine titling label, top edges cut, other uncut. In printed dust-jacket (5/-). This issue was in April and there was a reprint in July of same year, also a new Edition as No. 43 of the Faber Library in 1936. 32. Peacock Pie. With Embellishments by C. Lovat Fraser. Constable [1924]. Tall 8vo (cover stands 10 1/8" on shelf), light grey boards, half holland, green leather titling label, t.e.g., others uncut. No. 101 of 250 copies signed by the author, whose note (dated 1924) indicates that the drawings were made in 1912, and now for the first time united with the text. There are 16 coloured plates and additional poems were also included. 33. Milton, Ernest. Christopher Marlowe: A Play. With a Prologue by Walter de la Mare. Constable, 1924. Large square 8vo, cream linen, spine and upper side lettered and designed in blue, top edges stained blue, others uncut. De la Mare's Prologue is in verse.

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34. Collard, Lorna Keeling. The Uncharted Coast: Poems. Illustrated by Joyce E. J. Collard. Preface by Walter de la Mare. Leeds: Swan Press, 1924. Dark green wrappers, upper side lettered in black, lower edges uncut.

42. Shepard, Odell. The Joys of Forgetting: A Book of Bagatelles. With a Foreword by Walter de la Mare. Allen & Unwin, 1928. Light blue linen sides, darker blue buckram spine, gilt-lettered, only lower edges uncut, in printed dust-jacket (7/6d. net).

35. Two Tales: I. The Green Room. II. The Connoisseur. Bookman's Journal Office, 1925. Tall 8vo, patterned boards, half cream parchment, gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others uncut. No. 226 of 250 copies, signed by the author.

43. Webb, Mary. Poems and The Spring of Joy. With an Introduction by Walter de la Mare. Cape, 1928. Smooth bright green cloth, gilt spine and facsimile signature on upper side, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (5/- net). This is the fifth volume of the uniform edition of Mary Webb's Works. It is the First Edition of the book.

36. Broomsticks and Other Tales. With designs by Bold. Constable, 1925. Dark orange cloth, gilt-lettered and designed spine and upper side, cut edges. 2A6 at end, pp.[379-380], carries printer's imprint in 3 lines centre recto with verso blank. 37. The Connoisseur and Other Stories. Collins, 1926. Tall 8vo, light greyish blue smooth linen, half holland, green leather spine titling label, all edges uncut. No. 229 of 250 copies, signed by the Author. 38. The Hostage. [Christmas Greetings card, 1925.] Single sheet folded to form 8 pages, not sewn. Text of poem, "In Dead of Dark to the Starry North," 24 lines, is on p.[4], with coloured illustration facing. Certificate of issue on p.[8]. A proof copy, with several corrections in ink, mainly capitals and spacing. In the certificate of issue the word "Special" before "Edition" is marked for deletion. Imprint at foot of Thomas de la Rue & Co., Ltd. The poem had appeared in Harriet Monroe's Poetry (Chicago: December 1921), but was not collected by the author. For the published form of this booklet, see entry for 1934 (item 56). 39. Stuff and Nonsense and So On. With Woodcuts by Bold. Constable, 1927. Green rough cloth, spine gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, in pictorial dust-jacket (7/6d. net). The leaf before half-title and the final leaf G8 at end, pp.tlll-112], are blanks. 40. Alone. Wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Faber & Gwyer [1927]. Eight pages, sewn into pink wrappers lettered and designed in black. No. 4 of the Ariel Poems. 41. Come Hither. Constable, 1928. A New Edition, revised and enlarged, of the anthology first published in 1923. Dark plum red cloth, gilt spine and upper side, t.e.g., others cut, in printed dust-jacket (10/6d. net). Belonged to the South African novelist Pauline Smith, and has her autograph dated "Xmas, 1928."

44. Self to Self. Wood-engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Faber & Gwyer [1928]. Eight pages, sewn into bright yellow designed wrappers. No. 11 of the Ariel Poems. 45. Stories from the Bible. Faber & Gwyer, 1929. Rough blue cloth, gilt, edges cut, pictorial end-papers, in printed dust-jacket similarly decorated. 46. A Snowdrop. Drawings by Claudia Guercio. Faber & Faber, 1929. No. 20 of the Ariel Poems. Light green boards, gilt-lettered on upper side, No. 225 of 500 copies on English handmade paper, signed by the author. 47. News. Drawings by Barnett Freedman. Faber & Faber [1930]. No. 31 of the Ariel Poems, 8 pages sewn into blue wrappers. 48. On the Edge: Short Stories. With wood-engravings by Elizabeth Rivers. Faber & Faber, 1930. Tall 8vo, pink cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side with gilt design, t.e.g., others uncut, in board slip-case as issued. No. Ill of 300 copies signed by the author. 49. On the Edge. Faber & Faber, 1932. Light green cloth, gilt spine, edges cut, in pink printed dust-jacket. This is the first popular edition, No. 11 of the Faber Library, 3/6 net. Inscribed in ink in de la Mare's handwriting: "Harry, from Jack, January 1940." This is an intimate presentation from the author to Harry Hooton. 50. Lewis Carroll. Faber & Faber, 1932. Tall 8vo, rough brown cloth, gilt-lettered down the spine, in green printed dust-jacket (3/6d. net). Top edges cut, others uncut. This essay was first printed in The Eighteen-Eighties (1930).

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51. Another copy of First Edition, the issue printed on handmade paper. No. 31 of 65 copies signed by the author. Red cloth, gilt-lettered down spine, t.e.g., others uncut.

59. Rutter, Joan. Here's Flowers: An Anthology of Flower Poems. Compiled by Joan Rutter, with an Introduction by Walter de la Mare and wood-engravings by John O'Connor. Golden Cockerel Press, 1937. Tall 8vo, pale green rough linen, spine gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others cut, in yellow designed dust-jacket (8/6d. net). Two blank leaves at beginning and end. In the colophon at end this is described as Unlimited Edition. There was also an issue of 200 copies on handmade paper.

52. Sheldon, Gilbert. The Transition from Roman Britain to Christian England. A.D. 368-664. Macmillan, 1932. Tall 8vo, rough blue cloth, gilt spine, all edges cut. Though not so stated on title-page or Contents, this book has a 7 page Memoir of the author by de la Mare. 53. The Fleeting and Other Poems. Constable, 1933. Tall 8vo, light grey boards, holland spine with green leather titling label, t.e.g., others uncut. No. 14 of 150 copies signed by the author. 54. The Lord Fish. Illustrated by Rex Whistler. Faber & Faber [1933], Pink cloth, lettered and designed blue, only lower edges uncut, green designed end-papers, in designed dust-jacket (10s. 6d. net). The 4 full-page plates include the title-page, and there are other illustrations by Whistler in the text. 55. A Froward Child. Faber & Faber, 1934. Pale green boards, lettered in red down the spine, only lower edges uncut, in pink printed dust-jacket (2s. 6d. net). 56. The Hostage. Thomas de la Rue [? 1934]. This poem appears to have been printed for issue at Christmas 1925, when the title-page was so dated but the issue was abandoned. The date is now omitted and the 8 page booklet sewn into cream wrappers lettered in 2 lines in black on upper side. The 4 corrections made in proof copy are here correctly printed; also the limitation certificate is re-phrased. This copy is No. 4 of 100 printed, and is provided with an outer semi-stiff wrapper lettered in red in 10 lines. Inside it is inscribed in ink, presumably in Richard de la Mare's handwriting: "With love & best wishes from us all four." 57. Early One Morning in the Spring. Faber & Faber, 1935. Tall 8vo, red cloth, spine gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, light blue end-papers. Frontispiece by Barnett Freedman, and illustrations mainly reproduced from photographs. Pp.[607-608] at end are blank, as is the first leaf before half-title. 58. Poems, 1919 to 1934. Constable, 1935. Mauve cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges uncut, issued uniformly with the first Collected Poems of 1920 in 2 volumes. It appears that no signed Edition-de-luxe was issued.

60. Poetry in Prose. Warton Lecture on English Poetry. British Academy, 1935. Humphrey Milford [1935]. Tall 8vo, 88 pages, sewn into light grey printed wrappers, all edges uncut. L4 at end is blank. 61. This Year: Next Year. By Walter de la Mare and Harold Jones. Faber, 1937. 4to, coloured pictorial boards, edges cut, in coloured dust-jacket (7s. 6d. net). 62. Stories, Essays and Poems. J. M. Dent, 1938. Everyman Library No. 940. A Selection made by Mildred Bozman in collaboration with the author. De la Mare contributes an Introduction, 8 pages, here first printed; but there is otherwise no new material. Red cloth, gilt spine, all edges cut, in printed dust-jacket; 400 copies of the author's Introduction were also printed for private distribution by the publishers. 63. Memory and Other Poems. Constable, 1938. Green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges stained to match, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (6/- net). Al before half-title is blank. 64. Behold, This Dreamer. Faber, 1939. Tall 8vo, light blue cloth, gilt spine, top edges stained red, others uncut. Coloured frontispiece by Barnett Freedman. 2X8 at end is blank. 65. Pleasures and Speculations. Faber, 1940. Tall 8vo, slatey blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, only lower edges uncut, in printed dust-jacket (15/- net). 66. Songs of Childhood. With Decorations by Marion Rivers-Moore. Faber, 1942. Light blue cloth, spine lettered and upper side designed in red, only lower edges uncut. A new edition of the author's first book, now freshly illustrated. The contents are revised, one or 2 poems being omitted and a few new ones added. The elusive dedication "To Jill" is resurrected here.

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67. Time Passes and Other Poems. Faber, 1942. Semi-stiff puce wrappers lettered down the spine and on upper side in red, in pink printed dust-jacket, edges cut. A selection from the author's poems made by Anne Ridler.

74. Ellis, Vivian Locke. Collected Lyrical Poems. With an Introduction by Walter de la Mare. Faber, 1946. Bright red cloth, gilt-lettered down spine, in printed dust-jacket (7s. 6d. net). All edges cut.

68. The Magic Jacket and Other Stories. With Illustrations by Irene Hawkins. Faber, 1943. Pale green cloth, lettered down the spine and decorated on upper cover, all in blue, edges cut, in pictorial dust-jacket (3/6 net). Contains 4 stories; the first publication of the title-story. 69. Love. New York: William Morrow, 1946. An American reprint of the book first published by Faber in London (1943). Tall 8vo, purple cloth, gilt, cut edges, in blue dust-jacket ($5.00). Inscribed in de la Mare's autograph: "Harry, from Jack, Christmas 1946." This is a presentation from the author to Harry Hooton, who has used the book with considered care, but thoroughness. His relevant pencil annotations are found in the margins throughout. 70. Sansom, Clive. The Unfailing Spring. With an Introduction by Walter de la Mare. Favil Press, 1943. Stiff plain white wrappers with fold-over dust-jacket lettered in green, edges cut. Almost the whole content of the author's first book, In the Midst of Death, Privately printed in 1940, is here reprinted. Since the earlier publication does not contain de la Mare's Introduction, it is not catalogued here, though present in the collection. 71. Collected Rhymes and Verses. With Decorations by Berthold Wolpe. Faber, 1944. Green linen, spine gilt-lettered, upper side blind-stamped with author's monogram in an oval, top edges cut, others uncut, in pink printed dust-jacket (12s. 6d. net). 72. The Scarecrow and Other Stories. Illustrated by Irene Hawkins. Faber, 1945. Bright yellow cloth, lettered in blue down spine, in pictorial dust-jacket (4s. 6d. net). All edges cut. 73. The Burning Glass and Other Poems. Faber, 1945. Second impression, issued in November. Green cloth, gilt-lettered down spine, in printed dust-jacket (7s. 6d. net). Top edges cut, others uncut. G6 at end is blank.

75. Collected Stories for Children. Illustrated by Irene Hawkins. Faber, 1947. Beige linen, spine gilt-lettered partly on red panel, all edges cut, in pictorial dust-jacket (10s. 6d. net). 76. Inward Companion. Faber, 1950. Tall 8vo, light blue rough linen, spine gilt-lettered partly on red panel, top edges cut, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (8s. 6d. net). Pp.[99-100] blank at end. 77. Winged Chariot. Faber, 1951. Small 4to, bright yellow cloth, spine gilt, top edges cut, others uncut. Printed on light blue tinted paper. In designed dust-jacket (10s. 6d. net). 78. Partridge, Margaret Ridgely. The Plumes of Dream. With an Introduction by Walter de la Mare. New York: CowardMcCann, 1951. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered down spine, fore-edges uncut, in coloured printed dust-jacket. Frontispiece portrait. Inscribed: "To Lady Wentworth, with appreciation, from Margaret Ridgely Partridge, June 15, 1957." Also on most pages in lower margin are notes of the original printing of poems, in the author's hand in ink. From the Crabbet Park sale, 25 November 1959. 79. Private View. With an Introduction by Lord David Cecil. Faber, 1953. Tall 8vo, light blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered partly on white panel, top edges stained red, others cut, in printed dust-jacket (18s. net). 80. O Lovely England, and Other Poems. Faber, 1955. Tall 8vo, light green linen, gilt-lettered down spine, edges cut (though some lower ones have escaped the guillotine). 81. A Beginning and Other Stories. Faber, 1955. Light brick red linen, spine gilt-lettered, top edges stained yellow, others cut. 82. Pinto, Vivian de Sola, ed. The Divine Vision: Studies in the Poetry and Art of William Blake. By Kathleen Raine [and 7 other authors]. With an Introductory Poem [written for this volume] by [the late] Walter de la Mare. Gollancz, 1957. Tall 8vo, blue rough cloth, spine gilt-lettered, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (25/- net). Folding frontispiece and 8 illustrations.

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83. The Complete Poems. Faber, 1969. Tall 8vo, grey holland, spine gilt-lettered on blue panel, top edges stained blue, others cut, pp. xvi, 948.

2. Alice for Short: A Dichronism. Heinemann, 1907. Uniform format with Joseph Vance, only lower edges uncut. In this copy the title-page is part of the first gathering, as is normal (not a cancel) but it is set in different type-the whole 7 lines in caps-and without publisher's windmill device. Verso of title has one line of type only, "All rights reserved," in lower left hand corner.

Letters 84. Four typed letters by de la Mare to various correspondents, 1925 to 1943, one in original postmarked envelope, all with autograph signature and some words in autograph. To Arthur Rogers (removed from Some Thoughts on Reading, 1923); Mrs. Priestley Cooper (Peacock Pie, 1916); Mr. Harrison; and Mr. Edward C. Luin (in reference to comments on Turner in de la Mare's essay, "A Quiet Life," in the Royal Society of Literature publication, Essays by Divers Hands, Vol. 20 (1942), p. 72. Secondary Material 85. Megroz, R. L. Walter de la Mare: A Biographical and Critical Study. Hodder & Stoughton, 1924. Dark red cloth, spine gilt, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (7/6 net). A volume of the Bookman Library. 86. National Book League. Walter de la Mare: A Checklist. Prepared on the Occasion of an Exhibition of his Books and MSS, 20 April to 19 May, 1936. Pp. xvi, 56, metal fastened in white printed wrappers, frontispiece portrait. Introduction by Lord David Cecil. Note: Two poems by de la Mare, "Arabia" and "A Widow's Weeds," appeared (circa 1920) as Poetry Bookshop Rhyme Sheets; but they had previously been collected respectively into The Listener (1912) and Peacock Pie (1913), rendering the Rhyme Sheets inessential to a de la Mare collection. DE MORGAN (William Frend) 1839-1917 1. Joseph Vance: An Ill-written Autobiography. Light green cloth, black lettered spine and upper side, publisher's windmill monogram in black lower right-hand corner of lower corner, only lower edges uncut. The collection has 3 copies and it is noted that the 2 leaves of Six Shilling Novel adverts at end are variously inserted either before or after the final blank, pp.[511-512]. First Edition of the author's first book.

3. Another copy of First Edition. This is in what is accepted as normal state, of which many copies have been examined. Whole title-page set in caps and lower case and with publisher's device. On verso the copyright notice is set in 2 lines at foot. All varieties of the book appear to carry the same dedication (initial letters only) to Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris. 4. Another copy; this would appear to be the First Canadian Edition. Title-page is set in caps and lower case, but imprint at foot is "Toronto/Henry Frowde/1907." Verso of title has "Printed in England" in centre. Inscribed: "E. W. Fisher. Windsor Hotel, Montreal. November 20, 1907." It is without the inserted leaf following p.[364] advertising Joseph Vance. 5. Somehow Good. Heinemann, 1908. Uniform format with Joseph Vance, save that spine lettering is in gilt. Only lower edges uncut. Two inserted leaves at end carry adverts of the author's 2 previous novels. 6. Another copy of First Edition. Here the title-page (or ? half-title) appears to be a cancel. The 5 lines are set all in caps, and without the windmill device, whereas the normal state is caps and lower case. Verso of title has only "All rights reserved," lower left hand corner, whereas normal copies have a 2 line copyright notice. The 2 leaves of adverts are found at end, as in first copy. 7. It Never Can Happen Again. 2 vols. Heinemann, 1909. Uniform format with Somehow Good, only lower edges uncut, coloured frontispiece portrait of the author. This first impression was published in November, and there was a second impression in December with little difference save the addition of bibliographical statement centre verso title-pages. 8. An Affair of Dishonour. Heinemann, 1910. Uniform format with Somehow Good, only lower edges uncut. The first leaf is blank before half-title.

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9. A Likely Story. Heinemann, 1911. Uniform format with Somehow Good, only lower edges uncut. Leaf before half-title has blank recto with adverts of the author's other novels on verso and is not included in pagination. In dust-jacket printed in red (6/net).

15. ALS on both sides of a black-edged card addressed to the same lady, "Dear Mrs. Boyce" from Evelyn De Morgan. A similar response to a letter of sympathy on the loss [on 15 January 1917] of her husband the novelist. "It was a violent attack of gastric influenza that took him from me after a terrible illness of 17 days." Dated from 127 Church Street, Chelsea, 27 January 1917.

10. Lamont, L. M. Thomas Armstrong, C.B. A Memoir, 1832-1911. Martin Seeker, 1912. Dark red cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges stained to match, others uncut, profuse illustrations. P4 at end, pp.[215-216], is blank save for printer's imprint verso centre set in 3 lines. It was hoped that De Morgan might have been induced to write this book; but in the end all it contained by him was a long 4 page letter, dated from Church Street, 24 August 1912, which is printed following the Editor's Prefatory Note. 11. When Ghost Meets Ghost. In Two Parts. 2 vols.: Part I [Part IE]. Heinemann, 1914. Uniform format with Somehow Good, (1908), only lower edges uncut. 12. Another copy of First Edition sheets. When prepared for issue in one volume, the Contents, Part II. was printed on the previously blank verso of Contents, Part I. The preliminaries were further reset, the half-title carrying only adverts of De Morgan's other books on verso, instead of New Six Shilling Novels. Also, in the reset title-page, De Morgan is described as author of [6 titles]. In the 2 volume form the work is printed on a much thicker paper; both forms have the Note by binder at end, pp.[844], and in both the final letter "s" at end of penultimate line has dropped out. The one volume form has publisher's 16 page list of Current Fiction at end, followed by 2 blank leaves. 13. The Old Madhouse. Heinemann, 1919. Uniform format with Somehow Good, save that lettering reverts again to black, for spine and upper side, including windmill device centre of lower cover—which had always been in black. In pale blue printed dust-jacket (II- net). In this posthumous publication, "A Few Last Words to the Reader" at end are signed by Evelyn De Morgan, the author's widow. Autograph Letters 14. ALS one page on a folded sheet of notepaper, dated from Vale, King's Road [Chelsea] 29 September 1906 from William De Morgan to "Dear Mrs. Boyce," in response to sympathy over the loss of "My dear nephew Gus."

Secondary Material 16. Stirling, A. M. W. William De Morgan and his Wife. Thornton Butterworth, 1922. Tall 8vo, light blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, edges trimmed. Profuse illustrations. Also issued in dark olive green cloth, with no other discernible difference. 17. Stirling, A. M. W. Life's Little Day: Some Tales and Other Reminiscences. Thornton Butterworth, 1924. Uniform format with the above work, though fore and lower edges here are uncut. Profuse illustrations. Contains considerable De Morgan material, including illustrations. Association Items Note: The following books are by Augustus De Morgan, father of William De Morgan. 18. An Essay on Probabilities and Their Application to Life Contingencies and Insurance Offices. Longman, 1838. A volume of Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia. Small 8vo, smooth purple linen, spine titling label (Price 6s.), all edges uncut. Unusually fine and entirely unopened copy. 12 pages of adverts sewn in front are dated October 1838. 19. From Matter to Spirit: The Result of Ten Years' Experience in Spirit Manifestations. Intended as a Guide to Enquirers. By C. D. With a Preface by A. B. Longman, 1863. Dark green morocco-grained blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt, all edges uncut, slate coloured end-papers. This work is more precisely by the novelist's mother, but is edited by his father, Professor Augustus De Morgan, whose 41 page Preface is dated July 1863.

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1. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. 3rd ed. Taylor & Hessey, 1823. Contemporary half blue calf, marbled sides, fully gilt spine with red titling-label. Unlike the First Edition, the third was issued without half-title. Collation is [A]2, B-l, 8 gatherings in 12's, K7 [? lacks K8 blank].

which Hogg published uniform volumes starred from 5 onwards. The first 8 volumes bear his Edinburgh imprint, volumes 9-13 change to, "London: James Hogg & Sons," and have the words, "Stereotype Edition," above imprint. The final volume, Letters to a Young Man Whose Education had been Neglected, dated 1860, has a frontispiece portrait of the now-deceased author; the words "Stereotype Edition" do not appear and foot of spine has the final cumbersome 14 stars. Uniform black cloth, sides blind-stamped with publisher's medallion, gilt spines, edges uncut (though some fore and lower edges trimmed). The status of volumes in sets which have been rebound is only established by reference to printer's catches in lower margins. The complete set as catalogued-in particularly fine uniform state of black cloth-is rarely seen.

2. Walladmor: "Freely Translated into German from the English of Sir Walter Scott." And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. 2 vols. Taylor & Hessey, 1825. Contemporary calf, spines with red and green titling labels. The German work was a forgery by G. W. H. Haering. Inscribed on half-title of volume 1 in the autograph of De Quincey: "To George Darling, M.D. from his faithful and obliged servant, The Translator." 3. Klosterheim, or, The Masque. By the English Opium-Eater. Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: T. Cadell, 1832. Drab brown boards, spine titling label printed in 6 lines between rules top and bottom, all edges uncut. This is the first binding state: the adverts leaf at end following pp. 305-306, with which it was conjugate, has been removed. 4. Another copy of First Edition sheets: this is in the second state, binding of dark green grained cloth with spine titling label, edges uncut. The label appears to be of the same printing as in the copy bound in boards, but the end-papers, which are of a pale pinkish wove variety, are renewed. The adverts leaf [pp. 307-308] is in place at end. 5. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine for 1839. Vol. VI. Edinburgh: William Tait, 1839. Large 8vo, contemporary half calf, marbled edges. Consists of the 12 monthly parts complete, pp. 1-828, preceded by title-page and Index. Contains De Quincey's "Lake Reminiscences from 1807 to 1830" in 5 monthly instalments, and 3 other lengthy prose contributions by him: "Sketches of Life and Manners"; "From the Autobiography of an English Opium-Eater," &c. Editions and Selections 6. Selections Grave and Gay. 14 vols. Edinburgh [and London]: James Hogg, 1853-1860. The first collected edition of De Quincey's Works was edited by James T. Fields, and publication commenced by Ticknor & Fields in Boston in 1851, the final volume, No. 24, appearing in 1859. The first English collection, now catalogued, had an abortive launching as Autobiographical Sketches, starred 1 and 2, in 1853. Miscellanies, which followed in 1854, was again starred 1 and 2, after

7. Works. 15 vols. Edinburgh: A. & C. Black, 1862-1863; Vol. 16, 1874. A fine collection in a uniform contemporary binding of polished dark red calf, fully gilt spines with red and green lettering labels. Armorial bookplate throughout of Henry W. Ripley. This is the Second English Collected Edition. Volume 16, Suspiria de P.rofundes, was issued in 1871, of which a copy is present, but later dated (1874). Volume 17, Kant and Logic of Political Economy (missing from this set), was not issued until 1878. But volume 16 was planned to be the concluding volume, and contains the 55 page General Index. 8. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Edited by Richard Garnett. Kegan Paul, 1885. A volume of the publisher's Parchment Library. 9. Another copy of Richard Garnett's edition; this is the superior issue, bound in cream vellum (not parchment), in which the end-papers are of a toned quality of pale mauve. Both styles have binder's ticket of Burn & Co. at end. 10. The Collected Writings. New and Enlarged Edition by David Masson. 14 vols. Edinburgh: A. & C. Black, 1889-1890. The first "Masson" edition. Uniform red cloth, gilt spines. Each volume with the elaborate bookplate inside cover of the Barrow Maintenance Trust Library. 11. Japp, Alexander H. LL.D. ["H. A. Page"]. Thomas De Quincey: His Life and Writings. With Unpublished Correspondence. John Hogg, 1890. New Edition, revised and rearranged, with

196 DE QUINCEY (Thomas) 1785-1859 additional matter. Red cloth, all edges uncut, portrait and illustrations. 12. Japp, Alexander. De Quincey Memorials: Being Letters and Other Records, here first Published. 2 vols. Heinemann, 1891. Tall 8vo, dark red cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, 5 portraits. 13. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. With an Introduction by Charles Whibley. Blackie & Son [1904]. Green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others trimmed. Frontispiece portrait and title-page printed on a quarter-sheet of plate paper. First issue in the publisher's Red Letter Library. 14. De Quincey. Edited by Sidney Low. G. Bell, 1911. A volume of the publisher's Masters of Literature series, presenting selections from the author. Red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait. 15. Burke, Thomas. The Ecstasies of Thomas De Quincey. Chosen by Thomas Burke. Harrap, 1928. Dark blue cloth, top edges stained to match, others cut, in decorated dust-jacket (4/- net). A volume in the Harrap Library series. Burke contributes a 23 page Introduction to selections from De Quincey. 16. A Diary of Thomas De Quincey, 1803: Here Reproduced in Replica as well as in Print from the Original Manuscript. Edited by Horace A. Eaton. Noel Douglas [1928]. Small 4to, deep cream smooth bevelled buckram, spine gilt-lettered, all edges uncut. Limited to 1,500 numbered copies for England and America; this copy "out of series." Secondary Material 17. Findlay, John Ritchie. Personal Recollections of Thomas De Quincey. Edinburgh: A. & C. Black, 1886. Foolscap 8vo, mauve cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, 3 portraits (including the india paper medallion mounted on title-page). Printed on handmade paper watermarked "John Day & Co."

DE TABLEY (John Byrne Leicester Warren, 3rd Baron) 1835-1895 1. Poems. By G. F. Preston. W. Kent & Co., 1859. Foolscap 8vo, purple heavily blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 3 lines, all edges uncut, primrose yellow end-papers, errata slip inserted at p. 1. Edmund Gosse's copy, inscribed: "'G. F. Preston1 is a pseudonym; written by two friends, one of whom is now Lord De Tabley. E. G." Later in the library of Lord Esher, with Brett bookplate. First Edition of the author's first book. 2. Ballads and Metrical Sketches. By George F. Preston. W. Kent, 1860. Similarly stamped purple cloth, same spine gilt-lettering, all edges uncut. This volume is from the same printing-house of Richard Barrett as the 1859 book and the first 188 pages are in common. The preliminaries were cancelled and reprinted, but as sheets are the same the errors remained, and the same errata slip is inserted. But the 1860 book contains 64 additional poems, pages 119-240 being newly printed. It was necessary to cancel 14 and reprint the poem "Retrospect" on the first page of the new gathering K; R6 at end is blank. 3. Praeterita. By William Lancaster. Macmillan, 1863. Smooth dark green linen, spine gilt-lettered in 6 lines between rules top and bottom, sides with triple line frame which on upper is in gilt, on lower in blind, circular gilt ornament centre of lower cover, top edges uncut, others trimmed, brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. Another pseudonymous publication inscribed on half-title in the author's hand: "From the Author." The Esher copy, with Brett bookplate. 4. A composite volume, in a contemporary binding of blue linen, gilt-lettered up spine, all edges uncut, containing 7 publications (or off-prints) on numismatics by Lord De Tabley: a) On Some Coins of Lycia under the Rhodian Domination, and of the Lycian League, 1863. Six pages, engraved frontispiece, cream printed wrappers. b) The Copper Coinage of the Achaean League, 1864. 20 pages, 3 engraved plates, similar printed wrappers. c) An Essay on Greek Federal Coinage. Macmillan, 1863. 64 pages including final blank leaf. d) Jetton of Perkin Yfarbeck, pp. 1-4, off-print. e) On Some Coins of Constans II and His Sons, Discovered in the Island of Cyprus, pp. 1-14, off-print. f) Note on the En. . . Types of the Heraclean Dynasty, pp. 1-4, off-print.

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g) A Few Words on Byzantine Numismatic Art. pp. 1-6, off-print. The above 7 works are all issued under the name, Hon. J. Leicester Warren.

9. Orestes: A Metrical Drama. By John Leicester Warren. Strahan, 1871. A reissue of the 1867 First Edition sheets from which the title-page has been cancelled and a new half-title and title-page printed on a quarter-sheet inserted. Dark red cloth, uniform with the reissue of Philoctetes, original red edges, similar end-papers and binder's ticket. Lord Esher's copy with Brett bookplate.

5. An Essay on Greek Federal Coinage. Macmillan, 1863. Another copy of First Edition as normally issued in bright blue cloth, gilt-lettered on upper side, all edges uncut (entirely unopened), dark brown end-papers. Inscribed: "To Mr. Alfred Miles from Eleanor Leighton Warren, March 10/'05," in the handwriting of the author's sister. Later in Lord Esher's library and with his bookplate. 6. Philoctetes: A Metrical Drama, after the Antique. By M. A. Alfred W. Bannett, 1866. Bright blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges stained red, chocolate brown end-papers. H8 is blank at end. The ascription to "M. A." appears in gilt on upper cover only. John Drinkwater's copy with bookplate and his 1920 dated signature in ink, followed by a 3 line note in pencil. 7. Rehearsals: A Book of Verses. By John Leicester Warren. Strahan, 1870. Blue cloth, gilt and black lettered and designed, t.e.g., others trimmed, reddish brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. Q4 at end carries only adverts of Philoctetes, &c., "By the same Author." Inserted is a long and interesting 3 page ALS from the author to "My dear Gaskell," on his Elm Park Road, Chelsea notepaper, dated 1 August 1880, entirely about parliamentary matters, mentioning Lord Granville, "whom I dislike intensely," Gladstone and Chamberlain. Lord Esher's copy, with Brett bookplate. 8. Philoctetes: A Metrical Drama after the Antique. By John Leicester Warren. Strahan, 1871. This is a reissue of the original sheets (printed by Richard Barrett in 1866, and issued pseudonymously) with title-page cancelled and a newly printed quarter-sheet inserted carrying half-title and title-page. Same (original) red edges. Dark red cloth with black ornamental bands, spine gilt-lettered, slate blue end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. Inscribed: "Edmund W. Gosse, with the writer's kind regards, April 1876." With Gosse's bookplate. Later in Lord Esher's library, with Brett bookplate.

10. Searching the Net; A Book of Verses. By John Leicester Warren. Strahan, 1873. Dark red cloth, black designed, spine gilt-lettered, edges uncut, dark blue end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. P3 and P4 at end, paginated 1-4, carry adverts only, followed by one leaf of publisher's adverts of "New Books." Armorial bookplate of W. K. D'Arcy and the later bookplate of Lord Esher. 11. The Soldier of Fortune: A Tragedy in Five Acts. By J. Leicester Warren. Smith Elder, 1876. Bright blue bevelled cloth, spine gilt-lettered, sides with black frame, all edges uncut, slatey blue end-papers; 500 copies of this book were printed, but very few copies sold before the unbound sheets were sold off as waste. Lord Esher's copy with Brett bookplate. Inscribed on blank Al before half-title: "To George Saintsbury from Austin Dobson, 16:v:1902." 12. A Guide to the Study of Book-plates (Ex-Libris). By the Hon. J. Leicester Warren, M.A. John Pearson, 1880. Tall 8vo, plum red smooth linen, spine titling-label (15/-), all edges uncut, profusely illustrated. With the circular armorial bookplate of George Brightwen, The Grove, Gt. Stanmore; later in Edmund Gosse's library, with his bookplate, and eventually in Lord Esher's library with Brett bookplate. 13. Poems Dramatic and Lyrical. By John Leicester Warren, Lord De Tabley. With Illustrations by C. S. Ricketts. E. Mathews and John Lane, 1893. 14. Poems. Second Series. John Lane, 1895. A pair of these beautifully produced volumes, green cloth with uniform gilt design by Charles Ricketts, t.e.g., others uncut. Of the first volume 600 copies were printed and of the second 550. Both belonged to Austin Dobson and bear his Edwin Abbey bookplates, and in each is inserted an ALS from the author to Theodore

198 DE TABLEY (John Byrne Leicester Warren, 3rd Baron) 1835-1895 Watts-Dunton. Later they were in the library of John Drinkwater, and carry his 1922 signatures, bookplates, and neat pencil bibliographical notes. 15. Another copy of First Edition of first series. One of 100 copies only, printed on Japanese vellum and bound in vellum with Ricketts's design, all edges uncut and unopened throughout. The ordinary issue had top edge cut and gilded. By 1895 John Lane had become unwilling to venture upon any vellum edition for the second series, sales of first series having been disappointing. The Esher copy with bookplate. 16. The Flora of Cheshire. By the late Lord de Tabley. Edited by Spencer Moore. With a Biographical Notice of the Author by Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff. Longmans, 1899. Dark green cloth, elaborately gilt-designed, edges uncut (or lightly trimmed), dark slate end-papers, 12 line errata slip inserted at p. 1. From the library of H. Buxton Forman, with his Shelley bookplate, and later in the library of Lord Esher, with Brett bookplate. Facing the frontispiece portrait is inserted Eleanor, Lady Leighton's presentation compliments leaf. 17. A Guide to the Study of Book-plates (Ex-libris). 2nd ed. Manchester: Sherratt & Hughes, 1900. Dark olive green cloth, all edges uncut, spine titling label. With a new Preface by Lady Leighton and the same illustrations as the First Edition of 1880. Among the many errors corrected is the unexplained gap of 10 pages in pagination commencing at p. 225. 18. Orpheus in Thrace and Other Poems. Smith Elder, 1901. Smooth cream buckram, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut, bright blue toned end-papers, Lady Leighton Warren's compliments slip inserted. M8 is blank at end, followed by gathering N, 4 leaves paginated to 7 with verso blank and containing adverts of other books "By the same Author." 19. The Collected Poems of Lord De Tabley. Chapman & Hall, 1903. Red cloth, elaborately gilt designed and lettered, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait. Walter Jerrold's copy with his autograph and bookplate. In the first state, with only 2 starred cancel leaves, pp. 7-8 and 37-38. Lacking a proof copy, one cannot tell what errors were corrected in these 2 leaves.

DE TABLEY (John Byrne Leicester Warren, 3rd Baron) 1835-1895 20. Another copy, and again in first state with only 2 cancel leaves. One of a small number of copies bound in cream vellum with same gilt design, presumably for presentation purposes. A rare book. 21. Another copy, but in second state—all 20 leaves, 7, 37, 69, 157, 205, 225, 249, 251, 259, 307, 317, 319, 335, 361, 375, 397, 419, 459 and the adverts leaf, p.[3], are starred cancels pasted on stubs of the leaves removed, and in each instance a textual correction is detectable. All copies of this book, which was never reprinted, have the starred blank before half-title and the inserted slip regarding Orpheus in Hades. 22. Select Poems of Lord De Tabley. Edited by John Drinkwater. Humphrey Milford, 1924. Dark green cloth with gilt spine and upper side, all edges cut. A volume of the Oxford Miscellany series, with 2 page Note and 11 page Introduction. Autograph Letters 23. A series of 6 letters to Alfred C. [sic] Miles, Esq., 301 Brockley Road, Brockley, Kent, dated between 10 December 1890 and 23 March 1895. The first, from Bournemouth, Hants., and the last, from Poole, Dorset are in an unidentified handwriting, with only the signatures in author's autograph. The middle four are from 62 Elm Park Road, Chelsea, and are entirely in his handwriting. An interesting series dealing mainly with the anthology Poets and Poetry of the Century, which Miles was bringing out. The last letter deals entirely with the poems in the second series of Poems Dramatic and Lyrical, which Lane had just published. 24. Letter to John Lane, Esq., 37 Southwick St., dated from Bournemouth, 7 November 1892, in handwriting as above, with only the signature by De Tabley. Deals with the book Lane was bringing out but which was delayed nearly 2 years, possibly De Tabley's Poems Dramatic and Lyrical. Note: For ALS to "My dear Mr. Scott," dated 10 April 1882-see the William Bell Scott collection.

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1. The Waldenses, or, The Fall of Rora: A Lyrical Sketch, with Other Poems. Oxford: J. H. Parker, 1842. Wine coloured blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 7 lines, edges uncut. Errata slip inserted at end. First Edition of the author's first book, pp. xii, 312. The Hayward Poetry Catalogue (item 259) describes only an imperfect copy.

7. The Sisters, Inisfail and Other Poems. Longmans, 1861. Green blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine, edges uncut, dark brown end-papers. Autograph signature of Sir John P. Boileau, Bart., on adverts leaf before title-page. A full page of errata (12 errors) is inserted before the dedication leaf.

2. The Search after Proserpine, Recollections of Greece, and Other Poems. Oxford: J. H. Parker, 1843. Dark blue cloth with spine titling label lettered in 4 lines, edges uncut. The book is dedicated to Sir Henry Taylor. Copies are also found in a claret coloured cloth with spine gilt-lettered in 6 lines; the errata slip (6 errors) and the advertisement slip for The Waldenses were removed from a soiled claret coloured cloth copy and are inserted here. Inscribed: "R. S. Wright from H. Taylor, East Sheen, 27 January 1864." 3. English Misrule and Irish Misdeeds. John Murray, 1848. Dark green cloth, spine titling label lettered in 5 lines between double rules top and bottom, edges uncut. Pp.[267-268] at end carry adverts of 18 "New Books Just Published." Inscribed: "Sir Frederick Elliot from the Author, Jan 20, 1848." 4. Heroines of Charity. With a Preface by Aubrey de Vere, Esq. Burns & Lambert, 1854. Dark green blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 3 lines, edges cut. Woodcut title with engraving of Jeanne Biscot before printed title, 16 leaves of publisher's adverts at end. 5. Poems. Burns & Lambert, 1855. Blind-stamped dark red cloth, spine gilt-lettered, "De Vere's/Poems." End-papers, which may not be original, are light green. Two leaves of adverts at end. Inscribed: "James Spedding from the Author. Rome March 2nd, 1857." 6. Another copy of First Edition, identical with above save that the end-papers are the normal primrose yellow for this book and that the 2 adverts leaves at end are in reverse order from the Spedding copy, the leaf "By the same Author" coming first. This copy was in the Landor cache of papers brought by Colonel Landor (of Bournemouth) from Florence on the occasion of the death of the poet W. S. Lander's grand-daughter Signora Elfreda Mangioni-Landor. On end-paper is the signature of her father Charles Landor. (See the British Museum Quarterly, February 1960.)

8. The Infant Bridal and Other Poems. Macmillan, 1864. Purple diagonal bead-grained cloth, dark slate end-papers, all edges uncut. Inscribed: "Edward Healy Thompson, Hendon 1864." This was Francis Thompson's uncle, an earlier contributor to Merry England who may have been instrumental in his meeting with Meynell, the editor. 9. Hymns and Sacred Poems. Richardson, 1864. 12mo, dark red blind-stamped cloth, upper side gilt-lettered in 3 lines; all edges gilt, yellow end-papers. P.[51] at end carries only a note, with printer's imprint in one line at foot and verso blank. 10. Ireland's Church Question: Five Essays. Longman, 1868. These are the 5 separately published pamphlets: The Church Settlement of Ireland, or, Hibernia Pacanda (1866); Ireland's Church Property (1867); Pleas for Secularization (1867); Reply to Strictures of Myles O'Reilly (1868); The Church Establishment in Ireland (1867). Each pamphlet is perfect as issued, with title-page and preliminaries. Bound together in contemporary half green calf, marbled sides, red sprinkled edges, with the Cheltenham binder's ticket of Bettam & Co. Inscribed: "Edward Healy Thompson. Cheltenham 1876," to whom it was probably a presentation, as the first (general) title-page is inscribed in the author's hand: "With the author's respects." 11. The Legends of Saint Patrick. H. S. King, 1872. Bevelled green cloth, gilt, edges uncut, reddish brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. Inscribed: "Harriet Thompson from A. de V. June 15, 1872." 12. Alexander the Great: A Dramatic Poem. H. S. King, 1874. Issued uniformly with Legends of St. Patrick. Publisher's 34 page catalogue at end dated May 1874. Inscribed on the Dedication leaf: "Coventry Patmore from A. de V., June 13, 1874." 13. Another copy. Inscribed on the same day as above (? day of publication): "Harriet H. Thompson, from her affectionate friend, Aubrey de Vere. June 13th, 1874."

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14. Antar and Zara: An Eastern Romance. H. S. King, 1877. Bevelled green cloth, issued uniformly with Legends of Saint Patrick. Inscribed in the handwriting of Harriet Thompson: "Francis Warre from his affect. Aunt Harriet T. June 29, 1877."

22. Another copy. Inserted is an ALS from the author to Father Morris, dated from Heathfield Lodge, Bournemouth, 13 August 1888: "Pray accept &c. . . . a poor attempt to make at least one man's response, however feeble, to the appeal lately made by the Pope to the heart and Conscience of Christendom."

15. The Fall of Kara. H. S. King, 1877. Bevelled green cloth, uniform with Legends of Saint Patrick. Half-title reads only: "Poems/ Meditative and Lyrical." P.[xv] carries a full page of errata, with verso blank. 16. Legends of the Saxon Saints. Kegan Paul, 1879. Bevelled green cloth, uniform with the above volumes. U2 at end is blank, followed by publisher's 32 page catalogue dated 2.79. Inscribed: "Harriet Thompson from her affectionate friend Aubrey de Vere, June 19, 1879."

23. The Legends of Saint Patrick. Cassell, 1889. Light blue cloth, black and gilt-lettered and designed, edges cut. First issue in Cassell's National Library, with a 3 page Introduction by Henry Morley. Inscribed: "From Aubrey de Vere. Curragh Chase, Sept 19, 1892." 24. Essays Chiefly Literary and Ethical. Macmillan, 1889. Green cloth, uniform format with the 2 volume Essays on Poetry of 1887. J. H. Fowler's copy with his autograph on end-paper.

17. May Carols, or, Ancilla Domini. 3rd ed., enlarged. Burns & Dates, 1881. Bright blue bevelled cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, dark brown end-papers, mounted photograph frontispiece, errata slip inserted at p.[vii] (4 errors).

25. Aubrey de Vere's Poems: A Selection. Edited by John Dennis. Cassell, 1890. Dark green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others lightly trimmed, glazed cream end-papers. Belonged to Howard Overing Sturgis, with his full signature in ink on half-title.

18. The Foray of Queen Meave and Other Legends of Ireland's Heroic Age. Kegan Paul, 1882. Bevelled green cloth (uniform format with Saxon Saints). R2 at end is blank. Inscribed: "Harriet Thompson from A de V, June 21 '82."

26. Mediaeval Records and Sonnets. Macmillan, 1893. Dark green cloth, gilt spine, matching end-papers, top edges uncut, others trimmed. S8 is blank at end. Printed author's presentation leaf inserted.

19. Essays Chiefly on Poetry. 2 vols. Macmillan, 1887. Dark green cloth, gilt spines, all edges uncut. V2 at end of volume 1 carries adverts only; a similar adverts leaf follows N4 at end of volume 2, but in this case it is on an inserted leaf, and not part of gathering. 20. Legends and Records of the Church and the Empire. Kegan Paul, 1887. Bevelled green cloth (uniform format with Saxon Saints), X4 at end carries printer's imprint only. Inscribed: "Ellen Warre from her affectionate cousin Aubrey de Vere, August 27, 1892." 21. Saint Peter's Chains, or, Rome and the Italian Revolution: A Series of Sonnets. Burns & Gates [1888]. Purple cloth, gilt, trimmed edges. Inscribed: "The Library of The Oratory of the Sacred Heart, from Aubrey de Vere. Vigil of The Assumption, 1888," and with that institution's book label, "Bib, S. J./Bournemouth."

27. Religious Problems of the Nineteenth Century. Essays by Aubrey de Vere, LL.D. Edited by J. G. Wenham. St. Anselm's Society, 1893. Dark green cloth, gilt spine, all edges cut, glazed cream end-papers. Inscribed: "Harriet & M. Healy Thompson from A de Vere, 1893." 28. Recollections of Aubrey de Vere. Edward Arnold, 1897. Tall 8vo, green cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut, frontispiece, dark blue end-papers, publisher's 32 page October 1897 catalogue at end. This book was printed in the U.S.A. and pp.[375-376] at end carry only pictorial imprint on recto with verso blank. Secondary Material 29. Gunning, John P. Aubrey de Vere: A Memoir. Limerick: Gay & Co., 1902. Pale blue cloth, lettered in darker blue, trimmed edges, frontispiece portrait.

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30. Ward, Wilfrid. Aubrey de Vere: A Memoir Based on His Unpublished Diaries and Correspondence. Longmans, 1904. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, gilt spine, top edges cut, others uncut, dark slate end-papers, Ee7 at end carries adverts only, followed by Ee8 blank. Publisher's 40 page catalogue dated 9/04; 2 portraits and one other plate. 31. Reilly, S. M. Paraclita, C.S.J. Aubrey de Vere: Victorian Observer. Dublin: Clonmore & Reynolds, 1956. Green linen, spine gilt-lettered in 7 lines, top edges stained to match cloth, others cut, in pictorial dust-jacket with the author's portrait. Association Items Note: The following books are by members of the de Vere family. 32. De Vere, Sir Aubrey, Bart. A Song of Faith: Devout Exercises and Sonnets. W. Pickering, 1842. Mottled red and blue hard-grain morocco, spine with raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled end-papers. Dedicated to William Wordsworth. A perfect copy, with the half-title. Sir Aubrey de Vere (1788-1846) was the father of Aubrey Thomas de Vere. 33. De Vere, Sir Aubrey, Bart. Mary Tudor: An Historical Drama. The Lamentation of Ireland, and Other Poems. W. Pickering, 1847. Slatey blue cloth with spine lettering label, all edges uncut. Inscribed: "J. Spedding from A de Vere, July 28, 1847" in the handwriting of the deceased author's son. 34. De Vere, Sir Aubrey, Bart. Julian the Apostate, and The Duke of Mercia: Historical Dramas by the late Sir Aubrey de Vere. Basil M. Pickering, 1858. Slatey blue cloth (? not original), all edges uncut. First combined edition of these plays, originally published in 1822 and 1823. There is a Preface (unsigned) by the author's son, Aubrey de Vere. 35. De Vere, Sir Aubrey, Bart. Sonnets. New Edition. B. M. Pickering, 1875. Bright blue cloth, gilt, edges uncut. These are compositions by the author's father originally printed in 1842. There is a brief note by the son dated 6 October 1875, also his Memoir of his father. Inscribed: "Bessie Spring Rice from her affectionate cousin Aubrey de Vere. Curragh Chase, Oct 23, 1897."

DE VERE (Aubrey Thomas) 1814-1902 36. De Vere, Sir Stephen E., Bart. Grave and Grey; Verses of Many Years. For private circulation only, 1883. Blue cloth, gilt, all edges gilt, brown end-papers, pp.[71-72] at end blank save for printer's imprint set on 3 lines centre recto. Inscribed: "Coventry Patmore, from A de V. See p. 10, 26, 27, 31, 35, 39, 47, 64, 68," [all in Aubrey de Vere's handwriting]. 37. De Vere, Sir Stephen E., Bart. Translations from Horace with Notes. 3rd ed., enlarged. Walter Scott, 1888. Blue cloth, spine titling label, all edges uncut. A volume in the publisher's Canterbury Poets series, edited by William Sharp. Dedicated to Aubrey de Vere (author's only surviving brother). 38. De Vere, Sir Stephen E., Bart. Odes and Epodes of Horace. Translated, with Preface and Notes. Bell, 1893. Square 8vo, dark green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, matching end-papers one of 500 copies, printed at the Chiswick Press. This is presumably the definitive edition; inserted at end is a 16 page Appendix with Chiswick Press (1895) imprint. The Preface and the Notes run to 28 and 30 pages respectively. DICKINSON (Goldsworthy Lowes) 1862-1932 1. From King to King: The Tragedy of the Puritan Revolution. George Allen, 1891. Dark red cloth, spine titling label, all edges uncut. 2. Revolution and Reaction in Modern France. George Allen, 1892. Dark red cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges uncut, others trimmed. Bookplate and autograph of Jennie Lindsay Campbell. 3. The Greek View of Life. Methuen, 1896. Dark blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side lettered in blue, cut edges. A volume of the University Extension Series. First leaf is blank before half-title, publisher's 40 page catalogue at end dated November 1896. 4. Shelley, P. B. Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts. Edited with Introduction and Notes by G. Lowes Dickinson. J. M. Dent, 1898. Pott 8vo, blue cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut. A volume of the publisher's Temple Dramatists series. Frontispiece portrait.

202 DICKINSON (Goldsworthy Lowes) 1862-1932 5. Another copy, the superior issue in blue semi-limp leather, gilt, t.e.g., others trimmed. In this series leather bound copies were trimmed fractionally smaller than cloth bound copies. 6. The Meaning of Good: A Dialogue. Glasgow: James MacLehose, 1901. Light blue linen, all edges uncut, spine gilt-lettered. 7. Letters from John Chinaman. New York: M. F. Mansfield; London: R. Brimley Johnson, 1901. Foolscap 8vo, 68 pages, in a choice contemporary binding by Rivie're of green crushed levant, spine with raised bands, all edges gilt, blue and white patterned end-papers with wide gilt dentelles inside covers. The binder has sacrificed the printed paper wrappers (as being a little incongruous with the elegant binding.) Anonymously published. Notwithstanding the title-page imprints, this is the First Edition of the book and issued in London. From the W. S. Blunt sale at Crabbet Park, 25 November 1959, with bookplate of his brother-in-law, Ralph, Earl of Lovelace and 13th Baron Wentworth. 8. A Modern Symposium. Brimley Johnson & Ince, 1905. Dark blue cloth, spine and upper side lettered in white enamel, top edges stained to match cloth, others uncut. Printed by the McClure Press in U.S.A. (imprint on verso title-page) and without register; the first leaf is blank before half-title. 9. A Modern Symposium. Dent, 1907. Covers &c. identical with First Edition of 1905; sheets-save for title-page-appear to be identical, with same McClure Press imprint foot of p.[160]. The imprint on verso of title-page is now set in 3 lines: "Copyright, 1905, by/McClure, Philips & Co./Published, October, 1905 N." Another edition of McClure sheets is in identical format with a cancel title-page pasted in, with "J. M. Dent 1908," and on verso, "Printed in U.S.A." 10. Religion: A Criticism and a Forecast. 2nd impression. Brimley Johnson & Ince, 1906. Green wrappers (I/- net), lettered up spine and in 4 lines on upper side, edges cut. G8 at end is blank. 11. Justice and Liberty: A Political Dialogue. Dent, 1908. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine, publisher's ornament in blind on upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. P4 is blank at end.

DICKINSON (Goldsworthy Lowes) 1862-1932 12. The Greek View of Life. 7th ed., revised and with New Preface. Methuen, 1909. Blue cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, top edges cut, others lightly trimmed. Pp.[251-252] blank at end save for printer's imprint centre verso, publisher's 32 page July 1909 catalogue at end. 13. A Wild Rose and Other Poems. [Privately printed] L. C. C. Central School of Arts & Crafts, 1910. One gathering of 6 leaves sewn into pale blue unlettered semi-stiff wrappers. The first and last leaves are blanks. Actual pagination is 3-7, with colophon at foot of p.[8] dated February 1910. 14. Religion and Immortality. Dent, 1911. Beige cloth, lettered in mauve up spine and on upper side, all edges cut. Comparison of this with the other copy in the collection clearly indicates that the frame of type for cover was set-up more than once. Alignments vary considerably. 15. Another copy, inscribed: "H. Schofield April 29th, 1911." On the title-page, the 'N1 of London is quite clear (vertically) of the T of "MCMXI." 16. Appearances: Being Notes of Travel. Dent, 1914. Similar format to Justice and Liberty, but top edges stained blue and others trimmed. P6 at end carries only adverts of "Books on the East," with verso blank. 17. An Essay on the Civilisations of India, China and Japan. Dent, 1914. Light green linen, black lettered spine and upper side, top edges stained, others lightly trimmed. F4 at end is blank. 18. Documents and Statements Relating to Peace Proposals and War Aims (December 1916-November 1918). With an Introduction by G. Lowes Dickinson. Allen & Unwin, 1919. Tall 8vo, grey linen, lettered in blue on spine and upper side, cut edges. 19. The Magic Flute: A Fantasia. Allen & Unwin, 1920. Pale green boards, half canvas, 2 titling labels, cut edges. 20. The Magic Flute: A Fantasia. Allen & Unwin, 1923. Reprinted July 1923-i.e., the second printing. Identical with above save for being fractionally taller-top edges cut but other edges entirely uncut-colour of boards blue, instead of green, in printed dust-jacket (4/6 net). In this reprint, the printed title labels for spine and upper side (of which there are spares tipped-in at end) are considerably larger than in the First Edition.

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21. Goethe and Faust: An Interpretation. With Passages Newly Translated into English Verse. By F. Melian Stawell and G. Lowes Dickinson. G. Bell, 1928. Tall 8vo, green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, only lower edges uncut. This was "John Eglinton's" copy; he reviewed it for The Sunday Observer, 17 March 1929, and the galley of his review is inserted in the copy, the date being added in handwriting of Mrs. Magee, his widow.

27. Forster, E. M. Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson. Edward Arnold, 1934. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, gilt spine, top edges stained blue, only lower edges uncut. Frontispiece portrait by Roger Fry, and 7 other plates. Pp.[279-280] are blank at end.

22. After Two Thousand Years: A Dialogue between Plato and a Modern Young Man. Allen & Unwin, 1930. Blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, top edges stained blue, lower edges only lightly trimmed. Al is blank before half-title and p.[214] blank; p.[215] carries publisher's square emblem, pp.[216-218] adverts, followed by final blank O6. 23. Points of View. A Series of Broadcast Addresses by G. Lowes Dickinson [and 5 other names]. With an Introduction and a Summing-up by G. Lowes Dickinson, and a Supplementary Letter by Sir Oliver Lodge. Allen & Unwin, 1930. Blue cloth, gilt-spine, all edges cut. Al is blank before half-title and K3 verso and K4 recto carry adverts, K4 verso publisher's square emblem. 24. Plato and His Dialogue. Allen & Unwin, 1931. Blue cloth, gilt spine, top edges stained blue, others cut. Al is blank before half-title, P3 and P4 at end carry publisher's emblem and adverts only. 25. Letters from John Chinaman and Other Essays. With an Introduction by E. M. Forster. Allen & Unwin, 1946. Green linen, spine lettered in white enamel, top edges stained to match cloth, others cut. In printed dust-jacket (7s. 6d. net). First issue of E. M. Forster's edition; there was a second impression in 1948. Secondary Material 26. Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, 6 August 1862-3 August 1932, Fellow of the College 1887-1932. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, January 1933. Square 8vo, beige wrappers (semi-stiff), upper side lettered black, 2 portraits, memoirs by Roger Fry and J. T. Sheppard &c. Printed for distribution to Members of the College, with a presentation note on a sheet of King's notepaper inlaid.

D' ISRAELI (Isaac) 1766-1848 1. The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius, Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions. By the Author of Curiosities of Literature. John Murray, 1818. Drab brown boards, spine titling label (9s. 6d.), all edges uncut. This is the second printing of An Essay on the Literary Character, which the author had issued in 1795, now considerably enlarged, and with a new Preface. 2. A Second Series of Curiosities of Literature. 3 vols. John Murray, 1823. Tall 8vo, light blue boards, all edges uncut, spine titling labels (35s.) No half-titles were issued with this work, nor are there any adverts leaves. 3. The Literary Character. 4th ed., revised. 2 vols. Henry Colburn, 1828. Blind-stamped green cloth, spines gilt, all edges uncut. U7 and U8 at end of volume 1 carry publisher's adverts and Z3 at end of volume 2 carries "Works by the Author" on recto with an early announcement of his Life and Reign of Charles the First centre verso, followed by one leaf of publisher's adverts. 4. Curiosities of Literature. By I. Disraeli, Esq., Illustrated by Bolton Corney, Esq. 2nd ed., revised and acuminated. To which are added Ideas on Controversy. Richard Bentley, 1838. Drab boards, all edges uncut, printed spine label. The First Edition (1837) did not contain Ideas on Controversy. 5. Miscellanies of Literature. A New Edition, revised and corrected. Edward Moxon, 1840. Tall 8vo, blind-stamped light brown vertically ribbed cloth, uncut, engraved and printed title-pages. This is the first Moxon edition and the first under this title. It was published as a popular Collected Works, printed in double columns. 6. Amenities of Literature. 3 vols. Edward Moxon, 1841. Tall 8vo, drab brown boards, half blue linen, spine titling labels (Price 36s. boards) Half-titles present in each volume, and in volumes 2 and 3 the leaf before half-title (Al) carries adverts.

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7. Amenities of Literature. A New Edition, edited by his son, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli. 2 vols. Routledge, Warne & Routledge, 1859. Contemporary half green calf, gilt spines with red lettering labels, frontispiece plate to each volume.

7. Hellas Revisited. With Illustrations by Mary R. L. Bryce. Edward Arnold, 1929. Tall 8vo, light blue rough cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, only lower edges uncut, 16 illustrations and 2 maps. Pp.[211-212] at end carry adverts only.

DIXON (William MacNeile) 1866-1946 1. A Primer of Tennyson, with a Critical Essay. Methuen, 1896. Green cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut and unopened throughout, pp.[190-192] blank at end, followed by publisher's 32 page catalogue dated September 1895. Publisher's original Compliments Review slip, with note "The price of this book is 2/6," still inserted. 2. In the Republic of Letters. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. Bright red buckram, gilt spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut, 08 at end is blank. This book is entirely printed in Britain for Constable and carries their Edinburgh printer's imprint on verso of title-page and at foot of last leaf of text, p.[222]. 3. Trinity College, Dublin. F. E. Robinson, 1902. Bright blue bevelled cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others uncut, 10 illustrations. A volume of the College Histories series. Pp.[299-302] at end carry publisher's adverts, paginated 1-4. 4. Poems of Wordsworth. Selected and with an Introduction by Professor W. MacNeile Dixon, M.A. Edinburgh: T. C. & E. C. Jack [1907]. Purple cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait, engraved title-page and 8 coloured illustrations by M. D. Spooner. Dixon's Introduction is a 42 page essay. A volume of the Golden Poets edited by Oliphant Smeaton. 5. The Edinburgh Book of Scottish Verse, 1300-1900. Selected and Edited by W. MacNeile Dixon. Meiklejohn & Holden, 1910. Blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others trimmed, blue silk marker. 6. Thomas the Rhymer. Written at the Request of the Pageant Committee of the Scottish Historical Exhibition of 1911. Glasgow: James MacLehose, 1911. Square 8vo, cream glazed boards, gilt-lettered up spine, t.e.g., others uncut. No. 1 of only 13 copies, printed on Van Gelder watermarked handmade paper. Inscribed: "With the author's kindest regards, Jan 1911."

8. Chatterton. Warton Lecture on English Poetry, Proceedings of the British Academy. Humphrey Milford, 1903. Tall 8vo, 24 pages, sewn into light grey wrappers lettered in black, edges uncut (Is. 6d. net). 9. In Arcadia. Blackie,. 1933. Grey smooth boards, green linen spine lettered upwards in darker green and on upper side, top and lower edges cut, fore-edges uncut, pp.[85-86] at end are blank. 10. The Human Situation. Gifford Lectures, University of Glasgow, 1935-1937. Edward Arnold, 1937. Tall 8vo, green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, only lower edges uncut. Belonged to Lady Raleigh, widow of Sir Walter A. Raleigh, and has her autograph, "Lucie Raleigh." 11. An Apology for the Arts. Edward Arnold, 1944. Green cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, in printed dust-jacket (7s. 6d. net). DOBSON (Henry Austin) 1840-1921 1. Beeton's Annual: A Book for the Young. F. Warne, 1866. Red embossed cloth, gilt, all edges gilt, slate brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Bone & Son, many plates (some in colour). Dobson's first prose work appeared in the English-Woman's Domestic Magazine in January 1866—an article on M. de Corday, afterwards republished in Four Frenchwomen. But in the same year he contributed a story "Bob Trevor and I" to Beeton's Annual which was never reprinted in his lifetime, but was appended to Alban Dobson's Austin Dobson: Some Notes (Oxford University Press, 1928). In 2 parts, filling 28 pages, and antedating his first book by several years, this is a significant addition to a Dobson collection. 2. The Drama of the Doctor's Window: A Brief Statement concerning that Poem since Its Appearance in St. Paul's Magazine, February 1870. For private circulation only [1872]. 24 pages, sewn without wrappers, preserved in a red linen case, together with a manuscript Memorandum, 2 pages 4to, signed "Cyril C. Dobson, Feb. 3, 1927." This is Dobson's first publication and possibly the rarest, not more than 30 having

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been originally printed, and the main stock of copies still remaining in the possession of the family.

Inscribed: "Mr. & Mrs. Swain, with much affectionate regard from the Author's Wife. S. Kensington, June 20th, 1877."

3. Vignettes in Rhyme and Vers de Societe. H. S. King, 1873. Brown bevelled cloth, gilt, dark slate green end-papers, all edges uncut. Normally referred to as the author's first book. 500 copies were printed. Inscribed: "T. Gray, Esqr with the kind regards of the author, 18.11.73." The book is dedicated to Anthony Trollope, who was Dobson's first editor.

9. Another copy, from a famous Dorset library, with the Coker Court bookplate. Identical with above copy, and with the earliest (March 1877) catalogue at end. However, in this copy N (8 leaves) is followed by one leaf only (209) and the stubs of 2 leaves which are removed-i.e., it is without the 2 leaves of adverts on text-paper. The First Edition consisted of 500 copies. The bibliographical complexity indicated above is overlooked by Alban Dobson in his 1925 Bibliography of his father's works, where his collation calls simply for 110 leaves.

4. Another copy, identical in every respect save that the end-papers are brown, matching the cloth, and at the end is a 20 page publisher's catalogue dated December 1873, which lists this title on p. 18, price 5s. Tipped-in before half-title is a small sheet bearing the author's 6 line inscription in ink: "To Alfred Tennyson with the profound Respect of The Author. July 26th, 1875." 6. Another copy, with an inscription on title-page dated January 1874. It conforms with Hayward's first issue (No. 285 in his poetry catalogue) in that the first accent is missing from Societe on title-page. 6. Another copy of the First Edition. Identical state and in fine condition. 7. Vignettes in Rhyme and Vers de Societe. 2nd ed. Henry S. King, 1874. Follows very closely the First Edition of the previous year save that the colour of cloth is red; end-papers are dark slate green with binder's ticket of Burn. "(All Rights reserved)" transferred from verso of half-title to verso of title-page to accommodate "Some Notices of The First Edition" which, in a single line frame, fill the page. Inscribed: "To Henry Sampson, Esq, with the kind regards of the Author, A. D. June 28, 1875." 8. Proverbs in Porcelain and Other Verses. H. S. King, 1877. Reddish brown bevelled cloth, gilt, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed, slate blue end-papers. Following gathering N (8 leaves unopened, in 2 pairs, in this copy) is the final leaf of Press Notices (209 with verso blank) and 2 leaves of adverts of poetry and 2 stubs of leaves removed. The preliminaries also consist of 5 leaves, all unsigned-but how they are folded is unclear. At end is publisher's 32 page catalogue-manifestly later, by virtue of additional titles included. The edition consisted of 500 copies.

10. Proverbs in Porcelain and Other Verses. 2nd ed. C. Kegan Paul, 1878. Pale blue bevelled cloth, lettered and designed gilt and green, top edges uncut and unopened, others trimmed, slate brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. Issued by H. S. King's successor, this edition has several poems that did not appear in the first. 11. Adams, W. Davenport. Latter-Day Lyrics: Being Poems of Sentiment and Reflection by Living Writers. With a Note on Some Foreign Forms of Verse by Austin Dobson. Chatto & Windus, 1878. Dark green cloth with overall gilt design spine and upper side; same design in blind on lower, edges trimmed, mauve patterned end-papers with binder's ticket of Leighton and Hodge. 26 page publisher's catalogue at end dated November 1877. Bookplate of Francis Edwin Murray. Davenport Adams's Preface mentions poems by Richard Wilton, Edmund Gosse, John Payne and others, which are first printed here. 12. Adams, W. Davenport. Latter-Day Lyrics. Chatto & Windus, n.d. An undated reissue in the publisher's Mayfair Library (2/6 net). The copy rebound in half green calf, same pagination &c. as First Edition. 13. A Familiar Epistle to **Esq of**. With a Life of the Late Ingenious Mr. William Hogarth, [no printer, place or date]. Single sheet 5" x 4 1/2"; the poem printed on both sides, consists of 60 lines dated at end-"A. D. Novr 1, 1879." No. 7 in the Bibliography (1925) by Alban Dobson, who states that probably 50 copies were printed. There is no copy in the British Library; the text of the poem was first published in At the Sign of the Lyre (1885).

206 DOBSON (Henry Austin) 1840-1921 The above copy was found in the presentation copy to Frederick Wedmore of Dobson's book on Hogarth. For the ALS inserted, see below. Dated 21 November 1879, it gives interesting details, and is an important early authentication of the printing. 14. Hogarth. Sampson Low, 1879. A volume in the publisher's Great Artists series, olive green cloth designed and lettered in black, edges cut, profusely illustrated. The Dobson Bibliography (1925) does not mention this colour of cloth. Inscribed: "To Frederick Wedmore from A. D. Nov 21, 1879," The First Edition of a work on which the author lavished attention throughout his writing career, in successively enlarged reprints. 15. Another copy, the author's own with his embossed oval Baling stamp. It appears to be identical with the above, save that colour of cloth is light blue. This copy was used by the author to prepare the enlarged edition of 1891, above 60 pages bearing elaborate corrections and additions in his handwriting in pencil and ink, all clearly legible. 16. A Handbook of English Literature. 2nd ed., corrected and extended. Crosby Lockwood, 1880. Red cloth, gilt, edges cut. A volume in the Civil Service series. The author's own copy with his bookplate (by Alfred Parsons) and very considerable MS corrections, which are interesting, if small, all in his handwriting. 17. Vignettes in Rhyme and Other Verses. New York: Henry Holt, 1880. Bright red bevelled cloth, lettered and designed red and black, all edges gilt, slate brown end-papers. This is the first volume of the author's verse to appear in America, and an important book-if not strictly a First Edition. The book has a new dedication to Oliver Wendell Holmes and a 9 page Introduction by Edmund C. Stedman dated New York, January 1880. Dobson has marked the poems in the Contents not included in previous editions. Inscribed: "To Frederick Wedmore with the kind regards of Austin Dobson, June 28, 1881." Inlaid is an ALS of uniform date to "My dear Wedmore" on Board of Trade embossed notepaper, stating, " . . . very few copies have been circulated in this country-not more than 9 or 10 at present-chiefly because the somewhat effusive preface of my kind Transatlantic friend . . . . Your notice of the Library was very pleasant to me, and (I may add) to Lang. Affectionately yours, Austin Dobson.'"

DOBSON (Henry Austin) 1840-1921 18. Gay, John. Fables. With a Memoir by Austin Dobson. Kegan Paul, 1882. Another volume in the Parchment Library; frontispiece portrait, identical format, same binder's ticket at end. 19. Eighteenth Century Essays. Selected and annotated by Austin Dobson. Kegan Paul, 1882. Cream parchment, red and black lettered and designed, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece. A volume of the publisher's Parchment Library. Armorial bookplate of Lt-Col. Cecil Angelo. 20. Eighteenth Century Essays. New York: D. Appleton, 1882. The American form of the above book, in a very similar though smaller format. It appears to be from the same typesetting, though the imprint of Ballantyne Hanson does not appear at foot of p. 284. This was the author's own copy and has his oval embossed Baling name-stamp on half-title. Corrections and additional notes appear on 4 pages of the Illustrative Notes at end in pencil in the author's neat script. The name of the Series in this American form is English Classics. 21. Eighteenth Century Essays. Kegan Paul, 1883. An unspecified reprint of the English edition, with altered date only. It has the same binder's ticket (Burn & Co.) as the 1882 copy, but is in the superior binding of cream vellum (not parchment), which, incidentally, stands nearly 1/4" taller on shelf. 22. Old-World Idylls and Other Verses. Kegan Paul, 1883. Sage green bevelled cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, binder's ticket of Burn at end. Edition limited to 500 copies, and there were also 50 copies numbered and signed by the author. 23. Fielding. Macmillan, 1883. Cream linen, all edges uncut, spine titling label. A volume of John Morley's English Men of Letters series, of which this is the superior form. The whole edition consisted of 6,000 copies, but by far the greater proportion was issued in red cloth with all edges cut; 4 pages of publisher's adverts at end offer one title only after the Fielding-Mrs. Oliphant's Sheridan~as "Just ready." 24. Defoe, Daniel. The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner. Being a Facsimile Reprint of the First Edition published in 1719. With an Introduction by Austin Dobson. Elliot Stock, 1883. Grained dark red boards, red edges, spine gilt-lettered in 4 lines with one short rule. Original prospectus inserted, which

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describes the publication as a Restricted Edition offered to subscribers at 7s., raised on publication to 10s. 6d. 25 copies were also printed on large paper and subscribed at 30s.

Worthies series, edited by Andrew Lang. The copy bears the signature of Sir Godfrey Baring and was from the sale of his library at Nubia House, Cowes, Isle of Wight.

25. Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. Preface and Notes by Austin Dobson. Kegan Paul, 1883. Another volume in the Parchment Library, frontispiece, identical format and binder's ticket of Burn at end.

31. Goldsmith, Oliver. Selected Poems. Edited with Introduction and Notes by Austin Dobson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1887. A volume of the Clarendon Press Series, dark green cloth, gilt spine, pale primrose end-papers, University binding-house ticket. Bookplate of Francis Edwin Murray. P4 at end carries series adverts, followed by publisher's 16 page catalogue dated July 1887 (earliest so far noted).

26. Thomas Bewick and His Pupils. With 95 illustrations. Chatto, 1884. 4to, 11 3/4" x 8 3/4", blue boards, half cream parchment, spine titling label, all edges uncut. The Edition-de-luxe, No. 31 of the 110 for sale in England (there were also 90 for U.S.A.). The ordinary issue was in grey cloth, and consisted of 2,500 copies. 27. At the Sign of the Lyre. Kegan Paul, 1885. Uniform format with Old-World Idylls (1883). There are 3 identical copies in the collection. Dobson dedicated this book to the 2 artists who had each designed a bookplate for him, Edwin A. Abbey and Alfred Parsons. 28. Steele, Richard. Selections from the "Tatler," "Spectator" and "Guardian." Edited with Introduction and Notes by Austin Dobson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1885. Green cloth, gilt spine, all edges cut, a volume of the Clarendon Press Series, 16 page catalogue at end dated August 1885 (the earliest date so far noted). The author's own copy inscribed on half-titie: "Austin Dobson. Corrected Copy. Sep 21, 1885." 10 pages in the Introduction bear his neat corrections in ink and the Chronology of Steele's Life is similarly corrected. The 50 pages of Notes at end are heavily corrected in ink, with a full page of MS on the blank p.[500]. 29. Another copy of First Edition sheets, produced as an Edition-de-luxe; cream parchment, gilt with red bands, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, t.e.g., only lower edges trimmed (most fore-edges still unopened), pale mauve patterned end-papers. An indication that copies in this binding may have been issued later is provided by the Clarendon Press catalogue at end, which is dated January 1886. 30. Richard Steele. Longmans, 1886. Green cloth, gilt, top edges uncut, others trimmed, floral-patterned grey end-papers, publisher's 16 page July 1886 catalogue at end, top edges unopened throughout. A volume of the English

32. Another copy, without the University binder's ticket, but with a later (undated) publisher's 8 page catalogue at end. Copies were also issued in full cream parchment, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. 33. Life of Oliver Goldsmith. Walter Scott, 1888. Large Paper issue (covers measure 8 1/2" x 5 1/2"), dark blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 4 lines with one short rule, t.e.g., others uncut. A volume of Great Writers series; last leaf carries adverts. 34. Prior, Matthew. Selected Poems. With an Introduction and Notes by Austin Dobson. Kegan Paul, 1889. Another volume in the Parchment Library, identical format with other titles in the series, frontispiece portrait. 35. Another copy of First Edition sheets, bevelled dark red cloth, gilt, all edges uncut. Issued after Trubner joined the publishers; imprint at foot of spine is "Paul, Trench/Trubner & Co." Being uncut (not t.e.g.) the volume stands 1/2" taller on shelf. 36. Wilton, Richard. Benedicite and Other Poems. Wells Gardner, 1889. Blue cloth, gilt, edges uncut, black end-papers. On p.[xv] is printed a poem by Dobson: "To the Rev. Richard Wilton, author of Sungleams, Rondeaux and Sonnets," of 15 lines commencing, "This Gallic form you rightly choose," which does not appear to be reprinted in Dobson's Collected Poems. Inscribed: "The Reverend William Nicholson with the kind regards of the author, Richard Wilton, Londesborough Rectory, April 14th, 1890." Inserted is the 4 page ALS, on his Rectory notepaper, which accompanied the gift, saying: ". . . it will be a great pleasure to receive from you occasionally a musical setting of one of my Benedicite Rondels . . . "

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37. Horace Walpole: A Memoir. With an Appendix of Books Printed at the Strawberry Hill Press. Illustrations by Percy and Leon Moran. J. R. Osgood Mcllvaine, 1890. Imperial 8vo, light blue boards, half cream linen, all edges uncut. This is the London variety of the book printed at the De Vinne Press; Copy No. 436, one of 130 copies of the 425 printed on Dickinson paper. The New York copies carry publisher's imprint of Dodd Mead.

2,000 copies were printed) and from the plates of which the English edition (1,500 copies at 4/6d., dated 1890) appears to have been printed, although it bears Spottiswoode & Co.'s imprint. (From Alban Dobson's Bibliography, 1925.)

38. Four Frenchwomen. Chatto & Windus, 1890. Large Paper issue, No. 6 of only 50, signed by the Author. Pale blue boards, half cream parchment, spine titling label, all edges uncut, frontispiece. 39. Another copy, the small paper issue, half blue roan, red linen sides, all edges uncut. The author's own copy with signature, and his bookplate (Alfred Parsons variety) inside cover. 40. Hogarth. Sampson Low, 1890. Blue cloth, black lettered and designed, cut edges, patterned mauve end-papers. A volume in the Illustrated Biographies of the Great Artists series. An unspecified reprint of the work first published in 1879. 41. Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. With a Preface by Austin Dobson and Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Macmillan, 1890. Dark green cloth, gilt extra, all edges gilt, end-papers to match cloth, X2-X4 at end carry 3 leaves of publisher's adverts. Al is blank before half-title. A volume of the publisher's Cranford series of illustrated books, with dedication by the artist to the prefacer. There was also an Imperial 8vo, handmade paper issue in red buckram, uncut with spine titling label. In the Second Edition (1891), the drawing on p. 95-thought to be indelicate-was suppressed, and a new one substituted. The claim sometimes made that the presence of the suppressed plate in the 1890 book establishes first issue is a complete misconception. 42. Four Frenchwomen. New York: Dodd Mead [1891]. Cream linen, gilt designed, all edges uncut, 14 plates. This is the Large Paper state, No. 121 of only 250 copies, of the First Illustrated Edition, printed August 1891 and dated only in the limitation certificate. The true First Edition would appear to be the ordinary unillustrated and undated Dodd Mead edition of 1890 (of which

43. Goldsmith, Oliver. The Citizen of the World. Edited by Austin Dobson. With Etchings by Herbert Railton. 2 vols. J. M. Dent, 1891. Half cream parchment, green linen sides, all edges uncut, spines lettered in 6 lines in red. The Large Paper issue, No. 71 of only 150 sets. There was also an American issue of 50 copies which bear Macmillan's imprint. The ordinary paper issue, bound in pale lavender cloth, and issued in the Temple Library, was limited to 400 for England and 350 for America. 44. Eighteenth Century Vignettes. Chatto & Windus, 1892. Grey-green cloth, spine lettered gilt in 6 lines (including the 4 ornaments), frontispiece portrait of the author on plate paper, all edges cut. The final leaf, pp.[263-264], is blank. Imprint on verso of title-page of the University Press, Cambridge, U.S.A., set in 2 lines. Alban Dobson's Bibliography (1925) states that this, the First English Edition, consists of a very small number of copies imported by the publishers for copyright purposes. 45. Eighteenth Century Vignettes. Chatto & Windus, 1892. Dark blue smooth buckram, spine gilt-lettered in 2 frames, t.e.g., others uncut. There is a folding frontispiece plate instead of the author's portrait, a dedication "To My Wife," in place of the American dedication to Hamilton W. Mabie, and a re-cast one page Preface. The Contents pages are identical, with same pagination; the printer's imprint of Spottiswoode appears at foot of last page of text, p. 261, and p.[263] carries Chatto's ornament with their adverts on verso. This is the normally accepted English First Edition, the format uniform with second and third series. 46. Eighteenth Century Vignettes. Chatto & Windus, 1892. 4to, pale grey-green smooth boards, half cream parchment, spine gilt-lettered in similar panels to the small paper issue, all edges uncut. The adverts do not appear at end in this state, the leaf being blank. There are 7 plates; limitation certificate signed by the author before frontispiece. No. 8 of 250 copies, specially illustrated Large Paper edition.

209 DOBSON (Henry Austin) 1840-1921 47. The Ballad of Beau Brocade and Other Poems of the XVIIIth Century. With 50 illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Kegan Paul, 1892. Ruby red cloth, gilt extra, t.e.g., others uncut, bookplate of Herbert and Ethel Reynolds. In first state, with the sixth line of the Dedicatory poem on p.[v] reading "The long day lengthens," and with a bulge in the Beau's coat in the drawing facing p. 18. 48. Another copy. Not a particularly "late" copy, as it is inscribed on end-paper: "Zoe' Procter, Christmas 1892. J. C. B." But it is in third state, with line in Dedicatory Poem reading "Life's Journey Lengthens," and the bulge in the drawing facing p. 18 removed. The second state (of which there is no copy in the collection) still has the first form of the drawing, but the poem's text has been changed. 49. Another copy of First Edition, the large handmade paper issue, No. 34 of 250 copies for England. Cream linen, spine gilt-lettered, all edges uncut; in this state the full-page illustrations are on Japanese vellum and the smaller ones on india paper mounted. There is also an additional illustration on a leaf preceding the limitation certificate, carrying the design for cover in small paper issue—the cloth in Large Paper copies being plain. English and American Large Paper issues are in the third state, described above. 60. Another copy, No. 164 of Large Paper issue, carrying armorial bookplate of Courtenay F. Wilson. 61. Another copy, No. 44, with bookplate of George Kitchin. 52. Another copy, No. 156, with bookplate of Courtenay F. Wilson. 53. Holbein, Hans. The Dance of Death. With an Introductory Note by Austin Dobson. Bell, 1892. Green linen, gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others uncut, one of 500 copies. There was also a special issue of 100 numbered copies on Japanese vellum. 64. Fielding, Henry. The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon. With Introduction and Notes by Austin Dobson. Chiswick Press, 1892. Half cream linen, grey board sides, all edges uncut, bookplate of Charles Plumptre Johnson. No. 115 of 475 copies on handmade paper. There were also 25 copies on Japanese vellum.

DOBSON (Henry Austin) 1840-1921 Loosely inserted is a Chiswick Press 4 page brochure, printed in red and black and dated April 1892, advertising the Chiswick Press Editions, of which the present was the first to appear. 55. Old-World Idylls and Other Verses. llth ed. Kegan Paul, 1893. Bevelled green cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, one of 2,000 copies. Same format as First Edition, but at end are 4 pages of Notes, pp.[249]-252, which were first added in the Tenth Edition. On the blank Al the author has transcribed his 15 line poem, "When Burbadge Played," signing and dating it 14 November 1898. The verson is identical with that in the Oxford Complete Poetical Works (1923, p. 331). Inserted is the interesting card to "Dear Miss Jopp," dated "Nov XIV, "98" (some 75 words in his autograph) which accompanied the gift. 56. Horace Walpole: A Memoir. J. R. Osgood, McDvaine, 1893. Tall 8vo, half cream vellum with spine titling label, green linen sides with gilt crest on upper cover, all edges uncut and 2 spare titling labels at end, 8 illustrations. No. 19 of only 50 copies on large paper. -This is the Second Edition of the work first printed at the De Vinne Press in 1890. 57. Proverbs in Porcelain. With 25 illustrations by Bernard Partridge. Kegan Paul, 1893. Dark green bevelled cloth with gilt cover design spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. Pp.[115-116] at end are blank save for Ballantyne Press imprint set in 3 lines centre recto. 58. Another copy of First Edition, the issue on large handmade paper, No. 18, limited to 175 copies for England and 75 for America, cream linen, gilt spine, all edges uncut, format similar to the Large Paper Ballad of Beau Brocade with full-page illustrations on Japanese vellum, and smaller ones on india paper mounted. 59. Eighteenth Century Vignettes. Second Series. Chatto & Windus, 1894. Dark blue smooth buckram, uniform format, t.e.g., others uncut. Al before half-title carries only adverts of other books by Dobson; X5-X8 at end are 8 pages carrying publisher's adverts. 60. Another copy of First Edition, the specially illustrated Large Paper edition with 16 plates. No. 31 of only 200 copies. Uniform format with special edition of first series, but not signed by the author.

210 DOBSON (Henry Austin) 1840-1921 61. Condon's Song and Other Verses. With Illustrations by Hugh Thomson and an Introduction by Austin Dobson. Macmillan, 1894. Dark green cloth, gilt, all edges gilt, end-papers to match cloth. Uniform format with the Cranford series. Dobson's Introduction is a 17 page essay dated Baling, September 1894. 62. Another copy of First Edition, one of 152 copies on large paper. Tall 8vo, smooth red buckram, spine titling label, all edges uncut. 63. Dilrer, Albert. The Little Passion. With an Introduction by Austin Dobson. Bell, 1894. No. 28 of 75 copies printed on Japanese vellum, cream parchment wrappers lettered in black, all edges uncut. 64. The Story of Rosina and Other Verses. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Kegan Paul, 1895. Dark green cloth, elaborately gilt designed spine and upper cover, all edges gilt, end-papers to match cloth, uniform format with the publisher's Cranford series. 65. Another copy of First Edition, the simultaneous issue in bevelled ruby red cloth, t.e.g., uncut, same gilt cover design. A gift from the poet W. H. Davies and has his inscription: "Mr. J. W. Arnott, with every good wish. W. H. Davies, Beverley, Xmas 1912." 66. Another copy of First Edition, No. 148 of 250 copies on large paper. Below the number is a miniature portrait, from Strang's etching of the author, but not Austin Dobson's autograph signature, which the Bibliography (1925) states it should have. Cream linen, gilt spine, all edges uncut, uniform with the other Large Paper issues. Armorial bookplate of Courtenay F. Wilson. 67. Poems on Several Occasions. 2 vols. Kegan Paul, 1895. Rough fawn coloured buckram, gilt spines and upper sides, all edges uncut. No. 19 of 200 sets on handmade paper with proof impressions of the etchings, of which 100 only formed the London edition, the whole being printed at the University Press, Cambridge, Mass. Strang's frontispiece portrait bears Austin Dobson's autograph signature. Bookplates of Charles Plumptre Johnson. 68. Eighteenth Century Vignettes. Third Series. Chatto & Windus, 1896. Smooth dark blue buckram, uniform format with the earlier series. The edition consisted of 2,000 copies and this is an early copy with t.e.g., others uncut; in a later binding batch top edges were

DOBSON (Henry Austin) 1840-1921 left plain. Al before half title carries adverts of the earlier series on recto, verso blank. AA6 at end is blank save for publisher's ornament centre recto, AA7 and 8 carry 4 pages of publisher's adverts. In 1923 an edition was issued by the Oxford University Press in their World's Classics series. 69. Goldsmith, Oliver. Poetical Works. With Life by Rev. John Mitford. Revised and Edited by Austin Dobson. Bell, 1895. Red cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut; the first issue in the new Aldine Edition of the English Poets. Dobson's Preface is dated November 1895. 70. White, F. A. The Civil Service History of England. 8th ed. Revised throughout and enlarged by H. A. Dobson (Board of Trade). Crosby Lockwood, 1896. Blue cloth, upper side lettered in gilt and blind, sprinkled edges. This must be a late issue as publisher's 20 page catalogue at end is dated 7 November 1908. The grey end-papers carry adverts. 71. Austen, Jane. Emma. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson, with an Introduction by Austin Dobson. Macmillan, 1896. Dark red embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges uncut. The first leaf (ignored in pagination) is blank before half-title; 2F4-6 carry adverts at end, followed by publisher's 56 page July 1896 catalogue. 72. Steele, Richard. Selections from the "Tatler," "Spectator" and "Guardian." With an Introduction and Notes by Austin Dobson. New and Revised Edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1896. Blue bevelled cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others trimmed, end-papers to match cloth, 3 line errata slip inserted, frontispiece and facsimile ALS, publisher's 20 page catalogue at end. This is the Second Edition of the work issued in 1885, and Dobson's new Preface is dated January 1896. 73. Griffiin, W. Hall. A Handbook of English Literature. Originally Compiled by Austin Dobson. New Edition. Crosby Lockwood, 1897. Blue bevelled buckram, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut. 74. Collected Poems. Kegan Paul, 1897. Dark red cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait, edition of 2,000 copies. The work was frequently reprinted (with additions) until it was taken over in 1923 by the Oxford University Press.

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75. Collected Poems. 3rd ed. Kegan Paul, 1898. Virtually identical with the First Edition. This copy is inscribed on half-title: "For Cyril. Austin Dobson. 16.1.99." Bought with the library of the Rev. C. C. Dobson, the author's second son, at Milford-onSea, Hants., circa 1950.

82. Henry Fielding: A Memoir. Revised and Enlarged Edition. New York: Dodd Mead, 1900. Green cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut. This edition was specially revised by Dobson (from his English Men of Letters series volume of 1883) for the American publishers of this edition of Fielding's Works. Inscribed: "For Miss Godden with the Compts. of Austin Dobson 18.II.'07."

76. Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson, with an Introduction by Austin Dobson. Macmillan, 1897. Red cloth, uniform format with Emma (1896). 77. Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Illustrated by Charles E. Brock. With an Introduction by Austin Dobson. Macmillan, 1897. Red cloth, gilt extra, all edges gilt, orange peacock design end-papers. This is a reprint of the issue of 1895 in Macmillan's Illustrated Standard Novels. 78. Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. Dent, 1897. First issue in the Temple Classics series, blue cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut. Dobson's name does not appear until p.[244] where Israel Gollancz's note states: "Mr. Dobson has kindly revised the text, added the marginalia, and contributed the [9 pages of] notes." 79. Holbein, Hans. The Dance of Death. With an Introductory note by Austin Dobson. Bell, 1898. Light brown boards, cream parchment spine, t.e.g., others uncut. A miniature edition (3" x 5") attractively printed at the Chiswick Press where the work had first appeared in 1892. 80. A Paladin of Philanthropy and Other Papers. Chatto & Windus, 1899. Dark red smooth buckram, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece. BB2 at end is blank save for Chiswick Press imprint centre recto, followed by publisher's 32 page catalogue dated March 1899. The edition consisted of 1,500 copies in all, and a later bound batch of First Edition sheets is without the catalogue at end. 81. Reade, Charles. Peg Woffington. With an Introduction by Austin Dobson and illustrations by Hugh Thomson. George Allen, 1899. Dark green cloth, elaborately gilt spine and upper side, all edges gilt, blue end-papers. U2 at end is blank save for printer's imprint centre recto.

83. Puckle, James. The Club, or, A Grey Cap for a Green Head. With Embellishments by John Thurston and an Introduction by Austin Dobson. Freemantle, 1900. Green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Dobson's Introduction is a 16 page essay dated Baling, October 1900. 84. Carmina Votiva and Other Occasional Verses. Printed for private circulation, 1901. Grey wrappers, upper side lettered in black, all edges uncut, 125 copies for England and America, this being No. 108, signed by the Author. 85. Side-Walk Studies. Chatto & Windus, 1902. Blue buckram, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece. Al before half-title carries notices of other books by the author on recto, with verso blank; pp.[295-296] at end are blank save for publisher's ornament centre recto, followed by their 32 page catalogue dated September 1902. The edition consisted of 1,500 copies. 86. Samuel Richardson. Macmillan, 1902. Bright red cloth, flat spine gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others cut. 5,000 copies printed, O4 at end is blank, before which is inserted a single leaf of series adverts. Two of the books announced are Jane Austen by H. C. Beeching and Sydney Smith by Augustine Birrell, neither of which appeared. G. W. E. Russell produced a book on Sydney Smith for the series 3 years later, but 11 years intervened before a study of Jane Austen by Francis Warre Cornish was published. 87. Austen, Jane. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. With Illustrations by Hugh Thomson and an Introduction by Austin Dobson. Macmillan, 1902. Designed cloth, gilt, all edges gilt. This is the second reprinting of an edition first published in 1897. 88. Fanny Burney (Madame D'Arblay). Macmillan, 1903. Bright red cloth, flat back gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others cut, 2 leaves of series adverts inserted at end; 8,000 copies of First Edition were printed, and a reprint appeared in the following year.

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89. Goldsmith, Oliver. The Bee and Other Essays. Dent, 1903. Blue cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut, a volume of the Temple Classics series. A note on p.[256] announces that the edition was prepared for the press by Austin Dobson who added marginalia and the 24 pages of Notes.

95. Scott, Sir Walter. Lives of the Novelists. With an Introduction by Austin Dobson. Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1906. A volume in the World's Classics series, superior issue, maroon leather, gilt, t.e.g., in printed dust-jacket, which names Humphrey Milford as the publisher for Oxford University Press, instead of Henry Frowde (as on title-page). This must be a late binding issue as the publisher's catalogue at end is dated June 1920.

90. Barbeau, A. Life and Letters at Bath in the Eighteenth Century. With a Preface by Austin Dobson. William Heinemann, 1904. Tall 8vo, green cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, 32 illustrations. Accompanying this in the collection is a copy of the First Edition of the work in French (Paris: Alphonse Picard, 1904). Tall 8vo, original printed wrappers, entirely uncut. 91. Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn (Reign of Charles II). With an Introduction by Austin Dobson. Cassell, 1904. Red cloth, white lettering and design, all edges cut. A volume of the publisher's National Library. Inscribed: "Cyril Dobson fr. his affecte. Father. 21.i.l904," in Austin Dobson's autograph. 92. Poems. Kegan Paul, 1905. Blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. A volume of the publisher's Dryden Library. Frontispiece by G. H. Boughton. The author's Preface is dated May 1905. 93. Thackeray, W. M. The History of Henry Esmond. With an Introduction by Austin Dobson and Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Macmillan, 1905. Green cloth, spine and upper side elaborately gilt, all edges gilt. Publisher's blind circular "Presentation Copy" stamp on title. 94. Goldsmith, Oliver. Complete Poetical Works. Edited with Introduction and Notes by Austin Dobson. Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1906. Oxford Edition, in special gift binding of half cream parchment with red titling label, red linen sides, t.e.g., others cut, frontispiece portrait and 20 other illustrations. Dobson's editing of Goldsmith's poems had begun in 1887, and this is the final edition with Prefatory Note dated Baling, September 1906. In the following year the work was incorporated into the World's Classics series, without further revision or addition, and a copy of this book in the superior maroon leather binding, t.e.g., is included in the collection. Entirely reset with different pagination, it has an errata slip inserted (4 errors).

96. Addison, Joseph. Selected Essays. With an Introduction by Austin Dobson. Heinemann, 1906. Green cloth, gilt spine, frontispiece portrait. A volume of the publisher's Favourite Classics series. Dobson's Introduction is dated Baling, October 1906. 97. William Hogarth. New and Enlarged Edition with 76 Illustrations. Heinemann, 1907. Tall 8vo, dark red cloth, gilt spine, only lower edges uncut, profusely illustrated. Dobson's work on Hogarth began in 1879, and this re-cast form was first issued in 1898. The present is the definitive edition and the copy carries the bookplate of Lionel Gust, and autograph inscription: "For Lionel Cust, with the best wishes of Austin Dobson. 25.XI.'07"; 2 corrections appear in margins in author's hand in ink. 98. Reynolds, Sir Joshua. Discourses. To Which are Added His Letters to The Idler. With an Introduction by Austin Dobson. Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1907. In the World's Classics series, superior issue in maroon leather, t.e.g., others cut, in printed dust-jacket. Publisher's 8 page series adverts at end are dated October 1909. 99. Fielding, Henry. Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon. Edited with Introduction and Notes by Austin Dobson. Henry Frowde, 1907. World's Classics series, green cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others cut. Dobson's first editing of this work was in 1892 for the Chiswick Press edition; the new 11 page Preface to the present edition is dated Baling, May 1907. 100. De Libris: Prose and Verse. Macmillan, 1908. Dark blue cloth, spine gilt, all edges uncut, frontispiece and 12 other illustrations. The edition consisted of 1,500 copies; a Second Edition appeared in the following year, containing an additional essay. 101. Evelyn, John. The Diary. With an Introduction and Notes by Austin Dobson. Macmillan, 1908. Green cloth, top and fore-edges cut, lower edges trimmed, the first issue in the publisher's Globe Edition. This is a reprint of the Library Edition of the work

213 DOBSON (Henry Austin) 1840-1921 (3 vols., 1906) and Dobson's Preface is first printed there, dated June 1906. This is the only reprint in which all his supplementary notes are included. Text set in double columns. 102. Poems. Kegan Paul, 1909. In the same Dryden Library as Poems (1905), but a reissue dated 1909. It is the superior state in bright red leather, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut and was from the author's own library with autograph signature dated 5 May 1909. In 1923 the volume was reissued in the World's Classics series. 103. Old Kensington Palace and Other Papers. Chatto & Windus, 1910. Blue buckram, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece and 4 illustrations, also a folding plate of facsimile ALS. The whole edition consisted of 2,000 copies, but one later binding-up was issued with plain top edges, and in 1923 there was still a balance of sheets to be taken over by the Oxford University Press and issued in their Standard Authors series. In 1926 it was reprinted in the World's Classics series, earliest adverts noted at end dated October 1925, though in the copy in the collection they are dated "2/26." 104. Horace Walpole: A Memoir. A New Edition. Harper & Brothers, 1910. Dark green cloth, gilt spine, top edges cut, others uncut, frontispiece and 12 other plates. Walpole's correspondence had been newly edited by Mrs. Paget Toynbee and Dobson's new Preface here, dated Baling, September 1910, deals with this. 105. William Makepeace Thackeray. [1911]. A poem in 76 lines, signed at end-in print~"Austin Dobson," on pp. 1-4 of the July 1911 issue of the Cornhill Magazine, and is one of a very small number of copies (probably 20) sewn into plain orange wrappers, and put-up for the author's private use. The 2 leaves form a quarter-sheet. Inscribed on upper wrapper: "For Lewis Melville fr. Austin Dobson. 6:vii:'ll." 106. At Prior Park and Other Papers. Chatto & Windus, 1912. Blue buckram, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut. This is certainly an early copy; it has publisher's blind oval "Presentation Copy" stamp on title-page. X2 at end [pp. 307-308] are blank, whereas Alban Dobson's Bibliography (1925) states that it carries printer's device on recto. Every other copy

DOBSON (Henry Austin) 1840-1921 examined has been as he describes, and these have included at least one more bearing "Presentation Copy" embossed stamp; hence this copy may be unique. 107. Collected Poems. 9th ed. Kegan Paul, 1913. Dark green cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (Price 6/-), with the words "Ninth Edition" and date 1913 in red. Contains 27 new poems. This important edition is actually the last to appear-though there were reissues of it in 1914 and 1920. A copy of the former is in the collection: verso of title-page reads "Ninth Edition/Second Impression," and the date is changed to 1914, otherwise the book is identical. Of the 1920 Third Impression the unsold balance of sheets was taken over in 1923 and issued by Oxford University Press with cancel title-page. 108. Rosalba's Journal and Other Papers. Chatto, 1915. Blue buckram, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece and 5 plates. Only 1,000 copies of this book were printed, and a balance of unsold sheets remained to be taken over in 1923 by the Oxford University Press, and issued in their Standard Authors series. In 1926 the volume was reprinted in the World's Classics series, the copy in the collection having the 8 page series advertiser at end dated "2/26." 109. A Bookman's Budget. Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1917. Dark green cloth, gilt spine, edges cut, frontispiece and 6 illustrations. Belonged to Lady Scott, and has her bookplate (Thereaway, Graffam). I bought it in 1955 after her death, with the library in her house at Graffam (near Petworth, Sussex). She has inlaid the correspondence card (75 Eaton Rise, Baling) she received from Austin Dobson in 1916, when she was still Miss G. E. Mitton, or Gem, as she was known in the journalistic world. The object of Dobson's card, dated 25 July 1916—which has some 50 words in his autograph-was to solicit permission to quote a passage from her Jane Austen and her Times, which favour he acknowledges in his preface. 110. Another copy, with grey printed dust-jacket (3s. 6d. net). Belonged to Harry Hooton and has his signature dated 1917. There is also a copy of the second impression in the collection which appears identical save for the 2 words added centre recto title-page.

214 DOBSON (Henry Austin) 1840-1921 111. Later Essays, 1917-1920. Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1921. Green cloth, uniform format with A Bookman's Budget. 112. Another copy of First Edition sheets, in a variant binding. This stands fractionally taller on shelf, owing to all edges being uncut. Quarter green cloth, green board sides, the only other discernible difference being "Oxford" at foot of spine where the other has "Milford." The edition consisted of 2,000 copies, and Alban Dobson's Bibliography (1925) only describes the cloth binding. As the variations here are designed for economy, it is reasonable to assume it represents a later binding batch. This is the last of the author's books published during his lifetime. 113. Austin Dobson: An Anthology of Prose and Verse. With a Foreword by Edmund Gosse. Dent, 1922. Red cloth, gilt spine, upper side blind-stamped, top edges stained blue, others cut, frontispiece portrait. 114. The Complete Poetical Works of Austin Dobson. Edited, with Preface by Alban Dobson. Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1923. Blue cloth, gilt, red edges under gilt, frontispiece portrait. This is the india paper form of which only 500 copies were issued; 13 copies were also struck-off on handmade paper for the Editor's presentation purposes. 115. Horace Walpole: A Memoir. 4th ed. Revised and Enlarged by Paget Toynbee. Oxford University Press, 1927. The definitive edition of the book first issued in 1890. Dark blue smooth buckram, spine titling label, all edges uncut, in original printed dust-jacket (Price 251- net). The limited edition on handmade paper, of which the number of copies issued is not specified. The copy is unopened throughout. 116. Three Unpublished Poems by Austin Dobson. Printed at Winchester: At Mr. Blakeney's private press, April 1930. 12 pages printed on rectos only, sewn into mottled brown wrappers lettered on upper side in black. Note on p.fxi] states 25 copies printed. The printer possessed the original manuscripts of those verses. 117. Obituary notices of Dobson: an oblong 4to album, 10" x 10", in half cream linen, grey board sides. The first 35 sheets carry obituary notices, September 1921 to January 1922, taken from provincial and foreign presses, largely contributed anonymously, but tabulated with source and date. A few names,

DOBSON (Henry Austin) 1840-1921 however, appear-George Saintsbury, S. M. Ellis, Coulson Kernahan, Thomas Moult, Rev. R. P. Downes, E. H. Blakeney. This volume came from the library of the poet's son, Rev. C. C. Dobson. Autograph Letters 118. A long ALS, 4 pages 8vo, on his 75 Eaton Rise, Baling, notepaper dated 1 November 1912 to Handley Moule, Bishop of Durham, acknowledging his gift of Musa domestica. An intimate and finely phrased letter, obviously a draft of the original, as it appears to have remained in family possession. 119. An early ALS on Board of Trade embossed notepaper, dated 21 November 1879 to Frederick Wedmore, sending a book, of which he gives informative details. 120. Correspondence card to Gleeson White, dated 4 January 1892 from 75 Eaton Rise, acknowledging a cheque for a poem: "I quite reciprocate all your kind wishes; and regard you as the model of editors. You may at any time command me . . . ." 121. Two ALS to Lionel Gust about Hogarth, dated 18 February 1898 and 25 September 1907, one of which accompanied the gift of "a copy of my farewell edition of Hogarth" which is preserved in the collection (see item 97 above). 122. Correspondence card filled on both sides, from Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall, 9 May 1913, to "My dear G" [Edmund Gosse] about a picture in the Louvre. 123. ALS (3 pages) on 2 sheets of his embossed 75 Eaton Rise notepaper, to Augustine Birrell, dated 6 February 1919, mainly about Birrell's book on F. Locker-Lampson, which was published in the following year: "I am relieved to think you have decided to leave the Bibliography 'severely alone.' It is extremely involved. Moreover, in my view, all that is needful is contained in what I have put in the Golden Treasury volume . . . ." 124. Two ALS to "My dear Mr. Scott" dated 25 October 1881 and 19 April 1882 (see the William Bell Scott collection). 125. A large 8vo sheet of notes, initialled and dated 24 September 1911, all in ink, but of a somewhat scrappy nature, headed "At Prior Park." Dobson says, "At Prior Park and Other Papers' shd be the title of next book-unless better offers . . . ."

215 DOBSON (Henry Austin) 1840-1921 Secondary Material 126. Austin Dobson. Some Notes by Alban Dobson. With Chapters by Sir Edmund Gosse and George Saintsbury. Oxford University Press, 1928. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine and facsimile gilt signature on upper side, top edges cut, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (Price 12s. 6d. net), 20 illustrations. Association Items 127. Two volumes in uniform binding of blue buckram, but of variant sizes, both gilt-lettered up spine "Richardsoniana." Contents are 6 excerpts from periodicals (1860-1889) containing contributions on Richardson; 2 have front wrappers with Austin Dobson's signature, others have his pencil notes and markings. 128. A volume of excerpts bound in red cloth, gilt-lettered up spine "Letters and Journals of Lady Mary Coke." With Dobson's bookplate and a considerable number of his neat pencil annotations. 129. Pearson, John. An Exposition of the Creed. 3rd ed. Revised and Now More Enlarged. London: Printed by J. F. for Job Williams, 1669. Folio, full contemporary calf, title-page ruled in red. End-paper inscribed in Austin Dobson's script in ink: "To Josiah Wathen from H. A. D. April 22nd, 1871." This volume came to me with the books of the Rev. C. C. Dobson. 130. Clery, M. A Journal of Occurrences at the Temple, during the Confinement of Louis XVI, King of France. Translated by R. C. Dallas. London: Printed by Bayliss, 1798. Contemporary half calf, with plates at pp. 1 and 98. Austin Dobson's bookplate (Abbey variety) and considerable pencil markings in margins indicating use by him.

DOBSON (Henry Austin) 1840-1921 134. Guizot, M. Corneille et son temps. Paris: Didier, 1862. Contemporary half, calf gilt, with Dobson's bookplate (Abbey variety). 135. De Goncourt, E et J. Histoire de Marie-Antoinette. Paris: Firmin Didot, 1863. Half blue calf, marbled sides, Dobson's bookplate (Abbey variety). 136. Stendhal, Henry Beyle. De 1'amour. Paris: Michel Levy, 1863. Half calf, red titling label, marbled sides, Dobson's bookplate (Abbey variety). 137. De Goncourt, E et J. Histoire de la Societe Francoise pendant la revolution. Paris: Didier, 1864. Half blue calf, red titling label, marbled sides, Dobson's bookplate (Abbey variety). 138. De Mouy, Charles. Les jeunes ombres. Paris: Hachette, 1865. Half, calf gilt, marbled sides, Dobson's bookplate (Abbey variety). 139. Hullah, John. The Song Book. Macmillan, 1866. Maroon morocco, all edges gilt. A volume of the Golden Treasury series. Inscribed: "To Austin Dobson, Esq from Hugh Thomson, June 1889." With Dobson's bookplate (Abbey variety). 140. Longfellow, H. W. Three Books of Song. Routledge, 1872. Green cloth, gilt, edges uncut, publisher's 16 page catalogue at end, Dobson's bookplate (Parsons variety). 141. Longfellow, H. W. The Masque of Pandora and Other Poems. Routledge, 1875. Orange cloth, gilt and black, edges trimmed, dark slate end-papers. Inscribed: "Austin Dobson 20.11.76" in ink on half-title. With Dobson's bookplate (Abbey variety).

132. A composite volume of 3 French comedies by Regnard, Brueys and Sedaine, published Paris, 1853-59. Neat contemporary half calf with Dobson's bookplate (Abbey variety).

142. Martyn, Rev. T. Waddon. Theseus and Other Poems and Translations. Provost, 1878. Green cloth, gilt spine, trimmed edges. At the end is publisher's 16 page catalogue, which lists George Moore's Flowers of Passion, small 4to, black cloth, price 5s., amongst their publications. Inscribed: "Austin Dobson, from the Author, 8 May 1878." Below the inscription is a quaint quatrain signed by the author. It names Dobson and links the copy with his fame.

133. Topffer, Rodolphe. Nonvelles genevoises. Paris: Hachette, 1855. Contemporary half green morocco, gilt spine, marbled edges. With Dobson's bookplate (Parsons variety).

143. Cone, Helen Gray. Oberon and Puck: Verses Grave and Gay. New York: Cassell, 1885. Blue designed cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Inscribed: "Austin Dobson from R. W. Gilder, Xmas 1885."

131. The New Whole Duty of Man. London: W. Bent, 1810. Contemporary mottled brown calf, frontispiece plate. With Austin Dobson's bookplate (Abbey variety).

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144. Johnson, Samuel. Select Essays. Edited by George Birkbeck Hill. Etchings by Herbert Railton. 2 vols. Dent, 1889. In the Temple Library series, bevelled grey buckram, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, one of 750 sets. With the blue book label "From Austin Dobson's Library," also bookplate of his son Alban Dobson.

151. Moule, C. W. Musa domestica. Verses (Chiefly Private) of Many Years. Cambridge: Bowes & Bowes [unpublished] 1912. Green cloth, edges uncut. Austin Dobson's copy with his bookplate (Abbey version) and inscribed: "Austin Dobson, Esq., with great respect and regard from H. Dunelm, Oct 1912." This is Handley Moule, Bishop of Durham, brother of the author, who contributes a Preface. Inserted is the correspondence card (some 50 words in his autograph) which accompanied the gift. Also a further letter about the book on his Auckland Castle notepaper, dated 4 November 1912.

145. Thackeray, W. M. The Luck of Barry Lyndon: A Romance of the Last Century. With an Introduction by Frank T. Marzials. Walter Scott [1893]. Green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Presentation inscription to Dobson with best regards from Frank T. Marzials. On end paper several lines of notes in Dobson's neat hand in pencil. 146. Dennis, John. The Age of Pope. Bell, 1894. Green cloth, gilt spine, trimmed edges. In the Handbooks of English Literature series. With Austin Dobson's bookplate (Parsons variety) and his signature on half-title dated 20 October 1894. 147. Pember, E. H. Adrastus of Phrygia and Other Poems. Printed at the Chiswick Press for Private Distribution, 1897. Original half dark reddish brown calf, green linen sides, t.e.g., others uncut. No. 12 of 250 copies. With Dobson's bookplate (Abbey variety) and presentation inscription: "To H. Austin Dobson, Esq &c &c. from the Writer, 1897." 148. Jonson, Ben. Timber, or, Discoveries: Being Observations on Men and Manners. Dent, 1898. In the Temple Classics series, green lambskin, gilt, t.e.g., others cut. Notes at end signed "I. G., May Day 1898," and inscribed on front end-paper: "To Austin Dobson, Esq, with sincere and grateful regard. I. Gollancz, Oct 12th, 1898." 149. Seccombe, Thomas. The Age of Johnson (1748-1798). Bell, 1900. In the Handbooks of Literature series. Green cloth, gilt spine, edges cut. Dobson's copy with his bookplate (Parsons variety). It seems likely he reviewed the book for the Athenaeum, 10 February 1900, as a cutting of this review is preserved at end and the points and corrections noted in it are all pencil marked in text after Dobson's fashion. 150. Ainger, Alfred. Crabbe. Macmillan, 1903. In the English Men of Letters series, red cloth, gilt flat back, t.e.g., others cut, leaf of adverts at end dated "10.7.03." Inscribed: "Cyril Dobson fr his affectionate Father, Austin Dobson. 28.ix,1903."

152. Fitzgerald, Percy. An Output: A List of Writings &c. . . . 1850-1912. Printed for Private Circulation only [1912]. Large square 8vo, bevelled plum red cloth, gilt, illustrated. With Dobson's bookplate (Parson's variety) and inscribed: "For my friend Austin Dobson. Percy Fitzgerald." An attempt by Fitzgerald at a bibliography of his own miscellaneous work, including sculpture. 153. Radford, Sir George. Verses and Versicles. T. Fisher Unwin, 1917. Green cloth, black lettered, top edges cut, others uncut. With Austin Dobson's bookplate (Parson's variety) and author's compliments slip inserted. Dobson's embossed library stamp on half-title, also his autograph signature. A neatly written draft in ink of Dobson's letter of thanks is enclosed, also the author's acknowledgment in a reply dated 23 August 1917. Radford was a lawyer and M.P. for Islington and the letter is mainly concerned with reform of Copyright Law. 154. Jones, Charles H. Vers de societe. Selected from Recent Authors. New York: Henry Holt, 1876. A volume in the Leisure Hour Series, light stone coloured cloth, lettered in black, edges cut. Inscribed: "Austin Dobson, with the thanks of J. Brander Matthews, New York, Oct 1st 1878." 155. Johnson, Rossiter. Play-Day Poems. Collected and Edited. New York: Henry Holt, 1878. In the Leisure Hour Series, uniform format with above. Inscribed: "Austin Dobson from J. Brander Matthews. N. Y. Oct 1st, 1878." 156. Edwards, S. L. An Anthology of English Prose from Bede to R. L. S. Dent [1914]. A volume in the Everyman Library, the superior binding issue, half pigskin, gilt spine, brown linen sides, edges stained to match. Dobson's copy with his bookplate (Parsons variety), embossed address stamp and

217 DOBSON (Henry Austin) 1840-1921 autograph signature in ink, considerable pencil markings in margins showing his reading, and his notes on 3 pages. DOMETT (Alfred) 1811-1887 1. Poems. Henry Leggatt, 1833. Contemporary half dark blue calf, linen sides, cut edges. Errata slip (9 errors) inserted. Domett was the "Waring" of Browning's poem. This is his first book and is highly uncommon. Buxton Forman's copy, sold after his death (Anderson Galleries, New York, 1920), was described as excessively rare, with the note: "contains two poems supposed to have been written by Browning." 2. Ranolf and Amohia: A Dream of Two Lives. 2 vols. New Edition Revised. Kegan Paul, 1883. Green cloth, top edges uncut, others trimmed, dark slate end-papers, publisher's 44 page catalogue dated 3'87. This is a considerably revised edition of the poem first published in 1872. DONAGHY (John Lyle) 1902-1949 1. Ad Perennis Vitae Fontem: Poems. By J. L. Donaghy. Dublin: Minorca Press, 1928. Grey boards, half holland, lettered on label up spine and in 2 lines on upper side, edges uncut. Errata slip inserted, frontispiece plate. No. 12 of a private issue of 30 copies signed by the author. There was an ordinary issue of 250 copies. An original 4 page Minorca Press prospectus inserted. 2. The Flute over the Valley: Antrim Song, Larne: The Inver Press, 1931. 32 pages (including blanks), green wrappers, upper side lettered in black, edges cut, metal fastened. 3. Into the Light, and Other Poems. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1934. Light brown boards, half holland, lettered on label up spine and in 2 lines on upper side, top edges unopened, others trimmed. One of 200 copies Privately printed for the author by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats. DOOLITTLE (Hilda) 1886-1961 1. Hymen. By H. D. Egoist Press, 1921. Tall 8vo, blue patterned wrappers folded over stiff boards, edges trimmed, titling label on upper side.

DOOLITTLE (Hilda) 1886-1961 2. Heliodora and Other Poems. By H. D. Jonathan Cape, 1924. Decorated boards, half grey linen, spine titling label, top edges cut, others uncut. 3. The Walls Do Not Fall. Oxford University Press, 1944. Semi-stiff fawn wrappers lettered in black, trimmed edges. DOUGLAS (Lord Alfred Bruce) 1870-1945 1. Poems. Paris: Mercure de France, 1896. Smooth light brown boards, half purple linen, spine titling label, all edges uncut, frontispiece portrait of the author. Parallel English and French texts. This is the author's first original work, preceded only by his translation of Oscar Wilde's Salome (1894). 2. Perkin Warbeck and Some Other Poems. Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1897. Greenish blue linen, half cream parchment, gilt-lettered up spine, t.e.g., others uncut. 3. Tails with a Twist. Verses by a Belgian Hare. Drawings by E. T. Reed. Edward Arnold [1898]. Oblong 4to (11" x 8 3/4"). Glazed cream boards, holland spine, upper side lettered and designed in red and blue, trimmed edges. Published pseudonymously. 4. The City of the Soul. Grant Richards, 1899. Pale grey-blue boards, half cream parchment, all edges uncut. Published anonymously. 5. The City of the Soul. 2nd ed. Grant Richards, 1899. This edition was issued in December, the first having been published in May. Follows very closely the First Edition with same adverts leaf, pp.[lll-112] at end, but has 2 line bibliographical statement verso of title-page at foot. It also bears the author's name on recto title-page. Inscribed: "Mrs.Crackanthorpe from the author Alfred Douglas. 'Hommage d'Admiration.' Washington Dec 1901." 6. The Placid Pug and Other Rhymes. By the Belgian Hare (Lord Alfred Douglas). With Illustrations by P. P. Duckworth, 1906. Oblong 4to, (10 1/4" x 8 1/4"), light green cloth, lettered and designed in red and black, trimmed edges.

218 DOUGLAS (Lord Alfred Bruce) 1870-1945 7. The Pongo Papers and the Duke of Berwick. Illustrations by David Whitelaw. Greening, 1907. Light green pictorially designed cloth, t.e.g., others uncut. 10 page Preface by the author. 8. Sonnets. The Academy Publishing Co., 1909. Grey boards, upper side gilt-lettered in 2 lines, t.e.g., others uncut. Inscribed on blank leaf before half-title: "To Richard Middleton from H. Savage," followed by a 5 line quotation. Henry Savage was the editor of Middleton's posthumous work. 9. Another copy, appears identical with First Edition in every detail, but has small blind-embossed stamp "Second Ed" top right hand corner of title-page. 10. The City of the Soul. 3rd ed. John Lane, 1911. Green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, pp.[135-140] at end carry publisher's adverts. With new 7 page Preface by the author, also a "Proem for the Third Edition." 11. Salome, A Critique, The Beauty of Unpunctuality, an Essay, and Three Poems. New York: Bruno Chap Books, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1915. Pale lavender coloured wrappers lettered in black, edges uncut. Pagination is continuous for the volume—pp. 39-50. The whole content of this booklet is reprinted from Douglas's contributions to The Spirit Lamp (February/May 1893). 12. The Collected Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas. Martin Seeker, 1919. Square 8vo, grass green linen with spine titling label, top edges cut, others uncut, frontispiece portrait. Pp. 117-126 at end contain author's Note on his poetry, followed by the final leaf of gathering H, which carries adverts only. 13. Nine Poems. Privately printed for A. J. A. Symons, 1926. Patterned boards with titling label on upper side, 24 pages (including blanks), printed at the Curwen Press. No. 14 of 50 copies; these poems had not before been printed in any book. Inscribed: "R. N. Colbeck, Esq, with cordial regards from A. J. A. Symons." Inserted is a sheet of the author's blue notepaper, on which he has written his full name and address (Hampstead). This was written and handed to me by Lord Alfred himself, the occasion being a meeting in the First Edition Club, in London. The request was for a book I had promised to post to him.

DOUGLAS (Lord Alfred Bruce) 1870-1945 14. The Collected Satires of Lord Alfred Douglas. Fortune Press, 1926. Imperial 8vo (11 1/4" x 7 1/2"), original half maroon morocco, fawn buckram sides, gilt-lettered up spine, all edges uncut. No. 88 of 250 copies, signed by the author. 15. The Complete Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas, including the Light Verse. Martin Seeker, 1928. Tall 8vo, grey-blue boards, half cream parchment, gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others uncut. Pp.[227-228] at end are blank save for printer's imprint on verso. 16. The Autobiography of Lord Alfred Douglas. Martin Seeker, 1929. Square 8vo, dark blue vertically ribbed cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges stained to match covers, lower edges uncut, 9 portraits. 17. Lyrics. Rich & Cowan, 1935. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, gilt-lettered up spine, blind-stamped ornament on upper side, top edges stained to match, others uncut, frontispiece portrait, in printed dust-jacket (7/6 net). 18. The Principles of Poetry: An Address . . . before the Royal Society of Literature, September 2nd, 1943. Richards Press, 1943. 32 pages (including blanks), light stone coloured wrappers, upper side lettered in 4 lines in blue. Edition limited to 1,000 copies. 19. The Spirit Lamp. No. 1, Friday, May 6, 1892-Vol. 4, No. 2 June 1893. 15 parts (complete), in 3 formats and sizes, orange cream and blue printed wrappers, mostly uncut. Many contributions by Lord Alfred Douglas, but his name as editor appears only on the last 4 numbers. Contents printed on wrapper of volume 3, No. 1 gives the last item as, "Sad True Incident in the Life of a Critic" by Lionel Johnson, on pp. 23-28, which were missing from this copy, and have been supplied in photocopy by courtesy of Yale University Library. It may be noted that pp. 26-27 carry a wrong text-a review of R. C. Macfie's Poems-finally returning on p. 28 to the concluding text of Lionel Johnson's story. There is no question that this is the least common of all 15 parts, and the above is the only state of text I have found in more than half a century of experience. But it has recently (1980) been brought to my attention that a file of this periodical purporting to be the editor's own-it is in a crimson morocco case with his crests in gold-is preserved in the Special Collection Division of the library of the University of San Francisco. By courtesy of the Librarian we now possess a further photocopy which gives the full text of Lionel

219 DOUGLAS (Lord Alfred Bruce) 1870-1945 Johnson's story; whether the San Francisco set is otherwise unique remains to be ascertained. Autograph Letter 20. ALS, one page 4to, dated from 16 Draycott Place, 27 November 1925 to "Dear Mr. Symons" [A. J. A. Symons] dealing mainly with his [Douglas's] wife's poetry, commencing: "My wife says that all the poems in Opals (or practically all) were written before she was 17. . . ." "Ajay" was at this time writing his notice of Olive Custance, to preface her section in the (later abandoned) Bibliography of Writers of the Eighteen-Nineti.es, and had requested help. Association Items Note: The following books are by Lady Douglas [Olive Custance]. 21. Opals. John Lane, 1897. Half green boards with blue board sides, spine titling label lettered in green, all edges uncut. Publisher's 1897 20 page catalogue at end. The copy is entirely unopened. 22. Rainbows. John Lane, 1902. Uniform format with Opals, but colour of boards is light blue with spine darker blue. 23. The Blue Bird. The Maryborough Press, 1905. Pott 8vo, dark blue (original) leather, upper side gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others uncut. Printed on Dickinson handmade paper with watermark, "J. D. & Co." Blue silk book-marker. Inscribed: "For Aunt Madeline with love from Olive. New Year 1907." 24. The Inn of Dreams. John Lane, 1911. Uniform format with Opals save that board sides are grey with linen spine in flecked grey. Pp.[75-76] at end carries adverts only. Note: For Lord Alfred Douglas's Introduction to Richard Middleton's The Pantomime Man (1933) see the Richard Middleton collection. DOWDEN (Edward) 1843-1913 1. Poems. Henry S. King, 1876. Bevelled dark green cloth, gilt, edges uncut, dark slate end-papers. Inscribed: "B. M. Ball from Edward Dowden. Nov 24, 1876."

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2. Poems. 2nd ed. Henry S. King, 1877. Follows very closely the First Edition, but has 2 more leaves paginated i-iv at end before the adverts. They are 03 and O4 [pp. 213-216] and the first 3 pages carry "Opinions of the Press" on the First Edition, last verso blank. The publisher's 32 page catalogue is dated March 1877, whereas in the First Edition it was dated October 1876. Inscribed on title-page: "Fannie Gallaher, Sept 1877." This is the lady to whom Dowden sent a copy of his next book; the writing in the text also may be in his hand. 3. Studies in Literature, 1789-1877. Kegan Paul, 1878. Dark grey blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, dark slate end-papers. Inscribed on verso half-title: "Fannie Gallaher from Edward Dowden, April 9, 1878." 4. Shakspere: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art. 4th ed. Kegan Paul, 1879. Uniform format with Studies in Literature, save that the cloth is bevelled. The First Edition was dated 1875. All that is new in this reprint appears to be half-title and title-page, printed on a quarter-sheet, and inserted before the 8 page "Preface to the Third Edition." 2E2 at end is blank. 5. Southey. Macmillan, 1879. English Men of Letters series, the superior issue in cream linen, spine titling label, all edges uncut; 2 leaves of series adverts at end in which the Southey appears as one of the titles "In Preparation." 6. Shakspere's Sonnets. Edited by Edward Dowden. Kegan Paul, 1881. Parchment Library series, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait. Blank leaf before half-title and 2 blank leaves at end; this copy also has 2 additional blank leaves in front. They are not part of the book, being Joynson Superfine paper, as are the end-papers, whereas the text is printed on a handmade paper watermarked J. D. & Co. 7. Another copy, in the normal state, cream parchment red and black lettered, te.g., others uncut. This copy has 3 blanks only (without the extra 2 in front). 8. The Life of Percy B. Shelley. 2 vols. Kegan Paul Trench, 1886. Dark red fine-grained cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, dark slate end-papers. An exceptionally fine copy, all the gatherings being completely unopened; 9 plates; 2N6 at end of volume 1 and 2P6 at end of volume 2 are blanks. Inserted before p. 1 is a long list of 26 errata for the 2 volumes.

220 DOWDEN (Edward) 1843-1913 9. Another copy; this is from the author's library with his autograph signature in first volume-"Edward Dowden, Feb 1888." It is contemporarily bound in half green morocco, spines with 5 raised bands, t.e.g., others uncut (or only lightly trimmed), marbled sides and end-papers. The blanks at ends are the original leaves 2N6 and 2P6, but the errata list is not present, which might support a theory that the earliest copies were without it. All the errors are found in text. 10. Transcripts and Studies. Kegan Paul Trench, 1888. Dark bevelled cloth, uniform with Shakspere (1879), dark slate end-papers, all edges uncut (this copy unopened almost throughout). 2K8 at end is blank.

DOWDEN (Edward) 1843-1913 16. The French Revolution and English Literature. Kegan Paul, 1897. Bevelled dark blue cloth, uniform format with Shakspere (1879), dark slate end-papers. This copy appears to lack a leaf before the title-page. Pp.[287-288] are blank at end, followed by publisher's 96 page catalogue dated December 1896. Printed at the University Press, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A. 17. A History of French Literature. Heinemann, 1897. Dark green cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, a volume in Edmund Gosse's Short Histories series. Publisher's blind "Presentation Copy" stamp on title. A full page of errata inserted after p. x. Adverts at end are printed on 2E7 and 2E8.

11. The Poetical Works of Percy B. Shelley. Edited by Edward Dowden. Macmillan, 1891. Grass green cloth, spine gilt, all edges uncut. This may be the second printing of Dowden's edition in the publisher's uniform double column Globe edition. The edition is not stated anywhere; the first was dated 1890, and has identical pagination. The frontispiece portrait and title-page are printed on a quarter-sheet of plate paper.

18. Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of Hamlet. Edited by Edward Dowden. Methuen, 1899. Tall 8vo, bright red cloth, gilt, top edges cut, others uncut. A volume in the Arden Shakespeare series.

12. New Studies in Literature. Kegan Paul Trench Trubner, 1895. Dark bevelled cloth, uniform with the Shakspere (1879), dark slate end-papers, all edges uncut.

20. Hogg, Thomas Jefferson. The Life of P. B. Shelley. With an Introduction by Edward Dowden. Routledge, 1906. Smooth red buckram, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait. A volume in the London Library series.

13. Poems by Robert Southey. Chosen and Arranged by Edward Dowden. Macmillan, 1895. Blue cloth, gilt, all edges uncut. A volume of the publisher's Golden Treasury series. Frontispiece portrait and title-page printed on a quarter-sheet of plate paper, 4 pages of series adverts dated "10.6.94" bound in at end. Dowden's Introduction is a 20 page Essay. Publisher's blind embossed "Presentation Copy" stamp on title-page; armorial bookplate and signature of Herbert Greene, 1895. He was the' brother of George A. Greene, secretary to the Rhymers' Club. 14. Carlyle, Thomas. Sartor Resartus. With an Introduction by Edward Dowden. Ward Lock & Bowden, 1896. Sage green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait. A volume in Clement K. Shorter's XlXth Century Classics series. 16. Another copy of First Edition sheets in dark red cloth binding, otherwise identical. That this is the later of the 2 varieties is demonstrated by the imprint at foot of spine, which now reads "Ward. Lock. and/Company. Limited" instead of "Ward, Lock/& Bowden Ltd."

19. Robert Browning. Dent, 1904. Crown 8vo, sage green cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut, 12 illustrations. A volume in the Temple Biographies series.

21. Falkiner, C. Litton. Essays Relating to Ireland. With a Memoir of the Author by Edward Dowden. Longmans, 1909. Tall 8vo, dark red cloth, gilt spine, top edges cut, fore-edges trimmed, lower uncut. Inscribed: "Miss Lumley with kind regards from H. M. Falkiner, June 1911." This is the author's widow, Henrietta Mary Falkiner. 22. Milton in the Eighteenth Century (1701-1750). From the Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. 3. Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press [1909]. Tall 8vo, 20 pages, sewn into light grey wrappers lettered in black, edges cut. Publisher's blind-stamped "Presentation Copy," and blue printed review slip inserted, publication 5 March 1909 at one shilling net. 23. Essays Modern and Elizabethan. Dent, 1910. Sage green cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others lightly trimmed. A presentation copy from the author's wife, inscribed: "E. A. D. from E. D. D., May, 1912."

221 DOWDEN (Edward) 1843-1913 24. A Woman's Reliquary. Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1913. Cream boards, Holland spine lettered upwards in black and in one line on upper side, all edges uncut. Limited to 300 copies. Publisher's Note reads: "If readers desire to attribute authorship of this book to the editor, no wrong is done to anyone." Editor's note signed, "Edward Dowden." 25. Poems. Dent, 1914. Light blue cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait. This was "John Eglinton's" copy and is inscribed: "To W. K. Magee from Elizabeth D. Dowden. February 1914." There is a 10 page Preface by the author's widow, dated September 1913, and there are 8 corrections in ink throughout the book in her hand. Substantially a reprint of the author's first book of 1876, with additions. Apparently it became the first volume of his Poetical Works in 2 volumes, though there is nothing in the book to indicate this, apart from a vague reference in the Preface to "the volumes now issued by Messrs. J. M. Dent." 26. [Poetical Works. Vol. 2: Translations.] Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. West-Eastern Divan. In Twelve Books. Translated by Edward Dowden. Dent, 1914. Blue cloth, uniform format with above, t.e.g., others uncut. In this instance the original grey printed dust-jacket is preserved, the spine of which is lettered in 10 lines: "Poetical Works Edward Dowden in Two Vols. 6/-. Vol II. Translations. Dent & Sons Ld.," but this statement does not appear on cloth binding, or elsewhere. Inscribed: "To W. K. Magee from Elizabeth D. Dowden." Mrs. Dowden's Foreword (8 pages) is dated December 1913. 27. Fragments from Old Letters: E. D. to E. D. W. 1869-1892. Dent, 1914. Square 8vo, dark red cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut, in grey printed dust-jacket (4/6 net). Frontispiece portrait and illustrations. Inscribed by the author's widow: "W. K. Magee from E. D. D. May 1914." There is again an Editor's Note signed "E. D. D. March 1914." She was, of course, the Elizabeth Dickinson West of the letters, before she became Dowden's second wife. 28. Fragments from Old Letters: E. D. to E. D. W. 1869-1892. Second Series, with portraits and illustrations. J. M. Dent, 1914. Uniform format with first series, in original dust-jacket. Inscribed: "To W. K. Magee from Elizabeth D. Dowden, Nov, 1914." The Editor's Note in this volume is dated July 1914. It is provided with a List of Illustrations (which the first had not), and a combined Index to the 2

DOWDEN (Edward) 1843-1913 volumes. There are corrections in the editor's hand in the text throughout. 29. Another set of First Editions, identical with above. A family presentation set, each volume inscribed: "H. H. West from E. D. D.," the first volume dated June 1914 and the second January 1915. 30. Letters of Edward Dowden and His Correspondents. Dent, 1914. Green cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (7/6 net). Three illustrations. Inscribed: "W. K. Magee from Elizabeth D. Dowden, May 1914." There is an Editor's Note signed (in print) by Elizabeth D. Dowden and Hilda M. Dowden, dated April 1914. The Preface (8 pages) is by "John Eglinton" [W. K. Magee]-which is gratefully acknowledged in the Note (but given no prominence on titlepage or elsewhere). It raises this presentation to the importance of a Dedication copy. 31. Another copy of the First Edition, identical with above. Inscribed: "Greta Allen, with love from Hilda M. Dowden, July, 1914." This is the author's daughter, the second signatory to the editorial note. 32. The Life of Robert Browning. Dent [1915]. Grey-blue cloth, gilt spine, top edges stained-blue, others cut. First issue in Everyman's Library. It appears to be the second printing of the book first published in 1904. New 2 page Introduction by Ernest Rhys. Inscribed: "W. K. Magee with E. D. D.'s thanks." 33. Letters about Shelley, Interchanged by Three Friends-Edward Dowden, Richard Garnett and William Michael Rossetti. Edited with an Introduction by R. S. Garnett. Hodder & Stoughton, 1917. Pale blue linen, spine of darker blue buckram, gilt-lettered, top edges cut, others uncut. The editor was the eldest son of Richard Garnett. 34. Five excerpts from the Fortnightly Review (June 1888-August 1891), 52 leaves in all, sewn into semi-stiff mottled blue wrappers. Contains: a) Goethe. l~Wilhelm Meister. b) Goethe. 2-Goethe in Italy. c) Goethe and the French Revolution. d) Goethe's Friendship with Schiller. e) Goethe's Last Days. This item came to me in Bournemouth with "John Eglinton's" books, after his death in 1961, and I have reason to believe it was Dowden's own copy, obtained from Mrs.

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Dowden with others of his books, when Magee was in daily collaboration with her in Dublin in 1914.

1. A Comedy of Masks: A Novel. By Ernest Dowson and Arthur Moore. 3 vols. Heinemann, 1893. Green cloth, gilt-lettered, black designed, top edges cut, others trimmed, 16 page catalogue at end of volume 3 dated March 1893.

35. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von. Iphigeneia in Tauris: A Play. Translated by Elizabeth D. Dowden. Dent, 1906. Pott 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece. Though there is no statement on title-page or elsewhere, the 11 page Introduction is by Edward Dowden. Autograph Letters 36. The correspondence of Edward Dowden with W. K. Magee ("John Eglinton"). 38 letters on 117 pages and 15 postcards (or correspondence cards filled on both sides) with one original stamped and postmarked envelope. Dated between 5 September 1890 and 3 December 1912, mainly on Dowden's printed notepaper addressed from, first, Rathmines and later from 1 Appian Way; then Buona Vista, Killiney and finally Highfield House, Rathgar, changing to Rockdale, Orwell Road, Rathgar. It is throughout a literary correspondence, with mentions of A.E., James Stephens, Padraic Colum, Francis Thompson, John Davidson and "The Great Man" [Yeats]. It is also very personal in its continuing criticism of Magee's writing, every letter save one commencing "My dear Magee"~the solitary exception being "My dear J. E." The first letter deals almost entirely with the MS poems Magee has sent him, criticizing the Epigrams and quoting one by "another friend of mine, William Watson." Two later letters include drafts of poems he himself had just written.

2. Couperus, Louis. Majesty. Translated by A. Teixeira de Mattos and Ernest Dowson. T. Fisher Unwin, 1894. Pale blue cloth with overall pattern in red, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. 3. Dilemmas: Stories and Studies in Sentiment. Elkin Mathews, 1895. Lavender blue flecked cloth, lettered spine and upper side in darker blue, all edges uncut, publisher's 20 page 1895 catalogue at end (in which Dowson's Poems, 16mo, printed at Chiswick Press, 5/- net is announced as "Shortly"). First leaf blank before half-title; verso of half-title also advertises "A Volume of Poems" as "In Preparation"; it duly appeared in the following year, but from a different publisher.

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4. Muther, Richard. The History of Modern Painting. 3 vols. Henry, 1895-1896. Royal 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered spines and upper sides, spines and upper sides blind-stamped with elaborate design, dark slate end-papers, t.e.g., others uncut, profuse illustrations. The last 2 leaves of volume 3, pp.[873-876] carry adverts only. Volume 1 is translated by Ernest Dowson, George Arthur Greene and Arthur Cecil Hillier, but the first 2 collaborators dropped out and the translation of volumes 2 and 3 was exclusively the work of A. C. Hillier. All 3 translators were contributing members to the books of the Rhymers' Club.

37. White, H. O. Edward Dowden, 1843-1913: An Address delivered in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, on Trinity Monday 1943. Dublin: Dublin University Press, 1943. 24 pages, sewn into blue wrappers lettered on upper side in black, edges cut. This was John Eglinton's copy.

fi. Zola, Emile. La terre. Now First Completely Translated into English. 2 vols. Lutetian Society, for private distribution amongst its Members, 1895. Tall 8vo, dark blue smooth buckram, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. No. 32 of 300 sets on Arnold's handmade paper.

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6. Verses. Leonard Smithers, 1896. Square 8vo, cream parchment with gold cover design by Aubrey Beardsley, all edges uncut. One of 300 small paper copies on handmade paper. E6 at end, pp.[59-60] are blank. Although the edition was small, copies were bound up in more than one batch, and the present copy, which was from the library of the Rev. Montague Summers, and has his autograph on end-paper—"Montie Summers,

38. [Dowden, Elizabeth D.] A Few Old Memories of C. D. R. and His Surroundings. Dublin: Brindley & Son, 1916. Light reddish brown wrappers lettered in red and black, edges cut, 40 pages. This anonymous book is a memoir of Charles Russell. Inscribed: "W. K. Magee from E. D. D."

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1901"-was in a later batch, with "and Co" at foot of spine, making the lettering 8 lines. Sraithers changed his style to Leonard Smithers & Co.

12. Voltaire, Arouet de. La Pucelle, The Maid of Orleans: An Heroic-Comical Poem in 21 Cantos . . . . Now for the first time completely translated by Ernest Dowson. 2 vols. Printed for the Lutetian Society, 1899. Square 8vo, half blue linen, cream sides, spines gilt-lettered in 13 lines, all edges uncut, each volume with limitation certificate—"No. 407 of 500 copies." The register and pagination in these volumes is continuous. Preliminaries in each volume consist of 2 leaves unsigned and not counted in pagination; text pp.[l]-[408], the last leaf being blank. The register is 1-26 in 8's, assuming that the preliminaries were printed with the final gathering.

7. Balzac, Honore de. La title aux yeux d'or. [The Girl with the Golden Eyes.] Translated by Ernest Dowson. With Six Illustrations Engraved on Wood by Charles Conder. Leonard Smithers, 1896. Royal 8vo, yellow cloth, lettered in brown, all edges uncut. Despite the form of lettering on spine in 15 lines (it again has "And Co"), this is the reputed first binding state. Stonehill's Bibliography (1925) states that only a few copies were issued thus, "for though the gold cloth seemed appropriate to the title, the lettering does not show to advantage. The balance of the edition was issued in royal purple cloth lettered in gold." 8. The Pierrot of the Minute: A Dramatic Phantasy in One Act. With a Frontispiece, Initial Letter, Vignette, and Cul-de-lampe by Aubrey Beardsley. Leonard Smithers, 1897. Green cloth, gilt-lettered and designed, t.e.g., others uncut. The edition consisted of 300 copies small paper and 30 on Japanese vellum. Lettering on spine is in 18 lines, imprint being "LeonaroVSmithers/1897." See below for the German translation of 1921. 9. Adrian Rome. By Ernest Dowson and Arthur Moore. Methuen, 1899. Blue vertically ribbed cloth, fully gilt spine lettered in 5 lines, upper side in one line with small gilt ornament, top edges cut, others uncut, 40 page publisher's catalogue at end dated February 1899. There was a later binding-up of First Edition sheets in light blue cloth without adverts at end. These have an undecorated spine and a blank upper side. The gilt-lettering on spine is similar, but in a different size type. 10. Decorations: In Verse and Prose. Leonard Smithers & Co, 1899. Cream parchment, uniform format with Verses (1896), all edges uncut. The gilt cover design is by Pickford Waller on upper side and by Althea Giles on lower. Spine gilt-lettered in 9 lines. Pp.[51-52] at end blank save for Chiswick Press imprint centre recto. 11. Memoirs of Cardinal Dubois. Translated from the French. 2 vols. Leonard Smithers & Co, 1899. Tall 8vo, purple-blue cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, frontispiece portrait to each volume. First leaf of volume 1 blank before half-title.

13. The Poems of Ernest Dowson: Verses, the Pierrot of the Minute, Decorations in Verse and Prose. Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1902. Square 8vo, cream boards, spine and upper side lettered in black, all edges uncut, limited to 600 copies on Van Gelder handmade paper. Though the limitation certificate does not so state, the publisher printed 50 copies on Japanese vellum. Inscribed on first blank leaf in the autograph of Richard Le Gallienne: "Veda: from Richard. I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion!" 14. The Poems of Ernest Dowson. With a Memoir by Arthur Symons, Four Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley and a Portrait by William Rothenstein. John Lane, 1905. Light green smooth linen, upper side with Beardsley design initialled in lower right hand corner, spine gilt-lettered in 7 lines between double gilt rules top and bottom, t.e.g., others uncut. Al blank before half-title, L4 at end carries publisher's adverts. Slip inserted at end following p. 166 regarding the Arthur Symons Memoir. 15. Another copy, identical with above, save that spine is gilt-lettered in 6 lines only, having "John Lane" at foot where above copy has "The/Bodley Head." It does not appear ever to have had the inserted slip concerning the Arthur Symons Memoir; adverts leaf, pp.[ 167-168] are identical, prices being given in English and American currencies. 16. De Goncourt, E. The Confidantes of a King: The Mistresses of Louis XV. Translated by Ernest Dowson. 2 vols. T. N. Foulis, 1907. Tall 8vo, scarlet cloth, gilt, blind fleur-de-lys designs on spines and upper sides, all edges uncut, darker red end-papers, engraved frontispiece plate to each volume.

224 DOWSON (Ernest Christopher) 1867-1900 17. The Story of Beauty and the Beast The Complete Fairy Story Translated from the French by Ernest Dowson. With Four Plates in Colour by Charles Conder. John Lane, 1908. 4to, bevelled light green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and gilt ornament centre of upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. Edition limited to 300 copies in all (for England and America). 18. Einen Augenblick Pierrot. Mtinchen: Hyperion-Verlag, 1921. This German translation of The Pierrot of the Minute, by Johannes Von Guenther, was printed in Leipzig in an edition of 800 copies, of which this is No. 559. Size 7" x 11", cream parchment boards with lettering and Beardsley design in gilt, linen spine titled upwards, t.e.g., others cut. Same Beardsley frontispiece and illustrations as in the English edition of 1897. 19. The Poetical Works of Ernest Christopher Dowson. Edited with an Introduction by Desmond Flower, M.A. Cassell and John Lane, 1934. Tall 8vo, green rough linen, spine lettered in darker green, all edges cut. U6 at end is blank. 20. Another copy of First Edition; this is one of the advance sets of sheets, supplied by the publishers for issue to members of the First Edition Club. Bound in full maroon morocco with overall gilt design by Henry T. Wood Ltd. (gilt certificate lower margin of lower cover). These copies have top edges gilt, but are still marginally taller than the ordinary issue. It appears, however, that the binder sacrificed the original blank leaves at beginning and end-Al and U6. The number of copies bound for the Club is not recorded. Secondary Material 21. Longaker, Mark. Ernest Dowson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1944. Tall 8vo, red buckram, lettered on blue panel down spine, all edges cut, in printed dust-jacket ($4.00). Six illustrations. Note: For Victor Plarr's Ernest Dowson (Elkin Mathews, 1914), see the Victor Plarr collection.

DOYLE (Sir Francis Hastings Charles) 1810-1888 1. Miscellaneous Verses. Saunders & Otley, 1840. Light brown vertically ribbed blind embossed cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 5 lines, all edges uncut. Inscribed in author's autograph on title: "From the Author," and with a correction in the Dedicatory Stanzas. 2. The Other March [The Return of the Guards]. Privately printed [? c. 1856]. Single sheet of wove paper, folded once to form a 4 page booklet, paginated 2-4. Text of the poem occupies all 4 pages, and consists of 19 quatrains, whereas in the 1866 edition it has 26 quatrains. It is inscribed at head in author's autograph in ink: "From the Author." 3. The Return of the Guards and Other Poems. Macmillan, 1866. Red cloth, edges uncut, dark slate blue wrappers. Y4 at end, pp.[327-328], blank save for printer's imprint centre recto. Inscribed on title-page: "To Miss Moore, this volume of his Uncle's poems is presented by Granville Leveson Gower. 1892." MS notes to the Dedicatory Stanzas, and to the translation on p. 320. 4. The Return of the Guards and Other Poems. Macmillan, 1883. Blue cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut. Slate brown end papers. There is no statement of edition, but the author's Preface refers to the 1866 book. Inscribed on half-title: "Elizabeth L. Popham. F. H. D." On the blank leaf preceding the half-title the author has transcribed and signed a poem of 27 lines-presumably unpublished. 5. Lectures Delivered before the University of Oxford, 1868. By Sir F. H. Doyle, late fellow of All Souls, Professor of Poetry. Macmillan, 1869. Bright blue cloth, gilt spine, top edges uncut, others trimmed, reddish brown end-papers. 17 and 18 at end, pp.[125-128], carry publisher's adverts. The second lecture-"Provincial Poetry"-contains a significant appreciation of William Barnes. 6. Lectures on Poetry. Second Series. Smith Elder, 1877. Purplish blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges uncut, slatey brown end-papers. 7. Gaskell, Charles Milnes. Records of an Eton Schoolboy. Edited by C. M. G. With a Preface by Sir Francis Doyle, Bart. Privately printed, 1883. Light blue cloth, gilt, all edges uncut. Al is blank, A2 before the half title is

225 DOYLE (Sir Francis Hastings Charles) 1810-1888 a printed presentation leaf, made out by the editor for the Revd. James Martineau, D.D., from Thornes House, 25 March 1884. This is an important source book for the letters of Arthur Hallam and Milnes Gaskell. 8. Reminiscences and Opinions of Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, 1813-1885. 2nd ed. Longmans Green, 1886. Tall 8vo, red blind embossed cloth, spine gilt, all edges uncut, publisher's emblem-designed end-papers, 24 page catalogue at end dated September 1886. Armorial bookplate of C. E. J. Esdaile. DRINKWATER (John) 1882-1937 1. The Death of Leander and Other Poems. Birmingham: Cornish, 1906. Green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Pp.[41-42] blank at end. 2. New Songs: An Anthology of Contemporary Verse, being (for the most part) the Unpublished Works of New Writers. Edited by Fred. G. Bowles. Chapman & Hall, 1907. Pott 8vo, dark green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, edges cut. Contains "The Song of the Singers"-a poem of 40 lines by John Drinkwater. The book is dedicated to Carmen Sylva. 3. White, Kirk. Poems, Letters and Prose Fragments. Edited with an Introduction by John Drinkwater. Routledge [1907]. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine, edges cut. A volume of the new Muses Library series. 4. Lyrical and Other Poems. Cranleigh: The Samurai Press [1908]. Blue boards, green cloth spine titled on label upwards and in 3 lines in darker blue on upper side, top edges cut, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (2/6 net). 300 copies hand-printed by Arthur K. Sabin, October 1908. 5. Sidney, Sir Philip. Poems. Edited with an Introduction by John Drinkwater. Routledge [1910]. A volume in the Muses Library series; uniform format with the Kirk White publication of 1907, but this is the superior issue in dark blue leather. 6. Poems of Men and Hours. David Nutt, 1911. Cream parchment boards, gilt-lettered in 4 lines on upper side, top edges cut, others uncut. Publisher's circular rubber stamp "With the publisher's Compliments" on title-page.

DRINKWATER (John) 1882-1937 7. Another copy of First Edition, identical with above save pagination of 22 mis-set with space. Some copies with this variant (which would appear to be later rather than earlier) have the lettering on upper cover in red instead of gilt. Another binding batch of First Edition sheets, which is definitely later, was put-up in slate-grey boards lettered in black, all edges cut. 8. Cophetua: A Play in One Act. David Nutt, 1911. Light grey wrappers printed in black, edges cut. Price 6d. net. No. 3 in the Pilgrim Players Series, dedicated to John Galsworthy; 3 printed slips with corrections are inserted at p. 6, 15 and 16. This metal-fastened booklet is not paginated. Inscribed: "Betty Pinchard from John Drinkwater, 18/11/11." 9. An English Medley. [With] Choruses Set to Music by Rutland Boughton. [Bournville:] Printed for private circulation, 1911. Grey wrappers lettered in blue black and red, all edges uncut, sewn with silk cord. Inscribed on title-page: "And the great folds of silence once again/are over fools and kings and fighting men. p. 22. John Drinkwater. June 1928." 10. Another copy of First Edition, identical with above. Inscribed on title-page by the musician: "R. Boughton. Glastonbury." 11. Poems of Love and Earth. David Nutt, 1912. Cream parchment, gilt, top edges cut, others uncut, uniform format with Poems of Men and Hours save that it is lettered up spine in gilt as well as in 4 lines on upper side. Signature "F" at end consists of 2 leaves [pp. 65-68], of which the first carries adverts both sides and the second is blank. 12. William Morris: A Critical Study. Martin Seeker, 1912. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait. Pp.[203-208] at end carry publisher's adverts which include 5 other titles in the present series of biographies. 13. Gray, Thomas. The Poems, with a Selection of Letters and Essays. J. M. Dent [1912]. First issue in Everyman's Library, the superior issue in reinforced dark blue cloth, gilt spine, linen end-papers, all edges stained. 14. Swinburne: An Estimate. London & Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton, 1913. Blue cloth, gilt spine (in which lettering at foot is "J. M./Dent/& Sons," in an ornament), t.e.g., fore-edges trimmed, lower edges uncut. Frontispiece portrait. In printed dust-jacket (5/- net).

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DRINKWATER (John) 1882-1937 15. Another copy of First Edition sheets but presumably the American issue as imprint at foot of spine is "E. P./Dutton/& Co." (not surrounded by ornament). It has a well-known New York collector's Ex Libris inside cover. The whole book was printed by Richard Clay in England, there being no variations in title-pages. Bindings are similar as well, with same ornament in blind on upper sides. 16. Cromwell and Other Poems. David Nutt, 1913. Dark red morocco-grained cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. G8 at end carries adverts of other books by Drinkwater and is paginated 1-2. Later binding-up of First Edition sheets was in plain red cloth and also in blue cloth. Both these forms have edges cut. 17. The Only Legend: A Masque of the Scarlet Pierrot. Printed for private circulation, 1913. The first state, grey-green wrappers printed in darker green, all edges uncut, 16 pages sewn with light green silk cord. Imprints on upper wrapper and verso of title-page indicate it was printed for the production on 10 July 1913. Preserved in linen case, gilt-lettered up spine. From the Sotheby sale of the library of Colonel Wilkinson, inscribed: "C. H. Wilkinson from John Drinkwater, March 1924." 18. Another copy, the presumed second impression; imprint on upper wrapper and on verso of title-page indicate it was printed on the occasion of the visit to Bournville of members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 12 September 1913. Similar designed wrappers, but fawn paper lettered bronze-gilt, and sewn with plain thread. Preserved in linen case. Inscribed exactly as the other copy: "C. H. Wilkinson from John Drinkwater. March 1924." 19. Lines for the Opening of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Spoken by Barry V. Jackson and Written by John Drinkwater. Privately printed, 1913. Eight pages (not paginated) metal fastened into light brown wrappers lettered on upper side in black, edges cut. Printer's imprint on last leaf in 3 lines: "Birmingham: Moody Bros., Printers 1913." 20. Rebellion: A Play in Three Acts. David Nutt, 1914. Grey-blue wrappers, upper side lettered in black, all edges uncut. Al is blank before half-title and E6 blank at end.

DRINKWATER (John) 1882-1937 21. Swords and Plowshares. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1915. Red cloth, spine titling label (also spare at end), erratum slip inserted at p. 48. Pp.[58-64] carry adverts only. 22. The Lyric: Art and Craft of Letters. Martin Seeker [1915]. Grey wrappers lettered in black on upper and lower sides, top edges cut, others uncut. A-D8, the first 2 gatherings not signed. Printer's imprint at foot of p.[64]: "Printed by/W. Heffer and Sons Ltd./ Cambridge." This is the presumed First Edition of the essay. Titling on spine and upper side of wrapper is "Lyric," without the definite article. 23. The Lyric. Martin Seeker, n.d. Another edition, not specified, but same pagination. Printer's imprint on p.[64] is: "Printed in Great Britain By/Wm. Brendon and Son, Ltd./Plymouth." Smooth black cloth, all edges cut, spine titling label in red. Signatures B-D are signed. Al has publisher's circular imprint at foot-not so in First Edition. 24. The God of Quiet: A Play in One Act. Published by the Author at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, 1916. 20 pages, sewn into grey wrappers, upper side lettered in black, all edges uncut. 25. Olton Pools. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1916. Uniform format with Swords and Ploughshares (1915), in printed dust-jacket (2/6 net). Spare titling label at end. Pp.[45-48] carry adverts only, with printer's imprint centre of last page. 26. Tides: A Book of Poems. Beaumont Press, 1917. Tall 8vo, patterned boards, holland spine, titling label lettered upwards on spine and another lettered in 3 lines on upper side, all edges uncut. The first book issued from this Press: it is limited to 270 copies, of which this is No. 186. The first 20 were on Japanese vellum and signed by the author. 27. X = O: A Night of the Trojan War. A Play. Published by the Author at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, 1917. Uniform format with The God of Quiet (1916); 16 pages sewn into grey wrappers. 28. Pawns: Three Poetic Plays. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1917. Uniform format with Olton Pools (1916). In printed dust-jacket (2/6 net). A collected edition of The Storm, The God of Quiet, and X = 0, with a 3 page Note by the Author, dated May 1917.

227 DRINKWATER (John) 1882-1937 29. Tides. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1917. Uniform format with Pawns (1917) in printed dust-jacket (2/6 net). This is a reprint of the Beaumont Press book issued earlier, with 15 new poems added, which include "Moonlit Apples," "Elizabeth Ann," and some of the author's most popular verses, here first printed. 30. Poems, 1908-1914. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1917. Uniform format with Tides (1917), in dust-jacket (5/- net). Frontispiece portrait of the author by William Rothenstein; spare titling label at end. 31. Prose Papers. Elkin Mathews, 1917. Blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, top edges cut, others uncut. 32. Politics and Life. Birmingham Liberal Association, 1917. 24 pages, metal fastened into brown wrappers lettered in black on upper side, edges cut. An Address delivered on 14 November 1917. 33. Abraham Lincoln: A Play. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1918. Scarlet wrappers lettered in black on upper side, spine titling label, 40 leaves, of which the first and last are blank. 1,000 copies were printed, of which 400 were sent to the publishers in London who issued them in plum red cloth binding. The remaining 600 were put out from Birmingham by the printers (Moody Bros.) in paper wrappers; these are metal fastened, not sewn. The whole thousand have the misprint "us" for "no," fifth line from bottom on p.[5] corrected in ink. 34. Abraham Lincoln. Second Impression. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1918. Grey wrappers lettered up the spine and on upper side in black. Issued in same month (October) as First Edition; the words "Second Impression" appear on upper wrapper and on verso title-page. Printed by the same Birmingham printer as First Edition, but p.[5] now printed correctly. The published price raised by printed slip below imprint on wrapper: "Price 2 shillings and 6 pence Net." This book is sewn, not metal fastened. The first and last leaves are blanks. 35. Loyalties: A Book of Poems. Beaumont Press, 1918. Patterned boards, holland spine with green titling label lettered upwards, blue label lettered in 3 lines in darker blue on upper side, all edges uncut. Total edition consisted of 200 copies, of which the first 30 were on Japanese vellum, signed by author and artist. Present copy is one of 50 and is also signed and dated 1919 by the artist, Paul Nash.

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36. Loyalties. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1919. The Second Edition, though not so described: verso of title-page reads: "First published in 1919." Uniform format with Tides (1917), in printed dust-jacket (3/- net). Spare titling label at end. The Times Bookshop catalogue of their Drinkwater exhibition (1962) states 16 poems were added in this edition. This appears to be an error, the Beaumont Press book having only 18 and this edition 41. 37. The Way of Poetry. An Anthology with Introduction by John Drinkwater. Collins [1919]. Grey cloth, lettered in black, all edges cut; a volume in the publisher's New World series. 38. Powell, Charles. The Poets in the Nursery. With an Introduction by John Drinkwater. John Lane, 1920. Blue boards, holland spine lettered in blue, top edges stained blue, others uncut. 39. Shipp, Horace. Community Playing: A Little Guide Book of Production. National Adult School Union [1920]. Buff wrappers lettered in black, edges cut, 36 pages metal fastened. 40. Seeds of Time. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1921. Uniform format with Loyalties (1919), in printed dust-jacket (3/6 net). Text-paper is employed for the end-papers in this book, and Al before half-title is blank; but the blank leaf following the Acknowledgment at end is not conjunctive with the laid-down end paper-it follows through to pp. 65-66. The laid-down end-paper is part of El, pp. 63-64. 41. Cotswold Characters. With Five Engravings on Wood by Paul Nash. New Haven: Yale University Press; London: Humphrey Milford, 1921. Smooth mottled light brown boards with titling label in 3 lines on upper side, edges cut. 28 leaves, printed in the U.S.A.. (imprint on p.[56]). 42. Mary Stuart: A Play. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1921. Uniform format with Seeds of Time (1921), titling label at end. First and last leaves are blank. 43. Oliver Cromwell: A Play. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1921. Uniform format with Mary Stuart (1921), spare titling label at end. In printed dust-jacket (3/6 net), edges cut.

228 DRINKWATER (John) 1882-1937 44. Persuasion: Twelve Sonnets. Privately printed for the Author, 1921. 16 pages (unpaginated), sewn into cream wrappers, upper side lettered in black, edges uncut. No. 42 of 50 copies printed at the Westminster Press. Holbrook Jackson's name as recipient is in the author's hand, followed by his signature dated August 1921, and with Holbrook Jackson's bookplate. Line 1 of Sonnet 4 has the correction in the author's hand (as, it appears, all copies have). 45. A Tribute to the Late C. Lovat Fraser. Printed for Private Circulation [1921]. Single quarter-sheet paginated to 4, sewn into yellow semi-stiff wrappers lettered and designed in black, edges cut. Inscribed: "C. H. Wilkinson from John Drinkwater, March 1924." Preserved in a red linen case, gilt-lettered up spine. This was prefaced to the edition of Gay's Opera published by Heinemann in 1921, where it is the same setting, with the same pagination. It is printed on a quarter-sheet insertion and Millard's bibliography of Lovat Fraser states that the book, which was posthumous, was not out until September. It is probable that Drinkwater obtained the off-printing of a few copies and that they were available at the Memorial Service to Lovat Fraser on 24 June 1921 when Drinkwater read this Tribute. 46. Poetry and the Drama. 1921. Folder programme, printed on stiff glazed paper, of a visit to the Town Hall, Durham, 20 October 1921 to deliver this lecture. Drinkwater's photograph, with his autograph signature, on upper of the 4 pages; the lower page is blank. 47. Preludes, 1921-1922. Morland Press, 1922. No. 2 of the Vine Books, issued to subscribers from The Bookman's Journal office. Copy No. 17 of 125 on handmade paper, signed by the author. Tall 8vo, blue stained stiff parchment covers with yapp edges, t.e.g., others uncut, gilt-lettered up spine. 48. Mary Stuart: A Play. Rev. ed. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1922. This is the fourth impression of the book, virtually identical format with the First Edition of 1921, and with new Author's Note indicating it presents the final text. Red cloth, spine titling label (duplicate at end) in printed dust-wrapper (3/6 net), trimmed edges. Also issued in grey paper wrappers. Inscribed: "John Manfield from John Drinkwater, London October 1922."

DRINKWATER (John) 1882-1937 49. Christmas 1922. A greeting card designed by Albert Rutherston, printed by Oliver Simon, and published at 11 New Square, Lincoln's Inn, 1922. No. 143 of 200 copies, signed by the artist and the author. Tall 8vo, 8 pages unsewn and unopened. Drinkwater's poem on p.[4] in three 8 line stanzas is entitled "Christmas Eve." 50. Selected Poems. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1922. Bright red grained leather, spine gilt-lettered, t.e.g., only lower edges uncut, in red printed dust-jacket (6/- net). F8 at end, pp.[95-96], carries only adverts of other books by Drinkwater, dated March 1922. Frontispiece portrait by Kennington. There was also an issue at a cheaper price, cloth bound. 51. The World and the Artist. Office of The Bookman's Journal [1922]. No. 57 of 140 copies, printed at the Chiswick Press on handmade paper, signed by the author. Tall 8vo, smooth cream buckram, upper side gilt-lettered in 3 lines, t.e.g., others uncut. C7 at end carries printer's imprint centre recto, followed by C8 blank. 52. Copeland, William. The Interlude of Youth. 1560. Reprinted in Modern English. With an Introduction by John Drinkwater. Gowans & Gray, 1922. Parchment wrappers, pictorially designed blue and yellow, lettered up spine in blue. The coloured wrapper decoration is by Jessie M. King, whose fame (and market values) have wildly outstripped that of the poor prefacer. 53. The Outline of Literature. Edited by John Drinkwater. 2 vols. George Newnes [1923]. Royal 8vo, dark green cloth, gilt, edges cut, profusely illustrated. Green marbled end-papers. 54. The Poet and Communication. Conway Memorial Lecture delivered at South Place Institute on March 21, 1923. (Professor William Rothenstein in the Chair). Watts, 1923. Blue cloth, gilt, edges trimmed. 55. Collected Poems: Volume 1, 1908-1917. Volume II, 1917-1922. 2 vols., Sidgwick & Jackson, 1923. Square 8vo, smooth bevelled cream buckram, gilt, t.e.g. uncut. Each volume with orange silk marker and in a blue drop-case, as issued. No. 44 of 230 sets on handmade paper, signed by the author. Frontispiece plate by Albert Rutherston to each volume.

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56. Abraham Lincoln: A Play. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1923. Eighteenth impression, similar format to First Edition, red cloth, spine titling label, edges cut. Inscribed: "To Philip Guedalla, if it is'n't bringing coals to an Hon. collier, from John Drinkwater. London July 1926."

64. The Atom of God: A Vision (To G. C. D.). Waterden Broadsheets No. 2. Sevenoaks: The Holmesdale Press, January 1924. Poem of 188 lines with head and tail pieces designed by George Drinkwater. Printed in red and black on rectos, pp.[l] and [3] of a single sheet folded to form a 4 page booklet measuring the same as No. 1 and printed on paper with the same watermark.

57. Cotswold Characters. With Five Engravings on Wood by Paul Nash. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1923. Second impression, identical format with the First Edition of 1921. One line added in imprint centre verso of title-page. Autograph presentation to the Guedallas, inscribed: "Nellie and Philip with love for Christmas from John Drinkwater, 1930." 58. Another copy, identical issue with above. Inscribed: "From John Drinkwater. English Ceramic Circle, North Hall. 16.2.37." A month later the author's death occurred suddenly and unexpectedly. 59. Robert E. Lee: A Play. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1923. Uniform red cloth format, spine titling label, in printed dust-jacket (3/6 net). 60. Another copy, virtually identical, but this is the second impression, issued in August (the first was in June). Inscribed: "And a Robert to match Abraham. To Philip Guedalla from John Drinkwater. London July, 1926." 61. Victorian Poetry. Hodder & Stoughton, 1923. Light blue cloth, spine lettered in black, upper side with circular ornament in blind, edges cut. A volume of the People's Library; verso of half-title advertises 6 titles, of which this is the second. Pale blue end-papers. 62. Victorian Poetry. Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. An undated reprint, virtually identical format &c., save verso of half-title now advertises 15 titles in this series, Clay's printer's imprint verso of title is a slightly variant setting, and the end-papers are plain white wove. Inscribed: "To Philip Guedalla from John Drinkwater, Bigbury-on-Sea, 11.8.27." 63. The Witch-Ball. The Waterden Broadsheets, First Series, No. 1. Sevenoaks: The Holmesdale Press, November 1923. Printed in red and black on one side of a sheet of wove paper watermarked "Commander/191/ London," 14 1/2" x 8 1/8". Poem of 101 lines, head and tail pieces designed by Albert Rutherston.

65. Pour Songs. Waterden Broadsheets No. 3. Sevenoaks: The Holmesdale Press, March 1924. Poems, in all 40 lines, with head and tail pieces by Pamela Ware. Printed in red and black on one side of a sheet of wove paper with same watermark as the earlier numbers, but measuring 16 3/8" x 8 1/8". Inscribed: "A. W. Evans from John Drinkwater, 1927." The recipient was Dr. Evans, the Johnsonian, proprietor of Elkin Mathews, Ltd. 66. From the German: Verses Written from the German Poets. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1924. Tall 8vo, patterned boards, cream parchment spine, oblong parchment titling label in gilt on upper side. No. 139 of 250 copies, printed at the Pelican Press. The 3 page Preface bears the author's autograph signature. 67. Another copy of First Edition, No. 83 of 250 copies. It would appear that more than one variety of patterned paper was used by the binders; the present has only 27 mottled squares on a side, whereas above copy has 59 plainer squares. 68. From an Unknown Isle. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1924. Uniform red cloth format, spine titling label (duplicate inserted at end), in dust-jacket (3/6 net). Al before half title is blank. This is the collection the author dedicated to Thomas Hardy. 69. Patriotism in Literature. William & Norgate, 1924. Light green blind-stamped cloth, spine lettered in black, edges cut. A volume in the Home University Library. Inserted before half-title are 4 pages of series adverts which do not list the present title. The last volume in the Literature & Art section is No. 103, John Bailey's Milton. 70. Robert Burns. An Address delivered to the Ninety Burns club of Edinburgh, 25 January 1924. Edinburgh: James Thin, 1924. Tall 8vo, 20 pages sewn into blue wrappers, lettered and designed in darker blue, edges uncut. Preserved in a red linen case, gilt-lettered. Inscribed on half-title: "C. H. Wilkinson from John Drinkwater, March 1924.

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71. Missolonghi, April 19th: 1824-1924. [Privately printed, 1924]. Single 4to sheet of white wove paper measuring 9 5/8" x 8 3/8". Text set in 2 columns divided by rule; on left is text of the author's 2 stanzas for the Byron Centenary; on the right is a Greek translation of them. With author's autograph signature at foot. The copy described in the Ashley Library Catalogue (Vol. 9, 1927) has Drinkwater's inscription to T. J. Wise dated April 1924 followed by a note: "This was published in an Athenian newspaper on April 18th, and a few copies were printed off thus."

77. The Muse in Council. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1925. Light red cloth, gilt, top edges cut, others uncut.

72. An Anthology of English Verse. By John Drinkwater. Collins, 1924. Bright blue cloth, gilt extra, t.e.g., others uncut, pictorially designed end-papers. Inscribed for Col. Wilkinson on half-title: "C. H. W. from J. D. April 1924." 73. Vernon, Frank. The Twentieth-Century Theatre. With an Introduction by John Drinkwater. George G. Harrap, 1924. Red cloth, gilt spine, upper side lettered in blind in 5 lines, in printed dust-jacket (5/- net). 74. The Pilgrim of Eternity-Byron: A Conflict. Hodder & Stoughton, 1925. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges cut, 12 illustrations. It may be noted that 6 of the plates are inserted at pages other than these called for in the list of illustrations. Inscribed: "To Philip Guedalla from John Drinkwater. London February 9th, 1926." On p. xii Philip Guedalla is thanked for allowing the use of Max Beerbohm's drawing (p. 252), of which he owned the original. 75. Another copy of first issue, with a dust-jacket printed "Presentation Edition 10/6 net." Sales were slow, and remaining First Edition sheets were bound-up in a cheaper blue cloth without lettering on upper side and in a jacket designed to promote sales at half the original price. There is no such copy in the collection, but a spare jacket so printed has been used to preserve this first issue in immaculate state. 76. The Collected Plays of John Drinkwater. 2 vols. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1925. Square 8vo, smooth cream bevelled buckram, uniform format with the Collected Poems of 1923. No. 138 of 230 sets on handmade paper, the Preface signed by John Drinkwater.

78. New Poems. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1925. Pale rose coloured smooth boards, spine lettering label, top edges cut, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket. This title did not appear in England, but the contents had been printed as From an Unknown Isle and From the German, both published in 1924. 79. Robert Burns: A Play. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1925. Uniform red cloth format, spare titling label at end, all edges cut. 80. Mr. Charles, King of England. Hodder & Stoughton, 1926. Tall 8vo, dark red cloth, spine gilt-lettered, silver medallion centre upper side, t.e.g., others cut, coloured frontispiece and 5 plates. Inscribed: "To Philip Guedalla (Historian) from John Drinkwater (The Lord knows what). London, 1926." 81. Elkin Mathews, Publishers & Booksellers. A Catalogue of Books by or Relating to Dr. Johnson and Members of His Circle. With an Introduction by John Drinkwater. Elkin Mathews, 1925. 120 pages, frontispiece plate, blue wrappers, upper side lettered in darker blue, printed at the Cambridge University Press. This priced sale catalogue of 619 items, compiled principally by Dr. A. W. Evans, is No. 5 in the new firm's series. 82. A Book for Bookmen. Being Edited Manuscripts and Marginalia, with Essays on Several Occasions. Dulau, 1926. No. 16 of 50 copies signed by the author, printed on Japanese vellum. Tall 8vo, smooth bevelled light brown buckram, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut. 6 folding plates. This book, dedicated to T. J, Wise, contains a reprint of Drinkwater's "Introduction" to the fourth volume of The Ashley Library Catalogue. The ordinary First Edition, printed on smaller plain paper, is bound in green cloth. It has no certified limitation and does not contain the illustrations. 83. Persephone. New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1926. Tall 8vo, black cloth, spine gilt-lettered, all edges uncut, printed in black with gold initial letters and gold medallion. Designed by Bruce Rogers, 550 copies, printed on 8 leaves. If the laid-down end-papers (of text-paper quality) are included with the blanks, the collation would be 16 leaves. 50 copies of the edition were signed by the author.

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84. To Be Spoken with An Appeal for Funds for the Rebuilding of The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon. Privately printed, 1926. A poem of 44 lines, subsequently reprinted in Summer Harvest (1933), printed on a single sheet of laid handmade paper, in an edition of 25 special copies for presentation. Size 15" x 9", folded once to form a 4 page booklet, text of poem on inner pages. On the back page is the limitation certificate, followed by-"No. 11 for C. H. Wilkinson from John Drinkwater," in the poet's hand. Preserved in a red linen case, gilt-lettered.

91. The Gentle Art of Theatre-Going. Robert Holden, 1927. Smooth brown cloth, gilt spine, only lower edges uncut. Inscribed: "Philip Guedalla, affectionately from John Drinkwater, London June 1927."

85. An Anthology of English Verse. By John Drinkwater. Collins, 1926. Third impression, identical format with 1924 edition. Inscribed: "Nellie Guedalla, a Bigbury present from John Drinkwater, August llth 1927." Drinkwater was in the habit of staying with the Guedallas at their resort on the south Devon coast; see earlier entries of similar presentations. 86. Hardy, Thomas. The Mayor of Casterbridge. Magazine-Programme, Barnes Theatre production of dramatization by John Drinkwater [1926]. 16 pages, metal fastened. 87. Cromwell: A Character Study. Hodder & Stoughton [1927]. Blue cloth, spine black lettered, all edges cut. A volume of the People's Library, uniform format with Victorian Poetry (1923). Inscribed: "To Philip Guedalla, friendlywise from John Drinkwater, London 25.X.27." 88. Bird in Hand: A Play in Three Acts. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1927. Light grey stiff wrappers, upper side lettered in black, all edges cut. On title-page, above title: "Proof-Unpublished and Private." Inscribed: "For Philip Guedalla friendlywise from John Drinkwater. 6.8.27. Bigbury-on-Sea. One of 25 proof copies," the whole being in the author's hand in ink. 89. Another copy of First Edition, almost identical with above, but the normal issue of the book. The words "Proof . . ." do not appear on title-page and wrapper, and the blank leaf following title-page now carries a Dedication. 90. Another copy of First Edition, the superior issue in the uniform format, red cloth, spine titling label (spare label at end), all edges cut. As is normal, it stands considerably taller on the shelf than the wrappered copy.

92. Another copy of First Edition, identical with above and with the green printed dust-jacket (6/- net). This First Edition sold slowly, and the publisher went out of business. Unbound sheets were acquired by Ernest Benn, Ltd., who issued them with their own cancellans title-page dated 1929 in place of the original, which was cut out, in a binding of maroon cloth, gilt. Inscribed: "C. H. Wilkinson from John Drinkwater, June 1927." 93. Charles James Fox. Ernest Benn, 1928. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt spine and gilt ornament centre of upper side, all edges cut, 9 illustrations. This is the first issue binding. Inscribed: "To Philip Guedalla, affectionately from John Drinkwater. Pepys House, October 3rd 1928." This gift may have been sent through the mail: for some reason-now not clear-a piece of the parcel addressing is inlaid: "From John Drinkwater, Pepys House, Brampton, Huntingdon." 94. Another copy of the First Edition, in the secondary binding of light blue linen, spine lettered in blue, upper side with the Fox ornament stamped in blue and double rule blue border frame. 95. All about Me: Poems for a Child. Decorated with Illustrations by H. M. Brock. W. Collins Sons, 1928. Second impression (same month, September, as first). Salmon pink cloth, gilt spine and upper side, t.e.g., others cut. Inscribed: "Nellie Guedalla with love from John Drinkwater. Philip being the real infant of your household, this book ought by rights to go to him, but he has lately had a large Fox to play with, and so it comes to you. J. D. London, October 1928." The reference here is to his monograph on Fox (Charles James Fox 1928)-see presentation copy entered above. 96. More about Me: Poems for a Child. Collins, 1929. Uniform format with the 1928 series, but the cloth is green, t.e.g., others cut. Similar green pictorially designed end-papers. Illustrations in text throughout by H. M. Brock. In pictorially designed dust-jacket (7/6 net).

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DRINKWATER (John) 1882-1937 97. John Bull Calling: A Political Parable in One Act. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1928. 32 pages, sewn into light grey wrappers, upper side lettered in black (IInet). All edges uncut. 98. "The Other Point of View." Oration Delivered during the 32nd Foundation Week, on Thursday March 15th, 1928, to University College Union Society. University of London Press [1928]. 32 pages, sewn into pale blue wrappers, upper side lettered in dark blue, all edges cut. Price one Shilling Net. First and last leaves are blanks. 99. The World's Lincoln. New York: Bowling Green Press, 1928. Tall 8vo, blue boards, cream parchment spine lettered upwards in gilt and in 2 lines on upper side, top edges cut, others uncut. One of 800 copies hand set in August 1927 by Bertha M. Goudy. Inscribed: "To Philip and Nellie Guedalla with all good wishes for 1929 from John Drinkwater." 100. Pepys: His Life and Character. William Heinemann, 1930. Tall 8vo, light brown cloth, spine gilt-lettered, all edges cut, 16 illustrations. Inscribed: "To Nellie and Philip Guedalla affectionately from John Drinkwater, Highgate 21:10:30." 101. Art and the State. Being the Roscoe Lecture Delivered under the Auspices of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool on 20 January 1930. Liverpool: E. A. Bryant, 1930. 20 pages, sewn into grey wrappers, upper side lettered in black, edges cut, pp.[ 19-20] are blank. 102. Penelope's Trees. Brampton Broadsheets No. 1, January 1930. Huntingdon: Printed by W. H. Smith & Son [1930]. Single sheet of green wove paper 11 1/8" x 8 3/4", folded once to form a 4 page booklet, not paginated. Limited to 100 copies, preserved in a red linen case, gilt-lettered up spine. Inscribed: "C. H. Wilkinson from John Drinkwater." 103. Another copy of the First (and only) Edition, one of 100 copies. Inscribed: "Philip & Nellie with love from John D." 104. Inheritance: Being the First Book of an Autobiography. Ernest Benn, 1931, Tall 8vo, green rough linen, spine gilt-lettered, top edges stained to match cloth, others cut, in coloured pictorial dust-jacket (10s. 6d. net), 16 plates, printed map end-papers.

DRINKWATER (John) 1882-1937 Inscribed: "Giordi, very thankfully, from John Drinkwater, February 1932." 105. Another copy of First Edition (no dust-jacket). Inscribed: "To Philip and Nellie Guedalla, affectionately from John Drinkwater, October 1931." 106. Christmas Poems. With Illustrations in Gravure by Ernest H. Shephard. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1931. Square 8vo, orange wrappers lettered and designed in black, top edges cut, others uncut. Inscribed: "For Nellie and Philip Guedalla. A Happy Christmas Card from John and Daisy Drinkwater, 1931." 107. Another copy of First Edition, 20 pages plus 6 inserted page illustrations. The book has end-papers of text-paper quality, front and rear being laid-down making the wrappers semi-stiff. Inscribed: "My dear Wilkinson. Thank you so much for my party, and a very good Christmas to you from John Drinkwater, 1935." 108. Another copy of the First (and only) Edition, identical with the above. It might have been generous (on my part) to have destroyed this copy, but it came to me with the books from Little Eastern Park, and I could not bring myself to do so! In 1935, when inscribing Christmas Greetings for friends, the author forgot he had sent a copy on publication, and inscribed this again: "Nellie and Philip Guedalla, with love for Christmas from John and Daisy Drinkwater, 1935." 109. The Life and Adventures of Carl Laemmle. William Heinemann, 1931. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, edges cut, frontispiece and 16 plates. Inscribed: "Philip Guedalla affectionately from John Drinkwater, July 1931." 110. Godolphin, Sidney. Poems. Edited by William Dighton. With a Preface by John Drinkwater. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931. A volume in the Tudor and Stuart Library, white boards, blind ruled, spine lettered in black, all edges uncut. Inscribed: "For Philip Guedalla for New Year 1933 from John Drinkwater." 111. Discovery: Being the Second Book of an Autobiography, 1897-1913. Ernest Benn Ltd., 1932. Uniform format with Inheritance, published in the previous year, 14 plates, similar pictured end-papers. Inscribed: "Philip and Nellie Guedalla from John Drinkwater, October 1932."

233 DRINKWATER (John) 1882-1937 112. Midsummer Eve: A Play Primarily Intended for Wireless. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1932. 40 pages, sewn into light grey wrappers, upper side lettered in black, all edges uncut (and unopened throughout). Price One Shilling net, uniform format with John Bull Calling (1928). 113. John Hampden's England. Thornton Butterworth, 1933. Tall 8vo, green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side lettered in 2 lines in blind, with publisher's medallion in lower right-hand corner, edges cut. Frontispiece and 7 plates, with other illustrations in text. Inscribed: "Philip Guedalla, from his friend John Drinkwater. September, 1933." 114. Acts. cloth, end), edges

Laying the Devil: A Play in Three Sidgwick & Jackson, 1933. Smooth red spine titling label (spare inserted at in grey printed dust-jacket (3/6 net), all cut.

115. P. A. D. Aetat Four, 26:vii:33. Brampton Broadsheets No. 3 [1933]. Single sheet of blue paper (7" x 10 1/2"), watermarked "Municipal Superfine." Drinkwater's poem on his daughter's fourth birthday is a sonnet, dated from Pepys House, Brampton, July 1933. One of 50 copies, printed in July 1933, by W. H. Smith & Son, Huntingdon. Preserved in a red linen case, gilt-lettered up spine. Inscribed: "C. H. Wilkinson, a Souvenir of Pepys House, from John Drinkwater, August 17th 1933." 116. Another copy of the First (and only) Edition, one of 50 copies, identical with above. Inscribed: "Nellie & Philip Guedalla from John Drinkwater. The Laundry, Little Easton, August 19th, 1933." No. 2 of the Brampton Broadsheets-again carrying a poem to his daughter-had been printed in July 1932 in a similar edition of 50 copies only. 117. Shakespeare. Duckworth, 1933. Red rough cloth, edges cut. A volume of the publisher's Great Lives series. Inscribed: "Philip Guedalla from his friend John Drinkwater, June 1933." 118. Quien fue Shakespeare. Buenos Aires: Roldan-Editor [1934]. Glazed white pictorial wrappers, uncut. First leaf before half-title is blank. Inscribed to Philip Guedalla: "To P. G. in pleasant remembrance of the Athenaeum Pact. G. M. D. S.S. Empress of Britain, Nov 2, 1934."

DRINKWATER (John) 1882-1937 119. Summer Harvest: Poems 1924-1933. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1933. Light blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (5/- net). Inscribed: "Henry Newbolt from John Drinkwater. November 1933." 120. Another copy, identical with above but without dust-wrapper. Inscribed: "Philip Guedalla, with love from John Drinkwater, November 1933." 121. This Troubled World. New York: Columbia University Press, 1933. Oatmeal coloured fishnet-grained cloth, spine lettered upwards in darker brown, upper side blind-stamped with university medallion in centre and 2 line frame, top edges sprinkled, others cut. Lectures delivered at Columbia University; no edition was published in England. 122. A Man's House: A Play in Three Acts. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1934. Red cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, top edges cut, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (3/6 net). With signature on end-paper in ink of Joyce Bland, who took the part of Esther in the original production of the play under Barry Jackson. 123. Another copy, identical with above but without dust-jacket. Inscribed: "Philip & Nellie Guedalla with love from John Drinkwater, March 1936." 124. Robinson of England. Illustrated by J. H. Dowd. Methuen, 1937. Pale blue buckram, spine lettered in black, top edges stained to match cloth, others trimmed, pale blue end-papers. 125. Another copy in light greenish blue wrappers lettered in black with the addition of "Rough Proof at top, edges cut. This has "The End" on p.[326], which the published form does not have; also verso of half-title is blank where published book lists a selection of the author's works, and the Dedication page is without the 3 line heading. Verso of this leaf, p. viii, is blank where published form has Daisy Kennedy Drinkwater's Acknowledgments dated April 1937. 126. English Poetry: An Unfinished History. With a Preface by St. John Ervine. Methuen, 1938. Pink cloth, spine lettered in dark blue, top edges stained to match cloth, others cut, in pink printed dust-jacket (6s. net).

234 DRINKWATER (John) 1882-1937 127. Dialogue at Christmas. Office of The Fleuron, n.d. Single sheet of glazed Japanese vellum 11 3/4" x 15 3/4", folded twice to form an 8 page booklet (not paginated). Drinkwater's 32 line poem occupies p.[4] with Albert Rutherston's coloured drawing facing. "Christmas Greetings" below another drawing on p.[l] and colophon on p.[8]. Printed at the Curwen Press. Autograph signatures of author and artist. 128. Holiness. The City. Poetry Bookshop Rhyme Sheet, No. 8. Poetry Bookshop, n.d. The 2 poems are, respectively, 15 lines and 12 lines, each with 2 coloured illustrations by Lovat Fraser. Size 21" x 8 1/8". According to Millard this is the [preliminary series] published at 3d. Later, in the [first series] it is No. [99] and the price 6d. Below Poetry Bookshop imprint at foot is "[Third Thousand]." 129. For a Guest Room. Poetry Bookshop Rhyme Sheet, [second series] No. 12. n.d. A poem in 3 eight line stanzas, with 2 coloured illustrations by Lovat Fraser. [Millard 108.] Size 14" x 6 1/2", no price stated. Autograph Letters &c. 130. Typed letter, 24 August 1921, with autograph signature. To Holbrook Jackson, from Chart Lodge, Sevenoaks. Thanks for the copy of Hodgson's poem he has received ("Hymn to Moloch," of which Jackson had just Privately printed 50 copies) and sends a copy of his own Privately printed "Persuasion." 131. Three letters to Col. C. H. Wilkinson dated 9 August 1924, 25 June 1927 and 30 January 1928; 2 are autograph and one is typed, with autograph signature. About borrowed rare books, by Jordan, Tatham and Lovelace, which he returns, also about a cricket match (June 1927), in which he was unable to play-"I hope your side won." Secondary Material 132. Catalogue of an Exhibition in the Rare Book Room of The Times Bookshop, 29th May-9th June 1962, to Mark the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of John Drinkwater's Death. Benham [1962]. Tall 8vo, pale blue wrappers lettered in darker blue, 52 pages describing 1935 exhibits. Limited to 750 copies. Note: John Drinkwater was one of the 4 poets contributing to New Numbers-see the Lascelles Abercrombie collection.

DUCLAUX (Agnes Mary Frances Robinson, later Darmesteter, later Duclaux) 1857-1944 1. A Handful of Honeysuckle. By A. Mary F. Robinson. C. Kegan Paul, 1878. First Edition of the author's first book, bevelled brown cloth, gilt-lettered up spine and in 3 lines with flower spray on upper side, all edges uncut, dark blue end-papers. First binding state with publisher's monogram "CKP & Co." centre of lower cover; later bound copies of First Edition sheets (there was no reprint) have "T" (for Trubner) incorporated. Andrew Lang's copy with his pencil notes (? for a review) filling rear end-paper. On the half-title he has written in ink 8 lines of verse-"Triolet a la Mode"~signed at end "A. L. 1878." Lang reviewed this book in the Academy; it appears he never collected his poem into any of his subsequent volumes. 2. Another copy of the First Edition, again in first binding state. This copy belonged to Austin Dobson and has his signature dated 13 July 1878 on half-title. Also with his printed book label, and with the later bookplate of his son Alban Dobson. 3. The Crowned Hippolytus. Translated from Euripides, with New Poems. C. Kegan Paul, 1881. Bevelled reddish brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges uncut, dark blue end-papers. This, the author's second book, is dedicated "To my friend J. A. Symonds." The present copy she sent to her friend Vernon Lee [Violet Paget] and on verso of dedication leaf she has transcribed a poem of 7 lines, "Violets are for Sappho's wear," heading it "To Violet, with Mary's love," dating it at end 15 April 1881. Vernon Lee's interesting notes on various poems are in margins in pencil, ordinary black ink, and indelible blue pencil, on some dozen or more pages. 4. The New Arcadia and Other Poems. Ellis & White, 1884. Dark blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 9 lines between rules top and bottom, all edges uncut. Vernon Lee's copy and the Dedication copy of the work. Beneath the printed dedication "To Vernon Lee," the author has written "with her Molly's love, April 21st, 1884." Vernon Lee's annotations, which appear on several leaves, reveal an intimate knowledge of the circumstances of the composition of several of the poems. In Edmund Gosse's copy, which the author inscribed to him on 26 April 1884, Gosse has noted that the whole edition, barring some half dozen copies, was held back so that gathering G could be removed and a reprinted gathering inserted. The copy in the British

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Library (reception date 22 May 1884) has page 93/4 cancelled, cancellans pasted on stub. In the last line on p. 94 the reading is "look hard and long," which in first state is "look loud and long."

9. The End of the Middle Ages. Essays and Questions in History. By A. Mary F. Robinson (Madame James Darmesteter). T. Fisher Unwin, 1889. Tall 8vo, dark green cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, bluish green end-papers. Pp.[397-400] are blank at end save for Gresham Press imprint in 3 lines in centre of first page. They are followed by publisher's 24 page undated catalogue. In some later-bound copies there is a similar 24 page catalogue, dated 1891. That the undated catalogue is the earlier, perhaps around 1889, may be inferred from a comparison of the books included.

5. An Italian Garden: A Book of Poems. T. Fisher Unwin, 1886. Gold designed mottled boards, sage green cloth spine gilt-lettered upwards, all edges uncut. Inscribed: "Vernon-with Molly's love, Feb 1886," followed by 4 lines of verse in Italian. The recipient's signature-"V. Paget"-is on end-paper and her interesting annotations to several poems throughout. Also, on p. 33, an additional stanza in Italian in the author's handwriting. 6. Margaret of Angouleme, Queen of Navarre. W. H. Allen, 1886. Green cloth, gilt, all edges cut, patterned end-papers. The last leaf of gathering 15, pp.[231-232], appears to have been removed, revealing only a stub; this is followed by a quarter-sheet carrying series adverts on all 4 pages, in which the present title is not included. Armorial bookplate of R. D. Jackson. 7. The Fortunate Lovers. Twenty-seven Novels of the Queen of Navarre, Translated by Arthur Machen. Edited, and Selected from the Heptameron, with Notes, Pedigrees, and an Introduction by A. Mary F. Robinson. Frontispiece etching by G. P. Jacomb Hood. George Redway, 1887. Square 8vo, bright blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 5 lines with ornament and between ornamental bands top and bottom, all edges uncut, dark slate end-papers. This is the first binding state. First Edition sheets were later put up in a lighter blue cloth, with Machen's name on spine, no ornament, and at foot in place of "Redway" appeared, "Introduction By/Mary Robinson." These sheets were trimmed down with top edges gilt and with plain white end-papers. 8. Songs, Ballads, and a Garden Play. T. Fisher Unwin, 1888. Half cream parchment, patterned board sides, green and gold end-papers, t.e.g., others uncut. Frontispiece plate entitled "Melencolia." Inscribed: "Vernon, with Molly's love. June 29th 88. Epson Common," in the author's handwriting on half-title. On p. 11 she has also noted an attribution to Calderon. This volume has escaped Vernon Lee's rather heavy annotations, though there is one attribution~an artist's initials—on p. 21.

10. Lyrics Selected from the Works of A. Mary F. Robinson. T. Fisher Unwin, 1891. Half cream parchment, green board sides, t.e.g., others uncut, covers yapp edged, frontispiece after Botticelli. A volume in the Cameo Series. Ex Libris of Claude Goldsmid Montefiore. 11. Retrospect and Other Poems. T. Fisher Unwin, 1893. Uniform format with Lyrics (1891)-another volume of the Cameo Series. Vernon Lee's copy with the author's inscription to her: "Vernon, from Molly, 13th May, 1893." 12. English Studies. By James Darmesteter. Translated by Mary Darmesteter (A. Mary F. Robinson). T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. Dark blue-green cloth, all edges uncut, frontispiece portrait of James Darmesteter. With bookplate of Laurie Magnus and his signature dated July 1896. 13. The Life of Ernest Renan. By Madame James Darmesteter. Methuen, 1897. Sage green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, all edges uncut, frontispiece portrait. Pp.[283-284] at end are blank save for printer's imprint in 3 lines centre recto; it is followed by a 40 page catalogue dated September 1897. 14. An Italian Garden: A Book of Songs. Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1897. No. 14 of 100 copies, printed on Japanese vellum. Cream parchment boards with yapp edges, lettered and designed in brown. The contents of this volume follow very closely the First Edition of 1886, but at end there is a new section of "Later Poems." 15. A Mediaeval Garland. By Madame James Darmesteter. Translated into English by May Tomlinson. Lawrence & Bullen, 1898. Fawn cloth with overall design in green on spine and upper side, all edges uncut.

236 DUCLAUX (Agnes Mary Frances Robinson, later Darmesteter, later Duclaux) 1857-1944 16. The Collected Poems, Lyrical and Narrative of A. Mary F. Robinson (Madame Duclaux). With a Preface and a Frontispiece Portrait. T. Fisher Unwin, 1902. Dark blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. 17. The Fields of France: Little Essays in Descriptive Sociology. By Madame Mary Duclaux. Chapman & Hall, 1903. Red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. X8 at end is blank. 18. The Return to Nature: Songs and Symbols. By Mary Duclaux (A. Mary F. Robinson). Chapman & Hall, 1904. Original binding of dark green lambskin, gilt-lettered up spine and in 2 lines on upper side, t.e.g., others trimmed. Vernon Lee's copy, sent by her old friend, the author, is a memorial to the latter's husband who had died suddenly on 3 May 1904. Inscribed in violet ink: "A ma chere Vernon. Souvenir de l'Homme d'Olmet. Juin 1904." The first leaf before half-title is blank, and pp.[81-82] at end carry adverts only of The Fields of France, followed by a final blank, pp.[83-84]. 19. The French Procession: A Pageant of Great Writers. T. Fisher Unwin, 1909. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, spine lettered gilt, upper side in 2 lines in darker blue, all edges cut, 6 portraits. First leaf before half-title is blank, and last leaf at end~pp.[359-360] also blank save for imprint of the Gresham Press in 3 lines centre recto. 20. The French Ideal: Pascal, Fenelon and Other Essays. Chapman & Hall, 1911. Tall 8vo, light blue cloth, gilt, top edges cut, others uncut, 4 portraits. 21. A Short History of France from Caesar's Invasion to the Battle of Waterloo. T. Fisher Unwin, 1918. Tall 8vo, light blue cloth lettered spine and upper side in darker blue, only lower edges uncut. Four maps. This is the third impression, July 1918; first impression was March, 1918. 22. Victor Hugo. By Madame Duclaux. Constable, 1921. Tall 8vo, light red cloth, all edges uncut, frontispiece. There is a Prefatory Note by the General Editor of the Series, Basil Williams, dated July 1920. A volume of Makers of the Nineteenth Century. Constable catalogue 16 pages at end.

DUCLAUX (Agnes Mary Frances Robinson, later Darmesteter, later Duclaux) 1857-1944 23. Images and Meditations: A Book of Poems. By Mary Duclaux (A. Mary F. Robinson). T. Fisher Unwin, 1923. Smooth brown cloth, yapp edges, top edges cut, others uncut, in light brown printed dust-jacket (5/net). Vernon Lee's copy with her embossed address stamp—"II Palmerino, San Gervasio, Florence"—on end-paper. That it is indeed the gift copy is confirmed by the presence of Mme Duclaux's engraved visiting card inscribed: "To my dearest of dear old friends, Vernon Lee, with love, Mary (though I fear you won't like them)." The card is in its original envelope, addressed by Mme Duclaux, "Signorina V. Paget, Villa II Palmerino, San Gervasio, Florence." Whether Vernon Lee liked it or not, we may not know; for she did not annotate this book as savagely as was her custom 40 years earlier. She had still 12 years to live, whilst Mme Duclaux survived until 1944. DUNSANY (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron) 1878-1957 1. The Gods of Pegana. With Illustrations in Photogravure by S. H. Sime. Elkin Mathews, 1905. Smooth grey-blue boards, holland spine, lettered in dark blue on spine and in 2 lines on upper side, all edges uncut. There are 8 illustrations on plate paper with guards, but there is no List of Plates; F8 at end is blank save for imprint of Riverside Press, Edinburgh in one line centre recto. Inscribed: "Maud Duff Gordon from C. B. Xmas, 1906." 2. Another copy of First Edition sheets; this is in the (probable) second binding batch, in which the boards are light brown; lettering &c. shows no variation. "Purple Boards" are also reported by Danielson (Bibliographies of Modern Authors, 1921), but no such copy has been secured. If they do, indeed, exist they can hardly be lettered in blue. 3. Time and the Gods. With Ten Full-page Illustrations by S. H. Sime. William Heinemann, 1906. Brown boards with green linen spine gilt-lettered in 6 lines, also in 2 lines on upper side, with illustration by Sime in a panel lower right-hand corner. Top edges cut, others uncut. 4. Another copy of First Edition sheets, bound in smooth dark green boards, lettering and illustration as in above copy. This binding, which would appear to have been simultaneous (though it is not mentioned by Danielson), is much rarer than the brown

237 DUNSANY (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron) 1878-1957 boards. I have not traced another specimen during 50 years, whilst handling many of the brown variety. 5. The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories. With Illustrations by S. H. Sime. George Allen & Sons, 1908. Square 8vo (but smaller than Time and the Gods), green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, with sword design, t.e.g., others uncut. Imprint at foot of spine is "George Allen/& Sons." This copy is signed by the author. Later bindings of First Edition sheets have been noted in which the lettering differs from this. 6. A Dreamer's Tales. With Illustrations by S. H. Sime. George Allen & Sons, 1910. Light blue linen, gilt-lettered spine in 7 lines and on upper side in 3 lines. First leaf is blank before half-title (save for asterisk lower right hand). This copy has all the appearances of an early issue, t.e.g., others entirely uncut, imprint at foot of spine in 2 lines &c. But it has a cancel title-page pasted on stub, and the 2 lines, "With Illustrations By/S. H. Sime," are transferred from verso to recto of title-page. 7. Another copy of First Edition sheets, in a similar blue cloth, though more grey and not vertically flecked in white, as in above copy. Lettering is similar, though much more oxidized gilt and imprint at foot of spine reduced to "George Allen." Top edges are gilt, but all others are trimmed, giving the copy a "secondary" appearance. However, it has the unsevered original title-page, in which the statement regarding illustrations appears on verso. Danielson comments on late issues with variant spine lettering and also states that some have top edges plain. But he only transcribes what must surely be the second state of title-page. 8. Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany. Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1912. Grey boards, half holland, black lettered in 2 lines on upper side, end-papers to match covers, all edges uncut, limited to 250 copies. Has 9 page Introduction by W. B. Yeats. 9. The Book of Wonder: A Chronicle of Little Adventures at the Edge of the World. William Heinemann, 1912. Large square 8vo, brown boards, half green linen-same format as Time and the Gods (1906). In brown printed dust-jacket (6/- net). Top edges cut, others uncut. Publisher's blind embossed stamp "Presentation Copy," top right-hand corner of title-page. Pp.[99-100] at end are blank save for imprint of R. Clay

DUNSANY (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron) 1878-1957 centre recto. The Second Edition did not appear for 7 years, when the publication was transferred to Elkin Mathews (1919). Though reset by a different printer (William Brendon) there appear to have been no revisions whatever and the 10 plates by Sime are identical impressions. 10. Five Plays. With a Frontispiece by Ilbery Lynch. Grant Richards, 1914. Red cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 6 lines, top edges cut, others uncut. This First Edition probably consisted of a small number of copies; it is on a fine quality paper watermarked "Waldorf." There was no reprint until 1918, when a similar edition was published, but on an ordinary paper. It appears that the earliest bound copies of First Edition had top edges gilt; this copy has not. 11. Tales of Wonder. With [6] Illustrations by S. H. Sime. Elkin Mathews, 1916. Light grey boards, holland spine lettered in blue in 7 lines and on upper side in 2 lines, all edges uncut. Al is blank before half-title. 12. Tales of War. Dublin: Talbot Press; London: Fisher Unwin, 1918. Light grey boards, dark blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 6 lines (with "Talbot/Press" at foot) and in red and black on upper side, author's name being in facsimile signature, top edges cut, fore-edges lightly trimmed (some leaves being unopened) lower edges entirely uncut, in white dust-jacket lettered as the cover with addition of "5/net.". 13. The Glittering Fake: A Fantasia. Not by Lord Dunsany. Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1918. Pott 8vo, 20 pages, sewn into grey wrappers, upper side lettered and designed in black, edges cut. The address "To the Suspicious Reader" is signed E. A. B., but affords no other clue to the authorship. 14. Unhappy Far-Off Things. Elkin Mathews, 1919. Light grey boards, holland spine lettered in 8 lines in blue, upper side in 3 lines, all edges uncut,- in printed dust-jacket (SI- net). 15. Tales of Three Hemispheres. T. Fisher Unwin, 1920. Light brown boards, darker brown linen spine gilt-lettered in 7 lines with one short rule, all edges cut. This book is printed in America, and verso of title-page reads "Copyright 1919/By John W. Luce & Co." with "Printed in U.S.A." added below by rubber stamp. The front end-paper is a thin wove while the rear end-paper is of

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the laid quality on which the book is printed, with watermark "Queen Laid." First leaf is blank before half-title. Other copies examined have a cancel title-page pasted on stub with same copyright notice (though differently set-up), no rubber-stamp but 2 line printer's imprint added at foot, "Printed by the Cosmos Press/Cambridge, Mass, U.S.A." This title-page is printed on a wove paper, not the laid paper of the book. Such copies may constitute second state of First Edition.

22. The Old Folk of the Centuries. Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1930. Marbled boards, dark red cloth spine gilt-lettered upwards, all edges uncut, No. 869 of 900 copies. In marbled printed dust-jacket.

16. Plays of Near and Far. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. Ochre coloured linen, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges cut, others uncut, marbled green end-papers, limited to 500 copies. Printer's imprint of Botolph Printing Works, Kings way in 3 lines verso of title-page at foot. 17. The Chronicles of Rodriguez. With Frontispiece in Photogravure by S. H. Sime. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. Large square 8vo (10" x 7 1/2"), half cream parchment, gilt, light brown linen sides, t.e.g. others uncut, marbled end-papers, in brown printed dust-jacket. No. 95 of 500 copies, published at 3 guineas, the frontispiece and preface bearing autograph signatures of artist and author respectively. 18. Caldwell, Thomas. The Golden Book of Modern English Poetry. With an Introduction by Lord Dunsany. Dent, 1922. Blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, top edges stained to match, others cut. 19. Plays of Near and Far (including If). G. P. Putnam, 1923. Dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges cut, others uncut. This is the Second Edition of Plays of Near and Far, with the addition of If which had twice been printed separately in December 1921. 20. Alexander, and Three Small Plays. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. Ochre coloured linen, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges cut, others uncut, No. 205 of only 250 copies printed. 21. Fifty Poems. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1929. Ochre coloured linen, gilt-lettered down spine in 2 lines, t.e.g., others uncut, No. 201 of 250 copies printed.

23. The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens. G. P. Putnam, 1931. Blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top and lower edges cut, fore-edges uncut, X2 at end is blank. Inscribed: "To George from Dunsany. 'There is no error in this book,' Al Koran. April 23, 1931." 24. Lord Adrian: A Play in Three Acts. Engravings by Robert Gibbings. Golden Cockerel Press, 1933. Tall 8vo, blue patterned cloth, red leather spine gilt-lettered in 6 lines, t.e.g., others uncut. No. 47 of 325 copies. 25. Up in the Hills. Heinemann, 1935. Dark green smooth cloth, gilt spine, all edges cut. Al is blank before half-title. 26. Rory and Bran. Heinemann, 1935. Uniform format with Up in the Hills (1935). Armorial bookplate of Sir Francis Norie Miller, Bart. 27. With 1935. in 7

Price, Nancy. Shadows on the Hills. a Preface by Lord Dunsany. Gollancz, Tall 8vo, black cloth, spine gilt-lettered lines, all edges cut, 16 illustrations.

28. My Talks with Dean Spanley. Frontispiece Illustration by S. H. Sime. Heinemann, 1936. Smooth dark green cloth, gilt spine, all edges cut, end-papers to match cloth, in pictorial dust-jacket (5/- net). 29. Patches of Sunlight. Heinemann, 1938. Tall 8vo, light green cloth, gilt spine, all edges cut, buff end-papers, 8 illustrations, in yellow printed dust-jacket (5/- net), with "Lord Dunsany's Autobiography" on spine and upper side of jacket. 30. The Story of Mona Sheehy. Heinemann, 1939. Uniform format with Rory and Bran, 1936. Al is blank before half-title and X4 blank at end. 31. Wandering Songs. Hutchinson [1943]. Smooth red boards lettered down spine and on upper side in white, all edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (2/6 net).

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32. A Journey. Macdonald [1943]. Tall 8vo, dark blue grained leather, gilt, t.e.g., only lower edges uncut. No. 75 of 250 copies, each initialed and numbered by the author. As new in blue board slip-case, gilt-lettered.

36. The Year. Jarrolds, 1946. Tall 8vo, orange linen, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, edges cut, in yellow printed dust-jacket (9/6d. net).

33. While the Sirens Slept. Jarrolds [1944]. Tall 8vo, beige linen, lettered in green down spine, all edges cut, frontispiece portrait.

37. The Man Who Ate the Phoenix. Jarrolds [1949]. Smooth light brown linen, spine lettered in 7 lines in darker brown, cut edges.

34. The Donnellan Lectures 1943. Delivered at Trinity College, Dublin on March 2nd, 3rd and 4th. Heinemann, 1945. Dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered down spine, edges cut, in blue dust jacket lettered in white (6s. net). This copy came to me from the library of "John Eglinton" [W. K. Magee] and has presentation inscription from his brother: "W. K. M. from J. M. M. Christmas 1945." He has altered in pencil the quotation from Shakespeare on p. 11. 35. The Sirens Wake. Jarrolds, 1946. Identical format with While the Sirens Slept, save lettering is in red down spine and in 2 lines on upper side; frontispiece portrait, "Second Impression" centre recto title-page.

38. To Awaken Pegasus and Other Poems. Oxford: George Ronald, 1949. Light blue linen, gilt-lettered down spine, patterned end-papers, edges cut. In printed dust-jacket (6/- net). 39. Price, Nancy. Acquainted with the Night: A Book of Dreams. Oxford: George Ronald [1949]. Tall 8vo, light green linen, silver lettered down spine, edges cut, in pictorial dust-jacket (7s. 6d. net). The illustrations are by Michael Rothenstein and the Preface by Lord Dunsany, though the title-page carries no statement of this. Inscribed: "'We are such stuff as dreams are made on.' Sincerely Nancy Price."

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1. Scenes and Stories of the Rhine. With Illustrations by F. W. Keyl. Griffith & Farran, 1863. Dark red cloth, gilt extra, all edges gilt, cream end-papers, publisher's 32 page catalogue at end. P4 is blank save for printer's imprint of Savill & Edwards in 3 lines centre recto.

6. Young, Arthur. The Autobiography of Arthur Young, with Selections from his Correspondence. Edited by M. Betham-Edwards. Smith Elder, 1898. Dark brown vertically ribbed cloth, uncut, portraits and illustrations. The 2 leaves of adverts at end are printed on text-paper. This is only an "Auto"-biography in the sense of being presented in the author's own words; the preface tells us that the editor worked from "seven packets of MS and 12 folio volumes of correspondence", not from any MS or printed original.

2. Poems. By Miss Betham-Edwards. Kegan Paul, 1884. Blue cloth, gilt, all edges uncut (though fore-edges perhaps trimmed), dark slate end-papers. Inscribed: "P. G. Hamerton, Esq., from M. Betham-Edwards." Later in the possession of Thomas Parkin, J.P., who has inserted a 2 page letter he received from the author, dated from Villa Julia [Hastings] 5 August 1894. The author's first book of poems, though she had written poetry since 1856, when Charles Dickens printed her ballad "The Golden Bee" in Household Words. Her "Hymn for a Little Child" ("God make my life a little light") was first printed here (Julian gives the date mistakenly as 1885) and has become famous in hymnology. It was collected into the Congregational Church Hymnal in 1887. The author's ultimate claim to fame must rest, however, on her interpretations of French history and culture. 3. Young, Arthur. Travels in France during the years 1787, 1788, 1789. With an Introduction, Biographical Sketches and Notes by M. Betham-Edwards. G. Bell, 1889. Dark red cloth, only top edges uncut, frontispiece portrait; a volume of Bohn's Standard Library. Armorial bookplate of Thomas Parkin, and inscribed: "T. Parkin, Esq., with kind regards from M. Betham-Edwards." 4. A North-Country Comedy. Henry [1891]. Green cloth, gilt, all edges cut, slate blue end-papers; a volume of the Whitefriars Library of Wit and Humour. 5. France of To-Day: A Survey Comparative and Retrospective. 2 vols. Percival, 1892-1894. Light blue cloth, designed darker blue, gilt spines, all edges uncut, dark slate blue end-papers, publisher's 32 page catalogue dated February 1894 at end of volume 1. Thomas Parkin's set with his armorial bookplates and an ALS of the author to him, dated 6 May 1894 from Villa Julia: "I have ordered my publisher to forward you both volumes of my new work . . . ." This letter is late dated, but I have not traced a copy of first volume with any earlier dated catalogue.

7. Home Life in France. Methuen, 1905. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, gilt, only lower edges uncut, publisher's 40 page catalogue at end dated March 1905, 20 illustrations. Inscribed: "T. Parkin, Esq., with M. Betham-Edwards' kindest regards 19th May, 1905." 8. Booth, General Bramwell. Essays and Sketches. The Salvation Army, International Headquarters, 1906. Bright red cloth, gilt, top edges cut, others uncut. A volume of 12 essays by Archdeacon F. W. Farrar, Sir Walter Besant, Annie S. Swan and others, with an Introduction by the General. The twelfth and final item is "General Booth: A character Sketch" by Miss Betham-Edwards, pp. 266-271. 9. French Men, Women, and Books: A Series of 19th Century Studies. Chapman & Hall, 1910. Tall 8vo, bright blue cloth, gilt, top edges cut, others uncut, 8 plates. 10. In the Heart of the Vosges, and Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller." Chapman & Hall, 1911. Tall 8vo, mauve cloth, gilt, top edges cut, others uncut, 16 Plates. Inscribed: "T. Parkin, Esq, with the respect and esteem of an old friend M. Betham-Edwards, Oct 15th, 1911." With the recipient's bookplate, also author's ALS to him requesting "some zoo tickets for a Sunday." Parkin must have been a member of The Zoological Society in London. 11. Friendly Faces of Three Nationalities. Chapman & Hall, 1911. Tall 8vo, pink cloth, gilt, top edges cut, others uncut, 16 plates. Inscribed: "John S. Parkin, Esq, Greetings from an old friend, M. Betham-Edwards, June 2, 1911."

241 EDWARDS (Matilda Barbara Betham) 1836-1919 12. In French-Africa: Scenes and Memories. Chapman & Hall, 1912. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, gilt, top edges cut, others uncut, 16 plates. 13. The Lord of the Harvest. With an Introduction by Frederic Harrison. Oxford University Press, 1913. Green cloth, gilt spine, designed end-papers, frontispiece portrait of the author. The first issue in the World's Classics series, with a new 9 page Introduction in which Harrison styles the author as "the doyenne of our English novelists." Inscribed: "J. E. S., from her old friend M. B. E., with best New Year's wishes for her and hers. December 29th, 1913." 14. From an Islington Window: Pages of Reminiscent Romance. Smith Elder, 1914. Blue cloth, gilt, only lower edges uncut. Inscribed to Thomas Parkin: "Greetings to my valued friend from M. Betham Edwards, June 22, 1914." With the recipient's bookplate and a 2 page ALS from the author to him inserted. 15. War Poems. Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith [1917]. 28 pages, semi-stiff cream wrappers lettered in blue and red, cut edges. Bound in half dark red morocco gilt, red linen sides. With Thomas Parkin's armorial bookplate and inscribed: "T. Parkin, Esq, from his old friend M. Betham-Edwards. Dec 28th, 1917." Also inserted is author's ALS to him of the same date. 16. Mid-Victorian Memories. With a Personal Sketch by Mrs. Sarah Grand. John Murray, 1919. Square 8vo, blue cloth, gilt spine, top edges cut, others uncut, frontispiece portrait of Miss Betham-Edwards. The author died on 4 January 1919, while correcting the proofs of this, her last book. Sarah Grand's "Sketch" is a valuable document of 60 pages and there is a "Note By the Publisher" on the letters to Frederic Harrison, which had been printed in Chapter 2 without his prior consent. The first chapter is entirely on Coventry Patmore, followed by others of considerable interest on George Eliot, Miss Braddon and Henry James, of whom letters are printed therein for the first time.

ELTON (Oliver) 1861-1945 1. Tennyson: An Inaugural Lecture. Printed at the Request of the Faculty of Arts. Liverpool: At the University Press, 1901. 28 pages (7" x 9 1/2"), sewn into drab brown wrappers, uncut, upper side lettered in black in 3 lines, imprint of Donald Fraser centre verso of otherwise blank pp.[27-28]. No. 30 of an edition of 500 copies, printed December 1901. 2. Frederick York Powell: A Life, and a Selection from His Letters and Occasional Writings. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906. Tall 8vo, dark greenish cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, gilt spines, 10 plates. Inserted is a long 4 page letter to "My dear Evans," on his New Court, Lincolns Inn notepaper, dated 14 January 1902, about living painters—Miss A. G. Draper, Dudley Hardy and others. 3. Modern Studies. Edward Arnold, 1907. Green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Z4 carries adverts only, followed by publisher's 16 page catalogue dated October 1907. 4. A Survey of English Literature, 1830-1880. 2 vols. Edward Arnold, 1920. Tall 8vo, dark green cloth, all edges uncut. In volume 1 2E2 is a final blank, pp.[435-436]. 5. Sixteen Poems. Privately printed. Liverpool: Lyceum Press [1922]. 20 pages, sewn into sage green wrappers, upper side lettered in black, edges uncut. Final leaf at end is blank. Inscribed: "J. P. Wallis from O. Elton Xmas 1922—Greetings." Inserted is a long typewritten letter to Wallis on his Woodstock, Oxford notepaper, signed, "Yours as ever, Oliver Elton," and the typescript of a poem of 20 lines translated from the Serbo-Croat of Duci6. 6. The Present Value of Byron. Sidgwick & Jackson [1925]. 16 pages, tall 8vo, sewn into orange brown wrappers lettered in black, edges cut. This is the Byron Lecture, delivered at University College, Nottingham, 7 March 1924, revised and printed in Review of English Studies (January 1925). 7. C. E. Montague: A Memoir. Chatto, 1929. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, gilt spine, top edges stained to match cloth, only lower edges uncut, 8 plates.

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8. George Saintsbury. Curwen Press [1933]. 12 pages sewn, tall 8vo, edges uncut, issued without wrappers. Reprint of a memorial essay in Life and Letters (June 1933), limited to a small private issue. Inscribed on title-page: "J. P. R. Wallis, from the writer."

14. Martin, L. C. Oliver Elton, 1861-1945. Geoffrey Cumberlege [1946]. 20 pages, tall 8vo, sewn into light blue-grey wrappers, upper side lettered in black, edges uncut, frontispiece portrait. From the Proceedings of the British Academy (volume 31).

9. The English Muse: A Sketch. G. Bell, 1933. Tall 8vo, smooth red buckram, top edges cut, others uncut. Al before half title is blank. 10. George Edward Bateman Saintsbury, 1845-1933. Humphrey Milford [1933]. 24 pages, sewn into light grey wrappers, uncut. Off-printed from the Proceedings of the British Academy (Vol. 19). Inscribed: "J. Wallis, from the writer, with regards." The final leaf is blank save for Oxford University Press imprint in 10 lines. 11. The Nature of Literary Criticism. Manchester University Lectures, No. 32. Manchester: University Press, 1935. 28 pages, sewn into light blue wrappers lettered upper side in black, edges cut, pp.[27-28] blank save for imprint of Butler and Tanner in 3 lines centre verso. Inscribed: "J. P. R. Wallis from Oliver Elton, April 1935." 12. Lascelles Abercrombie, 1881-1938. Humphrey Milford [1939]. 32 pages, tall 8vo, sewn into light grey wrappers, uncut, frontispiece portrait, pp.[31-32] blank save for Oxford University Press imprint in 10 lines. From the Proceedings of the British Academy (Vol. 25). Inscribed: "J. P. R. Wallis from O. Elton, Oct 1939." 13. A Miscellany. Presented to John Macdonald Mackay, LL.D. July 1914. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press; London: Constable, 1914. Tall 8vo, red cloth, edges cut, gilt spine, 14 illustrations including folding plates. Contributions from Sir Walter Raleigh, John Sampson, A. C. Bradley, Kuno Meyer and many others, with an Editorial Preface and an Envoy (in verse) by Oliver Elton.

Autograph Letters 15. A long typed letter with signature and some dozen words in autograph, to Professor J. Wallis (in Pretoria), in original stamped postmarked envelope, on his Woodstock, Oxford paper dated 4 September 1939. An interesting letter written on the day of Declaration of War: "The speeches of P. M. and King, both good. . . . I think we have a flawless case; there is no sophism of opinion (as there was in 1899) and we are far readier than in 1914." Note: For J. B. Yeats, Letters to his son . . . With Preface by Oliver Elton (Faber, 1944), see the W. B. Yeats collection. EMERY (Florence Fair) d. 1917 1. The Dancing Faun. E. Mathews & J. Lane, 1894. Light green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side lettered and designed by Aubrey Beardsley. A volume of the Keynotes Series, all edges uncut, the Beardsley drawing also on title-page, publisher's 16 page catalogue dated March 1894 at end, followed by a final blank leaf (K4). 2. Modern Woman: Her Intentions. Frank Palmer, 1910. Half cream buckram, light blue linen sides, spine and upper side gilt-lettered and ornamented, t.e.g., others uncut. F8 at end carries adverts only.

243 FALKNER (John Meade) 1858-1932 1. The Lost Stradivarius. 3rd ed. William Blackwood, 1896. Dark blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, spine and upper side designed and lettered in blind, only lower edges trimmed, designed end-papers. The first leaf before half-title is blank. This edition is virtually identical with the First Edition of 1895. 2. Moonfleet. 2nd ed. Edward Arnold, 1899. Smooth red cloth, gilt-lettered, armorial shield design in silver and black on upper side, all edges uncut. The edition is virtually identical with the First Edition, which was dated 1898. A brilliant copy with inscription on end-paper: "Maud Drummond 1899 from H. L. Randall." 3. Another copy of the Second Edition, identical with above; U2 at end carries adverts of The Lost Stradivarius only, followed by publisher's 32 page catalogue dated December 1898. Belonged to Lady Scott, who, as "G. E. Mitton"—journalist, biographer, topographer—was well known to Falkner. On the end-paper she has pasted a slip, obviously torn from a letter -"with cordiality, yours, J. M. Falkner." 4. A History of Oxfordshire. By J. Meade Falkner, Editor of Murray's Handbook of Oxfordshire. Elliot Stock, 1899. The Large Paper issue of First Edition, printed on a fine quality laid paper watermarked "Van Gelder Zonen," size 7 1/2" x 10". Half publisher's dark reddish brown leather, green linen sides, t.e.g., others uncut. 5. Another copy of First Edition; this is the issue on ordinary paper (6" x 9"). Half blue cloth, dark red sides, uncut edges, spine gilt-lettered &c. as in the Large Paper issue. This series is known as Popular County Histories. 6. The Nebuly Coat. Edward Arnold, 1903. Beige linen, spine and upper side lettered in black, upper side with armorial shield in silver and black, only lower edges uncut, publisher's 16 page catalogue at end dated October 1903. Belonged to Lady Scott and has her bookplate inserted: "G. E. Mitton. Her Book." 7. The Nebuly Coat. Edward Arnold, 1904. Fourth impression, virtually identical with First Edition, save for date. There is no publisher's catalogue at end.

FANE (Hon. Julian Henry Charles) 1827-1870 1. Poems. W. Pickering, 1852. Dark green blind-stamped cloth, with large ornamental pattern on both sides, spine gilt-lettered in 4 lines with one gilt ornament, edges uncut, primrose yellow end-papers with binder's ticket of Bone & Son; O4 at end carries adverts only. Inscribed: "J. F. Stephen from the Rhymer, Aug 25/52." 2. Poems. 2nd ed. W. Pickering, 1852. Contains additional poems. Same binding as First Edition, save that spine is lettered in 6 lines including "Second Edition." Same binder's ticket. The additional poems in this edition extend pagination from 110 to 140, and S3 and S4 at end carry Pickering's adverts. The Lowther copy from the Campsea Ash Sale, with bookplate, and autograph on title: "William Lowther's 1853." It has the blind embossed oval stamp of G. Muir, Bookseller, Malta. 3. Heine, Heinrich. Poems. Translated by Julian Fane. Not Published. Vienna: From the Imperial Court and Government Printing-Office, 1854. Tall 8vo, contemporary (? original) binding of crimson morocco extra, all edges gilt. There are considerable corrections (including some additional lines) in the author's hand on almost every page. A rare book. 4. Julian Fane, Ad Matrem. 1849-1857. Not Published [1857]. Bright red blind-stamped cloth, gilt-lettered in 3 lines on upper side, all edges gilt, deep cream end-papers. Inscribed: "William Lowther. From his affectionate P. Westmorland." This is Priscilla, Countess of Westmorland, mother of the author, to whom the poems are addressed. Inserted is the 3 page ALS to accompany the gift, on her crested black-edged notepaper, dated from Wimbledon, 24 October 1866, to "My dear Billy . . . Julian & Adine interrupted their honeymoon at Panshanger to come and stay with me till the illness subsided . . . ." 5. Another copy of the First (and only) Edition, identical with the above. This copy also has a presentation inscription from Lady Westmorland, signed and dated from Apelthorpe, 24 September 1857. 6. Tannhauser, or, The Battle of the Bards. By Neville Temple and Edward Trevor. Chapman & Hall, 1861. Dark green horizontally ribbed cloth, gilt-lettered spine in 4 lines and in 3 lines on upper side, all

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FANE (Hon. Julian Henry Charles) 1827-1870 edges uncut. H4 at end, pp.[119-120], is blank save for printer's imprint in 3 lines centre recto. "Neville Temple" disguises Julian Fane and "Edward Trevor" is another alias of "Owen Meredith"-the second Lord Lytton. 7. Tannhauser, or, The Battle of the Bards. By Neville Temple and Edward Trevor. 3rd ed. Chapman & Hall, 1861. Absolutely identical (pagination &c.) with First Edition, save for statement on title-page. Contemporary binding by W. M. Holloway, London, of dark green morocco, all edges gilt, marbled end-papers. Inscribed: "Edward D. Stone from F. St. J. Thackeray. Deer 1861." Secondary Material 8. Lytton, Robert. Julian Fane: A Memoir. John Murray, 1871. Green bevelled cloth, gilt spine, upper side with 5 cream and gilt enamel ornaments, all edges uncut, frontispiece portrait, slate brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Edmonds and Remnants, 2 publisher's catalogues at end, both 16 pages and dated January 1871. X4, pp.[311-312], is blank, following the leaves of music. Blind oval stamp on title-page: "Presented by Mr. Murray." FARJEON (Eleanor) 1881-1965 1. Pan-Worship and Other Poems. Elkin Mathews, 1908. Light brown boards, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges cut, others uncut. First Edition of the author's first book. 2. Dream-Songs for the Beloved. Orpheus Press, Spring 1911. Half light brown patterned cloth, blue board sides, lettered up spine in darker brown and in black in 7 lines on upper side, trimmed edges. No. 5 of the Orpheus Series. 3. Trees. B. T. Batsford [1914]. Blue cloth, fully gilt spine and upper side, t.e.g., others cut, blue silk marker, grey-blue bordered end-papers. D4, pp.[55-56], carries only printer's imprint dated Edinburgh 1914, 2 lines centre recto, followed by a final blank leaf. A volume of the publisher's Fellowship Books, in first issue binding. War time conditions soon dictated economies (e.g., no silk markers &c.). Inscribed in the author's autograph: "Dear Olive with Nellinor's love. June 1st, 1914."

FARJEON (Eleanor) 1881-1965 4. Nursery Rhymes of London Town. Book One. Oxford University Press [1916]. Large 8vo, 16 pages, sewn into white wrappers lettered and designed in black. 5. Nursery Rhymes of London Town. Book Four. Oxford University Press, n.d. Uniform format with above, in the Anglo-French Series. Books 2 and 3 are missing from the collection. 6. All the Way to Alfriston. With Drawings by Robin Guthrie. Printed and published for the Greenleaf Press by the Morland Press, 1918. As the rear free end-paper carries the colophon, end-papers must be considered part of the printed book; they are of text-paper. Hence, though the book is only paginated to 16 it must be considered as of 24 pages (presumably one sheet). Floral decorated boards with titling label on upper side, edges cut. Contents are the title-poem and 5 others. 7. Martin Pippin in the Apple-Orchard. Collins, 1921. Square 8vo, dark blue cloth, red lettered and ruled on spine and upper side, all edges cut. 2B6-8 [pp. 377-382] at end carry publisher's adverts only. 8. Songs for Music and Lyrical Poems. Selwyn & Blount, 1922. Pott 8vo (4 1/2" x 5 3/4") glazed pink boards with titling label on upper side, edges uncut. The illustrations are by John Austen. Inscribed in the author's hand: "Dear Olive, with Nellie's love. June 30th, 1922." 9. Tunes of a Penny Piper. Selwyn & Blount, 1922. Uniform format with Songs above, but colour of glazed boards is blue, and of titling label yellow. The illustrations are again by John Austen, though there is no statement of this. 10. The Soul of Kol Nikon. Collins, 1923. Dark blue cloth lettered spine and upper side in red, top edges cut, others uncut. R7 and R8, pp.[261-264], carry publisher's adverts only. 11. The Country Child's Alphabet. Drawings by William Michael Rothenstein. The Poetry Bookshop, 1924. Large square 8vo, 60 pages (no pagination or register), sewn into semi-stiff wrappers with coloured design and lettering on upper side.

245 FARJEON (Eleanor) 1881-1965 12. Faithful Jenny Dove and Other Tales. Collins, 1925. Uniform format with Kol Nikon, save that edges are cut. Following R8 at end are 4 leaves of text-paper [pp. 263-270], of which the first 3 carry publisher's adverts and the fourth is blank. 13. Come Christmas. Decorated with Wood-Cuts by Molly McArthur. Collins, 1927. Patterned pink boards, yellow buckram spine, titling label on upper side, edges cut. Inscribed in the author's hand: "To dear Dolie, with Eleanor's love. Christmas 1927." 14. The Mill of Dreams, or, Jennifer's Tale. As told by Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard. Collins [1927]. Patterned rough cloth, titling label on upper side, in yellow printed dust-jacket. 15. Kaleidoscope. Collins, 1928. Light blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, top edges cut, others uncut. 16. The Fair of St. James: A Fantasia. Faber & Faber, 1932. Pink linen, spine gilt-lettered in 8 lines, top edges stained yellow, others cut. 17. Over the Garden Wall. With Drawings by Gwendolen Raverat. Faber & Faber, 1933. Pale greenish grey linen, spine lettered in blue in 8 lines, edges cut. L2, pp.[155-156], is blank. 18. Pannychis. Shaftesbury: The High House Press, 1933. Marbled boards, half cream parchment lettered in black up spine, edges cut. No. 88 of 225 copies. The wood-engravings are by Clare Leighton. 19. Humming Bird. Michael Joseph, 1936. Reddish brown rough linen, edges cut, yellow end-papers. 20. Paladins in Spain. Illustrated by Katherine Tozer. Thomas Nelson, 1937. Light blue cloth, spine lettered in 6 lines in darker blue, top edges stained dark blue, others cut. Tozer contributed the coloured frontispiece and 5 black and white illustrations. 21. Miss Granby's Secret. Michael Joseph, 1940. Yellow cloth with end-papers to match, spine lettered in red, edges cut. 22. The New Book of Days. Illustrated by Philip Gough and M. W. Hawes. Oxford University Press, 1941. Tall 8vo, cream coloured linen, spine red lettered, top edges stained red, others cut.

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23. Dark World of Animals. Wood engravings by T. Stoney. Sylvan Press, 1945. Oblong 4to, (11" x 8 3/4"), printed on 16 semi-stiff pale blue cards. Light grey linen, gilt-lettered up spine, gilt-designed on upper side, edges cut, in pictorially designed dust-jacket (15s. net). 24. The Glass Slipper. By Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon. Illustrated by Hugh Stevenson. Allan Wingate, 1946. Tall 8vo, blue rough linen, gilt-lettered down spine, edges cut, in coloured pictorial dust-jacket (9s. 6d. net), illustrations in colour. 25. Love Affair. Decorations by Rolf GeVard. Michael Joseph, 1947. Mauve cloth, spine and upper side lettered and designed in silver and red, edges cut, pictorial end-papers, in designed coloured dust-jacket (9/6d. net). 26. First and Second Love: Sonnets. Michael Joseph, 1947. Pink boards patterned in blue, blue linen spine lettered in silver downwards, upper side lettered in brown, in pink dust-jacket designed as cover (5/- net). Inscribed in the author's autograph: "To Victor from Eleanor, June 1947." 27. The Two Bouquets: A Novelette. Based on the Operetta by Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon. Michael Joseph, 1948. Rough red linen, spine and upper side lettered and designed in silver, edges cut, in yellow pictorial dust-jacket (7/6 net). 28. The Starry Floor: Verses. Drawings by Isabel and John Morton Sale. Michael Joseph, 1949. Tall 8vo, pale blue smooth pictorial boards, spine lettered downwards in blue, edges cut. 29. Jefferson, Joseph. "Rip Van Winkle": The Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson. With a Foreword by Eleanor Farjeon. Reinhardt & Evans, 1949. Tall 8vo, plum red cloth, spine gilt-lettered, top edges stained to match cloth, others cut, in printed dust-jacket (18s. net). The end-papers are printed with the Jefferson genealogical tree, which illustrated the connection with the Farjeons. Inserted is a long typed letter signed "Eleanor," to "Dear Cousin Geoffrey," on her 20 Perrin's Walk, Hampstead notepaper, dated 4 August 1952, with references to the book. 30. The Book of the P. E. N. Edited by Herman Ould. Arthur Barker, 1950. Tall 8vo, light grey cloth, spine lettered in blue, cut edges, in blue printed dust-jacket (12s. 6d. net).

246 FARJEON (Eleanor) 1881-1965 Contains the first printing of Eleanor Farjeon's play The Plane Tree on pp. 167-186. The Note by the editor is printed on a cancel leaf pasted on stub. 31. Elizabeth Myers. With a Sonnet by Sara Jackson. Aylesford: St. Albert's Press, 1957. Tall 8vo, mauve-pink wrappers, upper side lettered in blue, all edges uncut. No. 14 of 100 copies, signed by Eleanor Farjeon, Sara Jackson, and the printer Edward Walters. 32. Edward Thomas: The Last Four Years. Book One of the Memoirs of Eleanor Farjeon. Oxford University Press, 1958. Tall 8vo, dark green smooth cloth, gilt spine, cut edges, in coloured dust-jacket (25s. net). Frontispiece portrait of Edward Thomas and 7 other family illustrations; the work is dedicated to Helen [Thomas's widow]. Note: Eleanor Farjeon's "Snowfall," a poem of 5 quatrains, with coloured illustrations by C. R. W. Nevinson, is No. 3 of the Poetry Bookshop Christmas cards (Favil Press, 1928). FERGUSON (Sir Samuel) 1810-1886 1. Lays of the Western Gael and Other Poems. Bell & Daldy, 1865. Dark reddish brown cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side with triple gilt frame and publisher's ornament in centre, top edges uncut, others trimmed, dark slate blue end-papers with binder's ticket of Galwey & Co., 22 Eustace St., Dublin. With armorial bookplate of William Basevi Sanders and author's inscription on half-title: "To William B. Sanders, Esq., the learned Reporter on the National Manuscripts Series, with sentiments of high esteem from the Writer. Dublin, Mar 31, 1873." 2. Congal: A Poem in Five Books. Dublin: Edward Ponsonby; London: Bell & Daldy, 1872. Small 4to, bright blue cloth, spine gilt, upper side with corner and centre ornaments in gilt, cut edges, dark blue end-papers. Dedicated: "To Three Much-Prized Friends, Margaret Stokes, Whitley Stokes, Frederick William Burton." 3. Poems. Dublin: William McGee; London: George Bell, 1880. Tall 8vo, bright blue cloth, gilt spine, same 5 gilt ornaments on upper side as in Congal, but this time within gilt frame, deep cream end-papers. Inscribed on half-title: "Whitley Stokes, with kindest regards. Saml Ferguson. Dublin, May 1880."

FERGUSON (Sir Samuel) 1810-1886 4. Lays of the Western Gael and Other Poems. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker; London: George Bell, 1897. Blue cloth, gilt, gilt-lettered up spine, cut edges. This cheap popular edition appears to be a verbatim reprint of the edition of 1888. It has the same 6 page Introduction by Alfred M. Williams, dated Providence, U.S.A., 1887. Secondary Material 5. O'Hagan, Mr. Justice. The Poetry of Sir Samuel Ferguson. Dublin: M. H. Gill & Son, 1887. Small 8vo, 88 pages, trimmed edges, pale blue wrappers lettered in black on upper side. This appears to be a reissue of unsold sheets of the First (and only) Edition; publisher's imprint on wrapper is dated 1902. 6. Ferguson, Lady. Sir Samuel Ferguson in the Ireland of His Day. 2 vols. William Blackwood, 1896. Green cloth, spines gilt-lettered in 9 lines, upper sides with the familiar 5 gilt ornaments, uncut edges, dark blue end-papers, 2 frontispiece portraits. The first leaf in both volumes is blank before half-title. Note: For an ALS from Sir Samuel Ferguson to "My dear Mr. Scott," dated 1 November 1881, see the William Bell Scott collection. FIELD (Michael) Pseud. [BRADLEY (Katherine Harris) 1846-1914 and COOPER (Edith Emma) 1862-1913] 1. The New Minnesinger and Other Poems. By Arran Leigh. Longmans Green, 1875. Bevelled dark red cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, uncut edges, slate brown end-papers, publisher's blind circular presentation stamp on title-page. Al blank before half-title, and M8-pp.[175-176]-blank at end. Dedicated "To my Mother's Memory," but the first poem is a sonnet "To E. C." [Edith Cooper], then a girl of 14 years, who became Isla Leigh, and the "Henry" of the partnership. This may not strictly be considered a work of "Michael Field," as it is written entirely by "Michael"-the older of the 2 women [Miss Bradley]. The Esher copy, with Brett bookplate. 2. Bellerophon. By Arran and Isla Leigh. C. Kegan Paul, 1881. Bevelled smooth dark blue buckram, gilt-lettered spine in 2 lines, upper side in one line, only lower edges trimmed, publisher's 32 page catalogue at end dated 4.'81. The preliminaries consist of 3 leaves only-half-title, title and Contents; but there is no sign of the removal of a leaf. In

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the next gathering B the final eighth leaf has a printers sign, a dagger, in the lower corner. N4, pp.[183-184], is blank. The first collaboration, hence the first true Michael Field work. Inscribed on half-title in Miss Bradley's handwriting: "Prof. Dowden, with A. Leigh's kind regards, June 1881."

6. The Father's Tragedy. William Rufus. Loyalty or Love? By Michael Field. London: George Bell; Clifton: J. Baker & Son [1885]. Similar cream parchment as above, spine and upper side lettered in red (ornament as in Second Edition of Callirrhoe), t.e.g., fore-edges trimmed, lower edges entirely uncut, glazed yellow end-papers. This was one of Miss Bradley's copies, and has her inscription in ink: "The Beloved Father & Brother. June 8th 1885. The copy which he first handled & read. Bless him!" It eventually passed with her books into Hawkesyard Priory and has the appropriate Library and shelving stamps.

3. Callirrhoe. Fair Rosamund. By Michael Field. London: George Bell; Clifton: J. Baker & Son [1884]. Cream parchment, spine gilt-lettered on red titling label, t.e.g., others trimmed, glazed primrose yellow end-papers. The first book to bear the new name. Lionel Johnson's copy with his armorial bookplate-Lionel Pigot Johnson-and inscribed on end-paper: "L. P. Johnson Win Coll, 1884." On the rear end-paper he has written in pencil a column of the authors' 6 titles with dates (up to Tragic Mary, 1890). Lionel Johnson wrote the 8 page essay on Michael Field, prefaced to the Selections from their writings in Miles's Poets and Poetry of the Century (Vol. 8, 1893). 4. Another copy of the First Edition; this was from Lord Esher's library (with Brett bookplate). It is in the normal binding of cream parchment, lettered in red-the spine in 4 lines and upper side 4 lines with small ornament. Lionel Johnson's copy is the sole example I have noted in the variant binding with upper side plain. The quality of the parchment, however, and of the end-papers, appears identical, and the copy has every feature of a publisher's original binding. 5. Callirrhoe. Fair Rosamund. 2nd ed. London: George Bell; Clifton: J. Baker & Son [1884]. Cream parchment, red lettered as First Edition, but with a different (larger) ornament on upper side, t.e.g., others trimmed, similar glazed yellow end-papers. With the uncommon bookplate (engraved by Edmund H. New, 1897) of William Malin Roscoe. This is the only one of the "Clifton" dramas to proceed to a Second Edition. In this edition the first gathering A has 8 leaves, of which pp. i-iv carry Opinions of the Press on First Edition, v, title page with verso blank, vii, Note to Second Edition with verso blank, ix, fly-title to Callirrhoe with verso blank, xi-xii, Preface, xiii, Dramatis Personae, with verso blank. Text of the play commences with p.[15] and is considerably revised, dispensing with the errata and the leaf which had carried it.

7. Another copy of First Edition, identical with above. This copy has author's printed presentation slip inserted, and bookplate of Adolphus William Ward, Master of Peterhouse. 8. Brutus Ultor. By Michael Field. London: George Bell; Clifton: J. Baker & Son [1886]. Pale blue-grey wrappers lettered in black, top and lower edges uncut, fore-edges trimmed. Inscribed on upper wrapper in ink: "J. W. A. from the Authors, 1886." It is difficult to identify the autograph-most probably that of the recipient. The Esher copy, in linen case with Brett bookplate. 9. Canute the Great: The Cup of Water. By Michael Field. London: George Bell; Clifton: J. Baker & Son [1887]. Cream parchment, spine and upper side lettered in red, upper side with a third (larger still) variety of circular ornament, t.e.g., others cut, plain white laid end-papers. Al before title-page blank; M6-M8 at end carry extracts from reviews of the previous Clifton plays. 10. Long Ago. By Michael Field. George Bell, 1889. Small square 8vo, cream vellum, gilt spine and upper side, with the medallion of Sappho, all edges uncut. This copy, No. 52 of only 100 printed, was formerly in the library of W. R. Macdonald, and later that of Lord Esher; it carries both bookplates. 11. The Tragic Mary. By Michael Field. George Bell, 1890. Small 4to, full cream vellum, elaborately overall gilt-designed by Selwyn Image, all edges uncut (top edges unopened throughout). No. 41 of the special issue of 60 copies on handmade paper.

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12. Another copy of the First Edition, No. 4 of 60 on handmade paper. This was one of the authors' copies, and it passed with their books into the library of Hawkesyard Priory (with stamps, &c.). On front end-paper is written boldly in ink, possibly in Miss Cooper's hand: "Given by Michael Field." It appears probable the authors did not approve the Edition-de-luxe binding, finding it inconvenient for reading use. This copy has been very heavily pressed, and though the same vellum cover with Selwyn Image gold design is used, the gatherings are on very thin leather thongs which protrude through the vellum at hinges. As issued, the special edition had all edges uncut, the top edges being unopened throughout; but it appears this was another feature that did not please the authors, and the top edges have been cut and gilded before binding. Also before binding, a frontispiece portrait of Mary was inserted, obviously of author's provision.

16. Underneath the Bough: A Book of Verses. By Michael Field. 2nd ed. G. Bell, 1893. Verso of half-title, reads "Revised and decreased edition." Same dimensions as First Edition but bound in rough light blue canvas, lettering and ornamentation closely following the First, all edges uncut. Inscribed in Miss Bradley's handwriting: "To an old Friend" and on the same leaf, in Sir Sidney Cockerell's neat script: "Sydney C. Cockerell, Richmond, Surrey, from 'Michael Field'." Loosely inserted are 2 newspaper excerpts, both inscribed in Cockerell's hand in ink. He married Miss Kingsford in September 1907 and this book would appear to have been a gift from Miss Bradley at that time. See the letters in Friends of a Lifetime (1940, p. 143).

13. Stephania: A Trialogue. By Michael Field. E. Mathews & J. Lane, 1892. Square 8vo, light grey boards, spine titling label, upper side with design in black, all edges uncut, binder's ticket of Leighton Son & Hodge; 2 spare titling labels inserted. Text ends on p. 100, followed by a leaf blank save for ornament centre recto, a second otherwise blank leaf with printer's imprint in an ornamental setting centre recto and 2 further leaves containing only adverts. The second of these is dated November 1892. The edition consisted of 250 copies only. The Esher copy, with Brett bookplate. 14. Sight and Song. Written by Michael Field. E. Mathews & J. Lane, 1892. Light green smooth boards, lettered upper side in darker green in 7 lines, cream linen spine lettered in 8 lines, all edges uncut, green silk marker, final leaf, pp.[127-128], carries ornament and printer's imprint only. Edition limited to 400 copies. The Esher copy with Brett bookplate. 15. Underneath the Bough: A Book of Verses. By Michael Field. G. Bell, 1893. Small square 8vo, cream boards, lettered and designed in gilt, all edges uncut, printed on pink tinted paper and limited to 150 copies, green silk ends. A blank leaf of text-paper is laid-down on free end-papers; but while in front this leaf is not Al, at end the leaf would appear to be K6. K5, pp.[ 137-138], carries Note centre recto, with Chiswick Press imprint centre verso.

17. A Question of Memory: A Play in Four Acts. E. Mathews & J. Lane, 1893. Tall 8vo, light green cloth, lettered in red up the spine and on upper side in 4 lines, all edges uncut, white silk marker. The edition limited to 120 copies. After 4 unpaginated leaves of preliminaries, this book is paginated to 48, following which is a leaf of adverts and a 16 page publisher's catalogue dated October 1893. The whole is printed on uniform quality laid watermarked paper, the same also being used for binder's ends. But, ignoring these, the book is printed on 37 leaves, of which there is no printed register. Loosely inserted is a copy of the original 4 page Prospectus and order form. 18. Attila, My Attila! A Play. By Michael Field. Elkin Mathews, 1896. Square 8vo, dark green smooth boards, spine titling label, ornament in black on upper side, all edges uncut, publisher's 16 page 1895-1896 catalogue at end. The last 2 leaves of gathering H at end carry respectively adverts and printer's imprint: they are pp.[109-112]. 19. Fair Rosamund. Ballantyne Press: sold by Hacon & Rickett, 1897. Printed in red and black, decorations designed and cut on wood by Charles Ricketts. Edition limited to 210 copies. Bound in decorated boards of 2 patterns and colours, titling label on spine, all edges uncut. The Esher copy with Brett bookplate. 20. The World at Auction: A Play. Ballantyne Press: sold by Hacon & Ricketts, 1898. Printed in red and black, decorations designed and cut on wood by Charles Ricketts. Edition limited to 210 copies. Decorated

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boards, of which spine half is plain green with narrower orange strip, spine titling label, all edges uncut. This copy belonged to the authors and passed with their books into the library of Hawkesyard Priory (with stamps, &c.). On end-paper is boldly written in ink, possibly in Miss Cooper's hand: "Given by Michael Field."

26. Borgia: A Period Play. A. H. Bullen, 1905. Tall 8vo, bright yellow wrappers, upper side lettered in black, top edges unopened, others cut. Printer's imprint of Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. centre verso of p.[191]. Publication was strictly anonymous. Esher copy in a linen case with Brett bookplate.

21. Underneath the Bough: A Book of Verses. By Michael Field. Portland, Maine: T. B. Mosher, 1898. Tall narrow 12mo, a volume of the Old World Series, cream parchment boards, lettered and designed in brown, all edges uncut, one of 925 copies on Van Gelder paper. Though not so certified, this is the Third Edition of the work; there is a new preface by the authors dated 8 September 1898, and the contents are considerably revised.

27. Queen Mariamne. By the author of Borgia. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1908. Uniform format with Borgia, and again the Esher copy, in cloth case with Brett bookplate. Printer's imprint of Constable at foot of p. 142, followed by a blank leaf.

22. Anna Ruina. David Nutt, 1899. Green vertically ribbed bevelled cloth, gilt-lettered down spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. This book can hardly be considered as being published anonymously, but the only identification of it with the authors is from the lettering on spine. 23. Noontide Branches: A Small Sylvan Drama Interspersed with Songs and Invocations. By Michael Field. Oxford: Henry Daniel, 1899. 4to, blue wrappers lettered on upper side in 3 lines within rectangular frame (as title-page), all edges uncut, No. 42 of 150 copies. 24. The Race of Leaves: A Play. Ballantyne Press: sold by Hacon & Ricketts, 1901. Printed in red and black, decorations designed and cut on wood by Charles Ricketts. Similar boards to World at Auction (1898), but sides are green with a leaf pattern, spine titling label, all edges uncut; 280 copies were printed, though in the volume there is no certificate. Again, this copy belonged to the authors in Hawkesyard Priory and has similar autograph and stampings to the other plays. 25. Julia Domna: A Play. Ballantyne Press: Sold by Hacon & Ricketts, 1903. Identical format with Race of Leaves and with similar autograph and Hawkesyard library stampings. The edition was limited to 240 copies.

28. Wild Honey from Various Thyme. By Michael Field. T. Fisher Unwin, 1908.' Light green cloth with spine and upper side designed in gilt by Charles Ricketts. This was one of the author's copies and passed into the library of John Gray, and has his bookplate. It has also the circular library stamp of the Dominican Fathers, Edinburgh. Inscribed on half-title by Miss Bradley: "In Epiphamici Domini." A pencil note on blank leaf [p. 136] in 3 lines deals with the inspiration of "the first nine sonnets" in the section which follows. Loosely inserted is a 9 inch strip of parchment with Charles Ricketts's original drawing for the spine design of the binding. The variations reveal that the original title was to be Honey of the Woods. 29. Another copy with unique features. It has the Hawkesyard library stamp, &c. Miss Bradley has loosely inserted an envelope on which she has written: "To Hennie's little Song Soufriere. June 4th, 1902." Enclosed is a sheet of laid paper watermarked "Partridge & Co., Chancery [Lane] London," with the original manuscript in ink in Miss Cooper's hand of the poem "After Sourfriere," which appears on p. 34 of the book. There are no verbal variations, but the punctuation after "again" is a semi-colon, which is followed by a final line of verse not in the book, or in any later reprinting of this poem. 30. The Tragedy of Pardon. Diane. By the Author of Borgia. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1911. Uniform format with Queen Mariamne (1908), and again the Esher copy in a cloth case with Brett bookplate. Erratum slip inserted for Diane, correcting a capital into a small "m" in "mass" on p. 230. But there is no reference to the fact that the title-page misspells the title of the play. The running headline from p. 130 to 251 is "Dian," though in the body of the text throughout "Diane" is found.

250 FIELD (Michael) Pseud. [BRADLEY (Katherine Harris) 1846-1914 and COOPER (Edith Emma) 1862-1913]

FIELD (Michael) Pseud. [BRADLEY (Katherine Harris) 1846-1914 and COOPER (Edith Emma) 1862-1913]

31. The Accuser. Tristan de Leonois. A Messiah. By the Author of Borgia. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1911. Uniform format with The Tragedy of Pardon, and again the Esher copy in cloth case with Brett bookplate. Errata slip (3 errors) inserted for The Accuser.

35. Dedicated: An Early Work of Michael Field. G. Bell, 1914. Green cloth, gilt, all edges uncut; with elaborate cover design by Charles Ricketts. This was one of Miss Bradley's copies, and has Hawkesyard Priory Library stamp, &c. On end paper is written: "Katherine Harris Bradley, T.O.S.D., gave this book to me at the Park Farm, Hawkesyard a few days before her blessed death. All the poems are by her niece Edith Cooper, T.O.S.D.; with exception of the last poem 'Fellowship,1 which she herself wrote: Vincent McNabb, O.P. October 1914."

32. Poems of Adoration. By Michael Field. Sands & Co. [1912]. Purple cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered and designed, all edges uncut. H2, pp.[115-116], carries a note on original periodical printing of the poems, with printer's imprint of Ballantyne Press in 5 lines at foot. The Esher copy with Brett bookplate. 33. Mystic Trees. By Michael Field. Eveleigh Nash [1913]. Green cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered and designed, all edges uncut, the design being by Charles Ricketts. Undoubtedly the prime "association" book of this collection; it has the Hawkesyard library stamps, and on half-title Father Vincent McNabb (the Prior) has written: "This copy was given by 'Michael' to 'Henry.'" Above this, in Miss Bradley's hand: "on the day of the Apparitio, 1913. Michael" [In the Calendar this is 11 February]. Inserted is the original MS in ink (unsigned, but in Miss Cooper's hand) of the lines from the Latin Horae which are printed on p.[5]. The 4 poems of the book s final sequence, In a Little While ("Beloved, my glory in thee is not ceased"), attain the height of elegiac dignity. 34. Whym Chow, Flame of Love. By Michael Field. Privately printed at the Eragny Press, 1914. No. 21 of only 27 copies printed, crimson suede leather binding, lettered on cream enamel panel on upper side, all edges uncut. Preserved in a half morocco case with gilt spine, orange linen sides. This was one of the author's copies, and passed with Miss Bradley's books into Hawkesyard Priory; circular Library and shelf stamps on end-paper. The printing was completed at the outbreak of World War I, at which juncture Lucien Pissarro was compelled to abandon his occupation and returned to Paris. Miss Bradley was critically ill, and only lived until 26 September. The great rarity of the book at the present time-almost inevitable, in so small an issue-seems also to stem from the fact that the copies had little contemporary distribution, the poems remaining virtually unknown.

36. Deirdre. A Question of Memory. Ras Byzance. The Poetry Bookshop, 1918. Yellow wrappers, upper side lettered in black in 3 lines, edges cut. Uniform format with Borgia (1905). Text ends on p. 171 followed by another leaf blank save for imprint of Westminster Press in 3 lines on verso at front. Inserted is a typed letter with Harold Monro's autograph signature, on Poetry Bookshop notepaper dated 21 October 1918, sending the copy and giving considerable details, perhaps in the hope of securing a favourable review-notice. The Esher copy, preserved in a cloth case with Brett bookplate. 37. In the Name of Time: A Tragedy. By Michael Field. Poetry Bookshop, 1919. Yellow wrappers, uniform format with Deirdre (1918). The Esher copy, preserved in cloth case with Brett bookplate. 38. A Selection from the Poems of Michael Field. Poetry Bookshop, 1923. Tall 8vo, light stone coloured rough canvas, gilt-lettered up spine and in 3 lines on upper side, top edges cut, others uncut. No. 10 of only 50 copies printed on Haesbeek parchment. Pp.[143-144] are blank save for Curwen Press imprint in centre recto; a leaf before half-title carries the limitation certificate. With a 6 page Preface by T. Sturge Moore. Bookplate of Lord Esher inside cover. 39. The Wattlefold: Unpublished Poems by Michael Field, Collected by Emily C. Fortey. With Preface by Fr. Vincent McNabb. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1930. Green cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 6 lines, all edges uncut. Bookplate of Lord Esher inside cover.

251 FIELD (Michael) Pseud. [BRADLEY (Katherine Harris) 1846-1914 and COOPER (Edith Emma) 1862-1913]

FIELD (Michael) Pseud. [BRADLEY (Katherine Harris) 1846-1914 and COOPER (Edith Emma) 1862-1913]

40. Works and Days: From the Journal of Michael Field. Edited by T. & D. C. Sturge Moore. John Murray, 1933. Rough purple cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 9 lines, gilt ornament on upper side, edges cut. Pp. 215-216 are a cancel leaf pasted on a stub in every copy so far examined by me.

46. Original MS of a sonnet entitled "A Train of Queens," not signed or dated, but in Miss Bradley's autograph.

41. Walter Pater. By Michael Field and Logan Pearsall Smith. The Mill House Press; New Year 1965, Xmas 1964. Eight pages sewn. Inscribed: "One of 18 copies on special paper, & with the ornaments by Reynolds Stone. R. G. H." Below this is written: "Eddie from Bob" [These are the Gathorne-Hardy brothers]. Manuscripts, Autograph Letters &c. 42. ALS, 4 pages in Miss Bradley's autograph, signed Michael Field, undated and without salutation, headed "c/o George Bell & Sons" and written in 1884, or early 1885, to a young reviewer (possibly Arthur Symons, then only just reaching adulthood). Commences: "You have rare critical insight: you are on the right track when you say I have taken up 'the ethics of rapture1. . . 'what I try to say in my second play'" &c. Goes on to give interesting advice "with regard to your own poems" and mentioning George Meredith and Walt Whitman. .A letter of considerable significance. 43. A Christmas Greeting for 1895, on a stiff green card with gilt edges in its original green envelope, stamped and postmarked, addressed to John Gray, Esquire, 43 Park Lane, W. It is a "handmade" card, entirely in Miss Cooper's handwriting, and incorporates a poem of 19 lines initialed "M. F." 44. A folded sheet of notepaper, filled on pp. 1 and 3 with a draft for proposed advertisement of a forthcoming work, Attila, My Attila! commencing: "Mr. Elkin Mathews will publish in October a new drama by Michael Field. . . . " This book was published by Elkin Mathews in 1896. Unsigned and undated, possibly in Miss Cooper's autograph. 45. Original MS of a sonnet entitled "Unity," signed Michael Field and dated March 1896. In Miss Bradley's autograph. Has been used by publisher's compositor and is marked in red ink: "14/4/97 Cp leaded, proofs by 15 Ap."

47. Original MS, but in pencil, on a large 4to sheet, of a sonnet, "To my Richmond lover," in Miss Bradley's hand but unsigned, dated 5 March 1899. 48. Autograph postcard to Elkin Mathews, Esq. Vigo Street, W., stamped and postmarked 23 February 1903, from 1 Paragon, Richmond, in Miss Bradley's autograph signed "M. F." Promises to call in soon, "meanwhile, please do not make any announcements, there are still such difficulties." 49. A New Year Greeting Card for 1910, 4 pages 12 mo sewn with brown silk into stiff light grey wrappers, to the upper side of which is affixed a photograph of the authors' dwelling, 1 The Paragon, "under the dome of the Church," inscribed: "Father Gray, from the dwellers in newly-blessed Paragon. Michael & Field, Dec. 30th, 1909." Entirely in the handwriting of Miss Cooper. 50. Original MS on a 4to sheet of watermarked notepaper, of a sonnet, "On how prayers became letters again," signed at end "Michael Field" and dated January 1911. 51. Five ALS to John Gray, dated between December 1908 and June 1913, in all 17 pages in Miss Cooper's handwriting, the salutations being "Dear Father," "My dear Father," and, in the last one, "My dear generous friend," signed variously "Henry" or "Field." They are on 1 The Paragon, Richmond notepaper. Primarily about Gray's own poems with many quotations of favourite lines, and some criticism. The authors' own work receives occasional mention, particularly Wild Honey, and in the last letter only Mystic Trees and Whym Chow; also their daily routine—Miss Cooper has come down after her second operation, from the River-Room, to "our beloved Sun-Room, my Poet had prepared for me". . . "Michael wants you droopingly: alas, the long strain has told on her gravely" &c. 52. A long letter on eight 4to sheets of watermarked notepaper, dated from 1 The Paragon, 17 May 1912, addressed to "My dear Father" and signed "Henry." Deals entirely with the Blue Calenders, and is accompanied by a further five 4to sheets of Paragon notepaper watermarked "Imperial Parchment,"

252 FIELD (Michael) Pseud. [BRADLEY (Katherine Harris) 1846-1914 and COOPER (Edith Emma) 1862-1913] containing the scheme for the re-arrangement of the whole 61 poems to be republished as A Book of Carols, of Scenes and of Praises, by the Rev. John Gray. "Ricketts has always told me that an etching or mezzotint or silver-point can never be copied as a picture. The whole conception must be re-stated in colour. Now this truth of art has influenced my ponderings how to change your Blue Calenders, dedicated as they are to fugitive Time, into a Book given freely to all Time. This has been the problem I have ventured in my way to solve." The whole 13 sheets in Miss Cooper's autograph. A document of considerable importance. Secondary Material 53. Stiff card, 5 3/4" x 8 3/8", with engraving and text: "Of your charity pray for the soul of Edith Emma Cooper, Tertiary of St. Dominic, 'Michael Field,' who died on the XIII day of December, 1913." Also a similar card for "Katharine Harris Bradley 'Michael Field,' who died on the XXVI day of September 1914." Of this card there are 2 varieties present, one of which is lettered in red and black on verso of engraved plate, 3 1/2" x 4 1/4". 54. Sturgeon, Mary. Michael Field. George G. Harrap, 1922. Light green cloth, lettered in black on spine in 5 lines and upper side in 2 lines, edges cut (though some lower edges have just escaped guillotine), in dust-jacket printed in red and black. This is the first issue binding; some sheets were bound-up later in brown cloth and sold at a reduced price. Association Item 55. Apuleius, L. De Cupidinus et Psyches Amoribus. Ballantyne Press: sold by Hacon & Ricketts, 1901. 4to (7 3/4" x 11 3/4"), pale blue boards, half-holland, titling label on upper side. With borders, woodcut initials and 5 illustrations by Charles Ricketts. The pagination is 1-30 (or 32 including the unpaged colophon leaf), and there are 12 blank leaves besides the end-papers, which are of text-paper quality. Michael Field's copy, with the Hawkesyard Priory library stamp, and a bold inscription on end-paper in Miss Cooper's autograph: "Given by Michael Field." No certificate was printed but the limitation was to 310 copies, none printed on vellum.

FIGGIS (Darrell) 1882-1925 1. A Vision of Life: Poems. With an Introduction by Gilbert K. Chesterton. John Lane, 1909. Purple cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered and ornamented, t.e.g., others uncut. H3-H8, 6 leaves at end, pp.[101-112], carry publisher's adverts only. The First Edition of the author's first book. 2. The Crucibles of Time and Other Poems. J. M. Dent, 1911. Dark blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 9 lines with small ornament, upper side in 3 lines with larger ornament, t.e.g., others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (3/6d. net). H3 at end carries reviews of A Vision of Life, and H4 is blank. 3. Broken Arcs. J. M. Dent, 1911. Vertically ribbed red cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side with blind frame and publisher's ornament in centre, t.e.g., others cut. EE8, pp.[431-432], carries publisher's adverts only. 4. Shakespeare: A Study. J. M. Dent, 1911. Tall 8vo, green cloth, gilt spine, publisher's ornament in blind centre of upper side, t.e.g., others lightly trimmed. Two illustrations. Preliminaries are wrongly paginated, ignoring blank leaf before half-title; p.[347] carries adverts of 2 other books "By the Same Author," with verso blank. 5. Queen Tara. J. M. Dent, 1913. Reddish brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., other edges lightly trimmed. F8 blank. 6. Another copy of First simultaneous cheaper style, wrappers lettered up spine and on upper side in dark edges are cut.

Edition; this is the issued in grey (including I/- net) blue. In this all

7. The Mount of Transfiguration. Dublin & London: Maunsel, 1915. Dark slate blue boards, cream parchment spine gilt-lettered in 8 lines, upper side in 3 lines, t.e.g., others cut. H3 and H4, pp.[117-120], carry publisher's adverts only. Presentation copy to Sir Bruce Richmond, inscribed: "B. L. Richmond from Darrell Figgis, 7/xii/15." 8. A.E. (George W. Russell): A Study of a Man and a Nation. Dublin & London: Maunsel, 1916. Blue linen, spine gilt-lettered in 3 lines, upper side blocked and lettered in blind, all edges cut (but fore-edges only lightly trimmed).

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FIGGIS (Darrell) 1882-1925

9. A Chronicle of Jails. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1917. Semi-stiff light grey wrappers lettered up the spine (with I/- net at foot) and on both sides in black, edges cut. The laid-down end leaves are part of the gatherings, the front one carrying list of books "By the same author" hence are part of the book, of which the collation is pp. 8+132.

In 1930 an American edition was issued bearing the author's own name and with a 7 page Introduction by James Stephens.

10. The Gaelic State in the Past and Future, or, "The Crown of a Nation." Dublin & London: Maunsel, 1917. Yellow and cream wrappers lettered on sides in green, edges cut. 11. Children of Earth. Dublin & London: Maunsel, 1918. Dark green linen, spine lettered gilt in 6 lines, edges cut. There appears no reason to assume this is a late-issued state. O'Hegarty's Bibliography of Figgis states, "Issued in Black Cloth . . . also found in blue cloth, believed to be later binding." He does not mention the green cloth. 12. The Historic Case for Irish Independence. Dublin & London: Maunsel, 1918. Green wrappers black lettered on sides, edges cut, pp. viii, 80. Pp.[79-80] carry publisher's adverts only. 13. A Short Plot: A Sidelight on Political Expediency. Dublin & London: Maunsel, 1918. 32 pages, metal fastened into grey wrappers, upper side lettered in black, edges cut. This pamphlet, published at Sixpence Net, is not recorded in O'Hegarty's Bibliography of Figgis. 14. Bye-Ways of Study. Dublin: Talbot Press; London: Fisher Unwin, 1918. Reddish brown cloth with titling labels on spine and upper side, edges cut. In light brown dust-jacket printed in red (4/6 net). 15. A Second Chronicle of Jails. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1919. 104 pages, sewn in white wrappers, lettered spine and sides in black (1/6 net at foot of spine, which is otherwise lettered upwards). The author's portrait is on upper side. As in the first Chronicle (1917), pp. 1-2 and 103-104 are laid-down to serve as end-papers. 16. The Return of the Hero. By Michael Ireland. Dublin: Mellifont Press [1923]. Bluish green linen, spine titling label, publisher's blind-stamped ornament foot of spine and centre of upper side, edges uncut. Also issued simultaneously in London with a cancel title-page carrying imprint of Chapman & Dodd.

17. Recollections of the Irish War. Ernest Benn, 1927. Tall 8vo, light green linen, spine gilt-lettered in 5 lines, edges cut, frontispiece portrait. FITZGERALD (Edward) 1809-1883 1. Selden, John. The Table-Talk of John Selden, Esq. With a Bigraphical Preface and Notes by S. W. Singer, Esq. W. Pickering, 1847. Dark brown cloth, spine titling label, edges uncut, frontispiece portrait. In all the 3 copies in the collection, pp. 11-12, 33-34, 35-36, 37-38, 96-97, 109-110, 157-158, 193-194 are starred cancel leaves-in 2 cases the stub of cancellandum being visible. The cancellation of 33-34 cause signature 'D' to be unsigned. The final leaf Si (pp. 257-258) is a singleton carrying on verso only the 4 line corrigenda. Apart from the Translations into Verse from Moliere (Paris, 1829), which is Edward Fitzgerald's first publication, the Notes at the end of this volume, pp. 235-257, constitute his first appearance in a book. They are headed: "Part of the following Illustrations were kindly communicated to the Editor by a gentleman to whom his best thanks are due, and whom it would have afforded him great pleasure to be allowed to name." 2.

Another copy, identical with above.

3. Another copy, dark brown calf, all edges cut. 4. Barton, Bernard. Selections from the Poems and Letters. Edited by his Daughter. Hall Virtue, 1849. Light blue cloth, gilt spine, sides blind-stamped, upper side with gilt ornament in centre of frame, all edges uncut, frontispiece portrait and one engraving, yellow end-papers, 3 line errata slip inserted at end. Edward Fitzgerald subscribed for 10 copies of this work-see the unpaginated List of Subscribers in front; but, more importantly, he wrote the "Memoir of Bernard Barton," which occupies pp. ix-xxxvi. His initials E. F. G. are at the end, but he is only alluded to in Lucy Barton's Preface, written in the third person, as "one who knew her Father well." 5. Euphranor: A Dialogue on Youth. W. Pickering, 1851. Green cloth, sides blind-stamped with ornamental frame, spine gilt-lettered upwards, edges uncut, 3 line errata on final page [82]. Cream end-papers. Armorial bookplate of Kenneth Woollcombe Woollcombe-Boyce. Published anonymously.

254 FITZGERALD (Edward) 1809-1883 6. Polonius: A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances. W. Pickering, 1852. Square 8vo, sides blind-stamped with ornamental frame, gilt-titled in one word up spine, lettered in 4 lines within gilt floral wreath on upper side, edges uncut, yellow end-papers, 2 errata in centre of final page [cxlvi]. The title-page and the final leaf L are singletons. Published anonymously. 7. Another copy of the First Edition in an unusual contemporary binding of dark green calf, spine with raised bands and red lettering label, sides with heavily embossed rectangular design, both lettered at head and foot, "Polonius/1852," elaborately gauffred gilt edges, marbled end-papers. 8. Six Dramas of Calderon. Freely Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. W. Pickering, 1853. Red cloth, spine blind-stamped and gilt-lettered in 4 lines, only lower edges cut. Following p.[274] at end is a leaf blank save for 9 line errata in centre recto. Deep cream end-papers. 9. Salaman and Absal: An Allegory. Translated from the Persian of Jami. J. W. Parker, 1856. 4to, bright blue grained cloth, gilt-lettered up spine and in 3 lines on upper side, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed, yellow end-papers with binder's ticket of Lewis & Sons. Another anonymous publication, dedicated to "My dear Cowell" in an unsigned letter of 6 pages. There is a errata list at foot of p. xvi. Text within a single rule frame throughout. 10. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Translated into English Verse. Bernard Quaritch, 1859. One of the Noel Douglas Replicas published in 1927. Blind-stamped cream parchment boards, lettered in red down the spine, in original transparent dust-jacket printed in red (Price 4s. 6d. net). 11. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. 2nd ed. Bernard Quaritch, 1868. Similar format to First Edition of 1859. Cream coloured wrappers, upper side lettered in black (spine strengthened by strip of marbled paper). The Frank J. Hogan copy in a cloth case with his bookplate. Inserted is a certificate signed by J. F. Albery and dated Columbus, Ohio, 15 April 1907, identifying this copy as Colonel James Watson's and certifying that the signature "J. Watson, April 1870" is in his autograph, and that the copy was used in making the Columbus reprint of 1870.

FITZGERALD (Edward) 1809-1883 12. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. 3rd ed. Bernard Quaritch, 1872. 4to, in the original Roxburghe binding, half green leather, plum red linen sides, all edges uncut, dark slate brown end-papers, text within ornamental borders throughout. 13. Agamemnon: A Tragedy Taken from Aeschylus. Bernard Quaritch, 1876. Original Roxburghe binding, uniform with the 1872 Rubaiyat, gilt-lettered up spine, all edges uncut. End-paper has booksellers' blind-stamped impression of J. Baker & Son, Clifton [where J. A. Symonds lived], and is inscribed: "John Addington Symonds. Jan. 3, 1877 to St. Loe Strachey. Cannes, April 1877." This copy is identical with that in the British Library, which bears an early reception date and undoubtedly represents the first state. Title page is conjugate with the first leaf of Preface, and verso of title-page is entirely blank. There are numerous interesting pencil-notes in Symonds's hand in text througout, particularly on rear end-paper. 14. Another copy, similar binding &c. to above. Despite the smallness of the edition, it exists in 2 states. Here the title-page is conjugate with pp.[vii-viii], the Preface being printed on a folded sheet sewn between. The title-page has an ornamental frame on verso, rendering it uniform with the rest of the pages, and has in centre the certificate in 2 lines: "This edition consists of 250 copies/ Bernard Quaritch." An anonymous publication. Inscribed on end-paper: "Hugh Cecil, from his brother, Cranborne," in Lord Cranborne's handwriting. 15. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and the Salaman and Absal of Jami, Rendered into English Verse. Bernard Quaritch, 1879. Square 8vo, Roxburghe style binding, half dark green leather, plum red linen sides, t.e.g., others uncut, dark slate end-papers, frontispiece plate. The first 3 Omars having been issued anonymously, as also the Jami of 1856, the combined edition too was issued without the translator's name. Because of the extensive revisions of text it is a book of considerable importance. 16. Works of Edward Fitzgerald, Translator of Omar Khayyam. 2 vols. New York and Boston: Houghton Mifflin; London: Bernard Quaritch, 1887. Tall 8vo, bevelled blue cloth, spine titling labels, top edges uncut, others trimmed, blue patterned end-papers, frontispiece portrait in first volume. This set belonged to a Prime Minister of England, and has his gilt stamp, "A. J. Balfour, 1887."

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FITZGERALD (Edward) 1809-1883 17. Letters and Literary Remains of Edward Fitzgerald. Edited by William Aldis Wright. 3 vols. Macmillan, 1889. Red cloth, gilt spines, top edges uncut, others trimmed. In volume 1 the title-page and frontispiece portrait are printed on a quarter-sheet of plate paper; in volume 2 the title-page and frontispiece illustration are part of the first gathering (ordinary text-paper), and in volume 3 the frontispiece is printed on separate leaf and inserted. 18. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. 5th ed. Macmillan, 1890. Cream parchment, gilt, all edges uncut. Printed on paper watermarked "Holyrood," with armorial figure. Described as Fifth Edition on verso of title, this is the first separate variorum edition of the 4 texts. From the library of the Omar bibliographer A. G. Potter, with his bookplate and pencilled note "First Ed." on end-paper. 19. Greene, Herbert Wilson. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. And into Latin Verse By H. W. Greene. [Privately printed] 1893. 40 pages, sewn into off-white wrappers lettered on upper side, "Omarii Poemata," all edges uncut. Dedicated to A. D. Godley and inscribed: "With the translator's compliments." Verso of title carries the note: "It has been impossible to print the English version of Mr. Fitzgerald, as the copyright, held by Messrs. Macmillan & Co., has not yet expired. The Latin translator follows the readings and order of the edition of 1890. H. W. G." It is stated that only 50 copies were printed. 20. Omarii Poemata. Macmillan, 1893. Another edition of the Latin translation, issued interleaved with Fitzgerald's text. Smooth pale linen, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. Inscribed by the translator: "S. G. H. from H. W. G., 16th Nov., 1893." There is a note in Potter's hand in pencil for the appropriate entry in his Bibliography, p. 501, indicating this was his copy. 21. Letters of Edward Fitzgerald. 2 vols. Macmillan, 1894. Dark red cloth, spines gilt-lettered, all edges uncut, frontispiece plates. Preface by William Aldis Wright, dated Trinity College, Cambridge, 31 March 1894. This is the first issue in Macmillan's Eversley Series format, in which it was reprinted many times without revision. Belonged to T. E. Brown, the Manx poet, and has his signature and notes in red pencil on end-paper. Loosely inserted is a stamped postmarked card addressed to his daughters, the Misses Brown, in Bournemouth.

FITZGERALD (Edward) 1809-1883 22. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. With Accompaniment of Drawings by Elihu Vedder. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1894. Square 8vo, grey-blue bevelled cloth with elaborate gilt design, t.e.g., other edges unopened (as they are intended to be kept), printed on alternate versos and rectos, floral end-papers, fine copy in original designed dust-jacket, as issued. 23. Letters of Edward Fitzgerald to Fanny Kemble, 1871-1883. Edited by William Aldis Wright. R. Bentley, 1895. Dark red cloth, gilt spine, all edges cut, 2 portraits. Uniform with the Eversley Series, though from another publisher. On Bentley's demise Macmillan immediately took over unbound sheets, and issued them in similar red cloth with their name at foot of spine. This copy, with "Bentley" at foot of spine, is in the first state. 24. Salaman and Absal: An Allegory Translated from the Persian of Jami. Together with a Bird's Eye View of Farid-Uddin Attar's Bird-Parliament. Edited by Nathan Haskell Dole. Boston: L. C. Page, 1899. The Trinity Edition in original half green morocco, gilt spine, green marbled sides and end-papers, t.e.g., others uncut. Frontispiece portrait of Fitzgerald. 25. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Rendered into English Verse. Macmillan, 1899. First issue in the publisher's Golden Treasury Series in which it was reprinted many times without notable variation. It is an endeavour towards a variorum edition. Blue cloth, gilt, all edges uncut. 26. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Macmillan, 1899. Tall 8vo, cream parchment, red decorated spine, red silk ties, all edges uncut. The first true variorum edition, with Fitzgerald's 4 versions, prefaces and notes reproduced consecutively and with a comparative table. Inscribed: "Augusta Freshfield from Herbert Paul, Christmas 1899." From the E. C. Clough sale, Winterslow, Salisbury, 24 September 1948. 27. Miscellanies. Macmillan, 1900. First issue, Golden Treasury Series; the second printing was dated 1905, and though identical in contents, pagination &c., has its title changed to Euphranor and Other Miscellanies. William Aldis Wright's Preface is dated from Trinity College, Cambridge, 15 July 1900.

256 FITZGERALD (Edward) 1809-1883 28. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. With A Commentary by H. M. Batson and a Biographical Introduction by E. D. Ross. Methuen, 1900. Light green cloth, spine lettered in 8 lines in white enamel, t.e.g., others uncut, publisher's 48 page catalogue dated November 1900 at end. 29. More Letters of Edward Fitzgerald. Preface by William Aldis Wright. Macmillan, 1901. This is the final volume in the Eversley Series format, completing a uniform edition of Fitzgerald's correspondence in 4 volumes, 1894-1901. Wright's Preface is dated 11 September 1901. 30. Polonius: A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances. Portland, Maine: T. B. Mosher, 1901. Square 8vo, blue boards, spine titling label, all edges uncut, one of 450 copies printed on Van Gelder handmade paper. Unusually fine copy in the printed dust-jacket. 31. Letters and Literary Remains of Edward Fitzgerald. 7 vols. Macmillan, 1902-1903. Tall 8vo, dark red silk boards, elaborately gilt and lettered "The Works . . . . " This Edition-de-luxe is limited to 775 sets. 32. Polonius: A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances. Methuen, 1903. A miniature edition, 2 3/4" x 4 1/4", blue leather, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Inscribed: "Kathleen from Boy, 27 Nov. "03." This is an intimate presentation from A. Neil Lyons (1880-1940) to his elderly patron, Miss Spinks of Bournemouth. 33. Heron-Allen, Edward. The Second Edition of Edward Fitzgerald's Ruba'iyyat of 'Umar Khayyam (London: 1868: B. Quaritch). Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Edward Heron-Allen. Duckworth, 1908. Small 4to, dark blue boards, half cream parchment, gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others uncut. 34. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Hodder & Stoughton [1913]. 4to, dark red cloth, gilt extra, 20 coloured plates. The illustrations are tipped-in on to Japanese vellum sheets with printed borders; the first issue of Dulac's edition. 35. Dictionary of Madame de Sevigne. By Edward Fitzgerald. Edited and Annotated by his Great-niece Mary Eleanor Fitzgerald Kerrich. 2 vols. Macmillan, 1914. In the Eversley Series format, all edges uncut, 16 illustrations, publisher's circular blind "Presentation Copy" stamp on title-pages.

FITZGERALD (Edward) 1809-1883 36. Some New Letters of Edward Fitzgerald. Edited by F. R. Barton. With Foreword by Viscount Grey of Fallodon. Williams & Norgate, 1923. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt spine, 2 portraits. N2 at end carries adverts on recto, with verso blank. 37. Rodwell, E. H. Omar Khayyam: Persian Text with Paraphrase and the First and Fourth Editions of Fitzgerald's Translation. Kegan Paul, 1931. Imperial 8vo, green cloth, gilt spine, top edges stained orange, others cut. 38. A Fitzgerald Medley. Edited by Charles Ganz. Methuen, 1933. Tall 8vo, reddish brown linen, gilt spine, only lower edges uncut, 5 illustrations, in pictorial dust-jacket (15/- net). Associated Translations 39. Mac-Carthy, Denis Florence. Calderon's Dramas. Now First Translated Fully from the Spanish in the Metre of the Original. H. S. King, 1873. Dark reddish brown cloth, gilt and black lettered and designed, t.e.g., others trimmed, blue-black end-papers, one leaf of adverts at end followed by the 44 page catalogue of Kegan Paul dated 8.86. Their imprint, also, is at foot of spine, indicating that this is a late binding-up of original H. S. King First Edition sheets. 40. Whinfield, E. H. The Quatrains of Omar Khayyam. Translated into English Verse. Trubner, 1882. Dark orange cloth, gilt, brown end-papers, a volume of the publisher's Oriental Series. The presence of Trubner's 80 page catalogue at end dated "5/3/'87" would indicate that the First Edition of this work sold slowly. 41. Whinfield, E. H. Quatrains of Omar Khayyam. 2nd ed. rev. Kegan Paul, 1893. Produced in the Oriental Series, in similar format to 1882 edition but translator's note, dated 6 February 1893, indicates considerable revision and increase in number of quatrains. 42. Hay, Hon. John. In Praise of Oman An Address before the Omar Khayyam Club. Portland, Maine: T. B. Mosher, 1898. Pott 8vo, semi-stiff blue wrappers lettered black, designed red. One of 925 copies on Van Gelder paper. Inscribed: "To Mr. Bertram Dobell with the regards & Easter Greetings of Thomas B. Mosher. April 9th, 1898."

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43. McCarthy, Justin Huntiey. Quatrains of Omar Khayyam in English Prose. David Nutt, 1898. Light green cloth, lettered in white and dark green, gilt-designed upper cover, t.e.g., others uncut.

facsimile of an unpublished Fitzgerald letter of 4 pages. This copy belonged to George Somes Layard and has his bookplate; he has inserted a photograph of Little Grange, Woodbridge and a specimen of Fitzgerald's own bookplate.

44. Curtis, Elizabeth Alden. One Hundred Quatrains from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. A Rendering in English Verse. Gouverneur, New York: Brothers of the Book, 1899. Grey-blue cloth, gilt, all edges uncut. No. 177 of 600 copies.

52. Wright, Thomas. Life of Edward Fitzgerald. 2 vols. Grant Richards, 1904. Tall 8vo, dark red cloth, yellow spine titling labels, t.e.g., others uncut, with 56 plates.

45. Talbot, Arthur B. Quatrains of Omar Khayyam from a Literal Prose Translation. Done into English Verse. Elkin Mathews, 1908. Puce coloured wrappers, a volume of the publisher's Vigo Cabinet Series. 46. Mallard, James Henry. Omar Kheyyam: Traduit en vers francais d'apres la celebre version anglaise de Fitzgerald. Rivingtons, 1912. 4to, smooth red buckram, gilt-lettered up spine and on upper side, top edges stained red, others uncut. 47. Pollen, John LL.D. Omar Khayyam: Faithfully and Literally Translated from the Original Persian. With a Foreword by His Highness the Aga Khan. East & West, Ltd., 1915. Buff coloured holland, lettered down spine and on upper side in green, top edges cut, others uncut. Autograph Letter 48. ALS 4 pages from Edward Fitzgerald dated from Little Grange, Woodbridge to "My dear Sir, July 9 (I think)" [1881]. See also the William Bell Scott collection. Secondary Material 49. Tutin, J. R. A Concordance to Fitzgerald's Translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Macmillan, 1900. Cream parchment with red silk ties, spine fully designed in red, all edges uncut. 50. Glyde, John. Life of Edward Fitzgerald. With an Introduction by Edward Clodd. C. Arthur Pearson, 1900. Dark blue bevelled buckram, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece. 51. Groome, Francis Hindes. Edward Fitzgerald: An Aftermath. With Miscellanies in Verse & Prose. Portland, Maine: T. B. Mosher, 1902. Square 8vo, light blue boards, half cream parchment, t.e.g., others uncut. One of 600 copies on Van Gelder handmade paper. 12 illustrations and a

53. Wright, Thomas. Life of Edward Fitzgerald. 2nd ed. 2 vols. Grant Richards, 1904. Format identical with above. This edition was published in February without any apparent revision. The First Edition was published in January. 54. Johnson, Catharine B. William Bodham Donne and His Friends. Methuen, 1905. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, gilt, 16 illustrations, publisher's 40 page catalogue at end dated October 1905. In the Index there are 82 entries under Edward Fitzgerald; an important source-book, containing the first printing of many letters by him. 55. Blyth, James. Edward Fitzgerald and "Posh": "Herring Merchants." John Long, 1908. Dark bluish green cloth, gilt, top edges cut, others uncut, 16 illustrations. This book contains a number of letters from Edward Fitzgerald to Joseph Fletcher, the "Posh" of the letters, not hitherto published. N7 and N8 at end, pp.[201-204], are blanks. 56. Edward Fitzgerald, 1809-1909. Centenary Celebrations Souvenir. Ipswich: East Anglian Daily Times [1909]. 4to, cream linen, upper side black designed and lettered, 10 illustrations and facsimile letter. Contributions by A. C. Benson, M. Betham-Edwards, J. H. McCarthy, Coulson Kernahan and others. 57. Prideaux, Colonel W. F. Omar and His Translator. Ely: Printed at the Private Press of E. H. Blakeney, 1909. Tall 8vo, slate blue wrappers lettered in darker blue, neatly bound in half green calf, gilt spine, floral board sides. This copy belonged to A. G. Potter, the Omar bibliographer, and has his bookplate. FLECKER (James Elroy) 1884-1915 1. The Bridge of Fire: Poems by James Flecker. Elkin Mathews, 1907. Scarlet wrappers designed and lettered in black, top edges cut, others uncut. No. 45 of the publisher's Vigo Cabinet Series, it is the last title listed inside lower wrappers.

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2. The Last Generation: A Story of the Future. New Age Press, 1908. Mauve wrappers pictorially designed and lettered in darker blue, top edges cut, others uncut. The 8 page List of Publications at end is printed on D5-D8. Preserved in a drop book-box, spine gilt-lettered. A later issue of First Edition sheets has all edges cut.

7. The King of Alsander. Max Goschen, 1914. Bright red cloth, gilt spine, upper side lettered in 4 lines in white enamel below a gilt crown, only lower edges uncut. The Golden Journey to Samarkand is advertised on verso of half-title.

3. Thirty Six Poems. Adelphi Press, 1910. Dark red cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges uncut. E4 at end, pp.[71-72], is blank; the leaf before half-title is also blank. Inscribed: "From the Poet's Parents to the Poet's most faithful admirer Miss Gurney, Nov. 5th (his birthday) 1924," in the handwriting of the Rev. Dr. W. H. Flecker, the poet's father. 4. Forty-Two Poems. J. M. Dent, 1911. Dark red cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. The venture known as The Adelphi Press, Ltd. suffered financial collapse late in 1910, and the unbound sheets of Thirty-Six Poems were transferred to J. M. Dent who cancelled the preliminary gathering of 4 leaves and substituted his own, in which Flecker's note on verso of half-title was lengthened and dated Constantinople April 1911. Six more titles were appended to the Contents leaf, and to accommodate them an additional gathering of 8 leaves signed 'F' is found at end. Pagination of this is 71-[86]; the blank leaf E4 was cancelled, hence that gathering has only 3 leaves. The number of copies involved has not been recorded, but Thirty-Six Poems is a book of considerable scarcity. 5. The Grecians: A Dialogue on Education. J. M. Dent, 1910. Green vertically ribbed cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 6 lines with one small ornament, circular device in blind on upper side, t.e.g., others cut. This book advertises Thirty-Six Poems on verso of half-title. Later bound copies of First Edition sheets are found with top edges cut only, not gilt. 6. The Golden Journey to Samarkand. Max Goschen, 1913. Dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered on spine in 11 lines between double rules top and bottom, and in 4 lines on upper side, top edges cut, others uncut. E8 at end is blank on recto and carries publisher's adverts on verso. Early reprints are distinguished by bibliographical statement which is exceptionally located-centre blank verso of Contents, p.[vi]. Binding cases are similar, but author's name is dropped 1 1/2 inches to centre of spine.

8. The Old Ships. Poetry Bookshop [1915]. Small 4to, 32 pages, sewn into mauve wrappers, upper side designed and lettered in black, all edges uncut. From some [?] later editions the ship's figurehead of a mermaid is removed. The contents are 17 poems, certain of which had appeared before: "God Save the King" and "The Burial in England" had been printed respectively in January and February 1915 in separate booklets limited to 20 copies each. 9. The Collected Poems. Edited with an Introduction by J. C. Squire. Martin Seeker, 1916. Square 8vo, blue cloth, spine titling label, top edges cut, others uncut, frontispiece portrait. Q6-Q8 at end carry publisher's adverts only. 10. The Selected Poems. Martin Seeker, 1918. Blue cloth, spine titling label lettered downwards in blue, top edges cut, others lightly trimmed, frontispiece portrait. Publisher's 16 page catalogue at end dated 1915. With an Introductory Note by J. C. Squire. This is the earliest dated adverts found, and is of dubious significance, but copies thus are not rare and 2 specimens are in the collection. One contains the errata slip (4 errors) and the other does not, but all copies have the errors. 11. Collected Prose. G. Bell & Sons, 1920. Dark plum red cloth, spine titling label printed in red, top edges cut, others uncut, S8 at end is blank. An uncommon book. 12. Collected Prose. William Heinemann, 1922. Dark plum red cloth, identical with 1920 issue. This is the First Edition, second issue. Title page has been removed, and a new one with Heinemann imprint pasted on stub. S8 is blank at end as before. 13. 14 Poems. Lithographs by Charles Freegrove Winzer. Dijon: Maurice Darantiere, 1921. Large 4to (11 1/4" x 13"). No. 42 of 50 copies on old Japanese vellum. The numeration is in Roman-XLII; the ordinary edition on Verge D'Arches consisting of 500 copies was numbered in Arabic. The sheets are loosely secured in sections with silk thread-strictly

259 FLECKER (James Elroy) 1884-1915 unbound-in a white folder with black design on upper side. The Esher copy, with Brett bookplate, preserved in a linen case, spine gilt-lettered. 14. Hassan: The Story of Hassan of Bagdad and How He Came to Make the Golden Journey to Samarkand: A Play in Five Acts. William Heinemann, 1922. Green linen, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, only lower edges uncut, in printed dust-jacket (6/net). 15. The Collected Poems. Martin Seeker, 1923. This is an Edition-de-luxe of the volume first published in 1916. Small 4to (7 1/2" x 10 1/4") but collating in 8's, yellow buckram gilt-lettered on spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut, in dust-jacket (42/- net). Only 500 copies printed. J. C. Squire's long Introduction is not reprinted and there is no frontispiece portrait. Otherwise the contents are identical, though the listing on Contents leaf of the "Epilogue" to The Golden Journey to Samarkand as a separate poem causes confusion in checking. 16. Don Juan: A Play in Three Acts. With a Preface by Helle" Flecker. William Heinemann, 1925. Green linen, identical format with Hassan, in dust-jacket (6s. net). The dust-jacket is printed in red, whereas that for Hassan was printed in black. 17. The Letters of J. E. Flecker to Frank Savery. Beaumont Press, 1926. Vellum covers, upper side elaborately designed in red, green and blue, all edges uncut. No. 62 of 80 copies signed by Helle Flecker, who edited the letters and contributed the foreword, by both the artists, Clandia Guercio and Randolph Schwabe, and by the publisher, Cyril W. Beaumont. 18. Another copy of the First Edition, No. 235 of 310 on handmade paper. The binding has identical coloured design, but the material is half-parchment, not vellum. Same gilt-lettering upwards on spine. 19. Don Juan: A Play in Three Acts. William Heinemann, 1926. No. 39 of 350 copies printed on English Hand Made Paper. Tall 8vo, (5 3/4" x 9 1/4"), smooth red buckram, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait. This may be considered the First Edition, second issue. It carries a new title-page pasted on stub, the first line now being printed in green and the date changed to 1926. The line "First published 1925" no long appears on verso in centre, but printing is from same type.

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20. The Collected Poems. Edited with an Introduction by Sir John Squire. New ed., reset. Martin Seeker, 1935. The Fifteenth Edition, described on verso of title-page as New Edition, reset, 1935. The First Edition of 1916 was printed at Knight's, West Norwood; this edition, very similarly set, is from the Kemp Hall Press at Oxford. There is a 6 page additional Introduction to the Edition of 1935. The same frontispiece portrait is used, slightly reduced (as is the volume itself) in size. Secondary Material 21. Hodgson, Geraldine. The Life of James Elroy Flecker. From Letters and Materials provided by His Mother. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1925. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, titling labels on spine and upper side, edges trimmed, 6 plates. Note: See the Douglas Goldring collection for James Elroy Flecker: An Appreciation (1922). FLINT (Frank Stewart) b. 1885 1. In the Net of the Stars. Elkin Mathews, 1909. Grey boards, holland spine with titling label, upper side designed and lettered in black, top edges cut, others uncut. The First Edition of the author's first book. 2. The Mosella of Decimus Magnus Ausonius. Translated by F. S. Flint. The Egoist [1915]. 12mo, 24 pages metal fastened, issued without outer wrapper or title-page, price 6d. net. The Poets' Translation Series No. 6. 3. Verhaeren, Emile. The Love Poems. Translated by F. S. Flint. Constable, 1916. Square 8vo, grey boards, mauve linen spine lettered in 3 lines in black and in 2 lines on upper side, top edges cut, others uncut. The translations are into prose. 4. Some French Poets of To-Day. A Commentary with Specimens by F. S. Flint. Poetry Bookshop, 1919. 40 pages, square 8vo, sewn into yellow wrappers pictorially designed by Bosschiere. The Monthly Chapbook No. 4, October 1919. 5. The Younger French Poets. By F. S. Flint. Poetry Bookshop, 1920. 32 pages, square 8vo, sewn into cream wrappers pictorially designed in red and blue. The Chapbook (A Monthly Miscellany) No. 17. November 1920.

260 FLINT (Frank Stewart) b. 1885 Manuscript 6. Holograph MS (probably the original) on a 4to sheet of plain wove paper (8" x 10") of his poem "Tu as laiss£ ton fils," headed "songe"; 12 lines signed at end "F. S. Flint." FLOWER (Robin) 1881-1946 1. Eire and Other Poems. Locke Ellis, 1910. Bluish green semi-stiff wrappers with yapp edges, top edges cut, others uncut. Lettered on upper and lower sides in red. Pp.[vi], 58, printed on paper watermarked "St. Winifred," the front and rear end-papers also being of text-paper quality. P.[57] is blank with publisher's adverts on verso. Autograph presentation from the publisher, Vyvian Locke Ellis, to John Freeman. 2. O'Rahilly, Thomas F. Danta Gradha: An Anthology of Irish Love Poetry of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Collected and Edited by Thomas F. O'Rahilly, M.A., M.R.I.A. With an Introduction by Robin Flower, Lecturer in Irish in the University of London. Dublin, &c.: Browne & Nolan, 1916. Light brown semi-stiff wrappers, lettered upper and lower sides in dark blue, all edges cut, 60 pages, the first and the last being blanks. The blank before half-title is ignored in pagination. Inscribed: "To Mrs. A. S. Green, with all good wishes from T. F. O'Rahilly." 3. Hymenaea and Other Poems. Selwyn & Blount, 1918. Green boards with titling label lettered down the spine, top edges cut, others trimmed. The laid-down front end-paper is counted in the pagination as 1-2. Following p.[48] is publisher's Autumn 1918 Announcements, paginated to 8. Inserted is the author's Christmas Greeting card with hand coloured design, and inscribed in his wife's autograph: "With love from Bar & Robin. I don't think it is published yet." 4. A Thanksgiving. Christmas, 1922. A Privately printed booklet, without imprint and unpaginated, 36 pages (including the laid-down ends) printed on laid paper watermarked "English" &c. with a design. Blue linen boards with titling label on upper side. Photographic mounted frontispiece portrait of the author's daughter. Inscribed presentation copy to Mr. and Mrs. John Freeman: "To John and Gertrude from Robin."

FLOWER (Robin) 1881-1946 5. The Leelong Flower. Robin Flower. Christmas, 1923. Uniform format with A Thanksgiving save colour of binding, which is green. Mounted frontispiece plate, 32 pages (including laid-down end-papers). Inscribed: "John and Gertrude Freeman from Robin and Ida Flower," in the handwriting of the author. 6. The Great Blasket. Robin and Ida Flower. Christmas, 1924. Uniform format with above, but colour of cloth is brown. Frontispiece on plate paper, 40 pages (including laid-down end-papers). This is the first of the booklets to be paginated and the first to carry an imprint: "Reproduced and Printed by Donald Macbeth at The Historic House, 17 Fleet Street, London E.C. 4." The pagination is from 5-20, and ignores the imprint leaf, blanks, &c. Inscribed by Dr. Flower: "John and Gertrude from Robin and Bar." 7. Love's Bitter-Sweet: Translations from the Irish Poets of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1925. Pale lavender boards, half-holland, titling label lettered up spine and upper cover lettered in 4 lines, end-papers to match boards, 500 copies printed, certifiate in red on p.[37]. 8. Monkey Music. Robin Flower, Christmas, 1925. Uniform format with The Great Blasket, save that colour of cloth is red. This booklet is paginated 5-27 and has printer's imprint of Donald Macbeth. Mounted frontispiece plate. Inscribed: "To the Freemans from the Flowers," in the author's handwriting. 9. Trirech Inna N-En. From the Irish. Robin Flower, 1926. Uniform format with Monkey Music, save that colour of cloth is lighter red. This booklet is paginated 5-16 and has imprint of Donald Macbeth. The frontispiece is on plate paper. Inscribed: "John and Gertrude from Robin and Bar," in the author's handwriting. 10. The Pilgrim's Way. Robin Flower, Christmas, 1927. Uniform format with above save that colour of cloth is light green. Paginated 5-17 and with imprint of Donald Macbeth. Mounted frontispiece plate. Inscribed: "John and Gertrude from Robin and Bar," in the author's handwriting. 11. Byron and Ossian. The Byron Foundation Lecture delivered at University College, Nottingham, December 7 1928. Nottingham, 1928. 20 pages, metal fastened into dark green wrappers lettered in black on upper side.

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FLOWER (Robin) 1881-1946 12. Fuit Ilium. Robin Flower, Christmas, 1928. Uniform format with The Pilgrim's Way save that colour of cloth is dark brown. Paginated 5-17 and with imprint of Donald Macbeth. Mounted frontispiece photograph. Inscribed: "John from Robin," in the author's handwriting. 13. Poems and Translations. Constable, 1931. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine, in printed dust-jacket (7/6 net). Frontispiece plate, top edges stained orange, only lower edges uncut. Inscribed: "Gertrude from Robin, Christmas 1931," in the author's handwriting. The issue of the Christmas booklets had been discontinued and John Freeman had died in 1929—hence the old association was broken up—but Mrs. Freeman was remembered again. 14. The Irish Tradition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1947. Light green cloth, gilt spine, only lower edges uncut, in printed dust-jacket (8/6 net). Inscribed: "Gertrude Freeman from Bar Flower." Dr. Flower now also having died, this inscription is from his widow to John Freeman's widow. FRASER (Claud Lovat) 1890-1921 1. Macfall, Haldane. The Splendid Wayfaring. Decorated by Lovat Fraser, Gaudier-Brzeska, the Author and Gordon Craig. Simpkin Marshall, &c., 1913. [Millard 130.] Small 4to (7 1/2" x 9 1/4"), pink watered-silk cloth, spine and both sides elaborately gilt, t.e.g., others trimmed, glazed end-papers to match cloth with design in white. Al before half-title and 2D2-2D4 at end are blanks. The book is printed on semi-stiff cards, with 54 designs by Lovat Fraser, of which 11 are here published for the first time. 2. Honeywood, Richard. The Two Wizards and Other Songs. At the Sign of Flying Fame, 1913. No. 3 of first series of Chapbooks, 16 pages sewn into green wrappers, size 4 1/4" x 6 1/8", edges cut. 400 copies printed at 6d. Richard Honeywood is a pen-name of Claud Lovat Fraser. 3. Honeywood, Richard. Six Essays in the XVIIIth Century. At the Sign of Flying Fame, 1913. [Millard 15.] No. 4 of first series of Chapbooks, size 2 7/8" x 4 1/8", 28 pages sewn into grey-green wrappers, edges cut; 7 decorations by Lovat Fraser who wrote the text under this pseudonym. 600 copies were printed, price 3d.

Poetry Bookshop Rhyme Sheets 4. Rhyme Sheet. [No. 8] [Millard 99.] Contains 2 poems by John Drinkwater: "Holiness," 3 stanzas of 5 lines each, and "The City," 2 stanzas of 6 and 7 lines respectively. Two coloured drawings by Lovat Fraser. Size 8 1/10" x 20 9/10". Printed on paper watermarked "Colne Valley/Parchment." [Third Thousand], Price 3d. 5. Rhyme Sheet. [No. 9] [Millard 100.] Contains "Drinking," a poem of 20 lines by Abraham Cowley. Three coloured drawings by Lovat Fraser. Size 8" x 28". Printed on a toned thick wove paper. No price stated. 6. Rhyme Sheet. [No. 10] [Millard 101.] "The Ballad of Keith of Ravelston" by Sydney Dobell. Poem of 11 quatrains, with 2 coloured drawings by Lovat Fraser. Size 8" x 23". Without price and printed on same quality paper as No. 9. Poetry Bookshop Rhyme Sheets, Second Series 7. Vespers. [No. 1] [Millard 102.] Poem of 9 lines by T. E. Brown, with 2 coloured drawings by Lovat Fraser. 8. There is a Lady Sweet and Kind. [No. 4] [Millard 103.] Anonymous poem of 3 quatrains, with 2 coloured drawings by Lovat Fraser. 9.

Another copy, identical with above.

10. Song. [No. 6] [Millard 104.] Poem in 3 stanzas of 6 lines by Thomas Campion, with 2 coloured drawings by Lovat Fraser. 11. The Parting. [No. 7] [Millard 105.] Sonnet by Michael Drayton, with 2 coloured drawings by Lovat Fraser. 12. The Sad Day. [No. 10] [Millard 106.] Poem of 19 lines by Thomas Flatman, with 2 coloured drawings by Lovat Fraser. 13. Bog Love. [No. 11] [Millard 107.] Poem in 4 quatrains by Shane Leslie, with 2 coloured drawings by Lovat Fraser. See the Shane Leslie collection. 14. For a Guest Room. [No. 12] [Millard 108.] Poem in 3 stanzas of 8 lines by John Drinkwater, with 2 coloured drawings by Lovat Fraser. See the Drinkwater collection.

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15. Epigramme. [No. 16] [Millard 110.] Poem of 10 lines by Charles Cotton, with 2 coloured drawings by Lovat Eraser. The above 8 broadsides printed on wove paper of varying quality but uniform length-14". Widths vary by some 7/10", maximum 7 1/5". Those on thinner paper have a watermark: "Secretary Bond."

on p. 56, for which a cancel leaf should have been supplied, but has apparently been overlooked.

Flying Fame Broadsides, Second Series (undated) 16. De la Mare, Walter. The Old Men. [Millard 29.] Poem of 24 lines, with 2 coloured drawings by Lovat Fraser; see the de la Mare collection. 17. [Fraser, Lovat.] Summer. [Millard 32.] Poem of 14 lines-without the author's name. With 2 coloured drawings by Lovat Fraser. 18. Fraser, Lovat. The Wind. [Millard 44.] Poem of 7 lines, with the author's name. With 2 coloured drawings by Lovat Fraser. 19. [Fraser, Lovat.] The Blind Fiddler's Dog. [Millard 56.] Prose broadside contributed by the artist anonymously. With 2 coloured drawings by Lovat Fraser. These Broadsides, 2d. plain, or 4d. hand coloured, were issued in an edition of 1,000 copies towards the end of 1913. Printed on thick wove paper of uniform size (5 9/10" x 11 3/5"), they are not numbered or dated, whereas the first series, issued earlier in the same year, were both numbered and dated. 20. Sixteen Songs for Six Pence. Designed and Decorated by C. Lovat Fraser and Published by the Poetry Bookshop, 35 Devonshire Street, Theobalds Road, London. W.C. 1 [1921]. Nursery sheet, size 10 1/2" x 16", 6d. "No. 1" in top right hand corner, but no further numbers were published. Lettering in black and 16 decorations in black and green. 21. Prospectus. Richard Corbett's "Farewell to the Faeries" and Kenneth Hare's "Three Poems." [Millard 96.] Printed (2,000 copies) on thin paper (2 7/8" x 4 1/2") within ornamental border by C. Lovat Fraser. Editions published by Everard Meynell, 1916. 22. The Lute of Love. Decorated by C. Lovat Fraser. Selwyn & Blount, [1920]. [Millard 164.] Red and yellow designed stiff wrappers with 2 titling labels, edges cut; 2,000 copies printed. With 104 decorations by C. L. F. An erratum slip is inserted correcting an attribution of authorship of the poem printed on p. 64; but there is a quite daunting misprint in Drayton's perfect sonnet

23. Thorp, Joseph. Apropos the Unicorn: A Few Candid Notes by Joseph Thorp. Curwen Press [1920]. [Millard 570.] 28 pages (the printed pagination is incorrect), coloured illustrations, stiff decorated boards with titling label on upper side. The binding paper is from a design by Lovat Fraser and there are 3 decorations by him. 24. Nodier, Charles. The Luck of the Bean-Rows. A Fairy Tale Translated from the French of Charles Nodier. Illustrated by Claud Lovat Fraser. Daniel O'Connor [1921]. [Millard 196.] Tall 8vo, coloured designed smooth boards, light blue linen spine, edges cut. The first issue, printed at the Westminster Press on toned paper with coloured end-papers. The first leaf carries title-page, of which the border is printed in black. A dedication poem, "To the Princess," on recto of a single leaf dated Christmas 1921 is loosely inserted. The second and third states of this book are printed on white paper at the Curwen Press and have plain end-papers. By a reversed folding they have a half-title as has the fourth issue, which again is printed at Westminster Press. 25. Folio, Felix, Gent, of London [pseudonym of William Maas]. Helicon Hill: Being a Pleasant Posy of Rather Wild Flowers Gathered on the Foothills of Parnassus. Selwyn & Blount, 1921. [Millard 184.] Glazed light green boards with pink titling label on upper side, edges cut, 32 decorations by Lovat Fraser. 26. Gay, John. The Beggar's Opera. Written by Mr. Gay. To which is Prefixed the Musick to each Song. William Heinemann, 1921. [Millard 190.] Small 4to (collates in 8's), size 8" x 10 1/2", smooth bevelled black buckram, gilt spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. Eight full page coloured plates on blue mounts and 23 decorations in the text by Lovat Fraser. No. 141 of 350 copies for sale in the United Kingdom (50 in the U.S.A.), with signature in facsimile (the work being issued posthumously). There is a 4 page Memorial Essay by John Drinkwater, dated Midsummer 1921. 27. Another copy of First Edition, the ordinary issue in tall 8vo, size 6" x 10" [Millard 189]. Glazed yellow boards, half black linen, 2 titling labels, top edges stained green, only lower edges uncut. This ordinary edition was reprinted 3 times before the end of the year and again in January 1922.

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28. Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition of Works by the late Claud Lovat Fraser. With Prefatory Notes by E. Gordon Craig and Walter de la Mare. The Leicester Galleries, December 1921. 16mo, cream wrappers with coloured design by the artist on upper side, 44 pages, frontispiece portrait and 7 plates. This is a copy of the second issue, without the words "(First Hundred)" on title-page. The third state has the words "Second Edition."

on handmade paper and limited to 300 copies, though no certificate was printed.

29. Little Romances. Curwen Press [? 1921]. 16 pages, metal fastened into cream wrappers, with a coloured drawing (3 1/2" x 4") by Lovat Fraser (1921) on upper wrapper and small ornament by him on lower cover. Advertising booklet issued by Gurr Johns & Co., Ltd., Valuers. 30. Preston, Hayter. The House of Vanities. Biographical Foreword by Haldane Macfall. John Lane, 1922. [Millard 227.] Patterned boards with titling label on upper side, also a pink label affixed, "This book is illustrated by C. Lovat Fraser," and with 2 decorations. There are 78 decorations by him in text. The laid-down end-papers raise a problem in the collation as the front one is conjugate with pp.[13-14] and the rear one, which carries the imprint of The Morland Press on recto, with pp. 47-48. 31. Goldoni, Carlo. The Liar: A Comedy in Three Acts. Translated from the Italian by Grace Lovat Fraser. With Decorations by C. Lovat Fraser and an Introduction by E. Gordon Craig. Selwyn & Blount, 1922. [Millard 216.] Small 4to (collates in 8's), smooth pale green boards, black linen spine, 2 titling labels, top edges cut, others uncut. There was also an Edition-de-luxe consisting of 250 numbered copies on special paper. 32. Savage, Henry. A Long Spoon and the Devil: Being Fish Quaint and Queer from the Spoon River, the Property of Edgar Lee Masters, Poached by Henry Savage. Cecil Palmer, 1922. [Millard 203.] Patterned boards, grey linen spine, titling label on upper side, top edges cut, others uncut, 2 coloured decorations by Lovat Fraser. There is no register; pp.[57-58] at end is blank save for imprint of Curwen Press centre verso. 33. Cotton, Charles. Poems from the Works of Charles Cotton. Newly Decorated by Claud Lovat Fraser. The Poetry Bookshop, 1922. [Millard 212.] Tall 8vo, smooth cream buckram, gilt-lettered up spine and on upper side in 5 lines with Lovat Fraser design, top edges cut, others uncut. In yellow dust-jacket printed in black. This is the edition printed

34. Cotton, Charles. Poems from the Works of Charles Cotton. Newly decorated by Claud Lovat Fraser. The Poetry Bookshop, 1922. [Millard 211.] Glazed pale orange boards, lettered black and with a different Lovat Fraser drawing from the special edition. Blue linen spine with orange label lettered upwards, all edges cut, in green dust-jacket lettered and designed black. The issue on ordinary small paper, of which 1,000 copies were printed. (A reprint was necessary almost immediately, and a second thousand printed, so styled below the decoration on p.[3]). The end-papers are part of the collation, front laid-down leaf being conjugate with title-page. There is no register; pagination is from 6-49 and the book consists of 28 leaves, including the laid-down ends. 35. Nodier, Charles. The Woodcutter's Dog. Translated from the French of Charles Nodier. Illustrated by Claud Lovat Fraser. 2nd ed. Daniel O'Connor, 1922. [Millard 202.] Edition with certificate on verso title-page. Tall 8vo, yellow boards, designed in white, large titling label on upper side, edges cut. 14 coloured illustrations, 2 being added and one other re-drawn. The whole book reset and re-arranged, with 2 additional leaves carrying adverts, &c. The First Edition was printed at the De la More Press on toned paper, December 1921 and the present edition at the Curwen Press on white paper, January 1922. 36. Macfall, Haldane. The Book of Lovat Claud Fraser. J. M. Dent, 1923. 4to (10" x 12 1/2"), smooth cream boards, lettered and designed, light blue linen spine with orange titling-label, t.e.g., others uncut, coloured designed end-papers. No. 116 of 150 copies signed by the author. In this Edition-de-luxe the 23 full-page plates are mounted on sheets of different quality from text-paper. 37.

Sixty-Three Unpublished Designs.

With an Introduction by Holbrook Jackson. First Edition Club [1924], Pott 8vo, No. 415 of 500 copies, printed on hand-dyed Perusia paper at the Curwen Press, coloured boards with a Lovat Fraser design used for the first time, black linen spine gilt-lettered upwards, edges uncut and unopened. These 63 drawings are to illustrate A. E. Houseman's A Shropshire Lad, which contains 63 poems, but the individual attributions are somewhat complicated. Described in detail as Millard 228 in 1923, before there had been

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PHASER (Claud Lovat) 1890-1921 any proposal to publish them. Inserted in this copy is an original Prospectus with unused order form. 38. A Painting Book of Designs by Claud Lovat Fraser. Published by the Proprietors of Eno's Fruit Salt [1924]. 16 pages (10" x 12"), the outer coloured wrappers being included in the pagination. The Memorial Note and text is by J. Thorp. Published at One Shilling. 39. Playfair, Nigel. The Story of the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith. With Introduction by Arnold Bennett and Epilogue by A. A. Milne. Chatto, 1925. Tall 8vo, red cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 8 lines, only lower edges uncut. The illustrations include 6 plates in colour by Lovat Fraser. FREEMAN (John) 1880-1929 1. Idylls of Arcadia: Lucius and Amanda. Simpkin Marshall, 1901. Pott 8vo, dark green cloth, gilt-lettered up spine and on upper side, all edges uncut. This book has no register but consists of 50 leaves, paginated from 7 to 96, with a blank before half-title not reckoned in pagination, and the final leaf [pp. 97-98] not paginated. The front and rear end-papers are of text-paper quality. First Edition of the author's first book. 2. Twenty Poems. Gay & Hancock, 1909. Light brown wrappers, upper side lettered in black, all edges uncut. The Esher copy, preserved in a linen case with Brett bookplate. 3. Another copy of First Edition, identical with above. 4. Another copy, inscribed: "To Edward Thomas, Esq., from John Freeman. January 1909." 5. Another copy, inscribed: "To Lord Alfred Douglas from John Freeman. January 1909." 6. Fifty Poems. Herbert & Daniel, 1911. Slate blue wrappers, upper side lettered in darker blue, all edges uncut. Dedicated to Alice Meynell; the author's earlier collection carried no dedication, though the last poem [p. 40] "To My Mother" might be considered as a dedication. Inscribed: "To William H. Davies. John Freeman." This is the Esher copy, preserved in cloth case with Brett bookplate. That it was, in fact, Lord Esher's is testified by the familiar "O. S. B., March 1922," below the last poem.

7.

Another copy, identical with above.

8. Another copy, inscribed: "Edward Thomas, Esq., with compliments," in the author's handwriting. 9. Fifty Poems. Selwyn & Blount, 1916. First Edition, second issue. A small balance of First Edition sheets appears to have been discovered at this time, and issued by the new firm, with their title-page pasted on the stub of the cancelled original. The binding is fawn wrappers with titling label printed in red on upper side, and the edges were left entirely uncut. Cancellation of title-page removed printer's imprint, but this had already been duplicated on p.[78]. The above binding is similar to that in which Selwyn & Blount were just issuing Stone Trees. 10. Stone Trees and Other Poems. Selwyn & Blount, 1916. Semi-stiff deep cream wrappers, 2 printed titling labels, edges trimmed, in printed dust-jacket (2/6 net). Inscribed in the author's hand: "To Marjory, 19 X 1917, J. F." This is presumably Marjory Sampson to whom Memories of Childhood was dedicated in 1918. 11. Another copy of First Edition, in printed dust-jacket, identical with above. The Esher copy in linen case with Brett bookplate. 12. Presage of Victory and Other Poems of the Time. Selwyn & Blount, 1916. Small 4to (without register, probably one sheet, 32 pages), sewn into semi-stiff light grey wrappers, upper side lettered in black, all edges uncut, pp.[31-32] carry adverts only. No. 6 of an edition of 25 copies on laid paper, price Three Shillings and Sixpence, with certificate at foot of Contents leaf. The Esher copy, preserved in a linen case with Brett bookplate. 13. Another copy of First Edition, one of 350 copies on wove paper, the certificate is at foot of p.[5]. Slate grey wrappers lettered as in superior edition save that price below the frame on upper side is now One Shilling Net. Inscribed on half-title: "To W. L. Webb. John Freeman, 6th Jan. 1917." 14. The Moderns: Essays in Literary Criticism. Robert Scott, 1916. Red cloth, spine titling label, only lower edges uncut, Y7 and Y8 at end carry publisher's adverts only. Verso of half-title advertises the author's Presage of Victory and Stone Trees. The Esher copy with Brett bookplate.

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FREEMAN (John) 1880-1929 15. Memories of Childhood. Morland Press, February 1918. Number One of the Green Pastures Series, tall 8vo, green glazed designed wrappers, all edges uncut. This is the Dedication copy, hence presumably an early one; it is to be noted that the book is metal fastened into the wrappers, whereas the next copy entered below is sewn with thread. The Dedication page "To Marjory," verso of title-page, is inscribed: "From J. F. February 1918," and the very pleasant letter which accompanied the gift, dated Anerley 23 February 1918, is still inserted: "Thank you for letting me dedicate the little book to you. But I've chosen to say it here, and not on your own page in the volume . . . Ever yours, John." This letter does not appear in the Marjory Sampson section (pp. 289-298) of John Freeman's Letters (1936). It was possibly overlooked, being found in the book by me. 16. Another copy of First Edition, identical with above (save for being sewn). The Esher copy, preserved in a linen case, gilt-lettered. 17. Memories of Childhood and Other Poems. Selwyn & Blount, 1919. Sage green boards, spine titling label, all edges uncut. This book consists of 12 poems printed in 1918, preceded by "The Wakers" and followed by 77 new poems. The Esher copy, with Brett bookplate; on front end-paper Brett has written, "Bought Bain 1919," and in pencil at foot of last poem his routine "O. S. B. May 1920." 18. Poems New and Old. Selwyn & Blount, 1920. Square 8vo, bright blue cloth, spine titling label, top edges cut, others uncut. The Esher copy, with Brett bookplate; but it is still unopened and therefore cannot bear the anticipated inscription on p.[318]. Pp.[319-320] are blank. 19. Music: Lyrical and Narrative Poems. Selwyn & Blount, 1921. Blue cloth, same format as 1920 volume, though slightly shorter on shelf. Frontispiece portrait by William Rothenstein. The Esher copy with Brett bookplate. The fore-edges have of necessity been opened, and "0. S. B. Apr. 1922" duly appears in pencil foot of p.[190]. 20. The Red Path: A Narrative, and The Wounded Bird. Cambridge: Dunster House, 1921. Tall 8vo, brown boards, half grey linen, titling label on upper side, all edges uncut. There is a small slip facing title-page with imprint of Selwyn & Blount (the London distributor). Colophon p.[31] reads: "425 copies printed by William Edwin Rudge. Fifty are on

FREEMAN (John) 1880-1929 handmade paper & numbered." Then follows "No. 28 John Freeman" in autograph. 21. Another copy of First Edition with certificate on an inserted leaf following half-title: "Of this ordinary edition fifty copies only have been reserved for sale in Great Britain. This is No. 44," followed by author's autograph signature. The original colophon still appears at end. These copies, thinner and fractionally shorter, were bound in bright blue boards, with similar spine and titling label. The titling "Two Poems By John Freeman" appears only on half-titles and cover labels of the above copies. Both are Esher copies carrying Brett bookplate. 22. A Portrait of George Moore in a Study of His Work. T. Werner Laurie, 1922. Tall 8vo, red cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 9 lines, upper side in blind in 4 lines, all edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (16/- net), frontispiece portrait. At end, pp.[231]-283, is Henry Danielson's A Bibliography: 1878-1921 [of George Moore]. 23. Cobbett, William. A Year's Residence in America. Ornamented by Martin Travers. Chapman & Dodd [1922]. A volume of the publisher's Abbey Classics series; the Introduction, pp. ix-[xv], is by John Freeman. Blue cloth, gilt spine, all edges cut, top stained to match cloth, light blue end-papers. 24. English Portraits and Essays. Hodder & Stoughton, 1924. Red cloth, gilt spine, edges cut. A volume of the publisher's Bookman Library, with oval medallion in blind on upper cover. 25. The Grove and Other Poems. Selwyn & Blount, 1924. First Edition and first state. The first lines of stanzas one and 2 on the first page are identical. Blue linen, spine titling label, top edges cut, others uncut. The Esher copy, with bookplate. 26. Another copy of First Edition, but this is second state; first line of first poem reads "Caliphs reclining upon lemon moons." The first quarter-sheet was reprinted to achieve this correction. Identical with above copy in every other respect. 27. Another copy of First Edition, the Large Paper issue of 100 copies. No. 40, signed by the author. It would appear that the whole of this issue was correctly printed, thus demonstrating lateness of issue. Binding is maroon buckram, green leather spine titling label. Esher copy with Brett bookplate.

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28. Prince Absalom. Macmillan, 1925. Small 4to, light brown boards, lettered up spine and on upper side in black, all edges uncut and unopened throughout. Esher copy with Brett bookplate.

36. Gurney, Ivor. Original typescript of a long poem of above 100 lines, entitled at head "Roman" and signed by the author. On four 4to sheets with a few corrections, and his note at the end that it is unfinished.

29. Herman Melville. Macmillan, 1926. A volume of English Men of Letters [new third series]. Dark red cloth spine gilt-lettered, top edges stained to match cloth, others uncut. The first biography in this New Series, edited by J. C. Squire; it is also the first book on Melville to be published in England. Esher copy with Brett bookplate.

37. De la Mare, Walter. A Christmas Greeting Card with 4 lines of verse in de la Mare's handwriting in ink, but unsigned, commencing "To Cathie & Joy." These were Freeman's 2 daughters.

30. Solomon and Balkis. Macmillan, 1926. Uniform 4to format with Prince Absalom. An unopened copy, with Brett bookplate. 31. Collected Poems. With a Portrait by Laura Knight, A.R.A. Macmillan, 1928. Dark blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, all edges uncut. The leaf before half-title carries adverts of books "By The Same Author" on verso. 32. Last Poems. Edited with an Introduction by J. C. Squire. Macmillan, 1930. Blue cloth, uniform format with Collected Poems. N6 at end carries adverts only; the leaf before half-title is blank. With the Esher bookplate. 33. John Freeman's Letters. Edited by Gertrude Freeman and Sir John Squire. With an Introduction by Walter de la Mare. Macmillan, 1936. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt spine, all edges cut, frontispiece portrait. Freeman's letters to 36 of his friends, printed sectionally and alphabetically. P.[397] at end carries adverts of Freeman's books with verso blank. Association Items, Autographs &c. 34. Freeman, John. Christmas Greeting Card to his daughter Joy~"to Joy a Merry Christmas" in red and black ink. There is a drawing 2" x 3" and a quatrain of verse-the whole in her father's hand. 35. Withers, Percy. ALS 2 pages on his Souldern Court, Banbury note paper, dated 27 June 1922 to "My dear Freeman," enclosing 2 photographs of Souldern Court, where Freeman had recently been a guest. A long letter of some 35 lines of an intimate nature relating to their newly formed friendship, and in some detail to Freeman's poems.

Note: The following books are from John Freeman's library, deriving from the sale held in Hodgson's Rooms (Chancery Lane) on 23 January 1958. 38. Martin, Eva M. Poems. The Cedar Press, 1910. Cream parchment boards, upper side gilt, edges uncut, green patterned end-papers. Inscribed: "With grateful thanks to the author of Twenty Poems and Fifty Poems" on half-title, in handwriting of the author. 39. Wheeler, W. R. A Book of Verse of the Great War. Edited by W. Reginald Wheeler. With a Foreword by Charleton M. Lewis. New Haven: 'Yale University Press, 1917. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt spine, top edges cut, others uncut. Contains "The Stars in Their Courses" by John Freeman. Erratum slip for the poem by Alice Meynell on p. 107. Freeman has made the correction in pencil. The 2 insertions found in this volume are catalogued in the Autographs section above. 40. Gurney, Ivor. War's Embers and Other Verses. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1919. Grey boards, spine titling label, all edges cut. Inscribed: "John Freeman from John W. Haines, May 1919." There is a poem to Haines on p. 75; also one to the Memory of Edward Thomas on p. 83. Eckert's Memoir (1937) states that Ivor Gurney set several of Thomas's poems to music. 41. Gray, Alexander. Songs and Ballads Chiefly from Heine. Grant Richards, 1920. Tall 8vo, drab boards, half brown linen, spine titling label, cut edges. Inscribed: "To John Freeman from Alexander Gray." 42. Squire, J. C. The Cambridge Book of Lesser Poets. Compiled by J. C. Squire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1927. Light blue smooth linen, darker blue spine, gilt-lettered. John Freeman's copy with a few notes and his signature in ink.

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43. Higgins, F. R. The Dark Breed: A Book of Poems. Macmillan, 1927. Dark blue cloth, gilt, all edges uncut. Inscribed: "My dear John Freeman: Please accept this little book, as a slight acknowledgement of your many favours and courtesies, from your sincere admirer F. R. Higgins, July '27."

3. Varia: Readings from Rare Books. Sampson Low, 1866. Bevelled red cloth, gilt-lettered and designed, black ruled, all edges uncut, slate blue end-papers. Z4 at end is blank, followed by publisher's 16 page catalogue dated October 1866. Frontispiece and title-page are printed on a quarter-sheet of plate paper.

Note: Several books from Freeman's library are also described in the Robin Flower collection.

4. Modern Men of Letters Honestly Criticised. Hodder & Stoughton, 1870. Bevelled reddish brown cloth, gilt spine, upper side with gilt and black border, and blind-stamped on lower cover, slate blue end-papers with binder's ticket of Westleys. BB2-4 carry 6 pages of publisher's adverts at end, followed by their 16 page undated catalogue. Inscription on end-paper: "This volume was rigidly suppressed as the result of an action brought against the author by George Augustus Sala who was awarded £500 damages" (see pp. 159-168).

FRENCH (Cecil) 1. Between Sun and Moon: Poems and Wood-Cuts by Cecil French. The Favil Press, 1922. Blue marbled boards, 2 titling labels, edges uncut. No. 66 of 350 copies, signed by the author. The india paper impressions of the 4 woodcuts are also signed by him. Errata slip inserted. Dedicated: "To W. B. Yeats. In token of what he has given to the world." 2. With the Years. Richards Press, 1927. Marbled boards with 2 titling labels, similar format to the earlier volume. There are 5 woodcuts, again India-proof impressions mounted, initialled by the author. No. 1 of 500 printed, signed by the author. There is also a later inscription on end-paper: "To F. M. G. Abell, Cecil French, March 1930." FRISWELL (James Hain) 1825-1878 1. Life Portraits of William Shakespeare: A History of the Various Representations of the Poet, with an Examination into Their Authenticity. Sampson Low, 1864. Square 8vo, bevelled dark green cloth, gilt extra, all edges gilt, dark brown end-papers, binder's ticket of Bone & Son. Photograph plates and small photograph of the Felton Head on title-page. 2. Francis Spira and Other Poems. By the Author of The Gentle Life. Moxon, 1865. Dark reddish bevelled cloth, gilt, edges uncut, yellow end-papers with binder's ticket of Hanbury & Simpson. Inscribed: "To Fredk Locker, Esq., with feelings of friendship & of admiration from the Author," in Friswell's hand on title-page. This interesting volume is dedicated to Alfred Tennyson.

5. The Better Self: Essays for Home-Life. H. S. King, 1875. Bevelled mauve-brown cloth, gilt and black lettered and designed, edges uncut, slate blue end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. Publisher's 36 page catalogue at end dated December 1874. 6. The Burden of Life: A Volume of Essays by James Hain Friswell. Edited by his Daughter, Laura Hain Friswell. T. Fisher Unwin, 1897. Dark green cloth, gilt-lettered and black designed spine and upper side. This is probably the primary binding; other copies are noted with plain upper cover. Secondary Material 7. James Hain Friswell. A Memoir by his Daughter Laura Hain Friswell (Mrs. Ambrose Myall). George Redway, 1898. Tall 8vo, light green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper spine, all edges uncut, 3 plates, dark blue end-papers. FROUDE (James Anthony) 1818-1894 1. Shadows of the Clouds. By Zeta. John Oliver, 1847. Small 8vo, purplish brown cloth, sides blind-stamped with corner ornaments, spine gilt-lettered in 3 lines, top edges uncut, others trimmed, primrose end-papers. James Kenneth Stephen's copy, with his bookplate and autograph signature.

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2. The Nemesis of Faith. By J. A. Froude, M.A. Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. John Chapman, 1849. Black vertically ribbed cloth, blind ornamental borders round sides, spine gilt-lettered in 6 lines with one short rule, edges uncut (though fore-edges trimmed), publisher's 24 page catalogue at end dated January 1849, yellow end-papers.

9. Another copy of First Edition, apparently identical save that publisher's catalogue at end is dated September 1871 and there is no binder's ticket. With John H. Edge inscription.

3. Another copy, bound three-quarter dark red morocco, has at end, besides the January 1849 catalogue, another 10 page catalogue of Chapman's "American Books," dated March 1849. 4. The Nemesis of Faith. 2nd ed. John Chapman, 1849. Bound dark red morocco, spine with raised bands, t.e.g. An edition of importance, containing the first printing of the 14 page Preface dated 21 June 1849. 5. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. 1. John W. Parker, 1856. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, sides blind-stamped, spine gilt-lettered in 5 lines, edges uncut, light brown end-papers, 8 page publisher's undated catalogue at end. Volume 1 only; the work is continued in 12 volumes (1856-1870). 6. Thomas, William. The Pilgrim: A Dialogue on the Life and Actions of King Henry the Eighth. Edited, with Notes from the Archives at Paris and Brussels, by J. A. Froude. Parker, Son & Bourn, 1861. Tall 8vo, dark blue blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 9 lines, all edges uncut, brown end-papers, 4 pages publisher's adverts at end. 7. Short Studies on Great Subjects. 3rd ed. Longmans Green, 1868. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, end-papers to match, edges uncut, publisher's 24 page catalogue at end dated September 1871. The First Edition had been issued in the previous year, 1867. The present copy has an interesting Irish association, inscribed on blank before half-title: "John H. Edge, 1874, A. D. E." 8. Short Studies on Great Subjects. Second Series. Longmans Green, 1871. Uniform format with first series, and has "Second Series" at foot of spine. Publisher's 24 page catalogue at end dated January 1871. Binder's ticket of Westleys & Co. at end. The third and fourth series were issued in 1879 and 1883 respectively.

10. Calvinism: An Address Delivered at St. Andrew's, March 17, 1871. Longmans Green, 1871. Tall 8vo, dark red cloth, gilt-lettered on upper side in 3 lines with short rule, slate blue end-papers with binder's ticket of Westleys & Co. 11. The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. Longmans Green, 1872. The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century. In Three Volumes. Vol. II [Vol. III]. Longmans Green, 1874. Tall 8vo, 3 volumes, uniform blue cloth, uncut, TT2 at end of volume 1 carries only adverts of History of England, followed by publisher's 24 page catalogue dated November 1872. An inserted leaf at end of volume 3 carries a new title-page for the first volume, reading correctly "In Three Volumes. Vol. 1," to be inserted by the binder. This is the first state of the work. This set was from a famous Irish library, each volume bearing an inscription: "Selina Clements from her most afft H. G. J. C., London Feb. 1875." 12. Another set of First Edition; this is in second state, title page to volume 1 being a cancel leaf pasted on stub, and the reading of all 3 titles being, "In Three Volumes." Armorial bookplates of George Fenwick, and in contemporary binding of polished light brown calf, gilt spines with double titling labels, marbled end-papers. 13. Caesar: A Sketch. Longmans Green, 1879. Tall 8vo, dark reddish brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine in 6 lines between ornamental bands top and bottom, and in 3 lines in black on upper side with one short rule, dark slate end-papers, publisher's 24 page catalogue at end dated September 1878. Folding coloured map inserted at end before final blank leaf, pp.[495-496]. Top edges uncut, others trimmed. 14. Bunyan. Macmillan, 1880. English Men of Letters series, the superior style, smooth cream linen, spine titling label, all edges uncut (and unopened throughout). The leaf of series adverts at end is printed on N4 and is therefore properly pp. 183-184, though it has been given separate pagination. On it, the last title published is the 16th (Professor Ward's Chaucer) with 8 more "In Preparation," of which the Cowper and the Pope are marked "shortly."

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15. Russia and England from 1876 to 1880: A Protest and an Appeal. By 0. K., author of 7s Russia Wrong. With a Preface by J. A. Froude. Longmans Green, 1880. Tall 8vo, dark greenish brown cloth, gilt-lettered and designed on spine and upper side, all edges uncut, slate end-papers to match cloth, 24 page catalogue at end dated July 1879. Frontispiece portrait and 2 maps.

21. Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881. 2 vols. Longmans Green, 1884. Uniform format with the 2 volumes of 1882, but colour of cloth dark red, similar patterned end-papers but no binder's ticket, There is a 24 page catalogue at end of volume 1 dated April 1884, and in volume 2 the final leaf carries adverts only.

16. The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century. 3 vols. Longmans Green, 1881. Crown 8vo, dark reddish brown cloth, gilt spines, end-papers to match cloth, top edges uncut, other trimmed, 12 page October 1880 catalogue at end of third volume. This unspecified reprint is presumably the Second Edition. It is of importance for its new Preface dated January 1881, and-for the first time-a Dedication (To Sir Garnet Wolseley). The "Conclusion," pp. 556-585 in volume 3, also is new. 17. Carlyle, Thomas. Reminiscences. 2 vols. Edited by J. A. Froude. Longmans Green, 1881. Green cloth, gilt spines, sides blind-stamped with corner ornaments, top edges uncut, others trimmed, grey fern-patterned end-papers, frontispiece to volume 1. The last leaf is blank in each volume, Z2 and Z4 respectively. 18. Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795-1835. 2 vols. Longmans Green, 1882. Tall 8vo, light red cloth, gilt spines, patterned end-papers, with binder's ticket of T. Gates Darton & Co., top edges uncut, others trimmed, 6 illustrations. The first leaf is blank in each volume and ignored in pagination, 24 page catalogue dated January 1882 at end of volume 1. 19. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Prepared for Publication by Thomas Carlyle, edited by J. A. Froude. 3 vols. Longmans Green, 1883. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, gilt spines, patterned end-papers. In volume one the first and last leaves are blanks, 24 page catalogue at end of volume 3 dated November 1882. Top edges unopened, others trimmed, in each volume. 20. Luther: A Short Biography. Longmans Green, 1883. Crown 8vo, light blue cloth, lettered and designed in black on upper side, edges cut, dark slate end-papers. Reprinted from the Contemporary Review.

22. Oceana, or, England and Her Colonies. Longmans Green, 1886. Tall 8vo, light blue cloth, spine gilt, upper side pictorially designed and lettered, all edges uncut, dark slate end-papers, 9 illustrations (including title-page oval). 23. The Two Chiefs of Dunboy, or, An Irish Romance of the Last Century. Longmans Green, 1889. Crown 8vo, bevelled dark blue-green cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, top edges uncut, others trimmed, publisher's design end-papers, 12 page catalogue at end dated January 1889. 24. Lord Beaconsfield. Sampson Low, 1890. Tall 8vo, half cream parchment, dark red cloth sides, t.e.g., others uncut, red silk marker, printed on handmade paper watermarked "J. D. & Co." A volume of The Prime Ministers of Queen Victoria series, edited by Stuart J. Reid. This is the Edition-de-luxe, No. 43 of 250 copies. 25. The Spanish Story of the Armada and Other Essays. Longmans Green, 1892. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, spine gilt, sides blind-stamped, all edges uncut, end-papers matching cloth, 24 page catalogue at end dated 1/92. The leaf before title-page is blank. 26. English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century. Longmans Green, 1895. Similar format to The Spanish Story. Leaf before half-title is blank and 24 page catalogue at end dated April 1895 is inserted between Rl and 2, the latter being blank. 27. My Relations with Carlyle. Together with a Letter from the Late Sir James Stephen dated December 9, 1886. Longmans Green, 1903. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered up spine and in 2 lines on upper side, top edges cut, others only lightly trimmed, Al is blank before half-title. 28. Another copy, identical with details, save that spine is without Same cloth and lettering on upper from same type; this can perhaps considered as a freak copy.

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Secondary Material 29. Paul, Herbert. The Life of Froude. Sir Isaac Pitman, 1905. Thick tall 8vo, blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 5 lines, t.e.g., others trimmed, frontispiece portrait. Without dedication, but in the Preface special gratitude is expressed to "Mr. Arthur Clough, son of Froude's early friend the poet." Inscribed: "Arthur Clough in gratitude for invaluable help, November 23, 1905," in the author's handwriting. Note: For Froude's first published work see the John Henry Newman collection: Newman, John Henry. The Lives of the English Saints. Written by Various Hands at the Suggestion of John Henry Newman, afterwards Cardinal. In Six Volumes, with an Introduction by Arthur Wollaston Hutton. Freemantle, 1900-1901. Volume 3 of this Library Edition has frontispiece portrait of Froude, who contributed "A Legend of St. Neot" (pp. 81-138), anonymously in 1844 to the First Edition of the work. The Newman collection contains 3 sets of the 5 volume compilation (1844-1845), besides the Library Edition entered above. First publication. FRY (Roger Eliot) 1866-1934 1. Giovanni Bellini. At the Sign of the Unicorn, 1899. Large square 8vo, half cream linen, smooth pale blue board sides, black lettered spine in 8 lines, upper side in 3 lines, all edges uncut, 23 illustrations. No. 2 of the Artist's Library, edited by Laurence Binyon. The First Edition of the writer's first book.

FRY (Roger Eliot) 1866-1934 2. Reynolds, Sir Joshua. Discourses Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy. Seeley, 1905. Light green cloth, spine and upper side with overall design and lettering in white enamel, others uncut, 2E8 at end carries adverts only, 33 illustrations. The Introduction and Notes (29 pages) are by Roger Fry. 3. Duncan Grant. With an Introduction by Roger Fry. Hogarth Press, 1923. 4to, 7 1/2" x 10", smooth cream boards, upper side with overall design and lettering in black, buff linen spine with titling label, edges cut. There are 24 reproductions on plate paper, each titled on a leaf of text-paper. A volume of the Living Painters series, issued by Leonard and Virginia Woolf from Paradise Road, Richmond. 4. Flemish Art: A Critical Survey. Chatto & Windus, 1927. Large square 8vo, 7 1/2" x 10", deep cream boards, upper side with overall design and lettering in brown, linen spine lettered upwards in brown, top edges cut, others uncut, frontispiece and 31 reproductions. Note: Roger Fry's essay, "The Artist and the Great State," was first printed in The Great State: Essays in Construction (Harper & Bros., 1912); see the H. G. Wells collection.

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Unleavened Bread: Simple Verses. By

Aura. Boston: Printed and published by Dingwall & Wilson, 1885. Publisher's dark red leather, gilt frame round sides, upper side lettered diagonally in gilt, all edges gilt, yellow end-papers, pp.[99-100] at end are blank save for publisher's imprint in 3 lines centre recto. The Esher copy with Brett bookplate. The First Edition of the author's first book. 2. Primulas and Pansies. Simple Verses by the Author of Unleavened Bread. Boston: Dingwall & Wilson, 1886. Dark red cloth, gilt-lettered upper cover in 2 lines with ornament, all edges gilt, white wove end-papers. Pp.[103-104] at end are blank save for publisher's imprint in 3 lines centre recto. The Esher copy with Brett bookplate. 3. Another copy of the First Edition, identical with above. From the Library of Charles Plumptre Johnson, with his bookplate. 4. Violets. By the Author of Meadowsweet. Rugby: Printed by George E. Over [? 1888]. Semi-stiff white wrappers, upper side lettered in black, all edges uncut. No. 67 of only 80 copies printed, signed by the publisher. Etched frontispiece by H. D. The title-page is printed in gold. The Esher copy with Brett bookplate, preserved in a linen case. 5. Another copy of the First Edition, No. 73 of 80 copies signed, identical with above. Bound contemporarily by Zaehnsdorf in niger morocco, spine with raised bands, t.e.g., others uncut. The wrappers have presumably been sacrificed by the binder. 6. Meadowsweet By the Author of Marsh Marigolds. Rugby: Printed by George E. Over [1888]. White wrappers, upper side lettered in red, all edges uncut. No. 4 of 50 copies, numbered and signed by the publisher. The printing is in red, black and gold. John Lane's copy, inscribed to him by the author in a verse of 10 lines in red and black ink, signed at end, "Norman R. Gale." Later in the Esher library, with Brett bookplate, preserved in a cloth case. 7. Prince Redcheek. [Rugby]: Printed by G. E. Over, at the Rugby Press [1891]. 16 pages, sewn into white wrappers, printed on handmade paper watermarked "J. D. & Co.," all edges uncut. John Lane's copy, inscribed: "Written for my Form, but John Lane was not in it. N. R. G." This booklet was issued anonymously. The copy was later in the Esher Library, with Brett bookplate, preserved in a cloth case.

GALE (Norman Rowland) 1862-1942 8. Gorillas. Rugby: Printed by George E. Over [1891]. 16 pages (unpaginated, though the very similar Prince Redcheek was paginated), sewn into white wrappers, edges uncut. Printed on the same watermarked paper as Prince Redcheek. The booklet was issued anonymously. Inscribed on the Dedication page: "A Monstrous Story for John Lane from Norman Gale." Later in the Esher Library, with Brett bookplate, preserved in a cloth case. 9. Thistledown: Essays Whereof the Tale is Six,. Penned in the Studies of Rusticus and One Who Is a Friend of His. Rugby: George E. Over, 1890. Cream semi-stiff wrappers, upper side lettered in red, all edges uncut. Title-page printed in gold with one green and red ornament, preliminary verses in mauve, half-title, dedication and ornaments in red. The certificate of issue is printed on verso of p. 133: "Of this Large Paper Edition of Thistledown only 22 copies have been printed, of which this in No. 22," signed by the publisher. From the Library of John Lane, with his Bodley Head bookplate. Later in the Library of Lord Esher, with Brett bookplate, and preserved in a cloth case. 10. Cricket Songs and Other Trifling Verses Penned by One of the Authors of "Thistledown." Rugby: George E. Over, 1890. Cream wrappers lettered on upper side in green, all edges uncut. Printed throughout in green save for the Dedication leaf which is in gold. The Esher copy with Brett bookplate, preserved in a cloth case. 11. The Candid Cuckoo. By Norman Gale. [Old Bilton]: George E. Over, at the Rugby Press, 1891. Red cloth, upper side gilt-lettered, all edges cut. Limited to 100 copies, and printed in black, green and blue. Apart from the fact that the Dedication to Cricket Songs was signed (in print) "Norman," this would appear to be the first of the author's books to bear his name. It was published by himself, from the village of Old Bilton. The Esher copy with Brett bookplate. 12. A June Romance. Rugby: George E. Over, 1892. Semi-stiff white wrappers without lettering, all edges uncut. No. 4 of a Large Paper edition of only 23 copies, signed by the publisher. This is presumably the Dedication copy, with author's MS poem of 16 lines headed "Alice Ellaby," signed at end "Norman R. Gale." The concluding sentence of the book, on p. 107, is: "June is gone with all her hours, but Alice, fairer than a summer month, is here to keep me sweeter company." When the book was ordinarily published (2 years

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later-see below), this sentence was replaced by a different one. As issued, in a board box, with the red printed title-page on upper side. Charles Plumptre Johnson's copy, with bookplate.

19. Cricket Songs. Methuen, 1894. Sage green cloth, decorated in darker green, spine and upper side gilt lettered, all edges uncut, 24 page catalogue at end dated April 1894. Only 7 of these poems were printed in the volume of the same title issued in 1890; the remaining 21 are new. 15 copies of this book were printed on Japanese vellum.

13. A Country Muse. David Nutt, 1892. Blue vertically ribbed cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 6 lines, all edges uncut. Printed on handmade paper watermarked "J. D. & Co.". The edition consisted of 500 copies, and there was no de-luxe issue. Inscribed: "To Charles Plumptre Johnson from Norman Rowland Gale," and with the recipient's bookplate. 14. A Country Muse. New Series. David Nutt, 1893. Bevelled blue cloth, vertically ribbed but 1/2" taller than the 1892 series, similar spine lettering in 7 lines, all edges uncut. One of 1,000 copies on laid paper; there were also 75 on Dutch handmade. Inscribed: "This little book to Charles P. Johnson to mate an earlier Muse, Norman Gale sends it." With bookplate of recipient. 15. Orchard Songs. Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1893. Cream vellum, lettered spine and upper side in gilt, all edges uncut. One of 150 copies printed on handmade paper. Inscribed: "A book for a picture. To Katie Bush from Norman Gale." 16. A Cotswold Village. Fifteen copies privately printed at the Rugby Press, June 1893. 12 pages paginated 1-10 (the title-page is not reckoned), sewn into semi-stiff white wrappers lettered in black. Printed on unbleached Arnold handmade paper, edges uncut. No other edition appears to have been issued. 17. A June Romance. Rugby: George E. Over, 1894. Pale mauve boards, lettered spine and upper side in black, all edges uncut. First Published Edition; type setting is the same as in the 1892 printing (save for p. 107-see note in 1892 entry), though ornaments are in black-not red, and title is a newly set leaf, with decoration. 18. A Country Muse. First Series. Constable, 1894. A Country Muse. Second Series. Constable, 1895. Two volumes, uniform tall 8vo, smooth light brown buckram, spine titling labels, all edges uncut. Handmade paper editions, limited to 75 and 50 copies respectively; each is numbered 21 and initialled "A. C. & Co." In the first, 6 new poems are added, and in the second, 15 are new, otherwise text as in the 1892-1893 issues.

20. On Two Strings. By Norman Gale and Robinson K. Leather. Privately printed by George E. Over at the Rugby Press, 1894. Semi-stiff white wrappers, upper side lettered in black, all edges uncut, cream silk marker. As issued in board case with reproduction of the title-page on upper side. 21. Another copy of First Edition, identical with above (save it is without the box). The Esher copy with Brett bookplate, preserved in a linen case. 22. All Expenses Paid. Constable, 1895. Half dark blue linen, light green board sides, spine gilt-lettered in 5 lines, all edges uncut. The first and last leaves are blanks. Blind stamp, "Presented by Archibald Constable & Co." on title. An anonymously published squib in which most of the minor poets of the eighteen-nineties are featured-Yeats, Le Gallienne, Arthur Symons, John Davidson . . . and not excluding Norman Gale himself. An interesting letter from Michael Sadleir to Percy L. Babington on Constable notepaper dated 10 May 1939 about the authorship is loosely inserted. 23. Songs for Little People. Constable, 1896. Light brown vertically ribbed cloth, spine and upper side elaborately gilt, t.e.g., others trimmed. Coloured pictorial title-page and coloured illustrations throughout; the artist's name, Helen Stratton, appears on the spine only. The Esher copy with Brett bookplate. 24. More Cricket Songs. Alston Rivers, 1905. Light green cloth, spine and upper side decorated in darker green and lettered in gilt, top edges cut, others uncut. The 8 page publisher's adverts at end headed "Notes on Books" are printed on text-paper, but are not included in the register as gathering E. 25. A Norman Gale Treasury. Selected by Albert Broadbent. Manchester: Albert Broadbent, 1905. 48 pages, narrow 24mo, printed wrappers, uncut.

273 GALE (Norman Rowland) 1862-1942 26. Another copy, stated to be the Third Edition, completing fifteenth thousand, May 1909. It is partly reset, but is virtually identical with the 1905 First Edition. 27. A Book of Quatrains. Old Hilton, Rugby: Norman Gale, 1909. Scarlet cloth, upper side gilt-lettered in facsimile autograph, t.e.g., others uncut. No. 108 of 350 copies signed by the author. Printed by hand at the Cedar Press, Enfield [London]. In red dust-jacket printed same as binding but in black. Presentation on the half-title: "Inscribed for Josephine Wilson by Norman Gale." 28. Song in September. Constable, 1912. Green cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, pp.[183-184] at end is blank save for printer's imprint in 2 lines centre recto. 29. A Country Muse: A Selection. Grant Richards, 1912. 16mo, bright red cloth, t.e.g., others uncut. This is the third printing, entirely reset; First Edition was dated 1904. 30. Solitude. B. T. Batsford, 1913. Blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others cut, in printed dust-jacket (Price 2/- net). This copy is in the first state; no other edition was printed, but during World War I the publisher continued to issue batches at an increased price. They were without the blue silk marker, top edges were left plain, end-papers were plain (without the grey-blue border) and upper covers were partly blind-stamped, whereas early copies were all gilt. 31. Another copy of First Edition, in first binding state. Inscribed by the publisher: "Gertrude Hebblethwaite from Herbert Batsford. Fellowship day the second. 3.11.1913." This series was known as Fellowship Books; volumes were only dated at the end. Ballantyne Press imprint in 2 lines dated London 1913 centre recto, pp.[57-58]. 32. Collected Poems. Macmillan, 1914. Blue cloth, gilt, all edges uncut. On title-page in the author's hand: "Inscribed for Margaret Ursula Marshall by The Singer of the Songs." Facing title-page he has mounted his photograph, which he has signed, "Norman Rowland Gale." 33. A Book of Quatrains. Old Hilton, Rugby: Norman Gale [1925]. Dark green cloth, gilt, top edges cut, others uncut. Author's Note reads: "Though based upon a little volume published in 1909, this edition of A Book of Quatrains is, because of the many verses withdrawn and the many verses added, almost a new work."

GALE (Norman Rowland) 1862-1942 Inscribed: "To W. H. Payne Smith, from the Writer of the verses, Norman Gale." 34. Another copy, identical with above, and is in printed dust-jacket (3/- net). Inscribed: "To Katie Bush from Norman Gale, with his genuine regards." 35. A June Romance. 5th ed. Rugby: George Over, 1925. Light blue cloth, gilt, top edges stained to match, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket. This is a revised edition of the work originally published in 1894 (Privately printed in 1892). The revisions are considerable throughout and the text now extends to p. 138, which originally ended on p. 107. 36. Verse in Bloom. Old Bilton, Rugby: Norman Gale [1925]. Purple cloth, gilt, all edges uncut. Inscribed: "To F. H. Hemmings from his friend, Norman Gale." 37. A Flight of Fancies. Old Bilton, Rugby: Norman Gale [1926]. Green cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, in printed dust-jacket. Inscribed: "To Katie Bush, from her old friend, Norman Gale." 38. Another copy of the First Edition, in dust-jacket and identical with above. Inscribed by the author for his one-time publisher: "Gladly given to his old Friend George E. Over, by Norman Gale." 39. Messrs Bat and Ball. Old Bilton, Rugby: Norman Gale, 1930. Dark green cloth, gilt, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket. With the signature of George E. Over on end-paper. 40. Close of Play. Rugby: George Over, 1936. Green cloth, gilt, edges cut. This is the author's final collection of cricketing verses (save for Two Cricket Songs listed below). 41. Love-in-a-Mist. George Over, Rugby, 1939. Plum red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others cut, in printed dust-jacket. 42. Remembrances. By Denys Heatherford. Torquay: Devonshire Press [1937]. A book of verses; this appears to be the last pseudonym the author adopted. Inscribed on half-title: "For Gertrude Heblethwaite from Norman Gale." Also inserted 2 long and interesting ALS from the author to Miss Hebblewaite, 27 November and 4 December 1938, one in original stamped and postmarked envelope. Quotes many titles: of the poem "All," he writes, "I have been assured that the Poet Laureate admires it very much."

274 GALE (Norman Rowland) 1862.1942 43. Two Cricket Songs. At Old Bilton, Rugby [no publisher or date]. Eight pages, sewn into dark green serai-stiff wrappers. The imprint at foot of last leaf is "Printed by Albert Frost & Sons, Rugby," and the first leaf is set in 2 lines: "Two Cricket Songs. First Printing." Autograph Letters 44. ALS 3 pages crown 8vo to "Dear Mr. Johnson" from Oakfield Cottage, Rugby, undated but presumably 1893: "the book was put aside for you; your name is written within, and soon the small volume will stand on your shelves, I hope, beside its relation. . . I saw Lane last night and he had explained before the arrival of your letter." &c. 45. ALS 2 pages crown 8vo to "Dear Mr. Johnson," undated: "Your delightful gift arrived this morning." [This was presumably the Thackerey lecture, issued as an O.V. opusculum.] "I hope Over has by this time sent you my book." 46. ALS 3 pages crown 8vo to "Dear Mr. Miles," (compiler of Poets and Poetry of the Century) undated, but probably circa 1894, regarding the selection made from his poems: "both the series A Country Muse belong to me, so there is no need to approach Nutt" &c. 47. ALS 4 pages 4to on ruled exercise paper dated from Old Bilton, Rugby, 29 January 1925 to "Dear Hemmings" and signed "With big hopes, heartily yours, Norman Gale." A long and interesting letter about Verse in Bloom: "With this volume I challenge the Georgians, and if I do not succeed in recovering the position that once I held, the failure will be due to lack of ability, and to nothing else. . . . Be good enough to look with care at the six pieces that make the sequence named 'After the Conflict'." &c. 48. ALS one page to "My dear Payne Smith," dated from Old Bilton, 4 June 1925. 49. Two ALS to "My dear Miss Bush" dated from Old Bilton, 11 June 1925 and 6 July 1926. About A Book of Quatrains and A Flight of Fancies: "This volume is a bonus book . . . it is also my Swan Song, for I have turned from Poesy to English Prose." &c. Note: A Fellowship in Song (1893), in which 3 poets collaborated, is catalogued with the Alfred Hayes collection. The selection from John Clare's poems, which Norman Gale pioneeringly issued from the Rugby Press in 1901, with a 40 page

GALE (Norman Rowland) 1862-1942 "Biography and Comment," is catalogued with the John Clare collection. GALSWORTHY (John) 1867-1933 1. From the Four Winds. By John Sinjohn. T. Fisher Unwin, 1897. Olive green cloth, gilt spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut, laid end-papers. Pp.[247-248] blank save for imprint of J. Miller & Son centre verso. First Edition of the author's first book; the edition consisted of 500 copies and it was not reprinted. 2. Jocelyn. By John Sinjohn. Duckworth, 1898. Green buckram, spine gilt-lettered in 5 lines with pattern of dots, publisher's blind device lower left hand corner of lower cover, edges uncut, laid end-papers U4 at end, pp.[311-312], carries adverts only, dated Easter 1898. The edition consisted of 1,500 copies, and the book was not reprinted. But these included the Colonial issue; it appears that only 750 copies were bound as the English edition. Preserved in a fleece-lined cloth book-box. 3. Villa Rubein. A Novel by John Sinjohn. Duckworth, 1900. Red cloth, lettered spine and upper side on white linen panels, top edges cut, others uncut, wove end-papers, publisher's imprint at foot of spine and device centre of lower cover in black. The preliminaries consist of 3 leaves; the last leaf is a singleton signed 'R', which may have been printed on the same sheet. 1,000 copies appear to have been printed, but this includes the Colonial issue, and only 500 copies were bound-up to constitute the English edition. The book was not reprinted in this version.

4. A Man of Devon. By John Sinjohn. W. Blackwood, 1901. Light blue cloth, spine gilt in 7 lines, upper side in 3 lines in dark blue-green, all edges appear cut, but occasionally found unopened, wove buff end-papers. U2 at end, pp.[307-308], carries adverts only, followed by publisher's 32 page catalogue dated at end 4/01. The edition consisted of 1,050 copies and the book was not reprinted in this form. Preserved in a half blue morocco case, gilt-lettered. 5. The Man of Property. By John Galsworthy. Heinemann, 1906. Green cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, edges cut, wove end-papers, publisher's windmill device in blind lower right-hand corner of lower cover. This is the first part of The Forsyte Saga. 1,500 copies of this first impression were printed.

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GALSWORTHY (John) 1867-1933 Preserved in a half green morocco case. The author has autographed the Dedication leaf with his full signature. 6. The Man of Property. Heinemann, 1906. The second printing; it appears to be identical with the first in every detail including binding, save for the adverts on verso of half-title (now 13 titles with review extracts) and added statement centre verso title-page: "First Printed, March 1906/Second Impression, May 1906." 7. The Country House. Heinemann, 1907. Green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, edges cut. The first impression consisted of 1,750 copies. 8. A Commentary. Grant Richards, 1908. Dark red cloth with gilt spine, top edges cut, others uncut, wove end-papers. Al before half-title is blank. 9. Another copy, identical with above save that end-papers are of laid paper. This detail is noted in Marrot's Bibliography (1928). 10. Fraternity. Heinemann, 1909. Green cloth, spine and upper side gilt, windmill device in blind centre of lower cover, edges cut, wove end-papers. The edition consisted of 4,400 copies. 11. Plays: The Silver Box, Joy, Strife. Duckworth, 1909. Green buckram, gilt spine and upper side, edges cut, device in blind centre of lower cover. First issue without errata slip at p. 188, with all 4 errors in cast of Strife, and without "Vol. 1" on half-title and title-page. Continuous pagination; this is the first edition of each play and it is the sole example of this-later collected volumes not being first printings of each play. 12. Villa Rubein and Other Stories. Duckworth, 1909. Green buckram, gilt spine and upper side, blind device centre of lower cover, edges cut. Author's Note dated October 1909 states that the stories of this combined edition of the 2 books issued under a pseudonym in 1900 and 1901 have been revised. 13. A Motley. Heinemann, 1910. Green bevelled buckram, gilt spine and upper side, top edges stained to match, others uncut, windmill device centre of lower cover. Al before half-title is blank.

GALSWORTHY (John) 1867-1933 14. Justice: A Tragedy in Four Acts. Duckworth, 1910. Green cloth, gilt spine and upper side, edges cut, blind device centre of lower cover. Only 700 copies of the first impression were bound in cloth. 15. The Little Dream: An Allegory in Six Scenes. Duckworth [1911]. Green cloth, gilt spine and upper side, edges cut, blind device centre of lower cover. This copy is probably an early issue (and has original owner's signature dated 1911 on end-paper) but there is no indication it had the inserted slips in the preliminaries). 1,000 copies were bound in cloth. 16. Plays. Vol. II: The Eldest Son, The Little Dream, Justice. Duckworth, 1912. Green cloth, gilt spine and upper side, edges cut, blind device lower left corner of lower cover. First Collected Edition. It is in first state, with the revised text of The Little Dream, 20 page publisher's catalogue bound at end, and is without the 2 asterisks on spine. 17. The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays. Heinemann, 1912. Green bevelled buckram, gilt spine and upper side, blind windmill device centre of lower cover, top edges stained, others uncut. The first gathering has 2 blank leaves, one before half-title and the other following Contents leaf. The final gathering S consists of 3 leaves, pp. 275-[280] and there is the sign of cancellation of one leaf. Pp.[2 79-280] are blank save for printer's imprint in 3 lines centre recto. The first impression consisted of 2,000 copies and 2 reprints were issued before the end of the year. 18. Moods, Songs and Doggerels. Heinemann, 1912. Tall 8vo, light blue linen, spine titling label printed in blue in 9 lines between single rules top and bottom, all edges uncut, frontispiece portrait. The first leaf is blank before half-title. The First Edition consisted of 750 copies, and there was a reprint dated 1913. 19. The Pigeon: A Play in Three Acts. Duckworth, 1912. Green cloth, gilt spine and upper side, edges cut, blind device centre of lower cover. 1,000 copies of this first impression were bound in cloth. P.[85] at end is blank save for printer's imprint centre recto, and is followed by another blank leaf. 20. The Dark Flower. Heinemann, 1913. Red cloth, gilt spine, upper side blind lettered in 2 lines. This copy is in first state; the first gathering consists of 8 leaves, of which the first is blank and the next 4 carry adverts; at end pp.[303-304] are blank,

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GALSWORTHY (John) 1867-1933 followed by publisher's 16 page catalogue, of which the final page advertises books by Galsworthy, but not including The Freelands and Beyond, which were not published until 1915. 21. The Mob: A Play in Four Duckworth, 1914. Green cloth, gilt upper side, edges cut, blind device left-hand corner of lower cover, in dust-jacket.

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22. Plays. Vol. Ill: The Fugitive, The Pigeon, The Mob. Duckworth, 1914. First Collected Edition. Unlike the title-page the spine reads "Three Plays" and there are 3 asterisks, upper side gilt-lettered in 6 lines. Uniform green cloth, edges cut. 23. A Bit O' Love: A Play in Three Acts. Duckworth, 1915. Green cloth, gilt spine and upper side, blind device lower left-hand corner of lower side, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket. The earliest copy of this play bore the title, The Full Moon. Before publication the title was changed to the present one, to avoid confusion with Lady Gregory's play. 24. The Little Man and Other Satires. Heinemann, 1915. Smooth blue bevelled cloth, gilt spine and upper side, top edges stained, others uncut, windmill device in blind centre of lower cover. The blank leaf before half-title is ignored in pagination and the final leaf, pp.[281-282], is also blank. 25. The Freelands. Heinemann, 1915. Green cloth, spine and upper side gilt, edges cut, windmill device in blind lower right-hand corner of lower cover. Signature on end-paper: "Roland Sturgis, August 1915." 26. A Sheaf. Heinemann, 1916. Dark green boards, gilt spine and upper side, windmill device in blind centre of lower side, top edges stained to match covers, others cut. Al blank before half-title. The author's first book of essays; the edition consisted of 2,000 copies. 27. Beyond. Heinemann, 1917. Red cloth, gilt spine, upper side blind-stamped with title only, windmill device in blind centre of lower cover, edges cut. The final gathering appears to consist of 5 leaves, of which the last 2, numbered l-[4], carry only adverts of Galsworthy's works.

GALSWORTHY (John) 1867-1933 28. Five Tales. Heinemann, 1918. Dark green cloth, gilt spine, upper side blind lettered in 2 lines with same small ornament which is gilt-stamped on spine, top edges stained to match cloth, others uncut. Z8 at end carries only adverts of other books by the author. The first impression consisted of 5,000 copies. Inscribed in ink: "July 1918. Edward Garnett from John Galsworthy." The writing is on a slip (2 1/2" x 4") laid-down inside cover. 29. The Land: A Plea by John Galsworthy. Allen & Unwin [1918]. 24 pages, sewn without wrappers, edges cut. The first page serves as title-page with large ornament, &c. and "Sixpence net" below publisher's imprint. The only date (January 1918) is in the Curwen Press imprint set in 2 lines centre of p.[24]. This edition consisted of 2,000 copies, and 35 copies were also printed on handmade paper with edges uncut. 30. Reveille: Devoted to the Disabled Sailor and Soldier. Edited by John Galsworthy. No. 1, August 1918; No. 2, November 1918; No. 3, February 1919. Tall 8vo, light blue wrappers printed in black, edges cut. The 3 numbers contain in all 9 contributions by Galsworthy. Max Beerbohm's "Artists Who Were at the Front," 3 coloured caricatures in a series form the frontispiece to each number. 31. Commemoration of the Centenary of the Birth of James Russell Lowell, February 22, 1819. New York: Charles Scribners' Sons, 1919. Tall 8vo, half blue cloth, buff board sides, t.e.g., others trimmed. John Galsworthy was a speaker at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel dinner, and his speech occupies pp. 11-16. 32. The Burning Spear: Being the Experiences of Mr. John Lavender in Time of War. Recorded by A. R. P-M. Chatto, 1919. Olive green cloth, spine and upper side lettered in darker green, top edges stained green, only lower edges uncut, publisher's 32 page catalogue at end dated on first page "1. 19." In coloured pictorial printed dust-jacket (5s. net). Of this first issue 1,000 copies were printed; when the authorship was disclosed in the Spring of 1923, a further 1,000 copies were issued with a cancel title-page bearing the author's name. 33. Another Sheaf. Heinemann, 1919. Uniform format with the 1916 volume, save only lower edges uncut. S4 at end carries adverts of the author's works.

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34. Addresses in America, 1919. Heinemann, 1919. Brown boards, gilt spine, edges cut. The English title-page is a cancel leaf pasted on stub and the book was printed in the U.S.A. by the Scribner Press. The collation of the New York and London editions is the same-pp.[xii], 116 (including blanks). The binding of the English edition has the windmill device blind-stamped centre of lower cover.

42. The Forsyte Saga. Heinemann, 1922. Tall 8vo, soft dark green leather, gilt spine and upper side, t.e.g., others cut. No. 249 of 275 copies, signed by the author. Photogravure portrait. The folding Genealogical Table follows

35. Saint's Progress. Heinemann, 1919. Bed cloth, gilt spine, title blind-stamped on upper side, windmill device in blind centre of lower cover, top edges cut, fore-edges lightly trimmed, lower edges uncut. Pp.[405-410] at end carry publisher's adverts. Marrot's Bibliography states that there are 2 leaves only (405-408) and that they are blank. 36. Tatterdemalion. Heinemann, 1920. Green cloth, lettered spine and upper side in darker green, windmill device in green in lower right-hand corner of lower cover, only lower edges uncut. Publisher's 56 page Autumn 1919 catalogue at end. The first impression was of 4,000 copies and a reprint appeared in the same year. Signature on end-paper: "Roland Sturgis, March 20, 1920." 37. In Chancery. Heinemann, 1920. Light green cloth, gilt spine and upper side, edges cut, windmill device in blind lower right-hand corner of lower cover. 38. The Foundations: An Extravagant Play in Three Acts. Duckworth, 1920. Vertically ribbed green cloth, lettered in black on spine and upper side, publisher's device in blind lower left-hand corner of lower side, in printed dust-jacket. 39. The Skin Game: A Tragi-Comedy in Three Acts. Duckworth, 1920. Green cloth, spine and upper side lettered in black, device on lower cover as in Foundations, edges cut. 40. Six Short Plays. Duckworth, 1921. Green cloth, lettering and blind-stamping as in The Skin Game, in yellow printed dust-jacket (5/- net). The final leaf, pp.[143-144], is blank. The plays are: The First and the Last; The Little Man; Hall Marked; Defeat; The Sun; Punch and Go. The first impression was of 3,000 copies and the volume was reprinted in 1922. 41. The Bells of Peace. Cambridge: W. Heffer, 1921. Four pages, sewn into wrappers of same Japanese vellum, edges cut. Upper wrapper serves as title-page and is red-ruled. 1,000 copies were printed.

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43. The Forsyte Saga. Heinemann, 1922. Light green cloth, spine and upper side gilt, windmill device in blind lower right-hand corner of lower cover, top edges stained to match cloth, others cut. No portrait was issued and the Genealogical Table follows the Dedication and opens in the same way to the right. Adverts of books "By the same Author" replace the signed limitation certificate. 44. Loyalties: A Drama in Three Acts. Duckworth, 1922. Smooth green cloth lettered black on spine and upper side, device in black lower left-hand corner of lower cover, edges cut, 2,500 copies of the first impression were issued in cloth and the volume was reprinted later in the year. 45. Plays. Fifth Series: A Family Man, Loyalties, Windows. Duckworth, 1922. First Collected Edition and the earliest state. The second state is without date on verso of title-page; the list of the author's books on verso of half-title includes The Forsyte Saga, and there are other minor variants. These copies also have the newer publisher's device on lower cover. 46. Captures. Heinemann, 1923. Smooth blue cloth, spine and upper side gilt, windmill device in blind lower right-hand corner of lower cover, in yellow printed dust-jacket (7/6 net). Top edges stained to match cloth, fore-edges uncut, lower edges trimmed. There is an early pre-publication state in which a leaf before half-title advertised "New Fiction," to which objection was taken. The published form has a list of works "By the Same Author" on verso of half-title, and only 4 leaves of preliminaries, with erratic pagination, and no free front end-paper. In both states pp.[307-308] are blank at end. 47. International Thought. Cambridge: W. Heffer, 1923. Tall 8vo, 8 pages sewn into light grey wrappers, edges cut. Upper wrapper serves as title-page and is black lettered within a triple frame. The edition was of 2,000 copies at "Price Sixpence Net." 48. A Letter from Mr. Galsworthy, 6 October 1923. Issued by the Universities Committee [1923]. One sheet of watermarked Abbey Mills/Greenfield paper folded to form a 4 page booklet. The text of Galsworthy's letter occupies the 2 inner pages.

278 GALSWORTHY (John) 1867-1933 49. The White Monkey. Heineraann, 1924. Dark green cloth, gilt spine and upper side, cut edges. The first impression consisted of 15,000 copies.

GALSWORTHY (John) 1867-1933 57. Escape: An Episodic Play. Duckworth, 1926. Green cloth, spine and upper side black lettered, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket.

50. The Forest: A Drama in Four Acts. Duckworth, 1924. Green wrappers, spine and upper side lettered black, newer publisher's device in black centre of lower cover, edges cut.

58. Two Forsyte Interludes. Heinemann, 1927. Orange wrappers folded over 2 blank leaves at beginning and end. These leaves are of wove paper; the book is printed on 40 leaves of laid paper. Edges cut. There was also an Edition-de-luxe of 500 signed copies.

51. Old English: A Play in Three Acts. Duckworth, 1924. Green cloth, spine and upper side lettered in black, publisher's device in black lower left-hand corner, in green printed dust-jacket. There was no reprint until 1925.

59. Castles in Spain and Other Screeds. Heinemann, 1927. Reddish brown cloth, gilt spine and gilt ornament centre of upper side, top edges stained to match, others cut, in printed dust-jacket (3s. 6d. net).

52. With 1924. lines, lower

60. D'Oyley, Elizabeth. An Anthology for Animal Lovers. With an Introduction by John Galsworthy. Collins, 1927. Light blue cloth, gilt spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut, in printed dust-jacket.

Mottram, R. H. The Spanish Farm. a Preface by John Galsworthy. Chatto, Light red cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 9 top edges stained to match cloth, only edges uncut.

53. Kallas, Aino. The White Ship: Estonian Tales by Aino Kallas. Translated from the Finnish by Alex Matson. With a Foreword by John Galsworthy. J. Cape, 1924. Half dark blue linen, lighter blue board sides, top edges stained, fore-edges lightly trimmed, lower edges uncut, spine titling label. Inscribed in the recipient's autograph: "Henry W. Nevinson, from Mrs. Hancock, 125 Queen's Gate, S.W. 7. Feb/24."

61. Mottram, R. H. The Spanish Farm Trilogy, 1914-1918. With a Preface by John Galsworthy. Chatto, 1927. Light green cloth, gilt spine, top edges stained to match cloth, lower edges only lightly trimmed.

54. Caravan: The Assembled Tales of John Galsworthy. Heinemann, 1925. Green cloth, uniform format with The Forsyte Saga (1922).

63. Swan Song. Heinemann, 1928. Edition-de-luxe, uniform with Edition-de-luxe of Silver Spoon, in printed dust-jacket (Two guineas net). No. 184 of 525 copies signed by author.

55. The Silver Spoon. Heinemann, 1926. Dark green cloth, gilt spine and upper side, edges cut. Gathering M at end consists of 4 leaves, of which the last 5 pages are blank; 8 pages of "New and Recent Fiction" sewn between p.[324] and p.[325]. Of the first impression 40,000 copies were printed. 56. The Silver Spoon. Heinemann [1926]. Large Paper Edition-de-luxe, tall 8vo, smooth royal blue bevelled buckram, t.e.g., others uncut. In printed dust-jacket (Two guineas net). No. 36 of 265 copies signed by the author. The ordinary 7/6d. edition had been published 26 August; this signed edition was not out until nearly 3 months later. It is not dated anywhere, and no adverts are included. It is to be noted that the collation of this edition is straightforward: [A]4, B-X, 19 gatherings in 8's; Y2-158 leaves and no blanks at end. Though consisting of the same printed leaves, the small paper collation is complicated by starred gatherings.

62. Swan Song. Heinemann, 1928. Dark green cloth, uniform format with The Silver Spoon (1926), edges cut, in coloured pictorial dust-jacket (7s. 6d. net).

64. Salten, Felix. Bambi: A Life in the Woods. Translated from the German by Whittaker Chambers. With a Foreword by John Galsworthy. Cape, 1928. Rough green cloth, gilt spine, green pictorial end-papers, all edges cut. 65. A Modern Comedy. Heinemann, 1929. Green cloth, uniform with The Forsyte Saga (1922), in printed dust-jacket (8s. 6d. net). Folding Genealogical table inserted before half-title opens to the left. There is no comma after "day" at end of first line on p. 141. 66. A Modern Comedy. Heinemann, 1929. The Edition-de-luxe, No. 365 of 1,030 copies signed by the author and with a quotation, "Of Devotion," in 2 lines in his hand. Cream parchment, gilt, t.e.g., others cut, printed on similar bible-paper to The Forsyte Saga. The table is bound after the Preface, and opens to the right. There is a comma after "day" on p. 141.

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67. Another copy of the ordinary First Edition, but in the publisher's special binding of purple leather, gilt, t.e.g., others cut. These copies are slightly less tall on the shelf than the ordinary green cloth copies. 68. Exiled: An Evolutionary Comedy. Duckworth, 1929. Green cloth, spine and upper side black lettered, publisher's device lower left-hand corner of lower cover, edges cut. 69. The Plays of John Galsworthy. Duckworth, 1929. Tall 8vo, smooth green cloth, gilt spine, in printed dust-jacket (8s. 6d. net). The dust-jacket reads: "This volume contains all the 27 plays of John Galsworthy including The Roof,' previously unpublished." 70. On Forsyte 'Change. Heinemann, 1930. Green cloth, uniform format with The Forsyte Saga (1922), in dust-jacket (7s. 6d. net). 71. Another copy of First Edition, purple leather, gilt, t.e.g., others cut. Uniform format with the special Modern Comedy, and again slightly shorter on the shelf than cloth copies. 72. A Commentary. Richards Press, 1930. Tall 8vo, smooth red buckram, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (Price two guineas). This is an Edition-de-luxe, limited to 250 copies for sale. This copy is No. 41, signed by the author. The book was first published in 1908. 73. Loyalties: A Drama in Three Acts. Illustrated by S. Van Abbe\ Duckworth, 1930. Small 4to, smooth buff coloured buckram, spine gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. No. 246 of 315 copies on handmade paper, signed by the author. 74. Soames and the Flag. Heinemann, 1930. Cream stiff parchment-vellum, gilt-lettered up spine and in 2 lines on upper side, t.e.g., others uncut, in brown linen slip-case as issued. No. 363 of 1,025 copies signed by the author. 75. Maid in Waiting. Heinemann, 1931. Green cloth, gilt spine and upper side, top edges stained to match, others cut, in coloured pictorial dust-jacket (7s. 6d. net). Al is blank before half-title and Y4 is blank at end. 76. The Creation of Character in Literature. The Romanes Lecture delivered in the Sheldonian Theatre, 21 May 1931. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931. Light brown wrappers, upper side lettered in green, edges cut, 28 pages, sewn.

GALSWORTHY (John) 1867-1933 77. Flowering Wilderness. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. Mauve identically ribbed cloth, spine lettered in green, only fore-edges uncut. 78. Over the River. Heinemann, 1933. Green cloth, uniform format with Maid in Waiting. The author dedicated this book to Rudolf and Viola Sauter, and this copy is inscribed on end-paper in the handwriting of the first named: "For Pat, with every good wish from Viola & Rudolf." The word "Viola" is in a different ink and different handwriting from the rest. 79. Ex Libris John Galsworthy. Selected by Himself and by A. G. Heinemann, 1933. Tall 8vo, cream linen, black lettered, black and red ruled, upper side with design by R. H. Sauter, who also drew the decorations throughout. This is the superior issue; there was another in bright red wrappers, published at 21-. 80. Forsytes, Pendyces and Others. Heinemann, 1935. Green cloth, uniform format with Over the River. 81. End of the Chapter. Heinemann, 1935. Green cloth, gilt, uniform with The Forsyte Saga (1922). The facsimile autograph MS before half-title opens to the right. 82. The Winter Garden: Four Dramatic Pieces. With a Foreword by Mrs. Galsworthy. Duckworth, 1935. Tall 8vo, rough blue cloth, gilt-lettered up spine, edges cut, frontispiece portrait. 83. For Love of Beasts. Reprinted from the Pall Mall Gazette by kind permission of the Editor. Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, n.d. Tail 8vo, 20 pages, sewn into pale pink wrappers lettered in black, edges cut. 84. Hudson, W. H. Far Away and Long Ago. J. M. Dent, 1939. First issue in Everyman's Library, with a Foreword by John Galsworthy, pink cloth, gilt spine, top edges stained to match cloth, others cut. In yellow printed dust-jacket. First published in 1918 by Dent, without introduction; first printing of Galsworthy's essay was in the 6/- reprint dated 1923.

280 GARNETT (Richard) 1835-1906 1. Primula: A Book of Lyrics. Robert Hardwicke, 1858. Small 8vo, yellow semi-stiff wrappers, upper side lettered black similar to title page but within double rule frame and with "Price One Shilling." Edges cut. First Edition of the author's first book and inscribed in his hand to Thomas Woolner, the sculptor-poet: "T. Woolner, Esq., with R. Garnett's kind regards." Publication was anonymous. The Esher copy with bookplate, preserved in a linen case. 2. lo in Egypt and Other Poems. Bell & Daldy, 1859. Foolscap 8vo, light brown blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 7 lines with short rule and one ornament, all edges uncut, end-papers to match cloth. Garnett has made several corrections in the poem on p. 152. Inscribed: "F. Wyville Home, Esq. with R. Garnett's kind regards." The recipient was one of Buxton Forman's "nest of singing birds" at Mount Pleasant, and a colleague of W. J. Ibbett. The Esher copy, with bookplate. 3. Garnett, Rev. Richard. The Philosophical Essays of the late Rev. Richard Garnett, of the British Museum. Edited by his Son. Williams & Norgate, 1859. Tall 8vo, grey-green grained cloth, spine titling label, edges uncut, cream end-papers. Garnett's "Memoir" of his father is a 16 page essay dated 20 April 1858. 4. Poems from the German. Bell & Daldy, 1862. Uniform format, blind blocking, &c., as in lo in Egypt, save that colour of cloth is dark green, reddish brown end-papers, edges uncut. Al before half-title carries adverts only of lo in Egypt. This is an early copy. Much later there was an issue of First Edition sheets in brown cloth; these have G. Bell & Sons imprint at foot of spine-the new style of the firm. Inscribed: "R. H. Major, Esq., with the Author's kind regards, January 24, 1862." 5. Relics of Shelley. Edited by Richard Garnett. Edward Moxon, 1862. Foolscap 8vo, purplish blue blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 5 lines, edges uncut, primrose end-papers, publisher's 8 page catalogue sewn in front, dated July 1862, which advertises this book, price 5/-. The collation of this copy differs from that given in Ashley Library Catalogue (Vol. 5, 1924). There is no blank leaf before half-title, where the pagination of xvi requires it, to form the eighth leaf. Following p.[192] at end is a leaf of adverts which was not

GARNETT (Richard) 1835-1906 printed with sheet 'N', which consists of 8 leaves. The leaf is probably a binder's transferred insert. 6. Idylls and Epigrams, Chiefly from the Greek Anthology. Macmillan, 1869. Green cloth, spine gilt, edges uncut, brown end-papers with Burn & Co.'s binder's ticket. Inscribed: "Stephen Hamilton, Esq., with the author's kind regards, February 1869," and with the recipient's armorial bookplate. 7. Another copy of First Edition, but a later binding variety. The inserted adverts leaf of books "By the Author of this Volume" is not present (because these titles were no longer available?); cloth is a much darker variety of green, end-papers are a matching dark green, gilt spine ornament below author's name is diamond shaped, whereas in first binding it was a leaf. There are other minor variations. The Esher copy, with bookplate. 8. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Select Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Edited with an Introduction by Richard Garnett. Kegan Paul, &c., 1882. Small 8vo, cream parchment, red and black lettered and ornamented, t.e.g., others uncut. Frontispiece of Shelley's house at Marlow. A volume of the publisher's Parchment Library, though this fact is not stated anywhere in the book, and is only deduced from the first sentence of Garnett's 13 page Introduction which is dated 14 April 1882. First leaf is blank before half-title, and there is no printer's imprint anywhere. The Esher copy, with Brett bookplate. 9. Lowell, James Russell. My Study Windows. With an Introduction by Richard Garnett, LL.D. Walter Scott, 1886. Dark blue cloth, spine titling label, all edges uncut. The final leaf, pp.[378-379], carries adverts of the Canterbury Poets and the Camelot Classics, the present volume being in the series last mentioned. 10. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Prologue to Hellas. With an Introductory Note by Richard Garnett. Edited and Annotated by Thomas J. Wise. For Private Circulation Only, 1886. 32 pages, pink printed wrappers, all edges uncut, frontispiece portrait of Shelley. The edition consisted of 20 copies only. The gatherings have never been sewn and are only loosely inserted into the wrappers. Inscribed on blank leaf before half-title: "To R. A. Potts, Esq., with kindest regards from Thos. J. Wise. May 17th, 1886." The Esher copy, with Brett bookplate, preserved in a cloth case.

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11. Warter, John Wood. An Old Shropshire Oak. By the late John Wood Warter. Edited by Richard Garnett. 4 vols. Kegan Paul, &c., 1886-1891. Tall 8vo, uniform brown cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, dark blue end-papers. Volumes 1 and 2 dated 1886; volumes 3 and 4 dated 1891; an additional partner (Trubner) having joined the firm, the imprint is different on title-pages and at foot of spines. Volume 2 has 34 page catalogue at end dated 2.85. The author was Southey's son-in-law and this set belonged to Southey's daughter, Ellen C. Warter, and it has her inscription: "From the Author's Daughter. To my dear Jessie, with affectionate gratitude for unwavering faithfulness through many years of loyal and devoted Service." There are many insertions, both printed and manuscript.

16. Life of John Milton. Walter Scott, 1890. Dark blue cloth, all edges uncut. A volume of the Great Writers series, an ordinary copy (4 3/4" x 7"), not the Large Paper issue; 5 leaves of adverts on text-paper at end.

12. Life of Thomas Carlyle. Walter Scott, 1887. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, t.e.g., others uncut. A volume of the Great Writers series and a Large Paper copy (5 1/2" x 8 1/4"). 13. Ward, Thomas Humphrey. The Reign of Queen Victoria: A Survey of Fifty Years of Progress. 2 vols. Smith Elder, 1887. Tall 8vo, dark greenish cloth, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed, dark blue end-papers. The section on "Literature" (Vol. 2, pp. 445-513) is by Richard Garnett. The section on "Schools" (pp. 238-287) is by Matthew Arnold. 14. The Twilight of the Gods and Other Tales. T. Fisher Unwin, 1888. Blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side lettered in darker blue in 4 lines, all edges uncut, patterned end-papers. The last 3 leaves of final gathering, paginated 1-6 and actually pp.[347-352], carries publisher's adverts of Belles Lettres, followed by their 24 page 1891 catalogue. Inscribed on half-title: "F. Locker-Lampson, Esq., with R. Garnett's very kind regards." With the Locker "Jester" bookplate. 15. Another copy of the First Edition, in particularly fine state, but identical with above copy in all details; copies are extant, however, of a primary binding state in which the design and lettering on upper side is in red. These have at the end an undated catalogue which, from the books included, is clearly an 1888 list. This early binding batch would appear to have been unusually small.

17. Iphigenia in Delphi: A Dramatic Poem. T. Fisher Unwin, 1890. A volume of the publisher's Cameo Series, cream parchment, all edges uncut, No. 16 of 30 copies signed by the publisher, printed on Japanese vellum, frontispiece photogravure plate. 18. An Introduction to the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock. [J. M. Dent, 1891]. Pp.[7]-[48] sewn into salmon pink wrappers, t.e.g., others uncut. The above title is taken from the upper wrapper, where it is black lettered in 4 lines, this serving as the only title-page. This is the introduction in volume 1 of Dent's edition of Peacock's novels, a small number of copies having been prepared for the author's use in this separate form. 19. A Chaplet from the Greek Anthology. T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. Half cream parchment, green board sides, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece plate. This copy belonged to a notable book-collector and has his autograph on end-paper: "Walter Spindler, Paris 1892." 20. De Guaras, Antonio. The Accession of Queen Mary: Being the Contemporary Narrative of Antonio de Guaras, a Spanish Merchant Resident in London. Edited with Introduction, Translation, Notes, . . . by Richard Garnett. Lawrence & Bullen, 1892. Large square 8vo, half dark blue buckram, lighter blue linen sides, all edges uncut, No. 133 of only 350 copies printed. There is a large folding facsimile plate. This copy belonged to Arthur Symons and has his signature. There is a long note in 8 lines in ink on Richard Garnett, whom Symons knew well, in his autograph. 21. Poems. Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1893. Smooth olive green buckram, spine gilt-lettered in 7 lines, all edges uncut, 16 page September 1893 catalogue at end. Only 350 copies in all were printed: limitation certificate inserted. Inscribed: "Mrs. Jonathan Hogg, with kindest regards from R. Garnett, Dec. 1893." From the sale of the library of the Rt. Hon. Jonathan Hogg, Sotheby's, November 1930.

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22. Drayton, Michael. The Battaile of Agincourt. With Introduction and Notes by Richard Garnett. Charles Whittingham, Chiswick Press, 1893. Half cream vellum, grey board sides, all edges uncut, spine lettered in red, No. 77 of 450 copies on handmade paper. Bookplate of Charles Plumptre Johnson.

27. A History of Italian Literature. Heinemann, 1898. Dark blue-green cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, a volume of the Short Histories of the Literatures of the World series, edited by Edmund Gosse. Inscribed on half-title: "Alice Zimmern, with R. Garnett's kindest regards."

23. Helen's Tower. [Privately printed, 1894]. A sonnet, printed in red and black on the first leaf of a 4 page booklet-one sheet of Japanese vellum paper measuring 10" x 15 1/2", folded once. The original pamphlet, Helen's Tower, was Privately printed in 1861 for Lord Dufferin and contained Tennyson's 12 lines commencing, "Helen's Tower, here I stand." Some subsequent visitors to Clandeboy, in Northern Ireland, were asked to contribute verses for insertion in a memorial volume, and these were accordingly printed on various occasions in a uniform format. The present one commemorates Richard Garnett's visit in 1894. Besides a copy of the original 1861 book in the Tennyson collection here, there is also a copy of the 1870 issue in the Browning collection, containing the first printing of Browning's poem, "Who hears of Helen's Tower, may dream perchance," composed after his visit on 26 April 1870.

28. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire. [Percy Bysshe Shelley and Elizabeth Shelley.] Edited by Richard Garnett. John Lane, 1898. Tall 8vo, light blue boards with 2 titling labels, all edges uncut. A type-facsimile of the original edition, issued in Worthing in 1810, with a 23 page Introduction by R. Garnett.

24. William Blake: Painter and Poet. Seeley, 1895. Imperial 8vo (7" x 10"), dark red cloth, gilt, trimmed edges, designed end-papers. This is the issue of 3 monographs in one volume, as The Portfolio for 1895, the title-page being a general one for the 3, which are: William Blake, by R. Garnett; Renaissance of Sculpture in Belgium, by O. G. Destrfie; Gerard David, by W. H. J. Weale. Each work has its own 1895 title-page and independent pagination. The monographs were also issued separately in paper wrappers, and a copy in this form of the Blake is present in the collection; it consists of 80 pages, is profusely illustrated and identical in every detail with the sheets in the combined volume. 26. Dante. Petrarch. Camoens. CXXIV Sonnets Translated by Richard Garnett. John Lane, 1896. Dark blue cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, publisher's 16 page 1896 catalogue at end. Errata slip attached to the stub of a cancelled leaf following p. xii. 26. Zimmern, Alice. Porphyry the Philosopher to his Wife Marcella. Translated with an Introduction by Alice Zimmern. Preface by Richard Garnett. George Redway, 1896. Light brick red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece plate.

29. Essays in Librarianship and Bibliography. George Allen, 1899. Dark green cloth, gilt, top edges uncut, other edges trimmed. A volume of The Library Series, edited by Richard Garnett. This copy belonged to G. E. Mitton [Lady Scott], and has her bookplate and inscription. 30. Cadell, Mrs. H. M. The Ruba'yat of Omar Khayam. Translated by Mrs. H. M. Cadell. With an Introduction by Richard Garnett. John Lane, 1899. Salmon pink boards, buff linen spine lettered in red in 15 lines, all edges uncut. This book was printed in Boston, Mass, and is without register; the leaf before title-page (probably a half-title) has been removed. In any event, it was not reckoned in the pagination, which is [xxxii], [54], the last leaf being a blank. Richard Garnett's introduction is a 26 page essay. 31. Streamer, Volney. What Makes a Friend. Compiled by Volney Streamer. With an Introduction by Richard Garnett. Truslove & Hanson, [? 1900]. Green cloth with ivy design in black, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges gilt. Imprint at foot of spine is "Truslove Hanson & Comba." 32. Streamer, Volney. What Makes a Friend. Compiled by Volney Streamer. With an Introduction by Richard Garnett. London & New York: Truslove Hanson & Comba Ltd., 1900. Consisting of the same 66 leaves as above, printed on similar laid paper, but by Truslove & Bray of West Norwood, whereas the above copy was printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. The work has been entirely reset in a different type, but presumably from identical "copy." This has an ornamental initial to commence the Introduction, and an ornament at the end on p. xx. Paginations in both copies are the same but collation of copy 1 is [a]8, b2, A-G7 gatherings in 8's=66 leaves, whereas in copy 2 it is [A]4, B-Q 15 gatherings in 4's, R2=66 leaves. Binding cases

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39. The Twilight of the Gods and Other Tales. John Lane, 1903. Crown 8vo, light blue cloth, gilt, top edges stained to match cloth, others cut. This is a "New and Augmented Edition"; the original 16 stories of 1888 were reprinted, and 12 new ones added. Frederic Chapman's visiting card inserted, bearing his inscription in ink; he was a partner in the firm of John Lane. 40. Coleridge. G. Bell, 1904. A volume of the publisher's Miniature Series of Great Writers. Beige cloth, lettered and designed in red, t.e.g., others cut, 5 illustrations. 41. William Shakespeare, Pedagogue and Poacher: A Drama. John Lane, 1905. Dark green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Printed at The University Press, Cambridge, U.S.A. 42. Travers, Rosalind. The Two Arcadias: Plays and Poems. With an Introduction by Richard Garnett. Brimley Johnson & Ince, 1905. Dark green cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, frontispiece plate. 43. De Flagello Myrteo: Thoughts and Fancies on Love. Elkin Mathews, 1905. Green cloth, gilt, all edges uncut. Issued anonymously. 44. De Flagello Myrteo. 2nd ed., Revised and Enlarged. Elkin Mathews, 1906. Uniform format with First Edition and again published anonymously. 45. De Flagello Myrteo. By Richard Garnett. 3rd ed. Elkin Mathews, 1906. The edition issued as revised by the author, May 1906. Published posthumously, but bears the author's name. Cream semi-stiff vellum, gilt, edges uncut. Bound in front is: "A Preface to De Flagello Myrteo. By 'Neva.'" With 42 omitted "Thoughts" and some quotations from the author's letters. The pseudonym disguises the identity of Violet Neale for whom the fancies were written, and to whom the letters were addressed. The First Edition contained only 252 "Thoughts" and the Second Edition 360. The Third was again substantially revised and enlarged. 46. Tennyson. By Dr. Richard Garnett and G. K. Chesterton. Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. A volume of the Little Books for Bookmen series, cream wrappers lettered and designed in green and brown, 7 illustrations. Though not specified, it is merely a reprint. The work was first published in 1903 as No. 6 of the Bookman Biographies.

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47. The Life of W. J. Fox. By the late Richard Garnett, concluded by Edward Garnett. John Lane, 1910. Tall 8vo, light blue cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered and ornamented, ruled in cream enamel, t.e.g., others uncut, 7 illustrations including frontispiece in photogravure; 2 leaves of adverts of Works of Anatole France at end followed by publisher's undated 16 page catalogue.

1. The Tremulous String. By Monk Gibbon. At the Sign of the Grayhound, 1926. Smooth deep cream buckram, all edges cut. Title-page in red and black, with grayhound ornament; colophon page all in red. No. 68 of 250 copies. This book is without register or pagination, but consists of 18 leaves excluding the end-papers, which are text-paper. Metal fastened with 3 staples and held in cover by the laid-down portions of end-papers. It appears to be the first production of a new Press, founded by Alister W. Mathews at Fair Oak [Winchester] in 1926, and is also the first book by Dr. Monk Gibbon. Inscribed: "Harold Begbie from Monk Gibbon, Swanage, May 1929."

Autograph Letter 48. ALS, one page on British Museum notepaper, dated only Friday (but c. 1891) to "Dear Mr. Miles," about a returned proof. This is to Alfred H. Miles, and relates to the 10 volume anthology, Poets & Poetry of the Century. Secondary Material 49. Heilbrun, Carolyn G. The Garnett Family. G. Allen & Unwin, 1961. Red cloth, spine lettered in silver, top edges stained red, others cut, in yellow printed dust-jacket (30s. net). With 8 illustrations. Association Items 50. [Holland, Sir Henry.] Recollections of Past Life. Spottiswoode, 1870. Embossed purple cloth, gilt, edges uncut. A Privately printed and anonymous book; it was reprinted and published in 1872. The author (1788-1873) was Physician in ordinary to Prince Albert and Queen Victoria. This copy belonged to George Eliot and is inscribed on half-title: "To Mrs. Lewes from her friend and admirer, the Author." On title-page is the autograph signature of Joseph Mazzini Wheeler. The book later came into possession of Richard Garnett who has inscribed it: "Helen Zimmern from her friend R. Garnett." 51. Garnett, Thomas. Essays in Natural History and Agriculture. By the late Thomas Garnett. Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1883. Dark green cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut. The author was Garnett's uncle, and included in the book is an essay written by his father, Richard Garnett the elder, "On the Production of Ice at the Bottoms of Rivers." Inscribed for one of his colleagues in the British Museum Reading Room; "J. P. Anderson, from R. Garnett, May 15, 1883."

2. The Branch of Hawthorn Tree. Coloured designs by Picart Le Doux. The Grayhound Press, 1927. Imperial 8vo (6 1/2" x 10"), cream wrappers lettered and designed in colours, all edges uncut. No. 290 of 460 copies, printed by Ducros & Colas in Paris, the woodcuts coloured by hand by the Artist. Loosely inserted is an advertising leaflet for the book, to be published at £1 net. 3. For Daws to Peck at. Gollancz, 1929. Light stone coloured rough linen, yellow spinetitling label, edges cut (though some fore-edges have escaped the guillotine). Belonged to the novelist Myrtle Johnston and bears author's inscription: "For Myrtle Johnson (sic) from her compatriot the Author, April 24th, 1932." For other books inscribed to Mrs. Johnston see the Katharine Tynan collection. 4. Seventeen Sonnets. Joiner & Steele, 1932. Green cloth, gilt-lettered down spine and in 2 lines on upper side, edges cut. 5. The Seals. J. Cape, 1935. Pink rough linen, lettered in yellow enamel spine and upper side, top edges stained to match cloth, only lower edges uncut. Inscribed: "For the only "Angel" I know, who being so named by her family, must be one indeed. Monk Gibbon. The Myrtles, Feb. 10th 1935." This is an intimate presentation inscription to Mrs. Johnston-mother of Myrtle Johnston (to whom For Daws to Peck at is inscribed). Her residence was The Myrtles, Parkstone, Dorset and the writer then lived at Swanage, some 10 miles distant. 6. Mount Ida. J. Cape, 1948. Tall 8vo, light blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, top edges stained to match, only lower edges uncut.

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7. An Intruder at the Ballet. With 41 Photographs, Phoenix House, 1952. Large square 8vo, pink cloth, gilt-lettered down spine, in pictorial dust-jacket (21/- net).

Gibbon, 24 Sandycove Road," in his hand. b) Another manuscript, entirely in the editor's hand but in pencil and ink, 31 sheets (23 of same paper and 8 of a shorter kind). Very heavily revised and corrected, this version is much closer to the final form, and does, indeed, commence in the same way: "It was John Eglinton who provided Moore," &c. Preserved in a wrapper marked "Return to Monk Gibbon, 24 Sandycove Road, Sandycove, Co. Dublin" in his hand. c) Original typescripts of this Introductory Essay and the Aphorisms section, on 295 quarto sheets of typewriter paper, very extensively corrected in Gibbon's hand mainly in red ink. d) Complete set of first galley proofs of the Introduction only. Preserved in an envelope with 10 line signed inscription by the author; he refers to the 4 quatrains of verse, also "the anecdote told me by Jane Mitchell"-which were subsequently deleted. e) Galley proofs of the whole work. Another set, with a fair number of corrections in the author's hand in ink, also some additional passages in margins. f) Sets of first, second and third page proofs of the whole book, rubber stamped thus by printers. g) 15 typed letters from Macmillan & Co. between 6 September 1937 and 29 November 1937, the first 3 signed by Harold Macmillan, later Prime Minister, the remainder by other members of the firm. 11 typed letters from Jonathan Cape, Ltd., 25 August 1937-21 September 1937, all signed by Rupert Hart-Davis (partner). Entirely about errors in facts and proof corrections, some letters extending to several sheets. In the acknowledgements in The Living Torch, Rupert Hart-Davis is especially thanked for his productive labours on the proofs. Five typed letters from R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh (printers of the book) 10 September 1937-2 October 1937. The whole preserved in a folder with the author's listing of contents. h) Stamped addressed envelope to Monk Gibbon, Esq., Clooney Beg, Oldfield, Swanage, Dorset. Contents are very miscellaneous, but include first, second and third proofs of title-page and preliminary gathering of both. Also much duplicate material. These items form a unique documentation of the development towards the final published form of this important book.

8. Austria. B. T. Batsford, 1953. Salmon pink smooth cloth, spine gilt-lettered, edges cut, profuse illustrations. In coloured pictorial dust-jacket (18s. net). 9. The Masterpiece and the Man: Yeats As I Knew Him. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959. Blue rough cloth, spine gilt-lettered, top edges stained to match, other edges cut, 8 illustrations, in pictorial dust-jacket (211- net). 10. Netta. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1960. Red cloth, spine gilt, all edges cut. Frontispiece portrait of the subject-the Hon. Mrs. Franklin—by Sargent, and 4 pages of photographs. In dust-jacket (30/- net). 11. The Irish Statesman. Edited by G. W. Russell [A.E.]. With which is incorporated The Irish Homestead, Vol. 1, No. 1, Saturday 15 September 1923 to Vol. 11, No. 26, Saturday 2 March 1929. Eleven volumes folio (8 1/4" x 12 1/2"), uniformly bound in red cloth, gilt-lettered spines and upper sides. This is a complete file of the newspaper under A.E.'s editorship. It was discontinued shortly after his death, the final number being Vol. 14, No. 6, 12 April 1930. Perhaps this may be described as A.E.'s own set; certainly volume 7 bears his autograph signature (in full) and volume 5, p. 715 bears a correction in his handwriting. This work was used by Gibbon to prepare The Living Torch and there are seven 4to sheets preserved in volume 1, with both sides filled in his autograph in ink, listing the selections he made from the Notes and Comments, and other leading articles which are all A.E.'s work. Miscellaneous 12. The Living Torch. [By] A.E. Edited by Monk Gibbon, with an Introductory Essay. Macmillan, 1937. Tall 8vo, light green cloth, gilt spine, top edges stained to match, others cut, pp.[383-384] at end carry adverts only. Together with this First Edition of George Russell's posthumous book is preserved the following material: a) Original MS entirely in the editor's hand in ink, written on 28 sheets of ruled foolscap (8" x 13"), mainly on rectos but with corrections and additions on some versos. A much corrected text, though clearly legible; it is, however, a very different version from that finally published. Signed at end. In a postmarked wrapper marked: "Return to Monk

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GIBSON (Wilfrid Wilson) 1878-1962 3. Urlyn the Harper and Other Song; The Queen's Vigil and Other Song. Elkin Mathews, 1902. Copies of the First Edition sheets of these 2 booklets, as issued by the publisher bound together in smooth bevelled green buckram, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges uncut. It has been stated that only 12 copies were prepared thus. A combined half-title was provided, but it appears no type has been reset and pagination remains untouched. 4. The Golden Helm and Other Verse. Elkin Mathews, 1903. Blue flecked linen, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges cut, others uncut. With author's full autograph signature in ink. 5. The Nets of Love. Elkin Mathews, 1905. Blue wrappers lettered in darker blue, all edges uncut. No. 28 in the Vigo Cabinet Series; wrappers advertise up to and including this number. D6 to 8 at end are paginated i-vi and carry 6 pages of publisher's adverts. The Esher copy with Brett bookplate, preserved in a cloth case. 6. On the Threshold. Cranleigh: The Samurai Press, 1907. Square 8vo, grey boards lettered on label up spine and in a single rule frame on upper side, all edges uncut. Colophon on p.[34] states: "500 copies of this edition were printed by hand . . . ." The laid-down end-papers are part of the gathering and carry printing, hence must be considered part of the collation, which is 22 leaves, paginated 1-33. With author's full autograph signature in ink. Originally in the Sadleir collection with bookplate signed "Michael Sadler 1912" (as he then was). Later in the Esher library, with Brett bookplate. 7. The Stonefolds. Cranleigh: The Samurai Press, 1907. Uniform format with On the Threshold, autographed by the author and one of 500 copies. The provenance is identical, with both Sadler and Brett bookplates, and at end of text (p. 32) is the familiar "0. S. B., March 1925" in pencil. Again, the end-papers are part of gathering; collation is 24 leaves, paginated 1-32. The spelling "Sadler" may be noted in the inscriptions in these 2 books which he acquired before he had made the change of name to Sadleir. 8. The Web of Life: A Book of Poems. Cranleigh: Samurai Press, 1908. Large square 8vo (small 4to), light blue boards, beige holland spine with titling label lettered upwards, titled in 3 lines on upper side, all edges uncut. Limited to 300 copies, printed by hand.

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Inscribed: "To W. O. from W. W. G., June 1909." Loosely inserted is a postcard with 4 lines in author's hand in ink: "Elizabeth tells me that . . . ." The W. O. is presumably Winifred Oliver. Also inserted duplicate lettering label, a leaf dealing with "Leave to reprint," &c., and a 4 page Samurai Press folder.

14. Womenkind: A Play in One Act. David Nutt, 1912. 24 pages, metal fastened in grey wrappers lettered in black (Price 6d. net). The Esher copy with Brett bookplate, preserved in a cloth case.

9. Another copy of the First (and only) Edition, limited to 300 copies. Inscribed: "To Elkin Mathews, from W. W. G., 1908," and with Elkin Mathews bookplate. It has the same 3 printed insertions as above copy. 10. Akra the Slave. Elkin Mathews, 1910. Light blue wrappers lettered up the spine and on upper side in darker blue, edges cut but many lower edges have escaped the guillotine. The Esher copy with Brett bookplate; "O. S. B., Jan. 1921" in pencil at end of text. Preserved in a cloth case. 11. Another copy of First Edition; this is the issue in light blue boards. The lettering is identical; top edges are cut but others uncut. 12. Daily Bread. Books 1, 2 and 3. 3 vols. Elkin Mathews, 1910. Uniform light blue wrappers lettered in darker blue, edges cut. Each booklet is inscribed in autograph of the author's sister: "Winifred Oliver from Elizabeth Gibson"~the first 2 dated April 1910, the third without date. This reveals the identity of the W. 0 in the inscription in The "Web of Life. Preserved together in one linen case with Esher (Brett) bookplate. 13. Another copy, but of Books 1 and 2 only. These are the issues in blue boards with identical lettering to the wrappered copies; top edges are cut but others entirely uncut. In the first Wilfrid Meynell has inserted an envelope stamped and postmarked 23 January 1914, addressed to himself in Gibson's autograph. In the second is inserted an ALS from Gibson to "Dear Mrs. Meynell," dated from 35 Devonshire Street, W.C., 15 May 1913, thanking her for the gift of an inscribed copy of her Collected Poems. The address from which this was written was that of Harold Monro's first Poetry Bookshop, where impecunious Georgian poets were lodged for a minimal charge. The whole site, including the street, was obliterated during the second world war; and in the rebuilding of London it has become, ironically, the site of the Air-Ministry's Adastral House.

15. Fires. Books 1, 2 and 3. 3 vols. Elkin Mathews, 1912. Uniform dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered up spines and in 5 lines on upper sides, top edges cut, others uncut. Inscribed in the first volume: "To Mrs. Meynell from Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, 1912." 16. Another set of First Editions, in the original blue wrappers lettered in darker blue, top edges cut, other edges uncut. The Esher copy with Brett bookplate, preserved together in a cloth case. All 6 volumes are dated 1912, but wrappered copies in the collection are dated 1913, on wrappers only, which may indicate priority of issue for the cloth style. 17. Womenkind: A Play in One Act. David Nutt, 1913. Bronze cloth, upper side gilt-lettered, all edges uncut. In the absence of any certificate this must be considered the Second Edition. It is entirely reset in a larger type (by Good, Ltd.) on 48 pages, size 4 1/2" x 5 3/4". 18. Thoroughfares. Elkin Mathews, 1914. Beige coloured cloth, gilt-lettered up spine and in 2 lines on upper side, top edges cut, others uncut. The book is dedicated "To Edward Marsh." This copy is inscribed: "To Professor Marsh from Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, in gratitude, December 1914." Howard Marsh, Edward's father, was Master of Downing College, Cambridge and occupied the Chair of Surgery. For his son's sake he befriended the Gibsons-Elizabeth Gibson suffering much illness-and this may explain the "gratitude" of the inscription. The Esher copy, with Brett bookplate; "0. S. B. Jan. 1921" in pencil at end of text. 19. Another copy of First Edition, identical in all details. Inscribed: "To Mrs. Meynell from Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, 1914." 20. Borderlands. Elkin Mathews, 1914. Uniform format with Thoroughfares; the volumes mutually advertise one another on versos of half-title pages. Inscribed: "To Mrs. Meynell from Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, October 1914."

288 GIBSON (Wilfrid Wilson) 1878-1962 21. Battle. Elkin Mathews, 1915. Light brown wrappers lettered in dark blue, edges cut. The Esher copy, with Brett bookplate, preserved in a cloth case. 22. Friends. Elkin Mathews, 1916. Light brown wrappers lettered in dark blue, top edges cut, others uncut. Inscribed: "Alice Meynell from Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, 1916." Preserved in the familiar linen case, gilt-lettered up spine, and with Oliver Brett bookplate, but it is not the Esher copy. I bought it personally at Greatham, with the other Meynell presentations and inserted it in the Esher case afterwards. 23. Livelihood: Dramatic Reveries. Macmillan, 1917. Dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges uncut, in yellow dust-jacket lettered in red (3/6 net). 24. Whin. Macmillan, 1918. Uniform format with Livelihood. The Esher copy, with Brett bookplate. 25. Wilfrid Wilson Gibson: Twenty-Three Selected Poems. Athenaeum Literature Department [1919]. Narrow 12mo, grey wrappers lettered in blue, edges cut, 48 pages. The Preface is by E. E. Tfaylor]. Esher copy with Brett bookplate, preserved in a cloth case. 26. Home: A Book of Poems. Beaumont Press, 1920. Tall 8vo, decorated boards, half cream vellum, gilt-lettered up spine, edges uncut, floral designed end-papers. Limited to 295 copies, this is No. 10 of the first 35, printed on Japanese vellum and signed by author, artist and publisher. 27. Neighbours. Macmillan, 1920. Blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, all edges uncut, in dust-jacket (7/6 net). Pp.[171-172] at end carry adverts only. An erratum slip is inserted before p. 1. Inscribed: "To Mrs. Meynell from Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, 1920." 28. Krindleskye. Macmillan, 1922. Smooth brown boards, spine titling label, all edges uncut, in dust-jacket (6/- net). Inscribed: "John Freeman from Wilfrid, 1922." Also inserted is the 2 page ALS which accompanied the gift, dated 20 July 1922 from Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire: "Macmillans ask me to impress on anyone I give a copy to that the book is not out till 28 September . . I hope you will find it improved. That was a great time you gave me in Anerley~a real refreshment for my rustic wits." &c.

GIBSON (Wilfrid Wilson) 1878-1962 29. Kestrel Edge and Other Plays. Macmillan, 1924. Uniform format with Krindleskye, in dust-jacket (6/- net). John Freeman's copy, inscribed: "John from Wilfrid, 1924." The above 2 books from John Freeman's library were bought at the Hodgson's sale, January 1958, of Mrs. Freeman's property. 30. I Heard a Sailor. Macmillan, 1925. Uniform format with Kestrel Edge. 31. Collected Poems: 1905-1925. Macmillan, 1926. Crown 8vo, green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others cut, frontispiece portrait, pp. xxiv, 792. 32. The Early Whistler. Drawings by John Nash. Faber & Gwyer [1927]. No. 6 of The Ariel Poems; this copy is No 156 of 350 on Zanders's handmade paper. There is no title-page, upper side of boards lettered and designed in black serving as title. 33. Between Fairs: A Comedy. Macmillan, 1928. Decorated boards, buff linen spine with titling label, top edges cut, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (3/6 net). 34. The Golden Room and Other Poems. Macmillan, 1928. Orange cloth lettered spine and upper side in dark blue, top edges cut, others uncut. M8 at end, pp.[175-176], numbered 1-2, carries adverts only. 35. Islands. Macmillan, 1932. Light green linen, spine gilt-lettered, top edges cut, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (5/- net). 36. Highland Dawn. Beamsley House, Bradford: Alberta Vickridge, 1932. 24 pages, sewn into buff wrappers lettered in red, designed in black. Pagination is 7-17, and first and last leaves are blanks. Only 250 copies printed. 37. Solway Ford and Other Poems. A Selection made by Charles Williams. Faber & Faber, 1945. Blue boards, lettered in red down spine and on upper side, in printed dust-jacket (2s. 6d. net). 38. Coldknuckles. Frederick Muller, 1946. 76 pages, sewn into buff wrappers, upper side lettered "Proof and rubber stamped 3 May 1946.

289 GIBSON (Wilfrid Wilson) 1878-1962 Autograph Letters 39. ALS one page 4to on his Greenway, Ledbury notepaper, dated 28 January 1914 to "Dear Mr. Meynell": "I hear, through Eddie Marsh, of your very kind order for copies of New Numbers . . . we hope to have the first issue ready by 15 February." &c. 40. ALS one page 4to on his Greenway, Ledbury notepaper, dated 15 April 1914 about an offer to print his work in the Revue Sud-Americaine, and referring to his 6 lyrics to be printed in the second issue of New Numbers, to appear about 15 May. Association Items Note: The following books are by Elizabeth Gibson, sister of W. W. Gibson. 41. The Evangel of Joy. Grant Richards, 1899. Cream parchment wrappers gilt-lettered on upper side, t.e.g., others uncut, limited to 600 copies. Inscribed on title-page (? in author's hand): "To Clarence Rook, New Year 1899." 42. The Burden of Love. Elkin Mathews, 1902. Dark green wrappers lettered in black, all edges uncut. No. 10 in the Vigo Cabinet Series; wrappers advertise up to No. 12. Inscribed: "The Editor of Sunday from Elizabeth Gibson. November 1902." 43. By Many Streams: A Book of Poems. Cranleigh: Samurai Press, 1907. Grey-blue boards with green linen spine, upper side black lettered in 2 lines, top edges cut, other uncut. Inscribed: "Mrs. Cobden Sanderson from Elizabeth Gibson. Nov. 1907." 44. From the Shadow: A Book of Poems. Cranleigh: Samurai Press, 1907. Issued uniformly with By Many Streams, and bearing similar author's presentation to Mrs. Cobden-Sanderson dated Christmas 1907. 45. The Day's Journey. Cranleigh: Samurai Press, 1908. Issued uniformly with From the Shadow, and bearing similar author's presentation to Mrs. Cobden-Sanderson, dated February 1908. 46. In the Starlight. Cranleigh: Samurai Press, 1908. Issued uniformly with The Day's Journey. This copy derived from the books of Cobden-Sanderson, sold in Hodgson's Rooms, but the inscription is only: "from Elizabeth Gibson, 1908."

GIBSON (Wilfrid Wilson) 1878-1962 47. A Pilgrim's Staff. Cranleigh: Samurai Press, 1908. Issued uniformly with In the Starlight, and inscribed: "Mrs. Cobden-Sanderson from Elizabeth Gibson. April 1908." 48. Oxford. By Elizabeth Gibson Cheyne. Oxford: Published by Mrs. Cheyne, 1914. Blue wrappers, upper side lettered in black, edges cut. This privately printed book bears imprint of Enterprise Printing Works. Inserted is a pictorial card inscribed: "Christmas Greetings from Elizabeth Gibson Cheyne." Also a postcard addressed to Mrs. Meynell, 2A Granville Place, W. with a 15 line poem entitled "Easter," signed Elizabeth Gibson and postmarked 22 March 1910. The poet did not marry Dr. Cheyne until 1911. 49. The Return Home. By Elizabeth Gibson Cheyne. Oxford, 1914. Uniform blue wrappers with previous book; it carries no imprint of printers anywhere, but is probably a product of the same press. Inscribed: "from E. G. Cheyne," but there is no evidence that it was presented to Mrs. Meynell (save my personal knowledge that it came from Greatham). 50. The Lover of Life. Oxford: Published by Mrs. Cheyne, 1915. Blue wrappers uniform with The Return Home. Wilfrid Meynell has inserted an envelope addressed to Mrs. Meynell, Greatham, Pulborough (stamped and postmarked 18 December 1916), also a long obituary for Dr. Cheyne extracted from The Times, 17 February 1915. 51. Resurrection. Published by Mrs. Gibson Cheyne, 1915. Blue wrappers uniform with The Lover of Life. Inserted is an ALS from the author to "Dear Mrs. Meynell," about membership of her Order. Note: W. W. Gibson was one of the 4 poets contributing to New Numbers (see the Lascelles Abercrombie collection). GILBERT (Rosa Mulholland, Lady) 1841-1921 1. Vagrant Verses. By Rosa Mulholland. Kegan Paul, &c., 1886. Sage green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges uncut, dark blue end-papers. Inscribed on half-title in Katharine Tynan's autograph: "Miss Christina Rossetti, from a loving disciple, Jan. 2nd 1886." Christina Rossetti has marked "disciple" with an asterisk, and noted below in pencil: "Katharine Tynan."

290 GILBERT (Rosa Mulholland, Lady) 1841-1921 This valuable copy is mentioned by Christina Rossetti in her letter of 11 January 1886 (Family Letters, New York: Scribner's, 1908, p. 149). After several sentences about Miss Tynan she continues: "She has given me a volume of Vagrant Verse by her friend Miss Rosa Mulholland, but I rate higher K. T.'s own muse." Christina's verdict may have been a just one, the book failing also to catch the public ear; in 1899 there were still unsold sheets of this First (and only!) Edition, which were transferred to Elkin Mathews, and reissued with his own title-page pasted on stub of the cancelled Kegan Paul leaf. 2. Another copy of First Edition, green cloth, gilt, edges uncut, as above. Inscribed on half-title in Mulholland's autograph; "To Mrs. Meynell, with the kind regards of the Versifier, January 1886." It is interesting to note that although these 2 copies were early in circulation, and appear to be of the same binding batch-same ornamental block for the diagonal Vagrant Verses gilt stamped on upper side, same blind-stamped "K. P. T. & Co." centre of lower cover, &c.—they are not identical. The Rossetti copy may be a "freak"; it has a 40 page catalogue at end dated 5.'84 and imprint at foot of spine is all in caps. In the copy sent to Mrs. Meynell a different 44 page catalogue is present, dated 10.'85 and imprint at foot of spine is in caps and lower case. 3.

Nanno: A Daughter of the State. By

Rosa Mulholland (Lady Gilbert). Grant Richards, 1899. Smooth light grey-green buckram, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges uncut. S8 at end, paginated 287-288, carries only adverts, and is followed by 24 page Spring 1898 catalogue. 4. Spirit and Dust: Poems by Rosa Mulholland (Lady Gilbert). Elkin Mathews, 1908. Green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges cut, others uncut. Alice Meynell's copy. Inlaid is an ALS, 2 pages, on a folded sheet of the author's Blackrock, Co. Dublin black-edged notepaper, but dated from Hyde Park Gate, London, 3 July 1908 to: "Dear Mrs. Meynell-Will you allow me to offer for your acceptance." &c.

GILL (Eric) 1882-1940 1. Songs •without Clothes: Being a Dissertation on the Song of Solomon. . . .

With a Preface by Fr. Vincent McNabb. St. Dominic's Press, 1921. Grey boards, stone coloured holland spine, titling label on upper side, all edges uncut.

2. In Petra: Being a Sequel to "Nisi Dominus." With a Preface and Notes by Eric Gill and Hilary Pepler. St. Dominic's Press, 1923. Rough dark blue canvas, titling label on upper side, edges uncut. Printed in red and black ink with initials and ornaments by Gill. 3. Concerning Dragons. A Rhyme by H. D. C. P., emblems by A. E. R. G. St. Dominic's Press, 1928. Eight pages, sewn, issued without outer wrappers. 4. Aspidistras and Parlers. By the Author of Concerning Dragons. St. Dominic's Press, 1928. Eight pages, sewn, without outer wrapper, as the previous booklet. Loosely inserted is a leaflet of the St. Dominic's Press, advertising these and other publications. 5. Art-Nonsense and Other Essays. Cassell & Francis Walterson, 1929. Tall 8vo, smooth light blue bevelled buckram, spine gilt-lettered, all edges uncut, in printed dust-jacket (21s. net). The printing of this book by the Cambridge University Press shows the first use of "Perpetua" type, designed by the author. 6. Printing and Piety: An Essay on Life and Works in the England of 1931, and Particularly Typography. Sheed & Ward, 1931. Salmon pink cloth, gilt-lettered up spine, all edges uncut, in printed dust-jacket (25s.) from which the title is taken, there being no title-page proper. One of 500 copies, printed at Pigotts, near Hughenden, by Rene Hague and Eric Gill and signed by both. 7. The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ According to Four Evangelists.

Faber & Faber, 1934. Light blue cloth, gilt-lettered down spine, all edges uncut, with 5 engravings by Eric Gill. Printed by Hague 6 Gill at High Wycombe. Each of the 4 sections has its own title-page. 8. Autobiography. J. Cape, 1940. Red cloth, in dust-jacket (12s. 6d. net). First published 1940; the present is the eighth impression.

291 GILL (Eric) 1882-1940 9. Last Essays. With an Introduction by Mary Gill. J. Cape, 1942. Dark blue cloth, silver lettered and designed, top edges cut, others uncut. Frontispiece and decorations by Gill. This copy is the second impression, published in the same month (October) as first. 10. Letters of Eric GUI. Edited by Walter Shewring. J. Cape, 1947. Scarlet cloth, spine gilt-lettered, blind ornament on upper side, top edges stained to match, others cut, in printed dust-jacket (15/- net-this is an increased price, slip pasted over 12s. 6d.). Association Item 11. The Service for the Burial of the Dead, According to the Use of the Orthodox Greek Church in London. Greek Text with a Rendering in English. Ditchling: Printed and Published by Douglas Pepler, 1922. Blue diced leather, spine gilt-lettered, edges uncut, printed throughout in red and black. Eric Gill possibly had no connection with this production. GODLEY (Alfred Denis) 1856-1925 1. Tacitus. The Histories of Tacitus. Books 1 and 2. With Introduction and Notes by A. D. Godley. Macmillan, 1887. Small 8vo, red cloth, gilt spine. This came to me with the books of John Eglinton; the signature on end-paper, "H. M. Magee, 1886," is that of his brother. The very considerable annotations are also probably in his handwriting. 2. Verses to Order. By A. G. Methuen, 1892. Dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut, dark green end-papers. First Edition of the author's first original work, and probably in the first binding state. The author has completed his name on title-page, also adding "Magdalen College, Oxford." On facing leaf is a humourous presentation inscription in his hand: "Mrs. Mackenzie from A. G., 14th Dec. '92. N.B.: The poems of A. G. were not written by A. G. but by another person of the same name." 3. Another copy of First Edition, and in an alternative variety of binding. Half cream parchment, brighter blue cloth sides, t.e.g., others uncut. Lettering on spine is in blue, only upper side in gilt. The 4 blue bands, one thick and one thin at top and bottom, are not present (being unsuitable for the half cloth sides), and the end-papers are floral patterned. But the lettering on cover is from the same

GODLEY (Alfred Denis) 1856-1925 type as in first copy. The Esher copy, with bookplate. On end-paper is signature of E. A. Upcott, to whom the copy of Second Strings is inscribed. 4. Another copy of First Edition; binding is similar half-parchment with blue cloth sides (though a different shade of blue). Lettering on spine and upper side is similar but from a different type. End-papers are blue-black. Inscribed on end-paper: "Stanley Osborne, 20 Magdalen St., Oxford, 30.10.'02." 5. Socrates and Athenian Society in His Day: A Biographical Sketch. Seeley, 1896. Dark green cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, yellow end-papers. A considerable number of newspaper cuttings inserted. Inscribed: "From the Author, Dec. 1895," in Godley's handwriting. 6. Another copy of First Edition; the gathering signed 'R' at end, consisting of 8 leaves, though carrying only adverts, is printed on text-paper, and must be considered part of the book. 7. The Odes and Epodes of Horace. Translated by A. D. Godley. Methuen, 1898. Dark blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 10 lines, top edges cut, others uncut, Methuen's 48 page catalogue dated October 1901 at end. There is a 4 page Introduction by the translator. The title-page is a cancel leaf pasted on stub. 8. Lyra Frivola. Methuen, 1899. Light green cloth, ruled in blue, lettered in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Half-title bears presentation inscription to Janet Aldis, dated 29 October from "L. T. A." This lady, in 1900, became Mrs. Harry Hooton, and with her husband, signed the register as witnesses at the marriage of Edward Thomas to Helen Noble. 9. Another copy of First Edition. The Esher copy, with Brett bookplate. 10. The Horace Club: Meeting November 22, 1899. Oxford: Printed by B. H. Blackwell, 1899. Single sheet of watermarked paper, folded once to form a 4 page booklet. Pages [2] and [3] contain the Rules, signed (in print): "A. D. Godley, Arbiter. Magdalen College, Nov. 8, 1899." 11. Nova Anthologia Oxoniensis: Translations into Greek and Latin Verse. Edited by Robinson Ellis and A. D. Godley. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1899. Dark blue buckram, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut.

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12. Second Strings. Methuen, 1902. Uniform format with Lyra Frivola, but colour of cloth red and ruled design in white enamel. Inscribed: "E. A. Upcott, from the author, Jan. 1903."

19. Aspects of Modern Oxford. By A. D. Godley, M.A. New ed. Seeley, 1910. Light blue cloth, lettered in darker blue, cut edges, profuse illustrations. The First Edition of this work had appeared in 1894 as "By a Mere Don" and without Godley's name. The present has a new Preface dated July 1909.

13. Smith, James, and Smith, Horace. Rejected Addresses. Introduction and Notes by A. D. Godley. Methuen, 1904. Little Library series, red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait. 14. The Clouds of Aristophanes. Adapted for Performance by the Oxford University Dramatic Society, 1905. With an English Version by A. D. Godley and C. Bailey. Oxford: Sold at 116 High Street [1905]. Blue wrappers lettered in darker blue, edges cut. The first leaf carries adverts only and the last leaf, pp.[95-96], is blank. The "Notes on the Incidental Music to The Clouds" is printed on one side of a leaf loosely inserted. 15. Prospectus of the production of The Clouds of Aristophanes as presented by the Oxford University Dramatic Society in March 1905. Eight pages 4to sewn; printed at the Chiswick Press on laid paper watermarked "Chiswick Press." It is interesting to note that the part of Phidippides was played by Compton Mackenzie. 16. Oxford in the Eighteenth Century. With 16 Illustrations. Methuen, 1908. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, top edges cut, others uncut, 40 page catalogue at end dated September 1908. This book sold slowly, and these are the earliest adverts so far noted. Copies bound-up much later, with a May 1911 catalogue, have a plain upper cover-no gilt frame or 3 line lettering. The present is a fine copy with bookplate of Dr. L. L. Price (of Oriel College). 17. Praed, Winthrop Mackworth. Select Poems. Edited with an Introduction by A. D. Godley. Henry Frowde, 1909. A volume of the Oxford Miscellany, dark green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others trimmed, frontispiece portrait, red silk marker. Presumed first state of binding with small floral ornament below author's name on spine. 18. Another copy of First Edition; presumed primary binding but without the ornament on spine, and other minor variations. Later plainer bindings are also extant.

20. The Casual Ward: Academic and Other Oddments. Smith Elder, 1912. Blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. L4 at end is blank. Inscribed: "E. A. Upcott from A. D. Godley, 1913." The Esher copy, with bookplate. 21. Moore, Thomas. The Poetical Works. Edited by A. D. Godley. Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1915. Blue cloth, gilt, all edges red under gilt, frontispiece portrait. The first issue of the Oxford Edition was dated 1910 and had Frowde's imprint; the present is the first printed on india paper. 22. Reliquiae. Edited by C. R. L. Fletcher. 2 vols. Oxford University Press, 1926. Dark blue cloth, spine titling labels, all edges uncut, portrait frontispiece to volume 1, folding MS facsimile frontispiece to volume 2. Spare titling labels at end. There is an errata slip in each volume dated January 1927. 23. Fifty Poems. Edited by C. L. Graves and C. R. L. Fletcher. Oxford University Press, 1927. Dark red cloth, spine gilt-lettered, all edges uncut, in printed dust-jacket (5s. net). GOGARTY (Oliver St. John) 1878-1957 1. Blight-A Tragedy of Dublin: An Exposition in Three Acts. By Alpha and Omega. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1917. Crown 8vo, bluish green wrappers lettered in darker green, all edges cut. Written in collaboration with Joseph O'Connor. This is Gogarty's second publication, preceded only by his Trinity College, Dublin English verse prize poem of 1905 on the tercentenary of Don Quixote by Cervantes. 2. An Offering of Swans. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1923. Pale blue boards, half-holland, lettered on label up the spine and in 2 lines on upper side. Limited to 300 copies. Preface by W. B. Yeats, 2 pages, dated 30 August 1923.

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COLORING (Douglas) 1887-1960

3. An Offering of Swans and Other Poems. Eyre & Spottiswoode [1923]. Tall 8vo, smooth dark blue buckram, gilt-lettered down spine and in 6 lines on upper side, trimmed edges, portrait by Augustus John. A reprint of the Cuala Press volume, to which are added 40 new poems, including "Dedication" and the poem to Lord Dunsany-making 63 in all. Inscribed: "To the Lady Dorothy Ashley-Cooper from Oliver Gogarty, Dublin. 18.vii.1930."

1. A Country Boy and Other Poems. The Adelphi Press, 1910. Large 8vo, dark red cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges uncut. No. 9 of only 40 copies. The final leaf of the last gathering, pp.[79-80] is blank. The First Edition of the author's first book. Inscribed: "Gabriel Gillett from Douglas Goldring. July IX, 1910."

4. Wild Apples. With Preface by W. B. Yeats. Cuala Press, 1930. Light blue boards, half-holland, lettered on label up the spine and in 3 lines on upper side. Limited to 250 copies. Top edges are unopened throughout. Yeats's Preface is a 4 page essay. 5. As I Was Going down Sackville Street: A Phantasy in Fact. Rich & Cowan, 1937. Tall 8vo, light green cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 9 lines with publisher's ornament in blind above their imprint at foot of spine. Frontispiece portrait. 6. Others to Adorn. Preface by W. B. Yeats. Forewords by [George Russell] and Horace Reynolds. Rich & Cowan, 1938. Dark blue rough cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 8 lines, with small ornament below title and ornament above imprint of publishers at foot, top edges cut, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (7/6 net). 7. Elbow Room. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1939. Blue boards, half-holland, lettered on label up the spine and in 3 lines on upper side, end-papers matching boards, top edges unopened throughout. Limited to 450 copies. 8. Going Native. Constable, 1941. Crown 8vo, light green cloth, spine lettered in darker green, edges cut, in coloured printed dust-jacket. 9.

Another copy, identical with above.

10. Mr. Petunia. New York: Creative Age Press, 1945. Smooth fawn buckram, dark red titling panels on spine and upper side, lettered in silver, top edges stained green, others cut, in pictorial dust-jacket. The London edition of this book was dated 1946.

2. Another copy of the First Edition, the ordinary issue in paper wrappers, upper side lettered in red and black, all edges uncut. Inscribed: "To Mr. Frederic Chapman gratefully from Douglas Goldring, June 3rd, 1910." 3. Ways of Escape: A Book of Adventure. Illustrated by Edgar Lander. Andrew Melrose, 1911. Square 8vo, smooth blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side with single rule gilt frame, t.e.g., only lower edges uncut. 4. Streets: A Book of London Verses. Max Goschen, 1912. Tall 8vo, smooth black cloth, gilt-lettered up spine and in 4 lines on upper side, top edges uncut and unopened, other edges trimmed, in printed grey dust-jacket (2/6 net). 5. The Loire: The Record of a Pilgrimage from Gerbier de Jones to St. Lazaire. With Illustrations in colour and black and white by A. L. Collins. Constable, 1913. Mauve cloth, gilt and blue lettered with coloured picture on spine and upper side, edges cut. Leaf before half-title is blank and not reckoned in pagination. 6. Dream Cities: Notes of an Autumn Tour in Italy and Dalmatia. With 32 Illustrations. T. Fisher Unwin, 1913. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, top edges cut, others uncut. 7. On the Road: A Book of Travel Songs. Selwyn & Blount, 1916. Light blue semi-stiff wrappers, lettered down spine on label and in 3 lines on label on upper side, edges cut. The covers have yapp edges. 8. Dublin Explorations and Reflections. By an Englishman. Dublin & London: Maunsel, 1917. Dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine in 7 lines between rules top and bottom, upper side lettered in blind in 3 lines in ornamental panel, top edges cut, others uncut, 8 leaves of Maunsel's Announcements at end stating: "The following Books will be published early in 1917"; the present pseudonymous publication (5/- net) is included.

294 GOLDRING (Douglas) 1887-1960 9. James Elroy Flecker: An Appreciation with Some Biographical Notes. Chapman & Hall, 1922. Smooth red cloth, spine gilt-lettered, only lower edges uncut, frontispiece portrait. 10. Another copy, of First Edition, identical with above. 11. Gone Abroad: A Story of Travel. Chapman & Hall, 1925. Tall 8vo, smooth red cloth, spine gilt-lettered, publisher's device in blind centre of upper side, only lower edges uncut, frontispiece portrait and 15 plates. 12. Sardinia: The Island of the Nuraghi. G. G. Harrap, 1930. Tall 8vo, green cloth, black lettered and ruled, all edges cut, profuse illustrations. In printed dust-jacket (15/- net). 13. Odd Man Out: The Autobiography of a "Propaganda Novelist." Chapman & Hall, 1935. Tall 8vo, rough light brown cloth, spine lettered in yellow enamel, top and fore-edges stained blue, 4 portraits. 14. Facing the Odds. Cassell, 1940. Light blue cloth, spine red lettered in 6 lines, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (8s. 6d. net). 15. South Lodge: Reminiscences of Violet Hunt, Ford Madox Ford and the English Review Circle. Constable, 1943. Tall 8vo, dark green cloth, spine gilt, cut edges, 6 illustrations, in pictorial dust-jacket (15/- net). 16. Journeys in the Sun. With a Foreword by Hugh Kingsmill. Macdonald, 1946. Tall 8vo, light green cloth, gilt-lettered down spine, top edges stained to match cloth, others cut, profuse illustrations, in pictorial dust-jacket (10/6 net). 17. The South of France. Macdonald, 1952. Tall 8vo, green cloth, spine lettered in yellow enamel, edges cut, 27 illustrations. GORE-BOOTH (Eva) 1870-1926 1. Poems. Longmans, 1898. Sage green cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 5 lines, all edges uncut. Blank leaf before half-title not reckoned in pagination. The First Edition of the author's first book. Inscribed on half-title: "For Squidge, with much love and good wishes from Eva GB. Christmas/98."

GORE-BOOTH (Eva) 1870-1926 2. Another copy, identical with above, but not inscribed. 3. The One and the Many. Longmans, 1904. Mauve cloth, gilt-lettered and designed spine and upper side, top edges cut, others uncut. Inscribed on title-page: "Margaret Kemp from Eva Gore Booth." "The Little Waves of Breffny" was first printed in this book. 4. The Three Resurrections and The Triumph of Maeve. Longmans, 1905. Mauve cloth, identical format with The One and the Many, only lower edges uncut, frontispiece plate. 5. The Egyptian Pillar. Maunsel, 1907. No. 3 of the Tower-Press Booklets, second series. Pink wrappers lettered and designed in brown, all edges uncut. 6. The Sorrowful Princess. Longmans, 1907. Mauve cloth, identical format with The Three Resurrections, top edges cut, others uncut. Inscribed: "J. Spring Rice from Eva Gore Booth, Dec 1907." 7. The Perilous Light. Erskine Macdonald, 1915. Bright blue wrappers lettered down spine and on upper side in darker blue, all edges uncut. A volume of the publisher's XXth Century Poetry Series. The first and last leaves are blanks. 8. Another copy of the First Edition. This is the superior issue in dark blue buckram, lettered down spine and on upper side in white enamel, edges trimmed. Autograph presentation inscribed: "With love from Eva." An attempt has been made with ordinary pencil eraser to obliterate this inscription, but, with the exception of the recipient's name, it is clearly legible. 9. The Death of Fionavar from "The Triumph of Maeve." Decorated by Constance Gore-Booth (Countess Markievicz). Erskine Macdonald, 1916. Tall 8vo, smooth green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, also on upper side in a cream enamel panel with gilt frame, all edges uncut. There are borders and illustrations throughout, and the end-papers are pictorial. For a new publisher this was an extravagant production. 10. The Sword of Justice: A Play. Headley Bros. [1918]. Narrow 12mo, sewn into light blue wrappers, upper side titled on a yellow label, edges cut. Attractive printing by the Pelican Press.

295 GORE-BOOTH (Eva) 1870-1926 11. Broken Glory. Maunsel, 1918. Deep cream wrappers lettered in green, edges trimmed. 12. A Psychological and Poetic Approach to the Study of Christ in the Fourth Gospel. Longmans, 1923. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 13 lines between double rules top and bottom, edges cut. Inscribed: "Emmy with love from Eva, Sept 1923," and with the author's photograph inserted. 13. The Shepherd of Eternity and Other Poems. Longmans, 1925. Orange boards, cream buckram spine, only lower edges uncut. 14. The Inner Kingdom. With Two Portraits. Longmans, 1926. A prose work, uniform with The Shepherd of Eternity, but colour of sides light grey. 15. The House of Three Windows. With Portrait and Introduction by Evelyn Underbill. Longmans, 1926. Issued uniformly with The Inner Kingdom. 16. Poems of Eva Gore-Booth. Complete Edition with The Inner Life of a Child and Letters, and a Biographical Introduction by Esther Roper. Longmans, 1929. Square 8vo, smooth blue cloth, spine and upper side gilt, top edges stained to match cloth, others cut, 3 portraits. The memoir appropriately quotes W. B. Yeats's letter of 1916: " . . . your sister Constance and yourself, two beautiful figures among the great trees of Lissadell, are among the dear memories of my youth." In the Yeats collection, the copy of The Land of Heart's Desire (1894) is inscribed to Constance on the day of publication. 17. The Buried Life of Deirdre. With 12 Illustrations by Eva Gore-Booth. Longmans, 1930. 4to, 10" x 12", pale blue boards, half-holland, spine and upper side with titling labels, t.e.g., others trimmed. No. 26 of only 256 copies printed. The 12 page plates incorporate the prose text, entirely in the author's artistic script. 18. Selected Poems. With a Biographical Note by Esther Roper. Longmans, 1933. Light blue cloth, gilt spine and upper side, top edges cut, others lightly trimmed, frontispiece portrait. The leaf before half-title carries a list of the author's works on recto, and the final leaf, pp.[159-160], is blank. The firm of Longmans published the author's first and last books, over the space of 35 years, as well as most titles issued between.

GOSSE (Sir Edmund William) 1849-1928 1. Madrigals, Songs and Sonnets. By John Arthur Blaikie and Edmund William Gosse. Longmans, 1870. Green fine-grain cloth, spine gilt, all edges uncut, dark brown end-papers. This is the first issue binding, with the narrower urn-ornament on spine and 32 page July 1870 catalogue bound at end. Inscribed: "George Macdonald, Esq with E. W. Gosse's compliments," and with the recipient's Blake bookplate. It would appear that the novelist paid the aspiring poets scant respect, for not a single gathering of the edges has yet been opened. 2. Another copy of the First Edition, this one inscribed by the other collaborator: "Mansel Longworth Dames from his friend J Arthur Blaikie, 5 Jan 1876." There are verbal changes and additions in 5 of the poems in his handwriting. As the dated inscription might suggest, this copy is not from the first binding-batch; the wider ornament is stamped on spine, and the 32 page catalogue at end is dated January 1871. Binder's ticket of Edmonds and Remants. 3. On Viol and Flute. H. S. King, 1873. Cream coloured boards, spine and upper side lettered and designed in red, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed, 20 page catalogue dated November 1873 at end. Inscribed by Gosse on the dedication page: "Austin Dobson, with the Author's friendliest regards, Sept 1875." In 1875-with the immediate prospect of marriage to Nellie Epps-Gosse had been tempted by the higher salary offered to transfer from the British Museum to the Board of Trade, where he became a colleague of Austin Dobson. Devotees of Max Beerbohm, who recall the delightful caricature included in his Poet's Corner, will appreciate the desirability of this association copy. 4. Another copy of the First Edition; every gathering of this superb specimen is unopened. No catalogue is bound at end, but it carries binder's ticket of Burn & Co. 5. On Viol and Flute: Selected Poems. New York: Henry Holt, 1883. Dark green cloth with elaborate dark red and gilt floral cover design, all edges gilt, brown end-papers. This "Author's Edition" is a volume designed for the American market only and dedicated to Richard Watson Gilder as "My first American publication." Gosse's preface, dated London Sept 1882, indicates that the poems are mainly taken from his 2 London publications of 1873 and 1879. Copies are decidedly uncommon in England. This one is inscribed to the artist: "J. E. Sandys, Esq, with the Author's

296 GOSSE (Sir Edmund William) 1849-1928 compliments. Oct 1885." A still further revised selection was issued in London in 1890 under this unchanged title. 6. King Erik: A Tragedy. Chatto & Windus, 1876. Smooth cream buckram, gilt-lettered and designed, edges uncut, light blue end-papers with binder's ticket of Bone, 32 page catalogue at end dated January 1876. These are the earliest adverts so far recorded: the book sold only slowly and later binding batches have later catalogue. The Esher copy, with Brett bookplate. 7. Another copy of First Edition, identical with above (same end-paper and binder's ticket), save that there is no bookplate and the 32 page catalogue is dated April 1880. 8. Auld Lang Syne: Selections from the Papers of the "Pen and Pencil Club." Printed for Private Circulation, 1877. Dark green cloth, black designed, gilt-lettered, edges uncut, printer's imprint of Chiswick Press. Gosse's copy with his Edwin Abbey bookplate. In company with Austin Dobson, William Allingham, Edwin Arnold, Edward Carpenter, Arthur Munby and others, Gosse contributed to the anthology a long poem in 13 stanzas of 10 lines each, and another entitled "The Return of the Swallows." 9. The Unknown Lover: A Drama for Private Acting, with An Essay on the Chamber Drama in England. Chatto, 1878. 50 pages, sewn into pale grey-blue wrappers lettered in black, edges cut. In his Ashley Library Catalogue, Wise's collation is ambiguous, inferring there are 24 leaves, which would suggest that his copy is without the blank leaf before half-title. There are in fact 25 leaves (including this blank before title-page and the Dedication after it). Wise observes there are no pages numbered 1 and 2; there are none numbered 3, 4 or 5 either. An errata slip may exist as there is a MS version (12 errors) tipped-in, of which I am unable to trace the source, nor can I recollect transcribing it. The Esher copy, preserved in a cloth case, with bookplate. 10. Studies in the Literature of Northern Europe. C. Kegan Paul, 1879. Dark red bevelled cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, dark blue end-papers, frontispiece plate by Alma Tadema, top edges uncut, others trimmed. This book has 3 varieties of titling-one on spine, another on upper cover

GOSSE (Sir Edmund William) 1849-1928 and finally on title-page. A selection, under the title on upper cover, was issued in 1890 (see below). The Esher copy, with Brett bookplate. 11. Northern Studies. Walter Scott, 1890. A volume of the Camelot Series, with a 5 page Preface by the editor, Ernest Rhys. Dark blue cloth, spine titling label, all edges uncut. This is the Scandinavian section of the book of 1879, with one chapter added for the first time. The sections on Sweden and Denmark are omitted. 12. New Poems. C. Kegan Paul, 1879. Dark blue bevelled cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, top edges uncut, fore-edges cut, lower edges lightly trimmed, 32 page catalogue at end dated 8.'79, dark brown end-papers. Bookplate of E. H. Firth. 13. English Odes. Selected by Edmund W. Gosse. Kegan Paul, 1881. White parchment, lettered in red and black, t.e.g., others uncut, toned lavender blue end-papers, frontispiece, 12 page Introduction by Gosse. A volume of the publisher's Parchment Library. Blank leaf before half-title and 2 blank leaves following p.[260]. 14. Gray. Macmillan, 1882. In the English Men of Letters series, the superior issue in cream linen, all edges uncut, spine titling label, one leaf of series adverts inserted at end. An entirely unopened copy. 15. Dutt, Toru. Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan. With an Introductory Memoir by Edmund W. Gosse. Kegan Paul Trench, 1882. Salmon pink bevelled cloth with blue designed bands, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. Two blanks precede half-title, of which the first is signed 'A'; one blank follows p.[142] at end. The Fourth Edition, issued in 1906, is virtually identical with this, save that it was bound in green cloth. 16. Seventeenth-Century Studies: A Contribution to the History of English Poetry. Kegan Paul Trench, 1883. Tall 8vo, dark greenish brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed, dark blue end-papers, 40 page undated catalogue at end. The blank leaf before half-title is signed 'a', and X2 is blank at end. Inscribed: "G. Saintsbury from his ever-obliged E. W. G. 23:10:83."

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17. A Critical Essay on the Life and Work of George Tinworth. With a Descriptive Catalogue Annexed. Illustrated by 30 Plates. Fine Art Society, 1883. Oblong 4to, 10" x 15 3/4", cream parchment, gilt-lettered and ruled on sides, t.e.g., others uncut, orange designed end-papers. This gutta-percha, unsewn volume appears to consist of 45 leaves (including blanks at beginning and end), frontispiece portrait and 30 reproductions. All the plates have china-paper guards with printed text. Printer's imprint at end is of Blades, East and Blades.

23. From Shakespeare to Pope. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1885. Brown cloth, gilt spine, edges cut, dark blue end-papers, 16 page catalogue at end dated October 1885. Pp.[299-300] at end carries only adverts of other works "By the Same Author." This is one of the first issue binding-batch inscribed on half-title in the author's handwriting in ink: "Nellie Gosse, Oct 1885." This is Gosse's presentation copy to his wife.

18. Cecil Lawson: A Memoir, With Illustrations by Hubert Herkomer, J. A. McN. Whistler and Cecil Lawson. Fine Art Society, 1883. Folio, 15" x 19", cream parchment lettered up spine and on upper side in gilt and red, t.e.g., others uncut. Pp. 8 + 38 + 2; the full page plates are on Japanese vellum, the illustrations in text of memoir are india paper impressions laid down. Binder's ticket at end of Burn & Co. 19. Zimmern, Helen. The Epic of Kings: Stories retold from Firdusi. With Two Etchings by Alma Tadema and a Prefatory Poem by Edmund Gosse. T.^ Fisher Unwin, 1883. Sage green cloth with spine and upper side decorations in red, gilt-lettered, all edges stained yellow, dark slate end-papers. 20. Gray, Thomas. Works in Prose and Verse. Edited by Edmund Gosse. 4 vols. Macmillan, 1884. Dark red cloth, Eversley Series format, all edges uncut, the frontispiece and title-pages printed on single sheets of plate paper. The later Revised Edition (1902) is also in the collection. 21. Seventeenth-Century Studies. 2nd., rev. ed. Kegan Paul Trench, 1885. Issued in uniform format with First Edition (1883) same pagination &c. There is no catalogue bound at end. It is noted on p. 122, line 21 that an T has dropped from "all"; this, however, was printed correctly in all copies of the First Edition examined. The imprint at foot of spine is now "Paul Trench Trubner & Co.," though the title-page still has "Kegan Paul Trench & Co." This is probably a family copy; it carries bookplate of Hahnemann Epps. The author was married to Nellie Epps. 22. Firdausi in Exile and Other Poems. Kegan Paul Trench, 1885. Green bevelled cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece plate, pp.[227-228] blank at end. Bookplate of E. H. Firth.

24. Raleigh. Longmans, 1886. A volume of the English Worthies series, edited by Andrew Lang. Grey-green cloth, gilt, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed, floral design end-papers, unopened throughout. 25. The Life of Philip Henry Gosse, F.R.S. By his son Edmund Gosse. Kegan Paul Trench Trubner, 1890. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, dark blue end-papers. The blank leaf before half-title is signed 'a'. Frontispiece portrait. From the library of Sir Adolphus W. Ward, Master of Peterhouse, and with his bookplate. 26. Robert Browning: Personalia. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1890. Cream bevelled parchment, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait. Electrotyped and printed by the Houghton Co. in Cambridge, Mass. This copy appears to be in first state, though it is noted that title-page is a cancel leaf pasted on stub; it has the oblong ornament of the Riverside Press below author's name on recto. There are 2 blank leaves before frontispiece and another 2 following p. 96 at end. The gilt imprint at foot of spine is "Unwin." 27. Robert Browning: Personalia. T. Fisher Unwin, 1890. This appears to be first state of the London issue. Printed by Houghton Co., with Riverside Press imprint on verso of title in centre, where the American issue carries the Copyright notice, but it is without the Press ornament on recto. The title-page is again a cancel leaf pasted in, the 2 blanks are found at either end, and gilt imprint at foot of spine is still "Unwin." Most copies in circulation in England are identical with this save that date on recto title-page is 1891. 28. Gossip in a Library. Heinemann, 1891. Bevelled red buckram, gilt-lettered spine and upperside, te.g., others uncut. Y2 at end is blank followed by publisher's 16 page catalogue dated October 1891.

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29. Another copy. As a frontispiece there is an original pen-drawing of Gosse (head and shoulders) in evening dress with white tie, signed "J. C. dec. 1892." So skilfully is this inserted that it is only the absence of gilding on top edge that would cause one to suspect that the leaf is a unique addition and not part of the printed book. "J. C." is presumably James Calder, to whom this copy is inscribed on end-paper: "Jas Calder, 25 Deer 1891." Calder's neat red leather gilt designed bookplate inside cover.

35. In Russet and Silver. Heinemann, 1894. Uniform format with Questions at Issue. The first leaf is blank before half title and K8 blank at end, followed by publisher's 24 page catalogue dated October 1894. This book of verses the author dedicated to R. L. Stevenson in a long poem in 4 sections entitled "To Tusitala in Vailima" dated September 1894. When Stevenson read this he had but 3 months to live.

30. The Secret of Narcisse: A Romance. Heinemann, 1892. Smooth mauve bevelled buckram, spine and upper side lettered in blue, all edges uncut. The first leaf is blank before half title, and pp.[191-192] at end carry only reviews of Second Edition of Gossip in a Library, followed by publisher's 16 page catalogue dated October 1892. 31. Zola, Emile. The Attack on the Mill and Other Sketches of War. With an Essay on the Short Stories of M. Zola by Edmund Gosse. Heinemann, 1892. Light brown cloth with overall fern design in darker brown, spine lettering in gilt, all edges uncut. First leaf is blank before half-title and M2 at end is blank, followed by 8 pages of publisher's adverts dated June 1892. 32. Nash, Thomas. The Unfortunate Traveller, or, the Life of Jack Wilton. With an Essay on the Life and Writings of Thomas Nash by Edmund Gosse. Charles Whittingham, Chiswick Press, 1892. Pale grey-blue boards, cream parchment spine lettered in red, all edges uncut. No. 214 of 450 copies printed on handmade paper in the Chiswick Press Editions series. 33. Questions At Issue. Heinemann, 1893. Smooth red bevelled buckram, gilt, uniform format with Gossip in a Library. Publisher's 16 pages adverts at end dated May, 1893. This copy belonged to Howard Overing Sturgis and has his full signature dated 1894. Below this is his satirical drawing, "The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil." 34. Another copy. This is No. 38 of the Large Paper issue of 60 copies. Square 8vo, light grey-blue smooth boards lettered in red, dark red cloth spine lettered in gilt, all edges uncut, unopened throughout. The same leaf of adverts X8 is at end, but the publisher's catalogue was not bound in the Large Paper copies.

36. In Russet and Silver. Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1894. This is the American First Edition. No. 73 of 75 copies. Square 8vo, light brown buckram, silver designed on sides, spine titling label, all edges uncut, blue end-papers. Printed by John Wilson at the Cambridge University Press in October 1894, it was obviously set-up from advance sheets of the Ballantyne, Hanson edition, which it closely follows, with same pagination. From the Library of Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton, with his bookplate. 37. Vazoff, Ivan. Under the Yoke: A Novel. Translated from the Bulgarian. Heinemann, 1894. Pink cloth, lettered spine and upper side in blue, top edges uncut, others cut. A volume of the publisher's International Library edited by Edmund Gosse, by whom there is an 8 page Introduction. The last 4 leaves of gathering X at end carry adverts only, followed by publisher's 20 page July 1894 catalogue. Inscribed: "Wishing Mrs. St. Clair Stobart a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year. Theodore K. Shipkoff. Kazanlik, Dec 15th 1912." 38. Ibsen, Henrik. The Master Builder: A Play in Three Acts. Translated from the Norwegian by Edmund Gosse and William Archer. Heinemann, 1895. Square 8vo, cream semi-stiff wrappers, spine and upper side lettered in blue and portrait of Miss Robins on upper side, all edges uncut, frontispiece. Unopened throughout. No. 28 of only 60 on large paper. 39. Bjornson, B. Synnove Solbakken. Given in English by Julie Sutter. New Edition with an Essay on the Writings of Bjornson by Edmund Gosse. Heinemann, 1895. Light blue linen lettered and ruled in darker blue, all edges uncut, frontispiece portrait, volume 1 of a Collected Edition of Bjornson. Gosse's "Study" is an important 72 page essay.

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40. Critical KH-Kats. Heinemann, 1896. Smooth red bevelled buckram, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Uniform format with Questions at Issue. T8 at end carries adverts of Gosse's books, followed by publisher's 32 page catalogue dated August 1896. This is the collection of essays Gosse dedicated to Thomas Hardy, and in which the first essay is on Mrs. Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese, publicizing the now proven Wise forgery. In the 1913 third impression the text appears still to be identical, but a 7 page Index is added.

46. The Life and Letters of John Donne. Now for the first time revised and collected. 2 vols. Heinemann, 1899. Tall 8vo, red cloth, spines gilt-lettered in 9 lines, top edges uncut (and unopened throughout), other edges cut, 11 illustrations.

41. Carlyle, Thomas. On Heroes and Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History. With an Introduction by Edmund Gosse. Ward Lock & Bowden, 1896. Dark red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait. A volume of Clement K. Shorter's XlXth Century Classics. 42. Smith, John Thomas. Nollekens and His Times. Edited with an Essay by Edmund Gosse. Richard Bentley, 1895. Tall 8vo, dark red cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut, red monogram end-papers, frontispiece portrait. 43. On Viol and Flute. Heinemann, 1896. 12mo, green silk-cloth, gilt and red lettered and designed, t.e.g., others uncut. Title-page printed in green. This is a Selected Edition from the volumes of 1873 and 1879, with a new Dedication to the Viscountess Wolseley, a frontispiece by Alma Tadema and a Tail-piece by Hamo Thornycroft. 44. Fouqu6, Friedrich, Baron de la Motte. Undine. Translated by Edmund Gosse, with Illustrations by F. M. Rudland. Lawrence & Bullen, 1897. Blue cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, final leaf T8 at end is blank; unopened throughout. 45. Bjornson, B. Captain Mansana and Mother's Hands. Translated from the Norwegian. Heinemann, 1897. Volume 7 of the Collected Edition edited by Edmund Gosse; uniform format with volume 1 (see above, 1895). Inscribed: "Edward Marsh from Edmund Gosse." This book- was on the shelves at Crabbet Park, in the neglected library which had housed W. S. Blunt's books, when I attended the auction sale there, after his daughter Judith's [Lady Wentworth] death, 25 November 1959.

47. Penn, William. Some Fruits of Solitude. With an Introduction by Edmund Gosse. Freemantle, 1900. Pott 8vo, 3 1/2" x 5", grey linen, lettered and designed upper side in green, spine in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, dark slate end-papers. Gosse's essay occupies 16 pages. There is a frontispiece portrait of Penn and facsimile of the 1718 title-page. From a famous library, with the attractive bookplate of Mary Annabel Lacaita. 48. Penn, William. Some Fruits of Solitude. S. T. Freemantle, 1901. There appears to be no difference between this and the edition of 1900 save the one figure in date. Choicely rebound (for Bumpusi in brown levant morocco, gilt spine with raised bands, edges block-gilt, inside gilt dentelles. Bookplate of Lady Amabel O'Neill and autograph inscription by "John Oliver Hobbes": "To Lady Amabel with affectionate wishes from Pearl Mary-Teresa Craigie, January 1902." 49. Penn, William. Some Fruits of Solitude. Freemantle & Co., 1901. Mauve cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered and designed, t.e.g., others uncut. This is a library edition, small 4to, 6 3/4" x 8 1/2", printed by the Riverside Press, Edinburgh and entirely reset in a bold type. The 12mo editions were printed by Ballantyne, Hanson. Pagination &c. remains the same; style of the publisher changes from S. T. Freemantle to Freemantle & Co. 50. Hypolympia, or, The Gods in the Island: An Ironic Fantasy. Heinemann, 1901. Cream parchment, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. 51. Another copy, identical with above. With a long inscription on half-title, signed: "Horatio F. Brown, Venice Nov 15, 1901." 52. Cawein, Madison. Kentucky Poems. With an Introduction by Edmund Gosse. Grant Richards, 1902. Pale grey-blue boards, cream parchment spine gilt-lettered, all edges uncut. Gosse's Introduction is a 12 page essay.

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53. Jeremy Taylor. Macmillan, 1904. Bright red linen, flat back gilt-lettered, t.e.g, others cut. A volume in the English Men of Letters series. Between P5 [pp.233-234] and the final blank, P6, is inserted a quarter-sheet carrying series adverts only and dated at end C. 10.11.03. The title-page is a cancel leaf pasted on stub.

60. Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments. Heinemann, 1907. Tall 8vo, green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. Frontispiece plate. Issued anonymously. This was in all probablity an early review copy; the (unidentified) reviewer's notes are in pencil in 13 lines on rear end-paper and publisher's blind Presentation Copy stamp is in title-page margin.

54. Penn, William. Some Fruits of Solitude. With an Introduction by Edmund Gosse. Constable, 1904. Another copy of this somewhat perplexing book; it is printed by Butler & Tanner (not Ballantyne, Hanson), and published by Constable (not Freeman tie), but the format is almost identical with the 1900 First Edition, save that colour of cloth is green and design changed with both spine and upper side gilt. The pagination is the same and the text similar, though there has been a certain amount of resetting to accommodate changes in Gosse's Introduction. On p. xiv he inserts: ". . . no external evidence of his authorship until, in 1903, Miss Sophia F. de Rodes, of Barlborough Hall . . . . found among her family papers. . . ." Perhaps this may be described as the Third Edition of the book. 55. Sir Thomas Browne. Macmillan, 1905. Identical format with the Jeremy Taylor of 1904. Following p.[216] at end is inserted a single leaf of series adverts dated 2500.9.05. 56. Sheridan, R. B. The Critic. With an Introduction by Edmund Gosse. Heinemann, 1905. Green cloth, gilt spine, sides blind-stamped, edges cut, frontispiece plate. A volume of the publisher's Favourite Classics series. 57. Sheridan, R. B. The Rivals. With an Introduction by Edmund Gosse. Heinemann, 1905. Uniform format with The Critic. 58. Sheridan, R. B. The School for Scandal. With an Introduction by Edmund Gosse. Heinemann, 1905. Uniform format with The Rivals. 59. Modern English Literature: A Short History. New and Revised Edition with 72 Plates. Heinemann, 1905. Tall 8vo, light brown cloth, lettered and designed in gilt, black and red, t.e.g., others uncut. Reprints the Preface to the First Edition of 1898, which is dated July 1897, and gives a new preface to the Illustrated Edition, dated August 1905. The text of later editions was again revised, notably the final edition of 1924, which has a considerable amount of new matter.

61. Another copy, identical with above save that "Edmund/Gosse" is printed on the spine below the ornament. This copy must be described as a "freak" for which no explanation is offered, other than to say it has been re-cased. That the sheets are First Edition sheets is demonstrated by p.[374] (see next item). The blank leaf 2A4 duly follows. The end-papers are of text-paper quality with the chain lines vertical. How it comes to be in this binding case, identical with that made for the 1909 reprints is an open question. Inscribed on front end-paper: "Sylvia D. Hanbury from D. H., September 1909." 62. Another copy; this is a reprint, with "First Printed, October 1907/Second Impression, December 1907" centre verso of title-page. It closely follows the First Edition, the only discernible difference being in the final line, p.[374], which is reset and spaced out on to an additional line. 63. Ibsen. Hodder & Stoughton, 1907. Red cloth, upper side blind embossed, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges cut, others uncut, frontispiece portrait and 6 other plates. The first leaf is blank before half-title; the final leaf, pp.[267-268], carries series adverts only. A volume of the publisher's Literary Lives series. 64. Biographical Notes on the Writings of Robert Louis Stevenson. Privately printed at the Chiswick Press, 1908. Blue boards, spine titling label, all edges uncut. No. 11 of only 50 copies printed. These are the prefaces written for the Pentland Edition. But there are corrections and additions, the most important of which is the printing for the first time of several verses which it was thought advisable to omit from Songs of Travel. Inscribed: "John Shelly from Edmund Gosse." With the recipient's bookplate and the ALS that accompanied the gift inserted. The letter is on Gosse's 17 Hanover Terrace notepaper dated 11 May 1908, and is of an intimately friendly nature.

301 GOSSE (Sir Edmund William) 1849-1928 65. The Autumn Garden. Heinemann, 1909. Tall 8vo, plum red cloth, half sage green linen, spine titling label dated 1908. I bought this copy at the Gosse sale in Sotheby's (1929) and it is clearly one of his own copies, with his Edwin Abbey bookplate inside cover, 66. Smith cloth, edges uncut.

Two Visits to Denmark, 1872, 1874. Elder, 1911. Dark red vertically ribbed gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top cut, fore-edges trimmed, lower edges Al is blank before half-title.

67. The Collected Poems of Edmund Gosse. Heinemann, 1911. Dark red cloth, spine and upper side gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait. 68. Another copy. This may be an early binding state: there is no frontispiece portrait, nor any sign of its removal. The cloth is salmon pink and more glazed than the dark red cloth, also the ornament below author's name on spine is a much larger variety measuring more than 1 1/4" across and quite 1 1/4" in height. The blind windmill device centre of lower cover is without the publisher's initials. In the published state the ornament on spine is the same as that stamped twice on upper side. 69. Judd, Francis Arthur. Under Swedish Colours. A Short Anthology of Modern Swedish Poets, done into English Verse. With a Preface by Edmund Gosse. Elkin Mathews, 1911. Light blue linen, ochre coloured spine gilt-lettered in 6 lines and in 2 lines on upper side, top edges cut, others uncut, one line erratum slip. Frontispiece engraving. This is the Edition-de-Luxe, published at 2/6d.; there was also an issue at I/- in wrappers. Presentation copy from the author to Miss Ethel C. Hargrove, but the handwriting is that of the publisher. 70. Portraits and Sketches. Heinemann, 1912. Brown bevelled buckram, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, top edges stained to match cloth, others uncut. This is the second impression with 2 line bibliographical statement on verso title-page: "First published, October 1912/Second Impression, November 1912." On verso of Dedication leaf is a 3 line errata. U2 at end is blank. 71. Naidu, Sarojini. The Bird of Time. With an Introduction by Edmund Gosse. Heinemann, 1912. Tall 8vo, smooth plum red boards, green linen spine with titling label printed in green, all edges uncut, frontispiece portrait, Al is an adverts leaf before half-title.

GOSSE (Sir Edmund William) 1849-1928 72. Gray, Thomas. Works in Prose and Verse. Edited by Edmund Gosse. 4 vols. Macmillan, 1903-1906-1912. Dark red cloth, Eversley Series format. Title-page of volume 1 reads, "Revised Edition." This volume, which is dated 1912, contains Gosse's addition, dated July 1902, to the original (1884) Preface: "I do not think that . . . the poems of Gray can be published in greater exactitude than is now done here." There is a frontispiece plate to each volume. 73. Gossip in a Library. Heinemann, 1913. The uniform edition, brown cloth, gilt spine, upper side lettered and designed in blind, top edges stained to match cloth, others uncut, T4 at end is blank. Contains Introduction and 26 essays, of which 2, "The Romance of a Dictionary," and "The Natural History of Selborne," were not in the 1891 First Edition. 74. Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments. By Edmund Gosse. Heinemann, 1913. Square 8vo, green cloth, gilt, top edges stained to match cloth, only lower edges uncut. The Booklover's Edition, with a new Preface by the author dated October 1913 and 8 illustrations. Inscribed: "Xmas 1922 To Constance Carey from J. F. Symons-Jeune." 75. French Profiles. Heinemann, 1913. The uniform edition, brown cloth, gilt spine. A reprint of the First Edition, published in 1905. 76. Seventeenth Century Studies. Heinemann, 1914. Uniform edition, brown cloth, gilt spine. The Appendix and the Index were not in the First Edition (1883). This copy came from Mrs. Guedalla's collection, and there is an inscription in her handwriting in ink on end-paper. 77. Nystrom, Anton. Before, During and After 1914. Translated by H. G. de Walterstorff. With an Introduction by Edmund Gosse. Heinemann, 1915. Tall 8vo, green cloth, spine and upper side lettered in dark blue, only lower edges trimmed. 78. Inter Arma: Being Essays Written in Time of War. Heinemann, 1916. Bevelled brown buckram, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, top edges stained to match cloth, others uncut. Issued in the format of the Collected Essays, this is the First Edition, with Preface dated March 1916.

302 GOSSE (Sir Edmund William) 1849-1928 79. The Allies' Fairy Book. With an Introduction by Edmund Gosse and 12 Illustrations in Colour by Arthur Rackham. Heinemann [1916]. Square 8vo, blue cloth lettered and designed in darker blue and gilt, top edges stained to match cloth, others trimmed, Rackham designed end-papers. Gosse's Introduction is a 14 page Essay. 80. The Life of Algernon Charles Swinburne. Macmillan, 1917. Dark green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, all edges uncut. Frontispiece and 6 plates. 2A6 at end carries adverts only and is paginated 1-2. 81. Vern&ie, R. E. War Poems and Other Verses. With an Introductory Note by Edmund Gosse. Heinemann, 1917. Red cloth, gilt spine, edges trimmed, frontispiece portrait. 82. Three French Moralists and the Gallantry of France. Heinemann, 1918. Dark brown cloth, gilt, uniform format with the Collected Essays. Bookplate of Sir Bernard Oppenheimer. 83. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters. Heinemann, 1919. Issued in brown cloth, uniform format with the Collected Essays, in printed dust-jacket (7/6 net). 84. Books on the Table. Heinemann, 1921. Brown cloth, uniform format with the Collected Essays. This is the second impression, title-page with bibliographical statement on verso in 2 lines. "First published May 1921/Second Impression August 1921." 85. 1922. upper edges

Aspects and Impressions. Cassell, Tall 8vo, green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, side lettered in 3 lines in dark blue, all trimmed.

86. More Books on the Table. Heinemann, 1923. Brown cloth, uniform format with the Collected Essays. 87. Life of William Congreve. Heinemann, 1924. Brown cloth, uniform format with the Collected Essays. First published by Walter Scott in 1888 in their Great Writers series. This is the Second Edition and has bibliographical statement on verso of title-page: "First Published 1888/Second Impression, revised and enlarged, 1924." 88. Silhouettes. Heinemann, 1925. Brown cloth, uniform format with the Collected Essays. DD8 is blank at end; Al is blank before half-title.

GOSSE (Sir Edmund William) 1849-1928 89. Another copy, identical with above save that the shade of cloth is maroon. 90. Swinburne: An Essay Written in 1875 and Now First Printed. Printed for Private Circulation, 1925. No. 6 of 125 copies, printed for Norman Gullick and J. G. Wilson. Half cream buckram, marbled sides, t.e.g., others uncut. Inscribed: "Philip Guedalla from Edmund Gosse. Christmas 1925." 91. Botzaritch, Sava. Twenty-Five Caricatures. By Sava. With an Introduction by Sir Edmund Gosse. Elkin Mathews, 1926. 4to, pale blue boards, half-holland, gilt-lettered up spine, 25 plates with titles lettered on tissue guards. This is the artist's gift copy to his patron and introducer, inscribed on half-title: "As a mark of profound esteem to Sir Edmund Gosse: A. B. Sava, London 1926." 92. Farquhar, George. The Recruiting Officer: A Comedy. With a Note on the Author and the Play by Sir Edmund Gosse. Embellished with designs by Vera Willoughby. Peter Davies, 1926. Folio, coloured designed boards, half blue linen gilt-lettered down spine, top edges stained blue, others uncut. There are 12 full-page plates in colours. No. 55 of 550 copies. 93. Leaves and Fruit. Heinemann, 1927. Brown cloth, uniform with the Collected Essays. Al is blank before half-title, and BBS blank at end. 94. Two Unpublished Poems. Printed by E. H. Blakeney at his Private Press, Winchester, 1929. Eight pages, sewn, no pagination, edges uncut. Limited to 14 copies. Printed on laid paper watermarked "Throne Deckle/I. S. & Co., Ltd." 95. A Norwegian Ghost Story. Edited by W. M. Parker. Guersey: Toucan Press, 1967. Pale blue wrappers, 16 pages sewn, limited to 250 copies. 96. Sir Henry Doulton: The Man of Business as a Man of Imagination. Edited by Desmond Eyles. Hutchinson, 1970. Tall 8vo, rough brownish cloth, red spine lettering label, all edges cut, dust-jacket with coloured photograph, (£3.00 net).

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GOSSE (Sir Edmund William) 1849-1928 Autograph Letters 97. Three ALS to "Dear Mr. Gleeson White" on his Delamere Terrace notepaper, dated 22 November 1893, 2 May 1896, and 3 May 1896, in all 6 pages. Letters mainly about contributions to magazines, mentioning his minimum charge for prose, and about Barbey d' Aurevilly. "I am so sorry you did not come and talk to me at that crowded Vanity Fair on Friday." 98. ALS 8 pages on black edged notepaper from Govin Chunder Dutt, father of Toru Dutt to "My dear Madam," dated from Calcutta 26 April 1879. Entirely about his daughter's translations from Victor Hugo and with transcriptions of 3 poems. Note: See the William Bell Scott collection for 2 ALS from Edmund Gosse to "My dear W. B." from 29 Delamere Terrace, W., dated 6 November 1881 and 5 June 1882, together with one on similar headed notepaper from Nellie Gosse [Mrs. Edmund Gosse] to "Dear Mr. Scott," dated 6 May 1882, enclosing "yesterday's Pall Mall . . . as it has the notice of your new book in it." Secondary Material 99. Braybrooke, Patrick. Considerations on Edmund Gosse. With Introduction by Gilbert Frankau. Drane's Ltd. [1925]. Tall 8vo, bright red cloth, gilt, all edges cut, frontispiece portrait of Gosse. Autograph presentation copy signed and dated 13 August 1925. Inserted is the ALS, which accompanied the gift, to "Dear Sir Edmund Gosse" on the author's Leinster Square notepaper. 100. Bellows, William. Edmund Gosse: Some Memories. R. Cobden-Sanderson, 1929. Blue grained boards, buff linen spine, frontispiece portrait and one other plate. The work is dedicated to Lady Gosse. Inscribed: "With the author's kind regards in the hope that this will interest you. W. B. 23.1.1933." 101. Bellows, William. Stray Papers. Gloucester: Privately printed for my Friends, 1937. Pale blue mottled boards, cream linen spine. Frontispiece portrait and 12 plates. Contains 12 essays which include one on Gosse written in 1929, and another on Hardy and Gosse entitled "At Max Gate." Inscribed: "To Frederick H. Brotherton with all kind greetings from his friend the Author. Gloucester 13.v.'37."

GOSSE (Sir Edmund William) 1849-1928 102. Charteris, Hon. Evan. The Life and Letters of Sir Edmund Gosse. Heinemann, 1931. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt spine, profusely illustrated, all edges cut. 103. Sotheby & Co. The Gosse Library: Catalogue of Valuable Printed Books &c. 1928-1929. In 3 parts. Small 4to, original printed wrappers. Prices and buyers, names almost throughout noted in margins during my attendance at the sales. The complete sale catalogue is in 5 parts, but 4 and 5 not present here. Association Items Note: The following books are from Edmund Gosse's library. 104. Gardner, Herbert. Leolyn and Other Verses. Remington & Co., 1882. Orange cloth, gilt, edges cut, green floral end-papers. Inserted is the author's 2 page ALS to "Dear Mr. Gosse" which accompanied the gift of the book. The letter alludes to the writer's earlier volume Sun Flowers and Gosse has dated it in pencil 1882. 106. Milton, John. On the Morning of Christ's Nativity. Oxford: H. Daniel, 1894. No. 73 of 200 copies printed at the Daniel Press. Pale blue wrappers lettered in black, cased in dark green cloth lettered gilt up the spine, t.e.g., fore-edges uncut. Inserted is a friendly 2 page letter from Emily Daniel on Worcester House, Oxford notepaper dated 3 December 1894, sending l/6d. with the book. "We had so many orders that we issued a larger edition than we originally intended and so charge 3/6 instead of 5/- . . ." 106. Virgil. The Georgics of Virgil. Translated into English Verse by Lord Burghclere. Privately printed; John Murray, 1903. Square 8vo, pale blue boards, cream linen spine lettered in blue, titling label on upper side, all edges uncut, limited to 250 copies. Inscribed: "Edmund Gosse, from the Translator. With warm gratitude for invaluable criticism and never-failing encouragement. B." Also inserted is the author's ALS which accompanied the gift, on his Titsey Place notepaper dated 13 December 1903. 107. Dante Alighieri. The New Life. Italian text with English Translation. Edited by Luigi Ricci. Kegan Paul, 1903. Original semi-limp green lambskin, gilt, t.e.g., others cut. Inscribed: "Al Signer Edmund Gosse. Testimono di sincera stima. Luigi Ricci."

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108. Cripps, Reginald. The Magic Grape: Poems and Verses. With a Preface by Sir C. J. Holmes. G. Bell, 1924. Red cloth, gilt spine, in printed dust-jacket (3/6d. net). Inserted is the letter on National Gallery notepaper dated 12 June 1924 from Sir C. J. Holmes, 2 pages, which accompanied the gift.

page Longman catalogue at end dated 30 June 1851. Other copies of the First Edition are found with a September 1855 catalogue. There are 8 plates hand-tinted by the author. Armorial bookplate of Francis Thornhill Baring.

109. Waugh, Alec. The Balliols. Cassell, 1934. Tall 8vo, pink diced cloth, spine gilt-lettered, all edges cut. Belonged to Gosse's son Philip and has his bookplate (Weppons). Inscribed: "For the Captain of the Wiston C. C. [Philip Gosse], as a consolation. Alec Waugh. June 9, 1934. To prove that the writing of this book only occupied 317 sheets of foolscap. Alec Waugh." GOSSE (Philip Henry) 1810-1888 1. The Ocean. London: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1845. Dark green cloth blind-stamped with ornamental frames on sides, spine gilt-lettered in 2 lines, edges cut. Yellow end-papers with binder's ticket of S. Curtis on front end-paper. Page 124 is mis-numbered 412. 2. Another copy, 1846, presumably the second printing, but there is no bibliographical statement. Colour of cloth is dark blue and it is multi-grained, whereas the green-black cloth of 1845 is fine sand-grain. In the blue cloth the 4 spine bands are plainer and the lettering, "The/Ocean," in much larger type—the word "Ocean" measuring nearly 1 l/4"~also the panels on sides have 4 corner ornaments and a large ornament in centre. The 1845 binding has different ornamental frames on sides without any centre ornaments. In 1846 end-papers are the same, though without binder's ticket, and p. 124 is now correctly numbered. 3. The Illustrated Sunday Volume. Sacred Streams; the Ancient and Modern History of the Rivers of the Bible. C. Cox, 1850. Half dark reddish brown calf, red spine lettering label, gilt bands, marbled sides, cut sprinkled edges (binder's ticket of C. J. Jenvey, 107 High St., Barnstaple). There is no sign of mutilation, but this copy does not have pp. vii-viii, which carry the "description of the purpose of the work" &c. 4. A Naturalist's Sojourn in Jamaica. Longman, 1851. 12mo, green blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 6 lines with one short rule, all edges uncut, deep cream end-papers with binder's ticket of Westleys, 32

5. A Naturalist's Rambles on the Devonshire Coast John Van Voorst, 1853. Dark olive green blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered "A. Naturalist's/Rambles/On The/ Devonshire/Coast/P. H. Gosse." All edges uncut, yellow end-papers. One leaf at end following p.[452] advertising 3 of the author's books published by Van Voorst, followed by their 4 page catalogue dated January 1853. There are 28 plates drawn on stone by the author and printed by Hullmandel and Walton. A later binding-up of First Edition sheets has spine lettered only: "The/Devonshire/Coast/Gosse." 6. A Manual of Marine Zoology for the British Isles. 2 vols. John Van Voorst, 1855-56. In 2 parts, dark green cloth, upper sides ruled in black, lower sides in same pattern in blind, spines gilt-lettered in 4 lines with one short rule, between double rules top and bottom, yellow end-papers. At end of volume 1 are 4 pages of adverts of books "By the Same Author," which appear to be printed on O7 and O8; at end of volume 2, following p.[240] is a leaf signed P. H. Gosse advertising his Marine Natural History Class, formed in the summer of 1855 at Ilfracombe, with, on verso, "Proposed Work on the British Sea-Anemones." 7. Tenby: A Sea-Side Holiday. John Van Voorst, 1856. Green blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 2 lines. Following p. 400 at end are 2 leaves containing the notice of the Marine Natural History Class and the British Sea-Anemones proposal on respective rectos, with both versos blank. Here the first is dated March 1856 (it was undated in previous printing in Marine Zoology). Following this are 2 further leaves with 4 pages adverts of Gosse's books, followed by a 4 page publisher's list dated January 1856. With 24 lithographs drawn by the author. 8. Omphalos: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot. John Van Voorst, 1857. Light green blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 5 lines with small ornament, edges uncut, yellow end-papers. At end following p. 376 are 3 leaves of adverts of books by Gosse; the first leaf mentions the Natural History Class, and Sea-Anemones adverts are now printed on both sides of a leaf. Both are now dated October 1857.

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9. Creation (Omphalos): An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot. John Van Voorst, 1857. This appears to be the second state (or reissue) of First Edition sheets. The pages are much cut-down, now measuring only 4 3/4" x 7 1/4", the title-page has been cancelled and the above new version pasted in (it is without Clay's imprint on verso), and the green cloth sides have only a blind rule frame (no orna ments) with gilt spine lettering: "Gosse's/ Creation/[short rule]/Illustrated/[larger ornamentyVan Voorst." This is between ornamental bands top and bottom. This was apparently an attempt to re-vivify a slow-selling book.

14. A Year at the Shore. With 36 Coloured Illustrations. Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1877. Bright blue cloth, gilt and black lettered and designed spine and upper side, all edges gilt, light brown end-papers. The First Edition of this work was published by Alexander Strahan in 1865, printed by Constable at Edinburgh. The present may be the fourth reprint, but there is no bibliographical statement; it is printed by Virtue & Co. in London.

10. Evenings at the Microscope, or, Researches among the Minuter Organs and Forms of Animal Life. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge [1859]. Purple bead-grain blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine and microscope blocked in gilt on upper side, all edges cut, cream end-papers with binder's ticket of Westleys. Z2 at end is blank save for Clay's imprint centre recto set in 3 lines. Between the 2 leaves of Z is a 4 page folder of adverts printed on text paper, which may be considered part of the collation. There are 113 wood-engravings in the text and the Preface states they are all, "with the exception of eighteen, productions of the author's own pencil." 11. Actinologia Britannica: A History of the British Sea-Anemones and Corals. John Van Voorst, 1860. Bound half green calf, gilt spine with red titling label, marbled sides, all edges cut. The work was issued in 12 bi-monthly parts from 1 March 1858 to 1860 with 12 coloured plates by the author and wood-engravings in the text. Signature of "Laura Lushington 1859," on half-title. 12. The Romance of Natural History. Second Series. James Nisbet, 1861. Green wavy-grain cloth, gilt spine and large gilt block with 3 figures on upper side, all edges uncut (and unopened throughout), yellow end-papers with binder's ticket of Edmonds and Remnants. The first series, which was uniform with this, had appeared in 1860. 13. Narrative Tracts. By Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Gosse. Morgan & Scott [1865]. Green cloth, gilt and black designed and lettered, edges cut, cream end-papers. There are 60 tracts, each paginated to 4; there is no continuous pagination.

15. The Mysteries of God: A Series of Expositions, of Holy Scripture. Hodder & Stoughton, 1884. Olive green bevelled cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, all edges cut, dark blue-black end-papers. 16. Freeman, R. B. and Wertheimer, Douglas. Philip Henry Gosse: A Bibliography. Dawson, 1980. Black rough linen, gilt-lettered down spine, all edges cut, in pictorial dust-jacket, frontispiece plate. GOULD (Gerald) 1885-1936 1. Lyrics. David Nutt, 1906. Green wrappers, upper side lettered in black, edges cut. The First Edition of the author's first book, dedicated "To My Mother and Father." 2. Lyrics. 3rd ed. David Nutt, 1908. This reprint follows the 1906 edition and does not appear to be revised. The colour of wrappers, which are now glazed, is light grey. 3. My Lady's Book. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1913. Cream coloured linen, red spine titling label, t.e.g., others uncut. Printed at the Ballantyne Press on handmade paper watermarked "Waldorf." Al is blank before half-title; G4 at end is blank save for Ballantyne Press imprint centre recto. This copy came from the library of Henry W. Nevinson and is inscribed by the author: "To the Grand Duke from two of the humblest of his vassals Barbara and Gerald Gould, July 1913." The autograph is that of the author. 4. Monogamy: A Series of Dramatic Lyrics. The Office of The Herald, 1918. Cream wrappers over stiff boards, lettered and designed in black. Printed at the Pelican Press, title-page with wide ornamental border in red.

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GOULD (Gerald) 1885-1936 5. The Happy Tree and Other Poems. Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1919. Dark blue-black linen, spine gilt-lettered, edges cut. Pp.[52-53] at end carry adverts of the author's books, pp.[54-56] blank. 6.

The Journey: Odes and Sonnets.

Collins, 1920. Tall 8vo, smooth light grey boards with darker grey linen spine, gilt-lettered, top edges cut, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (6/- net). M4 is blank at end. Inscribed on end-paper: "May Gwynn from Evelyn Sharp. Christmas: 1920." Evelyn Sharp became the second wife of Henry W. Nevinson. 7. Beauty the Pilgrim: New Poems. Ernest Benn, 1927. Black linen, 2 yellow titling labels, edges cut. In printed dust-jacket (3/6 net). 8. Democritus, or, the Future of Laughter. Kegan Paul &c., 1929. Glazed deep purple boards, with 2 titling labels, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (2/6 net). A volume of the To-Day and To-Morrow series. 9. The Collected Poems Victor Gollancz, 1929. Large 1/2" x 9 1/4", cream rough green spine titling label, all

of Gerald Gould. square 8vo, 6 linen with pale edges uncut.

GRAHAM (Robert Bontine Cunninghame) 1852-1936 1. Notes on the District of Menteith for Tourists and Others. A. & C. Black, 1895. Pale grey wrappers, upper side lettered and designed in black, lower side with "I/-" in lower right hand corner, all edges uncut. Final leaf (F4) carries adverts only and facing side of lower wrapper advertises Gabriela Cunninghame Graham's Santa Teresa, 2 volumes, price 32s. First issue of the author's first book. 2. Father Archangel of Scotland and Other Essays. By G. and R. B. Cunninghame Graham. A. & C. Black, 1896. Bright red vertically ribbed cloth, spine and upper side lettered and designed in gilt, all edges uncut. Following p.[228] at end is an inserted leaf of adverts describing the 2 already published books by the authors. 3. Another copy of First Edition in a later "remainder" binding of dark red smooth cloth, spine (only) gilt-lettered in 9 lines plus one short rule, between bands at top and bottom.

GRAHAM (Robert Bontine Cunninghame) 1852-1936 There is no ornamental letter. Imprint at foot is "London" only. Top edges are uncut, but others are trimmed, necessitating a somewhat smaller binding case: the inserted adverts leaf at end was perhaps no longer available, as it is not present in this state. 4. Mogreb-El-Acksa: A Journey in Morocco. With Portrait and Map. Heinemann, 1898. Tall 8vo, light green cloth, gilt spine, gilt Arabic lettering right hand corner of upper side, all edges uncut. 5. Another copy, identical with above. The author has autographed his portrait in full in ink and followed it with his private "emblem." 6. The Ipane. T. Fisher Unwin, 1899. Yellow buckram, lettered in red and designed in green on spine and upper side, edges cut. Frontispiece portrait of the author on horseback. A volume of the Over-Seas Library. Front end-paper is text-printed to advertise the series, initialled at end "E. G." [Edward Garnett]. 7. Another copy; this is in the commoner second variety binding of smooth red cloth with identical design and lettering but all in black. Publisher's imprint on spine is in one line and all in caps, whilst in the yellow buckram state it is set in 2 lines in caps and lower case. 8. Thirteen Stories. Heinemann, 1900. Red cloth, gilt spine, upper side lettered in red on white enamel panel with surrounding design in mauve enamel, edges uncut. Al before half-title is blank save for advert of Mogreb-El-Acksa in centre verso. Slip of Acknowledgments inserted before half-title. Publisher's 16 leaves of adverts at end. 9. A Vanished Arcadia: Being Some Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay, 1607 to 1767. Heinemann, 1901. Uniform format with Mogreb-El-Acksa. Author's autograph presentation inscription with full signature, to George Belt, dated 26 January 1902. 10. Success. Duckworth, 1902. Green cloth, spine and upper side lettered and designed in black (2/- Net on spine), edges cut. A volume of the publisher's Greenback Library. 11. over save copy

Another copy. Green wrappers folded card, edges cut. Identical lettering &c. that spine has "1/6 Net" where cloth has "2/- Net."

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12. Hernando de Soto. Heinemann, 1903. Green cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut. This copy came to me with the Guedalla collection, and has 8 lines of notes in Philip Guedalla's autograph. It was earlier with May Morris's books at Kelmscott and has her inscription on end-paper: "M. M. Dec 1903."

20. Shaw-Sparrow, Walter. John Lavery and His Work. With a Preface by R. B. C. Graham. Kegan Paul &c. [1911]. 4to, light green cloth, spine gilt-lettered. On upper side the lettering is in blind; 5 gravure, 12 coloured plates and 20 collotypes. Cunninghame Graham's Preface is an important 22 page Essay on Lavery entitled "His Life and Miracles," by one who had known and lived with him.

13. Taylor, Ida A. Revolutionary Types. With an Introduction by R. B. Cunninghame Graham. Duckworth, 1904. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others cut. The first leaf is blank before half-title; R5 and R6 at end are occupied by publisher's adverts and paged to 4. 14. Progress and Other Sketches. Duckworth, 1905. Red cloth, gilt spine, edges cut, T8 at end carries adverts on recto with verso blank. Publisher's ornament in blind lower left-hand corner of lower cover; the title-page is a cancel leaf pasted on stub. The first title-page printed for this volume was dated 1904 but, delays occuring, a fresh leaf dated 1905 was printed. Some copies of a late binding-batch bearing imprint of the Times Book Club on spine are encountered, in which original sets of the preliminaries were inadvertently used, these sets having the uncancelled version of title-page dated 1904. Despite their apparent priority, these remain second (or late) issues of the First Edition. They may, of course, be deceptively re-cased in Duckworth covers removed from 1905 copies, by persons so minded. 15. Another copy, identical with above save that a blank leaf follows Contents leaf. This can only be considered as a freak, the leaf normally being cancelled by the binder. 16. His People. Duckworth, 1906. Red cloth in uniform format with Progress, spine gilt-lettered within 2 single rule frames, edges cut. Al is blank before half-title. 17. Faith. Duckworth, 1909. Red cloth in uniform format with Progress. Al is blank before half-title and R4 is blank at end save for printer's imprint in 2 lines centre recto. 18. Hope. Duckworth, 1910. Another volume in uniform format with above; pp.[239-244] at end carry publisher's adverts only. 19. Sweetman, Elinor. The Wild Orchard. Herbert & Daniel [1911]. Green cloth, gilt spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. This volume of poems has a preface by R. B. Cunninghame Graham, though neither title-page nor cover lettering announce it.

21. Charity. Duckworth, 1912. Uniform format with Hope, but the top edges are gilt and others trimmed. At end is publisher's 20 page undated catalogue. Publisher's ornament in blind on lower cover, but now in centre. 22. A Hatchment Duckworth, 1913. Uniform format with Charity, but all edges are cut, and publisher's ornament in blind on lower cover is dropped to lower left-hand corner. R8 at end carries notice of books by Graham on recto with verso blank, followed by publisher's undated 20 page catalogue. 23. Scottish Stories. Duckworth, 1914. Light blue cloth, spine designed and lettered in darker blue, upper side in blind, publisher's device in blind lower left-hand corner of lower cover, cut edges. Al is blank before half-title and N4 at end carries publisher's adverts only. 24. Bernal Diaz del Castillo. Eveleigh Nash, 1915. Tall 8vo, green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, frontispiece portrait. The first leaf is blank before half-title and pp.[251-252] blank at end, followed by publisher's 8 page Spring 1915 list. Only lower edges are uncut. 25. Brought Forward. Duckworth, 1916. Red cloth, uniform format with Charity, edges cut but lower edges only lightly trimmed, in a printed dust-jacket. Al is blank before half-title and O8 at end carries adverts of the Readers' Library, paginated 1-2 and followed by publisher's undated 16 page catalogue. 26. Cartagena and the Banks of the Sinu. Heinemann, 1920. Tall 8vo, light red cloth, spine and upper side lettered in black, top edges cut, others uncut, frontispiece plate, first leaf blank before half-title. Inscribed: "To Craig MacGinnis from R. B. Cunninghame Graham."

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27. A Brazilian Mystic: Being the Life and Miracles of Antonia Conselheiro. Heinemann, 1920. Uniform format with Cartagena and in printed dust-jacket (15/- net). Inscribed: "To Seyed Amir Ali from R. B. Cunninghame Graham," and with corrections in the author's hand in ink on p. 4 and p. 238. The last leaf, pp.[239-240], is blank. Folding map inserted.

34. Pedro de Valdivia, Conqueror of Chile. Heinemann, 1926. Tall 8vo, red cloth, uniform format with Conquest of New Granada, frontispiece plate, folding map before index at end.

28. The Conquest of New Granada: Being the Life of Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada. Heinemann, 1922. Tall 8vo, red cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 9 lines, upper side in black in 3 lines, top edges cut, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (15/- net), frontispiece and 2 maps. 29. The Dream of the Magi. Heinemann, 1923. Light blue boards, half cream linen, gilt-lettered up spine, titling label on upper side, top edges cut, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket. No. 64 of 280 copies (only 250 for sale) signed by the author. 30. Barroso, Gustavo. Mapirunga. Translated and with Explanatory Preface by R. B. Cunninghame Graham. Heinemann, 1924. Cream boards, parchment spine, gilt-lettered with the single word of title down spine and on upper side, all edges uncut, in printed dust-jacket. No. 307 of 375 copies signed by the author. 31. Prodgers, C. H. Adventures in Bolivia. With an Introduction by R. B. Cunninghame Graham. Twelve illustrations. John Lane, 1924. Maroon cloth ruled in red, spine gilt-lettered, top edges stained to match cloth, others uncut. This copy is of the second printing; First Edition was dated 1922. 32. The Conquest of the River Plate. Heinemann, 1924. Light red cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side lettered in 3 lines in black, top edges cut, others uncut, 3 illustrations and folding map, errata slip inserted, pp.[315-316] blank at end following map. This copy is in the second state, in which the leaf carrying the list of illustrations is a cancel pasted in. Reference to the map of South Africa has been corrected to South America. 33. Doughty Deeds. An Account of the Life of Robert Graham of Gartmore. Heinemann, 1925. Smooth light brown cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side with armorial crest in gilt, only lower edges uncut, in pictorial dust-jacket (10s. 6d. net), 8 plates. O8 is blank at end.

35. Redeemed and Other Sketches. Heinemann, 1927. Dark red smooth cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 8 lines, only lower edges uncut, in printed dust-jacket. Al is blank before half-title, which is a cancel leaf pasted in: it has a list of 7 other works "By the Same Author" on verso. 36. Thirty Tales and Sketches. Duckworth, 1929. Maroon cloth, spine gilt-lettered, edges cut. The book is entirely printed in the U.S.A. The selection is by Edward Garnett, who contributes the introduction. 37. Jose Antonio Paez. Heinemann, 1929. Red cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side lettered in 2 lines in black, top edges cut, others uncut, 9 plates and folding map, X4 blank at end. 38. Lauder, Sir Thomas Dick. The Wolfe of Badenoch. With Foreword by R. B. Cunninghame Graham. Stirling: Eneas Mackay, 1930. Red cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side in blind, top edges stained to match cloth, others cut, in pictorial dust-jacket (7/6 net). Frontispiece plate. 39. The Horses of the Conquest, Heinemann, 1930. Tall 8vo, red cloth, produced in uniform format with Pedro de Valdivia, top edges cut, others uncut. Frontispiece and 10 other plates. Loosely inserted pp. 105-116 from The Nineteenth Century for July 1896 containing the author's article on Alvar Nunez. 40. Green-Armitage, R. N. The Book of Martin Harvey. With the true story of "The Only Way" and other matters. Foreword by R. B. Cunninghame Graham. Compiled and Edited by R. N. G-A. Henry Walker [1930]. 4to, smooth deep cream buckram, gilt spine and upper side, te.g., others uncut, profusely illustrated. Notable as having the first printing of letters of W. B. Yeats, Laurence Binyon, Walter Crane, Edmund Gosse, R. Le Gallienne, L. Housman, G. B. Shaw, J. W. Mackail and many others. 41. Another copy, identical save that colour of buckram is green, which top edges are stained to match. With printed dust-jacket (10/- net). This is probably a later state.

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42. Writ in Sand. Heinemann, 1932. Light brown cloth, spine gilt-lettered, edges cut. Al is blank before half-title.

49. Graham, Gabriela Cunninghame. Santa Teresa, being Some Account of Her Life and Times. 2 vols. A. & C. Black, 1894. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered, top edges uncut, others trimmed, dark green end-papers. The Preface is by R. B. Cunninghame Graham, dated from Gartmore, 1 February 1894, and is his first printed work. There are 3 sets in the collection, of which one is clearly a later binding-up of First Edition sheets. The cloth is a much darker shade of blue and the end-papers are plain white wove.

43. Portrait of a Dictator: Francisco Solano Lopez (Paraguay, 1865-1870). Heinemann, 1933. Dark red smooth cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 10 lines with 3 rules, edges cut, frontispiece portrait, map and 3 other plates. Al is blank before half-title and T8 is blank at end. Dedication is to Herbert Faulkner West. 44. Mirages. Heinemann, 1936. Rough grained red cloth, spine gilt-lettered, edges cut, in pictorial dust-jacket (7/6 net). Al is blank before half-title and N4 blank at end. This copy belonged to Forrest Reid and has his autograph on end-paper. 45. The Essential R. B. Cunninghame Graham. Selected, with an Introduction and Preface, by Paul Bloomfield. J. Cape, 1952. Red cloth, gilt spine, top edges stained to match cloth, others cut, in printed dust-jacket. 46. Three Fugitive Pieces. With a Foreword by Herbert Faulkner West. Hanover, Now Hampshire: Westholme Publications, 1960. Tall narrow 8vo, mottled boards lettered spine and upper side in red, red end-papers. No. 50 of 100 copies signed by H. F. West. 47. El Rio de la Plata. Londres: Establecimiento Tipografico de Wertheimer, Lea y Cia. [Privately printed, this being the printer's name: no publisher], 1914. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges cut, others uncut, frontispiece portrait of the author with facsimile signature. A collection of 15 articles, of which one was originally written in Spanish by the author ("La vieja de Bolivar," pp. 97-103); the remainder translated into Spanish by his collaborators, S. Perez Triana, B. Sanin Cano and 2 others. The first also contributes an "Advertencia" and the second a "Prologo," each of 4 pages. 48. Hope-Nicholson, Hedley. The Mindes Delight, or, Variety of Memorable Matters Worthy of Observation. Cayme Press, 1928. Large square 8vo, cream boards, blind-stamped, spine lettered in black, t.e.g., others uncut, marbled end-papers. Though not so noted on title-page, this book contains a "Proem To the Fanciful Reader," 4 pages, by R. B. Cunninghame Graham.

50. Graham, Gabriela Cunninghame. Santa Teresa. A New Edition. Eveleigh Nash, 1907. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt, top edges cut, others uncut. This single volume reprint (812 pages) has 16 plates, and an additional Preface to the New Edition, 6 pages, by R. B. Cunninghame Graham. 51. Tschiffely, A. F. Don Roberto, being the Account of the Life and Works of R. B. Cunninghame Graham. Heinemann, 1937. Tall 8vo, dark blue-green buckram, edges cut, profusely illustrated, toned end-papers. 52. ALS, 2 pages, 5 November 1930, on his 79A Elizabeth Street, S.W. 1 notepaper to Gilbert H. Fabes, concerning copies of his Mapirunga. GRAHAME (Kenneth) 1859-1932 1. Pagan Papers. Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1894. Bevelled green ribbed cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 8 lines, t.e.g., others uncut, L4 is blank at end, followed by publisher's 16 page catalogue dated September 1893. Tipped on to front end-paper is the limitation certificate (only 450 copies printed for England). The First Edition of the author's first book. 2. The Golden Age. John Lane, 1895. Blue ribbed cloth, all edges uncut, spine gilt-lettered in 9 lines, publisher's 16 page 1895 catalogue at end. 3. The Beadswoman. John Lane, 1898. No. 5 of the Bodley Booklets. Cream wrappers lettered and designed in green, and lettered down the spine, all edges uncut. Printed at the University Press, Cambridge, U.S.A; publisher's 12 page 1898 catalogue at end.

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4. Field, Eugene. Lullaby Land: Songs of Childhood. Selected by Kenneth Grahame, Author of The Golden Age, and Illustrated by Charles Robinson. Light green cloth with gilt design spine and upper side, all edges uncut. Al before half-title carries list of the artist's other works on verso; P4 at end carries printer's imprint &c. on recto, with adverts of Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac on verso. The gilt cover decoration also includes a small figure on lower cover. The dimensions of cover are 7 7/8" x 5 1/8".

11. The Golden Age. With Illustrations and Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. John Lane, 1928. Tall 8vo, marbled boards, cream vellum, spine gilt-lettered, te.g., others uncut. No. 81 of 275 copies, signed by author and artist. In board drop case with titling label, as issued (Price 31s. 6d.).

5. Another copy, identical with above save that all edges are gilt, size of cover now only 7 5/8" x 4 7/8". Publisher's 12 page 1898 catalogue at end. These 2 styles were issued simultaneously. 6. Dream Days. John Lane, 1899. Yellow smooth buckram, cover design and lettering in blue, all edges uncut, publisher's 16 page 1898 catalogue at end. 7. Another copy, identical with above save that binding is mauve watered-silk cloth with cover design in dark blue. Same catalogue at end, first leaf is blank before half-title and pp.[275-276] at end blank save for imprint of University Press, Cambridge, U.S.A. set in 3 lines top recto. 8. The Wind in the Willows. 2nd ed. Methuen, 1908. Blue cloth, gilt designed spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. Frontispiece by Graham Robertson. First leaf is blank before half-title and last leaf, pp.[303-304], blank save for printer's imprint set in 3 lines centre verso. The edition number is certified below publisher's imprint foot of title-page. (It was published in the same month-October-as the First Edition.) 9. The Cambrige Book of Poetry for Children. Edited by Kenneth Grahame. Cambridge University Press, 1916. Two parts in one, pp. xii, 118 and viii, 128; both half-titles and title-pages carry Part 1 and Part 2 certification. Red cloth, gilt spine and upper side, all edges cut, pp.[127-128] is final blank, followed by 4 leaves of C.U.P. adverts. Inscribed: "Hannah M. Cross from Kenneth Grahame, Xmas 1918." 10. The Beadswoman. With Illustrations in Colour and Woodcuts by Marcia Lane Foster. John Lane, 1921. First illustrated edition, decorated boards, half cream linen, 2 titling labels, top edges stained, others uncut, in pictorial dust-jacket, E4 at end carries adverts only of other books by the author.

12. Dream Days. With Illustrations and Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. John Lane, 1930. Light stone coloured linen, lettered in gilt and designed in black, top edges stained, others cut, in pictorial dust-jacket (7/6 net). P.[169] is blank, followed by 3 pages carrying adverts only. 13. Chalmers, Patrick R. Kenneth Grahame: Life, Letters and Unpublished Work. Methuen, 1933. Tall 8vo, light blue linen, spine gilt-lettered, upper side lettered in blind in 3 lines, top edges cut, others uncut, in pictorial dust-jacket (10/6 net). Frontispiece portrait and illustrations. 14. First Whisper of "The Wind in the Willows." Edited with an Introduction by Elspeth Grahame. Methuen, 1944. Cream coloured linen, spine and upper side lettered in green, edges cut, in designed dust-jacket (6/net). Frontispiece portrait and 4 illustrations. 15. First Whisper of "The Wind in the Willows." Edited with an Introduction by Elspeth Grahame. 2nd ed. Methuen, 1944. Identical with First Edition, save for edition certification. 16. Green, Peter. Kenneth Grahame, 1859-1932: A Study of His Life, Work and Times. John Murray, 1959. Tall 8vo, smooth green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, edges cut, profuse illustrations. GRAVES (Alfred Perceval) 1846-1931 1. Songs of Killarney. Bradbury Agnew, 1873. Green cloth, black designed, gilt-lettered, top edges uncut, others trimmed, glazed cream end-papers. The gilt design and lettering of the upper cover is blind-stamped on the lower. Inscribed: "To Arthur Ransome, with the sincere regards of the author. 25th February, 1876." The First Edition of the author's first book. 2. Irish Songs and Ballads. Manchester: Alexander Ireland, 1880. Dark green cloth, black designed, spine gilt-lettered, title in an ornamental panel on upper side, blind harp device centre of lower cover, all edges uncut. Light green glazed end-papers. Verso of final

311 GRAVES (Alfred Perceval) 1846-1931 page, p. 275, carries only the corrigenda (13 errors). This must indeed be the author's second work; in the lower left-hand corner of upper side (and nowhere else) is stamped in black "Op. 2." 3. Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan. The Purcell Papers. By the late J. S. Le Fanu. With a Memoir by A. P. Graves. 3 vols. R. Bentley, 1880. Dark blue fine-grain bevelled cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges cut, others trimmed, cream end-papers. Crested bookplates of Hubert Edward Henry Jerningham of Longridge Towers. 4. Songs of Irish Wit and Humour. Selected by A. P. Graves. Chatto, 1884. Green cloth, black lettered, green and black designed, all edges cut, dark blue end-papers, publisher's 32 page catalogue dated December 1883 at end. Al is blank before half-title and is not reckoned in pagination. A volume of the Mayfair Library, which, though priced at 2/6d., was, for reason of economy, metal fastened and not sewn. This copy is fine but has no future permanance unless staples are removed and quires sewn with thread. 5. Sonnets. Sir Samuel Ferguson. Lady Ferguson. August, 1866. A brochure printed on a single sheet of laid paper,, folded once to form a 4 page booklet, upper side black-edged, with 2 short rules below "Sonnets." and above date. The 2 sonnets occupy the inner pages, the first by A. P. Graves dated 17 August 1886, the second by Robert Perceval Graves (his uncle, to whom he dedicated Opus 2.) dated 21 August 1886. 6. Father O'Flynn, and Other Irish Lyrics. Swan Sonnenschein, 1889. Light bluish green smooth linen, lettered and designed spine and upper side in black, edges cut, dark blue end-papers. This is the superior issue with price 2/- at foot of spine. 7. Another copy of First Edition sheets; this is the cheaper I/- issue, glazed light green wrappers, lettered spine and both sides in red, edges cut. Spine has the price. The lower cover, which was blank in cloth copy, here advertises 2 works by Charles L. Graves. Signature of S. J. Adair Fitz-Gerald in purple ink. 8. The Irish Poems of Alfred Perceval Graves: Songs of the Gael. A Gaelic Story-Telling. Dublin: Maunsel; London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908. The superior issue in dark green leather, spine and upper side designed and lettered in gilt, t.e.g., other edges trimmed.

GRAVES (Alfred Perceval) 1846-1931 9. Another copy of First Edition sheets, the cheaper issue in buff coloured boards, with same spine and upper cover design but in dark green. Top edges are cut and plain, other edges are uncut. Title-pages of both copies are original and conjunct with the Prefatory Note leaf. But the substantial difference is that this cheaper style has the imprint "Dublin, Maunsel" only, whilst the leather style has an additional line, "London: T. Fisher Unwin." There is a 3 page Preface by Douglas Hyde, though there is no statement of the fact on covers or title-pages. 10. Shakespeare, William. The Merchant of Venice. Arranged for Reading Aloud, with Introduction and Notes by A. P. Graves. Dent, 1911. Light green linen, spine lettered upwards in green, upper side lettered in green within ornamental wreath: "The Shakespeare Reading Circle." Edges cut. Dedicated by the author to Professor Dowden, in a sonnet dated 24 October 1910. 11. Irish Literary and Musical Studies. Elkin Mathews, 1913. Light blue bevelled cloth, gilt spine, top edges cut, others uncut. Inscribed: "Thomas Durnan, from his sincere friend Alfred Perceval Graves. 17th November, 1913." With armorial bookplate of the recipient, Thomas Owen Durnan. The copy was presumably No. 714 in his Library Catalogue. 12. A Celtic Psaltery. Being Mainly Renderings in English Verse from Irish and Welsh Poetry. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1917. Light green cloth, black and gilt designed and lettered, top edges cut, others uncut. Dedicated to Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George, Prime Minister. 13. Hime, Rebecca and Maurice. Christinas Roses. A. J. Churchill & Hodges Figgis, 1920. Smooth decorated boards, lettered in pink, edges trimmed, 28 illustrations. The "Foresong" is by A. P. Graves; the Introduction prints a letter from W. Holman Hunt. 14. Hughes, Ceiriog. English Verse Translations of the Welsh Poems of Ceiriog Hughes. By A. P. Graves. Wrexham: Hughes & Son, 1926. Green boards, green linen spine lettered upwards, titling label on upper side, edges cut. 15. Irish Doric Song and Story. Fisher Unwin, 1926. Light green linen, spine gilt-lettered, upper side lettered and designed in darker green, top edges cut, others uncut, frontispiece portrait.

312 GRAVES (Alfred Perceval) 1846-1931 16. French, Percy. Prose, Poems and Parodies. Edited by his Sister Mrs. De Burgh Daly. With Foreword by A. P. Graves. Dublin: Talbot Press [1930], Light blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side in blind, edges cut, frontispiece portrait. 17. To Return to All That: An Autobiography. Cape, 1930. Red cloth, gilt spine, only lower edges uncut, frontispiece and 3 other plates, Y8 at end is blank. A. P. Graves was the father of Robert Graves and the title of his autobiography is a reflection of his son's Goodbye to All That (1929). 18. The Irish Fairy Book. With Illustrations by George Denham. A. & C. Black, 1938. Light grey cloth, spine and upper side lettered in green, only lower edges uncut. An anthology edited by A. P. Graves. The Epilogue, signed "S. P. G.," may be by A. P. Graves's daughter. GRAVES (Charles Larcom) 1856-1944 1. The Blarney Ballads. With Illustrations by G. R. Halkett. Swan Sonnenschein, 1888. Large square 8vo, dark green cloth, pictorially designed, edges trimmed, cream end-papers. The author's brothers, A. P. Graves and Arnold F. Graves, are reputed to have collaborated with him in these poems.

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5. The Life and Letters of Sir George Grove. Macmillan, 1903. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut, 6 illustrations. Many letters of Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle, Edward Lear, Alfred Tennyson and others are first printed here. This copy belonged to Sir Walter Parratt and carries his bookplate. 6. Post-Victorian Music, with Other Studies and Sketches. Macmillan, 1911. Green cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut, 2B2 at end carries adverts only. 7. New Times and Old Rhymes. Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1921. Pale blue boards, half green cloth, spine lettered in white enamel, all edges uncut. 8. Hubert Parry: His Life and Works. 2 vols. Macmillan, 1926. Tall 8vo, dark red cloth, edges cut, 12 illustrations. Inscribed: "Dorothy T. Parratt, Christmas 1926." There are profuse entries under Sir Walter Parratt in the index. Loosely inserted is an ALS, 3 pages, from C. Hubert H. Parry to Lady Parratt, dated 29 August 1904. 9. Elegies and Eulogies, with Other Lines of Least Resistance. Methuen, 1927. Light blue linen, spine titling label, top edges cut, other uncut. Inscribed on half-title: "Elizabeth Baynell from C. L. G."

2. The Hawarden Horace. Smith Elder, 1894. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut, dark slate end-papers, 2 leaves of publisher's adverts at end.

10. Seaman, Owen. Owen Seaman: A Selection. With an Introduction by C. L. Graves. Methuen, 1937. Blue cloth, gilt spine, all edges cut, 3 portraits, in printed dust-jacket (7s. 6d. net).

3. More Hawarden Horace. Smith Elder, 1896. Uniform format with the 1894 volume. This new series has an Introduction by T. E. Page. Both series contain translations by E. V. Lucas, printed for the first time. The first leaf before half-title is blank and not reckoned in pagination; H2 at end carries adverts only.

11. Autograph letter on a folded sheet of The Spectator notepaper, dated 14 May 1914, from C. L. Graves to Dan Godfrey, the conductor of the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra.

4. The War of the Wenuses. Translated from the Artesian of H. G. Pozzuoli. By C. L. Graves and E. V. Lucas. Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith [1898]. Glazed coloured pictorial wrappers, all edges cut. Arrowsmith's Bristol Library volume 78. Two leaves of publisher's adverts at end note the series up to volume 77. A parody, partially redeemed by its dedication: "To H. G. Wells, this outrage on a fascinating and convincing Romance." The blank verso of half-title is a portrait of the "Invisible Author."

GRAVES (Robert) 1895-1985 1. Over the Brazier. The Poetry Bookshop, 1916. Light brown wrappers with coloured pictorial design on upper side, all edges uncut, 32 pages. Lettered on upper side in 4 lines (including "8d. net"). In addition, at top right hand corner, is stamped, "Second Impression." The sheets of the book appear to be identical with other copies of First Edition, which are without this. This is the author's first book.

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2. Fairies and Fusiliers. Heinemann, 1917. Red cloth, spine gilt-lettered, all edges cut.

11. King Jesus. Cassell, 1946. Tall 8vo, dark orange red linen, gilt spine, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (12s. 6d. net). One plate, folding map of Palestine at end.

3. Poetic Unreason and Other Studies. Cecil Palmer, 1925. Smooth blue cloth, spine titling label, top edges cut, fore-edges trimmed, lower-edges uncut. Signature of Harry Hooton on end-paper and with his pencil annotations throughout. 4. Another Future of Poetry. Hogarth Press, 1926. Tall 8vo, pale blue semi-stiff wrappers, upper side lettered and designed in black, all edges cut. No. 18 of the Hogarth Essays. 5. Lawrence and the Arabs. With Illustrations, edited by Eric Kennington, maps by Henry Perry. Cape, 1927. Light reddish brown rough linen, gilt spine, all edges cut. 6. Mrs. Fisher, or the Future of Humour. Kegan Paul, 1928. Glazed purple boards, 2 titling labels, edges cut, publisher's 24 page catalogue of the To-Day and To-Morrow series at end. The present title (No. 78) appears on the last page as "Nearly Ready." In printed dust-jacket (2/6 net). Harry Hooton's copy with his signature and pencil notes. 7. But It Still Goes On: An Accumulation. Cape, 1930. Smooth light green cloth, spine gilt, cut edges. U8 at end is blank. An example of the second issue, with pp. 157-158 a cancel leaf pasted on stub, the paragraph at top of 157 having 15 lines only. 8. I, Claudius: From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius. Arthur Barker, 1934. Tall 8vo, black buckram, gilt spine, only lower edges uncut. Al is blank before half-title; 2H8 blank at end, following the folding table. 9. Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina. Arthur Barker, 1934. Uniform format with previous volume, 2 folding tables. 10. "Antigua, Penny, Puce." The Seizin Press, Deya and Constable, 1936. Dark red cloth, spine letterred in white enamel, all edges cut. Inserted is a one page ALS from Robert Graves to his agent, from the Adelphi Hotel, Jersey: "Very many thanks indeed for the £25 advance, which has made life a different thing. . . . "

12. The Common Asphodel: Collected Essays on Poetry, 1922-1949. Hamish Hamilton, 1949. Tall 8vo, light red cloth, gilt spine, all edges cut, frontispiece. 13. Poems, 1953. Cassell, 1953. Bright green boards, half cream linen, gilt-lettered up spine, edges cut. No. 1 of 250 copies on handmade paper, signed by the author. This was obtained in 1966 from the private library of Desmond Flower (the publisher), the first-numbered copy of many of Cassell's Editions-de-luxe being retained by the publisher's family. 14. Sand, George. Winter in Majorca. With Jos6 Quadrado's Refutation of George Sand. Translated and Annotated by Robert Graves. Cassell, 1956. Tall 8vo, bright red cloth, gilt spine, all edges cut, in pictorial dust-jacket (15/- net). 15. Tall side net).

Collected Poems, 1959. Cassell, 1959. 8vo, bright green cloth, spine and upper gilt-lettered, in printed dust-jacket (25/All edges cut, frontispiece.

16. The More Deserving Cases: Eighteen Old Poems for Reconsideration. Marlborough College Press, 1962. Tall 8vo, dark blue smooth buckram, gilt-lettered in 3 lines on upper side, edges cut, frontispiece portrait. Copy No. 687 signed by the author. 400 copies were bound in morocco and 350 in buckram. 17. Two ALS on his 4to notepaper headed The World's End, Islip, dated 1 November 1923 and 7 April 1924, filled on both sides, to his agent, "Dear Mr. Pinker." The first deals with his Conflict and Dream, which has just been declined by Constable, and a new book he is writing, The Meaning of Dreams, for which he hopes to get John Buchan to write a foreword. The second letter deals with Cecil Palmer's acceptance of The Meaning of Dreams and a new work he is writing, Poetry in Conflict and Construction: "I have a set of children's verses in search of an illustrator . . . hoping to be in time for Christmas."

314 GRAY (John) 1866-1934 1. Silverpoints. Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1893. Tall narrow 12rao, light green cloth, sides lettered and designed in gilt by Charles Ricketts, top edges cut, others uncut. No. 178 of 250 copies printed. 2. Suckling, Sir John. Poems and Songs. Edited by John Gray and decorated with woodcut borders and initials by Charles Ricketts. Ballantyne Press, 1896. Tall 8vo, green patterned boards, plain half green spine with lettering label, all edges uncut. Edition limited to 210 copies. 3. Sidney, Sir Philip. The Sonnets. Text carefully prepared from the earliest editions by John Gray, the ornaments designed and cut on the wood by Charles S. Ricketts. Ballantyne Press, 1896. Similar format to the Suckling but the pattern of green boards is different and the spine titling label is lettered upwards. 4. Ad Matrem: Poems by John Gray. Sands, 1904. 16mo, pale green linen, upper side gilt-lettered and ruled, t.e.g., others trimmed. This 32 page booklet, printed by Folkard & Son, was reissued 2 years later (but undated) by the Catholic Truth Society. 5. Sound: A Poem by John Gray. Curwen Press, 1926. Of this 8 page square 8vo booklet 50 copies were Privately printed for A. J. A. Symons; this copy is No. 11 and bears a personal inscription from him to myself. The edition was printed on Japanese vellum and sewn with silk thread. There is no pagination; page 13 carries an explanatory note on the poem by its author. 6. O Beata Trinitas: The Prayers of St. Gertrude and St. Mechtilde. Translated by Rev. John Gray. Sheed & Ward, 1927. 12mo, dark red cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges cut. 7. Poems, 1931. Published for the Author by Sheed & Ward, 1931. Semi-stiff cream wrappers lettered on black, all edges cut. Printed by Ren£ Hague and Eric Gill at Pigotts, near Hughenden, Buckinghamshire. The edition consisted of 200 copies. 8. Sewell, Brocard. Footnote to the Nineties: A Memoir of John Gray and Andre Raffalovich. Cecil & Amelia Woolf, 1968. Smooth black buckram, gilt-lettered down spine, top edges stained pink, others cut, in pictorial dust-jacket (42/- net).

GREENAWAY (Kate) 1846-1901 1. Knox, Kathleen. Fairy Gifts; or A Wallet of Wonders. Illustrations by Kate Greenaway. Griffith & Farran [1875]. Small square 8vo, glazed coloured pictorial boards, cinnamon linen spine, all edges stained yellow, pale green patterned end-papers. This appears to be a late issue as it has publisher's 32 page catalogue at end, dated 10. 82. 2. Leith, Alicia A., ed. Routledge's Every Girl's Annual. Routledge [1878]. Dark blue cloth, lettered and designed in black and gilt, all edges gilt. The coloured frontispiece and title-page are by Kate Greenaway; they are printed together on a quarter-sheet of plate paper. FF4 at end carries adverts only. This book contains the first printing of Christina Rossetti's long poem "Freaks of Fashion," and Mrs. Molesworth, Mrs. Riddell, and the Rt. Hon. E. H. Knatchbull-Hugessen are amongst the contributors. 3. Leith, Alicia A. ed. Routledge's Every Girl's Annual. Routledge [1882]. A later volume of this annual: the format is now large 8vo, 6 1/2" x 9 1/2", light blue designed cloth, all edges gilt. The frontispiece and title-page are new coloured drawings by Kate Greenaway. 4. Under the Window. Pictures and Rhymes for Children by Kate Greenaway. Engraved and Printed by Edmund Evans. Routledge [1879], Large square 8vo, 64 pages, glazed blue and green pictorial boards, blue linen spine, dark blue end-papers. In a (?) later state the 7 line imprint is transferred from verso of title-page to recto of an inserted leaf, pp.[65-66], 5. Mother Goose, or. The Old Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. Routledge [1881]. Small 8vo, 48 pages, smooth cream linen, both sides designed in green and lettered in reddish brown, pink linen spine, dark green end-papers. This is the issue in which verso of front free end-paper carries Contents, printed in double columns, and recto of rear free end-paper carries printer's imprint in a circle. 6. Almanack For 1883. Routledge [1883]. Size 3" x 4", glazed yellow boards with coloured design on both sides, deeper yellow linen spine, dark green end-papers. 7. Little Ann and Other Poems. By Jane and Ann Taylor. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Printed in Colours by Edmund Evans. Routledge [1883]. Tall 8vo, 64 pages,

315 GREENAWAY (Kate) 1846-1901 glazed cream boards with coloured pictorial design, green linen spine and corners, edges stained blue, ochre end-papers. Collation is [B]-E, 4 gatherings in 8's. 8. Language of Flowers. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Printed in Colours by Edmund Evans. Routledge [1884]. Small square 8vo, glazed cream and green boards with coloured pictorial design, lighter green linen spine, edges stained yellow, orange-yellow end-papers, 80 pages. 9. Kate Greenaway's Book of Games. With 24 full-page Plates Engraved and Printed in Colours by Edmund Evans. Routledge [1889]. Large square 8vo, 64 pages, glazed cream and green boards with pictorial design, blue linen spine, edges and end-papers yellow. 10. Harte, Bret. The Queen of the Pirate Isle. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Engraved and Printed by Edmund Evans. Chatto & Windus [1890]. Smooth buff coloured linen, sides with coloured pictorial design and lettering, spine lettered in 9 lines in black, with 6 green bands, dark green end-papers, all edges gilt, 58 pages. Collation appears to be [A]5, B-D, 3 gatherings in 8's. Reprints are provided with a half-title which does not appear in the First Edition. 11. A Day in a Child's Life. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Music by Myles B. Foster. Engraved and Printed by Edmund Evans. Routledge [1881]. 4to, 8" x 9 3/4", bevelled light green glazed boards with coloured design, darker green linen spine, green end-papers, 32 pages, Al is blank at beginning and D4 blank at end. 12. Ellice, Robert, ed. Songs for the Nursery: A Collection of Children's Poems Old and New. With Illustrations by Kate Greenaway, Miss Bennett, Robert Barnes &c. W. Mack, n.d. Half reddish brown cloth, glazed patterned sides, edges cut, floral patterned grey end-papers. 16mo (collates in 4's), 144 pages, the last leaf (84) being unnumbered and carrying publisher's adverts only. Note: A copy of The Quiver of Love (1876), with coloured drawings by Walter Crane and Kate Greenaway is catalogued with the collection of the former artist. For Robert Browning's Pied Piper of Hamelin (Routledge, 1888) illustrated by Kate Greenaway, see the Browning collection, which has 3 copies of the First Edition, exemplifying the 2 states of the book.

GREENWELL (Dora)

1821-1882

1. Poems. Pickering, 1848. Green blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 5 lines, edges uncut, deep cream end-papers with binder's ticket of Remnant and Edmonds. First Edition of the author's first book. 2. Poems. By the Author of "The Patience of Hope." Edinburgh: Strahan, 1861. Dark green cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 6 lines, with small leaf ornament, 2 leaves of Strahan's adverts at end dated February 1861. Cream end-papers with Edinburgh binder's ticket of William Hunter. 3. Essays. Strahan, 1866. Reddish brown cloth, spine and upper side gilt and black ruled, lower side in blind, spine gilt-lettered, dark green end-papers, all edges uncut. On the blank leaf before half-title is an inscription: "From Mrs. Greenwell to her dear old friend Miss Colling, 1867." 4. Another copy, apparently a late issue of First Edition sheets. Edges have been severely trimmed, reducing size to 4 1/2" x 6 1/2" and binding is dark green cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 2 lines between quadruple rules top and bottom. 5. Poems. Strahan, 1867. Light green cloth, gilt spine, sides with black ornamental borders, upper side with gilt circular ornament, t.e.g., others uncut, brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. This book, largely based on the Poems of 1861 with later work added, is dedicated to the memory of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The earlier book had the "Sonnet to Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1851," to which now is added the "Sonnet to Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1861." 6. Lacordaire. Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas, 1867. Rebound contemporary half red calf, sprinkled edges, frontispiece plate. 7. Carmina Crucis. Bell & Daldy, 1869. Bevelled red cloth, gilt spine and upper side, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed, dark blue end-papers. K6 at end is blank save for printer's imprint of Chiswick Press centre recto. 8. Colloquia Crucis: A Sequel to "Two Friends." Strahan, 1871. Bevelled dark reddish brown cloth, spine and upper side gilt, top edges uncut, others trimmed, dark green end-papers. L2 at end is blank.

316 GREENWELL (Dora) 1821-1882 9. The Soul's Legend. Strahan, 1873. Reddish brown semi-limp linen, upper side gilt-lettered and black ruled, dark blue end-papers, one leaf of Strahan's adverts following p. 56. 10. Liber Humanitatis: A Series of Essays. Daldy, Isbister, 1875. Reddish brown cloth, gilt spine and upper side, dark blue end-papers, pp.[225-230] at end carry adverts only. 11. Camera Obscura. Daldy, Isbister, 1876. Similar format to The Soul's Legend. Pp.[109-112] at end carry adverts only. 12. Poems. Selected, with a Biographical Introduction by William Dorling. Walter Scott, 1889. A volume of the Canterbury Poets, edited by William Sharp. A deluxe style in padded maroon leather, all edges gilt, rounded corners. 13. Dorling, William. Memoirs of Dora Greenwell. James Clarke [1885]. Blue cloth, gilt, top edges uncut, others trimmed, green end-papers. 14. Duncan, John. Colloquia Peripatetica. By the late John Duncan, LL.D. 2nd ed. Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas, 1870. Red cloth, spine titling label. Has a presentation inscription in Dora Greenwell's hand to Mr. Goodall, dated 30 September 1870, and her 2 page ALS, loosely inserted, which accompanied the gift. GREGORY (Lady Isabella Augusta) 1859-1932 1. Sir William Gregory, K.C.M.G. An Autobiography. Edited by Lady Gregory. John Murray, 1894. Tall 8vo, green cloth, gilt spine, gilt armorial crest on upper side, top edges uncut, others trimmed, patterned end-papers, frontispiece portrait, publisher's 28 page catalogue at end dated October 1894. There is a 2 page Preface by Augusta Gregory to her husband's memoirs. 2. Cuchulain of Muirthemne. Arranged and put into English by Lady Gregory. With a Preface by W. B. Yeats. John Murray, 1902. Blue linen designed in white enamel on spine and upper side, spine gilt-lettered and upper side white lettered, t.e.g., fore-edges lightly trimmed, lower edges uncut. Pp.[361-362] carry publisher's adverts and pp.[363-364] is blank save for printer's imprint in 2 lines centre recto.

GREGORY (Lady Isabella Augusta) 1859-1932 3. Poets and Dreamers: Studies and Translations from the Irish. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis; London: John Murray, 1903. Blue boards, half white holland, lettered in darker blue on spine and upper side, all edges uncut, date in Roman. 4. Poets and Dreamers: Studies and Translations from the Irish, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis; London: John Murray, 1903. The preliminary gathering of the First Edition of this book was set-up separately for the Irish and English issues. The former was in 4 leaves and the latter in 6 leaves with the first blank and the advert of Cuchulain and the half-title on separate leaves. The Irish title-page is differently spaced in larger caps and has date in Roman. The English is in 5 lines only with date in Arabic. The former has Hodges Figgis imprint in one line foot of spine and latter has "London/John Murray." 5. Gods and Fighting Men. . . . Arranged and put into English by Lady Gregory. With a Preface by W. B. Yeats. John Murray, 1904. Uniform format with Cuchulain (1902). Al is blank before half-title and 2G7 and 2G8 at end carry adverts only. 6. Kincora: A Play in Three Acts. Dublin: the Abbey Theatre, 1905. 72 pages, reddish brown wrappers lettered and designed in black, all edges uncut. The final leaf, pp.[71-72] carries the Cast on recto, with imprint of Dublin University Press centre verso. Volume 2 of the Abbey Theatre Series. 7. The White Cockade. Dublin: Maunsel, 1905. 64 pages, blue wrappers printed in black, uniform format with Kincora. Inserted at end are 2 leaves of Maunsel's adverts, printed by Hely's whereas the book is printed at the Dublin University Press. Volume 8 of Abbey Theatre Series. 8. Spreading the News. The Rising of the Moon. By Lady Gregory. The Poorhouse. By Lady Gregory and Douglas Hyde. Dublin: Maunsel, 1906. 60 pages, brown wrappers lettered black, uniform format with The White Cockade. At end are 4 pages of Maunsel's adverts. This book appears to be without printer's imprint save that of Hely's on lower wrapper. Volume 9 of the Abbey Theatre Series. 9. A Book of Saints and Wonders. Dundrum: The Dun Emer Press, 1906. Light blue boards, holland spine with titling label printed in red upwards, all edges uncut, end-papers to match boards. Only 200 copies printed.

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10. Seven Short Plays. Dublin: Maunsel, 1909. Blue boards, half-holland with spine titling label, top edges cut, others uncut, frontispiece portrait.

title-pages lettered as first and second series, blue linen, spine titling labels, all edges cut, frontispiece plate after Robert Gregory in each volume.

11. The Kiltartan History Book. Illustrated by Robert Gregory. Dublin: Maunsel, 1909. Light brown wrappers, upper side lettered in dark red, trimmed edges, 4 coloured plates, pp.[53-56] at end carry adverts only.

18. Mirandolina. A Comedy Translated and Adapted from La Locandiera of Goldoni by Lady Gregory. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1924. Dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered down spine and in 2 lines on upper side, top edges cut, others uncut, marbled end-papers. Printed at the Talbot Press, Dublin.

12. The Image: A Play in Three Acts. Dublin: Maunsel, 1910. Grey-blue boards, spine lettered upwards, upper side lettered and designed in darker blue, all edges cut. G4 at end is blank and preliminaries appear to consist of 3 leaves, of which the last is a blank-resulting in a collation of 55 leaves. 13. The Kiltartan Moliere. Translated by Lady Gregory. Dublin: Maunsel, 1910. Uniform format with Seven Short Plays, but board sides are greenish blue. First leaf is blank before half-title. Contains 3 plays. 14. The Golden Apple: A Play for Kiltartan Children. Illustrated by Margaret Gregory. John Murray, 1916. Large square 8vo, dark green cloth, spine lettered downwards and upper side lettered and designed all in dark red, edges cut, 8 coloured plates, in printed dust-jacket designed similarly with cover (5/- net). There are 2 copies in the collection and it is possible 2 shades of green cloth were used for binding, as it is unlikely the second copy (without dust-jacket) could have faded uniformly enough to become as it now is.

16. The Kiltartan Poetry Book: Prose Translations from the Irish. Cuala Press, 1918. Light grey-blue boards, half-holland, spine titling label, upper side lettered in 4 lines in black, end-papers matching boards, edition limited to 400 copies. 16. The Kiltartan Poetry Book. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1919. This edition, printed at the Knickerbocker Press, New York, is the first American Edition, published by Putnams. It closely follows the Cuala Press edition, and was presumably set up from it, though with different pagination. Blue linen, spine titling label, edges cut. 17. Visions and Beliefs on the West of Ireland. Collected and Arranged by Lady Gregory. With two essays and Notes by W. B. Yeats. 2 vols. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1920. The

19. The Story Brought by Brigit: A Passion Play in Three Acts. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1924. Uniform format with Mirandolina, and printed at the same press. 20. Case for the Return of Sir Hugh Lane's Pictures to Dublin. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1926. Tall 8vo, light blue wrappers, upper side lettered in darker blue (One Shilling net), 48 pages, frontispiece portrait, edges trimmed. 21. My First Play. Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1930. Patterned pink boards, mauve linen spine, titling label on upper side, top edges cut, others uncut, No. 211 of 500 copies signed by the author. 22. Coole. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1931. Blue boards, half-holland, spine titling label, lettered in 2 lines on upper side, end-papers matching boards, edition limited to 250 copies. W. B. Yeats's poem "Coole Park," 32 lines, is first printed here, on the leaf following title-page, and dated 7 September 1929. 23. Gregory, Vere R. T. The House of Gregory. With a Foreword by Thomas Ulick Sadleir. Dublin: Browne & Nolan, 1943. Tall 8vo, light grey boards, half green linen lettered in 7 lines in black, in pictorial dust-jacket (15/- net). Signed by the author and with his West Court bookplate. Errata slip inserted. 24. Robinson, Lennox, ed. Lady Gregory's Journals, 1916-1930. Putnam, 1946. Dark blue buckram, spine gilt-lettered in 6 lines, edges cut, in pictorial dust-jacket (18s. net). Note: Lady Gregory made 2 contributions to the Cuala Press Broadsides: these were poems by Douglas Hyde which she translated from the Gaelic, in the numbers for April and July 1909. See the J. B. Yeats collection.

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GREY (Pamela Wyndham Grey) Viscountess, 1871-1928

1. Recreation. By Viscount Grey of Fallodon. Constable, 1920. 48 pages, light grey wrappers lettered in red up spine and on upper side, all edges uncut.

4. The Story of Joan of Arc. Told by Pamela Glenconner. Taken from the French of Boutet de Monvel. Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1915. Tall 8vo, blue boards, holland spine, upper side lettered and designed in black, edges uncut. Author's printed Compliments slip inserted. The copy carries W. 5. Blunt's Crabbet Park Library plate.

2. Fallodon Papers. Woodcuts by Robert Gibbings. Constable, 1926. Smooth cream buckram, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. N2, pp.[ 179-180] at end, is blank save for Chiswick Press imprint centre recto. No. 4 of 100 copies, signed by Lord Grey. 3. Another copy of First Edition, the ordinary issue in smooth black buckram, t.e.g., others uncut. 4. The Charm of Birds. Woodcuts by Robert Gibbings. Hodder & Stoughton [1927]. Tall 8vo, smooth cream buckram, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. No. 222 of 250 copies signed by Lord Grey. 5. Another copy of First Edition, the ordinary issue in light green cloth, gilt spine and upper side, all edges cut. This state has an additional line top verso of title-page: "First Impression . . . printed 1927." Note: See the W. S. Blunt collection for a copy of his Poetical Works (2 volumes, 1914) inscribed to Lord Grey. GREY (Pamela Wyndham Grey) Viscountess, 1871-1928

5. The Sayings of the Children. Written down by their Mother, Pamela Glenconner. Oxford: Blackwell, 1918. Square 8vo, light buff coloured boards, cream linen spine with titling label, top edges cut, others uncut, frontispiece and 4 plates, 2 blank leaves before half-title, pp.[139-140] at end blank save for printer's imprint at foot recto, followed by 2 more blank leaves. 6. Edward Wyndham Tennant: A Memoir by His Mother Pamela Glenconner. John Lane, 1919. Tall 8vo, light blue cloth, gilt, all edges cut, 7 portraits. This was the Wedmore copy with inscription on end-paper: "Mother, from Father & Millicent, with love at Christmas" [probably 1920]. 7. Shepherd's Crowns: A Volume of Essays. By Pamela Grey. Oxford: Blackwell, 1923. Tall 8vo, orange boards, cream buckram spine lettered in brown in 6 lines (including small ornament), edges trimmed, pp.[ 135-136] blank at end. One of the 11 essays is on William Barnes. GRIERSON (Francis) 1848-1927

1. Windlestraw: A Book of Verse. By Pamela Tennant. Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1905. Pott 8vo, blue cloth, gilt-lettered up spine and on upper side with design, all edges uncut. Printed on Van Gelder watermarked handmade paper. Following p. xvi and before first leaf of text, which is Bl, there is inserted a single blank leaf.

1. Modern Mysticism and Other Essays. George Allen, 1899. Small 8vo, dark green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. Spine (only) prints author's name as J. F. Grierson. The 4 page Preface is signed "L. W. L."

2. The White Wallet. Filled by Pamela Glenconner. Fisher Unwin, 1912. Light buff coloured rough Holland, spine and upper side lettered in black, only lower edges uncut. Inscribed: "Dorothy Carleton. March 1912 from Pamela Glenconner."

2. The Celtic Temperament and Other Essays. George Allen, 1901. Similar format to Modern Mysticism, though slightly larger, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. M8 at end, pp.[191-192], carries adverts of Modern Mysticism.

3. The White Wallet. Pamela Grey. Dent, 1928. Black and white decorated boards, half cream linen, spine titling label. In this much revised reprint it is only on the dust-jacket (preserved here) that the precise original title is found: The White Wallet, filled by Pamela Grey. This edition carries her frontispiece portrait and illustrations by Stephen Tennant.

3. Another copy of the First Edition; the only variation appears to be in the binding. Spine lettered similarly in 6 lines between rules top and bottom, but with date 1901 in place of George Allen. Also upper cover is blank, without title lettered in gilt.

319 GRIERSON (Francis) 1848-1927 4. The Valley of Shadows. Constable, 1909. Tall 8vo, light blue boards, half plum red linen lettered on green label on spine with "Constable/London" at foot, t.e.g., others uncut, signed by the author on title-page. T4 at end is blank. 6. The Valley of Shadows. New Edition, illustrated by Evelyn Paul. John Lane, 1913. Crown 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt spine and upper side, top edges stained blue, others trimmed, publisher's blind "Review Copy" oval stamp on title-page, frontispiece and 12 other coloured illustrations. Y3-6 paged to 8 at end carry only adverts of the works of Francis Grierson, followed by John Lane's 24 page List of Fiction. 6. The Humour of the Underman and Other Essays. Stephen Swift, 1911. Similar format to The Celtic Temperament. Pp. 205-208 at end carry only adverts of other books by the author. 7. Another copy of the First Edition, identical with above. 8. Parisian Portraits. John Lane, 1913. Uniform format with The Celtic Temperament, spine gilt-lettered in 7 lines between rules top and bottom, frontispiece portrait of the author. The final gathering appears only to have 7 leaves, of which the last 2, pp.[171-174], carry "Appreciations of Francis Grierson." 9. La vie et les hommes. John Lane, 1913. Uniform format with Parisian Portraits. 10. The Invincible Alliance and Other Essays. John Lane, 1913. Green cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 8 lines between double bands top and bottom, upper side with darker green broad frame and central ornament in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. This book was printed at the University Press, Cambridge, U.S.A. and is without register. The first leaf before half-title is blank. 11. Abraham Lincoln, the Practical Mystic. With an Introduction by John Drinkwater. John Lane, 1919. Uniform format with The Invincible Alliance through a shorter volume: the central ornament on upper cover is blind-stamped. Pp.[86-87] carry adverts only and verso of last leaf is blank.

GUEDALLA (Philip) 1889-1944 1. Ignes Fatui: A Book of Parodies. By P. G. [P. Guedalla, Balliol College]. Oxford: Blackwell, 1911. A set of proof sheets with publisher's proof stamp on each of the 5 sections; lacks one folded quarter-sheet, presumably not printed at this stage, which ultimately carried Contents and fly-title "Parodies." The author's autograph corrections appear on some 20 pages. Pp. 41-43 carry "Casablanca," withdrawn before publication. Another interesting variant appears on p. 35, where "Lines to an Author" appears in its original form as "Lines to Mr. Belloc." Preserved loosely in the original blue wrapper, here marked "Revise," but the gatherings have never been pierced or sewn. 2. Ignes Fatui. Second Impression. Oxford: Blackwell, 1911. Light blue wrappers, uncut, 64 pages. Appears to be identical with First Edition, save for the 2 words added on recto title-page. Inscribed on half-title: "0. G. E. McW from L. S. H., on an occasion of great wrath, April 3, 1911." This copy was on the shelves with the author's remaining books at The Laundry, Little Easton Park, 26 August 1963. It accompanied the Metri Gratia, and these were the only copies present. The corrected proof sheets had been a gift to me from Mrs. Guedalla on a previous occasion. 3. Metri Gratia: Verse and Prose. By Philip Guedalla, author of Ignes Fatui. Oxford: Blackwell, 1911. Pinkish wrappers, uncut, 68 pages. Inscribed on wrapper: "O. G. E. McWilliam." (See note to above item.) 4. Another copy of the First Edition, identical with above save inscription. 6. Supers and Supermen: Studies in Politics, History and Letters. T. Fisher Unwin, 1920. Tall 8vo, dark blue bevelled cloth, spine gilt, top edges cut, others uncut. The final leaf, pp.[255-256] carries publisher's adverts on recto with verso blank. Inscription on end-paper dated: "Nov 1920 Alston Hall." 6. The Second Empire. Constable, 1922. Tall 8vo, light green cloth, spine and upper side gilt, top edges cut, others uncut, frontispiece, pp.[459-460] blank at end. Beerbohm's copy; there is some discreet dog-earing throughout which suggests Beerbohm read this copy with care, and his notes in pencil and ink are on rear end-paper. The author's inscription is in 8 lines in the form of a letter on front end-paper: "5, Hyde Park Street, W. 8.vii.22 Dear Max, There is so much of you on my walls that there ought to be this of me on yours. Philip Guedalla." The reference is to the drawings and caricatures

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which decorated the author's London residence, rather than to books,

15. Independence Day: A Sketchbook. John Murray, 1926. Tall 8vo, green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, gilt ornament centre of upper side, trimmed edges, 12 plates. Max Beerbohm's copy; the author's presentation to him on end-paper is in the form of a 6 line letter from 5 Hyde Park St., concluding-"Yours, Philip."

7. The Industrial Future: A Liberal Policy. By Philip Guedalla. With a Foreword by Rt. Hon. H. H. Asquith, K.C., M.P. Liberal Publication Department [1922]. 24 pages, oblong size 5 3/4" x 4 3/4", printed by Strangeways & Sons. A very uncommon little production, metal fastened. 8. Masters and Men. Constable, 1923. Green cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, top edges stained blue, others uncut, blue end-papers. Max Beerbohm's copy, inscribed for him in the author's hand: "For Max Beerbohm. 25.V.23." 9. The Secret of the Coup D'Etat: An Unpublished Correspondence. Edited with an Introduction by The Earl of Kerry, and a Study by Philip Guedalla. Constable, 1924. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, 12 plates. Al is blank before half-title. Guedalla's "Study" occupies 22 pages. 10. A Council of Industry. The Daily News [1924]. No. XI in the New Way series, 28 pages, sewn into semi-stiff wrappers lettered on blue panel, edges cut. Price 6 pence. This copy came from the author's library, The Laundry, 27 August 1963. 11. A Gallery. Constable, 1924. Green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges stained to match cloth, others trimmed, glazed yellow end-papers. 12. Napoleon and Palestine. With a Foreword by Israel Zangwill and an Afterword by the Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George, O.M., M.P. Allen & Unwin, 1925. Smooth light blue cloth, gilt spine and upper side, all edges cut. 13. Palmerston. E. Benn, 1926. Tall 8vo, light green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, gilt ornament centre of upper cover, trimmed edges, 16 plates. Max Beerbohm's copy, inscribed: "For Max, not without hesitation, Philip Guedalla, 25.xi.26." Beerbohm may have thought of extra-illustrating this book as he did so many; he affixed one portrait below the presentation inscription and there is also a note in his hand on rear end-paper. 14. Essays of To-Day and Yesterday. Philip Guedalla. G. G. Harrap, 1926. Black wrappers, titling label on upper side, top edges cut, others uncut. Introductory Notes to this anthology by "F. H. P."; 3 of the pieces are here in book form for the first time.

16. Fathers of the Revolution. With 12 portraits. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. This is the American edition of Independence Day, entirely reset and printed at the Knickerbocker Press, New York. It is of the second printing, July 1926 (the first being June 1926). Bound three-quarter crimson crushed levant morocco, t.e.g., others lightly trimmed, pink linen ends. This was the gift of Mrs. Guedalla (see her letter of 6 June 1964); she informed me that Philip Guedalla had a number of copies thus bound to use as gifts, of which she still had several. 17. Conquistador: American Fantasia. E. Benn, 1927. Tall 8vo, boards, half green linen, spine titling label. Max Beerbohm's copy with author's inscription to him: "For Max (unless he finds the subject too distasteful) From Philip, 1927." 18. Gladstone and Palmerston: Being the Correspondence of Lord Palmerston with Mr. Gladstone, 1851-1965. Edited with an Introduction and Commentary by Philip Guedalla. Victor Gollancz, 1928. Tall 8vo, green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, edges cut, 20 illustrations. Max Beerbohm's copy, inscribed: "For Max from Philip G.—his second in a season: what price Edgar Wallace now? 1928." 19. Bonnet and Shawl: An Album. New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. The First Edition, marbled boards, half blue cloth, gilt, top edges cut, others uncut, 575 copies were printed-this being No. 104 of the 250 for distribution in England, signed by the author. 20. Another copy, identical with above; No. 135 signed by the author. 21. Bonnet and Shawl. Hodder & Stpughton [1928]. The London First Edition, printed by Wyman & Sons. Tall 8vo, light green cloth, gilt spine and upper side, edges trimmed. The distinguishing feature is that this has 6 portraits, which the New York edition lacks; this gives point to the inscription in this copy, which was Max Beerbohm's. Inscribed on half-title: "For the Duly Possible Illustrator of the last 3 pieces, from Philip G. 1928." These are the "Ideal

321 GUEDALLA (Philip) 1889-1944 Portraits," as contrasted with the "Real," in the second of which--on Sophia Swinburne-Beerbohm's essay, "No. 2, The Pines," is substantially quoted. 22. Industry and the Future. Manchester Liberal Federation [1928]. An 8 page large 8vo pamphlet, priced at One Penny. This was on the author's library shelves at The Laundry, 27 August 1963, and is the only copy I have so far seen. 23. The Missing- Muse and Other Essays. Hodder & Stoughton [1929]. Light green cloth, gilt spine, all edges cut. Max Beerbohm's copy, inscribed: "For Max from Philip because . . . oh well, because. 1929." 24. Another copy of the First Edition, this one in coloured pictorial dust-jacket (7/6 net). 25.

Another copy, identical with above.

26. Lloyd George, Rt. Hon. David. Slings and Arrows: Sayings Chosen from the Speeches. Edited, with Introduction by Philip Guedalla. Cassell, 1929. Black cloth, gilt spine and upper side, edges cut, frontispiece portrait. 27. The Duke. Hodder & Stoughton, 1931. Tall 8vo, green cloth, spine and upper side gilt, edges cut, frontispiece and 10 plates, coloured map end-papers, in pictorial dust-jacket (25/- net). 28. Ambassadors to Argentine, A Visit and a Suggestion: The University Link. Times Publishing [1931]. Reprint from The Times, Saturday, November 14, 1931. Single sheet of wove paper 14 3/4" x 10" folded once to form a 4 page booklet, of which the text fills the first 3 pages and final page is blank. This copy (the only one I have seen) was on the author's library shelves, The Laundry, 27 August 1963. 29. Great Britain and Argentine Independence. Lecture delivered . . . University of Buenos Aires, September 4th, 1931. Buenos Aires: W. F. Story [1931]. 12 pages, metal fastened into semi-stiff wrappers lettered in blue, edges cut. The upper wrapper serves as the only title-page, lower wrapper carries printer's imprint centre verso. 30.

Another copy, identical with above.

GUEDALLA (Philip) 1889-1944 31. Wellington: A Biography. [New York] Armed Services Editions [1931]. Oblong, 6 1/2" x 4 1/2", blue pictorial wrappers, 512 pages. For distribution to American Army and Navy only-code number F177. An unabridged reprint of The Duke (1931), save that it has no illustrations, "List of Authorities" or Index. The text of the final leaf, pp.[511-512], is "About the Author." This is a scarce book in fine condition; present copy is new. 32. Argentine Tango. Hodder & Stoughton, 1932. Green cloth, gilt spine, edges cut, in coloured pictorial dust-jacket (8/6 net). Q8 is blank at end. 33. The Queen and Mr. Gladstone, 1845-1879. Hodder & Stoughton, 1933. Tall 8vo, green cloth, spine and upper side gilt, edges cut, frontispiece. The final leaf, pp.[458-459], is blank. 34. Another copy of First Edition. This was Max Beerbohm's and is inscribed by the author: "For Max, who would and can and must illustrate it, from his affectionate Philip G. 1933." But Max has not illustrated it, though it is obvious he has read it with care, gently and discreetly dog-eared it, and filled the rear end-papers with pencil notes and page references. The concluding volume, entered below, was not present in Sotheby's sale of Max Beerbohm's library. 35. The Queen and Mr. Gladstone, 1880-1898. Hodder & Stoughton, 1933. The is the second volume of the above work, issued in identical format, though volume numbers are not used, only one and 2 stars on spines. With bookplate of Beatrice Eleanor, Countess of Pembroke in each, from the sale at Wilton House, 25 May 1960. 36. The Hundred Days. Peter Davies, 1934. Cream coloured linen, 2 green titling labels on spine gilt-lettered, top edges stained green, others cut, map end-papers, 8 illustrations. 37. The Hundred Days. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1934]. Presumably first American Edition, similar format but entirely reset and printed at the Van Rees Press. The English edition has "P. G." at end of last section, "Authorities," which the American has not, though text appears otherwise identical. The American edition is also without the 3 page Index and all illustrations.

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38. De La Ronciere, Charles. The Letters of Napoleon to Marie-Louise. With a Commentary. Introduction by Philip Guedalla. Hutchinson, 1935. Pale blue boards, half-holland, spine titling label, top edges stained, others cut, 31 illustrations. This copy was on author's shelves at The Laundry, 27 August 1963. It is noted that the List of Illustrations, pp. 11-12, is the original uncancelled leaf in which Duroe was given the wrong page reference, 160. I have not yet seen another copy in this state.

44.

39. Another copy of First Edition, but second state in which pp. 11-12 are a cancel leaf pasted on stub. Caulaincourt now has the p. 160 reference and Duroe p. 261. It may also be recorded that the board sides are a much darker blue, but there can hardly be said to be 2 binding varieties. This book sold only slowly, and First Edition sheets were cut down further and bound in green cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 12 lines (with "The/Bookshelf/ Library" imprint at foot). In all such copies as have been examined pp. 11-12 was the cancel variety.

47. The New World and Its History. Royal Institution of Great Britain, Special Afternoon Lecture, Tuesday December 10, 1940. This is an abstract, not a verbatim text (which appears never to have been printed). Single sheet of laid paper (11" x 8 1/2") folded once to form a 4 page booklet, the text occupying the whole 4 pages. No printer's imprint or date. This and the following copies were on the author's library shelves at The Laundry, 27 August 1963.

40. The Hundred Years. Hodder & Stoughton [1936]. Tall 8vo, bevelled white buckram, gilt spine and upper side; below author's name on upper side is a green leather inlay circle of the globe in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, grey end-papers. No. 109 of 250 copies signed by the author. Nine folding maps at end. 41. Rag-Time and Tango. Hodder & Stoughton, 1938. Light fawn linen, spine lettered in black, author's monogram in green centre of upper side, edges cut, frontispiece portrait, in printed dust-jacket (7/6 net). 42. Lecture on "Modern Biography" delivered in the Casa del Teatro, September 26th 1939. Buenos Aires: Argentine Association of English Culture, 1939. 4to 7" x 9 1/4", light grey wrappers lettered in blue, edges cut. Parallel Spanish and English texts; 750 copies only printed 2 October 1939. 43. The Jewish Past: Presidential Address Delivered before the Jewish Historical Society of England, University College, London, November 21st, 1938. London, 1939. 4to, 20 pages sewn into light grey wrappers lettered in black, edges cut.

Another copy, identical with above.

45. The Hundredth Year. Thornton Butterworth, 1940. Green cloth, gilt spine, publisher's ornamental circle blind-stamped lower right hand corner of upper cover, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (12s. 6d. net). This book has 7 cancel leaves pasted on stubs-title-page, pp. 115-118, 189-190, 293-294 and 301-304. 46.

Another copy, identical with above.

48.

Another copy, identical with above.

49.

Another copy, identical with above.

50. Mr. Churchill: A Portrait. Hodder & Stoughton, 1941. Cream buckram, spine gilt-lettered in 7 lines between multiple ornamental rules top and bottom, coloured flag ornament centre of upper side, top edges stained ochre. End-papers are mauve marbled. Frontispiece medallion. This appears to be a special binding, perhaps designed for author's presentation. It was on his shelves at The Laundry, Easton Park, August 1963, and is the only copy I have seen. 51. Another copy of the First Edition; this is in the normal binding of green linen, spine gilt-lettered in 8 lines (in entirely different type from above special copy), upper side in 2 lines (without ornament). In printed dust-jacket with the medallion on upper side (8/6 net). All edges cut, but measure 4 3/4" x 7 1/4", which is a quarter inch taller than special copy. End-papers are plain wove; no silk head and tail bands. 52. Guedalla, Philip, and Camacho, J. A. The Other Americas. Hutchinson [1941]. 44 pages, metal fastened into designed wrappers (6d. net), trimmed edges.

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53.

Another copy, identical with above.

54.

Another copy, identical with above.

60. The Palmerston Papers: Gladstone and Palmerston. [The work published by Victor Gollancz in 1928.] The complete original MS, written on 150 quarto sheets of ruled foolscap (on rectos only) of which the great bulk is in ink, with only some 14 sheets in pencil. Bound in blue buckram, red titling label, uniform with author's other MSS. There are a few corrections and quite considerable additions in margins, but never extending on to versos, and, compared with the Palmerston -a very straightforward version. To the best of my knowledge, no typescript was prepared.

55. The Liberators. With Portraits by F. J. Kormis. Hodder & Stoughton, 1942. Light grey linen, lettered in black down the spine, edges cut, in black designed dust-jacket (2/6 net). 56. Another copy of the First Edition; this was the gift of Mrs. Guedalla, whose remarks implied that it was unique. In place of the normal title-page is a special one reading on recto~"Nellie Guedalla/With Some Assistance from/Philip Guedalla/The Liberators." The lettering on verso of the leaf is in 3 lines, exactly as in normal copies. I gathered the whole matter was in the nature of a domestic joke and that the copy appeared at Mrs. Guedalla's breakfast table on the morning of publication. 57. The Two Marshals: Bazaine, Petain. Hodder & Stoughton, 1943. Green cloth, uniform format with Mr. Churchill (1941), 6 plates and map end-papers, cut edges. 58. Middle East, 1940-1942: A Study in Air Power. Hodder & Stoughton, 1944. Tall 8vo, light blue cloth, gilt spine, 3 portraits, 8 maps and map end-papers. In printed dust-jacket (10/6 net). Manuscripts and

Typescripts

59. Palmerston. [The work published by E. Benn in 1926.] The original MS, written in ink entirely in the author's hand, on 873 quarto sheets of ruled foolscap, mainly on rectos but throughout with profuse corrections and additions in margins and extending on to versos. Bound in 2 volumes in blue buckram (uniform with the range of author's MSS) red titling labels gilt-lettered. Together with the original typescript on 625 similar sheets and similarly bound, making 4 volumes in all. Typescripts are again on rectos only, but the amount of correction and additions in author's hand in ink on margins and extending on to versos is so considerable as to invite re-styling as MS-Second Version. A unique record of a major work. Here, as Lord Elton wrote in DNB after the author's death, "he first displayed his full powers" of historical interpretation. Here was "depth as well as brilliance. Guedalla was now not only entertaining a considerable audience, but making solid contributions to knowledge." The author dedicated the work: "To that unwearied band of workers, copyists, and friendly (but not too friendly) critics, My Wife," and (as might be inferred) she made this typescript.

61. Napoleon and Palestine. [The work published by Allen & Unwin in 1925, with Foreword by Israel Zangwill and Afterword by D, Lloyd George. Guedalla's detailed instructions to printers indicate copy for these is to follow.] Complete original MS in ink in author's hand on 32 quarto sheets of ruled foolscap, suitably padded with about 25 blanks and bound uniformly with the rest of the MSS. There are some additions and corrections, but this is a reasonably straightforward text, and I have no knowledge of a typescript having been prepared. 62. Mr. Churchill: A Portrait. [The work published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1941.] Original typescript on 335 quarto sheets, uniformly bound in blue buckram with the rest of the MSS &c. Most pages have some corrections in the author's hand, and a fair number have considerable additional sentences in margins. I was informed by Mrs. Guedalla many years ago that no MS of this work was extant. 63. James Anthony Froude. Original MS in pencil in author's hand throughout on 25 4to sheets of ruled foolscap, together with the typescript in red and black on 25 similar sheets. Followed by another typescript on 10 folio sheets on rectos and versos, and a second version on 20 similar sheets (on rectos only) of a British Broadcasting Corporation Home Service broadcast, Sunday, 11 January 1942. All these sheets are linen hinged and, owing to the size of the BBC sheets, bound in a taller volume 9" x 13", but in uniform style with the rest of the MSS volumes. The typescript of the essay has about average amount of Guedalla's MS corrections and most of the BBC sheets have deletions and corrections. 64. Middle East, 1940-1942: A Study in Air-Power. [The work published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1944.] Original typescript on 314 sheets, followed by 19 smaller sheets with the typescript of "Aircraft Who's Who"-the last section of the published book. This is the

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author's final work, published only weeks before his death. Some corrections are in his hand and the outer covers are inscribed in ink in his autograph: "Philip Guedalla, 15 Hyde Park St., London, W. 2 and 'The Laundry', Easton Park, Dunmow, Essex." But the bulk of the corrections and additional sentences throughout are in the handwriting of Nellie Guedalla. The volume was never bound, and is preserved in a loose-leaf spring file. No autograph manuscript of the work appears to exist.

Every essay has marginal comments in pencil, presumably by Form Masters; several are dated (in 1907 and 1908) and headed "To the Headmaster, H. C. W." "It is ungrateful to criticise an essay so exceedingly well expressed: I think the Headmaster should have this H. H. H."-this comment on an essay entitled "Greek Ideals." Another on "The Censorship" has the terse comment "Excellent-A real Essay." Others have much more detailed criticism, too long to conveniently transcribe.

65. A Study of Toryism. Original MS written in ink on 33 quarto sheets of ruled foolscap. The section headings are-"Tory Principles under Bolingbroke and the Debacle of 1714," "Hanover and English Policy 1715-1748," and "The Walpole System."

72. A folder of Guedalla's early (and some later) poetical experiments on 31 sheets of very varied papers, 12mo, 8vo and large quarto. A few titles are: "Ballade diplomatique," "Ballad of Great Minds," "Casablanca," "The Moral Bradshaw," "A Song of Resurrection (after Rudyard Kipling)," "The Guest Room," "The East Country." Some are signed in full, others initialled.

66. Lancaster and York: Essays, 1376-1485. [Summer Term 1911.] Original MS in ink on 51 quarto sheets of ruled foolscap, entirely in Guedalla's hand. 67. English History from the Saxon to the Norman Conquest, 409-1088. Original MS in ink on 21 quarto sheets of ruled foolscap, entirely in Guedalla's hand. This is not an original essay, but condensed notes and headings, the first page reading: "from Hodgkin's Political History, Vol. 1. P. G." 68. The G. O. M. By Philip Guedalla. MS on six 4to sheets of ruled foolscap in pencil. This is a review of Lucy Masterman's "Mary Gladstone: Her Diaries & Letters." 69. Tudor Foreign Policy. By P. G. Manuscript in pencil on seven 4to sheets of ruled foolscap. This is not a finished essay but only a synopsis of headings &c. 70. With the Greatest of Ease. By Philip Guedalla. Typescript on 45 quarto sheets of this late work (? unpublished). The Dedication is: "To A Face in a Cab, 13.2.43 and A Figure on a Doorstep, 30.5.43." There are a fair number of corrections and additions in ink throughout, which all appear to be in the handwriting of Nellie Guedalla. 71. A collection of very early Rugby School essays and exercises, 1907 &c. Entirely in Guedalla's handwriting on 144 folio sheets of ruled foolscap, every page with his signature, "P. Guedalla," in top right-hand corner-this is a school requirement, quite superfluous in Guedalla's case as no one at Rugby (or anywhere else!) had a handwriting style quite like his.

73. A blue designed wrapper cover of The his, Saturday, 13 May 1911, headed in Guedalla's handwriting in ink--"Certain People of Importance. P. G." The contents are 46 drawings by him, almost entirely pen and ink and all with lengthy text or comment, much in the manner of Max Beerbohm. Most of the subjects are political or military, and presumably none has so far been reproduced for publication. 74. A collection of essays on 53 quarto sheets of ruled foolscap under various titles~"England & Her Colonies, 1660-1748," "The System of George III, 1760-1783: The Hanoverian Experiment," "The Duke of Monmouth," "Colonial Policy 1763-1776" &c. The collection is stapled together by the author and bears his pencil annotations throughout, which evidence a later re-reading by him. 75. A collection of miscellaneous essays on 66 uniform 4to sheets of ruled foolscap, almost entirely in ink (though a few in pencil), stapled by the author in 3 separate sections. 76. Original typescript on 36 quarto sheet (8 1/2" x 10 1/2") of the Queen Victoria Memorial Prize Essay. Sewn with green silk into grey wrappers with titling label on upper side and inscribed in ink: "P. G., April 1908." Some pages have small corrections in the author's hand in pencil and in ink.

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77. Historical Fiction. By Philip Guedalla. Report of a Lecture delivered in the Court House at J. & E. Bumpus, Ltd. on Thursday, June 7th, 1934 in aid of the Elizabeth Levett Memorial Fund. Typescript on 29 quarto sheets, with considerable corrections and additions in the author's hand throughout in pencil. Stapled into grey wrappers.

83. Frankau, Pamela. Villa Anodyne. John Lane, 1936. Yellow cloth, spine lettered black, top edges stained blue, others cut. Inscribed: "For Nellie and Philip Guedalla, the Riviera novel to end Riviera novels, with love from Pamela Frankau."

78. A heavy old 4to thumb-indexed ledger of ruled foolscap, half-calf bound (7 1/2" x 10"). This has been used by Guedalla as a historical notebook, and bears his Balliol college bookplate. The Title-page in his hand reads~"The Revolution and the Empire: Portraits and Notes. P. G." and it contains some 150-200 engraved portraits, extracted from a great variety of old works, some 40 having the facing page titled and annotated in ink by Guedalla. Association Items Note: The following items are books from Guedalla's library. 79. Bland, Henry Meade. A Day in the Hills: A Poetical Competition of the Edwin Markham Chapter of the English Poetry Society . . . Saratoga, September 18, 1926. Privately printed, 1926. Mauve wrappers, printed by Taylor & Taylor, San Francisco. An anthology of poems with 8 photographic illustrations. Inscribed: "To Mrs. Philip Guedalla, with regards of James D. Phelan, Apl 8, 1927." 80. Jane, Cecil. The Voyages of Christopher Columbus. Now newly translated and edited, with Introduction and Notes by Cecil Jane. Argonaut Press, 1930. 4to, half cream linen, grey buckram sides, uncut. Limited to 1,050 copies on Japon vellum. Guedalla's copy with his signature, "Xmas "40" on end-paper and a half page of his neat pencil annotations at end. 81. Roth, Cecil. A History of the Marranos. Philadelphia: Jewish Publications Society of America, 1932. Red cloth, trimmed edges, illustrations. Inscribed: "Philip Guedalla, in the hope that he is descended from p. 192, but not from p. 189. Cecil Roth 9.1.33." 82. Vaugham, Hilda. A Thing of Nought Lovat Dickson & Thompson, 1934. White boards, black designed, trimmed edges. Inscribed: "To Nellie and Philip Guedalla from the Writer, Hilda Vaughan. Christmas, 1934."

84. Pueyrreddn, Dr. Carlos A. Gran Bretana, leal y tradicional amiga de la Republica Argentina. Buenos Aires, 1940. 16 pages, metal fastened, upper wrapper serves as only title-page. Inscribed: "Para mi amigo Mr. Philip Guedalla, afectiono recuerdo Carlo Pueyrred6n, Buenos Aires, Julio 22/40." 85. Mejia, Miguel Miramon y Tomas. Causa de Fernando Maximiliano . . . . Mexico: Imprenta Literaria, 1868. Original half red leather, gilt, marbled sides. An interesting memento; Guedalla has inscribed it: "Court Martial of an Emperor. By Philip Guedalla. B.B.C. Feb 24/25, 1936," and below this the 21 participants in the Broadcast have appended their signatures. They include Valentine Dyall, Raymond Huntley, Norman Shelley, Neil Munro, Cyril Nash and Baliol Holloway. 86. The Meteor. Edited by Members of Rugby School. Rugby, 1907-8. Small 4to, blue cloth, gilt, No. 492, 16 October 1907 to No. 504, 28 July 1908. At this time "P. Guedalla" was Head of the School and his name figures conspicuously throughout, from his Address of Welcome to H.R.H. Princess Henry of Battenberg on her visit 26 October 1907, to his participation in debate which was "marked by his customary wit, but perhaps lacked any great coherance." This was his set, with his Balliol College bookplate. 87. Squire, J. C. If It had Happened Otherwise: Lapses into Imaginary History. By Winston Churchill [and 10 other names]. Edited by J. C. Squire. Longmans, 1931. Tall 8vo, red cloth, gilt spine, in dust-jacket (21/net). Guedalla's contribution, "If the Moors in Spain had won," occupies the first 19 pages. This was the reviewer's copy for "John Eglinton", and he has inserted the galley of his review, extracted from The Sunday Observer, 15 February 1931. Bought with Magee's miscellaneous books, after his death in Bournemouth.

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1. A Roadside Harp: A Book of Verses. Houghton Mifflin, 1893. Slate grey cloth, spine and upper side silver lettered and designed, top edges silver, others uncut, toned grey end-papers.

8. Hurrell Froude: Memoranda and Comments. Methuen, 1904. Tall 8vo, bright green cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, top edges cut, others uncut, 7 illustrations, publisher's 40 page catalogue at end dated March 1904. This copy belonged to Dr. R. J. Campbell, one time Minister of the City Temple, and has his signature.

2. A Little English Gallery. New York: Harper, 1894. 12mo, dark green cloth, spine and upper side elaborately gilt, only lower edges uncut, frontispiece portrait of author. Inscribed: "For Gladys Hazlitt, from her and her great-grandfather's loving friend, The Author. November 7th, 1894." 3. [Brown, Alice.] Robert Louis Stevenson. A Study by A. B., with a Prelude and a Postlude by L. I. G. Boston: Issued for private distribution, 1895. Pale blue-grey boards, holland spine, titling label on upper side, all edges uncut. Printed on handmade paper and limited to 250 copies. The dedication is to William Ernest Henley, and the authors are designated by their initials only, Miss Guiney's contribution being the poems at beginning and end. 4. Merimee, Prosper. Carmen. Translated from the French by Edmund H. Garrett. With a Memoir of the Author by Louise Imogen Guiney. J. M. Dent, 1896. Pale grey-blue linen, gilt spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut, pp.[119-120] at end blank. The book is printed in Cambridge, U.S.A. The First Edition is presumably the issue with "Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1896" title-page. Sir Newman Flower's copy with his autograph signature. 5. Another copy of this edition, identical with above. 6. Patrins. To which is added. An Inquirendo into the Wit and Other Good Parts of his Late Majesty King Charles the Second. Boston: Copeland & Day, 1897. Green figured cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges uncut. Inserted are 2 reviews, including an unusual one (in verse) by Bliss Carman, to whom the book is dedicated. 7. "England and Yesterday": A Book of Short Poems. Grant Richards, 1898. Smooth olive green buckram, gilt-lettered up spine and on upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. E7, pp.[61-62], is blank save for Chiswick Press imprint centre recto and E8 carries only Grant Richards adverts.

9. Philips, Katherine. "The Matchless Orinda." Selected Poems. Cottingham near Hull: J. R. Tutin, 1904. Tall 8vo, blue ribbed cloth, spine gilt-lettered, all edges uncut, limited to 250 copies. The MS frontispiece and pictorial title-page are printed on a quarter-sheet of plate paper. Though there is no acknowledgement elsewhere, the 4 page "Appreciatory Note" is by L[ouise] I[mogen] Gtuiney]. 10. Stanley, Thomas. Thomas Stanley: His Original Lyrics, Complete, in Their Collated Readings of 1647, 1651, 1657. Edited by L. I. Guiney. Hull: J. R. Tutin, 1907. Smooth dark blue buckram, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait, end-papers of matching colour with the buckram. 11. Another copy, identical with above save colour of buckram, which is light red, and matching end-papers. 12. Blessed Edmund Campion. Macdonald & Evans, 1908. Red cloth, spine and upper side gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. A volume in the St. Nicholas Series, 6 coloured illustrations. 13. Happy Ending: The Collected Lyrics of Louise Imogen Guiney. Houghton Mifflin, 1909. Tall 8vo, yellow boards, matching cloth spine with printed title-label, all edges uncut, frontispiece plate. Edition limited to 550 copies. 14.

Another copy, identical with above.

16. Recusant Poets. With a Selection from their Work. [Vol. 1] Saint Thomas More to Ben Jonson. Sheed & Ward, 1938. Tall 8vo, smooth dark red buckram, gilt spine, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (18s. net). 16. Tenison, E. M. Louise Imogen Guiney: Her Life and Works 1861-1920. Macmillan, 1923. Tall 8vo, light blue cloth, gilt spine, edges cut, 3 illustrations.

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17. The Pembroke Booklets. (First Series) Nos. 3 and 6. Hull: J. R. Tutin, 1906. Uniform light blue wrappers, upper sides lettered in red, all edges uncut. The first of these contains poems of Nicholas Breton, George Wither and William Browne and the second Thomas Lodge, Robert Greene and Samuel Daniel. Each is inscribed by the publisher for Miss Guiney: "L. I. G. from J. R. T."

Elizabeth Gibson, Nora Hopper, James Guthrie, A. Stanley Cooke, Fred G, Bowles and 5 other writers.

Note: Miss Guiney's editions of the poems of James Clarence Mangan and of Lionel Johnson are in the collections of these authors' works. GUTHRIE (James Joshua) 1874-1952 1. The Elf: A little Book. Gravesend, Kent, and Ingrave, Essex: James Guthrie, 1899-1900. There were 4 issues of this little compendium, as follows: [No. 1] The Elf, a little book. Autumn,1899. Published at Peartree Cottage, Ingrave, Essex. Printed in red on rectos of 10 leaves of semi-stiff card, and on verso of last leaf-"The drawings in this book are dedicated to Mary Cree Guthrie." There are 3 illustrations loosely inserted, each inscribed by Guthrie in ink "from No. 1 Elf." Dark slate grey wrappers, upper side designed and lettered in gold and black: certificate of issue inside wrapper-"No. 16 of 20 copies only." No. 2 [this is the only one actually numbered.] The Elf, a little book. Winter, 1899. Published at Peartree Cottage, Ingrave, Essex. Printed in red on rectos of 10 leaves of semi-stiff card. Dark blue wrappers, upper side designed and lettered in black, with certificate of issue printed on verso-"No. 17 of 20 copies." [No. 3] The Elf. A little book, [this lettered in a red rectangular panel.] Spring Number. Published By James Guthrie, At The White Cottage, Shorne, Near Gravesend, Kent. April, 1900. Printed in red on rectos of 10 leaves of semi-stiff card, with Copyright notice on verso of last leaf. Deep cream wrappers, upper side designed and lettered in green, with certificate of issue printed on verso—"No. 17 of 20 copies." [No. 4] Arrangement of title-page exactly follows above, with August in final line replacing April. Printed in red on rectos of 10 leaves of semi-stiff card, with same Copyright notice. Green wrappers, upper side designed and lettered in blue and black, similar certificate of issue of 20 copies on verso, but there is no numbering. Loosely inserted is an Announcements leaf of the Press. No further numbers appear to have been issued. The poems and essays are by

2. Another set of the 4 issues of this magazine, bound in fawn buckram, leather spine titling label. This is the ordinary issue, printed on a normal paper in black ink and with similar coloured wrappers (all left in place). The first is No. 8 of 130 copies but of the succeeding numbers 300 were printed (250 for sale). No. 1 has the same notice about drawings, and the 3 drawings are present, together with a bookplate for Henry Power and 3 further illustrations. No. 2 has bookplates for T. F. G. and Minnie Churchill and 6 illustrations. No. 3 has bookplates of Ophelia Fowler Duhme and Margaret O' Hara and 4 illustrations. No. 4 has a bookplate for M. S. C. and 7 illustrations. None of these appear to have been issued with the very restricted issue of 20 sets. The copy has the fine bookplate of Annesley T. Warre designed by C. Haldane Macfall. 3. An Album of Drawings, By James Guthrie. Published at the White Cottage, Shorne, near Gravesend, Kent, 1900. 4to, 24 leaves, numbered and printed on rectos only save in the case of the last, which carries ornament in centre verso and at foot printer's imprint of W. H. Broome set in 3 lines between rules and dated 1 November 1900. Sewn into green wrappers, upper side lettered and designed in black. Blue semi-stiff Announcements card (small 4to) loosely inserted. 4. Poe, Edgar Allan. Some Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. With Drawings by James Guthrie. Edited, with Prefatory Biographical Note of the Poet by J. C. Wright. Shorne, Kent: Pear Tree Press, 1901. 4to, printed in red and black on rectos of 53 sheets of handmade paper watermarked "J. Batchelor & Son," together with 20 illustrations, of which 5 are on plate paper (one being double-page) and one—a blue toned frontispiece plate, "The Genius of Poe"--on a semi-stiff card. The 5 sheets of Introduction and Guthrie's "A Note on Illustration" are entirely in red and separately paginated 1-4, [5]. The text is paginated 5-49 and is preceded by 3 black printed leaves-half-title, title-page and Contents List. Besides the plates there are some illustrations in the text. Limited to 150 copies. As nothing is sewn, and there is no register, it is difficult to collate, but appears to consist of 73 sheets, of which one is folded.

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5. Waller, Edmund. Songs and Verses, Selected from the Works of Edmund Waller. Decorated by Pickford Waller. South Harting, Sussex: Pear Tree Press, 1902. Square 8vo, grey boards, holland spine, square titling label on upper side, edges uncut. No. 188 of 300 copies, printed under the supervision of James Guthrie.

11. Divine Discontent. B. T. Batsford [1913]. A volume of the publisher's Fellowship Books. Imprint on verso of last leaf, p.[62}. Printed at the Ballantyne Press, London, 1913. Dark blue cloth, gilt extra, t.e.g., blue silk marker, in printed dust-jacket (Price 21- net). As this series was progressively bound-up and issued through World War I, the covers became plainer (more blind-stamping) top edges were left plain, the silk marker omitted &c. The price printed on the dust-jacket also was increased. The present copy is of the earliest issue.

6. The Elf: A Sequence of the Seasons. By James J. Guthrie. Imprinted by W. H. Broome at the Old Bourne Press, 1902 [to 1904]. 4 numbers issued-Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter. Title-page to the last reads, "Winter Number and last of the Second Set," which seems to be the first time this has been distinguished from the 1900 publication. Uniform sized pale blue boards, with variant designs and lettering in blue, green and red, holland spines, uncut edges; only the Autumn number has a titling label. End-papers are of same design but in differing colours. Each volume is No. 129 of only 250 printed. 7. Dryden, John. Alexis: A Pastoral of Virgil. Translated by John Dryden. South Harting: Printed for the Harting Guild, 1904. 4to, 8 1/2" x 11", buff coloured holland, gilt-lettered in 2 lines on upper side, edges uncut. Printed in green and black by James Guthrie on the Pear Tree Press at Harting, finished 30 November 1904 (so reads the colophon). 8. The Elf: A Magazine of Drawing and Writing. By James Guthrie. A 4to volume paginated from 27 to 82, the whole preceded and followed by a blank quarter-sheet folded to form the end-papers. No publisher or date stated. The brown wrappers are folded over, upper side lettered and designed in black, which serves as the only title-page. There are 16 full page illustrations, besides others in the text, one of which is a photograph of The Press-Room at Harting. 9. A Summer Posy of Verses for Children. By James Guthrie. Harting: Pear Tress Press, 1905. 12mo, 4 1/4" x 5 1/2", smooth white boards designed in green and red, the book printed in green and black. Dedicated to Stuart and Robin [Guthrie]. 10. Six Poems. By James Guthrie. For Private Circulation, 1910. 12 pages, issued sewn and without wrappers. Printed at the Ballantyne Press.

12. My House in the World. With 10 Drawings by the Author. Heath Cranton [1919]. Light blue boards, half-holland, spine titling label printed in red, only lower edges uncut. Inscribed: "To W. J. Ibbett, from his friend James Guthrie, October 1923." At about this time Guthrie commenced to print small poetical items by Ibbett at his hand press. Ibbett commenced to annotate this gift copy in his neat script in ink in margins, but after p. 35 appears to have abandoned it! 13. Guthrie, Stuart. A Little Anthology of Hitherto Uncollected Poems by Modern Writers. Edited, Printed by Hand and Published by Stuart Guthrie. Flansham, Bogner, Sussex: Pear Tree Press, 1922. Small 4to, blue boards, half-holland, titling label on upper side. Stuart Guthrie assisted his father in the operation of this Press; the certificate is in his handwriting below colophon on p. 24~"This is copy No. 23." The edition was limited to 80 copies. 14. A Child's Good Day. By James Guthrie. [Flansham: Pear Tree Press, 1924]. Tall 8vo, light brown wrappers with titling label on upper side, edges uncut. No. 2 of 100 copies signed by James Guthrie. The collation is 14 leaves, of which 11 are printed in 3 colours-green, blue and gold, and 3 are blanks. In the Spring 1927 Circular of the Press it is noted that this poem was first printed in 1908 and the present issue, "improved . . . with some designs in colour," was sold at one guinea. 15. A Circular of Books Finished and in the Making at the Pear Tree Press. With a Note on the Scope of his Work there. Flansham, Bognor, Sussex: Pear Tree Press, 1927. Eight pages, folded but not sewn.

329 GUTHRIE (James Joshua) 1874-1952 16. Last Bookplates. Being a Collection of [32] Designs by James Guthrie. Flansham: Pear Tree Press, 1929. Black boards, half-holland, large titling label in blue on upper side, edges uncut. No. 5 of only 90 copies printed, signed by the artist-printer; printing is in multiple colours and includes the bookplates of Walter de la Mare, Dard Hunter, Pickford Waller, Ruth and Bernard Rackham et al. 17. In Memory of Edward Thomas. By James Guthrie. Flansham: Pear Tree Press [1937]. Imperial 8vo (8" x 11 1/2"), red cloth, gilt, uncut, in pictorial dust-jacket (Price £1.1.0 net). No. 9 of only 250 printed. 18. ALS, one page, 8vo on Pear Tree Press, Flansham notepaper to A. Edward Newton, dated 26 November 1924. The letter was inserted in the copy of A Child's Good Day: "Here's a little book just being got out in time for Christmas" &c. It appears from the context that the American collector subscribed to all James Guthrie's printing. Note: James Guthrie contributed 6 poems to the Cuala Press Broadsides; these appeared in the numbers for October 1908, February, May, August 1909, October 1911 and February 1914. See the J. B. Yeats collection. Other examples of James Guthrie's work are located in the Gordon Bottomley, Edward Thomas and W. J. Ibbett collections. GUTHRIE (Thomas Anstey, pseud. F. Anstey) 1856-1934 1. Vice Versa, or, A Lesson to Fathers. New and Revised Edition. Smith Elder, 1883. Red cloth with ornamental black bands, spine gilt-lettered, upper side lettered in black, edges cut. BB 2-4 are 3 leaves carrying adverts only. The First Edition of this, the author's first work, had appeared in the previous year (1882). 2. The Black Poodle and Other Tales. Longmans Green, 1884. Green cloth, black and gilt designed, spine gilt-lettered, green floral-designed end-papers, frontispiece and illustrations in the text, S8 at end is blank. From the W. S. Blunt sale at Crabbet Park, November 1959, with bookplate of Ralph, Earl of Lovelace and Baron Wentworth.

GUTHRIE (Thomas Anstey, pseud. F. Anstey) 1856-1934 3. The Tinted Venus: A Farcical Romance. Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith, 1885. Volume 6 in Arrowsmith's Bristol Library; red cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side black lettered, cut edges, cream end-papers. Has the appearance of a First Edition, but the series adverts at end, listing up to No. 6 of the series, describe it in its "20th thousand." 4. A Fallen Idol. Smith Elder, 1886. Ochre coloured cloth, spine gilt-lettered, all edges uncut, Y8 at end carries adverts only. 5. Burglar Bill and Other Pieces. . . . Reprinted, with some alternation and revision, from Punch. Bradbury Agnew [1888]. Cream wrappers pictorially designed, bound contemporarily in three-quarter brown calf, marbled sides and end-papers, t.e.g., others light trimmed. G7 and G8 at end carry adverts only. Bookplate of Charles Plumptre Johnson. 6. The Talking Horse and Other Tales. Smith Elder, 1892. Half blue ribbed cloth, smooth light brown sides, gilt and blue lettering, edges uncut. The 4 leaves of adverts following X8 at end are signed 'Y'. 7. Mr. Punch's Model Music-Hall Songs and Dreams. Collected, Improved and Re-arranged from Punch. Bradbury, Agnew, 1892. Half dark blue cloth, light brown sides, gilt and black lettered, edges trimmed, illustrated in text throughout. 8. The Travelling Companions. A Story in Scenes. [Reprinted from Punch.] With 26 Illustrations by J. Bernard Partridge. Longmans Green, 1892. 4to, half dark red cloth, pink cloth sides, dark reddish end-papers, edges trimmed. Inscribed on half-title: "To Mrs. Panton from her very sincere Friend, the author, June: 1892." It was to this lady that, in 1886, the author had dedicated A Fallen Idol. 9. Another fine copy, identical with above, save inscription. 10. Voces Populi. [Reprinted from Punch.] Second Series. With 25 Illustrations by J. Bernard Partridge. Longmans Green, 1892. 4to (same size as The Travelling Companions'), half cream linen, light blue patterned board sides, gilt-lettered and designed, edges cut, publisher's grey "Swan" end-papers. The first series of Voces Populi had appeared in 1890.

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GUTHRIE (Thomas Anstey, pseud. F. Anstey) 1856-1934 11. Mr. Punch's Pocket Ibsen: A Collection of some of the Master's Best-known Dramas. With Illustrations by Bernard Partridge. Heinemann, 1893. Dark green cloth, spine and upper side lettered in lighter green, all edges uncut. Ol and O2 at end follow N8 and carry publisher's adverts only and are followed by 16 page catalogue dated March 1893. 12. The Man from Blankley's and Other Sketches. [Reprinted from Punch}. With 25 Illustrations by J. Bernard Partridge. Longmans Green, 1893. 4to, similar binding to Voces Populi (1892), and same end-papers. Inscribed on title-page: "To Mrs. Panton with kindest regards from the Author, Oct: 1893." 13. Another fine copy of the First Edition, with bookplate of George Kitchin. 14. Under the Rose: A Story in Scenes. Reprinted from Punch. With 15 Illustrations by J. Bernard Partridge. Bradbury Agnew [1894]. Light green ribbed cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others trimmed, dark green end-papers. From the W. S. Blunt sale at Crabbet Park, with bookplate of Ralph, 2nd Earl of Lovelace, Baron Wentworth. 15. Lyre and Lancet: A Story in Scenes. Smith Elder, 1895. Light blue-green ribbed cloth, all edges cut. A volume of the Novel Series-so lettered on upper side and with a leaf of adverts of this series inserted following p. 256. The illustrations are by J. Bernard Partridge, though there is no statement or list. 16. The Statement of Stella Maberly. 2nd ed. T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. Light blue buckram, spine gilt-lettered, upper side lettered in black, all edges uncut, frontispiece by Maurice Greiffenhagen. The title-page is a cancel leaf and has centre verso-"Note-This book was anonymous on its first appearance." This and the fact that the first was bound in brown buckram, appear to be the sole difference between the two. 17. The Brass Bottle. Smith Elder, 1900. Light green cloth, lettered in maroon on spine and upper side, all edges uncut, frontispiece plate by H. R. Miller. Al is blank before half-title and 4 leaves of publisher's adverts following X4 at end are signed 'Y1.

GUTHRIE (Thomas Anstey, pseud. F. Anstey) 1856-1934 18. A Bayard from Bengal. . . . The Whole Edited and Revised by F. Anstey. Methuen, 1902. Sage green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side lettered in white with pictorial illustration in panel, only lower edges uncut. Al is blank before half-title (and not reckoned in pagination), K6 at end is blank save for printer's imprint set in 3 lines centre recto, followed by publisher's 40 page catalogue dated August 1902. Reprinted from Punch, with 8 illustrations by Bernard Partridge. Inscribed in mauve ink on p. 1: "To Henry Eve from his old friend Henry W. Lucy, 8ix:02." 19. The Brass Bottle: A Farcical Fantastic Play in Four Acts. Heinemann, 1911. Sage green cloth, lettered and designed black, all edges cut. Al is blank before half-title. 20. In Brief Authority. Smith Elder, 1915. Light blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side lettered in 3 lines in black, edges cut. At end 2C8, 2D1 and 2D2 carry publisher's adverts only. Inscribed on original starred "blank before half-title: "To M. R. James from Anstey Guthrie, 25 Sept 1915." 21. The Man from Blankley's (A Comedy of the Early Nineties). Hodder & Stoughton [1927], Green cloth, spine black lettered, edges cut. 22. Four Moliere Comedies, Freely Adapted for the English Stage. Hodder & Stoughton, 1931. Green cloth, spine black lettered, edges cut. 23. Humour and Fantasy. [Followed by 6 titles of works reprinted.] John Murray, 1931. Light red cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side lettered in 3 lines in black, cut edges (top edges stained to match cloth). This first omnibus edition (1,184 pages) has an Introduction by the author dated 1931. 24. The Young Reciter and Model Music-Hail. New and revised edition with an Introduction by C. L. Graves. Methuen, 1931. Light blue cloth, spine black lettered, cut edges, pp.[307-308] at end blank. 25. A Long Retrospect. Oxford University Press, 1936. Tall 8vo, light brown cloth, spine gilt-lettered, edges cut (top edges stained to match cloth), 10 illustrations.

331 GUTHRIE (Thomas Anstey, pseud. F. Anstey) 1856-1934 26. ALS on his 24 Holland Park Road notepaper dated 22 December 1926 to "Dear Mrs. Holman Hunt" and signed "yours most sincerely Anstey Guthrie." GWYNN (Stephen Lucius) 1864-1950 1. De Musset, Alfred. Comedies. Translated and Edited, with an Introduction, by S. L. Gwynn. Walter Scott [1890]. Smooth red cloth, spine gilt, upper side with blind-stamped oblong design, top and fore-edges cut, lower edges lightly trimmed. A volume of the Scott Library, No. 63 in publisher's list at end, which continues up to No. 121-Froude's Nemesis of Faith. Probably not the earliest state of Gwynn's book. 2. Memorials of an Eighteenth Century Painter (James Northcote). T. Fisher Unwin, 1898. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, spine and upper side elaborately gilt, t.e.g., others cut. Frontispiece and 4 plates besides title-page illustration; 4 leaves at end of "Books for Recreation and Study" are printed on text-paper though they are not part of final gathering of 8 leaves. They could have been printed with the preliminaries, which consist of 4 leaves only. 3. Highways and Byways in Donegal and Antrim. With Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Macmillan, 1899. Green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. A volume, probably the first, of the publisher's long-lived Highways & Byways Series. Lady Wood's copy with her bookplate; from the Hengrave Hall, Bury St. Edmonds sale, September 1952. 4. Tennyson: A Critical Study. Blackie & Son, 1899. Red cloth, spine gilt, upper side black lettered and designed, edges cut. Al before half-title is a series adverts leaf listing 13 titles in the Victorian Era Series, with 4 more forthcoming titles. This leaf is numbered 2 at top verso. Title-page is dated. Preface p.[vii] is not numbered, nor is Contents leaf [p. ix]. The first leaf of text also is not numbered. 5. Tennyson: A Critical Study. Blackie & Son, n.d. Similar red cloth: this may be the normal state. The adverts leaf is entirely reset with different text and numbered 1-2 at foot; 16 volumes of the Victorian Era Series are now listed-2 of the previously forthcoming volumes being omitted, and one unannounced one (James Oliphant's Victorian Novelists) being published. Title-page is undated, but pages vii and ix are now paginated, as also

GWYNN (Stephen Lucius) 1864-1950 is first leaf of text. These improvements having been made, it would appear that this undated issue came after the dated one, which might be a proof state. 6. Thackeray, W. M. Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero. With an Introduction by Stephen Gwynn. 3 vols. Methuen, 1899. Bright red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece plate to each volume. From the Prospectus leaves at end, these appear to be the first volumes to be issued in the publisher's popular series, the Little Library. 7. The Decay of Sensibility and Other Essays and Sketches. John Lane, 1900. Beige coloured holland, spine and upper side lettered and designed in dark green, top edges stained dark green, others uncut. 8. The Queen's Chronicler and Other Poems. John Lane, 1901. Light green cloth, spine lettered and upper side designed in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. 9. The Old Knowledge. Macmillan, 1901. Bright green cloth, designed in darker green, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others cut. Al before half-title carries adverts of books "By the same author" on verso; pp.[303-304] at end carry only publisher's adverts, followed by 8 leaves of their catalogue on toned paper headed Autumn Season 1901 and dated at end 10 October 1901. 10. Thackeray, W. M. Christmas Books. Introduction by Stephen Gwynn. Methuen, 1903. Red cloth, gilt, uniform format with Vanity Fair. 11. Thackeray, W. M. The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. Notes and Introduction by Stephen Gwynn. Methuen [1903]. Uniform red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. 12. A Lay of Ossian and Patrick, with Other Irish Verses. Dublin: Hodges Figgis; London: Macmillan [1903]. Small 8vo, grey-blue wrappers, upper side lettered in black, edges cut. 13. Fishing Holidays. Macmillan, 1904. Green cloth, gilt, all edges uncut. 14. Thomas Moore. Macmillan, 1905. Bright red cloth, flat spine, t.e.g., others cut. A volume of the publisher's English Men of Letters (New Series). Two leaves of series adverts at end are dated 10 November 1904. These are the earliest so far noted; many copies examined have leaves dated September 1905.

332 GWYNN (Stephen Lucius) 1864-1950 15. The Fair Hills of Ireland. With Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Dublin: Maunsel; London: Macmillan, 1906. Light green cloth, spine and upper side lettered and designed in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, 35 plates of which 4 are in colours. 16. The Glade in the Forest, and Other Stories. Dublin: Maunsel, 1907. Red cloth, spine and upper side lettered and designed in black, edges trimmed. 17. O'Brien, Charlotte Grace. Selections from Her Writings and Correspondence. With a Memoir by Stephen Gwynn. Dublin: Maunsel, 1909. Green cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, edges cut, 8 illustrations. Gwynn's contribution occupies 135 pages. 18.

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19. Robert Emmet: A Historical Romance. Macmillan, 1909. Green cloth with blind-stamped upper cover design, spine and upper cover gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others cut. Al is blank before half-title; 4 leaves of publisher's adverts at end dated Autumn 1909. 20. Beautiful Ireland Series. Described by Stephen Gwynn, Pictured by Alexander Williams. 4 vols. Blackie & Son, 1911-1912. Large square 8vo, (6 1/2" x 9"), light greenish boards, lettered in green, with coloured pictorial upper cover designs in broad green frames, each volume with 12 coloured plates, all edges cut. Titles as listed: Leinster (1911); Ulster (1911); Munster (1912); Connaught (1912). 21. The Case for Home Rule. Stated by Stephen Gwynn. With a Preface by John E. Hedmond. With a New Introduction on the Home Rule Bill. 3rd ed. Dublin & London: Maunsel, 1912. Tall 8vo, green wrappers lettered in red and black, edges cut. The 2 leaves of adverts at end following p. 160 are printed on text-paper. The First Edition had been issued in August 1911. 22. The Famous Cities of Ireland. With Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Dublin & London: Maunsel; New York: Macmillan Co., 1915. A companion volume to The Fair Hills of Ireland, issued in identical format. Publisher's 16 page catalogue at end. 23. Battle Songs for the Irish Brigades. Collected by Stephen Gwynn and T. M. Kettle. Dublin & London: Maunsel, 1915. 32 pages, sewn into light green wrappers, upper side lettered in darker green, only lower edges

GWYNN (Stephen Lucius) 1864-1950 uncut. There is a 4 page Preface; the poems are by Conan Doyle, Emily Lawless, Thomas Davis and the 2 editors. 24. The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke. Begun by Stephen Gwynn, M.P. Completed and Edited by Gertrude M. Tuckwell. 2 vols. John Murray, 1917. Tall 8vo, green cloth, gilt, only lower edges uncut, in printed dust-jackets (36/- net). This copy is from the library of Sir Harry K. Hudson, Parliamentary private secretary to Sir Charles Dilke, and has his autograph dated 20 September 1917. It was a gift from the editor, Miss Gertrude Tuckwell, and has her card inserted. Also inserted is a 4 page typed letter to Hudson from Spenser Wilkinson on All Souls, Oxford notepaper dated 20 June 1933. It deals with the book-"I wrote some chapters of her Life of Dilke"-and concludes: "I should very much like to see you, and have a good talk about Dilke and the old times. Yours ever Spenser Wilkinson" [autograph]. The names of Wilkinson and Hudson occur frequently throughout the volumes. 25. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Nisbet, 1917. Blue cloth, gilt-lettered up spine, upper side blind-stamped and lettered, edges cut, frontispiece portrait. A volume of the Writers of the Day series. 26. For Second Reading: Attempts to Please. Dublin & London: Maunsel, 1918. Dark green boards, half-holland, printed spine label, top edges cut, others uncut, pp.[171-172] at end are blank. 27. Irish Books and Irish People. Dublin: Talbot Press; London: T. Fisher Unwin [1919]. Dark green cloth, title labels on spine and upper side, all edges trimmed. 28. Garden Wisdom, or, Front One Generation to Another. Dublin: Talbot Press; London: Fisher Unwin, 1921. Dark green cloth, lettered spine in gilt, upper side in black, top edges stained to match covers, other edges trimmed, frontispiece plate. 29. Collected Poems. Blackwood, 1923. Dark blue linen, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others cut, G8 is blank at end. 30. The History of Ireland. London: Macmillan; Dublin: Talbot Press, 1923. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt spine, edges cut, pp.[551-552] blank at end.

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GWYNN (Stephen Lucius) 1864-1950 31. Ireland. With an Introduction by the Rt. Hon. H. A. L. Fisher. E. Benn, 1924. Tall 8vo, green cloth, gilt spine, upper side blind-stamped double rule frame and central circular ornament, only lower edges uncut. A volume of the Modern World series. 32. Experiences of a Literary Man. Thornton Butterworth, 1926. Tall 8vo, purplish cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges cut, others uncut, 8 portraits, Al before half-title carries adverts of "Works By the Same Author" on verso, with recto blank. 33. Curzon of Kedleston (Marquess), K.G. The Personal History of Walmer Castle and Its Lords Warden. Edited by Stephen Gwynn. Macmillan, 1927. Tall 8vo, dark red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, 43 plates, pp.[231-232] blank at end. 34. Essays of To-Day and Yesterday: Stephen Gwynn. G. G. Harrap, 1929. Patterned reddish brown cloth, black lettered down spine and in 4 lines on upper side, top edges cut, others uncut. Includes 10 selected essays and an introductory note by "F. H. P." This is the superior issue of the series, which was also published in black paper wrappers. 35. Rice, Sir Cecil Spring. The Letters and Friendships: A Record. Edited by Stephen Gwynn. 2 vols. Constable, 1929. Tall 8vo, dark red cloth, gilt spines, t.e.g., others uncut, 8 plates. 36. Saints and Scholars. Thornton Butterworth, 1929. Pale orange cloth, spine lettered in black, upper side in blind, edges cut. Inscribed on half-title: "To Sir F. Macmillan from an old and attached author of the house. S. G."

GWYNN (Stephen Lucius) 1864-1950 40. Burgundy. Constable, 1934. Dark red cloth, gilt spine, top edges stained to match cloth, others cut, in pictorial dust-jacket (5/net). A volume of Constable's Wine Library, edited by Andre L. Simon. 41. Claude Monet and His Garden: The Story of an Artist's Paradise. Country Life Ltd., 1934. Tall 8vo, bright yellow cloth, spine and upper side lettered in green, top edges stained, others cut, 24 plates. The first leaf is blank before half-title and L6 at end blank save for printer's imprint in 3 lines on recto at foot. 42. Mungo Park and the Quest of the Niger. John Lane, 1934. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, also upper side designed with ship in dark blue, between blind ornamental borders top and bottom, top edges stained to match, others uncut, plates and maps. A volume of the publisher's Golden Hind Series. 43. Oliver, F. S. The Anvil of War: Letters between F. S. Oliver and His Brother, 1914-1918. Edited by Stephen Gwynn. Macmillan, 1936. Tall 8vo, smooth light blue buckram, yellow spine titling label, edges cut, 7 illustrations. In printed dust-jacket (12s. 6d. net). 44. River to River: A Fisherman's Pilgrimage. Illustrated by Roy Beddington. Country Life, 1937. Large square 8vo (7" x 10"), dark green cloth, spine and upper side lettered in lighter green, edges cut, pp.[211-212] blank at end. 45. Fond Opinions. Frederick Muller, 1938. Green cloth, spine gilt, edges cut, K8 is blank at end.

37. The Life of Mary Kingsley. Macmillan, 1923. Tall 8vo, light blue cloth, spine gilt, edges cut, 2 portraits and folding map.

46. Robert Louis Stevenson. Macmillan, 1939. Dark red cloth, spine gilt, top edges stained to match cloth, others uncut, Al is blank before half-title.

38. The Life of Mary Kingsley. 2nd ed. Macmillan, 1933. Smooth green cloth, gilt spine, edges cut. This reprint carries author's letter to Sir James Barrie, dated August 1933, which is in the form of a Dedication. It is also extended by a long Postscript, pp. 264-281.

47. Fairbrother, Sydney. Through an Old Stage Door. With an Appreciation by Sydney Carroll and an Introduction by Stephen Gwynn. Frederick Muller, 1939. Bright blue cloth, spine lettered in 9 lines in cream enamel, edges cut, illustrated. Rear laid-down and free end-papers are used to print the Fairbrother family tree (front end-papers are blank).

39. The Life and Friendships of Dean Swift. Thornton Butterworth, 1933. Tall 8vo, bright blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side lettered blind, edges cut.

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48. Scattering Branches: Tributes to the Memory of W. B. Yeats. Edited by Stephen Gwynn. Macmillan, 1940. Half cream linen, green marbled sides, spine gilt, edges cut, in green printed dust-jacket (8/6 net); 9 essays by friends of W. B. Yeats.

51. Somerville, E. OE., and Ross, Martin. Irish Memories. Longmans, 1917. Tall 8vo, half green cloth, spine titling label. Stephen Gwynn is thanked for the use of letters in the Preface, and he also contributes "A Note" as the second Appendix, pp. 335-336.

49. Memories of Enjoyment. Tralee: The Kerryman, 1946. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, spine lettered upwards in silver, edges cut.

52. O'Byrne, Cathal, and Healy, Cahir. The Lane of the Thrushes: Some Ulster Love Songs. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker, 1905. Stiff mauve wrappers, black lettered and designed. Inscribed: "To Stephen Gwyne [sic] with the best regards of Cahir Healy." Enniskillen, Fermanagh, 1905.

50. Two in a Valley. Illustrated by Boy Beddington. Rich & Cowan [1938]. Uniform format with River to River, issued in the previous year.

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1. Madeline, with Other Poems and Parables. Chapman & Hall, 1871. Bright blue cloth, spine gilt, side blind-stamped, top edges uncut, others only lightly trimmed, light slatey brown end-papers.

6. Maiden Ecstasy. Chatto & Windus, 1880. Large square 8vo, dark blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 8 lines and 7 gilt rules round spine and upper side at top, floral designed green end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn & Co., 8 pages of adverts of the author's other works at end are printed on text-paper, probably with the 4 leaves of preliminaries, and transferred by binder. There is a printed certificate in red and black by the author's friend William Bellows of Gloucester inserted to the effect that the book is one of 62 he purchased at the fourth day's sale of Gosse's library (second portion), Sotheby's 6 December 1928.

2. Parables and Tales. With Illustrations by Arthur Hughes. Chapman & Hall, 1872. Dark green cloth, gilt-lettered up spine and with elaborate gilt design on upper side, all edges gilt. Pp.[99-104] at end carry publisher's adverts only. "Your brother has made me a most beautiful design for a cover to the parables and tales—it is thought to be the finest that has ever been produced." Letter from T. G. Hake to W. M. Rossetti dated from Roehampton, 9 November 1872. 3. Parables and Tales. Elkin Mathews, 1917. Light blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered and designed, t.e.g., others cut. Published 48 years late, this is the second issue of First Edition sheets, which came into the hands of the new publisher at this time. He cancelled pp.[101-104] of the adverts as they were extraneous, preserving only one leaf, pp.[99-100], as it advertises Dr. Hake's Madeline, and then prefixed a newly printed gathering of 8 leaves paginated to 16 to carry a new half-title and title-page and the new Preface by the author's son. It would therefore appear that any rebound copy of Parables and Tales (1872) lacking the 2 final leaves of adverts must be suspect, as having derived from this late source. 4. New Symbols. Chatto & Windus, 1876. Dark green cloth, gilt spine, gilt line border round upper side and blind round lower, dark slate end-papers with binder's ticket of Bone & Son, publisher's 32 page catalogue at end dated October 1875. First leaf is blank before half-title. 5. The Serpent Play: A Divine Pastoral. Chatto & Windus, 1883. Green cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 7 lines, upper side in 2 lines with one 4 1/4" vertical rule, top edges unopened, only lower edges cut, dark brown end-papers, 32 page publisher's catalogue at end dated October 1882 (which advertises present title as "shortly"). Inscribed on half-title: "Emma Devitt from the Author, T. G. H." With the Mark Samuels Lasner bookplate (incorporating a D. G. Rossetti design).

7. Poems. Selected with a Prefatory Note by Alice Meynell and a Portrait by D. G. Rossetti. E. Mathews & J. Lane, 1894. Smooth red buckram, gilt, all edges uncut, limited to 500 copies, publisher's 16 page January 1894 catalogue at end. RADCLYFFE-HALL (Marguerite) 1886-1943 1. 'Twixt Earth and Stars. J. & E. Bumpus, 1906. Small square 8vo, light blue flecked cloth, gilt spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. Printed on paper watermarked "Alliance." 2. Songs of Three Counties and Other Poems. With an Introduction by R. B. Cunninghame-Graham. Chapman & Hall, 1913. Light blue cloth, spine and upper side lettered in darker blue, similar format to the volume of 1906. 3. Adam's Breed. Cassell, 1926. Sage green cloth, lettered spine and upper side in dark green, only lower edges uncut. Cassell's printer's imprint foot of last page with F35.126 below. 4. The Master of the House. J. Cape, 1932. Buff coloured rough linen, spine lettered in red, only lower edges uncut. Al is blank before half-title and pp.[491-496] blanks at end. 5. The Sixth Beatitude. Heinemann, 1936. Mauve blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, all edges cut. Al is blank before half-title, buff toned end-papers.

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1. The Search for Loveliness and Other Verses. By G. Rostrevor Hamilton. John Long, 1910. Small square 8vo, purple cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered and designed, single rule frame in white enamel round upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. First leaf is blank before half-title; pp. 91-96 carry adverts only. Inscribed: "To Sir Matthew Nathan from George R. Hamilton 19/ii/'15." The author has transcribed his poem "Magnitudes," 2 quatrains, below the presentation. This is the First Edition of his first book, dedicated to his parents.

8. Wit's Looking-Glass. French Epigrams, Madrigals &c. of all Periods Chosen and Reflected in English Verse. Heinemann, 1934. Dark green smooth cloth, gilt spine, edges cut. In pink printed dust-jacket (6/- net).

2. Another copy, identical with above save inscription. 3. Stars and Fishes and Other Poems. By George Rostrevor. John Lane, 1917. Pale blue linen, gilt spine and gilt ornament centre of upper side, top edges stained to match cloth, others uncut. Pp.[91-92] blank at end. Inscribed: "A. W. from G. R. H. 'George Rostrevor', with special thanks for much-valued help. Christmas, 1916." 4. Escape and Fantasy: Poems. By George Rostrevor. Heinemann, 1918. Orange and black boards lettered down the spine and on upper side with the same drawing as half-title, top edges cut, others uncut. Inscribed: "To Mrs. Horton from George Hamilton, 17th Nov, 1918." 5. The Soul of Wit: A Choice of English Verse Epigrams. Made by George Rostrevor Hamilton. Heinemann, 1924. Light brown smooth cloth, spine gilt-lettered, only lower edges uncut. The first leaf before half-title is blank and signed 'a'. 6. Epigrams. Heinemann, 1928. Green cloth, gilt spine, edges cut, pp.[49-50] blank at end. This collection of translations and echoes is dedicated to J. C. Squire. 7. The Latin Portrait: An Anthology. Made by G. Rostrevor Hamilton. Nonesuch Press, 1929. Fawn smooth bevelled buckram, t.e.g., others uncut, in original marbled board drop-case. There were 1,050 copies for sale in England, but this is a special one. "Number" is crossed through and "Out of Series" written in. This is the Dedication copy of the work and bears autograph inscription: "J. H. Vince with grateful memories from George Rostrevor Hamilton, April 1929."

9. The Greek Portrait: An Anthology of English Verse Translations, with Corresponding Greek Text. Nonesuch Press, 1934. Imperial 8vo, 6 1/2" x 11", cream rough linen, lettered and designed in blue, blue end-papers, t.e.g., others uncut, in blue board slip-case. Illustrations. No. 236 of only 425 copies for England and America. 10. Memoir 1887-1937 and Other Poems. Heinemann, 1938. Tall 8vo, mauve rough linen, gilt-lettered up spine and in 4 lines on upper side, buff toned end-papers, cut edges, in printed dust-jacket (5s. net). Pp.[53-54] blank at end. Inscribed: "Constance Henderson from E. R. Eddison, 28 April 1938." 11. Another copy of first Edition, identical with above, bearing the author's autograph inscription: "E. R. E., affectionately from G. R. H., 10/4/'38." This presentation is, of course, to Eddison. 12. The World to Come. Heinemann, 1939. Green linen, spine gilt-lettered, edges cut. A volume of the publisher's I Believe series, edited by R. Ellis Roberts. 13. Apollyon and Other Poems of 1940. Heinemann, 1941. Smooth black cloth, lettered down the spine and on upper side in red, in printed dust-jacket (3s. 6d. net). 14. The Trumpeter of Saint George. An Engraving by Stephen Gooden, with verses by G. Rostrevor Hamilton. G. G. Harrap, 1941. 16 pages including outer wrapper (no pagination). Printed on rectos and metal fastened. In transparent wrapper (Price one Shilling and Sixpence). 15. Landmarks: A Book of Topographical Verse for England and Wales. Chosen by G. Rostrevor Hamilton and John Arlott. Cambridge University Press, 1943. Dark green cloth, gilt, only lower edges uncut, in pictorial dust wrapper (8/6 net). 16. Death in April and Cambridge University Press, cloth, gilt-lettered up spine, uncut, in printed dust-jacket

Other Poems. 1944. Dark green only lower edges (3s. 6d. net).

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HAMILTON (Sir George Rostrevor) 1888-1967 17. James Hurnard: A Victorian Character. Being Passages from The Setting Sun Selected and Arranged by G. Rostrevor Hamilton. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1946. Dark red buckram, gilt-lettered up spine, all edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (7/6 net). 18. The Russian Sister and Other Poems. Heinemann, 1955. Black linen, gilt-lettered down spine, all edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (12s. 6d. net). HANNAY (James) 1827-1873 1. Poe, Edgar Allan. The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe. With a Notice of his Life and Genius by James Hannay, Esq. With 20 illustrations. Addey, 1853. Green blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine, edges uncut, primrose yellow end-papers with binder's ticket of Bone & Son, 16 page publisher's catalogue at end. This first collected English edition of Poe's poems has a 20 page essay by Hannay dated London, November 1852, and is dedicated to Dante Gabriel Rossetti. It was published in Addey's Illustrated Classics at 3/6d. net (or green morocco gilt at 6s.). 2. Essays from "The Quarterly Review." Hurst & Blackett, 1861. Tall 8vo, contemporary half brown calf, gilt spine with red titling label, marbled sides, end-papers and edges. The volume has a half-title and the final leaf appears to be CC2. Dedicated to Thomas Carlyle. 3. A Brief Memoir of the late Mr. Thackeray. [Reprinted from the Edinburgh Courant.} Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1864. 32 pages, sewn into pale blue glazed wrappers printed in black (Price Sixpence). 4. Characters and Criticisms: A Book of Miscellanies. Edinburgh: Willaim P. Nimmo, 1865. Dark red cloth, spine and upper side gilt, all edges uncut, slate brown end-papers, X3 and X4 at end carry publisher's adverts. 5. A Course of English Literature. Tinsley Bros, 1866. Dark green cloth, spine and upper side gilt, lower side blind-stamped only and without the circular central ornament, all edges uncut, light brown end-papers.

HANNAY (James) 1827-1873 6. Studies on Thackeray. Routledge & Sons [1869]. Small 8vo, bevelled purplish cloth, gilt-lettered and ruled up spine and on upper side, edges cut, pale blue toned end-papers. The preliminaries appear to consist of 3 leaves only; publisher's 16 page catalogue at end appears to be printed on text-paper but by Wyman, not by Ogden-the printer of the book. HARDY (Thomas) 1840-1928 1. How I Built Myself a House. [Contributed anonymously to] Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art No. 64, Saturday, 18 March 1865. A clean copy extracted from the volume, size of page 6 3/4" x 10". The complete part, pp.[161]-176, preceded by title-page for the 1865 volume and Index, pp.[3]-viii. Hardy's article figures in the Index and occupies pp.[161]-164 in the part. 2. Desperate Remedies: A Novel. 3 vols. Tinsley, 1871. Red sand-grain cloth (hinges repaired), spines gilt-lettered, edges uncut. Preserved in a cloth box, spine gilt-lettered. Published anonymously. Never reprinted in this form, of which 500 copies were issued; it was very soon on the "remainder" market, 3 volumes bound as one, in green or maroon cloth. Issued in America by Henry Holt in their Leisure Hour Series in 1874. A new edition was first published in 1889 by Ward and Downey. 3. Desperate Remedies: A Novel. By Thomas Hardy. With Frontispiece by F. Barnard. New Edition. Ward & Downey, 1889. Sage green cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered and with overall design in red, edges uncut, pale grey-blue patterned end-papers. This is the first reprinting and the author contributed a Prefatory Note dated January 1889. 4. A Pair of Blue Eyes. By the Author of Under the Greenwood Tree, Desperate Remedies. From Tinsley's Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly. Vol. 11, August 1872-January 1873; Vol. 12, February-July 1873. 2 vols. Tinsley Brothers, 1872-1873. Contemporary half-calf, red and blue spine titling labels. Hardy's novel was contributed in 11 consecutive monthly instalments, each with a full-page frontispiece illustration by J. A. Pasquier.

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5. Far from the Madding Crowd. [Contributed anonymously to] The Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 29, January to June 1874; Vol. 30, July to December 1874. 2 vols. Smith Elder, 1874. Large 8vo, heavily embossed dark red cloth, spines and upper sides gilt-lettered, edges trimmed. Each of the 12 consecutive monthly instalments has a full-page illustration by Helen Paterson, in the last 2 signed Helen Allingham, the artist having married William Allingham, the Irish poet.

11. Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School. Chatto & Windus, 1878. Bright green cloth, spine gilt and upper side black lettered, top edges uncut, others trimmed, dark blue end-papers. Frontispiece and 14 plates by R. Knight. This novel was never reprinted in its original 2 volume form (1872), but Tinsley reissued it in 1876 from the same plates in a single volume format with these 15 plates by R. Knight. With his business failure in 1878 the stereotype plates passed to Chatto & Windus. However, their edition must have sold but slowly, for the present copy has their 32 page catalogue bound at end dated February 1882.

6. Far from the Madding Crowd. London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900. Dark green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side blind lettered, edges cut. Inscribed on verso of half-title: "Dec: 1902 Yours faithfully Thomas Hardy." 7. The Hand of Ethelberta. [Contributed anonymously to] The Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 32, July-December 1875 to Vol. 33, January-June 1876. 2 vols. Smith Elder, 1875-76. Large 8vo, uniform binding of dark red heavily embossed cloth, gilt. Each of the 11 consecutive monthly instalments has a full-page illustration by George Du Maurier. 8. The Hand of Ethelberta: A Comedy in Chapters. By Thomas Hardy. With 11 Illustrations. 2 vols. Smith Elder, 1876. Tall 8vo, reddish brown cloth, gilt, edges uncut, the last leaf in both carrying adverts only. This is perhaps a sophisticated set, having been re-cased and repaired, but with original slate brown end-papers in place. The volumes are of the same ownership, with same signature on each half-title. In volume 1 B4 is unsigned and Fl (p. 65) is signed Vol. 1 . . . F; there are no starred leaves. 9. The Hand of Ethelberta. New Edition with Six Illustrations. Smith Elder, 1877. Bright green cloth, spine gilt and upper side black lettered, edges uncut, dark slate end-papers. The novel was never reprinted in its original 2 volume formj the present is the Second Edition, of which 1,000 copies were printed in the next year. Fine copies (such as this) are uncommon, and more than 500 copies were remaindered 5 years later to Sampson Low, who issued them with their title-page inserted. 10. Far from the Madding Crowd. New Edition with Six Illustrations. Smith Elder, 1877. This novel did pass into a Second Edition in the original 2 volume format in 1874; but the present is the first one volume edition, and issued in uniform format with The Hand of Ethelberta.

12. The Trumpet-Major. New York: Henry Holt, 1880. The Leisure Hour Series, pale orange cloth, gilt and black lettered and designed, adverts-printed end-papers in red, trimmed edges. This novel was first published in 3 volumes by Smith Elder in 1880 and the present is the first American edition, styled Author's Edition on verso of title-page and issued later in the same year. 13. The Trumpet-Major: A Tale. Cheap Edition. Sampson Low, 1881. This novel passed immediately from Smith Elder to Sampson Low who directly issued this Cheap Edition-so styled on title-page. The present copy is in the original bevelled bright red cloth, spine and upper side elaborately gilt and black lettered and designed, dark slate end-papers. But, again, the edition can only have sold slowly, for at the end is bound in their 32 page catalogue dated October 1886. 14. A Laodicean, or, The Castle of the De Stancys: A Story of To-Day. 3 vols. Sampson Low, 1881. Slate grey cloth, spines gilt-lettered, top edges uncut, others trimmed. The third volume lacks the half-title page and no catalogue has been bound at end. 15. Two on a Tower: A Romance. 2nd ed. 3 vols. Sampson Low, 1883. This second revised impression of the First Edition, styled on title-pages "Second Edition," was issued in the same green cloth binding as First; but the present is a variant binding, recorded by Dr. Purdy (Bibliography of Hardy, 1954, p. 45). No catalogue bound in. 16. The Woodlanders. 3 vols. Macmillan, 1887. Green cloth, gilt spines, upper and lower sides black and blind-stamped (respectively) with 2 rule border and inner frame with rounded corners. Dark slate end-papers, pp.[303-304] at end carry publisher's adverts. This is the first state and the cloth is vertically fine-ribbed. Later bound copies have

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HARDY (Thomas) 1840-1928 sides blocked with single rule borders, and the inner frame with square corners. Such copies also lack the adverts leaf at end of volume 1. 17. Wessex Tales: Strange, Lively, and Commonplace. 2 vols. Macmillan, 1888. A rebound set of First Edition, half green calf, green linen sides, marbled end-papers, t.e.g., others uncut. Both half-titles are present. 18. A Group of Noble Dames. Osgood Mcllvaine, 1891. Light greyish brown cloth, gilt, spine lettered in brown, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed. This is the first state; later bound copies are designed and ruled in brown matching lettering. The Esher copy with Brett bookplate, preserved in a half purple calf fleece-lined book-box. 19. Tess of the D1 Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented. 3 vols. Osgood Mcllvaine, 1891. Smooth tan cloth, gilt-lettered and designed, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed. As in all copies of the First Edition, "load" on p. 198 of volume 3 is misprinted "road." Preserved in a linen box-case. 20. Tess of the D' Urbervilles. Osgood Mcllvaine, 1892. This is the revised second impression (though nowhere so stated) in which the dates in each volume are changed to 1892. Binding is identical with that of the First Edition. 21. Archer, William, ed. Alan's Wife: A Dramatic Study in Three Scenes. With an Introduction by William Archer. Henry, 1893. Greenish brown cloth, spine and upper side gilt lettered, all edges uncut. This book is an interesting appendix to Tess. On p.[35] is printed a letter from Thomas Hardy to the Editor of The Westminister Gazette dated 9 May 1893 and headed "A Question of Priority." 22. Life's Little Ironies. Osgood Macllvaine, 1894. Published on 22 February 1894. Format is almost identical with A Group of Noble Dames, but colour of cloth is sage green and the design in brown. Lettering on spine and upper side is in gilt. The Esher copy, though there is no bookplate, preserved in a half purple calf fleece-lined book-box, uniform with that made for A Group of Noble Dames. Has a tiny inscription on end-paper dated March 1894.

23. Another fine copy of First Edition, inscribed: "A. B. Y., April 1894." 24. Jude the Obscure. Osgood Mcllvaine, 1896. Dark green vertically ribbed cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Volume 8 of the Wessex Novels, uniform with the 7 volumes already published in that series, and issued on 1 November 1895 (post-dated 1896). 25. Jude the Obscure. New York: Harper, 1896. Dark green cloth identical with the London edition, save that it has all edges cut (and top not gilt). This first American edition, issued in mid November 1895, is entirely reset and does not have the Map of Wessex at end, but it has 12 illustrations by W. Hatherell which accompanied the monthly instalments of the story in Harper's Magazine. These illustrations gave the author great satisfaction and the originals of the whole set were framed and hung over the mantel of his study at Max Gate. They now hang in the reporduction of this room in the Museum in Dorchester. 26. Another copy of the First American edition. The Esher copy with Brett bookplate and faithfully inscribed at end of text: "0. S. B., Aug 1926." Preserved in a half purple calf fleece-lined book-box. 27. The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament. Osgood Mcllvaine, 1897. Dark green vertically ribbed cloth, gilt, t.e.g., uncut, in original printed dust-jacket (defective at spine), volume 17 of the Wessex Novels, uniform with the 16 volumes already published in that series. 28.

Wessex Poems and Other Verses.

With 30 Illustrations by the Author. Harper & Brothers, 1898. Dark green vertically ribbed cloth, gilt, t.e.g., uncut, in original printed dust-jacket (Price 6/-). The binding uniform with the 17 volumes of Osgood Mcllvaine's edition of the Wessex Novels (save, of course, having "Harpers" at foot of spine). Published in December 1898 in an edition of 500 copies only, and not published in America until January 1899. 29. Another copy of the First Edition, bound in bevelled smooth cream buckram, gilt. The publishers advertised "A few copies handsomely bound, for presentation purposes, 7s. 6d. each," but it is not known how many may have been so bound. The British Library copy is so bound, and bears accession date 28 December 1898.

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HARDY (Thomas) 1840-1928 30. Poems of the Past and the Present. Harper & Brothers, 1902. Uniform format with the 1898 poems. Of this First Edition 500 copies were issued in November 1901 (post-dated 1902) at 6s. Actually 1,000 were printed, 500 quires being sent to New York where they were issued as the First American edition in late December 1901. 31. Another copy of the First Edition, as issued in the bevelled smooth cream buckram, all edges gilt. The circumstances were precisely as in the case of Wessex Poems, and it is not known how many copies were so bound. Again, the British Library copy is so bound (accession date 10 January 1902). 32. The Dynasts: A Drama of the Napoleonic Wars. . . . Part First. Macmillan, 1904. Green cloth, gilt, all edges uncut. Al is blank before half-title and Q6 at end carries adverts only. Title-page is a cancel leaf pasted on stub and has "Copyright in the United States of America" centre verso. 33. Another copy of the second issue of First Edition (first issue was dated 1903). It must be accepted as in the same state, though it is much more difficult to detect that the title-page is, indeed, a cancel leaf. The main distinction between the 2 copies, apart from slightly variant shades of green cloth, is that the first has Macmillan's imprint at foot of spine in 10 point whilst in the second it is in 12 point. 34. The Dynasts. Part Second. Macmillan, 1906. Green cloth, gilt, edges uncut. Again, the title-page is a cancel leaf of which the verso is blank-as originally printed it was dated 1905 and had "Copyright in the United States of America" on verso. Al is blank before half-title and U8 following p. 302 at end carries "Extracts from Reviews of Part First." This leaf is separately paged [l]-2. Signature on end-paper-"Harold Shaw 1906." 35. The Dynasts. Part Third. Macmillan, 1908. Green cloth, gilt, edges uncut, uniform with Part Second. Al is blank before half-title. This final part exists in one state only; the second impression was dated 1910, and later in that year the whole book was issued in one volume format. 36. The Dynast: An Epic-Drama. Macmillan, 1910. Thick 8vo, dark green cloth, gilt spine, edges uncut, frontispiece portrait, in printed dust-jacket with price at foot of spine (7 Shillings/and Sixpence). No reprint was called for in this format, but original sheets remained unsold for some years and copies

HARDY (Thomas) 1840-1928 are noted with publisher's 32 page catalogue at end dated 20 August 1914. Imprint on spine of these is slightly variant. 37. [Memories of Church Restoration.] The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. The General Meeting of the Society; Twenty-Ninth Annual Report of the Committee; and Paper read by Thomas Hardy, Esq. June 1906. Thackeray Turner, Secretary, [1906]. 100 pages, grey-blue wrappers lettered in black, edges cut, final leaf blank. Text of Hardy's paper occupies pp. 59-80. The George Barr McCutcheon copy, with bookplate, preserved in a half blue morocco drop-case. 38. Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses. Macmillan, 1909. Olive green cloth, gilt, edges uncut. Al blank before half-title; pp.[209] to [212] at end carry publisher's adverts. Inscribed in the author's bold autograph on end-paper: "Florence Henniker. December: 1909." On the half-title Mrs. Henniker has written: "To Mr. Wedmore from F. Henniker. Feb. 1910." On the Contents leaf margin Frederick Wedmore has written in pencil-"Pencil ticks are alone mine. The other marks throughout are Mrs. Henniker's F. W." Mrs. Henniker's markings are considerable (see Dr. Purdy's Bibliography, 1954, p. 141, for the association of poems with her). The considerable importance of this presentation copy was doubtless appreciated by the Wedmore family. It came into my possession after the death of Miss Millicent Wedmore in 1965, together with presentation copies of several of Mrs. Henniker's novels to her. Writing of this book in his essay on Hardy's poetry, collected posthumously into Certain Comments (1925), Wedmore said, "The real Hardy is in that book . . . if I may return again to my own favourite." 39. Another copy of the First Edition; from the library of the Hon. Stephen Coleridge, with his armorial bookplate. 40. A Changed Man and Other Tales. Macmillan, 1913. Dark green vertically ribbed cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others trimmed, in printed dust-jacket. Uniform format with the 17 volumes of Osgood's Wessex Novels, and numbered 18 on half-title, but of course, with "Macmillan & Co." at foot of spine. Frontispiece photogravure plate and map of Wessex at end.

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HARDY (Thomas) 1840-1928 41. Satires of Circumstance: Lyrics and Reveries, with Miscellaneous Pieces. Macmillan, 1914. Olive green cloth, gilt, all edges uncut. Al is blank before half-title and Q4 at end carries adverts only. Augustine Birrell's copy with his autograph signature and date 1914 on half-title. 42. Another copy of the First Edition; from the Library of J. A. Fuller Maitland with his armorial bookplate. 43. The Dynasts. Original programme of the production at the Kingsway Theatre in 1914 by Lillah McCarthy and Harley Granville Barker. Stiff white card covers lettered in red and black; content is one oblong sheet folded to form 6 pages, with Hardy's Prologue printed on the first and his Epilogue printed on the last. According to Dr. Purdy's Bibliography of Hardy, (1954, p. 173), the Prologue (23 lines) was first printed in the programme 25 November 1914, but the Epilogue only added in later (undated) issues, of which the present is an example. 44. Men Who March Away. Song, Words by Thomas Hardy, Music by Edgar A. Lane. Published for the Author by Edwin Ashdown [1914]. Eight pages music size (10" x 13") Dedicated to Mrs. Thomas Hardy. The text of poem is that of its first inclusion in Satires of Circumstance (1914)-"Press we to the field ungrieving" rather than "March we" &c., which was the text in The Times, 9 September 1914, and of the early pamphlet editions. 45. Song of the Soldiers. Reprinted from the Times, 9 September 1914. Hove, 1915. Eight pages sewn into brown semi-stiff wrappers, black lettered on upper side, (see Purdy's Bibliography, p. 158) 46. The Oxen. Published in The Times, 24 December 1914. Reprinted at Hove, 28 December 1915. Four pages, sewn into light grey wrappers lettered on upper side in black, edges cut. "[Private Circulation Only]" appears at foot of upper wrapper. This poem was first collected into Selected Poems (1916). 47. Selected Poems. Macmillan, 1916. A volume in the publisher's Golden Treasury Series, blue cloth, gilt, top edges uncut, other edges lightly trimmed; Thornycroft's bust of the author as vignette on title-page. Published at 2s. 6d. in an edition of 2,000 copies on 3 October 1916. A second impression was out in the same month. The peculiar importance of this selection lies in the fact that S poems

from the unpublished MS of Moments of Vision were first printed here. Publisher's blind "Presentation Copy" stamp on title-page. 48. Another copy of the First Edition. From Augustine Birrell's library with his autograph signature. A number of poems bear his pencilled annotations, usually of a critical and unsympathetic nature. 49. A Call to National Service. An Appeal to America. Cry of the Homeless. [Three Poems] by Thomas Hardy. 4to, 8 pages sewn into light blue antique paper wrappers lettered in black on upper side, all edges uncut. No. 22 of 25 copies printed for Florence Emily Hardy at the Chiswick Press, May 191Y (numbered and initialled by Mrs. Hardy.) This is presumably the copy Mrs. Hardy sent to Clement Shorter: it is preserved in a green cloth case gilt-lettered and with his bookplate. In the pamphlet Shorter has inserted a 2 page letter he had just received from Thomas Hardy. It is on Max Gate notepaper and dated 16 June 1917. A pessimistic war-time letter, but of considerable interest, mentioning Mrs. Snorter's poems and wishing her a return to health [she died 1918] ". . . Mrs. Hardy will answer the rest of your letter" &c. Shorter has also preserved here a programme of the Memorial Service for T. H., Westminster Abbey, 16 January 1928. 50. Moments of Vision, and Miscellaneous Verses. Macmillan, 1917. Olive green cloth, gilt, edges uncut. Published 30 November in an edition of 3,000 copies at 6/-. In the opinion of some critics Hardy's most important volume of verse. The book was never reprinted in separate form. 51.

Another copy, identical with above.

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Another copy, identical with above.

53. Another copy, identical with above save that it was from the library of G. W. Prothers with bookplate, later in the Esher library (Brett bookplate and "O. S. B. January 1918" on last leaf). 54. Another copy, an unopened one in yellow dust-jacket printed in red (6/- net). 55. Wilkinson, Marguerite. New Voices: An Introduction to Contemporary Poetry. New York: Macmillan Co., 1919. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine, top edges cut, others lightly trimmed; there are many photograph portraits but no list of them. This copy came from Max Gate, but there is no presentation inscription to Hardy.

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HARDY (Thomas) 1840-1928 The auctioneers (Hodgsons) have inserted the red printed library label and it is difficult to see why-save for the fact that Hardy has made one correction in his poem, "The Wind Blew Words," on p. 330. 56. Collected Poems. Macmillan, 1919. Thick crown 8vo, dark green cloth, gilt spine, edges uncut, uniform format with the one volume Dynasts of 1910, with half-title reading "The Poetical Works/OfiThomas Hardy/In Two Volumes/Vol. I/Collected Poems/Lyrical, Narratory, and Reflective." Issued 10 October 1919 at 8s. 6d. in an edition of 3,000 copies. This is an early reviewer's copy with publisher's blind stamp on title and signature of John Freeman in ink. Inserted is a postal card from Hardy to "Dear Mr. Freeman" on Max Gate stationery dated Dec. 7:1919, thanking Freeman for his manuscript poem "The Herd": " . . . I ought to have thanked you for it long ago." Freeeman's poem was later included in an album, now in the British Library, of poetic "Tributes" that Siegfried Sasson collected and presented to Hardy on his 80th birthday, an occasion Hardy refers to in Later Years, edited by his wife (see item 73). 67. A Prefatory Note by Thomas Hardy to A Dull Day in London, by Dora Sigerson Shorter [1920]. Limited to 12 copies only, printed on one side of a 4to sheet (8" x 10 1/4") watermarked "Royal Vellum" beneath a crown. Preserved in a linen case and half blue morocco drop book-box. Printed (presumably by Eyre & Spottiswoode) for Clement Shorter before its publication as a preface to the book. 58. Sigerson, Dora. A Dull Day in London and Other Stories. With an Introductory Note by Thomas Hardy. Eveleigh Nash, 1920. Small 8vo, dark green cloth, gilt-lettered spine in 5 lines with small ornament, between rules top and bottom, and in 3 lines on upper side, edges cut, in dust wrapper designed in green (4/6 net). First leaf is blank before half-title and Pp.[127-128] blank at end. Copies of First Edition sheets were soon "remaindered" in a cheaper binding. 59. The Thomas Hardy Calendar. A quotation from the works of Thomas Hardy for every day in the year. Compiled by C. P. Cecil Palmer, 1921. Coloured designed cream wrappers, edges cut, frontispiece portrait. The selection was the work of the publisher.

HARDY (Thomas) 1840-1928 60. Haunting Fingers. Voices from Things Growing: Two Phantasies. Printed at the Chiswick Press, February 1922. 4to (7" x 9") 12 pages, sewn into pale blue antique paper wrappers, upper side lettered in black, all edges uncut. Numbered and initialled in Mrs. Hardy's autograph: "This is No. 21. F. E. H." This copy was sent to Clement Shorter who has preserved it in a brown linen case gilt-lettered, with his bookplate. Into the pamphlet he has tipped a letter from Thomas Hardy to, "Dear Shorter," on Max Gate notepaper dated 26 December 1916. The letter returns a proof, and deals with publication in Collier's Weekly and also mentions Dora Shorter (see "How She Went to Ireland," in Winter Words, 1928, p. 174.) 61. Late Lyrics and Earlier, with Many Other Verses. Macmillan, 1922. Olive green cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, an unopened copy in printed dust-jacket (7/6 net). 62. Head, Ruth. Pages from the Works of Thomas Hardy. Chatto & Windus, 1922. There is a 4 page Preface by Dr. Henry Head, F.R.S. and the copy bears a presentation inscription from him to Dr. Philip Napier Waggett, S.J.: "on getting out of Kings Coll Hospital, June 8, 1922." This book is entitled to a place in the chronology of Hardy First Editions. On. p. 170-171 is printed, "I thought, my Heart," from "Momemts of Vision" with the note: "unpublished third verse, specially communicated for the Selection." 63. The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonnesse. Macmillan, 1923. Square 8vo, smooth green cloth, gilt, all edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (6/- net). Upper side of wrapper has a full page (17 lines) facsimile of the Author's MS Title Page. Published 15 November 1923 and reprinted twice in the same month. In September 1924 a Second Edition appeared (1,000 copies) with a detailed revision of text and the scenes enlarged from 22 to 24, by 50 new lines. 64. The Dynasts. Mamcillan, 1923. Bright blue cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others cut, frontispiece portrait. This is the first thin paper edition, but it is not of textual significance.

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66. Compassion. By Thomas Hardy. The First Edition & Book Collector, 16 June 1924. No. 2 of 50 copies on large paper (5" x 8"). It appears there were also 500 on ordinary paper. Single sheet, folded to form an 8 page booklet, uncut and unopened. First printed in the S.P.C.A. centenary volume, A Century of Work for Animals, 1924 and in The Times on the day of issue, 16 June. First separate edition was that done for Mrs. Hardy, Dorchester 16 June 1924 (25 numbered and initialled copies). Later the First Edition Club printed 50 copies at the Morland Press, numbered by A. J. A. Symons, and others followed. The poem was collected in Human Shows, published November 1925.

The Esher copy, with Brett bookplate, in printed dust-jacket (7/6 net). The leaves of this copy have been opened and the reading duly recorded on last leaf: "O. S. B. November 1928."

66. Human Shows, Far Phantasies. Songs and Trifles. Macmillan, 1925. Olive green cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, an unopened copy. 67. Life and Art. By Thomas Hardy. Essays, Notes and Letters, collected for the first time. With an Introduction by Ernest Brennecke, Jr. New York: Greenberg, 1925. Tall 8vo, rough brown linen, spine titling label, top edges stained, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket ($3.50). Facsimile autograph frontispiece. No. 827 of 2,000 copies printed. 68. Selected Poems. Macmillan, 1927. Blue cloth, gilt, edges cut. Appears to be the seventh printing of the Golden Treasury Series volume, and also the last, as in 1929 it was replaced by an entirely new volume in the same series, Chosen Poems, the preparation of which had been the author's last literary labour. There appears to be no textual variation between the First Edition of 1916 and this 1927 reprint. 69. Yuletide in a Younger World. Drawings by Albert Rutherston. Faber & Gwyer [1927]. Green boards, upper side lettered and designed in black (and serving as the only title-page) 12 pages, including first and last blanks, edges cut. No. 20 of 350 copies printed at the Curwen Press on Zanders's handmade paper. This is No. 1 of the Ariel Poems and advertises the next 7 titles. 5,000 copies of an ordinary paper edition in wrappers were also printed (price one shilling). The poem was collected into Winter Words (1928). The Esher copy, with Brett bookplate. 70. Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres. Macmillan, 1928. Olive green cloth, gilt, edges uncut, Pp.[203-204] at end blank save for printer's imprint in centre recto. Published in October, there was a second impression issued in the same month.

71. Another copy, identical with above save that there is no bookplate or inscription, and the gatherings are unopened throughout. 72. Fifty poems from Winter Words. Small 4to red cloth album, gilt-lettered Newspaper Cuttings. On to the leaves are loosely hinged the cuttings of 50 poems by Hardy extracted from copies of the Daily Telegraph between 19 March and 20 September 1928-the date duly recorded on each. "Hardy's literary executors, Mrs. Hardy and Sydney Cockerell, sold the serial rights in 50 of the poems to the Daily Telegraph, where they appeared at irregular intervals" (Dr. Purdy, Bibliography, 1954). This is a complete file of the original printings. 73. The Early Life of Thomas Hardy, 1840-1891. By Florence Emily Hardy. Macmillan, 1928. The Later Years of Thomas Hardy, 1892-1928. By Florence Emily Hardy. Macmillan, 1930. Two volumes, tall 8vo, uniform olive green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others cut, in printed dust-jackets (each 18s. net), 27 plates in all (including facsimiles). In reality an autobiography, and the writing throughout Hardy's own, despite the fact that Mrs. Hardy's name stands on the title-pages. The 2 volumes were published, in editions of 3,000 copies, in November 1928 and April 1930. "New Editions" of both were issued in 1933 which were actually unaltered sheets with new title-pages and the illustrations omitted save for frontispieces. 74. Chosen Poems. Macmillan, 1929. Red cloth, gilt spine, edges cut. Below the copyright notice on verso of title-page is—"First published as Selected Poems 1916/School Edition 1929." Published in August 1929. "The preparation of a new edition of Selected Poems formed almost the last literary activity of Hardy's life" (Dr. Purdy, Bibliography, 1954, p. 188). Though 8 were discarded from 1916, the selection was enlarged from 120 to 161 poems. 76. Old Mrs. Chundle: A Short Story. New York: Crosby Gaige, 1929. Decorated boards, dark green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, all edges uncut. No. 519 of 742 copies printed by D. B. Updike at The Merrymount Press. The Esher copy with Brett bookplate. The edges are unopened and it is noted that the familiar pencil inscription is not found at end of text.

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76. The Three Wayfarers: A Play in One Act. Illustrated by William H. Cotton. New York: The Fountain Press; London: The Cayme Press, 1930. 4to, 7 1/2 x 10", half red leather, dark blue linen sides, t.e.g., others uncut. No. 384 of 542 copies printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. Originally printed by Harper in New York in 1893 for copyright purposes, only 5 copies can now be traced. The present is a revised version made by the author for an amateur performance in Oxford in 1926.

Osgood. Wessex Poems (1898) and Poems of the Past and the Present (1902) were also issued uniformly, though without volume numbering, and with Harper's name at foot of spine. A complete set, 20 volumes in all.

77. The Three Wayfarers. Dorchester: Henry Ling, 1935. Large square 8vo, 6 3/4" x 8 1/2", semi-stiff white wrappers lettered in black, edges cut. No. 106 of 250 copies printed for Mrs. Hardy. The Esher copy with bookplate, preserved in a linen case, spine gilt-lettered. The reason for this reprinting (save for its few slight textual variants) is not apparent; but it does constitute the first English edition. 210 copies remained at Max Gate at Mrs. Hardy's death. 78. The Dynasts. Macmillan, 1930. Bright blue cloth, gilt spine, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (8/6 net). The usefulness of this reprint of the thin-paper edition of 1923 lies in the fact that it includes, for the first time, "The Queen of Cornwall." 79. Our Exploits at West Poley. With an Introduction by Richard L. Purdy. Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1952. Pale blue linen, gilt-lettered up spine, top edges cut, others uncut, blue patterned end-papers, in printed dust-jacket (25s. net). Of this First Edition in book form, with wood engravings by Lynton Lamb, 1,050 copies were printed; present copy is No. 941. 80. Thomas Hardy's Notebooks, and Some Letters from Julia Augusta Martin. Edited with Notes by Evelyn Hardy. Hogarth Press, 1955. Dark red linen, gilt spine, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (10/6 net). Four plates. Collected Editions 81. The Wessex Novels. First Uniform Complete Edition. 16 vols. Osgood, Mcllvaine, 1895-1896. Volumes 1-16: Tess of the D'Urbervilles to Under the Greenwood Tree. Dark green vertically ribbed cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, etched frontispiece by H. Macbeth-Raeburn and map of Wessex in each volume. The Well Beloved (1897) and A Changed Man (1913) were both issued uniformly, as volumes XVII and XVIII, though the last has Macmillan's name in place of

82. Macmillan's Wessex Edition. 24 vols. Macmillan, 1912-1931. Tall 8vo, maroon cloth, gilt spines, uncut. The collection has only: "Prose," volumes 1, 4-7, 14, 15, and "Verse" 2 and 3, 9 volumes in all. Secondary Material 83. Merry England. No. 1. May 1883. John Sinkins, 1883. Pale green wrappers lettered in brown up spine and on both sides. Upper side is pictorial and contains a Contents list for the number. Wilfrid Meynell obtained contributions from George Saintsbury and R. D. Blackmore for this opening number of his new magazine; also a 12 page essay~"The Rustic of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy"~by C. Kegan Paul. 84. Macdonell, Annie. Thomas Hardy. Hodder & Stoughton, 1894. 16mo, bright red cloth, gilt spine, upper side blind lettered "Contemporary Writers" in an ornamental frame and in gilt in centre "Thomas Hardy." Edges cut, frontispiece portrait and folding map of Wessex. 85. Johnson, Lionel. The Art of Thomas Hardy. With portrait etched by William Strong and Bibliography by John Lane. John Lane, 1894. Smooth green buckram, spine gilt, all edges uncut. Publisher's 16 page catalogue at end dated March 1894. Annie Macdonell's book might well have been the first study of Hardy, which distinction it only missed by a few days. Lionel Johnson's had been delayed from 1892 as the original prospectus inserted here demonstrates: it has a setting of the title-page dated 1892 (before the dissolution of Elkin Mathews's and John Lanes's partnership) and is headed: "Ready in the Autumn 1892." It was not issued until October 1894; but Miss Macdonell's rather more modest venture was delayed until November. 86. Selby, Thomas G. The Theology of Modern Fiction. Being the 26th Fernley Lecture, delivered in Liverpool, July 1896. Charles H. Kelly, 1896. Black morocco-grained cloth, gilt spine, edges cut, dark blue end-papers. The 5 chapters are devoted to separate authors-George Eliot, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas Hardy, George Macdonald and Mark Rutherford. The section on Hardy occupies 42 pages.

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HARDY (Thomas) 1840-1928 87. Sherren, Wilkinson. The Wessex of Romance. Chapman & Hall, 1902. Bright red vertically ribbed cloth, spine and upper side gilt, top edges cut, others uncut, 7 illustrations. 88. Windle, Bertram. C. A. The Wessex of Thomas Hardy. Illustrated by Edmund H. New. John Lane, 1902. Tall 8vo, vertically ribbed green cloth, spine and upper side gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, Pp.[333-336] at end carry publisher's adverts only. Besides the profuse illustrations there are 3 maps. The 1906 edition of this book, which bears no statement of edition, appears to be a reissue of First Edition sheets, considerably cut down to crown 8vo size. The title-page, however, is no longer in green and gold, but reset and printed in black. 89. Harper, Charles G. The Hardy Country: Literary Landmarks of the Wessex Novels. Illustrated by the Author. A. & C. Black, 1904. Dark green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Profuse plates, folding map at end. 90. Moule, H. J., M.A. Dorchester Antiquities. Dorchester: Henry Ling, 1906. Pale green linen, spine blank, upper side lettered in 3 lines in facsimile MS. This reprint is the first to contain "H. J. M. Some Memories and Letters," by Thomas Hardy, occupying Pp.[7]-13. The drawing on p. 76 of 3 fibulae "Taken from the Forehead of a skull exhumed at Max Gate" is by Hardy, but had appeared in the earlier edition of the book (1901) published while Moule still lived. Hardy's monograph is printed in 1906 for the first time. 91. Lea, Hermann. Thomas Hardy's Wessex. Illustrated from [240] photographs by the author. Macmillan, 1913. Tall 8vo, dark red cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others cut. 92. Danielson, Henry. The First Editions of the Writings of Thomas Hardy and Their Values. Allen & Unwin, 1916. Blue cloth lettered in green enamel up spine. 93. Duffin, H. C. Thomas Hardy: A Study of the Wessex Novels. Manchester: University Press; London: Longmans, 1916. Green cloth, gilt spine, edges cut. 94. Cornford, L. Cope. The Designers of Our Buildings. With a Foreword by William J. Locke. Royal Institute of British Architects, 1921. Half grey linen, spine titling label, grey board sides, t.e.g., others uncut, 9 portraits.

HARDY (Thomas) 1840-1928 Inserted is the letter which accompanied the gift of the book from the Royal Institute of British Architects, 19 December 1921. 95. Fowler, J. H. The Wessex Novels of Thomas Hardy. Four Introductions Written for Indian Readers, [no printer or publisher] 1924. 36 pages stapled into light blue wrappers, upper side lettered in black and serving as the only title-page. A composite work with irregular pagination and register. Autograph presentation: "With kindest regards, J. H. F." 96. Brennecke, Ernest Jr. The Life of Thomas Hardy. New York: Greenberg, 1925. Tall 8vo, light blue cloth, spine and upper side lettered in dark red, top edges cut, others uncut, portraits and facsimiles, in printed dust-jacket ($5.00). 97. Maxwell, Donald. The Landscape of Thomas Hardy. Cassell, 1928. Large square 8vo (7" x 10") light brown linen, lettered on panels on spine and upper side, in printed dust-jacket; 12 coloured plates and many line illustrations, pale blue map end-papers. 98. Zachrisson, R. E. Thomas Hardy as Man, Writer, and Philosopher. An Appreciation, with a Swedish Hardy Bibliography. Uppsala, 1928. Tall 8vo, 32 pages, sewn into cream wrappers lettered in black, edges uncut. 99. Pinto, V de S. Wessex: An Annual Record of the Movement for a University of Wessex, based on University College, Southampton. No. 1. 1928. Southampton: University College, 1928. Large square 8vo (7" x 9 1/2"), blue wrappers designed and lettered in black. From Professor Pinto's Foreword this becomes very much a Hardy number. There is a letter of acknowledgement 8 February 1928 from Mrs. Hardy to the University Registrar and a portrait of Thomas Hardy, who had just died. Siegfried Sassoon and many of the other contributors commemorate Hardy's life and death. 100. Newton, A. Edward. Thomas Hardy, Novelist or Poet? Privately printed, 1929. 4to, blue boards, half darker blue linen, 2 titling labels, end-papers to match cloth, portrait and 23 pages of facsimile MSS. Limited to 950 copies in box with titling label as issued.

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101. Tomlinson, H. M. Thomas Hardy. New York: Crosby Gaige, 1929. Orange-red linen, gilt-lettered up spine and on upper side, top edges cut, others uncut, frontispiece portrait. No. 646 of 761 copies, signed by the author.

109. Cox, J. Stevens, ed. The Toucan Press Monographs on the Life, Times and Works of Thomas Hardy. [Various imprints] 1964-1971. 72 monographs-Nos. 56-57 and 68-69 being joint publications; together with the Introduction to Monographs 1-35 and 36-72, 2 parts.

102. Lowes, John Livingston. Of Reading Books: Four Essays. Constable, 1930. Smooth red cloth, gilt spine, only lower edges uncut, in printed dust-jacket (51- net). Inscribed: "Mrs. Thomas Hardy, with the writer's regard. John Livingston Lowes." The third essay-"Two Readings of Earth"~on Meredith and Hardy was written in 1924. 103. McDowall, Arthur. Thomas Hardy: A Critical Study. Faber, 1931. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, spine gilt, top edges stained, others trimmed. This was "John Eglinton's" copy. Loosely inserted is original galley proof of his review headed "To W. K. Magee, Esq., Leigham Vale Rd., Bournemouth. Proofs to Miss Garvin." 104. Hodgson & Co. A Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Hardy, O.M. With Books and Autograph Letters, the property of the late Mrs. Thomas Hardy, removed from Max Gate, Dorchester. London, 1938. 4to, 60 pages, printed wrappers. 105. Cecil, Lord David. Hardy the Novelist: An Essay in Criticism. The Clark Lectures, given at Cambridge in 1942. Constable, 1943. Dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered down spine, in printed dust-jacket (7/6 net). 106. Holland, Clive. Thomas Hardy's Wessex Scene. Dorchester: Longmans, 1948. Pale orange linen, spine and upper side lettered in black, in pictorial dust-jacket (8/6 net). Profuse illustrations; map end-papers. 107. Flower, Sir Newman. Just As It Happened. Cassell, 1950. Tall 8vo, black cloth, spine gilt-lettered, partly on red panel, in printed dust-jacket (16/- net). Frontispiece and 12 illustrations. Memoirs by the Director of Cassells; he was a Dorset man and a neighbour and friend of Hardy. The frontispiece is a photograph of Hardy at Max Gate, with (as the date was 1927) not "Wessex," but a cat! 108. Deacon, Lois and Coleman, Terry. Providence and Mrs. Hardy. Hutchinson, 1966. Uncorrected Proof Copy of First Edition, red wrappers lettered in black, portraits &c., edges cut.

110. Cox, J. Stevens, ed. The Thomas Hardy Year Book. 1970 (No. 1); 1971 (No. 2); 1972-1973 (No. 3). 3 vols. Guernsey: The Toucan Press, 1970-1973. Smooth glazed pictorial wrappers. 111. Masters, James. Shaftesbury: The "Shaston" of Thomas Hardy. Including 14 Wood Engravings and a Memoir of James Masters and the High House Press by John R. Biggs. Shaftesbury: At The Book in Hand, 1983. Half brown cloth, pink sides, gilt-lettered. For the First Edition of this work see the High House Press collection. Association Items 112. Yonge, Charlotte M. History of Christian Names. New Edition, Revised. Macmillan, 1884. Dark red cloth, gilt spine. Originally published in 2 volumes in 1863, this is actually the first reprinting, after 21 years. Nor did it now prove a best-seller: the publisher's 64 page catalogue bound at end is dated January 1891. This was from Thomas Hardy's library and has his bold full signature in ink on title-page. It has the auctioneer's [Hodgson's] library label printed in red (as indicative of autograph). 113. Ramage, Craufurd Tait. Beautiful Thoughts from French and Italian Authors, with English Translations. 4th ed. Routledge, 1884. Thick crown 8vo, publisher's original half leather, dark blue cloth sides, t.e.g., others uncut. Hardy's copy with his full autograph signature in ink on title-page. The handwriting style suggests it was a quite contemporary signature. There are a considerable number of pencil markings throughout, those on pp. 49, 246 and 386 having several words in Hardy's unmistakable autograph. 114. Comenius. The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart. By

John Amos Komensky. Edited and Translated by Count Lutzow. Swan Sonnenschein, 1901. Blue cloth, gilt spine, edges cut. Inscribed: "To Thomas Hardy With kind regards, Lutzow. Zampach, July 30th 1901." There are corrections in the author's hand on 4 pages.

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115. Grove, Lady. The Social Fetich. Smith Elder, 1907. Tall 8vo, half cream linen, light blue sides, only lower edges uncut, in printed dust-jacket (5/- net). Frontispiece portrait. This book is dedicated: "To Thomas Hardy in grateful recognition of timely aid and counsel, and in memory of old and enduring friendship." This is the Dedication Copy, inscribed on half-title in the author's hand: "To Mr. Hardy with affectionate regard from the writer of this book, Agnes Grove."

recording the calligraphy of Catriona Christison and the inlay leather designing of Eric Burdett, bookbinder, whose last execution this was, before his untimely and lamented death.

116. Cockerell, Sir Sydney Carlyle. Craftsmen All: Some Readings in Praise of Making and Doing. [An Anthology with Preface by H. H. P.] Leicester: Dryad Handicrafts, 1926. Light blue cloth lettered in darker blue, 16 illustrations. Inscribed: "To Thomas Hardy from S. C. C. Christmas 1926." 117. Roscoe, Thomas and Thornton, Cyril. Rambles in Venice and Northern Italy. Allman & Son Royal 8vo, dark blue cloth, elaborately gilt, all edges gilt, 27 steel engravings. Inscribed: "To Mr. Thomas Hardy, O.M. As a small token of affection and esteem, from the working men and women students of Charles Wilson's Literature and Drama classes at Willington, July 25th, 1927." Also inserted is a photograph of Charles Wilson inscribed to Hardy. Manuscript 118. Hardy, Thomas. Great Things: Poems Lyrical and Reflective by Thomas Hardy. Done into a Book in the Year 1963. Manuscript on 58 leaves (including blanks) of laid paper without watermark, t.e.g., others uncut, size 8 1/2" x 11 1/2". Written in a heavy gothic script on 92 pages in red and black ink, gold lettering on title-page and dedication leaves, 6 artist's decorations of which 4 are in multi-colours and gold. The binding is of green crushed morocco, gilt-lettered upwards on spine, with lateral gold ornamentation along top and bottom and inlay leather design of barley sheaves in 3 colours on both covers. Inlay dentelles also round both sides on a brown leather fillet, silk head and tail bands, designed end-papers. Preserved in a brown morocco case of similar quality leather, spine gilt-lettered with raised bands, size 12 3/4" x 9 1/2". The case is fleece lined. The contents are 50 poems by Thomas Hardy, selected by my own choice from his published works, the particular texts representing an editing from various printed sources, and from manuscripts. There is a 2 page editorial note at end, and a colophon

Note: When the books described in this catalogue were still in Dorset (England) and requiring a license to travel to Canada, they came to U.B.C. on indefinite Loan Exhibition. And now, almost 20 years later, whilst correcting these catalogue proofs in the penthouse of my peaceful reatreat but a mile away from the Library building where they are permanently housed, I will record, in my eighty-fourth year, that of all the thousands described herein, this one alone, whilst it is still a physical possibility, remains in my "possession." HARE (Kenneth) b. 1888 1. The Raven and the Swallow. Songs and Lyrics by A. Kenneth Hare. Oxford: Holywell Press, 1908. Square 12mo, light stone coloured wrappers lettered up spine and on upper side, all edges uncut, One Shilling Net. First Edition of the author's first book. Signature: "G. H. Wells, MCMVIII" on half-title, frontispiece plate. 2. The Green Fields. [Poems] By Kenneth Hare. Elkin Mathews, 1911. Red wrappers lettered and designed in black, a volume of the publisher's Vigo Cabinet series. Dedicated to Professor Walter Raleigh. The final leaf carries "Some Press Comments" on his first book (listed above). 3. Three Poems. Printed for C. L. F. and A. F. by A. T. Stevens, 1916. Size 3" x 4", 24 pages (not paginated) sewn into cream wrappers lettered and designed in black. One of the "Flying Fame" booklets, though this term does not actually appear. Verso of title-page reads: "Decorated by C. Lovat Fraser 1916/These books can be/obtained from/Everard Meynell,/46 Museum Street., W.C." 4.

Another copy, identical with above.

5. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight. A Fourteenth-Century Poem done into Modern English. Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1918. Drab boards, half green canvas, black lettered on upper side in 2 lines, all edges uncut, imprint of A. H. Bullen on final leaf, pp.[87-88], which is otherwise blank. Inscribed by author: "Your's [sic] Sincerely, Kenneth Hare. 14/viii/21."

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HARE (Kenneth) b. 1888 6. New Poems. With an Introduction by Douglas Jerrold. Ernest Benn, 1923. Tall 8vo, dark smooth linen, 2 green titling labels, edges trimmed, G4 at end is blank. 7. Roads and Vagabonds. Written by Kenneth Hare, illustrated by Cecil Aldin. Eyre & Spottiswoode [1930]. Large square 8vo, 7 1/2" x 10 1/2", bright red linen gilt, all edges cut. 8. No Quarrel [1946]. Light blue in red, edges cut, printed dust-jacket

-with Fate. Sampson Low flecked linen, spine lettered frontispiece portrait, in (15s. net).

9. The Ballad of Sir John Philpot. Robert Hale, 1952. Decorated boards, mauve linen spine gilt-lettered downwards, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (8/6 net). HARRADEN (Beatrice) 1864-1936 1. Things Will Take a Turn. Blackie & Son [1889]. Small 8vo, dark green pictorially designed cloth, upper side lettered in gilt panel and lettered up spine in black, edges cut, 8 pages publisher's adverts at end. First Edition of the author's first book. 2. Ships That Pass in the Night. Lawrence & Bullen, 1893. Green grained cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side lettered in black in ornamental panel, all edges uncut, publisher's 16 page Autumn Announcements, 1892 at end. Dark slate end-papers. 3. Ships That Pass in the Night. 2nd ed. 1893. Appears to be identical with First Edition in every particular, save for the 2 words added to recto title-page and the resetting of printer's 3 line imprint on verso. 4. Ships That Pass in the Night. 14th ed. Lawrence & Bullen, 1894. The setting and the binding still appear to be identical with First Edition, save that the printer has changed from Henderson & Spalding to Woodfall & Kinder, and publisher's adverts at end now Spring Season 1894. With an attractive bookplate of Mary Edmunds (engraved by C. W. Sherborn, 1893) and inscribed by the author on half-title: "Yours very truly, Beatrice Harraden. Leamington, March 1909."

HARRADEN (Beatrice) 1864-1936 5. Ships That Pass in the Night. With Illustrations from Photographs by Gertrude Harraden. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1900. Dark blue cloth, silver and gilt-lettered and designed, t.e.g., others uncut. This edition, with plates by the author's sister, is dedicated "to all my friends in America." It reprints the "Preface to Authorized American Edition" of 14 May 1894, and adds a "Preface to New Edition" dated Hampstead, 25 June [? 19001. Inscribed: "To E. S. Eden, Esq., With Beatrice Harraden's best regards." 6. Things Will Take a Turn. With 46 Illustrations by J. H. Bacon. Blackie & Son, 1895. Sage green pictorally designed cloth, gilt, trimmed edges. There is a "Preface to New & Revised Edition" dated 5 June 1894. 7. Untold Tales of the Past. With Drawings by H. R. Millar. Blackwood, 1897. Square 8vo, green buckram, spine and upper side elaborately gilt-lettered and designed, t.e.g., others uncut, dark blue end-papers, final leaf, pp.[275-276], blank. 8. Linton, Mrs. Lynn. My Literary Life. With a Prefatory Note by Miss Beatrice Harraden. Hodder & Stoughton, 1899. Ochre coloured rough linen, spine gilt-lettered, upper side lettered in red, all edges uncut. The half-title reads solely, "Reminiscences Of/ Dickens, Thackeray/George Eliot, Etc." which is repeated on upper cover, but in 2 lines. There is also an Introduction by W. Robertson Nicoll, for whose paper the deceased author commenced her unfinished papers. 9. The Fowler. Blackwood, 1899. Green grained cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side black lettered, edges uncut. Al is blank before half-title and Z4 at end carries adverts only, paged [l]-2 and followed by publisher's 32 page catalogue dated 3/99. 10. Katharine Frensham: A Novel. Blacfcwood, 1903. Pale grey-blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side lettered black on ornamental blue panel, edges cut, Y2 at end carries adverts only, followed by publisher's 32 page catalogue dated 9/03. 11. Interplay. Methuen, 1908. Blue cloth, gilt spine, upper side gilt-lettered in 2 lines, only lower edges uncut, publisher's 40 page catalogue at end dated August, 1908. Other copies of First Edition are found with a September 1908 catalogue.

349 HARRADEN (Beatrice) 1864-1936 12. Where Your Treasure Is. Hutchinson, 1918. Blue cloth, spine lettered in darker blue, edges cut, publisher's 16 page Autumn 1918 catalogue at end. 13. Youth Calling. Hodder & Stoughton [1924]. Blue cloth, lettered spine and upper side in darker blue, edges cut. Inserted is author's one page letter dated 3 April (no year) to Mrs. Ryan, from the Halcyon Club, 13 Cork Street, W. 14. Rachel. Hodder & Stoughton [1926]. Smooth light blue cloth, lettered spine and upper side in darker blue, edges cut, Pp.[313-320] at end carry only adverts. 15. Search Will Find It Out. Mills & Boon, 1928. Reddish brown cloth, lettered and ornamented in ochre. Autograph Letters 16. Two ALS to "dear on her 78 Clarence Gate dated 29 December 1920 the first with its original postmarked envelope.

Mr. Patterson Webb" Gardens notepaper and 12 May 1924, stamped and

HARRISON (Frederic) 1831-1923 1. The Crisis in Egypt: A Letter to Mr. Gladstone. Reeves & Turner, 1882. 16 pages, disbound from a volume of tracts. Without wrappers. Dated 1 July 1882 at end on p. 15; p. 16 blank. 2. Oliver Cromwell. Macmillan, 1888. Dark green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, edges uncut, Q3 and Q4 at end carry adverts only. A volume of the Twelve English Statesmen series; reprinted in the same year and again in 1889. 3. Annals of an Old Manor-House: Sutton Place, Guildford. Macmillan, 1893. 4to, 9" x 12", dark blue smooth buckram, gilt, all edges uncut, profuse illustrations from original drawings, 9 hinged double sheets of tables at end. Al before half-title is blank; 2H1 at end carries adverts of other books "By The Same Author" on recto with verso blank, followed by 2H2 which is blank. 4. Studies in Early Victorian Literature. Edward Arnold, 1895. Dark blue smooth buckram, spine titling label, all edges uncut, publisher's 32 page October 1895 catalogue at end.

HARRISON (Frederic) 1831-1923 5. William the Silent. Macmillan, 1897. Dark blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, all edges uncut, S3 and S4 at end carry adverts only. A volume of the Foreign Statesmen series. There was a virtually identical reprint in 1898. 6. Shore, Louisa. Poems. With a Memoir by her Sister Arabella Shore, and an "In Memoriam" by Frederic Harrison. John Lane, 1897. Fawn vertically ribbed cloth, spine gilt, all edges uncut, frontispiece portrait. First leaf is blank before half-title, publisher's 12 page catalogue dated 1896 at end. 7. Tennyson, Ruskin, Mill and Other Literary Estimates. Macmillan, 1899. Smooth dark red cloth, gilt spine, edges uncut, dark blue end-papers. X2 at end is blank. 8. Byzantine History in the Early Middle Ages: The Rede Lecture. Macmillan, 1900. Light blue cloth, upper side lettered in darker blue, edges uncut. 9. George Washington and Other American Addresses. Macmillan, 1901. Uniform format with Tennyson, Ruskin (1899). White wove end-papers. 10. John Ruskin. Macmillan, 1902. A volume of the English Men of Letters series. Red cloth, gilt flat back, t.e.g., others cut. First leaf is blank before half-title; one leaf of series adverts inserted at end dated 8 October 1902. 11. Theophano: The Crusade of the Tenth Century. A Romantic Monograph. Chapman & Hall, 1904. Tall 8vo, smooth red buckram, gilt spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. Six line errata inserted at p. 1. 12. Gissing, George. Vernilda: A Romance. Constable, 1904. Red cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, only lower edges uncut. First leaf is blank before half-title; publisher's 16 page New List of Fiction at end. There is a 3 page Note by Frederic Harrison on the publication of this unfinished posthumous work. 13. Chatham. Macmillan, 1905. Dark green cloth, gilt spine, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed. First leaf blank before half-title; one leaf of series adverts inserted at end. 14. Bacon, Francis. Essays, or, Counsels Civil and Moral. With an Introduction by Frederic Harrison. Blackie & Son, 1905. A volume of the Red Letter Library, green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others trimmed, designed end-papers.

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HARRISON (Frederic) 1831-1923 This copy came to me with a section of Philip Gosse's library, and it is probable that Harrison's post card, dated 18 May 1905-on his Elm Hill, Hawkhurst card-presenting the book, "Here is the little Bacon" &c. was addressed to his father Edmund Gosse. 16. Nicephorus: A Tragedy of New Rome. Printed at the Chiswick Press for Private Circulation, 1905. 96 pages (the last leaf blank) in light blue wrappers, upper side lettered in black, edges cut. 16. Nicephorus. Chapman & Hall, 1906. The first published edition; printed from the same type. Verso of title-pages carries limitation certificate-No. 157 of 450 copies signed by the author. Light green linen, gilt-lettered in 2 lines on upper side, edges cut. With author's signed presentation inscription to Charles J. Billson, dated November 1915 on end-paper. 17. Memories and Thoughts: Men-BooksCities-Art, Macmillan, 1906. Red cloth, spine and upper side gilt, all edges uncut, in printed dust-jacket (8/6 net). Al is blank before half-title and 2F2 at end carries adverts only. This is the eighth reprinting after the First Edition of February 1886, and is still virtually unrevised, though slight verbal changes may be noted in places. 18. My Alpine Jubilee, 1851-1907. Smith Elder, 1908. Dark green cloth, spine and upper side gilt, top edges cut, fore-edges trimmed, lower edges uncut, frontispiece portrait. Al is blank before half-title and K8 and LI and 2 at end are 3 leaves carrying publisher's adverts only. 19. Realities and Ideals: Social, Political, Literary and Artistic. Macmillan, 1908. Red cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut, publisher's blind Presentation Copy stamp on title. 20. Betham-Edwards, M. The Lord of the Harvest. With an Introduction by Frederic Harrison. Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1913. Green cloth, gilt spine, edges cut, R2 at end is blank. First issue in The World's Classics series, to which Harrison's essay was contributed. 21. The Meaning of the War: For Labour-Freedom-Country. Macmillan, 1914. Eight pages, metal fastened into pale blue wrappers, upper side lettered in red and serving as the only title-page. Price One Penny. The staples have been removed because of rusting and the pamphlet sewn with thread.

HARRISON (Frederic) 1831-1923 22. The German Peril: Forecasts 1864-1914. Realities 1915. Hopes 191-. T. Fisher Unwin, 1915. Red cloth, spine and upper side gilt, edges cut. 23. Strachey, M. C. Sketches in Verse Illustrated. With a Foreword by Frederic Harrison. Oxford: Printed and Sold for the Author by B. H. Blackwell, 1917. Blue marbled boards, cream parchment spine without lettering, end-papers matching sides, edges cut, 16 plates from photographs. E8 at end is blank save for imprint of the Vincent Works centre recto. 24. Obiter Scripta, 1918. Chapman & Hall, 1919. Bright red cloth, spine titling label, only lower edges uncut. O2 at end is blank save for printer's imprint of Clay in 4 lines centre recto. 25. De Senectute: More Last Words. T. Fisher Unwin, 1923. Tall 8vo, dark blue grained linen, gilt spine, top edges cut, others uncut, Pp.[203-206] at end carry publisher's adverts only. The title-page is a cancel leaf pasted on a stub. 26. Harrison, Austin. Frederic Harrison: Thoughts and Memories. Heinemann, 1926. Tall 8vo, smooth blue cloth, gilt spine, edges cut. Al is blank before half-title also P8 at end blank. 27. Harrison, Austin. Frederic Harrison. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1927. Tall 8vo, green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, top edges stained green, others trimmed. This appears to be the First American edition, from the English typesetting. Title-page is a cancel leaf pasted on a stub, there is a frontispiece portrait which the London edition did not have, and the imprint of the Westminster Press does not appear on p.[222]. An errata slip is inserted before p. vii with 9 errors, 8 of which are found in both editions. However, the second appears to be no error at all~"of the Good Queen" being correctly printed. Autograph Letters 28. ALS, 4 closely written pages on his folded Elm Hill, Hawkhurst notepaper, dated 10 March 1903 to "Dear Mrs. Ward." This is Mrs. Humphrey Ward, and the letter is a pean of praise for her "Lady Rose's Daughter," which had just appeared. "But your 'Julie' is a new creation . . . . The strain of a 'Becky Sharp' in a woman of fine nature and warm heart, in spite of an irregular life, is peculiarly interesting and certainly one of the happiest conceptions in

351 HARRISON (Frederic) 1831-1923 modern fiction . . . . I greatly value your kindness in sending me your latest—and your best work." 29. Autograph card closely filled on both sides of his 10 Royal Crescent, Bath stationery to "Dear Mr. Ellison," dated 21 November 1915: "I am taking a turn at the Classical Drama. Did you ever see my Nicephorus . . ." This interesting letter was found in the presentation copy of the book, described above. HAVERGAL (Frances Ridley) 1836-1879 1. Under the Surface. James Nisbet, 1874. Bevelled blue cloth, gilt and black lettered and designed, edges cut, dark blue end-papers (no binder's ticket). Yl and Y2 and end carry adverts only. 2. Another copy of First Edition; appears to be identical in every detail, save end-papers are glazed deep cream and with binder's ticket of Burn & Co. Blocking of cloth shows one slight variation; the lower cover has the double rule blind frame round edge, but is without the inner frame measuring 3" x 5 1/4" which the other copy has. 3. Poetical Works. 2 vols. James Nisbet, 1884. Bevelled red cloth, gilt-lettered and with black and blind bands, edges cut, dark blue end-papers. Pp.[412-420] at end of volume 2 carry adverts only. 4. Poetical Works. James Nisbet [c. 1894]. Green cloth, black ruled, gilt-lettered, all edges gilt, dark green end-papers, frontispiece portrait. This edition has the same Prefatory note (3 pages) by Maria V. G. Havergal which was written for the 2 volume edition, where it was dated July 1884. From the one volume edition the date was omitted. 5. Memorials of Frances Ridley Havergal. By her sister, M. V. G. Havergal. James Nisbet [1880]. Bevelled green cloth, gilt-lettered, ornamental bands in black and blind, edges cut, frontispiece portrait, deep cream end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn & Co. Pp.[393-400] at end carry adverts only. 6. Bullock, Charles. The Sisters: Reminiscences and Records of F. R. Havergal and M. V. G. Havergal. Home Words Publishing Office [1890]. Bevelled blue cloth, gilt, cut edges, slate brown end-papers. P8 and Ql-4 are 5 leaves at end carrying adverts only.

HAWKER (Robert Stephen) 1803-1875 1. Records of the Western Shore. Oxford: D. A. Talboys, 1832. 56 pages, sewn into pale blue wrappers, the whole inserted into cream vellum covers, all edges gilt. The wrappers, which are without lettering, appear to be original: copies are recorded in blue and in brown wrappers. 2. Ecclesia: A Volume of Poems. Oxford: J. G. & J. Rivington, 1840. Square 8vo, contemporary rebinding of half green calf, marbled sides, edges cut and sprinkled, gilt spine with red titling label. From page dimensions, this must be presumed to be an ordinary paper issue; there are no adverts bound-in. 3. The Silent Tower of Bottreaux. A poem on 3 leaves, pp.[47]-[52], removed from a copy of Ecclesia (1840). Size of page 6" x 8". Inscribed by the author: "Written by me and published in Records of The Western Shore in 1832. R. S. Hawker"-in his very bold handwriting in red ink. In this 1832 printing it was the first poem, following the Dedication, and the Notes were more extensive and rather differently phrased. From Mr. J. R. Nicholas Ross's collection, with his label on wrapper. 4. Reeds Shaken with the Wind. James Burns, 1843. 12mo, 3 3/4" x 6", wine coloured cloth, sides blind-stamped with ornamental frame, in centres, double blind rule round edges, upper side titled in gilt in 2 lines, primrose yellow end-papers, edges uncut. 5. Reeds Shaken with the Wind. The Second Cluster. By the Vicar of Morwenstow. Derby: Henry Mozley & Sons, and James Burns, 1844. Same format and size but colour of cloth is dark green and blind-stamping of sides is a rectangular frame with ornament in each corner. Title lettering is in 3 lines centre of upper side; on lower side this space is occupied by an additional blind-stamped ornament. Printer's imprints are at foot of last leaf in both booklets; the first printed in London and the second by Mozley in Derby. Like the first this second volume does not bear the author's name anywhere. 6. Echoes from Old Cornwall. Joseph Masters, 1846. Dark green blind-stamped cloth, gilt-lettered up spine in double lines "Echoes From/Old Cornwall," edges uncut, yellow end-papers. Size of covers 4 3/4" x 8 1/4". The final leaf F2 is blank save for 4 line announcement of Hawker's Rural Synods in centre recto, followed by 8 pages of publisher's adverts, printed on rather smaller thinner paper.

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This book sold but slowly, and there were at least 3 later bindings of First Edition sheets in red, green and bright blue cloths with variant styles of lettering. The 8 pages of adverts were retained, but the edges were trimmed, necessitating slightly smaller binding cases.

12. Another copy of First Edition, but straightforward second state, in which errata leaf is transferred to front as pp.[ix-x]. Binding case is also of the later variety. It may be noted that though all 3 copies described were bound by Burn & Co., and have brownish end-papers, in the first state the end-papers are a much redder brown and the binder's ticket is the larger variety which has his Kirby Street, E.G. address.

7. The Quest of the Sangraal: Chant the First. Exeter: Printed for the Author, 1864. Original smooth red boards, 6 3/8" x 8 1/4", spine repaired with strip of new red paper, upper side title lettered in gothic type in black, edges cut. This copy, though in the original binding, is without the final blank G4, pp.[47-48]. 8. Another copy of the First Edition with the private imprint. Cut slightly smaller, 6 1/8" x 7 7/8" and all edges gilded. Rebound in dark red linen, upper side gilt-titled. This copy has the blank G4 in place. 9. The Quest of the Sangraal. Exeter: William Clifford, 1864. Another copy of First Edition; this has the normal title-page of the ordinarily published edition. Size of page is 6 5/16" x 8 1/4" and the blank leaf G4 is not present, though there is a blank leaf of binder's paper at end. Bound in half dark blue calf, marbled sides, gilt-lettered up spine, marbled end-papers to match. Armorial bookplate of Sir Francis C. M. Boileau, Bart, and his note: "Bought of Kinsman at Penzance 1877: Bound by Hunt of Norwich, 1878." I bought this at the sale of Boileau's library at his seat, Ketteringham Hall, Norfolk in 1947. 10. The Cornish Ballads and Other Poems. Including a Second Edition of "The Quest of the Sangraal." James Parker, 1869. Bevelled green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, gilt ornament below author's name on spine, top edges uncut, others trimmed. First Edition and first state; the errata page is printed on recto of P4, which is conjugate with pp. 213-214, top edge being unopened. 11. Another copy. Bevelled green cloth of a darker shade than above copy, similar brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn & Co., errata leaf still in place as P4. But the binding case is of the second state without ornament on spine. Spine is ruled with 8 lines instead of the ornamental bands top and bottom. Upper side is plain ruled without the 2 additional blind-stamped ornaments in centre section.

13. The Cornish Ballads. With Other Poems by the Late Rev. R. S. Hawker . . . . 2nd ed. Parker & Co., 1884. Blue cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, top and lower edges uncut, dark blue end-papers. In this reprint the errors of First Edition are corrected, a Prefatory note by J. G. Gfodwin] dated July 1884 added, and at the end the leaf which originally carried the errata now has "A Canticle for Christmas, 1874"-which title has also been added at foot of Contents, p. viii. 14. Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall. J. R. Smith, 1870. Bright blue cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered; no adverts bound in. This may represent a late binding variety, the lettering on upper side being "Hawker's/Men and Manners/In Cornwall." 15. The Prose Works of Rev. R. S. Hawker . . . . Carefully Re-edited, with Sketches Never Before Published. W. Blackwood, 1893. This is virtually the Second Edition of Footprints of Former Men, edited by J. G. Godwin and containing 2 hitherto unpublished essays. The Third Edition, which returned to the original title, had an Introduction by C. E. Byles, illustrations by J. Ley Pethybridge and 47 pages of Appendices (John Lane, 1904); and again reissued, in identical format save date changed to 1908. There is a copy of this in the collection, 19 plates. The only distinction noted between the two is the addition of a 2 line note to the 1903 preface recording the lamented death of the artist 2 September 1905, at the early age of 40 years. 16. The Poetical Works of Robert Stephen Hawker. Now First Collected and Arranged with a Prefatory Notice by J. G. Godwin. Kegan Paul, 1879. Dark red cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, all edges uncut, frontispiece portrait, dark brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. This book was issued simultaneously in dark blue cloth.

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17. The Poetical Works of Robert Stephen Hawker. Together with a Prefatory Notice and Bibliography by Alfred Wallis. John Lane, 1899. Light blue cloth, gilt-lettered and designed, t.e.g., others uncut, portrait and 2 plates.

was in his Records of the Western Shore (1832). The text of the various printings show some 4 minor verbal variants, as detailed by C. E. Byles in his note to Hawker's Cornish Ballads (1904).

18. Cornish Ballads and Other Poems. Edited with Introduction by C. E. Byles and numerous illustrations by J. Ley Pethybridge. John Lane, 1904. Dark brown blind embossed cloth, spine gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others uncut. 19. Cornish Ballads and Other Poems. John Lane, 1908. A reprint in identical format with 1904 issue, brought out to complement the 1908 Footprints of Former Men. There is, however, an extension of the text by one leaf (previously carrying adverts) to accommodate 3 additional poems which has been printed first in Byles's Life and Letters of R. S. Hawker (1905). 20. Stones Broken from the Rocks: Extracts from the Manuscript Note-Books of Robert Stephen Hawker. Selected and Arranged by E. R. Appleton. Edited with a Preface by C. E, Byles. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1922. Blue boards, red holland spine, printed spine label, edges cut. Frontispiece portrait and illustrations. 21. Twenty Poems. With an Introduction by John Drinkwater. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1925. Patterned red and white boards, a volume of the Little Nineteenth Century Classics series. 22. A 4to album, 9" x 12", in old half red leather, containing very miscellaneous Shropshire archaeological ephemera and autograph letters &c., some connected with Acton Scott of Church Stretton and on St. Edith's Rectory notepaper. There are also 4 leaflet items mounted-in bearing the imprint of Davies Gilbert, East Bourn; 2 are dated 1835 and 1836 respectively and the other 2 are undated. The Trelawny broadsheet, "The Song of the Western Men," is printed on a 4to sheet, having the appearance of being recently trimmed, now measuring 7" x 9 1/8" (printed surface 5 5/16" x 7 1/8"). Heading in caps is, "And Shall Trelawny Die," and imprint at foot of Davies Gilbert, East Bourn, 1836. The 6 quatrains of the poem are printed in 2 columns of 3; text above in 8 lines and "List of the Seven Bishops" below in 9 lines. Davies Gilbert, born 1767, died at Eastbourne 24 December 1839. The poem, "The Song of the Western Men," had first appeared (again anonymously) in The Royal Devonport Telegraph and Plymouth Chronicle, 2 September 1826. Hawker's first printing of it

Secondary Material 23. Baring-Gould, S. The Vicar of Morwenstow: A Life of Robert Stephan Hawker. Kegan Paul, 1886. Dark red cloth, spine gilt-lettered, 44 page publisher's catalogue at end dated 10.85. This is a revised reprint of the First Edition of 1875. 24. Byles, C. E. The Life and Letters of R. S. Hawker. By his son-in-law C. E. Byles. John Lane, 1905. Tall 8vo, red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, coloured frontispiece and profuse illustrations. 2X2 at end carries adverts only. HA WORTH (Euphrasia Fanny) d. 1883 1. The Pine Tree Dell and Other Tales. 2 vols. J. Andrews, 1827. Contemporary half calf, gilt spines with red titling labels. Perfect set with half-title to each volume. The work was published anonymously. Note in the Dyce copy: "These tales were written by my dear friend Miss Haworth when she was quite a girl. I saw them through the press and prefixed [anonymously] the Advertisement." Robert Browning met Miss Haworth about 1836 whilst staying with Macready: she then lived near Elstree. She was "My English Eyebright"~so addressed in Bordello, and remained a close friend until her death in 1883. When Browning was teased by his future wife about reports of the women in his life he wrote (22 May 1846): "I told you of the one instance where such distortion might take place-Miss Haworth, to avoid mistake." 2. Stories for Idle Afternoons. By Euphrasia Fanny Haworth. Thomas Bosworth, 1875. Dark green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, edges uncut. HAYDON (Benjamin Robert) 1786-1846 1. Taylor, Tom. Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon, Historical Painter. From his Autobiography and Journals. 3 vols. Edited and Compiled by Tom Taylor. Longman, 1853. Dark red blind-stamped cloth, spines giltlettered, "Autobiography/Of/B. R. Haydon./[Short ruleyVol. I [Vol. II] [Vol. III]. Cream end-papers, edges uncut. In volume 1 CC2-4 are 3 leaves of publisher's adverts at end; in

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HAYDON (Benjamin Robert) 1786-1846 volume 3, AA4 at end is blank, followed by publisher's 32 page catalogue dated 31 March 1853. 2. Haydon, B. R. Correspondence and Table-Talk. With a Memoir by his Son, Frederic Wordsworth Haydon. 2 vols. Chatto, 1876. Tall 8vo, light stone coloured cloth, spines gilt, upper sides black designed, lower sides with same design in blind, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed, cream end-papers, publisher's 12 page catalogue at end of volume 2 dated July 1875. 3. Autobiography and Memoirs of B. R. Haydon. Edited from his Journals by Tom Taylor. New Edition, with an Introduction by Aldous Huxley. 2 vols. Peter Davies, 1926. Red cloth, spines lettered in black, top edges cut, others uncut, 12 illustrations. 4. The Autobiography and Memoirs of B. R. Haydon. Edited by Alexander P. D. Penrose. G. Bell, 1927. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt spine, only lower edges uncut, 18 illustrations. Association Item 6. [Anonymous.] The Reigning Vice: A Satirical Essay in Four Books. Longman, 1827. 12mo, contemporary rebinding of dark blue grained cloth, edges trimmed. Inscribed on half-title: "B. R. Haydon, 1827. There are passages in this Poem worthy of any of our greatest men, for energy and satire." This inscription all in Haydon's autograph. The anonymous author is thought to have been Chauncey Hare Townshend (1798-1868) though his DNB notice, referring to his Poems (1821) states that he "suffered thirty years to elapse before he produced his next volume of poetry." Charles Dickens published some of his prose writing, and became his literary executor in 1869. HAYES (Alfred) 1857-1936 1. David Westren. By Alfred Hayes, M.A., New Coll., Oxon. Author of The Last Crusade. Birmingham: Cornish; London: Simpkin Marshall, 1888. Dark blue cloth, gilt, edges cut, slate brown end-papers. First leaf is blank before half-title; following p. 124 are 3 leaves carrying notices of the author's first book and a final leaf blank save for printer's emblem centre verso. The edition was limited to 500 copies.

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Another copy, identical with above.

3. The March of Man and Other Poems. Macmillan, 1891. Blue cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut, dark green end-papers, N2 at end carries adverts only. 4. A Fellowship in Song. Alfred Hayes. Richard Le Gallienne. Norman Gale. Rugby: G. E. Over; London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1893. White wrappers, all edges uncut, the special Large Paper issue measuring 4 3/4" x 7 3/8". Each poet's booklet is separately paginated, and there is no register of gatherings. It would be possible to break them up and rebind separately. They are—From Inland Meadows. By Alfred Hayes. Title page printed in red and with red silk marker. Nightingales. By Richard Le Gallienne. Printed in black with white silk marker. A Verdant Country. By Norman Gale. Title page printed in blue, and with blue silk marker. 5. Another copy, the ordinary small paper (3 3/4" x 6 1/4"), white wrappers, all edges uncut. In this state the printing throughout is in ordinary black ink, and there are no silk markers. Inscribed: "For F. H. Fisher I inscribe this copy. He bought it; I wrote in it. Norman Gale." 6. The Vale of Arden and Other Poems. John Lane, 1895. Grey-green boards (5 3/4" x 8"), lettered and designed on spine and both sides in silver, all edges uncut. The Large Paper issue, of which only 25 copies were printed. 7. Another copy of the First Edition, the ordinary issue (4" x 6 3/4"), of which 550 copies were printed. Mauve-blue cloth with the same cover design in silver, but stamped on upper side only, lower side blank. Same silver lettering on spine as in Large Paper. 8. The Cup of Quietness. Methuen, 1911. Green cloth, spine and upper side gilt, edges cut, D8 at end is blank, followed by publisher's 52 page September 1911 catalogue. 9. A 12 page booklet, sewn into wrappers with crimson silk thread, edges uncut. Upper wrapper lettered-"Alfred Hayes/Richard Le Gallienne/Norman Gale," and the contents are a detailed listing of each author's publications. Printed by George E. Over, the Rugby Press [? 1894].

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HAYES (Alfred) 1857-1936 Autograph Letter 10. A long 4 page letter to "Dear Sir" dated 15 September 1893 from 4 Charlotte Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, entirely about his work in poetry. His correspondent is having difficulty in securing the First Edition of David Westren—hence it is unlikely to have been addressed to James Ashcroft Noble, whose contribution on Alfred Hayes to Miles's Poets and Poetry of the Century [Vol. 8] was already in print. HAYNES (Edmund Sidney Pollock) 1877-1949 1. Standards of Taste in Art. Elkin Mathews, 1904. Green wrappers lettered in black, edges cut. No. 18 of the publisher's Vigo Cabinet series, the insides of wrappers advertising up to this number. First Edition of the author's first work. 2. Religious Persecution: A Study in Political Psychology. Watts, 1906. Large 8vo, reddish brown cloth, lettered up spine in black and on upper side, edges cut, author's frontispiece portrait. A volume issued for the Rationalist Press Association, printed in double columns, 4 pages adverts at end. Probably the Second Edition, though not so described; reprints the Preface to the First Edition (dated August 1904) and has Preface to New Edition (dated August 1906). 3. Early Victorian and Other Papers. Elkin Mathews, 1908. A volume of the publisher's Satchel series; light blue linen, lettered up spine and on upper side in white enamel, errata slip (6 errors) inserted at p. vii. Dedicated to Hilaire Belloc. 4. The Belief in Personal Immortality. Watts, 1913. Small 8vo, red cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side blind-stamped, edges cut. No. 2 of the Inquirer's Library, issued for the Rationalist Press Association. Errata slip (5 errors) inserted before p. 1. Inscribed: "To Mrs. Harrison from E. S. P. H. 27 March, 1914." 5.

Another copy, identical with above.

6. A Study in Bereavement: A Comedy in One Act. Hendersons, 1915. 24 pages, sewn into semi-stiff light grey wrappers, upper side lettered in black, edges uncut. Inscribed: "To E. T. Jaynes from the Author, 14 Sept. 1915." Inserted is the long 2 page 4to letter, on York Hotel notepaper, dated same day, which accompanied the gift of the pamphlet.

7. Personalia. Selwyn & Blount, 1918. Light greenish linen, lettered spine and upper side in black, all edges uncut. Inscribed: "To Captain Marston, R.N. from E. S. P. H. In Memoriam A. B. of Queen Victoria. 22nd January, 1920." The dedication of the book is "To the Memory of Rupert and Alfred Brooke." 8. The Case for Liberty. Grant Richards, 1919. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, gilt spine, top edges cut, others lightly trimmed. 9. The Enemies of Liberty. Grant Richards, 1923. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, only lower edges uncut. Inscribed: "Val Gielgud from the Author, January 1924" but the handwriting is that of the recipient, not of Haynes. 10. The Belief in Personal Immortality. 2nd ed., revised. Grant Richards, 1925. Uniform format with The Enemies of Liberty. This is a re-writing of the little booklet published in 1913 in the Inquirer's Library. In the interesting new Preface dated February 1925 there are references to Edward Thomas's response to the 1913 publication. His friend Edward Thomas was the subject of the first In Memoriam essay in Personalia (1918). Inscribed: "To Wilfred Merton from E. S. P. H. 20 March 1925." 11.

Another copy, identical with above.

12. Lycurgus, or, The Future of Law. Kegan Paul [1925]. Glazed purple boards with 2 titling labels, edges cut. A volume in the publisher's Today and Tomorrow series. Pp.[95-96] at end are blank, followed by 8 pages of series adverts in which the present title is listed amongst the 23 "Volumes Ready," followed by 9 "Ready Shortly." 13. Much Ado About Women. Kensington: The Cayme Press, 1927. Small 4to, 6 3/4" x 8 3/4", 12 pages sewn into deep cream wrappers with large titling label printed in red, edges uncut, errata slip inserted (5 errors). No. 5 of the Cayme Press Pamphlets. The booklet is paginated to 18, the following leaf of Epilogue being unpaginated. This, however, does not include the first and last blanks, which are not end-papers. The wrappers are stiffened by one laid-down extending sheet of plain paper. Inscribed: "To Mrs. Leyel from E. S. P. Haynes. This is now a very scarce book, 21/6/1943."

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HAVNES (Edmund Sidney Pollock) 1877-1949 14. A Lawyer's Notebook. Introduction by Alec Waugh. Martin Seeker, 1932. Half black linen, blue marbled sides, top edges stained blue, only lower edges uncut, spine titling label. This trilogy of titles was issued anonymously. 15. More front a Lawyer's Notebook. By the author of A Lawyer's Notebook. Martin Seeker, 1933. Uniform format with above volume, but colour of cloth (and marbling) reddish brown. In printed dust-jacket (5/- net). 16. The Lawyer's Last Notebook. Introduction by Filson Young. Martin Seeker, 1934. Uniform format with previous volumes, save colour of cloth (and marbling) red. 17. The Lawyer: A Conversation Piece. Selected from the Lawyer's Notebooks and other writings by E. S. P. Haynes. With an autobiographical introduction and memoir by Renee Haynes. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1951. Tall 8vo, black linen, printed spine label, edges cut, in red printed dust-jacket (16/- net). Frontispiece portrait. 18. Life, Law and Letters. Heinemann, 1936. Smooth brown linen, spine gilt-lettered, top edges stained to match cloth, others cut, beige end-papers. Note: E. S. P. Haynes's essay Law and the Great State was first printed in The Great State: Essays in Construction (Harper & Bros, 1912). See the H. G. Wells collection. HAZLITT (William) 1778-1830 1. A Reply to the Essay on Population by Rev. T. R. Malthus, in a Series of Letters, &c. Longman, 1807. [Keynes 4.] Tall 8vo, rebound full brown leather, spine with 8 raised bands, t.e.g., other edges uncut; there are no adverts at end. 2. The Round Table: A Collection of Essays on Literature, Men and Manners. By William Hazlitt. 2 vols. Edinburgh: Constable; London: Longman, 1817. [Keynes 13.] Small 8vo, original drab boards, all edges uncut, spine titling labels. As Hazlitt's Advertisement states, 12 of the essays are by Leigh Hunt and the remainder by himself, though only one name appears on title-page. Many sections are still unopened at top and fore-edges.

HAZLITT (William) 1778-1830 3. Another set of First Edition, the 2 volumes bound together and without the half-titles, in nearly contemporary half blue calf, elaborately gilt spine with red titling label, pink end-papers. Size of page 3 3/4" x 6 1/8", edges marbled as are the sides. 4. The Round Table. 3rd ed., edited by his Son. John Templeman, 1841. [Keynes 14.] Green cloth, sides blind-stamped with corner and large centre ornaments, spine gilt-lettered in 4 lines, pale primrose end-papers. In the 2 leaves of Templeman's adverts at end, the prices of Hazlitt's books have been altered or obliterated. The price of the Uniform Series now reads "2s. od. Per Volume." The 2 page Notice of the Editor gives details of the essays included in this edition of the Round Table, which are not identical with the First Edition. Though styled Third Edition, no other edition had been printed since 1817, so far as is known. 5. Characters of Shakespeare's Plays. For R. Hunter &c., 1817. [Keynes 17.] Contemporary polished brown calf, gilt, spine with titling label, edges cut and sprinkled. 6. A View of the English Stage, or, A Series of Dramatic Criticisms. For Robert Stodart, 1818. [Keynes 18.] Contemporary half calf, marbled sides. "The first issue of the View of the English Stage is an uncommon book, part of the edition having been transferred three years later to John Warren, and reissued with a new title-page" (Keynes). A satisfactory copy, save for its lack of first and last leaves, i.e., the half-title and adverts leaf. 7. Lectures on the English Poets. Delivered at the Surrey Institution. Taylor & Hessy, 1818. [Keynes 33.] Old half red morocco, marbled sides and end-papers, all edges gilt. Lacks the leaf of adverts at end. 8. Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth. Delivered at the Surrey Institution. 2nd ed. John Warren, 1821. [Keynes 52.] These are First Edition sheets with a cancel title-page by the new publisher. Contemporary half calf, marbled sides. John Todhunter's copy with his signature, dated September 1898 and Bedford Park address. 9. Table-Talk, or, Original Essays. John Warren, 1821. [Keynes 56.] Original drab brown boards with printed spine label, all edges uncut, 8 pages of John Warren's adverts dated April 1821 bound in front. Pp. 263-[264] is a cancel leaf pasted on stub.

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Time. 1824. [Keynes 77.] Tall thick 8vo, original blue boards, edges entirely uncut, spine renewed with old paper, frontispiece of 7 portraits. There is a half-title with recto printed in 2 lines-"Poets/ From Chaucer to the Present Time," verso blank; but it is not conjugate with the title-page, and Keynes collates this leaf as b4. Text ends correctly on p. 822, but the otherwise blank imprint leaf which should follow is missing. Withdrawn from circulation (owing to extensive copyright infringement). "The book is very uncommon at the present time" (Keynes). 13. Select Poets of Great Britain. Printed by Thomas Davison for Thomas Tegg, 1825. Tall 8vo, smooth green cloth, all edges uncut, spine titling label, engraved frontispiece as in the 1824 edition, save that the date has been removed from Tegg's imprint at foot. This book replaced Hall's book of 1824: it is entirely reset by a different printer-with, of course, the copyright material no longer present. 14. The Spirit of the Age, or, Contemporary Portraits. 2nd ed. Henry Colburn, 1825. [Keynes 82.] There are slight variations from Keynes. Dark green blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 4 lines. Size of page (edges only lightly trimmed) 5 1/8" x 8 1/8". Yellow end-papers with Walter Bagehot's signature in ink. Templeman's adverts at end are 4 pages only and include the 2 volume Literary Remains, reduced to 15/- as well as the present title, reduced to 5s. 6d. and Political Essays, reduced to 6s. 6d. 15. The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men and Things. 2 vols. Henry Colburn, 1826. [Keynes 89.] Tall 8vo, original drab brown boards, edges only lightly trimmed, spine titling labels. Size of page 5 1/2" x 9". Issued anonymously; a fine set with armorial bookplates of F. A. Marshall, and (later-1887) Laurence A. Waldron of Dublin.

HAZLITT (William) 1778-1830 This follows Keynes's collation, though the final gathering HH in first volume consists of 4 (not 2) leaves. Of these leaves the first and last are conjugate, or so it appears; the second and third are manifestly conjugate. HH2 is certainly not blank. 16. Notes of a Journey through France and Italy. Printed for Hunt and Clarke, 1826. [Keynes 93,] Polished brown calf, fully gilt spine with contrasting titling labels, marbled edges and end-papers. This is the first issue without Hazlitt's name on title-page. It is thought to have been due merely to an oversight, as there was no reason for anonymity. Copies in this state are scarce and are perfect without a frontispiece plate, this having been engraved later and inserted in copies of the second issue (see next items). A4 is the starred variety (? as in all known copies—and a cancel) and with the pagination for Chapter 18 missing. 17. Notes of a Journey through France and Italy. By W. Hazlitt. Hunt & Clarke, 1826. This is the second issue, with author's name on title-page between pairs of double rules: it also contains the engraved frontispiece—the Arch of Constantine. Original drab brown boards, all edges uncut, the spine has been renewed with a newly printed titling label-"Hazlitt's/Tour In/France/And/Italy." Belonged to Albert Forbes Sieveking, F.S.A. and has his signature dated 30 May 1900. 18. Another copy of the second issue, with Hazlitt's name on title and with the engraved frontispiece. Rebound in patterned boards, top edges cut, others entirely uncut. 19. Conversations of James Northcote, Esq., R.A. Colburn & Bentley, 1830. [Keynes 99.] Original brown boards, half patterned dark reddish cloth with printed titling label, all edges uncut. Frontispiece portrait. In this copy D8, 9 and 10 and Ell are all in first state, uncancelled; L4 and L9 are cancel leaves, both signed 'L'. 20. Another copy of First Edition, in one of the secondary bindings noted by Keynes. Rough green cloth with same spine titling label, all edges uncut, frontispiece portrait. In this copy all 6 leaves-pp. 63-64, 65-66, 67-68, 93-94, 223-224, 233-234-are cancels with text in second state. It appears that no copy is at present located, which has the original uncancelled state of gathering L.

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21. Northcote, James. The Life of Titian: With Anecdotes of the Distinguished Persons of His Time. 2 vols. Colburn & Bentley, 1830. Tall 8vo, drab brown boards, purplish linen spines with printed titling labels, all edges uncut, frontispiece portrait in volume 1, folding table at end of volume 2. There was also another variety of original binding—blue boards with drab brown spine with same printed labels. "It may seem that I have made an omission by not including Northcote's Lift of Titian, in which Hazlitt, according to his son, had a large share. Mr. Howe has found, however, that no reliance can ever be placed on the statements of the younger Hazlitt . . ." (Keynes, Bibliography, p. xvii).

25. Another copy of the Second Edition, in the later binding style, as described by Keynes 74. Green cloth, sides blind-stamped with corner ornaments and larger central ornament, spine gilt-lettered upwards-"Characteristics." Yellow end-papers.

22. The Character of W. Cobbett, M.P. By William Hazlitt. To which is added Several Interesting Particulars of Mr. Cobbett's Life and Writings. J. Watson, 1835. [Keynes 84.] 16 pages, sewn into yellow wrappers lettered in black "Price Twopence," edges uncut. Hazlitt's essay from Table Talk occupies pp. 3-12. 23. Essays on the Principles of Human Action. . . . By the late William Hazlitt. Edited by his son. John Miller [1836]. [Keynes 101.] Dark green fine grained cloth, dark blue spine titling label lettered gilt in 7 lines between double rules top and bottom, edges lightly trimmed, yellow end-papers. Keynes's collation is 87 leaves, but this is a misprint for 91. The Dedication leaf to Edward Lytton Bulwer is an insertion. The final line of the spine label is "Price 6s.", whereas Keynes quotes "Price 4s. 6d." As he also describes the cloth as flowered (which in above copy is not) he may have been collating from a later binding variety. An uncommon little book; the essay "On Abstract Ideas," pp. 139-176, is here printed for the first time. 24. Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims. By William Hazlitt. 2nd ed., with Introduction by the Editor of the Monthly Repository. J. Templeman &c., 1837. [Keynes 74.] Green cloth, edges uncut, label lettered in 3 lines upwards on spine-"Hazlitt's/Characteristics/[short rule]/Price 3s." This is the secondary binding described by Keynes, The first gathering of 6 leaves is new and contains R. H. Home's "Introductory Remarks." The rest of the book consists of original sheets of the 1823 First Edition.

26. Painting, and The Fine Arts. . . . By B. R. Haydon and William Hazlitt. Edinburgh: A. & C. Black, 1838. [Keynes 103.] Green cloth, edges uncut, spine gilt-lettered, yellow end-papers. The front laid-down end-paper has an advertisement of the 9 Scientific Treatises republished from the Seventh Edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica printed on white paper and pasted down; the free portion has a presentation inscription-in a highly characteristic hand: "Editor of The Salopian Journal. With the Publisher's Compts. Edinburgh 9 April 1838." 27. Sketches and Essays by William Hazlitt. Now First Collected by his Son. John Templeman, 1839. [Keynes 104.] This is the first issue green cloth binding, as described by Keynes. Yellow end-papers. 2A6 at end carries adverts of Works by the late William Hazlitt. From later-bound copies this was removed and replaced by a 16 page Templeman catalogue. 28. Criticisms On Art: and Sketches of the Picture Galleries of England. . . . Edited by his Son. John Templeman, 1843. [Keynes 108.] Embossed green cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 4 lines, edges only lightly trimmed, yellow end-papers. At end Templeman's 16 page catalogue with the Regent Street address. 29. Criticisms On Art. . . . Second Series. Edited by his Son. C. Templeman, 1844. [Keynes 109.] Exactly similar format to the first series, and with a similar 16 page catalogue at end but of "Books Published by the late John Templeman of 248 Regent Street, now publishing at No. 6 Great Portland Street." Keynes does not mention that there is a leaf, numbered [l]-2, of adverts of first series following Appendix X and before the 16 page catalogue. Inscribed: "Amelia Bryan, from the Son of the Author, 1844," and later in the library of William Henry Covington, with inscription. 30. Berington, Rev. Joseph. The Literary History of the Middle Ages. David Bogue, 1846. A reprint of the First Edition of 1814, with a "Biographical Notice of the Author" by W. Hazlitt, dated from Middle Temple, 1 May 1846. (This is, of course, the essayist's son.) Small 8vo, contemporary half calf, marbled sides, frontispiece plate.

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31. Winterslow: Essays and Characters Written There by William Hazlitt. Collected by his Son. David Bogue, 1850. [Keynes 111.] Embossed dark brown cloth, the fore-edges are notably untrimmed, spine gilt-lettered in 5 lines, Bogue's 24 page January 1850 catalogue at end. Pale primrose end-papers with binder's ticket of Bone & Son.

Describing the Fourth Edition, Keynes observes: "Mr. Howe has a copy in which Vol. 1 is dated 1857, Vol. 2 1861." May not this be the normal state of the published edition?

32. Another copy of First Edition, the issue in maroon cloth with same embossing, gilt-lettering, end catalogue and binder's ticket. As bound, the preliminaries of this book consist of 3 leaves; and, however the printing and transference was contrived (Keynes gives 2 possibilities), the present copy appears never to have had the third leaf, which is Hazlitt's Preface, dated Chelsea. January 1850. This might seen to support the probability that the first 3 leaves were all printed on sheet 'N'. 33. Another copy of First Edition, uncut, and quite perfect and with the same Bogue catalogue. Rebound in patterned green boards, with green spine titling label. 34. The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte. By William Hazlitt. 2nd ed., revised by his Son. 4 vols. Office of the Illustrated London Library, 1852. [Keynes 97.] Embossed red cloth, spine gilt-lettered, edges only lightly trimmed. Frontispiece and Engraved title printed on combined sheet of plate paper inserted in each volume. The younger Hazlitt's Preface in volume 1 is dated 1 May 1852. This work had first been published 1828-1830. 35. Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays. By William Hazlitt. Office of the Illustrated London Library, 1852. [Keynes 105.] Embossed dark brown cloth, spine gilt-lettered, yellow end-papers. This is the Second Edition of the Sketches and Essays of 1839, with slight revision of contents. Edward Dowden's copy and title-page has his early signature in ink (when he was 19): "Edward Dowden, August 1862." There are considerable pencil markings throughout in margins and rear end-papers filled with his pencil notes. 36. Table-Talk: Original Essays on Men and Manners. By William Hazlitt. 4th ed. 2 vols. Edited by his Son. C. Templeman, 1857-1861. [Keynes 59 note.] Uniformly blind-stamped green cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 5 lines with one short rule, edges only lightly trimmed, yellow end-papers. This is manifestly a uniform pair, with the same bookplate in each, though it is noted that volume 1 is printed by Eeynell & Weight of Little Pulteney Street, whereas volume 2 has imprint of Charles W. Reynell (at the same address).

37. Lectures on the English Poets and the English Comic Writers. A New Edition edited by William Carew Hazlitt. Bell & Daldy, 1869. [Keynes 37.] Green blind-stamped bevelled cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 6 lines with rules and ornamental bands top and bottom, dark blue end-papers. Keynes describes this book (or, alternatively, a reprint of it dated 1870). He states "Adverts at each end." The present copy has editor's Notice dated Kensington, July 1869, but has no adverts in front; 2 leaves of adverts follow page 232 at end, followed by a 48 page catalogue of Bonn's Library &c., dated 1868. 38. Ireland, Alexander. William Hazlitt: Essayist and Critic. Selections from his Writings, with a Memoir, Biographical and Critical. F. Warne, 1889. [Keynes 117.] Small 4to, 6 3/4" x 8 3/4". Bevelled green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, dark blue end-papers, frontispiece portrait. The Large Paper edition of 225 copies; this is No. 142 of 150 copies for England. 39. Another copy; this is the ordinary issue, which was in the publisher's Cavendish Library. Dark green cloth (5 1/4" x 8"), top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed, dark brown end-papers, pagination same as Large Paper issue save that it does not have the certificate of limitation, which was printed on an inserted leaf. 40. Johnson, Reginald Brimley. Essays Selected from "The Spirit of the Age" &c. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons [1893]. [Keynes 87.] No. 42 of the Knickerbocker Nuggets, the 8 pages adverts at end listing up to this number. Half blue cloth with elaborately gilt, blue patterned sides, t.e.g., others uncut. This copy belonged to Herbert Wilson Greene and has his armorial bookplate and signature. 41. Le Gallienne, Richard. Liber Amoris, or, The New Pygmalion. By William Hazlitt. With an Introduction by R. Le Gallienne. Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1893. [Keynes 69.] Half white boards, yellow sides, printed spine label, all edges uncut. Facsimile of original 1823 title-page. Erratum slip inserted at end.

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HAZLITT (William) 1778-1830 42. Le Gallienne, Richard. Liber Amoris, or, The New Pygmalion . . . with Additional Matter now printed for the first time from the Original Manuscripts. Privately printed, 1894. [Keynes 70.] Large square 8vo (7" x 9"), bevelled olive green buckram, all edges uncut, spine gilt-lettered, 5 illustrations and facsimiles. 500 copies were printed, of which 100 formed the American issue. This copy, which has "1894" at foot of spine, is probably the London edition. 43. Another copy of the First Edition, identical save for binding variations. Covers are darker green (or less brown), sides are plain—not bevelled. Spine has "The Bodley Head" in a single line frame at foot of spine. This is probably the New York edition, of which there were 100 copies only, for American subscribers. The end-papers are of a thick wove paper, whereas the London edition has ends of a laid paper of text paper quality. 44. Conversations of James Northcote, R.A. By William Hazlitt. Edited with an Essay on Hazlitt as an Art-Critic and a Note on Northcote by Edmund Gosse. Richard Bentley, 1894. Dark green smooth cloth, gilt spine, publisher's monogram end-papers. Frontispiece and facsimile ALS. From the library of Mary Cholmondeley (author of The Danvers Jewels &c.) with her signature in ink on half-title. 45. Dramatic Essays. Selected and Edited with Notes and an Introduction by William Archer and Robert W. Lowe. Walter Scott, 1895. Dark red cloth, gilt, photogravure frontispiece portrait, t.e.g., others cut. The last 4 leaves of gathering 16 at end carry adverts only. 46. A Reply to Z. By William Hazlitt. With an Introduction by Charles Whibley. Printed for the First Edition Club, 1923. Tall 8vo, half red holland, dark blue linen sides, gilt-lettered up spine, in printed dust-jacket. No. 96 of 300 copies printed at the Curwen Press. Inscribed : "For Osbert Burdett, with the grateful thanks of A. J. A. Symons." This article was originally printed in Blackwood's Magazine, August 1818; the original MS was in the library of the prefacer. 47. The Best of Hazlitt Compiled by P. P. Howe. Methuen, 1923. Foolscap 8vo, dark blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side in 4 lines in blind, only lower edges uncut.

HAZLITT (William) 1778-1830 48. New Writings by William Hazlitt. Second Series. Collected by P. P. Howe. Martin Seeker, 1927. Light blue cloth, spine lettered in dark blue, all edges cut. 49. Selected Essays of William Hazlitt. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Nonesuch Press, 1930. Bevelled light green smooth buckram, spine gilt-lettered, top edges stained yellow, others cut. Secondary Material 50. Maclean, Catherine Macdonald. Born under Saturn: A Biography of William Hazlitt. Collins, 1943. Tall 8vo, bright blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, only lower edges uncut, 12 illustrations. 51. Howe, P. P. The Life of William Hazlitt. With an Introduction by Frank Swinnerton. Hamish Hamilton, 1947. Tall 8vo, dark red cloth, gilt spine, all edges cut, 7 plates, in printed dust-jacket (15/- net). First published in 1922, this is a reprint of the revised edition. HAZLITT (William Carew) 1834-1913 1. Lovelace, Richard. Lucasta: The Poems of Richard Lovelace. Now First Edited By W. Carew Hazlitt. J. R. Smith, 1864. Dark red cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut, frontispiece, yellow end-papers, front ones printed with series adverts. Library of Old Authors series. 2. Sophy Laurie: A Novel. 3 vols. John Maxwell, 1865. The "remainder" state, as issued, 3 volumes in 1, dark reddish brown cloth, blind-stamped sides, gilt spine, edges trimmed. All title-pages are in place and the blank first leaf in volume 1, which is conjugate with Pp.[v]-vi, is undisturbed. An uncommon book, even in this secondary state. 3. Memoirs of William Hazlitt, with Portions of His Correspondence. 2 vols. R. Bentley, 1867. Dark green blind-stamped cloth, gilt spines, top edges uncut, others trimmed, frontispiece portrait to each volume, yellow end-papers, X8 at end of first volume carries adverts of the publisher's "Favourite Novels." This is the author's Memoir of his grandfather.

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4. Herrick, Robert. Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected. 2 vols. J. R. Smith, 1869. Library of Old Authors series, dark green blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut, frontispiece plate in volume 1, publisher's 56 page catalogue at end of volume 2.

1. Palestine: A Poem recited in the Theatre, Oxford 1803. To which is added The Passage of the Red Sea: A Fragment. London: Printed for Longman, 1809. 4to, 10 1/2" x 8 1/2", printed by Harding & Wright, St. John's Square, London, on 22 leaves of thick paper watermarked "J. Whatman 1807." At the end is bound in: The Book of Jasher. Translated into English from the Hebrew by Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus, of Britain. Bristol: Printed for the Editor, 1829. Contemporary half blue calf gilt, patterned plum red sides, marbled edges, bookplate of the Estcourt Library.

5. Brand, John. Popular Antiquities of Great Britain. 3 vols. Edited from the material collected by John Brand. With very large corrections and additions by W. Carew Hazlitt. J. R. Smith, 1870. Tall 8vo, 9 1/2" x 6", reddish brown cloth, gilt spines, limited to 400 sets of which this is one of the 50 printed on large paper. Bookplates of John Shelly. Inserted is the leaflet prospectus, on which is a brief 5 line ALS from Hazlitt: "It is my own book, 36/the 3 vols to subscribers. . . ." Also the later ALS from him to John Shelly, dated from Kensington, 27 November 1869, indicating that he was sending the set now "as it may be of use to you meanwhile," and that he need not pay until January, which will be publication date. 6. The Feudal Period: Illustrated by a Series of Tales, Romantic and Humorous. Edited by W. Carew Hazlitt. Reeves & Turner, 1873. Green cloth, gilt and black designed and lettered, top and lower edges uncut, brown end-papers. This is a new reprinting of M. Le Grand's Fabliaux (1786), with a 5 page Preface by Hazlitt, dated Kensington, June 1873. 7. Ritson, Joseph. Ancient Songs and Ballads. 3rd ed., carefully revised by W. Carew Hazlitt. Reeves & Turner, 1877. Green boards, half red linen, printed spine label, all edges uncut, brown end-papers. 8. Wainewright, Thomas Griffiths. Essays and Criticisms. Now first collected, with some account of the author. Reeves & Turner, 1880. Smooth red cloth, gilt, spine lettered in 6 lines with one short rule, between ornamental bands top and bottom, all edges uncut, patterned end-papers. The final leaf of the Introduction (signed 'f) was printed as the final leaf of the book (2A8) and transferred by the binder. Autograph Letter 9. ALS, one page crown 8vo, to W. H. Parks, dated from Kensington, 4 March 18~, "I should not recommend the citation of the essay by Lamb in the little volume you have got, as it is doubtless a mere jeu d'esprit. . . ."

Note: At the sale of Miss Cholmondeley's library at Church House, Baschurch (Shrewsbury) on 26 March 1965, I bought an ALS of Sir Walter Scott to Heber's half-brother Richard (the bibliophile), dated 4 June 1803 from Edinburgh with an interesting bearing on this book: "Accept my best and most sincere congratulations on the subject of Reginald's success. I hope you intend to carry through our plan of printing at least a few copies of Palestine which Ballantyne will do with great beauty and correctness in any form which you may pitch upon. . . ." Heber's poem was first printed with the Oxford prize poems in 1807, but the above is the first separate book-form, and appears to have taken the place of the proposed Edinburgh edition of Sir Walter's letter. 2. Poems and Translations. Longman, 1812. 12mo, half brown calf, marbled sides. This collection reprints the prize poem Palestine, and is from the same press of Harding & Wright. Armorial bookplate of Sir Augustus W. Clifford. 3. Hymns, Written and Adapted to the Weekly Service of the Year. John Murray, 1827. Tall 8vo, half red calf, linen sides, all edges gilt, 2 line errata slip inserted at end. This posthumous volume is dedicated by the author's widow to the Archbishop of Canterbury. The first printing of many famous hymns~"The Son of God goes forth to war," "Brightest and best of the sons of the morning," "By cool Siloam's shady rill," "From Greenland's icy mountains" and many others by Heber. Also included was H. H. Milman's "Ride on! ride on in majesty." 4. Another copy of First Edition in contemporary full calf binding. It has the inserted errata slip, but is imperfect, having been bound without the half-title.

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5. Hymns. 4th ed. John Murray, 1828. This edition has an engraved title-page. It is printed in 12's, not 8's, and is much reduced in size (to 6 3/4" x 4"). Contemporary dark blue grained blind-stamped morocco, all edges gilt. On the dedication page is an autograph presentation inscription in the hand of Amelia Heber to the wife of Col. Wildman, who purchased Newstead Abbey from Lord Byron: "Antom'a Wildman, with every kind wish and regard: Killerton. Feb. 8, 1830." There is an additional sentence at the end of her Preface: "Since the publication of the first edition, another Hymn by the Bishop has been found, which is now added to the collection." This is "The winds were howling o'er the deep." In this edition, which is reset at a different printing-house from the First Edition, the 2 errors of the errata slip are corrected.

with gilt borders, elaborately gilt spines with red and blue lettering labels, marbled end-papers and edges. The title-pages are erratically dated between 1850 and 1854. With uniform armorial bookplate of Revd. W. H. Lambert throughout.

6. Sermons Preached in England. John Murray, 1829. Tall 8vo, dark blue morocco gilt, all edges gilt, marbled end-papers, with the Monro armorial bookplate ("Dread God"). 7. Sermons Preached in India. John Murray, 1829. Uniform binding with above, and with same bookplate. With engraved frontispiece. 8. The Poetical Works of Reginald Heber, late Bishop of Calcutta. John Murray, 1841. Foolscap 8vo, contemporary dark blue morocco, gilt, frontispiece portrait, bound for Hatchard & Son (with their stamp). The first collected edition of the poems, with Advertisement dated London, December 1840; it is an uncommon book. Signature on title-page of Lady Georgiana Codrington. 9. The Poetical Works of Reginald Heber. John Murray, 1842. Wine coloured blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 5 lines, all edges uncut, yellow end-papers. This edition, from the same printing house of Bradbury & Evans, has the same frontispiece portrait engraved 1841, but has been entirely reset in a smaller type, so that the collation is now pp. xii, 348, whereas the edition of 1841 was xii, 456, despite the fact that contents are identical. Inscription on end-paper: "Henry Forbes Field, Edinburgh 2nd June 1842." 10. Taylor, Jeremy. The Whole Works. With a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of his Writings by the Rt. Rev. Reginald Heber. Revised and Corrected by the Rev. Charles Page Eden. 10 vols. Longman, 1850-1854. This handsome library set, in a uniform contemporary binding of polished calf

11. The Poetical Works of Reginald Heber. John Murray, 1852. Dark blue blind-stamped cloth, spine elaborately gilt, top edges uncut, others trimmed, yellow end-papers with binder's ticket of Edmonds & Remnants, publisher's 32 page catalogue bound at end dated January 1853. This reprint, again entirely reset, has same engraved portrait dated 1841, same December 1840 Advertisement, but has "A New Edition" on title-page. Contents appear to be identical with 1841. In the inserted catalogue this is described as "Fifth Edition," though the statement nowhere appears in the book. 12. Robinson, Thomas. Archdeacon of Madras. The Last Days of Bishop Heber. Madras: Printed for the Author, 1829. Contemporary half brown calf, marbled boards, 3 line errata slip inserted. This book has no register, but the pagination is [6], 208, 34, 102=175 leaves. To front end-paper is attached a poem in MS in ink, but unsigned, commencing "Yes! we will weep! but not the tear/Of sorrow over Heber's Bier." (21 lines). 13. Heber, Amelia. The Life of Reginald Heber, D.D., Bishop of Calcutta. By His Widow. 2 vols. John Murray, 1830. 4to, original blind-stamped dark blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 7 lines with 2 short rules, and including the price £3. 13. 6d. Top edges uncut, others trimmed. HEMANS (Felicia Dorothea Browne) 1793-1835 1. Poems. By Felicia Dorothea Browne. Liverpool: Printed by G. F. Harris, for T. Cadell and W. Davies, London, 1808. 4to, 8 3/4" x 11", original light blue boards, all edges uncut, lettered upwards on a label on spine~"Miss Browne's/Poems." First Edition of the author's first publication; there is a 19 page List of Subscribers in which her future husband's name appears-"Capt. Hemans, 4th or King's Own Regt, 3 copies." The list of names accounts for 1,150 copies; and though the famous in literature are conspicuously absent, Sheridan, Medwin, Heber and John Wilson Croker did subscribe. An imposing production, decorated with engravings in the

363 HEMANS (Felicia Dorothea Browne) 1793-1835 style of Bewick. It is printed on a thick wove paper watermarked 1806, with end-papers of a thinner wove watermarked 1802 and 1805. 2. The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy: A Poem. By Felicia Hemans. 2nd ed. Oxford, printed by W. Baxter, for J. Murray, London, 1816. Bound in contemporary blue blind-embossed calf, marbled edges, together with 3 other works by the same author (see items 4, 5, and 6 below). 3. Modern Greece: A Poem. John Murray, 1817. Drab brown wrappers, all edges uncut. The author's name does not appear anywhere in book or on binding. 4. Modern Greece: A Poem. New ed. John Murray, 1821. Bound in contemporary blue blind embossed calf, marbled edges, with item 2 above and items 5 and 6 below. 5. The Sceptic, A Poem: Stanzas to the Memory of the Late King. 2nd ed. John Murray, 1821. 6. Tales and Historic Scenes. 2nd ed. John Murray, 1824. 7. The Forest Sanctuary and Other Poems. John Murray, 1825. Tall 8vo, contemporary half dark blue calf, gilt spine with double lettering labels. Has the half-title and appears to be perfect, though the first gathering has 3 leaves only (paged to vi); O8 is blank at end. 8. Another copy of First Edition; has blank OS but lacks the half-title. It is, however, a very tall copy in contemporary half green morocco, edges trimmed but measuring 5 3/16" x 8 5/8". The first copy is more than 1/4" less tall. 9. Songs of the Affections, with Other Poems. Blackwood, 1830. Drab brown boards, entirely uncut, 12 page catalogue of New Works printed for Longman, dated August 1830, sewn in front. The spine has cracked-off this copy, but it is in the primary binding and in clean unsophisticated state. 10. National Lyrics and Songs for Music. Dublin: William Curry, 1834. Smooth dark green cloth, all edges uncut, spine titling label. Al before half-title carries adverts of Mrs. Hemans' books, and is not counted in pagination; Z4 at end carries an advert of the Dublin University Magazine only. Errata slip inserted (14 errors).

HEMANS (Felicia Dorothea Browne) 1793-1835 11. Scenes and Hymns of Life, with other Religious Poems. Blackwood, 1834. Drab brown boards, all edges uncut, spine titling label. Dedicated to Wordsworth. With the Monro bookplate and signature, "Flora B. Monro, Jany 1835.' 12. Songs and Lyrics, Scenes and Hymns, with Other Poems. Blackwood, 1840. Dark brown blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 4 lines, all edges uncut. Engraved frontispiece portrait dated 8 June 1839; the engraved and printed title-pages both 1840. This posthumous publication carries the identical author's dedication of the National Lyrics of 1834; many of the poems are also in common. But the later book contains the prose "Critical Remarks on the Genius of Mrs. Hemans," by Delta, by L. E. L., and by H. F. Chorley and Professor Norton. 13. The Poetical Works of Mrs. Felicia Hemans. Edited, with a Critical Memoir by William Michael Rossetti. Illustrated by Thomas Seccombe. E. Moxon, Son & Company [1873]. Bevelled dark green cloth, gilt, all edges gilt, dark brown end-papers. 14. Memoir of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Hemans. By her Sister. Blackwood, 1844. Deep wine coloured blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered "Hemans'/Memoir," edges uncut. This is the first volume of the 7 volume collected edition of the author's works; the engraved frontispiece portrait is dated 4 April 1839, engraved title 1840, but the printed title 1844. Manuscripts 15. Transcription of her poem "Evening Prayer at a Girls' School" in her autograph in ink, signed at end: "Felicia Hemans, 1st mo 24th, 1826." The poem of 7 six line stanzas has at the end, in a quite different handwriting, the signature "Lydia Albright." Also the manuscripts of 4 other poems, the whole forming 7 sheets: 1. "O Brieze of Spring": 3 stanzas initialed "F. H." at end. 2. "The Cliffs of Dover": 8 quatrains not signed but with "By Mrs. Hemans" in a different handwriting at head. "3. "When late our Monarch deigned to grace once more": a long poem of 84 lines, not signed. 4. Another long poem of 35 lines, signed at end "Felicia H." This may be an early draft, several lines being crossed through and re-written. It commences, "Drops from its bitter fountain on thy name."

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1. Millet, Jean-Francois. Twenty Etchings and Woodcuts. Reproduced in Facsimile, and a Biographical Notice by William Ernest Henley. Fine Art Society, 1881. 4to, 8 1/2" x 12", bevelled grey cloth, gilt-lettered up spine and in 4 lines on upper side, with drawing in black, t.e.g., India Proof Edition, limited to 500 copies. Henley's essay fills 21 pages. This is a gutta-percha volume, printed on stiff cards and not sewn.

the copy, which he bought for 12/6d. in 1889 from Mary Lee, a woman bookseller, who later married James Tregaskis (of Great Russell Street).

2. Donkin, H. Bryan. Voluntaries for an East London Hospital. By the Earl of Lytton [and 19 other names including W. E. Henley]. David Stott, 1887. Bevelled light blue smooth cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges cut, others uncut. The perforated contribution slip is intact in this copy. Dr. Donkin (later Sir H. Bryan Donkin), who provides the introduction, was a life-long friend of Henley. It is significant that at this time (1887) Henley's name was not sufficiently known to be included with the others (Lang, Dobson, Stevenson, et al.) gilt-lettered on upper cover. But the book contained his "Hospital Sketches," 13 poems filling 18 pages, 12 of which were reprinted in the following year in his A Book of Verses. Bears a presentation inscription from Mrs. Charles Cheston, who promoted the charity, to K. E. Dolphin. 3. A Book of Verses. David Nutt, 1888. This is the Japanese vellum state of the Large Paper edition, with certificate in the handwriting of the publisher—"20 copies printed. No. 19 D. Nutt." Cream boards (9 1/4" x 6"), lettered in brown up the spine and in 3 lines on upper side, all edges uncut. There are 2 title-pages, the first with 3 lines in red and the vignette in black, the second in black with sepia impression of the vignette. This form was published at 42/- net. The author has also inscribed it: "To W. Craibef?] Angus, From the Author, 2/7/88," below which he has transcribed a quatrain, "Now I look before, as I look behind," and initialled it. He has also signed the last poem on p. 167, which signature is not found in all 20 copies. 4. Another copy on large paper, same dimensions, but printed on paper. There is no certificate, and it has been stated that only 50 copies were printed, but Michael Sadleir's bibliography states 75. Pale grey-green boards, yapp edges, lettering &c. as in Japanese vellum copies, but in bronze, only one form of title-page (the rubricated style). Paul Lemperly's copy with bookplate; inserted is an interesting page of MS notes on

5. Another copy of the Large Paper issue. This one has author's autograph signature at end. 6. Another copy; this is the ordinary issue-4 1/8" x 6 3/4". Pale green wrappers lettered in brown, t.e.g., others uncut. From the library of Charles Plumptre Johnson with bookplate. It was bound quite contemporarily by Zaehnsdorf in their finest style, olive green crushed levant morocco, elaborate gilt sides and spine with 5 raised bands, brown silk ends with doublures. 7. Pictures at Play. By Two Art-Critics. Illustrated by Harry Furniss. Longmans, 1888. Cream Japanese vellum wrappers lettered and designed in red and black, all edges uncut, (wrappers measure 5 1/4" x 8 3/8"), one of a very small number of copies printed on watermarked handmade paper. The anonymous authors are W. E. Henley and Andrew Lang. 8. Catalogue of a Loan Collection of Pictures by the Great French and Dutch Romanticists of This Century. With an Introduction and Biographical Notes of the Artists by William Ernest Henley. April and May 1889, The Dowdeswell Galleries. Under Revision. Edinburgh, Constable [1889]. Bound (by Henderson & Bisset) in three-quarter red morocco, t.e.g., others uncut. Page 38 is laid down on p. 39 and p. 40 has a printed slip: "The note upon Josef Israels is under revision and will appear in future editions." In Edmund Gosse's Library Catalogue (1893) a copy is described in original yellow boards with Henley's presentation inscription dated 15 April 1889. Gosse's note is, "One of the very few existing copies of the first impression immediately withdrawn in consequence of the severity of the criticism." Perhaps Gosse was not strictly accurate in using the word "withdrawn." 9. A Century of Artists: A Memorial of The Glasgow International Exhibition of 1888. With Historical and Biographical Notes by W. E. Henley and Descriptions of the Pictures by R. Walker. Glasgow: MacLehose, 1889. No. 74 of 215 copies on large paper, with plates on Japanese, upper right corner of cover stamped "Japanese Proofs." 4to, 11 1/4" x 16", rough plum red Holland, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut, end-papers to match cloth. 2A8 at end is blank, followed by one inserted leaf of adverts.

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HENLEY (William Ernest) 1849-1903 10. Views and Reviews: Essays in Appreciation. Literature. David Nutt, 1890. Green vertically ribbed cloth, spine titling label, t.e.g., others uncut. Verso of front free end-paper appears always to have been used to print a list of books "By the same Author." Judging by the chain lines text paper was used, whereas it was certainly not used for rear end-papers. The first unsigned gathering consists of 7 leaves, paginated as far as xii, plus the fly-title. The 4 pages of adverts of A Book of Verses, Second Edition, 1889, at end are printed on p. 7 and p. 8. 11. Another copy, identical with above, save that in this copy the cloth is horizontally ribbed. 12. Another copy of the First Edition. No. 15 of 20 copies printed on Japanese, numbered and initialled by the author. In the original publisher's binding of half maroon leather, cream board sides, t.e.g., uncut. In this state the adverts are printed on verso of a blank leaf before half-title, and not on end-paper; 4 pages are also present before this, on the last verso of which is the limitation certificate, the leaves being otherwise blanks. The 4 pages of adverts are again present at end and printed on Japanese vellum. Inscribed: "W. B. Blackie from W. E. H. 12/11/90." 13. Another copy of First Edition, but this is the second state in vertically ribbed green cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 6 lines with one short rule, upper side with "1890" gilt-stamped lower right hand corner, t.e.g., others uncut. The same 4 page adverts at end, but the end-papers in this state are of a uniform thick wove paper and not adverts printed. The first gathering still consists of 7 leaves. 14. Sir Henry Raeburn. A Selection from his Portraits. . . . With Introduction and Notes by W. E. Henley. Edinburgh: Constable, 1890. Large Paper copy, 10 1/4" x 14 1/4", smooth maroon buckram, gilt-lettered up spine and in circle centre of upper side, t.e.g., others uncut, end-papers to match cloth. 15. Another copy of First Edition, virtually identical but the small paper issue of which the cover dimensions are 10 1/4" x 12 3/4". 16. [Programme of Beau Austin.] Theatre Royal, Haymarket. This evening [November 3rd 1890] at 8:45 (for the first time) an Original Comedy, entitled Beau Austin, By W. E. Henley and Robert Louis Stevenson. [1890]. Original programme, 4 pages, oblong, 7 1/4" x 6 1/2", single folded sheet printed in

HENLEY (William Ernest) 1849-1903 bronze. Accompanying this is a semi-stiff card of cartridge paper printed on one side entirely in red~"Prologue to Beau Austin." This poem of 36 lines is by Henley and dated at foot Haymarket Theatre, 3 November 1890. First collected and reprinted in Three Plays (David Nutt, 1892). 17. [Programme of Richard Savage.] Criterion Theatre, To-day Thursday April 16th 1891, Richard Savage, a new play in Four Acts by J. M. Barrie and H. B. Marriott Watson. [1891]. Single sheet, 8 3/8" x 10 5/8"~3 part oblong folding. Together with the Prologue by W. E. Henley, printed in maroon on a single sheet of cartridge paper folded once to form a 4" x 5" booklet. The text of the 46 line poem occupies both inner pages, ornaments and imprint of David Allen 6 Sons on back page. When this prologue was reprinted in Henley's Works (1908), 5 verbal changes were made. 18. Three Plays. By W. E. Henley and R. L. Stevenson. David Nutt, 1892. No. 2 of 30 copies printed on Japanese vellum paper, signed by the publisher. Cream parchment boards, 5 3/8" x 8 7/8", spine gilt-lettered in 7 lines with one short rule, all edges uncut. The end-papers are of the same Japanese vellum on wliich text is printed. 19. Another copy of the First Edition, the Large Paper issue on Dutch handmade paper, No. 36 of 100 copies signed by the publisher. Same cover dimensions as the Japanese vellum issue. Dark green three-quarter cloth, sides lighter green, all edges uncut, green glazed end-papers. Same gilt-lettering on spine. 20. Another copy of First Edition, the ordinary paper issue in bevelled light green cloth, spine gilt-lettered and "1892" gilt-stamped lower right hand corner of upper side, t.e.g., others uncut, 4 1/2" x 7 1/2". 21. Another copy of ordinary First Edition but in a special publisher's binding of rich brown suede, plum red end-papers, t.e.g., others uncut. Spine lettering appears identical, but upper cover has the 3 play titles gilt-stamped in 3 lines, and not the date. 22. Lyra Heroica: A Book of Verse for Boys. Selected and arranged by W. E. Henley. David Nutt, 1892. Tall 8vo, 5 1/2" x 9 1/8", No. 3 of 100 Large Paper copies on Dutch handmade paper, signed by the publisher. Heavily blind-embossed Japanese boards, t.e.g., others uncut. The upper cover ship design of the ordinary edition is here printed in dark red ink on blank leaf before half-title.

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Charles Plumptre Johnson's copy with his bookplate.

29. Another copy of the First Edition; this is the issue in the cheaper binding of cream linen, with same cover design. In these copies only the top edges were gilded, and the lower cover ornament is in red, which in the superior issue was in gilt.

23. The Song of the Sword and Other Verses. David Nutt, 1892. Green vertically ribbed bevelled cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, spine gilt-lettered in 8 lines, date stamped lower right-hand corner of upper side. A leaf blank save for printer's imprint follows p.[102] and is followed by 18 pages of adverts of Henley's books and a final blank leaf, all of text paper. 24. Another copy of the First Edition; No. 16 of the Large Paper edition, limited to 75 copies, printed on Dutch handmade paper and signed by the publisher. Smooth grey-green boards gilt-lettered up the spine and in 3 lines on upper side, all edges uncut, 5 3/4" x 9", yapp edges. Michael Sadleir's copy with his oval bookplate. 25. The Song of the Sword. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892. The first American edition, entirely reset and printed at the de Vinne Press, but identical pagination &c. 26. London Voluntaries: The Song of the Sword and Other Verses. 2nd ed., revised. David Nutt, 1893. Identical format with the 1892 book, but re-arranged and including an Epilogue (24 lines). This is the first printing of the book under this title. Inscribed: "To Mary Baker from W. E. H. 25/4/94." 27. A Book of English Prose: Character and Incident, 1387-1649. Selected by W. E. Henley and Charles Whibley. Methuen, 1894. Tall 8vo, smooth red buckram, spine gilt-lettered in 9 lines, t.e.g., others uncut. No. 20 of 40 copies signed by the publisher. Charles Plumptre Johnson's copy with bookplate. 28. A London Garland, Selected from Five Centuries of English Verse by W. E. Henley. With Pictures by Members of the Society of Illustrators. Macmillan, 1895. 4to, 8 1/2" x 11 1/4", cream parchment, gilt and red lettered and designed, pale green monogram end-papers, all edges gilt. Henley's preface is dated 27 November 1895, and he inserted at the end of the book 3 of his own poems. It is a testimony to the alert editor that he saw fit to include Binyon's "The Little Dancers," which had been printed only months earlier in the Pall Mall Magazine, and also collected into the private Daniel Press issue of Binyon's Poems.

30. The Plays of W. E. Henley and R. L. Stevenson. Heinemann, 1896. A reprinting of the 3 plays with a fourth-Hoftert Macoire-added. Red buckram, spine titling label, t.e.g., others uncut. Photogravure portraits of each author. No. 54 of 250 copies. 31. Another copy, No. 247, identical with above. 32. The Poetry of Robert Burns. Edited by W. E. Henley and T. F. Henderson. With Etchings by William Hole. 4 vols. Edinburgh: T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1896-1897. The Centenary Burns, Imperial 8vo, 7 3/4" x 11 1/2", buff Holland, spines and upper sides gilt, deep plum red end-papers, t.e.g., others uncut. No. 70 of 90 Large Paper sets, signed by the artist, each volume so numbered and signed. Volume 1 has errata slip. There are 20 etchings by Hole, 5 facsimiles of MSS and 12 portraits of Burns. 33. Byron, Lord. The Works of Lord Byron. Edited by William Ernest Henley. Heinemann, 1897. Volume 1 of a projected edition which was abandoned because of copyright difficulties; it contains the letters, 1804-1813, and the editor's Preface dated 23 November 1896. No further volume was issued. Half cream parchment, green board sides, all edges uncut, frontispiece portrait, end-papers with publisher's monogram stamped in green (same in gilt and blind on upper and lower covers respectively). No. 5 of 150 copies (there were also 100 for America) printed on Van Gelder's handmade paper. 34. Poems. David Nutt, 1898. Tall 8vo, green vertically ribbed cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece. The first book to be issued under this title, and the first attempt at a collected edition. There is a Dedicatory poem to his wife, a 2 page Preface dated 4 September 1897, and a new Epilogue dated July 1897 of a poignancy foreshadowing the manner of his final volume of verses, Hawthorn and Lavender, Bookplate of James J. MacLehose, Glasgow.

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Burns: Life, Genius, Achievement.

Reprinted from The Centenary Burns. Edinburgh: T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1898. Light brick red wrappers, black lettered up spine and on upper side (Price I/-). This is off-printed from the Works (Vol. 4, 1897), original pagination [233]-348 being retained; the frontispiece portrait is a different one. In the sale of Edmund Gosse's Library (Sotheby's, 4 December 1928, part 2, item 357) there was a copy "with the Supplement, of which only 10 copies were Privately printed." 36. Nicholson, William. London Types. [With] Quatorzains. By W. E. Henley [the last words on upper cover only], Heinemann, 1898. 4to, 11 1/4" x 13 3/8" light stone coloured cloth, lettered and designed in red and black: this is the special issue printed on Japanese vellum (no limitation certificate). The index lists only the artist's 13 plates; Henley's poems also number 13, but their titles are different from the drawings and there is a final "Envoy" in facsimile autograph, initialled "W. E. H." 37. Five Songs from A Book of Verses. By W. E. Henley. Set to Music by F. Korbay, with a Title Designed by J. S. Sargent, R.A. Boosey, 1898. 4to, 10" x 12 3/4", semi-stiff wrappers designed and lettered in black. Title page has autograph signatures of the musician and the poet. There is also a presentation inscription from the latter: "W. E. H. to H. B. D., 8/9/98," This is to Henley's old friend Sir H. Bryan Donkin, who had first printed Henley's Hospital Poems in his anthology Voluntaries in 1887. 38. Thierry, C. De. Imperialism. With an Introduction by W. E. Henley. Duckworth, 1898. Beige linen, lettered in black up spine and on upper side, edges cut. G8 at end carries adverts only. 39. For England's Sake: Verses and Songs in Time of War. David Nutt, 1900. Purple wrappers, bronze lettered on upper side, all edges uncut. This book consists of 26 leaves, and the collation is [A] in 6 leaves, B-D in 4's, and E in 8's. Inscribed on half-title: "27/7/'0 W. E. H. to H. P. B." 40. Another copy, inscribed on half-title: "W. E. H. to H. B. D. 25/7/'0." The collation of this copy is identical with the copy above and it appears reasonable to presume this is the First Edition of the book, while the copy described below is definitely second state. This copy has been cased in dark maroon morocco, together with

HENLEY (William Ernest) 1849-1903 the presentation copy of A Song of Speed to Sir H. Bryan Donkin, described below. 41. Another copy, identical in format, text, wrappers and adverts, but apparently reprinted with a different collation, viz: [A]-F4, the whole enclosed in a quarter-sheet, of which the first leaf carries half-title with verso blank and the second leaf is blank at end. In either form the half-title and the adverts fly-title, "Mr. Henley's Works," are not reckoned in the pagination. 42. Steevens, G. W. Things Seen: Impressions of Men, Cities, and Books. Selected and Edited by G. S. Street. With a Memoir by W. E. Henley. Blackwood, 1900. Khaki coloured buckram, gilt-lettered spine in 5 lines, upper side in 2 lines in dark brown, only lower edges cut, frontispiece, U8 at end carries adverts only. This is the first volume of the Memorial Edition; it is dedicated to Henley by the author's widow and Henley's Memoir of his friend occupies 19 pages. 43. Hawthorn and Lavender: Six Songs from the Cyclus of Poems by W. E. H. Set to Music by Charles Willeby. Boosey [1900]. Size 9 3/4" x 12 1/4", 48 pages inset into a quarter-sheet, carrying title on first page with verso blank and adverts on verso only of last leaf (recto blank). Stiffened wrappers lettered in mauve and green, the adverts on lower side printed in mauve only. The 6 poems are: 1. "In the red April Dawn." 2. "All in a garden green." 3. "After the green daylight." 4. "Look down, dear eyes, look down." 5. "Your feet as glad." 6. "A world of leafage murmurous and a-twinkle." When first printed (North American Review, November 1899), they were numbered 4, 8, 10, 14, 19 and 20; one was disfigured by a misprint: "Your feet as glad/And light as a love's [dove's] homing wings, you came." This error persisted in the copyright pamphlet issued by Heinemann in 1899, and again in the musical setting catalogued above. It was not corrected until Henley issued his complete volume through David Nutt in 1901. The present copy of the music is inscribed by Henley on title-page to Sir H. Bryan Donkin: "W. E. H. to H. B. D., 2/7/'0. My dear Horatio, Get some lady who can both sing and play to give you these. If you don't jubilate in them, then am I no true man. As always, W. E. H." The emphatic phrasing of this inscription, to so intimate a friend of 20 or more years standing, is a confirmation of T. F. Henderson's judgment in his memorial notice of the author (DNB, 1912, Second Supplement, p. 244): "The lyric sequence

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printed in the North American Review, 1899, a kind of parable of the spring, summer, autumn, and winter of manhood, contains a more intimate revelation of himself than the earlier poems."

48. Views and Reviews, 1890-1902. A pair of First Editions from the library of Charles Plumptre Johnson with bookplates. Mr. Johnson had them bound contemporarily by his binder (Zaehnsdorf), uniform three-quarter olive green levant morocco, spines with raised bands, marbled sides and end-papers, t.e.g., others uncut.

44. Hawthorn and Lavender, with Other Verses. David Nutt, 1901. Uniform green cloth format with Poems (1898). P2, followed by Q and R carry 7 leaves of adverts of "Mr. Henley's Works" at end. This must be considered the first published edition as it was preceded by 2 private printings, of which the British Library copies are the only ones known to me. Each bears the same title above the London imprint of William Heinemann. The first, of 16 pages, bears the British Museum reception date of 31 October 1899 and prints the first 24 poems, dated February-August 1899, prefaced by an Envoy of 3 quatrains commencing, "My songs were once of the sunrise." The second, of which the title-page is dated 1901, before which has been inserted by pen "31.5," is in 2 parts with a second title-page and British Museum reception dates of 4 January 1901 and 4 September 1901. These contain poems XXV-XLIV and XLV-L. There was considerable revision and re-arrangement before Nutt's edition appeared. 45. Hawthorn and Lavender, with Other Verses. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1901. Green cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered and elaborately designed with lavender flowers, t.e.g., others uncut. The first New York edition, entirely reset. Copyright notice on verso title-page at foot is in 3 lines, including "November, 1901." 46. I[n]. M[emoriam]. Reginae Dilectissimae Victoriae, 24 May 1819: 22 January 1901. Small folio, a sheet of handmade paper watermarked "W. S. H. & Co./1900," folded once to form a 4 page booklet (8 1/2" x 13 1/2"). This 113 line Memorial Ode ends on p.[4] and is signed in print, "W. E. Henley/Worthing, Feb. 1, 1901." No printer's imprint. In a hand not unlike the author's there is a correction in ink in Section IV, where 3 words are deleted, making the line "English-Never will you," which reading was followed when the poem was included in Henley's Works (1908). 47. Views and Reviews II. Art. David Nutt, 1902. First Edition of the second volume, which was issued uniformly with the second state of the first, i.e., gilt-lettered on spine and with upper cover dated 1902. No copies were issued with a spine titling label. Preliminaries consist of 8 leaves paginated to xvi, the first being blank; the final leaf L8 is also blank.

49. A Song of Speed. David Nutt, 1903. Green semi-stiff wrappers lettered in bronze, 36 pages (including adverts). Inscribed on title-page: "Woking. W. E. H. to H. B. D. 12/5/1903." This and the second copy of For England's Sake (David Nutt, 1900) above, have not been re-sewn, or disturbed in any way but merely cased together in a limp leather cover, with their wrappers and adverts left in place. Less than a month after writing this inscription to his old friend the author died. 50. A Song of Speed. David Nutt, 1903. Orange wrappers, upper side lettered in 4 lines in black This state is considerably commoner than the superior green wrappered one, and as contemporary presentations of the latter are available, and no inscribed copy has been noted in orange wrappers, it is reasonable to assume that such copies were made-up after the author's death. Unluckily, Michael Sadleir only described the orange wrappers in his first attempt at a Henley bibliography (Book Collector, Vol. 5, 1956, p. 168). 51. Poems. 6th ed. David Nutt, 1903. This is the first impression to be issued posthumously, the author having died in July. This is in identical format with the 1898 edition and with the same pagination; the revisions are mainly in the Preface, where they are slight. A spelling modernisation is also made in the Epilogue. 52. The Works of W. E. Henley. 7 vols. David Nutt, 1908. Smooth dark blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, portrait, plum red end-papers. Bookplate of Alda Hoare in each volume and with her inscription: "Stourhead, May 18, 1908" in first four; for the last three the date changes to "Sept. 2nd, 1908." (This is Lady Hoare of Stourhead, Wilts.) 53. Another set of the First Edition, with an extra leaf in each volume before the half-title: "Private Edition/Six Copies on Japanese Vellum/No. 4/Printed For/James Matthew Barrie." On the half-title of volume 1 is the dramatist's autograph signature, "J. M. Barrie." Printed throughout on Japanese vellum, bound in glazed white boards, all

369 HENLEY (William Ernest) 1849-1903 edges gilt, double blue leather titling labels on spines. In the sale of Barrie's library (Sotheby's, 20 December 1937) this set was bought by A. C. R. Carter, journalist and editor of The Year's Art, who has annotated the end-paper in volume 1. He also bought the 2 Henley letters to Barrie (see item 58) and, in a later lot the original MS of "Invictus": "Out of the night that covers me" (4 quatrains). He later relinquished it to Mr. James Cormack, Canadian Trade Commissioner in Bristol, who was related to Henley. 54. Some Letters of W. E. Henley. With an Introduction by de V. Payen-Payne. Privately printed, 1933. 60 pages, sewn into pale blue wrappers, upper side lettered in black, all edges uncut, frontispiece facsimile MS and 4 pages of plates, No. 12 of only 60 copies printed. The majority of these letters are addressed to H. B. Marriott-Watson. Manuscripts and Autograph Letters 55. Original holograph manuscripts of 18 poems, written in ink on 13 sheets of ruled exercise paper, 8" x 10 1/4", and signed at end. The titles are "Lazarus," "Outcry," "Ennui," "Comfort," "Love and Death" (earlier title "Etude de femme" cancelled), "Anacreontic," "Sea dream," "Moonshine," "Picture," "Erotics," "Legend," "Anterotics," "Summer Fancy," "Song," "A Mate for a Month," "Winter Wakefulness," "Spring Sorrow" and "Romance." They appear to have had the benefit of an early critic, who pencils remarks in margins. Pace Hardy, beside one word "moveless" he pencils "no such word." Henley himself actually changed the word to "rigid" ("His feet looked rigid") when he re-modelled the poem, changing its title at the same time to Casualty. Other pencil notes are by Henley and include: "These two lines are not right, but they lick me fairly. W. E. H." In this instance the whole quatrain was omitted from the final printing of "Operation." This important manuscript became the property of the late Dr. Eli Moscheowitz of New York, and was sold with his Library in Sotheby's, 1 December 1964, item 507, when I purchased it. 56. ALS, 2 pages on Scots Observer notepaper dated Edinburgh, 10 May 1889 to "My Dear Gleeson White." About his "flattering recognition of our existence in the current Macmillan," and a contribution, "Some Modern Biographies," which Henley has had "to touch up a little . . . I hope you didn't resent it very bitterly." An important letter with interesting references to the 80 copies still unsold of the First Edition of A Book of Verses: " . . . after urging our second through

HENLEY (William Ernest) 1849-1903 the press at such a rate that I couldn't do justice to my proofs. . . . " "The Emperor [his daughter] has just cut two teeth, and is perfectly magnificent generally." 57. ALS, one page to his publisher Nutt on Scots Observer notepaper, dated Edinburgh 17 February 1890. About new poems-some 80 poems, concluding, "Ever yours backwardly W. E. H." 58. 2 ALS to J. M. Barrie, Esq., 5 pages closely written. The first, on his Merton Place, Chiswick notepaper dated 28 May 1888, commencing "Dear Sir" and concluding "Very faithfully yours W. E. H." may well be the earliest addressed to him. He has sent his "own little book," and has been glad to receive Auld Licht Idylls, which "I had read in the St. James Gazette with peculiar pleasure." Gives important details of the Hospital Poems contributed to The Cornhill in 1875, of the characters and the events commemorated, mentioning Lister and Stevenson (whose New York address he gives). This original is the actual letter (still in Barrie's possession in 1922 when he was composing his St. Andrews rectorial address) from which he quoted to his audience (see Courage, Hodder & Stoughton, 1922, p. 29). The second letter, on Stanley Lodge, Muswell Hill notepaper, dated 7 July 1896, commences "Dear Wendie," and is perhaps the sole surviving letter by Henley in which Barrie is so addressed: "You are by way of being a most awful little swell. The new number is merely tip-top from end to end." About Scott and Byron: "It is so easy to show that these two radiant and distinguished spirits knew and loved each other" &c. "The Chatelaine [Mrs. Henley] has hiked herself sore. But she's coming on, and very soon will ride." 59. ALS on a 4to sheet of his St. George's Lodge, Worthing notepaper to his publisher, "My dear Alfred," dated 22 March 1901. Entirely about First Editions of his books, particularly the plays written in collaboration with Stevenson, and the prices they had recently fetched in a sale in Hodgson's (Chancery Lane). 60. An interesting ALS, 2 pages oblong 8vo, on his blue Heather Brae (Woking) notepaper dated 18 January 1903, to Charles Baxter, "My dear Charles," and concluding, "Your Ever Affectionate (Always) W. E. H." "On Thursday 22nd, we celebrate (furtively & shyly, as becomes our modest place in the World of Letters) our Silver Wedding Day! So far as I know, the tryst is Cafil Verrey 1 p.m."

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HENLEY (William Ernest) 1849-1903 Secondary Material 61. Cornford, L. Cope. W. E. Henley. Constable, 1913. Green blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine, frontispiece. A volume of the Modern Biographies series. 62. Williamson, Kennedy. W. E. Henley: A Memoir. Harold Shaylor, 1930. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, gilt spine, frontispiece. 63. Buckley, Jerome Hamilton. W. E. Henley: A Study in the "CounterDecadence" of the 'Nineties. Princeton University Press, 1945. Tall 8vo, silver-grey linen, black cloth spine gilt-lettered, upper side with drawing of Henley in white enamel, 4 illustrations. This book, which is printed in the U.S.A., also bears, at foot verso of title-page, the imprint: "London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press," 64. Connell, John. W. E. Henley. Constable, 1949. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt spine, top edges stained red and plum red end-papers, 11 illustrations, in pictorial dust-jacket (21/- net). Note: In the H. B. Marriott Watson collection are 2 books inscribed to Henley: Diogenes in London (1893), and The Rebel (1900). The first is the dedication copy, Henley having found room for these earliest of Marriott's stories in the columns of his National Observer. The second he "read with no end of pleasure" (letter dated 9 July 1900, printed by Payen-Payne, 1907). HENNIKER (Hon. Florence Ellen Hungerford Milnes) 1855-1923 1. Outlines. Hutchinson, 1894. Dark blue smooth cloth, spine and upper side gilt-designed and lettered, all edges uncut, frontispiece portrait. This is the collection of 4 stories which Mrs. Henniker dedicated: "To my friend Thomas Hardy, these little stories are inscribed. December 1893." Inscribed on half-title: "To Mr. F. Wedmore from F. Henniker, with affectionate remembrances & admiration for his short stories. Nov. 1910." 2. In Scarlet and Grey: Stories of Soldiers and Others, and The Spectre of the Real. By Thomas Hardy and Florence Henniker. 2nd ed. John Lane, 1896. Smooth red cloth, spine and upper side lettered and designed in gilt and black, all edges uncut, a volume of the Keynotes Series, designed by Beardsley.

HENNIKER (Hon. Florence Ellen Hungerford Milnes) 1865-1923 Inscribed on half-title: "To Mr. Anstey Guthrie with very best regards from Florence Henniker, Jan 1898." 3. Sowing the Sand. Harper & Bros., 1898. Light fawn linen, pictorially designed in red and black, top edges uncut, others trimmed. 4. Contrasts. John Lane, 1903. Light green cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered in double rule panels, top edges cut, others uncut. Inscribed on half-title: "13, Stratford Place. Dear Mr. Wedmore: I shall be very glad if you find anything in this little book that you like. Very sincerely yours, Florence Henniker." 5. Another copy of the First Edition, identical with above. This copy bears the author's full autograph signature, dated November 1907 on verso of half-title. 6. Our Fatal Shadows. By the Hon. Mrs. Arthur Henniker. Hurst & Blackett, 1907. Rebound in light green buckram, yellow leather spine lettering label, t.e.g., others trimmed. Inscribed on half-title: "Millicent Wedmore from F. Henniker, Dec/14." 7. Second Fiddle. By the Hon. Mrs. Arthur Henniker. Eveleigh Nash, 1913. Popular Edition, January 1913. (First Edition was published February, 1912). Rebound uniformly with Our Fatal Shadows, but colour of buckram is red. With similar author's presentation inscription on half-title. This is the work in which Mrs. Hennicker quotes (without any acknowledgement) on p. 259, a poem of Thomas Hardy in 2 quatrains. These are the second and third quatrains of "The Division"-the text being as found in Hardy's Times's Laughingstocks (1909), which was later considerably revised for the Collected Poems. One can hardly suppress the reflection-"At least, she remembered the poems." See the Thomas Hardy collection. 8. Cundall, H. M. Birket Foster, R.W.S. A. & C. Black, 1906. Square 8vo, blue cloth, gilt-lettered, spine and upper side designed in red and green, t.e.g., others trimmed. A volume of the publisher's 20 shilling Colour Books Series, with advertiser at end dated September 1906. There is a presentation inscription on half-title, presumably to Mrs. Henniker from her husband Arthur, dated Christmas, 1906.

371 HENNIKER (Hon. Florence Ellen Hungerford Milnes) 1855-1923 On end-paper Miss Wedmore has written: "Left me by dear Mrs. Henniker (Honble Mrs. Arthur Hennicker) in her Will. Millicent Wedmore." HEWLETT (Maurice Henry) 1861-1923 1. Earthwork out of Tuscany, being Impressions and Translations. Dent, 1895. Smooth green buckram, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece. Limited to 500 copies. First Edition of the author's first book. 2. A Masque of Dead Florentines. . . . By Maurice Hewlett, Pictured by J. D. Batten. Dent, 1895. Oblong 4to, 7 3/4" x 9", beige coloured buckram, upper side lettered and designed in red and black, t.e.g., others uncut. 3. Another copy of First Edition; the issue in plain cream cloth, upper side lettered in 3 lines in gilt, also gilt-lettered up spine. These copies have all edges uncut, but do not appear any taller; cover is without any design save for single rule blind frame. 4. Songs and Meditations. Archibald Constable, 1896. Smooth brown buckram, spine gilt-lettered all edges uncut. This is probably the first binding: there was certainly one other, of a dark olive green shade of vertically ribbed cloth. 5. The Forest Lovers: A Romance. Macmillan, 1898. Green cloth, stamped with forest design in dark green on spine and upper side, all edges uncut. Spine gilt-lettered in 6 lines. This is the state in which verso of title carries "Copyrighted in the United States"; half-title is present, pagination of preliminaries is viii and there has been no cancellation. 6. Another copy of First Edition; the state without half-title, in which verso of title-page is blank. No visible evidence of cancellation, and pagination viii remains. Author's autograph signature on title-page. 7. Another copy; identical state with above. Signature of H. E. Walthew dated October 1898 on front end-paper. 8. Pan and the Young Shepherd: A Pastoral in Two Acts. John Lane, 1898. Green cloth, spine and upper side lettered and ruled in darker green, all edges uncut. K7 and K8 are blanks at end, save that the first has printer's ornamental imprint centre verso.

HEWLETT (Maurice Henry) 1861-1923 9. Pan and the Young Shepherd. 2nd ed. John Lane, 1899. Green cloth, identical with above save that imprint at foot of spine is in 5 lines (not 4), by the addition of "The." The date is changed and the words "Second Edition" added on verso of title-page at foot, otherwise identical with 1898 edition. Bookplate of William Harold Graham and his autograph signature dated August 1902 on blank leaf before half-title. Loosely inserted are 2 author's ALS to him on the author's 7 Northwick Terrace, N.W., notepaper. The first is dated 22 January 1902. The second, and longer, letter of 1910 is on two 4to sheets. 10. Earthwork out of Tuscany. 2nd ed., revised. Dent, 1899. Smooth green buckram, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut. This edition has a new 6 page Preface by the author and 18 illustrations by James Kerr-Lawson. 11. Earthwork out of Tuscany. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; London: J. M. Dent, 1899. Another copy of the Second Edition, identical sheets printed by Turnbull & Spears in Edinburgh, but the American portion of the issue, with imprint of Putnam and Dent on title-page. The binding is green silk-cloth with same gilt-lettering on spine save for "Putnam" at foot, where the London issue has "J. M. Dent & Co." 12. Little Novels of Italy. Chapman & Hall, 1899. Light green cloth, black lettered and designed on spine and upper side, top edges cut, others uncut. The first and the last of the 5 stories collected here had been separately and Privately printed by Macmillan earlier in the year to secure American copyright. 13. The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay. Macmillan, 1900. Bright blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, upper side also with heraldic shield in red and gilt, t.e.g., others cut; 2E at end appears to consist of 10 leaves of which the last 3 carry adverts only, followed by publisher's Autumn Season 1900 16 page list dated at end 5.10.00. 14. New Canterbury Tales. Constable, 1901. Dark green cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered and with large coloured rose device on upper side, all edges uncut; this copy unopened throughout. Pp. 318-320 at end carry adverts only, followed by publisher's 16 page 1901 catalogue.

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15. The Chartreuse of Parma. Translated from the French of de Stendhal by the Lady Mary Lloyd. With a Critical Introduction by Maurice Hewlett. Heinemann, 1902. Tall 8vo, light blue linen, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait. A volume of A Century of French Romance series, edited by Edmund Gosse. There are 4 coloured plates by Avril and 7 portraits of Stendhal. Publisher's blind "Presentation Copy" stamp on title-page; this copy belonged to Harry Hooton and has his signature and interesting pencil notes on Hewlett's 18 page essay, which is dated July 1901. There is a 2 page Biographical Note by Edmund Gosse.

very similar, but were undoubtedly made-up more than once. The volume number on spine in this set is in 12 point, whereas in first issue it was in 10 point; size of lettering of Macmillan & Co. imprint at foot also varies between copies.

16. Little Novels of Italy. Macmillan, 1902. Blue vertically ribbed cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, which also has an ornament blind-stamped 8 times, t.e.g., others cut, publisher's 16 page Autumn 1902 catalogue, dated 25.10.02. at end. This is an entirely reset edition (by R. & R. Clark) of the First Edition published by Chapman & Hall in 1899. 17. The Queen's Quair, or, The Six Years' Tragedy. Macmillan, 1904. Crimson cloth, elaborately gilt-designed with M monogram, crowns &c., t.e.g., others cut; 2K8 at end carries adverts of "Works By Maurice Hewlett," followed by publisher's 16 page catalogue dated at end 10.4.04. 18. The Road in Tuscany: A Commentary. 2 vols. Macmillan, 1904. Bright red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others cut. Errata slip (1 error in each volume) inserted before p. 1. Al is blank before half-title in each volume; also list of plates and illustrations in each. 19. The Road in Tuscany. 2 vols. New York: Macmillan Co., 1904. Light blue cloth, lettered and designed in white enamel and gilt, t.e.g., others lightly trimmed. The American First Edition, printed at the Norwood Press and appears to follow closely the R. & R. Clark Edinburgh printing; the same 2 errors occur, and there is no errata slip inserted. The Pennell illustrations are the same. 20. The Road in Tuscany: A Commentary. By Maurice Hewlett. With Illustrations by Joseph Pennell. 2 vols. Macmillan, 1904. Bright red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others cut, same errata inserted in volume 1. This is the second state of First Edition in which the title-pages are cancel leaves pasted on stubs. The artist's name has been added on rectos. The same Pennell illustrations are found in both states. Binding cases appear

21. Fond Adventures: Tales of the Youth of the World. Macmillan, 1905. Blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, also with blind-stamped heart design, t.e.g., others cut; 2D3 and 2D4 at end carry only adverts of other books by Hewlett, followed by 16 page publisher's catalogue dated at end 5.2.05. 22. The Fool Errant. Heinemann, 1905. Green cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, upper side pictorially designed in white enamel and gilt, all edges cut. Publisher's windmill device in blind centre of lower cover. 23. Pan and the Young Shepherd: A Pastoral in Two Acts. Heinemann, 1906. Light blue rough buckram, lettered and designed in darker blue, publisher's circular monogram centre of lower cover, edges cut. Pp.[102-104] at end are blank. An abridged version for stage presentation; the publisher's note of this on verso of title-page appears to indicate that the Second Edition of 1899 was still available new, but from Heinemann (not from John Lane). 24. The Stooping Lady. Macmillan, 1907. Blue cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, design of griffins, blind-stamped 38 times, t.e.g., others cut, 4 leaves of publisher's adverts dated N.30.8.07 at end. Al is blank and A2 the same save for list of books "By the Same Author" on verso. 25. The Spanish Jade. Cassell, 1908. Blue cloth, lettered spine and upper side in light red, edges cut, glazed coloured pictorial end-papers, 4 coloured plates by William Hyde. 26. Halfway House: A Comedy of Degrees. Chapman & Hall, 1908. Bright red cloth, gilt, only lower edges uncut. 27. Artemision: Idylls and Songs. Elkin Mathews, 1909. Blue bevelled linen, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges cut, others uncut, 18 at end blank save for printer's imprint centre verso. 28. Another copy of First Edition; the Large Paper issue limited to 250 copies only. Smooth light brown buckram, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges cut, others uncut. Ordinary edition has "First Published. April 1909/A11 Rights Reserved" on verso of title-page; in Large Paper copies these lines

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are replaced by the limitation certificate, set in 2 lines. Also, in the imprint on recto of title-page, the Large Paper copies have 2 additional lines—"New York/Charles Scribner's Sons."

35. Another copy of the First Edition; this is the superior issue in dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered up spine and on upper side, top edges cut, others uncut.

29. Open Country: A Comedy with a Sting. Macmillan, 1909. Green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, which also has a landscape design in gilt, t.e.g., fore-edges cut, lower edges uncut. In pale green dust-jacket, printed and designed in darker green. Pp.[317-324] at end carry adverts only, and are separately numbered 1-8, followed by 4 leaves of publisher's adverts dated Autumn 1909.

36. Earthwork out of Tuscany. Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1911. Green boards, spine titling label, all edges uncut, edition limited to 700 copies. This pirated edition is a reprint of the book of 1895 with the essay "Boils" added; it also reprints the 3 sonnets for figures of Sandro Botticelli, which appeared in the Academy in 1893 and of which this is the first book form appearance. There is a 6 page Bibliographical Foreword by the publisher.

30. Letters to Sanchia upon Things as They are. Macmillan, 1910. Cream parchment wrappers folded over stiff card, gilt-lettered up spine and on upper side within rectangular single rule frame, all edges uncut. The collation of this book is [A]4, B-F8, G4. Page vii is mispaged vi or, conversely, the blank leaf is ignored in reckoning. The letters here printed are extracted from Open Country and have an author's "Advertisement" dated February 1910 and an 11 page Introduction. G4 at end carries adverts of "Works By Maurice Hewlett." 31. Rest Harrow: A Comedy Of Resolution. Macmillan, 1910. Green cloth, uniform format with Open Country, t.e.g., fore-edges cut, lower edges uncut. Pp.[391-392] at end carry adverts of Maurice Hewlett's books, followed by 4 leaves of Macmillan's adverts. 32. Brazenhead the Great. Smith Elder, 1911. Crimson buckram, gilt-lettered on spine, black lettered on upper side, t.e.g., fore-edges trimmed, only lower edges uncut. Al is blank before half-title; Y8 at end carries publisher's adverts only. Portions of this narrative had appeared previously in Fond Adventures (1905). 33. The Agonists: A Trilogy of God and Man. Macmillan, 1911. Blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges uncut. Al is blank before half-title; Q7 and Q8 at end carry adverts of Maurice Hewlett's books. Publisher's blind "Presentation Copy" stamp on title. 34. Thorley, Wilfred. Confessional and Other Poems. With a Preface by Maurice Hewlett. Elkin Mathews, 1911. Royal 16mo, dark blue wrappers lettered and designed in black, top edges cut, others uncut. No. 79 of the publisher's Vigo Cabinet Series. Hewlett's Preface is of 7 pages.

37. The Song of Renny. Macmillan, 1911. Blue blind-stamped cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others cut; 2E at end appears to consist of 10 leaves, of which the last 6 carry publisher's adverts only and are dated at end N.20.8.11. A "remainder" state of the sheets is reputed to exist, bound blue cloth without design, and in which the last 2 leaves of adverts are not. present. 38. Mrs. Lancelot: A Comedy of Assumptions. Macmillan, 1912. Smooth dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others cut; Z3 and A4 at end carry adverts of books by the author only, followed by "Macmillan's New Fiction," paginated 1-8. The first leaf before half-title is blank save for adverts of books by the author in a rectangular frame on verso. 39. Bendish: A Study in Prodigality. Macmillan, 1913. Dark blue cloth, gilt, upper side with large ornament, t.e.g., others cut. X2-4 at end are 3 leaves carrying adverts of books by Hewlett only, followed by publisher's 8 page Autumn Books 1913 list. 40. Helen Redeemed and Other Poems. Macmillan, 1913. Blue linen, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges uncut. The blank Al before half-title is not reckoned in pagination; final gathering P appears to consist of 10 leaves, of which the last 3, paginated 1-6, carry adverts only. 41. Lore of Proserpine. Macmillan, 1913. Blue buckram, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. The blank Al before half-title is not reckoned in pagination; Pp.[289-292] at end, which carry adverts of books by Maurice Hewlett only, are paginated 1-4.

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42. Poems of Vision and Dream. Elkin Mathews, 1914. One gathering, 16 pages, unopened and uncut and never pierced for sewing. This is not strictly a book and is certainly not published; it is the first gathering of Gai Saber, which was eventually published in 1916. The text of "Cormac, Son of Ogmund," up to page 16, appears to be identical with the text as finally published; but this projected book was shorter-consisting of 21 sections only with the Notes commencing on p. 117. In Contents leaf of 1916 edition the Notes do not commence until p. 171.

end 10 August 1916. They are printed by Clay, whereas the book is printed by Clark in Edinburgh.

43. A Ballad of "The Gloster" and "The Goeben." The Poetry Bookshop [1914]. Folio (7 1/2" x 11"), single sheet of laid paper, folded once to form a 4 page booklet. The poem is in 18 quatrains, and there are 6 woodcut illustrations in blue and black; it was later included in Gai Sober (1916). 44. The Little Iliad. Illustrated by Sir Philip Burne-Jones, Bart. Heinemann, 1915. Pale plum coloured cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side lettered and designed in black within an oblong frame, only lower edges uncut. In coloured pictorial dust-jacket; 4 coloured illustrations on art paper. T7 and T8 at end are 2 blanks, save that the first carries Ballantyne Press 3 line imprint centre recto. 45. A Lovers' Tale. Illustrated by Maurice Greiffenhagen. Ward Lock, 1915. Crimson blind-stamped cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges cut. Nine illustrations on art paper. Publisher's Popular Fiction list of 16 pages at end appears to be printed on a sheet of text paper. 46. Frey and His Wife. Ward Lock, 1916. Red cloth, spine gilt-lettered and blind designed, upper side lettered and designed in blind, all edges cut, frontispiece and one other illustration on art paper. 47. Gai Saber: Tales and Songs. Elkin Mathews, 1916. Pale green cloth, top edges cut, others uncut. The 6 lines of lettering on spine appear to be in darker green, but this is possibly oxidized gilt. Upper side lettered in black in 3 lines. L8 at end carries advert of Hewlett's Artemision on recto, with Chiswick Press imprint on verso. 48. Love and Lucy. Macmillan, 1916. Dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges cut. P.[344] at end is blank, followed by 4 pages of publisher's adverts, of which the inner are paginated 2 and 3, dated at

49. The Song of the Plow: Being the English Chronicle. Heinemann, 1916. Tall 8vo, light green cloth, spine and upper side lettered in darker green, all edges cut (top may be stained faintly green). An erratum slip is inserted at p. 211. Publisher's windmill device is in green centre of lower cover. 50. The Song of the Plow. Heinemann, 1916. Handmade Paper Edition, No. 2 of 100 copies signed by the author, and with a photogravure frontispiece after A. S. Hartrick. The same erratum slip is found at p. 211. Tall 8vo (6" x 10"), half cream parchment with titling label printed in green, pale grey board sides, all edges uncut. In printed dust-jacket (15/- net). This is a remarkable instance, despite war-time conditions, showing how cheaply Editions-de-luxe could be produced. 51. The Loving History of Peridore and Paravail. Collins, 1917. Pale blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges cut, others uncut. 52. Thorgils of Treadholt. Illustrated by H. R. Miller. Ward Lock, 1917. Red cloth, blind-stamped, lettered in black on spine and upper side, all edges cut. 53. The Village Wife's Lament. Martin Seeker, 1918. Grey boards with spine titling label printed in brown, top edges cut, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (3/6 net). Publisher's 16 page 1917 Complete Catalogue at end. 54. Merrick, Leonard. Cynthia. With an Introduction by Maurice Hewlett. Hodder & Stoughton [1918]. Dark blue vertically ribbed blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 8 lines, upper side with author's monogram in gilt, only lower edges uncut. Pp.[339-400] at end blank. 55. The Outlaw. Constable, 1919. Red cloth, lettered spine and upper side in black, all edges cut. S7 and S8 at end carry publisher's adverts. 56. Flowers in the Grass (Wiltshire Plainsong). Constable, 1920. Light blue boards, spine titling label printed in red, all edges uncut. F4 at end is blank save for Chiswick Press imprint centre recto.

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57. In a Green Shade: A Country Commentary. G. Bell, 1920. Green cloth, spine lettered in white enamel, edges cut.

certificate are not reckoned in pagination, and Q3 and Q4 at end are blank save for printer's imprint centre verso of first.

58. The Light Heart Chapman & Hall, 1920. Bright red cloth, spine and upper side lettered in black, only lower edges uncut. Al is blank before half-title and is not included in reckoning. Pp.[218-224] at end carry only adverts.

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59. Mainwaring. W. Collins, 1920. Blue cloth, spine lettered in red, upper side in 2 lines in blind, edges cut. P.[242] carries only printer's imprint in centre, followed by 2 leaves of publisher's adverts. 60. Wiltshire Essays. Humphrey Milford, 1921. Green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, edges cut. Covers have blind-stamped ornamental borders, continued across spine top and bottom. P6 at end is blank. 61. Extemporary Essays. Humphrey Milford, 1922. Brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, edges cut. Blind-stamped frame round sides. This copy is in the first state with pp. 15-16 uncancelled, and the last paragraph on p. 16 beginning, "He had a mentally afflicted wife. . . ." Later issues have either a cancel leaf or a newly printed gathering, with a revised text. 62. Last Essays. Heinemann, 1924. Blue buckram, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges cut, others uncut. In printed dust-jacket (8/6d. net). X2 at end is blank save for printer's imprint in centre verso. Publisher's windmill device blind-stamped lower right-hand corner of lower cover. 63. The Letters of Maurice HewlettEdited by Laurence Binyon. With Introductory Memoir by Edward Hewlett. Methuen, 1926. Tall 8vo, green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, top edges cut, others uncut, 4 illustrations. In printed dust-jacket (18/- net). Pp.[297-304] at end carry "A Selection From Messrs. Methuen's Catalogue," paginated [l]-8 and dated at foot 9.25. 64. The Iliad of Homer. The First Twelve Staves Translated into English by Maurice Hewlett. With a Foreword by Lascelles Abercrombie. Cresset Press, 1928. Imperial 8vo, 7 1/2" x 11 1/2", half cream parchment, gilt-lettered, brick red smooth buckram sides, gilt ornament lower right-hand corner of upper side, t.e.g., others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (Fifty Shillings net). No. 250 of 750 copies; 2 blank leaves in front before the limitation

65. ALS to "Dear Mathews" [his publisher, Elkin Mathews], one page on a folded sheet of his Elm Tree Farm notepaper, dated 16 March 1916. Requests "a print of Gai Saber" which he has to read at a concert of Miss Asquith's on 11 April. 66. ALS, one page, 4to on his Broad Chalke, Salisbury notepaper, dated 27 January 1923 to Mr. Pickstone. A very hostile letter, presumably in response to some appeal for autographs. Note: There are also autograph letters of Hewlett inserted, as noted earlier, in Pan and the Young Shepherd (1899). HICKEY (Emily Henrietta) 1845-1924 1. A Sculptor and Other Poems. Kegan Paul, 1881. Dark greenish brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side with blue ornamental bands and publisher's imprint in blue, "KPT & Co.," centre of lower cover. Blue patterned end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn & Co. Publisher's 48 page catalogue at end dated January 1883. Corrections or additional lines in author's hand in ink appear on 6 pages. First Edition of the author's first book. Inscribed on half-title: "Roden Noel from Emily H. Hickey, March 1889." 2. Verse-Tales, Lyrics and Translations. Liverpool: W. and J. Arnold, 1889. The first state, with original title-page. Square 8vo, light blue boards, printed spine label, t.e.g., others uncut. This book has no additional printer's imprint anywhere, nor any register. Title-page is in red and black and first initial of each poem is rubricated. This is the only copy I have heard of with the dedicatory poem "Nest," and is probably unique. 3. Another copy of First Edition with autograph certificate on blank leaf before title-page. This is No. 8 of only 50 Large Paper copies printed. Same style binding as small paper copy, but cover dimensions are 6 7/8" x 8 1/2". The fly-title, "Nest," and the poem itself, "How was it, Dear. I know not, nor can know," 10 stanzas of 3 lines dated at end August 1888 (i.e., 2 leaves, pp. i-iv), have been removed from this copy. The poem never appears in the Contents page which follows,

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HICKEY (Emily Henrietta) 1845-1924 nor are the leaves ever present in copies of the sheets as issued with a new title by Elkin Mathews later in the year. The poem is of the nature of a dedication. 4. Verse-Tales, Lyrics and Translations. Elkin Mathews, 1889. It appears that 300 sets of sheets, from which the Liverpool title was removed, as also the 2 following leaves with the poem "Nest," were issued with a newly printed title-page bearing the Elkin Mathews imprint, which had the printer's imprint of John Robb on verso. The collation of these is pp. vii, 120. Size and binding identical with Liverpool issue, t.e.g., uncut. 5. Michael Villiers, Idealist and Other Poems. Smith Elder, 1891. Bevelled dark blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 9 lines with one short rule, all edges uncut, toned dark green end-papers. The preliminaries consist of 3 leaves [A], so paginated and the final gathering N appears to consist of 9 leaves, of which the last carries adverts on recto, with verso blank. 6. Poems. Elkin Mathews, 1896. Smooth light green buckram, gilt-lettered on spine and upper side, all edges uncut, frontispiece. E 5-8 carry author's acknowledgements, list of author's works, small ornament and printer's imprint, each of the 4 leaves having blank verso; following these is publisher's 20 page 1895-96 List, in which this book is listed as "In Preparation." Inscribed on title-page: "Percy A. S. Hickey from Emily Hickey. New Year 1907." On p. 48 two lines are re-written in the author's hand in ink. 7. Lois: The Story of a Friendship. R. & T. Washbourne [? 1908]. Light green linen, gilt-lettered and designed spine and upper side, all edges cut (a few lower ones have escaped the guillotine). A volume of the Catholic Home Library. The title-page is a cancel, pasted on stub. 8. Later Poems. Grant Richards, 1913. Dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered up spine and in 3 lines on upper side, blind single rule frames round sides, t.e.g., others uncut, D8 at end is blank. Inscribed: "G. M. Godden from E. H. St. Andrew's Day '14."

HICKEY (Emily Henrietta) 1845-1924 Secondary Material 9. Dinnis, Enid. Emily Hickey: Poet, Essayist-Pilgrim. A Memoir. Harding & More, 1927. Light blue boards, beige holland spine with titling label, top edges cut, others uncut, frontispiece portrait. Verso of title-page bears a limitation certificate to 500 copies, but this copy has received no number. 10. Ferguson, Lady. The Story of the Irish before the Conquest. 2nd ed., with Maps. Revised and Enlarged. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker, 1890. Dark green cloth, gilt, edges cut, toned bluish green end-papers. Inscribed: "E. H. Hickey from Lady Ferguson, August 1894." Note: See the John Addington Symonds collection for The Poetry of Roden Noel by J. A. Symonds and Emily Hickey (Privately printed, 1901). Inlaid is a 2 page ALS of Miss Hickey dated November 26, 1922-entirely about the book. See the Roden Noel collection for Livingstone in Africa (Ward & Downey, 1895), with Preface by Emily Hickey. HIGGINSON (Nesta, pseud. Moira O'Neill) 1. An Easter Vacation. By Moira O'Neill. Lawrence & Bullen, 1893. Blue morocco-grained cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side in black in decorated oblong panel, top edges uncut, others trimmed, dark brown end-papers, publisher's 16 page Autumn Announcements 1892 at end. The first leaf is blank before half-title. 2. The Elf-Errant. By Moira O'Neill. Illustrated by W. E. F. Britten. Lawrence & Bullen, 1895. Square 8vo, smooth flecked pink cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 6 lines, t.e.g., others uncut, 6 plates on Japanese vellum. Printed by Clay on paper watermarked "Van Gelder." 3. Songs of the Glens of Antrim. Blackwood, 1900. Smooth light brown bevelled boards, darker brown linen spine gilt-lettered in 12 lines, upper side in 8 lines in gilt with ornament. The sides have a pattern of large white dots, t.e.g., others uncut. First leaf is blank before half-title and is not reckoned in pagination; D8 blank at end. 4. Songs of the Glens of Antrim. New York: Macmillan Co., 1900. The American issue of the First Edition. It is printed by William Blackwood, and is identical in all respects including binding, save for the imprint on title-page and at foot of spine.

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5. Songs of the Glens of Antrim. Blackwood, 1900. Another copy of the English edition; it is identical in every particular save that it has "Second Impression" on recto of title-page.

4. Terry. Thornton Butterworth, 1927. Purple cloth, spine lettered in 5 lines in blue, upper side in blind in 2 lines, with publisher's ornaments as in The Meadows of the Moon. Verso of last leaf U8, p.[320], is used by publisher to list his miscellaneous fiction.

6. Another copy of the First Edition in a contemporary rebinding of orange brown parchment, upper side titled, and with large Celtic circular ornament in gilt and colours, t.e.g., others cut, green marbled end-papers, gilt dentelles.

5. Lost Horizon. Macmillan, 1933. Light green cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 5 lines, all edges cut. S8 at end, pp.[282-284], carry "New Macmillan Fiction" &c., Autumn 1933. In pictorial dust-jacket (7/6 net).

7. More Songs of the Glens of Antrim. Blackwood, 1921. Pale green bevelled boards, upper side gilt-lettered in the same ornament as the 1900 volume, but stamped in blind, top edges cut, others uncut. The First Edition of the new series; the Dedication is as in 1900-to "W. C. S." There is also an author's Preface. 8. From Two Points of View. Blackwood, 1924. Light green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges cut. First leaf is blank before half-title and is not reckoned in pagination. 9. Collected Poems of Moira O'Neill. Blackwood, 1933. Green bevelled linen, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, only lower edges uncut, in blue printed dust-jacket (5/net). The jacket advertises Spring 1933 publications. HILTON (James) 1900-1954 1. Catherine Herself. T. Fisher Unwin, 1920. Red cloth, spine and upper side designed and lettered in white enamel, top edges stained to match cloth, others trimmed but many lower edges untouched by knife. No. 32 of the First Novel Library. This book has a normal rear end-paper, but front laid-down end-paper is the first leaf of the first gathering, of which verso is used to advertise the series. The First Edition of the author's first work. 2. Storm Passage. T. Fisher Unwin, 1922. Blue ribbed cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 2 panels, all edges cut. 3. The Meadows of the Moon. Thornton Butterworth, 1926. Light green grained cloth, spine lettered in dark blue in 8 lines, upper cover in blind in 4 lines with publisher's circular ornament right lower corner, and on lower cover in left lower corner, all edges cut. Inscribed: "To Adrian Heard from James Hilton, Jan. 1927" and with the recipient's bookplate.

6. Good-bye Mr. Chips. Hodder & Stoughton, 1934. Blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges cut, end-papers blue printed. 7. Catherine Herself. Macmillan, 1935. Smooth green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side with the J. H. ornamental monogram in blind, all edges cut. The Second Edition and the first to be issued by Macmillan; there is a new author's Preface dated February 1935. 8. We Are Not Alone. Macmillan, 1937. Plum red cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges cut, in pictorial dust-jacket. From the library of a Blackwell-published minor poet—Beryl Chapman-and with her signature. 9. To You Mr. Chips. Hodder & Stoughton, 1938. Light orange cloth, gilt spine, all edges cut, orange designed end-papers. 10. Random Harvest. Macmillan, 1941. Light green smooth cloth, spine gilt-lettered, all edges cut. The final leaf, pp.[353-354], carries publisher's adverts. 11. The Story of Dr. Wassell. Macmillan, 1944. Light lavender blue cloth, lettered in red on spine and upper side, all edges cut. In pictorial dust-jacket (6s. net). 12. So Well Remembered. Macmillan, 1947. Blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 5 lines, all edges cut. In pictorial dust-jacket (9s. 6d. net). 13. Nothing So Strange. Macmillan, 1948. Orange-red rough linen, spine gilt-lettered in 5 lines, all edges cut, in pictorial dust-jacket (9s. 6d. net). 14. Morning Journey. Macmillan, 1951. Dark red cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 5 lines, all edges cut. 2A8 at end, pp.[379-80], is blank.

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15. Time and Time Again. Macmillan, 1953. Uniform format with Morning Journey, in pictorial dust-jacket, (12/6 net). U8 at end, pp.[313-14], is blank.

7. Turner: Five Letters and a Postscript. Illustrated with 8 reproductions in colour. T. C. & E. C. Jack [1907]. Another volume in the same series, uniform with the Romney. The first issue; pp.[79-80] are blank and imprint at foot of p. 78 is "Bemrose Dalziel, Ltd." Later copies have "Bemrose & Sons"; also Turner's dates (1775-1851) added on half-title. These copies list 31 titles of the series, plus 7 "In Preparation," whilst the present copy has 23 with 10 in preparation.

HIND (Charles Lewis) 1862-1927 1. The Enchanted Stone: A Romance. A. & C. Black, 1898. Green buckram, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges gilt. The last 4 leaves, pp.[345-352], carry publisher's adverts dated on first page Autumn 1898. The First Edition of the author's first book. This copy came from the library of G. E. Mitton [Lady Scott], and has her bookplate and signature dated 1899. She was one of the publisher's stalwarts, a compiler of innumerable topographical works and others. 2. Life's Little Things. A. & C. Black, 1902. Cream coloured rough buckram, ruled in green, lettered spine and upper side in gilt, all edges uncut. This copy belonged to "John Oliver Hobbes" (Pearl Mary-Teresa Craigie), with her armorial bookplate, and inscribed by Lewis Hind: "With the author's kind regards, January 1902." 3. Life's Lesser Moods. A. & C. Black, 1904, Smooth blue cloth with similar design and lettering to Life's Little Things, all edges uncut. One leaf of adverts inserted following p.[200]. 4. Days with Velasquez. A. & C. Black, 1906. Large square 8vo, 24 plates, of which 8 are in colours. Bound in half light brown calf, linen sides, elaborately gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut. 5. The Education of an Artist. With 91 full-page plates. A. & C. Black, 1906. Dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered and designed spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. R2 at end, pp.[259-260], carries adverts only. Another binding-up of First Edition sheets has been noted in which edges are cut, though dimensions still similar. Publisher's imprint at foot of spine is much compressed and with only 2 full points, not 3. 6. Romney. Illustrated with 8 reproductions in colour. T. C. & E. C. Jack [1907]. Brown pictorial boards, top edges cut, others uncut. A volume of the Masterpieces in Colour series.

8. The Diary of a Looker-On. Eveleigh Nash, 1908. Dark blue cloth, spine and upper side gilt, top edges cut, others uncut. X8 at end, pp.[335-336], is blank. 9. Augustus Saint-Gaudens. John Lane, 1908. Imperial 8vo, 8 1/4" x 11 3/4", light green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut, 47 full-page plates. Printed in New York (imprint on verso of title-page), and the author's Prefatory note is dated New York, 1908. On the leaf of text to the Stevenson memorial there is a regrettable misprint: "Home is the sailor, home from the sea." 10. Constable. Illustrated with 8 reproductions in colour. T. C. & E. C. Jack [1909]. Uniform format Masterpieces in Colour series. Verso of half-title lists 31 titles with 7 more "In Preparation." 11. Hogarth. Illustrated with 8 reproductions in colour. T. C. & E. C. Jack [1910]. Uniform format Masterpieces in Colour series. No other titles are advertised in this volume, and the only printer's imprint is on verso title-page at foot—"Printed in Great Britain at/The Press of the Publishers." 12. The Consolations of a Critic. With 32 full-page plates. A. & C. Black, 1911. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt spine, all edges cut. 13. The Post Impressionists. With 24 full-page plates. Methuen, 1911. Large square 8vo, 7 1/2" x 10 1/4", half blue cloth, lighter blue board sides, spine titling label, t.e.g., others uncut. Final leaf, pp.[95-96], is blank. Holbrook Jackson's copy with his bookplate designed by Lovat Fraser (black printed on pink paper). 14. The Invisible Guide. New York: John Lane, 1918. Bronze rough cloth, gilt-lettered on spine and upper side, all edges cut. This copy came from the Meynell library at Greatham and the "F. T. 159" pencilled on end-paper is in the handwriting of Wilfred Meynell. It indicates references to Francis Thompson on that page.

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HIND (Charles Lewis) 1862-1927 15. Authors and I. John Lane, 1921. Half smooth straw coloured buckram, green board sides, top edges stained to match, others uncut, spine lettered in green. This work was printed in the U.S.A. The final leaf, pp.[337-338], is blank. 16. Art and I. John Lane, 1921. Uniform format with Authors and I and printed in the U.S.A. 17. More Authors and I. John Lane, 1922. Similar format to Authors and I, though the spine is rough stone coloured Holland and the edges are cut (top still a matching green). Printed by R. Clay & Sons; U8 and X1-X4 at end are 5 leaves carrying adverts only. 18. Life and I. John Lane, 1923. Similar format to More Authors and I, though colour of sides is blue (not green), top edges stained to match, others cut. Printed by William Clowes & Sons. 19. Lewis silver upper

100 Second Best Poems. Chosen by C. Hind. A. M. Philpot, 1925. Blue and designed wrappers with titling label on side, all edges cut.

20. Naphtali: Being Influences and Adventures Whilst Earning a Living by Writing. With 44 illustrations. John Lane, 1926. Bright blue cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, top edges stained to match, others cut, in printed dust-wrapper (15/- net). 21. The Great Painters in Art and Life. George Newnes [1927]. John O'London's Little Books, No. 8. Pale greenish cloth, spine and upper side lettered in black, in printed dust-jacket (2/- net), all edges cut, frontispiece plate. 22. From My Books. Collins Clear-Type Press [1927]. Light brown linen, green spine titling label, t.e.g., others cut, King's Way Classics series. An anthology selected by the author, with his 4 page Introduction. Inscribed: "To Wilfrid Meynell from his old friend C. Lewis Hind. At Greatham, April 28th 1927." 23. 100 Best Prayers. Chosen by C. Lewis Hind. A. M. Philpot, 1927. Purple wrappers lettered on gold panel on upper side, all edges cut. There is a 15 page introductory essay by the editor titled "Explanation."

HINE (Reginald Leslie) 1883-1949 1. Anima Celtica. Elkin Mathews, 1912. Smooth light green buckram, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, top edges cut, others uncut. Pp.[91-92] at end blank save for printer's imprint on recto. 2. Dreams and the Way of Dreams. J. M. Dent, 1913. Dark blue smooth buckram, gilt spine, t.e.g., fore-edges lightly trimmed. 3. Confessions of an Un-Common Attorney. J. M. Dent, 1945. Tall 8vo, light green cloth, gilt spine, gilt ornament centre of upper cover, t.e.g., others uncut, profuse illustrations. The Second Edition appeared in the same year, and is apparently identical internally, save for 2 line instead of one line bibliographical statement on verso of title-page. Instead of gilt, top edges were stained yellow. 4. Carmichael, Alexander. Deirdre, and The Lay of the Children of Uisne. Edinburgh: Norman Macleod &c., 1905. Dark blue cloth, gilt, all edges uncut. From the library of R. L. Hine with inscription on half-title: "Reginald L. Hine, Newham Hall." The bookplate inside cover is of Anton Scudier. HINTON (James) 1822-1875 1. The Mystery of Pain: A Book for the Sorrowful. Smith Elder, 1866. Brown cloth, gilt spine, both sides with black single rule frame, top edges uncut, others trimmed, brown end-papers. G4-G6 at end carry publisher's adverts and are paginated to 6. Issued anonymously. 2. The Mystery of Pain. 4th ed. Smith Elder, 1870. Similar brown cloth to the 1866 edition, same black frames round sides. The gilt-lettering on spine is from a different type and the end-papers are slate grey. Type of text appears the same, but imprint is in 3 lines on p.[102], "Smith Elder & Co.," whereas in First Edition it was in one line at foot of p. 101-"Ballantyne, Roberts & Co." The 6 pages of adverts offer different books. Inscribed: "Rosie Trevelyan from the Author, J. H. November 29th, 1873." 3. Physiology for Practical Use, by Various Writers. Edited by James Hinton. 2nd ed. 2 vols. H. S. King, 1874. Dark reddish brown cloth, black ruled, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges uncut, others

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trimmed, dark blue end-papers. The 32 page undated catalogue at the end of each volume is that of Kegan Paul who were successors to H. S. King. Bookplates of Linley Blathwayt.

11. Ellis, Mrs. Havelock. Three Modern Seers. Stanley Paul [1920], Half green buckram, light brown board sides, spine gilt-lettered, upper side lettered in green, t.e.g., others uncut. Pp.[229-230] at end carries adverts only. There are portraits before each of the essays, which are on Hinton, Nietzsche and Edward Carpenter and the book is dedicated to the author's husband. There was a later reissue of First Edition sheets in which spine is lettered in green instead of gilt, and the top edges are plain cut.

4. Life in Nature. 2nd ed. Smith Elder, 1875. Dark brown cloth, spine gilt-lettered. Contains a new 5 page Preface to the Second Edition. 5. Chapters on the Art of Thinking and Other Essays. By the late James Hinton. Introduction by Shadworth Hodgson. Edited by C. H. Hinton. C. Kegan Paul, 1879. Dark brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges uncut, others trimmed, 32 page publisher's catalogue at end dated 8. '80. 6. Philosophy and Religion. Selections from the Manuscripts of the late James Hinton. Edited by Caroline Haddon. Kegan Paul, 1881. Dark brown cloth, spine gilt-lettered, dark blue end-papers, publisher's 32 page catalogue at end dated 12.'81. 7. The Law-Breaker and The Coming of the Law. Edited by Margaret Hinton. Kegan Paul, 1884. Dark brown cloth, dark blue end-papers, publisher's 41 page catalogue at end dated 5.'84. 8. The Mystery of Pain: A Book for the Sorrowful. By James Hinton. 2nd ed. Kegan Paul &c., 1907. Dark wine coloured cloth, gilt-lettered on upper side. This reprint, unexpectedly described as Second Edition, has author's name on title-page and cover. It also has a 4 page Preface to New Edition. Typesetting and pagination, however, remain otherwise as in First Edition. 9. Life in Nature. Edited with an Introduction by Havelock Ellis. Allen & Unwin, 1932. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, edges cut. The Introduction is a 30 page essay. 10. Ellis, Mrs. Havelock. James Hinton: A Sketch. With a Preface by Havelock Ellis. Stanley Paul, 1918. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, gilt spine, only lower edges uncut, 8 illustrations. Pp.[285-288] at end carry only adverts. The Preface by Havelock Ellis is dated August 1916. Publication of this book may have been delayed by war conditions. There is a publisher's note that the author died 14 September 1916, shortly after placing the completed MS in his hands.

HODGSON (Ralph) 1871-1962 1. The Last Blackbird and Other Lines. George Allen, 1907. Red linen, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. First Edition of the author's first book, and in the primary binding. From the sale of Clive Bell's Books at Cleeve House, Seend, Devizes on 26 June 1962. With autograph: "Violet M. Bell." 2. Another copy of the First Edition; this is a later binding batch, of which the red cloth is considerably darker, the gilt-letteringparticularly on spine-badly oxidised, appearing to be green, and the fore and lower edges are flushcut. The uncut copy described above stands noticebly taller on shelf. 3. Eve and Other Poems. 2nd ed. Flying Fame, 1913. Yellow wrappers printed in black, illustrations by C. Lovat Fraser. Being of the Second Edition, this is not numbered (as the first series of Chapbooks were), and the words "2nd Edition" appear at foot of upper wrapper, outside the ornamental frame. 4. Another copy of the Second Edition, i.e., not numbered at top of wrapper. Owing to careless spacing, the words, "2nd Edition," have been completely shaved off lower margin of wrapper. The composition of the booklet, of course, indicates that it is not of the First Edition. 5. Eve and Other Poems. 2nd ed. Flying Fame, 1913. A copy of the Large Paper edition (Price Half-A-Crown). Light stone coloured wrappers, size 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". This copy has not been coloured. 6. Eve and Other Poems. 3rd ed. Flying Fame, 1913. An example of the Third Edition (so stamped top left hand corner of upper wrapper). Considerably larger in both dimensions than the Second Edition, this edition, which consisted of only 260 copies,

381 HODGSON (Ralph) 1871-1962 was made by cutting down remaining uncoloured copies of the Large Paper Second Edition. 7. The Bull. Decorated by Lovat Fraser. Flying Fame, 1913. First Edition, yellow wrappers (Price Sixpence). Inscribed on title-page: "To William H. Davies from R. H. 1914," in the author's autograph. 8. Another copy of the First Edition, yellow wrappers. Both these copies have the slip inserted, printed on yellow paper, advertising the coloured Large Paper edition at half-a-crown. 9. Another copy, the Large Paper issue, 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" (Price Half-A-Crown). Only the woodcut on wrapper is coloured; woodcuts in the text are left plain. 10. The Bull. 2nd ed. 1913. Yellow wrappers, size 4 5/8" x 6 5/8". Price Sixpence. This edition was made by cutting down remaining uncoloured copies of the First Edition, and stamping them Second Edition on the wrapper only. 11. The Mystery and Other Poems. Flying Fame, 1913. The Large Paper First Edition (price Half-A-Crown). All woodcuts on wrapper and in text coloured by hand. 12. Another copy. The ordinary small paper First Edition, uncoloured. Yellow wrappers (Price Sixpence). 13. The Mystery and Other Poems. 2nd ed. 1913. Yellow wrappers, 4 5/8" x 6 3/4". Made by cutting down remaining uncoloured Large Paper copies, and stamping them Second Edition on the wrapper only. 14. The Song of Honour. Flying Fame, 1913. The Large Paper First Edition (Price Half-A-Crown), woodcuts on wrapper and in text coloured by hand. 15. Another copy. The small paper First Edition, yellow wrappers (Price Sixpence). Has the yellow slip regarding the Large Paper coloured edition. 16. Poems. Macmillan, 1917. Blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, all edges uncut. The First Edition, of which only 500 copies were printed. With the Castle Point, Salcombe bookplate. Inserted is a one page ALS of Hugh Walpole, dated from 90 Piccadilly, 15 November 1925: "Ralph Hodgson is very much alive, but alas writes no more poetry. William Hodgson was no relation" &c.

HODGSON (Ralph) 1871-1962 17. Another copy. Second impression, June 1917 (the first was May 1917). This edition appears to be identical in every respect with the first, save for the 2 line bibliographical statement on verso of title-page. 18. Massingham, H. J. ed. Poems about Birds, from the Middle Ages to the Present Day. Chosen and Edited with an Introduction and Notes by H. J. Massingham. With Preface by J. C. Squire. T. Fisher Unwin, 1922. Half beige linen, green board sides, t.e.g., others trimmed. There are some errors of reference in the Notes commencing half way down p. 399, in the Francis Thompson and Gerard Manley Hopkins poems, which are found in all copies. The first appearance in book form of Ralph Hodgson's "Hymn to Moloch." 19. Another copy of the First Edition. This is in the secondary binding of light brown linen, spine similarly gilt-lettered though the type used for publisher's imprint at foot is 12 point, whereas in the primary binding it was 10 point. Top edges also are left plain cut, not gilded. Has the same page reference errors. 20. Silver Wedding and Other Poems. Minerva, Ohio: Boerner Printing Co., 1941. 20 pages, metal fastened into stiff yellow wrappers, hand coloured woodcuts. Price 25 cents: hand coloured copies (as is the present one) 50 cents. A feeble echo-both the verse and the format-of the days of Flying Fame. This copy belonged to Siegfried Sassoon, who inscribed it on the title page: "Rex from S.S. [monogram] 19.4.42." 21. The Skylark and Other Poems. Wood Engravings by Reynolds Stone. Colin Fenton, 1958. Tall 8vo, 6 3/4" x 11", smooth black buckram, gilt-lettered down spine and with one gilt ornament on upper side, pale blue toned end-papers and similarly stained edges. No. 100 of 350 copies, signed by the engraver Reynolds Stone. Together with original 4 page Prospectus with order form inserted. 22. Collected Poems. Macmillan, 1961. Pale blue linen, half grey cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, top edges stained blue, others cut, frontispiece portrait, in pictorial dust-jacket (21/- net). 23. Poets Remembered. Cleveland: The Rowfant Club of Cleveland, 1967. Large square 8vo, rough blue cloth with green linen sides, gilt-lettered up spine, in green printed dust-jacket. Frontispiece portrait. No. 9 of 199 copies. The main content is a lecture delivered by Hodgson in 1943 at Eastern Michigan

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University; 10 of his poems are also reprinted, together with a biographical sketch by Rowfanter R. J. Izant. The facsimile decorated end-papers are of the poet's autograph.

8. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. Written by Himself. Printed for Longman &c., 1824. Rebound (mid 19th century) in three-quarter olive green morocco, marbled sides and end-papers, t.e.g., others lightly trimmed. The original 12 pages of Longman adverts, dated July 1824, are in place in front. Published anonymously.

HOGG (James) 1770-1835 1. The Queen's Wake: A Legendary Poem. Edinburgh: For George Goldie &c., 1813. Tall 8vo, contemporary half blue morocco, marbled sides. 2. Dramatic Tales. By the Author of The Poetic Mirror. 2 vols. Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne, 1817. Contemporary half brown calf, marbled sides, spine titling labels. These volumes collate in 12's and in each the title-page is apparently a singleton (were half-titles issued?). 3. The Brownie of Bodsbeck, and Other Tales. 2 vols. Edinburgh: For William Blackwood &c., 1818. Original half drab brown boards, blue board sides, printed titling labels, all edges uncut. There is a half-title to each volume.

9. Queen Hynde: A Poem in Six Books. For Longman &c., 1825. Contemporary binding of half red calf, blue lettering label, marbled sides, sprinkled edges, binder's ticket of John Tod, Edinburgh. 10. Songs by the Ettrick Shepherd. Now First Collected. Edinburgh: William Blackwood &c., 1831. Original deep claret coloured blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 4 lines in an ornamental panel, all edges uncut. 11. A Queer Book. By the Ettrick Shepherd. Edinburgh: William Blackwood &c., 1832. Original reddish brown blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 4 lines, all edges uncut, yellow end-papers.

4. The Jacobite Relics of Scotland. Collected and Illustrated by James Hogg. Edinburgh: William Blackwood &c., 1819-1821. First Editions of both series, uniformly bound in light red morocco, spines with raised bands, large diamond-shaped ornament centre of sides, marbled edges. Both half-titles preserved. Armorial bookplates of John Walker.

12. Tales and Sketches by the Ettrick Shepherd, Including . . . Several Pieces not before Printed. With Illustrative Engravings by D. 0. Hill. 6 vols. Glasgow: Blackie & Son &c., 1837-1840. All volumes uniformly bound in half green morocco, marbled sides, edges and end-papers. Each volume has also an engraved title-page and frontispiece; only the first volume has a half-title.

5. The Jacobite Relics of Scotland. Second Series. Edinburgh: William Blackwood &c., 1821. Another copy of the second volume, in original blind-stamped brown cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 7 lines with 4 sets of thick and thin bands arranged thin one outermost, also double thin bands at foot, all edges uncut, yellow end-papers. Though an original binding, this is not the primary one, which was half drab brown boards, blue board sides, spine titling labels.

13. Domestic Manners and Private Life of Sir Walter Scott. With a Preface and Notes by the Editor. Reprinted from the Original Edition of 1834. Edinburgh: William Brown, 1882. Bound in three-quarter dark blue morocco, gilt spine with raised bands, t.e.g., others uncut. The original printed parchment wrappers are preserved at end. One of 250 copies printed on vellum notepaper; this is No. 133 and initialled by the publisher.

6. Winter Evening Tales, Collected among the Cottagers in the South of Scotland. 2 vols. Edinburgh: For Oliver and Boyd, 1820. Two volumes contemporarily bound in one in half brown calf, red titling label, armorial bookplate of Thomas Monro.

14. The Poems of James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd. With Introduction by Mrs. Garden. Walter Scott, 1887. Dark blue cloth, spine titling label, all edges uncut. This selection is a volume of the publisher's Canterbury Poets series.

7. The Poetical Works. 4 vols. Edinburgh: For Arch. Constable, 1822. Bound half brown calf, marbled sides and edges, red and green titling labels, half-title in each volume.

15. The Raid of the Kers. By the Ettrick Shepherd. [? Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1876]. Green cloth, gilt, all edges gilt, 7" x 10", titled on upper cover. Reddish brown end-papers. An engraved book, text and illustrations on 27 pages, plus Notes 8 pages.

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HOGG (James) 1770-1835 Title, Dedication leaf and 5 pages of plates not included in pagination. Engraved borders surrounding all text. 16. The Private Memoirs &c. With an Introduction by Andre Gide [translated by Dorothy Bussy]. The Cresset Press, 1947. Dark blue smooth buckram, gilt, all edges cut, in yellow printed dust-jacket (8/6 net). A volume of the Cresset Library, editor John Hayward. HOLE (Samuel Reynolds) 1819-1904 1. Hints to Freshmen in the University of Oxford. Oxford: Published by J. Vincent [1847]. Foolscap 8vo, 56 pages, light greenish grey printed wrappers, edges cut, lettered on upper side of upper wrapper only. It appears the Second Edition was dated 1847; hence this undated book might be a reissue of the same. It has the Preface to the First Edition on p.[3] and the new Preface on p.[5] which commences, "A Second Edition of 'Hints to Freshmen' is published in consequence of the following letter." The condition of the copy is particularly fine. With signature of a noted Irishman, J. R. White, on upper wrapper. Issued anonymously, and not acknowledged by its author, who wrote of A Little Tour in Ireland, by "an Oxonian" (1859), as "My First Book." 2. A Little Tour in Ireland. By an Oxonian. With Illustrations by John Leech. Bradbury & Evans, 1859. Square 8vo, grained blind-stamped green cloth, gilt spine and large gilt block on upper side, all edges gilt. Folding coloured frontispiece in 3 sections, and 4 other full page plates; there are also profuse illustrations in the text by the same artist, John Leech. Q3 and Q4 at end carry Bradbury & Evans adverts only. 3. Another copy of the First Edition, apparently identical, though the green cloth is of a much darker shade. But it has all edges either uncut or only lightly trimmed, whereas almost all copies encountered have all edges gilt. It was clearly in the author's hands once, as he has inscribed the half-title: "To 'Sister Dora' from 'Sam Hole', with happy recollections, old and new. July, 1873. Arb." 4. A Little Tour in Ireland. By an Oxonian (S. Reynolds Hole). With Illustrations by John Leech. Edward Arnold, 1892. 4to, 7 1/2" x 10 1/4", pale silver-green cloth, half cream parchment gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. No. 79 of only 100 copies on large paper, signed by the author. Described on title-page as New Edition, this is, in fact, the Second Edition, the work never having been reprinted since

HOLE (Samuel Reynolds) 1819-1904 the anonymous First Edition of 1859. The folding coloured frontispiece is reproduced exactly as before, and there is a new author's Preface dated from The Deanery, Rochester, 1892. 5. A Book about the Garden and the Gardener. Edward Arnold, 1892. Pale green linen, spine gilt, upper side lettered and designed in darker green, only lower edges cut, dark green end-papers, frontispiece, Pp.[261-264] at end carry adverts only. 6. More Memories: Being Thoughts about England Spoken in America. Edward Arnold, 1894. Tall 8vo, dark red cloth, gilt, edges uncut, dark green end-papers, frontispiece, X2 at end, pp.[307-308], carries adverts only, followed by publisher's 32 page 1894 list. 7. Addresses Spoken to Working Men from Pulpit and Platform. Edward Arnold, 1894. Produced in uniform style with More Memories, but is a 5" x 7 1/2" crown 8vo; 16 page publisher's list at end dated January 1894. 8. Our Gardens. J. M. Dent, 1899. Green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. A volume of the Haddon Hall Library, in which the green end-papers are designed by Arthur Rackham. Coloured frontispiece and 11 other illustrations, including photogravure plates. 9. Then and Now. Hutchinson, 1901. Tall 8vo, bevelled smooth red buckram, gilt, t.e.g., others lightly trimmed, frontispiece portrait. The final leaf, pp.[335-336], carries adverts only. 10. The Letters of Samuel Reynolds Hole. Edited, with a Memoir, by George A. B. Dewar. G. Allen & Sons, 1907. Tall 8vo, green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Frontispiece portrait and 6 other plates. "Second Edition" on verso of title-page. Armorial bookplate of W. C. M. Owen. HOOD (Thomas) 1799-1845 1. Odes and Addresses to Great People. Printed for Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, 1825. Original drab brown boards, all edges uncut, spine label lettered upwards in 4 lines (Price 5s. 6d.). This anonymously produced work was written by Hood in collaboration with his brother-in-law, John Hamilton Reynolds; it was Hood's first publication but Reynold's tenth.

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HOOD (Thomas) 1799-1845 2. Odes and Addresses to Great People. 3rd ed. Henry Colburn, 1826. Half dark green grained cloth, light brown board sides, spine titling label, all edges uncut, light grey end-papers. The end of the "Address to R. W. Elliston" is re-arranged and enlarged, causing the text to end 4 pages later, on p. 140; but the book is substantially the same. There is also a 2 page notice for this edition, printed on a leaf conjugate with the title-page—and instead of a half-title-in a different type from the rest of the book. The Advertisement to the Second Edition is also reprinted; and though from the same printing-house of D. S. Maurice, the publisher is now Colburn. 3. Whims and Oddities, in Prose and Verse. With 40 original designs. Lupton Relfe, 1826. Bound in mid 19th century purple morocco, gilt, marbled end-papers, all edges gilt. With the half-title; the last leaf carries on recto an advert by Lupton Relfe of The Progress of Cant~a.n engraving by Hood measuring 10" x 20"-issued anonymously. 4. Another copy of the First Edition, original pale half green linen, drab brown board sides, all edges uncut, spine titling label in 6 lines between double rules top and bottom and with one short rule above price, which is 10s. 6d. Boards. 5. National Tales. 2 vols. William H. Ainsworth, 1827. Neatly bound contemporary half green calf, green linen sides, spines with raised bands and titling labels; 4 engraved plates to each volume. L12, which carries adverts only at end of second volume, has been sacrificed by the binder, in this and the next set. 6. Another copy of the First Edition, the 2 volumes bound together in one, old half green morocco, marbled sides, bookplate of Thomas A. Mathieson. One of the very few works published by the novelist Ainsworth. 7. The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies. . . . Longman, 1827. Half dark green linen, drab brown board sides, spine titling label with "6s." as last line, all edges uncut. The final leaf P8, pp.[223-224], carries adverts of The Progress of Cant and the second series of Whims and Oddities. This volume, Hood's best collection, contains the first printing of "I Remember, I Remember."

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8. The Gem, A Literary Annual. Edited by Thomas Hood, Esq. [2 line quotation between rules]. W. Marshall, 1829. Half red calf, marbled sides, cut edges, size 3 1/2" x 6". Probably an early state of this important anthology. Normal copies have 2 more lines after this imprint-"And/T. Wardell, Philadelphia." They also have 14 engraved plates, besides the engraved title, which is the only illustration this copy has. For this anthology Hood secured unpublished MSS from Sir Walter Scott, Lamb, Clare, Barton, Barry Cornwall and others. He inserted his newly written "Dream of Eugene Aram," and (as he possessed the MS) Lamb's "On an Infant dying as soon as born" (the child being his own first-born). Lamb's prose contribution, "A Widow," was actually written by Hood (see the amusing comments in Lamb's published Letters)', and Hood obtained what is certainly Hartley Coleridge's best known poem, "She is not fair to outward view," and a sonnet by John Keats, "On a Picture of Leander," which establish the supremacy of this little book, amongst the legion of "Keepsakes" and "Forget-me-nots" and the like. 9. The Epping Hunt. Illustrated with Six Engravings on Wood after George Cruikshank. Charles Tilt, 1829. An attractive copy, but the edges have been trimmed a little and the binder-Zaehnsdorf-has not preserved the original printed boards; three-quarter bright red calf, gilt spine with double green titling labels, t.e.g. 10. Another copy of the First Edition, original beige coloured boards, printed in black, edges as issued (?), lightly trimmed, 3 7/8" x 6 3/16". 11. The Epping Hunt. [2nd ed.] Charles Tilt, 1830. Presumably the Second Edition-there being a small 1 1/4" erasure from upper wrapper above "London" in imprint, which presumably removed these 2 words. Following the Advertisement leaf, pp.[3-4], is an inserted leaf-Advertisement to the Second Edition, signed "T. Hood, Winchmore Hill, June 1830." The principal difference between the 2 editions is that the first has imprint of Anne Maurice on verso of title-page and verso of p. 29, whereas the second has "Maurice & Co." The second also does not have the final adverts leaf, pp.[31-32], and it carries on lower wrapper Tilt's announcement of a companion volume to the Epping Hunt. Though the booklets appear very similar, doubtless other variations might be noted, e.g., First Edition, p. 29, first line of final stanza has "Pleasure," where second edition has "pleasure."

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12. Another copy of the Second Edition, with the Advertisement to the Second Edition by Hood, dated June 1830. The wrappers have not been preserved. Though the title-page has the changed date, it appears the words "Second Edition" are not printed thereon. Bound in contemporary half red calf with 3 other Cruikshank illustrated booklets-TVie Bee and the Wasp (1832), W. Cowper's The Diverting History of John Gilpin (1832), and Illustrations of "Don Quixote," in a Series of Fifteen Plates (1834). AH 4 booklets were published by Charles Tilt.

15. Another copy of the First Edition, as issued in original light stone coloured wrappers printed in black, size 4 3/4" x 7 1/2".

13. The Comic Annual. By Thomas Hood, Esq. Hurst Chance, 1830. The Comic Annual. Charles Tilt, 1831-1834. [Vols. 2-5]. The Comic Annual. A. H. Baily, 1835-1839. [Vols. 6-10]. The Comic Annual for 1842. By T. Hood. Henry Colburn, 1842. 11 volumes, a complete set of First Editions, volumes 1-10 in uniform original format, half red publisher's morocco, gilt-lettered, pale cream board sides lettered within a pictorial ornament, "The Anniversary of the Literary Fun 1830" [&c. to 1839]. The final volume-the only one published by Colburn-is in wine coloured vertically ribbed blind-stamped cloth, spine and upper side gilt-designed. There was no volume issued for 1840 or 1841. All volumes have edges gilt and are profusely illustrated and the literary contributions are mainly by Thomas Hood. The final volume contains the author's long poem, pp. 1-107, entitled "Miss Kilmansegg and her Precious Leg." Volume 1 has pale green end-papers, which may not be original; volumes 2-9 have cream end-papers, the first 5 with armorial bookplate of Osman Ricardo (from the Christchurch, Hampshire sale, circa 1940, of the Ricardo library). The final (very scarce) volume is from another famous library, that of J. C. Dowdeswell, with signature and stamped crest. 14. The Dream of Eugene Aram, the Murderer. With designs by W. Harvey, engraved on wood. Charles Tilt, 1831. Contemporary dark green grained cloth, spine with gilt titling label, edges trimmed (4 3/8" x 7 1/2"). This has been bound together with an anonymous poem, "The Children of the Wood," with engravings drawn by William Harvey (Jennings & Chaplin, 1831). The 2 books have little in common, save their illustrator and their size. Armorial bookplate of Robert Washington Dates.

16. Another copy of First Edition, quite perfect and with half-title, bound in a volume of 7 tracts, one of which is related, viz: Norrison Scatcherd, Memoirs of the Celebrated Eugene Aram, who was Executed for the Murder of Daniel Clark in 1759 (Simpkin & Marshall, 1832). Besides Hood's, the other tracts are: Velina: A Poetical Fragment (Edinburgh, 1782, 59 pages); Thomas Shoel, Mileshill: A Poem, or, a Short View of the Beauties of Saint Michael's Mount at Montacute (1803, 24 pages): H. Boaz, The Angler's Progress: A Poem (2nd ed. Printed for J. H. Bum, 1820; a note reads that the First Edition, consisting of 1,000 copies, sold out in little more than a week); The Beggar's Daughter of Bednall Green, edited by Dr. Percy (Jennings & Chaplin, 1832); Paul Pry, The Bath Dramatic Fete (Bath: Printed by Benjamin Higman, 1836, 16 pages). The volume bound in old half calf, marbled sides, spine gilt-lettered "Olla Podrida." 17. Whims and Oddities in Prose and Verse. 4th ed. Charles Tilt, 1832. Bound contemporary half red morocco, marbled sides, gilt spine and all edges gilt. This edition contains both series, continuating pagination to p. 425. It has a new Preface by Hood dated January 1832, and the Prefaces to the first 3 editions are also reprinted. The second series, commencing at p.[199], has a Preface but no separate title-page. 18. Hood's Own, or, Laughter from Year to Year. A. H. Baily, 1839. Tall 8vo, contemporary half brown calf, marbled sides, frontispiece portrait. Armorial bookplate of Thos. Cowper Brown. 19. Tylney Hall. Revised and Corrected by the Author. Richard Bentley, 1840. Light wine coloured blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered, all edges uncut. No. 81 of the publisher's Standard Novels (? numbering altered by hand from No. LXXX). The frontispiece, engraved title and printed title are all dated 1840. This is the Second Edition of the 3 volume novel of 1834, with a new 6 page Preface by the author dated July 1840.

386 HOOD (Thomas) 1799-1845 20. Up the Rhine. A. H. Baily, 1840. Bound contemporary half dark red calf, marbled sides, gilt spine with red and green titling labels, profusely illustrated. 21. Hood's Own, or, Laughter from Year to Year. Edward Moxon, 1846. Tall 8vo, half green calf, linen sides, fully gilt spine with titling label, marbled edges. Another edition of the original series, from a different publisher, but from same printing house of Bradbury & Evans and appears to be the original 1839 printed sheets. 22. Poems. By Thomas Hood. 2 vols. Edward Moxon, 1846. Wine coloured (fading to brown) grained cloth, spine titling labels, all edges uncut, publisher's 8 page List of Books dated 1 November 1845 sewn in front in volume 1. 23. Another set of the First Edition in the simultaneously issued green cloth, same spine titling labels (Price 12s.), edges uncut. Armorial bookplates of Patrick Dudgeon (Cargen). 24. Memorials of Thomas Hood. Collected, Arranged, and Edited by his Daughter. With a Preface and Notes by his Son. 2 vols. Edward Moxon, 1860. Purple blind-stamped cloth, spines and upper sides gilt, top edges uncut, other edges lightly trimmed, folding facsimile MS frontispiece to volume 1 and profuse illustrations. Loosely inserted is an undated ALS from Hood's son headed "The Rectory, Cassington, Bridgwater, Somerset," to the Duke of Devonshire, signed "Thos. Hood": "May it please Your Grace to accept the volume which accompanies this note as a humble token of the gratitude which my father no longer lives to pay. . . . " (some 20 lines on the first page of a folded sheet). I found the letter in the Duke of Devonshire's (remaining) library auction sale at Compton Place, Eastbourne in May 1954, prior to demolition of the mansion. It was inserted in a copy of Mrs. Norton's The Dream and Other Poems (1840) which, regrettably, bore no evidence whatever that it might have belonged to the author of The Song of the Shirt. However, it may have been the book to which this letter refers. An odd book here and there is about all Hood bequeathed (he left no Will) in 1845, before his death-see these Memorials (Vol. 2, p. 273).

HOOD (Thomas) 1799-1845 25. Hood's Own, or, Laughter from Year to Year. Edward Moxon, 1861. First Edition of second series. An attractive copy, uniform format with first series. Bound half red grained calf, linen sides, yellow stained edges (binder Birdsall of Northampton). The author having died, this series was prepared by his son Thomas Hood the younger, who contributed the Preface. 26. Hood's Own, or, Laughter from Year to Year. Edward Moxon, 1862. Another issue of 1861 sheets, the date only being changed; same printers &c. Bound uniformly with the 1846 edition of the first series. Both volumes carry bookplate of George Cope of Woolton Hill. 27. The Works of Thomas Hood. Edited with Notes by his Son. 7 vols. Edward Moxon, 1862-1863. Purplish blue blind-stamped cloth, gilt spines and gilt ornament on upper sides, top edges uncut, others trimmed. The last volume is the only one dated 1863; it has an errata list for volumes 1 and 5 at end of Contents, and a frontispiece mounted photograph of the author. 28. Up the Rhine. A New Edition, with a Preface by his Daughter. E. Moxon Son, 1869. Light brown cloth, gilt spine and upper side. With all the original illustrations. Reprints the Prefaces to the First and Second Editions of 1840, since when the work had been out of print and unobtainable (as is noted). 29. Memorials. New and Revised Edition. E. Moxon Son, 1869. Actually the first reprinting of the 2 volume work of I860, now produced uniformly with the first collected edition of Hood's Works, to which it forms an appropriate eighth volume. 30. Poetical Works of Thomas Hood. Edited with a Critical Memoir by W. M. Rossetti. Illustrated by Gustave Dor6. First series. E. Moxon Son [1875]. Blue bevelled cloth with gilt design of upper cover in blind on the lower, all edges gilt, slate brown end-papers. Inserted leaf of adverts of Moxon's Popular Poets at end gives the second series of Hood as the 21st title, "New Volume now ready." 31. Fairy Land, or, Recreation for the Rising Generation. By the Late Thomas and Jane Hood. Griffith & Farran [? 1882]. The First Edition of this book was dated 1861, and appeared at the end of 1860. The Preface indicates that the Memorials (2 vols., 1860) had recently appeared. The present unspecified

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reprint may have appeared in 1882: the 32 page publisher's catalogue at end is dated July 1882. But it is an entirely different setting, pp. xvi, 174, bound glazed pictorial boards, blue cloth spine, patterned end-papers, edges stained yellow. The slightly unusual, though unequivocally-worded, title-page confirms that the text was written by the author of The Song of the Shirt in collaboration with his wife; that his son Tom illustrated it; that his daughter, who signs the Preface as Frances Freeling Broderip, edited it; down to the final "Etc.," which acknowledges that 2 contributions are by Hannah Lawrence and Frederick Hardman. 32. The Haunted House. Illustrated by Herbert Railton. With an Introduction by Austin Dobson. Lawrence & Bullen, 1896. Green cloth, upper side designed gilt on 2 white enamel panels, all edges gilt. First separate edition of this poem, first printed in Hood's Magazine in January 1844. 33. The Poems of Thomas Hood. 2 vols. Edited by Alfred Ainger. Macmillan, 1897. Eversley Series format, dark red cloth, uncut, frontispiece portraits and engraved titles to each volume printed together on plate paper. This is the first editorial attempt at a complete edition. Inscribed: "To Austin Dobson, with the Editor's kindest regards, October 1897." Dobson has inserted his bookplate in each volume, also an ALS he received from Ainger, on his Master's House, Temple notepaper dated Saturday, 1 August [? 1896] soliciting the loan of the final third volume of Hood's Magazine, January/June 1845. From the pencil annotations it is clear he has read Ainger's 71 page "Memoir" with assiduous care, but remaining sheets of both volumes are unopened. 34. The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood. Edited with Notes by Walter Jerrold. Henry Frowde, 1906. India paper issue of the first Oxford Edition, green silk cloth, gilt, red edges under gilt, frontispiece portrait. The definitive edition, pp. xvi, 774 + 2. Secondary Material 35. Jerrold, Walker. Thomas Hood: His Life and Times. Alston Rivers, 1907. Thick tall 8vo, red grained cloth, gilt spine upper side, t.e.g., others uncut, 10 plates. EE4 at end carries publisher's adverts only, followed by 16 page catalogue dated October 1907.

Association Items Note: The following items are books by the children of Thomas and Jane Hood. 36. Hood. 1857. edges

Pen and Pencil Pictures. By Thomas 2nd ed., revised. Hurst & Blackett, Grained bright red cloth, gilt spine, top uncut, others trimmed.

37. Chrysal, or, A Story with an End. By Frances Freeling Broderip. Illustrated by Thomas Hood. Saunders, Otley, 1861. 4to, 6 1/4" x 8 1/4". Blue patterned bevelled cloth, elaborately gilt, all edges gilt, dark blue end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. 38. Quips and Cranks. By Thomas Hood. Routledge, Warne & Routledge, 1861. Heavily embossed green cloth, spine gilt and large gilt block centre of upper side, primrose end-papers. Binder's ticket of Hanbury & Co. Presentation copy inscribed by the author: "Charles Bate from Tom Hood." 39. My Grandmother's Budget of Stories and Songs. By Frances Freeling Broderip. With Illustrations by her Brother Thomas Hood. Griffith & Farran, 1863. Dark green cloth, spine and upper side elaborately gilt, all edges gilt, publisher's 32 page catalogue at end dated April 1878 (presumably a late binding-up). There are 6 plates (but no list of them). 40. Vere Vereker's Vengeance: A Sensation in Seven Paroxysms. By Thomas Hood. Idiotically Illustrated by William Brunton. J. C Hotten, 1865. Semi-stiff glazed yellow wrappers lettered overall in black, and up the spine, together with the price (1/6). Frontispiece; Hotten's adverts (10 leaves) at end. 41. Griset's Grotesques, or, Jokes Drawn on Wood, with Rhymes by Tom Hood. 100 Quaint Designs by Ernest Griset, Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. Routledge & Sons, 1867. 4to, 7 3/4" x 10 1/4", heavily bevelled green cloth, gilt spine, large oval gilt medallion with coloured design on upper side, all edges gilt, 2 leaves of adverts at end. Armorial bookplate of Richard Pearson Crozier. 42. Tom Hood's Comic Annual for 1868 [-1877]. The Fun Office, 1868-1877. Only 9 annuals, the volume for 1869 not bound in. Tom Hood died in 1874 and the issues for 1876 and 1877 were edited by Henry Sampson, the last issue changing its title to Hood's Comic Annual for 1877.

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HORNE (Herbert Percy) 1864-1916

Uniformly bound into 3 volumes 4to (6 1/4" x 8"), half blue calf, dark red linen sides, marbled edges. The imprints are uniform-"Published at the Fun Office, 80 Fleet Street" during Hood's editorship. After his death, for the last 2 numbers, the wording changes to-"Published for the Proprietors at the Fun Office." Contributors include Frederic Locker, Austin Dobson, Ambrose Bierce (both as A. G. Bierce and Dod Grile), W. S. Gilbert, Joseph Ashby-Sterry, G. A. Sala and others.

7" x 10 1/2", sewn into light brown wrappers lettered on upper side in 4 lines in black.

Manuscript 43. Chatelain, Le Chevalier de. Le chevalier et le dragon. Traduit de 1'anglais de Thomas Hood. Manuscript on rectos of 14 sheets of blue writing paper with ruled watermark, sewn to form an 8vo booklet. The content is 47 stanzas, each of 6 lines, signed at the end by the French translator and dated 26 March 1869, with the additional words in his hand: "Copi§ par my dear Clara." HORNE (Herbert Percy) 1864-1916 1. Herrick, Robert. Hesperides: Poems by Robert Herrick. Edited with Notes by Herbert P. Home and with Introduction by Ernest Rhys. Walter Scott, 1887. A volume of the Canterbury Poets, dark blue cloth, spine titling label, all edges uncut, 5 leaves of adverts at end following p.[302] which is blank. There is an Editor's Note by Home, 2 pages, and his Notes at end fill 42 pages. 2. Nero and Other Plays. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by Herbert P. Home, Havelock Ellis, Arthur Symbns and A. Wilson Verity. Vizetelly, 1888. A volume of the Mermaid Series, unexpurgated edition, greenish blue cloth, gilt-spine, titled on dark red lettering panel, all edges uncut, dark slate end-papers, frontispiece portrait of Nathaniel Field. Home contributes the 6 page Introduction to Nero. 3. Diversi Colores. Published by the Author at the Chiswick Press, 1891. Attractive printing in red and black, 12mo, sage green boards lettered on label upwards on spine. The edition probably consisted of 250 copies. 4. William Bell Scott-Poet, Painter and Critic. Chiswick Press [1891]. Pp.fiv], 16, Reprinted from The Hobby Horse, volume 6, where it occupied pp. 16-27. The same setting of type was used for this separate issue, but it was repaginated, edges were cut down to

5. Destree, Olivier Georges. Poemes sans rimes. Ixmdres: imprimfi pour 1'auteur, 1894. ImprimS a Londres aux presses de Chiswick d'apres les dessins de Herbert P. Home, 1894. Printed in red and black, tall 8vo, sage green boards lettered on label upwards on spine, edges uncut. 6. The Binding of Books: An Essay in the History of Gold-Tooled Bindings. Kegan Paul, 1894. A volume in the Books about Books series, edited by Alfred W. Pollard. Smooth red buckram, gilt spine and upper side, all edges uncut, 12 plates, the last being of a binding by Cobden-Sanderson, to whom the work is dedicated. 7. Vasari, Giorgio. The Life of Leonardo da Vinci. . . . Done into English from the text of the Second Edition of the Lives with a Commentary by Herbert P. Home. Published at the Sign of the Unicorn, 1903. Large square 8vo, half cream linen, light blue board sides, all edges uncut. Black lettered spine and upper side, 20 full page plates. No. 9 of the Artist's Library, edited by Laurence Binyon. 8. Wotton, Henry, Kt. The Elements of Architecture. Collected by Sir Henry Wotton from the best Authors and Examples. Longmans Green, 1903. Small 4to, light blue boards, lettered in 2 lines on titling label upwards on spine, all edges uncut, one of 350 copies printed at the Chiswick Press with the ornaments designed by Herbert P. Home for S. T. Prideaux. 9. Albertini, Francesco. II memoriale di Francesco Albertini. Florence, 1510. Newly reprinted at the Florence Press in types designed by H. P. Home. Chatto & Windus, 1909. Large square 8vo, light blue wrappers lettered in black, uncut, one of 500 copies on Batchelor handmade paper. 10. The Century Guild Hobby Horse. Edited by A. H. Mackmurdo and Herbert P. Home. Kegan Paul, 1886-1892 (Vol. 7, Chiswick Press), new ser., Elkin Mathews, 1893-1894. A complete set of both series, together with the early separate Trial No. 1 of April 1884. The first number in printed wrappers, all edges uncut, erratum slip inserted. The main issue (1886-1892), 7 volumes 4to, 9" x 12 1/4", half cream parchment, light blue board sides, all edges uncut. The new series (1893-1894), titled The Hobby Horse, 3 volumes, 4to, light blue pictorial wrappers, uncut. There is,

389 HORNE (Herbert Percy) 1864-1916 unfortunately, nothing to confirm the fact that this set came from the library of Arthur Symons, although I purchased it in the Sotheby sale of the library, 26 June 1945, where it formed lot 614. Autograph Letter 11. ALS on a large folded sheet (11 1/4" x 15") of laid paper with an ornamental "A. L." watermark, folded for the post and addressed to John H. Ingram, stamped and postmarked 29 October 1886. An invitation signed, "Sincerely yours, Herbert P. Home," and dated 28 October 1886, from 28 Southampton St., Strand, W.C.: ". . . Gilchrist will be here, I hope, and amongst others Oscar Wilde has promised to turn up, whom I know you were wishing to meet. . . ." HORNE (Richard Henry) 1803-1884 1. Exposition of the False Medium and Barriers Excluding Men of Genius from the Public. Effmgham Wilson, 1833. The First Edition of the author's first book, published anonymously. Half dark green cloth, drab brown board sides, spine titling label, all edges uncut, frontispiece plate. From the library of Col. C. H. Wilkinson, Sotheby sale, 1960. With bookplate of J. S. L. Gilmour, and a punning presentation inscription from him to Wilkinson: "From one collector of Home-books to another." Also inserted are 2 ALS of Gilmour to Wilkinson, written on 5 sheets of his Cory Lodge, Cambridge notepaper, dated 5 and 9 July 1956, mainly about the collecting of R. H. Home books. 2. Spirit of Peers and People: A National Tragi-Comedy. By the Author of The Exposition of the False Medium. Effingham Wilson, 1834. The author's second book; rare. Nearly contemporary binding of maroon morocco gilt, marbled end-papers, t.e.g., others trimmed, engraved frontispiece plate by Seymour. Pp.[65-66] at end blank save for printer's imprint in 3 lines centre verso. 3. Hazlitt, William. Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims. With Introductory Remarks by the Editor of the Monthly Repository. 2nd ed. J. Templeman, 1837. Green cloth, spine titling label, all edges uncut. Home's "Introductory Remarks," which are signed at end "R. H. Home, Author of the 'Exposition of the False Medium1 etc.," occupy 7 pages.

HORNE (Richard Henry) 1803-1884 4. Cosmo Der Medici: An Historical Tragedy. J. Templeman, 1837. Original drab brown wrappers with large titling label on upper side, edges trimmed. 5. Cosmo De' Medici: An Historical Tragedy, and Other Poems. George Rivers, 1875. Dark green cloth, gilt spine and upper side, all edges uncut, frontispiece plate. "The present edition of this Tragedy is entirely remodelled . . . and several new scenes interpolated" (from author's note). Inscribed on half-title: "Mortimer Collins, Esq. from R. H. Home, London Nov. 26, 1875." There are also corrections in the author's hand on pp. 39, 91 and 113. 6. Another copy of the same edition; this is the special Large Paper issue for which the title-page was reset in different type and with a wood-block illustration, and the frontispiece printed on plate paper mounted, t.e.g., others uncut, size being 8 1/2" x 5 1/2", considerably larger than the ordinary edition. The binding (by Stroobants) may be the original binding of Large Paper copies, three-quarter grained dark blue morocco, marbled sides and end-papers. Hinged in at end is a leaf of "Recent Editions of Works by R. H. Home" by George Rivers, the size of the small paper edition but printed on different paper, and not found in small paper copies. Inscribed: "Charles Lewis, with R, H. Home's regards, London, 1876," on half-title. 7. The Poems of Geoffrey Chaucer Modernized. Whittaker, 1841. Small 8vo, dark green cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 3 lines in an ecclesiastical ornament, all edges uncut, yellow end-papers. The Introduction by R. H. Home occupies the first hundred pages and he also contributed 3 of the Tales; others are by Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt, Elizabeth B. Barrett and others. 8. Orion: An Epic Poem in Three Books. 5th ed. J. Miller, 1843. Small 8vo, pale grey wrappers lettered in black, edges trimmed, pp. [iv], 138, [2]. Reprints Home's "Note to the First Edition" and there is another "Note to the Fifth Edition" by him. Trade ticket of a Ventnor stationer, and signature "James White, Bonchurch" [Isle of Wight]. 9. Judas Iscariot: A Miracle Play in Two Acts. With Other Poems. C. Mitchell, Red Lion Court, 1848. Light green wrappers lettered in black, edges uncut (lower wrapper missing). Pp. viii, 64-the last leaf dated at foot, "Finchley 1848."

390 HORNE (Richard Henry) 1803-1884 10. Galatea Secunda, An Odaic Cantata addressed to H. R. H. Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, on his first arrival in the Colony of Victoria. Melbourne: Printed for Private Circulation, 1867. Single sheet of wove paper 15" x 9 7/8" folded once, title on p.[l], pp.[2-4] containing the text. No printer's imprint. 11. Orion: An Epic Poem in Three Books. 10th ed. Chatto & Windus, 1874. Dark green cloth, spine and upper side gilt, all edges uncut, photographic medallion portrait of the author as frontispiece. There is a "Brief Commentary" of 25 pages by the author dated London, November 1871. Pp.[159-160] at end are blank save for printer's imprint in 3 lines centre recto, followed by 4 pages of Ellis & Green's adverts. Binder's ticket of Burn. The title-page is a cancel leaf pasted on a stub, presumably displacing an original one bearing Ellis & Green imprint. Autograph Letters 12. A series of 6 ALS to Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer Collins, addressed from London and Margate [Kent] between 2 December 1875 and 3 June 1883 with various salutations: "Dear Madam and dear Poet's Wife"; "Dear Fairest of Stout Fairies"; &c., and signed variously, "R. H. Home"; "Battle-Axe"; "O'Ryan." In all 22 pages, from 7 Northumberland Street, Regent's Park and 16 Trinity Hill, Margate. 13. ALS to Le Chevalier de Chatelain from 43 Trinity Square, Margate thanking him for Madame de Tartuffe, with its Preface, "qu'il faut lire." An interesting 3 pages. 14. Two ALS from T. W. Littleton Hay to "Dear Mrs. Collins," dated 19 December 1975 and 11 January 1976 from Tollington Park, London, N. The first is mainly about W. Raleigh (the poet and dramatist), 4 pages; the second, of similar length, on a visit to Knowl Hill, is mainly about R. H. Home: "I would have given a great deal to have met R. H. Home: I recollect a poem of his entitled Judas Iscariot [&c.]. He is alas! like P. J. Bailey (of Festus fame) one of those men who outlive their reputation . . . . E. A. Poe (whom Mr. Collins so despises) has written a most glowing and impassioned essay in praise of Orion. . . ." 16. ALS 2 pages, from Frances Collins [Mrs. Mortimer Collins] to "Dear Poet" [R. H. Home] dated 29 November 1875 from Knowl Hill, Twyford, Berks, arranging a meeting. "My husband . . . wonders whether you would

HORNE (Richard Henry)

1803-1884

take the trouble to come down and stay with him two or three days. I shall be proud of the honour of entertaining you." HOSKEN (James Dryden) b. 1861 1. Phaon and Sappho: A Play. With Selection of Poems. Penzance: F. Rodda, 1891. Dark green cloth, gilt-lettered on upper side, edges cut, yellow end-papers. First Edition of the author's first book, inscribed by him on title-page: "Play commenced May 5th 1889, finished the 19th May 1889. J. D. Hosken, Helston, May llth 1893." 2. Phaon and Sappho, and Nimrod. Macmillan, 1892. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine, dark green end-papers, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed, one leaf of publisher's adverts following p. 326 at end. First Edition of the second play: the author's Preface is that issued with Phaon and Sappho in the previous year, the last 3 paragraphs being added. 3. Verses by the Way. Methuen [1893]. Tall 8vo, cream parchment, spine red and black lettered, upper side with title-page design by F. D. Bedford printed in black, all edges uncut, publisher's May 1893 20 page catalogue at end is printed on text-paper. There is a critical and biographical introduction [19 pages] by A. T. Quiller-Couch, though this is only stated on the half-title. No. 51 of 75 copies on handmade paper, signed by the publisher. Thomas Hutchinson's copy; No. 1042 in his catalogue. 4. A Monk's Love and Other Poems, [no date or publisher] 29, Denmark Road, Baling, W. [1895]. Pale blue boards, spine titling label, all edges uncut. The author appears to have published this book privately, though verso of first leaf advertises his second and third volumes, published by Macmillan & Co. and Methuen & Co. The printers were Henderson and Spalding. Inserted is an ALS to "Dear Mr. Rees" [probably J. Rogers Rees of Salisbury] from the same Ealing address as on title-page. 5. Christopher Marlowe and Belphegor. Henry, 1896. Half green cloth, grey board sides, spine titling label, all edges cut. The leaf before half-title carries adverts only, as does the final leaf, pp.[167-168], at end. The first adverts leaf lists Hosken's works and advertises A Monk's Love as published by Henderson in 1894.

391 HOSKEN (James Dryden) b. 1861 6. The Betrothal of Venus and Other Poems. Methuen, 1920. Half cream linen, grey board sides, spine gilt-lettered in 7 lines, only lower edges uncut, 8 pages of Methuen's adverts at end. HOUGHTON (Richard Monckton Milnes) 1st Baron. 1809-1885 1. Memorials of a Tour in Some Parts of Greece: Chiefly Poetical. Edward Moxon, 1834. Tall 8vo, contemporary diced calf, red spine label, edges cut. The author's first book of verse, preceded only by his Cambridge Prize Essay on Homer. Inscribed: "Jane A. Milnes from her affectionate friend T. J. Monckton. Feby 1841." Dedicated to Henry Hallam. 2. Poems. 2 vols. Edward Moxon, 1838. Volume 1 is titled Poems of Many Years and Volume 2 Memorials of a Residence on the Continent--the first being dedicated to the Marquis of Northampton and the second to the author's sister Viscountess Galway. Bound together in contemporary calf gilt, all edges gilt. 3. Another copy, identical in all respects, bound together in contemporary half calf, marbled sides and edges. With the Munro armorial bookplate ("Dread God") and signature "J. C. Munro, May 20th." 4. Palm Leaves. Edward Moxon, 1844. Green cloth, spine titling label, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed. Pp.[203-204] at end carry adverts of enlarged editions of the author's 3 books of poems, followed by Moxon's 8 page List dated 1 January 1844. Inscribed on title-page: "Henry Lushington August 11, 1855. G. S. Venables" (the date being in a single line box-frame). This was the date of Lushington's death; and on the same day 30 years later, Lord Houghton died. 5. Another copy of the First Edition bound in contemporary half brown morocco, marbled sides and edges. The half-title is present, but the binder has sacrificed the adverts leaf at end and the publisher's catalogue. 6. Poems of Many Years. A New Edition. Edward Moxon, 1844. Green cloth, spine titling label, edges uncut, Moxon's 8 page List dated 1 March 1847 sewn in front. Inscribed in the author's autograph: "With the author's best Compts." The First Edition of 1838 had 77 poems, but this edition has 102.

HOUGHTON (Richard Monckton Milnes) 1st Baron. 1809-1885 7. Another copy of this enlarged edition, in a superb contemporary green morocco binding (by White of Piccadilly), elaborately gilt-tooled spine with red label, gilt borders, all edges gilt, plum red end-papers. Inscribed on half-title: "Julia 0. Sturgis. London 1852." On end-paper is a note: "This book was my mother's. Howard O. Sturgis, 1888." With the circular monogram bookplate of the family. 8. Keats, John. Life, Letters and Literary Remains. Edited by R. M. Milnes. 2 vols. Edward Moxon, 1848. First Edition and First issue, with the original leaf in volume 1, pp. 113-114, reading, "Leland's 'Enchanted Castle."' A presentation copy, inscribed in each volume: "C. F. Milnes from R. M. M," though it seems probable this is in the handwriting of the recipient. Original wine coloured blind-stamped cloth, spines gilt-lettered in 5 lines, cream end-papers, top edges uncut, other edges lightly trimmed, each volume with frontispiece plate. Other distinctive early features of this particularly fine set are as follows: Moxon's 8 page List of Books dated 1 March 1848 sewn in front in volume 1. Sides of cloth blind-stamped with ornamental rectangular frame, which one might style the In Memoriam frame (as all copies of Tennyson's poem, First Edition, were thus stamped). Volume 1 is without the errata slip, normally inserted at p. 1, though the 2 volumes have all the 4 errors. 9. Keats, John. Life, Letters and Literary Remains. 2 vols, 1848. Another set of First Edition, but this is the second issue. Volume 1 has the reprinted leaf, pp. 113-114, in which the correction is made in line 5 of the letter to Reynold's "Claude's 'Enchanted Castle."1 Other confirmatory features are: no adverts sewn in front in volume 1, but the errata slip, 3 errors, inserted at p. 1 (the "Leland" error is not one of these). Stamping variety is as in early reprints of In Memoriam, and many other Moxon books of the time-plain half-inch frame, with all the ornamentation inside it. 10. Keats, John. Poetical Works. With a Memoir by R. M. Milnes. A New Edition. Edward Moxon, 1854. Green blind-stamped cloth (with the pattern on sides of the second issue of the 1848 Life), spine gilt-lettered in 3 lines, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed, yellow end-papers, 8 page Moxon List sewn in front dated March 1856, frontispiece portrait of Keats with Moxon's 1848 imprint. This edition, styled "A New Edition," was frequently reprinted, with changed date, in the

392 HOUGHTON (Richard Monckton Milnes) 1st Baron. 1809-1885 next few years. The dates of advertisements sewn-in also vary. But this 1854 impression is the first printing of the "Memoir," which is a version of the "Life" condensed into 40 pages. 11. Keats, John. Poetical Works. With a Memoir by R. M. Milnes. Illustrated with 120 designs by George Scharf. Routledge, Warne & Routledge, 1862. Larger 8vo format (8" x 5 1/4") bevelled purple cloth, gilt and black ornamented &c.r all edges gilt, brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Edmonds and Remnants. 12. Selections from the Poetical Works of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton. John Murray, 1863. Green cloth, gilt-lettered and designed spine and upper side, edges uncut or only lightly trimmed, red end-papers with binder's ticket of Edmonds and Remnants. Inscribed on half-title: "With the author's best regards." 13. Another copy; this appears to be a Large Paper variety with edges entirely uncut, covers measuring 5" x 7 1/2", whereas other was 4 1/4" x 7". Wine coloured bevelled cloth with similar (but not same) stamping as .the green cloth copy, and with spine lettering: "Lord/Houghton's/Poems," whereas the above has: "Poems/By/R. Monckton/Milnes." End-papers and binder's tickets are the same, and this copy also has autograph presentation inscription: "With the kind regards of Houghton." 14. Keats, John. The Life and Letters. A New Edition. In One Volume. Edward Moxon, 1867. Medium 8vo (5" x 7 1/2") bevelled rough-grained light brown cloth, spine and upper side gilt, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed, yellow end-papers with binder's ticket of Hanbury & Simpson, frontispiece portrait. The First Edition of the Life (2 vols., 1848) was dedicated to Francis Jeffrey. This revised edition is dedicated to Mrs. Bryan Procter. 15. Another copy of this edition; it would appear to be a later issue, as the edges are considerably cut down and the binding a plainer red cloth (and no binder's ticket). Frontispiece portrait of Keats appears to be the same, but it does not have the facsimile autograph signature. Lettering on spine is different, in 6 lines between ornamental band top and bottom: "Life/And Letters/of/John Keats/Lord Houghton/Edward Moxon." Urn ornament on sides (gilt on upper, blind on lower). Unlike other issues it has no lettering at all on upper side; instead there are 2

HOUGHTON (Richard Monckton Milnes) 1st Baron. 1809-1885 black oblong panels at top and bottom which seem to invite lettering. 16. Keats, John. The Poetical Works. With a Memoir by Lord Houghton. A New, Revised, and Enlarged Edition. Edward Moxon, 1869. Rebound in crimson morocco, all edges gilt, with the circular medallions of Summerfield College on sides. On end-paper: "Lower Fourth Form. A. H. Clough. Summerfield. Christmas 1871." (This, of course, is Arthur Hugh Clough, son of the author of The Bothie.) The 39 page "Memoir" appears to be a verbatim reprint of that first printed in the 1854 edition of the Poetical Works. 17. Good Night and Good Morning. Words by Lord Houghton, with Illuminations and Etchings by Walter Severn, Esqre. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1872. Imperial 8vo (11 1/4" x 8 1/4") bevelled brown cloth, upper side elaborately lettered on variously coloured panels, all edges gilt, yellow end-papers. Title-page, Dedication to Lady Marion Alford and 6 leaves of text, interleaved with blanks. Printed in gold and colours. This poem appears to have been first published in 1859. 18. Monographs Personal and Social. 2nd ed. John Murray, 1873. Red cloth, spine gilt-lettered, dark slate end-papers, 4 portraits. Verso of half-title advertises a companion volume, Monographs: Political and Literary, as "In preparation." 19. Peacock, Thomas Love. The Works of Thomas Love Peacock, including His Novels, Poems, Fugitive Pieces, Criticisms &c. With a Preface by the Rt. Hon. Lord Houghton. 3 vols. R. Bentley, 1875. Volume 1 (only), containing Lord Houghton's 17 page contribution, deep wine coloured cloth, black designed, spine gilt-lettered, top edges unopened, others lightly trimmed, though some fore-edges still unopened, frontispiece photograph portrait. 20. The Poetical Works of (Richard Monckton Milnes) Lord Houghton. Collected Edition. 2 vols. John Murray, 1876. Small 8vo, mauve grey cloth, black and gilt designed, spines gilt-lettered, top edges uncut, others cut, frontispiece portrait, dark blue end-papers. There is a 10 page Preface by the author, dated from Fryston, 1 March 1876. 21. Some Writings and Speeches of R. M. Milnes, Lord Houghton, in the Last Year of His Life. With a Notice In Memoriam by G. S. Venables, Q.C. Privately printed at the Chiswick Press, 1888. Small 4to, full cream vellum gilt ruled and lettered

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on upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. Venables was the friend of 40 years to whom Houghton dedicated his Monographs: Personal and Social,

whilst the second is to his memory, in a sonnet here first printed.

Autograph letters

Note: For Lord Houghton's "Official Reports: London International Exhibition, 1871" see the William Bell Scott collection.

22. ALS, 4 pages, dated from Traveller's Club, Pall Mall, 28 May 1877 to an unnamed "Dear Sir": "My books and papers were so dispersed in the fire at Fryston Hall that I fear" &c. This event had occurred on 17 November 1876. 23. ALS, 4 pages, dated 18 November (presumably circa 1880) on Serlby Hall, Bawtry notepaper to "My dear Lady Catherine." Secondary Material 24. Reid, T. Wemyss. The Life, Letters and Friendships of Lord Houghton. 2 vols. Cassell, 1890. Tall 8vo, dark red cloth, gilt, only lower edges cut, frontispiece portraits. The Third Edition appeared in 1891, and is apparently identical with this First Edition save for alteration of figure in date. 25. Pope-Hennessy, James. Monckton Milnes: The Years of Promise, 1809-1851. Constable, 1949. Tall 8vo, red cloth, gilt spine, edges cut, 6 illustrations. 26. Pope-Hennessy, James. Monckton Milnes: The Flight of Youth, 1851-1885. Constable, 1951. Uniform with the first volume, and with 9 illustrations. A fine pair of the First Editions, both in their pictorial dust-jackets (25/- net each). Association Items Note: The following books are by Lord Houghton's son. 27. Stray Verses, 1889-1890. By Robert, Lord Houghton. John Murray, 1891. Half cream buckram, blue lir.an sides, t.e.g., others uncut, publisher's monogram end-papers. Lord Ducie's copy, from the Tortworth Court sale, with autograph on title-page. 28. Stray Verses, 1889-1890. 2nd ed. John Murray, 1893. Small 8vo, pale green cloth, gilt, fern-leaf designed end-papers, t.e.g., others uncut. The First Edition was a tall 8vo, printed on an excellent quality of laid handmade paper, whilst the Second is on a toned wove paper. The only difference between them, however, was occasioned by the death of Tennyson, the first being dedicated to him,

HOUSMAN (Alfred Edward) 1859-1936 1. A Shropshire Lad. Kegan Paul &c., 1896. Half cream parchment, lettered in red up spine on titling label, all edges uncut. The sides are smooth grey boards. Preserved in a blue fleece-lined book-box. 2. A Shropshire Lad. 2nd ed. Grant Richards, 1898. Smooth olive green buckram, spine gilt-lettered in 7 lines, all edges uncut. The printing is imperfect on page 57 where in line 4 the first word lacks its first 2 letters. The final gathering G consists of a single quarter-sheet, 2 leaves, carrying publisher's adverts &c. Belonged to Hamilton Aide, and has his bookplate and signature dated September 1898. (The edition was issued in September.) 3. A Shropshire Lad. Grant Richards, 1904. A miniature edition (3 1/4" x 5") No. 4 in the Smaller Classics series. Semi-stiff red leather, gilt-lettered up spine and on upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. Appears to be the second in this Royal 32mo format, and is the fourth of this publisher's printings, or Fifth Edition of the book. 4.

Another copy, identical with above.

5. A Shropshire Lad. Grant Richards, 1908. Royal 32mo, green cloth, lettered up the spine and in gilt on upper side, t.e.g., others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (I/- net). 6. A Shropshire Lad. Grant Richards, 1918. A foolscap 8vo reprint, blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges cut, others uncut. 7. Last Poems. Grant Richards, 1922. Smooth dark blue buckram, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others cut, in printed dust-jacket (5s. net). 8. Platt, Arthur. Nine Essays. With a Preface by A. E. Housman. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1927. Red cloth, gilt spine, top edges cut, others uncut, frontispiece portrait. Armorial bookplate of Dr. L. L. Price (of Oriel).

394 HOUSMAN (Alfred Edward) 1859-1936 9. A Shropshire Lad. The Richards Press, 1929. Tall 8vo, pale green boards, stone coloured Holland spine with titling label lettered in 2 lines upwards, all edges uncut. No. 262 of 325 copies printed at the Alcuin Press on watermarked handmade paper. 10. Last Poems, [no publisher's imprint] 1929. Produced uniformly at the Alcuin Press, though in this case there is no limitation certificate. Both these volumes carry the Daniel Duff bookplate and have spare titling labels tipped-in at end. 11. The Name and Nature of Poetry. The Leslie Stephen Lecture delivered at Cambridge, 9 May 1933. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1933. Fawn coloured boards, lettered in black up spine and on upper side (including "Two Shillings Net"), edges cut. First leaf before half-title is blank, and is ignored in pagination; final leaf, pp.[53-54], is also blank.

HOUSMAN (Alfred Edward) 1859-1936 Secondary Material 16. Withers, Percy. A Buried Life: Personal Recollections of A. E. Housman. J. Cape, 1940. Bright blue cloth, spine silver lettered, top edges cut, others uncut, frontispiece portrait. In printed dust-jacket (5s. net). HOUSMAN (Laurence) 1865-1959 1. Blake, William. Selections from the Writings of William Blake. With an Introductory Essay by Laurence Housman. Kegan Paul, 1893. Small 8vo, a volume of the publisher's Parchment Library series in the alternative binding of dark red bevelled cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, frontispiece plate. Housman's "Introduction" is a 23 page essay, and this is his first published work.

12. More Poems. J. Cape, 1936. Large 8vo, dark blue smooth buckram, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges cut, others uncut, frontispiece portrait, in printed dust-jacket (5s. net). The preface is by the author's brother Laurence Housman.

2. A Farm in Fairyland. Kegan Paul, 1894. First Edition of the author's first book, Copy No. 16 of 50 on large handmade paper, 7" x 10 1/4", deep cream wrappers lettered in 4 lines on spine and one line on upper side, all edges uncut. The 14 plates engraved by the author are printed on Japanese vellum.

13. [Order of Service.] Single leaf folded once to form a 4 page booklet, paper watermarked "St. Winifred" with large ornamental figure. "Trinity College/Alfred Edward Housman" &c. 11 lines of type. Service 4 May 1936. Housman's poem "For My Funeral" (More Poems, No. XLVII) is printed on the third page, without its title, second and fourth pages blank.

3. The House of Joy. Kegan Paul, 1895. Green cloth, spine lettered gilt, upper cover with pictorial design by the author in black, one figure only being stamped in gold, all edges uncut. With 9 plates (including title) engraved by the author. Presentation inscription from George Ravenscroft Dennis dated Xmas 1896.

14. Introductory Lecture Delivered before The Faculties of Arts and Laws and of Science in University College London October 3, 1892. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1937. Light blue boards, lettered in black up spine and on upper side, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (Price 2s. net). Introductory Note by A. S. F. Gow. This first published edition had been preceded by 2 private ones, in 1892 and 1933. Autograph Letter 15. ALS, one page on a folded sheet of watermarked notepaper, dated from Trinity College, Cambridge, 27 March 1928, to "Dear Mr. Wilson," declining an offer of Presidency of a Conrad club.

4. All-Fellows: Seven Legends of Lower Redemption. With Insets in Verse. Kegan Paul, 1896. Square 8vo smooth olive green buckram, gilt, spine gilt-lettered in 12 lines, all edges uncut. Title-page printed in red. With 8 plates engraved by the author. The last 3 leaves of final gathering at end carry press notices of the author's books, and are separately paginated 1-6. A later "remainder" binding of First Edition sheets has been noted: it appears that at the time the wood-block for "All" on spine had been lost, hence the lettering of spine in these is imperfect. The Esher copy with Brett bookplate. 5. Green Arras. John Lane, 1896. Green cloth, spine and upper cover elaborately gilt-designed, all edges uncut, publisher's 16 page 1896 catalogue at end, yellowish end-papers with floral design in white. With 7 plates (including title-page) engraved by the

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HOUSMAN (Laurence) 1865-1959 author. All copies noted of this book have 10 errors in the text; the present copy has the first printing of the errata slip, at which time only 5 errors had been detected. 6. Another copy of the First Edition, identical in every respect with above, save that the inserted errata leaf is of the later printing, with 10 errors. H2 at end is blank save for Folkard's ornamental imprint centre verso. The Esher copy, with Brett bookplate. 7. Housman, Clemence. The Were-Wolf. With Six Illustrations by Laurence Housman. John Lane, 1896. Square 8vo, pink smooth linen, gilt-designed and lettered spine and upper side. Upper cover has design impressed 4 times (in the corners). It appears likely that in a better copy these might be seen to be in a cream enamel, which here are faded, publisher's 16 page 1895 catalogue at end. 8. Gods and Their Makers. London & New York: John Lane, 1897. Green cloth, spine and upper side gilt ruled and lettered, t.e.g., others uncut. Printed in Cambridge, U.S.A. and appears to be the American version and hence the First Edition. The order of cities in title-page imprint is still "London and New York," but advert of Green Arras on facing verso of half-title has Lane's American address, 140 Fifth Avenue, New York and their 13 page List of Books at end has same address and is dated 1896. The Esher copy with Brett bookplate. 9. Gods and Their Makers. John Lane, 1897. Smooth bright green buckram, spine and upper side ruled and lettered in white enamel, only lower edges cut. Advert of Green Arras on verso of half-title is the English variety, "5s. net" set in a single rule oblong frame; p.[215] carries same printer's imprint of John Wilson, but the 12 page Lane catalogue following is the London variety and dated 1897. Pp.[13-14] are blanks whereas in the American edition they carry a description of 4 Vale Press publications of Charles Eicketts. It may be noted that American copies are rubber-stamped "Boston Bookbinding Co." bottom corner of rear end-paper. Sheets sent to England would be bound in England, with the different catalogue which was printed in England. 10. Shelley, P. B. The Sensitive Plant. Illustrated by Laurence Housman. [J. M. Dent] Aldine House, 1898. Square 8vo, blue bevelled cloth, gilt-lettered up spine and on upper side in same setting as title-page, t.e.g., others uncut. A volume of the Illustrated English Poems series, edited by Ernest Rhys, by whom

HOUSMAN (Laurence) 1865-1959 there is a 7 page essay. There is also a 4 page "Note upon the Illustrations" by Laurence Housman. 11. The Field of Clover. Kegan Paul, 1898. Green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side pictorially designed in darker green with one figure in gilt, all edges uncut. The woodcut illustrations by the author, which include frontispiece and title-page, are engraved by his sister Clemence. 12. Another copy of the First Edition, one of a small (unspecified) number of copies printed on large handmade paper. Size 5 1/2" x 9", green cloth with similar design to small paper issue. The illustrations are printed on Japanese vellum which in small paper are on toned plate paper; also there are 3 blanks at end besides the imprint leaf of Cambridge U.S.A. printer, which in small paper carry press notices of Housman's other books. 13. Spikenard: A Book of Devotional Love-Poems. Grant Richards, 1898. Small 4to, drab brown boards, spine and upper side gilt-lettered and designed, all edges uncut. An attractive volume from the Chiswick Press; title-page all in red, final leaf H4 carries publisher's adverts only. Signature on half-title: "D. Croal Thomson, 1898." 14. The Little Land. With Songs from Its Four Rivers. Grant Richards, 1899. From the Chiswick Press and in uniform format with Spikenard, title-page in red. Frontispiece by the author. H2 at end carries only notice on first appearances, with printer's imprint on verso. The Esher copy with Brett bookplate; the edges are unopened throughout, hence the last page does not bear the familiar "O. S. B." &c. 15. Rue. At the Sign of the Unicorn, 1899. Square 8vo (but uniform size with above volumes), another Chiswick Press production with title-page all in red. Dark blue smooth cloth, spine and upper side gilt lettered. Al is blank and Hl-2 carry publisher's adverts only. 16. The Story of the Seven Young Goslings. Illustrated by Mabel Dearmer. Blackie and Son [1899]. 4to, glazed blue boards with coloured design, printed partly in colours with illustrations in the text, 6 full-page plates in colours, plain wove end-papers. No printer's imprint.

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17. St. Augustine. The Confessions. Kegan Paul, 1900. Tall 8vo, one of 400 copies on Arnold and Foster's unbleached handmade paper. Illustrations by Paul Woodroffe engraved on wood by Miss Clemence Housman, title-page by Mr. Lawrence [sic] Housman. Printed in red and black, t.e.g., others uncut, semi-limp cream vellum, yapp edges, green silk binding ties.

copies examined are dated, precisely as above grey cloth copy. Parchment copies have a pink silk marker which cloth copies do not have.

18. An Englishwoman's Love-Letters. John Murray, 1900. Cream parchment, yapp edges, with green silk ties, spine gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others uncut, blue end-papers silver designed. The publication is anonymous. 19. White-Rodyng, John. The Night. With a frontispiece in Photogravure by Laurence Housman. Leonard Smithers, 1900. Square 8vo, pale blue linen with coloured design on upper side, all edges uncut. A collection of 9 short plays. 20. A Modern Antaeus. By the Writer of An Englishwoman's Love-Letters. John Murray, 1901. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, design in white enamel on spine and both sides, top edges cut, others only lightly trimmed. First leaf before half-title is blank; 2K4 at end carries only 2 verses on recto with printer's imprint centre verso. 21. Bethlehem, a Nativity Play. The Pageant of Our Lady and Other Poems. Macmillan, 1902. Green cloth, gilt-lettered and designed spine and upper side, all edges uncut. 22. Bethlehem, a Nativity Play. Performed with Music by Joseph Moorat under the Stage-Direction of Edward Gordon Craig, December 1902. Macmillan, 1902. Large square 8vo, 6 3/4" x 8", a separate edition with inserted slip regarding changes in the text. Drab green boards, upper side designed and lettered in red, edges trimmed. The Esher copy with Brett bookplate. 23. Aucassin and Nicolette. A Translation in Prose and Verse from the old French, together with Amabel and Amoris. Given for the first time by Laurence Housman, with drawings by Paul Woodroffe, engraved by Clemence Housman. John Murray, 1902. Grey linen, spine elaborately gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, pink end-papers designed in white. 24. Another copy of the First Edition, the issue in cream parchment, yapp edges, same designed gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut. The paper used in parchment copies is slightly wider, same end-papers. The present copy is not dated on title-page, but other parchment

25. Sabrina Warham: The Story of her Youth. John Murray, 1904. Identical size with A Modern Antaeus (1901). Orange cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered and designed, 3 wavy-line borders top and bottom of spine and similar 7 line one round upper side, all edges cut. 26. The Blue Moon. John Murray, 1904. Frontispiece and title page on plate paper, also 8 full-page plates, all by the author and engraved by his sister Clemence Housman, t.e.g., others cut, pp.[211-212] at end blank. Blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 6 lines between rules top and bottom, upper side with lettering and overall design by the author in darker blue. 27. The Cloak of Friendship. John Murray, 1905. Square 8vo, light green rough buckram, spine and upper side gilt-lettered and designed, all edges uncut, in printed dust-jacket. 28. Another copy of First Edition, without the dust-jacket. In this copy the binding is smooth buckram and decidedly olive brownish green. Gilt blocking and lettering reveals no variation. 29. Mendicant Rhymes. Printed at the Essex House Press, 1906. Large square 8vo, 7 1/4" x 8 3/4", half cream vellum, gilt-lettered upwards on spine, pale blue board sides, all edges uncut. Inscribed by author: "To my dear Roman, with a will. L. H." Coloured bookplate of Rowland Thurman and the later ex-libris E. Dunsfordi. 30. Prunella, or, Love in a Dutch Garden. By Laurence Housman and H. Granville Barker. A. H. Bullen, 1906. Large square 8vo, 6 1/4" x 8", mauve linen, spine gilt-lettered in 7 lines, frontispiece. G2 at end carries Bullen's adverts with printer's imprint in 2 lines at foot verso. 31. Stories from The Arabian Nights. Retold by Laurence Housman. With drawings by Edward Dulac. Hodder and Stoughton, 1907. Imperial 8vo, 7 1/4" x 10", light reddish brown cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered and designed, with ornaments in dark blue, edges stained blue, grey end-papers. The artist's 50 coloured illustrations are mounted on grey cartridge paper, interleaved with the titlings on white paper.

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32. Stories from The Arabian Nights. 2nd ed. Hodder & Stoughton, 1907. The edition designated in 2 line certificate centre verso title-page (first October, second November). Otherwise identical with above item in every respect save that edges are left white and the plates, which are now interspersed throughout (not bound at end), are on white mounts.

39. Lysistrata: A Modern Paraphrase from the Greek of Aristophanes. The Woman's Press, 1911. Grey flecked linen, gilt-lettered on upper side in 11 lines, edges cut, frontispiece plate. Esher copy with the first Oliver Brett bookplate and his inscription on end-paper: "Antoinette from Oliver, Xmas 1912."

33. The Chinese Lantern. F. Sidgwick, 1908. Large square 8vo, same size as Prunella (1906), pink linen, spine gilt-lettered in 6 lines, t.e.g., others uncut. Title page entirely in red.

40. Pains and Penalties: The Defence of Queen Caroline, A Play in Four Acts. Sidgwick and Jackson, 1911. Blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others cut. The Esher copy, with bookplate and autograph inscription similar to those in the Lysistrata above.

34. The Chinese Lantern: A Play in Three Acts. New York and London: Samuel French [? 1909]. Pp.[4], 80, [4], pale blue wrappers, upper side lettered black, only lower edges uncut; 2 blank leaves at beginning and end are not included in pagination. The book is metal fastened, not sewn. This acting edition appears to have identical text with the 1908 First Edition. The author's letter to A. J. A. Symons (item 114 below) seems to suggest this might be "French's American edition of 1920." Inscribed by the author: "Beeban from L. H. Sept, 1921." 35. Articles of Faith in the Freedom of Women. A. C. Fifield, 1910. A volume of the Heretical Booklets, published at 3d. and 6d. (the present title 7d. post free). Light brown wrappers lettered down the spine and on both sides in black, edges cut, 64 pages. The Esher copy, preserved in a linen case with bookplate. 36. Alice in Ganderland. A One-act Play. The Woman's Press, 1911. Blue wrappers lettered in black, 24 pages, edges cut. The Esher copy with Brett bookplate, preserved in a linen case. 37. Ali Baba and Other Stories from The Arabian Nights. Retold by Laurence Housman, with drawings by Edmond Dulac. Hodder and Stoughton, 1911. Square 8vo, red cloth, gilt spine, gilt design on upper side, edges cut; 12 coloured plates (from the 1907 edition) on white mounts with titling-text on white paper guards. 38. The Immoral Effects of Ignorance in Sex Relations. Women's Freedom League, 1911. 48mo (? a single sheet) 3 1/2" x 6 1/4", 48 pages, green wrappers printed in black, edges cut. The text is a Lecture given in the Essex Hall, 18 October 1911. The Esher copy with Brett bookplate, preserved in a cloth case.

41. The New Child's Guide to Knowledge: With Elegant Engravings drawn from the Best Sources. Sidgwick and Jackson, 1911. Beige linen, lettered and designed in darker brown upwards on spine and on upper side, edges cut. Esher copy with Brett bookplate. 42. Sex-War and Woman's Suffrage. A Lecture . . . at the Large Essex Hall. Women's Freedom League, 1912. This booklet consists of 36 leaves, pp.[8], 58, [6], metal fastened into green wrappers lettered black on upper side and is identical in format with The Immoral Effects (1911). But whereas that consisted of 48 pages without register and was probably printed on a single sheet, this is signed on 4th, 7th, 10th, 13th and 16th leaves B-F, the remaining leaves unsigned. First and last leaves are blanks and the 2 leaves which follow p. 58 are perforated, allowing them to be used for subscription orders. In the previous booklet the last 3 leaves were perforated thus. The Esher copy with bookplate, preserved in a cloth case. On p. 55, "brotherhood" is altered by pen to "motherhood." 43. John of Jingalo: The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties. Chapman and Hall, 1912. Green cloth, spine lettered in 6 lines with one short rule in yellow between double rules top and bottom in darker green. Spine and upper side with ornaments in silver and yellow, also 2 line frame round upper side in dark green. The preliminaries consist of 3 leaves paged to vi; perhaps Al was a blank which has been removed. 44. Princess Badoura: A Tale from The Arabian Nights. Retold by Laurence Housman. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Hodder and Stoughton [1913]. 4tp (7 1/4" x 10"), cream linen with inlay design in green, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges

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stained green, others cut, green end-papers with corner designs, 10 coloured illustrations on Japanese vellum mounts with protective titling leaves. P2 at end is blank. Text and illustrations have nothing in common with the volume of 1907.

51. Ploughshare and Pruning-Hook: Ten Lectures on Social Subjects. The Swarthmore Press, 1919. Half light grey holland, cream coloured board sides, spine titling label, upper side gilt-lettered in 3 lines, edges cut. Esher copy with Brett bookplate.

45. The Winners. The Booklovers' Resort, W. Kensington [1915]. A poem in 5 quatrains; 4 pages metal fastened into lavender coloured wrappers, upper side lettered as a title-page within double rule rectangular frame "(By kind permission of the Author}." The Esher copy, with bookplate, preserved in a cloth case.

52. Angels and Ministers: Three Plays of Victorian Shade and Character. J. Cape, 1921. Half purple linen, spine titling label, rough designed board sides, top edges cut, all others uncut. No. 12 of only 500 copies printed. Esher copy with Brett bookplate.

46. The Snow Man: A Metrical Play in One Act. Samuel French: New York & London [1916]. 20 pages, metal fastened into light brown wrappers, lettered black on upper side. The publisher's New York imprint precedes the London address on both title-page and upper wrapper. Moreover, the price is quoted in American currency: "Price 35 Cents." An entirely unopened copy with Esher bookplate, preserved in a cloth case.

53. Angels and Ministers: Three Plays of Victorian Shade and Character. J. Cape, 1921. Pale lavender coloured boards, spine and upper side lettered in black, only lower edges uncut, in printed dust-jacket (3/6d. net). Copies were also issued in paper wrappers at 2/6d. net. The First Edition consisted of 500 numbered copies, issued in September. The present issue is styled the Popular Edition, and was issued in the following month. As an "Introduction to the New Edition" was added, this may be described as the Second Edition.

47. The Relation of Fellow-Feeling to Sex. Battley Bros [1917]. No. 4 of the publications of the British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology. 16 pages metal fastened, p.[l] serving as the only title-page. Signed in full by the author on first page of text. The Esher copy with bookplate, preserved in a cloth case. 48. St. Francis Poverello. Sidgwick and Jackson, 1918. Pott 8vo, pale grey boards, spine titling label, all edges cut. Duplicate titling label at end. A volume of the Messages of the Saints series, with 16 page Introduction by the editor, Alfred W. Pollard.

54. Possession: A Peep-Show in Paradise. J. Cape, 1921. Uniform format with First Edition of Angels and Ministers. No. 492 of 500 copies only. Esher copy with Brett bookplate. 55. False Premises: Five One-Act Plays. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1922. Decorated mauve boards, vellum spine lettered upwards in gilt, upper side lettered and designed in dark green, all edges uncut. No. 37 of 150 copies on Kelmscott handmade paper, signed by the author. The gatherings are unopened throughout.

49. The Heart of Peace and Other Poems. Heinemann, 1918. Light blue cloth, spine and upper side lettered and decorated in darker blue, in printed dust-jacket (5/- net). Only lower edges trimmed; the gatherings are unopened throughout.

56. False Premises. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1922. The ordinary First Edition, pinkish boards, yapp edges, same lettering up spine and upper cover design as in signed edition. Only lower edges uncut. This publication is No. 1 of the British Drama League Library of Modern British Drama.

50. The Wheel. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1919. Red cloth, spine titling label, top edges cut, others uncut, duplicate titling label at end. Final leaf, pp.[79-80], carries publisher's adverts only. Esher copy with Brett bookplate; unopened throughout.

57. Angels and Ministers: Four Plays of Victorian Shade and Character. With drawings by Albert Rutherston. J. Cape, 1922. Half cream linen, purple board sides, titling labels on spine and upper side. This is a combined edition of Possession and Angels and Ministers with the illustrations added.

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58. Dethronements: Imaginary Portraits of Political Characters, done in Dialogue. J. Cape, 1922. Uniform format with Angels and Ministers First Edition. In printed dust-wrapper (7/6 net). No. 190 of only 750 copies. 59. Little Plays of St. Francis: A Dramatic Cycle. With a Preface by H. Granville-Barker. Sidgwick and Jackson, 1922. Beige holland, spine titling label, top edges cut, others uncut. Pink duplicate titling label at end. Esher copy, with Brett bookplate. 60. Moonshine and Clover. J. Cape, 1922. Blue cloth, spine and upper side lettered in silver, designed in yellow and silver, edges cut. Frontispiece, title-page and 14 plates by the author, engraved by Clemence Housman. These 18 tales are reprinted from 4 previously published prose works (1894-1904). 61. All-Fellows and the Cloak of Friendship. J. Cape, 1923. Mauve cloth, spine and upper side lettered and designed in darker blue, only lower edges uncut. First combined edition of these 2 early works, to which is now added Inside-Out, which had been printed in the Century Magazine in 1917, but not collected before. Bookplate of Stanley Austin and later in the Esher Library; Brett bookplate. 62. Followers of St. Francis: Four Plays of the Early Franciscan Legend. Sidgwick and Jackson, 1923. Uniform format with the Little Plays of 1922. Esher copy with Brett bookplate. 63. The New Humanism. Women's Freedom League [1923]. 48 pages [pp. iv, 44], without register, presumably one gathering. Uniform format with the other Women's Freedom League publications of 1911 and 1912, metal fastened into green wrappers, upper side lettered in black. The Esher copy with Brett bookplate, preserved in cloth case. 64. Trimblerigg: A Book of Revelation. With a Frontispiece from a recent portrait by Kapp. J. Cape, 1924. Half blue cloth with spine titling label, decorated board sides, top edges stained blue, others uncut. Bertrand Russell's copy, inscribed by him, "ex dono authoris," signed and dated November 1924.

HOUSMAN (Laurence) 1865-1959 65. Modern Religious Belief. An address by Laurence Housman at Leighton Park School, Reading, on 19 June 1925. Printed for private circulation by permission of Mr. Housman, 1925. 16 pages, 8vo, metal fastened without outer wrappers, signed by the author in full on title-page. 66. Of Aucassin and Nicolette. A Translation in Prose and Verse from the Old French together with Amabel and Amoris. With drawings by Paul Woodroffe engraved by Clemence Housman. Chatto and Windus, 1925. Large 8vo, pale grey-blue boards with yapp edges, holland spine with titling label lettered upwards, all edges uncut. No. 105 of only 160 copies printed on Batchelor's Kelmscott handmade, at the Shakespeare Head Press, and signed by artist and author. This is an Edition-de-luxe reprint of the work first published by John Murray in 1902. 67. Another copy of the same; the ordinary paper issue, not numbered or signed. Pink cloth with similar yapp edges, gilt-lettered up spine and on upper side, top edges cut, others uncut, red end-papers with white design. 68. The Comments of Juniper: Six Plays from the Life and Legend of St. Francis of Assisi. Sidgwick and Jackson, 1926. Uniform format with Little Plays of St. Francis (1922). The Esher copy with Brett bookplate. 69. Ironical Tales. J. Cape, 1926. Smooth green cloth, edges cut, spine gilt. 70. The "Little Plays" Handbook: Practical Notes for Producers. Sidgwick and Jackson, 1927. Half blue cloth, decorated board sides, gilt spine, top edges cut, others uncut. Esher copy with Brett bookplate. 71. Uncle Tom Pudd: A Biographical Romance. J. Cape, 1927. Rough reddish brown cloth, gilt spine, edges cut. Esher copy with Brett bookplate. 72. Ways and Means: Five One-Act Plays of Village Characters. H. F. W. Deane and Sons [1928]. Dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, edges cut. Esher copy with Brett bookplate. 73. The Life of H. R. H. the Duke of Flamborough. By Benjamin Bunny. A Footnote to History, Arranged, Expurgated and Edited by Laurence Housman. J. Cape, 1928. Purple cloth, gilt spine, edges cut, 8 illustrations. Esher copy with Brett bookplate.

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HOUSMAN (Laurence) 1865-1959 on the flap of dust-jacket. It may be noted that there is no publisher's ornament in blind on lower cover. 82. Ye Fearful Saints! Plays of Creed, Custom and Credulity. Sidgwick and Jackson, 1932. Green cloth, gilt spine, edges cut. The Esher copy, with bookplate. 83. What-o'Clock Tales. With Pictures by J. R. Monsell. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1932. Tall 8vo, yellow cloth, spine and upper side lettered and designed in white enamel, top edges stained green, others cut, P6 at end, pp.[227-228], is blank. Esher copy, with bookplate. 84. Victoria and Albert: Palace Plays. Third Series. Cape, 1933. Uniform format with the 2 previous series; an unopened copy from Lord Esher's library with bookplate. 85. The Long Journey: The Tale of Our Past. By Laurence Housman and C. H. K. Marten. With Illustrations and Drawings from Many Sources and Three Pictures in Colour by H. R. Millar. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1933. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side with ornament in blind and gilt, edges cut. Pp.[479-480] at end are blank. Esher copy, with bookplate. 86. Nunc Dimittis: An Epilogue to Little Plays of St. Francis. Printed for ... the Dramatic Society of University College, London, 1933. Tall 8vo, 16 pages metal fastened into pale blue wrappers, upper side lettered in black, edges cut, facsimile MS frontispiece. The second impression, same month as first-January 1933. Inscribed: "To 'Sister Minister' from Brother Lawrence. March 27th 1936" in the author's handwriting, and with bookplate of the recipient, Edith Cooper. Mrs. Priestly Cooper was proprietor of the Hull Poetry Bookshop, and the inscription may relate to an amateur production of one of the St. Francis plays. 87. Four Plays of St. Clare. Sidgwick and Jackson, 1934. Pale blue linen, spine lettered in darker blue, edges cut. Esher copy, with bookplate. 88. Victoria Regina: A Dramatic Biography. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. J. Cape, 1934. Tall Svo, smooth red buckram, spine gilt-lettered, upper side gilt ornamented, top edges stained red, only lower edges uncut. Al and A2 are blanks, A3 carries ornament

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on recto, with adverts of books "By the same Author" on verso and 2G4 at end, pp.[47172], is blank save for ornament on recto.

1906 replying to a correspondent about his current work: "The only book I am publishing this autumn is my play of 'Prunella'" &c.

89. Little Plays of St. Francis: Blind Heart, A.D. 1210. Sidgwick and Jackson [1935]. 16 pages, sewn into bluish green wrappers, edges cut. The final leaf, pp.[15-16], is blank. The Esher copy, preserved in a cloth case, with bookplate.

97. Hop-O'-Me-Heart: A Grown-up Fairy Tale. With Illustrations by John Guthrie. Pear Tree Press, 1938. Tall 8vo, pale blue boards with large titling label in gold on upper side. No. 75 of only 160 copies printed in blue and black on Arnold and Foster unbleached handmade paper. Inscribed: "Laurence Housman to Sister Minister, March 1945," with bookplate of the recipient, Edith Cooper.

90. Little Plays of St. Francis: Bond of Fellowship, A.D. 1220. Sidgwick & Jackson [1935]. 16 pages sewn into bluish green wrappers, edges cut. The final leaf, pp.[15-16], is blank. The Esher copy, preserved in a cloth case, with bookplate. 91. Little Plays of St. Francis: Naked Truth A.D. 1207. Sidgwick and Jackson [1935]. 16 pages sewn into green wrappers, outer sides lettered in black, edges cut. The Esher copy, preserved in a cloth case, with bookplate. 92. The Family Teapots. By Laurence Housman. [no publisher or date]. Stamped First Proof, dated 4 February 1936 of a poem in 116 lines, printed on the first 3 pages of a single sheet of toned wove paper, with p. 4 blank. There are 3 corrections in ink, but the handwriting does not appear to be that of the author.

98. What Next? Provocative Tales of Faith and Morals. J. Cape, 1938. Tall 8vo, pink cloth, spine gilt-lettered, top edges stained pink, only lower edges uncut, in designed dust-jacket (8s. 6d. net). 99. What Can We Believe: Letters Exchanged between Dick Sheppard and L. H. Edited by Laurence Housman. Cape, 1939. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, gilt spine, top edges stained blue, others cut. With author's full autograph signature on end-paper. 100. The Plough: Towards the Coming Order. Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 1940. Tall 8vo, 32 pages, metal fastened into red wrappers lettered in black. Contains Laurence Housman's "St. Francis the Man," pp. 15-18. (See the letter from the author which accompanied the gift of this pamphlet to Mrs. Priestly Cooper, item 115.)

93. The Golden Sovereign. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. J. Cape, 1937. Tall 8vo, smooth green buckram, spine gilt-lettered, upper side with gilt ornamental block, top edges stained green, only lower edges uncut. In printed dust-jacket (10s. 6d. net).

101. The Preparation of Peace. J. Cape, 1941. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, top edges stained blue, others cut. Bookplate of C. H. St. John Hornby, Shelley House, Chelsea.

94. A. E. H. Some Poems, Some Letters and a Personal Memoir by his brother, Laurence Housman. J. Cape, 1937. Dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges stained blue, only lower edges uncut, illustrations. S8 at end, pp.[287-288], is blank.

102. Gracious Majesty. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. J. Cape, 1941. Tall 8vo, smooth light blue buckram, gilt spine and gilt block ornament on upper side, top edges stained blue, only lower edges uncut. O8 at end, pp.[223-224], is blank.

95. Palace Scenes: More Plays of Queen Victoria. J. Cape, 1937. Mauve cloth, spine gilt-lettered, top edges stained red, others uncut. Al is blank before half-title and M8 at end, pp.[191-192], also blank. Esher copy with bookplate.

103. Palestine Plays. J. Cape, 1942. Light red cloth, spine lettered upwards in silver, edges cut. Pp.[147-148] at end are blank. Bookplate of Edith Cooper.

96. The Unexpected Years. J. Cape, 1937. Light blue rough linen, spine gilt-lettered, top edges stained blue, only lower edges uncut, frontispiece portrait. Inserted is an ALS on his 1 Pembroke Cottages, Kensington notepaper dated 28 July

104. Skilton, C. Philip, ed. Famous People's Pigs: Blindfold Drawings. Edited by C. Philip Skilton, with the indubitable help of Gertrude Bacon. The Forum Press, 1943. 32 pages (including the outer wrapper) sewn. Laurence Housman's contribution is at p. 25 and upper wrapper is inscribed: "Edith M. Cooper from L. H, Christmas 1943."

402 HOUSMAN (Laurence) 1865-1959 105. Samuel, the King-Maker: A Play in Four Acts. J. Cape, 1944. Red cloth, silver lettered up spine, only lower edges uncut, in coloured dust-jacket (6s. net). This book is issued without end-papers, i.e., one leaf of text-paper being laid-down back and front. There is, however, a blank leaf before half title, which is not reckoned in pagination. 106. Back Words and Fore Words: An Author's Year-Book, 1893-1945. A Selection in Chronological Order from the Plays, Poems and Prose Writings of Laurence Housman. J. Cape, 1945. Light blue cloth, gilt spine, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (10s. 6d. net). 107. Why I Am Still a Pacifist. By [7 names, of which Laurence Housman's is the third]. P.P.U. Pamphlet, 1946. 36 pages, metal fastened into designed wrappers, edges cut. 108. Cynthia: A True Love Tale. Sidgwick and Jackson, 1947. Imperial 8vo (7 1/2" x 10") green linen, lettered in green on label upwards on spine, top edges cut, others uncut. One of 500 copies, each signed by the author, printed at the Alcuin Press. 109. What Price Salvation Now? Peace News, Ltd., 1949. 16 pages metal fastened, no outer wrappers, first page serving as the only title-page, "[Price]2d." 110. The Family Honour: A Comedy of Four Acts and an Epilogue. J. Cape, 1950. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, silver lettered up spine, only lower edges uncut, frontispiece plate. 111. The Census: News from No-Man's Land. Women's Freedom League [? 1911]. 16 pages (3 3/8" x 4 1/2") sewn into semi-stiff green wrappers, upper side lettered in black, edges cut. In protective grey boards, cover lettered upwards on spine. The author's letter to A. J. A. Symons discloses the date of this publication as "1911, I think." The Esher copy, with bookplate. 112. The Duty of Tax Resistance. Women's Tax Resistance League, n.d. Eight pages, metal fastened into light grey wrappers, upper side lettered black. [Price] Id. The Esher copy, with Brett bookplate, preserved in cloth case.

HOUSMAN (Laurence) 1865-1959 Autograph Letters 113. ALS, 4 pages crown 8vo to Bertrand Russell, dated from Greycot, New Milton, Hants., 28 October 1921: "It's very amiable of you to ask me to darken the threshold of so respectable an institution as the Reform Club, I being by instinct a revolutionary." An interesting letter, going on to discuss "glorious Dick Sheppard" and the Christian "Pageant of St. Martin" in which he is collaborating. 114. ALS, one large ruled 8vo sheet, dated 4 December 1925 from "Longmeadow" Street, Somerset to "Dear Mr. Symons" [A. J. A. Symons, author of The Quest for Corvo] giving interesting details of editions of his books. 115. Typed letter, one page 4to, from Longmeadow, 1 April 1940, accompanying the gift of The Plough (1940), to "Dear Sister Minister" [Mrs. Priestly Cooper] signed "Love from Brother Laurence." An interesting letter about Franciscans. HOWITT (Mary Botham) 1799-1888 1. Birds and Flowers and Other Country Things. Darton and Clark, 1838. 12mo, light green blind-stamped cloth, spine with embossed design, lettered on 3 lines (? in gilt), all edges gilt, illustrations in text throughout. This is the first volume of the Christmas Library, and the author's Preface, dated from West End Cottage, Esher, 28 September 1837, states that the second volume to be published 1 October 1838, will be her Hymns and Fireside Verses. There appear, however, to have been delays; and when the book did appear it was dated 1839, and, though of the same small size, was not a volume of this series. 2. Hymns and Fire-Side Verses. Darton and Clark, 1839. 12mo, dark green cloth, gilt spine and gilt block on upper cover, edges uncut (but fore-edges lightly trimmed) yellow end-papers, engravings in the text throughout. Besides the printed title-page, there is a frontispiece and engraved title-page printed on a sheet of semi-stiff card. 3. Bremer, Fredrika. The Home; or, Family Cares and Family Joys. Translated by Mary Howitt. 2 volumes. Longman, 1843. Half dark green cloth with spine titling labels, drab brown board sides, all edges uncut. Q2 at end of volume 1 is blank.

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4. Hewitt's Journal of Literature and Popular Progress. Edited by William and Mary Howitt. William Lovett, 1847. Volumes 1 and 2, tall 8vo, printed in double columns, original green cloth, spines and both sides gilt-lettered and designed (size 6 3/4" x 10 1/2"), top edges uncut, others trimmed. This is the complete first year in 52 numbers. Profuse plates and illustrations in the text.

10. Mary Howitt's Illustrated Library for the Young. W. Kent, 1857. 4to (7" x 10") dark red-grained cloth, spine and upper side elaborately gilt, lower side with same design in blind, all edges gilt, yellow end-papers with binder's ticket of Bone & Son. Profuse full-page and other illustrations.

5. Ballads and Other Poems. Longman, 1847. 4to (6" x 8 1/2") a handsomely produced volume in pale green ribbed cloth, gilt spine, large ornament in gilt on upper side and in blind on lower, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed, cream end-papers with binder's ticket of Westleys & Clark, engraved frontispiece portrait. 6. Another copy of the First Edition, apparently identical and with the same erratum slip inserted and text printed throughout within single rule border. But this copy is from a different binding batch: similar green cloth but grained, not ribbed. The sides have a triple blind frame, of which the innermost one is shaped and the 2 outer quite plain, without corner ornaments. The block used for centres is an entirely different one and binder's ticket at end is of Burn, Hatton Garden. The inserted adverts leaf at end is same in both volumes. 7. My Own Story, or, The Autobiography of a Child. William Tegg, 1849. 12mo, blind-stamped dark brown cloth, gilt spine and gilt block with author's name in 2 lines centre of upper side, all edges gilt, yellow endpapers. Engraved frontispiece and title-page printed on a sheet of platepaper precede the printed title-page. The Advertisement is dated, "Clapton, Aug. 30th, 1844." 8. Bremer, Fredrika. The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America. Translated by Mary Howitt. 3 vols. Arthur Hall, Virtue, 1853. Contemporary rebinding of half brown calf, gilt spines with blue titling labels, marbled sides, end-papers and edges. Engraved frontispiece and title-page to each volume, besides the printed title-pages. Armorial bookplate of James Galbraith Pooler, B.A. 9. The Heir of Wast-Wayland: A Tale. Thomas Hodgson, 1854. Dark blue grained cloth, gilt spine and large gilt block on upper side, all edges gilt, yellow end-papers, engraved frontispiece.

11. Mary Howitt: An Autobiography. Edited by Her Daughter Margaret Howitt. 2 vols. Isbister, 1889. Imperial 8vo (6" x 9 1/2"), dark blue cloth, gilt spines, t.e.g., others uncut, dark green end-papers. Photographic frontispiece portraits and profuse illustrations in text throughout. Autograph Letter 12. ALS, 3 pages, small 8vo, on a folded sheet of notepaper embossed "A. M. H[arrison]" but actually written from Upton. Regrets that her correspondent, G. W. Hastings, Esq., has gone up to Highgate in their absence. "I am staying at the house in which Elizabeth Fry lived-perhaps you may know it." HOWITT (William) 1792-1879 1. A Popular History of Priestcraft in All Ages and Nations. Effmgham Wilson, 1833. Small 8vo, contemporary rebinding of half red calf, marbled sides. 2. A Popular History of Priestcraft. 3rd ed., revised and enlarged. Effmgham Wilson, 1834. Drab brown boards, spine titling label, "Third Edition/With Large additions/tshort rule]/7s." all edges uncut. There is a 6 page "Advertisement to the Third Edition" dated Nottingham, 12 March 1834, indicating the 4 chapters which are newly added "as well as much interspersed matter on the English Church" &c. 3. A Popular History of Priestcraft. 7th ed., with large additions. John Chapman, 1845. Bright red blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine, fore and lower edges lightly trimmed, cream end-papers, 4 leaves of adverts of books by William and Mary Howitt at end. 4. Pantika, or, Traditions of the Most Ancient Times. 2 vols. Whittaker, 1835. Contemporary brown calf with ecclesiastical pattern stamping, spines with raised bands and double red titling labels, red edges. S6 at end of volume 2 carries adverts of Howitt's other publications, with verso blank.

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HOWITT (William) 1792-1879 trimmed, yellow end-papers. Howitt's 4 page Preface dated Lower Clapton, 16 April 1845 explains why Mary Howitt's name does not stand on title-page. 12. Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets. 2 vols. Bentley, 1847. Tall 8vo, glazed white boards, spines and sides with elaborate rustic design, all edges gilt, pale pink end-papers, illustrations in text throughout. A handsome production. 13. Another set of First Edition, contemporary rebinding, half green morocco, green linen sides, all edges gilt, marbled end-papers. 14. The Literature and Romance of Northern Europe: Constituting a Complete History of the Literature of Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Ireland. By William and Mary Howitt. 2 vols. Colburn, 1852. Contemporary rebinding of half brown calf, spines with red and green titling labels, marbled sides and edges. May lack half-title pages. 15. Ruined Abbeys and Castles of Great Britain. By William and Mary Howitt. With Photographic Illustrations. A. W. Bennett, 1862. Large square 8vo, blue bevelled cloth, elaborately gilt sides and spine, all edges gilt, cream end-papers with binder's ticket of Westleys. Inset circular photographs on covers. 16. Ruined Abbeys and Castles: Second Series. By William Howitt. With Photographic Illustrations. A. W. Bennett, 1864. Uniform format with 1862 volume but colour of cloth is green. Similar gilt tooling but the titling round circular photographs on sides is here in gilt, whereas in the previous volume it was in blind embossing. Only one name appears as author of this second series. Same binder's ticket at end. Secondary Material 17. Lee, Amice. Laurels and Rosemary. The Life of William and Mary Howitt. Oxford University Press, 1955. Tall 8vo, pale green linen, dark blue spine, titling label, all edges cut, 9 illustrations, in printed dust-jacket (30s. net). Author's 8 line presentation inscription to her sister "who helped me in making this book and who suggested its title."

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1. Juvenilia, or, A Collection of Poems Written between the Ages of Twelve and Sixteen. 2nd ed. J. Whiting, 1801. Small 8vo (collating in 4's), page measurement 3 7/8" x 6", bound (together with a copy of the First Edition of The Story of Rimini) in polished brown calf. The copy is perfect save for its lack of half-title; final leaf is mis-paginated 136. Presumed first state, with short imprint on title-page; later copies have several additional lines of type, with names of Eivingtons, Robson, White, Miller, Longman &c.

6. Critical Essays on the Performers of the London Theatres. . . . By the Author of the Theatrical Criticisms in the Weekly Paper Called The News. John Hunt, 1807. No printed title-page was issued following the half-title, only an engraving, which this copy lacks. It also lacks the Prospectus of The Examiner, following the errata which is on verso of last leaf of Index at end. Otherwise complete and with all edges entirely uncut, in a contemporary binding of diced brown calf.

2. Juvenilia. [3rd ed.] J. Whiting, 1802. Contains the 16 page list of "Subscribers to the Third Edition" and 26 line errata on p.[xxiv]. Original pale blue boards, drab spine with titling label. It is the first variety of label lettering described by Luther Brewer—not the second variety which incorporated the price of 10s. 6d. All edges uncut, the Bartolozzi engraving at p. 32. Frontispiece portrait of Hunt from R. Bowyer's oval miniature. The Buxton Forman copy with his Shelley bookplate and initials dated 4 February 1882. 3. Juvenilia. 4th ed. J. Whiting, 1803. Original pale blue boards, entirely uncut, spine renewed and with new label. A perfect and otherwise attractive copy, with the 2 engravings. The list of subscribers is the correct one for the Fourth Edition, with the additional names and extending to foot of p. xxiv, which no longer carries an errata. 4. Classic Tales, Serious and Lively. With Critical Essays on the Merits and Reputations of the Authors. 5 vols. John Hunt & Carew Reynell, 1806-1807. 12mo, bound contemporary tree calf, edges cut. Each volume with 3 engraved plates. The first volume is imperfect, lacking title-page and Preface leaf. It is therefore difficult to establish whether it is of the 1806 first issue, or the 1807 reissue. All other titles are correctly dated 1807. The final volume lacks the 3 interesting advertisement leaves at end. The second (incomplete) set supplies these deficiencies (see next item). 5. Another set, 4 volumes (only), the first volume being the reissue of 1807. Very clean and entirely uncut, 4" x 6 1/2", bound in contemporary green linen with red lettering labels. With the 3 plates in each volume. Despite the title-pages, which are 1-4, and the same lettering on spines, what this set lacks is text of volume 2: it consists of 1 and 3-5. Works of this nature-it was issued in 15 parts in printed wrappers-are particularly liable to this sort of mis-assembly.

7. The Examiner: A Sunday Paper, on Politics, Domestic Economy, and Theatricals, for the year 1812. John Hunt, 1812. 4to, 7 1/2" x 10", contemporary binding of half brown calf, marbled sides, sprinkled edges. The complete year in 52 numbers, plus title-page, preface and index. Though only a single volume, this is an interesting example of Hunt's work during a most important year: in March, after the 2 essays "Princely Qualities" and "The Regent's First Levee," Leigh Hunt launched, on 22 March, the celebrated article, "The Prince on St. Patrick's Day," which eventually sent him to prison. The trial of the Hunt brothers is fully reported. There are significant contributions by Charles Lamb and Lord Byron, whose "Address on the Opening of Drury Lane Theatre" was printed in the issue for 18 October. 8. The Feast of the Poets, with Notes and Other Pieces in Verse. By the Editor of The Examiner. James Cawthorn, 1814. Brown boards with spine titling label reading, between a thick and a thin rule top and bottom, "Feast/Of The/Poets/[short rule]/Price 6s./Boards." A perfect copy with the blank leaf before half-title and L8 at end, pp.[159-160], carrying adverts of "Books Published By James Cawthorn." Edges entirely uncut. 9. The Descent of Liberty, A Mask. Gale, Curtis & Fenner, 1815. Blue boards, drab brown spine with titling label lettered, between a thick and a thin rule top and bottom, "Hunt's/Descenfof/Liberty/[short rule]/6s./[short rule]/1815." All edges uncut. Pp.[83-84] carry Cawthorn's adverts and are followed by pp. LVII/LIX, 2 leaves with final verso blank. These 3 leaves in all are printed on G2-G4, and the last 2 should presumably be transferred by the binder, which has not been done in this copy. The first gathering consists of 9 leaves, and the stub of a cancelled leaf follows the title-page. The half-title is not reckoned in pagination.

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10. The Story of Rimini, a Poem. For J. Murray &c., 1816. Bound in contemporary calf (together with the Second Edition of Juvenilia, 1801), all edges cut (4" x 6"). Bookplate of Thomas Bodley.

noted that the first number is a different typesetting from either of the 2 copies catalogued above. The first page has a figure 2 in centre lower margin and the last line of text commences with "between," not with "intercourse." In the last page of No. 1, Reynell's imprint is without "London," which later printings have. Inscribed on p. 1: "Belonged to Professor Wilson. J. F. F." in the autograph of Professor Ferrier. An interesting portion; Shelley's "Love's Philosophy," signed, was first printed on p. 88.

11. The Story of Rimini. 2nd ed. Printed by Bensley for Taylor and Hessey &c,, 1817. Drab brown boards, all edges uncut, spine titling label lettered upwards in 2 lines in a single rule frame "Story of Rimini/2d Edit. Price 6s. 6d." Almost a verbatim reprint of First Edition, but from a different printing house and issued without half-title. Following title-page is an erratum page. 12. Foliage, or, Poems Original and Translated. C. & J. Oilier, 1818. An entirely uncut copy rebound circa 1880 in dark green morocco, gilt spine and double rule borders round sides, marbled end-papers with gilt dentelles.

17. The Months, Descriptive of the Successive Beauties of the Year. C. & J. Oilier, 1821. Grey-blue boards, all edges uncut. Spine has been renewed, without the titling label.

14. The Indicator. [Vol. 2. No title-page was ever printed for this volume]. Contains No. 53, Wednesday, 11 October 1820 (misprinted No. 1, see note in No. 54) to No. 76, Wednesday, 21 March 1821 (the last number Hunt edited), followed by No. 77, Wednesday 28 March 1821 [No. 1 New Series] to No. 100, Saturday, 13 October 1821, after which it was discontinued. Leigh Hunt had no connection with this New Series.

18. The Liberal: Verse and Prose from the South. Vol. I. Printed by and for John Hunt, 1822. Vol. 2. Printed for John Hunt, 1823. The 4 parts as issued, upper pink printed wrapper of No. 1 (Price Five Shillings) in front and one rear wrapper preserved at end, t.e.g. but remainder entirely uncut. Contemporary signature on wrapper of R. Travers, M.B. Trinity College Dublin. Bound (about 1880) for Bumpus in half green calf, marbled sides and end-papers. This set is pure first state with Contents as printed for the 4 parts, not the longer Contents for the 2 volume book form, and with the shorter erratas. In the first number the first item, Byron's The Vision of Judgment commences directly [p. 3] with the text, whereas in later printing there is a 5 page Preface by Byron, necessitating type resetting and additional leaves with a second pagination i-v in Roman. In part 3 the Contents leaf has the one line erratum. From the Alfred Trapnell collection, with bookplate; it was No. 1506 in that catalogue.

16. The Indicator. Vol. 1. Printed for Joseph Appleyard, 1820. In this copy, 6 early numbers are reprints, so indicated in lower margins of first leaves only. They are No. 1, 4th ed.; No. 2, 3rd ed.; No. 5, 3rd ed., No. 6, 2nd ed., No. 7, 2nd ed.; No. 8, 2nd ed.; The remaining numbers are first impressions. The above 3 volumes are in contemporary half brown calf bindings but are not quite uniform.

19. Another copy, pure volume form, bound contemporarily in diced brown calf with lettering labels to go with a range of Byron's works, edges cut. Contents leaf to volume 1 has the long errata (7 errors) printed on verso. From the combined Contents leaf for Parts 3 and 4 the one line erratum (p. 183 line 8 from bottom, for "brass" read "glass") is removed, but the error still remains in the text.

16. The Indicator. No. 1, Wednesday, 13 October 1819.-No. 13, Wednesday, 5 January 1820. Pages 1-104, the first 13 numbers, perfect and the whole issue for 1819. This apparently belonged to "Christopher North," and is in original blue boards with drab brown spine, edges entirely uncut. It will be

20. Another set of the volume form in uncut state and original bindings, but not uniform. Volume 1 is in blue boards, lettering label worn off; volume 2 in drab brown boards, green linen spine (no label). The Vision of Judgment is in first state (without Byron's Preface) and the Contents in front is the Part 1 issue, but the Contents

13. The Indicator. Vol. 1. Printed for Joseph Appleyard, 1820. Contains No. 1, Wednesday, October 1819 to No. 52, "Wednesday, 4 October 1820, preceded by title-page with verso blank. This is complete, pp. 414 and title-page, save for the first leaf of the Index, pp.[411] to 412, which is missing. Another copy of volume 1 (containing early reprints) is retained in the collection to compensate for this imperfection.

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titling label lettered between double rules top and bottom: "The/Companion/By/Leigh Hunt/ [short rule]/10s. Bds."

21. The Literary Examiner: Consisting of "The Indicator," A Review of Books, and Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose and Verse. Printed for H. L. Hunt [1823]. Contains No. 1-Saturday, 5 July 1823-No. 26, Saturday, 27 December 1823. Pp. 1-412 with a single leaf Index at end, plus the title-page, a single leaf with Reynell imprint on verso at foot. Bound half calf, edges cut (size 8 1/4" x 5"). "When the Liberal was put an end to, I had contributed some articles to a new work set up by my brother, called the Literary Examiner" (Autobiography, 1850, Vol. 3, p. 109).

26. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Masque of Anarchy: A Poem. Now First Published, with Preface by Leigh Hunt. Edward Moxon, 1832. Original light brown boards, titling label lettered upwards on spine: "Shelley's Masque." F6 at end, pp.[49-50], carries publisher's adverts. Hunt's Preface is a 26 page essay.

22. Bacchus in Tuscany. . . From the Italian of Francesco Redi, with Notes original and select. Printed for John and H. L. Hunt, 1825. Drab brown boards, spine repaired and titling label (slightly chipped) replaced, all edges uncut. The errata page, with verso blank [5 errors], usually found at the end, has here been transferred before the text p. 1. 23. An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Gibber, Comedian. Written by himself. Printed for Hunt & Clarke &c., 1826. 12mo (gatherings in 6's) contemporary half calf, marbled sides, frontispiece portrait. Published by Hunt's brother, there is a 2 page "Editor's Preface," and at the end a 4 page "Sequel" to the autobiography; but there is no evidence that Leigh Hunt had any hand in these compositions. 24. Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries. 2nd ed. Henry Colburn, 1828. Original vertically ribbed dark blue cloth, spines gilt-lettered, all edges uncut, yellow glazed end-papers. The final leaf in each volume carries Colburn's adverts only. Following this in volume 2 is a 4 page "List of Interesting Books at Reduced Prices now on sale by H. & E. Sheffield," which may confirm that this is a latebound "remainder" state of Hunt's book. First Edition was issued earlier in same year in one volume 4to; the present has a 27 page Preface to the Second Edition. There are 6 portraits and facsimiles. 25. The Companion. Printed for Hunt & Clarke, 1828. No. 1, Wednesday, 9 January 1828-No. 29, Wednesday, 23 July 1828. Pp. 432, preceded by title-page and Contents leaf, i-iv. All edges uncut, size 8 3/4" x 5 1/2". Drab brown boards, green linen spine with

27. The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt. Edward Moxon, 1832. Original deep cream boards, all edges uncut, thin mauve end-papers. The spine with titling label is missing, also slip with List of Subscribers. Leigh Hunt's Preface is a 54 page essay. 2A6 at end, pp.[363-364], carries Moxon's adverts. 28. Another copy of the First Edition, contemporary binding of half dark red morocco, marbled sides and edges, without the adverts leaf at end. This copy belonged to Douglas Jerrold and has his neat autograph on title-page dated 1832. Later in the library of J. R. P. Goodden, with his armorial bookplate. 29. The Indicator and The Companion; A Miscellany for the Fields and the Fire-side. In 2 vols. Vol. 1. Henry Colburn, 1834. Drab brown boards, spine titling label lettered between single rules: "The/Indicator/ and/Companion./By/Leigh Hunt/[Short rule]/Vol. 1." Following p. 320 at end are 2 leaves of Colburn's adverts. All edges uncut. This is an odd volume, volume 2 not being present. 30. Captain Sword and Captain Pen: A Poem. With Some Remarks on War and Military Statesmen. Charles Knight, 1835. Dark green patterned cloth, spine lettered in gilt upwards with the title followed by "4/6", 8 woodcut plates from drawings by Thornton Hunt inserted, 4 pages of publisher's adverts at end. A small number of copies issued entirely uncut measure 7" x 5" against the present 6 3/4" x 4 3/4". These are in stiff green wrappers (Price Three Shillings and Sixpence). A Second Edition, 1839, appears to be rare; and a Third Edition was issued by Charles Gilpin in 1849. 31. The Indicator, and the Companion. In Two Parts. Edward Moxon, 1840. A Second Edition of the 2 volume book (first published in 1834) had been issued in 1835; and in 1840 Moxon issued this large 8vo edition in 2 volumes, price half-a-crown each. Printed in double columns, size 9 1/2" x 6" and issued in cream printed wrappers. In this copy the 2 volumes are bound together in dark red cloth,

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HUNT (J. H. Leigh) 1784-1859 with all edges gilt, varyingly reduced in size. The collection has 2 further specimens, described below, 38. Another copy. Reddish brown cloth, sides blind-stamped with wide borders, size of page 8 3/8" x 5 3/8". The gold block on upper cover is decidedly oval, lettered inside: "The Palfrey./By/Leigh Hunt." Ribbing of cloth is vertical. 39. Another copy. Light red morocco-grained cloth, blind-stamped with borders and corner ornaments. The gold block on upper cover is a larger diamond shape, 3 3/4" x 4", and lettering in centre circle is: "The/Palfrey/ By/Leigh Hunt." A smaller size (8 1/4" x 5 1/4") with cream end-papers and binder's ticket of Burn. These variously coloured (including blue and olive) cloth examples are normally without the adverts leaves at end; all have the same 6 illustrations (including title-page lady on palfrey). 40. Imagination and Fancy, or, Selections from the English Poets. 2nd ed. Smith Elder, 1845. Rebound in half blue morocco, t.e.g., others uncut, marbled sides and end-papers. The original titling label, with "Second Edition. Price 9s" is mounted on a blank leaf bound in. Appears identical with the First Edition of 1844 save for changed date and the fact that the erratum line is omitted from p.fviii], which is now blank. The error, however, remains in the text. 41. [Hunt, Thorton.] The Foster-Brother: A Tale of the War of Chiozza. Edited by Leigh Hunt. 3 vols. T. C. Newby [1845]. A circulating library copy, contemporarily rebound in half calf, marbled • sides, edges only lightly trimmed. A half-title was issued with the first volume only. Leigh Hunt's 6 page Introduction discloses the identity of the otherwise anonymous author—his son, Thornton Hunt. 42. Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets. Smith Elder, 1846. Rose pink vertically ribbed cloth, both sides and spine fully gilt ornamented, all edges gilt, deep cream end-papers, binder's ticket of Westleys & Clark. 12mo, Q12 at end, pp.[359-360], carries adverts of Leigh Hunt's books on recto, with printer's 3 line imprint in centre of otherwise blank verso, followed by publisher's 32 page catalogue dated July 1846. Armorial bookplate of C. E. J. Esdaile.

409 HUNT (J. H. Leigh) 1784-1859 43. Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers. 2 vols. Chapman & Hall, 1846. 12mo, dark blue vertically ribbed blind-stamped cloth, gilt spines, deep cream end-papers, all edges uncut. T6 at end of volume 1, pp.[419-420], is blank. Luther Brewer describes a copy with 16 pages adverts at end of volume 1 dated December 1845: he also points out discrepancies in form of printer's imprints. This set has "Robson, Levey and Franklyn" verso of half-title and "Levey, Robson and Franklyn," on p.[418] in first volume and imprints in the reverse order in volume 2. 44. Men, Women, and Books: A Selection . . . from His Uncollected Prose Writings. 2 vols. Smith Elder, 1847. Mauve blind-stamped cloth, spines gilt-lettered, yellow end-papers, all edges uncut, frontispiece portrait of the author. Neither volume has a half-title, though in volume 2 the Roman pagination calls for a leaf before the title. Volume 1 has publisher's 32 page catalogue at end dated April 1847; in volume 2, AA4 at end, pp.[359-360], carries adverts of A Jar of Honey "Preparing For Publication" on recto, with verso blank. 45. Wit and Humour. 2nd ed. Smith Elder, 1848. Bright orange blind-embossed cloth, all edges uncut. Appears to be identical with First Edition, save date. Luther Brewer's Bibliography describes copies with adverts at end variously dated November 1859, February 1860 and March 1860. Both First and Second Editions have the final adverts leaf of books by Leigh Hunt which include "The Third Volume of the Series of Selections from the English Poets," entitled "Action and Passion" which "will be published next year" but which never appeared. 46. A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla. Illustrated by Richard Doyle. Smith Elder, 1848. Glazed primrose yellow boards with overall design in gold and colours, all edges gilt, glazed designed end-papers, 16 page publisher's catalogue at end for "Season 1847-8." This appears to be the primary binding; copies are also recorded in orange cloth. No reprint was published until 1883. 47. The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events. With 45 illustrations. 2 vols. Smith Elder, 1848. Embossed orange cloth, gilt spines, all edges uncut, deep cream end-papers with binder's ticket of Westleys & Co. U7 and U8 at end of volume 1, pp.[301-304], carry adverts of Leigh Hunt's books. Smith Elder's 32 page catalogue dated January 1848 at end of volume 2. This work sold slowly and copies are recorded with a variety of dated

HUNT (J. H. Leigh) 1784-1859 catalogues, of which the present is the earliest. Luther Brewer only records November 1848 and June 1851. 48. The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt. A New Edition, Containing Many Pieces Now First Collected. Edward Moxon, 1849. 12mo, contemporary dark blue morocco, wide gilt borders round sides, all edges gilt. A verbatim reissue of the 1844 edition. 49. A Book for a Corner. 2 vols. Chapman & Hall, 1849. Rebound in one volume in half purple calf, marbled sides, edges cut. The first half-title is in place, but that to volume 2 has not been retained. 50. Sir Ralph Esher, or, Memoirs of a Gentleman of the Court of Charles the Second. By Leigh Hunt. Richard Bentley, 1850. This novel was first published in 3 volumes in 1832 and a Second Edition appeared in the same format in 1835. The present is actually the Third Edition, and is the first to bear the author's name. It was issued in Bentley's Standard Novels Series, and has a new Dedication to Lord John Russell dated 25 December 1849; there is also a new Preface by the author. This copy is hi the finest contemporary binding of polished green calf, gilt spine with blue and red titling labels, gilt borders round sides, t.e.g., other edges uncut, engraved frontispiece plate. 51. Readings for Railways, or, Anecdotes and Other Short Stories. C. Gilpin [1849]. Pale green boards lettered on upper side as title-page upwards on spine and with adverts on lower cover, all in darker green. At end are 13 leaves of publisher's adverts. This very fine copy belonged to an earlier publisher of Hunt's books, Chas. W. Reynell, and has his autograph signature in ink. 52. The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt. With Reminiscences of Friends and Contemporaries. 3 vols. Smith Elder, 1850. Pale orange embossed cloth, spines gilt-lettered in 8 lines, edges uncut, blue glazed end-papers, frontispiece portraits to each volume. Publisher's catalogue 16 pages at end of volume 1 dated July 1850 (Luther Brewer records examples dated May 1850 and June 1850); Y8 at end of volume 2, pp.[335-336], carries advert of Hunt's Table Talk, with verso blank. 53. A Book for a Corner. Chapman & Hall, 1851. Half brown calf, marbled sides, end-papers and edges. This is a reissue of the sheets of the 2 volume First Edition, with a newly-printed title-page as a one volume book. The title-page to the second volume is not

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retained and the second "Contents" leaf is transferred to front. The separate pagination is, inevitably, retained.

Engraved title and frontispiece printed on one sheet of plate paper followed by printed title.

54. The Religion of the Heart: A Manual of Faith and Duty. John Chapman, 1853. Dark green, blind-stamped, vertically ribbed cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 7 lines with short rule above author's name, edges uncut, cream end-papers with binder's ticket of Westleys & Co. An enlargement of Christianism, of which 75 copies had been Privately printed in 1832.

59. Another copy of First Edition, red morocco-grained cloth, spine and upper side gilt. Blocking is entirely different and spine lettering is: "Poetical/Works/By/Leigh Hunt/ Illustrated"-whereas other copy is lettered "Leigh Hunt's/Stories/In/Verse." The gold block on upper side is larger and with a winged horse in centre circle. All edges are gilt, 6 1/4" x 4", and the leaf of adverts which was before half-title, here appears at the end.

55. The Old Court Suburb, or, Memorials of Kensington, Regal, Critical and Anecdotical. 2 vols. Hurst & Blackett, 1855. Bright orange embossed cloth, gilt spines, blue end-papers with binder's ticket of Leighton Son and Hodge. Pp.[307-308] at end of volume 1 carry publisher's adverts, followed by 4 leaves of "Interesting New Works." Volume 2 has a 24 page catalogue at end dated March 1855, followed by another undated 14 page catalogue. Luther Brewer describes this as 40 pages publisher's announcements dated March 1855-which suggests an additional leaf. The Preface leaf in volume 1 is an inserted leaf and Brewer states some sets in his possession and elsewhere are without it. It is not present in this set. 56. The Old Court Suburb. 2nd ed., revised and enlarged. 2 vols. Hurst & Blackett, 1855. Identical binding with First Edition, same blue end-papers and binder's ticket. In this set, the Preface is present as an inserted leaf. Volume 1 has an undated 24 page catalogue at end; volume 2 has similar adverts leaf of third and fourth volumes of Memoirs of the Court, followed by an undated 14 page list of "Interesting Works." 57. Beaumont and Fletcher, or, The Finest Scenes, Lyrics and Other Beauties . . Now First Selected from the Whole of Their Works. H. G. Bohn, 1855. Dark green blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine, edges only lightly trimmed, blue printed end-papers, 32 page catalogue of "New Books at Reduced Prices" at end. A volume of Bonn's Standard Library. Some copies (probably very few indeed) have an inserted leaf following title-page carrying a Dedication to Bryan Waller Procter, with verso blank (which leaf is not reckoned in the pagination). 58. Stories in Verse. Now First Collected. George Routledge, 1855. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine, large gilt block on upper side, lower side with a different ornament in blind, edges only lightly trimmed, yellow end-papers. First leaf before half-title carries adverts only.

60. Another copy of First Edition. Blue cloth of same pattern and with same blocking both gilt and blind. The only variation is in spine lettering which now reads: "Poems/By/Leigh Hunt/Illustrated." Similar yellow end-papers but with binder's ticket of Bone & Son. The advertisement leaf is again at the end. 61. The Poetical Works . . . Now Finally Collected, Revised by Himself, and Edited by his Son Thornton Hunt. With Illustrations by Corbould. Routledge, Warne & Routledge, 1860. Contemporary binding of blue grained morocco, sides and spine elaborately gilt, all edges gilt. Half-title lettered "Routledge's British Poets." There is a frontispiece and engraved title on plate paper, besides printed title, and 6 other full-page engravings. 62. The Poetical Works. George Routledge & Sons Reddish brown bevelled cloth, spine and upper side gilt and black lettered and designed, all edges gilt. This is a reissue of the 1860 edition from the same printing-house of Savill, Edwards & Co. (1860 was Savill and Edwards) and with identical pagination. The engraved plates are re-arranged, the plate from p. 132 now displacing the frontispiece; the engraved title-page still has the Abou Ben Adhem circular plate, but Routledge's imprint is changed and date omitted. 63. The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt. A New Edition, Revised by the Author. With Further Revision, and an Introduction, by his Eldest Son. Smith Elder, 1860. Medium 8vo, 7 1/4" x 4 5/8", contemporary binding of half brown calf, spine with raised gilt bands and blue titling label, marbled sides, end-papers and edges, frontispiece portrait. Issued in blue cloth, with adverts at end variously dated: Luther Brewer records November 1859 and December 1859. The binders of this copy, B. Hunt and Sons, Birmingham, have not retained the adverts.

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64. A Saunter through the West End. Hurst & Blackett, 1861. Red blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut, cream end-papers, 3 leaves of publisher's adverts at end. The first leaf is a blank before half-title, not reckoned in pagination and ignored by Brewer in his collation.

Inscribed on recto of frontispiece plate in the publisher's handwriting: "T. H. Strangways, Esq. In Memory of Leigh Hunt. 22nd Novr 1869." From Luther Brewer's catalogue, it would appear Oilier inscribed several copies in this fashion-Brewer possessing Robert Browning's copy. The present copy was later in the library of Ralph Straus, and carries his bookplate.

65. The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt. Edited by his Eldest Son. 2 vols. Smith Elder, 1862. Reddish brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt spines, all edges uncut, frontispiece photographic portrait in volume 1. Final leaf of volume 1 carries adverts of "Works by Leigh Hunt," followed by 16 page publisher's catalogue dated Febuary 1862. 66. The Book of the Sonnet. Edited by Leigh Hunt and S. Adams Lee. 2 vols. Sampson Low, 1867. Dark red bevelled cloth, spine and upper side gilt, all edges uncut, slate coloured end-papers with binder's ticket of Bone & Son. The First Edition of this work may be considered to be that issued in Boston by Roberts Brothers. The London edition has same printer's imprints: "Cambridge: Printed by Welch, Bigelow & Co." at end of both volumes with same erratum on verso of last leaf in volume 2. Brewer appears to be in error in his collation, stating that the dedication is omitted, its place being taken by the note by Sampson Low. Counting the 2 blanks before title-page, this copy has 10 leaves in preliminaries (paged to xiv) in volume 1, the American dedication to G. H. Booker following the London publisher's note dated December 1866 and preceding the "Publisher's Notice" regarding sonnets by American writers. There is a 16 page Sampson Low catalogue at end dated October 1866. 67. Another variety of the English edition, consisting of same American printed sheets. Dark green smooth cloth, fully gilt spines lettered on 2 red labels, upper side with triple frame in gilt, lower with similar frame but in blind, green end-papers with same binder's ticket, but t.e.g., others uncut. The first volume, in this state, follows nearer the American arrangement—the leaf by the English publisher following title-page of second volume. Volume 1 here has only 8 leaves in preliminaries, including one blank before title-page which is not counted in pagination (pp. xiv). 68. A Tale for a Chimney Corner and Other Essays, from "The Indicator," 1819-1821. Edited with Introduction and Notes by Edmund Oilier. J. C. Rotten [1869]. Rebound in dark green patterned cloth, gilt spine, all edges cut.

69. Characteristics of Leigh Hunt, as Exhibited in that Typical Literary Periodical "Leigh Hunt's London Journal" (1834-35). With Illustrative Notes by Launcelot Cross. Simpkin Marshall, 1878. Blue cloth, upper side gilt-lettered and designed, yellow end-papers, edges cut. Launcelot Cross is the pen-name of Frank Carr. 70. Essays by Leigh Hunt. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by Arthur Symons. Walter Scott, 1887. Dark blue smooth cloth, spine titling label, all edges uncut. A volume of the Camelot Classics, edited by Ernest Rhys. The final leaf, pp.[315-316], carries adverts of the Canterbury Poets and the Camelot Classics. The first 2 essays are here printed for the first time under the name of their author. 71. Essays by Leigh Hunt. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Edmund Oilier. A New Edition. Chatto & Windus, 1890. Half dark red cloth, marbled sides, top edges cut, others uncut. A somewhat misleading title; this is a reissue of A Tale for a Chimney Corner (1869), the new publisher having secured the plates from the estate of John Camden Hotten. The 4 page "Leigh Hunt Memorial" notice at the end of the 1869 book, being no longer topical, is omitted. This issue in Chatto's Golden Library series was perhaps not a great success as late-issued copies have adverts at the end dated September 1900. The present copy has the earliest catalogue, dated February 1890, and signature on end-paper: "Harry K. Hudson, June 1890." He was parliamentary private secretary to Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke. 72. The Essays of Leigh Hunt. Selected and Edited by Reginald Brimley Johnson. J. M. Dent, 1891. A volume of the publisher's Temple Library, No. 88 of 150 copies on large handmade paper. Half cream parchment, spines lettered in red, pale green linen sides, all edges uncut.

412 HUNT (J. H. Leigh) 1784-1859 73. Poems of Leigh Hunt. Selected and Edited by Reginald Brimley Johnson. J. M. Dent, 1891. Uniformly produced as the above item and, like it, No. 88 of 150 copies. Luther Brewer's catalogue states that these 2 admirable volumes are entitled to be called First Editions by virtue of essays and poems here first published, of which he lists details. 74. Dramatic Essays. Selected and Edited with Notes and Introduction by William Archer and Robert W. Lowe. Walter Scott, 1894. Dark red cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others lightly trimmed (some fore-edges unopened). The last 7 leaves of final gathering are occupied by contemporary (1893 &c.) Walter Scott adverts. The binding, however, may not be primary, as imprint at foot of spine reads: "Scott/Publishing/Company Lim'd." Pp. 143-236 contain criticisms of the theatre by Hunt, taken from the Tatler (1830-31), now published in book form. 75. The Months, Descriptive of the Successive Beauties of the Year. With Biographical Introduction by William Andrews, F.R.H.S. W. Andrews, 1897. Dark green cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others trimmed. This edition is the first reprinting after 1821. 76. The Old Court Suburb. Edited by Austin Dobson and Newly Embellish'd by Herbert Railton, Claude Shepperson and Edmund J. Sullivan. 2 vols. Freemantle, 1902. Mauve vertically ribbed silk-cloth, elaborately gilt-designed, t.e.g., others uncut, designed end-papers. There was also a Large Paper issue of 150 numbered copies signed by the artists, collated by Brewer, who appears uncertain in his description of the small paper issue, confusing it with another published by Constable and dated 1903. 77. The Essays of Leigh Hunt. Edited by Arthur Symons. With Illustrations by H. M. Brock. J. M. Dent, 1903. Pink linen, beige spine gilt-lettered and designed, t.e.g., others uncut, pictorial end-papers. "In making this selection from the essays of Leigh Hunt, my aim has partly been to provide a companion to the volume of essays which I edited in 1887 for the Scott Library"-the opening sentence of Symons' new Preface. The Scott Library was the later designation of the Camelot Classics.

HUNT (J. H. Leigh) 1784-1859 78. The Town. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Austin Dobson. Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1907. Green cloth, gilt spine, edges cut, frontispiece plate. First issue in the World's Classics series, with 8 page series advertiser at end. Dobson's Introduction is dated Baling, April 1907. 79. Imagination and Fancy. With an Introduction by Edmund Gosse. Blackie & Son, 1907. Dark green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, designed end-papers. A volume of the publisher's Red Letter Library. 80. The Poetry and Prose of Coleridge, Lamb and Leigh Hunt. (The Christ's Hospital Anthology). Selected and Edited, with a Synchronous Narrative of Their Lives by S. E. Wimbolt. W. J. Bryce, 1920. Dark blue cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, top edges cut, others uncut, 13 illustrations. 81. Prefaces by Leigh Hunt, Mainly to his Periodicals. Edited by R. Brimley Johnson. Frank Hollings, 1927. Square 8vo, bright red cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others uncut, marbled end-papers. Of this useful compendium 500 copies were printed for America and England at the Torch Press, Cedar Rapids. The American issue bore the imprint of Walter M. Hill, Chicago. 82. Leigh Hunt's "The Months." Edited by R. H. B., with Preface by Brimley Johnson. Ingpen & Grant, 1929. Small 8vo, green cloth, gilt. An attractive production, but with the erroneous statement on p. vii that it is the first reprinting after 1821, whereas it is the second. 83. The Old Lady and the Maid-Servant. Illustrated by Roberta F. C. Wandby. J. M. Dent, 1929. 32 pages (including blanks), bright red wrappers lettered in black, edges cut. One of the 6 Elian Greeting Booklets. 84. Captain Sword and Captain Pen. Reproduced in Facsimile of Edition of 1835. With Introduction by Rhodes Dunlap. Iowa City: Friends of the University of Iowa Libraries, 1984. Grey linen boards with red spine, lettered in gilt downwards, edges cut, in illustrated dust-jacket.

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85. Pickering, Leslie P. Lord Byron, Leigh Hunt and "The Liberal." Drane's Ltd. Red cloth, lettered and designed in black, edges cut.

4. Affairs of the Heart. S. T. Freemantle, 1900. Pink, white-flecked, cloth, lettered and designed in white on spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. Inscribed: "To: Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler from Violet Hunt, July 26, 1901."

86. Fields, Mrs. James T. A Shelf of Old Books. Osgood Mcllvaine, 1894. Large square 8vo, green cloth, spine gilt, upper side lettered and designed in black, only lower edges uncut. Printed on art paper, with 56 illustrations. This work is in 3 sections; the first, pp. 1-67, is entitled "Leigh Hunt."

5. Sooner or Later: The Story of an Ingenious Ingenue. Chapman & Hall, 1904. Blue cloth, spine and upper side lettered and designed in gilt and green, top edges cut, others lightly trimmed. FF3 and FF4 at end, pp.[437-440], carry adverts only. Dedicated to Henry James.

87. Brewer, Luther A. My Leigh Hunt Library. Collected and Described by Luther A. Brewer. The First Editions. With 100 illustrations. Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Privately printed, 1932. Large 8vo, scarlet buckram, spine gilt-lettered, top edges sprinkled, others uncut, edition limited to 100 copies on handmade paper. Copy as new in dust wrapper. A second volume, describing the holograph letters, was issued in 1938 from the University of Iowa Press, in similar format, but colour of cloth blue.

6. The Workaday Woman. T. Werner Laurie [1906]. Greenish blue cloth, spine and upper side lettered gilt and designed green, edges trimmed. Pp. 1-8 of publisher's adverts following p.[302] at end are printed on text-paper.

88. Harper, Henry Howard. Byron's Malach Hamoves (Revised Edition): A Commentary on Leigh Hunt's work entitled "Lord Byron and some of his Contemporaries." Privately printed: Boston, 1933. Large square 8vo, light brown smooth boards, spine titling label, top edges cut, others uncut. Printed at the Torch Press, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. HUNT (Isabel Violet) 1866-1942 1. The Maiden's Progress: A Novel in Dialogue. Osgood Mcllvaine, 1894. Light silver blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges uncut. Final leaf, pp.[291-292], carries publisher's adverts. The First Edition of the author's first book. 2. Unkist, Unkind! A Romance. Chapman & Hall, 1897. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. 3. The Human Interest: A Study in Incompatibilities. Methuen, 1899. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine and upper side, top edges cut, others uncut, publisher's 40 page September 1899 catalogue at end.

7. White Rose of Weary Leaf. Heinemann, 1908. Blue cloth, spine gilt-ruled and lettered, upper side in white enamel, only lower edges uncut, final leaf is blank. Dedicated to W. S. Maugham. 8. Tales of the Uneasy. Heinemann, 1911. Light reddish brown cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, upper side in black, top edges cut, fore-edges only lightly trimmed. 9. The Celebrity's Daughter. Stanley Paul, 1913. Red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, upper side in blind, only lower edges uncut, publisher's 48 page undated catalogue at end. Times Book Club's reception date on rear end-paper—31 January 1913. 10. Their Lives. 2nd ed. Stanley Paul, 1916. Green cloth, spine and upper side lettered black, lower edges uncut. The First Edition bore the same date. Publisher's 48 page 1916 catalogue at end. 11. The Tiger Skin. Heinemann, 1924. Tall 8vo, light reddish brown cloth with blind-stamped design, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, only lower edges uncut, in designed dust-jacket (5s. net). Pp.[135-136] at end are blank. 12. The Flurried Years. With 16 Illustrations. Hurst & Blackett [1926]. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, spine gilt, only lower edges uncut. Inscribed: "To John Ferguson from Violet Hunt, February 1926." This presentation is to the author of The Merciless Lady, a Rossetti play produced by Sir Barry Jackson at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1934.

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13. The Wife of Rossetti: Her Life and Death. With Thirty Illustrations. John Lane, 1932. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, spine gilt, top edges stained, others cut. Z3 and Z4 at end, pp.[341-344] carry Lane's adverts only. Corrigenda slip (4 errors) inserted before Introduction.

5. Another copy of First Edition, No. 135 of 160 copies printed on watermarked Waldorf handmade paper, signed by the author. Verso of first blank carries limitation certificate, and these copies are provided with an engraved frontispiece of Michelangelo's painting. Light grey boards, half beige linen, t.e.g., others uncut, extra spine titling label tipped in at end.

14. The Wife of Rossetti. 1932. An early proof copy in plain light brown wrappers. This typesetting is before the list of illustrations was printed, and before Chapter xxxvi had been numbered; there is nothing after p.[322]-no pedigree, appendix or index. The quotation on title-page reads "My life is so wretched I want no more of it."

6. Antic Hay: A Novel. Chatto & Windus, 1923. Pale orange cloth, spine titling label lettered in red, top edges stained, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (7s. 6d. net). Spare titling label tipped-in at end.

Manuscripts

7. Another copy, identical save that it is without the dust-jacket.

15. Love-lies-bleeding. A poem in 5 stanzas, totaling 31 lines, signed in full at end. Written on a sheet of notepaper, 7" x 8 3/4". Also another poem ("O whither maid with the waving locks")-8 lines in all—signed in full at end.

8. Sheridan, Mrs. Frances. The Discovery: A Comedy in Five Acts. Adapted for the Modern Stage by Aldous Huxley. Chatto & Windus, 1924. Blue and red decorated boards, blue linen spine with titling label printed in blue, top edges cut, others uncut.

16. An Invitation. Five quatrains written on 2 pages of an opened sheet of notepaper, signed in full at end.

9. Another copy of the First Edition, apparently identical save that the sides are of a red paper and the design of repeated white ovals and small dots. The design on first copy was a repeated diamond shaped pattern of red and blue. This copy has printed dust-jacket (5s. net) and both have the duplicate titling label tipped-in at end.

HUXLEY (Aldows Leonard) 1894-1963 1. The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems. Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1918. Green decorated semi-stiff boards, yapp edges, titling labels lettered upwards on spine in 7 lines on upper side, all edges uncut, 52 pages. No. 3 of the Initiates Series; the final leaf carries adverts only. 2. Limbo. Chatto & Windus, 1920. Green cloth, spine titling label lettered in reddish brown, top edges stained, only lower edges uncut. The first leaf is blank, followed by half-title which advertises Leda, and Other Poems on verso. 3. Another copy, identical with above save that the shade of green is much lighter-a difference that could not have been caused by fading. 4. Leda. Chatto & Windus, 1920. Large square 8vo, light red cloth, spine titling label, top edges stained red, others uncut.

10. Little Mexican and Other Stories. Chatto & Windus, 1924. Light red cloth, spine titling label printed in red, top edges stained to match, others uncut, spare label tipped-in at end. Blank leaf before half-title; pp.[341-344] at end are blanks save for 3 line printer's imprint centre of first leaf. 11. Along the Road: Notes and Essays of a Tourist. Chatto & Windus, 1925. Light blue rough cloth, spine titling label printed in blue, top edges stained to match, other edges uncut. Blank leaf before half-title; at end pp.[261-264] carry "A List of Books by Aldous Huxley." Spare titling label tipped-in. 12. Selected Poems. Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1925. Dull reddish boards with overall white design, lettered spine and upper side on panels, all edges uncut. 13. Jesting Pilate: The Diary of a Journey. Chatto & Windus, 1926. Tall 8vo, rough pale blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, only lower edges uncut, 14 illustrations. Bookplate of Irene Marden [Mrs. Philip Gosse],

415 HUXLEY (Aldous Leonard) 1894-1963 14. De Gourmont, Remy. A Virgin Heart: A Novel. Translated by Aldous Huxley. Allen & Unwin, 1926. Smooth light blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 9 lines, top and lower edges cut. Pp.[239-240] at end blank save for publisher's emblem and 5 line imprint centre recto. 15. Point Counter Point. Chatto & Windus, 1928. Tall 8vo, rough orange red cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 7 lines between ornamental bands top and bottom, top edges stained, others cut. Blank leaf before half-title; pp.[603-604] blank at end. 16. Simon, Oliver and Rodenberg, Julius. Printing of To-Day: An Illustrated Survey. With a General Introduction by Aldous Huxley. Peter Davies, 1928. Large 4to (10" x 13") blue and white designed boards, cream linen spine gilt-lettered in 7 lines, all edges cut; 2 blank leaves follow Y4 at end. Erratum slip inserted at p. xiii. 17. Do What You Will: Essays. Chatto & Windus, 1929. Pale orange cloth, spine gilt, top edges stained, fore-edges trimmed, lower edges entirely uncut, in printed dust-jacket (7s. 6d. net). 18. Vulgarity in Literature: Digressions from a Theme. Chatto & Windus, 1930. Cream coloured boards, lettered and designed overall in red, edges cut, in blue designed dust-jacket (2s. net). The lettering of spine is upwards on the book but downwards on the jacket. A volume of the Dolphin Books. 19. The World of Light: A Comedy in Three Acts. Doubleday Doran, 1931. Pink designed boards, black linen spine gilt-lettered downwards, top edges stained orange, others cut, in dust-jacket with 2 titling labels. 20. Music at Night and Other Essays. Chatto & Windus, 1931. Light blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, top edges stained blue, only lower edges uncut, in printed dust-jacket (7s. 6d. net). Blank leaf before half-title; pp.[271-272] at end are blank. 21. Eyeless in Gaza. Chatto & Windus, 1936. Tall 8vo, rough beige holland, lettered spine and upper side in red, top edges stained red, only lower edges uncut, in red dust-jacket. The leaf before half-title is blank. 22. What are You Going to Do About It? The Case for Constructive Peace. Chatto & Windus, 1936. 36 pages, metal fastened into yellow wrappers lettered in red and black, all edges cut.

HUXLEY (Aldous Leonard) 1894-1963 23. Ends and Means. Chatto & Windus, 1937. Tall 8vo, dark brick red cloth, spine gilt, top edges stained to match cloth, only lower edges uncut, leaf before half-title is blank. 24. After Many a Summer: A Novel. Chatto & Windus, 1939. Light brown rough cloth, spine gilt, top edges stained to match cloth, only lower edges uncut. 25. Grey Eminence: A Study in Religion and Politics. Chatto & Windus, 1941. Tall 8vo, silver blue cloth, red spine titling panel gilt-lettered in 7 lines with one small ornament, "Chatto &/Windus" in gilt at foot, top edges stained red, only lower edges uncut. In grey pictorial dust-jacket (15s. net), 8 illustrations. 26. Ape and Essence: A Novel. Chatto & Windus, 1949. Dark slate blue rough cloth, spine gilt-lettered partly on blue panel, top edges stained blue, only lower edges uncut. 27. Themes and Variations. Chatto & Windus, 1950. Bright red cloth, spine gilt-lettered partly on white panel, top edges stained blue, only lower edges uncut. Al blank before half-title; pp.[261-262] at end are blank save for printer's imprint in 4 lines centre recto. 28. Another copy, in original pictorial dust-jacket (12s. 6d. net). In this copy the top edges are cut, whereas in the above copy they are also stained. 29. Morgan, Louise. Inside Yourself: The New Way to Health based on the Alexander Technique. With a Foreword by Aldous Huxley. Hutehinson, 1954. Light blue cloth, spine lettered in 5 lines in white enamel, edges cut. 30. Adonis and the Alphabet and Other Essays. Chatto & Windus, 1956. Tall 8vo, pale lime green smooth cloth, spine lettered in blue, top edges stained blue, only lower edges uncut. Blank leaf before half-title; pp.[287-288] at end also are blank. HUXLEY (Thomas Henry) 1825-1895 1. The Oceanic Hydrozoa . . . Observed during the voyage of H. M. S. "Rattlesnake" in the Years 1846-1850. Printed for the Ray Society, 1859. 4to, 10 1/4" x 14 1/4", drab brown semi-stiff wrappers with large white titling label on upper side, blue linen spine, top edges unopened, others

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trimmed. Has 12 engraved plates at end, with descriptive text on versos of leaves facing. This fine copy belonged to Lord Avebury and carries his armorial bookplate and autograph signature on title: "Avebury, Kingsgate [Kent] 1902." Bought at the library sale at Kingsgate Castle, c. 1950.

of Letters series, this book is metal-fastened, not sewn. Copies in the superior format, cream cloth with titling label and edges uncut are sewn.

2. Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature. Williams & Norgate, 1863. Tall 8vo, dark greenish blue morocco-grained blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 7 lines with one short rule above author's name, all edges uncut. Both brick red end-papers are printed with adverts on their 3 visible sides. P. 160 at end is blank, followed by 8 pages of publisher's publications dated February 1863. Frontispiece, illustrations in text throughout. 3. An Introduction to the Classification of Animals. John Churchill, 1869. Tall 8vo, dark reddish brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine, edges uncut, slate brown end-papers, illustrations in text throughout, publisher's 40 page catalogue at end dated January 1872. 4. Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews. Macmillan, 1870. Tall 8vo, red cloth, gilt spine, edges uncut, dark blue end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. CC2 at end, pp.[379-380], carries adverts only, followed by 48 page catalogue dated April 1870. 5. A Manual of the Anatomy of Vertebrated Animals. J. & A. Churchill, 1871. Small 8vo, dark brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine, edges uncut, slate grey end-papers. 2K8 at end, pp.[511-512] blank save for advert in 4 lines centre recto of the author's "Classification of Animals" (6s.). 6. Critiques and Addresses. Macmillan, 1873. Tall 8vo, red cloth, uniform format with Lay Sermons, edges trimmed, dark blue end-papers. Blank leaf before half-title; Z8 at end, pp.[351-352], carries adverts only, followed by publisher's 48 page catalogue dated April 1872. 7. American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology. Macmillan, 1877. Uniform format with Critiques and Addresses, red cloth, gilt spine, blue end-papers, publisher's 24 page catalogue at end dated May 1876. 8. Hume. By Professor Huxley. Macmillan, 1879. Red cloth, black lettering, all edges cut, dark blue end-papers, 4 pages of series adverts at end in which this volume and 6 others are "[Ready" whilst Minto's Defoe is "In the Press." A volume of the English Men

9. Essays upon Some Controverted Questions. Macmillan, 1892. Uniform format with Lay Sermons, red cloth, gilt spine, dark blue end-papers. 2S2-4, pp.[627-632], carry publisher's adverts. Top edges are uncut and unopened throughout, other edges trimmed. 10. Collected Essays. 9 vols. Macmillan, 1893-94. These volumes are in uniform format in the publisher's Eversley Series, dark red cloth, gilt spines, uncut edges, and are only numbered on half-titles. Each has a new Preface by the author dated from Hodeslea, Eastbourne, between January 1893 and July 1894. 11. Aphorisms and Reflections. From the Works of T. H. Huxley. Selected by Henrietta A. Huxley. Macmillan, 1907. Small 8vo, blue cloth, gilt, only lower edges cut, other edges unopened, frontispiece portrait, a volume of the publisher's Golden Treasury Series, with gilt monogram on upper side. This is an anthology made by the author's widow, with Preface dated 29 June 1907 from the same residence-Hodeslea, Eastbourne-from whence the author prefaced the 9 volumes of his collected essays. The 4 pages of series adverts at end are dated 10 November 1907. 12. Huxley, Leonard. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley. By His Son, Leonard Huxley. 2 vols. Macmillan, 1900. Tall 8vo, dark red cloth, gilt spines, all edges uncut, 12 illustrations. There is a page of errata in the preliminary gathering of each volume-10 errors in ail-presumably printed with the Illustrations lists, as these 4 leaves are without pagination. Belonged to William Robertson and has armorial bookplate in each volume. Secondary Material 13. Mitchell, P. Chalmers. Thomas Henry Huxley: A Sketch of His Life and Work. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900. Red vertically ribbed cloth, gilt, all edges cut, frontispiece and 5 other illustrations. A volume of the Leaders in Science series, printed at the Knickerbocker Press, New York.

417 HYDE (Douglas) 1860-1949 1. Beside the Fire: A Collection of Irish Gaelic Folk Stories. Edited, Translated and Annotated by Douglas Hyde. With additional notes by Alfred Nutt. David Nutt, 1890. First Edition of the author's first book. Tall 8vo, dark green cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 7 lines between double rules top and bottom, upper side with ornamental borders top and bottom in black, same borders in blind on lower side, gilt floral ornament centre of upper cover, top edges uncut, others trimmed. Verso of half-title advertises a work in Gaelic-Z-eafcAor Sgeulaighteachta [1899]-with notes by Dr. Hyde. P. S. O'Hegarty states that the end-papers of Beside the Fire are black (Dublin Magazine, Vol. 14, No. 1, 1939), but they are plain white wove in this copy. 2. Hinkson, H. A., ed. Dublin Verses by Members of Trinity College. Edited by H. A. Hinkson. Elkin Mathews & Hodges Figgis, 1895. 4to, smooth green cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered and designed, top edges cut, others uncut. Elkin Mathews 20 page 1895 catalogue at end. Contains 4 poems by Douglas Hyde, the earliest anthology to which he contributed. 3. The Story of Early Gaelic Literature. Fisher Unwin &c., 1895. Pott 8vo, half blue cloth, plum red sides, t.e.g., others trimmed. A volume of the New Irish Library, edited by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy. 4. A Literary History of Ireland from Earliest Times to the Present Day. T. Fisher Unwin, 1899. Tall 8vo, dark green cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut. A volume of the Library of Literary History series (16s. each net). Frontispiece plate, errata slip (10 errors) inserted before Preface. Pp.[655-656] at end are blank save for printer's imprint in 3 lines centre recto. Inserted is a 4 page ALS signed "An Craoibin Douglas Hyde" dated 17 June 1912 on his Earlsfort Place, Dublin, embossed notepaper in original stamped and postmarked envelope addressed to Mrs. Prescott Decie, Issercleran, Craughwell, Co. Galway. The letter, which is about a memorial stone, has many words in Gaelic. 5. Pleuszod na Bulzoide, or The Bursting of the Bubble. By An Craoibin Aoibinn. With Translation and Illustrative Notes by Z. Z. [This is a further disguise of Dr. Hyde]. [1903 or ? reprint]. Pp. 32 + 4, metal fastened, bright yellow wrappers, upper side lettered in black, all edges cut, size 4 5/8" x 7"; this is not the collation given by O'Hegarty. Inscribed presentation copy (in Gaelic) to Mrs. Alice Stopford Green, signed "An Craoibin"-in Douglas Hyde's autograph. He

HYDE (Douglas) 1860-1949 has also given the names of 6 of the actors taking part-Mahaffy, Dowden, Tyrrell, Gwynn, &c. 6. The Bursting of the Bubble-A Drama. [In the New Ireland Review-New Series, Vol. 19, No. 3, May 1903.] Dublin: New Ireland Review Offices, 1903. Pp. 163-186 of the issue, preserved in the original blue wrappers of the part (Price sixpence). 7. The Love Songs of Connacht. Being the Fourth Chapter of the Songs of Connacht, collected and translated by Douglas Hyde, LL.D 'An Craoibhin Aoibhinn, President of the Gaelic League. Dublin: Dun Emer Press, 1904. Light blue boards, beige holland spine with label lettered upwards, large lettering label on upper side in 6 lines, all edges uncut. Printed in red and black, limited to 300 copies. The Preface is by W. B. Yeats. 8. Ubhla De'n Craoibh. [1900]. Pp. vi + 56, metal fastened. Issued in dark grey wrappers, upper side lettered in 5 lines in black, with ornamental flower design in gilt, all edges uncut. O'Hegarty states lettering is in red. Size 6 3/4" x 4 1/8". Inscription on title-page: "Eily, from Nelly O'Brien, April 1905." 9. Legends of Saints and Sinners. Collected and Translated from the Irish by Douglas Hyde. Dublin: Talbot Press; London: T. Fisher Unwin [1915]. Bright green blind-stamped cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges stained green, others cut, light slate coloured end-papers. A volume of Every Irishman's Library. Frontispiece plate. 10. An Alphabet of Irish Saints. Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, 1916. 4to, 7 1/4" x 9 3/4", light blue wrappers lettered in black, edges cut. The English Foreword is by Sir Henry Bellingham and the Irish by Douglas Hyde.

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1. Poems. By Antaeus. [Covent Garden, London: Norman & Sons Printers], 1889. Pp. 10+136 + 2, pott 8vo, 4" x 4 7/8", contemporarily rebound in brown morocco gilt, marbled end-papers with gilt dentelles, all edges gilt. The book appears to have been issued in parchment vellum covers with edges uncut. This is the author's own copy, the First Edition of his first book, with his bookplate. On blank leaf he has written: "Copyright taken out, 9th March 1889." The leaf of text-paper before title has his photograph inlaid, signed with his pen-name; recto is inscribed, "W. J. Ibbett 15 March 1889." There are many corrections in his hand throughout, and most of the poems have been dated in ink.

with some conjugates, for a total of 96 leaves. Each series contains its own half-title and title page indicating the dates covered by the contents of each volume: Vol. 1: 14 April 1890 to 15 March 1891; Vol. 2: 1 May 1891 to 12 March 1892. The first series, which contains 29 numbered parts, concludes with the announcement that "A new series will probably be issued after a short interval. Intending subscribers may send their names and addresses to W. J. Ibbett, Church Street, Epsom. No large Paper." The second series contains 20 parts numbered la-20a plus an unnumbered single-leaf Supplement dated 15 September 1891. The individual parts in both series, each of which contains the ornamental heading "The Halfpenny Muse," were separately printed and distributed and later collected with separate title pages, bearing the Latin inscription "INTER SEPTA MEANT VOCES." Some numbers have at the foot an additional author-printer's imprint with the Church Street address. A copy of the 2 volumes of The Halfpenny Muse, bound by Tout, was sold with Lot 501 in the Buxton Forman Sale at the Anderson Galleries in 1919, but no copy is recorded in the British Library or in NUC.

2. Poems. By Antaeus. Swan Sonnenschein, 1889. 96 pages, pott 8vo, 4" x 5 1/8", sewn and roughly bound in boards. Buxton Forman's copy with his Shelley bookplate. Inscribed by the author: "W. J. Ibbett, 25th June, 1889." This published edition, printed by Butler and Tanner, is arranged in reverse order to the private printing. Part 1, Drama: As He List, A Comedy of June, occupies pp. 9-54 and Part 2. Olla Podrida (the miscellaneous poems), occupies pp. 55-96. Nine of the poems in the private version, including the one to F. W. H. to whom the book is dedicated, are omitted here. A bookseller's catalogue cutting inserted suggests the Dedication is to F. W. H. Myers, which is nonsensical: it was to his friend F. W. Home. 3. The Backslider and Other Poems. By Antaeus. Printed for the Author, 1890. Small 4to, 6 1/4" x 7 1/2", light blue semi-stiff wrappers, all edges uncut. Printed at the Chiswick Press; the leaf before half-title carries the limitation certificate (100 copies) in centre recto. This is an entirely new collection of 9 poems, dedicated to "My dear Willie" [his son 3 years old]. The poem, "The Heart of Dorset," bears no relation to "Dorset" (1888) which was one of the poems of 1889 omitted from the later printed book. At the end is inserted Elkin Mathews's 8 page October 1890 catalogue which includes "The Backslider." This firm had some distributing rights, and offered the book at 7s. 6d. net; they were, however, in error in stating the edition was limited to 50 copies, "of which very few remain." 4. The Halfpenny Muse. [First and Second Series]. Epsom: Printed and Sold by W. J. Ibbett, 1891-1892. 2 vols., small 8vo. Unbound sheets printed on Ibbett's private handpress at his home in Church Street, Epsom, containing 47 original poems, printed mainly on rectos,

5. Rosamunda. A Poem by Antaeus. Printed for H. Buxton Forman at the office of The Halfpenny Muse, Church Street, [Epsom, London]: 1890. 16 quarto sheets (including blanks) of handmade paper watermarked "K. P. T. & Co.," printed by the author himself on rectos only of 13 sheets; 12 copies only. Bound (7 1/4" x 9 1/2") by Tout in three-quarter orange crushed levant morocco, marbled sides and end-papers, t.e.g., others uncut. Buxton Forman's copy with his Shelley bookplate: inlaid is the author/printer's 4 page ALS dated 29 September 1890 to "Dear Forman. The misfortunes of an amateur printer and a father have reduced your book of Rosamunda to six copies" &c. A long and interesting letter about Morris (News from Nowhere) and Edward Dowden. "Dowden is, I fancy, offended with me for not knowing that he was a poet and expressing my ignorance" &c. The letter concludes: "You have paid for Muses to No. 29, most sanguine man." (See above item.) 6. A September Walk. Epsom: Printed and sold by the Author, 1891. 10 sheets (including blanks) of handmade paper watermarked "K. P. T. & Co.," printed this time on rectos and versos. Inscribed by the author on half-title: "W. J. Ibbett to H. Buxton Forman" and signed by the author at end on p. 8. On the opposite blank Forman has written: "In line 6 of page 6 the reading is to be altered, Ibbett

419 IBBETT (William Joseph) 1858-1934 says. For 'come across' substitute 'hit upon.' No doubt this is better." Bound by Tout uniformly with Rosamunda (7 1/4" x 9 1/2") and with Forman's bookplate. The number of copies printed is not stated, but is unlikely to have been greater than of Rosamunda. 7. Little Poems of a Poeticule. By Antaeus. Printed for the Author, 1893. 44 pages small 4to (6 1/4" x 8") printed at the Chiswick Press on handmade paper, sewn into light blue wrappers lettered in black on upper side, all edges uncut. In the final poem the author calls this his third book. 8. Another copy (of which the outer wrappers are rather frayed). These are proof-sheets, with Chiswick Press stamp dated 24 January 1893. With Buxton Forman's bookplate. Printed on thin wove paper, there are a number of small verbal corrections, and one of the poems on the contents page has been re-titled. 9. Three Letters from W. J. Ibbett to His Friend H. Buxton Forman in Praise of Venus. Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1894. 48 pages, small 4to (6 1/4" x 8") printed on handmade paper watermarked "J. D. & Co.," all edges uncut. 10. Another copy of the First Edition; this is a unique copy printed on pure vellum-skin and folded but not pierced or sewn. Though there is no printed Dedication in the book, this may be considered the Dedication Copy par excellence. The author has protected it in boards with fold-over blue wrappers on which he has lettered it in ink in block capitals. Inserted is the Chiswick Press delivery note dated 9 February 1894 for the copy on vellum, with Forman's note: "Ackd. and asked W. J. I. whether more than one vellum copy, 10th Feb. 1894 H B F." Together with Ibbett's reply. "Dear Forman. Glad you are pleased! It's not my vanity but your praise that begat the finery. It is the only one, you poor, grudging uniquity. W. I." 11. A West Sussex Garland. By W. J. Ibbett. Chiswick Press, 1897. 20 pages small 4to, sewn into pale" blue wrappers, upper side lettered in black, all edges uncut (6 1/2" x 7 3/4"). Printed on handmade paper watermarked "K. P. T. & Co." There is no limitation certificate, but probably 100 copies were printed, as of the other Chiswick Press booklets, of which 4 are advertised inside upper wrapper. One of the author's best lyrics, "The sun is ruddy in the west," was first printed here.

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Another copy, identical with above.

13. Ibbett's Best. Chiswick Press, Printed for Subscribers, 1899. Foolscap 8vo, bevelled smooth beige buckram, gilt-lettered up spine all edges uncut. Pp. viii, 56. Limited to only 150 copies, printed on handmade paper watermarked "Spalding." Colophon states printing was finished on 11 July 1899. This copy has signature on end-paper: "Leonard Barnes, Sep: 1899." 14. Another copy of First Edition: an early proof copy from Buxton Forman's library with his bookplate. On the end-paper and on the half-title Forman has made notes of 6 MS corrections throughout, but not one of these has been made in the book as published~not even the spelling mistake in the Table of Contents. The spelling of title on p. 52 had been correct all the time. Why the author's own MS corrections in text were not followed is also unclear, at this distance in time. Marked in red ink by printers: "Copy pulled for thickness only." In the colophon on p. 56 the date 11 July had been left blank and is filled in by Buxton Forman, who has written, on the blank facing, a humorous rhyme of 10 lines on this subject-his birthday. The author has written a reply to it below, again in verse, 8 lines. This trial binding is lettered across spine in 3 lines, whereas the published book is lettered upwards along spine. 15.

Chosen Poems of William J. Ibbett.

A. H. Bullen, 1915. Grey boards, light green buckram spine, lettered on upper side in 3 lines in black, upper and lower edges uncut, fore-edges trimmed. Printed by A. H. Bullen at the Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-uponAvon. 16. Facets Seen by W. J. Ibbett. Stratford-upon-Avon: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, 1922. 12mo (one sheet) 24 pages, sewn into semi-stiff blue wrappers, upper side lettered in black. Only 50 copies were printed. 17. Ten Lyrics. By W. J. Ibbett. Flansham: Pear Tree Press, 1924. Imperial 8vo, 6 1/4" x 9 1/2", cream coloured boards, half white linen, dust jacket pictorially designed in red, white and blue, 24 pages (the laid-down end-papers being part of the gathering); actual pagination is 1-12. No. 13 of only 100 copies, the designs engraved and printed by James Guthrie.

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18. Another copy, inscribed on wrapper in James Guthrie's autograph: "Rough Trial only." On the leaf which becomes the half-title, but here is blank, it is inscribed again: "Proof copy only. Need not be returned, JG." Has a large additional illustration printed in green inside lower wrapper and there are 2 pulls of the title-page, one without the red and blue design.

and engraved by J. R. Biggs. No. 22 of only 110 copies printed. The Preface by Paul Beaujon (Beatrice Warde) is printed separately on a quarter-sheet and loosely inserted. The printer's reasons for this anomaly are stated in a note.

19. Twenty-Four Sonnets of William Joseph Ibbett. Shaftesbury: James E. Masters, 1924. Pott 8vo, cream wrappers lettered in blue, folded over serai-stiff card, all edges uncut. This is the first book to be printed at the High House Press, No. 58 of 165 copies. It is in the state with printer's monogram in red in centre recto of title-page, which has an ornamental border in black. 20. The Eve of Venus. A version of the Pervigilium Veneris by W. J. Ibbett. Shaftesbury: James E. Masters, 1924. 8vo, semi-stiff cream wrappers lettered in blue, all edges uncut. No. 17 of 115 copies, the whole edition printed on handmade paper; title-page in red and black. 21. A Greek Garland of Amorous Trifles. Re-wove into English by William J. Ibbett. Shaftesbury: High House Press, 1925. 8vo, light blue wrappers, titling label on upper side, edges uncut. No. 51 of 225 copies on antique paper: there were also 15 copies on handmade paper. 22. Some Sonnets and Songs of the Divine Poet M. Francesco Petrarca. Made in Laura's Lifetime and Now Done into English by William J. Ibbett. Shaftesbury: High House Press, 1926. 8vo, decorated blue boards, half smooth black buckram, titling label on upper side, all edges uncut, No. 32 of only 105 copies printed. Title-page printed in blue and black. 23. Twenty-six Sonnets of the Divine Poet M. Francesco Petrarca. Made on Laura Dead, and Now Done into English by William J. Ibbett. Shaftesbury: High House Press, 1929. 4to, smooth black buckram, titling label lettered upwards on spine and another large label with border on upper side, all edges uncut. No. 6 of 30 copies, signed by translator and printer: the whole edition consisted of 165 copies on Arnold handmade paper. 24. One Hundred Facets of Winter and Spring. Seen by William J. Ibbett. With a Preface by Paul Beaujon. Shaftesbury: High House Press, 1931. 4to, decorated light green boards, half cream linen, gilt-lettered upwards on spine, all edges uncut, decorations designed

25. A Medley: Some Verses by William J. Ibbett. Printed for their friends by James E. and Beatrice M. Masters. Christmas, 1931. Designed wrappers with titling label on upper side, all edges uncut. Colophon reads: "Thirty Copies printed at the High House Press, Shaftesbury, Dorset. December 1931. This copy is for Norman Colbeck" [name filled in by James E. Masters]. 26. A Medley: Some Verses by William J. Ibbett. Shaftesbury: High House Press, 1931. The published edition: No. 6 of only 25 copies on handmade paper signed by the author. There were also 125 copies on mould-made paper without signature. Red and blue decorated boards, red buckram spine, titling label on upper side, all edges uncut. The evidence that the private edition preceded the published is found on p. 13 line 8, where "mortal" reads "moral." This is corrected by an amusing erratum slip; in the published edition the error does not occur. 27. Ibbett's Jessie. By William Joseph Ibbett. Sussex: At the Pear Tree Press. An 8 page 4to fragment (7 1/2" x 10") of an unfinished and unpublished production: title-page in colours, followed by text, pp. 1-6. The 2 poems are "To F. W. Home, New Year, 1886" and "To A Dead Mistress." Manuscripts and Autograph Letters 28. An Appeal to the Persistent. By Antaeus. [1889]. Original MS on rectos of 29 sheets of toned laid writing paper, 4 1/2" x 5 3/4", preceded by a title-page and dedication leaf and with a MS poem of 12 lines to "Dear Forman" at end. Buxton Forman's copy, bound polished brown calf gilt, uncut edges, with his Shelley bookplate inserted and inscribed "H B F 11:10:90." This is actually the complete original MS of The Backslider and Other Poems, printed at the Chiswick Press in 1890. There are some textual variations and the last poem, "Exit," was not used in the printed book, its place being taken by the poem addressed to Forman as a letter-"Go, little book" and inserted at end.

421 IBBETT (William Joseph) 1858-1934 29. As He List: A Comedy of June. [1889 or earlier]. The original MS version of the play published in Poems by Antaeus (1889). Written on 24 foolscap sheets of ruled paper (8" x 13"). This is the first version in some 760 lines. 30. The True History of Great Alexander and Poor Roxana. Original holograph MS clearly written in ink on 44 folios of ruled foolscap, 8" x 13", mostly blue and with Government embossed stamp (perquisites of his office at the G.P.O., London). This is an unpublished work in blank verse-some 1,200 lines. Together with 2 ALS of Ibbett to Buxton Forman, the first stating: "I'm thinking of printing Alexander in the Halfpenny Muse. Any objections?" The second letter of 1 July 1890 sends the MS. Also inserted is a 4 page 4to pull of the first 70 lines revealing that Ibbett proposed to print the play on his press at Epsom, but later abandoned it. This specimen is in all probability unique. The whole preserved in a folder, from the Anderson Galleries sale of Buxton Forman's library in 1920. 31. The Eve of Venus. Original MS written on rectos of 6 sheets, forming a small 4to booklet, 6 1/2" x 8", blue laid paper watermarked "Superfine 1870." This is the version, though not without variations, printed at the High House Press in 1924, where it is dated 1903. It is dated here in form of a colophon at end: "Written by W. J. Ibbett for H. Buxton Forman 23 February 1902," and is in Ibbett's best copperplate style. Inserted is a letter from Forman to Ibbett dealing in detail with scansion of the Latin in this poem, on verso of which Ibbett has drafted his reply in ink-some 21 lines, dated 8 September 1912. 32. Poems by Antaeus. Vol. 2. Begun 10th May, 1889. A small 8vo dark brown leather notebook of ruled paper, 4" x 6 1/4", marbled end-papers with Buxton Forman's Shelley bookplate. Some 76 leaves mostly filled on rectos in ink in the author's hand. Some versos have been used to record names and addresses of his patrons, and the despatch of sheets of his Halfpenny Muse: Swinburne, Morris, Lang, Patmore, Hardy, Colvin, Meredith. 33. The Ballad of Rosamunds. 1899. An early transcription, written in Ibbett's best copperplate hand of the period, with colophon: "Written from Memory at Ludwell, Wilts, in the month of November 1899." On rectos of 10 quarto sheets of blue ruled paper, 6 1/2" x 8 1/4", sewn into a booklet with brown paper covers, titled by the author. It may have

IBBETT (William Joseph) 1858-1934 passed through the mails as the lower wrapper is stamped and postmarked and addressed "H. B. Forman, Esq, 46, Marlboro' Hill, N.W." 34. Six Books of the Poems of William Joseph Ibbett. Revised by himself, 1894. A clearly written MS in ink on 234 quarto leaves of unbleached Arnold laid paper with 1891 watermark. A fair copy, though with a considerable number of corrections, mostly probably made at much later dates. Sewn and loosely bound in boards, covered with an old Queen's Bench legal document in vellum, green silk ties. The blank end-papers at end are filled with titles in pencil headed "A Selection." These appear to be notes for Ibbett's Best, which was in preparation in 1898. 35. Two small 4to ruled exercise books, 6 1/4" x 8," of the familiar pattern, dark blue watered-silk sides, red linen spines lettered in ink upwards Translations and Thousand Verses, from the library of Buxton Forman with his Shelley bookplate. Written throughout in Ibbett's very clear script in ink, the translations volume has some 85 pages filled on rectos with an Index showing that the originals are mainly from Horace, Propertius and Ausonius, with a version of The Eve of Venus on 6 pages dated February 1902. The original poems volume, of which some 65 pages are filled on rectos, has a title "A Thousand Verses being an enlarged edition of Ibbett's Best," and a colophon—"Written at Ludwell in the month of November in the Year of Grace 1901." 36. The Poems of William Joseph Ibbett. In Three Books, [with colophon reading, "finished this writing on the 12th day of April 1902"]. A 4to MS book, 6 1/2" x 8 1/2," in a floral patterned green board binding, with Buxton Forman's Shelley bookplate. It consists of 208 pages written on rectos and versos in Ibbett's best copperplate script, with a title-page and 6 page Contents at beginning. Perhaps the latest versions of the poems: the separate books are headed "Tandridge," "Epsom," "Ludwell," and "Translations." This version is without corrections or alterations anywhere. 37. The original MS of his autobiography, A Nobody's Annals, begun "24th June 1927 (Rura Venerem Sentiunt)." On leaf before title is written: "Elizth. M. Barnes from W. J. Ibbett, 1927" in the author's hand, and below, "Ex Libris Wilfred Partington, 21 Barons Court Rd, London, W. 14." Neatly bound (? for Mr. Partington) in half chocolate brown morocco, gilt spine, green linen sides. The manuscript is written on 191 sheets of small

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8vo ruled exercise paper, and, according to the colophon, was completed in 35 days. It is written almost without a correction or alteration from first to last.

41. ALS to "Dear Forman," 2 pages dated 21 March 1890. He encloses a number of items, one of which is still present-a MS of George Meredith's "The Lark Ascending" which Ibbett had laboriously transcribed from an old Fortnightly [Review], of May 1881, in his best handwriting on 4 octavo sheets.

38. The Paltry Pennorth. No. 1 Printed and Sold by W. J. Ibbett, Cann, Shaftesbury. (Subsequent numbers as described below.) This 8vo sheet was used by the author mainly to print his autobiography, A Nobody's Annals, with which the first number commences; but numerous poems also appear-probably as they were composed. After No. 108a it commences at No. 1 again, and is thereafter titled only A Nobody's Annals, and contains no miscellaneous work. A perfect file under the 2 titles would appear to consist of 311 sheets, including the unnumbered sheet following 108a, which merely announces that he is forced to desist from printing (and for which apparently the penny was not charged). The second series ends at No. 71, which has an amusing colophon: "This printing with the machine and type of the Adana Agency was finisht at the Low House Press on the 4th day of April, 1931." (Ibbett never actually gave his press a name; but his friend J. E. Masters was living and printing only a mile away at the High House Press.) In this collection there are only 226 sheets, i.e., 85 are missing. The printing is in 2 colours, mauve and black, and many impressions are very imperfect—all such being "improved" by the author with pen and ink; also, on blank versos of 2 sheets he has transcribed poems. The early numbers were issued undated, but the whole printing was completed during the years 1929-1931. Average size 5" x 8". 39. Two transcriptions on small 8vo sheets regarding Ibbett's Best, in the handwriting of H. Buxton Forman, one signed. The first is dated 26 August 1899 and is an extract from a letter he has just received from Dr. Bucke, in the U.S.A. The second, dated 13 September 1899, is Forman's poem to Ibbett on the publication of this anthology. 40. ALS one page from Thomas B. Mosher on his Portland, Maine notepaper dated 11 December 1896. Though only addressed "My dear Sir" it is clearly to Ibbett, who rarely had any spare money: "I accede to your proposition and have mailed you to-day a copy of The Bibelot in art bds, Vols. 1 & 2. Send me the MS Poems. I have never seen any of your books, but know of them only through John Lane's List" &c.

Note: See the Rosamund Marriott Watson collection for Selections from the Greek Anthology edited by Graham R. Tomson [pseud.], W. J. Ibbett's copy, with some 450 lines of his verse translations interspersed throughout. IMAGE (Selwyn) 1849-1930 1. Poems and Carols. Elkin Ma thews, 1894. 12mo (in half-sheets) grey boards, titling label lettered upwards on spine, printed in red and black at the Chiswick Press. The edition appears to have been limited to 250 copies. Inscribed: "To Mrs. Longstaff, with my best love, Selwyn Image. March 1, '95." 2. Ruskin, John. The Seven Lamps of Architecture. With an Introduction by Selwyn Image. J. M. Dent [1906]. An Everyman Library volume, reddish brown cloth, gilt spine, 14 plates. Selwyn Image's Introduction is a 12 page essay, of which this is the first printing. 3. New Poems. By Selwyn Image [and 6 other authors], n.d. A 36 page 8vo booklet, without pagination, sewn into green wrappers lettered in gilt [bronzed] on upper side, "For/Christmas/MDCCCCVIII." There is no date or place but foot of p. 36 carries imprint of Women's Printing Society. The first and last leaves are blanks. 4. An Address Delivered by Request . . . before the Art-Workers' Guild. . . . By Past-Master Selwyn Image. [1909]. 24 pages 8vo, sewn into light blue wrappers, upper side lettered in black, all edges uncut, first and last leaves are blank. Colophon on p. 19 reads: "London: Printed, with the permission of the Trustees, in the Golden Type designed by Past-Master William Morris, by Charles T. Jacobi at the Chiswick Press, on paper made by Joseph Batchelor. March 25, 1909." 5. Another copy of the First (and only) Edition, inscribed in the author's copperplate handwriting: "A. B. Home from Selwyn Image, with all affectionate remembrances. Feb. 16, 1910." The recipient was Alderson B. Home, brother of Herbert P. Home, in collaboration with whom Selwyn Image produced the Century Guild Hobby Horse.

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6. Another copy. This has been neatly cased (at the Essex House Press bindery) in grey boards, straw coloured buckram spine gilt-lettered upwards, edges uncut and blue wrappers left in place. Bookplate of Janet and C. R. Ashbee and signature of C. R. Ashbee.

13. Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition of Drawings and Designs of the Late Selwyn Image Held at the Cotswold Gallery. 1930. Eight pages, 8vo (without pagination), sewn into purplish wrappers, upper side lettered black, frontispiece portrait of Selwyn Image. There is no publisher's or printer's imprint. An exhibition of 35 items; the 3 page preface is by Laurence Binyon, and the final page carries a memorial sonnet by T. Sturge Moore.

7. Lecoq, Horace de Boisbaudran. The Training of the Memory in Art. . . . Translated from the French by L. D. Luard. With an Introduction by Selwyn Image. Macmillan, 1911. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut (unopened throughout), in printed dust-jacket (6/- net), 12 plates. Pp.[187-188] at end carry adverts only. Image's Introduction is 7 pages. 8. Catalogue of An Exhibition of Drawings, "A Child's Visions and Fancies." By Daphne Allen (Aged 13 years). With an Introduction by Selwyn Image. The Dudley Galleries, 169 Piccadilly, October 1912. 24 pages 8vo, metal-fastened into dark blue wrappers lettered black, profuse illustrations. 9. Lecoq, Horace de Boisbaudran. The Training of the Memory in Art. . . . 2nd ed. Macmillan, 1914. Same format as First Edition; title-page is a cancel leaf, pasted on stub; there is an additional Preface to Second Edition, and an additional illustration, making 13 plates. 10. Art, Morals, and the War: A Lecture delivered in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, on Thursday, November 12, 1914. Humphrey Milford: Oxford University Press, 1914. 20 pages, tall 8vo, sewn into light blue wrappers lettered in darker blue, all edges uncut. 11. Bewick, Thomas. Memoir of Thomas Bewick, Written by Himself, 1822-1828. With an Introduction by Selwyn Image, late Slade Professor of Fine Art, Oxford. With 61 Illustrations. John Lane, 1924. Royal 8vo, 6 1/2" x 9 1/2", light grey cloth, lettered and designed black, top edges stained red, others uncut, profuse illustrations. T2 at end, pp.[275-276], is blank. 12. Some Reflections on the Art of Thomas Rowlandson and George Morland. Being a Lecture delivered to the Print Collectors' Club on Thursday December 13th, 1928. Print Collectors' Club, 1929. 4to, 7 1/4" x 10", cream boards, red linen spine, upper side lettered in red and black, edges cut. No. 173 of 500 copies printed, 22 plates.

14. The Poems of Selwyn Image. [With Preface by A. H. Mackmurdo.] Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1932. Tall 8vo, beige linen, gilt-lettered up spine, top edges cut, others uncut. No. 53 of only 65 copies signed by the editor. The first leaf is blank and the second carries limitation certificate only; pp.[123-124] at end are blank save for imprint of the Shenval Press centre verso. Frontispiece portrait of the author. 15. Selwyn Image Letters. Edited by A. H. Mackmurdo. Grant Richards, 1932. Tall 8vo, uniform format with the Poems, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait. No. 58 of 60 special copies signed by the editor. Though from a different publisher, and another printing-house (Westminster Press), these 2 publications are perfectly uniform. 16. Masse, (H. J. L. J.). The Art-Workers' Guild, 1884-1934. Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press, 1935. Royal 8vo, 7 1/2" x 10 1/4", dark blue rough cloth, gilt spine, top edges cut, others uncut. Illustrations and portraits of members. This memorial volume reprints Selwyn Image's Address, delivered 15 January 1909. Inscribed: "To my friend Alderson B. Home. Janet M. Image, Christmas 1935." Her husband had inscribed a copy of this Address 26 years earlier to the same friend. Autograph Letters and Greeting Cards 17. A collection of 22 ALS from Selwyn Image to his old bookseller friend James Tregaskis and members of his family, including his son Hugh. Mostly preserved in their original stamped and postmarked envelopes between 1893 and 1928, and all addressed to the Caxton Head at 66 Great Russell Street, their famous landmark on the corner of Bury Street, looking across to the noble precincts of the British Museum. Cheerful and affectionate letters, if only dealing with domestic matters, lectures to the Design School, bidding at auction for pictures, returning from "dear old Holman Hunt's"

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cremation ceremony, and similar occurrences. Later ones in the period of the first World War mention the air raids: " . . . the accursed swine have got their Zeppelins to London . . . bad damage in Theobald's Road and Queen's Square."

5. Truth and Falsehood in Religion: Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge. John Murray, 1907. Dark red cloth, gilt spine. The First Edition was dated 1906. The present is a reprint of Second Edition, which contains a new Preface.

18. A sequence of 21 Privately printed Christmas greetings from Selwyn Image and his wife Janet to the Tregaskis family. These are uniform small 8vos, printed on a folded sheet and mostly with a single leaf loosely inserted. Each has a woodcut illustration by Selwyn Image on outer page and an original poem by him inside, varying considerably in length.

6. Faith. Duckworth, 1909. Dark blue smooth cloth, gilt spine, trimmed edges.

Note: All autograph letters and cards are from their various north London addressesFitzroy Street, Southampton Street and later Parkhurst Road, and there are also a number of smaller and ephemeral items, some of them printed. INGE (William Ralph) 1860-1954 1. Contentio Veritatis: Essays in Constructive Theology. By Six Oxford Tutors. John Murray, 1902. Tall 8vo, dark green cloth, gilt, all edges uncut. X5 and X6 at end, pp.[313-316], carry adverts only. A collection of 7 essays, of which 2 are by Inge. 2. Faith and Knowledge. Sermons by W. R. Inge. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1904. Tall 8vo, dark green cloth, gilt spine, edges trimmed, slate brown end-papers. The first leaf is blank and 2 leaves of adverts are inserted after p. 292 at end. 3. Light, Life and Love: Selections from the German Mystics of the Middle Ages. By W. R. Inge. Methuen, 1904. A volume of the publisher's Library of Devotion, the superior issue in dark green lambskin, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, green and gold end-papers, red silk marker. With a 56 page Introduction on "The Precursors of the German Mystics" by Inge. 4. Personal Idealism and Mysticism: The Paddock Lectures for 1906, Delivered at the General Seminary, New York. Longmans Green, 1907. Dark red cloth, gilt spine: the second impression. It appears to be identical with the First Edition, save for the adverts leaf, pp.[187-188], at end. With the attractive bookplate of Sir Ernest Ridley Debenham.

7. Speculum Animae: Four Devotional Addresses. Longmans Green, 1911. Red cloth, gilt-lettered upwards on spine and in blind on upper side. 8. The Church and the Age. Longmans Green, 1912. Second impression, dark blue cloth, gilt, top edges cut, others uncut. 9. The Religious Philosophy of Plotinus and Some Modern Philosophies of Religion. The Lindsay Press [1914]. Dark green cloth, gilt-lettered up spine and on upper side. A volume of the Essex Hall Lecture series. 10. The Faith and the War. A series of Addresses Edited by F. J. Foakes-Jackson. Macmillan, 1915. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt spine; 10 addresses, of which "Hope, Temporal and Eternal" is by Inge. Other contributors are Hastings Rashdall, A. E. Taylor and H. H. Henson. 11. Outspoken Essays. Longmans Green, 1919. Smooth blue cloth, spine titling label, trimmed edges. 12. The Idea of Progress. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1920. Tall 8vo, light blue wrappers, upper side lettered in darker blue, edges uncut. The Romanes Lecture delivered in the Sheldonian Theatre, 27 May 1920. 13. The Victorian Age: The Rede Lecture for 1922. Cambridge University Press, 1922. Light grey boards, lettered dark blue up spine and on upper side, edges cut. This is the second impression, issued in the same month (May) as First Edition. 14. Personal Religion and the Life of Devotion. Longmans Green, 1924. Blue cloth, gilt spine, frontispiece portrait of the author's daughter. Introduction by the Lord Bishop of London.

425 INGE (William Ralph) 1860-1954 15. Liberalism in Religion. Longmans Green, 1924. Light blue wrappers, upper side lettered in dark blue. The first of the Papers in Modern Churchmanship edited by C. F. Russell. 16. Lay Thoughts of a Dean. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt spine, trimmed edges, in blue printed dust-jacket (7/6d. net). The fourth printing-same date as first. 17. England. Ernest Benn, 1926. Tall 8vo, green cloth, gilt spine; a volume of the Modern World series, edited by H. A. L. Fisher. 18. The Platonic Tradition in English Religious Thought: The Hulsean Lectures, Cambridge 1925-1926. Longmans Green, 1926. Red cloth, gilt spine, edges trimmed, pp.[118-120] at end are blank. 19. Protestantism. Ernest Benn, 1927. Orange wrappers lettered in black, edges cut. No. 167 of the publisher's Sixpenny Library. 20. The Church in the World: Collected Essays. Longmans Green, 1927. Bright red cloth, spine titling label, edges trimmed.

INGE (William Ralph) 1860-1954 26. More Lay Thoughts of a Dean. Putnam, 1931. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, spine gilt, edges cut. 27. Every Man's Bible. An Anthology Arranged with an Introduction by W. R. Inge. Longmans Green, 1931. Black cloth, gilt spine, edges cut, in dust-jacket (7s. 6d. net). 28. Science and Religion: A Symposium. Gerald Howe, 1931. Smooth green cloth, gilt spine, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (4s. 6d. net). The penultimate of these 12 essays is by W. R. Inge. 29. God and the Astronomers: Containing the Warburton Lectures, 1931-1933. Longmans Green, 1933. Tall 8vo, rough light blue linen, gilt spine, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (12/6- net). 30. The Story of Paula. [Reprinted from Personal Religion and the Life of Devotion, 1924]. Longmans Green, 1933. Green designed printed wrappers (I/- net), frontispiece portrait, edges cut. With a Preface by Inge, dated from the Deanery, St. Paul's, 9 October 1933.

21. Another copy, identical with above save that this is the second impression, with date altered to 1928.

31. Things New and Old: Sermons and Addresses in Great St. Mary's, Cambridge, January 28th to February 5th, 1933. Longmans Green, 1933. Light greenish grey cloth, lettered spine and upper side in red, edges cut, in pictorial printed dust-jacket.

22. If I Had Only One Sermon to Preach. Edited by Sir James Marchant. Cassell, 1928. Bright red cloth, spine lettered in black, edges cut. There are 20 contributors, among them W. R. Inge.

32. Vale. Longmans Green, 1934. Purple cloth, gilt spine, edges cut, in printed pictorial dust-jacket (3/6 net). This copy belonged to Mrs. T. Sturge Moore and has her signature-"Hettie Moore."

23. Assessments and Anticipations. Cassell, 1929. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine, trimmed edges.

33. The Gate of Life. With an Introduction by the Bishop of London. Longmans Green, 1935. Bright red rough linen, gilt spine, edges cut.

24. Plotinus: Annual Lecture on a Master Mind, Henriette Hertz Trust. Proceedings of British Academy, Vol. 15, 1929. Tall 8vo, light grey wrappers lettered in black, edges uncut.

34. Another copy, in dust-jacket (2/6 net). It appears virtually identical, though it is of the second impression, January 1935 [same month as First Edition].

25. Christian Ethics and Modern Problems. Hodder and Stoughton, 1930. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt spine, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (15/- net). This is the second printing (same month, September, as first) and apparently identical with it.

35. A Rustic Moralist. Putnam, 1937. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt spine, edges cut. 36. The Fall of the Idols. Putnam, 1940. Uniform format with A Rustic Moralist. T8 at end, pp.[303-304], is blank.

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1. A Rhyming Chronicle of Incidents and Feelings. Edited by Edward Harston, M.A. Vicar of Tamworth. Longman &c., 1850. Green blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 5 lines, deep cream end-papers with binder's ticket of Remnant and Edmonds. Top edges uncut, others only lightly trimmed. First Edition of the author's first book, published anonymously. Presentation copy from the author's aunt, inscribed: "Mrs. Hollway to Miss Sherard, 7th October 1852" on half-title, and below the printing: "by Jeanie Ingelow." Miss Hollway also sent a copy to Tennyson, whose reply is published (Life, Vol. 1 pp. 286-287): "Your cousin must be worth knowing: there are some very charming things in her book . . . I declare I should like to know her."

7. The Story of Doom and Other Poems. Longmans &c., 1867. Green cloth, gilt, identical format with Poems (1863), top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed, cream end-papers. The first gathering again consists of 3 leaves, and X at end is a singleton probably transferred by the binder. It is blank on recto, save for the signature; verso carries adverts of the illustrated edition of Poems (21s. and 42s.), also of the Thirteenth Edition of the ordinary 5s. edition. Presentation copy inscribed on half-title: "With love to Lady Franklin from J. I. July llth 1867."

2. Another copy of the First (and only) Edition. Uncut, and in a contemporary green fine-diaper cloth; but it is not the publisher's binding (which bore the binder's ticket of Remnant and Edmonds). On the Dedication leaf, below the printing, the author has written "by Jean Ingelow." This, of course, does not make it the Dedication copy; it is more probable that the editor had a few copies inscribed by the author of his anonymous work, to use as gift copies. This one he has inscribed 10 years later: "Margaret Edge from the Editor. Sherborne Vicarage, St. Barnabas, 1860." 3. Poems. Longman &c., 1863. Smooth green cloth, gilt, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed, cream end papers with binder's ticket of Westleys, 32 page publisher's catalogue at end dated January 1863. 4. Poems. 3rd ed. Longmans, 1863. Identical format with First Edition and identical pagination. A "Preface to the Third Edition" has been added by transferring the Contents list to verso of the page [vi]. The first gathering still consists of 3 leaves and the final, S, is a singleton transferred by the (?) binder. Same binder's ticket but no catalogue is bound in this copy. Frederick Wedmore's copy with inscription to him: "To Frederick Wedmore with love December 1863." 5. Studies For Stories. 2 vols. Alexander Strahan, 1864. Rebound contemporary half dark red calf, marbled sides, edges cut. 6. Another copy of volume 2 only, in the original dark reddish brown cloth, gilt, edges uncut, dark green end-papers-retained as specimen of original format.

8. Fated To Be Free: A Story. A New Edition, Illustrated. Tinsley Brothers, 1876. Thick crown 8vo, pp. x (paginated to viii, the additional illustrated title-page not being reckoned), 498 + 6 (the last 3 leaves of 2K carrying adverts only). Dark green cloth, gilt spine, sides designed in black and upper side also lettered in black, edges uncut, 23 illustrations on plate paper. The First Edition of this work was issued in 3 volumes in 1875 without illustrations. 9. One Hundred Holy Songs, Carols and Sacred Ballads. Original, and Suitable for Music. Longmans &c., 1878. A rebound copy of this anonymously issued book, blue cloth, lettered on upper side "Holy Songs/By/Jean Ingelow." Edges cut and sprinkled. There is a correction in ink on p. 147 (? by the author herself), where "Young Man" in small caps has been successfully obliterated and "God-man" written in. 10. Poems. Third Series. Longmans &c., 1885. Uniform format with first series (1863); "Third Series" in gilt at foot of spine, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed, yellow end-papers with binder's ticket of Spottiswoode & Co. Al is blank before half-title. 11. Lyrical and Other Poems. Selected from the Writings of Jean Ingelow. Longmans &c., 1886. In an attractive contemporary binding of dark red morocco, all edges gilt, spine with raised bands, marbled end-papers. Armorial bookplate of William Blathwayt (a minor poet). 12. John Jerome, His Thoughts and Ways. A Book Without Beginning. Sampson Low, 1886. Dark red bevelled cloth, gilt, top edges uncut, others trimmed, dark slate blue end-papers. The last 3 leaves, pp.[267-272], carry adverts only, followed by publisher's 32 page catalogue dated October 1886.

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1. Edward Fitzgerald and Omar Khayyam: An Essay and a Bibliography. David Nutt, 1899. 12mo, light brown wrappers lettered black "Sixpence Net," all edges uncut. The first leaf is blank before title-page and not reckoned in pagination, pp.[43-46] are blanks at end. From the Omar Khayyam collection of A. G. Potter, the bibliographer, with bookplate. Neatly cased in three-quarter maroon morocco, gilt-lettered up spine. The wrappers of the pamphlet are left in place and edges are untouched.

9. Another copy of First Edition: this is a late issue in much plainer rough blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, top edges cut, others uncut, with the same illustrations.

2. Another copy of the First Edition, in original wrappers as issued. 3. The Eternal Now: A QuatrainSequence and Other Verses. David Nutt, 1900. Green wrappers, upper side lettered in red, all edges uncut. The leaf, before title-page is blank, and final leaf pp.[47-48], is also blank. Inscribed: "To Mrs. Dan Rider, with every good wish from Holbrook Jackson." 4. Bernard Shaw. With Four Portraits. Grant Richards, 1907. Green vertically ribbed cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut. This copy is bound without the publisher's catalogue at end. P4 is blank. Inscribed on half-title: "To Robert Barr with sincere regards from Holbrook Jackson, London, Spring 1908." 5. Another copy of the First Edition, virtually identical with above. This is the state that has 20 page publisher's catalogue at end dated 1907. Inscribed: "For J. Scott Fraser, with best regards from Holbrook Jackson—London, Sep v: "07" and with bookplate of the recipient. He was the dedicatee of the author's first book. 6. Another copy of the First Edition; the state with the 20 page 1907 catalogue at end. 7. William Morris: Craftsman-Socialist. A. C. Fifield, 1908. No. 3 of the Social Reformers Series, light brown boards, half green flecked linen, black lettered down spine and on upper side in a frame, t.e.g., others trimmed. D7 and D8 at end carry publisher's adverts. 8. Great English Novelists. Grant Richards [1908]. The first binding issue of First Edition, bright red cloth, spine and upper side lettered and ornamented in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, 32 illustrations.

10. Bernard Shaw. 2nd ed. Grant Richards, 1909. Red pictorial wrappers lettered in black, edges cut, a cheap edition, published at One Shilling. The First Edition had been reissued in 1909; and the present edition is a cheap reissue from the same type, though it has no printer's imprint anywhere. It has a 20 page essay-"A Short Way with the Critics: A Preface for Ordinary People" replacing the "Prefatory Letter to A. R. Orage" and the author's "Note"; also, at the end, an Appendix, pp. 234-240. The 4 portraits are not included. 11.

Platitudes in the Making: Precepts

and Advices for Gentlefolk, New York: Mitchel Kennerley, 1910. [Label of D. J. Rider, 36 St. Martin's Court, London W.C. pasted over the American publisher's imprint on title-page.] Light brown boards, lettered up the spine and on upper side in 2 lines with oval ornament, all in green, top edges cut, others uncut. P.[93] at end carries only one line of text with verso blank, followed by a blank leaf, pp.[95-96]. 12. Romance and Reality: Essays and Studies. Grant Richards, 1911. Dark red buckram, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. N7 and N8 at end, pp.[205-208], carry publisher's adverts only. 13. All Manner of Folk: Interpretations and Studies. Grant Richards, 1912. Smooth green buckram, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. N8 at end, pp.[207-208], carries publisher's adverts only, followed by 24 page catalogue dated 1912; 5 portraits. The essay on Synge is disfigured by the oft-repeated mis-spelling—Arran Islands for Aran Islands. Inscribed: "To Ralph Hodgson from his friend Holbrook Jackson, July 1912." 14. The Eighteen-Nineties: A Review of Art and Ideas at the Close of the Nineteenth Century. Grant Richards, 1913. Tall 8vo, dark rod smooth buckram, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut, 24 illustrations. All copies of the First Edition appear to have Charles Conder's name mis-spelled "Condey" on the second of his 2 plates. The Introduction is dated October 1913, and the present copy, which belonged to the actress Laura Cowie and has her signature datedd November 1913, was undoubtedly early in circulation. The binding is decidedly maroon coloured buckram, the end-papers are of a

428 JACKSON (Holbrook) 1874-1948 smooth toned quality and the book appears fractionally thicker than some other copies. 15. Another copy of the First Edition: binding here is bright red cloth, the end-papers are plain wove and the quality of the text-paper appears slightly lighter than in the above copy. Probably a later binding of First Edition sheets. 16. Town: An Essay. At the Sign of Flying Fame, 1913. 16 pages, sewn into blue wrappers, edges cut. No. 2 of the Chapbooks, with decorations by Lovat Fraser. 17.

Southward Ho! And Other Essays.

J. M. Dent [1914]. A volume of the Wayfarer's Library, reddish brown cloth, gilt spine, top edges stained to match cloth, other edges cut, designed end-paper, orange silk marker. Mainly a reprint of 2 earlier volumes, but the essays have been revised and 4 new ones added. 18. To-Day. Editor Holbrook Jackson. Vol. 1. March-August, 1917-Vol. 9, Nos. 49 to 52, March-December, 1922. Attractively bound in smooth green buckram, red leather titling labels, edges trimmed, all original front and back wrappers bound in. Holbrook Jackson edited, in conjunction with A. R. Orage, the New Age during 1907 and was afterwards associated with T. P. O' Connor in writing and editing T. P.'s Weekly. When this journal was absorbed into To-Day in 1917, he became owner/editor until publication ceased in 1923. The above set lacks only the last 6 parts (or half-year), 1923. Holbrook Jackson opened this new venture with a fine unpublished poem of 80 lines~"The Bride"-by Ralph Hodgson, which set the tone of the new magazine and had many worthy successors through the next 6 years. 19. The Eighteen-Nineties. Grant Richards, 1922. Tall 8vo, smooth yellow cloth, lettered and designed in black on spine and upper side, top edges stained yellow, others uncut. The first reprinting of the 1913 book; from the same printing-house, but entirely reset in a smaller type and with only minor corrections. There is a new author's Preface dated 1922 and one additional illustration. 20.

Occasions: A Volume of Essays.

Grant Richards, 1922. Smooth dark green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, only lower edges uncut. N4 at end, pp.[199-200], carries only notices of the reprint of The Eighteen-Nineties.

JACKSON (Holbrook) 1874-1948 21. End Papers: Adventures among Ideas and Personalities. By Bernard Lin tot [Pseud.] Chapman & Hall, 1923. Black rough linen, spine gilt-lettered in 5 lines, only lower edges uncut, in printed dust-jacket (7/6 net). O8 at end is blank. 22. Catalogue Raisonn6 of Books Printed at the Curwen Press, 1920-1923. With An Introduction by Holbrook Jackson. Medici Society, 1924. Reddish brown linen, gilt-lettered upwards on spine, top edges cut, others uncut. Facsimiles, some in colours. In printed dust-jacket (51- net). 23. William Morris. J. Cape, 1926. Blue cloth, gilt spine, edges cut. This is a revised and enlarged edition of the volume published in 1908. 24. Essays of To-Day and Yesterday: Holbrook Jackson. G. G. Harrap, 1927. Six essays, with an Introductory Note and a Bibliography. One essay, "The Irony of Irony," had not been printed before in Britain. The superior edition in brown cloth lettered in black down the spine and in 4 lines on upper side; the cheaper issue was in black wrappers with titling label. 25. The Anatomy of Bibliomania. 2 vols. Soncino Press, 1930. Tall 8vo, smooth red buckram, gilt spines, t.e.g., others cut. No. 61 of 1,000 copies signed by the author; there were also 48 copies printed on special paper. 26. The Anatomy of Bibliomania. 3rd ed., revised. Soncino Press, 1932. Tall 8vo, smooth light brown buckram, gilt spine, other edges trimmed. This Third Edition, revised, is the first to be issued in one volume. 27. Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy. 3 vols. J. M. Dent, 1932. Dark blue cloth, gilt spines, designed end-papers, top edges stained to match cloth, others cut. A fine set, each volume with printed dust-jacket (Everyman Library, 886, 887 and 888). There is an 11 page Introduction by Holbrook Jackson dated 1932. 28. The Fear of Books. Soncino Press, 1932. Tall 8vo, smooth red buckram, gilt spine, t.e.g., only lower edges uncut, in printed dust-jacket, No. 515 of 2,000 copies. There were also 48 copies on special paper, signed by the author. Uniform format with The Anatomy of Bibliomania.

429 JACKSON (Holbrook) 1874-1948 29. William Caxton: An Essay. W. H. Robinson, 1933. 4to, 7 7/8" x 10 1/2", 16 pages sewn into light grey wrappers lettered in black on upper side. Printed at the Oxford University Press. No. 77 of only 100 copies signed by the author. Copies 1-68 accompanied an original leaf of Caxton's Chronicles of England and were subscribed at 8 guineas each; 32 copies were printed for the author and his friends. This copy has bookplate of H. Harvey Frost, and a copy of the 4 page "Preliminary Announcement" with facsimile leaf of Caxton is preserved with it. 30. Maxims of Books and Reading. First Edition Club, 1934. One of 400 copies printed by the Halcyon Press; bound for Club Members by Henry T. Wood in rich brown morocco, gilt-designed, gilt-lettered upwards on spine, t.e.g., others uncut. 31. The Reading of Books. Faber & Faber, 1946. Tall 8vo, brown cloth, gilt-lettered on spine and upper side, top edges stained blue, others trimmed, in printed dust-jacket (15/- net). 32. Wallis, Nevile. Fin de Siecle: A Selection of Late 19th Century Literature and Art. Chosen by Nevile Wallis. With a Note on the Period by Holbrook Jackson. Allan Wingate, 1947. Tall 8vo, pale orange yellow linen lettered down spine in mauve, edges cut. In pictorial dust-jacket (10s. 6d. net). Profusely illustrated. 33. Dreamers of Dreams: The Rise and Fall of 19th Century Idealism. Faber & Faber, 1948. Tall 8vo, brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges stained yellow, others cut, in printed dust-jacket (16s. net). Produced in uniform format with The Reading of Books. Miscellaneous 34. A long foolscap sheet of ruled paper filled on recto with 33 lines of critique headed "Platitudes in the Making [Just as they strike me, you know!]." Written in ink in a very legible hand, but author unknown. By the side of 5 of the remarks Holbrook Jackson has written comments in pencil. 35. An example of Holbrook Jackson's bookplate designed by Lovat Fraser (3 1/4" x 4 1/2"); also a full autograph signature (as Editor) cut from a typewritten letter: "With kind regards, Yours sincerely, Holbrook Jackson."

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36. Freeman, F. W. ("Victor Chard"). The Age of Gold: Sonnet Sequence. Elkin Mathews, 1918. 16 leaves, printed on rectos only, sewn into grey wrappers lettered on upper side in black. Inscribed: "To Holbrook Jackson, Esq, with the author's compliments, F. W. Freeman, 18:4:18." 37. Mathews, Elkin, Booksellers. Catalogue No. 119, 1951, The Holbrook Jackson Library: A Memorial Catalogue. With an Appreciation by Sir Francis Meynell. 1951. 101 pages, glazed white wrappers lettered in black. A descriptive priced catalogue of 1775 items, with a cross-reference index. JERROLD (Douglas William) 1803-1857 1. Heads of the People, or, Portraits of the English. Drawn by Kenny Meadows. With Original Essays by Distinguished Writers. Robert Tyas, 1840. Tall 8vo, rebound contemporary half brown calf, fully gilt spine, marbled sides and end-papers, t.e.g., others lightly trimmed. Douglas Jerrold was the author of 15 of the 43 essays; Leigh Hunt, William Howitt, Samuel Lover and R. H. Home are among the other writers. Another volume, styled volume 2, was published in 1841. In the first volume "William Thackery," author of Captain Rook and Mr. Pigeon, is of course none other than William Makepeace Thackeray: in the edition of 1864, this is corrected to William Thackeray. 2. Cakes and Ale. By Douglas Jerrold. 2 vols. How & Parsons, 1842. Light blue blind-stamped cloth, gilt spines, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed. Engraved frontispiece and title-pages besides the printed titles, yellow end-papers. Y2 at end of volume 1 carries adverts only. 3. Punch's Letters to His Son. Corrected and Edited, from the MSS, in the Alsatian Library by Douglas Jerrold. With 24 Illustrations by Kenney [sic] Meadows. William S. Orr, 1843. Maroon brown cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 6 lines, Punch illustration in gilt on upper side, all edges uncut, yellow end-papers, M3 and M4 at end carry adverts only. 4. The Illuminated Magazine. Edited by Douglas Jerrold. Vols. 1-4. Published for the Proprietors, No. 2, Crane Court [1843-1845?]. 4to, 8" x 11", printed in double columns, uniform blind-stamped dark plum red cloth, spines gilt-lettered, edges cut, profusely illustrated. Frontispieces and title-pages are in gold and colours, plates by Leech and others.

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JERROLD (Douglas William) 1803-1857 In postscript at end of volume 3, Douglas Jerrold bids farewell to the office of Editor "though not without hope of again meeting them [his readers] in these pages." However, volume 4 opens with the same illuminated title-page-"Edited by Douglas Jerrold." 5. The Story of a Feather. Illustrated with a Frontispiece by Leech. Punch Office, 1844. Dark blue cloth, gilt, frontispiece and engraved title on a sheet of plate paper before the printed title, cream end-papers, all edges uncut. 6. Douglas Jen-old's Shilling Magazine. Vols. 1-4, January 1845-December 1846. Punch Office, 1845-1846. Thick small 8vo, uniform contemporary half purple calf, marbled sides, gilt spines with lettering labels, edges cut. This magazine continued to volume 7 (1848). 7. Punch's Complete Letter Writer. With 50 Illustrations by Kenny Meadows. Punch Office, 1845. Original semi-stiff buff printed wrappers, lettered spine and sides (2s. 6d.), edges uncut. L2 at end, pp.[147-148], carries adverts only. 8. Time Works Wonders: A Comedy in Five Acts. Punch Office, 1845. Bound in contemporary black cloth, gilt-lettered, edges lightly trimmed. Original wrappers have not been preserved. 9. A Man Made of Money. With 12 Illustrations on Steel by John Leech. Punch Office, 1849. Green blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 6 lines, the engraved title-page reproduced in gilt on upper side, all edges uncut, yellow end-papers. 10. The Writings of Douglas Jerrold: Collected Edition. 8 vols. Bradbury & Evans, 1851-1854. Original uniform black blind-stamped cloth, gilt spines, edges sprinkled. There are fly-titles to each volume, giving the volume number. Titles are: St. Giles and St. James (Vol. 1, 1851); Men of Character (Vol. 2, 1851); Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures, The Story of a Feather &c. (Vol. 3, 1852); Cakes and Ale (Vol. 4, 1852); Punch's Letters to His Son &c. (Vol. 5, 1853); A Man Made of Money &c. (Vol. 6, 1853); Comedies (Vol. 7, 1853); Comedies and Dramas (Vol. 8, 1854). 11. Another set, 8 volumes, contemporary re-binding of half dark blue calf, gilt spines with double lettering labels, marbled end-papers and edges. In this bound set all printed adverts leaves before the title-pages have been sacrificed by the binder-hence the volumes are no longer numbered.

JERROLD (Douglas William) 1803-1857 12. The Brownrigg Papers. By Douglas Jerrold. Edited by Blanchard Jerrold. Coloured Frontispiece by George Cruikshank. J. C. Hotten, 1860. Horizontally grained red cloth, blind-stamping on sides, gilt-blocking of spine, all edges uncut, dark green end-papers, binder's ticket of Bone & Son at end. With armorial bookplate of Hepworth. 13. Another copy; in vertically grained purple cloth, but blind-stamping on sides and gilt-blocking of spine identical with above copy. No binder's ticket (but this may be an accidental distinction). This copy was from the Nubia House, Cowes, Isle of Wight sale of Sir Godfrey Baring's library, with his signature. 14. Heads of the People. 2 vols. H. G. Bohn, 1864. Tall 8vo, green heavily embossed cloth, gilt spines, edges uncut. This reprint has same illustrations and pagination as First Edition (1840-1841), save that the irregularities in pagination have been corrected. 15. Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures. Illustrated by Charles Keene. Bradbury Evans, 1866. Small 4to, bevelled dark red blind-stamped cloth, spine and upper side designed in gilt, lower side with same design in blind, all edges gilt. Printed on pale green tinted paper. The end-papers are patterned red and white, and do not appear to be original; they have, however, the binder's ticket of Edmonds and Remnants at end. This is the first illustrated edition; a complete gathering CC1 to CC4 at end carries adverts only. Presentation inscription on verso title-page dated Christmas 1865. 16. The Story of a Feather. Illustrated by G. Du Maurier. Bradbury Evans, 1867. Uniform format with the illustrated Curtain Lectures, though the shade of cloth is more mauve, whereas that was maroon. All edges gilt, dark green end-papers. Printed on a cream coloured paper; LL3 and LL4 at end carry adverts, with Bradbury Evans imprint in centre of last page. 17. The Works of Douglas Jerrold. With an Introductory Memoir by his Son, W. Blanchard Jerrold. 4 vols. Bradbury Evans [? 1869]. Bound in contemporary half blue calf, fully gilt spines with double red lettering labels, marbled sides and end papers. The Second Edition (also Bradbury Evans, undated) of Blanchard Jerrold's Life of his father has been bound uniformly with the set, and lettered as "Vol. 5." This edition appears to be an undated reissue of the First Edition (4 vols., 1863-64).

431 JERROLD (Douglas William) 1803-1857 Secondary Material 18. J err old, Walter. Douglas Jerrold and "Punch." Macmillan, 1910. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut, frontispiece portrait and profuse illustrations. The author was Douglas Jerrold's grandson. 19. Jerrold, Walter. Douglas Jerrold: Dramatist and Wit. With portraits and illustrations. 2 vols. Hodder & Stoughton [1914]. Tall 8vo, bright red cloth, spines gilt-lettered, only lower edges uncut, 17 illustrations. The pagination of these volumes is continuous. Association Items Note: The following books are by W. Blanchard Jerrold, son of D. W. Jerrold. 20. A Brage-Beaker with the Swedes, or, Notes from the North in 1852. Illustrated from Sketches by the Author. Nathaniel Cooke, 1854. Dark red blind-stamped cloth, spine and upper side gilt, top edges uncut, others trimmed, yellow end-papers. 21. The Life and Remains of Douglas Jerrold. By his son Blanchard Jerrold. W. Kent & Co. (late D. Bogue) 1859. Dark brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut, yellow end-papers with binder's ticket of Bone & Son. The Second Edition [? 1869] was an amended and compressed edition, with the "Remains" and Appendices omitted, hence suitable to accompany the undated reissue [? 1869] of the 4 volume Works, where a copy will be found above, in the Douglas Jerrold collection. 22. Cent Per Cent: A Story Written upon a Bill Stamp. With Coloured Illustrations. J. C. Hotten [1871], Green cloth, gilt spine, edges uncut, R7 and 8 at end, pp.[269-272], carry adverts only, followed by publisher's 24 page Special List for 1869. Slate brown end-papers, 5 coloured plates and title-page with small coloured illustration. 23. The Best of All Good Company [No. 6]: A Day With W. M. Thackeray. Edited by Blanchard Jerrold. Houlston & Sons, 1872. White wrappers, upper side pictorially designed and lettered orange, lettered in black up the spine, lower edges uncut. The pagination of this series of booklets is continuous, the present one being [313]-392, preceded by a frontispiece facsimile of a Thackeray letter.

JERROLD (Douglas William) 1803-1857 24. The Christian Vagabond. With Illustrations by the Author. Houlston & Sons [1873]. Bevelled dark red cloth, gilt-lettered and black designed, edges cut, dark blue end-papers. The final leaf signed '15', pp. 225-[226], is a singleton-presumably printed with the preliminaries. Inscribed on title-page: "Shirley Brooks from his friend Blanchard Jerrold, 1873." Also inserted is the brief ALS which accompanied the gift: "My dear Shirley. I have spent a long time on my Vagabond: & am fond of him. Yours always, B. J." 25. Jerrold, Blanchard. Poetical Works of Laman Blanchard. With a Memoir by Blanchard Jerrold. Chatto & Windus, 1876. Dark blue cloth, gilt, miniature photograph on title-page. Horace Mayhew's visiting card with a signed inscription by Douglas Jerrold inserted. JOHNSON (Lionel Pigot) 1867-1902 1. The Wykehamist. Winchester: J. Wells, Bookseller to the College [1882-1892]. Two separate runs, providing a consecutive file from No. 170, October 1882 to No. 279, 26 July 1892, together with one Supplement dated May 1892-"Winchester College Quincentenary Commemoration," 4 pages (see Periodicals collection). Some principal Lionel Johnson contributions and references are listed below, amongst which perhaps the most important is found on pp. 326-328, the text of his 1885 English Verse competition, for which he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal. This poem is of some 300 or more lines entitled "Sir Walter Raleigh in the Tower," and was not reprinted in his collected Poetical Works of 1915. The separate pamphlet printing of it is probably the rarest of his First Editions, and is not present in the collection. The earliest reference to the new scholar appears to be in December 1882 under "School News, Debating Society" where "L. P. Johnson delivered a most eloquent harangue on the general worthlessness of our landed aristocracy" (he was 15 years old). He was also awarded the Warden Prize for an English Essay, "The Value of Ideals," at this time. In 1886 he won the award for the Duncan Historical Essay with "The History of Monasticism in England." According to Ezra Pound, the long verse-letter to the editor of The Wykehamist in the June 1886 number (209) is by Johnson (p. 71). A review of W. P. Thornton's "Bacon, why not the author of 'Shakspere,'" signed "LPJ" appeared in February 1887. This review was criticized by Mr. Thornton in the March 1887 number (p. 131). Ezra Pound prints "In Falmouth Harbour" in Poetical Works (1915, pp. 8-11),

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without disclosing that it was first printed in the Wykehamist in 1888; but several other poems he prints on pp. 297-303 are acknowledged as from this source. Contributions unsigned, or under pseudonyms, render it difficult to compile a complete list.

7. Ireland, with Other Poems. Elkin Mathews, 1897. Produced uniformly with Poems (1895). Kl and K2 carry adverts only at end. Erratum slip inscribed at p. 1. "With the publisher's Compliments" stamped on end-paper.

2. Hawkins, Rev. C. H. Noctes Shaksperianae: A Series of Papers by Late and Present Members of Winchester College Shakspere Society. Winchester: Warren & Son, 1887. Tall 8vo, bevelled dark green cloth, gilt, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed, dark slate blue end-papers. Pp. 171-189 contains "The Fools of Shakespere" by L. P. Johnson.

8. Johnson Club Papers by Various Hands. T. Fisher Unwin, 1899. Johnson Club Papers [second series] T. Fisher Unwin, 1920. Lionel Johnson was a member and contributor to the 1899 volume; the second series has no connection with him, and is only included here for completeness. First Series: bevelled light brown buckram, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut, 19 illustrations, 6 leaves of publisher's adverts at end. Second Series: reddish brown bevelled cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side blindstamped, top edges stained, others uncut. The editors of both volumes are the same-George Whale and John Sargeaunt. Lionel Johnson's contribution is "At the Cheshire Cheese," a poem of 63 lines, pp. 271-276. It is not included in his Poetical Works (1915).

3. Winchester College, 1393-1893. By Old Wykehamists. Illustrated by Herbert Marshall. Edward Arnold, 1893. 4 8 3/4" x 11 1/4", dark blue cloth, half cream linen gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others uncut. Limited to 1,000 copies. Contains the first printing of Lionel Johnson's poem "Winchester," 148 lines-here given the title, "Dedication of a Volume of Verse." In 1895 it became the opening poem of his book, Poems. From the Appendix of the 500th Anniversary Celebration of the Opening of the College (25 July 1893), one learns that on the previous evening, the College Glee Club gave an evening concert, words and music specially written for the occasion. One item~"Country singers, leave not mute" is by Mr. Lionel Johnson and Lord Alfred Douglas. 4. The Art of Thomas Hardy. With a Portrait Etched from Life by William Strang and a Bibliography by John Lane. E. Mathews & J. Lane, 1894. Smooth green buckram, gilt spine, all edges uncut, publisher's 16 page March 1894 catalogue at end. Original prospectus, 4 pages inserted: "Ready in the Autumn, 1892." The 5 page author's preface is dated Cadgwith, 1892. 5. The Art of Thomas Hardy. 2nd ed. E. Mathews & J. Lane, 1895. Virtually identical with the 1894 edition, same errata list on p.[xii], 2 leaves of adverts of Works of Anatole France at end. The buckram binding has uniformly faded to brown or was brownish in colour originally. Lettering at foot of spine is "The Bodley Head" whereas in First Edition it was, "London/ft New York/1894." Bookplate of Sir Walter Parratt. 6. Poems. Elkin Mathews, 1895. Light blue boards, spine lettered in darker blue, all edges uncut, limited to 750 copies for England and America. A handsome Chiswick Press production with imprint in red on last leaf.

9. The Mind of the Century. Reprinted from The Daily Chronicle. T. Fisher Unwin [1901]. Bright red cloth, gilt, top edges cut, others uncut. 16 essays, with an introduction: the first is "Poetry" by Lionel Johnson, pp. 6-13. 10. Twenty One Poems Written by Lionel Johnson. Selected by William Butler Yeats. Dundrum: The Dun Emer Press, 1904. Pale blue boards, half stone coloured Holland, label lettered upwards on spine, end-papers to match boards, all edges uncut. Limited to 220 copies. 11. Selections from the Poems of Lionel Johnson. Including Some Now Collected for the First Time. Elkin Mathews, 1908. A volume [No. 34] of the publisher's Vigo Cabinet Series. Blue wrappers lettered in black, edges uncut. The adverts of the series inside upper and lower wrapper extend to No. 54, but the additional titles do not appear to have been published later than 1908. With a prefatory memoir by Clement Shorter. 12. Another copy of the First Edition, in original blue printed wrappers. This is an issue cased (by the publishers) in light blue linen, edges trimmed but wrappers left in place. Gilt-lettered up spine and in 2 lines on upper side-"XXXI/Poems by Lionel Johnson." Copies prepared in this manner were probably issued somewhat later. The volume was superseded by another selection in the same

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JOHNSON (Lionel Pigot) 1867-1902 2 places. Gallup's Bibliography of Pound, also states that still later-issued copies have 4 more cancel leaves pasted in to correct errors-pp. 143-144, 147-148, 227-228 and 295-296. The present copy has all the errors, and I have not so far been able to consult any copy with 5 cancel leaves. Al is a blank leaf before half-title and not reckoned in pagination. The whole English issue was 600 copies, but examples with p. xv-xvi uncancelled (as in this one) are rare. 17. The Religious Poems of Lionel Johnson. Being a Selection from his Collected Works. With a Preface by Wilfrid Meynell. Elkin Mathews, 1916. Tall 8vo, light blue boards, spine lettered in black in 7 lines, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait. Verso of half-title carries the limitation certificate in 3 lines; one of 300 copies only for England and America. Printed on paper watermarked "HH" with diamond ornament. 18. Another copy of the Large Paper issue of First Edition, with same limitation certificate. Similar grey boards but the book is twice as thick, being printed on thick paper without watermark. The spine is lettered from an entirely different fount of type, which could not be used for the thinner volume. This is the only copy I have seen of a thick paper variety. 19. Poetical Works. Elkin Mathews, 1917. Reprinted (Second Thousand): the New York, Macmillan Co. imprint is added to Elkin Mathews on recto title-page of this edition. Light grey boards, spine lettered in 7 lines in black, top and lower edges cut, fore-edges uncut. Same 3 plates as 1915 edition. All copies are without Ezra Pound's Preface and the text of Poems has been emended, so there are no cancels. 20. Some Winchester Letters of Lionel Johnson. Allen & Unwin, 1919. Tall 8vo, half cream parchment, lettered in dark blue in 8 lines with 4 rules, pale blue board sides, all edges cut. O4 at end, pp.[215-216], carries publisher's adverts only. This book was withdrawn from circulation shortly after publication. 21. Reviews and Critical Papers. Edited with an Introduction by Robert Shafer. Elkin Mathews, 1921. Light green cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 8 lines, top edges cut, others uncut, in green-printed dust-jacket.

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22. The Art of Thomas Hardy. New and Revised Edition. John Lane, 1923. Green cloth, gilt spine, top edges stained green, others uncut. For this reprint-the first to be made—the publisher contributed a 4 page Note dated March 1923, and considerably re-cast his Bibliography. Thomas Hardy sat for a new portrait by Vernon Hill, as he had sat for Strang's before, and both are reproduced. Hardy's poem, "The Fire at Tranter Sweatley's," first printed in the 1894 edition, is now omitted (as it has its place in Wessex Poems), but Hardy's essay on William Barnes is reprinted from The Athenaeum (1886). The most significant addition is J. E. Barton's "The Poetry of Thomas Hardy," a 36 page essay.

1. Chamber Music. Elkin Mathews, 1907 [this date at top of title-page, and none below imprint]. 40 pages without pagination, light green cloth, spine and upper side lettered gilt, top and lower edges cut, fore-edges lightly trimmed. This is the presumed first binding state; thick laid end-papers with horizontal chain lines. The edition consisted of 509 copies, according to Gorman's bibliography.

23. A New Selection from the Poems of Lionel Johnson. Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1927. A volume in the publisher's Bodoni Series, decorated boards, half blue linen, all edges uncut (an entirely unopened copy). The selection was made by H. V. Marrot, who initials the "Compiler's Note." Association Items 24. Medwin, Thomas. Rhymes and Chimes. Heidelberg: J. S. Wolff, 1853. Rebound contemporary half dark blue leather, grained purple linen sides, t.e.g., others uncut, 11 line errata slip inserted at end. Inscribed on title-page: "From the Author." This was Lionel Johnson's copy and has his full autograph signature dated "Gray's Inn: 1896." This rare book appears to be the only publication by Medwin during his twenty-year retirement in Heidelberg. It is not in the list of his works in the DNB notice (Vol. 13, 1909). 26. Thomson, James. A Voice from the Nile and Other Poems. With a Memoir of the Author by Bertram Dobell. Reeves & Turner, 1884. Bevelled blue cloth, gilt spine, slate brown end-papers, edges lightly trimmed, frontispiece portrait. Lionel Johnson's copy with his autograph on half-title: "L. P. Johnson, Win: Coll, 1886." Note: For Prose Writings of J. C. Mangan (Dublin, 1904) with an essay by Lionel Johnson, see the James Clarence Mangan collection.

2. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The Egoist Ltd. [1917]. Dark green cloth, lettered in blind on upper side and in gilt (bronzed or faded) on spine. First English Edition (printed in the United States of America). The spine lettering is not as described by Slocum & Cahoon (Bibliography, 1953) but is, "A/Portrait of/The Artist/As a Young/Man/Ishort rule]/James Joyce/The Egoist Ltd." between single rules top and bottom. 3. Exiles: A Play in Three Acts. 2nd ed. The Egoist Press, 1921. Smooth black cloth, spine gilt-lettered, only lower edges uncut. 1,000 copies were printed, but this copy is presumably one of the 500 in sheets transferred to Cape in 1924: imprint at foot of spine is "Jonathan Cape." 4. Pomes Penyeach. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1927. 24 pages without pagination, bound in pale green boards, lettered on upper and lower covers in dark green, errata slip tipped in facing colophon at end. 5. Anna Livia Plurabelle: Fragment of Work in Progress. Faber & Faber, 1930. Brown cloth, upper side gilt-lettered. Criterion Miscellany-No. 15. Top edges cut, others uncut (some fore-edges being unopened in this copy). The book is printed on a single unsigned gathering of 16 leaves paginated to 32 with end-leaves watermarked "Abbey Mills/ Greenfield" sewn with the quire. There is a lining paper also laid down inside the cloth sides. Imprint on verso of title in 7 lines, of which second line is, "First Published in MCXXX" [sic]. This is the first English edition, preceded by the Crosby Gaige, New York, 1928 edition. 6. Another copy, from the library of Ethel Wilson, with her signature. Secondary Material 7. Praeger, Richard Q. Transition: James Joyce. San Francisco: Transition Books, 1981. Sale catalogue of First Editions [from The Holy Office to Work in Progress also including periodicals and books about Joyce]. Lists 522 priced items. Printed wrappers, frontispiece portrait.

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1. The Tramping Methodist. George Bell, 1908. Bright red vertically ribbed cloth, gilt-lettered and ruled spine and upper side, top edges cut, others uncut; first leaf before half-title is blank and not reckoned in pagination, last 2 leaves of final gathering, pp.[317-320], carry adverts only. The First Edition of the author's first book: copies in red cloth appear to be much rarer than blue cloth copies. Bookplate of Agnes Dennis and a cutting from an ALS: "Yours very truly, Sheila Kaye-Smith" laid down on end-paper.

8. Willow's Forge and Other Poems. Erskine Macdonald, 1914. Brown linen, lettered gilt up spine and in 3 lines with one small ornament on upper side, all edges uncut. The author's first poems.

2. Another copy of the First Edition, dark blue vertically ribbed cloth, gilt; blocking &c. appear identical with above red cloth copy; the fore-edges, however, are trimmed—only the lower edges uncut. Inscribed on end-paper: "A. M. Chaffey. By an old 'Scribbler'-'Emily Clodagh.'" This is all in the handwriting of Miss Chaffey, of Chard, Somerset. The novelist had been an early contributor, under this pseudonym, to her privately-circulated magazine, The Scribbler; 2 ALS in the collection relate to these matters.

10. Sussex Gorse: The Story of a Fight. Nisbet, 1916. Dark blue cloth, spine gilt, upper side lettered in 2 lines in blind, with blind rectangular frame round edge, edges cut. Thomas Parkin's copy, with his armorial bookplate and inscription. He has inserted a brief ALS and an autograph postcard from the author to him, also a newspaper cutting (Hastings and St. Leonards Observer, 24 January 1925) which notes that he was a guest at a luncheon in the novelist's honour at the Twenty Club, St. Leonards.

3. Another copy of the blue cloth issue, identical with above, save no inscription.

11. John Galsworthy. Nisbet, 1916. Blue cloth, gilt-lettered up spine and in darker blue on upper side, top edges stained blue, others cut, frontispiece portrait. Pp.[125-126] at end carry advert of Sussex Gorse. Second impression with verso blank, followed by pp.[127-128] blank save for printer's imprint centre recto. A volume of the Writers of the Day series.

4. Starbrace. George Bell, 1909. Dark green vertically ribbed cloth, gilt-lettered and designed spine and upper side, only lower edges uncut. Al before half-title is blank: CC1 and CC2 at end, pp.[385-388], carry press-notices of the author's first novel. This is her second publication. 5. Spell Land: The Story of a Sussex Farm. George Bell, 1910. Uniform format with Starbrace, only lower edges uncut, erratum slip inserted at p. 1; Z8 at end, pp.[351-352], carries press-notices of the author's 2 previous novels. 6. Samuel Richardson. Herbert & Daniel [1911]. Beige linen, gilt-lettered and designed spine and upper side, lower cover blind-stamped and with publisher's monogram in centre, edges cut. A volume of selections in the publisher's series, the Regent Library, with 36 page Introduction by Sheila Kaye-Smith. Inscribed on half-title: "Mary Dunning Tucker, with love from Sheila Kaye-Smith, Aug. 3, 1911." 7. Isle of Thorns. Constable, 1913. Mauve cloth, pictorially designed on upper side, lettered in orange on spine in 7 lines and upper side in 3 lines, only lower edges uncut. Y8 at end, pp.[351-352], carries press-notices of the author's previous 3 novels.

9. Three Against the World. Chapman & Hall, 1914. Light green linen, lettered gilt on spine and in dark blue in 2 lines on upper side, spine and upper side with triple-line frame in blue, only lower edges uncut. First leaf before half-title is blank and ignored in pagination.

12. The Challenge to Sirius. Nisbet, 1917. Light blue cloth, lettered spine and upper side in dark blue, edges cut, FF3 and FF4 at end, pp.[437-440], carry adverts only. Lower cover has publisher's circular monogram in centre. This is the first state, wrongly titled "A Challenge to Sirius" in 2 places on binding. Correctly stamped binding cases were used for later-bound batches of First Edition sheets. 13. Little format with blank before pp.[301-304],

England. Nisbet, 1918. Uniform The Challenge to Sirius. Al is half-title, U7 and U8 at end, carry adverts only.

14. Tamarisk Town. Cassell, 1919. Orange-brown cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 5 lines, upper side in blind in 2 lines, with single rule rectangular frame, only lower edges uncut. First leaf is blank before half-title. Last leaf, p. 344, has printer's imprint at foot with a second line-F.30.819.

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15. Green Apple Harvest. Cassell, 1920. Green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side lettered in blind in 3 lines, with single rule rectangular frame, only lower edges uncut. T8 at end, pp.[311-312], is blank. Printer's imprint at foot of p. 310 has a second line-F.45.720. In the printed dust-jacket (8/6 net).

23. The Mirror of the Months. Society of SS. Peter and Paul [1925]. Tall 8vo, boards with pink design, tan holland spine, titling label printed in green on upper side, top edges cut, others uncut, in transparent dust-jacket with flaps. Blank leaf before half-title; pp.[71-72] at end are blank save for imprint of Kynoch Press centre recto.

16. Joanna Godden. Cassell, 1921. Light green cloth, spine and upper side lettered in dark blue within ornamental frame-work, only lower edges uncut. Publisher's imprint at foot of p. 316 has a second line-F 75. 721. In the printed dust-jacket (8/6 net).

24. Saints in Sussex. Cassell, 1926. Tall 8vo, half cream parchment, gilt, blue linen sides, t.e.g., others uncut. This volume has the precise title of the 1923 book, but contains 2 plays, following the 10 poems. In dust-jacket (7/6 net), which is the only place noting the change, and adding sub-title "Poems and Plays."

17. Another copy, identical save without dust-jacket. 18. Saints in Sussex. Elkin Mathews, 1923. Royal 8vo, light stone coloured boards, half black linen gilt-lettered, top edges cut, others uncut, printed at the Kynoch Press, Birmingham. No. 203 of 250 copies, signed by the author. 19. The End of the House of Alard. Cassell, 1923. Light green cloth, spine and upper side lettered in dark blue, only lower edges uncut. Al is blank before half-title. P.[332] at end has printer's imprint at foot with a second line-F.100.723. In printed designed dust-jacket (7/6 net). 20. Another copy of First Edition. From the library of Miss A. M. Chaffey. She has inserted the second half, with full autograph signature, of an ALS of the author to her. It deals with her review of a number of The Scribbler. Printer's imprint at end of this copy has a differently dated second line-70.1123. 21. The George and the Crown. Cassell, 1925. Uniform format with House of Alard save that upper side has publisher's small cream rectangular panel lettered in brown. Only lower edges uncut. Publisher's imprint in centre of last page [344] is set in 4 lines, of which the last is F 250.225. In printed designed dust-jacket (7/6 net). 22. Anglo-Catholicism. Chapman & Hall, 1925. Smooth blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 5 lines, upper side with publisher's ornament in blind in centre, top edges stained blue, others uncut. Miss Chaffey's copy; she has inscribed it on end-paper: "A. M. Chaffey, from Winifred." The author has signed it in full on title-page, dating it December 1925.

25. Joanna Godden Married and Other Stories. Cassell, 1926. Light blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 5 lines between rules top and bottom, only lower edges uncut. Imprint at foot of last leaf, p.[298] has a second line-Fl 50.826. 26. Iron and Smoke. Cassell, 1928. Light blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 5 lines between rules top and bottom, all edges cut. Imprint on last leaf, p.[316], at foot has a second line-F250.1227. 27. Lawrence, George. Guy Livingstone. With an Introduction and Biographical Note by Sheila Kaye-Smith. Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1928. Half dark blue smooth cloth, rough purple linen sides, spine gilt-lettered top edges stained, others uncut. A volume of the publisher's Rescue Series, in printed dust-jacket (7/6 net). 28. A Wedding Morn. Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1928. Pale blue boards, lettered and designed in red, matching end-papers with red design, in printed dust-jacket (6s. net). A volume (No. 3) of the publisher's series-the Woburn Books. No. 291 of 530 copies signed by the author. All edges uncut. 29. The Mirror of the Months. Elkin Mathews & Marrot [1930]. There having been no special Edition-de-luxe of this book, the new publisher in 1930 bought up the remaining copies of the First Edition, cut out the title-pages and inserted his own newly-printed one and issued them for sale. They were already bound and have the same dust-jacket, from which the price, "6s. net," had to be removed by cutting. Certificate on verso of title-page reads: "Fifty copies only of this edition have been numbered and signed

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by the author, of which this is number. . ." followed by numbering and author's autograph. Present copy is No. 42. The date 1930 does not appear anywhere.

39. More Talk of Jane Austen. By Sheila Kaye-Smith and G. B. Stern. Cassell, 1950. Tall 8vo, smooth black cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 9 lines, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (12s. 6d. net). Imprint on verso of title-page at foot in 4 lines with F.550. Autograph inscription by the first of the authors: "Chris from Sheila with much love."

30. Shepherds in Sackcloth. Cassell, 1930. Tall 8vo, bevelled smooth black buckram, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, top edges cut, others uncut. No. 1 of only 250 copies signed by the author. Imprint of Unwin Brothers centre of last leaf, p.[318], has F.25.1129 as its last line. 31. The History of Susan Spray, the Female Preacher. Cassell, 1931. Uniform format with Shepherds in Sackcloth. No. 94 of 150 copies signed by the author. Top edges are cut (not gilt), other edges uncut, upper side has no gilt-titling as the previous volume had. 32. The Children's Summer. Cassell, 1932. Blue flecked rough white cloth, spine black lettered in 6 lines between rules top and bottom, edges cut. Imprint in 3 lines centre of last leaf, p.[312], has-F.80.132. 33. The Ploughman's Progress. Cassell, 1933. Rough orange linen, spine gilt-lettered in 6 lines between rules top and bottom, edges cut. First leaf is blank before half-title. Imprint at foot verso title-page in 3 lines has F.100.733. 34. Superstition Corner. Cassell, 1934. Ribbed dark red cloth, gilt spine, edges cut, first leaf is blank before half-title, last page [250] has imprint in 4 lines in centre with F.100.134. 35. Gallybird. Cassell, 1934. Rough reddish orange cloth, spine gilt, edges cut, verso of title-page has imprint at foot with F. 100.934. 36. Selina Is Older. Cassell, 1935. Rough pink cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 7 lines, edges cut, verso of title-page has imprint in 3 lines with F.75.1035. 37. Three Ways Home. Cassell, 1937. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt spine, edges cut, verso of title-page has imprint at foot in 3 lines with-F.837. First leaf is blank before half-title, pp.[220-224] blank at end. 38. Talking of Jane Austen. By Sheila Kaye-Smith and G. B. Stern. Cassell, 1943. Tall 8vo, pale grey-green rough linen, lettered upwards in blue on spine, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (12s. 6d. net). Imprint on verso title-page at foot has F.943.

40. Kitchen Fugue. Cassell, 1945. Dark red rough cloth, gilt-lettered up spine, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (8/6 net). Verso of title-page has imprint at foot in 3 lines with F.945. 41. The Lardners and the Laurelwoods. Cassell, 1948. Rough light blue linen, spine lettered in 7 lines in dark blue, edges cut. Imprint on verso title-page at foot in 2 lines with F.148. 42. Another copy of First Edition with printed dust-jacket (9/6 net), identical in all respects. 43. Adlard, Eleanor. Edy: Recollections of Edith Craig. With Biographical Note by Christopher St. John. F. Muller, 1949. Tall 8vo, light blue smooth cloth, gilt spine, cut edges, in red printed dust-jacket (10s. 6d. net). Profuse illustrations. Sheila Kaye-Smith's contribution is "More Distant View," pp. 126-132. 44. The Treasures of the Snow. Cassell, 1950. Light blue cloth, spine lettered in 7 lines in white enamel, edges cut. The last leaf, pp.[271-272], is blank; printer's imprint on verso of title-page in 2 lines has F.949 at foot. In pictorial dust-jacket (8/6 net). First published in New York in 1949 under the title The Happy Tree. 45. Mrs. Gailey. Cassell, 1951. Black rough cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 5 lines, edges cut. Printer's imprint at foot verso title-page has F.251. In pictorial dust-jacket (10/6 net). 46. Quartet in Heaven. Cassell, 1952. Tall 8vo, dark blue rough cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 5 lines, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (15/- net). Printer's imprint at foot verso title-page has F.452. 47. All the Books of My Life: A Bibliography. Cassell, 1956. Uniform format with Quartet in Heaven. Printer's imprint at foot verso of title-page in 4 lines with F.156.

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KAYE-SMITH (Sheila) 1887-1956 Autograph Letters 48. Two ALS to "My dear Miss Chaffey," dated from 9 Dane Road, St. Leonards-on-Sea, 20 June and 11 October [1921], both 2 pages and mainly about reviews for The Scribbler. This was the title of Miss Chaffey's hand-prepared and privately circulated magazine, to the early numbers of which the author had contributed stories under the pseudonym "Emily Clodagh": "I do congratulate you most heartily on the magazine's majority. It is wonderful that it should not only have lived so long, but have given so many 'professional' writers to the world." Another ALS to Miss Chaffey is inserted in her copy of The House of Alard. 49. Coloured postcard of Sark, addressed from Hotel Bel Air to Miss Chaffey, Chard, Somerset, stamped and postmarked 13 July 1921-some 50 or more words signed "S. K-S." Together with a picture postcard of her Roman Catholic Chapel, St. Teresa's Church, Horns Cross, Sussex, near Brede. KEBLE (John) 1792-1866 1. The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year. 2 vols. Oxford: for J. Parker &c., 1827. The genuine First Edition and a Large Copy measuring 4" x 6 11/16". Bound (? circa 1850) in dark blue morocco, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered, marbled end-papers, all edges gilt. Half-title to volume 1 is in place but that to volume 2 perhaps sacrificed by the binder: the errata page (for both volumes) is bound at end of volume 2. MS inscriptions in ink on a number of pages in 2 distinct handwritings, both appearing contemporary. One hand gives the extended readings for all the Scripture footnotes; the other the text of variants in the poems from the Second and Fourth Editions. 2. Another copy of First Edition, 2 volumes in 1, bound contemporary calf, marbled end-papers, sprinkled edges: a rather smaller copy than above (3 7/8" x 6 1/8"), but quite perfect with both half-titles and errata page at end. Inscribed: "Fanny Williams, 1827," and on end-paper: "Fanny Williams from Mrs. J. Keble, 1827." Also to first title-page is affixed a genuine autograph: "John Keble." Until 1962 this copy was in the possession of Miss M. Williams, daughter of Rev. Hugh Williams, son of Isaac Williams (1802-1865), Newman's curate and contributor to Tract for the Times -(see sale of her books, West Moors, Dorset 18 April 1962)--with other Keble association

KEBLE (John) 1792-1866 copies. In 1827 Isaac Williams was in close association with the brothers John and Thomas Keble (see DNB account). Amongst several classic hymns first printed in this book was "Sun of my soul! Thou saviour dear," which is often overlooked as 2 quatrains originally preceded this one which is now, familiarly, used as the first. 3. The Christian Year. 2nd ed. Oxford: J. Parker, 1827. Besides becoming a one volume publication, this also changed from a small 8vo to a tall 8vo, 5 1/2" x 8 3/4". This copy is in original light brown linen, spine titling label, all edges uncut. Sewn in front are 4 pages of J. Parker, Oxford, books and inserted at p. 1 an errata slip (11 errors-no resemblances to First Edition errata). It is from the same printing house and publisher, but entirely reset in a larger type; moreover, the author made several revisions in whole lines of the poems. There are the same number of poems (103), but the numbering is no longer used. 4. Another copy, entirely uncut, but bound (by Morrell, Frith St.) in dark blue crushed levant morocco, spine with 5 raised bands, sides with rectangular frames and corner ornaments, marbled end-papers, errata slip at p. 1. A handsome binding. 5. The Christian Year. 3rd ed. Oxford: J. Parker, 1828. This edition presents a reversion again to small size and small fount of type, and is from the same printer and publisher. It is a 12mo in half-sheets (register in 6's), and this remarkable copy is in original drab linen (same quality as Second Edition), with printed spine titling label. These labels bear the words "Second Edition" and "Third Edition" on the respective volumes. This edition contains 6 new poems, bringing the total to 109. With the author's autograph inscription: "C. Dyson with J. K.'s kindest regards and best thanks." It came to me in the sale at The Mere, Upton Parkthe Bentley residence-on 3 October 1961. On the end-paper George Bentley has written: "This copy of Keble's Christian Year was given by Keble to his friend Mr. Dyson and came into the possession of Rev. Mr. Hooper of Upton Rectory, Didcot, of whom I bought it, January 21, 1879. The presentation is in the handwriting of Keble. George Bentley." 6. National Apostasy Considered in a Sermon Preached in St. Mary's, Oxford before His Majesty's Judges of Assize on Sunday, July 14, 1833. Oxford: for J. H. Parker, 1833. 28 pages tall 8vo, bound in a volume in contemporary half calf, blue marbled sides, edges cut (5" x 8 1/8"), with 8 other

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tracts, 1802-1839, which include H. E. Manning's "National Education" (1838) and E. B. Pusey's "The Day of Judgment" (1839). Of Keble's now famous "Assize Sermon," Cardinal Newman declared more than 30 years later, writing his Apologia: "I have ever considered and kept the day [Sunday 14 July] as the start of the Religious Movement of 1833."

consists of 9 leaves, the half title being ignored in pagination, and one leaf a singleton (?). Signature of Joshua Watson (1771-1855) on end-paper and a slip, apparently cut from a letter, "From the Author. Joshua Watson, Esq.," in an autograph not unlike Keble's. Watson, styled in DNB as "Philanthropist," was a friend of Keble, and Charles Lloyd, Bishop of Oxford, said of him: "I look upon Joshua as the best layman in England." His crest, with ornamental J. W., is stamped in gold on spine of this copy.

7. Congratulatory Addresses Recited in The Theatre, Oxford, at the Installation of His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Chancellor of the University. Oxford: J. Vincent, 1834. Small 8vo, original drab brown wrappers, all edges uncut, frontispiece plate of the Theatre. 74 pages, F3 and F4 at end, pp.[71-74], carrying publisher's adverts only. A fine copy preserved in a board case with green cloth spine. John Keble's poem of 124 lines, "If, when across the autumnal heaven" is printed first—he was Oxford Professor of Poetry—and followed by poems by 17 others, amongst them Roundell Palmer, later to become Lord Selborne, and Charles Seager whose poem in Hebrew was presented to the examiners, but considered not expedient to be recited. 8. Hooker, Richard. Selections from the Fifth Book of Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity. Oxford: J. H. Parker, 1839. 12mo (in half-sheets), 3 5/8" x 5 3/4", dark blue blind-stamped cloth, spine titling label, all edges uncut, yellow end-papers. Keble's Preface fills 14 pages dated 2 May 1839, paged to xvi, the title-page set in red and black. P.(386] at end carries corrigenda (33 errors) followed by a single leaf, LL4, carrying adverts of the series. 9. Primitive Tradition Recognized in Holy Scripture: A Sermon Preached in the Cathedral Church of Winchester. With a Postscript . . . to which is subjoined "Catena Patrum, No. Ill" (Being No. 78 of The Tracts for the Times'). 4th ed. Rivingtons, 1839. Tall 8vo, dark blue vertically ribbed cloth, spine titling label (6s.), edges uncut, yellow end-papers. The "Postscript to the Third Edition" occupies pp. 67-156, followed by the "Catena Patrum," separately paginated 1-120; 8 pages of adverts sewn in front dated January 1840. Signature on end-paperof G. W. Huntingford, June 1840. 10. Lyra Innocentium: Thoughts in Verse on Christian Children. Oxford: J. H. Parker, 1846. Small 8vo, dark blue blind-stamped cloth, all edges uncut, spine gilt-lettered in 3 lines (including "1846" at foot). One line erratum printed on verso of last leaf of Contents. Final gathering Aa consists of 5 leaves, of which the last carries adverts on recto with verso blank. The first gathering [A]

11. Lyra Innocentium: Thoughts in Verse on Christian Children. Oxford: J. H. Parker, 1846. Another edition, collates in 8's but size of paper only 2 5/8" x 4 1/4", claret coloured cloth (faded), spine gilt-lettered "Lyra/ Innocentium/Oxford." That this issue is subsequent to the larger setting is confirmed by the absence of the erratum notice and correction of the error. But there are other variations and it is presumably entitled to the status of Second Edition. An "Index of Days" is added in preliminaries; in Section IV a new poem, "Presumption," is added and in Section V "Languor" is transferred to its proper place as No. 13. In First Edition it had been printed at the end of the book, with a special note (pp. 349-353). 12. Moor, J. F. The Birth-Place, Home, Churches and Other Places Connected with the Author of "The Christian Year." Illustrated in 32 Photographs by W. Savage. With Notes by Rev. J. F. Moor. Winchester: William Savage &c., 1866. 4to, 7 1/2" x 10", dark purple bevelled cloth, spine and upper side gilt, all edges gilt. Printed on semi-stiff cards, the 32 original photographs mounted. Printed mainly on rectos and all printed leaves within red-ruled frames. Dark green end-papers with binder's ticket of Edmonds & Remnants. 13. A Facsimile of the First Edition of "The Christian Year," 1827. 2 vols. J. Parker, 1868. Statement of printing, with date, in the setting with a dropped head, and "Printed By J. Parker & Co., Oxford" in an emblem in centre verso of the page. There are 8 pages of preliminary material, of which this is the first. P.[3] contains publisher's Notice: "It has been thought that a reprint of the First Edition of The Christian Year would for various reasons be acceptable to many persons. This is now given in Fac-simile." Then follow 5 pages of "Emendations in Later Editions." Small 8vo, 2 volumes, bound contemporarily in green morocco, spines with 5 raised bands, t.e.g., others lightly trimmed, marbled

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end-papers, armorial bookplates of Sir Robert Collins. This production, still carelessly referred to as a facsimile, is in fact no more than an attempt at type resetting. The simplest method to detect copies from which the 4 preliminary leaves have been removed is to check the alignment of the register with the settings of last lines of text above, when substantial variations can be detected. Moreover, the type employed is not identical, as the middle bar of the capital "S" illustrates; 30 years later this "facsimile" was reissued by Elliot Stock (1897) with a Preface by the Bishop of Rochester.

19. Sermons Occasional and Parochial. Oxford and London: J. Parker, 1878. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt spine, only lower edges cut, dark slate brown end-papers, 16 page Parker & Co. catalogue at end. A collection of 50 sermons.

14. Letters of Spiritual Counsel and Guidance. By the late Rev. J. Keble. Oxford and London: J. Parker, 1870. Bevelled dark red cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut, dark blue end-papers with binder's ticket of Edmonds & Remnants. There is a 25 page Preface by R. F. Wilson. Signature on end-paper of George W. Huntingford. 15. Miscellaneous Poems. 3rd ed. Oxford and London: J. Parker, 1870. Bevelled dark red cloth, gilt spine, edges uncut. There is a 21 page Preface to the First Edition by G. M.[oberley] dated from Chester, 22 February 1869. 16. Letters of Spiritual Counsel and Guidance. By the late Rev. J. Keble. Edited by R. F. Wilson. 3rd ed., much enlarged. Oxford and London: J. Parker, 1875. Dark red cloth, gilt spine, edges uncut, dark green end-papers. There is an additional Preface to the Third Edition, 22 pages, dated from Rownhams, February 1875. 17. Studia Sacra: Commentaries . . . with Other Theological Papers. Oxford and London: J. Parker, 1877. Tall 8vo, bright blue cloth, gilt, top edges uncut, others trimmed, dark slate brown end-papers. Y4 at end carries list of Works by Keble only, followed by 16 page catalogue of Parker dated (1177.4.100). 18. MSS Verses, Chiefly on Sacred Subjects, 1822. fno publisher or date]. This is a lithographed facsimile of the original author's manuscript of The Christian Year, produced circa 1877. Crown 8vo, 184 pages, bound in ecclesiastical style, bevelled dark blue cloth, upper and lower sides with gilt ornament 5 times repeated, spine gilt-lettered, all edges gilt, primrose yellow end-papers.

20. Outlines of Instructions or Meditations for the Church's Seasons. Edited with a Preface by R. F. Wilson. Oxford and London: J. Parker, 1880. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine, top edges uncut, others trimmed. 2 leaves of facsimile of author's MS follow the Preface, the latter dated from Rownhams, 27 August 1880. 21. Sermons Preached on Various Occasions. By the late Rev. J. Keble. J. Parker, 1880. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, spine gilt, only lower edges cut. A collection of 44 sermons: the general title-preceding the above title-reads: "Sermons for the Christian Year Vol. XI." This is the final volume of the series. 22. Lyra Innocentium. With Notes and Introduction by Walter Lock, D.D., Warden of Keble College, Oxford. Methuen, 1899. Small 8vo, dark green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. A volume of the Library of Devotion. There is a 25 page Introduction dated from Keble College, 13 September 1898. Inscribed: "F. A. Clarke, with affectionate gratitude. W. Lock Feb. 27, 1899." Secondary Material 23. Moor, J. Frewen. A Guide to the Village of Hursley, the Home of Keble. . . Together with Notices of Ampfield, Otterbourne and Pitt. Winchester: William Savage, 1869. Reddish brown cloth, gilt, matching end-papers, binder's ticket of Burn. 24. Coleridge, Sir J. T. A Memoir of the Rev. John Keble. Oxford and London: J. Parker, 1869. Thick 8vo, bevelled dark red cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, dark blue end-papers with binder's ticket of Edmonds & Remnants. Oo7 and 8 at end carry 4 page List of Keble's books. 25. Coleridge, Sir J. T. A Memoir of the Rev. J. Keble. 3rd ed., with corrections and additions. 2 vols. Oxford and London: J. Parker, 1870. Dark red bevelled cloth, gilt, dark slate end-papers.

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26. Yonge, Charlotte Mary. Musings over "The Christian Year" and "Lyra Innocentium": Together with a Few Gleanings of Recollections of Rev. John Keble, Gathered by Several Friends. Oxford and London: J, Parker, 1871. Reddish brown bevelled cloth, gilt spine, top edges uncut, others trimmed. One line erratum on verso of half-title. Inscribed on half-title: "Augusta Boevey Pode, Jan. 1871 from C. M. Y." This book came into my possession at an auction sale of Miss Pode's effects near Plymouth, Devon, circa 1945, together with 35 volumes of Charlotte Yonge's novels (single volumes and 2 or 3 decker titles) all inscribed by her to Miss Pode.

January 1851 and 19 February 1857, in their stamped and postmarked envelopes. Miss Hedger's address was, c/o Rev. W. Butler, Wantage, Berks.-with excursions to The Close, Salisbury, to Bath and to Torre (Devon). Keble's usual salutation is "My dear Child." Then follow 6 letters to her from Mrs. Charlotte Keble on 23 pages, again all with their envelopes. The salutation in these is "My dear Miss Hedger." There are also some half dozen related letters, one from R. F. Wilson (Keble's editor) from Rownhams, Southampton to Miss Hedger, 3 pages, 17 January 1870 and another long 6 page one from J. Walpole, Alverstoke Rectory, 7 February 1855, to John Keble (about Miss Hedger's offer of her services to a penitentiary). A very genuine and complete correspondence, and in remarkable preservation, if, indeed, of only limited or specialized subject interest.

27. Lock, Walter. John Keble: A Biography. Methuen, 1893. Smooth buckram, gilt spine, frontispiece portrait, top edges uncut, others trimmed, 16 page catalogue at end dated October 1892. 28. Yonge, Charlotte Mary. John Keble's Parishes: A History of Hursley and Otterbourne. Macmillan, 1898. Tall 8vo, smooth dark blue buckram, gilt spine, all edges uncut. Map and 12 illustrations. Q6 at end carries adverts of C. M. Yonge's books. 29. Ingram, Kenneth. John Keble. Ralph Allan, 1933. Tall 8vo, light blue rough cloth, spine lettered in dark blue, frontispiece portrait, edges cut. Pp.[185-186] at end are blank. Autograph Letters 30. Autograph album of Miss Ada Garstang, with inscription from her parents dated 17 July 1857. 4to, 9" x 12", dark red cloth, gilt, all edges gilt. Very few pages have been used, but several inscriptions are dated from Folkestone, and on one page Rev. John Williams, Archdeacon of Cardigan has written a poem of 5 quatrains, "Folkestone," signing and dating it 12 January 1858, "Written for Miss Ada Garstang's Album." On another page John Keble has transcribed his poem of 3 quatrains, "The Rainbow," signing and dating it Leeds, 11 August 1863. This poem is not included in Keble's Miscellaneous Poems (1870). Another inscription (by W. B. Pope) is also dated Leeds, August 1863. At a later date the album has been used to preserve a series of ALS from John Keble and his wife to Miss Katharine Hedger. There are 19 letters from Keble to her, 72 pages, all dated from Hursley Vicarage between 30

Note: Lyra Apostolica, Tracts for the Times (various numbers), and other titles in which Keble collaborated are catalogued with the Cardinal Newman collection. KENDALL (May) b. 1861 1. That Very Mab. Longmans, 1885. Bevelled red cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut, dark blue end-papers. Al blank before half-title. This anonymous fiction was the joint work of Andrew Lang and May Kendall. 2. Dreams to Sell. Longmans, 1887. Bevelled red cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others uncut, dark reddish brown end-papers. First leaf before half-title is blank and L4 at end, pp.[151-152], also blank. Poem, "A Northern Garland," on verso of Dedication is by Andrew Lang. 3. From a Garret. Longmans, 1887. Dark red cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed, dark slate blue end-papers. R8 at end is blank, followed by publisher's 24 page catalogue dated February 1892. Though this list is 5 years late, the binding case of the book appears to be primary. 4. Songs from Dreamland. Longmans, 1894. Bevelled sage green cloth, spine and upper side gilt, te.g., others uncut, publisher's slip regarding discount inserted in front.

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Autograph Letter 5. Autograph postcard, 15 lines signed M. K., addressed to Dr. Maud Sellers, St. Catherine's House, Bournemouth, stamped and postmarked York, 28 August 1931 (Dr. Sellers was late Curator of the York Museum). Together with transcripts of 2 poems by May Kendall, in the handwriting of Dr. Sellers-'The Bargain" and "The Reward" on five 4to pages (3 sheets), the first transcribed from Cornhitt Magazine (January 1927) and the second "heard on the wireless." KENDON (Frank) 1893-1959 1. Poems by Four Authors. [J. R. Ackerley; A. Y. Campbell; Edward Davison; Frank Kendon.] Cambridge: Bowes & Bowes, 1923. Light grey-blue half linen, pale green board sides, spine titling label, top edges cut, others uncut, spare titling label at end. Inscribed: "Gerald Bullett with best wishes from Frank Kendon, 19 June, 1923." 2. Another copy, identical with above save that there is no inscription. 3. Poems and Sonnets. John Lane, 1924. Decorated boards, green linen spine, 2 titling labels, top edges cut, others uncut. Al is blank before half-title; spares of both titling labels tipped-in at end. 4. Arguments and Emblems. John Lane, 1925. Pale orange cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, top edges cut, others uncut, Q at end consists of 4 leaves carrying publisher's adverts. 5. Another copy of First Edition, identical with this and quite new in blue printed dust-jacket (6/- net). 6. A Life and Death of Judas Iscariot. John Lane, 1926. Grey linen, spine titling label, top edges stained, others uncut. Al is blank before half-title: p.[113] is also blank. H7 and H8 at end carry adverts only. Spare titling label inserted. Inscribed: "Gerald from Frank, Nov. 5th 1926." This is in the author's hand and it is reasonable to assume the recipient was Gerald Bullett, for whom the first book was inscribed.

KENDON (Frank) 1893-1959 7. The Small Years. With an Introduction by Walter de la Mare. Cambridge University Press, 1930. Light blue cloth, spine gilt, top edges stained, others trimmed. First leaf, which is blank save for adverts of books "By the Same Author" on verso, is not reckoned in pagination. 8. The Adventure of Poetry. A. & C. Black, 1932. Rough orange linen, spine lettered in black and black diamond ornament on upper side, edges cut. A volume of the How-and-Why Series, edited by Gerald Bullett. 9. Tristram. J. M. Dent, 1934. Light silver-grey boards, lettered in green down spine, top edges stained, others cut, in printed dust-jacket (2/6 net). E8 at end, pp.[69-70], is blank save for imprint of Temple Press centre recto. 10.

Another copy, identical with above.

11. The Cherry Minder. J. M. Dent, 1935. Cream boards, lettered in red down the spine, top edges stained red, others cut, in printed dust-jacket. 12. Rose, Walter. The Village Carpenter. With an Introduction by Frank Kendon. Cambridge University Press, 1937. Tall 8vo, smooth reddish brown cloth, spine gilt, upper side with gilt ornament, edges cut, in pictorial dust-jacket (8/6 net). Profuse illustrations. 13. The Flawless Stone. Seatonian Prize Poem 1942. Cambridge University Press, 1942. 16 pages, 6" x 7 3/4", edges cut, metal fastened into overlapping buff wrappers, upper side lettered in red "One Shilling Net." Imprint leaf before title-page is not reckoned in pagination, which, thus, is to [14] instead of 16. Imprint of Cambridge Press again on last leaf. The 2 metal fasteners, which caused rusting, have been removed and the pamphlet sewn. 14. The Time Piece: A Poem. Cambridge University Press, 1945. Black rough linen, gilt-lettered up spine, top edges cut, others uncut, in pictorial dust-jacket (5s. net). Pp.[75-76] at end are blank. 15. Martin Makesure. J. M. Dent, 1950. Rough red cloth, spine gilt, top edges stained blue, others cut, in pictorial dust-jacket (10s. 6d. net).

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KENDON (Frank) 1893-1959 Autograph Letter 16. ALS to A. Macdonald, "Dear Mac," dated 15 October 1927 from The Firs, Goudhurst, Kent. A long and interesting letter, 4 pages 4to, thanking his correspondent for a review of Judas and giving an amusing account of a poetry reading in the Savoy Chapel. Continues in considerable detail about his work Tristram, not published until 1934, and his teaching at Cambridge. This letter was inserted in the copy of Arguments and Emblems inscribed by A. Macdonald. Association Item 17. Rose, Walter. Good Neighbours: Some Recollections of an English Village and Its People. With drawings by John Hookham. Cambridge University Press, 1942. Tall 8vo, rough green cloth, gilt-lettered up spine, edges cut, in pictorial dust-jacket (10/6 net). The last paragraph of the author's Preface commences: "I desire to acknowledge with gratitude the encouragement and help received from Frank Kendon in preparing and revising the manuscript for Press." To the illustrator of this book, Frank Kendon dedicated his Martin Makesure, 8 years later. KERNAHAN (Coulson) 1858-1943 1. Sorrow and Song. Ward Lock & Bowden, 1894. Dark blue cloth, silver lettered and designed spine and upper side, top edges uncut, others trimmed. With Thomas Parkin's armorial bookplate and author's 2 page ALS to him on his embossed Fairlight, Hastings notepaper. 2. Sorrow and Song. 2nd ed. Ward Lock & Bowden, 1894. Appears to be virtually identical with the First Edition, save that it advertises the Fourth Edition of A Book of Strange Sins at the end, where the other advertised the Third Edition. This book contains "A Note on Rossetti," and "Philip Marston, the Blind Poet." Austin Dobson's copy with his bookplate (Alfred Parsons variety) and inscribed by Kernahan: "To Austin Dobson, Esq., with the author's sincerest regards." 3. Sorrow and Song. Jarrold & Sons, n.d. Presumably the Eighth Edition, the "Enlarged New and Revised Popular Edition." which is advertised on Al, though not so stated on title-page or elsewhere. Green heavily embossed ribbed cloth, lettered spine and upper side in white enamel, edges cut, title-page printed in mauve with

KERNAHAN (Coulson) 1858-1943 pink border. The Preface is apparently unchanged. 4. God and the Ant. 2nd ed. Ward Lock & Bowden [? 1895]. Size 3 3/4" x 7 1/4", pink designed semi-stiff wrappers, uncut. Second Edition, 10th thousand. With W. Newman Flower's library stamp. 5. The Child, the Wise Man and the Devil. James Bowden [1896]. Smooth cream buckram, spine gilt-lettered, upper side with large design in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. No. 484 of 500 copies, signed by the author. Frontispiece portrait and pictorial title-page printed in red. F4 at end is blank. 6. The Literary Gent: A Study in Vanity and Dipsomania. Ward Lock [1897]. Black cloth, green and red designed and lettered, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait. 7. Wise Men and a Fool. Ward Lock, 1901. Bright red cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side and with cream enamel borders, cut edges, 11 portraits (of which there is no list). Inscribed: "To Herbert Hardinge, Esq. with the Author's kind regards." 8. Another copy of First Edition, original dark grey cloth with same gilt-lettering and borders: same 8 pages of adverts at end, which are printed on R5-R8. There are also the same 11 portraits, though they are differently arranged. Bookplate of G. Hartley Holloway. 9. Wise Men and a Fool. Jarrold & Sons, n.d. This must be the Enlarged New and Revised Popular (Fifth) Edition of the book, advertised at end, though there is no statement of this on title-page or elsewhere. It is in uniform format with Jarrold's reprint of Sorrow and Song. The text has been reset by a different printer and shows minor changes. 10. Visions. 3rd ed. Hodder & Stoughton, 1907. Light blue cloth, lettered and designed darker blue. The book was first published in 1905. Thomas Parkin's copy with his signature and armorial bookplate: inserted is a 4 page ALS from the author to him, on his embossed Fairlight notepaper. 11. Visions Old and New. Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. 16mo, light blue cloth, gilt spine, edges cut, in designed dust wrapper. The book is an enlarged reprint of Visions (1905). One chapter is dated 1917. This is a cheap edition and the rear end-paper is used (on the free half) to print the advert of the

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KERNAHAN (Coulson) 1858-1943 author's Black Objects. It is of text paper quality and is actually H15 and H16, whereas the front end-paper is of a heavier toned quality. Inscribed: "To my friend C. C. Dobson from his Father's friend and his affectionate friend Coulson Kernahan." [This is to Rev. Cyril Dobson, younger son of Austin Dobson.] 12. The Man of No Sorrows. Cassell, 1911. Size 4" x 6 1/2", collates in 4's. Light brown boards, blue cloth spine gilt-lettered upwards, upper side lettered in dark blue, 2 illustrations, of which the frontispiece is in colours, edges cut. Author's presentation inscription in several lines: "from his affectionate C. K." 13. Another copy, identical with above, save this has signature, "D. A. Kingdon Allen, 25:11:11." 14. Bedtime Stories. By Jeanie Gwynne Kernahan and Coulson Kernahan. James Nisbet, 1911. Tall 8vo, light blue pictorially designed cloth, t.e.g., others uncut. 6 illustrations by Dorothy Furniss. With Thomas Parkin's armorial bookplate and presentation inscriptions to him from both the authors. He has also inserted 2 ALS from the artist to himself, each containing a pen-drawing. 15. Walters, E. W. Confessions of a Book-Lover. With an Introduction by Coulson Kernahan. C. H. Kelly, 1913. Bright red cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others uncut. 16. The Experiences of a Recruiting Officer. Hodder & Stoughton, 1915. Royal 8vo, printed in double columns, size 8 3/8" x 10 3/4", orange pictorial wrappers, neatly cased in red cloth, gilt-lettered up spine, edges cut. Contains at end Recruiting Bands by Douglas Sladen. A most interesting inscribed presentation copy from Coulson Hernahan to T. P. [O'Connor]. 17. In Good Company: Some Personal Recollections of Swinburne, Lord Roberts, Watts-Dunton, Oscar Wilde, Edward Whymper, S. J. Stone, Stephen Phillips. John Lane, 1917. Rough orange cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side in blind, top edges stained to match cloth, others uncut. T4-T8 at end carry notice of the author's works and publisher's adverts. The 46 page chapter on Oscar Wilde contains the text of many letters from Wilde to Kernahan. Thomas Parkin's copy with his armorial bookplate and a 2 page ALS, 4 December

KERNAHAN (Coulson) 1858-1943 1908, with stamped envelope, from the author to him. 18. Swinburne As I Knew Him. With Some Unpublished Letters from the Poet to his Cousin the Hon. Lady Henniker Heaton. John Lane, 1919. Mauve cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side lettered in blind, top edges cut, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (51- net). P3 and P4 at end carry notices of In Good Company. 19. Celebrities: Little Stories about Famous Folk. Hutchinson, 1923. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, spine lettered in white enamel, edges cut, 12 illustrations. U7 and U8 at end are blanks. 20. The Reading Girl: Saunters in Bookland. G. G. Harrap, 1925. Dark green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, monogram of publishers in blind on upper side, only lower edges uncut. Q6 at end carries reviews of the author's books with verso blank. In printed dust-jacket (5/- net). 21. Five More Famous Living Poets: Introductory Studies. Thornton Butterworth, 1928. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, publisher's ornament in blind lower right hand corner of upper cover, top edges cut, others uncut, 5 portraits. KETTLE (Thomas M.) 1880-1916 1. Paul-Dubois, L. Contemporary Ireland. With an Introduction by T. M. Kettle, M.P. Dublin: Maunsel, 1908. Tall 8vo, dark green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, top edges cut, others uncut. 2. The Day's Burden: Studies, Literary and Political. T. Fisher Unwin, 1910. Small 8vo, dark blue cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, top edges cut, others uncut. 3. Home Rule Finance: An Experiment in Justice. Dublin: Maunsel, 1911. Pale grey-blue wrappers lettered in darker blue, top edges cut, others uncut (Price One Shilling Net). Four leaves of publisher's adverts inserted at end. 4. Halevy, Daniel. The Life of Friedrich Nietzsche. Translated by J. M. Hone. With an Introduction by T. M. Kettle, M.P. T. Fisher Unwin, 1911. Tall 8vo, bright red cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. Frontispiece portrait.

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KETTLE (Thomas M.) 1880-1916 5. Poems and Parodies. Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1916. Sqare 8vo, grey boards, Holland spine, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges stained green, others uncut, end-papers matching boards, frontispiece portrait, F4 at end blank. In printed dust-jacket (2/6 net) with portrait on upper side. 6. The Ways of War. By Professor T. M. Kettle. With a Memoir by His Wife Mary S. Kettle. Constable, 1917. Tall 8vo, half smooth olive green buckram, green board sides, spine gilt-lettered, all edges uncut, frontispiece portrait. Al before half-title is blank. Errata slip (3 errors) inserted at p. 1. Rl and R2 at end carry adverts only. 7. The Day's Burden and Miscellaneous Essays. Maunsel, 1918. Second (and enlarged) Edition, though not so styled anywhere. Dark green boards, holland spine with printed title label, top edges cut, others uncut. P6 at end carries adverts only. KINGSLEY (Charles) 1819-1875 1. The Saint's Tragedy. By Charles Kingsley, Junior, Rector of Eversley. With a Preface by Professor Maurice. J. W. Parker, 1848. Slatey blue rough linen, spine titling label with "5s.", top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed, though the lower edges are fairly irregular. Pale primrose yellow end-papers, 4 pages publisher's adverts at end. The First Edition of the author's first book. Some copies have been noted with 4 leaves (not paginated) of publisher's adverts at end. Signature on half-title: "Nevil Story Maskelyne from his friend C. B. 1848." 2. Another copy, identical with above, save inscription. 3. Another copy; this is the Esher copy with Brett bookplate. 4. Another copy; this has top and fore-edges unopened, indicating it is unlikely that the fore-edges were trimmed at all. 5. Politics for the People. J. W. Parker, 1848. No. 1, May 6, 1848 (Price One Penny)No. 17, Extra Supplement for July 1848. Tall 8vo, half blue linen, drab board sides, spine titling label in 4 lines (including "2s. 6d.") between a thick and a thin rule top and bottom. Pp. iv, 284 with publisher's 4 page adverts at end. Kingsley's contributions throughout are by "Parson Lot." The Esher copy with Brett bookplate, preserved in a blue linen case, gilt-lettered.

KINGSLEY (Charles) 1819-1875 6. Introductory Lectures delivered at Queen's College, London. J. W. Parker, 1849. Slatey blue linen, spine titling label (with 5s.), top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed, 4 leaves publisher's adverts at end, yellow end-papers. Signature on end-paper of "T. Bodley, Coll. Regina. Cantab, 1849." 16 lectures, of which 2 and 3 are by Kingsley and 1 and 12 by F. D. Maurice. 7. Twenty-Five Village Sermons. By Charles Kingsley, Jun. J. W. Parker, 1849. Similar format to Introductory Lectures, but the book stands 1/2" taller (titling label has "5s."), top edges uncut, others trimmed. Parker issued a Second Edition-Revised in 1852. It was entirely reset and price on spine label is 3s. 6d. 8. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography. 2 vols. Chapman & Hall, 1850. Rose-madder fine-grained cloth, blind-stamped spines and sides with borders and large central ornaments, only lower edges trimmed, yellow end-papers with binder's tickets of Bone & Son. X2 in first volume carries adverts only. This copy is in finest original state, but a contemporary binder has expertly affixed double red morocco titling labels on spines of both volumes with the correct gilt-lettering. Imprint at foot of spines is "London/Chapman & Hall." The novel was issued anonymously. 9. The Saint's Tragedy. 2nd ed. J. W. Parker, 1851. 12mo, 3 3/8" x 5 3/8", pale grey-green printed wrappers (Price Two Shillings), top edges uncut, others trimmed. This edition, from a different printing house though the same publisher, is entirely reset in a smaller type. It is also lettered up the spine and on lower wrapper. Yeast and Twenty Five Sermons are advertised. 10. Yeast: A Problem. Reprinted, with corrections and additions from Fraser's Magazine. J. W. Parker, 1851. Very similar format to Alton Locke, same colour cloth though with different grain and blind-stamping, spine gilt-lettered, "Yeast/London/John W. Parker," all edges uncut, yellow end-papers. P. 348 is correctly numbered. There is no gathering signed 'S' but R has 2 additional leaves and the 8 pages of adverts at end are printed on text paper. Issued anonymously. Esher copy with Brett bookplate. 11. Phaethon, or, Loose Thoughts for Loose Thinkers. Cambridge: Macmillan, 1852. Pale pinkish wrappers lettered in black up spine and on sides, all edges uncut, tiny labels on spine and at foot of upper cover advance the price of Is. 6d. to 2s. [I have

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not seen a copy in any other state and Macmillan's Bibliographical Catalogue (1891) does not indicate the book was ever published at Is. 6d.] H3 at end carries adverts only, followed by H4 blank. The Esher copy with Brett bookplate, preserved in a cloth case.

17. Another copy of First Edition, similarly blind-stamped cloth but lettering at foot of spine is "Macmillan & Co./5/-" and the 24 page Macmillan catalogue at end is dated 31.10.59. This catalogue follows an inserted leaf of "Works by the same Author," with blank verso, which early copies do not appear to have. End-papers are plain deep cream thin wove. Copies of Alexandria and Her Schools (1854) with plain yellow end-papers and 24 page catalogue at end dated 15 April 1859, also others with dark brown end-papers and a much later, but undated, 28 page catalogue, have also been examined. This interesting copy was on the shelves at the Crabbet Park sale, 25 November 1959. It is inscribed: "W. Scawen Blunt, Frankfurt Feb. 1861," below which is written, in a different hand, "to A. M. Blunt, Hamburg, Aug. 1866." In 1861 Blunt held a post in the British Embassy at Frankfurt. A. M. Blunt was his sister Alice Mary.

12. Sermons on National Subjects. John J. Griffin, 1852. Black blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 6 lines with short rule above author's name. Only lower edges cut, yellow end-papers, binder's ticket of Burn, Hatton Garden. 16 page publisher's catalogue at end. Esher copy with Brett bookplate. 13. Hypatia, or, New Foes with an Old Face. 2 vols. J. W. Parker, 1853. Dark olive brown wavy-line grained cloth, sides blindstamped with 3 frames, spines gilt-lettered in 5 lines with 2 rules, all edges uncut. BB6-BB8, 3 leaves at end of volume 2, carry Parker's adverts paged to 6, yellow end-papers. Macmillan's Bibliographical Catalogue (1891) states that remaining sets of the 2 volume First Edition were transferred to them in 1863. They make no reference to the one volume edition of 1856 catalogued below which must already have been sold out. 14.

Another set, identical with above.

15. Phaeton. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Macmillan, 1854. Pale green semi-stiff boards, lettered black up spine and on sides. The price printed on spine and outside frame on upper side is 2s. There is no printer's imprint on either First or Second Editions, and the Second is entirely reset with different collation and pagination. G6 verso at end carries adverts only and is without "The End" on recto: it is followed by 2 leaves (a quarter-sheet) publisher's adverts. 16. Alexandria and Her Schools: Four Lectures. Cambridge: Macmillan, 1854. Deep wine coloured ribbed morocco grained cloth with 2 blind frames round sides. This book was never reprinted separately, but in 1880 the text was incorporated in Historical Lectures and Essays. First Edition sheets sold slowly, and were bound up on several occasions, of which the present copy is an example of first state, with publisher's 16 page catalogue at end dated Cambridge, November 1854. Yellow end-papers printed with adverts on the laid-down sections. Spine gilt-lettered in 7 lines with short rule above author's name. The lettering is "Macmillan/Cambridge/5/-." Michael Sadleir's copy with his bookplate.

18. Sermons on National Subjects. Second Series. Richard Griffin & Co., 1854. Uniform format with first series published in 1852 though blind-stamping of cloth is much more heavily ornamental. Spine has "Second Series" at foot where other has Griffin & Co. End-papers are brick red and adverts printed. W3 and W4 at end carry adverts only. 19. Westward Ho! 3 vols. Cambridge: Macmillan, 1855. Dark blue vertically-grained cloth, spines gilt-lettered in 7 lines with 2 rules, yellow end-papers, lower edges lightly trimmed. Publisher's 16 page catalogue dated Cambridge, February 1855 at end in volume 1. In volume 3, p. 119 is misnumbered 11. Volume 1 has an inserted leaf signed 'b' before half-title carrying only adverts of the author's books. From the library of Lord Birkenhead with armorial bookplate Viscount Birkenhead in each volume. Preserved in a blue cloth case. 20. Westward Ho! 2nd ed. 3 vols. 1855. Identical format with First Edition, same gilt-lettering on spines, the 16 page catalogue at end of volume 1 now dated April 1855 and in volume 3, p. 119, the final dropped figure has been restored. 21.

Another set, identical in every detail.

22. Glaucus, or, the Wonders of the Shore. Cambridge: Macmillan, 1855. Green fine-grain cloth, borders round sides stamped in darker green, spine gilt-lettered and designed, upper side lettered in green with central figure in gilt, pale green end-papers, 16 page catalogue bound at end dated Cambridge, May 1855. Top edges uncut, others

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KINGSLEY (Charles) 1819-1875 presumed first issue; on p. 177 the signature 'N' is below "mg." 28. Another copy of First Edition, binding variant. Cloth is light tan fine-ribbed and design is entirely in black (whereas the gilt helmet was on upper cover only: here it is in black on both sides). The titling up spine is the only gilt. End-papers are glazed pale green with binder's ticket of Burn. All edges are uncut. As there is the same setting on p. 177, this also must be presumed first printing. 29. Another copy of First Edition, binding edges and end-papers identical with above (though there is no binder's ticket). This copy has inscription, "Walter G. F. Phillimore from Ld. De Tabley, Feby 1856," which might appear to indicate early circulation. However, in the first leaf of gathering N (p. 177) the signature is below the "e" in "guest". It appears this gathering was reprinted at an early stage. 30. Two Years Ago. 3 vols. Cambridge: Macmillan, 1857. Dark blue cloth, spines gilt-lettered in 7 lines with 2 short rules, 2 blind fillets round all sides, edges uncut. Preliminary leaf before half-title in each volume has adverts of "Works of Rev. C. Kingsley" on verso; volumes 2 and 3 have same 24 page catalogue dated Cambridge, January 1857 at end, volume 1 has 2 leaves of adverts. Esher copy, each volume with Brett bookplate. 31. Tauler, John. The History and Life of the Rev. Doctor John Tauler of Strasbourg, with Twenty-five of his Sermons. Translated from the German by Susanna Winkworth. Preface by Rev. Charles Kingsley. Smith Elder, 1857. Large square 8vo, 6 1/2" x 8 1/4", blind-stamped bevelled brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, marbled end-papers, all edges stained red, text within single rule frame throughout. Kingsley's Preface is a 20 page essay. 32. Andromeda and Other Poems. J. W. Parker, 1858. Green horizontally grained cloth, sides blind-stamped with double frame, spine gilt-lettered in 4 lines, brown end-papers, vertically grained. 33. Another copy of First Edition; identical blocking and lettering, but the cloth is vertically grained. From the libraries (successively) of Maurice Baring (ship bookplate) and Lord Esher (Brett bookplate).

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Another copy, identical with above.

36. Westward Ho! New Edition. Cambridge: Macmillan, 1859. Thick crown 8vo, blue grained cloth, spine gilt-lettered: "Westward/ Ho!/[short rule]/Kingsley./New Edition/6/-/Macmillan & Co./1859." Pp. viii, 520 (the last page containing only adverts of "Works by the Same Author"), 24 page catalogue at end dated 16.11.59, commencing with an advert for the first number (November 1859) of Macmillan's Magazine. Pale yellow end-papers; the title-page is a cancel leaf pasted on stub. The First one volume edition was issued in 1857; the present is a reissue of unsold sheets, with a new title pasted on stub. As it is not a reprinting, Macmillan's Bibliographical Catalogue (1891) makes no mention of it, merely stating that the next reprint was in 1861. 37. Brooke, Henry. The Fool of Quality, or, the History of Henry Earl of Moreland. New and Revised Edition, with a Biographical Preface by the Rev. Charles Kingsley. 2 vols. Smith Elder, 1859. Heavily grained blue cloth, spines gilt-lettered in 9 lines beneath a crown, the author's name between short rules, top edges uncut, others trimmed, pale yellow end-papers with binder's ticket of Westleys, frontispiece portrait. In volume 1 the first leaf is blank before half-title and 2D4 at end also blank; volume 2 has 24 page catalogue dated July 1859 at end. The first Kingsley edition. 38. Glaucus, or, the Wonders of the Shore. 4th ed., corrected and enlarged. With coloured illustrations. Cambridge: Macmillan, 1859. Square small 8vo, tan blind-stamped cloth, spine designed and lettered in gilt, upper side with same gilt block as 1855 First Edition, but now lettering also is in gilt, all edges gilt, end-papers matching cloth with binder's ticket of Burn. At end are 12 chromo-lithograph plates by W. Dickes. The frontispiece to First Edition is not reproduced. Q4 at end carries only adverts of "Works by the Rev. Charles Kingsley" with verso blank, followed by an inserted leaf advertising Sowerby's works and 16 page publisher's catalogue dated Cambridge 1859. 39. The Good News of God: Sermons. J. W. Parker, 1859. Black cloth, spine titling label (including the price 6s.), only lower edges cut, reddish brown end-papers, 4 page publisher's adverts inserted at end.

KINGSLEY (Charles) 1819-1875 40. The Heroes. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Macmillan, 1859. This first reprint, from the same printing house as the First Edition of 1856, is entirely reset in a smaller 8vo size. Similar brick red cloth, same helmet design in gilt on upper side, spine gilt-lettered, including "Macmillan & Co./5/-" at foot, all edges gilt, tan end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. Has the same 8 illustrations but reduced in size. 41. Miscellanies. 2 vols. J. W. Parker, 1859. Scarlet morocco-grained blind-stamped cloth, spines gilt-lettered in 5 lines with one short rule, only lower edges trimmed, light brown end-papers, CC4 at end of volume 2 carries list of "Works by the Rev. Charles Kingsley," with verso blank. No catalogue bound in this copy, and of 3 sets examined at the same time one was as this, another had 8 page Parker catalogue dated September 1859 at end of volume 1, and the third an undated 8 page catalogue. No other distinguishing features were observed. 42. Yeast: A Problem. 4th ed. J. W. Parker, 1859. Rose coloured vertically ribbed blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 2 lines, only lower edges trimmed. This reprint, from the same printing house as First Edition (1851), is reduced in size to small 8vo. There is a new 12 page "Preface to the Fourth Edition" by the author dated 17 February 1859. AA3-AA6 at end carry adverts. 43. New Miscellanies. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1860. Dark green blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 4 lines with one short rule, all edges cut, dark slate brown end-papers. The last 3 essays, on Tauler, Brooke and Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, did not appear in the London 2 volume collection. From Thomas Hutchinson's library with his note on the contents dated 5/2/'07. Later in the library of Lord Esher (with Brett bookplate). 44. The Limits of Exact Science as Applied to History: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered before the University of Cambridge. Macmillan, 1860. Light tan boards lettered up spine and on sides in black, top edges uncut, others trimmed, 24 page catalogue at end dated 23.11.60. The Esher copy with Brett bookplate. 45. Bunyan, John. Pilgrim's Progress. With Illustrations by Charles Bennett and Preface by Charles Kingsley. Longman, 1860. Large square 8vo (6" x 8 1/4") heavily embossed bevelled dark red cloth, spine

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lettered on gilt panel and upper side in a central ornament, all edges gilt, end-papers to match cloth with binder's ticket of Westley. Kingsley's Preface is a 14 page Essay.

52. The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. With Two Illustrations by J. Noel Paton, R. S. A. Macmillan, 1863. Large square 8vo (6 1/4" x 8 1/4"), smooth green cloth with 3 line gilt border round upper side and blind round lower, spine gilt-lettered in 5 lines with one short rule between triple rules top and bottom, central gilt block on upper side, t.e.g., lower edges trimmed, brown end-papers with binders ticket of Burn. Signature on end-paper of James Watts [of Sale, Cheshire] August 1863. A perfect copy with Bl containing the 6 line poem "L'Envoi," which was removed from almost all copies by the publisher. Z8 at end carries only an advert for Mrs. Craik's The Fairy Book with verso blank.

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Another copy, similar to above.

47. Why Should We Pray for Fair Weather? A Sermon preached in Eversley Church, August 26th 1860. J. W. Parker, 1860. 16 pages, sewn into light tan wrappers lettered black same as title-page but with double rule rectangular frame, below which is "Price Sixpence." The final leaf carries adverts only. Esher copy preserved in a cloth case with bookplate. 48. Town and Country Sermons. Parker, Son & Bourn, 1861. Black cloth, spine titling label, edges uncut, light brown end-papers. Esher copy, with bookplate. 49. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography. New Edition, with a Preface. Cambridge: Macmillan, 1862. Blue bead-grain cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 7 lines with one short rule (including "New Edition/4/6"). Edges uncut, deep cream end-papers, 16 page catalogue at end dated 15.6.63. Kingsley's new Preface is a 20 page essay, "To the Undergraduates of Cambridge," after which the original 1854 Preface is reprinted. 50. Ode Performed in the Senate-House, Cambridge . . . Composed for the Installation of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire. The words by Charles Kingsley set to music by W. Sterndale Bennett. Macmillan, 1862. 12 pages sewn into bright red wrappers lettered in black same as title-page but within single rule frame, below which is "Price One Shilling." The final page is blank save for printer's imprint centre recto. Lower wrapper has same frame as upper with a. central ornament in black. The Esher copy preserved in cloth case with bookplate. 51. A Sermon on the Death of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort. Preached at Eversley Church, December 22nd 1861. Parker, Son & Bourn, 1862. 16 pages without outer wrappers, edges cut measure 5 3/8" x 8 3/8"; it appears to have been removed from a bound volume. Inscribed on half-title in Mrs. Kingsley's autograph: "M. K. from F. E. K. with much love." The Esher copy, preserved in a cloth case with bookplate.

53. The Gospel of the Pentateuch: A Set of Parish Sermons. Parker, Son & Bourn, 1863. Small 8vo, dark slate blue cloth, spine titling label in 5 lines, the last being the price-5s. All edges uncut, slatey green toned end-papers, one leaf of adverts at end followed by publisher's undated 8 page catalogue. 54. The Water-Babies. 2nd ed. Macmillan, 1864. This cheaper edition is reduced in size (5" x 7 1/2") but is in similar smooth dark green cloth, 3 line borders as before, but gilt block centre of upper side is a different illustration, top and fore-edges uncut, lower edges cut, same brown end-papers with binder's label of Burn. BB6 at end carries adverts only. 55. The Irrationale of Speech. By A Minute Philosopher. Longman, 1864. Tall 8vo, 36 pages, black cloth blind-stamped with wide ornamental border, upper side gilt>lettered in 4 lines, edges trimmed, cream end-papers with binder's ticket of Bone & Son. On final leaf are the author's initials, C. K. (in type). Verso, p.[34] is blank. The Esher copy with bookplate. 56. The Roman and the Teuton: A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge. Macmillan, 1864. Tall 8vo, dark reddish brown cloth, spine gilt, dark green end-papers, all edges uncut, pp.[341-352] at end carry adverts only. 57. David: Four Sermons Preached before the University of Cambridge. Macmillan, 1865. Black horizontally grained cloth, spine gilt, dark green end-papers, first leaf blank before half-title; final leaf, pp.[87-88], carries only a "List of Works by Charles Kingsley," followed by a 24 page undated Macmillan list.

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58. The American Lectureship, [no publisher or date]. A sheet of laid paper 7 1/4" x 9 1/4" headed The American Lectureship and signed (in type) at foot verso: "Feb. 9, 1866. C. Kingsley." The watermark is "Towgood's/Extra Super." Addressed to the M.A.'s at Cambridge by their Professor of Modern History, and deals with the proposal of Harvard University regarding Lectureships, which, it appears, was a controversial issue at that time. Preserved in a cloth case with Lord Esher's bookplate.

64. Another copy of First Edition, book-form issue. Blue cloth, gilt spine and upper side, only lower edges trimmed, brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. P. 313 is here numbered 31, but this is an instance of a numeral dropped during printing, for in the past issue the impression is perfect. Macmillan's Bibliographical Catalogue (1891) states: "made up as a volume 1868 and 1871, reprinted as a volume 1871," and the Tinker Library Catalogue describes their copy as with 2 leaves of adverts dated 1871, perhaps a later issue. The Esher copy, with Brett bookplate.

59. Hereward the Wake, "Last of the English." Two Volumes in One. Macmillan, 1867. Thick crown 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt spine, only lower edges trimmed, brown end-papers. The First Edition was issued in 2 volumes in 1866; this reissue consists of original sheets from which the preliminaries have been removed and a fresh gathering of 6 leaves inserted in front. Hence pagination is xii, [366],+ [404], the last leaf carrying only adverts. AA8, the last leaf of volume 1, has also been sacrificed as, its contents being adverts only, it would have appeared incongruous before the first page of volume 2. 60. Three Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution on the Ancien Regime. Macmillan, 1867. Smooth red cloth, spine and upper side gilt, t.e.g., most lower edges trimmed, dark green end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. 61. The Water of Life and Other Sermons. Macmillan, 1868. Dark reddish brown cloth, gilt spine, only lower edges trimmed, green end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. Lord Esher's copy with bookplate. 62. Discipline and Other Sermons. Macmillan, 1868. Uniform format with The Water of Life. 48 page Macmillan catalogue at end dated January 1868. Lord Esher's copy with bookplate. 63. The Hermits. Macmillan [1868]. First Edition, the original issue in 3 parts, with wrappers dated April, May and June 1868, edges uncut. Each part has "Price One Shilling," "Sunday Library" advertisements 8 pages in front and 4 pages at end (dated March 1868) of which only the final one is retained in book-form issue. The preliminaries, 8 pages, were issued in front of Part 3. Three illustrations. Lord Esher's copy, preserved in a cloth case with his bookplate.

65. The Address on Education Read before the National Association for the Promotion of Social Sciences at Bristol, 1st October 1869. 1869. 16 pages 8vo, sewn. No outer wrapper, the first leaf being title-page, edges cut (5 3/8" x 8 3/8"). Issued by the National Education League, Birmingham, and printed by the Victoria Press, London. Lord Esher's copy, preserved in a cloth case with his bookplate. 66. At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies. 2 vols. Macmillan, 1871. It would appear that this book was unsuccessful, and First Edition sheets with all edges cut were put-up in 2 volumes in darker green cloth without the gilt blocking on upper sides, plain cream end-papers, same illustrations, but volume 2 is without the 2 leaves of adverts at end, which were printed on X7 and X8. This is the state of the above copy; and it is also noted that the gilt ornament on spines is a formal one, not the natural leaf design of first issue. An odd volume 2 is also in the collection—as an example of the interesting gilt blocking of upper covers in first issue state. It has reddish brown end-papers and the 1880 etched bookplate of Morton Kelsall Peto. 67. Poems: Including the Saint's Tragedy, Andromeda, Songs, Ballads, &c. Macmillan, 1872. Small crown 8vo, green fine-grained cloth, gilt spine, 2 line gilt border round upper side and in blind round lower, top edges uncut, only lower edges trimmed, dark brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. The first collected edition, reprinted frequently. 68. Town Geology. Strahan, 1872. Bright blue cloth, black designed and gilt-lettered spine and upper side, same ornamental stamping in blind on lower side, top edges uncut, others trimmed, dark brown end-papers. 3 leaves of Strahan's adverts at end. Inscribed: "Mr. Shepeard, with the sincere regards of C. Kingsley, Chester, July 23 '72."

451 KINGSLEY (Charles) 1819-1875 These addresses were delivered to the Chester Natural History Society, and this is an early-dated presentation copy. 69. Prose Idylls, New and Old. Macraillan, 1873. Brown fine-grain cloth, gilt spine, top and fore-edges uncut, lower edges cut, dark blue green end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. X8 at end carries adverts of Kingsley's works only. 70. Plays and Puritans and Other Historical Essays. Macmillan, 1873. Uniform format with Prose Idylls. Macmillan's 60 page catalogue at end is dated November 1872, and the book was actually published in 1872. Title-page is printed on a quarter-sheet with the engraved frontispiece and pasted on the stub of cancelled A3. Al is blank before half-title. 71. Selections from Some of the Writings of the Rev. C. Kingsley. Strahan, 1873. Dark green smooth cloth, heavily stamped with 2 wide bars across sides and spine, spine gilt-lettered in 5 lines, only top edges uncut, frontispiece photograph portrait. Dark brown end-papers; one inserted leaf of adverts at end was probably printed on same sheet with preliminaries, and transferred by binder. This selection was made by W. Harrison and dedicated to Mrs. Kingsley. 72. Health and Education. W. Isbister, 1874. Brown cloth, upper side designed in black, spine gilt and black lettered and designed, all edges uncut, dark slate end-papers. Other copies are noted in which date is 1875; the only other distinction is slight variation in the undated 32 page Isbister list at end. The first gathering has 3 leaves and 2D at end appears to have only 7 leaves, of which the last carries adverts. 73. Anon. South by West, or, Winter in the Rocky Mountains and Spring in Mexico. Edited with a Preface by the Rev. Charles Kingsley. With Illustrations. W. Isbister, 1874. Tall 8vo, mauve cloth, gilt and black designed, spine gilt-lettered, only lower edges trimmed, dark green end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. Folding map before p. 1. The authoress of this travel journal (not identified by name) appears to have been Kingsley's elder daughter Rose. 74. Poems. Collected Edition. Macmillan, 1875. This is the first reprinting and appears absolutely identical with the edition of 1872 save for the one figure of date and the presence of a Dedication page "To my Wife" inserted after title-page. I have never seen a copy of the First Edition with this leaf.

KINGSLEY (Charles) 1819-1875 75. Lectures Delivered in America in 1874. Longmans, 1875. Dark reddish brown cloth, spine gilt-ruled and lettered, upper side same in black, all edges uncut, light slate end-papers. Pp. 150-152 at end are blank. A posthumous publication with dedication by the author's widow. 76. The Roman and the Teuton. New Edition with a Preface by Professor F. Max Muller. Macmillan, 1875. Reddish brown cloth, gilt spine, dark green end-papers, only lower edges cut, publisher's 32 page catalogue at end dated October 1875. 77. Alton Locke. New Edition, with a Prefatory Memoir by Thomas Hughes, author of Tom Brown's School Days. Macmillan, 1876. Bright blue cloth, black and gilt bands round spine and upper side, blind bands on lower side, spine gilt-lettered, top edges uncut, others cut, dark brown end-papers, X4 at end carries adverts of works by Kingsley. The memoir is an important 55 page essay, and this edition, besides reprinting Kingsley's Prefaces to the editions of 1856 and 1862, includes his Cheap Clothes and Nasty "By Parson Lot." 78. Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life. Edited by his Wife. 2 vols. H. S. King, 1877. Tall 8vo, slatey blue cloth, spine lettered gilt, upper side in black, top edges uncut, others trimmed, dark blue end-papers, portrait and 3 illustrations in each volume. 79. All Saints' Day and Other Sermons. Edited by Rev. W. Harrison. Kegan Paul, 1878. Dark brown cloth, gilt spine, 5 black bands round the whole cover at top and bottom, only lower edges cut, publisher's 32 page undated catalogue at end. 80. True Words for Brave Men: A Book for Soldiers' and Sailors' Libraries. Kegan Paul, 1878. Red cloth, black lettered, publisher's 32 page catalogue at end dated '78. Fanny Kingsley's Introductory Note states the selection is made from her late husband's unpublished sermons and addresses. Lord Esher's copy, with his bookplate. 81. Madam How and Lady Why. Illustrated. Macmillan, 1880. Polished green calf, gilt. A Ludlow Grammar School prize to H. K. Hudson for French, Midsummer, 1880. (He was later Sir Harry K. Hudson, parliamentary private secretary to Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke.) This book was first published in 1870 and this unspecified reissue has a cancel title-page pasted on stub.

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82. Out of the Deep: Words for the Sorrowful, from the Writings of Charles Kingsley. Macmillan, 1880. Light blue cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, all edges gilt, dark brown end-papers, N3 and N4 at end carry lists of Kingsley's Works. Dedication by the author's widow dated 12 June 1880; this very successful volume was reprinted in 1883, 1885, 1886, 1887 and 1889. The Esher copy with Brett bookplate.

87. The Life and Works of Charles Kingsley in Nineteen Volumes. Macmillan, 1901-1903. Tall 8vo, (6" x 9 1/4"), light orange brown sateen cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, profuse illustrations. One of the publisher's Edition-de-luxe sets and limited to 525 copies, all volumes in printed dust-jackets. The first 3 of Mrs. Kingsley's 4 volume Letters and Memories are dated 1901, the next (Vol. 4) 1902, as are volumes 5-16, and volumes 17-19 are 1903.

83. Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life. Edited by his wife. Eleventh Abridged Edition. 2 vols. Kegan Paul &c., 1882. Crown 8vo, cloth and lettering similar to 8vo 1877 edition. Portraits and illustrations. Inscribed: "Edward Frederick Benson From his Godmother, F. E. Kingsley. In Memory of Charles Kingsley, October 5, 1882." This was a gift to the son of the Archbishop, and future novelist "E. F." when he was 15. In his As We Were, E. F. writes: "She never forgot her duties as Godmother to myself, and she gave me an enthralling book called The Water Babies. . . ." 84. Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life. Edited by his wife. Kegan Paul, 1885. The one volume reprint, similar binding to 1882 'edition in 2 volumes. Inscribed: "Mr. Shepherd, in memory of his old friend Charles Kingsley. With warmest regard from his wife, F. E. Kingsley, 1886." She has inserted her photograph and there is her further pencil inscription: "3rd May, 1886. Presented at Tachbrook in person." This is the friend for whom Charles Kingsley inscribed his Town Geology in 1872—though his widow spelt the name incorrectly, as she did in writing her godson's name, in the E. F. Benson inscription (the Frederic had no "k") in the 1882 edition of the present book. 85. The Water-Babies. New Edition, with 100 illustrations by Linley Sambourne. Macmillan, 1885. Large square 8vo (6 1/2" x 8 1/2"). Blue cloth, gilt extra, all edges gilt, dark slate brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. 86. From Death to Life: Fragments of Teaching to a Village Congregation, -with Letters on the Life after Death. By Charles Kingsley. Edited by his Wife. Macmillan, 1887. Light slate blue cloth, ruled in dark blue and red, lettered in gilt and dark blue, brown end-papers, red edges. Mrs. Kingsley's Preface is dated November 1886. Inscribed: "Mr. Shepheard, in remembrance of my dear Husband. F. E. K., 1887." [Mrs. Kingsley has attempted to get a correct spelling this time-though still with doubtful success.]

88. Words of Advice to School-Boys. Collected from Hitherto Unpublished Notes and Letters of the late Charles Kingsley. Edited by E. F. Johns. With a Preface by Lucas Malet. London: Simpkin; Winchester: Warren [1912]. Light blue linen, gilt-lettered in 5 lines on upper side, frontispiece plate. "Lucas Malet" is the pen-name of Kingsley's younger daughter, Mrs. Mary St. Leger Harrison. 89. The Tutor's Story: An Unpublished Novel by the late Charles Kingsley. Revised and Completed by his Daughter Lucas Malet. Smith Elder, 1916. Light red cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side lettered in black, only lower edges uncut. Secondary Material 90. Sowerby, G. B. Companion to Mr. Kingsley's "Glaucus." Containing Coloured Illustrations of the Objects Mentioned in the Work, Accompanied by Descriptions. Cambridge: Macmillan, 1858. Dark green blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine, ornamental title-lettering in centre of upper side, edges trimmed, 12 coloured plate. Tan end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. Adverts leaf of W. Alford Lloyd's Aquarium Warehouse at end followed by publisher's 24 page Cambridge list, undated, but clearly 1858, as it commences with Masson's Life of Milton [Vol. 1, 1859] which it promises "[shortly." 91. Jukes, J. B. Student's Manual of Geology. 3rd ed. Edited by Archibald Geikie. Edinburgh: A. & C. Black, 1872. Red cloth, gilt spine, with Prize certificate inside cover of Birmingham and Midland Institute, signed by Charles Kingsley, who was President of the Institute for that year only. 92. Besly, Rev. E. F. Seymour. [Paper read before the Danum Social and Literary Society, March 12th 1883.] Charles Kingsley: His Life and Works. Doncaster, 1883. 16 pages, sewn into pale green printed wrappers.

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93. Ogilvie, G. Stuart. Hypatia: A Play in Four Acts. Founded on Charles Kingsley's novel. Heinemann, 1894. Off-white rough holland, upper side with the frontispiece engraving reproduced in black, lettering on spine and upper side in red, publisher's circular monogram in red on lower cover, all edges uncut. Attractive Chiswick Press printing in red and black throughout. Author's autograph presentation inscription on end-paper.

Belonged to F. E. James, the water-colour artist (see George Moore's Modern Painters) and has his autograph: "Francis Edward James, Valebrook 1890." This was his house at Hastings where I purchased the book.

94. Kendall, Guy. Charles Kingsley and His Ideas. With 9 illustrations. Hutchinson [1947]. Tall 8vo, rough black linen, spine gilt-lettered, all edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (21s. net). The wrapper prints "With 8 illustrations," but there are 9. 95. Pope-Hennessy, Una. Canon Charles Kingsley: A Biography. Chatto & Windus, 1948. Tall 8vo, light slatey blue linen, spine gilt-lettered, top edges stained to match cloth, only lower edges uncut, in pictorial dust-jacket (18s. net), 9 illustrations; pp.[295-296] at end blank save for printer's imprint in 3 lines centre recto. Note: For "What, then, does Dr. Newman mean?" (1864) and other related pamphlets see the J. H. Newman collection. KIPLING (Rudyard) 1865-1936 1. Departmental Ditties and Other Verses. 2nd ed. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink, 1886. Square 8vo, pale green boards, upper side patterned and lettered in blue, mauve designed end-papers, 6 page publisher's adverts at end. 2. Departmental Ditties. 3rd ed. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink, 1888. Square 8vo, mauve grained cloth, spine lettered upwards in gilt, upper side in darker blue, blue fern-patterned end-papers. In this edition "Lucifer" was omitted from the first section and 2 poems added. In the "Other Verses" 8 poems were added. It has publisher's 32 page catalogue at end dated March 1887. Other copies are recorded with March 1888 and February 1889 adverts, all having plain blue end-papers. Inscription on front end-paper dated 4 April 1888. The Esher copy, with Brett bookplate. 3. Plain Tales from the Hills. 2nd ed. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink, 1889. Dark green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side in black. First leaf is blank before half-title, deep cream toned end-papers, publisher's 32 page December 1889 catalogue at end.

4. Another copy of the Second Edition, identical in every detail, save that it lacks blank leaf before half-title. In the first copy these 2 leaves are conjugate. Armorial bookplate of Linley Blathwayt. 5. The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales. Allahabad: A. H. Wheeler [1890]. 104 pages, greyish green wrappers. No. 5 of the Indian Railway Library. This does not bear imprint of the Aberdeen University Press (as does First English Edition); hence it is the Third Indian Edition, i.e., one of 3,000 copies of 10,000 printed, of which the first 7,000 copies carry Sampson Low's imprint below the Allahabad one on title-page. 6. Departmental Ditties and Other Verses. 4th ed. Calcutta: Thacker Spink; London: Thacker &c., 1890. The First English Edition, bevelled dark blue cloth, gilt, trimmed edges, grey floral-design end-papers. Imprint of Clowes on p.[122] followed by 24 page catalogue dated February 1890. 7. The Story of the Gadsbys: A Tale without a Plot. Allahabad: A. H. Wheeler [1890]. Pp. viii and 88, greyish green wrappers. No. 2 of the Indian Railway Library. This issue is comparable with The Phantom 'Rickshaw above. It is the Third Indian Edition, of exactly the same limitation (and without Sampson Low's imprint). 8. The Light That Failed. Macmillan, 1891. Dark blue cloth, gilt, only lower edges cut, dark green end-papers, Z3 at end carries adverts, followed by Z4 which is blank; 56 page Macmillan catalogue dated February 1891. This is the first issue of the 15 chapter version and contains first printing of the Dedication poem ("Mother o'mine"). 9. Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People. Macmillan, 1891. Uniform format with The Light That Failed. Macmillan's 56 page catalogue at end dated May 1891, and numbered viii/50/5/91. 10. Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses. Methuen, 1892. Pp. xx, 208, 16 pages of adverts. Smooth red buckram, t.e.g., others uncut, spine gilt-lettered.

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Another copy, identical with above.

12. The Naulahka: A Story of the West and East. By Rudyard Kipling and Wolcott Balestier. Heinemann, 1892. Salmon red cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side lettered in 4 lines in brownish-black and with same ornamental design on both sides, lower edges lightly trimmed, S3-S6 carry 4 leaves of adverts at end. 13. Many Inventions. Macmillan, 1893. Blue cloth, gilt (uniform format with The Light That Failed), only lower edges trimmed, 6 pages of adverts at end printed on text paper. Al before half-title is blank and not reckoned in pagination. 14. The Jungle Book. Macmillan, 1894. Dark blue cloth, gilt, all edges gilt, the blank leaf before half-title has been partly cut out. The illustrations are printed in the text. Sir Walter Parratt's copy with bookplate. 15. The Second Jungle Book. Macmillan, 1895. Uniform format with the 1894 volume, illustrations in the text, Q8 at end carries adverts and Al is blank before half-title. 16.

Another copy, identical in all details.

17. Soldiers Three. The Story of the Gadsbys. In Black and White. Macmillan, 1895. First Macmillan edition: uniform format with Many Inventions (1893). This combined edition had previously (1892) been issued by Sampson Low, from the Indian Railway Library issues Nos. 1-3. 18. Wee Willie Winkle. Under the Deodars. The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Stories. Macmillan, 1895. This is the first issue by Macmillan: uniform format with Many Inventions. Previously issued (1892) by Sampson Low, from the Indian Railway Library issues Nos. 4-6. 19. The Seven Seas. Methuen, 1896. Smooth red buckram, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut, 40 pages of adverts at end dated October 1896. This is the state with spine lettering in 9 lines, including the words "And Other Verses." 20. Another copy of First Edition, apparently identical in all particulars, save spine lettering, which is in 8 lines and without the words "And Other Verses."

KIPLING (Rudyard) 1865-1936 21. Soldier Tales. Macmillan, 1896. Blue cloth, gilt, uniform format with the Jungle Books. With armorial bookplate of John Hudleston. 22. Another copy, identical with above save there is no bookplate. 23. "Captains Courageous": A Story of the Grand Banks. With illustrations by I. W. Taber. Macmillan, 1897. Blue cloth, gilt, uniform format with Soldier Tales. R4 at end carries adverts only. 24. The Day's Work. Macmillan, 1898. Blue cloth, gilt, uniform format with Many Inventions (1893). 2B8 at end carries adverts only, followed by Macmillan's 16 page list dated 15.9.98. Plain cream wove end-papers. 25. Stalky & Co. Macmillan, 1899. Bright red cloth, spine gilt-lettered, Elephant head in gilt circle on upper side. This is the first of Kipling's works to have this cover design, which became (and remains) the style of the uniform edition. One leaf of adverts follows p. 272 at end. 26. Kim. Macmillan, 1901. Uniform with Stalky & Co.; 10 illustrations. 2D8 at end carries adverts only. This copy belonged to the novelist Ellen Thornycroft Fowler and has her full autograph signature in ink. 27. Just So Stories for Little Children. Illustrated by the Author. Macmillan, 1902. Large square 8vo (7" x 9 1/2"), pictorial red cloth, the design in black, white and red on both covers and spine, edges trimmed. Al is blank before half-title: R6 at end is blank save for printer's imprint of R. & R. C[lark] Edinburgh. The white pigment used on covers (particulary spine) flaked-off and for later-issued batches a different material was used. The present copy does not appear to be one of the earliest issued, as white lettering is quite intact. 28. The Five Nations. Methuen, 1903. Smooth red buckram, t.e.g., others uncut, uniform format with The Seven Seas (1896). 38 page publisher's catalogue at end dated July 1903, followed by one blank leaf. In this copy the imprint on p. 215 at foot below a rule is "Printed by T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty/at the Edinburgh University Press." On p. 56 the text reads: "David went to look for donkeys, and by God he found a kingdom!" which was later corrected.

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29. Traffics and Discoveries. Macmillan, 1904. Red cloth, uniform binding, t.e.g., others trimmed. Al before half-title is blank, 2C6-2C8 at end carry adverts only, followed by publisher's 16 page catalogue dated 35.8.04.

37. A Diversity of Creatures. Macmillan, 1917. Red cloth, uniform binding, t.e.g., others cut. At end 2F6 is blank, followed by 4 pages of adverts of Kipling's books, printed on 2F7 and 2F8. In green patterned dust-jacket lettered in red (Six Shillings) at foot of spine.

30. Puck of Pook's Hill. Macmillan, 1906. Red cloth, uniform binding, t.e.g., others cut. Al before half-title is blank, X2 at end carries only adverts of Kipling's other works, followed by one leaf of publisher's adverts dated N.I.9.06. Other copies examined had 15.8.06 or 20.9.06 adverts.

38. Chevrillon, AndrtL Britain and the War. With a Preface by Rudyard Kipling. Hodder & Stoughton, 1917. Light red cloth, spine and upper side lettered in black, cut edges. Al is blank before half-title and Q8 at end carries publisher's adverts only.

31. Actions and Reactions. Macmillan, 1909. Red cloth, uniform binding, t.e.g., others cut. Pp.[303-306] carry adverts of other books by Kipling, followed by publisher's Autumn 1909 announcements on 4 leaves.

39. The Years Between. Methuen, 1919. Smooth red buckram, uniform format with The Five Nations, spine gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others uncut. First leaf is blank before half-title and ignored in pagination, publisher's 32 page catalogue at end dated IK/2/19.

32. Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know. Edited by Mary E. Hurt and W. T. Chapin. Illustrated. New York: Doubleday Page, 1909. Light green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, pictorial decoration in black and white on upper side, toned pictorial end-papers, edges cut. Two blank leaves precede the half-title and 2 blank leaves follow the adverts leaf at end. There was no London edition of this book. 33. Rewards and Fairies. With illustrations by Frank Craig. Macmillan, 1910. Red cloth, uniform binding, t.e.g., others cut, Z2 at end carries adverts of Kipling's other works, followed by 4 undated leaves of publisher's adverts. 34. The Dead King. Hodder & Stoughton, 1910. Mauve cloth, upper side lettered and designed in gilt, edges cut, title-page designed by W. Heath Robinson printed in mauve and black, text with various decorated borders, blank leaf before half-title, final leaf at end blank save for imprint of the Edinburgh Press below a short rule at foot recto. A cheaper issue of First Edition was put-up in mauve wrappers folded over first and last blanks. 35. Sea Warfare. Macmillan, 1916. Blue cloth, gilt-lettered and decorated spine and upper side, all edges uncut. Al is blank before half-title. Following p. 222 at end are 2 leaves of adverts of Kipling's works. Inscribed: "Henry Newbolt. Room 105, Block III, Admiralty, S.W. 1." 36. Another copy, identical with above. Al is conjugate with half-title (unopened). At end the first adverts leaf is presumably P8, but the second is an inserted leaf with all edges cut.

40. Another copy of First Edition: one of 200 copies on handmade paper (5 3/4" x 8 3/4"), light blue boards, cream parchment spine with titling label, t.e.g., others uncut. This state has the blank before half-title, but no adverts at end. 41. Letters of Travel (1892-1913). Macmillan, 1920. Red cloth, uniform binding, t.e.g., others cut, in light tan printed dust-jacket (Seven Shillings and Sixpence net). Al is blank before half-title and ignored in pagination, T7 and T8 at end carry only adverts of Kipling's works and are paginated 1-4. 42. Q. Horati Flacci Carminum Librum. A Rudyardo Kipling et Carolo Graves anglice redditum. Oxonii: Apud Basilium Blackwell, 1920. Light brown boards, lettered up spine and on upper side in white enamel, edges cut, 30 leaves (the collation given in Stewart's Bibliographical Catalogue [Toronto, 1950] is erroneous). 43. Quinti Horati Flacci. Blackwell, 1922. Royal 8vo, 9 1/2" x 6 1/4", light grey boards, cream parchment spine gilt-lettered upwards, red label gilt-lettered on upper side, all edges uncut. No. 78 of 160 copies printed on handmade paper, 36 leaves. Pp.[61-62] at end are blank save for printer's imprint in 2 lines centre recto, followed by a blank leaf. 44. The Irish Guards in the Great War. Edited and Compiled from their Diaries and Papers by Rudyard Kipling. 2 vols. Macmillan, 1923. Tall 8vo, 5 3/4" x 9", dark red cloth, spines gilt-lettered, gilt Irish Guards' Star on upper side, t.e.g., others cut. Maps &c. X4 at end of volume 2 carries adverts of Kipling's works paged 1-2.

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45. Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides. Macmillan, 1923. Large square 8vo, 6 1/4" x 8 1/4", bright red cloth, black designed and lettered spine and upper side, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (4/- net). T6 at end carries only adverts of Kipling's works, paged 1-2.

From the library of that distinguished reviewer of eighteen-nineties belles-lettres, Mrs. Beer (Cranborne, Dorset).

46. Independence. Rectorial Address delivered at St. Andrews, October 10, 1923. Macmillan, 1923. Red cloth, gilt-lettered in 3 lines on upper side, edges trimmed. Copies of First Edition sheets were also issued at a cheaper price in blue wrappers lettered in black. 47. Debits and Credits. Macmillan, 1926. Red cloth, gilt, uniform binding, t.e.g., others cut. Al before half-title carries adverts of Kipling's books in a rectangular frame on verso, with recto blank. 48. St Andrews: Two Poems. By Rudyard Kipling and Walter de la Mare. With 16 Reproductions from pencil drawings and etchings of St. Andrews by Malcolm Patterson. A. & C. Black, 1926. Large 8vo, 8 7/8" x 6 1/8", grey boards, lettered and ruled on upper side in black, edges cut, in pictorial dust-jacket (Price 2/6 net). The title of Kipling's poem is "A Rector's Memory," and that of de la Mare's is "A Memory." 49. Thy Servant a Dog, told by Boots. Edited by Rudyard Kipling, illustrated by G. L. Stampa. Macmillan, 1930. Square 8vo, 6 1/4" x 8 1/4", bright red cloth, lettered and designed spine and upper side in black, edges cut, in printed pictorial dust-jacket (5/- net). Al is blank before half-title, N4 at end carries adverts of Kipling's Works with verso blank. 50. Limits and Renewals. Macmillan, 1932. Red cloth, gilt, uniform binding, t.e.g., others cut, Al is blank before half-title. 51. Something of Myself: For My Friends Known and Unknown. Macmillan, 1937. Red cloth, gilt, uniform binding, t.e.g., others cut, 3 inserted illustrations. Pp.[238-240] at end are blank. In printed dust-jacket (7/6). Secondary Material 52. Monkshood, G. F. [W. J. Clarke.] Rudyard Kipling: An Attempt at Appreciation. Greening, 1899. Bevelled dark red smooth buckram, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. Inserted is publisher's printed green notice requesting a review.

53. A Choice of Kipling's Verse. Made by T. S. Eliot. With an Essay on Rudyard Kipling. Faber & Faber, 1941. Dark slatey blue rough linen, spine gilt-lettered, top edges stained, only lower edges uncut, U2 at end, pp.[307-308], is blank. Eliot's 32 page essay is dated 26 September 1941. KNIGHT (Charles) 1791-1873 1. Passages of a Working Life during half a Century. 3 vols. Bradbury & Evans, 1864-65. Light reddish brown vertically ribbed cloth, gilt spines, all edges uncut, dark brown end-papers. Slip inserted in volume 1 stating volumes 2 and 3 "will be published separately early next year." But only volume 3 is dated 1865. 2. Shadows of the Old Booksellers. Bell & Daldy, 1865. Similar cloth and format to Passages of a Working Life during half a Century, spine gilt-lettered in 6 lines with rule above and ornament below author's name, triple gilt rules top and bottom, all edges uncut, brown end-papers. 3. Begg'd at Court: A Legend of Westminster. Chapman & Hall, 1867. Uniform cloth and format with the previous titles. Inscribed: "To Mrs. Sleer from her affectionate friend Charles Knight." 4. Glimpses of the Past. George Routledge [1881]. Half dark brown cloth, patterned board side, top and fore-edges uncut, lower edges trimmed. In this copy 'A' consists of 4 leaves, but verso of Contents leaf is paginated X; there is no leaf before title-page. KNIGHT (William Angus) 1836-1916 1. Duncan, John. Colloquia Peripatetica. By the late John Duncan, LL.D. Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas, 1870. Red cloth, spine titling label, top edges uncut, others trimmed. The 7 page Prefatory Note is signed "W. K. Dundee, May 1870." The Second Edition bears the same date, but it is considerably revised and extended some 20 pages: it is also provided with an Index.

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KNIGHT (William Angus) 1836-1916

2. Wordsworth, William. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Edited by William Knight, LL.D. 11 vols. Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1882-1889. Imperial 8vo, 7 1/4" x 11", dark blue cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, etchings after John McWhirter in duplicate (one India paper impression). Original prospectus inserted. This set is No. 18 of only 25, printed on laid paper, each numbered and signed by the publisher. Volumes 1 and 2, 1882; volumes 3 and 4, 1883; volumes 5 and 6, 1884; volume 7, 1885; volume 8, 1886; volumes 9 to 11, 1889. The last 3 volumes contain the "Life," by William Knight, and besides the title-pages in sequence, contain second title-pages as volumes 1-3 of the "Life."

7. The Philosophy of the Beautiful: Being Outlines of the History of Aesthetics. John Murray, 1891. Red cloth, gilt spine, edges uncut.

3. Memorials of Coleorton. Being Letters from Coleridge, Wordsworth . . . to Sir George and Lady Beaumont, 1803 to 1834. Edited with Introduction and Notes by William Knight. 2 vols. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1887. Green cloth, gilt spines, all edges uncut, toned red end-papers. Volume 1 has 20 page publisher's list at end dated January 1887. Inscribed: "Charles C. Southey from the Editor, Askham Vicarage, Nov. 9, 1887." Below this in a different hand is written: "Herbert Hill, Warwick. Given to me as a remembrance of C. C. Southey by his Widow, March 2nd, 1889." 4. Principal Shairp and His Friends. John Murray, 1888. Tall 8vo, red cloth, gilt spine, gilt block on upper side, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed, frontispiece portrait, dark green end-papers, 2G6 at end carries publisher's announcement dated October 1888, followed by their 28 page list of the same date. 5. Wordsworth, William. Selections from Wordsworth. With Preface and Notes. Kegan Paul, 1888. Cream parchment-vellum, patterned and lettered in red, toned pale bluish end-papers, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait. 6. Wordsworthiana: A Selection from Papers read to the Wordsworth Society. Edited by William Knight. Macmillan, 1889. Green cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut, frontispiece. Knight's 17 page Preface is dated December 1888 and he contributed "The Portraits of Wordsworth." Nine of the other contributors also feature in the present catalogue-Alfred Ainger, Matthew Arnold, Stopford Brooks, Aubrey de Vere, Edward Dowden, Lord Houghton, Roden Noel, H. D. Rawnsley and J. H. Shorthouse.

8. Through the Wordsworth Country: A Companion to the Lake District. With 56 plates and a frontispiece by Harry Goodwin. 3rd ed. Swan Sonnenschein, 1892. Green vertically ribbed cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed. 9. The Christian Ethic. John Murray, 1893. Red cloth mottled in black, gilt spine, top edges uncut, others trimmed, publisher's monogram end-papers, pp.[179-180] blank at end, followed by 32 page catalogue dated January 1895. 10. Memoir of John Nichol. Glasgow: James MacLehose, 1896. Tall 8vo, dark red cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut, frontispiece portrait and 3 other illustrations. 11. Wordsworth, Dorothy. Journals. 2 vols. Edited by William Knight. Macmillan, 1897. Eversley Series format, dark red cloth, gilt spines, all edges uncut, frontispieces are printed with the title-pages on plate paper, one inserted leaf of series adverts at end of each volume dated 10.8.96. 12. Varia: Studies on Problems of Philosophy and Ethics. John Murray, 1901. Tall 8vo, light red cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered and designed, t.e.g., others uncut. Inscribed: "H. Shirley Jones, with kind regards from the Author." 13. Inter Amicos: Letters between James Martineau and William Knight. John Murray, 1901. Light green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, single rule frame round upper side in white enamel, top edges cut, others uncut. 14. Pro Patria et Regina: Being poems from Nineteenth Century Writers . . . issued in aid of Her Majesty Queen Alexandra's Fund for Soldiers and Sailors. Glasgow: James MacLehose, 1901. Light blue flecked linen, gilt spine, all edges uncut. Knight's Preface is dated September 1901. An important source-book for poems hitherto unpublished or uncollected. 15. Some Nineteenth Century Scotsmen: Being Personal Recollections by William Knight. Edinburgh & London: Oliphant, Anderson & Terrier, 1903. Tall 8vo, red cloth, gilt-lettered and designed spine and upper side, t.e.g., others lightly trimmed, many portraits.

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KNIGHT (William Angus) 1836-1916 This copy appears to have come from the author's library, and there are a number of corrections in ink in his handwriting throughout. 16. The Philosophy of the Beautiful. Parts 1 and 2 [Part 2: Its Theory and Its Relation to the Arts.] 3 vols. John Murray, 1904. Uniform red cloth, gilt spine, upper sides lettered and designed in black, edges cut. University Extension Manuals, each volume lettered "3/6" on spine. Part 1 of the 1904 edition is redundant in the collection, being only a verbatim reprint of the 1891 edition. 17. Retrospects. First Series. Smith Elder, 1904. Tall 8vo, dark red cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges uncut. X4 at end carries publisher's adverts only. This volume, styled first series, has one star on spine. The second series, announced at end of Preface, did not reach publication. 18. Some Nineteenth Century Scotsmen. Edinburgh & London: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, 1908. A reissue of First Edition sheets, with only the alteration of one figure on title-page. Dark blue cloth, gilt, with same ornaments as 1903 edition now stamped in blind only. Top edges are plain, not gilt. None of the alterations in ink in the 1903 copy are incorporated in this 1908 edition. 19. Nineteenth Century Artists English and French. Edinburgh: Otto Schulze, 1910. Tall 8vo, dark red cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. This is the English edition of American printed sheets (without register) published by the Art Institute, Chicago, 1909. 20. The Robert Browning Centenary Celebration at Westminster Abbey, May 7th, 1912. Edited with Introduction and Appendices by Professor Knight. With Portrait. Smith Elder, 1912. Bright red vertically ribbed cloth, gilt spine, only lower edges uncut. 21. Coleridge and Wordsworth in the West Country: Their Friendship, Work and Surroundings. Illustrated by Edmund H. New. Elkin Mathews, 1913. Tall 8vo, light green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. Pp.[239-240] at end carry printer's imprint in 3 lines centre recto, with verso blank. 18 illustrations.

KNOX (Ronald Arbuthnott) 1888-1957 1. Signa Severa. By R. A. K. Eton College: Spottiswoode, 1906. Blue wrappers, upper side lettered in black, neatly cased in patterned boards, leather spine lettering label, t.e.g., others cut (size 4 1/4" x 6 1/2"). The author's first book with autograph presentation inscription on title-page to his mother: "From Ronald to Mother. 9th June, 1906." 2. Some Loose Stones: Being a Consideration of Certain Tendencies in Modern Theology Illustrated by Reference to the Book called "Foundations." By R. A. Knox, Fellow and Chaplain of Trinity College, Oxford. Longmans, 1913. Dark green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side in 2 lines in blind with 3 line blind fillet round sides, all edges trimmed. Q6 at end carries publisher's "New List" only. 3. The Church in Bondage. By R. A. Hilary Knox. The Society of SS. Peter & Paul, 1914. Tall 8vo, light stone coloured wrappers, lettered and designed in orange up spine and on upper side, all edges uncut. 4. Bread or Stone: Four Conferences on Impetrative Prayer. Society of SS. Peter & Paul, 1915. Red cloth, gilt-lettered up spine and on upper side, with large gilt ornament, top edges cut, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (Price 1/6 net). First leaf before half-title is signed 'A1. 5. [Kaye-Shuttleworth, Sibell.] Edward James Kay-Shuttleworth, 1890-1917. Printed for Private Circulation at the Chiswick Press, 1918. Dark green cloth, lettered in white enamel up spine, all edges uncut, frontispiece mounted photograph portrait, pp.[39-40] at end carry Chiswick Press imprint on recto with verso blank. Pp. 35-36 carry "An Appreciation" by the Rev. Ronald Knox. Inscribed by the authoress: "Darling Dorothy who loved Ted, in his Memory on the 1st Anniversary, July 10th 1918, from her loving Sibell." Enclosed is a short note to the same lady, who was Dorothy Carleton. 6. Sanctions: A Frivolity. Methuen, 1924. Dark red cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 4 lines, only lower edges uncut, publisher's 8 page adverts at end dated 12.23. 7. A Book of Acrostics. Methuen, 1924. Light grey boards, red linen spine, titling labels on spine and upper side, only lower edges uncut, 8 page publisher's adverts at end dated 7.24.

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8. James, Stanley B. The Adventures of a Spiritual Tramp. With a Preface by the Rev. Ronald A. Knox. Longmans, 1925. Light red cloth, spine titling label, edges cut.

19. Let Dons Delight: Being Variations on a Theme in an Oxford Common-Room. Sheed & Ward, 1939. Black rough linen, spine gilt-lettered, in black dust-jacket lettered in silver (7s. 6d. net). Top edges stained yellow, others cut.

9. The Viaduct Murder. Methuen, 1925. Light red cloth, lettered and ruled spine and upper side in black, only lower edges uncut, publisher's 8 page General Literature catalogue at end dated 8.27. 10. The Belief of Catholics. Ernest Benn, 1927. Brown cloth, spine black lettered, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (7s. 6d. net). From list of 3 on verso half-title, this is presumably the first of the "What I Believe" series. 11. Anglican Cobwebs. Sheed & Ward [1927]. Pale orange wrappers, lettered down spine on black, lettered and designed on upper side in black (I/- net) edges cut. The Twelvepenny Series D8 at end is blank. 12. The Footsteps at the Lock. Methuen, 1928. Blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered and ruled, upper side in blind, only lower edges uncut, front end-papers map-printed, rear end-papers plain, publisher's 8 page General Literature catalogue at end dated 10.27. 13. On Getting There. Methuen, 1929. Purple cloth, spine gilt, upper side lettered and designed in blind, t.e.g., others cut. Publisher's 8 page General Literature catalogue at end dated 7.28. 14. Broadcast Minds. Sheed & Ward, 1932. Smooth black linen, spine lettered in blue enamel, top edges stained blue, others cut, in printed dust-jacket (7/6 net). Signature of W. A. Pickard-Cambridge. 15. Still Dead. Hodder & Stoughton, 1934. Light blue cloth, lettered spine and upper side in darker blue, edges cut. 16. Barchester Pilgrimage. Sheed & Ward, 1935. Light red cloth, spine gilt-lettered, edges cut. 17. Heaven and Charing Cross: Sermons on the Holy Eucharist. Burns, Gates, 1935. Pale grey-green cloth, spine lettered in red, edges cut. 18. Double Cross Purposes. Hodder & Stoughton, 1937. Pale blue linen, lettered spine and upper side in darker blue, blue end-papers, edges cut. Up6 and Up7 at end carry adverts and Up8 is blank.

20. Nazi and Nazarene. Macmillan, 1940. Orange wrappers, lettered in blue, edges cut. Macmillan War Pamphlets No. 5 (3d. net). 21. In Soft Garments: A Collection of Oxford Conferences. Burns Gates, 1942. Green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, edges cut, in green printed dust-jacket (6s. net). 22. God and the Atom. Sheed & Ward, 1945. Yellow linen, spine lettered upwards in red, edges cut, in yellow printed dust-jacket {7s. 6d. net). 23. James, Stanley B. In the Light of Day. With a Preface by Rt. Rev. Mgr. Ronald A. Knox, M.A. Samuel Walker, 1946. Light blue cloth, lettered up spine in darker blue, edges cut. The rear end-paper of this book appears to be pp. 193 to [196], The first carries the conclusion of text, with verso blank save for printer's imprint at foot and remainder is used as the laid-down portion. 24. The Epistles and Gospels for Sundays and Holidays. Translated with Notes by the Right Reverend R. A. Knox, M.A. Burns, Dates &c., 1946. Tall 8vo, light brown rough linen, spine gilt-lettered, top edges stained pink, others cut. 25. A Retreat for Priests. Sheed & Ward, 1946. Smooth light grey linen, spine lettered upwards in brown, edges cut. 26. The Mass in Slow Motion. Sheed & Ward, 1948. Smooth, red cloth lettered up spine in gilt, edges cut, in blue dust-jacket printed in red (6/- net). 27. The Old Testament. Newly Translated from the Latin Vulgate by Mgr. Ronald A. Knox . . . For Private Use Only. Vol. 1: Genesis-Esther. Vol. 2: Job-Machabees. 2 vols. Burns, Dates, 1949. Uniform dark red smooth buckram, spines gilt-lettered, top edges stained to match cloth, other edges cut. Blank leaf before half-title in each volume: the volumes are continuously paginated to p. 1604. 28. On Englishing the Bible. Burns, Dates, 1949. Green rough linen, spine gilt-lettered, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (6s.).

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29. Enthusiasm: A Chapter in the History of Religion. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1950. Tall 8vo, smooth black cloth, gilt spine, only lower edges uncut, in printed dust-jacket.

36. Literary Distractions. Sheed & Ward, 1958. Tall 8vo, dark red buckram, silver lettered down the spine, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (15/- net).

30. Stimuli. Sheed & Ward, 1951. Light red rough linen, gilt-lettered up spine, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (10/6 net).

37. Therese of Lisieux. Autobiography of a Saint. The Complete and Authorised Text of L'Histoire d'une&me, Newly Translated by Ronald Knox. With a Foreword by Vernon Johnson. The Harvill Press, 1958. Tall 8vo, smooth black buckram, spine gilt-lettered, in printed dust-jacket (21s. net). Facsimile MS designed end-papers, edges cut.

31. The Hidden Stream: A Further Collection of Oxford Conferences. Burns, Dates, 1952. Tall 8vo, dark purplish blue cloth, gilt spine, edges cut. This book has a numerical register in 16's; pp.[221-222] at end blank. 32. Difficulties: Being a Correspondence about the Catholic Religion between Ronald Knox and Arnold Lunn. A New Edition, with 2 additional letters in conclusion. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1952. Tall 8vo, black cloth, gilt spine, edges cut, in blue dust-jacket lettered in white (18s. net). The Second Edition, same date as First Edition. 33. Off the Record. Sheed & Ward, 1953. Tall 8vo, scarlet cloth, silver lettered up spine, edges cut, in dust-jacket (10/6 net). 34. A Retreat for Lay People. Sheed & Ward, 1955. Uniform format with Off the Record. 35. On English Translation: The Romanes Lecture, delivered in the Sheldonian Theatre 11 June 1957. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1957. Tall 8vo, 28 pages, sewn into pale blue wrappers, upper side lettered in red, edges cut.

38. Proving God: A New Apologetic. With a Preface by Evelyn Waugh. Published by The Month [I960]. Tall 8vo, 52 pages, metal fastened into toned pale blue wrappers, upper side lettered in black, edges cut (Price 3s.). Printer's imprint in lower right-hand corner of lower wrapper verso. Secondary Material 39. Speaight, Robert. Ronald Knox: The Writer. Sheed & Ward, 1966. Light blue buckram, lettered gilt downwards on spine, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (21/- net).

461 LANDOR (Robert Eyres) 1781-1869 1. Guy's Porridge Pot, with the Dun Cow Roasted Whole: An Epic Poem in Twenty-Five Books. 2nd ed. London: Printed for the Author and sold by all the Booksellers, 1809. Contemporary (possibly original) smooth grey-blue boards, edges trimmed. Imprint of Slatter & Munday, Oxford verso title-page at foot. Contains a 6 page Introduction to the Second Edition. Following printer's imprint repeated at end is a leaf of corrigenda, verso blank and a 2 page address "To a certain Provincial Bookseller," with imprint repeated at foot of p.[106]. It has been advanced that Robert Landor was the author of Guy's Porridge Pot, of which the First Edition was published in 1808. 2. The Fawn of Sertorius. In Two Volumes. Longman &c., 1846. Wine coloured blind-stamped vertically ribbed cloth, spines gilt-lettered, all edges uncut, yellow end-papers with binder's ticket of Westleys & Clark. This copy has P4-P6, 3 leaves of adverts at end of volume 1, followed by publisher's 32 page catalogue dated May 1846. An anonymous publication, but see E. B. Barrett to R. Browning (17 September 1846): "Mr. Kenyon sends the 'Fawn', which is Landor's Fawn, and desires me to send it to you, when I have done with it." 3. Another set of First Edition, identical binding &c. and same binder's ticket. Same 3 leaves of adverts at end of volume 1, but the 32 page catalogue which follows is dated October 1846. This set has stamp on end-papers of "Earl of Ellenborough's Heirlooms" with library shelf numbering. There is only one issue of the First Edition of this work; the entry in Wise's Ashley Library Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 58, being a regrettable muddle, repeated in his description of The Fountain of Arethusa, Landor's other fiction. Autograph Letters 4. Two ALS to an undisclosed correspondent, "My dear Sir," both dated from Birlingham [Rectory] Monday Aug. 29 and Saturday 21 [but no year]. Mainly about the Archdeacon's visit to inspect his church, and also about his beloved pictures at Cheltenham, during 10 days, in the middle of which he has been a prisoner to the gout in his room, but has contrived to purchase 3 new works.

LANDOR (Robert Eyres) 1781-1869 Secondary Material 5. Robert Eyres Landor: Selections from His Poetry and Prose. With an Introduction Biographical and Critical by Eric Partridge. Fanfrolico Press, 1927. Tall 8vo, half cream parchment-vellum, blue linen sides, spine gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others uncut. One of 155 copies printed on handmade paper: this copy not numbered and "Out of Series," Inscribed: "E. S. L. D. from R. E. H. D., August 1927." This is the Rev. Rashleigh E. H. Duke, who is particularly acknowledged in the Prefatory Note. 6. Robert Eyres Landor: A Biographical and Critical Sketch. By Eric Partridge. Fanfrolico Press, 1927. Tall 8vo, green boards, black linen spine gilt-lettered, all edges cut. Inscribed: "To Neil Bell, any of whose novels is worth ten of this, from Eric Partridge, 10/X/47." LANDOR (Walter Savage) 1775-1864 1. Poetry. By the Author of Gebir. Sold by F. & C. Rivington, 1802. Plain blue-grey wrappers, entirely uncut. This copy has a fairly good level impression of the printer's imprint on p. 64. Text printed on wove paper watermarked "1797"; end-papers with a different watermark, of which only part is visible: "&S/799." 2. Another copy of the First Edition, similar wrappers, entirely uncut. This copy has a somewhat irregular impression of the printer's imprint on p. 64. Text on same 1797 watermarked paper, but end-papers showing a different watermark: "RVB/1798." From this copy pp. 57-58 carrying the "Ad Libertatem Ode" have been removed, it seems not unreasonable to presume, by the author himself. He has written in ink, on the blank foot of the facing page 59, in 5 lines, the corrections he wished made on the leaf removed. These 2 remarkably preserved copies formed part of the Landor cache described in the British Museum Quarterly, Vol. 22 (1960), and were purchased by me from Lt.-Col. J. W. N. Landor in Bournemouth in 1962. All the books of which copies were not present in the Museum's collection, and therefore still required, had already been presented by Col. Landor to the Trustees: I was able to acquire the few volumes which are now catalogued.

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LANDOR (Walter Savage) 1776-1864

3. Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen. Vol. 3. Henry Colburn, 1828. Tall 8vo, drab boards, cloth spine with printed title-label (defective), only lower edges trimmed (8 3/4" x 5 1/2"). Errata leaf following p. 546 at end. Volumes 1 and 2 of Imaginary Conversations had been published in 1824: the present Third Volume was issued alone. Volumes 4 and 5 were published together in 1829 as a second series. Above copy is in second state with the starred leaves described by Wise in his amended entry in Ashley Library Catalogue, Vol. 9, p. 93.

8. Literary Hours. By Various Friends, [no publisher] 1837. Pale claret coloured blind-stamped cloth (faded), spine titling label, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait of Landor by Count D'Orsay, pink end-papers. Inscribed: "Charles Hans-[?] Ex Dono the Author," presumably in the handwriting of Joseph Ablett, the editor. It is, however, not unlike Landor's hand. For a large proportion of the contents Landor was responsible: in addition to numerous pieces previously printed elsewhere he contributed 19 compositions in verse and 4 in prose. On some 10 pages throughout there are neat corrections in ink, but in a handwriting different from the presentation inscription.

4. Gebir, Count Julian and Other Poems. Edward Moxon, 1831. Drab boards, edges uncut, spine printed label missing. A clean and otherwise perfect copy, with the Monro armorial bookplate ("Dread God"). 5. Citation and Examination of William Shakespeare . . . before the Worshipful Sir Thomas Lucy . . . touching Deer-Stealing. Saunders & Otley, 1834. Drab brown boards, spine and label renewed with linen, all edges uncut. N12 at end carries publisher's adverts only. Pp. 239-240 are in duplicate, the second leaf containing the Post-Scriptum. This copy belonged to Thomas Forbes Kelsall, who published Beddoes's poems and wrote his Life. It has his autograph, "Thos. F. Kelsall," on end-paper. 6. The Letters of a Conservative. Saunders & Otley, 1836. Large 12mo, drab brown wrappers with lettering label on upper side (Price 2s.). All edges uncut. F3 and F4 at end carry publisher's adverts only. From the Landor cache: the copy was apparently Item 1488 in Heffer's Catalogue 67 (1910) and loosely inserted is their invoice to Miss E. Mangioni, 10 Via Farini, Florence. She was Charles Landor's daughter, W. S. Lander's grand-daughter, whose death precipitated the division of property which had taken place. 7. The Pentameron and Pentalogia. Saunders & Otley, 1837. Contemporary (or nearly contemporary) re-binding by Francis Bedford in polished brown calf, elaborately gilt spine with red lettering label, marbled end-papers, gilt edges. Wise & Wheeler's Bibliography of Landor (1919) states some copies have a 30 line errata: present copy has a 27 line errata inserted at p, 384 which creates 2 fresh errors: p. 228 (should be 238) and p. 243 (should be 245).

9. Andrea of Hungary, and Giovanna of Naples. Richard Bentley, 1839. Light brown boards with titling label printed upwards on spine, top edges uncut, others trimmed. 10. The Works of Walter Savage Landor. In Two Volumes. Edward Moxon, 1846. Royal 8vo, dark claret coloured blind-stamped cloth, spines gilt-lettered in 4 lines. The 2 slips of errata are not present. Each volume is inscribed in the author's autograph on title-page: "To pleasant Emily from W. S. Landor." There is also a correction in ink (volume 1, p. 568) in Landor's hand-"Prussia" substituted for "Austria." 11. The Hellenics of W. S. Landor. Enlarged and Completed. Edward Moxon, 1847. Green vertically ribbed cloth, sides blindstamped with wide ornamental frame without design in centre, spine gilt-lettered in 3 lines, deep cream end-papers, 8 pages Moxon's adverts at end dated 1 November 1847. This appears to be the primary binding pattern with the earliest dated catalogue; variously dated adverts are found in later binding batches during the next 10 years. The adverts leaf and following half-title are not reckoned in pagination. 12. Poemata et Inscriptiones Novis Auxit Savagius Landor. Edvardi Moxon, 1847. 12mo (5 1/2" x 3 1/4"), contemporary re-binding of russia, gilt extra, marbled end-papers, all edges gilt. Edmund Gosse's copy with his bookplate. 13. Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans. Edward Moxon, 1853. Deep wine coloured cloth, sides blind-stamped with triple frame and circular ornament in centres, spine gilt-lettered-"Imaginary/Conversations/ Of/Greeks and Romans/W. S. Landor." All edges uncut (unopened almost throughout), pale primrose end-papers, no adverts inserted.

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14. Another copy of First Edition, 8 pages Moxon's adverts sewn in front dated February 1850. In this copy spine is lettered "Landor's/Conversations/Of/Greeks/& Romans" (all at top). Similar coloured cloth as above, but blind-stamping of sides is an ornamental frame and a large floral-pattern central ornament of 4 petals. Edges are the same, uncut or lightly trimmed, end-papers deeper yellow than first copy.

(5 1/2" x 9"), bevelled deep cream parchment-vellum, elaborately gilt spines, all edges uncut. Each volume numbered 22 of 150 Large Paper sets. India-proof illustrations, facsimile &c.

15. The Last Fruit off an Old Tree. Edward Moxon, 1853. Similar format to Imaginary Conversations, and the same blind-stamping as in the second copy, 8 page Moxon list sewn in front dated January, 1852, only lower edges cut, pale primrose end-papers. 16. Savonarola E II Priore Di San Marco. Firenze: Tipografia Barbera, 1860. Large 8vo, 8 page pamphlet (8 3/4" x 5 1/2"), sewn without wrappers, as issued. Despite the fact that 1,000 copies were printed, it has become rare, causing doubts that the edition was ever actually circulated. Swinburne obtained a few copies when he visited Landor in Florence, just before the aged author's death, one of which, with Swinburne's inscription, is in the Ashley Library. Both copies were in the possession of Signora Elfrida Mangioni-Landor until her death in Florence in 1954. The Ashley Library copy must have been considerably trimmed; Wise quotes 8" x 5 1/4" as the dimensions. 17. Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor. Arranged and Edited by Sidney Colvin. Macmillan, 1882. Dark blue cloth, gilt, a volume of the Golden Treasury Series, 2 leaves of series adverts at end. Edmund Gosse's copy, with his bookplate and the editor's presentation inscription to him. 18. Imaginary Conversations. With an Introductory Note by Havelock Ellis. Walter Scott, 1886. Dark blue cloth, spine titling label, all edges uncut. A volume of the Camelot Classics, with 2 leaves of series adverts at end. 19. Poems. Selected and Edited by Ernest Radford. Walter Scott [1889]. Canterbury Poets series, dark blue cloth, spine titling label, all edges uncut, 11 page introduction by the editor, 9 leaves of adverts at end. 20. Works. With Bibliographical and Explanatory Notes by Charles G. Crump. 10 vols. J. M. Dent, 1891-1893. Imaginary Conversations (6 vols., 1891); Poems, Dialogues in Verse and Epigrams (2 vols., 1892); Longer Prose Works (2 vols, 1892-1893). Tall 8vo

21. Pericles and Aspasia. With Preface by Havelock Ellis. Walter Scott [1892]. Dark blue cloth, spine titling label, all edges uncut. A volume of the Camelot Series, 2 leaves of series adverts at end. 22. Epicurus, Leontion and Ternissa. Hacon & Ricketts [1896]. Light blue boards, 2 titling labels on spine and upper side, all edges uncut. One of 210 copies, printed in red and black with decorations by Charles Ricketts at the Ballantyne [Vale] Press. 23. Letters and Other Unpublished Writings. Edited by Stephen Wheeler. R. Bentley, 1897. Dark green cloth, gilt spine, publisher's monogram end-papers, all edges uncut, 4 portraits. Purchased at the sale (1941) at Birlingham Rectory, home of Robert Eyres Landor, library of Rev. Rashleigh E. H. Duke. He has annotated the 32 page Bibliography at end very thoroughly in pencil, with indications that Lander's Bust (by Gibson) and copies of many of the rarest books were in his possession. 24. Letters of Walter Savage Landor, Private and Public. Edited by Stephen Wheeler. With Portraits. Duckworth, 1899. Tall 8vo, rose pink smooth buckram, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, lower side with publisher's blind ornament in centre, t.e.g., others uncut. Inscribed: "Edith M. Wheeler, from her affectionate brother Stephen Wheeler, 26 January 1899." 25. Charles James Fox: A Commentary on His Life and Character. By W. S. Landor. Edited by Stephen Wheeler. John Murray, 1907. Tall 8vo, 5 3/4" x 9", red cloth double blind stamped fillet round sides, spine gilt-lettered in 6 lines with 3 floral ornaments and between a thick and a thin rule top and bottom, all edges uncut, frontispiece portrait. 26. The Hellenics and Gebir. J. M. Dent, 1907. Temple Classics Series, dark blue cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut. Publisher's Note dated September 1907 states this edition was edited by Arthur Symons, who has supplied the 5 page Bibliographical Note.

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LANDOR (Walter Savage) 1775-1864 27. Love Poems by Walter Savage Landor. London: 1907. Size 3 3/4" x 5 1/4", pale grey-blue boards, all edges uncut, titling label on upper side. One of 230 copies, printed in 3 colours by S. Wellwood at his Press, 34 Strand, London. Finished July 1907. 28. Hautes et basses classes en Italic. Traduction frangaise. Paris: Victor Beaumont, 1911. Pink decorated boards, lettered up spine, edges uncut. Dedicated to Stephen Wheeler by the translator Valery Larbaud. The Ashley Library contains fragments of High and Low Life in Italy in Landor's autograph. 29. Another copy of the First Edition, original printed semi-stiff wrappers, uncut. 30. Florence and Tuscany in the Poems of Walter Savage Landor. Selected by W. A. Sim. Almanach for 1913. Florence: Giulio Giannini & Son, 1913. 12 photographs of Florentine scenes. 31. A Day-Book of Walter Savage Landor. Chosen by John Bailey. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1919. Small 8vo, marbled wrappers, titling label on upper side, top edges cut, others uncut, 11 page Introduction by John Bailey. 32. A Poet's Dream. Edinburgh: [Privately printed], 1928. 16 pages, sewn into light blue wrappers, lettered in darker blue, edges uncut; 35 copies only printed for private distribution. 33. Minchin, H. C. Walter Savage Landor: Last Days, Letters and Conversations. Edited with explanatory comments. Methuen, 1934. Smooth scarlet cloth, spine lettered in white enamel, edges cut, 2 portraits, in printed dust-jacket (7/- net). 34. The Shorter Poems. Selected and edited by J. B. Sidgwick. Cambridge University Press, 1946. Green linen, gilt-lettered up spine, edges cut, frontispiece portrait, in printed dust-jacket (6s. net). 36. Obertello, Alfredo. W. Savage Landor: Brevities epigrammi scclta versione a fronte in versi. Prefazione, Introduzione e note a cura di A. 0. Firenze: G. C. Sansoni, 1946. Small 8vo (4 1/4" x 6 1/4"), wrappers printed in red and black, edges uncut.

LANDOR (Walter Savage) 1775-1864 Association Items Note: The following books are from the library of W. S. Landor, deriving from the Magnioni-Landor cache. 36. Gracian, Lorenzo. El heroe de Lorenzo Gracian Infanzon. Amsterdam: Juan Blaeu, 1659. Size 2 3/4" x 5 1/4", old calf, spine with raised bands, sprinkled edges. MS notes on rear end-paper in pencil in Landor's hand. 37. Johnson, Samuel. The History of Rasselas. Embellished with engravings. C. Cooks, 1794. 12mo, tree calf, gilt spine with label, marbled edges. With several Landor signatures. 38. Collins, William. Poetical Works. With Life of the Author. John Sharpe, 1811. 16mo, tree calf, green sprinkled edges. Signature in ink on end-paper: "Julia." 39. Byron, Lord. The Bride of Abydos: A Turkish Tale. 3rd ed. Murray, 1813. Old marbled boards, parchment spine with titling label. Pencil annotations in margins. Signature on title of Julia Landor. 40. Blair, Bobert. Essays on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. Rivingtons, 1822. Size 2 1/2" x 5", blind embossed calf. Various Landor signatures (1829). 41. Gregory, Dr. A Father's Legacy to His Daughters. John Sharpe, 1828. Original drab boards, spine titling label, uncut. Inscribed on end-paper in ink by W. S. Landor for his daughter Julia: "Julia Savage Landor." 42. A Selection from the Histories of Herodotus . . . on the Plan Recommended by Mr. Locke. Printed for John Taylor, 1830. Light brown boards, lettered in black up spine and on both sides, edges uncut. Autograph of Walter Landor on end-paper. 43. Tieck. The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm, and Pietro of Abano. Tales from the German of Tieck. Edward Moxon, 1831. Half green calf, fully gilt spine, marbled sides, edges uncut. Armorial bookplate of Wr. Landor and signature on title-page: "Julia, 1838." 44. Homer. The First Book of Homer's Iliad with a Literal Interlinear Translation . . . on the Plan recommended by Mr. Locke. Printed for John Taylor, 1834. Light brown boards lettered in black up spine and on both sides. Signature on end paper: "Walter Landor."

465 LANDOR (Walter Savage) 1775-1864 45. Aspinall, Rev. James. Roscoe's Library, or, Old Books and Old Times. London: Whittaker; Liverpool: Deighton & Laughton, 1853. Bright blue blind-stamped cloth, gilt-lettered within a circle on upper side, edges uncut. Inscribed: "W. S. Landor, Esq. With the Author's Respects. January 6, 1857." Inserted is a one page note from John Sparrow dated 11 June 1949 on his All Souls College, Oxford, notepaper presenting this item. 46. MacGregor, Capt. Robert Guthrie. Indian Leisure: Petrarch. [Translations] By Capt. MacGregor, of the Bengal Retired List. Smith Elder, 1854. Claret coloured blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine, edges sprinkled, pale yellow end-papers, pp. x, 580. An uncommon work. Signature on end-paper of Landor's third son Charles, "Charles S. Landor," the father of Signora Magnioni-Landor. 47. [Warter, John Wood.] The Last of the Old Squires: A Sketch by Cedric Oldacre, Esq. Longman, 1854. This, the First Edition, is without Landor association: it is an 8vo volume, printed in large type and much superior to the Second Edition of 1861. Dark brown grained cloth, uncut, spine titling label, brick red end-papers. Q4 at end carries only a list of Historical Works, etc. 48. Warter, John Wood. The Last of the Old Squires: A Sketch by Cedric Oldacre, Esq. (John Wood Warter, B.D.). Longman, 1861. Small 8vo, red diagonally patterned cloth, spine gilt-lettered, edges lightly trimmed, pale yellow end-papers with binder's ticket of W. Greening. Al before half-title is blank: P7 and P8 at end carry only list of works by the Rev. J. W. Warter. Contains Preface to the Second Edition, which prints a letter from Landor to the publishers about the First Edition, and is the reason (in part) that the author subscribes his own name to this reprinting. The work is entitled to a place in Landor's bibliography, but is ignored by Wise & Wheeler (1919). 49. Eminent Men. [no publisher, place or date]. An 8vo volume, 5 1/4" x 8 1/2", of excerpted biographical works, separatepagination, no general title-page, bound half black cloth, marbled side, red leather spine titling label-"Eminent Men." From Charles Landor's books with his full signature in ink: "Charles Savage Landor."

LANDOR (Walter Savage) 1775-1864 Secondary Material 50. Whiting, Lilian. The Florence of Landor. With Illustrations from Photographs. Grey & Bird, 1905. Tall 8vo, bright red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. An American work, the sheets printed at the University Press, Cambridge, U.S.A. 51. Duke, Rev. Rashleigh E. H. Pedigree of the Paternal Ancestry of Walter Savage Landor, with Evidences. [Reprinted from Miscellanea Genealogica et HeraldicaJ] Mitchell, Hughes & Clarke, 1912. 4to, 8 1/2" x 10 3/4", buff printed wrappers, preserved in a marbled board case with green linen spine. 52. Bradley, William. The Early Poems of W. S. Landor: A Study of His Development and Debt to Milton. Bradbury, Agnew [1914]. Tall 8vo, 5 3/4" x 8 3/4", pale blue wrappers, upper side lettered in black, edges uncut. 53. Mason, Augustus H. Walter Savage Landor: Poete lyrique. Paris: Les presses universitaires de France, 1924. Tall 8vo, 5 1/2" x 9", pale blue wrappers, lettered up spine and on upper side, edges uncut. Presentation inscription from the author to Mr. and Mrs. Landor, dated Paris, 24 August 1924; also short ALS and an errata slip for the book (7 lines) in the author's hand. This gift was to Col J. W. N. Landor of Bournemouth. 54. Elwin, Malcolm. Savage Landor. Macmillan, 1941. Tall 8vo, 6" x 9 1/4", smooth dark red cloth, gilt spine, all edges cut, 2 portraits. LANG (Andrew) 1844-1912 1. Ballads and Lyrics of Old France: With Other Poems. Longmans, 1872. Ivory coloured smooth cloth, gilt rules and lettered spine and upper side, lower cover with 4 heavy horizontal bands in blind, all edges uncut, dark blue end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. First Edition of the author's first book. 2. Homer. The Odyssey. Done into English Prose by S. H. Butcher and A. Lang. Macmillan, 1879. Dark blue cloth, spine gilt ruled and lettered, gilt block design centre upper side, all edges uncut, slate brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn.

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3. Another copy of First Edition, one of a very small number printed on large handmade paper watermarked "Van Gelder," similar blue cloth (9" x 5 3/4") but larger type lettering and no gilt illustrations on upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. Errata slip (5 errors) inserted at p. 1. Plain white wove end-papers: the frontispiece plate is an india-proof impression, mounted. Inscribed: "To W. B. Robinson, Esq., Chief Constructor, Portsmouth. With kind regards from Edmond Warre, Eton, Jany, 1880." In the same handwriting and mauve ink is a page of references—"Important passages with reference to Ships and Seafaring Life."

10. Another copy, with autograph-Augustine Birrell.

4. XXII Ballades in Blue China. C. Kegan Paul, 1880. Cream parchment wrappers, upper side lettered and designed blue, all edges uncut. The first state: presumably limited to 250 copies (printed April 1880). Imprint at foot of p. 80 is "Chiswick Press C. Whittingham, Tooks Court./Chancery Lane." There is no poem before half-title; "manqul" and "passd" on p. 13 have the accents. 5. Another copy of First Edition, but second state. Imprint on p. 80 is "Chiswick Press:-"Charles Wittingham and Co.,/Tooks Court, Chancery Lane." Al is still blank before half-title. Stated to consist of 350 copies, printed in June 1880. 6. Another copy of First Edition, but third state. Imprint on p. 80 is the later variety: al carries, on recto and verso, "A Ballade of XXII Ballades"-a poem of 28 lines initialled "F. P." Stated to consist of 250 copies, printed July 1880.

11. XXII and X: XXXII Ballades in Blue China. C. Kegan Paul, 1881. Cream parchment wrappers, upper side lettered and designed in blue, all edges uncut. Etched frontispiece plate. Poem, "A Ballade of XXXII Ballades," on recto and verso of leaf before half-title. Chiswick Press imprint at foot of p. 112 is the longer variety. 12. Another copy. This and the above are perfect copies of this book: copies are frequently encountered which lack the etched frontispiece. 13. The Library. By Andrew Lang. With a chapter on Modern English Illustrated Books by Austin Dobson. Macmillan, 1881. Light blue semi-limp cloth, spine black lettered upwards, both sides lettered and designed in black, all edges cut, dark brown end-papers, 4 leaves of mixed Cassell, Macmillan, Chatto adverts at end. 14. Poe, Edgar Allan. The Poems. . . . With an Essay on his Poetry by Andrew Lang. Kegan Paul, 1881. Cream parchment lettered spine and upper side in red and black, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece plate, Lang's essay fills 14 pages. A volume of the publisher's Parchment Library. 15.

Another copy, identical with above.

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Another copy, identical with above.

7. Oxford. Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes. With Etchings and Vignettes by A. Brunet-Debaines, A. Toussaint, and R. Kent Thomas. Seeley, Jackson and Halliday, 1880. Folio, 9 3/4" x 13 3/4", bevelled slatey blue cloth, gilt-lettered up spine and on upper side, all edges gilt, pale yellow end-papers. There are 10 plates and other illustrations in text.

17. Helen of Troy. G. Bell, 1882. Dark blue bevelled cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side with title in gilt in centre, all edges uncut. 03 at end carries adverts of 3 books by Lang with verso blank, followed by one blank leaf. This copy belonged to Lionel Cust and has his armorial bookplate-Lionel Henry Cust.

8. Theocritus Bion and Moschus. Rendered into English Prose with an Introductory Essay by A. Lang. Macmillan, 1880. Dark blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, 4 gilt bands (2 thick ones innermost) round sides and spine, edges uncut.

18. XXXII Ballades in Blue China. Kegan Paul Trench, 1883. Dark green bevelled cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side. This unspecified reprint (which is presumably the Second Edition) has the same contents and pagination as the First Edition of 1881 (save for blank leaves). It does not contain the etched frontispiece plate, and the style of the publisher is changed, Trench having joined the firm. See below for 2 reprints (1885 and 1888).

9. Another copy; this belonged to E. C. Lefroy, author of Echoes from Theocritus, and with his inscription: "Edward C. Lefroy M.A. Keble Coll. Oxford."

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19. Much Darker Days. By A. Huge Longway, author of Scrawled Black &c. Longmans, 1884. Pale blue wrappers, lettered and designed black and red, neatly bound in half brown calf, gilt spine with lettering label, t.e.g., others lightly trimmed. Bookplate of Charles Pluraptre Johnson. A pseudonymously issued parody of Hugh Conway's Dark Days. A copy of the First Edition of this book, Arrowsmith's Christmas Annual 1884 (Bristol, 1884), pale green printed wrappers, bound uniformly in half brown calf with C. P. Johnson's bookplate, is also preserved in this collection.

25. Custom and Myth. 2nd ed., revised. Longmans, 1885. Red cloth, gilt spine and upper side, all edges uncut, dark slate green end-papers. The First Edition had appeared in 1884.

20. Helen of Troy: Her Life and Translation. Done into Rhyme from the Greek Books by Andrew Lang. The Third Time set forth. G. Bell, 1884. Green smooth cloth, spine label titled in red, all edges uncut. A revised and entirely reset reprint, but from the same printing house of Chiswick Press. Inscribed: "Thomas Woolner, given me by Grafton Ross," in the artist's autograph. Later in the library of Augustine Birrell, with his bookplate. 21. Moliere, Jean Baptiste Poquelin. Los precieuses ridicules. Edited with Introduction and Notes by Andrew Lang. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1884. Dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered up spine, edges trimmed, frontispiece plate. Prefatory Note by George Saintsbury and Andrew Lang; 4 pages of Clarendon Press adverts at end. 22. The Princess Nobody: A Tale of Fairyland. Longmans [1884]. Small 4to, 7 1/4" x 9 1/2", glazed brown coloured pictorial boards, lettered in yellow, reddish brown linen spine, edges stained yellow, pictorial end-papers. Drawings by Richard Doyle printed in colours by Edmund Evans. 23. XXXII Ballades in Blue China. Kegan Paul Trench, 1885. An unspecified reprint of the 1883 edition, with identical pagination and format. 24. Rhymes a la Mode. Kegan Paul, 1885. Bevelled green cloth, gilt spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece plate by E. A. Abbey. Signature of H. Powell dated 12 December 1884 and in the same handwriting a transcription of a poem "Rhymes a la Mode," taken from Punch (3 January 1885).

26. That Very Mab. Longmans, 1885. Bevelled red cloth, gilt spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. Dark blue end-papers. This anonymous publication was the joint production of Andrew Lang and May Kendall. 27. Books and Bookmen. New York: G. J. Coombes, 1886. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine and upper side, all edges uncut, 14 illustrations. Dedicated to Brander Matthews, this precedes the London edition. George MacDonald's copy with his signature on end-paper. 28. In the Wrong Paradise and Other Stories. Kegan Paul, 1886. Bevelled light red cloth, gilt spine and upper side, blue-black end-papers. Publisher's 44 page catalogue at end dated 8.86. 29. Letters to Dead Authors. Longmans, 1886. Half cream parchment, gilt-lettered, red linen sides, t.e.g., others uncut. 30. Letters to Dead Authors. 2nd ed. Longmans, 1886. Identical format with First Edition, but there is a new Preface to the Second Edition, pp. vii-viii, and a poem, "Envoy," at end on p. 234. 31. Lamb, Charles. Beauty and the Beast. With an Introduction by Andrew Lang. Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press [1887]. Square 8vo, 6" x 7 1/8", smooth black boards, gilt-lettered on upper side, all edges uncut. This is a page by page reprinting of the original edition printed for M. J. Godwin [1811] with all the engravings. E4 at end carries only adverts of Leadenhall Press books. 32. Aucassin and Nicolete. Done into English by Andrew Lang. David Nutt, 1887. Parchment wrappers folded over semi-stiff card, lettered and designed in red and black on sides, all edges uncut, engraved frontispiece plate. Edition limited to 550 copies, the whole being on Japanese paper. See below for the October 1896 reprint. 33. Ballads of Books. Chosen by Brander Matthews. New York: G. J. Coombes, 1887. Books for the Bibliophile series, uniform format with Books and Bookmen (New York, 1886). Brander Matthews' Prefatory Note is dated New York, November 1886. This copy belonged to Thomas Hutchinson

468 LANG (Andrew) 1844-1912 and has his label inserted, No. 1732 in his Library Catalogue. 34. Books and Bookmen. Longmans, 1887. Tall 8vo, half sage green cloth with spine titling label, paler green board sides, t.e.g., others uncut. The contents of the London edition are not identical with those of the New York 1886 issue. This copy belonged to Alfred Wallis, of Elm Tree House, Exeter and has a postcard to him from the publishers dated 10 February 1887 stating that the handmade paper copies of Books and Bookmen (100 copies only, of which this is one) are now all sold and will not be reprinted. Also inserted is an ALS of the author to Wallis on his 1 Marloes Road notepaper preserved in its original stamped and postmarked envelope. At the end Wallis has inserted an 8vo sheet with his printing of Lang's "Ballade of Bookhunters," 28 lines on recto, verso blank. Wallis, who was connected with the Daily Press in Derby and in Exeter after his retirement, was much addicted to this practice of printing-of which the usual justification was that he possessed the original author's MS of the piece in question. 35. King Solomon's Wives, or, The Phantom Mines. By Hyder Ragged. With numerous illustrations. Vizetelly, 1887. Glazed red wrappers lettered in black down the spine, lettered and designed in black on sides, edges cut. A pseudonymous parody of Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines. 36. He. By the Author of It, King Solomon's Wives, Bess &c. Longmans, 1887. Pale blue wrappers lettered and designed in red and black, top edges uncut, others trimmed. An anonymously issued parody of Rider Haggard's She: it was the joint production of Andrew Lang and W. H. Pollock. 37. Deulin, Charles. Johnny Nut and the Golden Goose. Done into English by Andrew Lang, from the French of Charles Deulin. Illustrated by Am. Lynen. Longmans, 1887. Imperial 8vo, 7 1/4" x 11", bevelled light blue cloth, lettered and designed spine and upper side in gilt and dark brown, t.e.g., lower edges uncut. Printed on rectos only of semi-stiff cards, yellow end-papers. 38. Ladhope Leaves: A Spring Garland for 1887. Constable [Privately printed, 1887]. Glazed stiff boards, upper side lettered and designed in blue, all edges uncut. Lang contributed 2 poems to this uncommon anthology—"The Last Cast" and "Martial in Town." Grant Allen and 17 other authors also collaborated.

LANG (Andrew) 1844-1912 39. Another copy; this is a superior issue, printed on handmade paper. The glazed boards are cream parchment, yapp edges, and the cover design is on both sides and in gilt, top edges are gilt and end-papers are plum red. With bookplate of Ralph, 2nd Earl of Lovelace and 13th Baron Wentworth. 40. The Most Pleasant and Delectable Tale of the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche. Done into English by William Adlington. With a Discourse on the Fable by Andrew Lang. David Nutt, 1887. Parchment wrappers, lettered and designed in black, all edges uncut. Etched frontispiece and another plate at end of Lang's 86 page Introduction. Dedicated to Robert Bridges; there are preliminary verses by May Kendall, J. W. Mackail, F. Locker-Lampson and W. H. Pollock. The copy is cased in smooth cream buckram (? a publisher's binding), spine gilt-lettered in 9 lines. Only 550 copies were printed. 41. Myth, Ritual and Religion. 2 vols. Longmans, 1887. Dark blue cloth, spines gilt-lettered, gilt block on upper covers, publisher's monogram in blind on lower, blue end-papers, publisher's 16 page January 1889 catalogue at end of volume 1; 2A4 at end of volume 2 is blank. 42. Ballads of Books. Edited by Andrew Lang. Longmans, 1888. Tall 8vo, 5 3/4" x 9", half green morocco, linen sides, Roxburghe style, t.e.g., others uncut, No. 55 of 113 Large Paper copies. This book is not the same as the New York publication of 1887, though Brander Matthews's Prefatory Note is retained. There is a fresh Preface by Lang and 17 new poems are included specially written for this edition by Gosse, Dobson, Locker, Monkhouse and others. 43. Another copy of the First Edition: this is the ordinary paper issue. Bevelled blue cloth, gilt spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. Bought with the E. F. Benson books at the Winchester auction (1955) of literary property consigned from Lamb House, Rye. This was his mother's copy and is inscribed on title-page: "Mary Benson, Lambeth "88." 44. Another copy, identical with above, which was purchased from Augustine Birr ell's library (sale in Hodgson's Rooms). Inserted is a sheet of his 70 Elm Park Road, Chelsea notepaper on which he has written a 14 line poem "The Answer of one of the Brown Books to this Prayer," signing and dating it 29 October 1924.

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45. XXXII Ballads in Blue China. Kegan Paul Trench, 1888. Bevelled green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. This unspecified reprint, still dedicated to Austin Dobson-now with dates 1880/1888-is not identical with the First Edition of 1881. In the final section "Verses and Translations," some poems have been omitted and others are new.

50. Grass of Parnassus: Rhymes Old and New. Longmans, 1888. Tall 8vo, 5 1/2" x 9", pale blue boards, cream spine with titling label, all edges uncut. Copy No. 113 of the Large Paper issue limited to 113 copies.

46. Another copy; this is No. 36 of only 50 copies on Large Paper (5" x 8"), original off-white -wrappers lettered in 2 lines in black on upper side, all edges uncut. The limitation certificate which is signed by Charles Whittingham & Co. (the printers, Chiswick Press) implies that "some new pieces and some omissions" are a special feature of the Large Paper copies. This is not so: both large and small paper editions are of the same typesetting. 47. Matthews, Brander. Pen and Ink: Papers on Subjects of More or Less Importance. Longmans, 1888. Half dark blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, lighter blue sides lettered in blue, t.e.g., others uncut. These appear to be the American printed sheets (with a numerical register in 12's); the Longmans title-page is a cancel pasted-in. The first item is Andrew Lang's "Pen and Ink," a poem of 32 lines; the 44 page essay, "Two Latter-Day Lyrists," is on Frederick Locker and Austin Dobson. This copy belonged to Francis Edwin Murray, editor of The Clique, and has his bookplate. 48. Herodotus. Euterpe: Being the Second Book of the Famous History of Herodotus. Englished by B. R., 1584. Edited by Andrew Lang. David Nutt, 1888. Smooth cream parchment boards, spine lettered in black, upper side lettered and designed in black, t.e.g., others cut, floral patterned end-papers, etched frontispiece, edition limited to 550 copies. Inserted is a 2 page ALS of Andrew Lang to "My dear Sir" (almost certainly Alfred Wallis of Exeter) on his Palmerston Place, Edinburgh notepaper, undated. About his earlier Bibliotheque de Carabas volume [Cupid and Psyche] and the Herodotus book: "The frontispiece, however, was not intended by the Artist or myself to have any allegorical sense. 49. The Gold of Fairnilee. Coloured frontispiece by T. Scott. Fourteen Drawings in colour by E. A. Lemann. Bristol: Arrowsmith [1888]. No. 12 of the Large Paper issue, 9" x 11 1/2", half cream parchment, spine titling label, brown cloth sides, upper side gilt-lettered in 2 lines, t.e.g., others uncut.

51. Perrault's Popular Tales. Edited from the original editions, with Introduction &c. by Andrew Lang. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1888. Square 8vo, 6 1/2" x 8", the Large Paper issue, half cream vellum, gilt-ruled and lettered, dark red linen sides, t.e.g., others uncut, ticket at end of the University Binding House. Frontispiece portrait, also facsimile frontispiece of the French edition, Paris 1697, before the French text. 52. On the Links, Being Golfing Stories by Various Hands, with Shakespeare on Golf, By a Novice. Also Two Rhymes on Golf by Andrew Lang. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1889. Glazed green boards, lettered and designed in black and white, red linen spine, edges cut. Price One Shilling, 4 leaves of publisher's adverts at end dated April, 1889. 53. The Dead Leman and Other Tales from the French. By Andrew Lang and Paul Sylvester. Swan Sonnenschein, 1889. Dark blue smooth cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered in ornamental panels, t.e.g., others uncut, green and gilt floral patterned end-papers. 54. Romilly, Hugh Hastings. From My Verandah in New Guinea: Sketches and Traditions. With an Introduction by Andrew Lang. David Nutt, 1889. Tall 8vo, 5 3/4" x 9", pale blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, only lower edges lightly trimmed, large folding frontispiece map, S4 at end carries adverts only. 55. Lost Leaders. Kegan Paul, 1889. Smooth dark blue bevelled cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges uncut, end-papers matching cloth, publisher's 42 page catalogue at end dated 7.88 followed by 2 leaves adverts of editions of Shakespeare's Works. Q2 at end is blank. 56. Malory, Syr Thomas. Le Morte Darthur. The original edition of William Caxton now reprinted and edited with an Introduction and Glossary by H. Oskar Sommer. With an Essay on Malory's Prose Style by Andrew Lang. David Nutt, 1889-1891. 3 volumes in 4 (the Text being in 2 Parts) 4to, 10" x 12 1/2", cream parchment boards lettered in red and black, all edges uncut. One of only 12 sets printed throughout on Japanese vellum; it is set No. 1 but is not signed by the publisher.

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57. Prince Prigio. With 27 illustrations by Gordon Browne. Bristol: Arrowsmith, 1889. Pale green smooth cloth, gilt-lettered, red ornamented, edges cut, grey fern-designed end-papers, the 2 final leaves at end [145-148] carry adverts only. Armorial bookplate of William J. Adcock.

63. The World's Desire. By H. Rider Haggard and Andrew Lang. Longmans, 1890. Dark blue smooth bevelled cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed, end-papers matching cloth, publisher's 16 page catalogue at end dated 10/90. X8 at end carries only printer's imprint centre recto, otherwise blank.

58. Theocritus, Bion and Moschus. Rendered into English Prose with an Introductory Essay by Andrew Lang. Macmillan, 1889. Dark blue smooth cloth, gilt bands round sides and spine, spine gilt-lettered, 5 1/4" x 8 1/4", one of 250 Large Paper copies printed June 1889. All edges uncut and this copy unopened throughout; the medallion on title-page is an india-proof impression. Blank leaf before half-title and P2 is blank at end. This is a volume of the publisher's Golden Treasury Series, though there is no medallion in the Large Paper copies to indicate this. 59. How to Fail in Literature: A Lecture. Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1890. Pott 8vo, 4 3/4" x 6 1/4", light brown glazed wrappers folded over semi-stiff, card, lettered in black on upper side, all edges uncut, 2 leaves of publisher's adverts at end. 60. Life, Letters and Diaries of Sir Stafford Northcote, First Earl of Iddesleigh. By Andrew Lang. 2 vols. Blackwood, 1890. Dark green cloth, spines gilt-lettered, upper sides with gilt crest, dark plum red end-papers, top edges uncut, only lower edges cut, 4 plates, publisher's 24 page catalogue dated 9/90 at end of volume 2. 61. Old Friends: Essays in Epistolary Parody. Longmans, 1890. Half cream parchment, spine gilt-lettered, dark green cloth side, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece plate, end-papers matching cloth, Al blank before half-title and O8 blank at end. 62. Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes. Seeley, 1890. Dark red cloth, spine and upper side gilt, all edges cut, deep cream end-papers, T6-8 at end are 3 leaves carrying publisher's adverts. Appears to be an unrevised reprint of the folio edition issued 10 years earlier, with some additions to the illustrations. Autograph presentation~"Walter Parratt from Randall T. Davidson, Windsor, Christmas 1889," and with recipient's bookplate. Sir Walter Parratt was organist of St. George's Chapel, Windsor for 42 years, and Davidson was at the time Dean of Windsor, later Archbishop of Canterbury.

64. Angling Sketches. With 3 etchings and numerous illustrations by W. G. Burn-Murdoch. Longmans, 1891. Square 8vo, dark green smooth bevelled cloth, spine and upper side gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Dark blue end-papers. Nl and N2 at end carry only adverts. 65. Essays in Little. Henry, 1891. Dark red cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, upper side also has design in white enamel, all edges cut, dark blue end-papers. Pp.[206-208] at end carry adverts only, frontispiece portrait of author. A volume of the Whitefriars Library of Wit and Humour, edited by W. H. Davenport Adams. 66. Another copy of First Edition: this is the Large Paper issue on handmade paper watermarked "The Huth Library," No. 129 of 150 copies. 7 1/2" x 10 1/4", cream bevelled buckram, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges uncut, floral patterned end-papers. Same adverts at end, but the series announcement on verso of leaf before title-page is now replaced by a normal half-title, and author's frontispiece portrait is no longer provided. The printer's imprint is also removed from verso title-page, but is still found at foot of p. 205. 67. Murray, R. F. The Scarlet Gown: Being Verses by a St. Andrews Man. St. Andrews: A. M. Holden; London: Simpkin, 1891. Bevelled dark red cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, only lower edges lightly trimmed, dark green end-papers. There are 5 lines of verse by Andrew Lang on verso title-page, which seem to be his only connection with this work. He did, however, 3 years later, write a Memoir for the deceased author's collected poems. 68. Another copy of the First Edition: a binding variant. Red cloth, both sides with large design in silver enamel, upper side gilt-lettered "The Scarlet Gown," spine gilt-lettered. The lettering type used is ornamental, whereas in the bevelled cloth copy it is plain. Same coloured end-papers in both.

471 LANG (Andrew) 1844-1912 69. The Library. With a Chapter on Modern English Illustrated Books by Austin Dobson. 2nd ed. Macmillan, 1892. Oatmeal coloured smooth linen, spine with 5 raised bands and gilt-lettered in 5 lines, gilt ornament centre of upper side, all edges uncut. Similar to the 1881 book but final chapter has a Postscript, pp. 179-188, and there are additional illustrations. 70. A Batch of Golfing Papers. By Andrew Lang and Others. Edited by R. Barclay. Simpkin [1892]. Red cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, upper side with pictorial design in black, frontispiece and illustrations. 71. The Blue Poetry Book. Edited by Andrew Lang. New Edition, with Notes. Longmans, 1892. Blue cloth, gilt, all edges gilt, blue and gilt floral patterned end-papers. The gilt design of upper cover is from an Italian binding of the fifteenth century. This is a special india paper edition, and is an uncommon book. 72. Grass of Parnassus: First and Last Rhymes. Longmans, 1892. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine and upper side, top and fore-edges unopened, only lower edges lightly trimmed. Bookplate of Charles Plumptre Johnson. "To this edition about 30 new pieces, either unpublished or hitherto uncollected, have been added"—from the new preface. 73. Kirk, Robert. The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies: A Study in Folk-Lore and Psychical Research. The text by Robert Kirk, 1691. The comment by Andrew Lang, 1893. David Nutt, 1893. Bibliotheque de Carabas, Vol. 8, parchment wrappers over semi-stiff boards, spine lettered in black, upper side lettered and designed in black, all edges uncut, edition limited to 550 copies, etched frontispiece. 74. Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia, Being the Adventures of Prince Prigio's Son. Illustrated by Gordon Browne. Bristol: Arrowsmith; London: Simpkin [1893]. Pale green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, edges cut, pale green floral patterned end-papers. Pp.[205-208] at end carry adverts only, with the final page blank. 76. St. Andrews. With Illustrations by T. Hodge. Longmans, 1893. Tall 8vo, 5 1/2" x 9", dark green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side with gilt ornament in centre, all edges uncut, dark blue-black end-papers, publisher's 24 page catalogue dated August 1893 at end. Al is blank before half-title.

LANG (Andrew) 1844-1912 76. Scott, Sir Walter. The Lyrics and Ballads of Sir Walter Scott. Edited with an Introduction by Andrew Lang. J. M. Dent, 1894. Oatmeal coloured bevelled holland, spine and upper side gilt-lettered and designed. No. 13 of 100 copies on large handmade paper watermarked "Spalding"; there were also 50 copies for America. 77. Ban and Arriere Ban: A Rally of Fugitive Rhymes. Longmans, 1894. Dark green bevelled cloth, gilt spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece by H. J. Ford. H4 at end is blank. 78. Cock Lane and Common Sense. Longmans, 1894. Dark red cloth, gilt spine and upper side, only lower edges lightly trimmed, blue-black end-papers, 24 page publisher's catalogue dated 4/94. Pp.[358-360] at end are blank. 79. Robert F. Murray (Author of "The Scarlet Gown"): His Poems. With a Memoir by Andrew Lang. Longmans, 1894. Tall 8vo, 5 3/4" x 9", bevelled dark red buckram, gilt spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. One of only 50 Large Paper copies, with limitation certificate on an inserted slip. Al before half-title and K8 at end are blanks. Charles Plumptre Johnson's copy with his bookplate. 80. The Yellow Fairy Book. Edited by Andrew Lang. With numerous illustrations by H. J. Ford. Longmans, 1894. Yellow cloth, spine gilt, upper side with complete picture design in gilt, all edges gilt, blue-black end-papers, AA8 at end carries adverts only. 81. Crockett, S. R. Bog-Myrtle and Peat. Tales chiefly of Galloway, gathered from the years 1889 to 1895. Bliss, Sands and Foster, 1895. Dark green vertically ribbed cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut. Author's note on p.[14]: "I am deeply in the debt of my friend, Mr. Andrew Lang, for the ballad of "Kenmure" which he has written to grace my bare boards and spice the plain fare here set out in honour of the ancient Free Province." Lang's "Ballad of Mine Own Country" is also printed at the end, pp. 425-426, but this had previously been published. 82. Stoddart, Thomas T. The Death-Wake, or, Lunacy: A Mecrontaunt in Three Chimeras. With an Introduction by Andrew Lang. John Lane, 1895. Light red smooth cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut, limited to 500 copies, publisher's 16 page 1895 catalogue at end.

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83. Burns, Robert. Selected Poems. With an Introduction by Andrew Lang. Kegan Paul, 1896. Blue cloth, spine and upper side gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, Al before half-title is blank.

90. Another set of First Edition, in a handsome contemporary re-binding of half light brown pigskin, linen sides, red and green spine lettering labels, marbled end-papers and edges, from the Panshanger Library with Earl Cowper's bookplate.

84. Aucassin and Nicolete. Done into English by Andrew Lang. David Nutt. 1896. Reprint (October 1896) of the 1887 issue, in blue wrappers, issued "at such a price as will make it accessible to all." 85. Cock Lane and Common Sense. New ed. Longman, 1896. Dark red cloth, silver lettered spine, t.e.g., others cut. Contains a new Preface, 12 pages, dated 27 October 1895. It has a 24 page catalogue at end dated 12/95. 86. A Monk of Fife; Being the Chronicle Written by Norman Leslie of Piteullo. Now first done into English out of the French by Andrew Lang. Longmans, 1896. Reddish brown cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut. The illustrations and the initial letters are from drawings by Selwyn Image. 87. Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler. New Edition, edited with an Introduction by Andrew Lang, illustrated by E. J. Sullivan. J. M. Dent, 1896. Dark green cloth, spine and upper side elaborately gilt-lettered and designed by Sullivan The front end-paper (laid-down portion) is printed in green with an ex-libris design adapted from the original (1653) frontispiece. The collection also has a copy of the first issue of this edition in Everyman's Library, J. M. Dent [1906]. 88. Peek, Hedley. The Poetry of Sport. Selected and Edited by Hedley Peek. With a Chapter on Classical Allusions to Sport by Andrew Lang. Longmans, 1896. A volume of the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, rebound contemporarily in half dark red morocco, marbled sides, t.e.g., others uncut. Armorial bookplate of H. Smith Turberville. 89. The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart, from Abbotsford and Milton Lockhart MSS and Other Original Sources. 2 vols. J. C. Nimmo, 1897. Large square 8vo, 6 1/2" x 9", half dark red cloth, lighter red sides, spines gilt, upper sides with gilt crest, t.e.g., others uncut, dark plum red end-papers, profuse coloured and other illustrations. Al and A2 before half-title and 2C7 and 2C8 at end in volume 1 are blanks; volume 2 has similar blanks at beginning and end.

91. Bourasse, Abbe. The Miracles of Madame Saint Katherine of Fierbois. Translated from the edition of the Abb£ J. J. Bourass£, Tours 1858, by Andrew Lang. Chicago: Way & Williams; London: David Nutt, 1897. Half smooth cream linen, spine gilt-lettered, pale green board sides, all edges uncut. The edition consisted of 700 copies, of which this is No. 153 of 300 for England printed on handmade paper. Printed at the De Vinne Press. 92. A Collection of Ballads. Edited by Andrew Lang. Chapman & Hall, 1897. The ordinary issue was in blue cloth: this is a copy of the superior issue in bright red lambskin, gilt spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut, blue-black end-papers, frontispiece and illustrations, red silk marker. Al before half-title is blank; R6 at end is blank save for Clay's imprint in 2 lines centre recto. 93. The Making of Religion. Longmans, 1898. Tall 8vo, 5 1/2" x 9", dark blue cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut, blue-black end-papers, 32 page publisher's catalogue at end dated 6/98. 94.

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95. Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table: Every Man His Own Boswell. With an Introduction by Andrew Lang. Ward Lock, 1898. Sage green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut, in printed dust-jacket. A volume of 19th Century Classics, edited by Clement K. Shorter. It is to be noted that publisher's imprint at foot of spine is "Ward.Lock.And/ Company Limited." 96. The Highlands of Scotland in 1750. From Manuscript 104 in the King's Library, British Museum. With an Introduction by Andrew Lang. Blackwood, 1898. Light green linen, spine gilt-lettered and green ornamented, upper side lettered and ornamented in green, t.e.g., others uncut. First leaf before half-title and M2 at end are blanks. 97. Shaylor, Joseph. The Pleasures of Literature and the Solace of Books. With an Introduction by Andrew Lang. Wells, Gardner, Darton, 1898. Dark green cloth, gilt,

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105. The Disentanglers. With Illustrations by H. J. Ford. Longmans, 1902. Beige linen, designed and lettered in red and black, edges cut, blue-black end-papers pp.[419-420] at end carries adverts of other works by Lang. 106. James VI and The Cowrie Mystery. Longmans, 1902. Tall 8vo, 6" x 9", smooth dark blue buckram, gilt, top edges cut, others uncut, 17 illustrations-the frontispiece being in colours. Publisher's 40 page catalogue at end dated 1/05. 107. Social Origins. By Andrew Lang. Primal Law. By J. J. Atkinson. Longmans, 1903. Tall 8vo, 5 1/2" x 8 3/4", dark blue cloth, gilt spine, top edges cut, others trimmed, blue-black end-papers. X5 and X6 at end carry 4 pages of publisher's adverts, followed by their 40 page catalogue dated 1/03. 108. Lennox, Cuthbert. George Douglas Brown, author of "The House with the Green Shutters." A Biographical Memoir. With Reminiscences by Andrew Melrose and Introduction by Andrew Lang. Hodder & Stoughtpn, 1903. Dark red cloth, flat back, spine gilt-lettered in 11 lines, all edges uncut. 109. The Valet's Tragedy and Other Studies. Longmans, 1903. Tall 8vo, 6" x 9", dark blue cloth, gilt, 3 armorial crests on upper side, top edges cut, others lightly trimmed, blue-black end-papers, 3 illustrations, AA8 at end is blank. 110. Historical Mysteries. Smith Elder, 1904. Bright red cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, frontispiece portrait, X1-X4 at end carry 4 leaves of publisher's adverts. 111. Adventures Among Books. Longmans, 1905. Dark blue smooth cloth, gilt spine, only lower edges uncut, frontispiece portrait. Publisher's 40 page catalogue dated 2/04 at end; other copies have been noted with 48 page catalogue dated 2/05. 112. The Clyde Mystery: A Study in Forgeries and Folklore. Glasgow: James MacLehose, 1905. Light brownish cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut, pp.[142-144] at end are blank, 25 illustrations. 113. The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot. Chapman & Hall, 1905. Bright red cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, edges cut, 3 illustrations.

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114. Portraits and Jewels of Mary Stuart. Glasgow: James MacLehose, 1906. Tall 8vo, 6 1/4" x 10 1/4", green cloth, spine gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, 16 illustrations. First leaf is blank before half-title.

circular medallion centre of upper side, top edges cut, others lightly trimmed. Z2 at end carries publisher's adverts dated Autumn 1908.

116. Another copy of the First Edition, bound (for Bickers) in green half calf, linen sides, spine with 5 raised bands, gilt ornaments and lettering, all edges gilt, grey-green end-papers. 116. Tales of Troy and Greece. With 17 illustrations by H. J. Ford and a Map. Longmans, 1907. Coloured decorated grey cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others lightly trimmed. 117. New and Old Letters to Dead Authors. Longmans, 1907. Longmans Pocket Library, dark green cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others cut, green silk marker. There is a new Preface by the author. The last 7 letters added here had only previously appeared in the American "Chapbook." 118. Poets' Country. Edited by Andrew Lang. T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1907. Large square 8vo, 6 1/2" x 9 1/2", smooth cream linen, spine and upper side designed in green and pink, lettered and ruled in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Lang himself contributes 2 of the pieces, besides the Preface. The other authors are Churton Collins, W. J. Loftie, E. Hartley Coleridge and Michael Macmillan. With 50 coloured plates by F. S. Walker. 119. The King over the Water. By A. Shield and Andrew Lang. Longmans, 1907. Tall 8vo, 6" x 9", light blue flecked linen, spine gilt-lettered, top edges cut, others trimmed, 9 plates. 120. The Maid of France: Being the Story of the Life and Death of Jeanne D'Arc. Longmans, 1908. Tall 8vo, 6" x 9", dark green cloth, gilt spine, gilt circular medallion centre of upper side, top edges cut, fore-edges trimmed, lower edges uncut, 6 illustrations. 121. The Book of Princes and Princesses. By Mrs. Lang. Edited by Andrew Lang. Longmans, 1908. Dark blue cloth, gilt, all edges gilt. AA6-AA8 at end carry only adverts. 122. Shield, Alice. Henry Stuart, Cardinal of York and His Times. With an Introduction by Andrew Lang. Longmans, 1908. Tall 8vo, 6" x 9", purple cloth, gilt spine, gilt

123. Sir George Mackenzie, Advocate, of Rosehaugh: His Times 1636(?)-1691. Longmans, 8vo, 6" x 9", smooth red cloth, edges cut, other edges trimmed,

King's Life and 1909. Tall gilt spine, top 4 illustrations.

124. Murray, R. F. The Scarlet Gown: . Being Verses by a St. Andrews Man. With additional poems, and an Introduction by Andrew Lang, 2nd ed. Glasgow: James MacLehose, 1909. Scarlet cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut, frontispiece portrait. 125. Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy. Longmans, 1910. Tall 8vo, 5 3/4" x 9", grey flecked linen, gilt spine, top edges cut, others trimmed, pp.[159-160] are blank at end. 126. Highways and Byways in the Border. By Andrew Lang and John Lang. With illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Macmillan, 1913. Dark blue smooth cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others cut, folding map at end, 4 pages adverts of the Highways and Byways Series at end. 127. Highways and Byways in the Border. With a New Preface by John Lang. 2nd ed. Macmillan, 1914. Identical format with First Edition. John Lang's Preface is dated 14 March 1914 (his brother having died). 128. Bibliomania. Lakewood, Ohio: Printed for Private Circulation, 1914. 32 pages, sewn into pale blue wrappers, all edges uncut. No. 4 of only 60 copies printed at the Chiswick Press, London, for Paul Lemperly, and with his bookplate. Inscribed: "Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell with compliments of Paul Lemperly. Lakewood, Ohio. Aug. 21, 1920." Also inserted is a long and interesting 4 page ALS to Birrell which accompanied the booklet. 129. Shaylor, Joseph. The Pleasures of Bookland. With an Introduction by Andrew Lang. Truslove & Hanson [1914]. Purple linen, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others cut, pictorial end-papers. This is an enlarged and re-arranged edition of The Pkasures of Literature (1898), with a reprinting of Lang's original Introduction.

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LANG (Andrew) 1844-1912 130. The Poetical Works of Andrew Lang. Edited by Mrs. Lang. 4 vols. Longmans, 1923. This is the special india paper issue, No. 46 of only 260 printed. The 4 volumes are made up as 2, all titles and frontispiece portraits being left in place. Dark blue cloth, gilt, all edges gilt, in printed dust-jackets (Price 52/6d. net). 131. Ballade of Bookhunters. By Andrew Lang. Derby [no publisher or date]. Poem of 28 lines printed in centre of a sheet of wove paper 6 1/2" x 8 3/4". Above is affixed an engraving of a book-collector standing at a stall, and below the poem is written: "Printed at the "Derby Mercury' Press by Alfred Wallis, Editor. 12 copies." This is presumably in the handwriting of the Editor-Printer, who retired to Exeter, Devon and died there. 132. Historical Mysteries. Thomas Nelson, n.d. A popular reprint of the book first published 1904. Nelson's Library of Notable Books, 12mo, bright blue blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others cut, frontispiece portrait. Autograph Letters 133. ALS 2 pages on his Marloes Road notepaper to F. Locker-Lampson-"Dear Locker," dated 6 July [no year]. An amusing personal letter, mentioning the cricket at Lords, Mrs. Locker and their son Godfrey. 134. ALS one page on his Marloes Road notepaper, dated 25 October [no year] "I have referred to my publisher. . . . " Secondary Material 135. Webster, A. Blyth. Andrew Lang's Poetry. Being the Andrew Lang Lecture Delivered before the University of St. Andrews, 20 October 1937. Oxford University Press, 1937. 48 pages, sewn into pale blue wrappers, upper side lettered in black, all edges uncut. 136. Green, Roger Lancelyn. Andrew Lang: A Critical Biography. Leicester: Edmund Ward, 1946. Tall 8vo, 5 1/2" x 8 3/4", dark blue cloth, gilt spine, all edges cut, coloured frontispiece portrait.

LATYMER (Baron) Francis Burdett Money-Coutts. 1862-1923 1. Taylor, Jeremy. The Marriage Ring. A Reprint from the 4th ed. of his Eniautos (1673). Edited with Preface, Appendix and Notes. Cambridge: Deighton Bell, 1883. 4to, 7 1/2" x 10 1/4", bevelled orange linen, gilt-lettered up spine, lettered in black on upper side with gilt ornamental panels, all edges uncut. This was one of the editor's copies and has his large bookplate. 2. Poems. By F. B. Money-Coutts. John Lane, 1896. Red cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 8 lines, stamped oval ornament on upper side, all edges uncut, publisher's 16 page 1896 catalogue at end. 3. Malory, Thomas. King Arthur: A Trilogy of Lyrical Dramas Founded on the Morte D'Arthur. 200 copies Privately printed for F. B. Money-Coutts and his friends by John Lane, 1897. Large 8vo, 6" x 8 1/2", smooth green buckram, gilt, all edges uncut. Inscribed: "To R. G. Moulton with grateful regard from F. B. Money-Coutts, Xmas, 1897." 4. The Alhambra and Other Poems. John Lane, 1898. Dark green vertically ribbed cloth, gilt, all edges uncut, pp.[83-84] at end are blank save for ornamental printer's imprint centre verso. 5. The Nut-Brown Maid: A New Version. By F. B. Money-Coutts. With Illustrations byHerbert Cole. John Lane, 1901. Flowers of Parnassus 5. This series was edited by the author. The superior issue in green leather, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. 6. Shelley, P. B. The Sensitive Plant. Illustrations by F. L. Griggs. John Lane, 1902. Green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, in orange printed dust-jacket. Flowers of Parnassus 13. 7. The Poet's Charter, or, The Book of Job. John Lane, 1903. Dark red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Inscribed: "Frederic Chapman from his faithful friend Francis Coutts August 30, 1905." 8. The Romance of King Arthur. John Lane, 1907. Dark red smooth buckram, gilt spine, upper side with 3 line gilt fillet and coloured crest in centre, t.e.g., others uncut. P2 at end carries adverts only. This book is based on the Privately printed work issued in 1897 but is considerably revised. The Dedication is dropped and a Preface added, also a one page Note upon the Binding. Inscribed: "Frederic Chapman from Francis Coutts. May 16, 1907."

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LATYMER (Baron) Francis Burdett Money-Coutts. 1852-1923 9. The Heresy of Job. With the Inventions of William Blake. John Lane, 1907. Large square 8vo, 6 3/4" x 8 3/4", blue flecked cloth, spine titling label, t.e.g., others uncut. There is a complete reduced-size facsimile of Blake's work (1825) at end on 22 sheets of plate paper, printed on rectos only. LAW (Alice) 1. Songs of the Uplands. T. Fisher Unwin, 1908. Smooth brown linen, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges cut, others trimmed. The First Edition of the author's first book. Inscribed: "To Edith and Amy Leach with the author's love, May 21/08." 2. Imaginary Sonnets of Tasso to Leonora and Other Poems. Elkin Mathews, 1912. A volume of the publisher's Vigo Cabinet Series, printed wrappers, top edges cut, others uncut. Dedicated to Mrs. Meynell. This is the Dedication copy, inscribed on half-title: "To Mrs. Meynell from the Author, Easter/12." 3. Cupid and Psyche and Other Poems. Elkin Mathews, 1919. Blue wrappers lettered black up the spine and within a frame on upper side, top edges cut, others uncut. Inscribed by the author's husband: "With best Christmas wishes from R. H. Law, 1919." 4. Patrick Bran-well Bronte. A. M. Philpot [1924]. Grey linen, lettered in black spine and upper side, all edges cut, frontispiece medallion portrait. This copy is almost certainly in the primary binding: it was published April 1924. Other copies have been noted in a brownish orange cloth. Inscribed: "Mr. De Vere Stacpoole, with the Author's compliments. Altham, May 15/24." 6. To be a Poet! Altham, Accrington: The Old Parsonage Press [1928]. Mauve wrappers, upper side lettered in black, top edges cut, others uncut. This prose work is dedicated to Margaret L. Woods. LAWLESS (Hon. Emily) 1845-1913 1. Hurrish: A Study. 2 vols. Blackwood, 1886. Red cloth, spines and upper sides gilt-lettered, edges uncut, grey floral-patterned end-papers. T8 at end of volume 2 carries adverts only, followed by publisher's 24 page undated catalogue.

LAWLESS (Hon. Emily) 1845-1913 2. Ireland. With some additions by Mrs. Arthur Bronson. T. Fisher Unwin, 1887. A volume of the Story of the Nations series, designed green cloth, gilt-lettering spine and upper side, edges cut, profuse illustrations and map. Publisher's 24 page undated catalogue at end, clearly 1887-1888 as it advertises The Century Magazine and St. Nicholas for that year. 3. Plain Frances Mowbray and Other Tales. John Murray, 1889. Dark blue cloth, spine gilt, upper side ruled and lettered in blind, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed, pale blue monogram end-papers, K28 at end is blank. 4. With Essex in Ireland. Smith Elder, 1890. Dark red cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, edges uncut, blue-black end-papers. With Sir Godfrey Baring's bookplate and inscribed on title-page: "Helen Baring from Lady Cloncurry, Cowes, Sept. 1893." This inscription is by the author's mother. 5. Another copy of First Edition in identical state. Al before half-title is blank and there is a folding map hinged in at p. 1. 6. Crania: The Story of an Island. 2 vols. Smith Elder, 1892. Dark red cloth, spines and upper sides gilt-lettered, edges uncut, blue-black end-papers, coloured frontispiece map. In volume 2 there is a blank leaf before half-title: S7 and S8 at end of volume 1 carry adverts only. Inscription in each volume: "M. E. Joyce, St. Clerans, 1892." 7. Crania. A New Edition. Smith Elder, 1894. This is the second printing and is in one volume, similar dark red cloth, gilt spine. The last 6 leaves of gathering AA at end carry only adverts. In this reprint the frontispiece map is plain. 8. Maelcho: A Sixteenth-Century Narrative. 2 vols. Smith Elder, 1894. Dark red cloth, spines and upper sides gilt-lettered, all edges uncut. In volume 1 the first leaf is blank before half-title. 9. Traits and Confidences. Methuen, 1898. Red smooth buckram, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges uncut, publisher's 40 page catalogue at end dated September 1897. The title-page is a cancel leaf pasted on stub.

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10. A Garden Diary, September 1899-September 1900. Methuen, 1901. Tali 8vo, 5 3/4" x 8 3/4", half dark blue polished buckram, dark board sides, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. The title-page is a cancel leaf pasted on stub. R4 at end is blank followed by publisher's 48 page catalogue dated April 1901.

17. Another copy of First Edition; the errata in this copy has an additional 12 lines of type re errors in punctuation—which indicates it was a later printing. F6 is blank at end in both copies: spine is without lettering, while first copy has spine lettered in 3 lines. Inserted slips being interchangeable, status of issue is not confirmed thereby.

11. With the Wild Geese. With an Introduction by Stopford A. Brooke. Isbister, 1902. Square 8vo, 5 3/4" x 8", dark green cloth, lettered and designed on spine and upper side in gilt and lighter green, publisher's blind monogram stamp centre of lower cover. This copy belonged to Pamela Wyndham, Lady Glenconner—later Lady Grey—and has her bookplate. Inscribed: "Sweet Pamela from Lucy. Wilsford, July 1902, a haunt of peace."

18. Ireland. By Hon. Emily Lawless, Litt.D. With Chapters on the Irish Free State by Michael MacDonagh. T. Fisher Unwin, 1923. Red cloth, gilt spine, edges cut. This is the Third Edition of the work first published 1887; it is the ninth printing and first after the author's death. The Second Edition of 1912, which had her supervision, was actually the eighth printing. There is a 2 page notice of Miss Lawless by Michael MacDonagh.

12. Maria Edge-worth. Macmillan, 1904. English Men of Letters series. Red cloth, flat back gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others cut, 2 leaves of series adverts at end dated 10.3.04. 13. The Book of Gilly: Four Months out of a Life. With 4 illustrations by L. Leslie Brooke. Smith Elder, 1906. Square 8vo, 6 1/4" x 8 1/4", bright blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., fore-edges trimmed, lower edges uncut. Inscription on end-paper: "M. E. Prescott Decie [? M. E. Joyce] Cwm House [Presteigne], June 1931." 14. Another copy of First Edition, but probably second issue binding. All edges cut and top edges left plain: gilt-lettering on spine is in 7 lines, whereas in above copy it is in 8 lines. Both copies have same leaf of adverts at end printed on S8. 15. The Point of View (Some Talks and Disputations). Privately printed, 1909. Dark blue smooth buckram, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others trimmed. E4 at end is blank. Armorial bookplate of Arthur Holmes. Dedicated to E[dith] Sfichel]. 16. The Inalienable Heritage and Other Poems. With a Preface by Edith Sichel. Privately printed, 1914. Square 8vo, 6 1/4" x 8", light greenish blue cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, edges cut. Slip inserted re suppliers of copies; also an errata slip (2 errors only).

Association Item 19. Moore, David, and More, Alexander Goodman. Contributions towards a Cybele Hibernica, being Outlines of the Geographical Distribution of Plants in Ireland. Dublin: Hodges, Smith, 1866. Bound half red morocco, fully gilt spine, all edges gilt. Library name stamp on title-Emily Lawless, over which is written "Maggie, April 87" in ink. There are some pencil notes in an unidentified hand of "Additional Plants." This book was in the M. E. Joyce library at Presteigne. LEDWIDGE (Francis) 1891-1917 1. Songs of the Fields. With an Introduction by Lord Dunsany. Herbert Jenkins, 1916. Light green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. H6-H8 at end are 3 leaves carrying adverts only. 2. Songs of Peace. With an Introduction by Lord Dunsany. Herbert Jenkins, 1917. Grey cloth, lettered spine and upper side in dark blue, only lower edges uncut, G8 at end carries adverts only. 3. Last Songs. [With an Introduction by Lord Dunsany.] Herbert Jenkins, 1918. Green cloth, uniform with Songs of the Fields, save that all lettering is in black. All 3 books have same publisher's ornament in blind centre of lower cover. Al before half-title is blank on recto and carries adverts on verso.

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4. The Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge. With Introduction by Lord Dunsany. Herbert Jenkins, 1919. Light green bevelled cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 7 lines between broad gilt bands top and bottom, all edges uncut, frontispiece portrait. In pictorial dust-wrapper (7/6 net).

8. Mimma Bella. Heinemann, 1909. Tall 8vo, 5 3/4" x 9", half cream linen, spine titling label, pale blue board sides, all edges uncut, frontispiece portrait, Preface by the author's widow dated from Florence, November 1908. Printed on rectos of leaves only: pp.[67-68] are blank save for publisher's imprint in 2 lines centre recto.

LEE-HAMILTON (Eugene) 1845-1907 1. The New Medusa and Other Poems. Elliot Stock, 1882. Blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed, blue patterned end-papers. There are considerable alterations and corrections in ink in 2 hands, one of which is the author's. 2. Apollo and Marsyas and Other Poems. Elliot Stock, 1884. Uniform format with New Medusa, end-papers of a different floral pattern in green. Corrections on several pages in the handwriting of the author. 3. Imaginary Sonnets. Elliot Stock, 1888. Half cream parchment, patterned board sides and same end-papers, t.e.g., others uncut. First gathering [A] consists of 5 leaves paginated to X and final gathering H of 3 leaves, of which the final, pp. 101-[102], appears to be a singleton. P.[102] carries only adverts of books "By the same author." 4. The Inferno of Dante. Translated with Plain Notes by Eugene Lee-Hamilton. Grant Richards, 1898. Half cream parchment, blue board sides, top and lower edges uncut, fore-edges trimmed. Q6 at end carries adverts only. 5. Dramatic Sonnets, Poems, and Ballads: Selections from the Poems of Eugene Lee-Hamilton. With an Introduction by William Sharp. Walter Scott Publishing [1903]. A volume of the Canterbury Poets series, edited by William Sharp, dark blue cloth, spine titling label, all edges uncut, 4 leaves of adverts at end. Sharp's Introductory Note is a 28 page essay dated April 1903. 6.

Another copy, identical with above.

7. The Romance of the Fountain. T. Fisher Unwin, 1905. Blue bevelled flecked cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others cut, pp.[275-276] at end are blank save for Edinburgh Press imprint in 3 lines centre recto, followed by 4 pages of Fisher Unwin's New Novels adverts.

Association Items Note: The following books are by Mrs. Lee-Hamilton. 9. The Valley of the Great Shadow. By Annie E. Holdsworth. Heinemann, 1900. Dark green blind stamped cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges uncut, 16 leaves of publisher's adverts at end. A late issue of First Edition sheets has also been noted, all edges trimmed, bound red cloth, black lettered spine and upper side, no adverts at end. 10.

Another copy, identical with above.

11. Great Lowlands. By Annie E. Holdsworth. Hodder & Stoughton, 1901. Red cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side lettered and designed in black, top edges cut, other edges trimmed, pp.[329-332] at end carry adverts only. The book has the price Six Shillings in very small type stamped in an unusual place, lower left-hand margin of title-page. LEFROY (Edward Cracroft) 1855-1891 1. Echoes from Theocritus: A Cycle of Sonnets. Blackheath: H. Burnside, Bookseller [1883]. Consists of 16 leaves (without pagination) sewn into glazed pale greenish wrappers lettered on upper side as a title-page, verso carrying a Note by the author dated 16 January 1883. The first leaf carries only the Dedication (to W. A. Gill) with verso blank. There are 30 sonnets. 2. Windows of the Church and Other Sonnets. Blackheath: H. Burnside, Bookseller [1883]. Identical format with the other 1883 pamphlet: 16 leaves (without pagination), upper wrapper serving as title-page with author's Note dated October 1883 on verso. 3. Echoes from Theocritus and Other Sonnets. Elliot Stock, 1885. Pott 8vo, 5" x 7", dark blue smooth cloth, gilt-lettered in 2 lines on upper side, all edges uncut, yellow end-papers. This is a reprint of the pamphlet

479 LEFROY (Edward Cracroft) 1855-1891 of 1883 with 70 sonnets appended, some of which had appeared in Windows of the Church. Secondary Material 4. Edward Cracroft Lefroy. His Life and Poems. By Wilfred Austin Gill. With a Critical Estimate of the Sonnets by the late John Addington Symonds. John Lane, 1897. Blue vertically ribbed cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 11 lines, t.e.g., others uncut, publisher's 12 page 1897 catalogue at end. Later bound copies of First Edition sheets are noted without catalogue at end, top edges cut plain, lettering at foot of spine simply "London," in place of the 3 line imprint of present copy. Cloth is a different texture and pale greenish in colour. LE GALLIENNE (Richard) 1866-1947 1. Volumes in Folio. C. Elkin Mathews, 1889. Large square 8vo, 7" x 8 3/4", half cream boards with spine titling label, blue board sides, all edges uncut. No. 16 of the Large Paper issue of 50 copies, each numbered and signed by the author, from the library of Charles Plumptre Johnson with his bookplate. 2. Another copy of First Edition, same size as above. Printed entirely upon Japanese vellum, original binding of half cream parchment, spine with 5 raised bands, gilt ruling and lettering in 6 lines, glazed marbled sides, t.e.g., others uncut. Verso of half-title is here blank, which in the handmade paper issue carried the limitation certificate. In both states G6 at end carries an advert for Oblivion's Poppy: Studies of the Forgotten, a volume of prose essays by the same author. This work did not appear under that title. In P. H. Muir's "Elkin Mathews in the 'Nineties" (Book Collector, Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring 1952), he states that 3 copies of Volumes in Folio were printed on Japanese vellum, but not announced for sale, the 2 partners and the author receiving one each. It is therefore unexpected that any copy could be extant not displaying a clear provenance, and I have never seen another such copy. To the best of my recollection, the source from which this one derived was the Sotheby sale of the property of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Welsh-Le Gallienne's brother-in-law and sister.

LE GALLIENNE (Richard) 1866-1947 3. George Meredith: Some Characteristics. With a Bibliography by John Lane. Elkin Mathews, 1890. Tall 8vo, beige smooth buckram, spine titling label, all edges uncut. No. 28 of 75 Large Paper copies signed by the author. The last 4 leaves of final gathering carry publisher's 8 page October 1898 announcements. 4. The Student and the Body-Snatcher and Other Trifles. By Robinson K. Leather and Richard Le Gallienne. Elkin Mathews, 1890. Smooth dark blue buckram, gilt-lettered up spine, all edges uncut. Esher copy with Brett bookplate. 5. Another copy of First Edition, No. 13 of only 50 on large paper printed by John Robb, September 1890. Printed on handmade paper watermarked "Van Gelder"; this copy from the library of Charles Plumptre Johnson, with bookplate. 6. Announcement of the Marriage of Mildred Lee and Richard Le Gallienne, 22 October 1891. Single sheet of laid paper, 7" x 4 3/8", folded once to form a 4 page booklet, printed on red and black at the Chiswick Press. P.[2] has 2 short poems, the first of 5 lines by E[rnest] Rtadford] and the second by R. Le Gtallienne]. An account of this piece of ephemera in The Quest of the Golden Boy (1960-see below) reveals that this is the first issue of the Announcement, which had to be suppressed when the couple were actually married by the aged Rector of St. Andrews, and not by Mr. Pridge. In the second printing another interesting correction was made in Ernest Radford's poem, where "puny priest" became "holy priest." 7. The Book-Bills of Narcissus. Derby: Frank Murray, 1891. Tall 8vo, cream parchment wrappers folded over stiff boards, upper side lettered in black in 7 lines, all edges uncut. A volume of the Moray Library; one of 100 copies on large paper. 8. English Poems. 25 copies Privately printed on Japanese paper for Richard Le Gallienne, Elkin Mathews, John Lane and their friends, 1892. Copy No. 11, numbered on verso title-page. Cream boards, all edges uncut (presumbly lacks wrappers folded over the boards). In this state p. xii of the Contents has a sixth section containing "Three Poems printed for private collection only." These occupy pp. 131-134.

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9. English Poems. Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1892. Tall 8vo, 5 1/2" x 9 1/4", deep cream boards with spine titling label, all edges uncut. No. 14 of 150 copies on large paper signed by the author. This state does not have the private poems but has 8 pages of publisher's adverts dated October 1892. With this state is presented a copy of the private 4 page booklet "Three Poems for Private Circulation Only." Printed on same sized paper but not paginated, and no copy of the book contains these pages. Besides the few copies which exist, the only source for the text of these poems is the issue of English Poems limited to 25 copies, where the sheets on Japanese vellum form part of the book. Charles Plumptre Johnson's copy with bookplate.

14. Another copy of the First (and only) Edition: this is the normal state printed on handmade paper. Loosely inserted is the Seasonal compliments slip of the Bodley Head, printed in red on same handmade paper. Only a small number of copies printed, probably less than 100 of the 2 styles combined. The only other distinction between them is that the handmade paper issue is in pale blue wrappers.

10. Another copy. Cream boards with spine titling label, all edges uncut. The ordinary state consisting of 800 copies for England and America. Identical with Large Paper issue, this consists of 76 leaves; the private Japanese vellum issue consisted of 74 leaves. However, in those copies the end-papers appear to be of the same quality Japanese vellum as used for text.

16. Another copy of the First Edition: the issue on ordinary paper (4 1/4" x 7"), half white boards with spine titling label, cream board sides, all edges uncut. Loosely inserted is an original prospectus in the form of the title-page (but dated 1892) with order form printed on verso.

11. The Religion of a Literary Man. Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1893. Large Paper copy, 5 3/4" x 9 1/4", only 250 printed. Panelled light brown sprinkled boards, gilt spine, all edges uncut, printed in red and black throughout. Following p.[120] are 8 pages of "Books by Richard Le Gallienne" dated November 1893 and publisher's 16 page September 1893 catalogue, all printed on text paper. 12. In Praise of Bishop Valentine. Printed for Private Circulation, 1893. Cream vellum with yapp edges and green silk ties, all edges uncut, printed in red and black at Chiswick Press and limited to 125 copies on handmade paper. This anonymously issued anthology must be considered the work of Frank E. Bliss. In his Preface dated 14 February 1893, he states: "Mr. Le Gallienne has kindly written an article on St. Valentine's Day in the Olden time, which adds much to the interest and value of the book." This essay occupies 32 pages. 13. Limited Editions: A Prose Fancy. Together with Confessio Amantis, a Sonnet. By Richard Le Gallienne. Privately printed for Richard Le Gallienne, Elkin Mathews, John Lane and their friends, Christmas, 1893. Cream semi-stiff wrappers with white linen spine, upper side lettered in black, all edges uncut. One of a very small number of copies printed on Japanese vellum.

15. Hallam, Arthur Henry. Poems. Together with his Essay on The Lyrical Poems of Alfred Tennyson. Edited with an Introduction by Richard Le Gallienne. Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1893. Cream boards, white spine, all edges uncut, one of only 75 copies printed on large handmade paper (5 1/2" x 8 1/8").

17. Prose Fancies. With a Lithographed portrait of the Author by R. Wilson Steer. Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1894. Tall 8vo, 5 7/8" x 9 1/4", cream boards with spine titling label, all edges uncut, one of 100 copies on handmade paper. 18. Prose Fancies. Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1894. The ordinary issue, 4 3/4" x 7 3/4", dark blue vertically ribbed cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut. This state has, following p. 204, 4 pages of books "By the same Author" and publisher's 16 page March 1894 catalogue. 19. Prose Fancies. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1894. Reddish brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges uncut. The American First Edition, appears to be from English typesetting though without Constable's imprint at foot of p. 204. The new title-page has an engraved ornamental border, reproduction of a photograph replaces Steer's portrait, and the Note on periodical printings (pp. vii/viii) is omitted, as well as all adverts at end. 20. Robert Louis Stevenson: An Elegy and Other Poems Mainly Personal. Boston: Copeland & Day, 1895. First American Edition, tall 8vo, 5 1/8" x 8 3/8", drab brown boards, lettered in black up spine and on upper side, all edges uncut, colophon on p.[37] states limitation to 500 copies printed at Everett Press, Boston.

481 LE GALLIENNE (Richard) 1866-1947 21. Robert Louis Stevenson: An Elegy and Other Poems Mainly Personal. John Lane, 1895. First London Edition, tall 8vo, 5 7/8" x 9 1/4", cream boards, spine titling label, title-page is an etched plate by D. Y. Cameron, all edges uncut, 3 spare titling labels tipped-in at end. Edition limited to 75 copies on large handmade paper. This was Charles Plumptre Johnson's copy with bookplate. 22. The Book-Bills of Narcissus. An Account Rendered by Richard Le Gallienne, with a frontispiece by Robert Fowler. 3rd ed., revised. John Lane, 1895. Dark blue vertically ribbed cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut, 16 page 1895 catalogue at end. Chapter 5 is entirely new. 23. Holly and Mistletoe: A Book of Christmas Verse. Marcus Ward [1895]. In original binding of padded light stone coloured linen with green silk ties. Upper cover is lettered "Holly and/Mistletoe/By/E. Nesbit/Norman Gale/Richard Le Gallienne." The book consists of 4 stiff cards hinged-in on linen guards, printed in red and black with engraved title-page and 5 illustrations by F. A. There is also a design on laid-down rear end-lining. Le Gallienne's contribution is a sonnet commencing "Christmas, sad heart-what matters it to thee?" The Esher copy, with Brett bookplate. 24. The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance. John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1896. Dark green smooth cloth, spine and upper side with elaborate gilt-lettering and overall design, t.e.g., others uncut. Single leaf of adverts following p.[310], which is blank, advertising 2 books "By the same author," published by John Lane, 140 Fifth Avenue, New York—verso p.[312] blank. Bears stamp of Boston Bookbinding Co. bottom right-hand corner of lower laid-down end-paper. The gold cover design is the work of Will Bradley (1868-1962). 25. Another copy with same title-page as above but imprint of "University Press: John Wilson" in 2 lines is in centre verso and there is no copyright notice by John Lane. It is in the plain uniform Le Gallienne binding of dark blue vertically ribbed cloth, all edges uncut. Following p.[310] which is blank is John Lane's 12 page catalogue dated 1896, which advertises this book as "In Preparation." This was Max Beerbohm's copy, from the Sotheby sale of his library, 12 December 1960, lot 140, and is inscribed on blank leaf before half-title: "Max Beerbohm, from his friend Richard Le Gallienne. January 16, 1897."

LE GALLIENNE (Richard) 1866-1947 26. Another copy of the same edition, same binding &c. In this copy 8 pages of "Books by Richard Le Gallienne" follow p.[310] in which the first entry is the present book with "Some Press Notices of the American Edition [Second Edition}." Following this is John Lane's 12 page 1897 catalogue, in which The Quest appears as published-the words "In Preparation" being removed. 27. In Memory of Robert Burns: Selected Poems and Songs. With an Introduction by Richard Le Gallienne. Marcus Ward, 1896. Cream parchment-vellum, elaborately gilt-designed and lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. No. 143 of the Edition-de-luxe of 200 copies on handmade paper, frontispiece portrait, MS facsimile 4 pages and 3 other plates. 28. Another copy of First Edition: this is the ordinary issue 4 5/8" x 7 3/8", bound in blue buckram with same blocked designs in silver, top edges silver, others uncut, same frontipiece, MS facsimile and 3 plates. Identical copies have also been noted in green buckram binding. 29. Prose Fancies. Second Series. John Lane, 1896. The uniform blue cloth binding, all edges uncut, 2 leaves of adverts of "Books by Richard Le Gallienne" follow p.[196] at end, with John Lane's 16 page 1896 catalogue. Max Beerbohm's copy, from the Sotheby sale of his library, 12 December 1960. Inscribed on half-title: "To Max Beerbohm, the Boy Brummell of Letters—this my Rustic Muse! Richard Le Gallienne, July 10 '96." 30. Another copy of First Edition, identical with above, save inscription. Retained in the collection because it is in fine unopened state unlike Beerbohm's copy. 31. Prose Fancies. Second Series. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone, 1896. Dark red cloth with elaborately gilt-designed covers, t.e.g., others uncut. Contents the same as London edition, though no list is provided of titles. Reset at Lakeside Press, Chicago~a smaller sized 8vo with quite different pagination. The notice at end of original English publication of the various articles no longer appears. 32. Retrospective Reviews: A Literary Log. 2 vols. John Lane, 1896. Uniform blue cloth binding, gilt spines, all edges uncut. S6 at end of both volumes is blank. In second it is followed by 2 leaves of adverts of "Books by Richard Le Gallienne" and John Lane's 16 page 1896 catalogue.

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Max Beerbohm's copy, from the Sotheby sale of his library, 12 December 1960. Inscribed on half-title of first volume: "Max from Dick, Chiddingfold, Oct. 21, '99," in the author's inimitable hand. There is an amusing note on a sentence at the foot of p. 225 in Beerbohm's autograph: "and a grave admonition to not split one's infinitives, Dick!" As a sample of Beerbohm's library, the condition of this set could be described as positively princely.

39. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. New York: John Lane, 1897. Tall 8vo, 5 5/8" x 9", light coloured boards, lettering label up spine, all edges uncut. The limitation certificate is printed in light brown ink on verso of front free end-paper. No. 757 of 1,250 copies signed by the author. P.[109] carries imprint of Will Bradley's Wayside Press, Springfield, November 1897 with verso blank, followed by another blank leaf. This edition ends with a quatrain commencing, "Ah, when at last the shrouded Saki, Death," while in the London edition 8 more quatrains follow.

33. Another set, unopened throughout and virtually new. 34. If I Were God: A Conversation. James Bowden, 1897. Tall narrow 8vo, 3 3/4" x 7 1/2", blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, all edges uncut, Al and A2 are blanks before half-title: E3-E6 are 4 leaves carrying adverts, followed by 2 more blanks completing the gathering. Printed throughout in blue ink. 36. Another copy, in the cheaper format, glazed yellow wrappers lettered up the spine and in coloured pictorial design on upper side, all edges uncut, the first and last of the blanks used for folding over of wrappers, identical in every respect save that title-page and upper wrapper stamped "Second EditionFifteenth Thousand." 36. Walton, Izaak, and Cotton, Robert. The Compleat Angler. Edited with an Introduction by Richard Le Gallienne. Illustrated by Edmund H. New. John Lane, 1897. Large square 8vo, 7" x 9 3/4", the original 13 parts as issued from April 1896 to April 1897 in pale greenish wrappers lettered and designed in brown, all edges uncut. All the preliminaries, frontispiece, title-page &c. are in the final part. 37. Another copy, but this is the bound, book-form, issue, light green cloth with cover design and lettering in darker green, top edges cut and stained green, others uncut. The List of Illustrations fills 12 pages. 38. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: A Paraphrase from Several Literal Translations. Grant Richards, 1897. Tall narrow 8vo, 4 3/8" x 9 1/4", cream boards with yapp edges, all edges uncut, spine and upper side lettered in black, F4 at end carries adverts only on recto, verso blank save for printer's imprint in 2 lines at foot.

40. The Romance of Zion Chapel. John Lane, 1898. Black cloth, spine and upper side elaborately gilt-designed and lettered, t.e.g., others uncut, pp.[298-300] at end are blank. Printed by John Wilson & Son, Cambridge, U.S.A. Verso of title-page has 6 lines of type, including "First Edition." Inscribed on half-title: "For Mitchell's mother, with congratulations on her Boy from Richard Le Gallienne. March 25, "98." This is the American First Edition, printed in the U.S.A. In the list of Le Gallienne's publications appended to The Quest of the Golden Boy (1960), the authors give credit for the cover decoration to Aubrey Beardsley, presumably on the strength of the signature 'B' at foot (a signature which Beardsley never used). It was the work of Will Bradley (1868-1962) and is one of his most successful designs. 41. Travels in England. With 6 illustrations by Herbert Railton. New York and London: John Lane, 1900. Light green cloth, spine lettered and ruled in black, upper side designed in darker green and lettered in black, t.e.g., others uncut. Pp.[292-294] at end are blank. Printed at University Press, Cambridge, U.S.A. with imprint at foot verso title-page. The copyright notice is in 3 lines at top verso title-page. 42. Travels in England. Grant Richards, 1900. Light green cloth, spine lettered in 6 lines in darker green sides blank, all edges cut. Same American printer's imprint verso of title-page, but copyright notice is dropped to centre. It is also to be noted in this edition designed for English circulation that the price of the author's Prose Fancies (second series), which was $1.25, is omitted from the notice on verso of half-title.

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43. George Meredith: Some Characteristics. With a Bibliography by John Lane. 5th ed., revised. John Lane, 1900. Uniform blue cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut. A new section, "Postscript: 1899," before the bibliography at end occupies 25 pages. Belonged to Geoffrey Scott and has his signature dated 31 May 1902.

49. The Love-Letters of the King, or, the Life Romantic. Boston: Little Brown, 1901. Green cloth, spine and upper side lettered and designed in cream enamel, only lower edges uncut, pp.[282-284] at end are blank, also 2 blank leaves before half-title. Inscribed by the author: "Ethel, from Dick. December 1911."

44. Sleeping Beauty and Other Prose Fancies. John Lane, 1900. Uniform blue cloth, gilt spine, all edges uncut. The sheets are printed in America and have imprint of University Press, Cambridge U.S.A. verso of title-page at foot.

50. Odes from the Divan of Hafiz. Freely rendered from literal translations by Richard Le Gallienne. Duckworth, 1905. Large square 8vo, 6 3/4" x 8 3/4", smooth pale blue buckram, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., uncut. This is the first London edition: the title-page, which is a cancel leaf pasted in, carries imprint of Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass on verso at foot. Le Gallienne's Introduction, a 15 page essay, is dated New York, Easter Sunday, 1903. 300 copies had been Privately printed by the Heintzmann Press, Boston, in 1903.

45. The Worshipper of the Image. John Lane, 1900. Dark red cloth, gilt-lettered and designed on spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. Printed at the University Press, Cambridge, U.S.A., this is the American issue, pp.[145-146] carry adverts of books "By the Same Author" followed by John Lane's List of Books, New York 1899-a 32 page list, the last page being blank. 46. The Worshipper of the Image. John Lane, 1900. Blue cloth, gilt spine, top edges cut, others uncut. The English issue of same American printed sheets, with same leaf of adverts at end, but followed by Lane's 16 page 1899 Vigo Street catalogue, in which prices quoted are in sterling. 47. The Worshipper of the Image. John Lane, 1901. Another London edition: it appears to consist of same American printed sheets, but has a cancel title-page pasted on stub: verso is blank and there is no printer's imprint anywhere. Same one leaf of adverts at end but no catalogue bound-in. Leaf before title-page is blank and there is no half-title. Uniform blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered in only 14 lines (i.e., "John Lane" missing). A slightly smaller volume, all edges flush-cut. 48. Fifty Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Paraphrased from Literal Translations. Wausan, Wisconsin: The Philosopher Press, 1901. Square 8vo, 6 1/4" x 8 1/4", drab brown boards, both sides lettered in gilt and black, all edges uncut. No. 192 of 200 copies, printed for private circulation only for James Carleton Young and his friends, each signed by the author. There is a presentation inscription in author's hand on end-paper: "Margaret: Christmas: 1901 New York."

51. Painted Shadows. John Lane, 1908. Light green cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered and designed in cream enamel, top edges stained green, others uncut, 8 leaves of Lane's adverts at end. This book was first published by Little, Brown & Co. in Boston, 1904. 52. Omar Repentant. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1908. Oblong size 6 1/2" x 5 1/4", half blue linen, lettered in red on label up spine, paler blue board sides, t.e.g., others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (75 cents net). Publisher's compliments slip inserted. 53. Omar Repentant. Grant Richards, 1908. The London edition is a similar sized book, 6 3/4" x 4 1/2", all edges uncut. Bound in cream parchment, gilt-lettered up spine and in 2 lines on upper side. Unlike the New York edition, this has the quatrains numbered i-xxxvii. 54. October Vagabonds. Illustrations by Thomas Fogarty. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1910. Pale grey boards with coloured design on upper side, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, t.e.g., others cut, pictorial end-papers, in printed dust-jacket ($2.00 net). The London edition (John Lane) was dated 1911. 55. Attitudes and Avowals, with Some Retrospective Reviews. New York: John Lane, 1910. Pale blue smooth cloth, spine and upper side ruled in cream enamel, lettered in gilt, top edges stained blue, others uncut. Printed in New York by the Publishers Printing Company. Lane's edition issued in London was dated 1911.

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56. New Poems. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head; New York: John Lane, 1910. Uniform blue vertically ribbed cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 9 lines (with "The/Bodley Head" at foot), t.e.g., others uncut. With Ballantyne printer's imprint in 2 lines verso of title at foot.

Rathmell Wilson's copy with his signature, London, 4 July 1926. At the end he has inserted typescript of his poem, "To John Davidson-dead: April 1909," on 2 4to sheets, signed at end.

57. Orestes: A Tragedy. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1910. Half dark blue ribbed cloth, lettered in red on label up spine, lighter blue board sides, t.e.g., others uncut, pp.[51-54] are blank leaves at end.

64. The Magic Seas: A Romance. Humphrey Toulmin, at the Cayme Press, 1930. Light blue flecked linen, spine lettered in darker blue, only lower edges uncut. This is the first issue with original uncancelled title-page.

58. The Lonely Dancer and Other Poems. With a frontispiece by Irma Le Gallienne. London: John Lane, 1914. Uniform dark blue vertically ribbed cloth (but in a slightly larger size than earlier publications) spine gilt-lettered in 8 lines, all edges uncut, pp.[187-188] are blank at end.

65. Another copy; this is the second state with a newly printed title-page pasted on stub of the cancelled version. Variant imprint on recto and on verso in centre is—"This book was published/in the United States/under the title/'There was a Ship'." The binding is rough calico-grained blue cloth, spine with same lettering but in black.

59. Thomas Bird Mosher: An Appreciation. By R. Le Gallienne. Portland, Maine: Privately printed for their Friends, 1914. 32 pages (including blanks) sewn into pale green wrappers, upper side lettered in red and black, all edges uncut.

66. The Magic Seas: A Romance. Toronto: Doubleday, Doran & Gundy, 1930. This Canadian edition, like the New York one, may precede the London edition. Black cloth lettered in blue, frontispiece by Erie.

60. The Silk-Hat Soldier and Other Poems. John Lane, 1915. Mauve wrappers lettered in red up spine and in 3 lines on upper side, below which is a pictorial illustration in blue, top edges cut, others uncut, printer's imprint of Ballantyne Press verso title-page at foot. The first leaf before half-title is blank. 61. Old Love Stories Retold. John Lane, 1924. Uniform dark blue cloth, gilt spine, top edges stained blue, others cut, in printed dust-jacket (7/6 net). 62. Langtry, Lillie, Lady de Bathe. The Days I Knew. With a Foreword by Richard Le Gallienne. With 17 illustrations. Hutchinson [1925]. Tall 8vo, 6" x 9 1/4", blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, only lower edges uncut. The book opens with Le Gallienne's 6 page essay and closes with his 42 line poem "To Mrs. Langtry on her Departure from America." Inscribed: "To Madame de Bittencourt, wishing her many birthdays each happier than the previous one. Lillie Langtry. Paris, Oct. 10th, 1925." 63. The Romantic 90's. G. P. Sons, 1926. Tall 8vo, 5 1/2" x 8 blue vertically ribbed cloth, spine in 12 lines and upper side in 2. edges uncut.

Putnam's 7/8", dark gilt-lettered Only lower

67. The Modern Book of American Verse. Edited with an Introduction by Richard Le Gallienne. New York: Sun Dial Press, 1939. Light blue cloth, spine lettered in darker blue. This is a reprint of the Boni & Liveright edition of 1925. 68. The Cry of the Little Peoples. Written in 1903. With a Note by Eva Le Gallienne. 1941. 16 pages (without pagination) sewn into bright blue wrappers, upper side lettered in darker blue, edges cut. Printed by Richard Ellis and The Haddon Craftsmen of Camden, N. J., 1941. The editor's note is signed in mauve ink-E. Le Gallienne. The First Edition had appeared in New York in 1903 from the Roycroft Shop. 69.

Another copy, identical with above.

70. From a Paris Garret. With an Introduction by Grant Richards and 8 plates in colours by Barday. Richards Press, 1943. Tall 8vo, 5 3/4" x 8 7/8", purple grained cloth, gilt-lettered down the spine, in coloured pictorial dust wrapper (21s. net). Edition limited to 1,000 copies. This book was originally published in New York by Ives Washburn in 1936.

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LESLIE (Sir Shane) 1885-1971 3. A Sketch of the Oxford Movement. By Shane Leslie, B.A. Cantab. With an Introduction by Sir Henry Bellingham. Dublin: Catholic Truth Society of Ireland, 1909. 36 pages, metal fastened into grey-green wrappers lettered in black, edges cut. 4. The End of a Chapter. Constable, 1916. Drab brown boards, light plum red cloth spine lettered in black in 7 lines, upper side in 2, all edges uncut. 5. Verses in Peace and War. Burns & Oates, 1916. Purple linen, upper side gilt-lettered in 3 lines with decoration, the whole within ornamental frame, t.e.g., others uncut, frontispiece portrait. 6. Another copy of the First Edition: a later war-time binding in which only the 2 lines of title and the ornament are in gilt on upper side. The author's name and the border are blind-stamped; top edges are also left plain cut. 7. The Celt and the World: A Study in the Relation of Celt and Teuton in History. New York: Scribner's, 1917. Dark green cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, top edges cut, fore-edges uncut, lower edges lightly trimmed. 8. The Irish Issue in Its American Aspect. T. Fisher Unwin, 1918. Pale green linen, lettered and ruled in dark red spine and upper side, top edges cut, others uncut. Printed by the Scribner Press, New York. Blank leaf before half-title and pp.[208-210] are blank at end. 9. Henry Edward Manning: His Life and Labours. With 6 illustrations. 2nd ed., revised. Burns, Oates, 1921. Tall 8vo, 5 3/4" x 9", red cloth, gilt spine, top edges cut, others uncut. The First Edition bears the same date. 10. The Oppidan. Chatto & Windus, 1922. Dark blue cloth, spine and upper side lettered in light blue, top edges stained blue, other edges cut. P. 366 is blank save for Constable's imprint at foot, followed by a final blank leaf. 11. The Miracles of King Henry VI. With Introductions by Father Ronald Knox and Shane Leslie. Cambridge University Press, 1923. Tall 8vo, 5 1/2" x 8 3/4", half black linen, cream board sides, spine gilt-lettered, upper side black lettered in ornamental panel, top edges cut, others uncut, frontispiece, first leaf blank before half-title.

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12. Doomsland. Chatto & Windus, 1923. Light green cloth, spine and upper side lettered black, top edges stained light blue, only lower edges uncut. 2A2-2A3 at end carry only publisher's adverts, followed by one blank leaf.

18. Memoirs of Brigadier-General Gordon Shephard. Edited by Shane Leslie. Privately printed, 1924. Tall 8vo, 5 5/8" x 8 3/4", half beige linen, brown board sides, printed labels on spine and upper side, top edges cut, others uncut, end-papers to match boards, 7 plates and 2 folding maps, pp.[234-236] at end are blank.

13. Mark Sykes: His Life and Letters. With an Introduction by the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill. Frontispiece portrait and 30 cartoons by Mark Sykes. Cassell, 1923. Tall 8vo, 6 1/4" x 9 1/2", bright blue cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, all edges cut, publisher's blind "Presentation Copy" stamp on title-page. Printer's imprint at foot of p. 308 has a second line~F.20.323. 14. Corvo, Frederick, Baron. In His Own Image. With an Introduction by Shane Leslie. John Lane, 1924. Flecked blue linen, spine gilt-lettered, upper side lettered in blind in oblong frame, all edges cut. P. 421 at end carries only a 3 line quotation from Martial with verso blank, followed by one blank leaf. Leslie's Introduction is a 45 page Essay from the London Mercury (September 1923), first reprinted here. 15. Masquerades: Studies in the Morbid. John Long, 1924. Light blue cloth, spine and upper side black lettered, spine black ruled top and bottom, upper side blind-stamped with double frame. U8 is blank at end followed by Long's 32 page Winter 1924 catalogue, dated 9.24 at foot of p. 30 and followed by one leaf blank save for his imprint centre recto. Inscribed: "For Ruby, this and all I ever write. S. L." This is presumably a presentation to Ruby Melvill. 16. "Inspiration" [A Short Story]. Pp. 43-58, 8 leaves from the typesetting of the author's Masquerades, published by John Long in 1924. Neatly made-up in red marbled semi-stiff wrappers, all edges cut. Inscribed on end-paper, there being no title-page: "This morbid story is to wish you a merry Xmas, Shane Leslie, 1931." It is not known whether the author had other similar booklets so prepared. 17. Plato's Symposium or Supper. Newly translated by Francis Birrell and Shane Leslie. The Nonesuch Press [1924]. Half cream smooth buckram, designed board sides, spine gilt-lettered, all edges uncut, pp.[107-110] at end are 2 blanks; first leaf before title-page is also blank. No. 990 of 1,050 copies on Arnold unbleached handmade paper, in printed dust-jacket (6 shillings).

19. Bibiena, Jean-Gallide. The Fairy Doll (La poupee). Translated from the French by H. B. V. With an Introduction by Shane Leslie. Chapman & Hall, 1925. Tall 8vo, 5 3/4" x 9", decorated boards, beige linen spine gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others uncut. No. 454 of 1,000 copies, pp.[154-156] at end are blank. 20. An Anthology of Catholic Poets. Compiled by Shane Leslie. Burns Dates, 1925. The India paper issue, green cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered and designed, t.e.g., others cut. Leslie contributes a 16 page Introduction. 21. George the Fourth. E. Benn, 1926. Tall 8vo, 5 1/2" x 8 5/8", dark blue buckram, spine gilt-lettered, gilt ornament centre of upper side, only lower edges uncut, 11 illustrations. This copy has a presentation inscription from the publisher to Joyce E. Healey. 22. Another copy, identical with above save inscription. 23. The Cantab. Chatto & Windus, 1926. Pale blue smooth cloth, lettered in darker blue on spine and upper side, only lower edges uncut, in pictorial dust-jacket (7/6 net). S8 at end, pp.[287-288] are blank, followed by 2 leaves of publisher's adverts. This first impression was withdrawn from circulation and replaced by a second having slight textual revision. Inserted is the author's autograph inscription to Ruby [Miller] written on a card in 10 lines, at the head of which he has fashioned an Irish Cross in a circle, signed in full and dated Easter 1926. 24. The Skull of Swift: An Extempore Exhumation. Chatto & Windus, 1928. Light grey cloth, spine gilt-lettered, all edges cut, 8 illustrations. "Printed in the United States of America," verso of title-page at top. 25. The Poems of Shane Leslie. At the Cayme Press, 1928. Royal 8vo, 7 1/2" x 10 1/2", smooth black buckram, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges cut, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket (15/-). No. 31 of only 350 copies printed, each signed by the author.

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LESLIE (Sir Shane) 1885-1971 26. Louys, Pierre. Aphrodite: A Novel of Ancient Morals. With an Introduction by Shane Leslie. The Fortune Press [1928]. Tall 8vo, 6 1/4" x 9 3/4", bound in cream vellum with yapp fore-edges, spine gilt-lettered, all edges uncut, No. 13 of 1,075 copies on English unbleached handmade paper, imprint in centre of last leaf recto set in 3 lines-"Printed at Liege by the/Imprimerie Vaillant-Carmanna/1928." 27. Louys, Pierre. The Twilight of the Nymphs. Translated by Phillis Duveen. With an Introduction by Shane Leslie. The Fortune Press [1928]. Tall 8vo, 6 1/8" x 9 1/2", decorated boards, half black buckram, spine gilt-lettered, top edges cut, others uncut, No. 462 of 1,200 copies on English unbleached handmade paper. P.[107] carries printer's imprint similar to Aphrodite, followed by 2 blank leaves. Date appears only in colophon in both these volumes. 28. Mauge, Gilbert [E. de La Rochefoucauld]. The Unknown Quantity. Translated from the French by Shane Leslie. The Fortune Press [1928]. Square 8vo, 5 1/2" x 7 3/4", beige canvas, spine gilt-lettered, top edges cut, others uncut. Imprint of the Whitefriars Press with limitation certificate on verso of half-title: No. 269 of 800 copies oh English handmade paper. There were also 45 copies on Vellum Paper. 29. The Ghost in the Isle of Wight. Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1929. Grey boards, lettered and decorated in green, end-papers to match, in similar designed dust-jacket (Price 6s. net), all edges uncut. No. 15 of the Woburn Books; Copy No. 48 of 500 numbered and signed by the author. 30. The Anglo-Catholic: A Sequel to "The Cantab." Chatto, 1929. Smooth light red cloth, lettered in black on spine and upper side, top edges stained red, only lower edges uncut, in pictorial dust-jacket (7s. 6d. net). 31. Jutland, a Fragment of Epic. With a Preface by Commander Augustus Agar, V.C. Ernest Benn, 1930. Light blue buckram, spine gilt-lettered, all edges cut, pp.[204-206] blank at end. Inscribed: "Patricia Latham from Shane Leslie as a poet to a poetess. In memory of Hurstmonceaux, June 26, 1937." 32. Another copy, identical but without presentation.

LESLIE (Sir Shane) 1886-1971 33. Memoir of John Edward Courtenay Bodley. J. Cape, 1930. Tall 8vo, 5 3/4" x 9", green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, all edges cut, 8 illustrations. 34. Studies in Sublime Failure. E. Benn, 1932. Uniform format with George the Fourth, frontispiece of 5 portraits. With the author's autograph signature in ink. 35. Change: A Review of Eton in the Last Hundred Years. 1932. Large 8vo, 8 1/8" x 11", printed in double columns, 61 pages, profuse illustrations and an advertiser at front and end. Blue and white printed wrappers. Shane Leslie's contribution is "Eton Memory." 36. The Etonian Review. July 1933. Uniform with above: "There was once . . . a time when we thought of calling this paper 'Change': of making it, in fact, a new edition of the light blue magazine presented to your gaze exactly a year ago"—from the Foreword by the editors. 81 pages, profuse illustrations and adverts fore and aft. Shane Leslie's contribution is "Doctor T. C. Porter." 37. Poems and Ballads. E. Benn, 1933. Smooth cream boards, beige linen spine lettered in green, top edges stained red, others cut, in printed dust-jacket (6s. net). 38. The Passing Chapter. Cassell, 1934. Orange-red cloth, spine gilt-lettered and ruled, edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (5s. net). 39. American Wonderland: Memories of Four Tours in the United States of America (1911-1935). Michael Joseph, 1936. Tall 8vo, 6" x 9 1/4", red cloth, lettered in silver spine and upper side, only lower edges uncut, yellow end-papers, 16 plates. 40. The Dublin Review. Centenary Number, 1836-1936. April 1936. Green wrappers lettered in black, all edges cut. Price 3s. 6d. The first contribution is "Centennial Ode" by Shane Leslie, who had edited this journal from 1916 to 1926. The first printing of this poem of 123 lines. 41. Men Were Different: Five Studies in Late Victorian Biography. Michael Joseph, 1937. White flecked canvas, spine lettered in green, edges cut (though many lower edges have escaped the guillotine), yellow end-papers. There was a different (probably primary) binding of brown cloth with spine lettered in silver.

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42. Carbery, Mary. The Farm by Lough Gur. With an Introduction by Shane Leslie and Decorations by Elizabeth Corsellis. Longmans, 1937. Tall 8vo, 5 1/2" x 8 3/4", bright green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, top edges stained green, fore-edges cut, lower edges uncut, in pictorial dust-jacket (10/6 net). First leaf before half-title is blank, as is last leaf pp.[283-284], save for printer's imprint in 3 lines centre recto.

50. Trollope, Anthony. Phineas Finn. With a Preface by Shane Leslie and Illustrations by T. L. B. Huskinson. 2 vols. Oxford University Press, 1949. The Oxford Trollope: Crown Edition, brown buckram, gilt spines, only lower edges uncut, in printed dust-jackets, boxed as issued (30s. net).

43. The Film of Memory. Michael Joseph, 1938. Tall 8vo, 5 1/2" x 9", brownish orange cloth, spine lettered and ruled in silver, top eges stained to match cloth, other edges cut, in printed dust-jacket (15/- net), yellow end-papers. 44. Sir Evelyn Ruggles-Brise: A Memoir of the Founder of Borstal. Compiled by Shane Leslie. John Murray, 1938. Green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, edges cut, 8 plates, pp.[227-228] at end are blank. Some copies have an erratum slip tipped-in at p. 88 but this copy has not. 45. Mrs. Fitzherbert: A Life Chiefly from Unpublished Sources. Burns, Oates, 1939. Tall 8vo, 5 1/4" x 8 3/4", green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, top edges stained green, others cut, coloured frontispiece and illustrations. 46. The Letters of Mrs. Fitzherbert and Connected Papers. Being the Second Volume of the Life of Mrs. Fitzherbert. Burns, Oates, 1940. Uniform format with previous volume, in pictorial dust-jacket (15/net). 47. The Irish Tangle for English Readers. Macdonald [1946]. Tall 8vo, 5 1/2" x 8 3/4", dark green cloth, gilt spine, top edges stained to match cloth, others cut, pp.[255-256] at end are blank. Inscribed: "To David T. Mumford, this solitary example of my works in East Grinstead. Shane Leslie. May 22, 1954." 48. Another copy of the First Edition, this one with the coloured printed dust-jacket (10/6 net). 49. Magor, Nancy, and Woods, Margaret Murray. Life Marches On. Foreword by Shane Leslie. Skeffmgton & Son [1946]. Cream coloured linen, spine lettered in silver, edges cut.

51. The Rubaiyat of the Mystics: A Recolouring of the Tiles which Edward Fitzgerald Reglazed from the Poetry of Omar the Persian. With an Introduction by Shane Leslie. Dublin: Browne & Nolan, 1950. 32 pages plus 2 blank leaves at beginning and end, cream wrappers lettered in black on upper side, edges cut. 52. Salutation to Five. Hollis & Carter, 1951. Grey-blue linen, gilt-lettered spine on red titling panel, top edges stained red, others cut, in printed dust-jacket (10s. 6d. net), pp.[157-158] at end are blank. 53. Shane Leslie's Ghost Book. Hollis & Carter, 1955. Blue linen, spine gilt-lettered, top edges stained blue, others cut. 54. Edward Tennyson Reed, 1860-1933. A Memoir compiled by Shane Leslie from an incomplete autobiography. Heinemann, 1957. Blue linen, spine gilt-lettered, top edges stained blue, others cut, in pictorial dust-jacket (25s. net). Profuse illustrations of E. T. Reed's caricatures (selection by Kenneth Bird). 55. The Cantuarian. Vol. 27, No. 4, December 1957. Large square 8vo, 7 1/4" x 9 1/2", cream wrappers lettered on upper side in dark blue, edges cut, 6 plates. Shane Leslie contributes "Memoirs of a Victorian Schoolboy" and there is an account by J. G. U. on Sir Shane's talk on psychical research, delivered on 27 October. 56. Long Shadows. John Murray, 1966. Tall 8vo, 5 3/8" x 8 1/2", plum red wrappers, all edges cut. Upper wrapper lettered in black-"Long Shadows/by/Shane Leslie/John Murray/21st October, 1865." Pp.[x], 282, followed by 6 blank leaves. The "Illustrations" leaf [ix-x] is not completed, but there are 4 pages of plates (printed on both sides). This book was published in pale green cloth, gilt-lettered, dated 1966: the present is an early proof copy.

489 LESLIE (Sir Shane) 1885-1971 Manuscript 57. Original MS on 19 quarto sheets of pale blue notepaper (versos only) headed 25 Boulevard Flandrin, Passy 99.62. Size 8" x 10 1/2". The first sheet is arranged as a title-page--"The Irreverence of God/An/ Apocalyptic Phantasy" [crossed through and changed to "Satire]/By/Shane Leslie/1926/ Fifty Copies Privately printed"; following 18 pages closely filled (30 lines to the page) and signed at foot of last leaf. The whole is in the author's clear autograph, with only a few corrections or revisions on most pages. D. J. Hall's Some Uncollected Authors, XLVIII: Shane Leslie makes no reference to this work, Privately printed or otherwise, nor to its contribution to any anthology. Together with the manuscript is preserved a crown 8vo booklet, sewn into brown plain wrappers, presumably prepared for the author. It is an excerpt from John Gawsworth's anthology, Full Score (Rich & Cowan, 1933, pp.[6]-18). The laid-down first page is made out as a title by the author in ink-"Twelve Copies/of which this is/I/Shane Leslie/for A. J. A. Symons." This printed version follows the text of the manuscript, including the corrections. It appears to be the first, and only, printing of the work. Note: See the C. Lovat Fraser collection for Bog Love: Poem by Shane Leslie. It had first been printed in Verses in Peace and War (1916). The Padraic Colum collection contains copies of the First and Second Editions of Eyes of Youth (Herbert & Daniel, 1910 and 1911). The First Edition has a presentation inscription from Shane Leslie, also a transcription of an original poem to the recipient, John Stretford Collins, dated Lent 1911. In this book, also, was first printed Leslie's poem "Fleet Street." LEVY (Amy) 1861-1889 1. Xantippe and Other Verse. Cambridge: E. Johnson, 1881. Small 8vo, 4"x 6 1/2", pp.fvi], 30, [2], yellow wrappers lettered black on upper side, lower side with ornament in centre, final leaf blank save for ornament centre recto, first leaf before title-page also blank. First Edition of the author's first publication. 2. A Minor Poet and Other Verse. T. Fisher Unwin, 1884. Half cream parchment, spine gilt-lettered, light brown board sides, edges uncut.

LEVY (Amy) 1861-1889 3. A Minor Poet and Other Verse. 2nd ed. T. Fisher Unwin, 1891. Half cream parchment, spine lettered in 7 lines, green board sides with ornament in black of the Cameo Series on upper side, smaller publisher's ornament centre of lower side, t.e.g., others uncut. This reprint has substantially the text of 1884 with 2 poems added from the 1881 booklet. Inscribed: "Vernon Lee Nov 1891 from C. Black," in the handwriting of Clementina Black, to whom A London Plane-Tree had been dedicated. 4. Another copy of the Second Edition, No. 7 of 30 copies on Japanese vellum, signed by the publisher. Full cream parchment, edges uncut, spine lettering in gilt, side ornaments in brown. 5. Reuben Sachs: A Sketch. Macmillan, 1888. Blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, ornamental gilt band at top round spine and upper side and in blind at bottom, lower cover with central publisher's monogram ornament in blind, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed, black end-papers. Armorial bookplate of C. E. J. Esdaile. 6. Reuben Sachs: A Sketch. 2nd ed. Macmillan, 1889. Bright red cloth, spine gilt-lettered and ruled, upper side with publisher's monogram ornament in gilt, lower side with a larger variety of the same blind-stamped, top edges uncut, others trimmed. Setting and pagination identical with First Edition, but publisher's 48 page catalogue bound at end is dated January 1893, which indicates that though the First Edition may have sold out quickly, the reprint was adequate to meet the demands over several years. Belonged to H. V. Marrot (poet and publisher) with 2 long inscriptions by him on end-paper dated 1934 and 1949. 7. A London Plane-Tree and Other Verse. T. Fisher Unwin, 1889. Uniform with A Minor Poet, this is another volume in the Cameo Series. This also belonged to "Vernon Lee", and has her autograph, "V. Paget," on end-paper. One of the poems (p. 74) is dedicated to her. Pp.[95-96] at end are blank save for printer's imprint centre recto. 8. Another copy of the First Edition: No. 25 of 30 copies on Japanese vellum, signed by the publisher. Full cream parchment, gilt spine, brown ornaments on sides, all edges uncut.

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LINDSAY (Caroline Blanche Elizabeth Fitzroy, Lady Lindsay) d. 1912

1. A String of Beads: Verses for Children. A. & C. Black, 1892. Bevelled blue cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others uncut. The 2 leaves of adverts at end, pp.[97-100], appear to be signed 7; but it may be reasonable to assume they were machined with the preliminaries, which consist of 6 leaves. Bookplate of Charles Plumptre Johnson.

guard. This style is bound in cream vellum, upper cover lettered same as green cloth, spine gilt-lettered upwards (which in cloth style was left blank). With cream silk marker, though lacking the original green silk ties for the covers.

2. The Apostle of the Ardennes. Kegan Paul, 1899. Bevelled green cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others uncut. L2-L4 at end carry adverts only. Autograph presentation copy to Sir Alfred Lyall, inscribed: "A. C. Lyall from the writer, Octr. 1899." 3. The Art of Poetry with regard to Women Writers: A Paper read . . . June 28th, 1899. [Hatchards, 1899]. 16 pages, sewn into semi-stiff grey-blue wrappers lettered in red and black, edges cut. Last leaf blank; the undated imprint of Hatchards, London appears at foot of p. 14 only. 4. The Prayer of St. Scholastica and Other Poems. Kegan Paul, 1900. Bevelled green cloth, gilt, uniform format with The Apostle of the Ardennes. L4-L7 at end carry adverts only, L7 verso being blank. L8 is blank save for printer's imprint centre recto. The Notes at end give the text of 2 ALS from Millais to the author (in 1895). 5. A Christmas Posy of Carols, Songs and Other Pieces. Kegan Paul, 1902. Similar bevelled green cloth to the previous volumes save that upper cover has an elaborate gilt design and all edges are gilt. Publisher's slip inserted regarding Macmillan's permission to retain the title-already used by Mrs. Molesworth. Pp.[l 15-122] at end carry adverts only, followed by H6 blank save for printer's imprint centre recto. 6. From a Venetian Balcony and Other Poems, Pen Sketches by Clara Montalba. Kegan Paul, 1903. Bevelled green cloth, gilt-lettered and decorated on upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. Al before half-title carries limitation certificate (500 copies on handmade paper) with verso blank; p.[67] at end carries list of the author's previous books with verso blank, followed by E8 blank. 7. Another copy of the First Edition, one of 100 copies printed throughout on Japanese vellum. The illustrations are printed directly on to the vellum, whilst in the handmade paper copies they appear to be impressions on india paper laid down, and each has a tissue

8.

Another copy, identical with above.

9. Godfrey's Quest: A Fantastic Poem. Kegan Paul, 1905. Bevelled green cloth, identical format with The Apostle of the Ardennes. Two blank leaves before half-title and 2 blank leaves following p,[128] at end. Autograph presentation to Sir Alfred Lyall inscribed: "A. C. Lyall from the author, Novr. 1905." 10. Poems of Love and Death. Kegan Paul, 1907. Bevelled green cloth (identical format with Godfrey's Quest). At end K6-K8, L1-L3 are 6 leaves carrying adverts, followed by L4 blank save for printer's imprint centre recto. Inscribed on half-title: "To Sir Alfred Lyall, with the kindest regards of an old friendship, from the author Blanche Lindsay. Written at Tennyson's writing-table, Oct. 9th, 1907. Aldworth." Sir Alfred had been a friend of Tennyson and had contributed a critical monograph on him to the English Men of Letters series in 1902. 11. From a Venetian Calle. Pen Sketches by Clara Montalba. Kegan Paul, 1908. Bevelled blue cloth, gilt-lettered up spine and on upper side with a design of 3 boats, t.e.g., others uncut, marbled blue end-papers. E2 at end carries list of 10 other works "By the Same Author" in single rule frame, with verso blank. Inscribed: "Sir Alfred Lyall &c., &c. With kindest remembrances from Blanche Lindsay, Nov. 1908." LINTON (William James) 1812-1898 1. Bob-Thin, or, The Poorhouse Fugitive. Illustrated by T. Sibson, W. B. Scott, E. Duncan, W. J. Linton. [Privately printed] 1845. Tall 8vo, 10" x 6 1/4", drab brown smooth boards, lettered and designed in gold on upper side, edges lightly trimmed, lines 1 and 2, 6 and 7 on title-page printed in gold. Text with decorated borders throughout. Collation is 20 leaves, p.[40] being blank; this is followed by another blank leaf, which may be part of the gathering.

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LINTON (William James) 1812-1898

2. The Plaint of Freedom. [Privately printed] 1852. This book has no register but is small 4to in size, 6 1/4" x 8 1/4", consisting of 40 leaves, paginated [iv], [76], final page being blank save for imprint in centre: "Newcastle-Upon-Tyne:/Imprinted by G. Bouchier Richardson,"-all in caps. Choicely bound in 1901 by Zaehnsdorf in dark reddish levant morocco, gilt spine with raised bands, all edges gilt, silk ends with wide gilt dentelles. The original pale primrose glazed end-paper is left in place before half-title, inscribed: "Arthur de No£ Walker. From Walter Savage Landor Deer. 1853." It appears more probable that this is in the autograph of the recipient, rather than the donor.

6. Jones, Ebenezer. Studies of Sensation and Event: Poems. Pickering, 1879. Dark blue cloth, printed spine label, all edges uncut, oval frontispiece photographic portrait, mounted. Preface and annotations by the editor, R. H. Shepherd: memorial notices by Sumner Jones and W. J. Linton. This edition is a reprint of the original, published by Charles Fox, 1843, with the prefatory matter added.

3. Wise, John R. The Lake Country. With a Map and One Hundred Illustrations Drawn and Engraved by W. J. Linton. Smith Elder, 1864. 4to, 6 3/4" x 9 3/4", heavy bevelled green cloth; elaborately gilt spine and upper side; lower side with same design blind-stamped, all edges gilt, deep cream end-papers. Belonged to Charles Keene (1823-1891), humorous artist, wood-engraver for Punch, Illustrated London News, and others. It bears his presentation inscription to his daughter Harriet, dated from Swyncombe, Christmas, 1874. Also loosely inserted is his 2 page letter on a folded sheet, (4 pages), of notepaper headed 239 Kings Road, Chelsea to "Dear Mr. Homer", entirely about musical concerts in London. This was to Burnham W. Homer, organist to the "Sette of Odd Volumes" and author of works on 18th century music. 4. Claribel and Other Poems. Simpkin Marshall, 1865. Dark green cloth, spine gilt-lettered between triple gilt rules top and bottom, gilt circular medallion centre of upper side, dark brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn, only lower edges cut (top and fore-edges of this copy unopened throughout). S6 at end blank save for imprint of John Hamer, Leeds, centre verso. Dedicated to William Bell Scott. The engravings are drawn and cut on wood by the author. 5. Poetry of America: Selections from One Hundred American Poets from 1776 to 1876. Introductory Review of Colonial Poetry and Some Specimens of Negro Poetry by W. J. Linton. George Bell, 1878. Mauve cloth, gilt spine, dark blue end-papers, frontispiece portrait of Walt Whitman, only lower edges cut.

7. Golden Apples of Hesperus: Poems not in the Collections. [New Haven, Conn.] Appledore Private Press, 1882. Tall 8vo, 9" x 5 7/8", pale grey-green boards, upper side lettered in black with design of 4 apples, edges uncut. No. 209 of only 225 copies printed, each signed by W. J. Linton. 8. Jones, Ebenezer. Studies of Sensation and Event: Poems. [George Redway] 1883. This is a reissue of unsold sheets of the 1879 edition, considerably cut down and resulting in a volume standing only 6 7/8" tall bound in somewhat darker blue cloth. The title-page was cancelled and replaced by George Redway's pasted on stub. Dark blue end-papers; spine titling label appears to be the original one. Present copy has original frontispiece photograph, but copies of the Redway edition are more frequently without, as the supply became exhausted and was not renewable. 9. Rare Poems of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: A Supplement to the Anthologies. Collected and Edited with Notes by W. J. Linton. Kegan Paul, 1883. Bevelled blue cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered and decorated, top and lower edges uncut, dark slate end-papers. Title-page is a cancel leaf pasted on stub and has "Second Edition" on verso (in a variant type, with all the appearance—lack of centralisation &c.-of being added later). This book is a re-casting, with considerable changes, of the Golden Apples of Hesperus, with a new preface by Linton dated from New Haven, Conn., 1882. 10. Wood Engraving: A Manual of Instruction. George Bell, 1884. Tall 8vo, 5 3/4" x 9" dark blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side gilt-lettered and designed, all edges uncut, edition limited to 500 copies. 11. English Verse: Chaucer to Burns. Edited by W. J. Linton and R. H. Stpddard. Kegan Paul, 1884. Dark red cloth, spines gilt-lettered, all edges uncut. This is the first volume of an American production, under 5 separate titles, of which the collection possesses the first 3 in the English issues,

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LINTON (William James) 1812-1898

i.e., American printed sheets with Kegan Paul, London cancel title-pages inserted. See below for the second and third volumes (volumes not numbered anywhere). The Introductions in these volumes are signed by R. H. Stoddard, though all title-pages give joint names of the editors.

17. Catoninetales: A Domestic Epic. By Hattie Brown, a Young Lady of Colour Lately Deceased at the Age of 14. Edited and Illustrated [actually written] by W. J. Linton. Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. Tall 8vo, 5 5/8" x 9 1/8", cream parchment, lettered in red and black spine and upper side, all edges uncut, No. 2 of only 35 copies printed on Japanese vellum. Bookplate of Charles Plumptre Johnson.

12. English Verse Translations. Edited by W. J. Linton and R. H. Stoddard. Kegan Paul Trench, 1884. Produced uniformly with Chaucer to Burns, pp. xlviii, 336. 13. English Verse: Lyrics of the XlXth Century. Edited by W. J. Linton and R. H. Stoddard. Kegan Paul Trench, 1884. Produced uniformly with Translations above, pp. xlvi, 336 (first leaf before the inserted title-page is blank). The fourth and fifth volumes of this anthology are not present in the collection. Presumably they were produced uniformly and had the same advertisement slip "Price 5/each" inserted on front end-paper. 14. Poems and Translations. J. C. Nimmo, 1889. Square 8vo, 5 3/4" x 8", half dark blue cloth, cream board sides, t.e.g., others uncut, spine gilt-lettered. No. 749 of 780 copies for England and America. Frontispiece portrait of the author; printed at the Chiswick Press on Van Gelder watermarked handmade paper. Al before half title is blank; O6 at end is blank save for imprint centre recto. 15. The Masters of Wood Engraving. Issued to Subscribers Only. New Haven, Conn.: At the Residence of the Author; London: B. F. Stevens, 1889. 12" x 16 3/4", bevelled grey buckram, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, all edges uncut, coloured frontispiece and profuse illustrations. Copy No. 180 of 500 signed by the Author. Printed in London at the Chiswick Press. From the library of Lawrence W. Hodson, Compton Hall, Wolverhampton and later of Captain Nevile Rodwell Wilkinson (F.S.A., Ulster King of Arms &c.) with his 1909 engraved bookplate. 16. The Flower and the Star and Other Stories for Children. Written and Illustrated by W. J. Linton. Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. Light blue grained cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered and designed, all edges gilt, end-papers matching cloth. These sheets were printed in Boston, U.S.A., in 1868. The title-page, which is a cancel pasted on stub, carries imprint on verso. Printed by Henderson & Spalding, Ltd., December 1891.

18. Wells, Charles. Stories after Nature. With a Preface by W. J. Linton. Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. Half dark green cloth, lighter green sides, spine gilt-lettered t.e.g., others uncut, publisher's ornament in gilt on upper side, No. 125 of 400 copies. This is the first reprinting after the original publication by T. & J. Allman (1822). Autograph Letters 19. Two ALS from W. J. Linton dated from New Haven, Conn., U.S.A. to "My dear Scott," 2 May and 12 May 1882, together with other letters of his wife E. Lynn Linton and H. D. Linton (see the William Bell Scott collection). Note: See the A. C. Swinburne collection for a copy of the author's only novel--*7osep/i and His Brethren (preface by Swinburne, 1876). An additional item of interest, though of no known association, in the collection is a work by William Linton (1791-1876), Ancient and Modern Colours, from the Earliest Periods to the Present Time (Longman, 1852); it is in purplish cloth (faded), upper side gilt-lettered, all edges uncut. Though working in similar artistic fields, the author, a landscape painter, appears not to be related to William James Linton, the wood-engraver. LOCKER-LAMPSON (Frederick) 1821-1895 1. London Lyrics. By Frederick Locker. With an Illustration by George Cruikshank. Chapman & Hall, 1857. Bead-grain blind-stamped brown cloth, spine gilt-lettered, gilt ornament centre of upper side, edges uncut, deep cream toned end-papers with binder's ticket of Bone & Son. N2 at end is blank save for Chiswick Press imprint centre recto. 2. Another copy of First Edition, bound by Riviere on red morocco extra, spine inlays in 2 colours, dark blue end-papers with wide gilt dentelles, t.e.g., others uncut. In this copy the Cruikshank frontispiece is tinted; in the original cloth copy it is a plain plate. An example of the highest quality Riviere binding of circa 1880.

493 LOCKER-LAMPSON (Frederick) 1821-1895 3. London Lyrics. Basil Montagu Pickering, 1862. Dark brown smooth cloth, lettered up spine in gilt, all edges uncut. Inscribed: "J. H. Woods Esq. from the Author" and with an early (probably quite contemporary) photograph of the author inserted. Size 2 1/4" x 3 1/2", it presents him seated at a very small table facing right but head turned towards camera, with background of a wall and looped window-curtains. This copy contains the same impression of the Cruikshank frontispiece as the 1857 book (but not tinted). 4. Another copy in the same quality cloth, but the state lettered across the spine in 3 lines with short rule above author's name. It is without the Cruikshank frontispiece, but has the leaf attached to front end-paper advertising Cruikshank's The Bee and the Wasp. In both of these copies, there has been an erasure on p. 17 and the words "Ah what" overprinted and somewhat imperfectly aligned. This edition contains a new Dedication: "To C. C. L." and 40 poems, making 41 in all. All the poems are revised, 4 omitted, and 20 new poems added. The apparent discrepancy of one poem is explained by "Susannah I: The Elder Trees" being enlarged by a second part-"II: A Kind Providence." 5. A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker. With Illustrations by Richard Doyle. Moxon, 1865. A volume of Moxon's Miniature Poets. Bevelled dark reddish brown cloth, spine and upper side fully gilt-stamped, lower side with same design blind-stamped, edges uncut, slate coloured end-papers, 20 pages of extracts from newspaper reviews, commencing with The Times (6 June 1865) inserted at end. This is virtually the Third Edition of London Lyrics; it reprints the Dedicatory poem to C. C. L. from the 1862 book and there appear to be 21 new poems. According to Mrs. Luther Livingston's bibliography, there were 2 states of this edition, also a reissue with date changed to 1868. The present copy is in second state: verso of title-page with the longer imprint (4 lines of type), p. 139 reading "And wish them at the Devil" (which originally read "And find my proper level"). The title-page and pp. 139-140 appear to be cancel leaves. With author's autograph presentation inscription: "Mrs. Caldwell with the kind regards of F. L." 6. Another copy, identical with above, save that inscription reads: "Revd. George Gleig with F. L.'s kind regards."

LOCKER-LAMPSON (Frederick) 1821-1895 7. Lyra Elegantiarum: A Collection of Some of the Best Specimens of Vers de Soci£te and Vers d'Occasion in the English Language by Deceased Authors. Edited by Frederick Locker. Moxon, 1867. Small 8vo, bevelled brown cloth, spine and upper side elaborately gilt-designed and lettered, lower side with same blocking in blind, only lower edges cut, dark blue end-papers. 8. Another copy of the first issue, in identical state. 9. Lyra Elegantiarum. A New and Revised Edition. Moxon, 1867. Small 8vo, pp. xx, 345 [whereas first issue extends to p. 360], The book was issued in identical format, but present copy has been contemporarily rebound in bevelled maroon morocco, marbled ends, all edges gilt, armorial bookplate of Constantino de Courcy Hamilton. The First Edition, which contained 430 numbered poems, was promptly withdrawn from circulation in consequence of John Forster's refusal to allow the poems by W. S. Landor, whose copyright he possessed, to be here re-published. The present edition contains only 389 poems. 10. London Lyrics, [not published] John Wilson, 1868. Half brown leather, maroon cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in 3 lines with small floral ornament between double gilt rules top and bottom, t.e.g., others uncut, slatey blue end-papers. Sewn-in at end are same 20 pages of newspaper reviews of a. size more suitable to Moxon's Miniature Poets, where in fact they are first found, in 1865. This is the Fourth Edition of London Lyrics, and is in first state with uncancelled leaf (pp. 95-96), on recto of which is: One hundred years! They soon will leak

Away, and leave behind A cancel leaf was inserted in later copies with a revised text:

One hundred years, like one short week,

Will pass, and leave behind In the present copy a specimen of the cancellans has been loosely inserted so that both texts are present.

11. Poems, [not published] John Wilson, 1868. Another variety of the above Fourth Edition. Collation is pp. viii, 134, 2, and from the same type at Chiswick Press, but printed on handmade paper watermarked "J. Whatman 1868" (whereas the other was on a creamy wove paper) and has a variant title and half title-Poems, instead of London Lyrics. Verso of half-title carries a limitation certificate, "Only One Hundred Copies printed, including Twenty Copies on Large Paper." Below author's name on title-page, a larger and quite different

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triangular ornament is used; the same 20 pp. adverts are found at end. This copy has pp. 95-96 uncancelled, with the first reading. There is a frontispiece plate signed "George Cruikshank 1866," with 2 lines of verse by Locker below. Same binding as the other 1868 book.

17. London Lyrics. Kegan Paul, 1878. A much smaller sized 8vo in green cloth with wide black borders top and bottom, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, all edges cut, dark slatey brown end-papers, printed with adverts on the white versos. Despite the very different appearance, this is printed by same printer, Bradbury Agnew, from same frames of type, save that "To His Mistress [Heine] 1876" at end is omitted. Inscribed on half-title: "Marian James from F. L." in author's autograph.

12. Poems, [not published] John Wilson, 1868. Same style binding as above, but size 6"x 8 1/4". This is one of the 20 Large Paper copies, but there is no sign that the Cruikshank frontispiece was ever bound-in. Of this plate it has been stated that 6 of the 20 copies were tinted by hand by Eleanor Locker. The 20 page reviews are not found in these Large Paper copies. 13. London Lyrics. Strahan, 1870. Green bead-grain cloth, gilt spine with gilt and black bands, black frame round upper side, same in blind round lower side, all edges uncut, chocolate brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. Contains 65 poems (of which 4 are in 2 parts), with the original 1862 Dedication poem. Inscribed on half-title: "The Marquis of Lome With the Author's kind regards,"-and has the label on front end-paper, From Rosneath Castle Library. 14. Another copy of the same edition, identical in every detail and with a 4 page Strahan List of Books at end. Inscribed: "Mrs Bancroft with the Author's Compliments. I give as I wish, and I give as I ought/I give her my book, for it cannot be bought! F. L." 15. London Lyrics. 7th ed. W. Isbister, 1874. Half cream boards with blue board sides, tilting label on spine, edges uncut. This is one of a special issue of 80 copies with printed leaf inserted before half-title:-"Presented to the Members of the Cosmopolitan Club," followed by author's autograph: "by Frederick Locker. W. Lowther, Esqre. M.P. No. 79." James William Lowther (1855-1949) Speaker of the House of Commons, became first Viscount Ullswater. I purchased this copy in the sale of His Lordship's Library at Campsea Ashe, Woodbridge, Suffolk, following his death, October 1949. 16. London Lyrics. A New Edition, Enlarged and Finally Revised. H. S. King, 1876. Bevelled brown cloth, ruled and designed in black, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, top edges uncut, others trimmed, author's frontispiece portrait, black end-papers, publisher's Alphabetical List, 48 pages dated June 1876 at end.

18. Patchwork. By Frederick Locker. Smith Elder, 1879. Dark green cloth, ruled in black, spine gilt-lettered, gilt ornament centre of upper side, top edges uncut, others lightly trimmed. Pp.[235-236] at end blank save for 3 line advert of London Lyrics, 2s. 6d. centre recto, dark brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn. Inscribed on half-title: "Lady Dorchester from F. Locker." Neat corrections in ink on p. 10, "Michael Scott" altered to "Michael Bruce," and on p. 55, "Edmond Gibbon" to "Edward Gibbon." 19. London Lyrics. By Frederick Locker. 1881. Small 8vo, 4" x 6 1/2", smooth red buckram, triple line gilt frames round sides, spine gilt-lettered in 3 lines with triple rules top and bottom, all edges uncut. Al is blank, as is H8 at end. Printed at Chiswick Press. The title line on title-page and Austin Dobson's 6 line poem dated Rowfant, 1 October 1881 on leaf following are printed in mauve ink. Inscribed on half-title: "Not published. G. Saintsbury from F. Locker Lampson," in author's autograph. 20. Another copy, apparently identical with above in every detail save that the author's initials, "F. L.," in manuscript facsimile in a double line ring, lower right hand corner of upper cover are not present. This would appear more likely to be a freak copy than to indicate a published state. Inscribed: "Ashby Sterry, Esq. from F. L.," in the author's autograph. 21. Another copy of same Chiswick Press edition, one of 50 copies on large paper. Similar smooth red buckram binding, but size 5 3/4" x 9 1/8", all edges uncut. There is no F. L. monogram on upper side. This issue has same partial printing in mauve ink; it has 2 plates which are not found in small paper copies, both india-proof impressions~a frontispiece by Caldecott and a tail-piece, facing p. 102, by Kate Greenaway. Inscribed on half-title: "Lord Wentworth with F. Locker-Lampson's kind regards.

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Rowfant, 20 December 1886." Same blanks at beginning and end as in small paper copies.

This copy came from the Cardogan library with bookplate, binding of green crushed levant morocco, panelled spine, double fillets round sides with gilt crown and "B. C." on upper side, wide gilt dentelles inside covers, with "Hatchard, 197 Piccadilly" at lower edge.

22. Another copy of same Large Paper edition, limited to 50 copies, in the alternative binding of full cream parchment with identical gilt ruling and lettering and with Caldecott and Greenaway plates. Inscribed on half-title: "For Helen Baring, Frederick Locker, Gopsall 1882." From the sale at Nubia House, West Cowes, Isle of Wight; with printed Library label, also bookplate of Godfrey Baring. 23. London Rhymes. By Frederick Locker, [not published] 1882. Another private Chiswick Press edition, very similar in format to the 1881 small paper issue but colour of buckram is dark blue. This collection contains 43 poems, of which 9, it appears, are new. 24. London Rhymes. By Frederick Locker. New York: White, Stokes & Allen, 1884. Small 8vo, publisher's original binding of half brown leather, floral board sides and end-papers, t.e.g., others cut, gilt spine with blue leather lettering label, frontispiece portrait, title-page printed all in red, recto and verso. This edition appears to be produced from the same typesetting as Chiswick Press 1882 issue, with identical contents, pagination &c., only the frontispiece and title-page being new. 25. London Lyrics. Kegan Paul, 1885. Small 8vo, bevelled green cloth, spine and upper side gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Contains 48 poems, all previously printed, though there are some textual revisions. 26. Lyra Elegantiarum. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Edited by Frederick Locker-Lampson. Assisted by Coulson Kernahan. Ward Lock & Co., 1891. Large square 8vo, 7" x 9", half cream parchment, spine gilt-ruled and lettered, plum red linen sides, t.e.g, uncut. No. 78 of 250 copies printed on handmade paper watermarked "Van Gelder," each numbered and signed by Locker-Lampson. Frontispiece portrait. 2E6 at end is blank. The revised edition, to which most of the Landor pieces were restored, contains 476 poems. In its ordinary small paper form, this is a volume in the Minerva Library of Famous Books, edited by G. T. Bettany, 1891. 27. London Lyrics. Kegan Paul, 1893. Small 8vo. Verso of half-title states this is the Twelfth Edition published in England. Frontispiece portrait of the author by Millais: it had first been used in the edition of 1868.

28. My Confidences: An Autobiographical Sketch addressed to my Descendants. Smith Elder, 1896. Tall 8vo, 5 3/4" x 9", dark red cloth, spine gilt-lettered, all edges uncut, dark blue end-papers, 2 portraits. 29. London Lyrics. By Frederick Locker Lampson. With Introduction and Notes by Austin Dobson. Macmillan, 1904. Small 8vo, blue cloth, gilt, only lower edges cut, frontispiece portrait and author's Kate Greenaway bookplate reproduced on title-page. First issue in the publisher's Golden Treasury Series and first Dobson edition: his 15 page Introduction is dated "Baling, November 1904." With 4 page series advertiser at end dated 10.10.04. Copies of same edition are found with similar adverts but dated 2 months later. 30.

Another copy, identical with above.

31. London Lyrics. By Frederick Locker Lampson. With an Introduction and Notes by A. D. Godley. With frontispiece by George Cruikshank. Methuen, 1904. A volume of the publisher's Little Library series: this is the superior issue in padded dark blue leather, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, gold designed end-papers. The ordinary issue was in green cloth with plain white ends. Autograph Letters and Manuscript 32. ALS 3 pages on a folded sheet of notepaper watermarked "Turkey Mill 1858," addressed to: "Dear Mr. Hunt" from Admiralty, 27 November 1858: "I am much obliged for your kind letter and for the indulgent way in which you speak of my Lyrics" &c. 33. ALS 3 pages on a folded sheet of notepaper watermarked "Towgood Extra Super," with Travellers Club embossed heading dated 19 February 1865, addressed to "My dear Dixon." Entirely concerned with a nomination for the Athenaeum Club: "Literary people connected with the Press always have a fight," going on to mention Robert Lowe, Vernon Harcourt and Delane.

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34. ALS one page on blue tinted Athenaeum Club notepaper to Edmund Routledge, Esq., dated 10 November 1867. Regarding: "verses for your magazine. . . . I shall not however forget your flattering request."

had been Locker's copy, and on the leaf before title-page bears his autograph inscription in ink: "Robert Browning dined with me to-day, and looking at this volume he said that it was a copy of John Keats's Poems that was found in the bosom of the dead body of Shelley. F. Locker. 20 Feb 1869."

35. Three ALS, one to "My dear Seebohm" and 2 to "Dear Mrs Seebohm," 8 pages in all, on black-edged Rowfant notepaper, dated 26 December 1885, 29 January 1886 and 15 February, 1886. With 2 envelopes, one stamped and postmarked, to Mrs. Seebohm, Hitchin.

Note: Also see Anthologies &c. for Langbridge Poets at Play, 2 volumes, with 4 page ALS on Rowfant notepaper dated January 1889.

36. ALS 3 pages on Rowfant notepaper dated 1 January 1890, to an unnamed gentleman, mainly dealing with his reluctance to lend his rarer books: "You are mistaken in supposing that the Davison of 1608 is unique. There is a copy of it in Mr. Christie Miller's Library, and I fancy Mr. Graves, of the British Museum, could get you the loan of it." 37. ALS 8 pages on 2 sets of folded black-edged notepaper from Jane Locker-Lampson to "My dear Winnie," who may be Winnie Seebohm as the letter reads: "I wish we had you as a neighbour in Sussex . . . we cannot ride over to Hitchin . . . I am backwards and forwards between London and Rowfant . . . Godfrey is joyous and vigorous and is working well." 38. ALS, probably to a bookseller, 3 pages dated only 19 September [no year] from Newhaven Court, Cromer and signed "F. L. L.": "I feel certain that the enclosed should have an Illustration of a Balloon, and without it it is useless to me and with regret I must return it; my other copies are locked up at Rowfant." 39. Early manuscript copy, in author's handwriting in ink and signed F. Locker, of his poem, "A Terrible Infant," 8 lines. This is one of the poems first published in 1872, and, from style of handwriting, is a quite contemporary transcript. Text reveals no variation from printed version. Association Item 40. Keats, John. Poems. C. & J. Oilier, 1817. Reprinted, Noel Douglas 1927. Noel Douglas Replica. Cream blind-stamped boards, spine lettered in red, all edges uncut, in dust-jacket printed in red (Price 5s. net). This book has a tenuous attachment to a Locker collection: as was the publisher's practice, the British Museum copy of the First Edition (reception date 17 July 73) was used in the photographic reproduction for this series. It

LOVER (Samuel) 1797-1868 1. Legends and Stories of Ireland: Second Series. Baldwin & Cradock, 1834. Small 8vo, contemporary rebinding of half red leather, marbled sides, edges cut, perfect copy with half-title. The dedication is to Thomas Moore. Illustrations by W. Harvey and the author. Printed at the Chiswick Press, with imprint on verso of title-page repeated at foot of last page 324. The first of these imprints reads "Chiswick Press"; the second only "Chiswick"; followed in both cases by a second line-"Printed by C. Whittingham." 2. Handy Andy: A Tale of Irish Life. With 24 illustrations on steel by the Author. Frederick Lover, 1842. Tall 8vo, 5 1/2" x 9 1/4", dark green blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 4 lines, gilt block of Handy Andy (with hat raised) centre of upper side, all edges uncut. Has the 24 plates but the copy is imperfect, lacking the leaf following p. 378 at end, which has now been supplied in photocopy. 3. Treasure Trove: The first of a series of Accounts of Irish Heirs. Being a Romantic Irish Tale of the Last Century. With 26 illustrations on steel by the Author. Frederick Lover, 1844. Original claret coloured (faded) blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 7 lines, all edges uncut, primrose yellow end-papers. 4. Treasure Trove. . . . H. G. Bohn, 1845. Bright red fine diagonal-grain cloth, spine with 5 gilt panels, gilt-lettered in 4 lines with short rule in remaining black panel, with the secondary title "L. S. D." in a gilt wreath centre of upper side, all edges uncut. The blind-stamping of sides is in 2 sets of line frames; in the 1844 edition there is a double frame round edge with a wide ornamental border inside the frame. This is the second issue of First Edition sheets with Bonn's title-page inserted in place of the orginal which was cancelled. Bonn's title-page has no printer's imprint on verso, but Clay's imprint

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was repeated at foot of p. 411, where text ends. Verso is occupied by List of Illustrations and errata, which is unchanged. Plate, "The Old House in Galway," which is called for at p. 20, is bound as frontispiece in both issues. The running head-line is "Treasure Trove" on rectos and "L. S. D." on versos. In the 1844 issue the head-line has a very ill-formed final letter on p. 400, which is replaced and perfectly printed in the 1845 copy.

1. Wreckers and Methodists and Other Stories. Heinemann, 1893. Sage green cloth, lettered in rose pink enamel on spine and upper side, lower half of upper cover with sea-scape design, all edges uncut. First Edition of the author's first book and an example of the probable earliest binding batch, with 16 page catalogue at end dated August 1893. From the Alfred Trapnell collection, with bookplate: it was No. 445 in his Library Catalogue.

5. The Lyrics of Ireland. Edited and annotated by Samuel Lover. Houlston & Wright, 1858. Dark blue horizontal-grained cloth with wide blind-stamped borders: upper side has gilt design and lettering with central circle and harp, where lower side is blank, top edges uncut, others trimmed. Frontispiece portrait of editor and profuse illustrations; 4 item errata on p.[xxvi]. Primrose yellow end-papers with binder's ticket of Leighton Son & Hodge. 6. The Poetical Works of Samuel Lover. G. Routledge, 1868. Thick small 8vo, reddish brown cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 4 lines, gilt and black ruled on spine and upper side, lower side with 3 line fillet in blind. Upper side has black and gilt circular ornament in centre, all edges gilt, slatey brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Westleys & Co. Author's frontispiece portrait. Mortimer Collins's copy with his autograph on title-page and (as is frequently the case) the Cotton heraldic bookplate. Inserted is Lover's 3 page ALS to Mortimer Collins, dated from Barnes, 11 July 1857, in which he thanks him for the gift of his volume of poems [Idyls and Rhymes, 1855], mentioning several titles in his praise. Also inserted is Lover's visiting-card, 4 Lonsdale Road, Barnes. Secondary Material 7. Bernard, Boyle. Life of Samuel Lover. 2nd ed. 2 vols. H. S. King, 1874. Thick tall 8vo, 5" x 8 1/4", dark green cloth, black and gilt designed and lettered, all edges uncut, cream end-papers. This is the publisher's late issue of the 2 volumes bound in one. Frontispiece portrait to volume 1. Half-title to second volume reads "Selections/From/ Unpublished Papers and Letters."

2. Another copy of the First Edition and probable second binding batch. It appears identical in every detail save that at end is a quite different catalogue of Autumn Publications, 20 pages dated December 1893. On title-page the author has crossed through the second line, "And Other Stories." Inscribed: "G. E. Morrison with best regards from H. D. Lowry. 9/IX/02." 3. Women's Tragedies. John Lane, 1895. Light mauve coloured cloth, spine gilt-lettered, upper side lettered and designed in pink. Volume IX in the Keynote Series with title-page and cover design by Aubrey Beardsley. The series design appears on spine and lower cover (where it is dated 1895). All edges uncut. In the 8 page advertiser at end, followed by 16 page 1895 catalogue, it is announced only as "In Preparation," and "in rapid preparation." Inscribed: "To Langton Bayly with best regards of H. D. Lowry. 8/X1I/97." 4. A Man of Moods. Bliss Sands & Co, 1896. Dark blue vertically ribbed cloth, spine gilt-lettered, publisher's gilt ornament lower right-hand corner of upper side, t.e.g., others uncut, Q5-8 at end are 4 leaves carrying publisher's adverts only. Inscribed: "To Langton Bayly with best regards from H. D. Lowry, 5/XII/96." 5. Make Believe. Illustrated by Charles Robinson. London & New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1896. Tall Crown 8vo, 5 1/8" x 8", dark green vertically ribbed cloth, spine and upper side elaborately gilt, all edges uncut, pp. 180 followed by Lane's 12 page List of Books For and About Children. M2 at end, pp.[179-180], carries small illustration centre recto and Ballantyne, Hanson printer's imprint centre verso. This brilliant copy is unopened throughout. 6. Make Believe. New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1896. Presumably the first American edition. Size of cover 4 3/4" x 7 1/8", and t.e.g., others uncut. Same quality cloth and identical cover design. Collation is pp. 164, followed by "John Lane: The Bodley

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Head, New York 1897." 14 page List of Books in Belles Lettres, followed by one blank leaf. Entirely on text-paper, so that the collation is actually 90 leaves. Imprint verso title-page at foot is "Press of J. J. Little & Co., Astor Place, New York." Entirely reset and without register, but all the same illustration blocks appear to have been available to the New York printer. I acquired this copy with the Frederic Chapman collection: the translator of Anatole France was a partner in the firm of John Lane.

12. A Dream of Daffodils: Last Poems by H. D. Lowry. Arranged for the Press by G. E. Matheson and C. A. Dawson Scott. With a Memoir by Edgar A. Preston. G. J. Glaisher, 1912. Uniform format with The Hundred Windows. Spine without lettering and lettering on upper side in 3 lines. Frontispiece photographic portrait of the author. The first and only edition.

7. The Happy Exile. Edited by [or, rather, written by] H. D. Lowry. John Lane, 1898. Pale green smooth linen, narrow darker green vertically ribbed spine gilt-lettered in a long ornamental panel, upper side designed and lettered in green, lower side with advert of Lane's Arcady Library, of which this book was the fifth title. Six etchings by E. Philip Pimlott. N5-8 at end are 4 leaves carrying adverts only, followed by Lane's 12 page 1897 catalogue.

14. Autograph letter, one page, from Norwood Road, Southall [1912] presenting a copy of "these last poems by my cousin the late H. D. Lowry, who was one of Henley's 'young men' on the National Observer," &c. Signed, "Faithfully yours C. A. Dawson Scott."

8. Another copy of the First Edition. This is without the Lane catalogue at end, and sides of binding are a rougher beige holland; also the dark green spine is a wider strip. Top edges stained green and others entirely uncut in both copies. 9. Another binding of First Edition sheets. It is clearly a late issue, and without the Lane catalogue at end. Binding is ochre coloured linen with dark brown spine which has plainer gilt-lettering in 8 lines only and without the elaborate gilt design, upper cover has small sundial ornament in brown ink, lower cover is blank, top edges stained to match sides, others uncut. 10. Grand Coronation Concert, for King Edward's Hospital Fund. [No publisher: printer's imprint of Spottiswoode & Co., 1902.] 9 3/4" x 12", 24 pages sewn with orange silk into heavy glazed cream wrappers with design in colour. Lowry's poem of 5 quatrains, "There's some that will not see the King go by," with a decoration fills the first page; it is by "The Impenitent," followed by "(H. D. Lowry)." 11. The Hundred Windows. Elkin Mathews, 1904. Pale blue boards, beige holland spine lettered in 9 lines, upper side in 2 lines in black, all edges uncut, pp.[98-100] at end carry publisher's adverts only.

13.

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LYSAGHT (Sidney Royse) d. 1941 1. A Modern Ideal: A Dramatic Poem. Kegan Paul, 1886. Blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, dark brown end-papers, only lower edges trimmed, publisher's 40 page catalogue at end dated 5.84.[sic]. Presumably an author's presentation copy; the inscription is difficult to decipher, being written on the slatey end paper: "Allie Clarke, from K.(?) Lysaght." 2. Another copy, identical in every detail (save inscription), even to the unexpectedly early dated adverts. Al before half-title and 06 at end are blanks. 3. Poems of the Unknown Way. Macmillan, 1901. Maroon cloth, gilt-lettered and designed spine and upper side, t.e.g., others uncut. 4. Her Majesty's Rebels. Macmillan, 1907. Dark green blind-stamped cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others trimmed. The second printing, same month (February) as first, bibliographical statement in 2 lines centre verso title-page. Two pages of Macmillan's adverts of 3 other books by the same author, followed by 4 leaves of general adverts dated 10.11.06. Inscribed: "Edward Gibbins with S. R. Lysaght's best wishes. March, 1907." 5. Horizons and Landmarks: Poems. Macmillan, 1911. Issued uniformly with Poems of the Unknown Way, save that colour of cloth is dark blue, t.e.g., others uncut. Al is blank before half-title save for 2 line advert of the author's previous poems in centre verso. K6 at

499 LYSAGHT (Sidney Royse) d. 1941 end carries only adverts of 4 of his works. Inscribed: "Reginald Earle from S. R. Lysaght. 18.XI.11. 6. Another copy of First Edition, identical in all details, save no inscription. 7. My Tower in Desmond. Macmillan, 1925. Dark green cloth, uniform with Her Majesty's Rebels, frontispiece plate, all edges cut. 8.

Another copy, identical in all respects.

9. The Immortal Jew: A Drama. Macmillan, 1931. Large square 8vo, 6 3/8" x 8 5/8", dark blue rough buckram, spine gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others cut. Final leaf, pp.[323-324], blank save for advert of the author's "Poems" centre recto. In printed dust-jacket (10/6 net). 10. Another copy of First Edition, identical but no dust-jacket. Has the author's visiting card on end-paper-Mr. S. R. Lysaght, Hazlewood, Near Mallow, Co. Cork, (and Savile Club). 11. A Reading of Poetry: An Essay. Macmillan, 1934. Light grey boards, designed in red and black, black linen spine, gilt-lettered, edges cut, pp.[65-66] at end blank save for adverts of books "By the same Author" on recto. 12. A Reading of Life. Macmillan, 1936. Dark green cloth, spine gilt, top edges stained to match cloth, others cut. 13. A Reading of Life. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. Light blue rough linen, gilt-lettered spine and upper side, top edges cut, others uncut, in printed dust-jacket. This edition, printed in the U.S.A., has same pagination &c. as the London edition. The author's previous book, A Reading of Poetry, is reprinted as the penultimate essay. Inscribed: "Evelyn Davison, from the Author. July 1936." Autograph Letter and Manuscript 14. ALS, on Raheen Manor, Co. Clare notepaper, but dated 13.V. 1919 from Flax Bourton, to Mrs. Hare. An amusing letter of thanks, signed "S. R. L."

LYSAGHT (Sidney Royse) d. 1941 15. Original(?) MS of the author's sonnet "To Ireland-O'Shall it be said we hated England more/Than we loved Freedom?") signed at end "S. R. L." and dated 17 December. LYTE (Henry Francis) 1793-1847 1. Poems, Chiefly Religious. James Nisbet & William Marsh, 1833. Rose pink (faded) cloth, watered-silk pattern, dark blue spine titling label lettered in 5 lines—the last being "4s."~between double rules top and bottom, the thin rules being innermost. M4 at end carries adverts "By the same Author" on recto with verso blank. Edges uncut. 2. Poems, Chiefly Religious. William Marsh & James Nisbet, 1834. Smooth green cloth, edges uncut, white titling label on spine lettered in 4 lines only (without the price), between similar double rules top and bottom. For no reason which is now clear, the 1833 title-page was cancelled and replaced by a newly printed leaf with verso blank: hence there is now no printer's imprint anywhere in the book. Besides the change in date the order of publisher's names is reversed-William Marsh preceding James Nisbet, whereas James Nisbet preceded William Marsh in the 1833 state. 3. Poems, Chiefly Religious. 2nd ed. James Nisbet & J. Burns, 1841. Vertically ribbed blind-stamped slatey brown cloth, spine gilt-lettered "Lyte's/Poems/tshort rule]/2nd Edit/Ss," all edges uncut. This is the true Second Edition of the work, entirely reset by a new printer (J. Haddon). It is to be noted that Marsh's name has disappeared, being replaced by another publishing partner, J. Burns. From the text one poem is omitted and 2 new ones added: there is a similar adverts leaf at end, but The Spirit of the Psalms is now published and in its Fifth Edition. Signature on end-paper-"And. Bonar, 1850." 4. Another copy. This appears to be the second state of Second Edition. William Pickering took over unsold sheets in 1845, bound them in his familiar dark blue grained cloth with his own spine lettering label, lettered in 7 lines, all edges uncut. He inserted his own title-page, also printed "Second Edition," in front of the 1841 title.

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LYTE (Henry Francis) 1793-1847 5. Poems, Chiefly Religious. 2nd ed. William Pickering, 1845. At a (slightly) later date, it would appear, Pickering bound up a. further batch, first trimming the edges so that the volume stands nearly 1/4" less tall, in fine-grain slatey blue cloth with the same 1845 titling label on spine. From these copies he removed the original 1841 title-page before inserting his own 1845 one, and in some copies he bound in his own 177, Piccadilly 4 page catalogue, which included his 53 volume Aldine Poets. 6. Another copy, as above but without adverts. 7. Vaughan, Henry. Silex Scintillans: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. William Pickering, 1847. Dark blue fine-grain cloth, edges uncut, printed spine label. The 39 page "Biographical Sketch" of Vaughan is by Lyte, dated at end Rome, April 1847 and initialled "H. F. L." 8. Remains of the late Rev. Henry Francis Lyte, M.A. With a Prefatory Memoir by the Editor [his daughter]. F. & J. Rivington, 1850. Small 8vo, pp. viii, v-cxiv, 292. Contemporary binding by Leighton (Brewer Street) of brown bead-grain morocco, spine with raised bands, marbled end-papers, all edges gilt, armorial bookplate of Frederick Collins Wilson. On pp. 119-121 are printed the 8 quatrains of the last hymn the author wrote before leaving England-"Abide with me! Fast falls the eventide"; dated at end Berryhead, September 1847. 9. Miscellaneous Poems. Rivingtons, 1868. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine, upper side with circular gilt medallion of Lyte's church at Brixham stamped in centre, chocolate brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Burn, publisher's 32 page catalogue at end dated July 1868. Editor's one page Preface is dated September 1868. 10. The Poetical Works. Edited, with a Biographical Sketch by the Rev. John Appleyard. Elliot Stock, 1907. Dark blue cloth, spine and upper side gilt, edges cut, end-papers matching cloth, 2 leaf frontispiece facsimile of author's MS of "Abide with me." This is the only attempt so far made to collect the author's complete poetical works.

LYTE (Henry Francis) 1793-1847 Secondary Material 11. Catalogue of the Extensive Library of the Rev. H. F. Lyte, deceased. With the subsequent additions made by his son, the late J. W. M. Lyte, Esq., which will be sold by auction by Southgate & Barrett on Wednesday evening 4 July 1849 and sixteen following evenings at six o'clock precisely. [Southgate & Barrett, 1849], Pp. viii, 296, neatly bound contemporary half green morocco, red linen sides, edges cut. A sale of considerable interest: 4368 lots only realized a grand total of £2,766.1.0 which is unusually low, in view of the excellence of some of the items. There was a manuscript Breviary, c.1450, on 586 leaves of vellum with 72 miniatures, much other incunabula and rare English printing of the sixteenth century, a second and a fourth folio Shakespeare (1632 and 1685) and much rare poetry by Vaughan, Quarles, Nash, Donne, and others. LYTTON (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl, pseud. Owen Meredith) 1831-1891 1. Clytemnestra, The Earl's Return, The Artist, and Other Poems. By Owen Meredith. Chapman & Hall, 1855. Royal blue blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered in 6 lines with rule above and floral ornament below the author's pseudonym. Primrose yellow end-papers with binder's ticket of Bone & Son, all edges uncut. First Edition of the author's first book. On the errata page (which appears to be an insert following title-page) the author has transcribed a quatrain commencing, "There is a time in every life," and signed it. The leaf of adverts of Mr. and Mrs. Browning's books which follows p. 352 at end also appears to be an insertion. 2. Serbski Pesme, or, National Songs of Servia. Chapman & Hall, 1861. Mauve blind-stamped cloth, spine and upper side gilt, all edges uncut, toned green end-papers. Pp.[143-144] at end are blank save for imprint of William Clowes in 3 lines centre recto. 3. Lucile. With Twenty-Four Illustrations by George Du Maurier. Chapman & Hall, 1868. 4to, size 6" x 8 3/4", bevelled green cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered, gilt and black designed, lower cover with similar black design without the gold portion, all edges gilt, dark brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Diprose Brothers. The illustrations are printed on 24 inserted sheets; LL4 at end, pp.[263-264], is blank.

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4. Chronicles and Characters. By Robert Lytton (Owen Meredith). 2 vols. Chapman & Hall, 1868. Green net-grained cloth, spine and upper side gilt, all edges uncut, frontispiece portrait in volume 1. This copy belonged to Hon. Julian H. C. Fane and has his armorial bookplate in each volume. In 1861 the 2 authors had published Tannhauser, or the Battle of the Bards as by Neville Temple and Edward Trevor, and after Julian Fane's death in 1870 Owen Meredith produced A Memoir. This set came from the Taplow Court sale and has the printed shelf labels on rear end-papers.

9. Another set, in original binding of dark green cloth, spines gilt, upper sides black lettered and ruled, yellow end-papers, all edges uncut.

5. Julian Fane: A Memoir. By Robert Lytton. John Murray, 1871. Bevelled dark green cloth, spine and upper side gilt-lettered and ornamented with central oval medallion on a white enamel background, edges uncut, frontispiece portrait, brown end-papers with binder's ticket of Edmonds & Remnants, 2 entirely different John Murray 16 page catalogues at end, both dated January 1871. Publisher's blind circular Presentation stamp on title. 6. King Poppy: A Poem. With Preface and Notes. By Horatio. [1875]. Crown 8vo, dark reddish brown cloth, edges cut, title-page with "[Private]" at top left-hand corner. Two volumes in one, pp. viii, 200 and 194, the second volume without preliminaries or title-page but with catches in lower margins for volume 2. Author's copy, profusely corrected in his hand in ink throughout. The corrections include almost complete deletions of pages and substitution of new text. Printer's imprint of Spottiswoode & Co. set in 3 lines at foot of p. 199 of volume 1. 7. Another copy, uniformly bound as above copy and with printer's imprint as above. Author's copy, but with very few corrections. 8. Fables in Song. By Robert, Lord Lytton. 2 vols. Chapman & Hall, 1876. Contemporary rebinding of half dark green morocco, t.e.g., others trimmed. The half-titles read-"Robert Lord Lytton's/Poetical Works/[rule]/Vol. I. [II]." Inscribed in the author's hand: "To A. C. Lyall, Esq. C. B. In grateful memory of tasks aided by the acuteness of his fine intellect, and days enlivened by the charm of his sympathetic and cultured companionship, these little volumes are affectionately offered by their author. Lytton, Simla 3 June 1880."

10. Glenaveril, or, The Metamorphoses. By the Earl of Lytton. 2 vols. John Murray, 1884. Pale blue boards, half cream parchment, spines gilt-lettered, top edges uncut, others trimmed, pale grey end-papers with binder's ticket of Bone & Son. 2A3 at end of volume 1 is blank. The first gathering of each volume consists of 3 leaves. 11. After Paradise, or, Legends of Exile, with Other Poems. By Robert, Earl of Lytton (Owen Meredith). David Stott, 1887. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine, edges cut. From the George Wyndham sale at Clouds near Shaftesbury (1933) and inscribed by him on end-paper: "Given to me by the author, September 26th 1887." 12. Poems by Owen Meredith (The Earl of Lytton). Selected with an Introduction by M. Betham-Edwards. Authorised edition. Walter Scott [1890]. Blue cloth, spine titling label, all edges uncut. A volume of the Canterbury Poets series, edited by William Sharp. The last 7 leaves, pp.[251-264], carry publisher's adverts only. Armorial bookplate of J. W. Williams. 13. King Poppy. By the Earl of Lytton. Longmans Green, 1892. Cream parchment, spine and upper side gilt-lettered and designed, t.e.g., others uncut, printed in red and black throughout. The title-page design-repeated on upper cover in gilt—is by Edward Burne-Jones. The final paragraph to the unsigned Introduction to this posthumous publication reads: "The frontispiece and the design of the title-page are contributions to the work by Mr. Edward Burne-Jones, to whom the Author's family desire to take this opportunity of expressing their most grateful thanks." The first gathering consists of 8 leaves of which the first 2 (preceding title-page) are blanks. The "frontispiece" referred to is printed on a separate leaf inserted before p.[lj. This is the first published edition of King Poppy, of which the Privately printed version [1875] is catalogued above. 14. Poems by Owen Meredith (The Earl of Lytton). Selected with an Introduction by M. Betham-Edwards. Authorised edition. The Walter Scott Publishing Co. Ltd. [1903]. This appears to be an unaltered reprint from the same plates as the earlier [1890] issue, but the style of the publisher has changed and the new imprint on p. 250 gives the clue to

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the date, "9.03." The advertising material is changed: there are now 104 volumes of the series listed whereas previously only 78 were issued. Also the binding is the modern style blue cloth with fully gilt spine and upper side, t.e.g., others cut.

Inscribed on half-title in the author's hand: "To my darling Betty [Lady Betty Balfour] October 27, 1899."

15. Personal and Literary Letters of Robert, First Earl of Lytton. Edited by Lady Betty Balfour. 2 vols. Longmans Green, 1906. Tall 8vo, 6" x 9 1/4", light blue cloth, gilt spines, top edges cut, others uncut, 8 plates, armorial bookplate of Ernest F. L. Henson in each volume. 16. A Lytton Treasury. Selections made by Albert Broadbent from the Poems of Robert, Earl of Lytton (Owen Meredith). Manchester: Albert Broadbent, 1909. The Broadbent Treasuries No. 16, decorated wrappers, uncut, 48 pages. The Introduction is in the form of a 2 page letter from Constance Lytton, the author's daughter, to the publisher, dated May 1909. Secondary Material 17. [Lytton, Lady Edith.] Private: India 1876-1880. Privately printed at the Chiswick Press, 1899. Light grey wrappers, upper side lettered in black, edges uncut (fore and lower perhaps lightly trimmed), pp.[viii], 260.

18. Bulwer-Lytton. By the Earl of Lytton, K.G. Home & Van Thai, 1948. Scarlet cloth, spine and upper side gilt, edges cut, in designed dust-jacket (6s. net). 19. Lutyens, Lady Emily. A Blessed Girl: Memoirs of a Victorian Girlhood Chronicled in an Exchange of Letters, 1887-1896. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953. Light blue-green linen with blue oval spine lettering label, in designed dust-jacket (21s. net), 7 illustrations. 20. Lutyens, Lady Emily. The Birth of Rowland: An Exchange of Letters in 1865 between Robert Lytton and His Wife. Edited by their Daughter. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956. Pale greenish grey linen, spine with oval red titling label, top edges stained red, others cut, 8 illustrations in designed dust-jacket (25s. net).