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‘i Went to frAnkfort, And got drunk With thAt most leArn’d professor, brunck;i Went to Worts, And got more drunken With thAt more leArn’d professor, ruhnken’
275. SOPHOCLES. sophoclis tragoediae septem cum scholiis veteribus, versione latina, et notis. Accedunt deperditorum dramatum fragmenta. ex editione rich. franc. phil. brunck. Argentorati [Strasbourg]. 1788.
£1,750
8vo. 3 vols.; contemporary dark green morocco, triple gilt fillet borders to sides, smooth spines lettered in gilt and decorated with gilt panels and various small tools, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; greek and latin text; ink stain on fore-edges of vol. ii, otherwise a very nice set.
brunck’s edition originally appeared in 2 volumes, quarto, in 1786. According to dibdin the popularity of the edition was very great, but its dearness prevented many from purchasing it. brunck, therefore, brought out an octavo edition in three volumes, 1786-8, followed by another three- volume octavo edition (the one offered here), of which only 250 copies were handsomely printed at his own expense. richard françois philippe brunck (1729-1803), eminent french classical scholar, also published Analecta veterum poetarum Graecorum (1772-76) and editions of Aristophanes, vergil, plautus, and others. he is immortalized in richard porson’s verse; “i went to frankfort, and got drunk/With that most learn’d professor, brunck;/i went to Worts, and got more drunken/With that more learn’d professor, ruhnken” (Facetiae Cantabrigienses, 1825).
With the small leather book-label and signature of Ambroise-firmin didot (1790-1876), the last important member of the french family of typefounders, printers and publishers. With his brother, hyacinthe, he organized the business in 1827 as Firmin-Didot frères, and for the greater part of the 19th century the firm made a major contribution to quality printing and publishing in france.
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276. SPENDER, Stephen & David HOCKNEY. china diary. Thames and Hudson. 1982.
£1,500
8vo., original red cloth lettered in gilt on spine with gilt block on upper board. With 158 watercolours, drawings and photographs, 84 in colour. A fine copy in original card box with separate folder inclosing an original five-colour hand-drawn lithograph.
first edition, limited edition of 1000 numbered copies, signed by hockney and spender.
277. Edmund SPENSER (author). CRANE, Walter (illustrator). the shepheard’s calendar. London and New York, Harper & Brothers. 1898.
£998
square 8vo., finely bound by kelliegram in full brown crushed morocco, boards with a lettered border taking quotations from the text surrounding a design of traing stems with flowers and leaves encircling astrological ram and lion tools. spine lettered in gilt with trailing stem, flower and leaf decoration., pp. xxiii, 3-118; beautifully illustrated throughout by Walter crane with border designs, decorations and full-page illustrations after engravings, in the arts-and-crafts style. A choicely bound copy.
first edition illustrated by Walter crane.
278. STANLEY, Sir Henry Morton — William Heysham OVEREND (artist). ‘mr stanley and some of his African followers on boards h.m.s. industry’. [London]: Illustrated London News, 1878.
£125
A double-page wood-engraving by W.J.p. after overend, 395 x 557mm, slightly creased on fold, otherwise fine; modern mount.
A wood-engraving of overend’s depiction of stanley returning to england on board h.m.s. Industry in late 1877, following the conclusion of his trans-African expedition of 1874-1877, which was (despite the attendant controversy), remarkable for ‘stanley’s success in solving the remaining mysteries of African geography’ (odnb). the print (based on overend’s picture ‘sketched from life’) was issued as an ‘extra supplement’ to the Illustrated London News of 5 January 1878 (vol. lXXii, no. 2010).
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