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286. TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. guinevere. Edward Moxon And Co., 1868.
£110
folio (420 x 302 mm). original dark green cloth, the upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, all edges gilt; [vi], 41, [1]pp., illustrated with 9 steel- engraved plates after drawings by gustave doré, each paper-guarded; the head and the tail of the spine expertly repaired, corners lightly bumped, otherwise a very good copy.
second printing.
287. TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. enoch Arden. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company. 1888.
£398
4to. original mustard decorative cloth blocked in gilt, dark brown and silver, dark green decorative endpapers, all edges gilt; frontispiece portrait and numerous full-page drawings by edmund h. garrett and chas. copeland, text and illustrations on facing pages and both printed within faint borders of decorative foliage; contemporary ink inscription on flyleaf, a very nice copy.
An attractive illustrated edition of tennyson’s narrative poem.
one of 100 copies, signed by tennyson, With A letter from edWArd leAr
288. TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord and Edward LEAR (illustrator). poems by Alfred, lord tennyson illustrated by edward lear. Boussod, Valadon & Co. 1889.
£3,500
4to. contemporary half morocco, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt; pp. [viii] + iv + 51 + colophon; frontispiece portrait of tennyson from the painting by g.f. Watts, small portrait of lear from a photograph, 16 plates and 6 head- and tail-pieces, all from landscape drawings by edward lear, the plates with printed tissue-guards; the cloth sides of the covers have some scratches and surface rubbing, otherwise a very good copy, with the bookplate of William harris Arnold.
first edition. One of 100 numbered proof copies printed on Japanese
vellum paper, signed by Tennyson, and with additionally an autograph letter from Edward Lear tipped in. the three poems printed in this volume are To Edward Lear on his Travels in Greece, The Palace of Art, and The Daisy. there is an introductory article about lear by franklin lushington. tipped in at the front of the volume is a short signed letter from edward lear addressed to “my dear cooke”, declining an invitation because of a previous engagement.
edward lear was a friend and great admirer of tennyson and over many
years he set aside a series of designs for an illustrated edition of the poet’s works. frustration over trying to find a satisfactory method of reproducing his illustrations prevented the work from being published in his lifetime. this posthumously published volume (lear had died in 1888) contains three poems by tennyson and a small selection of the many drawings lear had set aside for the book, here reproduced in goupilgravure. “tennyson, rather reluctantly, it seems, agreed to put his signature to the copies, which have now become extremely rare and precious.” (John lehmann, Edward Lear and his World).
“pretty little edition” - dibdin
289. TERENCE. publii terenti Afri comoediae sex, ad optimorum exemplarium fidem recensitae. Accesserunt variae lectiones e libris mss. & eruditorum commentariis depromptae. Paris: Natalem le Loup & Jacobum Merigot. 1753.
£1,250
12mo. 2 vols.; contemporary red morocco, decorative gilt borders with flower tools at the corners, spines with gilt floral decoration including acorn centre tools, green leather labels, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; pp. xxx, 362 (last page misnumbered 354); [iv], 364, [4]; vignette portrait of terence on both title-pages, 7 engraved plates after gravelot, 37 vignettes and 28 tail-pieces after gravelot, engraved by delafosse and sornique; a clean and attractive copy, from the library of Jean furstenberg, with his bookplate.
An edition noted for its attractive engravings. “les culs-de-lampe sont d’autant plus remarquables que tous sont cariés, quoique représentant tous des masques scéniques” (cohen). “pretty little edition ... in my estimation it is a prettier book upon paper than upon vellum” (dibdin).
Cohen/De Ricci, pp. 982-83. Dibdin, II, p.477.
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