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call of the celebrities of the time: sidney Poitier, Michael caine, tom courtney, sammy Davis Jnr., nina simone, John lennon, Paul Mccartney, charlton heston and William Burroughs.
Duffy’s most famous photograph dates from the 1970s and is the iconic cover of David Bowie’s album aladdin sane. he was also critically acclaimed for advertising campaigns for Benson & hedges and smirnoff.
Famously, in 1979 Duffy decided to give up photography, burning many of his negatives in a fire in his back yard. Many negatives were lost, but in 2009, at the behest of his son, chris, Duffy took up the camera again for a BBc documentary, The Man Who Shot the 60s. Duffy died on 31 May 2010.
101. dUrrell, lawrence. transition: Poems. Caduceus Press. 1934.
£2,250
8vo., original black paper covered boards with printed label on upper cover. small abrasion to upper board, otherwise a near fine copy.
First edition of Durrell’s third volume of poetry. the number of copies is not recorded but it is thought to be fewer than 100 (Fraser a4). the copies were stored in the same warehouse as Durrell’s Ten Poems and the remaining copies of this volume were destroyed in the blitz. a scarce title. this copy with a Poetry society blindstamp on front-free endpaper.
102. eCo , Umberto. the name of the rose. Secker & Warburg. 1983.
£298 8vo., original cloth backed boards with dust wrapper. a very good copy.
First english editiion translated from the italian by William Weaver. the 1986 film directed by Jean-Jacques annaud starred sean connery as the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville and christian slater as his apprentice adso of Melk, who are called upon to solve a deadly mystery in a medieval abbey.
103. edlin, abraham. a treatise on the art of Bread-Making. Wherein, the Mealing trade, assize laws, and every circumstance connected with the art is Particularly examined. London: J. Wright for Vernor and Hood, 1805.
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12mo (183 x 108mm). original blue boards, modern cloth spine, uncut; pp. xxiv, 216, [5 folding letterpress tables, printed on the rectos only and lettered a-e and numbered as follows:] 217-221; boards a little rubbed, bumped and marked, splitting on hinges, endpapers lightly browned, occasional spotting and some very light browning, nonetheless a very good, uncut copy in the original boards.
First edition. the author, abraham edlin of uxbridge (d. before 1819), was a surgeon and physician, and also the author of An Account of Two Cases of Gout, which Terminated in Death, in Consequence of the External Use of Ice and Cold Water (uxbridge: 1804). the Treatise on the Art of Bread-Making is dedicated to the prominent american scientist and soldier Benjamin, count rumford ‘who has so sucessfully laboured in the application of science to the purposes of common life, and, thereby, increased the comforts and happiness of mankind’ (p. [iii]); rumford had made significant improvements in the design of domestic stoves, and then entered the employ of elector Karl theodor of Bavaria, with instructions to better feed and clothe the Bavarian army, using scientific principles: ‘on new year’s day 1790 thompson rounded up the many and
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troublesome beggars of Munich into workhouses, where they were to manufacture suitable cloth and where nourishing meals were provided and there were schoolteachers for the children. Feeding these workers and the soldiers led him into studies of nutrition, and also into the improvement of fireplaces and stoves, with fuel economy and freedom from smoke as the objectives. he introduced potatoes into the Bavarian diet; his recipes for thick soups became famous, and he also promoted the drinking of coffee as an alternative to alcohol. Faced with idle and ill-paid soldiers he set garrisons to work growing vegetables for their own use and for the workhouses, while around them the engineers practised building walls and fortifications. in Munich he constructed the english garden (out of the elector’s former deer park) for the recreation of the inhabitants’ (oDnB). edlin explains in his preface that he was part of a society of physicians who met once a week at the theatre in guy’s hospital once a week during the winter ‘to communicate such new facts and observations as occur in the course of their practices. — at the same time, a dissertation on some medical or philosophical subject is brought forward and read by the members in their turn, which, after due deliberation, and an exordium from the president, is calmly investigated [...] such is the origin of the present performance’ (p. [v]). the work provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of bread and bread-making, and the ten chapters discuss the natural history and cultivation of wheat; the mealing trade; the analysis of wheat flour; the analysis of yeast; the theory of fermentation in bread; the preparation of bread; the substitutes for wheaten bread; the preparation and preservation of yeast; the structure of a bakehouse; and the regulation of the assize of bread. edlin’s Treatise was written for a wide audience, and he states in the preface that his intended readers include ‘everyone whose curiosity would lead them to study a beautiful and interesting branch of experimental philosophy [...] the frugal housewife, who would enjoy the luxury of eating good unadulterated bread, such directions are given, that with very little labour and trouble, she may soon learn to grind her own wheat, separate the flour from the bran, and make it up and bake it into bread. to captains of ships, to military men, and such who travel into unfrequented regions, where, if any bread is to be procured, it is in general execrable, such plain and easy instructions are laid down for making good bread, as cannot fail of being easily put in practice. even the baker, whose habits and education do not lead him to investigate speculative doctrines and opinions, may find several observations that will prove serviceable in the prosecution of his business, particularly the abstract and tables of the assize laws, which, being derived from authentic sources, will preclude the necessity of his consulting a variety of acts of parliament, which, unless carefully digested, appear to contradict one another’ (pp. vii-viii) and also his fellow scientists, who may be helped by finding the pertinent information on the subject carefully and compactly assembled. edlin concludes, ‘i anticipate the period when we shall see the art of bread-making, instead of forming a confused and unintelligible article in our encyclopaedias and dictionaries, atttain its proper rank among the liberal sciences’ (p. x).
a French edition, translated by the physician Jean Peschier, was published in Paris under the title L’Art de faire le pain in 1811, and the only other english appearance of this work was an limited-edition facsimile of the first edition, edited by tom Jaine, which was published in 1992. this first edition is rare on the market, particularly uncut and in the original boards as here.
Bitting p.140; Goldsmiths 19049; Simon, BG 584.
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