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expeditions of discovery to the south and to the west, including those which tench led himself. as an accurate, well-written and acutely observed account of the earliest years of australia’s colonization it is a most important addition to any collection of australian books. it is rare despite the hundred of copies that were originally printed and is much in demand’ (Wantrup, p. 72).
this copy is notable for its provenance; it was in the collection of the distinguished physician Frank hobill cole, who variously held the positions of lecturer and examiner in materia medica at the school of Pharmacy and the Victorian college of Pharmacy, was a member of the Pharmacy Board and represented it on the faculty of medicine at the university of Melbourne, and was both a physician and surgeon at the children’s hospital, becoming honorary consultant upon his retirement. the aDB characterises him as ‘a gentle and humble man, greatly respected by his contemporaries for his superior knowledge and skill in medicine, surgery and therapeutics. he was a generous benefactor to many institutions and people in need. he was among the last who practised as a physician and surgeon with equal skill, and among the first in Melbourne to specialize in diseases of children’, and also records that ‘cole collected australian paintings and literature with discernment. he was said to have the best local collection of books on the discovery and exploration of australasia’.
cole was also a patron of the bookseller a.h. spencer, who worked for angus and robertson under the tutelage of george robertson and gaining the confidence of important collectors such as sir William Dixson and sir John Ferguson; with the support of both cole and robertson, spencer established his own bookselling business in Melbourne: ‘Very quickly the new shop emerged as a major outlet for antiquarian, second-hand and fine new books [... spencer] maintained contact with sydney collectors and successfully attracted the custom of Melbourne’s notable citizens and bibliophiles’ (aDB). Following the death of his son in 1946, spencer sold the business to angus and robertson in 1951, but continued to sell books; described by the aDB as ‘an accomplished technician, an astute marketer of his own book, a clever advertiser’, he is judged to have ‘helped to give Melbourne and australia a sense of the mission of antiquarian bookselling’. in the 1920s, as cole dispersed his collections due to ill-health, spencer sold his library and it seems likely that the ticket dates from that point; however, spenser also handled the sale of the distinguished library of Fred Z. eager, whose blindstamps the copy bears, so the label may belong to that period.
Cox II, p. 317; ESTC T136607; Ferguson 171; Lowndes p. 2603; Wantrup, 16.
286. tHaCKeray, William makepeace (author). lewis BaUmer (illustrator). Vanity Fair. London, Hodder & Stoughton. [1913].
£398
4to. original grey printed cloth, with onlaid oval pictorial vignette to upper cover, pictorial endpapers, preserved in the original glassine dustwrapper within the pictorially decorated presentation box; pp. [xviii] + 483; with 20 fine mounted coloured plates behind tissue-guards; a fine copy, excellently protected by the rare wrapper and presentation box.
First edition illustrated by this artist, and one of the few attractive interpretations of this nineteenth century classic.
286 a laVishlY, eXtra-illustrateD liMiteD eDition FroM the liBrarY oF an iMPortant aMerican collector
287. tHaCKeray, William makepeace — rideinG, William H. thackeray’s london: his haunts and the scenes of his novels. Boston: Berwick & Smith, Printers for Cupples, Upham and Company, 1885.
£2,000
4to, full late 19th-century dark green crushed morocco gilt by P.B. sanford, Boston, boards with broad foliate gilt borders enclosed in triple gilt fillets and single gilt broken fillets, spine gilt in compartments, lettered directly in one and at foot with imprint, others with dense gilt foliate panels, raised bands decorated in gilt, doublures of red crushed morocco with gilt foliate borders enclosed by triple gilt fillets and single gilt broken fillets, turn-ins with triple gilt fillets enclosed by borders of small gilt floral rolls, red watered-silk free endleaves, gilt roll-tooled board edges, top edges gilt, other edges uncut, red silk marker, with original parchment wrappers bound in at front and end; pp. [6 (blank, publisher’s manuscript limitation statement, half-title, verso blank, title-page, imprint)], 103, [3 (‘the end’, advertisement, verso blank)]; mounted etched portrait frontispiece on india signed ‘edmund h. garratt 1885’ in the plate and signed ‘edmund h. garratt 1885’ on the mount, 7 black and white plates, one facsimile plate of original manuscript page from The Newcomes, extra-illustratedwith the addition of 96 black and white plates, mainly engravings mounted at large (including one double page) by W.t. Fry, e. radclyffe et al., after thomas shepherd, sir Joshua reynolds et al., and 8 hand-coloured engravings (including one double page) by a. Pugin et al. after t. rowlandson et al., one manuscript page by rideing transcribing page 7 and signed at foot, and 3 autograph letters signed, one with envelope (vide infra); very slight rubbing and scuffing of extremities, occasional, variable offsetting from plates, nonetheless a fine copy in a handsome binding; provenance: loren griswold DuBois (vide infra), [?american art galleries (sale of 17 – 18 november 1919)], sotheby’s new York (11 – 12 December 1984, lot 191a).
limited large-paper edition signed and numbered 92 of 100 by the publishers. Thackeray’s London is a trip through the locations and buildings made famous by thackeray, whose works were frequently set in or featured london scenes. it was first published as an article in The Century Magazine volume 26 issue 6 (oct 1883). The Century Magazinewas first published in the united states in 1881 by the century company of new York city as a successor to Scribner’s Monthly Magazine. after the death of charles scribner, differences arose between the management, and the publishing firm of charles scribner’s sons, which resulted in the withdrawal of the scribner interests and this 1881 change of name. owing to the death of the last editor of Scribner’s richard
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