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296. UPton, Florence K. (author and illustrator). the adventures of Borbee and the Wisp, the story of a sophisticated little girl and an unsophisticated little Boy. London; Longmans, Green & Co. 1908.
£1850
4to. original red cloth-backed white pictorial boards, patterned endpapers, preserved in original printed dustwrapper; pp. [67]; illustrated with a pictorial title-page and a total of 31 exquisite coloured plates, with line drawings and decorations in brown; a fine, exceptional, and immaculate, copy, externally white and sharp, internally clean; the rare original dustwrapper now discoloured from pink to buff with some light general dust-soiling, one small ink name, and wear to corners and edges consisting of slim, slightly ragged, loss along most of the top edge of upper panel (to a maximum depth of 15mm) and lower fore-corner (35mm); the bottom edge of lower panel torn along two-thirds of its length with loss to a maximum depth of 35mm with corresponding narrow loss to head and tail of spine, but a very scarce survival in any condition.
First edition. With “Presentation Copy” neatly blindstamped to top margin of title-page. a delightful tale of fairy folk. Florence upton, together with her mother Bertha, produced the widely celebrated, and collected, series of golliwogg books which began with The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg in 1895. the work described here, unusually both written and illustrated by Florence, is produced in a very similar format to the golliwogg books and printed by the same publisher longmans, green & co.
297. VarioUs. a collection of red letter series volumes. The Gresham Publishing Company, [nd.].
£498
8vo (19 volumes). original green cloth gilt, decorative endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed; portrait frontispieces, titles printed in red and black; a very attractive set in a Victorian folding bookcase.
this set comprises the poems of Byron, J.g. Whittier, Milton, christina rossetti, elizabeth Barrett Browning, Matthew arnold, coleridge, calverly, Burns, herrick, shelley, longfellow, cowper, and george herbert with tennyson’s In Memoriam, Keble’s Psalter in English Verse, and sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth century anthologies.
298.WallaCe, alfred russel — Charles H. smitH and George BeCCaloni (editors). natural selection and Beyond. the intellectual legacy of alfred russel Wallace. Oxford: CPI Antony Rowe for Oxford University Press, 2008.
£35
8vo (245 x 170mm). original light-brown boards, spine lettered in gilt, brown endpapers, dustwrapper; pp. xxv, [1 (blank)], 482, [4 (blank ll.)]; portrait frontispiece, 4 colour-printed plates with illustrations recto-and- verso, illustrations, diagrams and maps in the text, some full-page; fine.
First edition. an important collection of essays examining many aspects of Wallace’s life and works, with contributions by Peter raby, James Moore, and others, comprising: ‘homes sweet homes: a Biographical tour of Wallace’s Many Places of residence’ (g. Beccaloni); ‘“ardent beetle-hunters”: natural history, collecting, and the theory of evolution’ (a. Berry); ‘theory and Practice in the Field: Wallace’s Work in natural history (1844-1858)’ (M.B. Fagan); ‘Wallace’s annotated copy of the Darwin-Wallace Paper on natural selection’ (g. Beccaloni); ‘Wallace and the species concept of the early Darwinians’ (J. Mallet); ‘Direct selection for reproductive isolation: the Wallace effect and reinforcement’ (n.a. Johnson); ‘the colours of animals: from Wallace to the Present Day. 1, cryptic coloration’ (t. caro, s. Merilaita, M. stevens); ‘the colours of animals: from Wallace to the Present Day. 2, conspicuous coloration’ (t. caro et al.); ‘alfred russel Wallace, Biogeographer’ (B. Michaux); ‘Wallace and the great ice age’ (K. tinkler); ‘Wallace, conservation, and sustainable Development’ (s. Knapp); ‘the “Finest Butterfly in the World?”: Wallace and his literary legacy’ (P. raby); ‘Wallace and owenism’ (g. claeys); ‘Wallace, Women, and eugenics’ (D.B. Paul); ‘out of “the limbo of ‘unpractical Politics’”: the origins and essence of Wallace’s advocacy of land nationalization’ (D.a. stack); ‘alfred russel Wallace and anti-Vaccinationism in the late Victorian cultural context, 1870-1907’ (M. Fichman); ‘the universe and alfred russel Wallace’ (s.J. Dick); ‘Wallace’s unfinished Business’ (c.h. smith); ‘Wallace in Wonderland’ (J. Moore); ‘Wallace’s Dilemmas: the laws of nature and the human spirit’ (t. Benton); ‘Wallace, spiritualism, and Beyond: “change,” or “no change”?’ (c.h. smith).
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