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63. CROSLAND, C.A.R. Britain’s Economic Problem. Jonathan Cape. 1953.
£198
8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper. Wrapper browned on spine and a little nicked at head of spine, otherwise a very good copy. With Wyatt’s bookplate.
First edition. Warmly inscribed by Crosland to fellow Labour MP Woodrow Wyatt, “To Woodrow - my very good friend the well known economist and intellectual, tho’ alas with little interest in drink, Eartha Kitt, jazz, or relaxation: thus too remote, detached and intellectual, Cripps- like. Tony Crosland”.
Before entering Parliament in 1950 Crosland had taught economics at Oxford, with Tony Benn among others as a pupil.
A BROAD-MARGINED COPY OF CUCCIONI’S SERIES OF ROMAN SCENES IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING
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64. CUCCIONI, Tommaso (publisher). Num[er]o. cento vedute di Roma e sue vicinanze. Rome: Tommaso Cuccioni, [circa 1830]. £695
Oblong 4to (169 x 215mm). Contemporary [?Italian] vellum gilt over pasteboards. Covers with borders formed of palmette rolls within points and rules, spine gilt in compartments, gilt maroon morocco lettering-piece in one, others decorated with central floral and foliate tools, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; engraved title and 96 engraved plates by Achille Parboni, Cuccioni, Cottafavi, et al., with captions in Italian or Italian and French below; covers a little darkened, and slightly rubbed and chipped at extremities, some scattered spotting, otherwise a very good, clean copy with broad margins in a contemporary binding.
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61. CRANE, Walter. Invitation to the Corporation of London’s Reception and Ball to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee. Corporation of London. 1887.
£498 366 x 285mm, mounted. One corner a lttle chipped, otherwise a fine copy.
A rare Walter Crane ephemeron. The recipient of the invitation was Mr H.C. Wales and his name is inserted in ink (slightly faded). The design is typically Crane, including a beefeater, a noble knight in shining armour, and symbolic maidens representing Progress, Peace and Plenty surrounding Britannia reclining on a globe.
62. CROSBY, Bing. Call Me Lucky. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1953.
£50
8vo. Original decorative paper wrapper; with loose business reply card; small brown stain to back of wrapper, very good.
First edition.
An attractive, finely-engraved and rare set of etchings of Roman architecture and antiquities, published by the bookseller, print-dealer and engraver Tommaso Cuccioni (circa 1790-1862), who established himself originally as a print-seller and publisher in Rome at Via della Croce 25 (the address on the title page of this volume), before later moving to no. 88 in the same street, and later to Via Condotti. In about 1852 — like a number of other Roman printsellers who specialised in vedute — Cuccioni turned to photography, and became a successful retailer of photographic prints of monuments and Roman scenes which followed the subjects of his prints; as C.L. Lyons states in Antiquity & Photography: Early Views of Ancient Mediterranean Sites (Los Angeles: 2005), Cuccioni was ‘among the most proficient of these former printmakers [as a photographer]’ (p. 18). The plates depict many of the best-known buildings and scenes of Rome, including the Piazza del Popolo, St Peter’s, San Giovanni in Laterano, Piazza di Spagna, Trajan’s Column, Piazza Colonna, the Pantheon, Palazzo Farnese, and the Colosseum — many of which would then feature in Cuccioni’s photographs. Despite the title, the number of engravings found in copies of the work varies, and other copies are recorded with between 95 and 100 plates; certainly this copy was bound at or shortly after the time of publication, and there are no signs of any plates having been removed.
Borroni, Il Cicognara, 8288.
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