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151. KIPLING, Rudyard. A Book of Words. Selections from Speeches and Addresses Delivered Between 1906 and 1927. Macmillan and Co., Limited. 1928.
£78
8vo., original red cloth with gilt roundel on upper board with dust wrapper. Half-title just a little browned as usual, otherwise a very good copy.
First edition.
152. KIPLING, Rudyard. Rudyard Kipling’s Verse 1885-1926. Hodder & Stoughton, 1930.
£398
8vo, newly rebound in half red morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt in comparments, top edges gilt; a very nice copy.
Fifth impression.
153.KIPLING, Rudyard (author). Robin JACQUES (illustrator). Kim. New York; The Limited Editions Club. 1962.
£148
4to. Original brown leather-backed cloth elaborately panelled in gilt, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, pictorial endpapers, preserved in slightly chipped glassine wrapper and original slipcase; pp. [xii] + 283 + [iii]; illustrated with wonderful full- and double-page drawings in colour, together with vignettes and text illustrations in black-and-white; a lovely copy.
First edition illustrated thus. Limited to only 1500 numbered copies signed by Robin Jacques.
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156. LAURENT, Peter Edmund. Recollections of a Classical Tour Through Various Parts of Greece, Turkey, and Italy, Made in the Years 1818 and 1819. London: Weed and Rider and Munday and Slatter for G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1822.
£1,750
8vo in 4s (207 x 128mm), 2 volumes. Contemporary English half calf over marbled boards, the flat spines divided into compartments by gilt rules and blind rolls, lettered directly in gilt in 2, red-speckled edges; pp. I: xv, [1 (corrigenda)], 304; II: viii, 277, [1 (blank)], [6 (index)]; 2 hand-coloured aquatint frontispieces, 2 hand-coloured aquatint plates, folding engraved plate, roman and greek types, some words in Arabic or Ottoman Turkish; lightly rubbed, 2 plates trimmed touching image, light offsetting from plates onto text, some light spotting and browning, otherwise a very fresh, attractive set retaining half-titles, in a contemporary binding.
Second edition. Born in Picardy, Laurent (1796-1837) studied at the École Polytechnique, Paris before coming to England as a young man, where he taught modern languages at the University of Oxford for several years, and also taught French at the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth. The ODNB states that Laurent ‘was a good mathematician, and is stated to have spoken fluently “nearly all the European languages,” and to have been “well versed in Arabic, Latin, and Greek” (G[entleman’s] M[agazine])’. In 1818 Laurent departed from Oxford with two friends from the University for Italy, where he visited the towns in the north of the country, before embarking from Venice for Greece and the Ionian Islands, returning the following year through Naples, Rome and Florence. The Recollections of a Classical Tour was first published in 1821 as a one-volume quarto edition and a two- volume octavo edition, and this second edition appeared the following year; it seems possible that this edition uses the sheets of the first octavo edition (which was printed by Munday and Slatter, whose name is to be found at the end of the text of both volumes) with reset titles
or first quires printed by Weed and Rider, whose imprint is found on the versos of the titles. Although the work describes Laurent’s journey in its entirety from Venice to Brindisi, as he states in his preface, ‘these volumes consist of extracts from my journal, relating more particularly to Turkey and Greece’ (I, p. ix), and the four plates of costumes depict ‘Turkish Women Travelling’; ‘Inf[ant]r[y]. Officer of Janissaries. Greek Sailor’; ‘A Turkish Girl. Greek Ladies at Constantinople’; ‘Albanians in the Morea’ and the Appendix gives the Constitution of the Ionian Islands, while the folding plate is a facsimile of a membership ‘diploma’ of the Philomuse Society.
Brunet III, cols 879-880; for the 1st 8vo ed., cf.: Abbey, Travel 205; for the 4to ed., cf.: Atabey 680; Blackmer 959; Lowndes p. 1320; Pine-Coffin 818/7 (‘Containing a few pages on Venice, Trieste, Otranto, Lecce, and Brindisi only’); Tooley 293.
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154.KNICKERBOCKER, Peggy. Simple Soirees. Seasonal Meals for sensational Dinner Parties. New York. Stewart, Tabori & Chang,: 2005.
£28
4to., original cloth with dust wrapper. A fine copy. First edition.
155. LAKE, Nancy. Daily Dinners. A Collection of 366 Distinct Menus in English and French. Frederick Warne and Co. 1892. £68
8vo., original decorative cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. A little rubbing to joints, some foxing throughout otherwise a very good copy.
First edition. Suggested menus for each day of the year.
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