Hovey, Richard.

Along the Trail.

Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, 1899. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, 115pp. Second edition. Decorated brown cloth in gilt by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, with his initials, B G, on the upper cover. George Sterling's copy, with his bookplate designed by Herman Scheffauer. Sterling's ownership inscription in pencil; and presentation to E. N. Hyatt in ink. Scheffauer was an American poet of German origin who was part of a Bohemian group of poets which included Sterling. Known for his pro-German views, he was indicted by the US Government. George Stirling was pretty much the leading figure of the San Francisco Bohemian and decadent poets. With Paul Elder and Morgan Shepard's California bookplate pasted on the rear endpaper. Morgan Shepherd, another writer, had gone into business with Paul Elder, the publisher, in the very early twentieth century. This bookplate most likely dates from this era. An amazing association copy. Good.

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Book number: 1822

Catalogue: Nineteenth Century Books, Association Copies

Keywords: San Francisco Bohemian Group, Association Copy, Decorated Binding

Lobeira, Vasco [translated by Robert Southey]. [SOUTHEY'S & A.E. HOUSMAN'S COPY - WITH CORRECTIONS IN SOUTHEY'S HAND & MARKS IN HOUSMAN'S HAND].

Amadis of Gaul.

London: For T.N. Longman and O. Rees, Pater-Noster-Row, 1803. 0. Hardcover. Duodecimo. Four volumes. I: [vi], xxxvi, 288, [viii]pp.; II: [iv], 371, [i], [viii]pp.; III: [iv], 336, [viii]pp.; IV: [iv], 336, [xii]pp. First edition. Without the half-titles. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. From A.E. Housman's library. With manuscript notes by Southey and Housman. According to the previous owner's notes, purchased from Blackwell's on October 17, 1936. Southey was the translator of this work. Translated from the Spanish version of Garciordonez de Montalvo. Southey's Notes: Volume I: none found; Volume II: p. 1, p. 115, p. 211, p. 229, p. 230, p. 291, p. 339, p. 340; Volume III: p. 17, p. 79; Volume IV: p. 313 (?). There are also notes by Housman. I contacted Blackwell's; they informed me that their archives were deposited at Merton College. To date, I have not heard from Merton College with any additional information. John Sparrow was apparently involved in the transaction that saw the purchase of Housman's books by Blackwell's. The previous owner of the set (this set has been in my collection for well over twenty years) had purchased these books from Blackwell's on October 17, 1936. It has some manuscript notes by Southey (in his very distinctive small hand in red ink) as well as other marks or notes in pencil, which I presume (correctly, I think) are by Housman (William White's article in PMLA, 1943, 'A Note on some Housman marginalia,' indicates how Housman marked his books, and the Amadis is no exception). The set has the small B.H. Blackwell Ltd. Booksellers ticket on the front pastedown of volume one and was marked 25/-; it was crossed over and a new price 21/- added. I do not know if this set was owned by Southey at one time (I did not see it in his sale catalogue) and whether Housman had any notes regarding previous ownership that Blackwell's entered into their files. Good.

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Book number: 2108

Catalogue: First Editions, Nineteenth Century Books, Association Copies