CLARKE, F. W. (Frank Wigglesworth, 1847-1931)

[Photobook] [Waterfalls] Views Around Ithaca : Being a Description of the Waterfalls and Ravines of This Remarkable Locality

Ithaca, N.Y. Andrus, McChain, 1869. Original Cloth. Scarce First (and only) Edition of this local guide with original albumen prints. Crown 8vo (179 x 111mm): 155,[3]pp, with ten mounted captioned photographs and table of measurements of the falls. Publisher's forest green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, covers elaborately paneled in blind, coated chocolate end papers. Book plate of George F. Behringer (the first graduate of Cornell, in 1869) to front paste-down. A superior copy (page edges very lightly tanned), tightly bound and clean throughout, with sharp, unfaded prints. Margolis & Moss 20 (for mention of J. C. Burritt's half-stereo views of scenery around Ithaca). Sabin 13401. Not in Truthful Lens. Clarke, sometimes known as the "Father of Geochemistry," is credited with determining the composition of the Earth's crust. He was a founder of The American Chemical Society and served as its president. Two years after taking a bachelor's degree at Harvard College, in 1867, he was appointed instructor in chemistry at Cornell University, near which these photographs were taken. Some of the prints are signed in the negative by regional photographer J. C. Burritt, whose photographs (more than 100 stereo views) were featured in the series "Scenery About Ithaca." N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine- .

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Sonstige Stichworte: MODERN FIRSTS

CLIFT, William

[Photobook] Certain Places. Photographs by William Clift [Signed]

Sante Fe, New Mexico, William Clift Editions, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. First Trade Issue, signed by the photographer on title page and inscribed by the designer above her name (Catherine Waters) on final page. (A limited edition of 250 copies, signed by the photographer on title page and initialed "W.C." on limitation label, also was published). Squarish royal 8vo (279 x 300mm): 44 unnumbered leaves, including frontispiece and 21 tritone photographs, largely landscapes, printed on rectos with brief captions on versos. Publisher's quarter black cloth over dark grey paper-covered boards, spine and front cover lettered in gold, mid-grey end papers; original dark grey dust jacket, unpriced with flaps blank, lettered in gold on spine and front panels. A superb copy, virtually pristine, tightly bound and fresh and bright throughout. "Published on the occasion of an exhibition of seventy-nine photographs by William Clift at the Art Institute of Chicago, April 25 through June 21, 1987, and at the Amon Carter Museum, July 11 through September 6, 1987." N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine/Fine.

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[SOTHEBY & CO.]

The Schwerdt Collection. Catalogue of the Renowned Collection of Books, Manuscripts, Prints & Drawings Relating to Hunting, Hawking and Shooting Formed by the Late C.F. G.R. Schwerdt, Esq

London, Sotheby & Co. [through 1946], 1939. Stiff Wrappers. Complete in six portions continuously paginated. Royal 8vo (242 x 180mm): [2],86; [6],93-187,[1]; [4],193-244; [4],249-308; 311-358; [2],363-396pp, with 90 full-page plates (some folding). Sage-green stiff wrappers, upper covers decorated and printed in black; sage-green ribbed cloth-covered slip case by Fitterer, paper label printed in black to spine. Portions 1-4 published on coated stock in 1939, with detailed entries akin to those in the original four-volume catalogue, published in 1928 and 1936; portions 5-6 appeared in 1946, after the war, and are slimmer with shorter entries. An extraordinarily well-preserved set, tightly bound and clean throughout. The Schwerdt collection, compiled by Charles Francis George Richard Schwerdt (1862-1939), was one of the finest sporting libraries ever assembled, comprising books, manuscripts, prints, and drawings relating to hunting, hawking, and shooting from the Middle Ages to modern times. Sold May 22-23, June 19-21, 27, July 10-11, 1939. An order of sales, with 516 lots, and a presentation of the collection can be found at the beginning of the catalogue. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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Sonstige Stichworte: THE PAPER CHASE

COLERIDGE, Herbert (1830-1861)

A Dictionary of the First, or Oldest Words in the English Language: From the Semi-Saxon Period of A.D. 1250 to 1300. Containing an Alphabetical Inventory of Every Word Found in the Printed English Literature of the 13th Century

London, John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, 1863. First Edition thus. First Edition (under this title) of this "foundation stone" of The New English Dictionary. Slim demy 8vo (219 x 139mm); vii,[1],102,[2]pp. Contemporary green quarter roan over marbled paper-covered boards, recent red leather lettering piece gilt, top edge gilt, matching marbled end papers. Tightly bound and generally clean throughout (occasional spotting, few pencil marginalia), a collectible copy of this scarce title. First published as A Glossarial Index to the Printed English Literature of the Thirteenth Century. In 1857, when Coleridge was elected to the Philological Society, the society was engaged on a proposal for remedying deficiencies in the two standard dictionaries (Samuel Johnson's two-volume A Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1755, and Charles Richardson's New Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1836-1837). That proposal soon developed into a scheme for a complete new English dictionary. Coleridge was appointed secretary of a special committee formed "for the purpose of collecting words and idioms hitherto unregistered." "His new duties, practically constituting a new general editorship of the work, involved a large correspondence with the numerous volunteer helpers. The results of his researches are embodied in his Glossarial Index, which he describes as 'the foundation stone of the proposed English dictionary." (DNB) The New English Dictionary was ultimately published by the Clarendon Press. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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[Rowlandson] COMBE, William (1742-1823)

[Color Plate] the History of Johnny Quæ Genus : The Little Foundling of the Late Doctor Syntax : A Poem

London, Published By R. Ackermann, At The Repository Of Arts, 101, Strand, London; And To Be Had Of All The Booksellers In The United Kingdom, 1822. Full Leather. First Edition of the "last of the genuine or 'authorized' Syntax books" (Abbey), first issued in eight monthly parts. Royal 8vo (236 x 1452mm): [iv],267[pagination irregular but text complete],[1]pp, with 24 hand-colored aquatints by Thomas Rowlandson. Contemporary straight-grain morocco gilt, boards framed in gilt and in blind with leaf-and-flower rolls, rebacked with part of original spine and red morocco lettering piece laid down, marbled end papers. A Very Good or better copy, generally clean and bright with first and final leaves (including title page) foxed, usual offsetting from plates, very occasional finger-soiling. Abbey, Life, 268. Tooley 413. Grolier Rowlandson 48. Martin Hardie, 174-75. As early as 1809, the publisher Ackermann had hired Combe to write the letterpress to accompany many of Rowlandson's most successful illustrations, including those for the final volume of the "Microcosm of London" and perhaps especially for the illustrations that resulted in the series of comic poetry for which Combe is still most famous, and which earned him his nickname, Doctor Syntax: The Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of the Picturesque and its two sequels (1812, 1820, 1821), The English Dance of Death (1815, 1816), The Dance of Life (1817), and finally The History of Johnny Quae Genus, the Little Foundling of the Late Doctor Syntax (1822). "Combining light-hearted satire of William Gilpin's theory of the picturesque in art with a central character modelled on Cervantes' Don Quixote and Henry Fielding's Parson Adams, Combe created a lovable eccentric whose misadventures on the road structure the Tour. For over a century the many editions and numerous imitations of the Tour attested to the popularity of Combe's humorous hero." (ODNB) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Very Good + .

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Sonstige Stichworte: English wit and humor, Pictorial. Great Britain—Social life and customs—19th century—Poetry. Great Britain—Social life and customs—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons.

[COMBE, William, imitator; Thomas Rowlandson, imitator]

[Color Plate] the Tour of Doctor Prosody : In Search of the Antique and Picturesque, Through Scotland, the Hebrides, the Orkney, and Shetland Isles ; Illustrated by Twenty Humorous Plates

London / Edinburgh / Glasgow, Matthew Iley, Somerset Street / Bell and Bradfute; W. Blackwood / W. Turnbull, 1821. First Edition. Morocco. First Edition. Tall 8vo: [4],251,[1]pp, with 20 leaves of hand-colored aquatints by William Read and C. Williams (after, but not by, Rowlandson, as often asserted). Text in verse. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, covers bordered in blind and in gilt, richly gilt spine in six compartments, gilt turn-ins, red morocco lettering piece gilt, all edges gilt, period plain brown end papers. An excellent example of a handsome production, with marginal stains on paste-downs from binder's glue and light offsetting from plates onto opposing pages, otherwise clean, bright, and unmarked. Tooley 433. Abbey, Life, 277. Prideaux, p. 334. Hardie, pp 168, 317. One of a "host of parodies and spurious imitations" (Hardie) of William Combe's series of Doctor Syntax books, and sometimes attributed to him (as well as to Rowlandson). Some of the incidents depicted are similar to those described in Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, and it may have been inspired by that book. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Near Fine+ .

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COMBE, William (1741-1823); Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)

The Dance of Life, a Poem, by the Author of "Doctor Syntax. " Illustrated with Coloured Engravings, by Thomas Rowlandson

London, R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101, Strand, 1817. First Edition. Mottled Calf. First Edition in book form (originally published in eight monthly parts), Rowlandson and Combe's companion-piece to their earlier "The Dance of Death" and one of Rowlandson's finest works. Royal 8vo: [2],ii,ii,285,[3]pp, with additional engraved title page, frontispiece (representing Time pointing at various scenes on a screen), and 24 hand-colored engravings by Thomas Rowlandson. (Hardie has shown that the four leaves of advertisements found in some copies could not have been bound in until after 1820.) Contemporary mottled calf, respined, covers framed with gilt role, black morocco lettering piece gilt, marbled edges. An excellent copy, tightly bound, virtually free of foxing, with richly colored examples of the plates. Abbey, Life, 264. Tooley 410. Grolier, Rowlandson, 38. Prideaux, pp. 306-07 ("notably above the ordinary level of Combe's verse. show[ing] the better side of Rowlandson's genius."). Hardie, p. 318. Combe's Doctor Syntax series, a collaboration with the caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson, began as a monthly feature in Rudolph Ackermann's Poetical Magazine, beginning in May 1810, with Rowlandson producing the illustrations first and Combe writing the poetry, in iambic tetrameter, second. It was a collaborative style the two continued in further joint works, including The Dance of Death and The Dance of Life. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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[COMBE, William, attributed]; ROWLANDSON, Thomas (Illustrates)

[Hand-Colored] the Grand Master or Adventures of Qui Hi? in Hindostan. A Hudibrastic Poem in Eight Cantos by Quiz

London, Printed by Thomas Tegg, No. 111, Cheapside, 1816. First Edition of this ferocious satire of British colonial rule in India. Royal 8vo (244 x 150mm): iii-x,252pp, with folding frontispiece, illustrated title, and 25 full-page plates (all tissue-guarded hand-colored aquatints) and one sepia engraving. C8 (pp. 31-32) is a cancel ("frequently missing," according to Tooley), with p. 30 text reproduced on p. 32; pp. 73-74 folios repeated but no duplication of text. Wanting the errata slip (as often). Slightly later polished calf, covers framed in gilt, gilt dentelles, spine richly gilt in six compartments divided by raised bands, two red morocco lettering pieces gilt; top edge gilt, others untrimmed, French blue end papers. Tall wide-margined copy, securely bound (perhaps rebacked) and clean throughout with good impressions of the plates. Franklin, pp 68-71. Grolier (Rowlandson) 34. Tooley 412. Abbey (Travel) 437. Hardie, pp. 171, 317. Sometimes ascribed to William Combe, though Hamilton (Doctor Syntax: A Silhouette of William Combe) lists it as an imitation. Political satire directed against Lord Moira, Marquis of Hastings, who at the time was Governor General of Bengal and commander-in-chief of British forces in India; against the East India Company, for its Hindu prejudices, and against the church's patent disregard for Indian culture. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). .

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COMBE, William (1742-1823); Thomas ROWLANDSON (1756-1827)

[Three Tours of Doctor Syntax, Comprising: ] the First Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of the Picturesque; [with] the Second Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of Consolation; [and] the Third Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of a Wife

London, Nattali and Bond, Bedford Street, Covent Garden [from 1812], 1855. Early Reprint. Paper-Covered Boards. Ninth Edition, complete in three volumes with 80 hand-colored aquatints by Thomas Rowlandson. (Eighty-one plates are called for on the title pages, but the plate lists contain a total of only 79, with the illustrated title page in Vol. 3 unlisted. Presumably, there was an illustrated title page planned for the Second Tour but never included.) Tall 8vo's: [6],272,[6, catalog of books published by Nattali and Bond]; [4],277,[1]; [6],279,[1]pp. Hand-marbled paper-covered boards, finely woven green cloth spines, matching morocco lettering pieces gilt, recently bound by Fitterer, a truly splendid production. Fine bindings; clean, wide-margined pages with only occasional offsetting; vibrant, deep, rich, fresh coloring. Abbey, Life, 265-67. Tooley 427-29. The three tours of Doctor Syntax, featuring the comic, skin-and-bone cleric at the mercy of all manner of misadventures, were supposedly based on an idea of Thomas Rowlandson's close friend, the actor Jack Bannister, and first appeared in 1812, 1820, and 1821, respectively. William Combe's verses for Rowlandson's illustrations, produced by the prestigious publisher and art dealer Rudolph Ackermann, earned Combe his soubrette, Doctor Syntax. "Combining a light-hearted satire of William Gilpin's theory of the picturesque in art with a central character modelled on Cervantes' Don Quixote and Henry Fielding's Parson Adams, Combe created a lovable eccentric whose misadventures on the road structure the Tour. [Other sources for Syntax, drawn from the picturesque tradition, were probably Le Sage's Gil Blas and Smollett's Peregrine Pickle, as well as Samuel Butler's earlier Hudibras.] For over a century the many editions and numerous imitations of the Tour attested to the popularity of Combe's humorous hero." (ODNB) "Combe's first Dr. Syntax book (originally published in the Poetical Magazine in 1809) and its successors . satirize the many 18th- and early 19th-century writers whose "Tours," "Travels," and "Journeys" were vehicles for sententious moralizing, uninspired raptures, and sentimental accounts of amorous adventures. The popularity of Combe's work owed much to the illustrations of Thomas Rowlandson." (Britannica) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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LE VERRIER DE LA CONTERIE, Jean-Baptiste-Jacques (1718-1783)

Venerie Normande, Ou L'Ecole de la Chasse Aux Chiens Courants : Pour le Lievre, le Chevreuil, le Cerf, le Daim, le Sanglier, le Loup, le Renard & la Loutre : Avec Les Tons de Chasse, Accompagnés de Chacun Une Explication Sur L'Occasion & Les Circonstances Où Ils Doivent être Sonnés : Et Un Traité Des Remedes, Un Traité Sur le Droit de Suite & Un Dictionnaire Des Termes de Chasse, &C

A Rouen, chez Laurent Dumesnil, imprimeur-libraire, rue de l'Ecureuil, 1778. Paste Paper-Covered Boards. Second Edition, the definitive text (considerably enlarged and augmented), of this classic work on the hunting of hare, roe deer, wild boar, wolf, fox, and otter, with a section on canine health, studies of hooves and footprints, and dictionary of hunting terms. Crown 8vo (196 x 114mm): xv,[i],526 pp, with 19 plates (many folding, some double-sided and on blue paper), 27 woodcuts, and 14 pages of engraved music ("Tons de chasse et fanfares"). Collated and complete, including the blank ("rarely found," according to Schwerdt), unprinted but paginated (pp. 447-48). Splendidly rebound to style by Fitterer in hand block printed paper-covered boards, preserving the original patterned end papers; brown morocco lettering piece gilt, all edges stained rose pink. A superb presentation, tightly bound and clean throughout. Schwerdt I: 313. Souhart 299-300. Thiébaud 589-590 ("bien supérieure comme intérèt à la premiere") Brunet III: 1036. Originally published, in 1763, with the title L'école de la chasse aux chiens courants. The section on hunting tones and fanfares (pp. 433-46) includes explanations of the occasions on which they must be sounded. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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COOPER, James Fenimore (1789-1851)

The Borderers: A Tale [the Wept of Wish Ton-Wish]

London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington-Street, 1829. First Edition. Half-Calf. Scarce First Printing, complete in three volumes, of the "first anti-miscegenation novel in our literature [Fiedler]. 12mo: xiv,299,[1]; [2],311,[1]; [2],316pp. Contemporary pink half calf over marbled boards by Harrison of Belfast (their ticket to front paste-down of vol. I); black morocco lettering pieces gilt; spines decorated in blind; marbled endpapers and edges. A truly excellent set, occasional light foxing, mostly marginal; spines rubbed and faded to tan. Spiller & Blackburn 11. BAL 3843. Sabin 16416. Fiedler, quoted in Wallace, James D. "Race and Captivity in Cooper's the Wept of Wish-ton-wish," American Literary History 7.2 (1995): 189-209. True First Edition of this historical novel (published in London, September, and later, in November, in Philadelphia, under the title The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish: A Tale, both from the same sheets printed in Florence by Molini). Written in Paris, when Cooper was as the center of the small American expatriate community, and set in the seventeenth century on frontier land later part of Connecticut. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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Sonstige Stichworte: King Philip's War, 1675-1676—Fiction. Indians of North America Wars—New England Fiction.

CRAIG, Edward Gordon (1872-1966)

A Living Theatre. The Gordon Craig School. The Arena Goldoni. The Mask [First Issue, Unopened]

Florence, [The School for the Art of the Theatre], 1913. First Edition. Illustrated Wrappers. First Issue (with "Fo rterms" on front cover verso) of this beautifully produced (and lesser known) title by the theatre director, stage designer, actor, and dramaturge. 8vo (228 x 158mm): 73,[7]pp, with 22 full- and partial-page illustrations "setting forth the aims and objects of the movement and showing . the city of Florence." Original crocus yellow wrappers, titles and designs to both covers in black, pages uncut. An excellent, entirely unopened example (wrappers creased at extremities, a touch soiled and rubbed), securely bound and clean throughout. Fletcher & Rood A18(a). In 1908, Isadora Duncan introduced Gordon Craig to Konstantin Stanislavski, founder of the Moscow Art Theatre, who invited him to co-direct their famous production of Hamlet, which opened in December 1911. Soon after, Craig settled in Italy, where he created a school of theater design with support from Lord Howard de Walden, the Arena Goldoni in Florence. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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Sonstige Stichworte: MODERN FIRSTS

CRANE, Walter (1845-1915); Edmund Evans (Engraves)

[Nursery Rhymes] [Children's Literature] [Color Printing] the Baby's Opera. A Book of Old Rhymes with New Dresses; [Offered with: ] the Baby's Bouquet. A Fresh Bunch of Old Rhymes & Tunes Arranged and Decorated by Walter Crane; [and with: ] the Baby's Own Aesop, Being the Fables Condensed in Rhyme with Portable Morals Pictorially Pointed by Walter Crane

London, Frederick Warne, n.d. / n.d. / n.d. Pictorial Boards. A beautifully preserved set of the so-called Triplets, three separately issued companion volumes, one of the most charming collections of children's songs and nursery rhymes set to music. Early issues (but see Unglow and Engen), all engraved and printed by Edmund Evans and uncommon in original dust jackets. Square crown 8vos (176 x 187mm): [2],4-55; [8],9-56; [8],9-55,[1]pp, beautifully patterned and illustrated throughout with intricate border designs and full-page plates in woodblock colors, influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, Japanese prints, and the incipient arts and crafts movement. Opera: Publisher's cream cloth-backed terracotta pictorial boards, spine lettered in black; matching dust jacket. With sheet music to a host of favorite nursery rhymes (including "My Lady's Garden," "I Saw Three Ships," "Three Blind Mice," "Baa! Baa! Black Sheep," and "London Bridge"), selected and arranged by Lucy Crane, Walter Crane's sister. Bouquet: Publisher's terracotta cloth-backed olive green pictorial boards lettered in orange, forest green cupid fleur-de-lys patterned end papers; matching dust jacket. Aesop: Publisher's mint green cloth-backed pictorial boards lettered in burgundy, forest green leaf patterned end papers; matching dust jacket. Containing 48 fables, including "The Fox and the Grapes" and "The Dog and the Shadow." Exemplary examples, very light edge wear only, all tightly bound and clean throughout, the jackets fresh and bright (spine panels scarcely toned), with trivial restoration (never involving lettering or design). Scarce as a set. Masse, pp. 30-31 and 36-37. Hürlimann, pp. 202-03 ("marvels of decorative book production for children. for book collectors . a constantly increasing value.") Hardie, pp. 274-75. Ray 244 ("delicate, restrained, and harmonious"). Unglow, pp. 64-65, 69. Engen 63-64, 70-71. First published (respectively) in 1877, 1878, and 1887 by George Rutledge, according to Masse. But Unglow reports that "Crane parted company with Routledge when they refused to give him a royalty in his new contract" and moved to Warne & Co. in 1876, where he "drew the small, square The Baby's Opera." To which Engen adds: "This book [The Baby's Opera] was the result of Crane rejoining Evans after being rejected for further work by Routledge." As is true of most of Crane's early work, our copies appeared without publication dates or edition statements. Regardless, these are three of the earliest collaborations between Crane and Edmund Evans (1826-1905), the preeminent wood engraver and color printer in Britain during the second half of the nineteenth century. Evans pioneered a printing technique known as chromoxylography, using as many as a dozen color wood blocks for a single image, and critics regard his most important work to be his children's books illustrated by Crane, Kate Greenaway, and Randolph Caldecott, which revolutionized children's publishing. According to Saltman (Riverside Anthology of Children's Literature), Evans printed the "most memorable body of illustrated books for children" in the Victorian era, and the three illustrators, whose works he printed, can be regarded as the "founders of the picture-book tradition in English and American children's books." N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine/Fine.

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[CRUIKSHANK, George, 1792-1878]

Sinks of London Laid Open. A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, to Which Is Added a Modern Flash Dictionary Containing All the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases Now in Vogue, with a List of the Sixty Orders of Prime Coves, the Whole Forming a True Picture of London Life, Cadging Made Easy, the He-She Man, Doings of the Modern Greeks, Snooking Kens Depicted, the Common Lodging House Gallants, Lessons to Lovers of Dice, the Gaming Table, Etc. Embellished with Humorous Illustrations by George Cruikshank

London, J. Duncombe, 1848. First Edition thus. Decorative Cloth. First Edition (under this title) of a colorful guide to London's underbelly in the mid-1800s. Crown 8vo (182 x 109mm): 131,[1]pp, with folding hand-colored frontispiece (dated March 22, 1822) and woodcuts throughout by George Cruikshank. Original crocodile-textured dark beige cloth, spine titled in gilt ("The Dens of London"), pale yellow coated end papers. An excellent example (minor nick to cloth), tightly bound and clean throughout. Goldsmiths'-Kress 35898. Not in Cohn. Apparently a duplicate, with new title page, of The Dens of London Exposed (the running title of this copy), first published in 1822. The 35-page canting dictionary appear at rear. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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Sonstige Stichworte: Rogues and vagabonds -- England -- London. English language -- England -- London -- Slang -- Dictionaries. English language -- Slang. Manners and customs. Rogues and vagabonds. Vice. Cant.

CULLEN, Countée P. (1903-1946)

[Harlem Renaissance] Copper Sun; with Decorations by Charles Cullen

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1927. First Edition. Two copies in different binding variants (one a later issue) of the poet's second collection. Crown 8vo (190 x 127mm): xi,[1],89,[1]pp, illustrated throughout. First Printing (with "first edition" and "G-B" on copyright page): Publisher's black cloth over brown and black marbled paper-covered boards, beige paper labels printed in black to front cover and spine, top edge stained copper, fore-edge rough-trimmed; neat owner's signature dated 1927 and bookseller's ticket (Post Street Book Shop, San Francisco) to paste-downs. A handsome copy (several lines neatly underlined), tightly bound and clean throughout. Later issue (with "C-C" on copyright page): Publisher's black cloth over blue and orange marbled paper-covered boards, lime-green paper label printed in black to front cover, beige paper label printed in black to spine, top edge stained orange, fore- and bottom edges rough-trimmed; bookseller's ticket (Whaler Book Shop, New Bedford) to front paste-down. Virtually pristine. Both copies wanting the dust jacket. Perry 2. When Cullen published Color, his first collection of poetry, in 1925 at the age of twenty-two, he was already the most famous Black writer in America. While still highly praised, Copper Sun "disappointed some who found the romantic themes and conventional poetic forms that had contributed to his early fame increasingly out of step with the growing interest among black artists and intellectuals for folk forms and racially conscious subjects. It did not help Cullen's reputation then or later that he asked to be judged as a poet and not a "Negro poet", though the nuances of his argument about the relation of race to art were sometimes ignored or misunderstood." (Literary Encyclopedia) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). .

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