Tom W. Ayling
Wallingford, GBR
More imagesPublished by Harcourt Brace, New York, 1994
- Softcover
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Add to basketUncorrected proof copy. Octavo. In the original paper wrappers. A good copy, horizontal scratch to upper cover. This is the second of two copies we acquired from Strachan's library.
Also in these catalogs: Interesting Provenance, PROVENANCE: From the library of Pat Strachan, distinguished literary editor who has held senior positions at a number of major publishing houses, including Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and who was also Fiction Editor at The New Yorker. On the Acknowledgments page, Bloom writes: 'My editors, Anne Freedgood and Pat Strachan, and my literary agents, Glen Hartley and Lynn Chu, have made crucial contributions to this book.'
Seller Inventory # 2367
More imagesPublished by T. Becket, London, 1803
- Hardcover
- Signed
Seller: Tom W. Ayling, Wallingford, United KingdomTom W. Ayling
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Add to basketPresentation copy, inscribed "Dall' Editore" to the title page of the first volume. Four volumes. Octavo. Bound in contemporary half vellum over marbled paper covered boards. Green morocco title labels to spines. Frontispiece of the author to the first volume. A very good set. Girolamo Tiraboschi's history of Italian poetry, ext…racted from his larger History of Italian Literature.
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Seller Inventory # 871
More imagesPublished by Printed By Joseph Bentham, Printer To The University, Cambridge, 1764
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Add to basketLarge octavo. Bound in blindstamped reverse calf. A good copy, the binding quite worn and stained, wormholes throughout, particularly impacting the final ten or so leaves. Large chip to rear free endpaper recto, with loss to some of the holograph text.
Also in these catalogs: Interesting Provenance, PROVENANCE: Contemporary ownership inscription of Frances Green to front free endpaper, "Frances Green, Her Book, April 12th 1766". With 3pp. of manuscript hymns to the final two leaves, including "A Hymn For The Good" and "A Hymn For Easter Day".
Seller Inventory # 991
More imagesPublished by Printed For T. Cadell, Strand; And E. Moxon, Dover Street, London, 1834
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Add to basketAlfred De Rothschild's set of the first collected edition of Samuel Rogers Poems. This set unites his 'Poems' and 'Italy', previously separately published, but here issued with general title pages to each volume, followed by separate title pages for each. Two volumes. Octavo. Finely bound in full green morocco, spine in rich gil…t compartments, floral sprays to covers. All edges gilt. Frontispiece of portrait of Rogers to the first volume. Engravings after J.M.W. Turner and Thomas Stothard throughout. A very good set indeed, some very light rubbing to the binding. Some occasional foxing throughout.
Also in these catalogs: Fine Bindings, Interesting Provenance, PROVENANCE: Alfred De Rothschild (1842-1918), with his Halton House bookplate to each front pastedown.
Seller Inventory # 1163
More imagesPublished by Freemantle, London, 1901
- Hardcover
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Add to basketNumber 11 of 150 large paper copies. Quarto. Bound in the original publisher's vellum, lettered gilt. Frontispiece portrait of Tennyson, thirty wood engravings, six photogravures. A near fine copy, lettering to the spine a little rubbed. Corner crease to frontispiece, not affecting image.
Also in these catalogs: Fine Bindings, Interesting Provenance, PROVENANCE: From the collection of Robin De Beaumont (1926-2023), book collector, with his bookplate to the front pastedown, and catalogue clippings loosely laid in.
Seller Inventory # 1009
More imagesPublished by Jacobum-Natalem Pissot, et al, Paris, 1781
- Hardcover
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Add to basketA fine parallel edition of Sophocles in Latin and Greek. Quarto. Bound in contemporary calf with the arms of the Marquis of Stafford to the upper cover in gilt, and their bookplate to the front pastedown. A very good set, the bindings quite rubbed to the spine ends and edges.
Also in these catalogs: Fine Bindings, Interesting Provenance, PROVENANCE: The Marquis Of Stafford (1721-1803), bound for him, with his arms to the upper covers, and his bookplate to the front pastedowns.
Seller Inventory # 1042
More imagesPublished by Amsterdam, 1784
- Hardcover
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Add to basketManuscript, folio, 33.3 cms. x 21.3 cms., 6 leaves, writing to four sides. First page with wafer seal of municipal executive of Amsterdam (Sigillu Oppidi Amstelredamensis) and blind embossed duty stamp (Clein segel 3s 1784). The same embossed stamp to the second and third leaves. Light browning, a very well-preserved document. F…old-lines. An intriguing document showing a family's ultimately failed attempt to have Helena Martina van Brussel (1757-1829), then in her late twenties, committed to an insane asylum. The authors note, "having been mentally troubled for more than half a year and being completely insane, the most far-reaching excesses have been committed". They believe that if she is not committed to an asylum, "the greatest calamities are to be feared". The dossier starts with a summary of the case, dated 3 January 1785, signed by an Amsterdam city alderman (H.W. Hasselaar) and another official named Douwes. It is noted where the case is recorded in a special register. After a blank second page, the third to fifth pages have submissions, from the said Douwes, and another signed by members of the family, Gerrit Bonn, Anna van Brussel his wife, Helena's father Paulus Theodorus van Brussel, and her mother Claasiena van Grenhuis. A separate note is added here at the bottom outer corner. On the facing page are medical practitioners' statements, from Hendrick van der Ven, 24 December 1784, and Cornelius Franciscus Nuyens. surgeon, 29 October 1784. Van der Ven states that he gave Helena Spanish fly (cantharidin) between 15 and 20 October - only making her symptoms worse. Nuyens (1750-1800) had had her under his care for eight weeks with no improvement and states that she must be committed. Happily, Helena Martina van Brussel may eventually have escaped the asylum. She was to die unmarried, in the pretty North Holland village of Kortenhoef, at the age of 71.
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Seller Inventory # 1023
