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CHILDREN • EDUCATION
ENJOYABLE
Dictionaries for Adults
& Children
(Saleman’s
Sample Book). Lewis, William Dodge, ed.
The new Winston simplified dictionary and reference library. Philadelphia: Universal
Book & Bible House, copyright 1937. 8vo (22.5 cm, 8.9"). Frontis., [approx.
145] pp.; 25 plts. [with] Brown, Thomas Kite,
Jr., ed. The new Winston
simplified dictionary for young people. Philadelphia: Universal Book & Bible
House, 1937. Frontis., [approx. 126] pp.; 20 plts.
The outer binding is red textured cloth with the front cover stamped in black and gilt, and the interior front cover sample for the children’s version is a different red textured cloth stamped in black. The leaves for subscribers’information are unused.
• Not in Arbour. Publisher’s cloth as described above, gently worn with corners rubbed and small scrape to front cover. Interior clean.
Canandaigua Imprint
Sampson, Ezra. The brief remarker on the ways of man. Or compendious dissertations, respecting social and domestic relations and concerns, and the various economy of life; designed for, and adapted to,
the
use of American academies and common schools. Canandaigua, N.Y.: Pr. by J.D. Bemis & Co., 1821. 12mo. 264 pp.
• Shoemaker 6710. Publisher's sheep. Abrasions to covers and spine, with pieces of leather flaked off; joints abraded. Foxing. Tear to rear free endpaper. Bookplate on front pastedown. (1078)
From the Earliest Identifiable Press in
Buenos Aires
First Decade of Operation San Alberto, José Antonio. Carta segunda pastoral que ... dirige a los curas, tenientes y sacerdotes de su diòcesi. Buenos-Ayres: La Real Imprenta de los Niños Expósitos, 1786. 4to. [1] f., 134 pp.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. That the Niños Expósitos was a teaching press and not a “fine” one is evident on the last leaf of the volume where type size changes twice in order to get all of the text to fit on the allocated paper!
The production of the press of the Niños Expósitos that we offer here dates from the Press's seventh year of printing. It is a pastoral letter of the greatest colonial-era bishop of the southernmost viceroyalty of the Americas, whose see was the archdiocese of La Plata (now Sucre, Bolivia). He here continues his famous pastoral letter of 1781 concerning the role of the priest as exemplar and ambassador of Christ.
This is a rare book: Palau lists no copies in commerce between 1915 and 1967, and we find only two copies in NUC Pre-1956 (The John Carter Brown and Lilly Libraries); RLIN fails to add any others.
• Medina, Historia y bibliografía de la imprenta en el antiguo vireinato del Río de la Plata, 87; Furlong, Historia y bibliografía de las primeras imprentas rioplatenses, 1700–1850; La imprenta en Buenos Aires, 264; Palau 289486-7; not in Zinny, Bibliografía histórica de las Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata . . . 1780 hasta . . . 1821. On San Alberto, see: Archivo biográfico de España, Portugal, e Iberoamérica, fiche 865, frames 59–69. Publisher's limp vellum with ties. Lacks free endpapers; truly minor old marginal waterstaining. A clean, attractive copy. (22088)
Remembrances ofIdyllic Youth Sassoon, Siegfried. Memoirs of a fox-hunting man. New York: Printed for the Members of The Limited Editions Club, 1981. Tall 8vo. Frontis., [8], 9–284 pp.; 8 plts.
Paul Hogarth illustrated the book with black-and-white vignettes which open and close each chapter, and eight full-page color wash drawings. John Lewis designed the book choosing a monotype Walbaum font. The binding is quarter red calf over light-brown buckram sides, gilt-lettered on the spine, and gilt-stamped on the front cover with a design of various fox-hunting implements; tucked away at the lower edge of the back cover is a gilt design of a sly-looking fox in full trot.
This edition is limited to 1600 copies and is signed by the artist on the colophon.
• Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 506. Binding as above, in original glassine wrapper and slipcase; wrapper with tears at bottom edge. Slipcase with slight bumping at inner front edge. A fine copy, in a near fine slipcase. (22104)
Sweet LithographsSchmid, Christoph von. Histoire de Geneviève de Brabant, par l’auteur des Oeufs de pâquer. Paris: Chez Levrault, 1832. 12mo (13.7 cm, 5.45"). [2], 136, [8 (adv.)] pp.; 6 plts.
Very uncommon. OCLC and ESTC report only one holding, at Stanford.
• Original printed boards, worn, paper almost entirely lost over spine. Without endpapers, apparently as bound. Sewing loosening, with several leaves separated. Scattered spots of mild foxing. Despite faults noted, a charmer.
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