BIBLIO-GIFTABLES

“Oh, C'mon . . . ”
(As He Might Have Put It)

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•  He feels the House has gone overboard in the language used in the censure of the British ambassador in his discussions with the president. A very uncommon Quincy item.

•  Not in Shaw & Shoemaker. Removed from a nonce volume; stapled and respined with archival tissue. Six-digit number stamped on title-page.

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Manuscript Kitchen Relics

•  Two cookbooks or one? The leaves at hand, one a single page and the other a conjugate two-leaf spread, pose an interesting question of identification. Both offer recipes for sweets. The former is done throughout in a formal script, whereas the latter is partly in a similar if not identical hand, partly in a more casual style—perhaps they represent contributions of two generations to the same book. Then again, the chipped edges make exact determination of size difficult; these leaves might have come from the treasured documents of different families entirely. Whichever interpretation one might prefer, they provide a thought-provoking glimpse of turn-of-the-century kitchen life—going on two centuries ago!

•  In a Mylar folder. Pages darkened, with small discolorations and edges somewhat tattered. A pleasing gift for anyone exploring women’s or culinary history.

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“Bravo, Old Cupid!” . . . I Think I'll Be a
Stockbroker, Myself.”

•  Gossamer, Bonus, Mortimer, and Delville attempt to hoax each other in various romantic schemes.

•  Fair; disbound from a nonce volume. Title-page stamped with shelving number; inked ownership inscription at top of dramatis personae listing with additional annotations reflecting cast changes. One leaf torn in half without loss; others with edge chips or tears.  (1832)

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A Woman Translator — From Sanskrit via French

•  A romantic translation of portions of the Ramayana, done from the French version by Fauche rather than from the original Sanskrit.

•  Publisher's green cloth, front cover with decorative gilt-stamped title, spine with different decorative gilt-stamped title; corners, spine extremities, and joints showing light wear.

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Scots Antiquarianism — ILLUSTRATED

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•  During the heyday of attempts to find the origins of Great Britain's literature, Ritson collected and published anthologies of nursery rhymes, Robin Hoodiana, English songs and ballads, and English and Scottish poems. Shortly before the present work was supposed to be published in 1785, a fire destroyed part of the printer's warehouse and the manuscript of Ritson's introductory essay; the surviving sheets, printed in octavo with horizontal chain lines, make their first appearance here with a new introduction. The poems are illustrated with vignettes engraved by Heath after Stothard's designs, and with small woodcuts by Bewick. The frontispiece is an engraved silhouette portrait of Ritson.

•  NSTC 2R11677; Lowndes 2099; Hugo, The Bewick Collector, 434.   Contemporary half dark green morocco with red marbled paper sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; some rubbing and with a bit of green discoloration to paper of front cover. Minor offsetting to frontispiece and title-page; mild to moderate foxing in first third of volume and to last few pages.  (21934)

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“Favourites of the People” from Pickering
withBewick Wood Engravings

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•  Second edition, following the first of 1791, of an anthology compiled by one of the most dedicated scholars of the origins of British literature. The volume includes “Adam Bel, Clym of the Cloughe, and Wyllyam of Cloudesle,” “The King and the Barker,” and “The Life and Death of Tom Thumbe”; is illustrated with in-text wood engravings by Thomas and John Bewick; and shows why Pickering is a highly collected printer. Hugo notes that this second edition is “a beautiful republication with additions and corrections.”

•  NSTC 2R11684; Hugo, The Bewick Collector, 488.   Period-style mottled calf framed in single gilt fillet, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-stamped decorations, board edges decorated with gilt roll; joints and corners showing minor rubbing. All edges sprinkled in blue. Three pages with small spot of faint staining, pages otherwise clean and fresh.  (22340)

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Such a Pretty Binding . . .

•  Eighth edition of this reworking of Robertson's history, with this version meant for juvenile readers. This copy is in the lovely publisher's binding with ornate gilt-stamping to the covers and spine as well as small green- and red-stamped vignettes.

•  Binding as above, spine gilt dimmed, edges and extremities lightly worn. Lower page margins waterstained, with foxing throughout. (10712)

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Raising & Studying “Fairy Creatures”

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•  First edition. “Personal studies and observations of the more familiar species . . . with illustrations from drawings by the author and photographs by J. Lionel King, G.A. Bash, Dr. F.D. Snyder and others.”

“Personal” this is, both in construction and in style; it is written in accessible language and with wonder given full rein. But it is real science.  (Robertson-Miller published in agricultural and other scientific journals.)

Binding:  Publisher's sage green cloth, front cover and spine stamped in olive, black, and pale green.

•  Bound as above with lower edge of front cover darkened, corners and spine extremities lightly rubbed. Front hinge slightly tender. Pages clean.  (22214)

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Robinson, Edwin Arlington.  The glory of the nightingales. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1930. 8vo. 83 pp.
$45.00

•  First trade edition.

A “Graphic Arts” Souvenir

•  Printed for those attending the presentation of the medal of the American Institute of Graphic Arts to Rollins, long (and influentially) the University Printer at Yale and a master of printing, typography, and type design. The sentiments here are conservative and nostalgic to the point of being cranky; the booklet is lovely.

•  Sewn in publisher’s printed paper wrappers; clean and all but unworn, with the lower outer corners just slightly bumped.

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A SAMPLE BOOK

•  Salesman's sample book, demonstrating the proposed work for potential buyers; the volume for which this was the mock-up was published in 1919. 20 double-sided pages of plates offer a sample of the numerous illustrations intended for the finished book. The title-page of this copy is stamped by James A. Morrissey & Co. of Chicago.

•  Arbour 1384. Publisher's red cloth, front cover stamped in white, black, and gilt in pictorial vignette, back cover with gilt-stamped title; spine slightly sunned, with cloth rubbed over corners and spine extremities. Front free endpaper with pencilled owner's name (Mr. Theodore Kenyon). Some leaves lightly age-toned. (15155)

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PRINCE OF FORGERS

•  First English language edition, translated from the French edition of 1870. Lucas, a self-educated provincial clerk, was so audacious in his astoundingly numerous forgeries that he attempted to sell letters (written in modern French) allegedly signed by such luminaries as Cleopatra and Alexander the Great.

•  Dust jacket and binding as new. (5948)

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Art Religion Morals Use — Line Light Colour

•  Third edition of the great critic’s discussions encompassing art, æsthetics, technique, perception, and morality, delivered towards the close of his distinguished and influential career.

•  Contemporary blue morocco, covers framed in single gilt fillet, spine with gilt-stamped author, title, and date; spine slightly darkened, with minor rubbing to the front joint. Wide turn-ins, gilt-ruled, and all edges gilt.

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