1993, ISBN: 9ff2ea53a89f91d79cb85bbcb3b70967

Privately Printed, 1902. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. # 128 of 400 copies of this Special Limited Edition. Bound simply in two-tone, green cloth over boards, white vel… Altro …

Privately Printed, 1902. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. # 128 of 400 copies of this Special Limited Edition. Bound simply in two-tone, green cloth over boards, white vellum-backed, toned and abraded, gilt stamped lettering to spine, a bit scuffed at spine head. Rough-cut fore-edges and bottom-edges, and a particularly bright interior. A fine collection of English poetry from the Early Modern period (1500-1700). Poems by Francis Atterbury, Philip Ayres, Aphara Bohn, Alexander Brome, Tom Brown, William Congreve, Charles Cotton, Johny Dryden, Sir George Etherege, George Farquhar, THomas Flatman, James Howard, Nahum Tate, John Wilson, Anne Wharton, William Walsh, and many others. xxiii, 128 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets., Privately Printed, 1902, 3, Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 2nd April, 1993. Illustrated boards, 4to,. 117 pp, colour plates. 121 lots. Catalogue of books, including many fine bindings, and prints from the collection of the "wealthy polymath" Rudolf von Gutmann. Some representative lots included: The Album Amicorum of Heinrich Bulligk, kept largely in Lyons in the 1620s, lavishly illustrated with full-page watercolours on allegorical, Biblical and mythological subjects, depictions of the King of France, the Pope, and William Tell, costumes, views of Venice, Paris and Lyons, representations of the seasons, the elements and the wonders of the world...; A mid-eighteenth-century collection of French water-colour ballet designs by several different hands possibly relating to productions staged by Jean Georges Noverre, one of the first and most influential Maitres de Ballet; An album containing 110 topographical views by Ignace Duviver (1758-1832) in watercolour over pencil and pen; A collection of 248 watercolours depicting theatrical and regional costumes by Gerolamo Franceschini, costumier to the Hoftheater in Vienna; . a Collection of 202 drawings of the Various Insignia of the Pontificate, &c, collected by John Talman, later owned by Josiah Wedgwood; etc etc. Indexed. Fine., Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 2nd April, 1993, 1993, 5, London.: T. Fisher Unwin., 1890. First printing. . Hard. Good. 12mo.. Tissue-guarded frontispiece.. Good. Publishers mock-vellum. Covers foxed and marked. Ownership inscription neatly penned to front pastedown. Slightly toned and foxed. Uncut pages. Top edge gilt., T. Fisher Unwin., 1890, 2.5<

1890, ISBN: 9ff2ea53a89f91d79cb85bbcb3b70967

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1890. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. no dj some shelfwear ., Houghton Mifflin, 1890, 3

1890, ISBN: 9ff2ea53a89f91d79cb85bbcb3b70967

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1890. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. no dj some shelfwear ., Houghton Mifflin, 1890, 3