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Original 3-page typescript poem, signed by Nash. The poem begins, "HarK! Hark! The lark at Heaven's gate sings – / Shut up, lark! / "And Phoebus 'grins arise -" / Sit down, Phoebus, before I knock you down!" Fine.

Illustrated with 2 full-page color lithographs, numbered, signed, and dated by Kumi Sugaï. One of 106 copies signed in pencil by the author. This copy #69. The edition consists of 160 copies, including 5 copies numbered from A to E with the hand-writing of the poet; 5 copies from F to L with original drawing by the artist, 30 copies from 1 to 30 with the 2 artist's proofs of the lithographs; 76 copies from 31 to 106 as normal; and 14 copies from I to XIV out of the commerce.Kumi Sugai was one of the first important Japanese modernists. Folio. Original loose sheets, in wrapper and dust wrapper; enclosed in publisher's sleeve and slipcase. Milan, M' Arte Edizioni, 1970. First Edition. Fine.

Illustrated with 12 folding engraved plates of optical/geometrical diagrams and a few woodcut diagrams and tables in text; large woodcut decorative tail-pieces, head-pieces and initials. 8vo. Contemporary full speckled calf; boards with double-fillet gilt-ruled borders; spine with five raised bands and gilt-lettered (faded) morocco label; edges speckled red. London: Printed for W. and J. Innys, printers to the Royal Society, 1718. Second English Edition revised and enlarged by Newton. First Octavo Edition. Second issue, with the title-page dated 1718 (the very rare first issue is dated 1717). The first edition appeared in 1704 in quarto. For this second edition the plates were newly engraved to fit the new octavo format. The most important feature of this second edition is that the number of Queries at the end was increased from 16 to 31, including the celebrated Query 28 on the nature of light. The Queries in the initial set were rather brief, but the later ones became more substantial, written as… Read More