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1945. First Edition . Signed. ELIOT, T.S. What Is a Classic? An Address delivered before the Virgil Society on the 16th of October 1944. London: Faber & Faber, (1945). Slim octavo, original light blue cloth, supplied dust jacket. $5200.First edition, ordinary issue, presentation copy, of this presidential address delivered to the Virgil Society in 1944, inscribed in the year of publication to Eliot's beloved first spiritual counselor, a longtime Anglican vicar who served at St. Stephen's in Kensington, where the deeply religious Eliot worshipped and served as churchwarden during the final decades of his life: ""To Fr. Eric Cheetham from T.S. Eliot. Ash Wednesday 1945.""""In his 1944 Presidential Address to the Virgil Society, Eliot placed the Latin poet 'at the center of European civilization'"" (Yeats Eliot Review). Eliot arguedperhaps inspired by British classicist and scholar Jackson Knightthat Virgil was a sort of…
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What Is a Classic?
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Four Quartets
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1960. First Edition . Signed. ELIOT, T.S. The Four Quartets. London: Faber and Faber, (1960). Tall quarto, original cream and marbled paper boards, original marbled slipcase. $6200.Signed limited edition of this highspot of 20th-century poetry, number 102 of 290 copies signed by Eliot, beautifully printed at the Officina Bodoni in Verona.The Officina Bodini was founded in 1922 by Hans Mardersteig and named for Giambattista Bodoni, the great eighteenth-century Parma printer. In 1923 the Italian government granted the press the sole right to use the original Bodoni matrices housed in the Biblioteca Palatina. ""Mardersteig's approach was closer to that of the early scholar printers like Aldus Manutius or Robert Estienne than to the dilettantes of the Arts and Crafts Movement; the result has been that Officina Bodoni books have a value far above their success as examples of fine printing: they are
designed to be read."" (Cave, 177). First published in four separate parts…
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Northern Cambrian Mountains
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1817. (WALES) [COMPTON, Thomas]. The Northern Cambrian Mountains, or a Tour Through North Wales, Describing the Scenery and General Characters of that Romantic Country, and Embellished with a Series of Highly-Finished Coloured Views, Engraved from Original Drawings. London: Thomas Clay, 1820. Folio (measures 10 by 13-1/2 inches), contemporary marbled boards sympathetically rebacked and recornered in brown calf, raised bands. $9800.Second and enlarged edition, with 39 magnificent hand-colored aquatint plates of views of North Walesnine more than the 30 found in the first editionwith descriptive text, handsomely bound.""The Views, which were taken during two Tours in the summers of 1814 and 1815, faithfully represent
striking and beautiful scenes, which are so profusely spread over this interesting portion of the Island, and have been selected
as exhibiting the most characteristic features of the country"" (Preface). Abbey's copy includes an unnumbered,…
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1910. Signed. EDISON, Thomas Alva. Photograph signed. No place, circa 1920. Vintage silver print, measures 6-1/2 by 8-1/2 inches, mounted on heavy card, mount measures 10 by 12 inches; framed, measures 12 by 14 inches. $9200.Very scarce vintage photographic portrait of Edison seated in a library, inscribed and signed by him with a bold flourish on the mount: ""To Mrs. Blauvelt, from a believer in woman suffrage, Thos A Edison.""This scarce vintage photographic portrait of Thomas Edison is an especially splendid portrait of ""the patron saint of electric light"" (Stross, Wizard of Menlo Park 1:284). The ""father of many new industries, including phonograph and sound recording; dictating machines; electric lighting and associated electric utilities; electrical manufacturing; and motion pictures
Edison stands tall among the pantheon of American heroes"" (ANB). Recipient Adele Picot Wilson Blauvelt (1867-1938) lived in Syracuse, NY, where…
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Rights of Man. BOUND WITH: Rights of Man. Part the Second.
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1791. First Edition . PAINE, Thomas. Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution. Fourth Edition. BOUND WITH: Rights of Man. Part the Second. Combining Principle and Practice. The Second Edition. London: Printed for J.S. Jordan, 1791, 1792. Octavo, 19th-century three-quarter calf, marbled boards; pp. [iii-vii], viii-x, [7]-171, [2]; [i-v], vi, [vii], viii-xv, [xvi], [1], 2-174, [175], 176-178. $12,500.Rare fourth edition of Part I and second edition of Part II of Rights of Man, each published shortly after the first editions by J.S. Jordan, who published Part I after the original edition was suppressed and was arrested for publishing Part II. One of Paines most important, influential, and bestselling works, Rights of Man resulted in the prosecution in England of Paine, his publishers, and booksellers, forcing Paine to flee to France.Hoping Rights of Man ""would do for England what his Common Sense had done for America,"" Paine answered…
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Cabinet-maker and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book
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1791. First Edition . SHERATON, Thomas. Cabinet-maker and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book. In Three Parts. BOUND WITH: Appendix to the Cabinet-maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book. BOUND WITH: An Accompaniment
London: T. Bensley, 1791, 1793. Quarto, 19th-century full paneled calf rebacked, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $8500.First edition, magnificently illustrated with frontispiece engraving and 66 copper-engraved plates (seven folding). Bound together with the scarce Appendix, containing an additional 33 copper-engraved plates (four folding), and the Accompaniment, with a further 14 plates (eight folding).Plates include studies of furniture (tables, chaise lounges, beds, secretaries, bookcases, etc.), depictions of Doric and Corinthian columns, numerous perspective studies (including dome construction, cornices, creation and placement of furniture), and a splendid folding plan and layout for an entire room. Sheraton ""developed a skill and originality which…
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Cato's Letters
by TRENCHARD John GORDON Thomas
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1754. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) (GORDON, Thomas) (TRENCHARD, John). Cato's Letters: Or Essays on Liberty, Civil and Religious, and other important Subjects. No place: no publisher, 1754. Four volumes. Small octavo, contemporary full brown speckled calf rebacked, red morocco spine label, marbled endpapers. $6200.1754 edition of Trenchard and Gordon's famed essays, a major influence on the American Revolution""ranked with the treatises of Locke as the most authoritative statement on the nature of political liberty and above Locke as an exposition of the social sources of the threats it faced"" (Bailyn). A direct and important influence on many of the founding fathers and major writings of the American Revolution, including writers such as Franklin, Dickinson, Livingstone, John Adams and Zenger, and such seminal works as the Federalist, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution.""Trenchard and Gordon were the most…
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