Sales catalogue 531: Maggs Bros

Date:
1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/86
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 531: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Arnold (Matthew)—continued. BOUND BY COBDEN SANDERSON AT THE DOVES BINDERY. 30 Poems. Comprising Early Poems, Narrative Poems, Sonnets, Lyrics, Dramatic and Elegiac Poems. 2 vols., post 8vo. Bound at the Doves Bindery by Cobden Sander- son in full olive levant morocco extra, full gilt floreated back, gilt lines and dots on sides, inside dentelles, g. e. London, 1881. £15 15s 31 Autograph Letter Signed. I page, 8vo. Harrow, 27th November, 1872. 15s ‘‘T gather from what you say that Florence Bastick has never been actually made a Pupil Teacher. In that case she cannot be transferred as one; but you can, if you like, present her at the next inspection as a candidate for the end of the 2nd year. Meanwhile, however, she does not count, as a Pupil Teacher to satisfy Act 32.c.’’ Htc. SS —— 32 ASHBY-STERRY (].). Cucumber Chronicles, a Book to be taken in Slices. ; FIRST EDITION. Post 8vo, original cloth, t. e. g. London, 1887. £2 2s Presentation Copy from the Author to Austin Dobson, with inscription on title- page :— ‘* To Austin Dobson With the Author’s kind regards.’’ Inserted is an Autograph Letter of Ashby-Sterry to Dobson, 1 page, 8vo, 33 ———— The Lazy Minstre!, LARGE PAPER COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. 8vo, original boards, uncut. London, 1886. 18s Only 50 Copies printed of this Large Paper Issue signed by the Author ‘‘ J. Ashby-Sterry.”’ This was Austin Dobson’s copy, and has his bookplate inside cover. ASHENDENE PRESS. 34 Berners (Juliana). A Treatyse of Fysshynge Wyth an Angle. Woodcut illustration on first leaf. Post 8vo, orginal vellum binding. Ashendene Press, Shelley House, Chelsea, 1903. £27 10s 35 Don Quixote. Translated out of the Spanish by Thomas Shelton. 2 vols., folio, orignal boards. 1927. £60
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