Sales catalogue 511: Maggs Bros

Date:
1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/68
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 511: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    24 ARLEN (Michael). The Green Hat. The Acting Version of the Green Hat, a Romance. Royal 8vo, ovzg¢nal boards, uncut. New York, Printed by Bruce Rogers, 1925. £8 8s One of 175 copies, signed by the Author. 25 ARNOLD (Sir Edwin, author of the ‘‘ Light of Asia’’). Original Manu- script Poems. The original autograph manuscript written on 97 leaves, of the following poetical pieces :— The Rajpoot Wife. A Rajpoot Nurse. The Caliph’s Draught. The Snake and the Baby. The Wajans Ride.) Basti Singh’s Wife. A Bihari Mill-Song. fie and She. the Indian Judve. Sohni, a tale of Indians, etc. Folio, half calf, circa 1890. £8 10s THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT. 26 ———— The Rose-Carden; or, Culistan of Shaikh Sa’di. The four first Babs, or ‘‘ Gateways.’’ Translated in prose and verse from the Persian Text by Si Edwin Arnold, Author of ““ The Light of Asta,’ ““ The Light of the World,” CLE. THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT OF THIS SIR EDWIN ARNOLD’S MOST FAMOUS WORK, EXTENDING TO 368 PAGES, AND BOUND IN 2 VOLUMES, original half roan. £25 27 —_—_-— Autograph Manuscript Signed of his Poem ‘‘ The Queen’s Song.’’ Comprising three verses of eight limes each ‘on 3 pp., 4to. London, 23rd November, 1896. £2 2s Written in commemoration of sixty years of Queen Victoria’s reign. ‘‘ Now for this good Reign, rounded To three-score glorious years— With thanks & praise unbounded Raise we the Nation’s cheers! So royal a Sovereign Lady Before her was not seen; Cry, Britons, cry! till sea and sky Answer : ‘God save the Queen ’!’’ Ete.