Sales catalogue 567: Maggs Bros

Date:
1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/112
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 567: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ainsworth (William Harrison)—continued. 6 Ovingdean Grange: A Tale of the South Downs. Illustrated by Hablot K. Browne. First EDITION. 8vo, original cloth. London, 1800. £3 3s 7 The Tower of London. First ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION. 8vo, full new polished calf gilt, g.e. London, 1840. £8 18s 8 Autograph Letter Signed (Initials) to Macrone. A, pp., ovo; N.D. . £2 10s ‘T peturn you Mr. Kidd’s letter. It appears to me that you are, even by his own showing, the person who ought to complain. ‘‘ His letter states in a passage which I have under-lined that a new edition of his work, ‘ bearing that exact title is in the press.’ Does not this speak for itself? He is taking advantage of your advertising to put forth his own obscure publication. “The exact tithe is the legal point for consideration—and if the former edition of his work be entitled . ..‘ A Guide to the Lions of London,’ I am sure you are safe—and you ought to prevent him from taking your title. Let him keep to his own.’’ Etc. egy g ARNOLD (Sir Edwin). Autograph Manuscript Signed of his Poem ‘** The Queen’s Song.”’ Comprising three verses of eight lines €ach On 3e Ppa, 40. London, 23rd November, 1800. £2 2s Written in commemoration of 60 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, ery, till sea and sky Answer : ‘ God save the Queen ’! ’’ Ete. 19 ARNOLD (Matthew). Alaric at Rome. A Prize Poem, Recited in Rugby School, June XII, MDCCCXL. THE EXCESSIVELY RARE FIRST EDITION. Syo, bound by Riviere in full levant morocco, t.e.g. Rugby, Combe and Crossley, 1840. £105 The present copy agrees with Mr. Wise’s collation in the Ashley Catalogue, namely : Title-page (with blank reverse), pp. 1-2; and Text of the Poem, pp. 3-11. The reverse of p. 11 is blank. Mr. Wise, in his Catalogue, writes : ‘ ‘ Alaric at Rome ’ holds a high place in the rank of modern poetical rarities. To Mr. Edmund Gosse belongs the credit of unearthing the first recovered copy, and of identifying the author. Some ten examples in all have now been brought to light. Mr. Buxton Forman’s copy sold for $900 in March, 1920.”’