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author of “An Epistle to an Eminent Painter”. The second
edition, corrected.
Printed for J. Dodsley,
1780. 19-pages, without
the half-title, 4to, recent paper wrapper: a very good copy.
(2)
WESTERN PRINTING SERVICES.
The Western Type
Book.
Hamish Hamilton
1962. REVISED EDN, with 2 tipped in
masks, pp xvi, 208, 8vo, orig cloth, gilt: very good.
(3)
MUMFORD (Lewis).
The Culture of Cities.
Secker &
Warburg
[1938]. FIRST UK EDITION, with illustrations, pp xii,
586, roy 8vo, original cloth: a very good copy
(4)
BLAKE: - Bindman (David).
Blake as an artist.
Phaidon,
1977. FIRST EDITION, 182 illustrations, 256-pp, 8vo, original
cloth: fine, fresh, unmarked copy in dw.
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R. (F. M.).
Emblematic Illumination; or, forms, colours, and
emblems suitable for illuminating texts of Holy Scripture in large
style, in oils or water-colours. Collected and edited by F. M. R.
Fourth edition.
Day and Son, circa
1865. With 8 plates (7 in blue,
red and gold), pages 24, (2, adverts), small 4to, original mauve
cloth, gilt, edges gilt: loose in case, but in clean and very good to
nice state.
(6)
THOMPSON (F. M. L.).
Chartered Surveyors, the growth of
a profession. 1968. FIRST EDN, 85 plates (4 col), pp xvi, 400,
roy 8vo, orig. cloth: nice in defective dw. (7)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
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HAYLEY (Wm.).
The Triumphs of Temper. A poem: in six
cantos. The twelfth edition, corrected. With new original designs,
by Maria Flaxman.
Chichester: Printed by J. Seagrave; for T. Cadell
and W. Davies
1803
With 6 plates engraved by Blake after Maria Flaxman, pp xii,
165, with half-title, small 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, gilt
bordered sides, fully gilt spine, with label, gilt, lettered at foot in
gilt ‘H. G. B’, with contemporary signature of H. R. Gore Booth
on title: small portion of calf on both boards eaten but binding
sound and strong, otherwise a very good copy.
Bentley 730. The plates were engraved by Blake to whom Hayley had
been introduced by John Flaxman, the sculptor and designer. Mary Ann
(Maria) Flaxman, his half-sister, is best known for the six designs here
first published.
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
213
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HEANEY (Seamus): - HENRYSON (Robert).
The
Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables. Translated by Seamus
Heaney.
Faber and Faber
2009
FIRST EDITION, pp xix, 183, 8vo, original cloth, dust wrapper:
fine, virtually as new copy.
Signed by Seamus Heaney on the title-
page.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
HEANEY (Seamus).
An Open Letter
[: verse].
Derry: A Field Day Pamphlet Number 2
1983. FIRST
EDITION, pp 14, (2, blank), 8vo, original printed wraps: some
relevant newspaper cuttings (including one very lightly tipped on
to half-title, otherwise a bright, fresh copy. (2)
€60-€80 (£48-£64 approx.)
214
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HEANEY (Seamus): - Kochanowski (Jan).
Laments Jan
Kochanowski (1530-1584) translated by Seamus Heaney and
Stanislaw Baranczak.
Faber,
1995
FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION, in Polish and
English on facing pages, pages xvii, 53, (7, blank), 8vo, original
cloth: a few relevant cuttings lightly tipped in, otherwise a bright,
fresh copy.
With the signature of Maura Scannell on the title-page and
signed in full by the author who also adds, and misquotes and then
corrects, a quotation from the penultimate line on page 3 (“Where, then,
[‘is’ inserted here] relief ? / p. 3 / 17. 1. 02”
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
HEANEY (Seamus).
Place and
Displacement. Recent poetry of Northern Ireland.
Kendal,
Cumbria, Trustees of Dove Cottage
(1985). FIRST EDITION, 22-pp,
8vo, original printed wrappers with integral dust wrapper: nice.
Pete Laver Memorial Lecture delivered at Grasmere, 2nd August 1984.
(2)
€60-€80 (£48-£64 approx.)
215
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HEANEY (Seamus): - O’DRISCOLL (Dennis).
Stepping
Stones. Interviews with Seamus Heaney.
Faber and Faber,
2008
FIRST EDITION, with 3 maps, pages xxx, 524, 8vo, original
cloth, with dust wrapper: a fine, virtually as new copy.
Signed by Heaney on the title-page.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
HEANEY (Seamus) and LONGLEY
(Michael).
An Upstairs Outlook 1989. FIRST EDITION. An
Excellent Copy. (2)
€60-€80 (£48-£64 approx.)
216
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HEANEY (Seamus).
Electric Light [: poems].
Faber and
Faber,
2001
FIRST EDITION, pages (10), 81, 8vo, original cloth-backed
boards, with printed paper spine label: a fine unmarked copy in
the original matching slip-case.
Limited edition of 325 numbered and specially bound copies, signed by
the author. No. 16
€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
217
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HEANEY (Seamus).
Electric Light [: poems].
Faber and
Faber,
2001
FIRST EDITION, pages (10), 81, 8vo, original cloth-backed
boards, with printed paper spine label: a fine unmarked copy in
the original matching slip-case.
Limited edition of 325 numbered and specially bound copies, signed by
the author. No. 18
€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
218
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HEANEY (Seamus).
Electric Light [: poems].
Faber and
Faber,
2001
FIRST EDITION, pages (10), 81, 8vo, original cloth-backed
boards, with printed paper spine label: a fine unmarked copy in
the original matching slip-case.
Limited edition of 325 numbered and specially bound copies, signed by
the author. No. 20
€
80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
219
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HEANEY (Seamus).
Opened Ground. Poems 1966-1996.
Faber and Faber
1998
FIRST EDITION, pages xiii, (1, blank), 478, (2, blank), 8vo,
original green paper boards, with dustwrapper: a fine, fresh,
unmarked copy.
Signed by the author on the title-page.
€60-€80 (£48-£64 approx.)
220
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HEANEY (Seamus).
Selected Poems, 1965-1975.
Faber &
Faber,
1980
FIRST EDITION, 136-pp, 8vo, original blue cloth: fine copy in
dust wrapper. (price L3. 95).
Signed (and dated October 20 1980) by the author on the title-page.
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
221
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HEANEY (Seamus).
Station Island [: verse].
Faber and Faber
1984
FIRST EDITION, pages (6), 9 - 123, (1, blank), the half-title
doubling as a front flyleaf, 8vo, original black cloth: a nice, fresh
copy in the dust wrapper.
With the neat signature of Maura Scannell
on the itle-page and also signed by the author at head of title-page and
who has also added two speech bubbles to the woodcut of two men rowing
a boat on the title-page, the first reading “Did you ever / meet Maura /
Scannell?” and the second “Once. / At the / Irish-Polish / Society!”.
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