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672
Sean Scully, Prints, Catalogue Raisonné
1968-1999, signed and Paintings, Pastels,
Watercolours, Photographs, 1999-2000.
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Wien, 1999. First
Edition. 4to, 151 pp. Fine cloth in pictorial dust
jacket. Text in English, French & German. Catalogue
raisonne of the prints of Sean Scully, signed by the
artist. together with Sean Scully, Paintings, Pastels,
Watercolours, Photographs, 1999-2000. Richter
Verlag, 2001, printed boards. (2)
Estimate €200-€300 (approx £170-£255)
673
Shakespeare, William. King Lear. With
lithographs by Oskar Kokoschka. Limited
edition, signed.
London: Ganymed, 1963. Folio. Number 8 of 279
copies signed to the edition page by the artist.
Illustrated with sixteen lithographs by Oskar
Kokoschka, two signed in pencil. Full morocco, blind
embossed, marbled endpapers. Gray cloth slipcase;
accompanied by Ganymed’s prospectus for the
edition and their invoice (Dec 18, 1963) to Gerald Y
Goldberg Esq.
Estimate €1000-€1500 (approx £850-£1275)
674
Shaw, Rev. William. Galic and English Dictionary.
Containing all the words in the Scotch and Irish dialects of the Celtic that
could be collected from the voice, old books and MSS. Volumes I and II.
London, 1780, First and only edition of the first Gaelic-English, English
Gaelic dictionary; 4to, rebound as one volume in quarter tan calf and
marbled boards.
William Shaw 1749-1831 was born at Clachaig in the Isle of Arran and
was a graduate of Glasgow University. He went to London, and there
met Dr. Johnson. When he told Johnson of his great scheme for making
a collection of Gaelic words, the old Doctor approved. Sir, said he, if
you give the world a vocabulary of that language, while this Island
stands, your name will be remembered. Recorded amongst the list
of subscriber’s are James Boswell and Samuel Johnson. In 1778 Shaw
travelled throughout the Highlands of Scotland and the Hebrides and
then through Ireland and collected nearly thirty thousand articles for a
Dictionary. In the preface Shaw acknowledges help in particular from a
minister in Mull for 200 words and Sir James Foulis, and in Ireland Col.
Vallancy who had many manuscripts and books and manuscripts in
Trinity College Library
Estimate €500-€700 (approx £425-£595)