Sales catalogue 423: Maggs Bros

Date:
1922
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/14
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 423: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Printing—coxdinued. HORACE WALPOLE’S COPY. 1549 — Moxon (Joseph). Mechanick Exercises (vol. [1.); or, The Doc- trine of Handy Works. Applied to the Art of Printing. [llustrated with a large number of plates. Small Ato, orzgznal calf. London, 1683. £13 13s **%* Horace Walpole’s copy with his bookplate. This is the printing volume complete, and comprises the sections of Printing, Letter- Cutting, Mould-Making, Sinking of Punches, Casting of Letters, The Compositors’ Trade, the Press-man’s Trade. 1550 PRIOR (Matthew). Carmen Seeculare for the year 1700. To the King (in verse). FIRST EDITION. Folio, zew boards. London, [ouson, 1700. £2 18s 1551 ————— Golin’s Mistakes. Written in Imitation of Spenser’s Style. FIRST EDITION. Folio, zew boards. London, Jacob Tonson, 1721. £4 4s 1552 ————— The Conversation. A Tale. FIRST EDITION. Folio, Jdoards. London, Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1720. £6 6s 1553 ———— An English Ballad, in answer to Dr. Depreaux’s Pindarique Ode on the Taking of Namure. FIRST EDITION. Folio, half morocco. London, 1695. £6 6s **%* “ An admirable ballad paraphrase of Boileau’s pompous ‘ Ode sur Ja Prise de Namur,’ which stronghold, it will be remembered, had fallen to the French in 1692, only to be retaken by the English three years later. This jeu d’ esprit was published anonymously in September, 1695.’’ (D.N.B.). 1554 — The Hind and the Panther transvers’d to the Story of the Coun- try Mouse and the City-Mouse. FIRST EDITION. Small ato, xew boards, uncut. London, 1087. £4 4s Scarce in uncut state. 1555 ———— A Letter to M. Boileau Depreaux. Occasioned by the Victory at Blenheim, in Verse. FIRST EDITION. Folho, boards, uncut. London, 1704. £1 16s