Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Poems, Copyright edition
&
Ballads and Sonnets Copyright
edition.
2 Volumes
(Collection of British Authors
Tauchnitz Edition Series. Volumes 1380 and 2098 ) Poems with a memoir of
the author by Franz Huffer, 1873, xxvi, 282pp. Ballads and Sonnets with
a memoir of the author by Francis Hueffer, 1882, 287pp. Leipzig, Bernhard
Tauchnitz, 1873 and 1882. In a splendid full red leatehr binding
tooled in gilt on the spines front and rear boards (ask for picture) spines
with 5 raised bands. T.e.g. right and bottom edges of the text
untrimmed, text only very sl. yellowed and with a few spots on prelims
and last pages. A wonderful set (167 x 122 mm. ) £200 092955
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The Serbian Psalter
Splendid Facsimile edition of the
Cod. Slav 4 in the Bavarian State Library in Munich. Edited by Hans Belting,
the text volume (in German) prepared with the co-operation of Suzy
Dufrenne, Svatozar Radojcic, Rainer Stichel and Ihor Sevcenko. 1981.
Format 300 x 215 mm. 458pp., all the 148 miniatures and opposite
pages in full colours, the text pages in one colour. One of a limited edition
of only 550 copies, text volume, 1978, 300 x 215 mm, 313 pp and 52
plates. cloth
Serbia's most precious example
of medieval book illumination may be the Serbian Psalter now located in
the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Bavarian State Library). It originated
around 1400 through the Brankovic princes and was much later booty to the
winners of the Turkish war in Bavaria in 1689. Despot Djuradj Brankovic
(1427-1456, George Brankovich) was one of the last Serbian rulers before
Serbia's final fall under Turkish yoke in 1459. His family was known for
having a strong and decisive faith in God. The Codex is written on paper
and its composition offers evidence for liturgical use by laymen. This
possibility reflects the fact that some of the Serbian Orthodox monks taught
literacy in order for people to understand Christianity better and the
monasteries served as centers for culture and art. Monasteries of Studenica,
Zica, Pec, Mileseva, Sopocani, Decani, Ravanica, Manasija, etc., all founded
by royal donators, outlived the State and centuries of captivity. The manuscript
contains 148, often full-page miniatures reflecting the tradition of illustrating
the Psalms of the Bible. Together with the Bulgarian Tomic Psalter the
Serbian Psalter mirrors an old tradition of psalm illustration only found
in these 2 manuscripts. £2500
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ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques,
Emilius and Sophia or, A New System of Education.
Translated from the French of J.J Rousseau, Citizen of Geneva, by the Translator
of Eloisa. Four volumes, London, printed for R.Griffiths, T.Becket, and
P.A. de Hondt, in the Strand, 1762-1763; 12mo; with frontis. portrait
after Gardelle in Volume I, three further frontis., and two plates, all
after Cochin and Eisen; original speckled calf, panelled spines with raised
bands, gilt, boards gilt-ruled, red speckled edges; lacks all four
morocco lettering-pieces. * The first edition of the Kenrick translation,
Volumes I & II dated 1762, III & IV dated 1763, with ownership
entry "Wm. Vaughan 1763" on fr. f.e.p. of each volume and partly offset
onto front paste-downs, dating the binding also to 1763 at the latest.
The binder somehow mistook Volume III for Volume II - the figure 3 on the
spine has been superimposed by him over a figure 2, and the Volume II frontispiece
is present in Volume III as well, in place of the correct Volume III frontispiece
(which is therefore missing]. The loss of the latter frontispiece is to
some extent made up for by the evidence the binder's mistake seems to give
that this is in effect a publishers' binding or one commissioned by them,
since duplicates of the plates could not have been available in other
circumstances. Both the Kenrick translation and its rival, the Nugent translation,
are rare books, and it has not been established which has priority of publication.
An excellent, fresh, and unsophisticated copy.
£375.00
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FRIED, Erich., Deutschland.
Gedichte.
London, Austrian P.E.N., 1944,
29pp.,
original cream printed wrappers
with blue dust-jacket, contents foxed in the margins, prelims more so than
text. First edition
of Erich Fried's first book, a
collection of poems written
between September 1943 and July
1944. In the preface he
writes: Ich bin Oesterreicher.
Deutschland habe ich nur auf
der Durchreise nach England gesehen.
Deutsche habe ich
bei der Besetzung meiner Heimat
als Feinde, in der Emigration als Freunde kennengelernt. Vielleicht konnte
ich diese Gedichte schreiben, weil ich jener innigeren Bindung entbehre,
die nahe Angehörige angesichts tragischer Ereignisse verstummen lässt.
Erich Fried (1921-1988). - Kaukoreit 2. - KLG A. - KNLL V,830. - Kosch3
V,657. - LdG2 S. 163. - Sternfeld/Tiedemann2 S. 150. - Wilpert-G.2 1.
[ our ref. 092967 ]
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ST.-JOHN PERSE
[i.e.Alexis St. Leger Leger],
Quatre Poemes (1941-1944)
[La Porte Etroite No.7]. Buenos
Aires, Lettres Fraançaises, Editions SUR, 1944; 80pp.., printed
wrappers, front cover of wrappers decorated and printed in black
and red * With an introduction by Archibald Macleish.
* The poems originally appeared separately in American & French reviews
between
1942 & 1944. paper , cover
sl. soiled, small tears in bottom of spine, booseller's label ( Schoenhoff's)
on f.e.p.
¶ Saint-John Perse (1887-1975)
- Pseudonym for Marie - René - Auguste - Aléxis Saint-Léger.
French poet and diplomat, who used the pseudonym Saint-John Perse to keep
his literary activity private. Perse was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
in 1960. He has been called the embodiment of the French national spirit
and also a poet's poet for his emphasis on formal perfection and self-conscious
way of choosing his words. Perse's solemn, oracular poetry was written
in long lines that look like prose paragraphs but have a delicate musical
quality. During his years of exile in the USA Perse resumed writing poetry
His works darkened in tone - exile was for him a man's ever-present condition.
This theme - with the images of barren sand and desolate beaches - he examined
in EXILE (1942), dedicated to Archibald Mac Leish, the Librarian of Congress.
It has been described as one of the greatest works emerging from World
War II. PLUIES (1944), which took its rhythms from a rainstorm, and NEIGES
(1945), more tender in tone, were first published in the Sewanee Review.
[ our reference 092968 ] £125
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Lewis Carroll
Alice in wonderland.
Illustrated by John Tenniel.
The Sally Press. n.d. facsimile reprint in
curious private collage-art binding
£9.50
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