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The Grave. A Poem

The Grave. A Poem by Blake, William (illustrator); Robert Blair

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books
Title
The Grave. A Poem
Author
Blake, William (illustrator); Robert Blair
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
London: Printed by T. Bensley for R. H. Cromek, 1808. First edition. Near Fine. Quarto (pages 275 x 340mm): [xvi], 36, [4, prospectus]; complete with the engraved frontis of Blake, engraved title page and eleven other plates engraved by Louis Schiavonetti after illustrations by William Blake. Handsomely bound in early 20th century full calf with rules stamped in black and a blue morocco spine label. Illustrated title trimmed a little tightly, no loss to the illustration. A clean and attractive copy internally with all plates retaining their tissue guards. With the armorial bookplate of C. E. Richardson, motto: virtute aquiritus honos. Housed in a custom slipcase. A blank verse poem, The Grave was the work for which Scottish writer Robert Blair was most renowned. "In October 1805, William Blake was commissioned by the engraver and would-be publisher Robert H. Cromek to prepare forty drawings illustrating the popular "graveyard" school poem first published in 1743. In Cromek's first prospectus of November 1805, Blake is named as both the designer and engraver of fifteen designs...In a second prospectus, also from November 1805, Cromek announced that Luigi Schiavonetti would engrave twelve designs for the new edition. Blake had lost the lucrative commission to engrave his own designs; and his relationship with Cromek descended into anger and argument. In spite of their disagreement, Cromek included a portrait of Blake as a frontispiece to the volume, published in 1808. Cromek promoted the book aggressively and the illustrations to The Grave became Blake's best known work through much of the nineteenth century" (William Blake Archive). Near Fine.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books
Title
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Author
Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good +
Description
Hartford, Conn: The American Publishing Company, 1876. 2nd Printing. Very Good +. Second printing. Original blue cloth, decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt and black, peach coated endpapers. Frontispiece and numerous wood-engraved text illustrations by True Williams and others, 4-page publisher's advertisements at end (dated Dec. 1, 1876), half-title printed on the verso of the frontispiece. A Very Good+ copy overall. Minor wear to the spine ends and extremities, some discoloration to the spine and the rear board. A contemporary owner's gift inscription on one of the early blanks (dated Feb. 22, 1877). Rear paste-down and endpapers a bit wrinkled, apparently from a dampstain. Text block clean and unaffected. One of the classic American novels, Twain's bildungsroman follows the adventures of Tom Sawyer - and his friend Huck Finn -- in St. Petersburg, Missouri. Told with Twain's characteristic and unmatchable wit and humor, it would become his best-selling book and its sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is arguably the greatest American novel of all time. "Mr. Samuel Clemens has taken the boy of the Southwest for the hero of his new book... and has presented him with a fidelity to circumstance which loses no charm by being realistic in the highest degree, and which gives incomparably the best picture of life in that region as yet known to fiction" (Contemporary Atlantic Monthly Review). Very Good +.
LUMIÈRE, LOUIS & AUGUSTE. Two AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED

LUMIÈRE, LOUIS & AUGUSTE. Two AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED by LUMIERE BROTHERS

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Seller: Schulson Autographs
Title
LUMIÈRE, LOUIS & AUGUSTE. Two AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED
Author
LUMIERE BROTHERS
Seller
Schulson Autographs (United States)
Description
LUMIÈRE, LOUIS & AUGUSTE. The First Film Makers. Two AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED. The Lumiere brothers are credited with making the first movie shown in December 1895 and titled, "La Sortie des ouvriers de l'usine Lumière" or "Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory." As manufacturers of photographic equipment, and interested in animating images, they developed a camera that could both animate and project images. Their camera, called the Cinématographe, gave us the name for moving pictures as well as the theaters that show them, the cinema. They apparently incorrectly judged cinema to have little future value and focused their efforts on developing a color process for photographs. In the year between these letters, 1907, the brothers launched Autochrome Lumière, their color photographic process. The recipient of the Lumiere brothers' letters was Angelo Mariani (1838-1914), a French chemist. Between 1863 and 1868, Mariani marketed a coca wine and a medicine called Vin Tonique Mariani. His advertisements claimed his products would restore health, strength, energy and vitality. The popular concoctions were awarded a Vatican gold medal and endorsed by notables of the time including Emile Zola and President Ulysses S. Grant. The Letters: Louis, 4pp on one folded 8vo sheet, "Cours Gambetta," Aug. 7, 1906. Auguste Lumiere, 12mo card stock, n.p., Nov. 18, 1908. Louis Lumiere writes a friendly personal four page letter to Mariani on printed address stationery in the summer of 1906. "I do hope you had a good trip back and that you do not suffer too much the Parisian heat. My little family stayed at Evian, the journey... is one of the most favorable for Suzanne's health, and here I am alone at home as my brother is also gone...The bustle of the factory is there, fortunately, to make me find the time shorter...." Signed, "L. Lumiere." Two years later in 1908, Auguste Lumiere thanks Mariani, " a thousand times... for your kind congratulations...." He signs, "A. Lumiere." The pair of letters is in fine condition.
A Short, but Tragical History of an Unfortunate Young Girl

A Short, but Tragical History of an Unfortunate Young Girl

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Seller: De Wolfe and Wood
Title
A Short, but Tragical History of an Unfortunate Young Girl
Seller
De Wolfe and Wood (United States)
Description
Great Britain: Printed at J. Pitts, 1820. Paper wraps. Remnants of paper on back cover from being removal from a scrapbook. A tale of a fifteen-year-old girl by a Gentleman of Fortune but thro' the means of a benevolent Clergyman was restored to happiness and home.
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The Young Woman's Journal, Volume XIX (19)

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Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB
Title
The Young Woman's Journal, Volume XIX (19)
Seller
Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
1908. Very Good. The Young Woman's Journal, Volume XIX (19). Salt Lake City, Utah: NP, 1908. 700pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Book condition: Very good, with a very light stain to front cover and very light rubbing to extremities. Brief notation penciled on title-page..

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