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Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam by STEDMAN, Captain J. G.

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Title: Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam
Author: STEDMAN, Captain J. G.
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description: London: Printed for J. Johnson and J. Edwards, 1796. BLAKE, William. With Eighty-Three Plates and Maps, of Which Sixteen are Engraved by Blake STEDMAN, Captain J.G. Narrative, of a Five Years' Expedition, against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; from the year 1772, to 1777: elucidating the history of that country, and describing its productions, viz. quadruple, birds, fishes, reptiles, trees, shrubs, fruits, & roots; with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea. Illustrated with 80 elegant engravings, from drawings made by the author. London: Printed by J. Johnson, 1796. First edition, among Blake's finest work as a book illustrator. Two quarto volumes (10 7/16 x 8 1/8 inches; 265 x 206 mm). xviii, 407 (ie 415 as usual), [1, blank], [7, index, directions for placing the plates and errata], [1, blank]; iv, 404, [7, index, directions for placing the plates and errata], [1, blank] pp. Plates watermarked 1794. Complete with eighty-three etched plates including frontispiece (first volume), both title pages with etched vignettes and eighty plates of which sixteen were engraved by Blake and five are folding (maps and plates). All after Stedman. Pages 111 & 112 of volume I misbound between pages 104 & 105. This copy with a faint "Blake" signature in Volume 1 vignette on the title-page, bottom left just above the protruding cannon, which is not present in volume 2. Later editions do not have this. Contemporary full mottled calf. Volume I with repairs to head and tail of the spine and the front and rear joints. Volume II with invisible rebacking, preserving original spine. Boards tooled in gilt. Each volume with two black morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. Edges speckled brown. Marbled endpapers. Green silk bookmarks in each volume. Overall a very good set and internally very clean. "Stedman, an officer in the Scots Brigade in Holland, volunteered for service against the negroes in Dutch Guiana. While out there he to all intents married the subject of Number 9 [facing p. 95], Joanna, a Mulatto, and had a son by her, who became a midshipman in the British Navy, but died young. The author emerges as a most interesting and sympathetic character. As Lowndes rightly says the book is as entertaining as a romance. It will be noticed that William Blake engraved thirteen plates, while three plates were engraved by Bartolozzi". "Many of the plates, it will be noticed, were engraved by [William] Blake, who had learnt his trade from Basire, to whom he was apprenticed for seven years from August 1772. As Keynes says in his bibliography From 1791 until 1800 Blake did much of his work as a journeyman engraver for the booksellers" (Abbey). Keynes eventually decided that Blake was responsible for sixteen of the plates. "Both text and plates made a strong impression on reviewers. The Analytical Review, XXIV (Sept. 1796), said 'The numerous plates...are neatly engraved, and are, we have great reason to believe, faithful and correct delineations of objects described in the work.' The Critical Review (jan. 1797) praised the engravings as being 'in a style of uncommon elegance'" (Bentley). Bentley 499A. Cox II, p. 285; Abbey, Travel, 719. Sabin 91075. Cundall, West Indies, 1715. Ray England 2. HBS 66086. $5,500.

Boy by DAHL Roald

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Title: Boy
Author: DAHL Roald
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1984. First Edition. Signed. DAHL, Roald. Boy. Tales of Childhood. London: Jonathan Cape, 1984. Octavo, original blue cloth, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $4800.First edition of Dahl's lively first autobiography, boldly inscribed by him across the entire half title: ""To Douglas Love Roald Dahl.""The funny and often macabre tales in Boy, Roald Dahl's first autobiography, recall his childhood in boarding school, the excitement of summer vacations, the drama of The Great Mouse Plot and much more. These lively stories ""feel as if they have been told as family folklore, honed down to essential incident and sharp detail. They have the intense drama and simplicity of the fairy tale, and its unequivocal extremes of good and evil"" (New York Times). Precedes the American signed limited edition. Connolly, 103. Silvey, 185. Faint crease to dust jacket front panel. A fine inscribed copy.

LUCY BROWN AND MR. GRIMES by Ardizzone, Edward

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Title: LUCY BROWN AND MR. GRIMES
Author: Ardizzone, Edward
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Very good plus in good dust jacket.
Description: London New York Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1937. Very good plus in good dust jacket.. First US edition of Edward Ardizzone's second book, the story of a lonely girl who befriends a lonely old man - a rare title in the original dust jacket. LUCY BROWN AND MR. GRIMES is a companion in size and format to Ardizzone's first book, LITTLE TIM AND THE BRAVE SEA CAPTAIN. This is a particularly rare title in his much-lauded picture book oeuvre. 13'' x 9''. Original cloth-backed color pictorial boards. Original unclipped ($2.00) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [64] pages, printed one side only. Jacket with several moderate to large chips with attendant edgewear, a few tiny holes; several small tape repairs to verso. Binding with light edgewear. Leaves with scattered foxing; offsetting to endpapers. Sound.

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