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Queen Mab by Shelley, Percy

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Title: Queen Mab
Author: Shelley, Percy
Seller: Biblioctopus (United States)
Description: London: P.B. Shelley, 23, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square, 1813. First Edition. 8vo (200 x 124mm), pp. [6], 240, [2]. Shelley’s first major poem. Original boards, joints cracked but holding, the interior is intact (many copies have Shelley’s name and the printer’s imprint cut out as the book was being hunted by moralists and royalists). A virgin and unmutilated copy, with the title page, dedication and final leaf intact. One of only 250 copies printed for private distribution, rare unrepaired and in anything approaching this condition. Morocco case. The poem is written in the form of a fairy tale that presents a future vision of a utopia on earth, consisting of nine cantos and seventeen notes. Queen Mab, a fairy (the name from one referred to in Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet) descends in a chariot to a dwelling where Ianthe is sleeping on a couch. Queen Mab detaches Ianthe’s spirit or soul from her sleeping body and transports it on a celestial tour to Queen Mab’s palace at the edge of the universe. Queen Mab interprets, analyses, and explains Ianthe’s dreams. She shows her visions of the past, present, and the future. The past and present are characterized by oppression, injustice, misery, and suffering caused by monarchies, commerce, and religion. In the future, however, the condition of man will be improved, and a utopia will emerge. Two key points are emphasized: 1) death is not to be feared; and, 2) the future offers the possibility of perfectibility of man by moral means. Humanity and nature can be reconciled and work in unison and harmony, not against each other. While Ianthe is asleep on the couch, Henry waits to kiss her. He never does. Queen Mab returns Ianthe’s spirit or soul to her body. Ianthe then awakens with a “gentle start.” Of the seventeen notes, six deal with the issues of atheism, vegetarianism, free love, the role of necessity in the physical and spiritual realm, and the relationship of Christ and the precepts of Christianity. From a critical standpoint, in this early poem Shelley forced together his youthful opinions into a scheme of dogmatic materialism. His objective was to show that reform and improvement in the lot of mankind were possible. In her notes to the work, Mary Shelley explained the author’s goals: He was animated to greater zeal by compassion for his fellow-creatures. His sympathy was excited by the misery with which the world is bursting. He witnessed the sufferings of the poor, and was aware of the evils of ignorance. He desired to induce every rich man to despoil himself of superfluity, and to create a brotherhood of property and service, and was ready to be the first to lay down the advantages of his birth. He was of too uncompromising a disposition to join any party. He did not in his youth look forward to gradual improvement: nay, in those days of intolerance, now almost forgotten, it seemed as easy to look forward to the sort of millennium of freedom and brotherhood, which he thought the proper state of mankind, as to the present reign of moderation and improvement. Ill health made him believe that his race would soon be run; that a year or two was all he had of life. He desired that these years should be useful and illustrious. He saw, in a fervent call on his fellow-creatures to share alike the blessings of the creation, to love and serve each other, the noblest work that life and time permitted him. In this spirit he composed Queen Mab.

Keepsake de Costumes, Le by COMPTE-CALIX, Francois Claudius

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Title: Keepsake de Costumes, Le
Author: COMPTE-CALIX, Francois Claudius
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: Paris: Chez Aubert, 1853. Twenty Hand Colored Plates depicting the Costumes of Western Europe and North Africa COMPTE-CALIX, Francois Claudius. Le Keepsake de Costumes. Dessins de Compte Calix, gravés sur acier. Album offert aux abonées du journal Les Modes Parisiennes. Paris: [Chez Aubert], 1853. Folio (13 5/8 x 10 1/2 inches; 345 x 266 mm.). Twenty fine hand colored plates engraved on steel by Varin, Préval, Pelée, Ramus, Montaut d'Oléron, Girardet, Rebel Monnin, Portier, Desjardins and Metzmacher. All plates with original tissue guards. Publisher's pale blue paper wrappers. Front cover printed in gold, most of the paper spine worn away but still sound. Minimal insect damage to fore-edge of first blank. Some marginal foxing to plate 12, light marginal foxing to a few other plates, otherwise an excellent example of this rather scarce costume book. This fine album was offered to subscribers of the newspaper Les Modes Parisiennes. The plates: 1. "Chef Arabe" An Arab chef from Algeria 2. "Femme Mauresque" A Moorish woman 3. "Paysanne" A peasant woman from the vicinity of Neuviller (Bas Rhin) 4. "Auberciste de Miesbach" An innkeeper from Miesbach (Germany, Bavaria) 5. "Costume de Tresnuzaghes" A costume from Tresnuzaghes (Sardinia) 6. "Pastora della Gallura" (Sardinia) 7. "Paysanne" A peasant woman from the vicinity of La Rochelle 8. "Femme des environs de Nimes" A woman from the vicinity of Nimes 9. "Jeune Fille de Brienz" A young girl from Brienz, canton of Bern (Switzerland) 10. "Marchand Juif" A Jewish merchant from Algeria 11. "Juive Mariée" A married Jewess from Algeria 12. "Jeune Fille Juive d'Alger" A young Jewish woman from Algiers (lightly foxed in blank margins) 13. Marchand de Tapis" A merchant from Tapis from Zell (Tyrol) 14. "Bergère de Jennbach" A shepherdess from Jennbach (Tyrol) 15. "Femme de Passau" A woman from Passau (Germany, Bavaria) 16. "Paysanne de Iffeldorf" A peasant woman from Iffeldorf (Germany, Bavaria) 17. "Rémouleur Arabe" An Arab grinder in Cairo 18. "Costume de Bosa" A man from Bosa (Sardinia) 19. "Femme de Ploaghe" A woman from Ploaghe (Sardinia) 20. "Boucher de Cagliari" The butcher from Cagliari (Sardinia). Colas 671; Gumuchian 1833; Hiler, p. 181; Not in Bobins, Lipperheide or Osborne.

MAX REGER & KARL STRAUBE; by Anderson, C.

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Seller: J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books

Title: MAX REGER & KARL STRAUBE;
Author: Anderson, C.
Seller: J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Burlington: Ashgate, 2003. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Illus. & musical examples.

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