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Kung-Kwa at On-Na Lew Chew by HEINE, Wilhelm (1827-1885)

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Title: Kung-Kwa at On-Na Lew Chew
Author: HEINE, Wilhelm (1827-1885)
Seller: Donald Heald Rare Books (United States)
Description: New York: G.P. Putnam & Company, 1856. Tinted lithograph on proof paper, tipped onto a bristol board with glossy back as issued with additional hand colouring. A quietly revealing image from Heine's Graphic Scenes of the Japan Expedition: the American encounter with the Ryukyu Islands in Japan, where diplomacy, observation, and coastal movement preceded the better-known landings in Japan. This plate is one of the more understated images in Graphic Scenes of the Japan Expedition, and that restraint is part of its appeal. Lew Chew was the period Western name for the Ryukyu Islands, and On-Na corresponds to Onna, on Okinawa. The scene shows a kung-kwa, or village rest house, set back behind a low wall and gate, its tiled roof partly screened by trees. Heine gives the building a strong sense of place: the whitewashed wall, shaded yard, garden growth, and open path all suggest a local administrative or stopping-place outside the more formal diplomatic centres of Naha and Shuri. In the foreground, one figure sits with a portfolio or sketchbook, while another stands nearby. Ryukyuan figures appear closer to the building, absorbed into the architecture and enclosure of the scene. The print therefore records more than a picturesque stop on the route to Japan, turning a coastal village structure into evidence of landscape, architecture, custom, and access. Within the Perry visual record, Kung-Kwa at On-Na is valuable precisely because it shifts attention from treaty ceremony to the quieter geography of the voyage. It places Okinawa within the wider American itinerary through the China Seas, the Ryukyus, and Japan, and preserves a carefully observed view of a Ryukyuan public building at the moment when the islands were being drawn into the diplomatic and commercial mapping of the Pacific. Wilhelm Heine was the official artist on Commodore Matthew C. Perry's expedition to Japan in 1853-54. On returning to the United States he produced several series of prints commemorating the trip. A group of six elephant-folio prints appeared in 1855, and the following year a second volume was issued, in a smaller format, with different images and with explanatory text. Both projects employed the New York lithographic firm of Sarony, among the best lithographers in the United States at that time. Bennett, p.53; McGrath American Color Plate Books 123.

Poems by [CHATTERTON, Thomas]

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Title: Poems
Author: [CHATTERTON, Thomas]
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Description: London: Printed for T. Payne and Son at the Mews-Gate, 1778. One of the Great Literary "Forgeries" [CHATTERTON, Thomas]. Poems, Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and Others, in the Fifteenth Century. The Third Edition; to Which is Added an Appendix, Containing Some Observations Upon the Language of These Poems; Tending to Prove, That They Were Written, Not by Any Ancient Author, but Entirely by Thomas Chatterton. London: T. Payne and Son at the Mews-Gate, 1778. Third edition. Octavo. [2], xxvii, [1], 333, [1, blank] pp. One plate. Contemporary tree calf. Gilt-tooled borders. Gilt ornamented and decorated spine. Morocco spine label, gilt-lettered. Joints, spine head and tail, label and corners near invisibly restored. Contemporary signature to titlepage. A very good copy. One of the great literary "forgeries," the mythical Thomas Rowley was created by Chatterton shortly after he began writing poetry at the incredible age of 11. The manuscript was not published until seven years after Chatterton's death and sparked a controversy over the authenticity of the poems, caused in large part by critics who could not believe that such expertly crafted poems could have come from a half-educated apprentice barely in his teens. Samuel Johnson called him "the most extraordinary young man that has encountered my knowledge," and Keats dedicated ENDYMION to his memory. He was admired by Coleridge, Shelley, Wordsworth, and Rossetti who said that he had "Shakespeare's manhood in a boy's wild heart." Walking with a companion in a London churchyard one day, the impoverished Chatterton stumbled into a newly dug grave. His friend came to his rescue and, attempting to make light of the matter, claimed he was glad to be present at the resurrection of a genius. Chatterton replied: "I have been at war with the grave for sometime, and I find it not so easy to vanquish it as I imagined. We can find an asylum to hide from every creditor but that." Three days later, three months shy of his eighteenth birthday, he destroyed all of his manuscripts, swallowed arsenic, and paid his debt. The next day he was shoveled ... Cf. Rothschild 589. Cf. Hayward 188.

Sketches of the Origin, Progress and Effects of Music, With an Account of the Ancient Bards and Minstrels. by Eastcott, Richard.

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Title: Sketches of the Origin, Progress and Effects of Music, With an Account of the Ancient Bards and Minstrels.
Author: Eastcott, Richard.
Seller: Savoy Books (United States)
Description: Book. Bath: S. Hazard, 1793. 8vo, contemp. mottled calf, morocco label, spine and boards ruled in gilt. Top of spine worn, front hinge split but secure, clean and tight within. Engraved armorial bookplate of Garbett Watsham, Knill Court. First edition. The historical aspects largely derivative of Burney and others, Eastcott's book is usually cited for its argument against fugal treatment of church choral music, a notion which took hold in America. The volume is also notable as having James Boswell among its subscribers; he is omitted from the official list, but the error corrected in the errata..

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