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Lot 191
[POETRY] Collection of six works of poetry, mostly epic poems, by various authors.
Comprising: MILTON, JOHN. Paradise Lost, in Twelve Books, with a Life of the Author and a Critique on the Poem. A New Edition. London: T. Bensley, 1802. Prize binding of full dark-blue straight-grain morocco with the gilt arms of Trinity College, Dublin to upper and lower boards, all edges gilt. 9 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches; [4], [i]-xliii, [1], [1]-420 pp., portrait frontispiece, engraved title page and plates after Burney. Rubbed, fading and wear to binding, tear and paper loss to front free endpaper; prize bookplate awarded to Edward Hatch Hoare, author and theologian, dated 1811; A Familiar Explanation of the Poetical Works of Milton. To which is prefixed Mr. Addison's Criticism on Paradise Lost. With a Preface by The Rev. Mr. Dodd. London, J. and R. Tonson, 1762. Recent quarter calf with marbled paper over boards; spine gilt ruled and titled. 6 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches. Contents lightly toned; VIRGIL [and others]. The Works of Virgil, in Latin and English. The Original Text Correctly Printed from the Most Authentic Editions, Collated for this Purpose. The Aeneid Translated by Rev. Mr. Christopher Pitt, the Ecologues and Georgics, with notes on the whole, by the Rev. Mr. Joseph Warton. With Several New Observations by Mr. Holdsworth, Mr. Spence, and Others... London: R. Dodsley, 1753. 4 volumes. Contemporary full speckled calf; gilt decorated and ruled spine with five raised bands and gilt title label; all edges sprinkled red. Engraved frontispieces and plates, some of which are folding, including a map by T. Jefferys. Bindings worn, joints cracked with old repairs, spine labels chipping, some offsetting from plates, bookplates of Helen and Carleton Richmond and William Safire; BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI. The Decameron, or Ten Days Entertainment. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1861. Full calf. Portrait frontispiece. Light wear and rubbing; spine toned; front joint starting; stain to upper board; bookplate; VILLON, FRANCOIS with PAYNE, JOHN. The Poems of Master Francois Villon of Paris Now First Done into English by Verse in the Original Forms with a Biographical and Critical Introduction by... Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1900. Unnumbered edition limited to 725 copies. Half green morocco with green cloth over boards; spine gilt ruled and titled with five raised bands. Light shelf wear, spine toned; ALIGHIERI, DANTE. Translated by Cary, Henry Francis. The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. London: Oxford University Press, 1929. Full gilt calf; top edge gilt and gauffered; brown watered silk endpapers. In text illustrations after Jonathan Flaxman. Light wear to binding; with the booklabel of William Safire.
C From the Collection of the late William Safire
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