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Pamphlet. Zustand: Collectible; Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDOffprint. Offprint, Very Good Copy, Work done in the division of Neurology, University of Minnesota Hospitals, and the Dight Institute for Human Genetics, Writing in ink on front page, ink stamp on front, Sm 4to, 11pgs. …

Soft cover. 1st Edition. Crown quarto. Pp. vii, 529. Original stiff wrappers; signature to half-title. In a very good condition; fine interior. ~ FIRST EDITION. With contributions by Egyptology luminaries Eberhard Otto, Jan Assmann, Wolfgang Helck, Hartwig Altenmüller, Emma Brunner-Traut, Ricardo A. Caminos, Georges Posener, Jan Zandee, e.a. N-2. ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ (illustrator). …

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Softcover. One of 120 copies Writes the press: Two of our Loose Canons pamphlets featuring neglected poets will be published in 2025: the first, a second edition of the poetry of Elinor Wylie from our earlier version of Loose Canons One, is expanded from 6 poems to 18; Loose Canons Two features poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson, with a focus on his long dramatic monologue 'Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford'. This revival of the Loose Canons series is devoted to refreshng the reputations of once celebrated poets and poems that over time have become blurred by distance, overlooked, or simply ignored.As will be the case with later additions to the series, each of these issues is intended to give a concise overview of the style and concerns of the poet in question. All the pamphlets will be hand-set in various types from the best editions of the texts, and each will offer a brief biographical note with other information as necessary. They will be sewn into a variety of cover papers and will be of a uniform size. The Loose Canons series will continue intermittently, but dependably. We intend them to provide a mix of writers in English from England, Canada, and America, and we may possibly introduce some translations from other languages as the series gather strength. This volume is a gray textured paper softcover that is sewn into wraps of St. Armand Canal paper It is handset by Apollonia Elsted in Poliphilus and Blado with Caslon Antique for display and printed on Zerkall Cream Laid paper. The book was designed by Crispin Elsted, who also selected the poems. In fine condition. Measures 7.25 x 12 inches. Unpaginated [18 pages]. PRI/041825. …

FIRST EDITION. 220 x 162 mm. (8 3/4 x 6 1/2"). 8 p.l., 307, [29] pp. VERY FINE 19TH CENTURY PURPLE MOROCCO, GILT, unsigned, but perhaps by John Clarke (see below), for Reverend Thomas Williams, covers with multiple fillet frame, monogram supralibros of Williams on front cover, his coat of arms on rear cover, raised bands, compartments framed with multiple fillets, gilt lettering, gilt-ruled turn-ins, all edges gilt. Engraved title page with frame composed of vignettes, woodcut tailpieces, printer's device on final page, and 12 ENGRAVED EMBLEM PLATES by Theodore Galle. Front pastedown with pencil marks of Allan Heywood Bright; front flyleaf with pencilled note of purchase at "Duke of Hamilton's sale at S & W 18/7/82," with tipped-on catalogue description, attributing the binding to J. Clarke. Landwehr, Emblem and Fable Books in the Low Countries 187; Praz, p. 313; USTC 1003460. A touch of rubbing to extremities, occasional very minor internal stains, quire O faintly mottled, but AN IMMENSELY PLEASING COPY, the text clean and fresh, the binding lustrous and showing virtually no signs of use, and the impressions of the engravings quite rich. This emblem book stressing the importance of seizing the opportunity for salvation when it presents itself comes in a fine binding done for a noted collector, and with distinguished subsequent provenance. Emblem books, featuring a combination of allegorical pictures and epigrams, first appeared in the 16th century and soon established an enduring fashion in moral symbols. This singular category of illustrated books exerted a strong influence on both contemporary literature and the fine arts. Providing a doubly powerful composite of symbolical design and verbal expression, the emblem was intended to teach a moral truth in such a way that the reader's memory would grasp it, not as a formula, but as a genuine experience that would serve as an effective guide to understanding and conduct. In this work, Ghent Jesuit Jan David (1546-1613) warns readers of stratagems employed by the Devil to distract mankind from the opportunity to achieve eternal life, and illustrator Theodore Galle (1571-1633) brings these warnings to life in richly detailed engravings showing mischievous demons diverting humans from perceiving Opportunity, Time, and the angels of God. A famous engraver from a famous family of engravers, and master of his guild in Antwerp, Galle here depicts the Roman goddess of Opportunity (Occasio) as a regal woman with long hair covering her face, and with the bare back of her head sometimes covered by a mask. Opportunity, according to mythology, could only be grasped when she was walking toward you, not after she had passed, and the back-in-front arrangement of the goddess' head made it difficult to know whether she was coming or going-one had to be paying very close attention to catch her in time. Opportunity is accompanied by Time (Tempus), a man with wings, an hourglass, and a scythe. The naughty devils that busy themselves playing pranks and wasting people's time, are unthreatening hybrids with a man's upper body, goat-like horns and ears, long curly tails, and scaly legs, sometimes terminating in chicken feet. It's all amusing--that is, until men find themselves being herded in chains into the dragon-like mouth of Hell. Bryan says what we already know from looking at the illustrations here: that Galle "was a patient elaborator of detail" and that "his touch was remarkable for delicacy." In fact, Galle, who often designed his own plates, exerted an important influence in connection with the emerging baroque style of book illustration. This copy was bound for Anglican cleric Theodore Williams (1785-1875), who amassed an impressive library of some 2,000 volumes in his youth, and had many of his books finely bound. The database of British Armorial Bindings (BAB) notes that he had 29 books bound by Derome and 27 by Roger Payne, but he mostly turned to London binders Charles Lewis and John Clarke. There is no.…