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Conscripsit. Londini W.R. 1673.
117 pp. et 1 f. de catalogue.
The second edition of Milton's Poems, with much of the text reprinted from the 1645 edition,
but with 33 additional poems and the second printing of the tractate Of Education.
[Pforzheimer 724.
Ex-libris John Whipple Frothingham
.
Bel exemplaire.
1500/2000 €
36.
Molière/
[
VILLIERS
(Claude Deschamps, dit De)]..-
Zélinde
,
comédie, ou la Véritable critique de l’Escole des
femmes, et la Critique de la Critique. A Paris,
Guillaume de Luyne, 1663. In-12, maroquin
vert bouteille, , chiffre en coins, dos à nerfs orné
d’un chiffre doré. Double filet sur les coupes.
Tranches dorées. Encadrement intérieur
rehaussé de filets et roulette dorés. [Trautz-
Bauzonnet].
161 pp.
Édition originale
de cette pièce polémique imprimée en réponse à L’École des femmes et à sa
Critique, mais jamais représentée.
Elle a été attribuée aussi bien à Jean Donneau de Visé qu’à Claude de Villiers, auteur et
comédien de l’Hôtel de Bourgogne dont le fils Jean appartint à la troupe de Molière.
Lacroix : Bibliographie moliéresque, n° 1148.
Ex-libris John Whipple Frothingham
et Robert Hoe
.
37.
RACINE (
Jean
).-
Athalie
.
Tragédie tirée de l'Écriture Sainte. À Paris, Barbin 1692. In 12. maroquin bleu nuit Xixe, dos à
nerfs, coupes filetées, dentelle intérieure dorée, tranches dorées sur marbrure, [Hardy]
8 f. dont le frontispice, 114 pp., et 1 f. blanc.
Edition parue un an après l’originale in-4
chez les mêmes libraires, avec le
même achevé d'imprimer daté du 3 mars 1691. Toutes les originales, sauf Esther et
Athalie, des pièces de Racine furent publiées au format in 12
[Guibert, pp. 111-113, n° 3].
RACINE
(Jean).
Esther
.
Tragédie tirée de l'Escriture Sainte. À Paris, chez Denys Thierry, 1689. In 12 ;
maroquin bleu nuit, dos à nerfs, coupes filetées, dentelle intérieure dorée, tranches
dorées sur marbrure, [Hardy]
8 ff. dont le frontispice, 86 pp. et 2 ff.
Edition parue la même année que l’originale in 4, et chez les mêmes libraires.
Toutes les originales, sauf Esther et Athalie, des pièces de Racine furent publiées
au format in 12 [Guibert, pp. 96-97, n° 2].
Soit 2 vol.
Percy Byssche SHELLEY
38.
SHELLEY
(Percy Byssche)
.-
An adress to the Irish people
.
Dublin 1812. Price 5d. in-8 (211x125 mm) ; maroquin janséniste vert bouteille, dos à nerfs.
Filet sur les coupes. Large dentelle intérieure. [Riviere & Son].
1 f. et 22 pp.
Première édition.
Two-hundred years ago in February 1812, inspired by the ideals of the
Enlightenment, Shelley and his wife Harriet set sail for Dublin and threw
themselves whole-heartedly into the struggle for Catholic emancipation and
repeal of the Union.
But, this chapter in his life is usually diminished or ignored by his biographer;
even Richard Holmes in his wonderful book, Shelley the Pursuit, suggests that Shelley came to
Ireland with little understanding of Irish affairs and left it after ‘a painful education in political
reality’. Nothing could be further from the truth. Shelley was a devoted and courageous
advocate of Irish freedom. His interest in Irish politics was fired by the Irish exile
revolutionaries who frequented the coffee houses in London. In 1811, at the age of eighteen,
Dos foncé, mais bon exemplaire.
Ex-libris John Whipple Frothingham
.
SHELLEY QUEEN MAB
Because of its reflection of many of Shelley's more progressive views, the publication of
QUEEN MAB was private. and it is thought the edition consisted of 250 copies hors commerce.
To diminish the prospect of prosecution, Shelley elected to extract the dedication, and cut away
the title imprint and the printer's imprint on the final leaf in those copies he distributed. While
earlier generations of collectors and dealers heralded the unmutilated copies as the exception, it
is now clear that in fact only a minority portion of the edition was subjected to that action,
perhaps 70 of the 250 copies.
In 1821 the publisher William Clark found a copy and printed this edition
without
authorisation
from either Shelley or the Society for the Prevention of Vice; as a result he was
imprisoned for four months (on grounds of distribution of illegal material rather than copyright
violation), but that did not stop another printer from acquiring his unsold sheets and reissuing
them the following year. The book exists with varying contents: Shelley had been in the habit
of cutting out his name from the title and imprint of copies from the original printing before
giving them away; he also regretted and would remove the verse dedication to 'Harriet'. Some
surviving copies of this 1821 edition have the dedication, but it was never present in this
unsophisticated copy. Since that leaf is also found in varying locations when present, it was at
most issued with only some copies and more likely added separately when available. The final
advertisement leaf, also frequently lacking, is present here. The text itself has two states, since
some copies were printed with the more outrageous assertions in the notes replaced by
sequences of dashes, while others are unexpurgated; this is one of the former, which may help
explain why the dedication was not included. (Granniss 19).
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