467.

Poems, &c. 8vo, handsomely bound in fine contempo

rary black morocco, richly gilt back and sides, gilt edges.

London: Printed for Henry Herringman, 1694 SIXTH EDITION. Second Issue. This edition consists of the unsold copies of the edition of the previous year, to which are added the unsold copies of the FIRST EDITION of "The Maid's Tragedy Altered" of 1690. A new title was printed, and two other changes were made in order to make the volume homogeneous. No portrait was issued with this edition. With the Buxton Forman bookplate.

468. WALPOLE (HORACE). Anecdotes of Painting in England, with some account of the principal Artists. With numerous fine portraits and plates by Grignion, Bannerman, Chambars, and others. 5 vols., small 4to, full red morocco, line borders, gilt edges. Printed by Thomas Kirgate at Strawberry Hill, 1765

With bookplate of Lord Gray.

469. Memoirs of the Last Ten Years of the Reign of George the Second. Engraved plates. 2 vols. London, 1822; Letters to George Montagu, from the Years 1736 to 1770, now first published from the originals. London, 1818. Together 3 vols., 4to, full russia, gilt and blind tooling. London, 1822-18

FIRST EDITIONS ON LARGE PAPER.

470. A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with Lists of their Works. With fine portraits by Bocquet, Gerimia, Freeman, and others. 5 vols., contemporary blue straight-grain morocco, gilt backs, gilt edges.

London, 1806

471. WASHINGTON (GEORGE). L. s., 2 pp., folio. Head Quarters, New Windsor, May 16, 1781. To Thomas Jefferson. Inlaid to folio, and bound, with portraits of Washington and Jefferson, in crushed crimson levant morocco, by Macdonald.

A FINE WAR LETTER, referring to a repulse of the British under Gen. Phillips by Gen. Steuben with the American militia. He expects to meet Count Rochambeau in a day or two and at that interview settle the plan of campaign.

[

472. [] A. L., in the hand of Jonathan Trumbull, 6 pp., folio. Newburgh, April 12, 1782. To Baron Steuben. In relation to the plan of the Count de Bieniewsky for advancing our interests in the American Revolution. Bound, with portraits, in full crimson morocco, by Macdonald.

Washington writes (through his secretary) at length regarding this scheme, commenting on each section.

The scheme proposed by Count de Bieniewsky was, that he would raise in Germany and transport to America a body of troops, consisting of three legionary corps of cavalry, infantry, grenadiers, chasseurs, and artillery, the whole amounting to 3,483 men; that they should be subject to the orders of the United States, and take the oaths of fidelity and allegiance, After Washington's comment on it, the Count submitted it to Congress, but the proposition was not accepted.

etc.

473. WHITMAN (WALT). A. L. s., 2 pp., 8vo. Camden, [Jan. 14, 1876]. To Edward Dowden. With envelope.

A FINE LETTER. "I have read your 'Shakspere' and ought to have

thanked you for it. I find it full of a vitality and suggestiveness. John Burroughs was here with me last week. I have just written to W. M. Rossetti''; etc.

ROUGH DRAFTS AND COMPLETED VERSION OF "SONG OF THE UNIVERSAL”

474. WHITMAN (WALT). ORIGINAL DRAFTS AND COMPLETED VERSION of "Song of the Universal." Written on 15 pp., 4to, inlaid and bound with a PROOF PORTRAIT by Johnson, and a copy of the Printed Broadside Poem, in folio, full blue morocco, by Macdonald.

A MOST IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF WHITMAN MANUSCRIPTS, comprising: I. THE FIRST ROUGH DRAFT of the Poem, which was delivered at Tuft's College, Mass., June 17, 1874. Written on 5 pp., ENTIRELY IN WHITMAN'S HAND, with numerous corrections. One or two of the verses are practically the same as the printed version, others give merely the germ of the idea.

II. ANOTHER DRAFT of the Poem, written on 4 pp., WITH MANY INTERLINEATIONS. ENTIRELY IN HIS AUTOGRAPH.

III. THE FINALLY COMPLETED VERSION of the Poem, written on 5 pp., ENTIRELY IN HIS AUTOGRAPH, and endorsed on the back by Whitman, "Song of the Universal (printer's copy), Camden, N. J., June 1874."

These are accompanied by a printed galley proof of the poem, and a PROOF ETCHED PORTRAIT OF WHITMAN, by Johnson, signed, and with Johnson's note at the foot: "This is an early impression which I printed on my little press.'

This portrait was a presentation copy to E. C. Stedman, and was considered by the latter to be the best portrait of Whitman he had seen.

475. WILDE (OSCAR). An Ideal Husband. Small 4to, cloth, uncut. London, 1899 FIRST EDITION. Autograph presentation copy from the author to Arthur Humphreys, with inscription on half-title: "To Arthur Humphreys: a recognition from his friend the author, Oscar Wilde."

476. "To M. B. J." Poem of 3 stanzas, folded, 8vo. Privately Printed, 1920

FIRST EDITION, ONE OF FIVE COPIES ON LARGE PAPER, printed by Stuart Mason, from the original MS. It must have been written before Sept. 4, 1888, on which day Margaret, only daughter of Edward Burne Jones, became the wife of William Mackail.

477. copies.

Another copy on small deckle-edge paper, one of 50

SEVEN SPLENDID AUTOGRAPH LETTERS FROM OSCAR WILDE TO NELLIE SICKERT NEVER PUBLISHED OR COPIED BEFORE

478. WILDE (OSCAR). A SERIES OF SEVEN AUTOGRAPH LetTERS TO NELLIE SICKERT, sister of the famous Artist. The first three are dated 1878, followed by two long letters dated 1882, written from Fremont, Nebraska, and Salt Lake City, Utah. The final letters are dated 1887.

A PRECIOUS COLLECTION OF LETTERS, NONE OF WHICH HAS EVER BEEN PUBLISHED OR COPIED, COMING DIRECT FROM THE RECIPIENT.

They are exquisitely written and phrased, and consist of 25 written pages.

Accompanying the letters are six newspaper clippings, ON THREE OF WHICH OSCAR WILDE HAS WRITTEN EITHER THE NAME OF THE PAPER FROM WHICH THE CLIPPING WAS TAKEN OR A PERSONAL MESSAGE TO MISS SICKERT.

The letters from America are distinctive, and in one of them he writes: "I lectured the miners on the old workers in metal-Cellini and othersall I told them about Cellini and how he cast his Perseus interested them very much. . . . After my lecture I went down a silver mine. . . . They drove me out to see the great Prison afterwards! poor odd types of humanity in hideous striped dresses making bricks in the sun, and all mean looking, which consoled me, for I should hate to see a criminal with a noble face. Little whitewashed cells, so tragically tidy, but with books in them. In one I found a translation of Dante, and a Shelley. Strange and beautiful it seemed to me that the sorrow of a single Florentine in exile should hundreds of years afterwards lighten the sorrow of some common prisoner in a modern gaol, and one murderer with melancholy eyes to be hung they told me in three weeks-spending that interval in reading novels—a bad preparation for facing either God or Nothing."

479. WINSHIP (GEORGE PARKER). Early South American Newspapers, with a facsimile of the first issue of the Gazeta de Lima. 8vo, sewn. Worcester, 1908

One of 65 copies printed on Italian paper for presentation to members of the Club of Odd Volumes. The facsimile of the first issue of the Gazeta de Lima appears only in this limited issue.

The same.

480. stitched, uncut.

481.

One of an issue of 150 copies. 12mo,
Worcester, 1908

The Printing Press in South America. Facsimiles.

Square 18mo, sewn, uncut.

One of 200 copies printed on hand-made paper.

Providence, 1912

Complete Poetical
Boston, 1911

483. YEATS (JACK B.). A Little Fleet; The Bosun and the Bob-tailed Comet; Jack B. Yeats: His Pictorial & Dramatic Art. By Ernest Marriott. Illustrated. 3 vols., 16mo, limp boards, uncut. London, n. d.

ON THE FLY-LEAF OF EACH IS A WATER-COLOR DRAWING BY YEATS.

484. Marriott (Ernest). Jack B. Yeats: His Pictorial & Dramatic Art. Illustrated with a Chart of Pirate Island, and a portrait by Yeats. 16mo, limp boards, uncut. London, n. d.

uncut.

ON THE FLY-LEAF IS A WATER-COLOR DRAWING BY YEATS.

485. YEATS (W. B.). Nine Poems. Small 4to, limp boards, London: Privately Printed, 1918 ONE OF 25 COPIES PRIVATELY PRINTED FOR THE FIRST TIME. No. 1, autographed by Clement Shorter.