[symonds, john addington.]

important collection of letters and poetical manuscripts by symonds, comprising:

symonds, john addington.

A Problem in Greek Ethics. Privately Printed for the Author's use, 1883

Symonds, John Addington. A collection of works by, translated by, or relating to Symonds:

Symonds, John Addington. A collection of works by, translated by, or relating to Symonds: The Life of Benvenuto Cellini. J.C. Nimmo, 1888, 2 volumes, limited to 750 copies; The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi. New York: Scribner and Welford, 1890, 2 volumes, limited to 780 copies; The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti. J.C. Nimmo, 1893, 2 volumes; Walt Whitman, a Study. J.C. Nimmo, 1893-[Works]. Smith, Elder and Co., 1902-07, 10 volumes, contemporary brown morocco gilt, gilt edges, spines slightly faded-Brown, H.F. John Addington Symonds. A Biography. J.C. Nimmo, 1895, 2 volumes, uniform contemporary purple straight-grained morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, spines faded; all 8vo (19)

symonds, john addington. a collection of works by, translated by, or relating to symonds:

cosway binding--symonds, john addington. wine, women, and song. chatto & windus,...

English Literature, History, Children's Books & Illustrations

In the Key of Blue and other prose essays. Elkin Mathews and John Lane and (New York:) Macmillan and company, 1893, first edition, first issue in original blue cloth gilt (subsequently withdrawn because the designer Charles Ricketts did not like the colour), collector's box; second issue, in buff cloth, covers slightly worn, case and slipcase; with the limited issue, ONE OF 50 COPIES ON LARGE PAPER, ORIGINAL VELLUM GILT---Wine, Women, and Song. Medieval Latin Students' Songs Now first translated... with an essay by John Addington Symonds. Chatto and Windus, 1884, one of 50 large-paper copies, crushed brown morocco ornately gilt by Zaehnsdorf, top edge gilt; 8vo and 4to (4)

three different states of "in the key of blue", and another work:

English Literature, History, Children’s Books & Illustrations

Symonds, John Addington. Sketches and Studies in Italy. Smith, Elder & Co., 1879, frontispiece--Freeman, Edward A. Historical and Architectural Sketches: chiefly Italian. Macmillan and co., 1876, illustrations--Watson, William. Excursions in Criticism. Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1893--Dickinson, G. Lowes. The Meaning of a Good Dialogue. Brimley Johnson & Ince, Ltd, 1906, third edition; these all with James's ownership signatures ("Henry James | Lamb House | 1906" etc)--Roberts, Morley. The Western Avernus. Three Years Autobiography in Western America. S.C. Brown, Langham & company, 1904, new edition, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO HENRY JAMES, James's library label on upper paste-down; original cloth bindings, 8vo, some offsetting, some slight wear to bindings (5)

collection of five works from henry james's library:

Three Works. Apuleius, Lucius. De Cupidinis et Psyches Amoribus. Vale Press, 1901, 4to, limited to 310 copies, wood-engraved initial, border and five illustrations by Charles Ricketts, original linen-backed boards, paper label on upper cover, uncut, spotting and browning to initial blank leaves Cellini, B. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, translated by John Addington Symonds... Vale Press, 1900, 4to, 2 volumes, limited to 310 copies of which this is one of 300 on paper, border and initials by Charles Ricketts, original linen-backed boards, paper labels on upper covers and spines, occasional spotting and browning, loss to spine labels Bunyan, John. The Pilgrims Progress. Essex House Press, 1899, small 4to, number 498 of 750 copies, woodcut frontispiece by Reginald Savage, printed in red and black, original vellum, uncut, minor soiling to vellum (4)

vale press / essex house press.

English Literature, History, Children’s Books and Illustrations

i) Tristram, William Outram. Coaching Days and Coaching Ways. Macmillan, 1894, full navy morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, silk endpapers, somewhat browned; ii) Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol. Chapman and Hall, 1886, plates, illustrations in the text, half scarlet morocco by Birdsall, spine gilt in compartments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, some spotting; iii) Bullen, Arthur Henry. Lyrics from the Dramatists of the Elizabethan Age. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896, three-quarter brown morocco over marbled boards by G.P. Putnam's Sons, spine gilt in compartments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers; iv) Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. The New Life of Dante Alighieri. Portland: Mosher, 1896, frontispiece, full chestnut morocco gilt by MacDonald, spine gilt in compartments, gilt dentelles, top edge gilt, a little worn at hinges; v) Lang, A. Ballads & Lyrics of Old France, with other poems. Portland: Mosher, 1896, full marooon morocco gilt by MacDonald, spine gilt in compartments, gilt dentelles, top edge gilt, a little worn at hinges; vi) Palgrave, Francis T. The Golden Treasury. Macmillan, 1898, full green morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, gilt dentelles, top edge gilt, spine discoloured; vii) Wicksteed, Philip H. Our Lady's Tumbler. New York: Mosher, 1900, number 15 of 50 copies, full navy morocco gilt by G.P. Putnam's Sons, spine gilt in compartments, gilt dentelles, top edge gilt; viii) Symonds, John Addington [trans.]. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini Written by Himself. New York: Brentano's, 1906, 2 volumes, plates, full salmon morocco gilt by Brentano's, spine gilt in compartments, top edge gilt; 8vo and small 8vo (9)

a collection of books in fine bindings, 1894-1906, comprising:

Lord Dunsany, to Markie, 2 pages, 8vo, Dublin, 30 August 1918; Ford Madox Brown, autograph postcard, to Henry Buxton Forman, 3 May 1887; Arthur Symons, to Mr Hill, on buying his books and manuscripts and a visit by Havelock Ellis "You are sure to have his Sex Books", 4 pages, 8vo, Wittersham, Kent, 1 September 1917; John Addington Symonds, to Mr Rodd, 2 pages, 8vo, Rome, 1 November 1891; Alfred, Lord Tennyson, sending compliments, 1 page, 8vo, Haslemere, Surrey, 23 September 1892; Louis Golding, to Douglas Glass, sending 10 shillings for the defence of the poet the Count de Montalk, 1 page, 8vo, London, 29 February 1932, with envelope; Stephen Hudson, typed letter signed, to Douglas Glass, on the "monstrous sentence" against de Montalk, 1 page, 8vo, London, 25 February 1932, with envelope; Lawrence Housman, two letters, one to Douglas Glass, on de Montalk's poetry and criticising his imprisonment for obscenity, 2 pages, 4to, 12 March 1932, with envelope, the second a postcard to Miss A.E. White, with thanks for photographs, 1 page, 13 September 1915 ; Evelyn Waugh, returning a book "it is very eloquent & penetrating", 1 page, 8vo, White's, London; Pearl Mary-Teresa Craigie, to Dorothy, arranging an appointment, 1 page, 8vo, Convent of the Assumption, Kensington Square, 28 December 1897; Lord John de Tabley, to T. Watt-Dunton, hoping that he will in the future "be able to introduce you to the Land of Cheeses", 2 pages, 8vo, Isle of Wight, 2 August 1893; Robert Hichens, to H.A. Phillips, giving his future travel plans, 1 page, 4to, Luxor, Egypt, 24 March 1926, with envelope; Richard le Gallienne, giving his favourite quotations, 1 page, 8vo, 1 March 1923; Andre Gide, in French, 1 page, 8vo; Paul Verlaine, to M. Letellier, asking for an advance, in French, 1 page, 9 August 1893; Guillaume Apollinaire, autograph postcard, to Max Jacob, in French, 13 April 1916; Pierre Louys, on an appointment, in French, 1 page, 8vo, 25 December 

a collection of 18 autograph letters signed (except where otherwise stated), mostly by writers of the fin de siècle, comprising:

Francesco Mezzabarba Birago. Imperatorum Romanorum numismata. Milan: Societas Palatina, 1730, folio, engraved frontispiece and portrait, engraved illustrations, contemporary vellum; John Chamberlaine. Imitations of original drawings by Hans Holbein. London: William Bulmer and Co., 1812, large 4to, coloured lithographed plates, contemporary straight-grained black morocco gilt, gilt edges; Hortulus animae. [Facsimile of an illuminated copy.] (Strassburg: Martin Flach, 1510), 2 volumes, antique-style calf tooled in black over bevelled wooden boards; Benvenuto Cellini. The life... newly translated by John Addington Symonds. London: John C. Nimmo, 1887, 2 volumes, 8vo, illustrated, original calf-backed cloth, bindings slightly rubbed; with 37 others, including several about Oriental art (43)

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