A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Fine%2520bindings" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a> edition of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=John+Addington+Symonds&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">John Addington Symonds</a>' Wine, Women, and Song.<ul><li>John Addington Symonds (English).</li><li>London: Chatto and Windus, 1884.</li><li>Limited to 50 large paper numbered copies this being copy #36.</li><li>Cosway binding with two very fine miniature paintings by Miss Currie. </li><li>Bound in crushed red morocco, the covers paneled with in gilt pointelle and intersecting pairs of gilt fillets filled with an overall pattern of grape-cluster and grape-leaf tools, the front cover inset with a rectangular miniature painting after “Bacchus” by Guido Reni, the rear cover with a rectangular miniature painting of the “The Fruit Picker” after Maratta, the spine gilt in six compartments with matching grape-cluster and grape-leaf tools, gilt dentelles with matching pointelle, green silk moire doublures and endpapers, foot of front dentelle gilt-stamped "Bound by Riviere &amp; Son from Designs by J. H. Stonehouse," foot of rear dentelle gilt-stamped "Miniatures C. B. Currie," top edge gilt, others uncut, housed in a full olive green morocco solinder slipcase.</li></ul> The "Currie" refers to Miss C.B. Currie (Caroline Billin Curry, 1849-1940), a British book illuminator known for her miniature portraits on book covers and fore-edge paintings. She worked for the bookshop Henry Sotheran &amp; Co. and is famous for her work with the binder Riviere &amp; Son.

Wine, Women, and Song: Mediaeval Latin Students' Songs

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=John+Addington+Symonds&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">John Addington Symonds</a>'s <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> copy of Satires and Profanities by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=James+Thomson&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Thomson</a>.<ul><li>James Thomson (Scottish).</li><li>London: Progressive Publishing Company, 1884.</li><li>Original publisher’s green cloth, housed in a quarter-leather maroon slipcase, raised bands, gilt lettered spine, panels tooled in blind.</li></ul> With Symond"s bookplate and a 68-word penciled comment by him about the book on the rear end-paper: "Heavy, dull, elaborately nauseous--like obscene photographs. Easy enough to get similitude of wit, if you indulge in [stirring?] topics which polite writers have avoided. Most of the jokes are on the level of a photo of a big prick or cunt. The best are stories from America..."; with a 5-word marginal comment by Symonds on page 52 and marginal markings by him on four other pages, additionally inscribed to Symonds "With A.H. Bullen's compts." A. H. Bullen (Arthur Henry Bullen) was a prominent publisher and literary figure who had a significant professional relationship with John Addington Symonds. Bullen published several of Symonds's works, including his influential Shakespearean studies and translations, fostering their connection through shared literary interests in Renaissance poetry and drama, as evidenced by surviving letters.

Satires and Profanities | John Addington Symonds' First Edition Copy

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