<p>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>, Large Paper Edition of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=The%20Iliad%20%26%20The%20Odyssey&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Iliad &amp; The Odyssey</em></a>, by Homer.</p><ul><li>Sold as a set of 8 volumes.</li><li>Homer (Greek).</li><li>William Cullen Byrant (American).</li><li>Boston &amp; New York:&nbsp;Houghton, Mifflin &amp; Co.,&nbsp;1905.</li><li>Quartos.</li><li>Frontispieces in 2 states (one colored) and numerous other illustrations throughout the text.</li><li>This edition is limited to 600 copies of which this is no. 285.&nbsp;</li><li>With an autographed letter signed by William C. Bryant.</li><li>Bound in three-quarters tan morocco and marbled boards raised bands ,ornate gilt on spines, marbled boards, top edges are gilt , marbled endpapers.</li></ul>

The Iliad And The Odyssey

Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone

Private Press 12 volumes, comprising: (i–iii) W. Russell Flint (illustrator)—Geoffrey Chaucer. Canterbury Tales. Riccardi Press, 1913. COPY NUMBER 467 OF 500 COPIES ON HANDMADE RICCARDI PAPER, 3 volumes, 4to, original buckram-backed grey boards, paper labels to spines and upper boards, top edges gilt, others uncut, housed in a modern fitted slipcase, very slight staining to upper board of first volume (iv) William Lawson. A New Orchard and Garden, or Best Way for Planting, Grafting, and to Make Any Ground Good for a Rich Orchard. Cresset Press, 1927. Small 4to, NUMBER 28 OF 50 COPIES ON ARNOLD HAND-MADE PAPER (of a total edition of 650 copies), illustrations, publisher's limp vellum gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, silk ties, housed in a modern fitted slipcase (v) George Sitwell and John Piper. On the making of Gardens. Dropmore Press, 1949. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, COPY NUMBER 12 ONE OF 100 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, 8vo, lithographed frontispiece printed in colours, 5 further lithographed plates printed in colours by and after Piper (of which 3 double-page), original crushed green morocco gilt, upper board with gilt design after Piper, lower board with gilt publisher's device, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, slight transfer onto title-page, spine very slightly darkened (vi) Isaac Walton. The Compleat Angler. London and New York, 1930. ADAMS EDITION, COPY NUMBER 156 OF 450 COPIES, NUMBERED AND SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, title-page printed in red and black, portrait frontispiece and illustrations by Frank Adams, original vellum-backed boards, top edge gilt, others uncut, modern blue cloth case with old paper label (from original case) mounted to inside cover, upper board slightly bowed (vii) Jean Genet. Journal du Voleur. Paris, [1949]. NUMBER 289 OF 400 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, large 8vo, loose as issued in original wrappers, glassine dust-jacket, original slipcase (viii-ix) Alexander Pope (translator)—Homer. Iliad [Odyssey]. Nonesuch Press, 1931. Limited to 1450 and 1400 copies, 2 volumes, 8vo, text in English and Greek, publisher's crushed tan morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, dampstain on upper cover of Odyssey (x) Robert Fagles (translator)—Homer. The Iliad. Viking, 1990. 8vo, publisher's cloth gilt, dust-jacket (xi) Sylvia Plath. Crystal Gazer and other poems. London: Rainbow Press, 1971. Number 76 of 80 copies (numbered 21–100) in full Cape Goat Leather in a slip case of a total edition of 400 copies, folio, frontispiece illustration after a drawing by the author on japanese paper, original red morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with matching slipcase (xii) Edmund Gosse (translator), Allen Lewis (illustrator)—F. De La Motte Fouqué. Undine. New York: [Harbor Press for] Limited Editions Club, 1930. Number 1264 of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator, folio, original decorated sienna cloth, top edge gilt PROVENANCE: (v) Sale, Christie's South Kensington, 30 November 2005, lot 333; (vi) Andrew Van Blarcom, named on limitation; Jeffrey Norton, bookplate pasted onto case; (viii-ix) sale, Bonhams, 19 October 2004, lot 330; (xi) Brian & Margaret Buckley of Kenilworth, booksellers, 25 January 1990; (xii) Reginald Charles Reed, bookplate

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The Jay T. Snider Collection of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin Autograph letter signed (“B Franklin”) to John Ladd (“Sir”), half page (312 x 192 mm) on a leaf of laid paper (watermarked heraldic shield), [Philadelphia,] 12 June 1738, regarding Ladd’s purchase of books from Franklin’s shop, verso with autograph address panel and reception docket; browned, worn at folds with some neat repair. Half green morocco folding-case gilt, chemise. Benjamin Franklin as bookseller. In the 25 May 1738 issue of the Pennsylvania Gazette, and subsequently, Franklin advertised a list of books “Just Imported,” which included The Ladies’ Library, 3 volumes duodecimo, and Alexander Pope’s translation of Homer, 11 volumes duodecimo. He here writes to John Ladd, surveyor from Gloucester County, New Jersey, confirming his purchase of The Ladies' Library and the balance of a set of Cervantes, probably John Ozell’s revision of Peter Motteux’s English translation: “I send you the Ladies Library & the other two Vols. of Don Quixote. “The Homers I have are done by Pope. The Iliads are in 6 vols. 12mo price 45/. The Odysseys 5 vols. 12mo price 37/6. They are beautifully printed and neatly bound. I will not part with them until I hear from you. I am Sir Your most hum[bl]e Serv[an]t.” Ladd’s purchase of The Ladies’ Library and Don Quixote is recorded in Franklin’s Shop Book, June 9, 1738, wherein is also noted, July 19, his acquisition of the 11-volume set of Pope’s Homer for £4 2s. 6d. Sales of other books to Ladd are entered in Franklin’s Ledger D. John Ladd (d. 1770) went on to serve as a justice of the peace; he was elected to the New Jersey Assembly in 1754 and appointed to the Governor’s Council in 1763. This is one of the very earliest of Franklin’s letters to survive. The Papers of Benjamin Franklin records nine letters of earlier date, but of these, five are known only by earlier publications or transcriptions, the originals having been lost, and two others survive only as drafts (one incomplete). Therefore, this letter to Ladd is the third earliest complete letter by Franklin to survive and the earliest in private hands. REFERENCES The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, ed. Labaree, 2:206–207 (not locating the original, text taken from a transcript in the Historical Society of Haddonfield, New Jersey, with significant variation from the autograph letter) PROVENANCE “A Philadelphia Gentleman” (Christie’s New York, 20 May 1994, lot 31)

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