Provenance:  From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Buff-color printed wrappers with hand-colored vignette on front wrapper; stitched, head and foot of spine chipped, rear wrapper detached and reattached with archival tissue. A good++ copy.  (38873)

Certain remarks convey a sort of backstage meta-commentary on the fiction, as if it had an existence outside this manuscript (“Indeed Tigreen functioned largely on my own experiences and childhood's impressions, many of which remain with me”; “She [Poy] was inspired by the fact that when I was a child myself I could never understand why people would exclaim Oh! & Ah! each time they saw such children as Poy making an entry anywhere”; “The pictures you see of Tigeenish personalities, places, & objects placed within the pages are the exact replicas of what they represent . . . in my young days I was not always able to get them to look just as I saw them, even though I tried very hard . . . now I draw them as I meant them to look then & as I visualized them in my childish mind”).

There is no evidence that this feminist-informed fantasy creation was ever published in any form.

•  Contemporary pebbled green paper–covered sides with red oilcloth shelfback; moderately rubbed overall, front board slightly sprung. Occasional underlining and marks of emphasis in red; some corrections in the same hand but different ink color. A treasure, and intriguing.  (41069)

Provenance:  Front free endpaper with inked inscription reading “To Elizabeth Watson Travis from F.H. Leedham — With pleasant memories and happy anticipations,” dated 1867. Later in the library of Hubert Dingwall, as part of his collection of publishers' cloth bindings, the endpaper notes noted below being his.

•  Ray, Illustrator and the Book in England, 155; McLean, Victorian Publishers' Book-bindings in Cloth and Leather, 108; King, Victorian Decorated Trade Bindings (1830-1880), 703; for firm binding attribution to Warren, we thank Dr. Graham Dry.   Binding as above; blue of spine slightly sunned but designs bright, with corners rubbed and joints and extremities lightly so. Front free endpaper recto with inscription as above, verso with pencilled purchase and bibliographical notes. Intermittent light foxing, pages otherwise clean. Worthwhile reading, remarkable illustrations, gorgeously composed binding — a triple threat!  (37852)

•  ESTC R201628; Wing (rev. ed.) O437B.   Quarter red morocco with French-swirl marbled paper sides and gilt spine lettering; binding signed (with small rubber-stamp on verso of front free endpaper) by the Macdonald Company of New York. Leather of joints rubbed and front joint just starting. Very good condition.  (37990)

Printed largely in black letter and each act preceded by its own title-page.

•  ESTC T193918.   Near-contemporary brown calf, rebacked in caramel-colored calf with a red leather gilt title-label; modestly tooled in gilt on covers with a double-rule and a center rope rectangle with flower corner devices, gilt rolls on board edges. Some cockling of paper and discoloration of endpapers (from the tannin of the turn-ins, and occasional marginal thumb- or other soil from use.  (34488)

•  Not in Fine, Janus Press 1981–90.   Publisher's blue paper wrappers as above, spine and edges lightly sunned; the leaf pristine on its thick creamy paper.  (41053)

•  Publisher's printed cream-colored paper wrappers, front wrapper with cornucop ia design in navy and gold; back lower outer corner bumped, light dust-soiling to back wrapper. One page with small affixed sticker in upper portion, partially obscuring header but no other text.  (30227)

Binding:  Gorgeous 19th-century acid-stained autumnal binding: Covers framed with a gilt floral roll and brilliantly crossed with bands of walnut brown, ochre, deep green, russet red, black, and grey, allvery bright. Spines gilt extra with compartment devices and multiple interesting rolls, and bearing black leather gilt labels; board edges touched at corners with gilt; marbled endpapers.

Provenance:  Signature of Sam Baird on front endpaper and title-page of vol. I and half-title of vol. II.

As described in the BAL, signature sign 6 is not present on p. 41 in vol. I and the last page of vol. III is unnumbered.

•  BAL 10124.   Bound as above, bindings moderately rubbed with one sliver of leather lost at a joint and a small patch lost near the bottom of one back cover. Age-toning, foxing, and some other spotting; some corners creased (some corners improperly trimmed during manufacture. Inscriptions as above, light pencilling on endpapers of one volume; map wrinkled with some old light staining and a tear repaired some time ago from back, with cloth tape — folds strong. A classic semi-historical work most strikingly bound.  (36170)

Binding:  1920s-era half brown morocco with marbled paper sides and matching marbled endpapers; round spines, raised bands accented with gilt rules and gilt beading, and a gilt center device in each spine compartment. Top edges gilt, others uncut; binding unsigned, but elegantly accomplished.

•  Bound as above. Vol. I lacks half-title, colophon leaf, and the two states of the frontispieces before the lettering. Vol. II lacks the cancelled title-page, the two states of the frontispieces before the lettering, and the instructions to the binder. A lesson of a set, as the lacking elements that so affect the price of this handsome duo are so not-obviously “missing”:  One must *know* they're supposed to be there!  (35436)

Provenance:  Front pastedown with bookplates of prominent Philadelphia collector Robert R. Dearden and Philip Justice Steinmetz, an Episcopal clergyman; the latter design shows a view of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Elkins Park, PA, of which Dr. Steinmetz was the pastor.

•  BAL 10188.   Publisher's slate-green cloth, covers with blind-stamped rococo frame, front cover with gilt-stamped scenic vignette, spine with gilt-stamped author/title and embossed decorations; binding very slightly cocked, extremities rubbed, cloth somewhat faded overall. Front pastedown with bookplates as above and with affixed slip of old cataloguing. Frontispiece and added title-page with margins lightly stained; pages faintly age-toned, otherwise clean.  (29557)

The pamphlet is rather nicely printed, with an engraved title-page vignette, one headpiece, and footnotes set in small but neat and attractive type. WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only eight U.S. institutional holdings.

•  Martin & Walter 16971.   Removed from a nonce volume; title-page with affixed paper shelving label in lower inner corner, not touching text. Faint spotting throughout. An impassioned expression of horror and dismay.  (30682)

The texts of the orations and “letters” of the great Athenian orator (436–338 B.C.) are printed in double-column format, with the Greek presented in exquisite Greek type in the inner columns and the Latin translation in roman type in the outer ones. A version of the famous Estienne printer's device graces the title-page.

•  Adams O219; Renouard (2nd ed.), Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne, 155.1; Schreiber, Estienne, 225; Schweiger, Handbuch der classischen Bibliographie, I:181; Dibdin (4th ed.), An Introduction to . . . Greek and Latin Classics, II:126. 18th-century plain calf, recently rebacked; round spine, raised bands accented with gilt ruling. Gilt-tooled center devices in spine compartments. Two gilt-lettered spine labels. Title-page dust-soiled; a library's blind pressure-stamps; properly deaccessioned with no additional stamps. A covetable exemplar. (2129)

•  Binding as above, joints and extremities moderately rubbed and spine a bit darkened/dimmed; in contemporary marbled paper–covered slipcase, case rubbed and abraded with joints starting. Original silk bookmark still attached and present; a touch of light foxing, otherwise clean. A handsome and handy reference for an upscale Italian.  (12999)