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Paperback. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. A facsimile edition ofScriblerus Club member John Gay's poem, Trivia, illustrated throughout. A facsimile of John Gay's poem, originally published in 1716. In the publisher's original decorative white cloth binding. A poem by John Gay, an English poetanddramatistand member of theScriblerus Club. The poem, written inheroic couplets, is loosely based onVirgil'sGeorgics, yet attains aHoratiansatirical manner. Illustrated with a frontispiece, facsimile original title page, and 15 plates. Collated, complete. With an introduction and notes by William Henry Williams. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart. Fading to spine and top edge, with the odd light mark to boards. Offsetting to free endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good. Not Stated (illustratore). book.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Chiswick Press Edition. Hard cover, 4to, in white cloth blocked in gold with Glasgow School-style art deco roses within a trellis-like grid pattern, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, letterpress printed upon Van Gelder watermarked paper, xxiv, 90 pp., First Edition Thus, with modern Introduction and Notes, as indicated. Tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of the British poet John Gay (1635-1782), plus 25 additional reproduced engraved plates of London scenes (2 scenes attrib. to Hogarth). Includes facsimile title page and Chiswick Press printer's colophon at rear. CONDITION: Near FINE, in a Fair only original d/j. (which has done its job in protecting the volume but is probably best for the bin now.) Some bubbling to cloth at rear hinge, a production fault. Otherwise, volume is extremely clean, firm, and bright. Now in a protective mylar cover. ** Gay, a contemporary of Alexander Pope, J. Swift and J. Arbuthnot, and a part of the Scirblerus Club literary circle, has a memorial in "Poet's Corner" at Westminster Abbey. This poem, in mock heroic style, was his most famous, full of satiric jests on the manners, customs and pretensions of London's fashionable and unfashionable of the early eighteenth century, as well as providing a documentary view of the city. He was also known for two plays, "The Wife of Bath" and "The Beggar's Opera." (British Library, Britannia). William Hogarth, et al (illustratore). Book.…

Decorated Cloth. 1st edition thus. First edition thus. The publisher's 'Endymion' series, printed at The Chiswick Press. Original pictorial cloth boards decorated and lettered in gilt, many b&w illus by W.Heath Robinson (both full page and text illus), title page printed in red and black, illus endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, pp xxxvii, 225. Previous owner's signature, dated 1901, some lightly pencilled notes reverse of front free endpaper, otherwise clean. Rubbed and frayed to the top of spine, very small rubbed loss bottom edge, corners lightly lightly bumped and rubbed. Good condition. Beautiful edition of Poe's poetry (and some prose), lavishly illustrated by Heath Heath Robinson. Both the illustrations and the binding are in Arts and Crafts style. 'Endymion' series, scarce thus. Ilus. W. Heath Robinson (illustratore).…