11.6687 HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY JAN 8 1904 CAMBRIDGE, MASS. NOTICE. Bids will be executed by the Auctioneers without extra charge. Bids are always so much per volume or piece, unless otherwise stated in catalogue. TERMS OF SALE-CASH. All purchases must be settled for and removed on day immediately following the sale. DAVIS & HARVEY. THE REMARKS. HE reputation of the late Howard T. Goodwin, Esq., as a collector of the rarest books and the most sumptuous editions of the works of favorite authors, is so well-known that it is unnecessary for us to make any comments further than to say, that in the opinion of experts and connoisseurs, it is the finest collection of books ever offered at public sale, either in Europe or America. The editions are the very best. The subscription books are those that were limited to a very few copies, and the bindings are simply supurb. Every book in the library is richly bound by the most noted of the craft, including fine specimens of the work of Cobden Sanderson, The Hampstead Bindery, The Guild of Women-Bookbinders, Fazakerley, David, Marcel, Bécourt, Zaehnsdorf, Riviere, Hayday, Bedford, Matthews, Pfister, Worsfold, Tout, Root & Son, Macdonald, Blackwell, Lautig, Morrell, Stikeman and others of note. The books are all in elegant condition, and are thoroughly described, both as to rarity and conditions. A glance over the pages of the Catalogue will give to the reader a better idea of the many rarities than we have space here to notice. The Oil Paintings, while not being works of the great masters, are really very beautiful, and by artists who are fast gaining reputations. The Water Colors embrace a great variety, are pleasing both in conception and detail, and include the work of many noted colorists. Parts II. and III. of this Catalogue will follow soon, and will include First Editions of English and American Anthors; a very large collection of Extra Illustrated Books; Publication of William Loring Andrews; The Grolier Club of New York; Kelmscott Press; The Essex House Press; The Vale Press; Elegant Editions of Favorite Authors; Special Publications; Elegant Art Works; Rare Americana, etc.; all superbly bound. We wish it distinctly understood that every Book enumerated in this Catalogue belongs to the Estate of Howard T. Goodwin, Deceased. STAN. V. HENKELS. I 2 3 4 5 Α Catalogue. 'BECKETT, GILBERT A. The Comic History of England and Rome. With humorous full-page colored etchings and numerous woodcuts by John Leech. 3 vols. Imperial 8vo, half red crushed levant, gilt, top edges gilt, uncut. London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co., N. D. Large-paper copy with all the plates on India paper. ACKERMANN'S HISTORY of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's, Westminster, its Antiquities and Monuments. Illustrated with numerous elegant full-page tinted engravings, and with portrait of William Vincent on India paper. 2 vols. 4to, half contemporary morocco, gilt, gilt edges. Fine, tall copy. London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 1812 ACKERMANN'S HISTORY of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton and Westminster, with the Charter-House, the Schools of St. Paul's, Merchant Taylors, Harrow and Rugby, and the Free-School of Christ's Hospital. Illustrated with numerous superb aquatints, printed in colors. Royal 4to, half contemporary calf, gilt, marbled edges. London: Published by R. Ackermann, 1816 ACKERMANN'S HISTORY of the University of Cambridge. Its Colleges, Halls and Public Buildings. Illustrated with numerous superb aquatints, printed in colors, and engraved portraits colored by hand. 2 vols. Royal 4to, half contemporary calf, gilt, marbled edges. London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 1815 ACKERMANN'S HISTORY of the University of Oxford. Its Colleges, Halls and Public Buildings. Illustrated with numerous superb aquatints, printed in colors, engraved portraits colored by hand, etc. 2 vols. Royal 4to, half contemporary calf, gilt, marbled edges. London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 1814 The above four lots are all fine, tall and clean copies of these very desirable books, and are very scarce, particularly so in such fine condition. 6 (A KEMPIS, THOMAS.) L'Imitation de Jésus-Christ. Superbly illustrated with full-page plates in gold and colors, every page being surrounded with highly illuminated borders, each of a different design, together with the appendix adorned with portraits and other illustrations. 7 8 9 2 vols. Imperial 8vo, full red morocco, elaborately gilt backs and sides, inside dentelle borders, polished gilt edges. Paris: L. Curmer, 1856 This magnificent monument of the typographical art consists of over four hundred pages printed in the highest style of the chromo-lithographic art, all mounted on muslin guards, being a faithful reproduction of the original illuminated edition of Thomas à Kempis' divine work. À KEMPIS, THOMAS. Of the Imitation of Christ. Illustrated by Laurence Housman; engraved on wood by Miss Clemence Housman. 8vo, three-quarter crushed light purple levant, gilt, top edges gilt, uncut, by Riviere. London: Kegan Paul, 1898 Only six hundred copies printed on Arnold & Fester's unbleached paper. ALIGHIERI, DANTE. The Divine Comedy; or, The Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise of. Rendered into English by Frederick Pollock. With fifty illustrations drawn by Geo. Scharf, Jun., engraved by Dalziel. 8 vo, full crushed olive levant, elaborately gilt back and sides, inlaid in red and green levant, watered silk doublé, heavy gold borders, polished gilt edges, Morris paper fly-leaves, by Fazakerley. In silk lined cloth case. London: Chapman & Hall, 1854 A beautiful specimen of Fazakerley's binding See Facsimile. ALKEN AND ROWLANDSON. Real Life in London; or, The Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq., and his Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, through the Metropolis; Exhibiting a Living Picture of Fashionable Characters, Manners and Amusements in High and Low Life, by an Amateur. Embellished and illustrated with a series of colored prints, designed and engraved by Messrs. Alken, Dighton, Rowlandson, and others. 2 vols. 8vo, full polished light calf, gilt backs and sides, inside dentelle borders, gilt edges, by Tout. London: Printed for Jones & Co., 1821 The rare First Edition. |