reputation was permanently tainted by the growing prominence of race-based eugenics” ( ANB ). £1,100 [125485] 131 SAPPHO. Viginti duo carmina. [Munich: Julius Meier Gräte, Piper & Co., 1921] Quarto. Original pink handmade paper covers, titles to spine in gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, white cloth book marker. Text printed in Greek. Colophon in Latin, printed in red. With 12 line drawings by Renée Sintenis. Rubbing to spine ends and tips, a couple of water marks to covers, faint foxing to book block edges; a very good, crisp, copy.
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first edition, signed limited issue, number 92 of 150 copies on handmade paper signed by the artist and editor to the colophon, from a total edition of 330. This work collects 22 poems by Sap- pho, chosen by Emil Rudolf Weiss, with illustrations by his wife, the sculptor Renée Sintenis (1888–1965). (For Sappho, see item 42.) Meskimmon, Marsha, We Weren’t Modern Enough: Women Artists and the Limits of Ger- man Modernism , I. B. Tauris, 1999. £2,000 [131122] 132 SAVIGNAC, Alida de. Contes bleus. Paris: Louis Janet, [c.1830] 6 volumes, trigesimo-secundo. Original pink moiré-effect paper-covered boards housed in two side-by-side compartments in the tray-lid box of issue, the lid with mounted hand-coloured mezzotint illustration of a ruined castle within a hand-painted border of animals on a background of intertwined trees and flowers, en grisaille on black paper, top of lid and tray edged with gilt embossed frieze of cherubs and acanthus, pale cream silk ribbons in- tact. Each volume with a vividly hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, tissue guards present, one of them after Colin, one after Westall. Light wear to extremities of volumes; box a little worn with rubbed corners, one corner professionally repaired after split, lid professionally relined and internally repaired at corners. Remains highly attractive and in very good condition. first edition of this charming set of instructive tales for children by the French bluestocking Alida de Savignac (1790–1847). Each volume comprises three stories, bound separately. OCLC locates just two complete sets, at the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Morgan. Savignac was a strong advocate of women’s education and a prolific journalist who contributed regularly to publications
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which explicitly celebrated women’s writing, such as the Journal des dames and the Journal des femmes . £1,250 [125728] 133 (SAYERS, Dorothy L. et al.) Oxford Poetry 1915. Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1915 Octavo. Original blue wrappers, printed paper labels to spine and front cov- er, edges untrimmed. Some loss and glue repairs to spine, wrappers a little toned, creased, and nicked, small puncture to lower margin of first half of the contents, text unaffected. A very good copy of this vulnerable publica- tion. first edition, sayers’s own copy of her first appearance in book form, with her ownership signature to the half-title and authorial corrections in manuscript to her poem “lay” (p. 50), and with the publisher’s compliments slip tippedin to the half-title. Sayers composed the poem while in her final year at Oxford, where she read modern languages at Somer- ville. Sayers’s “novels reflect a thorough knowledge of English po- etry, with special emphasis on Donne, Tennyson, Shakespeare, and Milton, and one of her curious legacies is that many readers must have met the work of some of these writers first, or perhaps only, in the popular novels of Dorothy L. Sayers . . . her early work in traditional poetic devices taught her an attention to form and the careful employment of language which would later distinguish her novels from the average detective story of her day” ( ODNB ). The col- lection is also notable for the inclusion of Tolkien’s first appearance in book form with the poem “Goblin Feet” (p. 64), and the first ap- pearance in print of Aldous Huxley with “Home Sickness” (p. 27). For “Goblin Feet”, see Hammond B1. £2,500 [131296]
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