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tales . . . That several of his collections featured the same tales [specially by d’Aulnoy] only accentuates Lane’s confidence that the old French fairy tales would be popular and profitable” (Grenby, pp. 4–5). The present edition was reissued in 1794 under the Minerva Press imprint. This publication is scarce institutionally, with ESTC locating a single copy in British libraries at Oxford, alongside copies in Harvard, New York Public Library, and UCLA in North America; WorldCat adds Trinity College Dublin, Yale, Princeton, University of Southern Mississippi, University of Alberta, and Toronto Public Library. Duodecimo (167 × 97 mm). Rebound to style in half sheep, flat spine gilt ruled in compartments, red morocco label, marbled sides. Engraved frontispiece by Angus after Dodd and 2 engraved plates; with terminal advertisement leaf. Ownership inscription of one John Stimpson, dated “June 14th 1808” to recto of first leaf. Light offsetting to endpapers, first and last leaf, intermittent faint dampstains to blank margins, occasional marks to contents, tiny wormtrail to upper margin of 4 final gatherings, not affecting text, internally clean and crisp. A very good, well-margined copy. ¶ Blakey, p. 144; ESTC N11188; Garside, Raven, & Schowerling 1788:2. Matthew Grenby, “Tame Fairies Make Good Teachers: The Popularity of Early British Fairy Tales”, The Lion and the Unicorn , 30/1, 2006, pp. 1–24; Martin Tropp, Images of Fear , 1990. £5,750 [156342]
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48 FISHER, Philip A. Paths to Wealth Through Common Stocks. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice- Hall Inc., 1960 First edition of Fisher’s second book, expanding on his investment classic Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits . Octavo. Original green quarter cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Very light rubbing at extremities, small patch of adhesive residue to front free endpaper, faint spotting to endpapers and edges, very good in very good jacket, spine panel bright and price intact, light edgewear and soiling, faint staining to front flap fold. £3,000 [157529] 49 FLAUBERT, Gustave. Madame Bovary. London: Vizetelly & Co., 1886 a lovely copy in the original cloth First edition in English of Flaubert’s masterpiece, in the attractively decorated cloth, one of the most notable books in the sequence of English translations of French and Russian novels published by Henry Vizetelly in this decade. The translator was Karl Marx’s daughter, Eleanor.
The publisher Henry Richard Vizetelly (1820–1894) specialized in translations of French and Russian novels: “Many of them affronted Victorian notions of propriety” ( ODNB ). First published in the magazine La Revue de Paris in 1856, Madame Bovary was immediately sued for “outrage aux bonnes moeurs” (“affront to public decency”), and the ensuing publicity ensured that upon publication the book became a bestseller. Madame Bovary is now acknowledged as one of the greatest novels in the Western canon. Octavo. Original blue-green diagonal-ribbed cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, title in gilt on blue ground and gilt floral decoration to front cover, rear cover ruled in blind with publisher’s device blind-stamped at centre, black coated endpapers. With tissue guarded frontispiece and 5 plates from etchings by Daniel Mordant after Albert Fourié; advertisement leaf at front. Bookplate to front pastedown of Edward Sprague Marsh (1857–1939), American lawyer, rare book collector and editor, engraved by William Fowler Hopson; 20th-century bookplate to front free endpaper of one William West, based on the title page of Robert Ross’s Aubrey Beardsley (1909); pencil inscription “ex libris BJB – JB Buckingham Sr” to verso of last leaf. Spine toned and leaning, creasing to spine ends, a touch of wear to extremities, a few light marks to covers, inner hinges split, book block remaining firm, contents mildly toned, light ink stain to two leaves, otherwise fresh and clean throughout. An attractive copy. £6,750 [157125]
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