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Folio. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered in gilt on blue ground, yellow endpapers. Housed in the publisher’s grey cloth slipcase. With 26 colour drawings, one for each letter of the alphabet, by David Hockney. A fine copy in near-fine slipcase, slightly marked and rubbed. £2,500 [157647] 78 HUTCHESON, Francis. A System of Moral Philosophy. Glasgow: printed and sold by R. and A. Foulis Printers to the University, Sold by A. Millar, and by T. Longman, London, 1755 his magnum opus First edition of the most ambitious of Hutcheson’s writings, with several passages “which foreshadow the theories subsequently developed by his great successor in the Wealth of the Nations ” (Palgrave). The System contains “his most comprehensive account of human nature, the supreme good and greatest happiness, divine providence, natural rights, and civil government. His design in the System appears to have been to delineate a theodicy, in which God or providence is shown to have made provision for the happiness of the human race” ( ODNB ). It is the only treatise by Hutcheson for which a manuscript is known to have survived. 2 volumes, quarto (262 × 202 mm). Contemporary calf, red and black morocco labels, spines gilt in compartments. Bound without terminal blank in vol. I. Joints and extremities neatly restored. Ink splash to fore edge of vol. I, small old shelf
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76 HERRIOT, James. All Creatures Great and Small. New York: St Martin’s Press, 1972 First edition with this title, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Hugh Moorhead, with best wishes, James Herriot”. The American edition was the first time Herriot’s books appeared with the title best-known from the television adaptations. The autograph note, signed with initials, states that the author is “happy to do this for you on this occasion”, but asks the recipient to “keep it confidential as I just do not have time to mail books regularly across the Atlantic”. The American publication of All Creatures Great and Small , combined the first two books of the series: If Only They Could Talk (1970) and It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet (1972). Given the author’s reluctance to sign and send books to the US, inscribed copies of the book bearing the well-known title are extremely rare. We know of no other copy in commerce. The series of books was adapted into two feature films, a long-running BBC television series (1978-90), and a current series produced for Channel 5 in the UK, and PBS in the US.
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Octavo. Original green boards, spine lettered in black. With dust jacket. Together with an autograph note signed with initials, 1 leaf (147 × 105 mm). Head and foot of spine slightly bumped; a near-fine copy. Some minor soiling to dust jacket with minor nicks to extremities, and small crease to rear flap; a very good and bright example of the jacket. £1,750 [159730] 77 HOCKNEY, David; Stephen Spender (ed.) Hockney’s Alphabet. London: Faber and Faber First and signed limited edition, specially bound in yellow buckram and signed by Hockney and Spender. This work was a collaborative effort created to raise money for the AIDS Crisis Trust. Spender invited several British and American writers to contribute with texts that could accompany Hockney’s specially drawn alphabet. for the Aids Crisis Trust, 1991 a fine signed limited edition
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