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82 JOYCE, James. Finnegans Wake. London: Faber and Faber, 1939 joyce’s final work First edition, trade issue, of Joyce’s final work. “The most conspicuous innovation of Finnegans Wake is its use of ‘dream-language’. After Ulysses Joyce believed that he had ‘come to the end of English’, and his last novel is a pervasive layering of multilingual puns in successive drafts which produces a fabric rich in semantic possibilities” ( ODNB ). The print run for the standard trade edition was 3,400, of which 950 copies in sheets were destroyed. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge yellow, others untrimmed. With dust jacket. Binding sharp, the cloth bright, a touch of foxing to endpapers, light browning to first blank and last leaf, else internally clean; a near-fine copy in like dust jacket, couple of chips at head
81 JACKSON, A. V. Williams (ed.) History of India. London: The Grolier Society, 1906 exquisitely bound, printed on japon, and abundantly illustrated The “Edition Magnifique”, letter C of 26 sets, in an extraordinarily ornate binding and printed on japon throughout. The volumes are by different authors or editors, covering successive periods: vol. 1, to the sixth century BC, by Romesh Chunder Dutt; vol. 2, to the Mohammedan conquest, including the invasion of Alexander the Great, by Vincent A. Smith; vols. 3–4, mediaeval India to the reign of Akbar the Great, by Stanley Lane-Poole; vol. 5, the Mohammedan period as described by its own historians, selected by Sir Henry Meirs Elliot; vols. 6–7, from the first European
settlements to the founding of the English East India Company, by Sir William Wilson Hunter; vol. 8, from the close of the 17th century to start of the 20th, by Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall; and vol. 9, historic accounts of India by foreign travellers classic, oriental and occidental, collected by A. V. Williams Jackson. 9 volumes, tall octavo (251 × 177 mm). Contemporary green morocco, spines lettered in gilt, spines, covers, and turn-ins ornately tooled in gilt with peacock feather design incorporating red morocco onlays, brown morocco doublures with centrepiece of three elephants on column composed of white and red onlays, silk moiré free endpapers, top edges gilt, others uncut. Illustrated with over 900 portraits, views, maps and facsimiles, including 81 photogravures printed in three states, one on japon, another on India paper, and the third on handmade paper and hand coloured. Spines evenly sunned yet still presenting handsomely. A fine set. £12,500 [157322]
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