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161 ACTON, Eliza. Modern Cookery, in all its Branches. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1845 Third edition, published in the same year as the first, improved and enlarged with new recipes and a short glossary foreign terms. Acton’s revolutionary Modern Cookery “was the standard work on the subject until the end of the century” which established the author as “the first of the modern cookery writers” ( ODNB ). Octavo (162 × 100 mm). 20th-century brown calf bound to style by Delrue, spine with raised bands, compartments ruled in blind and lettered in gilt, covers panelled in blind with arabesque tools to corners, plain endpapers, edges speckled dark red. Numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. Gift inscription dated 19 August 1845 to original front free endpaper. Light rubbing at extremities, some marks and scuffs to boards, edges a little soiled, offsetting to margins of a couple of initial and final leaves from a previous binding, occasional small cookery stains to contents, otherwise clean. A very good copy in a smart and functional binding. ¶ Bitting, p. 2; Cagle, 538; Oxford, p. 175. £375 [158841] 162 ADAMS, Ansel. Images 1923–1974. Foreword by Wallace Stegner. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1974 First edition, signed by the photographer on the half- title. This copy comes with a large Ansel Adams Gallery printed envelope.
Oblong folio. Original grey cloth with black cloth spine, front cover and spine lettered in silver. With dust jacket and publisher’s slipcase. 115 large photolithographic reproductions. All in fine condition. £750 [159140] 163 ADAMS, Ansel. The Negative. The New Ansel Adams Photography Series / Book 2. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1981 First edition, signed by the author on the half-title. Ansel Adams (1902–1984) “was the last and defining figure in the romantic tradition of nineteenth-century American landscape photography” ( ANB ). He was passionate about the technicalities of the medium, acting as a consultant to Polaroid and Hasselblad. Quarto. Original black cloth, spine lettered in silver. With dust jacket. A fine copy. £400 [156810] 164 AESCHYLUS; POTTER, Robert (trans.) The Tragedies. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1779 Second edition, corrected and enlarged by the author with a commentary, of the first complete translation of Aeschylus in English, first published in 1777, this copy in a pleasing contemporary binding. 2 volumes, octavo (217 × 127 mm). Contemporary tan calf, flat spines elaborately gilt in compartments, green and red
morocco labels, gilt decoration to board edges, marbled endpapers. Corners slightly bumped and worn, a few light marks to covers, short split at head of joints in vol. I, but firm, light foxing to endpapers and half-titles, otherwise internally crisp and clean; a very good, well-margined copy. ¶ Lowndes I, p. 15. P. France, ed., The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation , 2001; D. Rivers, Literary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britain , vol. II, 1798; David Stoker, “Greek Tragedy With a Happy Ending: The Publication of Robert Potter’s translations of Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles”, Studies in Bibliography , 46, 1993, pp. 282–302. £850 [158267] 165 AESOP; FOLKARD, Charles (illus.) Fables. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1912 First Folkard edition, number 91 of 250 copies signed by the editors; this a finely bound copy. Folkard was a British illustrator and comic artist, and the creator of the first British comic strip Teddy Tail . Quarto (239 × 170 mm). Mid-20th century brown crushed morocco by Bayntun (Rivière), Bath, spine with raised bands, ornate gilt tooling in compartments, covers panelled in gilt with intricate foliate centrepiece, elaborate gilt decoration to board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. Colour frontispiece, 11 colour plates mounted on brown paper with captioned tissue guards, headpieces and numerous illustrations in text, all by Folkard. Colour skilfully retouched at extremities, occasional foxing to contents. A very good copy indeed. £950 [158238]
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