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Harry F. Marks Catalogue No. 4, 1919
Choice and Unusual Books

Harry F. Marks Catalogue No. 4, 1919 Choice and Unusual Books

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Part I. (all published) containing 6 clever etchings by Cruikshank, with the passages of letterpress illustrated. First Edition, Large Paper. Large 8vo. full polished, light blue calf extra, gilt tooled back with red leather label, inside gilt borders, by Zaehnsdorf. London; Published for the artist, (1830). $12.50

For Burns collectors there is a very spirited etching to the short poem, "The Deil Cam' Fiddling Thro' the Town," while Knickerbocker's New York supplies two subjects.

An exceptionally fine clean copy in a neat binding.

77 Colored Plates. The Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of the Picturesque. By William Combe. With 31 spirited full-page colored plates by Thomas Rowlandson. 8vo. original cloth. London: 1865. $6.50

A fine copy of an early edition.

78 Caricature and Grotesque. A History of. In Literature and Art. By Thomas Wright. With numerous illustrations from various sources, drawn and engraved by F. W. Fairholt. Sq. 8vo. original cloth. London, n. d. $3.00

Numerous curious plates.

79 California. The Natural Wealth of California. Comprising Early History, Geography, Topography and Scenery; Climate, Agriculture and Commercial Products; Geology, Zoology and Botany; Mineralogy, Mines and Mining Products, etc., etc. By Titus Fey Cronise. Illustrated. Imp. 8vo. cloth. San Francisco: 1868. $3.50

Exceptionally fine copy of this interesting history.

80 Criminal Trials. With an introduction by David Jardine. 2 vols. 12mo. original cloth, uncut. London: 1832. $5.00

An account of the most celebrated crimes in England.

Contains: The Trials of Sir Walter Raleigh, Dr. Wm. Parry, Duke of Norfolk, etc., and Narrative of the Gunpowder Plot, etc.

81 Churchill (Charles) The Poetical Works of. With copious notes and a Life of the Author, by W. Tooke. 3 vols. 16mo., new ¾ dark green morocco extra, Imperial silk sides, gilt tops. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1854. $7.50

A very neat little set.

82 Classic and the Beautiful from the Literature of Three Thousand Years. By the authors and orators of All Countries. Edited by Henry Coppée. With numerous finely engraved full-page portraits and views. 6 vols. Small 4to. ½ dark red calf, marbled edges. Philadelphia: 1891. $20.00

A very fine set with admirable impressions of the numerous most interesting plates.

83 Criminology. The Trial Between Mr. Henry Wright, and Mr. Braham, for Criminal Conversation with the Plaintiff's Wife, at the Court of Common-Pleas, Guildhall, before Sir Vicary Gibbs, and a Special Jury, on Tuesday, July 23, 1816. pp. 16, 8vo. boards, leather back, uncut. London, n. d. $5.00

One of the most sensational trials of the period.

84 Criminology. The World's Famous Prisons, and Romance of Crime. An Account of the State of Prisons from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, with the History of Celebrated Cases, by Major Arthur Griffiths. Numerous full-page photogravure illustrations, printed in two states, i. e.—one set on Japan vellum, the other on Whatman paper, of which one set of the frontispieces are finely colored by hand. 12 vols. 8vo. New ¾ crushed green levant morocco extra, gilt paneled backs, with emblematic design inlaid in red levant, gilt tops, uncut. London: Grolier Society. Printed for subscribers only. $65.00

Connoisseur Edition. Unexpurgated, limited to 150 registered and numbered sets only.

There is no other work extant that covers the history of Prisons and their criminal inmates more extensively than these volumes do.

Contents: England—Chronicles of Newgate, from the Eighteenth Century to its Demolition; A Sketch of the Tower, 2 vols.; Milbank Penitentiary, an Experiment in Reformation, 1 vol.; German and Austrian Prisons; Prisons of Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony and Austria-Hungary; The Fortresses of Magdeburg and Spielberg, 1 vol.; Oriental Prisons—Prisons and Crime in India; The Adaman Islands; Burmah, China, Japan, Egypt, Turkey, 1 vol.; Modern French Prisons—Bicétre, St. Pelagie, St. Lazare, La Force, The Conciergerie, La Grande and La Petite Roguettes, Mazas, La Sante, 1 vol.; Russian Prisons—St. Peter and St. Paul, The Schlusselberg, The Ostrog at Omsk, The Story of Siberian Exile, Tiumen, Tomsk, Sachalien, 1 vol.; Spanish Prisons—The Inquisition at Home and Abroad; Prisons Past and Present, 1 vol.; Early Vincennes—The Bastile, Loches, The Galleys, Revolutionary Prisons, 1 vol.; Italian Prisons—St. Angelo, The Piombi, The Vicaria, Prisons of the Roman Inquisition, 1 vol.; Non-Criminal Prisons—English Debtors, Prisons and Prisoners of War, French War Prisons, with Reference to those of Other Lands, 1 vol.; Prisons Over Seas—Deportation and Colonization, British and American Prisons of To-day, 1 vol.

85 Another Edition of the same work. Edition Nationale, limited to 1,000 registered and numbered sets, 12 vols. ¾ crushed brown morocco, gilt paneled backs with emblematic tooling, gilt tops, uncut. London: Grolier Society. Printed for subscribers only.

Published at $90.00. $45.00

85A Criminology. Trials for Adultery; or, The History of Divorces. Being Selected Trials at Doctors Commons, for Adultery, Cruelty etc., etc., from the year 1760 to 1779-80. Together with the Letters, etc., that have been intercepted between the amorous Parties. 2 vols. 8vo. contemporary calf (broken.) London: Printed for S. Bladon, 1729-30. $20.00

The scarce III and IV volumes of these celebrated crimes.

Forming a History of the Private Life, Intrigues, and Amours of many Characters in the most elevated Sphere; every Scene and Transaction, however ridiculous, whimsical, or extraordinary, being fairly represented, as becomes a faithful Historian, who is fully determined not to sacrifice Truth at the shrine of Guilt and Folly.

85B Criminology. Argot and Slang. A new French and English Dictionary of the Cant Words, Quaint Expressions, Slang Terms and Flash Phrases, used in the High and Low Life of Old and New Paris. By A. Barrère. With a fine frontispiece etching by Godfroy Durand. Sq. 8vo. New ¾ crushed morocco extra, full gilt back with raised bands, gilt tops, uncut. London: Privately printed, 1887. $15.00

Very scarce, only a limited number of copies having been issued.

The language of the dangerous classes, which so often savours of evil or bloody deeds, of human suffering, and also of the anguish and fears of the ever-tracked and ever-watchful criminal, though often disguised under a would-be humorous garb, cannot but be interesting to the philosopher.

86 Cowper (William) Poems. With a Biographical and Critical Introduction by Thomas Dale. With numerous quaint vignette engravings. 2 vols. Post 8vo. New ¾ red morocco, gilt tooled backs, rippled silk sides, gilt tops, uncut. London: Tilt & Bogue, 1841. $7.50

A well printed edition, prettily illustrated.

87 Curiosa. The Attis of Caius Volerius Catullus. Translated

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