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MACAULAY, Thomas Babington (1800-1859). Lays of Ancient Rome. London: A. Spottiswoode for Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1842.
8o (206 x 143 mm). Original brown blind-stamped ribbed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, with ticket of Westleys & Clark on rear pastedown (small split at rear joint near foot of spine). Provenance: H. St. Varnes (gift inscription from Mrs. Charles Wasbrough on front free endpaper) -- Michael Sadleir (bookplate) sold Sotheby's London, 17 November 1958, lot 240 -- purchased from Dawsons, London, 13 June 1973. Exhibited: Grolier Club, 'This powerfull rime,' 1975, no. 61.
FIRST EDITION, THE SADLEIR COPY of Macaulay's brilliant reconstruction of the lost ballad-form of Rome. Ashley III, p.113; Hayward 258.
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MACAULAY, Thomas Babington. Autograph letter signed ("TB Macaulay") to "Adolphus," Albany, [?]4 June 1847. 1½ pages, with integral blank, 8o. Macaulay declines a dinner invitation, saying that he will either have to be at Cambridge or the House of Commons on the day suggested, and concludes "I rather think that the House of Commons is my fate."
8o (206 x 143 mm). Original brown blind-stamped ribbed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, with ticket of Westleys & Clark on rear pastedown (small split at rear joint near foot of spine). Provenance: H. St. Varnes (gift inscription from Mrs. Charles Wasbrough on front free endpaper) -- Michael Sadleir (bookplate) sold Sotheby's London, 17 November 1958, lot 240 -- purchased from Dawsons, London, 13 June 1973. Exhibited: Grolier Club, 'This powerfull rime,' 1975, no. 61.
FIRST EDITION, THE SADLEIR COPY of Macaulay's brilliant reconstruction of the lost ballad-form of Rome. Ashley III, p.113; Hayward 258.
[With:]
MACAULAY, Thomas Babington. Autograph letter signed ("TB Macaulay") to "Adolphus," Albany, [?]4 June 1847. 1½ pages, with integral blank, 8o. Macaulay declines a dinner invitation, saying that he will either have to be at Cambridge or the House of Commons on the day suggested, and concludes "I rather think that the House of Commons is my fate."