DOVES

Paper wraps, covers chipped, minor foxing, mainly good condition. Catalogue containing 334 items, paper cover worn at edges and spine, a very good copy. FAMOUS FIRST EDITIONS AND OTHER BOOKS OF LITERARY AND ARTISTIC MERIT FROM THE LIBRARY OF A GENTLEMAN. RARE FINE WORKS BY GRAY, FIELDING, COWLEY, SCOTT, DEFOE, DE QUINCEY, DICKENS, PEPYS, GAY, AND OTHER NOTABLE AUTHORS. Also remarkable collections of rare books by Kipling, Stevenson, Jefferies, Kingsley, Moore, Wilde, Tennyson, Borrow, Meredith, and others; and complete sets of Kelmscott Press and Doves Press.

Obl.12mo, 20 x 13cm, foxing but text legible. Dated 6 Oct 1903 with details in Anne Cobden-Sanderson's hand (as other handwritten detail) of two items purchased by Barker, both by J.W. Mackail and printed at the Chiswick Press: Socialism & Politics and Parting of the Ways. I've found no substantial discussion of the Hammersmith Publishing Company. See image for full text.

1p., 12mo. In good condition, lightly-aged. He has 'given consideration to the following MSS.': 'THE WEB OF FATE by M. Garahan | ANTONY IN LOVE [by] C. E. Rose | THE NIGHT MOTH [by] Amy Miller'. As he cannot make any offer for their publication he is returning the manuscripts forthwith.