[Rarebooks] FS: Gay's Trivia [1716], Large Paper Issue, the Hoe-Whitney copy of the greatest poem on Life in London

[charles agvent]

  One of 45 fine items from our recent New York Book Fair list posted 
to our web site:

GAY, JOHN. TRIVIA: OR, THE ART OF WALKING THE STREETS OF LONDON. 
London: Bernard Lintott [1716]. First Edition. Octavo (5-1/2" x 
8-3/4") bound in full polished calf with gilt-ruled borders and gilt 
dentelles by F. Bedford. One of only 250 copies of the Large Paper 
Issue with the engraved headpiece and ornaments. Gay's best remembered 
poem and thought by many to be the greatest poem written on life in 
London in English literature. This copy has a most distinguished 
provenance with the bookplates of Helen Hay Whitney on the front free 
endpaper and those of Henry & Elizabeth Mary Collins and Robert Hoe on 
the front pastedown. On the front blank are several neat older notes 
establishing an earlier provenance including "Heber's 4th sale 1834. 
No. 889" and "From Dr. Bliss's Sale. 3 July 1858." In a very small 
hand might be a reference to the 1803 sale of the John Woodhouse 
library. Clean copy recently and sympathetically rebacked with gilt 
decorations and the original burgundy gilt-lettered morocco spine 
label. A lovely copy with distinguished provenance.   $4500

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