[Rarebooks] FS: Two Villon Society by John Payne

[Kaaterskill Books]

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Payne, John, trans. (Pickford Waller, Austin Osman Spare). THE 
QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHEYYAM OF NISHAPOUR. London: Printed for the 
Villon Society by Private Subscription and For Private Circulation 
Only, 1898. lxxi, 206 pp. + adv. 8vo. Parchment covered boards, gilt 
titles, and gilt and red stamped decorations; top edge gilt 
(hardback).  First English Language edition. No. 455 of an unknown 
number of copies. Bookplate of the artist and collector Pickford 
Waller most probably by Austin Osman Spare. Spine sunned, parchment 
mottled, minor foxing on endpapers, binding tight, leaves crisp and 
clean; a very good copy.   [26660] $150.00

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Payne, John. THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN PAYNE [TWO VOLUMES] London: 
Printed for the Villon Society by Private Subscription and For 
Private Circulation Only, 1902. viii, 399 pp.; viii, 394 pp. + adv. 
[1 pp]. 8vo. Parchment covered boards, gilt titles, gilt and green 
stamped decorations; fore and bottom edges deckled, top edge gilt 
(hardback).  Definitive edition. Publisher's erratum tipped in on 
contents page Vol I. No. 6 of an unknown number of copies. This is 
the octavo edition; there is also a large paper edition. Vol I: 
Narrative Poems; Vol II: London City Poems, Sonnets, Lyrics and 
Translations. Very good copies, boards and spine rubbed, mainly on 
volume II, minor foxing mostly to endpapers, leaves crisp and bright. 
A nice set of this Villon Society production.   [26719]  $225.00

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John Payne (1842-1916) English poet and translator, though much 
praised for his poetry by his contemporaries such as Matthew Arnold 
and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, is perhaps better known for his 
translations.


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