[Rarebooks] FS: TRIUMPHS OF TEMPER 1809.

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

Hayley, William. [Illustrated by Peter Maverick] [with] Sotheby, 
William. THE TRIUMPHS OF  TEMPER; A POEM. IN SIX CANTOES [BOUND WITH] 
CONSTANCE DE CASTILE; A  POEM IN TEN CANTOS. New York: David 
Longworth at the Shakspeare Gallery (Printed by D.  & G. Bruce), 
1809. 100 pp.;  197, [1] pp. Illus. with b/w engravings. 24mo (13 
cm.). Half bound  calf with marbled paper-covered boards.  Shaw & 
Shoemaker: 17727.  Hayley's poem was first published in England in 
1771 and many engravers undertook to  illustrate it including William 
Blake and Peter Maverick (1780-1831) -one of three printmaker  sons 
of a printmaker- an engraver of bookplates, maps, bank notes and book 
and magazine  illustrations, who took as an apprentice Asher B. 
Durand with whom he established a  partnership between 1817 and 1820. 
He designed the plates for the Annals of the Lyceum of  Natural 
History of New York using the then new process of lithography. OCLC 
lists only 11  copies. Bound with Sotheby's Constance de Castile 
(Boston: Published by West and Blake;  Greenough and Stebbins, 
printers, 1812). Shaw & Shoemaker 26781. William Sotheby (1757 -1833) 
was a patron of literature as well as translator and author whose 
friends included  Byron, Coleridge, Scott, Wordsworth, and many 
others. OCLC lists only 13 copies. Spine  heavily rubbed with loss at 
head; boards rubbed, occasional browning to endpapers, scattered 
light foxing throughout, front flyleaf torn with one half excised, 
minor creasing to two leaves,   tiny tear to one leaf, but overall 
still tight and clean.  $500.00 

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Charles Kutcher
Kaaterskill Books
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