[Rarebooks] FS: John Gay's TRIVIA, 1716, 1/250 Large Paper copies with distinguished provenance

[Charles Agvent]

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 a distinguished 
provenance. 		$4,500.00

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