[Rarebooks] FS: THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF HENRY FUSELI. Inscribed by Josiah Quincy with an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, price greatly reduced

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Price reduced:     Was $1500,      Now $1000

[QUINCY, Josiah] FUSELI, HENRY (AUTHORED AND EDITED BY JOHN KNOWLES). 
THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF HENRY FUSELI. Inscribed by Josiah Quincy with 
an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) by Quincy. London: Henry Colbun/Richard 
Bentley, 1831. First Edition. Three octavo volumes bound in half 
polished calf with calf corners: xvi, (2), 439; (2), 2-391; (3), 4-408 
pages. Frontispiece portrait in the first volume. INSCRIBED and SIGNED 
on the front free endpaper: "Mr. Nathan F. Baker/with the respects 
of/Josiah Quincy/15. Feb. 1847. Boston." Tipped in below the inscription 
is a one-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) by Quincy to Baker dated the 
same day as the inscription: "You have bestowed on me an object, doubly 
valuable, as a permanent remembrancer of the features of one friend and 
a perpetual memorial of the genius and kind feelings of another. I have 
nothing of like nature to reciprocate. Permit me, however, to request 
you to accept and take home with you, the accompanying volumes. While 
recalling to your memory the genius and virtues of a great artist, I 
hope, they will occasionally revive in your mind the recollection of an 
individual, who is desirous always to exist in it as Your well wisher 
and obliged friend, Josiah Quincy." Josiah Quincy (1772-1864) was a 
congressional representative from Massachusetts, mayor of Boston, and a 
president of Harvard. He sponsored a bill for admission of Orleans 
Territory as a state. He was the son of Josiah Quincy, Sr., a political 
leader in the American Revolution who opposed the Stamp Act. Front hinge 
of the first volume cracked and loose but holding by the cords. Some 
rubbing to the leather; contents clean. Very Good. (#014125)        
$1,000.00

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