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Title: Lot of 9 volumes of Essays, etc. Author: ** Place: New York, et al. Publisher: Limited Editions Club Date: 1934-63 Description: With: The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The First Series...and the Second Series. Intro. by Edward F. O'Day. 13½x9¼, linen-backed boards, printed spine label. 1 of 1500 copies printed by John Henry Nash in red & black, 1934. * The Essays of Michel de Montaigne. 4 vols. Trans. by George B. Ives. Intro. by Andre Gide. Accompanying handbook to the essays by Grace Norton. 7½x5, half vellum & patterned boards, together in slipcase. 1 of 1500 copies designed & decorated by T. M. Cleland & printed by the Aldus Printers, 1946. * The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Illus. by William Sharp 9 ¾ x6, ¼ leather & marbled boards, glassine. Newsletter, laid in. 1 of 1500 copies printed by Peter Beilenson, 1955. * Horace. Odes and Epodes. Text in Latin & English, trans. & intro. by Louis Untermeyer. 7¼x5. [And], Pages From Earlier Editions of... Bibliographical Note by John T. Winterich. Illus. with facsimile pages. 13¼x9½. Together, 2 vols. uniformly bound in cloth-backed marbled boards, together in slipcase (edges cloth repaired). 1 of 1500 copies by the Thistle Press, 1961. * Moliere. Tartuffe and the Would-Be Gentleman. Trans. by H. Baker & J. Miller Intro. by Henri Peyre. Illus. by Serge Ivanoff 10¾x7¼, red patterned cloth. 1 of 1500 copies printed at the Thistle Press from a design by Jean Garcia, 1963. Together, 9 volumes. Original bindings, slipcases. Each signed by the illustrator and/or designer in the colophon. Lot Amendments Condition: Some light wear overall, volumes near fine, slipcases very good. Item number: 191678