Item #19961 The Triumphs of Temper; A Poem. In Six Cantoes [bound with] Constance de Castile; a Poem in Ten Cantos. William. Sotheby Hayley, William, Peter Maverick, with.

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 calf with marbled paper-covered boards. 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. A scarce copy of both works in these early bindings. Shaw & Shoemaker 17727. Shaw & Shoemaker 26781. Item #19961

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.

Price: $500.00

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