Farfel Notebook 08: Leaves 499-571

Describing this work in 1895, Moris said "When you come to look at it, and see that you get a book like this for 7 + 6 pence a volume, it would be impossible to refuse buying them. I love my books, and I love making them, and I think these little octavos [sic] quite the most charming things from my press" (Ideal Book p. 113)

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Sulkhan - Saba Orbeliani (1658-1725) The Book of Wisdom and Lies. Translated by Oliver Wardrop. Hammersmith, Kelmscott Press, 1894 8 vo. Ref: Peterson A28, Cockerell 28 Ransom p. 328 p. 235-6 #28, Tomkinson p 114 Sparling p. 158 Copy: Stanford

A Georgian Story-book of the 18th C. [a]10 b-r8. 138 leaves, pp. [2][i] ii-xvi [2][=20] [1] 2-256. Flower (2) paper. Leaf: 207 x 140 mm. Text. 30 lines, x 88 mm. Golden type - red + black. Binding: Limp vellum with silk ties. 250 paper copies (2 gns.); no vellum copies finished on Sept. 29, 1894. issued Oct. 29, 1894. On the woodcut title page, within an elaborte border, is the arms of Georgia. Total chapters. I → CLXII. I. The King of Khorasan + the Chinese Jew. CLXII. The faithful couple.

my leaf { CXLV. The two harriers, the fox, + the mice p. 231 CXLVI. The poor man who took the cadi for his ass p. 232 CXLVII. The man, the ass, the magpie + the wolf. p. 235 CXLVIII. The two sportsmen + the bear p. 235 CXLVIX. Qazvan-shah + his wife. p. 236 CL The king's last words to his son p. 239

A book of traditional Georgian stories from Asia.

Author - was the son of the Chief Justice of Georgia, b. either in 1655 or 58 + was still active in Dec. 1725. In 1698 he became a monk + assumed the name of Saba. d. in Moscow in 1726.

Works The Book of Wisdom + Lies - Tiflis, 1871. Travels in Europe - Tiflis, 1852. A Georgian Dictionary - Tiflis, 1884. Rome, France, Constantinople. The Book of Wisdom + Lies - the only Kelmscott volume for which Bernard Quaritch acted as publisher after he + Morris quarreled in 1892 over publication of the Chaucer.

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William Shakespeare (1564-1616) The Plays and Poems of William Shakespare Corrected from the lates + best London editions, with notes by Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. Philadelphia: Bioren + Madan, 1795-96. Ref: Sabin 79729. Evans 29496 (Vol. 10). Jagged p. 507 Copy: HEHL, Folger, LC, Yale, BM

First American edition. 8, twelvemo volumes. { p. 21 + 22 King John Act II Scene 1, line 207 → 283.

Evans 29496. 1795 3 vols. pp. (4), iii-xlviii, 384, portrait; 412; 432 one of the rarest editions in complete condition. Vol. IV-VIII were printed in 1796. HEHL 109497 my leaf from Vol. 4 (printed 1796) B4 (of 6) → B, leaf c no sig, B2, (3 4, 5 no sig.) Vol. 4 contains King John {begins p. 5 (A2) ends p. 82 Richard II Henry IV, Part I Henry IV, Part II The first play in Vol. I is The Tempest. (printed 1795) John Bionen (1772-1835)

In 1730, an amateur production of Romeo + Juliet in New York City became the 1st recorded production of a play by Shakespeare in the New World

Johnson's Shakespeare was 1st contemplated in 1745, when the lexicographer issued his pamphlet on Macbeth. In 1756 Johnson published proposals for a new Shakespeare + began taking subscriptions for the work, to be published by Christmas, 1757. Numerous delays occurred, + Johnson was publicly taunted for his procrastination. Finally the presented (1765) was released. The preface immediately attracted admiration. Adam Smith called it "the most manly piece of criticism that was ever published in any country."

HEHL 47282 -- Hamlet. A Tragedy in 5 Acts 12 mo 72 pages By William Shakespare as performed at a Theatre in Boston Boston: Printed for David West, No. 36 Marlborough Street + John West, No. 75 Cornhill HEHL 122606 -- Twelfth Night or What You Will - a comedy in 5 Acts - non-dated (1794) 12 mo 60 pp. - either 1st or 2nd American ed. of any Shakespare play.

In 1797 John West of Boston issued a catalogue of books published in America - the earliest book trade bibliography. 36 octavo pages with more than 600 titles.