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DISRAELI ( Benjamin ). Lothair.

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DISRAELI ( Benjamin ).  Lothair.

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 19 @ 18:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
DISRAELI ( Benjamin ). Lothair. Longmans, Green, 1870FIRST EDITION, pp (8), 328, 32 (adverts dated January 1870) : (4), 321, (1), (2, adverts) : (4), 333, (2, adverts), with half-titles and preliminary blank in vol 1, 3 vols, 8vo, original green cloth, by Westleys, with ticket : some light fore-edge foxing yet a nice, fresh copy.Writing to his old correspondent Lord Houghton, Dec. 17, 1879, Swinburne joyously compared the last words of Lothair to the Marquis de Sade : "At the hospitable boards - at the breakfast table of the poor girl's parents - before the very face of his blusing victim and her assembled family (to say nothing of the footmen) - `I have been in Corisande's garden (!!!)' said Lothair, `and she has given me - a rose.' - Oh! Monsieur - quelle horreurs! as the heroine of Lord Beaconfield's predecessor in erotic fiction had occasion so frequently and pathetically to exclaim."ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1) GOULD ( Sir Francis Carruthers ). Froissart's Modern Chronicles. Told & pictured ... [with:] ... 1902 ... [and:] ... 1903-6. T.Fisher Unwin, 1902-03-08. FIRST EDITIONS (except the first which is a fifth impression), with many illustrations, pages xii, 108 : xii, 112 : xii, 115, 3 vols, small 4to, original cloth : the boards lightly discoloured and with slight wear to the spine of the first volume : very good copies.One of the most amusing of this noted cartoonist's many books, complete in three parts, a political history of the day, written in a style parodying that of Froissart, illustrated with caricatures of prominent politicians clad as knights, Chaucerian characters, &c. (2) TAYLOR ( Isaac ), Canon of York, 1829-1901. Words and Places : or, etymological illustrations of history, ethnology, and geography. 1865. With 2 folding maps, pages xxxi, 561 and advert leaf, 8vo, recent boards : very good.The second edition, revised and enlarged, of the first English book in which scientific philology was applied to the elucidation of local names. (3) PRAED ( Winthrop Mackworth ). The Political and Occasional Poems. Edited, with notes, by Sir George Young. Ward, Lock, and Co., 1888. FIRST COLLECTED EDN, pp xxxii, 325, 8vo, orig cloth : light foxing, but very good.Distinguished minor poet (1802-39), satirist, founder of `The Etonian', barrister, MP, &c.(8)ENGLISH LITERATURE; FICTION; NOVELS; HISTORY; ENGLAND; SATIRE; LANGUAGE; ETYMOLOGY; PLACENAMES; TAYLORS OF ONGAR; VERSE;