Old Scholar (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Original cloth, gilt. cloth just a little rubbed, and faded on spine. name stamp to ffep, otherwise a very nice clean bright copy. 8vo. pp. 55.

Condition: Near Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original Farrows cream parchment type covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, gilt insignia to the front cover. Quarto 10'' x 7¼''. Designed by Liam Miller being limited to 1000 copies. Contains xxi, [1], 158, [2] printed pages, illustrated frontispiece, printed with ornaments, large red initials, errata slip in the back. Fine condition book in very near Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, 2 guineas. SIGNED by the author to the front free end paper 'For Dr. A. J. Leventhal - With the author's compliments and sincere thanks in regard to his interest in Rudy, Rudolf Melander Holzapfel, Dublin April 1963.' Abraham Jacob Leventhal (1896-1979), often called Con by his friends, grew up in Dublin and attended a Protestant school, despite his Jewish heritage. Just after the first World War he took a break from his university studies to work for the first Zionist Commission in Palestine and to help found the Palestine Weekly. When, upon returning to Dublin, the Dublin Magazine turned down his review of James Joyce's Ulysses he founded his own literary journal, the Klaxon, in order to publish it. When his friend Samuel Beckett left a post at Trinity College, Leventhal assumed the position. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHAKESPEARE, William.

See the two men's entries in the Oxford DNB. 3pp, 4to. Bifolium. In fair condition, on aged paper with slight discolouration to top corners of second leaf, with a panel along the bottom of the second leaf cut away. Folded for postage. Addressed in the customary manner on reverse of second leaf, to 'T. J. Pettigrew Esqr. Dr. Phil. F.R.S. &c / Saville [sic] Row / London', and signed 'Josh Bosworth.' With two postmarks (one of 'Dockhead / 1D. PAID'), and seal with small impression in red wax. He is happy to have received Pettigrew's 'interesting Autobiography': 'I sat down & cd. not be induced to leave it, till I had read it quite through. I then began again & reperused it, &, I must observe, that candour & truth seem to pervade every point of it.' He praises the work for the encourage it will give to those of Pettigrew's 'enlightened profession' and to 'those who have a literary taste', and wishes that he may 'long enjoy the domestic comfort with which you are so greatly blessed'. He continues with reference to 'Mr. Lee' and 'the parcel with your & Dr Lee's letters'. 'I have the pleasure of begging your acceptance of a copy of my Anglo-Saxon Dicty. an order for wh. is written on the other halfsheet. It is a very heavy work, but, as you will peceive by my Publishers circular, it has been well received. It has gone off far better than I expected - &, in all respects, more than answered my anticipations.' He has 'not gone to the length of some German Literati, nor favoured the theories of some of our own Scholars, who are filled with German imagination, hence I have incurred some displeasure, & I expected a host of opponents.' He had 'determined to treat all fairly', and has, to his astonishment, 'hitherto escaped all censure. I was & am prepared for defence, but I'm rejoiced that, at present, it is unnecessary.' He continues with private references, including to Pettigrew's 'good daughter' and his plans: 'The Govt. has taken off 300£ a year out of 500£ - tho' I've given up my Living in England'.