5 volumes.

Franklin Club (St. Louis, Mo.). Catalogue of Bookbindings exhibited by The Franklin Club at the St. Louis Artists’ Guild Rooms From December 3d to December 6th 1909. Duodecimo, 22 pp., orig. printed wraps. Finely printed on excellent rag paper (carrying an Italian watermark).

Franklin Club (St. Louis, Mo.). A Catalogue of EARLY PRINTED BOOKS exhibited by The Franklin Club March 31 to April 3, 1911. Duodecimo, 19 pp., orig. embossed and printed wraps. Colophon: Woodward & Tiernan Printing Co., St. Louis. W. K. BIXBY’S OWN COPY, in which he penned his initials in the margins against descriptions of books loaned from his collection.

Field, Eugene. Dibdin’s Ghost & Boccaccio. 1922. Colophon: Five hundred copies ... printed for W. K. Bixby , by D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston, in May , 1922. Thin duodecimo, orig. gilt-stamped black cloth-backed printed boards. Very good.

Field, Eugene. Two Poems ... reproduced from the Original MSS. Seein’ Things at Night (and) To M. L. Gray. (St. Louis): Privately Printed for W. K. Bixby (1922). Colophon: Two hundred and fifty copies ... printed for W. K. Bixby by D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston in April 1922. Thin quarto, orig. cloth-backed gilt-stamped dark blue boards. Spine-top chipped, else very good.

Swinburne, Algernon. (Portfolio cover title): SWINBURNE Ms. FACSIMILES. (Loose text leaf): (Red printed seal of the Bibliophile Society followed by this statement): This essay is said to have caused the estrangement between Whistler and Swinburne, which continued until Whistler’s death. (Followed by): 13 blue-paper facsimile leaves of Swinburne’s Ms. headed atop first “Mr. Whistler’s Lecture on Art”. Together with 2 white-paper facsimile leaves of Swinburne’s Ms. headed atop first “Memorial Verses on the death of Richard Burton” (with a duplicate of one of the latter sheets). All loosely inserted in a gilt-stamped cloth facsimile. Textile fore-edge ribbon ties gone; cloth finger-soiled. This item not known to be complete, so sold as is.