Lot 115: [MEYNELL, Hugo (1735-1808)]. The Meynellian Science or Fox Hunting upon System . [Brooklyn, New York]: Privately Printed for Ernest R. Gee [by August Becker], 1926.

[MEYNELL, Hugo (1735-1808)]. The Meynellian Science or Fox Hunting upon System. [Brooklyn, New York]: Privately Printed for Ernest R. Gee [by August Becker], 1926.

8υo (228 x 150 mm). Engraved frontispiece and title. Original cloth-backed green boards, top edge uncut, fore-edge untrimmed; original glassine (chipped); red quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: Eugene V. Connett, III (presentation inscription from the author on front free endpaper); Don Frazier (his library sold to); John Moores (his sale Lang's, 2 November 2007, lot 473).

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 50 unnumbered large-paper copies. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY GEE on the front free endpaper: "Eugene V. Connett. With best wishes from Ernest R. Gee New York Jan 1927." Siegel does not attribute this work to the Derrydale Press, but Frazier disputes his claim: "The book and its design, paper, binding, and style are so obviously Derrydale in spirit and influence, that one has only to put it side by side with Connett's American Trout Streams, by Henry Ingraham, produced in the same year, 1926, or Connett's own Magic Hours, produced the following year, to see how this book and the books of the Press came together." RARE: According to American Book Prices Current, only three copies have appeared at auction in the last 30 years (including this copy). Frazier M-6-D; Siegel p. 182.

[KIRMSE, Marguerite]. -- A collection
Est. $1,000 - $1,500