NONESUCH PRESS - Bernard le Bovier de FONTENELLE (1657-1757). A Plurality of Worlds. John Glanvill's Translation with a Prologue by David Garnett. [London:] The Nonesuch Press, 1929. 8vo (200 x 130mm). Title with coloured decoration, coloured illustration above "The Prologue", colour-stencilled astrological illustrations in blue and gold by T. L. Poulton. Original limp vellum gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, partly unopened (lacks slipcase). NUMBER 1,448 of 1,600 COPIES ON VAN GELDER PAPER. Dreyfus 65; Nonesuch Century 65. With 9 other books printed by the Nonesuch Press including Anacreon done into English out of the original Greek by Abraham Cowley (London, 1923, engraved illustrations by Stephen Gooden, original vellum-backed gold paper boards gilt, NUMBER 694 OF 725 COPIES, old armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden), Henry King's The Poems ... Edited by John Sparrow (London, 1925, original parchment boards, NUMBER 180 OF 900 COPIES, old armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden), George Moore's Ulick and Soracha (London, 1926, engraved illustration by Stephen Gooden, original tan buckram gilt, NUMBER 194 OF 1,250 COPIES ON "JAPON VELLUM" SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, old armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden) and Thomas Beedome's Select Poems Divine and Humane (London, 1928, original limp vellum gilt, NUMBER 1,143 OF 1,250 COPIES). (10)
