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Lot 462

Sale 800 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Lots 1-273
Nov 12, 2020 4:00AM CT
Lots 274-476
Nov 13, 2020 4:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$100 - 200
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[GOREY, Edward]. LOCKE, John. "Books Seem to Me to Be Pestilent Things, and Infect All That Trade in Them..." New York: Gotham Book Mart & Gallery Inc., ca 1980. 


10 copies. Small folio with 90 x 70 mm illustration after Gorey above a quote by John Locke. 

Locke's commentary on the book trade: "“Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them… with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders, sellers, and others that make a trade and gain out of them have universally so odd a turn and corruption of mind, that they have a way of dealing peculiar to themselves, and not conformed to the good of society, and that general fairness that cements mankind." 


Property from the Collection of Thomas J. Barrett

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