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Lot 462
Sale 800 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
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Nov 12, 2020
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Nov 13, 2020
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Lot Description
[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
