Four Oaks Farm by Austin, Gabriel (Editor) - 1967

Somerville, NJ.: Privately Printed, 1967. Hardcover. Near Fine. Two volumes, quarter cloth with paper covered sides, slipcase, 8vo., xxii, 135, (1); (12), 113, (1) pages. Limited to 1,250 and 1,000 copies respectively, printed by the Thistle Press, and with illustrations printed at Meriden Gravure. Christmas greeting on Four Oaks Farm note card, signed by Mary Hyde, laid in. A fine set in a lightly worn slipcase covered with Cockerell marbled paper.

Somerville, New Jersey. Privately Printed. 1967 and 1967. 113 and 135 pages. Limited to 1,000 and 1,250 copies, respectively. Quarter cloth and boards. Illustrations. Near fine in a marbled paper covered slipcase in like condition. First Editions. The home and persona library of Donald and Mary Hyde, distinguished book collectors. These copies inscribed to British journalist and editor of The Times, William Rees-Mogg, and his wife.

Somerville, New Jersey: [Privately printed at the Thistle Press], 1967. First edition, limited to 1000 [1250] copies. Illustrated. 113; 135 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Original black cloth-backed brown paper boards. Fine in fine marbled slipcase. First edition, limited to 1000 [1250] copies. Illustrated. 113; 135 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Lavishly produced set of volumes designed by P.J. Conkright documenting the residence of Donald and Mary Hyde, and the library, including the Johnson collection (now at Harvard). Herbert Cahoon, long-time curator of manuscripts at the Morgan library and bibliographer of Joyce, contributed a bibliography to Four Oaks Library.

Somerville: Privately printed, 1967. cloth-backed boards, slipcase. Hyde, Donald and Mary. 8vo. cloth-backed boards, slipcase. xiii,136; (xii),114 pages. Two volumes. Limited to 1200 and 1000 copies respectively. A fine set in fine slipcase. Well illustrated descriptions. The library has become a renowned source repository of material relating to English literature (especially Samuel Johnson) of the 18th century.

Somerville, New Jersey: [Privately printed at the Thistle Press], 1967. First edition, one of 1000 of the first volume and 1250 of the second. Illustrated. xxii, 113; [xii], 135 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Original black cloth-backed brown paper boards. Fine in fine marbled slipcase. First edition, one of 1000 of the first volume and 1250 of the second. Illustrated. xxii, 113; [xii], 135 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Lavishly produced set of volumes designed by P.J. Conkright documenting the residence of Donald and Mary Hyde, and the library, including the Johnson collection (now at Harvard). Herbert Cahoon, long-time curator of manuscripts at the Morgan library and bibliographer of Joyce, contributed a bibliography to Four Oaks Library. Inscribed by Mary Hyde (now Eccles) to Hal Friedlander in 1994.

(HYDE COLLECTION). AUSTIN, Gabriel, editor. Four Oaks Farm. Four Oaks Library. 2 vols. Illustrated. Orig. cloth-backed boards, in original marbled slipcase. Somerville, New Jersey: 1967. First edition. Limited to 1000 copies printed at The Thistle Press Inscribed by Mary Hyde on the front free endpaper. A very fine copy. Essays by Robert Metzdorf, Charles Ryskamp, James L. Clifford, Hugh Amory, Gabriel Austin, Frederick B. Adams, Jr., L.F. Powell, Herbert Cahoon, Mary Hyde, and John Fleming on the Hyde's extraordinary collections of Samuel Johnson, Oscar Wilde, Mrs. Thrale, Henry Fielding, etc. etc.