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G. F. YOUNG. THE MEDICI. 1930–1971. (ML 179)
202a. First printing (1930)
[within double rules] THE MEDICI | [rule] | BY | COLONEL G. F. YOUNG, C.B. | [rule] | [
Pp. [i–vi] vii–xxi [xxii], [2], 1–824. [1–26]16 [27]8
[i] half title; [ii]
Jacket: Pictorial in strong brown (55) and black on coated white paper depicting man with hat in left profile; borders in strong brown (top) and black (foot), lettering in black. Signed: EMcKK (E. McKnight Kauffer). (Fall 1930)
Originally published in U.S. by E. P. Dutton (2 vols., 1909). ML edition printed from plates made from a new typesetting. Published October 1930. WR 8 November 1930. First printing: Not ascertained. Discontinued 1971/72.
In its advertising the ML emphasized, “This book has been available only in two bulky volumes, that sold for ten dollars and over” (PW 118, 16 August 1930, p. 574).
Shortly after the ML edition appeared Cerf authorized Garden City Publishing Co., the Doubleday, Doran reprint subsidiary, to make a duplicate set of the ML’s plates for a fee of $1,000. Garden City was planning to publish The Medici under its Star Dollar Books imprint (Cerf to Robert de Graff, Garden City, 30 December 1930). No evidence of a printing in Star Dollar Books or any other Doubleday imprint has been found.
Charles Boni used the ML plates in 1930 for a single printing of The Medici in the format the ML would adopt the following year for the new ML Giants series. Later that year Cerf and Klopfer bought the remaining stock from A. & C. Boni and sold it along with a printing of The Education of Henry Adams that they had produced in a similar format. The books were printed in editions of 1,500 each and were marketed to department stores as dollar “specials.”
An illustrated edition of The Medici (G8), printed from plates of the regular ML edition, was published in ML Giants, 1933–49.
The Medici was one of several titles that were omitted from a comprehensive ranking of ML sales for the 18-month period May 1942–October 1943. The regular ML edition sold 3,300 copies during the 12-month period November 1951–October 1952, placing it in the second quarter of ML titles in terms of sales.
202b. Title page reset (c. 1940)
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Pagination and collation as 202a.
Contents as 202a except: [ii] blank; [iv] COPYRIGHT, 1930, BY THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC. | [epigraphs from Ovid and Cicero].
Variant: Pagination as 201a. [1]16 [2–12]32 [13]8 [14]32 [15]16. Contents as 202b except: [iv] copyright statement omitted. (1960s binding B)
Jacket: Adapted from 202a jacket with borders omitted and author in reverse on strong brown band at foot.
Front flap:
The legends which have clustered about the most notable family in history are as various as the imaginations and prejudices of historians. Sinister crimes, magnificent liberalities, prodigal sponsorship of the arts, religious and orgiastic excesses have been attributed indiscriminately to the Medicis. It remained for G. F. Young to sift the proven facts from the exaggerations and to present a history so authentic and yet so colorful that its truth is more enthralling than all the fictions the centuries have allowed to accumulate around the most fabulous family of the Renaissance. (Fall 1941)
Also in the Modern Library
Young, The Medici, with 32 illustrations reproduced in aquatone (Giant, 1933–1946) G8
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The legends which have clustered about the most notable family in history are as various as the imaginations and prejudices of historians. Sinister crimes, magnificent liberalities, prodigal sponsorship of the arts, religious and orgiastic excesses have been attributed indiscriminately to the Medicis. It remained for G. F. Young to sift the proven facts from the exaggerations and to present a history so authentic and yet so colorful that its truth is more enthralling than all the fictions the centuries have allowed to accumulate around the most fabulous family of the Renaissance. (*Fall 1941*) \n\nAlso in the Modern Library \nYoung, *The Medici*, with 32 illustrations reproduced in aquatone (Giant, 1933–1946) G8 \n\n",
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