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18860007320London & Newcastle-on-Tyne: Walter Scott 1886. Edition De Luxe. Hardcover. Good. 4to blue cloth some sewing loosened to book block untrimmed partially unopened spine label chipped. <br/><br/>With voluminous notes and a 40 page Introductory Essay on the Sonnet by William Sharp. This is actually the second edition preceded by an octavo volume in the Canterbury Poets series. This has a revised preface revised Notes and 5 more sonnets than the 1st ed. Colbeck p.739 Walter Scott hardcover
18990007651Portland ME: Thomas B. Mosher 1899. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo 96 pages unopened in original boards with later quarter black cloth spine. Ex libris Herbert Carleton Wright with the motto "mens sibi conscia recti" that is "a mind conscious of its own rectitude" from THE AENEID. <br/><br/>One of 450 copies on Van Gelder hand-made paper. "A handsome but unauthorised reprint of the book first printed in 1872 with a Preface by the American publisher-editor and 3 Appendices - Colbeck Swinburne 81." This is Swinburne's reply to a literary attack by Robert Buchanan. "Irradiating and informing UNDER THE MICROSCOPE is a rapture of rage unmistakably Swinburnian - Mosher's Preface." Thomas B. Mosher hardcover
182533934London: 18th April 1825. 1825. Good. - Octavo. 25 words penned in black ink on a sheet of ctream paper approximately 6-3/4 inches high by 4-5/8 inches wide. The letter is mounted on a slightly larger piece of tan paper. Signed "Yours very truly / Daniel Terry" with his Alfred Place address and the date below the signature. There is some light staining to the letter's left bottom corner with some tiny marks to its left margin. Folded twice for mailing. Good. <p>Terry's note addressed to "My dear Kelly" is accepting an invitation to dine with Kelly and a mutual friend.<p>Daniel Terry c. 1780-1829 was an English actor and playwright who made his career in London Edinburgh and the northern English provinces. He was a close associate of Walter Scott and adapted several of Scott's works for the stage. The first of these was a musical adaptation of "Guy Mannering" in which Terry appeared in March 1816. [London]: 18th April, 1825. unknown
18490007939Philadelphia: Lindsay And Blakiston 1849. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo 269 pages publisher's ads. embossed green cloth front free endpaper removed. <br/><br/>A sequel to his studies on poet and painters this work focusses on literary character. Chapters on Sir Thomas Browne Dean Swift T. B. Macaulay Edmund Burke Charles Lamb John Keats Mark Akenside. Binding state B with publisher's monogrammed initials on top cover no priority. BAL 20656. Lindsay And Blakiston hardcover
1895DEMO008633IChicago & London: Stone & Kimball / John Lane 1895. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo 59 pages catalogue variant green cloth.; name on endpaper ink poem on rear endpaper of "Taps" by Charles Macklin McCarteney who was a U.S.N. lieutenant and revised The International Code of Signals and did some other literary work. <br/><br/>Kramer 57. Photographic frontispiece portrait by Frederick Hollyer the phtographer of choice for many prominent British painters and authors. Stone & Kimball / John Lane hardcover
1890DEMO005375INew York: E.P. Dutton ca. 1890. First American. Hardcover. Good. M. Ellen Edwards & J.Staples. 12mo worn chromolithographed covers cloth spine worn. <br/><br/>Greenaway-esque illustrations to this quiet charmer. "It was only a Battered Picture Book / But 'twas worth its weight in Gold / For it spoke to the Children's tender hearts / And its Tales were never old."Weatherly reunited with M. Ellen Edwards & J. Staples who provide 8 chromos and numerous vignettes. Not in LC cat or Osborne Collection. The lithographs are surely the work of Ernest Nister. E.P. Dutton hardcover
18786486<p>Riverside Edition. Three volumes in two. Good HCs no DJs. Dark maroon cloth over boards with gilt stamped titles; top edge gilt; light brown end papers; tissue-guarded frontispiece 1st vol only; ribbon markers. Clean lightly scuffed square covers and spines; 1st volume has 2 short light scrape marks at mid front cover near spine; slightly faded on spines - titles clear; very slightly faded along cover edges; tightly bound; ribbon markers present but somewhat fragile and frayed at ends; very clean interiors with slight age darkening along page edges; some leaves unopened at fore edges - never been read; leaves remain supple. Includes bio of author by Harris Nicolas 98 pp. 12mos 1112 total pp paged 465 549 pp plus bio.</p> Houghton, Osgood and Company. Boston hardcover
189510061311895. 12, 402 S., 1 Bl. u. 1 Bl., 379, (1) S. OLwd (Kapitale bestoßen, unbeschnitten).
19003606013London, Mackie, 1900. XLIII, 475 S. Half leather (stamp on title page, title page verso, endpaper, ex-libris, library label on spine).
18843612620Bonn, Marcus, 1884/86. Insgesamt 406 S. Hlwd der Zeit.
18913076320Nürnberg, Wörlein, 1891. VII, 111 S. Bibl.-Kart.
181147288ABLondon, printed for White & Cochrane and Harding 1811. XX, 340 S. Halbleder der Zeit mit Rückenschild und Rückenvergoldung. Kanten und Vergoldung berieben. Geringf. gebräunt, im Rand etwas stärker.
185890270(Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig, 1858). 402; 414 S. (= Collection of British Authors, 418). 16 cm. Braunes Leder d. Zt. mit floraler Innenkantenvergoldung und Ganzgoldschnitt.
184828035Dublin: Celtic Society 1848. modern rebinding in green cloth-covered boards new endpapers binding sound and strong some wear and scuffing to outer leaves book was disbound when I acquired it a few marks in pencil by previous scholarly owner pp xvi 515. Apart from Kelly's introduction Lynch's text is in Latin and English on facing pages. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Celtic Society Hardcover
189010516191890. 12, 905, (3) S. u. 2 Bl., 930 S., 1 Bl. (Trevelyan Edition). OLwd (etwas angestaubt u. berieben).
185145226ABBoston, Phillips, Sampson and Comp. 1851. 288 S. Geglättetes braunes Leder der Zeit mit reicher Vergoldung und Blindprägung, Goldschnitt. Ecken etwas berieben, Rücken aufgehellt. Exlibris. Vorsätze und Tafeln etwas gebräunt, bzw. etwas stockfleckig.
1828341226Frankfurt, Brönner, 1828. XXIX, 695 S. Pappband d. Zeit (beschabt u. bestoßen). [2 Warenabbildungen]
18385971Paris , H. Delloye - Vor Lecou, 1838. 4° (25,5 x 17 cm). Nouvelle edition, ornee de 8 vignettes, gravees sur acier par Ferdinand, d`apres les dessins de Napoleon Thomas. XV, 620 p. Toile. Reliure use. Rousseurs.
189115176BBChicago und New York, Rand, McNally & Company, 1891. 22 x 15 cm. 514 Seiten. Mit zahlreichen, teils ganzseitigen Illustrationen. Moderner Halblederband mit Rückenschildchen und Titelvergoldung, marmorierte Deckelbezugspapiere., 15176bb 1|15176bb 2 [2 Warenabbildungen]
1866126925Paris, Furne, Jouvet & Cie. 1866. 2 Bl., IV, 550 S.; 2 Bl., 510 S. Mit Holzstich-Frontispiz. Halbleder d. Zeit mit Goldprägung (Rücken etwas beschabt, Innengelenke angebrochen).
18533127121London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1853. LXII, 482 S. Lwd (Stempel auf Titel).
184247333Paris: Béthuine and Plon 1842. 8vo. x 321 1 pp. Quarter green morocco over marbled boards spine with black ruled compartments gilt lettered direct to one panel marbled endpapers. 4 engraved plates. some wear to the upper joint some foxing early on and also to the plates and leaves adjacent else very good. Paris: Béthuine and Plon unknown
1853111023853Philadelphia: Thomas Cowperthwait & Co. 1853. Book. Illus. by One Hundred and Ninety-Eight Illustrations. Very Good. Leather Bound. Newer rebound leather with gilt over black cloth to spine. Secure binding with light to moderate foxed pages. Nice cover in very good condition overall. Just over 6 x 4 with 358 pages. Illustrated. Scarce! Size: 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Thomas Cowperthwait & Co. Hardcover
190030716Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co 1900. Hardcover. 12mo. Burgundy cloth with black and red pictorial gilt and color plate tipped to front board. viii 303pp 7pp ads. Very good. Slightest bit of faint edgewear. Tight clean and attractive undated edition of the first novel by the British author 1835-1903 -- first published in England in 1887. A fantasy about an island people with unusual colored skin. Rather uncommon. Henry T. Coates & Co hardcover