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189479809London: Reeves and Turner 1894. Volume 2 only. Near Fine condition. In very nice condition. Unfortunately we have been unable to locate volume 1. Lady Wilde was the mother of Oscar Wilde. Reeves and Turner unknown
18941236E194London: Reeves and Turner 1894. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 8vo. xxiv 400; xii 425. Very Good. 5.25 x 7.75 inches 13 x 19.5 cm. First collected edition of Meinhold's two most famous gothic novels originally published in English editions in the 1840s. Sidonia was translated by Lady Wilde mother of Oscar Wilde before his birth and the Amber Witch was a childhood favourite of Oscar Wilde. Complete two volume set. Green moire silk bindings with gilt spines. Page edges untrimmed. Slight wear to ends of spines and corners of boards. A few marks to boards. Slight discolouration to rear board of volume I. Foxing to endpapers a few occasional spots to text. Overall condition is Very Good. Please Note: This is a heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate for non-European destinations. Actual Royal Mail postage costs are: USA £21.00; Oceania £26.00; Rest of World £26.00. A postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Size: 5.25 x 7.75 inches 13 x 19.5 cm. Reeves and Turner hardcover
1894932122<p>London: Reeves And Turner 1894. Ribbed Moire bindings show extremity rubbing wear age but Cloth still "Flashes". Both volume's sewn bindings very tight with both spines rounded fore edges perfectly concave. All edges uncut. Internally Unmarked. A Very Good Set Indeed. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo's - 7¾" tall.</p> Reeves And Turner hardcover
1840000202Dublin: William CurryJunand Co Longman OrmeBrowne and Company London 1840. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Not called for>. Two Volumes.Original boards rebacked.New end papers. Boards and spine unevenly sunned. A tight firm set. Light sporadic foxing spots. Frontispiece Vol 1 The Yacht "Crusader" Frontispiece Vol 2 "Telmessus" from a sketch by R.Meiklam.Wilde a medical student was hired to accompany Robert Meiklam on his yacht "Crusader" " In September 1837 my friends Sir Henry Marsh and Professor Graves proposed that I should accompany as medical attendant a gentleman who was about to make a voyage for the benefit of his health. Anxiety to see the World coupled with the fact of my health then being in a precarious state induced me gladly to accept this kind offer" Contact seller regarding postage. <br/> <br/> William Curry,Jun,and Co, Longman, Orme,Browne and Company, London hardcover
184081636Dublin: William Curry Jun. And Company. 1840. 2 volumes vol Ipp xvi 464 & vol II pp viii 495 frontis both vols water stained to verso text ills new endpapers both vols signed R. Hoddle Surveyor-General of Victoria top of t.p. both well recased half calf with green cloth maroon title pieces darker stain to front cloth vol I. Sir William Robert Wills Wilde was an Irish surgeon author and also the father of Oscar Wilde. Account of his travels as medical attendant to Robert Meilklam. Half calf. William Curry, Jun. And Company unknown
184051206Dublin: William Curry Jun. and Company; London: Longman Orme Browne and Co. 1840. First edition. Two volumes. 8vo. xiv 464; viii 495 1 pp. Contemporary black half calf over marbled boards spines with raised bands gilt lettered maroon labels 2 tinted lithographic frontispieces 2 plans Tyre and Jerusalem and 2 plates skulls plus numerous illustrations in the text. Some mostly light wear to the covers slight staining to the frontispieces some leaves proud towards the front of volume II though still firmly attached a decent set overall. Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Company; London: Longman, Orme, Browne and Co. unknown
187288853Dublin Ireland: McGlashan & GIll 1872. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo 7.8 in. x 5.8 in. pp. x 306. Illustrated with 76 in-text wood engravings. Recently rebound in dark green cloth with gilt title to spine. Newer endpapers. Previous owner's name and date 1896 to title page. Light spotting and age-toning throughout. Sir William Robert Wills Wilde 1815 - 1876 was an Irish oto-ophthalmologic surgeon who wrote significant works on medicine as well as archaeology and folklore regarding his native Ireland. He was also the father of Oscar Wilde. McGlashan & GIll hardcover
1854CAT0008101854. First Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. Original half leather over marbled boards old University Library bookplate inside front cover. Contains January-June of 1854. WIlde's essay leads off the February issue and is pages 127-146. <br /> <br /> "When kitchened with "point" i.e. seasoned mollified with milk or softened by a drop of the crature' the like of the potato will never again be found for ‘rent-paying pig-feeding love-making child-breeding faction-fighting and country-dancing properties". WIlde father of Oscar was a polymath - a doctor census taker folklorist and social commentator. He represents as does this essay a conundrum. He sympathized with the Irish peasantry could see many of their troubles with clarity collected huge amounts of medical data on their suffering yet supported the insupportable English response to the famine. Even this essay filled with admiring prose for the people and culture essentially blames the starving masses for their problems - a lack of imagination culinary ingenuity stupid reliance on the bounty of the potato etc etc. Though while suggesting that the Irish have little imagination or knowledge gastronomically he does mention an impressive number of ways that potato is served. He even comes to the to call it paternalistic is to do an injustice to the concept of paternalism conclusion that " ‘Irish agriculture has been greatly benefited by the famine." An essay filled with interesting dietary anecdotes fine prose insane conclusions erudite observations and condescending digressions. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Inventory No: CAT000810. hardcover
1862AQ27877Dublin: Hodges Smith and Co. 1862. 4 100 iv pp. With 90 engraved illustrations in the text. Later brown half-morocco marbled paper boards lettered in gilt to spine. With original publisher's printed buff wrappers and a contemporary envelope addressed to 'Mr. Pfister Medal Room British Museum' bound in. Rubbed spine dulled. Ink-stamp of the Birmingham Assay Office to recto of FFEP. The sole edition of a comprehensive catalogue of the gold and gold- plated artefacts held by the Royal Irish Academy compiled by Anglo-Irish oto-ophthalmologic physician and father of Oscar Wilde William Robert Wilde 1815-1876; the third and final volume of a series on the antiquities kept by the institution the first was published to coincide with the association's meeting in Dublin in 1857. The Birmingham Assay Office one of the four assay offices in the United Kingdom was founded in 1773 and to this day remains responsible for testing the purity of precious metals and issuing hallmarks of certification. . First edition. 8vo. Hodges, Smith, and Co. hardcover
186381986Dublin: Royal Irish Academy 1863. First Thus. . Half-Leather. Reading copy/No Jacket as issued. A Collection of articles dating 1856-63. Library markings; boards present but detached; backstrip missing; leather worn esp at corners; foxing to prelims; textblock sound; contents vg; 14 7 13 31 19 17p illus. Includes: 'On the Ancient & Modern Races of Oxen in Ireland' 'An Essay on the Unmanutactured Animal Remains in the Royal Irish Academy illustrative of the Ancient Animals of Ireland' 'An Inquiry into the Time of the Introduction and general use of the Potato in Ireland.& Notice of 'Bog Butter' 'Account of A Manuscript of Dr Willoughby's 'On The Climate and Disease of Ireland''. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall <br/> <br/> Royal Irish Academy hardcover
184420765Dublin: William Curry Jun. and Company. 1844. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Slight tanning and very light occasional foxing to first and last few pages. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. Lacks one map the Chart of the Coast of Tyre. Spine and hinges professionally repaired. ; This is the observation of a journey taken in 1937. The first edition was published in 1840 in two volumes. The journey includes Corunna Lisbon Madeira Teneriffe Gibraltar Algiers Sicily Egypt Asia Minor Syria Palestine Jerusalem and Greece. Including colored map of Jerusalem frontispiece but lacking the second map the Chart of the Coast of Tyre. Dark blue cloth boards with blindstamped linear design and gilt spine lettering and gilt pictorial design. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xv 648 pages . William Curry, Jun. and Company hardcover
1855612331855. Göttingen Georg H. Wigand 1855 8° XIII 3 558 2 pp. Pappband d.Zt.; frisch bezogen. First German Edition of the "Practical observations on aural surgery and the nature and treatment of diseases of the ear. London: John Churchill 1853" by Sir William Robert Wills 1815-1876 translated by Ernst von Haselberg with a foreword by Wilhelm Braun." "Mein Freund und früherer Schüler Dr. Addinell Hewson zu Philadelphia hat eingewilligt die Amerikanische Ausgabe dieses Buches zu besorgen welche bei Blanchard und Lea herauskommt; und mein Freund Dr. von Haselberg zu Stralsund hat die Uebersetzung ins deutsche übernommen. Dublin 12. Juni 1853.". "This work did more to place British otology on a scientific basis than anything previously published. In his own words Wilde "laboured to rescue the treatment of ear diseases from empiricism and found it upon the well-established laws of modern pathology practical surgery and reasonable therapeutics". He showed the middle ear to be the site of origin of most of the diseases of the ear. He is remembered for his method of treating acute mastoiditis using "Wilde's incision". The book was bitterly attacked by Kramer - see especially Lancet 1853 2 446 - and also by Thomas Wakley editor of that journal. Wilde was the father of Oscar Wilde." Garrison & Morton No.3369 1st. engl. Ed. 1853 unknown
184210975LITPNew York: Alexander V. Blake 1842. Original brown cloth covers stamped in blind w/ gilt title on spine. Wear to spine ends. Corners bumped. Previous owner's nameplate on front paste-down and in pencil on title pg. Foxing throughout. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Alexander V. Blake Hardcover
1867737441867. WILDE Richard Henry. Hesperia: A Poem. By Richard Henry Wilde. Edited by His Son. Original cloth A.e.g. Boston: Ticknor and Fields 1867. First edition. Scarce in the trade. Epic poetic narrative in four cantos in ottavo rima. Light wear to head of spine faint scattered foxing to exterior leaves else very good. unknown
1861621012Boston: Russell & Tolman 1861. Softcover. Very Good. Sheet music. Folio. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-insert making six pages. Notched and worn along the fold with page numbers stamped in the top corners from once being bound within an album as a result the insert remains attached to the bifolium light offsetting throughout and some soiling to the exterior still a complete and very good copy. Plate number 4276. OCLC locates only three physical holdings. Russell & Tolman unknown
187133153Savannah: Georgia Historical Society. J. H. Estill Printer 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. 3 .70 pages 4. Green cloth hardcover with gilt lined borders and title on the front cover. All edges gilt. Areas of rubbed cloth along the edges. Previous owner illustrated book plate with initials RBH on the front paste down. <br /> <br /> This copy includes a post card of Wesleyan Female College in Macon Georgia addressed to "Miss J. Troy Tuscaloosa Ala" from past President of the College Dupont Guerry. Also included is an undated Platt of land along the Savannah River. The Platt is chipped with significant loss at the bottom of the paper resulting in loss of dimensions of the land. The Platt does not name an owner. Laid inside the book is one page letter folded with two blank sides and an address on the back side dated March 7 1835 and signed at the bottom by R. H. Wilde. The letter appears to be addressed to B. F. Butler. The writing is difficult to decipher but the signature is neat and legible. Approx. 5" x 3.5" section of paper clipped from the letter but no missing content of the signed one page letter. Georgia Historical Society. J. H. Estill, Printer hardcover
18938682-A-64769Berlin: Bendix & Krakau 1893. Title page and loose photo plates in richly illustrated cloth portfolio. -plate no. 32 is missing a few plates slightly chipped. Bendix & Krakau hardcover
18917941London: James R. Osgood 1891. First edition. Very Good . One of 1000 copies. A Very Good copy fresh and clean throughout. Publisher's pictorial tan cloth stamped in gilt. Cloth a bit faded and foxed. Gilt very bright and attractive. Dent to edge of lower board at bottom corner. Modern bookplate D. Chisholm Simpson and ink ownership stamp Yew Tree Cottage to upper endpapers. A some toning to upper free endpaper otherwise very fresh and clean internally. Complete with the four plates illustrated by Charles Shannon which have faded but are somewhat clearer than is usually seen.<br /> <br /> A collection of fairytales from the famed writer wit and aesthete A House of Pomegranates compiles four stories of mermaids hunchbacks kings and princesses. This was actually Wilde's second collection of fairy tales - he had been writing such stories for years - after The Happy Prince and Other Tales published in 1888. A House of Pomegranates was met with some controversy with many reviewers finding the stories too complex and morally ambiguous for children. Wilde clearly had more wide-ranging ambitions than the standard children's tale however and found it absurd that "the extremely limited vocabulary at the disposal of the British child is the standard by which the prose of an artist is to be judged.in building this House of Pomegranates I had about as much intention of pleasing the British child as I had of pleasing the British public." Very Good . James R. Osgood unknown
1891019038London : James R. 0SG00D McILVAINE & C0. 1891. Hardcover. Very Good. C. RICKETTS & C. H. SHANNON Design & Decoration by. . B00K: Very G00D/ $837.90 WILDE 0scar a H0USE of P0MEGRANATES C. RICKETTS & C. H. SHANNON Design & Decoration by. James R.OSGOOD McILVAINE & C0. L0ND0N 1891 There is no limited edition or edition statement. Wide H/c Brown Top And Balance Of Tan Spine With Title And Design In Polished Gold Letters Hard Cover B00K: Very Good/ Slight Shelf Edge And Corner Wear. Corners Are Square. 157 Numbered Pages Printed On Tan Paper Browning And Spotting From Aging In Very Good/Fine/ Condition Clean And Tight To The Spine Slight Wear. The Exterior Covering Of The Boards Are Not Decorated. D/j: None. Description Applies To This B0K Only. This B0k Is Hard To Find Will Be Packaged And Shipped Carefully To Avoid Shipping Damage And Will Make It An Excellent Addition To Your Own Personal Library Collection Or As A Gift For The Collector / Reader. WORLD WIDE SHIPPING AVAILABLE. <br/> <br/> James R. 0SG00D McILVAINE & C0. hardcover
1894OW056London: John Lane at the Sign of The Bodley Head 1894 First edition limited large paper copy with "Of this edition 50 copies have been printed" statement on the verso of the fourth preliminary page and no publisher's catalogue at the back of the book. Publisher's yellow buckram boards with gilt decorations by Charles Shannon to covers and spine spine lettered in gilt. Near fine with some toning to spine and board edges light wear to spine ends with a very shallow chip to cloth at foot of spine bottom right corner of front board worn to boards and heavy offsetting to endpapers. Overall a beautiful copy of one of Wilde's four celebrated drawing-room plays. Mason 365. A Woman of No Importance is a four-act play that was first produced in London at the Haymarket Theatre on April 19 1893. Like many of Wilde's plays it satirizes the English upper-class and criticizes Victorian society. The title "a woman of no importance" refers to the character Mrs. Arbuthnot who bears the illegitimate son of Lord Illingworth. Although societal conventions deem her a sinful woman Wilde proves Arbuthnot a respectable widow who is rewarded with a son who treats women respectfully. In contrast Illingworth one of Wilde's archetypal dandy figures is rejected by his son and many of the women in the play making him a "man of no importance." A Woman of No Importance was published simultaneously in two formats: small octavo the standard edition of 500 copies and quarto the "Large Paper" issue of 50 copies. While both constitute the first edition of A Woman of No Importance the large paper copies are decidedly rarer than the octavos; intended to be more exclusive and deluxe publications large paper formats were typically produced using higher quality materials lacked the publisher's advertisements and were printed in small print runs. Because they were intended as collectibles from publication large paper copies of Wilde's plays are exceedingly scarce. First Edition Limited Large Paper Copy. Hard Cover. Near Fine. London: John Lane at the Sign of The Bodley Head hardcover
1894182536London: John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head 1894. Mr Oscar Wilde is not in the house First edition one of 500 trade copies. The play's opening show was met with applause for the actors and boos for the playwright causing Wilde to announce from behind a curtain "Ladies and gentlemen I regret to inform you that Mr Oscar Wilde is not in the house" Ellmann p. 381. Wilde's opulent production used "the market forces of luxury dressmaking to comment upon the worlds of his Haymarket patrons. Audiences in the stalls and boxes continued to be both flattered and vexed by the antics of their on-stage doubles while viewers in the upper galleries enjoyed the additional spectacle of fashionable Society catching its likeness in Wilde's cunningly set mirrors" Kaplan p. 252. The play premiered at Haymarket Theatre on 19 April 1893 and ran until 16 August for 113 performances. A further 50 large paper copies were also issued. Small quarto. Publisher's 16-page catalogue dated March 1894 at rear. Original pink linen with gilt floral decorations by Charles Shannon spine lettered in gilt fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Housed in a custom green cloth slipcase and chemise. Faint marks and fading to spine ends slightly bumped cloth lightly rubbed contents toned as usual. A very good copy. Mason 364. Richard Ellmann Oscar Wilde 1988; Joel Kaplan "Wilde on the Stage" in Peter Raby ed. The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde 1997. hardcover
1894186848London: John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head 1894. Mr Oscar Wilde is not in the house First edition one of 500 trade copies. The opening show of this satirical play on English manners met with applause for the actors and boos for the playwright causing Wilde to announce from behind a curtain "Ladies and gentlemen I regret to inform you that Mr Oscar Wilde is not in the house" Ellmann p. 381. Wilde's opulent production used "the market forces of luxury dressmaking to comment upon the worlds of his Haymarket patrons. Audiences in the stalls and boxes continued to be both flattered and vexed by the antics of their on-stage doubles while viewers in the upper galleries enjoyed the additional spectacle of fashionable Society catching its likeness in Wilde's cunningly set mirrors" Kaplan p. 252. The play premiered at Haymarket Theatre on 19 April 1893 and ran until 16 August for 113 performances. A further 50 large-paper copies were also issued. Quarto. Publisher's 16-page catalogue dated March 1894 bound at the rear. Original pink cloth spine lettered in gilt stylised flower and leaf motifs by Charles Shannon in gilt to spine and covers edges untrimmed. Cloth lightly marked and bumped small spots of wear to extremities faint vertical crease to rear cover contents generally toned some browning to pp. 42-3. A very good copy. Mason 364. Richard Ellmann Oscar Wilde 1988; Joel Kaplan "Wilde on the Stage" The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde ed. by Peter Raby 1997. hardcover
1894023252London: John Lane 1894. First edition. hardcover. Good. Mauve cloth faded and soiled. Gilt on spine very faded. Paper browned. Mason 364. One of 500 copies. Always securely packed. Professional booksellers since 1994. Satisfaction guaranteed. John Lane unknown
1894149906London: John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head 1894. Attractively bound First edition trade issue one of 500 copies printed; a further 50 copies were also issued on handmade paper. An attractively bound copy with the bookplate to the rear pastedown of the eccentric sportsman and artist William Eden 1849-1915 father of future Prime Minister Anthony Eden and who like Wilde had a dispute with the artist James McNeill Whistler. Eden excelled at a range of sports from boxing and horse riding to shooting "the epitome of the sporting squire" ODNB a member of several clubs and well known in London society. So too was he a keen amateur artist and aesthete building a fine collection of paintings and was a member of the aristocratic group The Souls. The contrast between the sportsman and the aesthete has been noted: "There was little that was harmonious in his nature and the aesthetic side warred with and exacerbated rather than complemented his athleticism making him a bored sportsman and a militant aesthete. As he grew older the world's failure to correspond to his ideals drove him to furious rages and the debased taste of humanity confirmed his atheism - for how could a God have made such a botch of things" ibid. His dispute with Whistler was occasioned when Eden commissioned a portrait of his wife which Whistler executed but then kept the cheque without handing over the painting leading to a legal case which resulted in Whistler's book The Baronet and the Butterfly 1899. Wilde too had a lengthy rivalry with Whistler out of the courts but with very public sparring. Small quarto 204 x 148 mm. Early 20th-century pink straight-grain morocco for Hatchards of Piccadilly spine lettered in gilt pink cloth sides marbled endpapers top edge gilt pink silk page marker. Bound without initial blank. A few pencilled lines in margins. Spine lightly sunned very light rubbing at extremities slight split in hinge preceding dedication leaf contents clean; an excellent copy. Mason 364. hardcover
1894164122London: John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head 1894. Epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation First edition one of 500 trade copies. The opening show of this satirical play on English manners was greeted with applause for the actors and boos for the playwright causing Wilde to announce from behind a curtain "Ladies and gentlemen I regret to inform you that Mr Oscar Wilde is not in the house" Ellmann p. 381. Wilde's opulent production used "the market forces of luxury dressmaking to comment upon the worlds of his Haymarket patrons. Audiences in the stalls and boxes continued to be both flattered and vexed by the antics of their on-stage doubles while viewers in the upper galleries enjoyed the additional spectacle of fashionable Society catching its likeness in Wilde's cunningly set mirrors" Kaplan p. 252. The play premiered at Haymarket Theatre on 19 April 1893 and ran until 16 August for 113 performances. An additional 50 large-paper copies were also issued. Small quarto. Publisher's advertisement bookplate on front pastedown and their 16-page catalogue dated March 1894 at end all as called for. Original pink linen with gilt floral decorations by Charles Shannon spine lettered in gilt top edge trimmed others uncut. Welsh-language bookplate of John Evans on front free endpaper. Spine and edges faded light wear to spine ends and corners splits to inner hinges mild toning and spots to contents. A very good copy. Mason 364. Richard Ellmann Oscar Wilde 1988; Joel Kaplan "Wilde on the Stage" The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde ed. by Peter Raby 1997. unknown
