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187346830London Taylor and Francis 1873. 8vo. Offprint seperately paginated with author presentation inscription to top of front wrapper "Joseph Sidelbotham / with the Author's best regards". Fine and clean. 8 pp. 1 folded plate. <br/><br/><em>Scarce offprint issue with a most interesting presentation inscription to one of the fathers of photography of Wilde's paper on improvements of his electromagnetic induction machine introduced in 1866. Wilde discovered independently of Werner von Siemens who is usually credited for the invention the dynamo-electric machine. Despite Siemens being the one credited for the invention Wilde was the first to publish a paper describing it; this was communicated to the Royal Society by Michael Faraday in 1866.Joseph Sidebotham 1824-1882 was the first to practice photography in Manchester and of the most important local photographers in general. His interest was however not confined to photography; he was an amateur botanist entomologist and astronomer. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and lectured to the Mechanics Institute on astronomy and electro-magnetism. </em> unknown
189548924Manchester 1895. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Offprint from: "Memoirs and Proceedings of the manchester Literary and Philosophical Society" Volume Nine Fourth series. With the authors presentation inscription to top of first page: "With the Author's Compliments". Lacking backwrapper. Internally fine and clean. Pp. 95-107. <br/><br/><em>Offprint with the author's presentation inscription. Henry Wilde a wealthy individual from Manchester England who used his self-made fortune to indulge his interest in electrical engineering. He invented the dynamo-electric machine or self-energising dynamo published in 1866. The machine was considered remarkable at the time especially since Wilde was fond of spectacular demonstrations such as the ability of his machine to cause iron bars to melt. </em> unknown
189648036Manchester The Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 1896. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Offprint from "Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society" Tenth 10 volume Fourth series. With author's presentation inscription to top of front wrapper: "With the Author's Compliments.". Lacking 1 cm of lower part of front wrapper not affecting text otherwise a very fine and clean copy. Pp. 61-71 1 plate. <br/><br/><em>Scarce offprint issue with author's presentation inscription of Wilde's important contribution to the quantitative relations of the physical and chemical forces especially in relation to batteries. Henry Wilde 1833 - 1919 a wealthy individual from Manchester England who used his self-made fortune to indulge his interest in electrical engineering. He invented the dynamo-electric machine or self-energising dynamo published in 1866. The machine was considered remarkable at the time especially since Wilde was fond of spectacular demonstrations such as the ability of his machine to cause iron bars to melt. </em> unknown
189448038Manchester The Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 1894. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Offprint from "Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society" Ninth 9 volume Fourth series. With author's presentation inscription to top of front wrapper: "With the Author's Compliments.". Light soiling to extremities. Very fine and clean. Pp. 181-186 1 folded plate. <br/><br/><em>Scarce offprint issue with author's presentation inscription of Wilde's contribution to the magnetic declination of the Earth.Henry Wilde 1833 - 1919 a wealthy individual from Manchester England who used his self-made fortune to indulge his interest in electrical engineering. He invented the dynamo-electric machine or self-energising dynamo published in 1866. The machine was considered remarkable at the time especially since Wilde was fond of spectacular demonstrations such as the ability of his machine to cause iron bars to melt. </em> unknown
189548037Manchester The Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 1895. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Offprint from "Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society" Ninth 9 volume Fourth series. With author's presentation inscription to top of front wrapper: "With the Author's Compliments.". Front wrapper loose and back wrapper detached light miscolouring to wrappers. Internally fine and clean. Pp. 67-85 1 folded plate. <br/><br/><em>Scarce offprint issue with author's presentation inscription of Wilde's contribution to helium and its place in the natural classification. Henry Wilde 1833 - 1919 a wealthy individual from Manchester England who used his self-made fortune to indulge his interest in electrical engineering. He invented the dynamo-electric machine or self-energising dynamo published in 1866. The machine was considered remarkable at the time especially since Wilde was fond of spectacular demonstrations such as the ability of his machine to cause iron bars to melt. </em> unknown
1892009173Manchester: George Falkner and Sons 1892. Reissue of the 1878 offprint with new preface and French translation. Inscribed "with Author's Compliments." Small pieces torn from outer edge of rear wrapper; blank corners of final leaf and folding table torn off; two library ink stamps on front wrapper; embossed stamp on title page. Privately published version. Unrecorded on OCLC/WorldCat. Collation: vi 17 1 iv 18 pp. folding table. Reissue. Original Printed Wrappers. Good. George Falkner and Sons Paperback
189248041London Paris Kegan Paul Gauthier-Villars et fils 1892. Large4to. Without front wrapper and backtrip. Internally fine and clean. VI 18 pp 1 folded plate. <br/><br/><em>Second issue with alterations and additional material of Wilde's contribution to the origin of elements and his views on the newly created periodic system including the first French translation. Wilde states in the preface printed here for the first time that: "The reprinting of this paper is all the more desirable as some of the views set forth therein have been modified by subsequent investigatiors without advancing much beyond what had already been accomplished; while in other instances there has been a distinct retrogression from the solid position which chemical philosophy had attained more than forty years ago." Henry Wilde 1833 - 1919 a wealthy individual from Manchester England who used his self-made fortune to indulge his interest in electrical engineering. He invented the dynamo-electric machine or self-energising dynamo published in 1866. The machine was considered remarkable at the time especially since Wilde was fond of spectacular demonstrations such as the ability of his machine to cause iron bars to melt. </em> unknown
187848040Manchester T. Sowler and Co. 1878. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Offprint from "The Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society" April 30. Author's presentation inscription to front wrapper "Edmund J Mills / with the Author's Compliments". Miscolouring to lower part of front wrapper. Internally fine and clean. 25 pp. 1 folded plate. <br/><br/><em>Scarce offprint issue with author's presentation inscription of Wilde's contribution to the origin of elements and his views on the newly created periodic system.Henry Wilde 1833 - 1919 a wealthy individual from Manchester England who used his self-made fortune to indulge his interest in electrical engineering. He invented the dynamo-electric machine or self-energising dynamo published in 1866. The machine was considered remarkable at the time especially since Wilde was fond of spectacular demonstrations such as the ability of his machine to cause iron bars to melt. </em> unknown
1882List3658Boston Massachusetts: W. A. Evans & Bro 1882. Folio illustrated wraps. Pages detached from each other small chip to corner images and music fine remains good to very good and quite attractive. Good to very good. A visually striking example of Oscar Wilde–related ephemera issued during the height of the writer’s American lecture tour of 1882. Though lacking a printed date the title strongly suggests publication in connection with Wilde’s appearance at the Boston Music Hall on January 31 1882 where he delivered his lecture “The English Renaissance†as part of his widely publicized tour across the United States. Contemporary accounts describe the event as a notable cultural moment including the presence of Harvard students dressed in exaggerated aesthetic costume who occupied the front rows of the hall reflecting both the fascination with and satirical reception of Wilde’s aesthetic persona.1<br /> <br /> The lithographic cover prominently depicts a figure carrying an oversized sunflower an image closely associated with Wilde and the broader Aesthetic Movement. Such illustrated sheet music functioned not only as musical publications but also as collectible artifacts capitalizing on the figure of Wilde. Over the course of several months he traveled widely across the United States and Canada delivering lectures on art decoration and cultural taste and quickly became a subject of both admiration and parody in the American press. Although he never returned for a comparable national tour Wilde maintained a lasting connection to American audiences. We know of a variant edition of the Evans imprint with a different illustration as well as a different version published in Boston by Ditson the same year. <br /> <br /> OCLC 500491189 specifying this edition with the large sunflower illustration locating five copies. <br /> <br /> 1 “Freshmen at Oscar Wilde’s Lecture†The Harvard Crimson February 1 1882. W. A. Evans & Bro unknown
18849061<p>Scarce chromolithograph of Oscar Wilde published in Vanity Fair magazine on May 24th 1884 accompanied with a page of text. The page measures 10.5 x 15 in 27 x 38 cm.</p> Vanity Fair
184670120081070Printed for T Allman London 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Author details by reference to WorldCat. Original brown covers with simple blind decoration gilt lettering and ornate decoration on spine corners and spine-ends are lightly bumped. Sound binding gift-note dated Nov 27 1846 on front end-paper. Vignette title. Clean pages with occasional very light foxing. Black and white frontis full page illustration facing title-page. No dust jacket as published. Undated by publisher. Dated from gift note. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 70120081070. All our books music and maps are sent by a tracked mail service. Printed for T Allman hardcover
1894304460London: Printed for Private Circulation. 11 pages. Number 69 of 75 copies. Some light foxing to the pages. A piracy actually printed circa 1905. In Stuart Mason's bibliography as item 600. . Near Fine. Soft cover. First Thus. 1894. Printed for Private Circulation paperback
1881ST20886London: David Bogue 1881. FIRST EDITION First Issue. 192 x 126 mm. 7 1/2 x 5". ix 1 236 1 pp. <br/> EXTREMELY ATTRACTIVE CRIMSON MOROCCO INTRICATELY GILT BY ZAEHNSDORF stamp-signed and dated 1909 on front turn-in covers framed in gilt with delicate pointillé cornerpieces surrounding inlaid green morocco drawer handles and oblique floral tools raised bands spine panels densely gilt in the pointillé style of Bozerian with stems of flowers radiating from pairs of inlaid green drawer handles turn-ins gilt-ruled red silk endleaves top edge gilt other edges untrimmed. Original slightly soiled gilt limp vellum binding bound in at rear. Mason 304. A few trivial spots internally but A VERY FINE COPY--the leaves fresh clean and wide-margined and the binding lustrous and virtually unworn.<br/> <br/> This is a finely bound copy of the first edition of Wilde's first book of poetry and his first substantial work of any kind. The collection is made up of 61 poems 31 of which appear here for the first time. Many reflect Wilde's delight in his visit to the art towns of Italy; other poems such as the tender "Resquiescat" written in memory of Wilde's sister Isola who had died at the age of eight show a more personal emotional sentiment. According to Mason "the first printing June 1881 consisted of 750 copies of which only 250 copies were used for the first edition the remaining 500 being equally divided between the second and third editions." Wilde himself oversaw the layout and design of the book choosing the handmade Dutch paper on which it is printed and the design of prunus blossoms on the vellum binding here bound in at the rear. The only published books by Wilde to appear before the present work were his student poem "Ravenna" which was named the "Newdigate Prize Poem" at Oxford for 1878 issued in wrappers and his drama "Vera; or the Nihilists" printed in 1880 of which Mason had knowledge of only two copies. Our attractive binding is a fine example of the work of the Zaehnsdorf firm long a top-ranked English bindery. Born in Pest Hungary Joseph Zaehnsdorf 1816-86 served his apprenticeship in Stuttgart worked at a number of European locations as a journeyman and then settled in London where he was hired first by Westley and then by Mackenzie before opening his own workshop in 1842. His son and namesake took over the business at age 33 when the senior Joseph died and the firm flourished under the son's leadership becoming a leading West End bindery. Over the years Zaehnsdorf employed a considerable number of distinguished binders including the Frenchman Louis Genth who was chief finisher from 1859-84 and trained a number of others including Roger de Coverly and Sarah Prideaux. A family-run business until 1947 the Zaehnsdorf bindery continued to produce consistently attractive and innovative designs executed with unfailing skill. David Bogue unknown
188153887Boston: Roberts Brothers 1881. First American Edition. First Printing. Crown octavo 18cm; yellowish-brown cloth with titling and cherub device stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; yellow topstain; green floral-patterned endpapers; iiviii2304pp. Light wear to spine ends gentle sunning to spine with mild dust-soil and a few tiny rubbed spots to cloth and a 1.5cm tear to lower front hinge; contents fresh; Very Good. MASON 310. Roberts Brothers unknown books
1881WB18283London: David Bogue 1881. Second Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. Modern 3/4 green morocco and cloth slight fading to spine. Small booklabel of Henry Southern Ltd and a larger bookplate of Giles Alexander Esme Gordon. <br/><br/> David Bogue hardcover books
1892283124London: Elkin Mathews 1892. Limited. hardcover. near fine. Ricketts. Title page design and elaborately gilt pictorial binding by Charles Ricketts 8vo tan cloth uncut with top edge gilt. London: Chicwick Press for Elkin Mathews & John Lane.<br/><br/> The book has been re-cased with excellent facsimile end-papers and overall is in beautiful clean crisp condition. Number 64 of 220 copies signed by Wilde. Mason 309.<br/><br/> Elkin Mathews unknown books
1881D1284Boston: Roberts Brothers 1881. First American Edition First Issue. Hardcover. Very Good. Grey cloth gilt-stamped lettering and detail on upper board and spine yellow topstain pretty decorative endpapers. Spine tips and corners just a little rubbed and frayed; text block rolled with upper board extending nearly 1/4 inch beyond lower. A tight clean copy. <br/><br/> Roberts Brothers hardcover books
1882#8<p>Oscar Wilde<br />Poems. Fourth Edition.<br />London David Bogue 1882.<br /><br />Octavo. ix pp. 1 blank leaf 234 pp. 2 pp. publisher's catalogue and 1 blank leaf.<br /><br />Publisher's binding. Full white vellum Bradel binding both covers decorated with a symmetrical gilt and blind-stamped floral panel spine likewise adorned with a large gilt floral panel title in gilt lettering top edge gilt untrimmed.<br /><br />Fourth edition.<br /><br />Copy enriched with an autograph inscription signed on the verso of the half-title:<br />"To Alphonse Daudet the greatest novelist of our time homage from the author. Oscar Wilde May 3 83."<br /><br />An exceptional inscription to "the greatest novelist of our time."<br /><br />Having only just returned from New York Oscar Wilde spent the period from February to mid-May in Paris. It was there that he made the acquaintance of Alphonse Daudet whom he met both at his home his wife hosted a celebrated salon and at the residence of the painter Giuseppe de Nittis.<br /><br />Robert Harborough Sherard who was a friend of both Daudet and Wilde testified to the genuine esteem the English writer held for the French novelist.<br /><br />Although their aesthetics may at first appear far apart certain parallels can nevertheless be drawn between their works. Thus it has been written of L'Homme au cerveau d'or one of the tales from Lettres de mon moulin that "one might readily believe it to be the work of an Edgar Allan Poe or an Oscar Wilde."<br /><br />Yet Alphonse Daudet like the vast majority of French writers did not distinguish himself by his courage and even went further: in 1895 after Wilde's sentence to two years' hard labour he refused to sign a petition by Hugues Rebell calling for a reduction of his sentence accompanying his refusal with the remark: "As a father I can only express my horror and indignation."<br /><br />Let us recall that this exemplary family man confided to Gustave Flaubert during a dinner: "To experience pleasure against my own flesh I require the flesh of two women one whom I handle and the other who attends to the backside of the one I am fondling" Journal of Edmond de Goncourt 5 May 1876.<br /><br />This inscription by Oscar Wilde certainly dates from a period when he was seeking to ingratiate himself with the French intellectual milieu yet he was nonetheless fully aware of Alphonse Daudet's great talent and sincere in this fine dedication.</p> David Bogue
1882#9<p>Oscar Wilde<br />Poems. Fourth Edition.<br />London David Bogue 1882.<br /><br />Octavo. ix pp. 1 blank leaf 234 pp. 2 pp. publisher's catalogue and 1 blank leaf.<br /><br />Publisher's binding. Full white vellum Bradel binding both covers decorated with a symmetrical gilt and blind-stamped floral panel spine likewise adorned with a large gilt floral panel title in gilt lettering top edge gilt untrimmed.<br /><br />Fourth edition.<br /><br />Copy enriched with an autograph inscription signed on the verso of the half-title:<br />"To Alphonse Daudet the greatest novelist of our time homage from the author. Oscar Wilde May 3 83."<br /><br />An exceptional inscription to "the greatest novelist of our time."<br /><br />Having only just returned from New York Oscar Wilde spent the period from February to mid-May in Paris. It was there that he made the acquaintance of Alphonse Daudet whom he met both at his home his wife hosted a celebrated salon and at the residence of the painter Giuseppe de Nittis.<br /><br />Robert Harborough Sherard who was a friend of both Daudet and Wilde testified to the genuine esteem the English writer held for the French novelist.<br /><br />Although their aesthetics may at first appear far apart certain parallels can nevertheless be drawn between their works. Thus it has been written of L'Homme au cerveau d'or one of the tales from Lettres de mon moulin that "one might readily believe it to be the work of an Edgar Allan Poe or an Oscar Wilde."<br /><br />Yet Alphonse Daudet like the vast majority of French writers did not distinguish himself by his courage and even went further: in 1895 after Wilde's sentence to two years' hard labour he refused to sign a petition by Hugues Rebell calling for a reduction of his sentence accompanying his refusal with the remark: "As a father I can only express my horror and indignation."<br /><br />Let us recall that this exemplary family man confided to Gustave Flaubert during a dinner: "To experience pleasure against my own flesh I require the flesh of two women one whom I handle and the other who attends to the backside of the one I am fondling" Journal of Edmond de Goncourt 5 May 1876.<br /><br />This inscription by Oscar Wilde certainly dates from a period when he was seeking to ingratiate himself with the French intellectual milieu yet he was nonetheless fully aware of Alphonse Daudet's great talent and sincere in this fine dedication.</p> David Bogue
1882001873Boston Massachusetts: Roberts Brothers 1882. 4th Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Covers in brown cloth with black decoration; spine gold stamped with wear at head and foot; top edge gilt; 16mo; with 230 pages. <br/> <br/> Roberts Brothers hardcover
188121118Roberts Brothers. Good with no dust jacket. 1881. Hardcover. Green boards gilt titling to spine gilt embossed globe with child atop on cover. Light scuffing to surface corners and head and tail of spine bumped. Floral endpapers front and back no tears or separations in gutters. Binding stitching has broken with pages 65-88 loose from binding and pages 89-112 hanging by the bottom threads. All other sections appear intact. Penciled name and date on blank fly. Text unmarked. Photos on request. ; 7.0 X 4.75 X 0.80 inches; 230 pages . Roberts Brothers hardcover
1881010736Boston: Roberts Brothers 1881. Mason 310 with all the first issue points: Yellow top-stain green floral endpapers and child-on-a-globe front board design in gilt. Green cloth. Light shelfwear with frayed spine ends. The cloth has a 2" tear along the rear joint. The front hinge is just starting to crack. In an otherwise tight binding. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Roberts Brothers Hardcover
1871190902Glasgow: Cameron & Ferguson 1871. Second edition of this collection of poetry by Jane Francesca Wilde 1821-1896 the mother of Oscar Wilde. Prior to the publication of the first edition in 1864 Lady Wilde contributed pro-Irish independence poetry to The Nation under the nom-de-plume "Speranza". Octavo. Engraved frontispiece of the poet after Bernard Mulrenin. With 10 pp. of publisher's ads at rear. Original green cloth spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt brown coated endpapers. Bookplate of Jeremy J. Mason. Extremities a little worn cockling to rear cover binding shaken foxing to outer leaves. A good copy. 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
1872385457Northampton: Dicey & Co 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor copy in gilt-blocked cloth over beveled boards. Spine bands worn with some loss. Panel edges dulled. Hinges starting. Text remains clear without blemish. Physical description: vii 256 pages. Subjects: England Northamptonshire.Northamtonshire England Description and travel; Poetry. English literature 1789-1919 Works. 19th century description and travel. Northampton: Dicey & Co hardcover