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1900201163London: Smith Elder & Company 1900. Haworth Edition; First Printing. Fine Binding. All 7 volumes Very Good in decorative boards. Owner personalization on Villette 2nd FEP. Soiling along spine heel of The Life of Charlotte Bronte and The Tennant of Wildfell Hall. Top text block edges gilded. Smith, Elder & Company unknown
1856feb50205<p>1856: First French Edition of Cranford</p><p>Used. For more details please contact me</p> Hachette
1859feb97280<p>1859: First French Edition of North and South<br /><br />Nord et Sud</p><p>Used. For more details please contact me</p> Hachette
1855feb62435<p>1855: First Danish Edition of North and South</p>Nord og Syd<p>Used. For more details please contact me</p> Kbh
1853feb44673<p>1853: First Danish Edition of Ruth</p><p>Used. For more details please contact me</p> Kbh
18956453London: Macmillan 1895. Later printing. Near Fine. Early reprint of the 1891 first Thomson illustrated edition. A Near Fine copy. Octavo 7 1/2 x 5 inches; 191 x 127 mm. Frontispiece xxx 297 1 pp. With 110 black and white illustrations in the text. Occasional foxing or staining especially on pp. 16/17; 104/105; 144/145 and 270/271. Bound in an 'Exhibition' binding by Zaehnsdorf executed in 1897 stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in. Full crimson crushed levant morocco covers bordered in gilt and decoratively tooled in gilt and pointille in an elaborate floral design front cover lettered in gilt. Spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments gilt ruled board edgeswide and elaborate gilt decorated turn-ins ochre silk liners and end-leaves top edge gilt others uncut. The rear liner has the Zaehnsdorf 'Exhibition' stamp in gilt. Joints expertly and almost invisibly repaired one corner a little bumped still a very early and excellent example of a Zaehnsdorf 'Exhibition' binding housed in a red morocco edged felt-lined red cloth slipcase.<br /> <br /> Elizabeth Gaskell 1810-1865 was an important proto-Feminist writer who often tackled unorthodox subjects in her novels. Cranford for example is an episodic book concerning a country village community of lower and middle class unmarried older women and the social changes coming to an industrializing Victorian Britain. "The greatest charm of Cranford which has kept it unfailingly popular is its amused but loving portrait of the old-fashioned customs and 'elegant economy' of a delicately observed group of middle-aged figures in a landscape" Oxford Companion to English Literature. "Elizabeth was an active humanitarian; her novels convey many messages about the need for social reconciliation for better understanding between employers and workers and between the respectable and the outcasts of society. Her writing was carefully researched and she took particular care in reproducing northern dialects accurately" Gaskell Society. Gaskell was part of a wide literary circle: she was friends with Charlottee Bronte and John Ruskin and clashed with Charles Dickens when he edited Cranford for serialization in the magazine Household Words. In this lovely copy are images by Hugh Thomson 1860-1920 famed at the turn of the century for illustrating works by luminaries including Jane Austen and William Shakespeare.<br /> <br /> The Austro-Hungarian-born Joseph Zaehnsdorf 1816-1886 trained with binders in Stuttgart and in Vienna before moving to Germany Switzerland France and eventually settling London. He worked for various shops before opening his own bindery in 1842. In the face of industrializing production Zaehnsdorf embraced craft and eventually gained recognition for his talent. He was known for his precise finish and elegant design. The firm would continue in his son John William's capable hands; it employed binders like Louis Genth Roger de Coverly and Sarah Prideaux. Family run until 1947 it was eventually acquired by Asprey of London in 1983 Gertz. Near Fine. Macmillan unknown
1884030409UK: Smith Elder 1884. New Edition . Three-Quarter Leather. Very Good /No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Life and Works of Charlotte Brontë and Her Sisters 7 volumes London: Smith Elder & Co. 1884-87 engraved frontispieces & title pages. Bound in a Victorian three quarter leather and cloth with hand marbled endpapers and top edges gilt contemporary uniform gilt decorated red half morocco bound by Bayntun. Includes Wuthering Heights Jane Eyre Tenant of Wildfell Hall Shirley The Professor Villette Life of Charlotte Bronte Agnes Grey and Poems The books are very good and bright. Very light edge rubbing. Contents good. some light spotting marginal toning. More images can be taken upon request.Ref19083 <br/> <br/> Smith Elder hardcover
185720643London: Smith Elder & Co. 1857. A set of two volumes of 'The Life of Charlotte Bronte' published by Smith Elder & Co. in 1857. Both volumes bound in the original publisher's cloth with wear to the edges and fairly heavy wear to the corners. Volume 2 has some repair to the gutters front and back. One small inscription to the first page of text which reads 'Suppressed Copy/Print/S. Gordon Smith'. A nice presentable set in the unrestored brown cloth. Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë published in 1857 is the first biography of the famed author of Jane Eyre. Written shortly after Brontë's death it offers a detailed and sympathetic portrayal of her life from her quiet upbringing in Haworth to her literary success and personal tragedies. Gaskell a fellow novelist and friend aimed to protect Charlotte's reputation while shedding light on her struggles including isolation grief and societal expectations. Blending factual detail with emotional insight the biography helped shape Brontë's legacy and remains a valuable account of one of Victorian literature's most influential figures. Smith, Elder & Co. hardcover
1884029931UK: Smith Elder 1884. New Edition . Three-Quarter Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. New Edition 1884/1885. A nice early Seven volume set of the works of the Bronte's. Bound in a Victorian three quarter leather and cloth with hand marbled endpapers. Includes Wuthering Heights Jane Eyre Tenant of Wildfell Hall Shirley The Professor Villette Life of Charlotte Bronte Agnes Grey and Poems The books are very good and bright. Very light edge rubbing. Cloth marked in places. Contents good. Pages lightly foxed/age toned. More images can be taken upon request.Ref18908 <br/> <br/> Smith Elder hardcover
1884feb45622<p>1884: First Hungarian Edition of Cranford<br /><br /><br /></p><p>Used. For more details please contact me</p> Franklin Tarsulat
1883440201883. Phil. Trans. B. 173/3 1882. - London Harrison & and Sons 1883 4° pp.993-1033 Figs. 5 Tafeln feiner Pappband. Frist Edition! Walter Holbrook Gaskell 1847-1914 classical memoir on the muscle and nerves of the heart included a description of "Gaskell's nerves" the accelerator nerves of the heart. He showed that the motor impulses from the nerve ganglia in the sinus venosus influence the heart rhythm but do not originate cardiac movements which are due to the rhythmic contraction of the heart muscle. This led to the artificial production of "heart-block" the name of which Gaskell based on a expression of Georges John Romanes." Garrison & Morton No. 829 unknown
1870feb77338<p>1870: First French Edition of Cousin Phillis</p><p>Cousine Phillis</p><p>Used. For more details please contact me</p> Hachette hardcover
1857453115London : Smith Elder and Co 1857. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good copies in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly rubbed with backstrip faintly rippled as from damp. Edges dust-toned with interior overall bright and clean. Rear hinge volume 1 cracked with binding holding. Frontispieces retain their tissue guards; a well-preserved set overall. Provenance: signature of J.H. Stobart dated 1857. Physical description; complete in 2 volumes viii 352; viii 327 1 pages : frontispieces v. 1 portrait ; 20 cm. Notes; With half-titles. Frontispieces engraved by J. C. Armytage from drawings by G. Richmond and E. C. Gaskell. Subjects; Brontë Charlotte 1816-1855. Novelists English -- 19th century -- Biography. Women novelists English -- 19th century -- Biography. London : Smith, Elder, and Co hardcover
186824615London: n.p. Chapman and Hall 1868. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. First volume edition. 16 volumes for Household Words; 20 volumes for All the year Round; 36 8vo volumes in all. All but two of the volumes are ex-college library in modern buckram gilt spine titles. Library markings are: shelf numbers on spines; pencil numbers on upper left corners of titles pages; two line rubber stamp on textblock edges. Volumes 14 and 16 of Household Words are contemporary half leather marbled paper boards similarly ex-library. Generally very good to near fine but with occasional foxing and staining. <br /> <p><br /> First appearances of Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations and The Moonstone the first detective story. <br /> <p><br /> Shipping at cost.<br /> <p>. n.p. (Chapman and Hall) hardcover
1860009875New York: Harper & Brothers 1860 First American Edition. Brown silk binding decoratively stamped in blind gilt titles. Antique ex-library with hand-numbered and hand-dated bookplate. 305 1 6 pp. advertising. Chocolate endpapers. A collection of Gaskell's stories which first appeared in Charles Dickens's Household Words and All the Year Round: "Right at Last" "The Manchester Marriage" "Lois the Witch" and "The Crooked Branch". Spine has been repaired with original spine laid down hinges renewed by expert bindery. Light old waterstain to corner of first 50 pp. Occasional foxing. Good. Scarce. Harper & Brothers hardcover
185726758London: Smith Elder & Co 1857. First edition. Half leather bound with marbled paper covered boards and end papers; Modest wear to edges corners and raised bands. Two volumes; viii 352 & viii 327 pages bound without ads; Frontis engravings with facing tissues and facsimile manuscript plate. Smith, Elder & Co unknown
1866955P14Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz 1866. First edition. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 6" by 4.5". None. The very scarce first Tauchnitz edition of Elizabeth Gaskell's final novel a smartly bound set. The very scarce first Tauchnitz edition published in the same year as the first U.K. edition in book form.Complete in three volumes.'Wives and Daughters' follows the only daughter of a widowed doctor Molly Gibson as she grows up in a provincial English town in the 1830s.This novel was originally serialised in the 'Cornhill Magazine' from August 1864 to January 1866. Gaskell died before finishing it so the final section was written by Frederick Greenwood.Bound without half-titles. This edition was published by Bernhard Tauchnitz. Tauchnitz started his 'Collection of British Authors' in 1842 and it continued for almost exactly 100 years. By breaking with the European practise of ignoring British copyright law Tauchnitz was a driving force behind international agreements on international copyright protection. The goodwill he gained from British authors enabled him to be the principal continental publisher of English language works. He was often sent early proofs and so was able to first publish at the same time or very soon after the British publisher. In a full calf binding with gilt decoration. Externally smart. A little light rubbing to the boards and spines. A few light marks to the boards mostly to Volume III. Internally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and clean. Half-titles have been removed. Very Good Indeed Bernhard Tauchnitz hardcover
1867feb93186<p>1867: First Hungarian Edition of Cousin Phillis<br /><br />Phillis unokahúgom</p><p>Used. For more details please contact me</p> Pest hardcover
1861125281London: Sampson Low Son and Co. 1861. First edition of Elizabeth Gaskell's 1861 novella which first appeared in Household Words in 1858. Octavo original cloth elaborately stamped in blind. In good condition. Ownership inscriptions. My Lady Ludlow recounts the daily lives of the widowed Countess of Ludlow of Hanbury and the spinster Miss Galindo whose father was a Baronet and their caring for other single women and girls. It is also concerned with Lady Ludlow's man of business Mr. Horner and a poacher's son named Harry Gregson whose education he provides for. With Cranford The Last Generation in England and Mr. Harrison's Confessions My Lady Ludlow was adapted for television in 2007 as Cranford with Francesca Annis as the eponymous character with Alex Etel as Harry Gregson and Emma Fielding as Laurentia Galindo. Sampson Low, Son and Co. hardcover
188351495London Harrison and Sons 1883. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" Year 1882 Volume 173 - 1883. - Pp. 993-1033 and 5 plates 1 heliogravure instrument 4 folded recordings. <br/><br/><em>First edition of Gaskell's classic in neuroscience on the musculature and innervation of the heart."In the Croonian lecture for 1881 dealing with the frog heart Gaskell presented an important new method for studying heart action later named the "suspension method" and insisted that cardiac inhibition depended less on nerve or ganglionic mechanisms than on the inherent properties of the cardiac musculature. The role of the vagus nerve in inhibition was reduced to that of being the “trophic†anabolic nerve of the cardiac muscle. Yet in the same lecture Gaskell produced impressive evidence against Foster’s myogenic theory of rhythmicity and advocated instead the neurogenic view that discontinuous ganglionic discharges are responsible for the rhythmicity of the normal heartbeat. The background to this defection was exceedingly complex but it derived from an initial assumption which Foster himself accepted that ganglionic impulses - whatever their role in rhythmicity - are somehow involved in coordinating the normal sequence of the vertebrate heartbeat."DSB.Garrison & Morton 829. </em> unknown
1857YY7748Smith Elder & Co 1857. Engraved frontis foxed with guard to each volume. Text block sound and unmarked in volume 1 slightly shaken in volume 2. Bookplate of John Wilson Corke to each inside front board. John Wilson Corke 1814–1874 was an Irish Methodist missionary best known for his work in China during the 19th century. Catalogue to rear of volume 2. Robust packaging. Tracking is always added to USA orders. It can be added to other overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. Owner's signature dated 1868 to both volumes. Owner's signature dated 1868 to both volumes. Good. viii352 viii32716pp. Smith, Elder & Co Hardcover
185719321New York: D. Appleton & Co 1857. First American edition 2 vols. sm. 8vo viii 285; viii 269; engraved frontis portrait plus one engraved plate; bound without ads or half-titles in contemporary half tan calf over marbled boards green and black morocco labels on spines; very good set. D. Appleton & Co unknown
186064318New York: Harper & Brothers 1860. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good. 20 x 12.5 cm. 305 1 6 ads. Bound in dark navy blue boards. Rubbing to edges of the boards. Scattered foxing. Library code markings on reverse of title page no additional indication of it being a library copy. Harper & Brothers hardcover
1888523059London: Smith Elder and Co. 1888. Hardcover 7-volume complete set without dust jackets. Each book is bound in half green cloth with marbled paper sides uncut page blocks frontispiece and previous owner's name and date 1888-89 penned to FEP. Board edges are worn page blocks are tanned. "Villette" has a small tear to front board paper and taped repair to hinge at rear paste down. "Shirley" has hinge breaks at front and rear pastedowns. "Wuthering Heights" has a bump and crack to rear board lower leading corner. All have light foxing throughout. Contents are clean and unmarked. More photos available upon request. AD. First Thus. Hardcover. Good. Used. Smith, Elder and Co. Hardcover
189811466<p>Macmillan and co. London. 1898. FIRST COLOUR HUGH THOMSON EDITION. 8vo. Illustrated throughout with 101 fine line drawings by Thomson 40 of them now printed in colours for the first time. A very good copy in a fine late nineteenth century leather binding by Mudie of London. Full dark green morocco spine with raised bands. Compartments ruled decorated and lettered in gilt. Gilt ruled border on boards. Inner gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. A little rubbing to the extremities but overall a lovely copy of this highly attractive edition. Originally issued with the illustrations plain but here with 40 coloured for the first time by Thomson in 1898. A beautiful edition of this English classic.</p> Macmillan and co. London. 1898 hardcover
