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189474832New York: The Century Co. 1894. First edition of this elusive title. Octavo. xii 4 234 pp. including a frontispiece portrait of both cyclists standing beside their bikes plus numerous ful and vignette photographic illustrations of sights along the journey. Publisher's bleu cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering large gilt device resembling the globe n front same device on rear blind-stamped. Aside front a very early 1901 previous owner's signature on the front blank an excellent copy.Published at the height of the bicycle craze in America this book details the authors' voyage; The cycled across Europe then headed west from Turkey where they became the first Americans to summit Mt. Ararat through the Gobi Desert through middle China and all the way to Peking. A feat they claim had not been accomplished since Marco Polo. From the introduction - "We were actuated by no desire to make a "record" in bicycle travel although we covered 15044 miles on the wheel the longest continuous land journey ever made around the world." The steamed out of Shanghai and landed in San Francisco and then bicycled all the way to New York City. They were both students at the University of Washington. The Century 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
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
189127824London: Macmillan and Co 1891. Large paper copy. With a Preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie and Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. 1 vols. Large 8vo. Original brick red cloth. Spine faded label a little rubbed else very good. Large paper copy. With a Preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie and Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. 1 vols. Large 8vo. Macmillan and Co unknown
185852592London: Smith Elder and Co. 1858. Fourth edition. 8vo. xii 486 6 pp. Contemporary green full morocco spine faded to brown raised bands gilt lettered direct to two panels gilt decoration to the other panels early gift inscription to the front free endpaper all edges gilt. Frontispiece portrait title vignette of Haworth Parsonage and facsimile of Brontë's manuscript. Repairs to the spine ends and joints contents very good. The first three editions appeared the previous year all in two volumes. London: Smith, Elder, and Co. unknown
188351495(London, 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).
185736329Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1857. Small 8vo. Bound with both original front wrappers in a later (ab. 1900) green full cloth w. gilt leather title-label to spine. Some brownspotting. W. half titles. VIII, 314"" VIII, 298 pp.
