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18922304560London: Macmillan & Co 1892. 5th Printing. 5th Printing. Very Good/No Jacket. Thomson Hugh. Fifth printing. Quarter inch tear to spine head small stain on top page ridge spine slightly cocked. 1892 Hard Cover. xxx 297 pp. Hugh Thomson binding with elaborate gilt decorations. Gilt page ridges. Preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie. "The women of the small country town of Cranford live in genteel poverty resolutely refusing to embrace change while the dark clouds of urbanization and the advance of the railway hover threateningly on the horizon. In their simple well-ordered lives they face emotional dilemmas and upheavals small in the scale of the ever-shifting world but affectionately portrayed by Gaskell with all the weight and consequence of a grand drama. Macmillan & Co unknown books
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 books
1891WRCLIT79607London: Macmillan & Co. 1891. Blue green cloth spine label. Frontis and illustrations. Modest scattered foxing spine cocked and label worn some flecking to the cloth sizing on the upper boards bookplate. A sound but blemished copy. First edition with these illustrations and with a Foreword by Anne Thackeray Ritchie. Inscribed by Thomson on the front free endsheet: "With kind regards Hugh Thomson Nov. 24 1891." Macmillan & Co. hardcover books
04214London: Macmillan and Co. 1895. In a Fine 1897 'Exhibition' Binding by Zaehnsdorf<br/><br/>ZAEHNSDORF binders. THOMSON Hugh illustrator. GASKELL Mrs. Elizabeth. Cranford. With a preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie and illustrations by Hugh Thomson. London: Macmillan and Co. 1895. <br/><br/>Early reprint of the 1891 first Thomson illustrated edition. <br/><br/>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. <br/><br/>A fine '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 fine example of a Zaehnsdorf 'Exhibition' binding housed in a red morocco edged felt-lined red cloth slipcase.<br/><br/>Cranford which originally appeared as a serial in Charles Dickens' magazine Household Words 1851-53 and saw its first publication in book form in 1853 is "a series of linked sketches of life among the ladies of a quiet country village in the 1830s.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. <br/><br/>Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell 1810-1865 a "strong and independent-minded woman" The Feminist Companion to Literature was an important proto-Feminist writer who often tackled unorthodox subjects in her novels. Cranford for example concerns a community of spinsters who glory in their freedom from male interference. Mrs. Gaskell was "'the most popular with small question the most powerful and finished female novelist of an epoch singularly rich in female novelists'" Enclyclopedia of British Women Writers p. 264 citing Mrs. Gaskell's obituary in The Athenaeum.<br/><br/>"Critical awareness of Gaskell as a social historian is now more balanced by awareness of her innovativeness and artistic development as a novelist. While scholars continue to debate the precise nature of her talent they also reaffirm the singular attractiveness of her best works" ibid of which Cranford is one.<br/><br/>Hugh Thomson 1860-1920 was born in Kingsgate Street Coleraine Co. Londonderry the eldest child of John and Catherine Thomson. Thomson was educated in the model school in Coleraine. At age fourteen he started working at the local linen industry but three years later he entered the employment of Marcus Ward & Co. colour printers and publishers in Belfast where his talent for drawing was encouraged by John Vinycomb head of the art department. He married Jessie Naismith Miller in 1884 and moved to London where he took up employment with Macmillan & Co. on the English Illustrated Magazine joining some of the most distinguished writers and illustrators of the day. Thomson provided scenes of Covent Garden and Regency Bath and the illustrations for the Addison and Steele Spectator papers Days with Sir Roger de Coverley 1886-7. Thompson's style reflected the nostalgia of the time his fine line drawing of rural characters and gentle countrified society appealing to the imagination of the public. London: Macmillan and Co., 1895 unknown books
18954665bdNew York: Thomas Y. Crowell 1895. Octavo gilt-decorated green cloth hardcover top edge gilt xxiv 290 pp. Photogravure frontis. illus. Very Good; light shelf wear. Thomas Y. Crowell, 1895. hardcover books
40656Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers n. d. Ca early 1870s. Original publisher's printed salmon-colored paper wrappers stitched. Average wear & soiling. Small hole in front wrapper as well as rear wrapper. Withal a VG copy. 79 1 pp. Text double column. 8vo. 9-7/8"x 6-1/8" <br/><br/>Contains "Mother and Stepmother" "Lizzie Leigh" "The Miner's Daughters" and "Fortune Wilfred." All wrongly ascribed to Dickens: "Mother & Stepmother" by Louisa King "Lizzie Leigh" by Mrs. Gaskell and "Miner's Daughter " by Wm Howitt. According to Eckel the author of "Fortune Wilfred" remains a mystery cf. Eckel pp 209 - 210. T. B. Peterson & Brothers unknown books
1952102825Oxford: Oxford University Press 1952. stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pg. 77-110;149-177. 2 volumes. Article from "The Library" begins in Fifth series Vol VII No.2 June 1952 continued in Fifth Series Vol. VII No.3 September 1952. Both have some wear on spine and No. 2 has some creasing both are slightly soiled. Oxford University Press) unknown books
195138927Cambridge: Bowes and Bowes 1951. stiff paper wrappers. Mason William. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xiv 41 pages. Monograph No.1 issued by the Cambridge Bibliographical Society. Full bibliographical descriptions of this 18th century English author. Wrappers soiled top rear corner at spine chipped bottom rear corner creased. Bowes and Bowes unknown books
1897178916Chicago: Donohue Henneberry & Co 1897. New and revised edition. Hardcover. VG case worn at edges and bumped at corners interior very tight and clean. Brown leather binding with 5 raised bands gilt lettering and borders and black labels. Marbled endsheets and edges. xxvi 656 pages. Engraved capitals illustrations and half-titles; color tables/diagrams. "Embracing a complete self-teaching course in penmanship and bookkeeping and aid to English composition together with the laws and by-laws of social etiquette and business laws and commercial forms. A political dictionary the government of the U.S. the states and territorial governments colored charts etc. also a manual of agriculture mechanics and mining and a guide to parliamentary practice the whole forming a complete encyclopedia of reference" - from title page. Donohue, Henneberry & Co hardcover books
188327574London: Royal Society of London 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Gaskell's classical memoir on the muscles 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 to the sinus venosus influence the heart rhythm but do not originate cardiac movements which are due to the rhythmic contraction of the heart muscle." GARRISON-MORTON 829. iv 4 viii 751-1419 pp. 4to. Library binding tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean ex-library stamp on title page and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound. Royal Society of London hardcover books
19735271Chicheley: Paul P.G. Minet 1973. cloth dust jacket. Baskerville John. 4to. cloth dust jacket. xxxii 72 pages and 17 plates and a facsimile of a type specimen in a pocket at the back. Reprinted with additions and corrections to the 1959 edition. The definitive work to-date. Jacket faded along top of back cover. Paul P.G. Minet unknown books
195948110Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1959. First edition 4to pp. xxiii 1 71 1; facsimile illustrations; with facsimile specimen of Baskerville's types loosely inserted in rear pocket; very good or better in original red cloth beige dust jacket spotted w/minor edgewear & clipped. <br/><br/> Cambridge University Press hardcover books
1907004264London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1907. Full Morocco. Near Fine. Beautiful Kelliegram full morocco inlay binding with gilt detailing both front and rear cover. 8vo. 18 by 12 cm. xxx 297 1 pp. The front depicts Mr. Jenkyns strolling down a lane the rear a sedan chair. Kelliegram bindings such as this one were produced by the English bookbinding company Kelly & Sons at the turn of the twentieth century. The gilt stamp of the bindery can be found on the inside lower edge of the rear board. Light sunning of the spine. Otherwise fine condition. <br/><br/> Macmillan and Co., Limited unknown books
1958104456London: Hutchinson 1958. Octavo printed brown wrappers. Advance copy uncorrected proof of the first edition. Gaskell's second novel a fantasy set on the legendary continent of Mu during a period of earth's pre-history when there was no moon. Reginald 05832. Light stain to spine panel wrappers just a bit dusty a very good copy. Scarce. #104456 Hutchinson unknown books
1857018658Boston: John P. Jewett and Company 1857. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. 508 pages. Rebound in red cloth with a black leather spine label. Written on the front endpaper is "John B. Callender from the Author." About three dozen pages have small stains. The first American edition. John P. Jewett and Company Hardcover books
19000000219<p>Fine Binding. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co. 1900-1910. Later printings but one. Nine volumes 16mo 6.75" x 4.5" variously paginated uniformly and exquisitely bound by Ernst Hertzberg & Sons signed in blind on the recto of the rear free endpaper ca. 19-teens in full crushed dark brown morocco the spines in five compartments separated by raised bands lettered in gilt in one compartment with elegant tooling in black wrapping the spines onto both boards mimicking coptic fastenings tied up with fleur-de-lys fasteners. Top edges gilt floral blind-tooled inner dentelles brown laid-paper doublures and brown satin-ribbon page-markers bound in with velvet-lined tan cloth over board slipcase. </p><p>A few ribbon markers frayed occasional light rubbing mostly at the joints otherwise about Fine in slipcase which is soiled & stained mostly at the back of the box.<br /></p><p>A lovely set of "Love in Leather" as we like to call it which is perhaps more aptly characterized courtesy Raymond Carver as "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love." The publisher provides a running title for most of the volumes of "Tales from Foreign Lands."</p><p>Includes:<br /></p><p>Pushkin Alexander translated by Marie H. de Zielinska. Marie: A Story of Russian Love. 1906; Galdos B. Perez. Marianela: A Story of Spanish Love. 1907; Mrs. Gaskell. Cousin Phillis: A Story of English Love. 1910; Alphonse de Lamartine translated by James B. Runnion. Graziella: A Story of Italian Love. 1905; Drachmann Holger. Nanna: A Story of Danish Love. 1901 first printing; Charlot Francis. Madeleine: A Story of French Love. 1906; Krejsa Antonie translated by Caroline Svetla. Maria Felicia: A Story of Bohemian Love. 1900; Jensen Wilhelm. Karine: A Story of Swedish Love. 1909; and Muller Max. Memories from the German of Max Muller. 1909.</p><br /> A.C. McClurg & Co. hardcover books
1978139280New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1978. Octavo boards. First edition U.S. issue. Collects six tales and a poem "The Scholar's Story" by William Gaskell a Breton ballad translated from the French of the Vicomte de la Villemarque selected and introduced by Michael Ashley. "Gaskell's supernatural fiction ranks among the best of the Victorian period . Together with Dickens' work Gaskell's ghost fiction helped consolidate the association of the supernatural tale with the Victorian Christmas . Her ghost stories are scattered throughout various periodicals and books and no single collected existed until 1978 when Michael Ashley produced MRS GASKELL'S TALES OF MYSTERY AND HORROR." - Wilson Shadows in the Attic p. 226. Barron ed Horror Literature 2-29. Tymn ed Horror Literature 2-38. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with tiny stain to inner surface at lower spine end which does not show through. #139280 Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1978137349New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1978. Octavo boards. First edition U.S. issue. Collects six tales and a poem "The Scholar's Story" by William Gaskell a Breton ballad translated from the French of the Vicomte de la Villemarque selected and introduced by Michael Ashley. "Gaskell's supernatural fiction ranks among the best of the Victorian period . Together with Dickens' work Gaskell's ghost fiction helped consolidate the association of the supernatural tale with the Victorian Christmas . Her ghost stories are scattered throughout various periodicals and books and no single collected existed until 1978 when Michael Ashley produced MRS GASKELL'S TALES OF MYSTERY AND HORROR." - Wilson Shadows in the Attic p. 226. Barron ed Horror Literature 2-29. Tymn ed Horror Literature 2-38. Remainder stripe to bottom edge of sheets else a fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with some scuffs and scratches. #137349 Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
197870503NY: Scribner’s 1978. First US edition. 231 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Edited by Michael Ashley with his preface and introduction. Seven stories. NY: Scribner’s unknown books
186319727New York: Harper & Brothers 1863. 1st US edition Brussel EAST TO WEST p. 81; Gimbel B283. Later green library buckram binding. Gd lacking rear wrapper/paper repair to final leaf affecting 3 lines of text of inner column. Ex-lib of NYPL with 'Withdrawn' stamp to initial & terminal leaf as well as a few other associated institutional markings. 46 pp. Text in double-column. 8vo. <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers hardcover books
186319727.1New York: Harper & Brothers 1863. 1st US editiion Brussel EAST TO WEST p. 81; Gimbel B283; Oppenlander ATYR Contributer List p. 136; VanderPoel B450 for the 1864 edition. Not in Edgar & Vail. Printed white wrappers. Adverts to rear wrapper recto & verso. General soiling to wrappers with small piece missing from lower left of front panel no text affected. Bookseller blindstamp to front wrapper. Tide line to rear wrapper. Withal a VG copy of an uncommon edition. 3 - 46 pp. Text double-column. 8vo. 9" x 5-5/8" <br/><br/>As is the case with most of the Christmas stories the work actually a collaborative effort though marketed under Dickens' very salable name: Chapters I & VII by Dickens per VanderPoel & confirmed by Oppenlander; Chapter II by Elizabeth Gaskell states Oppenlander even though Gaskell "swore" not to write for ATYR; Chapter III by Andrew Halliday; Chapter IV by Edmund Yates; Chapter V by Amelia Edwards; & Chapter VI by Charles A. Collins Dickens' son-in-law & the individual initially chosen to illustrate Drood. Harper & Brothers unknown books
18635249.2London 1863. 1st edition. Original blue printed wrappers sewn. A VG to Nr Fine copy. 48 pp. Text double column. 8vo. <br/><br/>Dickens responsible for the first & last sections; Mrs Gaskell penned the 2nd section. Cf. Oppenlander p. 136 for a distribution of the other contributors' efforts. unknown books
18635249.1London 1863. 1st edition NCBEL III 813. Original blue printed wrappers sewn. A VG copy showing some minor edgewear & soiling. 48 pp. Text double column. 8vo. <br/><br/>Dickens responsible for the first & last sections; Mrs Gaskell penned the 2nd section. Cf. Oppenlander p. 136 for a distribution of the other contributors' efforts. unknown books
1861144701861. included in "Round the Sofa." London: Sampson Low Son and Co. 1861. 2 pp ads dated July 1861 last leaf of final gathering. Original blind-stamped green cloth with spine decorated in gilt. First English Edition so titled of this collection of six short stories the title one at 164 pages really being a novella. Most of these stories first appeared in periodicals such as "Household Words" during the late 1850s and MY LADY LUDLOW was first published as a book in 1858 by Harper of New York. In 1859 Sampson Low collected the stories in an anonymous two-volume work titled ROUND THE SOFA with interconnecting frames for each story and in 1861 this title MY LADY LUDLOW was first issued acknowledging "Mrs. Gaskell" as the author. In My Lady Ludlow Elizabeth Gaskell depicts the waning of aristocratic power and the waxing of professional hegemony in Regency England. Gaskell's representation of the rising professional society is its openness to participation by women by members of the working class and by the illegitimately born. Before any of the feminist movements of the nineteenth century had coalesced Gaskell's novel pointed to the egalitarian implications of professional ideals Colon. This copy does not have an ad catalogue in addition to the final one-page ad leaf see Smith Note 3. This is a bright copy just about fine a little foxing on the first few leaves but essentially no wear. Smith pp 138-142. unknown books
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 books
