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1852588099London: Edward Moxon 1852. Hardcover. Near Fine. New edition. 12mo. 259pp. 8pp. publisher’s catalogue dated August 1854 bound in at the front. Publisher's green cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Small bump on spine which appears to be a binder's flaw corners a little bumped else a fresh and near fine copy. Edward Moxon hardcover
1840016198Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard 1840. FIRST AMER. EDITION. Volume 1 of 2 volumes. Full blue cloth with gilt lettering on he spine cloth worn through at the top & bottom of the spine moderately foxed throughout. Half title and tile page have top margin excised. No previous owner's names not exlibrary. Overall in GOOD condition. UncleAndy. First American Edition. Full Cloth. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Lea and Blanchard Hardcover
1840615191840. SHELLEY Percy Bysshe. ESSAYS LETTER FROM ABROAD TRANSLATIONS AND FRAGMENTS by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Edited by Mrs. Shelley. In Two volumes. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard 1840. First American edition same year as British. 8vo. half brown morocco over marbled paper-covered boards; spine in gilt t.e.g. Slight sun some scuffing rubbing to leather mainly to edges. Light foxing throughout. Very good tight copies overall. unknown books
1840410501840. SHELLEY Percy Bysshe. ESSAYS LETTERS FROM ABROAD TRANSLATIONS AND FRAGMENTS. Edited by Mrs. Shelley. In two volumes. London: Edward Moxon 1840. First edition. 8vo. brown cloth; xxvii 319 pp. viii 360 pp. Book plates. Corners slightly bumped wear to heel and crown and small tears at spines on both vols.; mild soiling sunning and rubbing at boards. Hinges tender; one signature starting at vol. I; mild over-opening and soiling at endpapers on both vols. Text very clean. Good. unknown books
184056583Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard 1840. First US edn. 2 volumes. 8vo pp .243 248. Original cloth little wear to the top of the spine o/w a very nice copy. Includes a 15pp preface by the editor. Includes an essay on poetry philosophical specualtions etc. Author editor and soldier Thomas Wentworth Higgisonson's copy with his ownership signature and date in both volumes. Wikipedia: "Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1823 - 1911 was an American Unitarian minister author abolitionist and soldier. He was active in the American Abolitionism movement during the 1840s and 1850s identifying himself with disunion and militant abolitionism. He was a member of the Secret Six who supported John Brown. During the Civil War he served as colonel of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers the first federally authorized black regiment from 1862-1864. Following the war Higginson devoted much of the rest of his life to fighting for the rights of freed slaves women and other disfranchised peoples." Howeverm he is probably best remembered as the editor who worked American poet Emily Dickinson. This work includes a 15pp preface by Mary Sheeley and her Journal of a Six Weeks Tour Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva and of the Glaciers of Chamouni. Also in volume two are a number of letters from Percy Shelley to Mary Shelley. The Percy Shelley material includes an essay on poetry philosophical speculations and the like. Lea and Blanchard unknown books
183737724New York: Harper and Brothers 1837. First American Edition. Original green cloth with paper label octavo. Novel of a young woman's education under a tyrannical father figure. Nearly Very Good contemporary previously owner signature at front endpaper some loss to spine label expected foxing to pages Harper and Brothers hardcover
183726946New York: Harper & Brothers 1837. First US edition. Binding in fine condition; Text block rippled with a fair amount of age toning; A few signatures protrude slightly from the fore edge of text block. Complete in one volume; Recent rebind in green leather with gilt spine titles and rules and marbled end papers; 321 pages. Harper & Brothers unknown
1832AQ27628London: Edward Lumley 1832. vii 1 79pp 1. With an engraved frontispiece misbound after the title and a further 27 engraved plates several displaced. Later calf-backed marbled paper boards contrasting red calf lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed and marked. Scattered spotting. William St. Clair's copy with his pencilled ownership inscription and a note in his hand to recto of FFEP: 'The translation by PBS of the May Day Night Scene is presumably reprinted from the version in The Liberal. The Note is also taken with some omissions from The Liberal. Does the attribution 'L H' Leigh Hunt imply that Hunt was concerned with the book as a whole Lumley published The Beauties of Percy Bysshe Shelley pirated but claiming authority from Leigh Hunt in 1831.' An anonymous translation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1749-1832 magnum opus appended by Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1792-1822 translation of the May-day Night scene. Shelley's obsession with Faust spanned the majority of his writing career beginning with a translation of the drama’s opening thousand lines in 1815 and culminating in a poetic rendition of the 'Prolog im Himmel' and 'Walpurgisnacht' finished shortly before his untimely death. William St. Clair 1937-2021 British scholar and senior civil servant notable as the author of The Godwins and the Shelleys The Biography of a Family 1989 and The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period 2004. . New edition. Quarto. Edward Lumley hardcover
1849140949148London: Richard Bentley 1849. First Illustrated Edition. Near Fine. The fourth reissue of the first illustrated edition of Frankenstein with the long introduction by the Author. There were only three editions of Frankenstein authorized by the author: the first three-volume edition published anonymously in 1818 with a preface by Percy Bysshe Shelley; the second two-volume edition 1823 which included her name and was overseen and slightly edited by her father William Godwin; and this third edition in one volume with a preface by Shelley herself. This is the final Bentley edition which was first published in 1831 and reissued in 1832 1836 1839 and 1849. <p>Bound in publisher's brown cloth with decorative stamping in blind on boards and in gilt on spine printed advertisement endpapers. In one volume as issued with the English translation of another Gothic classic Schiller’s The Ghost-Seer. xii 202 2 163 1 pp. illustrated with engraved frontispiece by Theodor von Holst. Near Fine with light rubbing to extremities and minor bumping to corners. Light foxing to textblock edges and contents heavier at title and frontis. "Wrigglesworth's Library" written in old hand to first page of each novel "Mary Shelley" written in pencil to Frankenstein title page for the benefit of those living under a rock. Lyles B10a.<br /> <br /> <p>A crisp unrestored copy of the fourth reissue of Bentley's 1831 revised Frankenstein the basis for most of the future printings of the novel and the first to depict the Monster. Richard Bentley unknown
188312512London: John Dicks. London John Dicks n.d. c1883. First Edition. Paperback. A good copy only. Uncommon. In the 19th century Frankenstein was adapted most famously by Richard Brinsley Peake. His adaptation included many Frankenstein tropes such as the hunch-bakced assistant Fritz later to be Igor and the immortal line "He's Alive" which here is rendered "It Lives." It could be argued that without Peake's adaptation Frankenstein would have held less popular culture cachet though it would still surely have been respected literature regardless 16pp. Condition is good only the wrappers are detached and have been taped to fix a large tear. Fixed with tape internally too to the left hand margin where there appears to be water damage. Each leaf has been fixed thus. Some pencil underlining. Still it's pretty rare. 12512 Hyraxia Books. n.d. c1883 . Good. Paperback. 1st Edition. 1883. John Dicks paperback
1826002230London for Duncombe n.d. 1826 1826. 1 vol. 5-13/16" x 3-9/16" 3-28pp. with the engraved frontis portrait plate with Shelley's name misspelled "Shelly" internally clean and bright closely trimmed first leaf with slight loss to a few letters hardbound in recent brown cloth gilt title and date to front cover. There appear to be three distinct title-page variants. 1. The Man and the Monster or the Fate of Frankenstein. 2. Frankenstein; or The Man and the Monster! With Mary Shelley's name misspelled "Shelly" 3. Frankenstein; or The Man and the Monster! With Mary Shelley's name correctly spelled "Shelley" According to RBH only 1 copy each of all 3 have EVER appeared at auction so it goes without saying that all three versions are extremely scarce. This edition precedes the third London edition by 5 years and provided the narrative for a theatrical production of Frankenstein staged July 3 1826 as performed at the London Theatres. The playbill lists the characters and actors who played them. One Mr. O. Smith features here as The Monster and his portrait in costume is used as the frontispiece. First produced three years after Richard Brinsley Peake's play Presumption Milner's play was the first to show the actual creation scene p.10/11. Milner took major liberties with Mary Shelley's original novel. Like Peake Milner made the Monster a mute but in this case a confused and sympathetic one. Milner also made Frankenstein an egomaniacal cad complete with an abandoned girlfriend and child. These changes would figure prominently in the familiar film adaptations by Universal and Hammer more than a century later. It also has a heck of an ending with the Monster leaping to his death in Mount Etna during an eruption. London, for Duncombe, n.d., [1826] hardcover
1883SCX3119-1<p>Original Complete Edition stated. Sixteen pages. Dick's Standard Plays Number 431. Also called Frankenstein. Orange paper wrappers with engraved pictorial scene on cover.</p><p>1883 date from ISFDB. Title listed as Presumption or the Fate of Frankenstein as that is the well-known title. Listed as Frankenstein by Worldcat with date 1883. Peake wrote Presumption or the Fate of Frankenstein with additional elements to Shelley's story--first performed in 1823. Trinity College Dick's Standard Plays Collection: "By the mid-1860s Dicks' cheap reprints of Shakespeare led to another expansion of the flourishing business. Around the same time he began publishing 'Dicks' standard plays'. Over 1000 titles were published over a twenty-year period –averaging more than one a week! "</p> John Dicks paperback
189587912Chicago: Donohue Henneberry 1895. Hardcover. 1895 8vo. Original brown cloth decorative border and lettering in silver. Attractive 1890s edition of Shelley's sci-fi horror classic. Contemporary ownership inscription dated May 24 1895 some toning; cloth slightly softened at head of spine but overall an attractive copy. No jacket Donohue, Henneberry hardcover
1845FRNK2NDUS<p>"Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus" by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley H.G. Daggers 1845. Second American Edition. Quarter leather over marbled boards. Lacking title page and dedication pg 3; contains Preface titled "Preface to the Present American Edition" v-x and full text 114pp. 8vo. Conforms to all physical characteristics of the Daggers edition especially the distinctive double column formatting See OCLC 6720124. All extremities quite rubbed especially leather corners and edges of spine. Internally foxed throughout. Binding secure and no writing apart from one signature on FFEP. Good.</p> H.G. Daggers hardcover
1839002486London: Richard Bentley 1839 1839. THIRD EDITION FOURTH PRINTING of the first revised edition of Shelley's masterpiece and the last to contain an illustration with the first printing of the engraved frontis and additional engraved title-page dated 1831. The frontis depicting the creature coming to life. Bound in contemporary 1/2 tan calf blind tooled spine hand written paper spine label. Early repair to front hinge text clean and bright some minor foxing or offsetting to the engraved frontis and title-page overall still a GOOD copy of a book becoming increasingly difficult to find. According to RBH only 4 copies of this printing have appeared at auction in the last 25 years. In her introduction Shelley contextualizes the creation of her tale: "It proved a wet ungenial summer and incessant rain often confined us for days to the house. Some volumes of ghost stories translated from the German into French fell into our hands. 'We will each write a ghost story' said Lord Byron; and his proposition was acceded to" This printing was apparently issued with and without the additional engraved frontis dated 1831. We can only assume that additional copies of the 1831 frontis had finally run out with this printing. OCLC/WorldCat locate 9 copies of the 1839 edition 7 without the engraved frontis and only 2 with. London: Richard Bentley, 1839 unknown
1831105625London: Folio Society. 18312015. 1st ed. thus octavo original illustrated cloth boards pp xvii 227 b&w fronts and plates illustrated by Harry Brockway ribbon-marker unread. Without a slip-case as issued. Near-fine condition. Folio Society first published "Frankenstein" with the specially commissioned Harry Brockway illustrations in 2004: this is a 2015 re-issue a different binding and issued without a slipcase. Includes the original Introduction by Mary Shelley from the 1831 edition. First thus. 1st thus. Boards. Folio Society hardcover
1839005001London: Richard Bentley 1839 1839. THIRD EDITION FOURTH PRINTING of the first revised edition of Shelley's masterpiece and the last to contain an illustration with the first printing of the engraved frontis and additional engraved title-page dated 1831. The frontis depicting the creature coming to life. Bound in the publisher's original blind stamped straight grained brown/maroon cloth engraved bookplate of Arnold Henry Robson to front pastedown. Spine expertly relined inner hinges strengthened spine and cover edges slightly sunned text clean and bright some minor foxing or offsetting to the engraved frontis and title-page overall still a GOOD copy of a book becoming increasingly difficult to find. According to RBH only 4 copies of this printing have appeared at auction in the last 25 years. In her introduction Shelley contextualizes the creation of her tale: "It proved a wet ungenial summer and incessant rain often confined us for days to the house. Some volumes of ghost stories translated from the German into French fell into our hands. 'We will each write a ghost story' said Lord Byron; and his proposition was acceded to" This printing was apparently issued with and without the additional engraved frontis dated 1831. We can only assume that additional copies of the 1831 frontis had finally run out with this printing. OCLC/WorldCat locate 9 copies of the 1839 edition 7 without the engraved frontis and only 2 with. London: Richard Bentley, 1839 hardcover
18315134London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley 1831 1831. Third edition published as volume IX of Standard Novels series issued with the first part of The Ghost-Seer. 162x100mm. pp. xii 202; 2 163 5. Frontispiece and illustrated additional title page. Black half calf marbled paper covered boards spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Housed in a green cloth covered dropback box. Rubbing to boards and scuffing to head and foot of spine. Corners bumped. Internally very good but with some foxing and slight soiling. The frontispiece and illustrated title page are somewhat browned. Blank preliminary with a contemporary gift inscription and a later ownership inscription. This is the first Bentley edition the first to appear in one volume and the first with any illustration. The frontispiece engraved by W. Chevalier from a painting by Theodor von Holst shows the monster emerging from a skeleton while Dr Frankenstein runs of the door in horror. Holst who was the great-uncle of the composer studied with Fuseli and illustrated many important literary works especially those of the German romantics and the European gothicists. No-one was better qualified to produce the first illustration of the great gothic monster. Montague Summers A Gothic Bibliography p330. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley 1831 hardcover
1832355490721064London: Henry Colburn 1832. Hard Cover. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley 1832. The first illustrated edition the 3rd edition overall being the revised corrected and illustrated edition with a new introduction by the author. SECOND PRINTING OF THE THIRD EDITION of the first revised edition of Shelley's masterpiece and the first edition to contain an illustration of the monster by Theodor von Holst. First printing of engraved frontispiece and additional engraved title page dated 1831 but with the 1832 printed title page. The frontispiece depicts the monster coming to life. Bound in contemporary 1/2 tan calf marbled boards 5 raised bands to the spine spine tooled in gilt and blind gilt lettered black spine label Inner and outer hinges still firm head and foot of spine very slightly rubbed; none of the usual foxing to the frontispiece and title page; inner text really clean. Overall a very good copy which has the number 1 in gilt to the third compartment of the spine. This comes together with a similarly bound first edition of "The Ghost-Seer!" by Frederick Schiller London: Colburn and Bentley 1831 which has an engraved frontispiece by Theodor von Holst of the "Greek Lady" appearing out of the new coffin with the Ghost Seer pointing. First printing of engraved frontispiece and additional engraved title page dated 1831 this being Vol 2 of two volumes. The first volume being of course bound up with Frankenstein. The frontispiece depicts a "grey-bearded old man kneeling before the monument and praying fervently". Also bound in similar contemporary style to the "Frankenstein" but without the marbled end-papers. Overall a VG copy For the 2 books now smartly covered in removable clear acetate. Photographs/scans available upon request. Henry Colburn hardcover
1888SHELLEYM014142Routledge London. 1888. New edition issued in Routledge's Pocket Library series. 16mo. pp 317 1 1 adverts. Cloth-backed marbled boards.Covers rubbed at the edges. Spine darkened. Head and tail of spine slightly scuffed. Good. Routledge, London. hardcover
183115881JLondon: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley 1831. Third Edition corrected and revised by Mary Shelley as well as being the First Illustrated Edition. Engraved frontispieces and illustrated title page by Theodor von Holst depicting Frankenstein and the creature. Late 19th-century brown three-quarter morocco with red leather label and gilt-stamped and tooled spine. Marble endpapers and matching all three marbled sides. Vintage 19th century bookplate of Anthony Salvin and Anne Andrews Neffield. A little foxing to the first few pages else a very good plus copy. Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley hardcover books
186993832Boston:: Sever Francis & Co. Good. 1869. Hardcover. Third American edition. Small octavo bound in burgundy cloth with the title in gilt lettering on the spine dark brown endpapers. An ex-library copy with typical markings: moderate to heavy shelf wear and aging frayed with loss at the spine ends library book-plate on front paste-down small library stamp on title page library pocket and card on rear paste-down occasional foxing throughout text block else good. ; 177 pages . Sever, Francis, & Co., hardcover books
1898009767J.M. Dent & Co. 29 & 30 Bedford Street W.C. London Richard Clay & Sons London and Bungay1898 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. viii 2 322 pages frontispiece illustrations plates 22 cm OCLC 3053789 ; red worn cloth with gold lettering and designs; top edge gilt ; untrimmed ; slight knock ; Contents: From Darkness To Dawn - The Gods And Their Makers - The Earliest Greek Temples -- Archaic Reliefs -- Sculpture Of The Transition Period -- The Parthenon -- The Successors Of Pheidiasattic Reliefs -- The Apotheosis Of Beauty -- Praxiteles -- Contemporaries Of Scopas -- Lysippus -- The Twilight Of The Gods -- Schools Of Pergamum And Rhodes -- Last Years Before The Christian Era -- Table Of Sculptures ; Title within ornamental border List of sculptures: p. 307-312 List of sculptors: p. 313-314 ; Albinia Lucy Wherry was a British nurse and author known for her works on biography art and folklore. She was the oldest daughter of Robert Needham Cust and his wife Maria Hobart and was born at Langdown House Hampshire the Hobart family home from 1849. Two months later her barrister father set off for British India then torn by rebellion where he would make a reputation as a colonial administrator and linguist. She had two sisters and two brothers; her mother died in 1864 a week after giving birth to a daughter. Her father returned from India; when back there in a senior administrative position he took another wife Emma Carlyon who died in childbirth in 1867. He left India and married again in 1868. Wherry's relationship with her father was intense difficult and marred by grudges held. There was a serious break after her marriage. In 1881 Wherry married the surgeon George Edward Wherry. Wherry also trained as a nurse at Leicester Infirmary. During World War I Wherry was stationed in Paris in the Women's Emergency Canteen at the Gare du Nord where she supported Allied forces from 1915 to 1918. Wherry is buried in St John the Baptist Churchyard. Her collected correspondence is archived by the University of Florida. --Wikipedia ; poem excerpt from "prince Lucifer" by Alfred Austin then Poet Laureate; includes the poems "In the Golden Age" and "The Apotheosis of Beauty" by Percy Bysshe Shelley and a selection from the poem "Medea in Athens" by Augusta Davies Webster; excerpt from the poem "The Earthly Paradise" by William Morris ; "The Twilight of the Gods - The Dead Pan" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning selections of poems by Matthew Arnold Christina Rossetti Peake Shirley Fletcher Keats Milton Robert Browning William Shakespeare Thomas Haywood Rowley Longfellow R. N. Cust Byron Lyly ; black and white photos by Strand Co. ; numerous line illustrations by Meisenbach Riffart. "Riffarth & Cie. Meisenbach was a German photographic printing company operating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They specialized in printing high-quality illustrations for newspapers magazines and books using advanced techniques like photogravure and halftone. Their work is characterized by sharp detail and a focus on capturing the beauty of the built environment as seen in their images of factories cityscapes and landscapes. The company's work is considered a significant example of the development of photographic reproduction in the late 19th and early 20th centuries." ; sculptors discussed include Agasias Ageladas Agesander Agoracritus Alcamenes Alxenor Amphicrates Androsthenes Antenor Angelion Antigonus Apelles Arcesilius Archelaus Archermus Aristander Aristocles of Sicyon Athenodorus Bathycles of Magnesia Boedas Boethus Bryaxis Butades Calamis Callimachus Callon Canachus Cephisodotus elder and younger Chaerestratus Chares of Lindus Cherisphron Clearchus Colotes Cresilas Critius Daedalus Daedalus of Bythynia Daedalus son of Patrocles Daippus Damophon of Messene Demetrius of Alopece Dipoenus Dorycleidas Endoeus Epigones Euphranor Eupolemus Eutychides Hagias Ictinus Isogones Leochares Libon Lycius Lysippus Lysistratus Menaichmus Menelaus Metagenes Micciades Myron Naucydes etc; VG <br/> <br/> J.M. Dent & Co., 29 & 30 Bedford Street, W.C. London, [Richard Clay & Sons, London and Bungay],1898 hardcover
187216333London: John van Voorst 1872. FIRST EDITION. With 14 hand coloured lithographed plates by J.G. Keulemans. Contemporary red cloth rebacked; uncut one signature loose. Ex-library with the perforated stamp of the John Crerar Library on title and a stamp indicating its de-accession plus the blindstamp of James H. Dolan Jr. First edition of the first comprehensive account on the birds of Egypt. Shelley made three trips to the Nile region collecting a large number of birds many of which are illustrated here for the first time by Keulemans.<br /> <br /> Shelley 1840-1910 geologist and ornithologist was the nephew of Percy Bysshe Shelley.<br /> <br /> Anker 469; Nissen IVB 872; Wood p. 566; Zimmer II 588. John van Voorst unknown
1884140325Paris Alphonse Lemerre, éditeur 1884 84p 1 volume petit IN4 broché. Couverture reùmpliée (défraichie-manque le dos). Traduction de Tola Dorian. Envoi de la traductrice à M.Racot. A relier.
