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1896000880London Eng: George Allen 1896. Paperback. Very Good. Crane Walter. Edited by Thomas J. Wise; Part VIII with four full-page and other illustrations by Walter Crane. Printed by Charles Whittingham at the Chiswick Press on handmade "Unbleached Arnold" paper. 4 1045-1119 1 p.: 4 leaves of plates and many in-text illustrations; 28 cm. 11 inches. Original reddish brown illustrated wrappers with overlapping edges. Pages are unopened. In Very Good Condition: wrapper edges are chipped; paper lacking over spine; front and back sections of wrapper are detached; upper edges of last 6 leaves lightly stained not touching text; pages and plates are otherwise clean and bright. Very scarce in the original wrappers. George Allen paperback
18954226New York: Dodd Mead and Company 1895. First editions thus. First editions thus. Both the trade edition and the scarce One of 25 Copies on full faux-vellum both in fine condition. 1 Limited Edition. One of Only 25 Copies Copy #3 Signed by George Wharton Edwards. Full stiff faux-vellum over boards with superb gold-blocked cover design by Edwards green lettering on both covers spine with perpendicular crosswise ruling. Green wavy silk endpapers. With exquisite Art Nouveau style full and half page illustrations throughout by George Wharton Edwards. The frontispiece and title page are printed in goldEach leaf of the book uniquely mounted onto the same material as endsheets printed on heavy paper. A wonderful production indeed. A fine copy. Exceedinly scarce and the few copies that have shown up have defects; 2 The trade edition same format without tipped-in pages Limited to 450 Copies. In original light green fine wove cloth with same cover illustration by Edwards stamped in gold. A fine copy. Both issues sold together here. Most scarce. <br/><br/> Dodd, Mead and Company hardcover books
184576255London: Charles Knight & Co. 1845. 12mo. 3 volumes in 2. 252 266 pp; 252 pp. Full brown morrocco with gilt lettering and raised bands to the spines and gilt decoration to the spines and boards. All edges gilt. Some rubbing at the spines and edges. Missing p.3/4 of volume II bound in the first volume. Ink ownership inscriptions to the prelims of both volumes. With the bookseller's label of 19th century publisher and bookseller Charles Westerton to the front pastedown of volume 1. The works of 16th century poet Edmund Spenser containing both his first major work the Shepherd's Calendar and his celebrated epic poem The Fairie Queen written in honour of Queen Elizabeth and the Tudor dynasty. Craik's commentary provides a extensive biographical and literary insight into the life and works - both lost and known - of one of England's most influential poets. . Very Good. Gilt-decorated Morocco. 1845. Charles Knight & Co. 1845 unknown
181656890BBWien, Anton Strauss, 1816. 12°. 3 n.n. Bl. 176 S. Bedruckte Originalbroschur.
18994764477T. Fisher Unwin 1899. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Dust Jacket in fair condition. Full calf leather bound covers. Gold and black text on front cover and spine with black design. Black blindstamped logo on back cover. Some foxing within text. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item650grams ISBN: T. Fisher Unwin hardcover
189927037London: T. Fisher Unwin. Good with no dust jacket. 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library Invercargill Atheneum and Invercargill Public Libary. Library stamps labels and markings. Later ex-libris bookplate Frank G. Glen. Rebound in half-calf binding. A 30mm split to leather at top of front joint.; xxiv 302 2 blank pages. Photogravure portrait frontispiece.2 folding maps. Rebound in half calf leather binding with burgundy cloth boards. Page dimensions: 186 x 122mm. The maps are titled "Map of Sarawak and its Dependencies at the close of Sir James Brooke's Government" and "Map of Borneo and part of the Eastern Archipelago shewing British Territories British Protectorates and Federated Malay States". "Sir Spenser Buckingham St. John GCMG FRGS 22 December 1825 3 January 1910 was British Consul in Brunei in the mid 19th century . . . In 1847 St John's father the journalist James Augustus St. John introduced him to James Brooke. He went out to Sarawak the following year to become Brooke's private secretary and thus began his diplomatic career." - Wikipedia entry on Spenser St John accessed February 2025. Series: Builders of Great Britain. . T. Fisher Unwin hardcover
1825spenserpoetical<p>5 vols small octavo 165 x 105 mm. Engraved frontispiece to vol. 1 woodcut headpieces.</p><p>Contemporary green calf spine with five raised bands compartments lettered and decorated in gilt triple gilt rule to covers pale yellow coated endpapers gilt edges. Bound White Pall Mall.</p><p>Spines lightly sunned a very good set.</p> William Pickering hardcover
1839023860London: William Pickering 1839. Book. Full Leather. The Aldine Edition of the British Poets. 5 VOLUMES COMPLETE. A very good set bound in full gilt green leather with some light rubbing and scuffing to the spines mainly vol. 1 and some foxing to the preliminary pages in all volumes. Portrait in vol. 1. A.e.g. Part of Pickering's renowned Aldine Edition of the British Poets. Images available upon request. 12mo - over 6 3/4" - 7 3/4" Tall Size: 12mo - over 6 3/4" - 7 3/4" Tall. William Pickering Hardcover
180354894London: Printed by and for C. and R. Baldwin 1803. Very good. First edition of this collection celebrating the revival of the sonnet tracing its history from Spenser to Shakespeare and Milton through contemporaries Charlotte Smith Mary Robinson and a young Leigh Hunt. The English sonnet fell out of fashion in the early 18th century only to come roaring back to popularity with the publication of Charlotte Smith's ELEGIAC SONNETS in 1784. But this volume provides a much wider and more nuanced picture of the development of the English sonnet including Smith's predecessor Thomas Edwards and her contemporaries Anna Seward whom Henderson especially likes William Lisle Bowles Helen Maria Williams and Mary Robinson. Henderson's introduction contextualizes the wide range of sonnets included from the amatory Robinson to the elegiac Smith. This compendium established the state of playing field for the form in the Romantic era and it was a favorite form of Coleridge Keats Shelley and Wordsworth. Coleridge wrote a pamphlet celebrating the form in 1796 and the first poem Wordsworth published was "Sonnet on Seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep" in 1787 an homage to Williams and Charlotte Smith both. A notable Romantic-era collection unusual in so widely acknowledging the debts of English poetry to women writers. Contemporary half roan marbled paper boards gilt-ruled and -lettered spine. Red speckled edges. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece and two further full-page engravings by T.W. Tomkins after P. Henderson. xl 192 pages. Some pencil notes to endpapers. Binding rubbed at extremities some foxing largely marginal to first few gatherings. Printed by and for C. and R. Baldwin unknown
19001883New York: Care of Spenser Publishing 1900. Leaflet. Very good. 3p. How to look well until 80 Rest Voice False Standards Working Women Domestic Service Open Church Doors King's Daughers Trained Nurse. Folded leaflet 4.5" x 3.5. Lightly creased. Spenser was a New York City based Victorian era public speaker and author. None apparently recorded nor any material by Freeland. <br/><br/> Care of Spenser Publishing unknown books
188619726London: For Private Circulation 1886. Hardcover. Good overall. A memorial vanity printing consisting of Burns' correspondence with his parents regarding his travels and exploration in America Australasia and Africa signed by his parents. Burns visited New Zealand and Australia between March and December of 1881. The majority of the letters pertain to his experience in Africa; these begin in 1883 and continue to 1885. Edward Spenser Burns 1861 - 1885 died on an expedition in the Congo at Stanley Pool at the age of 24 Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society Annual Address June 8 1885. Burns was on the mission to the Congo for the International African Association opening up a new route towards the Kouilou-Niari River. His father a noted British temperance activist and minister assembled his son's correspondence and wrote the explanatory text in this memorial. <br /> <br /> Burns spent two years and 20 pp on his time in New Zealand from 1879 to 1881. He states that on his arrival there was a depression and there were no openings anywhere. He states there is a great deal of drinking in NZ visits the New Zealand Alps and has memories of a NZ Christmas. His time in New South Wales is shorter but covers 15pp writing about his droving a mob of horses some 300 miles to make money and visiting Newcastle Tamworth the Rivers Darling & Barwon Goondi Homebush & Sydney. One copy listed on Trove Lib Aus ID 44683907 at the State Library of NSW.<br /> <br /> The International African Association was established at the Brussels Geographic Conference in 1876 and was conceived of as a multi European nation scientific and humanitarian group meant to explore central Africa. It rapidly devolved into separately organized nationalized expeditions bent on African land acquisition. Henry M. Stanley worked secretly at this time for Leopold of Belgium to organize the Congo as a state; the French explorer de Brazza claimed the western Congo basin for the French; and Great Britain and Portugal cooperated to block access to the Atlantic. <br /> <br /> Young Edward Burns had just been named the Chief of Grantville which was the principal Station of the International Association in the Kwilu district. Burns' letters record many of his encounters with Henry Stanley including this one written from the "station of Isangila River Congo Sept 21 1884: "Stanley has had often a great difficulty with idiots to deal with and he told me himself that had he only had a few good English men and not a useless mixture of Belgians Swedes Germans Italians and Americans he could have done four times what he has towards the opening up of the Congo. If only this thing was under English management it would be very different! but the Belgian management in Brussels is something frightful". p195. Stanley wrote a letter of condolence to Burns' father included here.<br /> <br /> Small 8vo 240pp. Cream gilt cloth covers marked spine darkened. Libraries Australia ID<br /> 44683907. OCLC: 154556857 lists the Turnbull Library holding a copy. Not in Ferguson. For Private Circulation hardcover
18822711Philadelphia Pennsylvania: Keyser 1882. 12" x 9" pp. 144. "An Original American & Japanese Comic Opera" with art nouveau cover design. Operatic musical score in original tan wrappers with tape repair on the cover wanting rear wrapper. "36" stamped on the title page small corner folds throughout text largely clean. Good. Keyser unknown
1882648787Printed for the Spenser Society 1882. First Edition. Leather Binding. Near Fine. Beautifully bound in full black crushed Levant morocco by Blackwell's of Oxford spine with raised bands and gilt titling gilt-tooled inner dentelles all edges gilt marbled endpapers slight wear. There is no outward indication that this work is part of a set. Volume I only of a projected 9 volumes of which only 8 were issued this volume including the 'Life' and essays by various scholars about Spenser's life and work. Only 100 copies were apparently issued. Printed for the Spenser Society unknown
1862FINfeSAI69London: Smith Elder And Co. 1862. 1862. 2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l. vii-xix 1list of illus. 1 leaferrata 400; 1 p.l. v-xviii 1 leafplate list 420. lacking half-titles. 2 folding lithographed maps 4 hand-coloured lithographs of plants & 12 tinted lithographs. contemporary half calf spine & corners worn but solid neat gilt library stamp at foot of spines some foxing to plates & neighbouring leaves. First Edition. St. John who as a young man was fascinated with Borneo and the adventures of Sir James Brooke rajah of Sarawak and took up the study of the Malay language was introduced to Brooke on his visit to England in 1847 and accompanied him as private secretary when Brooke was appointed British commissioner and governor of Labuan. Thenceforth St. John and Brooke were closely associated. St. John was with Brooke during his final operations in 1849 against Malay pirates and he accompanied Brooke to Brunei the Sulu archipelago and to Siam in 1850. Although St. John deemed some of his chief's dealings with the natives high-handed and ill-advised he in a letter to Gladstone defended Brooke against attack in the House of Commons. While the official inquiry into Brooke's conduct which the home government appointed was in progress at Singapore St. John acted temporarily as commissioner for Brooke 1851-5 and visited the north-western coast of Borneo and the north-eastern shore ascending the principal rivers. Appointed in 1856 British consul-general at Brunei St. John explored the country round the capital and penetrated farther into the interior than any previous traveller. He published his full and accurate journals supplemented by other visitors' testimonies in these well-written and beautifully illustrated volumes entitled Life in the Forests of the Far East 1862. DNB Included are chapters on the Sea and Land Dayaks and their social life the Samarahan River and the Caves of Sirih St. John's ascents of the Mountain of Kina Balu explorations in the interior to the south and south-east of the capital expedition up the Limbang River visits to the Sulu Islands Borneo proper Sarawak the Chinese in Borneo the Chinese insurrection and Roman catholic and protestant missions. The plates include tinted lithographs showing scenery and natives and four hand-coloured lithographs of notable flora. cfCasey Wood p. 548 2nd Edn. F. Hardcover. London: Smith, Elder And Co., 1862. Hardcover
1862012419London: Smith Elder & Co 1862. Complete in 2 volumes. Books measure 21.5x15.cm. Collation xix1400pp16 coloured or tined plates including frontis 2 folding maps LACKING MAP OF DISTRICTS KINA BALU . Bound in modern half leather leather corners cloth boards raised bands gilt lines lettering leather labels. Both bindings in very good clean firm condition. Internally occasional minor spotting/tanning short closed tear to margin of maps. Pages and plates in good clean condition. Generally a good clean solid set.F . First Edition. Half Leather. Very Good. 8vo. Smith Elder & Co Paperback
1863A48993London: Smith Elder and Co. 1863. xvi 406 2 ads; xi 424 4 hand-col 12 tinted lithographic plates 3 folding maps. . HB. 2 vols 8vo orig. green cloth blind-stamped borders and central floral design to boards gt title and dec. palm design to spines. Minor wear short nick to head of each spine. Orig. coated yellow endpapers browned to reverse; hinges cracked but firm. Stitching tender in places with a few gatherings just starting. Some foxing to a few plates and adjacent pages mostly light but heavier to several of the tinted plates. Folding maps each with one short closed tear to inner edge. Armorial bookplate with motto 'Festina Lente'. A pleasing set of this rare work in bright original bindings. Second edition revised. Published a year after the first St. John added to this second edition an introduction a chapter on pirates another on animals an index and occasionally introduced some new anecdote. The four hand-coloured plates illustrate carnivorous pitcher plants <i>Nepenthes</i> and are engraved after illustrations first published in the <i>Transactions of the Linnean Society</i>.'Borneo one of the most interesting and romantic regions in the world' thus starts this fascinating book. Its author Spenser St. John 1825-1910 was a British diplomat and explorer. He was private secretary to Sir James Brooke the Rajah of Sarawak in Borneo. In 1856 St. John was appointed British consul-general to the native states of Borneo; he explored the country and went further into the interior than any previous European traveller. His habit of wearing native dress resulted in complaints to London. The present book based on his full and accurate journals also supplemented by other visitors' testimonies is a well-written and beautifully illustrated account of the author's travels. ODNB. Smith, Elder and Co. hardcover
186247595London: Smith Elder and Co 1862. First Edition. Full leather. Fine. 400p 420p octavo. With errata and both half titles 12 tinted lithographs 4 color lithographs and 3 folding maps. Beautifully bound in full green morocco top edge gilt spines sunned to brown bound by P. Fister Co. Inscribed by the author in volume 1 on the half title page to Mrs Menzies from her sincere friend the Author" Rare signed. <br/><br/> Smith Elder and Co hardcover
186227407London: Smith Elder and Co. 1862. First edition. Two volumes. 8vo. v-xx 400; iii xviii ii 420 pp bound without the errata leaf in volume I and both half titles. Recent tan half calf over marbled boards spine with raised bands gilt lettered red labels lettered direct to two lower panels. 12 tinted lithographs 4 coloured lithographs and 3 folding maps. Some foxing adjacent to the plates and maps a very good set. London: Smith, Elder and Co. unknown
1900840M10Westminster: Archibald Constable & Company 1900. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 5.5". None. The first edition of these historical notes on the Boer War by Spenser Wilkinson who was an influential figure in military matters. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Henry Spenser Wilkinson 1853-1937 was an English writer. From 1882 to 1892 he wrote occasional pieces on military subjects for the Manchester Guardian. Convinced as early as 1874 that Britain was inadequately armed he increasingly devoted his attention to the subject of the national defence. He became a key figure in the founding of the Navy League of Great Britain in 1894. Wilkinson's views on military affairs remained widely influential until his death. During the early months of the Boer War 1899-1900 he made remarkably accurate forecasts of military movements. Here he comments on lessons learned from the Boer War from week to week until the relief of Ladysmith. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally smart with some bumping to the boards and to the head of the spine and some fading to the spine. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with the odd spot throughout more so to the first and last few pages. Very Good Archibald Constable & Company hardcover
190014237Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co 1900. fair. 204 foxing to text discoloration inside boards & flyleaves boards & spine soiled & stained & some edge wear sticker on spine. Archibald Constable & Co hardcover
18961016<p>Small 4to. Printed in Golden type 12 full-page woodcut illustrations by Arthur J. Gaskin and woodcut initials. Original holland-backed boards title printed on upper cover. Spine boards and corners free of wear and bumps no bookplates fine.</p> Kelmscott Press
190051836London: Illustrated London News 1900. 1st edition. Near Fine. folio. 3/4 leather 84 ivpp. b/w pls. text ills. photogravures8 Folio-size. Contains many nice full-page ills. & Plates of Commanders. Minor wear to edges o/w nice copy & internally excellent Illustrated London News hardcover
190016694London: Illustrated London News 1900. 1st edition. Very Good. folio. chipped wrappers 84 ivpp. b/w pls. text ills. photogravures8 Folio-size. Contains many nice full-page ills. & Plates of Commanders. Worn some dampstains o/w VG Illustrated London News unknown
18891317576New York: Scribner and Welford 1889. Hardcover. Octavo; G Hardcover; Green spine with gold text; Boards have severe bumping and rubbing to the corners edges and exterior front and rear hinges are slightly separated but boards are not affected;Text block has age-tone with foxing to the gutters of end papers front free end- paper has an inscription by the previous owner gutter between pp. 92 and 193 has considerable separation but pages are in tact fore edge has foxing and is deckled front free end- paper has an inscription of the previous owner pages are clean; 389p. 1317576. FP New Rockville Stock. Scribner and Welford hardcover books
18841132<p><b> A SOURCE BOOK FOR <i>JEZEBELL PETTYFER</i></b></p><p><b>MACFALL Haldane. ST. JOHN Sir Spenser. </b><i>Hayti or The Black Republic. </i>8vo nearly contemporary remainder cloth pp. xiv 2 343. London: Smith Elder 1884. </p><p>First Edition. An important copy bound without the map. <b>ODNB </b>calls this a "savagely hostile" book. We have seen the book referred to as "racist." It was written by a British diplomat who spent several years in the country. This copy belonged to Haldane Macfall while he was writing his classic picaresque West Indian masterpiece set in Barbados <i>The Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer </i>1897. Ownership inscription inside front cover: "C. Haldane Macfall 60 Wynnstay Gardens Kensington SW '96." Macfall has made marginal scorings and underlinings on 82 pages in pencil the greatest number in the section on voodoo and also written 44 words. On free half of front end paper he cites three books on Haiti calling Moreau de St. Mery's "excellent & truthful." It is interesting that Macfall should focus on voodoo which St. John said involved cannibalism. Spine lettered in gold "St. John's/ Hayti." The covers are a little soiled and there is evidence of removal of a label from front cover. <b>Cundall </b>507. </p> Smith, Elder hardcover
