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8vo., First Edition thus, with 16 plates; original navy blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. The original edition is scarce in this condition. Not recorded by Enser.
Sm. 4to., 12pp., black-letter throughout, with a large woodcut illustrations and woodcut initial in the text; a near fine copy. Good quality facsimile of the original edition. The Reading Mercury was the town's first newspaper, one of the first in the UK and older than The Times. See Horrocks, p.157.
Sm. oblong booklet containing 10 monochrome postcards perforated at inner margin (all with original tissue guards), captioned in French and English; original printed wrappers in black, yapped edges, covers very lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. The photographs are by Thill of Brussels and include The Lion and the Panorama, Waterloo and Mont-St-Jean, the Three Monuments, French Monument, La Haye Saint, Prussian Monument, Hougoumont, the Lion, Belle-Alliance, and Mont- Saint-Jean. Nice example.
Sm. oblong booklet containing 9 monochrome postcards perforated at inner margin (all with original tissue guards), captioned in French and English; original printed wrappers in red and green, yapped edges, covers very lightly age-soiled else a near fine copy. Published in the series 'The Historical Belgium Artistic Collection of the Belgian Sites and Monuments'. The front wrapper carries the well-known circular ink stamp of 'Panorama de la Bataille de Waterloo', enclosing the lion memorial. The photographs are by Thill of Brussels and include The Lion and the Panorama, the Three Monuments, French Monument, La Haye Saint, Belgian Monument, the Lion, Papelotte Farm, Belle-Alliance, and Mont- Saint-Jean. Nice example.
8vo., Second Edition, with an engraved frontispiece, illustrated title in red and black, 6 fine wood-engraved plates FINELY COLOURED BY HAND and 26 engraved illustrations in the text, wanting front free endpaper, frontispiece and title lightly spotted; original pictorial red coarse-grain cloth, upper board elaborately blocked with multiple frame border in gilt and blind enclosing jester and title all in gilt, gilt back, gilt edges, bevelled boards, yellow endpapers, covers moderately age-soiled, corners scuffed, joints somewhat rubbed with one short tear, gathering cracked at F6-7 (but binding wholly sound) else a firm, tight copy. With Westley's binder's ticket on rear paste-down. Mackenzie's version of the German mediaeval classic was first published in 1860 as a Christmas volume, but stocks were swiftly exhausted and a second edition prepared to meet continuing demand. Mackenzie produced a lengthy additional preface to this second edition, attributing the success of the venture partly to 'the generous and unanimous verdict of the press' but also, surely, to the wonderful illustrations by 'Alfred Crowquill' (A.H. Forrester). Many would-be Christmas readers must have been disappointed for Mazkenzie dates his preface Christmas Eve, but scholars of mediaeval romance and fantasy will find this a most useful edition replete with extensive historical preface and bibliographical and other scholarly appendices. The US edition (T&F of Boston) of the same year is the first American edition of the tale in English. Scarce.
