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1843540812London: Wm. S. Orr & Co 1843. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Quarto. Printed on various color leaves with a publisher’s advertisement on recto of final leaf. Humorous articles verses etc. by Dickens Thackeray and others. Illustrated throughout with wood engravings designed by Alfred Forrester known under the pseudonym of Alfred Crowquill John Leech and others. Contemporary bookseller’s ticket and later owner’s small bookplate on front pastedown autograph note in pencil on front free endpaper. Contemporary half polished levant and pebbled cloth over boards gilt decorated spine with red titling label cream endpapers all edges gilt. Head and tail of spine and one corner tip neatly refurbished in matching leather joints are rubbed with light wear at corners a few small stains on endpapers very good. Wm. S. Orr & Co hardcover
18463650Paris: J. Hetzel 1846. First edition. Two large octavo volumes 10 3/8 x 6 7/8 inches; 263 x 175 mm. Contemporary half black hard-grain morocco ruled in gilt over black morocco-grain paper over boards. Smooth spines decoratively tooled in gilt and blind and lettered in gilt. Marbled edges and endpapers. Minor rubbing to extremities head of spine of Volume II expertly and almost invisibly repaired front hinge of Volume I cracked but sound. Minimal foxing and soiling. Small area of surface abrasion to upper blank margin of plate Artistes -6 facing page 160 in Volume II where it was once adhered to the facing page. Bookplate Bibliothèque de A. Vautrain on front pastedown of each volume. Collating 4 xxxii 380; 4 lxxx 364. Wood- engraved title vignette in each volume 212 wood-engraved plates 208 after Gavarni and four after Bertall with tissue guards and numerous wood-engraved head- and tail-pieces vignettes and initials. This copy with a duplicate of the plate facing in Volume I. Music. Overall an excellent copy.<br /> <br /> "The book appeared in part-issues at the rate of one or two a week between April of 1843 and December of 1845. The major attraction of Le diable à Paris resides in Gavarni's plates which are of even greater interest than the 320 wood engravings of his Oeuvres choisies 207. The engraving is superior for the most part and they are new conceptions not versions of his lithographs. He limits himself almost entirely to single figures or pairs evoked with his usual concentration and psychological subtlety. He had a free hand with his subjects since his designs are quite unrelated to Hetzel's text. As usual he arranged them as series some of which those devoted to writers and politicians for example are largely unprecedented in his previous repertory. He invaded Daumier's world with success in the fifteen plates of 'Bourgeois' exampled in the self-satisfied worthy reproduced II 328" Ray.<br /> <br /> Hiler 237. J. Hetzel unknown
188918524<p>Very Good HC no DJ. Red cloth over bevel-edged boards; black and gilt stamped hunting vignette and motif on front cover and spine; blind stamped double rule frame on rear cover. Bright clean covers; some fading of spine and spine titles and decorations but all remain legible; small splits at spine head with light rubbing wear; tightly bound; age darkened end papers; gift inscription on front free end paper; some foxing of few prelim and terminal leaves with occasional light foxing interior; otherwise very clean interior; leaves unopened at head edge throughout - never been read; bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown at lower inner corner. 8vo 405 pp; illustrated with 50 woodcut engravings 4 full page; 25 hand colored steel plate engravings including title page. No statement indicating this is a subscriber's edition.</p> London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co; ND (Ca. 1889) hardcover
18601086London: Ward & Lock. c.1860. First edition thus. Publisher's original colour-printed pictorial yellow card wrappers. Octavo 25 x 16.5cm. 8pp. printed on one side only and mounted on linen. Each page illustrated with a hand-coloured wood engraving by the Dalziel Brothers. Publisher's adverts to the rear cover verso. A very good copy the binding secure with a little separation to the covers at the foot of the spine a small chip to the head of the rear cover and minor wear to the extremities. The contents with scattered foxing are otherwise in very good order. A scarce mid-nineteenth-century edition of Sleeping Beauty the pages linen-backed and the illustrations hand-coloured. The title forms No. 11 in Ward and Lock's 'The National Nursey Tales' series which according to the publisher's advertisement are "handsomely printed with Coloured Illustrations price 6d. each or on Cloth indestructible 1s. as in the present copy. The attention of the Public is particularly called to this beautiful Series of Children's Books which are in every respect of a superior character. The drawings are by eminent Artists and the Engravings by Dalziel Brothers".</p><p>Only one institutional copy recorded in Britain according to Library Hub V&A. London: Ward & Lock. hardcover
1900403850London : The ""Leisure Hour"" Office 1900. First Edition. Softcover. Provenance: Bookplate of David Morris. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth over bevelled boards. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Date is suggested/cannot be verified. Physical description; 832 pages 27 cm illustration. Subjects; Children's literature ; Periodicals. Women ; Periodicals. Teenage girls ; Periodicals. Women Social life and customs 20th century ; Periodicals. Girls Great Britain ; Periodicals. London : The ""Leisure Hour"" Office paperback
184327567London: Henry Colburn 1843. New Edition. Hardcover. vg. Octavo. x324pp. Bound in red morocco with gold border and spine tooled in gold. Expertly rebacked retaining original spine. Raised bands. Floral Dentelles. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece engraving of author. Ornamental title-page border. Superb mid-nineteenth century publication on Windsor Castle. The former medieval castle now royal palace in Windsor in the English county of Berkshire is notable for its long royal history and its architecture. The original castle was built after the Norman invasion by William the Conqueror and since the time of Henry I it has been used by a succession of monarchs; it is the longest-occupied palace in Europe. Contents: Anne Boleyn. Herne the Hunter. The History of the Castle. Cardinal Wolsey. Mabel Lyndwood. Jane Seymor. Illustrated with etchings by George Cruikshank & Tony Johannot and wood-engravings by W. Alfred Delamotte. Two-inch split on joint at rear board along head of spine three-inch split along lower joints of front board firmly holding. Offsetting from inside of binding at edges of front- and rear endpaper. Slight age toning to outer edges of interior pages. Tight copy in very good condition. Tipped-in at blank page in front is an original handwritten 2 page signed letter dated May 10th 1880 by the author W. H. Ainsworth complaining to his binder about his work on "Now Monthly" . Letter in very good condition. Henry Colburn hardcover
182267110London: Thomas McLean 26 Haymarket 1822. Parts I and II only of VI 8vo 7 hand-colored aquatint plates after Alken and Barenger by G. & T. Hunt; both issues in original pictorial wrappers; some tears creases and minor losses but generally good or better. Contained in a quarter red morocco folding box with red calf label lettered in gilt on the upper cover. This periodical is rare in the printed wrappers. Thomas McLean, 26, Haymarket unknown
1879403845London : ""Boy's Own Paper"" Office 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth over bevelled boards. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall. Date is suggested/cannot be verified. Physical description; 840 pages 29 cm heavily illustrated illustrated endpapers. Subjects; Children's literature English ; Periodicals. Adventure stories English ; Periodicals. Children's periodicals English. Boys ; Juvenile literature ; Periodicals. Boys ; Periodicals. London : ""Boy's Own Paper"" Office hardcover
1894416739London ; New York : Cassell 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor copy in the original aniline calf over plain cloth with gilt-blocked motif to front and back boards. All edges gilt. Boards dust-toned. Spine bands and panel edges bumped and worn as with age. Front board and preliminary pages starting to detach. Remains quite a good example in need of some attention. Physical description; 92 pages 17 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 45 cm. Notes; Date is suggested. Republished from ""Character sketches from Dickens"" 1879-85. Subjects; Dickens Charles 1812-1870 Illustrations. Dickens Charles 1812-1870 Characters. Dickens Charles 1812-1870 Criticism and interpretation. Characters and characteristics. Novelists English 19th century ; Biography. Biography Biographies Novelists Authors 19th Nineteenth Century. London ; New York : Cassell hardcover
1834V62471London: Simpkin & Marshall 1834 but no date given. Hardcover. Good. Engraved plates 40 incl. illustrated titlepage doublpage map by W.H. Bartlett T. Barber et al. 235x152mm in 4's green cloth spined boards newer rebind and new endpapers 110pp some foxing and edge browning but all plates with tissue guards present. Generally clean and tight. Simpkin & Marshall hardcover
1900274959Edinburgh: Blackwood 1900. hardcover. very good. Historical descriptions by John Hill Burton. Illustrated with 240 fine steel engravings with tissue guards and many text illustrations in woodcut. 4 volumes tall 4to blue cloth. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd n.d. ca. 1900 Very good.<br/> <br/> Blackwood unknown
1826H40537London: Sherwood Jones and Co 1826. First Printing. Hardcover. Good. 2 volumes large 8vo 9.5 x 6.25 inches full midnight blue morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe good set with strengthening to outer joints and inner hinges of three of the four boards neatly done. 71 handcolored plates mainly by Robert Cruikshank 1 uncolored woodcut plate and many in-text illustrations contents very good to fine spine color has mellowed to a pleasing dark brown. Sherwood, Jones, and Co hardcover
18830076593London: Sampson Low Marston Searle and Rivington 1883. Later edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1883. Handsomely bound in full calf by Sotheran. Hardcover large 4to. 5 raised bands gilt titles and dentelles marbled endpapers aeg. Illustrated by Armstrong Small and Boot. 527 pp. A Very Good copy. Sunning and offsetting to the boards; light scuffing to raised bands and spine ends; small scratched area on the front board. The contents are bright clean and unmarked. Strong square binding. Armorial bookplate of British Army officer Frederick William Stopford on the front pastedown. Digital images available upon request. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington hardcover
1871h43722Philadelphia: Lippincott 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Small quarto 11.25 x 8.25 inches publisher's decorated beveled green cloth stamped in gilt good with some moderate wear to corners and spine ends light tide marks from old waterstaining to contents foxing. 47 pp printed on rectos front sides only featuring verse by John Monsell Henry Downton Ada Cambridge and others well illustrated with woodcut illustrations and vignettes by Dalziel -- which of the brothers we're not sure. Quite rare in the trade OCLC locates only 2 holdings and despite the British illustrator and authors we could not locate on Worldcat the equivalent UK edition which we find somewhat mystifying. Not the best copy of this book but where will you find another Lippincott hardcover
189185548Keppler & Schwarzmann New York 1891. Hardcover. Used - Very Good. Puck Keppler & Schwarzmann New York 1891. iv232 pages no advertisements. Engravings. 7 x 5.5" gold stamped green cloth spine green stamped white boards; top edge trimmed. Bibliography of American Literature 1913. Sept. 2 1890 autograph letter on Puck stationery inserted: 'As there is no published portrait of me I am unable to accede to request'. Cover edges rubbed toned bit shaken VG. Keppler & Schwarzmann, New York hardcover
1894024029Chicago Illinois: Pilgrim's Progress Publishing Co. 1894. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good. Barnard Frederick; Dalziel Brothers. Bunyan's celebrated 1678 Christian allegory specifically designed to appeal to young readers with 100 illustrations by Frederick Barnard & other artists as well as engravings by the Dalziel Brothers. In 327 pages with an Introductory Notice of the Author. Copyrighted in 1893 by John C. Winston who also provided the lithographed Frontispiece from 1890 this is the 1894 edition by Pilgrim's Progress Publishing Co. Small quarto 7.75" x 10" has brilliantly decorated brown cloth boards stamped with an elaborate design of Christian on his journey & black lettering to front & spine. Condition is VG- minus: quite clean with the occasional spot or smudge text block strong & straight though both hinges are cracked & rear endpapers have become detached. Modest rubbing to extremities very heavy at both ends of spine & all corners--all show slight tears & fraying. Pages creamy white with age-appropriate tanning heavier to edges. Light foxing to title page which becomes quite heavy on the adjacent tissued guard. No DJ as issued: the boards are lovely enough! Our photos depict the exact book you will receive never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays Pacific time; later orders Weekends & holidays ship very next business day. <br/> <br/> Pilgrim's Progress Publishing Co. hardcover
1856640978J. B. Lippincott and Co 1856. First Edition. Leather Binding. Very Good. First Edition. 7.25 x 10.5 in. 298pp. with 50 lithographic plates printed and colored by J.T. Bowen some finished by hand after drawings by George G. White and drawings on stone by William E Hitchcock complete and all accounted for Rebound in 3/4 brown calf over brown cloth spine with dark brown leather label gilt ruling and date at foot. A Very Good copy text has some foxing and dampstain to lower margin of text which has the very faintest visibility to lower margins of some plates not affecting images. // One of the cornerstones of American ornithological literature first issued in 10 parts with the preface contents and index appearing in this first full edition of 1856. As set forth in the preface the work was 'to be regarded in some measure as an addition to the works of former authors in American Ornithology but at the same time complete in itself.' Cassin especially sought to describe birds not known to Audubon. Sabin 11369; Sitwell p 85; Wood p 281; Zimmer p 124. J. B. Lippincott and Co unknown
18831395304London: Seeley Jackson and Halliday 1883. Second edition. Hardcover. Quarto 86 pages. In Fair condition. Spine is blue with gold print. Boards in blue cloth with gold print mitred edges. Tattering to spine caps and corners spotty stains to front panel scratches to spine shelf wear. Text block has gilt edges. Cracked front hinge. Illustrated: b&w plates etchings and vignettes. <br /> <br /> Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates.<br /> <br /> <p>NOTE: Shelved in the Back Area Oversized Folios. 1395304. FP New Rockville Stock. Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday hardcover
1888469689Boston Mass: L. Prang & Co 1888. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by Harriet D. Andrews and Mary K. Talcott. Quarto. 9 leaves printed on rectos only: title page and 8 color lithographic plates designed by Andrews and Talcott six of which are printed in multiple colors including gold and silver. Publisher’s brown padded silk over boards with color pictorial design on front cover floral gold-illuminated endpapers. The silk boards have a few patches of modest staining on the outer margins of the front cover and fore-edge of back cover rubbing and some fraying at the edges of the boards spine ends and corners else a very good copy with the interior plates fine and bright. A beautiful edition of Cooke’s poem with six plates of floral and botanical themes printed in vibrant color by L. Prang. L. Prang & Co hardcover
18289027029London: Jones 1828. Hardcover. Very good. Cruikshank George. Illustrated with three etched frontispieces by George Cruikshank and 84 woodcut illustrations by George and Robert Cruikshank et al. "With a copious and classified index" in each volume. Bound in half black morocco with gilded bands spine stamped in both gilt and blind black cloth boards ruled in gilt printed endpapers. A few signatures loose but stilll holding otherwise binding is intact. A nice clean set. <br/><br/> Jones hardcover
1843140947309London: Chapman & Hall / Bradbury & Evans 1843. First Edition. Near Fine. 1843 1845 1846 1846 1848. First editions of all five of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books Smith II.4-6 II.8-9. A Christmas Carol is the first issue with title page printed in red and blue dated 1843 in Roman numerals; half title and verso of title page printed in blue; "Stave I" on page 1. The Chimes first edition second issue with the publisher's name below the plate on the vignette title page. The Cricket on the Hearth first edition second issue with 2pp. ads. The Battle of Life first edition Todd's fifth state of the engraved title page with "A Love Story" in a scroll held by a cupid; terminal ads announce the publication in parts of Dombey and Son and the bound volume of Oliver Twist. The Haunted Man first edition first and only issue.<p>All five volumes bound in full polished calf with elaborate gilt seasonal stamping unique to each book. Morocco title labels to ribbed spines gilt dentelles all edges gilt. Sangorski & Sutcliffe stamp in gilt to front turn-in of each volume. Original cloth covers and spines bound in rear of all volumes but the last. Housed in an open-ended slipcase moderately rubbed and toned covered in the same floral gilt-embellished paper used for endpapers. Near Fine with slightly rubbed spines. Light edge toning to interiors occasional thumbing and staining and spots of foxing. <p>No writer is more closely associated with Christmas than Charles Dickens who began with the immortal A Christmas Carol in November 1843. It was published on December 19 and sold so well there were seven editions by the following May. The Chimes followed in December 1844 and three more books appeared in 1845 1846 and 1848 two of the title page dates follow the then-common practice of dating a book published in November or December with the coming year.<br /> <p>The enduring appeal of Dickens’ Christmas stories lies in his unmatched ability to combine sentimentality with melancholy or righteous fury a balancing act of light and dark. A Christmas Carol composed as Dickens walked weeping through the dark London streets was intended to draw attention to the plight of the working poor in London. The Chimes attacks the cruelty and hypocrisy of the rich and the protagonist of The Cricket on the Hearth contemplates murder. The Haunted Man the last novella emphasizes the need to remember past sorrows and hardships.<br /> <br /> <p>Dickens wanted his Christmas books to be pretty – his specifications for the first cut severely into his profits – and it is appropriate that these copies have been given jewel-like bindings by Sangorski & Sutcliffe one of the most famous fine binderies in the English-speaking world. A beautiful set of beautiful stories illustrated by the leading artists of the day. Chapman & Hall / Bradbury & Evans unknown
183725411London: Chapman and Hall 1837. First edition second issue. Hardcover. g. Octavo. XIV 2 609 1pp. 3/4 leather over marbled paper covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Engraved frontispiece and title-page. First edition second issue of this fascinating work profusely illustrated with forty-three Illustrations by R. Seymour and Phiz. The plates are in early states with page locations and without titles or imprints but the earliest Buss and Seymour plates have been replaced by those of Phiz. The engraved title is showing the later correction "Weller". Other issue points: p.43 2nd paragraph below chapter V line 1 reads "ruined wall" in the singular; with the signature misprint on p.261 reading X2; with signature "E" present on p.25; the d of "holding" is raised above line on p.260; p.342 line 5 "S. Veller" instead of Weller; p.400 line 21 "his friends". Some rubbing along edges of binding. Contemporary previous owner's signature on fly leaf. Plates foxed. Lower corner of very first pages damp-stained. Binding in overall good interior in good to very good condition. Chapman and Hall hardcover
188076438München: Braun & Schneider c. 1880. Folio 35x23 cm. Publisher binding. Halfcloth frontcover with handcoloured illustration. - Münchener Bilderbogen verschiedene Auflagen. Erster Bogen - Fünfziger Bogen: Ausgewählte Nummern zwischen 296 und 818. 50 double-page plates printed on one side only: on each plate 4 handcoloured costume illustrations with explanatory titles 100 leaves with folt in the middle. Woodcuts by Knilling. - Nice copy. With the plates in vivid colours representing historical costumes and costumes of all over the world. - Added "Sachregister Bogen 1-91" 8 pp. Braun & Schneider hardcover
182154180London: Printed for Jones & Co. Oxford Arms Passage Paternoster-Row 1821. First. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes octavo published in 1821 and 1822. 2: title verso blank iii-x 3-656; 2: title verso blank i-ix 1: blank 3-668 pp. Hand-colored engraved frontispiece and pictorial hand-colored title in each volume plus 30 hand-colored aquatint plates in the text. Later full crimson morocco triple-ruled in gilt; spine with raised bands lettered in gilt; gilt turn-ins; all edges gilt. Spine extremities and bands rubbed. Occasional mild toning and smudges. Complete with all 28 text plates called for in the Directions to the Binder along with an additional two plates "Tom and Bob Catching a Charley Napping" Abbey no. 34 and "St. George's Day Presentation at the Levee" Abbey no. 31. A very good or better set in a handsome signed binding by Riviere and Son.<br /> <br /> First edition later issue of this imitation of Pierce Egan's Life in London 1821. While sometimes attributed to Egan the work was possibly written by John Badcock. "Out of the sixty-five imitations of it which Egan stated that he had reckoned the most important was Real Life in London. which was published in sixpenny numbers in 1821 with excellent illustrations by Heath Alken Dighton Rowlandson and others. Real Life in London is a pleasanter book than its prototype. Some have held that Egan wrote it; but the author had a purer style a cleaner mind and a wider knowledge of London than Egan" The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. "From a bibliographical point of view one of the most complicated and bewildering books ever published rivaling Pickwick in the tangle of variant states that exist both in text and plates. The work had a tremendous success probably out-rivaling in popularity its prototype. A difficult feature of the book is that two printers. printed copies textually the same page by page with only minor variations in the settings and this coupled with the fact that during the eight or nine years it was being reprinted makes the whole vast output all 'first editions' but with innumerable states and variants that continually overlap one with the other" Abbey. "Originally published in 56 parts on completion the work was issued in boards. Later copies were bound in publisher's cloth. A book full of contrarities and difficulties for the bibliographer there being innumerable variations of the plates. The difficulties are further increased by many copies in modern bindings having been completed or made up of different issues giving combinations that are not true variations" Tooley. <br /> <br /> Printers: R. Bensley Bolt Court Fleet Street vol. 1; A. Applegath Stamford-street vol. 2. Second volume title and imprint: Real Life in London; or The Further Rambles and Adventures etc. - Printed for Jones & Co. 3 Warwick Square. 1822. References: Abbey Life 280 1821-22 first edition; J. H. Slater Illustrated Sporting Books 1899 p. 96; Tooley 198 1821-22 first edition. Printed for Jones & Co. Oxford Arms Passage, Paternoster-Row hardcover
182246London: Sherwood Neely and Jones 1822. Second Edition. Near fine. Isaac Robert Cruikshank & George Cruikshank. Tall 8vo 9 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches 234 x 148 mm; half-title hand-colored frontispiece title with vignette of St. Paul's xvi 376 pp 8 pp. advertisements. 3 foldout pages of music with Corinthian Tom's Song. 36 aquatint plates with hand-coloring each with protective blank sheet with offset from facing illustration; copious small in-text woodcuts. Later full red pebbled morocco with original spine panel single gilt fillet framing on boards gilt turn-ins marbled endpapers double raised bands with gilt and decorative motifs in compartments all edges gilt; spine very lightly rubbed. <br /> Second edition as stated at the foot of page 9.<br /> Tooley 198; Prideaux 335. A beautifully illustrated and hand-colored volume. Pierce Egan 1772-1849 was a British journalist sportswriter and writer on popular culture best-knows work is Life in London first published in 1821. The book was adapted into the stage play Tom and Jerry or Life in London later that year and it became the first play to have a continuous run of 100 performances in London while at the Adelphi Theatre in the West End. Egan turned to the Cruikshank brothers Robert and George for the illustrations. They produced 21 woodcuts and 36 lively and colorful plates to represent the range of characters and situations described in the book. The success of Life in London was so great that the artists could not color the engravings quickly enough for the demand. The book was adapted for the stage later that year and the play Tom and Jerry or Life in London became the first play to have a continuous run of 100 performances in London while at the Adelphi Theatre in the West End. The book was reprinted in 1822 1823 1830 1841 1870 and 1904. Numerous imitations soon appeared namely Carey's Life in Paris Real Life in London Real Life in Ireland et al. Sherwood, Neely, and Jones unknown