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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
186935984Boston: Bradlee Whidden 1869. Folio. 15 chromolithographic plates after Frederic Remington A.B. Frost Fred Cozzens R.F. Zogbaum Henry Sandham and others. 32 ff. letterpress. Expertly bound to style in full dark purple straight grained morocco.<br/> <br/> A rare large-format work on sport in late 19th-century America including Frederic Remington's first two published prints in color a rare A.B.Frost image of deer-hunting and images from Fred. S.Cozzens and other top illustrators of the day.<br/> <br/> The present work includes six angling plates three of fly-fishing four plates of game-bird hunting and five of hunting larger game. Each of the fifteen subjects is first described in general terms on a single leaf of text followed by a second leaf giving a first-hand account of catching or shooting the subject followed by a chromolithograph illustrating the first-hand account. According to Gould's preface the plates are all from water-colours especially commissioned for the work which were subjected to the critical scrutiny of a group of anglers/sportsmen who judged them for technical accuracy. The plates are as follows: 1. Killing the Salmon. Henry Sandham. 2. A Moose hunt. Henry Sandham. 3. Trout fishing. Henry Sandham. 4. Fly-fishing for Black Bass. S.F. Denton. 5. Hunting Antelope i.e. Prong-horn. Frederic Remington. 6. Catching a Tarpon. Fred. S. Cozzens. 7. Mallard shooting. S.F. Denton. 8. Catching a Mascalonge. Frank H. Taylor. 9. A Wild Turkey hunt. R.J. Zogbaum. 10. Sailing for Bluefish. Fred S.Cozzens. 11. Hunting the Virginia Deer. A.B. Frost. 12. A day with the Prairie Chickens. R.F. Zogbaum. 13. A hunt above the timber-line Big-horn. Edward Knobel. 14. Canada Goose shooting. Frederic Remington. 15. Stalking the Wapiti. Henry Sandham. The two plates by Frederic Remington Hunting Antelope Hassrick & Webster 434 and Goose Shooting Hassrick & Webster 435 are also listed by Peggy and Harold Samuels Remington The Complete Prints New York 1990 pp.152-3 with the comment that they are the first and second Remington prints to appear in color. They were preceded only by a series of four monochrome photogravures for John Muir's Picturesque California 1888 and two other individual prints both black and white. Arthur Burdett Frost is now perhaps best known for his sporting pictures and prints but an aversion to deer-hunting meant that he rarely pictured shooting scenes that featured anything other than small game. His image Hunting the Deer is recorded and illustrated in Henry M.Reed's The A.B.Frost Book Charleston 1993 pp.101 104-5 but the author was apparently unaware that it was issued as part of the present work which is not included in the extensive appendix of books illustrated by Frost.<br/> <br/> Phillips p. 141; Wetzel p. 146; Sherwin sale 1946 lot 238; Bruns G120; Heller 1:502; Bennett p.48; Tyler Prints of the West pp.127 & 174; not in Reese Stamped with a National Character. Bradlee Whidden unknown
1817007975London: Henry Colburn 1817. First edition. Three Quarters Morocco. Marbled pastedown on boards. Near Fine. 4to. 30.5 by 27 cm. xviii 2 368 pp. 28 hand-colored aquatint plates of which one is a half-title page another is a double paged and folding panorama plate of The Battle of Waterloo; plus two folding maps. The plate count given in the book's plate description is 30 and this includes the maps. Tooley 336. Abbey Life 372. Cohn Cruikshank 580. Missing as typical View of Brussels but with "Flight of Bonaparte". Rouse was responsible for almost all of the plates with Cruikshank the artist for the large folding plate depicting the Battle of Waterloo and the frontis plate which contains portraits of the leading generals. Rouse though had a hand in the printing of these as well. Condition: Rubbing along the joints on the cover with a touch of rawness in the very upper reach of the front hinge but overall a highly attractive three quarter red morocco binding with raised bands gilt lettering and ruled and dotted decoration on the spine. Scattered light soiling within and the typical quotient of offsetting but mostly clean. The Cruikshank Waterloo plate has smudgy margins but a good amount of this can be removed with a simple eraser if one wishes to make the effort -- we did test this. The large folding map has fold tears with one irregularly bordered tear. The whole map we would note is present. Henry Colburn unknown
1821003813London: R. Ackermann 1821. First edition. Contemporary Full Morocco. Very Good. 4to. 34 by 29 cm. vi 2 286 pp. Hand-colored title vignette and 48 hand-colored engraved plates. The plates capture the poetic beauty of the legendary lake region exquisitely. TEG. Moderate rubbing to contemporary red morocco along edges faint dampstain markings and a few other scuffs and other indicia of wear but still a very handsome binding. Dampstaining to the edges of the endpapers. Foxing of a few early leaves as well as the final ones. Faint dampstaining affecting the margins of perhaps a dozen plates and also visible in the fore-edge when the pages are fanned. However most leaves are clean and the plates themselves come off generally as quite fresh and vibrant. R. Ackermann unknown
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
18653790London: Bradbury & Evans 1865. First edition. Third issue with Part I's title Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds in solid lettering in the original twelve monthly parts May 1864-April 1865. Octavo 8 3/4 x 5 5/8 in; 223 x 144 mm.Collating vi 2 391 1 with twenty-four hand-colored steel-engraved plates two to each volume heightened with gum arabic. The illustrations to Parts VIII-XII are unsigned but by Hablot K. Brown aka "Phiz." The woodcut on the upper wrapper is by Hablot K. Brown. Advertisements collate per Schwerdt save Part VI which lacks the Note of Lever's Martin and Part VII lacking the slip for The Belle of the Village. Publisher's original red-brown pictorial wrappers. Minimal restoration of spines to a few volumes tiny chip to fore- edge of Part I otherwise an excellent and quite lovely set. Chemised and housed in a red cloth clamshell case with black leather spine label lettered in gilt.<br /> <br /> "Although Surtees approached his publishers in July 1861 with the idea of bringing out 'Mr. Facey Romford' they preferred not to undertake the matter until Mr. Leech's services were definitely secured and there would be no questoin of such delays as had occurred in the illustrations of 'Handley Cross.' Leech promised however to being in January 1862 and the situation seemed sufficiently secure to set up the type but just at this time the artist held his first exhibition of oil paintings which proved so successful and diverting that the 'Facey Romford' illustrations were again postponed. Surtees in despair at last offered the book in August 1864 to The Field where is was refused. In March of that year Leech finally undertook the drawings but never lived to complete the work which was carried on byPhiz" Field.<br /> <br /> Field 225. Tooley 475. Schwerdt II 237. Podeschi 207. Bradbury & Evans unknown
1822V71064London: Printed by W. Lewis for Thomas McLean 26 Haymarket 1822. Hardcover. Very Good. Hand-coloured aquatint plates 16 of 19 after H. Alken and J. Barenger by G. and T. Hunt. Volume I Nos. I-VI Jan-June 15 1822 all published Royal octavo red half roan original boards covered in blue sugar paper spine title gilt rebacked with matching red roan corners original spine laid on original free end-papers with new pastedown armorial bookplate with motto DA VIS and pencilled ownership H. Davis at head of titlepage vi 2pp list of engravings 540pp 16 of 19 hand-colored plates. LACKS 4 text leaves pp 217-24 - the missing 3 plates and 4 text leaves in colour facsimile reproduced from the 1904 reprint bound in to match. One gathering with edges browned some offsetting from plates to text otherwise clean and crisp throughout. Beautiful bright hand-coloured plates of hunting shooting tandem-driving livestock etc. Very rare in original edition Schwerdt II p.212 "the first and only edition of a rare and valuable magazine". This is the original 1822 edition not the more common reprint published in 1904. Printed by W. Lewis for Thomas McLean, 26, Haymarket hardcover
185717417<p>London H. Hering n.d. 1857 First edition. Undated but the December 12 1857 issue of Bent's Literary Advertiser lists the book as recently published. The identity of the poet is unclear though a children's phonic reading book published in 1876 reprints the poem and attributes it to a Frances S. Hodgson not to be confused of course with Secret Garden author Frances E. Hodgson Burnett. Publisher's color-printed white pictorial boards with blue cloth spine. Pale yellow endpapers. . Oblong quarto. . Richly color printed on every leaf. Illumination inspired by the work of Owen Jones and Noel Humphreys. The designs incorporate medieval illumination-inspired initial letters and decorative bands. Text in Gothic script. Foxing to boards and some edgewear. Contemporary ink ownership signature Eliza Maude Widdas to front flyleaf and twentieth century bookplate Edward J. Law to front pastedown. Very clean and bright throughout. A very good copy of a scarce book. We could not locate much information on Elizabeth Howard-Vyse née Seymour 1815 – 1892 and Fanny Lucy Cecilia Greville 1831 – 1912 in the sources available to us. Howard-Vyse also published a travel account A Winter in Tangier and Home Through Spain 1882. This appears to be Greville's only published book. Howard-Vyse was married to Lt. Col. George Howard-Vyse at the time the present work was published; the couple lived in Windsor which was likely also the home of Greville who was the daughter of a Vice-Admiral in the British Navy. Henry Hering 1814 – 1893 was a publisher society photographer and the last in a family line of bookbinders. Though his primary business venture was not printing he did dabble in printing religious texts and gift books often with his partner Remington and was a promoter of Achille Colas' relief printing process.</p> H. Hering, 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
187539211Milano: Enrico Pestalozzi 1875. A gorgeous album devoted to Ferrara. 175 6 pp. plus 32 full-page steel engravings and lithographs two of the latter are delicately colored by hand. On fine wove paper. Large folio 38.5 x 28.5 cm. In the original embossed polished cloth binding title in gilt. A bit of light wear to binding and a bit of faint internal spotting but still a very good undoctored copy. Extremely rare. One copy in WorldCat. <br/><br/> Enrico Pestalozzi 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
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
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
18991803120045London : Grant Richards 1899. Hardcover. Good. Two octavo volumes 25 cm. 1899-1900. 12 issues of the entire reissue of the Butterfly. Contemporary 3/4 green Moroccan leather over green linen. iv 278; ii 294 pp; illustrated. Rubbing slight fading to spines. Occasional spotting. Original yellow wraps bound in rear of volumes. Wraps evenly faded and toned. <br> In 1899 Richards attempted to revive a literary monthly created by Walter Haddon in 1893 called The Butterfly. <br> Contributors to The Butterfly which only lasted twelve issues included H. D. Lowry Arthur Morrison Nora Hopper and many others. Each issue was heavily Illustrated with reproductions of drawings by Max Beerbohm S. H. Sime and Joseph Pennell among others. <br> Includes the first appearance of A Vision of Judgment by D.O. H. G. Wells and 3 pieces of fiction by Laurence Housman: The Palace of Content; A Gander and His Geese; and Tales of a Woodcutter The Old Yew Tree and The Whitethorn's Story. <br> From the estate of Jim Graham former Washington D.C. City Council Member 1998-2014. Graham was head of Whitman-Walker Clinic 1984–1999 and a noted gay community pioneer. London : Grant Richards hardcover
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
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
186523803London: Day & Son 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Maroon cloth lettered in gilt rebacked with most of original spine laid down. Aeg. Very good. Jones Owen. Small folio 28 x 22 cm. 52 chromolithograph plates on twenty-six leaves by Owen Jones and Henry Warren on stone by Albert Warren. Each illustration and accompanying text in a distinct decorative border. GORDON N. RAY The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914 notes that in his later years Owen turned to "original designs of his own." This mid-Victorian time period was the heyday of chromolithography printing with this a brilliant example. Embossed cloth decorated in gilt and green with gilt lettering. Lovely example of Victorian binding beveled edges endpapers toned slight toning to a few fore-edges not affecting plates which are brilliant and clean. Endpapers renewed front cover lettered and decorated in gilt with green rectangular border in gilt. Day & Son 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
185316150London: David Bogue etc. Fair with no dust jacket. 1853. Hardcover. Chipping to spine heads and tails complete rear edge tear on second and fourth volumes some loose plates 1853 fold-out in two pieces gutter starting and some with hand-stitched repairs worn. With care still solid hardcovers. ; All nineteen annual issues from 1835 to 1853 bound in four volumes. Not the 1860 Hotten reprint as contains the calendars etc. The Almanack for each year has separate title page and paging. Contents: Comic Almanack 1835-37 edited by Horace Mayhew and illustrated by George Cruikshank published by David Bogue; Comic Almanack 1838-40 by Rigdum Funnidos Gent. and illustrated by George Cruikshank imprinted for Charles Tilt Bibliopolist; Comic Almanack 1841-43 by Rigdum Funnidos Gent. and illustrated by George Cruikshank imprinted for Tilt and Bogue Bibliopolists; Comic Almanack 1844-45 by Rigdum Funnidos Gent. and illustrated by George Cruikshank imprinted for David Bogue Bibliopolist; Comic Almanack 1846 edited by Horace Mayhew and illustrated by George Cruikshank David Bogue; Comic Almanack 1847 by Rigdum Funnidos Gent. and illustrated by George Cruikshank imprinted for David Bogue Bibliopolist; Comic Almanack 1848 edited by Horace Mayhew and illustrated by George Cruikshank imprinted for David Bogue Bibliopolist; Comic Almanack 1849 edited by Horace Mayhew and illustrated by H G Hine and others imprinted for David Bogue Bibliopolist; Comic Almanack and Diary 1850 edited by Henry Mayhew and illustrated by George Cruikshank David Bogue; Comic Almanack and Diary 1851 edited by Henry Mayhew and illustrated by George Cruikshank and H G Hine David Bogue; Comic Almanack and Diary 1852 illustrated by George Cruikshank David Bogue; Comic Almanack 1853 edited by Robert B Brough illustrated by George Cruikshank and H G Hine London: David Bogue. Fold-outs for 1850 and 1851 are hand-colored. Bookplate of Chas. Smith Jr Tappan Rockland Co. N. Y. "By My Books I Live" on volume one paste-down. Albert M Cohn; George Cruikshank: A Catalogue Raisonne of the work executed during the years 1806-1877; 184. There are no covers nor advertising bound in. Per Cohn there should be 195 Cruikshank plates however in 1841 two plates are replace by duplicates of 1841 plates in 1842 one plate is replaced by a duplicate of another 1842 plate and the November 1842 plate is missing. Foldouts from 1852 and 1853 are not hand-colored. Therefore of the expected 195 Cruikshank plates only 194 are present and 191 are as called for. Additionally Cohn calls for the 1835-37 to have been printed by Tilt these have Bogue on the title pages. Overall a worn and slightly imperfect set of the full run of the Comic Almanack suitable for savoring the George Cruikshank plates and text illustrations. . David Bogue etc hardcover
18961109717<p>Chicago: Powers Fowler and Lewis 1896. Novelty. Collectible - Good/No Jacket. Wood cloth covered case that opens up to an easel display. The clapse on the case is operating. The exterior of the case has fraying on edges and scuffing. There are 2 books on the lower part of the easel when it is opened. One is 'Pen Pictures' A short description of each of the books in the Bible. The second is Bible Study. The upper portion contains 2 interior scrolls with a window for each of bible pictures. These are in color. The metal key is in the pocket but the scrolls do not work. The entire scroll appears to be intact but will not turn. The case is about 16.5 x 16.5. 5 pounds.</p> Powers, Fowler and Lewis
1837473178Rudolph Ackermann Eclipse Sporting Gallery London 1837 Second Edition. 1837. Hardcover. hardback large 8vo xii206pp. title vignette and 18 hand coloured aquatints by H. Alken and T.J. Rawlins. owner's bookplate of Richard Meinertzhagen with a signed inscription on flyleaf 'Ben Lind from Dick Meinerzhagen Jan 1935' the recipients not known; from the Pollen / Benson family library of Norton Hall occasional slight foxing otherwise clean and binding sound page edges gilt marbled endpapers gilt-decorated full leather binding slightly rubbed Very Good condition . Rudolph Ackermann, Eclipse Sporting Gallery, London, 1837, Second Edition, hardcover
1900232828Sampson Low Marston & Company London 1900. 1900. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition hardback 8vo xvi294pp illustarted page edges gilt pages browning otherwise clean and sound no inscriptions internal binding shaken but holding red printed cloth slightly frayed at top of spine spine titles faded Good condition . Sampson Low, Marston & Company, London, 1900, 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
187640759London: William Tegg 1876. 4to. 10 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches. 96 pp. 47 lithograph plates on 45 sheets. Publisher's red cloth gilt decoration and title on front cover and spine.<br/> <br/> A delightful volume of lithographic plates by the Junior Etching Club a prestigious organization instrumental in the revival of etching in late-Victorian England with illustrations by James McNeil Whistler and others.<br/> <br/> 'Passages from Modern English Poets was issued by Day and Son in 1862 in a large octavo. In 1876 another edition in large quarto with etchings transferred to stone and printed as lithographs was published by William Tegg. In this notable volume Millais is represented by Summer Indolence a most graceful study of a girl lying on her back in a meadow with a small child who is wearing a daisy chain seated at her side. Mr. J. McNeill Whistler contributes two delightful landscapes The Angle and A River Scene. "Summer Indolence" by famed Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais derives from a figure in Millais's painting "Spring Apple Blossoms." The Etching Revival and Pre-Raphaelite Movement shared many comonalities as new artistic forms in the Victorian Era. These groups held artists in common as well as close ties with literature especially poetry. Communing the poetry of authors Lord Byron Wordsworth Tennyson etc with new expressive etchings Passages from Modern English Poets encompasses a whimsical artistic and literary facet of the Victorian Era.<br/> <br/> Gleeson White English illustration 'The Sixties': 1855-70; "A Selection of Etchings by the Etching Club" The Met. William Tegg unknown
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
