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189342785London: Cassell & Company 1893. First edition. Hardcover. g- to g. Octavo. x 277pp. 16 pages of publisher's ads at the back. Blue-green pebbled cloth with gilt-stamped lettering and illustration on the front cover and spine. Floral endpapers. Illustrated frontispiece with a tissue guard. This is a first edition first issue with the price corrected iwith over-stamping on the page before the half title of the short story collection by Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection is comprised of three short stories " The Beach of Falesá" "The Bottle Imp" and "The Isle of Voices" and contains some of the author's last writing before his death the following year. The book has 27 plates of illustrations with an index including a color map lithographically printed corresponding to the first story. Binding with some light rubbing and bumping to extremities and hinges of the spine. Some light stains to the front and back boards. Spine sunned. Interior with with starting at the gutters of interior covers. Light age toning to the edges of pages. Spine slightly cocked. Binding in good- interior in good condition overall. Cassell & Company hardcover
18996390Boston: DeWolfe and Fiske Company 1899. Hard Cover. Fair binding. Quarto. 32 pp. illus plates. As issued backed in cloth with boards; front cover with a chromolithographic title vignette. Front cover is heavily soiled and abraded at the bottom near the spine with damage to the cover chromolithograph; binding is generally rubbed; early 20th century gift inscription on the front free endpaper; finger soiling and toning throughout but primarily to the first third of the book; three full page chromolithographs are very nice only one has minimal finger soiling to the margin. Uncommon with beautiful chromolithographs and numerous in-text illustrations throughout by Wetherbee Ford and Speed. DeWolfe and Fiske Company unknown
188939504Paris: Maison Quantin 1889. Forain. THE EXTRAORDINARY PROSPECTUS OF A LAVISHLY-ILLUSTRATED WORK ON THE CAFE-CONCERT.THAT WAS NEVER PUBLISHED! 8 pp two loose plates. Printed on Imperial Japanese paper with the loose plate in two states: in color on Imperial Japanese paper and in black on Japanese tissue. Only a few copies of this prospectus were printed and it is safe to assume that most have not survived the Bibliothèque Nationale has one missing the subscription form. Laid into this copy exceptionally is the subscription form 4 pp the final page blank. Large folio. Self-wraps. Some light wear to edges and the plate on Japan tissue a bit spotted else A PRISTINE COPY OF AN EXTREMELY RARE ITEM DEVOTED TO THE CAFE-CONCERT A PARISIAN INSTITUTION PAR EXCELLENCE. <br/><br/> Maison Quantin paperback
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
18301367819London: G. Virtue 1830. A new edition embellished with thirty-six scenes from real life. Hardcover. Octavo; New edition embellished. ; Fair; Hardcover; Spine brown with gold print on red banner; Boards in brown leather wear to spine caps edges and corners toning to spine and front board light scuffing else clean and strong; Text block has tinted top edge tanning to endpapers and title page missing pages 1-2 light amount of foxing within tears to edges of some plates else clean and tight; xvi 376 pages frontispiece illustrated color plates 3 folded leaves of printed music.<br /> <br /> <p>NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office Case #3. 1367819. FP New Rockville Stock. G. Virtue 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
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
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
190027009New York; London: Harper & Brothers 1900. First edition. Hardcover. g. Quarto. 14 115 1pp. Uncut. Original pictorial forest-green cloth stamped in gold light-green and white. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece. Printer's device on title-page. Title-page in red and black lettering. First book edition of this exquisite work which was originally published in Harper's Magazine the Saturday Evening Post and the London Sketch. It is profusely illustrated with numerous b/w illustrations by Peter Newell and Gustave Verbeek. Some age-wear on binding with slight rubbing along covers and head and tail of spine. Sporadic foxing on very first and very last pages. Binding and interior in overall good to good condition. Harper & Brothers hardcover
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
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
18801395279London: DSeeley Jackson and Halliday 1880. Hardcover. Quarto 56 pages. In Fair condition. Spine is brown with gold print. Boards in brown cloth with gold print mitred edges. Wear to spine caps and corners lightly cocked spine. Text block has gilt edges. Cracked hinges tanning to endpapers name in ink on front endpaper faint foxing from engraving ink transfer light age-toning to paper. Illustrated: frontispiece and b&w engravings.<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. 1395279. FP New Rockville Stock. DSeeley, Jackson, and Halliday hardcover
1867D12669London: Bell and Daldy Chiswick Press 1867. Hardcover. Very Good. Publisher's red cloth ornately stamped in blind and gilt on boards and spine a.e.g.; 8vo; pp. ix 1 398; plus 29 plates by C. W. Cope P. H. Calderon W. Millais W. Holman Hunt Otto Speckter G. H. Thomas E. Warren Lorenz Flohlich W. B. Scott E. B. Jones Harrison Weir John Tenniel Joseph Wolf W. P. Burton M. E. Edwards and Charles Keene. Complete. Cloth a little rubbed here and there; spine tips lightly chipped and fraying a bit along joints; some light bumping along edges of boards; joints and hinges tender with binding somewhat shaken. Internally bright and clean. Bookplate of Kenneth A. Lohf. <br/><br/> Bell and Daldy [Chiswick Press] hardcover
18231404388London: John Sharpe 1823-1825. Hardcover. 12mo Two volumes. In Good condition. Spines are brown with gold print on black banners raised bands. Boards in brown leather decorative gilt frame; slight wear to hinges and corners. Text blocks have marbled edges and endpapers; foxing to engraved plates and tissue guards. Illustrated: engraved title pages and plates with tissue guards. Bound by Lake of Urbridge Whittingham printing.<br /> <br /> CONTENTS: Paradise Lost 1925 unpaged — Paradise Regained Samson Agonistes Comus and Arcades 1923 variously paged.<br /> <br /> NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column W. 1404388. FP New Rockville Stock. John Sharpe 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
1882415057London : Ward Lock and Tyler 1882. Second Edition. Hardcover. Finely bound in the original elaborately gilt-blocked decorated cloth over bevelled boards. All edges gilt. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; internally tight bright and clean Physical description; 287 pages : illustrations 23 cm. Notes; Date is suggested. Subjects; English poetry. English wit and humor. London : Ward, Lock and Tyler hardcover
18754786London: Punch Office. 1875. Hardcover. Good. Boards rubbed especially spine. Most of the pages loose but present. Hinges cracked. Light foxing to endpapers ; Extremely scarce. Bound in dark blue leather boards with a closing flap. All edges gilt; 24mo; 192 pages . Punch Office 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
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
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
1885D2538Paris: A. Quantin 1885. Paperback. Very Good. Plain paper wraps with full-color illustrated jacket in glassine. Illustrated throughout with vignettes and tissue-guarded full-color plates. Includes a nice band of placeholder ribbons. Some light browning along edges of text block; glassine just a little chipped at spine tips and corners; first four pages starting. Nice. <br/><br/> A. Quantin paperback