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1858203962Stockholm : Ostlund & Berlingska 1858. Second Edition. Hardback. Good copy bound in contemporary gilt-blocked leather-backed black buckram. Spine bands and panel edges worn as with age. Surface marks on spine cover. Scattered foxing. Remains quite well-preserved overall. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 400 pages; Physical description: xxxvi 400 192p. music ; 23cm. Subjects: Swedish literature. Notes: text in double columns and within a single-lined border. Half title reads: Tornrosens Bok eller Fria Fantasier berattade pa jagtslottet hos Herr Hugo Lowenstjerna. Bound with: Tornrosens bok Imperial octav upplaga tredje delen 192p. 1850. Language: Swedish. Stockholm : Ostlund & Berlingska hardcover
1840203957Stockholm : Horbergska Boktryckeriet 1840. First Edition. Hardback. Very good copy bound in contemporary gilt-blocked 1/2 leather over marbled boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Spine sun-toned. Previous owner's signature to title page. Scattered foxing. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 262 pages; Description: 262p. 17cm. Subjects: Swedish literature -- Swedish fiction -- 19th century. Stockholm : Horbergska Boktryckeriet hardcover
1840204074Stockholm : Laserons 1840. First Edition. Hardback. Near fine copy in a modern fine binding of leather-backed boards. Gilt-blocked red leather labels to spine with raised bands. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Bound with original front cover paper wrapper. Scattered foxing. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 610 pages; Description: 1v.: 610p. 21cm. Subjects: History -- Human geography. Language: Swedish. Note: title page dated 1839 front cover wrapper dated 1840. Stockholm : Laserons hardcover
1837122465London: Richard Bentley 1837. Hardcover. VG- Some wear to extremities; Front hinge cracked. Color marbled paper over boards; Brown leather at corners and spine; 402 pp.; 2 bw illustrations. Includes the following stories by English satirist Thomas Love Peacock: Headlong Hall Nightmare Abbey Maid Marian and Crotchet Castle. Richard Bentley hardcover
18389895515Whittaker and Co 1838. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. With owner's name inside cover. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Medium brown cloth 8vo. Blind border and motif mirrored on boards. Gilt lettering on backstrip. Grubby with bumped corners and a large split down backstrip seam. Contains a printed dedication to Michael Faraday. Binding tight. A couple of pages have small pencil markings. Pages fairly grubby. Trimmed. Illustrated. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item500grams ISBN: Whittaker and Co hardcover
186122181<p>London : Parker Son & Bourn 1861. First edition : in Carter's primary binding of green pebble-grain cloth. Peacock's final novel - a country house eccentric guests - and full to the last of his "inveterate prejudices and pugnacious hostility to every modern innovation" Garnett. Post 8vo 20cm. viii3164pp. Original cloth; some minor wear; endpapers cracking; text somewhat shaken and a little slack; some mild discolouration to first few leaves; occasional marking and spotting; but a good and presentable copy in cloth. With the neat ownership inscriptions of members of the Vachell and Wilson families. Wolff 5479. Carter BV pp.146-147 & MBV p.32.</p> London : Parker, Son & Bourn, 1861. hardcover
1845010477New York: Wiley and Putnam 1845. First American Edition. Quarter Leather. Good/No Jacket. Stated first American edition. Quarter green leather with marbled boards. 172 pp. Two works bound as one by Thomas Love Peacock. Headlong Hall being a social satire centered around eccentric characters their obsessions and their interactions with one another at a country estate of one of the characters while Nightmare Abbey satires the Romantic movement and authors in then contemporary English literature. Thomas Love Peacock was an English novelist perhaps best known for his satirical works. He was a friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley. GOOD condition. Moderate scuffing to the leather. Minor fading and toning. Armorial bookplate of G.F. Lindsay on the inside front cover. Wiley and Putnam unknown
1891616966J.M. Dent & Company 1891. Two volume set; limited numbered "Large Paper" edition; these copies #89 of 100 copies; covers unevenly age-toned soiled/rubbed spines deeply age- toned corners rubbed/very bumped spine ends rubbed/lightly bumped; edges lightly soiled/age-toned; endpapers unevenly age-toned faint erasures on ffep and rear pastedown of volume 1; bindings tight; cover edges and interior intact and clean except as noted. hardcover. Good. J.M. Dent & Company hardcover
1861220588London: Parker Son & Bourn 1861. First. hardcover. poor. 8vo green pebbled cloth extremities of spine chipped; corners rubbed cocked; some signatures loose. London: Parker Son & Bourn 1861. First Edition.<br/> <br/> Worn copy of an uncommon first edition Peacock's first work of fiction after a hiatus of 30 years.<br/> <br/> Parker, Son & Bourn unknown
1891616965J.M. Dent & Company 1891. Two volume set; limited numbered "Large Paper" edition; these copies #89 of 100 copies; covers unevenly age-toned soiled/rubbed spines deeply age- toned corners rubbed/very bumped spine ends rubbed/lightly bumped; edges lightly soiled/age-toned; endpapers unevenly age-toned faint erasures on ffeps and rear pastedowns; frontispiece of volume 1 portrait of the author loose but included bindings otherwise tight; cover edges and interior intact and clean except as noted. hardcover. Good. J.M. Dent & Company hardcover
1896e2135Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Browning to eps. Ex Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Library. 1896. First Edition. Green/gilt hardback cloth cover. 230mm x 140mm 9" x 6". xii 369pp. Line drawings. . James MacLehose and Sons hardcover
1891949T71London: J. M. Dent & Co. 1891. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 5.5". None. Two smart limited large paper editions of these works from English writer Thomas Love Peacock. Two volumes. Limited to one hundred copies of this large paper edition. With a portrait frontispiece. Written by Thomas Love Peacock an English novelist poet and official of the East India Company. Edited by Richard Garnett a British scholar librarian biographer and poet who was keeper of printed books at British Museum from 1890 to 1899. This set contains: Crotchet Castle 1891. Peacock assembles a group of eccentrics each with a single monomaniacal obsession and derives humour and social satire from their various interactions and conversations. Nightmare Abbey 1891. Following the fortunes of Christopher Glowry a morose widower who lives with his only son Scythrop in the isolated family mansion Nightmare Abbey in Lincolnshire. The work makes fun of contemporary literary trends. In the original full cloth binding. Externally smart with light rubbing to the extremities and fading to the spine and board edges. The odd mark to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Light age toning to the endpapers with a contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Very Good J. M. Dent & Co. hardcover
1845008561Wiley and Putnam 1845. Hardcover. Good. Very light foxing. Half leather with wear at edges heel and head. A good plus copy. First of this edition. Copy of William Henry Sedley Smith 1806-1872 with his pencil signature on free front endpaper. Bound with the first American editions of Thomas Love Peacocks works:"Headlong Hall" was Peacock's first novel originally published in England in 1815. Set at a Welsh country manor it is peopled by a set of characters each embodying a particular intellectual obsession and is replete with comic and satirical elements. "Nightmare Abbey" originally published in England in 1818 was Peacock's most famous and enduring work filled with gothic motifs like shadowy manor houses with secret rooms and sliding panels. In point of fact the book is a series of satirical romances poking fun at some the major figures of the Romantic Movement; Byron appears as Mr. Cypress Coleridge Mr. Floskey and Shelley Scythrop Glowry. Smith was an actor and stage manager who first appeared in the United States at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia in 1827. During his later years he was both actor and stage manager at the California Theatre in San Francisco. Wiley and Putnam hardcover
1818ZB1325146Philadelphia: M. Carey & Son 1818. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday June 29 SALE item 194 pp. contemporary full leather now lacking the front cover balance of binding worn text age-toned else internally clean and tight. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Philadelphia: M. Carey & Son hardcover
1896240978London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾. N/a. 243pp. 1896. Assumed first edition. 12mo. sized. Complete with a gorgeous richly embossed peacock pattern to the front board and to the spine. All edges gilt. Rather like the Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 'peacock' binding which from memory was also published by Macmillan. The tail of the spine a little bumped as is the lower front board corner. A slight bump to the head of the spine. A near contemporaneous 1903 neat black gift ink inscription to the head of the half-title page. A very good plus clean tight and bright well preserved copy - complete with the charming cloth binding. Macmillan & Co. Limited hardcover
1869003905Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird 1869. Hardcover. Very Good -. Second American Edition to which are added general instructions for the use of aniline colors." xxviii 1 18-343 3 23 1 p.; 24 cm. Black pebble-grain cloth with gilt-stamped spine title: "Dyeing Cleaning and Scouring." Blaind-stamped decoration on boards. Yellow endpapers. Includes index and Catalogue of Practical and Scientific Books published by Henry Carey Baird & Co. on 23 pages following text. Also contains advertisements for three related businesses in Philadelphia: Andreykovicq & Dunk Swiss aniline colors and chemicals for dyeing Ralston & Biddle importers of indigo and India goods and James W. Queen & Co. seller of Twaddel's hydrometers. The Second American Edition added both an index and an appendix with general instructions for the use of aniline colors the latter contributed by Andreykovicq & Dunk. In Very Good- Condition: cloth is rubbed with minor loss at head of spine and corners; cloth and edges of pages are stained; lacking front free endpaper; title page is soiled primarily along gutter; endpapers are stained; otherwise only occasional soiling. Henry Carey Baird hardcover
182974912London: Thomas Hookham 1829. 12mo. First edition. viii ii quotation from Crofton Croker's Fairy Legends 240 pp. Half brown morocco over marbled boards; raised bands and gilt lettering to spine and top edge gilt. Rubbing with some heavier damage to leather at front corner. Faint margin notes to a few pages and ink notes at prelims otherwise foxing to text. Some critics consider this to be the greatest of the Arthurian literary genre of the Romantic period. . Very Good. Half Morocco. First Edition. 1829. Thomas Hookham 1829 unknown
189612479London; Macmillan and Co. Ltd. 1896. 1896. Hard Cover. Octavo pp. xxiv 292 paginated to include plates. Monochrome frontispiece with tissue guard and 38 further plates with one in-text illustration. Publisher's royal blue cloth with gilt titles and stylised peacock heavily blocked in gilt to spine and upper board; all edges gilt with yellow peacock pictorial endpapers. Light toning to free endpapers and foxing tissue guard otherwise a very clean & neat copy with only minor rubbing to spine tips; near fine condition. Peacock's final novel centres on Gregory Gryll whose plan to pass his estate onto his niece is thwarted by her inability to find a husband to meet her exacting standards. A handsome peacock binding which is illustrated throughout by F. H. Townsend with an Introduction by George Saintsbury. London; Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1896. hardcover
189512480London; Macmillan and Co. Ltd. 1895. 1895. Hard Cover. Octavo pp. xxxvi 321 paginated to include plates. Monochrome frontispiece with tissue guard 35 further plates and 4 in-text illustrations. Publisher's royal blue cloth with gilt titles and stylised peacock heavily blocked in gilt to spine and upper board; all edges gilt with yellow peacock pictorial endpapers. Endpapers and tissue guard are lightly toned otherwise a very clean & neat copy with only minor rubbing to spine tips; near fine condition. Two novellas which showcase Peacock's wit and satirical prowess. Maid Marian is a retelling of the Robin Hood myth whereas Crotchet Castle is a story of wealth greed and deception. A handsome peacock binding which is illustrated throughout by F. H. Townsend with an Introduction by George Saintsbury. London; Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1895. hardcover
1861757P53London: Parker Son and Bourn 1861. First edition. Cloth. Good. 8" by 5". None. The first edition of Thomas Love Peacock's final novel a witty work that had originally been serialised. The scarce publisher's adverts are present. The first edition of this work.Peacock's final novel originally serialised in 'Fraser's Magazine' in 1860.A witty and urbane novel starting off at an eccentrically attended house party at Gryll Grange.Peacock was an English novelist active during the nineteenth century. He was a close friend of Percy Shelley the friends influencing each other's works. Peacock was a satirical writer best known for 'Nightmare Abbey' and 'Crotchet Castle'.Four pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.Library label to the front pastedown. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally generally smart. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities resulting in a little loss to the spine and a little lifting to the spine. Light marks to the boards and spine. A small amount of cockling to the boards. Rear hinge is starting but firm. Library label to the front pastedown. Internally generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some odd spots and handling marks. Closed tear to page iii-vi Good Parker, Son, and Bourn hardcover
189612481London; Macmillan and Co. 1896. 1896. Hard Cover. Octavo pp. xxiv 244 paginated to include plates. Monochrome frontispiece with tissue guard 36 further plates and 3 in-text illustrations. Publisher's royal blue cloth with gilt titles and stylised peacock heavily blocked in gilt to spine and upper board; all edges gilt with yellow peacock pictorial endpapers. Previous owner's name written neatly to front paste-down and light foxing to tissue guard otherwise a very clean & neat copy with only minor rubbing to spine tips; near fine condition. Two novellas which poke fun at contemporary attitudes and desires. Headlong Hall was Peacock's first novel which pokes fun at his now-unknown contemporaries. Nightmare Abbey is a gothic satire which includes characters based on Byron and Coleridge. A handsome peacock binding which is illustrated throughout by H. R. Miller with an Introduction by George Saintsbury. London; Macmillan and Co., 1896. hardcover
1875958T42London: Richard Bentley and Son 1875. Cloth. Good. 7.5" by 5.5". Not Stated. A complete three volume edition of the works of English novelist and poet Thomas Love Peacock. Complete in three volumes. With a portrait frontispiece to volume I. A collection of the satirical novels poetry criticism and miscellaneous works of Thomas Love Peacock an English novelist poet and official of the East India Company best known for the novel 'Nightmare Abbey' present in this collection. Peacock wrote satirical novels each with the same basic setting: characters at a table discussing and criticising the philosophical opinions of the day. With an introduction from the Hon. Lord Houghton an English poet patron of literature and a politician. Biographical notes from Edith Nicolls the granddaughter of Peacock. Edited by Henry Cole a British author and editor. In the original full cloth binding. Externally sound with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. The odd small mark to the boards with small splits in the cloth to the head and tail of the spine resulting in minor loss. A split to the front joint of volume one. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Light age toning to the endpapers. Some of the text block to volume three remains unopened. Good Richard Bentley and Son hardcover
1896YY6481Macmillan & Co 1896. Original blue cloth unfaded with gilt peacock decoration. All edges gilt. Endpapers uncracked at gutters. 2 tiny white splash marks to fore-edges. Robust packaging. Tracking is always added to USA orders. It can be added to other overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. 1st edition thus. Pencil inscription. Binding sound text unmarked. Pencil inscription . Binding sound text unmarked. Very Good. xxiv 292pp. Macmillan & Co Hardcover
1896YY5393Macmillan and Co. Ltd 1896. Blue cloth with gilt peacock decoration to spine very slightly dull and front board bright and fresh. No fading to blue cloth. All edges gilt bright fresh unfaded and unscuffed. Yellow peacock endpapers uncracked at gutters. Frontispiece with partly browned tissue guard. Hardly any wear to corners. A fresh attractive scarcely used copy. Robust packaging. Tracking can be added to overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. 1st edition thus. Owner's signature. Binding sound text unmarked. Owner's signature . Binding sound text unmarked. Near Fine/Fine. xxii326pp. Macmillan and Co., Ltd Hardcover
1847198183Stockholm : Tryckt hos N.H. Thomson 1847. First Edition. Hardback. Very good copies bound in the contemporary gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Bookplates to front paste-downs. Foxed throughout. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; Description: 3v. 15cm. Subjects: Swedish literature -- 19th century -- Sweden -- Fiction -- Romanticism. Language: Swedish. Stockholm : Tryckt hos N.H. Thomson hardcover
