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1891980T78London: J. M. Dent & Co 1891. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 8.5" by 5.5". None. A smart ten volume set of the large paper edition of Thomas Love Peacock's works limited to one hundred copies. Complete in ten volumes. Large paper edition limited to one hundred copies of which this is number twenty-nine. With a frontispiece to each volume. A collection of works written by Thomas Love Peacock an English novelist poet and official of the East India Company. Peacock is noted for his satirical novels each with the same basic setting: characters at a table discussing and criticising the philosophical opinions of the day. 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: Calidore & Miscellanea 1891. Being a collection of shorter works including Calidore: A Fragment of an Unfinished Romance The Four Ages of Poetry and Horae Dramaticae I-III amongst others. Crochet 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 at Crochet Hall. Gryll Grange 1891. Complete in two volumes. The author's final novel beginning with a discussion around the dinner table of Mr. Gryll in which his friend the genial gourmet the Rev. Dr. Opimian holds forth on misnomers fish and the contemporary fashion for lectures. Headlong Hall 1891. As four visitors arrive at Headlong Hall they find further guests and are lead through a series of dinners and Christmas celebrations by Squire Headlong. Maid Marian 1891. A novella set against the backdrop of medieval England focusing on themes of romance adventure and social justice. Following noble Matilda Fitzwater and her intended the Earl of Huntingdon who is embroiled in conflict with the king's authority. Melincourt 1891. Complete in two volumes. A satirical novel in which an orangutan called Sir Oran Haut-ton is put forward as a candidate for election as a Member of Parliament. The Misfortunes of Elphin 1891. A short historical romance set in sixth century Wales which recounts the adventures of the bard Taliesin the princes Elphin ap Gwythno Seithenyn ap Seithyn and King Arthur. Nightmare Abbey 1891. A novella which makes good-natured fun of contemporary literary trends. It follows the fortunes of Christopher Glowry a morose widower who lives with his only son Scythrop in the isolated family mansion Nightmare Abbey. In the original full cloth binding. Externally smart with light rubbing to the extremities and fading to the spines and board edges. The odd small mark. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. With age toning and minor spotting to the endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Very Good Indeed J. M. Dent & Co hardcover
1831302London: T. Hookham 1831. First Edition. About very good with edges worn modern rebacking occasional minor foxing and soiling in a custom cloth clamshell box. First edition in the scarce publisher's blue-grey drab boards.<br /> <br /> A satirical gothic novel wherein as with his earlier novel Headlong Hall Peacock assembles an eccentric cast of characters whose banter and obsessions satirize Regency society. This work includes a character which unlike other works is largely based on Peacock himself.<br /> <br /> 8vo. 10-page publisher's catalogue lacking first leaf ad leaf 6 300pp. Page 154 misnumbered 54. Carter Binding Variants pg. 146 this copy is flat backed and unglazed thus not a remainder. Sadleir 1957j. Scarce in boards. T. Hookham unknown
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
183165276London: T. Hookham 1831. Small 8vo. viii 300 pp. Bound in blue paper boards with white paper spine. Boards are marked with rubbing to the extremities and some loss. Binding firm with some scattered spotting. The author Thomas Love Peacock was a great friend and contemporary to the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and was best know for his satiric novels. . Good. Paper Covered Boards. First Edition. 1831. T. Hookham 1831 hardcover
1831300966London: T. Hookham 1831. First edition. Page 154 numbered 54. Fly title present; bound without ads. iv 300 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full green polished calf spine gilt. Joints repaired. First edition. Page 154 numbered 54. Fly title present; bound without ads. iv 300 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Sadleir 1957; not in Wolff T. Hookham unknown
189128181London: J. M. Dent & Co 1891. Edition limited to 100 numbered copies on large paper 8vo pp. 192; decorative title-p. printed in red and black engraved frontispiece woodcut ornaments throughout; original beige buckram gilt-lettered direct on spine; spine a little darkened else near fine. J. M. Dent & Co unknown
1831819F10London: T. Hookham 1831 . First edition. Disbound. Good. 7" by 4.5". None. A smart first edition of Thomas Love Peacock's satirical 1831 Gothic novel. The first edition of this humorous and satirical Gothic novel from Thomas Love Peacock with page 154 numbered 54 as called for.Peacock's sixth novel in the work the author gathers a group of eccentrics in the titular castle deriving humour and social satire from their various interactions and conversations.Bound without the preliminary advertisement leaf and half title.The first edition of one of the best known work of this nineteenth century novelist a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley. In a contemporary cloth binding. Small losses of cloth to back strip head and tail and joints. Front joint starting with board slightly tender. Internally firmly bound. Light handling marks to preliminary leaves. Pages otherwise generally clean and bright. Good T. Hookham unknown
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
184835106Wien: Gredruckt bei Joseph Ludwig 1848. First Edition. Broadside 50.75x42cm. printed blackletter; previous folds two corners neatly clipped not approaching text else Very Good to Near Fine. Proposal issued shortly before the Vienna Uprising of October 1848 during which violence broke out between the laboring class of the city and the Hapsburg army as the latter was trying to leave in order to quell the Hungarian Revolution. Löve most likely a university student at the time proposes that Vienna would best be defended if the walls surrounding the inner city were to be dismantled they would be irreparable if damaged by enemy bombardment and the moat filled in for building development. Unlocated in OCLC or KVK though noted in James E. Walsh 1848 Austrian Revolutionary Broadsides and Pamphlets 1976 p. 143 dating the broadside to June 31 1848. Löve issued another five or six titles listed in Walsh one signed in type "Redacteur I der Studentenzeitung" editor of the student newspaper; another "Redakteur des Stürmers" editor of "The Strikers". Gredruckt bei Joseph Ludwig unknown
183631036Washington D.C. 1836. Folio broadside 7.75" x 125". Completely in manuscript docketed on verso as being received February 11 1836. Light toning old folds two fold splits repaired on verso with archival tape. Else Very Good. <br /> <br /> An early example of enforcement of the law requiring fathers to support their children born out of wedlock. John D. Clark was a Notary Public and Justice of the Peace in Washington D.C. William W. Bannerman was an engraver and copper printer in Baltimore. unknown
1862171505Paris: Didier 1862. Broché. Mauvais état. in-12. 2ème édition Non coupé Accroc déchirure 1er plat avec manque Didier unknown
1862mon0003493695Didier 1862-01-01. Reliure inconnue. Good. . Hardcover. White vellum spine morrocan leather labels gilt on spine. Red marbled boards. Some dust wear to spine slight rubbing and bumping along edges. Faint foxing to some pages. Overall a clean copy binding tight. Didier unknown
18950216041895. Hardcover. Very . 8vo - 8.5" x 5. Very uncommon this is one of only a few examples on the net for sale. Text and plates some folding all clean. <br/> <br/> hardcover
186134556London: Parker Son and Bourne 1861. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary three quarter red morocco and marbled boards and edges. Lower joint starting spine a little darkened; lacking final two leaves of ads. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Peacock's final novel. Wolff 5479 Parker, Son, and Bourne unknown
1861elala1203London: Parker Son And Bourn 1861. 1861. 8vo. pp. viii 316. woodcut ornaments & initials. 19th century half roan spine & corners bit rubbed some light marginal foxing. First Edition. First published in Frasers Magazine Peacocks Gryll Grange was lacking "the exuberant humour of his former works but the book is delightful from its stores of anecdote and erudition and unintentionally most amusing through the authors inveterate prejudices and pugnacious hostility to every modern invention." DNB NCBEL III 702. 1st Edition. London: Parker, Son, And Bourn, 1861. unknown
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
18611003Y45London: Parker Son and Bourn 1861. First edition. Cloth. Good. 8" by 5". None. A first edition copy of Thomas Love Peacock's final and anonymously published novel 'Gryll Grange'. First edition. In the publisher's pebbled cloth. Gryll Grange is Thomas Love Peacock's final novel published after his retirement from the East India Company and first appearing in Fraser's Magazine in 1860. The novel concerns itself with the business of the unmarried Gregory Gryll and his niece who he adopted out of a need for an heir to Gregory Grange and how she at last comes to find a man to her taste. Typical to Peacock's other works the novel's setting involves the characters at a table discussing and criticising philosophical opinions of the day. Four pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the original pebbled cloth. Externally generally smart with moderate rubbing and bumping to the extremities. A couple ink spots and marks to the boards. Spine slightly cocked. Internally generally firmly bound with binding tender to pp 49-96 and 163-174. Pages are generally bright and clean with occasional spots. Contemporary ink inscription to title page. Blind stamp to front free endpaper. Good Parker, Son, and Bourn 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
1896mon0001587824London: MacMillan and Co 1896T. hardcover. Good. . Author- Most Rev.Alban Goopdier.Ex-Library. First edition. The cover is clear of stains and marking. The hinges are in good condition. London: MacMillan and Co hardcover
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
18964079London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd 1896. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. 292pp. Pictorial cloth designed in gilt by A. A. Turbayne signed in the lower corner of the front board. Gilt spine. All edge gilt. Endpapers to match front board design. Book cocked. Cloth worn at head and foot of spine and board tips. Some pages with pencil notes in the margins and pencil notes to rear page of text. Neat ink signature to recto of the front front endpaper. Illustrated by F.H. Townsend. A good copy. Macmillan and Co. Ltd hardcover
1861617410Parker Son and Bourn London 1861. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo. Rebound in half leather w/ marbled paper covers and matching endpapers and gilt page edges - Corners bumped w/ boards exposed - Edges of covers rubbed and chipped - Spine ends raised bands and joints heavily rubbed - Corners of text block rubbed - Previous orwner's bookplate to front pastedown endpaper - Small tear and crease to bottom edge of preliminary pages meaning the front cover is not quite flush - Page margins a little toned - Lacking final 2 pages of advertisements from the final signature - Book ow/ solid and content clean and tight - viii 316 4 pages No Jacket Parker, Son, and Bourn, London hardcover
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
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
