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18611104140197Parker Son & Bourn 1861-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Good hardcover no DJ. 1861. First edition in earliest binding green cloth with Publisher name on spine. Previous owner's bookplate on end paper pages are unmarked. Edges of pages show some foxing. Binding is tight front hinge is cracked. Covers show light edge wear lightly bumped corners. Spine is taped at head.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day! Parker, Son & Bourn hardcover
181666949London: printed for T. Hookham Jun. and Co. Old Bond Street; and Baldwin Cradock and Joy Paternoster Row 1816. 12mo pp. 4 217 1 2 ads; original blue paper-covered boards brown paper shelfback printed paper label on spine; some cracking along the joints corners bumped but generally very good and sound. On the front pastedown in ink: "Calgarth Park / 1818" and with a Calgarth Park bookplate. Calgarth Park was the home of Richard Watson 1737-1816 Bishop of Llandaff and a Whig politician. This second edition is published the same year as the first. "With this work Peacock found the true field for his literary gift in the satiric novel interspersed with delightful lyrics amorous narrative or convivial" Wikipedia. printed for T. Hookham, Jun. and Co. Old Bond Street; and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, Paternoster Row unknown
1816757P57London: T. Hookham 1816. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 6.5" by 4". None. A lovely second edition of Thomas Love Peacock's first novel from the library of the Bloomsbury founder Lytton Strachey. The second edition of this work; the first and second edition were published in the same year and both are very scarce.From the library of Lytton Strachey with his bookplate to the front pastedown. Strachey was one of the founding members of the Bloomsbury Group bringing together influential figures such as Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. He was also a historian of the Victorian era publishing 'Eminent Victorians' and a noted biography of Queen Victoria.In a signed binding by Charles Lewis. Lewis was lauded was one of the best bookbinders of his day patronised by the 2nd Earl Spencer and the 6th Duke of Devonshire binding books for both Althorp and Chatsworth.'Headlong Hall' was Peacock's first long work of fiction grouping a selection of eccentric and obsessive people together at a country estate in Wales.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'.Bound without half-title. In a full calf signed binding by Charles Lewis. Externally smart. A little rubbing and a few minor marks and spots to the boards and spine. Bookplate and binder's label to the front pastedown. Internally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and clean with just a couple of occasional light spots. Very Good Indeed T. Hookham hardcover
1822011494London: Printed for T. Hookham & Longman Hurst 1822. Book measures 17x10.5.cm. 4216pp. Bound in peroid half calf calf corners marble boards flat gilt bands. Binding worn spine defective boards still holding. Internally pages clean. A good clean copy in a worn binding. . Third Edition. Half Calf. Good Plus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Printed for T. Hookham & Longman, Hurst Hardcover
1837011591London: Richard Bentley 1837. Book measures 18x11.5.cm. vii 5402pp engraved frontis engraved title printed title. Bound in original publishers embossed cloth with gilt tooling on spine. Cloth rubbed loss on head and tail of spine light staining spine sellotated. Generally binding in good condition. Internally light tanning to frontis/title. Pages in good clean condition throughout. A good clean copy. . Cloth. Good Plus. Small 8vo. Richard Bentley Hardcover
1822002045London England: Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown 1822. 3rd Edition . Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. Covers decorated with gilt edge tooling and gold stamped coat of arms; spine elaborately gold stamped bright with some wear and one small piece missing; edges of pages marbled; 24mo; with 216 pages. <br/> <br/> Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown 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
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
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
1887003731New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1887. What a lovely little volume! Flower and vine patterned cloth boards over a navy blue cloth extended spine with Victorian bright gilt decorations. Five slightly raised bands on spine which is also heavily decorated. Bumped and moderately worn head and heel of spine. Edgewear worn corners which have almost rounded over the years small bump to edge of back cover. 290 toned pages. The last page has not been cut during the publishing process. Name and inscription from 1887 on fep along with penciled price. Lovely black and white decorations throughout. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning. Decorative Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. G. P. Putnam's Sons Hardcover
1837827J35London: Richard Bentley 1837. Cloth. Good Only. 7" by 4.5". Not Stated. A collection of four novels by Thomas Love Peacock bound as one the personal copy of notorious English writer Lytton Strachey. A collection of four novels by noted nineteenth-century writer and close friend of Percy Blysshe Shelley Thomas Love Peacock. Including the following works: Headling Hall originally published in 1816 and set on the country estate of Squire Harry Headling Ap-Rhaiader Esq. in Wales. Nightmare Abbey originally published in 1818 and provides a satire of nineteenth-century literary trends. Maid Marian originally published in 1822 and set in twelfth century England. Crotchet Castle originally published in 1831 and focuses on a group of eccentrics used to derive humour and social satire from Victorian interactions. All of these works have been bound together and form Volume LVII of the Standard Novels library published by Richard Bentley. Including an engraved frontispiece and a vignette title page. Collated and complete.This was the personal copy of English writer and founding member of the Bloomsbury Group Lytton Strachey noted by his bookplate to the verso of the front free-endpaper. Strachey is most known for establishing a form of biography which uses psychological insight and sympathy along with irreverence to create a unique depiction of an individual's life. He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his biography of Queen Victoria 1921. In the original cloth binding. Externally some shelf wear to the boards and bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Slight fading to the spine and extremities. Cloth is split to the head of the front joint and the tail of the rear joint. Bookplate of Lytton Strachey to the verso of the front free-endpaper. Internally front hinge has failed exposing the interior of the spine. A few spots to the pages which are otherwise generally bright and clean. Good Only Richard Bentley hardcover
1837844P29London: Richard Bentley 1837. Leather. Good Only. 6.5" by 4". Not Stated. Four of Thomas Love Peacock's popular and widely read novels including his Gothic and Romantic works. Four popular novels by Thomas Love Peacock issued in one volume.Illustrated with a frontispiece and engraved title page.This volume includes 'Headlong Hall' 'Nightmare Abbey' 'Maid Marian' and 'Crotchet Castle'.'Nightmare Abbey' is a topical Gothic novel which satirised the contemporary styles particularly the Romantic obsession with morbidity.'Headlong Hall' was Peacock's first long work of fiction grouping a selection of eccentric and obsessive people together at a country estate in Wales.In 'Crotchet Castle' Peacock assembles a group of obsessive eccentrics. 'Maid Marian' is romantic novel a charming novella.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'. In a half calf binding with floral cloth to the boards. Externally lacking the backstrip. Rear board may detach with further handling held by one cord only. Rubbing to the leather to the joints and extremities with a little loss. Light rubbing to the boards. Front hinge is strained. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto of the front free endpaper. Rear and rear free endpapers detached. Internally firmly bound pages 399-402 are detached. Pages are bright and generally clean with some spots. Ink inscription to the head of the engraved title. Faint tide mark to the margins of the frontispiece and engraved title. Good Only Richard Bentley 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
18886182Savannah GA: The Morning News Print 1888. Good. 8¼" x 6". Green cloth over boards title gilt. Pp. 5 A-E 6 iv-v blank page 360. Good: Ex-library with remnants of call number to spine bookplate due cards and embossed stamp on title page; moderately shaken boards moderately worn with losses at spine tips ffep heavily notated. <br /> <br /> This is another copy of Love's History with several outstanding associations. <br /> <br /> A partially obscured inscription on the front pastedown shows that this particular copy was presented by R.R. Wright to D.C. Suggs. Richard Robert Wright Sr. who wrote part of the book's introduction was born into slavery in Georgia in 1855 and was valedictorian of the first graduating class of Atlanta University now known as the HBCU Clark Atlanta. He became an educator and newspaper editor who went on to serve as the first president of the Georgia Industrial College for Colred Youths GICCY the first public institution of higher learning for African Americans in the state. Under Wright's leadership GICCY hosted renowned lecturers including Booker T. Washington Mary McLeod Bethune and Mary Church Terrell. Wright later founded the first Black-owned bank in Philadelphia and co-founded the first organization of Black-owned banks in the country. <br /> <br /> The recipient of the book Dr. Daniel Cato Suggs was born in Wilson North Carolina in 1865. He was a wealthy Black businessman active in real estate and a teacher in the public school systems of North Carolina. He served as a professor at GICCY before being elected president in 1917 of Livingston College a private HBCU in Salisbury North Carolina noted for its strong affiliation with the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. <br /> <br /> This volume also contains a bookplate from Bennett College in Greensboro. Founded in 1873 as a normal school to educate freedmen and train both men and women as teachers Bennett is now a private HBCU liberal arts college for women. <br /> <br /> There is yet another interesting facet to this copy: the front free endpaper has two pages of handwritten notes regarding a speech given by David B. Hill in Savannah in 1892 as he was campaigning to be the Democratic candidate for United States President. We found the entirety of the speech's text in a newspaper account online and note the oddity of the possibility of a Southern African American attending a Democratic candidate' speech at that time. <br /> <br /> OCLC shows six holdings of the physical book over four entries. A unique copy with wonderful associations of Love's important history of the First African Baptist Church. The Morning News Print unknown
188840926Savannah Ga.: The Morning News Print. 1888. 20 360 pp. Frontis illustration of the First African Baptist Church and another full-page illustration preceding the table of Contents. Well-used with contemporary ownership signatures of "Mr. Cornelious Adams 1819 Reynolds." Inner hinges cracked and some loosening from binding scattered foxing. Text portraits of the pastors. In original cloth binding some spotting and extremity wear. Gilt-lettered title stamped on front cover. Good.<br /> <br /> "The oldest colored Baptist church in America" it was organized in January 1788 at "Brampton's barn three miles west of Savannah by Rev. Abraham Marshall white and Jesse Peter colored." Its trials triumphs schisms relations with their Caucasian co-religionists and biographies of its ministers are chronicled here by the Church's black Pastor Reverend Love. <br /> FIRST EDITION. De Renne 868. Work 405. LCP Supp. 1320. Not in Blockson. The Morning News Print. unknown
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
1822757P56London: T. Hookham 1822. First edition. Hardback. Good Only. 7" by 4". None. The very scarce first edition of this immensely romantic and entertaining novel by Thomas Love Peacock. The very scarce first edition of this work.'Maid Marian' is romantic novel by Thomas Love Peacock.Peacock referenced this novel in a letter to Percy Shelley.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'.Bookplate of R. W. Chapman to the front pastedown. Chapman was a British scholar and book collector known for editing the works of Samuel Jonson and Jane Austen.Prior owner's ink inscription to the front pastedown 'James Richards Digous'.Two pages of publisher's adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's paper covered boards. Externally the boards are detached but present. Bookseller's label to the front board. Lacking the spine. Boards are a little discoloured with some minor marks. Very light bumping to the extremities. Bound without front endpaper. Bookplate and prior owner's ink inscription to the front pastedown. Internally generally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned with some spots. Good Only T. Hookham 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
1891616963J.M. Dent & Company 1891. This volume only; limited numbered "Large Paper" edition; this copy #89 of 100 copies; cover unevenly age-toned soiled/rubbed spine deeply age- toned corners rubbed/very bumped spine ends rubbed/lightly bumped; edges lightly soiled/age-toned; endpapers unevenly age-toned; first signature loose but still intact; binding otherwise tight; cover edges and interior intact and clean except as noted. hardcover. Good. J.M. Dent & Company hardcover
1839007729Love & Barton 1839. Hardcover. Good. 244pp maps frontis. Ex-library but with minimal markings to occasional pages only no external markings to library rebound boards; paper spine label in very good condition. Originally published anonymously the subsequently-identified author's name has been handwritten on the title page. A nice copy <br/> <br/> Love & Barton hardcover
1824181153Likely London: c.1824. Peacock the company man A draft official document composed by Peacock in his capacity as an assistant examiner at East India House. The submission to the Board of Trade summarizing the views of the Court of Directors responds to complaints from tea-dealers in Edinburgh that the company was failing to adequately supply the home market forcing prices upwards and delivering inferior products. Peacock's "provisional appointment. was approved by the court of directors in May 1819 as part of a larger experiment to open the higher posts in the examiner's office to outside talent. At the East India House he showed great skill in drafting dispatches and his appointment was confirmed in April 1821 with a salary rise to £800. His subsequent career was one of steady advancement" ODNB. This document is a provisional draft differing somewhat in wording and content from the final version published in parliamentary papers and signed by Joseph Dart the company's secretary. The document is discussed in the expansive 1924-34 edition of Peacock's works: "The latest Peacock MS. to be discovered consists of his 'Observations on a Memorial which has been presented to the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury from certain Tea-dealers of the City of Edinburgh.' It is a pencil draft written on paper bearing the East India Company's watermark probably in 1824 the date '6th February 1824' is mentioned in the Postscript and the first paragraph explains that the Memorial having been transmitted 'for the consideration and remarks of the Court of Directors of the East India Company the Court have taken the subject into due consideration and submit their observations accordingly.'" Brett-Smith & Jones pp. 461-2. Accompanying this manuscript is a small portion from a manuscript seemingly unpublished Peacock wrote for the London Magazine. It concerns the pleasures of the scenery of Surrey. Bifolia 315 x 200 mm watermarked East India Company J. Whatman 1821 written across 3 sides in pencil with 20th-century typescript transcription couple of handwritten amendments. Provenance: Thomas Love Peacock 1785-1866 - by descent to Edith Nicholls Peacock's granddaughter her handwritten note on the front of the bifolium in which the manuscript is housed: "I suppose this to be part of an article on Indian exports by T.L.P. but it is almost impossible to read it" - reported by Brett-Smith & Jones as acquired in February 1933 by Roger Ingpen 1868-1936 the literary scholar specializing in Shelley and his circle - Charles Dudley Massey 1905-1980 - by descent to Stephen C. Massey. 10 bifolia and single sheet 335 x 210 mm watermarked East India Company J. Whatman 1823 written across 32 sides in pencil enclosed in bifolium of same paper. Enclosed in folded sheet of brown paper folded down to 295 x 210 mm. Toning nicking and other signs of handling more so to enclosing bifolium: very good. H. F. B. Brett-Smith & Clifford Ernest Jones eds. The Works of Thomas Love Peacock Volume VIII 1934. unknown
1817250494London: For T. Hookham Jun. and Co. Old Bond Street; and Baldwin Cradock and Joy Paternoster Row 1817. First edition. Half titles present D6 in vol. I a cancel. 3 vols. 12mo. Dark blue green textured cloth over boards printed paper spine labels minor chipping bottom edge slightly trimmed others uncut. Fine. First edition. Half titles present D6 in vol. I a cancel. 3 vols. 12mo. "ANTHELIA MELINCOURT at the age of twenty-one was mistress of herself and of ten thousand a year and of a very ancient and venerable castle in one of the wildest valleys in Westmoreland." <br /> The opening line of Melincourt is indisputably a rejoinder to Austen's celebrated gambit in Pride and Prejudice 1813 and Peacock's sharpest satire of wealth fortune-hunting and politics recounts the fortunes of the heiress and her social climbing friends as well as the bon-vivant Sir Telegraph Paxarent his philosophical friend Mr. Forester and the career of Sir Oran Haut-ton - a "specimen of the natural and original man" and an orang-utan of high fashion "heightened by a pair of enormous whiskers and the folds of a vast cravat" - who is elected as one of the MPs for the venerable rotten borough of Onevote.<br /> A rare work that is almost invariably seen in worn half leather bindings the present copy of Melincourt is in a nicely preserved near contemporary binding of dark green cloth with printed spine labels the publication date is too early by a few years for this to to be publisher's cloth a very handsome triple-decker with good provenance. A note from Esther Potter to Marilyn Butler quotes Victor Schulderer of the British Museum who called Meyerstein 1889-1952 a "poet novelist and musician outstandingly gifted and eccentric". Sadleir 1957e; not in Wolff; Garside & Schöwerling 1817:46. Provenance: English scholar and collector E.H.W. Meyerstein his monogram and date of acquisition 1944 "from J.R.T. E-" ; bookseller and bibliographer Graham Pollard 1903-1976; given to Marilyn Butler wife of his nephew David author of Peacock Displayed 1976 For T. Hookham Jun. and Co. Old Bond Street; and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, Paternoster Row unknown
189351911London: J. M. Dent 1893. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good. 2 vols 12mo. A good set in tan cloth deckled edges. Darkened along spines with scattered lightly soiling and wear to extremities. Non-authorial gift inscription on half title page of vol 1. <br/><br/> J. M. Dent 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
1896301618London: Macmillan 1896. hardcover. very good. 40 black & white illustrations by F.H. Townsend. 8vo blind-stamped maroon patterned cloth. London: MacMillan 1896. Very good.<br/> <br/> Macmillan unknown