ALKEN, Henry, illustrator -- [APPERLEY, Charles James]; NIMROD; APPERLEY, C.J.

Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq. Of Halston, Shropshire

London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1837. Alken Off To The Races With Apperley In The Saddle Second Edition With the Six Extra Plates in a Fine Contemporary Binding [ALKEN, Henry, illustrator]. NIMROD (pseud. of C.J. Apperley). Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire. Formerly M.P. for Shrewsbury, High sheriff for the Counties of Salup & Merioneth, and Major of the North Stropshire Yeomanry Cavalry. With Notices of His Hunting, Shooting, Driving, Racing, Eccentric and Extravagant Exploits By Nimrod. With Numerous Illustrations by H. Alken and T.J. Rawlins. Second Edition. Reprinted with considerable Additions from the New Sporting Magazine. London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1837. Second and enlarged edition, with additions to the text and six extra hand-colored plates. Tall octavo. ix, [3], 206, [2], pp. Extra-engraved title-page with aquatint vignette. Eighteen hand-colored aquatint plates with tissue guards. Bound in contemporary full hard-grain crimson morocco featuring a single gilt fillet border enclosing floral and foliate gilt tooling with arabesque gilt stems surrounding a gilt vase on pedestal, to both covers. Gilt tooled and lettered spine. Silver clasp engraved "Mr. E. Whittingham / Ellenhall / Nov. 2 1844." Gilt-rolled edges. Wide gilt dentelles with elaborate border and corner-pieces, green moire silk endpapers. All edges gilt. A fine copy in a really fine silver clasped binding. "A most valuable and important book for the sporting life of the period, aptly described by Newton as 'a biography of a man that reads like a work of fiction'" (Tooley). "This is not a work of fiction, for John Mytton, a rather inglorious character for a biography, was a hard-living, hard-drinking country squire of Halston, Shropshire, capable of the utmost physical endurance, and ready to accept any wager to walk, shoot or ride against any man. Many of his feats are recorded and graphically delineated, including the climax of his folly in setting his nightshirt on fire to cure a hiccough (Martin Hardie). The Plates: 1. Well done, Neck or Nothing.. 2. A Nick, or the nearest way home. 3. Wild Duck Shooting. 4. What! Never upset in a gig? 5. I wonder whether he is a good timber jumper! 6. The Meet with Lord Derby's Stag Hounds. 7. Stand and deliver. 8. Tally ho! Tally ho!.. 9. The Oaks Filly. 10. Light come, light go. 11. On Baronet clears nine yards of water. 12. D--n this hiccup! 13. A h-ll of a row in a hell.. 14. Swims the Severn at Uppington Ferry. 15. How to cross a country comfortably after dinner. 16. Heron shooting.. 17. A Squire trap, by Jove! 18. Now for the honour of Shropshire. Abbey, Life, 385. Tooley 67. Schwerdt 1, p. 38. Martin Hardie, pp. 185-186. Prideaux, p. 326. .

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Book number: 02859

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: NIMROD APPERLEY, C.J. Color-Plate Books Fine Bindings Nineteenth-Century Literature Sports

BAYNTUN OF BATH; [BARHAM, Richard Harris]

Ingoldsby Legends, the

London: Richard Bentley, 1855. In an Elegant, Beautifully Wrought Pictorial Binding [BAYNTUN OF BATH, binders]. INGOLDSBY, Thomas (pseudonym of Richard Harris Barham). The Ingoldsby Legends. Or, Mirth and Marvels. The Three Series. London: Richard Bentley, 1855. Tenth edition. Three octavo volumes (7 5/8 x 4 3/4 in; 193 x 121 mm). xii, 338, [2]; iv, 288; vi, [2], 364 pp. Twenty engraved plates by George Cruikshank and John Leech, including frontispieces. Uniformly bound c. 1925 by Bayntun of Bath (stamp-signed to front turn-in) in full crushed blue morocco with a multi-colored pictorial onlay vignette to each upper cover, the vignette within an enchanting arabesque-bordered frame with extensive gilt dots as background. Wide turn-ins with triple fillets. Gilt rolled edges. Gilt ornamented raised bands. Gilt framed and ornamented compartments. All edges gilt. Pink marbled endpapers. A fine set, handsomely bound. The exquisite multi-color leather inlays on the front cover of each volume depict as follows: First Series: The Great Lord Cardinal. From the Jackdaw of Rheims (opposite page 221) "Then the great Lord Cardinal call'd for his book, And off that terrible curse he took; The mute expression Served in lieu of confession, And, being thus coupled with full restitution, The Jackdaw got plenary absolution." Second Series: Shylock. From The Merchant of Venice (opposite page 45) "I believe there are few But have heard of a Jew, Named Shylock, of Venice, as arrant a "Screw" In money transactions, as ever you knew; An exorbitant miser, who never yet lent A Ducat at less than three hundred per cent." Third Series: Sir Christopher Hatton. From The House-Warming, A Legend of Bleeding-Heart Yard (opposite page 292) "The fact is, Sir Christopher, early in life, As all bachelors should do, had taken a wife, A Fanshawe by family, ---one of a house Well descended, but boasting less "nobles" than nous.." "George Bayntun [1873-1940] served an apprenticeship with the Taylor family, before starting his own bookbinding business in 1894. He took on London binders to raise the standard of craftsmanship and soon moved into larger premises on Walcot Street. It was recognized that 'He has brought intelligence into play as well as high craftsmanship." In 1939 the Bayntun and Rivière & Son binderies were incorporated into a new set of premises on Manvers Street (Bath), in which the business still exists today. "George Bayntun adhered to traditional book binding techniques: 'We work in the old way. Machine binding? Ah yes..but not for us.' He had an especially good relationship with many pre-eminent American dealers, and Arthur Brenanto, Maurice Inman, Nat Ladden and Dr Rosenbach hosted a lunch in his honour on a visit to New York in 1936. "George Bayntun died at the age of 67 in 1940, having built a world famous business. George Bayntun's last years were crowned by the frequent patronage of Queen Mary, who spent the war years near Bath. She granted the firm the appointment of Bookseller to Her Majesty in 1950" (Wiki). Richard Barham's famous series of often-macabre (and often non-politically-correct!) parodies of myths, legends and ghost stories, many in verse - illustrated with plates by George Cruikshank and John Leech. These pieces began appearing in Bentley's Miscellany in 1837 (at about the time Oliver Twist was appearing there), and were immensely popular with that journal's readers -- so much so that they were subsequently collected in these three separately-published volumes. Though Barham's work is largely forgotten today, we do have several hold-overs from it - such as the tale from which Walt Disney devised "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," and the earliest published version of the children's poem about the dog "Bingo" ..and Bingo was his name-O.

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Book number: 01997

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: [BARHAM, Richard Harris] Fine Bindings Nineteenth-Century Literature

BAYNTUN OF BATH, binders; CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator; PARDOE, [Julia], Miss

Lady Arabella: Or the Adventures of a Doll

London: Kerby and Son, [1856]. A Very Attractive 'Mid-Twenties' Inlaid Binding by Bayntun of Bath [BAYNTUN OF BATH, binders]. PARDOE, [Julia], Miss. CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator. Lady Arabella: or The Adventures of a Doll. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. London: Kerby and Son. [1856]. First edition. Small octavo (6 5/8 x 5 inches; 168 x 126 mm.). Half-title, Title Page, 88 pp. With four hand colored etchings by George Cruikshank. Bound ca. 1925 by Bayntun of Bath (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in). Full forest green crushed levant morocco. Covers ruled and decoratively bordered in gilt, front cover with a fine scene inlaid in blind and various colored morocco, taken from the color plate facing page 62. Spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt board-edges, wide decorative gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt, green marbled paper liners and end-leaves. Minimal darkening of spine. A very fine example. Julia Pardoe (1806-1862), was an English poet, novelist, historian and traveler. She was born at Beverley, Yorkshire, and showed an early interest in literature. She became a prolific and versatile writer, producing in addition to her lively and well-written novels many books on travel, and others dealing with historical subjects. She was a keen observer, and her travel to the East gave her an accurate and deep knowledge of the peoples and manners of the East. To modern readers she is probably best known for her books on her travels in Turkey, which are some of the earliest works by a woman on this area. In 1836 she traveled to Constantinople with her father, Major Thomas Pardoe. This voyage inspired her book The City of the Sultan (1836). Later she collaborated with the artist William Henry Bartlett to produce The Beauties of the Bosphorus (1839), an illustrated account of Constantinople. Lady Arabella; or The Adventures of a Doll would appear to have been her only children's book. George Cruikshank (1792-1878) was a British caricaturist and book illustrator, praised as the "modern Hogarth" during his life. His book illustrations for his friend Charles Dickens, and many other authors, reached an international audience. .

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Book number: 03963

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator PARDOE, [Julia], Miss Children's Books Color-Plate Books Fine Bindings Nineteenth-Century Literature

COSWAY-STYLE BINDING; BAYNTUN, binder; WALTON, Isaac

Complete Angler; or, Contemplative Man's Recreation, the

London: Samuel Bagster, 1808. A Superb Mid-Twenties Cosway-Style Binding by Bayntun of Bath with Two Fine Oval Miniatures Extra-Illustrated by the Insertion of Fifty-Five Engraved Plates of which Ten are Hand-Colored COSWAY-STYLE BINDING. BAYNTUN, binder. WALTON, Isaac. The Complete Angler; or, Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, and Fishing. In two parts: The first written by Mr. Isaac Walton; The second by Charles Cotton, Esq. With the lives of the authors.. by Sir John Hawkins. London: Printed for Samuel Bagster, 1808. First Bagster Edition. Octavo (8 x 4 7/8 inches; 204 x 124 mm.). [iv], vi, vii-512, pp. Hand-colored frontispiece and nineteen engraved plates and two sheets of music. Ten of the plates are engraved by Audinet, eight after Wale, two after Samuel; two music plate; two plates of fishing tackle and flies. There are seventeen fine engravings of fish and two large woodcuts in the text. Extra-illustrated by the insertion of fifty-five engraved plates of which ten are hand-colored. Bound ca. 1925 by Bayntun, stamp-signed in gilt "Bayntun. Binder. Bath. Eng." on front turn-in. Full green crushed levant morocco over beveled boards, covers with elaborate gilt frames, spine with five raised bands, elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt decorated board edges, wide gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt. Front doublure of brown morocco surrounded by a frame of inlaid maroon morocco. Set into the front doublure is a fine oval miniature painting of Isaac Walton under beveled glass within a double gilt frame. Set into the rear doublure is a fine oval miniature painting of Charles Cotton under beveled glass within a double gilt frame. Both miniatures measure 3 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches; 82 x 63 mm. Green watered silk end-leaves. Expertly and almost invisibly rebacked with the original spine laid down, spine very slightly sunned, otherwise a fine example housed in its original felt-lined green cloth clamshell case, spine lettered in gilt. List of plates including the extra-illustrations which are marked with a* (77 total, 11 of which are in color) 1. Frontis. Portrait of Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, and Sir John Hawkins (hand-colored) 2. Portrait of St. Francis Bacon* 3. Portrait of Bp. Ken* 4. Portrait of Hon. Robert Boyle* 5. Portrait of Dr. Robert Sanderson, Mr. Richard Hooker, Sir Henry Wolton, Mr. George Herbert, Dr. John Donne 6. Portrait of Edward, First Earl of Sandwich, K.G.* 7. Robert Herrick* 8. Portrait of Sir Henry Wotton (hand-colored)* 9. Portrait of George Herbert* 10. Portrait of Edward Herbert, Lord Herbert of Castle Island and Lord Herbert of Chierbery in England* 11. Portrait of Bp. Taylor* 12. Portrait of Arch Bishop Williams, Lord Keeper* 13. Portrait of Thomas Hearn, M.A. of Edmund Hall Oxon* 14. Portrait of Charlemagne* 15. Portrait of The Most Revd. Dr. Usher, Late Lord Arch Bishop of Armagh* 16. Dovedale (hand-colored)* 17. Uske, Monmouthshire* 18. Untitled B&W Illustration 19. Fitchet [and] Martin 20. The Wild Boar* 21. Portrait of Hierom of Prage* 22. Basking Shark 23. Cuckoo [and] Wryneck* 24. Portrait of John Stow 25. Portrait of Bp. Overall 26. Bittern* 27. Untitled B&W Illustration 28. Portrait of Seneca* 29. Portrait of Sir Walter Ralegh (hand-colored)* 30. Untitled B&W Illustration 31. Untitled B&W Portrait 32. Portrait of Erasmus* 33. Untitled B&W Illustration 34. Arabian Camel* 35. Squirrels* 36. Partridges* 37. Golden Plover & Lapwing* 38. Portrait of Marcellus Malpighius M.D.F.R.S. (hand-colored)* 39. Page of Music 40. Portrait of Tho. Cromwell Earl of Essex 41. Lamprey & Salmon (hand-colored)* 42. Portrait of Ray* 43. Potrait of Michael Drayton 44. Double Page Color Illustration. Illustrations of Marine Animals (hand-colored)* 45. Double Page B&W Illustration. Cyprinus. The Golden Tench. The Gudgeon. The Minnow* 46. Double Page B&W Illustration. Meleagris. The American Wild Turkey. The Common Domestic Turkey* 47. Coniston Water Head* 48. A View of Winander Mere, a Lake in Westmoreland* 49. Portrait of Dr. Gilbert Sheldon, Arch-Bishop of Canterbury 50. Untitled B&W Illustration 51. The Angler's Song 52. Interior View of the Ruins of Ludlow Castle* 53. Portrait of Prince Rupert, When Young (hand-colored)* 54. A View of Shrewsbury Shropshire* 55. Untitled B&W Illustration* 56. Tottenham Cross* 57. Untitled B&W Illustration 58. Portrait of Cardinal Richelieu* 59. Untitled B&W Illustration of Fishing Tools 60. Untitled B&W Illustration of Fishing Line 61. Untitled B&W Illustration of Fishing Bait 62. Portrait of Charles Cotton (hand-colored)* 63. Portrait of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon* 64. Portrait of Sir Kenelm Digby* 65. Ashbourne, Derbyshire* 66. Chepstow Castle, & Bridge Over the Wye (hand-colored)* 67. Matlock Bridge &c.* 68. Portrait of Mary I* 69. Untitled B&W Illustration 70. Untitled B&W Illustration of Fishing Hooks 71. Untitled B&W Illustration 72. Untitled B&W Illustration 73. Untitled B&W Illustration 74. Portrait of Sr. Philip Sidney* 75. Portrait of Queen Elizabeth* 76. Portrait of John Selden (hand-colored)* 77. Woodcock* Coigney, 18. .

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Book number: 04633

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: BAYNTUN, binder WALTON, Isaac Angling Fine Bindings Cosway-Style Bindings Extra-Illustrated Copies

BELL, Robert Anning, illustrator; SHAKESPEARE, William

Tempest, the

London: Freemantle & Co., 1901. Hell is Empty and all the Devils are Here" (The Tempest, William Shakespeare) Illustrated by Robert Anning Bell One of 174 Numbered Copies Signed by the Artist BELL, Robert Anning, illustrator. SHAKESPEARE, William. The Tempest. A Comedy by William Shakespeare. Decorated by Robert Anning Bell. London: Freemantle & Co. 1901. First edition thus. One of 174 copies (this being No 94) signed by the artist. Quarto ( 10 1/16 x 7 1/4 inches; 256 x 184 mm.). [xii], 106, [1], [1, imprint] pp. With a frontispiece, pictorial title-page, twenty-five full-page illustrations, numerous half-page illustrations, head and tailpieces and initial letters all by Robert Anning Bell. Publisher's yap-edged vellum, front cover pictorially stamped in gilt, spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt, pictorial end-papers printed in green, top edge gilt, others uncut, three (of four) silk ties missing. A near fine copy housed in a custom made black cloth clamshell case. Robert Anning BELL, R.A. R.W.S. (1863-1933) was educated at University College School in London. At the age of fifteen he was articled for two years to an architect uncle before studying at the Royal Academy Schools, the Westminster School of Art (under Fred Brown), in Paris (under Aimé Morot) and, later, in Italy. On his return from Paris, he shared a studio with portrait sculptor George Frampton and together they developed a line in hand-colored plaster reliefs, in imitation of Della Robbia. His early architectural training and his close friendship with architects and sculptors made him the ideal artist for decorative schemes, and by the eighteen-nineties he had become an important figure in the Arts and Crafts Movement. His early illustrative work, in pen and ink and watercolor, includes a number of Shakespeare-related volumes: Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare (1899), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1895), The Tempest (1901) and Shakespeare's Heroines (1901). These display a concern for the page as a whole of flatness and lightness similar to those found in Walter Crane and Charles Ricketts. From 1894, he was on the staff of the School of Architecture, University College, Liverpool, later becoming a Professor of both University College, Liverpool, later becoming a Professor of both Glasgow School of Art (1918-24). He was also an honorary associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (1916), and Master of the Art Workers' Guild (1921).ß He began to exhibit at the Royal Academy in 1885 (ARA 1914, RA 1922) and at the New English Art Club in 1888 (NEAC 1892), while his solo shows included one at the Fine Art Society in 1907. He was also organized a number of international exhibitions of arts and crafts. His paintings were worked in both oil and tempera, but with an increasing preference for watercolor he became an active member of the Royal Society of Painters in Water-Color (ARWS 1901, RWS 1904) and, in 1925, wrote an essay in praise of the medium (Old Water-Color Society's Club, Volume 11). His death on 27 November 1933 was followed in March 1934 by a memorial exhibition at the Fine Art Society. .

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Book number: 03731

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: SHAKESPEARE, William Illustrated Books Fine Printing Plays Signed Limited Edition

[ARTHURIANA]; BOURCHIER, John Lord Berners (trans.)

History of the Valiant Knight Arthur of Little Britain, the

London: Printed for White, Cochrane, and Co. 1814. The Key Companion To Malory's Morte d'Arthur With Twenty-Five Hand-Colored Engravings In Fine Contemporary Straight-Grain Morocco [ARTHURIANA]. BOURCHIER, John Lord Berners (trans.). The History of the Valiant Knight Arthur of Little Britain. A Romance of Chivalry. Originally Translated From the French by John Bourchier, Lord Berners. A New Edition. With a Series of Plates, From Illuminated Drawings Contained in a Valuable MS. of the Original Romance. London: Printed for White, Cochrane, and Co. 1814. First edition. Quarto (9 3/16 x 7 3/8 inches; 233 x 188 mm.). [xii], [i-iii], iv-xxvii, [1, blank], iv, 544 pp. Twenty-five hand-colored plates engraved by Charles Heath, one woodcut. Title-page printed in black and red. Contemporary full ochre straight-grained morocco with fillets in blind and gilt, small corner-pieces featuring gilt ornaments. Spine with five shallow double bands, richly decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt board edges and turn-ins, brown liners and endleaves, all edges gilt. Minimal rubbing to corners and extremities - still a wonderful copy of a very scarce book. Edited by Edward Vernon Utterson (1776-1856) and reprinted from the edition published by Robert Redborne c. 1555. With a reproduction of original title-page: Arthur of Brytayn [on scroll]. The hystory of the moost noble and valyaunt knyght of lytell brytayne .. [woodcut]. "John Bourchier Lord Berners (1467-1553) is best known for his English translations of various European worlds of history and literature, especially the fourteenth century Chronicles of Jean Froissart. Because of their literary merit many of Berner's translations influenced the work of later Elizabethan writers and chroniclers" (Wagner, Enclyclopedia of Tudor England, p. 157); Berner's Arthur of Britain is said to have influenced Spenser. Arthur of Lytell Brytayne is Berner's translation of Artus de la Petite Bretagne, a fourteenth-century prose chivalric romance which was first printed in Lyons in 1493; Berners appears to have used the second version of 1496. The Arthur cycle of legends began with Geoffrey of Monmouth's 12th century Historia Regum Britanniae. The Arthurian legend spread through Europe, particularly in France and Germany. It should be noted that Malory based Le Morte d'Artur on existing French as well as English stories; it is no accident that Malory's title is in French. "It gives me great pleasure to bear testimony to the manner, equally spirited and faithful, in which the artist has executed these Engravings, which I am confident the possessors of this work will agree with me in considering as accompaniments infinitely more elegant and appropriate to a 'Romance of Chivalry,' than the rude and shapeless wood-cuts given in Redborne's edition' (Utterson, Preface). Landscape and figure engraver Charles Heath (1785-1848) was one of the most active and influential figures in British book production over the first half of the nineteenth-century. Cf. Esdaile, p. 13 (1st & 2d Redborne editions). .

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Book number: 05513

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: BOURCHIER, John Lord Berners (trans.) Color-Plate Books Arthurian Legend Fine Bindings

[SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS]; Brontë, Charlotte; Brontë, Emily; Brontë, Anne

Shakespeare Head Brontë, the

Oxford: , 1931. The Shakespeare Head Brontë A Fine Set in the Original Dust Jackets [SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS]. BRONTË, [Charlotte, Emily, and Anne]. The Shakespeare Head Brontë. Oxford: Newly Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and Published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1931. Limited to 1,000 copies. Eleven large octavo volumes (containing the Novels). [Together with:] [SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS]. BRONTË, [Charlotte, Emily, and Anne.] The Brontës: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence. In Four Volumes. [Edited by Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington]. Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and Published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1932. Limited to 750 copies. Four large octavo volumes. [And:] [SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS]. BRONTË, Charlotte, and Patrick Branwell. The Poems of Charlotte Brontë & Patrick Branwell Brontë. [Edited by Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington]. Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and Published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1934. Limited to 500 copies. [And:] [SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS]. BRONTË, Emily Jane and Anne. The Poems of Emily Jane Brontë and Anne Brontë. [Edited by Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington]. Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and Published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1934. Limited to 500 copies. [And:] [SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS]. BRONTË, Charlotte, and Patrick Branwell. The Miscellaneous and Unpublished Writings of Charlotte and Patrick Branwell Brontë. In Two Volumes. [Edited by Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington]. Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and Published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1936-1938]. Limited to 1,000 copies. Two large octavo volumes. Together, nineteen large octavo volumes (9 1/8 x 6 7/8 inches; 231 x 156 mm.). Photogravure frontispieces and plates. Original orange buckram lettered in gilt on spines. Top edge gilt, others uncut (only on The Brontës: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence, The Poems of Charlotte Brontë & Patrick Branwell Brontë, and The Poems of Emily Jane Brontë and Anne Brontë). Volume I of The Miscellaneous and Unpublished Writings of Charlotte and Patrick Branwell Brontë has a previous owner's ink signature, dated 1945, on the front free endpaper. A fine set. In the original cream-colored printed dust jackets (some very minor shelfwear to jackets). This is the finest edition of the collected works of Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and Branwell Brontë. Franklin, The Private Presses, p. 236. Ransom, Selective Check Lists, p. 18, no. 73. .

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Book number: 00184

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne English Literature Nineteenth-Century Literature Sets Fine Printing Fine Printing Literature Nineteenth-Century Literature Poetry

BUNBURY, Henry; GAMBADO, Geoffrey

Annals of Horsemanship

London: W. Dickinson, 1791. The Classic Lampoon Of Idiots On Horseback [BUNBURY, Henry]. Gambado, Geofrey (pseud.). Annals of Horsemanship: Containing Accounts of Accidental Experiments and Experimental Accidents, Both Successful and Unsuccessful: Communicated by Various Correspondents to Geoffrey Gambado, Esq..Together with Most Instructive Remarks Thereon, and Answers Thereto, by that Accomplished Genius. And Now First Published, by the Editor of the Academy for Grown Horsemen. Illustrated with Cuts by the Most Eminent Artists. London: Printed for W. Dickinson, 1791. First edition. Folio (12 3/4 x 8 3/4 in; 323 x 222 mm). xvii, 81, [1, adv.] pp. Frontispiece and sixteen line- and stipple-engraved plates, plain as issued without color option. Engraved by W.P. Carey after Bunbury's designs. Early twentieth century half crimson hard-grained morocco over red cloth boards ruled in gilt. Spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt dots. Gilt-ruled compartments. An excellent copy. A "singulier ouvrage" (Brunet) and wildly popular, Annals of Horsemanship was reprinted in the same year in Dublin, again in 1796, 1811, and once more in 1812 collected with Bunbury's other satire, The Academy For Grown Horsemen. The engraved plates were designed by Henry William Bunbury (1750-1811). "Bunbury owed much during his lifetime to the charm of a genial nature, and to his position as a man of family and education. West flattered him, and Walpole enthusiastically compared him to Hogarth. He was the friend of Goldsmith, Garrick, and Reynolds, and the favourite of the Duke and Duchess of York, to whom in 1787 he was appointed equerry. All this, coupled with the facts that he was seldom, if ever, personal, and wholly abstained from political subjects, greatly aided his popularity with the printsellers and the public of his day, and secured his admission, as an honorary exhibitor, to the walls of the Academy, where between 1780 and 1808 his works frequently appeared.. [They] are not without a good deal of grotesque drollery of the rough-and-ready kind in vogue towards the end of the last century¾that is to say, drollery depending in a great measure for its laughable qualities upon absurd contrasts, ludicrous distortions, horseplay, and personal misadventure." (DNB). "'The lovers of humor were inconsolable for the loss of Hogarth, but from his ashes a number of sportive geniuses have sprung up, and the works of Bunbury [et al] have entertained us' (Walker's Hibernian Magazine, May 1790). Just at this time, one of these ‘sportive geniuses' was at the height of his popularity. Of the many amateur caricaturists who flourished during the second half of the eighteenth century, Bunbury was undoubtedly the most famous. His talents for depicting humorous incidents of everyday life and manners established him as a master of the burlesque, and his reputation in social caricature rivaled that of Thomas Rowlandson or James Gillray." ((Riely, John C. Horace Walpole and ‘the Second Hogarth', in Eighteenth Century Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1, Autumn, 1975, p. 28). The Plates: 1. The Apotheosis of Geoffrey Gambado 2. Mr. Gambado Seeing the World in a Six Mile Tour Famed in History 3. Dr. Cassock F.R.S. T.P.Q. Inventor of the Noble Puzzle for Tumble Down Horses 4. The Puzzle for the Dog, The Puzzle for the Horse, The Puzzle for Turk, Frenchman, or, Christian 5.How to Make the Most of a Horse 6. How to Make the Least of Him 7. How to Do Things by Halves 8. Tricks Upon Travellers 9. Love and Wind 10. Me & My Wife and Daughter 11. How to Make the Mare to Go 12. How to Prevent the Horse Slipping his Girths 13. How to Ride Without a Bridle 14. A Daisy Cutter with his Varieties 15. The Tumbler, or its Affinities 16. A Horse with a Nose 17. How to Travel Upon Two Legs in a Frost ESTCT12226, Brunet II, 1474. .

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Book number: 02549

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: GAMBADO, Geoffrey Nineteenth-Century Literature Sports

BUNYAN, John; Bayntun

Pilgrim's Progress, the

London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1906. An Elegantly Printed Edition of One of the Most Significant Works of Religious English Literature BUNYAN, John. The Pilgrim's Progress. [The Royal Library Chef D'Oeuvre Series]. London, Arthur L. Humphreys, 1906. Octavo. (9 1/8 x 6 5/8 inches; 233 x 166 mm). [4], 327, [1 blank] pp. Title-page printed in red and black. Bound by Bayntun in early twentieth-century three-quarter dark blue polished calf ruled in gilt over blue cloth boards. Spine with five raised bands and red and green morocco gilt lettering labels, marbled endpapers. Printed on handmade watermark rag paper. Top of spine and joints a little rubbed otherwise excellent. An elegantly printed modern edition of Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come; Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream, originally published in February, 1678. A celebrated allegorical tale of Christian the pilgrim on his journey to the Celestial City, the Christian encounters both worthy companions and dreadful adversaries. .

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Book number: 00852

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: Bayntun Bindings Fine Printing Seventeenth-Century Literature Fine Printing Literature Seventeenth-Century Literature

BURNEY, Fanny; HEATH, William, illustrator

Evelina: Or Female Life in London

London: Edward Mason, 1821. Adventures Of A Young Woman In A Big City [BURNEY, Frances]. [HEATH, William, illustrator]. Evelina: or the History of a Young Lady's Introduction to the World. By Miss Burney. A New Edition Embellished with Engravings. London: Published by Edward Mason, 1821. First illustrated edition, first issue. Octavo (9 x 5 5/8 inches; 229 x 125 mm.). [1]-522 [i.e. 530] pp. (The pagination on gathering 'G' pp. 41-48 is repeated adding an additional 8 pp. to the 522 pp.). Hand colored aquatint title/frontispiece and six hand colored aquatint plates after William Heath, all but one aquatint engravings - the illustration facing page 25 is a hand colored etched plate. Publisher's drab maroon cloth, original red paper printed label on spine (most of the lettering worn away), inner hinges strengthened, fore and lower edges uncut. Small booksellers label "A. Playter. Dealer in English Books. Amsterdam" on front paste-down. Some minor offsetting from plates to text. Some light to moderate foxing, gathering '3A' pp. 361-368 browned. Still a wonderful 'uncut' copy in the publisher's cloth binding, housed in a fleece-lined red cloth clamshell case. This edition of Frances Burney's 1778 epistolary novel "Evelina" is notable for being the first to include illustrations by William Heath, contributing visual elements to Burney's classic novel. The hand-colored plates add a decorative and artistic dimension to the narrative. The uncut state of the book, along with its original binding, enhances its collectible value. The book was was reissued the following year by Jones and Co. under the title Evelina: or Female Life in London, being the History of a Young Lady's Introduction to Fashionable Life, and the Gay Scenes of the Metropolis; Displaying a Highly Humorous, Satirical, and Entertaining Description of Fashionable Characters, Manners, and Amusements, in the Higher Circles of Metropolitan Society. Embellished and Illustrated with a Series of Humorous Colored Engravings, by the First Artists. The title character Evelina is the unacknowledged but legitimate daughter of a dissipated English aristocrat, and thus raised in rural seclusion until her 17th year. Through a series of humorous events that take place in London and the resort town of Hotwells, near Bristol, Evelina learns to navigate the complex layers of 18th-century society and come under the eye of a distinguished nobleman with whom a romantic relationship is formed in the latter part of the novel. This sentimental novel, which has notions of sensibility and early romanticism, satirizes the society in which it is set and is a significant precursor to the work of Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth, whose novels explore many of the same issues. Scarce: OCLC?KVK locate just four copies in libraries and institutions worldwide: The Huntington Library (CA, US); McGill University (CA, QC, US); The British Library (London, UK); Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Netherlands); The plates: Title/frontispiece Evelina or the History of a Young Lady's Introduction to the World. 1. Evelina, Mrs Mirvan and Maria, Shopping. 2. The Captain attacking Madame Duval. 3. Evelina, Visit to the Opera with the Branghtons. (W. Heath delt.) 4. The Captain hunting Madame Duval in the Ditch. 5. Madame Duval Dancing a Minuet, at the Hampstead Assembly. (W. Heath delt.) 6. Evelina, Mr Lovel and the Monkey. (W. Heath delt.) Bobins 1323; Tooley 118. .

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Book number: 05673

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: HEATH, William, illustrator Color-Plate Books Caricatures Nineteenth-Century Literature

KELLIEGRAM BINDING; CARROLL, Lewis

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

London: MacMillan and Co. 1872. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland An Early Edition in a Superb Multi-Colored Inlay Binding by Kelliegram [KELLIEGRAM BINDING]. CARROLL, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. With Forty-Two Illustrations by John Tenniel. Twenty-Ninth Thousand. London: MacMillan and Co. 1872. Twenty-Ninth Thousand printing. Small quarto (7 x 4 5/8 inches; 178 x 117 mm.). [xii], [1]-192 pp. Wood engraved frontispiece with original tissue-guard, numerous wood-engraved text illustrations. A few very light marginal smudges, otherwise fine. Bound ca. 1910 by Kelliegram of London, stamp-signed in gilt on rear turn-in. Full hunter green crushed levant morocco, the covers beautifully decorated with multi colored leather inlays depicting ten different Alice characters. The front cover with a large central inlay of the Mad Hatter, surrounded by Father William's Son, the Dodo, the Mock Turtle and the Duchess, all within a gilt-stamped frame. The rear cover similarly decorated with a large central inlay of the White Rabbit, surrounded by the Mouse, the Duck, the Eaglet and the Cheshire Cat, all within a gilt-stamped frame. Spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt ruled board edges and turn-ins, ochre silk liners and endleaves, all edges gilt. An amazing whimsical binding.. "Kelliegram bindings were one of many innovations of the English commercial binding firm of Kelly & Sons. The Kelly family had one of the longest connections in the history of the binding trade in London, having been founded in 1770 by John Kellie, as the name was then spelled. The binding firm was carried on by successive members of the family into the 1930s. William Henry Kelly significantly developed the company in the first half of the nineteenth century, followed by William Henry, Jr. Henry, and Hubert Kelly, who took control in 1892, taking the firm into the twentieth century..The development [during the 1880s] that came to be known as Kelliegram was one of the bindery's most notable, and the popularity continues today as demonstrated by the prices Kelliegram bindings command at auction and in the rare book trade. An interesting note: The story of the first actual printing of Alice in Wonderland. Encouraged by his friends, Reverend Charles Dodgson, otherwise known as Lewis Carroll, first had Alice published by Macmillan & Co. and printed by the Clarendon Press in June 1865, arranging to have a specially bound copy delivered to Alice Liddell, the famous Alice for whom the story was spun, the next month on July 4. However, not several weeks after that, John Tenniel, the illustrator, wrote to Dodgson complaining of his dissatisfaction with the printing of his illustrations. Macmillan examined one of the unbound copies of the book and agreed to fully reprint the book using a more commercial printer from London, Richard Clay. The condemned printing was then sold to David Appleton & Co. an overseas publishing house who wanted to distribute copies of the book in America. Only 1,952 copies were sold to them of the original 2,000 copy print run. The title-pages were redone with a New York imprint dated 1866, the sheets were machine-folded and put into cloth bindings with Appleton's name on the lower spine and the new title-page substituted on a stub for the earlier one. Meanwile, Macmillan completed its new edition in November 1865, but post-dated this printing 1866 in time for the holidays. As of this writing, twenty-two copies of the original 1865 Alice are located and known to have survived with their original title-pages plus one copy presented to Christ Church Library, currently lost, by the author. .

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Book number: 05712

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: CARROLL, Lewis Children's Books Fine Bindings Nineteenth-Century Literature

CARROLL, Lewis; DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge; FURNISS, Harry, illustrator; Bayntun of Bath, binder

Sylvie and Bruno [and] Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

London: Macmillan and Co. 1889. A Superb Set of Sylvie and Bruno and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded Including 'The Mad Gardener's Song' CARROLL, Lewis. FURNISS, Harry, illustrator. Sylvie and Bruno [and] Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. [each] With forty-six illustrations by Harry Furniss. London: Macmillan and Co. 1889 [and] 1893. First editions. Two octavo volumes (7 x 4 3/4 inches; 179 x 121 mm.). xxiii, [1, blank], 400; xxxi, [1, blank], 423, [1, blank] pp. With forty-six (ten full-page) illustrations by Harry Furniss in each volume. Each frontispiece with original tissue-guard. Verso of each title-page with small blue library accession number and a few leaves in each volume with the almost imperceptible blind stamp of the College of the Holy Names, Oakland, California. Bound ca. 1920 by Bayntun of Bath (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-ins). Full maroon morocco, covers ruled in gilt surrounding an elaborate gilt central panel, spines with five raised bands, decoratively panelled and lettered in gilt in compartments, decorative gilt board-edges and turn-ins. red marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Slight staining from original cloth covers on facing last page of Sylvie and Bruno and last blank of Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. With the rectangular bookplate of College of the Holy Names, Oakland, California on both front paste-downs. A fine pair. Sylvie and Bruno, first published in 1889, and its second volume Sylvie and Bruno Concluded published in 1893, form the last novel by Lewis Carroll published during his lifetime. Both volumes were illustrated by Harry Furniss. The novel has two main plots: one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fantasy world of Fairyland. While the latter plot is a fairy tale with many nonsense elements and poems, similar to Carroll's Alice books, the story set in Victorian Britain is a social novel, with its characters discussing various concepts and aspects of religion, society, philosophy and morality. Two short pieces, "Fairy Sylvie" and "Bruno's Revenge", originally appeared in Aunt Judy's Magazine in 1867. Some years later, in 1873 or 1874, Carroll had the idea to use these as the core for a longer story. Much of the rest of the novel he compiled from notes of ideas and dialogue which he had collected over the years (and which he called "litterature" in the introduction to the first volume). Carroll initially intended for the novel to be published in one volume. However, due to its length, it was divided into two volumes, published in 1889 and 1893. The novel is not nearly as well known as the Alice books. It was very poorly received and did not have many reprintings; modern commentators note that it lacks much of Carroll's characteristic humour. The poem The Mad Gardener's Song, widely reprinted elsewhere, is the best-known part of the book. "He thought he saw an Albatross That fluttered round the lamp: He looked again, and found it was A Penny-Postage-Stamp. "You'd best be getting home," he said: "The nights are very damp!" The introductory poem in Sylvie and Bruno contains a double acrostic on the name "Isa Bowman", one of Carroll's child friends. Williams, Madan & Green. The Lewis Carroll Handbook. Numbers 217 & 250. .

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Book number: 04384

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge FURNISS, Harry, illustrator Bayntun of Bath, binder Children's Books Illustrated Books Fine Bindings and Sets Fairy Tales

[CHATTERTON, Thomas]

Poems

London: Printed for T. Payne and Son at the Mews-Gate, 1778. One of the Great Literary "Forgeries" [CHATTERTON, Thomas]. Poems, Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and Others, in the Fifteenth Century. The Third Edition; to Which is Added an Appendix, Containing Some Observations Upon the Language of These Poems; Tending to Prove, That They Were Written, Not by Any Ancient Author, but Entirely by Thomas Chatterton. London: T. Payne and Son at the Mews-Gate, 1778. Third edition. Octavo. [2], xxvii, [1], 333, [1, blank] pp. One plate. Contemporary tree calf. Gilt-tooled borders. Gilt ornamented and decorated spine. Morocco spine label, gilt-lettered. Joints, spine head and tail, label and corners near invisibly restored. Contemporary signature to titlepage. A very good copy. One of the great literary "forgeries," the mythical Thomas Rowley was created by Chatterton shortly after he began writing poetry at the incredible age of 11. The manuscript was not published until seven years after Chatterton's death and sparked a controversy over the authenticity of the poems, caused in large part by critics who could not believe that such expertly crafted poems could have come from a half-educated apprentice barely in his teens. Samuel Johnson called him "the most extraordinary young man that has encountered my knowledge," and Keats dedicated ENDYMION to his memory. He was admired by Coleridge, Shelley, Wordsworth, and Rossetti who said that he had "Shakespeare's manhood in a boy's wild heart." Walking with a companion in a London churchyard one day, the impoverished Chatterton stumbled into a newly dug grave. His friend came to his rescue and, attempting to make light of the matter, claimed he was glad to be present at the resurrection of a genius. Chatterton replied: "I have been at war with the grave for sometime, and I find it not so easy to vanquish it as I imagined. We can find an asylum to hide from every creditor but that." Three days later, three months shy of his eighteenth birthday, he destroyed all of his manuscripts, swallowed arsenic, and paid his debt. The next day he was shoveled ..   Cf. Rothschild 589. Cf. Hayward 188. .

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Book number: 01362

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: Eighteenth-Century Literature Literature Poetry

COSWAY-STYLE BINDING; SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE; CONRAD, Joseph

An Outcast of the Islands

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. A Superb Sangorski & Sutcliffe Cosway-Style Binding First Edition, First Issue of Joseph Conrad's Second Novel COSWAY-STYLE BINDING. SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders. CONRAD, Joseph. An Outcast of the Islands. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. First edition, first issue. Octavo (7 3/4 x 4 7/8 inches; 197 x 124 mm.). [ii, ads], [vi], 391, [1] pp. Title-page in red and black. First issue, with "this" for "their" on p. 26, line 31; "Absolution" for "ablution" p. 110, line 12; "9" missing on p. 129; and "hate" for "fate" on p. 356, line 26. Bound ca, 1940 by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, stamp-signed in gilt on rear turn-in. Full dark blue crushed levant morocco over beveled boards, covers elaborately bordered in gilt with decorative anchor corner-pieces, front cover with a sailing ship in gilt. Spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt-ruled board-edges and turn-ins, blue watered silk endleaves. Inside front cover with a large rectangular panel of green morocco with a superb and exquisite oval portrait miniature of Joseph Conrad (3 x 2 3/8 inches) under glass and surrounded by a gilt metal frame. Original green cloth covers and spine bound in at end. Housed in the original fleece-lined blue cloth clamshell case, spine lettered in gilt. Front hinge of clamshell case neatly repaired, otherwise fine. Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski (1857-1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he became a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. Conrad wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of what he saw as an impassive, inscrutable universe. Conrad is considered an early modernist, though his works contain elements of nineteenth-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters, as in Lord Jim, for example, have influenced numerous authors. Many dramatic films have been adapted from, or inspired by, his works. Numerous writers and critics have commented that Conrad's fictional works, written largely in the first two decades of the 20th century, seem to have anticipated later world events. An Outcast of the Islands was the second novel by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1896, and inspired by Conrad's experience as mate of a steamer, the Vidar. The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar, finds refuge in a hidden native village, only to betray his benefactors over his lust for the tribal chief's daughter. The story features Conrad's recurring character Tom Lingard, who also appears in Almayer's Folly (1895), in addition to sharing other characters with that novel. It is considered by many to be underrated as a work of literature. Conrad romanticizes the jungle environment and its inhabitants in a similar style to that of his Heart of Darkness. .

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Book number: 05094

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE CONRAD, Joseph Fine Bindings Cosway-Style Bindings Nineteenth-Century Literature Voyages and Travels

CROFT, Peter John

Autograph Poetry in the English Language

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1973. Poetry In Original Manuscript [CROFT, Peter John, editor]. Autograph Poetry in the English Language. Facsimiles of Original Manuscripts from the Fourteenth to the Twentieth Century. Compiled and Edited with an Introduction, Commentary and Transcripts by P. J. Croft. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, [1973]. First American edition. Limited to 1,500 sets. Two folio volumes. Original green cloth and paper over boards. A mint set. In the original dust jackets and slipcase. 197 manuscripts are illustrated with facing biographical information about the author. An important volume in the study of autograph material. .

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Book number: 00827

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: Bibliography Poetry English Literature Bibliography Facsimiles Literature Poetry