[BROOKE (STOPFORD A.)]

Riquet of the Tuft: A Love Drama

London, Macmillan and Co. 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown and on the front pastedown the small Fountain Lawn Library bookplate of coal baron La Fayette Butler, many of whose books were left untouched from the time of their purchase by him until their sale in the summer of 1999. Browning to endpapers with the rear endpaper lacking resulting in browning to the last text page. Slight fraying to the head of the spine. Near Fine and quite scarce Stopford Augustus Brooke (14 November 1832 – 18 March 1916) was an Irish churchman, royal chaplain and writer. He was a correspondent of many famous writers of his time. In 1890-1 he took the lead in raising the funds to purchase Dove Cottage, William Wordsworth’s home in Grasmere from 1800 to 1808, and establishing it "for the eternal possession of those who love English poetry all over the world.

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Book number: 018597

Catalogue: 19th Century British Literature

Keywords: 19th Century British Literature, Anonymous Literature, Plays, Religion 19th Century Literature 19th Century British Literature William Wordsworth Theater

[AUDEN, W. H.]

Selected Writings of Sydney Smith

New York, Farrar Straus Cudahy, (1956). First Edition. hardcover. Bloomfield B61. Edited and with an introduction by W. H. Auden of this collection of letters and essays by Smith (1771-1845), "the most famous wit of his generation." Owner signature on front endpaper. Very Good in Good dustwrapper with some edgewear and tears .

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Book number: 005949

Catalogue: 19th Century British Literature

Keywords: Religion, Sydney Smith, Essays, Letters, 19th Century British Literature, Modern Poetry, W. H. Auden, Modern Firsts Modern First Editions Literature: American 19th Century British Literature Religion

BEERBOHM, Max

A Survey

New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-1/4") bound in cloth-backed boards. Illustrated with 51 tipped-in caricature plates. Dustwrapper soiled with stain and scorch mark on spine. Very Good in a Good dustwrapper .

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Book number: 004015

Catalogue: 19th Century British Literature

Keywords: Satire, Caricatures, 19th Century British Literature, 1890s, Illustrated Books, Humor Satire Literature: English Illustrated Books Humor

BYRON, (George Gordon Noel, Lord)

The Island, or Christian and His Comrades

London, John Hunt, 1823. First Edition. Hardcover. Attractively bound in full green morocco leather with triple gilt rules on the covers, gilt-decorated and lettered spine with five raised bands, gilt dentelles, top edge gilt; 94, [2] pages. Bound with new endpapers, lacking as nearly always the case the two ad leaves at the front; otherwise complete with the half-title page and the leaf of ads at the end. This long poem was inspired by Captain Bligh's account of the mutiny on board HMS Bounty. Covers very slightly bowed, otherwise a Fine copy .

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Book number: 021622

Catalogue: 19th Century British Literature

Keywords: 19th Century Literature, 19th Century British Literature, Romantic Literature, Lord Byron, Mutiny on the Bounty, Poetry, Romantic Poetry Romantic Literature 19th Century Literature Literature: English Romantic Poetry

(BYRON, Lord); (COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor); [SOUTHEY, Robert - editor] et. al

The Annual Anthology in Two Volumes

Bristol, Biggs and Co. 1799 & 1800. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes (4" x 6-1/2") bound in recent half brown morocco with matching corners retaining the original marbled boards, all edges marbled. Leaf B8 (pages 31-32) lacking in first volume, as usual; C3 in second volume in uncancelled state, with word "wicked" present on page 37, line 9. [Tinker 1953; Wise, Coleridge, 15]. Contributions by Samuel T. Coleridge (27 poems, some previously unpublished), Poet Laureate Robert Southey, Charles Lamb, Robert Lovell, Humphry Davy, Amelia Opie, and others. Pages 31-32 contained Southey's "War Poem," but were canceled in all but two known copies as the poem was considered unpatriotic. A third volume was advertised but never published. A remarkable and important collection of early Romantic poetry, here in unusually nice condition. Near Fine, handsomely bound .

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Book number: 014530

Catalogue: 19th Century British Literature

Keywords: Samuel T. Coleridge, Anthologies, Romantic Literature, Robert Southey, Lord Byron, Fine Bindings Poetry 19th Century Literature Literature: English Fine Bindings

ELIOT, George

Silas Marner

London, Heritage Press, n.d. Hardcover. Decorated cloth. Illustrated by Lynton Lamb. Ill.: Lynton Lamb. Fine in slipcase .

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Book number: 007145

Catalogue: 19th Century British Literature

Keywords: 19th Century British Literature, 19th Century Literature, Illustrated Books, Victorian Literature Lynton Lamb Illustrated Books 19th Century British Literature 19th Century Literature Literature: English

ELIOT, George

Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's cinnamon cloth: Carter's A binding with 16-page Blackwood catalog and 4-page Carlyle catalog bound at rear. Eliot's third and many think best novel. Rear hinge with paper split but binding firm, early owner name at top of half-title page; tear along rear joint and small tears to spine tips, cloth a bit darkened. Very Good .

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Book number: 021031

Catalogue: 19th Century British Literature

Keywords: 19th Century British Literature, George Eliot, Women's Literature, 19th Century Literature, Movie Fiction 19th Century British Literature Women's Literature 19th Century Literature Movie Fiction

HARDY, Thomas

Tess of the D'Urbervilles. A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1892. First American Edition. hardcover. Publisher's decorated brown cloth. Illustrated with 11 full-page plates. A "revised" edition was published later in 1892 by Harper restoring the cuts made in this edition published in January due to their controversial and sexual nature. This copy is an oddity as signature 24, pages 369-384, were never bound in, though one can only tell by examining the contents as there is no visible sign in the book's appearance to indicate the missing signature. Owner name of Virginia Elizabeth Murdoch on the front endpaper dated 19 February 1892. Hinges sound, light wear. Near Fine but for the missing signature .

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Book number: 018933

Catalogue: 19th Century British Literature

Keywords: 19th Century British Literature, 19th Century Literature, Thomas Hardy 19th Century British Literature Illustrated Books Literature: English 19th Century Literature

HUGHES, Thomas

Vacation Rambles

London & New York, MacMillan & Co. 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Original green cloth. Travels in America and Europe recounted in the form of letters by the author of TOM BROWN'S SCHOOLDAYS. Near Fine .

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Book number: 014519

Catalogue: 19th Century British Literature

Keywords: 19th Century British Literature, Americana, Europe, Travel Literature: English Americana Europe Travel

KIPLING, Rudyard

Abaft the Funnel

New York, B. W. Dodge & Co. 1909. First Edition. hardcover. Livingston 328. Pirated Edition, preceding the first edition of this collection of stories. This is one of the last copies to be bound with the front cover lettered in red rather than gold. Hinge cracked at the rear but very tight; covers bright and fresh. The dustwrapper is complete with only minor chipping at the spine tips and corners. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 010439

Catalogue: 19th Century British Literature

Keywords: 19th Century British Literature, Early Dustwrappers, 19th Century Literature, Rudyard Kipling, Short Stories 19th Century Literature Short Stories Literature: English 19th Century British Literature

KIPLING, Rudyard

The City of Dreadful Night

New York, Alex. Grosset & Co. 1899. First American Edition. Hardcover. Decorated orange cloth. Illustrated with a frontispiece of Kipling and two plates by Charles Farrand. Spine darkened but still readable. Near Fine .

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Book number: 008182

Catalogue: 19th Century British Literature

Keywords: Modern Firsts, 19th Century British Literature, Rudyard Kipling 20th Century British Literature 19th Century British Literature Modern First Editions Literature: English

KIPLING, Rudyard

From Sea to Sea

New York, Doubleday & McClure Co. 1899. First American Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes in publisher's blind-stamped green cloth. Kipling in India, the Orient, and elsewhere. Precedes the English edition. Livingston 227. With the error on page 90 of the second volume. Bottom of spines a little spotted. Some pencil underlining. Very Good .

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Book number: 001520

Catalogue: 19th Century British Literature

Keywords: Rudyard Kipling, Orient, India Literature: English Travel 20th Century British Literature 19th Century British Literature

KIPLING, Rudyard

Traffics and Discoveries

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's red cloth with gilt elephant on front cover and small swastika symbol. Laid in is a small promotional folded leaflet from the publisher advertising this book as well as books by Edith Wharton, H. G. Wells, and others. Ill.: Literary Ephemera. Light bumping to corners. Near Fine .

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Book number: 020443

Catalogue: 19th Century British Literature

Keywords: 19th Century British Literature, 19th Century Literature, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton, H. G. Wells Literary Ephemera 19th Century British Literature 19th Century Literature Literature: English Literary Ephemera

PARTINGTON, Wilfred (editor)

The Private Letter-Books of Sir Walter Scott. Selections from the Abbotsford Manuscripts

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth; xv, 397 pages. Letters to Scott from Byron, Goethe, and many others. Entertaining introductory letter by Hugh Walpole about acquiring the letters at auction and his experiences at book auctions. Illustrated. Small bookplate of Lafayette Butler on the front pastedown and the book ticket of Laurel Book Service on the rear. Light foxing to endpapers. Very Good in a soiled, Very Good dustwrapper .

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Book number: 020194

Catalogue: 19th Century British Literature

Keywords: 19th Century British Literature, 19th Century Literature, Letters, Correspondence Books on Books 19th Century British Literature Literature: English 19th Century Literature

DE QUINCY, Thomas

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

New York, Heritage Press, (1950). Decorated cloth. Illustrated with 12 lithograph reproductions by Zhenya Gay. Ill.: 12 gravures by Zhenya Gay. Spine sunned. About Fine in a Fine slipcase .

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Book number: 007146

Catalogue: 19th Century British Literature

Keywords: 12 gravures by Zhenya Gay Drugs Illustrated Books