GOLDSMITH, Oliver (1728-1774); Hugh Thomson (illustrates)

[Cranford Series] the Vicar of Wakefield

London, Macmillan & Co, 1890. First Edition thus. Decorative Cloth. Preface by Austin Dobson. Crown 8vo (179 x 115mm): xxiv,[2],305,[7]pp, with 182 illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Publisher's forest green cloth and end papers, gilt lettering and vignettes to spine and upper cover, all edges gilt. Book label of Wiston Old Rectory (a Grade II listed building in West Sussex) to corner of front paste-down. An excellent example, slightly cocked but virtually pristine, tightly bound and clean throughout. Balston G3. Macmillan's late nineteenth-century reprints of classic tales illustrated by fine artists came to be known as the Cranford Series, after Mrs. Gaskell's Cranford, illustrated by Hugh Thomson and published in 1891. The series ran from 1876 (Old Christmas) to 1907 (Silas Marner), and includes 24 crown octavo volumes, instantly recognizable by their distinctive forest green shiny cloth publisher's bindings with rich gilt pictorial designs on upper covers and spines and all edges gilt. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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GOODACRE, Walter (1856-1938)

The Moon with a Description of Its Surface Formations. Fully Illustrated by the Author's Revised Map of the Moon in 25 Sections Together with Numerous Drawings, Charts and Photographs

Bournemouth, Published and printed by the Author and by Pardy & Son, 1931. Quarter-Calf. Scarce first (and only) edition, reproducing in book form Goodacre's section maps of the moon's surface, with exhaustively detailed descriptions of features. Royal 8vo (244 x 175mm): [4],364pp, with 27 plates from Goodacre's map (two keys and 25 sections) and 12 further plates, including nine reproducing lunar photographs; plus 14 full- and 72 partial-page illustrations of Goodacre's sketches of the lunar surface. Original burgundy quarter-morocco over finely woven cloth sides, spine stamped in gilt. A superb copy, tightly bound and clean throughout. See "The Face of the Moon: Galileo to Apollo," an exhibition of rare books and maps, October 13, 1989 to February 28, 1990, at the Linda Hall Library. No entries located in RBH or ABPC. Goodacre was a British businessman and amateur astronomer, and the preeminent British selenographer of the early twentieth century. This privately published monograph of detailed descriptions of lunar features elaborated upon the lunar map of the entire near side of the Moon, measuring 77 inches across, that Goodacre issued in 25 sections in 1910. It was the first lunar map to employ rectangular coordinates and was based upon hundreds of photographs obtained from the Paris and Yerkes observatories. It also was the basis of the first detailed lunar contour map, constructed in 1934 by the German selenographer Helmut Ritter. Not least, Goodacre's map "gives a glimpse back into the days when astronomy was not done with computers, spectrometers and CCD chips, but with human eyes, pens, paper, and the occasional piece of photographic film." (University College London, faculty of Mathematical & Physical Sciences website) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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GOSSE, Philip Henry (1810-1888)

[Natural History] Actinologia Britannica. A History of the British Sea Anemones and Corals. With Coloured Figures of the Species and Principal Varieties [Unrecorded Binding Variant]

London, Van Voorst, Paternoster Row, 1860. Decorative Cloth. First and only hardcover edition of Gosse's finest work, marking a "major advance in natural history book illustration intended for the mass market." (ODNB). Tall 8vo: xl,362,[2],8pp (pp 7-10 are cancels), complete with 12 tissue-guarded plates (11 of which are chromolithographs) by William Dickes, woodcuts in text, erratum slip tipped in at p. 1. Publisher's original unrecorded textured green cloth binding (similar to but distinct from "Case A" in Freeman & Wertheimer), gilt lettering and seaweed decoration to covers and spine, covers elaborately paneled in blind. A superb recased copy, binding tight and secure, faint lilac stamp of Barnsley Naturalists' Society to half-title and margins of plates, mild offsetting but generally excellent, clean condition throughout. Nissen 1641. Freeman (Natural History Books) 1390. Freeman & Wertheimer 108. Bibliotheca Bibliographici 2438. First issued in 12 monthly parts, from 1858 to 1860. Gosse was a naturalist, popularizer, inventor of the sea-water aquarium, and innovator in the study of marine biology. British Sea Anemones and Corals came late in his career. Reviewers especially praised the color lithographs made from Gosse's own watercolors. The Literary Gazette called Gosse "alone and unrivalled in the extremely difficult art of drawing objects of zoology so as to satisfy the requirements of science" as well as provide "vivid aesthetic impressions." Sotherans calls the plates "simultaneously meticulous, accurate and, partly due to the work of the printer Dickes, eerily beautiful." N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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Sonstige Stichworte: Sea anemones Great Britain Identification. Corals Great Britain Identification. Marine animals Great Britain. Corals. Marine animals. Sea anemones.

GRAVES, Robert (1895-1985); Edward Ardizzone (Illustrates)

[Juvenile] Ann at Highwood Hall: Poems for Children

London, Cassell, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of this juvenile, collecting seven poems, one of 5,000 copies printed. Slim demy 8vo (216 x 161mm): [8],38,[2]pp, with 35 pen drawings (including illustrated title page), each with single color wash, alternating green and peach. Publisher's powder blue cloth-effect boards, spine lettered in gold; illustrated dust jacket by Ardizzone, printed in black, blue, peach, and green and priced 13/6 net. An exemplary example (light dust-soiling to jacket's back panel only), tightly bound (apparently unread) and clean throughout. Higginson A110. Alderson 106. Verse that evokes the world of Victorian England, including the two lengthy poems, the story of Ann, "the third-but-youngest child of seventeen," who runs away to live at a duke's palace, and "‘George II and the Chinese Emperor," a battle of words lost in translation. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine/Fine.

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VAN GRUISEN, N. L. (active 1870s)

[Photobook] a Holiday in Iceland [with Original Photographs]

London, Elliott Stock, 1879. Decorative Cloth. First (and only) Edition of this travelog with original woodbury-type photographs. 8vo (212 x 136mm): vi,[3]-98pp, with five woodbury-type prints mounted on separate leaves. Publisher's blue-green cloth, spine lettered in gilt and ornamented in black, front cover decorated and lettered in black. An excellent example, tightly bound and clean throughout, the plates in fine condition. Not in Margolis & Moss. Van Gruisen and a friend toured the coast on the Danish steamer Phoenix, occasionally traveling inland on horseback, observing wildlife, landscapes, and living conditions. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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HANLEY, Sylvanus [Charles Thorp, 1819-1899]

[Conchology] [Shells] the Young Conchologist's Book of Species. Univalves. Containing Descriptions of Six Hundred Species, and Illustrated by Many Figures

London, James Fraser, Regent Street, 1840. Original Cloth. Scarce First Edition of this field guide for the "youthful amateur in this pleasing science." Crown 8vo (194 x 124mm):viii,146,[2]pp, with tissue-guarded color lithograph frontispiece and 46 text woodcuts. Original blue cloth, paper label printed in black to front cover, pale pink end papers. An exceptional example (title label spotted), tightly bound and bright throughout. Reprinted in 1842 with a glossary of terms and index to the genera and their localities. Hanley "inherited a small fortune at an early age and devoted a lifetime to conchology. After publishing The Young Conchologist's Book of Species in 1840, he edited a new edition of Swainson's Exotic Conchology in 1841, and in 1842 began his first important work on bivalves . But he is probably best known to systematists by his publication on the shells of Linnaeus." (Dance, A History of Shell Collecting, p. 183) Most of Hanley's extensive collection of shells is displayed in the Leeds City Museum, on the wooden tablets as he left it. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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Sonstige Stichworte: Shells -- Identification. Mollusks -- Identification.

HARRIS, Moses (1730-c.1788)

[Butterflies] an Exposition of English Insects Including the Several Classes of Neuroptera, Hymenoptera, & Diptera, or Bees, Flies, & Libelullæ Exhibiting on 51 Copper Plates Near 500 Figures, Accurately Drawn, & Highly Finished in Colours from Nature

London, Sold by Mr. White, bookseller, in Fleet-street, & Mr. Robson, in New Bond street, 1782. Quarter-Calf. Tall uncut Second Edition (First Issue, with hand-colored allegorical frontispiece of sylvan scene with various insects and animals at foot of pedestal holding statue of Ceres and catchword on p. 40 corrected) of this classic of eighteenth-century entomology. Royal 4to (317 x 240mm): [2],viii,9-166,[4]pp, complete with 50 delicately hand-coloured plates, depicting more than 500 individual moths, dragonflies, damselflies, bees, wasps, and other insects drawn from life, engraved, and colored by Moses Harris; engraved calligraphic title page, and uncolored engraved plate with numbered parts of insects keyed to explanations in the Preface. Text in English and French in double columns. Contemporary quarter green calf, original flat spine (very skillfully relaid) in six compartment divided by gilt bands, title direct to second compartment in gilt, marbled boards. Previous owner 's name (Catherine Sharpe) to top of title page. Scattered spotting to pages and plates, lightly and evenly toned, p. 29 with neatly repaired tear, but an excellent unsophisticated copy, entirely uncut, in handsome period binding. Lisney 242. Nissen ZB1838. Agassiz III, p. 191. Freeman 1557. British Bee Books 129. First published in 1780 (but dated 1776), many copies of which include the color wheel plate. But according to Lisney, none "of the ideal copies which I have examined . contains the colour chart which, in my opinion, only occurs in made-up copies of this edition." Harris, a gifted, self-taught entomologist, was considered "the best painter and engraver of insects of his day." (Quaritch, 2557) His most famous work, The Aurelian, was published in 1766, followed by English Lepidoptera in 1775. An Exposition was the first book to provide scientific descriptions and accurate illustrations of several species of dragonfly and damselfly. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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HARTE, Bret (1836-1902)

Poems

Boston, Fields, Osgood, 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing (of three), per BAL, with FO monogram on title page and foot of spine and S.T.K. for T.S.K. in caption p. 136. Small 8vo: vi,7-153pp. Original green publisher's C cloth (also issued in orange and purple cloth, no priority noted), spine and upper cover stamped in gilt, beveled edges, chocolate clay-coated end papers. A Fine, bright copy—superb. BAL 7253. Kozlay Collection, 58 (identifying this as the first issue). Johnson High Spots, p. 37 (also calling this the first issue). Collects new and previously published poems, including "To the Pliocene Skull" and "Her Letter," as well as Harte's tribute to Dickens, "Dickens in Camp" and two of his renowned Civil War Poems, "Reveille" and "How Are You, Sanitary?". Harte's breakthrough came was with the publication three years earlier of "The Luck of Roaring Camp," and although his reputation today rests on the handful of stories he wrote for the Overland in the two and a half years before his triumphant return to the East in 1871, he had a strong contemporary reputation as a poet, based on his Civil War poems and on his equally successful comic and satiric poems in dialect, eight of which are also collected here. Note: With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition,carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine .

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HARTE, Bret (1836-1902)

Three Partners, or the Big Strike on Heavy Tree Hill

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing ("1897" on the copyright page and title page), issued simultaneously with the London edition, of this late Jack Hamlin novel, set in the California Gold Rush. Small 8vo: [4],342pp. Publisher's brown S cloth (also issued in red V cloth, no priority noted), upper cover stamped in black, spine lettered in gilt, olive clay-coated end papers. A Fine, lightly read copy, spine unfaded, gilt lettering bright. Provenance: "Robert Shortz" (perhaps the author of "The Gift of Bonaparte" and "The Girdle of God") in an elegant script to the front paste-down. BAL 7385. Kozlay Collection, 312. Wright 2557. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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HARTLEY, Dorothy (1893-1985)

[Gastronomy] Food in England

London, Macdonald [from 1954], 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Second Impression of this definitive history of English cuisine, a "treasury of information on the gathering, storing, and cooking of food from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries. as full of magic and potions as any medieval herbal." (ODNB ) Thick demy 8vo (227 x 150mm): xii, 13-676pp, with 21 plates from photographs on glossy stock and numerous finely executed line drawings, "exact, decorative yet diagrammatic." (ODNB) Publisher's orange cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gold; illustrated dust jacket by Hookaway Cowles, priced 30/- net. Text block edges lightly freckled, very occasionally affecting margins, but an excellent example, tightly bound and clean throughout in a handsome briefly nicked jacket. According to historian Lucy Worsley, Food in England is a "curious mixture of cookery, history, anthropology, folklore and even magic . It ranges from Saxon cooking to the Industrial Revolution, with chapters on everything from seaweed to salt." (The Guardian, 11/2/2012) During the 1930s, "Hartley toured the British Isles by bicycle and car, with pen, pencil, and camera, writing weekly articles for the Daily Sketch on country people and their trades. Her articles covered such themes as horse-ploughing, bread making, and clog making. They used the calendar months as their basis, and were strongly influenced by the sixteenth-century agricultural writer and poet Thomas Tusser. The material gleaned on these travels went into her many other books and articles, which eventually covered many aspects and periods of English rural life." N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine-/Near Fine+.

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DE HASS, Willis (1817-1910)

[Native Americans] [Border Wars] History of the Early Settlement and Indian Wars of Western Virginia; Embracing an Account of the Various Expeditions in the West, Previous to 1795

Wheeling, H. Hoblitzell, 1851. Decorative Cloth. Superb First Edition, in publisher's binding, of this frontier classic. Demy 8vo (226 x 142mm): 416pp, with four plates on pale pink paper, one folding facsimile, and numerous woodcut text vignettes. Original brown blind-stamped cloth, front cover with striking gilt vignette of native hoisting the scalp of a settler, spine lettered in gilt, pale pink end papers. Early pencil inscription partially erased from front fly-leaf, pages (not plates) lightly foxed, but an excellent example, tightly bound and clean throughout with rich impressions of the plates. Field 415. Howes D-223 ("Valuable compilation based on reliable sources"). Sabin 19308. Streeter 1347 (the "prime source on the area"). Eberstadt 76. Thomson 318 (a "most valuable work . sold by subscription and is now scarce"). An important history of native resistance to the Euro-American occupation of the Ohio Valley, principally during the settlement period of West Virginia, from the 1750s to the 1790s, with biographical accounts of many leading figures before the American Revolution. Discusses Bouquet, Cresap, Dunmore's War, and numerous incidents of frontier Indian battles. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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HASSELL, John (d. 1825)

[Color Plate] Tour of the Grand Junction, Illustrated in a Series of Engravings; with an Historical and Topographical Description of Those Parts of the Counties of Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Northhamptonshire, Through Which the Canal Passes

London, Printed for J Hassell, 27, Richard Street, Islington; and sold by all book sellers, 1819. Full Leather. First Edition of this work issued as a celebration of the newly completed Grand Union Canal. 8vo: viii,147,[5] pp, with hand-colored frontispiece and 23 full-page hand-colored plates "of great topographical interest" (Hardie; according to Abbey, some copies were issued uncolored). Full period black straight-grain morocco, spine elaborately tooled gilt in six compartments, boards tooled in blind and gilt, turn-ins gilt, all edges gilt. A Very Good or better copy, the plates clean and bright, with sporadic, mostly marginal (occasionally heavy) foxing to text. Provenance: book plate to front paste-down of Howard Calhoun Davidson (1890-1984), U. S. Air Force Major General and veteran of both World Wars. Abbey (Scenery) 30. Tooley 252. Martin Hardie, pp. 140-141. Prideaux, p. 272. The Grand Junction Canal's 93 miles of waterway, from Braunston in Northhamptonshire to the River Thames at Brentford, was designed to facilitate water transport to London as an alternative to the uncertain Thames. By 1790, an extensive network of canals was in place in the Midlands, but the only route to London was via the Oxford Canal to the Thames, then down the river to the capital. The River Thames, particularly its upper reaches, suffered from shallow sections and shortages of water leading to delays at locks. The mainline (there were numerous branches) of the Grand Junction Canal, built between 1793 and 1805, by-passed the upper Thames and shortened the journey to London. Hassell, a watercolorist and engraver, first appeared as an exhibitor at the Royal Academy in 1789, with a "View of Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain." Note: With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Very Good + .

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Sonstige Stichworte: England — Description and travel — 1801-1900. Canals — England — Pictorial works. Grand Junction Canal (England) England, Southern — Description and travel.

HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (1804-1864)

[Photobook] Transformation: Or, the Romance of Monte Beni [the Marble Faun]

Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1860. First Edition thus. Vellum. First Tauchnitz Edition (Todd & Bowden's fourth setting, impression Db), "copyright edition" on title page, of Hawthorne's Italian romance cum travel guide. Two volumes in one, thick foolscap 8vo (155 x 107mm): xii,292; vi,280,[2]pp, with 24 mounted period photographs of Roman monuments, statuary, buildings, and street scenes. Contemporary Florentine vellum, spine decorated and titled ("The Marble Faun") in gilt, upper cover paneled and titled ("Roma") in gilt, marbled end papers, edges stained red. Tightly bound and clean throughout, a virtually pristine example, aside from slight waviness to margins of inserted leaves with photographs, which are printed on heavy coated stock. (The photographs were sold to the tourist trade and inserted by Italian binders into copies, most, as here, with half-titles removed.) Todd & Bowden 515Db & 516Db ("the Tauchnitz book most often found extensively extra-illustrated with photographs and found in elaborately decorated vellum"). Clark A23.4. BAL 7620 and 7621 (for first editions). Grolier Hawthorne 32 (for discussion of London and Boston titles). Boni, p. 143. Popular Tauchnitz titles sold as a souvenir in Italian tourist cities, with photographs of important sites and statues. Originally published in 1860, in London (as Transformation: or, The Romance of Monte Beni) and in Boston (as The Marble Faun). Written on the eve of the American Civil War, the novel is set in a fantastical Italy, combining elements of fable, pastoral, gothic romance, and travel guide. Hawthorne supposedly was inspired to write it when he saw the Faun of Praxiteles (in our copy, the frontispiece to volume 1) in the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museum in Rome, and he included extended descriptions of art and architecture as backdrop to the tale of mystery, murder, and romance. Thus, it became customary for nineteenth-century travelers to Rome and Florence to use the book as a guide, rebound (often in elaborately decorated vellum, as here) and extra-illustrated with tipped-in photographs of the scenes Hawthorne described. A profusion of elaborate formats in special and bespoke bindings embellished with widely varying numbers of photographs exist, and thus few copies are identical. ("The absence, presence, or sequence of inserted photographs has no significance in determining textual priority," according to Clark.) Further complicating matters is the confusion created by the Tauchnitz practice of preserving the 1860 title page unchanged through "at least four editions and an untold number of printings extending well into the twentieth century. Four settings of type have been identified . more may exist." (Clark) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (1804-1864)

Septimius Felton or the Elixir of Life [First State]

Boston, James R. Osgood, 1872. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. With a preface by Una Hawthorne. First State (Clark's First Printing, with dropped "I" in "It," l.18, p.42) of Hawthorne's final work, a gothic romance set during the Revolutionary War about a search for the elixir of life. One of only 3000 copies printed. 8vo (172 x 108mm): [4],229,[3,blank, ad leaf]pp. Publisher's decorated blue bold-ribbed moired T cloth (copies were also bound in terra-cotta and green sand-grained C cloth and green and terra-cotta smooth V cloth), front cover and spine decorated in black and lettered in gilt, chocolate coated end papers. Trivial edge wear, slight spine lean, dusty top edge, else an exemplary example. BAL 7638. Grolier Hawthorne 38. Clark A29.2.a. Browne, p. 68. Wright II, 1139. Bleiler (Checklist), p. 96. Bleiler (Guide to Supernatural Fiction) 779. Originally published posthumously in the Atlantic Monthly, taken from an unfinished manuscript discovered by Hawthorne's wife; then in London, where Robert Browning is credited with assisting Hawthorne's daughter, Una, with editing the text. "Although Hawthorne was obviously dissatisfied with Septimius Felton, and modern scholars generally regard it without great enthusiasm, it is a fascinating collection of motifs and involved plot strands in the Romantic Gothic tradition." (Bleiler) The work seems to have inspired H. P. Lovecraft's novella The Dreams in the Witch House. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine- .

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HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (1804-1864)

A Wonder-Book for Boys and Girls

Boston, Ticknor, Reed, And Fields, 1852. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Printing, one of 3,067 copies, with "lifed" for "lifted," line 3, p. 21; first issue (one of only 3067 copies printed and published November,1851), without the inserted publisher's catalogue at rear. Small 8vo: vi,[7]-256pp, with frontispiece and 6 woodcut plates, protected by tissue guards, "gracefully executed" by Hammat Billings, "add[ing] materially to the charm of the little volume." (Grolier) Publisher's original T cloth (faded to an even brown tone), spine lettered and stamped with floral decorations in gilt, covers elaborately paneled in blind, pale yellow endpapers. An exemplary copy, the binding tight and secure, spine relaid professionally and almost imperceptibly, with all lettering intact; light, scattered foxing and the odd, occasional stain. BAL 7606. Grolier Hawthorne 25. Peter Parley to Penrod, p.6. Clark A18.1.a. Stories for girls and boys based on classical myths (Pandora's box, Hercules, Bellerophon and the Chimera, Baucis and Philiomen, Perseus and Medusa), freely adapted from Charles Anton's A Classical Dictionary. Written in the months following publication of House of the Seven Gables. The book proved so popular that Ticknor, Reed, and Fields published the sequel, Tanglewood Tales, the next year. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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