SPEKE, John Hanning (1827-1864)

[Original Cloth] Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1864. Original Cloth. First American Edition of this controversial account, but an "absolutely vital source of evidence on the history of east Africa in the nineteenth century." (ODNB) Thick demy 8vo (233 x 140mm): xxx,31-590,[6]pp. with tissue-guarded photogravure portraits of Speke (frontispiece) and James Grant, 24 further full-page plates, 46 engraved text illustrations, and two maps colored in outline (one folding). Publisher's brown textured cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, pink end papers. Light scattered (mostly marginal) spotting, but superbly preserved in original cloth, an excellent example, tightly bound and general clean throughout. Gay 2735. Howgego IV S54. Hosken p. 188. First published the previous year, in Edinburgh and London. In 1855, Speke joined an expedition to east Africa hoping solve to the greatest geographical puzzle of the Victorian age: Where did the Nile, the world's longest river, rise? The expedition, commanded by Richard Burton, reached Lake Tanganyika in February, 1858. No boat large enough to survey the lake properly could be secured, thus leaving scope for Burton's later claim that Lake Tanganyika was the true source of the Nile. After Burton fell ill, Speke made a trip northward to another lake, reaching the southern tip of what he christened Lake Victoria on August 3,1858. He immediately decided that this lake must be the source of the Nile. Burton disagreed, and their argument over which of the two lakes was the true source was compounded when Speke returned to England before Burton, in May, 1859, and made his Nile claims public, publishing an account of the expedition in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. Burton was outraged. In 1860, the Royal Geographical Society funded Speke's return to Africa to confirm his thesis. Eventually, on July 28, 1862, Speke reached the point where the Nile issues from Lake Victoria, which he named Ripon Falls. Unfortunately, Speke's companion, James Grant, suffering from an ulcerated leg, had returned northward, so the discovery was unverified; nor did the party follow the Nile stream closely as it traveled north to Bunyoro, allowing critics to question whether Speke's river really was the Nile. On his return to London, Speke came under fire, not least from Burton, and the British Association arranged a public debate to be held in Bath on September 16, 1864. Speke was found dead the previous day, apparently killed in a hunting accident. It was not until some twelve years later that the work of H. M. Stanley and others confirmed that Speke was right about Lake Victoria and the Nile. But the circumstances of his death, his dispute with Burton, and his slapdash record-keeping conspired to deny Speke the prominence of Stanley, Burton, and Livingstone. Still, "he was a great discoverer whose achievement was a landmark in the systemization of knowledge about the world. The source of the Nile itself became a great focus for European strategic interests twenty-five years after his visit . More generally, Speke's accounts of his expeditions remain absolutely vital sources of evidence on the history of east Africa in the nineteenth century." (ODNB) 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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STONE, Herbert Stuart (1871-1915); Eugene Field (1850-1895)

First Editions of American Authors : A Manual for Book-Lovers [George Herbert Palmer's Copy]

Cambridge, MA, Stone & Kimball, 1893. Original Cloth. First Trade Edition (a numbered edition of 50 large-paper copies signed by the publishers also was issued) of the first bibliography of American authors. Introduced by the poet Eugene Field. Foolscap 8vo (162 x 100mm): xxiv,223,[3]pp. Publisher's olive-green beveled cloth lettered in gilt to front cover and spine; top edge gilt, others uncut; title page in red and black; paper shelf label to spine. Engraved bookplate to front paste down of Harvard professor George Herbert Palmer (1842-1933). Laid in is a brief ALS from E. W. Rollins dated April 22, 1843, announcing a forthcoming class meeting at 18 Beacon Street. An excellent example in original cloth, tightly bound and clean throughout. Kramer 2. BAL 5756. The first bound volume issued by this publisher (called "Stone & Kimball's First Book"), providing bibliographic details of first editions of American authors listed alphabetically (from Henry Abbey to Samuel Woodworth, and including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Richard Harding Davis, Edgar Allan Poe, and Cotton Mather). Herbert Stuart Stone and Hannibal Ingalls Kimball were students at Harvard students when they founded Stone & Kimball and published a pamphlet in April 1893 called Chicago and the World's Fair [Kramer 1]. The guidebook turned a profit of $600 for the young publishers, who then issued this bibliography, edited by Stone. The firm continued until 1897, when Kimball left and it became known as Herbert S. Stone & Co. 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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STOW, John (1525?-1605)

A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster: Containing the Original, Antiquity, Increase, Modern Estate and Government of Those Cities. Written at First in the Year Mdxcviii. By John Stow, Citizen and Native of London. Since Reprinted and Augmented by A.M. H.D. And Other. Now Lastly, Corrected, Improved, and Very Much Enlarged: And the Survey and History Brought Down from the Year 1633, (Being Near Fourscore Years Since It Was Last Printed) to the Present Time; by John Strype, M.A. A Native Also of the Said City. Illustrated with Exact Maps of the City and Suburbs, and of All the Wards; and Likewise of the out-Parishes of London and Westminster: Together with Many Other Fair Draughts of the More Eminent and Publick Edifices and Monuments. In Six Books. To Which Is Prefixed, the Life of the Author, Writ by the Editor. At the End Is Added, an Appendiz of Certain Tracts, Discourses and Remarks, Concerning the State of the City of London. Together with a Perambulation, or Circuit-Walk Four or Five Miles Round About London, to the Parish Churches: Describing the Monuments of the Dead There Interred: With Other Antiquities Observable in Those Places. And Concluding with a Second Appendix, As a Supply and Review: And a Large Index of the Whole Work

London, printed for A. Churchill, J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, J. Walthoe, E. Horne, B. Tooke, D. Midwinter, B. Cowse, R. Robinson, and T. Ward, 1720. First Edition thus. Full Calf. First Strype Edition, best and most desirable edition of Stow's magisterial study—the "starting point of all inquiry into the subject of Elizabethan London." Complete in two folio volumes; each of the six 'books,' introduced by a drop-head title, with its own pagination: [4], xii, xlii, [2], 308, 208, 285, [1]; [2], 120, 459, [1], 93, [3], 143, [1], 26, [2]pp, with 70 plates, plans and maps (31 double-page or folding), including those of London, Westminster and Southwark. Title pages in red and black. Superbly bound in handsome contemporary paneled calf sewn on six raised bands, very skillfully rebacked with the original lettering pieces laid down. A crisp, clean, fresh copy, with only occasional minor soiling, the copper-engraved plates in deep, rich impressions. Provenance: On the verso of the title pages, the engraved armorial bookplate of Jacob Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone (bapt. 14 October 1694 - 17 February 1761), English Politician and first elected president of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce, whose members included Benjamin Franklin, Karl Marx, Adam Smith, William Hogarth and Charles Dickens. Maslen & Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 584. Lowndes V, 2526. Gibson's Library, p. 258. ESTC Citation No. T48975. This edition of Stow's Survey was the first to contain a series of ward maps: "Many of these maps are excellent. Their clarity and accuracy fulfill the requirements of the student of London history" (Hyde). Fifth and Best Edition.Titlepage in red and black. Each of the 6 'books' has its own pagination, and is introduced by a drop-head title. Adams London Illustrated 25; Lowndes III, 2526; Upcott II, pp, 605-617; Darlington and Howgego 16, 8 (London maps). "Fifth and grandest edition. John Strype was already collecting materials for the text by 1703, and an ambitious reprint 'with very great Additions throughout, and illustrated with about 100 large Copper Cutts . requiring much Time and Great expence' was advertised as early as 1708. The advertisement was on the title verso of Hatton's New View of London, a smaller and cheaper book whose popularity actually caused the postponement of Strype's more monumental work. His two folio volumes cost six guineas and the print run was probably at least 500 copies. He included what he believed to be Stow's entire original text, which had become conflated with the 1618 and 1633 editions of Anthony Munday, clearly identifying his own additions in the margins. John Kip, who had been responsible for the views of London buildings in volume I of Mortier's Nouveau theatre de la Grande Bertagne (1707), is credited with about half the 28 engraved views of 'eminent places'. In addition there are two folding general maps of London, one showing the city as it was in Queen Elizabeth's time, 17 ward maps (bks. II-III) and 20 parish maps (bks. IV and VI). The only map to be signed is the Parish of St. Mary Rotherhithe revised by John Pullen and engraved by John Harris. (2)" Christies. John Stow's Survey of London, first published in 1598, brims with amusing descriptions and anecdotes as well as highly detailed accounts of the buildings, social conditions and customs of the time, based on a wide range of classical and medieval historical literature, public and civic records, and Stow's own intimate knowledge of the city where he spent his life. "The reader of A Survey travels with Stow through each of the city's wards and the adjoining city of Westminster, learns about the wall, bridges, gates, and parish churches . [Stow] also records the negative aspects of urban growth, in the shape of unsightly sprawl, filth, the destruction of ancient monuments, and above all poverty. His book approaches the thoroughness of an encyclopaedia . It is noteworthy that while Camden's Britannia was written in Latin for the educated élite, Stow's Survey was composed in the language of his fellow countrymen." This edition, of 1720, greatly expanded with interpolated amendments by John Strype, is considered the best and most desirable. "Throughout his life at Low Leyton, Strype crossed the River Lea into London each week to meet and converse with his antiquarian friends and to call on his contacts in the book trade. The Survey had been repeatedly revised and enlarged in order to keep up with the changing aspect of the post-fire city, now much expanded and altered in its religion and other ways. Although Strype had arranged most of the work by 1707, and the engravings had been prepared, it was set aside after the publication of Edward Hatton's New View of London in 1708, which seemed to cover much the same ground and was considerably smaller and cheaper. Finally, once the defects of Hatton's book were acknowledged another agreement in November 1716 led to the Survey's publication at the end of 1720. The print run was probably more than 500 copies . To quote Merritt, ‘By this stage the Survey has a multiple personality, switching with little warning from nostalgic Elizabethan antiquary [Stow] . to diligent post-Restoration recorder of events [Strype] and back again' (Merritt, 87)." (ODNB) 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. 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Keywords: London (England)—History. London (England)—Description and travel—Early works to 1800.

STOWE, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896)

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly; [Offered with: ] a Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin : Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story Is Founded : Together with Corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work

Boston / Cleveland, Ohio, Published by John P. Jewett & Co. / Jewett, Proctor & Worthington [from 1852], 1853. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. A striking set of this early printing ("Two Hundred and Sixty-Third Thousand") in original bindings, published one year after the first edition, offered with a First Edition of Stowe's rebuttal to the Southerners and other apologists who had attacked her portrait of enslavement. Uncle Tom's Cabin: Complete in two crown octavo volumes: 4,x,13-312; 322,[2],12pp, with title-page vignettes (repeating cover motif) and six full-page steel-engraved plates (three in each volume). Publisher's brown T cloth (BAL binding B, no known priority), upper cover decorated in blind with center vignette in gilt, spine lettered in gilt and decorated in blind, lower cover repeating upper-cover design in blind, cream end papers. Inscribed in an elegant hand on both front fly leaves: "Mrs. Margaret Burnet / Elizabeth, N. J." An excellent set, light wear to spine tips and corners skillfully repaired, gilt undiminished, bindings tight (very slight spine slant), plates toned but pages generally fresh and bright. PMM 332. BAL 19343. Grolier American 61. Sabin 92457. Johnson, High Spots, p. 70. Key: BAL probable second printing, with imprint of both Hobart & Robbins, Stereotypers, and Damrell & Moore, Printers on copyright page. Royal 8vo (245 x 153mm): iv,5-262,[2]pp. Publisher's brown S cloth (BAL binding D, no known priority), covers paneled and lettered in blind, spine titled and decorated in guilt, text in double columns. An excellent example (light sporadic spotting), tightly bound and clean throughout. BAL 19359. Sabin 92412. By March 27, 1852, just one week after publication, the first printing of 5,000 copies had sold out, and the presses began running on a 24-hour schedule to meet the demand of an eager public. Before the year was finished, 300,000 copies had sold in the United States alone. "In the emotion-charged atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century America Uncle Tom's Cabin exploded like a bombshell . [its] social impact . on the United States was greater than that of any book before or since." (PMM). "No other American novel has been translated into so many foreign languages . Though she offered no practical solutions to the slavery problem, Mrs. Stowe, with her scenes from 'life among the lowly,' added the fuel of righteous anger to a fire already kindled." (Grolier American) As soon as Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin, in installments in The National Era in 1851 and 1852, it was attacked. In response, she assembled voluminous printed evidence to support the characters and events in her novel and issued The Key (subtitled "Presenting the Original Facts and Documents upon Which the Story Is Founded, Together with Corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work," organized by chapter and character as a "key" that unlocks the historical foundation of Stowe's fictional work and sets out to substantiate the veracity of her portrayal of slavery by laying out source materials, including eyewitness accounts. In addition, Stowe uses A Key to continue developing her Christian antislavery arguments, notably in Part IV. The Boston edition was issued in both cloth and printed paper wrappers. 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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STRATTON, Arthur (1872-1955)

The English Interior, a Review of the Decoration of English Houses from Tudor Times to the Xixth Century [Subscriber Edition]

London, B. T. Batsford, 1920. First Edition. Half-Vellum. First Printing of this profusely illustrated work on the history of interior design in England, claiming to be the first that traces "the development of the English interior as a whole from mediaeval to modern times" (Preface). Crown folio-sized volume (376 x 275mm): [vi],xiv,v-xxviii,86pp, with 115 full-page monochrome and color plates (including frontispiece), most reproduced from photographs but a few lithographically produced, as well as numerous in-text figures. Publisher's indigo cloth covers, upper cover lettered in gilt within bluish-green title blocks; white vellum spine, titled and decorated in gilt; top edge gilt, others uncut. An excellent example, top of lower joint skillfully repaired, spine lightly toned with ends crimped, but tightly bound and clean throughout. This copy is not, as many others for sale, an ex-library example. Lackschewitz, p, 29. Extensively illustrated with plates and text illustrations of wall treatments, wood and plaster ceilings, fireplaces and chimney-pieces, doors and doorways, and staircases of Stuart, Tudor, and Georgian interiors. 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.). Near Fine+ .

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Keywords: Interior decoration -- England. Architecture, Domestic -- England. Décoration intérieure -- Angleterre. Architecture domestique -- Angleterre. Décoration et ornement -- Angleterre. Architecture, Domestic. Interior decoration.

STRINDBERG, August (1849-1912); Thorsten Schonberg, 1882-1970 (Illustrates)

[Fairy Tales] [Sagor] Märchen. Bilder Und Buchschmuck Von Thorsten Schonberg [Treasures of World Literature]

Munich, Georg W. Dietrich, 1916. Limited Edition. Full Calf. Copy No. 78 of this richly illustrated edition of Strindberg's Fairy Tales, from a bibliophile edition of 200 numbered copies on heavy paper. Volume 9 of the publisher's Treasures of World Literature series. Translated by Emil Schering. Demy 8vo (227 x 181mm): [192]pp, with numerous color lithographs by Thorsten Schonberg. Publisher's wine-red pebbled calf, upper cover bordered in gilt, green oval-shaped title label gilt to spine, top edge gilt. Small book label of Wolfgang Metzner to front paste-down. A beautifully preserved copy, tightly bound and clean throughout. The illustrations are from the Swedish edition, published in 1915. Georg Svensson, in Modern Swedish Book Art (Modern Svensk Bokkonst), calls them "perhaps the very best that Schonberg has done in this area ." N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with 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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STRöMHOLM, Christer (1918-2002)

[Scandinavian Photography] [Street Photography] Poste Restante

Stockholm, P. A. Norstedt and Söners Verlag, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Strohmholm's important second book, "his photographic autobiography or manifesto," and a "one of the most significant European photobooks of the 1960s." (Parr & Badger) Text in Swedish, by Tor-Ivan Odulf. Small quarto, unpaginated. [20]pp of text on heavy grey wove paper, mostly extended captions to the 62 full-bleed black and white photographic images that follow. Publisher's steel grey cloth, silver titles to spine and upper cover; original white dust jacket printed in black, reproducing on front cover one of Strohmholm's photographs. Truly superlative: apparently unread and virtually pristine without a flaw we can detect. Parr & Badger I, p.251. Roth (Open Book), pp. 232-33. Auer, p.466. As the title suggests, Poste Restante derives from Strohmholm's wide-ranging travels—in Europe, Asia. and Africa—with its existential images of blighted cityscapes and urban decay, cemeteries, still lifes, posters, distressed walls, strip clubs, funerals, and naked women. "Sex and death and rock and roll is an apposite description of the book's tenor, as indeed it is for much stream-of-consciouness photography and for the increasingly self-focused diarist modes that followed." (Parr & Badger) 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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Keywords: MODERN FIRSTS

THOMAS, William (1670-1738)

A Survey of the Cathedral-Church of Worcester; with an Account of the Bishops Thereof, from the Foundation of the See, to the Year 1600. Also an Appendix of Many Original Papers and Records, Never Before Printed

London, printed for the author, and to be had of him at his house in Worcester; and of John Clarke, [London], Bookseller, at the Golden-Ball in Duck-Lane, near Little-Britain, 1737. Full Calf. Reissue of the 1736 edition (with cancel title page printed in red and black) of this account of the bishops of Worcester. Demy 4to (252 x 191mm): [2],vi,124; 222; [2,blank],8,210pp, with 27 full-page and five half-page plates of monuments and tombs (including four folding) and three woodcut headpieces (one signed 'FH'), three woodcut tailpieces (one signed 'FH'), and three woodcut factotums. Some words and inscriptions in black letter. "An Account of the Bishops of Worcester" and "Chartæ originales ex registris sedis episcopalis Wygorn" (including Index, which references the whole work) with separate title pages, pagination, and register. Engraved Chippendale armorial book plate of George Kenyon of Peel Esq. Contemporary full calf, spine richly gilt in six compartments separated by raised bands, burgundy morocco lettering piece gilt. Occasional neat, informative marginalia in light pencil, several quires lightly toned, skillful professional repairs to joints and head cap, but a fresh, bright example. Comports completely with Upcott's description of 1736 first edition (excepting canceled title leaf) and is thus the same edition (probably reissued to correct the year up to which the Account of the Bishops is taken: erroneously given as 1660 on 1736 title page). Upcott III, pp. 1342-44. Lowndes 2667. The engraved Chippendale armorial book plate book belonged to one of several eighteenth-century George Kenyons of Peel Hall, a large timber, stone and brick house built in the late sixteenth century. with the title Lord Kenyon. Perhaps the second Baron Kenyon (1776-1855), but more likely, given the florid rococo style of the book plate, a style in sharp decline after 1770, the first. 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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Keywords: Worcester Cathedral Early works to 1800. Church of England Clergy Early works to 1800. Church of England. Worcester Cathedral. Church architecture England Worcester Early works to 1800. Church architecture. Clergy.

TINKER, Edward Larocque (1881-1968)

The Palingenesis of Craps

New York, Press of the Woolly Whale, 1933. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 400 copies, only 150 of which were for sale. Crown 8vo (188 x 130mm): [6],8,[2]pp, with line-drawn portrait frontispiece of Bernard Kavier Phillippe de Marigny de Mandeville (1785-1868). Publisher's black cloth-backed gray decorative paper-covered boards, cream paper title label printed in grey to front cover, map end papers (of 1815 New Orleans), text printed in black and lime green on handmade paper. An exemplary example, tightly bound and clean and bright throughout. This brief treatise is dedicated to Bernard Kavier Phillippe de Marigny de Mandeville (1785-1868), a French-Creole American nobleman, playboy, and planter, who was also president of the Louisiana State Senate between 1822 and 1823. When Bernard de Marigny was 15 years old, his father died, and Bernard inherited his father's plantation just east of New Orleans's Vieux Carré. According to historians, his every whim was indulged while his father was alive, and Bernard became so wild and headstrong after his father's death that his guardian shipped him off to England, hoping that life abroad might mend his manners. But in London Bernard's dissipation became only more extreme, and he spent most of his time at Almack's and other gambling palaces. After losing a fortune, Marigny returned to New Orleans, and one of the things he brought back was the dice game Hazard, which became popular in a simplified form that contemptuous Yankees called 'crapaud,' a Franciphobian slur. 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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TROLLOPE, Anthony (1815-1882)

The Golden Lion of Granpere

New York, Harper and Brothers, 1872. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Scarce First American (and first illustrated) Edition of Trollope's "very best shorter book." (Walpole) Royal 8vo (231 x 142mm): 124,[4]pp, with tissue-guarded frontispiece and twenty-three further wood-engraved illustrations by Dalziel after Francis Authur Fraser (eight full-page, eight half-page, and eight vignettes). Publisher's moderate reddish-brown diagonal dot-and-line grain cloth (Smith's variant binding A; also offered in pictorial wrappers), front cover paneled in blind and stamped in gilt, spine lettered and decorated with floral serifs in gilt, coated reddish-brown end papers. Book plate of Masonic Library, Frederick, Maryland, to front paste-down. Slight fraying to foot of spine, minor soiling to boards, else a collectible example, tightly bound and clean throughout. Gerould, p. 96-97. Sadleir (Trollope) 38. Smith 31. First published serially, in Good Words and in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, in 1872, both with Fraser's illustrations (Blackwood's declined to publish the book, in 1867). The London edition was brought out by Tinsley Brothers, in May, 1872. According to Walpole, "not only Trollope's very best shorter book, but one of the most charming idylls in English literature." (quoted in Gerould) Sadleir says the book did not sell well, although some critics considered it one of Trollope's better shorter novels. 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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TROLLOPE, Anthony (1815-1882)

Orley Farm... With Illustrations by J.E. Millais

London, Chapman & Hall, 1862. First Edition. Half-Calf. Complete in two octavo volume: viii,320; viii,320pp, with 40 full-page wood-engraved plates that Trollope considered the "best he had seen 'in any novel in any language.'" (Ray) Contemporary green polished half-calf spines in six compartments divided by double gilt rules, marble paper-covered boards, red morocco lettering pieces gilt, edges speckled red. Short tear (repaired) to plate opposite p. 49, vol. I. Ink manuscript name and date (1863) to fly-leaf of voI II, with same inscription upside down to back fly-leaf of vol. I, as well as a further ink name and date (1890) inscribed to front blank. A truly excellent set, bindings square, tight, and barely worn; pages clean, fresh and mostly free of foxing; plates in deep, rich impressions. Sadleir 13. NCBEL III, 882. Ray (England) 168. Muir (Victorian Illustrated Books), p. 135. Trollope considered this lengthy book, a version of the crime, or "sensation," novel in vogue during the 1860s, one of his most ambitious undertakings and possibly his finest work. It is also among the most bibliographically complex. Unusually, the two volumes were not published simultaneously but nearly ten months apart, and subsequent reissues of each volume did not proceed in step. In consequence, Sadleir proposes that the "numerous combinations of varying volumes which exist are due, not always to careless mixing of sets between 1862 and the present day, but often to circumstances of publication." Orley farm originally appeared in twenty shilling parts, published monthly from March 1861 to October 1862. Our set is the second issue of four, identified by the two illustrations originally bound in tandem between pp. 86-87 (first issue) in vol. I, one of which (that captioned "And then they all marched .") has been moved to face p. 73 (though the List of Illustrations was not altered to correspond). But the printer's imprint on verso of title page, vol. I, has not yet changed to Clowes H and the imprint on p. 320 (Clowes B) is not worn and broken, both third issue points. Correspondingly, in vol. II, the printer's imprint on verso of title page does not lack the colon after "London" and the last item of the List of Illustrations has not been altered to read "Sir Peregrine Orme's Great Love—p. 311" (both third issue points). "Millais's main effort is to do justice to the characters of Trollope's wonderfully rich and varied novel and to the situations in which they find themselves, yet the comfort, even elegance, of Victorian existence on the right side of the social line is nowhere more attractively presented than in his forty drawing for this novel." (Ray) 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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TROLLOPE, Anthony (1815-1882)

The Three Clerks. A Novel

London, Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1858. First Edition. Three-Quarter Morocco. First Printings, complete in three volumes, one of only 1,000 sets. 8vo's: iv,340; iv,322; iv,334pp. Three-quarter blue morocco over French blue cloth, spines in six compartments paneled in gilt (four with central gilt ornament, two lettered directly in gilt), top edges gilt, marbled end papers. Provenance: bookplates of bibliophile Joseph Spencer Graydon to front paste-downs. An excellent set, Near Fine or better (spines sunned, but gilt still bright; modest edge wear). Sadleir, Trollope, 6. NCBEL III, 882. Wolff 6796. Trollope's sixth novel, written, according to the Trollope Society, "mostly in railway carriages, since his work for the Post Office [Trollope joined the London post office at age 19 and worked there in various capacities for the next 33 years] still entailed a good deal of travelling . The story is drawn from his memories of his work (as a clerk) at the GPO in St Martin-le-Grand, and Richard Mullen has called it the most autobiographical of Trollope's novels. The plot concerns three civil servants, Henry Norman and the cousins Alaric and Charley Tudor. They are involved with the three daughters of a clergyman's widow, Mrs Woodward. The third of the clerks. [t]he character of Charley Tudor, has long been claimed as an autobiographical portrait of Trollope, 'in his hobbledehoy days'. Trollope sent the novel to his mother in Italy, and from there it made its way to the home of Elizabeth Barrett Browning; she read it with great enjoyment, but reported in a letter that the grave illness Katie Woodward faces in the third volume of the novel 'wrung [her] to tears'. (Trollope himself always cried when he read this particular section). She concluded: 'My husband, who can seldom get a novel to hold him, has been held by this . what a thoroughly man's book it is!'" In fact, Trollope considered this "certainly the best novel I had yet written . the work has a more continued interest, and contains the first well-described love-scene that I ever wrote" (Trollope, Autobiography). 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. Near Fine+ .

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WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823-1913)

The Malay Archipelago : The Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise : A Narrative of Travel with Studies of Man and Nature

London, Macmillan [from 1869], 1902. Decorative Cloth. Early reprint of "one of the finest scientific travel books ever written" (DSB) and Wallace's magnum opus, chronicling his eight-year sojourn through the Malay Archipelago. 8vo (196 x 129mm): xvii,[3],515,[1]pp, with tissue-guarded frontispiece, title-page vignette, 10 unnumbered maps (2 folding), and 51 full- or partial-page engravings by Thomas Baines, Walter Hood Fitch, John Gerrard Keulemans, E. W. Robinson, Joseph Wolf, and T. W. Wood. Original publisher's green pebbled cloth, upper cover and spine stamped in gilt, black coated end papers. A gorgeous copy, sound binding (though slightly rolled), minor marks to covers, very occasional foxing, but an excellent example in original cloth of Wallace's most important work. Norman 2176 (for first edition). Garrison-Morton 7439. A nearly identical reprint of the 1890 tenth edition, including bibliographical references and index. Originally published, in two volumes, in 1869. The Malay Archipelago, dedicated to Charles Darwin (Wallace independently conceived the theory of evolution through natural selection), gives accounts of Wallace's scientific exploration of Malaysia, Singapore, the islands of Indonesia (the Dutch East Indies), and the island of New Guinea, detailing each island's physical and human geography, volcanoes, and flora and fauna. Sailing some 14,000 miles from island to island in native crafts, Wallace collected an astonishing 125,000 natural history specimens (of mollusks, mammals, and reptiles), and discovered more than 200 species of birds and 1000 insects. 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. .

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Keywords: Natural history—Malay Archipelago. Ethnology—Malay Archipelago. Malay Archipelago—Description and travel. Asia—Malay Archipelago.

WARD, Lynd (1905-1985)

[Graphic Novel] Gods' Man. A Novel in Woodcuts

New York, Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1929. First Printing. Quarter-Cloth. First Trade Edition of the first of Ward's stories without words, relying solely on visually striking woodcuts to tell a Faustian tale of an artist who signs away his soul for a magical paintbrush. Demy 8vo (205 x 140mm): [296]pp, with 139 full-page woodcuts by Ward printed in black, plus title-page and dedication-page vignettes and five chapter headings. Publisher's black quarter-cloth over patterned pictorial boards with inlaid image to front cover, paper title label printed in black to spine, top edge stained black, fore-edge untrimmed, black end papers. Wanting the scarce dust jacket, but an excellent example, tightly bound and clean throughout, virtually pristine. Dance 002. Told without text through the medium of 139 sinister woodblock engravings, and seen by many as precursor to the graphic novel. "From the eve of the Great Depression to the start of World War II, Lynd Ward observed the troubled American scene through the double lens of a politically committed storyteller and a visionary graphic artist. His medium—the wordless "novel in woodcuts"—was his alone, and he quickly brought it from bold iconographic infancy to subtle and still unrivaled mastery. Gods' Man, the audaciously ambitious work that made Ward's reputation, is a modern morality play, an allegory of the deadly bargain a striving young artist often makes with life." (The Library of America) 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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WARING, S. [Sarah]

The Minstrelsy of the Woods; or, Sketches and Songs Connected with the Natural History of Some of the Most Interesting British and Foreign Birds. By the Author of "the Wild Garland

London, Harvey and Darton, Gracechurch Street, 1832. Original Cloth. First Edition in original cloth of this popular paean to song birds with charming hand-colored lithographs. Crown 8vo (187 x 110mm): xi,[1],227pp, with tissue-guarded frontispiece and sixteen further full-page plates. Publisher's green moire-patterned cloth (also issued in blue and brown cloth), red leather lettering piece gilt, edges rough-trimmed. Manuscript ex libris of Edward Maunsell Williams, dated 1857, and book plate of E. M. Williams to front paste down, with further Williams family inscription to head of title page. An excellent example in original cloth, generally clean throughout with rich impressions of the delicately colored plates. Darton G1021. Wood, p.619 ("A popular but accurately written work with fairly good colored illustrations.") Freeman 3888. Sitwell, p.153. Four subsequent editions were published. The dedicatory poem, "To my brother's children," is dated: Wyards, November, 1831 (Wyard's farm is on the outskirts of Alton, in Hampshire.) Prose passages alternate with poems. According to Bonhams, the plates, by Wolf, are the earliest use of chromolithography to illustrate birds. 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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