ASHFORD (Daisy):

The Young Visiters or, Mr. Salteenas Plan. With a Preface by J. M. Barrie.

London: Chatto & Windus, [1919.] Seventh Impression. Small 8vo, pp. 86 [87 printer's imprint, 88 blank], portrait of author as frontispiece, facsimile of first page of ms. opposite page 19, contemporary (?original) marbled boards, linen spine, paper label (chipped); title-page browned from tissue guard, corners worn, a little shaken in casing. With the autograph "Rowena Ross" on the lower margin of the recto of the front free end-paper. Readers of a certain age will never get beyond the first line: "Mr Salteena was an elderly man of 42...." Of course, the author was nine when she wrote the work.

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N° du livre: 6208

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BALZAC (Honore de):

Les Contes Drolatiques colligez ez abbayes de touraine et mis en lumiere par lesieur de Balza pour l'esbattement des pantagruelistes et non aultres. Huitieme Edition illustree de 425 dessins par Gustave Doré.

Paris, Garnier Frères, [n. d., c.1880]. 8vo, pp. xxxi [xxxii adverts], 614, with illustrations as described on title-page, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spine ornately gilt in compartments. A very good and an attractive copy.

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N° du livre: 3716

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[BEAURIEU (Gaspard Guillard, de)]:

L'Eleve de la Nature

A Amsterdam, & se trouve a Paris, Chez Panckoucker..., 1766. 2 volumes in 1. 12mo, 163 x 93 mms., pp. iv, 202; [ii], 139 [140 blank], contemporary lightly mottled sheepskin, spine richly gilt, red leather label; top of spine and joints slightly wormed, but a good copy with the bookplate of Payen de Chavoy on the front paste-down end-paper, and the autograph dated 1767 on the top margin of each title-page (closely trimmed by binder, partially removing upper portions of letters.) Jean Bloch in "Gaspard Guillard de Beaurieu's L'Eleve de la Nature and Rousseau's Emile" (French Studies, July, 1972), that "little has been heard of Gaspard Guillard de Beaurieu's L'Eleve de la Nature and its relationship to Rousseau's Emile since Emile Legouis's Taylorian Lecture of 1925. Yet, despite its obvious naivete of detail, its sentimentality and exaggeration, de Beaurieu's book holds what would appear to be a unique position among the host of those which discuss or imitate Emile in France before the Revolution. L'Eleve de la Nature alone consciously adopts not only the dual formation of Emile, that of the natural man destined for society, but also Rousseau's method of achieving this, though de Beaurieu does it in a grossly exaggerated and transformed manner.... A novel rather than a pedagogical treatise, it deals much more comprehensively with Rousseau's system than Poncelet's and Formey's comments of the same year do. L'Eleve de la Nature is outstanding in that it consciously adopts the double education of Emile. This may simply be the result of copying Emile fairly closely, but it nevertheless produces an interpretation of Emile that is very different from other pre-revolutionary interpretations. In the Preface to the 1766 edition (the book went through eight separate editions between 1766 and 1794), the libraire states that the system of education put forward in the book has two goals, the first to form 'un honnete homme heureux par lui-meme' and the second to 'rendre cet honnete homme encore plus heureux, en en faisant un bon citoyen'."

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N° du livre: 9782

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Mots-clés: fiction education prose

BOCCACCIO (Giovanni):

The Decameron or Ten Days Entertainment of Boccaccio. Translated from the Italian. In Two Volumes. The Second Edition. To which are prefixed, Remarks on the Life and Writings of Boccaccio, and An Advertisement, by the author of Old Nick, a Piece of Family Biography, &c.

London: Printed by J. Wright...For Vernor and Hood..., Longman and Reese..., 1804. 2 volumes. 8vo, 208 x 126 mms., pp. 350 [351 adverts, 352 blank]; [iv], 395 [396 colophon], including half-title in each volume, engraved portrait (after Titian) of Boccaccio as frontispiece in volume 1, engraved vignette on each title-page, contemporary tree calf, red and green morocco labels; joints on volume 1 cracked (but holding), but a good set. This translation by Charles Balguy (1708 - 1767) was first published in 1741, and ODNB claims that it was many times reprinted. The present set does seem to be a much expanded second edition, with a great deal of additional material. The revision is by Edward Dubois (1774 - 1850), who published A Piece of Family Biography in 1799 and Old Nick: a Satirical Story in 1801. The notice in The European Magazine and London Review, for 1804, having asserted that Il Decamerone had always been "considered too free in its language for general perusal" praises Dubois' redaction: "A Gentleman and Scholar who has able distinguished himself as Novelist and Critic under the whimsical name of Old Nick, has her done all that we think can be performed towards purifying and chastening the diction, without deteriorating the rich humour of the Novels."

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N° du livre: 8079

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BREMER (Frederika):

The Neighbours: A Story of Every-Day Life. Translated by Mary Howett. Third Edition, Carefully Revised and Corrected by the Latest Swedish Edition.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans..., 1843. 2 volumes. Large 12mo, 189 x 103 mms., pp. [iv], 325 [326 blank]; [ii], 343 [344 blank], contemporary half green morocco, marbled boards, gilt spines, red morocco labels; no half-titles, but a very good and attractive set. The Swedish writer and feminist reformer Frederika Bremer (1801 - 1865) enjoyed great popularity in the UK and the USA, thanks to this English translation of Granname, first published in 1837 as The Neighbours. "By the time Bremer revealed her name to the public, her works were an acknowledged part of the cultural life in Sweden.[8] Translations made her still more popular abroad, where she was regarded as the "Swedish Miss [Jane]Austen".[26] Upon her arrival in New York, the New York Herald claimed she "probably... has more readers than any other female writer on the globe" and proclaimed her the author "of a new style of literature".[27][28] A literary celebrity, Bremer was never without a place to stay during her two years in America despite having known no one before her arrival.[14] She was praised by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman[29] and Louisa May Alcott's Little Women includes a scene of Mrs March reading from Bremer's works to her four daughters" (Wikipaedia). A long article on Bremer's novels appeared in The North American Review for 1843, with the reviewer commenting that this work is "admirably suited to herald forth a new literary name. It has passed at once into a popularity more general than it has often been the lot of such a story to secure, having interest not only for childhood and youth, but for a large class of maturer readers, who had long since laid fiction aside, and never expected to see an inducement to return to it again"

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N° du livre: 9524

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BRUNTON (Mary):

Discipline: A Novel. To which is prefixed, A Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Author, including Extracts from her Correspondence.

London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley..., 1832. 12mo, 163 x 97 mms., pp. [ii], [3] 4 - 476, contemporary half calf, gilt spine, black leather label, marbled boards; lacking engraved title-page, binding a bit worn, but a good copy. The Orkney-born novelist Mary Brunton [née Balfour] (1778–1818) published her first novel, Self Control, in 1811; Discipline was published in 1814, and within two years had achieved three editions. In a rather gushing tribute to Brunton shortly after her death, The Scots Magazine devoted several pages to both Self-Conrol and Discipline. While it concluded that the latter was inferior to the former, the author, E. E., asserts, "Neither of them shews much originality either of plot or incident; but the interweaving of engaging narrative, with a display of the effects of religious principle, will make them long regarded as among the best books of amusement which can safely be put into the hands of the young."

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N° du livre: 9444

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BRUNTON (Mary):

Emmeline. With Some Other Pieces...To Which is Prefixed A Memoir of Her Life, including some Extracts from her Correspondence.

Edinburgh: Printed for Edinburgh, Manners and Miller [and Archibald Constable/ John Murray, London], etc; 1819. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 196 x 12o mms., pp. [v] vi - cxxi [cxxii blank], 195 [ 196 blank], without half-title or portrait (found in some copies), bound in in contemporary diced calf, spine gilt with black label, bound for Collings's Library, Bath, with their early green label on the upper outer margin of the verso of the front free end-paper; corners a little rubbed, but a very good copy. THe work was noticed in The Edinburgh Review for March, 1819, where the reviewer commented largely on the author's life and deeds, finding Emmeline satisfactory as a "broken fragment. Had the author prolonged the study of this adulteress, all hearts must either have inevitably been repelled by the detailed account of her agonies; or they must have been made to feel a fatal sympathy with them. We firmly believe that Mrs Brunton could not have finished such a tale." Commenting on the Collings binder's label, W. S. Mitchell in his 1953 article writes "the smallest so far known to me...remind[s] us of the number of libraries which must have helped to fill the leisure hours of those taking the waters in Bath...." Raven, James, Antonia Forster, Peter Garside, Rainer Schöwerling, The English Novel, 1770-1829: A Bibliographical Survey of Prose Fiction Published in the British Isles (OUP 2000), 1819, 28.

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N° du livre: 9909

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BURNETT (Frances Hodgson):

Little Lord Fauntleroy. Fifteenth Edition.

London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1889. 8vo, 214 x 140 mms., pp. [x], 269 [270 blank, 280 - 286 adverts], steel-engraved frontispiece, vignette on title-page, 24 other full-page engraved illustrations, from drawings by Reginald B. Birch, contemporary green cloth, with front cover illustration in gilt and spine in gilt, presentation inscription "Alice Lovett Staffurlt/ from/ Mother/ August 27th 89" on rector of frontispiece; front hinge cracked, corners and top and base of spine worn, somewhat sprung in binding, a fair to good copy. Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924) published this, her first children's book, as a serial in the St. Nicholas Magazine between November 1885 and October 1886, and as a book by Scribner's in New York in 1886; it has probably never been out of print since then. It was, of course, successful almost beyond belief and had the effect, unfortunate or otherwise, of parents' dressing their male sons in velvet costumes. Gainsborough's 1770 portrait Blue Boy seems to have been the model.

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N° du livre: 7490

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CHARLETON (Walter):

Matrona Ephesia. Sive Lusus Serius de Amore, à Gualt. Charletono, M.D. ante decennium Anglicè conscriptus, Et nunc demum Latinitate donatus à Barth. Harrisio, A.M [sic] ejusdémq[ue] impensis excusus.

Londini, Anno Domini, 1665. 12mo, 133 x 80 mms., pp. [xii], 82, engraved frontispiece, later sheepskin, probably early 19th century, borders in blind on cover, compartments on spine in blind, green morocco label; small piece missing from upper corner of A3 just affecting one letter, joints slightly cracked, corners a little worn but a good copy. Walter Charleton (1620–1707) possibly studied under John Wilkins (1614–1672), at Magdalen Hall, Oxford. He studied medicine and upon attaining his degree was, in 1643, appointed physician-in-ordinary to Charles I. He began publishing works on medicine and religion some time after that and in 1659 ventured into prose romance with The Ephesian Matron: Based on the Tale in the "Satyricon" of Petronius. "Charleton's version of this famous and often retold tale is an attack on the fashionable cult of Platonic love of his day, in which he insists that physical love and lust are both manifestations of 'an appetite to procreation'. Charleton sees his lascivious heroine as an Epicurean who lives by 'the simple dictates of mother-Nature'" (ODNB). This Latin translation is by Bartholomew Harris. ESTC notes two different states of the title-page: as above, R15293 (BL, Cambridge, Trinity Cambridge, Bodleian, Oxford: Exeter and Queens, National Trust; Folger, Harvard, Clark, Illinois. The imprint for the other state is "Londini: Impensis Authoris, 1665," R215215 (BL, Cambridge, Cambridge: Magdalen and Trinity, Oxford Worcester, Royal College of Physicians; Huntington, Stanford, Illinois, Yale; Bibliotheque Nationale. Wing C 3683.

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N° du livre: 6687

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[COOPER (James Fenimore)]:

The Bravo. A Venetian Story. By the Author of "The Pilot," "The Borderers," "The Water Witch," &c.

London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley..., 1831. FIRST BRITISH EDITION. 3 volumes. Large 12mo, 190 x 111 mms., pp. [ii], iv, 292; [ii], 3090 [310 blank]; [ii], 286, contemporary half green morocco, richly gilt spines with title and volume numbers blocked in gilt, decorative cloth sides; some slight scuffs and marks to binding, but generally a very good and attractive set, with the amorial bookplate of Earl Granville, i. e., Granville George Leveson-Gowe, second Earl Granville (1815–1891), politician and M. P.; and the small binder's stamp for "White 24 Pall Mall" on the top margin of the front paste-down end-paper. Cooper (1789 - 1851) published this edition before the American edition, and it was the only edition that he proof-read. He revised the text for an edition printed in 1834. Mary Shelley reviewed the novel in the 16 January 1832 Westminster Review, without unbridled enthusiasm, but this endorsement would bring cheer to the heart of any writer: "The Bravo displays all the energy, all the singleness of purpose, and a greater grandeur of design than is usually painted by its author. We also trace a greater degree of refinement and grace in those portions of his work, where these qualities were found before to be painfully wanting...." For the binder, see Charles Ramsden: London Binders, 1780 - 1840 (1956), page 148.

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N° du livre: 8272

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COTTIN (Sophie Ristaud):

Elisabeth, ou Les Exilés de Sibérie. Nouvelle Edition, Augmentee de Notes Historiques et Géographiques. Par C. Gros. Avec un Frontispice [sic].

A Londres: Chez G. et W. B. Whittaker..., 1824. 12mo, 158 x 94 mms., pp. v [vi blank], 196, 8 (adverts), engraved frontispiece, by Springsguth after Corbould, contemporary plain green calf, bordered in blind on covers, spine gilt in compartments, red leather label; front board slightly sprung with consequent cracking of upper and lower front joint, but a good copy with a presentation inscription mounted on verso of front free end-paper: "2e Class/ 1eme Division./ Prix remporté par/ Madelle Sarah Shipson./ Brimingham le 9 Juine 1830./ [illegible]." Elisabeth was first published in 1806 in Paris, just before Cottin's death in 1807. The first British imprint of a French edition was by Longman in 1808. Whittaker published his French edition in 1818. Copac locates copies of this 1824 edition in TCD, Bodleian, LSE, National Library of Wales.

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N° du livre: 8506

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COTTIN (Sophie Ristaud):

Mathilde, ou Memoires tires de l'Histoire des Croisades

A Londres, Chez M. Pletier..., 1805. FIRST LONDON EDITION. 6 volumes. 12mo, 168 x 91 mms., pp. 244; 264; 260; 272; 248; 238, recently rebound in quarter calf, red morocco labels, marbled boards, with the bookplate of Weston Library on the front paste-down end-paper of volumes 1 and 3. Cottin (1773 - 1807) made a reputation for herself with her first novel, Claire d'Albe, first published in 1799, a few years after the death of her wealthy husband. Mathilde was published in Paris the same year, and both publications have an introduction by the editor, J. Michaud. "Le roman de Mathilde participe de l'histoire et revêt dès le début d'héroïques allures. Le sujet étant emprunté à la première croisade, l'action se passe vers la fin du xiiie siècle. Presque aussitôt apparaissent, diversement abaissés ou agrandis, des personnages historiques : Philippe-Auguste et Cœur de Lion, les deux chefs rivaux de l'entreprise, Lusignan, roi de Jérusalem, le vénérable Guillaume, archevêque de Tyr, Josselin de Montmorency, Saladin, l'adversaire des croisés, etc. De grands caractères, de hauts faits d'armes, des idées chevaleresques, le contraste des mœurs des chrétiens et des Arabes, le luxe de l'Occident opposé à celui de l'Orient, la pompe et l'enthousiasme de la religion, forment autant d'accessoires qui enrichissent et rehaussent le sujet de Mathilde" (Widipaedia).

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N° du livre: 5780

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CUMBERLAND (Richard):

Henry; In Four Volumes. The Third Edition.

London: Printed for Charles Dilly, 1798, 4 volumes. 12mo, 173 x 92 mms., pp. [vliii], 316; m[iv], 328; v [vi blank], 311 [312 blank]; [vi blank], 304, with frontispieces engraved by Heath, Sparrow, or Saunders after Edward Francis Burney (1760–1848; Fanny Burney's cousin) in each volume, and, remarkably, extra-illustrated with seven pen and ink watercolours, executed in the same style as the frontispieces; contemporary calf, spines richly gilt, black leather labels; tops and bases of spines slightly chipped, some wear to joints with the front joint to volume 1 being slightly vulnerable, corners worn, but for the most part a very good set. The coloured images seem to me not dissimilar to the style of Thomas Stothard, but it seems more likely that they derive from drawings or paintings by Burney. The playwright and novelist Richard Cumberland (1732–1811) was the author of the very popular novel, Arundel, first published in 1789 and frequently reprinted. Henry followed in 1795, with at least five other editions, as well as translations into Frecher, Dutch, and German. It was reviewed in both The Critical Review and The Monthly Review. The Critical Review asserted that Cumberland had taken Fielding as his model,l imitating him in several scenes of low life; but, "upon the whole, it would be unjust not to allow that this novel is enriched with humour, variety, and character, though in m any parts tedious...." Thomas Holcroft reviewed the work in The Monthly Review: "While perusing his work, we have frequently both laughed and shed tears...and as we cannot afford time to point out all its defects, we have still less the means of noting all its merits...." Henry was a very popular novel of the 1790s, two editions of which appeared in 1795. This third printing added four frontispieces, engraved after Gurney, Interesting to speculate, therefore, on the origins of the seven charming original watercolour illustrations that accompany this copy, and probably did from a very early date in its binding. In fact one might assume that these were intended for the original publication of 1795 but never used, probably for reasons of economy, but their presence makes this set an extremely attractive proposition, and even if they can hardly be designated 'fine art' they are lively and spirited in the 18th Century manner of English book illustration. Raven, James, Antonia Forster, Peter Garside, Rainer Schöwerling, The English Novel, 1770-1829: A Bibliographical Survey of Prose Fiction Published in the British Isles (OUP 2000). 1795:17

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N° du livre: 10233

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DE QUINCEY (Thomas):

Klosterheim: or, The Masque.

Edinburgh and London William Blackwood, 1832. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 176 x 105 mms., pp. 305 [306 blank, 307 - 308 adverts], including half-title, edges uncut, early 20th century binding of half chocolate morocco, linen boards, title and author in gilt on spine; rear hinge a little opened at adverts leaf, but a very good copy, with the autograph "Archibald Megget, M D/ 1835" on the title-page. This was De Quincey's only original novel, and a Gothic novel at that. Coleridge asserted that "in purity of style and idiom it reaches an excellence to which Sir Walter Scott seems never to have aspired." Henry Crabb Robinson in 1836 took a rather more jaundiced view: "the book made no noise – perhaps because of its lumbering style and forming one small volume only..." ; and in 1845 George Gilfillan asserted that it was "a complete failure." His daughter Margaret said of the work, "He simply lived in the romances of his youth. He cared nothing for delineations of character, and I do not think he cared much for pictures of modern life, or even for fun or humour – at all events of the later type, in novels. Dark-lanterns, and Spanish cloaks, and three knights riding through a wood, and a mysterious villain with dagger or stiletto were the sine-quâ-nons in the novels of his youth; and he seemed to favour this kind of work to the end. 'Klosterheim,' indeed, is conceived much in this vein." Robert J. Morrison, Klosterheim; or, The Masque 1832. Online.

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N° du livre: 9864

Catalogue: Fiction

Mots-clés: fiction gothic literature

DICKENS (Charles):

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. With Illustrations by Phiz.

London: Chapman and Hall..., 1839. EARLY EDITION (state and issue unknown). 8vo, 206 x 121 mms., pp. [iii] - xvi, 624, engraved portrait frontispiece of Dickens, 39 engraved plates, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spine blocked in gilt; plates foxed and two with contemporary inscription on verso of plate, e. g., " [?Lazlo] Lovett Esqr/ Brook House/ Whittlesea/ 1839".

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N° du livre: 7502

Catalogue: Fiction

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