{"title":"19th Century","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-divine-comedy-of-dante-alighieri-1842-1843-finely-bound-ugo-foscolo-illustrations","title":"THE DIVINE COMEDY OF DANTE ALIGHIERI 1842-1843 FINELY BOUND, UGO FOSCOLO ILLUSTRATIONS","description":"\u003cp\u003e[ALIGHIERI, DANTE]. \u003cstrong\u003eLa Commedia. Illustrata da Ugo Foscolo.\u003c\/strong\u003e Londra [London]: Pietro Rolandi, 1842-1843.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. First edition thus. Complete in four volumes. Full leather. Octavo (230 x 140mm), pp. (8), [xxx]-[i.e. xxviii], (4), 468; (8), 395; (8), 560; (8), 418. Italian text. Exquisite contemporary full morocco, bound and signed by Wiseman, with intricate gilt ruled and tooled covers, edges and inner dentelles. All page edges gilt. Half-titles present. Illustrated by Ugo Foscolo with 10 plates outside the text (portrait of Foscolo, view of the Chiswick cemetery, where Foscolo was buried, portrait of Dante, interior of Dante's tomb, Dante's tomb in Ravenna, and plans of Hell, Purgatory and Paradiso, portrait of Dante at the age of 25 and a facsimile of a manuscript by Foscolo). \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: A near immaculate set and exquisitely bound. Collated complete. The covers are excellent with all hinges intact, and gilt remaining bright. The textblock is largely very clean, with some light toning and foxing restricted mostly to initial and terminal leaves. Contemporary owner signature neatly inked to front endpaper of each volume. Scarce. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eListing note: This wonderful edition is due to the endeavours of Giuseppe Mazzini, who signed in the introduction \"Un' Italiano\" [\"An Italian\"]. In 1825 Foscolo had published, also in London, for the publisher Pickering, the \"Discourse on the text and on the different opinions prevailing on the history and critical amendment of Dante's Comedy\", it was to be a large edition of the \"Commedia\", designed in five volumes. Foscolo presented the commentary on the \"Inferno\" to the editor, but as regards \"Purgatorio\" and \"Paradiso\" he handed over incomplete manuscripts and in some parts barely sketched. Foscolo's death in 1827 finally brought the project to a halt, and the manuscripts remained in Pickering's warehouses. Ten years later, Mazzini came into possession of Foscolo's papers and, after a long process of reworking, was able to publish the work: the first volume (1842), contains the 1825 \"Discourse\", preceded by an unpublished \"Prefazioncella\" by Foscolo; the second (1842) the \"Inferno\"; the third (1843) \"Purgatorio\" and \"Paradiso\", in a single volume, given the smallness of the Foscolian notes; the fourth (1843) the chronology, the life of Dante, the list and description of the codes found in bookshops and libraries, and the index. [I Ottolini, Foscoliana Bibliography, n. 585; Collection Foscoliana Acchiappati, n. 155].\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pietro Rolandi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37635181969579,"sku":"DANTE184243","price":2750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/SAM_5008_2.png?v=1606256328"},{"product_id":"frankenstein-or-the-modern-prometheus-by-mary-shelley-1856-sixth-edition","title":"FRANKENSTEIN; OR, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS BY MARY SHELLEY 1856 SIXTH EDITION","description":"\u003cp\u003e[SHELLEY, MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT]. \u003cstrong\u003eFrankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Thomas Hodgson, n.d. [1856].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. Cloth-bound. Sixth edition. [The Parlour Library CXLIV]. 12mo (165 x 100mm), pp. [xii], 202, (4). Modern cloth-backed marbled boards, paper title-label. The Parlour Library series half-title page present. Framed title-page. Two pages of adverts at rear with latest date 1855. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: Binding tight and secure. Covers and contents remarkably clean. Contemporary previous owner signature neatly inked to half-title and title-page. Extremely scarce.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: The Parlour Library was the first successful series of fiction reprints originally bound in paper boards, the forerunners of the modern paperback. Founded in 1847 by the Belfast firm of Simms and McIntyre, the series was continued by Thomas Hodgson and a succession of London publishers into the 1860s. Advertised as books 'for all', these shilling volumes, stimulated an unprecedented demand for cheap, attractively packaged new and popular novels. The few copies listed in COPAC and WorldCat have date ranges from 1846-1856, some of which wrongly antedate the foundation of the Parlour Library. Sadleir's date of 1856 is regarded as correct for this edition. Many of the recorded copies are lacking the half-title and, or, adds. [Sadleir 3755a; Lyles B9a].\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thomas Hodgson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37635287253163,"sku":"SHELL1856","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/SAM_4976.jpg?v=1606253427"},{"product_id":"variation-of-animals-plants-under-domestication-by-charles-darwin-1868-first-edition-first-impression","title":"VARIATION OF ANIMALS \u0026 PLANTS UNDER DOMESTICATION BY CHARLES DARWIN 1868 FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION","description":"\u003cp\u003e[DARWIN, CHARLES]. \u003cstrong\u003eThe Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: John Murray, 1868.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. First edition, first impression (denoted by one-line imprints on foot of spines; 5 lines of errata in volume I and 7 lines of errata in volume II; terminal publisher's catalogues - vol. I with 32p. advertisements for John Murray's books dated April 1867; vol. II with 2p. advertisements dated February 1868). In two volumes, complete. Octavo (8°) (214 x 132 mm), pp. [3], [iv-viii], 411, (32); [3], [iv-viii], 486, (2). Publisher's original green cloth, gilt titles and decoration to spines, blind-panelled covers, bottom edges trimmed, other edges untrimmed, coated endpapers. Printed by William Clowes and Sons, Limited, Stamford Street and Charing Cross. 43 wood-engraved illustrations in the text. Index to rear in double columns. Partially removed binders sticker to rear pastedown of vol. I.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: NEAR FINE. Collate complete, some leaves remain uncut, the bindings secure and square, minor bumping to spine ends and points, covers and contents remarkably clean, faintest touch of foxing to endpapers, coated endpapers with some marking, without inking or bookplates. Scarce thus.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: First edition, first issue, with the relevant issue points as called for by Freeman. The first issue, consisting of 1,500 copies, was published in January 1868 and was followed by a second the next month. This work \"intended to provide overwhelming evidence for the ubiquity of variation\" and refuted the idea \"that variations had not occurred purely by chance but were providentially directed\" (ODNB). It also included the first appearance of the phrase \"survival of the fittest\". Work on the book began two days after the second edition of the Origin appeared on 7 January 1860. Along with the ascertainable facts of artificial selection, it contained Darwin's hypothesis of pangenesis. Francis Darwin recorded that 'about half of the eight years that elapsed between its commencement and completion were spent on it. The book did not escape adverse criticism: it was said, for instance, that the public had been patiently waiting for Mr. Darwin's pièces justicatives, and that after eight years of expectation all they got was a mass of detail about pigeons, rabbits and silk worms. But the true critics welcomed it as an expansion with unrivalled wealth of illustration of a section of the Origin' (The Autobiography of Charles Darwin and Selected Letters, ed. F. Darwin, New York, 1958, p. 281). The book's slow progress towards publication was due not only to its size but the author's ill health. Visits to relations who included Caroline and Jos for a few days in May of 1863 failed to cure the vomiting and other symptoms which continued until 1865. To complete his research Charles relied on a wide circle of correspondents, and also any amateur help he could get. After one visit to Downe, his three nieces, Sophy, Lucy, and Margaret Wedgwood, Caroline's daughters, managed to collect 256 'specimens of Lythrum' in meadows around Llandudno as he had instructed.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReferences: [Freeman 877; Garrison-Morton 224.1; Norman 597].\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Murray","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37635682959531,"sku":"DARWIN1868","price":5000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/s-l1600_1_58c0d050-0fb3-468d-a3bd-dce97f4ec7ba.jpg?v=1606259001"},{"product_id":"david-copperfield-by-charles-dickens-1850-first-edition-bayntun-riviere-binding","title":"DAVID COPPERFIELD BY CHARLES DICKENS 1850 FIRST EDITION, BAYNTUN RIVIERE BINDING","description":"\u003cp\u003e[DICKENS, CHARLES]. \u003cstrong\u003eThe Personal History of David Copperfield.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Bradbury \u0026amp; Evans, 1850.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover. First edition [in book form], second issue. Leather-bound. Octavo (215 x 135mm), pp. [xiv], errata, 624. Finely bound in dark-green full morocco, signed by Bayntun-Riviere, Bath, England. Spine with five raised bands, the compartments and bands fully gilt ruled, tooled and lettered. Boards and edges gilt ruled. Upper board with gilt impressed oval portrait vignette of the author. Rear board with gilt impressed authors facsimile signature. Elaborate inner gilt dentelles. All page edges gilt. Marbled pastedowns and endpapers. 40 illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (a.k.a. \"Phiz\") including frontispiece and vignette title-page (earlier state with date). Bound without 8pp. of publisher's advertisements at the end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: NEAR FINE. A superb copy, internally remarkably crisp and clean, without previous ownership markings, however there is some light foxing to prelims. The binding is tight, the hinges perfectly preserved. Gilt fresh and bright, the covers unblemished. Scarce thus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNote: A NEAR FINE COPY OF ONE OF THE AUTHOR'S MOST CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AND BEST LOVED WORKS. David Copperfield first appeared in nineteen monthly parts between May 1849 and November 1850. This book edition was published in late 1850. The most autobiographical of all of Dickens's novels, David Copperfield had enormous personal importance to its author. Many of the most painful episodes of his life were only thinly veiled in the book, leading Dickens to speak of the difficulty of 'dismissing some portion of himself into the shadowy world.' In his preface to the 1869 edition, Dickens writes: 'Of all my books, I like this the best. It will be easily believed that I am a fond parent to every child of my fancy, and that no one can ever love that family as dearly as I love them. But, like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David Copperfield.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis first book edition of \"David Copperfield\" has 9 of the 10 points of reference contained in the first issue: 1. No half-title. 2. Six-line errata leaf on page xv. 3. Chapter xxvii listed in table contents at pp. 283, instead of pp. 282. 4. \"recal\" line 1 on pp. 16 and on pp. 225 line 22. 5.\"chapter;ut\" on pp. 19, 12 lines from bottom. 6. \"coroboration\" is 6 lines up on pp.387. 7. No quotes at end of pp 13. 8. Page viii, preface, has the final \"i\" misaligned. 9. Engraved title page is dated 1850. However, \"screamed\" has been corrected to \"screwed\" on pp. 132, line 20. This work is splendidly illustrated throughout with engravings by Hablot Knight Browne (1815-1882), the celebrated English artist well-known by his pen name, Phiz, who illustrated books by Charles Dickens, Charles Lever, and Harrison Ainsworth. It contains the second of Browne's so-called \"dark plates\" (\"The River,\" at page 482 - the first dark-plate appeared in Dombey and Son), created by a machine process that tints the etched plate so as to heighten the contrast between black and white, anticipating some of the techniques of white-line engraving (Johannsen, Phiz, 309). References: Smith I:9; Sadleir 686.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Charles Dickens","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37676014665899,"sku":"DAVCOP1850BAYRIV","price":2000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/s-l1600_77c2b2db-2d36-4987-ab5d-a3305ca10fc0.jpg?v=1606780243"},{"product_id":"bleak-house-by-charles-dickens-1853-first-edition-bayntun-riviere-binding","title":"BLEAK HOUSE BY CHARLES DICKENS 1853 FIRST EDITION, BAYNTUN RIVIERE BINDING","description":"\u003cp\u003e[DICKENS, CHARLES]. \u003cstrong\u003eBleak House.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Bradbury \u0026amp; Evans, 1850.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. First edition [in book form], first issue. Leather-bound. Octavo (215 x 135mm), pp. [xvi], 624. Finely bound in dark-green full morocco, signed by Bayntun-Riviere, Bath, England. Spine with five raised bands, the compartments and bands fully gilt ruled, tooled and lettered. Boards and edges gilt ruled. Upper board with gilt impressed oval portrait vignette of the author. Rear board with gilt impressed authors facsimile signature. Elaborate inner gilt dentelles. All page edges gilt. Marbled pastedowns and endpapers. 40 illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (a.k.a. \"Phiz\") including frontispiece and vignette title-page. Bound without publisher's advertisements at the end. Condition: NEAR FINE. A superb copy, internally remarkably crisp and clean, however there is some light offsetting, notably without previous ownership markings. The binding is tight and secure, the hinges perfectly preserved. Gilt fresh and bright, the covers unblemished. Scarce thus.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: Although many of Dickens most famous works are crawling with crime, it is just this title that can be firmly placed in the murder mystery category. 'Bleak House' is essentially a classic whodunit, professionally solved, which became only the second entry (after Poe's 'Tales') in the Haycraft-Queen cornerstone list of crime fiction. Dickens returned to crime fiction for his highly-rated final story, the 'Mystery of Edwin Drood' but this was unfinished and the case unsolved. Within 'Bleak House' the author experiments with dual narrators and the story ranges from the dark and filthy Victorian slums to the landed aristocracy; Inspector Bucket is one of the earliest detectives to appear in fiction and was probably based on C.K. Field of the recently formed Scotland Yard. An essential mystery novel, originally published in 20 numbers in 19 parts (the last two numbers published in one part) between March 1852 and September 1853, published in one volume 12th Sept. 1853. All Walter Smith first edition issue points present including: elgble on page 19 line 6; chair for hair on page 209, line 23; counsinship on page 275 line 22; plus 5 line errata on page xvi. References: Sadleir (682); Smith (82\/83); Podeschi; Gimbel Catalogue Grolier Club Exhibition Catalogue (1913); Collins; Dickens and Crime (1962); Queen's Quorum; Book Collector No.273, p34; Graham Greene \u0026amp; Dorothy Glover; Victorian Detective Fiction (1966).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Charles Dickens","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37676304531627,"sku":"CHARDICBLEHOUS1850","price":2000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/s-l1600_4a94e712-2bd3-4c3d-9d43-4d7cd5637a52.jpg?v=1606780843"},{"product_id":"vivian-grey-by-benjamin-disraeli-1826-1827-first-edition-set-in-five-volumes","title":"VIVIAN GREY BY BENJAMIN DISRAELI 1826-1827 FIRST EDITION SET IN FIVE VOLUMES","description":"\u003cp\u003e[DISRAELI, BENJAMIN]. \u003cstrong\u003eVivian Grey.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Henry Colburn, 1826 [-1827].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. First edition. In five volumes, complete. Octavo, pp. (6), 266; (2), 236; (2), 333; (2), 362; (2), 324. Attractively bound in near contemporary uniform half-calf over marbled boards, smooth spines, gilt rules and lettering, morocco lettering piece in second compartments, red speckled page edges, tinted pastedowns and endpapers, bound without adverts or half-titles. Printed by S. and R. Bentley. Condition: VERY GOOD. Bindings tight and secure, hinges intact, slight mottling to spines, textblock lightly tanned with very occasional fox spots, a few leaves with minor marginal stains, nice armorial bookplate to front pastedowns. Excellent and scarce thus.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: Uncommon first edition set of Disraeli's first novel, a \"sensational roman-à-clef in the then fashionable silver-fork style\" (ODNB), the first section originally published anonymously in two volumes in April 1826, ostensibly by a so-called \"man of fashion,\" caused a considerable sensation in London society. Contemporary reviewers, suspicious of the numerous solecisms contained within the text, eventually identified the young 21 year old Disraeli (who did not move in high society) as the author. It received disfavourable reviews, despite its public popularity, due to its \"combination of unmistakable self-exposure and reckless satire. Moreover, Murray and Lockhart, men of great influence in literary circles, were deeply offended by the sneering treatment of characters based on them\" (ibid.). Disraeli continued the tale in a second volume, also of 1826, and three subsequent volumes in 1827. The form in which Vivian Grey is published now is the revised 1853 edition, which was severely expurgated and, according to critic Wendy Burton, lost much of the charm and freshness of the 1826 edition. The book is a frequent touchstone for discussions of Disraeli's political and literary career. Vivian Grey is often written about as a cornerstone work of the \"fashionable\" or \"silver fork\" school of fiction, but it is also the first work in the genre of the political novel as later practiced by Trollope, Meredith, Eliot, Wells and Mrs. Humphrey Ward. [Sadlier 734 \u0026amp; 734a; Wolff 1846].\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Disraeli","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37700067164331,"sku":"VIVGREY182627","price":1750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/s-l1600_7af84e99-d02a-4b69-a3e7-46a5f9fd66b7.jpg?v=1606968283"},{"product_id":"geological-observations-by-charles-darwin-1876-second-edition","title":"GEOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS BY CHARLES DARWIN 1876 Second Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e[DARWIN, CHARLES]. \u003cstrong\u003eGeological Observations on the Volcanic Islands and Parts of South America Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. 'Beagle'.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Smith, Elder, \u0026amp; Co., 1876.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. Second edition. Octavo, pp. [xiii], (1), 647. Publisher's original dark red cloth, gilt titles and banding to spine, blind-panelled covers, half-title with advertisements verso, 2 folding maps, 5 folding plates.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Binding secure, light spotting towards front of volume, leaf 2R² fore-edge chipped, 4 cm closed tear to second folding map affecting frame only, plates mildly spotted and with a few partial splits to folds, plate 1 with 6.5 x 5 cm section excised but present (laid in), contemporary bookseller's ticket (John Dale \u0026amp; Co., Bradford) to front pastedown, a little wear to spine-ends and tips, else very good. Scarce. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReferences: Freeman F276.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Charles Darwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37700208427179,"sku":"DARWGEOB1876","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/s-l1600_e8378001-e3e0-4035-914f-bda913e542a1.jpg?v=1606973244"},{"product_id":"our-mutual-friend-by-charles-dickens-1865-first-edition-fine-bayntun-riviere","title":"OUR MUTUAL FRIEND BY CHARLES DICKENS 1865 FIRST EDITION, FINE BAYNTUN RIVIERE","description":"\u003cp\u003e[DICKENS, CHARLES]. \u003cstrong\u003eOur Mutual Friend.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Chapman \u0026amp; Hall, 1865.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. First edition in book form. Two volumes bound in one. Leather-bound. Octavo (215 x 135mm), pp. [xii], 320; [viii], 309. Finely bound in dark-green full morocco, signed by Bayntun-Riviere, Bath, England. Spine with five raised bands, the compartments and bands fully gilt ruled, tooled and lettered. Boards and edges gilt ruled. Upper board with gilt impressed oval portrait vignette of the author. Rear board with gilt impressed authors facsimile signature. Elaborate inner gilt dentelles. All page edges gilt. Marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Engraved frontispieces. 40 illustrations by Marcus Stone. Bound without publisher's advertisements. Condition: FINE. A superb copy; internally pristine, crisp pages, and without previous ownership markings; binding tight, the hinges perfectly preserved, gilt fresh and bright, couple of tiny marks to covers. Scarce thus.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: This was the second to last book that Dickens would write, and the last one that he would actually finish. The years shortly before the publication of OUR MUTUAL FRIEND were fraught with domestic sorrow that would lead to his eventual decline. He separated from his wife Catherine in 1858 after his admiration for the young actress Ellen Ternan strained his already deteriorating marriage. He further had to defend himself against scandal and protest his innocence when wagging tongues of gossip linked his name to his sister-in-law Georgina s who had served as his housekeeper for many years. He threw his restless energy into increased productivity and public readings of his work, both of which were physically and emotionally exhausting. He suffered from recurrent illnesses during the creation of OUR MUTUAL FRIEND, but nonetheless managed to maintain the level of genius in his prose that had pervaded his previous works. He died unexpectedly only five years later, while he was writing THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. He had, with this novel, \".for the first time given serious consideraiton to the theme of unrequited love. In earlier books it may have been secret or ill-timed, but there was always and equilibrium in which both parties seem to accept that they loved or can be loved; and that, when eventually they declare their love, it is not rejected.\" But \"there is torture in love, and despair, and madness. There is some necessary connection between courtship and death.so tht.it is possible to trace the strange curve of Dickens temperment exploring extremity in art if not necessarily life.\" (Ackroyd, 955) Like most of Dickens work, OUR MUTUAL FRIEND was published in monthly serial parts, the first in May of 1864 and the last in November of 1865. 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Finely bound in dark-green full morocco, signed by Bayntun-Riviere, Bath, England. Spine with five raised bands, the compartments and bands fully gilt ruled, tooled and lettered. Boards and edges gilt ruled. Upper board with gilt impressed oval portrait vignette of the author. Rear board with gilt impressed authors facsimile signature. Elaborate inner gilt dentelles. All page edges gilt. Marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Engraved frontispiece and extra title-page, illustrated throughout by phiz. First state of text with \"100£\" on the engraved title-page.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: FINE. A superb copy; internally near pristine, with crisp pages, without previous ownership markings; binding tight, the hinges perfectly preserved, gilt fresh and bright, covers unblemished. Scarce thus.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: First edition. Dickens's biographer places Martin Chuzzlewit as marking \"a great change in Dickens's conception of moral characteristics. For the first time Dickens begins to explore the contradictions and difficulties of the contemporary human world; these are no longer figures defined by a single characteristic or animated by the wilful principle of a 'humour', but ones who are seen to change with the changing world, to live and grow\" (Ackroyd, Dickens, p. 392). Dickens wrote to a contemporary that \"I think Chuzzlewit is a hundred points immeasurably the best of my stories\" (cited in Berard, Dickens and Landscape Discourse, p. 3). 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Volume 3: Book 18, History of Protestantism in the Netherlands; Book 19, Protestantism in Poland and Bohemia; Book 20, Protestantism in Hungary and Transylvania; Book 21, The Thirty Years’ War; Book 22, Protestantism in France From Death of Henry IV (1610) to the Revolution (1789); Book 23, Protestantism in England From the Times of Henry VIII; Book 24, Protestantism in Scotland.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Bindings tight and secure, all hinges intact. Some minor rubbing and abrasions to extremities. Contents immaculate. Without previous ownership markings. An excellent production and finely bound. Scarce thus.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: James A. Wylie’s massive History of Protestantism was first published in 1870 and covers the beginnings of Christianity to the Glorious Revolution in Great Britain in 1688; it is now considered a classic. The following quote on J. A. 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A very nice unsophisticated crisp example of this very fragile and scarce book. \"[Daisy Miller] deals with an unsophisticated, 'strikingly, admirably pretty' girl from Schenectady traveling through Europe who runs athwart the conventions of a group of Europeanized Americans who enforce the rules of the older European community with unthinking severity. The book aroused controversy when it first appeared, some reviewers taking it as a libel on American manners, but it later became one of the most popular of James's writings.\" (Benét's 247) BAL 10538. 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Unpaginated. 28 tissue-guarded views printed on one side with descriptive letterpress opposite. Engraved from drawings by J. Farington. No title as issued, starts with plate list at front. Bound in contemporary half-calf with marbled paper boards, gilt titling to spine. Bound in at the rear are 7 colour maps, including a large folding map of England and Wales and smaller maps of Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmoreland, Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cheshire. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Binding secure with some rubbing to extremities, contents well preserved with some light intermittent foxing but this avoids the engravings which are very clean, large folding map with some backing repairs. Rare. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReference: Bicknell 85.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MFR Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37761606811819,"sku":"BRITDEP1815","price":750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/uu.jpg?v=1607791725"},{"product_id":"the-begums-fortune-by-jules-verne-1880-first-english-edition","title":"THE BEGUM'S FORTUNE BY JULES VERNE 1880 FIRST ENGLISH EDITION","description":"\u003cp\u003e[VERNE, JULES]. \u003cstrong\u003eThe Begum's Fortune. Translated by W. H. G. Kingston. With an Account of the Mutineers of the \"Bounty.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, \u0026amp; Rivington, 1880 [1879].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. First edition. Full cloth. Octavo (195 x 150mm), pp. [vii], (3), 272, (32 adds). 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Condition: VERY GOOD. Bindings very well preserved. Covers with minor wear only. Contents lightly browned. Title leaves with marginal staining. Faint off-setting. A scarce and unique set, being J. G. Burns's copy.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MFR Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37761697284267,"sku":"THOMSBURN1822","price":750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/uu_62b589e1-721e-4619-be37-ea5dda4f92da.jpg?v=1607793280"},{"product_id":"strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-mr-hyde-by-robert-louis-stevenson-1886-second-edition","title":"STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL \u0026 MR HYDE BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 1886 Second Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e[STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS]. \u003cstrong\u003eStrange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1886.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. Second edition. Leather-bound. 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Condition: VERY GOOD. Bindings very well preserved with slight wear to extremities. Collated complete the contents largely very tidy with some mild off-setting and foxing to endpapers. A scarce set.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MFR Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37767076806827,"sku":"METHHARMALBRECHT1843","price":550.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/zzzzz_09f3aa45-d5c6-434c-b809-0ee766b8fcea.jpg?v=1607891613"},{"product_id":"history-topography-antiquities-of-waterford-by-r-h-ryland-1824-first-edition","title":"HISTORY, TOPOGRAPHY \u0026 ANTIQUITIES OF WATERFORD BY R.H. RYLAND 1824 First Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e[RYLAND, R. 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Scarce. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: The History, Topography and Antiquities Of The County And City Of Waterford by Reverend Richard Hopkins Ryland (1788-1866) was published in 1824. Ryland describes the history of the region from ancient times until the early 19th century, its mountains and coastline, its prehistoric and medieval ruins and the city of Waterford. Reverend Richard Hopkins Ryland was born in 1788 the descendant of 16th Protestant planters who settled in Dungarvan. Generations of the family were Church of Ireland ministers. Rev. Ryland married Isabella Julia Fleury the daughter of the Archdeacon of Waterford and the couple had six sons and two daughters. His best known historical work was The History, Topography and Antiquities Of The County And City Of Waterford which was dedicated to the Duke of Devonshire while he also published religious pamphlets. 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Attractively bound in publisher's original green cloth, with decoratively stamped titles and designs in gilt and black to front cover and spine, frames in blind to rear cover. 42 illustrations including a frontispiece. Title-page vignette. Condition: NEAR FINE. 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Exquisitely bound and signed by Riviere in contemporary binding of crushed morocco, the covers with a gilt border of twinned double fillets with corner-pieces, enclosing a gilt blocked elaborate repeat designed. The spine divided into six panels, the five bands gilt ruled, lettered in the second panel, the others elaborately gilt tooled in repeat pattern, the edges of the boards and turn-ins ruled and tooled in gilt, page edges gilt and heavily gauffered, plain endpapers, half-title present, title-page vignette. Condition: FINE. The binding is near pristine, bright and clean with almost no wear. The contents are suited to the binding, notably crisp and bright. Scarce thus. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: A beautifully bound book and a magnificent example of the high-end exhibition grade bindings that Riviere produced at this time. First published in 1861, The Golden Treasury was \"an anthology so successful that, as J. W. Mackail wrote in the Dictionary of National Biography, 'it remains one of those rare instances in which a critical work has substantive imaginative value, and entitles its author to rank among creative artists'\" (ODNB). It includes lyrics and songs from Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Byron, and Tennyson, who originally suggested the project to Palgrave.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Francis Turner Palgrave","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37807576481963,"sku":"PALRIVIERE1862","price":3000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/SAM_6167_2.jpg?v=1608413626"},{"product_id":"twenty-thousand-leagues-under-the-seas-by-jules-verne-1885","title":"TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEAS BY JULES VERNE 1885","description":"\u003cp\u003e[VERNE, JULES]. \u003cstrong\u003eTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle \u0026amp; Rivington, 1885.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. Reprint. Full cloth. Octavo (200 x 130mm), pp. [viii], 303. Attractively bound in publisher's original green cloth, with decoratively stamped titles and designs in gilt and black to front cover and spine, frames in blind to rear cover. 112 illustrations including a frontispiece. Title-page vignette. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure. Couple of minor marks to rear cover, else clean. Slight rubbing to points and bumping to spine ends. Contents largely very clean. Some minor spotting to fore-edge. Without previous ownership markings.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jules Verne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37813783429291,"sku":"VERNESEAS1885","price":450.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/zf.jpg?v=1608520561"},{"product_id":"the-jungle-book-second-jungle-book-by-rudyard-kipling-1895-uniform-editions","title":"THE JUNGLE BOOK \u0026 SECOND JUNGLE BOOK BY RUDYARD KIPLING 1895 UNIFORM EDITIONS","description":"\u003cp\u003e[KIPLING, RUDYARD]. \u003cstrong\u003eThe Jungle Book.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Macmillan \u0026amp; Co., 1895.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. Reprint [4th impression]. Cloth-bound. Octavo (190 x 125mm), pp. [vi], (2), 212. Publisher's original gilt decorated cloth, all edges gilt, coated pastedowns and endpapers, initial and terminal blanks present, half-title present. Beautifully illustrated throughout by W. H. Drake and P. Frenzeny with full page and in-the-text drawings, head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials. Condition: binding secure, covers largely clean, some rubbing to points and spine ends, a few light fox spots, inked inscription to front blank.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSold together with:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[KIPLING, RUDYARD]. \u003cstrong\u003eThe Second Jungle Book.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Macmillan \u0026amp; Co., 1895.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e Hardcover. First edition. Cloth-bound. Octavo (190 x 125mm), pp. (6), 238, (2 adds). Publisher's original gilt decorated cloth, all edges gilt, coated pastedowns and endpapers, initial and terminal blanks present, half-title present. Beautifully illustrated throughout by J. Lockwood Kipling with full page and in-the-text drawings, head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials. Condition: Binding secure with slight lean to spin. Covers largely clean. Slight bumping to spine ends. Some very light foxing. Inking to front blank and extensive annotations to rear blank.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rudyard Kipling","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37813818818731,"sku":"JUNGLEBOOK1895","price":450.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/zq.jpg?v=1608520936"},{"product_id":"sketches-of-field-sports-as-followed-by-the-natives-of-india-by-d-johnson-1822","title":"SKETCHES OF FIELD SPORTS AS FOLLOWED BY THE NATIVES OF INDIA BY D. JOHNSON 1822","description":"\u003cp\u003e[JOHNSON, DANIEL]. \u003cstrong\u003eSketches of Field Sports as followed by the Natives of India. With observations on the animals. Also an account of some of the customs of the inhabitants, and natural productions, interspersed with various anecdotes. Likewise the late nawab vizier Asoph ul Dowlah's grand style of sporting and character. A description of the art of catching serpents, as practised by people in India, known by the appellation of Cunjoors, and their method of curing themselves when bitten. With remarks on hydrophobia, \u0026amp; rabid animals.\u003c\/strong\u003e Published for the author by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Browne, and Thomas Fowler, Great Torrington, Devon, 1822.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e Hardcover. First edition. Octavo (235 x 150mm), pp. [x], 261. Publisher's original paper covered boards with spine label. Slip entitled \"Description of the Frontispiece\" bound in before the Introduction. Engraved frontispiece after Ann Elizabeth Palmer. Rough cut fore edge and bottom edge. Private owner bookplates. Preserved in a custom morocco-backed drop-back box. Binding secure. Spine rubbed and creased. Points rubbed. Covers slightly marked. Very light scattered foxing. Scarce, especially in its original state.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: Rare first edition (in good to very good condition); a second appeared in 1827. Daniel Johnson (1766\/7-1835), surgeon and author, \"was appointed assistant surgeon in the Bengal medical service on 22 January 1789. He conducted experiments on snakebite, and later communicated his findings to his fellow Bengal surgeon James Johnson. He was promoted to surgeon on 11 March 1805, and retired from the service in 1809. He settled at Great Torrington, Devon, and in 1822 printed, with the aid of a daughter of the local bookseller, 'not more than eight and a half years old', his Sketches of Indian Field-Sports [actually the title of the second edition]. The book was dedicated to the court of directors of the Hon. East India Company\" (ODNB). \"In this early work detailing Indian sport, Johnson provides notes on elephant, buffalo, and other game, but of primary importance are his chapters on hunting tiger and leopard principally in the jungle ares of Ramghur, Rogonautpore, and Bundbissunpore\" (Czech).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Daniel Johnson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37813928820907,"sku":"SKETFEILDSPORTS1822","price":450.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/zx.jpg?v=1608523043"},{"product_id":"the-effects-of-cross-self-fertilisation-by-charles-darwin-1888-second-edition","title":"THE EFFECTS OF CROSS \u0026 SELF FERTILISATION BY CHARLES DARWIN 1888 Second Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e[DARWIN, CHARLES]. \u003cstrong\u003eThe Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: John Murray, 1888.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. Second Edition. Octavo (200 x 140 mm), pp. [viii], 487, [32 adds]. Publisher's original green bead-grain cloth. Gilt titles and decoration to spine. Blind-panelled covers. Bottom edge trimmed, other edges untrimmed. Coated endpapers. Numerous table s and charts throughout. Authors advertisements verso title-page and to rear, dated September 1888. Imprint: 'London: Printed by William Clowes and Sons, Limited, Stamford Street and Charing Cross'. Index to rear in double columns. Condition: NEAR FINE. Collate complete. Binding secure. Points and edges sharp, with very slight bumping to spine ends. Covers and contents remarkably clean. Faintest touch of light foxing to endpapers. Without inking or bookplates.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Charles Darwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37813969780907,"sku":"DARWINFERT1888","price":450.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/zc.jpg?v=1608524663"},{"product_id":"domestic-annals-of-scotland-by-robert-chambers-1858-1861-fine-leather-bound-set","title":"DOMESTIC ANNALS OF SCOTLAND BY ROBERT CHAMBERS 1858-1861 Fine Leather-Bound Set","description":"\u003cp\u003e[CHAMBERS, ROBERT]. \u003cstrong\u003eDomestic Annals of Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution.\u003c\/strong\u003e Edinburgh and London: W. \u0026amp; R. Chambers, 1858-1861.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. First edition. In three volumes (complete). Leather-bound. Large octavos (8vo) (240 x 160mm), pp. [xi], (1), 549, (1); (6), 523, (1); (10), 637, (1). Handsomely bound by Henderson and Bisset in blue half morocco; five raised bands; spines gilt ruled and lettered; marbled boards, pastedowns and endpapers; top edges gilt; initial and terminal blanks present; half-titles; title-page vignettes; 25 engraved illustrations throughout. Contents vol.I: Introductory; Reign of Mary: 1561-5; Reign of Mary: 1565-7; Regency of Moray: 1567-70; Regencies of Lennox and Mar: 1570-2; Regency of Morton: 1572-8; Reign of James VI.: 1578-85; Reign of James VI.: 1585-90; Reign of James VI.: 1591-1603 Reign of James VI.: 1603-25. Contents vol.II: Reign of Charles I.: 1625-37; Reign of Charles I.: 1637-49; Interregnum: 1649-60; Reign of Charles II.: 1660-73; Reign of Charles II.: 1673-85; Reign of Charles II.: 1685-88; General Index. Contents vol.III: Reign of William and Mary: 1689-94; Reign of William III.: 1695-1702; Reign of Queen Anne: 1702-1714; Reign of George I.: 1714-27; Reign of George II.: 1727-48; Appendix; Index. Condition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Bindings very secure. Covers very well preserved. Gilt bright. Text-block largely clean with just a few light brown spots. Without inking or bookplates. An exquisite finely bound set of this seminal work covering an important period in Scottish history. Rare thus.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Robert Chambers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37814076637355,"sku":"DOMANNALS185861","price":450.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/zv.jpg?v=1608527253"},{"product_id":"shifts-expedients-of-camp-life-travel-exploration-by-lord-baines-1876","title":"SHIFTS \u0026 EXPEDIENTS OF CAMP LIFE, TRAVEL \u0026 EXPLORATION BY LORD \u0026 BAINES 1876","description":"\u003cp\u003e[LORD, WILLIAM BARRY; BAINES, THOMAS (1820-1875)]. \u003cstrong\u003eShifts and Expedients of Camp Life, Travel, \u0026amp; Exploration.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Horace Cox, 1876.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. Second Edition. Full cloth. Thick quarto (250 x 170 mm), pp. (iv), [2], [1], 2-734, [2 adverts]. Attractively bound in publisher's original green cloth, decoratively stamped titles and designs in gilt to front cover and spine. Bevelled board edges. Covers with blind stamped frames. Coated pastedowns and endpapers. Engraved title-page. Fourteen full-page illustrated plates Numerous in the text illustrations and tables. Printed by Horace Cox, London. Index to rear in double columns. Contents: I. Outfit to take abroad; II. Boats, Rafts, and Make-shift Floats; III. Working in Metals; IV. Huts and Houses; V. Extempore Bridges and Makeshifts for Crossing Rivers or Ravines; VI. Timber and its Utilisation; VII. Sledges and Sledge Travellers; VIII. Boots, Shoes, and Sandals; IX. Waggons and other Wheeled Vehicles; X. Harness and Pack Animals; XI. Camels; XII. Cattle Marking; XIII. Water, and the Sap of Plants; XIV. Camp Cookery XV. Fish and Amphibious Animals; XVI. Poisoned Weapons, Arrows, Spears, \u0026amp;c.; XVII. Tracking, Hunting, and Trapping; XVIII. Palanquins, Stretchers, Ambulances, \u0026amp;c; XIX. On Sketching and Painting under the ordinary Difficulties of Travel; XX. The Estimation of Distances and Hints on Field Observing; XXI. Hints to Explorers on Collecting and Preserving Objects of Natural History; XXII. Ropes and Twine; XXIII. Bush Veterinary Surgery and Medicine; Appendix; Index. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: GOOD. Binding secure. Slight repairs to spine ends. Covers generally clean. Apparently lacking frontispiece but otherwise complete. Contents largely clean with just a few fox spots. Without bookplates or inking. Scarce.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: Shifts and Expedients was first published in 1868 in serial form (of 17 parts), with the first book form published in 1871, a 2nd edition was published in 1876, and a facsimile reprint published in 1975 - all of these now uncommon. This is a bulky work involving Baines in a great deal of exacting preparatory work. 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