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1857réf. 19321New York: D. Appleton & Co 1857. First American edition 2 vols. sm. 8vo viii 285; viii 269; engraved frontis portrait plus one engraved plate; bound without ads or half-titles in contemporary half tan calf over marbled boards green and black morocco labels on spines; very good set. D. Appleton & Co unknown
1857réf. 19321New York: D. Appleton & Co 1857. First American edition 2 vols. sm. 8vo viii 285; viii 269; engraved frontis portrait plus one engraved plate; bound without ads or half-titles in contemporary half tan calf over marbled boards green and black morocco labels on spines; very good set. D. Appleton & Co unknown books
1857réf. 15421London; Smith Elder and Co. 65 Cornhill 1857. 1857. Second edition issued the same year as the first. Two volumes complete octavo pp. viii 352; viii 327 1. Frontispieces to both volumes. Complete with the half-titles. Uniform contemporary green half-calf over marbled paper-covered boards; spines on four raised bands; titled in gilt to red morocco spine label; gilt rolls to bands; lettered and ornamented with Amphorae in gilt and blind to compartments; all edges marbled; white end-papers. Historic library bookplate of Marlborough Public Library to upper boards; ink stamps of the same throughout. Rubbing to boards; corners bumped; light gouges to spine with slight loss to label of vol. 1. Very occasional light scattered foxing but generally internally clean. A serviceable set. The first biography of Charlotte Bront�. Gaskell drew together a dearth of sources including correspondence with those who knew Bront� in life to produce this admirable if unreliable biography of the author. Following an accusation of slander by living individuals portrayed unfavourably in the biography the publisher retracted the first edition and produced a second redacted edition. This edition is a useful but flawed source for Bront�'s life as Charles Kingsley wrote to Gaskell in the wake of the book's publication: 'You have had a delicate and great work to do and you have done it admirably. Be sure the book will do good. It will shame literary people into some stronger belief that a simple virtuous practical home life can be consistent with highly imaginative genius; and it will shame too the prudery of a�carefully whitewashed age into believing that purity�is quite compatible with the knowledge of evil.' BLFC p. 22. Wise and Symington eds. The Brontes: Their Lives Friendships and Correspondence vol. iv p. 22. London; Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhill, 1857. hardcover
1857réf. YY7748Smith Elder & Co 1857. Engraved frontis foxed with guard to each volume. Text block sound and unmarked in volume 1 slightly shaken in volume 2. Bookplate of John Wilson Corke to each inside front board. John Wilson Corke 1814–1874 was an Irish Methodist missionary best known for his work in China during the 19th century. Catalogue to rear of volume 2. Robust packaging. Tracking is always added to USA orders. It can be added to other overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. Owner's signature dated 1868 to both volumes. Owner's signature dated 1868 to both volumes. Good. viii352 viii32716pp. Smith, Elder & Co Hardcover
18572 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 2 frontispieces (original tissue guards present) and plate, uniform contemporary inscription on front free endpapers; original brown diced cloth, boards framed in blind, gilt backs, primrose endpapers, uncut, neatly rebacked with old backstrips laid down, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. With late nineteenth century personal bookplate on front paste-downs, Westleys binder's ticket on rear paste-down of first volume, and 16pp publisher's catalogue (dated March 1857) bound in at end of second volume. A BRIGHT COPYOF THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN STRENGTHENED PUBLISHER'S BINDING WITH ORIGINAL BINDER'S TICKET. VERY SCARCE AS SUCH.
1900réf. 0000219Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co. 1900-1910. Later printings but one. Nine volumes 16mo 6.75" x 4.5" variously paginated uniformly and exquisitely bound by Ernst Hertzberg & Sons signed in blind on the recto of the rear free endpaper ca. 19-teens. Full dark brown crushed morocco the spines in five compartments separated by raised bands lettered in gilt in one compartment with elegant tooling in black wrapping the spines onto both boards mimicking coptic fastenings tied up with fleur-de-lys fasteners. Top edges gilt floral blind-tooled inner dentelles brown laid-paper doublures and brown satin-ribbon page-markers bound in with velvet-lined tan cloth over board slipcase. A few ribbon markers frayed occasional light rubbing mostly at the joints otherwise about Fine in slipcase which is soiled & stained mostly at the back of the box. A lovely set of "Love in Leather" as we like to call it which is perhaps more aptly characterized courtesy Raymond Carver as "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love." The publisher provides a running title for most of the volumes of "Tales from Foreign Lands." Includes: Pushkin Alexander translated by Marie H. de Zielinska. Marie: A Story of Russian Love 1906; Galdos B. Perez. Marianela: A Story of Spanish Love 1907; Mrs Gaskell. Cousin Phillis: A Story of English Love 1910; Alphonse de Lamartine translated by James B Runnion Graziella: A Story of Italian Love 1905; Drachmann Holger. Nanna: A Story of Danish Love 1901 first printing; Charlot Francis Madeleine: A Story of French Love 1906; Krejsa Antonie translated by Caroline Svetla Maria Felicia: A Story of Bohemian Love 1900; Jensen Wilhelm. Karine: A Story of Swedish Love 1909; Muller Max Memories from the German of Max Muller 1909 A.C. McClurg & Co. hardcover books
1883réf. 51495(London, Harrison and Sons, 1883). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" Year 1882, Volume 173 - 1883. - Pp. 993-1033 and 5 plates (1 heliogravure (instrument), 4 folded recordings).
1883réf. 51495London Harrison and Sons 1883. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" Year 1882 Volume 173 - 1883. - Pp. 993-1033 and 5 plates 1 heliogravure instrument 4 folded recordings. First edition of Gaskell's classic in neuroscience on the musculature and innervation of the heart."In the Croonian lecture for 1881 dealing with the frog heart Gaskell presented an important new method for studying heart action later named the "suspension method" and insisted that cardiac inhibition depended less on nerve or ganglionic mechanisms than on the inherent properties of the cardiac musculature. The role of the vagus nerve in inhibition was reduced to that of being the “trophic” anabolic nerve of the cardiac muscle. Yet in the same lecture Gaskell produced impressive evidence against Foster’s myogenic theory of rhythmicity and advocated instead the neurogenic view that discontinuous ganglionic discharges are responsible for the rhythmicity of the normal heartbeat. The background to this defection was exceedingly complex but it derived from an initial assumption which Foster himself accepted that ganglionic impulses - whatever their role in rhythmicity - are somehow involved in coordinating the normal sequence of the vertebrate heartbeat."DSB.Garrison & Morton 829. unknown
1867réf. feb931861867: First Hungarian Edition of Cousin Phillis Phillis unokahúgom Used. For more details please contact me Pest hardcover
1868réf. 56321London: 26 Wellington Street 1868. Very good plus. First collected edition of the special Christmas issues in Dickens's own literary magazine written by himself and collaborators including Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth Gaskell. ALL THE YEAR ROUND was the second literary journal run by Dickens successor to HOUSEHOLD WORDS which he had co-owned partly with his publishers Bradbury & Evans. ALL THE YEAR ROUND was founded so that Dickens could have full editorial control. Its extra Christmas numbers were twice the size of regular issues included short stories themed for the holiday season written by Dickens and collaborators from 1859 to 1867. This edition collects these special issues into a single volume: THE HAUNTED HOUSE A MESSAGE FROM THE SEA TOM TIDDLER'S GROUND SOMEBODY'S LUGGAGE MRS. LIRRIPER'S LODINGS MRS. LIRRIPER'S LEGACY DOCTOR MARIGOLD'S PRESCRIPTIONS MUGBY JUNCTION and NO THOROUGHFARE. 9.25'' x 6''. Late 19th-century half red morocco by H.S. Nichols marbled paper boards raised bands elaborately gilt-tooled spine. Top edge gilt marbled endpapers. Original wrappers bound in. 4 pages title TOC then each number with 48 pages each. Bookplate to verso of front free endpaper; paper infill to top margin of title. Slight smoke smell. A couple touches of rubbing to boards. Firm. 26, Wellington Street unknown
1868réf. 56321London: 26 Wellington Street 1868. Very good plus. First collected edition of the special Christmas issues in Dickens's own literary magazine written by himself and collaborators including Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth Gaskell. ALL THE YEAR ROUND was the second literary journal run by Dickens successor to HOUSEHOLD WORDS which he had co-owned partly with his publishers Bradbury & Evans. ALL THE YEAR ROUND was founded so that Dickens could have full editorial control. Its extra Christmas numbers were twice the size of regular issues included short stories themed for the holiday season written by Dickens and collaborators from 1859 to 1867. This edition collects these special issues into a single volume: THE HAUNTED HOUSE A MESSAGE FROM THE SEA TOM TIDDLER'S GROUND SOMEBODY'S LUGGAGE MRS. LIRRIPER'S LODINGS MRS. LIRRIPER'S LEGACY DOCTOR MARIGOLD'S PRESCRIPTIONS MUGBY JUNCTION and NO THOROUGHFARE. 9.25'' x 6''. Late 19th-century half red morocco by H.S. Nichols marbled paper boards raised bands elaborately gilt-tooled spine. Top edge gilt marbled endpapers. Original wrappers bound in. 4 pages title TOC then each number with 48 pages each. Bookplate to verso of front free endpaper; paper infill to top margin of title. Slight smoke smell. A couple touches of rubbing to boards. Firm. 26, Wellington Street unknown books
1861réf. 125281London: Sampson Low Son and Co. 1861. First edition of Elizabeth Gaskell's 1861 novella which first appeared in Household Words in 1858. Octavo original cloth elaborately stamped in blind. In good condition. Ownership inscriptions. My Lady Ludlow recounts the daily lives of the widowed Countess of Ludlow of Hanbury and the spinster Miss Galindo whose father was a Baronet and their caring for other single women and girls. It is also concerned with Lady Ludlow's man of business Mr. Horner and a poacher's son named Harry Gregson whose education he provides for. With Cranford The Last Generation in England and Mr. Harrison's Confessions My Lady Ludlow was adapted for television in 2007 as Cranford with Francesca Annis as the eponymous character with Alex Etel as Harry Gregson and Emma Fielding as Laurentia Galindo. Sampson Low, Son and Co. hardcover
1891réf. OCB1572London: London: Macmillan & Co. 1891. Hardcover. Very Good. London: Macmillan & Co. 1891. Riviere and Co. binding. Contemporary brown calf. Bound by Riviere and Co. Gilt edges around banded spine with gilt lettering at spine. Original cloth covers bound in. Marbled endpapers inner gilt dentelle. With a preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie and illustrations by Hugh Thomson. London: Macmillan & Co. hardcover
1866réf. 955P14Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz 1866. First edition. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 6" by 4.5". None. The very scarce first Tauchnitz edition of Elizabeth Gaskell's final novel a smartly bound set. The very scarce first Tauchnitz edition published in the same year as the first U.K. edition in book form.Complete in three volumes.'Wives and Daughters' follows the only daughter of a widowed doctor Molly Gibson as she grows up in a provincial English town in the 1830s.This novel was originally serialised in the 'Cornhill Magazine' from August 1864 to January 1866. Gaskell died before finishing it so the final section was written by Frederick Greenwood.Bound without half-titles. This edition was published by Bernhard Tauchnitz. Tauchnitz started his 'Collection of British Authors' in 1842 and it continued for almost exactly 100 years. By breaking with the European practise of ignoring British copyright law Tauchnitz was a driving force behind international agreements on international copyright protection. The goodwill he gained from British authors enabled him to be the principal continental publisher of English language works. He was often sent early proofs and so was able to first publish at the same time or very soon after the British publisher. In a full calf binding with gilt decoration. Externally smart. A little light rubbing to the boards and spines. A few light marks to the boards mostly to Volume III. Internally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and clean. Half-titles have been removed. Very Good Indeed Bernhard Tauchnitz hardcover
1857réf. 26758London: Smith Elder & Co 1857. First edition. Half leather bound with marbled paper covered boards and end papers; Modest wear to edges corners and raised bands. Two volumes; viii 352 & viii 327 pages bound without ads; Frontis engravings with facing tissues and facsimile manuscript plate. Smith, Elder & Co unknown
1868réf. 24615London: n.p. Chapman and Hall 1868. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. First volume edition. 16 volumes for Household Words; 20 volumes for All the year Round; 36 8vo volumes in all. All but two of the volumes are ex-college library in modern buckram gilt spine titles. Library markings are: shelf numbers on spines; pencil numbers on upper left corners of titles pages; two line rubber stamp on textblock edges. Volumes 14 and 16 of Household Words are contemporary half leather marbled paper boards similarly ex-library. Generally very good to near fine but with occasional foxing and staining. First appearances of Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations and The Moonstone the first detective story. Shipping at cost. . n.p. (Chapman and Hall) hardcover
1868réf. 24615London: n.p. Chapman and Hall 1868. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. First volume edition. 16 volumes for Household Words; 20 volumes for All the year Round; 36 8vo volumes in all. All but two of the volumes are ex-college library in modern buckram gilt spine titles. Library markings are: shelf numbers on spines; pencil numbers on upper left corners of titles pages; two line rubber stamp on textblock edges. Volumes 14 and 16 of Household Words are contemporary half leather marbled paper boards similarly ex-library. Generally very good to near fine but with occasional foxing and staining. First appearances of Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations and The Moonstone the first detective story. Shipping at cost. . n.p. (Chapman and Hall) hardcover books
1857réf. 453115London : Smith Elder and Co 1857. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good copies in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly rubbed with backstrip faintly rippled as from damp. Edges dust-toned with interior overall bright and clean. Rear hinge volume 1 cracked with binding holding. Frontispieces retain their tissue guards; a well-preserved set overall. Provenance: signature of J.H. Stobart dated 1857. Physical description; complete in 2 volumes viii 352; viii 327 1 pages : frontispieces v. 1 portrait ; 20 cm. Notes; With half-titles. Frontispieces engraved by J. C. Armytage from drawings by G. Richmond and E. C. Gaskell. Subjects; Brontë Charlotte 1816-1855. Novelists English -- 19th century -- Biography. Women novelists English -- 19th century -- Biography. London : Smith, Elder, and Co hardcover
1870réf. feb773381870: First French Edition of Cousin Phillis Cousine Phillis Used. For more details please contact me Hachette hardcover
1883réf. 440201883. Phil. Trans. B. 173/3 1882. - London Harrison & and Sons 1883 4° pp.993-1033 Figs. 5 Tafeln feiner Pappband. Frist Edition! Walter Holbrook Gaskell 1847-1914 classical memoir on the muscle and nerves of the heart included a description of "Gaskell's nerves" the accelerator nerves of the heart. He showed that the motor impulses from the nerve ganglia in the sinus venosus influence the heart rhythm but do not originate cardiac movements which are due to the rhythmic contraction of the heart muscle. This led to the artificial production of "heart-block" the name of which Gaskell based on a expression of Georges John Romanes." Garrison & Morton No. 829 unknown
1857réf. 4111London: Smith Elder & Co. 1857. Book. Very Good . Half-Leather. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Two volumes. First edition first printing with title page dated 1857 in both volumes and the half-title page preceding the frontispiece in both volumes. Original black half-leather fine binding with marbled boards. Ornate gilt decoration on spines with five raised bands. Dark-red leather title labels with gilt lettering along with volume numbers in gilt pressed into the black leather. Gilt borders along the leather spine and corners on both boards. All page edges marbled. Olive-green endpapers and two blank flyleaves of heavier-weight paper at the front and back of each volume. Frontispiece illustration with tissue in each volume. Reproduction of a page from Charlotte Bronte's original manuscript on an engraved plate in Vol. 1. Volumes measure 7 13/16" x 5 1/8" x 1 1/8". viii 352 and viii 327 pages. In VERY GOOD condition. Slight chipping to the leather at the top and bottom spine ends of Vol. 1. Otherwise the exteriors are very bright and clean with no sun-fading and only some light wear. Leather is supple. Gilt remains bright and shiny all around. Tightly bound straight and square volumes with strong hinges and joints. Excellent interiors. Light foxing to the engraved plates and facing pages and some faint staining at the lower edge of the frontispiece in Vol. 1. All text pages are otherwise exceptionally bright and clean with no foxing or flaws. Some light foxing to the flyleaves. Original owner's signature in fountain pen dated 1858 on the front flyleaf in both volumes. Smith, Elder & Co. Hardcover
1898réf. b44472London: Downey & Co. 1898. First printing of this edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Engraved frontispieces. An extremely handsome set. All 12 volumes are near fine in full- leather red bindings with four raised bands labels and gilt decorations on all aspects and marbled endpapers. Light rubbing at the tips and the extremities. Volumes 3 and seven have partial chips on the spine labels. Tissue guard protectors for frontispieces all in place. A brief collation: vol. 1 i-viii1-376 pages; vol. 2: a-di-xii1-408 frontispiece portrait of Charlotte Bronte from an oil portrait by J.H. Browning; vol. 3: a-bi-xii1-458 frontispiece of Oakwell Hall from a photograph by J.J. Stead; vol. 4: i-xii1-476; vol. 5: a-fi-xii1-426 frontispiece of Haworth Church and Parsonage in the Time of Charlotte Bronte; vol. 6: i-viii1-410; vol. 7: a-fi-xii1-382 frontispiece of Charlotte Bronte from the portrait by G. Richmond; vol. 8: a-di-xvi1-502; vol. 9: i-xii1-306 frontispiece of Blake Hall Mirfield the "Horton Lodge" of "Agnes Grey"; vol. 10: i-x1-358 frontispiece of Anne Bronte from an original pencil drawing by Charlotte Bronte; vol. 11: i-viii1-352; vol. 12: ia-fi-xvi1-530. Eleven volumes contain the novels of the Bronte sisters and volume twelve is The Life of Charlotte Bronte by Mrs. E.C. Gaskell. A perfect gift for Bronte devotees! Downey & Co. hardcover
1856réf. feb502051856: First French Edition of Cranford Used. For more details please contact me Hachette
1857réf. 20643London: Smith Elder & Co. 1857. A set of two volumes of 'The Life of Charlotte Bronte' published by Smith Elder & Co. in 1857. Both volumes bound in the original publisher's cloth with wear to the edges and fairly heavy wear to the corners. Volume 2 has some repair to the gutters front and back. One small inscription to the first page of text which reads 'Suppressed Copy/Print/S. Gordon Smith'. A nice presentable set in the unrestored brown cloth. Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë published in 1857 is the first biography of the famed author of Jane Eyre. Written shortly after Brontë's death it offers a detailed and sympathetic portrayal of her life from her quiet upbringing in Haworth to her literary success and personal tragedies. Gaskell a fellow novelist and friend aimed to protect Charlotte's reputation while shedding light on her struggles including isolation grief and societal expectations. Blending factual detail with emotional insight the biography helped shape Brontë's legacy and remains a valuable account of one of Victorian literature's most influential figures. Smith, Elder & Co. hardcover
1895réf. 6453London: Macmillan 1895. Later printing. Near Fine. Early reprint of the 1891 first Thomson illustrated edition. A Near Fine copy. Octavo 7 1/2 x 5 inches; 191 x 127 mm. Frontispiece xxx 297 1 pp. With 110 black and white illustrations in the text. Occasional foxing or staining especially on pp. 16/17; 104/105; 144/145 and 270/271. Bound in an 'Exhibition' binding by Zaehnsdorf executed in 1897 stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in. Full crimson crushed levant morocco covers bordered in gilt and decoratively tooled in gilt and pointille in an elaborate floral design front cover lettered in gilt. Spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments gilt ruled board edgeswide and elaborate gilt decorated turn-ins ochre silk liners and end-leaves top edge gilt others uncut. The rear liner has the Zaehnsdorf 'Exhibition' stamp in gilt. Joints expertly and almost invisibly repaired one corner a little bumped still a very early and excellent example of a Zaehnsdorf 'Exhibition' binding housed in a red morocco edged felt-lined red cloth slipcase. Elizabeth Gaskell 1810-1865 was an important proto-Feminist writer who often tackled unorthodox subjects in her novels. Cranford for example is an episodic book concerning a country village community of lower and middle class unmarried older women and the social changes coming to an industrializing Victorian Britain. "The greatest charm of Cranford which has kept it unfailingly popular is its amused but loving portrait of the old-fashioned customs and 'elegant economy' of a delicately observed group of middle-aged figures in a landscape" Oxford Companion to English Literature. "Elizabeth was an active humanitarian; her novels convey many messages about the need for social reconciliation for better understanding between employers and workers and between the respectable and the outcasts of society. Her writing was carefully researched and she took particular care in reproducing northern dialects accurately" Gaskell Society. Gaskell was part of a wide literary circle: she was friends with Charlottee Bronte and John Ruskin and clashed with Charles Dickens when he edited Cranford for serialization in the magazine Household Words. In this lovely copy are images by Hugh Thomson 1860-1920 famed at the turn of the century for illustrating works by luminaries including Jane Austen and William Shakespeare. The Austro-Hungarian-born Joseph Zaehnsdorf 1816-1886 trained with binders in Stuttgart and in Vienna before moving to Germany Switzerland France and eventually settling London. He worked for various shops before opening his own bindery in 1842. In the face of industrializing production Zaehnsdorf embraced craft and eventually gained recognition for his talent. He was known for his precise finish and elegant design. The firm would continue in his son John William's capable hands; it employed binders like Louis Genth Roger de Coverly and Sarah Prideaux. Family run until 1947 it was eventually acquired by Asprey of London in 1983 Gertz. Near Fine. Macmillan unknown
