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Published by London and New York, George Routledge and sons, 1873
Seller: Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat, Zurich, Switzerland
With 29 frontispieces. 8vo. Slightly later three-quarter green morocco, gilt fillets, lettering and date on spines, t.e.g. London and New York, George Routledge and sons, 1873-77. A fine illustrated set of the collected prose works of Lord Lytton (1803-1873). In the 1830s, he was a representative of the Liberals in Parliament, from about 1850 onwards, however, he supported Disraeli and his politics, and in 1852 he became a member of Parliament for the Tories. For services rendered to this party, he was knighted in 1866. His novels, which were warmly received by both critis and the public, reflect his political values.- A nice set. - Cf. Cambridge Bibl. of Engl. Lit (also 38 vols.). LITERATURE: ENGLISH ;
Published by George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. [1914], London, 1914
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition, first printing. Octavo. pp. [1-8] 1-200, original decorated red cloth, front panel with author, title and decorations stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold and blind. Posthumous collection of nine stories. "Dracula's Guest" is a previously unpublished episode from an early draft of DRACULA. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-187. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #1551. Dalby 22a. Neat inked name to upper front free end paper, free end papers tanned,foxing to page edges several discoloration spots to front cover and at base of spine, light wear to corner tips, a very good to nearly fine copy. A nice example of this cheaply made book. (28404).
Published by George Routledge & Sons 1878-1885, London, 1878
Seller: Libreria Ex Libris ALAI-ILAB/LILA member, Roma, Italy
First Edition
Brossure editoriali figurate a colori conservate entro due cofanetti in cartone rigido. Alcune fioriture, lievi tracce d uso e piccole imperfezioni marginali. Nel complesso, esemplari in ottimo stato di conservazione. Serie completa della prima edizione di questi 16 famosi Picture Books inglesi che furono pubblicati nell arco di 8 anni (con l uscita di due numeri poco prima di ogni Natale). Raccolta assai rara a trovarsi completa e in queste condizioni. 16 volumetti di 24 pp. ciascuno (otto in formato carré di cm. 23,8x23,4 e gli altri otto di cm. 20,4x23). Interamente illustrati in nero, seppia e a colori con xilografie di Edmund Evans da disegni di Randolph Caldecott.
Published by George Routledge & Sons, 1888
Seller: BookManBookWoman Books, Nashville, TN, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. New Fine five volume early edition, FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, oversized (8.5 x 11) hardcover books (No DJ). Bright clean tight square. //Boards and spine are straight // Binding is tight.//Pages are clean, legible, and bright // No previous owner names//No writing in the book margins or blank spaces // No highlighting// No foxing// Not Ex Library// Not a Book Club. Green covers.Staal, Beauce, Dumont, et al.,illustrators. First illustrated edition.Nearly 500 beautiful illustrations for all 5 volumes. Copyrighted 1887 by Joseph L. Blamire. Five volumes complete set.1,568 total pages.Very slight wear to corners, spine tips slightly pushed, spine paper labels complete but have wear.No underlining.No notes.shelf CL7.
Published by George Routledge & Sons N.D., London
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. All 26 volumes Very Good in boards, Open tears on panel corners of all 26 volumes. Shelfwear on spine and panel edges of all 26 volumes. Small open tear on FEP top corner and top rear panel of "Horace Templeton". Front hinge cracked on "One of Them", "Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon", "That Boy of Norcotts", "the Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly". Open tear on spine crown of "Roland Cashel". Small closed tears on spine heel of "One of Them". Open tear on rear gutter of "Tom Burke of 'Ours'". Creasing on FEP of "Davenport Dunn". Light soiling on front panel of "Barrington", "Roland Cashel", "Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon". Bump on top rear panel of "Sir Brook Fossbrooke". Soiling and several open tears on front and rear panel of "the Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly". Scratch on front panel of Harry Lorrequer.
Published by London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1936, 1936
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition, first printing. An amusing book illustrating Christmas and other festivals. Scarce in any condition. Coppel, Linocuts of the Machine Age p.196 Quarto. Original light blue cloth, titles to front cover and spine in dark blue. With dust jacket. 45 two colour linocuts by Claude Flight and Edith Lawrence. Light foxing throughout, head and foot of spine lightly faded. Dust jacket rubbed and chipped with loss and lightly foxed.
Published by London: George Routledge & Sons, [1880-94], 1880
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First editions; an attractive assemblage of works by one of the most significant Victorian illustrators, including an Almanack in the rare dust jacket and from the library of the writer Sir Hugh Walpole. The titles comprise Greenaway's Alphabet, Birthday Book for Children and a gathering of her beloved Almanacks issued within the years 1883 to 1894. Kate Greenaway (1846-1901), "in her idyllic and profoundly nostalgic depictions of vaguely eighteenth-century and slightly stilted children. combined strong outlines and a keen ability to arrange and pattern space with the use of a palette of soft, silvery pastel colours" (ODNB). Her illustrations did not simply reflect the era, they defined it by influencing a wide range of designers and industries, an effect which is perhaps unique to Greenaway among book illustrators. "It is often claimed by admirers that, during the 1860s and 1870s, Kate Greenaway dressed a generation of children; that her influence upon fashion was to ensnare such diverse personalities as Isidora Duncan, the German Kaiser as well as royal infants, each one dutifully outfitted in Kate Greenaway apparel. Such influence extended into the spheres of commercial printing, publishing, fine art porcelain, jewellery and haberdashery" (Schuster & Engen, p. 9). The sheer extent of Greenaway publications - 574 items listed in the definitive catalogue raisonné of Schuster and Engen, most with multiple variants - all but ensures that a truly comprehensive collection is impossible. "That is the beauty of Kate Greenaway, nobody will ever have them all" (ibid., p. 7). The dust jacket in this collection was printed to serve as the original mailing envelope for Almanack for 1885. Prior to the 1920s, jackets were often discarded at the point of purchase, and one which doubles as an envelope is even less likely to have been retained. This item is from the library of the successful novelist Sir Hugh Walpole (1884-1941), with his red book label giving his primary residence of Brackenburn in the Lake District, the setting which inspired many of his books. Among Walpole's supporters was Joseph Conrad, who observed in his introduction to A Hugh Walpole Anthology (1921), "we see Mr Walpole grappling with the truth of things spiritual and material with his characteristic earnestness" (p. 8). A full list of titles is provided below. A. Kate Greenaway's Birthday Book for Children. Verses by Mrs Sale Barker, [1880]. Variant binding of dark brown limp morocco not noted in Schuster & Engen (similar binding in red leather given as 39.3a). B. Kate Greenaway's Alphabet, [c.1885]. Three copies in yellow pictorial boards with green spines, all in the same variant of a smaller size with green inner covers and edges. Schuster & Engen 23.1c. C. Almanack for 1883. Two copies in binding variants, one in pink cloth stamped in gilt and green with children playing a ring game, the other in limp leather with gilt ring enclosing lettering and four children. Schuster & Engen 3.1f; 3.1g. D. Almanack for 1884. Three copies in wrappers illustrating two children glancing at the moon, each copy with variant border colours: either white, printed light brown, or stained dark brown. Schuster & Engen 4.2a; 4.2b; 4.2c. E. Almanack for 1885. Two copies in yellow pictorial boards with yellow cloth spine, one with light turquoise endpapers, the other with variant blue-black endpapers in dust jacket with Sir Hugh Walpole's bookplate. Schuster & Engen 5.3a; 5.3b. F. Almanack for 1886. Variant binding of white imitation morocco boards. Schuster & Engen 6.4c. G. Almanack for 1892. White pictorial boards with variant green cloth spine. Schuster & Engen 12.10b. H. Almanack for 1894. Brown pictorial boards with matching cloth spine and dark green endpapers. Schuster & Engen 14.12a. Schuster & Engen, Printed Kate Greenaway: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1986. Together 14 volumes, consisting of 8 works and 6 duplicates, some with varying states; one copy of Almanack for 1885 with dust jacket. All in original bindings and housed in a repurposed pull-off red quarter morocco box. Illustrations throughout each work in colour. Bookplate of Mary Augusta Elton (1838-1914), co-author of The Great Book-Collectors (1893), in Almanack for 1885; another copy of this title with bookplate of Sir Hugh Walpole (see note) and ownership inscription, "L. W. Watkins, 28 June 1924". A few bindings slightly rubbed and soiled, occasional wear to edges, foxing in a single volume, the rest clean; jacket of Almanack for 1885 slightly chipped at edges with a couple of closed tears: overall a very good collection.
Published by London: George Routledge & Sons, [1872], 1872
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First edition, early impression. For this uncommon edition, which contains the first appearance in book form of 14 of its 15 stories, Twain edited the pieces from their US serialization by "generally toning down his language to suit his notion of a British audience" (MTPO). He visited his English publisher Routledge later that year and received from literary London his greatest reception yet. "It was in England that Mark Twain was first made to feel that he had come into his rightful heritage. Whatever may have been the doubts concerning him in America, there was no question in England" (Paine, p. 462). Routledge, in their efforts to secure the British copyright for works by American authors, launched the Routledge's American Library series with Twain's Celebrated Jumping Frog in 1867. A Curious Dream is the eighth instalment in the series; back home, its title story made "a lasting impression on [Twain's] Buffalo readers. It vividly called attention to the neglect of the old North Street graveyard. The gruesome vision of the ancestors deserting with their coffins on their backs was even more humiliating than amusing, and inspired a movement for reform" (Paine, p. 402). This copy is preserved in the scarce and macabre covers. Routledge pioneered the cheap and eye-catchingly illustrated yellowback format in their Railway Library series, introduced in 1848. The yellowback flourished in Britain during the second half of the 19th century, coinciding with advancements in education and railway travel; together, these factors played a crucial role in the mass dissemination of literature. The fragility and portability of yellowbacks, which were often sold near transport links and read on long, sooty journeys, made their survival unlikely. The publisher received 10,000 copies of the first impression on 8 May and released it without advertisements printed on the endpapers. This copy, with printed endpapers, was issued no more than a couple of months later, as indicated by the printer's imprint of Bradbury and Evans. The company changed name around July and copies printed thereafter bear the printer's imprint of Bradbury and Agnew. BAL 3340; Johnson, pp. 18-19; McBride, p. 27; Sadleir 3701. Mark Twain Project Online, "SLC to James R. Osgood, 31 March 1872", footnote 4, accessible online; Albert Bigelow Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography, vol. I, 1912. Octavo. Original yellow boards lettered in black and yellow, front cover illustrated with a skeleton in meditation, endpapers printed with adverts. Publisher's ad leaf at end. Purple ownership inscription of one William M. Edward on blank verso of contents leaf. Edges worn, exposing mull and affecting a couple of letters on spine, covers rubbed with scuff to front, a couple of internal marks and creases. A nice example of a famously fragile format.
Published by George Routledge and Sons, Limited, London, Glasgow, Manchester and New York
Seller: Book Souk, Porstoy, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 175 grams.
Published by George Routledge & Sons, London,[1875], 1875
Seller: A&F.McIlreavy.Buderim Rare Books, Buderim, QLD, Australia
Twenty Eight Volumes The Complete Set. Uniformly bound in half maroon calf with marbled boards and matching endpapers. Bound by Bickers & Son,London.Some minor rubbing to the extremities,minor fading to the hinge edge of the boards. Internally Fine. Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, PC (25 May 1803 � 18 January 1873) was an English writer and politician. He declined the Crown of Greece in 1862 after the abdication of King Otto. He became Baron Lytton of Knebworth in 1866. Bulwer-Lytton's works were highly popular and paid him well. He coined the phrases "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", and "dweller on the threshold". "It was a dark and stormy night".is possibly one of the best opening lines of a novel. Will require extra postage overseas.
Leather. Condition: Near Fine. Sir John Gilbert (illustrator). A superb limited edition set of the collected works of William Shakespeare, illustrated throughout by Sir John Gilbert. The collected works of William Shakespeare.A limited edition set, limited to a total of one thousand copies of this Edition de Luxe, this set numbered two-hundred.This definitive edition includes all of the best known plays and poetical works on the famous bard, showing his great range in style from comedies to tragedies to love poems.Including a life of Shakespeare, and a reproduction of his will.Volume I illustrated with a frontispiece, two plates, and in-text engravings.Volume II illustrated with three plates, and in-text engravings.Volume III illustrated with three plates, and in-text engravings.Volume IV illustrated with two plates, and in-text engravings.Volume V illustrated with two plates, and in-text engravings.Volume VI illustrated with three plates, and in-text engravings.Volume VII illustrated with three plates, and in-text engravings.Volume VIII illustrated with three plates, and in-text engravings.Volume IX illustrated with three plates, and in-text engravings.Volume X illustrated with three plates, and in-text engravings.Volume XI illustrated with two plates, and in-text engravings.Volume XII illustrated with two plates, and in-text engravings.Volume XIII illustrated with three plates, and in-text engravings.Volume XIV illustrated withthree plates, and in-text engravings.Volume XV illustrated with in-text engravings.Edited by Howard Staunton.Illustrated by John Gilbert.Collated, complete. In a quarter morocco binding with cloth to the boards. Externally, fine, with a few faint marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. book.
Published by George Routledge & Sons, London, 1938
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Near Fine. First English Edition. First edition in English, first printing. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with spine lettered in black. Near Fine with slight lean to binding, foxing to textblock edge and former owner gift inscription to front free end paper. In a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with toning, chipping to spine ends, light soiling and light foxing, a series of small indentations along the front spine joint, and short tear at the foot of the front panel near the spine repaired with tape from the blindside. An unfinished novel, published posthumously, which began as a short story written by Kafka between 1912 and 1914. A sharp copy.
Published by George Routledge and Sons, London, 1887
Book First Edition
Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Original pictorial wraps, 192 pages, frontis, chipping to spine, title legible, chip to rear cover and last page, not effecting text, penciled owner dated 1887, housed in a folding case. Howes W545, Rader 4677, Six-Guns 2401, "This is said to be the rarest book about Buffalo Bill.".
Published by George Routledge and Sons, London, 1873
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. First British Edition. According to BAL 12164, "Apparently published simultaneously in Boston and London." Small octavo (4" x 6-1/2") bound in publisher's gilt-ruled and lettered green cloth with black stamping. State 1. A Presentation Copy from Longfellow INSCRIBED in the poet's distinct hand on the verso of the front endpaper: "Mrs. Theodore Parker/with kind regards/of the Author/June 11, 1874." Mrs. Theodore Parker (Lydia Cabot) was the wife of Theodore Parker (1810-1860) who was a leading abolitionist, American Transcendentalist, and, along with William Ellery Channing, the most important and influential Unitarian minister of the nineteenth century. Parker's sermons inspired speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr. Parker wrote in 1850: "A democracy -- that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people." And it was Parker in 1853 who said, "I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice." Owner name of E. M. Vincent on the half-title page. Some bubbling to the cloth, light rubbing and wear to the spine tips. Very Good and a fine Association Copy.
Published by George Routledge & Sons, London
Seller: ballinilara investments, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Book
Quarterbound-Leather. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A very good set, spines gilt embossed, undated but beleived published late 1860s, ex Libris Henry Dutton, 15 volumes, with one duplicated. Digital photos available. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall please view photos before purchasing.
Published by George Routledge & Sons, London
Seller: ballinilara investments, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
First Edition
Quarterbound-Leather. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A very good set, spines gilt embossed, undated but beleived published late 1860s, ex Libris Henry Dutton, 15 volumes, with one duplicated. Digital photos available. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Published by George Routledge & Sons, Limited. Broadway House, Carter Lane, E.C., London, 1913
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Signed
Edition De Luxe, No. 52 of 100 copies, signed by the author. With 44 plates, mostly photogravures on mounted India proof paper, plus additional illustrations in the text. xiv, [2], 416 pp. Printed by William Brendon and Son, Ltd., Plymouth. 1 vols. 4to. An impressive volume with particularly attractive photogravure plates. Original half red calf and cloth over boards, spine gilt. Spine toned, some rubbing to extremities, else fine With 44 plates, mostly photogravures on mounted India proof paper, plus additional illustrations in the text. xiv, [2], 416 pp. Printed by William Brendon and Son, Ltd., Plymouth. 1 vols. 4to Edition De Luxe, No. 52 of 100 copies, signed by the author.
Published by George Routledge & Sons, New York, 1871
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First American "copyright" edition. Small octavo 6 15/16 x 4 7/8 inches; 175 x 125 mm). viii, 378, [2, blank] pp. Seventy-six wood-engraved text illustrations after Arthur Hughes. This edition pre-dates that recorded by Sadleir as the first American edition and is almost certainly one of a few copies printed in England at the same time as the first English edition and sent over to the United States to secure American copyrights. The title-page has been re-set to include the American imprint and date, along with the list of other titles by MacDonald, but without mention of the illustrations, as in Sadleir's first American edition. The pagination matches that of Sadleir's American edition (undated, though he cites a presentation copy inscribed 1873), with the initial blank here wrongly bound in at the end. Original publisher's variant burgundy pebble-grained cloth. Front cover and spine lettered and stamped in black and gilt according to the primary stamping of the first English edition. With the initials of the English publishers Alexander Strahan and Co, stamped at the bottom of the spine. Back cover stamped in blind. Buff endpapers. All edges gilt. Spine and board edges sunned. Extremities lightly worn and rubbed. Inner hinges neatly repaired. Some dampstaining to front and back endpapers. Previous owner's inscription dated 1873 on front free endpaper. Overall, an excellent copy, very clean and fresh. See Sadleir 1474c. HBS 68488. $2,500.
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Henry Alken (illustrator). First edition. A very bright and well preserved first edition copy of this vibrantly illustrated sporting work by Charles James Apperley. Rare in the original cloth. Scarce in the original cloth, this first edition is complete with thirty-six coloured plates including the frontispiece and title page. Rebacked, with the original spine laid down. Held in a custom clamshell red cloth box. "Life of a Sportsman" contains an account of country life. The author is stated as "Nimrod" which is a pseudonym for Charles James Apperley. This is one of his best known works. Bookplate to the front pastedown, Nathan of Churt. With eight pages of publisher"s adverts to the rear. In the publisher"s original cloth binding. Rebacked with the boards and spine preserved. Externally, very smart with light rubbing to the extremities. Gilt has faded to the spine. Custom slipcase is very smart. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright with just the odd spots to pages. Very Good. book.
Published by London George Routledge and Sons 1868, 1868
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
2 volumes. Complete with a colour lithographed titlepage, two illuminated title-pages for the illustrations, 116 woodcut illustrations throughout the text, and over 70 magnificent illuminated coloured plates heightened with gold after originals from the manuscript editions of Froissart in the British Museum, the Bibliotheque Royale, and other sources. Thick Royal 8vo, three-quarter red crushed morocco over feathered marbled boards, with handsome gilt lettering and tooling on the spines between raised bands. Marbled endpapers, a.e.g. xlvii, 768; xiv, 733 pp. A very handsome set, clean and crisp throughout, the plates and text-block in a fine state of preservation, the bindings strong and with only light rubbing at the extremities and only minor evidence of age or use. A pleasing and stately set. THE MOST IMPORTANT 19TH CENTURY TRANSLATION OF THE GREAT RENAISSANCE HISTORY AND A COPY IN PREFERRED BINDING WITH A PROFUSION OF LITHOGRAPHED PLATES. "Froissart might be called the great interviewer of the Middle Ages. The newspaper correspondent of modern times has scarcely surpassed this medieval collector of intelligence. He traveled extensively in the various countries of Europe; he conversed with gentlemen of rank everywhere; and he had the remarkable knack of persuading those about him to divulge all he wanted to know. He learned the details of battles from both sides and from every point of view. He delighted in the minutest affairs of every cavalry skirmish, of the capture of every castle, and of every brave action and gallant deed. He lived from 1337 to about 1410, and wrote chiefly of contemporaneous events. The "Chronicles" are universally considered as the most vivid and faithful picture we have of events in the fourteenth century. As a picture of the most favorable side of chivalry, the work has no equal" (Adams, Manual of Historical Literature, pp. 334-5). Johnes's translation was the standard for most of the nineteenth century, preferred to Lord Berners of 1525 (the first English translation of the text) for its modernity in diction and style and extensive additions and corrections. With the exquisite illuminated illustrations in excellent order, this is a brilliant set of this landmark work. The illuminated plates have retained their deep, bright colours and gilt highlights. Based on a medieval manuscript, they not only illustrate the chronicle but are a good example of the type of manuscript art being produced at the time. The set includes a beautiful collection of hand-coloured chromolithographic plates reproduced from two of the greatest of known illuminated manuscripts of Froissart s CRONYCLES OF ENGLANDE, FRAUNCE, SPAYNE, PORTYNGALE, SCOTLANDE, BRETAYNE, FLAU[N]DERS: AND OTHER PLACES ADIOYNYNGE. The first collection is from a manuscript of the First and Second book of Froissart in the British Museum. This manuscript came to the Museum from the Harleian Collection and appears to be the work of a Flemish artist, probably residing in Paris, and is believed to have been executed between 1460 and 1480. The second collection is primarily from a magnificent manuscript of all four books at the Bibliotheque du Roi in Paris. This great work was one of the books executed for Louis of Bruges and was probably completed by 1470. Together these volumes give us extraordinarily well reproduced images from a time nearly contemporaneous to Froissart s. Through these images the Middle Ages comes to life in costume and finery---people at their tournaments or displaying their skills at horsemanship and at arms, the mechanisms of warfare and the ships which were sailed. All produced as near to the originals in the manuscripts as the technology of the time allowed, with no attempt at alteration or correction in the hope of bringing the full spirit of the Gothic artists to a wider audience.
Published by George Routledge & Sons
Seller: Phatpocket Limited, Waltham Abbey, HERTS, United Kingdom
Condition: Acceptable. Used - Acceptable. Cover is wearing and binding threads are visible inside book. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library with wear and barcode page may have been removed. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Kate Greenaway (illustrator). 1st Edition. Book has slightly bumped and worn corners, light foxing, modest cover wear, previous owner's bookplate has been removed. First issue with 35 colored illustrations by Greenaway housed in a cloth case. What makes this copy unique is that the original owner H. W. Bruton, a noted collector of children's books, inserted an etched frontispiece by George Cruikshank in autograph proof state. Signed by Illustrator(s). Book.
Published by George Routledge and Sons, Limited, London, 1880
Leather. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Various (illustrator). A beautifully bound set of William Harrison Ainsworth's works, the popular Victorian author, best known for his historical fiction. Complete in sixteen volumes.A collection of the novels of William Harrison Ainsworth. William Harrison Ainsworth was an English historical novelist. He started his career as a lawyer, before turning his attentions to the literary life. He tried in publishing, before he found his passion for journalism and literature. Containing;'Auriol', illustrated by Phiz with a frontispiece, and fourteen plates. This novel is gothic romance.'Boscobel', illustrated with a frontispiece and fifteen plates.'Jack Sheppard', illustrated by George Cruikshank, with a frontispiece, and twenty-six plates. This novel is a historical romance and a Newgate novel, based on the real life eighteen century criminal Jack Sheppard.'Windsor Castle', illustrated by George Cruikshank, Tony Johanmot, and W. Alfred Delamote, with a frontispiece, eighteen plates, and in-text engravings. This novel is a historical romance looking at Henry VIII's pursuit of Anne Boleyn. Collated, complete.'Rookwood', illustrated by George Cruikshank and John Gilbert, with a frontispiece, illustrated title, and seventeen plates. This novel is a historical and gothic romance following a dispute over the legitimate claim for the inheritance of the Rookwood family home.'Star-Chamber', illustrated by Phiz with a frontispiece and seven plates.'Tower of London', illustrated by George Cruikshank with a frontispiece and thirty-nine plates. This novel is a historical novel about Lady Jane Grey, looking at her short reign as Queen of England and her execution.'Old St. Paul's', illustrated by Phiz and John Franklin, with a frontispiece, illustrated title page, and twenty plates. This work is a historical romance that describes the Great Plague of London and the Great Fire of London.'Crichton', illustrated by Phiz with a frontispiece, illustrated title page, and sixteen plates.'Mervyn Clitheroe', illustrated by Phiz, with a frontispiece, illustrated title page, and twenty-two plates.'Guy Fawkes', illustrated by George Cruikshank, with a frontispiece, and twenty-one plates. This novel follows the 1605 plot to destroy the British parliament.'Lancashire Witches', illustrated by John Gilbert with a frontispiece, and eleven plates. This novel is based on the true story of the Pendle witches, who were executed in 1612 for causing harm by witchcraft.'Flitch of Bacon', illustrated by John Gilbert, with a frontispiece, and eleven plates.'The Spendthrift', illustrated by Phiz, with a frontispiece and seven plates.'Ovingdean Grange', illustrated by Phiz, with a frontispiece and seven plates.'The Miser's Daughter', illustrated by George Cruikshank, with a frontispiece, and nineteen plates. This novel is a historical romance, following a young man as he pursues the hand of the daughter of a miserly rich man. In a half marbled calf binding with marbled paper to the boards. Externally, smart. A few minor marks to the boards and spines. A touch of fading to the spines. Very small amount of loss of leather to the tail of the front board of 'The Miser's Daughter'. A little rubbing to the front joint of 'The Spendthrift'. Some spots to the fore edges. Front hinge of 'Star-Chamber' is starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some spots, 'Lancashire Witches' is age-toned. Plate facing page 122 in 'Rockwood' is detaching. Page 9/10 of 'The Tower of London' is detaching. Very Good Indeed. book.
Leather. Condition: Near Fine. Phiz; George Cruikshank; John Gilbert; Tony Johannot (illustrator). A handsome sixteen volume set of illustrated works by Ainsworth in half red morocco. Sixteen volumes. Complete in sixteen.'Author's copyright edition' stated to the title page to some of the works.Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper to the boards. Raised bands and gilt details to the spine.Illustrated by various artists including the renowned 'Phiz', best known for his illustrations for Charles Dickens. Also illustrated by George Cruikshank, John Franklin and John Gilbert. With frontispieces, vignettes and;39 plates to 'Tower of London', 7 to ' Star-Chamber', 14 to 'Auriol', 16 to 'Crichton', 15 to 'Boscobel', 18 to 'Windsor Castle', 26 to 'Jack Sheppard', 20 to 'Old St Pauls', 7 7o 'Ovingdean Grange', 7 to 'Spendthrift', 21 to 'Guy Fawkes , 19 to 'Miser's Daughter', 17 to 'Rookwood', 11 to 'Lancashire Witches', 11 to 'Flitch of Bacon' and 22 to 'Mervyn Clitheros'.This collection features the complete works of English historical novelist William Harrison Ainsworth. He is best known for his work 'Rookwood, which can be found in this collection, which features the character 'Dick Turpin' as the main character.Undated. Dated by copies found on Jisc. Bound in half morocco with paper to the boards. Externally excellent with very slight fading to the spines and the odd mark only. Internally firmly bound with light age toning and the odd spot, heavier to the front and rear. Near Fine. book.
Published by George Routledge & Sons, London, 1866
Seller: Antiquarian Book Company, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. This is a sixteen book set of the novels of James Fenimore Cooper. The books were originally published in 1866 - 1867 by George Routledge & Sons, but they have be rebound in a handsome purple half morocco gilt with marbled edges. The book quality varies from very good to near fine condition with some books having faded backs/spines and worn corners. This is an excellent set with each inside cover having a book plate for F.D. Astley, a prior owner, who was a member of a well known gentry family in England, and he himself was a Captain in the Scots Fusiliers. The included novels are; The Last of the Mohicans, The Water Witch, The Deerslayer, The Pathfinder, The Spy, Afloat and Ashore or Lucy Hardinge, Miles Wallingfor or Afloat and Ashore, The Pilot, The Red Rover, The Pioneers, The Bravo, The Heidenmauer (the Heathens Wall) or the Benedictines, The Borderers, The Headsman, Lionel Lincoln, and Homeward Bound.
Published by George Routledge, London, 1868
First Edition Signed
First edition thus. First edition thus. Superb full light brown crushed morocco binding by Wood nearly matching a famous design by Constance Karslake documented in one of the Guild of Women Binders prospectuses and shown in Studio, 1899-1900, with quite a few variations, but the overall stylistic composition is strikingly similar, and thus a curious 'copy' by a noted binder.Superb workmanship as found in nearly all Wood bindings, with a plethora of gilt patterning, including both covers, spine and both dentelles. Signed by woo in gilt pallet, front dentelle. Margins of spine sl. wear, else fine. AEG. A classic illustrated book with wonderful woodcuts by Gilbert throughout.
Published by George Routledge & Sons N.D., London
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. All 24 volumes Very Good in boards. Small bookseller labels on the rear pastedown of all 24 volumes. Owner personalization inked on second front end page of "Frank Mildmay". Small open tears on panel corners of all 24 volumes. Shelfwear on spine crown and heel of all 24 volumes. Front hinge cracked and textblock detached from "the King's Own". Front hinge starting on "Peter Simple", "the Pacha of Many Tales" and "Percival Keene". Spine author label slightly peeling on "Little Savage", "Valerie", and "Percival Keene", "Peter Simple", "the Poacher", "Newton Forster". Spine author label removed from "The Dog Fiend", and "Rattlin, the Reefer". Chipping on spine title label on "Jacob Faithful", "Rattlin, the Reefer", "Masterman Ready", "the Phantom Ship, and "Settlers in Canada". Small open tear on spine crown of "Japhet". Small closed tears on spine crown of "Olla Podrida". Small closed tear on spine heel of "the Dog Fiend".
Published by GEORGE ROUTLEDGE, 1882
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. THE CHILDREN'S CIRCUS AND MENAGERIE PICTURE BOOK, GEORGE ROUTLEDGE, 1882, first edition, overseen by J. L. Blamire, some wear to the corner tips and board edges, silverfish wear to the spine, one multi-tone illustration with some colored penciling which could easily be nullified, one full color lithograph with some light wear to the gutter which again could be easily repaired, else near vg in full color pictorial boards with just about fine contents consisting of 16 full color, full page chromolithographs by R. Talbot Kelly, 3 of which are double page spreads. Of the other 26 stone pulled images by the same artist, all in multi-tone, 3 are likewise double page spreads. A rare book in decent condition (this copy way beyond that adjective) no doubt due to the fragile nature of the book and the desire to break apart the marvelous lithographs and sell them individually. The frontispiece, the first chromolithograph, is fascinating in itself as it undeniably bears the Star of David on a barrel in the foreground upon which an acrobat is precariously standing. Only 2 copies located at auction in the last 35 years.
Published by London Virtue & Co.; Routledge Warne and Routledge; George Routledge and Sons, 1866
Book
Second edition, 8 vols; 4to (25.5 x 18 cm); bookplate to front pastedowns, ownership inscription to Histories vol. II, numerous illustrations; half brown pebble-grain morocco, red cloth boards, gilt spine in 6 compartments, marbled edges, a few scuffs to corners and edges, light spotting to endpapers, otherwise internally clean. An attractive, illustrated eight-volume edition of Shakespeare's plays, including his doubtful works, with a biography of the bard by the editor Charles Knight. The volume of doubtful plays includes the tragedy Titus Andronicus, and the comedies Pericles and The Two Noble Kinsmen, all of which are now commonly included in lists of Shakespeare's canonical dramatic works.
Published by George Routledge; Field & Queen, 1857
Seller: Arader Galleries of Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. WALSH, John Henry (1810-1888), as "Stonehenge" - BROWNE, C. M. as "Robin Hood" - EVELEGH, B.C. as "Allan-A-Dale" - LAMONBY, W. - GROOM, Horace A., as "Lepus". The Coursing Calendar and Review of the Season 1856-7; containing also original remarks on the best Greyhounds of the Year, with Hints on Breeding, and tables of the performances of the stock of the Chief Public Stallions; also, the entries for the various produce stakes, giving the colours of the dogs, as described by their owners. London: George Routledge & Co., 1857- London: The Field & Queen (Horace Cox) Ltd, 1918. 144 numbers in 146 volumes. 8vo., (6 6/8 x 4 inches). A FINE AND COMPLETE SET. Original publisher's blue-green cloth, blind and gilt, occasionally uncut and unopened. Provenance: many of the earliest volumes owned by Thomas Lancelot Reed (1819-1904), of Crow Hall, Denver Norfolk; other volumes various owners First editions, and a fine and complete run of "The Coursing Calendar", which was produced by a number of editors between its first number in 1857 and its last in 1918. The first, and most famous was Dr. John Henry Walsh, as "Stonehenge", the pseudonym that persists as the author named on the spine of each volume. Walsh was a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, a surgeon to the Ophthalmic Institution who lectured on surgery and descriptive anatomy at the Aldersgate school of medicine. He edited The Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal from 1849 to 1852. However, he always had "an intense love of sport, he rode well to hounds, kept greyhounds and entered them at coursing meetings, broke his own pointers and setters, and also trained hawks. He was also fond of shooting, and, owing to the bursting of his gun, lost a portion of his left hand. "In 1853, under the pseudonym of Stonehenge, Walsh brought out his book The greyhound, on the art of breeding, rearing, and training greyhounds for public running, their diseases and treatment, based on articles he had written in Bell's Life. Three years later, in 1856, appeared Manual of British Rural Sports, which covers the whole cycle of field sports, and, among other things, deals in a scientific manner with the breeding of horses. It was frequently reprinted, as were The Horse in the Stable and in the Field (1861) and A Manual of Domestic Economy Suited to Families Spending from ?100 to ?1000 a Year (1857). He wrote many other books, mostly on sports but a few of them on cookery. In 1856 he originated the Coursing Calendar, which he conducted through fifty half-yearly volumes. About 1856 he began to write for The Field, and at the end of 1857 accepted the editorship. Walsh was one of the founders of the National Coursing Club and of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, and he was on the committee of the Kennel Club" (G. C. Boase, rev. Julian Lock for DNB).