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Published by Carey and Hart, 1842, Philadelphia, 1842
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Volume III ONLY! Original blindstamped brown decorative cloth, 348 pp + 2 pp ads, no illustrations. Hardcover, fair to good. Corners bumped with cardboard exposed there and at spots along edges of boards, a half dozen or so 1/4 inch chips off cloth, approximately 2/3 of the backstrip gone from spine, glue (? ) residue in joints. Internally, lower corner of last leaf of text creased, relatively moderate foxing throughout, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked; probably never really read. Essays from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. Contents: Christopher Among the Mountains, Funerals, Passage of Autobiography, Hints for the Holidays, Modes of Travelling, Glance over Selby's Ornithology, May-Day, Day At Windermere, Genius, Seasons & Song Writing - Moore. Literature; literary criticism.
Published by G. Middleton, Ambleside, 1902
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1902, 1st. Small Octavo. 59pp. Original textured card covers, printed title. Some loss to spine. Small ownership inscription to head of end paper. A 'Good+' copy.
Published by No date or place Edinburgh?, 1805
Manuscript / Paper Collectible First Edition
See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. On recto of first leaf of bifolium. Addressed on reverse of second leaf: 123456 / [T. W. Naellz?] Esqr / Ambleside . Aged and worn, with closed tears along folds, and damage to second leaf from breaking of seal. Reads: Dear Sir / If you can send me Madame Cottin s romance about Saladin you will much oblige me. / Yours truly / John Wilson . Good large signature. The first edition of The Saracen; Or, Matilda and Melek Adhel: A Crusade Romance, From the French of Madame Cottin, with an Historical Introduction, by J. Michaud, the French Editor was published in four volumes in London by R. Dutton in 1805, with a second edition in 1809 and a third in 1816.
Covers worn, spines missing pieces, light foxing to text, otherwise a good plus set. sm8vo. 393: 369: 348 pp. Original brown blindstamped cloth.
Published by George Middleton, Ambleside, 1930
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 4th Edition. 1930, 4th edition. Small Octavo. 76pp. Original cloth spine, textured card covers, printed titles. Former owner bookplate and inscription to end paper. Otherwise a 'Very Good' copy.
Published by Carey and Hart, Philadelphia, 1842
Seller: Yes Books, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Black decorative cloth. Chips missing from spine ends. Corners worn, bumped. Bindings tight. Some foxing of the interior. Three volume set.
Published by William Blackwood, Edinburgh & London, 1876
Seller: Douglas Books, Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom
Dark Blindstamped Cloth. Condition: VG. 'A New Edition'. Vol.1: engr.f/piece of Wilson+xxviii (inc.Preface by 'J.F.F.' - presumably Ferrier), no tissue-guard +384, t.p. of this vol.undated & does not credit Ferrier; Vol.2: engr. f/piece (John Gibson Lockart) w.tissue -guard+xiv+428; Vol.3:engr. f/piece (James Hogg, 'The Ettrick Shepherd') w. tissue-guard+xiii+382; Vol.4: engr. f/piece (Thomas De Quincey) w. tissue-guard+xi+368. 2 early prev.owners' sigs. top fr. fly leaves, one in ink early & pencilled through, the other R.J.Cooter's in pencil dated 1974; otherwise all internally clean & unmarked, fr.gutter Vol.3 cracked but tight, otherwise all undamaged with dark brown graphite endpapers, tissue-guards browned. Covers clean & quite bright with only v.minimal rubbing to sp.ends and some outer corners. An excellent set of this now scarce work reprinting Wilson's many contributions in humourous dialogue form to Blackwoods Magazine 1822-1835. One 1868 ed. listed at time of cataloguing apparently without Ferrier's Preface but also described a 'A New Edition'. Size: 13.5 Cm x 19.5 Cm.
Published by Tuesday Evening Thursday and Saturday no dates but all after All three from 6 Gloucester Place Edinburgh, 1825
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
See his entry in the Oxford DNB, which states that he lived in Gloucester Place from 1825. The recipient is the novelist Thomas Henry Lister (1800-1842), and the item is from the papers of his wife, Lady Theresa Lewis (1803-1865): both also have ODNB entries. The three letters are in good condition; each 2pp, 12mo, and on the first leaf of a bifolium, and all lightly aged and folded for postage, with slight damage from mount to the second leaves of each (all carrying the address in Wilson s hand). All three with Wilson s sprawling signature John Wilson . Wilson s handwriting is atrocious and the following readings are in consequence tentative. ONE ( Tuesday Evening ): Addressed to Mr Lister / 17 Heriot Row . He was from home when the recipient called at Gloucester Place. He invites him to dinner, when Mr Taylor, [the future Sir Henry Taylor] author of Philip of Ortevell [in fact Philip van Artevelde , 1834] is to be with us . TWO ( Thursday ): Same address as One. He invites him to dinner the following day. Mr Henry Taylor, from London, is to be with us. I beg to be respectfully remembered to Thos Lister . In the latter part of the letter he appears to say that his daughters have been kept at home by their mother, for an indisposition that is not serious. THREE ( Saturday ): Addressed to T H Lister Esqr / Gibbs Hotel . Another dinner invitation. Mrs Wilson having had a bad cold lately, does not at present leave home; but my daughter will accompany me at an early hour, [?] to wait on Thos Lister .
Published by William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823
Seller: Edinburgh Books, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Book
Contemporary Full Leather Hard. Condition: Very Good. Third Edition. 1823. Third edition. viii, 430pp. This is a series of short stories of Scottish rural life, purported to be by the late 'Arthur Austin'. We believe this to be a pseudonym of John Wilson (1785-1854), who also wrote under the name of Christopher North and is probably best known as the author of 'Noctes Ambrosianae'. The book is bound in contemporary full leather boards with gold titling and decoration with five raised bands on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with some expected scuffing to the leather on the boards and spine. The corners are lightly bumped. The contents are tight and clean with foxing on the endpapers and some scattered light foxing elsewhere within the book, including a few small marks on the titrle page. A name has been written on the back of the front free endpaper and there is a brief inscription on the top edge of the title page.