Howitt William, Signed (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st Edit. - Orig. green cloth, blind stamped with decorations and borders - bright gilt titling and decoration on front cover and spine. Brown end papers. Inside front endpaper is loose - otherwise a tight, very clean copy. Pacifist poems, dedicated to The Society of Friends and The Peace Society. Signed by the author - "Mrs. Claflin (sp?) - from the Author, Rome, April 25th, 1876". Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2 vols. "With forty illustrations on wood by G.F. Sargent, 7 x 4.25", beautiful gilt-pict green cloth, 263pp; 276pp, extremities bumped and worn, spines sunned, bookplates, minor scattered finger soiling else a very nice, bright set, Signed binding by Westly's of London. On the front cover of each is a gilt picture of a young boy doing a cartwheel in a farm yard; the image is embossed on the rear cover of each. The bookplates are for Frank Hadley, showing oilwells- could have been the Frank Hadley, Chief Engineer of Sinclair Oil.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. 2 vols.: 504; 473 p. 23 cm. 41 b&w line drawings. Red leather bindings with gold impressing. All edges gilt. Bindings signed by Riviere. Marbled endpapers. Black and red print on title pages. Some light scratches to boards, spine leather a bit faded. Pages darkened. A review of neighbourhoods and buildings associated with Britain's favourite poets, including Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, Swift, Goldsmith, Burns, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Wordsworth, etc. Attractive binding by English bookbinder Riviere and Son.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 4 volume set of the Extra Illustrated edition, as beautiful a set as you will see. Full crushed morocco in gorgeous maroon. Gold rules on the boards. Spines with gold decorations and titles, dated at the foot. Further gold on the turn-ins. Bindings are signed "W. Root and Sons." The first 2 volumes are the 'first series,' dated 1840. The second 2 volumes are the 'second series,' dated 1842. Approximately 300 pages per volume but each volume is swelled to closer to twice that many pages with the addition of the 'extra' plates. These include portraits taken from older books, engravings done for this volume, hand colored plates from periodicals of the day, a 4 pages letter written by Howitt and more. Some of these plates are dated from the 1830s; Others are certainly much older. Others were done for this edition of 1840/1842. Another engravings is labeled in pencil as a 'proof;' it is portrait of Mary Sidney with white chalk highlights. The plates from other sources are most beautifully mounted on individually cut pages so that both sides of the plates are visible & bound in seamlessly with the text. Title pages are printed in black and red. The front cover of the first volume is detached but present. Both covers of the 4th volume are detached but present. Silk bookmarks bound in. Top edges gilt. Volumes measure 6" x 9". In all, 6" wide. An extraordinary set. Bookplates on the inside front covers -- an older one with the name William J. Curtis" and a more recent on with the name "Benjamin T. Pierce." Photos available on request. Signed by Author(s).

: group-marriage and relationship, and marriage by elopement : drawn chiefly from the usage of the Australian aborigines : also the Kurnai tribe, their customs in peace and war.Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane : George Robertson, 1880. First edition. Octavo (225 x 150 mm), original blind-blocked brown cloth (bright and unrubbed), spine lettered in gilt; presentation copy inscribed in ink on the half-title: 'James Callaghan Esq., from the Authors'; pp. [8], 372, frontispiece folding colour map of Gippsland, prefatory note with memoirs by the Rev. Lorimer Fison and Alfred W. Howitt; pastedown with the bookplate of Tristan Buesst (1894-1982, first President of the Friends of the La Trobe Library); pages partially uncut, contents exceptionally clean; a fine and unique copy of the first edition. Pioneering anthropological studies of the Gunai / Kurnai people of Gippsland and the Gamilaraay (Gamilaroi / Kamilaroi) of New South Wales and southern Queensland.

This English author wrote poetry ("The Influence of Nature and Poetry on National Spirit," 1814) and a wide variety of nonfiction such as "The Book of the Seasons" (1831), "The Popular History of Priestcraft" (1833 bestseller ), "The Student Life of Germany" (1841) and "The History of the Super-natural in all Ages and Nations" (1863); with his wife, the noted poet and translator Mary Bothem, they co-authored "The Literature and Romance of Northern Europe" (1852) and "Ruined Abbeys and Castles of Great Britain" (1864); in 1852 he spent two years in the Australian goldfields with his sons, producing "A Boy's Adventures in the Wilds of Australia" (1854) and two other volumes. ALS, 3pp, 4½" X 7", Highgate, England, 1863 March 20. Addressed to C. Bathurst Woodman, grandson of Charles Bathurst (apprentice and later publisher with Benjamin Motte, Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope's publisher). Near fine. Intriguingly cryptic contents about a scroll of some sort: "It was very thoughtful of you to mention Whittington's tome, but I was already aware of it not being the original one. With respect to Mr Hume and the scroll, I am sorry that you had not time to [ ? ] home with him when he would be in, or he studies, it seems, at University College, and would be about in the day. I am sure he will have much pleasure any time that you are in Town, in showing the scroll to you, but I very much doubt whether he would sell it. At all events your purpose, if you become the purchase, of restoring it to the [ ? ] is very honorable to you." Interesting and worthy of further research.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 177x109mm. Single sheet. Single sided. Some folding present and the crest of Howitt to the top edge. In black ink, written entirely in Howitt's hand. Dated October 3rd, 1855, additionally so on the verso. Headed at The Hermitage. It reads: 'Dear Sir, | The Proof, I am | sorry to say, has been | detained & am [?] | in France. I have | left the house as | you request. | Yours very truly | William Howitt'. A professional letter from William Howitt (1792-1879) in which he discusses some quaint business matters. William Howitt was a prominent English writer, poet, editor and social commentator best remembered for his work on English rural life. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Very Good. 184x114mm. Single sheet, folded. Two sides. Dated January 10th 1847 on the Howitt's subtly monogrammed paper. William Howitt's wax seal and Victorian postal marks present. In black ink, and addressed to Dr. William Ballantyne Hodgson, it reads: 'My Dear Sir, | I did not | find the note from Mr. Middleton | of Lincoln amongst those | you returned to me concerning | Saunders. Will you be | good enough to look amongst | your papers for it, and if | you find it, have the kindness | to forward it to my own | address - Clapton? I hope | it will turn up, as it is | of some importance. | I hope your soiree | was satisfactory in | its winding up. | With kind regards to | Mrs Hodgson, I remain | my dear sir | yours very truly | W. Howitt'. This is a notable letter, likely relating to a major professional dispute. In 1846, Howitt and John Saunders co-founded 'The People's Journal', a progressive periodical aimed at the working classes. However, by the time of this letter in January 1847, the partnership had collapsed into a bitter public feud over financial mismanagement and editorial control. Howitt eventually broke away to start his own rival publication, 'Howitt's Journal', launched with William and his wife Mary. The missing note regarding 'Saunders' affairs' was likely evidence needed for the ongoing legal and financial disentanglement of their partnership. The recipient, Dr. William Ballantyne Hodgson (1815-1880), was the Secretary and head of the Liverpool Mechanics' Institution. Why Hodgson would have been in the possession of Howitt's letters is a mystery. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Near Fine. 152x98mm and 177x114mm. Two single sheets, folded. Single sided. Two autograph manuscript stanzas in the hand of Mary and William Howitt. Clean and well-preserved examples with some mounting marks to the verso. On The Orchard, Esher, headed paper. Dated April 11th, 1868 and April 10th, 1868, respectively. Mary Howitt's stanza reads: 'As the children of Israel were led | from captivity through the Red Sea; | so it has been with the American slave. | But the sea in his case has been that of Human Blood'. It is signed at the foot, 'Mary Howitt, April 11th. 1868'. She uses a powerful biblical analogy?the Exodus of the Israelites?to describe the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. The accompanying stanza, by her husband William Howitt, reads: 'Let us expiate our wrongs towards | The slave by conferring on the freedman | The blessing of a mind enlightened | By a solemn sense of his new | duties, and by a buoyant conscious- | ness of his privileges.' It is signed at the foot, 'William Howitt, April 10: 1868'. He isn't just calling for a dry, legal freedom. He wants the formerly enslaved person to feel a "buoyant" sense of their own worth and potential. He is advocating for the restoration of dignity and self-confidence that the system of slavery had spent centuries trying to crush. The timing is equally significant as, in April 1868, the United States was in the final stages of ratifying the 14th Amendment, which granted citizenship and equal protection to formerly enslaved people. While Mary's note is a historical reflection on the physical cost of freedom, William's is a moral directive for the future. The Howitts were staunch abolitionists. In Mary's Popular History of the United States, she paid full attention to slavery, including its role in the north, and made "unprecedented criticisms" of slave codes in New York and South Carolina, compared the "so-called 1741 New Work slave revolt" to the Salem Witch trials, condemned the American Colonization Society, and pointed out the hypocrisy underlying the American Revolution, in which colonists contended for "their own liberty" while "depriving other peoples of theirs". Signed by Author(s).