Lytton Sir E Bulwer as Pisistratus Caxton (4 results)

Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good. 369 pages. Volume III only. Brown leather spine and corners; brown & blue marbled boards. Spine decorated with black boxes and gilt.

Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good. 379 pages. Volume II only. Brown leather spine and corners; brown & blue marbled boards. Spine decorated with black boxes and gilt.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Later Printing. Cloth has wear at edges and corners with chips to top and bottom of spine. Contents show browning to pages due to age. Contains books 1-12 which seems to be the total book in one volume. Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC, was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. Born: May 25, 1803, London, United Kingdom. Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases as "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", and the infamous incipit "It was a dark and stormy night."He was the youngest son of General William Earle Bulwer of Heydon Hall and Wood Dalling, Norfolk and Elizabeth Barbara Lytton, daughter of Richard Warburton Lytton of Knebworth, Hertfordshire. He had two brothers, William Earle Lytton Bulwer (1799 1877) and Henry, afterwards Lord Dalling and Bulwer. Lord Lytton's original surname was Bulwer, the names 'Earle' and 'Lytton' were middle names. On 20 February 1844 he assumed the name and arms of Lytton by royal licence and his surname then became 'Bulwer-Lytton'. His widowed mother had done the same in 1811. His brothers were always simply surnamed 'Bulwer'. Died: January 18, 1873, Torquay, United KingdomAwards: Chancellor's Gold Medal. .The opening chapters really compel one into reading on and on when Bulwer-Lytton unfolds the story of the angelic little Sophy and her grandfather, who is known as Gentleman Waife and who is forced to earn his living as an actor and to make his grandchild, too, appear on the stage amidst a group of itinerant actors under the guidance of the tyrannic Lorenzo Rugge. The yarn itself is brilliant and compelling, and the main motif is the difference between a man who sacrificed everything in order to keep his family s good name unsullied and another who sacrificed his own name in order to give somebody he loves another chance. First was published in 1859 so this may be a second? ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 311 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First U. S. Edition. 311 pages. The book is generally clean and tight with minor bumped corners; minor rubbing; minor wer at upper & lower edges of cover; previous owner's name & date written in pencil on front endpaper; light tanning on endpapers and all-edges; minor foxing in margins of pages; moderate foxing pages 298-305 (foxing does not interfere with reading text). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 3/4 Leather Over Marble Paper.