Mrs Anna Jameson, First Edition (38 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Oblong 8vo. Unpaginated (23 pp.), eight tipped-in b/w reproductions. Introduction by G.H. Needler. Stapled card wraps show darkening to edges, one short tear (1/4").

Hard cover. Condition: Fair. No dust jacket. First edition. 336 p. Previous owner's name and inscription Blank pages inscripted and picture page is separated and loose from the book with spots and creases. Loose binding. No bent corners, clean pages. eb 115.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition of this study of devoted to portraying the activities of Christian monastic orders by pioneering mid 19th century Irish-Anglo art historian Anna Brownell Jameson, a writer who confronted two significant period prejudices. 481 pages, 1/4 quarter leather. five raised bands. illustrated. Has a previous owner bookplate on the front pastedown page and a bit of foxing on the endpapers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Decorative blue cloth hardcover boards with stamped designs and gilt lettering and gilt designs on the spine; gilt page edges. Illustrated with frontis with tissue guard. Binding tight and complete; boards with light wear to the edges; pages dusty with light age toning. Anna Brownell Jameson (1794 - 1860) was a British writer born in Dublin. Her father was a miniature and enamel painter who moved to England in 1798 with his family, and eventually settled in London. At sixteen years of age, she became governess in the family of Charles Paulet, 13th Marquess of Winchester. During her career, she wrote about women issues, travel in Canada and America, and art history.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Small 8vo hardcover volume in blue embossed boards. Spine and boards tight and bright with almost no wear. Spine bright. Endpapers not split or marked. Inner rear end papers have 2 nice pencil drawings. 352 pages are tight and very clean. There is a engraving in front of title page. A lovely copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Bright gilt spine lettering on blind stamped red covers in hand-made brown paper wrappers - which have kept this volume in near fine condition! 12mo, 336 pages plus ads. Ex- library copy - This is Volume No.18 of the West Bath (Maine) Library Association, with their label on the inside of the front cover. The unusual library label says: "N. B. This book must not be lent out of the subscribers family, and if injured, all damage must be paid to the librarian. No volume can be kept over four weeks ; two weeks additional time will be allowed by having it renewed. A fine of two cents per day will be charged for a book kept over this time. A violation of these rules will result in a loss of membership.". Other than the brown paper wrapper pasted on the inside of the covers, a slight spine lean, small hole in the first free end paper, and the library bookplate, this is a near fine copy.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. hard cover, three-quarter leather. gilt lettering to spine., some rubbing of the edges and corners, not scuffed or frayed, but rubbed. front free endpaper has an 1854 bookplate stating that the recipient took 3rd prize in drawing class at croft lodge academy. some pages were cut a little irregularly. no other flaws or wear. clean. no markings. no foxing. strong binding.; two volumes bound as one. vol. 1, 232pp./vol. 2, 272pp., both with b/w illustrations. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Half-Leather. Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. Preface states that `these pages are a reprint of the most amusing and interesting chapters of the `WINTER STUDIES AND SUMMER RAMBLES IN CANADA`, first published in 1838, in three octavo volumes, favourably received at the time and now out of print.` 12mo, 18cm. Sketches in Canada, and Rambles Among the Red Men. By Mrs. Jameson. New Edition. London. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans. 1852. 12mo, 18cm, 300p., 314p; Adventures in the Wilds of North America 300 p. edited by Richard Weld. Sketches include; Toronto; A Winter Journey to Niagara; Lake Ontario; Brandtford; The Talbot Country; St. Thomas; Chatham; Detroit; The Indians; Mrs. Schoolcraft; Lake Huron; Indian Warfare. Beautifully bound in half leather. Previous owner's book plate on front pasted down. Rare to find at all and in this condition.

First edition. Previous owner's signature. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands worn. Boards dust-toned. Frontispiece is accompanied by a guard sheet. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: lxvi, 369, 1 p: front., illus., plates; 21 cm. Subjects: Mary Blessed Virgin, Saint. Mary Blessed Virgin, Saint; Art. Genre: Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Very good. Three volumes complete. Brown cloth bound with laid-on paper labels to spines. Binder's mark to all three volumes of C. Winstanley, Manchester. Ex-library (note: there are no library labels or stamps to the exterior bindings or text block and there are no barcodes). Windsor Public Library labels to front pastedowns and stamp to title pages only. Front and back hinges all previously reinforced with binder's tape. Binding remains tight, save for 2 loose sheets at the beginning vol 3. Complete. Some minor to moderate wear and rubbing to corners and board edges. Vol 2 has a small tear to the cloth on the front top corner. Free of foxing save for the endpapers. No annotations, writing or markings to text. A very nice work of important Canadiana. Securely boxed with bubble wrap with tracked shipping.

First Edition. Bound in full pig skin with a gilt blocked title to the spine. Note from previous owner ' Bound in pig skin for me at Siena, 1903'. Remains well preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Provenance; from the library of William Bazeley, M.A., Rector of Mats on Non. Canon Gloucester. Physical description; 2 volumes in 1 : illustrations, portraits ; 15 cm. Contents; Vol. 1. Giovanni Cimabue -- Giotto -- Lorenzo Ghiberti -- Masaccio -- Filippo Lippi and Angelico da Fiesole -- Benozzo Gozzoli -- Andrea Castagno and Luca Signorelli -- Domenico dal Ghirlandajo -- Andrea Mantegna -- The Bellini -- Pietro Perugino -- Francesco Raibolini, called Il Francia -- Fra Bartolomeo, called also Baccio della Porta and Il Frate -- v. 2. Leonardo da Vinci -- Michael Angelo -- Andrea del Sarto -- Raphael Sanzio d'Urbino -- The scholars of Raphael -- Correggio and Giorgione and their scholars -- Parmigiano -- Giorgione -- Titan -- Tintoretto -- Paul Veronese -- Jacope Bassano. Subjects; Painting, Gothic Italy. Painting, Renaissance Italy. Painters Italy. Painting, Italian. Painting, Italian (ca. 1285 - ca. 1570) critical studies. Artists, Italian ; Biography. Painters, Italian 16th century ; Biography. Painters, Italian 15th century ; Biography. Painters, Italian 14th century ; Biography. Painters, Italian 13th century ; Biography. Painters. Painting, Gothic. Painting, Renaissance. Painters Italy ; Biography. Italy. Genres; Biography. Illustrated. 1 Kg.

First edition. Previous owner's signature. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands worn. Boards dust-toned. Frontispiece is accompanied by a guard sheet. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: lxvi, 369, 1 p: front., illus., plates; 21 cm. Subjects: Mary Blessed Virgin, Saint. Mary Blessed Virgin, Saint; Art. Genre: Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Rare first edition of Mrs. Jameson's Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad. Octavo, volume III only of four volumes bound in three quarters vellum over marbled boards with gilt tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, engraved frontispiece, headpieces, and tailpieces, all edges red. In very good condition. Anglo-Irish art historian Anna Brownell Jameson migrated to England at the age of four and became a well-known British writer and contributor to nineteenth-century thought on a range of subjects including early feminism, art history (particularly sacred art), travel, Shakespeare, poets, and German culture. Jameson was connected to some of the most prominent names of the period including Fanny Kemble, Elizabeth Barrett-Browning and Robert Browning, Harriet Martineau, and Lady Byron.

New edition. Previous owner's signature. Good copies in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved set overall. Endpapers loosely inserted. Elevated motif to the front board. Frontispieces accompanied by guard sheets. Physical description: 2 v.: ill.; 21 cm. Notes: 1st ed. 1848-52, 2 vols. Purchased 1968. Subjects: Christian art and symbolism. Art. Genre: Illustrated. 1 Kg.

First edition. Two volumes bound as one. 232; 272pp. With numerous engraved portraits in the text. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, calf lettering-piece, marbled edges. Extremities rubbed, chipping to lettering-piece. Marbled endpapers, Near contemporary bookplate to FEP. The first edition of art historian Anna Jameson's (1794-1860) biographical sketches of Italian painters, particularly those of the Renaissance, including Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael. Size: 12mo.

First Edition. Bound in full pig skin with a gilt blocked title to the spine. Note from previous owner ' Bound in pig skin for me at Siena, 1903'. Remains well preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Provenance; from the library of William Bazeley, M.A., Rector of Mats on Non. Canon Gloucester. Physical description; 2 volumes in 1 : illustrations, portraits ; 15 cm. Contents; Vol. 1. Giovanni Cimabue -- Giotto -- Lorenzo Ghiberti -- Masaccio -- Filippo Lippi and Angelico da Fiesole -- Benozzo Gozzoli -- Andrea Castagno and Luca Signorelli -- Domenico dal Ghirlandajo -- Andrea Mantegna -- The Bellini -- Pietro Perugino -- Francesco Raibolini, called Il Francia -- Fra Bartolomeo, called also Baccio della Porta and Il Frate -- v. 2. Leonardo da Vinci -- Michael Angelo -- Andrea del Sarto -- Raphael Sanzio d'Urbino -- The scholars of Raphael -- Correggio and Giorgione and their scholars -- Parmigiano -- Giorgione -- Titan -- Tintoretto -- Paul Veronese -- Jacope Bassano. Subjects; Painting, Gothic Italy. Painting, Renaissance Italy. Painters Italy. Painting, Italian. Painting, Italian (ca. 1285 - ca. 1570) critical studies. Artists, Italian ; Biography. Painters, Italian 16th century ; Biography. Painters, Italian 15th century ; Biography. Painters, Italian 14th century ; Biography. Painters, Italian 13th century ; Biography. Painters. Painting, Gothic. Painting, Renaissance. Painters Italy ; Biography. Italy. Genres; Biography. Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First American edition. 16mo. 408pp. Gilt-stamped green cloth, top edge gilt. Moderate edgewear, thin dampstain on top page edges, else very good. Single volume in the series "Mrs. Jameson's Works.".

Marbled Boards/Leather Tips. Condition: Good Only. First Edition. Believed to be original marbled boards with red leather corner tips. Spine entirely covered with red library cloth laid-down over portion of original leather spine. Rubbed and scuffed at extremities, marbled boards rubbed. Internally reinforced hinges with archival cloth, three bookplates and a few inkstamps from a reference collection (withdrawn), but public library. All portraits with tissue guards and inkstamp to back of portrait, light foxing throughout with some age toning. Overall good only, but likely not as bad as it may sound. Biographical sketches accompany each portrait of the women of the Court of KIng Charles II. Very scarce.

New edition. Previous owner's signature. Good copies in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved set overall. Endpapers loosely inserted. Elevated motif to the front board. Frontispieces accompanied by guard sheets. Physical description: 2 v.: ill.; 21 cm. Notes: 1st ed. 1848-52, 2 vols. Purchased 1968. Subjects: Christian art and symbolism. Art. Genre: Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Leather. Condition: Good Only. Various (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this richly illustrated study on the beautiful women who were at the court of King Charles II, including some of his mistresses. The first edition.A striking series of portraits showing the beautiful people at the court of King Charles II. Each portrait is accompanied with a brief biography on the subject.Portraits in this work include Catherine of Braganza, Nell Gwynn, and the Duchess of Devonshire.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and twenty plates.Collated, complete.By Anna Brownell Jameson.Bookplate of George Baird to the front paste down. George Alexander Baird was a race horse owner and breeder and amateur jockey. He was a controversial figure, being implicated in a prize fight fixing scandal, being named as co-respondent in two divorce cases, and having an relationship with actress of former mistress of the Prince of Wales, Lillie Langtry. In a half calf binding with cloth to the boards. Externally, damp stained, a little heavier to the rear board. Cloth is lifting to the tail of the boards. Minor bumping to the extremities. A little rubbing to the leather. Fading to the spine and joints. Label remnants to the rear joint. Bookplate to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned with some spots. Tide mark to the tail of the text from the front endpaper to page 55, including to the plates, tide mark is heavier to the first few pages. Small closed tear to the tail of the frontispiece. Good Only. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover in Very Good condition, 12mo, pages: xl,413. One half leather over marbled paper boards, marbled end-papers. Moderate wear, tips worn and lightly bumped, boards a bit rubbed, binding tight, inner hinges in very good condition but back joint appears weak. The seven collections described are listed on the title page (see photo) and include the Gallery of Her Majesty the Queen. Bookseller accession no.: 22A46. Uncommon title with about 60 found in Worldcat and none found for sale on-line at the time of this listing. Anna Brownell Jameson, 1794-1860, was an Irish-born art historian, feminist, and writer.

xix [including 12 pp. adverts], 242 pp + adverts; 248 pp. 12mo, bound in 6s. 4" x 6 5/16" VG (spines darkened/front joint of v1 starting to split, but cords sound/terminal blank torn out of V.2, old ffep poi in v1). Linen cloth binding with printed black lettering 1st US Edition (American Imprints 13130).

Octavo, bound in contemporary half brown calf over marbled paper boards, the spine ruled and decorated gilt in compartments, contrasting leather title label lettered in gilt, speckled page edges. Pp [i] - [ii], [1], 2-380. Heraldic bookplate of 'Sir Edward B. Baker, Bart' on front paste-down endpaper. Foxing to preliminary and terminal leaves. Light rubbing to binding; a very good, bright copy. An "autobiographical" narrative of a journey to Italy written under the guise of an unnamed and ailing young woman. Originally issued as 'A LADY'S DIARY' earlier in the same year by R. Thomas, London (as by Anna B. Jameson]. This Henry Colburn "New Edition" is the first edition of the book with this title; our copy is bound up without the contents leaves [iii - x]. We have another copy similarly bound and one wonders if this is an early issue point, as the Thomas edition was also issued without any Contents leaves. Provenance: Sir Edward Baker, (18061877), 2nd Baker Baronet of Ranston, Dorset. New Edition, The First Edition with this Title.

First edition. In two volumes. lii, 281, [1]; [3], 283-628pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-roan, marbled boards, marbled edges. Extremities worn, loss to spines. Marbled endpapers, early inked ownership inscriptions to head of both titles, scattered foxing. The first edition of a early Victorian guide to the major public art galleries of England's capital, with 'catalogues of the pictures, accompanied by critical, historical, and bibliographical notices, and copious indexes to facilitate reference'. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. 3p woodcuts/etchings index. (illustrator). 1st edition. NEAR FINE books. Elaborate gilt decoration. MAJOR FLAW: both upper hinges repaired. Ideal candidate for quality repair. Loose (opposed to tight) back binding so hinges repairable. Bound by a master though no binder ticket or turn in binder name. Gilt turn ins. AEG. Both FINE inside. Some plates (NOT text) with spot or two of foxing but no aging, marginalia, etc. Both tend to remain closed when stood on spines. Flaws (other than the hinges) very minor and mostly one type: scuffing. (1) All tips flat & square but scuffed. (2) Lower hinges scuffed. (3) Of the two book's 10 raised bands the very highest points of ONLY TWO are scuffed. Spine gilt quite elaborate and any scuffing at all would be very apparent. (4) "14.99" pencilled in both. (5) Vol 1 with full page pencilled gift inscription, 2nd ep with closed tear the width of the leaf. Kind of a puzzle. This set has obviously been opened a lot but, once opened, handled with great care. Happy to send more pix. NEAR FINE set, with a MAJOR FLAW. 1st ed, 8"x5.5", 387,439pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First US Edition. Two volumes. pp: 304; 271. Bound in 3/4 calf and marbled boards, leather labels; spines are sun-darkened, with a small chip from one head. 7.5" x 4.25". Provenance: old, engraved bookplate in each volume of Charleston native Rawlins Lowndes (1801-1877), with early signatures at tops of title-pages of Gertrude Livingston Lowndes (1805-1883), a well-known New Yorker of her day. Mrs. Jameson (1794-1860) here relates her literary adventures in Germany, along with several short stories and the diary of her travels in Italy. [American Imprints 25112. Robinson, Wayward Women, 286, Davis & Joyce, Personal Writings by Women, 2482.].

Three-Quarter Leather. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Four volumes, all in very good condition; internally fine. Textual illustrations and plates taken from drawings by the author's own hand. Three-quarter gilt black leather bindings with raised bands; marbled boards, endpapers, and edges. Published sequentially in 1848, 1850 and 1852. Owner's bookplates neatly applied. A very nice, solid and bright set in matching bindings showing some slight wear or rubbing to extremities.

First edition. First edition. Engraved frontispiece and 20 engraved portraits by Thomson, Wright, Holl, et. al., after paintings by Sir Peter Lely. 350, [2] pp. 1 vols. 4to. A famous view book. Full contemporary green pebbled morocco, triple filet gilt borders around a central panel with title, spine elaborately gilt, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. Front hinge off Engraved frontispiece and 20 engraved portraits by Thomson, Wright, Holl, et. al., after paintings by Sir Peter Lely. 350, [2] pp. 1 vols. 4to.

Hardback. Condition: Good. None (illustrator). First edition. An extremely scarce first edition of Anna Brownell Jameson's travel work surrounding Germany from 1837. First edition. Very scarce. The original paper-covered boards have been rebacked. Published as part of Charles Jugel's pocket novelist series. Written by Anglo-Irish art historian, Anna Brownell Jameson, who was known for her art and literary criticism, her travel writing and feminist works. This interesting travel work surrounds her time spent in Germany, with the principal focus being on German art and literature. Jameson visited Antwerp, Cologne, Dresden, Munich and many other places during her travels. The original paper-covered boards have been rebacked, with the original spine laid down. Externally, sound, with slight rubbing to the extremities and light soiling to the boards. Rebacking has left areas uncovered to the spine, with tears to the original backstrip. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean, with the odd mark. Good. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The first American edition. Two volumes, complete, in original decorative stamped blue pebbled cloth hard covers. Professionally rebacked with new blue cloth spines. Moderate bumping and soiling to covers; corners softened and rubbed through. Toning to edges and endpapers; moderate foxing to text. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound set. Small 8vo. [vol.I]viii[+ii][9-]341;[vol.II]iv,339pp.