Roscoe Thomas Translator (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini. Burgundy cloth. Some corner and edge wear. Front hingr torn a little but holding. Tissue guard to frontis of Cellini. Contents clean and tight. A reasonable reading copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. First Edition Thus. 216pp. Offered as a reading copy. Some looseness of block from cover, no pages present prior to Title page. Some age staining/foxing, edges roughcut.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good brown hardcover reading copies, bindings worn/cracking/chipped, foxing heavy to scattered, previous owner name. Stated From the Last London edition, including all the notes from the Last Paris edition. Only date of 1848 on title page. Size 5x8 with 549 pages in volume one & 565 pages in volume two, + ads. Frontispiece (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. hardback, 8vo, viii,504pp, portrait frontispiece, slight foxing, text clean and sound, ,arbled edges and endpapers, owner's inscription on flyleaf, gilt-decorated full leather library binding, spine title label missing; Good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Fine binding, bound by Riviere. First edition, published by Charles Baldwyn in 1824. Contains the first issue points "creditor" (replaced later by "debtor") on line 10 of p32, illustration for The Dead Rider p58, with no woodcut to the title page. Here with 8 pages of ads at back (Cohn 444 references a single leaf). Green morocco, gilt decoration to the all sides and turn ins, top edge gilt, red endpapers, vi[2]253[1][8ads], 16 illustrations by George Cruikshank. Leather covers mostly faded to brown, but still supple and pleasing, spine gilt a little dulled, top edge gilt bright, spine edges a with a little surface wear at the joints, square, securely bound, previous owners bookplate to the front pastedown for John F Talmage. Another previous owners name and date, plus a previous price erased from the red endpapers, leaving a faded area, blank page with previous booksellers notes in pencil, plus a small spot of glue? Pages a little age toned, a very rare faint patch of spots, one page with a neatly repaired 1 inch closed tear to the margin, generally tidy pages. Original covers bound in at the back after the ads. Very good condition. Gerorge Cruikshank (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. A presention copy from the author, with inscription to the top of the title page in Volume II: "H. Hole Esq. with the author's best regards." Thomas Roscoe (1791 - 1871) was an English translator and also a novelist who enjoyed studying the work by other European novelists. In the preface he writes: "In the following series of national novels, connected with the secondary class of prose fiction so abounding in Spanish literature, it has been the humble endeavour of the translator, upon a similar plan with the Italian and the German specimens, to convey to the English reader some idea of its rise and progress, as well as of the peculiar manners, customs, modes of thinking at different periods, as exhibited in this form of composition." Includes Don Juan Manuel, Mendoza, Mateo Aleman, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Matias de los Reyes, Don Christoval Lozano, Luis Veliz de Guavara, Isidro de Robles, Alonzo del Castillo Salorzano, Don Francisco de Quevedo Villegas, Doctor don Juan Perez de Montalvan, Antionio de Eslava, and Donna Maria de Zayas I Soto Mayor. Each author or tale is introduced by the compiler, Thomas Roscoe. All volumes are bound in matching three quarter tan leather over pink and brown marbled paper covered boards. Lacks title and volume labels. Gilt decoration to spine compartments. Wear to edges of boards, rubbing to boards and hinges. Large chip to leather on foot of spine of Volume II. A few chips to leather on boards. The front hinge of Volume I is starting. Marbled endpapers and full marbled edges. Occasional spots of foxing to interiors, but clean and bright overall. A worn, but still reasonably attractive set. Volume I: 360 pages; Volume II: 341 pages; Volume III: 321 pages. LIT/110922.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Volume 2 only (of 3); Text in English & French; 1/4 leather & brown cloth over boards, gilt spine title & decoration, covers have decorative blind embossing with gilt armorial devices, all edges gilt, & 46 tissued plates; A just good copy with uneven foxing (affecting half of plates), rebacked with old spine neatly laid on despite loss at heel, new endpapers/pastedown, & ink owner name/place/date (1840) on old fep, & newspaper clipped poem tipped onto same; 92 pages. Size: 8.25"x10.75". Samuel Prout & J. D. Harding (illustrator).…

12mo, four volumes: pp. [i-v] vi-xi [xii-xiii] xiv-xx [1-3] 4-413 [414: printer's imprint]; [i-iii] iv [misnumbered "vi"] [1-3] 4-405 [406: blank] [407-408: publisher ads]; [i-iv] [1-3] 4-374; [i-iv] [1-3] 4-374, half title in volume one only; none called for in other volumes, early full leather, all panels stamped in gold and blind, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. First edition. "One of the handful of important anthologies of German fiction, emphasizing the supernatural, that appeared in the early part of the nineteenth century, reflecting and reinforcing the influence of this material on the Romantic movements in Britain and America. This collection of more than 1600 pages includes early legends (Reynard the Fox, Thyl Owlglass, the Merry Jester and Doctor Faustus [an abridgment of a 1599 work by G. R. Widman]), folk tales and popular traditions recorded by Otmar, Gottschalck, Eberhardt, Büsching, the Brothers Grimm and La Motte Fouqué, and stories by Musaeus, Schiller, Tieck, Langbein and Engel, including first appearances of English-language versions of weird tales by Tieck, as well as an obscure story by la Motte Fouqué. This collection preceded Carlyle's similar, and better known, four-volume anthology by a year." - Robert Eldridge. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 1-26. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1416. Bleiler (1978), p. 170. Block, The English Novel 1740-1850, p. 201. Wolff 5960. All half titles present where called for. Private owner's bookplates affixed to front paste-downs of all volumes. Leather scuffed along outer joints, mild wear at spine ends and corner tips, slight loss from crown of volume one, lacks the leaf of ads at rear of volume two. (#136033). …

3pp., 16mo. Bifolium. On aged and foxed paper. He wishes to be informed 'whether the Forget Me Not" so long and ably edited by your Father will be published for the ensuing year - i.e. for 1848'. One of his daughters has 'written down Stories one or two of which have already appeared, and she would be very happy to avail herself of an opportunity of writing something' for the annual, so he asks him to 'ascertain whether your Father would like to insert a short Nouvellette [sic] to the extent of 4 to 5 pages'. The subject is presumably Roscoe's daughter Jane Elizabeth St John (1829-1906) was generally known as Mrs. Horace Roscoe St John, author of 'Audubon the Naturalist' (1856), 'Englishwomen and the Age' (1860), a pamphlet on the condition of women, and two historical works, 'Masaniello of Naples' (1865) and 'The Court of Anna Carafa' (1872).…

8vo full calf illustrated, 253, [2] pp. Top cover detached, and library label on front end paper. Inscription of previous owner on front end paper, tissue guards for illustrations are not present, otherwise a nice clean copy. Roscoe (1791-1871) selected a variety of interesting Italian folk tales, several of which were borrowed by Shakespeare as part of the plots in some of his works. This appears to be a 1st edition 2nd issue of an early Cruikshank work. Contains the title page vignette, which probably distinguishes it from the first issue. Including the title page illustration, The Pomegranate Seed, there are 16 illustrations in this volume, including "The Dead Rider" illustration, which is not in later editions. See Cohn 444. Cruikshank (illustrator). …

First Edition. First edition, 4 volumes, 8vo; added engraved title pages in each volume; full contemporary gilt-ruled calf, rebacked at a later date, red gilt morocco spine labels, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; extremities a bit scuffed, else about fine. Contemporary heraldic bookplate on front pastedowns.…

8vo. pp. vi, [2], 253, [1] + 8 pp. of publisher's ads. complete with half-title. 16 wood engravings by George Cruikshank. untrimmed in later half roan bound by Charles Winstanley, Manchester (worn, foxed, scattered dampmarks to upper margins). First Edition, First Issue; with plate to the 'Dead Rider Tale' (p. 58), no woodcut on title, and misprint 'creditor' on p. 32, line 10. Cohn 444.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 372 pages. 6.00x0.83x9.00 inches. This item is printed on demand.