Turner Frederick J Editor (3 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Printing of this important collection covering the Presidency of George Wasington and the early part of the Adams term . Complete in this volume , Turner's work is thorough and his annotations are very useful . Bookplate of previous owner on inside front board . Hinges on this large volume are very tight .…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hard cover, 8vo, in marbled paper-covered boards, red calf label gilt to spine with title, all edges marbled. 308pp. Printed London, Davison, Simmons and Co., Whitefriars. A total of seventeen tissue-guarded full page illustrations from engravings are included in this annual literary anthology: a title page with neoclassical wreath after Henri Corbould, frontispiece illustration ,"The Adieu" opposite second illustrated title page picturing medallion of British King William IV. (Letterpress title page follows). **CONDITION: Very Good generally, but "a tad musty." Hinges and joint in order. Spine moderately darkened with a small handwritten label in old ink near foot, possibly from a personal library, as there are also ghosts of an inch wide printed label to both ffep. and table of contents page. Pages are bright, plates crisp. MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY (1797-1851) has four attributed contributions to this literary annual. These include the first appearance of two short stories "by the Author of Frankenstein." (Lyles) Additionally, two sets of "stanzas" are anonymous but attributed to her by scholars (Sunstein , Bennet). The poems begin "To love in solitude and mystery." (p. 28) and "I must forget thy dark eyes' love-frought gaze." (p. 52). In Shelley's first short story, "The Brother and Sister. An Italian Story," (p. 105) a Sienese family of note comes under acute financial pressure from political rivals, leading to the banishment of a young man. His younger sister is left behind, made ward of the usurpers but events conspire to bring the two rival houses back into alignment in this romantic tale. Birmingham, England Artist ELIZA SHARPE (1796-1874) contributes the painting after which the title character "Flora" is seen in the woods with her maid contemplating her escape. Eliza Sharpe, the second of four artistic daughters of an engraver, William Sharpe, and his wife, worked a lengthy career in London as a portraitist and miniaturist, and was secty. of The "Old" Water-Colour Society after 1829. Her elder sister Louisa (1798-1843) also contributed to these pages. (DNB) The second Mary Shelley story, "The Invisible Girl" is a truly gothic tale with a ghostly element. A fishing boat flounders off the Welsh coast, but is guided to safety by a mysterious light coming from a seemingly abandoned stone tower. Ghosts of the past play a role in this gripping tale. Other notable artistic contributions were by J.M.W. Turner, who's view of "Erhenbreitstein" is shown. REF: W. Lyles Mary Shelley, An Annotated Bibliography,(1975) "The Brother and Sister" and "The Invisible Girl (D1l and D1m). Sunstein and Bennet in "Newly Uncovered Letters and Poems by M.W. Shelley, in the Keats-Shelley Journal 46 (1997). Scarce. (AMJ). Eliza Sharpe, Louisa Sharpe, J.M.W. Turner, Henri Corbould; C. Stanfield et al (illustrator). Book.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A complete set of 17 volumes, from 1832-33, first edition. Hard cover, small 8vo, ( 6 7/8 inches tall x 4 1/2 width) in three quarter-green morocco over green cloth-covered boards, the spines with five raised bands, ruled in gilt, with titles to the second and third compartments, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers, v.p. Each volume with engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette title pages and letterpress half titles. Vols. I - VI: "The Life of Lord Byron," (by T. Moore). Vol. VII: "Hours of Idleness, Etc." Vol. VIII: "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage." Vol. IX: "The Giaour" and "The Corsair." Vol. X: "The Siege of Corinth, Parisian, Etc." Vol. XI, "Manfred Etc." Vol. XII: "Marino Faliero" Etc. Vol. XIII "Sardanapalus" Etc." Vol. XIV: "Cain," "Werner" Etc." Vols XV-XVII "Don Juan," Appendices and Index. Complete as issued. **CONDITION: Very Good. Light wear seen to spines, top edge, or boards of a few volumes. Several have light wear to extremities of front joints; hinges are in order. Light soiling to rear board seen on 2 volumes. Inside, text is generally clean and bright, with light marginal foxing and toning affecting some of the earlier plates. Frontis at Vol. I a bit over-opened. Some missing tissue guards. Vol.1 and XIV show some exterior soiling to the rear boards. A small burgundy and gold foil printed booksellers label appears to gutter of volume I, reading "William Brown/Fine Art & Antiquarian Bookseller/5 Castle Street, Edinburgh." The bookstore was at this city center address into the twentieth century. Armorial bookplate of Gwen and Henry Melchett to each volume endpaper. **THE ART-- The largest contingent of engraved plates (17) are after works by J.M.W. TURNER, R.A. (1775-1851). British marine artist and former sailor CLARKSON FREDERICK STANFIELD, RA, RBA (1793-1867) has seven scenes. William Cattermole, W. Purder, J.D. Harding, William Westall and G. Cattermole provide the remaining numbers, totaling 30 scenes and two engraved facsimile MS. The scenes were engraved by London's WILLIAM (1787-1852) and EDWARD FINDEN (1791-1857). From Cadiz to Constantinople, Newstead Abbey, the Bernese Alps, Seville, along the Rhine, to Venice, Rome, and Greece, the illustrations trace the travels of the itinerant author in his years of "voluntary exile" from Britain, said, by biographer R.Holmes, to escape "gambling debts, a broken marriage and tempestuous scandals." **Published between 1832-33, this collection contains the six volumes of an amended biography by fellow Irish poet and novelist, Thomas Moore, first brought out in 1830. Included are some of Byron's correspondence with his publisher, and biographer, as well as speeches and other materials. The series was originally planned at fourteen volumes, later growing to seventeen, as explained in the advertisement to Vol. VIII. The many Notes, Letters, Prefaces and Dedications reflect Byron's contemporary popularity, some detractors as well-- amongst those who knew and worked with him, including his publisher John Murray, Sir Walter Scott, John Wilson.with some being both detractors and admirers. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Godwin and Percy B. Shelley are all noted, as is the Countess Guiccioli, and diarists Pietro Gamba and Col. Leicester Stanhope. **PROVENANCE: Bookplate of (Lord and Lady) "Henry and Gwen Melchett," with their armorial bookplate to each volume. Gwen Wilson Mond, Lady Melchette (1899-1982) married Henry Mond, 2nd Baron Melchett in 1920. She was a South African-born art student who met her future husband while studying at the Slade School of Art. Both the Melchetts were patrons of the arts, with their Mulberry House, Westminster drawing room featuring a modernist mural "The Loves of Jupiter" by the painter Glyn Philpot. Bohemian artistic friends also included Augustus John, Gilbert Cannan and others of the Bloomsbury artists and writers of the time. R. Holmes, Coleridge: Darker Reflections 1804-1834 (1998). Watson 271. (AMJ). G. Cattermole (after) J.M.W. Turner (after); Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (after); W. Westall, A.R.A.;William and Edward Finden (engravings) (illustrator). Book.…