Watts Alaric a Editor (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st edition. 6" x 4". xiv + 306pp + 10 steel eng plates + 2pp publishers catalogue. Scattered foxing. Front hinge weak. Good hardback in later, but not recent, green, full morocco with gilt lettering.

12mo, pp. [i-vii] viii-ix [x-xi] xii-xiii [xiv-xv] xvi [1] 2-344, flyleaves at front and rear, frontispiece and eleven other inserted plates, original full green diced leather, spine panel stamped in gold, front and rear panels stamped in blind, a.e.g., yellow coated endpapers. First edition. Contributors include Mary Howitt, William Howitt and Miss Mitford. Faxon 1566. Wolff 7813e. Hairline crack along inner front hinge, most plates and tissue guards show som foxing or darkening, still a sound, good copy. (#136026). …

4pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn, with discoloration from tape at head of second leaf. Watts's handwriting is not easily legible. The male recipient of the letter is not named. In reply to a letter received the previous Friday, Watts assures him that 'the earnest desire of Mrs. Watts and myself' is 'to promote by every means in our power the comfort and happiness of your daughter, and we are not without hope that we shall succeed in achieving what we wish.' Watts will be in London the following Thursday and Friday, 'and can, without the slightest inconvenience wait upon you in Trafalgar Square at any hour (morning or evening) that you may be the most likely to be disengaged'. He has 'promised to dine with the Royal Marines at Chatham on Saturday'. The letter ends with a discussion of the 'medium of conveyance' for certain 'articles of furniture', with Watts stating, 'I should wish Miss V. to bring any thing of the kind that she may desire to bring. There is not the shadow of an objection'. A line under the signature is illegible. Included with this item is a worn copy of the original engraved portrait of Watts (by Daniel Maclise), captioned 'The Editor of "The Literary Souvenir"', from Fraser's Magazine, June 1835.…

12mo. xiv, 306pp, 2pp publisher's advert, 10 steel-engraved plates with tissue-guards Contemporary full green morocco gilt, aeg. Front board lightly 'ringed', publisher's advert leaf torn w/o loss.

pp. xvi, 344. Frontis, 11 plates. 12mo in 6s. Full roan, all edges gilt, head & tail of spine rubbed. Rear hinge tender internally. Includes Sketches of Modern Poets by Watts - Wordsworth; Campbell; Coleridge; Lamb. Faxon 1566. The date has been erased from the title page but the pagination matches that of a dated copy on The Library Hub.…

12mo. pp. [2]ads, xiv, 306, [2]ads. with half-title. 10 engraved plates by Charles Rolls, S.Sangster, William Greatbatch & others after paintings by G.S.Newton, Thomas Uwins, Fragonard, &c. original bottle green roan (dampstain to upper covers, upper inner margins of first leaves & frontis., hardly noticeable on covers). Faxon p. 105.…