Writing Titmarsh (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Frontis (illustrator). A "White and Gold" "Knickerbocker Nugget." A small volume bound in white and trimmed in gold, with gold cover design and gold-gilt edges. 209 pp. with eight pages of ads in the rear of the book. The cover is slightly soiled and the spine slightly sunned. Good overall. We ship fast.

Condition: Very Good+. Knickerbocker Nugget. A "White and Gold" "Knickerbocker Nugget." A lovely small volume bound in white and trimmed in gold, with gold cover design and gold-gilt edges. 209 pp. with eight pages of ads in the rear of the book. The cover is slightly soiled and the spine slightly sunned, otherwise a lovely solid copy. Would make a very sweet gift for a rare book collector. "The Rose and the Ring" was written just two years before the release of Thackeray's "The Virginians," which was released by the well known Bradbury & Evans. "The Rose and the Ring" carries Thackeray's characteristic criticisms of monarchy, high society rules and the status quo notions of beauty. The original edition contained illustrations designed by Thackeray himself, who had once dreamed of a career as an artist/illustrator. Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki chose this title in 2010 for his list of 50 essential children's books. William Thackeray is best known for his satirical masterpiece "Vanity Fair" but also famed for "The Luck of Barry Lyndon," which Stanley Kubrick adapted to film in 1975. Thackeray was born in Calcutta, during British colonial rule, and spent the majority of his early works unleashing criticism on the dreadful formalities of British aristocracy. A proficient novelist and poet, he left behind more than two dozen works for readers to enjoy.

Hardback. The red gilt cloth binding is worn, the spine is present but detached, the hinges are weak. The frontispiece is partially detached and has some light foxing. There is some light edge foxing throughout with the first and last few pages more extensively affected. hand coloured frontispiece, xi + 221.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. First issue. 8vo. (7.3 x 5.5 inches). Illustrated with 16 fine hand coloured plates, engraved on wood after drawings by the author. Finely bound by Riviere & Son in full dark green morocco. Spine with raised bands, ruled in gilt. The compartments fully decorated and lettered in gilt. Triple ruled gilt borders on boards. Board edges with double gilt ruled lines. Decorative gilt inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Original illustrated paper boards bound in at rear. A few marks to the edges of several of the pages but overall still a near fine and beautiful copy of this first issue, with the plates hand coloured, of the third of Thackeray's Christmas books. -- More photos available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. First issue. 8vo. (7.3 x 5.5 inches). Illustrated with 16 fine hand coloured plates, engraved on wood by H. Vizetelly after drawings by the author. Finely bound by Riviere & Son in full dark green morocco. Spine with raised bands, ruled in gilt. The compartments fully decorated and lettered in gilt. Triple ruled gilt borders on boards. Board edges with double gilt ruled lines. Decorative gilt inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Original illustrated paper boards bound in at rear. A fine and beautiful copy of this first issue, with the plates hand coloured, of the second of Thackeray's Christmas books. -- More photos available on request.

12mo, two volumes, two inserted engraved frontispiece plates and 38 illustrations in the text after Thackeray, original green cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panels stamped in gold, cream coated endpapers. First edition. Thackeray "made a trip to Ireland in 1842 and stayed for a time with the novelist Lever. THE IRISH SKETCH-BOOK, which annoyed the Irish very much, appeared in 1843, and in the dedication to Lever, Thackeray used his own name for the first time." - Kunitz and Haycraft (eds), British Authors of the Nineteenth Century, p. 615. Van Duzer 96. Appears to be a married set. The green cloth of volume one is a dark green cloth while volume two is a medium green cloth. Both half title leaves are present, as is the blank leaf preceding the half title leaf in volume two. The inserted frontispieces are foxed with some offset onto the title pages. Volume one is near fine. Volume two is slightly leaned, has a small label of the Leighlin Bridge Book Society affixed to the front paste-down, and has a large, but not unpleasant, damp stain to the cloth on the rear cover. Still a pleasing set. Uncommon in the original cloth. (#114150).