James Thomson, Signed (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Binding sound, text clean, very light shelf wear to book and jacket. Jacket price clipped from flap. Signed by author with inscription. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Wraps 8vo. pp iv, 64.Original publisher's blue wraps lettered black on spine and on front cover. Fragile first ed, front cover starting to come away, spine ends slightly chipped else near VGÐ signed by Dobell on front. Signedes.

Condition: Très Bon Etat. DIDIER PARIS - ÉTUDES Anglaises, Numéro 21. Grand et fort In-8 broché ( 170 X 255 mm) , portrait frontispice, 508 pages, non rogné, superbe exemplaire . Envoi autographe de l'auteur à un ami. Très Bon Etat James Thomson, né le 3 novembre 1834 à Port Glasgow et mort le 3 juin 1882 , qui a écrit sous le pseudonyme de Bysshe Vanolis, est un poète écossais de l'époque victorienne. Après avoir quitté l'armée, Thomson s'installe à Londres, vit chichement comme employé de bureau et collabore comme journaliste et essayiste à des périodiques radicaux et laïcs (National Reformer, Secular Review, Cope's Tobacco Plant), où il publie poèmes, articles et récits. Il souffre d'alcoolisme, d'insomnies et de dépression, mène une existence solitaire à Londres et meurt à 47 ans des suites d'une rupture de vaisseau sanguin. Il est célèbre notamment pour son long poème The City of Dreadful Night (La Cité de terrifiante Nuit, 1874) paraît d'abord en feuilleton dans le National Reformer et reçoit l'admiration de certains contemporains (George Eliot, George Meredith, Herman Melville qui parle d'un « Livre de Job moderne »), même si la plupart des critiques victoriennes jugent son athéisme et son désespoir excessifs. *** PROCHAINE MISE A JOUR DU CATALOGUE LE 12 JUIN 2026 *** Paiement PayPal immédiat, Colissimo contre signature pour les envois de plus de 50 euros, Mondial Relay accepté pour : FRANCE Allemagne, Autriche, Belgique, Espagne, Italie, Portugal, Luxembourg, Pays-Bas, Pologne (Communiquer votre point ou locker si connu). Une participation supplémentaire peut être demandée pour les colis lourds hors France où les envois compris entre 5 et 25 kg sont dégressifs : 2 à 4 kilogrammes - 7.99 / 5 à 10 kg - 15.99 / 15 -25 kg - 25.99. Certaines de nos collections ( Vian, Céline, Camus (.) peuvent être expédiées en Franco de port. Pour l'international hors Europe (Suisse, Canada, Japon, Etats-Unis, les frais d'expéditions peuvent varier selon le poids (mise à jour : 1 juin 2026).

A very good 4 volume set in matching full leather bindings and 16 engravings. Vol. I. : pp.32/[4pp.]/pp.209 + 5 engravings / Vol. II. : [2pp.]/pp.302 + 5 engravings / Vol. III. ; [2pp.]/pp. + 3 engravings / Vol. IV. :pp.288 + 3 engravings . Some engravings signed by 'G. V. Neist' after designs by 'Wale' . 12 mo. 17.3cm x 11.0cm x 2.2cm. Tan calf covered boards, edges lightly rubbed and bumped. Smooth spines with rubbed gilt decoration, red title label, and brown volume number. Marbled endpapers. Each volume with an engraved armorial bookplate to the verso of each front board: "Sr. Martin Browne Ffolkes Bart." Each volume with an engraved frontis. Pages lightly toned. Some off-setting on adjacent pages to the engravings, otherwise clean English text throughout. G+ ** Referenced by: ESTC T59683 / Maslen and Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers 4968 .*** "Sir Martin Browne ffolkes, 1st Baronet, FRS (21 May 1749 11 December 1821) was an English baronet and Member of Parliament. Martin ffolkes was the only son of William ffolkes, a barrister of Hillington, Norfolk and his second wife Mary, the daughter and heiress of Sir William Browne, MD, President of the Royal College of Physicians. His uncle was Martin Folkes, President of the Royal Society. He was educated at Eton School from 1758 to 1766 and Emmanuel College, Cambridge and then entered Lincoln's Inn in 1768 to study law. He succeeded his father in 1783, inheriting lands in Norfolk. On the death of his grandfather Sir William Browne in 1774 he restyled himself Browne ffolkes and was created a baronet later that year. He was appointed High Sheriff of Norfolk for 178384 and in 1790 was elected MP for King's Lynn, sitting until his death in office in 1821. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1772. He died at Hillington in 1821 and was succeeded by his elder son, William John Henry Browne ffolkes. He had married Fanny, the daughter and coheir of Sir John Turner, 3rd Baronet of Warham, with whom he had 2 sons and 3 daughters." - See Wikipedia.

First edition. Limited edition of 190 copies, 160 on toned paper (as here), and 30 on 'Whatman's had-made paper', each numbered and signed by the editor Bertram Dobell. xii, 128pp. With a half-title. Original publisher's two-tone paper boards. Rubbed, wear to spine panel, lightly marked. Very occasional light spotting. The sole edition, posthumously published for private circulation, of poet and satirist James Thomson's (1834-1882) elegy to Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792- 1822). The editor, bookseller and literary scholar Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), elects to include several of Thomson's essays and notes on Shelley, including his review of Moxon's cheap edition of Shelley's poems (1870), as well as a 'Review of the Life of Shelley' (reprinted from the English Men of Letters Series, 1878) by poet and literary critic John Addington Symonds (1840-1893), and select correspondence between Thomson and William Michael Rossetti (1829-1919), founding member of the Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood and editor of the aforementioned Moxon edition of Shelley (which he revised in 1878 due to wide-spread criticism, not least from Thomson himself). Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Personal copy of Robert Hoe III, first president of the Grolier Club, sumptuously bound by William Matthews, the most prominent American bookbinder of the day, in full crushed crimson levant morocco, with many extra engraved plates. William Matthews (18221896) was trained in London (Remnant and Edmonds) and worked in New York for D. Appleton & Company until 1890. His reputation as a gifted binder was established in 1842 in a folio copy of the Owen Jones' Plans of the Alhambra, which was beautifully decorated in Moorish style. Matthews won many medals, including the silver medal for fine bookbinding at the International Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in New York City. His work was displayed at the Philadelphia Centennial and at the Paris Exhibition of 1899. In 1884 Matthews was elected a member of the Grolier Club, for whom he did all the binding until the end of his life. The Club published his lecture 'Modern Bookbinding Practically Considered' in a luxurious limited edition of 300 copies. Robert Hoe III (1839 - 1909) was the first president of the Grolier Club. He was a successful manufacturer of printing press equipment and an avid collector of rare books and manuscripts whose collection included a Gutenberg Bible. A large portion of his collection was sold at auction in 1912 and went to the Huntington Library. Signed by Robert Hoe, with his leather bookplate in the first volume. The extra engraved suites date from the 1700s through to the 1820s. A wonderful later printed quote from William Matthews concerning the appropriate handling necessary for fine bindings is tipped on to the front free end paper of Volume I. 3 volumes, royal 8vo, 280 pp; 307 pp; 310 pp. Teg, uncut foredges. Volume I hinges cracking; the other 2 volumes slightly rubbed on corners, otherwise in very good condition. OCLC: 37172588.

Condition: Sehr gut. o. P. [27 Doppelbl.] Erste Ausgabe. Nr. 10 von 120 nummerierten und von Lebek im Impressum handsignierten Exemplaren. Mit handschriftlicher Widmung von Lebek für den katholischen Bischof von Erfurt-Meiningen Hugo Aufderbeck (1909-1981), dat. 10.12.76. Sehr gut erhalten. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1010 27 x 18,5 cm. Original-Leinen mit Deckeltitel. Blockbuch.

In-8, 26 cm, 508pp., Bibliogr. p. 489-498. Index, illustr., portrait frontispice, quelques marques d'usage sur la couverture, hommage autographe de l'auteur, Nb-0115, quelques poemes inedits de James Thomson in-fine,