Keepsake 1830 (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Small octavo, 232 pages, illustrated with seven plates and one vignette as called for. Covers heavily rubbed, front board nearly detached, top of spine missing, plates and guards very foxed, text good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Format, octavo. Physical description, vii, 352. Plates [18], all with tissue guards including a frontispiece and an extra engraved title page. All edges gilt. The contents are clean. Watered silk, lightly soiled, over boards, sometime rebacked with the original backstrip loosely tipped in. The lower boards showing some edgewear. Light yellow endpapers. The rear pastedown with the imperfect tiny binder's ticket of -' F. Westley, Friar Street, near [ The Hous]es of Commons.' Overall, a near very good copy in 'half' clamshell book box. The contents include the first appearance of three short stories by Mary Shelley: The Mourner; The evil eye, and The false rhyme. Plus pieces ant Walter Scott and Samuel Coleridge. Faxon- Literary Annuals and Gift Books. 1491.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 15 volumes collected in two sizes. Stiff unmarked books bound in brick cloth. Gilt decorated leather spines with 4 raised bands, marbled endpapers, and ribbon marker. 1830 - 1837 are 5" x 7.5". 1838 - 1844 are 6.5" x 9.5" Moderate shelfwear, mainly to corners. Moderate foxing to endpapers and reverse of some of the etchings but pages are bright and crisp. Up to 18 steel-plate tissue-guarded etchings per volume. Larger editions printed in Paris, the smaller in London. The publication history of "The Keepsake" is complicated, but these appear to be first editions. The foreword to the 1833 edition makes note of the newer larger size. No further printings are noted on any volumes. Links to the contents of each volume found on wikipedia.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The Keepsake for 1830. Edited by Frederic Mansel Reynolds. London: Published for the Proprietor, By Hurst, Chance, and Co, and B. Jennings. Printed by Thomas Davison. Three original stories by Mary Shelley: "The Mourner, A Tale," "The Evil Eye, A Tale," and "The false Rhyme, A Tale." They do not list Shelley's name, but rather, "The Author of Frankenstein." Fine binding, lacking "Presentation Plate," 352 pp, 7.5 x 4.75", 12mo. In good condition. Both front and rear hinges are rubbed & fragile, but still intact. Scuffing around edges & corners of boards. Gilt deco and bordering on front and rear boards bright and clean. Gilt lettering and deco on spine is beginning to chip/soil, but is still legible. Gilt denetelles are bright and clean. All edges gilt. Previous ownership signature on front fly-leaf. Marginalia found on un-decorated side of marbled end-page & table of contents. Tissue guard between first two plates exhibits loss at top corner. A few tissue guards exhibit pencil tracing of plates. Light toning throughout text-block, some instance of light foxing. Tissue guards exhibit off-setting from plates. Binding intact, please see photos. Gift books, literary annuals, or keepsakes were 19th-century books, often lavishly decorated, which collected essays, short fiction, and poetry. They were primarily published in the autumn, in time for the holiday season and were intended to be given away rather than read by the purchaser. They were often printed with the date of the coming new year, but copyrighted with the actual year of publication. "The Mourner" is a short story exploring themes of isolation and identity. It is a reflection of Mary Shelley's own grief experienced after her husband, Percy Shelley's, death while sailing on his schooner, Don Juan, during a terrible storm. There is a dramatic shift in all of Shelley's literature after Percy's death and the death of her close friend Lord Byron. Shelley, more than likely, based the main character "Ellen" as a personification of herself. "The Evil Eye" employs many motifs common in Gothic fiction, including abduction, revenge, and the curse of the Evil Eye. The tale displays the aesthetics of Romantic Orientalism, and can be categorized as an Oriental tale. "The False Rhyme" is one of Mary Shelley's shortest stories & it follows unusually closely to the content of the engraving provided as prompt and accompanying illustration by the editors of "The Keepsake." The story is also a prime example of Shelley's wit and humor. A beautifully bound gift book, with excellent writers and stories.…

Couverture rigide. Condition: Assez bon. Belle reliure d'époque en maroquin rouge, plats avec encadrement doré, dos lisse orné à filets noirs et dorés, titres dorés, toutes tranches dorées. Illustré de 18 gravures sur acier d'après Turner, Stephanoff, ., légères rousseurs. Préface, table of contents, table of illustrations, 352p. De nombreux écrits d'écrivains illustres: Walter Scott, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, William Roscoe, etc. Size: In8.…

Condition: Bon état. in-8, demi-chagrin à longs grains, dos à nerfs orné de fleurons et guirlandes dorés, tranches dorées (reliure moderne), (4) + 267 pp., 18 gravures hors-texte sous serpentes par Turner, Lawrence, Devéria, Cooper, Bonnington, etc. Contributions de Walter Scott, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Chateaubriand, Nodier, Stendhal, Lamartine, Sainte-Beuve, Dumas, Constant, etc. Quelques rousseurs, sinon agréable exemplaire, bien conservé dans une belle reliure pastiche.…

Hardback, 7.5 x 4.75 inches. Quarterbound dark brown morocco leather to spine and corners and brown cloth to boards. Gilt lettering to spine with raised banding, gilt and embossed details to leather on board edges. In very good condition. In later leather fine binding. Small chip to leather at top corner of spine. Some tanning to prelims with minor mark to edge of prelims. Mild foxing to frontis and title plate, some minor foxing spots to inside plates. One or two minor spots to pages else pages all very clean and tight. Else a very good clean and tight copy. ?W.H. Smith? binders label to rear. 352pp. With 18 steel engraved plates including frontis, title page and ?Presentation Plate? Collection of essays, verses and illustrations by well known authors and artists. Contributors include; Sir Walter Scott, C.B. Sheridan, Lord Byron, Coleridge, Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein), and many others.…