Keepsake by Power (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Hardcover. Red cloth over boards with elaborate gilt stamping to front cover and spine; blind stamping to rear. Title page dated 1855. No copyright page. 272 pages. In fair condition. Cloth at head and foot of spine and corners is frayed. Small split beginning at head of spine along hinge. Covers have some light soiling, though I have to admit the beautiful stamping is distracting from those imperfections. Front and rear gutters are beginning to crack through, so binding feels fragile. Gilt page edges. Beautifully realistic illustrations throughout. A fair reading copy.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 29 pages, frontispiece plate, reproduction of maps, map of San Francisco Bay, fine condition in card covers, one of an edition of 1800. From the library of Alan Villiers with a signed, 4 line presentation inscription from the author to Villiers on the half title page, with some marks and annotations against the text on page 2. Inscribed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. The Keepsake for 1851. Edited by Miss Power, with Beautifully Finished Engravings, from Drawings by the First Artists. Published in London by David Bogue. 1851. 272 pp. 9.75" x 7". 8vo. Hardcover full cloth with gilt exterior designs. Overall fair, with scuffing and light stains to exterior. Light loss to head and heel of spine. Minor starting and wear to hinges. All edges gilt. Last section of pages slightly loose at top. Includes assortment of black-and-white plates and affixed tissue guards. Light markings. General age-related toning to pages, along with periodic foxing and wear. Please see photographs and ask any questions prior to purchasing. A scarce and attractive souvenir keepsake of literary snippets, with ornate gilt designs to front board and spine. Includes works by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Edward Bulwer Lytton, William Makepeace Thackeray, and more.…

In Englisch. 18x24,5 cm, VI, 2 nn. S., 272 S., zahlr. Stahlstiche mit Seidenhemdchen, roter OLnbd. m. reicher Goldprägung, Ecken etw. bestoß., Vollgoldschnitt, flieg. Vors. m. einigen Ziffernvermerken, vereinzelt an den Ecken etw. fingerfleckig, kl. Händlermarke am hint. Spiegel.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable to good. No. 1857 Hardcover NO Dust Jacket. Acceptable to good condition, with tape repairs to spine name to first blank page, hinges are cracked, one page is loose beautiful engravings all present with foxing. U5B47.

Condition: Buone. inglese Condizioni dell'esterno: Rovinata Condizioni dell'interno: Discrete con Difetti, bruniture macchie.

FIRST EDITION, imperial octavo, red textured buckram boards, gilt lettering & tooling/decoration to spine & front board, blind stamp lettering & decoration to rear board, aeg, frontispiece, illus title page, vi + 272pp, illus, VG (light bruising & scuffing to board corners, moderate bruising & scuffing to spine extrems, heavy superficial cracking to hinges- boards still sound, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate crack to front gutter, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown, page to prelims potentially removed, moderate foxing to prelims, some minor foxing to plates). …

Couverture rigide. Condition: Assez bon. Edited by Miss Power. With beautifully finished engravings, from drawings by the first artists, engraved under the superintendence of Frederick A. Heath.London, David Bogue - 1851 - 272 pages. 12 hors texte. Langue anglaise. Une page de dédicace imprimée et illustrée reliée en début d'ouvrage.Reliure demi chagrin noir à coins. Dos à nerfs orné et doré. Roulette dorée brodant les plats. Tranches dorées. Couverture conservée. Dos frotté. Mors frottés et fendillés. Bords et coins frottés. Rares rousseurs. Assez bon état. Format in-4°(25x17).…

0. gr.8°. VIII/272 S. gestochener Vortitel und 12 ganzseitige Stahlstichtafeln. OLeinen (rot) mit reicher ornamentaler Verzierung geprägt in Gold, 3-seitiger Goldschnitt, Ecken u. Rü. oben u. unten etwas bestoßen mit kleinen Fehlstellen, innen sauber, gut erhalten. Auf Wunsch Digitalaufnahme in jpg-Format erhältlich-photo in jpg-format available Sammelband mit Erzählungen, Gedichten etc meist von Frauen geschrieben mit sehr hübschen Illustrationen im Genrestil, Porträts etc. Sprache: Englischglisch 1,200 gr.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Tall 8vo. Pp. 272. In the publisher's red decorated cloth, stamped in gilt, with gilt decorated spine and front board design repeated to rear board in blind. Boards designed by John Leighton, with his initials appearing on the front cover. All edges gilt, with yellow endpapers. Very light foxing, mainly to the last couple of pages. Complete with 12 engravings. The cloth lightly bumped and rubbed at spine ends, lightly bumped bottom corners and the cloth with 3 small tears at the bottom edge of the front board. A nice clean copy. Collects works by almost 30 writers, with contributions by Browning, Hawthorne, Meredith, Ward, and others.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. This book is housed in its own custom-made, slightly marked, box. There is some edge wear to the boards of the book, particularly in the corners and on the top and bottom edges of the spine, where the cloth is torn and fraying. Despite this, the boards are exceedingly beautiful. Intricately pressed and with charming gold gilt to the front and spine. Internally, the end pages are slightly yellowed, but this does not extend into the body of the book. There are no markings or inscriptions, and the pages within are pristine, crisp and complete. Tightly bound. JK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. …

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.…

Quarto. pp. viii, 272. Frontispiece and eleven further plates. Publisher's red cloth elaborately blocked in gilt to upper cover and spine and in blind on lower cover. The cover design is signed at foot "J.L." (i.e. John Leighton) at foot Slight bumping and wear to corners but otherwise a very good copy. Front paste-down has the bookseller's ticket of "W.H.Mason, Repository of Arts, 108 King's Road, Brighton" and the rear paste-down has the ticket of "Leighton, Son and Hodge, Shoe Lane, London". This striking binding appears on p44 of McLean's Victorian Publishers' Book-Bindings.…

Three pages, 12mo, bifolium, good condition, in her sprawling hand, 1/4in. strip of glue from previous laying down on blank page 4. "My dear Sir | Pray do not think me forgetful towards you in not answering your note received many days ago, but I am so occupied and fatigued with writing that I have not a [moment?] to myself, and after all I fear it will be impossible for me to fulfill [sic] my engagement with [publisher] Mr Bentley - | Excuse the brevity of this, I thank you for the [?], and I expect your book is universally read and as universally praised - | Always sincerely yours | M. Blessington. | Not a drawing has Mr Heath sent -". A slip of paper has been attached to page [3] giving the details about the correspondent F. Mansel Reynolds (address etc). Note [Background from 'The Victorian Web']; "These appeared from time to time between July 1832 and December 1833. In the meantime, she asked Bulwer's advice on writing novels. He was now a successful author and took her proposal to Bentley, who was to publish his next three books. Bentley offered Lady Blessington four hundred pounds for the copyright of her first book, a generous offer; in response, she produced six hundred pages in four weeks, of the total nine hundred and eight pages of The Repealers, published in three volumes in June 1833. This work contained thinly veiled references to her enemies in Ireland, but also directly complimented L.E.L.'s Romance and Reality. The success of her Conversations with Lord Byron and her novel obtained an offer for her to edit Heath's Book of Beauty, the first volume of which Landon had produced. For Heath, the snob appeal of a Countess was more attractive than that of a mere poetess, however famous. She prepared her first issue during the summer of 1833 and it was published in November, to enable it to be shipped to America, India and the Colonies, but dated 1834. Contributors to this issue were her dear friends Walter Savage Landor and Bulwer, as well as Henry Bulwer and John Galt, and seven contributions from her own pen. Heath raised Lady Blessington's salary when the Book of Beauty beat Landon's popular Drawing Room Scrapbook by two thousand copies, a sore fact for Landon.".…