XIX Century Fiction. A Bibliographical Record based on his own Collection. [ 2 vols, complete set ]

Sadleir, M.

Edité par Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, first edition, 1951, 1951

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Limited edition of 1025 copies. 2 vols, cloth, top edges gilt, 4to, xxxiii, 398 + 195 pp. The first edition of this classic work, attractively produced in large format and superior to the 1969 reprint in the print quality of the illustrations. Volume I provides a detailed bibliographical catalogue of some 3,392 items, many entries extensively annotated, together with Sadleir's entertaining introduction "Passages from the Autobiography of a Bibliomaniac" and an interesting analysis of "Comparative scarcities" for many of the more important authors. Volume II is a bibliographical catalogue of his "Yellow-back collection" together with a section on "Novelist's Libraries, Standard Novels, the Parlour Library, and other cloth (or cloth and board) bound fiction (or part-fiction) series." Sadleir's work is primarily based on his own fiction collection, but in many cases he expanded the scope to provide complete bibliographies for previously-unbibliographed authors, even including non-fiction works. The authors featured in the "comparative scarcities" section are: W H Ainsworth, R D Blackmore, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Gissing, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Richard Jefferies, Charles Kingsley, Henry Kingsley, Joseph Le Fanu, Charles Lever, Frederick Marryat, George Meredith, Ouida, Charles Reade, Somerville & Ross, William Thackeray, Anthony Trollope, Mrs Frances Trollope, Mrs Henry Wood. According to Breslauer and Folter: "The fundamental bibliography of Regency and Victorian fiction, based upon his own collection, by one of the most influential English bibliographers of the present century. Sadileir was also the author of the best-known post-Victorian Victorian novel, Fanny by Gaslight. His Trollope collection, on which he had based his exemplary bibliography (1929) and which he had sold to Princeton University, is not included (apart from a few corrections and additions). Vol. I is an alphabetical author bibliography; Vol. II lists the 'Yellow Back Collection' and fiction series. The small number of works which Sadleir failed to secure for himself are described from copies in statutory libraries and marked with an asterisk. Sadleir sold his collection to the library of the University of California at Los Angeles." From a review by John Hayward: ".these two impeccably designed and printed quartos - exemplars of Cambridge prlnting in its prime - are far more than mere reference-books and they can be warmly recommended for perusal, if not for extended study, as a fascinating sociological document by anyone interested in the reading tastes of Regency and Victorian England." Corners slightly bumped, covers slightly rubbed and contents slightly agetoned, otherwise Near Very Good.

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• Titre: XIX Century Fiction. A Bibliographical Record based on his own Collection. [ 2 vols, complete set ]
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, first edition, 1951
• Date de parution: 1951
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
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  • Literature : English (Bibliographies)