REYNOLDS, FREDERIC MANSEL EDITOR (10 résultats)

Paperback. Etat : Brand New. 1st edition. 404 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Halbleder. 18,5 cm ; Mit zahlreichen gestochenen Bildtafeln, darunter zwei Stiche nach Werken von William Turner (diese gestochen von R. Wallis). Geprägter Halblederband mit etwas Goldschmuck, VII, [I], 352 Seiten. Einband berieben. Seiten und Tafeln teilweise fleckig (Binding rubbed, Pages and Plates partly stained). hwR.-L.

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. First Edition. 8vo. Contributions from Mary Shelley Walter Scott Lord Byron S T Coleridge Caroline lamb. Wear to spine. Both joints have rubbing and tears in cloth. Rubbing to edges, wear to corners. AEG. Some offsetting. Book.

Cloth. Etat : G+. No Jacket. Assumed First Edition. 352 pp, 18 b/w plates, most with a tissue guard, the outside page edges are gilded, I have assumed the book is published in 1830 since no other dates are present and the bottom of the spine is stamped London 1830, the book has a 4 page story, "The False Rhyme" by MARY SHELLEY, the pages are clean with occasional light foxing, the plates and front free pages are foxed a little heavier, the front free endpaper has a name inked on it, the inside hinges are reinforced with book tape, the covers are tight and have light wear and soil, mostly on the extremeties.

8vo. 1 page. Mounted to larger backing paper. To the novelist Jean Middlemass (1833-1919), requesting her to read a (formerly enclosed) edition of "The Keepsake", which included a tale by Reynolds himself: "Will you allow me to have the pleasure of sending to you a Keepsake. Pray oblige me, too, by reading it. I have written a tale in it: will you guess it? Remember me, I beg very kindly, to Mrs. Middlemass [.]". - Reynolds appears as editor of Mary Shelley's novels and tales in "The Keepsake" in the late 1820s and 1830s. - With traces of old folds and collector's note to backing paper. Slight brownstaining.

308pp. With an engraved presentation plate, an engraved frontispiece, an additional engraved title page, and a further 14 engraved plates. Contemporary richly gilt-tooled red morocco, A.E.G. Minor shelf-wear. Internally clean and crisp. An attractively bound anthology of prose and verse, including contributions by Agnes Strickland, Letitia Landon, and, most notably, two short stories by Mary Shelley, billed as 'the Author of Frankenstein; 'The Brother and Sister, an Italian Tale' and 'The Invisible Girl, a Tale'. The former, set in Siena, is an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet; indeed the opening lines reference the Bard directly: 'It is well known that the hatred borne by one family against another, and the strife of parties, which often led to bloodshed in the Italian cities during the middle ages, so vividly described by Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet, was not confined to the Montecchi and Ciapelletti of Verona, but existed with equal animosity in almost every other town of that beautiful peninsula'. The latter is the first appearance of a tragic tale set on the coasts of Wales, that interweaves motifs characteristic of Gothic fiction, including a tyrannical guardian, a persecuted heroine, and a supernatural apparition. Faxon 1494. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. The Keepsake for MDCCCXXX. Edited by Frederic Mansel Reynolds. London: Published for the Proprietor, By Hurst, Chance, and Co., and R. Jennings. Three stories by Mary Shelley: "The Mourner," "The Evil Eye," and The false Rhyme." 352 pp, 7.25 x 4.75", 12mo. In good condition. Cloth boards exhibit normal age-related wear: edges are scuffed and corners are bumped. Head and tail of spine lacking - binding exposed. Gilt lettering on spine heavily soiled, barely legible. Front and rear hinges are lacking cloth - binding exposed. All edges gilt. Bookplate found on front paste-down: T.B.M. Baskerville. Bookseller's ticket also found on front paste-down: W.W. Lucy. Booksellers & Stationers, Marlborough. Light toning and foxing throughout text-block, mostly to plates & their tissue guards. Bookbinder's ticket found on rear paste-down: F. Westley, Binder, Friar Street, Near Doctor's Commons. A complete work - no plates or pages missing. Binding intact. Please see photos. "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. Three original stories by Mary Shelley, referred to as "The Author of Frankenstein." Gift quality for any Mary Shelley aficionado.

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. 1st Edition. The Keepsake for MMDCCCXXXII. Edited by Frederic Mansel Reynolds. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green (1832) [December 1831]. Octavo, Pages [4] [1] 2-320. Engraved title page and frontispiece in addition to a presentation plate and numerous engraved illustrations throughout. British literary annual containing The Dream by Mary Shelley, A Highland Anecdote by Sir Walter Scott, and numerous other stories and poems. First appearance of "The Dream" a gothic supernatural tale accompanied by an engraved illustration called Constance, painted by Louisa Sharpe and engraved by Charles Heath. Fair binding has peeling spine panel, repaired joints.Bookplate of Dr. Francis Robert Packard on f.f.e., toning to endpapers. Fine book block ready for a new binding.

Hardcover. Etat : 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.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Two engraved frontispieces, additional engraved title and 15 plates by C. Heath, Thomson, J. Edwards, C. Rolls, Brandard, Miller, R. Wallis, W. Wallis, Wilmore, Mitchell and F. Bacon after various artists. 8vo. [190 x 121 x 30 mm]. viii, 320 pp. Contemporary binding of blue goatskin, the covers with a border of a gilt thick and thin fillet, a gilt roll and three blind fillets, enclosing a panel of onlaid red goatskin framed by gilt and blind fillets and a blind roll, with arabesque ornaments in the corners and a lozenge shaped centre of burgundy goatskin outlined with gilt and blind fillets and containing gilt arabesque and scroll ornaments. The spine divided into six panels with gilt tooled bands, lettered in the second panel and dated at the foot, the others tooled with a gilt lyre within a compartment, the edges of the boards tooled with gilt roll, ivory coloured goatskin doublures and free endleaves tooled in gilt and blind to match the covers, blue silk flyleaves, gilt edges. The binding is super-de-luxe. I had assumed that the covers, doublures and endleaves were decorated with one or more blocks, but a close examination reveals that they are each made up from individual tools and rolls. The Keepsake was published annually from 1828, and the last volume in the British Library set is 1857. The edition for 1830 was issued in a scarlet moiré silk binding by Francis Westley (see Morris and Levin: The Art of Publishers' Bookbindings 1815-1915, no.15) and later editions were bound in red cloth blocked in gilt to a design by John Leighton (Morris and Levin, no.38).