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Edité par 128 Camden Road Villas London 3 April, 1847
Vendeur : Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Royaume-Uni
Manuscrit / Papier ancien
3pp., 16mo. Bifolium. On aged and foxed paper. He wishes to be informed 'whether the Forget Me Not" so long and ably edited by your Father will be published for the ensuing year - i.e. for 1848'. One of his daughters has 'written down Stories one or two of which have already appeared, and she would be very happy to avail herself of an opportunity of writing something' for the annual, so he asks him to 'ascertain whether your Father would like to insert a short Nouvellette [sic] to the extent of 4 to 5 pages'. The subject is presumably Roscoe's daughter Jane Elizabeth St John (1829-1906) was generally known as Mrs. Horace Roscoe St John, author of 'Audubon the Naturalist' (1856), 'Englishwomen and the Age' (1860), a pamphlet on the condition of women, and two historical works, 'Masaniello of Naples' (1865) and 'The Court of Anna Carafa' (1872).
Edité par Richard Bentley, London, 1832
Vendeur : The Kelmscott Bookshop, ABAA, Savage, MD, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Hardcover. A presention copy from the author, with inscription to the top of the title page in Volume II: "H. Hole Esq. with the author's best regards." Thomas Roscoe (1791 - 1871) was an English translator and also a novelist who enjoyed studying the work by other European novelists. In the preface he writes: "In the following series of national novels, connected with the secondary class of prose fiction so abounding in Spanish literature, it has been the humble endeavour of the translator, upon a similar plan with the Italian and the German specimens, to convey to the English reader some idea of its rise and progress, as well as of the peculiar manners, customs, modes of thinking at different periods, as exhibited in this form of composition." Includes Don Juan Manuel, Mendoza, Mateo Aleman, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Matias de los Reyes, Don Christoval Lozano, Luis Veliz de Guavara, Isidro de Robles, Alonzo del Castillo Salorzano, Don Francisco de Quevedo Villegas, Doctor don Juan Perez de Montalvan, Antionio de Eslava, and Donna Maria de Zayas I Soto Mayor. Each author or tale is introduced by the compiler, Thomas Roscoe. All volumes are bound in matching three quarter tan leather over pink and brown marbled paper covered boards. Lacks title and volume labels. Gilt decoration to spine compartments. Wear to edges of boards, rubbing to boards and hinges. Large chip to leather on foot of spine of Volume II. A few chips to leather on boards. The front hinge of Volume I is starting. Marbled endpapers and full marbled edges. Occasional spots of foxing to interiors, but clean and bright overall. A worn, but still reasonably attractive set. Volume I: 360 pages; Volume II: 341 pages; Volume III: 321 pages. LIT/110922.
Edité par Printed by Charles Baldwyn,, London:, 1824
Vendeur : Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books, ABAA, Florham Park, NJ, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Cruikshank (illustrateur). 8vo full calf illustrated, 253, [2] pp. Top cover detached, and library label on front end paper. Inscription of previous owner on front end paper, tissue guards for illustrations are not present, otherwise a nice clean copy. Roscoe (1791-1871) selected a variety of interesting Italian folk tales, several of which were borrowed by Shakespeare as part of the plots in some of his works. This appears to be a 1st edition 2nd issue of an early Cruikshank work. Contains the title page vignette, which probably distinguishes it from the first issue. Including the title page illustration, The Pomegranate Seed, there are 16 illustrations in this volume, including "The Dead Rider" illustration, which is not in later editions. See Cohn 444.
Edité par W Simpkin and R Marshall, London, 1836
Leather. Etat : Good. None (illustrateur). A four volume set exploring the work of Italian novelists, translated and edited by Thomas Roscoe. Complete in four volumes. The second edition of this particular work. Bound by Winstanley, Manchester. This work is translated from the original Italian into English by Thomas Roscoe. The novelists selected for discussion to these volumes are arranged in an historical and chronological series with both critical and biographical notes. Novelists discussed include Girolamo Padovani, Luigi Bramieri, Francesco Sansovino, Niccolo Machiavelli and Boccaccio. In uniform half calf bindings with paper covered boards. Externally, generally smart with small patches of slight rubbing to joints, extremities and spine, particularly to the head and tail. Rear hinge to volume I has failed resulting in backstrip lifting at rear. Front hinge to volumes I, II and III are slightly strained but firm. Rear hinge to volume III is slightly strained but firm. Both hinges to volume IV are slightly strained but firm. Small loss to top of front joint to volume III. Small loss to head of spine to volume III. Small crack to rear joint at head of volume III. Internally, all volumes are firmly bound. Pages are slightly age toned with light scattered spots throughout all volumes. Good. book.
Edité par Henry Colburn, London, 1826
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
12mo, four volumes: pp. [i-v] vi-xi [xii-xiii] xiv-xx [1-3] 4-413 [414: printer's imprint]; [i-iii] iv [misnumbered "vi"] [1-3] 4-405 [406: blank] [407-408: publisher ads]; [i-iv] [1-3] 4-374; [i-iv] [1-3] 4-374, half title in volume one only; none called for in other volumes, early full leather, all panels stamped in gold and blind, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. First edition. "One of the handful of important anthologies of German fiction, emphasizing the supernatural, that appeared in the early part of the nineteenth century, reflecting and reinforcing the influence of this material on the Romantic movements in Britain and America. This collection of more than 1600 pages includes early legends (Reynard the Fox, Thyl Owlglass, the Merry Jester and Doctor Faustus [an abridgment of a 1599 work by G. R. Widman]), folk tales and popular traditions recorded by Otmar, Gottschalck, Eberhardt, Büsching, the Brothers Grimm and La Motte Fouqué, and stories by Musaeus, Schiller, Tieck, Langbein and Engel, including first appearances of English-language versions of weird tales by Tieck, as well as an obscure story by la Motte Fouqué. This collection preceded Carlyle's similar, and better known, four-volume anthology by a year." - Robert Eldridge. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 1-26. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1416. Bleiler (1978), p. 170. Block, The English Novel 1740-1850, p. 201. Wolff 5960. All half titles present where called for. Private owner's bookplates affixed to front paste-downs of all volumes. Leather scuffed along outer joints, mild wear at spine ends and corner tips, slight loss from crown of volume one, lacks the leaf of ads at rear of volume two. (#136033).
Edité par London: Printed For Charles Baldwyn, 1824., 1824
Vendeur : D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Edition originale
8vo. pp. vi, [2], 253, [1] + 8 pp. of publisher's ads. complete with half-title. 16 wood engravings by George Cruikshank. untrimmed in later half roan bound by Charles Winstanley, Manchester (worn, foxed, scattered dampmarks to upper margins). First Edition, First Issue; with plate to the 'Dead Rider Tale' (p. 58), no woodcut on title, and misprint 'creditor' on p. 32, line 10. Cohn 444.