Nineteenth Century General Fiction. All books first editions and first printings, except as stated.
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ROBERT TEMPLE BOOKSELLERS BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ARCHIVE, File C: Nineteenth Century General Fiction. All books first editions and first printings, except as stated.
HOLT (Emily Sarah). Lettice Eden; Or, The lamps of Earth and the Light of Heaven. A Tale of the Last Days of King Henry the Eighth. John F. Shaw and Co., 48 Paternoster Row, N.D. [1877]. Wood-engraved frontispiece by H.W. Petherick; 8pp. inserted text-paper advertisements of Holt's works (latest title ‘Clare Avery' [1876], listed without reviews), followed by publisher's inserted 16pp. catalogue of ‘New publications', undated, but listing books issued not later than 1876; diagonally very fine ribbed deep yellow-green cloth, ruled blind on back cover, ruled black, lettered gilt, and gilt-outlined yellow-green shadowed black, on front cover, ruled and blocked black and gilt, lettered gilt, and green-through-gilt, on spine; a.e. burnished scarlet; end-papers coated cream. Small patch rubbed in gilt around spine imprint; otherwise a virtually fine copy.
Not in Sadleir or Wolff. The absence of any of Emily Holt's novels from Sadleir is not surprising, since, though extremely prolific, she did not publish in multi-volume format. Her absence from Wolff demonstrates the extreme scarcity of her books in first edition form. Along with Emma Jane Worboise, Emily Holt is a good example of a novelist very popular in her day with that stratum of readers who did not aspire to the circulating libraries, whose original editions are now very scarce, having for the most part been read to pieces by their owners. Emily Holt's novels were all historical, and were published under the general title: ‘Tales of English Life in the Olden Time'. They were very much reprinted, in the 80s and 90s sometimes in quite sumptuous editions, but also in the cheap editions of publisher's such as Richard Edward King - in which form they were still very often seen some twenty-five or thirty years ago gracing the outside shelves of the poorer sort of bookshop. A demy 8vo collected edition of The Works, beautifully bound, but on very inferior paper, was published by Shaw in the early years of the present century. It is now very rare. The task of identifying Holt's first editions is complicated by the fact that they were all published by John F. Shaw, who seldom either dated any of his books, or declared their edition status. It may generally be done by the advertisements, as here. The book was published at 5/-.
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HOLT (Emily Sarah). Lady Sybil's choice: A Tale of the Crusades. John F. Shaw and Co., 48 Paternoster Row, N.D. [1879]. Wood-engraved frontispiece by H. [W.] Petherick, with loose tissue guard; integral advertisement leaf of Holt's works (latest title ‘The Maiden's Lodge' [1879], listed without reviews), followed by publisher's inserted 8pp. list of ‘Works by Emily S. Holt' (titles not published later than 1878) and 16pp. catalogue of ‘New Publications', undated, but listing books issued not later than 1878, at end; diagonally very fine ribbed deep yellow-green cloth, blocked black on back cover, black and gilt on front cover, ruled black, lettered gilt, and gilt-outlined black, on front cover, blocked black and gilt, ruled gilt, lettered gilt, black, and gilt-striped black, on spine; a.e. burnished scarlet; end-papers coated yellow. Corners of back cover very faintly damp-marked; otherwise a virtually fine copy.
Not in Sadleir or Wolff. The absence of any of Emily Holt's novels from Sadleir is not surprising, since, though extremely prolific, she did not publish in multi-volume format. Her absence from Wolff demonstrates the extreme scarcity of her books in first edition form. Along with Emma Jane Worboise, Emily Holt is a good example of a novelist very popular in her day with that stratum of readers who did not aspire to the circulating libraries, whose original editions are now very scarce, having for the most part been read to pieces by their owners. Emily Holt's novels were all historical, and were published under the general title: ‘Tales of English Life in the Olden Time'. They were very much reprinted, in the 80s and 90s sometimes in quite sumptuous editions, but also in the cheap editions of publisher's such as Richard Edward King - in which form they were still very often seen some twenty-five or thirty years ago gracing the outside shelves of the poorer sort of bookshop. A demy 8vo collected edition of The Works, beautifully bound, but on very inferior paper, was published by Shaw in the early years of the present century. It is now very rare. The task of identifying Holt's first editions is complicated by the fact that they were all published by John F. Shaw, who seldom either dated any of his books, or declared their edition status. It may generally be done by the advertisements, as here. The black spine lettering of the present volume is unusual, being set against a label-like panel of wavy diagonal stripes, some of which pass over the lettering, and others behind it (some of the letters thus being wholly black, and others stripy). The book was published at 5/-.
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HOLT (Emily Sarah). The maidens' lodge; Or, None of self and all of thee. A Tale of the Reign of Queen Anne. John F. Shaw and Co., 48, Paternoster Row, N.D. [1879]. Sm.cr.8vo; half-title not called for; advertisement leaf at front; wood-engraved frontispiece and three plates by J.W. Petherick; pp.viii+248; diagonally fine ribbed dark green cloth, ruled and blocked blind on back cover, black on front cover and spine, lettered gilt, black, and gilt-shadowed rustic gilt on front cover, ruled, blocked, and lettered gilt, lettered dark green through gilt on spine; end-papers coated pale yellow. Nice copy.
There is no list of plates, but they are marked to face pp.68, 156, and 217, and are here tipped in at those openings. Not in Sadleir or Wolff. The absence of any of Emily Holt's novels from Sadleir is not surprising, since, though extremely prolific, she did not publish in multi-volume format. Her absence from Wolff demonstrates the extreme scarcity of her books in first edition form. Along with Emma Jane Worboise, Emily Holt is a good example of a novelist very popular in her day with that stratum of readers who did not aspire to the circulating libraries, whose original editions are now very scarce, having for the most part been read to pieces by their owners. Emily Holt's novels were all historical, and were published under the general title: ‘Tales of English Life in the Olden Time'. They were very much reprinted, in the 80s and 90s sometimes in quite sumptuous editions, but also in the cheap editions of publisher's such as Richard Edward King - in which form they were still very often seen some twenty-five or thirty years ago gracing the outside shelves of the poorer sort of bookshop. A demy 8vo collected edition of The Works, beautifully bound, but on very inferior paper, was published by Shaw in the early years of the present century. It is now very rare. The task of identifying Holt's first editions is complicated by the fact that they were all published by John F. Shaw, who seldom either dated any of his books, or declared their edition status. It may generally be done by the advertisements, the fourteen titles in the series listed in the present volume starting, correctly, with ‘Lady Sybil's Choice', also published in 1879, which is listed here without reviews, and including nothing later than that title. The present volume was published at 3/6d., and is exceptionally plain for an Emily Holt first edition. Usually they were published at 5/-.
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HOLT (Emily Sarah). Red and White: A Tale of the Wars of the Roses. London: John F. Shaw and Co., 48 Paternoster Row, (All rights reserved.) N.D. [1882]. Wood-engraved frontispiece after H. Petherick; integral advertisement leaf, followed by publisher's inserted 16pp. Catalogue (denominated ‘Catalogue B') at end; pp.366+[ii]; deep yellow-green buckram, blocked in black, white, and red on front cover and spine, lettered gilt and black on spine, black-shadowed red, black-shadowed white, and black on front cover; end-papers coated pale yellow. A fine copy.
Not in Sadleir or Wolff. The absence of any of Emily Holt's novels from Sadleir is not surprising, since, though extremely prolific, she did not publish in multi-volume format. Her absence from Wolff demonstrates the extreme scarcity of her books in first edition form. Along with Emma Jane Worboise, Emily Holt is a good example of a novelist very popular in her day with that stratum of readers who did not aspire to the circulating libraries, whose original editions are now very scarce, having for the most part been read to pieces by their owners. Emily Holt's novels were all historical, and were published under the general title: ‘Tales of English Life in the Olden Time'. They were very much reprinted, in the 80s and 90s sometimes in quite sumptuous editions, but also in the cheap editions of publisher's such as Richard Edward King - in which form they were still very often seen some twenty-five or thirty years ago gracing the outside shelves of the poorer sort of bookshop. A demy 8vo collected edition of The Works, extravagantly bound in scarlet and extra gilt, but on very inferior paper, was published by Shaw in the early years of the present century. It is now very rare. The task of identifying Holt's first editions is complicated by the fact that they were all published by John F. Shaw, who seldom either dated any of his books, or declared their edition status. It may generally be done by the advertisements, as here, this book not appearing on the integral advertisement leaf listing of her works, which advertises ‘Joyce Morrell's Harvest' in the lead position and without reviews, as the latest published; whilst in the Catalogue it has been moved to the end of the list on the equivalent page, and given a note from a review, the lead position being taken by the present title, without reviews, but with a blurb beginning: ‘To her popular series "Tales of English Life in the Olden Time" - this well-known author adds one on the stirring days of the Wars of the Roses . . . The book was published at 5/-.
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HOLT (Emily Sarah). Wearyholme; Or, Seedtime and harvest. A Tale of the Restoration of Charles the Second. London: John F. Shaw and Co., 48 Paternoster Row, N.D. [1883]. Wood-engraved frontispiece after H. Petherick, with tissue guard; pp.384; publisher's inserted 16pp. Catalogue (denominated ‘Catalogue B') at end; fawny brown buckram, blocked in dark green and red, lettered gilt and dark green shadowed gilt, on front cover and spine, lettered dark green on front cover, ruled gilt and dark green on spine; end-papers printed with floral pattern in fawn. Very slight foxing of edges; tissue foxed with some offsetting onto facing pages; otherwise a fine copy.
Not in Sadleir or Wolff. The absence of any of Emily Holt's novels from Sadleir is not surprising, since, though extremely prolific, she did not publish in multi-volume format. Her absence from Wolff demonstrates the extreme scarcity of her books in first edition form. Along with Emma Jane Worboise, Emily Holt is a good example of a novelist very popular in her day with that stratum of readers who did not aspire to the circulating libraries, whose original editions are now very scarce, having for the most part been read to pieces by their owners. Emily Holt's novels were all historical, and were published under the general title: ‘Tales of English Life in the Olden Time'. They were very much reprinted, in the 80s and 90s sometimes in quite sumptuous editions, but also in the cheap editions of publisher's such as Richard Edward King - in which form they were still very often seen some twenty-five or thirty years ago gracing the outside shelves of the poorer sort of bookshop. A demy 8vo collected edition of The Works, extravagantly bound in scarlet and extra gilt, but on very inferior paper, was published by Shaw in the early years of the present century. It is now very rare. The task of identifying Holt's first editions is complicated by the fact that they were all published by John F. Shaw, who seldom either dated any of his books, or declared their edition status. It may generally be done by the advertisements, as here, this book not appearing, without reviews, as the lead title of Holt's works in the catalogue. Nineteen other titles are listed, all with reviews, and none of them dating from later than 1882. The book was published at 5/-.
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HOLT (Emily Sarah). The Lord of the marches; Or, The story of Roger Mortimer. A Tale of the Fourteenth Century. John F. Shaw and Co., 48 Paternoster Row, N.D. [1884]. Half-title not called for; wood-engraved frontispiece and two plates by M. Irwin; publisher's inserted 16pp. Catalogue (denominated ‘Catalogue B') at end; pp.224; olive-green buckram, blocked in dark green, silver, and gilt on front cover, ruled, blocked and embossed gilt on spine, lettered gilt on front cover, gilt and dark green on spine; end-papers printed florally in grey. A nice copy.
Not in Sadleir or Wolff. The absence of any of Emily Holt's novels from Sadleir is not surprising, since, though extremely prolific, she did not publish in multi-volume format. Her absence from Wolff demonstrates the extreme scarcity of her books in first edition form. Along with Emma Jane Worboise, Emily Holt is a good example of a novelist very popular in her day with that stratum of readers who did not aspire to the circulating libraries, whose original editions are now very scarce, having for the most part been read to pieces by their owners. Emily Holt's novels were all historical, and were published under the general title: ‘Tales of English Life in the Olden Time'. They were very much reprinted, in the 80s and 90s sometimes in quite sumptuous editions, but also in the cheap editions of publisher's such as Richard Edward King - in which form they were still very often seen some twenty-five or thirty years ago gracing the outside shelves of the poorer sort of bookshop. A demy 8vo collected edition of The Works, extravagantly bound in scarlet and extra gilt, but on very inferior paper, was published by Shaw in the early years of the present century. It is now very rare. The task of identifying Holt's first editions is complicated by the fact that they were all published by John F. Shaw, who seldom either dated any of his books, or declared their edition status. It may generally be done by the advertisements, as here, this book appearing at the head of the second advertisement leaf listing her works in the catalogue, without reviews, and opposite to ‘The Lord Mayor of London', published in the same year, which heads the first leaf, also without reviews. This book was published at 3/6d., ‘The Lord Mayor of London' at 5/-. There is no list of plates, but they are here marked for pp.89 and 126, and are tipped in to face pp.80 and 160.
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HOLT (Emily Sarah). It might have been: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot. London: John F. Shaw and Co., 48 Paternoster Row, N.D. [1889]. (All rights reserved.) Half-tone frontispiece by M. Irwin, with tissue guard; 8pp. inserted advertisements on thicker paper of John F. Shaw & Co.'s Publications (undated, but titles not published later than 1888), followed by publisher's inserted 8pp. catalogue of ‘John F. Shaw & Co.'s New Stories' (including this as the only 5/- Holt title listed without reviews); red-chocolate buckram, blocked pictorially black, gilt, milk chocolate, iron grey, and red-chocolate through gilt, ruled black, lettered black, gilt, and red-chocolate through gilt, on front cover, blocked pictorially black, gilt, milk chocolate, and iron grey, ruled black, lettered black, and gilt, on spine; end-papers printed florally pale grey. Half-title removed; otherwise a fine copy.
Also known in buckram of a pale sky-blue colour, with half-tone black blocking substituting for the iron grey, and milk chocolate rules as well as black ones on the spine and front cover. Because on that variant the half-tone blocking substitutes for grey (thus reducing the number of foils used), we have little hesitation in regarding the present cloth colour as the primary one. Not in Sadleir or Wolff. The absence of any of Emily Holt's novels from Sadleir is not surprising, since, though extremely prolific, she did not publish in multi-volume format. Her absence from Wolff demonstrates the extreme scarcity of her books in first edition form. Along with Emma Jane Worboise, Emily Holt is a good example of a novelist very popular in her day with that stratum of readers who did not aspire to the circulating libraries, whose original editions are now very scarce, having for the most part been read to pieces by their owners. The present volume resembles, both in format and design, the Blackie juveniles, and we find Emily Holt's books being advertised by this date more or less indifferently both as for boys and girls or as general fiction. Emily Holt's novels were all historical, and were published under the general title: ‘Tales of English Life in the Olden Time'. They were very much reprinted, in the 80s and 90s sometimes in quite sumptuous editions, but also in the cheap editions of publisher's such as Richard Edward King - in which form they were still very often seen some twenty-five or thirty years ago gracing the outside shelves of the poorer sort of bookshop. A demy 8vo collected edition of The Works, extravagantly bound in scarlet and extra gilt, but on very inferior paper, was published by Shaw in the early years of the present century. It is now very rare. The task of identifying Holt's first editions is complicated by the fact that they were all published by John F. Shaw, who seldom either dated any of his books, or declared their edition status. It may generally be done by the advertisements, as here. The book was published at 5/-.
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HOLWORTHY (S.M.). Scylla and Charybdis Or Lilian Lane. London: James Nisbet & Co., 21 Berners Street, 1886. F'cap 8vo; blank before half-title; integral advertisement leaf at end; pp.[2]+xiv+173+[i (blank)]+2; bevelled diagonally fine ribbed bright green cloth, ruled and blocked black on sides, lettered gilt on front cover, blocked and lettered gilt on spine; end-papers coated deep terra-cotta. Slight general wear to covers; label removed from front free end-paper leaving paste-marks; scattered light dusting and foxing; in all, a good copy only.
Not in Sadleir or Wolff. An improving story, by a lady.
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[HOMER (A.N.).]. Only Flesh and Blood. By The author of "Hernani the Jew". Hutchinson & Co., 1898. 3pp. integral advertisements at end; diagonally fine ribbed cerise cloth, blocked blind on front cover, lettered gilt on front cover and spine; a.e. uncut. Cloth of spine slightly wrinkled, and gilt on spine dull; otherwise a fine copy.
Not in SAdleir; this title not in Wolff. Somewhat oddly, the author's name is given in the advertisement for "Hernani" at the back of the volume, although it does not appear on either title-page or covers!
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HOOD (Thomas). National tales. In two volumes. William H. Ainsworth, Old Bond Street, 1827. 2 Vols., lge.12mo; half-titles not called for; lithographic frontispiece and three plates by T. Dighton (printed by C. Hullmandel) in each volume; integral advertisement leaf at end of volume two; pp.viii+244; [iv]+238+[ii]; volume one quarter dark drab paper, blue boards, volume two quarter brown paper, light drab sides, spine label on each volume; all edges uncut. Nice copy.
Presentation copy, with the author's holograph inscription on the front end-paper of volume one: "E.T. & K. Hood / from their affectionate Brother / the Author". An early Hood title, and one of the few pieces of fiction issued by Ainsworth during his brief career as a publisher. Not in Sadleir or Wolff; Block, p.112; CBEL, III, p.224. There is no list of plates, but in this copy those to volume one face pp.15, [101], and [219]; those to volume two pp.[1], [95], and [127].
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[HOOK (Theodore).]. Sayings and doings. A Series Of Sketches from life. In three volumes. Printed for Henry Colburn, 1824. 3 Vols., lge.12mo; half-titles not called for; contemporary half roan, marbled sides. All spines lacking, and sides showing some general wear; title to volume one laid down; a little foxing and dusting, heavier and more extensive in volume one; a very good working copy.
Sadleir, 1212. The author's second fiction, published some sixteen years after the first. A good deal scarcer than the second and third series of ‘Sayings and Doings', published in 1825 and 1828. Like the Sadleir copy, the last leaf of volume three in this copy is mispaged ‘258' instead of ‘358'. In this copy also, however, the title to volume three is numbered ‘II.', and this has been altered to ‘III.' in ink.
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[HOOK (Theodore).]. Sayings and doings, Or Sketches from life. Second series. In three volumes. Printed for Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1825. 3 Vols., lge.12mo; half-title in volumes two and three, none called for in volume one; 4pp. integral advertisements at end of volume three; half black calf, blind and gilt, marbled sides, end-papers faced brown. A near fine copy.
Sadleir 1213; not in Wolff.
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[HOOK (Theodore).]. Sayings and doings, Or Sketches from life. Third series. In three volumes. Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1828. 3 Vols., lge.12mo; author's advertisement leaf present following title-page in volume one, but bound up without the half-titles and the leaf of publisher's advertisements at the end of volume three; contemporary half calf, blind and gilt, marbled boards; a nice copy.
Sadleir 1214; not in Wolff.
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[HOOK (Theodore). Maxwell. By the author of "Sayings and Doings." In three volumes. Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1830. 3 Vols., lge.12mo; inserted leaf of errata follows title leaf in volume one (fourteen entries); integral leaf of Errata follows title in volume three (three entries); half-titles in volumes one and two, none called for in volume three; 4pp. publishers' integral advertisements at end of volume three; pp.[vi]+347+[i (printer's imprint)]; [iv]+336; [iv]+356+[iv]; publisher's full horizontal rib effect smooth glazed linen printed with an elaborate watered silk pattern in light and dark drab, paper spine labels; a.e. uncut. Slight general wear to cloth and two labels a little chipped, in one case with loss of some half-dozen letters; contemporary ownership signature on upper margin of first leaf of text in each volume; two or three leaves badly opened with consequent chipping to blank corners or margins; a little scattered foxing and marking, chiefly evident in volume three; nonetheless in the main a nice copy.
First edition, early issue. Almost certainly the first three volume novel to have been published in cloth. Sadleir, 1207, recording his copy as in ‘grey-purple figured linen, labels, edges trimmed'; Wolff, 3256, recording a copy in ‘boards, pink linen spines, labels; untrimmed and therefore preferable to Sadleir's in overall cloth and trimmed'. Sadleir's ‘figured linen' we are unable to interpret, but it does not sound like the same cloth as that used for the present copy, which is one that we have otherwise seen used for the spine of the 1822 volume ‘Sketches of Bridlington' and for the head- and tail- bands (beneath the paper-covered boards) of a book dated 1827. Both the Sadleir and Wolff copies were without the Errata leaf here conjugate with the title leaf in volume three (and thus collating [ii]+... instead of [iv]+..., as here), which might at first sight make our copy look to be of a later issue than theirs, but on closer inspection confirms its precedence, the three errata listed ("Vol.I., page 1, l.5, for "the Doctor," read "Godfrey"; Vol.II, page 276, bottom line, for "the hearts of each were full and heavy," read "the heart of each was full and heavy."; and page 281, ‘for "Crown" read "George," et passim'") being duplicated in the extra leaf inset into volume one, with the addition there of a further eleven errata, making clear that this extra leaf was intended to replace that printed with volume three. It would appear that volume three of the present set must already have been bound by the time that these errata were discovered, and that it is therefore likely to represent a very early state of issue. It remains possible that a few copies may have been issued with the Errata present in volume three but absent in volume one, and if this were so such a copy would be likely to have precedence of our one. We have therefore described it as ‘early issue' rather than ‘first issue', though it is very possibly the former. The book was divided between two printers, volume one, according to the verso of the half-title being printed by ‘Bayliss and Co. Johnson's Court, Fleet Street', and according to the final page ‘Shackell and Baylis, [sic] Johnson's-court, Fleet-street; whilst volumes two and three were printed by ‘Ibotson and Palmer, Printers, Savoy Street, Strand'.
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HOOK (Theodore). Maxwell. Revised, corrected, and illustrated with notes By the author. Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, (Successor to Henry Colburn), 1834. Engraved frontispiece and vignette title-page, letterpress title-page and series title-page; 2pp. Bentley, 8pp. Valpy advertisements at end; pink glazed linen, black spine labels printed in gilt. Covers worn; otherwise in general a nice copy.
Issued as volume XXXV of Bentley's Standard Novels. In this copy the binding and the engraved and printed titles are all those of the first issue. V. Sadleir II, pp.95-6. Hook's name appears only on the engraved and series titles.
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[HOOK (Theodore).]. Jack Brag. By the author of "Sayings and Doings," - "Maxwell," &c. In three volumes. Richard Bentley, 1837. 3 Vols., lge.12mo; bound up without the half-titles, and without the errata slip present in the Sadleir copy; old half calf, cloth sides. Some wear to covers, but bindings strong and sound; text used and grubby, two or three leaves reinserted, and frayed at margins; but a good working copy.
Sadleir, 1204.
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HOOK (Theodore). Jack Brag. Paris: Boudry's European Library, Rue du coq St. Honore, 1837. Lge.post 8vo; half/series title precedes title-page; pp.[iv]+364; contemporary quarter calf, stippled boards. Very slight general wear to covers; back free end-paper badly chipped; light dusting and foxing passim, but a very good copy.
Issued as Vol.CLXXXVI of Baudry's ‘Collection of Ancient and Modern British Novels and Romances. The English edition was published anonymously the same year.
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[HOOK (Theodore, Esq.).]. Pascal Bruno. A Sicilian story. Edited by Theodore Hook, Esq. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough Street, 1837. Half-title not called for; six line errata on p.[288]; contemporary half-calf gilt, marbled sides, contrasting spine label, sprinkled edges. Leather of spine a little peeling; end-papers and binders' blanks foxed; short tear in one fore-margin; otherwise fine.
Presentation copy, with the editor's signed holograph inscription on the upper margin of the title-page. A translation and adaptation of a story by Alexandre Dumas, taken, according to the editor's Introduction from a French journal. The original has not been traced, the first known French edition appearing in book form in 1838. Munro, English bib., p.25. Sadleir, 1215; not in Wolff. Sadleir calls for a steel-engraved portrait frontispiece; Munro does not. The present copy, presumably an ‘author's copy', is in a sound contemporary binding, and shows no evidence of loss. Faint offsetting from the title-page onto the facing binder's blank would seem to confirm that no frontispiece has ever been present here, whilst similar offsetting onto facing pages, passim, would seem to support a hypothesis that this was amongst the earliest copies made up, the print having only imperfectly had time to dry. We would suggest that the frontispiece was not at that time ready, and that the earliest copies of the volume were made up without it.
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[HOOK (Theodore).]. Births, Deaths, and marriages. By the author of "Sayings & doings;" "Maxwell;" "Jack Brag;" &c. In three volumes. Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1839. 3 Vols., lge.12mo; bound up without the half-titles; contemporary half-calf. Backstrips lacking, and some boards detached; first and last few leaves in each volume lightly foxed; otherwise a nice copy.
Sadleir, 1200; Wolff, 3253.
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HOOK (Theodore). Jack Brag. New edition, revised by the author. London: David Bryce, 48, Paternoster Row, N.D. [?c.1864]. F'cap 8vo; pp.[iv]+441+[i (blank)]; orange buckram, ruled and blocked black on sides, lettered black on front cover, ruled and lettered black on spine; end-papers printed with advertisements. A little scattered foxing, but a nice copy.
First published in three volumes 1837. The advertisements make clear that the binding is an upgraded version of a yellowback, Bryce listing titles variously either at 1[s.] 6[d.] or "In new Indestructible cloth binding," as here, at 2[s.] 0[d.]. It is noteworthy that many of the titles advertised by Bryce had appeared previously in the Parlour Library series, and we wonder whether Bryce may not possibly have taken that series over in the gap noted by Sadleir between the last Hodge issue in 1863 and the Ward, Lock Series of 1869. At any rate, Hook died in 1841, and it is most unlikely that the words ‘New edition, revised by the author' apply specifically to this printing, though they would have applied to the Bentley's Standard Novels edition of 1839.
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HOOPER (Jane Winnard). Arbell: A tale for young people. With Four Illustrations by James Godwin. New edition. Addey and Co., 21, Old Bond Street, 1854. F'cap 8vo; pp.[viii]+360; wood-engraved frontispiece and three delicately hand coloured plates; publisher's 8pp. inserted catalogue at end, dated ‘Christmas 1853 / New Year 1854'; moss green net grain cloth, ruled, blocked, and lettered with publisher's imprint blind on sides, elaborately blocked and lettered gilt (with title only) up spine; a.e.g.; end-papers coated deep yellow. Cloth frayed at head and tail of spine; end-papers renewed with precisely matching paper (the old front end-paper, bearing an inscription, being preserved); otherwise a fine copy.
According to the publisher's catalogue this is the 4/6d. issue. Also issued simultaneously at 3/6d with the illustrations uncoloured and the edges plain. The book was first published in 1847.
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HOPE (Andrée (Mrs. Harvey of Ickwell-Bury).). Ivan Alexandrovitch: A Siberian romance. London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1897. Printed on toned paper; half-title not called for; 4pp. integral Clement Wilson advertisements at end; pp.[iv]+203+[i (printer's imprint)]+[iv]; deep cerise buckram, blocked blind, lettered gilt, on front cover and spine, blocked gilt on front cover; a.e. uncut. Slight fading of spine, and very slight damp-marking of sides; otherwise a nice copy.
Not in Sadleir or Wolff. Clement Wilson (of 29, Paternoster Row) was the publisher of Andrée Hope's first book, ‘The Secret of Wardale Court', which contained four short stories. The present volume is apparently her first novel.
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HOPE (Ascott R.). Stories Of Young Adventurers. With illustrations. John Hogg, Paternoster Row, 1881. Globe 8vo; wood-engraved frontispiece and seven spirited plates on toned paper; 4pp. integral publisher's advertisements at end; diagonally fine ribbed chocolate cloth, ruled and blocked blind on back cover, ruled black, blocked and lettered black and gilt on front cover and spine, lettered chocolate shadowed, black cased, gilt on front cover; end-papers coated grey-green. Half-title removed; otherwise a fine copy.
Issued, according to the advertisements, as volume 10 of "‘The Secret of Success' Series", this being the latest title listed, and with no reviews. The series was available in two styles: with plain edges, as here, at 3s.6d., or with a.e.g. at 4s. Not in Sadleir or Wolff. A handsome book.
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HOPE (Ascott R.). Stories. London and Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1892. Blank before half-title; frontispiece and vignette title-page; pp.[xiv]+[448]; navy blue cloth boldly blocked and lettered gilt on front cover, lettered gilt on spine; a.e.g.; end-papers faced black. Prize label on front end-paper; otherwise a virtually fine copy.
A handsome volume. The author's own choice from his stories published during the preceding twenty-five years. The stories are, according to the author's Preface, predominantly "genre pictures from juvenile life, kept in a somewhat subdued tone of the prevalent humorous colouring".
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HOPE (Anthony, i.e., Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins). A man of mark. Remington & Co Publishers, Henrietta Street Covent Garden, 1890. Half-title printed conjugate with title page, but here excised; Contents leaf a single inset; final blank; pp.[iv]+270+[ii]; grey buckram blocked and lettered black on front cover, lettered gilt on spine; white end-papers printed with a leaf design in grey. Spine faded, and covers very slightly marked; back end-papers and blank somewhat embrowned; otherwise a nice copy.
The author's very scarce first book.
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HOPE (Anthony, i.e. Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins). Half a hero. In two volumes. A.D. Innes and Co., 31 & 32, Bedford Street, Strand, W.C., 1893. Two volumes in one, as issued; half-title leaf in volume one a cancel, mounted on a stub; two leaves following title-page excised, evidently before publication; three leaves following half-title in volume two, including the title-page, likewise excised; scarlet buckram, blocked with publisher's monogram device black on back cover, lettered black on front cover, gilt on spine. Neat inscription on upper margin of half-title page; poem written on recto and verso of front end-paper; back end-papers slightly cracking; small piece chipped from blank extreme top margin of one leaf; otherwise a nice copy.
First edition, second issue. The earlier of only two multideckers written by Hope, and a very rare book, never located by Sadleir for his collection. Hope's fourth book. The publisher here seems to have gone to a lot of trouble to produce a terribly inadequate result. As originally issued, the prelims. in each volume consisted of: half-title, bearing volume number; title; leaf headed ‘Contents of Vol. I. [II.]'; and fly-title. In the present copy, the half-title and Contents leaf have been excised in volume one, and the fly title, which bears no volume number, transferred to the stub of the half-title, it presumably having at some point been intended to provide a cancel title-page also, thus removing all reference to a second volume from the early leaves. In the second volume, the title, Contents, and fly-title leaves have been removed, leaving only the half-title, which bears the legend ‘Vol.II.'. The original issue had at the end of volume one two integral advertisement leaves, followed by an integral blank. These have been discarded by the publisher in making up the present copy, in order to avoid breaking the narrative more than the original arrangement of the two volumes made inevitable, the first three leaves of the last gathering appearing here as single insets, as a result. The first issue, in two volumes, was in grey cloth, blocked and lettered similarly to this.
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HOPE (Anthony [i.e., Sir Anthony Hope-Hawkins]). The Indiscretions of the Duchess. Arrowsmith's Christmas Annual, Bristol, 1894. F'cap 8vo; paper wrappers, printed on front wrapper with illustration in colour, on back wrapper and end-papers with commercial advertisements. Wrappers a little frayed and spine repaired, but a nice copy otherwise. Scarce.
The date appears only on the wrappers. Later re-issued in diagonally fine-ribbed brown cloth ruled blind on back cover, ruled and lettered black on front cover, gilt on spine, and with end-papers coated dark chocolate, as Volume LXII of Arrowsmith's Bristol Library.
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HOPE (Anthony [i.e., Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins].). All rights reserved. The Prisoner of Zenda: Being the history of three months in the Life of an English gentleman. Bristol, J.W. Arrowsmith, 11 Quay Street; London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company Limited, N.D. [1894]. Half-title not called for; integral advertisement leaf at end; pp.310+[ii]; cerise smooth cloth, lettered, and with short rule, gilt, on front cover, blocked with publisher's device, lettered, and with two short rules, all gilt, on spine. Slight fading of cloth, and slight general wear to covers, but a fine copy internally.
Issued as Vol.XVIII. in ‘Arrowsmith's 3/6 Series'. This copy is of the third issue, both of text and binding, with ‘VOL. XVIII' at tail of spine not followed by a full stop, and the verso of the title-page bearing a notice of others of Hope's works in addition to the series designation, whilst the series advertisements at the end list the series to Vol.XVIII. instead of Vol.XVII, as in the second issue, and XVI, as in the first. Hope's key title. Not in Sadleir; Wolff, 3096, not mentioning issues.
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HOPE (Anthony [i.e., Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins].). All rights reserved. The Prisoner of Zenda: Being the history of three months in the Life of an English gentleman. Bristol, J.W. Arrowsmith, 11 Quay Street; London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company Limited, N.D. [1894]. Half-title not called for; integral advertisement leaf at end; pp.310+[ii]; cerise smooth cloth, lettered, and with short rule, gilt, on front cover, blocked with publisher's device, lettered, and with two short rules, all gilt, on spine. Fine, bright, copy: scarce thus.
Issued as Vol.XVIII. in ‘Arrowsmith's 3/6 Series'. This copy is of the fourth issue of text and the third issue of binding, with ‘VOL. XVIII' at tail of spine not followed by a full stop, and the verso of the title-page bearing a notice of others of Hope's works in addition to the series designation, whilst the series advertisements at the end list the series to Vol.XXIV. instead of Vol.XVI, as in the first issue, Vol.XVII, as in the second, or Vol.XVIII as in the third. Hope's key title. Not in Sadleir; Wolff, 3096, not mentioning issues.
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HOPE (Anthony [i.e., Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins].). The Dolly Dialogues. Reprinted from the Westminster Gazette. [Office of the] "Westminster Gazette," Tudor Street, E.C., 1894. Sq.8vo; half-title not called for; four full-page plates by Arthur Rackham; contemporary quarter red morocco, gilt, contrasting label, diagonally fine ribbed green cloth sides, edges burnished red. Spine rubbed, and worn at head, otherwise extremely fine. Scarce.
First issue, well printed on fine cream wove paper, with excellent impressions of the plates; the running title throughout on the left hand pages reads simply: ‘Dolly.'; the ‘R' of ‘Reprinted' on the title-page is present, and the inverted commas before ‘Westminster' consists of a single inverted comma and a full stop. The first work wholly illustrated by Arthur Rackham. The original wrappers have not here been preserved. An earlier state of this title is known, but was probably not issued: in that the title on the title-page and wrappers is given simply as ‘Dolly'. It was altered because the title would have caused confusion with a volume of the same name by Frances Hodgson Burnett - as was pointed out to the publishers by that author (v. Muir, Points, second series, p.113).
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HOPE (Anthony, i.e., Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins). The Dolly Dialogues. [R]eprinted from the Westminster Gazette. [Office of the] "Westminster Gazette," Tudor Street, E.C., 1894. Sq.8vo; half-title not called for; four full-page plates by Arthur Rackham; contemporary limp green patterned sand grain cloth. Title-page and last few leaves dusty, but a very good copy.
This issue on thin, slightly glossy paper; the running title throughout on the left hand pages reads: ‘The Dolly Dialogues'; the ‘R' of ‘Reprinted' on the title-page is lacking, and the inverted commas before ‘Westminster' consist corectly of a double inverted comma. The first work wholly illustrated by Arthur Rackham. The original wrappers have not here been preserved.
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HOPE (Anthony). Comedies of Courtship. A.D. Innes & Co., Bedford Street, 1896. Half-title not called for; integral advertisement leaf at end; pp.[iv]+346+[ii]; scarlet buckram blocked with publisher's monogram device black on back cover, lettered black on front cover, gilt on spine. Light foxing of end-papers with slight offsetting onto facing leaves, and edges slightly foxed; otherwise a very nice copy.
The decidedly scarce 3s. 6d. issue made in the ‘Scarlet Novels' series. The book is usually seen in a vertically fine ribbed blue cloth, blocked with publisher's monogram device blind on back cover, ruled and lettered gilt, and with blind-pressed panel, on front cover and spine, and in somewhat larger format, with uncut edges. Had we not seen a Second Edition (so designated), also dated 1896, in the blue cloth binding, we should have assumed the present scarlet buckram version, with trimmed edges, to be secondary. The present title was issued in late December 1895. Not in Sadleir; this title not in Wolff. In any binding one of the scarcer Anthony Hope titles. The prelims. were printed as part of the final gathering.
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HOPE (Anthony, i.e., Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins). The heart of Princess Osra. With nine illustrations By John Williamson. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896. Frontispiece with tissue guard, and eight plates; 32pp. publisher's catalogue dated 9/96 at end; vertically ribbed blue grey cloth lettered gilt within gilt ruled boxes on spine and front cover; pale cream end-papers. Spine faded and cloth worn a little at head and tail; two or three fox spots on extreme margins; otherwise a nice copy.
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HOPE (Anthony, [i.e., Sir anthony Hope Hawkins]). Simon Dale. With eight illustrations by W. St J. Harper. Methuen & Co., 36 Essex Street, W.C., 1898. Half-tone frontispiece with tissue guard, and seven plates; pp.vi+357+[i (printer's imprint)]; publisher's inserted 40pp. Catalogue at end, dated November 1897; vertically fine ribbed iron grey cloth lettered gilt within gilt ruled boxes on front cover and spine; t.e. uncut, others rough trimmed. Cloth of spine slightly wrinkled; ownership signatures on front end-paper; otherwise a fine copy.
Not in Sadleir; Wolff, 3099, listing a copy with a Catalogue dated February, 1898. The earlier date of the present Catalogue is without definite issue significance, since the book was not published until February 1898.
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HOPE (Anthony, i.e., Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins). Rupert of Hentzau By Anthony Hope: Being the Sequel to a story by the same writer entitled The Prisoner of Zenda. With Illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson. Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 11 Quay Street; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Company Limited, N.D [1898]. Half-tone frontispiece with tissue guard, and seven plates; 3pp. integral advertisements at end, listing this volume at Six Shillings; vertically ribbed greenish grey cloth lettered gilt within gilt ruled boxes on spine and front cover; a.e. uncut. End-papers and tissue lightly foxed; short tear in blank fore-margin of Contents leaf; otherwise a very nice copy.
The correct first issue, listing thirteen titles on the verso of the title leaf (‘A Man of Mark' to ‘Simon Dale') under the heading "By the same author". ‘Simon Dale' was published (by Methuen) five months earlier. Not in Sadleir; Wolff, 3097, listing a copy with a frontispiece and only four plates, that was either of a later issue, or defective. There is no list of plates, but they are marked to face pp.37, 73, 152, 164, 260, 262, and 379, and are here so tipped in.
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HOPE (Anthony, i.e., Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins). The King's mirror. Methuen and Co., 1899. Blank before half-title; 40pp. publisher's catalogue at end dated September 1899; vertically ribbed grey cloth lettered gilt within gilt ruled boxes on spine and front cover. Covers faded, particularly the spine; otherwise a nice copy.
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HOPE (Anthony). Quisanté. Methuen & Co., 1900. Blank before half-title; pp.[viii]+376; 48pp. publisher's catalogue at end, dated August 1900; vertically ribbed greenish grey cloth lettered gilt within gilt ruled boxes on spine and front cover; fore-edges rough-trimmed, lower edges uncut. End-papers and edges foxed; otherwise a very nice copy.
The first issue, later copies having a catalogue dated October.
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HOPE (Anthony). Quisanté. Methuen & Co., 1900. Blank before half-title; pp.[viii]+376; 48pp. publisher's catalogue at end, dated August 1900; vertically ribbed greenish grey cloth lettered gilt within gilt ruled boxes on spine and front cover; fore-edges rough-trimmed, lower edges uncut. Cloth faded; end-papers, prelims., and last leaves of catalogue foxed; otherwise a nice copy.
The first issue, later copies having a catalogue dated October
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HOPE (Anthony). Quisanté. Methuen & Co., 1900. Blank before half-title; pp.[viii]+376; 48pp. publisher's catalogue at end, dated October 1900; vertically ribbed greenish grey cloth lettered gilt within gilt ruled boxes on spine and front cover; fore-edges rough-trimmed, lower edges uncut. End-papers and edges foxed; otherwise a very nice copy.
The second issue, some copies having a catalogue dated August.
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HOPKINS (Tighe). Lady Bonnie's Experiment. Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris & Melbourne, 1895. All rights reserved. Pott 8vo; 4pp. integral advertisements at end, dated ‘9.95'; pp.[159]+[i (printer's imprint)]+[iv]; yellow ochre art-linen, blocked dark red on back cover, blocked and lettered dark red on front cover, lettered dark red on spine; a.e. uncut. Scattered light marking of margins passim, otherwise a nice copy.
Issued as the fifth volume in the series ‘Cassell's Pocket Library' under the Editorship of Max Pemberton. Listed by Sadleir as 3741/5, but in fact lacking from his collection; this title not in Wolff.
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HORNIBROOK (Mrs. [E.E.]). The Queen of the family. London: James Nisbet & Co., 21 Berners Street, 1886. Globe 8vo, wire-stitched; blank before half-title; wood-engraved frontispiece and five plates printed in black and pale buff; integral advertisement leaf at end; pp.viii+357+[i (blank)]+[ii]; bevelled scarlet buckram, blocked black on back cover, black, gilt, and grey-green, on front cover and spine, lettered black, and black-shadowed gilt, on front cover, black, and gilt, on spine; a.e.g.; end-papers coated blackish brown. A little scattered foxing, but a nice copy.
Not in Sadleir or Wolff. There is no list of plates, but they are marked to face pp.26, 87, 145, 213, and 252, and are here bound in at those openings.
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HORNUNG (Ernest William). The Boss of Taroomba. Bliss, Sands and Foster, Craven Street, Strand, 1894. Imprint leaf at end followed by 8pp. publisher's catalogue dated 1894; teak smooth linen blocked with publisher's monogram device, black, on front cover, lettered black and gilt on front cover and spine, ruled gilt on spine; t.e. uncut, others rough trimmed. Spine a little rubbed and discoloured, and slight patchy fading of sides; otherwise a nice copy of a scarce title.
Presentation copy to G. Herbert Thring, with the author's signed contemporary presentation inscription on the front end-paper. "Englehardt, removing the pistol once more and applying his eye, saw the wounded brute go reeling and squealing into the moonshine with his hand to his middle and the blood running over it. To the well-palings he reeled, dropping on his knees when he got there, but struggling to his feet and running up and down and round and round like a mad bull, still screaming and blaspheming at the top of his voice, and with the blood bubbling over both his hands, which never ceased to hug his wound. His mates rushed up to him, but he beat them off, cursing them, spitting at them, and covering them with blood as he struck at them with his soaking fists. . . . It was they who had killed him - his own mates - and he told them so with shrieks and curses, varied with sobs and tears, and yet again with wild shots from a revolver which he plucked from his belt. But he dropped the pistol after madly discharging it twice, and clapping his hand to his middle, as though he could only live by pressing the wound with all his force, he rushed after them, foaming at the mouth and squirting blood at every stride. At last he seemed to trip, and he fell forward in a heap, but turned on one side, his knees coming up with a jerk, his feet treading the air as though running still." - What is called ‘blood and guts'.
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HORT (Lieut.-Colonel). Penelope Wedgebone: The Supposed Heiress. Embellished with Eight coloured etchings on steel, By Alfred Ashley. J. & D.A. Darling, 126, Bishopsgate Street, N.D. [1850]. Excellently hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, title-page, and six other plates, all but one of them with tissue guards; letterpress title-page; 6pp. (?ex 8) f'cap 8vo publisher's advertisements at end, followed by two leaves of yellow paper advertising the works of Col. Hort, and listing this volume as for publication on the first of June; t.e. uncut; green vertically grained morocco cloth blocked blind on sides, gilt on spine, lettered gilt on spine and front cover. Spine worn at head and tail, and cloth slightly splitting over joints, but without weakness; some foxing, and some leaves slightly frayed at fore-margins; a very good copy, nonetheless.
Sadleir 1223, the variant noted by him in green cloth. Sadleir hypothesises that the various colours of cloth were issued simultaneously: his copy, however, appears to have been without the tissue guards, and the two leaves of advertisements at the end on coloured paper. Also his copy, in salmon pink, seems to have lacked the advance notice for this volume. Sadleir dated the volume only from the Preface; advertisements carrying reviews dated "May 4, 1850" and adding "On the first of June will be published . . ." are unlikely to have escaped his attention. We therefore hypothesise that this copy at least, and possibly the green cloth copies in general, are of an earlier issue than the blue cloth copy he records. Sadleir remarks the ‘admirable' quality of the illustrations.
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