Philadelphia: Isaac Bird, 1833. First American Edition. First American edition. 2 vol. 8vo. Vol. I: [7], 5-812pp; Vol. II: [7], 5-812.
Glasgow: Printed for the Booksellers, 1828. Original self wrappers, unbound and removed. 8pp.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1894. First edition. Number 45 of 250 copies. Introduction by Pre-Raphaelite W.M. Rossetti. Bookplates of former owners, including Edward Crane, noted collector and publisher. Top edge gilt.
London: Knight and Son, [n.d. circa 1857]. Presumed first edition (per OCLC dating). Featuring four hand-colored plates. A moral story about a girl who dreams/intends to become a “child of god” but perpetually gives into temptation, but after visiting a family member and the death of a friend, Clara finds.....
![Item #329 [Mary, Queen of Scots.]. The Court of Holyrood: Fragments of an old Story. . Anonymous](https://nelsonrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/329.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1713287288)
Edinburgh: Macredie, Skelly, & Co., 1822. First Edition. First edition of a scarce historical romance about Mary, Queen of Scots, published to coincide with the visit of George IV to Scotland in 1822, the first by a reigning monarch since that of Charles II in 1651. A work clearly.....
![Item #107 A Window in Thrums [Signed limited]. J. M. Barrie, William Hole](https://nelsonrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/107.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1600472882)
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1892. First illustrated edition. Signed by both Barrie and the illustrator at the limitation statement. No. 11 of 50 special copies from a total edition of 560. Illustrated with 18 etching by William Hole. xiv, 217 pp. Large 8vo.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1883. First Edition. Triple decker first edition in book form of the romance set in Ireland with a strong female lead by the popular Victorian author who sunk into obscurity shortly after his death in 1898. 8vo. 3 vols. [8], 271pp.; [6], 296pp.; [6], 293pp.;.....
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1912. Centenary Edition. Limited edition, being number 492/526 of the "Centenary Edition." An autograph letter signed by Browning is tipped in volume one. As other examine copies of the Centenary Edition include tipped in letters, it is certainly possible this was done by a publisher.....
York: J. Kendrew, [1820]. A charming 48mo chapbook. In its 16 pages, it was able to fit 16 woodcuts. Kendrew, despite being a provincial printer in York was one of the most prominent printers of nineteenth century children’s chapbooks until his death in 1841. This instant book was from his.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. First Edition. Triple decker first edition in book form, uniformly bound in a Riviere & Son full polished calf binding with original cloth bound at the rear of each volume. A nice set of one of Collins’s last novels, a didactic novel attacking vivisection...
London: Sampson Low, Son Co., 1862. First edition. Triple decker first edition in book form in the original cloth. “No Name is [] an unsettling drama centered on a powerful woman . . . in which [Collins] challenges Victorian legal and cultural injustices, almost always from a strongly feminist.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1840/41. Triple decker first edition in book form in publisher’s blind stamped, ribbed brown cloth with a central gilt device of a clock, spine elaborately stamped and titled in gilt. Includes The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge before they were separately issued. Profusely illustrated with.....
London: Charles Griffin and Co., [undated, circa 1860s, adverts dated 1864]. From the library of George MacDonald with his bookplate to the front pastedown. In addition to MacDonald's ownership, this volume comes from the library of Maude Egerton King with her bookplate on the flyleaf. Ms. King was a......
London: Printed for the Proprietor by John Johnson, 1817. One of only 18 unnumbered copies on white Chinese paper, which is mounted on larger vellum paper with a Greek motif border, all within another border of vines and leaves. Extensively illustrated with woodcuts by Thurston. Kohlmetz, who provided a bibliography.....
Stourbridge: Thomas Mellard, 1847. First edition. Inscribed by Griffith to MP John Best on the flyleaf. Scarce volume of provincial poetry by an amateur poet. This particular poem was later published in as part of Griffith's 1868 volume Ribbesford. 8vo. xii, 43 pp., [1]; frontispiece. Comerford 1462. Bibliotheca.....
London: Charles Ollier, 1846. First edition (but see below). Chapter IV of John Carter’s Binding Variants in English Publishing 1820-1900 (London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1932) revolves around binding variants of this book. Carter notes several different binding variants and calls it “the prize exhibit in my collection of [binding.....
Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, [n.d., circa 1882]. First thus. This copy is from the Fern Glen Series and carries a different title, but its contents almost exactly mirror "A Children's Year" which was first published in London in 1847. OCLC 10109609 reflects a New York printing also in 1847.....
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees . . . 1815. Quadruple decker second edition of the anonymously published polemical novel. Affectionally referred to as the “brave-hearted lady” by Carlyle, the republication of this work in 2003 brought renewed, and deserved, attention to the long-neglected proto-feminist author. In his introduction to.....
London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1866. First edition in book form, in publisher’s cloth. Hereward was an enigmatic Anglo-Saxon landholder from Lincolnshire, who “was elevated by a historical novel written by Charles Kingsley . . . into one of the most romantic figures of English medieval history.....
Cambridge: Macmillan & Co., 1855. First Edition. Triple decker first edition, in publisher’s cloth, of one of the bestselling books of the nineteenth century, which is largely disfavored at present due to the virulent anti-Catholicism and racist depictions of South Americans. Kingsley’s historical novel celebrates England’s victories over Spain.....
London: William Pickering, 1851. First Edition. Based on the author’s research into Druid temples on her native British island of Jersey. This work includes the perhaps more influential poem “The Dying Druid” by R.A. Davenport: “. . . this little poem . . . published some years ago in a......
![Item #222 Travels in Southern Africa [] and in the Interior Districts of Africa. M. Le Vaillant,...](https://nelsonrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/222.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1624234964)
London: Printed at the Minerva Press for Lane, Newman, and Co., Leadenhall-Street, 1807. Scarce Minerva Press imprint of two travel works. Curiously, apart from the Minerva title page, this volume seems identical to Volume XXII of Mavor’s Historical account of the most celebrated voyages, travels, and discoveries, from the time.....
London: Chapman & Hall, 1873. New Edition. Three-quarter leather with over green marbled paper. The "New Edition" includes 18 full page unpaginated plates by the esteemed "Phiz". Rather scarce in commerce compared to the first edition. 8vo. [11], 470pp. + 18 leaves of plates. See Sadleir 1408a for Smith.....
London: Chapman And Hall, 1865. First Edition. First edition. Illustrated throughout with 30 plates by the venerable Victorian-era illustrator Phiz. In publisher's plus sand-grain clothing in blind and gilt. 8vo. Frontispiece and engraved title, vii, [1], 503, [1]. Wolff 4092. Sadleir 1409 (primary binding).
London: D. N. Shury, for J.F. Hughes, 1805. First Edition. First edition of Monk Lewis’s translation, from the German, of Zschokke’s sensational gothic romance Abällino, der grosse Bandit, first published in 1793. In Coleridge’s view, this work exhibited the “wonder of effects produced by supernatural power, without the means,”.....
