Search Results: 19TH CENTURY LITERATURE from Markisons

Another scarce edition with a low purchase price.2 books in one. book 1, 335 pages; book 2, 497 pages. Very good, foxing throughout, which is worse on the title pages, pages crisp, very slight wear to cover, green leather spine. Please view the photographs for more information.Excellent Customer service is a priority.Items are guaranteed to be very well packaged prior to postage. Tracking details will be forwarded to the purchaser.

8vo. x + (2) + 575 + (1) + 34pp including Publisher's list at rear. Publisher's plain dark blue cloth covers, gilt lettering with a small cartouche on spine, bevelled edges. Original black eps. Covers : slight rubs top/bottom of spine + corners, faint patchy marks. Contents : Internal hinges cracked, but tightly bound at gutter, a very Clean tight copy. Scarce copy. Please view the photographs for more information.All items will be posted within 1 to 2 working days after payment has been received. Items are guaranteed to be very well packaged prior to postage. Tracking details will be forwarded to the purchaser.

8vo. Full leather binding, Illustrated with portraits, head and tale-pieces. Well bound, with raised bands, title missing from spine of Vol 1. The copy is clean and crisp, strong corners, and untoned, although there is very light print from some plates on the opposite page. 1800 grams, 20.5 by 13 cm's. Vol. I 294 pages. Vol. II 390pages. Vol. III 347pages. Includes Index and List of the Plates - 8 b&w, List of the Woodcuts and the artists 28 altogether. The work is a satirical polemic upon Roundheads, Puritans, Presbyterians and many of the other factions involved in the English Civil War. The work was written in three parts in 1663, 1664 and 1678 although an unauthorised edition came out in 1662. The Annotations are excellent, explaining the poem, and historical events that relate to the poem's text. Published only four years after Charles II had been restored to the throne and the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell being completely over, the poem found an appreciative audience. Please view the images… Read More

Mes Passe-Temps : Chansons suivies de l'Art de la Danse, Poëme en quatre chants, calqué sur l'Art poétique de Boileau Despréaux. Orné de gravures d'après les Dessins de Moreau le jeune, avec les airs notés. Despreaux, Jean-Etienne. 1806 Signed by Despreaux, Published: Paris : L'auteur 1806 Physical Description: v1 - xiv, [251], 47p -- v2 - viii, [306], 1p; frontis, [2] leaves of plates. Signed by Despreaux. Engraved by J.B. Simonet and P H FriereThe books measure 20.5 cm x 13 cm. The books weigh just under 1 kg . Both volumes contain a half title page and a title page with publisher's vignette, Volume 1 with an illustrated frontispiece. Both volumes contain 1 leaf of plate each with protective guard sheet, both free of any rips or tears. The pages are Very good at least. Volume 2 contains two illustrated headpieces, Volume 1 contains 1 illustrated headpiece. Notes: Music (unaccompanied melodies): 47 p. at end of v. 1. The music pages start with 2 blank pages and the first page is numbered 2.… Read More

First Edition. 8vo; pp. viii + 190. With 12 illustrations and engraved title page by S. Fildes and a frontispiece portrait. Bound in original red half morocco with pebble-grain sides, gilt to spine, marbled endpapers and edges. Some very slight spotting within, owner name to first blank, joints a little rubbed; very good indeed. Please view the images for more information.Excellent Customer service is a priority.Items are guaranteed to be very well packaged prior to postage. Tracking details will be forwarded to the purchaser.

Hardback, original full leather on board, spine is good, very slight split developing along the center, some ink writing to first and last blank sheets. 760 pages plus index. Good, some wear to cover, a lot of pages are tanned from age, tears to 2 pages, see images, some corners are bumped and folded, no missing pages.Please view the photographs for more information.Excellent Customer service is a priority.Items are guaranteed to be very well packaged prior to postage. Tracking details will be forwarded to the purchaser.

At least very good, all 307 pages plus 12 books by the same author, very slight foxing on titles pages, which can be viewed in the images, cover and binding good, with slight wear.Please view the images for more information.Items are guaranteed to be very well packaged prior to postage. Excellent Customer service is a priority. Tracking details will be forwarded to the purchaser.

Paris Revisited, in 1815, by Way of Brussels: Including a Wall Over the Field of Battle at Waterloo by John Scott Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London Publication Date: 1817 Scarce, Hardback, half leather, slight wear to the original cover, stamp on title page, overall very good, very slight foxing and split on inner of first few pages, hence slight looseness to front cover. It measures 22 by 13 cm's. Please view the photographs for more information.Excellent Customer service is a priority.Items are guaranteed to be very well packaged prior to postage. Tracking details will be forwarded to the purchaser.

Wilhelm Von Kaulbach's illustrated edition. Half-title, frontispiece, engraved pictorial title-page and regular title page, 36 exquisite full page engravings of the animal characters by Wilhelm Von Kaulbach. several pictorial head and tail pieces. 257 pages. Includes the plate after p. 42 which were banned subsequently for moral reasons, showing farmer girls in their nightgowns while hunting a intrusive cat. Wear to the original cover, splitting to front cover but still holding. Circular stain central to the first few pages, slight rip to top of first print. Strong pages with the prints, very good corners and edges throughout, slight degrees of foxing throughout. Please view the photographs for more information.

Scarce edition, another low sale price.Very slight wear to cover with some discoloration, cloth on board, bound tight, slight split on inner of front cover, pages near fine, slight tear to one page, text unaffected. 399 pages plus some adverts at end. Please view the photographs for more information.Excellent Customer service is a priority.Items are guaranteed to be very well packaged prior to postage. Tracking details will be forwarded to the purchaser.

Another excellent price for such a scarce full set.First edition as a set of works by Walter Scott, Heavy set weighing 6132 grams, 14 by 22 cm's, Gold gilt on red, please view the images. Fine condition, very slight wear to covers, tightly bound, pages strong and crisp, very slight tanning from time and scarce spots of foxing in a couple of Volumes, At least fine. Books I to III - Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, two title pages, first is of the set and second of the book used - fifth edition 1812. Book IV - The Lay of the Last Minstrel - 1812 - two title pages - Thirteenth Edition. Book V - Marmion a Tale of a Flodden Field - 1811 - two title pages - Eighth edition Book VI - Sir Tristrem a Metrical Romance of the Thirteenth Century; by Thomas of Ercildoune, called The Rhymer - 1811 - two title pages - Third edition Book VII - The Lady of the Lake - 1811 - two title pages - Ninth edition Book VIII & IX - The Vision of Don Roderick and Other Poems - 1811 - two title pages - Second edition. Please… Read More

Subjects: Constitutional law - Great Britain. Politics and government. Good to very good, cover worn, still strong and well bound, pages are very good and generally clean, slight tanning. Hardback, some ink writing to first and last blank sheets. 448 pages Inc indexPlease view the photographs for more information.Excellent Customer service is a priority.Items are guaranteed to be very well packaged prior to postage. Tracking details will be forwarded to the purchaser.