Search Results: Literature: English, 19th century from The Owl at the Bridge

Bookseller catalogue listing 80 items by and about Daniel Defoe and his times. Stapled in pictorial wraps; Good with ink marks on cover. Stock#ofc0273.

"Trollope is famous for the understanding he displays of the ambitions and predicaments of individual women in his fiction, but Is He Popinjoy? is notorious as the novel in which he deals most directly and most unsympathetically with the political movement for women's rights." "Is He Popenjoy? was first published in serial form in All the Year Round between October 1877 and July 1878. A three-volume book edition was published by Chapman & Hall in April 1878. This edition follows the text of the first book edition, with minor emendations." "The Trollope Society Edition of the novels of Anthony Trollope is edited by Professor David Skilton, Literary Advisor to the Society. The setting is used by permission of The Folio Society. Published by Omnium Publishing for The Trollope Society." Set in Monotype Bell by Speedspools, Edinburgh. Printed and Bound in Great Britain at the Bath Press, Avon." Hardcover. xix, 510 pages, 23 cm. Bound in brown/maroon cloth with black & gold spine, Trollope Society initials… Read More

Orley Farm is three-dimensional Trollope-- penetrating, weighing, and balancing individual hearts against English custom. He splits truth three ways-- theoretical, actual, and conventional. Softcover. Facsimile reprint of the 1862 first edition. Two volumes in one, each 320 pages. Covers a bit worn; Very Good. Stock#101015/h.

Volume IX begins with No. 423, Saturday, July 5, 1712, and ends with No. 474, Wednesday, September 3 (261 pages). Bound with Vol. X, Nos. 475, Thursday, Sept. 4, 1712 through No. 504, Wednesday, October 8 (146 pages). Paper slightly darkened, all edges red; bound in grey marbled paper with red cloth spine; Very Good. Stock#ofc0687.