Victorian Fiction
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Lavender and Old Lace
by Myrtle Reed
Lavender and Old Lace is a Victorian romance novel written by Myrtle Reed and published Sep. , 1902. It tells the story of some remarkable women, each of whom have a unique experience with love. The book follows in Reed’s long history of inciting laughter and tears in her readers through provocative prose. She was often witty in dialogue and dispensing in advice, while gingerly skirting the moral issues.
The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling
RUDYARD KIPLING was born in Bombay in India in 1865 to British parents, and brought by a Portuguese 'ayah' (nanny) and an Indian servant, who would entertain him with fabulous stories and Indian nursery rhymes. He was sent back to England when he was seven years old, and lived in a boarding house with a couple who were cruelly strict. Fortunately he returned to India aged 16, to work as the assistant editor of a newspaper in Lahore. He began publishing stories and poems and eventually had great success...
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The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894, by Arthur Conan Doyle.
The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, is a popular 1876 novel about a young boy growing up in the antebellum South on the Mississippi River in the town of St. Petersberg, based on the town of Hannibal, Missouri.
The Battle Of Life the "Pears" Centenary Edition Of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books
by Charles Dickens
The King In Yellow and Other Horror Stories Selected, With an Introduction, By E F Bleiler
by Robert W Chambers
Victorian Fiction Books & Ephemera
Orley Farm
by Trollope, Anthony
When Joseph Mason of Groby Park, Yorkshire, died, he left his estate to his family. A codicil to his will, however, left Orley Farm (near London) to his much younger second wife and infant son. The will and the codicil were in her handwriting, and there were three witnesses, one of whom was no longer alive. A bitterly fought court case confirmed the codicil.
Twenty years pass. Lady Mason lives at Orley farm with her adult son, Lucius. Samuel Dockwrath, a tenant, is asked to leave by Lucius, who wants to... Read more about this item
Twenty years pass. Lady Mason lives at Orley farm with her adult son, Lucius. Samuel Dockwrath, a tenant, is asked to leave by Lucius, who wants to... Read more about this item
Sonnets From the Portuguese
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets to
the Portuguese are widely considered among the greatest cycle of
sonnets in the English language. This collection of love poems was
written between 1845-46 to fellow poet and her soon-to-be husband,
Robert Browning.
Originally, Browning had no intention
of publishing the poetry owing to its deeply personal subject matter,
but her husband convinced her to publish them in the 1850 edition of
her Poems. Originally, however, she was reportedly to have called the... Read more about this item
the Portuguese are widely considered among the greatest cycle of
sonnets in the English language. This collection of love poems was
written between 1845-46 to fellow poet and her soon-to-be husband,
Robert Browning.
Originally, Browning had no intention
of publishing the poetry owing to its deeply personal subject matter,
but her husband convinced her to publish them in the 1850 edition of
her Poems. Originally, however, she was reportedly to have called the... Read more about this item
THE PRAIRIE-BIRD.
by MURRAY, Charles Augustus
London: Richard Bentley, 1845. First Edition Thus. Half-Leather. Very Good. The first one-volume edition, issued as volume 98 in Bentley's Standard Novels series. Originally issued in 3 vols by Bentley in 1844. Small octavo, bound in half black calf over marbled boards, spine panel nicely decorated in blind and ruled in gilt with in compartments, contrasting red leather title labels lettered in gilt, all edges marbled. Engraved frontispiece, vii, 581 pp. Bookplate and a small stamp from Aspley House,...
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£161.90
REALMAH. By the Author of "Friends in Council". In Two Volumes.
by HELPS, Arthur
London: Macmillan and Co., 1868. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Two volumes. Octavo, original dark blue cloth bordered in blind and with a small decorative device in gilt on front panels, gilt decorations & titles to spines. Brown coated endpapers. 299 + 320 pp, [4] pp ads + [48] pp publishers cat alogue at rear of Vol. 1, dated 5.68. Withdrawn from the Birmingham University Library, with their bookplates on the front endpapers, stamps to title leaves and old call numbers neatly...
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£121.42
THE TRAVELS AND SURPISING ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN. Illustrated with Five Woodcuts by G. Cruikshank, and Twenty-Two Ful-Page Curious Engravings.
by RASPE, Richard. Woodcuts by George Cruikshank
London: William Tegg., 1868.. Octavo, original brown cloth decorated in gold, black & blind, brown coated endpapers. 268 pp + 4 pp publisher's catalogue 'Mr. William Tegg's Catalogue of Popular Works; London, Pancras Lane, Cheapside" bound in at the rear. With a hand-coloured frontispiece and five small woodcuts by George Cruikshank in addition to twenty three extremely curious full-page engravings. Cloth worn at the corners with inner boards showing; lightly rubbed but clean and sound, the hinges...
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£182.14
The Imagination of Charles Dickens
by Cockshut, A. O. J
London: Collins,. Hardback. 192pp. Blue boards with gilt titles to spine. Very sunned to spine. Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy. . Hardcover. 1961.
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£6.50
THE SHORTER POEMS OF JOHN MILTON. With Twelve Illustrations by Samuel Palmer, Painter & Etcher.
by MILTON, John; PALMER, Samuel [Illustrator]
London: Published by Seeley & Company, Essex Street, Strand, 1889. First Edition with These Illustrations.. Folio, original royal blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. 124 pp., Title-page printed in red and black, the text is set in Caslon type and printed on hand-made paper. With 12 full-page photogravure plates finely reproduced after etchings by Palmer. Neat ink inscription on front free endpaper, dated December, 1888 (showing that publication was in late 1888, not 1889 as stated on the title...
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£404.75
THE REBEL CHIEF. A Romance of New Zealand. With Illustrations by the Author.
by NISBET, Hume
London: F.V. White & Co. , 1896.. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Octavo, original pictorial green cloth stamped in black on front cover, titled in gilt on spine. 296 pp. Frontispiece with tissue guard & title page vignette by Nisbet. Early ink inscription on verso of half-title leaf "Ian Baillie / Present from Captain Colt"; recipient's small ink name & dated (8-5-07) on front endpaper and upper corner of title page; a fine, bright copy. ¶ Adventure novel set amongst...
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£76.90
Prepare to Shed Them Now The Ballads of George R. Sims
by Sims, George R.; Calder-Marshall, Arthur (Selected andIntroduced by)
London: Hutchinson. 1968. Tall Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Illustrated with sepia-toned photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 152 pages. A selection of the famous ballads of this journalist, playwright & famous balladist. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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£7.41
![HARRY COVERDALE'S COURTSHIP And All That Came of It. [Yellowback edition].](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/141/958/961958141.0.b.jpg)
HARRY COVERDALE'S COURTSHIP And All That Came of It. [Yellowback edition].
by SMEDLEY, Frank E
London: George Routledge and Sons. , No Date [1880s?].. Reprint. Octavo, original colour pictorial boards (a Victorian 'yellowback']. 444 pp., ads on fixed endpapers, rectos and versos of free endpapers, including a full-page add for Beecham's Pills on the verso of the front free endpaper. Rear cover bears an advert for Pears Soap. Some wear to boards at extremities, small crack on rear board; a very good copy.
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£36.43
IN MEMORIAM AS WRITTEN BY ALFRED LORD TENNYSON MDCCCXLIX
by TENNYSON, Alfred Lord
London: Bankside Press, (1900). Hardcover. Some soiling. Very Good copy of this nicely printed edition. Blanche McManus. Gilt-stamped white cloth. Copy #104 of 500 printed in orange and black with rubricated intials from designs by Blanche McManus. Given in honor of a young man who died at the age of 24 in 1900 as noted on the half-title page.
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£75.93
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)
by SWINBURNE, Algernon
Holmwood, November 14. Letter. Creases from mailing. Near Fine. A two-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "A. C. Swinburne" on two adjoining 4-1/2" x 7" sheets to composer Theo Marzials. In large part: "I am afraid I did not answer your note yesterday, & today it rises on my sight like an avenging ghost. As a rule I find it necessary to leave such matters as the publishing of my songs with music wholly in the hands of the publishers, who have their own tariff fixed for the license; but of course I reserve my...
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£758.91
THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP ON HIS WAY THROUGH THE WORLD; SHEWING WHO ROBBED HIM, WHO HELPED HIM, AND WHO PASSED HIM BY
by THACKERAY, William Makepeace
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. All hinges are cracked to varying degrees with several covers loose but all attached. Uncommon in original cloth. But for the cracked hinges, this would be a Near Fine set. Three volumes in the Second Issue binding (Sadleir 3186) of brown morocco cloth with more conventional blocking than the first issue. According to Carter (BINDING VARIANTS, pages 158-159), 1520 copies were printed.
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£607.12
THE STONES OF VENICE
by RUSKIN, John
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1874. New Edition. Hardcover. Contents fresh and clean; hinges sound, tightly bound. Cloth also bright and clean with some fraying along spine edges and tips. Near Fine set and increasingly uncommon as such. John Ruskin. Three large octavo (7" x 10-1/4") volumes in the publisher's brown blindstamped and gilt-decorated cloth. One of 1500 copies SIGNED by the author at the end of the preface. Illustrated with 62 plates, many in color, and drawings in the text by the author....
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£860.09
A WELCOME and A WELCOME. TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES FROM THE POET LAUREATE with an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO HIS PUBLISHER
by TENNYSON, Alfred Lord
London: Edward Moxon & Co./Day & Son, 1863. First Edition. Wraps. The illuminated version is disbound and has a faint running stain in the lower left corner almost entirely in the margin. The signature is a bit faded with mounting traces on the verso of the letter. Near Fine. Included are a first issue copy (with the solid diamond and rule ornament on the title) of the 4-page leaflet (4-1/4" x 6-3/4") published by Edward Moxon & Co. and the version illuminated by Owen Jones (8-1/4" x 11-1/2") and...
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£1,770.78
A DUET With an Occasional Chorus.
by DOYLE, Arthur Conan
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1899.. First American Edition, Second Impression. Hardcover. Very Good. First American Edition, Second Printing. Octavo, original maroon buckram titled and decorated in silver and gilt, light brown coated endpapers. 336 + [8] pp ads at rear. the first American edition was issued by Appleton in March, 1899 in an edition of 1,500 copies; this second printing (of 5,000 copies) was issued later the same year. It is identified by the ads; pp [ii] has a list of six works by...
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£28.33
Thomas Hardy
by Howe, Irving
New York: Macmillan,. Hardback. 206pp. Critical biography. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Dust wrapper is a little edge worn with a little rubbing and very tiny tears. Slightly sunned to spine. Very good copy in very good- dw. . Hardcover. 1967.
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£10.50
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ATLAS OF GENERAL AND DESCRIPTIVE GEOGRAPHY.
by JOHNSTON, Alexander Keith, LL.D
Edinburgh and London: W. & A.K. Johnston, 1886. New Edition".. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, original publisher's full brown cloth heavily blocked in black & gilt on front panel, block in blind on rear cover. With 20 tipped in double-page maps [all maps are on guards and can be laid flat without loss], + 23 pp Index at rear. Yellow coated endpapers with publisher's advertising. The original owner (one S.P. Ambrose) has affixed his hand-written school schedule to the front paste-down, and written his...
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£242.85
John Halifax Gentleman
by Mulock, Dinah Maria
London: Adam and Charles Black. 1912. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition. Mild rubbing to spine edges & ends and corners. 20 full page colour plates by Oswald Moser and G. F. Nicholls (All present). Introduction by Gordon Home. 464 pages. Oringinally published in 1856. Copies of this title are often attributed to the author's married name Mrs Craik or Dinah Maria Craik. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Hardback.
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£15.87
NARRATIVE OF THE MIRACULOUS CURE OF ANNE MUNNINGS: of Colchester, by Faith, Prayer, and Anointing with Oil, on New-Year's Day, 1705; Crafty Kate, of Colchester, or, The False-hearted Clothier Frighted into Good Manners, a rare and whimsical old Ballad; An extraordinary Love-Letter, Addressed to a Lady of Maldon, in 1644; and The Maldon Martyr's Prayer, 1555. A very limited number printed.
by VARIOUS AUTHORS [Charles Doe; Charles Clark; Thomas Bourman; Stephen Knight]
Totham [England]: Printed by Charles Clark at his Private Press., 1847. First Printing. Octavo; original green printed wrappers. 14 unnumbered leaves printed in black letter on rectos only, title page printed in red & black ; 22 cm. Minor creasing; a very good, sound copy in the original printed wrappers. ¶ Reprints four extremely rare works works originally published between 1555-1705. Charles Clark, "The Bard of Totham", ran a private press between 1828 and 1862, printing mostly rare broadsides and...
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£364.28
JOHN BULL AND HIS WONDERFUL LAMP. A New Reading on an Old Tale. By Homunculus (Thackeray). 1849. With Six Illustrations Designed by the Author.
by HOMUNCULUS (attributed to William Makepeace Thackeray)
Leicester: Wyvern Bindery, Wellington Street, 1903. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint of a work first issued in 1849. Octavo, original gray-green cloth blocked pictorially in gold on the front panel, titled in gold on spine. 63 pp., frontispiece and 5 additional black & white plates. Trifle bit of darkening to spine panel, a nice clean copy, very good or better. ¶ The text is a satire on Richard Cobden, with marvellous plates symbolically depicting Cobden in various Blakean scenes...
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£101.19
![THE LITTLE BLACK GHOST [in] LONDON SOCIETY, Christmas Number, 1892.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/521/076/1538076521.0.b.jpg)
THE LITTLE BLACK GHOST [in] LONDON SOCIETY, Christmas Number, 1892.
by CROMMELIN, May
London: F. V. White, 1892. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, bound in contemporary pebbled green cloth, spine panel lettered and ruled in gilt "London / Society/ 1892 / 2", all edges speckled red. Bound together with the August, September and November 1892 issues, continuously paginated [113] - 592, the Christmas number separately paginated [1] - [112], with two full-page black & white plates, one of which illustrates the story "Stéphanie" by 'the Author of "Miss Molly"; the other illustrating...
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£202.38
VERSES AND TRANSLATIONS by C.B.S.
by CALVERLEY, Charles Stuart; TERRY, Ellen; SALA, George Augustus
Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, and Co. / London: George Bell and Sons. , 1884.. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. Ninth edition. 12mo, green cloth, spine gilt. 214 pp + [2] pp ads. Presentation copy from George Augustus Sala to Charlotte Bouverie "C.B. from G.A.S. Jan 85" at head of title, and from Charlotte Bouverie to Ellen Terry with inscription in Ellen Terry's hand "Ellen Terry from Charlotte Bouverie 1888" on half title leaf, with her initials "ET" on verso of front endpaper. Very good clean copy. From...
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£121.42
![THE RECREATIONS OF A COUNTRY PARSON [along with] THE RECREATIONS OF A COUNTRY PARSON. SECOND SERIES.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/512/194/519194512.0.b.jpg)
THE RECREATIONS OF A COUNTRY PARSON [along with] THE RECREATIONS OF A COUNTRY PARSON. SECOND SERIES.
by Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchinson [issued anonymously]
London: Parker Son and Bourn, West Strand., 1861 & 1862. Early Editions. Hardcover. Near Fine. Two volumes. Volume One is the Second Edition, Volume Two is the Third Edition. Octavo, original brown cloth decorated in blind on all covers, gilt titles on spine panels, brown coated endpapers. 373 + 6 pp publisher's catalogue of 'New Books and New Editions' at rear; 382 + [2] pp ads at rear. A few small knocks to the cloth at edges, some minor rubbing, a touch of interior foxing, mostly to preliminary and...
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£76.90
PETSETILLA'S POSY: A Fairy Tale. For Young and Old. With Fifty Illustrations by F. Barnard, Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel.
by HOOD, Tom
London: George Routledge and Sons, No date [1870]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Octavo, original green cloth over beveled boards, titled and decorated in gilt and black on spine and front panel, gray coated endpapers. 156 pp + 1 leaf of ads at rear. Frontispiece with tissue guard, plus numerous illustrations throughout the text, some full-page. Although undated, there is a pencil inscription dated Xmas, 1870 on an initial blank. Tiny corner creases, some foxing to...
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£161.90
![LIEUTENANT BARNABAS. [Yellowback edition].](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/139/958/961958139.0.b.jpg)
LIEUTENANT BARNABAS. [Yellowback edition].
by BARRETT, Frank
London: Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly., 1893.. Reprint. Octavo, original colour pictorial boards (a Victorian 'yellowback']. 292 pp. + [2] pp ads + 32 pp catalogue "A List of Books Published by Chatto & Windus", dated Sept, 1894, bound in at rear, ads on endpapers. Boards worn at edges, a very good copy.
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£36.43
Felix Holt, the Radical
by Eliot, George
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1866 Three volumes. First edition, in Carter's "A" binding, with 4 pages of publisher advertisements and no catalog at the rear of Volume III. Publisher's cinnamon cloth, decorative borders stamped in blind to the boards, spines lettered in gilt. Near fine set with some toning to spines, tiny spot of soiling to fore edge of Volume I text block, light spotting to fore edge of Volume II text block, bookseller's stamp to rear pastedowns, and some...
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£1,416.62
