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Verlag: No place. 'Saturday | 5 Mar 14 i.e, 1814
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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1p, 8vo. On laid paper with watermarked date 1811. In good condition, lightly aged, with stub from mount adhering. In a contemporary hand at head: '0 15', and at foot '5 Mar 14' and 'Margravin Anspach'. The letter reads: 'The Pye alluded to is Calld Paté de Peregeux & must be spelt so | The other is Je detruit Par ma presence - | I destroy by my presence - | indeed Sir, you cannot Oblige me more than to be very minute in any thing that seems doubtfull - | The Black Stone perhaps may suit the Pye being filld with Black Trufles but there is a Place calld Peregeux in France from whence was sent to all Parts of the World those Pyes - | Hopeing C. [Jairman?] will not walk off with C Barclay - | I remain | yours sin | Elizabeth.' The letter certainly relates to the following passage in Lady Craven's 'Memoirs', regarding 'Lord Thurlow, when Chancellor': 'I really believe he preferred tough English salt beef to a pate de Perigueux, and the London porter to the wine of Paris. He frequently remarked to me, " Vous detruisez par votre presence," [.]'. From the nature of the letter it would appear to be a reply to a query made on preparing the manuscript by the publisher of the 'Memoirs', Henry Colburn of New Burlington Street. If that is the case, the dating to '5 Mar 14' would appear to be incorrect, as the 'Memoirs' were published in 1826.
Verlag: 'Thursday 11 oclock / 10 Seymour St West London -'. No year but between and 1828, 1825
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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See his entry, and that of Colburn, in the Oxford DNB. Campbell agreed to edit Colburn's 'New Monthly Magazine' in 1820, his first number in the post being that of January 1821, and the letter was presumably written between this period and Mrs Campbell's death in 1828. The reference to 'Mr Ollier' would close the dates even further: the Oxford DNB's entry for Charles Ollier (1788-1859) stating that, after financial difficulties, 'by the autumn of 1825 he returned to the publishing trade as the chief literary reader and adviser to Henry Colburn in New Burlington Street'. 1p, 12mo. On the recto of the first leaf of a bifolium, the verso of the second leaf being addressed by Mrs Campbell to 'H. Colbourn Esqr / 8 New Burlington St- / In Mr Colbourn's absence to Mr Dubourg' (i.e. Colburn's agent George Dubourg). Campbell's misspelling of Colburn's name is puzzling, considering his professional association with him. In good condition on browned and lightly-worn paper. With folds for postage. The first eleven words are in a more inky style than the rest of the letter: 'Mrs Campbell thanks Mr Colbourn for the volume about the Catholics but will not have occasion to keep it - Mr Campbell requests to have the proof sheet of Hazlitt's article about which Mr Ollier spoke to him -'.
Verlag: Colburn Henry, London
Anbieter: Hammelburger Antiquariat, Hammelburg, Deutschland
Hardcover. Zustand: very good. Edited in London, anno 1828, size of the map: 27x36 cm., little brownish.
Verlag: Manuscript on paper variously watermarked with dates 1827 1828 and 1830. Novel published 'London: Richard Bentley New Burlington Street Successor to Henry Colburn 1836.', 1821
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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The present item is from the papers of the printer and publisher Richard Bentley (1794-1871), whose career is described in his entry, and that of his business associate Henry Colburn (c.1784-1855), in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (The pair's partnership had been dissolved in 1832, with Colburn agreeing not to leave the London business to Bentley.) The material clearly consists of a section of the work of Hannah D. Burdon who was the daughter of wealthy Durham mineowner, industrialist and author William Burdon (1764-1818). Her first novel 'Seymour of Sudley' (published in 1836), sent to Bentley for setting up in type. There is a good entry on Burdon on the website 'At the Circulating Library / A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901'. Fourteen novels are listed, published between 1836 and 1866. Her first eight novels were historical, but following the death of her first husband in 1850, the last six were 'social-problem" novels published under the pseudonym 'Lord B******m' (which has lead some to assume that the books were the work of the Earl of Belfast). The present manuscript is part of the first of her novels, and the only one to be published by Bentley: 'SEYMOUR OF SUDLEY; / OR, / THE LAST OF THE FRANCISCANS. / BY HANNAH D. BURDON. / IN THREE VOLUMES. / VOL. I. [II. III.] / LONDON: / RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET, / SUCCESSOR TO HENRY COLBURN. / 1836.' The autograph manuscript is unsigned, 30pp, 4to, paginated 27-56, with around 22 to 24 lines to the page, neatly written out on fifteen leaves of wove paper variously watermarked 'S G / 1821', 'G & R TURNER / 1827' and 'R TASSELL / 1828 [1830]'. All the leaves are separate, except for those carrying pp.43-46, which constitute a bifolium. The item is in good condition, lightly aged and worn, with one corner of each of the fifteen leaves dog-eared, and a tiny amount of loss to the corner of the last leaf, resulting in absence of the word 'be' from the bottom left-hand corner of the penultimate page. The bifolium has a closed tear at the foot of the gutter. The matter present in the document comes from the start of the book, and constitutes the conclusion of Chapter II, and the greater part of Chapter III, beginning with the paragraph that starts ''Gradually, as if the warning of the stranger had vanished from his remembrance', which features in the printed version at vol. 1, p.23; and ending with the words 'we are weak creatures, and humility is' at vol.1, p.48. There are notes in pencil (for typesetters?) on: p.2, '25 C Vol. I'; p.3[9] (in pencil), 'Hobhouse'; p.41, 'Byford'; p.47, 'Sherry'; p.48, 'Byford'; p.51, 'Wilcox'. There a couple of dozen sylistic emendations (the most significant being the substitution of 'without interchanging a word' for 'in uninterrupted silence'), but the document is practically a fair copy, although a character named in the manuscript as 'Lord Frederick' is renamed 'Lord Francis' and 'Francis' (as in the published version) throughout.