edited george hammond (5 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 394 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 394 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

First edition with these illustrations, first printing. Publisher's original navy blue cloth with titles and illustrations in gilt to the upper board and spine. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with a tissue-guarded frontispiece and 44 line drawings throughout by Christine Hammond. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with slight bumping to the bottom corner of the lower board. The contents, with a previous owner's inscription to the flyleaf, some spotting to the text block edges and foxing to the frontispiece, tissue guard, title page and half title, are otherwise clean throughout. An attractive example. An appealing edition of Jean-François Marmontel's eighteenth-century tales, selected and edited by the literary scholar George Saintsbury, and illustrated by the prolific fin-de-siècle female illustrator Christine Hammond. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

First edition thus, first printing. Complete in two volumes. Original green cloth lettered and illustrated in gilt to spine and front panel. Upper edges gilt. A lovely, very near fine set, the bindings square and firm with a little softening to the lower spine tips, the cloth and gilt sharp and bright. The contents, with toning to the endpapers are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Small closed tear to the outer edge of Vol. II, p. 295/6. A lovely bright set. 'Sir Charles Grandison', Richardson's final novel is, like its predecessors, 'Pamela' and 'Clarissa', an epistolary novel; and, like Clarissa, it is very long indeed, originally appearing across seven volumes between November 1753 and March 1754. Richardson's portrait of a "Good Man" (after the female protagonists of the earlier novels) has not endured either in reputation or print compared to the earlier novels but, as John Dussinger remarks, "in 1754 Richardson reported to Lady Bradshaigh [the] novel had much more success with the public than 'Clarissa', receiving enthusiastic responses from such diverse readers as William Cowper, who wrote an ode on its behalf, Edward Gibbon, and Lord Chesterfield". Jane Austen, another fan, dramatized scenes from the novel for family performance. Samuel Johnson famously remarked that "if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment", and this two-volume abridgement by the influential critic and literary historian, George Saintsbury, is an attempt to convey the sentiment without the length (to lose some of the bathwater without forfeiting the baby). The edition is also notable for its finely detailed illustrations (both within and adorning the cloth) by the English artist Christiana Mary Demain Hammond (18601900). A member of Hugh Thomson's Cranford School, Hammond's elegant pen and ink drawings are a perfect complement to Richardson's prose. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. First edition. SIGNED. Folio [39 cm] 1/4 red bonded leather with red and black patterned paper over boards. Top edge trimmed; other edges deckled. Map at the rear. With the publisher's prospectus tucked in. The extremities are lightly rubbed, and the leather at the spine ends is chipped. A union of an hitherto unpublished journal recording Du Bois's adventures and experiences in crossing virtually unexplored American territory, and sixteen magnificent pencil drawings made by a fellow soldier of the diarist. Number 150 in an edition of 300 printed at The Grabhorn Press in San Francisco. Signed by the editor on the limitation page. Included in the Western Books Exhibition from The Rounce and Coffin Club. Grabhorn 481; Howes D521.