Frederic shoberl editor (14 Ergebnisse)

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. A smart copy of this charming British literary annual for the year 1838, edited by English journalist Frederic Shoberl. A literary annual for the year 1838. With a frontispiece, an engraved title page, and nine plates with tissue guards. Collated complete. Forget-Me-Not was the first literary annual in English, originally issued at Christmas "for 1823", combining some aspects that had been seen in England with new ideas Ackermann had brought from Germany. Aimed primarily at women readers, each annual would contain engravings and accompanying poems or stories, with a historical review of the previous year, a royal family tree, and more. This volume contains contributions from Charles Swain, Major Calder Campbell, L. H. Sigourney, H. F. Gould, Mary Howitt, and many others. Edited by Frederic Shoberl, an English journalist, editor, translator, writer and illustrator. Best known as the editor of Forget-Me-Not and for his translation of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. In the original full crushed morocco with gilt. Externally, sound with light rubbing to the extremities and fading to the spine. A small crack to the front joint at the tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Minor damp marking to the odd plate. With discolouration to the endpapers and minor age toning Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Xii, 352 Pp. 3/4 Blue Morocco Over Blue Cloth, Five Bands, Red Morocco Spine Labels, Gilt In All Compartments, Marbled Endpapers, Two Initial Blanks And Two Final Blanks. First Edition, Undated But 1824. A Clean, Unmarked Example, Gilt Brilliant, Slight Wear Along Top Edge Of Spine Panel. Twelve Colored Engravings (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 2 VOLUMES, xii + 161pp; 200pp, very well-illustrated with 32 hand coloured plates, 12mo, 5.5 x 3.5 inches / 14 x 9 cms, finely bound in contemporary green morocco, front and back boards embossed and triple gilt lined, gilt tooled and lined spines, gilt lettered, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers, Provenance: previous owner's inscription inside both volumes: 'Elizabeth Thiophila and Sarah-Mary Spencer, the Gift of Mr. Richardson, dated 1825, VERY GOOD CONDITION, Printed for R. Ackermann, London, circa 1823. * mainly costume plates with a description of manners, customs, etc. A very pleasing small set. ILLUSTRATED (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 2 volumes 16cm x 10cm, xii - 161pp - 18pp of adverts + (iv) - 200 pp pages uncut, 32 full colour plates occasional offset from the plates to the text. Ownership signature dated 1827 to the front end papers, the contents clean and tight. Publishers blue paper covered binding old paper title label to each volume, faint tide mark to outer corners of vol one.Llight surface rubbing to board and edges the head of spine of volume one chipped. The bindings tight with no splits, a very good set in the original state. Abbey Travel 6; Tooley 515.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Collectible; Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDThree volume set. Half calf over marbled boards. Illustrated with 30 colored engravings. Sound copies with tight bindings. Heavy wear to boards at edges, rubbed leather. Ex-library copies with markings from stickers on covers, one ink stamp on front free endpaper, Volume III. Published by R. Ackermann, London. 16mo. Rare. rm.…

[Anthology] VINTAGE EDITION. Duodecimo (15 x 10cm), pp.[iv]; vi; 386. Boards in green illustrative card, with the matching green illustrative card box. Illustrative frontispiece and half-title page, 12 plates, embossed presentation plate in the style of Wedgwood Ceramics, all edges gilt. All plates are present, presentation plate has previous owner's name in black ink, card of spine has been lost leaving fabric of spine exposed, wearing to edges and corners, sunning and wearing to box, chipping and rolling to edges. Very good. An anthology of both prose and poetry presented in an intriguing little book and box with twelve illustrative plates throughout. The presentation plate is dated 1831 and is an embossed pattern emulating that of Wedgwood Ceramics. Although this edition is showing signs of wear, it is a very charming book.…

Hard Cover. 12 mo bound in sixes, pp. xi, [1], 352. 12 full page hand-coloured plates. Original publishers' paper-covered boards with printed paper label to spine. Spine and boards partially toned, with very slight loss to head of spine and joints cracked but holding; boards lightly scuffed with wear to corners; shelf mark at head of spine. Ownership inscription to ffep dated 1858; very light scattered foxing otherwise contents clean. Overall a Very Good copy. Part of the 36 volume World in Miniature series, covering Tibet, Bhutan, Burma and South East Asia. Scarce, especially in original binding.…

First edition; Four volumes in two, 12mo (14.5 x 9.5 cm); 72 hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates, light offsetting from plates; contemporary brown cloth, blind stamped borders to boards with gilt motifs to upper boards within, gilt lettering to spines, a touch of fading, joints expertly repaired with upper inner hinge of vol. 1 cracked but firm, a very good set; xvi, 181, [ii], 294; [ii], 204, [ii], 267pp. An attractive first edition set of the Russia volumes of Shoberl's great The World in Miniature series. The series was produced as an informative and exhaustive collection of the "various branches of the great family of Man" as well as serving as a useful guide to the "juvenile student". While the series was never finished, with demand tailing off as the series progressed, forty three volumes were nevertheless produced all to a high standard. The seventy-two costume plates have kept their lovely colour and depict the typical dress of all stratas of Russian society, including the northern nomadic peoples such as the Samoyed, Chukchi, Kamchatka, and Oonalashka people. Abbey, Travel 6 (p.14); Colas 2727; Hiler 797; Cat. Russica S 1294; Solovev Kat.105, 337 (35 rub.).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 12mo. pp. xiii, [1]plate list, 286. 20 hand-coloured engraved plates (incl. frontis.). modern quarter morocco (corners worn, large ownership entry in red on title). First Edition. Abbey, Travel, 6 (pp. 12-13).

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4 volumes. 12mo., (5 4/8 x 3 3/8 inches). Hand-colored engraved frontispiece to each volume, additional hand-colored engraved title-page to volume one, two fine folding hand-colored engraved maps, and 44 plates, including 20 aquatints and 7 folding (EXCEPTIONALLY BRIGHT). Fine contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt extra (extremities a little scuffed). Provenance: from the library of Jacques Levy, his sale, Sotheby's, 20th April 2012, lot 340 First edition in English, the text by Villeneux first published with very similar illustrations by Nepveu in Paris in 1814. The second title in the series "The World in Miniature" edited by Shoberl for Ackermann between 1820 and 1828 in a total of 43 volumes. Ackermann's reputation as the publisher of colour-plate books of the highest quality was established with the publication of "The Microcosm of London", which appeared from 1808 in parts, completing publication in 1810, and containing 104 large folio hand-coloured aquatints. The text of the last volume was by Combe, better known as the author "Dr. Syntax" who continued to work on a series of topographical and historical works for Ackermann, including "Westminster Abbey" (1812), "York" (1813), "Oxford" (1814), "Cambridge" (1815), "Colleges of Winchester, Eton, and Westminster" (1816), and "Madeira" (1821). Abbey Travel 6; Tooley 515. …

3pp., 12mo. 55 lines, neatly and closely written. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Addressed to 'Mr W. Shoberl.' An excellent letter, giving an experienced and knowledgable view of the state of the mid-Victorian British booktrade. Redding begins by stating that he is 'indeed concerned to hear the statement' Shoberl has communicated to him. He wishes it was in his power to forward Shoberl's wishes. 'The Downward tendency of our present literature and its continued deterioration by the utter disregard for any thing on the part of the public but that which any body may do, with the continual competition as to price among the booksellers, have utterly destroyed authorship. The American looks to costing nothing for copyright, reprinted here as of English authorship reduce the chances of obtaining employment very low indeed. I feel the times too much myself not to sympathise with others. There is not a boarding school girl whose diatribes do not ascend in the market, better than those of an educated person who has had long experience. The prospect is gloomy enough', and Redding cannot help him. 'I have no business connections out of the old way, and so far from finding my present cause a prosperous one I look to the future with apprehension. My life with 50 years of adventures is nearly ready, but I almost despair of doing any thing with it, though I have records of so many well known characters to display.' Redding remembers Shoberl's father well, 'and when you speak of friends gone off the stage of existence I can assure you I feel the same'. In the final paragraph he again expresses a desire to assist Shoberl if he can, and he expresses a hope 'that things may soon take a turn' with him. Shoberl did gain employment in the book trade, first as assistant to the London publisher Henry Colburn, and then as a publisher in his own right.…

3pp., 16mo. Bifolium. On aged and foxed paper. He wishes to be informed 'whether the Forget Me Not" so long and ably edited by your Father will be published for the ensuing year - i.e. for 1848'. One of his daughters has 'written down Stories one or two of which have already appeared, and she would be very happy to avail herself of an opportunity of writing something' for the annual, so he asks him to 'ascertain whether your Father would like to insert a short Nouvellette [sic] to the extent of 4 to 5 pages'. The subject is presumably Roscoe's daughter Jane Elizabeth St John (1829-1906) was generally known as Mrs. Horace Roscoe St John, author of 'Audubon the Naturalist' (1856), 'Englishwomen and the Age' (1860), a pamphlet on the condition of women, and two historical works, 'Masaniello of Naples' (1865) and 'The Court of Anna Carafa' (1872).…

8vo, pp. ix, [1 (list of plates)], 386, with 15 plates including publisher's orange embossed presentation plate (loosely inserted) and engraved part-title; a very good copy in the publisher's green printed boards, small ribbon tab to rear board, edges gilt, housed in the publisher's printed slipcase; slipcase worn, discoloured, and chipped, boards slightly rubbed, spine bumped.The Anglo-German publisher Rudolph Ackermann's literary annual Forget-me-not for 1831, instrumental in introducing to English readers the concept of the German 'gift book', borrowing 'from the French almanack and the German Taschenbüch to create the format of the first British-published annual' (Harris). London-born journalist and writer Frederic Shoberl (17751853) was the editor of the Forget-me-not from 1822 until 1834, as well as Ackermann's Repository of Arts from 1809 to 1828, and the Juvenile Forget-me-not from 1828 to 1832. Ackermann's 'first annual, Forget-me-not, proved an unprecedented commercial success, 20,000 copies a year being published' (ODNB). The Forget-me-not for 1831 includes, inter alia, tales about the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) peoples of New York, an enslaved Black man, adventures in Italy, ghosts, and elves, as well as poems on cat's paws, maniacs' smiles, and puzzled painters, and 'may be considered as completing the first series of the Forget Me Not; as it is the intention of the Publisher, in compliance with the suggestion of many friends of the work, to make, next year, an alteration in its external appearance, by employing paper of somewhat larger size, and exchanging the certainly delicate but somewhat too frail cover for a more durable binding in silk' (pp. vvi). See Harris, Forget me not: The Rise of the British Literary Annual, 18231835. Language: English.…

Zustand: Very Good. Hand-coloured plates (18) inc. several Zurich, 3 Friburg, & Berne frontis with 5 ladies. 1st edition, 12mo half leather blind-tooled and on 4 gilt raised bands with red spine label, marbled paper sides {tips rubbed] vi +[2p=contents & plate list] + 287pp. Some isolated foxing and some offsetting but very minor. Clean and beautifully coloured plates some with several figures and either with background etc. *One of 43 volumes published by Shoberl, each documenting a different part of the early 19th century world. 1 volume. Hardcover.…