Nineteenth-century English literature
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AINSWORTH, William Harrison.
Jack Sheppard a romance. Illustrated by George Cruikshank.
London, Richard Bentley, 1839.
Three volumes, octavo, with 27 illustrations by George Cruikshank (one from volume 1 bound in volume 2), half-title...
First edition. The most celebrated of the prolific Ainsworth's "Newgate" novels, chronicling the career of the...
Sadleir, 14.
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[BYRON] JUVENAL, Decimus Junius.
The Satires, Translated and illustrated by Francis Hodgson.
London, T. Bensley, 1807.
Quarto; a fine copy, complete with the list of subscribers and errata-slip, in a splendid contemporary russia binding...
First edition of Hodgson's verse translation of Juvenal's Satires; Lowndes quotes Byron's opinion of this...
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BYRON, George Gordon.
Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice [bound with] Werner, A Tragedy.
London, John Murray, 1821.
Tall octavo, missing both half-titles, 'Marino Faliero' without terminal ad.; contemporary green half morocco, gilt,...
Attractive volume of two important works by Byron.
First edition, first issue of Marino Faliero: the...
Randolph, p.73 &, p. 79; Wise, II, pp. 29-30 & 43-44.
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COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor.
Christabel: Kubla Khan, a vision; The pains of sleep.
London, John Murray, 1816.
Tall octavo; text clean and bright, edges trimmed slightly; fine copy in full tan calf, gilt, by Sangorski and...
A beautiful copy of this important book: first edition, with the half-title but without the advertisement...
Ashley I, p.204; Grolier, 100; Hayward, 207; Sterling , 188.
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CRAWFORD, F(rancis) Marion.
A cigarette-maker's romance.
London, Macmillan, 1890.
Two volumes, octavo, lacking free front endpapers, volume I with half-title and title detached; some light foxing,...
First edition. Set in Germany, this fairy-tale concerns a young cigarette-maker, who claims to be the dispossessed...
Sadleir, 639 (Sadleir Standard Binding 1).
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DE QUINCEY, Thomas.
Confessions of an English opium eater.
London, Taylor and Hessey, 1823.
Duodecimo; original blue-grey boards and paper label, spine slightly worn; a few spots but a fresh uncut copy with the...
Third edition: an attractive copy, in original binding, of the book which established De Quincey's literary reputation....
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DICKENS, Charles.
The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby...
London, Chapman & Hall, 1839.
Octavo, frontispiece portrait of Dickens by Finden after Maclise and 39 plates by Hablot K. Browns ("Phiz'), plates...
First edition, bound from parts. Of the two critical issue points "latter" at p. 160 is present, but at p. 123 the...
Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 129-160; Sadleir, 695.
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HUNT, Leigh.
The Town; its memorable characters and events.
London, Smith, Elder, 1848.
Two volumes, octavo, with frontispieces and numerous illustrations in the text; a very good copy in half morocco, gilt.
First edition of 'an account of London, partly topographical and historical, but chiefly recalling the memories of...
Not in Sadleir.
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KINGSLEY, Charles.
Two years ago.
Cambridge, Macmillan, 1857.
Three volumes, octavo; 4 pp. publisher's advertisements at end of volume I, publisher's catalogue dated January 1857 at...
First edition. Continuing Kingsley's urgent belief in the necessity for religion and politics to become inseparable,...
Not in Sadleir; Wolff, 3811.
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KINGSLEY, Henry.
Ravenshoe.
Cambridge, Macmillan, 1862.
Three volumes, octavo; uncut in the original morocco-grain blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, expertly rebacked...
Rare: first edition of Kingsley's second novel, written on his return to England. 'The romantic story of an old English...
Miller, p. 601; Sadleir, 1359; Wolff, 3824.
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