Florist & Pomologist. by Robert Hogg LLD - 1863

Black leather spine with tan and brown title plates. gilt banding and lettering. Green and beige marbled boards.
In two volumes. Rebound.

Tan leather binding, gilt title and banding on the spine.
gilt " Family Library" on the front board. Spine re-backed.
Colin Mackenzie was a nineteenth century writer, book producer, editor, translator and compiler. Mackenzie spent his adult life living and working in London, England. He wrote/helped produce works of non-fiction, including educational and informative works on chemistry, cookery, medicine, popular science, geography, history, economics and religion, the 'gentlemen's clubs' of London, a 'parliamentary pocketbook' in 1832 (the year of the first Reform Act) and a report on poverty with a particular focus on London.
Mackenzie was born in Edinburgh on 8 May 1795, eldest son of Edinburgh confectioner Alexander Mackenzie."Bred to be a surgeon" as he described it later in life, his education was sponsored by John Rotherham and then Dr Macdonald of St Andrews University. He attended classes in Latin and Greek at Inverness Royal Academy between 1804 and 1809. Between 1810 and 1814 he studied for… Read More

Red leather spine with black title plates, gilt banding decoration and lettering. Red marbled boards and edges. Volume 3-4 are bound as one.
Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively, Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–63), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–72) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Like Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy, she emerged from provincial England; most of her works are set there. She is known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place and detailed depiction of the countryside. Although female authors were published under their own names during her lifetime, she wanted to escape the stereotype of women's writing being limited to lighthearted romances or other lighter fare not to be taken very… Read More

Green calf spine (faded to olive) with raised and gilt banding, and gilt title. Green cloth boards.
A very well kept and most presentable bound copy.
The Ingoldsby Legends (full title: The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth and Marvels) is a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry written supposedly by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, actually a pen-name of an English clergyman named Richard Harris Barham. The legends were first printed during 1837 as a regular series in the magazine Bentley's Miscellany and later in New Monthly Magazine. They proved immensely popular and were compiled into books published in 1840, 1842 and 1847 by Richard Bentley. They remained popular during the 19th century, when they ran through many editions. They were illustrated by artists including John Leech, George Cruikshank, John Tenniel, and Arthur Rackham (1898 edition). As a priest of the Chapel Royal, with a private income, Barham was not troubled with strenuous duties and he had ample time to read and… Read More

Red cloth binding with black title plate, gilt decoration and title on the spine. Embossed floral pattern on both boards. Dimensions are for one volume.
A lovely and well produced set of Stendhal's work. Marie-Henri Beyle; 23 January 1783 – 23 March 1842, better known by his pen name Stendhal was a 19th-century French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839), he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters' psychology and considered one of the early and foremost practitioners of realism. A self-proclaimed egotist, he coined the same characteristic in his characters' 'Beylism'. Stendhal syndrome, Stendhal's syndrome or Florence syndrome is a psychosomatic condition involving rapid heartbeat, fainting, confusion and even hallucinations, allegedly occurring when individuals become exposed to objects, artworks, or phenomena of great beauty and antiquity. The affliction is named after… Read More

Black leather spine with tan and brown title plates. gilt banding and lettering. Green and beige marbled boards.
In two volumes. Rebound.

Tan leather binding, gilt title and banding on the spine.
gilt " Family Library" on the front board. Spine re-backed.
Colin Mackenzie was a nineteenth century writer, book producer, editor, translator and compiler. Mackenzie spent his adult life living and working in London, England. He wrote/helped produce works of non-fiction, including educational and informative works on chemistry, cookery, medicine, popular science, geography, history, economics and religion, the 'gentlemen's clubs' of London, a 'parliamentary pocketbook' in 1832 (the year of the first Reform Act) and a report on poverty with a particular focus on London.
Mackenzie was born in Edinburgh on 8 May 1795, eldest son of Edinburgh confectioner Alexander Mackenzie."Bred to be a surgeon" as he described it later in life, his education was sponsored by John Rotherham and then Dr Macdonald of St Andrews University. He attended classes in Latin and Greek at Inverness Royal Academy between 1804 and 1809. Between 1810 and 1814 he studied for… Read More

Red leather spine with black title plates, gilt banding decoration and lettering. Red marbled boards and edges. Volume 3-4 are bound as one.
Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively, Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–63), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–72) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Like Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy, she emerged from provincial England; most of her works are set there. She is known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place and detailed depiction of the countryside. Although female authors were published under their own names during her lifetime, she wanted to escape the stereotype of women's writing being limited to lighthearted romances or other lighter fare not to be taken very… Read More

Green calf spine (faded to olive) with raised and gilt banding, and gilt title. Green cloth boards.
A very well kept and most presentable bound copy.
The Ingoldsby Legends (full title: The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth and Marvels) is a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry written supposedly by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, actually a pen-name of an English clergyman named Richard Harris Barham. The legends were first printed during 1837 as a regular series in the magazine Bentley's Miscellany and later in New Monthly Magazine. They proved immensely popular and were compiled into books published in 1840, 1842 and 1847 by Richard Bentley. They remained popular during the 19th century, when they ran through many editions. They were illustrated by artists including John Leech, George Cruikshank, John Tenniel, and Arthur Rackham (1898 edition). As a priest of the Chapel Royal, with a private income, Barham was not troubled with strenuous duties and he had ample time to read and… Read More

Red cloth binding with black title plate, gilt decoration and title on the spine. Embossed floral pattern on both boards. Dimensions are for one volume.
A lovely and well produced set of Stendhal's work. Marie-Henri Beyle; 23 January 1783 – 23 March 1842, better known by his pen name Stendhal was a 19th-century French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839), he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters' psychology and considered one of the early and foremost practitioners of realism. A self-proclaimed egotist, he coined the same characteristic in his characters' 'Beylism'. Stendhal syndrome, Stendhal's syndrome or Florence syndrome is a psychosomatic condition involving rapid heartbeat, fainting, confusion and even hallucinations, allegedly occurring when individuals become exposed to objects, artworks, or phenomena of great beauty and antiquity. The affliction is named after… Read More