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Sonnets From the Portuguese

Sonnets From the Portuguese

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets to
the Portuguese are widely considered among the greatest cycle of
sonnets in the English language. This collection of love poems was
written between 1845-46 to fellow poet and her soon-to-be husband,
Robert Browning.


Originally, Browning had no intention
of publishing the poetry owing to its deeply personal subject matter,
but her husband convinced her to publish them in the 1850 edition of
her Poems. Originally, however, she was reportedly to have called the... Read more about this item
Orley Farm

Orley Farm

by Anthony Trollope

When Joseph Mason of Groby Park, Yorkshire, died, he left his estate to his family. A codicil to his will, however, left Orley Farm (near London) to his much younger second wife and infant son. The will and the codicil were in her handwriting, and there were three witnesses, one of whom was no longer alive. A bitterly fought court case confirmed the codicil.

Twenty years pass. Lady Mason lives at Orley farm with her adult son, Lucius. Samuel Dockwrath, a tenant, is asked to leave by Lucius, who wants to... Read more about this item

Victorian Fiction Books & Ephemera

THE PRAIRIE-BIRD.

THE PRAIRIE-BIRD.

by MURRAY, Charles Augustus

London: Richard Bentley, 1845. First Edition Thus. Half-Leather. Very Good. The first one-volume edition, issued as volume 98 in Bentley's Standard Novels series. Originally issued in 3 vols by Bentley in 1844. Small octavo, bound in half black calf over marbled boards, spine panel nicely decorated in blind and ruled in gilt with in compartments, contrasting red leather title labels lettered in gilt, all edges marbled. Engraved frontispiece, vii, 581 pp. Bookplate and a small stamp from Aspley House,... Read more about this item
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€187.26
HARRY COVERDALE'S COURTSHIP And All That Came of It. [Yellowback edition].

HARRY COVERDALE'S COURTSHIP And All That Came of It. [Yellowback edition].

by SMEDLEY, Frank E

London: George Routledge and Sons. , No Date [1880s?].. Reprint. Octavo, original colour pictorial boards (a Victorian 'yellowback']. 444 pp., ads on fixed endpapers, rectos and versos of free endpapers, including a full-page add for Beecham's Pills on the verso of the front free endpaper. Rear cover bears an advert for Pears Soap. Some wear to boards at extremities, small crack on rear board; a very good copy.
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€42.13
THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP ON HIS WAY THROUGH THE WORLD; SHEWING WHO ROBBED HIM, WHO HELPED HIM, AND WHO PASSED HIM BY

THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP ON HIS WAY THROUGH THE WORLD; SHEWING WHO ROBBED HIM, WHO HELPED HIM, AND WHO PASSED HIM BY

by THACKERAY, William Makepeace

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. All hinges are cracked to varying degrees with several covers loose but all attached. Uncommon in original cloth. But for the cracked hinges, this would be a Near Fine set. Three volumes in the Second Issue binding (Sadleir 3186) of brown morocco cloth with more conventional blocking than the first issue. According to Carter (BINDING VARIANTS, pages 158-159), 1520 copies were printed.
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€702.22
CHRISTMAS MESSENGERS.

CHRISTMAS MESSENGERS.

by HERBERT, S

New York, London & Berlin: International Art Publishing Co. Ltd., No Date (circa 1900).. Small 12m0, original embossed colour pictorial covers, sewn with a fine silk ribbon on the spine, decorative sawtooth edges; unpaginated (12 pp + covers). Illustrated throughout with fine chromolithographic colour illustrations. Silk ribbon ends a touch frayed and folded over, a sharp, fine copy. Rare. ¶ International Art Publishing Co., New York and Berlin, 1895-1915). In 1895 Wolf & Co. and the Art Lithographic... Read more about this item
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€117.04
A WELCOME and A WELCOME. TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES FROM THE POET LAUREATE with an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO HIS PUBLISHER

A WELCOME and A WELCOME. TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES FROM THE POET LAUREATE with an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO HIS PUBLISHER

by TENNYSON, Alfred Lord

London: Edward Moxon & Co./Day & Son, 1863. First Edition. Wraps. The illuminated version is disbound and has a faint running stain in the lower left corner almost entirely in the margin. The signature is a bit faded with mounting traces on the verso of the letter. Near Fine. Included are a first issue copy (with the solid diamond and rule ornament on the title) of the 4-page leaflet (4-1/4" x 6-3/4") published by Edward Moxon & Co. and the version illuminated by Owen Jones (8-1/4" x 11-1/2") and... Read more about this item
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€2,048.16
THE STONES OF VENICE

THE STONES OF VENICE

by RUSKIN, John

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1874. New Edition. Hardcover. Contents fresh and clean; hinges sound, tightly bound. Cloth also bright and clean with some fraying along spine edges and tips. Near Fine set and increasingly uncommon as such. John Ruskin. Three large octavo (7" x 10-1/4") volumes in the publisher's brown blindstamped and gilt-decorated cloth. One of 1500 copies SIGNED by the author at the end of the preface. Illustrated with 62 plates, many in color, and drawings in the text by the author.... Read more about this item
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€994.82
John Halifax Gentleman

John Halifax Gentleman

by Mulock, Dinah Maria

London: Adam and Charles Black. 1912. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition. Mild rubbing to spine edges & ends and corners. 20 full page colour plates by Oswald Moser and G. F. Nicholls (All present). Introduction by Gordon Home. 464 pages. Oringinally published in 1856. Copies of this title are often attributed to the author's married name Mrs Craik or Dinah Maria Craik. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Hardback.
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€18.30
THE LITTLE BLACK GHOST [in] LONDON SOCIETY, Christmas Number, 1892.

THE LITTLE BLACK GHOST [in] LONDON SOCIETY, Christmas Number, 1892.

by CROMMELIN, May

London: F. V. White, 1892. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, bound in contemporary pebbled green cloth, spine panel lettered and ruled in gilt "London / Society/ 1892 / 2", all edges speckled red. Bound together with the August, September and November 1892 issues, continuously paginated [113] - 592, the Christmas number separately paginated [1] - [112], with two full-page black & white plates, one of which illustrates the story "Stéphanie" by 'the Author of "Miss Molly"; the other illustrating... Read more about this item
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€234.08
JOHN BULL AND HIS WONDERFUL LAMP. A New Reading on an Old Tale. By Homunculus (Thackeray). 1849. With Six Illustrations Designed by the Author.

JOHN BULL AND HIS WONDERFUL LAMP. A New Reading on an Old Tale. By Homunculus (Thackeray). 1849. With Six Illustrations Designed by the Author.

by HOMUNCULUS (attributed to William Makepeace Thackeray)

Leicester: Wyvern Bindery, Wellington Street, 1903. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint of a work first issued in 1849. Octavo, original gray-green cloth blocked pictorially in gold on the front panel, titled in gold on spine. 63 pp., frontispiece and 5 additional black & white plates. Trifle bit of darkening to spine panel, a nice clean copy, very good or better. ¶ The text is a satire on Richard Cobden, with marvellous plates symbolically depicting Cobden in various Blakean scenes... Read more about this item
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€117.04
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ATLAS OF GENERAL AND DESCRIPTIVE GEOGRAPHY.

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ATLAS OF GENERAL AND DESCRIPTIVE GEOGRAPHY.

by JOHNSTON, Alexander Keith, LL.D

Edinburgh and London: W. & A.K. Johnston, 1886. New Edition".. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, original publisher's full brown cloth heavily blocked in black & gilt on front panel, block in blind on rear cover. With 20 tipped in double-page maps [all maps are on guards and can be laid flat without loss], + 23 pp Index at rear. Yellow coated endpapers with publisher's advertising. The original owner (one S.P. Ambrose) has affixed his hand-written school schedule to the front paste-down, and written his... Read more about this item
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€280.89
VERSES AND TRANSLATIONS by C.B.S.

VERSES AND TRANSLATIONS by C.B.S.

by CALVERLEY, Charles Stuart; TERRY, Ellen; SALA, George Augustus

Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, and Co. / London: George Bell and Sons. , 1884.. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. Ninth edition. 12mo, green cloth, spine gilt. 214 pp + [2] pp ads. Presentation copy from George Augustus Sala to Charlotte Bouverie "C.B. from G.A.S. Jan 85" at head of title, and from Charlotte Bouverie to Ellen Terry with inscription in Ellen Terry's hand "Ellen Terry from Charlotte Bouverie 1888" on half title leaf, with her initials "ET" on verso of front endpaper. Very good clean copy. From... Read more about this item
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€140.44
THE RECREATIONS OF A COUNTRY PARSON [along with] THE RECREATIONS OF A COUNTRY PARSON. SECOND SERIES.

THE RECREATIONS OF A COUNTRY PARSON [along with] THE RECREATIONS OF A COUNTRY PARSON. SECOND SERIES.

by Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchinson [issued anonymously]

London: Parker Son and Bourn, West Strand., 1861 & 1862. Early Editions. Hardcover. Near Fine. Two volumes. Volume One is the Second Edition, Volume Two is the Third Edition. Octavo, original brown cloth decorated in blind on all covers, gilt titles on spine panels, brown coated endpapers. 373 + 6 pp publisher's catalogue of 'New Books and New Editions' at rear; 382 + [2] pp ads at rear. A few small knocks to the cloth at edges, some minor rubbing, a touch of interior foxing, mostly to preliminary and... Read more about this item
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€88.95
THE TRAVELS AND SURPISING ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN. Illustrated with Five Woodcuts by G. Cruikshank, and Twenty-Two Ful-Page Curious Engravings.

THE TRAVELS AND SURPISING ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN. Illustrated with Five Woodcuts by G. Cruikshank, and Twenty-Two Ful-Page Curious Engravings.

by RASPE, Richard. Woodcuts by George Cruikshank

London: William Tegg., 1868.. Octavo, original brown cloth decorated in gold, black & blind, brown coated endpapers. 268 pp + 4 pp publisher's catalogue 'Mr. William Tegg's Catalogue of Popular Works; London, Pancras Lane, Cheapside" bound in at the rear. With a hand-coloured frontispiece and five small woodcuts by George Cruikshank in addition to twenty three extremely curious full-page engravings. Cloth worn at the corners with inner boards showing; lightly rubbed but clean and sound, the hinges... Read more about this item
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€210.67
PETSETILLA'S POSY: A Fairy Tale. For Young and Old. With Fifty Illustrations by F. Barnard, Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel.

PETSETILLA'S POSY: A Fairy Tale. For Young and Old. With Fifty Illustrations by F. Barnard, Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel.

by HOOD, Tom

London: George Routledge and Sons, No date [1870]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Octavo, original green cloth over beveled boards, titled and decorated in gilt and black on spine and front panel, gray coated endpapers. 156 pp + 1 leaf of ads at rear. Frontispiece with tissue guard, plus numerous illustrations throughout the text, some full-page. Although undated, there is a pencil inscription dated Xmas, 1870 on an initial blank. Tiny corner creases, some foxing to... Read more about this item
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€187.26
LIEUTENANT BARNABAS. [Yellowback edition].

LIEUTENANT BARNABAS. [Yellowback edition].

by BARRETT, Frank

London: Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly., 1893.. Reprint. Octavo, original colour pictorial boards (a Victorian 'yellowback']. 292 pp. + [2] pp ads + 32 pp catalogue "A List of Books Published by Chatto & Windus", dated Sept, 1894, bound in at rear, ads on endpapers. Boards worn at edges, a very good copy.
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€42.13
THE LAMP OF LOVE: A Book For Young Readers. Illustrated.

THE LAMP OF LOVE: A Book For Young Readers. Illustrated.

by ANONYMOUS [African American Interest]

Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, 6 George Street / London : Houlston & Wright., No Date [between 1857 and 1869].. First Printing. 12 mo, original publisher's green cloth decorated in blind & gilt, lettered in gilt on upper cover, decorated and lettered in blind on rear panel, spine panel decorated and lettered in gilt, pale yellow endpapers. 280 pages, Frontispiece engraved by J.M. Corner, illustrations, music. Minor foxing to text, lacking front free endpaper, rear inner hinges just starting to crack. A... Read more about this item
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€234.08
RAYMOND'S RIDE. [Yellowback edition].

RAYMOND'S RIDE. [Yellowback edition].

by GOULD, Nat

London: R.A. Everett & Co., Ltd., No Date [1880's?].. Reprint. Octavo, original colour pictorial boards (a Victorian 'yellowback']. 255 pp., ads on endpapers, Front inner hinges repaired, with a small tear; light wear to edges of the boards; a very good copy.
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€42.13
REALMAH. By the Author of "Friends in Council". In Two Volumes.

REALMAH. By the Author of "Friends in Council". In Two Volumes.

by HELPS, Arthur

London: Macmillan and Co., 1868. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Two volumes. Octavo, original dark blue cloth bordered in blind and with a small decorative device in gilt on front panels, gilt decorations & titles to spines. Brown coated endpapers. 299 + 320 pp, [4] pp ads + [48] pp publishers cat alogue at rear of Vol. 1, dated 5.68. Withdrawn from the Birmingham University Library, with their bookplates on the front endpapers, stamps to title leaves and old call numbers neatly... Read more about this item
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€140.44
NARRATIVE OF THE MIRACULOUS CURE OF ANNE MUNNINGS: of Colchester, by Faith, Prayer, and Anointing with Oil, on New-Year's Day, 1705; Crafty Kate, of Colchester, or, The False-hearted Clothier Frighted into Good Manners, a rare and whimsical old Ballad; An extraordinary Love-Letter, Addressed to a Lady of Maldon, in 1644; and The Maldon Martyr's Prayer, 1555. A very limited number printed.

NARRATIVE OF THE MIRACULOUS CURE OF ANNE MUNNINGS: of Colchester, by Faith, Prayer, and Anointing with Oil, on New-Year's Day, 1705; Crafty Kate, of Colchester, or, The False-hearted Clothier Frighted into Good Manners, a rare and whimsical old Ballad; An extraordinary Love-Letter, Addressed to a Lady of Maldon, in 1644; and The Maldon Martyr's Prayer, 1555. A very limited number printed.

by VARIOUS AUTHORS [Charles Doe; Charles Clark; Thomas Bourman; Stephen Knight]

Totham [England]: Printed by Charles Clark at his Private Press., 1847. First Printing. Octavo; original green printed wrappers. 14 unnumbered leaves printed in black letter on rectos only, title page printed in red & black ; 22 cm. Minor creasing; a very good, sound copy in the original printed wrappers. ¶ Reprints four extremely rare works works originally published between 1555-1705. Charles Clark, "The Bard of Totham", ran a private press between 1828 and 1862, printing mostly rare broadsides and... Read more about this item
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€421.34
AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT likely from FREDERICK THE GREAT

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT likely from FREDERICK THE GREAT

by CARLYLE, Thomas

[1853]. Manuscript. Light creases from folding; writing dark and clear. About Fine and uncommon. HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT completely in Carlyle's hand but not signed of @250 words on the verso of a letter (8" x 9-7/8") addressed to the writer notifying him of his election to the Atheneum. Mostly in ink with additions in pencil, the notes appear to be historical and biographical research in preparation for the writing of his biography of Frederick the Great. The notes spill over to the bottom of the letter.
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€1,755.56
THE STORY OF THE GADSBYS: A Tale Without A Plot [and] HE WENT FOR A SOLDIER By John Strange Winter.

THE STORY OF THE GADSBYS: A Tale Without A Plot [and] HE WENT FOR A SOLDIER By John Strange Winter.

by KIPLING, Rudyard

New York: M.J. Ivers & Co., Publishers, 86 Nassau Street., 1891. Early American Edition. Early Pirated Edition. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers printed in blue and green. 208 pp. Issued as Ivers American Series, No. 223. An early American edition, published at the height of Kiplings battle against American Piracies. The tale was first published in the USA by Lovell on 30 June 1890 as No. 4 in Lovell's Westminster Series; Ivers also published the pirated first book edition of Kipling's AMERICAN NOTES... Read more about this item
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€79.59
IN MEMORIAM AS WRITTEN BY ALFRED LORD TENNYSON MDCCCXLIX

IN MEMORIAM AS WRITTEN BY ALFRED LORD TENNYSON MDCCCXLIX

by TENNYSON, Alfred Lord

London: Bankside Press, (1900). Hardcover. Some soiling. Very Good copy of this nicely printed edition. Blanche McManus. Gilt-stamped white cloth. Copy #104 of 500 printed in orange and black with rubricated intials from designs by Blanche McManus. Given in honor of a young man who died at the age of 24 in 1900 as noted on the half-title page.
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€87.82
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD AND OTHER POPULAR STORIES.

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD AND OTHER POPULAR STORIES.

by ANONYMOUS

Chicago: W.B. Conkey Company, No Date [circa 1900]. Quarto [9¾ x 8¼ inches, 248 x 210 mm], original glossy colour pictorial wrappers, 12 pp + covers, stapled at spine. Illustrated throughout in black & white & full colour chromolithography. 1¼ inch closed split at base of spine panel with some light associated wear, glazed covers with very faint diagonal streaks; a very good, attractive copy of this beautiful Victorian Children's Book. Prints the text of LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD, THE THREE LITTLE PIGS... Read more about this item
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€93.63
What Every Woman Knows (The Plays of J. M. Barrie)

What Every Woman Knows (The Plays of J. M. Barrie)

by Barrie, J. M

London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1929. 12mo [approx 12.7x18.7cm] . Very Good condition. Dark blue lether with gilt decorations. Spine lightly rubbed, especially at the ends. Gilt to top edge. Previous owner's details to half-title page. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 160 pages. The Uniform Edition of the Plays of J. M. Barrie. . 1st thus. Hardback.
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€10.98
THE REBEL CHIEF. A Romance of New Zealand. With Illustrations by the  Author.

THE REBEL CHIEF. A Romance of New Zealand. With Illustrations by the Author.

by NISBET, Hume

London: F.V. White & Co. , 1896.. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Octavo, original pictorial green cloth stamped in black on front cover, titled in gilt on spine. 296 pp. Frontispiece with tissue guard & title page vignette by Nisbet. Early ink inscription on verso of half-title leaf "Ian Baillie / Present from Captain Colt"; recipient's small ink name & dated (8-5-07) on front endpaper and upper corner of title page; a fine, bright copy. ¶ Adventure novel set amongst... Read more about this item
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€88.95