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Price: US$49.32 + shipping
Description: pp. vii, 85, (iii) of adverts. 8vo. Modern cloth. 7th spurious reprint of the authorised 3rd edition, with the watermark Basted Mill 1818. Wise Vol 1, p38.
Seller: Alex Alec-Smith ABA ILAB PBFA, Everthorpe, United Kingdom
Price: US$49.95 + shipping
Description: Half title, 3pp ads. Uncut in orig. pink boards; lacking spine, boards detached, a bit marked. Leading pastedown with Renier booklabel & previous owner's notes on the work's publishing history. A poor copy. Randolph p.17; Wise I.25-26: the first authorised fourth edition in 1050 lines with G & R T watermark.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$56.36 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: original boards, re-spined, corners rubbed, advertisement leaves, minor spotting, shelf-wear, later endpapers, ownership signature, good. first published 1809; 85 pages; keywords: poetry;
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$56.36 + shipping
Description: Half title, 1p following ad. Contemp. full tan calf, gilt spine; leading hinge worn but holding, lacking spine label. Booklabel of Alex Bridge, offsetting on leading f.e.p. from previous owner's bookplate. Wise I.37: the sixth 'spurious' third edition, watermark Ivy Mill 1817. Wise suggests this edition probably appeared in 1818.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$56.36 + shipping
Description: Without half title, 3pp ads. Contemp. half black calf, gilt spine; rubbed. Booklabel of Alex Bridge. Wise I.38-39: the eighth 'spurious' third edition, watermark J & R Ansell 1818.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$56.36 + shipping
Description: Half title, 3pp ads. Uncut in orig. drab boards; boards & prelims damp marked, spine chipped at head & tail. Booklabel of Alex Bridge. Wise I.38: the seventh 'spurious' third edition, watermark Basted Mill 1818.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$58.92 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: contemporary half-leather over cloth, raised bands, ruled in gilt, spine extremities, hinges and corners rubbed, ownership signature, good. from the library of Henry Francis Redhead Yorke with his armorial bookplate front pastedown; first published 1809; 85 pages
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$63.41 + shipping
Description: pp. vii, 85, (iii) of adverts. 8vo. Quarter green calf, marbled boards, head of spine slightly rubbed. Endpapers slightly foxed. Wise's 1st spurious 4th edition with no watermark. Wise Vol 1, p40.
Seller: Alex Alec-Smith ABA ILAB PBFA, Everthorpe, United Kingdom
Price: US$63.41 + shipping
Description: pp. viii, 85, (iii) of adverts. 12mo. Original boards, corners rubbed, paper pine distressed Wise Vol 1, p37. This is Wise's sixth spurious reprint of the Third Authorised Edition. It has the Watermark Ivy Mill 1817 and was probably published in 1818.
Seller: Alex Alec-Smith ABA ILAB PBFA, Everthorpe, United Kingdom
Price: US$64.04 + shipping
Description: Half title, 3pp ads; spotted. Uncut in orig. blue boards, later drab spine; boards dulled & a little rubbed. Booklabel of Alex. Bridge. A poor but complete copy. Wise I.33: the first 'spurious' third edition, watermark Pine & Thomas 1812.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$70.45 + shipping
Description: Half title, 3pp ads unopened. Uncut in contemp. drab boards, pale green paper spine; spine darkened & chipped at head & tail, boards sl. damp marked & fore-edges rubbed. Booklabel of Alex Bridge. Wise I.35-37: a mixture of the fourth and fifth 'spurious' third editions; the first gathering has the watermark G. Pike 1817, while the rest of the volume is watermarked Smith & Allnutt 1816.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$84.54 + shipping
Description: 3pp ads. Uncut in orig. drab boards, paper label on front board; sl. rubbed, rebacked with pale pink paper. Ink ownership inscription on leading pastedown. Wise I. 40, the first spurious fourth edition with 'altar burns' misprinted 'alter burns' on p.23. Without half title.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$92.22 + shipping
Description: 3pp ads unopened. Uncut in orig. pale blue boards, drab spine strip, paper label cut from half title; small ink stain on front board, hinges & corners sl. rubbed. Booklabel of Alex Bridge. Wise I.33-39. This copy has several different watermarks, dating from 1815 to 1818. It is not specifically identified by Wise in his summary of spurious reprints, and appears to be a mixed copy.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$92.22 + shipping
Description: 3pp ads; some light spotting. Modern quarter calf, drab paper covered boards, spine ruled & lettered in gilt; faint watermarking to spine. v.g. Wise I.33-39. This copy has several different watermarks, dating from 1815 to 1818. It is not specifically identified by Wise in his summary of spurious reprints, and appears to be a mixed copy.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$96.00 + shipping
Description: Small octavo, 85 pages. In Very Good minus condition. 1/4 bound in dark green cloth with black spine. Mild soiling on boards. Substantial shelf wear on spine, with open tear on top. Strong binding. faded paper. Minor pencil marginalia. GP consignment. Shelved Room G. 1260039. Special Collections.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$105.68 + shipping
Description: pp. viii, 85, (i) of adverts. 8vo. Modern, thick blue cloth. Half title present, but slightly loose. Some foxingThe third authorised edition with watermarks E & P 1808, J. Whatman 1805, & Edmeads & Pine 1807. Wise Vol 1, p24 'The third genuine authorised edition is a scarce book.' Randolph p16 'The genuine third edition is scarcer than the first edition, but not as scarce as the second edition'.
Seller: Alex Alec-Smith ABA ILAB PBFA, Everthorpe, United Kingdom
Price: US$108.87 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Galf calf over marbled boards, G+. viii+85pp+4pp publishers adverts, hinges cracked but holding, leather rather rubbed along the edges, Armorial bookplate of Alexander Gordon of Auchlunies to the pastedown, pp85 mis numbered pp83. a fair copy. A later reprint of the 1810 third edition. The paper carries several watermarks, namely ; a fleur de lis 'J & M' ( dated 1817 ), W Turner & Sons, & J Green ( dated 1815 ). A satirical poem written by Lord Byron which was first published, anonymously, in March 1809. Byron wrote the work in response to the scathing criticism of his first book of poetry, Hours of Idleness, by Henry Brougham. Alexander Gordon [ 1781 - 1873 ] British officer during the Napoleonic Wars. He was commissioned a captain in the 15th Hussars and he fought in the Peninsular War. His correspondence during the Corunna Campaign was collated & published in 1913. 225 grams.
Seller: Eastleach Books, Newbury, BER, United Kingdom
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Third edition. Octavo. No half title. Full brown morocco, with elaborate gilt borders of a musical instrument and center vignette of an angel with Celtic harp. Two large chips on spine, covers becoming detached. Fair. 85 pages + 1 page of ads. Heraldic bookplate of William Gordon of Fyvie* (Scotland) on front pastedown. *William Gordon, 1736-1816 of Fyvie, Aberdeen. Printed by T. Collins, London.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$128.00 + shipping
Description: Small Octavo, viii, 86 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in brown calf with elaborately tooled boards and remnants of gilt roll to board edges. Rebacked with new spine with gilt lettering. Line 269 misspelling, no watermarks present to any pages. States Third Edition to title page, presumed early spurious 4th edition. Shelved Room G. 1302389. Special Collections.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$170.84 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. vii, 85, [3]ads. with half-title. Uncut in original bds. (spine perished, stitching gone, some marginal soiling). Fourth Edition. NCBEL III 277.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Early edition of Byron's satiric response to the negative review of his first book, Hours of Idleness, in the Edinburgh Review. Octavo, original boards. In very good condition. Housed in a custom slipcase. Byron penned English Bards and Scotch Reviewers in response to a contemptuous review of his first book, Hours of Idleness, in the Edinburgh Review. It soon proved to be his first poetical success and was reprinted by Cawthorn numerous times to meet popular demand.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: Signed. Association Copy, Charlotte Turner Smith, The Emigrants, William Hayley Autograph, Thomas Campbell Autograph, William Pitt the Younger Autograph. VG. 85pp, plus 3 pages of ads (most recent dated 1810). 'Kent' watermark on first blank, 'G&RT' on title page. (Contemporary?) three-quarter red leather and swirl-patterned boards and endpapers, spine with four gilt-ruled raised bands and five compartments, four compartments with gilt decoration and fifth with gilt lettering. Binding strong, with slight spine lean, small patches of black stain to covers and a tiny nick to the leather at the front spine fold. All gilt is at least VG, and quite attractive married to the red leather. As with many other copies of this title, there are numerous portrait plates interleaved (34), however, bound into this copy is the autograph of William Pitt the Younger, an autographed letter signed (ALS) from the poet, Thomas Campbell, expressing his regrets for not being able to attend a function, and most significantly, a 4-sided (2 leaves) ALS, dated Feb 17, 1793, from the writer and literary patron, William Hayley. The letter is to the publisher Thomas Cadell, Sr., and concerns itself with the promotion of Charlotte (Turner) Smith's poem, 'The Emigrants,' at the time in manuscript form. 'My Dear Sir, I have often regretted that a separation ever happend between you & a certain great authoress, whom I had once the pleasure of settling in your house. I will not attempt to rewrite you in prose-but I may perhaps bring you together again in verse to your mutual advantage & satisfaction. Our admirable friend, Mrs. C.S. (whose spirit & genius still triumph over calamities, that would utterly overwhelm inferior talents) has almost finished a poem, that has a chance, I think, of proving very popular. Should it prove so, after succeeding in quarto, it would make a pleasing second volume to her popular sonnets-This work is entitled 'The Emigrants' & describes with great tenderness their various sufferings, which the poetess has seen completely at Brighton, & which (to her horror) she has frequently relieved by all the aid, that humanity without opulence could bestow-The poem is somewhat in the manner of Cowper's Task-it will consist, however, but of two books, containing altogether about a thousand verses-Can you for this give the admirable & alas the too indigent poetess an hundred guineas, on receiving the work complete the beginning of April, with the following liberal condition, that if it proves as popular as her sanguine friends hope it may, you will, after reimbusrsing yourself, divide with her, in equal moneties, all future profit? I shall soon send her manuscript to my excellent friend, Cowper, that it may be revised by him, as he saw our Parisian sister here in the summer, & is most kindly anxious to render her every service in his power; as indeed every man of his talent & virtues must be-I write in extreme haste, but as a friendly wish of preserving a poetical union between you & my fair friend struck very forcibly on my mind & heart, I would not delay to consult your wishes on so interesting a subject-adieu. Ever Sincerely Yrs, W Haley. Feb 17, 1793'. According to Judith Phillips Stanton, in 'The Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith' (p. XVIII) William Hayley befriended Smith at the beginning of her career, and Smith 'depended on him to correct her work, to teach her the ways of the booksellers' world, and to introduce her to other writers. In fact, Hayley arranged for her to meet the like-minded William Cowper on their well-documented visit to Earlham in August, 1792. Cowper subsequently read Smith's blank verse poem The Emigrants (1794 [actually 1793?]), presumably with a critical eye, before its publication, and she dedicated it to him.' Based on this letter we can now perhaps more than 'presume' that Cowper had a hand in editing the manuscript. 'The Emigrants' deals with the plight of those fleeing the tumultuous rebellion in France, the suffering Smith was aware of first hand, and attested to by Hayley in this letter. Although considered a significant literary talent (Smith was given credit for reviving the sonnet, and her 'romantic' novels were quite popular), contemporary criticism of some of her writings was that she incorporated her personal grief and misery into her stories and poems, and in this case, 'herself, and not the French emigrants, fills the foreground; begins and ends the piece; and the pity we should naturally feel for those overwhelming and uncommon distresses she describes, is lessened by their being brought into parallel with the inconveniences of a narrow income or a protracted law-suit.' (Unattributed contemporary critique). Certainly, as literary criticism, this judgment is justified, but just how grievous Smith's 'inconvenient narrow income' and 'protracted lawsuit' were appears unsympathetically swept aside once one learns of the degree of her plight. Smith was given away to marriage before the age of 16, her husband was a drunkard who, thanks to the law of the land at the time, was able not only to spend most of the inheritance his father set aside for their kids, but even after they were separated, was able to come to her legally with demands for proceeds earned from her writings. She ended up raising their children alone, suffered greatly from rheumatism, fought for her rights with her publishers, at the same time suffered the indignity of begging them, and patrons, to help her through until the next month's rent was due, commiserated with those who likewise suffered, especially those persecuted and subsequently downtrodden due to political convictions, and finally, fighting legally a losing battle for almost her entire adult life, she did not receive the inheritance intended for her children until she was months from her death. 'Left to her own defenses in a world where women's rights were negligible, she had long since discovered that her insistent, complaining, abrasi
Seller: La Playa Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.