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Price: US$26.90 + shipping
Description: Marbled boards, with dark maroon half-leather; gilt decoration & rules on spine, with dark red lether title panel. End papers foxed; board edges a little worn, with light scuffing on boards; leather a little worn at board corners , with slight wear on spine. Contains chapters 19-36 of 'Framley Parsonage'. This is a heavy book; additional postage may be required for shipment outside UK & USA Used - Good. Good hardback in half-leather
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$32.02 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Published by Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1860. Volume II, July - December 1860. First edition.condition: Good. The Cornhill magazine was a monthly Victorian magazine and library journal, named after the street address of it's publisher, Smith, Elder & Co. In the 1860s, it was edited by William Makepeace Thackeray, author of Vanity Fair, and it had a large circulation, reaching approximately 110,000. This fell by 1870 to 20000 due to it's competitors growing popularity. This volume comes from it's point of high popularity, including chapters from novels such as Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope, and illustrations by preeminent artists of the time. This volume is bound in half calf with mottled boards, gold gilt title and decorations to the spine. There is rubbing and shelf wear to the boards and binding, but the binding remains strong and smart. Inside, other than some toning and a little age spotting, as to be expected in a book of this age, the pages are clean and bright and in excellent condition, with 12 beautiful illustrations by a selection of contemporary artists to complement the works inside. There is a neat ownership inscription to the ffep. In all, this is a smart and interesting volume, with some fascinating chapters and beautiful illustrations. It would be an excellent addition to any collection or an ideal gift for anyone with an interest into the Victorian times and literary history.
Seller: Everlasting Editions, Croydon, United Kingdom
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first three volumes of the Cornhill Magazine published by Smith, Elder and Co., London, 1860 - 1861. The Cornhill Magazine (1860-1975) was a monthly Victorian magazine and literary journal named after the street address of the founding publisher Smith, Elder & Co., at 65 Cornhill, London. The magazine included a selection of articles on diverse subjects and serializations of new novels. Each volume includes six months of magazines. Red-cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and extensive blind-stamped decorations on both panels and spine. Yellow end papers. All have been professionally repaired as to spines and inside front and back gutters. All three volumes have partial-page illustrations and diagrams. Spines are heavily sunned. Board edges are scuffed, fore-edge corners are rubbed through. All external page edges are age-darkened and with faint foxing. Internal text pages are stiff and age-toned but clean for the most part, some foxing in the margins, mostly around pages with illustrations, a few smudges and stains but very legible. (1) Vol I includes Jan. - June, 1860. Board panels are the brightest. 12 b&w full-page illustrations, 11 with tissue-guards, and a four-panel fold-out chart/map showing "The Tracks of the Yacht Fox Despatched by Lady Franklin under the Command of Capt. McClintock R. N., in Search of H.M. Ships Erebus & Terror." The Framley Parsonage" by Anthony Trollope is included in parts in all three volumes and concludes in Vol III. "Tithonus" by Alfred Tennyson is included in Vol I. (2) VoI II has July - Dec. 1860. 12 b&w full -page illustrations (several with mis-numbered pages in the illustration list), 11 with tissue-guards. The board panels on Vol II are more soiled and scuffed; bump open front corner at tail of spine. A bit more internal foxing and slightly heavier age-toning in the margins. (3) Vol III Jan. - June, 1861. Board panels are the darkest, either from sunning or handling. Foxing is heavier on the pages closest to the front and rear. Several dog-eared pages. This volume is a bit internally grubbier than the other two. Nine full-page b&w illustrations, tissue-guard missing on several. Three, 3-panel fold-outs of "Bird's Eye View of Society." (1) "At Home. Small and Early," a crowded room serving refreshments; (2) " A Juvenile Party," crowded room of frolicking children; and (3) "A Morning Party - Showing the Nobility and Gentry playing the Fashionable Game of the Period." Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition description. Additional photos available at your request. Except for the UK and Canada, international destinations may require alternative methods of delivery and will result in additional shipping costs.
Seller: R & G Bliss Books, Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.
Trollope, Anthony. Framley Parsonage (Cornhill Magazine, Vols. 1,2, & 3.). Smith, Elder & co., 1860.
Price: US$166.51 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Smith, Elder & co., 1860. 1st Edition . Good/No Jacket. Published 1860-1861. Three volumes. Books in good only condition in the original green cloth, with some wear and rubbing. Volume one particularly worn, with a large dent to the upper boards. Internally clean. Heavy set which will incur considerable extra overseas postage; please enquire for rates.
Seller: Scarthin Books ABA, ILAB., Cromford, United Kingdom
Price: US$230.56 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first three volumes from The Cornhill Magazine, edited by William Makepeace Thackery and with illustrations throughout, The Cornhill Magazine was a monthly Victorian magazine and literary journal named after the street address of the founding publisher. In the 1860s it was under the editorship of William Makepeace Thackery. Some notable works were printed within the magazine such as Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, Daisy Miller by Henry James and a posthumous fragment of Charlotte Bronte's Emma.The first volume has six issues from January 1860 to June 1860 and has twelve plates. The start of Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope appears within this volume, starting in January 1860. Collated complete.The second volume also has six issues from July to December 1860. Nine of twelve plates are present with plates facing pages 13, 273 and 472 missing. Some of the works that appear in this volume are William Hogarth: Painter, Engraver, and Philosopher, and Electricity and the Electric Telegraph. Collated.The third volume has six issues from January 1961- June 1860 and has three folding plates and nine further plates. Within the issues within this volume there is The Adventures of Philip on his Way through the World by Thackery and Horse-Keeping and Horse-dealing. Collated, complete.The whole of Framley Parsonage is published across these three volumes. In the publisher's original red cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. The spines are faded and a little marked as are the boards, especially to volume three. Internally, the volumes are firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$377.85 + shipping
Description: The first UK publication of the popular novel 'Framley Parsonage' was serialised in the first 3 volumes of Cornhill Magazine. Numerous other authors contribute, and subjects covered include London, Dante, Holbein, turkish baths, the Civil Service, the Navy, Hogarth, George the Third & Fourth, Italy, thieves & thieving. Also includes a fold-out chart showing the voyages of the yacht 'Fox', dispatched by Lady Franklin under the command of Capt. McClintock R.N. in search of H.M. Ships 'Erebus' & 'Terror', 1857 to 1859. All three volumes have original blind stamped, gilt titled publishers burgundy / red cloth. Volumes 1&2 darkened & worn on corners & head & foot of spines. Volume 3 nice & bright, VG. Contents of all three are nice & clean. Rebinding perhaps?
Seller: Black Cat Bookshop P.B.F.A, Leicester, United Kingdom
Price: US$832.56 + shipping
Description: Twenty volumes. 8vo. Contemporary brown half morocco over marbled boards, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels, endpapers and all edges marbled. Numerous black and white illustrations. Even fading to the spines, rubbing to the extremities, four volumes with neat joint repairs, with two of these volumes - VI and XVI - slightly worn at the head and foot respectively, a very good set overall. Founded by George Murray Smith of Smith, Elder & Co. as a rival to Dickens' "All The Year Round", William Makepeace Thackeray was appointed as its first editor. This set contains the first ten years of its existence, which also saw the high-water mark of its popularity, providing the first appearance in print for many literary works by some of the most notable writers of the day, including the first serialisations of Anthony Trollope's "Framley Parsonage" (1860), George Eliot's "Romola" (1862-63) and Elizabeth Gaskell's "Wives and Daughters" (1864-66). Although sales dwindled after 1870 the magazine still serialised important works by the likes of Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy and Henry James in its later years.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Trollope, Anthony. CASTLE RICHMOND. A Novel. In Three Volumes. , 1860.
Price: US$2350.00 + shipping
Description: [one of Trollope's scarcest] London: Chapman & Hall, 1860. Original blind-stamped dark green cloth. First Edition of this novel sited in Ireland, during the famine of 1846-1847. The author later wrote of it in his autobiography, This novel. is of itself a weak production. The characters do not excite sympathy. The heroine has two lovers, one of whom is a scamp and the other a prig. Trollope had begun writing it when George Smith (of Smith Elder) asked for an English tale to serialize in the new Cornhill Magazine, so the author laid it aside while he wrote FRAMLEY PARSONAGE. When he then returned to finish it, the publisher must have been in a great hurry to get it to press, as evidenced by the sloppy editing. CASTLE RICHMOND has two distinct issues -- a first issue with many misprints (some 43 of which Sadleir identifies), with an ad catalogue dated February 1860, and a second issue with the errors corrected, with an ad catalogue dated May 1860 (the month in which the book was actually published). The grey-purple cloth bindings of the two issues are also slightly variant. Some copies of each (or mixed) issue are also to be found in a secondary green binding, without ads. This is such a set: though in the secondary green binding, the sheets are almost entirely first issue -- with 41 of the 43 first-issue points, the outliers being on Vol I p. 211 and on Vol II p. 25. This is a strange occurrence: if first issue sheets were succeeded by second issue sheets, why were some first issue sheets still around to be put in a secondary binding? Sadleir reported that he had heard of "more than one" such copy, adding that "Possibly a residue of uncorrected (i.e. superseded) sheets were found and jobbed in secondary cases." This is a near-fine set, with only slight wear at the foot of the spines and a few small faint spots on the Vol I front cover; the spine gilt is bright except for the "VOL. I.", the original pale-yellow endpapers are clean and atypically intact (with the appropriate "Bone & Son" label in Vol I), and the leaves are free of foxing. Sadleir ranks CASTLE RICHMOND very high in scarcity among Trollope's novels -- in fact the first issue is third scarcest among all of them, behind only THE MACDERMOTS and DOCTOR THORNE (we've had only one set in grey-purple cloth -- which sold at $7,750.00 despite being the second-issue text). Sadleir (TROLLOPE) 10. Housed in a handsome full-morocco clamshell case.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Various. Volumes I-XXXIV of Cornhill Magazine. Smith, Elder & Co. 1860-1876, London, 1860.
Price: US$2817.90 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A set of the thirty four volumes of Cornhill Magazine in attractive bindings, comprising each publication released from 1860-1876. In keeping with Cornhill's status as one of the leading literary journals of the Nineteenth Century, though second perhaps to the likes of All The Year Round, the contributors to the publication were often particularly famous literary figures of the day, with the likes of Robert Browning, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and William Makepeace Thackeray (who was the magazine's first editor) often publishing their work in Cornhill. The magazine played a leading role in the drastic popularisation of authors and their work, with the quintessential Victorian practice of the serialisation of novels ensuring continued interest in both the magazine itself and the writers and artists that were published within it. Some of the works included here in their serialised form are: Anthony Trollope's Framley Parsonage (found in Volume I) John Ruskin's Unto This Last (found in Volume II) Wilkie Collins' Armadale (found in Volume X) Thomas Hardy's Far From The Madding Crowd (found in Volume XXIX) The magazines were also often accompanied by the illustrative work of the likes of George Du Maurier, Edwin Landseer and John Everett Millais, making for a comprehensive overall impression of Victorian artistry, offering an insight into an era where literary journals were both at the peak of popularity and something of a mass entertainment, a phenomenon that would decline sharply in the subsequent decades with the advent of film. Each volume contains the bookplate of one Herbert Watney MD of Buckhold, Berkshire and are inscribed to specify the books as belonging to the servants library, dated 1886. There is also the bookbinders' label of Wells and Grant, Sherbourne Lane, London. In decorative quarter-calf binding with gilt detailing and paper-covered boards. Externally sound, there is some wear to the boards, extremities and backstrips as well as some starting to the backstrip of Volume I. Several backstrips also have minor loss. There are several missing spine labels and the hinge to Volume I is very tender. Internally, the pages are firmly bound but feature light foxing and spotting throughout. The text remains clear. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom