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Price: US$48.66 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Plates (frontis + 8 of 9 other full-page called for + titlepage vignette + headpieces) by Sir Thomas Lawrence, David Wilkie, T. Stothard, W.H. Worthington, Richard Westall. Small octavo damasked black roan with part of gilt title remaining to spine (spine missing about half but laid onto leather repair) All Edges Gilt xiv +335pp +[1]p printer's colophon. Front inner hinge only loosely held & lacks a few tissue guards but clean and tight. Contributors include Sir Walter Scott, Charles Lamb, Samuel T. Coleridge, Mrs. Hemans and many other leading lights of the time. The illustration list calls for 5 headpieces but only two are printed, space for the others is left blank. *A short-lived annual, this is the undated version of the first annual volume - its Preface and contents are nearly identical to the version dated 1828, but it has 335 pages (not 319), a few headpieces not printed and one plate (The Oriental Love-Letter) here missing. The plates and other "Embellishments" are beautifully printed in fine detail. 1 volume.
Seller: Abbey Antiquarian Books, Blockley, GLOS, United Kingdom
Price: US$57.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publisher's quarter red leather, gilt, printed boards, all edges gilt. Spine and covers quite rubbed. Inscribed on the front free endpaper, "Hannah Pickman 1: January 1828 - from her brother C. Gayton Pickman"; with the armorial bookplates of J.H.G. Pell, 20th-century ownership inscription of A.E. Davis (?) and pencilled notes of David J. Hall. 15 plates or "embellishments" after Lawrence, Stothard, Westall, Wilkie and others (that for p. 75 on a second p. [75], following p. [76], that for p. 77 facing a second p. [77]), all full-page plates but one with tissue guards; verse and prose contributions from William Lisle Bowles, Sir Egerton Brydges, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Barry Cornwall, Allan Cunningham, Felicia Hemans, James Hogg, Thomas Hood, Charles Lamb, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, John Gibson Lockhart, Mary Russell Mitford, Sir Walter Scott, Joseph Blanco White and others. The editor dedicates the volume to Scott's daughter, Mrs John Gibson Lockhart, and draws his readers' attention to two "literary curiosities" in "The Epistle of Servius Sulpicius to Marcus Tullius Cicero" translated by "HIS MAJESTY", i.e. George IV as Prince of Wales, 1779, and Cicero's reply to Sulpicius in the translation of "his late Royal Highness [the King's younger brother, died January 1827] THE DUKE OF YORK". Clarke Gayton Pickman (1791-1860), son of Benjamin Pickman Jr of Salem, Massachusetts, a US Representative from Massachusetts 1809-11, attended Harvard briefly in the class of 1811, and later left the college a bequest of books; but, "He was long subject to undue nervous excitement, which occasionally resulted in temporary alienation of mind to such a degree, that it was necessary, more than once, to place him in an asylum for the insane, for short periods" - nevertheless his portrait, by A.G. Hoyt, is in the Harvard University Portrait Collection. The presentee is presumably Clarke Payton Pickman's sister-in-law, wife of his elder brother Benjamin Toppan Hickman, President of the Massachusetts Senate 1833-5; Hannah Pickman (née Smith, 1794, married 1814) died in Boston in 1863. John Howland Gibbs Pell (1904-1987), another Harvard alumnus, was author in 1929 of a biography of Ethan Allen, one of the founders of Vermont; and for 37 years President of the Fort Ticonderoga Association, founded by his father.
Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$84.58 + shipping
Description: 16mo, 16cm, xiv,319,[4]p., ads., with 10 steel engraved plates including frontis, engraved title vignette, 4 head-piece engravings, in contemporary quarter crimson roan, decorated gilt spine title, decorated paper board covers, covers worn with most of decoration faded, foxing, a.e.g., missing front free-endpaper, bit shaken, good to very good (Lds). - "Mr. Coleridge, in the most liberal manner, permitted the Editor to select what pleased him from all his unpublished MSS." (Preface). Coleridge's contributions are "The Wanderings of Cain", "Work without hope", "Youth and Age", "A Day Dream" and "The Two Founts". Includes an engraving of Sir Walter Scott and family painted by David Wilkie with an explanatory letter by Scott. Other notable contributors include Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, and Thomas Hood.
Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Small 8vo. 15 engraved plates and vignettes by Thomas Laurence, David Wilkie, Thomas Stothard, Richard Westall, et.al. 319 pages + 4 pages publisher's advertisings at end. Original gilt stamped red morocco over printed tan boards, a.e.g. (rubbed). Very good. Enclosed in 1/2 red morocco slipcase with folding chemise. Includes 5 poems by Coleridge and others by Charles and Caroline Lamb, T. Hood, et.al. With an early ink presentation inscription: "Anne Emily Worsley Holmes, The gift of her very affectionate Mamma, Dec. 25th, 1827."
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.