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Various. Cornhill Magazine Vol XLVII. Smith Elder & Co, London, 1883.
Price: US$19.32 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: CORNHILL MAGAZINE Vol VLVII Smith Elder & Co, London 1883 January to June 760pp Illustrated Fine Binding This copy is bound in half green calf to marbled paper covered boards. There is gilt titling and banding to the spine with six compartments with the title and date in gilt to the second and gilt volume number to the third. There are rubs to the extremities, especially to the bottom edges due to shelf wear. The endpapers are apple green. A dustwrapper is not called for. This book is just one of many bound volumes of the Cornhill Magazine I am selling on this site. This collection came from the library of the celebrated Shakespearean actor and theatre manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852 1917). The Cornhill Magazine was a Victorian magazine and literary journal named after Cornhill Street in London. Cornhill was founded by George Murray Smith in 1859 and was published until 1975. It was a literary journal with a selection of articles on diverse subjects and serialisations of new novels. Smith hoped to gain some of the same readership enjoyed by All the Year Round, a similar magazine owned by Charles Dickens, and he employed as editor William Thackeray, Dickens' great literary rival at the time. The magazine was phenomenally successful, selling many more issues than anyone had thought likely, but within a few years circulation dropped rapidly. It also gained a reputation for rather safe, inoffensive content in the late Victorian era. A mark of the high regard in which it was held was its publication of Leaves from the Journal of our Life in the Highlands by Queen Victoria. The stories were often illustrated and it contained works from some of the foremost artists of the time including: George du Maurier, Edwin Landseer, Frederic Leighton, and John Everett Millais. Some of its subsequent editors included G. H. Lewes, Leslie Stephen, Ronald Gorell Barnes, James Payn, Peter Quennell and Leonard Huxley. Ref Y6 Size: 760pp
Seller: Amazing Book Company, Liphook, United Kingdom
Price: US$35.36 + shipping
Description: Vol 12 of 12 Volumes. The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A.Titmarsh.328 pp. Hardcover binding. Library label pasred down. Many illustrations by the author.
Seller: Meiwes, Stuttgart, Germany
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Decorative Cloth. Good. First Thus. Literature. Owner's Name. green/gilt boards slight rubbed, bumped spines, frontis, engravings, ads rear.
Seller: Open Door Books MABA, Bath, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. 2 volumes : illustrations. Part of the works of William Makepeace Thackeray; Fair. Interior covers have previous owners book plate. Covers have general wear, fading, edge/corner damage, tearing on spines. Bookblocks has age toning and some edge shredding. Interior pages have minor age toning
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$644.13 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 26 volumes complete. Dark-green cloth set with black Victorian patterned stamping on front cover and spine, which is also stamped in gilt with book title, volume number, author and publisher name. Unfaded, with rubbing to the spines and some chipping to the ends and slight bumping to the edges. Volume 1 of Vanity Fair has been recased. Some scattered spotting, mainly to extremities and prelims. Each volume illustrated with a number of sprightly steel engravings. Bindings 23.5 by 17 cm. This is a heavy set and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. Large 8vo. Illustrated
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$772.96 + shipping
Description: Twenty-six volumes of William Makepeace Thackeray's work. Illustrated throughout with plates and vignettes by Thackeray himself. Collated, complete with all plates. In the original green gilt stamped bindings. Each volume is numbered to its first title page. This set is a lovely example of William Makepeace Thackeray's writings. Titles include but are not limited to 'Vanity Fair', 'Pendennis', 'Catherine', 'The Newcomes', 'The Virginians', 'The Paris Sketchbook' and 'The Book of Snobs'. William Makepeace Thackeray had a great reputation in his contemporary Victorian England. He was ranked second only to Charles Dickens. Thackeray is particularly remembered for his use of satire, particularly in his 'Vanity Fair'. In original publisher's full cloth bindings with gilt stamping to spines and boards. Externally, very smart with patches of rubbing to the joints and to the extremities. Bumping to the head and tails of all spines. Front hinges to 'Hoggarty', 'The Virginians volume II', 'Burlesques' and 'Catherine' are slightly strained but firm. Internally, plate at page 232 of 'Vanity Fair' volume I is disbound, otherwise the volume is firmly bound. All volumes are generally firmly bound, a couple of volumes are strained in places such as Pendennis volume II. Pages are generally bright with instances of light scattered spots. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$2254.46 + shipping
Description: A twenty-six volume complete set of the works of William Makepeace Thackeray in a signed Bumpus, crushed half morocco binding. Twenty-Six volumes, complete set.Bound in crushed half morocco with cloth to the boards. Bound by Bumpus with their binder's stamp to the verso of the front free endpaper.Illustrated with frontispieces, engraved title pages to some of the volumes, monochrome vignettes and eleven monochrome plates to 'Volume 16', twenty-two to 'Volume 9', eight to 'Volume 10', twenty-two to 'Volume 4', seventy-one to 'Volume 13', ten to 'Volume 11', fourteen to 'Volume 19', nine to 'Volume 12', twenty to 'Volume 4', twenty-one to 'Volume eight', seventeen to 'Volume 2', twenty-two to 'Volume six', ten to 'Volume eighteen', twenty-two to 'Volume seventeen', twenty-four to 'Volume 23', twenty-two to 'Volume 5', eleven to 'Volume 20', eleven to 'Volume 22', twenty-two to 'Volume 3', seven to 'Volume 7', eight to 'Volume 21' and eleven to 'Volume 24'. Collated, complete.This set features the complete works of the popular English novelist and illustrator, William Makepeace Thackeray, best known for his satirical work 'Vanity Fair' which is included in this collection. This collection of Thackeray's works includes illustrations from the author, and other noted artists. Bound in crushed half morocco with cloth to the boards. Externally very smart with fading to the spines, joints and extremities of the boards, slight rubbing to the raised bands to the odd volume, slight marks to the boards, wear to the extremities and white marks to the front board to 'Volume 16'. Bookplate belonging to 'Franz James Mankiewicz' to the front pastedown with offsetting to the front free endpapers. Internally firmly bound with clean and generally bright pages with very minimal age toning to the odd volume. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom