19th Century Literature

London: Printed by A.J.Valpy. 1833. Impious First and only edition. 8vo. 208x130mm. pp. 155 [1bl], [2]. Four tipped-in slips of text. Eight plates, two of which are hand-coloured and one diagram in the text. Contemporary red morocco, gilt decoration to boards, spine lavishly decorated, and lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. Some wear to joints, corners very slightly bumped and rubbed.

Westminster: Archibald Constable.. 1894. "it is in symbols that we think". First edition. 8vo. 231x145mm. pp. xxiii, [5], 277 [3]. Six plates. Pale green cloth decorated on upper cover with the footprints of the Buddha, spine lettered in blue. Some soiling and marking to boards and spine and slight creasing to spine and lower cover. Internally very good with only slight toning to edges. Many pages are unopened. A nice copy of a book that appears infrequently in commerce. Front pastedown has the book label of "Florence Hankey from the library of her father".

London: Ward & Downey. 1887. First edition. 250x140mm. pp. [7],387,[3]. Publisher's original blue cloth with black illustration and chain-link border design, lettered in gold on front board and spine. Rubbed and bumped at corners and spine. One or two spots of soiling on back board. Internally lightly foxed over first 6 pages but otherwise very good. Overall a very nice copy of an important historical and sociological text.

London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. 1831.Third edition published with the first illustration of the Dr Frankenstein's monsterThird edition, published as volume IX of Standard Novels series issued with the first part of The Ghost-Seer. 162x100mm. pp. xii, 202; [2], 163 [5]. Frontispiece and illustrated additional title page. Black half calf, marbled paper covered boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Housed in a green cloth covered dropback box. Rubbing to boards and scuffing to head and foot of spine. Corners bumped. Internally very good but with some foxing and slight soiling.

London: Chapman & Hall.. 1882.First edition. Two volumes. Small 8vo. 178x115mm. pp. vi, 199 [1bl]; vi, 208. Collates complete although the pagination in signature H of volume is somewhat awry, the printer having mixed up some pages - but the text is all present. Green cloth, brown morocco label on spine, lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt. Decorated, floral endpapers. Front pastedown has the armorial bookplate of Sir William Eden Bart whose ownership inscription is in both volumes. Slight rubbing to corners but otherwise in fine condition throughout.

Manchester and London: Abel, Heywood and Simpkin Marshall. 1882.A Dour Weird. A rare collection of Victorian supernatural talesFirst edition. 8vo. 183x120mm. pp. [8], 303 [1bl], 20 adverts dated February 1883. Publishers red cloth, block in black. Very light bumping to head and foot of spine. Some foxing but overall a very good copy. Worldcat locates only ten copies and none appear in the auction records.Mrs G.

London: Seeley & Co.. 1884.Second edition. 8vo. 217x185mm. pp.xvi, 102, [2bl]. With illustrations by the author. Original illustrated limp vellum covered card. Vellum worn, particularly at the spine where there is some loss, corners rubbed. Hinge with upper cover is cracked but holding. Otherwise a very good copy of a fragile book. Upper cover has an ownership inscription. This second edition, issued in the same year as the first, included a six page preface in which a fictional interlocutor addressed, on behalf of Abbott/A Square two of the criticisms aimed at this strange book.

London: Henry Colburn.. 1827. Science fiction, feminism and reanimation. The first appearance of the Mummy. First edition. Three volumes. 12mo. (185x113mm). pp. viii, 300; [ii], 348; [ii], 303 [1, publisher's adverts]. Bound without half-titles in volumes II and III (volume I was issued without a half-title). Tan half calf, marbled paper covered boards. Spine with green morocco label, lettered in gilt. Some repairs and strengthening to joints, head and foot of spines and corners. Slight scuffing to spines and rubbing to boards.

London: Ward and Downey. . 1889. From the Libraries of Barry Humphries and Montague Summers. First single volume edition. 8vo. 191x125mm. pp. vii [ibl], 351 [1]. Six engraved plates by Brinsley Sheridan Le Fanu. Publisher's decorated cloth. Slight bumping and rubbing to corners and to head and foot of spine which is a little rubbed and darkened. Hinges weak and some minor marking but otherwise a very good copy of the first single volume edition of the novel initially issued in three volumes in 1869.

with some illustrations of human error and impostureLondon: John Maxwell and Company. 1844. First edition. From the Library of the Theosophical Society in England. Two volumes. 8vo. 187x125mm. pp. xx, 315 [1bl]; xv, [ibl], 308. Publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, with library shelfmark at foot of spine. Front pastedown has the bookplate of the Theosophical Library. Some rubbing and bumping to extremities. Internally very good. Davenport Adams is said to have been a voracious reader as a child and this book suggests wide and, it must be said, somewhat directionless reading.

London: J&C Brown & Co.. n.d.  1856. Early Detective Fiction 8vo. 158x95mm. pp. pp. iv, [2], 9-309 [1bl]. Frontispiece (some offsetting from frontispiece onto the title page opposite). This copy is undated but has the same title and imprint as the dated first edition of 1856 so we have assumed that it is from that year. Russell's works were often republished but with different titles which is not the case here. Bound with (and after) BELL, Robert The Ladder of Gold. An English Story London:G. Routledge & Co. 1858. vi, 7-440.