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Trade Paperback. Condizione: Used. No Jacket. Used antique book, normal weather, clean condition.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Mack, Mrs. R. E. (illustratore). Heavily embossed boards with gilt lettering and designs. All edge gilt. Bevelled boards. Some rubbing to boards. 15 steel engravings with tissue guards. 'Court Myers' written on page 2, Pantaloons crossed out and 'trousers' written on page 575. Front hinge cracking.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Octavo, green cloth, gilt lyre in blind stamped decorative border on front blind stamped on rear cover title in gilt on spine, covers worn, splitting between spine and front cover, corners bumped and worn, all edges gilt, light foxing to plates, good-, no dust wrapper(as issued), frontis plus 5 other engravings, 358 pages, 18 fictionalised excerpts from the lives of composers. [GENERAL INFORMATION: Photographs available - please specify. Postage and packaging at cost based on average size book and surface post outside UK. Sets and heavy items may require additional postage charges: please contact us before ordering.].

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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Illustrated Edition. This is an antique book about high-society life in the late-18th to mid-19th centuries, "Court Circles of the Republic - or, The Beauties and Celebrities of the Nation" by Mrs. E.F. Ellet. Circa 1870's (there is no date of publication stated); Philadelphia Publishing Company; Philadelphia. Sold by subscription only. Illustrated "with original portraits, splendidly engraved on steel." Nicely bound with embossed covers, gilt decorations and lettering on the front cover and spine, and gilt page edges on all sides of the text block. "Illustrating Life and Society Under Eighteen Presidents; Describing the Social Features of the Successive Administrations from Washington to Grant; The Drawing-Room Circles; The Prominent Statesmen and Leading Ladies; The Brilliant Belles and Distinguished Visitors; The Principal Entertainments; Fashionable Styles of Dress; Manners; Etiquette; Anecdotes; Incidents; etc., etc." Condition: Mottling to the cloth at the bottom half of the front cover and spine; clean back cover. Cloth tears at the bottom edge of the spine and at the cover corners. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. Both covers are firmly attached. Some scuffing to the gilt page edges at the long and bottom edges of the text block. There is a stain at the upper-inner corner of the front end paper, the frontispiece, the title page, and the illustrated plates. The front end paper has "2.00" written in pencil, and "75" with a couple of horizontal lines written in blue colored pencil. Overall the book is in Good- condition.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Print on Demand. This book explores the historical contributions and experiences of women in the realm of art throughout the ages. Including women from the early ages to the sixteenth century, the book examines the cultural and societal influences that have affected the quantity and quality of female artistic production. The author discusses the ways in which the work of women artists has contributed to the development of art as a whole. From painting to sculpting to engraving, the author shows how women have helped shape the artistic landscape and provides insight into the unique challenges and triumphs they have faced. By examining the lives and works of these women, the book challenges our understanding of traditional art history and demonstrates the important role that women have played in its development. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.

Condizione: New. Mack, Mrs R E (illustratore). KlappentextrnrnThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Mack, Mrs R E (illustratore). Neuware - This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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Illustrating life and society under eighteen presidents: Describing the social features of the successive administrators from Washington to Grant. Illustrated with original portraits, splendidly engraved on steel. Algunas página levemente moteadas. Encuadernación muy rozada, por lo demás ejemplar en buen estado de conservación. Editorial: Hartford Publishing Co. Tela editorial. Páginas: 586. Tamaño: 16x23. cm Edición: 1869.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good Minus. after Thomas Allom, etched by S.H. Gimber. After W.H. Bartlett, etched by A.L. Dick et al (illustratore). First Edition. Hard cover bound volume, 4to., in three-quarter black calf over dark green cloth, the spine tooled in gilt with extensive filigree design, title and date. Vol. III contains Jan.- June, 1845, (286pp.) bound with Vol. IV, July-Dec. 1845, (284pp.) and with the issue for Jan. 1846 (48pp.) also included. Each volume has a separate table of contents and the fashion plates, (some hand-colored,) chromolithographed extras and lithographed engravings, a few with tissue guards, plates unnumbered. **CONDITION: Very Good Minus, with small split to head and some wear to tail of joints, shelf wear near corners and a few small marks to boards. Hinges are intact with very small wear at rear hinge just starting. Over opened in at least one place. Offset affects pages opposite a number of the prints. Some browning and occasional bits of soiling. **This volume features contributions by significant women writers of the day. Five short stories are included from the Boston area-born abolitionist, journalist, novelist, women's and native American rights advocate, LYDIA MARIA CHILD (1802- 1880) including the first publication of "The Children of Mt. Ida." Based on elements of Greek myth, it is a tale of the ill-fated love of two foster children who grow up together in idyllic innocence on the Phrygian hills in the Aegean. Married, they remain unaware of a regal connection which will require an ultimate sacrifice. The Trojan Wars, the gods, and Helen of Troy, draw the hero away from his first love. Also interesting are the tones of mesmerism to be found in the story--then current in the works of Child's contemporary E.A. Poe, for instance--seen in the ritualized conjuring of a trance-like state in the heroine, enabling prophetic visions. This short story, as well as Child's "Elizabeth Wilson," The Youthful Emigrant," "A Legend of the Apostle John," "Hilda Silvering," "The Irish Heart," and "The Beloved Tune" appear here, and were then later published in book form: "Fact and Fiction: A Collection of Stories," (New York: C.S. Francis, 1846), BAL 3155. Interestingly, LMC dedicated that book to Anna Loring (1830-1896), a Beverly, Massachusetts woman and fellow abolitionist.**Boston poet FRANCES S. OSGOOD (1811-1850) is represented by five poems in Vol. III and at least three more in Vol. IV, including "The Sunbeam's Love," said to refer to her infatuation with the young fellow Bostonian author, Edgar Allan Poe. Poe penned poems in response, including "To F----s S. O---d," and another of 1846 entitled "To Her Whose Name Appears Below," featuring a cryptic anagram of Osgood's name spelled out in the text. These, however, did not appear in "The Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine." But Poe did contribute a short story, "Mesmeric Revelation" to "The Columbian" in 1844.**Other articles include a discussion of the work of poet Elizabeth Barrett (later Browning) by critic H.T. Tuckerman. Other notable contributions by women include Lydia H. Sigourney, Fanny Forrester and Maria Weston Chapman.**REF: On Poe and Mesmerism, see Poe Society, cf. "The Facts of the Case of M. Valdemar" (1845). For correspondence of Anna Loring, see Mass. Digital commonwealth on the Boston Anti-Slavery Fair. A smorgasbord of mid-nineteenth century thoughts and fashions. (AMJ). Book.

LeatheBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 396. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1859 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 396.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. (1872); Very Good Plus/no dj, thick octavo, 603pp plus 8pp ads in rear, black cloth hardcover, 3/4 leather corners & backstrip with bright gold lettering, marbled endpapers & outer leaf edges, over 200 small woodcuts & engravings, 2 full-page color plates, binding tight, text unmarked, a handsome volume.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Various, including T. Allom, W.H. Bartlett and Benj. West, as etched by A.L. Dick, M. Osborne, O. Pelton and J.J. White, et al (illustratore). First Edition. Hard cover bound volume, 4to., ex-library, in three-quarter calf over embossed diced-style gray cloth-covered boards, the spine with four raised bands triple-ruled with gilt, with title and year to the second and fourth compartments. Marbled endpapers with engraved library label. Printed by Edward O. Jenkins, 114 Nassau Street, NY. With Index, and numbered continuously, 572pp. with the plates unnumbered. There are no colored fashion plates (but 4 seasonal black and white plates) or other chromolithographed "extras" as found in earlier editions. As usual the edition features poetry, articles on non-fiction topics, such as patent medicine and medical advances, book and art reviews, and short stories, some illustrated, of travel, romance, the immigrant experience in America, and biographical sketches. Other contributors not mentioned above include Fanny Forrester, Mrs. Lydia Sigourney, Henry G. Lee, Mrs. C.H. Butler, Mrs. E.S. Swift and Miss Maria J. McIntosh.**CONDITION: Very Good. Front board sunned. Light marks and sunning to spine. Wear to corners and joints. Inside, front hinge is cracked, with a superficial, minor split at rear endpaper. Old ink signature to ffep. Perforated library stamp to title page, with date stamp to gutter of Index. Card pocket and an unused stamp label to rear e.p. Pages are generally quite clean with the odd bit of finger soiling. Moderately age toned. Foxing seen to verso of plates and the pages facing them. Item is otherwise well preserved and sturdy. CONTENTS include: "A Farewell Editorial" and several travel articles from the magazine's departing founding editor John Inman, who manned the editorial helm of "The Columbian" from 1844 -1848. New editor STEPHEN M. CHESTER, a former contributor, debuts in these pages and commits to publishing fewer fashion spreads in favor of additional highbrow steel engravings and mezzotints, with representative artists here including Britain's THOMAS ALLOM, W.H. BARTLETT and BENJAMIN WEST. ***OF SPECIAL INTEREST, the poetry includes EDGAR ALLAN POE's "To ----- ----- -----," (p. 138) commonly said to refer to his super-fan, MRS. FRANCES S. OSGOOD (1811-1850) of Boston. Poe's work is under his own name here. The devoted Mrs.Osgood has at least one poetic contribution as well, with "Stanzas for Music." (p. 116). Both works appear as part of the March 1848 issue. While Mrs. Osgood's relationship with Poe has been variously described as a platonic literary fascination (and one at least initially supported by her husband,) and mainly in the form of adulating poetry, there were injudicious letters written as well, apparently. Another contributor, the poet and author Mrs. E.F. ELLET (1818-1877) instigated gossip about Osgood's letters to Poe which landed the latter in hot water with his wife, Osgood's husband and her brother. Other literary figures of the day including Boston's Margaret Fuller appealed directly to Poe to return the supposed letters. All this took place in 1845 and it is perhaps a testament to the damage done to the reputations of all those involved that this New York magazine is regurgitating the matter three years later! See Mrs. Ellets two short stories: "Marry in Your Own Sphere (p.57), "Eugene Le Mars" (p. 145), and the poem "The Prism, the Flower and the Sunbeam, (p. 152). "The Columbian Magazine" ceased publication the following year, 1849. Please also see our bound annuals for these issues of 1845, 1846 and 1847. (AMJ). Book.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. After Thomas Allom, W.H. Bartlett, T.H. Matterson et al (illustratore). Hard cover bound volume, 4to., in three-quarter black calf over green cloth, die stamped with twining foliage and flowers. The spine has extensive gilt decorative banding at head and foot, double ruled faux banding and titles to second, and date 1847 to the fourth compartment. Marbled end papers, and faint remains of marbling are seen to edges of text block. Original four-color cover bound in. Vol. VII contains Jan.- June, 1847, bound with Vol. VIII July-Dec. 1847. Each volume numbered separately. Illustrations include scenes from the Mexican-American War, (then current,) with commentary by the editors on "The Storming of Palace Hill,(sic)," which the editor reports mis-named from Independence Hill near Monterey, California. In total, there are 3 colored fashion plates, 4 mezzotints and 10 black and white line engravings in Vol. VII. Vol. VIII has 9 black and white line engravings (none colored) and 6 mezzotints. **CONDITION: Very Good. Binding is sound and attractive. Some light scuffs to spine, mild edge wear to head and tail of spine, tips, front joint and corners. Minor rubbing to cloth on boards. Wear is superficial, with hinges in order, endpapers bright. Inside: light, or sometimes moderate, toning with occasional spots of soiling, or a few small tears, but generally clean, square and sound.**Featured in the March, 1847 Issue, p. 123, is the FIRST APPEARANCE of EDGAR ALLAN POE's short story, as revised and re-titled, "THE DOMAIN OF ARNHEIM". A previous version had appeared in 1842 under the title "The Landscape Garden" in "The Ladies Companion." Unusual for Poe, the story is not a gothic, doom-laden tale, but rather a prose poem which is a vision of an artist's Shangri-La built amongst a towering, mountainous, riverine landscape. Biographer Una Pope-Hennessy suggests the singular monolithic author's aerie described in the story was based on Poe's familiarity with the English gothic author William Beckford's (cf. 1786 novel, "Vathek.") whose doomed estate of Fonthill Abbey in Wiltshire collapsed under its own weight in a fit of its builder's drug-fueled architectural vanity. ***L. MARIA CHILD contributes three short stories, including what is arguably the best of the tales in this issue, "The Rival Mechanicians," about a rivalry between two apprentices for the heart of a Swiss watchmaker's daughter in a plot which involves the building of increasingly complex watches, barometers, automatons and a human-like "android," (certainly an early use of that word.) The author may have been influenced by her New York acquaintances of the Knickerbocker school (W. Irving, Paulding, et al) in this unusually spooky tale. Her biographer J. G. Whittier selects letters from her correspondence of the period showing a rather reclusive, solitary exile to the New York area at this time, in flight from real danger and condemnation felt from some Bostonians and southerners for her outspoken contributions to the abolitionist press. [Child published frequently on these topics through the New York offices of the American Anti-Slavery Society, located at 143 Nassau Street in 1842; the "Columbian Magazine" was published but a door away at 140 Nassau Street, until 1846. (See BAL 3141)].**Other notable additions to this annual include short stories, songs and poetry by mid-nineteenth century women authors , Francis S. Osgood, Miss Catharine M. Sedgwick, Mrs. E. F. Ellett, Miss Fanny Forrester and others. Some contributions from the men include ALFRED BILLINGS STREET's (1811-1881) "A Day or Two's Fishing in Pike's Pond." The work of this Poughkeepsie, New York native has been described as prose poetry, and his work has been compared favorably to that of the Transcendentalists, Emerson, Bryant and Longfellow. JAMES KIRKE PAULDING (1778-1860), once Secretary of the United States Navy, and a leading contributor to the Knickerbocker New York literary scene of the 1820's and 30's, contributes a terrific gothic tale, "The All-Seeing Eye" in the Jan. 1847 issue, p. 5-12. A traveller, observing from a riverbank, happens to witness a murder during a violent storm. He meets the perpetrator by chance some twenty years later, who is keen to confess his sin. The psychic toll taken upon the rich, worldly-successful murderer is very much reminiscent of Poe's 1843 tale, "The Tell-Tale Heart". ** REFS : On Poe: Poe Soc.: Text 04-c, for "Arnheim." U. Pope-Hennessy, "Edgar Allen Poe, a Critical Biography," (New York: Haskell House Ltd, 1971), pp. 170-171. BAL 16149 mentions the 1842 version of The Landscape Garden, published in the Ladies Companion, version; but not this re-titled story, "Arnheim." On Paulding: BAL 15743 lists "The All-Seeing Eye" as "otherwise un-located" from a version found in the 1852 "Ladies Illustrated Keepsake" ; this 1847 publication may therefore be its first appearance. On Lydia Maria Child, see J.G. Whittier," Letters of Lydia Maria Child with a Biographical Introduction by John G. Whittier and an Appendix by Wendell Phillips, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, Riverside Press, 1882), BAL 3220. (2.5 lbs.) First appearance of Poe's "The Domain of Arnheim" and Paulding's "The All-Seeing Eye" and. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Half black morocco with dark purple pebble cloth boards, elaborate gilt decoration and title in 5 panels on spine, binding corners worn through and scuffed, 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches. Marbled page edges and end papers. Chromolithograph plate of a family seated to dinner by T. Sinclair & Son of Philadelphia. The plate lacks the tissue guard and there are a few tiny bits of the tissue stuck to the plate. There is a second chromolithograph of a similar scene; the tissue guard has a hole and there is some scuffing to the image where a bit was removed from the plate (see pics). The title page has a small pull in the hinge at the bottom edge. 603 clean pages plus publisher's catalogue; tight. With over 200 text engravings. Title continues: Adapted to All Classes of Society, and comprising Subjects Connected with the Interests of every Family; such as Domestic Education, Houses, Furniture, Duties of Mistress, Duties of Domestics, the Storeroom, Marketing, Table and Attendance, Care and Training of Children, Care of the Sick, Preparation of Food for Children and Invalids, Preservation of Health, Domestic Medicine, the Art of Cookery, Perfumery, the Toilet, Cosmetics, and Five Thousand Practical Receipts and Maxims. From the best English, French, German, and American Sources. Illustrated with over Two Hundred Engravings."The young housekeeper will appreciate the advantages of a compendium which embraces rules and advice pertaining to all the duties expected of her; advice as to early house training, the taking and furnishing of a house; the different departments filled by servants, and the superintendence of the mistress; the laying in of stores and purchases in market; the art of making and arranging things used every day, and of setting out a table to advantage; the care of children, and the best food for them; the preparation most useful for invalids; the attendance at meals, and various matters in household management which no book before this has ever taught in detail, but which are commonly left to the slow teaching of individual experience.In the department of Cookery, arranged under forty-five heads, an unusually large variety of recipies is given for the styles in every-day living - soups, meats, sauces, &c., because is was desirable to include the latest improvements, and because the want of variety in such preparations is usually complained of in American cookery." - Preface.Elizabeth Fries Ellet (1818-1877), b. Sodus Point, NY; d. New York City. Her maternal grandfather, John Maxwell, was a Revolutionary War captain, and her father, William Nixon Lummis (1775-1833), was a prominent medical doctor who studied under Dr. Benjamin Rush. These close family ties to the American Revolution may have inspired her to write the first book about the lives of the women who contributed to the American cause in the Revolution. She wrote for several periodicals and published books of poetry, travel, and biography. In her private life she became embroiled in a scandal regarding Edgar Allen Poe, herself, and Frances Sargent Osgood."In 1857, Ellet published a 600-page encyclopedia of American home economics entitled The Practical Housekeeper. The guide, which seemed to target middle to upper class readers, was organized into three parts: cooking, housekeeping and pharmaceutical concerns. Its contents included thousands of recipes and advice with references to philosophers, scientists, and ancient civilizations. There were also five hundred wood-engraved illustrations. She wrote in the preface, 'No complete system of Domestic Economy, within the limits of a convenient manual, has been published in this country'." - MSU Library, Historic American Project.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. First Edition. Original dark brown patterned cloth. Detached front board, flyleaf, and blank, binding otherwise intact, though lacking spine panel. Some exposure at corners. 229 pp. Interior moderately toned, with light scattered foxing. The detached front blank shows a previous owner's signature and another owner's signature and inscription. Author's first book, quite scarce. A complete and mostly intact copy that would benefit substantially by a simple rebacking. Of certain interest to collections of Edgar Allan Poe, with whom the author's literary reputation appears permanently fettered (see below). Exceptionally scarce. [Excerpt from:The Women of the American Revolution] More than a century-and-a-half ago, Elizabeth F. Ellet (1818-1877) began the process that scholars continue today of recovering and recording the lives and contributions of women. One of the best-known writers of her day, Ellet published prolifically in a wide variety of genres. In part because she refused to follow expected roles for women, she became embroiled in public battles with prominent literary men, such as Edgar Allan Poe and Rufus W. Griswold. Consequently, despite her pioneering work as a precursor of feminist scholarship, Ellet has been cited by twentieth-century literary critics primarily in negative terms. However, Ellet was a major participant in the nineteenth-century literary scene and continues to be acknowledged by historians for her valuable early methodology in recovering women's history. Elizabeth Fries Lummis was born in Sodus Point, New York, in October 1818 to a well-to-do physician, William Nixon Lummis, and Sarah Maxwell Lummis. Educated at a female seminary at Aurora, New York, Ellet began writing poetry in her early teens. Her first book, published when she was sixteen and entitled Poems, Translated and Original (1835), collected her own poems, many previously published. [From Wikipedia] Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet (October 18, 1818 - June 3, 1877) was an American writer, historian and poet. She was the first writer to record the lives of women who contributed to the American Revolutionary War. Born Elizabeth Fries Lummis, in New York, she published her first book, Poems, Translated and Original, in 1835. She married the chemist William Henry Ellet and the couple moved to South Carolina. She had published several books and contributed to multiple journals. In 1845 she moved back to New York and took her place in the literary scene there. She was involved with a public scandal involving Edgar Allan Poe and Frances Sargent Osgood and, later, another involving Rufus Wilmot Griswold. Ellet's most important work, The Women of the American Revolution, was published in 1845. The three volume book profiled the lives of patriotic women in the early history of the United States. She continued writing until her death in 1877. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.