Roscoe thomas editor and translator (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover. A presention copy from the author, with inscription to the top of the title page in Volume II: "H. Hole Esq. with the author's best regards." Thomas Roscoe (1791 - 1871) was an English translator and also a novelist who enjoyed studying the work by other European novelists. In the preface he writes: "In the following series of national novels, connected with the secondary class of prose fiction so abounding in Spanish literature, it has been the humble endeavour of the translator, upon a similar plan with the Italian and the German specimens, to convey to the English reader some idea of its rise and progress, as well as of the peculiar manners, customs, modes of thinking at different periods, as exhibited in this form of composition." Includes Don Juan Manuel, Mendoza, Mateo Aleman, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Matias de los Reyes, Don Christoval Lozano, Luis Veliz de Guavara, Isidro de Robles, Alonzo del Castillo Salorzano, Don Francisco de Quevedo Villegas, Doctor don Juan Perez de Montalvan, Antionio de Eslava, and Donna Maria de Zayas I Soto Mayor. Each author or tale is introduced by the compiler, Thomas Roscoe. All volumes are bound in matching three quarter tan leather over pink and brown marbled paper covered boards. Lacks title and volume labels. Gilt decoration to spine compartments. Wear to edges of boards, rubbing to boards and hinges. Large chip to leather on foot of spine of Volume II. A few chips to leather on boards. The front hinge of Volume I is starting. Marbled endpapers and full marbled edges. Occasional spots of foxing to interiors, but clean and bright overall. A worn, but still reasonably attractive set. Volume I: 360 pages; Volume II: 341 pages; Volume III: 321 pages. LIT/110922.…

12mo, four volumes: pp. [i-v] vi-xi [xii-xiii] xiv-xx [1-3] 4-413 [414: printer's imprint]; [i-iii] iv [misnumbered "vi"] [1-3] 4-405 [406: blank] [407-408: publisher ads]; [i-iv] [1-3] 4-374; [i-iv] [1-3] 4-374, half title in volume one only; none called for in other volumes, early full leather, all panels stamped in gold and blind, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. First edition. "One of the handful of important anthologies of German fiction, emphasizing the supernatural, that appeared in the early part of the nineteenth century, reflecting and reinforcing the influence of this material on the Romantic movements in Britain and America. This collection of more than 1600 pages includes early legends (Reynard the Fox, Thyl Owlglass, the Merry Jester and Doctor Faustus [an abridgment of a 1599 work by G. R. Widman]), folk tales and popular traditions recorded by Otmar, Gottschalck, Eberhardt, Büsching, the Brothers Grimm and La Motte Fouqué, and stories by Musaeus, Schiller, Tieck, Langbein and Engel, including first appearances of English-language versions of weird tales by Tieck, as well as an obscure story by la Motte Fouqué. This collection preceded Carlyle's similar, and better known, four-volume anthology by a year." - Robert Eldridge. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 1-26. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1416. Bleiler (1978), p. 170. Block, The English Novel 1740-1850, p. 201. Wolff 5960. All half titles present where called for. Private owner's bookplates affixed to front paste-downs of all volumes. Leather scuffed along outer joints, mild wear at spine ends and corner tips, slight loss from crown of volume one, lacks the leaf of ads at rear of volume two. (#136033). …

3pp., 16mo. Bifolium. On aged and foxed paper. He wishes to be informed 'whether the Forget Me Not" so long and ably edited by your Father will be published for the ensuing year - i.e. for 1848'. One of his daughters has 'written down Stories one or two of which have already appeared, and she would be very happy to avail herself of an opportunity of writing something' for the annual, so he asks him to 'ascertain whether your Father would like to insert a short Nouvellette [sic] to the extent of 4 to 5 pages'. The subject is presumably Roscoe's daughter Jane Elizabeth St John (1829-1906) was generally known as Mrs. Horace Roscoe St John, author of 'Audubon the Naturalist' (1856), 'Englishwomen and the Age' (1860), a pamphlet on the condition of women, and two historical works, 'Masaniello of Naples' (1865) and 'The Court of Anna Carafa' (1872).…

8vo full calf illustrated, 253, [2] pp. Top cover detached, and library label on front end paper. Inscription of previous owner on front end paper, tissue guards for illustrations are not present, otherwise a nice clean copy. Roscoe (1791-1871) selected a variety of interesting Italian folk tales, several of which were borrowed by Shakespeare as part of the plots in some of his works. This appears to be a 1st edition 2nd issue of an early Cruikshank work. Contains the title page vignette, which probably distinguishes it from the first issue. Including the title page illustration, The Pomegranate Seed, there are 16 illustrations in this volume, including "The Dead Rider" illustration, which is not in later editions. See Cohn 444. Cruikshank (illustratore). …