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Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 178 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.45 inches. In Stock.

Octavo volume. Contemporary calf binding with raised bands and gilt decorative tooling to spine; later purple cloth repair present to spine section, as shown. Boards with marbled paper, heavily worn with rubbing, scuffing, edge wear, and loss to corners. Spine rubbed and worn but remains intact and solid. Text block complete. Pages age-toned throughout with expected foxing and light staining consistent with age. Title page present and clear. Binding sound despite cosmetic wear; hinges holding. No loose pages noted. A well-used but honest early 19th-century volume. Condition: Fair to Good (for age) ? structurally sound, cosmetically worn.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Front board has separated, rear board very loosely attached. Boards rubbed and lightly marked, ink inscription on rear of front free endpaper. Light foxing to pages, otherwise clean throughout. Fair. Book.

Leather Binding. Condizione: Good. New Edition. Volume I only. A good copy in period full brown calf, spine with raised bands and red morocco label (boards boards detached but present, spine faded and rubbed, boards rubbed, some stains to text, lacking front endapper, text begins with title page; bookplate).

First Edition. Very good copy in later, gilt-blocked library binding. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and rubbed as with age. Light foxing to prelims. Remains well preserved overall. Physical description; p. 671-1400; 21.5 cm. Notes; Includes index. Subjects; History ; Periodicals. 1 Kg.

1st Edition. Poor copy in gilt-blocked leather. Raised bands. Inner dentelles. Front board detached. Text remains clear without blemish. Provenance: Book plate from Sir John Poynder Dickson-Poynder. Physical description: iv, 376, *433, [1], 228, [20] pages. Subjects: History; Periodicals. Government and politics history. 19th century politics history. Literature history. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Very good copy in later, gilt-blocked library binding. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and rubbed as with age. Light foxing to prelims. Remains well preserved overall. Physical description; p. 671-1400; 21.5 cm. Notes; Includes index. Subjects; History ; Periodicals. 1 Kg.

1st Edition. Poor copy in gilt-blocked leather. Raised bands. Inner dentelles. Front board detached. Text remains clear without blemish. Provenance: Book plate from Sir John Poynder Dickson-Poynder. Physical description: iv, 376, *433, [1], 228, [20] pages. Subjects: History; Periodicals. Government and politics history. 19th century politics history. Literature history. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Poor copy with wear and tear. Text remains clear and unblemished. Physical description; iv, 1032, [16] pages ; 8°. Subjects; History Periodicals. English literature 19th century Periodicals. Europe History 1789-1900 Periodicals. Great Britain History George III, 1760-1820 Periodicals. Great Britain Politics and government 19th century Periodicals. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Poor copy with wear and tear. Text remains clear and unblemished. Physical description; [2], iv, 956, [16] pages ; 8°. Subjects; History Periodicals. English literature 19th century Periodicals. Europe History 1789-1900 Periodicals. Great Britain History George III, 1760-1820 Periodicals. Great Britain Politics and government 19th century Periodicals. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Poor copy with wear and tear. Text remains clear and unblemished. Physical description; [2], iv, 956, [16] pages ; 8°. Subjects; History Periodicals. English literature 19th century Periodicals. Europe History 1789-1900 Periodicals. Great Britain History George III, 1760-1820 Periodicals. Great Britain Politics and government 19th century Periodicals. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Poor copy with wear and tear. Text remains clear and unblemished. Physical description; iv, 1032, [16] pages ; 8°. Subjects; History Periodicals. English literature 19th century Periodicals. Europe History 1789-1900 Periodicals. Great Britain History George III, 1760-1820 Periodicals. Great Britain Politics and government 19th century Periodicals. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Poor copy with wear and tear. Text remains clear and unblemished. Physical description; [2], iv, 956, [16] pages ; 8°. Subjects; History Periodicals. English literature 19th century Periodicals. Europe History 1789-1900 Periodicals. Great Britain History George III, 1760-1820 Periodicals. Great Britain Politics and government 19th century Periodicals. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Poor copy with wear and tear. Text remains clear and unblemished. Physical description; [2], iv, 956, [16] pages ; 8°. Subjects; History Periodicals. English literature 19th century Periodicals. Europe History 1789-1900 Periodicals. Great Britain History George III, 1760-1820 Periodicals. Great Britain Politics and government 19th century Periodicals. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Brown leather boards with marbled endpapers; 2367-3155 pp.; richly illustrated. This volume is scarce. Plates are present and gorgeous. Fair (Boards are heavily worn/scuffed/smudged, but are detached and spine strip is chipped off for the most part; textblock edges are toned/scuffed/smudged; front endpapers are loose; last page is loose and rear endpapers are detached with the rear cover; interior is clean, but toned with foxing and some occasional smudging; textblock appears solid.) Second Edition, Greatly Improved and Enlarged.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 2nd ed. [4], 251, [1]p. Original paper-covered boards, worn, with spine strip lacking. Front board, endpaper and first two leaves detached. Abbreviated from the first edition published earlier in the same year which contained 60 tales instead of the 32 here. Imitations, translations, etc., in verse, including contributions by Scott and others.

2nd edition. Provenance: Bookplates of Mortimer Harris and John Roche Dasent. Finely bound in full leather. Gilt blocked title to spine with raised bands. Spine bands and panel edges rubbed as with age. Hinges starting. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 2 preliminary leaves, 251, [1] pp., 19.9 cm. Subjects; Scott, Walter 1771-1832. Ballads, English. Folk songs, English. German poetry ; Translations into English. 3 Kg.

2nd edition. Provenance: Bookplates of Mortimer Harris and John Roche Dasent. Finely bound in full leather. Gilt blocked title to spine with raised bands. Spine bands and panel edges rubbed as with age. Hinges starting. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 2 preliminary leaves, 251, [1] pp., 19.9 cm. Subjects; Scott, Walter 1771-1832. Ballads, English. Folk songs, English. German poetry ; Translations into English. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 3rd Edition. Third edition. Leather-bound. Hardback. Octavo (18cm x 10cm x 2cm). Pp. xxiv, 240. English text. Beautifully bound in contemporary tree-calf, smooth spine gilt ruled and tooled, black morocco lettering-piece. Frontispiece plus numerous woodcuts as chapter head- and tail-pieces sometimes attributed to Thomas Bewick. Condition: GOOD. Collated complete. Binding tight and secure with some rubbing joints. Interior lightly toned with some staining affecting the frontispiece and title-page. Without previous ownership markings. An attractive and neat copy of this rare conduct book, which provides an early argument for educating girls from infancy into adulthood. Notes: A Mirror for the Female Sex is an educational work for young women that advocates for the importance of thorough education, sisterly love, friendship, and more. The 'historical beauties' noted in the present work include many learned women like the translator and scholar Margaret Roper, daughter of Sir Thomas More; and the Dutch painter, women's educational writer, and poet Anna Maria van Shurman. Mary Pilkington was a poet, author, and educational writer. After three of her moralistic works were published by Elizabeth Newbery in 1797, she pivoted to writing educational works for women's schools and published the present work, Biography for Girls (1798), and Mentorial Tales (1802). In the Oxford DNB, S.J. Skedd writes that Pilkington 'echoed both Hannah More and Mary Wollstonecraft in arguing that girls should be given an intellectual education and in asserting that the female mind is certainly as capable of acquiring knowledge as that of the other sex,' (A Mirror for the Female Sex, p. 61). A Mirror for the Female Sex emphasized the importance of education and socialization in the lives of girls and young women. Dedicating the book "To Superiors of Female Seminaries," she asserts that "The Historical Beauties has a natural claim on some share of your patronage: It aims at the same objects with you, cooperates with all your labours in improving and polishing our sex.It makes an humble tender of assistance, in disclosing for the benefit of your charming pupils, the purest sources of whatever is best calculated for informing their understandings and bettering their hearts." Indeed, Pilkington created a work that aimed to entertain and educate, encouraging its female readers to appreciate and enjoy their studies from childhood and into adulthood. More important than anything, in Pilkington's view, was a broad understanding of human behavior that extended beyond a young woman's domestic space. "A thorough knowledge of history is certainly one of the most essential parts of a girl's education, and I confess myself very anxious to inspire you with a relish for the study of it.a young woman totally unacquainted with history must of course have her ideas bounded to the spot where she resides, and be incapable of deriving any advantage from a knowledge of the manners and customs of people who inhabit different parts of the globe." A rare and exceptionally pleasing copy of this guide book on female education, which emphasized both historical knowledge and the enjoyment of learning.

FIRST EDITION. 2 vols in 1. Continuously paginated. Final ad. leaf vol. II. 2 vols in 1 in contemp. half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt, black morocco label; spine & hinges rubbed. Armorial bookplate of Sir William Earle Welby; neat ink signature of W. Welby on titlepage. A nice copy. See Montague Summer pp525-527 & p.529. Todd & Bowden (Scott Bibliography) 7Aa. Originally conceived in 1798, Tales of Wonder, a collection of 60 ballads with a vaguely supernatural theme, was published in 1801. It had been delayed to such an extent that in 1799 one of its contributors, a then largely unknown Walter Scott, published, out of frustration, a short work entitled An Apology for The Tales of Terror, referring to the present work by its unused working title. Confusingly, another very similar work, a volume of macabre poems using the title Tales of Terror, was also published in 1801. It seems likely that it was deliberately published to mimic Tales of Wonder, but the assumption that Lewis was involved is unlikely. This has not stopped the two works often being confused or conflated, and in some places Tales of Terror is still attributed to Lewis. As well as original contributions by Lewis, Tales of Wonder contains three original poems by Sir Walter Scott; 'The Fire-King', 'Glenfinlas, or Lord Ronald's Coronach' and 'The Eve of St. John'. There are also two translations by Scott from the German, 'Frederick and Alice' and 'The Wild Huntsman'. Robert Southey contributes seven poems; 'The Old Woman of Berkeley', 'Bishop Bruno', 'Lord William', 'The Painter of Florence', 'Donica', 'Cornelius Agrippa's Bloody Book' and 'Rudiger'. There are also contributions by Robert Burns ('Tam O'Shanter'), John Dryden, Ben Jonson, George Colman the Younger, and others. This copy belonged to Sir William Earle Welby, 1734-1815, baronet, land-owner, MP, and the High Sheriff of Lincolnshire from 1796 to 1797.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. Two Volumes. (iv), (1), 236; (iv) 237-482, (1, ad) pp. Hardcovers, bound in full mottled calf with raised bands, gilt compartments and dentelles, all edges gilt by Morrell, London. Neat repairs to the front joints. Text blocks bright and unmarked but for the rare blemish.

Two Volumes bound in One. First edition. Tall 8vo., bound in 19th century full red morocco, raised bands, gilt compartments, A.E.G., (iv), (1), 236, (iv) 237-482, (1)pp. This copy has been professionally rebacked, binding a touch rubbed at edges o/w a fine, tall copy. An important work, notable for the appearance of four poems by Sir Walter Scott, "Glenfinlas" (written in 1799 and described by Scott as his "first serious attempt in verse" and published here for the first time), "The Eve of Saint John" (the first appearance), "The Wild Huntsman" (revised and improved for this appearance) and "Frederick and Alice" (the first appearance of a translation of a song from Goethe's opera Claudina von Villa Bella.).

First edition. First edition. [iv], 236; [iv], 237-482, [2] pp. 2 vols. Large 8vo (10-1/4 x 6-3/4 inches). This work was mockingly nicknamed "Tales of Plunder" due to its high quality and price. It includes some pieces by Walter Scott who, although not mentioned on the title page, collaborated with Lewis on this collection of ballads. "The considerable literary output of Lewis is neglected today, but his influence upon contemporary romanticism and the catharsis which his extravagance effected upon its morbid elements cannot be overlooked" (Kunitz & Haycraft) Walter Scott's contributions include: "The Fire-King," "Glenfinlas, or Lord Ronald's Coronach," "The Eve of Saint John," "Frederick and Alice," and "The Wild Huntsmen." The contributions by Robert Southey include: "The Old Woman of Berkeley," "Bishop Bruno," "Lord William," "The Painter of Florence," "Donica," "Cornelius Agrippa's Bloody Book," and "Rudiger.". Kunitz & Haycraft, pp. 383-4; Summers, A Gothic Bibliography, pp. 525, 529 Bound in later three quarter brown morocoo and marbled boards, t.e.g. Some foxing [iv], 236; [iv], 237-482, [2] pp. 2 vols. Large 8vo (10-1/4 x 6-3/4 inches).

First edition. First edition. [iv], 236; [iv], 237-482, [2] pp. 1 vols. Large 8vo (9-7/8 x 6-1/4 in.). This work was mockingly nicknamed "Tales of Plunder" due to its high quality and price. It includes some pieces by Walter Scott who, although not mentioned on the title page, collaborated with Lewis on this collection of ballads. "The considerable literary output of Lewis is neglected today, but his influence upon contemporary romanticism and the catharsis which his extravagance effected upon its morbid elements cannot be overlooked" (Kunitz & Haycraft). Kunitz & Haycraft, pp. 383-4; Summers, A Gothic Bibliography, pp. 525, 529 Contemporary diced Russia, covers gilt with wide outer border of filets and small floral tools, spine gilt in six compartments, all edges marbled. Joints rubbed, spotting to first and last few leaves [iv], 236; [iv], 237-482, [2] pp. 1 vols. Large 8vo (9-7/8 x 6-1/4 in.).