Anthony Trollope, Orley Farm (London: Ward, Lock & Co., circa 1900). Contains plates by Millais. Page edges foxed, very good condition.
Ref. no. 272

Charles Dickens, The Uncommercial Traveller (London: Chapman & Hall, circa 1880). Illustrated, some pages still uncut. Very good condition.
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Ref. no. 274

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (Halifax: Ryburn, 1992). First published 1856. Edited by Judie Newman. Leather binding. 750 pages. A couple of small splits to dustjacket, previous owner's bookplate. Very good condition.
Ref. no. 275

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Pink and White Tyrany: A Society Novel (New York: New American Library, 1988). First published in 1871. Paperback. Illustrated. Introduction by Judith Martin. Paper slightly browned, previous owner's bookplate. Very good condition.
Ref. no. 276

F. Tennyson Jesse (editor), Trial of Madeleine Smith (London: William Hodge, 1949; new edition). Transcript of the famous 1857 trial. Notable British Trials Series. Illustrated. Repaired dustwrapper. Good condition.
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Ref. no. 277

Philip Priestley, Victorian Prison Lives (London: Pimlico, reprint 1999). Large format paperback. Illustrated. The best account of the lives of Victorian prisoners. Light watermark to first few pages, good condition.
Ref. no. 278

Peter Hunt, The Madeleine Smith Affair (London: Carroll & Nicholson, 1950). Illustrated. An account of the Madeleine Smith case, the Edinburgh Trial of 1857 & 'Not Proven' verdict. Smith was accused of poisoning her love Emile L'Angelier with arsenic. Hardback. Lacks dustwrapper. Very good condition.
Ref. no. 279

Guinevere L. Griest, Mudie's Circulating Library and The Victorian Novel (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1970). Previous owner's bookplate, price clipped from dustwrapper, slight fading to dust wrapper, good conditon.
Ref. no. 280

The News of the World, Sunday, 1 October 1843. 1980s or 1990s reproduction of the first ever issue of The News of the World. Paper browned. Picture shows the newspaper folded in half. Good condition.
Ref. No. 281

Roger Lancelyn Green, Fifty Years of Peter Pan (London: Peter Davies, 1954). Illustrated. Lacks dustwrapper. Old 1962 ownership signature of David Aylmer (presumably the actor son of Felix Aylmer). Good condition.
Ref. no. 282

Rev. J.G. Wood, Common Objects of the Microscope (London: Routledge, 1864). Yellowback. Illustrated. Disbound: spine, back cover & 4 illustrated plates missing. Reading copy only.
Ref. no. 283

Ian Hardy Midshipman, original watercolour painting artwork for the 1916 adventure novel Ian Hardy Midshipman by Commander Edward Hamilton Currey. The novel was published by Seeley in 1916. The artist of the illustration is unknown. Very good condition.
Ref. no. 284

Clara M. Candlin, with an introduction by L. Cranmer-Byng, foreword by Dr. Hu Shih, The Herald Wind: Translations of Sung Dynasty Poems, Lyrics and Songs (London: John Murray). Presentation copy from the author, autographed on front free endpaper 'To Marion Lochhead, from Clara M. Candlin 1937'. Some page foxing, good condition.
Ref. no. 285

Joan Lock, Dreadful Deeds and Awful Murders: Scotland Yard's First Detectives 1829-1878 (Lydeard St. Lawrence, 1990)). Hardback. Interesting account of early police and the Detective Department, with mentions of their influence on Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens. Good condition.
Ref. no. 287

Washington Irving, The Sketch Book (Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1843). Original Tauchnitz Art Nouveau style binding, circa 1885. Frontis portrait of the author. Very good condition.
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Ref. no. 288

John Addington Symonds, New Italian Sketches (Leipzig: Tauchnitz,1884). Rebound in a beautiful contemporary Italian binding, hand painted and elaborately blocked in gold, all edges tinted red. What makes this copy unusual, is the fact that it retains the original protective dustwrapper and slipcase box. Covers slightly browned, very good condition.
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Ref. no. 289

Louis James, Print and the People 1819-1851 (London: Peregrine Books, 1978). Large format paperback with numerous illustrations of popular literature, including broadsides and penny dreadfuls. Previous owner's bookplate, good condition.
Ref. no. 290

G. J. Whyte-Melville, M or N (London: Chapman & Hall, 1872). Yellowback. A couple of chips, but very good condition and an attractive yellowback.
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Ref. no. 291

George John Whyte-Melville, Tilbury Nogo (London: Ward, Lock, circa 1895). Yellowback edition, illustrated by Stanley L. Wood. First published in 1861. Edges rubbed and chipped, title rubbed from original cloth spine. Good condition.
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Ref. no. 293

Emily Davies, The Higher Education of Women (London: Hambledon Press, 1988). Paperback. Reprint of Emily Davies's 1866 publication, arguing the case for allowing professional and university education for women. Davies was the founder of Girton College, Cambridge. This edition has notes and an introduction by Janet Howarth. Very good condition. Ref. no. 294

Daniel Pool, Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's Unanswered Letters: The Rows and Romances of England's Great Victorian Novelists (New York: Harper Collins, 1997). Illustrated, very good condition.
Ref. no. 295

Benjamin Woolley, The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason and Byron's Daughter (London: Macmillan, 1999). Large format paperback. Biography of Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron and collaborator of Charles Babbage. Previous owner's bookplate, good condition.
Ref. no. 296

Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree (London: Tinsley Brothers, 1872). Volume I only (of two), first edition published by Tinsley Brothers in 1872. Contemporary cloth, marked. Worth quite a lot of money if the other volume was found and both rebound.
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Ref. no. 297

Charlotte Gere and Geoffrey C. Munn, Artists' Jewellery: Pre-Raphaelite to Arts and Crafts (London: Antique Collectors' Club, 1989). Hardback, illustrated.
Small tear to dustwrapper, very good condition.
Ref. no. 298

Peter Wood, Poverty and the Workhouse in Victorian Britain (Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1991). Hardback. Illustrated. Edges foxed, previous owner's bookplate. Good condition.
Ref. no. 299

Gavarni (Artist) and Albert Smith (Editor), Gavarni in London: Sketches of Life and Characters With Illustrative Essays by Popular Writers The illustrations designed and drawn on wood by Gavarni, and engraved by Henry Vizetelly (London: David Bogue, 1849). Essays on London life by Smith, Shirley Brooks, Angus B. Reach etc, each with an illustration by Gavarni. Spine rather chipped. Good condition.
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Ref. no. 300