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Mary Elizabeth Braddon, The Infidel (London:
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., circa 1910). A reprint in
the Author's Edition of one of Braddon's later, rarer novels, first published
in 1900. Original binding, top edge gilt.
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George Cruikshank, a carte de visite photograph
of George Cruikshank by H.J. Whitlock of New Street, Birmingham. With
a printed facsimile autograph at the bottom dated 4 May 1866. Some fading,
otherwise good condition.
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Jennifer Carnell, James Townsend Saward, Criminal
Barrister: The True Story of Jim the Penman (The Sensation Press,
2011). Paperback, 389 pages, new. Each copy is signed and numbered by
Jennifer Carnell (Saward's great-great-great-great granddaughter). Described
as a 'real-life' Professor Moriarty and Napoleon of Crime, James Townsend
Saward, a respectable barrister of the Inner Temple, was unmasked in 1857
as the criminal mastermind known in the underworld of Victorian London
as Jim the Penman. For thirty years Saward led a double life as the head
of a cheque forgery ring, a fence of stolen goods and as a planner of
robberies - including The Great Train Robbery of 1855. The book also examines
Saward's influence on Victorian literature, from Arthur Compeyson in Charles
Dickens's Great Expectations to penny dreadfuls and the popular
play Jim the Penman. There is a Braddon connection to Saward: Saward's
son (who was later in Irving's Lyceum company) was an actor in the same
theatre company as Braddon in the 1850s, and her close friend Lady Monckton
starred in the first stage production of Jim the Penman. Click
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William Makepeace Thackeray, A carte de visite photograph
of novelist and writer William Thackeray (1811-1863) by Caldesi, Blanford
& Co. It was taken in about 1861. Corners of card slightly clipped,
good condition.
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George Dodds, Roger Hall, Stanley Triggs, The
World of William Notman: The Nineteenth Century Through a Master Lens
(Boston, Massachusetts: David R. Godine, 1993). Large format hardback,
illustrated, about the work of the Victorian Canadian photographer. Very
good condition.
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B.M. Croker, a rare family photograph of the Irish novelist
B.M. Croker (1849-1920), taken in about 1895 by F.J. Garrison of Doncaster.
It belonged to Croker herself. She is posed with her dog on her shoulder.
Bithia Mary Croker was the author of numerous Ango Indian novels and
many other works of fiction. Very good condition and a rare item.
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Samuel Carter Hall, a carte de visite of author and journalist
Samuel Carter Hall (said to be the inspiration for Dickens's Pecksniff)
by John and Charles Watkins. Good condition.
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Oxberry's Dramatic Mirror; Containing the Biography and An Excellent
Likeness om Steel of the Following Eminent Performers (London: G.
Virtue, 1827, printed by C. Baynes). Book of biographies and portrait
steel engravings of the following actors and actresses:
Mrs. Sarah Siddons as Lady Macbeth, Mr. Ralph Sherwin as Giles, Mrs.
Dorothy Jordan as Nell, Mr. John Pritt Harley as Caleb Quotem, Miss
Francis Maria Kelly as Madge, Edmund Kean as Richard the Third, Miss
Carew as Clarissa, John Philip Kemble as Rolla, Miss O'Neil as Belvidera,
John Fawcett as Touchstone, Mrs. Bland as Sally Shamrock, Edward Knight
as Jerry Blossom, Mrs. Mary Ann Orger as Audrey, Joseph Munden as Sir
Francis Gripe, Miss Maria Foote as Maria Darlington, Mr. Liston as Tony
Lumpkin, Miss Katherine Stephens as Rosetta, John Emery as Farmer Ashfield,
Robert William Elliston as Colonel Feighnwell, Miss Mardyn as Miss Peggy,
Junius Brutus Booth as Brutus, Mrs. W. West as Desdemona, Charles Kemble
as Romeo and William Oxberry.
Bound in a later Victorian hardback cloth binding. A small newspaper
clipping from 1961 pasted in by the entry for John Philip Kendle about
the death of his descendant Violet Kemble Cooper. Splits to spine and
covers marked, good condition. Click on image for more pictures of
this title. Ref. no. 8
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Ian Maclaran, Real photo postcard of Scottish author
Ian Maclaran (pseudonym of the Reverend John Watson 1850-1909) published
by Rotary in about 1904. Among his popular works was Beside the Bonnie
Brier Bush (1894). Good condition.
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G. J. Whyte Melville, The Gladiators (London: Longmans,
Green, & Co., circa 1870). First published in 1863. Yellowback edition
with a very attractive cover design. Bookplate of collectors Anne Renier
and F.G. Renier. Spine darkened, some rubbing, very good condition.
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Ouida, Chandos (London: Chatto & Windus,
1896). Yellowback edition. Spine chipped & some rubbing, advert pages
browned, good condition.
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Marie Bancroft & Squire Bancroft, The Bancrofts: Recollections
of Sixty Years (London: John Murray, 1909). 2nd issue. Presentation
copy, autographed and inscribed by both actors to actress
and playwright Lena Ashwell. A large volume with numerous illustrations
of the Bancrofts and also colleagues including John Hare, Henry Irving,
T.W. Robertson, Pinero, J.L. Toole etc. Ex British Drama League Library
with their ownership labels and stamps. Split to bottom edge of spine,
good condion.
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Robin and Carole Wichard, Victorian Cartes-de-Visite
(Princes Risborough: Shire Publications). Interesting illustrated paperback
about Victorian carte de visite photographs.
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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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Daisy Ashford, The Young Visiters; or, Mr. Salteenas
Plan (London: Chatto & Windus, 1919). 9th impression published
in July 1919 (the first edition was published 22 May 1919). In the original
dustwrapper. Dustwrapper browned, previous owner's name clipped from front
free endpaper, newspaper clipping of Ashford in The Daily Sketch pasted
in. Good condition.
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Mrs. Henry Wood (Ellen Wood), The Channings (Leipzig:
Tauchnitz, 1862). Two volume Tauchnitz edition in an unusual blue Tauchnitz
binding, probably produced only for Mrs. Henry Wood's use by Baron Tauchnitz.
A rare presentation copy by Mrs. Henry Wood to her son Arthur. Michael
Sadleir had signed volumes inscribed to her sons in the same words in
his collection.
Inscribed in Mrs. Henry Wood's handwriting in volume I:
'Arthur Edward Wood from Mamma'.
Volume one is inscribed twice, once on the front and once on the
back free endpaper.
Also included is an odd volume, volume 2, of Roland Yorke in
the same binding (sadly not signed as it was the first volume which
would have been signed).
Some rubbing, good condition. A rare item.
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Elizabeth James and Helen R. Smith, Penny Dreadfuls and Boys'
Adventures: The Barry Ono Collection of Victorian Popular Literature
in the British Library (London: British Library, 1998). Hardback,
illustrated. Very good condition.
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Television: The Official Organ of the Television Society, The World's
First Television Journal
Edited by Alfred Dinsdale. Issue for August 1929 in the original
wrappers, Vol. II, no.18.
With contributions from R.L. Smith-Rose, Cyril Sylvester, Professor
Cheshire, Lieut. Col. Chetwode Crawley, H. Wolfson, W.F.F. Shearcroft,
Norman J. Nicolson, William J. Richardson, Noel Swanne, J.H. Owen Harries,
A.A. Waters, E. E. Fournier d'Albe. Front cover shows a picture of the
north London laboratories of John Logie Baird.
1.5 inch edge tear throughout as the old paper the magazine was printed
on is now fragile.
Scarce.
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Television: The Official Organ of the Television Society, The World's
First Television Journal
Edited by Alfred Dinsdale. Issue for September 1929 in the original
wrappers, Vol. II, no.19.
With contributions from Sir Ambrose Fleming, R.L. Smith-Rose, Lieut.
Col. Chetwode Crawley, W.F.F. Shearcroft, A.A. Waters, Shaw Desmond,
J.H. Owen Harries, W.C. Fox, H. Wolfson, J.H. Owen Harries, Professor
Cheshire, Cyril Sylvester. Includes pieces on Baird television. Cover
picture of John Logie Baird's Noctovisor.
Good condition.
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Fox Russell, Tricked: A Sporting and Military Novel (London:
R.A. Everett & Co., circa 1890). Yelowback, with attractive cover
design. Paper browned, loss to spine. Good condition.
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J. Keith Angus, A Scotch Playhouse; Being The Historical
Records of the Old Theatre Royal, Marischal Street, Aberdeen (Edinburgh:
D. Wyllie & Son, 1878). 2nd edition. Bookplate and signature of
S.T. Whiteford (artist and collector Sidney Trefusis Whiteford), ex
Kensington Public Libraries. Spine chipped and reglued. A couple of
theatre newspaper clippings pasted to blank page. Good reading copy.
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Somerville and Ross - Edith Anna none Somerville, a rare
large autographed photograph of Irish novelist Edith Anna none
Somerville (1859-1949) in her robes after being awarded an honorary
doctorate by Trinity College, Dublin in 1932. Taken by Guy & Co.
Ltd of Cork. She is holding a copy of one of Somerville and Ross's books
- An Incorruptible Irishman by E.. Somerville and Martin Ross
- and is also wearing an Irish Claddagh ring on her right hand. She
has signed it in ink below the photograph E.. Somerville,
Hon. Litt. D. Trin. Coll. Dublin, June 29 1932'. Somerville wrote a
number of important works with her cousin Violet Ross including The
Real Charlotte and The Experiences of an Irish R.M. Somerville was also
a talented painted and a supporter of the suffragette movement. She
lived in Castletownshend in Cork. Photo area 6 by 4¼ inches,
mount area 11 by 8 inches. Good condition.
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Eliza Cook, Poems (London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.,
1848). Volume I only (of three). Presentation
copy from Eliza Cook to Charles Mackay (the father of Marie Corelli).
Illustrated. A couple of chips to spine, otherwise very good condition.
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Eliza Cook, A rare carte de visite photograph of poet and magazine
editor Eliza Cook. It was taken by the London Stereoscopic Company in
about 1861. She is posed sitting on an armchair, with a pair of spectacles
suspended on a chain. Faded (less faded than scan shows) with one corner
slightly clipped.
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Sydney Fairbrother, Through an Old Stage Door (London:
Frederick Muller, 1939). Memoirs of the popular actress, the granddaughter
of music hall star Sam Cowell. Ex British Drama League Library. Illustrated.
Good reading copy.
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Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler and Edith Henrietta Fowler, two rare
carte de visites of the authors by the London Stereoscopic Company.
The sisters are dressed for their presentation by their mother to Queen
Victoria at court in 1885. Good condition.
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Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler, eight carte de visite photographs
of the novelist Ellen Thorneycroft (1860-1929) as a child and teenager.
Rare group of family pictures of the writer (from a different source
to previous item).
1. Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler age 3 taken c.1863 by W.H. Dodds, Photographer,
Wolverhampton. She is posed with a tiny white dog at her feet.
2. Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler aged about 6, with her mother Ellen Fowler
(nee Thorneycroft, later Viscountess Wolverhampton) and baby sister
the novelist Edith Henrietta Fowler (1865-1944). Photograph by Mrs.
Williams, 42 Darlington Street, Wolverhampton.
3. Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler aged about 7 c.1867 by Mrs Williams, 42
Darlington Street, Wolverhampton.
4. Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler age 10 taken in 1870 by Mrs. Williams,
Talbot Place, Darlington Street, Wolverhampton.
5. Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler age 12 taken in 1872 by Mrs. Williams,
Talbot Place, Darlington Street, Wolverhampton.
6. Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler age 15 with her sister Edith Henrietta
Fowler and brother Henry Ernest Fowler (1870-1943; later 2nd Viscount
Wolverhampton). Taken in 1875 by Sarony, Sarony Square, Scarborough.
7. Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler taken in 1877 by Mrs. Williams, Talbot
Place, Darlington Street, Wolverhampton.
8. Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler dressed for her presentation at court in
1885 by the London Stereoscopic Company, 110 & 108 Regent Street
& 54 Cheapside. Some aging and marks to some images; mostly good
condition.
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Richard Henry Savage, A Modern Corsair: A Story of the Levant
(London: Routledge, 1897). Yellowback. A little rubbing and fading,
but very good condition for a yellowback.
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Archibald Clavering Gunter, Mr. Potter of Texas (London:
George Routledge, 1888). Yellowback edition. Some rubbing & chipping,
but very good condition for a yellowback.
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Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre (Leipzig: Tauchnitz, circa
1935.) 2 volume paperback. First published by Tauchnitz in 1848. Contemporary
ownership signature. Good condition.
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