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Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers 46, Great Russell Street Telephone: 020 7631 4220 (opp. British Museum) Fax: 020 7631 1882 Bloomsbury, Email: [email protected] London www.jarndyce.co.uk WC1B 3PA VAT.No.: GB 524 0890 57 CATALOGUE CCXIX SUMMER 2016 BLOODS & PENNY DREADFULS Catalogue: Helen Smith Production: Carol Murphy & Ed Lake. All items are London-published and in at least good condition, unless otherwise stated. Prices are nett. Items on this catalogue marked with a dagger (†) incur VAT (20%) to customers within the EU. A charge for postage and insurance will be added to the invoice total. We accept payment by VISA or MASTERCARD. If payment is made by US cheque, please add $25.00 towards the costs of conversion. High resolution images are available for all items, on request; please email: [email protected]. JARNDYCE CATALOGUES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE, price £5.00 each include: The Dickens Catalogue (£10) The Museum: Jarndyce Miscellany; Conduct & Education; Anthony Trollope, A Bicentenary Catalogue. The Romantics: A-Z, with The Romantic Background (four catalogues); JARNDYCE CATALOGUES IN PREPARATION include: European Literature in Translation; Books & Pamphlets: 1600-1800; 19th Century Novels; English Language. PLEASE REMEMBER: If you have books to sell, please get in touch with Brian Lake at Jarndyce. Valuations for insurance or probate can be undertaken anywhere, by arrangement. A SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE is available for Jarndyce Catalogues for those who do not regularly purchase. Please send £20.00 (£30.00 / U.S.$55.00 overseas, airmail) for four issues, specifying the catalogues you would like to receive. BLOODS & PENNY DREADFULS ISBN: 978 1 910156-10-0 Price £5.00 Front cover, item 202. Back cover: top, item 203; bottom, item 184. Brian Lake Janet Nassau cata 219 bloods.indd 1 02/08/2016 12:21:11 Bibliography Block, A. The English Novel, 1740-1850. 1968. James, E. & Smith, H.R. The Barry Ono Collection of Victorian Popular Literature in the British Library. 1998. James, L. Fiction for the Working Man. 1974. Print and the People, 1819-1851. 1976. Jay, F. Peeps into the Past. (Extracts from The London Journal, Oct. 26, 1918 – Feb. 19, 1921.) 1918-21. Kirkpatrick, R. J. From the Penny Dreadful to the Ha’penny Dreadfuller: a bibliographic history of the boys’ periodical in Britain, 1762-1950. 2013 Pennies, Profits and Poverty: a biographical directory of wealth and want in Bohemian Fleet Street. 2016. Medcraft, J. Bibliography of the Penny Bloods of Edward Lloyd. 1945. Rollington, R. A Brief History of Boys’ Journals. 1913. Smith, H.R. New Light on Sweeney Todd, Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer and Elizabeth Caroline Grey. 2002. Spedding, P. The Many Mrs Greys. In Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. Vol. 104:3. Sept. 2010. Summers, M.A. Gothic Bibliography. 1940 Turner, E.S. Boys Will Be Boys. 3rd edn. 1975. Waite, A.E. The Quest for Bloods: a study of the Victorian Penny Dreadful. 1997 Websites Today there are several websites or blogs developed by experts in the field which provide useful background information about bloods and penny dreadfuls and their authors: John Adcock Yesterday’s Papers http://john-adcock.blogspot.co.uk Steve Holland Bear Alley http://bearalley.blogspot.co.uk Leger St Jean, Marie Sources and References in Price One Penny - Cheap Literature 1837-1860 http://www.priceonepenny.info/database/sources.php Lloyd Family Edward Lloyd http://www.edwardlloyd.org/ cata 219 bloods.indd 2 02/08/2016 12:21:11 INTRODUCTION Since the first Jarndyce bloods catalogue in 1994 it is encouraging that proper biographical and bibliographic research has greatly increased into a formerly rather neglected but lively form of cheap fiction designed for a mass readership. In the past this has largely been carried out by collectors with more enthusiasm than discipline. Now there are more solid facts and reasonable assumptions, but further discoveries may be made. Much of the investigation has been genealogical rather than literary. I have extended my own study of advertisements to seek publishing information and more correct dates for some titles. The volumes themselves are becoming more difficult to find. This catalogue contains a wide range of titles from the earliest period of bloods (Section I, items 1-348), including a good selection of works by Prest and Rymer, through to penny dreadful boys’ literature (Section II, items 349-592), with some related fringe material and reference works (Section III, items 593-611). There are items from the collection of the late Peter Haining who, in his writings, sometimes allows his enthusiasm supersede accuracy, and also from the collections of Richard William Plummer, Frank Seton and the Australian, Michael Birch, with the remaining later boys’ publications from the John Medcraft collection. Helen Smith 260 cata 219 bloods.indd 3 02/08/2016 12:21:11 AINSWORTH SECTION I. BLOODS: Authors writing mainly before 1870 This section contains penny bloods and periodicals largely written for adults up to about 1870, together with later reprints and editions. It also includes literary publications in parts and other related items. 1. AINSWORTH, William Harrison. Merry England; or, Nobles and serfs. (The Fall of Somerset. Tower Hill. Beatrice Tyldesley. Chetwynd Calverley. Jack Sheppard: a romance.) John Dicks, Office of ‘Bow Bells’; (Greening & Co.) Fronts, illus by Frederick Gilbert. 6 works in 1 vol. in half black calf, red label. ¶The first five items are cheap uniform editions of late works, first serialised in ‘Bow Bells’ 1871-78 and issued by Dicks with two column text. The three volume first editions were published by Tinsley. The sixth item is an unillustrated edition published by Greening & Co in 1903, not in columns and on paper now browning. Ainsworth’s popular historical novels, particularly ‘Rookwood’ featuring Dick Turpin, were the inspiration for blood authors writing in a cheaper format. His early novels were plagiarized by Thomas Prest and others. As Ainsworth’s popularity declined, his late novels were only published in cheap two column form by John Dicks. [1878] - 1903 £75 2. AINSWORTH, William Harrison. Talbot Harland. (The Lancashire Witches. The Goldsmith’s Wife. The Miser’s Daughter.) John Dicks, Office of ‘Bow Bells’. Fronts, illus by Frederick Gilbert, Paul Hardy and George Cruikshank. 4 works in 1 vol. in later red cloth; spine faded. Armorial bookplate of George Oakley Fisher. ¶Cheap uniform editions issued by Dicks with two column text. ‘Talbot Harland’ is the later issue of the First edition, 1871, ‘The Goldsmith’s Wife’ (another tale of Jane Shore) was pub- lished in 3 vols by Tinsley in 1875; the second edition is published by Dicks in the same year. [1871-80?] £380 __________ 3. ALEXANDER, Gabriel. Wallace: the Hero of Scotland. With beautiful wood engravings, drawn by George Standfast. Published, for the Proprietor, by John Dicks. Illus signed Arthur Miles &c. Contemp. half purple calf; rubbed & worn at head of spine. ¶In 35 parts, each with illus, the text in two columns. Dedicated to the Great Scottish Nation, by a contributor to Reynolds’s Miscellany. Although BL gives the date of c.1860, advertisements show that the first edition appeared in 1848 with a revised edition in 1850. Little seems to be known about Alexander: born in 1793, he contributed to Reynolds’s Miscellany, applied to the Royal Literary Fund in 1834 for financial help, and died in St Giles in London in the last quarter of 1854. [1850?] £60 BASED ON CRUIKSHANK 4. ALEXANDER, Gabriel & ROBERTS, Edwin Franklin. The Bottle; or, The drunkard’s career. With beautiful wood engravings. Drawn by George Standfast. Published for the Proprietor, by John Dicks at the Office of “Reynolds’s Miscellany”. Half title, illus.; the odd spot & tear, some browning & repairs to margins, loss of text on pp.54-55, 70-71, 78-79, 93-95 due to adhesion, interleaved with loose sheets. Rebound in half brown pigskin. Bookplate of Peter Haining. ¶Not in Ono. This edition not recorded on Copac. In 19 parts, 18 with illus, text in two columns. The plot is based on the series of engravings by George Cruikshank published in 1847, but here re-imagined as a novel taking place in the family of a James Mowbray. Alexander’s version was advertised in 8 penny parts at 1/- in 1847 with 13 plates. An edition in 32 pts was advertised in 1848. It was next published by Dicks expanded into 19 parts in 1849? and all 6 copies on Copac are of this edition. In December 1850 this reissue ‘written in concert by two such popular authors’ was advertised in Reynolds’s Miscellany. As the number of parts is the same, this is either a revelation of Roberts previously undisclosed share in the original expansion of the work or an attempt to attract purchasers by a more popular author’s name. Only six works are attributed to Alexander who died in 1854 but Roberts was a prolific contributor to the Miscellany. A comparison of any two editions would be desirable. See also item 34. [1850] £180 __________ cata 219 bloods.indd 4 02/08/2016 12:21:11 2 cata 219 bloods.indd 5 02/08/2016 12:21:11 7 cata 219 bloods.indd 6 02/08/2016 12:21:12 ANGELA BANDIT MONK 5. ANGELA. Angela, the Orphan; or The Bandit Monk of Italy. A romance. T. Paine. (Printed by W.J. White.) Illus; without the front. given with pt 1. Rebound red cloth. A good clean copy. ¶Only 2 copies recorded on Copac, at BL & Oxford. James p.184. In 25 pts, all but the last with rather rough illus, three signed March. 1841 £200 ARCHER, Thomas, 1789-1848 Actor and dramatist, author of a number of melodramas, some from French sources and some based on current publications, including cheap fiction.
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