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Download PDF Catalogue THE ROMANTICS Part I: A-C Jarndyce THE ROMANTICS Part I: A-C Jarndyce 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 CCXLVI AUTUMN 2020 THE ROMANTICS: PART I. A-C Byron, Clare, Coleridge, &c. Catalogue: Joshua Clayton & Jessica Starr Production: Carol Murphy & Ed Nassau Lake. All items are London-published and in at least good condition, unless otherwise stated. Prices are nett. Items 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 credit card or bank transfer. Images of all items are available on the Current Catalogues page at www.jarndyce.co.uk JARNDYCE CATALOGUES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE include: The Dickens Catalogue; XIX Century Fiction, Part I A-K; Turn of the Century; Women Writers Parts I-IV; Plays, 1623-1980; Pantomime, Extravaganzas & Burlesques; Evolution; Summer Miscellany. Books & Pamphlets 1473-1845 (price £10.00 each) JARNDYCE CATALOGUES IN PREPARATION include: XIX Century Literature Part II: H-Z; The Museum; English Language, including dictionaries; The Romantics: Part II. D-R. 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 £30.00 (£60.00 overseas) for four issues, specifying the catalogues you would like to receive. THE ROMANTICS: PART I. A-C ISBN: 978 1 910156-384 Price £10.00 Covers: front cover adapted from item 285; back cover adapted from item 496 Brian Lake Janet Nassau BECKFORD BECKFORD, William, 1760-1844 Beckford was born in Soho Square, London, the son of another William Beckford who had twice been Lord Mayor of London. Beckford senior died in 1770, leaving his son an immense fortune, thought to be in excess of a million pounds. Beckford was thus able to indulge his passion for collecting art and antiquities, and to find time for literary pursuits. His most enduring work is undoubtedly Vathek, 1786, the gothic novel that Beckford claimed to have translated from the Arabic. VATHEK 1. An Arabian Tale, from an unpublished manuscript: with notes critical and explanatory. FIRST EDITION. Printed for J. Johnson. vii, [1], 334pp, 5 small woodcut illustrations p.316, p.48 misnumbered 84. 8vo. Without the final blank. Sl. foxing, mainly to later endpapers. Later 19th century half calf by W.H. Nutt, marbled boards, raised & gilt banded spine, dark green morocco label; upper joint cracked but firm, headband a little chipped. Armorial bookplate of Sir Edward W. Watkin, & his gilt crest at head of spine. ¶ ESTC T62055. The first edition of Vathek, Beckford’s classic of oriental-inspired gothic fiction, translated from the original French manuscript by the Rev. Samuel Henley. Beckford had sent the manuscript to his friend for translation, but was angered to learn he had not only translated it and provided ‘oriental notes’, but also published it unacknowledged and without his permission, apparently having grown tired of the author’s prevarication over certain passages. In response, Beckford hurriedly published the first French edition of the work, in Lausanne, under his own name (December 1786, dated 1787), before revising it for a Paris edition in June 1787. This copy of the first English edition once belonged to the parliamentarian and railway entrepreneur, Sir Edward William Watkin, 1819-1901, and bears his armorial bookplate on the leading pastedown. Although Watkin oversaw a large number of successful engineering projects, he is sadly remembered for two high-profile schemes that ended in failure. The first, begun in the early 1880s, was an ambitious plan to build a railway tunnel under the English Channel; the second disappointment was his effort to build, in Wembley, northwest London, a tower that would rival that recently erected in Paris by Gustav Eiffel. 1786 £1,200 2. Vathek. A Londres: Chez Clarke, New Bond Street. Engr. front. & title sl. spotted, errata slip at end. Contemp. full calf embossed with a lattice design, spine ruled & with devices in gilt, gilt borders; spine & edges rubbed, head & tail of spine chipped, following hinge worn but holding. Armorial bookplate of Benjamin Hall Kennedy, & his contemp. signature on verso of leading f.e.p. Externally a rather tired copy, but internally clean & fresh. ¶ A brief foreword by Beckford explains (in French) that the Lausanne and Paris editions (both 1787) have become ‘extrémement rares’, so he has consented to have the work republished in London. This is therefore the third edition in French, and has twelve pages of notes at the end explaining unfamiliar oriental terminology. The former owner of this copy, Edward Hall Kennedy, 1804-1889, was a noted English scholar and grammarian, particularly associated with the teaching of Greek and Latin. He was a keen advocate of education for women, and helped to establish Girton and Newnham Colleges at Cambridge. 1815 £500 3. Vathek. Translated from the original French. 4th edn, revised & corrected. W. Clarke. Engr. front. Attractively bound in contemp. black calf, spine dec. in gilt, maroon leather label. v.g. Armorial bookplate of George Charles Bright, M.D. ¶ Bright, 1840-1922, was the son of the celebrated physician, and fellow of the Royal college of Physicians, Richard Bright, 1789-1858. George was a pioneer of research into kidney disease, and gave his name to ‘Bright’s Disease’. 1823 £250 4. Vathek: an Arabian tale. (With) The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole and The Bravo of Venice by M.G. Lewis. Richard Bentley. (Standard Novels, no. XLI.) Engr. front. & title for ‘Vathek’; sl. spotted. Contemp. half calf, spine gilt in compartments, red & green 1 45 52 53 78 BECKFORD leather labels. v.g. ¶ See Sadleir 3734a; the first Standard Novels edition was 1834. Three gothic novels with separate titlepages but continuously paginated. 1836 £75 5. Vathek: an Arabian tale. (With) The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole and The Bravo of Venice by M.G. Lewis. Richard Bentley. (Standard Novels, no. XLI.) Half title & engr. front. for ‘Vathek’. Publisher’s ads on e.ps. Orig. uniform brown morocco-grained cloth, blocked in blind, spine blocked & lettered in gilt; head of spine sl. chipped. Bookseller’s ticket: G. & P. Robinson, Liverpool. ¶ A later reissue of the Standard Novels edition. 1849 £50 ITALY 6. Italy; with sketches of Spain and Portugal. By the author of “Vathek”. FIRST EDITION. 2 vols. Richard Bentley. Bound without half titles. Light foxing in prelims. Contemp. half calf, spines ruled, lettered, & with devices in gilt; v. sl. wear to hinges. Armorial bookplates of the antiquary and art collector Lord Northwick. A handsome copy. ¶ These letters, Beckford advises in his Advertisement, ‘were written in the bloom and heyday of youthful spirits and youthful confidence’. While Volume I is predominately focused on two visits to Italy (31 letters in total), it also contains observations (in 11 letters) on The Low Countries and Germany. There are also brief descriptions of the Carthusian monastery Grande Chartreuse, and the French alpine mountain Salève. Volume II is dedicated to Portugal (34 letters) and Spain (18 letters). 1834 £325 A VISIT TO PORTUGAL 7. Recollections of an Excursion to the Monasteries of Alcobaça and Batalha. By the author “Vathek”. FIRST EDITION. Richard Bentley. Front. port.; bound without half title. Contemp. half black calf, spine gilt in compartments, brown leather label; corners & hinges sl. rubbed. Armorial label of the Weston Library. A good-plus copy. ¶ For this publication Beckford ‘invoked the powers of memory’ and expanded the ‘slight notes’ made during his second visit to Portugal in 1794. 1835 £320 BLAKE, William, 1757-1827 Born in Soho, London, the third child of a hosier, Blake attended school until the age of 10, after which he was educated at home by his mother. He was a promising artist, even from an early age, and after a seven-year apprenticeship as an engraver, enrolled as a student at the Royal Academy in 1779. Drawn to radical company, he supported both the American and French revolutions. His innate rebelliousness flourished, as seen in his output, both as poet and illustrator, which was characteristically satirical, mythological, and often at the expense of the establishment. His first work,Poetical Sketches, was published in 1783, but it was with Songs of Innocence, 1789, that his reputation was made. See also item 525. 8. Poetical Sketches. Now first reprinted from the original edition of 1783. Edited & prefaced by Richard Herne Shepherd. Basil Montagu Pickering. Ad. leaf preceding half title. Contemp. brown binder’s cloth, paper spine label uplettered; label browned & sl. chipped, spine a little worn at head & tail. ¶ Bentley 129. A ‘faithful reprint’ of the exceedingly scarce first edition, of which ‘the whole impression seems to have fallen into the hands of Blake’s personal friends’. [1783] 1868 £150 9. Poetical Sketches. By W.B. (Noel Douglas. (Noel Douglas Replicas.)) Untrimmed in orig. cream boards with simple geometric design, spine lettered in pale brown; edges sl. browned. Bookplate of P.B.M. Allan. v.g. ¶ Bentley 132. A ‘practically perfect’ facsimile of the copy in the British Museum. [1783] 1926 £50 BLAKE 10. The Book of Thel. 4to. (Victor Gollancz Ltd.) ‘Thel’s Motto’ precedes the illuminated titlepage, col. plates, limitation leaf at end. Orig. dark blue cloth, fleur-de-lys gilt borders, spine lettered in gilt. v.g. ¶ Bentley 22. A very nicely produced facsimile of the first edition of 1789, with Blake’s original text and illustrations printed on handmade paper.
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