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Download PDF Catalogue JARNDYCE Celebrating 50 Years of Bookselling THE MUSEUM 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 CCXL WINTER 2019-20 THE MUSEUM Catalogue: Ed Nassau Lake. 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; Books & Pamphlets 1505-1833; Plays, 1623-1980; European Literature in Translation; Bloods & Penny Dreadfuls. (price £10.00 each) JARNDYCE CATALOGUES IN PREPARATION include: Pantomime, Extravaganzas & Burlesques; English Language, including dictionaries; The Romantics; XIX Century Literature Part II: H-Z; 17th & 18th Century Books & Pamphlets. 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 MUSEUM ISBN: 978 1 910156-32-2 Price £10.00 Covers: see item 136 Brian Lake Janet Nassau ABE MY LIFE IN A HOLE IN THE GROUND 1. ABE, Kobo. The Woman in the Dunes. Illustrated by Michi Abe. Translated from the Japanese by E. Dale Saunders. FIRST UK EDITION. Secker & Warburg. Half title, illus. Orig. green cloth. Pictorial green d.w., unclipped. A very nice crisp copy. ¶ Abé’s enormously acclaimed first novel centres on a man who is kept prisoner in a village in the dunes, where he is forced to marry a woman and shovel sand from a pit to prevent the village from being engulfed. From this compellingly surreal conceit springs a meditation on the nature of society. 1964 £120 ILLUSTRATED UNIVERSAL HISTORY IN 6.5 METRES 2. ADAMS, Sebastian Cabot. Adams’ Illustrated Panorama of Universal History. Large folio. A.H. Walker. Colour litho. in 22 sections backed on linen, measuring in total 68.5 x 660.5cm. Orig. publisher’s half maroon calf, blue cloth boards, blocked in black & gilt; spine & corner pieces rubbed with sl. wear to foot of spine. ¶ First published in 1871 with the title A Chronological Chart of Ancient, Modern and Biblical History, this is a later edition with Walker’s imprint laid over the original imprint of Colby & Co. at the lower margin of the second panel. A monumental undertaking, over six and a half metres in length, illustrating a historical creationist timeline from Adam and Eve, and Cane and Abel, up to 1881. Adams focuses his chart on the Stream of Time which is divided into decades and centuries and notes all important events whilst offering historical and biblical commentary. At the end of the chart Adams shows the currently reigning world rulers, discusses the development of the United States, and even offers a breakdown of historically important technological developments. [1881?] £500 2 2 ADVERTISEMENT SUSPENDING & REVOLVING OVENS 3. ADVERTISEMENT. Portable Suspending and Revolving Ovens. Pettitt, printer. Single sheet 4to advertisement printed on recto only; neat repair to verso. v.g. 28 x 22cm. ¶ Advertising a range of five sizes of ovens to be suspended and revolved over any fire. ‘These ovens, suspended over any fire by means of a bottle jack, or a common worsted, will bake bread, cakes, pies, &c. in a much more equal and perfect manner than either a side oven, or an American oven, without depriving the room of the heat and comfort of the fire’. With directions for use and for making bread. No manufacturer is recorded but a ‘Ball’s Portable Suspending and Revolving Oven’ is advertised in The Mechanics’ Magazine and Journal of Science, in 1848. [c.1848] £65 † 3 4 FIFTY-ONE ISSUES OF ‘THE LADIES’ DIARY OR WOMAN’S ALMANACK’ 4. ALMANACK. The Ladies’ Diary: or Woman’s Almanack, for the Year of our Lord … containing new improvements in arts and sciences, and many entertaining particulars; designed for the use and diversion of the Fair-Sex. Printed for the Company of Stationers. [16], 17-48pp, woodcut on titlepage, first calendar pages & titlepage printed in red & black. 8vo. Stitched as issued, a few dusted, all have small ink number top left hand corner of titlepage. A broken run - 51 issues spanning 1772-1833. Without years 1777, 1785, 1792, 1793, 1796, 1797, 1802, 1808, 1811, 1815. ¶ The Ladies Diary ran from 1706-1840. Although aimed at a female readership the mathematical questions and literary queries set each year are answered throughout by men. It was originally compiled by John Tipper, and edited from 1714-1743 by Henry Beighton; 1744-1753 by Robert Heath; 1754-1760 by Thomas Simpson and from 1773-1818 by Charles Hutton. 1772-1833 £1,500 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS See items 13, 48, 50, 59, 97, 118, 124, 133, 149, 208, 240, 271. ‘NATURAL AND AMUSING’ 5. ANONYMOUS. The Modern Fine Gentleman. A novel. In two volumes. Dublin: Printed by R. Marchbank, for R. Moncrieffe. [ii], 2-264pp. 12mo. 2 vols in 1. Contemp. speckled calf, raised bands, red morroco label; surface worming to front & back boards, corners sl. bumped. Ink ownership inscription on leading pastedown ‘Cne. Tipping, ANONYMOUS Bellurgan Park, 1775’, later date added ‘1781’. ¶ ESTC N64555, not in BL, this edition Yale only. 1774 London edition BL, NYPL, Penn and Yale. A 1774 review of the London edition reports that the ‘characters are tolerably well supported; its incidents are natural and amusing; and it contains nothing in the least offensive to decency and good manners’. This copy belonged to the Tipping family, whose family home Bellurgan Park is located on the Carlingford Road half way between Belfast and Dublin. 1775 £1,250 5 ARTWORK See items 84, 88, 119, 123, 136, 164, 218. AUSTEN, Jane FINE SET IN CLOTH 6. (Works) 6 vols. Richard Bentley & Son. Half titles, fronts; prelims v. sl. spotted. Orig. dark grey cloth, boards blocked in blind, spines dec. & lettered in gilt; the odd mark & some sl. rubbing, small bump to upper corner of Mansfield Park. Bookplate of John Estill, Malton on leading pastedown. A very nice set in its original binding. ¶ See Gilson D8-D13. 1882 £1,850 6 AUSTEN 7 8 10 PRIDE & PREJUDICE SECOND EDITION 7. Pride and Prejudice: a novel. By the author of “Sense and Sensibility”. Second edition. 3 vols. 12mo. T. Egerton. Half titles; occasional light spotting, small corner tear pp7/8 vol II. Expertly rebound in half tan calf over marbled boards, gilt ruled spines, red morocco labels. Ownership inscription of Elizabeth Tayler, 1827 on half title, vol. I. ¶ Gilson A4. The ownership inscription is likely to be that of the Elizabeth Tayler who married Thomas Shrawley Vernon of Hanbury Hall, Worcestershire. 1813 £8,500 FIRST BENTLEY EDITION 8. Sense and Sensibility: a novel. Richard Bentley. Front., additional engr. title. A nice clean copy. Handsomely bound in recent half tan calf, gilt ruled spine, red morocco label. v.g. ¶ Gilson D1, the first Bentley edition, with ‘Memoir of Austen’, followed by the one-page statement by the editor of Bentley’s Standard Novels, ‘that arrangements have been made for including several other of the works of Miss Austen in this collection’. 1833 £1,500 SCARCE EDITION IN WRAPPERS 9. Sense and Sensibility. A novel. John Dicks. Printed in double columns, front., illus., 4pp ads. Grey pictorial wrappers, sewn & glued; rear wrapper a little scuffed & marked. A nice copy as issued. ¶ Not in Gilson; not in BL; Oxford and Cambridge only on Copac; OCLC adds one further copy but does not state a location. Priced at sixpence. Sense and Sensibility appears in Dicks’ English Library of Standard Works, but illustrated by Cranston; this edition is illustrated by Harry Evans. The publisher combines commendable business acumen with a very close reading of the text, by using a barely mentioned duel from Chapter 31 for the cover illustration. [c.1878] £380 FROM THE LIBRARY OF R.W. CHAPMAN 10. AUSTEN-LEIGH, James Edward. A Memoir of Jane Austen, by her nephew. FIRST EDITION. Richard Bentley. Front., plates, rubricated text; light spotting to front. Orig. green cloth, bevelled boards; sl. rubbed, spine a little worn at head & tail. Booklabels of R.W. Chapman & Norman Scarfe on leading pastedown. AUSTEN ¶ Robert William Chapman, 1881-1960, edited editions of Samuel Johnson and Jane Austen. He is generally credited with bringing Austen’s reputation to the heights it enjoys today. Loosely inserted is the card of R.W. and Katherine Chapman, bearing the inscription ‘To Margaret with much Love from Katherine’. In a separate note, covering one side of notepaper, Katherine Chapman details the Memoir’s publication history The writer and topographer Norman Scarfe, 1923-2014, was a prominent member of the Twentieth-Century Society, most famous for his writing on Suffolk. A typed letter signed, friendly in tone, to Scarfe from the journalist and politician Nigel Nicolson is loosely inserted. Nicolson brings up ‘Austen’s jocular reference to Crabbe’, which appears on pp110-111 of the present volume; he makes brief mention of a letter from Virginia Woolf to his mother, Vita Sackville-West.
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