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Please send £20.00 (£30.00 / U.S.$55.00 overseas, airmail) for four issues, specifying the catalogues you would like to receive. WOMEN WRITERS, 1786-1946: R-Z ISBN: 978 1 900718-89-9 Price £5.00 Covers: spines, from left to right: items 63, 128, 157, 331, 447, 456, 539, 586, 598, 680, 723, 758 & 810; background adapted from item 14. _____________________________________________________________ Brian Lake Janet Nassau 2 3 4 7 RADCLIFFE _____________________________________________________________ RADCLIFFE, Ann, 1764-1823 ROMANCE OF THE FOREST A pioneer of the English gothic novel, Ann wrote six 6. The Romance of the Forest: interspersed with major works in the years following her marriage to some pieces of poetry. 6th edn. 3 vols. James lawyer-turned-journalist William Radcliffe, including Carpenter & Co. Contemp. full tree calf, spines The Romance of the Forest (1791) and her best-known with tan leather labels; spines rubbed & a little of all, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794). worn, lacking labels. Each vol. signed 'Eliza Giffard, Nerquis Flintshire, 1807' on leading 1. The Novels of Mrs. Ann Radcliffe; viz. 1. The pastedown. Sicilian Romance, 2. Romance of the Forest, ¶First published in 1791. 3. The Mysteries of Udolpho, 4. The Italian, 1799 £120 5. Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne. To which is prefixed, A memoir of the Life of the Author. 7. The Romance of the Forest: ... 8th edn. 3 vols. Hurst, Robinson, & Co.; Edinburgh: printed by Longman, &c. Contemp. full calf, spines gilt in James Ballantyne & Co. Apart from the compartments, boards with triple-ruled gilt memoir, text in two columns. Contemp. full tan borders, dark green leather labels; sl. rubbing to calf, expertly rebacked with new spine strip, extremities, but generally v.g. maroon leather label. With owner's signature 1816 £160 on title, 1848. 8. The Romance of the Forest. Tall 8vo. T. Kelly. ¶Also issued as Vol. X of Ballantyne’s Novelists’ Front., additional engr. title (1823), 7 plates; Library. The Memoir is by Sir Walter Scott. some spotting. Orig. dark purple vertical- 1824 £180 grained cloth; cloth sl. faded with occasional damp-marking. A good-plus copy. 2. The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne: a ¶Published in 24 parts. Highland story. 4th edn. Longman, &c. Half 1825 £65 title. Contemp. half tree calf, spine ruled in gilt, maroon leather label; spine sl. chipped at tail, 9. The Romance of the Forest. George Routledge sl. worn. Signed 'Eliza Giffard, Nerquis & Sons. (Half-forgotten books.) Prelims sl. Flintshire'. browned, inner hinges cracking. Orig. blue ¶Wolff 5679 is the 3rd edn. Radcliffe's first book, pictorial cloth; sl. faded. first published in 1789. 1904 £30 1811 £150 __________ 3. Gaston de Blondeville, or, The Court of Henry ANGLO-INDIAN NOVEL III. Keeping Festival in Ardenne, a romance. 10. RAE, Mrs. Milne. A Bottle in the Smoke: a St. Alban’s Abbey, a metrical tale: with some tale of Anglo-Indian life. FIRST EDITION. poetical pieces ... To which is prefixed a Hodder & Stoughton. Half title. Orig. memoir of the author, with extracts from her olive green cloth, lettered in black & gilt; sl. journals. FIRST EDITION. 4 vols. Henry faded. v.g. Colburn. Contemp. half calf, gilt spines, [1912] £50 maroon leather labels; a bit rubbed, leading THE BIBLE SOCIETY hinge cracked vol. II. Marquess of Headfort 11. (RANYARD, Ellen) The Book and its Story: armorial bookplates. a narrative for the young. On occasion of the ¶Wolff 5680. Jubilee of the British and Foreign Bible Society. 1826 £450 By L.N.R. With an Introduction preface by T. Phillips. 10th edn, with additions. 54th MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO thousand. W. Kent & Co. Front., illus., 4pp 4. The Mysteries of Udolpho. A romance; ads, ads. on e.ps. Orig. purple cloth; spine sl. interspersed with some pieces of poetry. 4th faded. Signed 'Miss Thompson, 1864'. v.g. edn. 4 vols. Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, 1857 £35 Paternoster-Row. Plates. Contemp. full tree calf, black leather labels; hinges a little weak. RATHBONE, Hannah Mary, 1798-1878 Born in Shropshire, Rathbone produced several Each vol. signed 'Eliza Giffard - Nerquis volumes of sentimental verse as a young woman, but is Flintshire, 1807'. A good-plus clean copy. now chiefly remembered for The Diary of Lady ¶First published in 1794. One of the most Willoughby (1844), the imagined memoir of a important gothic novels. seventeenth century noblewoman. 1799 £380 DIARY OF LADY WILLOUGHBY 5. The Mysteries of Udolpho. ... With an introd. 12. So much of the Diary of Lady Willoughby as by D. Murray Rose. Routledge. (Half-forgotten relates to her Domestic History, & to the books.) Text in two columns. Orig. blue eventful period of the reign of Charles the First, pictorial cloth; a little dulled. the Protectorate, and the Restoration. 1903 £30 Longmans. Half title, illus. of coat of arms. RATHBONE _____________________________________________________________ Orig. yellow sand-grained cloth, bevelled SIX MONTHS IN A CONVENT boards, blocked in black, lettered in gilt.; a little 18. REED, Rebecca Theresa. Narrative of Six dulled, sl. rubbed. Red edges. Months’ Residence in a Convent. By Rebecca ¶Not in Wolff: a work first published in 1844 Theresa Reed, late inmate of the Ursuline which inspired similar fiction by Anne Manning. convent, Mount Benedict, Charlestown, Here it is cased in an imitation 17th-century style Massachusetts. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. by Charles Whittingham, the text printed within Hamilton, Adams, & Co. 72pp in orig. purple ruled borders. diced cloth, pink paper label on front; spine sl. 1873 £75 faded. Gift inscription, 1836. v.g. 13. So much of the Diary of Lady Willoughby as ¶'We earnestly hope and believe that this little work, will do more by its unaffected simplicity, in relates to her Domestic History, ... Longmans. deterring Protestant parents from educating their Half title. In antique-style maroon morocco daughters at nunneries, than could the most publisher’s binding, gilt ornaments on boards & learned and laboured discourses on the dangers of elab. gilt dentelles; spine sl. faded. a.e.g. v.g. popery.' This 1835 London edition not in BL. ¶The binding is by Harvey Pearse of Rochdale. 1835 £85 1873 £85 A GOTHIC STORY CHINTZ BINDING 19. (REEVE, Clara) The Old English Baron: a 14. Some Further Portions of the Diary of Lady gothic story. Embellished with 8 elegant Willoughby, which do relate to her domestic engravings. 9th edn. Printed for J. Mawman, history and to the stirring events of the latter &c. Front. & 7 plates, ad. on verso of final leaf. years of the reign of King Charles the First, the Contemp. half black morocco, drab boards; sl. protectorate and the restoration. FIRST rubbed. v.g. EDITION. Longman. In a sl. later full chintz ¶First published in 1777, under the title The Champion of Virtue, it then appeared as The Old binding with a floral design in red & yellow English Baron the following year. This was silk, scarlet morocco corners and spine label; sl. Reeve's most successful and sensational work, wear to spine. a.e.g. v.g. and is a major milestone in the history of the ¶A continuation of So much of the Diary of Lady gothic novel. Willoughby ... In 17th century style, ‘merely to 1811 £95 be in accordance with the Design of the Author, who in the Work personates a Lady of the 20. REYBAUD, Henriette. The Old Convents of Seventeenth Century’. Paris by Madame Charles Reybaud, and The 1848 £120 Haunted Marsh by George Sand. Simms & __________ McIntyre. (Parlour library, no. VIII.) 3pp ads. WHITEHAVEN IMPRINT Contemp. half calf; sl. rubbing. A good-plus 15. REA, Alice. The Beckside Boggle, and other copy. stories. Whitehaven: R. Burlington. Orig. ¶‘La Mare au Diable’, 1846. ‘Les Anciens brown printed wrappers. v.g. Couvents de Paris’ first published, 1846? The first English translations of both these works. ¶Only a London T.Fisher Unwin, 1886 edition on Sadleir 3755a. Copac; only three other books published by Burlington are recorded: 1905, 1897?, 1932. 1847 £45 Seven other titles are advertised on inside back wrapper. The other stories are Lost on the Moor 21.