CALIFORNIA ENGLISH LITERATURE of the 19th & 20th CENTURIES being a selection of first and early ESTEEMED AUTHORS & BOOK ILLUSTRATORS together with some IMPORTANT ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS PART I Selected from the Stock of MAGGS BROS. (B. D. MAGCS, E. U. MAGGS), 34 & 35, CONDUIT ST. Telegraphic & Cable Address: "Bibliolite, London." Tel.: Gerrard 5831 First Editions of Esteemed Authors and Book Illustrators of the XIXth & XXth Centuries. I A'BECKETT (Gilbert Abbott). The Almanack of the Month. A Review of Everything and Everybody. With hundreds of humorous woodcuts by Richard Doyle. FIRST EDITION. 2 vols., 12mo, COMPLETE IN THE 12 ORIGINAL PARTS, with all the pictorial wrappers and advertisements, uncut. London, Punch Office, 1846. £5 5s With illustrations in colour, and others by Harry Furniss. 8vo, pictorial wrappers. London, 1886-7. £3 10s 3 ADAM (Victor). Un an de la Vie d'un Jeune Homme Histoire Veritable. en 17 Chapitres Ecrits par lui-même et Lithographies par VICTOR ADAM. The set of 17 caricature lithographic plates. Folio, original printed wrappers. Paris, 1824. W. H. AINSWORTH. £3 10s 4 Cardinal Pole; or, The Days of Philip and Mary. An Historical Romance. FIRST EDITION. 3 vols., post 8vo, original cloth, uncut London, 1863. £3 3s 5 The Combat of the Thirty, from a Breton lay of the Fourteenth Century, with an introduction, comprising a new chapter of Froissart. 8vo, 32 pp., a very fine copy in the original printed green stiff paper covers, uncut. London, Chapman and Hall, 1859. *** One of the scarcest of Ainsworth's writings. C17394 £12 10s Ainsworth (W. H.)-continued. PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION. 6 The Lancashire Witches. A Novel. By William Harrison Ainsworth. THE ACTUAL FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. 4to size, contemporary half calf. London, Printed for Private Circulation only, 1849. £10 10s About the time The Lancashire Witches' completed its serial appearance in 'The Sunday Times,' Ainsworth had a few copies of the story printed off from the newspaper type, and these, bound in a volume with pages of two columns, he presented to his own friends; this was the first edition, and it is now exceedingly scarce." (S. M. Ellis). ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT. 7 The Leaguer of Lathom. The Original Autograph Manuscript of this Novel (originally entitled "Siege of Manchester "). Comprising some 40 pp., 4to, dated 13th September, 1876. £68 The complete manuscript (with the exception of a few leaves) of one of his famous historical novels, period of the Civil War, and descriptive of the siege of Manchester; also the storming of Bolton, Lancaster, etc., but mainly dealing with the gallant defence of Lathom House, by Charlotte de la Tremouille, Countess of Derby-hence the title of the story, "The Leaguer of Lathom." 8 The Leaguer of Lathom. FIRST EDITION. London, 1876. A Tale of the Civil War in Lancashire. 3 vols., post Svo, original cloth. 9 Merrie England; or, Nobles and Serfs. FIRST EDITION. 3 vols., post 8vo, original cloth, uncut. £1 5s London, 1874. 10 The Miser's Daughter, a Tale. £1 15s With portrait of the Author, and 20 full-page etched plates by George Cruikshank. The Third Edition (but the First Edition in Svo size), Svo, a remarkably fine copy in the original cloth gilt, uncut. London, 1848. £7 10s II 11 Old Saint Pauls: A Tale of the Plague and the Fire. With illustrations by John Franklin. FIRST EDITION. 3 vols., post Svo, original cloth, uncut. London, 1841. £6 6s |