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XIX CENTURY

FICTION

OF THIS WORK 1025 COPIES HAVE B E E N P R I N T E D AT THE U N I V E R S I T Y PRESS CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND OF WHICH 1000 ARE FOR SALE

XIX CENTURY FICTION A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL RECORD B A S E D ON H I S O W N C O L L E C T I O N BY

MICHAEL

SADLEIR

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOLUME II

P R I N T E D AT T H E U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S , in Great Britain by

CONSTABLE & CO LTD 10-12 ORANGE STREET LONDON W.C.2

AND

PUBLISHED

CAMBRIDGE

in the U.S.A. by the

U N I V E R S I T Y OF CALIFORNIA PRESS B E R K E L E Y AND LOS ANGELES

First published 1951

PRINTED

IN G R E A T

BRITAIN

CONTENTS Y E L L O W - B A C K COLLECTION 'NOVELISTS' L I B R A R I E S ' , ' S T A N D A R D NOVELS', ' T H E P A R L O U R L I B R A R Y ' , ETC.

page 1

85

I N D E X OF T I T L E S

177

I N D E X OF A U T H O R S

191

ILLUSTRATIONS A T END 1

(i) (ii)

A I N S W O R T H : first Collected Edition " M R S B R O W N " S E R I E S : two speci-

mens

2 (i) (a)

"ANONYMA"

Skittles,

SERIES:

9

4

(i)

London by Night : frontispiece and title of first edition

"ANONYMA" SERIES:

"SPECIALLYDESIGNEDSPINES":

a Selection of Yellow Backs of the classic period ( i i ) B L A C K W O O D ' S LONDON L I B R A R Y :

two specimens

5 (i)

"BOULEVARD

(ii) DETECTION,

front

NOVELS":

cover

CRIMINOLOGY,

6

(i) ( a ) "FIRST

CLASS

front cover

(b)

(ii) (a)

OF

LIBRARY

OF

(i) BENTLEY'S SHILLING (ii) READABLE

(iii)-(iv) 8

RUN

(ii)

14

AND

READ

15

covers, (ii) Thirteen spines

front

showing

first regulation board cover, and the same book in "brilliant cover by Crowquill"

"PARLOUR LIBRARY":

"PARLOUR

styles

LIBRARY": LIBRARY

two later

BYE

PRO-

ROUTLEDGE'SRAILWAYLIBRARY:

(i) (a)-(i) (b) First and Second board covers (ii) (a)-(ii) (b) Cloth style compared with that of Parlour Library

LIBRARY, THE

NOVELIST":

spine variants

(a) Library of Instruction, (b) Book-case, (c) Books for the People

SERIES

N A V A L Y E L L O W B A C K S OF C L A S S I C P E R I O D : (i) Three

(i)

"PARLOUR

(ii) PARLOUR DUCTS:

BOOKS

first and second cover-styles

first col-

(i) COLBURN'S MODERN N O V E L I S T S :

13 (i)

FIC-

specimen of Illuminated cover

LYTTON:

lected edition

Part Issue (ii) T A L E S F R O M B E N T L E Y : first issue (iii)-(iv) T A L E S F R O M B L A C K W O O D . Part Issues. First and Second Series 12 (i)-(iv) B L A C K W O O D ' S S T A N D A R D N O V E L S , the four Bindings

L Y T T O N : Routledge's cheap edition with cover design by Walter Crane

TION": 7

11

BULWER

(6) " S E L E C T

BULWER

(Novels: Standard Novels), four styles

LIBRARY":

HODGSON'S NEW SERIES N O V E L S : front cover

NOVELS:

(B) H A R P E R ' S L I B R A R Y OF S E L E C T N O V E L S : a specimen (ii) COLBURN'S MODERN NOVELISTS

etc.:

three specimens

STANDARD

the four Bindings

10 (i) {a)

first edition (b) Skittles in Paris, C. H. Clarke re-issue (ii) " A N O N Y M A " S E R I E S : Revelations of a Lady Detective, first edition

8 (i)-(ii)

BENTLEY'S

16

SMITH, E L D E R ' S " L I B R A R Y ROMANCE": Bindings of

OF

first edition and of first and second illustrated re-issues

S E C T I O N TWO YELLOW-BACK COLLECTION

NOTES ON THE NUMBERING OF SECTION TWO I was strongly advised (and I think rightly) to carry the number-sequence of this Catalogue straight through from start to finish, so that anyone wishing to refer to some specific entry need not trouble to designate Section I or II or III. But, because the frame-work of Sections II and III diifers from that of Section I, continuous numbering has involved me in inconsistencies and, occasionally, in what may appear to be actual mistakes. To inconsistencies I admit; but plead that I have aimed at facilitating reference where likely to be needed, and at avoiding a clutter of non-essential numbers. The following main principles have been observed: (1) Titles in their own right (other than those already numbered in series, e.g. Blackwood's London Library) are individually numbered, e.g. those under "Anonyma" and "Coming K ", as, well as first editions of Bede, Grant, Harte, Twain and others. (2) Alternative issues or variant copies are numbered a, b etc. (3) Where several ordinary yellow-back reprints are grouped under an author's name, the number is attached to the author, e.g. Baring Gould, G. P. R. James, Anthony Trollope and many more. Individual reference by title to such reprints is unlikely to be required. In a few cases we are confronted with the awkward problem of an indexed author whose yellow-back publications are partly first editions, partly mere reprints. Such cases have been dealt with in a spirit of pure opportunism. For example, Sala and Albert Smith carry author-numbers which cover their reprints, while their first editions carry numbers of their own. Typographically, no less than in numbering, this Section is occasionally erratic. First editions are mainly set in small even caps; but where intrinsic interest or clarity seemed to me to demand a larger size, I have asked the printers to employ one.

SCFII

i

CONTENTS The following Series are here incorporated with Authors' names in a single alphabet ACME LIBRARY

1894-1896

PAGE 4

AIMARD'S T A L E S OF I N D I A N L I F E 1860-1864; 1877

4

AMUSING L I B R A R Y 1855

7

' A N O N Y M A ' S E R I E S 1864; 1884

8

A R R O W S M I T H ' S B R I S T O L L I B R A R Y 1 8 8 4 - 1 9 0 6 (BRIEF ENTRY ONLY)

12

ARROWSMITH'S TWO SHILLING SERIES 1889

12

A U T O N Y M L I B R A R Y 1 8 9 4 - 1 8 9 6 (BRIEF ENTRY ONLY)

13

B E N T L E Y ' S R A I L R O A D L I B R A R Y (ALIAS 'BENTLEY'S SHILLING SERIES') 1 8 5 1 - 1 8 5 4

16

BENTLEY'S TWO SHILLING SERIES 1857-1858

17

B L A C K W O O D ' S L O N D O N L I B R A R Y 1 8 5 5 - 1 8 5 8 OR 1 8 5 9

18

B O H N ' S C H E A P S E R I E S 1 8 5 1 - 1 8 5 5 (BRIEF ENTRY ONLY)

19

B O H N ' S S H I L L I N G S E R I E S 1 8 5 0 (BRIEF ENTRY ONLY)

19

BOULEVARD NOVELS 1885-1888

20

BREEZY LIBRARY 1893

22

BURNS' F I R E S I D E L I B R A R Y 1845

24

C H A M B E R S ' J O U R N A L , T A L E S F R O M , 1 8 8 4 - 1 8 8 5 (BRIEF ENTRY ONLY)

25

CLARKE'S CABINET SERIES 1844-1845

25

C L A R K E ' S H O M E L I B R A R Y 1 8 4 5 (BRIEF ENTRY ONLY)

26

'COMING K — — ' SERIES 1872-1877

27

COUNTRY HOUSE LIBRARY 1875-1876

32

DETECTION,

CRIMINOLOGY,

VARIOUS

PROFESSIONAL

AND

SPECIALIST

'EXPERIENCES'1856-1884

33

D U F F Y ' S L I B R A R Y OF I R E L A N D 1 8 4 5 - 1 8 4 7

37

F I R S T CLASS L I B R A R Y 1861

42

HODGSON'S N E W S E R I E S OF N O V E L S 1859-1860 ILLUSTRATED

48

PENNY TALES FROM THE 'STRAND' LIBRARY

[1894]

KENT'S S H I L L I N G S T A N D A R D L I B R A R Y 1861

50 52

L O N D O N CITY TALES [1853]

53

MODERN ARABIAN NIGHTS 1877

57

'MRS BROWN' SERIES 1866-1882

58

NAVAL AND SEAFARING YELLOW-BACKS 1854-1865

60

N E W N E S ' P E N N Y L I B R A R Y OF FAMOUS BOOKS 1896-1899

61

'OUR NOVEL SHILLING SERIES' 1878-1881

63

PARISIAN LIBRARY 1887-(?)

64

PSEUDONYM

L I B R A R Y 1 8 9 0 - 1 8 9 6 (BRIEF ENTRY ONLY)

65

R A I N B O W S E R I E S OF O R I G I N A L NOVELS (CASSELL) 1885

65

READABLE BOOKS 1852-1853

66

ROUTLEDGE'S ORIGINAL NOVELS 1855-1859

68

RUN AND READ LIBRARY 1853-1856

69

T I N S L E Y ' S COMIC L I B R A R Y 1854

74

VIZETELLY'S CAPITAL STORIES 1888-1890

79

VIZETELLY'S P O P U L A R F R E N C H NOVELS 1880-(?) 1882

79

VIZETELLY'S SENSATIONAL NOVELS 1888

79

V I Z E T E L L Y ' S S I X P E N N Y S E R I E S OF A M U S I N G AND E N T E R T A I N I N G BOOKS 1886-(?)

79

W A R D AND LOCK'S S H I L L I N G VOLUME L I B R A R Y 1862 WARD, LOCK AND TYLER'S S I X P E N N Y VOLUME L I B R A R Y

80 ( ? ) LATE SIXTIES

81

SECTION II: YELLOW-BACK COLLECTION Containing: Books first published in pictorial or printed boards or in wrappers. Reprints of Popular Titles in pictorial or decorated boards. Translations issued in boards or wrappers (many of works not previously published in English). Significant boarded or wrappered Series (even if simultaneously published in cloth), incorporating both Original and Reprint Titles.

For this section it has seemed practical to compile a single mixed alphabet, comprising authors, classifications and names of series. All authors and titles appear in the Index at the end of the volumes. Series and classifications which constitute the Contents List on the page opposite are not included in the Index. The term 'Yellow-Back' must be understood to cover many books not actually issued in the pictorial boards to which the expression properly applies. In every case sufficient detail is given of the style of boarding or wrappering to ensure identification. No cloth-bound book is included in this section in its own right. The occasional cloth-bound items recorded were simultaneously issued in boards or wrappers. The terms 'small format' and 'large format', used to indicate size, refer—the first to the early yellowbacks (measuring with slight variations 4" x 6|"), the second to the regulation crown 8vo size (4§" x of the conventionalised yellow-backs of the prolific middle and late periods. As the section is a mixture of first editions and reprints, the two classes are typographically distinguished. Titles which, to the best of my knowledge, are first editions are set in caps; reprints in heavy caps and I.e. It may well be that I have wrongfully assumed some of the volumes to be first or first English editions, or, conversely, failed to capitalise some which are. The continual transfer of cover-blocks, type-plates and copyrights from one publisher to another; the issue (in the case of translations) of unauthorised English versions; and the absence of dates (which after about 1860 becomes virtually general) often make positive identification of issues impossible. A brief technical statement about the making of yellow-backs may here suitably be given, in the form of an extract from the Reminiscences of Edmund Evans, the pioneer of pictorial covers. ' The popular artists of the day (Birket Foster, John Gilbert, Phiz (H. K . Browne), George Cruikshank, Harrison Weir, Kenny Meadows, John Absolon, W. S. Coleman, Charles Keene, F. S. Skill, Albert H. Warren, Charles H. Bennett, Walter Crane, A. W. Cooper, D. H. Friston, E. H. Corbould, William McConnell, Matt Stretch, W. Rainey, A. Chantry Corbould, R. Caldecott, John Sturges, and many others) were asked to supply drawings which were engraved on wood. Then two 'transfers' from the engraved block were made, i.e. impressions which while wet were laid face-down on plain blocks, and then passed through the press so that the wet impression was 'set off' on the plain blocks. These transfers were used, one for a Red printing, the other for a Blue printing—the Red being engraved in gradation to get the light tints, such as faces, hands, etc.; the Blue block being engraved to get the best result of texture, patterns or sky, and the blue being crossed over the red to get good effects of light and shade. There were generally only three printings used—Black, Blue and Red, or Black, Green and Red; the very most was made of each block by engraving, so as to get the best result for the money.' One or two incidental facts, also gathered from Edmund Evans' notes, merit record: (i) Wood-blocks signed 'E. Evans' prior to 1847 were not the work of Edmund Evans, but of another, unconnected engraver. Evans' first pictorial yellow-back for Routledge was T H E L A M P L I G H T E R (Railway Library 1854) drawn by Anelay. (ii) Mayhew's L E T T E R S L E F T A T T H E P A S T R Y C O O K ' S (q.v. below), reputedly the first book produced in pictorial covers by Evans' process, had a white paper base. The trade asked for a toned paper to lessen risks of soiling, and yellow-glazed paper was found the most practical solution. In conclusion I would state that this section does not cover my entire yellow-back collection, but only those titles which are in themselves of some interest or importance. 3

ACME

LIBRARY

Practically all ' small f o r m a t ' items are included, however obscure their authorship, because the small f o r m a t yellow-backs are the aristocrats of their kind and, almost without exception, have elegance and ' s t y l e ' . Of minor authors whose yellow-backs belong to the period of mass-production I have tried to select only those represented b y cloth-bound 'firsts' in Section I. In the present Section 'condition' is rarely recorded. The vast majority of the items described are very fine, and to say so repeatedly would be tedious. Wherever a serious defect occurs I have noted it. Similarly ' provenance' is only given in the case of large-scale yellow-back collectors such as J . R . Molineux, J o h n Browne and one or two others. I benefited so greatly from the assiduity and care shown b y these individuals t h a t it would have been ungracious not to register them as former owners. I would like in this place—if possible once and for all—to scotch the legend t h a t W . H . Smith invented (and published) yellow-backs, and t h a t a Cranford of 1857 was the first specimen to be published. Smith did not invent yellow-backs, nor did he publish yellow-backs over his firm's name. Dozens of yellow-backs appeared prior to 1857, including a Cranford (Chapman & Hall). This canard (it is nothing less) was started b y a privately printed house-history of W . H . Smith & Son, and, despite reiterated denials, was still current in 1948 when these lines were written. For a general essay on the ' Yellow-Back' as a publishing phenomenon, I m a y be permitted to refer to m y contribution to New Paths in Book-Collecting (edited by J o h n Carter, 1934), which contribution was separately issued in 1938 in the series Aspects of Book-Collecting. [3393]

A C M E L I B R A R Y (The) 1 8 9 4 - 1 8 9 6 Published b y Archibald Constable & Co. in narrow fcap 8vo a t Is. in wrappers, Is. 6d. in cloth, this series of original novelettes was designed to profit b y the success of Fisher Unwin's ' P s e u d o n y m ' Library. Unfortunately, like Cassell's Pocket Library (3741 below), it was just too late, the public taste for such ventures having faded. The wrappered issue was in grey-green, lettered in dark blue; the cloth issue in dark blue ribbed cloth, blocked and lettered in gold. Series title appears on front cover of both issues and on spine and back of wrappered issues, as well as on half-title of Vol. I and, from Vol. I I onward, on leaf preceding half-title. The volumes, as listed on this leaf, are numbered. Titles asterisked are not in the Collection. 1

THE

PARASITE

by

CONAN

DOYLE

(see

748

7

*AN

8

A

in Section I) 2

*THE WATTER'S M O U ' b y BRAM STOKER

3

* A Q U E S T I O N O F C O L O U R b y F . C. P H I L I P S

4 5 6

GEORGE

A B U B B L E b y L. B. W A L F O R D * F R O M S H A D O W TO S U N L I G H T b y T H E QUIS OF LORNE *THE RED SPELL by FRANCIS GRIBBLE

IMPRESSIONIST DIARY by HE1MUTH SCHWARTZE F E M I N I N E C O N V I C T I O N b y G E O R G E ST.

9 *AN E N G A G E M E N T b y SIR R O B E R T P E E L , B A R T MAR-

10

D R K O O M A H D I O F A S H A N T E E b y F. F R A N K FORT MOORE 11 *ANGELA'S L O V E R b y D O R O T H E A G E R A R D

Note. Under ' Doyle' in Section I will be found mention of a re-issue of The Parasite in yellow cloth. No. 10 above was similarly re-issued, in scarlet cloth. I am not aware whether the entire series was so treated. [3394]

A D A M S , HENRY

Democracy: an American Novel [anon] I. Walter Scott, n.d. Cream boards patterned in red and blue. II. Ward and Lock, n.d. [1882]. Pictorial boards. [3395]

A I M A R D ' S (GUSTAVE) T A L E S O F I N D I A N L I F E 1 8 6 0 - 1 8 6 4 ; 1877 Original Issue. This series (which ran to 26 vols.) was edited by Sir Lascelles Wraxall, who grouped such stories as had affiliations and from time to time provided a schedule of each group in a Foreword, showing the order in which the tales should be read. This order is here retained, although it was not necessarily the order of actual publication. Unless otherwise stated, each volume is in bright-coloured paper boards, decoratively and effectively lettered in two different and contrasting colours. Series title: 'Aimard's Tales of Indian Life', appears 4

AIMARD'S

TALES

on front cover and on spine. All are of small format and were published at 2s. each. Titles asterisked are not in the Collection. Group I : THE

TRAPPERS

•THE TRAPPER'S OF

ARKANSAS,

or

the

Loyal

Heart. Ward & Lock 1864. War.

THE GOLD SEEKERS : a Tale of California. & Lock 1861 [January 1].

Ward & Lock 1861. THE FREEBOOTERS: a Story of the Texan War. Ward & Lock 1861.

THE I N D I A N CHIEF:

Ward & Lock 1861.

•THE RED TRACK.

Group II: THE ADVENTURERS: a Story of a Love Chase. Ward & Lock 1863.

PRAIRIE FLOWER:

Adventures

of a

Revolution.

W a r d & L o c k 1862.

AdventuresonthelndianBorder.

Ward & Lock 1861. THE INDIAN SCOUT: a Story of the Aztec City. Ward & Lock 1861. Ungrouped: THE

LAST

OF

THE

INCAS:

a

Romance

of

the

Pampas. Ward & Lock 1862. This title was re-issued after 1884 in pictorial boards with no series title, but on spine 'With Illustrations', which were certainly never present in this edition.

• T H E T R A I L H U N T E R 1861 [ M a r c h ]

& Lock

Story

Group H I :

The Pearl of the Andes: a Tale of Love and Adventure. J. A. Berger, n.d. Yellow-back pictorial boards with series title: 'The Aimard Library', on spine. Undoubtedly this is a re-issue by another publisher of a book originally published by Ward & Lock. Judging from an advert, on back cover Berger took over the whole list of Aimard titles.

Ward

the

Ward

Ward & Lock 1861 [February 1].

THE W H I T E S C A L P E R : a Story of the T e x a n W a r .

T H E P I R A T E S OF T H E P R A I R I E S :

W a r d & L o c k 1861.

a T a l e of the Indian Desert.

Ward & Lock 1860.

THE B O R D E R R I F L E S : a T a l e of the T e x a n

the American Desert. [April 1].

DAUGHTER.

•(•THE T I G E R S L A Y E R :

in

THE SMUGGLER CHIEF: a Novel. 1864.

1861

Ward & Lock

f This was the first of the whole Aimard Series to be published [December 1, I860]. Wraxall, in his Foreword, states that the French regard Aimard as their Fenimore Cooper, and that he lived for many years as an Indian among the Indians of N6rth America, actually experiencing most of the adventures described in his novels. In addition to those mentioned, the following Aimard titles are not in the Collection: Queen of the Savannah Buccanier (sic) Chief Stronghand

Stoneheart The Bee Hunters Guide of the Desert

Insurgent Chief Flying Horseman

All these were of later issue than the grouped titles, and I cannot be certain that all were originally published by Ward and Lock. Second Issue: 'Revised and Edited by Percy B. St John' Twenty-nine volumes, issued in white [3395a] wrappers cut flush, pictorially printed and lettered in brown and black. All are imprinted either ' J . & R . Maxwell and George Vickers' or ' J . & R . Maxwell' only, except No. 10 (imprint: 'George Vickers' only) and No. 19 (imprint:' Spencer Blackett, succ. to J. & R . Maxwell'). Only No. 10 is dated. Titles asterisked are not in the Collection. 1 »Trappers of Arkansas 2 Border Rifles 3 Freebooters 4 White Scalper 5 Guide of the Desert 6 Insurgent Chief 7 Flying Horseman 8 Last of the Incas 9 Missouri Outlaws 10 Prairie Flower 1877

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Indian Scout Stronghand Bee Hunters Stoneheart •Queen of the Savannah Buccaneer Chief •Smuggler Hero Rebel Chief Adventurers •Pearl of the Andes

See also ROUTLEDGE'S ORIGINAL NOVELS (3672 (18) below). 5

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

Trail Hunter Pirates of the Prairies Trapper's Daughter Tiger Slayer Gold Seekers Indian Chief Red Track Treasure of Pearls Red River Half Breed

AINSWORTH A I N S W O R T H , w. H. [3396]

PI-1

(A) F I R S T U N I F O R M C O L L E C T E D E D I T I O N , which includes the First Book Edition of 'AurioP. 14 vols. Small slim 8vo. Chapman & Hall 1850-1851. This 'Cheap Uniform Edition' was issued monthly from December 1849, at first at Is. and Is. 6d. in boards, then alternatively at 2s. and 2s. 6d. in cloth. In my experience the series is very uncommon, and I have not succeeded in acquiring a complete set in either binding. The volumes are extremely elegant in design, both in boards and cloth. The cloth issue was not made until the series had been under way for at least four months and was then retrospective. A slip in Vol. vi announces Vol. VII in boards and cloth, and the advert, on back covers makes no mention of cloth until at about the same juncture. This delay in cloth issue accounts for the discrepancies on individual titles between the numbers of copies stated to have been printed of certain titles, e.g. Vol. i boards is 15th thousand, cloth 19th thousand; Vol. v n boards has no statement, cloth 9th thousand. Vols. I-XII are dated 1850, Vols, xiix and xiv 1851. In each a series title, bearing volume number, precedes individual title. Board Issue. Yellow paper boards, printed in very dark blue and red—on front with all-over design and lettering; on spine up-lettered in blue with design, title and volume number; on back with advert, of series. White end-papers unless otherwise stated. Cloth Issue. Olive-green fine-ribbed cloth, blocked in blind on front and back; on spine in gold with design; A I N S W O R T H ' S / W O R K S / V O L . I (etc.) at head, title of novel a t tail. Yellow end-papers unless otherwise stated. In the schedule which follows items asterisked are not in the Collection. Vol. x n , A U R I O L , is set in caps and analysed because this is the first book edition of the unfinished romance which, with fine illustrations by Phiz, appeared serially, first in Ainsworth's Magazine during 1844 and 1845 under the title ' Revelations of L o n d o n t h e n in the New Monthly Magazine during 1845 and 1846 under the title' Auriol Strangely enough, this book edition of 1850 has not previously been noticed by bibliographers. Slater in Early Editions, Ellis in Ainsworth and his Friends and Locke in his Bibliographical Catalogue of Ainsworth, all state that no book edition was published until the ugly Routledge 8vo of 1865; and this mis-statement is repeated in the C.B.E.L. (doubtless on the authority of Slater, Ellis and Locke) even though the existence of a Collected Edition of 1850-51 is recorded. Vol. i Windsor Castle

Boards

Cloth

Vols, vm, ix

Both editions have pale blue flowered end-papers and contain a 'Memoir of the Author' by Laman

Vol. x Guy Fawkes y 0 i. X I j a c k Sheppard

Blanchard, originally printed in The Mirror in 1842.

Vol. il

Rookwood

*.

The Tower of London

Vol. VII St James's

* Boards

*

Cloth

* Boards

*

Vol. xii AURIOL: Fragment of a Romance. Also 'The Old London Merchant' and 'A Night's Adventure in Rome',

, Cloth (end-papers äs I) „ . ,„ _ , ' V o ' - m Cnchton Boards Cloth This edition contains a new dedication to Mrs James Touchet, dated January 10, 1850. Vol. iv The Miser's Daughter * *

Vols, v, vi

Old St Paul's

pp.128 Pp. (1) (2) Series title, verso blank; (3) Individual tite; (4) Printer's imprint; (5) (6) Flyt i t l e t 0 Auriol', verso blank; (7)-110 «Auriol'; ( m ) - 1 1 6 'The Old London M e r c h a n t ' f ; (117)128'A Night's Adventure in Rome'. * Cloth

Cloth

Vols, xm, xiv

The Lancashire Witches *

*

Cloth

•(• Curiously enough this story had already appeared in book form in Vol. I of The Pic Nie Papers, 3 vols. 1841. (See 703 in Section I.)

[3396a]

(B)

INDIVIDUAL TITLES

Boscobel. Routledge, n.d. boards. Small format.

Flitch of Bacon (The).

Yellow-back pictorial

Ditto : Another, n.d. Pictorial yellow-back wrappers, cut flush. Small format.

Mervyn Clitheroe.

'Fourth Edition.' Rout-

'New Edition.'

Routledge

1859. Yellow-back pictorial boards, with cover picture re-drawn from the Phiz plate facing p. 17 of first edition. Small format. Railway Library.

ledge 1855. Yellow-back boards, printed in dark blue. Small format. 6

AMUSING

Tower of London (The). Copy I : 'New Edition.' Routledge 1858. Flame pictorial boards. Small format. An exceptionally striking production, brilliant in colour and well drawn. The price on front is given as ' T W O S H I L L I N G S OR F I F T Y C E N T S ' . Copy H. Routledge, n.d. Pale yellow pictorial wrappers, cut flush. A commonplace production of the eighties or even later.

Miser's Daughter (The). 'New Edition.' Routledge, n.d. (1877). Yellow pictorial wrappers, cut flush, with cover picture an adaptation from a Cruikshank plate in first edition. Small format. Signature dated 1877 on title.

Pl. 4

LIBRARY

Ovingdean Grange. Routledge 1861. Yellow-back boards with portrait of author on front cover and vignette of the Grange on spine. Small format. Railway Library.

PI. 4

A L E X A N D E R , MRS Blind Fate. 'New Edition.' AMUSING LIBRARY

Chatto and Windus, 1897. (The)

White pictorial boards

1885

[3397] [3398]

Lambert & Co., 63 Paternoster Row and, later, 462 New Oxford Street. Published in decorated boards a t two shillings (or in cloth or half-bound a t half-a-crown, or in cloth gilt a t three shillings), the volumes in this series are described as ' Original Tales, also Translations and Reprints of Popular Works'. Below are given only those titles in the Collection which are first, or first English, editions. The series is not of sufficient general interest to justify listing in full, being mainly collections of regional legends and historical tales. E a c h volume is of small format, with end-papers printed with adverts. CONSCIENCE, H E N D R I K The four volumes which follow are uniformly bound in primrose yellow boards, decoratively printed in red and [3398 a] green and lettered in black. The spine is headed 'Conscience's Tales' and at base reads 'London. 1855'. No series title on outside covers. The adverts, of the series on the end-papers make clear that these are authorised translations from the Flemish, of material not previously published in English. The title asterisked is not in the Collection. I

T H E C U R S E OF T H E V I L L A G E a n d T H E H A P P I N E S S OF B E I N G R I C H

1855

Wood-engraved front, on text paper and occasional text decorations, pp. (viii) + (134) S 8 -T s adverts. II T H E L I O N O F F L A N D E R S , or The Battle of the Golden Spurs 1855 Wood-engraved front, and vignette title on plate paper, but reckoned in collation. No printed title, pp. x + 360 HI V E V A : OT the War of the Peasants. An Historical Tale 1855 Wood-engraved front, and vignette title on plate paper and not reckoned in the collation. No printed title, pp. xii + 256 IV V

* T A L E S OF OLD F L A N D E R S THE MISER a n d RICKETICKETACK

1855

Wood-engraved vignette title, faced by a decoration, on plate paper, and not reckoned in the collation, pp. 64 Publishers' cat., 16 pp. undated, at end. GÉRARD,

JULES

(1855) [3398 6] Pink boards printed in black. Series title 'Amusing Library' on front cover and spine. Wood-engraved front. and vignette title on plate paper precede printed title and are not reckoned in the collation. Half-title pp. x x + 202 [First leaf of final sig., Oj, a single inset.] Publishers'cat., 16 pp. undated, at end. Book-plate of P. Z. Cox.

L I F E A N D A D V E N T U R E S OF J U L E S G É R A R D , T H E 'LION K I L L E R '

H A L L , MRS s. c. POPULAR TALES AND SKETCHES

1856

Rose pink boards, printed with floral decorations in green and crimson and lettered in black. Series title 'Amusing Library' on front cover and spine. Wood-engraved front, on text paper, pp. viii+ 248 Publishers' cat., 16 pp. undated, at end. 7

[3398 c]

4ANONYMA'

[3399]

SERIES

A N O N Terrible T a l e s : French a n d G e r m a n .

Terrible Tales: Italian and Spanish. Note.

[3400]

W . W . Gibbings, 18 B u r y Street, n.d.

Cream pictorial boards.

Uniform with above.

These tales were originally issued in four volumes in cloth.

'ANONYMA' SERIES

1864; 1884

The authorship of this reputedly licentious series of stories about the smart world, the half-world and the underworld of Victorian London (and elsewhere) has never been established. The books have been attributed to Bracebridge Hemyng, to W. Stephens Hayward and to E. L. Blanchard. The attribution to Hemyng is the most categorical. In A Brief History of Boys' Journals by Ralph Rollington (Leicester, H. Simpson [1913]) appears the following: 'Brace Hemyng was a most prolific writer... .1 am indebted to J.S.G. of Sheffield for the following list, which was published in a recent letter to T.P.'s Weekly. He wrote several serials for the London Journal,.. .etc... .etc... .etc... .The Skittles and Kate Hamilton group.. .etc etc.' In support of this direct attribution may be added the reminder that Hemyng was the avowed author of the Prostitution section in Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor (1861); and the two together seem to me convincing evidence that Hemyng was responsible for at least the earlier 'Anonyma' books. But I hesitate to regard it as proof that he was the author of the whole series, which, in all probability, developed into a product of a syndicate. Certainly, as time went on and new titles of a somewhat different kind were added, the 'Author of Skittles' or the 'Author of Anonyma' became credited with stories for which previously credit had been given elsewhere. Further, the later writer or writers were worse equipped for authorship than Hemyng, the style becoming deplorable and the dialogue so stilted as to be comic. Nevertheless, although to anyone in search of impudicity the whole series proves a grave disappointment, the books provide much evidence of the lives, manners and haunts of the men upon town, their women and their hangers-on, and the descriptive background is certainly authentic. Perhaps it is misleading to speak of the 'Anonyma' Series; and I hope no one will so far misunderstand the term as to imagine a formal series of the Parlour Library class. Actually the success of the first two volumes created a sort of group-popularity for books of a more or less similar kind. Several appeared within two or three years over various imprints; and then, in the middle eighties, were all reprinted by C. H. Clarke in a uniform edition. The issue of this (virtually) sham collected edition not only gave the impression that the books were all from one hand, but also that they belonged together from the first, and therefore created a ' series', even though no series title was given them. For convenience sake alone, I make use of this imaginary series title, but endeavour, in describing the individual books, to show how unreal it is. The actual first editions of the 'Anonyma' Series in original condition are of the greatest rarity, and some I have never seen. Even the Clarke re-issue is very uncommon; but as it is a graceless production (a yellow-back of the most mechanical kind) failure to locate copies need only provoke a passing regret. Where there is doubt whether a book is a first edition, I have said so in the entries which follow. The Clarke re-issue is frankly so described. I t may be noted that all the Clarke volumes carry on their back end-papers (i) an announcement of a ' New and Uniform Two Shilling Edition of the following Popular Works', i.e. 14 volumes from Anonyma to Delilah, all anonymous;* (ii) a new edition at Two Shillings of the novels of W . Stephens Hayward. Probably the juxtaposition of these adverts, has encouraged the general attribution of the 'Anonyma' Series to Hayward. [3401]

A N O N Y M A , or Fair b u t Frail. A Romance of W e s t E n d Life, Manners and 'Captivating' People [anon]

Copy I: First Edition. Court 1864. Small format.

Pictorial

Half-title, pp. (viii) + (328) ^Voie. Outside back cover printed with advert, of ( W a r d & Lock's) 'Shilling Volume L i b r a r y ' .

George Vickers, Angel yellow-back

Very

boards.

flne-

S P i n e sli 8 htl y chi PP ed a t h e a d '

Copy II: C . H . Clarke re-issue, entitled: 'Anonyma, or Fair but Frail.' n.d. [1884].

* Of these 14 titles, the only one not in the Collection, either in first edition or reprint, is Agnes Willoughby, while of titles hereafter noticed Clarke's 'Series' does not include London by Night, Bel Demonio, Cora Pearl, The Women of Paris, The Women of London (which I have never seen), Leah and Mabel Gray—nor, of course, Fast Life and Lola Montez. 8

[3401a]

'ANONYMA'

be founded on a French romance, while claiming virtuously that 'many episodes, scenes and dialogues at variance with English notions have been wholly avoided'.

Large format. Pictorial cream-back boards. Same picture on cover. Description of authorship as on Love Frolics of a Young Scamp, Copy I I

[3401 b]

(q.V.).

Copy H I : Unauthorised reprint, entitled: 'Anonyma: a Tale of Female Life and Adventure' [anon], 'Sold by all booksellers', n.d. Pictorial yellow-back boards. Same picture on cover. Small format. Note. Judging by its format this edition pre-dated Clarke's re-issue. But on the back cover, headed 'Uniform with Anonyma', is a list of no fewer than 20 titles. This list includes the usual 14, with, in addition: Diary of a Physician, Diary of a Judge, Paul Peabody, The Wild Irish Girl, Rich Relations, Larry Lynch, The Love Match, The Lady With Golden Hair and The Deserted Wife. The implied connection between Anonyma etc. and novels known to be by (among others) Lady Morgan, R. B. Brough and Cockton exemplifies the bewilderment caused to later investigators by the slapdash methods of yellowback pirates. This is a poor copy.

[3402]

[3402 a]

A N N I E , or the Life of a Lady's Maid. Carrying a full description of all the Curious Occurrences, Intrigues, Amours, Expedients of Fashionable Gay Life among the Aristocracy Copy I : First Edition. 'Never before Printed' [anon]. George Yickers, Angel Court 1864. Cont. half-calf (originally pictorial boards). Small format. pp. (iv) + 316 Described on title as 'Uniform with Skittles etc.' Copy II: C. H. Clarke re-issue, n.d. [1884], Pictorial cream-back boards. Soiled. Large format. Description of authorship (virtually) as on Love Frolics of a Young Scamp, Copy II. Only the first sub-title used on this edition.

[3403]

B E A U T I F U L D E M O N (The): a Romance (by the author of 'Leah', 'Hunted to Death', etc., i.e. W. Stephens Hayward). 'Never before printed' George Vickers 1864. Pictorial yellow-back boards. Small format. Half-title, pp. viii + 296 Described on front cover as 'Uniform with " I n cognita"'. Many of the 'Anonyma' titles are advertised on back cover without hint of authorship, but including The Beautiful Demon itself, which is recorded as ' by the author of The Black Angel' (i.e., once again, W. Stephens Hayward). The Preface is initialled 'W.S.H.' Ink signature: 'Charles Penruddock', on title. Fine. Note. This is an adaptation of Feval's Bel Demonio, condensed and with altered names, but largely the same story. The Preface admits the tale to SCF

II

SERIES

9

B E L D E M O N I O : a Love Story (by Paul Feval. Translated by Bertha Browne). 'Never before Published' Ward & Lock 1863. Pictorial yellow-back boards. Small format. pp. iv + (396) Described on front cover as 'Uniform with " T h e Duke's M o t t o ' " (also by Feval). Ink signature: 'Charles Penruddock', on title. Very fine.

[3404]

C O R A P E A R L (by the author of 'Anonyma', 'Skittles', 'Left Her Home', 'Kate Hamilton', 'Incognita', 'Soiled Dove', 'Skittles in Paris', etc. etc.) E. Griffiths, Catherine Street, n.d. Pictorial yellow-back boards. Small format. pp. iv + 316 Outside back-cover advert, identical with that on Love Frolics of a Young Scamp and Lady Detective. Note. In contrast to Revelations of a Lady Detective, this volume looks like an inferior issue. The pictorial cover is coarsely designed and printed, and the end-papers, instead of being plain, are printed with commercial adverts. But the type is clean and the format of the same small size as companion volumes which are certainly first editions.

[3405]

D E L I L A H, or the Little House in Piccadilly C. H. Clarke re-issue, n.d. [1884]. Pictorial creamback boards. Large format. Description of authorship (virtually) as on Love Frolics of a Young Scamp, Copy I I . Spine torn and partially detached.

[3406]

F A S T L I F E : an Autobiography. Being the Recollections, Rencounters, Reverses and Reprisals of a Man Upon Town in London and Paris:... together with Details of the Amours of the Marquis of Waterford, etc. etc. [anon] Vickers, n.d. [1859]. Pale yellow boards overprinted in orange, and lettered in pale yellow in reverse and also directly in dark blue. Small format. pp. 256 [paged (i)-iv + (5)-256] Soiled and spine lacking. Note. I include this book (written by J. Lennox) under 'Anonyma' Series on grounds of subject. It is unconnected with the 'Anonyma' group and almost certainly of earlier date. The dating suggested above is based on a catalogue entry and MS note in my copy.

[3407]

2

4ANONYMA'

[3408]

SERIES

F O R M O S A : the Life of a Beautiful Woman

GILBERT'S EDITION. Like Fast Life, this book has no connection with the 'Anonyma' Series, but was frequently reprinted and sold with them, and was treated by the trade as in their category.

Copy I: First Edition (by the author o f ' Anonyma' 'Agnes Willoughby', 'Incognita', 'Skittles', 'Left Her Home', 'Soiled Dove', 'Mabel Gray', 'Cora Pearl', etc. etc.) E. Griffiths, 13 Catherine Street and Evans, Oliver & Co. 81 Fleet Street, n.d. Pictorial yellow-back boards. Back cover advertises as 'Never before Published' 'Mabel Gray, by the author of 'Formosa', 'Cora Pearl' and a list of thirteen numbered titles of which x n is 'Love Frolics of a Young Scamp' and x m 'Formosa', here (and here only) described as 'Never before published'.

L O N D O N B Y N I G H T (by the author of 'Anonyma', 'Skittles', 'Left Her Home', 'Kate Hamilton', 'Agnes Willoughby', 'Incognita', 'The Soiled Dove', 'Woman (sic) of London', 'Skittles in Paris', 'The Woman (sic) of Paris', 'Annie, or the Life of a Lady's Maid') Copy I : First Edition. 8vo. William Oliver, 3 Amen Corner, n.d. [? early seventies. See note]. Pictorial white-back boards. Back outside cover advertises a work called Social Contrasts, consisting of 22 coloured lithographs by William Gray. Yellow end-papers. Coloured lithographic front., pictorial title and 10 plates (of which one a double folding one) by William Gray.

Half-title, pp. viii + (312) pp. (i) (ii) and (311) (312) are pasted down to inside front and back covers to serve as end-papers. Note. Probable date 1869/1870, being based on a Boucicault melodrama of the same name produced in 1869. [3408 a]

Copy I I : C. H . Clarke re-issue, n.d. [1884]. Pictorial cream-back boards. Large format. Description of authorship (differently arranged) as on Love Frolics of a Young Scamp, Copy II. Fine.

[3409]

I N C O G N I T A : a Tale of Love and Passion C. H. Clarke re-issue, n.d. [1884], Pictorial creamback boards by Phiz. Large format. Description of authorship (differently arranged) as on Love Frolics of a Young Scamp, Copy II. Fine.

[3410]

K A T E H A M I L T O N : an Autobiography C. H. Clarke re-issue, n.d. [1884]. Pictorial creamback boards (? by Phiz). Large format. Description of authorship as on Love Frolics of a Young Scamp, Copy I I .

[3411]

L E A H : the Jewish Maiden [anon], 'Never before published' Ward & Lock 1864. Cont. half-calf (originally pictorial yellow-back boards). Small format. pp. (iv) + 316

[3412]

L E F T H E R H O M E : a Tale of Female Life and Adventure, in which the fortunes and Misfortunes of a Charming Girl are narrated (by 'Anonyma', 'Never before printed') George Vickers, Angel Court 1864. Pictorial yellow-back boards (by Phiz). Small format. pp. iv + (316) This copy lacks spine.

[3413]

[3414] PL 3

Half-title, pp. (viii) +176 Note. This is the most remarkable piece of yellowback publishing I have ever seen. Full 8vo in format, elaborately illustrated (with a cover drawing not repeated inside) and priced at five shillings, it deserves commemoration as a showpiece of book-making, if for no other reason. The plates are only in two cases illustrations to the story; but the majority are really valuable in that they depict the interiors of actual taverns and night-houses and scenes in pleasure gardens. The folding plate shows the Alhambra underground canteen; others of the plates show the Argyll Rooms, Cremorne, The Holborn, Scotts, Rose Young's and Paddy's Goose. The only hint as to date of publication is that Renton Nicholson and Kate Hamilton have been dead a few years and that London by Night has been 'greatly shorn of its glories of late years'. Nicholson died in 1861 and Kate Hamilton in the middle sixties. It seems almost certain therefore that London by Night appeared in the early seventies, after the clean-up of 1870 and during the final decadence of the Argyll Rooms. Copy I I : Re-issue. The book was re-issued at an [3414a] unspecified date over the imprint of Evans & Co., 81 Fleet Street. This imprint appears on front and back covers, but the pictorial title still carries the original imprint of William Oliver. The text is printed from the plates (considerably worn) of the first edition; and the cover drawing and illustrations are printed from the same basic blocks, but differently and more economically coloured. For example, the pictorial title in Copy I is printed on a greenishdrab ground in black, rose, yellow and blue; in Copy I I it is printed in black only. The plates in the book mostly show one colour-printing less in Copy I I than in Copy I.

L O L A M O N T E Z (Countess of Lansfeld), Lectures of; including her Autobiography Ward & Lock 1858. Yellow-back pictorial boards. Small format. Half-title, pp. 192 Ink stamp: 'J. R. Molineux', on verso of halftitle. Very fine. Note. Front cover gives title as L E C T U R E S A N D L I F E O F L O L A M O N T E Z (with inverted z), 10

•ANONYMA' The covers of Copy I I are of dull, not glazed paper. The outside back cover, actually under the heading: 'THE ANONYMA SEBIES', advertises at 2s. 4d. each in 'fancy coloured boards' Anonyma, Skittles, Annie, Soiled Dove, Love Frolics of a Young Scamp, Kate Hamilton, Incognita, Beautiful Demon, Lady Detective, Agnes Willoughby, Skittles in Paris, Left Her Home-, and as ' uniform with the above ' The Lady with the Golden Hair. This list does not include Delilah and Formosa, which formed volumes of Clarke's re-issue. I have never seen any of these books with Evans' imprint. [3415]

[3415 a]

[3416]

SERIES

on his title-pages among the works regularly attributed to one writer. Date 1869/1870.

L O V E F R O L I C S O F A Y O U N G SCAMP Copy I : First Edition. 'Related by Himself and edited by Charles Martel. Never before printed.' E. Griffiths, 13 Catherine Street 1864. Pictorial cream-back boards [I think by Phiz]. Small format. pp. iv + 316 Note. Outside back cover, over Griffiths' imprint, advertises: Cora Pearl (as 'never before printed'); The Finest Girl in Bloomsbury [by Augustus Mayhew] and as 'Companion volumes to Cora PearV; Anonyma, Skittles, Annie, Left Her Home, Kate Hamilton, Agnes Willoughby, Incognita, Lady Detective, Beautiful Demon, Skittles in Paris, The Soiled Dove,.... It will be observed that 1864 is the year of first publication (by Vickers) of Anonyma and Skittles and one wonders whether Griffiths' date on this volume is a false one or whether, maybe, his imprint and Vickers' (and perhaps others) were interchangeable conveniences in case of trouble. Copy H : C. H . Clarke re-issue, n.d. [1884]. Large format. Same picture on cover. Note. In this edition the book is described as ' By the author of Anonyma, Skittles, Annie, Left Her Home, The Soiled Dove, The Lady Detective, The Beautiful Demon, Delilah, Skittles in Paris, Agnes Willoughby, Incognita, Kate Hamilton, Formosa\ As can be seen, on the first edition of one at least of these books * a quite different authorship was given, and one should, I think, view Clarke's wholesale attributions with some suspicion. M A B E L G R A Y , or Cast on the Tide (by the author of 'Anonyma', 'Skittles', etc.) F. W. Garnham, 44 Ludgate Hill, n.d. Cont. halfcalf (originally pictorial boards). Small format. pp. (iv) + 316 Note. This imprint occurs nowhere else in my experience. Perhaps the ascription to the author of Skittles was an unscrupulous attempt at 'passing-off'. It should be noted that Mabel Gray is not included in C. H. Clarke's standard list of the 'Anonyma' Series, nor does it appear * Beautiful Demon (3403 above). 11

R E V E L A T I O N S OF A LADY D E T E C T I V E [3417] (by the author of 'Anonyma', 'Incognita', PI. 2 'Skittles', etc.) Copy I: First Edition. E. Griffiths, Catherine Street, n.d. Pictorial yellow-back boards. Small format. pp. (iv) + 308 Outside back-cover advert, identical with that on Love Frolics of a Young Scamp Copy I, i.e. without 'Formosa'. Very fine. Note. Presumably published in the late 'sixties between 'Love Frolics' and 'Formosa'. Copy I I : C. H . Clarke re-issue, n.d. Pictorial [3417 a] yellow-back boards (picture totally different and very inferior to Copy I). Large format. Fine. Price-label on spine. Description of authorship as on Love Frolics Copy II, but differently arranged. S K I T T L E S : a Biography of a Fascinating Woman. Companion to 'Anonyma'. 'Never before published' (anon) George Vickers 1864. Pictorial yellow-back boards. Small format. pp. iv + 316 Very fine. Note. Outside back cover printed with advert, of three publications by Vickers, including Anonyma, which is here described (though not on the book itself) as 'never before published'.

[3418] PI. 2

S K I T T L E S I N P A R I S : a Biography of a Fascinating Woman C. H . Clarke re-issue, n.d. [1884]. Pictorial creamback boards [I think by Phiz], Large format. Description of authorship (virtually) as on Love Frolics of a Young Scamp, Copy II. Loose in covers.

[3419] PL 2

S O I L E D D O V E (The): a Biography of 'The Kitten', a Pretty Young Lady who.. .etc. etc. 'Never before printed'

[3420]

Copy I : First Edition. Published for the Pro-

prietors. Sold by all booksellers, 1863. Pictorial yellow-back boards. Small format. pp. iv + 316 This is a poor copy. The picture on cover is totally different from that on Copy II. Note. Although the cover of this book is poorly reproduced, the dated title and the appearance of the type suggest that it is a first edition. The back cover advertises Mayhew's Finest Girl in Bloomsbury, Dumas' Lady with the Golden Hair and St John's Paul Peabody. C o p y l l : C. H. Clarke re-issue, n.d. [1884]. Pic- [3420 a] torial cream back boards, by Phiz. Large format. Description of authorship (virtually) as on Love Frolics of a Young Scamp, Copy II.

«ANONYMA• [3421]

[3422]

SERIES

W O M E N O F P A R I S (The): a Romance (by the author of 'Women of London', etc. etc.) George Vickers, Angel Court, n.d. Pictorial yellow-back boards. Large format. Outside back cover advertises Miss Braddon's novels over the imprint of J. and R. Maxwell. Spine worn. Note. This looks like an original issue, probably

ARMSTRONG,

dating from the mid-seventies. It complicates still further the general problem of authorship, for it and its companion volume Women of London are surely the books listed as The Woman of Paris and Woman of London on the half-title of London by Night (q.v.) and there attributed to the author of Anonyma, Skittles and the rest.

C A P T . C. F.

Cruise of the Daring (The) I Ward & Lock, n.d. Yellow pictorial boards. Small format. Library of Popular Authors. I I Ward & Lock, n.d. [circa 1881]. Select Library. Lily of Devon (The).

Henry Lea, n.d. [1861].

Yellow pictorial boards, specially drawn spine. Small format.

Sailor Hero (The), or The Frigate and the Lugger. format. Library of Popular Authors.

Ward & Lock, n.d.

Yellow pictorial boards.

Small

The following are all in pictorial boards, pink, yellow and greenish white. Large format. Sunny South (The).

Ward & Lock, n.d. [after 1884].

Two Midshipmen (The). War Hawk (The).

Routledge, n.d. [after 1884].

Routledge, n.d. [after 1885].

Young Commander (The). [3423]

Select Library.

Ward & Lock, n.d. [after 1882].

ARROWSMITH'S BRISTOL LIBRARY

Select Library.

1884-1906

Certain titles in this long and important series appear under their authors' names in Section I (e.g. Besant, Conway). I t has not seemed worth while recording the series in full in the present section, as a complete list of titles is easily available in the English Catalogue, and the later volumes nearly always contain clear and consistent schedules of the books published. The Library r a n to 95 volumes. One word of warning m a y save the first edition hunter occasional disappointment. Make sure, before assuming t h a t a volume in the Bristol Library is a ' f i r s t ' , t h a t the work had not previously been published as an Arrowsmith Christmas Annual, and then, when its seasonal career was over, been incorporated in the publishers' flourishing permanent series. [3424]

A R R O W S M I T H ' S TWO S H I L L I N G S E R I E S

1889

8 vols. Crown 8vo. Greenish white morocco-grain paper boards, decoratively printed and lettered in dark brown and salmon. Series title and volume number a t base of spine and on verso of title. Back cover printed with advert. Every story is a first edition. Those asterisked are not in the Collection. i

»DEAD MEN'S DOLLARS,

by May Crommelin

I I * 0 N T H E WRONG T A C K , b y III

THE TRUTH

A. E. Wilton

ABOUT CLEMENT

by George Fleming iv

v

KER.

VI

Edited

vn

ELIZABETHMORLEY,byKatherineS.Macquoid

VIII

(q.v. in Section I)

FRANCIS AND FRANCES,

*LALj

by Lorin

*MONSIGNOR,

by H. Edwards

Lathrop and Annie Wakeman by Mrs Compton Reade

* M A R I A A N D I,

by Edgar Lee

AUTHORSHIP UNKNOWN [3425]

F A T A L F I T Z (The). A Sensation Novel in Six Parts, by Six 'Parties', for Six Pence 7 f x l O f . 'Echoes from the Clubs' Offices, 19 Catherine Street 1868 [probably published in December, 1867]. Buff wrappers printed in red, dark blue and black—on front with all-over design incorporating 12

BALZAC fancy lettering in blue and in reverse, and six oval vignettes illustrating the tale; on back with advert, of 'Echoes from the Clubs', a 3d. weekly. Spine unlettered. pp. 24 Very fine. Note, This is a skilful parody of six prominent novelists, who are supposed in turn to have improvised a chapter of a sensation tale. Part I, T H E W H I T E M A S K , is in the style of Ouida, and introduces such Ouidaesque characters as Granville Fitz-Fulke ('The Fatal Fitz'); Louise de la Ramage; Idalia, Countess Yassilis; Lord Strathmore; Ernest Chandos and Bertie Cecil, 'The Seraph'. Part II, S H O W I N G H O W T H E S P E C I A L C O R R E S P O N D E N T T U R N E D S N E A K , brings in Luke Framley, a Rural Dean; Old Mr Palliasse; Lady Glenmorris; Nora Geraghty; Sir Ram Shackle of the Income-Tax Office, and is suitably written with Trollopian nonchalance and calm. Part III, T H E D U E L , is after either Lever or the author of Guy Livingstone or both. Part IV, T H E F E N I A N L A N D I N G — w i t h its opening storm; 'Well it was a night—there never was such a night. I don't know what the wind did not do that night. It blew the heads off four pots of porter the Southampton potboy was carrying to the three tide-waiters from the Yellow Dragon', etc. etc.—is of course Dickens. Part V, T H E R E I S S E L D O M F I R E W I T H O U T S M O K E , is a fine piece of sonorous Charles-Readean indignation, with a private lunatic asylum and a lurid mansion-fire. In Part VI, I N W H I C H E V E R Y T H I N G E X P L O D E S , the shade of Thackeray, with the help of Philip the Widower, Lady Crawley and several flunkeys, winds up the story with playful and disjointed whimsicality. Another work by ' the authors of The Fatal F i t z e n t i t l e d Tales of the Twelve Calenders, is announced on the back cover as due to appear in 'Echoes from the Clubs' 'commencing with the New Year'. The serial duly started publishing in January 1868. P U P P E T S H O W M A N ' S A L B U M (The). With Contributions by the Most Eminent Light and Heavy Writers of the Day [anon] Sq. 8vo. 'Published at the Office, 334 Strand', n.d. [1848]. Buff paper wrappers, stiffened with yellow endpapers (? by W. Hamilton), over-printed in mustard yellow with lettering in reverse. On front there are four, on back one cut-out panel, in which drawings by Gavarni are printed in black. Vignette on title and numerous cuts in the text, after Gavarni. Eight full-page wood-engravings after Gavarni (one appearing as front.) are also in this copy, but have no relevance to the text and are Grangerisations. pp. iv + (48) [paged (i)-iv + (5)-52]

[3426]

This copy is bound in half leather, marbled boards, original wrappers preserved. It belonged to Walter Hamilton, editor of Parodies, 6 vols. 1884-1889 (see No. 1102 in Section 1), and contains his book-plate, his signature dated May 1886, and in his hand: 'Parody Collection (very scarce, no copy in B.M. Library) W.H.' He has made several notes in the text and pasted an extract from ' Parodies Part 45' on inside back end-paper. The dating given above is his. Note. The parodies, in prose and verse, are of Macaulay, Bulwer, Leigh Hunt, G. P. R. James, Disraeli, Dickens, T. K. Hervey, Lever, Tennyson, Carlyle, Thackeray, Ainsworth, Jerrold, Landor, Gilbert a Beckett, Charles Mackay, Mrs Trollope, Croker, Albert Smith and Coventry Patmore. AUTONYM LIBRARY

1894-1896

[3427]

Terra-cotta wrappers Is. 6d., buff linen 2s. This series ran to eighteen volumes and is more rarely met with than the Pseudonym Library on which it was modelled. The titles are listed in the English Catalogue. They include works by the following authors represented in the present work: Robert Buchanan, Marion Crawford, George Gissing, and Mrs Oliphant, which works are noted under their writers' names. A complete cloth set in very fine state is in the Collection. B A L Z A C , HONORÉ DE

(A) Y E L L O W - B A C K S Eugénie Grandet.

Routledge 1859.

[3428] Dark yellow-back pictorial boards. Small format. 13

BALZAC Country Doctor (The). Cousin Pons.

1886

Magic Skin (The) Père Goriot.

1887 [announced for inclusion in The Balzac Series, see below]

1888

1886 [English edition came out in 1878]

Apart from Eugenie Grandet, these are uniform large format yellow-backs, with conventional spine designs and inferior pictures on front covers. All published by Routledge. [3428 a]

(B) T H E B A L Z A C S E R I E S Vol. I. C É S A R B I R O T T E A U (translated by John Hawkins Simpson). Saunders, Otley & Co. 1860. Orange linen, printed in black. Series title and 'Vol. I ' appear on front cover and spine, pp. (viii) + (436) Fcap 8vo slip, printed in red, advertising The Constitutional Press Magazine, etc., and publishers' cat., 8 pp. dated January 1860, at end. Booksellers' ticket: 'Coombe, Worcester', inside front cover. Note. This cloth-bound volume is included with no justification beyond the desirability of keeping Balzac translations together. It is the only specimen of 'The Balzac Series' I have ever seen. The translator, in a Preface which ranks high among the moralising pomposities of the period, announces that his second volume will be The Country Doctor. Whether the book ever came out and, if so, what followed it, I do not know; but neither the B.M. nor Bodley show any trace of further volumes.

[3428 6]

(C) L O V E I N A M A S K (translated by Alice M. Ivimy) 'Copyright' A. M. Gardner & Co., I l l Shoe Lane, n.d. Coloured pictorial wrappers cut flush and lettered on front: 'The recently discovered Unpublished Novel by Honoré de Balzac.' Up-lettered on spine. Back cover printed with adverts. Half-title, pp. (128) Publishers' adverts., 6 pp. on text paper undated, at end. The translator's introduction states that this brief novel was first published in Paris in 1911, and the English edition probably appeared in 1912 or 1913. It is a degraded production of the 'rubber-shop' type.

[3429]

B A R H A M , R. H. ( ' I n g o l d s b y ' ) M y Cousin Nicholas. ' A New Edition.' Small format. Railway Library.

[3430]

BARING-GOULD, Arminell. Eve.

'Third Edition.'

fJohn Herring. fMehalah. Red Spider.

Methuen 1891.

'New Edition.'

'New Edition.'

Cream boards, printed in red-brown. Extra large format.

Pale yellow pictorial boards.

'New Edition.'

Smith, Elder 1890.

Smith, Elder 1892.

Smith, Elder 1892.

'New Edition.'

fRichard Cable.

Flame pictorial boards, cover drawing by Leech.

SABINE

Chatto & Windus 1890.

fGaverochs (The).

Routledge 1856.

Chatto & Windus 1890.

'New Edition.'

Yellow pictorial boards.

Smith, Elder 1891.

Note. Volumes marked "¡" are in the regulation style of Smith, Elder yellow-backs, with solid black and red design on spines. [3431]

B A R K E R , M. H. Nights at Sea and Other Yarns. Small format.

Henry Lea, n.d. [1857].

Ditto ('or Naval Life during the War'). Household and Railway Novels. Top Sail-Sheet Blocks. 'New Edition.' Small format. Railway Library. Warlock (The). 'New Edition.' drawn spine. Small format.

Bright yellow pictorial boards, specially drawn spine.

Ward, Lock & Tyler, n.d.

Yellow pictorial boards.

Routledge, Warne & Routledge 1859.

Routledge, Warne & Routledge 1860. 14

Small format.

Yellow pictorial boards.

Yellow pictorial boards, specially

BEDE BEDE, [3432]

CUTHBERT

(Edward Bradley)

A D V E N T U R E S OF MR V E R D A N T G R E E N (The): an Oxford Freshman Nathaniel Cooke (late Ingram, Cooke & Co.), Milford House 1853. Cream paper wrappers, cut flush, printed in red and black with portrait of the hero, fancy lettering and decoration after drawing by the author. Down-lettered on spine. Back cover printed with publisher's advert. Ninety wood-engraved illustrations in the text after drawings by the author, pp. iv + (124) I 4 -I 6 adverts. Spine renewed. Note. Published at one shilling. A Second Edition, issued in the same year, shows a changed imprint on front cover. In other respects the two wrappers are identical and the words 'Second Edition' appear only on the title page. The imprint on the First Edition is: L O N D O N : NATHANIEL

& co.) DON:

COOKE.

(LATE INGRAM,

COOKE

On the Second Edition it is: LON-

NATHANIEL

COOKE, MILFORD

HOUSE,

STRAND.

Also issued in maroon morocco cloth, pictorially blocked and lettered in gold. Spine unlettered. [3433]

[3434]

F U R T H E R A D V E N T U R E S OF M R V E R D A N T G R E E N (The): an Oxford UnderGraduate H . Ingram & Co., Milford House 1854. Cream paper wrappers, cut flush, printed in red and black in similar style to Adventures, but redesigned. Up-lettered on spine. Back cover printed with publishers' adverts, over the imprint: 'Office of the National Illustrated Library.' Wood-engraved front, and 49 illustrations in the text after drawings by the author. Half-title, pp. viii + ( H 2 ) H,H„ adverts. Fine. Published at one shilling. A second edition was issued in the same year and is identical in collation and appearance except that the wrapper is printed in green and red instead of black and red. The words 'Second Edition' appear only on the title page. MR

VERDANT GREEN MARRIED AND D O N E F O R : being the Third and Concluding Part of the Adventures of Mr Verdant Green, an Oxford Freshman James Blackwood, Paternoster R o w 1857. Cream paper wrappers, cut flush, printed in red and green with vignette of Cupid after a drawing by the author, type-set lettering and adverts, even on front cover and spine. Inside covers also printed with adverts. Numerous woodengraved illustrations in the text after drawings by the author. Four leaves of adverts, on thin paper precede title, pp. iv +112 Eight pages of adverts, on text paper (paged 9-24), followed by 4 unpaged leaves of adverts, on thin paper, at end. 15

Published at one shilling. Spine imperfect and back cover chipped. First leaf of adverts, at beginning pasted down to front cover. L I T T L E MR BOUNCER A N D HIS FRIEND, VERDANT GREEN James Blackwood, 8 Lovell's Court, n.d. [1873]. Brown-orange bubble-grain cloth, blocked and lettered in gold. Numerous illustrations by the author on text paper. Half-title, pp. 200 Publisher's cat., 32 pp. undated, at end. Ink initials: ' W . H . A . ' , on fly-leaf. Very fine. Note. This book was also issued in wrappers.

[3435]

L O V E ' S P R O V O C A T I O N S ; being E x t r a c t s . . . from the Diary of Miss Polly C Ward & Lock 1855. Cream paper wrappers, cut flush, lithographed in red and green with a design by the author. Up-lettered on spine. Back cover, inside covers and end-papers printed with adverts. Wood-engraved front, and illustrations in the text after drawings by the author, all on text paper, pp. 104

[3436]

Published at one shilling. MEDLEY James Blackwood, Paternoster R o w 1856. Cream paper wrappers, cut flush, printed in Ted and dark blue with drawing and fancy lettering after design by the author, and dated. Up-lettered on spine. Back cover printed with publisher's adverts. Wood-engraved front, and decorative title (undated), no printed title, and 27 illustrations in the text after drawings by the author, all on text paper.

[3437]

pp. (112) [mispaged 114] T w o leaves of adverts., publishers' and commercial, at end. Published at one shilling.

Fine.

M O T L E Y : Prose and Verse: Grave and Gay James Blackwood, Paternoster R o w 1855. Cream paper wrappers, cut flush, printed in blue and black with drawing and fancy lettering after design by the author. Up-lettered on spine. Outside back cover printed with adverts. Woodengraved front, and pictorial title (preceding printed title) and numerous illustrations in the text after drawings by the author. Half-title, pp. (viii) + (106) Final leaf, H s , a single inset, carrying an illustration on recto and blank on verso. Published at one shilling.

[3438]

N E A R E R A N D D E A R E R : a Tale out of School: a Novelette Bentley 1857. Cream paper boards, printed in scarlet and black with a design and fancy

[3439]

BEBE lettering on front and spine after a drawing by the author. Front cover design repeated on back cover. Wood-engraved front, and numerous illustrations (5 full-page and many in the text) after drawings by the author. Half-title, pp. (x) [paged as (viii)] + (184) N t imprint leaf. Ink signature: 'G. F. Truscott', inside front cover.

pp. (iv) + (128) Fine. Notes, (i) I have seen back-cover advert, in two settings—one much larger than the other, (ii) This book contains parodies of Mrs Gore, Tennyson, Thackeray, Disraeli, Lady Blessington, Lord Carlisle and other contributors to The Book of Beauty.

[3440]

S H I L L I N G B O O K OF B E A U T Y (The). Edited and illustrated by Cuthbert Bede James Blackwood, n.d. [1858 or 1859]. White wrappers, cut flush, printed in pale blue and red with design and fancy lettering after a drawing by the'editor'. Down-lettered on spine. Back cover printed with adverts. Wood-engraved front., pictorial title and numerous text illustrations after drawings by the 'editor'.

T A L E S OF C O L L E G E L I F E C. H. Clarke 1856. White paper wrappers cut flush, printed in red and dark blue with design and fancy lettering. End-papers printed with adverts. Up-lettered on spine. Back cover advertises publications of David Bryce. Spine defective. pp. (120) [mispaged (i)-vi + (9)-(120)] H5H6 adverts. (See 3605 (6) below.)

[3442]

B E S A N T , WALTER (and B E S A N T & R I C E ) All in pictorial boards, yellow or white, published by Chatto & Windus and all described as 'New Edition' unless otherwise stated. Large format. All in a Garden Fair

1885

All Sorts and Conditions of Men Bell of St Paul's (The)

1891

Beyond the Dreams of Avarice By Celia's Arbour

City of Refuge (The)

1898

Seamy Side (The) (B. & R.) 1884

This Son of Vulcan (B. & R.)

n.d. n.d.

T'was in Trafalgar's Bay and other Stories (B. & R.)

1886

1887 1891

Golden Butterfly (The) (B. & R.)

Uncle Jack, etc. 1886 1886

Verbena, Camellia, Stephanotis, etc.

1890

Monks of Thelema (The) (B. & R.), [3443]

Revolt of Man (The)

1899

For Faith and Freedom Herr Paulus

1897

n.d.

Chaplain of the Fleet (The) Dorothy Forster

Ready-Money Mortiboy (B. & R.). Extra large format. ' A New Edition with a Frontispiece.' Chatto & Windus 1877 on title; Henry S. King on spine and back cover.

1887

With Harp and Crown (B. & R.) n.d.

1894

n.d.

World Went Very Well Then (The)

1889

B E N N E T T , JOHN REVELATIONS

OF A S L Y

PARROT

Ward & Lock n.d. [early '60s]. Yellow pictorial boards. Small format. Numerous text illustrations, pp. viii+ 312. Bennett is described on title as author of Tom, Fox (3535 below), Family Mysteries, Night and Day and Career of an Artful Dodger (3503 below), which authorships are now first established. [3444] PI. 7

BENTLEY'S RAILROAD

L I B R A R Y (alias 'Bentley's Shilling Series')

1851-1854

Published in fcap 8vo and bound in bright green boards pictorially printed in brown, up-lettered on spine, back cover printed with adverts. The series title on front cover is B E N T L E Y ' S S H I L L I N G S E R I E S , but facing title B E N T L E Y ' S R A I L R O A D L I B R A R Y . Like the rest of Bentley's (remarkably few) board issues, the books were fragile, and are rarely seen in fine state. Only the titles asterisked are in the Collection. Those in caps are first book editions or first editions in English. Original publication dates of reprints are given in brackets. The binding was changed to one of glazed yellow wrappers printed in black, with (or approximately with) No. 18. The numbering is mine, as the volumes are not numbered in series. 16

[3441]

BLACKMORE 1

1851 [1840]

Comic English Grammar

12

2 *Notes on Noses (anon; by George Jabet) 1851 (dated 1852) [1848 as 'Naseology by Eden Warwick'] 3

TURF

CHARACTERS

(anon; by James White)

14

Martin Toutrond (Morier) ('THE 1852

1852 [1848]

5

N I G H T S AT SEA M. H. B A R K E R )

OLD

SAILOR',

6

LOSS OF THE AMAZON S T E A M - V E S S E L

i.e.

8 Glimpse at the (Cunynghame)

(anon)

1852 [1847]

Great Western 1852 [1851]

Broad Grins from China (Sealy) as The Porcelain Tower]

SHILLING

BENTLEY'S

OF T H E

1853 REIGN

OF CHARLES

IX

1853

17

John Drayton (Oliphant)

1853 [1851]

18

Stella and Vanessa (de Wailly)

1853 [1850]

19

Ned Myers (edited by Cooper)

1853 [1843]

1852 [1841

21

Stanley Thorn (Cockton)

1853 [1841]

22

Basil (Collins)

23

Lord and Lady [1850]

24

Rubber of Life (Dalton Barham) with My Cousin Nicholas]

1854 [1852] Harcourt

(Sinclair)

1854

1854 [1841,

SERIES

See B E N T L E Y ' S R A I L R O A D [3445]

COLUMBA (MÉRIMÉE) CHRONICLE

1853 [1850] (yellow wrappers)

1 1 »Pictures of Life at Home and Abroad (Albert Smith) 1852 [1848, extracted from The Wassail Bowl] BENTLEY'S

15 16

1852

20 »Two Brothers (from the German of M . Raven

Republic

9 »Comic Tales and Sketches (Albert Smith) 1852 [1848, extracted from The Wassail Bowl] 10

B R I L L I A N T M A R R I A G E (A) ( C A R L E N )

(MÉRIMÉE)

1852 7 *Border Tales (Maxwell)

1852

13 »Battle of Waterloo (Creasy) 1852 [Extracted, with additions, from The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, 1851]

1851 (dated 1852) 4

Sketches of English Character (Gore) [1846]

LIBRARY

T W O S H I L L I N G S E R I E S (fiction a n d non-fiction)

1857-1858

Published in square 8vo and bound in flat-backed boards with (in some cases) pictorial covers by Crowquill and others. This is a curiously uncommon series and, owing to the fragile boards used for casing, is, when found, generally in poor condition. Only the three titles asterisked are in the Collection and most of the remainder I have never seen. Titles in caps are first editions. The books were also issued in cloth a t 8s. The numbering is mine, as the volumes are not numbered in series. 1

It's Never Too Late to Mend (Reade). Edition.' 1857 [1856]

'New

2

»THE COURSE OF T R U E LOVE (READE)

1857.

7

Our Antipodes (Mundy)

8

Confessions of a Thug (Meadows

3

Delhi (Mrs John Mackenzie) 1857 [1853]

4

Roughing it in the Bush (Mrs Moodie) [1852]

6 [3446]

»NEARER

1857.

AND

DEARER

See 3439 above.

Taylor)

1857 [1839]

See 2001 in Section I.

5

1857 [1852]

(CUTHBERT

9

1857

10

BEDE)

11 12

Conquest of Canada (Warburton) 1857 [1849]

Aspen Court (Shirley Brooks) The Initials (Tautphoeus) The Cardinal (Boyd) »GHOST

STORIES

(FRISWELL)

1857 [1855]

1858 [1850]

1858 [1854]

AND

PHANTOM

FANCIES

1858. See 909 in Section I.

B L A C K M O R E , R. D. Cradock Nowell. 'New and Cheaper Edition.' Sampson Low 1893. Very pale blue pictorial boards. Lorna Doone. ' 33rd edition.' Sampson Low 1889. Uniform pictorial boards. Volumes in Low's Standard Novels, the first presenting the revised text of 1873. SCFII

17

BLACKWOOD'S [3447]

LONDON

LIBRARY

B L A C K W O O D ' S L O N D O N L I B R A R Y (published b y James B l a c k w o o d , Paternoster R o w ) 1855-1858 or 1859 (thereafter a hotch-potch) This seldom-seen series started as a collection of new works, fiction and otherwise, but soon degenerated into a more or less ordinary series of yellow-back reprints of popular titles. In the list which follows, titles in caps are those which I know to be first (or first English) editions; those in caps and I.e. are certainly or probably reprints; those asterisked are not in the Collection. The numbering is taken from the back cover of No. (?) 22 and was later modified. Only one of the volumes described is numbered, but all but one carry the series title on front cover. All save one are of small format. All back covers are printed with adverts. 1 » L I V I N G F O B A P P E A R A N C E S , b y the B R O T H E R S MAYHEW 2

STANHOPE

edition)

BURLEIGH,

by

HELEN

DHU

11 »Hargrave, by Mrs Trollope

[Charles Edward Lester] Copy I : First Edition. 1855. Pink boards, printed in black with a design after McConnell. Wood-engraved front, and pictorial title after McConnell precede printed title.

PI. 4

Half-title

reading:

L I B R A R Y . / 2.

12 »The Robertses on Their Travels, by Trollope 14 »Men of Capital, by Mrs Gore

BLACKWOOD'S / L O N D O N

pp. xii + 260

3 * K I T T Y L A M E RE, b y A U G U S T U S M A Y H E W

1855

4 »The Duchess of Mazarin (? first issue of this version) 5 Basil, by Wilkie Collins 1856 6 *The Two Brothers, by M . Raven 7 *The Husband in Utah, by Maria Ward

WONDERFUL COLE

IN

ADVENTURES

MANY

LANDS

OF

(Edited

MRS by

15 »Preferment, by Mrs Gore 16 »The ManEnglish Aboutedition) Town, by Cornelius Webbe (? first 17 »The Absent Man, by Cornelius Webbe (? first English edition) 18 *De Clifford, by Plumer Ward 19 »The Mysterious Parchment, by J. Wakeman (?)20 The Captain's Daughter and the Queen of Spades (no author given) (?) 21

T H E C A V A L I E R S A N D F R E E L A N C E S OF N E W

SPAIN, by Gabriel Ferry, n.d. [1858 or 1859]. Pictorial deep-salmon-coloured boards. pp. (iv) + (224) O, adverts. Publishers' cat., 8 pp. undated, at end. Yellow slips advertising books tipped on to front fly-leaf and inside back cover. Pencil signature: 'Charles Penruddock, Compton Park', on title. (?)22

H O W I T A M E D MRS C R U I S E R , b y Geo. A u g u s t u s

Sala. n.d. [1858 or 1859]. Pictorial yellow boards. Wood-engraved front., 5 full-page illustrations and a vignette after Phiz, all on text paper. The drawings on front cover and spine are also by Phiz and are not repeated in the book. Half-title, pp. (192) N 3 N 4 adverts., Publisher's cat., 16 pp. undated, on text paper at end. Outside back cover lists Nos. 1-19 of Blackwood's London Library, which numbering has been here adopted. Note. There were several re-issues of this book, with lengthening series lists on back covers and slowly vanishing illustrations.

8 »The Ghost Seer, by Schiller 9

Mrs

13 »The Three Cousins, by Mrs Trollope

Copy I I : Fifth Thousand, under new title and with new cover, n.d. Pictorial yellow-back boards, with title reading: THE JESUITS IN OUR HOMES on front and spine. Internally the book is still pictorially-titled Stanhope Burleigh and is identical with Copy I except (a) there is no half-title, (b) the printed title reads: Stanhope Burleigh, or The Jesuits in our Homes, and is undated. This is the first English edition of an American novel published in New York in the same year.

PL 4

10 »Costal by Gabriel Ferry (probably first English

1855

SEAW.J.S.

With a Preface by W . H. Russell) 1857 Pictorial yellow-back boards, not carrying series title. Double spread wood-engraved front, precedes title. Publishers' cat., 8 pp. undated, precedes half-title. It is on text-paper and actually part of first sheet, but is not reckoned in the pagination. pp. xii + 200 Rubber stamp: 'J. R. Molineux', on front cover and title.

Finally, the adverts, at the end of No. (?) 22 show that by 1859 the series also included: The Woman Hater, by Capt. A . F . Clarence; The Autobiography and Letters of Lola Montez; The Arts of Beauty, b y 18

BOISGOBEY Lola Montez; Adventures on the Mosquito Shore, by S. A. Bard, and Tales from the Operas, edited by G. F. Pardon. From this point I can no longer attempt to give the sequence of titles in this series. The publisher's adverts, become disordered and, as earlier volumes go out of print, he re-numbers those which are left. Different lists were issued in 1865, 1873 and 1874 and maybe still more frequently. In one case 71 titles are given, of which some certainly appeared in ordinary yellow-back form without series affiliation, and I suspect Blackwood came to use his ' London Library' as a convenient label for all his cheap issues. There are three more items in the collection which carry the series title on front covers but cannot be numbered. These are: Sea Drift, by Admiral Hercules Robinson. (Third Thousand.) n.d. (No. 18 in the 1873 list and 19 in the 1874 list above referred to.) Second Love, by Mrs Trollope. 1875. (No. 33 in the lists of Blackwood's London Library above referred to.) [3448]

BLENKINSOP,

Wanderings of a Pilgrim, by G. B. Cheever. n.d. (No. 22 in the lists of Blackwood's London Library above referred to, but of large format and probably dating from the early '80s.)

ADAM

Larry Lynch or Paddiana. 'New Edition.' C. H. Clarke, n.d. Originally published as Paddiana in 2 vols. 1847. BOHN'S CHEAP

SERIES

Yellow pictorial boards.

Small format.

1851-1855

[3449]

T H E H O U S E OF T H E S E V E N G A B L E S :

a Romance, by N A T H A N I E L H A W T H O K N E . 1851 (Series No. 31) Bright green glazed boards printed in dark blue and red. Series title on front and list of series (ending at No. 31) on back cover. Up-lettered on spine. End-papers printed in blue. 'Price one shilling.' pp. (viii) + (256) pp. (iii)-vi carry an Author's Preface dated 'Lenox. January 27, 1851'. Book-label of John Bell Sedgwick. ? First English edition. First American edition published in same year.

[3450]

TWICE TOLD TALES,

[3451]

W O L F E R T ' S BOOST A N D OTHER TALES,

by N A T H A N I E L H A W T H O R N E . 'New Edition.' 1851 (Series No. 35) Bright green glazed boards printed in dark blue. Series title on front and list of series (ending at No. 35) on back cover. Up-lettered on spine. End-papers printed in blue. 'Price one shilling.' pp. vi + 176 Publishers' cat., 32 pp. undated, at end. pp. (iii)-vi carry an Author's Preface dated 'Lenox. January 11, 1851'.

by W A S H I N G T O N I B V I N G . 'Now first collected.' 1855 Bright green glazed boards printed in black. 'Fine Edition. Price 1/6.' At front and back are publishers' adverts., printed in blue and treated as multiple end-papers. In front these are paged 2b-Sb, (16) pasted down to front cover; at back le-7e, (8e) pasted down to back cover. Engraved portrait front. Blank leaf and half-title precede title, pp. (viii) [paged vi] + 280 'Author's Edition' on title. Book-label of John Bell Sedgwick. ? First authorised English edition. See below No. 3599.

BOHN'S S H I L L I N G SERIES

1850

or the History of a Servant Girl, by A L P H O N S E D E L A M A R T I N E (translated by A. R. Scoble) 1850 (Series No. 25) Bright green glazed boards printed in dark blue and red. Series title on front and list of series (ending at No. 25) on back cover. Up-lettered on spine. A 'double volume', price Is. 6d. End-papers printed in blue. ? First English edition. French First edition published in same year. Half-title, pp. (xlii) [paged (xl)] + (180) Publishers' cat., 32 pp. undated, at end.

GENEVIEVE,

[3453]

BOISGOBEY,

FORTUNÉ

DE

I. Vizetelly Shilling Edition. Published at one shilling each, in orange-scarlet or crimson wrappers, uniform with the novels of Gaboriau (3556). Unless otherwise stated, pale blue printed end-papers. N o series number on covers, but each volume numbered on title. Titles asterisked are not in the Collection. 19

BOISGOBEY 1

THE

OLD

AGE

OF

LECOQ,

THE

DETECTIVE,

16

HIS GREAT REVENGE.

17

THE

18

A RAILWAY TRAGEDY

2 vols. 'Thirtieth Thousand.' 1887 Crimson wrappers, entitled on front: 'The Gaboriau & Boisgobey Sensational Novels.' Priced as well as lettered on spine. Plain white end-papers. Back covers plain. Note. I have seen a re-issue of this by Richard Butterworth n.d. printed from Vizetelly plates on cheap paper and bound in green cloth.

19

THE PHANTOM LEG

20

THIEVING FINGERS

HAND. 'Twentieth Thousand.' 1886 [Later issued by Richard Butterworth, 16/17 Devonshire Square, E.C. at 6d. in similar wrappers, but unlettered on spine.]

23

THE GOLDEN TRESS

24

THE

25

FERNANDE'S

and An Omnibus Mystery. tieth Thousand.' 1886

2

1885

4

'Twen-

'Tenth Thousand.'

IN THE SERPENT'S COILS.

3

2 vols.

THE DAY OF RECKONING.

21

5

BERTHA'S SECRET

6

WHO D I E D LAST?

7

THE

CRIME

1885

OPERA

HOUSE.

2 vols.

1886 8

THE MATAPAN AFFAIR

9

THE FIGHT FOR A FORTUNE

10

2 vols.

1886 1886

or The Idol of Modern Paris.

T H E G O L D E N PIG,

1886

11

PRETTY BABIOLE

12

THE THUMB STROKE

13

THE CORAL PIN.

14

THE JAILER'S PRETTY WIFE

1886

15

THE ANGEL OF THE CHIMES

1886

1887

NECKLACE

(1887). 3710 (3) below.

*THE

1887 AND C E C I L E ' S

FOR-

and

LOT-

For Genie's

DETECTIVE'S

EYE

Fortune

THE

RED

see

(1887) 1887

RED BAND. 2 vols. 'The 'Edition']. only Unabridged Translation' [on cover: 1887 CHOICE

1887 (very pale green

26

T H E N A M E L E S S MAN

1887

27

THE RED CAMELLIA.

2 Vols.

28

THE

29

WHERE'S

30

SAVED

31

THE

FATAL

32

THE

MYSTERIES

1886 (white end-papers) 1886

2 Vols.

STEEL

1887

end-papers)

or The Rightful Heir 1885

OF THE

*THE

TERY TICKET

THE SEVERED

1887

COLONEL.

TUNE

22

2 Vols.

'Twentieth Thousand.' 1887 (plain white end-papers) CONVICT

1886

RESULTS OF green end-papers)

A DUEL

ZENOBIA?

green end-papers)

1887 1888 (very pale

2 vols.

1888 (very pale

FROM THE HAREM. 2 vols. 1888 Vol. I : very pale green end-papers; Vol. I I : yellow end-papers)

end-papers)

LEGACY

OF

1888 (very pale green NEW

PARIS.

1888 (plain white end-papers)

2 Vols.

II. Parisian Library. Published by J . & R . Maxwell at one shilling, in white paper wrappers, printed in red, green and black. Series title on front. Back-wrappers printed with adverts. D E A T H OR D I S H O N O U R

[Jean Coupe-en-deux];

CASH ON D E L I V E R Y

[Rubis sur VOngle] etc. See below 3649.

For Boisgobey see also 3454 and 3710.

[3454] PI. 5

B O U L E V A R D N O V E L S (The)

1885-1888

9 vols. Vizetelly. Published at half a crown in morocco paper boards of various colours, blocked in gold and other colours with a daring picture of a roguish young person, considerably décolletée and reading a book in the most uncomfortable position imaginable, these volumes are among the richest absurdities of their kind. Series title appears on front cover, spine, half-title and title, and the volumes are numbered on the title. All, I believe, are first English translations. The title asterisked is not in the Collection. 20

BRADDON 1

NANA'S

DAUGHTER:

Half-title, pp. (208) Publisher's cat., 32 pp. dated September 1886, at end.

a Story of Parisian Life,

by ALFRED SIRVEN and HENRI

LEVERDIER.

With a letter from the authors to Emile Zola 1885 Plum boards, blocked in gold, black and blue. Cream end-papers. Advert, leaf and half-title precede title, pp. (292) [paged (288)] I19 adverts. Publisher's cat., 24 pp. dated April 1886, at end. 2

PI.

5

8

5

6

G U A R D : a Picture of Paris MoTals and Manners, by V A S T - R I C O U A R D 1886 Dark purple boards, blocked in gold, scarlet and black; grey-green end-papers. Half-title, pp. 248 MARRIAGE,

by

ALBERT

7

DELPIT

8

1886 Deep-sea-blue-green boards, blocked in gold, scarlet and chocolate; grey-green end-papers. Half-title, pp. 200 Publishers' cat., 24 pp. dated April 1886, at end. 4

THE

WOMAN

OF

FIRE,

by

ADOLFHE

1887

S E A L E D L I P S , b y F. D U B O I S G O B E Y

1887

Deep-sea-blue-green boards, blocked in gold, scarlet and chocolate; dark milky-green end-papers. Half-title, pp. 288 Publisher's cat., 32 pp. dated March 1887, at end.

THE YOUNG

ODETTE'S

T H E V I R G I N W I D O W , b y A. M A T T H E Y

Purple boards, blocked in gold, scarlet and black; grey-green end-papers. Half-title, pp. (260) Publisher's cat., 32 pp. dated September 1886, at end.

*A L A D Y ' S M A N , b y G U Y D E A

WOMAN'S

LIFE,

by

GUY

MAUPASSANT DE

MAUPASSANT

1888 Purple boards, blocked in gold, scarlet and black; dark blue-green end-papers. Half-title, pp. (256) K16 K16 adverts. Publisher's cat., 32 pp. dated September 1887, at end. 9

BELOI

A M Y S T E R Y S T I L L , b y F. D U B O I S G O B E Y

1888

Deep-sea-blue-green boards, blocked in gold, scarlet and chocolate; dark chocolate end-papers. Half-title pp.272

1886 Plum boards, blocked in gold, chocolate and blue; grey-green end-papers.

Notes, (i) Facing title in Nos. 6-9, under a list of the series, is printed a ' quote ' from The Academy : 'Messrs Maxwell cannot vie with Messrs Vizetelly in the get-up of their translations from the French.' It is no longer considered good form (indeed it might well lead to unpleasantness) for one publisher to print in his books remarks which disparage the publications of another, (ii) Although other volumes are announced as 'in preparation' I cannot state for certain whether more were published. B.M. Cat. records Vols. 1-5, 8 and 9, and I think probably this represents the limit of the series. B R A D D O N , M. E. [3455]

Series I: Small Format. All in pictorial boards, published by Ward, Lock & Tyler, and described as ' Stereotyped Edition' unless otherwise stated. Birds of Prey

n.d.

John Marchmont's Legacy 'Revised Edition.' n.d.

Captain of the Vulture

n.d.

Lucius Davoren

Charlotte's Inheritance

n.d.

Open Verdict (An) John & Robert Maxwell Taken at the Flood n.d.

Dead Men's Shoes. (No statement of edition.) 1876 Fenton's Quest

[3455 a]

1878

To the Bitter End John Maxwell & Co. 1873. Trail of the Serpent (The) (No statement of edition.) 1867

n.d.

Hostages to Fortune

n.d.

n.d.

Series II: Large Format. All in pictorial boards, published by Maxwell or Simpkin, Marshall, and mostly described as 'Stereotyped Edition' and undated, unless otherwise stated. Asphodel.

(No statement of edition.)

Golden Calf (The)

Aurora Floyd

Henry Dunbar

Birds of Prey

Ishmael

Eleanor's Victory

Just as I am

Gerard

Joshua Haggard's Daughter

1892 21

1893

BRADDON Lady Audley's Secret

Sons of Fire

Lost for Love

Thou Art the Man

Lucius Davoren

1893

Under Love's Rule

Mohawks

Venetians (The)

One Life One Love

1891

1893

Vixen

Only a Clod

'•Edited, by the author of Lady Audley's Secret' Put to the Test (by Ada Buisson). Ward, Lock & Tyler 1876

Ralph the Bailiff and other Stories Rupert Godwin [3455 6] Series HI: Cloth Edition. Small Format. Edition.'

One Thing Needful (with front.). 'Stereotyped Edition.' Maxwell (1886). Green.

Simpkin,

Rough Justice. Simpkin 1899.

' Stereotyped

Edition.'

Sons of Fire. ' Stereotyped Edition.' Simpkin, n.d. Red.

Mohawks (with front.). 'Stereotyped Maxwell (1887). Green.

Edition.'

Thou Art the Man. 'Stereotyped Edition.' Simpkin, n.d. Red.

Mount Royal. 'Stereotyped Edition.' n.d. Green.

Maxwell,

Venetians. Red.

All

Along the Simpkin, n.d.

River. Red.

'Stereotyped

Golden Calf. 'Stereotyped 1891. Red. Lady Audley's Secret. Simpkin, 1891. Red.

Edition.'

BRAY,

MRS A N N A

'Stereotyped Edition.'

Simpkin, 1893.

Vixen. ' Stereotyped Edition.' Maxwell, n.d. Green.

One Life One Love. ' Stereotyped Edition.' Simpkin 1891. Red. [3456]

Red.

Wyllard's Weird (with front.). Maxwell, n.d. Green.

ELIZA

Fitz of Fitz-Ford: a Legend of Devon. 'A New Edition, Revised and Corrected. With Notes by the Author' Longman etc. 1845. Yellow decorated boards with series design for 'Bray's Novels and Romances'; uplettered on spine; list of 10 vols, in this series at Is. 6d. each on back cover. Engraved front, and vignette title after Stothard. Small format. Note. This edition was originally published in cloth. The board issue probably dates from the mid-fifties. [3457]

B R E E Z Y L I B R A R Y (The)

1893

Published at one shilling b y Raphael Tuck & Sons, this series according to a publishers' note was ' a n a t t e m p t to dissociate a shilling from a shocker and to supply a series of "Shilling Soothers", especially in the matter of paper, print and cover. The book in fact will be as much a work of art as the story.' Certainly considerable (if mis-directed) pains were taken to produce an unusual piece of book-making. The volumes are in stiff glazed cream paper wrappers, cut flush and unlettered on spine and back. The front cover is pictorially printed and lettered in white, pale green, pink and gold—the detail being raised in bas-relief, as on many Christmas cards. At the foot of the design is printed: 'Designed a t the Studios in England and completed in cameo in Saxony.' I am only aware of two titles in the series, each with a half-tone portrait front, signed in facsimile; a coloured illustration of a sylvan Christmas-cardy kind and half-tone illustrations in the text. 1

'MERELY MARY ANN',

2

SUMMER CLOUDS

by

ISKAEL ZANGWILL.

and Other Stories, by

Illustrated by Mark Zangwill.

EDEN PHILLPOTTS.

Illustrations by Harold Copping.

No. 2 (not in the Collection) is announced at the end of No. 1, b u t itself contains no announcement of a f u t u r e volume. 22

BULWERLYTTON [3458]

BROUGH,

R O B E R T B.

a Romance. And Other Tales in Prose and Verse Ward & Lock 1860. Pictorial yellow-back boards. Numerous wood-engraved illustrations on text paper after McConnell, Kenny Meadows, H. G. Hine and T. Macquoid. Small format, pp. (iv) [paged ii] + (332) Note. What I take to be the first issue has boards of primrose yellow and the back cover advert, begins with Marston Lynch and Ulf the Minstrel. A later binding in darker yellow boards has back advert, beginning with The Hooded Snake and including Miss Brown itself.

MISS BKOWN:

[3459]

BROUGHTON,

RHODA

N o t Wisely but Too Well (by the author of 'Cometh Up as a Flower'). 'New Edition'

Tinsley 1871. Yellow pictorial and decorated boards. 'Tinsley's Cheap Novels' on front cover and list of Tinsley's Two Shilling volumes on back cover. Chapman & Hall end-papers.

[3460]

BULWER LYTTON,

EDWARD

Edition I: Routledge's Railway Library. All, unless otherwise stated, in pale green boards printed in dark blue, with conventional design and lettering. Author's name ' Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton Bart' on front, 'Bulwer' on spine; series title on both front and spine. End-papers and back covers printed with adverts. Small format. Devereux 1855

Night and Morning 1854

Disowned 1855

Pelham 1854

Ernest Maltravers 1854

Rienzi 1854

Harold 1855

What Will He D o With It? 'A New Edition.'

Leila and Calderon the Courtier. one page, undated and written for this edition.

Lucretia

unsigned—probably

1855

My Novel. [3460a]

2 vols. 1864 These volumes belong to a later period of the Railway Library, and are in pictorial yellowback boards with spine design of sword and lyre uniform with that earlier used on Edition II, below. Author's name: 'Bulwer Lytton', on front only, and series title on front.

1855. Preface—

2 vols. 1855

Edition II. Yellow-back pictorial boards, spine design of sword and lyre. Author's name on front: 'Bulwer Lytton', and ditto on spine. End-papers printed with adverts. Small format. Last Days of Pompeii. 'A New Edition.' 1858 Pilgrims of the Rhine. 'A New Edition.' 1866 Leila and The Pilgrims of the Rhine.

Zanoni.

'A New Edition.' 1858

'New Edition.' n.d.

This is a later issue than the foregoing, though still small format. 'Lord Lytton', on front and spine.

[3460 &]

Same spine design.

Author's name:

Edition HI. Yellow-back pictorial boards, spine conventional and uniform, with 'Lord Lytton's Novels' in a circle. End-papers printed with adverts. Small format. Undated (about 1876). Falkland and Zicci Kenelm Chillingley

Night and Morning. Pelham.

'A New Edition.'

Edition IV. Front cover and spine specially designed by Walter Crane, printed in black and cream [3460 c] PI. 6 on boards, coloured either brown, green or blue. Author's name: 'Lord Lytton', on front and spine. Full-page advert, pasted on to some back covers, printed on others. End-papers printed with adverts. Large format. All but one undated [1878]. 23

BULWERLYTTON Caxtons (The)

Lucretia

Coining R a c e (The)

M y Novel.

2 vols. (Vol. II lacking from the Collec-

tion) Devereux Disowned (The) Night and Morning Ernest Maltravers Parisians (The). 2 vols. Eugene Aram Paul Clifford Godolphin Pelham Kenelm Chillingley Rienzi Last Days of Pompeii (The) Strange Story, A Last of the Barons (The) What Will He Do With It? Leila, Calderon and Pilgrims of the Rhine 1878 Zanoni. Note. This edition was re-issued circa [1885] in slightly larger format and with Publishers' New York address: '9 Lafayette Place', instead of '416 Broome Street'.

[3461]

B U L W E R Cheveley.

[3462]

LYTTON, Weldon, n.d.

ROSINA Cream pictorial boards.

B U N G E N E R , L. L O U I S F E L I X

Wolf and His Prey, The: or The Priest and the Huguenot. Dean & Son, n.d. Yellow pictorial boards, specially designed down-lettered spine.

[3463]

Small format.

BURNS' F I R E S I D E L I B R A R Y 1845 Published by James Burns, Portman Street, at prices from sixpence to three shillings, the volumes of the Fireside Library are fiction and non-fiction, new works (or translations) and reprints. The specimen in the Collection appears to be the only fictional first edition originally written in English. by the Rev. W . Gresley. 1845 Cream wrappers printed in dark blue and red, on front with all-over design incorporating series title, book title, imprint and 'Price Three Shillings', on back with book title surrounded by fancy frame. Unlettered spine. Wood-engraved front., vignette title and tail-piece very finely engraved by Branston after W. H. Prior.

F R A N K ' S F I R S T T R I P TO T H E C O N T I N E N T ,

pp. vi + 290 Final leaf, CCj, a single inset. Publisher's cat., 12 pp. undated, at end. Note. This volume is produced with considerable care, though the un-lettered spine suggests a certain naïveté of inexperience. Burns published books of an improving kind, and a lavish use of Gothic letter gives this specimen of his work an ecclesiastical tinge. In the prospectus of The Fireside Series at the end of the volume he announces a plan I have nowhere else seen candidly admitted. He proposes to include in the Series several of his former publications which were too highly priced to reach the big public. But these re-issues will not only be more cheaply produced; they will undergo ' occasional retrenchments in matter, while the editions originally published will remain on sale in their full form at the usual prices. In this way the views of all classes of readers will be met.' [3464]

C A I N E , HALL

[3465]

CARLETON,

Both Chatto & Windus, in pictorial boards, one yellow, one ivory. Large format. Deemster (The) 'Twenty-fourth Edition.' 1896 Shadow of a Crime. 'New Edition.' 1894 WILLIAM

Irish Life and Character

Henry Lea, n.d. [circ. 1855]. Yellow pictorial boards, after Phiz. This volume, printed from the plates of Tales and Sketches of the Irish Peasantry 1845 (Section I : 515), omits the final essay dealing with Second Sight.

Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry

Routledge 1853. Pale green glazed boards, pictorially printed in dark green. Printed end-papers. Two wood-engravings after Phiz. This volume contains only three stories : The Station—The Party Fight and Funeral—The Hedge School. 24

CLARKE'S

CABINET

SERIES

Valentine McClutchy, the Irish Agent, and Solomon M'Slime, his Religious Attorney. 'Eighth Edition' Dublin: James Duffy & Co. n.d. [middle '60s]. Yellow pictorial boards. Wood-engraved front, and vignette title after George Measom. The front, is reproduced in colours on front cover. Spine title reads: T H E I R I S H A G E N T A N D H I S E E L I G I O U S A T T O R N E Y B Y C A R L E T O N , and binders' imprint: 'Morison & Co., Dublin', appears at base of spine. Small format. Willy Reilly and His Dear Colleen Bawn: a Tale Founded Upon Fact. Routledge, n.d. Yellow pictorial boards. [3466]

C H A M B E R S ' J O U R N A L , TALES FROM

'Author's Copyright Edition.'

1884-1885

Published a t 6d., small sq. 8vo, in lilac wrappers cut flush, printed in purple and with series name on front and spine, this venture was presumably inspired b y the example of Blackwood's Magazine and Bentley's Miscellany. There was no cloth issue. Of the first 8 titles (? the complete series) only Nos. 1 (The Silver Lever, b y David Christie Murray) and 6 (Chewton Abbot, b y H u g h Conway) carried authors' names, the rest being collections of anonymous tales. The only specimen in the Collection is No. 8, The Arab Wife, 1885. Note. Thirty years earlier t h a n the above was issued another series of ' Tales from Chambers'. Sufficient evidence of this undertaking is not available to justify m y treating it as an item on its own, b u t t h e following particulars are appended as a note to the 1885 series, so t h a t the previous venture is at least on record. I t would appear t h a t during the early fifties stories from Chambers' Miscellany and a few other periodicals were issued b y Messrs Chambers of Edinburgh in 32 pp. numbers, each with a wood-engraved vignette a t the head of p. 1 and paginated separately. Whether the individual numbers were wrappered, and if so what general title was given to them, I do not know. The price was probably Id. or 2d. per number. I n 1855 (according to the English Catalogue) five selections of these stories were bound u p in cloth volumes for regular bookshop sale, and one such volume is in the Collection. This volume, bound in grey-purple morocco cloth, blocked in blind and gold-lettered on spine: T A L E S / F O R / R O A D / A N D / R A I L , opens with a 4 pp. prelim.—title (reading: T A L E S F O R R O A D A N D R A I L F R O M C H A M B E R S M I S C E L L A N Y and imprinted W . & R . Chambers, London and Edinburgh 1855,) verso: Contents and verso. I t then offers, from what was manifestly a long series of Id. or 2d. numbers, Nos. 116, 118, 126, 129, 134, 138, 145, 147, 148, 149, 156, 158, 163, 165, 171, 176. E a c h number contains 32 pp. except the last which contains only 16. The stories are for the most part unsigned; b u t include several b y Mrs S. C. Hall, which are the only ones whose provenance is stated. There is no indication anywhere of similar collections having preceded or having been planned to follow this volume, so t h a t I cannot say which of the five issued volumes it represents. [3467]

C H A M I E R , CAPT. FREDERICK Jack Adams, or The Mutiny of the Bounty. C. H. Clarke, n.d. Yellow pictorial boards. Small format. 'Naval and Military Library, Vol. 3' (on half-title); 'Naval and Military Library' on spine.

PI. 8

Life of a Sailor, The. Ward & Lock 1856.

pi, 8

Tom Bowling: a Tale of the Sea. cover. Small format.

[3468]

'New Edition' Yellow-pictorial boards, specially drawn spine. Henry Lea, n.d.

CLARKE'S CABINET SERIES

Small format.

Yellow pictorial boards; cover picture repeated on back

1844-1845

Imp. 32mo, published by H . G. Clarke & Co., 66 Old Bailey, in 'illuminated wrappers' or cloth or full morocco gilt. This was a mixed series of fiction and non-fiction, of standard titles and translations of works not earlier published in English. A list a t the end of Vol. I I (below) gives 67 titles, but I have never seen other specimens t h a n the following, which, in the list, are numbered 1 and 57. [1] Psyche, by Mrs Tighe. 1844 Full dark red original morocco, gilt, enclosing illuminated front wrapper, imprinted at foot:

'PRINTED

I N COLOURS B Y SMART A N D HOLMES, 10 L E A T H E R LANE.'

pp. (i)-xx + (21)—(168) L, L8 adverts. Half-title or blank leaf originally preceded title. SCFII

25

4

CLARKE'S

CABINET

SERIES

[57] Ulrich: a Tale, by Ida, Countess Hahn-Hahn (translated from the German by J.B.S.) 2 vols. 1845. Red morocco cloth, enclosing illuminated front wrapper, reckoned in pagination. Vol.I (i)-(xii) + (13)-(256) Q8 adverts. II (272) R„-R8 adverts. Notes, (i) I n his preface, dated F e b r u a r y 1845, J . B . S . defends himself against reviewers who have attacked him for having translated The Countess Faustina by the author of Ulrich, which was No. 45 in C L A R K E ' S C A B I N E T S E R I E S . I t is refreshing to find a translator standing u p to the outraged disapproval with which almost every English version of a Continental story was received. J.B.S. goes so far as to say (he words it gently) t h a t if Faustina shocked them, let them beware of Ulrich. (ii) Several of the titles in this series, and others from Clarke's Home Library and Clarke's Cabinet Series, were re-issued in 1849 and 1850 b y George Slater, 252 Strand, in Slater's Shilling Series, Slater's Shilling Library, Slater's Home Library and Slater's edition of the novels of Frederika Bremer. The books were 32mo and bound in green or red morocco cloth with gold decoration and titling on spine. [3469]

CLARKE'S HOME LIBRARY

1845

Published b y H . G. Clarke & Co., 66 Old Bailey, in 1845 in cream wrappers, patterned and lettered in red and black, this series included a considerable proportion of fiction. B u t all the fiction titles in the first twenty numbers are eighteenth-century novels or reprints of American books or unimportant translations, and I do not think space need be used to record them. [3470]

C L I F F O R D , MRS W. K. Marie May.

[3471]

Warne, n.d.

Cream pictorial boards.

C L I V E , MRS A R C H E R

Paul Ferroll. (1882).

'A New Edition' (by the author of 'Why Paul Ferroll Killed his Wife').

Why Paul Ferroll Killed his Wife. n.d. (1882). C O B B O L D , REV. RICHARD [3472]

Warne's Library of Fiction.

COCKTON,

Chatto & Windus, n.d.

'A New Edition' (by the author of 'Paul Ferroll').

Chatto & Windus,

(See a b o v e in Section I 569a, 573a, 573b, 5 7 6 a , 5 7 7 a )

HENRY

Master-Passion (The). Henry Lea, n.d. Yellow pictorial boards, cover drawing by Phiz, specially designed spine. Wood-engraved front. Small format. Note. Originally published in 1852 as Lady Felicia. PI. 4

[3473]

Valentine Vox. '42nd Thousand.' Routledge 1856. Flame pictorial boards, printed and shaded in bronze green and black, specially designed spine. Wood-engraved front, and vignette title signed 'J.G.' Small format. Note. This is one of the most original and imaginative yellow-backs I have seen. The shaded bronze, the proportion of the lettering, and the grotesque heads on the spine are admirably conceived. C O L E , A L F R E D W. HONEYMOON

(THE)

James Blackwood 1855. White glazed boards, pictorially printed after McConnell and fancy-lettered in terra-cotta and dark brown. Spine up-lettered, back cover printed with adverts. Wood-engraved front, and vignette title after McConnell, on plate paper. pp. (iv) + 156 Small format. [3474]

C O L L I N S , C. A. A Cruise Upon Wheels.

'New Edition.'

Routledge 1893. 26

Cream pictorial boards.

•COMING [3475]

'

SERIES

C O L L I N S , WILKIE All in yellow-back pictorial boards (unless otherv

stated).

Antonina.

Moonstone (The). Windus, n.d.

'New Edition.'

Chatto &

My

'New

Chatto &

'New Edition.'

Smith, Elder 1872.

Basil. 'New Edition.' Chatto & Windus 1887. Dead Secret (The) Windus, n.d.

'New Edition.'

Chatto &

Fallen Leaves (The). 'New Edition.' Chatto & Windus, n.d. Jezebel's Daughter. 'New Edition.' Chatto & Windus, n.d. Miss or Mrs? and Other Stories in Outline. 'New Edition.' Chatto & Windus, n.d. [3476]

K

' C O M I N G RI-

S E R I E S (The)

Large format.

Miscellanies. Windus, n.d.

Edition.'

Queen of Hearts (The). 'New Edition.' Smith, Elder on title; Sampson, Low on covers, 1865. Orange-back. Rogue's Life (A). Windus 1890.

'New Edition.'

Chatto &

1872-1877

Whether this is a complete run of these notorious, enormously successful and often insulting satires on Queen Victoria, the Prince of Wales, the Court, the Ministers and the hangers-on-to-Royalty in general, I cannot say for certain. The series seems to date compactly enough; and the record is, I hope, sufficiently coherent to give the entry reference-value, if not guaranteed completeness. The majority are written in doggerel verse; but there are numerous passages of prose narrative which qualify the books for inclusion in a Fiction Catalogue. I believe that the authorship has never been established. Halkett & Laing suggest E. C. Grenville Murray; and on grounds of theme, scurrility and agile impertinence the suggestion is a likely one. But after having been horse-whipped in St James's Street by Lord Carrington in 1869, Murray became a virtual exile in Paris, and it would have been hard for him to deal in topical minutiae unless he had active collaborators on the spot in London. Perhaps (as is implied on some of the books) the series was a group-effort, and Grenville Murray's job was to put the spice in the pudding. The numbering of the titles in sequence is mine. [3477]

1

T H E COMING K (anon). Beeton's Christmas Annual, Thirteenth Season. Royal 8vo. Ward, Lock & Tyler, n.d. [1872]. White paper wrappers printed in red, blue and black—on front with all-over design incorporating titling, imprint, price, etc. and with THE COMING K printed on a diagonal white panel cut out across the design; up-lettered on spine: B E E T O N ' S C H R I S T M A S A N N U A L — O N E SHILLING; on back printed with adverts. Inside front and back covers also printed with adverts. Make-up of a complete copy. 4 pp. demy 8vo, advertising the publications of Cassell, Petter & Galpin, tipped on to first page of the 'Advertiser'. 'Beeton's Christmas Annual Advertiser', 8 pp., of which (7) is title-page to The Coming K ; 8 pp. small demy 8vo, advertising Pulvermacher's Cures; 4 pp. demy 8vo, advertising Camomile Pills. Text of the Annual, pp. (l)-(96) The Coming K ends p. 47. Pp. (48)-(94) carry miscellaneous contributions and illustrations, often with adverts, printed on versos. Pp. (95) (96) adverts. 2 pp., demy 8vo, advertising Cadbury's products and printed in colours, tipped on to p. 17; 4 pp., advertising Beeton's publications, tipped on to p. 33 and 2 pp. advertising Booth

& Fox's quilts, followed by 4 pp. advertising Willcox & Gibbs' Sewing Machines, tipped on to p. 73. Numerous wood-engraved illustrations throughout the text. Note. This is the only item in the series which is combined with other matter to form an annual issue. Henceforward the popularity of the satires justified each one standing alone. The Beeton leaflet at p. 33 announces The Coming K as 'A Series of Prophetic Views in Verse and Wood, by a Modern Seer and Poet, with Engravings of What Is Going To Happen. Soaring up to Heights Unthought of: Descending into Depths Undreamt of.' The poem is in the form of a parody of Idylls of the King, with such dispiriting sub-titles as 'Heraint and Shenid' and 'Loosealot and Delaine'. The Prince of Wales appears as ' Guelpho'. It is, however, amusing to know that a few copies for private circulation were produced at six shillings, with illustrations, uniform with the current edition of Idylls. I have never seen one. T H E S I L I A D , or The Siege of the Seats (by the authors of 'The Coming K '). Beeton's Christmas Annual, Fourteenth Season Royal 8vo. Ward, Lock & Tyler (1873). Wrappered uniform with 1. 27

[3478]

•COMING

K

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Make-up of a complete copy. 4 pp. on orange paper, advertising John Edgington's Marquees, Flags, etc.; Beeton's Christmas Annual Advertiser', pp. i-viii; 4 pp. unfoliated of text paper, of which the first is title-page to The Siliad, the second adverts., the third and fourth 'The Coming K : a Prologue to The Siliad'; 4 pp. cr. 8vo, advertising the publications of Cassell, Petter & Galpin; 4 pp. cr. 8vo (of which the first in colours), advertising Pavy's Felted Fabric; 4 pp. of Ward, Lock Announcements, paged

up-to-date Hajji Baba—the account of a Prince of Fiji who comes to England and observes with growing astonishment the manners, morals and formalities which he encounters. 4

J O N D U A N (by the authors of 'The Coming K ' and 'The Siliad') Sq. royal 8vo. Weldon & Co., 15 Wine Office Court 1874. Pictorial wrappers, showing Queen Victoria on her throne with the Prince of Wales standing before her. Up-lettered on spine. Inside and outside back covers printed with adverts. Make-up of a complete copy. 'Jon Duan Advertisements', 4 pp. unfoliated, of which p. (iii) is titlepage to Jon Duan; 12 pp., carrying Dedicatory Poem; extracts from Press comment (see Note); and adverts. Text of Jon Duan. pp. (l)-94 + 95, 96 adverts. Four full-page illustrations printed in two colours and numerous wood-engravings in the text, all on text paper. Note. It is evident from the Press extracts, dated December 1874 (misprinted 1875) and January 1875, that there was a TOW in Beeton's (Ward, Lock's) office over the scurrility of the ' Authors of the Coming K '. Beeton personally split from the outraged Ward, Lock & Tyler, perforce leaving them the title 'Beeton's Annual', but stating that he would start an annual of his own. Jon Duan was the first of these individual speculations. On the eve of its publication 'a gigantic financier' threatened libel proceedings if the satirical poem appeared, and W. H. Smith in alarm asked to be relieved of their order of 10,400 copies. Weldon went ahead with publication (whether after expurgation or not is not stated) and declared in a letter to the South Durham, Herald, herein quoted, that they were on January 15,1875 'marching on to 250,000 copies without a symptom of slackness in the sale'.

[3480]

5

F A U S T A N D ' P H I S T O (anon). Beeton's Christmas Annual, Sixteenth Season Royal 8vo. Ward, Lock & Tyler (1875). Wrappered uniform with 1 and 2. Make-up of a complete copy. Beeton's Christmas Annual Advertiser, pp. i-viii, of which (vii) •serves as title-page to Faust and 'Phisto; 2 pp. of yellow paper, advertising Fox, Chemist, Stratford; 8 pp. demy 8vo of Ward, Lock Announcements; 4 pp. large demy, advertising the publications of Cassell, Petter & Galpin; slip of grey paper advertising Queen Insurance Co. Text of Faust and 'Phisto. pp. 1-96 + 97-120 adverts. 8 pp. demy 8vo, advertising publications of Ward, Lock & Moxon, tipped on to p. (49). Wood-engraved illustrations throughout text. Mainly in the form of doggerel poetic drama, this is Ward, Lock's attempt to keep the continuity of 'Coming K ' popularity, and at the same

[3481]

( i K Text of The Siliad. pp. (92) [paged (9)-(100) Siliad ends p. 97, 98-(100) adverts. Continuation of Beeton's Christmas Advertiser, pp. ix-xxxii; 4 pp. demy 8vo, advertising Camomile Pills, tipped on to p. 25 and another, advertising Beeton's Young Englishwoman, tipped on to p. 57. Folding coloured front, facing first page of text, and numerous wood-engraved illustrations throughout the text. Ward, Lock's Announcement of the Annual (which is described as 'for 1874', i.e. issued in December 1873) says: 'Without decyphering the Riddle, it may be, without breaking confidence, here imparted that the more remarkable Men, Women and Events of Modern Days are the subjects of the New Epic. Herein figure the commanding forms of G L A D I M E M N O N and D U D I Z Z Y . ' Eight 'Books' of rhyming narrative verse, each with a mock-heroic title, celebrate the preparations for the General Election of February, 1874, which upset the Gladstone administration and made Disraeli for the second time Prime Minister. [3479]

3

T H E F I J I A D . English Nights Entertainments (by an author of 'The Siliad' and others). Beeton's Christmas Annual, Fifteenth Season Sq. royal 8vo. Ward, Lock & Tyler (1874). Wrappered uniform with 1 and 2, except that three diagonal white panels are cut out across front cover to carry titling, etc. and that an abbreviated Contents List is printed perpendicularly on the margins of the coloured design. Make-up of a complete copy. 'Beeton's Christmas Annual Advertiser', pp. i-viii, of which vii serves as title-page to The Fijiad; 4 pp. demy 8vo, advertising Kays, Chemists, Stockport; 6 pp. 16mo, of which first and last in colours, advertising Pavy's Felted Fabric, etc.; 4 pp. demy 8vo, advertising Moxon's publications (now handled by Ward, Lock); 4 pp. demy 8vo, advertising the publications of Cassell, Petter & Galpin. Text of The Fijiad. pp. (l)-96 +97-120 adverts. 4 pp. demy 8vo, on yellow paper, of Ward, Lock's Announcements, tipped on to p. 17, describes this new annual as for 1874, i.e. the year of issue. Wood-engraved front, on plate paper and numerous illustrations in the text. Predominantly in prose, The Fijiad is a sort of 28

4COMING

time to keep it clean. A rather subdued announcement in the advertisements preceding p. 1 refers warmly to public favour in the past and claims for the new issue 'a pleasant tone of burlesque, untainted by personality' and 'legitimate amusement at a time of year when such amusement is most welcome'. The contemporary London scene is humorously surveyed and the last half of the text under the title 'Childe Albert's Pilgrimage' makes respectful fun of the Prince's visit to India. [3482]

6 E D W A R D V I I (by the authors of 'The Coming K ', 'The Siliad' and 'Jon Duan') Sq. royal 8vo. 'Published for the Proprietors at 40 Bedford Street, Covent Garden' 1876. Pictorial wrappers (generally uniform with Jon Duan) showing the Coronation of Edward V I I in Westminster Abbey. Make-up of a complete copy. ' Edward V I I Advertisements', 8 pp. unfoliated, of which p. (vii) is title-page to Edward VII. 4 pp., paged (i)-iv, Prologue. Text of Edward VII. pp. (l)-90 + (91) (92) adverts. Three folding wood-engraved plates and 4 single plates on plate paper. Leaflet in colour tipped on to p. 5, advertising Nye's Mincing Machines ; another (plain), advertising Weldon's Publications at p. 7 ; and 4 pp. cr. 8vo, advertising Camomile Pills, inset at p. 37. This is a parody of a Shakespearean historical play. The folding front is entitled 'Multiform Portraits of the Authors of the Coming K (18371876)' and presents caricatures of the Royal Family and Court functionaries between those dates. The slightly sinister imprint did not apparently signify that Weldon also had taken fright, for not only is a Weldon leaflet inserted, but in the next item (7 below) they advertise Edward VII and its predecessor as obtainable from their office. It is in this work that an advert, on p. (v) announces that 'a few copies of The Coming K have been printed for private circulation uniform with Tennyson's Idylls of the King'.

ana [8482a]

T H E S E V E N T H (The), being an Elucidation of the Dark Allusions in that Libellous Lampoon, with Brief and Authentic Biographies of the various distinguished personages therein mentioned ('by One Behind the Scenes'). Will Williams, Falcon Court, Fleet Street, n.d. [1876]. White paper wrappers, printed on front in scarlet and black with the word ' K e y ' pictorially presented, spine unlettered, inside and outside back wrapper printed with adverts. Four full-page line engravings on text paper. pp. 32 [paged (i)-v + 6-32] Note. This purports to be an indignant protest against the lèse majesté and scurrility of Edward

K E Y TO E D W A R D

29

K

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VII, but it carefully identifies each character (appending sub-ironical notes of them). The engravings, described on the front cover as 'Portraits of the Authors' are caricatures of S. O. Beeton, Doughty, Evelyn and Weldon. The presence of the first and fourth shows that, despite the disguised imprint, they were responsible for the issue of Edward VII. Among the characters identified, apart from Royalty and its entourage, are Sala, Swinburne, Locker, W. H. Russell, W. S. Gilbert and various theatrical persons of both sexes. MRS

BROWN EDWARD

AT

BALMORAL

Or

A

CROWN

FOR

[34826]

VII

Demy 8vo. Morris & Newman, 34 Booksellers Row, Strand, n.d. White wrappers pictorially printed on front in red and black; spine unlettered; back wrapper printed with advert, of 'The Castigator'. Double spread wood-engraving on plate paper between pp. 16 and 17. No title, pp. 32 Note. A scurrilous pamphlet attacking the Queen, satirising her relations with Brown the ghillie, and treating the Prince of Wales (spoken of as 'Ned') with pert contempt. 7

B E N J A M I N D—. H I S L I T T L E D I N N E R (anon. Illustrated b y ' W h e w ' ) Sq. royal 8vo. Weldon & Co. 1876. Pictorial wrappers (generally uniform with 4 and 6) showing Disraeli and his Cabinet at the dinner table. Make-up of a complete copy. 4 pp. cr. 8vo on yellow paper, advertising Weldon's New Books (including the Parlour Library); 'Benjamin D Advertisements', 10 pp. unfoliated, of which (v) is half-title, (vii) title and (ix) Contents for Benjamin D ; 12 pp., foliated (i)-x + 2 pp. unfoliated, of which (i)-x Dedicatory Poem and the 2 unfoliated pp. a continuation of the ' Advertisements'. Text of Benjamin D . pp. (l)-72 + 2 pp. unfoliated (continuation o f ' Advertisements') + 7376 ('Our Agony Column') + 4 pp. unfoliated (completion of 'Advertisements'). 4 pp. demy 8vo, advertising Camomile Pills, tipped in at end. This complete paging (including all adverts.) is signed straight through in eights from B - H except that D and G are inadvertently unsigned. Four full-page wood-engravings on plate paper and numerous illustrations in the text. Loose inset on green paper advertises Belgravia of January 1877. Mainly in prose, this work satirises the policy and personal foibles of the Disraeli Government. Facing the Contents List is a Weldon advert, stating that copies of Jon Duan, Edward VII, 'also the Original Edition of The Coming K and The Siliad', may be obtained from their offices.

[3483]

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[3485]

8

K

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SERIES

p a n T H E P I L G R I M : a Vision of Judgement (by the authors of 'Benjamin D ') Sq. royal 8vo. Weldon & Co. 1877. Pictorial wrappers (generally uniform with 4, 6 and 7) showing the Queen, the politicians, the law, the police and other symbols of established order, fleeing before the doom of the modern Sodom and Gomorrah. Make-up of a complete copy. 'Pan the Pilgrim Advertisements', 12 pp., the first 4 unfoliated, the next 6 paged (i)-vi, of which (i) is half-title, (iii) title, (v) vi Dedication to Pan the Pilgrim; the next 2 unfoliated pp. a continuation of 'Advertisements'.

THE

OSWALD

ALLAN

Text of Pan the Pilgrim, pp. (l)-68 + (69)-74, a Poem and adverts. + (75)-(84) unfoliated, completion of 'Advertisements'. Slip of blue paper, advertising Dome Black Lead, tipped on to p. 33. The book is signed A (6 leaves)+ B - F in eights + balance of A (2 leaves). Two fullpage wood-engravings on plate paper and numerous illustrations in the text. A lurid poem, castigating the vices of Society. Finance, Priestcraft, Gambling, Women (both Fallen and Aggressive) and a dozen other grave threats to national survival are treated with mock horror, and the Prince of Wales is, as usual, one of the cast.

DERIVATIVES

1876-1878

Anti-monarchism, though strongly evident in the Coming K Series, was not the only element in their general campaign of ridicule and impertinence against the prominent persons and established conventions of the day. In 1876, however, appeared over obscure imprints (one from the same address as Weldon & Co.) the first of three (maybe of more, but I am unaware of them) satires almost wholly directed against the Royal Family. They were manifestly imitated from The Coming K and its successors, alike in appearance and manner. Their author, Oswald Allan, was a music-hall performer who wrote and acted his own 'pantomimes'. [3486]

OA 1 W O R T H Y A C R O W N ? (by Oswald Allan) Sq. royal 8vo. Head & Meek, 15 Wine Office Court 1876. Pictorial wrappers, with a composite page of little pictures centred by an empty Crown, from which hang ribbons lettered C A N T , BALMORAL

BOOTS, T W A D D L E ,

HUMBUG

throne and in the smoke of the cigar is a vision of Queen Victoria on a pony with John Brown walking at her side, pp. (64), of which (1) title, advert, on verso, (3) Index, ditto, (5)-51 text of The Vacant Throne, (52)-(64) adverts, and full-page woodengravings irrelevant to the satire. A t end, 8 pp. on yellow paper, advertising Ewart's Baths. Four full-page wood-engravings on plate paper and a few illustrations in the text after R. Prowse Junior.

AND

The vignettes around the Crown show (among other things) the Prince of Wales and his lights o' love, the Queen dancing a reel with John Brown, piles of unpaid bills and the British Lion on his death-bed making his will. Spine unlettered. Inside and outside back covers printed with adverts. pp. (iv) (prelim, pages and adverts.) + 60 4 pp. on thinner paper at end advertise Rimmel's Perfumes. Demy 8vo leaflet, advertising Poupard's Fruit Spirit, tipped on to p. 9; publishers' advert, leaf inserted between pp. 32, 33; pp. 53, 54 (in the middle of the text of poems which follow the satire) advertise Poupard's products. A few illustrations in the text. A mixture of verse and prose, depicting the Queen in contented domesticity with her ghillie while the Prince ranges the world for dissipation. THE

[3487]

MORNING

POST.

OA 3 Y E R E D H O T T E R E P U B L I C K (by Oswald Allan) Sq. royal 8vo. H. Pearce, 'The Publishing and Literary Agency, 12 Pilgrim Street, E.C., n.d. [1878]. Pictorial wrappers with an allegorical picture of the regime of crowns and great cities going up in flames, while a white robed angel hovers over a new world. ' Second Edition.' pp. (72) 4 pp. unfoliated, of which (i) (ii) title, verso blank, (iii) (iv) adverts., + ( l ) - ( 3 ) adverts., (4) Index, (5)-64 text, (65)-(68) adverts. Woodengravings (full-page and in the text) throughout and all on text paper. Note. The date 1878 is suggested because the words T H I R D Y E A R appear on the front cover. I doubt there having been any fourth issue. This is a more degraded production than either OA 1 or OA 2 and the advertisements have clearly fallen off. The text is entirely in prose.

OA 2 T H E V A C A N T T H R O N E (by Oswald Allan) Sq. royal 8vo. E. Head, 10 Red Lion Court 1877. Pictorial wrappers, showing Albert Edward standing by the empty throne smoking a cigar while his family are grouped smilingly behind him. A portrait of John Brown hangs over the

COMPANION L I B R A R Y .

See note under 3668 below 30

[3488]

COSTELLO [3489]

C O O P E R , JAMES FENIMORE Published by Routledge in pictorial or decorated boards of various colours; specially designed spines. Front cover design repeated on back cover unless otherwise stated. Small format.

Pl. 4

Afloat and Ashore: Sequel to Miles Wallingford. ' A New Edition.' 1856. Green-back, printed in blue and brown. Back cover printed with adverts.

Miles Wallingford, or Afloat and Ashore. White-back, printed in blue and brown.

1854.

Oak Openings (The), or the Bee Hunter. Cream-back, printed in blue and brown.

1855.

Bravo (The). and red.

Pathfinder (The), or the Inland Sea. 1855. Magenta-back, printed in olive-brown and black.

1854. Cream-back, printed in black

Deerslayer (The), or the First War-Path. Green-back, printed in red and blue.

1855.

Pilot (The). 'Thirty-fourth thousand.' 1855. Creamback, printed in blue and brown.

Eve Effingham: Sequel to Homeward Bound. 'A New Edition.' 1855. Green-back, printed in navy blue and brown.

Pioneers (The), or the Sources of the Susquehanna. 1854. Cream-back, printed in blue and brown.

Headsman (The). 1855. Cream-back, printed in red and black.

Satanstoe, or the Littlepage Manuscripts. 'Fourth Thousand.' 1856. Green-back, printed in blue and brown.

Heathcotes (The), or the Wept of Wish-TonWish. 1854. Yellow-back, printed in green and black.

Sea-Lions (The), or the Lost Sealers. Yellow-back, printed in green and black.

Homeward Bound, or the Chase. ' A New Edition.' 1855. Cream-back, printed in blue and brown.

1854.

Spy (The): a Tale of the Neutral Ground. ' Thirty- PL 4 Fourth Thousand.' 1855. White-back, printed in blue and red.

Last of the Mohicans (The). 'Twenty-Seventh Thousand.' 1854. White-back, printed in blue and brown.

Two Admirals (The). 'New Edition.' 1854. Greenback, printed in black and red.

Note. The earlier volumes of this charming edition had spine and front-cover specially designed for each title. For the later volumes (and for re-clothing the earlier ones) two front-cover and spine designs were standardised. The Indian stories carried the standing figure of an Indian Brave with wigwams in the background; the Sea-stories carried a bearded sailor, seated, with decorative frame of flag, anchor and cordage. There was an intermediate issue of a few titles with standard front-covers but individual up-lettered spines. The specimens in the Collection of the earliest individualised styles are: Bravo, Deerslayer, Headsman, Heathcotes, Pathfinder, Sea Lions, Spy and Two Admirals. C O S T E L L O , DUDLEY [3490]

[3491]

[3492]

a Tale of the Day J. & C. Brown, Ave Maria Lane 1856. Yellow pictorial boards. H. Anelay. Small format, pp. (288) Sg blank.

J O I N T STOCK B A N K E R (THE):

Wood-engraved front, on text paper after Pl. 4

a Tale of the Day Routledge 1858. Yellow pictorial boards. End-papers printed with adverts. Small format, pp. (viii) + (336) Note. I cannot be certain that this book is a first edition, though it has every appearance of one. It is a volume in Routledge's Railway Library, a series in which new works were rarely included. But examples do exist (e.g. 3563-64 below) and maybe this is another of them. The English Catalogue gives the date of first publication as 1858.

M I L L I O N A I R E OF M I N C I N G L A N E ( T H E ) :

C O S T E L L O , LOUISA STUART Queen Mother (The) : Catherine de Medici. C. H. Clarke, n.d. Yellow pictorial boards, specially designed spine, front cover drawing repeated on back. Small format. Originally published in 1848 as Catherine de Medici, the Queen Mother. 31

COUNTRY [3493]

HOUSE

LIBRARY

C O U N T R Y H O U S E L I B R A R Y (The)

1875-1876

Published at Is. each by Ward, Lock & Tyler, in glazed cream wrappers, ornately printed in black, lilac and red, with series title on front and spine, the volumes in this 'Library' are first editions and a mixture of fiction and non-fiction. Originally published from November 1875 to February or March 1876 they were re-issued in the eighties in bright blue covers, printed in black and red. I cannot trace more than six titles, of which only No. 2 is in the Collection. and Other Tales, by Mrs Lynn Linton [November 1875]

4

THE MAD W I L L O U G H B Y S

FALSE

BEASTS

AND TRUE,

Cobbe [November 1875] Hoey [January 1876] [3494]

HOUSE ESSAYS

by John Latouche

[January 1876]

by Frances Power

T H E B L O S S O M I N G OF A N A L O E ,

COUNTRY

by Mrs Cashel

5

NO SIGN, by Mrs Cashel Hoey [? February 1876]

6

GRACE T A L M A S , b y

March 1876]

JohnDangerfieldf? February/

C R O L Y , REV. GEORGE Marston, or the Soldier and Statesman. 'Third Edition.' Henry Lea 1860. Yellow pictorial boards, specially drawn spine. Cover drawings by Phiz. Small format.

[3495]

C R O W E , MRS CATHERINE Light and Darkness.

'New Edition.'

Susan Hopley Copy I. 'New Edition.'

Routledge 1856. Yellow pictorial boards.

Routledge 1856.

Salmon decorated boards, printed in black and dark green,

up-lettered in large fancy caps on spine. Cover design repeated on back. Copy H. Routledge, n.d. Yellow pictorial boards. Railway Library. [3496]

Small format.

Small format.

C R O W Q U I L L , ALFRED BUNDLE

OF C R O W Q U I L L S

(A); dropped by A.C. on his Eccentric Flights over the Fields of Literature.

Routledge 1854.

[3496 a]

[3497]

Copy I. Cream paper boards, printed in black, purple and red, with a design and fancy lettering by the author. End-papers printed with adverts. Cover design repeated on back cover. Small format. Woodengraved front, and numerous illustrations in the text after drawings by the author and all on text paper, pp. (248) Q8 adverts., forming the first leaf of a ten-page publishers' cat. on text paper. Copy II. Orange paper boards, printed in black on front only with a different design and lettering by the author. Spine-design and end-papers identical with Copy I. Back cover printed with adverts. Illustrations and collation as Copy I, but an additional cat., 32 pp. undated, is inserted at end. Edited and Illustrated by Alfred Crowquill. Routledge 1854. Yellow decorated and lettered boards designed by the author and printed in red and black. Spine up-lettered: FUN. Cover design repeated on back cover. End-papers printed with adverts. Woodengraved front, and 7 illustrations after Crowquill, all on plate paper, also a few text vignettes, pp. 224. Folded advert, leaf at end. Small format.

E L E C T R I C T E L E G R A P H OF F U N ( T H E ) .

C U M M I N S , MARIA s. [3498]

[3499]

(The) [anon] Small 8vo. Nelson 1854. White boards, printed in red, green and black—on front and back with all-over decoration, lettering and circular vignette; on spine with lettering and decoration, pp. 288 On covers appears series title: N E L S O N ' S L I B R A R Y . ? First English edition. First American edition published in same year. M A B E L V A U G H A N (by the author of 'The Lamplighter'). Edited by arrangement with the author by Mrs Gaskell, author of 'Mary Barton' Sampson Low 1857. Yellow boards, pictorially printed on front in red and black, on spine with decoration in red, on back in red with adverts. Pale yellow end-papers printed with adverts, dated on inside front cover 'September 19, 1857'. Half-title, pp. viii + (312) X 4 adverts. Pp. (v)-viii are occupied by Mrs Gaskell's Preface, signed E.C.G.

LAMPLIGHTER

32

DETECTION, [3500]

CRIMINOLOGY,

DETECTION, CRIMINOLOGY, VARIOUS PROFESSIONAL AND 'EXPERIENCES' 1856-1884

ETC.

SPECIALIST

This, from more t h a n one point of view, is perhaps the most interesting class of yellow-backs published. Virtually all made their first appearance in yellow-back form—mainly during the early period, when t h e volumes were of small format, set in good readable type, and provided with carefully designed and individual covers. The majority are nowadays so uncommon t h a t their very existence is almost unknown. The early titles came to publication (and to popularity) so suddenly and so plentifully t h a t they must hold the record among novelties in publishing history for speed in attracting and holding public notice. Their success depended entirely upon their subject (hardly ever do they rise above mediocrity in a literary sense); and to their subject they owe their interest to-day, for, as evidence of primitive methods of detection and as records of actual incidents in various walks of life, they are in some respects the only sources available. Finally, their florescence (so far as they deal with adventures in detection) can be directly traced to a development in police procedure popularised b y the powerful pen of Charles Dickens. In The Bookman of February 1932 Mr E. A. Osborne published a valuable article on the literature of detection from a bibliographical angle, and this article was used by Mr John Carter in his essay ' Detective Fiction' in New Paths in Book-Collecting (London, 1934). To these two authorities I am glad to acknowledge the following facts. In 1845, when Sir James Graham detailed twelve police officers for exclusive plain-clothes detective work, the idea of the C.I.D. (actually established in 1876) was first conceived. In 1850 (July-September) Dickens printed four articles in Household Words describing these officers' work; and to the interest created by his articles may largely be attributed the flood of 'curiosities', 'experiences', 'secrets', 'diaries' and other narratives of detective activity, which burst on the world within the next few years. After consideration I decided to catalogue the books alphabetically under titles, although, as t h e fashion was rather sociological t h a n literary, there were arguments for a chronological arrangement. B u t a chronological list makes search for a n y particular book tedious and difficult, and I felt a natural inclination to keep the system of this catalogue as uniform as possible. To emphasise the dates of issue, these are outset to the extreme right of the column. As all the books are original editions (in one case a second issue of an original edition), I give the normal amount of bibliographical detail. [3501]

[3502]

1865 By W A L T E R D O N A L D S O N , Comedian. 'Never before printed.' John Maxwell & Co. Yellow boards, designed and lettered in scarlet and black. Small format, pp. viii + 360

A C T O R ( R E C O L L E C T I O N S O F AN)

ALL AT SEA, or Recollections of a Half-Pay Officer 1864 By L T . - C O L . H. R. A D D I S O N . Author of 'Recollections of an Irish Police Magistrate', 'Diary of a Judge', 'Traits and Stories of Indian Life', 'Belgium as She Is', 'Who's Who?' etc. Ward & Lock. Yellow pictorial boards (by Phiz). Small format. Half-title, pp. viii + 312 The spine design on this volume is repeated on several other similar issues by Ward & Lock at the same period.

[3503]

[by John Bennett, see 3443 above] n.d. [1860 or 1861] George Vickers, Angel Court. Yellow pictorial boards. Wood-engraved front, on text paper and very numerous text illustrations, pp. viii -(- 216

A R T F U L D O D G E R ( T H E C A R E E R OF A N )

SCF

II

33

Estimated dating by another copy, with ink signature :' Thomas Hughes Davies. May 28th, 1861', on fly-leaf. B A R R I S T E R ( T H E E X P E R I E N C E S O F A)

1856 By Sxxx x x x x x x xxxxxx, D.C.L. J. & C. Brown, Ave Maria Lane. Yellow pictorial boards. Wood-engraved front, after Anelay on text paper. Small format, pp. 320 These papers appeared in Chambers'' Journal and are now first issued in book-form.

[3504]

CRIME I N E D I N B U R G H ( C U R I O S I T I E S OF)

[3505]

n.d. [1867] By J A M E S M ' L E V Y . William P. Nimmo. White paper wrappers cut flush, designed and lettered in scarlet, green, dark blue, yellow and black. Small format. Half-title, pp. xvi + 304 No. 10 of Nimmo's Popular Tales. This series ran from 1866 to 1867 and the Bodleian Cat. records Nos. 1-12. CRIMINAL

CELEBRITIES:

morable Trials B y LASCELLES

a Collection of Me-

WRAXALL. FIRST CLASS LIBRARY

See 3553 (3) below:

5

DETECTION, [3506]

Pl. 4

[3507]

CRIMINOLOGY,

ETC.

DARK DEEDS

tises books by Mayne Reid over imprint of C. H. Clarke, 23 Paternoster Row. Note. It should be noted that adverts, on S4 have imprint: 'W. Kent & Co. (late D. Bogue), 86 Fleet Street', and lead off with the First Series of the Detective Police Officer of which over 75,000 copies are stated to have been sold, boards, Is. 6d. The adverts, etc. in this volume illustrate the complexity and interworking of the various obscure and ephemeral imprints active in yellow-back publishing.

n.d.

By the author of 'The Gaol Chaplain' [ E R S K I N E NEALE]. George Vickers, Angel Court. Yellow pictorial boards (by Jewitt). End-papers and outside back cover printed with Ward & Lock adverts. Small format, pp. viii + 216 DETECTION

(CURIOSITIES

OF),

or

THE

SEA-

and other Tales 1862 By R O B E R T C U R T I S , author of 'The Irish Police Officer.' Ward & Lock. Yellow pictorial boards. Small format, pp. 320 [paged (i)-viii + (9)-320] Ink signature: 'J. Browne' on title. COAST S T A T I O N

[3508]

DETECTIVE'S NOTE-BOOK (THE)

[3509]

DETECTIVE

1860

Edited by C H A R L E S M A R T E L . Ward & Lock. Yellow pictorial boards (by Jewitt). Small format. Half-title, pp. (viii)+ 312 POLICE

OFFICER

(RECOLLECTIONS

1856 By 'WATERS' [William Russell, alias 'Lieut. Warneford']. Copy I: First Issue. J. & C. Brown, Ave Maria Lane. Yellow pictorial boards. Wood-engraved front, on text paper. Small format, pp. (312) [paged (i)-(viii) + (9)-(312)] U„ adverts. Printers' imprint on p. (310): L O N D O N : / OF A )

Pl. 5

PRINTED

BY

W.

STAMFORD-STREET,

[3509 a]

[3510] Pl. 5

AND

AND

CLOWES

AND

POLICE

OFFICER

1860 Edited by C H A R L E S M A R T E L . Ward & Lock. Yellow pictorial boards (I think by Phiz). Small format, pp. (iv) + (316) Ink signature: 'J. Browne', on title.

[3512]

1864 By A N D R E W F O R R E S T E R , JUN., author of 'The Private Detective', 'Secret Service', etc. 'Never before published.' Ward & Lock. Yellow pictorial boards. Small format, pp. (iv) + 316 Described on front cover as 'Uniform with Secret Service'.

[3513]

FEMALE DETECTIVE (THE)

SONS,/

CHARING-CROSS.

SONS, / S T A M F O R D

FRENCH

STREET.; (iv) back cover advertises four novels by Mayne Reid, Experiences of a Barrister (as published) and Detective Police Officer itself. Cover identical with Copy I. Copy II: Third Issue. Red morocco cloth, blocked in blind front and back, spine blocked and lettered in gold. Yellow end-papers. No date on title. Prelims. 4 pp. (as Second Issue). Advert, leaf, U 8 , lists books on back cover of Second Issue plus others, including ' A New Novel by James Grant. Shortly will be published.' Binders' ticket: 'Leighton, Son & Hodge', at end. Note. First edition (including the above three issues) 5000 copies, June 1856; reprint 5000, September 1856; reprint 5000, Spring, 1857. DETECTIVE

[3511]

E X - D E T E C T I V E ( D I A R Y OF A N )

Back cover advertises: Marriage Settlement, Experiences of a Barrister. Tales of the Coast Guard. Second Issue (not in the Collection) differs from Copy I in the following particulars: (i) no date on title; (ii) prelims, re-set to 4 pp.; (iii) printers' imprint on p. (310): L O N D O N : / P R I N T E D B Y WILLIAM

[35096]

CLOWES

N O T E B O O K ( T H E ) , or Tales of My Patients 1864 By S A M U E L G U Y , M.D. Ward & Lock. Yellow boards, designed and lettered in scarlet and black. Spine uniform with All at Sea (q.v.). Small format, pp. (viii) + (312) 203 204 adverts., paged 1-4. Ink signature: 'J. Browne', on title. Sub-title on p. 1 of text is 'Revelations of a Fashionable Medical Practice'.

DOCTOR'S

DETECTIVE

(AUTOBIOGRAPHY

OF

A)

[3514]

from 1818-1858 1862 By M. C A N L E R . Ward & Lock. Yellow boards, designed and lettered in scarlet and black. Spine uniform with All at Sea (q.v.). Small format, pp. iv + (316) Ink signature: 'J. Browne', on title. Note. The book has an intelligent preface by Lascelles Wraxall, showing that he sponsored (maybe translated) this edition of a work suppressed in France. FRENCH

DETECTIVE-OFFICER

(EXPERIENCES

[3515]

n.d. Adapted from the manuscript of Theodore Duhamel by 'WATERS'. C. H. Clarke. Yellow pictorial boards, printed end-papers. Half-title, pp. (310) [paged (318)] Parlour Library, No. 134. O F A)

(RECOLLECTIONS

OF A) Second Series 1859 By 'WATERS'. W. Kent & Co., 51-52 Paternoster Row. Yellow pictorial boards. Small format. Half-title, pp. (viii) + (264) S4 adverts. Leaf of orange paper, tipped on to front fly-leaf, adver-

and other Tales n.d. By 'WATERS', author of 'Recollections of a Detective Police Officer', ' A Skeleton in Every House',

HEIR-AT-LAW (THE)

34

[3516]

DETECTION, etc. Henry Lea. Yellow pictorial boards. Endpapers printed with publisher's adverts. Small format. pp. (352) Publisher's cat., 8 pp. undated, at end. [3517]

H O R S E - C O P E S ( C O N F E S S I O N S O F A)

[3518]

IRISH

[3519]

MAGISTRATE

THE PRIVATEER CAPTAIN n.d. By 'WATERS', author of 'The Detective Police Officer', 'Game of Life', etc. Knight & Son, Clerkenwell Close. Yellow pictorial boards. End-papers printed in blue with publishers' adverts. (Knight & Son). Half-title, pp. 260 Cat. of publications of J. & C. Brown, 8 pp. undated, at end. Note. Did Knight succeed to the business of J. & C. Brown?

By the author o f ' Anonyma',' Incognita',' Skittles', etc. See 3417 above. AND LAWYERS: a Sketch Book of Legal Biography, Gossip and Anecdote 1858 By A R C H E R P O L S O N . Routledge. Yellow pictorial boards. End-papers printed with publishers' adverts. Small format. pp. (200) Publishers' cat., 16 pp. undated, at end. Slip of salmon-coloured paper, tipped on to front fly-leaf, advertises Walker's Pronouncing Dictionary. Rubber stamp: 'J. R. Molineux', on verso of title.

LAW

P O L I C E M A G I S T R A T E (Twenty Years' Recollections of a) 1880 By Frank Thorpe Porter, A.M., J.P. Dublin: Hodges Figgis; London: Simpkin. 'Eighth Edition.' Pale yellow pictorial (by lithography) boards. Small format. Half-title, pp. xii + (412) 2De adverts. Ink signature: 'J. Browne', on title. Note. Judging from date to Preface, this book was first published in 1875.

IRISH

IRISH

[3521]

ITALIAN

(AUTOBIOGRAPHY

OF

JOHN HORSLEYDOWN, A THIEF

Or T H E C O N F E S S I O N S

FROM THE D I A R Y

L O N D O N L I F E AT THE P O L I C E COURTS

AN)

O F A)

1864

[3526]

By w, H. W A T T S . Ward & Lock. Yellow pictorial boards (by Phiz). Small format, pp. iv+316

[anon] n.d. [1880] J. & R. Maxwell. ' Never before published.' Yellow pictorial boards, pp. (iv) + 316 Ink signature: 'J. Browne', on title, by whom the date of issue was supplied below imprint. Note. Title as given above on front cover and spine. On title: 'Autobiography of an Italian Police Officer.' [3522]

[3524]

[3525] (1857) By the author of 'Recollections of a Detective Police Officer' ['WATERS']. J. & C. Brown, Ave Maria Lane. Copy I. Pictorial yellow cloth. Small format. pp. (296) Slip of violet paper, tipped on to front fly-leaf, advertises four juvenile books. Ink signature: 'J. P. Stacker', on fly-leaf. Copy I I . Pictorial yellow boards. Cover pic- [3525 a] ture and collation identical with Copy I. Violet paper advert, slip not present in this copy. Note. This pair of volumes is interesting as providing a specimen (i) of a cloth-bound book designed in imitation of a yellow-back, (ii) of the same book in actual yellow-back form. (Cf. Dumas, 3543 (20))

LAW-CLERK (LEAVES

POLICE OFFICER (THE). Comprising 'The Identification' and Other Tales founded upon remarkable Trials in Ireland 1861 By R O B E R T C U R T I S . Ward & Lock. Yellow pictorial boards. End-papers printed in blue with publishers' adverts. Small format, pp. (viii) + 216 Ink signature: 'J. Browne', on title. DETECTIVE

[3523]

L A D Y D E T E C T I V E ( R E V E L A T I O N S OF A)

(RECOLLECTIONS

OF AN), and other Reminiscences of the South of Ireland 1862 By H E N R Y R O B E R T A D D I S O N , author of 'Who's Who?', 'Stories of Indian Life', 'The Diary of a Judge', etc. Ward & Lock. Bright green boards, designed and lettered in scarlet and black. Spine uniform with All at Sea (3502). Small format. . Half-title, pp. xii-f (308) [20a] adverts. Ink signature: 'J. Browne', on title.

[3520]

ETC.

KIRKE WEBBE:

n.d. By 'BALLINASIOE', author of 'Recollections of a Horse Dealer', etc. George Vickers, Angel Court. Plum boards, designed and lettered in dark blue. Small format, pp. (ii) + (174) POLICE

CRIMINOLOGY,

NEW

YORK

DETECTIVE

POLICE

OFFICER

[3527]

(THE) 1865 Edited by J O H N B. W I L L I A M S , M.D. 'Never before Printed.' John Maxwell & Co. Yellow boards, designed and lettered in scarlet and black. Small format. pp. iv + (316)

OF

1860

PHYSICIAN

Written by

himself, and revised by T H O M A S L I T T L E T O N HOLT. Ward & Lock. Yellow pictorial boards ( I think by Phiz). Small format. Half-title, pp. (viii)+ 312

(RECOLLECTIONS

O F A ) , Or E p i s o d e s

of Life. Collected from Thirty Years' Practice 1861 By W I L L I A M H E A R D H I L L Y A R D . Ward & Lock. Yellow boards, designed and lettered in 35

[3528]

DETECTION,

CRIMINOLOGY,

ETC.

scarlet and black. Spine uniform with All at Sea Small format. Half-title, pp. (viii) + (376) BB3 BB4 adverts. Advert, of W. H. Smith's Library, 4 pp. undated, inserted between front end-papers. [3529] PI. 5

[3530]

that Ward & Lock diverted some of their potentially more sensational titles into Holywell Street channels, and dressed them pictorially to fit their new role.

P R I V A T E E N Q U I R Y O F F I C E ( S E C R E T S OF A )

n.d. [circa 1884] By J A M E S P E D D I E . C. H. Clarke. Pictorial yellow back boards. Large format. pp. 320 Ink signature: 'J. Browne', on title. [3531]

SECRET SERVICE,

or

R E C O L L E C T I O N S OF A

DETECTIVE

STORIES FROM SCOTLAND Y A R D

1864

1890

B y I N S P E C T O R M O S E R a n d C H A R L E S F. R I D E A L .

Routledge. Large format. Half-title, pp. (256) R 8 adverts. [3533]

[3533a]

[3539]

or Nights on the Ocean 1861 By a Ship's Surgeon ( D R w. M. H I L L Y A R D , author of 'Recollections of a Physician'). Copy I: First Edition. Ward & Lock. Pale blue boards, designed and lettered in dark blue. Spine uniform with All at Sea. pp. iv + 380 Ink signature: 'J. Browne', on title. Copy II: Re-issue. 'Published for the Proprietors.' 1863. Yellow pictorial (and amorous) boards, spine still uniform with All at Sea. Collation as Copy I. Back cover advert, (over Ward & Lock imprint) of Aimard's Works. Note. This re-issue is curious. Manifestly printed from the plates of Copy I and carrying a Ward & Lock advert, on back, it has the elusive imprint: 'Printed for the Proprietors.' It seems possible

TALES IN THE CABIN,

DICKENS,

[3534]

or T H E R E V E L A T I O N S O F A D E T E C T I V E [by John Bennett, 3443 above] 1860 George Vickers, Angel Court. White boards, designed and lettered in pale blue and black. Wood-engraved front, on text paper and very numerous text illustrations, largely of a humorous and skilful kind. Small format, pp. viii+ (216) [mis-paged (3)-218]

[3535]

1860 By A L B A N Y F O N B L A N Q U E , J U N . , author of 'Rights and Wrongs', 'The Man of Fortune', 'How we are Governed', etc. etc. Ward & Lock. Yellow pictorial boards. Small format, pp. (iv) + (348) Z6 blank. Ink signature: ' Charles Penruddock, Compton Park', on title. These stories are collected from The Welcome Guest and other periodicals.

[3536]

O F L O N D O N : Historical and Legendary 1859 By 'WATERS', author of 'Recollections of a Police Officer', 'The Serf Girl of Moscow', 'Kirke Webbe', etc. etc. W. Kent & Co., Paternoster Row and (late D. Bogue) 86 Fleet Street. Yellow pictorial boards. End-papers printed in blue with Ward & Lock adverts. Small format, pp. (iv) + 258 Final leaf, Sx, a single inset (see Note). Rubber stamp: 'J. R. Molineux', on verso of title. Note. Although this consists of first edition sheets, it is in fact a secondary issue. The volume was originally a full post-8vo, bound in maroon ripple-grain cloth, blocked in blind and lettered in gold. The two issues collate identically, save that in the cloth edition S2 (adverts.) completes the final signature.

[3537]

1862 By 'WATERS', author of 'Recollections of a Police Officer', 'Experiences of a Real Detective', etc. Ward & Lock. Yellow boards designed and lettered in scarlet and dark green. Spine uniform with All at Sea. Small format, pp. (iv) + 316

[3538]

TOM FOX,

T O M R O C K E T , & C . &C. & C .

CITY

By A N D R E W F O R R E S T E R , JUN., author of 'The Private Detective'. 'Never before published.' Ward & Lock. Pictorial yellow-back boards. Small format. pp. (iv) + (316) X e blank. Slip of blue paper, tipped on to front fly-leaf, advertises 2s. edition of My Uncle the Curate over imprint of Chapman & Hall. Rubber stamp: 'Quendon Court, Bishops Stortford', on title. Described on front cover as ' Uniform with Private Detective'. [3532]

( S H I F T I N G SCENES IN) 1859 By E L I Z A W I N S T A N L E Y , Comedian. Routledge. Yellow pictorial boards (? by Phiz). End-papers printed with publishers' adverts. Small format, pp. iv + (296) 8 pp. adverts, at end.

THEATRICAL LIFE

1863 By A N D R E W F O R R E S T E R , J U N . 'Never before Printed.' Ward & Lock. Yellow pictorial boards (? by Leech). Small format. pp. 320 Leaf of pink paper tipped on to front fly-leaf advertises W. H. Smith's Subscription Library.

P R I V A T E D E T E C T I V E ( R E V E L A T I O N S OF A)

TRADITIONS

U N D I S C O V E R E D CRIMES

CHARLES

Dombey & Son. 2 vols. Chapman & Hall 1865. Bright green boards, printed in black. Large format. Front, to each volume from first edition. Set in double column and called 'The People's Dombey'. 36

DUFFY'S

LIBRARY

OF

IRELAND

Oliver Twist Copy I. Chapman & Hall 1877. Greenish-white pictorial boards. Large format. Copy IE. Warne, n.d. (after 1881). Yellow pictorial wrappers, cut flush. No. 63 of Warne's Notable Novels. Pickwick Papers (The). Sketches by Boz.

Chapman & Hall, n.d.

Chapman & Hall 1877.

Uniform with Oliver Twist.

Uniform with Oliver Twist.

Picnic Papers (The). Copy I. Five Parts. Ward & Lock, n.d. [circa 1856]. Yellow wrappers printed in black and cut flush. Parts I I I and IV have fronts, by Cruikshank, probably printed from the original plates. Part IV has printed end-papers, others plain. Square format. Copy II. Ward & Lock, n.d. Grey pictorial boards. Small format. [3540]

D I S R A E L I , BENJAMIN Uniform large format, published b y Longman etc. Pale yellow pictorial boards, with conventional spine designs and printed end-papers. Undated [1881]. All except Endymion described as ' N e w E d i t i o n ' a n d all listed as volumes in Longman's Modern Novelists Library. Endymion Tancred (inscription dated 1881)

Henrietta Temple Venetia

Sybil Young Duke (The) and Count Alarcos

[3540a]

Note. Longman's yellow-back edition of Disraeli's novels was also published in olive brown pebblegrain cloth blocked in black and gold, with all edges gilt and dark green end-papers. This is the handsomest 'cloth version' of a yellow-back edition known to me. The complete series of 10 vols., in new condition, is in the Collection.

[3541]

DRÜRY,

A. H.

Misrepresentation. Library. [3542]

'New Edition.'

Ward & Lock, n.d. (after 1881). Pale green pictorial boards.

DUFFY'S L I B R A R Y OF IRELAND

Select

1845-1847

Although this series is predominantly non-fictional, I include it here because it contains certain titles (both fictional and otherwise) of real importance; because the volumes are with two exceptions first editions; and because, owing to its considerable scarcity, a schedule of the contents so far as I can establish t h e m m a y prove of value to students of Irish history and letters. The volumes (published monthly a t one shilling from 1 J u l y 1845 to early in 1847) are 12mo, and bound in glazed white wrappers cut flush and printed in two colours, on front with decorative frame enclosing titling, etc., on spine down-lettered on decorative panel, on back printed with list of the series, as it develops.f The imprint throughout is: ' D u b l i n : J a m e s Duffy.' The volumes are not numbered, b u t for convenience sake I have numbered them in the order of their appearance. Titles asterisked are not in the Collection. 1

THE IRISH VOLUNTEERS MACNEVIN. July 1845

OF

1782.

By

2

T.

Wrappers printed in green and black. This copy is 'Fourth Edition', so the back wrapper is of late state, listing six titles as published. 'Fourth Edition' is printed on wrapper only, not on title, but a 'Preface to the Fourth Edition' dated August 16,1845 occupies pp. (vii) (viii). Pp. (viii) [paged vi] + (9) [paged (7)]-(252) [paged 250]

3

* B A L L A D P O E T R Y OF I R E L A N D . C . G A V A N D U F F Y . August, 1845 RODY THE ROVER.

Edited by

B y w. CARLETON.

Sep-

tember 1845 (see 512 in Section I) 4

A N D T I M E S O F A O D H O ' N E I L L , Prince of Ulster. Called by the English Hugh, Earl of Tyrone. By J O H N M I T C H E L . October 1845 Wrappers printed in green and bronze-brown, pp. 252 [paged (i)-xii + (13)-252] LIFE

•f The series was also issued in a 'presentation binding' of black morocco, with a harp in gold on front and back, spine fully gilt and all edges gilt.

37

DUFFY'S 5

LIBRARY

OF

IRELAND Wrappers printed in blue and black, pp. (xvi) + (13)—248 Similar irregularity in pagination to No. 9. It looks as though text were paged from (13) onward before the extent of the prelims, had been decided.

By w. C A R L E T O N . November 1845 (see 506 in Section I ) T H E S O N G S OF I R E L A N D . Edited by M. J. PARRA SASTHA.

6

BARRY.

December 1845

Wrappers printed in green and red. Inset leaf of adverts, precedes title, pp. (ii)+xvi + (25)(240) (N 4 ) adverts. Pagination and signing irregular in this volume, but the copy is in excellent condition and nothing is missing. Contents and Index both form part of the prelims. LITERARY

7

AND

THOMAS

HISTORICAL

DAVIS.

ESSAYS.

Christmas

Eve

T H E I R I S H W R I T E R S OF T H E

By

THE

15

1845.

16

MACNEVIN.

17

THE HISTORY TION.

By

M'CARTHY.

RT. H O N .

HENRY

GRATTAN,

BY

THE

BOOK

OF I R I S H

BALLADS.

Edited by

October 1846

HISTORICAL WORKS OF THE RT. N I C H O L A S F R E N C H , D.D., Bishop of

REV.

19 *Art Maguire by W . Carleton (? month) 1847 This is not a first edition, the work having originally appeared in 1845 (see 492 in Section I).

ByTHOMAS

OF T H E A M E R I C A N

OF

18 DITTO. Vol. I I (containing The Unkind Deserter). (?) December 1846 Wrappers printed in blue and black, pp. (vi) + 10 pp. unfoliated + (5)-(204) M10 blank.

now first col-

(?) May or June 1846

MICHAEL DOHENY.

CURRAN,

Ferns. Vol. I (containing The Bleeding Jphigenia, The Settlement and Sale of Ireland, Letters, etc.) (?) November 1846 Wrappers printed in blue and black, pp. lxxx + (81)-84 + (l)-144

20 "History of the Rebellion of '98. By Edward Hay. (? month) This is not a first edition, the work having originally appeared in 1803.

Wrappers printed in blue and black. Folding map follows last page of text. 'Library of Ireland Advertiser', 32 pp. on thin paper dated May 1846, followed by the first (blank) of two leaves of same paper wrapped round prelims., precede title. These two thin leaves are reckoned in pagination, thus: pp. (xii) [of which (i) (ii) and (xi) (xii) are on thin paper and included 'as the work went to Press'] + (13)-260 13

RT. H O N . J. P.

Wrappers printed in blue and black, pp. 252 [paged ( ¡ M x ) + (ll)-252]

lected. April 1846 Wrappers printed in blue and black. 'Duffy's Literary Advertiser', 24 pp. undated, precedes title, pp. xxx + 232 T H E C O N F I S C A T I O N OF U L S T E R .

OF T H E

D. F. M'CARTHY.

(?) March 1846

12

By

D. o. MADDEN. With Addenda and Letter in reply to Lord Clare. September 1846 Wrappers printed in blue and black. Inset leaf of adverts, precedes title, pp. (ii) + iv + (5)-232

SEVENTEENTH

T H E P O E M S OF T H O M A S D A V I S ,

LIFE

LIFE

10 * T H E P O E T S A N D D R A M A T I S T S OF I R E L A N D .

11

KILKENNY.

b y T H O M A S D A V I S a n d A M E M O I R OF T H E

('Gallery of Irish Writers') By T H O M A S D ' A R C Y M ' G E E . January 1846 Wrappers printed in red and grey. pp. 252 [paged (i)-(xii) + (13)-252] 9 T H E C A S K E T OF I R I S H P E A R L S . Edited by THORNTON MACMAHON. (?) February 1846 Wrappers printed in red and grey. Half-title, pp. xxiv + (13)-240 Once again an apparently causeless irregularity in pagination. B y DENIS FLORENCE

OF

(?) August 1846 Wrappers printed in blue and black, pp. 234 [paged (i)-xii + (13)-234] Final leaf, 0 3 , a single inset. Pp. (229)-254 Appendix.

CENTURY.

Vol. I.

CONFEDERATION

R E V . C. P. M E E H A N .

Dated 1846 Wrappers printed in green and black. Leaf of adverts, precedes title, pp. 252 [paged (i)-(xii) + (13)-252] 8

THE

14

21

T H E G E R A L D I N E S , E A R L S OF D E S M O N D , a n d

the Persecution of the Irish Catholics. Translated by REV. c. p. MEEHAN. (? month) 1847 Wrappers printed in blue and black, pp. xii + (240) Oia adverts. Preface dated January 30, 1847.

REVOLU-

22 * M E M O I R S MCGEE.

July 1846

OF ART ( ? ) 1847

MACMURROUGH.

By

Here the series officially ended; but in February 1849 was published in the same format Songs of Ireland: Second Series, edited by Hercules Elliss, and this volume is generally accepted as belonging to the Library of Ireland. In 1848 the series proper was re-issued in 11 vols., each containing two of the original volumes, bound in green cloth at two shillings and also in green morocco. New titles were printed for this re-issue. A moving spirit in this whole venture was Thomas Davis, and a Life of Wolfe Tone by him was advanceannounced as No. 4 in the series, together with a long list of works by other authors. Davis died suddenly in September 1845; and the plans (maybe also the possibilities) for publication on an extensive scale were severely curtailed. I t will have been noted that posthumous tributes to Davis in the form of volumes of his writings were a feature of the series, but that these did not include a biography of Tone. 38

DUMAS [3543]

THE

ELDER

D U M A S , A L E X A N D R E , THE ELDER Such precision as this section (and the Dumas entries elsewhere in the Catalogue) m a y possess is due entirely to the researches of Mr Douglas Munro. H e has for years been a t work on the huge and obscure subject of English translations of Dumas, and, pending the completion of his own full-length bibliography, has most generously supplied me with the facts regarding the various Dumas items in m y Collection. I am able, therefore, with fair certainty to record which among them are 'first editions in English', which 'first English editions' (i.e. published in England later t h a n in U.S.A.), and which mere reprints. The titles listed below exclude those Dumas translations which belong to named Series represented in the Collection and elsewhere recorded under their Series heading. The books which follow are, so t o speak, the ' u n a t t a c h e d ' Dumas translations, and are arranged alphabetically under title irrespective of publisher and date. All, except where otherwise stated, are in pictorial boards with backgrounds of various colours. Only ' first editions in English' are set in caps. The numbering, of course, is mine. 1 Ascanio : an Historical Romance C. H. Clarke, n.d. [1858 or 1859], Small format. Is. 6d. A reprint. The first edition in English was Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York, Taylor & Co. 1845 or 1846. First English edition, C. H. Clarke 1847.

Routledge 1860. Yellow boards with portrait of Garibaldi; lettering, etc. in the green, yellow, red of Italian freedom. End-papers printed with publishers' adverts, dated 1860. Lithographed portrait front. Small format. Half title, pp. (352) Y 2 -Y 8 publishers' cat. paged (1)-14, undated. First edition in English.

2 Beau Tancrede Routledge, n.d. Yellow paper wrappers cut flush and printed with a portrait of Dumas, patterning and lettering in red and black. Small format. Price Is. This (like 5, 15, 17 and 20) belongs to a rather degraded cheap uniform edition of Dumas, published in the late seventies. 3

4

8

Catherine Blum Routledge 1861. Small format. A volume in Routledge's Railway Library. Is. 6d. First English edition. The first edition in English was New York, Appleton 1854, under the title The Foresters.

9

Château Rouge, or the Reign of Terror Routledge 1859. Small format. A volume in Routledge's Railway Library. Is. 6d. A reprint. The first English edition appeared in 1846 and between 1846 and 1859 versions of the novel (Le Chevalier de Maison Rouge) were published by eight different firms. This Railway Library edition is mainly remarkable for its mistranslations. Chevalier de Maison Rouge. 2 above.

6

GARIBALDI:

AN

Uniform with

11

(edited Translated by William

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

by Alexandre Dumas). Robson

Isabel of Bavaria: an Historical Romance David Bryce, n.d. [I860]. Small format. 2s. In part a first English edition of this version. The first edition in English was from Bruce and Wyld, London 1846. The present Bryce edition offers a new translation of Chaps, i-vi, but thereafter is a garbled version of the Bruce and Wyld text. The author's preface is omitted.

10 Marguerite de Valois: an Historical Romance Routledge, n.d. [1856], Small format. 2s. A reprint of the first edition in English of La Reine Margot, published in Bogue's European Library in 1846.

Corsican Brothers (The) Routledge, n.d. [1885]. Pictorial wrappers, cut flush. Small format. Is. A reprint. This version (by Henry Frith) had first been published in 1880. Several other editions in English, variously relevant to Dumas' original, had earlier appeared between 1852 and the late seventies.

7

Half Brothers (The), or the Head and the Hand Routledge, n.d. Small format. A volume in Routledge's Railway Library. 2s. A reprint of a translation of Le Bâtard de Maulèon. The first edition in English was by Appleyard, London 1848. The first Routledge edition was 1858.

39

Mary Stuart Henry Lea, n.d. [I860]. Small format. 2s. A reprint, omitting the wood-blocks, of the version published by Clarke in 1853 in 'Illustrated Literature of all Nations' under the title Mary, Queen of Scots. The first edition in English was that published by G. Pierce, London 1846 or 1847.

12 Memoirs of a Physician Routledge, n.d. [circa 1866-7]. Large format. A reprint. The first English edition of Les Mémoires d'un Médecin: Joseph Balsamo was practically contemporaneous with the first French edition 1846-8, forming Nos. 2 and 10 of the Parlour

PI- *

DUMAS

THE

ELDER First English edition. The first edition in English was New York, Dean 1848. Examples are very uncommon of books bound in yellow cloth and pictorially blocked exactly as though they were regulation yellow-backs. Such specimens perhaps represented a specially strengthened issue for library use. This work was also published in yellow-back boards with identical pictorial and decorative blocking. The price of the two issues, oddly enough, was the same. The public undoubtedly got its money's worth, although in painfully small type. Vol. I contains 679 pages and Vol. II, 600. The same picture appears on both front covers.

Library. This imperfect version, without revision, was several times reprinted by Routledge. 13

OTTO THE

ARCHER

Henry Lea, n.d. [I860]. Small format. First edition in English.

Is.

14 Page of the Duke of Savoy (The). Uniform with 2 and 5 above.

15 Queen's Necklace (The) : a Sequel to Memoirs of a Physician Routledge, n.d. [circa 1885]. Large format. A reprint. The first edition in English of Le Collier de la Reine was New York, W. F. Burgess 1850. The first English edition was Parlour Library No. 132, and this is the translation reprinted in the present edition.

16

Regent's Daughter (The). and 14 above.

21 Watchmaker (The)

Henry Lea, n.d. [I860]. Small format. Is. 6d. Imprint on title, front cover and end-papers, as above. But outside back cover advertises the 'Popular Publications' of David Bryce, among them The Watchmaker at 2s. A reprint. The first edition in English was a translation by Eugene Plunkett entitled The Devil's Wedding-Ring or the Adventures of a Watchmaker, New York, Williams Bros (?) 1844. This was re-issued in 1847. The first English edition (same translation) came from Bryce in 1860 and was immediately reprinted by Henry Lea (i.e. the present edition). Subsequently both C. H. Clarke and Routledge reprinted Plunkett's translation. None of these English pirates acknowledge the translator's name. L'Horloger has the peculiar distinction of having completely disappeared in its original edition. No serial issue in French, or book-issue published in France or Belgium, has been located.

Uniform with 2, 5

17 Russian Gipsy (The), or The Palace of Ice

Henry Lea, n.d. [I860]. Small format. 2s. First English edition. The first edition in English of La Maison de Glace was New York, E. D. Long 1860, and this first English edition was the same translation issued later in the same year.

18

SPECTRE

(The),

MOTHER

Or

LOVE

AFTER

DEATH

C. H. Clarke 1864. Small format. Pp. (288) [paged 292] 2s. First edition in English of Albine. 19

Twenty Years After. and 16 above

Uniform with 2, 5, 14

20 Vicomte de Bragelonne (The), or Ten Years Later

For other Dumas titles under Series-headings, see HODGSON'S N E W S E R I E S OF NOVELS (below) J PARLOUR NOVELIST and PARLOUR LIBRARY

2 vols. Routledge 1857. Yellow pictorial cloth. Small format. Per vol. 2s. 6d.

[3544]

DUMAS, A L E X A N D R E ,

THE

(in Section III).

YOUNGER

Denise (The Story o f ) [Founded on the Drama Denise] Spencer Blackett 1891. Large format. 2s. Imprint on title as above; imprint on front cover ' J . & R. Maxwell'.

Harriet, or The Adventures of a Lady of Title E. Harrison, Salisbury Court, n.d.

Small format.

2s.

Lady with the Camélias (The)

E. Harrison, Exeter Change, n.d. Small format. No price on covers, but advertised on outside back cover of Harriet at Is. 6d. This volume has a preface by Jules Janin and is described as 'Translated without Abridgement from the Eighth Paris Edition'. The picture on the front cover is repeated on the back cover. The spine is unlettered. Mr Munro informs me that he believes the first edition in English was New York, Dewitt & Davenport 1855, under the title Camille, or the Fate of a Coquette.

[3545]

EDEN,

HON.

ELEANOR

Dumbleton Common.

'New Edition.'

Chapman & Hall 1868. 40

Yellow pictorial boards.

Select Library.

ERCKMANN[3546]

EDWARDS,

AMELIA

Routledge, n.d. (after 1891). Pale buff pictorial wrappers, up-lettered on spine.

In the Days of My Youth.

Ward & Lock, n.d. (after 1891).

Monsieur Maurice and Other Tales. boards. Select Library. EDWARDES, Archie Lovell. [3548]

EDWARDS, Bridget.

TRIAN

B.

Half-a-Million of Money.

[3547]

CHA

'New Edition.'

Ward & Lock, n.d. (after 1881).

Yellow pictorial

A N N I E

'New Edition.' M.

Chatto & Windus, n.d. (1899).

Yellow pictorial boards.

BETHAM

Routledge 1893. Yellow pictorial boards.

Flower of Doom (The). 'Third Edition.' Ward & Downey, n.d. [1885]. Buff pictorial wrappers, up-letteTed on spine. Ward db Downey's Shilling Library of Fiction. [3549]

ELLIS,

SARAH

S.

or T H E M A N OF M A N Y F R I E N D S (by 'An Old Author') Slim 8vo. Sampson, Low 1855. Thick white boards, bevelled edges, printed in chocolate, dark blue and black with design of Christmas Tree and fancy lettering. Design repeated on back cover. Bright applegreen end-papers. Wood-engraved front, after George Craikshank, on special paper used also for printed title, though the latter alone is reckoned in collation, pp. (vi) + (228) (Q2) adverts. Binders' ticket: 'Bone & Son', at end. Note. A very unusual piece of production for a paper-board book. The front cover is signed: 'Bradbury & Evans Printers, Whitefriars', on the bottom bevel.

MY BROTHER,

[3550]

E R C K M A N N-C H A T R I A N (Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian) I. Smith, Elder Edition. Published in cloth at 3s. 6d. and in ornamental stiff wrappers, cut flush, at Is. The numbering is mine. 1

THE CONSCRIPT: a Tale of the French War of 1813. 1870 Green bubble-grain cloth, blocked in black and gold; chocolate end-papers. Wood-engraved front, and 24 illustrations, pp. (viii) + 288 Publishers' adverts., 4 pp. undated, at end. Binder's ticket: 'Burn', at end.

2 WATERLOO: a Story of the Hundred Days. Being a Sequel to'The Conscript'. 1870 Dark CTeam wrappers printed in grey blue and black ; cream end-papers. Wood-engraved front, and 3 illustrations.

pp. (iv) + (316)

205 206 adverts, (as in 1).

Book-label of John Bell Sedgwick. 8

4

B L O C K A D E OF P H A L S B U R G (The): an Episode of the Fall of the First French Empire. 1870 Dark cream wrappers, uniform with 2 but printed in green and black. End-papers, illustrations and booklabel as 2. pp. (iv) + 272 Publishers' adverts, as in 1 at end. I N V A S I O N O F F R A N C E I N 1814 ( T h e )

Dark cream wrappers, uniform with 2 and 3 but printed in chocolate and black. Portrait front. papers and book-label as 2 and 3. pp. xii + 276 Pp. (v)-xii carry a Memoir of the Authors.

End-

According to the English Catalogue only these 4 vols, were published. [3550a]

n . Ward & Lock (S. O. Beeton's) Edition. Only one title of this poor quality series is in the Collection. In contrast to the good manufacture, elegant appearance and evident authority of the Smith, Elder volumes, this book looks very inferior; and it and its fellows were probably pirated from early French editions. The series started in February or March 1871 and the first volume was Madame Thérèse. The specimen in the Collection ( P O P U L A R T A L E S A N D R O M A N C E S ) is undated and in white pictorial stiff wrappers cut flush, with printed end-papers. The front cover is headed: B E E T O N ' S E R C K M A N N C H A T R I A N L I B R A R Y (this series title also appears on spine) and the back cover advertises eight titles in cloth at 3s. Qd. and in paper at Is., as well as two others then running serially. S C F II

41

6

ERCKMA

NN- CHAT

RI

AN

Among the titles listed at Is. is T H E S T O R Y O F A P E A S A N T in two parts. I have seen these two parts bound in one volume in natural-coloured canvas, patterned and fancy lettered in blue and red, and described on front cover as: 'S. O. Beeton's Edition of Erckmann-Chatrian. Price Two Shillings.' It appears from the series-advert, on the back of this volume that only this title was re-issued in this form. [3551]

FARJEON,

B. L.

House of White Shadows (The). 'Fifth Edition.' Ward & Downey, n.d. Yellow pictorial boards. [3552]

FERRIER,

SUSAN

All Routledge, n.d., in yellow pictorial boards, small format. Destiny.

' N e w Edition, Revised a n d Corrected b y Miss Ferrier.'

Inheritance. Marriage.

'New Edition, Revised and Corrected by the Authoress.'

Note. These are almost certainly reprints (? in the seventies) from the plates of the edition of [1856]. [3553]

F I R S T CLASS L I B R A R Y (The)

1861

'Published for the Proprietor by Kent & Co., Paternoster Row', this (I fancy) short-lived series was heralded by a spirited Prospectus, from which a few sentences merit perpetuation. The Library is to contain First Class Copyright Works, 'each volume to have no coercive connection with preceding or succeeding volumes'....' It is idle to assume that first-class literature must be confined to the old three-volume novel and guinea and a half fashion. The Proprietors of the F I R S T C L A S S L I B R A R Y honestly believe they can afford to produce approved copyright works of some of our best living Authors at a price which will put them within reach of the great reading public.... Hitherto the perusal of works of celebrated authors at a low price was accompanied in too many cases by a terrible risk to the eyes. Take up any of the mis-named railway books, and try to read it as the train dashes along through cuttings or over viaducts, and the result is a dazing of the eyesight and a feeling of misery. The Proprietors of the F.C.L. wish to obviate these and other evils. In the first place they will give clear type and good paper; in the next they will insure that the cover does not remain in the reader's hand, so soon as the leaves are opened.' The volumes in the series are given hereafter in the order of appearance. They are not themselves numbered. All are of small format, and cased in bright green boards, designed and lettered in red and either dark green or dark blue. The series title and price appear on front cover and spine. Titles given in caps are first editions; those asterisked are not in the Collection. 1

AFTER OFFICE HOURS, b y EDMUND

N o d a t e on t i t l e ; Preface d a t e d 1861. Shillings, p p . (viii) + 312 2

PL 6

3

YATES

Dedicated t o Charles Dickens (misprinted ' D i c k e n ' ) .

*THE F I N E S T GIRL IN BLOOMSBURY, b y AUGUSTUS

Price T w o

MAYHEW

a Collection of Memorable Trials, b y L A S C E L L E S W R A X A L L Price T w o Shillings, p p . v i i i + (360) AA 4 adverts., of which recto over i m p r i n t of W a r d

CRIMINAL CELEBRITIES:

Title d a t e d 1861. & Lock.

Ink signature: 'J. Browne', on title. 4 Twice Round the Clock, by G. A. Sala Title d a t e d 1861. Price Half a Crown, p p . 424 T w o leaves d a t e d September 1, 1861, inserted between f r o n t end-papers advertise surplus library books f r o m W . H . Smith's Library. R u b b e r s t a m p : ' J . R . Molineux', on verso of title. Note. Mr R a l p h Straus informs m e t h a t he has a copy of this book in full purple morocco cloth, blocked in blind a n d gold-lettered on spine w i t h title a n d n a m e of series. P r e s u m a b l y t h e other volumes, also, were published in cloth as well as in boards.

At this point, order of publication (and indeed facts of publication) become obscure. The back cover of No. 4 announces as ' In the Press' The Honour of the Family by Watts Phillips. But the back cover 42

GABORIAU of the only other volume in the Collection (see below) announces as ' N o w R e a d y ' the four titles above given and Maids of Honour b y Robert Folkestone Williams; also as ' I n the Press' Sala's Baddington Peerage, Aylmer's Memoirs of a Lady in Waiting and Braddon's Lady Lisle. I t makes no mention of The Honour of the Family nor of the book on whose back cover the advertisement appears. For convenience sake alone, we proceed to describe as No. 5

JEST AND EARNEST, b y GODFREY

TURNER

Title dated 1861. Price Two Shillings. Half-title, pp. 336 Note. It is worth remarking that of the titles announced as ' I n the Press' on the back cover of No. 5, Aylmer's Lady in Waiting and Braddon's Lady Lisle actually appeared a year later (1862) in Ward & Lock's Shilling Volume Library (3711). I suspect they never came out in the First Class Library, and that that venture failed, its commitments being taken over by Ward & Lock (unless indeed Kent were a 'cover' for Ward & Lock or for some one connected with them—possibly John Maxwell). Finally, Mr Ralph Straus informs me that he has never seen The Baddington Peerage in this series and doubts its having ever appeared, especially as an abbreviated version of the novel ran serially from August 1861 in The Welcome Guest. [3554]

FISHER,

ADMIRAL

Petrel (The). [3555]

Piper, Stephenson & Spence, n.d.

FLAUBERT,

Yellow pictorial boards. Small format.

GUSTAVE

Salammbo. Translated by J . S. Chartres. Vizetelly 1886. Pale yellow pictorial boards. Specially drawn spine. G A B O R I A U , SMILE [3556]

I. Original Vizetelly Issue. Published a t one shilling each, in orange-scarlet (or crimson) stiff wrappers, cut flush and printed in black—on front, with decorative frame, portrait, title, imprint and, a t head, series title: G A B O R I A U ' S S E N S A T I O N A L N O V E L S , and price; up-lettered on spine; on back printed with adverts, (unless otherwise stated). Pale blue printed end-papers. No series number on covers, b u t each volume numbered on title. 1

IN P E R I L OF HIS L I F E

1881

1

pp. (256) The paging calls for a half-title, and there may originally have been one in this copy for A8 is a single leaf. Four-page leaflet advertising 'Select Library of Fiction' as on sale at Smith's bookstalls, inset after p. (256). THE LEROUGE CASE

2

OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY

Half-title, 4

pp. (248)

2 VOls.

1881

Half-title in each vol. Vol. I pp. (232) P 4 adverts. II pp. (208) N 8 adverts. Four-page inset advertising 'Vizetelly's Popular French Novels ' at end. THE MYSTERY OF ORCIVAL a n d PROMISE MARRIAGE 1883

OLD

MAN

THE

SLAVES

OF

PARIS.

10

T H E COUNT'S MILLIONS.

11

THE

OF

C L I Q U E . 'Twentieth Thousand.' 1885 Half-title, pp. (256) This volume has plain white end-papers. THE GILDED

CATASTROPHE.

Half-title in each vol. Vol. I pp. (196) II pp. 196 43

OF

BATIGNOLLES

2 vols. Vol. I, Vol. II, 'Thirtieth

2 vols. 'Twentieth Thousand.' 1886 Half-title in each vol. Vol. I pp. (192) II pp. (200) These volumes have very pale green printed endpapers.

Half-title, pp. (216) 0 3 0 4 adverts. This volume has pale yellow printed end-papers. 6

LITTLE

'Second Edition', 1884. Thousand', 1886 Half-title in each vol. Vol. I pp. (228) II pp. (212)

Q3 Q, adverts.

LECOQ THE DETECTIVE.

5

THE

9

1881

'Twenty-fifth Thousand.'

and Other Stories. 'Twenty-fifth Thousand.' 1885 Half-title, pp. (200) G4 adverts.

1881

Half-title, pp. (224) 0 6 - 0 8 adverts. 3

8

N O . 113. 1885 Half-title, pp. (240) DOSSIER

2 vols. 1885

GABORIAU 12 T H E I N T R I G U E S o r A P O I S O N E B and C A P T A I N C O U T A N C E A U . 'Twentieth Thousand.' Half-title, pp. (200) G4 adverts. This volume has very pale green printed end-papers.

1886

[3556a]

n . Re-issue in cloth: Double volumes at H a i f a Crown. 8 vols. Vizetelly 1885. Scarlet diagonalfine-ribbed cloth, blocked on front in dark brown with decorative design enclosing title and incorporating general heading SENSATIONAL FEENCH NOVELS and imprint. Gold-lettered on spine. Blind blocked on back. Cambridge blue chalk surface end-papers. These volumes consist of sheets of the original issue with new 4 pp. prelims., incidental adverts, removed, and 8 pp. of undated adverts, at end. The volumes are not numbered and each includes two volumes of the original issue. The titles are arranged as follows: 1 and 12; 2 and 3 (this vol. not in the Collection); 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9; 10; 11.

[3557]

GERSTAECKER,

FREDERICK

a Tale Routledge 1857. Yellow pictorial boards (? by Phiz). End-papers printed with adverts. Small format, pp. (176) Publishers' cat., 8 pp. dated November 1856, at end. Slip of lilac paper tipped on to front endpapers advertises cheap edition of Bulwer Lytton.

THE HAUNTED HOUSE:

[3558]

GLEIG,

G. R.

Both Routledge, small format. Light Dragoon (The). 'Twenty-eighth Thousand.' 1854. Cream boards, design printed in red and black (probably by Crowquill). Specially drawn spine, front cover design repeated on back. Veterans of Chelsea Hospital (The). Railway Library. [3559]

GRANT,

'New Edition.'

1857. Yellow pictorial boards, specially designed spine.

JAMES

First Editions. The two titles imprinted ' J . & C. Brown' are listed as first editions despite the fact that they also appeared in the series ROUTLEDGE'S ORIGINAL NOVELS (3672 below). Quite apart from that series' claim to offer only new fiction, Routledge would be a more probable imprint for Grant than Brown; but I cannot reconcile the apparent dates of the Brown editions with what would seem to be the Routledge dates for Nos. 20 and 21 of the ' Original Novels'. [3560]

ABTHUR BLANE,

[3561]

CONSTABLE

[3562]

or the Hundred Cuirassiers J. & C. Brown, n.d. (1858). Yellow pictorial cloth in imitation of yellow-back boards. Small format. pp. viii + (368) Booksellers' ticket: 'Mann Nephews', inside front cover.

or Forty-Second Highlanders Routledge 1859. Yellow pictorial boards (by Phiz). End-papers printed with adverts. Small format. pp. (viii)+ (388) [mispaged (5)-(392)] Publishers' cat., 12 pp. undated, at end. Pencil signature: 'J. Browne', on title. Note. This is a volume in Routledge's Railway Library.

[3563]

or the Fusiliers Routledge 1861. Yellow pictorial boards. Endpapers printed with adverts. Small format. pp. (viii)+432 Note. This is a volume in Routledge's Railway Library.

[3564]

or the Black Watch in Egypt Routledge (1885). Pale yellow pictorial boards, spine with conventional design common to the uniform yellow-back editions. End-papers printed with adverts. Large format.

[3565]

L E G E N D S OF T H E B L A C K W A T C H ,

o r F R A N C E ( T H E ) , and other Military Historiettes Routledge, n.d. (1866). Pale yellow pictorial boards, spine with conventional design common to the uniform yellow-back editions. End-papers printed with adverts. Small format. Half-title, pp. v i i i + (368) 2A8 adverts.

OLIVER ELLIS,

H I G H L A N D E R S OF G L E N O R A ( T H E )

J. & C. Brown, n.d. [1857]. Yellow pictorial cloth, in imitation of yellow-back boards. Small format. pp. iv+404 Note. Bodley received their copy from the Copyright Agent on July 25, 1857. Later re-titled Laura Everingham (see 3568 below).

ROYAL HIGHLANDERS (THE),

44

GRANT pp. (384) 24, 248 adverts., paged 3-6. Blind stamp: ' W. H. Smith & Son', on fly-leaf and title. Note. I date this book from adverts, inside back cover which have printers' date at foot, from one dated advert., and from the fact that the Bodleian copy was sent in December 1885. [3566]

[3568]

Half-title, pp. viii + (312) X 2 -X 4 adverts, paged (3)-8. ' S C O T S B R I G A D E ( T H E ) ' , and Other Tales Routledge 1882. Pale yellow pictorial boards, spine with conventional design common to the uniform yellow-back editions. End-papers printed with adverts. Large format. Half-title, pp. (320) 203-208 adverts., the final leaf being pasted to inside back cover. Ink signature: ' J . Browne', on half-title.

and Other Novelettes Routledge [1879]. Pale yellow pictorial boards, spine with conventional design common to the uniform yellow-back editions. End-papers printed with adverts. Small format.

ROYAL R E G I M E N T (THE),

II.

YELLOW

FRIGATE

(THE).

1855.

See 3672 (8)

below.

Reprints.

Series I: Small Format. Unless otherwise stated these are in pale yellow pictorial boards, with uniform spine design, u n d a t e d and published b y Routledge. Arthur Blane. Copy I. ' A New Edition.' 1862. Uniform with first edition of 1858. Copy II. Uniform with the other volumes in this small format series.

Lady Wedderburn's Wish. Letty Hyde's Lovers

Lucy Arden (originally published—1859—as Hollywood Hall) Morley Ashton Oliver Ellis. 'New Edition.' 1865. Dark yellowback, not in series style. Railway Library. Only an Ensign Phantom Regiment Queen's Cadet and Other Tales

1881

Girl He Married (The)

Scottish Cavalier (The)

n.d.

Second to None

n.d.

Shall I Win Her?

Harry Ogilvie

Six Years A g o

Jack Manly

Vere of Ours

Jane Seton King's Own Borderers (The) [3568a]

1877

Romance of War (The)

Fairer than a Fairy First Love and Last Love

1878

Laura Everingham or The Highlanders of Glen Ora

Black Watch (The) Cavaliers of Fortune (The) Dick Rodney Copy I. 'New Edition.' Railway Library. Dark yellow-back, not in series style. Copy II. Uniform small format, series style. Did She Love Him? Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders (The)

'A New Edition.'

White Cockade

Series I I : Large Format. Unless otherwise stated these also are in pale yellow pictorial boards, with spine design identical with t h e small f o r m a t uniform edition b u t slightly extended; u n d a t e d and published b y Routledge. Playing with Fire 1887 Cameronians (The) 1882 Ross-shire Buffs (The) Secret Despatch (The). ' New Edition.' Chapman & Hall. 1874. Select Library of Fiction. Not in series style. Sketches in London. ' New Edition.' Ward & Lock, n.d. Not in series style. Specially designed spine. Contains: 'Preface to the Present Edition.' Vere of Ours. Red cloth, blocked in black and gold, uniform with Morley Ashton. Violet Jermyn

Captain of the Guard Colville of the Guards Dead Tryst (The) Dulcie Carlyon

1886

Derval Hampton 1887 Morley Ashton. This copy is in red cloth, blocked in black and gold, a style in which this uniform series of Grant was simultaneously issued. 45

[3567]

GRATTAN [3569]

GRATTAN,

T . C.

Heiress of Bruges (The). Walter Scott, n.d. Cream boards patterned in red and blue (uniform with Adams' Democracy). Coloured front, and 3 plates. Jacqueline of Holland. [3570]

GREY,

Weldon, n.d.

MRS

Bosom Friend (The).

J. & C. Brown 1858.

Old Country House (The). Railway Library. Rectory Guest (The). format.

GRIFFIN,

HALL,

Routledge 1859.

J. & C. Brown, n.d. [circa 1858].

Small format.

Yellow pictorial boards.

Small format.

Yellow pictorial boards, specially drawn spine.

Small

Cream boards patterned in red and blue (uniform with Adams' Democracy).

GERALD

Collegians (The). Library. [3572]

Yellow pictorial boards.

'New Edition.'

Sybil Lennard. Walter Scott, n.d. Coloured front, and 3 plates. [3571]

Pale yellow pictorial boards.

'New Edition.'

Routledge 1861.

Yellow pictorial boards.

Small format.

Railway

M R S S. C.

and Other Tales Routledge 1857. Yellow pictorial boards, end-papers printed with adverts. Small format. Half-title, pp. (viii) + 312 Ink signature: 'J. Browne', on title. See also above: A M U S I N G L I B R A R Y .

L U C K Y P E N N Y (THE),

[3573]

B I F T I N T H E ROCK ( T H E )

[3574]

Whiteboy (The). of Fiction.

Groombridge & Sons, n.d. [1871]. Cream paper wrappers printed in brown, green and red with design adopted for The Rainbow Stories. Wood-engraved front, and 1 illustration, pp. 49-96 (no title) 4 pp. adverts, precede front.; inside covers printed with adverts. Blind stamp: 'Presentation copy', on front cover. Note. No. 2 of THE R A I N B O W S T O R I E S , published at 4c?. and paginated straight through from No. 1. Copy I:'Cheap Edition.'

Chapman & Hall 1855.

Copy II. Chapman & Hall (1880).

[3575]

HANNAY,

HARDY,

Select Library

Cream pictorial boards.

JAMES

King Dobbs. 'New Edition.' Small format. [3576]

Yellow printed boards.

Routledge 1856.

Yellow pictorial boards.

Cover designed by McConnell.

THOMAS

Pictorial boards. Large format. Desperate Remedies. Downey 1891.

'Fourth Edition.'

Pair of Blue Eyes (A). 1892.

Ward &

'New and Cheaper Edition.'

_ _ ^ , , ... , , Far From the Madding Crowd. 'New and Cheaper

Two on a Tower. 'New and Cheaper Edition.' 1890. [ T h e a b o v e four t i t l e s a r e i n p J e b l u e b o a r d s a n d

Hand of Ethelberta (The). Edition.' 1892.

Under the Greenwood Tree. Chatto & Windus 1892.

volumes in [Sampson] Low's Standard Novels Series.] 'New and Cheaper 46

' A New Edition.'

HAYWARD [3577]

H A R L A N D ,

H E N R Y

Yoke of the Thorah (The) ('by Sidney Luska'). Cassell, n.d. (1888). Pictorial boards—front, and spine printed all-over in dark blue, with cut-out lettering and picture. H A R T E , BRET These titles are wholly or in part First Editions (see Brussel, Anglo-American First Editions) except possibly Jeff Briggs which Brussel does not record. and Other Stories Chatto & Windus 1882. Yellow pictorial boards. Printed end-papers. Large format. Advert, leaf precedes title, pp. 256 Publishers' cat., 32 pp. dated July 1882, at end. Ink-signature: 'Elizabeth Izou', on title. [Brussel, p. 33, describes copy in cloth.]

[3578]

FLIP

[3579]

F O O L OF F I V E F O R K S

[3580]

H E I R E S S OF R E D D O G

[3581]

[3582]

and Other Sketches Chatto & Windus 1880. Yellow pictorial wrappers, cut flush. Up-lettered on spine. Printed endpapers. Small format. Half-title, pp. 128 Publishers' cat., 32 pp. dated December 1879, at end. Ink signature: 'E. Izou', on half-title.

(The)

[3581a]

S T O R I E S OF T H E S I E R R A S , etc.

[35816]

Hotten (1872). Cream pictorial wrappers, cut flush. Up-lettered on spine. Printed endpapers. Small format. Wood-engraved front, and vignette on title. Two advert, leaves (the first pasted to front cover) precede half-title, pp. (156) [paged 152] Inset advert, leaf also precedes half-title. Publishers' cat., 28 pp. dated 1872, at end. Ink-signature: 'E. Izou', on title. [Brussel, p. 22.]

Routledge [1875]. Yellow boards printed in black and red. Up-lettered on spine. Printed endpapers. Small format, pp. 128 [Brussel, p. 25.] (An)

Chatto & Windus 1879. Yellow pictorial boards. Printed end-papers. Large format. Half-title, pp. viii + 300 Publishers' cat., 40 pp. dated August 1879, at end. [Brussel, p. 31, describes copy in cloth.] IN THE CARQUINEZ

JEFF BRIGG'S LOVE-STORY

S T O R Y O]F A M I N E

(The)

Routledge, n.d. [1877]. Yellow pictorial boards, up-lettered on spine, back cover printed with advert, of 'Routledge's American Library'. Printed end-papers. Small format, pp. (192) N7 N 8 adverts. Ink signature: 'A. H. Izou', on title. Note. Cf. Brussel, p. 28, where there is a reproduction of the front cover.

WOODS

Longman etc. 1883. Yellow pictorial boards. Printed end-papers. Large format. Half-title, pp. (iv) + (252) Q6 Q6 adverts. Ink signature: 'Elizabeth Izou', on title. [Brussel, p. 33.] H A Y W A R D , W. STEPHENS

Unless otherwise stated, all published by C. H. Clarke, undated, in uniform pictorial boards, lettered on spine: ' W . S. Hayward's Novels.' The title in caps is a First Edition. Copy II. Uniform cover, but on spine: ' Clarke's Standard Novel Library.' Back end-papers Chapman & Hall adverts.

L O R I M E R , or the Young Surgeon of Featherstonehaugh. Wood-engraved front, pp. (viii) + 312 A Publisher's Note explains that Hayward left this story unfinished. It has been completed by Dr Charles M. Clarke.

ANDREW

One in a Thousand Ran Away from Home

Black Angel (The). Wood-engraved front.

[circa 1879]

Rebel Privateer (The) Rodney Ray

Black Flag (The). J. & R. Maxwell, n.d. Bright blue cloth, blocked in black and gold, (Cloth issue of the yellow-back edition.)

[circa 1879]

Star of the South. Wood-engraved front. ' Clarke's Standard Novel Library' on spine. End-papers: Chapman & Hall adverts.

Demons of the Sea

Stolen Wall (The). J. & R. Maxwell, n.d. I Bright blue cloth, uniform with Black Flag. I I Yellow pictorial boards (1890).

Fiery Cross (The) Love's Treason

Three Red Men. Spencer Blackett, n.d. [circa 1892]. Yellow pictorial boards.

Mutiny of the Thunder (The) 47

[3581c]

HAWTHORNE [3583]

HAWTHORNE,

JULIAN

Section 558 or The Fatal Letter. Cassel, n.d. (1888). American Library of Fiction. [3584]

H E L P S , SIR A. Ivan de Biron.

[3585]

'New Edition.'

HEMYNG,

'Fifth Edition.'

Chapman & Hall, n.d.

Drab pictorial boards.

Select Library of Fiction.

BRACEBRIDGE

occupies two of the end-pages and the back cover with adverts, of his firm. His name is more prominent than Hemyng's on the front cover. One suspects the whole publication to have been at his cost and charged to 'Publicity'.

(by B.H., 'author of 'The Gambler's Last Throw', 'Secrets of the Turf', etc.') C. H. Clarke, n.d. [? sixties]. Pictorial wrappers, cut flush. Spine up-lettered. Back printed with Clarke adverts. Green and yellow end-papers printed with Chapman & Hall adverts. pp. (ii) + (150) 1st leaf of final sig., L,, a single inset. Ink signature of George Cruikshank on title.

HELD

IN THRALL

JOURNEYS ('By a Commissionaire'). [35886is] Edited by Bracebridge Hemyng, author of 'On the Rank', 'On the Line', 'Rat-Tat Papers', 'Telegraph Secrets', 'Secrets of the Dead Letter Office', ' I n the Brigade', 'Secrets of the River', 'Toilers of the Thames' J . A. Berger, n.d. [? early seventies]. Pictorial wrappers, cut flush (title spelt' Strange Journies'). Spine up-lettered (correctly). Back printed with Berger advert. End-papers printed with adverts. of Select Library of Fiction, but without imprint of Chapman & Hall, pp. (ii) +126 1st leaf of final sig., I j , a single inset. Note. Although described as ' edited by' Hemyng, I have little doubt that he was the author of these sensational stories. The back wrapper advert, lists five of the titles frankly credited to him on the title-page, but gives as their authors ' a Postman', ' a Railway Guard', ' a Fireman', etc.

STRANGE

or the Girl he Loved and the Girl he Married C. H. Clarke, n.d. [circa 1870]. Pictorial wrappers, cut flush. Spine up-lettered. Back wrapper printed with commercial advert. End-papers printed with Chapman & Hall adverts, pp. (iv) + (156)

[3587]

M A N O F T H E P E R I O D (THE),

[3588]

STOCKBROKER'S

[3589]

Chatto & Windus 1883. Yellow pictorial boards.

HOLMES, o. w. Elsie Venner.

[3586]

Pale yellow boards, pictorially printed in red and blue.

W I F E ( T H E ) (by B.H.,' author of "Called to the Bar", "On the Line", etc.'). Edited by John Shaw J . & R. Maxwell, n.d. [circa 1885]. Yellow pictorial boards. Large format, pp. (224) 0 a - 0 8 adverts, (commercial). Note. John Shaw, Stock and Share Broker,

HODGSON'S N E W S E R I E S OF N O V E L S (published by Thomas Hodgson, Paternoster Row)

1859-1860

Published a t two shillings each with covers by Alfred Crowquill, these Novels are partly reprints of established favourites, partly translations from Dumas (first English editions) and occasionally an English story which m a y have been first issued in this form. The series started publishing in 1859, continuing during 1860. I cannot record beyond twelve titles. All the volumes are undated, numbered in the series, of small format, and carry cover picture both on front and back covers. First editions and first editions in English (not first English editions) are in caps. Titles asterisked are not in the Collection. I *The Rose of Ashhurst, by the author of Emilia

V * Stephen Dugard, by J . S. Mudford

Wyndham

VI

Ingenue, or The Death of Marat, by the author of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) [1860] Pictorial yellow back boards. End-papers printed with adverts. Small format. Half-title, pp. (viii) + (304) U8 adverts. Ink signature: ' J . Browne', on title.

II *The King's Secret, by Tyrone Power I I I *Smugglers and Forresters, by Rosa Mackenzie Kettle IV *Evelyn Marston, by the author of Wyndham

Emilia 48

HUGO First English edition. The first edition in English was Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo and Co. 1855, under the title Ingenue: or the First Days of Blood. Hodgson's text (which omitted Chaps, xvi, xvu and xvm of the French) was reprinted by Clarke in 1861 and Routledge in 1873. VII *Fabian's Tower, by the author of Smugglers and Forresters PI. 6

VIII

Pauline or Buried Alive, by the author of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) [1860] Pictorial pink-back boards. End-papers printed with adverts. Small format. Half-title, pp. (iv) + (308) X, pasted down to inside back cover. Publishers' adverts., 20 pp. undated, inserted between Xx and X2. Ink signature: 'J. Browne', on title. First English edition of this translation. The first edition in English was New York, Winchester 1842, under the title Pauline: a Tale of Normandy. The Winchester version was reprinted by H. G. Clarke in 1844 (?).

IX

[3590]

Julian Mountjoy, or the Non Pareil Family. An Historical Romance by Captain Curling [1860]

X *The Bushranger, by Charles Rowcroft X I *The Wreck Ashore, by the author of Tales of a Voyager XII

CHARLES

THE

BOLD:

AN

HISTORICAL

by the author of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) [1860] Pictorial yellow back boards. End-papers printed with adverts. Small format. Half-title preceded by advert, leaf. pp. (viii) + (344) Z3 Z4 blank. First and last leaves pasted to insidecovers. Ink signature: 'J. Browne', on title and date on half-title '3.7.1.' (? 1861). First and only edition in English of Charles le Téméraire. ROMANCE,

H O O K , THEODORE Peregrine Bunce. Routledge 1857. Yellow pictorial boards, specially designed spine. Cover drawing by Phiz. Small format. Railway Library.

Cousin Geoffrey. Routledge, Warne 1859. Yellow pictorial boards. Cover drawing by Phiz. Small format. Railway Library. Jack Brag. Ward & Lock, n.d. (after 1891). Yellow pictorial boards. Select Authors.

Precepts and Practice. Bryce, n.d. Yellow pictorial boards, small format.

Ned Musgrave, or the Most Unfortunate Man in the World. ' A New Edition.' Bryce 1853. Bright green glazed boards, printed in black. Ink signature: 'J. R. Molineux 1854', facing title and highly unfavourable comment on the novel in pencil on fly-leaf signed ' J.R.M. '54'. This is a new edition of Hook's first novel, The Man of Sorrow. (1206 in Section I.) [3591]

Pictorial white-back boards. End-papers printed with adverts. Small format. Half-title, pp. (viii) + (316) Pencil signature: 'Charles Penruddock. Compton Park', on title. This story was first published in 3 vols, in 1855 under the title Non Pareil House or the Fortunes of Julian Mountjoy.

Widow and the Marquess (The). Routledge, n.d. (after 1885). Yellow pictorial boards, small format. Spine carries lettered panel 'Hook's Novels'. A late boarding-up of sheets dating from the fifties.

H O W A R D , HON. E. G. All in pictorial boards and small format unless otherwise stated.

PL 8

Jack Ashore.

PI. 8

Outward Bound.

PI. 8

Rattlin the Reefer. 'Edited by Captain Marryat.' Copy I. Routledge 1856. Cover by Phiz. Copy II. Routledge, n.d. Large format, with different drawing on cover.

Bryce, n.d.

Old Commodore (The).

[3592]

Cover-drawing repeated on back-cover.

'Eighth Thousand.'

'Copyright Edition.'

Routledge 1855.

J. & C. Brown, n.d.

H U G O , VICTOR or the Demon Dwarf (followed by C L A U D E G U E U X ) George Pierce, 310 Strand, n.d. [? forties]. Pink wrappers printed in black and cut flush. Spine up-lettered: back wrapper blank. Steel engraved front, and vignette title on plate paper (no printed title), pp. (176) [paged (1)-(174)] L„ adverts. ? First Edition in English.

H A N S OF I C E L A N D ,

S C F II

49

7

HUGO Note. This book belongs to a 'Library of French Romance' advertised on L 8 , and was issued in weekly numbers. The other titles in the 'Library' were: (by Hugo) La Esmeralda or The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Noble Rival; (by Dumas) Marie Antoinette, Margaret of Navarre, The Prisoner of I f , Pascal Bruno ; (by J. la Cecilia) Masaniello. Hunchback of Notre Dame (The). Large format. Select Library.

'New Edition.'

Chapman & Hall (1869).

Yellow pictorial boards.

Les Misérables Copy I. 3 vols. Ward, Lock & Co. I Fantine, n.d.; II Cosette & Marius (1882); III Jean Valjean (1882). Pictorial boards, I and III uniform in standard Favourite Authors style ; II in Select Authors style. Large format. Copy H. 'Authorised Copyright English Translation.' Routledge, n.d. Yellow pictorial boards. Large format.

Toilers of the Sea Copy I. 'Tenth Edition.' 'Authorised Translation by W. Moy Thomas.' Sampson, Low 1875. Cream pictorial boards. Large format. Copy H. ['Workers of the Sea']. 'Translated by Sir Gilbert Campbell, Bart.' Ward & Lock, n.d. Greenishwhite pictorial boards. Large format. HUME, FERGUS [3593]

a Sequel to Madam Midas F. V. White 1890. White pictorial boards, endpapers printed with adverts, pp. vi + (316) X^Xg publishers' cat., 16 pp. undated.

an Italian Enigma Sampson, Low 1891. Glazed carmine wrappers cut flush pictorially printed in dark blue. Inside covers printed with adverts.

C R E A T U R E O F T H E N I G H T (A):

MISS M E P H I S T O P H E L E S :

pp. (iv) +156

M Y S T E R Y OF A H A N S O M CAB (THE)

Blind stamp: 'W. H. Smith & Son', on last page of text and back cover. [3594]

Hansom Cab Publishing Co., n.d. [1887]. 'One Hundredth Thousand.' Greenish-grey wrappers, cut flush, pictorially printed in black. Insidefront, spine, and both back covers printed with adverts.: Plesse & Lubin and ' The Secret'; Warner's ' Safe' Cure; Sapolio; Beecham's Pills. Inset leaf, with advert, on verso, precedes title, pp. (ii) + (232) Pp. (231) (232) adverts. Note. John Carter, in his essay 'Detective Fiction' (New Paths in Book Collecting, London, 1934), quotes from a publisher's pamphlet a statement that the first London edition numbered 25,000 copies. He states that the earliest copy so far discovered is labelled ' One Hundredth Thousand'. Such post-one-hundred-thousand specimens as I have seen are wrappered in white, and the adverts, are mostly different. The story was originally published in Melbourne over the imprint: Kemp and Boyce. The book was undated. The London edition exactly reproduced the Melbourne front wrapper (imprint apart) and virtually repeated the wording of the title-page. I am inclined to suspect that the first London edition was labelled ' One Hundredth Thousand', Australian sales having been taken roughly in account.

GIRL FROM MALTA (THE)

Hansom Cab Publishing Co., n.d. [1889]. 'Fiftieth Thousand.' Buff wrappers, cut flush, printed in black. Inside covers printed with adverts.

pp. (196) Pp. (1) (2) adverts.; (3) half-title; (4) adverts.; (5) title; (6) adverts.; (7) Contents; (8) adverts.; (9) Portrait of the Author; (10) adverts.; (11) Dedication; (12) adverts.; (193)(196) adverts. Realistic and Sensational Story of Australian Mining Life Hansom Cab Publishing Co. 1888. 'One Hundredth Thousand.' White wrappers, cut flush, pictorially printed in black. Inside covers printed with adverts. pp. (224) Pp. (1) (2) adverts.; (3) half-title; (4) adverts.; (5) title; (6) adverts.; (7) Contents, Part I ; (8) adverts.; (9) Contents, Part I I ; (10) adverts.; (11) Dedication; (12) adverts.; (223) (224) adverts.

[3595]

MADAM MIDAS:

[3598]

ILLUSTRATED

PENNY

TALES FROM T H E ' S T R A N D ' L I B R A R Y

[1894]

4to. 'Published at the Offices of "Tit-Bits'" (by George Newnes Ltd.). Nos. 1-10, undated and with no indication of periodicity, were issued in wrappers of different colours printed in black—on front with 50

[3596]

[3597]

JEWSBURY series-title, number of P a r t , Contents, and violent illustration after various artists, on inside-wrappers and outside-back-eovers with adverts. E a c h P a r t contains 16 pp., with numerous text-illustrations and paged separately. The series has issue-importance within the narrow limits of its author-significance, because its P a r t s represent first book-issues of stories hitherto only printed in a magazine. I t has also some interest as a precursor of N E W N E S P E N N Y L I B R A R Y OF F A M O U S B O O K S (3643 below). Space need not be given to a full schedule of Contents. The following are the authors worth noting: Grant Allen (Nos. 1, 9, 10); A. Conan Doyle (No. 2); de Maupassant (No. 3); F r a n k R. Stockton (No. 4); Pushkin (No. 4); Dumas (No. 6); G. Manville Fenn (Nos. 7, 8). [3599]

IRVING,

WASHINGTON

Salmagundi. Routledge 1855. Small format.

Yellow pictorial boards, cover drawing by Crowquill, up-lettered on spine.

Wolfert's Roost. Routledge 1855. Cream pictorial boards, printed in blue, brown and black, up-lettered on spine, front cover design repeated on back. Small format. See 3451 above. [3600]

JAMES,

G. P. R.

Uniform small format edition published b y Routledge. Pictorial boards on pale blue or pale yellow grounds. Conventional spines with J A M E S ' S N O V E L S on panel. Advert, pasted to some back covers. End-papers printed with adverts, 'G. P. R. J A M E S N O V E L S A N D T A L E S ' on some front covers. Undated. Agincourt Arabella Stuart Arrah Neil Attila Beauchamp Black Eagle (The) (or Ticonderoga). ' New Edition.' Brigand (The) (or Corse de Leon). 'New Edition.' Castelnau Castle of Ehrenstein (The) Charles Tyrrell Convict (The). ' New Edition.' Dark Scenes of History Darnley

Delaware D e L'Orme False Heir (The) Forest Days Forgery (The) Gentleman of the Old School Gipsy (The). ' New Edition.' Gowrie. 'New Edition.' Heidelberg Henry of Guise Huguenot (The) Jacquerie (The) John Marston Hall King's Highway (The) Leonora d'Orco

Man at Arms (The) Margaret Graham Mary of Burgundy Morley Ernstein My Aunt Pontypool One in a Thousand Philip Augustus Robber (The). ' New Edition.' Rose d'Albret Russell. ' New Edition.' Sir Theodore Broughton Smuggler (The) Stepmother (The) Whim and Its Consequences (A) Woodman (The)

Note. Judging from the format and style of cover picture, this series originally appeared about 1860— probably just after James's death. The present set is of much later binding (some of the end-papers are dated 1891), b u t in outward appearance they are as they first appeared. The following cover drawings are certainly, or in all probability, by Phiz: Arrah Neil; Beauchamp; Darnley, Delaware; De L'Orme; False Heir; Forgery; Gowrie; Huguenot. [3601]

JAMES,

HENRY

Daisy Miller (etc.). Macmillan 1888. Ivory ornamental boards, printed in black and red with standard Macmillan design (signed L. F. Day) for two-shilling issues. Princess Casamassima (The). Macmillan 1889. with same design as foregoing. [3602]

JERROLD,

Buff ornamental boards, printed in black and bright red

BLANCHARD

'Reprinted from Household Words.' boards, cover drawing by Phiz. Small format, pp. viii + 264

CHRONICLES OF THE CRUTCH.

[3603]

JEWSBURY,

Ward & Lock 1861.

Yellow pictorial

GERALDINE

Constance Herbert. Library.

'New Edition.'

Ward & Lock, n.d. (1882). 51

Bright green pictorial boards. Select

KAVANAGH [3604]

K A V A N A G H , JULIA John Dorrien. Madeleine. Queen Mab.

[3605]

Routledge 1893.

Pale yellow pictorial boards.

Ward & Lock, n.d. (1884).

Cover drawing by A. Corbould.

Very pale green pictorial boards.

Spencer Blackett, n.d. (after 1892).

Select Library.

Dark yellow pictorial boards.

KENT'S SHILLING STANDARD L I B R A R Y

1861

'Published for the Proprietor by W. Kent & Co., Paternoster Row' (cf. 'First Class Library') only six titles can be recorded as having appeared in this series, of which only the first is a first edition. The books are of small format, in boards of varying colour, uniformly printed in dark blue or black with a commonplace design and lettering, and up-lettered on spine. No. 1 has cover design repeated on back cover; on other volumes back cover advertises the titles in the series. The series title is part of the front-cover design and the volumes are numbered. Titles asterisked are not in the Collection. 1

by ' W A T E R S ' (on title: T W O L O V E S T O R I E S : an Anglo-Spanish Romance, by the author of 'A Skeleton in Every House'). Yellow boards, printed in black. Title dated 1861. pp. 192 Ink signature: 'Mary Harradene October 1866', on fly-leaf. TWO LOVE STORIES,

2 * Comic Tales, by Albert Smith 3

Wonderful Adventures of A. Gordon Pym, by Edgar Allan Poe.

Royal blue boards, printed in black.

Title undated. 4 »Fascination, by Mrs Gore 5 »Leaves from the Diary of a Law Clerk, by 'Waters' [cf. 3525 above]. 6 [3606]

College Life, by Cuthbert Bede.

Cream boards, printed in dark blue. Title undated.

K I N G S L E Y , CHARLES Alton Locke. 'Cheap Edition.' Chapman & Hall 1856. Small format. Select Library.

[3607]

(See 3441 above.)

Yellow pictorial boards, specially drawn spine.

K I N G S L E Y , HENRY All in pictorial boards on bases of various colours. Large format. Austin Elliot.

'Third Edition.'

Macmillan 1865.

Hornby Mills and Other Stories. Old Margaret. Ravenshoe. Valentin. [3608]

'New Edition.'

'Fifth Edition.'

Ward Lock, n.d.

Select Authors.

Ward & Lock, n.d.

Select Library.

Chapman & Hall 1872.

Select Library of Fiction.

'Revised and Corrected. Copyright Edition.'

KNIGHTON,

Routledge, n.d. (after 1884).

WILLIAM

Private Life of an Eastern King (The). 'New Edition Revised.' Routledge 1857. Yellow pictorial boards. Wood-engraved front, and other illustrations after Harrison Weir. Small format. [3609]

L A W R E N C E , G. A. Anteros.

Routledge, n.d. [circ. 1891].

Guy Livingstone. Hagarene.

'Sixth Edition.'

' Sixth Edition.'

Sword and Gown.

Cream pictorial wrappers.

Routledge, n.d. Yellow pictorial boards.

Ward & Lock, n.d. (1883).

Routledge, n.d. [circa 1891].

Yellow pictorial boards. Select Library.

Cream pictorial wrappers. 52

Railway Library.

LONDON [3610]

LE FANU,

CITY

TALES

J. S H E R I D A N

All in pictorial boards and large format. All in the Dark. 'New Edition.' Companion Library.

Morley Court (see No. 1373 d in Section I).

Warne, n.d.

Tenants of Malory (The). ' New Edition.' n.d. Companion Library.

Checkmate. 'Third Edition.' Chapman & Hall, n.d. Select Library of Fiction. GuyDeverell. 'New Edition.' Warne, n.d. Companion Library.

Uncle Silas. 'New Edition.' Chapman & Hall, 1879. Select Library of Fiction. Willing to Die. 'New Edition.' panion Library.

House by the Church-Yard (The). ' New Edition.' Warne, n.d. Companion Library. An earlier yellow-back was published by Chapman & Hall in (1870). [3611]

LEVER,

Warne,

Wyvern Mystery (The). Downey, n.d.

Warne, n.d. Com-

' New Edition.'

Ward &

CHARLES

All in pictorial boards on bases of various colours. Unless otherwise stated, large format. Pl. 4

Arthur O'Leary. Routledge 1856. Yellow-back. Cover and spine drawings by Phiz. Small format.

fFortunes of Glencore (The). 'Fourth Edition.' Chapman & Hall, n.d. Cover design by Phiz.

tCharles O'Malley. 1862.

Chapman & Hall

fHarry Lorrequer. Chapman & Hall 1862. Front, by Phiz ; cover drawing by or adapted from him.

Con Cregan. Copy I. Routledge 1856. Yellow pictorial cloth in imitation of a yellow-back; yellow end-papers. Cover design and 12 plates by Phiz. Large format.

fjack Hinton. Chapman & Hall 1857. Front, and cover drawing by Phiz.

2 vols.

Luttrell of Arran. 'New Edition.' Chapman & Hall 1867. Cover drawing by Phiz.

Copyll. 'New Edition.' Routledge 1862. Grey boards. Uniform spine design with Select Library volumes (see Note), but with 'Select Library' blacked out on spine. No illustrations. Davenport Dunn. 2 vols. Chapman & Hall 1863. Cover drawing by Phiz.

fOne of Them. Chapman & Hall 1863. drawing by Phiz.

Cover

fTom Burke of Ours. 'New Edition.' Chapman & Hall, n.d. (1869). Cover drawing by Phiz. Tony Butler. ' New Edition.' Ward & Lock, n.d. (after 1891). Select Authors.

Note. Titles marked | are volumes in Chapman & Hall's Select Library of Fiction and, with slight variations, are uniform in front lay-out and spine design, Most have printed end-papers, and covers on a grey base. [3612]

LINTON,

E. L Y N N

With a Silken Thread and Other Stories. [3613]

LONDON

CITY

TALES

Chatto & Windus (1897).

Yellow pictorial boards.

[1853]

Published by Ingram, Cooke & Co., 227 Strand, at one shilling each, in yellow boards printed with all-over design and lettered in red and black, the books in this series were all written by Miss E. M. Stewart. They are undated, but were issued in 1853. Each volume is of small format and has yellow end-papers printed with adverts. The series title appears on front cover and spine. Titles asterisked are not in the Collection. O F A I D G A T E : a Tale of the Goldsmith's Company Wood-engraved front., decorative title and 4 fullpage illustrations all on text paper and included in the collation, pp. (160) Pencil signature: 'John Hayden', on printed title.

3

OSBERT

FHILIFFA

DAUGHTER:

Company Illustrated as 1.

a

AND

Tale

THE

of the

a Tale of the Fish-

mongers' Company 4

T H E B R I D E OF B U C K L E R S B U R Y :

a Tale of the

Grocers' Company Illustrated as 1. pp. 160 5

QUEEN

* C L A R I B E L , THE SEA M A I D :

WHITTINGTON

AND

THE

KNIGHT

SANS-

a Tale of the Vintners' Company Illustrated as 1. pp. 152 Publishers' cat., 8 pp. undated, at end. TERRE:

HURRER'S

Haberdashers'

pp. 160

6 *FITZ-ALWYN, THE FIRST LORD 53

MAYOR

LONDON

CITY

TALES

Notes, (i) I t may be noted that Nos. 2 and 5 of the above have double pagination, i.e. at the top of the page each is foliated (1)-160 [or (1)—152] but at the bottom from (161) to 320 [or (161)-312]. Presumably the six boarded numbers were later bound into two cloth volumes, each containing 480 pages, but that can only be established by examining a copy of No. 3 or No. 6, both of which are unfortunately missing from the Collection. This double pagination is, in my experience, an unusual device. (ii) A Second Series of L O N D O N C I T Y T A L E S was announced as 'in the Press' in (I think) 1869 by the proprietors of The Illustrated Monthly Novelist, from their offices at 8 Palsgrave Place, Temple Bar. I have seen no specimen of this Second Series nor is there one in the Guildhall Library, but from the back wrapper of Miss Stewart's Snowed Up (3688 below) take the following particulars. The books were cr. 8vo and sold in pictorial wrappers cut flush at Is., or in cloth gilt at Is. 6d. Each volume had a frontispiece on toned paper and other illustrations. The six titles of the series, promised monthly from January onward, were: 1. Walter Lenham, or the Tradesman's Truth: a Tale of the Clothworkers' Company. 2. The Novice of St Helens: a Tale of the Merchant Tailors' Company. 3. Evil May-Day, or the 'Prentice of Fenchurch Street: a Tale of the Ironmongers' Company. 4. Sir Thomas Gresham and The Maiden's Dower: a Tale of the Mercers' Company. 5. The Merchant of Dowgate: a Tale of the Skinners' Company. 6. The Betrothed of St Mildreds, or the Merry Monarch and the Warden's Son: a Tale of the Salters' Company. The first of these titles was announced in 1853 as No. 6 of the First Series, but was substituted at the last moment by Fitz-Alwyn. The date 1869 is deduced from the first sentence of Miss Stewart's tale Snowed Up: 'Forty years ago, in the Year of Our Lord 1828, railways were a marvel.' Snowed Up was manifestly a Christmas volume, and I conclude was published late in 1868. The back wrapper announces Walter Lenham for 'Early in January'. [3614]

LOVER,

SAMUEL

Handy Andy. Routledge, n.d. Large format.

Pale blue pictorial boards. Cover-design by Phiz. Printed end-papers.

He Would be a Gentleman: or Treasure Trove. A Romance. 'A New Edition.' Copy I. Bryce, n.d. [circa 1855]. Bright green glazed boards, printed in black. Small format. Copy II. Chapman & Hall, n.d. (1879). Pale pink pictorial boards. Large format. Rory O'More. 'New Edition.' Routledge 1864. Yellow pictorial boards. Cover design by Phiz. end-papers. Small format. Railway Library. [3615]

[3616]

M A B E R L Y , HON. MRS Love Match (The). 'New Edition.' Bryce, n.d. Yellow pictorial boards, specially drawn spine. format. MALET,

Routledge 1857. Yellow pictorial boards. Small format. Railway Library.

M A L L O C K , w . H. Romance of the Nineteenth Century (A).

[3618]

Small

LADY

Violet or the Danseuse. [3617]

Printed

MARRYAT,

' New Edition.'

Chatto & Windus, 1894. Yellow pictorial boards.

CAPT. F R E D E R I C K

First Yellow-Back Edition. Small format, pictorial spines specially designed for each title. Pictorial boards, except where otherwise stated. Titles asterisked h a v e ' Routledge's Railway Library' on front covers. PI. 8

*Dog Fiend (The), or Snarleyyow. Routledge 1856.

PI. 8

»Jacob Faithful. Routledge 1856.

*Japhet in Search of a Father. 'A New Edition.' Routledge 1857. King's Own (The). Routledge 1856. 54

MAXWELL Monsieur Violet, Travels and Adventures of. Thomas Hodgson on cover: Simms & Mclntyre 1849 on title. Yellow boards, printed in cherry red and black with design and fancy lettering. This is a specimen of a Parlour Library volume re-clothed 'in brilliant cover by Alfred Crowquill'. Design repeated on back cover. •Newton Forster or Routledge 1856. PI. 8 [3618a]

The

Merchant

*Percival Keene. ' A New Edition with a Memoir of the Author.' Routledge 1857. Peter Simple. 1856.

'Thirtieth Thousand.'

Routledge

PI. 8

Phantom Ship (The). Routledge, n.d. [circa 1877]. Yellow pictorial wrappers, cut flush. Represents a late re-issue of an original board edition.

Service.

Poacher (The). ' A New Edition.' Routledge 1857.

»Pacha of Many Tales (The). Routledge 1856.

PI. 8

' A New Edition.'

•Valerie: an Autobiography. Routledge 1857.

Second Yellow-Back Edition. Medium format, conventional uniform spine design. All published by Routledge and undated. Dog Fiend (The), or Snarleyyow. 'New Edition.'

Newton Forster

Frank Mildmay.

Pacha of Many Tales (The)

'New Edition.'

Jacob Faithful

' A New Edition.'

PI. 8 PI. 8

Pictorial boards.

Percival Keene

Japhet in Search of a Father.

'New Edition.'

Peter Simple

King's Own (The)

Poacher (The)

M r Midshipman Easy

Note. The cover pictures are all different from those on the first yellow-back edition and carried out by inferior artists in ( I imagine) the early eighties. [3619]

M A R S H , ANNE Emilia Wyndham. Mount Sorel.

[3620]

'New Edition.'

'New Edition.'

MARTINEAU,

Yellow pictorial boards.

Select Library.

Select Library.

Routledge 1873.

Yellow pictorial boards.

Small format.

M A T H E R S , HELEN 'Cherry Ripe.'

Routledge (1893).

Jock o' Hazelgreen. Story of a Sin. [3622]

Ward & Lock (1882).

Pale green pictorial boards.

HARRIET

Hour and the Man (The). [3621]

Ward & Lock (1882).

Pale yellow pictorial boards.

Routledge 1884.

Routledge 1882.

Pale green pictorial boards.

Pale blue pictorial boards.

M A X W E L L , W. H. Adventures of Captain O'Sullivan 'by H. B. Maxwell, Esq.' (sic, on cover) Bryce, n.d. [1855]. Bright green glazed boards, printed in black. Small format. Ink signature: 'J. R. Molineux 1855', facing title.

Erin-go-Bragh. 'New Edition.' Bentley 1860. Yellow pictorial boards. Coverdrawing by Phiz. Small format. Note. Bentley yellow-backs are almost unknown. This appeared a year after the first edition.

Border Tales and Legends of the Cheviots and the Lammermuir David Bryce, n.d. Yellow pictorial boards. Cover drawing by Phiz. Small format.

Flood and Field, or the Recollections of a Soldier of Fortune Routledge 1857. Yellow pictorial boards. Engraved plates after H.K.B. (Phiz). Small format. Note. Originally published as The Bivouac.

Captain Blake, The Adventures of, or M y Life Routledge 1857. Bright green pictorial boards. Cover-drawing by Phiz. Small format. Railway Library.

Hector O'Halloran, The Fortunes of Routledge 1858. Yellow pictorial boards. Cover drawing by Phiz. Small format. Railway Library. 55

pi. 4

MAXWELL Stories of Waterloo Routledge 1856. Yellow pictorial boards. format. Railway Library.

Small

Copy II. Uniform with Copy I as to front, but plain type-set spine and adverts, on back. Both small format.

Wild Sports and Adventures Routledge 1853. Copy I. White boards, printed in dark green and red with titling and vignette, specially designed spine, front cover design repeated on back.

Wild Sports of the West. 'New Edition.' Routledge, n.d. (1873). Yellow pictorial boards. Cover drawing by Phiz. Small format. A late re-issue, with pencil dating 1873 on title.

MAYHEW, [3623]

[3624]

HORACE

being the Clandestine Correspondence between Kitty Clover at School and her ' Dear, Dear Friend' in Town Ingram, Cooke & Co. 1853. White wrappers, cut flush, pictorially printed and fancy-lettered on front in blue-black and dull brick-red. Up-lettered on spine: P R I C E O N E S H I L L I N G (no title). Back printed with advert. Wood-engraved front, and 6 full-page illustrations after Phiz, all on text paper. Half-title, pp. (viii) [paged vi] + (120) Publishers' adverts., 4 pp. on text paper, at end. Booksellers' ticket: 'Mann Nephews, Cornhill', on back cover. Notes, (i) This is reputed to be the first pictorial cover printed by Edmund Evans by his colour-block process, and, if this be so, can claim to be the first yellow-back. (ii) Later printings of the wrapper (there were at least five editions in the year of publication) are in bright red instead of dull brick. (iii) The blue-black background was produced by printing blue on red. (iv) The book was also issued in limp dark blue morocco cloth, with a reduced adaptation of the central portion of the pictorial wrapper blocked in gold on front cover with lettering above and below. Also blind-blocked on front and back; spine unlettered. A copy of this cloth issue is in the Collection.

L E T T E R S L E F T AT T H E P A S T R Y COOK'S:

MAYHEW,

HORACE

and

AUGUSTUS

Image of His Father (The). H. G. Bohn 1859. titles and plates by Phiz. Small format.

Yellow boards printed in black.

Etched front., vignette

Whom to Marry. Routledge, n.d. (1872). Yellow pictorial boards, cover drawing by Phiz, specially designed spine. Etched front, and plates by Cruikshank. [3625]

MAYO,

W.

STARBUCK

Mountaineer of the Atlas (The). [3626]

MEREDITH,

Routledge 1856.

Yellow pictorial boards.

Small format.

GEORGE

Farina: a Legend of Cologne. 'Third Edition.' flush, up-lettered on spine. Standard Authors.

Chapman & Hall 1868.

Yellow pictorial wrappers cut

Shaving of Shagpat (The). 'New Edition.' Chapman & Hall, n.d. (dated inscription 1877). boards, soiled. Tragic Comedians (The). [3627]

MILLS,

Ward & Lock, n.d. (about 1881).

Yellow pictorial boards.

Yellow pictorial

Select Authors.

JOHN

Briefless Barrister (The). Ward, Lock & Tyler, n.d. (after 1871). Yellow pictorial boards, cover drawing by Phiz, specially drawn spine. Small format. Library of Popular Authors. Too Fast to Last. [3628]

M'INTOSH,

Routledge, n.d. (inscription dated 1884).

Pale yellow pictorial boards.

M. J .

Lofty and the Lowly (The). 'Eighth Thousand.' Routledge 1855. Cream boards, printed with all-over decoration in orange, scarlet and black, specially drawn up-lettered spine, front cover design repeated on back cover. Small format. 56

MORIER [3629] M O D E R N A R A B I A N N I G H T S (The) Nos. I - I V (all published)

1877.

B y Arthur a Beckett and Linley Sambourne.

Format fcap 4to, but collating in eights. Bradbury Agnew & Co. n.d. (1877). No. I. A L L E Y B A B E R A N D S O N . A Mock Ex'Linley Sambourne, July 1877') and occasional change Story illustrations in the text, all after Sambourne. Lilac wrappers, printed on front in orange and Three leaves of adverts, on lilac paper (of which the black with an all-over humorous pseudo-oriental first pasted to inside front cover to stiffen it) design after Sambourne, incorporating series precede front. No title-page. pp. (40) [paged title, individual title, names of author and (41)~(80)] Single advert, leaf of lilac paper at artist. 'Price One Shilling' and imprint. Upend, pasted to inside back cover, lettered on spine with series title, 'No. I ' , and No individual title. Inside covers and back out- I I L R I D E O F C A P T A I N A L F R A S H I T TO KEside cover printed with adverts. Coloured VERE-STKEET (THE) engraved front, (signed 'Linley Sambourne Wrappers as No. II. Coloured engraved front., 1 inv.sd.del. June 1877') 1 full-page uncoloured coloured plate, both signed ' Linley Samengraving (both on plate paper) and several bourne', and occasional illustrations in the text, Sln Ie illustrations in the text, all after Sambourne. 8 advert, leaf of lilac paper at beginning and end Two leaves of adverts, on light blue paper precede > P a s t e d t o i n s i d e covers. No title-page, front. No title-page. pp. viii [Introduction] + PP- ( 4 0 ) [P a S ed (81)-120] Advert, of Jay's 40 4 pp. leaflet, fcap 8vo, printed in lilac and Mourning Warehouse tipped on to p. 97. advertising Select Library of Fiction; and one leaf Q'LADDIN AND THE WONDERFUL M B No. IV> of adverts, on light blue paper at end. Single L A M P . A Story of Obstruction and the Emerald advert, slips (Feltoe & Sons and Jay's Mourning jsje Warehouse) tipped on to pp. (i) and 17. Wrappers as Nos. II and III. Coloured engraved No. II. N E D R E D D I N G A N D T H E B E A U T I F U L front., 1 uncoloured plate, both signed 'Linley PERSIAN. A Tale of Turkish Home Rule Sambourne', and occasional illustrations in the Glazed white wrappers, printed uniformly with text. No. I in orange and black. Coloured engraved Single advert, leaf at front and back as in No. III. front, and one coloured plate (the latter signed No title page. pp. (40) [paged (121)-160] Note. This is a very scarce specimen of mid-Victorian facetiae. As political and social satire it was probably inspired by The Coming K series (3476 above); but it is entirely in prose, more lightheartedly written and less scurrilous. Accompanying the set described are a letter from Linley Sambourne and one from Bradbury, Agnew & Co., both dated February 1902, and written to a Mr N. C. Forman. Each letter states that only four numbers were issued, Sambourne adding that the books were published in 1877 but 'did not catch on with the Public'. It was evidently the intention (note the continuous pagination) to carry the series further; and in a final number to provide title, contents, etc., which would presumably have been dated. As it is, no date, save those attached to two of Sambourne's signatures on the plates, appears anywhere. Presumably, had the work been completed, it would have been published in volume-form. As it remained unfinished, the four numbers were issued in a cardboard case, with elaborate and highly coloured arabic decoration on front and back, and on one edge a long label printed in red with title and authors' names. The red of the lettering had clearly almost faded out, for an owner (presumably Mr Forman) has lightly inked it over in black. The numbers slip (not without risk to their lower corners) into this case from the top and are extractable with the help of a ribbon of pale pink watered silk. In all my experience (and this is not the sort of publication I should fail to notice) I have only seen this one complete set and two odd numbers. Mr T. Balston informs me that at one time he owned the four numbers in binders' cloth. [3630]

PI. 4

MORIER,

JAMES

Hajji Baba in England. 'New Edition.' Ward & Lock 1856. Yellow pictorial boards, specially drawn spine. Small format. Maid of Kars, 'Ayesha'. Ward & Lock 1856. Yellow pictorial boards printed in black. Small format. Note. This edition contains the engraved front, originally published in No. 100 of Bentley's Standard Novels. It is described on cover and title as by 'Miss Morier'. Zohrab. 'New Edition.' Ward & Lock 1856. Yellow pictorial boards, specially drawn spine. Small format. Generally uniform with Hajji Baba in England. S C F II

57

8

'MRS

[3631]

BROWN'

SERIES

'MRS B R O W N ' S E R I E S by A R T H U R S K E T C H L E Y [George Rose]

1866-1882

Although this is not an absolutely complete collection of the 'Mrs Brown' books, it is sufficiently nearly so to make possible a fuller and more accurate list than is elsewhere available. Dating is sometimes difficult; but the dates given by the D.N.B. and Allibone to such titles as they record, checked and reinforced by topical references and internal evidence, have served as basis for what I hope is a correct and comprehensive survey. The first appearance o f ' Mrs Brown' was in Routledge's Annual for 1866. She then became a regular and popular feature of Fun. Later Sketchley devised a series of recitations and readings based on her adventures which he gave with huge success in England, America, Australia and India. The humour of Mrs Brown is not altogether that of to-day; but the enormous contemporary popularity of Sketchley's heroine more than justifies the inclusion of her opinions and adventures in a library of significant nineteenth-century fiction. 'Mrs Brown' (who doubtless derived from Mrs Gamp) was the forerunner of 'Mr Dooley', 'Mrs Green', 'Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch', W. W . Jacobs' 'Night Watchman' and even A. P. Herbert's 'Topsy'. Her particular idiom took the public fancy and, while she lasted, 'Mrs Brown' on the latest sensation or social event or popular scene was a compulsory part of up-to-date proficiency. Nor did her reputation die with her. As recently as 1914 she provided weekly material for a headmaster to read aloud to the senior boys of a large preparatory school. The bracketed number after each title shows the order of its appearance in the whole series, the volumes themselves not being numbered. Each volume unless otherwise stated is printed with adverts, on back cover, has white end-papers and is up-lettered on spine. The asterisked titles are not in the Collection. [3631] (l)-(4) Pl. 1

(The) (1) ' F u n ' Office, 80 Fleet Street 1866. Brown chalksurfaced paper wrappers, printed in black with portrait of the author, title, etc. Spine unlettered. Back wrapper printed with adverts. Wrappers cut flush. White end-papers printed with adverts. The book is printed throughout in brown ink. Inset leaf of yellow paper advertising Dunn's Discount Bookshop; 4 leaves of adverts, on text paper (the first pasted down to form inside front cover) unfoliated. pp. (192) [paged (l)-4 + (v)-viii + (9)-190 + (2)] Text ends p. 190; (191) (192) adverts.; 4 leaves of adverts., the fourth pasted down to form inside back cover. Signed in thirty-twos, last signature,

M R S B R O W N ' S V I S I T S TO P A R I S

(5) [3631] Routledge, n.d. [not listed by D.N.B., but an(SM") nounced in 6 as already published], Yellow pictorial boards, pp. (150)

BROWN PAPERS

MRS

BROWN'S

VISIT

TO

THE

PARIS

MRS B R O W N IN LONDON

MRS B R O W N UP THE N I L E

MRS B R O W N IN T H E H I G H L A N D S

EXHIBI-

(8)

Routledge, n.d. [D.N.B. says 1869]. Yellow pictorial boards. Half-title, pp. (160) [paged (i)-(x) + ( l l ) - 1 5 8 + (2)] 10e adverts.

TION (2)

(The), Second Series (9) Routledge 1870. Paper wrappers cut flush, pictorially printed and lettered in black, red and green, pp. (156) [paged 152]

BROWN PAPERS

(3)

'Fun' Office 1868. Brown chalk-surfaced paper wrappers, uniform with The Brown Papers, pictorially printed and lettered in black. Wrappers cut flush. 6 leaves of adverts, (the first pasted down to form inside front cover), pp. (136) [paged (i)-viii + (9)-134 + (2)] Final leaf, F 2 , is pasted down to form inside back cover. 6 leaves of adverts, inserted between F x and F 2 .

MRS B R O W N AT T H E S E A S I D E

(7)

Routledge, n.d. [announced as 'in preparation' in 6. D.N.B. says 1869]. Yellow pictorial boards, pp. (156) [paged (iii)-(x) + (5)-152 + (4)] Signatures: 2 leaves unsigned; 1-9 in eights+ 10 - 1 0 6 . Text ends 10 4 , 10 6 ,10, adverts.

Routledge (1867). Yellow pictorial boards. Half-title, pp. vi + (140) 96 adverts. Publishers' cat., 16 pp. undated, at end. MRS B R O W N IN A M E R I C A

(6)

Routledge, n.d. [D.N.B. says 1869]. Yellow pictorial boards. Half-title, pp. viii + (152)

(4)

Routledge, n.d. [D.N.B. says 1868]. torial boards, pp. (ii) + 1 2 6

MRS B R O W N AT T H E P L A Y

(10)

Routledge, n.d. (Dec. 1870—see Introduction and Mrs Brown's Budget, No. 21, Dec. 14, 1870). Yellow back pictorial boards, pp. 120 [paged (i) + x + (ll)-120]

Yellow pic-

* M E S B R O W N ON T H E G R A N D T O U R

says 1870.

58

(11).

D.N.B.

4MRS

[3631] (12)-(24)

(12) Routledge, n.d. [Christmas, 1870. Not listed by D.N.B. or Allibone; announced in 14 as already published]. Yellow pictorial boards. Half-title. pp. 152 [paged (i)-(xx) + (21)-152] 4 leaves of adverts, at end.

MRS B R O W N AT B R I G H T O N

MRS B R O W N AT THE C R Y S T A L P A L A C E

[thus on title; ' O I I D A Y H O U T I N G S on cover] (13) Routledge, n.d. [May, 1871. Not listed by D.N.B.]. Yellow pictorial boards, pp. 152

MRS B R O W N ' S " ' O L L I D A Y O U T I N S "

AT THE

INTERNATIONAL

TION AND SOUTH KENSINGTON

MRS B R O W N AT T H E S K A T I N G R I N K (27)

(14)

Routledge, n.d. [D.N.B. says 1875]. Yellow pictorial boards, pp. 156 MRS

EXHIBI-

Routledge, n.d. [1872]. Yellow pictorial boards, pp. 152 MRS B R O W N ON THE N E W L I Q U O R L A W (18)

Routledge, n.d. [D.N.B. says 1872]. Yellow pictorial boards, pp. (156) 108 (adverts.) is pasted down to inside back cover.

Routledge, 1877 (not listed by D.N.B.). pictorial boards, pp. (152) MRS B R O W N AT T H E P A R I S E X H I B I T I O N

Routledge, 1878 (not listed by D.N.B.). pictorial boards, pp. 152

Routledge, n.d. [1873]. Yellow pictorial boards, pp. (156) 108 (adverts.) is pasted down to inside back cover.

RUSSIAN

Yellow (32)

Yellow

MRS B R O W N O N C O - O P E R A T I V E S T O R E S (33)

Routledge, 1879. White pictorial boards, pp. 152 (34) (1879)

(21)

*MRS B R O W N ON C E T E W A Y O

Routledge, n.d. [D.N.B. says 1873]. Yellow pictorial boards, pp. 152 ROYAL

(29)

MRS B R O W N ON THE T U R F (31)

MRS B R O W N ON THE SHAH'S V I S I T (20)

THE

TO

Routledge, n.d. [D.N.B. says 1876, and List of other vols, in series is the same as in Cleopatra's Needle]. Yellow pictorial boards, pp. 152

MRS B R O W N O N W O M E N ' S R I G H T S ( 1 9 )

ON

VISIT

MRS B R O W N ON S P E L L I N G B E E S (30)

Routledge, n.d. [1872]. Yellow pictorial boards, pp. 152

BROWN

PRINCE'S

Routledge, n.d. [? 1876. Not listed by D.N.B.]. Yellow pictorial boards, pp. (156) 108 (adverts.) is pasted down to inside back cover.

MRS B R O W N O N T H E A L A B A M A CASE (17)

MRS

THE

MRS B R O W N ON C L E O P A T R A ' S N E E D L E

Routledge 1872. Yellow pictorial boards, pp. 152

MRS B R O W N O N T H E T I C H B O R N E D E F E N C E

ON

(28)

Routledge, n.d. [1875]. Not listed by D.N.B.]. Yellow pictorial boards, pp. (156) 108 (adverts.) is pasted down to inside back cover.

(15)

MRS B R O W N ON THE T I C H B O R N E CASE (16)

1

BROWN INDIA

Routledge, n.d. [D.N.B. says 1872]. Yellow pictorial boards, pp. (152)

Pl.

(26)

Routledge, n.d. [D.N.B. says 1875 and outside back cover advertises the title in the order given here]. Yellow pictorial boards, pp. 156

Routledge, n.d. [1871]. Yellow pictorial wrappers, cut flush. Spine unlettered, pp. (64) [paged (60)] (1) (2) and (63) (64) pasted down as inside covers. MRS B R O W N

SERIES

(25) [3631] Routledge, n.d. [D.N.B. says 1875]. Yellow pic- (25)-(36) torial boards, pp. (156) 103-108 adverts., 108 pasted down to inside back cover.

MRS B R O W N ' S C H R I S T M A S B O X

MRS B R O W N O N T H E B A T T L E OF D O R K I N G

BROWN'

MRS B R O W N O N J U M B O ( 3 5 )

Routledge, n.d. [D.N.B. and Allibone say 1882], White pictorial boards, pp. 152

MAR-

R I A G E (22)

Routledge, n.d. [1874]. White pictorial boards, pp. (156) 108 (adverts.) is pasted down to inside back cover. M R S B R O W N A N D D I S R A E L I [on cover: Mrs Brown on 'Dizzy'] (23) Routledge [1874]. Yellow pictorial boards, pp. (156) 108 (adverts.) is pasted down to inside back cover.

MRS B R O W N ON H O M E R U L E (36)

Routledge, n.d. [1882 D.B.N, and Allibone say 1881]. Buff pictorial wrappers, cut flush, pp. 124 Contains a Memoir of the Author by' C.S.' Sketchley died in 1882. Wrappers not original issue. Associated Items MRS

M R S B R O W N A T M A R G A T E (? 2 4 )

Routledge, n.d. [D.N.B. says 1874, but latest volume listed facing title is Women's Rights (1872)]. Yellow pictorial boards, pp. (156) 108 (adverts.) is pasted down to inside back cover. 59

BROWN'S

[3632] BUDGET.

'Conducted by Arthur

Sketchley' Published weekly at one penny, each number 8 pp. 4to, with wood-engraved full-length seated portrait of Mrs Brown on p. 1. Nos. 1-25: August 1, 1870-January 11, 1871; and Christmas Number for 1870, cover printed in

'MRS

BROWN'

SERIES

red and black, with different portrait of Mrs Brown (head and shoulders only), 24 pp., price twopence. Uncut as issued. Also a Poster and two Handbills announcing the periodical as forthcoming. [3633]

[3634]

Hall, Piccadilly. (Also 'Mrs Brown at the Seaside'.) Small 8vo. n.d. Brownish yellow wrappers, cut flush, printed in brown, pp. 16, printed throughout in brown ink. This is an elaborate programme of an Entertainment given every evening except Saturday at 8 o'clock, and on Saturday afternoons at 3 o'clock. Part One consisted of Introductory Remarks and six adventures of Mrs Brown, recited in ' Brownese'. Part Two was a travelogue describing a voyage up the Rhine and delivered in ordinary English, pp. (10)-16 are occupied by 'Mrs Brown at the Sea Side', reprinted from London Society. The book issue of 'Mrs Brown at the Seaside' is a wholly different text.

FOB CHRISTMAS PARTIES. 'Prepared from Mrs Brown's Receipts by Arthur Sketchley and Other Professed Cooks'. 4to. 44 Catherine Street, Strand, n.d. [probably 1872]. Blue wrappers, cut flush, printed in red and black. On front cover same picture of Mrs Brown as appeared on the Christmas Number of Mrs Brown's Budget (q.v.). Unlettered spine. Back and inside covers printed with adverts. pp. 48 [paged (i)-viii + (9)-48] 12 pp. of adverts, on cheaper paper at end (one of which quotes an extract from the Morning Post of November 20, 1872). This book contains an Introduction in 'Brownese' by Sketchley and two stories by him in ordinary English. Other contributions by 'B.A.W.' and Henry Frith.

MINCEMEAT

'Mrs Browniana' MR B R O W N O N T H E G O I N G S - O N O F M R S B R O W N

at the Tichborne Trial and in her own Family Hotten, n.d. (April, 1872). Cream glazed pictorial wrappers, cut flush, pp. (192) Al (adverts.) pasted down to inside front cover. A2 adverts. L 6 -L 8 Publisher's cat., dated 1872; (MJ-(M 8 ) continuation of cat.; (NjHN,) continuation of cat., (N4) pasted down to inside back cover.

Mr Arthur Sketchley's New Entertainment at the Egyptian

MRS B R O W N AT H O M E A N D A B R O A D .

[See also [3636]

HAMILTON, WALTER,

[3635]

in Section /.]

M U L O C K , D. M. Domestic Stories. 'A New Edition.' Smith, Elder 1872. Yellow pictorial boards. This volume contains some of the stories originally published in 3 vols, as Avillion and Other Tales. Olive. 'New edition.'

[3637]

Chapman & Hall 1875.

Pink pictorial boards.

NAVAL AND SEAFARING YELLOW-BACKS

Select Library.

1854-1865

This small group of ' yellow-back firsts' parallels t h a t which combines under one heading books dealing with Detection and Crime. They are spirited, vivacious, skilfully designed; and date from the same period as the more numerous and equally elegant reprints of Armstrong, Barker, Chamier, Howard, Marryat and Neale, which appear in this section under their authors' names. [3638]

C O A S T G U A R D ( T A L E S O F T H E ) , by WARNEFORD, R.N. [William

'Waters']

yellow-back (cf. 3525 and 3543 (20), above) Small format, pp. (i)-(iv) + (9)-(270) Note. The irregular pagination is due to the dropping of the front, and pictorial title. A new story, Captain Larpent, occupies pp. (231)-(269).

LIEUTENANT

Russell,

alias

Copy I: First Edition. J. & C. Brown, Ave Maria Lane 1856. Grey-blue boards, pictorially printed in black. Wood-engraved front, and pictorial title precede printed title. Small format. pp. (232)

P 8 adverts.

Note. The adverts, on P e are of 'Works published by David Bryce and sold by J. & C. Brown'. They include the 'Popular Edition' (in pink boards) of Disraeli's works (721 in Section I). [3638a]

( T A L E S F O R T H E ) , by H A R R Y G R I N G O Lieutenant Wise), author of 'Los Gringos' Ward & Lock 1855. Yellow boards, pictorially printed and lettered in black. End-papers printed with adverts. Small format, pp. 256 Ink signature: ' J . Browne', on title.

[3639]

or Twelve Years at Sea, by late R . N .

[3640]

MARINES

Copy II: Second Edition. J. & C. Brown 1857. Pictorial yellow cloth, designed in imitation of a

MIDSHIPMAN

(THE),

the Rev. F. w. 60

MANT,

NEWNES' PI. 8

[3641]

Routledge 1854. White-back boards, printed in blue, brown and red with design of red-ensign and fancy lettering. End-papers printed with adverts. Small format, pp. viii + 246 PHANTOM

CRUISER

WARNEFORD,

[3642]

Edited by I I E D T . author of 'Tales of the

N E A L E , W. JOHNSON All small format, and in pictorial yellow-back boards. repeated on back covers.

PI. 8 PI. 8 PI. 8

Cavendish, or The Patrician at Sea.

'New Edition.'

Port-Admiral (The): a Tale of the War. J. and C. Brown, n.d.

The three Bryce titles have the cover pictures

David Bryce, n.d.

Flying Dutchman (The): a Legend of the High Seas. Copy I. David Bryce, n.d. Copy II. 'New Edition.' Will Watch. is omitted.

[3643]

LIBRARY

Coast Guard', etc. [William Russell, alias 'Waters']. 'Never before printed.' John Maxwell & Co. 1865. Yellow paper wrappers, cut flush, printed in dark green with fancy lettering. Up-lettered on spine. Small format, pp. (iv) + (236) Qe adverts., over the imprint of Ward & Lock.

(THE).

R.N.,

PENNY

'New Edition.'

Routledge, n.d. David Bryce, n.d.

The Appendix to the first edition, describing the quarrel with Marryat,

NEWNES' P E N N Y L I B R A R Y OF FAMOUS BOOKS

[1896-1899]

Published weekly from J a n u a r y 1896, Nos. 1 - 4 6 were crown 8vo in size and issued in cream wrappers, lettered in red, blue, green or violet; Nos. 47-177 were demy 8vo, issued—as to Nos. 47-170 in pale blue wrappers pictorially printed (after Menzies) in dark blue, as to Nos. 171-177 in pink wrappers pictorially printed after a n unnamed artist. This series, wholly without issue-importance and of an undistinguished appearance suitable to a popular library of the last decade of the century, is here recorded for the sake of the titles included in it. E a c h number has an Editorial Note signed 'C.S.C.', and every student of nineteenth-century fiction will admit t h a t the selection of texts (for a penny-market in the 'nineties) shows both intelligence and enterprise. The list which follows omits certain titles—either obvious or eighteenth century or too recent to be relevant (e.g. a few Scott novels; such Dumas perennials as Monte Cristo and the rest; translations of Eugene Sue, Merimde, F^val, etc.; and an occasional copyright English text—by Conan Doyle, Grant Allen and others—introduced to give topical flavouring to a dish mainly revivalist). This has been done in order to emphasise the overwhelming majority of reprints of significant nineteenth-century fiction. I know of no better evidence t h a n this series of the survival power of novels well known in their day b u t (one would have thought) forgotten b y the mid-nineties. C.S.C. knew his subject; Messrs Newnes had the courage to trust his judgement. The longevity of the series is their justification; though it is clear t h a t as time went on they were fighting a losing battle. I t is interesting to observe t h a t only one J a n e Austen was included (evidently her revival was not yet), no Morier or Trollope or Le F a n u or Collins, and very little Marryat. Also t h a t C.S.C. successfully resisted G. P . R . J a m e s until the eleventh hour. 1

Vicar of Wakefield (had this not been the first title to be issued, I should have omitted it as too obvious to merit record)

2

Tales of Adventure, Mystery and Imagina-

8 10 11/12 13 14

Peep o' Day or John D o e (Banim) Admiral's Daughter (Mrs Marsh) Ben Brace (Chamier) Peg Woffington (Reade) Deformed and Professional Visits of the Black Doctor (Mrs Marsh) 15/16 Stories of Waterloo (Maxwell) 18 Pirate (Marryat) 19/20 Nick o' The Woods (Bird) 21 Christie Johnstone (Reade)

tion (Poe) 3

Suil Dhuv, the Coiner (Griffin)

4

Feats on the Fiord (Martineau)

5

Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne)

6

Great Hoggarty Diamond Gahagan (Thackeray)

and

Major 61

NEWNES'

PENNY

LIBRARY

22 Barney O'Reirdon and Other Irish Legends and Stories (Lover) 23/24 Rifle Rangers (Mayne Reid) 25 Mrs Caudle's Curtain Lectures (Jerrold) 26 Some Tough Yarns by the Old Sailor (Barker) 27/28 Sense and Sensibility (Austen) 29 Wild Adventures in Texas and Other Tales from Blackwood (anon) 30 Popanilla (Disraeli) 31/32 Crohoore of the Bill Hook (Banim) 34 Sketches of Young Gentlemen, etc. (Dickens) 35/36 Plant Hunters (Mayne Reid) 38 Phelim O'Toole's Courtship; Ned McKeown, etc. (Carleton) 41 Love and Duty (Mrs Marsh)

Cliff Climbers (Mayne Reid)

49/50

Christmas Books (Dickens) [Carol, Chimes— Cricket on Hearth, Battle of Life.]

Gold Finders of California (Mayne Reid) and Shawn Dhuv (? Griffin) 92/93 Rory O'More (Lover) 95/96 Guy Fawkes (Ainsworth) 97 Demon Pilot and Other Tales (Kingston) 99/100 Fardarougha the Miser (Carleton) 101 Fireside Stories (Ingoldsby) and Inundation (Gore) 105 Soldier's Fortune (Mrs Marsh) 107/108 Hard Times (Dickens) 109 Calderon the Courtier (Bulwer Lytton) and Count Ludwig (from The Picnic Papers) 112 Bit o' Writin (Banim) and Esther (Horace Smith; from The Picnic Papers) 115 Chronicles of Clovernook (Jerrold) 116/117 Phantom Ship (Marryat) 119/120 Night and Morning (Bulwer Lytton)

51/52 Old St Paul's (Ainsworth) 53 Old St Paul's (conclusion) and Haunted Man 55 56/57 60/61 65/66 67 72 73/74 76

87 Dark Lady of Doona (Maxwell) 91

42/43 Robber of the Rhine (Leitch Ritchie) 44 Half-Sir (Griffin) 45/46

79 John Manesty (Maginn) 81/82 Last Days of Pompeii (Bulwer Lytton) 83 Fetches (Banim)

122/123 Hunter's Feast (Mayne Reid) 129 Dozen Pair of Wedding Gloves (anon. C.S.C. states he cannot identify the author)

(Dickens) Money-Seekers and Other Tales (Mrs Crowe) Rienzi (Bulwer Lytton) Harry Lorrequer (Lever) Marchioness of Brinvilliers (Albert Smith) Father's Curse (Grattan). From Highways and Byways Three Cutters (Marryat) and Mosaic Masters (Sand) Windsor Castle (Ainsworth) Game of Life (Leitch Ritchie)

130/131 Rookwood (Ainsworth) 132/133/134 Westward Ho! (Kingsley) 136/137 Mary Barton (Gaskell) 139/140

Saucy Arethusa (Chamier)

145/146 Miser's Daughter (Ainsworth) 148/149 Richard Savage (Whitehead) 151/152 Richelieu (James) 160/161/162

Tower of London (Ainsworth)

[Nos. 171-177—wrappered in pink—present the religious stories of one Charles M. Sheldon, a popular American pastor. A note in No. 177 states that the series is now at an end. It cannot be denied that this finale amounts to a capitulation. C.S.C., after a gallant fight, had surrendered.] [3644]

N O T L E Y , MES F. E. M. All Ward & Lock, in yellow pictorial boards. Forgotten Lives,

n.d. [circa 1889].

In the House of a Friend, Love's Bitterness. [3645]

1877.

Favourite Authors.

n.d. [circa 1889].

Select Library.

Favourite Authors.

N O R R I S , w . E. Mademoiselle de Mersac.

'New Edition.'

Smith, Elder 1883. 62

Pale yellow pictorial boards.

4OUR

[3646]

OLIPHANT,

MRS

NOVEL

SHILLING

SERIES'

MARGARET

All large format. At His Gates. 'New Edition.' Ward & Lock, n.d. Greenish white pictorial boards.

fMadonna Mary. 'New Edition.' Ward & Lock, n.d. (after 1882). Pale green pictorial boards.

tDays of My Life (The). 'New Edition.' Ward & Lock, n.d. (after 1889). Greenish white pictorial boards.

Margaret Maitland. boards.

Weldon, n.d. Cream pictorial

JPrimrose Path (The). 'New Edition.' Chatto & Windus 1892. Deep cream pictorial boards.

^Greatest Heiress in England (The). 'New Edition.' Chatto & Windus 1891. Cream pictorial boards.

Second Son (The). Macmillan 1888. Pale cream decorated boards, with design in black and red common to Macmillan's board issues.

Lilliesleaf. 'New Edition.' Chapman & Hall 1876. Yellow pictorial boards. Select Library of Fiction.

fLucy Crofton. 'New Edition.' Ward & Lock, iWhite Ladies. 'New Edition.' Chatto & Windus, n.d. (after 1889). Pale lilac pictorial boards n.d. (1898). Cream pictorial boards. Note. Titles marked f are volumes in Ward & Lock's Select Library or Select Authors and have spines roughly uniform. Titles marked $ have spines wholly uniform. [3647]

OUIDA All in yellow pictorial boards and published by Chatto & Windus unless otherwise stated. Large format. Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, etc. 'New Edition.' n.d. (cat. dated April 1887). Chandos 'New Edition.' n.d. (cat. dated June 1879).

Othmar. 'New Edition.' 1890. Pipistrello. 'New Edition.' 1882.

Dog of Flanders (A).

Ruffino. 'New Edition.' 1891.

Puck. 'New Edition.' 1893.

'New Edition.' 1892.

Signa.

Frescoes. 'New Edition.' 1890. Friendship. 'New Edition.' n.d. (cat. dated 1880).

n.d. (cat. dated February

Strathmore. 'New Edition.' 1894.

Held in Bondage. 'New Edition, n.d. (cat. dated May 1879).

[3648]

'New Edition.'

1880).

Tricotrin. 'New Edition.' n.d. (cat. dated October 1879).

House-Party (A). 'New Edition.' Spencer Blackett, n.d. Idalia. 'New Edition.' n.d. (cat. dated June 1879).

Under Two Flags. 'New Edition.' 1895.

In a Winter City. 'New Edition.' 1901

Village Commune.

In Maremma. 'New Edition.' 1893.

Wanda. 'New Edition.' 1901.

Moths. 'New Edition.' 1893.

Wisdom, Wit and Pathos. 'New Edition.' 1890.

«OUR N O V E L

SHILLING SERIES'

Two Little Wooden Shoes. 'New Edition.' 1890. 'New Edition.' 1890.

1878-1881

Sm. 8vo. Bradbury, Agnew & Co. Glazed paper boards, cut flush, printed in red and black on front and back with drawings after Linley Sambourne and lettering. Up-lettered in black on spine. Written by F. C. B U R N A N D (described by The Examiner as 'the one living English writer whose fun is always hearty, fresh and spontaneous'), the level of these parodies of prominent contemporary novelists can be gauged by the burlesque titles of their books. They hit off the obvious foibles of the authors concerned with the cheerful ingenuity which gives humour to Happy Thoughts and its kind; but they neither intend subtlety nor achieve it. I am not aware of more than five titles having been published, although out of the Series, but uniform, Burnand issued T H E R I D E T O K H I V A , 1877. The numbering is mine. 1 STRAPMORE: a Romance by WEEDER. Author of Folly and Farini, Under Two Rags, ArryacTnty, Chuck, Two Little Wooden Jews, Nicotine, A Horse with Glanders, In Somers Town, Shamdross, etc. 1878. Half-title, pp. viii + (120) I a -I 4 publishers' adverts, paged i-vi. 2

By (that distinguished French Novelist) F I C T O R N O G O . 1878 pp. viii+ 112 Publishers' adverts., paged i—viii on text paper, at end.

ONE A N D T H R E E !

Half-title,

63

'OUR 3

NOVEL

SHILLING

SERIES'

or The Dumb Jockey of Jeddington. A Genuine Sporting Novel by Major Jawley Sharp, author of Squeezing Longford, Two Kicks, etc. 1879 Half-title, pp. xvi + (96) G8 adverts. 4 C H I K K I N H A Z A R D . A Novel b y C H A R L E S B E A D I T a n d D I O N B O U N C E Y C O R E . 1881 Half-title, pp. viii + 120 5 G O N E W R O N G . A New Novel by Miss R H O D Y D E N D R O N , authoress of Cometh Down Like a Shower, Red in the Nose is She! Buy Sweet Tart, Not Silly, but don't Tell. 1881 Half-title, pp. (viii) + (120) H 3 -end, publishers' cat. paged (i)-(xx) on text paper and dated 1881. [3649]

WHAT'S THE ODDS?

PARISIAN

LIBRARY

1887-(?)

J. & R. Maxwell n.d. Published at one shilling each in what are described as 'Appropriate Illuminated Covers'. Inside and outside back wrappers printed with adverts. Titles asterisked are not in the Collection. The numbering is mine (and conjectural). 1 2 3

by Boisgobey. 2 vols. by Boisgobey. 2 vols. . D E A T H O R D I S H O N O U R by Boisgobey. 'The Sole and Authorised Copyright Translation by Sir Gilbert Campbell Bart.' Front, of extreme ineptitude in Vol. I after Shirley Hodson. 2 vols. 4 * T H E B L U E V E I L by Boisgobey. *THE RED BAND

5

C A S H O N D E L I V E R Y by Boisgobey. 'Sole and Authorised Copyright Translation.' 2 vols. Front. in Vol. I on a level with that in 3, and after the game art;st

*THE CONDEMNED DOOR

6

7 8

*

T H E

C R Y

O F

by Boisgobey. 2 vols, by Boisgobey. 2 vols. by Boisgobey. 2 vols.

BLOOD

*THE FELON'S BEQUEST *FICKLE HEART

Note. Other authors were included in this series, b u t only Boisgobey is here listed, because he was evidently the main bone of contention between Maxwell and Vizetelly (cf. Note to 3454 above). ' These translations', say Maxwell, ' are not only fully protected, but NO other Versions are sanctioned, authorised or allowed by the Author. These are the only approved translations.' Whether this claim were justified or not, Maxwell certainly beat Vizetelly in blurb-eloquence. They describe the Parisian Library as: 'A new choice Series of Striking, Alluring and Entertaining Masterpieces of Fiction. Special arrangements ensure thoroughly fluent translations, which read like English-wrought originals, whilst preserving all the pristine vivacity, fervid colour, full spirited wit, and torrid yet refined passion.' PARODIES See A U T H O R S H I P U N K N O W N , above, and [3650]

HAMILTON, WALTER,

in Section I.

PAYN, JAMES All large format, with printed end-papers. published by Chatto & Windus.

Unless otherwise stated, all in cream pictorial boards, and

Burnt Million (The). 'New Edition.' 1891. ^ . , Cecil's Tryst. 'New Edition.' 1890.

*Like Father Like Son. 'New Edition.' Chapman & Hall 1872. Yellowback. Cover drawing6 by Phiz.

fFoster Brothers (The). 'New Edition.' n.d. (1884.) Gwendoline's Harvest. 'New Edition.' 1881. , „„„„ 4„T Halves, etc. 'New Edition.' 1888.

Lost Sir Massingberd. 'Third Edition.' Sampson Lowl865. Orange back. Cover drawing by Walter Crane - Re-issued by Chatto & Windus 1891. Mystery J J of Mirbridge (The). 'New Edition.' 1890.

Talk of the Town (The). 'New Edition.' 1887. •Humorous Stories. 'New Edition.' 1881. Pink Cover drawing by Harry Furniss. boards. Cover drawing by Phiz. This has a , , „ . _ , ... _,. Select Library of Fiction case (i.e. Chapman & tTwo Hundred Pounds Reward, etc. 'New Editl0n Hall) but Chatto & Windus end-papers and - n.d. (1881). Cover drawing by Phiz, text. Word and the Will (The). 'New Edition.' 1892. Note. All the Chatto & Windus titles, save those marked f , have uniform conventional spines. The two asterisked are uniform with one another. 64

REACH [3651]

P E A C O C K ,

THOMAS

LOVE

Headlong Hall and Nightmare Abbey. Small format. Spine defective.

Ward & Lock 1856. Yellow pictorial boards, specially drawn spine.

Note. The same publishers in the same year published Maid Marian and Crotchet Castle in one (presumably uniform) yellow-back volume, price one shilling. These issues were made over Peacock's name. [3652]

P H I L L I P S , SAMUEL and other Tales (by the author of 'Caleb Stukely') Routledge 1854. Yellow boards, printed in green and black with design and fancy lettering signed 'Alfred Crowquill'. End-papers printed with adverts. Small format. Half-title, pp. (viii) + (256) Slip of lilac paper tipped on to front end-paper advertises The Lamplighter. Ink signature: 'J. R. Molineux 1854', on title. Note. These stories are reprinted from Blackwood's Magazine.

WE ARE ALL LOW PEOPLE THERE,

[3653]

P O E , EDGAR

ALLAN

Mystery of Marie Roget and other Tales. torial boards. [3654]

Yellow pic-

P O R T E R , JANE Pastor's Fireside (The). Scottish Chiefs (The).

[3655]

Chatto & Windus, n.d. (adverts, dated June, 1879).

Routledge, n.d. [circa 1892]. Routledge, n.d.

PSEUDONYM LIBRARY

Cream pictorial boards.

Cream pictorial boards.

1890-1896

Mustard yellow wrappers Is. 6d., buff linen 2s. Two titles in this series are recorded in Section I under Ouida. Complete lists are easily available in the English Catalogue, and the representation of three-decker novelists is virtually nil. Fifty of the fiftytwo titles are in the Collection, in cloth and in fine state; but of these ten are not first editions. [3656]

P U S H K I N , A. S. (The), and Other Stories. With a Biography. Translated from the Russian by Mrs Sutherland Edwards. Chapman & Hall 1894. Pale yellow pictorial boards. Illustrations in the text.

Q U E E N OF S P A D E S

[3657]

RAINBOW

S E R I E S OF O R I G I N A L

NOVELS

1885

Published by Cassell & Co. at one shilling in stiff paper wrappers, cut flush, shading from orange, through yellow, to pale green, and printed in black. Up-lettered on spine. Back cover printed with adverts, (commercial). Plain white end-papers. The title asterisked is not in the Collection. 1

AS I T W A S W R I T T E N : a Jewish Musician's Story, by S I D N E Y L U S K A [Henry Harland]. (1885) pp. (iv) + (254) 1st leaf of final sig., 16!, a single inset, (i) (ii) and the original 168 pasted to front and back covers. Publishers' cat., 16 pp. dated '5.8.85', at end.

2 * A C R I M S O N S T A I N , b y A. B R A D S H A W

3

MORGAN'S HORROR:

Half-title,

pp. 192.

a Romance of the 'West Countree', by G E O R G E Publishers' cat., 16 pp. undated, at end.

Whether this series ran beyond three titles I do not know. volumes in preparation. [3658]

MANVILLE FENN.

1885

No. 3 contains no indication of future

R E A C H , ANGUS B. Clement Lorimer. Routledge 1856. Yellow pictorial boards, specially drawn up-lettering on spine. format. Leonard Lindsay. SCFII

J. & C. Brown 1857. Yellow pictorial cloth. Specially drawn spine. 65

Small

Small format. 9

READABLE [3659]

BOOKS

R E A D A B L E BOOKS

1852-1853

Published in Penny Weekly Numbers, in sixpenny parts, and in decorated board volumes at one shilling, by Henry Vizetelly, 15-16 Gough Square as to No. I ) ; by Vizetelly and Clarke & Co., 148 Fleet Street (as to Nos. I I - ? V ) ; and thereafter by Clarke, Beeton & Co., 148 Fleet Street, this series can be listed so far as No. X I V . The volumes are numbered on title; series title appears on front and back cover and on title. A t some stage (probably when Clarke, Beeton became sole publishers) a cloth edition was issued at one and sixpence, but I have never seen a specimen, neither have I seen the weekly numbers or sixpenny parts. The board editions carry an all-over design in the cameo manner, printed in various colours on various backgrounds. Front cover design repeated on back cover. The books are attractive, carefully produced and remarkable value for one shilling. The series is predominantly non-fiction. Fiction is, however, well represented by two important collections of Poe's Tales. Titles asterisked are not in the Collection. I

T A L E S

OF

H U M O U R ;

M Y S T E R Y , A N D

I M A G I N A T I O N

POEMS,

b y

E D G A R

pp. viii + (228) Publishers' advert, (of the series), 4 pp. undated, at end.

A N D A L I A N

POE

Henry Vizetelly 1852 (? February or March). Covers printed in terracotta and dark brown on biscuit. Dark strawberry end-papers. Woodengraved front., vignette title and 24 illustrations on text paper. The two first are on plate paper but reckoned in the collation. pp. xxiv + 256 [Pp. (v) vi 'Prospectus' of the series; (vii) (viii) 'Preface' by the Publisher; (xi)-xxiv Memoir of Poe, unsigned. Note. An advert, of this volume in No. I I of the series states: 'The present is the first occasion of the re-publication in this country of the above remarkable tales.' II P H I L O S O P H E R S A N D ACTRESSES: Scenes, Vivid and Picturesque, from the Hundred and One Dramas of Art & Passion. By A R S E N E H O U S S A Y E

V

L E T T E R S S P E E C H E S

OF b y

P E T E R the

P L Y M L E Y ,

REV.

S Y D N E Y

E S S A Y S

N I L E

N O T E S

A M E R I C A N

IN

OF

A

EGYPT,

'HOWADJL', b y

G. W .

G U A R D

OF

N A P O L E O N ,

BY

J.

T.

* W E L L I N G T O N ,

V I

* P I C T U R E S

V I I

BY

A L F R E D

OF E U R O P E A N

COOKE C A P I T A L S

VIII

R E V E R I E S O F A B A C H E L O R , by I K . M A R V E L [Donald Grant Mitchell] Clarke, Beeton & Co., n.d. [? 1853]. Covers printed in dark red and black on grey-lilac. Yellow end-papers. Wood-engraved front., pictorial title, vignette title and 10 illustrations. The two first are on plate paper and not reckoned in the collation, pp. (xii) + (9)-220 Publishers' adverts. 4 pp. undated, both at front and at end. First edition (American) 1850. T A L E S

I X

OF

H U M O U R ,

M Y S T E R Y ,

by

E D G A R

I M A G I N A T I O N A L L A N

POE.

A N D

Second

Series Clarke, Beeton, n.d. [? 1853]. Covers printed in orange-scarlet and black on pale yellow. Yellow end-papers. Wood-engraved front., vignette title and 14 illustrations. The two first are on plate paper and not reckoned in the collation, pp. (ii) + (252) Publishers' adverts., 2 pp. undated, at end.

A N D

S M I T H

Vizetelly and Clarke & Co., n.d. [June 1, 1852]. Covers printed in scarlet and black on biscuit. Dark strawberry end-papers. Wood-engraved front., vignette title and full-page portraits in the text. None is on text paper, but the two first are reckoned in the collation; the remainder are not. pp. (228) H12 adverts. Publishers' adverts, (of the series), 4 pp. undated, at end. Pp. (v)-x occupied by Memoir of Sydney Smith, unsigned. I V

OLD

H E A D L E Y

Vizetelly and Clarke & Co., n.d. [April 20, 1852] Covers printed in blue and black on light brown. Dark strawberry end-papers. Wood-engraved front., vignette title and 33 illustrations. The two first, although on plate paper, are reckoned in the collation. pp. (viii) [paged vi] + (228) I a adverts. III

*THE

OR

THE

CURTIS

Vizetelly and Clarke & Co., n.d. [? July, 1852]. Covers and end-papers uniform with I I I . Woodengraved front., vignette title and 27 illustrations. Although the two first are on plate paper thev are reckoned in the collation. 66

X

*THE

C A V A L I E R S

T H E

X I

OF

A D I R O N D A C K

B Y J. T.

E N G L A N D OR

LIFE

IN

T H E

W O O D S ,

H E A D L E Y

Clarke, Beeton, n.d. [1853]. Covers and endpapers uniform with No. I X . Wood-engraved front, and vignette title and 10 illustrations. The two first are on plate paper and not reckoned in the collation, pp. xvi + (ii) + (17)-222 [A single leaf 'List of Illustrations' was added to prelims, after continuous pagination had been adopted.] Ink signature dated 1853 on title. X I I

XIII

*THE

G U A R D S

* T H R E E

TALES,

BY

C O U N T E S S

V I L L E X I V

* S O U T H E Y ' S

LIFE

OF

N E L S O N

D'ARBOU-

PI. 7

REID I suspect the series went to pieces about this point. Even as early as No. I X records of its progress (which Vizetelly had provided with care and intelligence) were dropped from the volumes—a sure sign of a publisher losing interest in a serial venture. No. X I I I (Arbouville's Tales) reappeared shortly afterwards (? about 1855) in Clarke, Beeton's Illustrated Railway Library, and manifestly consists of Readable Books sheets with series decoration removed from title. B y 1856 certain titles in the series appeared over the imprint of C. H . Clarke, but without distinctive covers or coherent sequence. This series must not be confused with the wrappered and very commonplace reprint-fiction series of the same name published by Warne from 1877 onward. [3660]

R E A D E , CHARLES All large format (one extra-large); all (with one exception) cream pictorial boards. Cloister and the Hearth (The).

Love M e Little, Love M e Long. 1890

Chatto & Windus

1888.

fGriffith Gaunt. Ward, Lock & Tyler, n.d. (pencil inscription on title dated 1881).

tPeg Woffington. Ward, Lock & Tyler, n.d. Perilous Secret ( A ) .

Hard Cash. Chatto & Windus 1892.

Chatto & Windus 1891.

Put Yourself in his Place. Chatto & Windus 1894.

It is Never Too Late to Mend. 'New Edition.' Bentley 1857. Buff boards, printed in black. Dated on spine 1857. Vignette on back cover. Extra large format.

Readiana.

Chatto & Windus, n.d. (1883).

Note. The Chatto & Windus titles are all ' N e w Edition' and have uniform spines. are themselves uniform. [3661]

[3662a]

[3666]

Titles marked f

R E I D , THOMAS M A Y N E Series I. Small format.

[3662]

Chatto & Windus

Covers specially designed.

The title in caps is a First Edition. unsigned, on text paper, is added—a Catalogue of Clarke's Publications. The illustrations appear for the first time in this edition.

F E A S T ( T H E ) , or Conversations around the Camp Fire Copy I : First Edition. Thomas Hodgson, n.d. [1855]. White pictorial boards. Half-title, pp. 336 This is No. 120 in The Parlour Library and was also issued in the regulation glazed green paperboard style of this series, with 2 additional leaves inserted in prelims.: Dedication and Preface. A few titles were specially issued in ' brilliant coloured covers by Alfred Crowquill', and of these this copy is a specimen (cf. Lever, Sir Jasper Carew [1419a above]).

HUNTERS'

Maroon (The) C. H. Clarke, n.d. Yellow pictorial boards, the spine incorporating series title: ' The Mayne Reid Library.' Half-title with the same series title, pp. (iv) + (492) The end-papers advertise nine titles in The Mayne Reid Library, but over the imprint of Ward & Lock, and cloth-bound at 3s. 6d. with illustrations.

Copy II: New (unavowed) Edition with Illustrations. C. H. Clarke, n.d. Royal-blue beadgrain cloth, pictorially blocked in gold on spine. Wood-engraved front, and 8 illustrations after Harrison Weir. This edition is from the type of the Parlour Library edition (the publisher of which Clarke became in succession to Hodgson) and collates as Copy I. An additional eight-leaf signature,

Quadroon (The): or Adventures in the Far West J. & C. Brown, n.d. Yellow pictorial boards, pp. (448) Rubber stamp: 'J. R. Molineux', facing title.

[3664]

White Chief (The): a Legend of Northern Mexico J. & C. Brown, n.d. Yellow pictorial boards pp. (ii) + 444 Rubber stamp: 'J. R. Molineux', on fly-leaf.

[3665]

Series II. Large format. Varying pictorial fronts, but standard spine design, incorporating series legend ' Capt. Mayne Reid's Novels'. All published by Routledge and undated. Afloat in the Forest—Boy Hunters—Boy Slaves— Bush Boys—Cliff Climbers—Desert Home— Giraffe Hunters—Guerilla Chief—Half-Blood —Headless Horseman (demy 8vo)—Lost

Lenore—Maroon—Ocean Waifs—Quadroon —Rifle Rangers—Scalp Hunters—Tiger Hunter—White Squaw—Wild Huntress—Wood Rangers—Young Voyageurs. 67

[3663]

REID [3667]

Mayne Reidiana (The): a Terrific Tale of the Prairie!! By Captain Rayne Meade Judy Office, 73 Fleet Street 1868. Pale blue wrappers, cut flush, pictorially printed in black. Spine unlettered. Inside and back covers printed with adverts. Wood-engraved front, and numerous illustrations on text paper. Half-title, pp. (i)-(x) + (ll)-128 Judy Library, No. 1.

SKULL HUNTERS

[3668]

RIDDELL,

M R S J . R.

All large format, and (unless otherwise stated) in pale yellow pictorial boards. All, save A Life's Assize, described as ' New Edition Austin Friars. Warne, n.d. (probably late seventies).

Nun's Curse (The). Ward & Downey 1889.

Fairy Water. Chatto & Windus 1885.

fPhemie Keller. Gall & Inglis, n.d.

George Geith.

8vo. Warne 1868.

Prince of Wales's Garden Party (The).

Yellow-back,

Windus 1884.

with front. Note. Re-issued in cr. 8vo in The Companion Library (n.d.) in brilliant blue and in pink boards, with same cover-design (cut down) and no front.

Weird Stories.

Chatto &

Chatto & Windus 1891.

World in the Church (The).

Warne, n.d.

Life's Assize (A). Warne, n.d. Note on the 1 Companion Library'. This series (one of popular reprints without issue-significance) was started by Gall & Inglis of Edinburgh and London, but was taken over by Warne. During the Gall & Inglis regime a cloth style was issued as well as pictorial boards. I have only one specimen—City and Suburb, by Mrs Riddell—bound in pale sage-green diagonal-fine-ribbed cloth blocked and lettered in brown and gold. The series title appears on front., the end-papers are printed with adverts, and the book is undated. Of the yellow-backs above listed, the Warne titles are all Companion Library, with spines of two styles. The title marked f (imprint Gall & Inglis) is also Companion Library, with spine uniform with The World in the Church (imprint Warne). The Chatto & Windus titles have uniform spines. [3669]

RITCHIE,

LEITCH

Robber of the Rhine (The). Routledge, n.d. Yellow pictorial boards. [3670]

ROBINS,

REV.

ARTHUR

Miriam May (anon). 'A New Edition.' specially drawn spine. Small format. [3671]

ROBINSON,

Small format.

EMMA

Routledge, Warne & Routledge 1861. Railway Library.

Yellow pictorial boards,

(author of 'Whitefriars')

All small format, published by Routledge. Caesar Borgia,

n.d.

Madeleine Graham,

Westminster Abbey, n.d. (after 1884). drawing probably by Phiz.

n.d.

Whitehall. 'New Edition.' n.d. This has specially designed spine. Cover and spine drawings probably by Phiz.

Maid of Orleans, n.d. Cover drawing by Phiz. [3672]

ROUTLEDGE'S ORIGINAL NOVELS

Cover

1855-1859

This series represents another of the several attempts (cf. First Class Library in this section and in Section I I I Chapman & HalVs Monthly Series and Smith Elder's Library of Romance) made by fiction publishers during the nineteenth century to break the guinea-and-a-half convention in novel-publishing. Similar attempts to lure the public to buy new novels by publishing them at less than standard price have been made in our own time. These ventures always fail because (1) the public dislikes buying new books 68

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LIBRARY

at any price, until it has sampled them from a library; (2) the Lending Libraries throw their great influence against the pioneering publisher; (3) the best authors will not write for the small rewards which are all that cheap original publication can afford. As a result, each of the price-breaking series has begun with loud trumpetings and a serious attempt to maintain a good standard of home-produced fiction, but has gradually been forced to introduce translations of foreign authors, unauthorised reprints of American books, and works by British authors of minor quality or phenomenal fertility. It will be seen that I have been very unsuccessful in locating fine examples of Routledge's Original Novels. They are scarce even beyond the usual scarcity of yellow-backs of the early period. But I give the complete list, so far as I can establish it, because the series, for the sake of what it tried to do, should have a place in publishing history. Titles asterisked are not in the Collection. The titles in the series were published in decorated boards at the prices stated, and the first ten were also issued in cloth at 6d. extra. Series title appears on covers, but the numbering is mine. 1

» T H E C U R S E O F G O L D , b y R. W. J A M E S O N (IS.)

10

» H A R R Y O G I L V I E , b y J A M E S G R A N T (2S.)

2

»THE

11

»THE

FAMILY

FEUD,

BY

THOMAS

COOPER,

author of Alderman Ralph ('Adam Hornbook') (2s.)

3

»THE S E R F SISTERS, by JOHN HARWOOD

4

*THE

5

»FRANK

6

PRIDE

Cavendish (w.

OF T H E

12

(IS.)

PI. 4

9

OF

LIFE,

BY

AMELIA

B.

ED-

CONVICTS,

BY

FREDERICK

GEE-

(2s.)

13

» D E E D S N O T W O R D S , B Y M. B E L L ( 2 S . )

or the Queen's Own, by the author of The Romance of War ( J A M E S G R A N T ) (2s.)

14

*THE

MY

15

» T I E S OF K I N D R E D , b y O W E N W Y N N (Is.

16 17

» W I L L H E M A R R Y H E R ? BY J O H N L A N G (2S.) » S E C R E T O F A L I F E , B Y M. B E L L ( 2 S . )

JOHNSON

BROTHER'S

WIFE,

by

AMELIA

B.

ED-

18

POWER

FORESTER,

by

1855

MARGUERITE

ARROW,

BY

FREDERICK

(2S.) 6d.)

or the Trappers, by 6£?.). 1858 Pictorial yellow boards. End-papers printed with adverts. Small format. Half-title, pp. xvi + (296) U 4 adverts. Slip of green paper tipped on to front fly-leaf advertises Horse Taming by Rarey. THE

LOYAL

HEART,

G U S T A V E A I M A R D (LS.

T H E Y E L L O W F R I G A T E , or the Three Sisters, by J A M E S G R A N T (2S.). 1855 Pale yellow boards, pictorially printed and fancylettered in black and pale blue. End-papers printed with adverts. Small format, pp. (444) E E „ - E E 8 adverts. Slip of yellow paper tipped on to front fly-leaf advertises Hannay's King Dobbs. Ink signature: ' J . R . Molineux. 1855', facing title. *EVELYN

FEATHERED

GERSTAECKER

1855

» A D R I E N , b y A. M. M A I L L A R D (LS. 6 d . ) .

(Is. 6d.)

[3673]

TWO

STAECKER

by the author of N E A L E ) ( I S . 6d.)

HILTON,

W A R D S (Is. 6d.).

8

»THE

MESS,

Yellow boards, pictorially blocked and fancy lettered in green and brown. Cover-design repeated on back cover. Small format. Endpapers printed with adverts, pp. 304 Publishers' cat., 8 pp. undated, at end. 7

LADDER

W A R D S (Is. 6d.)

19

T H E E X - W I F E , by J O H N L A N G (2s.). 1859 Pictorial yellow boards. End-papers printed with adverts. Small format, pp. viii + (400) Publishers' cat., 8 pp. dated December 1858, at end.

20

»ARTHUR B L A N E , b y J A M E S GRANT (2s.)

21

» T H E H I G H L A N D E R S OF G L E N ORA, BY J A M E S

A.

(niece of the Countess of Blessington)

G R A N T (2S.)

R U N A N D R E A D L I B R A R Y (The), for Railway, Road and River

1853-1856

Published at Is. 6d. and 2s. by Clarke, Beeton & Co. in various coloured boards printed in black, this series deserves brief record, partly for the sake of its cover design and the none-too-grammatical unction of its preliminary blurb, partly also because a few of its volumes were first or revised editions. At (or about) No. 20 the series was taken over by Simpkin, Marshall. Later still, in the late sixties, the Library (consisting of 40 titles, with numbering rearranged) passed to Ward, Lock & Tyler who re-issued the books in conventional small-format pictorial yellow-back form at 2s. per vol. The spine-design incorporated the series-title. One specimen of this re-issue (Beatrice) is in the Collection. 69

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AND

READ

LIBRARY

The cover design was originally used on the front cover but was soon relegated to the back, its place being taken by a vignette and more emphatic titling. The 'Announcement' defends the reading of wholesome fiction (with quotations from Dr Johnson and Mrs Beecher Stowe), and proclaims the publishers' 'conviction that persons who have the taste, invention, sprightliness, humour and command of diction that qualifies for a successful novelist may become the greatest of public benefactors by skilfully providing the healthful aliment that may be employed in supplanting the pernicious leaven'. ' I t is', continues the Announcement, ' t o supply this acknowledged desideratum that the RUN AND READ LIBRARY has been projected. Taste, sprightliness, humour and command of diction, combined with sound principles, will be the leading qualification of the works admitted into this Series.' I t will be observed that Protestantism and anti-popery rank high among Messrs Clarke, Beeton's 'sound principles'. The volumes are not themselves numbered, but some advertisements give a numbered sequence. I could list the titles up to No. 68 (published in 1861), but it is sufficient to go to No. 22, by which time Simpkin, Marshall were certainly in charge. Titles asterisked are not in the Collection. Where a volume has ' edition significance' the fact is stated. 1 *l'VE

BEEN THINKING,

b y A. S. ROE.

1853.

A first English edition (revised and edited) of an American story, originally published in 1850, as James Mountjoy or Tve been Thinking 2 *THE

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

OF

A

£5

NOTE,

by

MRS WEBB. 1853. A First Edition.

7

4

1855. A first English edition. 12 * B E A T R I CE, b y C A T H E R I N E S I N C L A I R .

JANE RUTHERFORD ORTHE MINER'S STRIKE,

by A F R I E N D OF T H E P E O P L E . With a Preface by Peter Richards, a Coal Miner. 1854 Dark crimson boards. Wood-engraved front., pictorial title and 12 double-spread illustrations, pp. (i)-viii + (9)-(288) 1212adverts. A First Edition.

13 * T H E

15

1854

8 *MODERN

SIN-

CLAIR.

1854

9 * J U L A M E R K , b y MRS W E B B . 10

Z E N O N T H E M A R T Y R , BY R I C H A R D C O B B O L D .

1855. See 576a in Section I [3674]

R U S S E L L , w.

JANE BOUVERIE, by CATHERINE

16 * T H E

WIDE

WIDE

WETHERELL.

BY

MRS

1855.

SINCLAIR.

17

WORLD,

BY

MISS

1855

THE M O N K , b y MRS S H E R W O O D .

' A new and

Improved Edition.' n.d. [1855] Bright green boards, wood-engraved front, and pictorial title, pp. 360 Publishers' adverts., 16 pp. on text paper, at end. Originally published as The Monk of Cimies. Described on front cover as ' A vivid picturing of the life and system of Monkery. A companion to the Anti-Nunnery "Beatrice" and the Anti-Jesuit "Confessor".' 18

FRESTON

TOWER,

BY

RICHARD

COBBOLD.

(1856). See 569a in Section I. 19 ^ H O L I D A Y H O U S E , b y C A T H E R I N E

SINCLAIR.

(1856) 20 * M O D E R N A C C O M P L I S H M E N T S , BY C A T H E R I N E SINCLAIR. (1856) 21 * A D O N I J A H , BY LAND. (1856)

1854

ENGLAND,

1855

6 M A R Y A N N E W E L L I N G T O N , BY R I C H A R D COBBOLD. 1854

7 * T H E L A M P L I G H T E R , b y MISS CUMMINS.

OF N E W

1855

A first English edition.

SINCLAIR. 1854. Originally published in 3 vols. 1849, as Sir Edward Graham or Railway Speculators (3060 in Section I).

F L I R T A T I O N , BY C A T H E R I N E

PILGRIMS

14 * A L O N G L O O K A H E A D , b y A . S. R O E .

5 *THE MYSTERIOUS MARRIAGE, by CATHERINE

Note. This issue is not in the Collection, but 573a described in Section I is so similar in appearance (though without series title) that I suspect it to be a 'Run and Read' issue reclothed.

1855.

Described as 'the great Protestant Tale'. WEBB.

3 *THE CONFESSOR: a Jesuit Tale of the Times, by the author of Michael Cassidy. 1853. A First Edition, described by The British Banner as 'pervaded by an earnest anti-papal spirit'. Pl.

11 * T O L O V E A N D T O B E L O V E D , b y A. S. R O E .

22 * M O D E R N CLAIR.

JANE

SOCIETY,

MARGARET

by

STRICK-

CATHERINE

SIN-

(1856)

CLARK

Heart of Oak. 'Special Edition for Sale in India and the British Colonies.' pictorial boards. 70

Chatto & Windus 1896.

Cream

pi.

7

SMART [3675]

SALA,

[3676]

MAKE

GEORGE AUGUSTUS

I. First

[3678]

Editions

suited to certain types of books when this seemed prudent.

or the Adventures of the Stout Gentleman, the Slim Gentleman and the Man with the Iron Chest Ward & Lock 1860. Yellow pictorial boards. Folding wood-engraved front, and numerous illustrations in the text, all on text paper. Small format. Half-title, pp. xii + (272) S6-S8 adverts. 32 pp. of publishers' (various) adverts, at end on text paper, but unsigned. Two leaves advertising W. H. Smith's Library inserted between front end-papers. Rubber stamp: ' J . R. Molineux', on verso of title. Note. The adverts, at the end of this volume merit examination. They include the following imprints: 'Office, 122 Fleet Street' (i.e. the address from which Robin Goodfellow and the St James's Magazine, both started by John Maxwell, were published); 'Houlston, Wright, 65 Paternoster Row' (several pages stressing The Welcome Guest); Ward & Lock themselves (158 Fleet Street); C. J . Skeet (advertising a Sala novel); W. Kent (The Comic Library); and G. Vickers. The connection between these various imprints was no doubt partly a shared interest in Sala; but I must repeat my suspicion that Ward & Lock had concealed tie-ups with more than one small publishing firm, perhaps using imprints

SAND,

YOUR

GAME:

Being selections from the Works of George Augustus Sala. Revised and abridged by the author for public reading. Tinsley 1872. Dark yellow boards, printed in black and red with a portrait of Sala, titling, etc. End-papers printed with Chapman & Hall adverts. Large format. Leaf of Tinsley adverts, precedes half-title, pp. (xii) [paged (x)] + (340) 21„ and 22x 222 Tinsley adverts. Ink signature: ' J . Browne', on title.

PAPERS HUMOROUS AND PATHETIC.

II. Reprints Captain Dangerous. C. H. Clarke, n.d. Yellow pictorial boards. Cover drawing by Phiz. Chapman & Hall end-papers. Select Library of Fiction Gaslight and Daylight. 'A New Edition.' Chatto & Windus, n.d. (adverts, dated 1893). Pale yellow pictorial boards. London U p to Date. 'Cheap Edition.' Adam & Charles Black 1896. Yellow ornamental boards. See also: F I R S T C L A S S L I B R A R Y (above) and WARD & LOCK'S S H I L L I N G VOLUME

(below).

LIBRARY

GEORGE

Consuelo.

Weldon & Co., n.d. (inscription dated 1887).

Countess of Rudolstadt.

Pale yellow pictorial boards.

Weldon, n.d. (about mid-eighties).

Pale yellow pictorial boards.

Old Convents of Paris (Madame Charles Reybaud) and The Haunted Marsh (Sand). Weldon, n.d. (about mid-eighties). Pale yellow pictorial boards. Weldon's Two Shilling Library. Note. These two stories formed No. 8 of the Parlour Library (1847) and the present re-issue is printed from the plates (or type) of that edition, with prelims, re-set. [3679]

SCOTT,

MICHAEL

Tom Cringle's Log. [3680]

SHELLEY,

'A New Edition.'

Yellow pictorial boards.

MARY w .

Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck. format. Railway Library. [3681]

Routledge 1876.

SKETCHLEY,

Routledge 1857.

Yellow pictorial boards, specially designed spine.

ARTHUR

Match in the Dark (A). 'New Edition.' Chatto & Windus 1881. See also M R S B R O W N S E R I E S above. [3682]

PI. 6

SMART,

Small

Yellow pictorial boards.

HAW1EY

Cecile. Chapman & Hall 1881. Illuminated decorative boards, uniform with Trollope's Miss Mackenzie, etc. Imprint of Ward & Lock on spine and series title; Select Library of Fiction, on front and spine. Also on spine 'The Works of Hawley Smart'. 71

[3677]

SMART Note. This attractive 'illuminated' binding is, in my experience, very uncommon, and I have only acquired three specimens for the Collection. But, owing to the kindness of Dr John Johnson of the Clarendon Press and another correspondent, I can record that the following titles (over and above those here noted) were published in this style: Trollope: Belton Estate; He Knew He was Right; Lotta Schmidt; Phineas Finn (probably Phineas Redux also); Rachel Ray; Tales of All Countries. Whyte Melville: Market Harborough; Rosine; Tilbury Nogo. Outsider (The). F. V. White & Co., n.d. (inscription dated 1888). Yellow pictorial boards. Note. Not identical with Copy I I in Section I, though very similar. Play or Pay. Chapman & Hall 1878. Pale blue pictorial boards, cover drawing by Corbould. Select Library of Fiction. Note. Type similar to that of first edition, but a different printer's imprint and clearly a later impression. Salvage, etc. [3683]

Pink pictorial boards.

Select Authors.

S M I T H , ALBERT I. First

[3684]

Ward & Lock, n.d. (after 1884).

Edition

(Edited by Albert Smith) Small 8vo. Routledge 1861. Yellow pictorial boards, up-lettered on spine. printed with adverts, pp. (iv) + (124) I 6 adverts. Bookseller's stamp: 'Hickson, Bridlington', on title.

THE LONDON MEDICAL STUDENT

Back cover and end-papers

I I . Reprints. All small format and, with one exception, published by Routledge. spines, except where stated. PI. 4

Christopher Tadpole Copy I : '22nd Thousand.' 1854. White boards, printed in red and black with front and spine design by Alfred Crowquill. Front cover design repeated on back. Front, and vignette title,woodengraved after Phiz illustrations in first edition.

Marchioness of Brinvilliers (The) Copy I : 1856. Bright green pictorial boards. Cover drawing by Phiz. Up-lettered in fancy type on spine. Copy I I : n.d. Cream boards. Same coverdrawing as I but lettering re-arranged. Conventional spine advert, pasted to back cover.

Copy H : n.d. Yellow back, with same front design as Copy I in red and green, new specially drawn spine design. Advert, pasted on back cover.

Mont Blanc. Ward & Lock, n.d. Yellow pictorial boards. Wood-engravings in text.

Comic Tales and Pictures of Life

M r Ledbury (The Adventures o f ) Copy I : 'New Edition.' 1856. Yellow boards, printed with all-over portrait of the author and fancy titling; spine-design by Phiz. Railway Library.

1st re-issue. David Bryce, n.d. Yellow pictorial boards after Leech. No front, but text illustrations. Printed from Bentley's plates, with new prelims. Small format. 2nd re-issue. C. H. Clarke, n.d. Yellow pictorial boards after Leech (different picture) and same text illustrations. Printed from Bentley's plates (now worn) with new prelims, and adjusted flytitles. A coarse production. [3685]

Conventionalised

Copy IE: n.d. Pale blue pictorial boards. Scattergood Family, Fortunes of the. n.d. Yellow pictorial boards. Cover-drawing by Phiz.

S M I T H , HORACE A l l small format. Adam Brown. C. H. Clarke, n.d. ventional spine. Arthur Arundel. C. H. Clarke, n.d. uniform with Adam Brown.

Yellow pictorial boards. Yellow pictorial boards.

Jane Lomax Copy I. Henry Lea, n.d. Yellow pictorial boards. designed spine also by Phiz. 72

Front cover drawing repeated on back.

Con-

Front cover drawing repeated on back. Spine

Cover drawing by Phiz repeated on back.

Specially

PL 4

SUE Copy II. J. A. Berger, n.d. (inscription dated 1877). Dark yellow pictorial boards. Cover drawing as Copy I, conventional spine, advert, on back cover. Printed from the type of Copy I on poor quality paper. Title a cancel. New Forest (The). 'Copyright Edition.' Blaney & Fryer, n.d. yellow-back. Specially designed spine. Walter Colyton. [3686]

' Second Edition.'

SOUTHWORTH,

Knight & Son, n.d.

Yellow pictorial cloth, in imitation of a

Yellow pictorial boards, specially designed spine.

M R S D. E. N E V I T T

Lost Bride (The). Henry Lea, n.d. Pale yellow pictorial boards, specially drawn spine, front cover design repeated on back. Small format. Retribution. [3687]

Henry Lea, n.d.

STEVENSON,

Yellow pictorial boards.

R. L.

New Arabian Nights.

'New Edition.'

Wrecker (The) (with Lloyd Osbourne). [3688]

STEWART,

Small format.

Chatto & Windus 1885. Yellow pictorial boards. ' Colonial Edition.'

Cassell 1893.

Yellow pictorial boards.

M I S S E. M.

UP, or Lost on the Wold. Edited by Miss E. M. Stewart, authoress of 'London City Tales', 'Lord Dacre' of Gilsland', 'Royalists and Roundheads', 'Hermione', 'Lillias Davenant', 'Rival Roses', etc. Offices of the Illustrated Monthly Novelist, 8 Palsgrave Place, Temple Bar, n.d. (1868). Pictorial wrappers, cut flush. Spine unlettered. Back printed with advert, of Second Series of 'London City Tales' (q.v.). Wood-engraved front, on plate paper. pp. (iv) +156 Note. This is yet another derivative from the Canterbury Tales. The occupants of a mail coach, snow-bound near York—a Young Author, a Sailor, a Farmer, a Lawyer, etc.—tell stories to pass the time. It was clearly a Christmas issue, for the wrapper, to sensational effect, combines sprigs of holly with a knight in armour and a ghost. For suggested dating see L O N D O N C I T Y T A L E S (3613 above), Note (ii).

SNOWED

[3689]

ST JOHN,

BAYLE

Maretimo. 'Cheap Edition.' Library. [3690]

STOWE,

HARRIET

Agnes of Sorrento. Elder style.

Chapman & Hall, n.d. (1856).

Yellow pictorial boards.

Small format. Select

BEECHER

'New Edition.'

Smith, Elder 1869.

Deep cream pictorial boards in standard Smith,

Dred. Sampson, Low 1856. Binding I. Cream boards, pictorially printed in black on front, spine and back; dark green end-papers. Binding II. White boards, printed all over in red maroon, lettering in reverse; dark green end-papers. Mayflower (The). E. Farrington, 2 Bath Street, Newgate Street 1853. Blue boards, pictorially printed and lettered in black. Imprint on cover: 'C. H. Clarke', and 2 wood-engraved plates. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands Copy I : 'Author's Edition.' Sampson, Low 1854. Greenish white boards, pictorially printed in black on front cover and spine. Wood-engraved front, and illustrations in text. Copy II:'Thirtieth Thousand.' Routledge 1854. Yellow decorated boards. Front cover design repeated on back. Wood-engraved front, and title, but no other illustration. [3691]

SUE,

EUGENE

Refugees of Martinique (The). Adams' Democracy). Wandering Jew (The). SCFII

Walter Scott, n.d.

Routledge, n.d.

Cream boards, patterned in red and blue (uniform with

Yellow pictorial boards. 73

io

SVRTEES [3692]

SURTEES,

ROBERT

Jorrocks' Jaunts.

SMITH

Routledge, n.d. (after 1889).

Soapy Sponge's Sporting Tour. going.

[3693]

Cream pictorial boards; cover drawing by John Sturgess.

Routledge 1893.

Cream pictorial boards (by Sturgess) uniform with fore-

T H A C K E R A Y , w. M. History of Samuel Titmarsh (The) and The Great Hoggarty Diamond. Sq. Cr. 8vo. Smith, Elder (on title), Bradbury & Evans (on front cover), n.d. 'New Edition.' Cream glazed boards printed in dark blue and light green.

[3694]

THOMAS,

ANNIE

Allerton Towers. Best for Her.

Yellow pictorial boards.

Ward & Lock, n.d. (1882).

Eyre of Blendon. [3695]

F. V. White 1883. F. V. White 1884.

T I N S L E Y ' S COMIC L I B R A R Y

Yellow pictorial boards.

Select

Library.

Cream pictorial boards.

1854-(?)

Mainly for the sake of the imprint, which is distinct from, and pre-dates, that of Tinsley Bros., I include a brief note on this series, of which I have never seen more than the one specimen here described. by Percy B. St John. Edward Tinsley & Co., 58 Fleet Street 1854. Glazed yellow wrappers cut flush, printed in black on front with an elaborate, skilful and humorously conceived design, incorporating series title, names of contributors to the series, and individual book-title. Spine up-lettered. Back wrappers printed with advert, of series. Wood-engraved front, on text paper. Half-title, pp. (120) 2 leaves of adverts, at end stressing the works of Percy B. and Bayle St John. The advert, on back wrapper promises for the same series a Christmas Book by Mayhew and Lobster Salad by Percy B. St John. It announces as published Our Own Correspondent at the Seat of War by William Brough.

OUR H O L I D A Y I N P A R I S ,

[3696]

TROLLOPE,

ANTHONY

Though this collection of Trollope in yellow-back form is not complete (I have seen a few of the missing titles, but only in bad shape) nor wholly of earliest issue, it is complete enough to suggest certain publishing happenings—a rare event in the uncharted and largely undated wilderness of yellow-backs of the middle and late period. No one of the Smith, Elder titles is present, indicating that Smith, Elder (who published few yellowbacks and those mainly in the eighties and nineties) were also unwilling to lease their books for yellowback issue. The two Longman titles are published by Longman themselves and with a complete absence of commercial advertisement. Chapman & Hall freely included Trollope in their Select Library of Fiction, and in several cases leased their plates to Ward & Lock for later issue of the titles in that firm's Library of Select Authors. But in 1881 Ward, Lock & Co. must have acquired the right to use the series title also of the Select Library of Fiction, even re-clothing in the attractive ' illuminated' style novels which had already been published in their Library of Select Authors. For how long Ward, Lock & Co. published the Select Library I do not know. The Library of Select Authors continued long after 1881; and several Trollopes in the Series have Ward & Lock on spine, Ward, Lock & Co. on title. The latter imprint dates from about 1880. Chatto & Windus, who were Trollope's last publishers, seem to have acquired a few late Chapman & Hall titles for their yellow-back series, in which of course they also included the three novels of their own. American Senator (The). 'A New Edition.' Chatto & Windus 1886.

Belton Estate (The). Copy I . 'Third Edition.'

Barchester Towers. 'New Edition.' Longman etc. n.d. [circa 1870]. The imprint on front cover is 'Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer'.

Chapman & Hall 1868.

Select Library of Fiction. Copy II. Ward, Lock & Bowden, n.d. [later than 1894]. Select Authors. 74

TROLLOPE Bertrams (The). Copy I. 'Eighth Edition.' Chapman & Hall, n.d. [1869]. Select Library of Fiction. Copy II. 'New Edition.' Ward & Lock, n.d. [later than 1878]. Select Authors.

Mary Gresley and An Editor's Tales. 'New Edition.' Chapman & Hall, n.d. [1871]. Select Library of Fiction. For note on this title see Sadleir, pp. 113-14. Miss Mackenzie. 'New Edition.' Ward, Lock & Co. on both title and spine, n.d. [1882]. Select Library of Fiction. Illuminated decorative boards, uniform with Cousin Henry. Copies exist with Chapman & Hall imprint.

Castle Richmond. 'New Edition.' Ward & Lock, n.d. [later than 1878]. Select Authors. Cousin Henry. 1881. Copy I.

'New Edition.'

Chapman & Hall

Pictorial boards. Select Authors.

Phineas Finn. 'New Edition.' Select Authors.

Copy II. Illuminated decorative boards. Select Library of Fiction (cf. 3682 above). In both cases title imprint is Chapman & Hall, but imprint on cover Ward & Lock.

Phineas Redux. 'New Edition.' Ward & Lock, n.d. [1882]. Select Authors. This edition is printed from the plates of the Chapman & Hall yellow-back edition of [1878].

Doctor Thorne. ' Ninth Edition.' Chapman & Hall 1866. Select Library of Fiction.

Rachel Ray. 'Eleventh Edition.' Chapman & Hall, n.d. (1869). Select Library of Fiction.

Doctor Wortle's School. Ward & Lock, n.d. [1881]. Select Authors.

Ralph the Heir. 'New Edition.' Chapman & Hall, n.d. [1872]. Select Library of Fiction. At the end of the volume an anonymous essay on Charles Lever, reprinted from Blackwood's Magazine and occupying 30 pages, acts as advert, for the Lever titles in the Select Library.

Duke's Children (The). 'Third Edition.' Chapman & Hall 1881. Select Library of Fiction. Eustace Diamonds (The). 'New Edition.' Ward & Lock, n.d. [later than 1881]. Select Library of Fiction.

Sir Harry Hotspur. Chapman & Hall 1881. Library of Fiction.

Frau Frohmann and other Stories. ' A New Edition.' Chatto & Windus 1884.

He Knew He Was Right. 'New Edition.' Chapman & Hall, n.d. [1871]. Select Library of Fiction.

Warden (The). 'New Edition.' n.d. [circa 1870].

Is He Popenjoy? 'New Edition.' Ward & Lock, n.d. [later than 1883]. Select Authors.

Landleaguers (The). Windus 1885.

' A New Edition.'

Chatto &

New Zealand. Ward, Lock & Co., n.d. [circa 1884]. Pale yellow unstiffened wrappers printed in colours with a different picture. Note. These four volumes constitute the work Australia and New Zealand, and are yellow-back re-issues of the four small volumes first published in cloth in 1874 (cf. Sadleir, pp. 134-6). Presumably there was also a 'New Zealand' in the Chapman & Hall series, dated 1875. Whether Ward, Lock's later issue comprised all four parts, I do not know. The one noted above is the only specimen I have ever seen.

Chatto &

L a Vendée. 'Fourth Edition.' Chapman & Hall 1875. Select Library of Fiction. Macdermots of Ballycloran (The). 'New Edition.' Chapman & Hall 1866. Select Library of Fiction. Marion Fay. 1885.

'A New Edition.'

Longman etc.

New South Wales and Queensland—South and West Australia—Victoria and Tasmania 3 vols. 'New Edition.' Chapman & Hall 1875. Stiffened pictorial paper covers, with uniform design on strong yellow ground.

Kellys and the O'Kellys (The). 'Eighth Edition.' Chapman and Hall, n.d. [1868]. Select Library of Fiction. 'A New Edition.'

Select

Tales of All Countries. Copy I. Chapman & Hall 1867. Select Library of Fiction. Copy II. 'New Edition.' Ward & Lock, n.d. [later than 1878]. Select Authors. Printed from same plates as Copy I. Pictorial cover identical.

Golden Lion of Granpere (The). 'New Edition.' Tinsley 1873. The imprint on front cover and end-paper adverts, are those of Routledge.

Kept in the Dark. Windus 1891.

Ward & Lock, n.d.

Chatto & Windus 75

TROLLOPE [3697]

TROLLOPE,

MRS F R A N C E S

Barnabys in America (Adventures of the). Ward & Lock, n.d. [circa 1857]. Pictorial boards. Small format. Love and Jealousy. J . & C. Brown, n.d. [1859]. Pictorial boards. Small format. Date established from advert, on back cover of Traditions of London by 'Waters', 1859. Originally published as The Young Countess. Widow Barnaby (The). 'New Edition.' Ward & Lock 1856. Pictorial boards. Dark yellow printed endpapers (very unusual in a yellow-back). Small format. Re-issued by Routledge in (1885) in inferior pictorial boards. Widow Married (The). Ward & Lock, n.d. [circa 1856]. Pictorial boards. Small format.

[3698]

TROLLOPE, La Beata.

[3699]

T. A.

'New Edition.'

TUPPER,

MARTIN

Ward & Lock, n.d. [circa 1884].

Greenish white pictorial boards.

Select Library.

FARQUHAR

Stephen Langton Copy I. 'New Edition Revised.' Ward & Lock 1863. Pictorial boards and decorated spine. Copy II. 'New Edition.' Guildford: Frank Lasham 1880. Pictorial boards but plain spine. This issue contains steel-engraved front, and title from Vol. I of the first edition, badly cut down: also a new Preface, written for this edition, dated June 1880. The coloured picture on front cover is the same as that on Copy I.

[3700]

TWAIN,

[3701]

CURIOUS

I. First

[3702]

MARK

Editions Notes, (i) The following items in the Contents List are here first printed in book-form: Two Poems (by Moore and Twain); The Experiments of the MacWilliamses etc.; After Dinner Speech; A True Story Just as I Heard it-, Speech at the Scottish Banquet in London; A Ghost Story; A Curious Pleasure Excursion, (ii) On the title appear the words: 'Messrs George Routledge and Sons are my only authorised London publishers. Mark Twain.'

(A) and other Sketches. Selected and revised by the Author. Copyright. Routledge, n.d. [1872], Yellow pictorial boards with a picture of a seated skeleton; up-lettered on spine; advert. (Routledge's American Library) on back. pp. (152) L4 advert. Ink signature: ' E . Izou', on title. Notes, (i) All the items in this book except the fourth: 'The Facts in the case of George Fisher deceased', are here first printed in book-form, (ii) A later issue has designed cover with moonlight view in half circle above panel with author and title, and on back cover advert, of Storel & Grant, Tailors. ' Copyright' does not appear on title, but in its place is the sentence set out in Note (ii) to Information Wanted. I am indebted to Mr I. R. Brüssel for these and other details of Twain 'first appearances in book-form'. DREAM

(The). 'Copyright Edition' Routledge, n.d. [1872]. Yellow pictorial boards, up-lettered on spine, advert. (Routledge's American Library) on back cover. Printed end-papers, pp. 224 Note. This is a sequel to Roughing It, and preceded American issue by one week.

[3703]

'Copyright Edition' Routledge, n.d. [1872]. Dark yellow pictorial boards, up-lettered on spine, advert. (Routledge's American Library) on back cover. Printed endpapers. Half-title, pp. xii + 244 Note. Described on front cover as 'Companion volume to The Innocents Abroad'. Preceded American issue by one week.

[3704]

I N N O C E N T S AT HOME

ROUGHINGIT.

and Other Sketches Routledge, n.d. [circa 1875]. Yellow boards, printed in vermilion and black, up-lettered on spine, advert. (Clark & Co.'s Shutters) on back cover. Printed end-papers. Half-title, pp. (144) Publishers' cat., 16 pp. undated, at end.

INFORMATION WANTED

76

VERNE [3704a]

I I . Reprints. Large format, all in cream or yellow pictorial boards and published b y Chatto & Windus (unless otherwise stated). Idle Excursion (An) and Other Papers. 1878 Innocents Abroad (The). Hotten, n.d. Cream pictorial wrappers, cut flush.

(1872).

flnnocents Abroad (The) and The New Pilgrim's Progress. 1877. Entitled 'The Pleasure Trip' on cover. Jumping Frog (The) and other Humorous Sketches. Hotten, n.d. (1874). Cream pictorial wrappers, cut flush. Mark Twain's Sketches. 'New Edition.' 1892

[3705]

Mississippi Pilot (The). Ward, Lock & Tyler, n.d. White pictorial wrappers, cut flush. Screamers. Ward, Lock & Tyler, n.d. White pictorial wrappers, cut flush. Cover drawing by Phiz. Tom Sawyer (Adventures of). (1877)

'New Edition.' n.d.

Tramp Abroad (A). 'A New Edition.' 1890 Note. The Chatto titles, except that marked f , have uniform conventional spines.

VARIOUS AUTHORS L E A P (The) and Other Tales, by Leitch Ritchie, Mrs Norton, Mrs S. C. Hall, Charles Knight, Thomas Pringle, Mrs Howitt, John Banim, Miss Mitford, Mrs Hofland, Miss Jewsbury. Routledge, Soho Square 1849. Deep-cherry decorated boards, patterned in pink and gold and fancy-lettered in gold on spine: T H E / L O V E R ' S / L E A P . All edges gilt. Steel-engraved front, and 11 plates after J. Wood (3); J. M. W. Turner, G. Arnald, David Wilkie, W. Purser, C. R. Leslie, William Finden, J. Stephanoff, W. Kidd and J. Stothard. pp. viii + 316 Small format. Ink inscription on fly-leaf: 'Miriam Wright Anderson. From her affectionate Brother E. A. W. Anderson. Jany lst/49.' Note. Conceived in the style of the Annuals, this elegant and carefully produced little volume was presumably on the market for Christmas 1848. No Editor's name is given, nor is there any suggestion that earlier volumes have been or that later ones are to be published. The title-story is by Leitch Ritchie; and in addition to contributions by the authors listed on the title the volume contains a 25 page story 'By the O'Hara Family' (i.e. John and Michael Banim); a story by J. Baillie Fraser; and poems or prose by The Ettrick Shepherd, Allan Cunningham, George Darley and John Clare.

LOVER'S

[3706]

V E R N E , JULES The English editions of Jules Verne present a complicated problem, and the notes here provided of issues in pictorial wrappers do not pretend to elucidate more t h a n a corner of it. I t may, however, be p u t on record t h a t in 1875 Sampson Low etc. made a formal arrangement with Hetzel of Paris, Jules Verne's publishers, b y which they became the sole authorised English publishers of such of Verne's works as were still in 'translation copyright'. On the strength of this arrangement they were able, in March 1876, to proceed against Weldon & Co., who published a Shilling Series of Verne, and compel t h e m to withdraw their editions of Around the World in 80 Days and The Adventures of Three Russians (these titles being covered b y the Hetzel agreement) and announce t h a t in f u t u r e they would only publish works b y Verne of which the copyright had not been secured b y Sampson Low. Nevertheless there were on the market yet other editions of Verne, published b y Routledge and b y Ward, Lock & Tyler. The specimens I have seen are undated and may have pre-dated Sampson Low's exclusivity, and thereafter been withdrawn. I n any event, of the Routledge titles listed quite a number, and of the Ward & Lock titles one a t least, are on the list published by Sampson Low as in their sole control. Sampson Low published their Verne editions in various forms. There was a ' v e r y handsome cloth' edition with gilt edges, containing 350-600 pp. and 50 to 100 full-page illustrations at prices from 6s. to 10s. 6d. per vol.; there was a plainer cloth edition from 3s. 6d. to 5s.; there was an edition in smaller type with a few of the illustrations at Is. per vol. in ' coloured boards', a t 3s. or 2s. per vol. in cloth. I t is with the last two only t h a t I am now concerned, and with such boarded or wrappered competitors as I can record. 77

VERNE [3706a]

SAMPSON LOW'S ' A U T H O R I S E D AND I L L U S T R A T E D

EDITION'

Square 8vo, glazed white stiff wrappers, cut flush, printed with vignette, lettering and decoration in black and either grey or pale blue, up-lettered on spine. Inside and back covers printed, ' J U L E S V E R N E ' S W O R K S , L O W ' S A U T H O R I S E D E D I T I O N ' appears on front cover and spine. The cloth editions are in smooth scarlet linen pictorially blocked and lettered in grey-blue and black, up-lettered on spine, back cover blocked with advert. Each volume contains a wood-engraved front., often a title vignette and 2 or 3 illustrations in the text. The volumes are not numbered, and I give them in the order of an advert, in an early volume which presumably represented sequence of publication. It may be noted that the first eight titles were announced in the Publishers' Circular of December 31, 1875, with a statement that as these titles were just coming out of copyright, the publishers were deliberately launching a shilling series in order to forestall similar cheap editions from other houses. Titles asterisked are not in the Collection. 1876 *Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa „ Five Weeks in a Balloon „ A Floating City „ The Blockade Runners „ *From the Earth to the Moon „ Around the Moon: a Sequel (copy dated 1886,

2 vols. Third Edition (copy

1881

Michael Strogoff: the Courier of the Czar.

1882

The Child of the Cavern.

2 vols, (translated by W. H. G. Kingston)

Translated by

1884 The Green Ray 1885 The Giant Raft: I. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon; n . The Cryptogram 1887 Keraban the Inflexible: I. The Captain of the Guidara (cloth); n . Scarpante the Spy

Around the World in 80 Days Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea. 2 vols.

„ „ „ 1877

Hector Servadac. dated 1882)

W. H. G. Kingston

clearly a late issue)

„ „

1877

(cloth)

A Winter Amid the Ice Dr Ox's Experiment and Master Zacharias Martin Paz The Fur Country. 2 vols.

1893 North Against South: I. Burbank the Northerner (cloth); n . Texar the Southerner (cloth)

„

The Flight to France (cloth)

Note. The following titles were also issued in wrappers and cloth, but are not in the Collection: Dick Sands (2 vols.)—Survivors of the 'Chancellor' (2 vols.)—Mysterious Island (3 vols.)—Begum's Fortune— Tribulations of a Chinaman—Steam House (2 vols.) [3706&]

ROUTLEDGE

EDITIONS

Yellow pictorial boards, uniform specially designed spine, n.d. Each volume contains two stories individually paged, so presumably an earlier separate issue was made. Adventures of Captain Hatteras: I. The English at the North Pole; n . The Field of Ice. Journey to the Centre of the Earth and Five Weeks in a Balloon. (Front, to each story in this volume.) 20,000 Leagues under the Sea. 2 vols, in one (front, to each volume).

A panel-advert, announces as also published (presumably uniform with these Routledge issues): Floating City and Blockade Runners—Voyage Round the World—From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon—Three Englishmen and Three Russians—Around the World in 80 days—The Fur Country. [3706c]

WARD, LOCK & T Y L E R

EDITIONS

Yellow pictorial and decorated wrappers printed in black, red and green, cut flush. Inside covers and back cover printed with adverts, T H E J U L E S V E R N E L I B R A R Y on front cover and spine, n.d. [1886, according to a label pasted into the only specimen in the Collection]. The English at the North Pole (Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras) [1886].

A panel-advert, announces 'in fancy wrappers Is., cloth Is. 6d., cloth gilt 2s.' the following other titles: Journey Into the Interior of the Earth (sic)—Ice Desert—Five Weeks in a Balloon. 78

VJZETELLY Note. In no case where the same title appears in two or more publishers' lists have the books been printed from the same type or plates. Each publisher's edition is specially set and the texts of the translations vary.

[3707]

VIZETELLY'S CAPITAL STORIES

1888-1890

Published at one shilling each in various coloured wrappers, cut flush, pictorially printed in black. Bracketed numbers are mine, and the order of publication is not necessarily correct. Titles asterisked are not in the Collection. 1

THE

CHAPLAIN'S

SECRET,

1888.

SEAU.

Lilac

BY

LEON

wrappers;

DE

TIN-

5

by

printed end-papers. 2

[3708]

»THE

grey-green »

6

AVATAR, by GAUTIER

RJ

3

»COLONEL QUAGG'S CONVERSION,

4

»THE MONKEY'S REVENGE, b y GOZLAN

by

T H

by 8

WITH

THE W O O D E N

E MAECHIONESS' TEAM, b y DE

T H E

SALA

PENSIONER

E M O

TIONS

GOZLAN.

OF

POLYDOBE

TINSEAU MARASQUIN,

'Second Edition.'

»FOR JACQUES' SAKE, b y DE

VIZETELLY'S POPULAR FRENCH NOVELS

HEAD,

MOUTON

1890

TINSEAU

1880-(?) 1882

Published at one shilling each in pink paper wrappers, cut flush, printed in maroon with titling, etc. in decorative frame. Blue printed end-papers. Titles asterisked are not in the Collection. Some volumes are numbered, others unnumbered. I have numbered the latter in their correct sequence. I cannot establish the order of subsequent volumes in the series, three of which are listed in Grenville Murray's Sidelights (1881). 1

FROMONT

THE

YOUNGER

AND

RISLER

E L D E R , BY A L P H O N S E D A U D E T .

THE

8 *A W O M A N ' S D I A R Y , b y

1880

J

2

«SAMUEL BROHL BULIEZ

3

»THE

DRAMA

OF

AND THE

P A R T N E R , BY C H E R RUE

DE

LA

PAIX,

10

by

BELOT 4

5 6

11

by H. tieth Thousand.' 1886t by

teenth Thousand.'

[3709]

J

THE TOWER OF P E R C E M O N T and b y GEORGE SAND.

GREVILLE.

'Twen-

12

STROKE

THEURIET MARIANNE,

1881

»THE LOW-BORN LOVER'S REVENGE,

by

CHER-

BULIEZ

A N E W L E A S E OF L I F E and S A V I N G A DAUGHTEE'S D O W R Y ,

7

»THE GODSON OF A MARQUIS, b v

»MAUGARS JUNIOR, b y THEURIET W A Y W A R D DOSIA,

FEUILLET

_ * 9 * B L U E - E Y E D M E T A H O L D E N I S AND A OF D I P L O M A C Y , BY C H E R B U L I E Z

EDMOND

1886$

ABOUT.

'Fif-

»COLOMBA and CARMEN, b y M£RIM£E

VIZETELLY'S SENSATIONAL NOVELS

13

»THE N O T A R Y ' S NO SE, etc., b y A B O U T

14

»DOCTOR CLAUDE,

15

»THE THREE RED KNIGHTS, b y

by

MALOT F£VAL

1888

Published at one shilling each in orange-scarlet wrappers, uniform with the novels of Boisgobey and Gaboriau. Titles asterisked are not in the Collection. 1 2

3

[3710]

» B E W I T C H I N G IZA, b y B O U V I E R LECOQ

THE

DETECTIVE'S DAUGHTER, J O BUSNACH and CHABRILLAT§

by J

»DESPATCH AND SECRECY, b y GRISON

4

A WILY WIDOW, by BOUVIER.

„ 5

, , THE CONVICT'S MARRIAGE, b y BOUVIER.

6

1888

J

»THE MEUDON M Y S T E R Y , b y J U L E S

1888

MARY

V I Z E T E L L Y ' S S I X P E N N Y S E R I E S of Amusing and Entertaining Books l886-(?) 1

? »BLACK

CROSS

MYSTERY,

by

HENRIETTA

3

MENT,

2

? »VOTE

by

FOR

C H A R L E S G. P A Y N E

POTTLEBECK,

by

CHARLES

CECILE'S FORTUNE, b y BOISGOBEY.

1886

In 1887 this story was c o m b i n e d with The Steel Necklace to form No. 21 of Vizetelly's Shilling Edition (see 3453 above) 4 T H E T H R E E C O R N E R E D H A T , and other Spanish Stories by P . A . D E A L A R C O N . 1886

cORKRANandMATRiMONY BY ADVERTISE-

G.

PAYNE

•f This volume is wrappered in pale yellow, printed in black and without decorative blocking, j This volume is wrappered in dark red, blocked in black, uniform with standard pink wrappers. § Apparently re-numbered 5, although regularly listed as 2. 79

VIZETELLY Note. This series continued with the following ti they appeared: The Steel Necklace, by Boisgobey The Great Hoggarty Diamond, by Thackeray Captain Spitfire and the Unlucky Treasure, by Alarcon Young Widows, by Grenville Murray The Detective's Eye, by Boisgobey Combined with The Red Lottery Ticket in 1887 to form No. 22 of Vizetelly's Shilling Edition (3453 above). The Strange Phantasy of Doctor Trintzius, by Auguste Vitu [3711]

s, b u t I cannot record for certain in what order A Shabby Genteel Story, by Thackeray The Fiddler among the Bandits, by Dumas The Red Lottery Ticket, by Boisgobey Tartarin of Tarascon, by Daudet King Solomon's Wives, by Hyder Ragged The Manchester Merchant. From the German Matrimony by Advertisement, by C. G. Payne The Abbé Constantin, by Ludovic Halévy

W A R D AND LOCK'S S H I L L I N G VOLUME L I B R A R Y

1862

I have found this a t once the most elusive and most obscure of all the Fiction Series of the period. Over years I have only succeeded in finding five titles of the original issue and two others in wrappers of a later design, while the lists of titles and f u t u r e arrangements on back covers become so contradictory and confusing t h a t it is impossible to reconstruct the series' publishing history beyond a comparatively early point. The 'Shilling Volume Library' was announced as to be published on the 1st and 15th of every month, 'fcap 8vo, paper covers, in the French style of Binding'. The publishers led off with a brief exordium: The Chancellor of the Exchequer, when proposing the Repeal of the Paper Duty, used as an argument for its removal the superiority both in paper and print of French popular literature over the same class of works produced in England. This distinction exists no longer. Therefore the Shilling Volume Library is projected with the view of giving to the reading public the full benefit of the abolition of the Paper D u t y . E a c h book will present t o the buyer the utmost possible value both in quantity and quality, and the greatest care will be taken so as to render the series in all respects unexceptional reading both for the young as well as for the old. The original issue was in pale greenish-blue wrappers, printed in black, on front with series and other titling, on spine with book title, author and price, on spine with advert, of the series itself. Inside front and back covers blank. Edges uncut. The books had, in fact, exactly the appearance of French books of the period. The list of titles on back covers is numbered, b u t not the volumes themselves. The following is the best I can do in the way of a chronological list of titles. Those asterisked are not in the Collection. O F W R O N G , by A B O U T . (Translated by Lascelles Wraxall.) 1862 pp. (iv) + (256) Publishers' adverts., 4 pp. on text paper undated, at end. Booksellers' ticket: 'Upward, Newport', inside front cover.

1 * T H E F A M I L Y C R E D I T , BY W E S T L A N D M A R S T O N

2

* W H I C H W I N S — L O V E OR M O N E Y ? by of Whitefriars ( E M M A R O B I N S O N )

3 »RECOLLECTIONS

OF A R E L I E V I N G

THE ROUND

the author OFFICER,

b y E . P. R O W S E L L ( s i c )

Note. As early as No. 3 the listing becomes slapdash. This book (later issued by J. & R. Maxwell as a large format yellow-back, poorly printed from the type of plates of the Shilling Volume Library edition) was by Francis W. Rowsell, C.B., C.M.G. 4

L A D Y L I S L E , b y M. E . B R A D D O N

6

MEMOIRS

OF A L A D Y

FENTON AYLMER.

IN

WAITING,

by

MBS

1862

pp. (248) 7 *THE CRUISE OF THE BLUE JACKET, BY LIEUT. WARNEFORD (WILLIAM RUSSELL, alias ' W A T E R S ' )

1862

8 *SCENES WHERE THE TEMPTER HAS TRIU M P H E D , by the author of The Gaol Chaplain (ERSKINE NEAL)

See 303 in Section I. The book is there described because it is in cloth, not wrappers. No mention is made of a cloth style in the back-cover adverts., and I do not know whether all or only a few of the titles were so issued.

9 *THE

KING

OF THE

MOUNTAINS,

(Translated by Wraxall.) 80

by

ABOUT.

WARD

& LOCK'S

LIBRARIES

At this point a rearrangement takes place, and the back-cover lists promise b u t do not perform, time they are corrected, b u t meanwhile the series has proceeded as follows: 10

THE

YOUNG

COUPLE

by HAIN FRISWELL.

and

pp. (viii) + 248 This volume is in a totally different wrapper from its fellows—buff paper, printed in dark blue with an all-over design of branches, leaves and snow flakes. No series title on front, but series advert, on back cover—and (into the bargain) the early uncorrected advert, giving No. 11 as No. 13 and two titles for 12 and 14 which did not actually appear until Nos. 17 and 19. I can only surmise the special wrapper was devised for the Christmas market and as in keeping with the tale. The story was later re-issued in the Parlour Library: Shilling Series 3755 b (i).

MISCELLANIES,

1862

pp. (viii) + 248 Note. The title-novelette occupies pp. (l)-55 only, and Friswell's Preface, dated July 1861, implies that it had been previously printed. But as ' Miscellanies' (pp. 56-248) are now first collected in book-form, and as the original printing of The Young Couple was probably in a periodical, I capitalise the whole volume as a first bookedition. 11

^LEONARD HARLOWE, by

12 * T H E

NIGHT

MAIL:

ITS

'WATERS' PASSENGERS

HOW THEY FARED, by PERCY

13

STORM-BEATEN,

Anchor Inn, by CHARLES GIBBON.

In

AND 14

FITZGERALD

THE

CAPTAIN

BRADDON.

or Christmas at the Old ROBERT BUCHANAN and

OF

THE

VULTURE,

by

M.

E.

1863

See 272 in Section I.

1862

We now r u n into fresh trouble. No. 14 above is undeniably dated 1863. Yet there are in the Collection copies of two books with this title steadily listed in the revised schedule as No. 17, and of another title not included a t all u p to No. 20, and both these books are dated 1862. I cannot with any certainty give beyond No. 20, nor explain the apparent discrepancy of dating. 15 * T H E S I L V E R ACRE, b y W I L L I A M

CARLETON.

18 * R A L P H

1862

See 513 in Section I. 16 * H U N T E D

T O D E A T H , BY W . S T E P H E N S

THE

SHIP

CHANDLER

BAILIFF

AND

OTHER

b y G E O R G E A U G U S T U S SALA.

AND

OTHER

TALES,

1862

See 322 in Section I.

HAY-

WARD 17

THE

b y M. E . B R A D D O N .

19

*BUSH LIFE, b y MRS AYLMER

20

» C Y N T H I A T H O R O L D , BY E M M A

TALES,

1862

ROBINSON

pp. (iv) + (220) Two further volumes are in the Collection, the first of which I have seen numbered 22 in one list and 19 in another, the second of which, in two later obviously renumbered lists, was recorded as 23 and 26. Between 1863 and 1865 the series was—if not actually taken over, a t a n y rate handled b y J o h n Maxwell, who not only renumbered b u t mixed reprints with original titles, so t h a t to a t t e m p t a reliable record is hopeless. Here therefore, numbered for convenience sake only, are: (21)

T H E K I N G ' S P A G E , BY P O N S O N D U

(22) T H E

TERRAIL.

Translated by Wraxall. 1862 pp. (iv)-252 Ink signature: 'J. Browne', on title

[3712]

PERFIDY

OF

CAPTAIN

G E O R G E A U G U S T U S SALA.

SLYBOOTS,

by

1863

pp. (iv) + (220) Violet wrappers, printed in dark purple and green, series title on front cover, but variant advert, on back. Soiled and spine defective.

WARD, LOCK AND TYLER'S S I X P E N N Y VOLUME

LIBRARY

Coloured pictorial wrappers, cut flush. Series title on front, back cover printed with list of series. T H E N I C H E IN T H E WALL: A TALE OF T E R R O R

(anon).

n.d. [1866] Pp.128.

The other titles listed are all of a sensational kind. The series ran to 22 vols., and m y dating is taken from an advert, in the Publishers' Circular for July 16,1866 announcing the purchase of the series by Ward, Lock & Tyler. SCFII

81

II

WARDEN [3713]

WARDEN,

FLORENCE

All large format, cream or pale yellow pictorial boards. Perfect Fool (A). Scheherazade. 1889*

F. V. White 1895.

'New Edition.'

St Cuthbert's Tower.

Wild Wooing (A).

Ward & Downey

Wom

Cassell 1891.

a n ' s Face (A).

F . V. White 1894. F. V. White 1890.

Young Wife's Trial (A).

F. V. White 1893.

The four F . V. White titles have uniform conventional spines. [3714]

WARREN,

SAMUEL

Diary of a Late Physician. Ten Thousand a Year. [3715]

WHYTE

Routledge, n.d. (after 1884).

Routledge, n.d. (after 1884).

Cream pictorial boards.

Cream pictorial boards, uniform with preceding.

M E L V I L L E , GEORGE JOHN

All large format in pictorial boards. The Ward & Lock titles are volumes in the Library of Select Authors and have uniform spines with series title at tail and 'The Works of Whyte Melville' at head. The Chapman & Hall titles all have uniform spines except one. Ditto the two Longman etc. titles. Bones and I. 'New Edition.' Ward, Lock & Bowden, n.d. (after 1891). Yellow boards. Cover drawing by Phiz.

Roy's Wife. 'Seventh Edition.' n.d. (1883). Yellow boards,

Sarchedon. 'New Edition.' Chapman & Hall 1872. Yellow boards,

Cerise. 'New Edition.' Ward & Lock, n.d. (inscription dated 1881). Pink boards.

Satanella. 'Eleventh Thousand.' 1873. Yellow boards.

Songs andVerses ' NewEdition.' Ward & Lock, n.d. (after 1889). Yellow boards.

Katerfelto. 'Fifteenth Thousand.' Hall 1876. Yellow boards.

True Cross (The). 'New Edition.' Hall, n.d. Yellow boards.

Chapman

Pink boards. Riding Recollections. 'Eighth Edition.' man & Hall 1880. Pale blue boards.

&

Uncle John.

Chapfrom

'New Edition.'

Chapman &

Chapman & Hall.

n.d. Pale pink boards. Select Library of Fiction, T h e s P i n e o f t h i s volume differs from others t h e s a m e publishers.

W I L L I S , N. P . Paul Fane. C. H. Clarke, n.d. on back. Small format.

[3717]

Chapman & Hall

Digby Grand. 'New Edition.' Longman etc. n.d. (1874). Yellow boards. Kate Coventry. 'New Edition.' Longman etc. n.d. (1871) Yellow boards.

M. o r N . 'NewEdition.' Ward & Lock, n.d. (1881).

[3716]

Ward & Lock,

WINTER,

Yellow pictorial boards, specially drawn spine, front cover design repeated

ANDREW

(by Werdna Retnyw, M.D.) Routledge 1855. White pictorial wrappers, cut flush, wood-engraved front., pictorial title and 6 illustrations after McConnell, all on plate paper. Half-title, pp. viii + 1 2 0 .

ODDS AND E N D S FROM AN OLD D B A W E R

[3718]

W I N T E R , J O H N S T R A N G E (Mrs S t a n n a r d ) All first editions or in first edition format.

[3719]

Some (probably all) of the titles were also issued in cloth.

a Story of the Scarlet Lancers. ' Seventh Edition.' Warne, n.d. (1886). Buff pictorial wrappers, cut flush, up-lettered on spine. Printed end-papers. Front, and numerous illustrations after W. Ralston on text paper.

Two leaves of adverts, precede front, pp. (128) Pp. (1) (2) and (127) (128) are pasted to front and back covers. H 4 -H 8 [(119)-(128)] adverts, 'Warne's London Library, 55th Thousand.' Dated by original invoice still inside book. Ink signature: 'S. A. Creuze', on title.

BOOTLE'S B A B Y :

82

ZOLA [3720]

BOOTLE'S

[3721]

FERRERS COURT:

[3722]

HE W E N T FOR A S O L D I E R : a N o v e l

[3728]

a Novel F. V. White 1890. Uniform with Bootle's Children but no illustrations and pennant blank. Spine down-lettered with title of book. Leaf of adverts, precedes title, pp. (viii) + (120) 78-(84) adverts.

HOUP-LA. 'Fourth Edition.' Warne, n.d. (1886). Uniform with Bootless Baby and same illustrator. Two leaves of adverts, and half-title preceded front. pp. (128) First and last leaves pasted to covers as in Bootle's Baby. 83-8g [(117)-(128)] adverts. 'Warne's London Library, 45th Thousand.' Dated by original invoice still inside Bootle's Baby and covering both books. Ink signature: 'S. A. Creuze', on title.

WRAXALL, WILD

[3724]

a Novel F. V. White, n.d. [1887|. Uniform with Bootle's Children but no illustrations and W I N T E R ' S A N N U A L on pennant. Spine up-lettered with title of book. Leaf of adverts, precedes title, pp. (viii) + (128) 84-(94) adverts, paged (l)-8. Signature on title as in Bootle's Children.

[3725]

MIGNON'S SECRET:

the Story of a Barrack Bairn F. V. White 1886. Uniform with Bootle's Children but no illustrations and W I N T E R ' S A N N U A L on pennant. Spine up-lettered with title of book. Half-title, pp. xii + (116) G 6 -H 4 adverts. Signature-letter H printed in error on H 2 . Signature on title as in Bootle's Children.

[3726]

MY POOR D I C K

[3727]

MIGNON'S H U S B A N D :

F. V. White 1890. Uniform with Bootle's Children but no illustrations and W I N T E R ' S A N N U A L on pennant. Spine down-lettered with title of book. Leaf of adverts, precedes title, pp. (viii) + (120) 7, 78 and (8X)—(8a) adverts. [3723]

a Novel F. V. White 1889. Uniform with Bootle's Children but no illustrations and pennant blank. Spine down-lettered with title of book. Leaf of adverts, precedes title, pp. (viii) + (120) 78-(84) adverts.

L I T T L E F O O L (A):

CHILDREN

F. Y . White & Co. 1888. Buff pictorial wrappers, printed in dark blue and red, cut flush. Inside covers, outside back cover and spine printed with adverts. Illustrations in the text after Bernard Partridge, whose name as illustrator appears on a pennant at top of front cover drawing. Leaf of adverts, precedes title, pp. (viii) + (120) 78-(84) adverts. Ink signature: S. A . Creuze', on title.

F. V. White 1888. Uniform with Bootle's Children but with illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen and W I N T E R ' S A N N U A L on pennant. Spine printed with advert. Leaf of adverts, precede title, pp. (viii) + (120) pp. (111)-(120) adverts. No signature numbers or letters.

LASCELLES

OATS

J. and C. Brown, Ave Maria Lane, n.d. Yellow cloth, pictorially printed in imitation of a yellow back. Small format. Half-title, pp. (x) + 370 Note. Recorded as a first edition without certainty. I t has all the appearance of one, but the imprint and absence of date are suspicious. [3729]

YATES,

E D M U N D and

OUR MISCELLANY

Routledge 1856.

BROUGH,

E O B E I T

(Edited by E. H. Yates and R . B. Brough) Pictorial yellow boards.

End-papers printed with adverts.

Small format.

Pp. (192) M„ adverts. Note. This is a volume of parodies of Ainsworth, Macaulay, G. P. R. James, E. A. Poe, Tennyson, Samuel Warren, Martin Tupper, J. G. Lockhart, Dickens, Longfellow, Mrs Browning and others.

[3730]

ZOLA,

EMILE

Assommoir (The). His Masterpiece.

'New Edition.' 'New Edition.'

Vizetelly 1887. Vizetelly 1886.

Cream pictorial boards, specially drawn spine. Cream pictorial boards, specially drawn spine.

83

SECTION THREE 'NOVELIST'S LIBRARIES' 'STANDARD NOVELS' 'THE PARLOUR LIBRARY' and other cloth (or cloth and board) bound fiction (or part-fiction) series

CONTENTS BALLANTYNE'S BARBAULD'S BENTLEY'S

NOVELIST'S

BRITISH

EMPIRE

1821-1824

LIBRARY

NOVELISTS

LIBRARY

PAGE

1810

88

1879-1881

91

B E N T L E Y ' S S T A N D A R D N O V E L S E R I E S (1ST SERIES 1 8 3 1 - 1 8 5 4 ; 2ND SERIES 1 8 5 4 - 1 8 5 6 ;

3rd Series 1859-1862) and its TRADITION,

BENTLEY,

TALES

BLACKWOOD'S

THE':

FROM

1859-1860

STANDARD

91

BYE-PRODUCTS

Roscoe's Novelist's Library, 1831-1833; Harper's Library of Select Novels, 1831-?; Colburn's Modern Novelists (post 8vo Series), 1831-1836; Colburn's Irish National Tales, 1833; Colburn's Naval and Military Library, 1834; The New British Novelists; Colburn's Modern Novelists (small 8vo Series) and Modern Standard Novelists, 1835-1848

'BENTLEY

87

107

122

NOVELS

1841-1843,

1867-1868

124

B L A C K W O O D , T A L E S F R O M (1ST SERIES 1 8 5 8 - 1 8 6 1 ; 2ND SERIES 1 8 7 9 - 1 8 8 1 ; 3RD SERIES

125

1889-1890) BOHN'S I L L U S T R A T E D L I B R A R Y CASSELL'S POCKET L I B R A R Y CHAPMAN

AND

CONSTABLE'S

1849 TO MIDDLE SIXTIES (BRIEF ENTRY ONLY)

1895

HALL'S M O N T H L Y

MISCELLANY

131 SERIES

1840-1841

HARRISON'S

MAGAZINE

ZINE

1845-1848

OF F O R E I G N

ENGLISHMAN'S LIBRARY NOVELIST'S

131

132

LITERATURE

1854-1855

134 134

1780-1788, and

MAGA-

135

late sixties to early seventies (brief

138

N E W NOVELIST'S

1787

HURST AND

BLACKETT'S

STANDARD

LIBRARY

entry only) ILLUSTRATED KEYNOTES LIBRARY

FAMILY

SERIES

OF F O R E I G N

MACMILLAN'S MUDFORD'S

NOVELIST,

ROMANCE

ILLUSTRATED

BRITISH

THE

1852-1854

138

1 8 9 3 - 1 8 9 7 (BRIEF ENTRY ONLY) AND

NOVEL

STANDARD

NOVELISTS

139 NEWSPAPER

NOVELS

1846-1847

1 8 9 5 - 1 9 0 1 (BRIEF ENTRY ONLY)

1810-1817

140 140 141

NOVEL

NEWSPAPER,

THE

NOVEL

SERIES, THE

1895-1896

145

THE

147

PARLOUR

NOVELIST,

P A R L O U R L I B R A R Y , THE

1839-1841

142

1846-1847 1 8 4 7 - 1 8 6 3 (ALSO THE SHILLING AND SIXPENNY REVIVALS 1 8 6 9 -

149

1870), AND ITS B Y E - P R O D U C T S ROMANCIST, AND NOVELIST'S

L I B R A R Y , THE

(1ST SERIES 1 8 3 9 - 1 8 4 0 ;

N E W SERIES

163

1841-1842) ROUTLEDGE'S

RAILWAY

ROUTLEDGE'S

STANDARD

SMITH,

ELDER'S

WHITTINGHAM'S

LIBRARY

'LIBRARY

NOVELS

1849 ONWARD, AND A B Y E - P R O D U C T 1851-(CIRCA) 1860

OF R O M A N C E '

NOVELIST'S

LIBRARY

169

1833-1835

(POCKET NOVELISTS)

86

167

170 1823-183?

175

BALLANTYNE

BALLANTYNE'S NOVELIST'S LIBRARY [edited by Sir Walter Scott] 1821-1824 10 vols. Royal 8vo. Hurst, Robinson & Co. Printed by James Ballantyne & Co. at the Border Press. Issued in boards, paper labels. This set is in three-quarter dark green morocco, fully gilt, marbled sides and end-papers. Top edges gilt, others trimmed. Book-plate of Stephen G. Holland. Vol. I. THE NOVELS OF HENRY FIELDING, ESQ. 1821 Half-title: B A L L A N T Y N E ' S / N O V E L I S T ' S L I B R A R Y (between rules) precedes individual title on which series name is not repeated. pp. (xvi) + (i)-xxiv [ P R E F A T O R Y M E M O I R , unsigned but dated 'Abbotsford, October 25, 1820'] + xxv-xxvi [ L I S T OF W O R K S OF FIELDING]+(xxvii) xxviii [ A P P E N D I X ] + (l)-794. Final leaf, 3D 6 , a single inset. Contents:

J O S E P H A N D R E W S ; TOM J O N E S ; A M E L I A ; J O N A T H A N W I L D .

Vol. II. THE NOVELS OF TOBIAS SMOLLETT, M.D. 1821 Half-title: B A L L A N T Y N E ' S / N O V E L I S T ' S L I B R A R Y / V O L . II (three lines between rules) precedes individual title. pp. xii + (i)-xlii [ P R E F A T O R Y M E M O I R , unsigned but dated 'Abbotsford, June 1, 1821']+(l)-684. Contents: R O D E R I C K R A N D O M ; P E R E G R I N E P I C K L E ; H U M P H R Y C L I N K E R . Vol. III. THE NOVELS OF TOBIAS SMOLLETT, M.D. AND THE TRANSLATION OF CERVANTES' DON QUIXOTE 1821 Half-title as II (with, of course, volume number as called for). pp. x + (l)-(722) Contents: F E R D I N A N D C O U N T F A T H O M ; S I R L A N C E L O T G R E A V E S ; Smollett's translation of D O N Q U I X O T E , preceded by his L I F E OF C E R V A N T E S . Vol. IV. THE NOVELS OF LE SAGE AND CHARLES JOHNSTONE 1822 Half-title as I (i.e. no volume number). pp. xviii + (i)-xxvii [ P R E F A T O R Y M E M O I R TO L E S A G E , unsigned and undated] +xxviii-(xxxviii) [ P R E F A T O R Y M E M O I R T O C H R Y S A L , unsigned but dated 'Abbotsford, September 20, 1822'] + (l)-(842). Contents: G I L B L A S ; T H E D E V I L U P O N T W O S T I C K S ; V A N I L L O G O N Z A L E S ; C H R Y S A L OR T H E A D V E N T U R E S OF A G U I N E A .

Vol. V. THE NOVELS OF STERNE, GOLDSMITH, DR JOHNSON, MACKENZIE, HORACE WALPOLE AND CLARA REEVE 1823 Half-title as II. pp. viii + (i)-xxii [ P R E F A T O R Y M E M O I R TO S T E R N E ] + (xxiii)-xxxix [ditto to G O L D S M I T H ] + (xl)xlvi [ditto to J O H N S O N ] + (xlvii)-lix [ditto to M A C K E N Z I E ] + (lx)-lxxviii [ditto to W A L P O L E ] + (lxxix)-(lxxxviii) [ditto to R E E V E , all unsigned, but final Memoir dated 'Abbotsford, March 1, 1823'] + (l)-(660). Contents: T R I S T R A M S H A N D Y ; S E N T I M E N T A L J O U R N E Y ; V I C A R OF W A K E F I E L D ; R A S S E L A S ; T H E M A N OF F E E L I N G ; T H E M A N OF T H E W O R L D ; J U L I A D E R O U B I G N E ; T H E C A S T L E OF O T R A N T O ; T H E OLD E N G L I S H B A R O N ] .

Vol. VI. THE NOVELS OF SAMUEL RICHARDSON, ESQ. In Three Volumes. 1824. Half-title as II. pp. (xxiv) [p. xxiii mispaged xxv] + (i)-xlviii [ P R E F A T O R Y M E M O I R TO R I C H A R D S O N , unsigned but dated 'Abbotsford, January 1st, 1824']+(l)-728. Contents:

PAMELA; CLARISSA HARLOWE.

87

[sm]

BARBAULD [3731]

Vol. VII.

[RICHARDSON, Vol. II]

Half-title as II. Contents: Vol. VIII.

CLARISSA HARLOWE

concluded.

[RICHARDSON, Vol. I l l ]

Half-title as I I . Contents: Vol. IX.

pp. (xx) + (l)-786

pp. xxii + (i)-iv + (l)-(792)

SIR CHARLES

GRANDISON.

THE NOVELS OF SWIFT, BAGE AND CUMBERLAND

1824

Half-title: B A L L A N T Y N E ' S / N O V E L I S T ' S L I B R A R Y (between rules) V O L . I X (below lower rule), pp. (iv) + (vi) + (i)-xv [ P R E F A T O R Y M E M O I R T O S W I F T ] + xvi-xxxiV [ditto to B A G E ] + x x x v - l x (mispaged Ixx) [ditto to C U M B E R L A N D , all unsigned, b u t final Memoir d a t e d ' Abbotsford, December 1824 '] + (l)-776. Contents: GULLIVER'S TRAVELS;

Vol. X.

MOUNT HENNETH;

BARHAM

THE NOVELS OF MRS ANN RADCLIFFE

Half-title as XI. pp. (vi) + (i)-(xl) [ P R E F A T O R Y M E M O I R ford, September 1, 1824'] + (l)-764. Contents:

A SICILIAN

UDOLPHO;

ROMANCE;

THE ITALIAN;

THE

DOWNS;

JAMES

WALLACE;

HENRY.

1824

TO M R S A N N R A D C L I F F E ,

ROMANCE

OF

THE

T H E C A S T L E S OF A T H L I N A N D

unsigned b u t dated 'Abbots-

FOREST;

THE

MYSTERIES

OF

DUNBAYNE.

Note: For later news of Ballantyne's Novelist's Library, see below under Bentley's Standard Novels, p. 94.

[3732]

BARBAULD'S BRITISH NOVELISTS 1810 ('The British Novelists; with an Essay; and Prefaces Biographical and Critical by Mrs Barbauld') 50 vols. 12mo (4|* x 6 J"). Printed for F . C. & J. Rivington etc. 1810. Issued in drab paper boards, labels I f " deep. I n each volume series title precedes individual title, and is dated ' 1810' throughout the series. Published at twelve guineas the set. Vols. I-VIII. I

II III IV V

CLARISSA.. 'A New Edition, with the Last Corrections by the Author' xii [(i) (ii) series title; (iii) (iv) novel title; (v) (vi) 'Sonnet to t h e Author of Clarissa', verso blank; (vii)-xi Preface (unsigned); xii ' N a m e s of the Principal P e r s o n s ' ] + ( l ) - 6 2 ' O n the Origin and Progress of Novel Writing ' (unsigned) + (i)-xlvi ' Richardson ' (biographical and critical study, unsigned)+ (l)-357 [CLARISSA]+(358)-(360) blank. (iv) + 3 7 8 + (379) (380) blank. VI ( i v ) + 4 2 4 (iv) + 3 9 4 + (395) (396) blank. VII (iv) + 414 + (415) (416) blank. (iv) + 408 VIII (iv) + 4 2 7 + (428) blank. (iv) + 388

Labels worded: CLARISSA.

Vols. IX-XV. IX X XI XII

B R I T I S H / N O V E L I S T S / W I T H / P R E F A C E S / BY / MRS B A R B A U L D /

Change of title apart, the labels are uniform throughout.

THE HISTORY OF SIR CHARLES GRANDISON

(xii)+ 336 (iv) + 376 (iv) + 393 + (394) blank. (iv) + 320 + (321) blank + (322) printers' imprint + (323) (324) blank. 88

rule /1. [ v m ] /

B A R B A U L D

XIII XIV XV

(iv) + 312 [3732] (iv) + 390 + (391) blank + (392) printers' imprint + (393)-(396) blank. (iv) + 324 + F F - 0 0 2 (in sixes) Index + 0 0 3 0 0 4 'Similes and Allusions' + 0 0 5 imprint l e a f + 0 0 B blank (all these leaves unfoliated).

Vols. XVI-XVII. XVI XVII Vol. XVIII.

JOSEPH ANDREWS (xxxvi) ['Fielding', unsigned, paged (i)-xxxii, occupies (v -(xxxvi)] + (1)-10 [Preface, unsigned] + ( l l ) - 3 9 5 + (396) blank.

Vols. X I X - X X I . XIX XX XXI

ROBINSON CRUSOE

(xii) [' D e f o e u n s i g n e d , paged (i)-viii occupies (v)-(xii)] + 342 (iv) + 3 1 8 + (319) (320) blank.

TOM JONES

(iv) + 349 + (350) printers' imprint + (351) (352) blank. (iv) + 428 (iv) + 372

Vol. X X I I .

THE OLD ENGLISH BARON. THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO (xii) ['Clara Reeve', unsigned, paged (i)-iii occupies (v)-(vii) and 'Walpole', unsigned, paged (i)-iii occupies (ix)-(xi)]+ (304).

Vol. X X I I I .

POMPEY THE LITTLE. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD (xvi) ['Goldsmith', unsigned, paged (i)-xii occupies (v)-(xvi)] + ( l ) - 3 7 8 (mispaged 380)

Vols XXIV-XXV. XXIV XXV

T H E FEMALE QUIXOTE

(viii) ['Mrs Lennox', unsigned, paged (i)-iv occupies (v)-(viii)]+(234) (iv) + 270

Vol. XXVI.

RASSELAS. ALMORAN AND HAMET (xiv) [ ' J o h n s o n ' paged (i)-viii and ' H a w k e s w o r t h ' paged (i) ii, both unsigned, occupy (v)-(xiv)] + (l)-(252)

Vol. XXVII.

HISTORY OF LADY JULIA MANDEVILLE. NATURE AND ART (vi) ['Mrs Brooke', unsigned, paged (i)-ii, occupies (v) (vi)] + (l)-375 + (376)-(380), blank save for printers' imprint on (378).

Vol. XXVIII. A SIMPLE STORY (viii) ['Mrs Inchbald', (356) imprint leaf. Vol. X X I X .

HUMPHREY (sic) CLINKER

SCFII

THE SPIRITUAL QUIXOTE

(iv) + 314 + (315) (316) blank ['Life of the A u t h o r ' (Graves), unsigned, occupies pp. (l)-5] (iv) + 330 + (331) (332) blank.

Vols. XXXIV-XXXV. XXXIV XXXV

(v)-(viii)]+(l)-(354) + (355)

(xxii) ['Smollet' (sic), unsigned, paged (i)-xviii, occupies (v)-(xxii)] + 2 4 6 + (247) (248)blank. (iv) + 238 + (239) (240) blank.

Vols. X X X I I - X X X I I I . XXXII XXXIII

(i)-iv, occupies

THE MAN OF FEELING. JULIA DE ROUBIGNE (viii) ['Mackenzie', unsigned, paged (i)-iii, occupies (v)-(vii), (viii) b l a n k ] + ( l ) - 2 7 4 +(275) (276) blank.

Vols. X X X - X X X I . XXX XXXI

unsigned, paged

ZELUCO

(xii) [' Dr Moore', unsigned, paged (i)-vii, occupies (v)-(xi), (xii) blank] + 244 (iv) + (258) 89

12

BARBAULD [3732]

Vols. X X X V I - X X X V I I . XXXVI

THE OLD MANOR HOUSE

(xii) ['Mrs Charlotte Smith', unsigned, paged (i)-viii, occupies (v)-(xii)] + 354+ (355)(360) blank. (iv) + (348)

XXXVII

Vols. X X X V I I I - X X X I X . XXXVIII

(251) (252) blank. (iv) + 280

XXXIX

Vols. X L - X L I I . XL

CECILIA

(iv) + 378

Vols. X L I I I - X L I V . XLIII XLIV

XLII

(iv)+364

THE ROMANCE OF THE FOREST

THE MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO

MAN AS HE IS NOT or HERMSPRONG (viii) [' Mr Bage', unsigned, paged (i)-iii, occupies (v)-(vii), (viii) blank] + 352

Vols X L I X - L .

L

(iv) + (396)

(iv) + (322) + (323) (324) blank. (iv) + (322) + (323) (324) blank. (iv) + (334) + (335) (336) blank.

Vol. X L V I I I .

XLIX

XLI

(xii) ['Mrs Radcliffe', unsigned, paged (i)-viii, occupies (v)-(xii)]+214 (iv) + (242) + (243) (244) blank.

Vols. X L V - X L V I I . XLV XLVI XLVII

EVELINA

(xvi) ['Miss Burney', unsigned, paged (i)-xi, occupies (v)-(xv), (xvi) blankl +(l)-250 +

BELINDA.

THE MODERN GRISELDA

(x) [blank leaf precedes series title; 'Miss Edgeworth', unsigned and unpaged, occupies (ix); (x) blank]+352 (viii) [blank leaf precedes series title, (vii) Contents, (viii) blank]+ (l)-(328) G E N E R A L NOTES ON B A R B A U L D ' S B R I T I S H

NOVELISTS

(i) The pagination of these volumes is given in detail, because it is so unusual to find them in original boards that I felt the opportunity of registering blank and imprint leaves should not be missed. (ii) The series was re-issued in 1820, without any indication of earlier publication. (iii) I t seems almost certain that Scott deliberately supplemented Mrs Barbauld's collection when choosing the titles for Ballantyne's Novelist's Library (3731). Of the thirty-four novels he reprinted, only twelve had also been printed by Mrs Barbauld; of his remaining twenty-two, many seem to have been chosen in order to amplify her selection from certain authors, while others (notably the novels of Sterne and some by Smollett) could appear without offence under masculine editorship, whereas Mrs Barbauld, a stickler for feminine decorum and an editor with an eye to family reading, might well have hesitated to include them. (iv) A point of considerable interest should be noted with regard to Vol. XLIII (Radcliffe's Romance of the Forest). On the verso of the individual title-page [pp. (iii) (iv)] appears an 'Advertisement' stating that 'some of the little Poems inserted in these pages have appeared by permission of the Author in The Gazetteer'. This seems to indicate that Mrs Barbauld, by agreement with Mrs Radcliffe (or her husband), included certain poems in this volume which had previously only appeared in a periodical. As the Poems of Ann Radcliffe were not published in book-form until 1816, Vol. XLIII of Barbauld's British Novelists has a place in the bibliography of Radcliffe First Editions.

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BENTLEY'S EMPIRE LIBRARY 1879-1881

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Published at half-a-crown each, in small 8vo; bound in scarlet diagonal-fine-ribbed cloth with end-papers; and blocked and lettered in black on front and back, gold-lettered and black-blocked on this series was a mixture of fiction and non-fiction, of first editions and reprints. The former are caps, below, with references to Section I where they are there described. The title asterisked is not collection.

black spine, set in in the

1 T H E L A N D O' T H E L E A L (1878), by H E L E N M A T H E R S (1658 in Section I) 2 A Very Simple Story and Wild Mike (1878), by Florence Montgomery 3 Ralph Wilton's Weird (1878), by Mrs Alexander 4 A Blue Stocking (1878), by Annie Edwardes 5 A S H E C O M E S U P T H E S T A I R (1878), by H E L E N M A T H E R S (1654 in Section I) 6 Five Years Penal Servitude (1878) (anon; the Bentley Catalogue says by 'Edward Cxxx') 7 A R O G U E ' S L I F E (1879), by W I L K I E C O L L I N S (604 in Section I) 8 * A V I C T I M O F T H E F A L K L A W S (1879) (by ' a German Priest' [Peter Maringer]) 9 A Vagabond Heroine (1879), by Annie Edwardes 10 ' M Y Q U E E N ' (1879), by M R S G. W. G O D F R E Y 11 A R C H I B A L D M A L M A I S O N (1879), by J U L I A N H A W T H O R N E (1179 in Section I) 12 Twilight Stories (1879), by Rhoda Broughton (377 a in Section I) 13 T H E M U D F O G P A P E R S (1880), by C H A R L E S D I C K E N S (693 in Section I) 14 Herbert Manners, The Town Crier etc. (1880), by Florence Montgomery 15 M A D E O R M A R R E D ? (1881), by J E S S I E F O T H E R G I L L (894 in Section I) 16 ' O N E O F T H R E E ' (1881), by J E S S I E F O T H E R G I L L (896 in Section I)

BENTLEY'S STANDARD NOVEL SERIES* AND ITS BYE-PRODUCTS; followed by THE BENTLEY TRADITION I.

BENTLEY'S

STANDARD

NOVELS (Three Series)

The immediate impulse in England to fictional re-issues in handy form and on a large scale—and, therefore, the impulse to Bentley's Standard Novel Series—was the launching by Robert Cadell on J u n e 1, 1829, of the A U T H O R ' S E D I T I O N O F T H E W A V E R L E Y N O V E L S . Royal 18mo in size; embellished with steel-engraved frontispieces and titles; 'done up in cloth' (with white paper labels); and announced for regular monthly issue, these little volumes cost five shillings each and represented a wholly new departure in the manner of presenting contemporary fiction. Serial issues at a moderate price o f ' classical' British novels were, of course, not unknown.f But for a living novelist to have his comparatively recent works put out in uniform and (by the standards of t h a t day) remarkably cheap shape was an innovation which impressed deeply both the public and the trade. Cadell's W A V E R L E Y N O V E L S were so popular that the edition was rapidly over-subscribed. In consequence, eighteen months after the first volume of the original 'Author's Edition' had been published, and when only nineteen of the forty volumes of the series had appeared, he began publication of a 'Reissue of the Author's Edition', uniform in size and price, b u t with coloured instead of white labels to distinguish the new series from the still continuing old one. The two issues ran concurrently until the earlier was complete, and thereafter the 're-issue' ran alone to its appointed end. Without detracting from the enterprise and inventiveness of Scott and Cadell in thus exploiting a new market for their fictional property, one may reasonably suspect t h a t the format of these handy little volumes, with their glazed canvas bindings and paper labels, was generally suggested by Archibald Constable's * The courtesy must be thankfully acknowledged of Mr Elmer Adler and the Pynson Printers of New York City in permitting me to reprint in a revised form material first printed in The Colophon. •(• e.g. H A R B I S O N ' S N O V E L I S T ' S M A G A Z I N E (23 vols. 1781-1789); B A E B A B L D ' S B R I T I S H N O V E L I S T S (50 vols. 1810); M U D F O R D ' S B R I T I S H N O V E L I S T S (5 vols. 1810-1816); B A L L A N T Y N E ' S N O V E L I S T ' S L I B R A R Y (edited by Scott, 10 vols. 1821-1824); and W H I T T I N G H A M ' S P O C K E T N O V E L I S T S (40 vols. 1823-183?). 91

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' Miscellany', which began publishing in January 1827.* In size the ' Miscellany' was smaller than Cadell's ' Waverley', but in appearance and basic conception was very similar. The influence of Constable's Miscellany on publishing enterprise in the matter of content was even greater and more immediately evident than its influence on format. The series was not concerned with fiction; it provided miscellaneous works, mainly of travel and history, and consisted largely of original monographs specially written for the series. This idea of providing cheap and various instruction and entertainment in series-form first prompted the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge to launch their Library of Useful Knowledge (54 vols. 1827-1848 at various prices, originally issued in sixpenny parts) and then caused John Murray, on April 16, 1829, to publish the first volume of his Family Library,*|* a pocket-sized fiveshilling book, very neatly bound in canvas. Six months later a series was launched which combined the royal 18mo format of Cadell's 'Waverley Novels' with the idea at the back of Constable's Miscellany of providing serious literature, specially written for the occasion, at a cheap price and in handy shape. In December 1829 was published the first volume of Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia (by Longmans, at six shillings), which volume was, significantly enough, written by Sir Walter Scott himself. This ' Cyclopaedia' established itself quickly and firmly, and volumes were steadily added, the 132nd volume appearing in 1849. (In December 1851 the series was re-issued at 3s. 6d., having become the sole property of Longmans.) So well known, in fact, did Dr Lardner's series become, that within the first years of its existence it turned the tables on its original inspirer, and in 1832 caused the publishers of Constable's Miscellany to announce that 'a large paper edition is printed of some of the volumes in the series to range with Lardner's Cyclopaedia'. This large (or 'fine') paper edition cost five shillings, as against the three and sixpence of the original and ordinary issue. Meantime the number of popular series in pocket form multiplied rapidly. Late in 1829 was launched Charles Knight's Library of Entertaining Knowledge, a second venture of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. The volumes were peculiarly prophetic of what was to come, in that they were bound in glazed linen of a pinkish-buff colour with two dark green labels lettered in gold placed at the extreme head and foot of the spine. This series ended with Vol. 43 in 1836, and was issued in wrappered parts at 2s. each, or in complete cloth-bound volumes at 4s. 6d. It was taken over by Nattali about 1840 and re-issued by them in 1849 at 2s. 3d. per volume. In January 1830 Valpy's Family Classical Library (4s. 6d. per vol. and running ultimately to over 50 volumes) applied the Constable-Cadell-Lardner principles to another department of learning. During the year there started publishing three other ' libraries' on not dissimilar lines—Lardner's Cabinet Library (published by Longmans at 5s., and concluded in nine 8vo volumes, 1830-1832); Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Cabinet Library (completed in 38 volumes at 5s.; later re-issued by Nelson at a reduced price), and The National Library (announced at 5s., but almost immediately raised to 6s. per volume avowedly in order to range with 'a contemporary series of a similar nature', i.e. the Standard Novels themselves) published by Colburn & Bentley. This last is rather especially the concern of the present investigation, for not only was it issued by the firm who were to be responsible for the Standard Novels and other fictional series, but its outward appearance was almost exactly that shortly afterward adopted for the Standard Novels themselves. The first volume, issued late in August 1830, was Gait's Life of Byron, and the fourteenth and last—Medwin's Conversations of Lord Byron—appeared in 1832. J The books were bound in grey-purple, highly glazed canvas, with two spine labels, set three-quarter high and three-quarter low, printed in gold on dark green paper. The upper label carried the title of the book; the lower one the legend N A T I O N A L / L I B R A R Y . / rule I NO. I [//], etc. An engraved title-page was provided. Thus, two months before the appearance of the first 'Standard Novel', there had been evolved the pocket format and highly individual clothing which were soon to be universally regarded as characteristic of the most famous series of cheap novels ever published. * The first volume—Hall's Voyages—was actually dated 1826. The series was taken over b y Whittaker, Treacher in 1832, and continued until 1835, b y which date over 80 volumes had appeared. •f Completed in 80 volumes, including the so-called 'Dramatic Series'. Later taken over b y T e g g and re-issued at 3s. 6>

Austen >>

.

MAXWELL WATER-WITCH

Mothers and Daughters BRAVO

Heiress of Bruges RED

ROVER

.

Vathek Otranto Bravo of Venice

COUNTRY

CURATE

BETROTHED

.

HA J J I

49

ABENCERAGES

BABA

HA J J I B A B A PARSON'S

. IN

Paul Clifford Younger Son Alhambra

DARNLEY

57-

MAID

Zohrab Heidenmauer DE

.

. .

INVOLUNTARY

53 54 55 56

ENGLAND

DAUGHTER

50 Headsman 51| Anastasius 52 J

71

Austen Inchbald

.

ARAM

44 45 46 47 48

58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70

.

PROPHET

.

L'ORME

NIGHTMARE CROTCHET

Trevelyan PHILIP

.

CASTLE

.

AUGUSTUS

ROOKWOOD HENRY

ABBEY

MARIAN

.

MASTERTON.

Peter Simple Jacob Faithful J a p h e t . . . . King's Own Midshipman Easy Newton Forster Pacha . . . . Rattlin the Reefer Captain Blake (originally entitled 'My Life') Helen . . . .

STANDARD

NOVELS

Feb.

1833 1816) 1791) 1797) April 1833 1814) March 1833 May

1833 1818)

1831) 1813) 1829) (specially translated for this edition by F. Shoberl) Cooper Oct. 1833 1829) Bulwer Nov. 1833 1832) Hook Dec. 1833 1830) Dated 1834 Cooper J a n . 1834 1830) Gore Feb. 1834 1831) Cooper March 1834 1831) Grattan April 1834 1830) Cooper May 1834 1828) Beckford 1786) Walpole June 1834 1765) 1805) Lewis Gleig Aug. 1834 1830) Manzoni Oct. 1834 specially translated for this edition by an unrecorded hand) Morier J a n . 1835 1824) June 1835 1828) >> Hook June 1835 1833) Bulwer July 1835 1830) Trelawny Sept. 1835 1831) Irving 1832) (specially translated for this edition by Chateaubriand Nov. 1835 Isabel Hill) 1st book edition of this story) H. Smith Cooper Jan. 1836 1833) In 51 Advert, leaf precedes front March Hope 1 1836 (1819) Folding map instead of engraving April as front. James Oct. 1836 1830) Morier Aug. 1836 1832) No date on engraved title Cooper Oct. 1836 1832) No date on engraved title James Dec. 1836 1830) Dated 1837 1818) No date on engraved title Peacock March 1837 1822) >> 1831) >J Lady Scott June 1837 1833) No date on engraved title James Aug. 1837 1831) Oct. 1837 1834) Ainsworth James Nov. 1837 1832) Marryat Jan. 1838 1834) Feb. 1838 1834) J) Feb. 1838 1836) >> March 1838 1830) >> April 1838 1836) >> May 1838 1832) 5) June 1838 1835) >> Howard/Marryat July 1838 1836) Maxwell Aug. 1838 1835)

Banim Austen Maxwell Hugo

June July Aug. Sept.

1833 1833 1833 1833

Edgeworth

Oct.

1838 (1834)

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\3734a\ 72 Pompeii 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101

S O L D I E R OF L Y O N S

Bulwer Maxwell Cooper Hook Lover Chamier F. Trollope A. M. Hall Hood F. Trollope Gore

Dec. March July Aug. Oct. Dec. Feb. April July Oct. Dec.

1839 1839 1839 1839 1839 1839 1840 1840 1840 1840 1840

(1834) (1837) (1821) (1837) (1837) (1836) Dated 1840 (1837) (1832) (1834) (1839) (1831) Dated 1841

MARRIAGE

Ferrier

March May July Sept. Dec.

1841 1841 1841 1841 1841

(1818) (1824) (1831) No date on Frontispiece (1836) (1833) Actually published (and dated) 1842

May

1842 (1839)

Bivouac

PRECAUTION . JACK

BRAG

RORY BEN

.

O'MORE BRACE

VICAR

OF

.

WREXHILL

BUCCANEER TYLNEY

.

HALL

Widow Barnaby

(originally entitled 'The Tuileries')

INHERITANCE

»

DESTINY

a

Gilbert Gurney Hook Widow and the Marquess (origin>> ally entitled 'Love and Pride') All in the Wrong (originally en- Hook titled 'Births, Deaths and Marriages') Homeward Bound Cooper Pathfinder Deerslayer >> J A C Q U E L I N E OF H O L L A N D . Grattan Man at Arms James Two Old Men's Tales . Mrs Marsh Two Admirals . Cooper RICHARD SAVAGE Whitehead Cecil . . . . Gore Prairie Bird Murray Jack o' Lantern Cooper AYESHA Morier M A R C H I O N E S S OF BRINVILAlbert Smith LIERS

102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120

Belford Regis . My Cousin Nicholas Poacher (originally entitled 'Joseph Rushbrook') Outlaw Phantom Ship Dog Fiend (originally entitled 'Snarleyyow') Mr Ledbury (il) A G N E S

DE

MANSFELDT

\b) Hector O'Halloran . Improvisatore . Romance and Reality . CATHERINE DE MEDICIS

(ori-

ginally entitled 'The Queen's Poisoner') Percival Keene . . Recollections of a Chaperon . GAOL C H A P L A I N . . Legends of the Rhine . . Peerage and Peasantry . SIR B A L P H E S H E R . . Hamiltons . . . Life of a Sailor . .

Mitford Barham Marryat A. M. Hall Marryat »

Aug. 1842 (1838) Dec. 1842 (1840) Dated 1843 Feb. 1843 (1841) Feb. 1843 (1831) Jan. 1844 (1840) May 1844 (1834) Sept. 1844 (1842) Feb. 1845 (1842) April 1845 (1841) July 1845 (1844) Nov. 1845 (1842) March 1846 (1834) April 1846 (1st book edition. Reprinted from Bentley's Miscellany) July 1846 (1835) Oct. 1846 (1841) Nov. 1846 (1841) Jan. 1847 (1835) March 1847 (1839) May 1847 (1837)

Albert Smith July 1847 (1844) Grattan Sept. 1847 (1836) Maxwell (See 121 (a)) Hans Andersen Nov. 1847 (1845) Landon Feb. 1848 (1831) Costello June 1848 (1841) Marryat Lady Dacre* Neale Grattan Lady Dacre* Leigh Hunt Gore Charnier

Sept. Dec. March May Sept. Dec. March Sept.

1848 1848 1849 1849 1849 1849 1850 1850

(1842) (1833) Dated 1849 (1847) (1832) (1835) (1832) Dated 1850 (1834) (1832)

* Actually by Mrs Sullivan, ed. by her mother, Lady Dacre. 102

BENTLEY'S 121 122 123 124 125 126

(a) Hector O'Halloran (6) Uncle Tom's Cabin . Scattergood Family LEYCESTERS (originally titled ' T h e Sisters') Afloat a n d Ashore Lucy Hardinge Wyandotte

en-

Maxwell Stowe Albert Smith Mrs Moore

May Sept. July March

1851 1852 1853 1854

Cooper it

July Aug. Dec.

1854 (1844) 1854 (1844) 1854 (1843)

»

II. 1 2

Prairie Bird Ellen W a r e h a m

3 4 5 6 7 8

Emma . Marriage Sense a n d Sensibility . . Rookwood . Self-Control . Northanger Abbey a n d Persuasion . Countess of Nithisdale .

9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20Ì 21/ 22

.

Inheritance Eugene Aram . P a u l Clifford . Pompeii Mansfield P a r k Destiny Discipline Pride a n d Prejudice Leycesters Thaddeus of Warsaw

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(1844) (1833)

Austen Ferrier Austen Ainsworth Brunton Austen

(1816) (1818) (1811) (1834) (1811) (1818)

L a d y Dacre

(1835)

Ferrier Bulwer

(1824) (1832) (1830) (1834) (1814) (1831) (1814) (1813) (1821) (1803)

»>

Austen Ferrier Brunton Austen Mrs Moore Porter

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SECOND SERIES This story originally constituted t h e 3rd vol. of Recollections of a Chaperon (see footnote, p. 102)

This story originally constituted t h e 1st vol. of Tales of the Peerage and the Peasantry (see footnote, p. 102)

(1810)

H

Woman's Life .

(1843) (1852) (1845) (1821)

STANDARD

Carlen

1856 (1852)

Note. I am inclined to suspect that this series is really a ghost. A Prospectus of the Standard and Favourite Novels issued in January 1882 lists the 22 volumes with all formality, but the only one recorded as appearing in the Bentley Catalogue proper is No. 22. When to this inconsistency is added the fact that I have only in my life seen one volume (No. 1) bound as described (and that in Mr Richard Bentley's own house) there seems good ground for concluding that 'Second Series' was only, either a publisher's label (for internal office convenience, perhaps) applied to the balance of sheets of certain Standard Novel titles, or maybe an unfulfilled ideal. The publication of one new title (if indeed it actually appeared) is admittedly curious; but, as the records were manifestly obscure, confusion could easily have arisen. I find it hard to believe, if these volumes had really all been issued in the blue-cloth style, I should not have come across at least a few of them somewhere; and it even seems possible that the copy of No. 1 seen at Slough was itself a trial copy and the only one ever completed. III. 1 2 3 4 5

T H I R D S E R I E S (later called

R i t a : an Autobiography Three Clerks . Semi-Detached House Ladies of Bever Hollow Village Belles .

[Hamilton Aidel Trollope [Emily Eden] [Ann Manning] [ „ ] 103

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May March March May May

1859 1860 1860 1860 1860

(1858) (1858) (1859) (1858) (1838)

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BYE-PRODUCTS:

AUSTEN Eleanor Eden Tautphoeus [Haliburton] [Emily Eden] [Sarah Whitehead]

Easton Quits Season Ticket Semi-Attached Couple Nelly Armstrong

July 1860 (1858) Sept. 1860(1857) March 1861 (I860) July 1861 (I860) Aug. 1862 (1853)

Nos. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 published at 2s. 6d. in smooth white cloth, printed in black with buff endpapers, and at 3s. in claret cloth, gilt. Nos. 2 and 7 published at 3s. 6d. in white cloth printed, at 4s. in claret cloth, gilt. Series title on front and spine of every white cloth issue. Notes, (i) The above is the original numbering and order of issue. The sequence was afterwards changed. The volumes are not individually numbered, b u t a numbered list appears on each back cover. Nos. 1, 2, 5, 6, 9 are in the collection. Nos. 8 and 9 were again published in 1865 and 1866 a t 2s. each, together with two of the novels of J . B. Harwood, as B E N T L E Y ' S G L O B E N O V E L S , b u t the series did not extend beyond four titles. (ii) I n the Bentley Private Catalogue the issue is recorded in the a u t u m n of 1859 of Truth Answers Best (by Beatrice Stebbing) as a volume in white cloth in this series. B u t it does not appear in t h e complete list of the series given elsewhere.

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BYE-PRODUCTS

OF BENTLEY'S

STANDARD

NOVELS

A. The First Collected Edition of Jane Austen. B. The First Collected Edition of Bulwer Lytton. C. The Hamiltons, by Mrs Gore. (See also: Routledge's Standard Novels 3759, below.) [3735a]

A.

THE FIRST COLLECTED E D I T I O N OF J A N E

AUSTEN

5 vols. Bentley 1833. [See Geoffrey Keynes, Jane Austen: a Bibliography, London 1929, pp. 157 seq.]. Dark green morocco cloth, labels. These five volumes originally appeared as volumes in Bentley's Standard Novel Series. I n each case the engraved frontispiece and title bore the date of issue; and their order of date and appearance in this series were as follows: 23 Sense and Sensibility . . . . Dec. 28, 1832 Dated 1833 25 Emma . . . . . Feb. 27, 1833 „ „ 27 Mansfield Park . . . . April 29, 1833 28 Northanger Abbey and Persuasion . . May 29, 1833 ,, ,, 30 Pride and Prejudice . . . . July 31, 1833 ,, „ When the Collected Edition was issued (on October 28, 1833) the order of the volumes was changed, Pride and Prejudice becoming Vol. n , Emma Vol. HI, Mansfield Park Vol. iv and Northanger Abbey Vol. v. Special printed title-pages were supplied for the Collected issue, b u t the engraved fronts, and titles were as in the Standard Novel editions. So f a r five sets have been located of the Collected Edition. I n one of these, the engraved front, and title of Sense and Sensibility carry the date 1833. In the other four, the dates have been erased. I n all four sets, Vols, n - v carry the original dates. I t must be noted t h a t in subsequent issues of the regulation Standard Novel editions of J a n e Austen's books (the volumes were reprinted again and again, with the same engraved fronts, and titles b u t with changing dates on the printed titles), the engraved dates are missing from Sense and Sensibility b u t present in the other four volumes. I t seems logical, therefore, to regard a Collected set with Sense and Sensibility dated as an earlier state t h a n one with the date missing. Why, however, should there be a n y variation, and is it possible to argue the other way on? I can think of two conceivable explanations of the existence of dated and undated engravings in Sense and Sensibility, each of ambiguous significance. A. I t m a y have been t h a t the first Standard Novel Edition of Sense and Sensibility was a shorter number t h a n the market was later shown to require. Consequently the original printing numbers of the other four volumes in the Standard Novel Edition were considerably increased. When the idea was 104

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adopted of issuing the five-volume, ex-series, Collected Edition, so few copies remained of the dated [3735a] Sense and Sensibility sheets that the novel had to be reprinted, and for the reprint it was decided to erase the dates from front and title, in order that the Collected Edition might have a chance of a longer run before looking old-fashioned. What then became of the balance of dated engravings, and at what stage of the Collected Edition were they used up? It may be argued that they were used first, and that the idea of an undated reprint was not thought of until they were nearly exhausted. That is very possible; but there is another possibility, as will transpire toward the end of Explanation B. B. I t is conceivable that the muddle was involved with the appearance of Sense at the end of 1832. Suppose that the first printing of Sense was actually dated 1832, and then, for some reason or other, the book could not be published until very late in the year. Might it not have been decided to advance the date (as was frequently done at the time) and so keep all five volumes in the Standard Novels uniformly dated? If this were so, Bentley would have had on hand engraved plates dated 1832, on which imprint and date lines would have to be first erased and then re-engraved. I t is conceivable that, by chance or on purpose, one or more pairs of plates were not re-engraved, so that, after the first Standard Novel issue had been made with newly dated fronts, and titles, the publisher either held some sets of undated engravings from these undated plates or could, if he wished, produce such sets from the undated plates in his possession. I t seems an open and insoluble question whether, in the event of either of these things occurring, he would have issued his Collected Edition with a fortuitous mixture of dated and undated engravings in Sense and Sensibility; or whether, reasoning as suggested in A, he would have led off with the undated material to give his edition an appearance of timelessness, and worked in the balance of dated engravings late enough to make it unlikely the trade would notice the difference. Why, if he was anxious not to emphasise the date on the first volume of his Collected Edition, he did not also issue Vols, II-V with dates erased, is inexplicable—as also is why, throughout the subsequent selling-life of Bentley's Standard Novels, Sense remained undated, but all the others carried the dates of their first appearance. It may be of interest to note that Bentley advance-advertised his Collected Edition in the Athenaeum for October 26, 1833, describing it as 'neatly bound for the library, so as to range with Scott's novels, Miss Edgeworth's novels, Byron's works, etc. price 30s.' B.

T H E F I R S T COLLECTED E D I T I O N OF B U L W E R LYTTON

[37356]

13 vols. Saunders & Otley (and Colburn) 1840-1841, 1845. I t would perhaps be more accurate to describe this edition as a joint bye-product of Bentley's and Colburn's novel series, for actually three of the volumes carry Colburn's imprint and consist of his sheets, while Bentley's name does not appear on any title-page. But the inspiration came so obviously from Bentley's Standard Novels, and Bentley's collaboration was so much more prompt, generous and selfeffacing than that of his rival, that accuracy can suitably yield to equity and credit be given where credit is really due. No more attractive production of its kind and period is known to me than this elegant and carefully Pi. 9 produced series of brown-cloth volumes. In format, appearance and illustration they are modelled on Bentley Standard Novels of the first cloth period, but are more imaginatively blocked, printed in slightly larger type, and on the whole less conventionally illustrated. I n the list which follows, titles with textual significance are in capitals. Where a title is not in the Collection, it is asterisked; it is among my keener regrets that I have not been able absolutely to complete the series, but the books seem to be very uncommon. Description and Complete List Earth-brown ribbed cloth, blocked in blind on front, back and spine with conventional designs, goldlettered on spine W O R K S / OF / S I R E. L. B U L W E R / B A R T . / {title of novel) / L O N D O N / S A U N D E R S & O T L E Y [on Nos. 10-12: L O N D O N / C O L B U R N ] . Pale yellow end-papers. Steel-engraved front, and vignette title (both dated) precede printed title. The volumes were not numbered at the time of their appearance, but incidental advert, material refer to them as the 'First', 'Second', 'Third', etc. volume and this chronological sequence is maintained as SCFII

105

14

BENTLEY [3735b]

BYE-PRODUCTS:

BULWER

LYTTON

bibliographically correct. The formal re-numbering, which took place when No. 12 was published, is recorded under that volume. 1

RIENZI

1840 (Feb.

1)

Contains a new Dedication to the Author's mother, 3 pp. dated Jan. 6, 1840. Engravings after Maclise and Creswick. Adverts (4 pp.) preceding half-title make a general announcement of this 'First Uniform Edition' of Bulwer's works, stating that the volumes will be published monthly at six shillings and will 'include not only all the acknowledged works of Sir Edward Lytton-Bulwer that have yet appeared (excepting only those already printed by Mr Colburn and Mr Bentley in their several Libraries of Fiction and therefore already before the public in the same popular size and form of Six Shilling Volumes) b u t some not hitherto published'. The prospectus concludes: 'The whole will be carefully revised by the Author and no pains spared to give to this Edition a new and distinctive value.' Note. As will be seen, the terms of the announcement were not wholly maintained. One title from Bentley's Standard Novels was included and three from Colburn's Modern Novels appended. No new work was first published in this form. One is reminded, a little sadly, of the Illustrated Edition of Marryat's novels which started so admirably and came to grief so soon. Certainly the Bulwer Series survived for considerably longer; but it would seem that Saunders & Otley inclined to promise more than they found themselves able to perform. 2 E R N E S T M A L T R A V E R S 1840 (March 1) Contains a new Preface, 6 pp., written for this edition and reporting with remarkable candour the attempts made to persuade Bentley and Colburn to lease, for inclusion in this new edition, those earlier novels published in their Novel Series. Bulwer states that £1500 were offered for the mere permission to print in the new edition Paul Clifford, Eugene Aram, Pompeii, Pelham, Disowned and Devereux, but Bentley and Colburn 'paid me the inconvenient and unwelcome compliment of stating that the novels in dispute were so popular, and so valuable in aid of other fictions in their collections, that they could not allow me to use them in mine, except upon terms which would have rendered the price of each volume a third higher than it is at present'. The Preface ends with a terrific Bulwerian appeal to the public who have already purchased the Bentley and Colburn titles to buy ' these children of my later and riper years in their present comely and commodious apparel, and so unite under your kindly roof a now scattered family'. Engravings after Cattermole. 3 Alice, or The Mysteries 1840 (April 1) Engravings after von Hoist and Stephanoff. 4 G O D O L P H I N and T H E P I L G R I M S O F T H E R H I N E (Chaps, i-v) 1840 (May 1) The first edition of Godolphin over the author's name, with a Dedication to Count d'Orsay (2 pp. undated) and a Note to the Present Edition (1 p. dated April 17, 1840), not previously printed. A Dedication to Henry Lytton-Bulwer (2 pp. dated April 23, 1840) is prefixed to The Pilgrims of the Rhine. Engravings after Maclise and Creswick. 5 The Pilgrims of the Rhine (Chaps, vi-end) and The Student (to the end of Chairolas) Engravings after Cattermole. Note. Although this volume has no textual significance, advert, leaves preceding the half-title carry further the story of the new edition and the negotiations with Bentley and Colburn. Under the heading ' Advertisement' we read that correspondence between Bulwer and Bentley and Bulwer and Colburn has led to an agreement by which on fair and reasonable terms the novels controlled by them shall be included in the Uniform Edition. A note adds that the final volume of the edition will contain title-pages for each earlier volume 'so as to number the works according to the several dates of their first publication'. 6 T H E S T U D E N T (from Infidelity in Love to the end) and E N G L A N D A N D T H E E N G L I S H 1840 (July 1) On the title-page The Student is described as ' revised and with Additions' and England and the English as 'Revised and Corrected'. There is also a new Preface to the latter work, 3 pp. dated June 1840. Engravings after Cattermole. 106

THE 7 *Paul Clifford 8

TRADITION

1840 (Aug. 1)

E U G E N E ARAM

\3735b\

1840 (Sept. 1)

Contains a new Preface, 7 pp. dated August 1840. 9

BENTLEY

Last Days of Pompeii

Engravings after Cattermole and Creswick.

1840 (Oct. 1)

Engravings after Cattermole. A Publisher's ' N o t i c e ' , preceding frontispiece, announces t h a t t h e remaining three volumes of the edition—Pelham, Disowned and Devereux—'will be published monthly, with the Author's last corrections, b y Mr Colburn. Pelham will appear on 1st of November.' Evidently Colburn had left a loophole in his previous negotiations and now refused to let his three copyrights appear over any imprint b u t his own. 10 Pelham 1840 (Nov. 1) Although uniform in binding with the Saunders & Otley volumes, this is merely a reprint of Colburn's edition of 1835 (or possibly actual sheets), with the dates on front, and vignette title altered to 1840. 11 *Disowned

1840 (? Dec. 1)

12 Devereux 1841 (? Jan. 1) As No. 20, this is Colburn's earlier edition with altered dates. At the end of the volume, as promised, are twelve title-pages renumbering the volumes under two classifications and in order of publication. These title-pages are not dated and read T H E / C O M P L E T E P R O S E W O R K S / o r / S I R E . L. B U L W E R , B A R T . J N O W F I R S T C O L L E C T E D . / (rule) VOL. i. / Historical Romances, etc. / R I E N Z I (etc.). As rearranged, the edition runs as follows: I Rienzi II Pompeii Historical Romances: III Pelham IV Disowned Novels, Tales and Essays: V Devereux VI P a u l Clifford VII Eugene Aram VIII Maltravers IX Alice X Godolphin etc. XI Pilgrims of the Rhine etc. XII Student etc. 13

Supplementary volume:

NIGHT AND MORNING

Saunders & Otley 1845

Contains a Dedication (1 p.) and Preface to the Present Edition (7 pp.) b o t h dated 1845. after Cattermole. C.

THE

HAMILTONS,

by M R S G O R E

Engravings

1850

[3735c]

Simultaneously with Standard Novel No. 119 was issued a square 8vo volume (5|° x 8") bound in red morocco cloth, gilt, printed from Standard Novel type, including the Standard Novel frontispiece (on smaller paper) and with a specially printed title-page. I t can hardly be doubted t h a t this ingenious 'large p a p e r ' issue was Mrs Gore's idea—was perhaps prepared mainly for her personal use. She was always inclined to enterprise in her publishing styles, and of the several copies I have seen of this ' byep r o d u c t ' Hamiltons, at least five had presentation inscriptions. The copy in the Collection is inscribed in ink on fly-leaf: ' L a d y Molesworth from C. F . Gore' and has binders' ticket: ' J o s i a h Westley', a t end.

'THE BENTLEY TRADITION' A.

SIMULTANEOUS

INSPIRATION:

H A R P E R ' S L I B R A R Y OP S E L E C T

ROSCOE'S NOVELS

NOVELIST'S

[3736] LIBRARY,

with a note on

B.

H E N R Y COLBURN, H I S CHARACTER A N D P A R T N E R S H I P W I T H R I C H A R D BENTLEY C. S H A R P PRACTICE: C O L B U R N ' S M O D E R N N O V E L I S T S (post 8vo Series)—COLBURN'S IRISH NATIONAL TALES NOVELIST

D.

COLBURN'S NAVAL AND MILITARY LIBRARY

STEALING BENTLEY'S THUNDER: and Part Issue) and C O L B U R N ' S M O D E R N

THE NEW BRITISH

COLBURN'S MODERN NOVELISTS STANDARD NOVELISTS

107

(small 8vo Series

ROSCOE'S [3736]

[3736a]

NOVELIST'S

LIBRARY

The influence on English publishing of 'Bentleyism', as expressed in the Standard Novel Series, was not only immense and durable; it was also remarkably diverse. The Standard Novels, by their immediate success, implanted three distinct ideas in the public mind, all of which were soon reflected on trade practice. First, they gave nation-wide popularity to the particular small 8vo format, the clear neat type and the steel-engraved embellishments which Cadell had devised for his Waverley and Bentley appropriated for his far more varied list. Second, they impressed six shillings on the consciousness of the reading public as a price at which first-rate novels of full length, not many years old and cloth bound, could conceivably and conveniently be bought, and, by so doing, threw for the first time into uneasy relief the three or more boarded volumes at half a guinea apiece which by the early thirties had become the regular guise for a new fiction. Third, they made people realise t h a t contemporary novels, as well as those of the late eighteenth century, could aspire to the e p i t h e t ' standard'; and t h a t consequently modern fiction was not necessarily the vicious frivolity it was so often declared to be, but might conceivably be part of English literature. Each in turn of these new comprehensions became a challenge to publishers' conservatism or a stimulus to publishers' enterprise; to each, more or less rapidly, enterprise responded or conservatism was forced to yield. Thus it was t h a t Bentley's Standard Novel Series became a tradition almost as soon as it came into existence; thus it was, also, that the tradition expressed itself in several quite distinct ways. A.

S I M U L T A N E O U S I N S P I R A T I O N : ROSCOE'S N O V E L I S T ' S L I B R A R Y , 1831-1833, with a note on H A R P E R ' S L I B R A R Y OF S E L E C T N O V E L S

The first Bentley Standard Novel was published on February 25, 1831. On May 1 of the same year appeared the first two volumes of Roscoe's Novelist's Library. The interval between these two dates is too short for the later series to be accused of having imitated the earlier one. Messrs Cochrane & Pickersgill must be given the credit of having for themselves examined the Cadell Waverley and wondered how best to profit by the demand for small format fiction which the success of the Waverley Novels had unmistakably revealed. I t is interesting, seeing t h a t both must have been in the making simultaneously, to observe the difference between their scheme and Bentley's. Cochrane & Pickersgill evidently saw the Cadell Waverley rather as an innovation in format than as an incitement to textual enterprise. Partly no doubt because they did not want to spend money on paying authors, partly maybe because they were themselves more interested in book-design than in judging fiction and were quite content to limit their experiments to style and embellishment, they rather tamely determined to stick to the old favourites which everyone knew, and to put on the market yet another edition of Robinson Crusoe, of The Vicar of Wakefield, of Fielding and of Smollett. ' Y e t another edition'—but all the same an edition like no other. They kept to Cadell's price of five shillings, but instead of a double opening in steel engraving at the beginning they decided to offer specially drawn illustrations by an artist of repute. But although Roscoe's Novelists Library was certainly not a copy of Bentley's Standard Novels, there is evidence t h a t its publishers were well aware of Bentley's series. Their prospectus, which appeared on April 5, 1831 and was manifestly drafted after February 25, is headed: 'Uniform with the Waverley Novels', and continues: ' I n announcing a S E L E C T S E R I E S OF C L A S S I C A L N O V E L S Messrs Cochrane & Pickersgill disclaim any intention of trespassing on the ground occupied by other publishers. Whilst the productions of writers of fiction subsequent to the time of Fielding and Smollett are presented in a periodical form as candidates for publication, the Proprietors are encouraged to extend the field of rational entertainment by offering to English readers C H E A P E D I T I O N S o f . . .such Novels and Romances as have been unequivocally stamped with popular r e g a r d . . . . ' The prospectus continues with disputable accuracy: ' The best uniform editions of these celebrated works [i.e. Novels by Smollett, Fielding, Goldsmith, etc.] have hitherto been published in forms and a t prices which have placed them beyond the reach of any but the wealthier classes of readers.* * This was a little hard on Mrs Barbauld and Whittingham, not to mention the series of still earlier date. But perhaps Cochrane & Pickersgill based their statement on what was at the time of writing still in print. Such facility in passing from the particular to the general has ever been a feature of publishers' advertising. 108

ROSCOE'S

NOVELIST'S

LIBRARY

' To remove this inconvenience, and supply wants which the Public has long felt, the Proprietors intend [3736a] to publish the present Edition in Monthly volumes beautifully printed and embellished with Plates, a t the cheap price of five shillings per volume, neatly bound.' The first two volumes of Roscoe (Robinson Crusoe) were illustrated b y J a c o b George S t r u t t , whose etchings of trees, published as Sylva Britannica and Deliciae Sylvarum, had recently brought him a great reputation. W h a t actually occurred to displace S t r u t t as illustrator of the series and instal George Cruikshank in his place is not known; nor whether the new illustrator produced a marked difference in the books' contemporary sale.* B u t from the point of view of their venture's ultimate renown, Cochrane & Pickersgill made a sensational exchange. Thanks to Cruikshank's work in the remaining volumes of the series, Roscoe's Novelists Library has until now been the best known and most sought after of the m a n y nineteenthcentury novel-series. As an achievement in book-making it deserves its reputation; b u t to students of publishing and to all who, in a publisher, rate textual intelligence and courage to create a public taste more highly t h a n mere skill in production, it cannot compare with the run of Bentley's Standard Novels. ROSCOE'S N O V E L I S T ' S L I B R A R Y : A COMPLETE L I S T 19 vols. [First Series, 2 vols.; New Series, 17 vols.] 1831-1833. Vols. I and I I and New Series' Vol. I, published b y Cochrane & Pickersgill; New Series, Vols. I I - X I I , published b y J a m e s Cochrane; New Series, Vols. X I I I - X V I I , published b y Effingham Wilson. Glazed fawn watered cloth, very dark blue paper labels lettered and decorated in gold; white end-papers. The labels are a t extreme head and tail of spine, the former carrying series title and number of volume, the latter, author, book title and volume number (where required). The 17 volumes of the New Series have a third label, affixed under t h a t carrying series title and reading: I L L U S T R A T E D / b y / G E O . C R U I K S H A N K . I & II.

ROBINSON CRUSOE

1831

i. (viii) [(i) (ii) Prospectus of Series; (iii) (iv) half-title, verso; (v) (vi) title, verso; (vii) (viii) illustrations, extracts in praise of Robinson Crusoe] + lxiv [Biographical Sketch of Defoe b y Thomas Roscoe]+(328) Illustrations. Engraved front, portrait and 8 etchings on India paper, mounted on plate paper. Note. The Prospectus announces the series as ' t o be published in Monthly Volumes (uniform with the Waverley Novels)' a t five shillings each, and ' w i t h illustrations from designs original and selected b y Jacob George S t r u t t Esq., author of " S y l v a B r i t a n n i c a ' " . Of the volumes here announced as forthcoming about half actually appeared. ii.

(viii) [as in i] + (328)

Illustrations.

New i.

II.

X 3 X 4 adverts.

Etched front, and 7 plates on India paper, mounted on plate paper.

Series

H U M P H R Y C L I N K E R ( ' H u m p h r e y ' on spine label) 1831 (xii) [(i)-(vi) adverts., including Prospectus of Series as in I b u t with Cruikshank's name substituted for S t r u t t ; (vii) (viii) half-title, verso; (ix) (x) title, verso; (xi) (xii) illustrations, verso] + (xxxii) [paged (v)-xxxvi Memoir of Smollett by Thomas Roscoe]+ (404). E r r a t u m slip tipped on to (v) Illustrations. Engraved front, portrait and 4 etchings. RODERICK RANDOM

1831

(viii) [Prospectus, half-title etc. as b e f o r e ] + (vi) [paged (v)-x—Preface and Apologue]+(498) 2I 4 adverts. Illustrations. Etched front, and 4 plates. Note. There is in t h e Collection an edition of Roderick Random published b y Orlando Hodgson in 1839 with the Cruikshank plates from the Roscoe edition, still imprinted Cochrane & Pickersgill and dated 1831. I do not know whether other titles were similarly re-issued. * The indications are that he did so. With the first Cruikshank volume (Humphry Clinker) the publishers began a fresh numbering of the whole series, thereafter advertising the two volumes of Robinson Crusoe as ' uniform with Roscoe's Novelist's LibraryAlso they 'billed' Cruikshank on a special spine-label—a compliment they had not paid to Strutt. 109

ROSCOE'S [3736a]

NOVELIST'S

LIBRARY

n i , iv. P E R E G R I N E P I C K L E 1831 HI. (viii) [as in n ] + (424) 2D 4 adverts. Illustrations. Etched front, and 3 plates. iv. (viii) [as in HI] + 448 Illustrations. Etched front, and 3 plates. V, V I .

TOM J O N E S

1831

v. (xxiv) + (456) 2F 4 Prospectus of Series, as previously printed preceding half-title. Illustrations. Engraved portrait after H o g a r t h and 4 etchings. vi. (viii) [Prospectus restored to original position] + 448 Illustrations. Etched front, and 3 plates. VII.

JOSEPH ANDREWS

1832

(xvi) [paged (i)-(iv) + (i)-xii] + 336 The Prospectus precedes half-title, b u t is extended to fill three instead of two pages. Illustrations. Etched front, and 3 plates. Note. I have seen this book in dark green ribbon-embossed cloth, gold-lettered a t head and tail of spine: R O S C O E ' S / N O V E L S / J O S E P H / A N D R E W S / rule / C O M P L E T E . I do not know whether the whole series appeared in this secondary binding. VIII, I X .

AMELIA

1832

(xii) [paged (i)-(x) + (i)-ii] + (308) Illustrations. Etched front, and 3 plates. ix. (viii)+ 344 Y 4 (foliated) carries a continuation of the Prospectus which begins on pp. (i) (ii). Illustrations. Etched front, and 3 plates. VIII.

X.

THE VICAR OF W A K E F I E L D a n d SIR L A U N C E L O T G R E A V E S

(xvi) [paged (x)]

1832

P p . (vii)-(xiv) Memoir of Goldsmith by Thomas Roscoe + 168

F I E L D ] + ( i v ) + (244) [LAUNCELOT

[ V I C A R OF W A K E -

GREAVES]

Illustrations. Engraved front, portrait of Goldsmith and 4 etchings, two to each novel. Note. The Prospectus of the Series does not appear in this volume. XI, XII.

TRISTRAM SHANDY and A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY

1832

xi. (xx) [paged (xii)] P p . (ix)-(xix) Memoir of Sterne + 372 Illustrations. Engraved portrait front, and 4 etchings. Note. The Prospectus reappears in its original short form preceding half-title. (viii) + (1 )-232 [conclusion of S H A N D Y ] + (233) (234) [fly-title to S E N T I M E N T A L J O U R N E Y ] + (235)-(360) [text of S E N T I M E N T A L J O U R N E Y ] Z4 (foliated) continuation of Prospectus, as in ix. Catalogue of Valpy's publications, 12 pp. fcap 8vo undated, inserted after f r o n t end-paper. Illustrations. Etched front, and 3 plates. Note. This volume shows symptoms of confusion. I n the first place, although the title-page is imprinted ' J a m e s Cochrane', the plates are imprinted ' A . J . V a l p y ' . I n the second place, t h e List of Illustrations is faulty. The first 2 plates listed relate to the earlier portion of Shandy, printed in Vol. xi, and the face-pages here given (327 and 345) refer to their incidence in t h a t volume. Nevertheless the first plate appears as front, to the present volume, and t h e second as sub-front, facing the fly-title to A Sentimental Journey, to which it is wholly irrelevant. The third and fourth plates are correctly listed and face pp. 5 and 48 of the present volume.

XII.

XIII, XIV, XV.

DON QUIXOTE

1833

(xxxvi) [paged ( i v ) + i v + (xxviii) Prelims., 'Preface to the R e a d e r ' and Memoir of Cervantes b y Thomas Roscoe] + (372) Illustrations. Wood-engraved imaginary portrait front, of Quixote after Kenney Meadows and 5 etchings b y Cruikshank. Note. No Prospectus henceforth appears in any volume. XIII.

110

HARPER'S XIV.

(viii) [ p a g e d

SELECT

NOVELS

iv]+(356)

Illustrations. Wood-engraved imaginary portrait front, of Sancho Panza after Kenney Meadows and 5 etchings by Cruikshank. xv. viii+ 384 Publishers'cat., 36 pp. undated, at end. Illustrations. Wood-engraved imaginary portrait front, of Dulcinea after Kenney Meadows and 5 etchings by Cruikshank. Note. On p. 13 of the publishers' cat. is advertised ' An uniform continuation of Roscoe's Novelist's Library consisting of Don Quixote in 3 vols, at 18s. and Gil Bias in 2 vols, at 12s.' XVI, XVII.

GIL BLAS

[3736a]

1833

xvi. xxiv [(ix)-xxiv Memoir of Le Sage by Thomas Roscoe]+ (l)-2 [inset leaf signed ' C ' and carrying 'Author's Declaration']+ (1)-418 Illustrations. Wood-engraved imaginary portrait front, of Doctor Sangrado after Kenney Meadows and 5 etchings by Cruikshank. XVII.

xii + 420

Illustrations. Wood-engraved imaginary portrait front, of Gil Bias after Kenney Meadows and 5 etchings by Cruikshank.

Secondary Bindings and a Re-issue I have noted odd volumes of this series in two, undoubtedly secondary bindings: (i) coarse light brown watered cloth, with no volume number on top label and no Cruikshank label (Tom Jones and Gil Bias); (ii) dark green large-honeycomb-grain cloth, labelled at base of spine only with title and author. No series title inside or outside and no mention of illustration on cover (Don Quixote). From an odd monthly number in my possession, I gather that during the thirties the plates of at any rate some of Cruickshank's illustrations were acquired by Orlando Hodgson, an Isleworth printer with an office at 111 Fleet Street. He had already, under the series title 'Hodgson's Standard Library', issued one or more of Cooper's novels (cf. above p. 94 note). These he followed with Humphry Clinker and Roderick Random, in fcap 8vo. weekly parts and monthly numbers, including the illustrations originally etched by Cruikshank for Cochrane. Whether he republished the whole Roscoe Series, I do not know. A NOTE ON HARPER'S L I B R A R Y OP SELECT NOVELS This American series has as much right as Roscoe's Novelist's Library to claim simultaneous inspiration [3736aa] with Bentley's Standard Novels. I t began in May 1831; and it is a matter of regret that I can supply so few particulars, for the books were produced with taste and care and the venture was clearly one of pioneer importance. Only one specimen is in the Collection; but presumably a description of it will apply to at any rate the earlier volumes of the series. Nos. HI, iv. T H E D U T C H M A N ' S F I R E S I D E , by the author of 'Letters from the South', 'The Back- pi. 9 woodsman', 'John Bull in America', etc. etc. [J. K. Paulding]. 2 vols. sm. 8vo. New York: J . & J . Harper 1831. Dark green linen, printed in black—on front and spine with series title and number, book title and volume number. Publishers' imprint on front only. Back covers printed—Vol. 1 with ' Advertisement' of the Select Novels, Vol. 11 with a list of the Family Library. Although eight pages of adverts, precede the title in the first volume, no indication is given of titles already published (or to be published) in the series nor of the price at which the volumes were issued. The following list, however (taken from a Harper publication of the early thirties), gives, I hope in correct order, the first 18 titles and 36 volumes of this attractive Library. The bracketed dates are those of the first editions. 1, 11 hi, iv v, vi

Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton Dutchman's Fireside Young Duke 111

Hamilton Paulding Disraeli

(1827) 1st edition (1831)

COLBURN

[37366]

AND BENTLEY

VII, VIII IX, X XI, XII XIII, XIV X V , XVI XVII, XVIII XIX, XX XXI, XXII XXIII, XXIV XXV, XXVI

Caleb Williams Philip Augustus Club Book De Vere Smuggler Eugene Aram Evelina Spy Westward Ho Tales of Glauber-Spa

XXVII, XXVIII XXIX, XXX XXXI, XXXII XXXIII, XXXIV XXXV, XXXVI

Henry Masterton Mary of Burgundy Richelieu Darnley John Marston Hall

(1794) Godwin James (1831) Picken and others (1831) (1827) Ward (1831) Banim (1832) Bulwer (1778) Burney (1821) Cooper 1st edition Paulding 1st edition. A Sedgwick collection of tales edited by Bryant (1832) James (1833) » (1829) (1830) »> (1834) n

B. H E N R Y C O L B U R N , H I S C H A R A C T E R AND P A R T N E R S H I P W I T H R I C H A R D B E N T L E Y There is irony in the fact that the next product of Bentleyism was not only a clever disingenuity but one devised by the very firm which were publishing the Standard Novels. In order to make clear how, from the same office, could have emanated an honest piece of publishing enterprise like the Standard Novels and two new series which were little short of a fraud on the public, it is necessary to summarise the facts of the uneasy partnership then existing between Richard Bentley and Henry Colburn, and briefly to characterise the two men. Richard Bentley was a younger brother of the well-known printer and antiquary, Samuel Bentley. This man was first apprentice and then partner of his uncle John Nichols of the Gentleman's Magazine. He indexed Nichols' Literary Anecdotes and produced on his own account more than one work of scholarship. In 1819 Samuel Bentley, desirous of greater independence, set up a printing business with his brother Richard, in Dorset Street, Salisbury Square, and it was in the early days of this business that the younger Bentley first made the acquaintance of Henry Colburn. Colburn was at this time a pushing young publisher with an office in Conduit Street. His origin—even to the date of his birth—is obscure, but he must have been in his early thirties when Richard Bentley first knew him. According to the D.N.B. it was not until 1816 that he succeeded to the proprietorship of Morgan's Circulating Library in Conduit Street, where he had already for some years served as an assistant. But the date of his independent proprietorship must have been considerably earlier. Eaton Stannard Barrett's satirical poem The Second Titan War against Heaven was published by Colburn from 50 Conduit Street in 1807 and advertised on its final page his 'English and Foreign Subscription Library', as well as two translations from Kotzebue, a two-volume Gothic romance called Jeannette or The Convent of Notre Dame, and an essay on statistics—all 'recently published by H. Colburn'. In 1808 (according to advertisements in another Colburn book issued in that year) the list had been increased by four further novels and a two-volume Memoirs of Female Philosophers. Year by year the business developed. By 1811, when he 'reprinted' two novels by the celebrated American writer Charles Brockden Brown (Wieland and Ormond), eight other fictions were announced as on the market. In 1812 he published C. R. Maturin's Milesian Chief, and the advertisement pages show his list markedly increasing. In 1814 came Barrett's well-known skit on gothistic extravagance The Heroine, a translation of Vulpius' Ferrandino* and a number of general books—travel and reminiscence—as well as fiction. In 1814 he secured Lady Morgan's novel O'Donnel—his first venture in the work of an author whose long connection with him was to produce much profit (for which he cared a great deal) and even more ridicule (for which he cared nothing at all). * Using in this case, oddly enough, the name of Oxberry the printer as imprint, although including among the prelims, a page advertisement of his own publications. 112

COLBURN

AND

BENTLEY

Colburn's list was now rapidly developing. I t fills nine pages at the end of O'Donnel, Vol. in, and has [3736b] several features of interest. In the first place it contains a large number of French books (by Mesdames de Staël, de Genlis, Cottin, and de Montolieu, by Pigault le Brun and others), printed and published in French in London. Clearly Colburn had known how to exploit the foreign connections of Morgan's Library the very moment that news of Napoleon's defeat at Leipzig promised a speedy reopening of communications with the Continent. The second interesting feature of Colburn's 1814 list is the announcement that on February 1st of the year had appeared the first number of The New Monthly Magazine. This periodical, issued as a direct challenge to Sir Richard Phillips' Monthly Magazine, was destined, under a succession of distinguished editors, to run for over sixty years. In 1816 Colburn published Lady Caroline Lamb's Glenarvon, and commissioned Lady Morgan to write a book on France, paying her a large fee and all her expenses during a special sojourn abroad. He was well repaid for his daring and intelligence. The book appeared early in 1817 and was immediately successful. Colburn had brilliantly gauged the reading taste of a public for many years cut off from France and now devoured with curiosity about the minds and manners of their ex-enemies. In the meantime his tireless inventiveness had devised another literary periodical, and on January 1st, 1817, he published the first weekly number of The Literary Gazette. In six months he sold a third interest to Jerdan of The Sun, who became the Literary Gazette's editor, and a little later a second third to Messrs Longman. The paper prospered until 1862. In 1818 Colburn paid a big price for Evelyn's Diary, and it was over the printing of this work that he came into contact with the man who was to become his publishing partner. There could hardly have been two beings more different or—one would have thought—more unsympathetic than Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. The former was a small, bustling bundle of energy, with needle-sharp business acumen and no scruples whatsoever. The first of the gambling publishers, he regarded every author as having his price and the public as gullible fools. He cared nothing about book-design, nothing about craftsmanship. Cheapest was best, so long as the leaves held together; and it is hard to find a single book of Colburn's independent creation which is other than commonplace in style or (when he fancied elegance) tawdry or over-emphatic. He had no literary taste of his own, merely an instinctive sense of the taste of the moment. In consequence (being incapable of building up a list of permanent saleability) he published on the basis of quick turn-over, and made a fortune for himself by sheer topical ingenuity. His imprint died with him. Not, however, his influence on the trade. Impervious to snubs; cheerful under vilification, so long as insults meant more business; thinking in hundreds where others thought in tens, Colburn revolutionised publishing in its every aspect. He would invent a book which he judged likely to be popular, choose his author and offer a sudden dazzling fee for the copyright. His servility was as calculated as his generosity. To the socially great he would crawl, to authors he wished to tempt or to placate he was an open-handed paymaster. But those he considered his inferiors or useless to his business found him hard and insolent, and there was little enough of kindness and consideration for Colburn authors whose books had failed to sell. He developed advertising, both direct and indirect, to a degree hitherto undreamt of. He had his diners-out who talked up his books at dinner-tables and soirées; he debauched the critics and put them on his pay-sheet. Altogether a brilliant, disturbing, meanly admirable little man, who died in 1855 leaving £35,000 and, perhaps, four copyrights of lasting value. He was a book-manufacturer, not a publisher; and his kind are with us to this day. Richard Bentley, on the other hand, was the serious-minded craftsman-booklover. To practical ability and knowledge of manufacture, he added an innate, though rather bourgeois, sense of the dignity of a publisher's calling. From his brother Samuel (nurtured on the Nichols tradition) he had learnt a respect for books as books. When he offered something to the public, he wanted it—for his own conscience sake if for no other reason—as good as he could make it; and he would no more have thought of misleading that public by tendacious or flashy advertisement than of robbing the till. Compared to Colburn he was slow-minded and unadaptable, and for these shortcomings he paid a heavy price. But having learnt his lesson and stuck out his bad times, he founded a business beside which Colburn's dazzling improvisations were but the bright stars of a falling rocket. Such were the two men who in 1829—ten years after their first meeting—went into publishing partnership. Why did they do it? The reason was characteristic. The only way that S. & R. Bentley could hope for the payment of Colburn's printing bill was to take an interest in the gentleman's exciting but SCFII

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[3736b] hazardous business. Throughout the twenties Colburn had gone his dizzy way. In 1824 he moved from Conduit Street to 8 N e w Burlington Street, his 'British and Foreign Public Library' passing into the control of Saunders & Otley—a new firm destined a few years later to rival Colburn himself in spectacular modernism. This same year—1824—he had astonished Theodore Hook with the offer of £600 for a novel. The result was Sayings and Doings, which sold 6000 copies at 31s. 6d. In 1825 he speculated in Pepys' Diaries and, though in fact he made little profit, if any, from the venture, was reputed to have triumphed and gained much prestige thereby. In 1827 he wire-pulled Vivian Grey into being the talk of the town, and repeated the experiment a year later with Bulwer's Pelham. But spectacular seasonal successes are no real protection against prolonged bad trade, and Colburn, whose genius lay in the creation of nine days' wonders, now found that solvency depended on books which sold steadily if slowly for nine years. Wherefore the evil days of 1826-7, which swept away two-thirds of the publishing houses of the time, shook him badly. Probably the Bentley brothers had no alternative but to accept the suggestion that their mounting bill be regarded as part of the resources of Colburn's re-conditioned firm. In any event they did so; and in September 1829 a joint imprint: ' H . Colburn and R. Bentley' made its first appearance in New Burlington Street. The deed of partnership between Colburn and Bentley was valid for three years. Colburn was guaranteed, as payment for goodwill, a sum equivalent to two years' profits of his former independent business. H e estimated these profits as £5000 a year, so that the first charge in the proceeds of the new business was £10,000. He also put a generous valuation on his former copyrights and in other ways over-reached his less agile-minded and less experienced colleague. Almost at once, therefore, relations became strained. Early ventures of a series-type went badly. The National Library, The Family Classical Library, The Juvenile Library, were all unsuccessful. An elaborate plan for a Library of Modern Travels and Discoveries never came to birth at all. The launching of the Standard Novels, therefore, was a very brave or a very reckless act, on the success of which everything depended. That it did succeed was largely due to the intelligence and integrity of its planning, and as these qualities were never conspicuous in Colburn's independent ventures, it is permissible to guess that Bentley had the lion's share in devising the scheme. The Standard Novels, then, came and conquered. But within six months of their first appearance an attempt was made by their publishers to exploit the market just created—an attempt whose catchpenny but skilful exaggeration was unmistakably Colburnesque.

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SHARP PRACTICE: IRISH

COLBURN'S

MODERN

NOVELISTS

(post 8vo Series);

NATIONAL TALES; COLBURN'S NAVAL AND MILITARY LIBRARY

MENT; THE NEW BRITISH

OF

COLBURN'S ENTERTAIN-

NOVELIST

In October 1831 appeared a grandiloquent announcement by Messrs Colburn & Bentley of a series of ' The best recent Works of Fiction from the pens of the most Eminent Authors, in fifty volumes, post 8vo, at six shillings per volume, bound and lettered. The impression of this cheap and unique collection is limited to 250 copies.' Prudent book-buyers were urged instantly to place an order with their bookseller, lest they be too late to secure one of these unparalleled bargains. Colburnesque indeed. The public were in a mood for cheap novels. Very well then, it should have them; and if credulity could be so exploited as to work off a stock of unwanted sheets, so much the better for the exploiter. For the crude fact was that this fifty-volume series of 'Modern Novelists' consisted of unsold sheets of pre-partnership Colburn fiction. The limitation number was either window-dressing or else represented the minimum number of sheets available on the list of titles which it was desired to include. In other words, just as the Standard Novels were the first cheap editions of recent fiction in the modern bookstall sense, the Modern Novels were the first series of 'jobbed' or 'remaindered' editions of novels of yesterday. With this difference—that the jobbed novel to-day is unmistakably a job, but Colburn's Modern Novelists pretended to be genuine cheap editions. Whether the original venture was a success or whether the general scheme provided the most convenient outlet available for surplus sheets of three-volume fiction, its originator kept it in being for some years, and the series of disguised remainders stayed on the market for a long while. But it underwent 114

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more than one transformation; all pretence of limitation of edition was soon dropped; and it may be taken for certain that Colburn's Modern Novelists (8vo series) worked for their creator and not he for them. The numbers fluctuated suspiciously and finally attained enormous proportions. In 1833, for example, a new start was made—or at any rate a pretence of a new start. Several titles were dropped (they had probably sold out) and the price of the remainder reduced to four shillings per volume. Colburn liked to calendar fresh ventures with impressive accuracy, so it is not surprising to find an elaborate schedule of the series—' now in regular course of monthly publication'—in an advertisement of July 1833. B y that date 23 volumes were formally planned. Thus the following sets were stated to have appeared: Feb. 1. March 1. April 1. May 1.

Tremaine [Plumer Ward], 3 vols. Pelharn [Bulwer], 3 vols. Chelsea Pensioners [C. R. Gleig], 3 vols. The Disowned [Bulwer], 3 vols.

June 1. De Vere [Plumer Ward], 4 vols. July 1. Granby [T. H . Lister], 3 vols. Aug. 1. 'Will appear' Devereux [Bulwer], 3 vols.

The novel which followed Devereux was something of a curiosity, in that it carried the month as well as the year of issue on its titles—surely a unique phenomenon in post 8vo three- or four-volume fiction. The book was Disraeli's Vivian Grey and it was issued in four volumes (the original Vols. I and II forming Vol. I of the new edition) at sixteen shillings the set. The title-pages were headed ' Colburn's Modern Novelists' and the imprints read: LONDON

P U B L I S H E D FOR H E N R Y COLBURN B Y R. B E N T L E Y ,

NEW

BURLINGTON

SEPT*-

STREET

1833

B u t careful punctuality, alike on title-pages and advertisements, was discreetly abandoned as candidates for jobbing became more numerous, and the idea of a 'series' was allowed to fade into the background. B y the autumn of 1834 the number of volumes had increased to forty-seven. An advertisement of August 1834, under the heading ' Monthly Libraries', has features of interest in addition to the list of titles offered. This list repeats that of July 1833, including of course Vivian Grey, but omits Pelharn and The Chelsea Pensioners. The former was probably temporarily out of print (it appeared in a new form in 1835), but the latter, as will be seen in a minute, had been transferred to a new, ingenious, but no more ingenuous ' series'. Thus in August 1834 the following fictions were available : *Tremaine, 3 vols. Highways & Byways, 1st series [Grattan], 3 vols. *De Vere, 3 vols. Highways dc Byways. 2nd series [Grattan], 3 vols. *The Disowned, 3 vols. The Tor Hill [H. Smith], 3 vols. * Devereux, 3 vols. The New Forest [H. Smith], 3 vols. *Granby, 3 vols. Yes and No [Lord Normanby], 2 vols. Herbert Lacy [T. H. Lister], 3 vols. f Gaston de Blondeville [Ann Radcliffe], 2 vols. * Vivian Grey, 4 vols. Sayings & Doings. 1st series [Hook], 3 vols. Sayings & Doings. 2nd series [Hook], 3 vols. Some time between August and December was added: The Romance

of Real Life [Mrs Gore], 3 vols.

Very shortly after the end of 1834 any pretence of controlling the series was dropped. B y December 1836 it consisted of no fewer than one hundred and ninety volumes, still at four shillings each. T h e y were now admittedly remainders, and described as offering ' Cheap Editions of Celebrated Works of fiction adapted for Country Libraries'. * Published by September 1833. •)• This title is a good example of Colburn's skill in exploiting his publications. In 1826 he had published in 4 vols. Mrs Radcliffe's posthumous romance Gaston de Blondeville, a number of her poems and a memoir with extracts from her journals. He now cut the original work in half, included the prose romance among his ' Modern Novelists' and simultaneously advertised the 2 vols, of poems as The Poetical Works of Ann Radcliffe. 115

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Whether or no the questionable ingenuity behind 'Colburn's Modern Novelists' justified itself in its inventor's eyes, there is no definite means of knowing. But one indication that the public were successfully rushed into considerable purchase of the ostensible bargains, at least during the first year or two of their currency, is that Colburn twice repeated his experiment in a slightly different form, the first time late the next year (1832) or early in 1833, the second late in 1833 or early in 1834. C O L B U R N ' S I R I S H N A T I O N A L T A L E S A N D K O M A N C E S were a series identical in format and almost identical in appearance with his 'Modern Novelists'—that is to say, they were works in original threeor four-volume shape, post 8vo, uncut, priced at 4s. per vol., and bound in green morocco cloth. Their labels, however, were gold-lettered on green instead of on red. The series ran to 19 volumes; and was complete by July 1833. The titles were:

To-day in Ireland (by Eyre Evans Crowe), 3 vols. Yesterday in Ireland (by Eyre Evans Crowe), 3 vols. The Nowlans (by the Banims), 3 vols. The Croppy (by the Banims), 3 vols. The Anglo-Irish (by the Banims), 3 vols. O'Briens and O'Flahertys (by Lady Morgan), 4 vols. In June 1834 Colburn made, on their behalf, the following preposterous claim: 'That which has already been done for Scottish National History by the uniform collection of Scott's admirable tales is here done in behalf of Irish Story by the cheap reproduction of the most celebrated works of modern times illustrative of the peculiarities of the Sister Kingdom.' It would be difficult to find a more typical piece of Colburn impudence. This precious series, which set up to represent Irish national fiction, contained no Edgeworth, no Gerald Griffin, only one late and minor novel by Lady Morgan and three minor Banims. The reason was, of course, that it was not a series at all, but a scratching together of such Irish fictions as Colburn individually happened to have published. Nevertheless, he got his press applause and, probably, fooled a certain number of ignorant book-buyers. Here, for instance, is a sample of critical enthusiasm, from The Globe: 'When the publication of the deservedly popular edition of the Waverley Novels commenced at the then unprecedentedly low price of 5s. per volume, the reading world was at once astonished and delighted. But to no one is the public more indebted for the requisite combination of quality and quantity than to the publisher of a series of works of fiction under the title The Modern Novelists and of the series under the denomination Irish National Tales.... Here the cheapness of the Waverley Novels is eclipsed. They are 5s. per volume; these are only 4s.—of a handsome size. Good paper and print and neatly lettered in green and gold.'

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COLBURN'S N A V A L A N D M I L I T A R Y L I B R A R Y OF E N T E R T A I N M E N T On p. 115 above reference was made to the disappearance from 'Colburn's Modern Novelists' of Gleig's book The Chelsea Pensioners. This disappearance is explained by its having been transferred to a series formed on identical lines to those adopted for' Irish National Tales'; entitled T H E N A V A L A N D M I L I T A R Y L I B R A R Y O F E N T E R T A I N M E N T ; advertised as a 'Monthly Library' in August 1834; and thus described: 'A Series of the Choicest Modern Works from the pens of Distinguished Officers; forming a desirable acquisition to every mess and gun-room at home or abroad. Now completed in twenty volumes: The Naval Officer [Marryat], 3 vols. Sailors and Saints [Glascock], 3 vols. Tales of Military Life by the author of The Military Sketch Booh, 3 vols. The Chelsea Pensioners [Gleig], 3 vols. Tales of a Voyager, 1st series [R. P. Gillies], 3 vols. Tales of a Voyager, 2nd series [R. P. Gillies], 3 vols. The Night Watch.' 116

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I believe the volumes in this ' L i b r a r y ' were uniform with its predecessors, b u t with blue labels lettered [3736c(iii)] in gold. One m a y be forgiven a smile a t the mobilisation of poor R. P. Gillies—antiquary and poet— among ' distinguished officers'. THE NEW BRITISH NOVELIST

[3736c(iv)]

One further Colburnesque ingenuity remains t o be recorded. Chronologically it should precede t h e three ventures just described, because, although undated, its series title is imprinted ' Colburn and B e n t l e y ' and not ' Colburn' alone. B u t as I have only seen one specimen anywhere and cannot give a n y f u r t h e r titles of novels included, it m a y serve as postscript to this brief summary of the refurbishing experiments of t h e prototype of all book-trade refurbishers. Mary Shelley's Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck first appeared in 3 vols, in 1830. I have seen a copy with a new undated series title inserted before the original first edition title in each volume, headed: THE NEW B R I T I S H N O V E L I S T , I N 50 V O L U M E S , 25 G U I N E A S , and going on to give t h e title of Mary Shelley's book, which represents Vols, v n , VIII and i x of t h e series. The books were in half-cloth boards and t h e t r e a t m e n t of the spines was very curious. The original Perkin Warbeck labels were pasted a t t h e base of each spine, while a t the head was the new series label, worded as above. No indication was given of other novels forming p a r t of the series. D.

STEALING

BENTLEY'S THUNDER: COLBURN'S S T A N D A R D ' N O V E L I S T S (small 8vo Series and P a r t Issue)

'MODERN'

AND

'MODERN

I n the late summer of 1832 Colburn dissolved partnership with Bentley. B y the terms of the agreement he went personally out of publishing, and undertook never again to publish within twenty miles of London.* B u t he retained a number of his more valuable copyrights and even, though himself in the background, continued active to the extent of launching several new ventures through Bentley's agency. I t must remain one of the puzzles of publishing history why he was able to use the machinery of a man with whom he had quarrelled in order to market books which were directly in competition with some of Bentley's own publications. Not the least striking of these frankly competitive Colburnisms was the series started in J a n u a r y 1835, and described in one advertisement as a ' N e w and Improved Edition of Colburn's Modern Novelists. Uniform in size and f o r m a t with the Waverley Novels.' This announcement went on to state t h a t 'each novel will be completed, whenever possible, in a single volume, with corrections and occasional Notes b y t h e several Authors expressly made for this edition'. Another advance advertisement read as follows: ' O n 1st J a n . 1835 will be published, to be continued Monthly, beautifully printed and embellished, price 5s. per volume, neatly bound, Vol. I of P E L H A M . . .being the commencement of a new, revised, handsomely illustrated and more select Collection of C O L B U R N ' S M O D E R N N O V E L I S T S . . . .A volume of this work (the copyrights of which are the exclusive property of Mr Colburn) will be regularly published with the Magazines on the first of every month.' The books were pocket size, bound in grey-purple ribbon embossed cloth, gilt-lettered; had engraved frontispieces and titles and were published a t 5s. per volume. The imprint on the first issue of Vols, i - x of the series r e a d : Published for H e n r y Colburn (no address) b y R. Bentley, London; Bell & Bradfute, E d i n b u r g h ; J o h n Cumming, Dublin; etc. Vols, x i - x n show ' G r e a t Marlborough S t r e e t ' very small after ' C o l b u r n ' b u t continue to mention Bentley. Vols, XIII-XVI show similar ' Great Marlborough S t r e e t ' b u t omit Bentley altogether. F r o m Vols, x v n - x x Colburn's new address is larger and Bentley continuously absent. I t will be observed t h a t the novels chosen were, with one or two exceptions, precisely those with which Colburn had launched his earlier 8vo series. His energy as a n exploiter of copyrights would even to-day command the trade's rueful respect. * Actually his exile (to Windsor) only lasted about four years. In the autumn of 1836 he paid Bentley a fine of £1000 to be released from banishment and reappeared in London with offices in Great Marlborough Street. 117

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(1844) (1851) (1843) (1850) (1846) (1839)

? First English edition

First edition of these stories. 1059 in Section I

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First book edition of these 'Remembrances', originally printed in Fraser's and the Monthly. Also in pictorial yellow-back boards ; Darton on title, n.d.; Clarke on covers

Downing

Dec. 1,

1852

87 Whim and its Consequences 88 *John Doe

James Banim

Jan. 1,

1853 (1847) 1853 (1825)

89

George

Dumas

90

Stuart of Dunleath

Norton

Feb. 1,

91 92 93

Hugenot Miller of Angibault Nowlans

James Sand Banim

March 1, 1853 (1839) March 15, 1853 (First French 1845) March 15, 1853 (1826) Extracted from Tales of the O'Hara Family, 2nd Series April 1, 1853 (1845) 1853 (1836) 1853 (1851) May 1, 1853 (1848) June 1, 1853 (1850) July 1, 1853 (1849) Aug. 1, 1853 Sept. 1, First edition of this story

REMEMBRANCES MONTHLY

94 95 96 97 98 99 100

OF

NURSE

Arrah Neil »Magician Time the Avenger Sir Theodore Broughton Rifle-Rangers . Forgery LOVER

UPON

TRIAL

101 False Heir 102 Mordaunt Hall. 103 f Arabella Stuart 104 Scottish Heiress 105 * Henry of Guise 106 Tenant of Wildfell Hall 107 Beauchamp 108 Rosa or the Black Tulip 109

Cardinal's Daughter

110

ENGLISH COURT

ENVOY

AT

THE

OF N I C H O L A S

111 »Attila

.

.

1853 (1846) 1853 (1851)

James Ritchie Marsh James Mayne Reid James Author of Olivia (Lady Lyons) Oct. 1, 1853 (1843) Simms & M'Intyre, final imprint James 1853 (1849) Thomas Hodgson, first imprint Marsh Nov. 1, Dec. 1, 1853 (1844) James R. M. Daniels Jan. 1, 1854 (1843) (sic) 1854 (1839) Feb. 1, James March 1, 1854 (1848) Brontë April 1, 1854 (1848) James May 1854 (First French 1850) Also in fancy boards, Dumas imprint Hodgson. No copy seen in standard green 1854 (1847) R. M. Daniels June (sic) 1854 First edition of this story Corner June

I

.

.

James

July 1

[1854] (1837)

112 »Hero of Our Days

? July Lermontov, trans, by Pulszky

[1854]

113 Dark Lady of Doona . 114 »Sybil Lennard . 115 C O U N T E S S O F S T A L B A N

Maxwell Mrs Grey Haecklánder

[1854] (1846) [1854] (1846) [1854]

116 117 118

Sea Lions Marks Reef Russell

Extracted from Tales by the O'Hara Family, 1st Series Inherited from the Parlour Novelist Also in pictorial yellow-back boards ; Darton, n.d. (cont. signature dated October 1861)

Cooper

? Aug. Aug. 1, Oct. Oct.

ȕ

James 155

?

[1854] (1849) [1854] (1847) [? 1854] (1847)

Only occasional date on titlepage from now on ? First edition of this version of Lermontov's Caucasian Tales, of which a translation, entitled Sketches of Russian Life in the Caucasus appeared in 1853 in the Illustrated Family Novelist 3747 above) First English edition (by Franz Demmler) from Stories without a Name by Haecklander

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MAURICE

PI.

120

HUNTER'S

121 122

Stepmother Castle Avon

123

SIR J A S P E R

13

XIEBNAY FEAST

. CAREW

124 Castle of Ehrenstein 125 *Margaret Maitland 126 Angela. 127 Eva St Clair .

Lever

Dec. 1,

[1854] [1855] [1855] (1846) [1855] (1852) [1855]

Mayne Reid James Marsh Lever James Oliphant Marsh James Corner

[1855] [1855] [1855] July 14, [1855] [1855]

129 •Merkland 130 Normans Bridge 131 Delaware 132 Queen's Necklace 133 Brambletye House 134 Mount Sorel .

Oliphant Marsh James Dumas Smith Marsh

[1855] [1855] [? 1855] [1855] n.d. n.d.

135 Inheritance 136 *De l'Orme 137 Marriage 138 Rose d'Albret 139 Outlaw 140 Jack Tier 141 Younger Son

Ferrier James Ferrier James Mrs Hall Cooper Trelawny Grant

128

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142

PHANTOM

REGIMENT

143 144

Heiress of Bruges Frankenstein .

Grattan Shelley

145 Lettice Arnold 146 •Richelieu 147 •Hungarian Brothers 148 •Cardinal Mazarin or 20 Years After 149 •Margaret Graham 150 Father Darcy 151 •Hunchback of Notre Dame 152 •Nanon or Women's War 153 •Widows and Widowers. 154 •Chevalier D'Harmental or The Conspirators 155 •Aubrey 156 •My Aunt Pontypool 157 •Edgar Huntly . 158 Chain-bearer . 159 •Ann Boleyn 160 Jacqueline of Holland .

Marsh James Porter Dumas

161

Dumas

Two Dianas

162 * Woodman

First edition of this story. 1411 in Section I First edition of this story First edition of this story. 1419 in Section I

(1847) (1849) (1848) (1843) Cannot trace an earlier edition, and imagine this to be the first

(1851) (1847) (1833) (First French 1850) (1826) (1845) Also in pictorial yellow-back boards, Clarke, n.d. on title and covers; Darton & Hodge end-papers (1824) n.d. [? 1856] (1830) [1856] (1818) [1856] (1844) [1856] (1835) [1856] (1848- as Captain Spike) [1856] (1831) May 10, [1856] First edition of this story. 1055 in Section I June 1, [1856] (1830) [1856] (1818) Also in yellow fancy boards; Hodgson, n.d., on title; Darton end-papers [1856] (1850) A Aug. 1, [1856] (1829) n.d. (1807) [1856] (First French 1845)

James Marsh Hugo Dumas Mrs Thomson Dumas

n.d. n.d. n.d. [1857] n.d. n.d.

Marsh James Brockden Brown Cooper Mrs Thomson Grattan

James 156

(1848) (1846) (First French 1831) (First French 1845/46) (1842) (First French 1843) Copy seen in pictorial boards; Clarke, n.d. n.d. (1854) n.d. (1835) n.d. (First English 1803) n.d. (1845) [1857] (1842) [1857] (1831) Also in fancy boards; Hodgson, n.d.; ? also in standard green [1857] (First French 1846) Also in fancy boards; Hodgson, n.d.; ? also in standard green [1857] (1849)

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FORFEIT

HAND

164 »Buccaneer 165

CURSE

OF T H E

BLACK

LADY

»Hussar *White Mask . * History of a Flirt Man at Arms . Ethel Churchill »Adventures Afloat and Ashore or Harry Hamilton 172 *Days of the Regency . 173 * Chicot the Jester

Grattan

[1857]

Mrs Hall Grattan

n.d. (1832) [1857] First edition of these stories. 1060 in Section I n.d. (1837) n.d. (1844) n.d. (1840) n.d. (1840) n.d. (1837) [1857] ? I cannot trace this title as having previously appeared elsewhere n.d. (1848 as Town and Country) [1857] (First French 1846) [1857] First edition of this story. Copy in Collection in cloth n.d. (1844) n.d. (1842) ' A New Edition thoroughly Revised for the Parlour Library.' Also in fancy boards; Hodgson, n.d.; ? issued in standard green n.d. (1841) [1858] (First French 1848) n.d. (1842) Copy in Collection in green boards; Hodgson, n.d.

166 167 168 169 170 171

Gleig Mrs Thomson Lady C. Bury James L. E. L. Stewart

174

Mrs Trollope Dumas Mrs Thomson

CAREW

RALEGH

175 * Young Widow 176

LADY

ANNE

GRANARD

177 »Greville 178 *Forty-Five Guardsmen 179 Katherine Randolph .

Mackenzie Daniels L. E. L.

180 Heiress of Haughton . 181 »Tracey or The Apparition 182 Regent's Daughter

Gore Dumas By the author of 'The Only Daughter'. Edited by Gleig Marsh Mrs Thomson Dumas

183

Power

Cauth Malowney (sic) .

184 »Arlington 185 Confessions of an Etonian

Lister Rowcroft

186 »Breach of Promise 187 »Disgrace to the Family 188 »Captain Paul & the Sicilian Bandit 189 »Refugees of Martinique 190 »Tales of the Peerage and the Peasantry

Mrs Yorick Smythies Blanchard Jerrold Dumas

191

»HAND

AND

GLOVE

192 »Ben Bradshaw 193 *de Cliffords 194 Taking the Bastile I

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195

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Taking the Bastile I I

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Sue Mrs Sullivan. Edited Lady Dacre Amelia B. Edwards Author of 'The Mysterious Man' Mrs Sherwood Dumas

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157

First edition of these stories. 1061 in Section I

n.d. (1855) n.d. (1847) [1858] (First French 1845) Copy in Collection in fancy boards; Hodgson, n.d.; ? also in standard green [1858] (1830 as The Lost Heir) Two copies in Collection:(l)in white' fancy' boards, printed in green and black; Hodgson, n.d.: (2) in pictorial yellow-back boards; Hodgson title, Clarke endpapers, Darton on covers [1858] (1832) n.d. (1852) Original imprint Hodgson. Copy in Collection in pictorial yellowback boards; Darton, n.d. n.d. (1845) Darton & Co., first imprint [1859] (1848) [1858] (First French 1838) n.d.

(1831)

[1859] [1859] (1843)

First edition of this story

[1859] (1847) [1859] (First French 1853) Copies in Collection in pictorial yellow-back boards; Darton, n.d. throughout [1859] (First French 1853) Copies in Collection in pictorial yellow-back boards; Darton, n.d. throughout

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LIBRARY M'Gauran Lover Mayne Reid Horace Smith

[3755a] 196 »Trial and Triumph 197 ?•(• Handy Andy . 198 f White Chief . PI. 14 199 Moneyed Man . 200 f Marrying Man . 201

*ELSTEY

or

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FOB

[1859] (1854) [1859] (1842) Also listed by Eng. Cat. as 276 [1859] (1855) [1859] (1841) Copy in Collection in pictorial yellow-back boards; Darton, n.d. throughout [?1859] (1841) [1859] First edition of this story

Smythies Anne Evans

LIFE

202 *Marmaduke Wyvil

H. W. Herbert

203 tLottery of Life 204 "("Outward Bound

Blessington Howard Sophia Kelly (Mrs Sherwood's daughter) Maxwell

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»RED

HAND

THE

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OF

THE FORD

OF

DEE

Stories of Peninsular War

207 •Fathers and Sons 208 F R E V E L A T I O N S O F

A CATHOLIC

Hook Maurice

[1860] (originally published by Colburn in 3 vols.) Imprint: Darton & Co. [1860] (1842) [I860] (1838) First edition of this story Im[1860] print: Darton & Co. [1860] (1837, as The Bivouac) Copy in the Collection pictorial yellowback boards, Clarke, n.d. throughout [1860] (1842) [I860] First edition of these stories

PRIEST

209 "¡"Love and Jealousy 210 •j"Ben Brace 211 •Say and Seal .

Mrs Trollope Chamier Wethereil (Susan Warner)

212 213 214 215 216

•("Twelve Months of Matrimony . Courtier "("Daughter of Night •Widow Barnaby

Anon Gore Fullom Mrs Trollope Warneford

217 218 219 220 221 222

•Vicar of Wrexhill

•TALES OF THE SQUADRON

SLAVE

Mrs Trollope St John t Cavendish Neale tConfessions of a Pretty Woman Pardoe •("Warning to Wives Anon [Smythies] •SKELETON IN EVERY HOUSE 'Waters' •MARY

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Curling

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*MY P R E T T Y

COUSIN

228 t R u t h 229

ROMANCE

OF COMMON

LIFE.

Mrs Grey Author of The Jilt [Smythies] Mrs Gaskell 'Waters'

158

[1860] (1848, as The Young Countess) [I860] (1836) Described as ' Copyright Edi[I860] tion', this is the first English edition. Imprint: C. H. Clarke [1860] ? [I860] (1847) Imprint: C. H. Clarke [1860] (1851) [I860] (1839) [1860] First edition of these stories. Imprint of Chas. H. Clarke [1860] (1837) [1860] First edition of this story [1860] (1831) [I860] (1846) [I860] (1847) First edition of these stories (see [I860] below «Unnumbered') First edition of this story. Copy [1860] in the Collection in pictorial yellow-back boards; Clarke, n.d. throughout [1860] (1858) Copy in the Collection in pictorial yellow-back boards; Clarke, n.d. throughout n.d. (First French 1844) Copy in Collection in pictorial yellow-backboards; Clarke, n.d.throughout. Half-title: 'Parlour Library c c x x v ' ; front cover and spine: 'Dumas' Historical Library' (?1857) n.d. [1860] First edition of this story n.d. n.d.

(1853) ? First edition of these stories. Copy in the Collection in pictorial yellow-back boards; Clarke, n.d. throughout

PARLOUR 230 fHalf Sisters 231

»COUNTESS

MIRANDA

232 tHead of the Family 233 »Daughters

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235 236 237 238 239

"{"Agatha's Husband »Chevalier tMary Barton . fLady Jane Grey j Half-Blood

240 FAMY

MOSS

241 »Wood-rangers . 2 4 2 "{"ALICE

LESLIE

243 "("Legends and Stories of Ireland. 244 »Jealous Wife . 245 "{"Madman of St James's 246 t White Wolf of Brittany 247 fBlsie Venner . 248

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249 tOlive 250 fOgilvies 251 »Rachel the Jewess 252 "j" Gambler's Wife 253 tCousin William 254 »Rival Beauties 255 fPeep o' Day . 256 257 258 259 260 261

»Roman Maiden "{"Parson's Daughter fGideon Giles, the Roper fPrecepts and Practice "{"Bushranger

Jewsbury P. B. St John

n.d. n.d.

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Muloch Mrs Grey 'Waters' (adapted from Duhamel) Muloch Mrs Thomson Mrs Gaskell T. Miller M. Reid (sic in English Cat.) P. B. St John

n.d. n.d. n.d.

(1851) (1847)

n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d.

(1853) (1844) (1848) (1840)

? First edition. Cannot trace

(? 1861) First edition (according to Alibone) dated 1860. This may be an error for 1861, and this an original issue n.d. (1860)

n.d.

n.d. n.d. n.d.

264 "{"Passion and Principle 265 »Captain Fancourt 266

? First edition of these stories. 3515 in Section II

Mayne Reid (trans, from Bellamare) First edition of this story [1861] P. B. St John Lover [1861] (1831-4) Pardoe [1861] (1847) ? First English edition Trans, from German of [1861] Philip Galen by T. H. ? First English edition Favel (? Feval) [1861] Holmes First English edition. First [1861] American 1861 First edition of this story [1861] Berwick n.d. (1850) Muloch n.d. (1849) ? First English edition. Sicard (trans, from n.d. Spanish of Gonzales) Mrs Grey n.d. (? 1835) Hook n.d. (1828, in Third Series of Sayings and Doings) n.d. (1848) Pardoe n.d. (1825, as John Doe in First Series of Banim Tales of the O'Hara Family) n.d. ? Rowcroft n.d. (1833) Hook n.d. (1840) Miller n.d. (1840) Hook n.d. (1846) Rowcroft Gore Hook

263 fGervase SkinneT

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262 fWoman of the World

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267 tCourtship and Wedlock 268 »Miser Lord (sequel to 224 above) 269 f J i l t . . . .

(1838) (1828, in Third Series of Sayings and Doings) (1825, in Second Series of Sayings and Doings) ? First edition

Millingen (author of Torres Vedras) 'Waters'

n.d. n.d.

?

Author of The Jilt Curling Author of The Flirt [Smythies]

n.d. n.d. n.d.

(1850) (1859) (1844)

159

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270 •Lottery of Marriage 271 • T I G E R - H U N T E R 272 •Soldier Monk . 273 •Fair Rosamund 274 •He would be a Gentleman 275 •Jack Brag 276?tHandy Andy . 277 Hinchbridge Haunted .

278 • ?Recollections of a Detective Police Officer

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279

'Waters'

R O M A N C E OF M I L I T A R Y L I F E

Unnumbered

A Skeleton in Every House (formerly 222)

Weldon Series (1876-1877) 1 Cheveley 2 Lottery of Marriage 3 Outlaw 4 Margaret Maitland 5 Rectory Guest 6 Courtier 7 Heir of Wast Wayland 8 Consuelo 9 Godfrey Malvern 10 Chevalier

[37556]

Mrs Trollope Mayne Reid (trans. from Bellamare) Berkeley T. Miller Lover Hook Lover Author of The Green Hand (Cupples)

B.

n.d. (1849) [1862] ? n.d. n.d. (1839) [1862] (1844, [1862] (1837) [1862] (1842) 1863 (1859)

Imprint: Darton & Hodge First edition of this story. Imprint: Darton & Hodge Imprint: Darton & Hodge Imprint: Darton & Hodge

See 197 above Copy in Collection in pictorial yellow-back boards; Darton and Hodge throughout, and dated [1863] (1856) Number lacking from bound copy in Collection, but imprint Darton & Hodge, n.d. ? First edition of these stories. Copy in Collection in pictorial yellow-back boards; Darton & Hodge, n.d. throughout Copy in Collection in pictorial yellow-back boards; Darton & Co. (42 Paternoster Row, late of Holborn Hill), throughout, n.d. Series title on half-title and spine but no number

'Waters'

Lady Bulwer Lytton Mrs Trollope Mrs Hall Mrs Oliphant Mrs Grey Mrs Gore Mrs Howitt George Sand Thomas Miller Mrs Thomson

Large format. Weldon & Co., n.d. Spine block as used from 229, but no series half-title. On verso of title: 'Parlour Library: new and Improved Edition'. The list opposite, including numbers, is taken from an advert, of late 1876. The only specimen in the Collection (or seen by me) is No. 6, which actual volume is not numbered. Of the ten titles here given Nos. 1, 5 and 9 had not previously appeared in the Parlour Library. The Series title seems to have been soon dropped, for my copy of Cheveley in yellowback form (Weldon, n.d.) is labelled 'Weldons 2/- Series' and carries a list of 26 titles facing title-page, of which Nos. 1-10 are as here given.

PARLOUR LIBRARY: NEW ISSUE

1869-1870

In the late sixties the right to use the series title P A R L O U R L I B R A R Y was acquired by Ward, Lock & Tyler, and in 1869 three different editions were announced—one at two shillings per volume, one at one shilling and one at sixpence. The publishers' pronouncement (which combines a well-merited tribute to Simms & M' Intyre with considerable sanctimony) reads: ' Probably no Series of Novels ever published attained more universal acceptance than those published in the P A R L O U R L I B R A R Y . First in quality, as a series largest in quantity, and comprising the most Popular Works of the most successful Novelists, the P A R L O U R L I B R A R Y took and held a leading position which excited the envy and aroused the imitativeness of the Publishing Trade. An over-stocked market was the natural result. Time, however, which tries all things, has demonstrated the necessity for Cheap and Good Books, such as the P A R L O U R L I B R A R Y only admitted, and such as it is intended henceforth to produce. 'These Books will be chosen with the most scrupulous care and Parents may order them for their children with unqualified confidence in their perfect suitability for family perusal.' Whether the Two Shilling Series ever appeared, I cannot say. I have never seen a specimen nor found an advertisement of it. That I can give the first 20 titles of the Shilling Series and the first 23 of the Sixpenny Series is due to advertisements on the back of the single specimen of each, which is all I have 160

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ever been able to find. The scarcity of these books (as great as that of Ward & Lock's S H I L L I N G is very remarkable, and one wonders whether the stock was destroyed in a warehouse fire or was overtaken by some other disaster. VOLUME SERIES)

PARLOUR LIBRARY: SHILLING SERIES (1869-1870)

[37556(i)]

White paper wrappers, cut flush, printed in black and two colours (the only specimen seen is in black, scarlet and yellow, and presumably other volumes showed other combinations) with—on front, a woodengraved drawing, title, author and series title; on spine up-lettered with title and series title; on back printed in black with a list of the series. The books are undated, but to the best of my knowledge all appeared in 1869 and 1870. Certainly the titles which follow were on the market by July 1870 as they were advertised in Belgravia for that month, and as the same list was advertised in February 1874 I presume that no further titles were published. Only No. 20 is in the Collection. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Lady Goodchild's Fairy Ring (A Collection of Fairy Tales) *Cynthia Thorold (by the author of ' Whitefriars'—Emma Robinson) »Leonard Harlow ('Waters') *Blow Hot, Blow Cold (Augustus Mayhew) *The Round of Wrong (About) Recollections of an Irish Police Magistrate (Addison). First published 1862. 3518 in Section II Autobiography of a French Detective (edited Wraxall). First published 1862. 3514 in Section II »Something to Laugh At (Anon) *The Funny Fellow (Anon) Dick Diminy, The Jockey (C. J. Collins) *Make Your Game (Sala). First published 1860. 3676 in Section II The Greek Brigand (illustrated by Dore) *Hunted to Death (W. S. Hayward) *The Chain of Destiny (Vane St John) *Memoirs of a Lady in Waiting (Aylmer) Which Wins, Love or Money? (Emma Robinson) Rev. Alfred Hoblush and his Curacies (Percy Fitzgerald) Clever Jack (Anon) *The Night Mail (Percy Fitzgerald) *Storm-Beaten, by Robert Buchanan and Charles Gibbon

Titles asterisked previously appeared in Ward «feLock'ssHiLLiNGvoLUMELiBRARY. 3711 in Section II PARLOUR LIBRARY: S I X P E N N Y SERIES (1869-1870)

[37556(ii)]

White paper wrappers, cut flush, printed in black and two colours (the only specimen seen is in black, green and yellow) with wood-engraved drawing etc. uniform with the Shilling Series. The books are undated, but Mr Ralph Straus tells me that all up to No. 16 at any rate were published in 1869, and the entire list which follows was advertised in Belgravia for July 1870. The same list was advertised in February 1874, which suggests that no further titles were published. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

The Young Lady's Book of Tales The Boy's Own Book of Tales *The Ship-Chandler (Sala) The Family Credit (Westland Marston) *The Filibuster (Albany Fonblanque) Cruise of the Blue Jacket (Lieutenant Warneford, R.N.) Undiscovered Crimes ('Waters'). First published 1862. 3538 in Section II *Lady Lorme (Annie Thomas) Mutiny of the Saturn (Lieutenant Warneford, R.N.)

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10 The Fair of Emy Vale (Carleton). See 501 in Section I 11 »Perfidy of Captain Slyboots (Sala) 12 Give a Dog a Bad Name, And ' (Albany Fonblanque) 13 The Wife's Portrait (Westland Marston) 14 Mrs Waldegrave's Will (Albany Fonblanque) 15 »Experiences of a Real Detective ("Waters') 16 The Late Mr D , and Other Tales. By G. A. Sala 17 The Book of Moral Tales 18 The Girl's Own Book of Tales 19 The Little Red Man, and Other Fairy Tales. 20 *The Silver Acre (Carleton). See 513 in Section I 21 The Dream and the Waking (Annie Thomas) 22 The Valazy Family ('Waters') 23 Turf Characters Titles asterisked previously appeared in Ward & Lock's s H I L L I N G v o L u M E L I B R A R Y. 3711 in Section I I

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PARLOUR LIBRARY

BYE-PRODUCTS

As soon as the P A R L O U R L I B R A R Y was well-established, Simms & M'Intyre invented and launched other series, of which some particulars can suitably be given in order to round off this account of the firm's meteoric years of publishing.

[3756a] PI. 14

A.

PARLOUR L I B R A R Y OF INSTRUCTION (non-fiction)

Published at one shilling in small 8vo, bound in pink glazed boards printed in black with the same pictorial design as on the P A R L O U R L I B R A R Y . Spines plainly up-lettered. Back covers printed with adverts. Volumes not numbered in series. Decorative series title (as in P A R L O U R L I B R A R Y ) precedes printed title. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Autobiography of Chateaubriand, Vol. Memoirs of my Youth, by Lamartine Autobiography of Chateaubriand, Vol. Autobiography of Chateaubriand, Vol. Autobiography of Chateaubriand, Vol. Autobiography of Chateaubriand, Vol.

I 1849 1849 I I 1849 I l l 1849 IV 1849 V (not in the Collection)

I doubt if the series went beyond this point, unless there appeared a sixth volume of Chateaubriand. Both the works in the series were first English translations. Mémoires d'Outre Tombe were published in Paris in 12 vols, during 1849-50 while an announcement of the Lamartine in Chateaubriand, Vol. I, states that the work ' is now being issued in Paris under the title of " Memoirs of My Youth " and will be published in the P A R L O U R L I B R A R Y O F I N S T R U C T I O N immediately upon its completion in the original'.

[37566] PL 14

B.

PARLOUR BOOK CASE (non-fiction)

Published at eighteenpence, crown 8vo, bound in pale yellow glazed boards printed in red, brown and blue with arabesque design framing lettering (including series title) on front, spine and back. Yellow end-papers printed with adverts. The volumes are numbered in the series both on front cover and half-title. Titles asterisked are not in the collection. 1 Across the Rocky Mountains, by William Kelly March 1, 1852 2 *A Panorama of St Petersburg, by J. G. Kohl April 1, 1852 3 The Italian Sketch Book, by Fanny Lewald May 1, 1852 162

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AND

A Stroll Through the Diggings of California, by William Kelly Life in Mexico, by Madame Calderon July 1, 1852 ""Remarkable Events in the Career of Napoleon Aug. 1, 1852 *The Glacier Land, by A. Dumas Sept. 1, 1852 Voices from Captivity, by Rev. J. R. Beard Oct. 1, 1852 C.

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June 1, 1852

B O O K S F O R T H E P E O P L E (fiction)

Published at sixpence in small 8vo, bound in pale yellow glazed boards printed in black—on front with decorative frame (same block as used on series title of Parlour Library of Instruction) and lettering; on spine with scroll-pattern (no lettering) ; on back cover with advert. Volumes not numbered in series. Three specimens are in the Collection (marked with a dagger), each dated 1852 and each carrying the same advert, on back of titles ' already published '. The books are actually portions O Î P A R L O U R L I B R A R Y (or P A R L O U R N O V E L I S T ) volumes and are not re-foliated. So far as possible I have indicated the parent volume in the list which follows : Angela (from the German by Mary Howitt) \ p r o m p L 75 fCastle of Fools (from the German by Mary Howitt)/ Tracy's Ambition (Griffin)} ^ r o m

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62

Card-Drawing (Griffin)} F r ° m P L " 1 5 Northanger Abbey (Austen) j F r o m P L 4 7 Persuasion (Austen) / •fCrohoore of the Bill Hook (Banim)\ j r r o m p N j fFetches (Banim) / Spectre Guest (Zschokke) ? From P.N. 13 Country Stories (Mitford) From P.L. 39 Priest and the Garde du Corps (Grattan)j p r o m p L 17 Vouée au Blanc (Grattan) / Inheritance (Topffer) 1 F r o m p L 27 Great Saint Bernard etc. (Topffer)/ Love and Duty (Marsh) j F r o m p L g 6 Country Vicarage (Marsh)/ Soldier's Fortune (Marsh) \ j?rom p l Professional Visits of Le Docteur Noir etc. (Marsh)/

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ROMANCIST, AND NOVELIST'S LIBRARY, THE 1839-1840. The Best Works of the Best Authors. ('Edited by William Hazlitt' on title-pages of Vols. H I , IV) 4 vols, large 4to. J . Clements, 21-22 Little Pulteney Street 1839 (1 and 11), 1840 (111 and iv). Navy blue fine-ribbed cloth, embossed front, back and spine, gold-lettered on front and spine. Light green glazed end-papers. Vol.1 (iv) + 412 Vol. I l l (iv) + (412) I I (iv) + 412 IV (iv) + (412) Book-plate of Thomas Inglis, M.D. in Vols. 1, 111, iv. [FIRST SERIES.]

Notes, (i) This work appeared in twopenny weekly parts, numbered 1 to 104, each of 16 pp., except the last half-yearly part (i.e. the last part in each volume) which was of 12 pp. and probably printed with the prelims. (ii) Vol. 11 is dedicated to the 'Author of Eugene Aram' and Vol. iv contains an 'Address' forecasting the Second (8vo) Series. 163

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(iii) The Contents of these four volumes merit careful study. From the point of view of the Gothic Romance (which, as a dominant taste in fiction, had died twenty-five years earlier) the selection is of great value as evidence of the survival and otherwise of individual reputations. CONTENTS Vol.I Lewis: Bravo of Venice Mary Shelley: A Tale of the Passions Walpole: Castle of Otranto Marmontel: Misanthrope Corrected Lewis: Mistrust or Blanche and Osbright Leigh Hunt: The Florentine Lovers Ann Radcliffe: The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne Henry Mackenzie: The Story of La Roche de Mendoza: Lazarillo de Tormes Goethe: A Love Tale Ann Radcliffe: The Sicilian Romance Anon: The Palisadoes: a Tale of the Hudson Anon: The Spy and the Traitor: a Tale of the American War Clara Reeve: The Old English Baron Bernardin St Pierre (sic): Paul and Virginia Shelley: Zastrozzi Marmontel: The Shepherdess of the Alps Napoleon (The Emperor): Julio or the Force of Destiny Defoe: Captain Singleton Lewis: The Anaconda Goldsmith: The Vicar of Wakefield Anon: The Convict Mme Cottin: Elizabeth or the Exiles of Siberia [J. F. Kind]: Der Freischütz. From the German Anon: The Midnight Embrace in the Halls of Werdendorff Anon: Eccentricities of Colonel David Crockett of West Tennessee Dumas: Pascal Bruno (specially translated for R. and N.L.) Anon: Jamie Loon: a Tale of America Anon: The Diamond Watch Lamb: Rosamund Gray Frances Sheridan: History of Nourjahad Anon: The Husband's Revenge or the Confession of Richard Price Anon: The Lovers of Vire d'Arlincourt: The Renegade or The Moors in France (specially translated for R. and N.L.) Henry Mackenzie: Louisa Venoni Elizabeth Inchbald: Nature and Art Mrs S. C. Hall: The Redderbrae Prince Puckler Muskau: A Cross Bones, a Tale of Galway W. B. MacCabe: The Ghost of KiJsheelan Anon: The Bottle Imp: a Tale from the German Anon: Nicolas Pedrosa Anon: The Pirate Captain J. A. St John: Hell's Hollow Prof. Ingraham: The Snow Pile Mrs Parsons: The Castle of Wolfenbach 164

Anon: The Dean of Badajoz: a Spanish Tale Henry Mackenzie: The Man of Feeling Anon: The Romance of a Day Dr Johnson: Anningait and Ajut [W. G. Simms]: Martin Faber: the Story of a Criminal (by the author of 'Yemassee', 'Pelayo the Goth', etc.) Anon: The Pirate's Treasure Vol. n Hugo: Notre Dame de Paris (specially translated for R. and N. L. ' with the addition of several chapters that have not been given in any former translation'') Anon: The Spectre Barber: a Tale of the Sixteenth Century Anon: The Czar and the Czarowitz: a Russian Story Anon: Gondibert: a Tale of the Middle Ages Anon: The Spectre Unmasked Karl von Miltig: The Twelve Nights Ann Radcliffe: The Romance of the Forest Cervantes: La Gitana: or the Little Gipsy Washington Irving: The Young Robber Anon: The Two Rings: a French Tale Paul de Kock: The Barber of Paris (specially translated for R. and N.L.) William Jerdan: The Sleepless Woman Stephen Cullen: The Haunted Priory or the Fortunes of the House of Rayo Alan Cunningham: Gowden Gibbie Anon: The Bohemian Mrs Sedgwick: Three Experiments of Living Charles Brockden Brown: Edgar Huntly or the Sleep-Walker Leigh Hunt: Ronald of the Perfect Hand James Hogg: The Bogle o' the Brae Anon: The Cypress Crown or the Murderer's Doom Anon: Doukanji and the Dervish, a Turkish Tale Goethe: Antonelli Anon: The Devil's Ladder of the Gnomes of Redrich Miss Sedgwick: Home Fennimore (sic) Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans Washington Irving: The Enchanted Island Leigh Hunt: The Daughter of Hippocrates Anon: The Cobbler of Bagdad Maturin: The Wild Irish Boy Leigh Hunt: Galgano and Madonna Minoccia vol. m Schiller: The Ghost Seer Zschokke: The Dead Ghost (translated by Julia Sinnett) J. N. Reynolds: Mocha Dick: or the White Whale of the Pacific Anon: Robin Hood Anon: The Magic Dollar

ROMANCIST, Mrs S. C. Hall: The Drowned Fisherman Anon: The Field of Terror Anon: Rip van Winkle Lewis: Amorassan Leigh Hunt: Adventures of Cephalus and Procris W. Herbert: Ella Rosenberg Anon: The Sexton of Cologne R. H. Home: Wolmar, a German Legend Leigh Hunt: The Nurture of Triptolemus Shelley: St Irvyne Anon: Lorenzo or the Robber Leigh Hunt: The Fair Revenge Anna Maria Porter: Walsh Colville Lamb: The Tempest, a Tale from Shakespeare R. H. Home: The Last Scene of a Miser's Tragedy James Hogg: The Laidlaws and the Scotts Florian: Gonzalvo of Cordova (translated by George Frederick Smith) Anon: Kester Hobson, a Tale of the Yorkshire Wolds Anon: Count Roderico's Castle of Gothic Times (author unknown. Also wrote The Carpenter's Daughter of Derham Down) Egerton Brydges: Mary de Clifford Patrick Byrne: James FitzJames Schiller: The Sport of Destiny (specially translated for R. and N.L. and signed 'F. W.' at end) Bernardin de St Pierre: The Indian Cottage Anon: Nannie or a Tale of the Coral Ring Washington Irving: The Abencerages Paul de Kock: Andrew the Savoyard (translated by William Hazlitt) Duchess de Duras: Ourika or the Negress (from the French) Polidori: The Vampyre Ann Radcliffe: The Italian Hugo: Hans of Iceland A. Morton: The Two Hunchbacks of Bagdad Anon: The Pedestrian ' Dr Moore': The Post Captain or The Wooden Walls Well Manned (here attributed to the author of Zeluco: actually by John Davis, 678 in Section I ) Anon: The Orphan of Bollenbach or Polycarp the Adventurer Anon: Julia or the Victim of Indiscretion

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Vol. IV Francis Glasse: Joe Oxford or the Runaway (The Preface to Vol. I I announces this feature of the R. and N.L. in such a way as to suggest that it will there appear for the first time. Glasse is described as the author of 'New Clinton' and 'Andrew Winpenny') Christian Simplicius: The Village Pastor (specially translated for R. and N.L.) Anon: Head Quarters or The Elective Franchise; a Sketch of Long Island Anon: Calum Dhu, a Highland Tale Anon: The Betrothed Elizabeth Helme: St Clair of the Isles (Miss Sedgwick): Elinor Fulton Leigh Hunt: The Beau Miser Anon: The Last of the Grays: a Tale William Maginn: A Vision of Purgatory Anon: The Midnight Murder (Teuthold): The Necromancer Anon: Sir Edmund, a Fragment Anon: The Mysterious Tailor, a Romance of High Holborn Cazotte: Pleasure, an Allegory Anon: Oliver and Isabella Elizabeth Inchbald: A Simple Story Marmontel: Lauretta Lamb: A Midsummer Night's Dream, a Tale from Shakespeare Regina Maria Roche: The Children of the Abbey John Leland: Longsword, Earl of Salisbury Marmontel: Friendship put to the Test Anon: The Deserters Anon: Hans Carvel (Longueville): The English Hermit Lamb: The Winter's Tale, a Tale from Shakespeare Anon: Azmoloch or The Castle of Linden-Woolfe Balzac: Ginevra del Piombo John Palmer: The Haunted Cavern Lamb: Much Ado About Nothing, a Tale from Shakespeare Anon: The Treacherous Friend

1841-1842

This took the form of a series of 32 pp. 8vo parts, first collected into four volumes over the imprint of John Clements, Little Pulteney Street and dated 1841 (i-iii), 1842 (iv) and then ultimately appearing as independent wrappered fictions, each with its own title-page and sold separately. Vol. I Maturin: Fatal Revenge. ' Published by J. Clements... for the Proprietors of the Romancist and Novelist's Library' 1840. pp. (256) Vulpius: Rinaldo Rinaldini: Captain of Banditti. 1841. pp. 136 Hon. Judge Thompson: May Martin or The Money Diggers 1841 and Tyrone Power: The Gipsy of the Abruzzo. pp. 48 + 16 Andrew Picken: The Deerstalkers of Glenskiach 1840 and Lewis: My Uncle's Garret Window 1841. pp. 54 + 20 The second story has its own title-page. 165

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Vol. H W. G. Simms: Guy Rivers, The Outlaw, a Tale of Georgia 1841 and John Gait: The Fatal Whisper 1841. pp. (214)+ (10) The second story has its own title-page. Francis W . Thomas: Howard Pinckney 1841. pp. (160) J. Fennimore (sic) Cooper: Imagination, a Tale for Young Women, pp. (32) The over-all Contents List states (probably truly) that this tale has never before been published in England. It was first published in New York in 1823 as by 'Jane Morgan'. De la Motte Fouque: Undine (translated by Rev. Thomas Tracy) 1841 and Quevedo: Paul the Spanish Sharper (translated by John Stevens) 1841 and Henry L. Tuckerman: The Sad Bird of the Adriatic 1841 and John Gait: Haddah Ben Ahab (1841). pp. (50) + (60) +10 + 4 These four stories spread over four parts. The first three have their own title-page. The Gait story is described in the over-all Contents List as Copyright, vol. m Francis Glasse: Andrew Whinpenny, Count de Deux Sous 1841. pp. (224) Described as ' A New Work, never before published'. Veit Weber: Woman's Revenge OT the Tribunal of Blood 1841 and A. Morton: The Charmed Scarf 1841 and These three stories Schiller: The Criminal 1841. pp. 42+ 8 + (14) (translated expressly for the R.