548 549 550 551 552 553 554 A FAMOUS SERIES OF LETTERS THE SWINBURNE-SHEPHERD CORRESPONDENCE SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES. A SERIES OF ELEVEN AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, SIGNED, WRITTEN BY SWINBURNE TO R. H. SHEPHERD, FROM JULY 10TH TO OCTOBER 19TH (1874). 45 pp., 8vo, laid in and bound in green morocco by Bedford. $1400.00 R. H. Shepherd was the editor of "The Works of George Chapman," and the above letters relate to Swinburne's contribution "An Essay on the Poetical and Dramatic Works of George Chapman." VERY INTERESTING AND IMPORTANT LITERARY LETTERS. SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES. A. L. S. 2 pp., 8vo; 25 Guilford Street, Russell Square (London), Aug. 15th (1878). $75.00 A REMARKABLE LETTER WRITTEN IN HIS BOLDEST HANDWRITING: "I never wrote anything in prose on the late unlamented Louis Iscariot, otherwise known to infamy as Judas Bonaparte. I did write some sonnets on his accursed life & miserable death." etc. SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES. A. L. S. 2 pp., 8vo. The Pines, Putney Hill, S. W. Dec. 13, '83, to Miss Jones. $65.00 A curiously interesting letter regarding borrowed books and the return of one. Many odd volumes, more precious than this-which, nevertheless, I am very glad and grateful to receive that are gone from my shelves I know not whither. etc. TASSO, TORQUATO. Aminta: the Famous Pastoral. Translated into English Verse by John Dancer. 12mo, dark green levant morocco, g. e. London: John Starkey, 1660. $25.00 PRESENTED BY BAYARD TAYLOR TAYLOR, BAYARD. Joseph and His Friend. A Story of Pennsylvania. 8vo, original cloth, New York: Putnam, 1870. $45.00 "Hannah M. Darlington from PRESENTATION COPY inscribed: TAYLOR, BAYARD. Home Pastorals, Ballads and Lyrics. 12mo, salmon cloth. Boston 1875. THE FIRST EDITION. $35.00 PRESENTATION COPY inscribed: "Udo Brachvogel, from his friend Bayard Taylor. Oct., 1877." TAYLOR, J. BAYARD. Views A-Foot; or Europe seen with Knapsack and Staff. 8vo, original cloth, uncut. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1847. THE FIRST EDITION. $45.00 PRESENTATION COPY inscribed: "C. F. Hoffmann with the sincere regards of J. Bayard Taylor, New York, Aug. 24, 1847.” 555 556 557 AN IMMACULATE COPY OF POEMS BY TWO BROTHERS [TENNYSON, ALFRED.] Poems, by Two Brothers. 12mo, original drab boards, with white paper label, uncut, enclosed in leather slip case. London: Printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. and J. and J. Jackson, Louth: 1827. $340.00 The extremely rare first appearance in book form of Lord Tennyson's AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPIES OF TENNYSON 12mo, original purple cloth, uncut, enclosed in brown morocco solander London, 1850. case. $75.00 THE FIRST ISSUE OF FIRST EDITION. Tennyson's autograph laid in. "A. Tennyson, Shiplake, Oxon. Nov. 22d, '52." PRESENTED TO CHARLES HAY CAMERON TENNYSON, ALFRED. Poems. 12mo, green morocco, g. e., enclosed in morocco solander case. London, 1858. $250.00 PRESENTATION COPY inscribed: "Charlie Hay Cameron from A. Tennyson." INSCRIBED COPY WITH A PHOTOGRAPH 558 TENNYSON, ALFRED. Enoch Arden, etc. original green cloth, uncut. London, 1867. 559 THE FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY inscribed: "Ellen Ottigrave. A. Tennyson." Laid in is an old photograph of Tennyson. A REMARKABLE TENNYSON ALBUM TENNYSON, ALFRED. AN INTERESTING TENNYSONIAN ALBUM, CONSISTING OF 12 autograph letters, signed, of Lord Tennyson's. 15 pp., 8vo. Autograph letter (3rd person), 1 p., 8vo. Porton of an unpublished MS. of Lord Tennyson's. 1 p., small folio. 11 autograph letters, signed, of various members of Tennyson's family, all relating to him or his books. 14 autograph letters, signed, of Richard Doyle, G. F. Watts, Ellen Terry, Holman Hunt, Lansdowne, Ashburton, etc., referring to Tennyson. 2 original sketches of the poet. $1800.00 This is undoubtedly one of the finest collection of Tennyson's letters in existence. These letters are not the usual 3 line letters of which Tennyson wrote so many, but the long gossipy ones of which he wrote so few. "You are welcome to my 'LIGHT BRIGADE' whenever you want it for your other volume. I see that ancient Pistol, my ex-publisher, has been attacking me thro' his bully in Temple Bar: I hope he feels easier for it." POEMS, BY TWO BROTHERS. HÆC NOS NOVIMUS ESSE NIHIL.”---Martial. LONDON: PRINTED FOR W. SIMPKIN AND B. MARSHALL, STATIONERS'-ĦALL-COURT; AND J. AND J. JACKSON, Louth. MDCCCXXVII. Facsimile of title page of No. 555 560 561 562 563 TENNYSON, ALFRED. A. L. S. 1 p., 8vo. Faringford, I. W., Nov. 18, '66, to "My dear Chapman." $90.00 "My wife & I have just returned from a short tour into Surrey-she, I am sorry to say, with an inflammation of the right eye, so that she can neither read & write. Many thanks for your note & the Banking Book & to Mr. Kent for his services: we shall like to know what we owe him besides thanks." . . .etc. A LETTER ABOUT "IN MEMORIAM" TENNYSON, ALFRED. A. L. S. 11⁄2 pp., 12mo, Cheltenham, July 17th (no year), to Moxon the publisher, with portrait. $100.00 "Would you send a handsomely bound copy of In Memoriam to my Aunt, Mrs. Russell, of 17, Lansdowne Place, Cheltenham, as soon as you can. My wife sends her regards to you and hopes to make your acquaintance." etc. THE BOOKS OF THACKERAY THACKERAY, WM. M. Men of Character. By Douglas THE 12 ILLUSTRATIONS IN THIS BOOK ARE BY THACKERAY. ence. THACKERAY, WM. M. The Yellowplush Correspond8vo, original brown boards, cloth back, with paper label, enclosed in a green morocco case. Philadelphia: E. L. Carey & A. Hart, 1838. Thackeray's first separately printed production. $65.00 563b ANOTHER COPY in marbled boards with morocco back. $50.00 WITH EIGHTEEN PLATES 564 565 THACKERAY, WM. M. Addison, Charles G. Damascus and Palmyra: a Journey to the East. With a Sketch of the State and Prospects of Syria, under Ibrahim Pasha. By Charles G. Addison. Two volumes, 8vo, original green cloth. London: Richard Bentley, 1838. $375.00 CONTAINS 18 ILLUSTRATIONS BY THACKERAY SHOWING EASTERN COSTUMES. ONLY A FEW COPIES KNOWN WITH EIGHTEEN PLATES, as the usual edition contains but ten illustrations. THE ANTI-CORN LAW CIRCULAR THACKERAY, WM. M. The Anti-Corn Law Circular No. 1, Tuesday, April 16, 1839. to No. 57, Thursday, April 8, 1841. 4to, full levant morocco. $187.50 THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE RENT LAW ARE BY THACKERAY. 566 567 568 569 570 571 THE CORSAIR, CONTAINING EIGHT ARTICLES BY THACKERAY THACKERAY, WM. M. The Corsair. A Gazette of Literature, Art, Dramatic Criticism, Fashion and Novelty. Quarto, 52 weekly numbers of vol. 1 bound in dark blue levant morocco. New York . . 1839-40. $250.00 Thackeray contributed eight articles to this publication. It is excessively rare. THACKERAY, WM. M. Comic Tales and Sketches. THACKERAY, WM. M. The Irish Sketch Book. By Mr. M. A. Titmarsh. WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD, DRAWN BY THE AUTHOR. Two volumes, 8vo, original green cloth. London: Chapman and Hall, 1843. $75.00 THACKERAY, WM. M. The Keepsake, 1849. Edited by the Countess of Blessington. (Containing "An Interesting Event.") The Keepsake, 1851. Edited by Miss Power. (Containing "Voltigeur.") Bound together, 8vo, in olive levant morocco and enclosed in a cloth case. $40.00 THACKERAY, WM. M. An Interesting Event. By M. A. Titmarsh. London: David Bogue, 1849. 12mo, original sheets, uncut. A SUPERB VOLUME. $80.00 THACKERAY PRESENTATION COPY WITH AUTOGRAPH VERSES THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE. "Our Street." 8vo, original green morocco, bound together for Thackeray and On page 49 of "Dr. Birch," Thackeray has inscribed an ORIGINAL "Although I enter not Yet round the spot Sometimes I hover. And at the sacred gate With eager eyes I wait This intensely interesting copy was exhibited in the recent Thackeray exhibition in London. (No. 14.) WE KNOW OF NO OTHER PRESENTATION COPY OF THACKERAY'S WITH SUCH AN ALLURING AND INTERESTING INSCRIPTION. |