1896, ISBN: 6d9fd3b0458811a7c07a3bf43a036db0

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London : Nichols and Son, 1812. Leather. Very Good. 6.5" by 4". None. A scarce set of The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Verse and Prose with a Selection of Explanatory Notes and Acco… More...

London : Nichols and Son, 1812. Leather. Very Good. 6.5" by 4". None. A scarce set of The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Verse and Prose with a Selection of Explanatory Notes and Account of his Life by Dr. Johnson First edition thus. Seemingly the first edition to contain solely the notes of Samuel Johnson and The Life of the Author in this form. In eight volumes complete. With an engraved portrait of Pope to frontispiece to volume one. 'In this edition, it has been attempted to give (what the Public has long demanded) a correct text of Pope's works, in which the reader's attention is not divided, or his feelings interrupted, by the discordance of critical disputes and fanciful opinions, such Notes only having been preserved as are necessary to explain ambiguities in the text, or afford some information respecting the characters. The notes of Pope himself, being of this description, are generally retained... To the Life, written by Dr. Johnson, several particulars have been added from subsequent biographers.' London, December 1811. Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744) was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. Famous for his use of the heroic couplet, he is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson. Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. In straight-grain morocco bindings. Externally, generally smart but with slight wear to extremities and odd marks to boards. Four hinges strained. Internally, firmly bound. Bright but with offsetting to title to volume one, occasional spotting and handling marks. Very Good, Nichols and Son, 1812, 3, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme 1825 [the Kemble], Henry Colburn, 1827 [ the Siddons]. First editions. 4 volumes 8vo (9 1/8 x 6 inches),pages: 477 & 595 and 382:2 (ads.) & 394:(6,ads.). Uniformly & finely bound later three-quarter polished tan calf over marbled boards, spines gilt ruled in 4 compartments and gilt lettered direct, top edges gilt. The bindings by Root & Son. A handsome binding in excellent condition. Both works extra illustrated as under:The Kemble is extra illustrated with portraits, including the very rare series of 8 portraits of Kemble in the roles of Coriolanus, Hamlet, Macbeth, King John, Cato, Hotspur, The Stranger, & Penruddock. These drawn on Stone by Richard J Lane from Pictures painted in his Lifetime by John Boaden. Published by J. Dickinson 114 New Bond Street, Oct.1st 1826; these on India Paper, with the original wrapper and "Advertisement" leaf bound-in [very rare, only 2 copies cited on Copac]. Also bound-in an autograph letter signed by John Philip Kemble, undated , to John Litchfield, Covent Garden "I send you volumes 59-60, I will be obliged to you for the others 58-59 as soon as you can conveniently...beacause I have promised them to Mr Reed who has some point to settle on their authority". The volumes mentioned identified in another hand as "Refers to Volumes of the Play Bills". The Mr Reed refered to is identified as Isaac Reed the Shakespeare editor. Also bound in an autograph letter signed from James Boaden himself to J. B. Nichols [ John Bowyer Nichols 1779-1863, publisher], 26th January 1835: "Another Literary Labour in vain has compelled me again to address the Literary Fund. My friend Fallowfield tells me he has resigned his situation as Registrar and so loses his seat on the Committee...........I write to my old friend George Woodfall who I am sure feels very sincerely for my sad reverse in life which nobody is better acquainted with, and the causes of it....."etc. With a sort lette from Wm. Fallowfield also bound-in. With a few other MS pieces, a 3-page manuscript list of portraits of Kemble etc. The front blanks with extensive notes in pencil, some newspaper clippings at end.The Mrs Siddons has an additional portrait, a photograph of her monument and 2 autograph letters from James Boaden to J. B. Nichols (as before), one dated 25th May 1833 "....I venture to murmur in your ear that I have written an Historical Romance (the first I ever wrote) in Two Volumes. Now without putting my name, I shold like to try the effect, because hitherto I have been only critical, biographical and dramatical. Will you tell me whether it is worth trying and worth your while to undertake the trial. If it would be worth your notice, send your boy for it". 1-page 8vo. 36 Waterloo Road 25th May 1833.In the 2nd letter, also to Nichols, 1-page 4to, he writes ".........I have written a few notices which will make my first communication fuller and perhaps on the whole sufficient. I wrote for Mr. Colburn a Supplement to my Second Volume which he should send to you as a matter in course..........You could review it if you thought proper in the usual course of business........................I am not greatly admired among the present race of impudent Steam writers, whom such men as Johnson, Farmer, Stevens, or Malone would very properly send to study the elements of their profession. But the age has become sciolist in everything - Religion, Government, Law, Language, Morals, like the chattels of poor Jalfier [?] 'By the coarse hands of filthy dungeon villains, thrown amidst the common lumber'....Believe me at all times, My dear Sir, Yours faithfully". Some leaves of text at end of the volumes uniformly toned., Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme 1825 [the Kemble], Henry Colburn, 1827 [ the Siddons]., 0, 1891. Two Volumes in One (14 Issues in Total). Strand / London, "Song and Speech", 1891-1892. 18 cm x 24 cm. Volume 1: No.1-12, 192 pages / Followed by parts of Volume 2: No.13 - No.1: 16 pages, No.13 - No.2: 16 pages. With numerous black-and-white illustrations and photographs throughout. [The pagination of this periodical changed from original 16 pages per number at the beginning of Volume I, to 8 pages towards the end of the first Volume. With the start of Volume II , in 1892, the periodical changed again to 8 pages per issue and also changed its numbering. We were not able to verify if this magazine was published beyond the May - Issue of 1892]. Hardcover / Private, decoratived half-leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. With the very interesting provenance of two Welsh men of Carmarthen: Victorian photographer J.F.Lloyd and J.C.Portnell. Bound by: 'The "Welshman" Newspaper and Steam Printing Co. Lt., Bookbinders, Machine Rulers, & c., Carmarthen' - with their bookbindery-label on pastedown. Includes manuscript-draft of a speech on endpaper titled 'John Jones Chairman', written by photographer J.F.Lloyd, Carmarthen. The calligraphed titlepage of this privately bound compilation shows the watermark 'Annandale Polton', of 'Annandale and Polton Paper Mill Company', which operated from 1825 until after the Second World War. Contains hand-written note on Page 1, dated January 29, 1896, signed by Editor Josiah Richardson'. This note also contains the blindstamped address of Josiah Richardson at 'Gordon House, Wandsworth Common, S.W.'. In this note, Richardson telles the recipient that "I hope soon to go on with the publication of my Journal & should then be pleased to number you among my subscribers - Faithfully your Josiah Richardson". The date of this note leads to the assumption that by 1896, the magazine had already ceased to exist and Richardson answers to one of his fans by expressing his hope to go on. The Volume also includes a manuscript - Index to the rear of the Volume. A very rare and uncommmon compilation of this early Magazine, with very interesting articles from "Pronounciation in Singing" to "Alteration of Music by Singers" to "Vocal Physiology" (Breathing / Principle of Breathing etc.), to "Stammering" etc. This short lived periodical is striking for its excellent, in-depth articles on topics like "Voice Culture" (Lesson for the Month: Tone Formation) / "Sight Singing and Notation" / "Vocal Physiology" / "Something for the Children" / "Songs Worth Singing and How To Sing Them" / "Advice to Singers" / "Articulation for Singers" / "Concerning Critics" / "Concerning The Future of Song and Speech" / "Interviews with Leading Singers and Speakers""Lessons on Word Painting" / "British Dialects" (an article on the usefulness of knowing british dialects "to reciters and in a lesser degree to singers. In sustaining the various country characters so frequently introduced into plays and sketches) For example "Mid-Yorkshire Dialect"/ "Concerning Nervousness" / "Mark Anthony on the Death of Caesar - Shakespeare - A Study for Reciters" / Included are also Bookreviews on the topics of Song and Speech (For example "M.Bautain - Extempore Speaking" / Margaret H. Lawless - "Bring out your Dead" - A Study for Reciters / "Memorising" / "Celebrated Voices: Jenny Lind" / Biographical Sketch of "Miss Adey Brunel" (with a photograph of Adey Brunel playing the Guitar) / "Postures and Motions of the Hand" etc. etc. Josiah Richardson, the editor, was able to win over contributors from all fields of Song, Reciting and Speech-Therapy of the outgoing Victorian Era. Articles include: Howard Paul - "The Art of Making-Up" / E.Theodore Carrier - "Hymn Reading" / Concerning the Training of Children's Voices / Louisa S. Sandy - "The Dress of Lady Performers" / Biographical Sketch of Alfred George Cargill Gentry" (with a photograph) / "The Tonic Sol-fa Jubilee Festival" / "The Philosophy of Expression" / Dr. Hans Richter - "Musical Conductors" / "Concerning the Simian Tongue" / J.Harry Wheeler (Boston) - "Hints for Voice Training" / Walter Wadham - "Songs worth singing and how to sing them by the River" / Interviews with Leading Singers and Speakers: "Mr.William Nicholl" (Interviewed by Edwin Oliver) / A.T.Goodrich - "Style and Construction of Vocal Solos - Humorous or Buffo Songs" / "Pianoforte Accompanying" / "Original Recitations - Written or Arranged Expressly for "Song and Speech": "Betsy Prigg's Visit to Mrs. Gamp" / etc. etc., 1891, 0, London: J. Nichols and Son et al., 1813 . Leather. Very Good Indeed. 9" by 6". Not Stated. An exceptionally bright example of the scarce 1813 twenty-one volume set of the plays of Shakespeare, supplemented with a wealth of comments and critical notices. The very scarce complete 1813 twenty-one volume edition of the plays of Shakespeare. Referred to as the Reed Edition of 1813, this is also known as Johnson-Steevens-Reed 6, the "sixth edition" by Johnson-Steevens, or the "second variorum edition".With notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens, this edition was revised and augmented by Isaac Reed.Consisting of:Volume I - Prefatory material and critical analysis by Reed, Richardson, and Malone. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, and four plates.Volume II - Essays by Farmer, Colman, lists of Editions, lists of Criticism, Commendatory verses, Malones "Attempt to Ascertain the Order of Shakespeare's Plays," Malone's essay on Ford's pamphlet, Steevens's remarks on the same.Volume III - Malone's Historical Account of the English Stage, and the Further Historical Account by Chalmers. With four folding plates.Volume IV - The Tempest; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Midsummer Night's Dream. Volume V - Merry Wives of Windsor; Twelfth Night.Volume VI - Much Ado About Nothing; Measure for Measure.Volume VII - Love's Labour's Lost; Merchant of Venice.Volume VIII - As You Like It; All's Well That Ends Well.Volume IX - Taming of the Shrew; Winter's Tale.Volume X - Macbeth; King John.Volume XI - King Richard II; King Henry IV, Part 1. With a folding plate.Volume XII - King Henry IV, Part 2; King Henry V.Volume XIII - King Henry VI, Part 1; King Henry IV, Part 2.Volume XIV - King Henry VI, Part 3; Dissertation, &amp;c.; King Richard III.Volume XV - King Henry VIII; Troilus and Cressida.Volume XVI - Coriolanus; Julius Caesar.Volume XVII - Antony and Cleopatra; King Lear.Volume XVIII - Hamlet; Cymbeline.Volume XIX - Timon of Athens; Othello.Volume XX - Romeo and Juliet; Comedy of Errors. Volume XXI - Titus Andronicus; Pericles, and Dissertations; Addenda, and Glossarial Index.Illustrated with five plates, four folding letterpresses, and one further folding plate. Collated, complete.With a half title to each volume, and the inscription of Arnold Blake, 1886, to the half title of volume I.An exceptional example of this impressive work. Rebacked, in full calf bindings, retaining the original boards. Endpapers renewed. A touch of fading and light marks to back strips, otherwise externally excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Inscription to volume I half title, with leaf detaching to tail. Offsetting and light spotting to pages facing plates, with pages otherwise generally clean and bright. Very Good Indeed, J. Nichols and Son et al., 1813, 3<

1886, ISBN: 6d9fd3b0458811a7c07a3bf43a036db0

London: J. Nichols and Son et al., 1813 . Leather. Very Good Indeed. 9" by 6". Not Stated. An exceptionally bright example of the scarce 1813 twenty-one volume set of the plays of Shake… More...

London: J. Nichols and Son et al., 1813 . Leather. Very Good Indeed. 9" by 6". Not Stated. An exceptionally bright example of the scarce 1813 twenty-one volume set of the plays of Shakespeare, supplemented with a wealth of comments and critical notices. The very scarce complete 1813 twenty-one volume edition of the plays of Shakespeare. Referred to as the Reed Edition of 1813, this is also known as Johnson-Steevens-Reed 6, the "sixth edition" by Johnson-Steevens, or the "second variorum edition".With notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens, this edition was revised and augmented by Isaac Reed.Consisting of:Volume I - Prefatory material and critical analysis by Reed, Richardson, and Malone. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, and four plates.Volume II - Essays by Farmer, Colman, lists of Editions, lists of Criticism, Commendatory verses, Malones "Attempt to Ascertain the Order of Shakespeare's Plays," Malone's essay on Ford's pamphlet, Steevens's remarks on the same.Volume III - Malone's Historical Account of the English Stage, and the Further Historical Account by Chalmers. With four folding plates.Volume IV - The Tempest; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Midsummer Night's Dream. Volume V - Merry Wives of Windsor; Twelfth Night.Volume VI - Much Ado About Nothing; Measure for Measure.Volume VII - Love's Labour's Lost; Merchant of Venice.Volume VIII - As You Like It; All's Well That Ends Well.Volume IX - Taming of the Shrew; Winter's Tale.Volume X - Macbeth; King John.Volume XI - King Richard II; King Henry IV, Part 1. With a folding plate.Volume XII - King Henry IV, Part 2; King Henry V.Volume XIII - King Henry VI, Part 1; King Henry IV, Part 2.Volume XIV - King Henry VI, Part 3; Dissertation, &amp;c.; King Richard III.Volume XV - King Henry VIII; Troilus and Cressida.Volume XVI - Coriolanus; Julius Caesar.Volume XVII - Antony and Cleopatra; King Lear.Volume XVIII - Hamlet; Cymbeline.Volume XIX - Timon of Athens; Othello.Volume XX - Romeo and Juliet; Comedy of Errors. Volume XXI - Titus Andronicus; Pericles, and Dissertations; Addenda, and Glossarial Index.Illustrated with five plates, four folding letterpresses, and one further folding plate. Collated, complete.With a half title to each volume, and the inscription of Arnold Blake, 1886, to the half title of volume I.An exceptional example of this impressive work. Rebacked, in full calf bindings, retaining the original boards. Endpapers renewed. A touch of fading and light marks to back strips, otherwise externally excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Inscription to volume I half title, with leaf detaching to tail. Offsetting and light spotting to pages facing plates, with pages otherwise generally clean and bright. Very Good Indeed, J. Nichols and Son et al., 1813, 3<