Anne Thackeray Ritchie Introduction (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Hugh Thomson (illustrator). 5th or later Edition, Illustrated Edition. Macmillan and Co., London, 1893. Hardcover. First edition thus, first impression. Waxed dark green boards. Paper title plate pasted onto spine. Black and white frontispiece with tissue guard. Illustrated throughout with one hundred illustrations by Hugh Thomson. No dustjacket. Title label on spine rubbed. Boards partially soiled. Bottom corner of fore edge of upper and of lower board lightly bumped. Front free endpaper missing. Pastedowns and title page foxed. Rear free endpaper creased and tanned. Light foxing throughout. Overall, the book is in a fair condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Thackeray (illustrator). Here is "Vanity Fair, A Novel Without a hero" by William Makepeace Thackeray. It is Volume One, only of the Biographical Edition of the "works of William Makepeace Thackeray", which was issued in 13 volumes . This particular edition is delicious for the inclusion of Thackeray's original illustrations for the story, which help bring to visual life the many different characters found in the novel. It remains one of the great satirical masterpieces of English Literature. This is a previously owned book, having the inked signature of the original owner on the front paste-down : Isabel Bailey Cook. It's a handsome, large and somewhat heavy book, with a handsome decorated blue cloth covered board binding, with gilt top edge. As we pointed out above, this is Volume One only of the set. The spine has no number denoted, but notes instead : Biographical Edition. The frontispiece is a fine photogravure portrait of Thackeray, printed in a soft sepia tone. SERIES : The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Biographical Edition VOLUME : Volume One only TITLE : Vanity Fair : a Novel Without a Hero AUTHOR : William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 -1863) INTRODUCTION : Anne Ritchie (Thackeray's daughter) ILLUSTRATOR : Thackeray himself IMPRINT : Harper & Brothers PLACE : New York DATE : İ 1898 , and no date of publication given - but [1905] as per the 1905 "Publisher's Trade Annual" EDITION : American Reprint STATUS : This Edition OP DETAILS : Trade hardcover - a single volume from a set; has a frontispiece sepia photogravure portrait of Thackeray; contains thirty one illustrations by Thackeray, including 10 within the Biographical Introduction - most of these having not much to do with the novel. The Introduction was written by Thackeray's daughter, Anne Ritchie; [xl] + 676 pages; approx. 5 1/2" x 8 1/8'; decorated cloth-covered boards and spine, with gilt lettering on spine. The boards have been given a densely repeating motif of the letter 'T' alternating with a flower - front and back; top edge gilt; fore- and bottom edge are rough cut. CONDITION -- VERY GOOD -- This is a previously owned book that remains clean and attractive, with the following particulars noted : EXTERIOR - Spine extremities are compressed and display slight fraying as well as a touch of abrasion; joints are mildly rubbed; front board has only mild rub, and displays nicely; rear board has some scuff marks, else is clean; board bottom edges display shelf rub; top edge gilt displays rub and a touch of scuffing; fore- and bottom text-block edges are toned, else clean. BINDING - Solid INTERIOR - There are likely a few minute smudges and/or smudges - but nothing that is obvious to perusal; end-papers are lightly toned; the original owner's inked signature is written on the front paste-down (Isabel Bailey Cook).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Boards lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned. Fore edge foxed. Prelims lightly foxed. Ink inscription on title page. Clean throughout. Good. Book.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hugh Thomson (illustrator). lx, 256, 32pp ads, illustrated with 100 drawings by Thomson, including a number of full-page plates, olive cloth with gilt titles at cover and spine, and blue leaf and vine motif at cover, book printed on glossy paper, all edges gilt, very light general wear-only, a clean, bright copy, minor foxing at pastedowns and first endpaper, and small bookseller's sticker at front pastedown, generally a very nice copy, in a rare dust jacket, with moderate foxing and toning, and shallow chipping at spine ends and ends of folds, now housed in protective Brodart. A very nice example of the author's classic study of rural life.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrations Throughout (illustrator). Reprint. Xlviii, 752 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt. Light Wear. 1900 Date On Title Page. Vol Ii Of The Biographical Edition Of The Works In 13 Volumes. Ownership Signature "Fanny Weston Bixby / November 1903 / Los Angeles". Fanny Weston Bixby [Spencer] (1879 - 1930) Was The Youngest Of Nine Surviving Children Of Jotham Bixby; He Had Arrived In California In 1852 From Maine, Where He And Several Cousins Had Formed Flint, Bixby & Company, Which Acquired Major Landholdings, Including The 27,000-Acre Rancho Los Cerritos In What Is Now Long Beach. Fanny Grew Up Wealthy, And Although She Was An Active Philanthropist, When She Died In 1930 Her $2.5 Million Estate Was The Largest Ever Probated In Orange County Up To That Point. Fanny Grew Up On Rancho Los Cerritos, Of Which Jotham Was The Manager. Later, Fanny's Grandfather, The Prominent Abolitionist And Unitarian Minister George Whitefield Hathaway, Came To Live With The Family. Fanny Bixby Wrote About His Abolitionist Activities, Including Turning His House Into A Station On The Underground Railroad, In Her Pamphlet Entitled How I Became A Socialist. Fanny Bixby Was Educated At The Marlborough School In Los Angeles And The Pomona Preparatory School. She Attended Wellesley College For Three Years But Left Without A Degree. At Wellesley, She Studied Sociology With Emily Greene Balch, Who Would Go On To Win The 1946 Nobel Peace Prize. While Still At Wellesley College, She Worked For A Time At The Denison Settlement House In Boston (Founded By Balch) And The Nurse's Settlement House In San Francisco. On Leaving College, She Moved Back To Long Beach, Where She Donated Money To Various Civic Causes, Including Long Beach's First Hospital (Seaside Hospital), And The Walt Whitman School (Private) And Her Settlement House, Both In The Boyle Heights District On The East-Side Of Los Angeles. She And Her Husband Often Invited Ghetto Youth Of Working Mothers To Stay On Their Farm In Orange County To Divert Them From Gangs And Delinquency. In 1907 She Founded What Is Now Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. She Also Helped Found The Town Of Costa Mesa, California. When Long Beach Formed Its Police Force In 1908, Captain Tom Williams Brought Fanny Bixby Onto The Force Because Of Her Extensive Philanthropic Work In The City. She Was Sworn In As A Special Police Matron On January 1, 1908, Making Her One Of The First Women Police Officers In The Country. Fanny Bixby Worked With The Long Beach Police Force For Four Years. An Admirer Of Leo Tolstoy, Fanny Bixby Was A Socialist And A Pacifist. She Published Some Poetry In The California Socialist Party's Newspaper, The Oakland World, And She Attended At Least One Antiwar Meeting In Pasadena Before The Espionage Act Of 1917 Made It Risky To Speak Out Against The War. Her 1920 Play The Jazz Of Patriotism Was About A Woman Who Is Ostracized For Refusing To Salute The Flag. It Premiered At The Egan Theater (Later The Musart Theater) In Downtown Los Angeles. Fanny Bixby Met Her Future Husband, W. Carl Spencer, At A Socialist Party Meeting In 1917. They Moved To Costa Mesa (Then Named Harper) In 1919, Where They Raised Five Adopted Children And Supported Many Others. The Couple Donated Land To The City For A Park And A Library. A Couple Of Years Before She Died, She Wrote To Her Cousin Sarah Bixby Smith: "I Have Three Lines Of Work, Bringing Up My Foster Children, Helping My Neighbors (Mostly Japanese Farmers) And Banging My Head Against The Stone Wall Of Militarism And Conservatism That Hems Me In." Her Papers Are Housed At The Rancho Los Cerritos Museum.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Hugh Thomson (illustrator). 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. Our Village. Mary Russell Mitford. With an Introduction by Anne Thackeray Ritchie. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1893. First Edition, Second Printing. Full dark green calf binding with elaborate gilt decorative designs and lettering to front board and spine. All edges gilt. Illustrated Cranford Series issue with one hundred illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Condition: Near Fine. Leather exceptionally well preserved with bright, crisp gilt still vivid and reflective. Boards clean and sound; binding tight and square. All edges gilt remain bright. Glossy green endpapers. Internally clean; pages are light and unmarked. Contemporary 1894 gift inscription to front blank. Complete with lx (60) pages of preliminary matter, including a substantial 53-page introduction (liii) by Anne Thackeray Ritchie, followed by 256 pages of text. A remarkably fresh and superior example of one of the most desirable Hugh Thomson Cranford Series bindings. A beautiful late-Victorian illustrated edition, combining Mitford's celebrated rural sketches with Thomson's finely detailed pen-and-ink illustrations?an enduring favorite among collectors of 19th-century decorative bindings and illustrated literature. Additional pictures are gladly provided on request. Book will be carefully wrapped and boxed securely for safe handling during transit, with international shipping available. [Attributes: First Edition; Second Printing; Illustrated Edition; Full Calf; All Edges Gilt; One Hundred Illustrations by Hugh Thomson.]. lx + 256 pages.

[English Village Life] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, the second impression thus. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.lx; 256 [2]. With numerous in-text wood engravings after illustrations by Thomson, as well as a frontispiece. Contemporary light brown half crushed morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and marbled paper over boards. Top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. A large illustrated bookplate to front pastedown. Moderate spotting throughout, and blue ink notes to blank leaf facing p.3. Spine sunned with some light wear and one large chip from the head. Very good.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Hugh Thomson (illustrator). An illustrated edition of this Elizabeth Gaskell popular novel, 'Cranford'. A new edition of this work. With 32 pages of advertisements to the rear. Cranford is a collection of satirical sketches sympathetically portraying the change and development of small town customs and values in Victorian England. A lovely example of this popular novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, with illustrations by Hugh Thomson. In original pictorial cloth binding. Externally, very smart with bumping to the head and tail of spine and to the extremities. Small amount of rubbing to the head and tail of spine. Slight age toning to board edges. Internally, firmly bound. First few leaves have crease lines to the top outer corner from being folded. Pages are bright. Scattered spots to the endpapers, otherwise clean throughout. Very Good. book.

Condition: Very Good. Second impression of the illustrated edition of this work hard back binding in publisher's original British racing green cloth covered boards, spine and front cover lettered in gilt and elaborately decorated from a design by Hugh Thomson, all page edges gilt, green end sheets. 12mo. 7½'' x 5ĵ''. Contains tissue-guarded frontispiece, [lx], B, 256 pp with 100 monochrome illustrations throughout by Hugh Thomson, including 13 full-page plates. Foxing to the tissue-guard and end papers, else in Very Good bright condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. NINETEENTH CENTURY.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8950 TOTAL Pp. VOL. I. VANITY FAIR 676 p., VOL II. PENDENNIS 752 p., VOL. III YELLOW PLUSH PAPERS 649 p., VOL. IV. THE MEMOIRS OF BARRY LYNDON ESQ 711p., VOL. V SKETCH BOOKS 772 p., VOL. VI CONTRIBUTIONS TO "PUNCH" ETC 759 p., VOL. VII HENRY ESMOND ETC 725 p., VOL. VIII THE NEWCOMES 806 p., VOL. IX CHRISTMAS BOOKS ETC 340 p., VOL. X THE VIRGINIANS 809 p., VOL. XI THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP ETC 640 p., VOL. XII DENIS DUVAL ETC 568 p., VOL. XIII BALLADS AND MISCELLANIES 743 p. PUBLICATION 1898-1899. COPYRIGHT 1898. BIOGRAPHICAL EDITION. DESCRIPTION: BLUE CLOTH HARDBOUND, GILT STAMPED/EMBOSSED TITLE/BLUE STAMPED DESIGN ON SPINE COVER/BOARDS, FRONTIS ENGRAVING WITH PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED TEXTS, GILT UPPER LEAF EDGE. DIMENSIONS: 8 7/16" x 5 5/8" x 1 1/2" each volume. CONDITION: VERY GOOD +; VERY GENTLY BUMPED SPINE CROWN/HEELS, SOME GENTLY BUMPED/RUBBED CORNER TIPS.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. One of the 475 copies of the Large Paper edition, printed December 1893, handsomely bound by Bayntun-Riviere of Bath in half deep red morocco over pink cloth boards, binding signed at top of front free endpaper. Crown 4to (10.5 x 7 ins) pp lx + 256, with 100 illustrations by Hugh Thomson, including the frontispiece complete with fitted tissue-guard. A very handsome copy of Mary Mitford's delightful study of rural customs, characters and scenery, which first appeared in parts in the 1820s and 30s. Signed by Author. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: vg+ to near fine. Large Paper Edition. 1/470. Quarto, lx, 256pp. Period custom red morroco binding with gilt lettering and tooling on the front cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Custom brown leather endpapers. Armorial binding of noted British book collector Henry Arthur Johnstone (b.1861), with his gilt stamp on the front cover and his illustrated debossed Ex-libris (dated to 1899) stamped on the front endpaper. Frontispiece engraving. Illustrated headpieces and decorative initials. One of 470 copies of this limited Large paper edition. Includes one hundred illustrations by Hugh Thomson, twelve of them full page. First published in book form in 1824, the series of Our Village sketches depicting village scenes had appeared first in The Lady's Magazine five years earlier. Mitford's ambition had been to become a great poetess. She published several volumes of poetry and staged some plays. But it was the need to make a living that drove her to write prose which turned to become successful and financially rewarding though it was received with mixed opinions. Binding with very minor wear and smudges to the covers and spine. Binding tight with interior clean. Binding in very good+, interior in near fine condition overall. From the library of Henry Arthur Johnstone.

Hardback. Condition: Good+. Thomson, Hugh (illustrator). First Thus. [7]-lx, [3], 4-256pp. Contemporary full morocco by Riviere, raised bands, spine in six panels, title and author lettered directly to second panel, remaining panels with central lozenge volute tool and volute corner pieces, covers with central arabesque surrounded by elaborate roll, a double fillet frame, a circle and star roll, another double fillet frame and a dotted roll border, edges with double fillet roll, inner edges with a volute roll border, a double fillet frame with dotted roll between the lines and a rope roll to inner edge, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. Slightly rubbed to extremities, small patch of discolouring to upper and lower covers, internally quite bright and clean. One of four hundred and seventy large paper copies, with twelve full page illustrations. Bound by Riviere and Son in 1894, for L.S. Montague (or Montagu), 2nd Baron Swaythling (1869-1927), financier and co-founder of the anti-Zionist League of British Jews. A unique copy of this large paper edition, signed by Thomson to head of title, with the original cloth, the upper panel of the original dust jacket, the spine and upper panel of the original gilt cloth of the standard octavo edition, and the spine and upper panel of the dust jacket for that standard octavo edition, all bound in at the rear Size: 4to. Signed by Artist. Limited Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: vg- to vg+. Limited first edition. 1/400. Elephant folio. 16pp. (+ 26 plates). Dark blue pebbled buckram boards with gilt lettering and ruling on the front cover and spine. #151 from a limited edition of 400 copies, numbered on the colophon at the front. We have not be able to determine based on our binding whether this is a British copy or one of the 150 (from the 400) which were for sale in the United States. This finely produced work contains images taken by pioneering British Victorian portrait photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), and includes images of the acclaimed English Romantic poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) as well as his family, his circle of friends, and his professional contemporaries, who were also all close friends of the photographer and her family. Other images includes various notable, mostly-British, figures of the period, with whom they were aquatinted. Five of the portraits are images after original paintings by George Frederic Watts (1817-1904). A few of the photo-portraits were shot by Cameron's son Henry Herschel Hay Cameron (1852 - 1911), who also writes the introductory text. All the portraits are printed as gorgeous large scale sepia-toned photogravures on heavy cotton rag paper and are protected with captioned tissue guards. This work contains some of the photographer's most famous images. There are a total of 26 plates, 25 of which are portrait photographs, plus one initial frontispiece plate designed by W. A. Smith. There are 4 images of the poet himself, as well as images of his wife, his two sons, Lionel and Hallam, and an image of the sculpted bust of Arthur Henry Hallam, the close friend of Tennyson for whom he dedicated the famous work "In Memoriam". The other figures shown are Thomas Carlyle, Robert Browning, the artist George Frederic Watts, author and editor James Spedding (1808-1881), Charles Darwin, the American "fireside" poets Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (mistakenly credited as W.H. Longfellow) and James Russell Lowell (1819-1891), British politician William Ewart Gladstone (1809 -1898), scientist and polymath John Herschel (1792-1871), clergymen and academics Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893), Henry Montagu Butler (1833-1918), and George Granville Bradley (1821-1903), Lady Thackeray Ritchie, daughter of writer William Makepeace Thackeray (1837-1919), Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood the 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826-1902), Irish historian William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1838-1903) and British actor Henry Irving (1838-1905). There is also a photograph after a painted portrait of the photographer herself. [WITH] Laid in at the interior front cover is an original mounted silver albumen photograph of Tennyson by Julia Margaret Cameron. This famous photo-portrait, titled "The Dirty Monk", from 1865, is the same image as the third plate in the book (although the image in the book is cropped tighter). This is an altenate printing of the image with some type of dark vignetting at the bottom and some other original printing artifacts, one of which slightly distorts the image in the upper right corner, producing a rippling effect. The image measures approx. 11x9" and is mounted on tan cardstock measuring by 13.5 x 11". The photograph is protected in modern mylar. Binding with some minor scratches and smudges to the covers (more on the back), with minor to light rubbing to corners. Although the interior covers retain their original stitched linen gutters, they are loosening slightly. Front endpapers with light creasing and rubbing. Light smudging to the colophon. Sporadic minor to light smudges and small stains to the pages, mostly in the margins and versos of the plates. All images still clean and bright. Binding in very good-, interior in very good+ condition overall.