Barry Cornwall Bryan Procter (38 results)

Full Leather. Condition: Good. First Edition. 190pp. Still well bound but with wear to extremeties including top & bottom of spine (see pic). Tooling to front,back & spine. Gilt titling. Interior in nice clean condition with just the very occasional spot. Marbled edges, marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Stuart of Torrance…

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Good. First American Edition. First American Edition. Brown cloth with blindstamped decoration in black, gilt titles. Chocolate endpapers. Antique library bookplate, hand-numbered and hand-dated. Frontispiece engraving, protective tissue. Foxing to preliminaries, rubbing to endpapers, small tear to t…

12mo: 1 p. Very good. 14 closely-written lines. 'A friend of mine was asked by our dear old kind friend Chorley to assist in procuring for a Protege of his a musical education. I think the young person was originally introduced to him by Lady Devonshire. A sum was promised for two years, and the time is approaching for the payme…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Charles Lamb; A Memoir, by Barry Cornwall (the pen name of Bryan Waller Procter), offers an early and affectionate account of one of the most distinctive figures of English Romantic literature. Drawing on personal acquaintance and contemporary recollection, the work presents a vivid…

On upper half of a piece of quarto paper, unevenly torn to make a piece roughly 11 x 18.5 cm. Fair: on aged paper. Part of address from previous letter to 'W. Jerdan | 267 Strand ' on reverse, which is docketed 'Procter | Miss Proby | Cornwalls poems'. Reads 'I inclose you a note left here for you | George says he will review th…

Illus. by Tenniel, Birket Foster, Thomas Dalziel, &c; sl. spotted. Contemp. half black sheep, pink glazed boards; rubbed, some loss of glazed paper on following board, corners worn. Signature of Thomas W. Frith. 1888; Renier booklabel. 404pp. The sheets of the London edition, with New York titlepage, printed in London by Bradbur…

Leather. Condition: Very Good. A smart full calf volume of this new edition of poetry published under the pseudonym of B. W. Procter. A smart new edition volume of verse. Bound in full red calf, and decorated with gilt tooling to spine, marbled endpapers and speckled text block edges, gilt dentelles and gilt detail to spine tip…

Proctor was a much loved individual in literary circles, from the days of the London Magazine to the mid-Victorian period, in which he was the dedicatee of both Thackeray's 'Vanity Fair' and Wilkie Collins's 'Woman in White'. His reputation as a poet was international: he was thought highly of by Pushkin. 1p, 12mo. In good condi…

FIRST EDITION. Half title, front. port. Orig. purple/brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt; a little dulled, spine darkened & a little worn at head & tail. Ex-library copy: shadow of library label on front board, and tiny fragment of library label on half title. Edited, with a preface, by Coventry Patmore, best known for his idyll…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. New marbled boards, rebacked with original leather spine laid over cloth. A.E.G. xii, 384 pp. Illustrated with [10] engravings. Light foxing, owner inscribed on half title, otherwise near fine. Includes 3 poems by English poet Bryan Procter under his pseud. o…

Dated 25 Bedford Square, Tuesday, 16 Nov. (no year, but paper watermarked 1827). To Mr. Hall, probably Samuel Carter Hall, giving condolences for his unidentified loss, asking about Mrs. Hall, and transacting a little business. Samuel Hall was a journalist and magazine editor. In 1839 he edited the "Art Union Monthly Journal"; h…

London: Edward Moxon, 1832. First edition. Original embossed green cloth, gilt. "His last important contribution to poetry.with.a preface announcing his farewell to poetry." (DNB). Siegfried Sassoon's copy with his monogram label on the front pastedown. Cloth somewhat soiled but little wear except for chipping to the top of the…

Leather. Condition: Near Fine. A beautifully bound edition of the poetical works of Barry Cornwall, the pseudonym of English poet Bryan Procter. Beautifully bound in half morocco, with gilt detailing to back strip.First published in 1819, this is a charming collection of nineteenth century poetry.With vignette illustrations thro…

Leather. Condition: Good Only. First edition. A very scarce, complete collection of Bryan Procter's poetical works, writing under his pseudonym Barry Cornwall. The first edition. Complete in three volumes. Volume II and III are bound in half calf with marbled boards, while the spine to volume I has been rebound in cloth. A very…

Second edition. 12mo. ( 179mm. ) Pp. [7] viii, [5] 6 - 176 [2], including a half title. Contents occasionally lightly spotted, in other respects a clean copy. Contemporary cloth backed boards lightly soiled and sunned, corners bumped, red title label lettered in gilt, green grey endpapers, upper hings cracked, recto of leaf befo…

20 lines in black ink on first side only of 4pp 4to, integral address leaf, post-marked & retaining wax seal; lightly folded for posting, sl. torn at seal. Procter writes to Mr Harrison, not further identified but presumably a post-master in Ryde, to enquire after the current status of an errant letter. Although 'of no consequen…

Dated 1859, untitled, the first line is "The Dreams I saw in youth". This is "Looking Back", printed in "Offering for Orphans; a series of original pieces in prose and verse by living authors.Printed in Aid of the Fund for Orphan and Destitute Catholic Children, 1861" (Printed by Levey, Robson, and Franklyn.London). Some varianc…

16 lines in black ink on first side only of 4pp 8vo, integral address leaf, retaining orig. wax seal. In declining an invitation to dine with Thomas Talfourd, Procter explains 'I am confined to my room - & in fact unable either to sit down or get out of my chair without help'. He continues, philosophically, 'Such is the lumbago…