Jones Stephen Edits (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. THE WRAPPER : The wrapper is bright and complete. It is unclipped. There is very light bruising to the head of the spine. Looks sharp in protective wrapper. THE BOOK : The book is tight and square. The boards are clean. The pages are bright. The closed page edges are unmarked. The binding is firm. No ownership inscriptions. No remainder marks. A smart first UK edition. Paypal accepted.…

HARDCOVER. Condition: Almost AS NEW. Dust Jacket Condition: Issued without a dustjacket. 1st Edition. Tall 8vo. in illustrated thick boards, 90pp on thick art paper, b/w illustrations in text, etc . [CONDITION: An extremely well preserved almost AS NEW unmarked copy (merest hint of tanning to leaves). An excellent copy ] . To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. LIMITED EDITION OF 100 NUMBERED AND SIGNED COPIES by the author. Grosvenor House Publishing, 2018. Fine in d/w.

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author and all contributors. Publisher's original Les Edwards illustrated laminated boards in matching dustwrapper. Illustrated throughout in black and white by various illustrators, with a portfolio section of colour plates by Dave Carson and Les Edwards. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean and bright throughout and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper. Housed in the near fine original slipcase. Issued in a limited edition of 100 copies, this example is numbered 13 and signed by the contributors on the limitation pages. A souvenir volume commemorating the 2010 World Horror Convention which was held in Brighton, marking the first time the event was held in Europe. Comprising interviews, profiles, illustrations, poetry, articles and stories. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Signed by Author(s).…

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp xi, 442. The first year of publication. It ran until 1825. Adam Matthews publications have recently reprinted the series (of which this is the first year) and find it "a fascinating but relatively untapped source for Romantic Studies - [it] offers scholars the opportunity to dip into a wide range of contemporary periodicals - helping to identify the preoccupations of the period and to gauge tastes. The Spirit of the Public Journals includes periodicals aimed at both male and female readers and published in a variety of places, including titles such as the Gentleman's Magazine and the Lady's Monthly Museum; the St. James' Chronicle, the Hampshire Telegraph; the Sussex Chronicle and the Calcutta Chronicle.Romantic are represented. [also]poetry by lesser-known and anonymous writers, helping scholars to place the well-known verse of leading writers in a broader context. This includes many significant contributions by women writers, ÉIn his introduction to the first volume, editor Stephen Jones chronicles the pronounced shift in sensibility that brought about the rise of Romanticism: he describes his era as Òa period when the collision of political parties, and the momentous incidents of the war, and of the French Revolution, began to elicit stronger flashes of wit, and satire, from the mind of genius, than had been produced for a long time before.Ó He asserts the importance of the essays and writings included in the Spirit of the Public Journals in the dawning of this new and different cultural movement. Themes such as the romance of the landscape, sensibility, Gothicism, Orientalism, natural history writing and war poetry can be explored against this wide political backdrop." Soundly bound in contempoary full tree calf leather unlettered at the spine with marbled boards. Some faint rubbing else ound very good indeed with clean text. …