Procter Bryan Waller Barry Cornwall (34 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Early printing. Sextodecimo, 6 1/4" tall, 147 pages, in the original printed paper over boards. A good copy overall; the interior paper is generally clean (not fragile) lightly yellowed with light intermittent foxing, internal binding solid, string binding holding, endpapers moderately foxed. The exterior back strip is chipping, the boards are moderately shelf worn, and cover panels are rubbed both front and back. This is a better volume than the flaws might make it and would be an excellent candidate for restoration using the original boards. Priced accordingly.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2-volume set. Ex-library copies with usual markings. Volume 2 is rebacked, covers show minor wear and tear, edgewear and rubbing, soiling. Pages show minor scattered foxing.

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1866. First American edition. Original purple cloth, gilt and blind. Some wear, endpapers cracked at hinges, two gatherings starting. A Good copy.

hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1877; brown cloth boards with gold spine title; covers are discolored and marked; wear to edges of covers; no jacket; markings and tears to pastedowns; front endpaper is missing; interior hinges are cracked; few internal markings; 306 pages; 12mo, 6 3/4" - 7 3/4" Tall.

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 Owner's name on 2nd blank.

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 top of spine. Solid copy in good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. modern paper wrappers, feintly spotted, a nice copy. same year as the first edition; 110 pages including epilogue; keywords: drama;

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. Finely bound in contemporary full green calf with morocco label. Previous owners bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise clean and unmarked.

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 payment to be made.' Asks if she can tell her 'anything about this'. 'You will be glad to hear I know that my husband is still well - His birthday the 21st. Novr. found him 84.'.

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 portrait of Lamb's life, character, and literary circle, capturing both his humour and his enduring influence as essayist and critic. First published in 1866, this edition reflects the Victorian revival of interest in Lamb and his circle, and remains an engaging contemporary perspective on the author of Essays of Elia. Charles Lamb; A Memoir. By Barry Cornwall. Published by Edward Moxon & Co., London. 1866 first edition. A handsome volume bound with brown leather spine and corners. With gilt ruled decoration, and raised bands to spine with gilt tooling. With russet cloth over boards. Soundly bound. Covers with light wear and mild bumping. Leather to spine is darkened. Provenance: Attractive bookplate to first pastedown from George G Stevenson depicting a maritime scene. With marbled endpapers with gilt metallic veins. Text is good throughout - the majority is clean and bright, with offset spotting on plates spreads and some page darkening and staining from pages 192-198. Text with some age toning. All 5 plates present as called for (including frontispiece). Text in English. viii + 252pp + Plates.  Dimensions: approx 220mm high x 150mm wide x 29mm deep.  Weight: approximately 768g (unpacked).

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 the book for you next week - in the meantime give a flourish in your notice - 'The time does not admit of doing just to the vol. &c &c We are all a Party in this success -'. Jerdan acquired the premises at 267 Strand with his purchase of 'The Satirist' from George Manners, and retained them during the early days of his editorship of the 'Literary Gazette' (beginning circa 1819).

One page, 12mo. Very good. Docketed in pencil at head. 'I have no knowledge of Mr Tupper [presumably the poetaster Martin Farquhar Tupper, 1810-89] or of his address. I was in hopes that the madness of collecting autographs had subsided - but I am sorry to perceive, from your letter, that this is not yet the Case.'.

Orig. royal blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt; a little rubbed, marked on front board. First published 1832. This is the 1844 text, printed within borders.

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 Bradbury & Evans.

Front. port. Orig. brown cloth, blocked in blind. A v.g. bright copy. Spine lettered 'Dramatic Poems'. 368pp. This edition was printed in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is re-set from the UK printed edition, without illustrations.

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 condition, lightly aged, with thin strip of paper from mount adhering to blank reverse. The letter reads: 'Dear [Harris?] | Pray tell me where [?] I can have some conversation with you about some patients of the name of [Lealer? Lester?], whom you know. If an interview be difficult, then you will perhaps tell me what you know about them (their Conduct I mean) particularly about Miss Anne [Lealer? Lester?]' From the distinguished autograph collection of the psychiatrist Richard Alfred Hunter (1923-1981), whose collection of 7000 works relating to psychiatry is now in Cambridge University Library. Hunter and his mother Ida Macalpine had a particular interest in the illness of King George III, and their book 'George III and the Mad Business' (1969) suggested the diagnosis of porphyria popularised by Alan Bennett in his play 'The Madness of George III'.

FIRST EDITION. Half title. Disbound. (AN) First staged at Covent Garden with Macready & Helen Faucit on 9th January 1821.

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 of married life, The Angel of the House.

London: Edward Moxon, 1832. First edition. Original publisher's full green leather, gilt-lettered and -decorated, all edges gilt. Leather worn at the edges. Top of front flyleaf neatly clipped, as though removing an ownership marking. Light foxing to prelims. A Good, sound copy.

FIRST EDITION. Half title. Uncut in orig. drab boards, paper label; front board a little stained, head of spine sl. rubbed, bumped corners carefully strengthened. Contemp. signature 'Charles Milner' on front board. A generally well-preserved clean copy.

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"; he soon became its principal proprietor. He exposed the common English practise of forging Great Master paintings, so effectively that eventually the genuine article became almost unsaleable -- a Raphael going for seven pounds and a Titian for four (DNB). From this letter: "I send a little notice of Titian.(and) I hope to be able to get something ready for you in two or three weeks -- that is to say for your Jany No. but at present I am much engaged with law business." One sheet folded to make four pages, one is used. Folded as though for mailing. A little soiling, a Very Good letter.

FIRST EDITION. Half title. Disbound. v.g. The play was first staged at Covent Garden with Macready & Helen Faucit on 9th January 1821.

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 before half title with a presentation inscription in ink to a previous owner. The first edition of this book was also published in 1820 it was greetd with come warmth by Lord Jeffrey in the Edinburgh Review, January, 1820 - " There is a great deal of the diction of Wordsworth and Coleridge, and some imitation of their beauties ; but we think the natural bent if his genius is more like that of Leigh Hunt than any other author . We hope that this is not to be our last meeting with Mr. Cornwall. " Brian Waller Procter ( 1787 - 1874 ) . He was a lawyer and was called to the Bar as a Member of Gray's Inn, 1831, and Commissioner in Lunacy for thirty years. He also published a number of poetical works which were quite popular at the time. All his publications were issued under the pseudonym Bryan Waller Procter. For more details of Procter see ODNB.

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 consequence', and not requiring an answer, Procter is keen that it does not 'come before the authorities of 'The Dead Letter Office' for their criticism'. He asks, therefore, that Harrison 'intimate to Mr. Tennant, where this treasure [value twopence, as the pleaders say] is at this present moment lying hid'. As an afterthought, he instructs Harrison to pass on the present note to Tennant, 'having of course the proper address'. PLEASE NOTE: For customers within the UK this item is subject to VAT at 20%.

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 variance from the printed version - the ms with 20 lines, the printed poem (p.33) with 24; several lines have a word or phrase that differs. A half sheet, one page, 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, folded once. Cut a bit close on the left edge, crowding some of the lines. A little toned, in Very Good condition.

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 - a Devil that spares neither age nor sex - neither lawyers nor poets'. He advices Talfourd to take care of himself, and to 'gather the roses while you may - for tomorrow comes lumbago, & various other things too unpleasant too mention'. PLEASE NOTE: For customers within the UK this item is subject to VAT at 20%.

30 lines in black ink on first & second side of 4pp 8vo, integral address leaf; lightly folded for posting, torn at seal retaining wax. A warm letter in which Procter asks his friend to 'stand for my little boy as godfather'. Aware that this may be considered an imposition, Procter adds, 'If there be anything unpleasant in this, or you have any scruples that stand in the way of you doing, what I am sure you will wish otherwise to do, I hope you will mention them without the least hesitation'. Should Atkinson decline the request, Procter assures him he will 'shake [him] by the hand quite as cordially as before'. Whether Atkinson accepted the honour, we have been unable to ascertain. PLEASE NOTE: For customers within the UK this item is subject to VAT at 20%.

13 lines in black ink on first side only of 4pp 8vo, integral address leaf; lightly folded for posting, sl. torn at seal. Procter sends Talfourd his memoir of Edmund Kean, hoping for a favourable review, and believing him always to be 'very sincere'. His Life of Edmund Kean, published in 1835, was the first comprehensive biography of the great Shakespearean actor. Talfourd's thoughts on the work are not documented, but if they echoed those of the London Quarterly Review in July 1835 - 'a very worthless book' - Procter would have been truly disappointed. Signed 'BW Procter'. The note has been continued later in the day, with Procter asking Talfourd if they could 'club for a vehicle', as they are both invited to Macready's next Sunday. This additional note is signed with initials. PLEASE NOTE: For customers within the UK this item is subject to VAT at 20%.

1 page. 16mo. Condition: About fine. 1 page. 16mo.

Three of them to Mrs. Lionel Lucas (Helen, nee Goldsmid), and one to "Emma". Two sweet, charming letters congratulating Helen on her upcoming marriage (in 1855), declaring that if he was not married he would look for a girl just like Helen. Ten years later, her husband having died (in 1862), he thanks her for the gift of some flowers, and makes some flattering remarks about her. In the third letter, his wife, Anne, writes to Helen in 1862, probably on the death Mr. Lucas, sympathizing for her "terrible loss". Helen Goldsmid Lucas was very active in philanthropy, especially in Jewish causes. The fourth letter is from Bryan Procter to "Emma", from the content clearly a youngster, dated 1864, very sweet, full of small talk, flattery, teasing and encouragement. Emma was likely Helen's daughter, as Procter refers to "your uncle Sir Francis" -- Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid was Helen Lucas' brother. Four letters, 10 pp., includes one envelope. All are Very Good to Fine.