Robert First Earl Lytton (7 results)
Lucile (in deluxe padded leather binding)
MEREDITH, Owen [pseudonym of Edward Robert, first Earl of Lytton (1831-1891)]
Published by M. A. Donohue & Co. [c.1902-1912], Chicago 1902
- Hardcover
Seller: Bluebird Books (RMABA, IOBA), Littleton, CO, U.S.A.Bluebird Books (RMABA, IOBA)
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Leather. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. A long-form poem by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, writing under his pseudonym of Owen Meredith in a deluxe, undated edition. "Lucile" was an incredibly popular work. First published in 1860, it appeared in at least 2000 different editions, by almost 100 publishers. Sid Huttner of the Unive…rsity of Iowa Library has an ongoing "Lucile Project" dedicated to the various permutations of this work. A frontis engraved portrait of the author has been cut out, leaving a only a zig-zag edge of the leaf. --- In padded, tooled black leather covers, all edges gilt and tinted red, with rounded corners to covers and leaves. Gilt-stamped cover and spine titling. --- With minor rubbing to spine ends, a couple of water spots to textblock lower edge and a hint of sunning to spine, else a well-preserved, sturdy copy of this scarce item.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; 369 pages.
Language: English
Published by Longmans, London 1892
- Hardcover
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Second Edition. With xiv + 203pp - nicely bound in vellum type binding - title label inset on red morocco , gilt decorated - a splendid binding . GILT LETTERED, GILT LINED BORDERS, TITLE LABEL INSET ON MAROON MOROCCO, no markings except previous owner's AMORIAL BOOKPLATE, AN EXCEPTIONA…LLY CLEAN CRISP COPY.
Published by Longmans, Green, and Co. 1906
- Hardcover
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Hardback. Robert First Earl Of Lytton, Longmans, Green, and Co. Author: Robert First Earl Of LyttonBinding: HardbackPublished: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906Condition:Book: Acceptable, ex-libraryJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsPersonal And L…iterary Letters Of The Earl Of Lytton presents a compelling collection of correspondence from a prominent historical figure. This set chronicles the intimate thoughts and public engagements of the Earl, offering a unique window into 19th-century aristocratic life and literary circles. It uncovers the intellectual landscape and personal relationships that shaped his era, illustrating the profound impact of his contributions. The letters reveal a keen intellect and a nuanced perspective on the social and political currents of his time, making it an essential read for historians and literary enthusiasts alike. Hardback.
More imagesThe Ring of Amasis: From the Papers of a German Physician Edited by Owen Meredith [pseudonym]. In Two Volumes .
Owen Meredith, a pseudonym of Edward Robert Bulwer, first Earl of Lytton
Language: English
Published by Chapman and Hall 1863
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. London, UK 1863 Chapman and Hall First Edition two volume set. 299 & 293 pages Original green cloth, front and rear panels ruled in blind, spine panel lettered in gold and ruled in blind, light yellow coated endpapers. First edition. The story of a German count, a Byronic figure, who…se life is blighted by an ancient Egyptian ring. The bookplate of the Honorable Julian Henry Charles Fane (10 October 1827 19 April 1870) who was a British diplomat and poet. He was a Cambridge Apostle. The Set is in very good condition with edge wear, wear to the spine ends, some light dust soiling to the endpapers. Bindings are tight. see photos. cel / E.
Serbski Pesme, or national songs of Serbia.
Owen Meredith, First Earl of Lytton [ie Edward Robert Bulmer Lytton]:
Published by London: Chatto & Windus, 1917. 1917
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Cornell Books Limited, Tewkesbury, United KingdomCornell Books Limited
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Condition: Good. First edition (hardback). 12mo (16cm by 11cm), 159pp. Original dark green cloth, gilt titling to the spine. Binding lightly rubbed and marked, small mark to the spine, bookplate to the front free endpaper, endpapers foxed. Overall, this copy is in good plus condition.
THE RING OF AMASIS. FROM THE PAPERS OF A GERMAN PHYSICIAN
Meredith, Owen (pseudonym of Edward Robert Bulwer, first Earl of Lytton)
Published by Harper & Brothers, New York 1863
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller4-star seller12mo, pp. [i-v] vi-ix [x-xi] xii [xiii-xvi] [17] 18-301 [302: blank][303-312: ads], double flyleaves at front and rear, original decorated brown cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, cream coated endpapers. First U.S. edition. The story of a German count, a Byronic figure, whose life is blig…hted by an ancient Egyptian ring. The first half of the novel is narrated by a young German physician who meets the count on a steamer on the Rhine, with the legend of Lorelei, the supernatural femme fatale, shimmering in the background. The doctor and the count meet several more times, always in unusual circumstances. (While riding in the Bois de Boulogne outside Paris one day, the doctor suddenly hallucinates a scene of nautical disaster. He wakes up several days later clutching a fragment of manuscript in the count's hand, remembering nothing of how he obtained it.) The second half is told in epistolary fashion through the count's own voice and those of several others acquainted with him. We learn how the count obtained the fateful amethyst ring (supposedly belonging to the deity Seb Kronos) from the hand of an Egyptian mummy and how he gave it to his betrothed. Another being seems to take control of the count's body from time to time, and it is suggested that the count's soul at one time migrates to the ring, which, after being placed by his fiancée in a handkerchief, turns into a sphinx moth which dashes itself against the flame of a candle as soon as it escapes from the confines of the handkerchief. The story is oblique in some parts and padded in others, especially the first half, whose physician-narrator is much given to Latin tags and purples patches, but shows signs of imagination in its uses of the supernatural. In its concern with the dualism of real and ideal, the story reveals some of the same Platonic tincture that colors the work of his more renowned father. "This story is grotesque and fanciful; a love story which will not fail to interest those who like the peculiarly intense poetry of the author." - from a contemporary notice in HARPER'S WEEKLY, 31 October 1863, p. 691. Bleiler (The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, #1145) calls the work a "pseudo-philosophical, semi-allegorical novel" wherein the romantic triangle of the count, his brother Felix and his betrothed Juliet ends in fratricide and madness, recapitulating the original tragedy surrounding the life and death of the Egyptian prince Amasis. Bleiler relates the story that the author's more famous father, on reading this work, forbade his son to use the family name for a work of such low quality (a judgment in which Bleiler concurs). A scarce book which eluded Sadleir (#1465) and Wolff (#4238), both of whom mistakenly identified a Macmillan 1890 edition as the first "public" edition, preceded by a privately printed and anonymous 1888 edition. That neither was aware of the existence of this, the true first edition, seems somewhat extraordinary, especially in the case of Wolff, who wrote in detail about Bulwer-Lytton in his study, STRANGE STORIES, AND OTHER EXPLORATIONS IN VICTORIAN FICTION. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. 149. Bleiler (1978), p. 138. Reginald 09387A. NCBEL III 637. Early owner's signature dated 10 November 1863 on the title page. Top edge of sheets dusty, otherwise a fine, bright copy. (#170292).
THE RING OF AMASIS. FROM THE PAPERS OF A GERMAN PHYSICIAN. Edited by Owen Meredith [pseudonym]. In Two Volumes .
Meredith, Owen (pseudonym of Edward Robert Bulwer, first Earl of Lytton)
Published by Chapman and Hall, London 1863
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller4-star sellerOctavo, two volumes: pp. [1-5] 6-8 [1] 2-293 [294-296: blank] [last leaf is a blank]; [1-5] 6-7 [8-9] 10-299 [300: printer's imprint], original green cloth, front and rear panels ruled in blind, spine panel lettered in gold and ruled in blind, light yellow coated endpapers. First edition. The story of a German count, a Byronic f…igure, whose life is blighted by an ancient Egyptian ring. The first half of the novel is narrated by a young German physician who meets the count on a steamer on the Rhine, with the legend of Lorelei, the supernatural femme fatale, shimmering in the background. The doctor and the count meet several more times, always in unusual circumstances. (While riding in the Bois de Boulogne outside Paris one day, the doctor suddenly hallucinates a scene of nautical disaster. He wakes up several days later clutching a fragment of manuscript in the count's hand, remembering nothing of how he obtained it.) The second half is told in epistolary fashion through the count's own voice and those of several others acquainted with him. We learn how the count obtained the fateful amethyst ring (supposedly belonging to the deity Seb Kronos) from the hand of an Egyptian mummy and how he gave it to his betrothed. Another being seems to take control of the count's body from time to time, and it is suggested that the count's soul at one time migrates to the ring, which, after being placed by his fiancée in a handkerchief, turns into a sphinx moth which dashes itself against the flame of a candle as soon as it escapes from the confines of the handkerchief. The story is oblique in some parts and padded in others, especially the first half, whose physician-narrator is much given to Latin tags and purples patches, but shows signs of imagination in its uses of the supernatural. In its concern with the dualism of real and ideal, the story reveals some of the same Platonic tincture that colors the work of his more renowned father. "This story is grotesque and fanciful; a love story which will not fail to interest those who like the peculiarly intense poetry of the author." - from a contemporary notice in HARPER'S WEEKLY, 31 October 1863, p. 691. Bleiler (The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, #1145) calls the work a "pseudo-philosophical, semi-allegorical novel" wherein the romantic triangle of the count, his brother Felix and his betrothed Juliet ends in fratricide and madness, recapitulating the original tragedy surrounding the life and death of the Egyptian prince Amasis. Bleiler relates the story that the author's more famous father, on reading this work, forbade his son to use the family name for a work of such low quality (a judgment in which Bleiler concurs). A scarce book which eluded Sadleir (#1465) and Wolff (#4238), both of whom mistakenly identified a Macmillan 1890 edition as the first "public" edition, preceded by a privately printed and anonymous 1888 edition. That neither was aware of the existence of this, the true first edition, seems somewhat extraordinary, especially in the case of Wolff, who wrote in detail about Bulwer-Lytton in his study, STRANGE STORIES, AND OTHER EXPLORATIONS IN VICTORIAN FICTION. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. 149. Bleiler (1978), p. 138 (mistakenly identified as in 3 volumes). Reginald 09387. Professionally recased with spine panels preserved and laid down on new cloth, shallow loss of cloth at spine ends, corner tips turned and lightly worn, some tanning to cloth, a very good copy with sound, clean text blocks. An uncommon book, especially in the publisher's original cloth. (#171702).
