Talfourd Sir Thomas Noon Charles (89 results)

hardback, 8vo, complete in 2 vols, xxviii,451,(32);vi,477,(32)pp, edges browning, text clean and bindings sound, no inscriptions, red cloth, gilt titles, v.2 has a small tear at top corner of spine; Good condition.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with brown boards and gilt detailing. Some kind of protecting matte plastic cover has been attached to the boards which we have not attempted to remove. It has kept the exterior of the book in very fine condition, but it is noticeable. Front flyleaf is clipped. Gilt textblock.

2 vols: 555 + 611pp. 8vo Vol I has frontis engraving of Lamb. Brown cloth, yellow coated endpapers. Ex-library, very occasional very light foxing, pages 203-206 of Vol II detatched, contents pages of Vol II have marginalia/scribbles, spine of Vol II has multiple small chips: Good.

1p, 16mo. On 14 x 11 cm piece of paper, with margins apparently cut down. Aged, and with slight damage to two words of text caused by removal from mount.At the time of writing Faucit's successful career had been interrupted by the recurrence of a lung condition, necessitating recuperation at a seaside resort. She has evidently asked Talfourd to contribute to an autograph album, soliciting the following response: 'Mr. Serjeant Talfourd presents his best compliments to Miss Helen Faucit and has endeavoured to comply with her flattering wish by adding to her collection of admiring tributes some poor verses which express sincere wishes; - and only regrets that her present state of health should impart more earnestness to these wishes than consists with entire pleasure in expressing them. He trusts, however, that he shall very soon have the satisfaction of knowing that in her perfect restoration to health his wishes and those of all who know her are fulfilled.'.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked, elaborately blind-tooled cloth. Professionally recased with the original spine laid back; very impressively finished. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 259 pages; Physical desc.: 259 p. Notes: Mainly letters to Coleridge and Wordsworth, with biographical comment by the editor. Published in England under title: Final memorials of Charles Lamb. 1 Kg.

Hard. Condition: Very good+. Illustrated with tissue-guarded engraved fronstipiece. (illustrator). 'A New Edition'. Very good+. Exquisitely bound in full buff niger morocco with blind stamped fillet frame within double gilt fillets and a roll tooled outer border. Gilt lettered calf tile, five raised bands and elaborate gilt panels to spine. Minor rubbing to edges and sunning to spine. All as pictured. Blind stamped double fillet inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Bookseller label of Myers & Co. 102 New Bond Street, London to front pastedown corner. Previous owner name of 'Robert Cryan' neatly penned to corner of free front endpaper verso. All edges marbled. xv and 648pp.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Good in the original cloth. Limited edition of 600 copies. Tissue guarded frontis engraved portrait. Portrait plates. Xviii, 291 pages. Tissue has a 1 inch tears. Foxing. Boards bumped. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked, elaborately blind-tooled cloth. Professionally recased with the original spine laid back; very impressively finished. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 259 pages; Physical desc.: 259 p. Notes: Mainly letters to Coleridge and Wordsworth, with biographical comment by the editor. Published in England under title: Final memorials of Charles Lamb. 1 Kg.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). A lovely copy of the collected works of the English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, Charles Lamb. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and title page.A wonderful collection of Lamb's works, with his letters, Essays of Elia, poems and verses all included.Edited and collected by Sir Thomas Noon Talfours, and with a sketch of Lamb's life from the same.In a lovely full straight grain morocco prize binding from Christ's Hospital, with their prize bookplate, dated 1876, to the front pastedown. In a straight grain morocco prize binding, with gilt detailing. A touch of fading and light rubbing to back strip, otherwise externally excellent. Front hinge strained, but firmly held. Prize bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean, but with spotting to first few leaves. Very Good. book.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). A smartly bound new edition of this collection of the works of English essayist Charles Lamb. New edition. The collected works of Charles Lamb, an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb. This collection includes some of Lamb's most interesting letters, final memorials, Essays of Elia, Last Essays of Elia, poems, verses, and more. Collected and edited by Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, an English judge, Radical politician, and author. Dated from the National Trust Libraries. Bound in full tan calf. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities and the odd small mark to the boards. Light fading to the spine and board edges. Hinges starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Light age toning to the extremities with the previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Very Good. book.

Occasional pencil markings in the text. Later 19thC brown binder's cloth, red cloth spine, maroon morocco spine label. D. Wickham booklabel. v.g. Dedicated to Richard Valpy, Talfourd's old schoolmaster. This copy is inscribed on the titlepage, 'Mr. Charles Howard from the Author', and signed by T.H. Howard on the leading f.e.p.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Red embossed boards with gilt ornamentation and lettering on spine are Very Good minus for age. Some edgewear but mostly on head and tail of spine. Brown endpapers with some light pencil marks on front pasted down endpaper and owner name and date "1896-7" on front loose endpaper. Hinge is lightly cracked between the two front endpapers. Textblock is gilded on all edges. Text has some age tanning but no foxing. Binding is still tight and true. Second revised and enlarged edition. Very scarce. book.

Orig. purple patterned cloth, boards with single-ruled gilt borders, maroon calf spine label; spine a little faded, corners sl. rubbed. D. Wickham booklabel. a.e.g. v.g. Presented by the author to Lady Holland on the initial blank, and with an autograph letter from Talfourd to her, in the third person, tipped on to the leading f.e.p. Also with the Holland House armorial bookplate on leading pastedown. In the letter, Talfourd suggests he would have sent Lady Holland a copy sooner, 'if he could have done so without presumption'.

The background to this document is ably explained in an article in the Spectator, 27 December 1834, 'The Spy System: Richmond versus Marshall and Miles', which begins: 'The Court of Exchequer was occupied the whole of Saturday and Monday last with the trial of an action of libel, brought by Alexander Baillie Richmond, the individual for many years known in Scotland by the title of "Richmond the Spy," against Messrs. Simpkin and Marshall, the London publishers of Tait's Edinburgh Magazine. The plaintiff maintained that his character had been seriously damaged by some articles in the Magazine, entitled "The Spy System, or, 'tis Thirteen Years since."' The trial, in which a number of the witnesses for the defendants, 'mostly men in humble life', delivered their evidence 'in many passages resembling the Scottish dialogues in the Waverley Novels', ended with Richmond being nonsuited. 1p., 8vo. In good condition, on lightly aged and worn paper, watermarked 'W KING | 1834'. The page is headed '12. T' and contains nineteen lines of text, with deletions and emendations, beginning: '[.] incapable of being served with the compulsory notice of this court or of quitting their duties? Is not the conclusion obvious? But that is not all - Even the publication of 1832 is not the first publication on the subject of Mr. Richmond's exploits; nor is the author of that publication the person against whom Mr. Richmond has most cause to complain.'.