19th-century fiction
Collection of triple-decker novels
£688
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
comprising:
Barrie, J. M. The Little Minister. London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1891. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, original brown cloth, initial blank and half-title to each volume, 16 pp. advertisements to volume 1, ownership inscriptions of Campbell Douglas (1828-1910), noted architect, to front front free endpapers, rubbed and bumped, spines rolled, variable spotting and staining, volume 1 final quire (P) with shallow burn-hole to lower margin [Sadleir 167];
Banks, Mrs G. Linnaeus [Isabella]. The Manchester Man. London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1876. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, half-titles, 2 + 16 pp. advertisements, slightly rubbed and marked, spines rolled, tips bumped and showing through, volume 2 recased and relined (spine stained), half-titles spotted [Sadleir 154: 'A factual story of Manchester during the first 30 years of the nineteenth century'; contains reference to the Peterloo massacre];
[Holford, Mary Anne]. Strathrowan. A Tale of Modern Life. London: Chapman & Hall, 1879. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, pp. [4] 297, [2] 304, [2] 358, half-title to volume 1, rubbed, tips bumped, volume 1 inner hinges cracked, light cracking to others [not in Sadleir];
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Refugees. A Tale of Two Continents. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893. First edition (1,000 copies printed), 3 volumes, 8vo, [8] 227, [4] 214, [4] 304, 24 pp. advertisements to volume 1 (dated 3/93), original green cloth, bindings shaken, soiled and worn, Grant's Library labels to front covers, variable spotting and staining, volume 2 signature 2 loose, signature 6 starting, volume 3 water-stained and front cover bowed [not in Sadleir];
together with 4 other triple-deckers (these not fully collated): George Meredith, One of our Conquerors, 1891 (first edition, original blue cloth); [Sarah Ellis née Stickney], Family Secrets, [c.1843] (first edition, contemporary green half skiver, 31 engraved plates including frontispieces and additional vignette title-pages); [John Galt], The Spaewife; a Tale of the Scottish Chronicles, 1823 (first edition, contemporary marbled boards, rebacked and recornered); Walter Besant, Herr Paulus, 1888 (first edition, contemporary quarter roan, volume 1 with loss to headcap); and one double-decker, H. S. Merriman, From One Generation to Another, 1892 (original cloth) (26)
Footnote
Note: Library Hub traces three copies only of Strathrowan (BL, Cambridge, NLS).