THE
ENGLISH NOVEL,
18301836
A Bibliographical Survey of Fiction Published in the British Isles
Compiled by
PETER GARSIDE
and ANTHONY MANDAL
(Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research, Cardiff University)
VERENA EBBES,
ANGELA KOCH, and RAINER
SCHÖWERLING
(Projekt Corvey, Paderborn University)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Anglo–German co-operation underlying this project has greatly benefited from generous support given to the two main research centres at Cardiff University and the Universität-Gesamthochschule Paderborn. The Cardiff team, based in the Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research (CEIR), has been supported for the duration of the project by a two-year Larger Research Grant from the British Academy, which provided funds to help employ Anthony Mandal as main researcher, as well as supporting travel between Cardiff and Paderborn and a series of visits to major holding libraries within Britain. Research at Cardiff has also benefited substantially through the general support given by the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff (ENCAP) in the form of administrative support, equipment, and library purchases. Among fellow members of staff and colleagues who have offered help and advice are Jacqueline Belanger, Tom Dawkes, Tim Killick, Sharon Ragaz, and David Skilton.
The Paderborn Novel Project is especially indebted to the owner of the Fürstliche Bibliothek Corvey, Franz Albrecht von Metternich-Sándor, Herzog von Ratibor und Fürst von Corvey, who opened his library for international scholarship, to his son Erbprinz Viktor, and the general administration at Schloß Corvey. The Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, generously provided financial support for the cataloguing and microfiching of the Corvey Library, which in turn led to participation in the present bibliography. Grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) funded visits to Great Britain as well as research assistance. The Universität Paderborn provided general administrative help. Thanks are also due to Günter Tiggesbäumker, Hartmut Steinecke, Stephanie Junger, and Thorsten Liß for help and advice.
The compilers would also like to offer special thanks to the following librarians and curators for facilitating their researches and answering queries: Iain Beavan (Aberdeen University Library); Michael Bott (University of Reading Library); Chris Fletcher, John Goldfinch (British Library); Mr J. J. Hall (University Library, Cambridge); Michael Richardson (University of Bristol Library); Christopher Skelton-Foord (Bodleian Library); Daniel J. Slive (University of California Library, Los Angeles). They are also grateful to the British Library for permission to cite and quote from the Bentley Papers; and also for permission to publish materials from the Longman archives held at Reading University. Special thanks are also due to Claire Connolly, Gillian Hughes, Fionnula Dillane, and Annika Bautz, who consulted material in (respectively): the Houghton and Widener libraries, Harvard; Princeton University Library; Trinity College, Dublin and the National Library of Ireland, and Newcastle University Library. Individual assistance was also provided by David Hewitt, in supporting work at Aberdeen, and Meiko O’Halloran. Throughout the project close contact has also been maintained with Rolf Loeber and Magda Stouthamer Loeber, whose ongoing work in compiling a Bibliography of Irish Fiction has fed into the present project in a number of beneficial ways.
ABBREVIATIONS
| * | No copy of first edition located |
| ? | doubtful |
| // | paragraph break |
| ABu | Aberdeen University Library |
| adv. | advertisement/advertised |
| Bentley MS List | Bentley Papers, vol. lxxviii: Publication List, vol. i (BL Add MSS 46,637): 1829–1837 |
| BI | Britain and Ireland |
| BL | British Library |
| Blanck | Jacob Blanck, et al., A Bibliography of American Literature, 10 vols. (New Haven, 1955–93) |
| BLC | British Library Catalogue |
| BLPC | British Library Public Catalogue (online) |
| Block | Andrew Block, The English Novel 1740–1850: A Catalogue including Prose Romances, Short Stories, and Translations of Foreign Fiction (London, 1939; revised 1961; reprinted 1968) |
| BP | A List of the Principal Publications Issued from New Burlington Street during the Year 1830 (London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1893) |
| BRu ENC | Bristol University Library, Early Novels Collection |
| c. | circa |
| C | Cambridge University Library |
| CBEL3 | The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, 3rd edn., vol. 4: 1800–1900, ed. Joanne Shattock (Cambridge, 1999) |
| CFu | University of Wales Cardiff |
| CLU-S/C | Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles |
| CME | Corvey Microfiche Edition |
| Corvey | Corvey, Fürstliche Bibliothek zu Corvey |
| D | National Library of Ireland, Dublin |
| d. | died |
| DLC | Library of Congress, Washington DC |
| DNB | Dictionary of National Biography |
| Dt | Trinity College Library, Dublin |
| E | National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh |
| ECB | English Catalogue of Books 1801–1836, ed. Robert Alexander Peddie and Quintin Waddington (London, 1914; Kraus Reprint, New York, 1963) |
| ed. | edited |
| edn. | edition |
| EN2 | The English Novel 1770–1829, vol. II: 1800–1829, ed. Peter Garside and Rainer Schöwerling (Oxford, 2000) |
| ER | Edinburgh Review |
| FC | Victoria Blain, Isobel Grundy, and Patricia Clements (eds.), The Feminist Companion to Literature in English (London, 1990) |
| fl. | floruit |
| ill. | illustrated |
| LG | Literary Gazette |
| lib/libs | library/libraries |
| Longman Archives | Archives of the House of Longman, Reading University |
| MC | The Morning Chronicle |
| MH | Harvard University |
| MH-H | Houghton Library, Harvard University |
| MS | manuscript |
| N&Q | Notes & Queries |
| NA | North America |
| NCu | Newcastle upon Tyne University Library |
| n.d. | no date |
| NjP | Princeton University |
| n.p. | no place of publication |
| n.s. | new series |
| NSTC | Nineteenth-Century Short-Title Catalogue: Series I, 1801–1815, 6 vols. (1984–86); Series II, 1816–1870, 56 vols. (1986–95); CD-ROM (1996); Series III, 1871–1919 on CD-ROM (2002) |
| NUC | National Union Catalog |
| O | Bodleian Library, Oxford |
| OCLC | OCLC FirstSearch WorldCat Catalogue (online) |
| p.c. | private copy |
| pseud. | pseudonym |
| RLF | The Royal Literary Fund 1790–1918: Archives (London: World Microfilms, 1984): references are to reel and case number |
| ser. | series |
| Sadleir | Michael Sadleir, XIX Century Fiction: A Bibliographical Record based on his own Collection, 2 vols. (Cambridge, 1951) |
| s.l. | spine label |
| Star | The Star; later The Albion and Star |
| Summers | Montague Summers, A Gothic Bibliography (London, [1940]; reprinted 1969) |
| t.p. | title-page |
| trans. | translation |
| trans. | translator |
| unn. | unnumbered |
| vol. | volume |
| Wolff | Robert Lee Wolff, Nineteenth-Century Fiction: A Bibliographical Catalogue, 5 vols. (New York, 1981–6) |
| xNSTC | not entered in the Nineteenth-Century Short-Title Catalogue |
| xOCLC | not entered in OCLC FirstSearch Catalogue WorldCat |
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
Peter Garside
1. SCOPE AND PROCEDURE
This Bibliographical Survey, covering the years 1830–1836
inclusive, follows in the wake of The English Novel 1770–1829: A Bibliographical
Survey of Prose Fiction Published in the British Isles, 2 vols. (Oxford,
2000). Like that bibliography its entries are taken wherever possible from
first-hand examination of surviving copies of original first editions. The
period here covered links Walter Scott’s last published novel, Tales of
My Landlord, 4th series (1832), with Charles Dickens’s Sketches by
‘Boz’ (1836–7), his first work of fiction to be published as an entity.
Often considered to be something of a hiatus, and so far having only encouraged
one overview critical study, [1] the period under survey can now been seen
as one of variety and richness, marked rather by diversification than any
sustained upsurge in new titles, and exhibiting a number of transformations
in the production and marketing of the novel. Leading up to the accession
of Queen Victoria in 1837, this bibliography also offers another vital step
towards the building of a comprehensive record of British fiction in the nineteenth
century.
From the inception of the project, the compilers were conscious of entering into territory likely to present new challenges and unexpected difficulties. As is stated in the conclusion to the Historical Introduction to the second volume of The English Novel 1770–1829, the year 1829 marks a watershed in the production of fiction in Britain, with a fuller realization of an extended middle-class market, as evident in the success of the Magnum Opus collected edition of Scott’s Waverley Novels, launched as a monthly publication from June that year. This in turn provided the model for Colburn and Bentley’s Standard Novels series, offering cheap one-volume editions of recently published novels, commencing with James Fenimore Cooper’s The Pilot in February 1831 at the price of 6s. (By December 1836, this series, now appearing under Bentley’s name alone, had reached its 56th volume.) A considerable amount of energy during the period evidently went into the production of such sets and series, ranging from compilations of older works of fiction, such as the Novelist’s Library, edited by Thomas Roscoe, planned as a classic collection, to the innovatory Library of Romance, edited by Leitch Ritchie, whose aim was to provide a regular supply a new works of fiction by leading contemporary writers, and which commenced with the Banims’ Ghost-Hunter and his Family (see 1833: 9).
Another salient feature of these years is the increasing practice of publishing original fiction in numbers and through serialization in periodicals. The interchange between novel production and magazines containing significant amounts of fiction, such as Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine and the Metropolitan Magazine, as well as the new-style annuals and keepsakes, also becomes more variegated and in bibliographical terms problematic. One noticeable symptom here is the proportionately large increase in the output of works of fiction consisting of a variety of individual tales and sketches, a number of which openly acknowledge a source in periodicals of the time. Prior serialization in magazines also led in some cases to a situation where a work appeared in book form first in North America, the text having been pirated from the magazine version, before the first ‘official’ British edition: notable instances here are Captain Marryat’s Jacob Faithful (see 1834: 48) and Peter Simple (see 1834: 49), and Samuel Warren’s Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician (see 1832: 86). Other manifestations of a transformational fiction market include compilations of shorter fiction, usually presented as edited by one person, such as Andrew Picken’s The Club-Book (see 1831: 56), which contained new writing by John Galt, James Hogg, and others, and the onset of the ‘Penny Dreadful’ in the last two years under view, whose small fragmented units and sensationalist contents again throw out new bibliographical challenges over inclusion and description.
As in the two volumes of The English Novel 1770–1829, the main part of the present Checklist consists of annual listings of novels as first published in Britain and Ireland during the seven years covered. These annual lists are reserved for what are considered in a suitably broad sense to represent works of adult prose fiction, and as a whole 610 entries will be found therein, to which a further 138 titles are added in the Appendices, making a sum total of 748. The criteria for inclusion generally match those employed while compiling the second volume of The English Novel, one result of this being that it is possible to make direct comparisons on fronts such as the number of new titles issued annually. Works published in series such as the Standard Novels are generally not included except in cases where there is no prior record of publication. The individual works published in Ritchie’s Library of Romance, on the other hand, are given entries under the appropriate year, as representing new works of fiction. In the case of three series of original titles produced by Harriet Martineau during the period, however, it has been decided to supply the record in the form a separate Appendix (1), partly in view of the specially programmatic nature of their contents, and also to avoid the 34 titles involved unbalancing the main listings. Number publications are included in the main listings granted there is clear evidence of a subsequent sale in book form, and it is the completed form that provides the entry, though details of constituent parts and evidence of prior serialization will often be found in the notes to the entry.
In searching for potential titles in the earlier stages of the project, a wide net was cast in a number of directions. Initial lists were drawn up from various secondary sources, these including Andrew Block’s English Novel, 1740–1850 and Montague Summers’s Gothic Bibliography, both used guardedly owing to their sprawling and irregular nature, as well as the bibliographically reliable catalogues of collections of nineteenth-century fiction assembled by Michael Sadleir and Robert Lee Wolff. [2] Contemporary listings have also proved an invaluable source, and trawls have been made through the lists of new publications in the Edinburgh Review and Literary Gazette, and the advertisements and notices in two newspapers, The Star and The Morning Chronicle. Amongst modern resources, the procedure has involved isolation of all titles given Dewey decimal classification as fiction in the Nineteenth-Century Short-Title Catalogue (823 English Fiction, etc.), as well as a variety of electronic searches through the OCLC FirstSearch WorldCat online database (OCLC). Full searches were conducted in specialist collections of fiction at Bristol and Aberdeen universities, the latter consisting to a large degree of novels in their original boards. Once more, too, the unique collection of novels at Schloss Corvey in Germany has served as a mainstay both in terms of searching titles and recording details from original copies for the entries. Throughout the bibliography, 330 of the entries assembled describe a copy held in the Corvey library, the large proportion occurring in the imprint years 1830–4, that is prior to the death of Victor Amadeus, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg, the main collector, in 1834.
The search for original editions not held by Corvey (or, in a few instances, where the Corvey copy is imperfect) has mainly been conducted in leading British libraries. One considerable factor has been the much more extensive holdings of the British Library for this period, compared with the earlier years of the nineteenth century. Some 309 of the entries are taken from copies in the British Library, and the project is much indebted to the efficiency of service provided at St Pancras and the special consideration given to our researchers. Owing to the concentration of resources, and the state of copies found there, the Aberdeen holdings also offered an efficient way of examining copies for some 35 entries. Novels not found in the above sources have been searched and recorded in the Bodleian Library, Cambridge University Library, the National Library of Ireland, the National Library of Scotland, Newcastle University Library, and Trinity College, Dublin. Where the British libraries failed to yield a copy the project turned to North America, and the entries will show a few cases of copies recorded at the libraries at Harvard, Princeton, and University of California, Los Angeles. In only ten instances has it been necessary to reconstitute entries from secondary sources, as a result of not being able to locate any surviving copy.
One remaining special feature of this Checklist, compared with its predecessors, is the extensive number of titles included in Appendix 2 (104 works in all), which is reserved for titles which failed, albeit often narrowly, to match the criteria used for inclusion into the main annual listings. This itself reflects the proliferation of sub-genres such as juvenile fiction at this period, as well as an overlapping with related non-fictional modes, and beyond that no doubt the diversification of the readership for fiction. A brief rationale for inclusion under one of the various sub-headings of this Appendix will be found in its main header, though inevitably some of the decisions made over exclusion from the main listings and positioning within the sub-sections have been of a hair-line nature. Unlike the final Appendix in volume 2 of The English Novel, the present equivalent Appendix is not selective in principle but is meant to display as full a record as possible of the types included. Items that normally have not been given entries in either the main listings or appendices include children’s fiction (pre-puberty), chapbooks and tracts, very short tales, miscellanies (those consisting predominantly of essays, poetry, and/or sketches), and periodical works (including annuals, gift books, and uncollected serial works). Many such works have nevertheless been examined in the course of the project’s searches, or in a few instances some putative titles have been found to be non-existent ‘ghost’ titles or to belong to another period—these ‘rejects’ amounting as a whole to 322 items (of which a list has been retained).
2. READING THE ENTRIES
Arrangement
In the main listings entries are listed chronologically by year of imprint.
Within each year, anonymous works whose authors have not been identified are
arranged alphabetically by title, and precede entries for novels by known
authors and/or translators, ordered alphabetically by author’s name, or by
the pseudonymous name where the author’s proper name has not been discovered.
In the case of compilations, the editor’s name is given, though the authorship
of individual constituent pieces where known is supplied in the ‘Notes’
field of entries. Where an element of doubt remains about an attribution a
question mark is placed before the author name (or alternative names where
there is more than one claimant for authorship). Entries for authors with
several works in one year are ordered alphabetically by title, though evidence
can normally found within the entry itself about the precise chronology. In
those few cases where it is difficult to determine which of two editions or
translations of a novel were issued first, separate (a) and (b) entries are
supplied. Novels with volumes bearing different imprint years are not normally
separately entered under the respective years of publication, unless, for
example, a significant break took place in the publication or a new series
of the title is clearly indicated. On this latter basis, separate entries
are provided for both Mary Russell Mitford’s Our Village, ‘fourth series’
(1830) and ‘volume V’ (1832), as for the second series of William Nugent Glascock’s
Naval Sketch Book (1834). The arrangement of the appendices follows
the same chronological and alphabetical procedures as the main listings, though
imprint years do not provide separate headings.
Cross-referencing within the entries has mainly been used as a means of signalling: a) publication over different calendar years, with markers from years other than the one where the entry is placed; b) cases of contested or multiple authorship, where the alternative authors are not apparent in the alphabetical ordering; c) the appearance or announcement of the same novel under different titles in the first year of publication. Alternative names by which a single author might now be known are generally not indicated in this way, the name chosen for the entries normally being that which an author published under or was known by during the years under examination, though cross-references (e.g. from married names, or aristocratic titles) are provided in the Author Index, which also lists pseudonyms with cross-references to real author names where known.
Where no surviving copy of a novel in its original edition has been discovered, and its title and publication details have been reconstituted from secondary evidence, the reconstituted entry is marked with an asterisk * before the title and the absence of any located copy is noted in the line reserved for shelf-marks and catalogues. Where not already explicit, sources are given for the various elements of the reconstitution.
Components of each entry
A standard entry consists of the following eight ‘fields’:
i) ENTRY NUMBER
In the main listings, numbering starts freshly with each year. Individual
entries numbers consist of year followed by sequential number (e.g. 1835: 57),
and these numbers both head the entries and are also cited for cross-referencing
and in the indexes. Within the two appendices, the same principle applies,
with sub-section letter followed by sequential number (e.g. A: 17,
D: 4); a full citation in these cases also includes the appendix
number (e.g. Appendix 2, C: 7).
ii) AUTHOR
NAME(S)
Each entry opens with the name(s) of the author, editor, or
translator, where known. Unless bracketed, names are given as they appear
on the title-page. Square brackets are used to denote information supplied
by outside information. Additions which help complete names, supplied through
researched information (e.g. a fuller or extra Christian name), are likewise
given in square brackets. In instances where information is found within
the text (e.g. a signature at the end of a preface), but is not displayed
on the title-page, this is denoted by the use of surrounding curly brackets—as,
for example, in BRAY, {A}[nna] {E}[liza], in which case the title-page
attribution is to ‘Mrs. Bray’, but the Introduction is signed ‘A. E. B’.
‘Mr’, Mrs’, and ‘Miss’ are omitted, unless these are the only qualification
to the surname or indication of gender. Where no author has been identified,
the entry opens with ‘ANON.’. In some cases where evidence concerning the
authorship is not conclusive, information about possible attributions can
be found in the notes field, with references to names also being given in
the Author index. Translators and editors are treated similarly to authors,
with the additions of ‘(trans.)’ and ‘(editor)’ immediately
after the names: author names always have sequential priority. A pseudonymous
name is followed by ‘[pseud.]’, with doubt as to whether the name is real
or not being indicated by ‘[pseud.?]’
iii) FULL TITLE
The title is given in full as it appears on the title-page, with
block capitals being used throughout, no attempt being made to replicate
peculiar fonts and combinations of letters found in the originals. Mottoes
and special headers are generally excluded, though the notes often pick
up on special features of interest. In the case of works appearing as a
part of a series, the series title-page (where extant) is also transcribed
in full in the notes. Where an engraved title-page is found in addition
to a standard (conventionally printed) title-page, the latter is transcribed
to make the entry, though any significant variants or additional features
in the engraved title are recorded in the notes. Use of ‘[sic]’ to
indicate features such as idiosyncratic spellings is sparing; and in a few
cases, especially where misreading is possible, supplementary punctuation
is supplied is square brackets. Where variations are found between the titles
of the different volumes of a novel, the differences are recorded in the
notes section.
iv) PLACE OF PUBLICATION
AND IMPRINT DETAILS
The first-named place of publication on the original imprint is given
first, followed (after a colon) by the full details of publishers, booksellers,
and printers as they appear on the title-page up to the imprint date. A
comma separates this information from the date, which is always given in
arabic numerals even when in roman on the original. Where a place of publication
is not named on the imprint but is inferred or researched from other information,
this is given in square brackets. Where no date is given on the title-page
the abbreviation n.d. (no date) is used, followed by an attributed date
in square brackets. With multi-volume works the first volume normally supplies
the details, and any differences found in the imprint information in other
volumes is recorded in the notes. In the case of different years of publication
between volumes of the same work, this is presented in the form of a split
date at the end of the line, for example ‘1834/36’. Printer details not
found within the imprint itself are not recorded in this field, though details
found elsewhere in colophons and other printer marks (say, on the verso
of the title-page) are systematically recorded in the notes section (see
below).
v) PAGINATION, FORMAT,
AND PRICE
The last roman and arabic page of each volume is given, with instances where
both types of pagination are continuous being recorded in the notes. These
page numbers are preceded, in the case of multi-volume novels, by the volume
number in upper-case roman. Where volumes of the same work bear different
imprint dates this is indicated in parenthesis after the volume numbers.
Illustrations are abbreviated as ‘ill.’, and are signalled after the page
number, separated by a comma: normally this is reserved for cases where
pictorial images are involved, vignettes consisting only of a design not
normally being counted as illustrations. Where pagination information is
unavailable because no copy has survived, the number of volumes only is
indicated.
The format of each copy examined has been individually checked by collation of leaves. Whereas in the period 1770–1829 the majority of novels were published either in octavo (8vo) or duodecimo (12mo) formats, with gatherings respectively of eight or twelve leaves, the increasing use of the smaller 18mo and 16mo formats in the period under view has led to fresh complications. Copies in 18mo examined often collate in sixes, but sometimes in twelves and sixes, whereas 16mo generally collates in eights. A main indication in these cases then is that page sizes are smaller than would be expected for 8vos or for 12mos in half-sheets. Due consideration has been taken of this factor in making decisions, though because of the variations found between copies of the same work, owing to cropping and other factors, no record of page diameters has been given in the entries. Secondary sources such as contemporary listings sometimes give useful information about format, but because of its variable quality this has at best been used guardedly.
Price is given in shillings (s) and pence (d) as found in the work itself or in newspapers and other listings, with the accompanying description where found (most commonly ‘in boards’). Sources for the information are also given, in parenthesis, these including spine label (s.l.), MC, LG, ER, and ECB. All variants are provided.
vi) CONTEMPORARY LISTINGS
Unlike in the preceding printed volumes of The English Novel, no
attempt is made to record surviving reviews, a task made all the more difficult
by the increasing diversification of reviewing outlets and methods during
this period. As an alternative, this field in its present form records details
from a variety of contemporary listings, which offer invaluable information
on matters such as impression numbers, price, and (most pertinent here)
dates of first publication. Four categories of record are provided, in the
following order: publishing records (the Bentley Papers and Longman Archives);
newspaper notices (The Star and Morning Chronicle); listings
of new works from periodicals (the Literary Gazette and Edinburgh
Review); and, finally, The English Catalogue of Books, 1800–1836
(ECB).  In the case of entries from newspapers, The Star is used
as the main source until its demise in 1835, the Morning Chronicle
serving as its replacement for 1836 and as a source in 1835 when information
from The Star is absent or less accurate. The entry given from newspapers
is the first considered to give an indication of the publication date of
the work, though other information gleaned from this source (such as advance
notices) is provided in the notes section. In the case of periodicals, the
information is taken from the list of ‘New Books/ Publications’ found near
the end of the weekly issues of the Literary Gazette and the quarterly
numbers of the Edinburgh Review. For pinpointing dates of publication,
then, one might expect a diminishing chance of precision as the entries
proceed, with the exception of ECB which in these last years that it records
is more focused than previously.
vii) LOCATION AND SHELF-MARK
OF COPY EXAMINED AND
REFERENCES TO OTHER CATALOGUES
AND COPIES
This field always begins with an abbreviation for the library holding the
copy of the novel examined (or statement of inability to locate a copy),
followed by the holding library’s press-mark. In the case of novels held
by the Corvey library, where no current catalogue numbers exist, the ISBN
of the Corvey Microfiche Edition (CME) is given as the most useful identifying
call number. In a handful of instances, where the Corvey copy is incomplete
or otherwise imperfect (e.g. lacks a subscription list), alternative copies
have been sought to provide the entry, the presence of a copy in Corvey
in these cases being signalled by the inclusion of the CME ISBN number after
the shelf-mark of the actual contributing library. (In a few cases, where
no CME exists for the Corvey copy used, the library alone is signalled,
though if a CME number for same title in a subsequent edition is available
the reference number is supplied under ‘Further Editions’ at the end of
the entry.)
Details are then given from two leading modern database catalogues of printed books and holding libraries: the Nineteenth-Century Short-Title Catalogue (NSTC) and OCLC FirstSearch WorldCat Catalogue (OCLC). In both instances, a reference number is given first, followed by information about the number of holding libraries in parenthesis. Where NSTC includes more than one number for the same item (under both author and title, for example), the number cited is normally the one based on author, or, failing that, the largest of the entries. NSTC, which itself is based on library catalogues, at this phase records holdings from six British and Irish libraries and two major North American libraries:
British Library; University Library, Cambridge; Trinity College, Dublin; National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh; University of Newcastle Library; Bodleian Library, Oxford; Library of Congress, Washington; Harvard University.
The library holdings given in parenthesis relate to these institutions only, and are ordered alphabetically by abbreviation, with British and Irish (BI) libraries first, followed by North American (NA) ones. In each entry, the holding libraries given are amalgamated from all NSTC entries for the work.
OCLC entries differ slightly by giving the accession number for the record chosen followed by the number of holding libraries in parenthesis: e.g. OCLC 42447732 (42 libs). In a number of cases, more than one OCLC record is available for what is in all probability the same original edition, and in these cases the policy has been to choose the more substantial record, granted its details unequivocally match the edition being described for the entry. Because of the complexity of the situation sometimes found, no attempt has been made to amalgamate the numbers of holding libraries given in different records. Where the OCLC record used applies only to microform copies of the work, this is recorded. Unlike NSTC, OCLC is a database which is being constantly updated and enlarged, and the details supplied apply to the period 2002–3 when the present entries were being assembled.
When one of the libraries specified in NSTC provides the actual copy consulted for the entry (and is thus given with shelf-mark at the beginning of the entry), that library is omitted from the holding libraries abbreviated later in parenthesis. xNSTC and xOCLC indicate that a novel in the edition used for the entry (in all normal circumstances the first edition) is not included in NSTC/OCLC.
vii) NOTES
The notes section is not used to record information comprehensively, but
is intended primarily to supply readers with additional information of interest,
including for example details of dedications, subscription lists, and advertisements
within the novels. In the case of translations from another language, basic
details are provided of the original source text and date and place of publication.
Additional information about authorship is also placed near the beginning
of this section, with reasons for new attributions and explanations of difficulties
encountered in ascription. Details concerning the actual copy of the work
examined generally follow the arrangement of its contents, while further
notes are given in much the same order as other parts of the full entry.
Information concerning impression numbers, as found in publishing archives,
for example, are generally found near the end of the main notes section.
In two particular areas the notes make an advance compared with the previous printed Bibliography, covering 1770–1829. In view of the relatively high proportion of works of fiction incorporating a variety of separate tales, an effort has been made to record in some detail the titles of the constituent items and the inclusive page numbers in which they are contained. In giving the pagination of tales within works, the beginning of the tale is counted from the individual subordinate title-page (where this appears); and normally the wording of a tale’s title is given from the header of the tale itself, rather than the contents list. The other advance is that a systematic effort has been made in the notes to record printer information as found in colophons and other printer’s marks outside the main imprint. In the case of London printers, a degree of standardization has taken place, with the suppression of recurrent details such as ‘London’ and ‘Printed by’ from the description given, some ironing out of accidentals such as hyphens and initial capitals, and (where there are variations in detail within a work) utilization generally of the fullest form found. In the case of non-London printers, where a place other than London is given this is included in the description: e.g. Printer’s mark reads: ‘Dumfries: Printed by John M‘Diarmid and Co.’, with similar colophon. Where colophons and printer’s marks of different printers are found between the different volumes of a work, indicating (say) that it was parcelled out between more than one firm, this is also recorded in detail. Where no printer information is found (other than in the main imprint), this is usually noted.
Also listed are further editions of the novel published up to 1870. In identifying these, NSTC and OCLC have both played a major part, though additional information has also been supplied by reliable sources such as the published records of the collections of Michael Sadleir and Robert Lee Wolff, and occasionally through hands-on work in existing library collections. Up to five further editions published in Britain and Ireland are listed, with supporting references in appendices (in those cases where xOCLC or xNSTC has been recorded in the main entry, a full reference number is also given for the first British or Irish edition to found in those resources). Places of publication for further editions are recorded where they differ from that of the main entry. Where more than five editions have been identified, the number of additional editions reliably identified is given in square brackets (e.g. as [at least 5 more edns. to 1870]). The sequence of British and Irish editions is then followed by citation of the first known North American edition before 1870, except in cases where the American edition preceded the British (in which case the latter provides the entry, and information about its American predecessor is provided in the main notes section). In cases where different editions appear to have been published in the first known year of publication in North America (e.g. in both New York and Philadelphia), the first of these alphabetically by place of publication is given, followed by the other(s).
Details are also supplied of the first known translations into foreign languages up to 1870, with a record of titles where these differ substantively and/or interestingly from the English original.
NOTES
1830:
1 ANON.
ADVENTURES AND FEELINGS OF A GRIFFIN. IN TWO VOLUMES.
Edinburgh: Printed for James Kay, 1830.
I iii, 265p; II 258p. 8vo.
ECB 6 (Oct 1830).
E Vts.2.c.3; NSTC 2A4377; OCLC 9057556 (3 libs).
Notes. Preface, pp. [i]–iii, states ‘this is a first attempt’ (p. ii)
and also implies male authorship. First-person Sternean narrative incorporates
the story of ‘Henry Frankfort’, vol. 1, p. [139]–vol. 2, p. 123. No printer
information found.
Further edn: London [1860] (NSTC).
1830: 2 ANON.
THE ALEXANDRIANS; AN EGYPTIAN TALE OF THE FOURTH CENTURY. IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: Whittaker, Treacher, & Co. Ave-Maria-Lane, 1830.
I 276p; II 294p. 12mo. 15s (ECB); 15s boards (LG).
LG 710: 566 (28 Aug 1830); ECB 11 (Aug 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47037-4; NSTC 2A7907 (BI BL, C, E, O); OCLC 22403914 (3
libs).
Notes. Preface (1 p. unn.), dated ‘March, 1830’. Printer’s marks and
colophons of Henry Baylis, Johnson’s Court, Fleet Street.
1830: 3 ANON.
“ALL IS NOT FABLE.”
BL 4413.c.14; NSTC 2F515; xOCLC.
Notes. BLC provides conjectured imprint date. Preface, pp. [iii]–vi,
notes: ‘Novel reading […] being the order of the day, I am well aware many
of my fair readers would take up this volume, under the idea it was classed
under that head, who would lay it aside, if they were aware it was of a more
serious nature. I accordingly “set to” as the saying is, unknown to any one,
and in five days accomplished my task’ (p. vi). List of errata appears on
last page of Preface. Dating derives from BLC.
1830: 4 ANON.
THE BIBLICALS, OR GLENMOYLE CASTLE, A TALE OF MODERN TIMES.
Dublin: T. O’Flanagan, 26, Bachelor’s-Walk, 1830.
iv, 292p. 12mo.
BL 1119.d.40; NSTC 2B32565; OCLC 22411982 (2 libs).
Notes. Dedication to ‘the Most Reverend Father in God, Le Poer Trench,
Protestant Lord Archbishop of Tuam’, pp. [iii]–iv, stating that ‘The following
narrative was written in the year 1827, and was suggested by that interesting
fiction, “Father Clement” ’ (p. [iii]); see EN2, 1823: 51. End of vol.
contains list of Errata (1 p. unn.). Collates in sixes.
Further edn: London 1831 (NSTC, OCLC).
1830: 5 ANON.
DEPENDENCE. BY THE AUTHOR OF LITTLE SOPHY, AND RECOLLECTIONS OF A BELOVED
SISTER.
Derby: Printed and published by Henry Mozley and Son; and sold by Cowie
and Co., 31, Poultry, and J. Harris, St. Paul’s Church-Yard, London, 1830.
viii, 354p. 8vo. 7s (ECB); 7s boards (LG).
LG 704: 469 (17 July 1830); ECB 159 (July 1830).
ABu SB.82379.Dep; NSTC 2D9789 (BI BL, C, O); xOCLC.
Notes. Dedication to ‘My Husband’. ‘Advertisement’, pp. [vii]–viii,
states that main text reflects an especially difficult period in the author’s
life, as well as more generally illustrating the plight of governesses (their
pay is compared unfavourably with that of male private tutors). Consists entirely
of letters (87 in all), supposedly from the authoress, the ‘Rev. E. T. V—’
being prominent as an addressee. Colophon reads ‘Henry Mozley and Son, Printers,
Derby’.
1830:
6 ANON.
FOREIGN EXCLUSIVES IN LONDON. A NOVEL. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1830.
I iv, 254p; II 242p; III 278p. 12mo. 31s 6d (BP); 21s (ECB); 21s boards (ER,
LG).
BP (21 June 1830); LG 701: 421 (26 June 1830); ER 51: 589 (July 1830); ECB
211 (June 1830).
E Vts.31.e.1; NSTC 2LON6944; OCLC 11694146 (3 libs).
Notes. Preface, pp. [ii]–iv, dated ‘January 16, 1828, Isle of Wight’.
Printer’s marks of G. Schulze, 13, Poland Street, but colophons of J. C. Goodier,
Well Street, Hackney. ER lists as ‘The Foreign Exclusives’.
1830: 7 ANON.
FORRESTER. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Printed for Whittaker, Treacher, and Co., 1830.
I xii, 304p; II 346p; III 357p. 12mo. 27s (ECB); 27s boards (ER, LG).
LG 679: 61 (23 Jan 1830); ER 51: 294 (Apr 1830); ECB 211 (Jan 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47537-6; NSTC 2F10989 (BI BL, C, E, O); xOCLC.
Notes. Introduction, pp. [iii]–xii, consists of a fictitious dialogue
between the ‘author’ and a ‘friend’ regarding subject of publishing a novel.
Printer’s marks and colophons of Thomas Davison, Whitefriars.
1830: 8 ANON.
THE FRIENDS: A TRUE TALE OF WOE AND JOY: FROM THE EAST.
London: Printed for George Wightman, 24, Paternoster Row, 1830.
xi, 237p, ill. 18mo. 2s 6d (ECB); 2s 6d boards (LG).
LG 711: 581 (4 Sept 1830); ECB 219 (Aug 1830).
BL N.1801(3); NSTC 2F14664 (BI C, O); OCLC 13244284 (1 lib).
Notes. Frontispiece facing t.p. bears the legend: ‘A View of Monghyr
from the Banks of the Ganges’. Dedication (1. p. unn.) to ‘The Rev. John Dyer,
Secretary of the Baptist Mission’, followed by Preface, pp. [viii]–ix. The
latter states that the tale contains ‘the history of events and persons that
are real in every respect, with the exception of the names’ (p. [viii]),
that the tale is ‘strictly true’ (p. ix), and that there ‘is not an individual
described […] who has not, in spiritual things, been more or less indebted
to the first English Mission to the East’ (p. ix). List of contents, pp. [x]–xi,
precedes main text. Printer’s mark and colophon of Harjette and Savill, 107,
St. Martin’s Lane, Charing Cross.
Further edn: Boston 1831 (OCLC).
1830: 9 ANON.
NORRINGTON, OR THE MEMOIRS OF A PEER.
London: Hurst, Chance, and Co., 1830.
I 222p; II 184p. 8vo. 12s (ECB).
ECB 416 (July 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48224-0; NSTC 2N9863 (BI BL, C, Dt, O); xOCLC.
Notes. Printer’s marks and colophons of Bradbury and Evans, Bouverie
Street, Fleet Street.
1830: 10 ANON.
THE NUN OF ST. AGATHA. AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Printed for A. K. Newman and Co., 1830.
I 287p; II 271p; III 249p. 12mo. 18s (ECB, Star).
Star (8 May 1830); ECB 418 (Mar 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48250-X; NSTC 2N11893 (BI BL, C, O); xOCLC.
Notes. ‘Notes and Illustrations’ occupy pp. [283]–287, pp. [269]–271,
and pp. [247]–249 in each vol. respectively. Advs. at end of each vol. (1
p. unn. in vols. 1 and 2, 5 pp. unn. in vol. 3). Printer’s marks and colophons
of J. Darling, Leadenhall Street. Originally adv. in Star (15 Jan 1830),
as ‘nearly ready’.
1830:
11 ANON.
*THE OUTCAST: A STORY OF THE MODERN REFORMATION.
Dublin: William Curry, jun. and Co. and Hurst, Chance, and Co. London,
1830.
2 vols. 18mo. 5s (ECB).
ECB 427 (July 1830).
No copy located.
Notes. Details above reconstituted from ECB and BL copy of 2nd edn.
(4413.f.39(1)). Preface to the 2nd edn., pp. [i]–iii, states: ‘A work […]
intended to be useful among them [infidels]—and they are the persons chiefly
that can be reached by such means—must meet and refute these anti-revelation
principles, at the same time that it brings forward and urges the leading
doctrines of the Gospel, and exhibits, in the most pleasing dress, the fair
form of genuine religion’ (p. iii).
Further edn: 2nd edn., revised and corrected, 1831 (NSTC 2O6540).
1830: 12 ANON.
PARTINGS AND MEETINGS: A TALE, FOUNDED ON FACTS.
London: Published by J. B. Bell, No. 3, Cleveland Row, Opposite St. James’s
Palace; and may be had of all Booksellers, 1830.
255p. 12mo. 7s (ECB).
ECB 435 (Apr 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48402-2; NSTC 2P5681 (BI BL, C, O); xOCLC.
Notes. Introduction follows drop-head title ‘Partings and Meetings’
and occupies pp. [3]–19 of main text; this functions as a frame narrative,
and relates how the author gained possession of the manuscript of the story.
Printer’s mark and colophon of Joseph Rogerson and Co., Old Boswell Court.
Further edn: 1833 (NSTC).
1830:
13 ANON.
RAVENSTONDALE: OR, THE TRIUMPH OF INNOCENCE. A TALE.
Edinburgh: John Wardlaw, St Andrew’s Street; William Collins, Glasgow;
Whittaker & Co. London; and J. M. Leckie, Dublin, 1830.
372p. 12mo. 7s 6d (ECB).
ECB 480 (1830).
E NF.618.f.7; NSTC 2R2958; xOCLC.
Notes. Dedication (1 p. unn.) to ‘Mrs. Trotter of Ballendean’. Preface,
pp. 5–6, implies female authorship. The last page is mistakenly numbered 273.
Erratum slip after main text, plus ‘Glossary of Provincialisms occurring in
this Work’ (1 pp. unn.) listing just five items. ECB gives publisher as Whittaker
only. Printer’s mark and colophon read: ‘Edinburgh: Printed by Andrew Jack,
& Co.’.
1830: 14 ANON.
TALES OF OUR COUNTIES; OR, PROVINCIAL PORTRAITS. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: William Marsh and Alfred Miller, Oxford Street; and Constable
and Co. Edinburgh, 1830.
I iii, 293p; II 253p; III 344p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d boards (LG).
LG 693: 293 (1 May 1830); ECB 576 (Apr 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-51156-9; NSTC 2T1411 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA MH); OCLC 2239208
(6 libs).
Notes. ‘Introductory’, pp. [i]–iii, implies male authorship. Vol. 1
comprises: ‘Cumberland. Lord Losel and the Minister’s Daughter’, pp. [1]–133,
and ‘Lancashire. Lord Selfdown, of Croxheath’, pp. [135]–293. Vol. 2 consists
of: ‘Shropshire. The Shrewsbury Hunt-Ball; or, the Marriage and No-Marriage’,
p. [1]–51; ‘Sussex. Lord Richmond’, pp. [53]–143; ‘Gloucestershire. Colonel
Byerley’, pp. [145]–253. Vol. 3 contains: ‘Denbighshire. The Rival Houses;
or, Mellington Pandulph & Ferdinand Wells’, pp. [1]–101, and ‘Nottinghamshire.
Lord Gordon, of Newstrid Abbey’, pp. [103]–344. Printer’s marks and colophons
of Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street.
1830:
15 ANON.
THE VALLEY OF THE CLUSONE, A TALE OF THE VAUDOIS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY,
AS RELATED BY CARLOMAN D’ANDILLI.
Dublin: Richard Moore Tims; Hamilton and Adams, London; Houlston and Son,
Wellington; and Waugh and Innes, Edinburgh, 1830.
214p. 18mo.
C Hib.8.830.22; NSTC 2V439; xOCLC.
Notes. Narrative signed at end ‘Carloman D’Andilli. Pontipoole House,
Nov. 1681’ (part of fiction). No printer information found. Collates in twelves
and sixes. LG 1013: 396 (18 June 1836) lists 2nd edn. 18mo, 2s 6d cloth.
Further edn: 2nd edn. 1836 (OCLC 42382959).
1830: 16 ANON.
YAMEK; OR THE MAID OF DAMASCUS. AN EASTERN TALE. FOUNDED ON FACTS.
Warwick and Leamington: John Merridew, 1830.
ii, 92p. 18mo. 2s 6d (ECB).
ECB 651 (1830).
BL 12611.de.27; NSTC 2Y95; xOCLC.
Notes. Preface, pp. [i]–ii, notes: ‘The following tale is founded on
a fact of Eastern History which appeared to the author susceptible of amplification,
and embellishment. The name of the heroine is to be found in the records of
Syria’ (p. [i]). No additional printer information found. ECB gives publisher
as Longmans.
1830: 17 A[KERMAN], J[ohn]
Y[onge].
TALES OF OTHER DAYS. BY J. Y. A. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.
ENGRAVED BY J. THOMPSON AND S. AND T. WILLIAMS.
London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, 1830.
vii, 250p, ill. 8vo. 9s (ECB); 9s boards (LG).
LG 716: 662 (9 Oct 1830); ECB 575 (Sept 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-51154-2; NSTC 2A6186 (BI BL, C, O; NA MH); OCLC 2789398
(28 libs).
Notes. Vignette illustration on t.p. Preface, pp. [v]–vii, dated ‘London,
September, 1830’. This notes: ‘The Tales comprised in this volume were written
during the author’s leisure hours, and have already appeared before the public,
but at the request of a few partial friends they have been revised and collected
in the present form […] The author is aware that many Tales and Novels of
this cast have appeared with much greater pretensions than the present series;
but one fault, with only two or three exceptions, belongs to them all, namely,
an absence of that quaint and once familiar expression, without which the
dialogues in tales of this description convey but a faint idea of the manner
of speech of our ancestors. // The illustrative engravings present an attraction
in addition to their excellence as works of art—that of having been executed
with a due regard to historical propriety, the costume of each character being
given upon the best authority’ (pp. vi–vii). Contents page (unn.) follows
preface. The tales consist of: ‘The Magic Phial; or, an Evening at Delft’,
pp. [1]–9; ‘A Tale of the Civil Wars’, pp. [10]–26; ‘Friar Rush. A Tale of
Faerie’, pp. [27]–40; ‘Ghysbrecht, the Free-Lance’, pp. [41]–68; ‘The Three
Suitors’, pp. [69]–90; ‘The Fifth of November. A Legend of Palace-Yard’, pp.
[91]–126; ‘A Tale of the Low Countries’, pp. [127]–139; ‘Trial by Battle’,
pp. [140]–165; ‘The Castle of Stauffenberg. A Legend of the Rhine’, pp. [166]–176;
‘The Brothers. A Tale of London Bridge’, pp. [177]–197; ‘Roger Clevelly. A
Devonshire Legend’, pp. [198]–222; ‘Haviland Hall’, pp. [223]–250. Adv. list
(24 pp.) follows main narrative with heading ‘New, Useful, and Valuable Books,
published by Effingham Wilson, 88, Royal Exchange, London, Bookseller to the
Emperor of all the Russias’, and a front-page illustration of the premises
at 88, Royal Exchange, London. This brochure contains advs. for more than
fifty titles, some of them illustrated by George Cruikshank. Colophon of Maurice
and Co., Fenchurch Street.
Further edns: 1840 with James Dalton’s The Gentleman in Black (1831:
22) (NSTC, OCLC); [1845?] with James Dalton’s The Gentleman in Black
(NSTC); Philadelphia 1835 with James Dalton’s The Gentleman in Black.
1830: 18 [ARCHDEACON,
Matthew].
CONNAUGHT, A TALE OF 1798.
Dublin: Printed for M. Archdeacon, and sold by all Booksellers, 1830.
394p. 8vo.
O 256.d.646; NSTC 2A14865 (BI BL); OCLC 45060198 (1 lib).
Notes. Prefatory note (2 pp. unn.), in which author expresses gratitude
for the support received for ‘my first essay at publication’ from his ‘native
county’: ‘This will be evident by a glance at the following list of Subscribers,
among whom, I am proud to say, there is scarcely a family of any respectability
[…] one member or more of which is not to be seen. From the humbler classes,
too, I have received equal support, with, in many cases, a warmer zeal for
my success.’ ‘Subscribers Names’ (4 pp. unn.) follows, listing c. 290
names. Preface (4 pp. unn.) dated ‘Castlebar, June 12, 1830’ precedes narrative
proper. No specific printer information found. Collates in fours.
1830: 19 [ATHERSTONE,
Edwin].
THE SEA-KINGS IN ENGLAND: AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE OF THE TIME OF ALFRED.
BY THE AUTHOR OF “THE FALL OF NINEVEH.” IN THREE VOLUMES.
Edinburgh: Printed for Robert Cadell; and Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot,
London, 1830.
I 348p; II 372p; III 377p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB, ER); 31s 6d boards (LG).
LG 725: 805 (11 Dec 1830); ER 53: 257 (Mar 1831); ECB 30 (Dec 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48626-2; NSTC 2A18233 (BI BL, C, Dt, O); OCLC 20645031 (6
libs).
Notes. Adv. on verso facing t.p. of vol. 1 reads: ‘By the same Author,
“The Last Days of Herculaneum, a Poem.” “A Midsummer Day’s Dream, a Poem,”
with Three Illustrations by Martin.’ ‘Historical Introduction’ occupies vol.
1, pp. [1]–6. ‘Notes’ occupy pp. [335]–348 at end of vol. 1. Printer’s marks
read: ‘Printed by John Stark’; colophons read: ‘Edinburgh: Printed by John
Stark, Old Assembly Close’. ER lists as ‘Atherstone’s Sea-Kings of England’;
LG lists as ‘Atherstone’s Sea-Kings in England’.
1830: 20 [?ATKINSON,
Charles L. or ?DUROS, Edward].
DERWENTWATER. A TALE OF 1715. IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: William Kidd, 6, Old Bond Street, 1830.
I vii, 301p; II 270p. 16mo. 21s (ECB); 21s boards (ER, LG).
LG 690: 245 (10 Apr 1830); ER 51: 294 (Apr 1830); ECB 159 (Apr 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47414-0; NSTC 2D10115 (BI BL, C, E, O); OCLC 2254924 (6
libs).
Notes. NSTC and OCLC include attributions to both Atkinson and Duros;
see also Otterbourne (1832: 13). Publisher’s vignette design with initials
‘WK’ on each t.p. Prefatory statement, pp. [v]–vii, dated ‘London, April 2nd,
1830’. This observes in passing the difficulty of representing Northumbrian
dialect, and concludes by noting the recent changed political situation: ‘as
the book was designed, and partially written, previous to the passing of the
late Catholic relief bill, the few political reflections offered must be understood
with reference to the state of parties then existent’. List of ‘Corrigenda’
(1 p. unn.) follows main text in vol. 2. Printer’s marks and colophons of
Charles Whittingham, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane. Advs. verso facing t.p. in
each vol.
Further edns: 2nd edn. [1830] (NSTC, OCLC); 2nd edn. [sic] 1831 (NSTC);
1832 (OCLC).
1830: 21 [BANIM, John
and Michael].
THE DENOUNCED. BY THE AUTHORS OF “TALES BY THE O’HARA FAMILY.” IN THREE
VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1830.
I viii, 309p; II 315p; III 292p. 12mo. 31s 6d (BP, ECB); 31s 6d boards (ER,
LG).
BP (14 June 1830); Star (10 June 1830), ‘nearly ready’; LG 700: 405 (19 June
1830); ER 51: 589 (July 1830); ECB 159 (June 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47934-7; NSTC 2B6687 (BI BL, C, E; NA MH); OCLC 14268269
(21 libs).
Notes. Dedication, p. [iii], to ‘His Grace Arthur, Duke of Wellington’.
Prefatory ‘To the Reader’, pp. [v]–viii, precedes main text in vol. 1. The
work consists of:‘The Last Baron of Crana. Tale I’, vols. 1 and 2 (up to p.
187), and ‘The Conformists. Tale II’, vols. 2 (from p. [189]) and 3. Printer’s
marks and colophons of Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street.
Further edns: 1830 [1831] (NSTC); 1866 as The Denounced; or, the Last Baron
of Crana (NSTC, OCLC); Dublin 1866 as The Denounced; or, the Last Baron
of Crana (NSTC, OCLC); New York 1830 (NSTC, OCLC).
1830: 22 [BEAZLEY, Samuel].
THE OXONIANS; A GLANCE AT SOCIETY. BY THE AUTHOR OF “THE ROUÉ.” IN THREE
VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1830.
I xi, 320p; II 349p; III 300p. 12mo. 31s 6d (BP, ECB); 31s 6d boards (ER,
LG).
BP (18 June 1830); Star (20 Mar 1830), ‘in a few days’; LG 701: 421 (26 June
1830); ER 51: 589 (July 1830); ECB 429 (May 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48375-1; NSTC 2B13989 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA DLC, MH); OCLC
12026025 (13 libs).
Notes. BP gives ‘By Samuel Beazley, Junior, Architect and Designer
of Theatres, who also wrote upwards of a hundred plays to help to fill them’.
Dedication, p. [iii], to ‘the Right Honourable John Calcraft’. Introduction,
pp. [v]–xi, complains that the author’s previous novel, The Roué (see
EN2, 1828: 18), ‘was cried up by some critics as an important lesson to the
libertine, and abused by others for its immoral tendency; while even those
who praised it most, could not let the poor author escape without a pretty
broad hint, that experience alone could have dictated its pages’ (p. vi).
Printer’s marks and colophons of J. B. Nichols and Son, 25, Parliament Street.
Listed in Star as ‘The Oxonians; or a New Glance at Society’.
Further edns: 1830 [1831?] (NSTC); New York 1830 (OCLC).
1830: 23 BEST,
Eliza.
ST. JAMES’S; OR, A PEEP AT DELUSION. A NOVEL. BY ELIZA BEST. IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: Printed for the Author, and sold by A. K. Newman and Co. Leadenhall
Street, 1830.
I xi, 291p; II 304p. 12mo. 21s (ECB, Star); 21s boards (LG).
Star (25 Aug 1830); LG 710: 566 (28 Aug 1830); ECB 53 (Aug 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47120-6; NSTC 2B20494 (BI BL, C, E, O); OCLC 24898285 (7
libs, microform only).
Notes. Dedication, pp. [v]–vii, to ‘the Most Noble the Marquis
of Bristol’, signed ‘The Author. Churchgate-Street, Bury St. Edmunds’. Preface,
in which author expresses tremulousness as a ‘juvenile’ not having ‘attained
my nineteenth year’ at the conclusion of the work, occupies pp. [ix]–xi.
‘Notice’ (1 p. unn.), immediately preceding main text, recommends the
work as ‘Patronized by the Princess Esterhazy, His Grace the Duke of Grafton,
the Most Noble the Marquis of Bristol, the Countess of Euston, Sir Henry Bunbury,
Bart. Colonel Rushbrook, Henry Oakes, Esq.’. Printer’s marks and colophons
of J. Darling, Leadenhall Street. Originally adv. in Star (9 June 1830),
as to be published ‘this Summer’.
1830: 24 BOWDLER,
H[enrietta] M[aria].
PEN TAMAR; OR, THE HISTORY OF AN OLD MAID. BY THE LATE MRS. H. M. BOWDLER.
London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, Paternoster-Row,
1830.
ix, 244p, ill. 8vo. 10s 6d (ECB, ER); 10s 6d boards (LG).
LG 724: 789 (4 Dec 1830); ER 53: 257 (Mar 1831); ECB 69 (Nov 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47271-7; NSTC 2B43352 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA DLC, MH); OCLC
10150814 (20 libs).
Notes. ‘Preface by the Editor’, pp. [v]–vi, dated ‘Exeter, July
17. 1830’. This notes: ‘The publication of the following tale having been
delayed at the time it was written, the author at length decided on deferring
it during her life,—expressing a wish that it should finally be offered
to the public; yet leaving that point to be determined by two of her confidential
friends’ (p. [v]). ‘Preface by the Author’, pp. [vii]–ix, signed
‘H. M. Bowdler’ and dated ‘Exeter, Dec. 21. 1819’, states that the work
was written as early as 1801 as a Christian testimony against ‘[t]he writings
of Mr. Godwin and others [who] had spread jacobinical principles; and the
horrors of the French Revolution’ (p. [vii]). Printer’s mark and colophon
of A. and R. Spottiswoode, New Street Square. Longman Archives (A4, 27; H12,
72) record print run of 750 copies.
Further edn: 2nd edn. 1831 (OCLC).
1830: 25 BRAY,
{A}[nna] {E}[liza].
FITZ OF FITZ-FORD; A LEGEND OF DEVON. BY MRS. BRAY, AUTHOR OF ‘DE FOIX,’
‘THE WHITE HOODS,’ ‘THE PROTESTANT,’ &C. &C. &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Smith, Elder, and Co., Cornhill, 1830.
I 268p; II 264p; III 299p. 12mo. 27s (ECB); 27s boards (ER); 31s 6d boards
(LG).
LG 681: 93 (6 Feb 1830); ER 51: 294 (Apr 1830); ECB 72 (Feb 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47191-5; NSTC 2S42913 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA MH); OCLC 13313695
(9 libs).
Notes. Adv. on verso facing t.p. in vol. 1 notes: ‘Preparing for the
Press, The Talba, or Moor of Portugal; a Romance. By the Author of “De Foix,”
“The White Hoods,” “The Protestant,” “Fitz of Fitz-Ford,” &c. &c.’.
Introduction, pp. [1]–13, signed ‘A. E. B.’ and dated ‘Vicarage, Tavistock,
Devon, October 18th, 1828’. This stresses the authenticity of the legend of
Fitz-Ford, giving details of the local setting etc. List of ‘Works by the
Author of Fitz of Fitz-Ford’ (4 pp. unn.) at end of vol. 1, quoting extensively
from reviews of Bray’s novels. Printer’s marks and colophons of J. L. Cox,
Great Queen Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields.
Further edns: 1845 (OCLC, NSTC); German trans., 1835 [as Fitz of Fitz-Ford.
Eine Sage aus Süd-England, aus den Zeiten der Königin Elisabeth].
1830: 26 BRAY,
[Anna Eliza].
THE TALBA, OR MOOR OF PORTUGAL. A ROMANCE. BY MRS. BRAY, AUTHOR OF THE
WHITE HOODS; THE PROTESTANT; FITZ OF FITZ-FORD, &C. &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, Paternoster-Row,
1830.
I 307p; II 291p; III 284p. 8vo. 27s (ECB, ER); 27s boards (LG).
LG 725: 805 (11 Dec 1830); ER 53: 257 (Mar 1831); ECB 72 (Dec 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47192-3; NSTC 2S42923 (BI BL, C, E, O); xOCLC.
Notes. Verso facing t.p. in vol. 1 carries following notice: ‘Preparing
for the Press, by the Same Author, Warleigh; a Second Legend of Devon. In
3 Vols.’. Printer’s marks and colophons of A. and R. Spottiswoode, New Street
Square. Longman Archives (A4, 36; H12, 75) record print run of 500 copies.
Further edns: 1845 (OCLC 28515649; NSTC); New York 1831 (OCLC); German trans.,
1835.
1830: 27 [BRISTOW,
Amelia].
THE ORPHANS OF LISSAU, AND OTHER INTERESTING NARRATIVES, IMMEDIATELY CONNECTED
WITH JEWISH CUSTOMS, DOMESTIC AND RELIGIOUS, WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES. BY THE
AUTHOR OF “SOPHIA DE LISSAU,” “EMMA DE LISSAU,” &C. IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: Published by T. Gardiner & Son, Princes Street, Cavendish
Square; sold also by the Author, South Vale, Blackheath, 1830.
I ii, 268p; II 278p. 12mo. 12s (ECB); 12s boards (ER, LG).
LG 695: 325 (15 May 1830); ER 51: 589 (July 1830); ECB 425 (May 1830).
BL N.726; NSTC 2B48813 (BI C, E, O); OCLC 5814913 (8 libs).
Notes. List of contents follows t.p. in each vol. Preface, pp. [i]–ii,
dated ‘Blackheath, May 5, 1830’, states: ‘The following Narratives are authentic.
The Explanatory Notes illustrating, in the simplest form, Judaism, as it is
in the present day, are drawn from eminent Jewish authorities, and are held
in the highest veneration by the Jews in general’ (p. ii). Vol. 1 contains:
‘The Orphans of Lissau’, pp. [1]–158; ‘Some Remarks on Filial Disobedience,
as It Is Found among the Jews, and Ought to Be among Professing
Christians’ (essay), pp. [159]–171; ‘The Widow and her Son, or Brief
Annals of the Jewish Poor’, pp. [173]–268. Vol. 2 contains: ‘Brief Annals
of the Jewish Poor. The Widow and her Son, Continued’, pp. [1]–188; ‘Margaret
Warburton, or, the Double Apostasy’, pp. [189]–278. The explanatory notes
to the tales are in the form of footnotes. Printer’s marks and colophons of
B. and S. Gardiner, Printers, 248, Tottenham Court Road. ECB 425 also lists
Gardiner edn., 1835, but not discovered in this form.
Further edns: Edinburgh 1845 (OCLC); revised and abridged, London and Ipswich
[1859] (NSTC).
1830: 28 [BRITTAINE,
George].
IRISH PRIESTS AND ENGLISH LANDLORDS. BY THE AUTHOR OF HYACINTH O’GARA.
Dublin: R. M. Tims, 85, Grafton-Street, 1830.
249p. 18mo. 3s (ECB); 3s 6d boards (LG).
LG 680: 77 (30 Jan 1830); ECB 300 (Jan 1830).
BRu ENC; NSTC 2B49299 (BI BL, O); OCLC 37417055 (3 libs, microform only).
Notes. List of ‘Books published and sold by R. M. Tims’ at end of vol.
(2 pp. unn.) includes ‘Recollections of Hyacinth O’Gara. Third Edition,
enlarged’, ‘The Confessions of Honor Delany. By the Author of Hyacinth O’Gara.
Second Edition’, ‘Eglantine; or the Flower that Never Fades. An Allegorical
Tale, Altered from the French. By Miss Martin, the Author of Three Years’
Residence in Italy, Addressed to the Children of St. George Smith, Esq. Green
Hills, near Drogheda’.
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1830 (NSTC, OCLC); 1839 with Hyacinth O’ Gara
and Honor Delany (NSTC, OCLC).
1830:
29 [BRITTAINE, George].
IRISHMEN AND IRISHWOMEN[.] BY THE AUTHOR OF HYACINTH O’GARA; IRISH PRIESTS
AND ENGLISH LANDLORDS &C. &C.
Dublin: Richard Moore Tims, 85, Grafton-Street; Messrs Hamilton and Adams,
London; Waugh and Innes, Edinburgh, 1830.
219p. 18mo. 2s (ECB).
Dt OLS-B-1-996; NSTC 2B49300; xOCLC.
Notes. ECB 300 lists details of 2nd edn: ‘12mo., 3s. 6d. Tims (Dublin),
Hamilton, Ap. 31’.
Further edns: 2nd edn. Dublin 1831 (NSTC, OCLC 43605931); 3rd edn. Dublin
1831 (NSTC, OCLC; BRu ENC); London 1831 (NSTC).
1830: 30 {B}[ULWER]
{L}[YTTON], {E}[dward George].
PAUL CLIFFORD. BY THE AUTHOR OF “PELHAM,” “DEVEREUX,” &C. IN THREE
VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1830.
I xxii, 288p; II 324 p; III 329p. 12mo. 31s 6d (BP, ECB); 31s 6d boards (ER,
LG).
BP (4 May 1830); Star (10 June 1830); LG 694: 309 (8 May 1830); ER 51: 589
(July 1830); ECB 84 (May 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47170-2; NSTC 2B57437 (BI BL, C, O; NA DLC, MH); OCLC 1127593
(27 libs).
Notes. ‘Dedicatory Epistle, to **** ******, Esq.’, pp. [v]–xxii,
signed ‘E. L. B.’ and dated ‘Hertford-street, April, 1830’, directed to a
friend of the author’s ‘of the bar’ (p. vii). In discussing the merits
of novel-writing and his own previous work, the author adopts a sanguine stance
towards criticism: ‘For any occasional retaliation on critics, enemies, or
Scotchmen—(with me, for the most part, they have been found three appellations
for the same thing,) for many very hard words, and very smart hits against
myself—I offer no excuse:—my retaliation is in the spirit of English warfare—blows
at one moment, and good humour the next’ (pp. xviii–xix). ‘Note’ (1 p. unn.)
concerning references to ‘Moore’s Life of Byron’ precedes main text in vol.
1. Adv. list (2 pp. unn.) of ‘Popular Novels just Published by Messrs.
Colburn and Bentley, New Burlington Street’ followed by those ‘In the Press’
at end of vol. 3. Printer’s marks and colophons of Samuel Bentley, Dorset
Street, Fleet Street. BP notes that the story was adapted for the stage by
Benjamin Webster (see also NSTC 2B57441).
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1833 (BP: 27 Aug 1830, 31s 6d); 1835 (NSTC; BP: 29
July 1835, 6s boards); 1838 (OCLC); 1840 (NSTC); 1848 (NSTC); [at least 9
more edns. to 1870]; New York 1830 (OCLC); French trans., 1830; German trans.,
1830; Swedish trans., 1835; Danish trans., 1856.
1830: 31 [BUNBURY,
Selina].
ELEANOR. BY THE AUTHOR OF “A VISIT TO MY BIRTHPLACE,” “THE ABBEY OF INNISMOYLE,”
&C. &C.
Dublin: W. Curry, jun. & Co. Sackville-Street, W. Carson, Grafton-Street,
1830.
113p. 18mo. 1s 6d (ECB).
ECB 182 (Aug 1830).
BL 4413.f.41(1); NSTC 2B57671 (BI Dt); xOCLC.
Notes. T.p. has additional note, stating: ‘The profits of this Work
are in part appropriated to the promotion of the Greek mission.’ ‘Advertisement’
(1 p. unn.), dated ‘June, 1830’, notes: ‘The subject of this little narrative
allowed no room for imagination […] it has been written at an earlier period
of life, and friends will excuse occasional expressions which more matured
experience might have corrected.’ Printer’s mark reads: ‘Printed by P. D.
Hardy, Cecilia-street’. Collates in twelves and sixes alternately.
1830: 32 [BUNBURY,
Selina].
GERTRUDE AND HER FAMILY. BY THE AUTHOR OF “A VISIT TO MY BIRTH-PLACE,”
“EARLY RECOLLECTIONS,” “THE ABBEY OF INNISMOYLE,” &C. &C.
Dublin: Richard Moore Tims, Grafton-St., 1830.
357p. 18mo.
BL 1568/2148; NSTC 2B57675 (BI C); xOCLC.
Notes. Collates in twelves and sixes.
Further edn: 2nd edn. London and Dublin 1836 (OCLC 48985108).
1830: 33 [BURY,
Lady Charlotte Susan Maria].
THE EXCLUSIVES. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1830.
I 312p; II 288p; III 334p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP, ER); 31s 6d (ECB).
BP (28 Nov 1829); Star (27 Nov 1829), ‘in a few days’; ER 51: 294 (Apr 1830);
ECB 195 (Nov 1829).
BRu ENC; NSTC 2C4345 (BI BL, C, Dt, E, O); OCLC 4393526 (18 libs).
Notes. Colophons in vols. 1–2 read: ‘London: Printed by J. L. Cox,
Great Queen Street’, and in vol. 3: ‘London: Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitehall’;
however, the printer’s marks for vols. 1–3 (versos of t.ps.) read: ‘London:
Printed by J. L. Cox, Great Queen Street, Lincoln’s-Inn Fields.’ Originally
adv. in Star (4 Aug 1829), as ‘nearly ready’. BP notes: ‘Shortly after
the publication of this work, a pamphlet was issued entitled, “A Key to the
Royal Novel ‘The Exclusives’ ” (London: Marsh and Miller. Edinburgh:
Constable.) // The Authors of the pamphlet state that, believing in the good
accruing from satirical personality, they have paid special attention to the
remarkable novel […] called “The Exclusives,” in order to extend the sphere
of its usefulness by making the personality more apparent, and by supplying
the real name of the characters who figure in its pages. It is further added
that one of the objects of the story is “to delineate the real features of
that mysterious society, so long known to exist in the very heart of the high
classes, under the denomination of the ‘Exclusives.’ ” // At the back
of the title is printed a Key to the Characters of the Story, the real names
being indicated by some of the letters only. In the copy of the pamphlet,
in the British Museum [now in the British Library] the majority of these skeleton
names have been filled in by hand.’ BP for 1829 contains a copy of the key
at the end of vol. OCLC 31042650 provides details of this ‘Key’.
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1830 (NSTC; BP: 8 Jan 1830, 31s 6d); 3rd edn. 1830
(Corvey, CME 3-628-47649-6, NSTC, OCLC; BP: 24 Feb 1830, 31s 6d); New York
1830 (NSTC, OCLC); French trans., [1830?].
1830: 34 [BURY,
Lady Charlotte Susan Maria].
THE SEPARATION. A NOVEL. BY THE AUTHORESS OF “FLIRTATION.” IN THREE VOLS.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1830.
I 266p; II 254p; III 268p. 12mo. 27s (BP, ECB); 27s boards (LG).
BP (11 Aug 1830); LG 709: 550 (21 Aug 1830); ECB 527 (1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48646-7; NSTC 2C4356 (BI BL, C, NCu, O; NA MH); OCLC 10151872
(17 libs).
Notes. List of ‘Interesting Works Preparing for Publication by Henry
Colburn & Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street’ (2 pp. unn.) at
end of vol. 2. Printer’s marks and colophons of Ibotson and Palmer, Savoy
Street, Strand. BRu ENC copy has list of errata (1 p. unn.) for vols.
1–3 inserted after t.p. of vol. 1.
Further edn: New York 1830 (NSTC, OCLC).
1830: 35 [CALDERÓN
DE LA BARCA, Frances Erskine, Marchioness].
GERTRUDE; A TALE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1830.
I viii, 276p; II 324p. 12mo. 21s (BP, ECB); 21s boards (ER).
BP (19 Mar 1830); Star (20 Mar 1830); ER 51: 294 (Apr 1830); ECB 229 (Mar
1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47811-1; NSTC 2C1800 (BI BL, C, E, O); OCLC 13288342 (3
libs).
Notes. BP attributes (probably erroneously) to Madame de Moëller; see
also The Affianced One (1832: 17). Preface, pp. [iii]–viii, reappraises
Henry IV of France in the light of his relationship with women. Printer’s
mark in vol. 1 reads: ‘London: Printed by Samuel Bentley, Dorset-street, Salisbury-square’,
while address given in colophons of both vols. is ‘Dorset Street, Fleet Street’.
Bentley MS List and Star give title as ‘Gertrude. A Tale of the Reign
of Henry IV’.
1830: 36 CAMPBELL,
Alexander.
PERKIN WARBECK; OR, THE COURT OF JAMES THE FOURTH OF SCOTLAND. AN HISTORICAL
ROMANCE. BY ALEXANDER CAMPBELL. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Printed for A. K. Newman and Co., 1830.
I 248p; II 261p; III 260p. 12mo. 16s 6d (ECB, Star).
Star (8 May 1830); ECB 94 (May 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47207-5; NSTC 2C4198 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA DLC); xOCLC.
Notes. Advs. for ‘New Publications’ at end of vols. 1 (2 pp. unn.)
and 2 (3 pp. unn.). That in vol. 2 includes ‘The Phantom, or Mysteries
of the Castle, by Mrs. Matthews’ (4s): compare EN2, Appendix, F: 5. Printer’s
marks and colophons of J. Darling, Leadenhall Street.
1830: 37 [CARLETON,
William].
TRAITS AND STORIES OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY. WITH ETCHINGS BY W. H. BROOKE,
ESQ. IN TWO VOLUMES.
Dublin: William Curry, jun. and Company, 9, Upper Sackville Street, 1830.
I xii, 275p, ill.; II 304p, ill. 12mo. 14s (ECB).
ECB 596 (Apr 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-51141-0; NSTC 2C7502 (BI BL); OCLC 15147367 (13 libs).
Notes. List of contents, vol. 1, p. [v], precedes Preface, pp. [vii]–xii,
which itself is dated ‘Dublin, 1st March, 1830’. The latter stresses the truly
indigenous nature of the collection: ‘The reader may finally believe that
these volumes contain probably a greater number of facts than any other book
ever published on Irish life’ (p. xi). It also affirms that the author
‘has studiously avoided local idiom, and that intolerable Scoto-Hibernic jargon
which pierces the ear so unmercifully—but has preserved every thing Irish,
and generalized the phraseology, so that the book, wherever it may go, will
exhibit a truly Hibernian spirit’ (p. xi). Vol. 1 comprises: ‘Ned M‘Keown’,
pp. [1]–42; ‘The Three Tasks, or the Little House under the Hill’, pp. [43]–92;
‘An Irish Wedding’, pp. [93]–156; ‘Larry M‘Farland’s Wake’, pp. [157]–216;
‘The Battle of the Factions. By a Hedge Schoolmaster’, pp. [217]–275.
Vol. 2 contains: ‘Funeral, and Party Fight’, pp. [1]–108; ‘The Hedge
School’, pp. [109]–210; ‘The Station’, pp. [211]–304. Printer’s
mark in vol. 1 reads: ‘Dublin: Printed by P. D. Hardy, Cecilia Street’.
For details of 2nd ser., see 1833: 15.
Further edns: 2nd edn., corrected, 1832 (OCLC); 3rd edn., corrected, 1834
(OCLC); 4th edn., corrected, 1835 (OCLC); 1843 (OCLC); Philadelphia 1833 (OCLC);
French trans. of ‘The Three Tasks’, 1861 [as part of Romans irlandais:
scenes de la vie champêtre]. Collected with 2nd ser: London and Dublin
1836 (NSTC); Dublin and London 1843–4 (NSTC, OCLC); London 1852 (NSTC, OCLC);
London 1853 (NSTC); London 1853–5 (NSTC); [at least 6 more edns. to 1870];
Germans trans., 1837 [as Skizzen Erzählungen aus dem Leben des Irishen
Landvolks].
1830:
38 [CLARKE, William].
THREE COURSES AND A DESSERT. THE DECORATIONS BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.
London: Vizetelly, Branston and Co. Fleet Street, 1830.
432p, ill. 8vo. 18s (ECB); ‘18s. hf.-bd.’ (LG).
LG 692: 277 (24 Apr 1830); ECB 589 (Apr 1830).
O 30.458; NSTC 2C24680 (BI BL; NA DLC, MH); OCLC (39 libs).
Notes. ‘Induction’ [sic] (2 pp. unn.) expresses author’s
gratitude to Mr. George Cruikshank ‘to whom he is deeply indebted for having
embellished his rude sketches in their transfer to wood, and translated them
into a proper pictorial state, to make their appearance in public’. List of
contents (2 pp. unn.) is headed ‘Bill of Fare’, and is divided into ‘First
Course:—West Country Chronicles’ (8 items listed), ‘Second Course:—Neighbours
of an Old Irish Boy’ (14 items), and ‘Third Course:—My Cousin’s Clients’ (15
items). Vignette illustration on t.p., also others passim, most commonly at
the end of items; plus several full plates. Some verse, but prose predominant.
Colophon reads ‘Vizetelly, Branston and Co., Printers, 135, Fleet Street’,
thus unusually matching t.p. imprint. Collates in fours.
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1830 (Corvey, CME 3-628-51179-8, NSTC, OCLC); 3rd edn
1830 (NSTC, OCLC); 3rd edn. [sic] 1836 (NSTC); 3rd edn. [sic]
1845 (NSTC, OCLC); 1850 (OCLC); [at least 3 more edns. to 1870].
1830: 39 COATES,
Mr [H.].
THE WEIRD WOMAN OF THE WRAAGH; OR, BURTON AND LE MOORE. AN HISTORICAL TALE.
BY MR. COATES. IN FOUR VOLUMES.
London: Printed for A. K. Newman and Co., 1830.
I iv, 301p; II 288p; III 308p; IV 327p. 12mo. 24s (ECB, Star).
Star (19 May 1830); ECB 122 (May 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47299-7; NSTC 2C27423 (BI BL, C, E, O); xOCLC.
Notes. Dedication, pp. [i]–iv, to ‘His Grace the Most Noble Arthur
Duke of Wellington’, signed ‘The Author’. This remarks that ‘If the melancholy
condition of Ireland and Irishmen is ever to be remedied by the British legislature,
now is the time!’, adding that ‘The miseries portrayed in many scenes of this
tale, are by no means fictitious, as your grace is no doubt aware’ (p. [i]).
Lists of ‘New Publications’ at end of vols. 1 (5 pp. unn.) and 4 (1 p. unn.).
Printer’s marks and colophons of J. Darling, Leadenhall Street.
1830:
40 [COOPER, James Fenimore].
THE WATER WITCH; OR, THE SKIMMER OF THE SEAS. A TALE. BY THE AUTHOR OF
“THE BORDERERS,” “THE PRAIRIE,” &C. &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1830.
I viii, 321p; II 316p; III 308p. 12mo. 31s 6d (BP, ECB, ER); 31s 6d boards
(LG).
BP (14 Oct 1830); LG 718: 693 (23 Oct 1830); ER 53: 257
(Mar 1831); ECB 135 (Oct 1830).
Corvey; NSTC 2C36885 (BI BL, C, Dt, E, O; NA DLC, MH);
OCLC 2393401 (39 libs).
Notes. Preface, pp. [i]–viii, expatiates on the history of New
York. Printer’s marks and colophons of Henry Baylis, Johnson’s Court, Fleet
Street. Advs. (2 pp. unn.) at end of vol. 1; items there include ‘Criticisms
on Mr. Galt’s Life of Lord Byron’.
Further edns: revised and corrected, with a new preface,
1834 (NSTC, OCLC; BP: 30 Jan 1834, 6s boards); 1835 (OCLC); 1837 (OCLC); [1839]
(NSTC, OCLC); 1844 (OCLC); [at least 9 more edns. to 1870]; Philadelphia 1831
(Blanck); German trans., 1830; French trans., 1831.
1830: 41 [CROWE,
Eyre Evans].
THE ENGLISH AT HOME. BY THE AUTHOR OF “THE ENGLISH IN ITALY,” AND “THE
ENGLISH IN FRANCE.” IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1830.
I 305p; II 306p; III 306p. 12mo. 31s 6d (BP, ECB); 31s 6d boards (ER).
BP (27 May 1830); Star (10 June 1830); ER 51: 589 (July 1830); ECB 187 (May
1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47566-X; NSTC 2P15295 (BI C, E; NA DLC, MH); OCLC 5380797
(12 libs).
Notes. Sometimes attributed (erroneously) to Constantine Henry Phipps,
Marquis of Normanby and Earl of Mulgrave. BP notes: ‘By Eyre Evans Crowe,
son of a military officer of the same name, who received £500 for the copyright.
// Mr. Crowe was French Correspondent of the Morning Chronicle, and
afterwards Editor, for a time, of the Daily News. “The English at Home”
was preceded by two other novels from his pen, “The English in France,” and
“The English in Italy.” ’ For arguments over author attribution, see
EN2, 1825: 23. List of ‘Interesting New Works just Published by Henry Colburn
and Richard Bentley’ (2 pp. unn. each) at end of each vol. Printer’s
marks and colophons of Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street.
Further edns: 1830 [1831?] (NSTC); New York 1830 (OCLC).
1830: 42 [CUTHBERTSON,
Catherine].
SIR ETHELBERT; OR, THE DISSOLUTION OF MONASTERIES. A ROMANCE. BY THE AUTHOR
OF SANTO SEBASTIANO; THE ROMANCE OF THE PYRENEES, &C. &C. IN THREE
VOLUMES.
London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, Paternoster
Row, 1830.
I 424p; II 412p; III 413p. 12mo. 24s boards (ER, LG).
LG 695: 325 (15 May 1830); ER 51: 589 (July 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48707-2; NSTC 2C48149 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA MH); OCLC 6715991
(4 libs).
Notes. Printer’s marks and colophons A. and R. Spottiswoode, New Street
Square. Longman Archives (A4, 88; H12, 59) record print run of 750 copies.
Further edn: 1833 (NSTC, OCLC).
DOYLE, Martin
See HICKEY, William
DUROS, Edward
See ATKINSON, Charles L.
1830:
43 DRUMMOND, Lady Julia
[pseud.].
FLORA, THE BEAUTY OF THE SCOTTISH BORDER: BEING THE LIFE OF THE COUNTESS
OF LINFORD; EDITED BY HER NIECE, THE HON. LADY JULIA DRUMMOND.  THE WHOLE BEING ADMIRABLY ADAPTED FOR CONVEYING CORRECT
IDEAS OF MANNERS IN THE VARIOUS RANKS OF LIFE, FOR ENLARGING THE UNDERSTANDING,
AND FOR IMPROVING THE HEART. EMBELLISHED AND ILLUSTRATED BY NUMEROUS ELEGANT
ENGRAVINGS.
London: Sold by G. Virtue, 26, Ivy Lane; by Mackenzie and Dent, Newcastle
upon Tyne; and most Publishers in the Kingdom, 1830.
iv, 663p, ill. 8vo.
E Jac.V.2/2; NSTC 2D19801 (BI BL); xOCLC.
Notes. ‘Address to the Reader’, pp.[iii]–iv, signed J. Drummond, and
applauding the qualities of the writer’s ‘highly honoured and deeply lamented
aunt, the late Countess of Linford’, who is stated, to have ‘revised for publication
more than two-thirds of her journal’ before her death. Allegedly representing
memoirs, but frequently employing the techniques of fiction. Numbered in parts
from 1–28 at foot of page, with three signatures (24 pp.) normally representing
a part. Six engraved plates, with directions to binder on verso of p. 663.
Printer’s mark and colophon read: ‘Mackenzie and Dent, Printers, Newcastle’.
Collates in fours.
Further edns: 2nd edn. London and Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1830 (NSTC); 3rd edn.
London 1831 (NSTC); 1834 (OCLC 3531002).
1830:
44 EGAN, Pierce.
PIERCE EGAN’S FINISH TO THE ADVENTURES OF TOM, JERRY, AND LOGIC, IN THEIR
PURSUITS THROUGH LIFE IN AND OUT OF LONDON: ILLUSTRATED BY THE PENCIL OF MR.
ROBERT CRUIKSHANK, IN 36 SCENES FROM REAL LIFE, & ENRICHED WITH SEVERAL
DESIGNS OF WOOD BY THE SAME ARTIST. DEDICATED TO HIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY,
KING GEORGE THE FOURTH.
London: Printed C. Baynes, 13, Duke-Street, Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields, for
G. Virtue, 26, Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row; Bath Street, Bristol; and Great
Ancoates Street, Manchester, 1830.
xvi, 368p, ill. 8vo.
C Harley-Mason.c.82; NSTC 2E5887 (NA MH); OCLC 17556022 (17 libs).
Notes. Dedication to ‘His Most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth’,
signed Pierce Egan, and dated ‘Sept. 4, 1829’. List of contents occupies pp. [v]–xii,
followed by table of illustrations, pp. [xiii]–xvi. Frontispiece, the
first of 36 lavish coloured plates, bears the imprint ‘London: Published by
George Virtue, 26 Ivy Lane, 1829’. Colophon of C. Baynes, 13 Duke-Street,
Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields. Collates in fours. Cambridge copy has pencilled note
on front paste down blank leaf, which states ‘First ed. First Issue’. OCLC
14585464 (4 libs) describes an identically paginated edn. published London:
W. Strange, 1830.
Further edn: 1869 (NSTC, OCLC).
1830:
45 EVANS, R[obert] W[ilson].
THE RECTORY OF VALEHEAD. BY THE REV. R. W. EVANS.
London: Smith, Elder, and Co., Cornhill, 1830.
xi, 287p. 16mo. 6s (s.l., ECB, Star).
Star (12 Nov 1830); ECB 193 (Nov 1830).
E Vts.30.c.35; NSTC 2E13964 (BI BL, C); xOCLC.
Notes. Preface, pp. [iii]–vii, stating religious didactic intent;
list of contents, pp. [ix]–xi. Poetry liberally interspersed. Adv. list
at end of vol. (4 pp. unn.) of ‘Works recently Published by Smith, Elder,
and Co., Cornhill, London’, including both fiction and theological/educational
works. Printer’s mark and colophon of Maurice and Co., Fenchurch Street.
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1831 (NSTC); 3rd edn. 1831 (NSTC); 4th edn. 1831 (Corvey,
CME 3-628-47637-2, NSTC, OCLC 13741463); 5th edn. 1831 (NSTC); 6th edn. 1832
(NSTC, OCLC); [at least 8 more edns. to 1870]; Philadelphia 1832 (OCLC).
1830:
46 FORBES, Duncan (trans.).
THE ADVENTURES OF HATIM TAÏ, A ROMANCE. TRANSLATED FROM THE PERSIAN, BY
DUNCAN FORBES, AM.
London: Printed for the Oriental Translation Fund, and sold by J. Murray,
Albemarle Street; and Parbury, Allen, & Co. Leadenhall Street, 1830.
xi, 214p. 4to. 16s (ECB).
ECB 6 (Mar 1830).
Corvey; NSTC 2F10106 (BI BL, C, Dt, E, O; NA DLC, MH);
OCLC 13074518 (29 libs).
Notes. Persian original not discovered. Preface, pp. [v]–xi, subscribed
‘2, South Crescent, Bedford Square’. This notes: ‘The eminent personage who
figures as the hero was in his time a pattern of wisdom, bravery, and generosity.
He has been therefore chosen as a proper theme by the writer of romance, who
spurning the bounds of reality, has created an ideal world of his own, with
that wildness and extravagance of fancy which characterise an eastern imagination’
(pp. [v]–vi). It also states: ‘This circumstance has induced me, under
the auspices of the High and Illustrious Personages who contribute to the
Oriental Translation Fund, to offer to the public the following English version,
as a specimen of the romance of a nation that has long ranked as the most
refined in Asia’ (p. vi), adding that ‘The manuscript from which the
present translation is made, was procured in the East in 1824. It gives no
notice as to the place and time of writing’ (p. vii). The text is richly
annotated with references to the original language, customs, etc. of the East.
Printer’s mark and colophon of J. L. Cox, Great Queen Street, Lincoln’s Inn
Fields.
Further edns: 1836 (NSTC); German trans., 1831.
1830: 47 FRA[S]ER,
J[ames] B[aillie].
THE PERSIAN ADVENTURER: BEING THE SEQUEL OF “THE KUZZILBASH;” BY J. B.
FRAZER, ESQ. AUTHOR OF A TOUR TO THE HIMÀLÀ MOUNTAINS; TRAVELS IN PERSIA,
&C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1830.
I xii, 365p; II 365p; III 392p. 12mo. 31s 6d (BP, ECB, ER); 31s 6d boards
(LG).
BP (23 Nov 1830); LG 723: 773 (27 Nov 1830); ER 53: 257 (Mar 1831); ECB 216
(Nov 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47596-1; NSTC 2F14803 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA DLC, MH); OCLC
2975650 (14 libs).
Notes. Preface, pp. [v]–xii, by the ‘translator’ notes: ‘Those
who may be at a loss to comprehend the change of title in the following work,
from that under which the first part was published, will cease to wonder at
it when they are informed, that so little did that title serve to convey an
idea of the work it announced, that a respectable bookseller informed the
author he had actually been more than once asked whether the “Kuzzilbash”
was not a cookery book!’ (p. [vn]). Printer’s marks and colophons
of A. J. Valpy, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street.
Further edn: Philadelphia 1831 (NSTC, OCLC).
1830: 48 GALT,
John.
LAWRIE TODD; OR, THE SETTLERS IN THE WOODS. BY JOHN GALT, ESQ. FAS., HON.
LS, P., HON. NHS, M., &C. AUTHOR OF “THE ANNALS OF THE PARISH,” “THE AYRSHIRE
LEGATEES,” &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 8, New Burlington Street, 1830.
I v, 360p; II 336p; III 323p. 12mo. 31s 6d (BP, ECB); 31s 6d boards (LG).
BP (19 Jan 1830); Star (9 Jan 1830); LG 679: 61 (23 Jan 1830); ER 51: 294
(Apr 1830); ECB 222 (Jan 1830).
BL N.769; NSTC 2G1376 (BI C, Dt, E, NCu, O; NA MH); OCLC 2643701 (34 libs).
Notes. Preface, pp. [iii]–v, notes: ‘The principal portion of
the first part is made up from a personal narrative, and the peculiarities
of the narrator resemble those of a singular, but worthy man. Some of his
original letters are given in the Appendix as curiosities, and because they
have been made use of in this work, and treat with feeling and sagacity of
an impressive topic’ (pp. [iii]–iv). It also states: ‘The author having
recently superintended a Colonial experiment of great magnitude, it may be
imagined that in Judiville he has described his own undertaking. This is not
the case; for the narrative embraces the substance of his knowledge, whether
obtained by inquiry, observation, or experience. The subject is more important
than novels commonly treat of.—A description, which may be considered authentic,
of the rise and progress of a successful American settlement, cannot but be
useful to the emigrant who is driven to seek a home in the unknown wilderness
of the woods. […] The book, therefore, though written to amuse, was not altogether
undertaken without a higher object’ (pp. iv–v). Appendix occupies pp. [297]–315
in vol. 3, followed by a glossary, pp. [317]–323. List of ‘Errata’ follows
main text in vol. 3. Adv. list at end of vol. 3 for ‘Popular Novels just Published
by Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street’. Printer’s marks
and colophons of Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street. Bentley MS List
notes: ‘Agreement of June 23 1829 superseded by one of January 20 1830 with
John Galt (?) copyright for £500.’ Originally adv. in Star (7 Dec 1829)
as ‘nearly ready’. BP notes: ‘The original of “Lawrie Todd,” Mr. Thorburn,
published his own account of himself in Fraser’s Magazine for June
and July, 1833.’
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1830 (Corvey, 3-628-47859-6; BP: 11 Aug 1830, 21s);
‘new edn.’, revised and corrected, 1832 (NSTC, OCLC; BP: 19 Apr 1832, 15s);
1831 [1832] (NSTC; BP: 31 Oct 1832, 6s boards); 1840 (OCLC); revised and corrected,
1849 (NSTC, OCLC); New York 1830 (NSTC, OCLC).
1830: 49 GALT,
John.
SOUTHENNAN. BY JOHN GALT, ESQ. AUTHOR OF “LAWRIE TODD,” “THE ANNALS OF
THE PARISH,” &C. &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1830.
I 321p; II 312p; III 336p. 12mo. 31s 6d (BP, ECB); 31s 6d boards (ER).
BP (28 June 1830); ER 51: 589 (July 1830); ECB 222 (July 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47761-1; NSTC 2G1399 (BI BL, C, E, O); OCLC 25431480 (13
libs).
Notes. Adv. (vol. 1, verso facing t.p.) for ‘By the same Author, in
3 vols. post 8vo. Lawrie Todd; or, the Settlers in the Woods’, followed by
a favourable extract from the Spectator. List of ‘Popular Novels just
Published by Messrs. Colburn and Bentley. New Burlington Street’ (2 pp. unn.)
at end of vol. 1. ‘Glossary’ occupies vol. 3, pp. 317–336. Printer’s
marks and colophons of J. B. Nichols and Son, 25, Parliament Street.
Further edn: New York 1830 (NSTC, OCLC).
1830: 50 [GILLIES,
Robert Pierce].
BASIL BARRINGTON AND HIS FRIENDS. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1830.
I viii, 300p; II 303p; III 314p. 12mo. 31s 6d (BP, ECB); 31s 6d boards (LG).
BP (27 Sept 1830); LG 714: 630 (25 Sept 1830); ECB 43 (Sept 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47112-5; NSTC 2G8238 (BI BL, O); OCLC 13344651 (8 libs).
Notes. ‘Preface. By the Editor’, pp. [iii]–viii, dated ‘London,
Aug. 1830’, notes that the work ‘came into my possession under circumstances
rather singular’ (p. [iii]) and that ‘I have transcribed this work without
the slightest alteration’ (p. viii). Printer’s marks and colophons of
Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street. In his Memoirs of a Literary
Veteran (London, 1851), vol. 3, p. 213, Gillies notes: ‘the first
use I made of my little gasp of time was to finish a book, “Basil Barrington,”
for which Mr. Colburn had already paid me £200 before it was written. But
it was eventually spoiled, not for want of good will or industry on the part
of the author, but because during the whole time which ought to have been
devoted to it (namely, the six months previous), I was inevitably occupied
in pecuniary arrangements, and in travelling about from London to Edinburgh,
from Edinburgh to Aberdeen, and vice versa. At length my publisher
became impatient for his book, which ought to have been completed long ago,
and I fed the press with hasty scrolls till the stipulated number of pages
were filled.
Further edn: 1830 [1831] (NSTC).
1830: 51 [GILLIES,
Robert Pierce].
RANULPH DE ROHAIS. A ROMANCE OF THE TWELFTH CENTURY. BY THE AUTHOR OF “TALES
OF A VOYAGER TO THE ARCTIC OCEAN.” IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: William Kidd, 6, Old Bond Street, 1830.
I 431p; II 426p; III 446p. 8vo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d boards (ER, LG).
LG 695: 325 (15 May 1830); ER 51: 589 (July 1830); ECB 479 (May 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48451-0; NSTC 2G8245 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA MH); xOCLC.
Notes. Publisher’s vignette design with initials ‘WK’ on each t.p.
Adv. verso facing t.p. in each vol. Lists of ‘New and Interesting Works Published
by William Kidd, 6, Old Bond Street’ (2 pp. unn. each) at end of vols.
2 and 3. Printer’s marks and colophons of Charles Whittingham, 21, Tooks Court,
Chancery Lane.
1830: 52 [GLASCOCK,
William Nugent].
TALES OF A TAR, WITH CHARACTERISTIC ANECDOTES. BY ONE OF THE AUTHORS OF
“THE NAVAL SKETCH BOOK.”
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1830.
vii, 333p. 12mo. 10s 6d (BP, ECB).
BP (7 June 1830); Star (10 June 1830); ECB 232 (May 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-51159-3; NSTC 2G9537 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA DLC, MH); OCLC
4128530 (15 libs).
Notes. According to received knowledge, The Naval Sketch-Book
(EN2, 1826: 39) was by Glascock alone. ‘Advertisement’, pp. [v]–vii,
dated ‘London: March 25th, 1830’, notes: ‘Of the following Tales, the Author
may be allowed to state, that they are all, according to the old phrase, “founded
in fact” ’ (p. [v]). List of contents (1 p. unn.) precedes
main text. The tales consist of: ‘The Breeze at Spithead’, pp. [1]–174;
‘Jack a Biographer’, pp. 175–181; ‘Kind Inquiries’, pp. 183–193;
‘Command O’ Mind’, pp. [195]–219; ‘Obstetric Consolation’, pp. [221]–223;
‘Sailor Sal’, pp. [225]–283; ‘Dreams at Sea’, pp. [285]–304; ‘A
Brush in the Boats’, pp. [305]–330; ‘A “Call” for the Cat’, pp. [331]–333.
Printer’s mark and colophon of Shackell and Baylis, Johnson’s Court, Fleet
Street.
Further edn: 1830 [1831] (NSTC).
1830: 53 [GLASSE,
Francis].
JOE OXFORD; OR, THE RUNAWAY. BY THE AUTHOR OF NED CLINTON, &C. &C.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Hurst, Chance, & Co. 65, St. Paul’s Church Yard, 1830.
I 318p; II 304p; III 328p. 12mo. 21s (ECB).
ECB 309 (Oct 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47987-8; NSTC 2O8918 (NA MH); OCLC 49427878 (1 lib).
Notes. T.ps. of vols. 2 and 3 read: ‘London: Hurst, Chance, and Co.’.
Colophons of W. Glindon, 31, Rupert Street, Haymarket.
Further edn: 1831 (NSTC).
1830: 54 [GLEIG,
George Robert].
THE COUNTRY CURATE. BY THE AUTHOR OF “THE SUBALTERN,” AND “THE CHELSEA
PENSIONERS.” IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1830.
I iv, 334p; II 354p. 12mo. 21s (BP, ECB); 21s boards (LG).
BP (14 Jan 1830); Star (18 Jan 1830); LG 678: 45 (16 Jan 1830); ECB 139 (Jan
1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47371-3; NSTC 2G10268 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA MH); OCLC 5231356
(15 libs).
Notes. ‘Advertisement’, pp. [iii]–iv, dated ‘November, 1829’,
notes ‘that the plan of this Work was devised several years ago; that the
Introduction, with three of the tales, appeared in Blackwood’s Magazine; and
that the substance of a fourth was given in Friendship’s Offering, for 1827’
(p. iv). T.p. of vol. 2 differs from vol. 1., reading: ‘The Country Curate.
By the Author of “The Subaltern” ’ [i.e. one ascribed title only]. Vol.
2, p. 354 mistakenly reads ‘435’. Running title varies according to chapter
headings. Printer’s mark and colophons of Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet
Street. Originally adv. in Star (18 Dec 1829) as ‘nearly ready’. A
draft letter to Gleig in the Longman Letter Books, dated 19 Nov 1832, notes
in passing that ‘We observe in a trade catalogue a considerable remainder
of the Country Curate and on examination we find that in fact there was no
real second edition but merely a corrected title page’ (I, 102, no. 192B).
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1830 (BP: 30 Aug 1830; 21s); 1834 (NSTC, OCLC; BP:
28 Aug 1834, 6s boards); 1846 (NSTC, OCLC); 1852 (OCLC); New York 1830 (OCLC).
1830: 55 [GODWIN,
William].
CLOUDESLEY: A TALE. BY THE AUTHOR OF “CALEB WILLIAMS.” IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1830.
I xiv, 274p; II 282p; III 345p. 12mo. 31s 6d (BP, ECB); 31s 6d boards (ER,
LG).
BP (2 Mar 1830); Star (20 Mar 1830); LG 685: 161 (6 Mar 1830); ER 51: 294
(Apr 1830); ECB 234 (Mar 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47296-2; NSTC 2G11504 (BI BL, C, Dt, E, O; NA DLC, MH);
OCLC 4244732 (43 libs).
Notes. ‘Advertisement’, pp. [iii]–iv, dated ‘January 30, 1830’.
This begins by acknowledging that ‘The following tale is built upon a fact
that occurred about the middle of the last century’ (p. [iii]), and footnote
adds: ‘It is only just that the reader should be informed, that a novel has
been already written on this theme, and printed in the year 1743, under the
title of “Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young Nobleman Returned from a Thirteen
Years’ Slavery in America”.’ The ‘Advertisement’ later states: ‘When I wrote
Caleb Williams, I considered it as in some measure a paraphrase on the story
of Bluebeard by Charles Perrault. The present publication may in the same
sense be denominated a paraphrase on the old ballad of the Children in the
Wood’ (p. iv). Preface, pp. [v]–xiv, discusses the nature of historical
narrative and characterization. List of ‘Works Preparing for Publication by
Messrs. Colburn and Bentley’ (2 pp. unn.) at end of vol. 2. List of ‘Works
just Published by Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street’
(2 pp. unn.) at the end of vol. 3. Printer’s marks and colophons of Richard
Taylor, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street.
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1830 (NSTC, OCLC; BP: 16 Aug 1830, 31s 6d); New York
1830 (NSTC, OCLC); French trans., 1830.
1830: 56 [GORE,
Catherine Grace Frances].
THE MANNERS OF THE DAY. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1830.
I 332p; II 326p; III 315p. 12mo. 31s 6d (BP, ECB); 31s 6d boards (ER).
BP (30 Jan 1830); Star (20 Mar 1830); ER 51: 294 (Apr 1830); ECB 366 (Feb 1830).
MH-H 21482.14.2; NSTC 2G14854; OCLC 22354681 (3 libs).
Notes. Vol. 3 text ends: ‘These volumes commenced with the description
of “un bon marriage,”—surely they cannot be more
satisfactorily closed than by this propitious detail of the results of “un
marriage délicieux!” ’ (p. 315) Colophons of Ibotson
and Palmer, Savoy Street, Strand.
Further edn: 2nd edn. 1830 as Women as They Are; or, the Manners of the Day
(NSTC, OCLC; BP: 22 Apr 1830; 31s 6d).
1830: 57 GRATTAN,
Thomas Colley.
THE HEIRESS OF BRUGES; A TALE OF THE YEAR SIXTEEN HUNDRED. BY THOMAS COLLEY
GRATTAN, AUTHOR OF “HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS,” “TRAITS OF TRAVEL,” &C. IN FOUR
VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1830.
I 302p; II 333p; III 313p; IV 318p. 12mo. 42s (BP, ECB).
BP (27 Sept 1830); ECB 241 (Sept 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47775-1; xNSTC; OCLC 3906211 (10 libs).
Notes. Dedication (1 p. unn.) to ‘the Hon. Lady Bagot’, signed
‘The Author’ and dated ‘Brussels, May, 1830’. ‘Note’ (vol. 4, pp. [317]–318)
exculpates the author from having plagiarized the death of one of his characters
from that of Balfour of Burley in Scott’s ‘Old Mortality’, the author claiming
that he had never read that novel ‘till within the last three days’: this
is end-dated ‘Brussels, July 28, 1830’. List of ‘New Works by Distinguished
Writers, just Published by Messrs. Colburn and Bentley’ (2 pp. unn.)
at end of vol. 3. List of ‘Works by Distinguished Writers, Preparing for Publication,
by Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley’ (2 pp. unn.) at end of vol. 4.
Printer’s marks of Henry Baylis, Johnson’s Court, Fleet Street, with colophons
in vols. 1 and 2 adding ‘Shackell’ (i.e. ‘Shackell and Baylis’) as printer.
NSTC 2G18163 describes 1830 Brussels edn. A copy of this held at the Bodleian
Library (Nuneham 2542 e.3332) in 3 vols. carries the imprint: ‘Brussels: J.
Gardiner, No. 1079, Montagne de la Cour. Paris: A. and W. Galignani, No. 18,
Rue Vivienne. 1830’. It has not been discovered whether this Brussels edn.
predates the London edn. described above, but Brussels was, at this time,
Grattan’s place of residence.
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1831 (NSTC, OCLC; BP: 30 Nov 1830, 28s 6d quires);
1834 (NSTC, OCLC; BP: 1 May 1834, 6s boards); 1844 (OCLC); 1847 (NSTC); 1853
(NSTC, OCLC); [at least 2 more edns. to 1870]; New York 1831 (NSTC, OCLC);
French trans., 1831; German trans., 1831.
1830: 58 [GRENVILLE],
Richard [Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos], Duke of Buckingham and Chandos.
LEGEND OF THE HOUSE OF YONNE AND A SICILIAN TALE[.] BY RICHARD DUKE OF
BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS. K. G.
[Stowe]: Printed at the Stowe Private Press, 1830.
83p. ill. 4to.
BL C.59.i.23; NSTC 2G21707; OCLC 6124254 (1 lib).
Notes. Handwritten (rather than printed) t.p. precedes frontispiece
portrait of the author. Note appearing after date in imprint reads: ‘Only
twenty five copies’. The work consists of: ‘The Legend of the House of Yonne’,
pp. [1]–60; ‘A Tale of Sicily’, pp. [61]–76; ‘The Zitza’ (including
verse piece), pp. [77]–83.
1830: 59 GRIMSTONE,
Mary Leman.
LOUISA EGERTON, OR, CASTLE HERBERT. A TALE FROM REAL LIFE. BY MARY LEMAN
GRIMSTONE, AUTHOR OF “LOVE AT THE FIRST SIGHT; OR, THE BEAUTY OF THE BRITISH
ALPS,” &C.
London: Printed by C. Baynes, Duke-street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, for George
Virtue, Ivy Lane Paternoster Row, 1830.
760p, ill. 8vo. 21s (ECB).
ECB 246 (May 1830).
BL 12614.g.28; NSTC 2G23375; OCLC 12439985 (2 libs).
Notes. Frontispiece with scene from the narrative and additional engraved
t.p. with vignette precede t.p. proper. Frontispiece bears the imprint: ‘London:
Published by G. Virtue, 26 Ivy Lane, Jan. 1830.’ Frontispiece portrait of
‘M. Leman Grimstone’ with the imprint ‘London: Published by G. Virtue, 26,
Ivy Lane & Bath Street, Bristol’ precedes main text. Nine engraved plates,
with directions to the binder following main text on p. 760. Colophon
of C. Baynes, 13, Duke Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Collates in fours. OCLC
records copies held at University of California, Los Angeles and Rice University’s
Fondren Library dated 1829, but ECB points to publication in book form in
1830.
1830: 60 [HICKEY,
William].
IRISH COTTAGERS, BY MR. MARTIN DOYLE, AUTHOR OF “HINTS TO SMALL FARMERS.”
Dublin: William Curry, jun. and Co. 9, Upper Sackville-Street, Hurst,
Chance, and Co. London, and Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1830.
137p. 12mo. 2s 6d (ECB).
ECB 170 (July 1830).
BL 441.a.26; NSTC 2D18578 (BI C, Dt); OCLC 12652434 (3 libs).
Notes. NSTC states that ‘Martin Doyle’ was Hickey’s pseudonym. Preface
(3 pp. unn.), dated ‘Ballyarley, June 1st 1830’, notes that ‘some striking
coincidences’ between the present work and the recently published Traits
and Stories of the Irish Peasantry by William Carleton (1830: 37) are
purely accidental, the author having not seen the prior work until after completing
his own, as his ‘very respectable’ publishers can vouch for. The object of
the author ‘has been to convey sound practical advice to the rural population
of his country […] free from the vulgar caricature, as well as the coarseness
and blasphemies, with which too many Irish tales of the present day, so copiously
and offensively abound […] In the occasional introduction of Anglo–Hibernian
diction, phraseology, and pronunciation, he trusts he has not deviated from
the faithful delineation of Irish character, in the South Eastern parts of
the Province of Leinster.’ Adv. as ‘Lately Published’ (verso facing t.p.)
for the same author’s ‘Hints originally intended for the small farmers of
the County of Wexford, but suited to most parts of Ireland […] a new edition,
with Hints on the Cultivation of Tobacco.’ Printer’s mark of John S. Folds,
56, Great Strand Street.
Further edn: 3rd edn., enlarged, 1833 (OCLC).
1830: 61 [HOOK,
Theodore Edward].
MAXWELL. BY THE AUTHOR OF “SAYINGS AND DOINGS.” IN THREE VOLUMES.
[London]: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1830.
I 347p; II 336p; III 356p. 12mo. 31s 6d (BP, ECB, ER); 31s 6d boards (LG).
BP (15 Nov 1830); LG 722: 757 (20 Nov 1830); ER 53: 257 (Mar 1831); ECB 280
(Nov 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48200-3; NSTC 2H28940 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA DLC, MH); OCLC
4329310 (26 libs).
Notes. List of ‘Popular Novels just Published by Henry Colburn and
Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street’ (4 pp. unn.), including ‘Criticisms
on Mr. Galt’s Life of Lord Byron’, at end of vol. 3; this is followed by ‘Errata’
(1 p. unn.). Vol. 1 has printer’s mark ‘London: Baylis and Co. Johnson’s
Court, Fleet Street’, with colophon reading ‘London: Shackell and Baylis,
Johnson’s Court, Fleet-Street’. Vols. 2 and 3 have printer’s marks and colophons
of Ibotson and Palmer, Printers, Savoy Street, Strand. According to BP, ‘the
hero of this story is drawn from real life—from Hook’s intimate friend, Cannon’.
Further edns: 1834 (NSTC, OCLC; BP: 31 Dec 1833, 6s boards); 1840 (OCLC);
1847 (NSTC); 1849 (NSTC, OCLC); 1854 (NSTC, OCLC); New York 1831 (NSTC, OCLC);
French trans., 1844; German trans., 1844.
1830: 62 HOWISON,
John.
TALES OF THE COLONIES. BY JOHN HOWISON, OF THE HONOURABLE EAST INDIA COMPANY’S
SERVICE, AUTHOR OF “SKETCHES OF UPPER CANADA,” ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1830.
I 342p; II 365p. 12mo. 21s (BP, ECB).
BP (3 Apr 1830); ECB 286 (Mar 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-51049-X; NSTC 2H33794 (BI BL, C, Dt, E, O; NA DLC, MH);
OCLC 29133171 (8 libs).
Notes. Tale titles appear on t.ps. as: I The Island.—Sablegrove; II
Sablegrove Continued. One False Step.—The Colambolo. The work as a whole contains:
‘The Island’, vol. 1, pp. [1]–217; ‘Sablegrove’, vol. 1, pp. [219]–342
and vol. 2, pp. [1]–79; ‘One False Step’, vol. 2, pp. [81]–365.
The stories respectively depict scenes in South America, the Caribbean, and
Australia. Colophons of G. Woodfall, Angel Court, Skinner Street. Bentley
MS List notes: ‘Agreement February 23 1829 for entire copyright for contingent
payments of £300. Alaric A. Watts acting as agent’.
Further edn: 1830 [1831] (NSTC).
HUNT, James Henry Leigh, SIR RALPH ESHER
See 1832: 46
1830: 63 [JAMES,
George Payne Rainsford].
DARNLEY; OR THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD. BY THE AUTHOR OF “RICHELIEU,”
&C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 8, New Burlington Street, 1830.
I xi, 324p; II 335p; III 340p. 12mo. 31s 6d (BP, ECB); 31s 6d boards (ER,
LG).
BP (6 Jan 1830); Star (9 Jan 1830); LG 677: 29 (9 Jan 1830); ER 51: 294 (Apr
1830); ECB 152 (Jan 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47876-6; NSTC 2J2097 (BI BL, C, E, O); OCLC 1575632 (19
libs).
Notes. ‘Biographical Preface’, pp. [iii]–xi, offers a facetious
account of how the author discovered the materials for the story, supposedly
from the pen of Vonderbrugius. List of ‘Errata’ (1 p. unn.) follows this
preface. Adv. facing t.p. in vol. 3 notes: ‘By the same Author, Richelieu,
a Tale of the Court of France. In 3 vols. post 8vo. 1l.11s.6d. Adra, or the
Peruvians, and Other Poems. Post 8vo.’. Printer’s marks of Samuel Bentley,
Dorset Street, Fleet Street with colophons in vols. 1 and 2 adding ‘R. Bentley’
as printer. Originally adv. in Star (18 Dec 1829) as ‘nearly ready’.
Further edns: 1836 (NSTC, OCLC; BP: 29 June 1836, 6s boards); 1842 (NSTC,
OCLC); 3rd edn. 1846 (NSTC, OCLC); 1849 (OCLC); 1850 (NSTC, OCLC); [at least
3 more edns. to 1870]; New York 1830 (NSTC, OCLC); German trans., 1831.
1830: 64 [JAMES,
George Payne Rainsford].
DE L’ORME. BY THE AUTHOR OF “RICHELIEU,” AND “DARNLEY.’ IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1830.
I 336p; II 342p; III 326p. 12mo. 31s 6d (BP, ECB); 31s 6d boards (LG).
BP (11 Aug 1830); LG 709: 550 (21 Aug 1830); ECB 158 (Aug 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47408-6; NSTC 2J2098 (BI BL, C, Dt, O); OCLC 11217769 (17
libs).
Notes. ‘Advertisement’ (1 p. unn.) in which author refers to a
resemblance between a passage of the present novel and ‘a tale that has already
appeared’, adding that this has occurred unwittingly and can do no harm ‘to
the talented writer to whose work he refers’. T.ps. of vols. 2 and 3 include
unbroken double quotation mark after ‘Darnley’. List of ‘Works nearly ready
for Publication by Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley’ (1 p. unn.) at
end of vol. 2. This includes (along with five works of fiction) ‘In small
8vo. with 12 Illustrations. The Book of the Seasons. By William and Mary Howitt’,
and is followed by list of works ‘Preparing for Publication’ (1 p. unn.).
List of ‘Interesting New Works just Published by Henry Colburn and Richard
Bentley’ (2 pp. unn.) at end of vol. 3. Printer’s marks and colophons
of Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street.
Further edns: 1836 (NSTC; BP: 21 Dec 1836, 6s boards); 1837 (NSTC, OCLC);
1848 (OCLC); 1854 (NSTC, OCLC); 1856 (NSTC); 1858 (OCLC); New York 1830 (NSTC,
OCLC); German trans., 1832 [as De l’Orme. Historisch-romantisches Gemälde
aus dem 17. Jahrhundert. Aus dem Englischen]; French trans., 1833 [as
De L’Orme, histoire du temps de Louis XIII, par M. James]; Swedish
trans., 1839; Danish trans., 1847.
1830: 65 JEWSBURY,
Maria Jane.
THE THREE HISTORIES. THE HISTORY OF AN ENTHUSIAST. THE HISTORY OF A NONCHALANT.
THE HISTORY OF A REALIST. BY MARIA JANE JEWSBURY.
London: Frederick Westley and A. H. Davis, Stationers’ Hall Court, 1830.
322p. 12mo. 9s (ECB).
ECB 309 (Apr 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-51079-1; NSTC 2J7361 (BI BL, O); OCLC 18545476 (5 libs).
Notes. Dedication (1 p. unn.) to ‘Henry Jephson, Esq., M. D.’,
signed ‘his obliged friend, the Author’. The vol. contains: ‘The History of
an Enthusiast’, pp. [1]–191; ‘The History of a Nonchalant’, pp. [193]–256;
‘The History of a Realist’, pp. [257]–322. Printer’s mark of John Westley
and Co., 27, Ivy Lane. LG 835: 45 (19 Jan 1833) lists ‘Three Histories, by
Mrs. Fletcher, 12mo. 6s. silk’, but no edn. with 1833 imprint has been discovered.
Further edns: 3rd edn. Derby 1838 (NSTC); Boston 1831 (NSTC, OCLC).
1830:
66 [JOHNSON, Mrs W.].
EVA; OR, THE BRIDAL SPECTRE. A TALE. WITH ENGRAVINGS.
London: Published by G. Virtue, 26, Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row; Bath Street,
Bristol; and all Booksellers, 1830.
309p, ill. 8vo.
ABu SB.82379.Joh; NSTC 2J9118 (BI BL, E, O); xOCLC.
Notes. Frontispiece illustration showing the bridal spectre! The ABu
copy contains just one other engraved plate, placed immediately facing the
start of the main text, and again in a melodramatic Gothic style (a corpse,
trapdoor, and monk with dagger are featured). Both format and publisher imprint
indicate an initial number sale, but no other signs of such an origin are
evident. Last page is misnumbered 293; this concludes with ‘Finis’. Printer’s
mark of Talbot and Atchison, 52, Canon Street, East [sic]. Collates
in fours.
1830: 67 LANE,
Edward.
THE FUGITIVES; OR, A TRIP TO CANADA. AN INTERESTING TALE, CHIEFLY FOUNDED
ON FACTS; INTERSPERSED WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, &C.
OF THE COLONISTS AND INDIANS. BY EDWARD LANE, FORMERLY A RESIDENT IN LOWER
CANADA.
London: Published by Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, 1830.
vii, 496p. 12mo. 9s (ECB).
ECB 329 (Apr 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47898-7; NSTC 2L3668 (BI BL, C, O); OCLC 8187598 (17 libs,
microform only).
Notes. Notice on verso facing t.p. states: ‘Shortly will be ready for
the Press, by the same Author, The Cabin Boy; or, Life in a French Prison.
An Authentic Account of Nearly Five Years’ Captivity in Cambray, and Other
Parts of the Continent, from 1809 to 1814’. Preface, pp. [v]–vii, signed
‘The Author’, notes: ‘most of the incidents said to have befallen Captain
Strickland (the hero of my tale) in his travels, really happened to myself’
(p. vi). The author characterizes himself as ‘an obscure, unlearned individual’
(p. vi) and informs the reader that this is his first work (p. vii).
Printer’s mark and colophon of Bagster and Thoms, Bartholomew Close.
Further edn: 1832 (NSTC).
1830: 68 LATHOM,
Francis.
MYSTIC EVENTS; OR, THE VISION OF THE TAPESTRY. A ROMANTIC LEGEND OF THE
DAYS OF ANNE BOLEYN. BY FRANCIS LATHOM, AUTHOR OF PUZZLED AND PLEASED; VERY
STRANGE BUT VERY TRUE; CASTLE OF OLLADA; YOUNG JOHN BULL; ASTONISHMENT; POLISH
BANDIT; HUMAN BEINGS; UNKNOWN; FASHIONABLE MYSTERIES; MYSTERIOUS FREEBOOTER;
FATAL VOW; MIDNIGHT BELL; LIVE AND LEARN, &C. &C. IN FOUR VOLUMES.
London: Printed for A. K. Newman and Co., 1830.
I 298p; II 288p; III 287p; IV 277p. 12mo. 24s (ECB, Star).
Star (23 Oct 1829); ECB 330 (Nov 1829).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47962-2; NSTC 2L5036 (BI BL, C, E, O); OCLC 6875396 (3 libs).
Notes. Preface (1 p. unn.), addressed to the ‘Gentle Reader’,
apologizes for ‘slight anachronisms’, which ‘will, no doubt, will be accepted
as venial errors by the regular list of subscribers to a circulating library,
whom read principally for the story’. Lists of ‘New Publications’ at
end of vols. 1 (2 pp. unn.), 3 (1 p. unn.) and 4 (1 p. unn.).
Printer’s marks and colophons of Darling, Leadenhall Street. Originally adv.
in Star (12 June 1829) as ‘will be published this Summer’.
1830: 69 [LEICESTER,
Peter].
THE TEMPLARS. AN HISTORICAL NOVEL. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Printed for Whittaker, Treacher, & Co. Ave-Maria-Lane, 1830.
I 299p; II 308p; III 292p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 27s boards (ER, LG).
LG 703: 453 (10 July 1830); ER 51: 589 (July 1830); ECB 582 (July 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48947-4; NSTC 2L10404 (BI BL, C, E, O); xOCLC.
Notes. Printer’s marks and colophons of Shackell and Baylis, Johnson’s
Court, Fleet Street.
1830: 70 [LEWIS,
Miss M. G.].
THE JEWISH MAIDEN. A NOVEL. BY THE AUTHOR OF “AMBITION, &C.” IN FOUR
VOLUMES.
London: Printed for A. K. Newman and Co., 1830.
I 249p; II 246p; III 254p; IV 238p. 12mo. 22s (ECB, Star); 22s bound (ER);
22s boards (LG).
Star (19 Mar 1830); LG 684: 141 (27 Feb 1830); ER 51: 294 (Apr 1830); ECB
308 (Feb 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47986-X; NSTC 2L14112 (BI BL, C, O); xOCLC.
Notes. Lists of ‘New Publications’ (2 pp. unn. each) at end of
vols. 1 and 3. Similar list in vol. 1 is prefaced by ‘Critical Notices of
New Works’ (1 p. unn.), and features ‘The Fitzwalters, Barons of Chesterton;
or, Antient Times in England. By the Author of “A Winter’s Tale,” &c.
4 vols. 12mo. 1830, A. K. Newman & Co.’ (see EN2, 1829: 20), with just
one such notice, from ‘Weekly Free Press, October, 17, 1829’, following.
Printer’s marks and colophons of J. Darling, Leadenhall Street. Originally
adv. in Star (15 Jan 1830) as ‘will be published this Summer’.
1830: 71 [LOUDON,
Margracia].
FIRST LOVE. A NOVEL IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1830.
I 380p; II 367p; III 433p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d boards (ER, LG).
LG 694: 309 (8 May 1830); ER 51: 589 (July 1830); ECB 206 (Apr 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47498-1; NSTC 2L22499 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA MH); OCLC 2060252
(8 libs).
Notes. Evidently distinct from the similarly titled EN2, 1801: 6 and
1824: 6. T.ps. of vols. 2 and 3 read: ‘First Love. A Novel. In Three Volumes.’
Vol. 1 has printer’s mark and colophon of Ibotson and Palmer, Savoy Street,
Strand; vols. 2 and 3 have printer’s marks and colophons of Gunnell and Shearman,
13, Salisbury Square.
1830: 72 [McCLUNG,
John Alexander].
CAMDEN, A TALE OF THE SOUTH. IN THREE VOLUMES.
Philadelphia:—Carey and Lea. London: A. K. Newman and Co., 1830.
I 284p; II 257p; III 259p. 12mo. 16s 6d (ECB, Star); 16s 6d boards (LG).
Star (7 Aug 1830); LG 714: 630 (25 Sept 1830); ECB 94 (Aug 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47184-2; NSTC 2M2124 (BI BL, C, O); OCLC 8825697 (3 libs).
Notes. Lists of ‘New Publications’ (1 p. unn. each) at end of
vols. 2 and 3. Printer’s marks and colophons of J. Darling, Leadenhall Street,
London. Adv. in Star (12 Oct 1830) quotes Weekly Dispatch (3
Oct 1830): ‘It is an American Novel, and the style very closely resembles
that of the justly celebrated Author of the Spy, Pilot, &c. In fact, if
Cooper should be mistaken as the Author of Camden, he need not, as far as
his literary reputation is concerned, be anxious to rectify an error, that
can but be advantageous to him’.
1830: 73 MAC
FARLANE, Charles.
THE ARMENIANS[.] A TALE OF CONSTANTINOPLE. BY CHARLES MAC FARLANE, ESQ.
AUTHOR OF “CONSTANTINOPLE IN 1828.” IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1830.
I vii, 328p; II 329p; III 350p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d boards (ER, LG).
LG 694: 309 (8 May 1830); ER 51: 589 (July 1830); ECB 359 (May 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48069-8; NSTC 2M3784 (BI BL, C, E, O); OCLC 2974421 (8 libs).
Notes. Dedication, pp. [iii]–vii, to ‘Thomas Hope, Esq.’, signed
‘Charles Mac Farlane’ and dated ‘London, April 26, 1830’. This begins ‘To
you, as the author of “Anastasius,” I inscribe this Eastern tale, with sentiments
of admiration and respect’ (p. [iii]), and adds ‘As to the story itself,
it is nearly all matter of fact’ (p. v). T.ps. of vols. 2 and 3 read:
‘The Armenians. A Tale of Constantinople […]’ [i.e stop supplied]. ‘Notes’
occupy pp. [285]–328, pp. [295]–329, and pp. [309]–350 respectively
in each vol. Page [312] in vol. 3 appears wrongly as ‘12’. Vol. 1 has printer’s
mark and colophon of Ibotson and Palmer, Savoy Street, Strand; vol. 2 has
printer’s mark and colophon of S. Manning and Co., London House Yard; vol.
3 has printer’s mark and colophon of Gunnell and Shearman, Salisbury Square.
Further edn: Philadelphia 1830 (NSTC, OCLC).
1830: 74 M‘LEOD,
Miss [E. H.].
BELMONT’S DAUGHTER. A FASHIONABLE NOVEL. BY MISS M‘LEOD, AUTHOR OF TALES
OF TON, (THREE SERIES); GERALDINE MURRAY; PRINCIPLE, &C. &C. IN FOUR
VOLUMES.
London: Printed for A. K. Newman and Co., 1830.
I 270p; II 283p; III 291p; IV 308p. 12mo. 24s (ECB, Star).
Star (17 Nov 1829); ECB 49 (Nov 1829).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48090-6; NSTC 2M7088 (BI BL, C, E, O); xOCLC.
Notes. ‘To the Reader’ (1 p. unn.), dated ‘Fingringhoe-Hall, December
1829’, reads: ‘In Annabel Belmont’s character, no model is given—but let her
weakness, and its consequences, prove a beacon, and a warning’. Lists of ‘New
Publications’ (1 p. unn. each) at end of vols. 2 and 3. Printer’s marks
and colophons of J. Darling, Leadenhall Street. Originally adv. in Star
(12 June 1829) as ‘will be published this Summer’.
1830: 75 [MACTAGGART,
Ann].
MEMOIRS OF A GENTLEWOMAN OF THE OLD SCHOOL. BY A LADY. IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: Hurst, Chance, and Co., 1830.
I 261p; II 321p. 12mo. 15s (ECB).
ECB 379 (Apr 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48061-2; NSTC 2M8448 (BI BL, C, O; NA DLC); OCLC 6811501
(7 libs).
Notes. Dedication (1 p. unn.) to ‘Sir Astley Cooper, Bart.’, signed
‘The Authoress’. Preface (1 p. unn.) reads: ‘A Lady not wholly unknown
to the public, once more appears before it. Her expectations of success are
moderate; and one thing she may venture to promise,—that being in her seventy-seventh
year, it is not probable she will trouble the public again’. ‘Note’ (1 p. unn.)
at end of vol. 2 reads: ‘The Tragedies named in a former part of this Work,
were subsequently edited by Mr. J. Galt, and submitted to the Public in a
Work entitled “The Rejected Theatre” ’. Printer’s marks and colophons
of Bradbury and Co., Oxford Arms Passage.
1830: 76 MADDEN,
R[ichard] R[obert].
THE MUSSULMAN. BY R. R. MADDEN, ESQ. AUTHOR OF “TRAVELS IN TURKEY, EGYPT,
NUBIA, AND PALESTINE.” IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1830.
I 348p; II 308p; III 340p. 12mo. 31s 6d (BP, ECB); 31s 6d boards (ER, LG).
BP (1 May 1830); Star (10 June 1830); LG 694: 309 (8 May 1830); ER 51: 589
(July 1830); ECB 362 (May 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48141-4; NSTC 2M8679 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA DLC, MH); OCLC
1902905 (19 libs).
Notes. Dedication (1 p. unn.) ‘To the Memory of that Being to
whose unalterable love in every stage of life I owe a dept of boundless gratitude’,
signed ‘R. R. M.’ and dated ‘London, Feb. 11, 1830. 22, Curzon Street, May
Fair’. List of ‘Interesting New Works just Published by Messrs. Colburn and
Bentley’ (4 pp. unn.) at end of vol. 2. Colophons in vols. 1 and 3 of
Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street, and in vol. 2 of Ibotson and
Palmer, Savoy Street, Strand; however, printer’s marks in all vols. (on versos
of t.ps.) contain Bentley’s details. BP notes that Madden was a ‘contributor
for a time to the Morning Chronicle. Afterwards, when in the West Indies
and on the West Coast of Africa, Mr. Madden did much to alleviate the lot
of the Negro. He subsequently became for a time Secretary to one of the Australian
Colonies. Mr. Madden died in 1886 (aged 88 years). The Copyright of “The Mussulman”
expired only in 1893’.
Further edns: [1831] (NSTC); Philadelphia 1830 (OCLC); German trans., 1833.
1830: 77 MAINWARING,
Mrs {M.}.
THE SUTTEE; OR, THE HINDOO CONVERTS. BY MRS. GENERAL MAINWARING, AUTHOR
OF MOSCOW, OR THE GRANDSIRE, AN HISTORICAL TALE, &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Printed for A. K. Newman and Co., 1830.
I viii, 288p; II 281p; III 256p. 12mo. 18s (ECB, Star).
Star (7 Aug 1830); ECB 363 (Aug 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48149-X; NSTC 2M10326 (BI BL, C, E, O); OCLC 22204885 (5
libs).
Notes. Dedication, pp. [i]–iii, to ‘Her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Gloucester’, signed ‘M. M.’. Preface, pp. [v]–viii, notes: ‘It was,
however, upon reading the elegant works of sir [sic] William Jones,
and the romantic and enthusiastic history of India, written by abbé Raynal,
that the writer, while residing with the general for some years in the West
Indies, had suffered her imagination to wander in fairy land’ (pp. [v]–vi).
‘Lines, Written by a Lady, on the Occasion of a Missionary Fund Being Collected
for at C*******’ on p. viii. List of ‘New Publications’ (1 p. unn.)
at end of vol. 2. Printer’s mark and colophons of J. Darling, Leadenhall Street.
Continuous roman and arabic pagination in vol. 1. Originally adv. in Star
(9 June 1830), as to be published ‘this Summer’.
1830: 78 [MARRYAT,
Frederick].
THE KING’S OWN. BY THE AUTHOR OF “THE NAVAL OFFICER.” IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1830.
I 324p; II 325p; III 327p. 12mo. 31s 6d (BP, ECB); 31s 6d boards (ER, LG).
BP (15 Apr 1830); LG 692: 277 (24 Apr 1830); ER 51: 294 (Apr 1830); ECB 322
(Apr 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47932-0; NSTC 2M15109 (BI BL, C, E, O); OCLC 11173658 (12
libs).
Notes. T.p. of vol. 2 reads: ‘By the Author of The “Naval Officer” ’.
Erratum lists facing t.p. in each vol. List (3 pp.) of ‘Interesting New Works
just Published by Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley’ (16 items, all fiction),
followed by list (1 p.) of ‘Works nearly ready for Publication’ (10 items,
also fiction) at end of vol. 3. Printer’s marks and colophons of Shackell
and Baylis, Johnson’s Court, Fleet Street. BP states: ‘The hero of this story
is supposed to have been the son of William Parker, the ringleader in the
Naval Mutiny of 1797. [The same event furnished the characters for a drama
by Douglas Jerrold, entitled “The Mutiny at the Nore.”]’
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1836 (OCLC); 1838 (NSTC, OCLC); 1851 (NSTC, OCLC);
1854 (NSTC, OCLC); 1856 (NSTC, OCLC); [at least 4 more edns. to 1870]; Meredith
Bridge, NH 1843 (NSTC); German trans., 1835; French trans., 1837.
1830: 79 [MARTIN,
Selina].
THE PROTESTANT RECTOR, OR TALE OF THE OTHER TIMES IN IRELAND. BY THE AUTHOR
OF “A NARRATIVE OF THREE YEAR’S RESIDENCE IN ITALY.”.
London: Published by J. Nisbet, Berner’s-Street, 1830.
216p. 18mo. 2s 6d (ECB); 2s 6d boards (LG).
LG 705: 485 (24 July 1830); ECB 473 (July 1830).
BL 4413.f.40(2); NSTC 2P27923; xOCLC.
Notes. Collates in twelves and sixes alternately. OCLC 42385185 describes
copy with ‘Dublin, William Curry, 1830 imprint’, held by National Library
of Ireland.
1830: 80 MARTINEAU,
Harriet.
TRADITIONS OF PALESTINE. EDITED BY HARRIET MARTINEAU.
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, Paternoster Row, 1830.
148p. 12mo. 6s (ECB); 6s boards (LG).
LG 699: 389 (12 June 1830); ECB 371 (June 1830).
Corvey; NSTC 2M17455 (BI BL, C, Dt, O; NA MH); OCLC 5300676
(16 libs).
Notes. List of contents (1 p. unn.) precedes main text. The tales
consist of: ‘The Hope of the Hebrew’, pp. [1]–25; ‘Life in Death’, pp. [27]–50;
‘Songs of Praise’, pp. [51]–72; ‘The Wilderness Gladdened’, pp. [73]–94;
‘Behold thy Son!’, pp. [95]–113; ‘The Hour of Rest’, pp. [115]–134;
‘Alas! That Mighty City!’, pp. [135]–148. Printer’s mark and colophon
of G. Smallfield, Hackney.
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1843 (NSTC, OCLC); 1870 (NSTC,
OCLC); Boston 1831, as The Times of the Saviour (NSTC, OCLC).
1830: 81 [MASSIE,
William].
SYDENHAM; OR, MEMOIRS OF A MAN OF THE WORLD. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington-Street, 1830.
I 326p; II 307p; III 335p. 12mo. 31s 6d (BP, ECB); 31s 6d boards (ER, LG).
BP (6 Feb 1830); Star (20 Mar 1830); LG 682: 109 (13 Feb 1830); ER 51: 294
(Apr 1830); ECB 573 (Feb 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48792-7; NSTC 2M19370 (BI BL, E, O; NA DLC, MH); OCLC 1901057
(16 libs).
Notes. Printer’s marks and colophons of Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street,
Fleet Street. Bentley MS List notes: ‘Agreement November 23 1829 with W Massey
for copyright for £200—1st. edition 150 / 2nd. edition 50.’ Originally adv.
in Star (7 Dec 1829) as ‘nearly ready […] Sydenham, the Satirist’.
Alice Paulet (1831: 47) forms a sequel to this story.
Further edns: [1831] (NSTC); Philadelphia and Baltimore 1833 (NSTC, OCLC)
[also Philadelphia and Boston 1833 (Wolff)].
1830: 82 [MILLINGEN,
John Gideon].
ADVENTURES OF AN IRISH GENTLEMAN. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington-Street, 1830.
I xv, 299p; II 308p; III 297p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP, LG); 28s 6d (ECB).
BP (26 Dec 1829); Star (9 Jan 1830); LG 676: 13 (2 Jan 1830); ECB 6 (Dec 1829).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47019-6; NSTC 2M28786 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA MH); OCLC 11071973
(9 libs).
Notes. Introduction, pp. [iii]–xv, notes that the novel is based
on the life of ‘O’Shannon’, an acquaintance of the author’s, and that the
events were written from memoirs given to the author four years before O’Shannon’s
death on 2 Oct 1816. List of ‘Popular Novels Published by Henry Colburn and
Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street’ (4 pp. unn.) at end of vol. 2.
This includes ‘The Anglo-Irish, or Love and Politics. In 3 vols. post 8vo.
31s.6d.’ (see EN2, 1828: 16). Printer’s marks and colophons of Samuel Bentley,
Dorset Street, Fleet Street. Originally adv. in Star (7 Dec 1829) as
‘nearly ready’.
Further edn: 1830 [1831] (NSTC).
1830: 83 MITFORD,
Mary Russell.
OUR VILLAGE: SKETCHES OF RURAL CHARACTER AND SCENERY. BY MARY RUSSELL MITFORD.
FOURTH SERIES.
London: Whittaker, Treacher, &. Co. Ave-Maria-Lane, 1830.
345p. 16mo. 10s 6d (ECB); 10s 6d boards (LG).
LG 694: 309 (8 May 1830); ECB 389 (May 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48216-X; NSTC 2M31679 (BI BL, C, E, O); OCLC 10378117 (3
libs).
Notes. Preface (1 p. unn.), dated ‘Three Mile Cross, April 23,
1830’, notes: ‘The continued encouragement afforded by the Public to her successive
series of Village Sketches, has induced the Writer to bring forward a Fourth
Volume […]. A few of the stories were composed purposely for children; but
as people do not, now-a-days, write down to those little folks, and as the
Author has herself, in common with her wisers and betters, a strong propensity
to dip into children’s books when they happen to fall in her way, she by no
means thought it necessary to omit them.’ List of contents, pp. [vii]–viii.
The tales consist of: ‘Introductory Letter. To Miss W.’, pp. [1]–17;
‘Lost and Won’, pp. [18]–30; ‘Children of the Village. Amy Lloyd’, pp. [31]–38;
‘Early Recollections. The Cobbler over the Way’, pp. [39]–50; ‘Patty’s
New Hat’, pp. [51]–58; ‘Children of the Village. The Magpies’, pp. [59]–66;
‘Cottage Names’, pp. [67]–77; ‘Walks in the Country. The Shaw’, pp. [78]–89;
‘Little Miss Wren’, pp. [90]–99; ‘Walks in the Country. Hannah Bint’,
pp. [100]–112; ‘Children of the Village. The Robins’, pp. [113]–120;
‘Early Recollections. The General and his Lady’, pp. [121]–136; ‘Going
to the Races’, pp. [137]–150; ‘The China Jug’, pp. [151]–164; ‘Early
Recollections. Tom Hopkins’, pp. [165]–173; ‘Louisa’, pp. [174]–186;
‘Children of the Village’, pp. [187]–193; ‘The Election’, pp. [194]–205;
‘A Castle in the Air’, pp. [206]–216; ‘The Two Sisters’, pp. [217]–228;
‘Children of the Village. Pride Shall Have a Fall’, pp. [229]–236; ‘Rosedale’,
pp. [237]–256; ‘Walks in the Country. The Fall of the Leaf’, pp. [257]–263;
‘Children of the Village. The Two Dolls’, pp. [264]–271; ‘Hopping Bob’,
pp. [272]–287; ‘A Visit to Richmond’, pp. [288]–297; ‘Ghost Stories’,
pp. [298]–323; ‘Matthew Shore’, pp. [324]–345. Some of the stories
have notes. Adv. (1 p. unn.) following main text for ‘Works by Miss Mitford’.
Printer’s mark and colophon of Gilbert & Rivington, St. John’s Square.
Three vols. of Our Village, published between 1824 and 1828, had preceded
this ‘Fourth Series’ (see EN2, 1824: 67); for details of vol. 5, see 1832:
63.
Further edns: multiple edns. in collected form in Britain and America; New
York 1830 (OCLC).
1830: 84 MITFORD,
Mary Russell [?and JONES, James Athearn] (editors).
STORIES OF AMERICAN LIFE; BY AMERICAN WRITERS. EDITED BY MARY RUSSELL MITFORD.
IN THREE VOLS.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1830.
I vii, 358p; II 342p; III 336p. 12mo. 31s 6d quires (BP); 31s 6d (ECB, ER);
31s 6d boards (LG).
BP (30 Nov 1830); LG 724: 789 (4 Dec 1830); ER 53: 257 (Mar 1831); ECB 390
(Nov 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-51022-8; NSTC 2M31685 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA DLC, MH); OCLC
2902221 (35 libs).
Notes. BP states that James Athearn Jones co-operated with Mitford
in the preparation of this work; Bentley MS list notes ‘Stories of American
Life. By J. A. Jones’, ‘Edited by Mary Russell Mitford’. Preface, pp. [iii]–vii,
signed ‘Mary Russell Mitford’ and dated ‘Three Mile Cross, July 1830’. This
notes: ‘The selection has been made partly from detached tales, but principally
from a great mass of Annuals, Magazines, and other periodicals, embracing
many of the most popular productions of the most popular living writers of
the western world. Amongst these I am chiefly indebted to Messrs. Verplank,
Paulding, Hall, Neal, Barker, Willis, and Stone, and though last, far from
least, to Miss Sedgwick: some of the pieces are altogether anonymous, and
of some the signature is evidently fictitious’ (pp. iv–v). In a preface
to Lights and Shadows of American Life (1832: 62), Mitford adds the
names of William Cullen Bryant and Mr Sands, which had been accidentally omitted
in this work, to the list of writers. Vol. 1 comprises: ‘Otter-Bag, the Oneida
Chief’, pp. [1]–68; ‘The French Village’, pp. 69–96; ‘The Country
Cousin’, pp. [97]–140; ‘The Sick Man Cured’, pp. [141]–201; ‘Mr.
De Viellecour and his Neighbours: A Tale, Moral and Chirographical’, pp. [202]–284;
‘The Esmeralda’, pp. [285]–311; ‘The Tutor’, pp. [312]–339; ‘The
Indian Hater’, pp. [340]–358. Vol. 2 contains: ‘Pete Featherton’, pp. [1]–23;
‘The Drunkard’, pp. [24]–75; ‘The Marriage Blunder’, pp. [76]–123;
‘A Romance of the Border’, pp. [124]–170; ‘The Ghost’, pp. [171]–201;
‘The Seaman’s Widow’, pp. [202]–227; ‘Unwritten Philosophy’, pp. [228]–255;
‘Scenes in Washington’, pp. [256]–342). Vol. 3 consists of: ‘The Catholic
Iroquois’, pp. [1]–32; ‘The Peregrinations of Petrus Mudd’, pp. [33]–69;
‘Unwritten Poetry’, pp. [70]–91; ‘The Captain’s Lady’, pp. [92]–107;
‘The Isle of Shoals’, pp. [108]–126; ‘The Idle Man’, pp. [127]–161;
‘Cacoethes Scribendi’, pp. [162]–186; ‘The Fawn’s Leap. A Legend of the
Natchez’, pp. [187]–208; ‘Reminiscences of New York’, pp. [209]–233;
‘The Little Dutch Sentinel of the Manhadoes’, pp. [234]–278; ‘The Rifle’,
pp. [279]–336. List of ‘Popular Novels just Published by Messrs. Colburn
and Bentley’ (2 pp. unn.) at end of vol. 1. Printer’s marks and colophons
of Ibotson and Palmer, Savoy Street, Strand.
MOËLLER, Madame de, GERTRUDE; A TALE OF THE SIXTEENTH
CENTURY