See CALDERÓN DE LA BARCA, Frances Erskine, Marchioness
1830:
85 MORGAN, Anna Maria and
JONES, Hannah Maria.
HORATIO IN SEARCH OF A WIFE. A TALE OF MODERN TIMES. BY ANNA MARIA MORGAN,
AND HANNAH MARIA JONES, AUTHORESS OF “THE ATLAS; OR, MODERN GEOGRAPHY,” “EMILY
MORELAND,” “ROSALINE WOODBRIDGE,” “THE STRANGERS OF THE GLEN,” &C. &C.
Leeds: Published by John Saunders, and sold by all the Booksellers, n.d.
[1830].
618p, ill. 8vo.
BL 012643.p.85; NSTC 2J10420 (BI C); OCLC 47934918 (2 libs).
Notes. Frontispiece, dated ‘July. 1830’. BL copy contains six plates
(one apparently misbound from another work), dated between 1830 and 1831.
Also at end of BL copy are bound blue wrappers, reading: ‘Price Sixpence each.
Mrs. Jones’ New Work. Embellished with Elegant Engravings / New and Entertaining
Work / In about Twenty-four Numbers, price Sixpence each. Horatio in Search
of a Wife. A Tale of Modern Times. / By Anna Maria Morgan, and Mrs. H. M.
Jones, Author of Emily Moreland, Atlas or Modern Geography, Strangers of the
Glen, the Forged Note, &c. &c. &c. / Leeds: Published by John
Saunders, Bond-Street Library; and sold by George Virtue, Ivy-Lane; I. T.
Hinton, Warwick-Square, J. Bennett, Three-Tun Passage, New Gate-Street, Robins
and Co. Ivy-Lane, Sherwood and Co. Paternoster-Row, London. And may be had
of all other Booksellers throughout the United Kingdom. / 1830.’ This is followed
by a yellow wrapper, which reads: ‘To Be Completed in about 24 Numbers. 6d.
/ Horatio in Search of a Wife. / By Anna Maria Morgan. / Embellished with
Several Beautiful Engravings in Steel, after the Designs of the First Artists.
/ London: Printed for Knight and Lacey, 55, Paternoster-Row; and sold by all
Booksellers. / 1828.’ Printer’s colophon of J. Robins and Co. Collates in
fours.
1830: 86 NIEMCEWICZ,
Julius Ursinius.
LEWI AND SAHRAH; OR THE JEWISH LOWERS. A POLISH TALE, BY JULIUS URSINUS
NIEMCEWICZ.
London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1830.
xix, 346p. 16mo. 8s 6d (ECB); 8s 6d boards (LG).
LG 696: 341 (22 May 1830); ECB 414 (May 1830).
BL N.720(2); NSTC 2N8414 (BI E, O; NA MH); xOCLC.
Notes. The forenames of author given in the title are Latinized equivalents
of Juljan Ursin, the author’s native names. Trans of the German trans. Levi
und Sara. Briefe polnischer Juden; ein Sittengemälde (Berlin, 1825) of
the Polish original Leybe i Siora czyli listy dwoch kochankow, 2 vols.
(Warsaw, 1821). Preface, pp. [v]–xix, gives details about the author’s
biography and career and notes: ‘Several of his [Niemcewicz’s] works have
been translated into German, but, as far as is known to the Editor, not into
any other European language’ (p. xi). It adds: ‘As he [Niemcewicz] knew
the Editor did not understand the Polish language, he presented him with a
German translation of it, executed under his own inspection, from which the
English edition now presented to the public has been translated’ (pp. [xvi]–xvii).
In the preface the editor also describes his impressions of Jewish life received
during a journey through Poland, and outlines Niemcewicz’s intention: ‘That
gentleman [Niemcewicz] lamented the condition of so large a part of the population,
and regretted, that for their own sakes, so little progress has attended the
attempts that had been directed towards leading them to the knowledge and
acceptance of the Christian faith. He said, that attempts had been made, as
it was found impracticable to convert them into good Christinas, to convert
them into good subjects, without interfering with their religious prejudices.
As he thought a moral and industrious Jew better than a knavish and idle one,
he had written a Tale, with the hope of benefiting them’ (p. xvi). Adv.
list (2 pp. unn.) at end of vol. for ‘Books Published by Mr. Murray’.
Printer’s mark and colophon of G. Woodfall, Angel Court, Skinner Street.
PHIPPS, Constantine Henry, Marquis of Normanby, THE
ENGLISH AT HOME
See CROWE, Eyre Evans
1830: 87 [PICKEN,
Andrew].
THE DOMINIE’S LEGACY. BY THE AUTHOR OF “THE SECTARIAN.” IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: William Kidd, 6, Old Bond Street, 1830.
I vi, 243p; II 264p; III 278p. 16mo. 24s (ECB); 24s boards (ER, LG).
LG 684: 141 (27 Feb 1830); ER 51: 294 (Apr 1830); ECB 449 (Feb 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47443-4; NSTC 2P15786 (BI BL, C, O; NA MH); OCLC 2702910
(11 libs).
Notes. Dedication, pp. [iii]–vi, to ‘the Right Honourable Julia,
Countess of Glasgow, &c &c.’, signed ‘the Author’ and dated ‘London,
Feb. 17, 1830’. This notes how ‘the Tales are principally laid in the neighborhood
[sic] of that part of Scotland where your Ladyship and family chiefly
reside’ (p.[iii]). Publisher’s vignette design with initials ‘WK’ on each
t.p. Lists of contents, p. [vii], precede Introduction, pp. [ix]–xx,
in vol. 1, and main text in vols. 2 and 3 (1 p. unn. each). Vol. 1 comprises:
‘The Rash Marriage’, vol. 1, pp. [1]–90; ‘Minister Tam’, pp. [91]–123;
‘Miss Peggy Brodie’, pp. [125]–144; ‘George Wishart’, pp. [145]–243).
Vol. 2 contains: ‘Mary Ogilvie’, pp. [1]–120; ‘My Sister Kate’, pp. [121]–150;
‘Wee Watty’, pp. [151]–182; ‘My Married Life’, pp. [183]–212; ‘The
Highland Officer’, pp. [213]–264). Vol. 3 consists of: ‘Leeing Davie’,
pp. [1]–40; ‘The Widow’, pp. [41]–89; ‘The Love Match’, pp. [91]–224;
‘The Lowland Laird and his Men’, pp. [225]–278. Adv. verso facing t.p.
in vol. 3. Printer’s mark and colophons of Charles Whittingham, 21, Tooks
Court, Chancery Lane.
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1831 (NSTC, OCLC); Philadelphia 1833 (NSTC); ‘Mary
Ogilvie’ reprinted separately 1834 (ECB), 6th edn. [1840?] as Mary Ogilvie:
A Tale of the Squire’s Experience (NSTC, OCLC).
1830: 88 POLLACK,
Maria.
FICTION WITHOUT ROMANCE OR THE LOCKET-WATCH. BY MRS. MARIA POLLACK, IN
TWO VOLUMES.
London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, 1830.
I ii, 242p; II 275p. 8vo. 16s (ECB); 16s boards (ER, LG).
LG 697: 357 (29 May 1830); ER 51: 589 (July 1830); ECB 461 (May 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48452-9; NSTC 2P20387 (BI BL, C); xOCLC.
Notes. Preface, pp. [i]–ii, dated ‘49, Church St., Minories, April,
1830’; this notes that ‘Many of the incidents alluded to in the tale, may
be thought out of date, as it is now some time since it was written, having
been prevented by illness from publishing it when I first intended’ (p. ii).
Printer’s marks and colophons of J. Wertheimer, 58, Mansell Street, Goodman’s
Fields.
1830: 89 PORTER,
Anna Maria.
THE BARONY. BY MISS ANNA MARIA PORTER. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, Paternoster-Row,
1830.
I vi, 491p; II 494p; III 558p. 12mo. 27s (ECB); 27s boards (ER, LG).
LG 694: 309 (8 May 1830); ER 51: 589 (July 1830); ECB 463 (May 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48515-0; NSTC 2P22242 (BI BL, C, Dt, E, O; NA DLC, MH);
OCLC 6972213 (16 libs).
Notes. Prefatory ‘To the Reader’, pp. [v]–vi, dated ‘Esher, April,
1830’. This notes that ‘the whole plan of her work was laid, and one volume
already written and in the hands of the printer, before the memorable Bill
for Catholic Emancipation was even spoken of as in contemplation’, adding
that ‘Private circumstances afterwards suspended both the progress and the
publication. Meanwhile the story could not be remodelled; so that its narrator
saw herself obliged to use much discretion, in the delicate task of arranging
her imagined and historical materials’ (p. [v]). Adv. list (2 pp.) at
end of vol. 3 headed ‘Popular Works Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown,
and Green’. Printer’s marks and colophons of A. and R. Spottiswoode, New Street
Square.
Further edn: New York 1830 (NSTC, OCLC).
1830:
90 [PORTER, Sarah].
ALFRED DUDLEY; OR, THE AUSTRALIAN SETTLERS.
London: Printed for Harvey and Darton, Gracechurch-Street, 1830.
vii, 193p, ill. 12mo. 5s (ECB); ‘5s. hf.-bd.’ (LG).
LG 730: 44 (15 Jan 1831); ECB 12 (Jan 1831).
BL N.804; NSTC 2D21050 (BI C, E, O); OCLC 31051372 (3 libs).
Notes. OCLC attributes to ‘Sarah Porter, wife of George Richardson
Porter’. Preface, p. [v]–vii, appears to target ‘youthful readers’, though
not necessarily exclusively; the information relating to the ‘life and habits’
of settlers has been supplied by ‘a gentleman who resided for some time in
Australia’ (p. vi). Engraved plates illustrating Australian incidents
and scenes. ‘Glossary of the Australian Language, enclosed in one of Alfred’s
Letters’, on p. 193, after main narrative. Adv. list (2 pp. unn.)
headed ‘Interesting Works Published by Harvey and Darton, Gracechurch-Street’,
and consisting mostly of works for ‘young persons’. Printer’s mark and colophon
of Joseph Rickerby, Sherbourn Lane.
Further edns: 1832 (OCLC); ‘2nd edn.’ [1859] (NSTC, OCLC).
1830: 91 [POWER,
William Grattan Tyrone].
THE LOST HEIR. AND THE PREDICTION. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Edward Bull, Holles Street, 1830.
I 313p; II 316p; III 305p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d boards (ER, LG).
Star (11 Feb 1830); LG 680: 77 (30 Jan 1830); ER 51: 294 (Apr 1830); ECB 353
(Jan 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48115-5; NSTC 2P24040 (BI BL, C, O; NA DLC, MH); OCLC 2114677
(12 libs).
Notes. ‘The Lost Heir’ runs to vol. 2 (p. 268), followed by ‘The
Prediction’ (from p. [269]) to end of vol. 3. List of ‘New and Interesting
Works Published by Edward Bull, 26, Holles Street, Cavendish Square’ (4 pp. unn.)
at end of vol. 3, with terms for ‘British and Foreign Subscription Library,
26, Holles Street, Cavendish Square (formerly the Banking House.)’ at end
of list. Printer’s marks and colophons of Gunnell and Shearman, Salisbury
Square.
Further edns: 1847 as Cauth Malowney; or, the Lost Heir (OCLC); New
York 1830 (NSTC, OCLC).
1830: 92 [?RICHARDSON,
John].
FRASCATI’S; OR SCENES IN PARIS. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1830.
I 276p; II 260p; III 275p. 12mo. 27s (BP, ECB); 27s boards (LG).
BP (25 Aug 1830); LG 710: 566 (28 Aug 1830); ECB 216 (Aug 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47597-X; NSTC 2F14664 (BI BL, C, E, O); OCLC 7753933 (6
libs).
Notes. Attributed with a query to Major John Richardson in BP, ‘an
Amerian, and Author of “Ecarte,” “Wacousta,” “Handscrabble,” etc.’ . Running
titles in the first two gatherings in vol. 1 (to pp. 46–47) read ‘Frascati’s;
or / The English in Paris’, before changing to ‘Frascati’s; or / Scenes in
Paris’. The last chapter of vol. 2 and the first chapter of vol. 3 contain
the (fictitious) ‘Diary of an English Rouge-et-Noir Player in Paris’. List
of ‘Errata’ (1 p. unn.) at end of vol. 3. Printer’s marks and colophons
of G. Woodfall, Angel Court, Skinner Street.
Further edn: Philadelphia 1836 (OCLC).
1830: 93 RITCHIE,
Leitch.
THE GAME OF LIFE. BY LEITCH RITCHIE. IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: Edward Bull, Holles Street, 1830.
I xi, 283p; II 234p. 12mo. 18s (ECB); 18s boards (ER, LG).
Star (22 Mar 1830); LG 689: 229 (3 Apr 1830); ER 51: 294 (Apr 1830); ECB 494
(1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48610-6; NSTC 2R11586 (BI BL, C, E, O); OCLC 4033234 (2
libs).
Notes. Advs. verso facing t.p. in each vol. Dedication, pp. [v]–xi,
to ‘Thomas Pringle, Esq.’, signed ‘Leitch Ritchie’ and dated ‘Cormelles, near
Caen, January 25th, 1830’. Printer’s marks and colophons of Gunnell and Shearman,
13, Salisbury Square.
Further edns: 1830 (NSTC, OCLC); 1847 (NSTC); 1851 (NSTC, OCLC); Philadelphia
1833 (NSTC, OCLC).
1830: 94 ST.
CLAIR, Rosalia [pseud.].
THE SAILOR BOY; OR, THE ADMIRAL AND HIS PROTEGÉE. A NOVEL. BY ROSALIA ST.
CLAIR, AUTHOR OF THE BANKER’S DAUGHTERS OF BRISTOL; FIRST AND LAST YEARS OF
WEDDED LIFE; ELEANOR OGILVIE; ULRICA OF SAXONY; SON OF O’DONNEL; FASHIONABLES
AND UNFASHIONABLES; &C. &C. IN FOUR VOLUMES.
London: Printed for A. K. Newman and Co., 1830.
I 278p; II 276p; III 288p; IV 328p. 12mo. 24s (ECB, Star); 24s boards (ER,
LG).
Star (9 June 1830); LG 701: 421 (26 June 1830); ER 51: 589 (July 1830); ECB
511 (June 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48499-5; NSTC 2S1999 (BI BL, E, O); xOCLC.
Notes. Colophons of J. Darling, Leadenhall Street.
1830: 95 SARGANT,
J[ane] A[lice].
RINGSTEAD ABBEY; OR, THE STRANGER’S GRAVE. WITH OTHER TALES. BY J. A. SARGANT,
AUTHOR OF “A LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP CRANMER,” &C. &C.
London: Hurst, Chance, and Co., 1830.
viii, 441p, ill. 12mo. 9s (ECB).
ECB 514 (Jan 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-54709-1; NSTC 2S4635 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA MH); OCLC 13310562
(5 libs).
Notes. Dedication, p. [iii], to ‘the Hon. Mrs. Augustus Legge’,
signed ‘J. A. Sargant’ and dated ‘Clapton Square, January 1, 1830’. Preface,
pp. [v]–viii, in which authoress indicates that applause is not her motivation:
‘At the same time, she fully admits that the approbation of her contemporaries,
in an age of intellectual advancement like the present, would not be more
grateful to her feelings, than distant from her expectations’ (p. vi).
The work consists of: ‘Ringstead Abbey; or, the Stranger’s Grave’, pp. [1]–340;
‘The Temptation’, pp. [341]–383; and ‘Consistency; or, the End Mistaken’,
pp. [384]–441. Printer’s marks and colophons of Bradbury and Dent, Oxford
Arms Passage.
1830: 96 [SAVARY,
Henry].
QUINTUS SERVINTON. A TALE, FOUNDED UPON INCIDENTS OF REAL OCCURRENCE, IN
THREE VOLUMES.
Hobart Town: Henry Melville, Printer. Published by Smith, Elder, and Co.
Cornhill, London, 1830/31.
I (1830) xvii, 364p; II (1830) 357p; III (1831) 345p. 12mo. 18s (ECB); 18s
boards (ER, LG).
LG 787: 109 (18 Feb 1832); ER 55: 301 (Apr 1832);
ECB 477 (Jan 1832).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48422-7; NSTC 2S5458 (BI BL, O); xOCLC.
Notes. Preface, pp. [i]–vi, dated ‘Van Diemen’s Land, 1830’, notes
that the author originally planned to publish the work in England, but then
‘orders arrived for embarkation on a distant service’ and ‘it was found easily
practicable to print and publish an octavo work, in Van Diemen’s Land’ (p. iv).
The same preface adds: ‘It may be hoped that the mere circumstance of Quintus
Servinton’s being the first publication of this nature, that has ever issued
from a Colonial Press, may induce a favourable reception of the undertaking,
both here and in England; particularly, when it is borne in mind, that this
Press exists in one of the most recently formed of the English Colonies’ (p. v).
‘Introductory Chapter’, signed ‘The Author’, occupies pp. [vii]–xvii.
‘Conclusion’, pp. 340–345, plus list of ‘Errata’ (1 p. unn.) at
end of vol. 3. Vols. 1 and 2 have printer’s mark of ‘H. Melville, Printer,
Colonial Times Office, Hobart Town, Van Diemen’s Land’, verso of t.p., with
colophon in vol. 1 reading ‘H. Melville, Printer, Hobart Town’, and in vol.
3 ‘Henry Melville, Printer, Hobart Town, Van Diemen’s Land’. Collates in sixes.
1830: 97 [SEDGWICK,
Catharine Maria].
CLARENCE: A TALE OF OUR OWN TIMES. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1830.
I 279p; II 287p; III 291p. 16mo. 21s (BP, ECB); 21s 6d boards (LG); 16s 6d
(Star).
BP (23 July 1830); Star (7 Aug 1830); LG 706: 501 (31 July 1830); ECB 117.
Corvey; CME 3-628-47287-3; NSTC 2S12216 (BI BL, C, E); OCLC 11966496 (8 libs).
Notes. Dedication (1 p. unn.) to the author’s brothers. Preface
(1 p. unn.) apologizes for ‘sundry anachronisms’. Printer’s marks and
colophons of G. Schulze, 13, Poland Street. Simultaneously published Philadelphia
1830 (BP, NSTC, OCLC). ECB 117 also lists Newman edn., 3 vols., 12mo, 16s
6d, July 1830; but not discovered in this form.
Further edns: 1839 (NSTC); Belfast and London 1846 (NSTC, OCLC); 1856 (NSTC).
1830: 98 {SEVERN,
John Percy}.
THE ADVENTURES OF ARISTON. BY AN ETON BOY.
London: Printed for T. Cadell, Strand, 1830.
x, 168p. 18mo. 4s (ECB); 4s boards (LG).
LG 698: 373 (5 June 1830); ECB 6 (June 1836).
BL N.732(2); NSTC 2S14003; OCLC 11480265 (4 libs).
Notes. Dedication to ‘His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence’, signed
‘John Percy Severn. Eton College, Middle Division, Fifth Form’. List of contents
occupies pp. [vii]–x. Printer’s mark and colophon of Thomas Wood, No.
2, Dean Street, Soho.
1830: 99 [SHELLEY,
Mary Wollstonecraft].
THE FORTUNES OF PERKIN WARBECK, A ROMANCE. BY THE AUTHOR OF “FRANKENSTEIN.”
IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1830.
I viii, 340p; II 335p; III 354p. 12mo. 31s 6d (BP, ECB); 31s 6d boards (ER,
LG).
BP (14 May 1830); Star (10 June 1830); LG 696: 341 (22 May 1830); ER 51: 589
(July 1830); ECB 532 (May 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47771-9; NSTC 2S18444 (BI BL, C, Dt, E, O; NA DLC, MH);
OCLC 6101126 (30 libs).
Notes. Preface occupies pp. [v]–viii. List of ‘Popular Novels
just Published by Messrs. Colburn and Bentley’ (2 pp. unn.) at end of
vol. 3. Printer’s marks and colophons of J. B. Nichols and Son, 25, Parliament
Street. LG lists as ‘Mrs. Shelley’s Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck’.
Further edns: 1830 (OCLC); 1857 (NSTC, OCLC); Philadelphia 1834 (NSTC, OCLC).
1830: 100 [SHERIDAN,
Caroline Henrietta].
CARWELL; OR, CRIME AND SORROW.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1830.
360p. 12mo. 10s 6d (BP, ECB); 10s 6d boards (LG).
BP (8 Mar 1830); Star (20 Mar 1830); LG 686: 181 (13 Mar 1830); ECB 100 (Mar
1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47218-0; NSTC 2S19140 (BI BL, C, O; NA MH); OCLC 22529991
(6 libs).
Notes. Printer’s mark and colophon of Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street,
Fleet Street. Bentley MS List notes: ‘Agreement December 17 1829 with G. C.
Norton for copyright for £100 and £50 on second edition’—G. C. Norton was
Sheridan’s son-in-law. Sheridan (1779–1851) was the mother of the Hon. Caroline
Norton (see 1832: 33, 66, 1835: 72, and Appendix 2, B: 23) and wife of Thomas
Sheridan (son of Richard Brinsley Sheridan).
Further edns: 1830 [1831] (NSTC, OCLC); 1833 (NSTC, OCLC); French trans.,
1830.
1830:
101 [SMITH, Hannah].
THE HISTORY OF ROSANO AND AMANDA, AND THE CONFESSOR RALDINO.
London: Published by William Emans, 31, Cloth Fair, n.d. [1830].
544p, ill. 16mo.
MH 19462.18.50; xNSTC; OCLC 8687853 (4 libs).
Notes. The work contains two engravings, set as frontispieces, illustrating
scenes from the constituent tales: ‘The Marquis Carantani interrupted at his
favourite tree, by the young Marquis di Dalminico, and his Brother’; ‘Di Salvo
Brought before the Tribunal at the Grand Inquisition’. Final page contains
an untitled address by the author, which states: ‘The authoress of the foregoing
pages, having arrived at the conclusion of her work, entreats the indulgence
of the reader for the numerous errors which, doubtless, may be observed; though
she trusts her work is free from those glaring defects which lead aside the
understanding, and which enervate and corrupt the heart. The first attempt
of an author must be feeble. Difficulties without number interrupt his progress.
One, not the least among them, is the fear of having his efforts crushed once
more by the voice of the critic. If but a trifling degree of merit is allowed
by the generous heart, who can regard the feelings of an author, these pages
will not have been written in vain; for who will then experience a portion
of that pleasure which will reward her for all cares.’ Printer’s colophon
reads: ‘W. Hodgetts, Printer, Spiceal-Street, Birmingham.’ Dating taken from
Block.
1830: 102 [SMITH,
Horatio].
WALTER COLYTON; A TALE OF 1688. BY THE AUTHOR OF “BRAMBLETYE HOUSE,” &C.
&C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1830.
I 330p; II 372p; III 335p. 12mo. 31s 6d (BP, ECB).
BP (26 Mar 1830); Star (19 Apr 1830); ECB 621 (Apr 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48816-8; NSTC 2S26655 (BI BL, C, Dt, E, O; NA DLC, MH);
OCLC 13392047 (17 libs).
Notes. Dedication (1 p. unn.) to ‘William Heseltine, Esq. of Turret
House, South Lambeth’, signed ‘The Author’ and dated ‘Brighton, March, 1830’.
This begins: ‘There might be some boldness in inscribing a Historical Novel
to so correct an Antiquary as the Author of “The Last of the Plantagenets,”
[i.e. William Heseltine: see EN2, 1829: 46] did I not feel assured that in
perusing the following pages, your kindness will invariably prompt you to
merge the critic in the friend.’ Adv. list (2 pp. unn.), consisting of
‘Works by the Author of “Walter Colyton” ’ and ‘Interesting New Works
just Published, by Henry Coburn aand Richard Bentley’, at end of vol. 1. Printer’s
marks and colophons of Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street. Bentley
MS List gives title as ‘Walter Colyton. A Tale of the Reign of James II’.
Originally adv. in Star (20 Mar 1830) as ready ‘in a few days’.
Further edns: [1857] (NSTC); New York 1830 (NSTC, OCLC); French trans., 1838.
1830: 103 STANHOPE,
Louisa Sidney.
THE CORSAIR’S BRIDE. A LEGEND OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. BY LOUISA SIDNEY
STANHOPE, AUTHOR OF THE BANDIT’S BRIDE; AGE WE LIVE IN; DI MONTRANZO; RUNNEMEDE;
CRUSADERS; MONTBRASIL ABBEY; SEER OF TIVIOTDALE; SIEGE OF KENILWORTH, &C.
&C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Printed for A. K. Newman and Co., 1830.
I 274p; II 272p; III 269p. 12mo. 18s (ECB, Star); 18s boards (ER, LG).
Star (15 Jan 1830); LG 679: 61 (23 Jan 1830); ER 51: 294 (Apr 1830); ECB 558
(1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48773-0; NSTC 2S36107 (BI BL, C, E, O); xOCLC.
Notes. ‘Critical Notices of New Works’ (1 p. unn.) at end of vol.
1, featuring ‘Mystic Events, or, the Vision of the Tapestry’ (1830: 68), with
a long statement from ‘Weekly Free Press, October 31, 1829’. Similar
notice at end of vol. 3, featuring ‘The Fitzwalters, Barons of Chesterton’
(see EN2, 1829: 20), with appraisal from ‘Weekly Free Press, October
17, 1829’. List of ‘New Publications’ (1 p. unn.) at end of vol. 1. Colophons
of J. Darling, Leadenhall Street.
1830: 104 [STEWART,
James].
THE LIFE OF A LAWYER. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.
London: Saunders and Benning, (Successors to J. Butterworth and Son,)
43, Fleet Street, 1830.
412p. 12mo. 10s 6d (ECB); 10s 6d boards (LG).
LG 680: 77 (30 Jan 1830); ECB 345 (Jan 1830).
Corvey; NSTC 2S40259 (BI BL, C, E; NA DLC); OCLC 10577767
(10 libs).
Notes. Evidently fiction; no trace has been found of a lawyer with
this name. Printer’s mark and colophon of Ibotson and Palmer, Savoy Street,
Strand.
Further edn: 1843 (NSTC, OCLC).
1830: 105 [SURR,
Thomas Skinner].
RUSSELL; OR, THE REIGN OF FASHION. BY THE AUTHOR OF “A WINTER IN LONDON,”
“SPLENDID MISERY,” &C. &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1830.
I iv, 326p; II 310p; III 300p. 12mo. 28s 6d (BP, ER); 28s 6d boards (LG).
BP (8 Nov 1830); LG 721: 741 (13 Nov 1830); ER 53: 257 (Mar 1831); ECB 570
(Nov 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48587-8; NSTC 2S47162 (BI C, E; NA MH); OCLC 13426635 (6
libs).
Notes. ‘Advertisement’, pp. [iii]–iv, in which author states that
he ‘is conscious of the extraordinary advancement made in this popular species
of literature within these few years’, noting ‘that an honest and enlightened
exhibition of the “world as it is,” through the medium of amusing fiction,
is far more likely to render the world “what it ought to be,” than the solemn
orations of the moralist’ (p [iii]). Printer’s marks and colophons of Henry
Baylis, Johnson’s Court, Fleet Street, with colophon in vols. 1 and 2 adding
‘Shackell’ (as ‘Shakell and Baylis’) as printer.
1830: 106 TRUEBA
{Y COSIO}, [Joaquin] T{elesforo} de.
THE ROMANCE OF HISTORY. SPAIN. BY DON T. DE TRUEBA. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Edward Bull, Holles Street, 1830.
I vii, 367p; II vi, 354p; III vi, 347p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d boards
(ER).
Star (5 Nov 1829); ER 50: 284 (Oct 1829); ECB 601 (Nov 1829).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48836-2; NSTC 2T18806 (BI BL, C, Dt, NCu, O; NA MH); OCLC
22332976 (6 libs).
Notes. Preface, pp. [v]–vii, signed ‘Teleforo de Trueba y Cosio’
and dated ‘Richmond, October 1st, 1829’, describes the work as ‘the Second
Series of the Romance of History’ (p. vii). Adv. for ‘a Third Edition
of The Romance of History. England—By Henry Neele’ on verso facing t.p. in
vol. 1; and for the present author’s ‘The Castilian’ and ‘Gomez Arias’ on
verso facing t.p. of vol. 2. Lists of contents precedes main text in vols.
1 (1 p. unn.), 2 and 3 (pp. [iii]–vi each). Vol. 1 comprises: ‘Historical
Summary. The Gothic Dynasty’, pp. [1]–2; ‘The Gothic King’, pp. [3]–59;
‘The Cavern of Covadonga’, pp. [61]–101; ‘Historical Summary. Kings of
Oviedo, a Period of 156 Years’, pp. [103]–105; ‘The Pass of Roncesballes’,
pp. [107]–137; ‘The Maiden Tribute’, pp. [139]–174; ‘Historical
Summary. Kings of Leon, from Ordonio the Second, to Ferdinand of Castile:
A Period of 123 Years’, pp. [175]–177; ‘The Count of Castile’, pp. [179]–214;
‘The Infants of Lara’, pp. [215]–246; ‘The Poisoned Goblet’, pp. [247]–288;
‘Historical Summary. Kings of Leon and Castile, from Ferdinand the First to
Alonzo the Eighth: A Period of 121 Years’, pp. [289]–291; ‘The Knight
of Bivar’, pp. [293]–367. Vol. 2 consists of: ‘Historical Summary. Alonzo
the Eighth, 1158, to Ferdinand the Third, 1257’, pp. [1]–2; ‘The Fair
Jewess’, pp. [3]–42; ‘The Spanish Crusade’, pp. [43]–73; ‘Historical
Summary. Kings of Castile and Leon’, pp. [75]–76; ‘The Conquest of Seville’,
pp. [77]–143; ‘Historical Summary. Reigns of Alonzo the Tenth, Surnamed
the Wise, and Sancho the Fourth, Called the Brave. A Period of 43 Years’,
pp. [145]–147; ‘Guzman the Good’, pp. [149]–184; ‘Historical Summary.
Reigns of Ferdinand the Fourth and Alonzo the Eleventh. A Period of 55 Years’,
pp. [185]–187; ‘The Brothers Carvajal’, pp. [189]–222; ‘Historical
Summary. Reign of Don Pedro, Surnamed the Cruel. A Period of 19 Years’, pp. [223]–227;
‘A Legend of Don Pedro’, pp. [229]–283; ‘The Master of Santiago’, pp. [285]–326;
‘Historical Summary. Reigns of Henry the Second, John the First, and Henry
the Third, Surnamed the Invalid. A Period of 37 Years’, pp. [327]–229
[sic]; ‘The Retributive Banquet’, pp. [331]–354. Vol. 3 contains:
‘Historical Summary. John the Second’, pp. [1]–2; ‘The Fate of Luna’,
pp. [3]–48; ‘Historical Summary. Reign of Henry the Fourth, from 1454–1479:
A Period of 25 Years’, pp. [49]–50; ‘The Dethronement’, pp. [51]–84;
‘Historical Summary. Joint Reign of Ferdinand, Surnamed the Catholic, and
Isabella’, pp. [87]–91; ‘The Downfall of Granada’, pp. [93]–123;
‘Historical Summary. Reign of Charles the First, commonly Called the Emperor
Charles the Fifth, to his Abdication:—From 1516 to 1556’, pp. [127]–131;
‘Padilla and the Comuneros’, pp. [133]–157; ‘Historical Summary. Reign
of Philip the Second, from 1556–1598’, pp. [159]–163; ‘The Mountain King’,
pp. [165]–227; ‘The Secretary Perez’, pp. [229]–270; ‘Historical
Summary. Reigns of Philip the Third and Philip the Fourth, from 1598–1665’,
pp. [271]–274; ‘The Fortunes of Calderon’, pp. [275]–301; ‘Historical
Summary. Reign of Charles the Second; the Last Sovereign of the House of Austria’,
pp. [303]–305; ‘The Cardinal’s Plot’, pp. [307]–345; ‘Conclusion’,
pp. [346]–347. Half-title in vol. 3, p. [85] reads: ‘Union of the
Crowns of Castille and Aragon’, and on p. [125]: ‘Sovereigns of the House
of Austria’. Adv. list (3 pp.) at end of vol. 1 of ‘New and Interesting Works
Published by Edward Bull, 26, Holles Street, Cavendish Square’, this being
followed by a notice (1 p. unn.) giving terms (3 classes) for the ‘British
and Foreign Public Subscription Library, 26, Holles Street, Cavendish Square,
(formerly the Banking House.)’. Vols. 1 and 3 have printer’s marks and colophons
of Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street; vol. 2 has printer’s mark
and colophon of Gunnell and Shearman, Salisbury Court. Originally adv. in
Star (8 Oct 1829) as ‘To be published this month. […] The Romance of
History. Second Series’.
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1830 (NSTC, OCLC); 1834 (NSTC, OCLC); 1850 (OCLC);
Watertown, NY 1830 (NSTC, OCLC); French trans., 1832 [as L’Espagne romantique,
contes de l’histoire d’Espagn]; Spanish trans., 1840 [as Espana romántica,
colección de anécdotas y sucesos novelescos sacados de la Historia de Espana].
1830: 107 [?WATKINS,
John].
SCARBOROUGH TALES. BY A VISITANT.
London: Published by Longman and Co., Paternoster-Row; and sold by J.
Cole, Newborough-Street; and C. R. Todd, Terrace, Scarborough, 1830.
4, viii, 300p. 16mo.
BL 12331.aaaa.63; NSTC 2S5986; OCLC 13389656 (2 libs).
Notes. OCLC attributes to Watkins, John (fl. 1792–1832). ‘Dedicatory
Epistle to the Venerable Francis Wrangham, M.A., F.R.S., Archdeacon of the
East-Riding of Yorkshire’, pp. [3]–4, signed ‘The Author’ and dated ‘June
21st, 1830’, followed by Preface, pp. [v]–viii, dated ‘August, 1829’.
This latter notes: ‘Each tale contained in this volume derives its source
from history or tradition’ (p. [v]), adding that though the author has
‘sometimes been led to take great liberty with chronology, and even with the
figure of the events themselves, yet the principal feature of each narrative
will be found to be historical; that is, if the shape in which they are presented
to the reader, will admit of such a character’ (p. vi). The preface also
notes that the author has ‘appended to the end of each tale, the original
account which suggested it’ (p. vi). ‘Introductory Sonnet’ (1 p. unn.)
precedes list of contents (1 p. unn.). The tales consist of: ‘Jabler’s
Day’, pp. [1]–52; ‘Scarborough Warning; or, a Word and a Bow, but the
Bow first’, pp. [53]–122; ‘Passages in George Fox’s Imprisonment in Scarborough
Castle’, pp. [123]–177; ‘The Last Mayor’, pp. [179]–212; ‘Robin
Lyth’s Hole’, pp. [213]–250; ‘A Legend of Paul Jones’, pp. [251]–299;
‘Conclusion’, p. 300. Each tale starts with ‘Preliminary Remarks’ including
political and historical details. Printer’s mark reads: ‘Whitby: Printed by
R. Horne, Bridge Street’, with similar colophon.
1830: 108 [WILSON,
Harriette; afterwards ROCHFORT].
CLARA GAZUL, OR HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Printed for and published by the Author, No. 16, Trevor Square,
Knightsbridge, opposite Hyde Park Barrack Gate. To be had by all Booksellers,
1830.
I civ, vi, 196p; II 313p; III 282p. 8vo.
ECB 117 (May 1830).
BL C.95.aa.7; NSTC 2W25201 (BI C; NA DLC); xOCLC.
Notes. FC notes that Wilson’s maiden name was ‘Dubochet’ and that ‘Wilson
was an arbitrary choice of name’; she married an Irish adventurer, William
Henry Rochfort, in 1823. BL copy examined has pencilled ascription to ‘Harriet
Wilson?’ ‘Introduction. Containing Some Account of the Author’, pp. [iii]–lxxxiv,
states: ‘Though my Memoirs have long been before the public, I have not yet
explained how and why I became the mistress of Lord Craven, at the early age
of fifteen, and the public is still ignorant whether it was love, the severity
of my father, or the depravity of my own heart which placed me in that unfortunate
situation’ (p. [iii]). This is followed by an address ‘To the Public’,
pp. [lxxxv]–[lxxxvi], dated ‘London, January, 1830. This discusses the
problems surrounding the publication of Wilson’s Memoirs, complaining
that ‘many expressions have been put into my mouth, which never issued from
my pen’ (p. [lxxxv]). However, the author states that this problem
has been rectified and a corrected edition published by J. J. Stockdale. A
Preface, pp. [lxxxvii]–civ, states that many of the novel’s characters
are drawn from actual acquaintances, and precedes a new roman sequence listing
contents of all 3 vols. Printer’s marks and colophons of R. Greenlaw, Printer,
39, Chichester Place. Collates in fours.
Further edns: 1832 (NSTC); New York 1830 (OCLC).
1831: 1 ANON.
ALLAN M‘DOUGAL, OR, SCENES IN THE PENINSULA. A TALE. BY A MILITARY OFFICER.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Printed for A. K. Newman and Co., 1831.
I ii, 270p; II 270p; III 284p. 12mo. 18s (ECB, Star).
Star (8 Mar 1831); ECB 13 (Jan 1831).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47045-5; NSTC 2M3311 (BI BL, O; NA DLC); xOCLC.
Notes. Dedication, pp. [i]–ii, to ‘B. R. Esq. Late Grenadier
Guards’, dated ‘Guilford, January 6, 1831’. This describes the author’s
motivation for writing: ‘We little supposed […] that I, of all persons,
should write a book, but the loss of a leg is a great inducement to sedentary
amusements; […] I think myself more comfortable in my dressing-gown and
slippers, with my book and pen at hand, or sitting with my lighted Meerschaum,
meditating on the transitory nature of all sublunary joys. The scenes of
the Peninsula, in which we had our share, rise to my recollection […] lately
I have beguiled my time in putting some of them together in the shape of
a story’ (pp. [i]–ii). List of ‘New Publications’ (2 pp. unn.)
at end of vol. 1. Printer’s marks and colophons of J. Darling, Leadenhall
Street.
1831:
2 ANON.
THE CABAL. A TALE OF THE REIGN OF WILLIAM THE FOURTH. IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: James Cochrane and Co., 11, Waterloo-Place, 1831.
I viii, 222p; II 221p. 12mo. 14s (ECB); 14s boards (ER).
Star (11 Nov 1831), ‘in the course of this Month’; ER 54: 560 (Dec 1831);
ECB 91 (Dec 1831).
NjP 3600.001.231; NSTC 2C800 (NA MH); OCLC 41647180 (2 libs).
Notes. Note in vol. 1, verso of t.p., states: ‘In consequence of
certain peerages, since this work was written, an awkward coincidence of
names occurs, in one or two instances, which it is hardly necessary to say
is entirely accidental.’ Preface, pp. v–viii, addressed to the ‘Kind
Reader’, opens: ‘There is one great truth which many parts of this book
were intended to illustrate—viz. the monopoly of political power is a curse,
and not a blessing, to those by whom it is retained’. It also includes quotation
from Westminster Review (Jan 1824), and closes with mention of work
in educating people of Henry Brougham. Adv. lists (vol. 1, 4 pp. unn.;
vol. 2, 1 p. unn.) at end of each vol. for books published by Cochrane
and Co. Colophons of Thomas Davison, Whitefriars in each vol., with similar
printer’s mark on vol. 2 (half-title missing in vol. 1).
1831:
3 ANON.
*GLEN-MOUBRAY. A TALE.
London: Simpkin and Marshall, 1831.
3 vols. 8vo. 28s boards (ECB, ER, LG).
LG 769: 670 (15 Oct 1831); ER 54: 559 (Dec 1831); ECB 233 (Oct 1831).
No copy located.
Notes. Details above taken from ECB, ER, and LG.
1831: 4 ANON.
HEARTLESSNESS, AND OTHER TALES.
London: M. A. Nattali, 24, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden; Day, Melton;
and Combe, Leicester, 1831.
295p. 12mo.
BL 1509/4197; NSTC 2H15225; OCLC 2183048 (1 lib).
Notes. ‘Subscribers’ Names’ (6 pp. unn.) at beginning of vol.,
listing 140 subscribers. The vol. contains: ‘Heartlessness’, pp. [3]–140;
‘Woodville Manor House’, pp. [143]–195; ‘The Bandit of the Appenines’,
pp. [199]–258; ‘The Bride of the Alhambra’, pp. [261]–295. Colophon
of ‘Day, Printer, Melton Mowbray’. Collates in sixes.
1831: 5 ANON.
THE NAVY “AT HOME.” IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: William Marsh, 145, Oxford Street, 1831.
I xiii, 277p; II 320p; III 364p. 12mo. 21s (ECB, ER); 21s boards (LG).
LG 735: 125 (19 Feb 1831); ER 53: 257 (Mar 1831); ECB 408 (Feb 1831).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48187-2; NSTC 2ENG6212 (BI BL, E, O); OCLC 35571877 (3
libs).
Notes. Dedication (1 p. unn.) to ‘His Most Gracious Majesty,
William the Fourth’, signed ‘the Author’ and dated ‘Jan. 1831’. ‘Advertisement’
(1 p. unn.), also signed ‘The Author’, and dated ‘Baker Street, Portman
Square, November, 1830’. Main text in vol. 1 preceded by short narrative
of ‘The Shipwreck of Lieutenant Hawser and his Messmates […]. A Prefatory
Metaphorical Fragment, to throw a Light on the Obscurity of this Work’ (pp. [i]–xiii).
List of ‘Errata’ (1 p. unn.) follows this narrative, facing start of
novel proper. Printer’s marks and colophons of W. Glindon, 51, Rupert Street,
Haymarket.
Further edn: 1832 (NSTC).
1831:
6 ANON.
PAST AND PRESENT TIMES. BY A LADY.
London: Printed for T. Cadell, Strand, and W. Blackwood, Edinburgh,
1831.
189p. 16mo. 5s 6d (ECB); 5s 6d boards (LG).
LG 757: 478 (23 July 1831); ECB 436 (July 1831).
O 31.211; NSTC 2L1322 (BI BL, C); xOCLC.
Notes. Preface (1 p. unn.) dated ‘July, 1831’. This presents
the work as ‘a first effort’, and states that ‘[t]he Author has adopted
the form of tales as best adapted for gratification, especially to the youthful
mind’. List of contents (1 p. unn.). Seven tales are included: ‘A Legend
of Canterbury’, pp. [1]–55; ‘The Cavern of Caversham’, pp. 56–84;
‘Christina of Woffenbuttel’, pp. [85]–104; ‘The Smuggler’, pp. [105]–144;
‘The Novice of Santa Caterina’, pp. [145]–162; ‘Margaret Neville’,
pp. [163]–175; ‘The Italian Bandit’, pp. [177]–189. Simple narrative
technique throughout, but not obtrusively targeted at a youthful audience,
apart from mention of the ‘youthful mind’ in Preface. Printer’s mark and
colophon of A. and R. Spottiswoode, New Street Square.
1831: 7 ANON.
THE SAILOR’S BRIDE: A TALE OF HOME. BY THE AUTHOR OF “THE MONTHS OF THE
YEAR,” &C. &C.
London: Charles Tilt, 86, Fleet Street, 1831.
iv, 114p, ill. 12mo. 3s 6d (ECB); 3s 6d boards (LG).
LG 739: 189 (19 Mar 1831); ECB 511 (Mar 1831).
BL N.854; NSTC 2S1396; xOCLC.
Notes. The Months of the Year, or, Conversations on the Calendar
(1824), which might be referred to in the above t.p., has been variously
attributed to Benjamin Bensley (OCLC 40224634) or ‘I. R.’ (NSTC 2R186).
Frontispiece with scene from the narrative facing t.p., with adv. on verso
of t.p.. Preface, pp. [iii]–iv, dated ‘London, February 1831’. Adv.
list (10 pp. unn.) at end of vol. for books published by Charles Tilt.
Colophon of Joseph Rickerby, Sherbourn Lane.
1831: 8 ANON.
SOCIETY; OR, THE SPRING IN TOWN. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1831.
I 322p; II 310p; III 294p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB, ER); 31s 6d boards (LG).
LG 739: 189 (19 Mar 1831); ER 53: 257 (Mar 1831); ECB 548 (Mar 1831).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48717-X; NSTC 2S30081 (BI BL, O); OCLC 35573169 (3 libs).
Notes. Adv. facing t.p. in each vol. Printer’s marks and colophons
of Ibotson and Palmer, Savoy Street, Strand.
1831: 9 ANON.
TORINI; A TALE OF ITALY.
London: P. Rolandi, 20, Berners Street, 1831.
112p. 18mo. 5s (ECB).
ECB 594 (Nov 1831).
BL N.1485; NSTC 2T14603 (BI C); xOCLC.
Notes. Dedication (1 p. unn.), dated ‘London, August 1st 1831’,
reads: ‘To Mrs. Langford Brooke, of Mere Hall, Cheshire, this tale is inscribed
by one who admires her tales and values her friendship.’ Adv. (1 p. unn.)
for ‘Sigismund. A Tale’ precedes main text. Printer’s mark and colophon
of G. Schulze, 13, Poland Street.
1831: 10 ANON.
THE TURF. A SATIRICAL NOVEL. IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1831.
I 239p; II 227p. 16mo. 15s (BP, ECB, ER); 15s boards (LG).
BP (19 Jan 1831); LG 728: 12 (1 Jan 1831); ER 53: 257 (Mar 1831); ECB 602
(Jan 1831).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48842-7; NSTC 2T19920 (BI BL, C, E); OCLC 1408098 (3 libs).
Notes. BP notes: ‘The Author of this work was a son of Sir Robert
Twisden. Some additions were made by Mr. [?Charles] Ollier.’ Adv. list (4
pp. unn.), featuring first ‘The National Library’ ser., followed ‘New
Works just Published’, at end of vol. 2. Both vols. have printer’s marks
of Ibotson and Palmer, Savoy Street, Strand, with similar colophon in vol.
2, with colophon reading in vol. 1 ‘London: J. B. Nichols and Son, 25, Parliament
Street’.
1831: 11 [ANWYL,
Edward Trevor [pseud.?]].
TALES OF WELSHLAND AND WELSHERIE. BY THE AUTHOR OF REGINALD TREVOR, YOUTH
OF EDWARD ELLIS, &C. IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: Printed for A. K. Newman and Co, 1831.
I 261p; II 224p. 12mo. 10s (ECB, Star).
Star (26 Apr 1831); ECB 576 (June 1831).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48939-3; NSTC 2A13966 (BI BL, O; NA MH); xOCLC.
Notes. There is the possibility that Anwyl is a pseudonym, and that
the true author of this series of books was Thomas Richards, surgeon: see
‘The English Novel, 1800–1829: Update 2 (June 2001–May 2002)’, in
Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text [ISSN 1471-5988]; Online:
Internet <http://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/corvey/articles/engnov2.html>.
Vol. 1 comprises: ‘The Curate and his Lodger’, pp. [1]–90; ‘The Death
of the Broken-Hearted’, pp. [91]–134; ‘The Forayer of Flintshire’,
pp. [135]–194; ‘Alice Denby’, pp. [195]–261. Vol. 2 contains:
‘The Cousins, or the Betrothing’, pp. [1]–57, and ‘The Mountaineers’,
pp. [59]–224. Lists of ‘New Publications’ at end of vol. 1 (3 pp. unn.)
and 2 (6 pp. unn.). Printer’s marks and colophons of J. Darling, Leadenhall
Street.
1831:
12 BABINGTON, B[enjamin]
G[uy] (trans.).
THE VEDÀLA CADAI, BEING THE TAMUL VERSION OF A COLLECTION OF ANCIENT
TALES IN THE SANSCRIT LANGUAGE; POPULARLY KNOWN THROUGHOUT INDIA, AND ENTITLED
THE VETÀLA PANCHAVINSATI. TRANSLATED BY B. G. BABINGTON, M.D., F.R.S., M.R.A.S.,
M. MADRAS LIT. SOC. &C.
[London: Oriental Translation Fund, 1831].
xv, 90p. 8vo.
O Ary.3.374; NSTC 2B1159 (BI BL, C, E; NA MH); OCLC 6368158 (2 libs).
Notes. Probably derived from the Vetala Panchavimsati, a collection
of 25 fables/stories in Sanskrit, generally believed to be of 11th- to 13th-century
provenance. Preface, pp. [iii]–xv, begins: ‘It is several years since
I translated from the Tamul the following tales, called the Vedàla Cadai
(Vetàla Cat’hà, Sans.) partly for amusement and partly for the sake of keeping
up a knowledge of the language in which they were written. I subsequently
presented my version to the Royal Asiatic Society, under a belief that it
might prove useful to any one engaged in the study of the Tamul language,
and it has lately attracted the attention of the Oriental Translation Committee,
who have been pleased to give directions for its publication’ (p. 3).
Main text divided into 24 ‘stories’. No publisher imprint on t.p., and no
printer information found.
1831: 13 [BANIM,
John ?and Michael].
THE SMUGGLER; A TALE. BY THE AUTHOR [sic] OF “TALES BY THE O’HARA
FAMILY,” “THE DENOUNCED,” &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1831.
I iv, 302p; II 299p; III 326p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP, ER, LG); 31s 6d
(ECB).
BP (24 Sept 1831); LG 766: 621 (24 Sept 1831); ER 54: 559 (Dec 1831); ECB
547 (1831).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47933-9; NSTC 2B6676 (BI BL, E; NA DLC, MH); OCLC 12102173
(17 libs).
Notes. Sometimes attributed to John Banim alone (including in BP).
‘Advertisement’, pp. [iii]–iv, notes that ‘The chief scenes of “The
Smuggler” are laid in a district of England lately remarkable for peculiar
disturbances […] these portions of the work were in the Publishers’ hands
a year ago—that is, prior to the occurrences in question’ (p. [iii]).
Printer’s marks and colophons of Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street.
BP notes: ‘Although the author’s name is not given on the book itself, it
was announced the previous month in an advertisement in Standard Novel No.
28 [in May 1833], also in other advertisements’.
Further edns: 1833 (NSTC, OCLC; BP: 29 June 1833, 6s boards); 1837 (OCLC);
London and Edinburgh 1849 (NSTC, OCLC); 1856 (NSTC); New York 1832 (NSTC,
OCLC).
1831: 14 BAYLEY,
F[rederick] W[illiam] N[aylor].
TALES OF THE LATE REVOLUTIONS. WITH A FEW OTHERS. BY F. W. N. BAYLEY,
AUTHOR OF “FOUR YEARS IN THE WEST INDIES.” &C. &C.
London: W. H. Dalton, 28, Cockspur Street, Charing Cross, 1831.
viii, 359p, ill. 16mo. 8s (ECB); 8s cloth (ER, LG).
LG 761: 542 (20 Aug 1831); ER 54: 559 (Dec 1831); ECB 45 (Aug 1831).
Corvey; CME 3-628-51001-5; NSTC 2B12494 (BI BL, C); OCLC 25405471 (1 lib).
Notes. Dedication (1 p. unn.) to ‘W. Jerdan, Esq.’, signed ‘F.
W. N. Bayley’. ‘Letter Extraordinary to Preface the Book’, pp. [v]–vi,
addressed to ‘My Dear Public’, and also signed ‘F. W. N. Bayley’, dated
‘London, July, 1831’. In this, the author refers to the indulgence received
by ‘My “West Indies”, my “Love’s Offering”, my “Cadeau”, and a hundred other
nameless trifles in the shape of songs, and contributions to the Annuals
and Magazines’ (p. vi). List of contents occupies pp. [vii]–viii.
The collection comprises: ‘Potoski and Luwarrow; or, the Inmates of Rodzvil.
A Tale of the First Steps of the Polish Revolution’, pp. [1]–70; ‘A
Sketch on the Vistula’ (poetry), pp. [71]–83; ‘The Maniac of Brussels.
A Tale of the Belgian Revolution’, pp. [85]–134; ‘Civil Death; the
Doom of Polignac. A Tale of the Court of France’ (poetry), pp. [135]–155;
‘Edith. A Tale of the French Revolution of 1830’, pp. [157]–183; ‘The
Execution of Minotti’ (poetry), pp. [185]–190; ‘The Incendiary. A Tale
of the Days of Swing’, pp. [191]–233; ‘William the Fourth’ and ‘Adelaide’
(poetry), pp. [235]–242; ‘Old Pobo the Negro. A Tale of Slave Emancipation’,
pp. [243]–290; ‘The Widow’s Narrative. A Tale’ (poetry), pp. [291]–320;
‘Land and Sea Incidents. A Tale of Two Chapters. Containing Smuggling and
a Love Suit. Explosion and a Marriage’, pp. [321]–359. Printer’s mark
and colophon of Ibotson and Palmer, Savoy Street, Strand.
BOWLES, Caroline Anne [afterwards SOUTHEY], PROBATION
AND OTHER TALES
See SMYTH, Amelia Gillespie
1831: 15 BROWNLOW,
John.
HANS SLOANE. A TALE. ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORY OF THE FOUNDLING HOSPITAL.
BY JOHN BROWNLOW.
London: F. Warr, 63, High Holborn, 1831.
147p. 16mo. 3s (ECB).
ECB 80 (Feb 1832).
BL N.853; NSTC 2B54096 (BI C); OCLC 20921925 (5 libs).
Notes. Dedication to ‘the Governors and Guardians of the Foundling
Hospital’. Printer’s mark and colophon of F. Warr, Printer, Red Lion Passage,
Holborn.
1831: 16 BULGÁRIN,
[ lang=RU>Faddej Venediktovič]; [ROSS, George (trans.)].
IVAN VEJEEGHEN; OR, LIFE IN RUSSIA. BY THADDEUS BULGÁRIN. TWO VOLS.
London. Whittaker, Treacher, and Co. Edinburgh: H. Constable, 1831.
I xi, 296p; II vii, 292p. 12mo. 8s (ECB); 8s boards (LG).
LG 753: 413 (25 June 1831); ECB 83 (June 1831).
BL 837.e.36; NSTC 2B56868 (BI C, O; NA MH); OCLC 19911735 (14 libs).
Notes. Trans. of Ivan Vyžigin, nravstvenno-satiri.ceskij roman.
4 vols. (St. Petersburg, 1829). ‘Advertisement’, pp. [v]–vii, at
start of vol. 1, dated ‘Aberdeen, 1st June, 1831’. This notes: ‘Probably
no other work which was ever published in Russia, acquired such a sudden
popularity as the Novel a translation of which is now submitted to the British
public. The first edition, which came out in 1829, was sold off within three
weeks after it issued from the press; it has been translated into the French
and German languages’ (p. [v]). Lists of contents occupy vol. 1, pp. [ix]–xi
and vol. 2, pp. [v]–vii. Printer’s mark reads: ‘Aberdeen: D. Chalmers
& Co. Printers, 24, Adelphi Court’, with similar colophon.
Further edn: Philadelphia 1832 (NSTC, OCLC).
1831: 17 [CARNE,
John].
THE EXILES OF PALESTINE[.] A TALE OF THE HOLY LAND. BY THE AUTHOR OF
“LETTERS FROM THE EAST,” &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1831.
I vi, 300p; II 342p; III 310p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB, ER); 31s 6d boards (LG).
LG 725: 805 (11 Dec 1830); ER 53: 257 (Mar 1831); ECB 98 (Dec 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47618-6; NSTC 2C8045 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA DLC); OCLC 13326412
(5 libs).
Notes. Preface, pp. [i]–vi, concerning the setting of the tale,
near Mount Carmel. List of ‘New and Interesting Works, Published by Saunders
and Otley, British and Foreign Public Library; Conduit-Street, Hanover-Square’
(6 pp. unn.) at end of vol. 2. Printer’s marks read: ‘R. G. Gunnell
(Printer in Ordinary to His Majesty) and W. Shearman, 13, Salisbury Square’,
with similar colophons. ER and LG list as ‘Carne’s Exiles of Palestine’.
1831: 18 [COATES,
Mr H.].
LUCIUS CAREY; OR THE MYSTERIOUS FEMALE OF MORA’S DELL. AN HISTORICAL
TALE. BY THE AUTHOR OF “THE WEIRD WOMAN.[”] IN FOUR VOLUMES.
London: Printed for A. K. Newman and Co., 1831.
I vi, 272p; II 256p; III 248p; IV 231p. 12mo. 22s (ECB, Star).
Star (8 Mar 1831); ECB 122 (Mar 1831).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48121-X; NSTC 2C27421 (BI BL, C, E, O); xOCLC.
Notes. End quotation-marks after WOMAN in the t.p. missing in vol.
1 only. Dedication to ‘Daniel O’Connel, Esq. M.P.’, pp. [i]–iv, signed
‘The Author’. This notes: ‘Though pledged [sic] in my last work to
publish a second series of the Wraagh, from the manuscripts discovered in
those amazing recesses, the events now passing in the neighbouring states
of Europe forbid my so doing. Political excitement is already at a dangerous
height, and my Second Series of the “Weird Woman” would too little add to
regal dignity, to warrant the redemption of my pledge’ (p. iv). Preface
‘To the Reader’ occupies pp. [v]–vi. T.ps. of vols. 2–4 read: ‘[…]
By the Author of “The Weird Woman.” ’. Lists of ‘New Publications’
at end of vols. 2 (4 pp.unn.) and 4 (1 p. unn.). Printer’s marks and
colophons of J. Darling, Leadenhall Street.
1831: 19 [COOPER,
James Fenimore].
THE BRAVO. A VENETIAN STORY. BY THE AUTHOR OF “THE PILOT,” “THE BORDERERS,”
“THE WATER WITCH,” &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1831.
I iv, 292p; II 309p; III 286p. 12mo. 31s 6d (BP, ECB); 31s 6d boards (ER,
LG).
BP (15 Oct 1831); LG 769: 670 (15 Oct 1831); ER 54: 559 (Dec 1831); ECB
134 (Oct 1831).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47329-2; NSTC 2C36790 (BI BL, C, Dt, O; NA DLC, MH); OCLC
1165592 (44 libs).
Notes. Preface, pp. [i]–iv, concerning the political institutions
of Europe, and in particular Venetian republicanism. Adv. lists (2 pp. each)
at end of vol. 2 for ‘New and Popular Works of Fiction just Published by
Messrs. Colburn and Bentley’, and end of vol. 3 for ‘New Works of Fiction,
Preparing for Publication by Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, New Burlington
Street’. Printer’s marks and colophons of Henry Baylis, Johnson’s Court,
Fleet Street. BP notes: ‘That the story excited some attention in Italy
is proved by the publication in 1846 of a work (by Alivse Semenzi) entitled,
“Oservazioni … intorno al romanzo … Il Bravo.” ’
Further edns: 1834 (NSTC, OCLC; BP: 31 Mar 1834, 6s boards); 1851 (NSTC,
OCLC); 1854 (NSTC, OCLC); 1864 (OCLC); 1867 (OCLC); 1868 (OCLC); Philadelphia
1831 (Blanck, NSTC, OCLC); French trans., 1831; Italian trans., 1832; German
trans., 1832; Swedish trans., 1833; Spanish trans., 1854.
1831: 20 [CORBETT,
Marion and Margaret].
THE SISTERS’ BUDGET; A COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL TALES IN PROSE AND VERSE.
BY THE AUTHORS OF “THE ODD VOLUME,” &C. WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM MRS.
HEMANS, MISS MITFORD, MISS JEWSBURY, MRS. HODSON, MRS. KENNEDY, MR. MACFARLANE,
MR. KENNEDY, MR. H. G. BELL, MR. MALCOLM, ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: Whittaker, Treacher, & Co. Ave-Maria-Lane, 1831.
I vii, iv, 360p; II 359p. 8vo. 21s (ECB); 21s boards (ER); 21s 6d boards
(LG).
LG 770: 686 (22 Oct 1831); ER 54: 559 (Dec 1831); ECB 540 (Oct 1831).
Corvey; CME 3-628-54798-9; NSTC 2C37698 (BI BL, C, Dt, O; NA MH); OCLC 21283254
(5 libs).
Notes. Preface, pp. [v]–vii, dated ‘London, April 1831’, states:
‘In the multitude of competitors at present pressing on through the literary
arena, we fear that little respect is paid to the old rule of lang=FR>place
aux dames, but we do not believe that the age of chivalry is
yet so entirely gone as not to secure at least an indulgent hearing for
“The Sister’s Budget” ’ (p. vii). Notice (1 p. unn.) follows:
‘In consequence of Miss Jewsbury’s and other contributors arriving too late
for insertion, the Authors of “The Sisters’ Budget” have thus been prevented
from availing themselves of the valuable assistance of many friends who
kindly lent their aid to embellish their pages.’ Lists of contents (with
attributions) precede main text in vol. 1 (pp. [iii]–iv) and vol. 2
(1 p. unn.). Vol. 1 contains: ‘Barba Yorghi, (or, Uncle George,) the
Greek Pilot. By Charles Mac Farlane’, pp. [1]–47; ‘Muirside Maggie:
A Legend of Lammermuir. By One of the Authors of the “Odd Volume.” ’,
pp. [49]–80; ‘The Handkerchief: A Tale from the Danish. By One of the
Authors of the “Odd Volume.” ’, pp. [81]–145; ‘The Flight of Birds
past a House of Sorrow. By Mrs. Hemans’ (poetry), pp. [147]–148; ‘Andrea
del Sarto. Translated from the German, by One of the Authors of “The Odd
Volume,”—“Tales and Legends,” &c.’ (signed ‘G. M.’), pp. [149]–175;
‘The Fruit of Knowledge. By Kennedy’, pp. [177]–204; ‘The Judge and
the Freebooter: A Border Tale. By One of the Authors of “The Odd Volume,”
“Tales and Legends,” &c.’, pp. [205]–240; ‘The Myrtle Correspondence.
By Miss Mitford, and T. S. C.’ (poetry, signed ‘C. T. C.’), pp. [241]–242;
‘Reply, by Miss Mitford’ (poetry), pp. 243–244; ‘La Zingara, a Tale
of the Ionian Islands. By Mrs. Kennedy’, pp. [245]–272; ‘The Pilgrim.
By Mrs. Hodson’ (poetry), pp. [273]–275; ‘The Old Bachelor. Translated
from the French of Madame de Montolieu, by One of the Authors of “The Odd
Volume,”—“Tales and Legends,” &c.’, pp. [277]–321; ‘The Lady Helen:
A Ballad in the Olden Style. By W. Buchannan, Esq.’ (poetry), pp. [323]–325;
‘Lochair Moss. By One of the Authors of the “Odd Volume—“Tales and Legends,”
&c.’, pp. [327]–360. Vol. 2 comprises: ‘The Siege of Choczim. Translated
from the Danish, by One of the Authors of “The Odd Volume,” “Tales and Legends,”
&c.’, pp. [1]–115; ‘The Mourner. By Malcolm’ (poetry), pp. [117]–118;
‘The Miller of Calder. By One of the Authors of the “Odd Volume” ’,
pp. [119]–217; ‘The Flower of Tyree Air—“Kilach an Gilas”. By R. B.’
(poetry), pp. [219]–220; ‘The Conspirator. By Mrs. Hodson’, pp. [221]–264;
‘Death—A Sonnet. By Henry G. Bell’ (poetry), p. [265]; ‘A Tale of the
Thirty Years’ War. By One of the Authors of “The Odd Volume,”—“Tales and
Legends,” &c.’, pp. [273]–359. Printer’s marks and colophons of
Henry Baylis, Johnson’s Court, Fleet Street.
Further edn: Baltimore 1832 (NSTC, OCLC).
1831: 21 [DALTON,
James].
CHARTLEY THE FATALIST. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Edward Bull, Holles Street, 1831.
I 247p; II 274; III 317p. 12mo. 28s 6d (ECB, ER); 28s 6d boards (LG).
Star (20 Oct 1830); LG 719: 709 (30 Oct 1830); ER 53: 257 (Mar 1831); ECB
107 (Oct 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47258-X; NSTC 2D1299 (BI BL, E; NA DLC, MH); OCLC 11619097
(7 libs).
Notes. Vol. 1 has advs. verso facing t.p. and following main text
(1 p. unn. each). List of ‘Interesting Works Published by Edward Bull,
Holles Street, Cavendish Square, London’ (6 pp. unn.), headed ‘Oct.
15, 1830’, at end of vol. 3: the last item there gives terms for the ‘British
and Foreign Subscription Library, 26, Holles Street, Cavendish Square (formerly
the Banking House)’. Printer’s marks and colophons of Gunnell and Shearman,
13, Salisbury Square. Listed in Star as ‘by a Contributor to Blackwood’s
Magazine’.
1831: 22 [DALTON,
James].
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS, BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. ENGRAVED
BY J. THOMPSON AND C. LANDELLS.
London: William Kidd, 6, Old Bond Street, 1831.
iv, 309p, ill. 12mo. 7s 6d (ECB); 7s boards (LG).
LG 722: 757 (20 Nov 1830); ECB 226 (Nov 1830).
BL N.856; NSTC 2D1300 (BI C, E, O; NA DLC); OCLC 1800755 (34 libs).
Notes. ‘Advertisement’, pp. [iii]–iv, notes: ‘It will, doubtless,
be in the recollection of many of the readers of “The Gentleman in Black,”
that a portion of the work appeared some years ago, in a periodical
entitled “The Literary Magnet.” That publication, however, having long since
been discontinued, the greater part of this volume has never yet appeared
in print. At the request of the Subscribers, who were anxious that the tale
should be completed, it was the author’s intention to have had it immediately
re-published in an entire form, but on applying for the remainder of the
manuscript, he was informed that it was mislaid. He has, therefore,
been under the necessity of entirely re-writing it, and now,—having received
his latest corrections—aided by the powerful talent of Mr. George Cruikshank,—it
is presented to the public. // Old Bond Street, Nov. 25, 1830.’
Contains six illustrations. Printer’s mark and colophon of Bradbury and
Evans, Bouverie Street. Collates in sixes. 2nd edn. announced in Star
(30 June 1831), as ‘A Humorous Story, by a Contributor to Blackwood’s Magazine’.
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1831 (Corvey); 1832 (OCLC); 1835 (NSTC); 183[–] (OCLC);
1840 with J. Y. Akermann’s Tales of Other Days (1830: 17) (NSTC,
OCLC); [1845?] with Akermann’s Tales of Other Days (NSTC, OCLC);
Philadelphia 1835 with Akermann’s Tales of Other Days (NSTC, OCLC).
1831: 23 DAVENPORT,
Selina.
THE QUEEN’S PAGE. A ROMANCE. BY SELINA DAVENPORT, AUTHOR OF THE HYPOCRITE,
OR MODERN JANUS; LEAP YEAR; ANGEL’S FORM AND DEVIL’S HEART; ITALIAN VENGEANCE
AND ENGLISH FORBEARANCE; DONALD MONTEITH; PREFERENCE; ORIGINAL OF THE MINIATURE;
&C. &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Printed for A. K. Newman and Co., 1831.
I 263p; II 274p; III 280p. 12mo. 18s (ECB).
Star (26 Oct 1830); ECB 153 (Nov 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47376-4; NSTC 2D3615 (BI BL, C, E, O); xOCLC.
Notes. List of ‘New Publications’ (1 p. unn.) at end of vol.
1. Printer’s marks and colophons of J. Darling, Leadenhall Street.
1831: 24 [DISRAELI,
Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield].
THE YOUNG DUKE. BY THE AUTHOR OF “VIVIAN GREY.” IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1831.
I iv, 300p; II 269p; III 265p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP, ER, LG); 31s 6d
(ECB).
BP (21 Apr 1831); LG 744: 269 (23 Apr 1831); ER 53: 576 (June 1831); ECB
165 (Apr 1831).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48989-X; NSTC 2D14256 (BI BL, C, O; NA MH); OCLC 11301516
(10 libs).
Notes. ‘Advertisement’, pp. [iii]–iv, begins: ‘There is a partial
distress, or universal,—and the affairs of India must really be settled;
but we must also be amused. I send over my quota; for, though absent, I
am a patriot; besides, I am desirous of contributing to the diffusion of
Useful Knowledge.’ It concludes with the following addendum: ‘In the absence
of the author, who is abroad, the Publishers think it necessary to add,
that the present novel was written before the accession of his present Majesty.
The reader, as he peruses the volumes, will see the necessity of this explanation’.
‘Notes’ occupy vol. 1, pp. [297]–300, and vol. 2, p. [271]. Printer’s
marks and colophons of Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street. BP notes:
‘It was at one time intended to include this work in the Standard Novels.’
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1832 (BP: 4 Jan 1832, 31s 6d); 1853 (NSTC, OCLC);
1853 with Count Marcos (OCLC); 1859 (NSTC, OCLC); 1864 (OCLC); 1866
(NSTC); New York 1831 (NSTC, OCLC).
1831: 25 [EATON,
Charlotte Anne].
AT HOME AND ABROAD; OR, MEMOIRS OF EMILY DE CARDONNELL. BY THE AUTHOR
OF “ROME IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY,” “CONTINENTAL ADVENTURES,” ETC. A NOVEL.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1831.
I xv, 345p; II 350p; III 316p. 8vo. 24s (ECB); 24s boards (ER, LG).
LG 741: 221 (2 Apr 1831); ER 53: 576 (June 1831); ECB 30 (Mar 1831).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47084-6; NSTC 2E1356 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA MH); OCLC 6804600
(7 libs).
Notes. Dedication, p. [v], to the author’s husband. Preface,
pp. [vii]–xv, dated ‘26th February, 1831’, notes that the novel was
composed 18 years prior to publication, and was nearly completed when ‘Miss
Edgeworth’s admirable work “Patronage” first appeared; and I found, or fancied,
to my great dismay, that a remarkable coincidence in many trifling points
existed between the two works’ (p. ix). The author also quotes from
her letter to the editor of the Monthly Magazine, dated ‘March 2,
1814’, and published in ‘Vol. II for the year 1814, page 423’, describing
similarities to Edgeworth’s novel (pp. x–xii). Furthermore, the author
states that she desisted from publication in order to avoid being accused
as a plagiarist, and that since then the novel has undergone several alterations.
Running titles vary according to the narrative contents of individual pages.
Lists of ‘Errata’ (1 p. unn. each) precede main texts in vols. 2 and
3. List of ‘Works of Fiction, Tales, etc.’ (1 p. unn.) at end of vol.
1. List of ‘Entertaining Voyages and Travels’ (2 pp. unn.) at end of
vol. 2. Printer’s marks and colophons of G. Woodfall, Angel Court, Skinner
Street.
1831: 26 [?FERGUSON,
Walter or ?KENNEDY, William].
 BY THE AUTHOR OF “MY EARLY DAYS.”
London: Frederick Westley and A. H. Davis, Stationers’ Hall Court, 1831.
340p. 12mo. 6s (ECB); 6s boards (LG).
LG 728: 12 (1 Jan 1831); ECB 423 (Dec 1830).
BL N.852; NSTC 2K3349 (BI C); OCLC 5656726 (7 libs).
Notes. Attributed variously to Ferguson (OCLC) and Kennedy (NSTC,
OCLC), but NSTC 2F4446 attributes My Early Days (1826) solely to
Ferguson. Printer’s mark and colophon of John Westley and Co. 27, Ivy Lane.
Further edn: Boston 1832 (NSTC, OCLC).
1831: 27 [FERRIER,
Susan Edmonstone].
DESTINY; OR, THE CHIEF’S DAUGHTER. BY THE AUTHOR OF “MARRIAGE,” AND “THE
INHERITANCE.” IN THREE VOLUMES.
Edinburgh: Printed for Robert Cadell, Edinburgh; and Whittaker and Co.,
London, 1831.
I 337p; II 407p; III 399p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d boards (ER, LG).
LG 741: 221 (2 Apr 1831); ER 53: 576 (June 1831); ECB 160 (Mar 1831).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47415-9; NSTC 2F4873 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA MH); OCLC 17380438
(18 libs).
Notes. Identical quotations from Shakespeare verso facing t.p. in
each vol. Dedication (1 p. unn.) to ‘Sir Walter Scott, Baronet’, signed
‘an obliged friend, though anonymous author’ and dated ‘Edinburgh, March
15, 1831’. Printer’s marks read: ‘Ballantyne and Co., Paul’s Work, Canongate,
Edinburgh’, with similar colophons.
Further edns: 1831 (NSTC); 1832 (BRu ENC); 1841 (NSTC, OCLC); [1845] NSTC;
1852 (NSTC, OCLC); 1856 (NSTC, OCLC); Philadelphia 1831 (NSTC, OCLC); Swedish
trans., 1836.
1831: 28 GALT,
John.
BOGLE CORBET; OR, THE EMIGRANTS. BY JOHN GALT, ESQ. AUTHOR OF “LAWRIE
TODD,” “THE LIFE OF LORD BYRON,” &C. &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, n.d.
[1831].
I iv, 312p; II 311p; III 322p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP, ER, LG); 31s 6d
(ECB).
BP (29 Apr 1831); LG 745: 285 (30 Apr 1831); ER 53: 576 (June 1831); ECB
222 (Apr 1831).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47759-X; NSTC 2G1359 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA MH); OCLC 2739533
(29 libs).
Notes. Preface, pp. [iii]–iv, dated ‘20th April, 1831’, stating
an intention ‘to show what a person of ordinarily genteel habits has really
to expect in emigrating to Canada’ (p. [iii]). This also notes: ‘The
author had proposed to offer the result of his observations in a regularly
didactic form, but upon reflection, a theoretic biography seemed better
calculated to ensure the effect desired. We disguise medicine, and he but
mixes truth with fiction’ (pp. [iii]–iv). Appendix, giving a descriptive
listing of ‘the different townships in eight of the eleven districts into
which the province is divided’, occupies vol. 3, pp. [303]–322. Adv.
(1 p. unn.) for four other works of the author at end of vol. 3. Printer’s
marks and colophons of Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street.
1831: 29 [GORE,
Catherine Grace Frances].
MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS; A TALE OF THE YEAR 1830. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1831.
I 318p; II 331p; III 355p. 12mo. 31s 6d (BP, ECB, ER); 31s 6d boards (LG).
BP (30 Dec 1830); LG 728: 12 (1 Jan 1831); ER 53: 257 (Mar 1831); ECB 222
(Dec 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48352-2; NSTC 2G14863 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA DLC); OCLC 10398299
(17 libs).
Notes. List of ‘Interesting Works of Fiction just Published by Messrs.
Colburn and Bentley’ (4 pp. unn.) at end of vol. 3. Printer’s marks
and colophons of C. Whiting, Beaufort House, Strand.
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1831 (Bentley Cat: 11 Apr 1831; 31s 6d boards); 1834
(NSTC, OCLC; BP: 28 Feb 1834, 6s boards); 1839 (OCLC); Philadelphia 1834
(OCLC).
1831: 30 [GORE,
Catherine Grace Frances].
PIN MONEY; A NOVEL. BY THE AUTHORESS OF “THE MANNERS OF THE DAY.” IN
THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1831.
I 331p; II 312p; III 327p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP, ER, LG); 31s 6d (ECB).
BP (9 June 1831); LG 751: 382 (11 June 1831); ER 54: 559 (Dec 1831); ECB
237 (June 1831).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48473-1; NSTC 2G14875 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA DLC, MH); OCLC
1239605 (13 libs).
Notes. Preface (1 p. unn.) expressly describes the work as a
novel for female readers: ‘Exhibiting an attempt to transfer the familiar
narrative of Miss Austin [sic] to a higher sphere of society, it
is, in fact, a Novel of the simplest kind, addressed by a woman to readers
of her own sex’. Advs. (4 pp. unn.) at end of vol. 1, commencing with
an announcement for ‘Standard Novels and Romances’ (‘Companion to the Waverley
Novels’), end signed ‘New Burlington Street, 1st June, 1831’. Printer’s
marks and colophons of C. Whiting, Beaufort House, Strand.
Further edns: 1854 (NSTC, OCLC); 1857 (NSTC, OCLC); Philadelphia and Baltimore
1834 (NSTC, OCLC).
1831: 31 [GORE,
Catherine Grace Frances].
THE TUILERIES. A TALE. BY THE AUTHOR OF “HUNGARIAN TALES,” “ROMANCES
OF REAL LIFE,” &C. &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1831.
I 313p; II 341p; III 352p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP, LG); 31s 6d (ECB, ER).
BP (18 Feb 1831); LG 736: 140 (26 Feb 1831); ER 53: 257 (Mar 1831); ECB
237 (Feb 1831).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48841-9; NSTC 2G14896 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA MH); OCLC 22001021
(9 libs).
Notes. List of ‘Novels by Distinguished Writers, Preparing for Publication
by Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley’ (2 pp. unn.) at end of vol. 1.
List of ‘Popular Novels just Published by Henry Colburn and 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.
Further edns: 1831 (NSTC); 1841 as The Soldier of Lyons. A Tale of the
Tuilieries (NSTC, OCLC); New York 1831 (NSTC, OCLC).
1831: 32 GRATTAN,
Thomas Colley.
JACQUELINE OF HOLLAND. A HISTORICAL TALE. BY THOMAS COLLEY GRATTAN, AUTHOR
OF “THE HEIRESS OF BRUGES,” &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1831.
I xi, 306p; II 311p; III 358p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP, ER, LG); 31s 6d
(ECB).
BP (18 June 1831); LG 752: 398 (18 June 1831); ER 54: 559 (Dec 1831); ECB
241 (June 1831).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47776-X; NSTC 2G18168 (BI BL, C, O; NA MH); OCLC 8922470
(14 libs).
Notes. Dedication, pp. [v]–xi, to ‘Sir Arthur Brooke Faulkner,
Knt.’, signed ‘T. C. G.’ and dated ‘June, 1831’. This notes: ‘We have cut
through the fogs of a Dutch winter together. While I sought inspiration
in the chronicles of the olden time, and you drew from the still deeper
and purer wells of practical philosophy, we were now and then encouraged
by glimpses of fair forms, shewing through the mist enough of grace and
beauty to add truth to fancy and embellishment to fact’ (p. vi). New
arabic sequences (2 pp. each) at end of vols. 1 and 3 with lists of
‘New Works just Published by Messrs. Colburn and Bentley’. List in vol.
1 includes (as ‘just ready’): ‘Stories of the Old Chroniclers. By the Late
Barry St. Leger, Esq. In 3 vols. post 8vo.’ (p. 2). This last work
mentioned is almost certainly St. Leger’s Froissart, and his Times
(1832: 74). Printer’s marks and colophons of Henry Baylis, Johnson’s Court,
Fleet Street.
Further edns: revised and corrected, 1843 (NSTC, OCLC); 1857 (NSTC); [1860?]
(NSTC); New York 1831 (NSTC, OCLC); German trans., 1832.
1831: 33 GREEN,
William Child.
ALIBEG THE TEMPTER. A TALE WILD AND WONDERFUL. BY WILLIAM CHILD GREEN,
AUTHOR OF THE ABBOT OF MONTSERRAT, &C &C. IN FOUR VOLUMES.
London: Printed for A. K. Newman and Co., 1831.
I 252p; II 232p; III 225p; IV 234p. 12mo. 22s (ECB, Star); 22s boards (ER,
LG).
Star (21 Mar 1831); LG 742: 236 (9 Apr 1831); ER 53: 576 (June 1831); ECB
244 (Apr 1831).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47848-0; NSTC 2G20223 (BI BL, C, O; NA MH); xOCLC.
Notes. List of ‘New Publications’ (3 pp. unn.) at end of vol.
3. Printer’s mark and colophons of J. Darling, Leadenhall Street.
1831: 34 [GREY,
Elizabeth Caroline].
THE WAY OF THE WORLD. BY THE AUTHOR OF “DE LISLE,” AND “THE TRIALS OF
LIFE.” IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Edward Bull, Holles Street, 1831.
I 300p; II 295p; III 334p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB, ER); 31s 6d boards (LG).
Star (3 Dec 1830); LG 723: 773 (27 Nov 1830); ER 53: 257 (Mar 1831); ECB
627 (Nov 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48879-6; NSTC 2G22172 (BI BL, C, Dt, NCu, O; NA DLC, MH);
OCLC 38015203 (4 libs).
Notes. Also (wrongly) attributed to Anna Maria Hall, née Fielding
(1800–81) in NSTC. ‘The Way of the World’ runs to vol. 3 (p. 49), and
is followed by: ‘The Vindication’, pp. [51]–210; ‘Anne. A Tale of Simplicity
and Truth’, pp. [211]–271; ‘The Fate of Flora. A Legend’, pp. [273]–334.
‘Advertisement’, dated ‘Liverpool, 20th March, 1810 [sic]’, precedes
main text of ‘The Vindication’ in vol. 3 (pp. [53]–57). This begins:
‘The following pages are no fiction of the brain; and the unfortunate beings
whose history they record, did once exist, though they are now at peace’
(p. [53]). Advs. verso facing t.p. in each vol., that in vol. 1 featuring
the same author’s De Lisle and The Trials of Life (see EN2,
1828: 45 and 1829: 40). List of ‘Interesting Works just Published by Edward
Bull, Holles Street, Cavendish Square, London’ (3 pp. unn.), dated
‘Nov. 15, 1830’, at end of vol. 2. Printer’s marks and colophons of Gunnell
and Shearman, 13, Salisbury Square. Originally adv. in Star (20 Oct
1830), as ‘in the press’.
Further edn: London and Edinburgh 1866 (NSTC).
1831: 35 HALL,
[Anna Maria].
SKETCHES OF IRISH CHARACTER. BY MRS. S. C. HALL. SECOND SERIES.
London: Frederick Westley and A. H. Davis, Stationers’-Hall Court, 1831.
vi, 448p. 12mo. 9s (ECB); 9s boards (LG).
LG 743: 253 (16 Apr 1831); ECB 250 (Apr 1831).
BL 836.c.18; NSTC 2H2562 (BI C, E); OCLC 29348661 (1 lib).
Notes. Dedication (1 p. unn.) to ‘Miss Edgeworth’, signed ‘The
Author’. This precedes Introduction, pp. [v]–vi, dated ‘April 4, 1831’,
and list of contents (1 p. unn.). The ‘sketches’ consist of: ‘Mable
O’Neil’s Curse’, pp. [1]–58; ‘Anne Leslie’, pp. [59]–109; ‘The
Rapparee’, pp. [111]–171; ‘Norah Clary’s Wise Thought’, pp. [173]–187;
‘Kate Connor’, pp. [189]–208; ‘We’ll See about It’, pp. [209]–219;
‘Jack the Shrimp’, pp. [221]–239; ‘Irish Settlers in an English Village’,
pp. [241]–259; ‘Mark Connor’s Wooing and Wedding’, pp. [261]–311;
‘Luke O’Brian’, pp. [313]–329; ‘Larry Moore’, pp. [331]–345; ‘Mary
MacGoharty’s Petition’, pp. [347]–378; ‘The Last of the Line’, pp. [379]–448.
Printer’s mark and colophon of John Westley and Co. 27, Ivy Lane. For details
of the 1st ser., see EN2, 1829: 43.
Further edns: of both ser.—1842 (NSTC); 1844 (NSTC); 5th edn. 1855 [1854]
(NSTC); New York and Philadelphia 1845 (NSTC).
1831: 36 HARRISON,
W[illiam] H[enry].
TALES OF A PHYSICIAN. BY W. H. HARRISON. SECOND SERIES.
London: Jennings and Chaplin, 1831.
262p. 8vo. 7s 6d (ECB); 7s 6d boards (ER, LG).
LG 757: 478 (23 July 1831); ER 54: 559 (Dec 1831); ECB 256 (May 1831).
BL N.1900; NSTC 2H9973 (BI C, E, O; NA DLC); OCLC 27830566 (1 lib).
Notes. List of contents (1 p. unn.) follows t.p. The vol. contains:
‘Cousin Tomkins, the Tailor’, pp. [1]–48; ‘The Life of an Author’,
pp. [49]–71; ‘Remorse’, pp. [73]–95; ‘The Sexton’s Daughter’,
pp. [97]–119; ‘The Old Maid’, pp. [121]–148; ‘The Preacher’, pp. [149]–180;
‘The Soldier’s Bride’, pp. [181]–224; ‘The Mortgagee’, pp. [225]–262.
Printer’s mark and colophon of J. and C. Adlard, Bartholemew Close. For
details of 1st ser., see EN2, 1829: 44.
Further edns: of both ser.—French trans. 1833 [as Mémoires d’un Médecin];
Philadelphia 1835 (OCLC).
1831: 37 [HATTON,
Anne Julia Kemble].
GERALD FITZGERALD; AN IRISH TALE. BY ANN OF SWANSEA, AUTHOR OF UNCLE
PEREGRINE’S HEIRESS; CONVICTION; GONZALO DE BALDIVIA; DEEDS OF THE OLDEN
TIME; SECRETS IN EVERY MANSION[;] WOMAN’S A RIDDLE; GUILTY, OR NOT GUILTY,
&C. &C. IN FIVE VOLUMES.
London: Printed for A. K. Newman and Co., 1831.
I 346p; II 332p; III 320p; IV 360p; V 343p. 12mo. 30s (ECB, Star); 30s boards
(ER, LG).
Star (4 Aug 1831); LG 760: 526 (13 Aug 1831); ER 54: 559 (Dec 1831); ECB
20 (Aug 1831).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48801-X; NSTC 2A13191 (BI BL, C, E, O); xOCLC.
Notes. T.ps. of vols. 2, 3, and 5 supply semicolon after ‘Secrets
in Every Mansion’. List of ‘New Publications’ (1 p. unn.) at end of
vol. 5. Printer’s marks and colophons of J. Darling, Leadenhall Street.
1831: 38 [HOCKLEY,
William Browne].
THE VIZIER’S SON OR THE ADVENTURES OF A MOGUL. BY THE AUTHOR OF PANDURANG
HARI, OR MEMOIRS OF A HINDOO, THE ZENANA, &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1831.
I iv, 376p; II 331p; III 310p. 12mo. 24s (ECB, ER).
ER 53: 257 (Mar 1831); ECB 616 (Dec 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48808-7; NSTC 2H24563 (BI BL, C, O); xOCLC.
Notes. Preface, pp. [iii]–iv, argues the case for reform by
example in Hindustan: ‘Let the Reader, therefore, peruse with pity, the
superstitions of the Hindu, and the cruelty of the Mahommedan, and while
he deplores their ignorance, let him hope, that through the exertions of
his countrymen, in that far disstant land, all classes, all castes may yet
be enlightened, and become “one fold under one shepherd” ’ (p. iv).
Lists of ‘Errata’ follow main narrative on p. [370] in vol. 1, on p. [322]
in vol. 2, and on p. [311] in vol. 3. ‘Notes’ occupy pp. [371]–376,
pp. [323]–331, and pp. [307]–310 in each vol. Adv. list (12 pp.)
follows notes in vol. 1, dated ‘March, 1831’, and headed ‘Valuable Standard
Works, Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London’: pp. 5–8
missing in Corvey copy. Printer’s marks and colophons read: ‘Bury St. Edmund’s:
Printed by T. C. Newby, Angel Hill’.
1831: 39 {JAMES,
G[eorge] P[ayne] R[ainsford}.
PHILIP AUGUSTUS; OR, THE BROTHERS IN ARMS. BY THE AUTHOR OF “DARNLEY,”
“DE L’ORME,” &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1831.
I viii, 346p; II 353p; III 339p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP, ER, LG); 31s 6d
(ECB).
BP (8 June 1831); LG 750: 366 (4 June 1831); ER 53: 576 (June 1831); ECB
445 (May 1831).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47937-1; NSTC 2J2158 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA DLC); OCLC 1626396
(25 libs).
Notes. Dedication, pp. [v]–vi, to ‘Robert Southey, Esq. LL.D.’,
signed ‘G. P. R. James’ and dated ‘Maxpoffle, near Melrose, Roxburghshire,
25th May, 1831’; this implies that the work had been written 12 months earlier.
‘Advertisement’, pp. [vii]–viii, follows dedication. List of ‘New and
Popular Works of Fiction, Published by Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley,
New Burlington Street’ (2 pp. unn.) at end of vol. 1. List of ‘New
Works by Distinguished Authors Preparing for Publication, By Henry Colburn
and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street’ (2 pp. unn.) at end of
vol. 2. Printer’s marks and colophons of Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street,
Fleet Street.
Further edns: 1837 (NSTC, OCLC; BP: 31 Aug 1837, 6s); 1845 (OCLC); 1850
(NSTC, OCLC); 1851 (NSTC, OCLC); [at least 4 more edns. to 1870]; New York
1831 (NSTC, OCLC); German trans., 1832; French trans., 1833 [as Les Frères
d’armes, par James]; Swedish trans., 1838.
1831: 40 JONES,
H[annah] M[aria].
THE SCOTTISH CHIEFTAINS; OR, THE PERILS OF LOVE AND WAR. BY H. M. JONES,
AUTHOR OF “EMILY MORELAND,” “ROSALINE WOODBRIDGE,” “THE WEDDING RING,”
&C.
London: George Virtue, Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row; and Bath Street, Bristol,
1831.
872p, ill. 8vo.
CFu WG.16.9.J; NSTC 2J10438 (BI BL, E); OCLC 13306985 (1 lib).
Notes. Frontispiece dated Aug 1831. Additional engraved t.p. with
similar imprint details. On the last page appear ‘Directions to Binder’,
for the placement of the eight illustrations when bound. The last plate
(to appear after p. 478) is dated 12 Nov 1831. Text is mispaginated
after p. 479, with the recto of this leaf being misnumbered 490—the
subsequent pagination carries this error of 10 pp. throughout, resulting
in the last page being numbered 882, instead of 872. Each set of three gatherings
(24 pp.) is separately numbered indicating serial publication: the first
36 numbers of 24 pp., the 37th (and last) consisting of 8 pp. Colophon
of Joseph Rickerby, Sherbourn Lane. Collates in fours. BL copy (1570/5466)
lacks the engraved t.p.
Further edns: 1854 (Summers); 1856 (Summers).
1831: 41 JONES,
James Athearn.
HAVERHILL; OR, MEMOIRS OF AN OFFICER IN THE ARMY OF WOLFE. BY JAMES ATHEARN
JONES. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: T. & W. Boone, 29, New Bond Street, 1831.
I viii, 314p; II 335p; III 350p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d boards (ER,
LG).
LG 747: 318 (14 May 1831); ER 53: 576 (June 1831); ECB 312 (May 1836 [sic]).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48027-2; NSTC 2J10656 (BI E); OCLC 49100203 (1 lib).
Notes. ‘Advertisement’, pp. [v]–viii, dated ‘London, April,
1831’. This states: ‘my ill-health compels me to reside […] at a considerable
distance from town, and where there is much difficulty in communicating
with the printer, I trust that a lenient judgement will be passed upon the
errors, obviously those of haste and inadvertence’ (p. viii). Adv.
list (2 pp. unn.), for works ‘Published and Sold by T. & W. Boone,
(From the Strand,) Suceessors to Messrs. Nornaville & Fell, 29, New
Bond-Street’, at end of vol. 1, with a similar list at end of vol. 3. Printer’s
marks and colophons of Marchant, Ingram Court. Originally published New
York 1831 (NSTC, OCLC).
Further edns: 1851 (NSTC).
1831: 42 L[ANDON],
L[etitia] E[lizabeth].
ROMANCE AND REALITY. BY L. E. L. AUTHOR OF “THE IMPROVISATRICE,” “THE
VENETIAN BRACELET,” &C. &C. &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1831.
I 328p; II 343p; III 332p. 12mo. 31s 6d quires (BP); 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d
boards (ER, LG).
BP (29 Nov 1831); LG 776: 782 (3 Dec 1831); ER 54: 560 (Dec 1831); ECB 328
(Nov 1831).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48469-3; NSTC 2L362 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA DLC); OCLC 2956588
(15 libs).
Notes. Preface (2 pp. unn.), in vol. 1, undercutting the concept
of prefaces in general. This is followed by ‘Note’ (2 pp. unn.) apologizing
for inconsistencies in proper names, and (ostensibly) acknowledging the
help of the house readers and printers: ‘The long sentences made short,
the obscure made plain, the favourite words that would, like “Monsieur Tonson,
come again,” the duplicate quotations,—for the amendment of all these, I
beg to make at once my acknowledgments and my thanks.’ This last also notes
that one of the characters has been called by various names in different
parts of the novel, owing to the author’s difficulty in settling on a final
name: ‘Only a modern author can know the plague of names. I have read the
Peerage through twice, and actually became interested in the divisions of
the House, to see if there was “a pretty name” in either majority or minority.’
Printer’s marks and colophons of J. Moyes, Castle Street, Leicester Square.
Further edns: 1831 (NSTC); 1848 (NSTC, OCLC); 1852 (OCLC); 1856 (NSTC, OCLC);
New York 1832 (NSTC, OCLC).
1831: 43 [LEICESTER,
Peter].
ARTHUR OF BRITANNY, AN HISTORICAL TALE. BY THE AUTHOR OF “THE TEMPLARS.”
IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Whittaker, Treacher, & Co. Ave-Maria-Lane, 1831.
I vii, 339p; II 302p; III 311p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d boards (ER, LG).
LG 750: 366 (4 June 1831); ER 54: 559 (Dec 1831); ECB 27 (May 1831).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47072-2; NSTC 2L10402 (BI BL, C, O); xOCLC.
Notes. Verso facing t.p. in each vol. carries the following notice:
‘Lately Published, in Three Vols., Post 8vo. Price 27s. The Templars. By
the Author of “Arthur of Britanny” ’ (see 1830: 69), followed by snippets
from the Monthly Magazine and La Belle Assemblée. List of
‘Errata’ verso of t.p. in each vol. Preface, pp. [v]–vii, dated ‘January,
1831’. This cites Sir Walter Scott as an authority on the question of the
legitimacy of modern language in the historical novel, stating that ‘in
the attempt to add to the attractiveness of the incidents, by so “translating”
them into the feelings of the present day, he [the author] […] trusts, should
he, in any respect, have accomplished his purpose, that any apparent neglect
of the claims of antiquity will be willingly excused […] The object he has
sought has been to amuse’ (p. vii). List of ‘New Books Published by
Whittaker, Treacher, & Co. Ave Maria Lane, London’ (2 pp. unn.),
dated ‘May 1st, 1831’, at end of vol. 2. Printer’s marks and colophons of
Henry Baylis, Johnson’s Court, Fleet Street.
Further edn: 1833 (OCLC 46699337).
1831: 44 LOVER,
Samuel.
LEGENDS AND STORIES OF IRELAND. BY SAMUEL LOVER, R.H.A. WITH ETCHINGS
BY THE AUTHOR.
Dublin: W. F. Wakeman, 9, D’Olier-Street; Baldwin and Cradock, London;
Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1831.
xx, 227p, ill. 12mo. 7s (ECB); 7s boards (LG).
LG 736: 140 (26 Feb 1831); ECB 354 (Feb 1831).
Corvey; CME 3-628-51096-1; NSTC 2L23350 (BI Dt, O); OCLC 9665401 (10 libs).
Notes. Dedication, p. [iii], to ‘Sir Martin Archer Shee, P.R.A.,
a Painter—a Poet—and an Irishman’, signed ‘The Author’. Preface, pp. [vii]–xi,
notes: ‘although most of the tales are authentic, there is one, purely my
own invention, namely, “The Gridiron.” // Many of them were originally intended
merely for the diversion of a few friends round my own fire-side—there,
recited in the manner of those from whom I heard them, they first made their
début, and the flattering reception they met on so minor a stage,
led to their appearance before larger audiences—subsequently, I was induced
to publish two of them in the Dublin Literary Gazette, and the favourable
notice from contemporary prints, which they received, has led to the publication
of the present volume’ (pp. [vii]–viii). Introduction occupies pp. [xiii]–xx,
while list of contents (1 p. unn.) and ‘Glossary’ (2 pp. unn.)
also precede main text. The tales consist of: ‘King O’Toole and St. Kevin.
A Legend of Glendalough’, pp. [1]–14; ‘Lough Corrib’, pp. [15]–17;
‘Manuscript from the Cabinet of Mrs. ——. A Legend of Lough Mask’, pp. [18]–28;
‘The White Trout; a Legend of Cong’, pp. [29]–40; ‘The Battle of the
Berrins, or the Double Funeral’, pp. [41]–56; ‘Father Roach’, pp. [57]–63;
‘The Priest’s Story’, pp. [64]–74; ‘The King and the Bishop. A Legend
of Clonmacnoise’, pp. [75]–91; ‘An Essay on Fools’, pp. [92]–100;
‘The Catastrophe’, pp. [101]–121; ‘The Devil’s Mill’, pp. [122]–135;
‘The Gridiron; or, Paddy Mullowney’s Travels in France’, pp. [136]–147;
‘Paddy the Piper’, pp. [148]–160; ‘The Priest’s Ghost’, pp. [161]–165;
‘New Potatoes, an Irish Melody’, pp. [166]–175; ‘Paddy the Sport’,
pp. [176]–202; ‘National Minstrelsy. Ballads and Ballad Singers’, pp. [203]–227.
No specific printer’s mark discovered. For details of the 2nd ser., see
1834: 46.
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1832 (NSTC, OCLC); 3rd edn. 1834 (OCLC); 4th edn.
London 1837 (Corvey, NSTC, OCLC). With 2nd ser: London 1847 (OCLC); London
1853 (OCLC); London 1860 (OCLC); London 1870 (OCLC); Philadelphia 1835 (OCLC);
French trans. 1856 [as Légendes irlandaises, serially published in
the periodical Le Moniteur universel].
1831: 45 [MARTINEAU,
Harriet].
SEQUEL TO PRINCIPLE AND PRACTICE; OR THE ORPHAN FAMILY. A TALE.
London: Printed for Houlston & Son, Paternoster Row; and at Wellington,
Salop, 1831.
184p. 16mo. 3s 6d (ECB).
ECB 527 (July 1832 [sic]).
BL N.926; NSTC 2M17440; OCLC 8616979 (3 libs).
Notes. Printer’s mark of R. Clay, Bread Street Hill. Apparently following
on from Martineau’s Principle and Practice; or, the Orphan Family
(Wellington, Salop, 1827).
1831: 46 MASON,
Catherine [George] [formerly WARD].
THE EVE OF ST. AGNES. A NOVEL. BY MRS. CATHERINE MASON, (LATE C. WARD,)
AUTHOR OF MYSTERIOUS MARRIAGE; COTTAGE ON THE CLIFF; ROSE OF CLAREMONT;
FISHER’S DAUGHTER; ROBERTINA; BACHELOR’S HEIRESS, &C. &C. IN FOUR
VOLUMES.
London: Printed for A. K. Newman and Co., 1831.
I xiv, 260p; II 253p; III 270p; IV 259p. 12mo. 22s (ECB, Star).
Star (19 Sept 1831); ECB 623 (Sept 1831).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48134-1; NSTC 2W4958 (BI BL, C, E, O); xOCLC.
Notes. Dedication, pp. [i]–ii, ‘by permission, to the Right
Honourable Lord Morpeth’, signed ‘Catherine Mason, (Late C. Ward)’ and dated
‘No. 22, Castle Street, Leicester Square’. Introduction, pp. [iii]–xiv,
signed ‘Catherine Mason, (Late C. Ward)’, notes that the work was inspired
by the superstitions of Scotland during a northern tour and more specifically
while staying in Dumfries. Lists of ‘New Publications’ at end of vols. 2
(5 pp. unn.), 3 (2 pp. unn.) and 4 (1 p. unn.). Printer’s
marks and colophons of J. Darling, Leadenhall Street.
1831: 47 [MASSIE,
William].
ALICE PAULET: A SEQUEL TO SYDENHAM, OR, MEMOIRS OF A MAN OF THE WORLD.
BY THE AUTHOR OF “SYDENHAM”. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. New Burlington Street, 1831.
I 288p; II 324p; III 279p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP, ER, LG); 31s 6d (ECB).
BP (5 Nov 1831); LG 772: 718 (5 Nov 1831); ER 54: 559 (Dec 1831); ECB 12
(Oct 1831).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47040-4; NSTC 2M19367 (BI BL, E; NA DLC, MH); OCLC 12681268
(6 libs).
Notes. Running title reads ‘Sydenham’. Initial signature marks of vol.
1, signatures C–N read ‘VOL. IV’ (with B1 and N12 reading ‘VOL. I’); similarly,
those of vol. 2, signatures C–P (excepting B and P6) read ‘VOL. V’, and vol.
3, signatures C–O (excepting B) read ‘VOL. VI’. Printer’s marks and colophons
of Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street. For details of the prequel,
Sydenham; or, Memoirs of a Man of the World, see 1830: 81.
Further edn: Philadelphia and Baltimore 1833 (NSTC, OCLC).
1831: 48 [MILTIE,
Karl von].
THE TWELVE NIGHTS.
London: Printed for Whittaker, Treacher, and Co. Ave-Maria Lane, 1831.
xv, 404p. 12mo. 10s 6d (ECB); 10s 6d boards (ER, LG).
LG 745: 285 (30 Apr 1831); ER 53: 576 (June 1831); ECB 604 (Apr 1831).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48844-3; NSTC 2M29523 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA MH); OCLC 13345330
(6 libs).
Notes. ‘Epistle Dedicatory*. To ********’, pp. [iii]–vi, signed
‘The Author, A.I.R.M.S.R.F.D.L.L. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c.’.
Footnote reads: ‘*The reader will scarcely credit that this Dedication cost
the author full two months’ cruel rumination. Such, however, is the fact.
The plan, it will be observed, is novel, and combines many advantages. Each
purchaser may hand down to posterity his or her name, simply by inscribing
it in the second line, and adding an appropriate eulogium’ (p. [iii]).
Preface, pp. [vii]–xv, notes that ‘[m]ost of the following sketches
have already appeared, at various intervals, in the periodicals of the day’
(p. xii), adding: ‘The periodical literature of our neighbours, the
French, has furnished me with the groundwork and materials of most of my
sketches’ (p. xiv). The tales consist of: ‘Night the First. The Eve
of Walpurgis, a German Story’, pp. [1]–76; ‘Night the Second. A Tale
of Truth’, pp. [77]–91; ‘Night the Third. Remarkable Vision of Charles
XI. of Sweden’, pp. [93]–117; ‘Night the Fourth. The Chest. A Spanish
Adventure’, pp. [119]–173; ‘Night the Fifth. The Corsican Bandit’,
pp. [175]–194; ‘Night the Sixth. The Handkerchief’, pp. [195]–213;
‘Night the Seventh. Tales of the Dead. The Half-Hanged Italian; The Impaled
Turk; The Half-Drowned Englishman’, pp. [215]–260; ‘Night the Eighth.
My First Affair. The Storming of the Redoubt. (From the Journal of a French
Officer)’, pp. [261]–274; ‘Night the Ninth. The Privateer. An Adventure
near the Cape de Verd Islands’, pp. [275]–297; ‘Night the Tenth. Toniotto;
the Brutus of Corsica’, pp. [299]–340; ‘Night the Eleventh. The Crossway
or the Four Brothers. A Legendary Tale’, pp. [341]–367; ‘Night the
Twelfth. The Button-Holder: A Sketch from Life’, pp. [369]–404. Printer’s
mark and colophon of Gilbert and Rivington, St. John’s Square.
Further edn: 1832 (OCLC).
1831: 49 MOLESWORTH,
J[ohn] E[dward] N[assau].
TALES FROM THE SCRAP BOOK OF A COUNTRY CLERGYMAN. BY THE REV. J. E. N.
MOLESWORTH, M.A. RECTOR OF ST. MARTIN WITH ST. PAUL, CANTERBURY, AUTHOR
OF THE RICK-BURNERS, &C. DEDICATED TO MRS. HOWLEY.
London: Printed for C. J. G. & F. Rivington, St. Paul’s Church-Yard,
and Waterloo-Place. And sold by J. Hatchard & Son, Piccadilly; Hurst,
Chance, & Co. St. Paul’s Church-Yard; & H. Wix, New Bridge-Street,
1831.
iv, 115p. 18mo. 2s (ECB, Star); 2s boards (LG).
Star (31 Oct 1831); LG 756: 462 (16 July 1831); ECB 391 (July 1831).
BL T.1365(6); NSTC 2M32311 (BI C, O); xOCLC.
Notes. Dedication, pp. [iii]–iv, ‘To Mrs. Howley’, signed ‘J.
E. N. Molesworth’. The tales consist of: ‘Alice Green’, pp. [1]–27);
‘The Drunkard’, pp. [28]–63; ‘The Politicians’, pp. [64]–93; ‘The
Publican’, pp. [94]–115. Adv. list (1 p. unn.) at end of vol.
Printer’s mark and colophon of Gilbert and Rivington, St. John’s Square.
1831: 50 MOORE,
Oliver.
THE STAFF OFFICER; OR, THE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE. A TALE OF REAL LIFE. BY
OLIVER MOORE. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Printed for Cochrane and Pickersgill, 11, Waterloo Place, Pall
Mall, 1831.
I 311p; II 328p; III 318p. 12mo. 24s (ECB, Star); 24s boards (ER, LG).
Star (2 Sept 1831); LG 755: 446 (9 July 1831); ER 54: 559 (Dec 1831); ECB
394 (July 1831).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48285-2; NSTC 2M35019 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA DLC, MH); OCLC
9357901 (10 libs).
Notes. Adv. list (1 p. unn.) precedes main text in vol. 1, with
identical lists in vols. 2 and 3 on verso facing t.p. The works featured
are: ‘The Young Muscovite […] edited by Capt. Frederick Chamier’; ‘The Club
Book’ (which likewise ‘will be published immediately’); and ‘Newton Forster
[…] By the Author of “The King’s Own” ’ (‘preparing for publication’).
Printer’s marks and colophons of A. J. Valpy, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street.
Further edn: Philadelphia and Baltimore 1833 (NSTC, OCLC).
1831: 51 [MUDFORD,
William].
THE PREMIER. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1831.
I 303p; II 332p; III 312p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP, LG); 31s 6d (ECB, ER).
BP (15 Mar 1831); LG 739: 189 (19 Mar 1831); ER 53: 257 (Mar 1831); ECB
468 (Mar 1831).
BL N.865; CME 3-628-48370-0; NSTC 2M39807 (BI C, O; NA DLC, MH); OCLC 4060844
(3 libs).
Notes. Preface (1 p. unn.), end-dated ‘March, 1831’, states:
‘The originals of evey character introduced are still living, with
the exception of two, and the grave has closed over them only a very few
years. Many of the scenes in which they are brought forward as actors are
transcripts from reality; but with what fidelity they have been made, others
must determine.’ The Corvey copy lacks this preface. Printer’s marks and
colophons of Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street.
1831: 52 [NEALE,
William Johnson].
CAVENDISH: OR, THE PATRICIAN AT SEA. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1831.
I xii, 308p; II 295p; III 298p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP, ER, LG); 31s 6d
(ECB).
BP (25 Nov 1831); LG 774: 750 (19 Nov 1831); ER 54: 559 (Dec 1831); ECB
103 (Nov 1831).
BL N.810; NSTC 2N2332; OCLC 49266482 (1 lib).
Notes. Dedication to ‘His Most Gracious Majesty, King William IV’.
Preface, pp. viii–x, dated Nov 1831, notes: ‘Much have I drawn from
life, and more from fancy.  If, therefore, conscience-stricken,
some individuals (a thing I doubt not) should perceive a stray likeness
in my outlines, my labours will not all be lost as by holding up the truest
of looking glasses—satire—they may learn to correct those blemishes which
even self can see.’ Narrative proper ends on vol. 3, p. 274, and is
followed by ‘Notes on Naval Reform’, pp. [275]–298. List (2 pp. unn.)
of ‘New Works of Fiction by Distinguished Writers, just Published by Henry
Colburn and Richard Bentley’ at end of vol. 3. Printer’s marks (on verso
facing t.p.) in all 3 vols. and colophons of vols. 1 and 2 read: ‘London:
Henry Baylis, Johnson’s-Court, Fleet-Street’; colophon of vol. 3, however,
reads: ‘London: Ibotson and Palmer, Printers, Savoy Street, Strand’. BP
notes: ‘For some special reason the anonymity of this work was preserved
for a great number of years with exceptional strictness, and indeed the
author’s name does not appear on the contract for publication, or even that
of his proxy in full. Owing to this circumstance when nearly half a century
later Lord Houghton made some enquiries in New Burlington Street as to the
authorship of “Cavendish” without success, he went away under the impression
that, owing no doubt to the responsible position of the unrevealed, or possibly
royal, author, great importance was still attached to secrecy. […] These
volumes, which are said to be founded on facts, contain a vigorous exposé
of Naval abuses. […] From a quotation made by the Author, it seems probable
that one reason for the strict anonymity of the work was the fact of its
publication at an early period in his career. […] A “Remainder” of 386 copies
of this work was sold to Messrs. Cochrane and Macrone, April 26, 1833.’
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1832 (Corvey, CME 3-628-47240-7, NSTC, OCLC; BP:
4 May 1832, 31s 6d boards); 1840 (OCLC); 1841 (Summers); 1854 (NSTC); [1855]
(Summers); [at least 3 more edns. to 1870]; Philadelphia 1835 (OCLC); German
trans., 1841.
1831: 53 OTTLEY,
Thomas Henry.
RUSTUM KHAN; OR, FOURTEEN NIGHTS’ ENTERTAINMENT AT THE SHAH BHAG, OR
ROYAL GARDENS AT AHMEDABAD. BY THOMAS HENRY OTTLEY, LIEUT. H. C. S. IN THREE
VOLUMES.
London: Published for the Author, by William Sams, St. James’s Street,
1831.
I xxiii, 283p; II 312p; III 380p. 12mo. 30s (ECB); 30s boards (ER, LG).
LG 755: 446 (9 July 1831); ER 54: 559 (Dec 1831); ECB 426 (July 1831).
BL T.7888; CME 3-628-48320-4; NSTC 2O6219 (NA DLC); OCLC 41886281 (1 lib).
Notes. T.ps. of vols. 2 and 3 read: ‘Published for the Author, by
W. Sams, Bookseller to His Majesty, 1, St. James’s Street’. List of subscribers
(6 pp. unn.) follows t.p., giving c. 190 names. Preface, pp. [i]–xxiii,
signed ‘T. H. O.’ and dated ‘12, Sloane Street, 28th March, 1831’. This
ends expressing gratitude ‘for the most distinguished favor [sic]
granted me by their Most Gracious Majesties, in allowing my work to be forwarded
to their librarian, and for the kind patronage I have received from those
whose names are upon my list of subscribers’ (p. xxiii). Printer’s
marks and colophons of C. Richards, St. Martin’s Lane, Charing Cross. Subscription
list missing in the Corvey copy.
1831: 54 [PAULDING,
James Kirke].
THE DUTCHMAN’S FIRESIDE. A TALE. BY THE AUTHOR OF “LETTERS FROM THE SOUTH,”
“THE BACKWOODSMAN,” &C. &C. IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1831.
I 335p; II 299p. 12mo. 21s boards (BP, ER, LG); 21s (ECB).
BP (19 July 1831); LG 757: 478 (23 July 1831); ER 54: 559 (Dec 1831); ECB
175 (July 1831).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47532-5; NSTC 2P7323 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA DLC, MH); OCLC
12226542 (7 libs).
Notes. ‘Advertisement’ (1 p. unn.), dated ‘April 1831’, notes
that ‘The idea of the following tale was conceived on reading, many years
ago, “The Memoirs of an American Lady,” by Mrs. Grant, of Laggan’. Printer’s
marks and colophons of Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street. Originally
published New York 1831 (Blanck, NSTC, OCLC).
Further edns: 5th edn. 1837 (NSTC); 1839–40 (NSTC); 1849 (OCLC); French
trans., 1832 [as Le Coin du feu d’un Hollandais, ou les Colons
de New-York avant l’Indépendance, roman américain]; Swedish trans.,
1833; German trans., 1837 [Sybrandt Westbrook, oder des Holländers Heerd.
Ein amerikanischer Roman]; Danish trans., 1838.
1831: 55 [PEACOCK,
Thomas Love].
CROTCHET CASTLE. BY THE AUTHOR OF HEADLONG HALL.
London: Published by T. Hookham, Old Bond Street, 1831.
300p. 16mo. 7s 6d (ECB, ER); 7s 6d boards (LG).
LG 737: 157 (5 Mar 1831); ER 53: 257 (Mar 1831); ECB 145 (1831).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47357-8; NSTC 2P8168 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA DLC, MH); OCLC
4309557 (36 libs).
Notes. Adv. on leaf preceding t.p., with following text: ‘By the
same Author, Headlong Hall, Third edition. 6s. bds. / The Misfortunes of
Elphin. 7s bds. / The other novels of the same author, are Melincourt, Nightmare
Abbey, and Maid Marian; which are at present out of print.’ Printer’s mark
and colophon of J. and C. Adlard, Bartholomew Close.
Further edns: 1837 with Headlong Hall (EN2, 1816: 49), Nightmare
Abbey (EN2, 1818: 48), and Maid Marian (EN2, 1822: 61) (NSTC,
OCLC; BP: 25 Mar 1837, 6s canvas); 1856 with Maid Marian (NSTC, OCLC).
1831: 56 [PICKEN,
Andrew (editor)].
THE CLUB-BOOK: BEING ORIGINAL TALES, &C. BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. EDITED
BY THE AUTHOR OF “THE DOMINIE’S LEGACY.” IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Printed for Cochrane and Pickersgill, 11, Waterloo-Place, Pall-Mall,
1831.
I xiii, 307p; II 314p; III 330p. 12mo. 24s (ECB); 24s boards
(LG, Star).
Star (2 Sept 1831); LG 758: 492 (30 July 1831); ER 54: 559 (Dec 1831);
ECB 122 (July 1831).
BL N.817; NSTC 2P15784 (BI C, E, O; NA DLC, MH); OCLC
22437379 (12 libs).
Notes. ‘Introductory’, pp. [iii]–xiii, notes that ‘this peculiar
tendency of our time—this increasing spirit of segregation and of union,
both at home and abroad, […] hath furnished the collector and part writer
of the following pieces, with that necessary desideratum, a tolerably suitable
title, under which the whole may be appropriately presented to the public’
(p. vi). List of contents (1 p. unn.) precedes main text in each
vol. Vol. 1 consists of: ‘Bertrand de la Croix; or, the Siege of Rhodes.
By Mr. [G. P. R.] James’, pp. [1]–99; ‘Haddad-Ben-Ahab; or, the
Traveller. A Tale of Stamboul. By Mr. [John] Galt’, pp. [101]–113;
‘The Gipsy of the Abruzzo. By Mr. [Tyrone] Power’, pp. [115]–190; ‘Eisenbach;
or, the Adventures of a Stranger. A Metropolitan Story. By Mr. [Andrew]
Picken’, pp. [191]–307. Vol. 2 contains: ‘The Fatal Whisper. By Mr.
[John] Galt’, pp. [1]–29; ‘The Sleepless Woman. By William Jerdan’,
pp. [31]–54; ‘Dramatic Scenes Founded on Victor Hugo’s Celebrated Tragedy
of the Hernani. By Lord Francis Leveson Gower’ (drama), pp. [55]–131;
‘Gowden Gibbie. By Allan Cunningham’, pp. [133]–204; ‘The Deer-Stalkers
of Glenskiach. A Highland Legend. By Andrew Picken’, pp. [205]–314.
Vol. 3 comprises: ‘The Deer-Stalkers of Glenskiach’ continued, pp. [1]–123;
‘The Painter. A Sicilian Tale. By John Galt’, pp. [125]–141; ‘The Laidlaws
and the Scotts. A Border Tradition. By the Ettrick Shepherd [i.e. James
Hogg]’, pp. [143]–164; ‘The Bridal of Borthwick. By D. M. Moir’, pp. [165]–199;
‘The Unguarded Hour. By John Galt’, pp. [201]–215; ‘The Cheaterie Packman.
By Leitch Ritchie’, pp. [217]–229; ‘The Bogle o’ the Brae. A Queer
Courting Story. By the Ettrick Shepherd [i.e. James Hogg]’, pp. [231]–264;
‘The Book of Life. By John Galt’, pp. [265]–289; ‘The Three Kearneys.
A Tale of the Dominie. By Andrew Picken’, pp. [291]–330. List of ‘Works
just Published’ (4 pp.) at end of vol. 1. Printer’s marks and colophons
of Henry Baylis, Johnson’s Court, Fleet Street.
Further edn: New York 1831 (OCLC); individual stories were published in
various edns.
1831:
57 [PORTER, William Ogilvie];
PORTER, Jane (editor).
SIR EDWARD SEAWARD’S NARRATIVE OF HIS SHIPWRECK, AND CONSEQUENT DISCOVERY
OF CERTAIN ISLANDS IN THE CARIBBEAN SEA: WITH A DETAIL OF MANY EXTRAORDINARY
AND HIGHLY INTERESTING EVENTS IN HIS LIFE, FROM THE YEAR 1733 TO 1749, AS
WRITTEN IN HIS OWN DIARY. EDITED BY MISS JANE PORTER. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, Paternoster-Row, 1831.
I xv, 344p; II 361p; III 343p. 8vo. 21s [sic] (ECB); 31s 6d boards
(LG).
LG 751: 382 (11 June 1831); ECB 524 (June 1831).
Corvey; CME 3-487-26947-3; NSTC 2P22424 (BI BL, C, Dt, O; NA DLC, MH); OCLC
42212560 (2 libs, microform only).
Notes. Authorship by William Porter, rather than Jane, verified with
documentary evidence by Fiona Price, ‘Jane Porter and the Authorship of
Sir Edward Seaward’s Narrative: Previously Unpublished Correspondence’,
N&Q n.s. 49:1 (Mar 2002), 55–7. Preface ‘by the Editor’, signed
‘The Editor’ and dated ‘Esher, March, 1831’ fills pp. [iii]–x in vol.
1, followed by list of contents to vol. 1 (pp. [xi]–xv). Preface notes:
‘The manuscript papers, or rather manuscript books, constituting the Diary
from which the following Narrative is taken, were put into my hands by the
representative of their much-respected writer’ (p. [iii]). The contents
of the alleged diary, however, appear to be primarily fictitious. Lists
of contents fill pp. [iii]–vii in vol. 2 and pp. [iii]–viii in
vol. 3. Printer’s marks and colophons of A. & R. Spottiswoode, New-Street-Square.
A letter in the Longman Letter Books to Jane Porter, dated 29 Mar 1831,
offers ‘Three Hundred Pounds for the purchase of the Copyright, to be paid
on publication’ (I, 102, no. 165D). Longman Archives (H12, 93, 125) also
record print run of 1,000 copies for 1st edn. and 1,250 copies for 2nd edn.
Further edns: 1832 (NSTC, OCLC); 3rd edn. 1841 (NSTC); 1852 (NSTC); 1856
(NSTC, OCLC); New York 1831 (NSTC, OCLC).
1831: 58 [POWER,
William Grattan Tyrone].
THE KING’S SECRET. BY THE AUTHOR OF “THE LOST HEIR.” IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Edward Bull, Holles Street, 1831.
I 318p; II 308p; III 377p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d boards (ER, LG).
Star (12 Apr 1831); LG 740: 205 (26 Mar 1831); ER 53: 576 (June 1831); ECB
322 (Mar 1831).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47917-7; NSTC 2P24038 (BI BL, C, Dt, E, O; NA DLC, MH);
OCLC 8771092 (8 libs).
Notes. Advs. verso facing t.p. in vols. 1 and 2. List of ‘Interesting
Works just Published by Edward Bull, Holles Street, Cavendish Square, London’
(2 pp. unn.) at end of vol. 3. Printer’s marks and colophons read:
‘R. G. Gunnell (Printer in Ordinary to His Majesty) and W. Shearman, 13,
Salisbury Square’.
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1831 (NSTC); 3rd edn. 1833 (OCLC); [1859] (NSTC);
New York 1831 (OCLC); French trans., 1832.
1831: 59 REYNOLDS,
Frederick.
A PLAYWRIGHT’S ADVENTURES. BY FREDERICK REYNOLDS.
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1831.
356p, ill. 18mo.
ECB 490 (Mar 1831).
BL 012612.de.20; NSTC 2R7934 (BI C, Dt, O; NA DLC, MH); OCLC 4096274 (27
libs).
Notes. T.p. contains engraved vignette illustration. Dedication follows
t.p., and reads: ‘To those powerful personages, who can at once make or
mar an author’s hopes the Conductors of the Press, I dedicate The Dramatic
Annual, simply hoping that this little work may not be deemed wholly unworthy
of their notice. Should they allow that it possesses some redeeming qualities,
probably they will Criticise It Indulgently. But at any rate I entreate
them to Criticise It, and not suffer it to die in obscurity. Fred. Reynolds.’
Verso of dedication leaf reads: ‘The Engravings on Wood designed and created
by W. H. Brooke.’ Printer’s mark and colophon of Thomas Davison, Whitefriars.
Spine label of BL copy examined reads: ‘The Dramatic Annual. 1831.’
RICHARDS, Thomas, TALES OF WELSHLAND AND WELSHERIE
See ANWYL, Edward Trevor
1831: 60 RITCHIE,
Leitch.
THE ROMANCE OF HISTORY. FRANCE. BY LEITCH RITCHIE. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Edward Bull, Holles Street, 1831.
I vii, 326p; II 350p; III 346p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB, ER).
Star (4 Dec 1830), ‘just ready’; ER 53: 257 (Mar 1831); ECB 495 (Dec 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-51126-7; NSTC 2R11585 (BI BL, C); OCLC 2546079 (10 libs).
Notes. ‘Advertisement’, pp. [v]–vii, dated ‘London, 11th December,
1830’. This points out that the author ‘has taken pains to go for information
to the original sources of French History. These he found in reasonable
abundance, in the old Collegiate Library of Caen, and in the British Museum’
(p. vi). It also adds that references and notes have been added at
the request of the publisher (p. vii). Lists of contents (1 p. unn.
each) precede main text in each vol. Verso facing vol. 1 t.p. advertises
1st and 2nd ser. of ‘The Romance of History’. Vol. 1 of the present work
comprises: ‘Historical Summary. Charlemagne’, pp. [1]–4; ‘Bertha; or,
the Court of Charlemagne’, pp. [5]–42; ‘Historical Summary. Ninth Century’,
pp. [43]–46; ‘The Last of the Breton Kings’, pp. [47]–117; ‘The
Adventures of Eriland’, pp. [119]–199; ‘Historical Summary. Tenth Century’,
pp. [201]–204; ‘The Man-Wolf’, pp. [205]–264; ‘Historical Summary.
Eleventh Century’, pp. [265]–268; ‘The King of the Beggars’, pp. [269]–326.
Vol. 2 contains: ‘Historical Summary. Twelfth Century’, pp. [1]–4;
‘The Serf’, pp. [5]–62; ‘Historical Summary. Thirteenth Century’, pp. [63]–66;
‘The Pilgrim of Saint James’, pp. [67]–218; ‘The Bondsman’s Feast’,
pp. [219]–271; ‘Historical Summary. Fourteenth Century’, pp. [273]–276;
‘The Phantom Fight’, pp. [277]–350. Vol. 3 consists of: ‘Historical
Summary. Fifteenth Century’, pp. [1]–4; ‘The Magic Wand’, pp. [5]–121;
‘Historical Summary. Sixteenth Century’, pp. [123]–130; ‘The Rock of
the Fort’, pp. [131]–187; ‘Historical Summary. Seventeenth Century’,
pp. [189]–193; ‘The Dream-Girl’, pp. [195]–236; ‘The Black Mask;
or, the Lottery of Jewels’, pp. [237]–332; ‘Historical Summary. Eighteenth
Century’, pp. [333]–341; ‘Nineteenth Century’, pp. 341–346. Printer’s
marks and colophons of Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street. Originally
adv. in Star (20 Oct 1830), as ‘in the press’.
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1831 (NSTC, OCLC); 3rd edn. 1832 (NSTC); New York
1831 (NSTC, OCLC); German trans., 1833.
1831: 61 ST.
CLAIR, Rosalia [pseud.].
THE SOLDIER BOY; OR, THE LAST OF THE LYALS. A NOVEL. BY ROSALIA ST. CLAIR,
AUTHOR OF THE BANKER’S DAUGHTERS OF BRISTOL; FIRST AND LAST YEARS OF WEDDED
LIFE; ELEANOR OGILVIE; ULRICA OF SAXONY; SON OF O’DONNEL; SAILOR BOY; FASHIONABLES
AND UNFASHIONABLES; &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Printed for A. K. Newman and Co., 1831.
I 257p; II 244p; III 276p. 12mo. 16s 6d (ECB).
ECB 511 (July 1831).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48500-2; xNSTC; OCLC 9957237 (2 libs).
Notes. List of ‘New Publications’ (1 p. unn.) at end of vol.
1. Printer’s marks and colophons of J. Darling, Leadenhall Street.
1831: 62 [ST.
JOHN, Lady Isabella].
WEDDED LIFE IN THE UPPER RANKS. THE WIFE AND FRIENDS, AND THE MARRIED
MAN. IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1831.
I 362p; II 356p. 12mo. 21s boards (BP, ER, LG); 21s (ECB).
BP (23 Mar 1831); LG 739: 189 (19 Mar 1831); ER 53: 576 (June 1831); ECB
628 (July 1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48880-X; NSTC 2S2136 (BI BL, E; NA MH); OCLC 48470788
(1 lib).
Notes. The work consists of ‘The Wife and Friends’, vols. 1 and 2
(up to p. 239), and ‘The Married Man’, vol. 2 (from p. [241]),
which itself forms the setting to a third tale entitled ‘Osborne’s Story’.
Printer’s marks and colophons of Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street.
SAVARY, Henry, QUINTUS SERVINTON
See 1830: 96
1831: 63 [SCARGILL,
William Pitt].
ATHERTON; A TALE OF THE LAST CENTURY. BY THE AUTHOR OF “RANK AND TALENT,”
&C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Published by W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, Stationers’ Hall Court,
1831.
I 280p; II 288p; III 276p. 12mo. 28s 6d (ECB); 28s 6d boards (ER, LG).
LG 749: 350 (28 May 1831); ER 53: 576 (June 1831); ECB 30 (1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47078-1; NSTC 2S5998 (BI BL; NA MH); xOCLC.
Notes. Printer’s marks and colophons read: ‘Bury St. Edmund’s: Printed
by T. C. Newby, Angel Hill’.
1831: 64 SHERWOOD,
[Mary Martha].
ROXOBEL. BY MRS. SHERWOOD, AUTHOR OF “LITTLE HENRY AND HIS BEARER,” &C.
&C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Printed for Houlston and Son, 65, Paternoster-Row; and at Wellington,
Salop, 1831.
I viii, 380p, ill.; II 513p, ill.; III 464p, ill. 12mo. 27s (ECB); 27s cloth
(LG).
LG 747: 318 (14 May 1831); ECB 534 (May 1831).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48688-2; xNSTC; OCLC 8634183 (16 libs).
Notes. Preface, pp. [v]–viii, describes the work as a development
from her earlier lessons to young people: ‘the authoress has attempted,
in numerous instances, to clothe the most serious and important lessons
in such various and alluring attire as she thought best calculated to captivate
the attention of the young and the thoughtless […] Proceeding on a more
extended scale, she has at length been induced to imagine such a narrative
as might, in its progress, give her an opportunity of shewing how a Christian
ought to act in the various situations of brother, husband, father, servant,
master—of exemplifying the most beautiful forms of the female character
under various and trying circumstances,—and of exhibiting a specimen of
that most rare, and perhaps least understood of human characters,—the exalted,
the disinterested, the warm and tender friend’ (pp. [v]–vi).
Though targeted at least partly towards young people, the work is centred
on an adult protagonist and is in the form of a standard novel. Lists of
‘Books Printed by and for Houlston & Son, 65, Paternoster-Row, London;
and at Wellington, Salop’ at end of vols. 1 (24 pp. unn.) and 3 (4
pp. unn.). Colophon in vols. 1 and 3 reads: ‘Houlstons, Printers, Wellington,
Salop’. Collates in sixes.
Further edns: New York 1831 (OCLC); German trans., 1841.
1831: 65 [TAYLOR,
Isaac].
THE TEMPLE OF MELEKARTHA. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Holdsworth and Ball, 1831.
I xxi, 330p; II viii, 301p; III viii, 328p. 12mo. 27s (ECB); 27s boards
(LG).
LG 730: 44 (15 Jan 1831); ECB 582 (Jan 1831).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48890-7; NSTC 2T3456 (BI BL, C; NA MH); OCLC 22154806
(7 libs).
Notes. Short verse piece, ‘The Temple of Melekartha’, introduces
each vol. Preface, pp. [v]–viii, notes: ‘To depict some of the principal
forms of superstitious and fanatical feeling, and to exhibit some of the
natural consequences of such mental disorders, especially as they affect
communities, was the author’s primary design’ (p. vii). This
is followed by list of contents, pp. [ix]–xxi, and list of ‘Errors’
(1 p. unn.) in vol. 1. Lists of contents occupy pp. [v]–viii in
vols. 2 and 3. Printer’s marks and colophons of R. Clay, Bread Street Hill,
Cheapside.
1831: 66 TIECK,
[Johann Ludwig]; [HARE, Julius Charles (trans.)].
THE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN, THE LOVECHARM, AND PIETRO OF ALBANO. TALES
FROM THE GERMAN OF TIECK.
London: Edward Moxon, 64, New Bond Street, 1831.
335p. 16mo. 6s (ECB); 6s boards (LG).
LG 743: 253 (16 Apr 1831); ECB 591 (Apr 1831).
BL RB.23.a.20623; NSTC 2T12488 (BI C, O); OCLC 13652428 (5 libs).
Notes. lang=EN-US>The vol. contains: ‘The Old Man of
the Mountain’ (trans. of ‘Der Alte vom Berg’, from Der Alte vom Berg
und: Die Gesellschaft auf dem Lande. Zwei Novellen (Breslau, 1828)),
pp. [1]–165; ‘The Love Charm’ (trans. of ‘
lang=EN-US>Liebeszauber’, from Phantasus. Eine Sammlung von Mährchen, Erzählungen,
Schauspielen und Novellen, ed. by Ludwig Tieck, vol. 1 (Berlin, 1812)),
pp. [167]–219; ‘Pietro of Albano’ (trans. of lang=EN-US>‘Pietro
von Albano oder Petrus Apone, Zaubergeschichte’, from Ludwig Tieck’s
Märchen und Zaubergeschichten, vol. 1 (Breslau, 1825)), pp. [221]–335.
Printer’s mark and colophon of Bradbury and Evans, Bouverie Street.
Further edn: 2nd edn. 1860 (NSTC).
1831: 67 [TRELAWNY,
Edward John].
ADVENTURES OF A YOUNGER SON. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1831.
I 333p; II 341p; III 338p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP, ER, LG); 31s 6d (ECB).
BP (24 Feb 1832); LG 788: 125 (25 Feb 1832);
ER 55: 301 (Apr 1832); ECB 598 (1830).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47018-8; NSTC 2T17063 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA MH); OCLC 11937065
(16 libs).
Notes. Adv. lists of new publications by Colburn and Bentley (2 pp. unn.)
at end of each vol. Printer’s marks and colophons of Henry Baylis, Johnson’s
Court, Fleet Street. BP notes: ‘The title was originally to have been “A
Man’s Life.” Trelawny, who wrote the work abroad, entrusted it to Mrs. Shelley
to negotiate for him with the publishers. The correspondence between her
and the author is printed in the second volume of Mrs. Marshall’s “Life
of Mary W. Shelley,” where a portrait of Trelawny, from a sketch by Severn,
may be seen.’
Further edns: 1835 (NSTC, OCLC; BP: 28 Sept 1835, 6s boards); 1846 (NSTC);
1848 (NSTC); 1854 (NSTC, OCLC); New York 1832 (NSTC, OCLC); German trans,
1832 [as Trelawney’s Abentheuer in Ostindien]; French trans., 1833
[as Mémoires d’un cadet de famille]; Swedish trans., 1836.
1831: 68 TRUEBA
{Y COSIO}, [Joaquin] T{elesforo} de.
THE INCOGNITO; OR, SINS AND PECCADILLOS. BY DON T. DE TRUEBA, AUTHOR
OF “ROMANCE OF HISTORY, SPAIN,” “THE CASTILIAN,” &C. &C. IN THREE
VOLUMES.
London: Whittaker, Treacher, & Co. Ave-Maria-Lane, 1831.
I iv, 301p; II 305p; III 324p. 12mo. 27s (ECB, ER); 27s boards (LG).
LG 734: 108 (12 Feb 1831); ER 53: 257 (Mar 1831); ECB 601 (Feb 1831).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48835-4; NSTC 2T18799 (BI BL, C, E, O); xOCLC.
Notes. Preface, pp. [iii]–iv, signed ‘Telesforo de Trueba y
Cosio’ and dated ‘Richmond, October 1st, 1830’. This states: ‘In the present
Work, I have ventured to quit the field of historical romance, to attempt
a more veracious form of fiction. […] Probably “The Incognito” is
the first Spanish novel of its class, which has appeared in Egland [sic]” ’
(p. [iii]). It later enlists as a support ‘the prevailing taste of
the day—a taste which naturally springs from the very spirit of the age,
and which looks eagerly for fact even in fiction, and is gratified
in proportion as a scene, an event, or a character, bears nearest to the
interest, prejudices, and state of present society’ (p. iv). Running
title varies according to chapter headings. List of ‘Works Published by
Whittaker, Treacher, and Co.’ (2 pp. unn. each) at end of vols. 1 and
2. Verso facing t.p. in vol. 2 notes: ‘Preparing for Publication, by the
same Author, “Paris and London,” In Three Volumes.’ Printer’s marks and
colophons of Henry Baylis, Johnson’s Court, Fleet Street. Bentley MS List
notes: ‘see a witty attack upon Don Trueba (& cut up of this novel)
in Fraser’s Gallery’.
Further edn: New York 1831 (OCLC).
1831: 69 {TRUEBA
Y COSIO, [Joaquin] Telesforo de}.
PARIS AND LONDON. A NOVEL. BY THE AUTHOR OF “THE CASTILIAN,” “THE EXQUISITES,”
&C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1831.
I vi, 300p; II 295p; III 295p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP, ER, LG); 31s 6d
(ECB).
BP (23 June 1831); LG 753: 413 (25 June 1831); ER 54: 559 (Dec 1831); ECB
601 (June 1831).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48382-4; NSTC 2T18805 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA DLC); OCLC 29141637
(6 libs).
Notes. Dedication, p. [iii], to ‘Edward Lytton Bulwer, Esq.
M.P.’, signed ‘Telesforo de Trueba y Cosio’. Introduction, pp. [v]–vi,
dated ‘London, May, 1831’. Running title varies according to chapter headings.
List of ‘Works by the same Author’ (1 p. unn.) after main text in vol.
3, this in turn being followed by 4 pp. list of ‘New Novels just Ready
for Publication, by Messrs. Colburn and Bentley, New Burlington Street’.
Printer’s marks and colophons of Henry Baylis, Johnson’s Court, Fleet Street.
OCLC 42930327 lists as vols. 1–3 of Colburn and Bentley’s ‘New British Novelist’
ser., 1829–31, but not discovered in this form.
1832: 1 ANON.
BELLEGARDE, THE ADOPTED INDIAN BOY. A CANADIAN TALE. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1832.
I xx, 267p; II 264p; III 264p. 12mo. 30s (ECB); 30s boards (ER, LG).
LG 829: 782 (8 Dec 1832); ER 56: 571 (Jan 1833); ECB 49 (Dec 1832).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47190-7; NSTC 2B16607 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA DLC); OCLC
30646899 (3 libs).
Notes. Verso facing t.p. in vol. 1 notes: ‘Just Published, in
2 vols. post 8vo. Memoirs of Louis the Eighteenth, Written by Himself’.
Introduction, pp. [v]–xx, dated ‘London, September, 1832’, stresses
the authenticity of the work compared with the slanderous pictures presented
in Mrs Trollope’s Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832). Adv.
list of ‘New and Interesting Works Published by Saunders and Otley’
(3 pp. unn.) and ‘Terms of Subscription to Saunders and Otley’s
British & Foreign Public Library’ (1 p. unn.) at end of vol.
1. Advs. verso facing t.p. in vols. 2 and 3, for (respectively) ‘Mr
Lodges’s New Peerage’ and ‘Records and Travels in Turkey, Greece, &c
[…] by Adolphus Slade’ (both ‘just published’). Vols. 1 and 2 have printer’s
marks of Low and Harvey, Playhouse Yard, Blackfriars, with colophons
reading ‘Lowe’ instead of ‘Low’; vol. 3 has printer’s mark and colophon
of Ibotson and Palmer, Savoy Street, Strand.
Further edn: French trans., 1833.
1832: 2 ANON.
CAMERON. A NOVEL. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Edward Bull, Holles Street, 1832.
I 312p; II 330p; III 312p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d boards (ER, LG).
Star (22 Nov 1831); LG 775: 765 (26 Nov 1831); ER 54: 559 (Dec 1831);
ECB 94 (Nov 1831).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47205-9; NSTC 2C3803 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA MH); OCLC
13229756 (4 libs).
Notes. Adv. for ‘Novels and Tales just Published’ (five items
listed) verso facing t.p. in vol. 1. List of ‘Valuable Works of History,
Biography, Geography, and Fiction just Published, by Edward Bull, 26,
Holles Street, London’ (4 pp. unn.) at end of vol. 1. Printer’s
marks and colophons of Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street.
1832: 3 ANON.
CLARENSWOLD, OR TALES OF THE NORTH.
Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute, and James Duncan, London, 1832.
304p, ill. 12mo. 7s 6d (ECB); 7s 6d boards (ER, LG).
LG 807: 430 (7 July 1832); ER 55: 582 (July 1832); ECB 117 (June 1832).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47288-1; NSTC 2C22984 (BI BL, E); OCLC 25074630 (2
libs).
Notes. Dedication (1 p. unn.) to ‘John Wilson, Esq. Professor
of Moral Philosophy, Edinburgh’, signed ‘The Author’. Preface (1 p. unn.),
dated ‘Edinburgh, June 1832’. The work consists of: ‘Glenavin. A Tale
of Destiny’ (up to p. 164) and ‘The Pledge of Peace. A Chronicle
of Glendinning’ (from p. [165]). Illustrated main t.p., and similar
for the two tales. Colophon reads: ‘Edinburgh Printed by John Johnstone,
High Street’.
1832: 4 ANON.
THE DEMOCRAT, A TALE; AND THE HUGONOT, A TALE. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Edward Bull, Holles Street; and Hatchard and Son, Piccadilly,
1832.
I xviii, 294p; II 311p; III 335p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d boards
(LG); ‘11s. 6d. boards’ [sic] (ER).
LG 798: 286
(5 May 1832); ER 55: 581 (July 1832);
ECB 158 (Apr 1832).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47411-6; NSTC 2D8689 (BI BL, C; NA MH); xOCLC.
Notes. Preface, pp. [v]–xviii, responds to criticisms levelled
against religious fiction, while conceding that the defence might not
serve fully in the case of the present tales: ‘A desire to render some
feeble testimony to a class of literature, conscientiously believed
by the writer to be of useful tendency, has alone elicited observations
calculated, in many respects, to condemn rather than to serve the work
which succeeds them. “The Democrat”. and “The Hugonot”, were written
some years ago; and perhaps, had they been more recent productions,
might have appeared in a different form’ (p. xvii). ‘The Democrat’
runs to vol. 2, p. 114, and is followed by ‘Notes’, pp. [115]–129;
‘The Hugonot’, from vol. 2, p. [131] to vol. 3, p. 327, followed
by ‘Notes’, pp. [328]–335. ‘Advertisement’ to the tale of ‘The
Hugonot’ is found on p. [132] in vol. 2. Adv. lists facing t.p.
in all vols. Printer’s marks and colophons of Samuel Bentley, Dorset
Street, Fleet Street.
1832: 5 ANON.
FREDERICK WILDING; OR, THE WAYS OF THE WORLD: A NOVEL, IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1832.
I xv, 341p; II 339p; III 440p. 12mo. 21s (ECB).
ECB 216 (Feb 1832).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47765-4; NSTC 2W20439 (BI BL, O); xOCLC.
Notes. Half-titles read ‘Wilding’. Preface, pp. [v]–xv,
(perhaps fancifully) refers to an original co-authorship, involving
a friend, with Richardson, Fielding, Le Sage, Cervantes, Scott, William
Godwin, and Bulwer Lytton’s Pelham being named as the authors’
models: the deleterious effect of Godwin’s stylistic influence on the
friend had led to its initial abandonment. The same preface concludes
with a Swiftian dedication to ‘Prince Posterity’. Colophons of T. C.
Hansard, Paternoster Row.
1832:
6 ANON.
O’RUARC, AN IRISH TALE.
Dublin: Richard Milliken and Son, 104, Grafton-Street, 1832.
ii, 126p. 8vo. 2s 6d (t.p.).
D LO 502; xNSTC; xOCLC.
Notes. Preface, pp. [i]–ii, signed ‘The Author, Trinity
College, June 1832’. This is addressed to Lady Morgan (unknown to the
author), and expresses admiration of Morgan’s talent, especially her
‘recording of Irish grievances and observations on events resulting
from absentee landlords’. The work originated from ‘an idea inspired
by her “Absenteeism” in which she notes the “wild legend” surrounding
the death of O’Ruarc, Prince of Breffini’. The author’s motives for
writing are explained: ‘to attract attention, particularly of young
people towards the history of their own country’, patriotic curiosity,
and the ‘desolating effects of absenteeism on the country’. Collates
in fours.
1832: 7 ANON.
REAL LIFE. PAGES FROM THE PORTFOLIO OF A CHRONICLER.
Edinburgh: Waugh and Innes; M. Ogle, Glasgow; R. M. Tims, and W.
Curry, & Co. Dublin; and Whittaker & Co. London, 1832.
vi, 326p. 12mo. 5s (ECB, Star); 5s boards (LG).
Star (17 Mar 1832); LG 791: 173 (17 Mar 1832);
ECB 481 (Mar 1832).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48455-3; NSTC 2L15300 (BI BL, C); xOCLC.
Notes. OCLC 12100720 (see below) attributes to Anna Maria Hall,
rather unconvincingly on the grounds that a copy of Real Life (New
York, 1835) was bound with a copy of Hall’s Tales of Woman’s Trials
(New York, 1835). Dedication ‘To the Reader’, pp. [iii]–vi,
signed ‘The Heir of the Portfolio’, followed by list of contents (1
p. unn.) giving various components of the narrative. Drop-head
title reads: ‘Anecdotes of the Living and of the Dead’. Running titles
vary according to narrative contents. Printer’s mark reads: ‘Edinburgh:
Printed by A. Balfour and Co.’.
Further edn: New York 1835 (OCLC).
1832: 8 ANON.

Belfast: Printed by Joseph Smyth, High St., 1832.
144p. 18mo.
Dt 22.u.180; NSTC 2T1293; xOCLC.
Notes. ‘To the Reader’, p. [3], compares the tales to the
English Nights, Arabian Nights, and Persian and Chinese Tales, and their
moral and didactic purpose is emphasized, ‘tending both to enrich the
fancy and improve the mind’. Claims are made for the originality of
the collection and it is noted that the stories are ‘adapted to every
person of every inclination and disposition’. The vol. contains: ‘The
Black Thief and the Knight of the Glen’, pp. [5]–19; ‘Will O’ the
Wisp’, pp. 20–27; ‘The Apprentice Thief’, pp. 28–39; ‘Manus
O’ Mallaghan and the Fairies’, pp. 40–45; ‘Fool Tom and His Brother
Jack’, pp. 46–48; ‘The Hermit Turned Pilgrim’, pp. 48–51;
‘The Farmer and his Servant’, pp. 52–55; ‘The Three Advices’, pp. 56–57;
‘TheYoung Priest and Brien Braar’, pp. 59–64; ‘The Spaeman’, pp. 65–68;
‘Donald and his Neighbours’, pp. 69–73; ‘The Priest and The Robber’,
pp. 74–77; ‘The Teague Sloan’, pp. 78–95 (containing ‘The
Story of Oldemar’); ‘Peter Megrab and his Brother John’, pp. 96–103;
‘The Jackdaw’, pp. 104–107; ‘The Blacksmith’, pp. 108–115;
‘Mac Turkill’, pp. 116–117; ‘The Fisherman’s Son’, pp. 118–125;
‘The Generous Irishman’, pp. 126–132; ‘Jack Withers’, pp. 133–135;
‘Anne Bonney, the Female Pirate’, pp. 136–138; ‘James Butler’,
pp. 139–43; ‘Anecdotes’, p. 144. Dt copy examined contains
an additional vignette t.p. with printer’s imprint: ‘Belfast: Printed
by J. Smyth, High Street, 1834’. End of vol. contains adv. list. National
Library of Ireland holds an imperfect, undated copy (IR 82308 r2)
bearing the imprint, ‘Dublin: C. M. Warrant, 21 Upper Ormond Quay’;
this copy contains fewer stories, running only to 107 pp.
1832: 9 ANON.
SADOC AND MIRIAM. A JEWISH TALE. PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF
THE COMMITTEE OF GENERAL LITERATURE AND EDUCATION, APPOINTED BY THE
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.
London: John W. Parker, West Strand, 1832.
iv, 130p. 16mo. 1s 8d (ECB).
ECB 510 (1832).
BL 863.l.26; NSTC 2M30677; xOCLC.
Notes. ‘Advertisement’, pp. [iii]–iv, dated ‘October, 1832’.
This notes: ‘The chief object of the Author of the following pages has
been to exhibit the Evidences of Christianity as they must have appeared
to a Jew, in our Saviour’s days […] The introduction of these points
into a story seemed more likely to attract the reader, than if they
had been barely exhibited to his view through the medium of an argumentative
treatise’ (p. [iii]). Running titles vary according to narrative
contents. Adv. list (1 p. unn.) at end of vol. for ‘Books
Printed under the Direction of the Committee of General Literature and
Education, Appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge’.
Colophon of J. W. Parker, West Strand.
Further edns: 1833 (NSTC); Boston 1834, ‘from the 2nd London edn.’ (OCLC);
German trans., 1836.
1832: 10 ANON.
THE SIEGE OF MAYNOOTH; OR, ROMANCE IN IRELAND. IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: James Ridgway, Piccadilly, 1832.
I 282p; II 242p. 12mo. 16s (ECB); 16s boards (ER, LG).
LG 826: 733 (17 Nov 1832); ER 56: 570 (Jan 1833); ECB 537 (Sept 1832).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48698-X; NSTC 2M22038 (BI BL, E, O); OCLC 37284601
(4 libs).
Notes. Drop-head and running title reads ‘Romance in Ireland’.
List of ‘Splendid Works, Published by James Ridgway, and to be had by
Order of all Booksellers’ (2 pp. unn.) at end of vol. 1. Printer’s
marks and colophons read: ‘Tilling, Printer, Chelsea’. LG lists as ‘Romance
in Ireland, Siege of Maynooth’. ECB 500, which lists as ‘Romance in
Ireland; Siege of Maynooth’, gives publication date as Nov 1832; ECB
501 apparently also lists the same work yet again as ‘Romance of Irish
History. 2 vols. 12mo. Ridgway. Dec. 32’.
1832: 11 ANON.
THE VISIT.
London: James Fraser, 215 Regent Street, 1832.
ii, 283p, ill. 16mo. 7s 6d (ECB).
Star (30 June 1832), ‘in the course of the week’; ECB 615 (July 1832).
BL 12331.aaa.42; NSTC 2V5639; xOCLC.
Notes. Frontispiece with scene from the narrative facing engraved
t.p. with vignette. Imprint to frontispiece reads: ‘Published by James
Fraser 215. Regent Street 1832.’ Preface, pp. [i]–ii, dated ‘Aberryswith,
July 1832’, notes: ‘The story expanded gradually […] with the religious
and moral tendency, which is to be hoped has glimmered throughout’ (pp. [i]–ii).
Introduction, pp. [1]–4, belongs to the novel proper. The first-person
narrator introduces herself not as ‘Prima Donna’ (p. [1]), and
gives details about her former life as a young widow. Coloured illustration
of an orchid on 1 p. unn. between pp. 8 and 9. Advs. (3 pp. unn.)
at end of vol. Colophon of J. Moyes, Castle Street, Leicester Square.
1832: 12 ARNOLD,
T[homas] [James].
DRAMATIC STORIES. BY T. ARNOLD, ESQ. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street,
1832.
I 312p; II 323p; III 300p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP, ER, LG); 31s 6d
(ECB).
BP (9 July 1832); Star (27 June 1832); LG 808: 446 (14 July 1832); ER
55: 582 (July 1832); ECB 26 (July 1832).
Corvey; CME 3-628-51000-7; NSTC 2A16384 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA DLC); OCLC
1334070 (7 libs).
Notes. BP states: ‘The author was Thomas James Arnold, of Lincoln’s
Inn.’ Each story has its own t.p.. Prefatory letter to ‘Alberic the
Goddess’, vol. 2, p. [33], signed ‘The Author’, and addressed to
‘Gentle Ladies’, notes: ‘If, as is indeed certain, you shall find the
events recorded in the following tale, to be too horrible and seemingly
too unnatural, for the belief of your soft breasts, I feel bound, in
justice to my humble self, to assure you, that they are not the issue
of mine own imagination, […] but that they are truly related from the
narrative of one who lived in the times, when they happened, namely
in the year 1343.’ The work as a whole consists of: ‘Godwin and Goda’,
vols. 1 and 2 (up to p. 30). The rest of vol. 2 contains: ‘Alberic
the Godless’, pp. [31]–88; ‘Leonessa’, pp. [89]–253; ‘The
Shadow’, pp. [255]–284; ‘The Impostor’, pp. [285]–323. Vol.
3 comprises: ‘Schelmkind, the Wood-Cutter’, pp. [1]–29; ‘Life in
Death’, pp. [31]–70; ‘The Conscript and his Dog’, pp. [71]–232;
‘The Step-Mother’, pp. [233]–267; ‘The Wish Unwished’, pp. [269]–300.
Printer’s marks and colophons of G. Schulze, 13, Poland Street. BP notes:
‘The scenes and seasons in which the characters of these stories play
a part are very various—Anglo-Saxon England, Italy and Germany in the
seventeenth century, and in the case of the two last sketches, ordinary
society. Some of the stories appear to have historical foundations.
“Alberic” is said to be founded on an old chronicle of the year 1343,
and “Life and Death” on a fact recorded in a French work, “Causes Célèbres.” ’
LG lists as ‘Arnold’s Dramatic Sketches’.
Further edn: reissue 1837, with title beginning Godwin and Goda,
or, the Impostor (NSTC).
1832: 13 [?ATKINSON,
Charles L. or ?DUROS, Edward].
OTTERBOURNE; A STORY OF THE ENGLISH MARCHES. BY THE AUTHOR OF “DERWENTWATER.”
IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, (Late Colburn and
Bentley), 1832.
I 294p; II 326p; III 281p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP, ER, LG); 31s 6d
(ECB).
BP (23 Nov 1832); Star (29 Oct 1832); LG 827: 750 (24 Nov 1832); ER
56: 570 (Jan 1833); ECB 426 (Nov 1832).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48319-0; NSTC 2O6191 (BI BL, E, O; NA DLC, MH); OCLC
13342787 (5 libs).
Notes. BP gives author as Charles L. Atkinson; NSTC and OCLC
include attributions to both Atkinson and Duros. NSTC states that also
attributed by MH to Robert Trotter, himself actually the author of Derwentwater;
or the Adherents of King James (EN2, 1825: 79), a different work
from the Derwentwater (1830: 20) associated with the present
title. Advs. (2 pp. unn.) at end of each vol. Printer’s marks and
colophons of C. Whiting, Beaufort House, Strand. Bentley MS list records
print run of 500 copies. Adv. in Star (24 Nov 1832) gives title
as ‘Otterbourne; or, the Early Days of Hotspur’.
1832: 14 BROWN,
Elizabeth Cullen.
PASSION AND REASON; OR, THE MODERN QUINTILIAN BROTHERS. A NOVEL.
BY ELIZABETH CULLEN BROWN. IN FOUR VOLUMES.
London: T. Hookham, Old Bond Street, 1832.
I viii, 358p; II 363p; III 390p; IV 408p. 12mo. 30s (ECB); 36s boards
(ER, LG).
LG 826: 733 (17 Nov 1832); ER 56: 570 (Jan 1833); ECB 78 (Sept 1832).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47355-1; NSTC 2B51980 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA MH); OCLC
48701773 (1 lib).