and her independence!’ (pp. vii–viii). Adv. (1 p. unn.)
at end of vol. 3. Printer’s mark and colophon of J. C. Goodier,
Well Street, Hackney.
1835: 98 STEPHENS,
George.
THE MANUSCRIPTS OF ERDÉLY. A ROMANCE. BY GEORGE STEPHENS.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., Cornhill. Booksellers
to Their Majesties, 1835.
I 357p; II 374p; III 337p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB, MC); 31s 6d
boards (ER, LG).
MC (9 Jan 1835); LG 938: 29 (10 Jan 1835); ER 61: 258 (Apr
1835); ECB 561 (Jan 1835).
BL N.1179; NSTC 2S38492 (BI C, E, O); OCLC 13392934 (6 libs).
Notes. List of ‘Characters in The Manuscripts of Erdely’
(1 p. unn.) precedes main text in vol. 1. ‘Advertisement’
(1 p. unn.) at end of vol. 3 reads: ‘The Reader, whose
previous knowledge of the history of our story, will probably
have been derived from the pages of Robertson, Coxe, and Kolles,
may be apt to conclude, that we are wholly unwarranted in
substituting a daughter of Martinuzzi, to so conspicuous and
exalted a station, as that in which we have introduced our
heroine. We can produce, however, good authority for our apparent
disregard to the frontier line, which separates historical
truths from the traditions of the legendary, or the fictions
of the romancer.’ Printer’s marks and colophons of Stewart
and Co., Old Bailey.
Further edn: 2nd edn. 1836 (OCLC).
1835: 99 STEPNEY,
Lady [Catherine] [formerly MANNERS]; [LANDON, Letitia Elizabeth
(editor)].
THE HEIR PRESUMPTIVE. BY LADY STEPNEY. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, (Successor
to Henry Colburn.), 1835.
I 299p; II 315p; III 314p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP, ER, LG);
31s 6d (ECB).
BP (12 Feb 1835); MC (24 Jan 1835); LG 943: 108 (14 Feb 1835);
ER 61: 259 (Apr 1835); ECB 366 (Feb 1835).
BL N.1139; NSTC 2S38793 (BI E, O); OCLC 13393088 (6 libs).
Notes. BP notes that the work was edited by Letitia
Elizabeth Landon. List of ‘Errata’ at end of vol. 2. Colophons
of F. Shoberl, jun., 4, Leicester Street, Leicester Square.
Bentley MS List records print run of 750 copies.
1835: 100 STONE,
William L[eete].
THE MYSTERIOUS BRIDAL, AND OTHER TALES. BY WILLIAM L. STONE.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
New York: Harper and Brothers. London: A. K. Newman and
Company, 1835.
I x, 276p; II 241p; III 244p. 12mo. 15s (ECB, MC); 15s boards
(ER, LG).
LG 939: 46 (17 Jan 1835); ER 61: 258 (Apr 1835); ECB 564 (Jan
1835).
BL N.1171; NSTC 2S41978 (BI C); xOCLC.
Notes. ‘Introductory and Exegetical’, pp. [i]–x,
precedes main text in vol. 1. Vol. 1 consists of ‘The Mysterious
Bridal’. Vol. 2 comprises: ‘A Romance of the Border’, pp. [1]–67;
‘The Dead of the Wreck’, pp. [69]–112; ‘The Skeleton
Hand’, pp. [113]–150; ‘The Withered Man’, pp. [151]–179;
‘The Grave of the Indian King’, pp. [181]–211; ‘The Murdered
Tinman’, pp. [213]–241. Vol. 3: ‘Mercy Disborough’, pp. [1]–118;
‘Lake St. Sacrament’, pp. [119]–177; ‘A Night of Peril’,
pp. [179]–195; ‘The Drowned Alive’, pp. [197]–210;
‘The New-England Village’, pp. [211]–244. Some of the
above tales were previously published in The Forget-Me-Not.
Adv. list (1 p. unn.) at end of vol. 2 for ‘New Publications’.
Printer’s marks and colophons of J. Darling, Leadenhall Street,
London.
1835: 101 STRICKLAND,
Agnes.
THE PILGRIMS OF WALSINGHAM OR TALES OF THE MIDDLE AGES[.]
AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE[.] BY AGNES STRICKLAND. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit-Street, 1835.
I iv, 312p; II 340p; III 346p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d
boards (ER, LG).
MC (20 Apr 1835); LG 952: 253 (18 Apr 1835); ER 61: 538 (July
1835); ECB 566 (Apr 1835).
BL N.1152; NSTC 2S44388 (BI C, O; NA DLC); OCLC 12720157 (3
libs).
Notes. Dedication (1 p. unn.) to ‘Sir George Strickland,
Bart. M.P. These Volumes Are Inscribed as a Slight Tribute
of the Author’s Esteem’. Preface, pp. [i]–iv, notes:
‘The Author of these volumes has, she trusts, entered upon
untrodden ground, at least, no writer of later date, than
that of the illustrious father of English poetry, Geoffrey
Chaucer (the Sir Walter Scott of the thirteenth century) has
founded a work of fiction on the plan of the ancient devotional
pilgrimage […] Each of the votaries to the shrine of our Lady
of Walsingham, in this work, like Chaucer’s Canterbury Pilgrims,
is pledged to relate a tale. The present volumes contain those
of Cardinal Wolsey, King Henry, the Abbot of Glastonbury,
Queen Catherine, the Emperor Charles, and the Abbess of Ely.
// Those of Mary of France, Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk,
Anna Boleyn, Sir Thomas Wyatt, &c. &c., are necessarily
deferred till a Second Series of the Pilgrims of Walsingham.’
The narrative frame and each tale have their own t.ps., but
also observe continuous chapter divisions. Vol. 1 contains:
‘Cardinal Wolsey’s Tale. The Saxon Widow’s Vow’, pp. [93]–167;
‘King Henry’s Tale. William Rufus and the Salmon-Pasty’, pp. [175]–215;
‘The Abbot’s Tale. The Christian Gladiators’, pp. [221]–273;
‘Historical Notes to the First Volume of The Pilgrims of Walsingham’,
pp. [277]–312. Vol. 2 contains: ‘Queen Catherine’s Tale.
The Gothic Count’, pp. [1]–46; ‘The Emperor’s Tale. Don
Froida and his Ten Daughters’, pp. [63]–312; ‘Historical
Notes’, pp. [337]–340. Vol. 3 is occupied by ‘The Abbess
of Ely’s Tale. The Royal Sisters’, pp. [1]–316, and ‘Historical
Notes’, pp. [341]–346. Printer’s marks and colophons
of T. C. Newby, 11, Little Queen Street, London. The promised
2nd ser. seemingly never appeared.
Further edn: Philadelphia 1835 (OCLC).
1835: 102 [STRUTT,
Elizabeth] [formerly BYRON].
CHANCES AND CHANGES[.] A DOMESTIC STORY BY THE AUTHOR OF
“SIX WEEKS ON THE LOIRE.” IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit-Street, 1835.
I 295p; II 339p; III 352p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d boards
(ER, LG).
MC (23 Jan 1835); LG 936: 871 (27 Dec 1834); ER 60: 535 (Jan
1835); ECB 105 (1835).
BL N.1176; NSTC 2S44845 (BI C, E, O); OCLC 41913296 (1 lib).
Notes. Running title varies according to chapter headings.
Printer’s marks and colophons of T. C. Newby, 11, Little Queen-Street.
LG lists as ‘Changes and Chances [sic], by the Author
of “Alice Seymour” ’, but the implied attribution to
Elizabeth Caroline Grey is apparently mistaken; for details
of Alice Seymour (1831), see Appendix 2, A: 9.
Further edn: Philadelphia 1835 (OCLC).
1835:
103 [SULLIVAN, Arabella
Jane]; DACRE, Lady [Barbarina] (editor).
TALES OF THE PEERAGE AND PEASANTRY. EDITED BY LADY DACRE.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1835.
I v, 312p; II 336p; III 310p. 12mo. 31s 6d (BP, ECB, ER);
31s 6d boards (LG).
BP (29 June 1835); Star (26 June 1835); LG 963: 429 (4 July
1835); ER 61: 539 (July 1835); ECB 576 (June 1835).
BL N.1162; NSTC 2S46119 (BI C, Dt, E, NCu, O; NA MH); OCLC
2131354 (32 libs).
Notes. Preface, pp. [iii]–v, end-dated ‘London,
June 26, 1835’. In this the authoress expresses diffidence
in ‘sending forth to the world a tale which by its title gives
promise of treating not only of history, but of Scottish history;
an act of presumption of which she is anxious to clear herself;—and
at the same time she wished to reassure those readers who
may not like historical novels from a woman’s pen, that she
has entered no farther into public affairs, than as they may
have influence the fortunes and feelings of one admirable
woman who forms the subject of the following memoir’ (p. [iii]).
The preface ends by observing that ‘[f]or reasons which may
be understood by her friends […] the tale of Blanche was written
in the year 1832’. The constituent tales are: ‘Winifred, Countess
of Nithsdale’, vol. 1, p. [1]–vol. 2, p. 157; ‘The
Hampshire Cottage’, vol. 2, pp. [159]–336; and ‘Blanche’,
which occupies vol. 3. Printer’s marks and colophons of Samuel
Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street. Bentley MS List records
print run of 1,500 copies. BP notes: ‘ “Tales of the
Peerage and Peasantry” was the subject of a parody by W. M.
Thackeray in his Novels by Eminent Hands under the title of
“Lords and Liveries,” by the author “Dukes and Dejeuners,”
“Hearts and Diamonds,” “Marchionesses and Milliners,” etc.’
LG lists as ‘by the Author of the “Chaperon” ’ (see 1833:
73). Originally adv. in Star (9 June 1835), as to be
published ‘during the present month’; a yet earlier anticipatory
adv. appeared in MC (22 Apr 1835).
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1835 (NSTC; BP: 29 Oct 1835, 31s 6d
boards); 1849 (NSTC, OCLC); 1854 (OCLC); [1859] (NSTC); New
York 1835 (OCLC).
1835: 104 [TAPPARELLI]
D’AZEGLIO, [Massimo], Marchese; [RANKIN, Michael Henry (trans.)].
HECTOR FIERAMOSCA, OR, THE CHALLENGE OF BARLETTA: AN HISTORICAL
TALE. BY THE MARQUIS D’AZEGLIO. TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN.
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman,
Paternoster Row, 1835.
iv, 379p. 16mo. 8s 6d (ECB, MC); 8s 6d cloth (ER, LG).
MC (7 Apr 1835); LG 952: 253 (18 Apr 1835); ER 61: 538 (July
1835); ECB 262 (Apr 1835).
O 35.9; NSTC 2T2033 (BI BL); xOCLC.
Notes. Trans. of Ettore Fieramosca; o, la disfida
di Barletta (Milan, 1833). ‘Translator’s Preface’, pp. [iii]–iv,
dated 25 Mar 1835, begins: ‘The original of the following
Work was first published in Italy about three years ago. Its
appearance excited considerable sensation in that country,
from the circumstance of its author being a son-in-law of
the justly celebrated Manzoni, which gave rise to an idea
that the author of “I Promessi Sposi” might probably
have had a hand in its composition. The Translator’s attention
was first drawn to the book from seeing its publication announced
in those terms by the “Foreign Quarterly Review.” It has since
obtained popularity on the Continent and been translated into
French.’ Printer’s mark and colophon of Richard Taylor, Red
Lion Court, Fleet Street.
1835:
105 [TELFER, James].
BARBARA GRAY, OR THE WIDOW’S DAUGHTER: A NARRATIVE OF HUMBLE
LIFE.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed for the Author by J. Blackwell
& Co. and sold by E. Charnley, Bigg Market, 1835.
213p. 18mo.
NCu W823.89; NSTC 2T5052; OCLC 37386358 (1 lib).
Notes. Dedication (1 p. unn.) follows t.p., ‘Inscribed
to John Wilson, Esq., Professor of Moral Philosophy in the
University of Edinburgh’. Preface (2 pp. unn.), dated
‘Saughtree, Liddesdale, March, 1835’, describes this work
as ‘fictitious biography’, apologizing for the fact that the
author is ‘not so much satisfied with the work himself’. This
concludes: ‘On the whole, he [i.e. the author] certainly does
entertain an opinion that it contains something of a redeeming
character, and therefore submits it to the public, fearing
little from censure, and hoping as little from praise.’ Colophon
reads: ‘Newcastle: Printed at the Courant Office by J. Blackwell
and Co.’.
1835:
106 [THOMSON, Katherine].
ROSABEL, A NOVEL, IN THREE VOLUMES. BY THE AUTHORESS OF
CONSTANCE.
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman,
Paternoster Row, 1835.
I 309; II 309; III 376p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB, MC); 31s 6d boards
(ER, LG).
MC (5 May 1835), ‘to be published on Monday, May 11’; LG 956:
316 (16 May 1835); ER 61: 539 (July 1835); ECB 502 (Apr 1835).
BL N.1201–3; NSTC 2T10434 (BI O); xOCLC.
Notes. Printer’s marks in each vol. and colophon in
vol. 3 of Joseph Mallett, Wardour Street, Soho. Listed in
MC as ‘Mrs. Thomson’s New Novel’.
Further edn: [1859](NSTC, OCLC).
1835:
107 TROLLOPE, Frances [Eleanor].
TREMORDYN CLIFF. BY FRANCES TROLLOPE, AUTHOR OF “DOMESTIC
MANNERS OF THE AMERICANS,” &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1835.
I 335p; II 331p; III 350p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP, ER); 31s
6d (ECB).
BP (28 Aug 1835); MC (6 Aug 1835), ‘immediately’; ER 62: 260
(Oct 1835); ECB 600 (Aug 1835).
BL N.1206–8; NSTC 2T18291 (BI C, E O; NA DLC, MH); OCLC 2431721
(22 libs).
Notes. Printer’s mark and colophon of Ibbotson [sic]
and Palmer, Savoy Street, Strand. Bentley MS List records
print run of 1,000 copies.
Further edns: 1844 (OCLC); German trans., 1836.
1835: 108 TURNERELLI,
Edw[ard] P.
TALES OF THE RHENISH CHIVALRY. FOUNDED ON THE RECORDS OF
HISTORY AND TRADITION. BY EDW. P. TURNERELLI.
London: William Marsh, Oxford Street, 1835.
xvi, 304p, ill. 16mo. 6s (ECB); 6s cloth (ER, LG).
MC (20 May 1835); LG 958: 348 (30 May 1835); ER 61: 539 (July
1835); ECB 604 (May 1835).
BL N.1217; NSTC 2T20768 (BI C); OCLC 49003153 (2 libs).
Notes. NSTC gives author name as ‘Edward Tracy Turnerelli’.
Frontispiece depicts the ‘The Siege of Hohenkrahen’. Dedication
to ‘Peter Turnerelli, Esq. whose eminent talents as a Sculptor
are too well known and appreciated to need the feeble tribute
of filial applause, this Volume, written during a sojourn
on the banks of the river whose chivalry it treats of, is
dedicated, in gratitude for a carefully-bestowed education,
and in testimony of respect and admiration, by his affectionate
Son, The Author’ (p. [iii]). This is followed by a list
of contents, p. [v], and ‘Introduction’, pp. [vii]–xvi.
The tales consist of: ‘Ruins of the Castle of Rudesheim’,
pp. [1]–19; ‘Albert von Broemser, or the Fatal Vow’,
pp. [21]–181; ‘The Siren of the Lurley-Fels’, pp. [183]–191;
‘The Minstrel of the Lonely Lyre’ (poetry), pp. [193]–199;
‘The Siege of Hohenkrahen; or, the Last of the Rhenish Knights’,
pp. [201]–286; ‘Ruins of the Castle of Windeck’, pp. [287]–299;
‘Valedictory Verses on Leaving the Rhine’ (poetry, dated Aug
1834), pp. [301]–304. Printer’s mark and colophon of
Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street.
1835: 109 [WHITEHEAD,
Charles].
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JACK KETCH. WITH FOURTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS,
FROM DESIGNS BY MEADOWS.
London: Edward Churton, 26, Holles-street (late Bull and
Churton,) 1835.
vi, 358p, ill. 8vo. 9s 6d (ECB, MC); 9s 6d cloth (ER).
MC (19 Jan 1835); ER 60: 535 (Jan 1835); ECB 33 (Oct 1834).
O Pettingell.248; NSTC 2A19840 (NA MH); OCLC 18078366 (8 libs).
Notes. Also attributed in NSTC to Thomas Kibble Hervey
(1799–1859), but apparently in error. T.p. includes vignette
illustration depicting a death’s head in judicial wig. Frontispiece
portrait facing t.p., with facsimile inscription, in crude
writing, ‘Yours till death John Ketch’. ‘Advertisement’, pp. [v]–vi,
promises an additional publication, under the title of ‘The
Ketch Papers’, if the present work is favourably received.
Printer’s mark and colophon of Bradbury and Evans (late T.
Davison.), Whitefriars. ECB 635 and 33 attribute to Charles
Whitehead.
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1836 as The Autobiography of a Notorious
Legal Functionary (NSTC, OCLC); 3rd edn. 1838 as The
Autobiography of a Notorious Legal Functionary (NSTC,
OCLC); 4th edn. 1840 as The Autobiography of a Notorious
Legal Functionary (NSTC, OCLC); Philadelphia 1835 (NSTC,
OCLC).
1835:
110 WHITEHEAD, Emma.
PIERCE FALCON, THE OUTCAST. A NOVEL. BY EMMA WHITEHEAD.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1835.
I 305p; II 324p; III 322p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP, ER, LG);
31s 6d (ECB).
BP (20 Mar 1835); Star (5 Mar 1835), ‘just ready’; LG 948:
189 (21 Mar 1835); ER 61: 259 (Apr 1835); ECB 635 (Mar 1835).
BL N.1187; NSTC 2W17709 (BI C, E, O); OCLC 13344610 (2 libs).
Notes. Adv. list (2 pp. unn.) for ‘New Works,
just Published by Richard Bentley’ at end of vol. 3. Printer’s
marks and colophons of J. B. Nichols and Son, 25, Parliament
Street. Bentley MS List records print run of 500 copies.
Further edn: German trans., 1835.
1835:
111 [WILLIAMS, Robert Folkestone].
MEPHISTOPHILES IN ENGLAND; OR, THE CONFESSIONS OF A PRIME
MINISTER. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green,
& Longman, Paternoster-Row, 1835.
I xii, 295p; II 254p; III 300p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d
boards (ER, LG).
MC (26 June 1835), ‘on the 1st of July’; LG 964: 445 (11 July
1835); ER 62: 260 (Oct 1835); ECB 381 (June 1835).
BL N.1164; NSTC 2W23090 (BI C, E, O); OCLC 19925380 (4 libs).
Notes. Dedication (in verse) ‘to the Immortal Spirit
of the Illustrious Goëthe!’, pp. [iii]–xii. ‘Errata’
list for vol. 1 verso of p. 295. Adv. list (2 pp. unn.)
end of vol. 2 for works ‘Recently Published’ by Longmans.
Printer’s marks and colophons of A. Spottiswoode, New Street
Square’. Longman Archives (A4, 241; H12, 213) record print
run of 750 copies.
Further edn: Philadelphia [also New York] 1835 (NSTC, OCLC).
1835: 112 WRIGHT,
John.
THE LAST OF THE CORBES, OR, THE MACMAHONS’ COUNTRY: A LEGEND
CONNECTED WITH IRISH HISTORY IN 1641. BY THE REV. JOHN WRIGHT,
A. M. RECTOR OF KILLEEVAN, COUNTRY MONAGHAN.
London: John Macrone, St. James’s Square, 1835.
342p. 12mo. 10s 6d (ECB, ER); 10s 6d boards (LG).
MC (10 Aug 1835); LG 966: 476 (25 July 1835); ER 62: 260 (Oct
1835); ECB 650 (July 1835).
BL N.1262; NSTC 2W33782 (BI C, O); OCLC 40301489 (3 libs).
Notes. Drop-head title reads: ‘The MacMahons’ Country;
or, the Last of the Corbes’. Running title reads: ‘The MacMahons’
Country’. Colophon of William Clowes, Duke Street, Lambeth.
Also issued in 1835 as The MacMahons’ Country; or, the
Last of the Corbes by Clowes (OCLC 41346238).
1836: 1 ANON.
ELLEN WALSINGHAM; OR, GROWTH IN GRACE. BY THE AUTHOR
OF “NATURE AND GRACE EXEMPLIFIED,” &C. &C.
London: Printed for Houlston and Son, 65, Paternoster-Row;
and at Wellington, Salop, 1836.
viii, 269p. 16mo. 3s 6d (ECB).
ECB 184 (Feb 1836).
ABu SB.82379.Elle; NSTC 2W4075 (BI BL); xOCLC.
Notes. The author of this work might possibly be
Mrs Maria Stevens, whose Nature and Grace; or, a Delineation
of the Various Dispositions of the Natural Man was published
in 1827 (see NSTC 2S39373). ‘Advertisement’, pp. [v]–vii,
states that the present work ‘was written more than three
years ago, when many great political changes were in agitation’
(p. [v]). A domestic tale. with strong religious and
political overtones, involving youthful protagonists, but
not specifically presented as being for ‘young persons’.
Adv. list (2 pp. unn.) of ‘Books Published by Houlston
and Son’ at end of vol. Collates in fours, with smallish
pages. No printer information found.
1836: 2 ANON.
JIREH: A SCENE IN THE PASTORAL LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.
London: Thomas Ward & Co., 27, Paternoster Row, 1836.
156p. 16mo. 4s 6d (ECB, LG).
LG 1028: 638 (1 Oct 1836); ECB 309 (Sept 1836).
BL N.1309; NSTC 2J7411; xOCLC.
Notes. Note (1 p. unn.) precedes main text.
In this the author apologizes for the mixture of fact and
fiction. This apology is directed to the ‘Christian reader’,
whom the narrator of the main text often addresses as well.
Printer’s mark and colophon of J. Rider, 14, Bartholomew
Close.
1836: 3 ANON.
MRS. MABERLY; OR, THE WORLD AS IT WILL BE. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: John Macrone, St. James’s Square, 1836.
I 287p; II 288p; III 291p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 24s (ER,
LG).
MC (2 Dec 1836); LG 1039: 812 (17 Dec 1836); ER 64: 550
(Jan 1837); ECB 389 (Dec 1836).
BL N.1395; NSTC 2M39783 (BI E, O; NA MH); OCLC 13264353
(2 libs).
Notes. Printer’s marks and colophons of A. J. Valpy,
Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. MC heads adv. as ‘Society
in 2036’.
1836: 4 ANON.
THE PHILANTHROPIST: OR, SELFISHNESS AND BENEVOLENCE ILLUSTRATED:
A TALE. BY A LADY.
London: Printed for William Ball, Aldine Chambers, Paternoster-Row,
1836.
vi, 389p. 16mo. 6s (ECB, ER, LG).
LG 1029: 653 (8 Oct 1836); ER 64: 550 (Jan 1837); ECB 445
(Sept 1836).
O 36.189; NSTC 2P13454 (BI BL, C); xOCLC.
Notes. List of contents occupies pp. [iii]–vi.
Printer’s mark and colophon of William Tyler, Bolt Court,
Fleet Street.
1836: 5 ANON.
TALES OF A RAMBLER. ILLUSTRATED BY H. C. SELOUS.
London: Smith, Elder and Co. Cornhill, Booksellers to their
Majesties, 1836.
348p, ill. 12mo. 10s 6d (ECB, MC); 10s 6d cloth (ER, LG).
MC (20 July 1836); LG 1018: 476 (23 July 1836); ER 64: 258
(Oct 1836); ECB 575 (July 1836).
BL N.1319. NSTC 2T1358 (BI C, O; NA MH); OCLC 16634714 (2
libs).
Notes. Frontispiece lithograph depicts the ‘Rambler’.
List of contents (1 p. unn.) and illustrations (1 p. unn.),
on separate leaves, follow t.p. Contains: ‘Introduction’,
pp. [1]–4; ‘The Mansion-House’, pp. [7]–16; ‘The
Traitor’s Hill. A Legend of Highgate’, pp. 16–83; ‘The
Painter of Antwerp; a Tale of the Arts’, pp. [84]–101;
‘Marian Glanville; a Tale of the Plague’, pp. [102]–135;
‘The Jasmine Branch; a Legend of Florence’, pp. [136]–162;
‘The Fiend Lover! A Tale of Oberwessel’, pp. [163]–184;
‘The Bride of St. Alban’s. A Tale of Hertfordshire’, pp. [185]–224;
‘The Covenanters; a Tale of Corriewater’, pp. [225]–252;
‘Saint Michael’s Eve! Or, the Portrait of Bertrand le Noir!
A Tale of Versailles’, pp. [253]–292; ‘The Death of
Da Vinci. An Historical Sketch’, pp. [293]–297; ‘The
Dervise, the Executionor [sic], and the Caliph! A
Tale of Baghdad’, pp. [298]–348; ‘Conclusion’, p. 348.
Printer’s mark and colophon of Stewart and Co., Old Bailey.
OCLC expands illustrator name as ‘Henry Courtney Selous’.
1836: 6 ANON.
TALES OF AFFECTION. CONTAINING AGNES ADDISON. THE PLAGUE
IN THE FOREST. MILTON’S BLINDNESS. THE IRISH HOLY WELL.
THE LARK. THE CASTLE. THE COTTAGE GIRL. THE TWO COUSINS,
AND THE RETURN.
London: Published by Dean and Munday, Threadneedle Street,
n.d. [1836].
212p, ill. 18mo. 2s 6d (ECB, paste-down label).
ECB 375 (Aug 1836).
BL 1506/566; NSTC 2T1361; xOCLC.
Notes. Frontispiece follows t.p., and depicts the
‘Irish Holy Well’, ‘Drawn by Penry Williams, from a sketch
by T. Crofton Croker, Esq.’. A list of contents (1 p. unn.)
precedes narratives proper. The vol. contains: ‘Agnes Addison,
a Simple Tale. By Miss D. P. Campbell, of Lerwick’,
pp. [1]–88; Poetry ‘From the Arabic’, p. 88; ‘The
Plague in the Forest, a Fable. By John Quincy Adams’ (poetry),
pp. [89]–94; ‘Milton’s Blindness’ (poetry), p. 94;
‘The Irish Holy Well; or, the Song of the Little Bird. By
T. Crofton Croker’, pp. [95]–101; ‘The Lark’ (poetry),
p. 101; ‘Stanzas, from the French of Victor Hugo. By
R. C. Ellwood’ (poetry), p. [102]; ‘The Castle. A Fragment
from an Unpublished Journal’, pp. [103]–115; ‘The Cottage
Girl’ (poetry), p. [116]; ‘The Two Cousins; or, the
Mysterious Marriage. By Miss Emma Roberts’, pp. [117]–199;
Poetry ‘From the Persian’, p. 199; ‘The Return’, pp. [200]–212.
Colophon of Dean and Munday, Threadneedle Street. BL copy
has incorporated what appears to be the original red hard
paper cover, with paste-down label reading ‘Tales of Affection
2s. 6d.’.
1836:
7 AINSLIE, John.
ANTIPATHY, OR THE CONFESSIONS OF A CAT-HATER. EDITED
BY JOHN AINSLIE, ESQ. AUTHOR OF “AURUNGZEBE,” “ERNEST CAMPBELL,”
&C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: John Macrone, Saint James’s Square, 1836.
I xxxii, 279p; II 279p; III 315p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s
6d boards (ER, LG).
MC (18 Mar 1836); LG 1000: 189 (19 Mar 1836); ER 63: 282
(Apr 1836); ECB 10 (Mar 1836).
BL N.1366; NSTC 2A5763 (BI E, O); OCLC 12952089 (8 libs).
Notes. ‘Editor’s Introduction’ occupies pp. [v]–xxxii
of vol. 1. Printer’s marks and colophons of Schulze and
Co. 13 Poland Street. Originally adv. in MC (2 Mar 1836),
as to be published ‘in a few days’.
1836: 8 [ARMSTRONG,
James Leslie].
BENINGBROUGH HALL: A TALE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
BY THE AUTHOR OF “SCENES IN CRAVEN.”
York: Printed at the Herald-Office, Pavement; and sold
by Simpkin and Marshall, London; W. Hargrove and Co., York;
and by all other Booksellers, 1836.
vi, 220p, ii. 18mo. 3s 6d (ECB); 3s 6d cloth (LG).
LG 1014: 412 (25 June 1836); ECB 50 (June 1836).
BL N.1295; NSTC 2A15854; xOCLC.
Notes. ‘Advertisement to the Reader’ precedes text
proper. ‘Postscript’, following main text (new roman sequence),
notes: ‘ “Beningbrough Hall,” which is the first of
a projected series of local sketches, legendary and historical,
had been proceeded with too far to recede from the publication,
before it was discovered that there was a dearth of materials
for working out the narrative with all that degree of intense
and varied interest which the writer could have wished throughout,
without assigning to the whole more of fictitious embellishment
than would have been justifiable in his opinion, or agreeable
to the reader, from the comparatively recent date of most,
if not all, the incidents interwoven with the tale’ (p. [i]).
Colophon reads ‘York: Printed by W. and J. Hargrove, Herald-Office.
1836:
9 [BARKER, Matthew Henry].
LAND AND SEA TALES. BY AN OLD SAILOR, AUTHOR OF “TOUGH
YARNS,” &C. ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. IN TWO
VOLUMES.
London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, 1836.
I viii, 408p, ill.; II 390p, ill. 16mo. 16s (ECB); 16s cloth
(ER, LG, MC).
MC (21 Dec 1835); LG 987: 813 (19 Dec 1835); ER 62: 530
(Jan 1836); ECB 328 (Dec 1835).
ABu SB.82379.Bark; NSTC 2B8167 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA DLC,
MH); OCLC 5010027 (27 libs).
Notes. Each vol. has an engraved t.p. and frontispiece,
forming an opening immediately prior to the conventional
titles. Dedication to ‘Thomas Wakefield, Esq., of Nottingham’,
followed by address ‘To the Reader’, pp. vii–viii.
Vol. 1 includes: ‘The Farmer’s Daughter’, pp. 1–195;
‘I Drink to Heads: A Tale of British Guinea’, pp. [199]–263;
‘Belvoir Castle’, pp. [267]–352; ‘The Great Belt’,
pp. [356]–382; ‘The Painter of Dorc: A Tale of the
Reformation’, pp. [385]–408. Vol 2 is filled with ‘The
Warlock: A Tale of the Sea’. Printer’s marks and colophons
of Maurice and Co., Fenchurch Street. ER lists as ‘By the
“Old Sailor” ’. Originally adv. in MC (7 Dec 1835),
as to be published ‘next week’.
Further edn: 1860 (NSTC, OCLC).
1836: 10 [?BEASLEY,
… or ?LANG, John or ?MALET, Lady Marianne Dora].
VIOLET; OR, THE DANSEUSE: A PORTRAITURE OF HUMAN PASSIONS
AND CHARACTER. IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough-Street, 1836.
I 287p; II 289p. 12mo. 21s (ECB); 21s boards (ER).
MC (18 Aug 1836), ‘on the 30th of August’; ER 64: 259 (Oct
1836); ECB 615 (Aug 1836).
BL N.1308; NSTC 2M10987 (BI C, E, O; NA MH); OCLC 13243998
(7 libs).
Notes. NSTC 2B13453 notes: ‘Sometimes attributed
to Miss Brougham, to Lord Lytton, to Miss Spalding (afterwards
Lady Malet), John Lang, to Capt. Frederick Marryat, to Lord
Londonderry and to—Beasley.’ Adv. list at end of vol. 1
for ‘Cheap Editions of Celebrated Modern Works of Fiction’.
Adv. list at end of vol. 2 for ‘New Books just Published
by Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough Street’. Printer’s
marks and colophons of W. Clowes and Sons, Stamford Street.
Wolff (Item 4406) notes that the Advertisement in vol. 1
of the US edn. reads: ‘Peculiar circumstances having prevented
the Editor of the following pages from revising the Work
until it had finally gone to Press, he begs to state that
he is perfectly aware of the inaccuracies which occur; and
also to observe that the divisions into Chapters are entirely
different from the author’s intentions. This will account
for the apparent abruptness of many of the transitions.
The Editor.’ Wolff adds: ‘My guess would be that he was
so anxious to pirate a work popular in England before anybody
else got a good text that he reprinted from serial publication
and probably had to leave out some part that had not got
to him. Only a detailed comparison with the first English
edition, which I so far lack, would answer the question.’
Further edns: 1844 (OCLC); 1857 (NSTC, OCLC); 1859 (OCLC);
Philadelphia 1836 [as Violet Woodville; or, the Danseuse
(NSTC, OCLC)].
1836:
11 BEAUCLERK, Caroline
Frederica and Henrietta Mary.
TALES OF FASHION AND REALITY. BY CAROLINE FREDERICA BEAUCLERK,
AND HENRIETTA MARY BEAUCLERK. FIRST SERIES.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., Cornhill, Bookseller to
their Majesties, 1836.
ix, 345p. 12mo. 10s 6d (ECB); 10s 6d boards (ER, LG).
MC (20 May 1836), ‘nearly ready’; LG 1011: 365 (4 June 1836);
ER 63: 566 (July 1836); ECB 45 (May 1836).
BL N.1281; NSTC 2B13637 (BI C; NA MH); OCLC 13244165 (6
libs).
Notes. Dedication reads: ‘This First Series of Tales
is Dedicated to Her Grace Harriot, Duchess of St. Albans,
by her Affectionate Cousins’. Preface, pp. [vii]–ix,
draws attention to format, contrasting the present ‘small
duodecimo’ with the days when ‘huge folios and ponderous
quartos were in fashion’ (p. viii). ‘Table of Contents’
lists 16 items, each of which in the volume has its own
separate t.p. with author attribution (to one of the two
sisters). Some smaller items are in verse. The non-verse
items (with attributions, given below by initials) are:
‘The Two Cousins’ (CFB), pp. [1]–45; ‘Journal of a
Chaperon’ (HMB), pp.[47]–74; ‘Journal of a Debutante’ (CFB),
pp. [83]–153; ‘Valerie, or, the Prediction’ (HMB),
pp. [155]–174; ‘The Honey Moon; or, Why Did I Love?’
(CFB), pp. [177]–209; ‘The Mystery’ (HMB), pp. [211]–245;
‘Match Making’ (HMB), pp. [249]–300; ‘The Artist’ (HMB),
pp.[303]–323; ‘Don Gaspar and the Parricide Daughter’ (CFB),
pp. [325]–345. Printer’s mark and colophon of Stewart
and Co., Old Bailey. No further ser. apparently followed
this publication.
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1836 (NSTC); Philadelphia 1836 (OCLC).
1836:
12 BERKELEY, [George Charles]
Grantley [Fitzhardinge].
BERKELEY CASTLE, AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE, BY THE HON. GRANTLEY
BERKELEY, M.P. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1836.
I 298p; II 288p; III 288p. 12mo. 31s 6d (BP, ECB); 31s 6d
boards (ER, LG).
BP (23 July 1836); MC (6 July 1836), ‘just ready’; LG 1018:
476 (23 July 1836); ER 64: 259 (Oct 1836); ECB 52 (July
1836).
ABu SB.82379.Ber; NSTC 2B19659 (BI BL, C, E, O); OCLC 2291698
(9 libs).
Notes. Dedication to ‘the Countess of Euston’ (1
p. unn.). ‘Notes’ occupy vol. 2, pp. [255]–288;
and vol. 3, pp. [273]–288. Printer’s marks on versos
of t.ps. in each vol. read ‘Printed by J. L. Cox and Sons,
75, Great Queen Street, Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields’, with similar
colophons in vols. 1 and 2. Colophon in vol. 3, however,
reads ‘London: Printed by Samuel Bentley, Dorset-Street’.
Bentley MS List records print run of 1,000 copies. BP notes:
‘The publication of this novel led to a duel between the
Author and Dr. Maginn, in consequence of Berkeley’s cowardly
assault on Fraser, a man vastly inferior in strength and
infirm with age. Fraser recovered £100 damages, but died
within a year of the assault.’
1836: 13 [BODDINGTON,
Mary].
THE GOSSIP’S WEEK. BY THE AUTHOR OF “SLIGHT REMINISCENCES.”
WITH WOOD-CUTS FROM ORIGINAL DESIGNS. IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green. and Longman;
and John Rodwell, Bond Street, 1836.
I x, 426p, ill; II 413p, ill. 12mo. 24s (ECB); 24s cloth
(ER, LG).
MC (8 Nov 1836); LG 1014: 412 (25 June 1836); ER 63: 566
(July 1836); ECB 237 (June 1836).
ABu SB.82379.Bod; NSTC 2B39118 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA DLC);
OCLC 4481649 (10 libs).
Notes. Dedication (1 p. unn.) to ‘Samuel Boddington,
Esq.’ Preface, pp. [vii]–x, observes in a footnote:
‘These Tales were written two or three years before the
publication of the Slight Reminiscences, and now
venture abroad, encouraged by the kind reception which the
latter experienced’ (p. ix). Vol. 1 contains: ‘The
Glove’, pp. [3]–48; ‘The King’s Daughter’, pp. [49]–196;
‘The Roc’s Egg’, pp. [197]–284; ‘Count Dalberg and
his Son’, pp. [285]–426. Vol. 2 consists of: ‘Janet
Hamilton’, pp. [1]–157; ‘The Story of Henrietta’, pp. [159]–215;
‘The Veiled Woman’, pp. [217]–266; ‘Antonia’, pp. [267]–413.
Woodcut illustrations appear as vignettes on t.ps., and
at the end of individual tales, usually featuring young
women. Adv. leaf (unn.), at end of vol. 2, for Slight
Reminiscences (‘lately published’), with favourable
extracts from nine periodicals. The work referred to is
Boddington’s Slight Reminiscences of the Rhine, Switzerland,
and a Corner of Italy (1834). Printer’s marks and colophons
of Maurice and Co., Howford Buildings, Fenchurch Street.
1836: 14 BRIDE,
Arthur Stanley.
EDRICK THE SAXON. A TALE OF THE ELEVENTH CENTURY. BY
ARTHUR STANLEY BRIDE. IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: John Macrone, Saint James’s Square, 1836.
I xxxi, 289p; II 333p. 12mo. 21s (ECB, MC); 21s boards (ER,
LG).
MC (11 June 1836); LG 1014: 412 (25 June 1836); ER 63: 566
(July 1836); ECB 74 (June 1836).
BL N.1358; NSTC 2B47675 (BI O); xOCLC.
Notes. Dedication, pp. [v]–vi, to ‘Mark Anthony
Stanley, Esq.’, signed ‘Your affectionate Nephew, Arthur
Stanley Bride’ and dated ‘Broomfield, Ashford, May, 1836’.
‘Introductory Preface’, pp. [vii]–xxxi, signed ‘The
Author’ and dated 1836. This functions as a frame narrative
and tells how the first-person narrator came into possession
of the manuscript on which the ensuing tale is based. Drop-head
title in each vol. reads: ‘Guthrum Castle, &c. &c.’.
Running title in both vols. reads: ‘Guthrum Castle; or,
Edrick the Saxon’; originally adv. with this title in MC.
No printer information found.
Further edn: 1838 (NSTC).
1836: 15 BUCKLEY,
Julia.
EMILY, THE GOVERNESS. A TALE. BY JULIA BUCKLEY.
London: Printed for the Author: By J. Farrow, 32, Pudding
Lane, near the Monument, 1836.
v, 212p, ill. 12mo.
BL 012624.f.1; NSTC 2B56233; xOCLC.
Notes. Engraved frontispiece precedes t.p. proper.
Preface, pp. [iii]–v, dated ‘Dec. 1836’, notes: ‘As
no other motive but the selfish pleasure of passing a leisure
hour induced me to take up my pen, I had no idea, on commencing
this work, of having it published’ (p. [iii]). It later
adds that ‘The Story, though simple in itself, comprises
several distinct characters, such as I have met with in
the world; I therefore promise no amusement to the lover
of romance’ (p. iv). Colophon of J. Farrow, 32, Pudding
Lane, near the Monument.
1836: 16 BURDON,
Hannah D. [afterwards WOLFENSBERGER].
SEYMOUR OF SUDLEY; OR, THE LAST OF THE FRANCISCANS. BY
HANNAH D. BURDON. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, Successor
to Henry Colburn, 1836.
I viii, 306p; II 325p; III 335p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP,
ER, LG); 31s 6d (ECB).
BP (23 Mar 1836); MC (12 Mar 1836); LG 1001: 204 (26 Mar
1836); ER 63: 282 (Apr 1836); ECB 85 (Mar 1836).
BL N.1361; NSTC 2B58880 (BI C, E, O; NA DLC); OCLC 21718491
(2 libs).
Notes. Preface, p. [iii]–viii, notes: ‘It is
the business of art, to combine the most striking features
of nature, whether beautiful or sublime, in the character,
situations, passions, and moral relations of man, as well
as in the visible creation, and to paint those perfect combinations,
which, though they may sometimes exist, escape the eye of
superficial observation; and the noblest purpose of art,
above the selfish and sordid interests of life, to prove
them incompatible with true and perfect happiness, and to
teach man, even by the means of his imagination, that there
is reserved for him a higher existence, from whence the
lights of religion, morality, and beauty gleam faintly into
this; a virtue surpassing, in the holiness and purity of
its attributes, that knowledge which is expediency. […]
The novel is the style of fiction most in favour at the
present day, and I am prejudiced by no undue partiality
for my own pursuit when I consider it as a species of epic—equally
subject to the same rules and capable of the same lofty
purposes, as that elaborate form of composition’ (pp. [iii]–iv).
Printer’s marks and colophons of Samuel Bentley, Fleet Street,
Dorset Street. Bentley MS List records print run of 500
copies.
1836: 17 [BURY,
Lady Charlotte Susan Maria].
THE DEVOTED. BY THE AUTHORESS OF “THE DISINHERITED,”
“FLIRTATION,” &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. Successor
to Henry Colburn, 1836.
I 294p; II 327p; III 330p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP, ER,
LG); 31s 6d (ECB).
BP (27 Feb 1836); MC (11 Feb 1836), ‘just ready’; LG 997:
141 (27 Feb 1836); ER 63: 282 (Apr 1836); ECB 88 (Mar 1836).
BL N.1357; NSTC 2C4340 (BI C, E, NCu, O; NA MH); OCLC 35626954
(5 libs).
Notes. List of ‘Errata’ fixed on p. 330 in vol.
3. Printer’s marks and colophons of Samuel Bentley, Dorset
Street, Fleet Street. Bentley MS List records print run
of 1,000 copies. MC lists as ‘Lady Charlotte Bury: New Work’.
Further edn: Philadelphia 1836 (OCLC).
1836:
18 [CAUNTER, John Hobart].
THE FELLOW COMMONER. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Edward Churton, 26, Holles Street, 1836.
I 320p; II 335p; III 331p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d boards
(ER).
MC (23 Mar 1836), ‘on the 25th’; ER 63: 565 (July 1836);
ECB 302 (Mar 1836).
O 36.364; NSTC 2C12076 (BI BL, C, E; NA DLC); OCLC 2666954
(5 libs).
Notes. ‘Advertisement’ (1 p. unn.) states: ‘A
considerable portion of the following volumes has already
appeared in The Court Magazine in a series of papers, under
the following title; “Remarkable Escapes of a Predestinated
Rogue.” ’ Printer’s marks and colophons of Schulze
and Co., 13, Poland Street. Originally adv. in MC (4 Mar
1836), as to be published ‘in a few days’.
Further edn: Philadelphia 1838 as The Fellow Commoner,
or, Remarkable Escapes of a Predestinated Rogue (OCLC).
1836:
19 CAUNTER, [John] Hobart.
THE ROMANCE OF HISTORY. INDIA. BY THE REV. HOBART CAUNTER,
B.D. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Edward Churton, Holles Street, 1836.
I x, 310p; II 315p; III 344p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d
boards (ER, LG).
MC (3 Dec 1835), ‘on the 12th of December’; LG 987: 813
(19 Dec 1835); ER 62: 530 (Jan 1836); ECB 102 (Dec 1835).
BL N.1352; NSTC 2C12077 (BI C, E, O; NA DLC); OCLC 13149661
(7 libs).
Notes. Dedication (1 p. unn.) to ‘Dr William
Beattie, M.D.’ Preface, pp. [vii]–x, end-dated ‘36,
Somerset Street, Portman Square, Dec. 12, 1835’. In each
vol., list of contents (1 p. unn.) precede narratives
proper.The tales are interspersed with ‘Historical Summaries’.
Vol. 1 contains: ‘The Traveller’s Dream’, pp. [5]–38;
‘The Idol of Somnat’, pp. [43]–129; ‘The Royal Merchant’,
pp. [135]–185; ‘The Abyssinian Slave’, pp. [191]–232;
‘The Rajpoot Marriage’, pp. [237]–310. Vol. 2 consists
of: ‘The Mahomedan Nimrod’, pp. [5]–68; ‘The Rival
Brothers’, pp. [75]–139; ‘The Siege of Gualior’, pp. [147]–191;
‘The Pariah’, pp. [197]–259; ‘The Defence of Chittore’,
pp. [265]–315. Vol. 3 comprises: ‘The Light of the
World’, pp. [5]–108; ‘The Prince and the Fakeer’, pp. [113]–171;
‘The Omrah’s Daughter’, [173]–227; ‘The Revolt of the Fakeers’,
pp. [233]–267; ‘The Mahratta Chief’, pp. [269]–344.
Adv. for the same author’s The Oriental Annual facing
t.p. in all vols. Printer’s marks on versos of t.ps. read
‘London: Printed by Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet
Street’, with identical colophons, except for vol. 2, where
colophon reads ‘London: Bradbury and Evans, Printers, Whitefriars’.
Originally adv. in MC (12 Oct 1835), as ‘in the press’.
1836: 20 CHAMIER,
[Frederick].
BEN BRACE, THE LAST OF NELSON’S AGAMEMNONS. BY CAPTAIN
CHAMIER, R.N. AUTHOR OF “THE LIFE OF A SAILOR,” &C.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. Successor
to Henry Colburn, 1836.
I 302p; II 319p; III 334p. 12mo. 31s 6d (BP, ECB); 31s 6d
boards (ER, LG).
BP (16 Feb 1836); MC (27 Jan 1836), ‘just ready’; LG 996:
124 (20 Feb 1836); ER 63: 282 (Apr 1836); ECB 105 (Feb 1836).
ABu SB.82379.Cha(b); NSTC 2C14245 (BI BL, C, E, O); OCLC
3979775 (14 libs).
Notes. Printer’s marks and colophons of Samuel Bentley,
Dorset Street, Fleet Street. Bentley MS List records print
run of 1,000 copies. According to BP, each vol. should be
preceded by a frontispiece etched by George Cruikshank;
however, additional copies examined in British Library (N.1335)
and Bodleian (36.297) also lack any such illustrations.
Originally adv. MC (10 Feb 1835), as ‘nearly ready’.
Further edns: 2nd edn., revised, 1836 (NSTC; BP: 30 July
1836, 31s 6d boards; Bentley MS List: 750 copies); 3rd edn.
‘1840’ [Dec 1839] (NSTC, OCLC); 1850 (OCLC); 5th edn. 1856
(NSTC, OCLC); [1861] (NSTC); 1867 (NSTC, OCLC); Philadelphia
1836 (NSTC, OCLC); German trans., 1836.
1836: 21 CUNNINGHAM,
Allan.
LORD ROLDAN. A ROMANCE. BY ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. IN THREE
VOLUMES.
London: John Macrone, St. James’s Square, 1836.
I 355p; II 346p; III 340p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d boards
(ER, LG, MC).
MC (20 May 1836); LG 1011: 365 (4 June 1836); ER 63: 566
(July 1836); ECB 147 (May 1836).
BL N.1278; NSTC 2C46739 (BI C, Dt, E, O); OCLC 10369064
(9 libs).
Notes. Printer’s marks and colophons of Whiting,
Beaufort House, Strand.
Further edns: New York 1836 (NSTC, OCLC); German trans.,
1836–7.
1836: 22 [DICKENS,
Charles John Huffam].
SKETCHES BY “BOZ,” ILLUSTRATIVE OF EVERY-DAY LIFE, AND
EVERY-DAY PEOPLE. IN TWO VOLUMES. ILLUSTRATIONS BY GEORGE
CRUIKSHANK.
London: John Macrone, St. James’s Square, 1836/37.
I (1836) viii, 348p, ill.; II (1836) 342p, ill; III (1837)
viii, 377p, ill. 12mo. Vols. 1–2: 21s (ECB); 21s cloth (ER);
vol. 3: 15s (LG).
Vols. 1–2: MC (4 Feb 1836); ER 63: 282 (Apr 1836); ECB 541
(Feb 1836). Vol. 3 (i.e. 2nd ser): LG 1040: 828 (24 Dec
1836).
Vols. 1–2: BL 838.f.21,22; NSTC 2D12620 (BI C, Dt, E, O;
NA DLC); OCLC 4341872 (31 libs). Vol. 3: BL Cup.401.d.7;
NSTC 2D12626 (BI O); OCLC 5752758 (22 libs).
Notes. The stories originally appeared in Bell’s
Life in London, Bell’s Weekly Magazine, The
Carlton Chronicle, The Evening Chronicle, The Library
of Fiction, The Monthly Magazine, and The
Morning Chronicle, with the first of these (‘Mr. Minns
and his Cousin’) being published in the Monthly Magazine
for Dec 1833. Frontispiece in vol. 1 opposite t.p. depicts
the ‘Election for Beadle’ (illustrating text at vol. 1,
p. 47), while that of vol. 2 illustrates ‘Mr. Gabriel
Parsons’s Courtship’ (vol. 2, p. 24): see below for
details of vol. 3 frontispiece. Preface, pp. [iii]–v,
dated ‘Furnival’s Inn, February, 1836’, notes: ‘Entertaining
no inconsiderate feeling of trepidation at the idea of making
so perilous a voyage in so frail a machine alone and unaccompanied,
the author was naturally desirous to secure the assistance
and companionship of some well-known individual, who had
frequently contributed to the success, though his well-earned
reputation rendered it impossible for him ever to have shared
the hazard, of similar undertakings. To whom, as possessing
this requisite in an eminent degree, could he apply but
to GEORGE CRUIKSHANK?
The application was readily heard and at once acceded to:
this is their first voyage in company, but it may not be
the last. // If any further excuse be wanting for adding
this book to the hundreds which every season produces, the
Author may be permitted to plead the very favourable reception,
which several of the following sketches received on their
original appearance in different periodicals’ (pp. [iii]–iv).
Lists of contents precedes narratives proper in each vol.
(vol. 1, pp. [vii]–viii; vol. 2, 1 p. unn.; vol.
3, pp. [vii]–viii). Vol. 3 was issued with an imprint
date of 1837, and carried a variant t.p. which reads: ‘Sketches
by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life, and Every-Day People.
The Second Series. Complete in One Volume.’ However, internal
textual evidence points to the original conception of this
‘Second Series’ as the 3rd vol. of the work. This 3rd vol.
has an additional engraved t.p. preceding the printed t.p.,
which reads: ‘Second Series Sketches by Boz / London / John
Macrone. St. James’s Square / 1836.’ A frontispiece appears
on the verso opposite the engraved t.p. and depicts ‘Vauxhall
Gardens by Day’, referring to ‘Vol. III, p. 217’, rather
than treating this 2nd ser. as separate; it also bears the
legend ‘London, John Macrone, 1836’. Vol. 3 also contains
a separate Preface, pp. [i]–iii, dated ‘Furnival’s
Inn. December 17, 1836.’, which comments: ‘Some of these
sketches were written before the appearance of the former
series, and the remainder, have been added at different
periods since that time. […] With these few words, [the
author] gives a modest tap at the door of the public with
his Christmas piece’ (pp. [i]–ii). Vol. 1 contains:
‘The Parish’, pp. [1]–78; ‘Miss Evans and the Eagle’,
pp. [79]–87; ‘Shops, and their Tenants’, pp. [88]–96;
‘Thoughts about People’, pp. [97]–106; ‘A Visit to
Newgate’, pp. [107]–135; ‘London Recreations’, pp. [136]–146;
‘The Boarding-House’, pp. [147]–223; ‘Hackney-Coach
Stands’, pp. [224]–232; ‘Brokers’ and Marine-Store
Shops’, pp. [233]–241; ‘The Bloomsbury Christening’,
pp. [242]–275; ‘Gin-Shops’, pp. [276]–287; ‘Public
Dinners’, pp. [288]–299; ‘Astley’s’, pp. [300]–313;
‘Greenwich Fair’, pp. [314]–330; ‘The Prisoners’ Van’,
pp. [331]–337; ‘A Christmas Dinner’, pp. [338]–348.
Vol. 2 consists of: ‘Passage in the Life of Mr. Watkins
Tottle’, pp. [1]–76; ‘The Black Veil’, pp. [77]–100;
‘Shabby-Genteel People’, pp. [101]–109; ‘Horatio Sparkins’,
pp. [110]–141; ‘The Pawnbroker’s Shop’, pp. [142]–157;
‘The Dancing Academy’, pp. [158]–170; ‘Early Coaches’,
pp. [171]–181; ‘The River’, pp. [182]–195; ‘Private
Theatres’, pp. [196]–208; ‘The Great Winglebury Duel’,
pp. [209]–243; ‘Omminuses’, pp. [244]–252; ‘Mrs.
Joseph Porter’, pp. [253]–272; ‘The Steam Excursion’,
pp. [273]–318; ‘Sentiment!’, pp. [319]–342. Vol.
3 comprises: ‘The Streets by Morning’, pp. [1]–16;
‘The Streets by Night’, pp. [17]–[32]; ‘Making a Night
of It’, pp. [33]–48; ‘Criminal Courts’, pp. [49]–[62];
‘Scotland-Yard’, pp. [63]–76; ‘The New Year’, pp. [77]–92;
‘Meditations in Monmouth-Street’, pp. [93]–112; ‘Our
Next Door Neighbours’, pp. [113]–131; ‘The Hospital
Patient’, pp. [132]–142; ‘Seven Dials’, pp. [143]–156;
‘The Mistaken Milliner. A Tale of Ambition’, pp. [157]–174;
‘Doctor’s Commons’, pp. [175]–190; ‘Misplaced Attachment
of Mr. John Dounce’, pp. [191]–208; ‘Vauxhall-Gardens
by Day’, pp. [209]–224; ‘A Parliamentary Sketch. With
a Few Portraits’, pp. [225]–255; ‘Mr. Minns and his
Cousin’, pp. [256]–282; ‘The Last Cab Driver and the
First Omnibus Cad’, pp. [283]–308; ‘The Parlour Orator’,
pp. [309]–323; ‘The First of May’, pp. [325]–346;
‘The Drunkard’s Death’, pp. [347]–377. Some of the
pages in vol. 3 are mispaginated, mainly due to the transposition
of digits: i.e. p. 25 reads ‘52’, p. 32 ‘23’,
etc. Printer’s mark and colophons of Whiting, Beaufort House,
Strand appear in vols. 1–2, while vol. 3 carries mark and
colophon of Thomas Curson Hansard, Paternoster Row, St.
Paul’s. Advs. for ‘Mr. Macrone’s Select List of New Works
and New Editions’ (19 pp. unn.) appear at end of vol.
3. Vols. 1–2 originally adv. in MC (8 Jan 1836), as ‘nearly
ready’.
Further edns: of vols. 1–2: 2nd edn. 1836 (NSTC, OCLC);
3rd edn 1837 (NSTC, OCLC); Philadelphia 1836 as Watkins
Tottle, and Other Sketches […] (NSTC, OCLC). Of vol.
3: 2nd edn. 1837 (NSTC, OCLC); 1838 (NSTC); Philadelphia
1837 (NSTC, OCLC). Of vols. 1–3: 1837–9 [in 20 monthly parts]
(NSTC); 1839 (NSTC, OCLC); 1850 (NSTC, OCLC); Limerick 1850
(OCLC); 1854 (NSTC, OCLC); [at least 8 more edns. to 1870];
Philadelphia 1838–9 [in 10 monthly parts] (OCLC); German
trans., 1838 [as Londoner Skizzen]; Portuguese trans.,
1864 [as Scenas da vida ingleza. e, Uma loa de Natal
em prosa].
1836:
23 DOWNES, Joseph.
THE MOUNTAIN DECAMERON. BY JOSEPH DOWNES. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, Successor
to Henry Colburn, 1836.
I viii, 324p; II 322p; III 416p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP,
ER, LG); 31s 6d (ECB).
BP (27 May 1836); MC (6 May 1836); LG 1011: 365 (4 June
1836); ER 63: 566 (July 1836); ECB 169 (May 1836).
ABu SB.82379.Dow; NSTC 2D18263 (BI BL, C, E; NA DLC, MH);
OCLC 13344283 (10 libs).
Notes. Dedication to ‘the Right Honourable Thomas
Frankland Lewis, of Harpton Court, Radnorshire’, pp. [v]–viii.
This addresses (without noticeably answering) the issue
of why Wales ‘should so long be neglected by dramatists
and novelists, when Ireland and Scotland have been familiarised
to the English reading public, by the highest genius’ (p. vi).
The present work, however, represents ‘no addition to that
somewhat hackneyed species, the “National Novel” ’,
but rather attempts ‘to present certain portraitures of
passions’ in the context of the ‘wild and dark legendary
as well as national history’ of Wales (p. vii). This
Dedication is signed by the author and dated ‘Builth, Brecknockshire,
April 10, 1836’. ‘Preface with Some Remarks on our Present
Imaginative Literature’, vol. 1, pp. [1]–46, helps
set the framework for the main narrative, essentially a
travelogue with reflections and embedded tales by different
tellers, organized under headings from ‘First Day’ to ‘Tenth
Day’. Printer’s marks and colophons of J. B. Nichols and
Son, 23, Parliament Street. Bentley MS List records print
run of 750 copies.
Further edn: 1836 (NSTC).
1836: 24 FAGG,
Michael [pseud.?].
THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF A LIMB OF THE LAW; BY MICHAEL
FAGG, ESQ. K.C. AND BENCHER OF THE HON. SOCIETY OF LINCOLN’S
INN: INTERSPERSED WITH ANECDOTES OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES,
MEMBERS OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION.
London: Printed and published by A. Hancock, Middle Row
Place, Holborn, and to be had of all Booksellers, 1836.
vii, 280p. 12mo. 6s (ECB, MC).
MC (22 Feb 1836); ECB 198 (Feb 1836).
BL 12613.bbb.14; NSTC 2F704 (BI C, O; NA DLC, MH); OCLC
15186500 (16 libs).
Notes. Introduction, pp. [iii]–vii, ‘To the
Members of the Legal Profession’, signed ‘M. Fagg’ and dated
‘Lincoln’s Inn, January, 1836’, deals with the defects and
malpractices in the system of jurisprudence. Colophon of
A. Hancock, Middle Row Place, 326, Holborn. ECB lists publisher
as Hodgson.
1836:
25 FINCH, Catharine I[rene].
NOUREDDIN, OR THE TALISMAN OF FUTURITY. AN EASTERN TALE.
BY CATHARINE I. FINCH.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., Cornhill, Booksellers to their
Majesties, 1836.
viii, 200p. 16mo. 4s 6d (ECB); 4s 6d boards (ER, LG, MC).
MC (7 June 1836); LG 1011: 365 (4 June 1836); ER 63: 566
(July 1836); ECB 205 (May 1836).
BL N.1371; NSTC 2F5869 (BI C, O); OCLC 22105292 (17 libs).
Notes. Printer’s mark and colophon of Stewart and
Co., Old Bailey.
1836:
26 [GARDINER, Marguerite],
Countess of Blessington.
THE CONFESSIONS OF AN ELDERLY GENTLEMAN. ILLUSTRATED
BY SIX FEMALE PORTRAITS, FROM HIGHLY FINISHED DRAWINGS BY
E. T. PARRIS. BY THE COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON.
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman,
Paternoster-Row, 1836.
287p, ill. 12mo. 14s (ECB, LG); 14s cloth (ER).
MC (28 Oct 1836); LG 1029: 653 (8 Oct 1836); ER 64: 550
(Jan 1837); ECB 61 (Sept 1836).
BL 838.c.28; NSTC 2G2187 (BI Dt, E, O; NA DLC); OCLC 2710332
(43 libs).
Notes. Follows sequentially through headings from
‘My First Love’ to ‘My Sixth Love’, with accompanying engraved
plates depicting each of the six women involved. The artist
named on the t.p. is Edmund Thomas Parris (1793–1873). Printer’s
mark and colophon of William Wilcockson, Rolls Buildings,
Fetter Lane. The Confessions of an Elderly Lady,
by the Blessington was published by Longmans in 1838.
Further edns: 1847 (NSTC); 1848 as The Confessions of
an Elderly Lady [and, The Confessions of an Elderly
Gentleman] (NSTC, OCLC); 1853 as The Confessions
of an Elderly Lady and Gentleman (OCLC); Philadelphia
1836 (OCLC); German trans., 1837.
GARNER, Marianna
See PISANI, Marianna
1836: 27 [?GASKILL,
Peter].
PLEBEIANS AND PATRICIANS. BY THE AUTHOR OF “OLD MAIDS,”
“OLD BACHELORS,” &C. THREE VOLUMES.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., Cornhill, 1836.
I 263p; II 283p; III 288p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 27s boards
(ER, LG); 31s 6d boards (MC).
MC (14 Nov 1835); LG 985: 780 (5 Dec 1835); ER 62: 530 (Jan
1836); ECB 455 (Oct 1835).
ABu SB.82379.Pleb; NSTC 2P19215 (BI BL, C, E); xOCLC.
Notes. For issue of author attribution, see Old
Bachelors (1835; Appendix 2, B: 20). Single leaf (unn.)
at end of vol. 2, headed ‘Critical Notices of “Old Maids,”
their Varieties, Characters and Conditions. Second Edition’.
This gives extracts from eight reviews and newspapers, viz.
‘Literary Gazette, March 28th’, ‘Sun, April 16th’, ‘Monthly
Magazine for April’, ‘Sheffield Iris’, ‘Sunday Times’, ‘Cork
Advertiser’, ‘Scots Times’, and ‘Aberdeen Observer’. Printer’s
marks and colophons of C. Newby, 11 Little Queen Street.
Originally adv. in MC (22 Oct 1835), as to be published
‘in a few days’.
Further edn: Philadelphia 1836 (OCLC).
1836: 28 [GASPEY,
Thomas].
THE SELF-CONDEMNED. A ROMANCE. BY THE AUTHOR OF THE LOLLARDS,—“CALTHORPE,”
&C. &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, (Successor
to Henry Colburn.), 1836.
I vii, 307p; II 319p; III 310p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP,
ER); 31s 6d (ECB).
BP (7 Jan 1836); MC (4 Jan 1836), ‘to-morrow’; ER 63: 281
(Apr 1836); ECB 526 (Jan 1836).
BL N.1348; NSTC 2G3302 (BI C, E, O); xOCLC.
Notes. Dedication, pp. [v]–vi, to ‘Thomas Crofton
Croker, Esq. F.S.A.’, acknowledging his ‘important assistance’
(p. v) in the composition of the work. Adv. list (2
pp. unn.) at end of vol. 3, headed ‘Works by the Same
Author’ and offering copious review extracts on the last
two listed (The Lollards, and Other Times).
Printer’s marks and colophons of Maurice and Co., Fenchurch
Street. Bentley MS List records print run of 750 copies,
and notes: ‘Agreement signed for “half profits” Feby 18
1835’. Originally adv. in MC (25 Nov 1835).
Further edn: New York 1836 (NSTC, OCLC).
1836: 29 [GORE,
Catherine Grace Frances].
THE DIARY OF A DÉSENNUYÉE. IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: Published by Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough
Street, 1836.
I 299p; II 295p. 12mo. 21s (ECB); 21s boards (ER, LG).
MC (13 June 1836); LG 1016: 446 (9 July 1836); ER 63: 566
(July 1836); ECB 162 (June 1836).
BL N.1312; NSTC 2G14829 (BI C, Dt, E, O; NA DLC, MH); OCLC
35741201 (4 libs).
Notes. Adv. facing t.p. in vol. 2. Both vols. have
printer’s mark of Bradbury and Evans, Whitefriars, with
similar colophon in vol. 2, while vol. 1 has colophon of
James Moyes, Castle Street, Leicester Square.
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1836 (NSTC); New York [also Philadelphia]
1836 (OCLC).
1836: 30 [GORE,
Catherine Grace Frances].
MRS. ARMYTAGE; OR, FEMALE DOMINATION. BY THE AUTHORESS
OF “MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS.” IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough-Street,
1836.
I 305p; II 289p; III 355p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d boards
(ER, LG).
MC (30 June 1836), ‘tomorrow’; LG 1016: 446 (9 July 1836);
ER 63: 566 (July 1836); ECB 389 (June 1836).
BL N.1317; NSTC 2G14864 (BI C, E, O); OCLC 12359508 (10
libs).
Notes. Printer’s marks and colophons of W. Clowes
and Sons, Stamford Street. Originally adv. in MC (16 June
1836), as ‘just ready […] Female Domination’.
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1837 (OCLC); with new preface, 1848
as Female Domination (OCLC); [c.1854] as Female
Domination (Sadleir); [1860?] as Female Domination
(NSTC); [1863] as Female Domination (NSTC); Philadelphia
1836 (NSTC, OCLC); German trans., [c. 1847–52].
1836: 31 GRANT,
Joseph.
TALES OF THE GLENS; WITH BALLADS AND SONGS. BY THE LATE
JOSEPH GRANT. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR,
BY ROBERT NICOLL, AUTHOR OF “POEMS AND LYRICS.”
Edinburgh: Published by Fraser & Co.; and Henry
Washbourne, London, 1836.
16, iii, 288p. 8vo. 5s 6d (ECB); 5s 6d cloth (ER, LG).
LG 992: 60 (23 Jan 1836); ER 63: 282 (Apr 1836); ECB 240
(Jan 1836).
BL N.1326; NSTC 2G17824; OCLC 2808106 (2 libs).
Notes. Dedication, p. [1], reads: ‘At the Author’s
Dying Request, this Volume is Respectfully Inscribed to
George Douglas, Esquire, Advocate, Sheriff of Kincardineshire,
as a Sincere Tribute of his Respect and Esteem.’ This is
followed by a ‘Note’, p. [3], dated ‘Dundee, October,
1835’, and signed ‘J. M. C.’. This states: ‘The Editor of
this volume has to apologize to Mr. Grant’s subscribers
for the great delay which has taken place in issuing it
after the time specified in the prospectuses, but he trusts
that when they consider the loss of time necessarily incident
on the melancholy death of the author, and on the removal
of the establishment at which it was printing from Dundee
to Perth, that they will exculpate him from the charge of
unnecessary procrastination. […] It was proposed by the
original prospectuses of the volume—issued by Mr Grant—that
it should consist entirely of Prose Tales, under the title
of “Tales of the Glens.” This title has been retained; but,
as Mr Grant did not live to complete the volume on the original
plan, the Editor has introduced a selection from Mr Grant’s
poetical pieces, as he deemed that it would be more pleasing
to subscribers to have a specimen of Mr Grant’s abilities,
both as a Prose Writer and a Poet, than to have the volume
completed with Prose Sketches, before published, which was
the alternative. Should a Second Edition be called for,
the Editor will have it in his power to greatly enlarge
and enrich it, from selections from Mr Grant’s manuscripts,
which the prescribed limits of the present volume did not
allow him to insert.’ A list of contents, pp. [5]–6,
and a ‘Memoir of Joseph Grant’, pp. [7]–16, follow.
A newly paginated sequence combining roman and arabic pagination,
begins with a Preface, pp. [i]–iii, which notes: ‘I
beg leave to hope, that, however little amusement or instruction
the following Tales may contain, they are at least unmingled
with aught that is likely to hurt the moral feelings, or
outrage the taste of the most refined reader’ (p. iii).
The tales consist of: ‘The Grocer’s Daughter’, pp. [5]–42;
‘Roy Mac Ian; or, the Hunter’s Cabin’, pp. [43]–54;
‘A Chapter on Diels and Kelpies’, pp. [55]–69; ‘The
Warlock of Glendye’, pp. [71]–88; ‘Something Serious’,
pp. [89]–96; ‘The Midnight Combat: A Chapter from the
Autobiography of Lauchlin Grahame’, pp. [97]–115; ‘Sergeant
Cameron’, pp. [117]–163; ‘Strickland, the Shadowless;
or, the Fate of the Treasure Finder’, pp. [167]–198;
‘Cul-na-Gair; or, the Dumbie’s Malison’, pp. [199]–235;
‘The Bothie of Bith-Uaigh’, pp. [237]–248; ‘Ballads
and Songs’, pp. [249]–265; ‘Malcolm Roy; a Dramatic
Sketch’, pp. [267]–273; ‘Ballads and Songs’, pp. [274]–288.
Printer’s mark and colophon read: ‘White and Cumming, Printers,
Perth.’ Collates in fours.
Further edn: Stonehaven 1869 (NSTC, OCLC).
1836: 32 [GRIFFIN,
Gerald Joseph].
THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH. BY THE AUTHOR OF “THE MUNSTER FESTIVALS,”
&C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1836.
I 303p; II 311p; III 284p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP); 31s
6d (ECB, ER, LG).
BP (8 Dec 1836); MC (14 Nov 1836), ‘nearly ready’; LG 1038:
796 (10 Dec 1836); ER 64: 550 (Jan 1837); ECB 173 (Nov 1836).
BL N.1343; NSTC 2G22644 (BI C, E, O); 11146637 OCLC (6 libs).
Notes. Pencil note on t.p. of vol. 1 reads: ‘[G.
Griffin.]’. Printer’s marks and colophons of Samuel Bentley,
Dorset Street, Fleet Street. Bentley MS List records print
run of 1,000 copies.
Further edns: Dublin [1836] (NSTC); 1841 (NSTC); 1842 (BRu
ENC); Dublin 1850 (OCLC); 1857 (NSTC); Dublin 1857 (NSTC,
OCLC); Philadelphia 1837 (OCLC).
1836: 33 GROSSI,
Tommaso; WARD, Caroline (trans.).
MARCO VISCONTI: A ROMANCE OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY,
FROM THE ITALIAN OF TOMMASO GROSSI. BY MISS CAROLINE WARD.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., Cornhill, Booksellers
to Their Majesties, 1836.
I 285p; II 279p. 12mo. 18s (ECB); 18s boards (ER); 21s boards
(LG).
MC (28 Nov 1835); LG 984: 765 (28 Nov 1835); ER 62: 530
(Jan 1836); ECB 247 (Nov 1835).
BL N.1356; NSTC 2G23973 (BI C, E, O; NA MH); xOCLC.
Notes. Trans. of Marco Visconti. Una storia del
trecento cavata dalle cronache di quel tempo (Milan,
1834). Dedication (1 p. unn.) to ‘A. and F__’. Printer’s
marks and colophons of Stewart and Co., Old Bailey. Originally
adv. in MC (14 Aug 1835), as ‘nearly ready’.
Further edn: another trans.? 1845 (NSTC, OCLC).
GUTHRUM CASTLE
See BRIDE, Arthur Stanley, EDRICK THE SAXON
1836: 34 [HAMILTON,
Alexander].
EDITH OF GLAMMIS. BY CUTHBERT CLUTTERBUCK OF KENNAQUHAIR,
F.S.A. &C. &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Smith, Elder, & Co. 65 Cornhill, 1836.
I 290p; II 297p; III 310p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d boards
(ER, LG).
MC (5 Jan 1836), ‘nearly ready’; LG 992: 60 (23 Jan 1836);
ER 63: 282 (Apr 1836); ECB 122 (Feb 1836).
ABu SB.82379.HamA; NSTC 2H4799 (BI BL, C, E ,O); OCLC 34721390
(2 libs).
Notes. ‘Introductory Epistle by Captain Clutterbuck,
F.S.A.’, in the manner of Walter Scott’s preliminary chapters,
fills pp. [1]–52 of vol. 1. Historical novel, times
of James V of Scotland, northern Scottish setting. Printer’s
mark, verso of t.p., in each vol. reads ‘Edinburgh: Printed
by Stevenson & Co.’, with identical colophon.
1836:
35 HILL, Benson Earle.
RECOLLECTIONS OF AN ARTILLERY OFFICER: INCLUDING SCENES
AND ADVENTURES IN IRELAND, AMERICA, FLANDERS, AND FRANCE.
BY BENSON EARLE HILL. IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, Publisher
in Ordinary to His Majesty, 1836.
I viii, 342p; II vi, 328p. 12mo. 21s (ECB).
MC (22 June 1836), ‘just ready’; ECB 268 (June 1836).
BL N.1350; NSTC 2H21391 (BI C, Dt, E, O; NA DLC); OCLC 6341929
(17 libs).
Notes. Dedication to ‘the Right Hon. Lord Segrave,
&c. &c. &c. Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire’,
signed ‘Benson Earle Hill, Brompton, June, 1836’. List of
contents in each vol. Printer’s marks and colophons of F.
Shoberl, Jun., Leicester Street, Leicester Square. Bentley
MS List records print run of 750 copies. Originally adv.
in MC (6 May 1836), as ‘preparing for publication’.
1836:
36 [HOOK, Theodore Edward].
GILBERT GURNEY. BY THE AUTHOR OF “SAYINGS AND DOINGS,”
“LOVE AND PRIDE,” ETC. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Printed for Whittaker & Co. Ave Maria Lane,
1836.
I 338p; II 330p; III 367p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB, MC); 31s 6d
boards (ER, LG).
MC (25 Nov 1835), ‘on the 30th instant’; LG 984: 765 (28
Nov 1835); ER 62: 530 (Jan 1836); ECB 230 (Nov 1835).
BL N.1328; NSTC 2H28926 (BI C, Dt, E; NA MH); OCLC 4329129
(27 libs).
Notes. Initially serialized in the New Monthly
Magazine, 1834–5. Printer’s marks and colophons of Gilbert
and Rivington, St. John’s Square. 2nd edn. (E Dur.1032)
carries an ‘Advertisement’ in vol. 1, which states: ‘Several
of the following chapters have already appeared in print.
Two of the incidents contained in them have been dramatized;
one on the French, the other on the English stage. // This
Circumstance, which has been noticed by one of the ablest
and most impartial of our periodicals (the Athenæum),
has arisen from the fact of Editor’s having, in society,
frequently described the events which actually occurred
many years since.’ Originally adv. in MC (12 Nov 1835),
as to be published ‘in a few days’.
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1836 (NSTC); 1841 (NSTC, OCLC); 1850
(NSTC, OCLC); 1857 (NSTC); London and New York 1863 (OCLC);
Philadelphia 1836 (NSTC, OCLC); German trans., 1842; French
trans., 1861 [abridged as Ma Vie de Garçon. Reminiscences
d’un vieux gentleman].
1836: 37 [HOOTON,
Charles].
THE ADVENTURES OF BILBERRY THURLAND. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1836.
I 344p, ill; II 300p, ill.; III 279p, ill. 12mo. 31s 6d
(BP, ECB, LG); 31s 6d boards (ER, LG).
BP (27 Aug 1836); MC (23 Aug 1836), ‘just ready’; LG 1024:
574 (3 Sept 1836); ER 64: 259 (Oct 1836); ECB 6 (Aug 1836).
BL N.1304–6; NSTC 2H29621 (BI C, E, O; NA MH); OCLC 34087408
(5 libs).
Notes. Dedication, ‘To him to whom I am indebted
for my earliest introduction to public notice’, and list
of illustrations (2 pp. unn.), precede text proper.
Illustrations drawn and etched by A. Hervieu. Printer’s
mark and colophon in each vol. of Samuel Bentley, Dorset
Street, Fleet Street. Bentley MS List records print run
of 500 copies. Originally adv. in MC (8 Aug 1836), as ‘nearly
ready […] By Charles Hooton, Esq.’. BP notes: ‘By Charles
Hooton, a newspaper writer at Leeds and afterwards a journalist
in America. He died at Nottingham in 1849 from an overdose
of morphia.’
1836: 38 [HOWARD,
Edward Granville George]; {M}[ARRYAT], {F}[rederick] (editor).
RATTLIN, THE REEFER. EDITED BY THE AUTHOR OF “PETER SIMPLE”.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, Successor
to Henry Colburn, 1836.
I xii, 301p, ill.; II viii, 300p, ill.; III viii, 344p,
ill. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP, ER, LG); 31s 6d (ECB).
BP (23 July 1836); MC (17 May 1836); LG 1018: 476 (23 July
1836); ER 64: 259 (Oct 1836); ECB 480 (July 1836).
BL 12660.b.22; NSTC 2H32810 (BI E, O); OCLC 22153358 (7
libs).
Notes. ‘Advertisement’, vol. 1, p. [v], signed
‘F. M.’ and dated ‘London May, 1836’, notes: ‘A portion
of the following work has appeared in the pages of the Metropolitan
Magazine. It has now been re-arranged, and fiction, in the
latter part, blended with fact. In consenting to be the
literary sponsor to these volumes […] I am actuated but
by one motive; that of enabling the author to appear before
the public, and thus to give him an opportunity of being
tried by an ordeal by which alone he must either stand or
fall.’ Lists of contents occupy pp. [vii]–xii in vol.
1, pp. [iii]–viii in vol. 2, and pp. [v]–viii
in vol. 3. Adv. list (2 pp. unn.) at end of vol. 1
for ‘Novels and Romances by Distinguished Authors’. List
of ‘Illustrations to Rattlin the Reefer’ (1 p. unn.)
follows list of contents in vol. 3. Each vol. has printer’s
mark of Ibotson and Palmer, Savoy Street, Strand, with similar
colophon in vols. 1 and 2, while colophon in vol. 3 is of
F. Shoberl, jun., Leicester Street, Leicester Square. Bentley
MS List records print run of 750 copies. BP note to 3rd
edn. states that Howard was a natural son of the Duke of
Norfolk, who married a Miss Williams, later the wife of
Octavian Blewitt. Howard was also the sub-editor (under
Marryat) of the Metropolitan Magazine, where the
first 58 chs. were previously serialized Sept 1834–Feb 1836.
First published in book form, Meredith Bridge, NH 1834 (OCLC).
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1836 (NSTC, OCLC; BP: 5 Aug 1836,
31s 6d boards); 3rd edn. 1837 (BP: 16 June 1837, 31s 6d);
‘2nd edn.’ [sic] 1838 (NSTC); London and Edinburgh
1838 (NSTC, OCLC); 1845 (OCLC); [at least 4 more edns. to
1870]; German trans., 1836 [as Ralph Rattlin]; French
trans., 1837 [as Rattlin le marin].
1836:
39 HOWITT, Mary.
WOOD LEIGHTON; OR, A YEAR IN THE COUNTRY. BY MARY HOWITT.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, Successor
to Henry Colburn, 1836.
I vi, 336p; II 352p; III 374p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP,
ER, LG); 31s 6d (BP).
BP (28 May 1836); MC (11 May 1836); LG 1011: 365 (4 June
1836); ER 63: 566 (July 1836); ECB 286 (May 1836).
ABu SB.82379HowM; NSTC 2H33899 (BI BL, C, Dt, E; NA DLC);
OCLC 6275772 (12 libs).
Notes. Preface, pp. [iii]–vi, signed ‘M. H.’
and dated ‘Nottingham, April 4th, 1836’. This concludes:
‘Perhaps it is scarcely necessary to state that a few of
the smaller sketches have already appeared in a periodical’
(p. vi). Printer’s marks and colophons of Samuel Bentley,
Dorset Street, Fleet Street. Bentley MS List records print
run of 750 copies.
Further edns: 1847 (NSTC, OCLC); Philadelphia 1837 (NSTC,
OCLC).
1836:
40 {JAMES, G[eorge] P[ayne]
R[ainsford]}.
THE DESULTORY MAN. BY THE AUTHOR OF “RICHELIEU,” “THE
GYPSY,” &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1836.
I vii, 334p; II 302p; III 301p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB, ER, LG).
MC (4 Oct 1836), ‘now ready’; LG 1028: 638 (1 Oct 1836);
ER 64: 259 (Oct 1836); ECB 160 (Sept 1836).
E Vts.52.f.3; NSTC 2J2101 (BI BL, C, O; NA DLC); OCLC 3985043
(16 libs).
Notes. Dedication to ‘Miss M. L. Boyle’, pp. [iii]–vii,
signed ‘G. P. R. James, The Cottage, Great Marlow,
26th September 1836’. This states that ‘the greater part’
of the work ‘was written many years ago’, though some of
its contents have been published ‘anonymously in various
periodicals’ (p. [iii]). A footnote adds: ‘Many more
of the tales contained in these volumes have since been
published in periodicals, and I believe I may say without
presumption that they have been uniformly favourably received,
though the author’s name was withheld. Thus as near as possible
two-thirds of the work has been already before the public’
(pp. [iiin]–ivn). Comprises tales held together in
the form of a travelogue. Vol. 1 has printer’s mark and
colophon of Whiting, Beaufort House, Strand; vols. 2 and
3 have printer’s marks and colophons of Ibotson and Palmer,
Savoy Street, Strand. National Library of Scotland catalogue
mistakenly dates its copy 1831, an error that is carried
through into NSTC. Originally adv. in MC (10 Aug 1836),
‘nearly ready […] Mr. James’ New Work’.
Further edn: New York 1836 (NSTC, OCLC).
1836:
41 JONES, Hannah Maria.
THE GIPSEY GIRL, OR THE HEIR OF HAZEL DELL, A ROMANTIC
TALE. BY HANNAH MARIA JONES. AUTHORESS OF VILLAGE SCANDAL—CHILD
OF MYSTERY—GIPSEY MOTHER—PRIDE OF THE VILLAGE—EMILY MORELAND—GRETNA
GREEN—ROSALINE WOODBRIDGE—SCOTTISH CHIEFTAINS, &C. &C.
&C. ILLUSTRATED BY BEAUTIFUL STEEL ENGRAVINGS.
London: Printed for W. Emans, 31, Cloth Fair, 1836.
952p, ill. 8vo.
ECB 311 (1836).
E NF.554.l.25; NSTC 2J10427 (BI BL, NCu); OCLC 6514686 (2
libs).
Notes. Additional engraved t.p., with similar publisher’s
imprint. Nine engraved plates (including frontispiece).
‘Directions to the Binder, for placing the Engravings’,
at foot of p. 952. Printer’s marks and colophons of
J. Briscoe, Banner Street, St. Luke’s. Collates in fours.
OCLC, in addition to Emans copies, lists as imprints: ‘London,
New York, J. & F. Tallis, 1836’ and ‘London: London
Printing and Publishing Company’.
Further edns: [1842] (NSTC); London and New York [1845?]
(NSTC); [1855?] (NSTC); [1865?] (NSTC).
1836: 42 [KAYE,
Sir John William].
JERNINGHAM; OR, THE INCONSISTENT MAN. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Smith, Elder and Co. Cornhill, Booksellers to Their
Majesties, 1836.
I xv, 312p; II 354p; III 312p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d
boards (ER).
MC (11 June 1836), ‘on the 18th instant’; ER 63: 566 (July
1836); ECB 308 (June 1836).
BL N.1318; NSTC 2K976 (BI C, E, O; NA DLC); OCLC 13299316
(4 libs).
Notes. Dedication ‘To Him Who Has Most Befriended
Me’ (1 p. unn.) and prefatory ‘An Apology For This
Book’, pp. [vii]–xv, precede main text in vol. 1. Printer’s
marks and colophons of Stewart and Co., Old Bailey.
Further edn: 1854 as Jerningham: A Story (NSTC, OCLC).
1836:
43 {L}[AMBERT], {C}[amden]
{E}[lizabeth].
THE BAR-SINISTER, OR MEMOIRS OF AN ILLEGITIMATE. FOUNDED
ON FACTS. IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: Smith, Elder, and Co., Cornhill, Booksellers to
their Majesties, 1836.
I iv, 387; II 341p. 12mo. 21s (ECB); 21s boards (ER, LG,
MC).
MC (18 Feb 1836); LG 994: 92 (6 Feb 1836); ER 63: 282 (Apr
1836); ECB 39 (Feb 1836).
BL N.1346; NSTC 2L2536 (BI C, E, O; NA MH); OCLC 2843284
(5 libs).
Notes. Dedication to ‘His Excellency the Right Hon.
Earl of Mulgrave, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, etc. etc.
etc.’, signed ‘C. E. L., Greg Clare, County Galway, 14th
January 1836’. ‘Postscript’, vol. 2, pp. [338]–341,
states that the novel ‘is written by a Lady, her first essay
in the arena of literature’ (pp. 339–40). This concludes:
‘Should the pages now submitted to the ordeal of publication
meet with an indulgent reception, I shall again have the
honour of appearing before the kind patrons of literary
exertion, if … but I will not anticipate the mortifying
possibility of failure, which would at once impose eternal
silence on the Author’ (p. 341). Adv. list of ‘New
Works Published by Smith, Elder, and Co., Cornhill’ (2 pp. unn.)
at end of vol. 2. Printer’s marks and colophons of Stewart
and Co., Old Bailey.
Further edn: Philadelphia 1836 (OCLC).
1836:
44 LANDOR, Walter Savage.
PERICLES AND ASPASIA[.] BY WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, ESQ.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1836.
I vi, 299p; II viii, 343p. 12mo. 21s (ECB); 21s boards (ER).
MC (17 Mar 1836); ER 63: 282 (Apr 1836); ECB 328 (Mar 1836).
BL N.1360; NSTC 2L3518 (BI C, Dt, E, O; NA DLC, MH); OCLC
1723349 (56 libs).
Notes. Dedication, vol. 1, [v]–vi, to ‘His Excellence
the Earl of Mulgrave, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland’, signed
Walter Savage Landor. ‘Advertisement’, pp. [vii]–viii,
end-dated ‘Villa Fiesolana, July 4, 1835’. Poetical address
‘To General Andrew Jackson, President of the United States’,
at the beginning of vol. 2. Adv. facing t.p. of vol. 1 for
‘Citation and Examination of William Shakespeare […] touching
Deer Stealing’ (‘Lately Published’); and facing vol. 2 for
‘New Work by Mr. Bulwer […] Athens: Its Rise and Fall’ (‘Preparing
for Publication’). Errata slip for vol. 1 pasted below end
of text on p. 299, and, similarly, for vol. 2, at foot
of p. 343. Adv. list (4 pp. unn.) of ‘New Works
Published by Messrs. Saunders and Otley’, at the end of
vol. 2. Printer’s marks and colophons of Ibbotson [sic]
and Palmer, Savoy Street, Strand.
Further edns: 1836 (OCLC); 1842 (OCLC); Phialdelphia 1839
(NSTC, OCLC).
LANG, John, VIOLET; OR, THE DANSEUSE
See BEASLEY, …
1836: 45 [MACLELLAN,
Frances].
EVENINGS ABROAD. BY THE AUTHOR OF “SKETCHES OF CORFÙ.”.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., Cornhill, Booksellers to Their
Majesties, 1836.
x, viii, 332p, ill. 12mo. 8s (ECB); 9s cloth (LG); 9s boards
(MC).
MC (18 Feb 1836); LG 995: 108 (13 Feb 1836); ECB 194 (Jan
1836).
BL N.1367; NSTC 2M6979 (BI C, E, O); OCLC 13320599 (2 libs).
Notes. List of contents occupies pp. [ix]–x.
This is followed by a verse piece (1 p. unn.). Dedication
to the author’s mother, pp. [v]–viii (in verse), signed
‘Grove House, Richmond, 1836’. The contents are subdivided
into chapters headed ‘Evening the First’ to ‘Evening the
Sixth’, the work comprising an account of the ‘dramatis
personae’, letters, verse pieces, and tales and conversations
inspired by various destinations of travel in the south
of Europe. This is held together nevertheless by a consistent
fictional frame. Adv. list (4 pp. unn.) at end of vol.
for ‘New Works Published by Smith, Elder, and Co. Cornhill’.
Printer’s mark and colophon of Stewart and Co., Old Bailey.
Further edn: 1836 as Evenings Abroad: Being a Sequel
to ‘Evenings at Home’ [the latter by John Aiken and
Anna Letitia Barbauld, 1813] (OCLC).
MALET, Lady Marianne Dora, VIOLET;
OR, THE DANSEUSE
See BEASLEY, …
1836: 46 [MARRYAT,
Frederick].
JAPHET, IN SEARCH OF A FATHER. BY THE AUTHOR OF “PETER
SIMPLE,” “JACOB FAITHFUL,” &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1836.
I viii, 304p; II viii, 299p; III viii, 319p. 12mo. 31s 6d
(ECB); 31s 6d boards (ER, LG).
Star (24 Dec 1835); LG 987: 813 (19 Dec 1835); ER 62: 530
(Jan 1836); ECB 369 (Dec 1835).
BL N.1338; 2M15104 (BI E, O); OCLC 19971206 (24 libs).
Notes. Originally serialized in Metropolitan Magazine
Nov 1834–Jan 1836. Adv. list at start of vol. 1 for ‘Works
by the same Author, Published by Messrs. Saunders and Otley’.
Lists of contents occupy pp. [v]–viii in vol. 1 and
pp. [iii]–viii in vols. 2 and 3. Printer’s marks and
colophons of Ibotson and Palmer, Savoy Street, Strand. Originally
adv. in Star (3 Dec 1835), as ‘nearly ready’. First
published in book form Philadelphia and Baltimore 1835 (NSTC,
OCLC).
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1836 (OCLC); 1838 (NSTC, OCLC); 1849
(OCLC); 1850 (NSTC); 1854 (NSTC, OCLC); [at least 4 more
edns. to 1870]; German trans., 1835–6; French trans., 1836;
Swedish trans., 1836–7 [as Japhet eller hittebarnet].
1836: 47 [MARRYAT,
Frederick].
MR. MIDSHIPMAN EASY[.] BY THE AUTHOR OF “JAPHET, IN SEARCH
OF A FATHER,” “PETER SIMPLE,” “JACOB FAITHFUL,” &C.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1836.
I vii, 291p; II vii, 306p; III viii, 314p. 12mo. 31s 6d
(ECB); 31s 6d boards (ER, LG).
MC (27 Aug 1836), ‘now ready’; LG 1023: 558 (27 Aug 1836);
ER 64: 259 (Oct 1836); ECB 369 (Aug 1836).
BL N.1375; NSTC 2M15118 (BI C, E, O; NA MH); OCLC 768508
(22 libs).
Notes. The first four chs. appeared in Metropolitan
Magazine, Aug 1836. Advs. at start of each vol. Lists
of contents occupy pp. [v]–vii in vol. 1, pp. [v]–vii
in vol. 2, and pp. [v]–viii in vol. 3. Printer’s marks
and colophons of Ibotson and Palmer, Savoy Street, Strand.
Originally adv. in MC (5 Aug 1836), as to be published ‘in
a few days’.
Further edns: ‘2nd’ [but actually 1st edn. sheets with titles
overprinted, not reset] edn. 1836 (NSTC, OCLC); 1838 (NSTC,
OCLC); London and Edinburgh 1850 (NSTC); 1852 (NSTC); 1854
(OCLC); [at least 6 more edns. to 1870]; Boston [also Philadelphia]
1836 (NSTC); French trans., 1836; German trans., 1836.
1836: 48 MARRYAT,
[Frederick].
THE PIRATE, AND THE THREE CUTTERS. BY CAPTAIN MARRYAT,
R.N. ILUSTRATED WITH TWENTY SPLENDID ENGRAVINGS FROM DRAWINGS
BY CLARKSON STANFIELD, ESQ. R.A.
London: Published for the Proprietor by Longman, Rees,
Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1836.
315p, ill. 8vo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d boards (LG); 31s 6d
‘royal 8vo.’, 52s 6d ‘imperial 8vo.’ (Star).
Star (15 Dec 1835); LG 987: 812 (19 Dec 1835); ECB 369 (Dec
1835).
BL c.151.i.3; NSTC 2M15142 (BI C, Dt, E, O); OCLC 7690424
(31 libs).
Notes. Frontispiece portrait of the author, with
vignette t.p. opposite, followed by t.p. proper (from which
details above are given). The vignette t.p. is virtually
identical in its wording, apart from the imprint which reads:
‘London Published for the Proprietor by Longman & Co.
Paternoster Row, Decr. 1835.’ The engraved illustrations
bear a legend similar to the imprint on the engraved t.p.,
but with the more precise date of ‘Decr. 1, 1835’. Lists
of contents and plates printed on two separate unn. leaves
before narrative proper. ‘The Pirate’ occupies pp. [1]–226,
while ‘The Three Cutters’ fills pp. [227]–315. Colophon
of James Moyes, Castle Street, Leicester Square.
Further edns: London and Philadelphia 1836 as The Naval
Annual; or, Stories of the Sea for M. DCCC. XXXVI. Containing
The Pirate, and The Three Cutters (NSTC, OCLC); 1845
(NSTC, OCLC); [1849] (NSTC); 1851 (OCLC); 1854 (NSTC, OCLC);
[at least 5 more edns. to 1870]; New York [also Philadelphia]
1836 (OCLC); German trans., 1836; French trans., 1837 [as
Caïn le Pirate].
MARRYAT, Frederick, RATTLIN, THE REEFER
See HOWARD, Edward Granville George
1836: 49 [MARSH-CALDWELL,
Anne C.].
TALES OF THE WOODS AND FIELDS. A SECOND SERIES OF “THE
TWO OLD MEN’S TALES.” IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1836.
I viii, 299p; II 272p; III 288p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s
6d boards (ER, LG).
MC (11 June 1836); LG 1011: 365 (4 June 1836); ER 63: 566
(July 1836); ECB 605 (May 1836).
O Nuneham 256 e.14182; NSTC 2M15323 (BI BL, C, Dt, E); OCLC
5811027 (15 libs).
Notes. Dedication ‘to my Dear and Honoured Father’,
p. [v]. An untitled prefatory address, pp. [vii]–viii,
notes: ‘It must be confessed, that the subject of the first
of the succeeding Tales is sufficiently hackneyed, and has
already been several times beautifully treated. More especially
by Mr. Griffin in his admirable tale of “The Collegians;”
by Lord Mulgrave, and by the elegant author of the “Tales
of a Chaperon.” // It has been though however that something
was yet left to be done upon this subject; and that writers
in general have fallen into the error of attributing the
uneasiness which they describe, rather to a certain ignorance
of external forms, and unhappiness in merely conventional
details, which any girl of sense and spirit would overcome
in a few months, than to that radical opposition in habits,
sentiments, tastes, and feelings, which renders domestic
happiness so rarely attainable, in cases of this kind.’
‘A Country Vicarage’ occupies all of vol. 1 and pp. [1]–36
of vol. 2; this being followed by ‘A Tale of an Oak Tree’
(poetry), pp. [37]–72; and ‘Love and Duty’, which fills
pp. [73]–272 and all of vol. 3. Vols. 1 and 3 have
printer’s marks and colophons of T. C. Savill, 107, St.
Martin’s Lane; while vol. 2 has marks and colophons of Ibotson
and Palmer, Savoy Street, Strand. The Bodleian copy examined
has the label of the ‘Liverpool Library, Lyceum, Bold Street’
pasted on the inside front cover of each vol. Originally
adv. in MC (18 Mar 1836). For details of The Two Old
Men’s Tales, see 1834: 50.
Further edns: 1846 (NSTC); 1850 (NSTC); New York 1836 (NSTC,
OCLC).
1836: 50 [MASSIE,
William].
LIONEL WAKEFIELD. BY THE AUTHOR OF “SYDENHAM.” IN THREE
VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1836.
I 287p; II 299p; III 331p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP); 31s
6d (ECB, ER, LG).
BP (29 Nov 1836); MC (9 Nov 1836); LG 1037: 780 (3 Dec 1836);
ER 64: 550 (Jan 1837); ECB 347 (Nov 1836).
BL N.1342; NSTC 2M19369 (BI C, E, O; NA DLC); xOCLC.
Notes. Printer’s marks and colophons of Samuel Bentley,
Dorset Street, Fleet Street. Bentley MS List records print
run of 750 copies. MC gives as ‘by W. Massie’.
Further edns: Philadelphia 1837 (NSTC, OCLC); German trans.,
1837.
1836: 51 MILLER,
Thomas.
A DAY IN THE WOODS; A CONNECTED SERIES OF TALES AND POEMS.
BY THOMAS MILLER[,] BASKET MAKER, AUTHOR OF “SONGS OF THE
SEA NYMPHS,” ETC.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., Cornhill, Booksellers
to Their Majesties, 1836.
xx, 338p. 12mo. 10s 6d (ECB); 10s 6d cloth (ER); 10s boards
(MC); 21s satin (ER); 21s silk (MC).
MC (15 Apr 1836); ER 63: 566 (July 1836); ECB 385 (Mar 1836).
BL N.1353; NSTC 2M28561 (BI C, Dt, O); OCLC 21480553 (6
libs).
Notes. Dedication, p. [v], ‘To the Right Honourable
The Countess of Blessington’. Preface, pp. [vii]–xii,
signed ‘Thomas Miller’ and dated ‘33, Elliott’s Row, St.
George’s Road, Southwark. March, 30th, 1836’. This notes:
‘It is true that the work has been composed under circumstances
the most unpropitious for literary exertion, the author
being at the time altogether dependent upon his own manual
labour, in basket-making’ (pp. [vii]–viii). ‘It was
amid such scenes as these, that the Editor of the “Friendship’s
Offering,” […] sought him out […] deeming him worthy of
a better fate’ (p. ix). List of subscribers, pp. [xv]–xviii,
includes 78 names, many of them authors and publishers of
the day, e.g. Bulwer, Colburn, Disraeli, W. H. Harrison,
G. P. R. James, and Edward Young. List of contents
occupies pp. [ix]–xx. Adv. list (2 pp. unn.) at
end of vol. for ‘Interesting Works recently Published by
Smith, Elder and Co., Cornhill’. Printer’s mark and colophon
of Stewart and Co., Old Bailey.
Further edn: 1840 (OCLC).
1836: 52 [?MYRA,
Myra] [pseud.?].
THE SON OF DUPLICITY.
London: J. Ridgway & Sons, Piccadilly; and Simpkin,
Marshall, & Co., Stationers’ Hall Court, 1836.
351p. 12mo. 7s 6d (ECB, LG).
LG 1031: 685 (22 Oct 1836); ECB 549 (Sept 1836).
BL N.1325; NSTC 2M42883 (BI C, E, O); OCLC 13273349 (1 lib).
Notes. NSTC, following Bodleian Pre-1920 Catalogue,
gives as by ‘Myra Myra’, although this has the appearance
of, at best, a pseudonym. Drop-head title reads: ‘The Son
of Duplicity; or, the Still, Small Voice.’ Printer’s mark
and colophon of T. Brettell, Rupert Street, Haymarket.
1836:
53 {NEALE, W[illiam] Johnson}.
THE PRIORS OF PRAGUE; BY THE AUTHOR OF “CAVENDISH.” IN
THREE VOLUMES.
London: John Macrone, St. James’s Square, 1836.
I xii, 305p; II 288p; III 295p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s
6d boards (ER, LG).
MC (29 Apr 1836); LG 1006: 284 (30 Apr 1836); ER 63: 566
(July 1836); ECB 408 (Apr 1836).
BL N.1351; NSTC 2N2345 (BI C, Dt, E, O; NA DLC); OCLC 21681619
(6 libs).
Notes. Dedication ‘to Charles Frederick Williams,
Esq., K.C., Senior Commissioner of His Majesty’s Court of
Bankruptcy, etc. etc. etc.’, pp. [v]–ix, signed ‘W.
Johnson Neale’ and dated ‘26, Pall Mall, May, 1836’. Adv.,
facing t.p. of vol. 1, for ‘The Priors of Prague: Second
Series’ (‘Preparing for Publication’). Printer’s mark and
colophons of G. Woodfall, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London.
Originally adv. in MC (15 Apr 1836), as to be published
‘in a few days’.
Further edn: Philadelphia 1836 (OCLC).
1836:
54 PASQUIN [pseud.].
THE BRITISH QUIXOTE, OR THE SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF
DON POPLIN, KNIGHT OF THE WANING DRAGON. BY PASQUIN.
London: William Edwards, Successor to Scatcherd and
Letterman, 12 Ave Maria Lane, 1836.
vi, 265p. 12mo. 4s 6d cloth (ECB, ER).
ER 63: 566 (July 1836); ECB 76 (Feb 1836).
Dt Gall HH 2375; NSTC 2P5935; xOCLC.
Notes. ‘Advertisement’, pp. [iii]–iv, signed
‘The Author, London: February 1836’. This reads as a light-hearted
preface, in which the author claims that the ‘subsequent
pages exhibit the facts that I am a foe to popery in every
pale,—to tyranny in every cabinet,—to monopoly in every
form’, while avowing an attachment to the constitution and
every section of the Church ‘kindred to that of a lover’.
The author compares the adventures of Don Poplin to those
of Quixote, as a ‘farrago of heterogeneous topics’, and
directly addresses ‘Tory reviewers’, from whom he knows
he can ‘expect no mercy’: he asks for none and wants none,
promising subsequent volumes if this one is successful.
A list of contents follows on pp. [v]–vi. Printer’s
mark of J. Rider, 14 Bartholemew Close.
1836: 55 [PICKERING,
Ellen].
THE MERCHANT’S DAUGHTER. BY THE AUTHOR OF “THE HEIRESS,”
“AGNES SERLE,” &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1836.
I 324p; II 323p; III 339p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP); 31s
6d (ECB, ER, LG).
BP (22 Nov 1836); MC (5 Nov 1836); LG 1036: 764 (26 Nov
1836); ER 64: 550 (Jan 1837); ECB 381 (Nov 1836).
BL N.1341; NSTC 2P15852 (BI C, E, O); OCLC 10384515 (2 libs).
Notes. Printer’s marks and colophons of Samuel Bentley,
Dorset Street, Fleet Street. Bentley MS List records print
run of 500 copies.
Further edn: Philadelphia 1838 (NSTC).
1836: 56 [PISANI,
Countess Marianna].
VANDELEUR; OR, ANIMAL MAGNETISM. A NOVEL. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1836.
I ix, 307p; II 331p; III 348p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP);
31s 6d (ECB, ER, LG).
BP (29 Sept 1836); MC (16 Sept 1836), ‘just ready’; LG 1028:
638 (1 Oct 1836); ER 64: 259 (Oct 1836); ECB 609 (Sept 1836).
BL N.1340; NSTC 2P17775 (BI C, E, O); OCLC 10477182 (4 libs).
Notes. Bentley MS Lists describes author as ‘Mrs
Colonel Garner (Countess Pisani)’. Prefatory address, pp. [v]–ix,
begins: ‘When I first determined upon writing a tale of
fiction as a resource against “Leisure hours”—those mental
vampires which suck all the health of fitful occupation—I
was particularly desirous of fixing upon an entirely new
subject.’ (p. [v]) The author speculates writing a
romance, a satire of high life, or sketches of ‘the lower
Irish’, before settling somewhere in the middle: ‘Thus,
between ghosts and gourmands, the spirit and the flesh,
I was nearly scared altogether from my undertaking, when
an opportune visit to Paris, by introducing “animal magnetism”
to my notice, suggested to me that the point I sought “might
lie between”—it professing to be that mysterious point between
mind and matter, too material in its effects to be all mind,
and too subtile to be all matter!’ (pp. vii–viii).
Printer’s marks and colophons of Samuel Bentley, Dorset
Street, Fleet Street. Bentley MS List records print run
of 750 copies.
Further edn: Philadelphia 1837 (NSTC, OCLC).
PREST, Thomas Peckett, THE CALENDAR
OF HORRORS
See 1835: 78
1836: 57 [PREST,
Thomas Peckett (and oBlock questioningly attributes, probably erroneously, to
G. W. M. Reynolds; the work has also been attributed to Gilbert Abbott à Beckett.
Summers (pp. 14–15) comments: ‘The “Bos” parodies and imitations of Dickens
were written in collaboration by Thomas Peckett Prest, William Bayle Bernard,
and Morris Barnett. Lloyd the publisher suggested the idea of travesties of
the popular Dickens […] After some discussion “Bos” was fixed upon, and in spite
of protests from Charles Dickens and his publishers Lloyd issued “Bos” tales
very successfully for five or more years’. Preface (1 p. unn.), subscribed
‘ “Bos.” / Brompton Square’, notes: ‘In fulfilment of the promise, made
at the commencement of this work; we conclude it with the present—or twelfth
number. It is true the extraordinary sale our “Sketch Book” has had, might have
tempted us to exceed the limits originally proposed; but when we reflected upon
the pledge given, we at once abandoned all selfish considerations of profit,
and the work is now finished. […] In no one instance have our pages been sullied,
with a sentence that might raise a blush or shock morality. We have studied
to improve the minds of our readers, and though many of our subjects are of
a comic vein, their design is to point out, and discourage the follies that
occasionally creep into society. […] we will now take a respectful leave of
our numerous readers, assuring them that ere long we shall meet again; a Second
Series of the “Sketch Book” being already in a state of forwardness.’ Index
(1 p. unn.) follows, listing sketches in alphabetical order. The work is
divided into separate ‘Sketch-Books’, with the issue number on the left-hand
side of the foot of the opening pages. Approximately half the copy examined
is made up of blank paper. The work contains: Sketch-Book No. 1: ‘The Gentleman
in Difficulties. Or a Race from a Bailiff. A Sketch from Real Life’, pp. 1–5;
‘The Miser of the Old Stone House!! A Tragedy of Real Life’, pp. 5–8; ‘The
Curse’, p. 8; Sketch-Book No.2: ‘The Man of Many Woes!—A Sketch by Himself’,
pp. 9–11; ‘The Rival Ghosts!’, pp. 11–15; ‘The Revenge!’, pp. 15–16;
Sketch-Book No. 3: ‘The Evils of Wearing a Bear Skin Coat!’, pp. 17–21;
‘The First Crime’, pp. 21–23; ‘Jupiter Jupps! The Man Who Was just too
Late’, pp. 23–24; Sketch-Book No. 4: ‘Walter Grant!’, pp. 25–27; ‘The
Misfortunes of a Jealous Man’, pp. 27–30; ‘The Cockney Ball’, pp. 31–32;
Sketch-Book No. 5: ‘The Cobbler at Court; or, Interest Brings Relations: An
Eastern Story’, pp. 33–39; ‘The Cockney Ball (Concluded from Page 32)’,
pp. 39–40; ‘The Suicide’, p. 40; Sketch-Book No. 6: ‘Peter Pipkin;
or, the Victim of Susceptibility’, pp. 41–45; ‘The Fatal Jewels’, pp. 46–47;
‘The Suicide (Concluded from Page 40)’, pp. 47–48; Sketch-Book No.
7: ‘The Parish Revolution’, pp. 48–52; ‘The Agreeable Man’, pp. 52–54;
‘A Midnight Visitor’, pp. 54–55; ‘The Fatal Jewels (Concluded from Page
47)’, pp. 55–56; Sketch-Book No. 8: ‘A Soldier’s Valour, and a Soldier’s
Love: An Interesting Sketch’, pp. 57–59; ‘The Agreeable Man (Concluded
from Page 54)’, pp. 59–60; ‘The West London Association of the Hard Water
Temperance Society’, pp. 60–62; ‘The Election for Sexton’, pp. 62–63;
‘The Two Lairds: An Interesting Scotch Tale’, p. 64; Sketch-Book No. 9:
‘The Smuggler’s Leap’, pp. 65–66; ‘Sketch of a Police Office: Portraits
of Two Well-Known Beaks’, pp. 67–68; ‘Field Lane: A Graphic Sketch’, pp. 68–69;
‘Election for Sexton (Concluded from Page 63)’, pp. 69–70; ‘The Misfortunes
of a Nervous Man’, pp. 70–72; Sketch-Book No. 10: ‘Trick for Trick: Or,
the Appointment and the Disappointment’, pp. 73–77; ‘The Nervous Man (Concluded
from Page 72)’, pp. 77–78; ‘Henry Woodfield; or, the Court Martial: A Domestic
Tale of Deep Interest’, pp. 78–79; ‘Matthew Morpheus! The Man of Sleep’,
p. 80; Sketch-Book No. 11: ‘Country Theatricals’, pp. 81–84; ‘Henry
Woodfield (Continued from Page 79)’, pp. 84–88; [Sketch-Book No. 12]: ‘Henry
Woodfield (Concluded from Page 88)’, pp. 89–90; ‘The Maniac Girl’, pp. 90–92.
Printer’s marks at end of numbers read: ‘Printed and Published by E. Lloyd,
62, Broad-street, Holborn, two doors from Drury Lane.’ No signatures, but work
originally issued in 11 numbered parts of 8 pp. each, and one final part
of 4 pp. According to Summers, the work first appeared in weekly penny
numbers. BL copy listed by NSTC missing since 1975.thers)].
THE SKETCH BOOK BY “BOS,” CONTAINING A GREAT NUMBER OF HIGHLY INTERESTING
AND ORIGINAL TALES, SKETCHES, &C. &C. EMBELLISHED WITH SEVENTEEN ELEGANT
ENGRAVINGS.
London: Printed and published by E. Lloyd, 62, Broad Street, Bloomsbury,
n.d. [1836].
92p, ill. 8vo.
MH-H HEW 2.5.12; NSTC 2B41856 (BI BL); xOCLC.
Notes.
Further edn: [1837?] (NSTC).
1836: 58 PREST,
Thomas [Peckett].
TALES OF ENCHANTMENT; OR, THE BOOK OF FAIRIES. A COLLECTION
OF ORIGINAL STORIES OF MAGIC, NECROMANCY AND FAIR LAND.
BY THOMAS PREST. AUTHOR OF “THE PLAY BOOK,” AND EDITOR OF
“THE CALENDAR OF HORRORS.” EMBELLISHED WITH SPLENDID ENGRAVINGS.
London: Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton
Street, Clare Market; and sold by all Booksellers, n.d.
[1836].
92p, ill. 8vo.
BL 1609/3107; NSTC 2P25568; xOCLC.
Notes. The work is made up of 12 weekly nos., priced
at 1d each, and consecutively paginated, with the 1st no.
dated Thu, 15 Sept 1836, and the final no. Thu, 1 Dec 1836.
The vol. has a separate contents page (1 p. unn.) before
the first tale, indicating a separate sale in collected
form. The collection as a whole comprises: ‘The Fairy of
the Gigantic Diamond! Or, the Magician of the Black Rock’,
pp. 1–8; ‘The Fisherman and the Genii; or, the Magic
Fish!’, pp. 9–16; ‘The Fairy of the Temple of Roses;
or, the Lost Prince’, pp. 17–24; ‘The Fairy Queen;
or, Zulmio the Blind’, pp. 25–32; ‘The Temple of Fire;
or, the Fairy and the Shepherdess’, pp. 33–40; ‘The
Fairy of the Silver Fountain’, pp. 41–48; ‘The Fairy
of the Magic Star’, pp. 49–56; ‘The Magician of the
Iron Tower; or, the Fairy of the Rock’, pp. 57–64;
‘The Fairy of the Golden Valley; or, the Enchanted Serpent’
part I, pp. 65–72; ‘The Fairy of the Golden Valley;
or, the Enchanted Serpent’ part II, pp. 73–80; ‘The
Fairy Boat; or, the Caliph’s Daughter’ part I, pp. 81–88;
‘The Fairy Boat; or, the Caliph’s Daughter’ part II, pp. 89–92.
Colophons in each number read: ‘Printed and published by
G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market.’ Collates in
fours.
PULLIN, Greg, HENRY, THE RECLUSE
OF DEVON
See 1835: 79
1836: 59 [REYNOLDS,
Frederic Mansel].
THE PARRICIDE. A DOMESTIC ROMANCE. BY THE AUTHOR OF “MISERRIMUS.”
IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: Thomas Hookham, Old Bond-Street, 1836.
I 266p; II 322, 2p. 12mo. 21s (ECB); 21s boards (ER, LG).
MC (8 Dec 1835), ‘on the 14th’; LG 988: 831 (26 Dec 1835);
ER 62: 530 (Jan 1836); ECB 434 (Dec 1835).
BL N.1354; NSTC 2R7940 (BI C, E, O; NA DLC); OCLC 4960796
(3 libs).
Notes. ‘Introduction’ occupies pp. [1]–63 of
vol. 1, with the narrative proper commencing on p. [65].
At end of vol. 2 is a freshly paginated sequence (2 pp.),
supplying a ‘Note’ to vol. 2, p. 304, line 10. This
is followed by statement concerning printing errors: ‘Owing
to the haste, with which the previous pages passed through
the press, a number of superfluous dashes at the termination
of paragraphs, and in other inappropriate situations, escaped
observation until too late for correction. Whenever they
occur, the reader is requested to disregard them’ (pp. [1]–2).
Colophons of William Wilcockson, Whitefriars. Originally
adv. in MC (5 Nov 1835), as ‘shortly will be published’.
Not to be confused with G. W. M. Reynolds’s The Parricide;
or, the Youth’s Career in Crime (1847), which was originally
issued as The Youthful Impostor (1835: 80).
Further edn: Philadelphia 1836 (OCLC).
1836: 60 RITCHIE,
Leitch.
THE MAGICIAN[.] BY LEITCH RITCHE[.] THREE VOLUMES.
London: John Macrone St. James’s Square, 1836.
I 309p; II 316p; III 317p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB).
MC (20 May 1836), ‘on the 28th, positively’; ER 63: 566
(July 1836); ECB 495 (May 1836).
BL N.1273; NSTC 2R11595 (BI C, E, O; NA MH); OCLC 10967429
(8 libs).
Notes. Dedication to ‘My Brother John’. Printer’s
marks and colophons of J. Haddon and Co. Doctors’ Commons.
Further edns: 1846 (NSTC, OCLC); 1853 (NSTC); Philadelphia
1836 (NSTC, OCLC).
1836:
61 ROBERTS, Jane.
LÖWENSTEIN, KING OF THE FORESTS: A TALE BY JANE ROBERTS,
AUTHOR OF “TWO YEARS AT SEA.” IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: Printed for Whittaker and Co. Ave Maria Lane,
1836.
I 302p; II 292p. 12mo. 18s (ECB, MC); 18s boards (ER).
MC (22 Mar 1836); ER 63: 282 (Apr 1836); ECB 496 (Mar 1836).
BL N.1368; NSTC 2R12510 (BI C, E, O); OCLC 35792196 (2 libs).
Notes. Adv. list (2 pp. unn.) at end of
vol. 2, listing ‘Works Published by Whittaker and Co., Ave-Maria-Lane,
London.’ Printer’s marks and colophons of Samuel Bentley,
Dorset Street, Fleet Street.
1836: 62 ROCHE,
Regina Maria.
THE NUN’S PICTURE. A TALE. BY REGINA MARIA ROCHE, AUTHOR
OF THE CHILDREN OF THE ABBEY, DISCARDED SON, CASTLE CHAPEL,
CONTRAST, BRIDAL OF DUNAMORE, MAID OF THE HAMLET, CLERMONT,
VICAR OF LANSDOWNE, &C. &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Printed for A. K. Newman and Co., 1836.
I 312p; II 308p; III 291p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d boards
(ER, LG).
LG 986: 797 (12 Dec 1835); ER 62: 530 (Jan 1836); ECB 498
(Dec 1835).
BL N.1310; NSTC 2D1380; xOCLC.
Notes. Adv. list (1 p. unn.) at end of vol.
3 for ‘New Publications’. Printer’s marks and colophons
of J. Darling, Leadenhall Street.
Further edn: 1843 (NSTC).
1836: 63 [?ROSS,
Miss].
THE GOVERNESS; OR, POLITICS IN PRIVATE LIFE. BY THE DAUGHTER
OF THE AUTHOR OF THE “BALANCE OF COMFORT.”.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., Cornhill, Booksellers
to Their Majesties, 1836.
311p. 12mo. 8s 6d (ECB); 8s 6d boards (ER, LG).
LG 1001: 204 (26 Mar 1836); ER 63: 282 (Apr 1836); ECB 238
(Mar 1836).
BL N.1512; NSTC 2G16081 (BI C, E, O); OCLC 13297779 (3 libs).
Notes. Mrs Ross, the mother of the present author
according to the above t.p., was the acknowledged author
of The Balance of Comfort and a number of earlier
fictions (see EN2, 1817: 50). ‘Conclusion’, pp. 309–311,
praises the advantages of education by a governess. Printer’s
mark and colophon of Stewart and Co., Old Bailey.
Further edn: 1843 (OCLC).
1836: 64 [RUSSELL,
Lord John].
ADVENTURES IN THE MOON, AND OTHER WORLDS.
London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, &
Longman, Paternoster-Row, 1836.
447p. 12mo. 12s (ECB).
ECB 6 (Nov 1836).
BL 716.c.29; NSTC 2R21224 (BI C, Dt, E, O); OCLC 1303675
(8 libs).
Notes. List of contents (1 p. unn.) follows
t.p. The collection comprises: ‘A Journey to the Moon’,
pp. [3]–146; ‘Mahomet and the Spider. A Dialogue’,
pp. [147]–175; ‘A Letter from Posterity to the Present
Age’, pp. [177]–189; ‘Answer from the Present Age to
Posterity’, pp. [191]–207; ‘The Sleeper and the Spirit.
A Dialogue’, pp. [209]–239; ‘A Dispute between the
Mind and the Body’, pp. [241]–289; ‘Alcibiades’, pp. [291]–321;
‘Truth Released’, pp. [323]–369; ‘The Two Evil Spirits.
Dialogue I’, pp. [371]–385; ‘The Two Evil Spirits.
Dialogue II’, pp. 386–415; ‘The Judgment of Mahomet’,
pp. [417]–447. Printer’s mark and colophon of A. Spottiswoode,
New Street Square.
Further edn: 1841 (NSTC, OCLC).
1836:
65 [ST. JOHN, Lady Isabella].
MRS. CLEVELAND, AND THE ST. CLAIRS, &C. IN THREE
VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. Successor
to Henry Colburn, 1836.
I 295p; II 293p; III 306p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP, ER,
LG); 31s 6d (ECB).
BP (21 Jan 1836); MC (7 Dec 1835); LG 992: 60 (23 Jan 1836);
ER 63: 282 (Apr 1836); ECB 389 (Jan 1836).
BL N.1365; NSTC 2S2135 (BI C, E, O); xOCLC.
Notes. Includes the following: ‘Mrs. Cleveland’,
vol. 1, pp. [1]–189; ‘The St. Clairs’, vol. 1, p. [191]–vol.
3, p. 148; ‘Home’, vol. 3, pp. [149]–231; ‘Aurelia’,
pp. [233]–306. Adv. lists (2 pp. unn.) at end
of vols. 2 and 3, both headed ‘New Novels and Romances,
just Published by Richard Bentley, 8, New Burlington Street’.
Vol. 2 includes advs. for ‘Mr. Gleig’s New Work, Chronicles
of Waltham’ and ‘Mr. Maxwell’s New Novel […] My Life’; vol.
3 lists ‘Mr. Bulwer’s New Romance […] The Last Days of Pompeii’,
‘Mr. Kennedy’s New Novel […] Horse-Shoe Robinson’, ‘Miss
Landon’s New Novel […] Francesca Carrara by L. E. L.’, and
‘Mrs. Shelley’s New Novel […] Lodore’. All the titles cited
above were originally published without the proper name
of the author on their t.ps. Printer’s marks and colophons
of Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street. Bentley
MS List records print run of 500 copies. MC lists as ‘Lady
Isabella St. John’s New Work’.
1836: 66 [SCOTT,
Michael].
THE CRUISE OF THE MIDGE. BY THE AUTHOR OF “TOM CRINGLE’S
LOG.” IN TWO VOLUMES.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons; and T. Cadell, Strand,
London, 1836.
I 387p; II 452p. 16mo. 12s (ECB, MC); 12s cloth (ER, LG).
MC (30 Jan 1836); LG 993: 76 (30 Jan 1836); ER 63: 282 (Apr
1836); ECB 146 (Feb 1836).
BL N.1369; NSTC 2S8832 (BI C, E, O); OCLC 2303327 (32 libs).
Notes. Verso of half-titles bear the legend: ‘Reprinted
from Blackwood’s Magazine, with Additions and Corrections’,
where it appeared 1834–5. List of contents in both vols.
Page nos. 3–8 repeated, with asterisks, in vol. 1, indicating
the insertion of an additional 6 pp. within gathering
A. Printer’s marks and colophons read: ‘Edinburgh: Printed
by Ballantyne and Co., Paul’s Work’. Originally published
in book form Baltimore 1834 (OCLC).
Further edns: 1842 (NSTC, OCLC); London 1842 (OCLC); 1845
(OCLC); 1851 (OCLC); 1853 (NSTC); 1868 (OCLC).
1836:
67 [SHERER, Joseph Moyle].
THE BROKEN FONT. A STORY OF THE CIVIL WAR. BY THE AUTHOR
OF “TALES OF THE WARS OF OUR TIMES,” “RECOLLECTIONS OF THE
PENINSULA,” &C. &C. &C. IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green,
& Longman, Paternoster-Row, 1836.
I iv, 379p; II 318p. 12mo. 21s (ECB); 21s cloth (LG).
MC (2 June 1836), ‘on Wednesday, June 8’; LG 1012: 380 (11
June 1836); ECB 533 (May 1836).
ABu SB.82379.Sher(b); NSTC 2S19121 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA DLC,
MH); OCLC 11204932 (10 libs).
Notes. Preface, pp. [iii]–iv. Extra (unn.) leaf
at the end of vol. 2 has printed copies of the two spine
labels (superfluous in the case of the ABu copy, since spine
labels are already in place). Printer’s marks and colophons
of A. Spottiswoode, New Street Square. LG lists as ‘by Major
Sherer’. Longman Archives (H12, 239) record print run of
1,000 copies. MC lists as ‘Major Sherer’s New Novel’.
1836: 68 SINCLAIR,
Catherine.
MODERN ACCOMPLISHMENTS, OR, THE MARCH OF INTELLECT. BY
MISS CATHERINE SINCLAIR. DEDICATED BY PERMISSION TO HER
ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS VICTORIA.
Edinburgh: Waugh and Innes, Booksellers to His Majesty;
London: James Nisbet and Co., 1836.
vii, 344p. 12mo. 7s (ECB); 7s cloth (ER, LG).
LG 996: 124 (20 Feb 1836); ER 63: 282 (Apr 1836); ECB 539
(Feb 1836).
BL 838.g.26; NSTC 2S22628 (BI C, Dt, E, O); OCLC 5924868
(13 libs).
Notes. Dedication, p. [iii], to ‘Her Royal Highness
the Princess Victoria’, signed ‘Catherine Sinclair’. Preface,
pp. [v]–vii, expatiates on the religious purposes of
the work, yet marks it as a work of fiction: to ‘attain
some degree of usefulness by the humblest work of fiction,
must be ranked among the objects of legitimate ambition’
(p. vii). Note (1 p. unn.), dated ‘133, George
Street’, preceding main text reads: ‘These pages were revised
and corrected by a venerated parent, now no more. His opinion
was frequently expressed, and repeated in his last sickness,
that none of his family ought ever to publish anonymously.
It is in compliance with his desire, that the authoress
has ventured to acknowledge her work, and to prefix to this
volume a name, which must have been entirely insignificant
and unknown, but for its connexion with her distinguished
and lamented father, Sir John Sinclair.’ Printer’s mark
and colophon of Balfour and Jack, Niddry Street, Edinburgh.
ECB gives publisher as ‘Longman’. Preface to 4th edn. notes
that the three earlier edns. of the work consisted of 4,000
copies: this edn. also carries on its t.p. the legend ‘Fifth
Thousand’. Modern Society, or, the March of Intellect,
the Conclusion of Modern Accomplishments was published
in 1837 (OCLC).
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1836 (OCLC); [4th edn.] 1837 (NSTC,
OCLC); 1838 (NSTC, OCLC); 1841 (OCLC); 1849 (NSTC, OCLC);
London and Ipswich [1855] (NSTC); London [1864] (NSTC);
New York 1836 (OCLC).
1836:
69 SMITH, Elizabeth [Bruce]
Elton.
THE THREE ERAS OF WOMAN’S LIFE. BY ELIZABETH ELTON SMITH.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley (Successor to Henry Colburn,)
New Burlington Street, 1836.
I 315p; II 313p; III 309p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP, ER,
LG); 31s 6d (ECB).
BP (11 May 1836); MC (26 Apr 1836); LG 1008: 318 (14 May
1836); ER 63: 566 (July 1836); ECB 544 (May 1836).
E Vts.108.c.3; NSTC 2S25935 (BI BL, C; NA MH); xOCLC.
Notes. Printer’s marks and colophons of G. Woodfall,
Angel Court, Skinner Street. Bentley MS List records print
run of 500 copies. According to BP: ‘ “The Three Eras”
are apparently Maidenhood, Wifehood, and Motherhood.’ Originally
adv. in MC (4 Apr 1836), as ‘nearly ready’.
Further edn: New York 1836 (NSTC, OCLC).
1836: 70 [?SMITH,
Richard Penn].
THE FORSAKEN. A TALE. IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: Whittaker & Co. Ave Maria Lane, 1836.
I 287p; II 290p. 12mo. 16s (ECB, ER, LG, MC).
MC (19 Nov 1836), ‘now ready’; LG 1036: 764 (26 Nov 1836);
ER 64: 550 (Jan 1837); ECB 211 (Nov 1836).
BL N.1377; NSTC 2F11058 (BI C, E, O); OCLC 45245425 (1 lib).
Notes. Printer’s marks and colophons of Gilbert and
Rivington, St. John’s Square. First adv. in MC (19 Oct 1836),
as to be published ‘in a few days’. A novel with the same
title, also in 2 vols., and attributed to Richard Penn Smith,
was published Philadelphia 1831 (NSTC, OCLC).
1836:
71 [STEWARD, Isabella Travers].
THE MASCARENHAS[.] A LEGEND OF THE PORTUGUESE IN INDIA[.]
BY THE AUTHOR OF “THE PREDICTION,” &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Smith, Elder, and Co., Cornhill, 1836.
I xviii, 310p; II 348p; III 348p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB, MC);
31s 6d boards (ER, LG).
MC (15 Apr 1836); LG 1007: 301 (7 May 1836); ER 63: 566
(July 1836); ECB 372 (Apr 1836).
ABu SB.82379.Stew; NSTC 2S39882 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA MH);
xOCLC.
Notes. The author’s surname is sometimes spelled
Stewart. Introduction, pp. [i]–xviii, outlining the
history of the Portuguese in India and observing the decline
of their power at the time of the story’s setting. ‘Notes’
at the end of each vol: vol. 1, pp. [303]–310; vol.
2, pp. [343]–348; vol. 3, pp. [345]–348. Printer’s
marks and colophons of Thos. C. Newby, No. 11, Little Queen
Street.
1836:
72 STICKNEY, Sarah.
HOME, OR THE IRON RULE. A DOMESTIC STORY. BY SARAH STICKNEY,
AUTHOR OF “THE POETRY OF LIFE;” “PICTURES OF PRIVATE LIFE,”
&C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1836.
I 310p; II 330p; III 320p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d boards
(ER, LG).
MC (16 May 1836); LG 1012: 380 (11 June 1836); ER 63: 566
(July 1836); ECB 563 (May 1836).
ABu SB.82379.Elli(h); NSTC 2S40620 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA DLC);
OCLC 10121024 (5 libs).
Notes. Adv., facing t.p. of vol. 1, for ‘The Poetry
of Life’, by the same author, with a brief commendatory
extract from the Spectator. Adv. lists (2 pp. unn.)
for new works by Saunders and Otley at end of vols. 1 and
2. Printer’s marks and colophons of Stevens and Pardon,
Printers, 37, Bell Yard, Temple Bar.
Further edn: New York 1836 (NSTC, OCLC).
1836: 73 [TONNA],
Charlotte Elizabeth.
THE DESERTER, BY CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH.
Dublin: Religious Tract and Book Society for Ireland.
Sold at the Depository, 22, Upper Sackville-St., also at
32, Sackville-Street, and by J. Nisbet and Co., London;
Waugh and Innes, Edinburgh; G. Gallie, Glasgow; and by other
Booksellers, 1836.
232p. 12mo. 4s (ECB).
ECB 183 (Mar 1836).
BL N.1313; NSTC 2C16413 (BI Dt); OCLC 13742456 (4 libs).
Notes. Printer’s mark reads: ‘George Folds, Printer,
1, St. Andrew-street. (Opposite Trinity-street)’.
Further edn: New York 1845 (OCLC).
1836: 74 [TÖPFFER,
Rodolphe].
THE PARSONAGE, A TALE. AND ELIZA AND WIDMER, A TALE.
(ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN GENEVA.).
London: Cookes and Ollivier, 59, Pall Mall, 1836.
171p. 18mo. 2s 6d (ECB).
MC (20 Feb 1836), ‘in a few days’; ECB 435 (Mar 1836).
BL N.1294; NSTC 2P5391; xOCLC.
Notes. Trans. of Le Presbytère (Geneva, 1832)
and Elisa et Widmer (Geneva, 1834). Preface (1 p. unn.)
notes: ‘In submitting the following Tales to the Public,
the Translator remarks, they are the works of a Gentleman,
a native of Geneva, in which place they were originally
published. // The religious tone and high moral feeling
displayed throughout them, added to their great popularity,
has induced the attempt at a translation, not doubting their
merit will insure a portion of that universal admiration
they excited in the original.’ The work consists of ‘The
Parsonage, a Tale’, pp. [1]–83, and ‘Eliza and Widmer,
a Tale’, pp. [85]–171. Colophon of Cookes and Ollivier,
Pall Mall.
Further edn: 1848 (NSTC). lang=DE>
1836:
75 TROLLOPE, Frances [Eleanor].
THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF JONATHAN JEFFERSON WHITLAW;
OR SCENES ON THE MISSISSIPPI. BY FRANCES TROLLOPE, AUTHOR
OF “PARIS AND THE PARISIANS IN 1835,” “DOMESTIC MANNERS
OF THE AMERICANS,” &C. WITH FIFTEEN ENGRAVINGS. IN THREE
VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1836.
I 327p, ill.; II 331p, ill.; III 348p, ill. 12mo. 31s 6d
boards (BP, LG); 31s 6d (ECB, ER).
BP (25 June 1836); MC (6 July 1836), ‘now ready’; LG 1014:
412 (25 June 1836); ER 63: 566 (July 1836); ECB 600 (June
1836).
BL N.1586; NSTC 2T18262 (BI C, Dt, E, O; NA DLC, MH); OCLC
1239400 (64 libs).
Notes. Dedication to ‘those States of the American
Union in which Slavery has been abolished, or never permitted’;
this is end-dated ‘London, 27 April, 1836’. List of ‘Illustrations’
immediately facing first page of text proper, giving titles
of the three frontispieces, and of 12 other engraved illustrative
plates found in the work (four per vol.). Printer’s marks
and colophons of Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street.
Bentley MS List records print run of 1,500 copies. Originally
adv. in MC (30 Apr 1836), as ‘preparing for publication’.
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1836 (NSTC, OCLC; BP: 7 Sept 1836,
31s 6d boards); 3rd edn. 1836 (BP: 19 Nov 1836, 31s 6d boards);
1857 as Lynch Law; or, the Life and Adventures of John
Jefferson Whitlaw (NSTC, OCLC); German trans., 1836.
1836: 76 WEBBE,
Cornelius.
GLANCES AT LIFE IN CITY AND SUBURB. BY CORNELIUS WEBBE,
AUTHOR OF “POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF A PERSON LATELY ABOUT TOWN;”
“LYRIC LEAVES,” ETC.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., Cornhill, Booksellers
to Their Majesties, 1836.
v, 335p. 12mo. 10s 6d (ECB, ER); 10s 6d boards (MC).
MC (12 Sept 1836); ER 64: 259 (Oct 1836); ECB 628 (Aug 1836).
BL 838.g.13; NSTC 2W10206 (BI C, O; NA DLC, MH); OCLC 14443626
(7 libs).
Notes. Preface, pp. [iii]–v, states that ‘some
portion of this volume is selected from essays and sketches
published by him [the author] in various periodical works;
to these old papers, however, he has in many instances added
new matter […]. To these some essays are appended, not till
now printed. The Author is compelled, in self-defence, to
claim the papers reprinted in this volume, because
he has found that […] they are dropping piecemeal out of
his hands into the hands of persons who have not so much
right to them. For instance: one worthy takes the greater
part of a sketch […] and introducing it with some few prefatory
paragraphs of his own, passes off the whole as original,—bestowing
not a thought or a lime [sic] of note or explanation
on the poor “original original” ’ (pp. [iii]–iv).
The preface also notes: ‘Should this first book of “Glances
at Life” prove welcome […] the Author will look around him
again to see what is to be seen, and […] will only be too
happy to make his second bow should the call become loud
for his re-appearance’ (p. v). List of contents, pp. [vii]–viii,
precedes main text. The work consists of: ‘The Hypochondriac’,
pp. [1]–17; ‘To Richmond’, pp. [18]–43; ‘The Pimento
Family; or, Spoiled Children’, pp. [44]–63; ‘The Philosophy
of Pain’, pp. [64]–69; ‘A London Sunday’, pp. [70]–90;
‘Singular Smith’, pp. [91]–106; ‘The Long Lawyer’,
pp. [107]–117; ‘My Eccentric Friend, Hippy’, pp. [118]–149;
‘A Fancy or Two on Flies; a Summer Mediation’, pp. [141]–146;
‘Four Views of London’, pp. [147]–171; ‘The Author
of “John Buncle” ’, pp. [172]–179; ‘London Walkers’,
pp. [180]–209; ‘On Portraits’, pp. [210]–225;
‘Content’, pp. [226]–230; ‘Mr. Hippy’s Hints to Hypochondriacs’,
pp. [231]–247; ‘Some Account of Chumpy, Mr. Chump’s
Dog’, pp. [248]–262; ‘A Walk and a Dinner’, pp. [263]–276;
‘Reading in the Fields’, pp. [277]–307; ‘The Last Hours
of Mr. Hippy’, pp. [308]–335. Printer’s mark and colophon
of Stewart and Co., Old Bailey. A 2nd ser. was published
in 1845 (OCLC).
1836: 77 [WHITE,
James].
THE ADVENTURES OF SIR FRIZZLE PUMPKIN; NIGHTS AT MESS;
AND OTHER TALES. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons; and T. Cadell,
Strand, London, 1836.
421p, ill. 12mo. 8s (ECB); 8s boards (ER, LG).
LG 994: 92 (6 Feb 1836); ER 63: 282 (Apr 1836); ECB 6 (Feb
1836).
BL N.1373; NSTC 2W17094 (BI C, E, O); OCLC 2727453 (18 libs).
Notes. Lists of contents and illustrations (2 pp. unn.)
follow t.p. The work consists of: ‘Introduction’, pp. [1]–6;
‘Some Passages in the Life of Sir Frizzle Pumpkin, K.C.B.’,
pp. [7]–74; ‘Nights at Mess’, pp. [75]–337; ‘The
Traveller in Spite of Himself’, pp. [339]–374; ‘The
Hour of Fortune. In Three Nicks’, pp. [375]–398; ‘Crocodile
Island’, pp. [399]–421. Adv. list (2 pp. unn.)
at end of vol. for ‘Books Printed for William Blackwood
& Sons, Edinburgh’. Printer’s mark (on verso of t.p.)
and colophon read: ‘Edinburgh: Printed by Ballantyne and
Co., Paul’s Work.’ OCLC 10190007 gives Some Passages
in the Life of Sir Frizzle Pumpkin: The Pic-Nic and Other
Tales (Philadelphia, 1834), although, apart from the
title story of ‘Sir Frizzle Pumpkin, K.C.B.’, there appears
to be no direct correlation between the two works.
Further edns: 1846 (NSTC, OCLC); 1849 (NSTC, OCLC).
1836: 78 {WILLIS,
N[athaniel] P[arker]}.
INKLINGS OF ADVENTURE[.] BY THE AUTHOR OF “PENCILLINGS
BY THE WAY.” IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1836.
I x, 302p; II 311p; III 320p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d
boards (ER, LG).
MC (25 Apr 1836), ‘just ready’; LG 1006: 284 (30 Apr 1836);
ER 63: 566 (July 1836); ECB 640 (Apr 1836).
BL N.1267–1269; NSTC 2W24075 (BI C, E, O; NA DLC); 3364324
OCLC (32 libs).
Notes. Dedication, p. [iii], ‘To the Distinguished
American Orator and Statesman, Edward Everett’. Drop-head
title preceding ‘Introductory Chapter’, pp. [v]–x,
signed ‘N. P. Willis’, reads ‘Philip Slingsby, Esq.’
and alludes to the hero of the following tales, ‘taken partly
from a rambling note-book of his own, and filled out by
what additional details I have gathered from his conversation’
(p. [v]). Lists of contents (1 p. unn. each) precede
main text in each vol. Vol. 1 contains: ‘Pedlar Karl’, pp. [1]–47;
‘Niagara—Lake Ontario—The St. Lawrence’, pp. [49]–100;
‘The Cherokee’s Threat’, pp. [101]–148; ‘F. Smith’,
pp. [149]–202; ‘Edith Linsey’, vol. 1, p. [203]–302.
Vol. 2 comprises: ‘Edith Linsey’ continued, pp. [1]–83;
‘Scenes of Fear’, pp. [85]–135; ‘Incidents on the Hudson’,
pp. [137]–159; ‘The Gipsy of Sardis’, pp. [161]–311.
Vol. 3 consists of: ‘Tom Fane and I’, pp. [1]–35; ‘Larks
in Vacation’, pp. [37]–106; ‘A Log in the Archipelago’,
pp. [107]–144; ‘Miscellaneous Papers’, pp. [145]–320.
Adv. list (4 pp. unn.) at end of vol. 3 for ‘New Works
Published by Messrs. Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street’.
Running title varies according to chapter headings. Printer’s
marks and colophons of Ibotson and Palmer, Savoy Street,
Strand. Originally adv. in MC (5 Apr 1836), as ‘New Work
by N. P. Willis, Esq. Nearly ready’.
Further edns: 2nd edn. New York [and London?] 1836 (OCLC);
3rd edn. New York and London 1836 (OCLC).
APPENDIX 1 (Harriet Martineau Series)
The various didactic fictional works written by Martineau in serial form have been recorded in this Appendix separately, in order to provide a suitable overview of the development of the various series that she wrote during this period. No attempt, however, has been made to record individually details of catalogue entries and further editions/translations of the constituent works, as this information is generally incomplete and often unclear. Instead, catalogue and edition details have been provided for the series as wholes.
A. Illustrations of Political
Economy, 25 parts in 9 vols. (1832–4)
ECB 371 (1832–4), 42s for 9 vols.
NSTC 2M17396 (BI BL, Dt, O; NA DLC, MH); OCLC 21490107 (76 libs).
Published in the US as a set, Boston 1832–4 [also Philadelphia 1832–9?]
(OCLC); French trans., 1830–9 [as Contes de miss Harriet Martineau
sur l’économie politique]; selective Spanish trans., 1836.
A: 1 MARTINEAU,
Harriet.
ILLUSTRATIONS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY. NO. I. LIFE IN THE WILDS. A TALE.
BY HARRIET MARTINEAU.
London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row, 1832.
xx, 124p. 18mo. 1s 6d (LG).
LG 785: 77 (4 Feb 1832).
BL 1027.a.16.
Notes. Preface, pp. [iii]–xviii, followed by ‘Summary
of Principles illustrated in the first Volume’, pp. xix–xx. Printer’s
mark and colophon of G. Smallfield, Hackney. Running title varies according
to chapter headings. Vol. 1 of series (1 of 3).
A:
2 MARTINEAU,
Harriet.
THE HILL AND THE VALLEY. A TALE. BY HARRIET MARTINEAU.
London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row, 1832.
140p. 18mo.
BL 1027.a.16.
Notes. Series-t.p. precedes t.p. proper, and reads: ‘Illustrations
of Political Economy. No. II. The Hill and the Valley. A Tale. By Harriet
Martineau. London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row. 1832.’ ‘Summary
of Principles illustrated in this Volume’ occupies pp. 139–140.
‘Notice’ at foot of p. 140 states that the author ‘finds herself
obliged to intimate that she must decline all controversy on the subject
of her work during its progress’. Printer’s mark and colophon of G.
Smallfield. Running title varies according to chapter headings. Vol.
1 of series (2 of 3).
A:
3 MARTINEAU,
Harriet.
BROOKE AND BROOKE FARM. A TALE. BY HARRIET MARTINEAU.
London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row, 1832.
7, 147p. 18mo. 1s 6d (LG).
LG 793: 205 (31 Mar 1832).
BL 1027.a.16.
Notes. Series-t.p. precedes t.p. proper, and reads: ‘Illustrations
of Political Economy. No. III. Brooke and Brooke Farm. A Tale. By Harriet
Martineau. London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row. 1832.’ First arabic
sequence, pp. [5]–7, carry extracts from reviews of the preceding
two numbers; list of contents, p. [8], follows. ‘Summary of Principles
illustrated in this Volume’ occupies pp. 146–147. Printer’s mark
and colophon of G. Smallfield, Hackney. Running title varies according
to chapter headings. Vol. 1 of series (3 of 3).
A: 4 MARTINEAU,
Harriet.
DEMERARA. A TALE. BY HARRIET MARTINEAU.
London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row, 1832.
vii, 143p. 18mo. 1s 6d (LG).
LG 797: 270 (28 Apr 1832).
Corvey.
Notes. Series-t.p. precedes t.p. proper, and reads: ‘Illustrations
of Political Economy. No. IV. Demerara. A Tale. By Harriet Martineau.
London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row. 1832.’ List of contents, p. [iii],
followed by Preface, pp. [v]–vii, signed ‘H. M.’. Summary occupies
pp. 141–143. On verso of p. 143 is adv. (1 p. unn.) for
Traditions of Palestine (1830: 80) and Five Years of Youth,
or, Sense and Sentiment (1831; Appendix 2, A: 11). Printer’s mark
and colophon of William Clowes, Stamford Street. Running title varies
according to chapter headings. Vol. 2 of series (1 of 3).
A:
5 MARTINEAU,
Harriet.
ELLA OF GARVELOCH. A TALE. BY HARRIET MARTINEAU.
London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row, 1832.
144p. 18mo.
Corvey.
Notes. Series-t.p. precedes t.p. proper, and reads: ‘Illustrations
of Political Economy. No. V. Ella of Garveloch. A Tale. By Harriet Martineau.
London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row. 1832.’ Untitled acknowledgement
to ‘Dr. Macculloch’s Description of the Western Islands of Scotland’
(1 p. unn.) followed by list of contents (1 p. unn.). Acknowledgement
reads: ‘The Author must acknowledge herself indebted for much valuable
information on the subject of this volume to Dr. Macculloch’s Description
of the Western Islands of Scotland.’ ‘Summary of Principles illustrated
in this Volume’ occupies pp. 143–144. Printer’s mark and colophon
of William Clowes, Stamford Street. Running title varies according to
chapter headings. Vol. 2 of series (2 of 3).
A:
6 MARTINEAU,
Harriet.
WEAL AND WOE IN GARVELOCH. A TALE. BY HARRIET MARTINEAU.
London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row, 1832.
140p. 18mo.
Corvey.
Notes. Series-t.p. precedes t.p. proper, and reads: ‘Illustrations
of Political Economy. No. VI. Weal and Woe in Graveloch. A Tale. By
Harriet Martineau. London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row. 1832.’
List of contents follows t.p. ‘Summary of Principles illustrated in
this Volume’ occupies p. 140. Printer’s mark and colophon of William
Clowes, Stamford Street. Running title varies according to chapter headings.
Vol. 2 of series (3 of 3).
A:
7 MARTINEAU,
Harriet.
A MANCHESTER STRIKE. A TALE. BY HARRIET MARTINEAU.
London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row, 1832.
136p. 18mo.
Corvey.
Notes. Series-t.p. precedes t.p. proper, and reads: ‘Illustrations
of Political Economy. No. VII. A Manchester Strike. A Tale. By Harriet
Martineau. London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row. 1832.’ ‘Notice’
(1 p. unn.) followed by list of contents (1 p. unn.). ‘Notice’
reads: ‘The author hopes that as she has no acquaintance with any one
firm, master, or workman in Manchester, she will be spared the imputation
of personality. Her personages are all abstractions.’ ‘Summary of Principles
illustrated in this Volume’ occupies pp. [134]–136. Printer’s mark
and colophon of William Clowes, Stamford Street. Running title varies
according to chapter headings. Vol. 3 of series (1 of 3).
A: 8 MARTINEAU,
Harriet.
COUSIN MARSHALL. A TALE. BY HARRIET MARTINEAU.
London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row, 1832.
132p. 18mo.
Corvey.
Notes. Series-t.p. precedes t.p. proper, and reads: ‘Illustrations
of Political Economy. No. VIII. Cousin Marshall. A Tale. By Harriet
Martineau. London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row. 1832.’ List of
contents verso of t.p. ‘Summary of Principles illustrated in this Volume’
occupies pp. 130–132. Printer’s mark and colophon of William Clowes,
Stamford Street. Running title varies according to chapter headings.
Vol. 3 of series (2 of 3).
A:
9 MARTINEAU,
Harriet.
IRELAND. A TALE. BY HARRIET MARTINEAU.
London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row, 1832.
iii, 136p. 18mo.
Corvey.
Notes. Series-t.p. precedes t.p. proper, and reads: ‘Illustrations
of Political Economy. No. IX. Ireland. A Tale. By Harriet Martineau.
London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row. 1832.’ Preface, pp. [i]–iii,
followed by list of contents (1 p. unn.). Preface notes: ‘Many will
think with me that the title of this story is too grand for its contents;
and more may be disappointed on finding how few are my personages, and
how little I have dealt with the horrors of the time.—The purpose of
my title is to direct the work into the hands of those whom it most
concerns; and my personages are few because it is my object to show,
in a confined space, how long a series of evils may befall individuals
in a society conducted like that of Ireland […] As for the incidents
of the tale, my choice was influenced by the consideration, not of what
would best suit the purposes of fiction, but of what would most serve
the cause of the Irish poor. A much more thrilling and moving story
might have been made of conspiracy, rebellion, and slaughter by weapon
and by gibbet; but theses scenes want no further development than may
be found in our daily newspapers’ (p. ii). ‘Summary of Principles
illustrated in this Volume’ occupies pp. 134–136. Printer’s mark
and colophon of William Clowes, Stamford Street. Running title varies
according to chapter headings. Vol. 3 of series (3 of 3).
A:
10 MARTINEAU,
Harriet.
HOMES ABROAD. A TALE. BY HARRIET MARTINEAU.
London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row, 1832.
128p. 18mo.
Corvey.
Notes. Series-t.p. precedes t.p. proper, and reads: ‘Illustrations
of Political Economy. No. X. Homes Abroad. A Tale. By Harriet Martineau.
London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row. 1832.’ List of contents verso
of t.p. ‘Summary of Principles illustrated in this Volume’ occupies
pp. 126–128. Printer’s mark of W. Clowes, Stamford Street. Running
title varies according to chapter headings. Vol. 4 of series (1 of 3).
A:
11 MARTINEAU,
Harriet.
FOR EACH AND FOR ALL. A TALE. BY HARRIET MARTINEAU.
London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row, 1832.
132p. 18mo.
Corvey.
Notes. Series-t.p. precedes t.p. proper, and reads: ‘Illustrations
of Political Economy. No. XI. For Each and for All. A Tale. By Harriet
Martineau. London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row. 1832.’ List of
contents verso of t.p. ‘Summary of Principles illustrated in this Volume’
occupies pp. 131–132. Printer’s mark and colophon of William Clowes,
Stamford Street. Running title varies according to chapter headings.
Vol. 4 of series (2 of 3).
A:
12 MARTINEAU,
Harriet.
FRENCH WINES AND POLITICS. A TALE. BY HARRIET MARTINEAU.
London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row, 1833.
146p. 18mo.
Corvey.
Notes. Series-t.p. precedes t.p. proper, and reads: ‘Illustrations
of Political Economy. No. XII. French Wines And Politics. A Tale. By
Harriet Martineau. London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row. 1833.’
List of contents verso of t.p. ‘Summary of Principles illustrated in
this Volume’ occupies pp. 144–146. Printer’s mark of William Clowes,
Stamford Street. Running title varies according to chapter headings.
Vol. 4 of series (3 of 3).
A:
13 MARTINEAU,
Harriet.
THE CHARMED SEA. A TALE. BY HARRIET MARTINEAU.
London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row, 1833.
136p. 18mo.
Corvey.
Notes. Two series-t.ps. precede t.p. proper. First series-t.p.
reads: ‘Illustrations of Political Economy. No. XIII. The Charmed
Sea. A Tale. By Harriet Martineau. London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row.
1833.’ Second series-t.p. reads: ‘Illustrations
of Political Economy. By Harriet Martineau. The Charmed Sea. Berkeley
the Banker.—Part I. Berkeley the Banker.—Part II. In Nine Volumes. Vol.
V. London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row. 1834.’ List of contents
(1 p. unn.) of ‘Illustrations of Political Economy. […]. Vol. V.’
follows second series-t.p. List of contents of ‘The Charmed Sea’ verso
of t.p. proper. ‘Summary Of the Principles illustrated in this Volume’
occupies pp. [135]–136. Printer’s mark verso of first series-t.p.
reads: ‘London: Printed by W. Clowes, Stamford-street’. Printer’s mark
verso of second series-t.p. reads: ‘London: Printed by William Clowes,
Duke-street, Lambeth’. Colophon reads: ‘Clowes, Printer, Stamford-street’.
Running title varies according to chapter headings. Vol. 5 of series
(1 of 3).
A:
14 MARTINEAU,
Harriet.
BERKELEY THE BANKER. PART I. A TALE. BY HARRIET MARTINEAU.
London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row, 1833.
172p. 18mo.
Corvey.
Notes. Series-t.p. precedes t.p. proper, and reads: ‘Illustrations
of Political Economy. No. XIV. Berkeley the Banker. Part I. A Tale.
By Harriet Martineau. London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row. 1833.’
List of contents (1 p. unn.) followed by preface (1 p. unn.),
signed ‘H. M.’. Printer’s mark and colophon of William Clowes, Stamford
Street. Running title varies according to chapter headings. Vol. 5 of
series (2 of 3).
A:
15 MARTINEAU,
Harriet.
BERKELEY THE BANKER. PART II. A TALE. BY HARRIET MARTINEAU.
London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row, 1833.
146p. 18mo.
Corvey.
Notes. Series-t.p. precedes t.p. proper, and reads: ‘Illustrations
of Political Economy. No. XV. Berkeley the Banker. Part II. A Tale.
By Harriet Martineau. London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row. 1833.’
‘Summary Of Principles illustrated in this and the preceding Volume’
occupies pp. 144–146. Running title varies according to chapter
headings. Vol. 5 of series (3 of 3).
A:
16 MARTINEAU,
Harriet.
MESSRS. VANDERPUT AND SNOEK. A TALE. BY HARRIET MARTINEAU.
London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row, 1833.
vi, 140p. 18mo.
Corvey.
Notes. Two series-t.ps. precede t.p. proper. First series-t.p.
reads: ‘Illustrations of Political Economy. No. XVI. Messrs.
Vanderput and Snoek. A Tale. By Harriet Martineau. London: Charles Fox,
67, Paternoster-Row. 1833.’ Second series-t.p. reads: ‘Illustrations
of Political Economy. By Harriet Martineau. Messrs. Vanderput and Snoek.
The Loom and the Lugger.—Part I. The Loom and the Lugger.—Part II. In
Nine Volumes. Vol. VI. London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row. 1834.’
List of contents (1 p. unn.) of ‘Illustrations of Political Economy.
[…]. Vol. VI. […]’ follows the second of these t.ps.. List of contents
(1 p. unn.) of ‘Messrs. Vanderput and Snoek’ follows t.p. proper.
Preface, pp. [v]–vi, notes: ‘In planning the present story, I was
strongly tempted to use the ancient method of exemplification, and to
present my readers with the Adventures of a Bill of Exchange, so difficult
is it to exhibit by example the process of exchange in any other form
than the history of the instrument.’ (p. [v]). ‘Summary of Principles
illustrated in this Volume’ occupies pp. [139]–146. Printer’s mark
verso of first series-t.p. reads: ‘London: Printed by W. Clowes, Stamford
Street’. Printer’s mark verso of second series-t.p. reads: ‘London:
Printed by William Clowes, Duke-street, Lambeth’. Running title varies
according to chapter headings. Vol. 6 of series (1 of 3).
A:
17 MARTINEAU,
Harriet.
THE LOOM AND THE LUGGER. PART I. A TALE. BY HARRIET MARTINEAU.
London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row, 1833.
132p. 18mo.
Corvey.
Notes. Series-t.p. precedes t.p. proper, and reads: ‘Illustrations
of Political Economy. No. XVII. The Loom and the Lugger. Part I. A Tale.
By Harriet Martineau. London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row. 1833.’
List of contents verso of t.p.. Printer’s mark and colophon of William
Clowes, Stamford Street. Running title varies according to chapter headings.Vol.
6 of series (2 of 3).
A:
18 MARTINEAU,
Harriet.
THE LOOM AND THE LUGGER. PART II. A TALE. BY HARRIET MARTINEAU.
London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row, 1833.
viii, 144p. 18mo.
Corvey.
Notes. Series-t.p. precedes t.p. proper, and reads: ‘Illustrations
of Political Economy. No. XVIII. The Loom and the Lugger. Part II. A
Tale. By Harriet Martineau. London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row.
1833.’ List of contents (1 p. unn.) followed by Preface, pp. [vii]–viii,