bulwer lytton edward george earle lytton 1803 1873 (11 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Used - Good. Reprint. 5.13"x7.63" 394pp, 1-4 advertisements. Porter & Coates published reprints from 1867-1895. Tan cloth boards w/stamped letters and designs to front and spine. Illustrated. Chocolate paste downs. Light foxing to frontispiece: "Home scene in Pompeii". Preface to the Edition of 1834 & Preface to the Edition of 1850. Some pencil notations. Spine straight. Not x-library. Light soiling to boards. Bumps to corners. Edge wear with rubs and fraying. PON on ffep. The Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. The novel was inspired by the painting The Last Day of Pompeii by the Russian painter Karl Briullov, which Bulwer-Lytton had seen in Milan. Wikipedia.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. In very good condition. Folded twice. Clear and neat signature beneath slightly-smudged text. Written on the verge of his removal from the House of Commons to the House of Lords. Reads '[Admiral Buser?] to Gallery of H of C / Tuesday May 8th. 1866 / E B Lytton'. See image.

1p., 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. Reads: 'My dear Sir/ | I think it is the 28th. thar you proposed to come to me & I hope that you & Mrs. Farrer may find it not interfering with more agreeable please to stay at least till the following Monday or Tuesday Aug 1st'.

Softcover. 10th edition. Brougham, to Mr. Bulwer. [3], 88, [89]-104 p.; 21 cm. Publisher's list, 2 leaves, at end. Early work by the novelist. Disbound. Text clean and unmarked.

VOLUME II ONLY of a two volume set - early American printing issued as part of a larger Lytton set. Paged as 1-254. Hardcover: H 18cm x L 11.25cm. Contemporary full calf; boards rubbed/scuffed with some staining; slender gilt tooling at board edges but with corners worn; shallow chipping at spine ends; surface chips to lower spine and boards' lower adjacent gutter margins; losses and scuffing to spine's original black title label but gilt lettering "Pelham Novels Vol. XVI. Rienzi Vol. II." still legible. Small early 19th century bookseller ticket "Eichbaum . . . Nashville, T." at front pastedown's top left; antiquarian ink ownership inscription on front pastedown with same owner's pencil signature on front flyleaf; light moisture stains at margins and varied foxing to interior leaves. Binding is firm. First published as a triple-decker in London in 1835 with the first American published by Harper in 1836 as a two volume set. Nashville, Tennessee bookseller tickets for 1830s are quite uncommon if not scarce. A native of Dublin, Ireland who emigrated to the United States circa 1820, William A. Eichbaum (1787-1873) arrived in Nashville, Tennessee circa 1821 and operated his Nashville Bookstore on College Street (now 3rd Avenue) from about 1831 to 1848.

VOLUME I ONLY of a two volume set - early American printing issued as part of a larger Lytton set. Paged as iii-xiv, 9-240. Hardcover: H 18cm x L 11.25cm. Contemporary full calf; boards rubbed/scuffed; slender gilt tooling at board edges but with corners worn; shallow chipping at spine ends; spine retains original black title label albeit with some losses but gilt lettering "Pelham Novels Vol. XIII. Pompeii Vol. I." still easily legible. Small early 19th century bookseller ticket "Eichbaum . . . Nashville, T." at front pastedown's top left; antiquarian ink ownership inscription on front pastedown with same owner's pencil signature on front flyleaf; varied moisture stains at margins and light foxing to interior leaves. Binding is firm. First published as a triple-decker in London in 1834 with the first American published by Harper in the same year as a two volume set. Nashville, Tennessee bookseller tickets for 1830s are quite uncommon if not scarce. A native of Dublin, Ireland who emigrated to the United States circa 1820, William A. Eichbaum (1787-1873) arrived in Nashville, Tennessee circa 1821 and operated his Nashville Bookstore on College Street (now 3rd Avenue) from about 1831 to 1848.

1p., 12mo. In good condition, lightly-aged. He writes that he has had 'a very fine p' sent to him, and asks if Pearson might accept it. 'If you dont care about it yourself you may have friends here to whom you might like to give it. Only, unluckily, I must have back the top'. He ends with a complaint regarding a 'Bronchial cough'.

2pp., 12mo. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Attached by one corner to a leaf from an autograph album. 23 lines of text in a difficult hand. He thanks him for his 'notice in L, & for the long & valuable as well as kind & flattering notice of my Novels'. He considers that the review is 'written with great talent - & is altogether the best of the kind notices of these works which I can remember to have seen'. He invites him down to Knebworth and asks whether he has 'succeeded with Lord Malm[esbur]y'. He offers help, adding 'I have never interfered about our journals, finding my general views as to the conduct to be adopted with regard to them were not accepted'.

Original Cloth. Condición: Fine. First American Edition of Bulwer's hugely successful novel, complete in two duodecimo volumes. xii,[2],9-240; 201,[3],28(publisher's catalogue),[8][further advertisements)pp. Original publisher's peach-colored cloth, printed paper spine labels, contemporary manuscript ex-libris to title pages. Spines a shade lightened, else an exceptionally crisp, clean, well-preserved set, in early American cloth. First published in London the same year, The Last Days of Pompeii, Bulwer's single most successful book, "rapidly achieved classic status and remained a best-seller for the rest of the century; it was translated into at least ten languages (no fewer than sixteen French impressions had been issued by 1864), was frequently dramatized, and twice adapted as an opera. Two years after the death of [Walter] Scott, Bulwer's epic tale of Roman indulgence, Christian martyrdom, and the cataclysmic eruption of Vesuvius established him as the most popular historical novelist of the day." (ODNB) The novel was inspired by both Bulwer's visit to the ruins of Pompeii and by Karl Briullov's monumental painting The Last Days of Pompeii, which Bulwer saw when it was exhibited in Milan, in 1828. Walter Scott described the painting as an "epic in colors," and it inspired a poem by Pushkin. After many years at the Louvre, it is now housed at the State Russian Museum, in St. Petersburg. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Decorative Cloth. Condición: Fine. First Edition of this scarce triple-decker, which pioneered the "domestic" school of fiction. Crown (195 x 119mm): 8vo: [4],iii,[1],viii,327,[1]; [4],346; [4],308,32pp. Publisher's chocolate brown ribbed cloth blocked in blind and lettered in gold, fore- and bottom edges rough-trimmed, pale yellow end papers. Contemporary armorial (ormerod) book plate of Jonathan Hargreaves (1840-1893) to front paste-downs (Franks Bequest 13772). End sheets spotted, else a fine, bright set, tightly bound and clean throughout. Sadleir 392. Wolff 924. First of three Caxton novels, "discursive treatments of upper middle-class life, quite different from his other fiction." (Wolff) Bulwer-Lytton loomed large on the literary scene for several decades ("In his day, no British writer rose faster or stood higher . . . and his day spanned several literary eras, from late Georgian to high Victorian," according to John Sutherland). He wrote in an astonishing variety of styles, and, his silver-fork novel Pelham was "the most popular and most often reprinted fashionable novel of the century." (Sutherland, "Ho, Diomed," TLS Issue 5081, p. 12) "Bulwer had a major impact on Edgar Allan Poe, on his Byronic persona, his writing and his editorial practice. His Newgate novels influenced Charles Reade, Wilkie Collins, and Sheridan Le Fanu. His emphasis on the crucial role of "wholeness" in art particularly impressed Matthew Arnold. Melville, Carlyle, Hawthorne, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon are among others whose work was directly affected by that of Bulwer. . . . Until relatively recently, Bulwer's literary reputation was that of an opportunist who slavishly followed popular taste. In Edward Bulwer-Lytton: A Fiction of New Regions (1976), however, Allan Conrad Christensen argued convincingly that Bulwer was a pioneer rather than an imitator; his experiments with different novelistic genres, to Christensen, are the result of his desire to find the most appropriate form for his complex metaphysical philosophy." (Literary Encyclopedia) The Caxtons was one of his most popular novels, and in 1853 Bulwer-Lytton published a sequel to it entitled My Novel. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

3pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged, with traces of paper from mount adhering to blank reverse of second leaf. Folded twice. Written in his usual difficult hand. He begins by stating that her note was forwarded to him from Knebworth. The letter continues: 'I had previously requested my Sol[icito]r. to arrange some plan, if possible by which the [tenets?] of the Deed might be performed without your intervention, or occasioning you any personal [trouble?] &c.' The solicitor has informed Lytton that he has 'not quite effected that object in a mode which will [?] you from all anxiety.' A reference to 'Mr. Greene' follows, and he continues by explaining why he was 'desirous of this', with a possible and only partially-legible reference to his long-suffering wife (as 'Lady L'?) and 'the mother'. He ends in the hope that she will visit him at Knebworth. From the papers of Lady Ann Cullum (1807-1875), wife of Sir Thomas Gery Cullum (1777-1855) of Hardwick House.