victorian commonplace book (7 resultados)

Hardback or Cased Book. Condición: New. Unsaying the Commonplace: George MacDonald and the Critique of Victorian Convention. Book.

Condición: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,200grams, ISBN:

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Portrait frontis. 8vo. Publisher's red-brown cloth, spine with original printed paper label, a touch darkened, light spotting to front & rear endpapers, with occasional spot to a page margin but overall a clean, tight and tidy example; a very smart copy, with the Vanity Fair portrait of the author to front. Sir James Crichton-Browne (1840-1938) was a leading Scottish medical man, a pioneer in psychiatry and neurology and a fervent advocate of eugenics. vii, 344pp.

Condición: Good. 8vo. Dust Jacket. Signs of shelf wear. Minor discolorations. Very Good. Original Price on Dust Jacket: 15s.

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 162 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.41 inches. This item is printed on demand.

Hardcover. Condición: Very good. Unpaginated. About 300 pages interspersed with a few colour tissue pages. Handmade paper by J. Whatman "Turkey Mill" in 1827 according to a watermark towards the rear. 23 cm. 15 full-page colour and b&w plates. 3 more smaller b&w illustrations. Owner added 30 more colour and b&w illustrations, some detached. 65 p. filled in with verse, mostly written in a tiny, neat script ca. 1828-33. Other writing apparently added later, including a poem "Kind Hearts are More Than Coronets" by Tennyson written on a pink paper, dated June 25th, 1888 and attached to a blank page. Full leather with blank and gilt impressing. Front cover has name of James Scott Couser and Souvenir is written on rear. All edges gilt. Respined with original spine overlaid. Occasional spotting but overall very clean. Commonplace books were a popular pastime among women beginning in the 18th century. This one, manufactured in 1827, is filled with the typical poems, passages, and aphorisms women of the time would have read in printed works. This book's emphasis is on Lord Byron, Lord Palmerston and Vincentia Rogers, a popular Romantic-era Irish poet. These selections, all from popular authors in the periodical press, suggest that the owner was copying from gift books like Forget-me-Not and The Keepsake. Two poems signed by "Jane", dated October 9 and 10, 1833, appear to be original works, probably by the book's owner. This book demonstrates the shift from the commonplace book to the scrapbook, with cards and a poem pasted in. Apparently this book was passed down from one generation to another. James Whatman set up a paper mill for his friend Richard Harris, in Kent, England in 1733. Apparently not satisfied, Harris began building a larger mill called Turkey Mill near Maidstone. When Harris died in 1739, Whatman married his widow and took over the paper-making operations at Turkey Mill. He quickly distinguished himself as a maker of fine quality paper and is credited with inventing the "wove" papermaking process, producing paper similar in appearance to woven linen, in 1756. This technique eventually became a standard in the paper-making industry. In 1765 his son James took over and succeeded in making Turkey Mill England's largest paper mill. James Jr. invented the paper whitening process using laundry blue. William Balson took over the mill operations after 1790 when Whatman had a stroke, but kept the original name. Balston started a new mill in 1805, the first paper mill to be powered by a steam engine.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. An interesting Victorian commonplace book containing the usual manuscript items but also of particular note are 3 fold out cards, two of which appear to be a matching pair (his and hers). Also an interesting cryptic drawing of a memorial monument to "Katherine Gray" encrypted using random capitals and unusual word spacing. Please see images as they form an important part of the description. More images available on request. Decorative hard cover which is worn and has some loss to spine. Some pages appear to have been cut out and are now lost but a majority is present. Boards loose but still attached. Includes also an early printed appeal on behalf of East Suffolk Hospital and other fascinating ephemera.