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"THE WORLD'S CLASSICS" and "OXFORD WORLD'S
CLASSICS": Compiled by J. Godsey, Geoffrey Milburn and Nicholas Murray |
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Data collected in this Guide:
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Abbreviations in this Guide: Var: = Either a variant in the original series, or an
alternative edition in another section of this Guide. |
Sections in Listings in this Guide:
Section I: The World's Classics: 1901-1978
Section II: WC Galaxy Editions (OUP New York): 1947-1949
Section III: WC Chancellor Press (Hamlyn/ Avenel) Editions: 1985-1987
Section IV: WC/OWC 'Special' Editions: 1980- (continuing)
Section V: OWC Centenary Series: 1999- (continuing)
Appendix I: Boys' Classics series: 1904-1908
Appendix II: WC 'Double'/ 'Omnibus' volumes in the 1930s
Appendix III: The 'Seven Best Sellers', 1939
Appendix IV: Oxford's World's Classics Dustjackets: A List
Appendix V: Oxford's World's Classics: A Reference List
Section I: The World's Classics: 1901-1978
From advertising pages appended to Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (OUP, 1907):
The best recommendation of `The World's Classics' is the books themselves, which have earned unstinted praise from all the leading critics and the public.... Only the world's literary masterpieces have been, and will be, included in the series ....
1 BRONTË, CHARLOTTE, Novels of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë I:
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography, with pref. and note, ix+558pp., 1901.
Var: [reset] xi+548pp., 1933.
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest, port. of Charlotte Brontë on rear flap/ black and white on red, 1955]
[DJI Lynton Lamb/ Jane, alarmed and wearing a white night-gown, white on red, 1958]
[DJI Bill Botten/ Jane's head against a burning Thornfield Hall, 1970]
Var: Chancellor Press edn, 1985.
Var: Oxford World's Classics edn, 1999.
2 LAMB, CHARLES,
The Essays of Elia and the Last Essays of Elia, with pref. to the Last Essays (`by a friend of the late Elia'), xii+382pp., 1901.
[Slipcase 1901 [?]]
[DJ Blue on white; portrait of Charles Lamb from a painting by William Hazlitt; `Nobody has ever succeeded in imitating him, even in his most obvious quaintnesses, while the blending of these quaintnesses with a pathos which is never mere sentiment is a secret not merely undiscovered yet by imitators, but escaping even any complete analysis.'--George Saintsbury, 1928]
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on red, 1931]
Var: [reset] rev. edn from text ed. T. Hutchinson, vii+396pp., 1946.
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ black and white on green, 1954]
[DJI Lynton Lamb/ dark-orange, 1959]
3 TENNYSON, ALFRED, LORD,
Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1830-1858, vii+495pp., 1901.
Var: new edn, Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1830-1865, sel. and intro. Sir Herbert Warren, xxvi+600pp., 1910.
[DJ Pencil port. of the young Tennyson; quote: `You can never open Tennyson at the wrong page'--D.G. Rossetti. Quote from W.P. Ker follows/ blue on white, 1925]]
Var: see #517.
4 GOLDSMITH, OLIVER,
The Vicar of Wakefield, vii+213pp., 1901.
[DJ Typographic design/ decorative device, black on orange red/ on sultan red leather, 1910]
[DJ Blue on white; illustration of `Mr Burchell reading the Ballad of "The Hermit"'; `We read the Vicar of Wakefield in youth and old age. We return to it again and again, and bless the memory of an author who contrives so well to reconcile us to human nature.' Sir Walter Scott, 1920]
Var: [reset] ix+238pp., 1938.
[DJI ?]
Var: [reset] viii+216pp., 1947.
[DJI ?]
Var: [reset] ix+238pp., 1953.
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest, Goldsmith bio [but no port.] on rear flap/ black and white on red, 1953]
Var: [reset] viii+216pp., 1959.
[DJI Edward Ardizzone/ vicar and group/ black and white on pink, 1961]
5 HAZLITT, WILLIAM, Works I:
Table-Talk: Essays on Men and Manners [On the pleasure of painting; On the past and the future; On genius and common sense; Character of Cobbett; On people with one idea; On the ignorance of the learned; The Indian jugglers; On living to one's-self; On thought and action; On will-making; On certain inconsistencies in Sir Joshua Reynolds's discourses; On paradox and common-place; On vulgarity and affectation; On a landscape of Nicolas Poussin; On Milton's sonnets; On going a journey; On coffee-house politicians; On the aristocracy of letters; On criticism; On great and little things; On familiar style; On effeminacy of character; Why distant objects please; On corporate bodies; Whether actors ought to sit in the Boxes?; On the disadvantages of intellectual superiority; On patronage and puffing; On the knowledge of character; On the picturesque and the ideal; On the fear of death], vi+450pp., 1901.
[DJ Typographic design/ decorative device, black on orange red/ on sultan red leather, 1910]
Var: 442pp. date? [?]
[DJI ?]
6 EMERSON, RALPH WALDO, Works I:
Essays: First and Second Series [First series: History; Self-reliance; Compensation; Spiritual laws; Love; Friendship; Prudence; Heroism; The over-soul; Circles; Intellect; Second series: Art; The poet; Experience; Character; Manners; Gifts; Nature; Politics; Nominalist and realist], vi+354pp., 1901.
[DJI ?]
7 KEATS, JOHN,
The Poetical Works of John Keats, frontis.: portrait of Keats, viii+336pp., 1901.
Var: index of titles; index of first lines added, viii+344pp., 1923.
Var: new enlarged edn, index of titles, index of first lines, x+470pp., 1927.
[DJ `Isabella & her pot of basil' 1928]
[DJI Biro/ elaborate framed title with open book and feather pen/ black, white and light blue, 1956] [?]
Var: Chancellor Press edn, 1987.
8 DICKENS, CHARLES, Novels of Charles Dickens I:
The Adventures of Oliver Twist, xii+511pp., 1901.
Var: plus 24 illus. G. Cruikshank, xiv+511pp., 1909.
[DJ Blue on white/ front cover illus. Oliver asking for more (G. Cruikshank)/`A profane work called Oliver Twist having appeared about this time...it is a fact that Lady Walham became so interested in the parish boy's progress, that she took his history into her bedroom...and that kew laughed so immensely at Mr. Bumble, the Beadle, as to endanger the reopening of his wound.'---Thackeray, The Newcombes./ 1921]
[DJI Edward Ardizzone/ grey-brown, 1970] [?1957]
[DJI George Cruikshank/ drawing of seizure of Oliver/ black and white on buff, 1970]
Var: Chancellor Press edn, 1985.
9 INGOLDSBY, THOMAS [Richard Harris Barham],
The Ingoldsby Legends, prefs., xi+604pp., 1901.
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on orange, 1930]
10 BRONTË, EMILY, Novels of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë II:
Wuthering Heights, with a preface and memoir of Emily and Anne Brontë, by Charlotte Brontë, viii+343pp., 1901.
[DJI ?]
Var: [reset] intro. H.W. Garrod, notes Frederick Page, xxxi+431pp., 1930 [+ geneal. table, 1949].
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on yellow, 1930]
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ black and white on red, 1939]
[DJ Panel: black and white film [from "Wuthering Heights"] photo of an open-armed Merle Oberon (Cathy) about to embrace Laurence Olivier (Heathcliff) [extends to spine]; blue background and white text, 1939]
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ black and white on orange, 1947] [?]
Var: [no geneal. table] [1966?].
[DJI Lynton Lamb, original series number blacked out and replaced with `564', 1959]
[DJI Lynton Lamb/ drawing of Catherine and Heathcliffe on moor/black and white on reddish-orange, 1966]
Var: Chancellor Press edn, 1985.
Var: Oxford World's Classics edn, 1999.
11 DARWIN, CHARLES,
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection on the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life, note G. Allen, 1901, index, vi+454pp., 1902.
[DJ Topographic design, with illustrative device on front cover, black on gray, 1914]
Var: pref. by Leonard Darwin (v-x); comparison between WC 2nd edition (re-impression of 1860 edn) and 1st edn of 1859 and 6th edn of 1872, by Irene Manton (xi-lxi), lxi+454pp, 1929.
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on blueish-grey, 1935 [?]]
Var: new pref. Sir Gavin de Beer, xxxii+592pp., 1951. [?]
[DJI Diana Bloomfield/ green, 1963] [?1956]
12 BUNYAN, JOHN,
The Pilgrim's Progress From This World to That Which is to Come, Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream, illus. Victor W. Burnand, 306pp., 1902. [?]
[DJ Standard global map design/ black on blue [date?]]
Var: [reset] [no illus.] iv+310pp., 1935.
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ black and white on red, 1953]
[DJI Roy Morgan/ dark-orange, 1967] [?1956]
13 CROSLAND, T. W. H. (comp.),
English Songs and Ballads,[Anonymous; Lady Anne Barnard; Beaumont and Fletcher; W. Blake; R. Bloomfield; N. Breton; R. Browning; R. Burns; Lord Byron; T. Campbell; T. Campion; T. Carew; H. Carey; J. Chalkhill; T. Chatterton; A.H. Clough; Mrs Cockburn; S.T. Coleridge; W. Cowper; A. Cunningham; Sir D. Dalrymple; C. Dibdin; M. Drayton; Lady Dufferin; R. Edwardes; J. Fletcher; D. Garrick; J. Gay; O. Goldsmith; W. Hamilton; F. Hemans; G. Herbert; R. Herrick: T. Heywood; J. Hogg; T. Holcroft; T. Hood; Lord Houghton; B. Jonson; J. Keats; Rev. C. Kingsley; R. Lovelace; Lord Macaulay; C. Marlowe; W.J. Mickle; T. Moore; Lady Nairne; T. Nash; M. Parker; T. Percy; B.W. Proctor; S. Rogers; A. Ross; Sir W. Scott; W. Shakespeare; P.B. Shelley; W. Shenstone; J. Shirley; Sir P. Sidney; R. Southey; J. Still; Sir J. Suckling; Lord Tennyson; W.M. Thackeray; J. Thomson; Lord Vaux; E. Waller; J. Webster; G. Wither; C. Wolfe; W. Wordsworth; Sir T. Wyatt], index of first lines, index of authors, xvi+352pp., 1902.
[DJ Blue on white/ picture of The Ancient Mariner on front cover, 1926]
Var: rev. edn [Anonymous; W.E. Aytoun; F. Beaumont; W. Blake; R. Bloomfield; N. Breton; R. Browning; R. Burns; Lord Byron; T. Campbell; T. Campion; T. Carew; H. Carey; J. Chalkhill; T. Chatterton; A.H. Clough; A. Cockburn; S.T. Coleridge; W. Cowper; A. Cunningham; T. Decker; C. Dibdin; S.T. Dobell; M. Drayton; Lady Dufferin; Sir E. Dyer; R. Edwardes; H. Fielding; J. Fletcher; D. Garrick; J. Gay; O. Goldsmith; J.W. Graves; W. Hamilton; R.S. Hawker; F. Hemans; G. Herbert; R. Herrick; T. Heywood; J. Hogg; T. Holcroft; T. Hood; B. Jonson; J. Keats; C. Kingsley; M.G. Lewis; Lady Anne Lindsay; R. Lovelace; Lord Macaulay; C. Marlowe; W.J. Mickle; T. Moore; Lady Nairne; T. Nash; M. Parker; T.L. Peacock; T. Percy; B.W. Proctor; S. Rogers; A. Ross; C.G. Rossetti; D.G. Rossetti; Sir W. Scott; W. Shakespeare; P.B. Shelley; W. Shenstone; R.B. Sheridan; J. Shirley; Sir P. Sidney; R. Southey; J. Still; Sir J. Suckling; A. Tennyson; W.M. Thackeray; J. Thomson; Lord Thomas Vaux; E. Waller; J. Webster; G. Wither; C. Wolfe; W. Wordsworth; Sir T. Wyatt], index of authors, index of first lines, 405pp., 1927.
[DJI ?]
14 BRONTË, CHARLOTTE, Novels of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë III:
Shirley: A Tale, vi+645pp., 1902.
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on yellow, 1938]
[DJI Lynton Lamb/ group of rioters attacking a factory/ black and white on red, 1960]
15 HAZLITT, WILLIAM, Works II:
Sketches & Essays [On reading new books; On cant and hypocrisy; Merry England; On a sun-dial; On prejudice; Self-love and benevolence...; On disagreeable people; On knowledge of the world; On fashion: On nicknames; On taste; Why the heroes of romances are insipid; On the conversation of lords; The letter-bell; Envy; On the spirit of partisanship; Footmen; A chapter on editors], front. port., v+244pp., 1902.
[DJI ?]
16 HERRICK, ROBERT,
The Poems of Robert Herrick, xxvii+402pp., 1902.
[DJI ?]
Var: [reset] from the edn of F.W. Moorman, index of titles, index of first lines, iv+486pp., 1933.
[DJI Diana Bloomfield/ black and white on olive green/ black and white illus. of roses in centre circle, 1951]
17 DEFOE, DANIEL, Works of Daniel Defoe I:
The Life & Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, 309pp., 1902. [?]
[See Appendix I: The Boys' Classics Series, #6.]
Var: [reset] pref., iv+394pp., 1937.
[DJI Lynton Lamb/ red, 1956]
Var: Chancellor Press edn, 1987.
Var: Oxford World's Classics edn, 1999.
18 POPE, ALEXANDER, (trans. and pref.),
The Iliad of Homer, xxxvi+508pp., 1902.
[DJ Blue on white with picture on front cover, 1924]
Var: [reset] xxxii+502pp., 1934.
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on orange, 1934]
[DJI William Stobbs/ drawing of warriors in combat with galley in background/ bio. of Pope on front flap/ black and white on red, 1959]
19 CARLYLE, THOMAS, Works I:
Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh, in Three Books, append: Testimonies of Authors, vi+264pp., 1902.
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest, port. of Carlyle on rear flap/ black and white on green, 1947]
20 SWIFT, JONATHAN,
Gulliver's Travels, illus. A. Rackham, xiv+289pp., 1902. [?]
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ black and white on red, 1940]
Var: xiv+381pp., 1948. [illus. George Morrow [?]]
[DJI Lynton Lamb/ Gulliver about to be picked up by a large hand, bio. of Swift rear flap/ light blue, 1969] [?1958]
Var: Chancellor Press edn, 1985.
Var: Oxford World's Classics edn, 1999.
21 POE, EDGAR ALLAN,
Tales of Mystery and Imagination [The gold bug; The facts in the case of M. Waldemar; MS. found in a bottle; A descent into the maelström; The murders in the Rue Morgue; The mystery of Marie Rogêt; The purloined letter; The fall of the House of Usher; The pit and the pendulum; The premature burial; The black cat; The Masque of the Red Death; The cask of Amontillado; The oval portrait; The oblong box; The tell-tale heart; Ligeia; Loss of breath; Shadow--a parable; Silence--a fable; The man of the crowd; Some words with a Mummy], [vi]+367pp., 1902.
[DJ Blue on white/ front cover illus. The Pit and the Pendulum/ `I could a tale unfold whose lightest work/ Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blodd/ Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres.' Hamlet, I.v.15-17, 1922]
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on green, 1934]
Var: [reset] iv+419pp., 1946.
[DJI Lynton Lamb/ black cat/ red, 1962]
Var: Chancellor Press edn, 1985.
22 WHITE, GILBERT,
The Natural History of Selborne in the County of Southampton, 263pp., 1902.
[DJ Illus. of seated gentlemen (presumably White) observing a fish-bowl `"The manner in which fishes die." (Page 224)', [1927?]]
[Page number typographic error: correct: p. 234]
Var: [new edn, revised, reset and illus] illus. Edmund H. New, vi+[1]+300pp., 1937.
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on pink, 1937]
[DJI Lynton Lamb/ brown, 1965]
23 DE QUINCEY, THOMAS, Works of Thomas De Quincey I:
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, pref., appendix, xvii+288pp., 1902.
Var: xvii+302pp., 1949. [?]
[DJI David Knight/ light brown, 1969]
24 BACON, FRANCIS,
Essays, vi+169pp., 1902. [?]
Var: [new edn] [Essays 1625; Fragment of an Essay `of Fame'; Appendix: Text of the 1597 Edition of the Essays] intro. Geoffrey Grigson, xix+269pp., 1937.
Var: [later reprint] no intro., [7]+269pp., 1955. [?]
[DJ Typographic design/ black and white on red, 1962]
25 HAZLITT, WILLIAM, Works III:
Winterslow: Essays and Characters Written There [My first acquaintance with poets; Of persons one would wish to have seen; On party spirit; On the feelings of immortality in youth; On public opinion; On personal identity; Mind and motive; On means and ends; Matter and manner; On consistency of opinion; Project for a new theory of civil and criminal legislation; On the character of Burke; On the character of Fox; On the character of Mr. Pitt; On the character of Lord Chatham; Belief, whether voluntary?; A farewell to essay-writing], pref., viii+213pp., 1902.
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on red [1930s?]]
26 HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL,
The Scarlet Letter, pref., viii+258pp., 1903.
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on yellow, 1937 [?]]
Var: Avenel edn, 1985. [?]
27 MACAULAY, LORD,
Lays of Ancient Rome, with Ivry and The Armada [Lays of Ancient Rome: Horatius, The Battle of Lake Regillus, Virginia, The prophecy of Capys; Ivry: A song of the Huguenots; The Armada: a fragment], pref., xxvi+113pp., 1903.
Var: The Lays of Ancient Rome and Other Poems [Lays of Ancient Rome: Horatius, The Battle of Lake Regillus, Virginia, The prophecy of Capys; Ivry: A song of the Huguenots; The Armada: a fragment; Miscellaneous poems: Epitaph on Henry Martyn, Lines to the memory of Pitt, A radical war song, The Battle of Moncontour, Songs of the Civil War (The cavalier's march to London, The Battle of Naseby), Sermon in a churchyard, Translation from A.V. Arnault, Dies irae, The marriage of Tirzah and Ahirad, The country cleryman's trip to Cambridge, Song: O stay, Madonna! stay, Political georgics, The deliverance of Vienna, The last buccaneer, Epitaph on a Jacobite, Lines written in August, Paraphrase from the Chronicle of the Monk of St Gall], pref., xxx+163pp., 1932.
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ port. of Macaulay on rear flap/ black and white on blue, 1932]
28 THACKERAY, W. M.,
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, Written by Himself, Edited by W.M. Thackeray, pref., xvii+519pp., 1903.
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on yellow, 1925]
29 SCOTT, SIR WALTER,
Ivanhoe: A Romance, intro., dedicatory epistle, notes, xxxii+608pp., 1903.
Var: xviii+587pp., date? [?]
[DJI ?]
Var: Chancellor Press edn, 1987.
30 EMERSON, RALPH WALDO, Works II:
English Traits and Representative Men [English traits: First visit to England; Voyage to England; Land; Race; Ability; Manners; Truth; Character; Cockayne; Wealth; Aristocracy; Universities; Religion; Literature; The `Times'; Stonehenge; Personal; Result; Speech at Manchester; Representative men: Uses of great men; Plato, or, the philosopher; Plato, new readings; Swedenborg, or, the mystic; Montaigne, or, the sceptic; Napoleon, or, the man of the world; Goethe, or, the writer], vi+349pp., 1903.
[DJ Typographic design/ decorative device, green with black text, 1911]
[Later, 239pp. [?]]
[DJI ?]
31 ELIOT, GEORGE, Works I:
The Mill on the Floss, vii+608pp., 1903.
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest; portrait and bio. of Eliot on rear flap/ black and white on magenta, 1945]
Var: vii+558pp., 1950.
[DJI Lynton Lamb/ young woman standing before a water-mill/ black and white on pink, 1967] [?1957]
Var: Chancellor Press edn, 1987.
32 PEACOCK, W. (sel. and pref.),
Selected English Essays [F. Bacon; A. Cowley; D. Defoe; J. Swift; R. Steele; J. Addison; A. Pope; H. Fielding; S. Johnson; D. Hume; O. Goldsmith; W. Cowper; C. Lamb; W. Hazlitt; L. Hunt; T. de Quincey; P.B. Shelley; T. Carlyle; T.B. Macaulay; Dr. J. Brown; W.M. Thackeray; M. Arnold; J.A. Symonds; R. Jefferies; R.L. Stevenson], xii+543pp., 1903.
[DJ Typographic design/ decorative device, grey-green with red text, 1912]
[DJ Typographic design/ decorative device, green with black text, 1915]
[DJ Blue on white, decorated border/ front cover: portrait of Goldsmith: >
Oliver Goldsmith (See pp. 152-167): From the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds=
/ "The long succession of English attempt and achievement in the Essay would require a small literary history to do it justice."---George Saintsbury, 1929]
Var: [reset] x+543pp., 1932.
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on red, 1935]
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ black and white on green, 1939]
[DJ Typographic design/ selected authors listed in white on cover/ white and yellow on maroon, 1963]
[See Appendix III]
33 HUME, DAVID,
Essays: Moral, Political and Literary [Part I: 1. Of the delicacy of taste and passion; 2. Of the liberty of the press; 3. That politics may be reduced to a science; 4. Of the first principles of government; 5. Of the origin of government; 6. Of the independency of parliament; 7. Whether the British government inclines more to absolute monarchy or to a republic; 8. Of parties in general; 9. Of the parties of Great Britain; 10. Of superstition and enthusiasm; 11. Of the dignity or meanness of human nature; 12. Of civil liberty; 13. Of eloquence; 14. Of the rise and progress of the arts and sciences; 15. The epicurean; 16. The stoic; 17. The platonist; 18. The sceptic; 19.Of polygamy and divorce; 20. Of simplicity and refinement in writing; 21. Of national characters; 22. Of tragedy; 23. Of the standard of taste/ Part II: 1. Of commerce; 2. Of refinement in the arts; 3. Of money; 4. Of interest; 5. Of the balance of trade; 6.Of the jealousy of trade; 7. Of the balance of power; 8. Of taxes; 9. Of public credit; 10. Of some remarkable customs; 11. Of the populousness of ancient nations; 12. Of the original contract; 13. Of passive obedience; 14. Of the coalition of parties; 15. Of the Protestant Succession; 16. Idea of a perfect commonwealth/ The essay on miracles/ Additional essays: 1. Of impudence and modesty; 2. Of love amd marriage; 3. Of the study of history; 4. Of avarice; 5. Of essay writing; 6. Of moral prejudices; 7. Of the middle station of life; 8. Of suicide; 9. On the immortality of the soul/ Life of the author by humself], vii+616pp., 1903.
[DJI ?]
Var: Reprinted as an OUP volume, 1963.
34 BURNS, ROBERT,
The Poetical Works of Robert Burns, pref., notes, glos., index of first lines, xxiii+607pp., 1903.
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on orange, 1931]
Var: see #515
35 GIBBON, EDWARD,
The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. I, pref., intro. quotes, map, xxxiv+495pp., 1903.
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on red, 1925]
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ black and white on green, 1934]
[Slip-case (contains Vols. I-VII), 1934 [1957]]
36 POPE, ALEXANDER (trans.), Works II:
The Odyssey of Homer, vii+380pp., 1903.
[DJ Blue and white with portrait on front cover, 1924] [?]
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ bust of Homer on rear flap/ black and white on turquoise, 1939 [?]]
Var: [reset] vi+385pp., 1949.
[DJI ?]
37 DRYDEN, JOHN (trans.),
The Works of Virgil [The Aeneid; Georgics; Pastorals], viii+486pp., 1903. [Front. drawing/ port. Virgil, added 1912 [?]]
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on orange, 1932]
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ black and white on turquoise, 1932]
Var: [reset: Pastorals; Georgics: The Aeneid], intro. James Kinsley, xvi+487pp., 1967. [orig. pub (not OWC), 1961]
[DJI ?]
38 DICKENS, CHARLES, Works II:
A Tale of Two Cities, intro. Mrs F.S. Boas, illus. Rowland Wheelwright, xxix+466pp., 1903. [?]
Var: illus. [Phiz], xxxiv+466pp., 1910.
[DJ Cover illus. `"Keep your eyes upon me, dear child, and mind no other object." (Page 463)', 1923]
[DJ Two scenes from the film (front, back and spine), 1929]
Var: [reset] illus. `Phiz', xxxv+424pp., 1952.
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ black and white on red, 1955]
[DJI David Knight/ revolutionary crowd scene, with tumbril and guillotine/ black and white on orange-brown, 1960]
Var: Chancellor Press edn, 1985.
39 LONGFELLOW, H. W., Poetical Works I,
Evangeline, The Golden Legend, etc., [Early Poems; Voices of the Night; Poems on Slavery; Miscellaneous Poems; Songs; The Spanish Student; Evangeline; The Seaside and the Fireside; The Golden Legend; etc.], notes, viii+424pp., 1903.
[DJI ?]
40 STERNE, LAURENCE,
The Life & Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman, [pagination?], 1903. [?]
[DJI ?]
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ black and white on yellow, [date?]]
Var: [reset] 591pp., 1951.
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ bio. and portrait of Sterne on back flap/ black and white on red, 1951]
[DJI Edward Ardizzone, 1961]
41 BUCKLE, HENRY THOMAS,
History of Civilization in England, Vol. I, list of authors quoted, xxvii+413pp., 1903.
[DJ Grant Richards edn. Text on spine only; red, with 2/6 price; parchment binding, 1903.]
[DJ Painting of Buckle, 1919]
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on red, 1937 [?]]
42 CHAUCER, GEOFFREY, Works I:
Romaunt of the Rose; Minor poems, from the text of Professor Skeat, vi+317pp., 1903.
[DJI ?]
43 MACHIAVELLI, NICOLÒ,
The Prince, trans. L. Ricci, viii+106pp., 1903.
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on blueish-grey, 1934]
Var: trans. rev. & pref. E.R.P. Vincent, x+199pp., 1935.
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ black and white on orange, 1935]
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ black and white on red, [1950s?]]
[DJI William Stobbs/ red, 1957]
44 GIBBON, EDWARD,
The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. II, map, xvii+597pp., 1903.
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on red, 1925]
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ black and white on green, 1936]
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ port. Gibbon and bio. note on rear-end flap/ black and white on orange, 1936]
[Slip-case (contains Vols. I-VII), 1936 [1957]]
45 PEACOCK, W. (sel.),
English Prose from Mandeville to Ruskin [Sir J. Mandeville; J. Wycliffe; G. Chaucer; Sir T. Malory; Lord Berners; Sir T. More; H. Latimer; Sir T. Elyot; R. Ascham; R. Holinshed; Sir T. North; Sir W. Raleigh; R. Hakluyt; J. Florio; Sir P. Sydney; R. Hooker; F. Bacon; J. Hall; R. Burton; Sir T. Overbury; J. Selden; I. Walton; J. Earle; O. Felltham; Sir T. Browne; T. Fuller; E. Hyde (Clarendon); J. Milton; J. Taylor; R. Baxter; A. Cowley; J. Evelyn; J. Bunyan; G. Savile (Halifax); J. Dryden; S. Pepys; D. Dafoe; J. Swift; Sir R. Steele; J. Addison; A. Pope; P.D. Stanhope (Chesterfield); H. Fielding; S. Johnson; D. Hume; L. Sterne; H. Walpole; G. White; A. Smith; Sir J. Reynolds; O. Goldsmith; E. Burke; W. Cowper; E. Gibbon; J. Boswell; M. Edgeworth; Sir W. Scott; S.T. Coleridge; R. Southey; J. Austen; C. Lamb; W.S. Landor; H. Hallam; W. Hazlitt; T. de Quincey; P.B. Shelley; J.G. Lockhart; T. Carlyle; T.B. Macaulay; W.M. Thackeray; C. Dickens; J.A. Froude; C. Kingsley; J. Ruskin], pref., xiii+379pp., 1903.
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46 TOLSTÓY, LEO, Works I:
Essays and Letters [Industry and idleness; Why do men stupefy themselves?; An afterword to `The Kretzer Sonata'; The first step; Non-acting; An afterword to an account of relief supplied to the famine-stricken; Religion and morality; Reason and religion; Shame!; Letters to Peter Verígin, the Doukhobór leader; Letter on non-resistance: to E.H. Crosby; How to read the Gospels, and what is essential in them; A letter to Russian liberals; Timothy Bóndaref; Letters on Henry George; Modern science; Letter to a non-commissioned officer; Patriotism and government; `Thou shalt not kill'; To the Tsar and his assistants; A reply to the Synod's edict of excommunication; What is religion, and wherein lies its essence?; Letter on education; An appeal to the clergy; Thoughts selected from private letters: Two views of life; Matter is the limit of spirit; The scaffolding; The life of the spirit; The fear of death; The way to know God and the soul], trans. and pref. Aylmer Maude, index, viii+372pp., 1903.
[DJ Typographic design with decorative device/ red on light green, 1911] [?1916]
47 BRONTË, CHARLOTTE, Novels of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë IV:
Villette, vi+573pp., 1903.
[DJI ?]
Var: [reset] vi+495pp., 1952.
[DJI Dodie Masterman/ drawing of a large house [the boarding school?], black and white on brown, 1959]
48 BUCKLE, HENRY THOMAS,
History of Civilization in England, Vol. II, vi+473pp., 1903.
[DJ Painting of Louis XIV, 1919]
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on red, 1939 [?]]
49 À KEMPIS, THOMAS [Thomas Haemmerlein],
Of the Imitation of Christ: Four Books, xii+291pp., 1903. [?]
`The first edition of `The Imitation of Christ' appeared in the year 1470 circa., and the first English translation in 1677.' (Verso title page)
Var: The `Edith Cavell' Edition, intro. Herbert E. Ryle, xxviii+229pp., 1920.
`This book is a facsimile of that belonging to Edith Cavell, which was in her hands during her last hours. Her markings are indicated, and the notes of the last events of her life made in the prison of St.-Gilles, as well as a few other notes throughout, are reproduced in facsimile.' (Verso title page, 1920)
Var: xii+229pp., 1921.
Var: [reset] xii+291pp., 1940.
`The present translation is based on that of F. B. (the Jesuit Anthony Hoskins), which first appeared c. 1613.' (Verso title page)
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50 THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE, Works II:
The Book of Snobs; and, Sketches & Travels in London, viii+438pp., 1904.
[DJ Typographic design/ red on buff, 1912]
51 GIBBON, EDWARD,
The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. III, map, xvi+572pp., 1904.
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[Slip-case (contains Vols. I-VII), 1938 [1957]]
52 WATTS-DUNTON, THEODORE,
Aylwin, [pagination?], 1904. [?]
Var: with Dedication and Postscript, xxi+489pp., 1906.
Var: with two appendices, one containing a note on the character of D'Arcy; the other a key to the story, reprinted from Notes and Queries, prefs, xxi+509pp., 1914.
[DJ Photo of man and woman on a mountain, with decorative frame/ blue on white; subtitle added: `A Romance of Snowdon'; quote from Max Beerbohm: `The romantic Celtic mysticism of Aylwin...seemed to me, before I was in touch with the author, a work of genuine expression from within; and that it truly was so I presently knew. The mysticism of Watts-Dunton...was in contrast with the frock-coat and the practical abilities; but it was essential and they were of the surface', 1927] [Photo taken from the silent film released in 1920?]
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[DJ Photo of Snowdon; title white on red at bottom, 1950]
53 BUCKLE, HENRY THOMAS,
History of Civilization in England, Vol. III, 512pp., 1904.
[DJ Painting of David Hume, 1920]
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on red, 1937 [?]]
54 SMITH, ADAM,
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Vol. I, frontis. port. of Smith, viii+468pp., 1904.
[DJ Plaster cast of Smith, 1923]
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on blue-grey, 1928]
55 GIBBON, EDWARD,
The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. IV, map, xvi+602pp., 1904.
[DJ Photograph of a statue of `St Gregory the Great'/ blue on white, 1924]
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[Slip-case (contains Vols. I-VII), 1938 [1957]]
56 CHAUCER, GEOFFREY, Works II:
Troilus and Creseyde; The Hous of Fame; The Legend of Good Women, from the text of W.W. Skeat, viii+395pp., 1903.
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on yellow on front cover and spine; black and white on orange on back cover, 1930]
Var: [new title] Troilus and Creseyde; and, The Hous of Fame, 301pp., 1959.
[DJI Susan Einzig/ group of figures before an open door/ black and white on yellow-green, 1959] [?]
57 HAZLITT, WILLIAM, Works IV:
The Spirit of the Age, or Contemporary Portraits [Jeremy Bentham; William Godwin; Mr. Coleridge; Rev. Mr. Irving; Mr. Horne Tooke; Sir Walter Scott; Lord Byron; Mr. Southey; Mr. Wordsworth; Sir James Mackintosh; Mr. Malthus; Mr. Canning; Mr. Gifford; Mr. Brougham--Sir F. Burdett; Lord Eldon--Mr. Wilberforce; Mr. Cobbett; Mr. Campbell--Mr. Crabbe; Mr. T. Moore--Mr Leigh Hunt; Elia--Geoffrey Crayon], 271pp., 1904.
[DJ Typographic design/ black on light green, 1920 [?]]
[DJ Blue on white with portrait of William Godwin on the front cover, 1923] [DJ green, 1935] [?]
Var: Re-set, [i]+302pp., 1954.
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[DJ Typographic design/ front cover: title red on black/ author black on red/ bio. on front flap, 1960]
58 BROWNING, ROBERT,
Poems and Plays: 1833-1842, vi+494pp., 1904. [?]
[DJI Field Talfourd/ blue on white with drawing of Browning on front cover, 1924]
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ bio. of Browning on rear flap/ black and white on turquoise, 1924 [?]]
59 SMITH, ADAM,
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Vol. II, index, viii+687pp., 1904.
[DJ Plaster cast of Smith, 1923]
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on blue-grey, 1928]
60 AURELIUS, MARCUS,
The Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, trans., pref. and intro. John Jackson, notes, xx+135pp., 1906.
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Var: [reset] xxii+190pp., 1948.
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ portrait of Marcus Aurelius and bio. on back flap/ black and white on grey, 1948]
[DJ Typographic design/ red, 1957]
61 HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, Works I:
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table: Every man his own Boswell, 271pp., 1904.
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62 CARLYLE, THOMAS, Works II:
On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History, 245pp., 1904. [?]
Var: [reset] [4]+320pp., 1935.
[DJI William Stobbs/ illus. of imperial bust set against mountain range/ bio. of Carlyle on front flap/ black and white on light green, 1965] [?1957]
63 ELIOT, GEORGE, Works II:
Adam Bede, frontis. portrait of Eliot, vii+597pp., 1904.
[DJ `Dinah Morris Preaching (see page 21)', 1922]
64 GIBBON, EDWARD,
The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. V, map, xvi+582pp., 1904.
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1957]
[Slip-case (contains Vols. I-VII), 1957]
65 MONTAIGNE,
The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne, Vol. I, trans. John Florio, ix+429pp., 1904.
Var: frontis. port. of Montaigne [Frowde edn], 1910.
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on red, 1924]
66 BORROW, GEORGE, Works I:
Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gipsy, The Priest, xxi+629pp., 1904.
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[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ bio. and port. of Borrow on rear flap/ black and white on red, 1947]
[DJI Heather Standring/ six drawings of varied rural scenes/ black and white on yellow, 1951] [?]
[66/73] BORROW, GEORGE,
Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gipsy, The Priest; Romany Rye, 629+439pp., red cover, no series numbers included [1930s?]. [See Appendix II]
[DJ No series number on spine, [?date]] [?]
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67 BRONTË, ANNE, Novels of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë V:
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 480pp., 1906. [?]
[DJI Charles Mozley/ seated woman reading a book; spine: double volume/ maroon on buff, 1959]
68 THOREAU, HENRY DAVID, Works I:
Walden; or Life in the Woods, intro. Theodore Watts-Dunton, front. port. of author [?], xvi+299pp., 1906.
[DJ Blue on white/ front cover circular panel: man feeding twings onto a fire below a pot; `I was seated by the shore of a small pond (See p. 75)'/ `I trust it does not smell so much of the study and library, even of the poet's attic, as of the fields and woods; that it an...unroofed book, lying open under the ether, and permeated by it, open to all weathers, not easy to be kept on a shelf.' H.D. Thoreau, 1924]
[Var: Avenel edn, 1985.] [?]
69 GIBBON, EDWARD,
The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. VI, map, xviii+568pp., 1906.
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[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ black and white on green, 1957]
[Slip-case (contains Vols. I-VII), 1957]
70 MONTAIGNE,
The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne, Vol. II, trans. John Florio, vi+605pp., 1906.
Var: frontis. port. of Montaigne [Frowde edn], 1906.
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71 BURKE, EDMUND,
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I [A vindication of natural society...; A philosophical inquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful...; A short account of a late short administration; Observations on a late publication intituled The Present State of the Nation], gen. intro. William Willis, pref. F.W.R.[affety], xxxv+363pp., 1906.
[DJ Painting of Edmund Burke, 1925]
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on red, 1934]
72 TOLSTÓY, LEO,
Twenty-Three Tales [Part I: Tales for children...: God sees the truth, but waits; A prisoner in the Caucasus; The bear-hunt; Part II: Popular stories: What men live by; A spark neglected burns the house; The two old men; Where love is, God is; Part III: A fairy tale: The story of Iván the fool; Part IV: Stories written to pictures: Evil allures, but good endures; Little girls wiser than men; Elias; Part V: Folk-tales retold: The three hermits; The imp and the crust; How much land does a man need?; A grain as big as a hen's egg; The godson; The repentant sinner; The empty drum; Part VI: Adaptations from the French: The coffee-house of Surat; Too dear!; Part VII: Stories given to aid the persecuted Jews: Esarhaddon, King of Assyria; Work, death and sickness; Three questions], trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude, pref. Aylmer Maude, viii+271pp., 1906.
[DJI ?]
Var: list of Russian words, vii+298pp.+insert `The `Maude' Tolstoy', [1936 ?]
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[DJI Peggy Fortnum/ drawing of old man and woman holding child/ black and white on green, 1956]
[See Appendix III]
73 BORROW, GEORGE, Works II:
Romany Rye: A Sequel to `Lavengro', appendix, xv+[1]+439pp., 1906.
[DJ Picture of a man and a woman in front of shubbery. Caption: `Why, what is the matter, Ursula?' said I; `how have I offended you?', 1925]
[DJI Peggy Fortnum/ white and purple, 1959]
Var: See 63/73.
74 GIBBON, EDWARD,
The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. VII, map, with Index [to 7 vols.], xv+505pp., 1906.
[DJ Photo. of `St. Sophia, Constantinople/ blue on white, 1925]
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on red, 1925]
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[Slip-case (contains Vols. I-VII), 1957]
75 BORROW, GEORGE, Works III:
The Bible in Spain; Or, The Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to Circulate Scriptures in the Peninsula, with bibliog. note, xxvi+600pp., 1906.
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ port. of Borrow on rear flap/ black and white on green, 1925]
76 CHAUCER, GEOFFREY, Works III:
Canterbury Tales, from the text of Professor Skeat, note on the language and metre, glos., vi+632 pp., 1906.
Var: from the text of W.W. Skeat [Date? 1926?]
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[DJI Michael Ayrton/ drawing of Chaucer and pilgrims/ bio. of Chaucer on front flap/ black and white on green, 1958]
Var: Chancellor Press edn, 1985.
77 MONTAIGNE,
The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne, Vol. III, trans. John Florio, 440pp., 1906.
Var: frontis. port. of Montaigne [Frowde edn], 1906.
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on red, 1924]
78 BRONTË, CHARLOTTE, Brontë Novels and Poems VI:
The Professor, and The Poems Of Charlotte, Emily & Anne Brontë, with index to first lines of poems, intro. Theodore Watts-Dunton, xxii+427pp., 1906.
[DJI ?]
Var: [no introduction] viii+427pp., 1933.
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Var: The Professor, vi+256pp., 1959.
[DJI Lynton Lamb/ blue, 1959]
79 SHERIDAN, RICHARD BRINSLEY,
The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan [The Rivals; St Patrick's Day...; The Duenna; The School for Scandal; The Critic...; A Trip to Scarborough; Pizarro...; Verses to the Memory of Garrick], intro. and notes Joseph Knight, chronology, appendices, xxi+494pp., 1906.
[DJ Blue on white with picture on front cover: `Lady Teazle, by all that's damnable!', 1921]
[Var: Frontis. port. of Sheridan `From a crayon drawing by John Russell'/ appears between page [ii] and title page, facing title page, 1931]
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Var: [reset from newly collated text, without intro. or notes] The Plays of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, chronology, appendix, viii+536pp., 1951.
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ bio. of Sheridan on back flap/ black and white on turquoise, 1956]
[DJI Ronald Searle/ light blue, 1964]
80 ELIOT, GEORGE, Works III:
Silas Marner; The Lifted Veil; Brother Jacob, intro. `George Eliot as a Plot-Novelist' by Theodore Watts-Dunton, vii+297pp., 1906.
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Var: xi+380pp., 1946. [?]
[DJI Lynton Lamb/ grey-brown, 1964]
81 BURKE, EDMUND,
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. II [Thoughts on the cause of the present discontents, 1770; Speech on American taxation, 1774; Speeches at his arrival at Bristol and at the conclusion of the poll, 1774; Speech on moving the resolutions for conciliation with the colonies, 1775; Letter...on the affairs of America, 1777; Two letters...relative to the trade of Ireland, 1778; Speech on...a Plan for the better security of the independence of Parliament [1780]], pref. F. W. Raffety, xvi+385pp., 1906.
[DJ Painting of Charles, Second Marquis of Rockingham, 1924]
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ port. of Burke on rear flap/ black and white on orange, 1930]
82 DEFOE, DANIEL, Works II:
The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton, intro., Theodore Watts-Dunton, frontis. port. of Defoe, xxii+303pp., 1906.
[DJI `"Well", says he, "we'll fight them" (See page 164)', 1924]
[See Appendix I: The Boys' Classics Series, #11.]
83 JOHNSON, SAMUEL,
Lives of the English Poets, Vol. I [Cowley; Denham; Milton; Butler; Rochester; Roscommon; Otway; Waller; Pomfret; Dorset; Stepney; Phillips, J.; Walsh; Dryden; Smith; Duke; King; Sprat; Halifax; Parnell; Garth; Rowe; Addison; Hughes; Sheffield], intro. Arthur Waugh, 478pp., 1906. [?]
Var: [reset] intro. Arthur Waugh, xv+461pp. 1952. [?].
[DJ `Lives of the Poets': typographic design/ with note of introduction/ bio. of Johnson on front flap/ black and white on turquoise, 1973]
84 JOHNSON, SAMUEL,
Lives of the English Poets, Vol. II [Prior; Congreve; Blackmore; Fenton; Gay; Granville; Yalden; Tickell; Hammond; Somerville; Savage; Swift; Broome; Pope; Pitt; Thomson; Watts; Philips, A.; West; Collins; Dyer; Shenstone; Young; Mallet; Akenside; Gray; Lyttelton] 493pp., 1906. [?]
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Var: [reset] iv+472pp., 1952.
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85 ARNOLD, MATTHEW,
The Poems of Matthew Arnold, 1849-1864, intro. Sir A.T. Quiller-Couch, xxiii+353pp., 1906. [?]
Var: [with addn poems] The Poems of Matthew Arnold, 1849-1867, brief bibliog., prefs., index of first lines, xxiv+414pp., 1909.
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86 GASKELL, ELIZABETH C., The Novels and Tales of Mrs Gaskell I:
Mary Barton, intro. Clement Shorter, xii+464pp., 1906.
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ bio. and port. of Mrs Gaskell on rear flap/ black and white on red, 1935]
87 HOOD, THOMAS,
Poems of Thomas Hood, intro. Walter Jerrold, index of first lines, xix+516pp., 1907.
[DJ Blue on white/ blue-toned illus. of Hood on front cover, 1923]
88 GASKELL, ELIZABETH C., The Novels and Tales of Mrs Gaskell II:
Ruth, intro. Clement Shorter, chronology, xii+458pp., 1906.
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on yellow, [1930s?]]
89 HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, Works II:
Professor at the Breakfast-Table, intro. Sir W. Robertson Nicoll, ix+273pp., 1906.
[DJ Untitled portrait (or pencil drawing) of Holmes; with quote from Sir W. Robertson Nicoll: `In the present volume the Little Gentleman is central to everything. The book is a study in deformity. The characters are judged by their relations to him. He draws draws out what is noblest and most merciful, and also what is most repellent.../ The author seeks to penetrate and exhibit the secrets of his soul.... What can be shown is shown.', blue on white, 1926]
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90 SMOLLETT, TOBIAS,
Travels Through France and Italy, intro. Thomas Seccombe, frontis. port. of Smollett, appendices (bibliog. of books in intro.; notes on vocabulary; currency of Savoy), lxii+352pp., 1907.
[DJI ?]
91 THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE,
Pendennis: His Fortunes and His Misfortunes His Friends and His Greatest Enemy, Vol. I, intro. Edmund Gosse, xvi+472pp., 1907.
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92 THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE,
Pendennis: His Fortunes and His Misfortunes His Friends and His Greatest Enemy, Vol. II, frontis.: port. of Thackeray, vi+496pp., 1907.
[DJI ?]
93 BACON, FRANCIS,
Advancement of Learning; and, The New Atlantis, pref. Thomas Case, chronology, xxiii+275pp., 1906.
[DJ Blue on white/ front cover port. of James the First To whom the Advancement is dedicated. Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last;/ The barren wilderness he past;/ Did on the very border stand/ Of the blest Promised land;/ And from the mountain's top of his exalted wit,/ Saw it himself, and showed us it.---Abraham Cowley, 1929]
Var: [reset] xxiii+298pp., 1951.
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94 SCOTT, SIR WALTER,
Lives of the Novelists [Fielding; Smollett; Le Sage; Charles Johnstone; Sterne; Goldsmith; Johnson; Mackenzie; Walpole; Reeve; Richardson; Bage; Cumberland; Mrs Radcliffe], intro. Austin Dobson, frontis. Sir Walter Scott, xi+342pp., 1906.
[DJ Painting of Samuel Richardson, 1923] [?]
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95 HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, Works III:
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table, intro. W. Robertson Nicoll, viii+307pp., 1906.
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[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on red, 1937 [?]]
96 MOTLEY, JOHN LOTHROP,
The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History, Vol. I, intro. Clement Shorter, chronology, pref., xxvi+560pp., 1906.
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97 MOTLEY, JOHN LOTHROP,
The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History, Vol. II, xiv+612pp., 1906.
[DJI ?]
98 MOTLEY, JOHN LOTHROP,
The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History, Vol. III, index (to 3 vols), xi+591pp., 1906.
[DJI ?]
99 COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR,
The Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, intro. Sir A.T. Quiller-Couch, pref., index of first lines, xxxviii+391pp., 1907.
[DJ Typographic design/ decorative device, red text on green, 1907 [1909?]]
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[DJI Diana Bloomfield/ illustration of a ship in a sea of ice (with an albatross above it)/ black and white on blue, 1958]
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, gen. intro. Algernon Charles Swinburne, introductory studies of several plays by Edward Dowden, note by Theodore Watts-Dunton (9 vols.), 1910.
100 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM, Works I;
The Tempest; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Measure for Measure, lxi+327pp., 1910.
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101 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM, Works II:
The Comedy of Errors; Much Ado About Nothing; Love's Labour's Lost; A Midsummer-Night's Dream; The Merchant of Venice, 402pp., 1910.
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102 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM, Works III:
As You Like It; The Taming of the Shrew; All's Well That Ends Well; Twelfth Night: Or, What You Will; The Winter's Tale, glos. to the Comedies, 527pp., 1910.
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ black and white on blue, 1933]
103 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM, Works IV:
The Life and Death of King John; The Tragedy of King Richard the Second; The First Part of King Henry the Fourth; The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth, 387pp., 1911.
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104 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM, Works V:
The Life of King Henry the Fifth; The First Part of King Henry the Sixth; The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth; The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth, 410pp., 1911.
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105 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM, Works VI:
The Tragedy of King Richard the Third; The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth; Venus and Adonis; The Rape of Lucrece; Sonnets; A Lover's Complaint; The Passionate Pilgrim; Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music; The Phoenix and the Turtle, glos. to the Histories and Poems, 529pp., 1911.
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106 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM, Works VII:
Troilus and Cressida; Coriolanus; Titus Andronicus; Romeo and Juliet, 420pp., 1911.
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107 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM, Works VIII:
Timon of Athens; Julius Caesar; Macbeth; Hamlet, Prince of Denmark; King Lear, 487pp., 1911. [?1912]
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108 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM, Works IX:
Othello, the Moor of Venice; Antony and Cleopatra; Cymbeline; Pericles, Prince of Tyre, glos. to the Tragedies, 547pp., 1912.
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109 HERBERT, GEORGE,
The Poems of George Herbert, based on edn of Dr A.B. Grosart, intro. Arthur Waugh, xxvii+277pp., 1907.
[DJI ?]
Var: 2nd edn, based on edn of F.E. Hutchinson, intro. Helen Gardner, bibliog. note, appendix, xxi+285pp., 1961.
[DJ Typographic design/ front cover: blue and white on black panel on bluish-green scroll, 1961]
110 GASKELL, ELIZABETH C., The Novels and Tales of Mrs Gaskell III:
Cranford; The Cage at Cranford; The Moorland Cottage, intro. Clement Shorter, notes to `Cranford', xvi+331pp., 1907. [?]
Var: [reset], 411pp., 1934.
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on yellow, 1934]
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ portrait and bio. of Gaskell on back flap/ black and white on red, 1951]
[DJI Dodie Masterman/ green and cream, 1960] [?]
[DJI Lynton Lamb/ two ladies in period dress conversing/ black and white on yellow, 1965]
111 BURKE, EDMUND,
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. III [Speech at Bristol..., 1780; Speech at Bristol declining the poll, 1780; Speech on Fox's East India Bill..., 1783; A representation to His Majesty...1784...; Speech on...the Nabob of Arcot..., 1785; ...Speech on the army estimates..., 1790; Speech on the Acts of Uniformity; Speech on...Bill for the relief of protestant dissenters, 1773; Speech on...Acts respecting Religious Opinions..., 1792; Speech on...the Middlesex Election [1771]; Speech on a bill for shortening the duration of Parliaments; Speech on...the State of representation of the Commons... [1782]; Speech on...the Powers of juries in prosecutions for libels; Speech on...the Repeal of the Marriage Act; Speech on...a bill to quiet the possessions of the subjects against dormant claims of the Church], introd. Frank H. Willis, xiv+391pp. 1906.
[DJ Painting of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, 1926]
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ rear flap: port. of Burke/ black and white on orange, 1935]
112 BURKE, EDMUND,
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. IV [Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790; A Letter to a member of the National Assembly; Thoughts on French affairs, 1791], pref. F.W. Raffety, xiii+375pp., 1907.
[DJ Painting of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1925]
Var: [new title] Reflections on the Revolution in France; and Other Writings, 1950.
[DJI William Stobbs/ illus. of guillotine, plough, and dove/ grey-brown, 1958]
113 BURKE, EDMUND,
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V [An appeal from the New to the Old Whigs; A letter to a peer of Ireland on the penal laws against Irish Catholics; A letter to Sir H. Langrishe on the subject of the Roman Catholics of Ireland; Heads for consideration on the present state of affairs...; Remarks on the policy of the Allies with respect to France; Observations on the conduct of the minority; Address to the King; Address to the British colonists in North America], pref. F.W. Raffety, xi+375pp., 1907.
[DJ Painting of Charles James Fox, 1928]
114 BURKE, EDMUND,
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VI [Thoughts and details on scarcity; Letter to a Noble Lord; Letters on the proposals for peace with the regicide Directory of France: I On the overtures of peace, II On the genius and character of the French Revolution as it regards other nations, 1796, III On the rupture of the negotiation, etc., 1797, IV To the Earl Fitzwilliam], pref. F.W. Raffety, xiii+405pp., 1907.
[DJ Painting of William Pitt, 1928]
115 HUNT, LEIGH,
Essays and Sketches, sel. and intro. R. Brimley Johnson, xx+419pp., 1906.
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on red, 1928]
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ portrait and bio. of Hunt on back flap/ black and white on green, 1940]
116 SOPHOCLES,
The Seven Plays in English Verse [Antigone; Aias; King Oedipus; Electra; The Trachinian Maidens; Philoctetes; Oedipus at Colonus], trans. and pref. Lewis Campbell, pref. note to the edn of 1883, notes, xxvii+316pp., 1906.
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on orange, 1930]
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on pink, 1936]
Var: xxvi+328pp. 1952. [?]
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ black and white on blue,
[date?]]
117 AESCHYLUS,
The Seven Plays in English Verse [The Suppliants, The Persians; Seven against Thebes; Agamemnon; The Choephoroe; The Eumenides; Prometheus Bound], trans. and pref. Lewis Campbell, pref. note to the edn of 1890, notes, xxii+278pp., 1906.
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on orange, 1935]
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ black and white on light teal blue, 1938]
118 BROWN, JOHN, Dr.,
Horae Subsecivae: Rab and his Friends and Other Papers, frontis: portrait of Brown, pref., intro. Austin Dobson, xviii+350pp., 1907.]
[DJI ?]
119 COBBOLD, RICHARD,
Margaret Catchpole: A Suffolk Girl, intro. Clement Shorter, author's pref., supplement by the author, xx+423pp., 1907.
[DJ Blue on white with picture in centre of front cover, 1931]
[DJ Blue on white, "Dominus Illuminatio Mea" on spine, front cover: illus. of "The Ancient House, Ipswich" `The classic novel of Suffolk. Margaret Catchpole is one of the few heroines of fiction of whom one loves to remember that she was real flesh and blood.' Clement Shorter, 1938)
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ black and white on yellow, 1938]
120 DICKENS, CHARLES, Works III:
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Vol. I, illus. Seymour and `Phiz', pref., xviii+484pp., 1907.
[DJI ?]
121 DICKENS, CHARLES, Works IV:
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Vol. II, illus. Seymour and `Phiz', xii+474pp., 1907.
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ port. of Dickens on rear flap/ black and white on red, [date?]]
120 DICKENS, CHARLES,
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, [2 vols in 1], 43 illus. by Seymour and `Phiz', 484+474pp., 1950.
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ grey, 1950]
122 JERROLD, DOUGLAS,
Mrs Caudle's Curtain Lectures, and Other Stories and Essays, ed. and intro. Walter Jerrold, frontis.: D. Jerrold, pref., chronology, list of illus., xii+438pp., 1907.
[DJ Typographic design/ decorative device, red text on greyish-green, 1907]
123 GOLDSMITH, OLIVER,
The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, ed., pref., intro. and notes Austin Dobson, chronology, appendices, xxxvi+280pp., 1907.
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on orange, 1928]
[DJI ?]
124 HAZLITT, WILLIAM,
Lectures on the English Comic Writers [Introductory--on wit and humour; On Shakespeare and Ben Jonson; On Cowley, Butler, Suckling, Etherege, etc.; On Wycherley, Congreve, Vanburgh, and Farquhar; On the periodical essayists; On the English novelists; On the works of Hogarth...; On the comic writers of the last century], text of 3rd edn 1841, intro. R. Brimley Johnson, xv+248pp., 1907.
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on shades of red, 1931]
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ black and white on green, 1943]
125 CARLYLE, THOMAS,
The French Revolution: A History, Vol. I, intro. C.R.L. Fletcher, xxxvi+501pp., 1907.
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on red, 1928]
126 CARLYLE, THOMAS,
The French Revolution: A History, Vol. II, index to both vols, viii+496pp., 1907.
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on red, 1928]
127 HORNE, RICHARD HENGIST,
A New Spirit of the Age [Charles Dickens; Lord Ashley and Dr. Southwood Smith; Thomas Ingoldsby; Walter Savage Landor; William and Mary Howitt; Dr. Pusey; G.R.R. James, Mrs. Gore, Captain Marryat, and Mrs. Trollope; T.N. Talfourd; R.M. Milnes and Hartley Coleridge; Sydney Smith, A. Fonblanque, and D. Jerrold; William Wordsworth and Leigh Hunt; Alfred Tennyson; T.B. Macaulay; Thomas Hood and Theodore Hook; Harriet Martineau and Mrs. Jameson; Sheridan Knowles and William Macready; Miss E.B. Barrett and Mrs. Norton; Banim and the Irish novelists; Robert Browning and J.W. Marston; Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton; William Harrison Ainsworth; Mrs. Shelley; Robert Montgomery; Thomas Carlyle; Henry Taylor and the author of `Festus'], intro. Walter Jerrold, pref. to the 1st edition, chronology, xxii+471pp., 1907.
[DJI ?]
128 DICKENS, CHARLES, Works V:
Great Expectations, 6 illus. Warwick Goble, x+540pp., 1907.
Var: [reset], 520pp., 1934. [?]
Var: with 5 illus. Warwick Goble and 16 stills from David Lean's 1946 film, ii+520pp., 1946.
[DJ Red, with black and white still of Pip and Estella on front cover, 1946]
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ black and white on red, 1949]
[DJI Edward Ardizzone/ pink, 1963]
Var: Chancellor Press edn, 1987.
Var: Oxford World's Classics edn, 1999.
129 AUSTEN, JANE,
Emma, intro. E.V. Lucas, xv+432pp., 1907. [?]
[DJI ?]
Var: [reset] xv+459pp., 1941.
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ portrait and bio. of Austen on rear flap/ black and white on red, 1942]
Var: [reset] xiv+432pp., 1946.
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ portrait and bio. of Austen on rear flap/ black and white on purple, 1946]
[Slipcase 1950]
[DJI Lynton Lamb, 1960]
Var: Oxford World's Classics edn, 1999.
130 CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE,
Don Quixote, Vol. I, trans. Charles Jervas, ed., intro., and notes James Fitzmaurice-Kelly, frontis. (between p. ii and iii), author's pref., xxxi+551pp, 1907.
[DJI Blue on white; panel: drawing of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, with windmill in the background; "`This strange irony, this grave irony, this broadly-laughing irony of the strange, grave, humorous Spaniard, delights even those who have not a touch of the ironic in their composition...All laugh, while some few have tears in their laughter.'---Francis Thompson", 1928]
131 CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE,
Don Quixote, Vol. II, trans. Charles Jervas, ed., intro., and notes James Fitzmaurice-Kelly, pref., xii+582pp., 1907.
[DJ Blue on white: panel: Don Quixote on horseback with lance (moving right to left), passing another knight on horseback with lance (moving left to right), watched by three men on foot. "Generally sequels fall below the quality of books they continue, but Prof. Fitzmaurice Kelly, the eminent English authority on Spanish literature, says that the Second Part of Don Quixote is even better than the First", 1924]
Var: Oxford World's Classics edn, 1999.
132 HUNT, LEIGH,
The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events, intro. and notes Austin Dobson, frontis.: port. of Hunt, xix+527pp., 1907.
[DJI ?]
133 PALGRAVE, FRANCIS TURNER (sel.),
The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language: With Additional Poems (to the end of the Nineteenth Century), pref. and notes, index of writers, index of first lines, xiii+432pp., 1907.
Var: new edn, xiii+526pp., 1914. [?]
[DJ Blue on white/ drawing of `La Belle Dame Sans Merci', 1925]
Var: new edn with poems by contemporary writers, xv+555pp., 1928.
[DJ "Palgrave's Golden Teasury with Additional Poems" (in black) top left side front cover, "World's Classics" (in black) bottom left side, three vertical lines between/ light green, 1928] [OUP, New York [?]]
Var: with addn poems bringing the book up to date of publication, xv+587pp., 1941.
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest; `M' on spine; bio. of Palgrave on flaps/ black and white on turquoise, 1956]
Var: new edn, With a Fifth Book (sel. John Press), xxi+615pp., 1965.
[DJ Typographic design/ green, 1968]
Var: See #900.
[See Appendix III]
Related item: SOMERVELL, D., A Companion to Palgrave's Golden Treasury, 147pp. (London: Grant Richards, 1917). [Keyed to poems 1-397 of the World's Classics 1914 edn of Golden Treasury] [?]
Related item: LAMBORN, E.A. GREENING, Poetic Values: A Guide to the Appreciation of The Golden Treasury, xi+226pp. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928). [Keyed to poems 1-432 of the World's Classics 1928 edn of Golden Treasury] [?]
Related item: published also, with identical pagination, in the "Oxford Standard Authors" series (OUP).
134 ARISTOPHANES,
Four Plays in English Verse [The Acharnians, The Knights, The Birds, The Frogs], trans. John Hookham Frere, intro. W.W. Merry, xxi+358pp., 1907.
[DJ Blue on white/ photo. of bust of Aristophanes/ "Translating the greatest of the Comic Poets, FRERE was led on, against his own principles of `lawful and true translation',to use such modernisms as `Lord help me', `lawk', `Cockney', and even to make a pun on the name of the poet Crabbe", 1920]
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on orange, 1928]
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ black and white on blue, 1939]
135 ANSTER, JOHN (trans.),
Marlowe's Tragical History of Faustus and Goethe's Faust, Part 1, intro. Sir Adolphus William Ward, xxx+235pp., 1907.
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ bios of Marlowe and Goethe on back flap/ black and white on blue, 1940]
Var: xxxii+258pp., 1955. [?]
[DJI Lynton Lamb, light blue pictorial dj, 1962]
136 BUTLER, JOSEPH,
Butler's Analogy of Religion: Natural and Revealed to the Constitution and Course of Nature, ed. and pref. W.E. Gladstone, Account by Bishop Halifax of the moral and religious systems of Bishop Butler, chronology, index, xxxv+424pp., 1907.
[DJI ?]
137 BROWNING, ROBERT,
The Poems of Robert Browning, 1842-1864: Dramatic Lyrics and Romances, Men and Women, and Dramatis Personae, index to titles, index to first lines, xi+456pp., 1907.
[DJ Blue on white with photograph of Browning on front cover, 1928]
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ black and white on blue, 1942]
138 COWPER, WILLIAM,
William Cowper's Letters: A Selection, ed. E.V. Lucas, xxxviii+511pp., 1907.
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on red, 1937]
139 GIBBON, EDWARD,
Autobiography of Edward Gibbon, ed. Lord Sheffield, intro. J.B. Bury, xxxi+339pp., 1907.
[DJ Blue and white/ front cover: portrait of Gibbon [no title], 1923]
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ black and white on yellow, 1950]
[DJI William Stobbs/ black and white grey-green, drawing of Gibbon with two Roman busts, 1962] [?1959]
140 TROLLOPE, ANTONY,
The Three Clerks, intro. W. Teignmouth Shore, xvi+567pp., 1907.
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/32x34mm port. of Trollope on rear flap/ black and white on red, 1929 [1939]]
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ black and white on red, 1943]
Var: [reset] xiv+554pp., 1952.
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/42x45mm port. of Trollope on rear flap/ black and white on red, 1952]
[DJI Lynton Lamb/ girl in rear of punt; spine: double volume/ black and white on blue-grey, 1959]
141 BRONTË, ANNE, Novels of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë VII:
Agnes Grey, chronology, viii+208pp., 1907.
Var: Title page: Henry Frowde; Spine: Humphrey Milford, 1921.
[DJ Blue on white; engraving of Haworth; `I was once speaking to Charlotte about Agnes Grey...in which her sister Anne pretty literally describes her own experience as a governess, and ...she said that none but those who had been in the position...could realize the dark side of "respectable" human nature.'--Mrs. Gaskell] [Date?] [?]
[DJI Leonard Rosoman/ woman and two children in a parlour setting/ white lettering on brown, 1959]
142 FIELDING, HENRY,
Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, with a Fragment of a Comment on L. Bolingbroke's essays, ed., intro. and notes Austin Dobson, chronology, frontis.: drawing of Fielding, xx+187pp., 1907.
[DJI ?]
143 WELLS, CHARLES,
Joseph and His Brethren: A Dramatic Poem, intro. Algernon Charles Swinburne, note on Rossetti and Wells by Theodore Watts-Dunton, lviii+230pp., 1908.
[DJI ?]
144 CARLYLE, THOMAS, Works V:
The Life of John Sterling, intro. W. Hale White, summary, index, xxxvi+295pp., 1907.
[DJ Typographic design/ decorative device, red text on green, 1907]
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on red, 1933]
145 RUSKIN, JOHN, Works:
Sesame and Lilies [Two lectures: 1. Of kings' treasuries; 2. Of queens' gardens], prefs., index, 138pp.; Ethics of the Dust [Ten lectures to lttle housewives on the elements of crystallization: I. The valley of diamonds; II. The pyramid builders; III. The crystal life; IV. The crystal orders; V. Crystal virtues; VI. Crystal quarrels; VII. Home virtues; VIII. Crystal caprice; IX. Crystal sorrows; X. The crystal rest], prefs., personae, notes, index, 224pp., Ruskin House edn, 1907.
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on red, 1925]
Related item: George Allen & Sons imprint, Ruskin House edn, 1907.
146 RUSKIN, JOHN, Works:
Time and Tide [by Weare and Tyne: Twenty-five letters to a working man of Sunderland on the laws of work], index; The Crown of Wild Olive [Four lectures on industry and war] index, Ruskin House edn, 407pp., 1907.
[DJ Blue on white/ with portrait `JOHN RUSKIN From a painting by D.G. Rossetti 1865' on front cover, 1921]
Related item: George Allen & Sons imprint, Ruskin House edn, 1907.
147 RUSKIN, JOHN, Works:
`A Joy Forever' [(And its price in the market) being the substance (with additions) of two lectures on the political economy of art], prefs., index; The Two Paths [Five lectures], appendices, index, Ruskin House edn, 437pp., 1907.
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ bio. and portrait of Ruskin on back flap/ black and white on green, 1928]
Related item: George Allen & Sons imprint, Ruskin House edn, 1907.
148 RUSKIN, JOHN, Works:
`Unto This Last' [Four essays on the first principles of political economy], index; Munera Pulveris [Six essays on the elements of political economy], appendices, index, Ruskin House edn, 337pp., 1907.
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on red, 1934]
Related item: George Allen & Sons imprint, Ruskin House edn, 1907.
Var: Title page: `George Allen & Sons'; spine: `Humphrey Milford', 1911/1918.
149 REYNOLDS, JOSHUA,
The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds: to which are added his letters to `The Idler', intro. Austin Dobson, chronology, xxiii+260pp., 1907.
[DJ Typographic design/ decorative device/ red text on green/ `Reynold's [sic] Discourses' on front cover and spine, 1907]
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on red, 1933 [?]]
150 IRVING, WASHINGTON,
A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, from the mss. of Fray Antonio Agapida, appendix, xii+458pp., 1910.
[DJI ?]
151 LESAGE, ALAIN-RENÉ,
The Adventures of Gil Blas de Santillana, Vol. I, trans. Tobias Smollett, port. Alain-René Lesage, intro. James Fitzmaurice-Kelly, xxxii+408pp, 1907.
[DJ Typographic design, with decorative device, black on red, 1907]
152 LESAGE, ALAIN-RENÉ,
The Adventures of Gil Blas de Santillana, Vol. II, trans. Tobias Smollett, port. Alain-René Lesage, notes James Fitzmaurice-Kelly, xiv+408pp., 1907.
[DJ Typographic design, with decorative device, black on red, 1907]
151/2 LESAGE, ALAIN-RENÉ,
The Adventures of Gil Blas de Santillana, trans. Tobias Smollett, notes James Fitzmaurice-Kelly, exists as one volume. [?]
[DJI ?]
153 CARLYLE, THOMAS, Works VI:
Past and Present, intro. G.K. Chesterton, xv+331pp., 1909.
[DJ orange, 1950] [?]
[DJ Typographic design/ red and black, 1960]
154 GASKELL, ELIZABETH C., The Novels and Tales of Mrs Gaskell IV:
North and South, intro. Clement Shorter, frontis. port. of author, chronology, pref. to first edn, xii+528pp., 1908.
[DJI ?]
155 ELIOT, GEORGE, Works IV:
Scenes of Clerical Life [The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton; Mr Gilfil's Love-story; Janet's Repentance], intro. Annie Matheson, xx+424pp., 1909.
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on shades of yellow, 1926]
156 GASKELL, ELIZABETH C., The Novels and Tales of Mrs Gaskell V:
Sylvia's Lovers, intro. Clement K. Shorter, chronology, xiv+535pp., 1909.
[DJI ?]
157 GASKELL, ELIZABETH C., The Novels and Tales of Mrs Gaskell VI:
Wives and Daughters, intro. Clement Shorter, chronology, xvi+755pp., 1910. [DJ Typographic design/ decorative device, 1911]
Var: illus., 9+258pp., 1936. [?]
[DJI ?]
158 DUFFERIN, LORD,
Letters from High Latitudes: Being Some Account of a Voyage in 1856 in the Schooner Yacht `Foam' to Iceland, Jan Mayen and Spitzbergen, intro. R.W. Macan, xxxvi+261pp., 1910.
[DJI ?]
159 GRANT, JAMES, Works I:
The Captain of the Guard, viii+344pp. 1910. [?]
[DJI ?]
[See Appendix I: The Boys' Classics Series, #1.]
160 MARRYAT, FREDERICK, Works of Captain Marryat I:
Mr. Midshipman Easy, viii+424pp., 1910.
[DJI ?]
[See Appendix I: The Boys' Classics Series, #2.]
161 PORTER, JANE, Works I:
The Scottish Chiefs, vi+448pp., 1910.
[DJI ?]
[See Appendix I: The Boys' Classics Series, #3.]
162 AINSWORTH, WILLIAM HARRISON,
The Tower of London: An Historical Romance, pref., xv+552pp., 1910.
[DJI ?]
[See Appendix I: The Boys' Classics Series, #4.]
163 COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE, Works I:
The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757, 444pp., 1910.
[DJI ?]
[See Appendix I: The Boys' Classics Series, #5.]
Var: Avenel edn, 1986.
164 MARRYAT, FREDERICK, Works of Captain Marryat II:
The King's Own, illus. Warwick Goble [?], 451pp., 1910. [?]
[DJI ?]
[See Appendix I: The Boys' Classics Series, #7.]
165 LYTTON, EDWARD BULWER, LORD LYTTON, Works of Lord Lytton I:
Harold: Last of the Saxon Kings, illus. [C. Burton], notes, xxiv+576pp., 1908.
[DJ `Illus. of Harold and Edith (See p. 381)', 1920]
[See Appendix I: The Boys' Classics Series, #8.]
166 REID, MAYNE,
The Rifle Rangers or Adventures in Southern Mexico, illus. J.E. Sutcliffe, [pagination?], 1911. [?]
[DJI ?]
[See Appendix I: The Boys' Classics Series, #9.]
(Ref: Not recorded in either World Cat or BL)
167 REID, MAYNE,
The Scalp Hunters or Romantic Adventures in Northern Mexico, illus. A.H. Collins, xi+462pp., 1910.
[See Appendix I: The Boys' Classics Series, #10.]
168 GASKELL, ELIZABETH C., The Novels and Tales of Mrs Gaskell VII:
Cousin Phillis and Other Tales, Etc. [Cousin Phillis; Mr. Harrison's confessions; The sexton's hero; Clotton House; Company manners; French life; Modern Greek songs; An Italian institution], intro. Clement Shorter, frontis. portrait of Gaskell, chronology, xx+352pp., 1911.
[DJ Typographic design/ decorative device/ red text on grey [on green boards], 1911]
[DJ Typographic design/ decorative device/ black text on orange-red [on sultan red leather], 1911]
Var: No frontispiece, [date?][?]
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on green, 1911 [1937?]]
169 SOUTHEY, ROBERT,
Letters of Robert Southey, sel. and intro. Maurice Henry Fitzgerald, biographical table, xl+552pp., 1912.
[DJ Typographic design/ decorative device, red text on green, 1912]
Related item: Reprinted, AMS Press, 1977.
170 MILL, JOHN STUART,
On Liberty, Representative Government, The Subjection of Women: Three Essays, intro. Millicent Garrett Fawcett, xx+548pp., 1912.
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ black and white on orange, 1940]
[DJ Typographic design/ light blue, 1969]
171 BLACKMORE, R. D.,
Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor, viii+556pp., 1913. [?]
Var: port. of Blackmore facing title page, intro. and poem addressed to R.D. Blackmore by Sir Herbert Warren, chronology, author's preface, xxx+656pp., 1914.
[DJI Blue and white with decoratiove border/ front cover: film photo of Lorna Doone and John Ridd from Butcher's Film Service, `The wild moorland, mantled with mists or lurid with the ominous light from Dunkery Beacon; the waste of snow, out of which John Ridd dug his sheep, and over which he bore from a fate worse than death the lady he loved;...the brutelike John Fry; and the manlike or womanlike horse of Squire Faggus--all these are places and people held in the national memory.'--Athenaeum, 1929]
[The photo may be from the 1922 film starring Madge Bellamy as Lorna and John Bowers as John Ridd (or, possibly from the 1920 silent film starring Bertie Gordon as Lorna and Dennis Wyndham as John Ridd [?])]
Var: [reset] xxiii+[1]+695pp., 1950.
[DJI Lynton Lamb/ drawing of two figures, one on horseback/ black and white on pink, 1950]
[DJI Clarke Hutton/ drawing of Lorna Doone standing beside a stream amid trees, black and white on olive grey, 1967]
172 MAKOWER, STANLEY V. and BLACKWELL, BASIL H. (sel. and pref.),
A Book of English Essays (1600-1900) [F. Bacon; Sir T. Overbury;J. Earle; O. Feltham; Sir T. Browne; T. Fuller; E. Hyde (Clarendon); A. Cowley; J. Dryden; J. Swift; R. Steele; J. Addison; H. Fielding; S. Johnson; D. Hume; O. Goldsmith; S. Smith; C. Lamb; W. Hazlitt; W. Irving; J.H.L. Hunt; T. de Quincey; T. Carlyle; T.B. Macaulay; R.W. Emerson; E.A. Poe; W.M. Thackeray; C. Dickens; J.A. Froude; J.R. Lowell, J. Ruskin; G. Eliot; M. Arnold; W. Bagehot; A.C. Swinburne; W.H. Pater; J.A. Symonds; R. Jefferies; R.L. Stevenson; F. Thompson; M. Coleridge], alphabetical list of authors, xii+440pp., 1912.
[DJ Blue on white; engraving of Christ's Hospital in the time of Charles Lamb; Here also Leigh Hunt--represented in this volume by two essays---was educated; `For the last three hundred years, the volume of English essay-writing has been greater than that of any other nation, and the proportion of that volume which has been of the highest quality has been larger still.'--George Saintsbury, 1913] [?1922]
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ black and white on green, 1935]
Var: [reprint] Frontis.: sketch of Charles Lamb/ Title page: Commonwealth of Australia: E.W. Cole, Book Arcade, Melbourne, 346 George Street, Sydney, 67 Rundle Street, Adelaide/ London: Henry Frowde [n.d. ?1913].
Var: [reprint] Essay Index Reprint Series (Freeport, NY: Books for Library Press), 1972.
Var: [reprint] Ayer Co Pub., 1973. [?]
Related item: Oxford Press edn, with notes by A.F. Schuster, xii+573pp., 1917.
173 IRVING, WASHINGTON,
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent., ed. and intro. T. Balston, xx+458pp., 1912.
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174 LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH,
Hiawatha, The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems [The Song of Hiawatha; The Courtship of Miles Standish; Tales of a Wayside Inn; Birds of Passage], notes, index of titles, index of first lines, x+487pp. 1912.
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175 GASKELL, ELIZABETH C., The Novels and Tales of Mrs Gaskell VIII:
Lizzie Leigh; The Grey Woman; and Other Tales [Lizzie Leigh; The well of Pen-Morfa; The heart of John Middleton; The old nurse's story; Traits and stories of the Huguenots; Morton Hall; My French master; The squire's story; The grey woman; Curious if true; Six weeks at Heppenheim; Libbie Marsh's three eras; Christmas storms and sunshine; Hand and heart; Bessy's troubles at home; Disappearances], intro. Clement Shorter, chronology, xvi+478pp., 1913.
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176 BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT,
Poems: A Selection, frontis. port. of EBB, index of titles, index of first lines, viii+428pp., 1912.
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177 GALT, JOHN,
The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy, intro. John Ayscough, glos., xiii+437pp., 1913.
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178 ELIOT, GEORGE, Works V:
Romola, intro. Viola Meynell, xvi+600pp., 1913.
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179 ELIOT, GEORGE, Works VI:
Felix Holt: The Radical, intro. Viola Meynell, xiv+503pp., 1913.
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180 BYRON, LORD,
Selected Poems of Byron, frontis: Lord Byron, from the portrait by A.E. Chalon,index of titles, index of first lines, x+436pp., 1913.
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181 KEBLE, JOHN,
The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays Throughout the Year, advertisement to the original edition, index of titles, index of first lines, xii+262pp., 1914.
[DJ Blue on white/ port. of John Keble on front cover [from a drawing by George Richmond in the National Portrait Gallery]/ "`Now and then, for moments, he actually seems, though in a hymnal, to forget hymnology, and to be unconscious of all but Nature's and Music's magic'. W. STEBBING", 1914]
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[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ port. and bio. of Keble on rear flap/ black and white on turquoise, [date?]]
182 MILTON, JOHN,
The English Poems of John Milton, ed. H. C. Beeching, vii+488pp., 1913.
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Var: with A Reader's Guide to Milton compiled by Walter Skeat, vii+545pp., 1940.
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Var: [reset] intro. Charles Williams, xxii+545pp., 1940.
Var: Appendix added (unnumbered p. 544) (two additions to the Reader's Guide), 1958.
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183 MORRIS, WILLIAM,
The Defence of Guenevere; The Life and Death of Jason; and, Other Poems, index of titles, index of first lines, viii+526pp., 1914.
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184 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA,
Goblin Market; The Prince's Progress; and, Other Poems, index of titles, index of first lines, xi+297pp., 1913.
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185 ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL,
Poems & Translations, 1850-1870, together with the prose story, `Hand and Soul', index of first lines of poems, index of first lines of translations, xvii+492pp., 1914.
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186 SCOTT, SIR WALTER,
Poems, index of first lines, viii+592pp., 1913.
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187 SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE,
Selected Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, index of titles, index of first lines, viii+479pp., 1913.
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188 WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF,
Selected Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier, note, index of titles, index of first lines, x+485pp., 1913.
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189 WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM,
Selected Poems of William Wordsworth, index of titles, index of first lines, 516pp., 1913. [?]
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Var: [reset], xvi+516pp., 1932.
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Var: xv+518pp., 1969. [?]
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190 GASKELL, ELIZABETH C., The Novels and Tales of Mrs Gaskell IX:
Round the Sofa [Round the sofa: My Lady Ludlow; An accursed race; The doom of the Griffiths; Half a life-time ago; The poor Clare; The half-brothers], intro. Clement Shorter, chronology, xvi+424pp., 1913.
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191 JONES, EDGAR R. (ed. and pref.),
Selected English Speeches from Burke to Gladstone [On conciliation with America/E. Burke; Employment of Indian troops/W. Pitt (Chatham); American peace/W. Pitt (the Younger); The Westminster scrutiny/C.J. Fox; Impeachment of Warren Hastings/R.B. Sheridan; Peace of Amiens/W. Windham; Downfall of Buonaparte/H. Grattan; Catholic emancipation/D. O'Connell; Affairs of Portugal/G. Canning; The Catholics of Ireland/R.L. Sheil; Parliamentary reform/Henry, Lord Brougham; Jewish disabilities/T.B. Macaulay; Free trade/R. Cobden; Speech on the Address/B. D'Israeli; Free trade/J. Bright; The right of free speech/J. Bright; Chips/Lord R. Churchill; The Irish Question/W.E. Gladstone], viii+383pp., 1913.
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192 DUCKITT, M. and WRAGG, H. (arr. and pref.),
Selected English Letters (XV-XIX Centuries) [Sir T. More; M. Roper; R. Ascham; F. Bacon; Sir T. Browne; J. Milton; J. Evelyn; Dame D. Browne; George, lord Berkeley; D. Osborne; K. Philips; J. Locke; S. Pepys; J. Swift; J. Addison; Sir R. Steele; J. Gay; A. Pope; S. Richardson; Lady M.W. Montagu; P.D. Stanhope (Chesterfield); S. Johnson; L. Sterne; T. Gray; H. Walpole; O. Goldsmith; W. Cowper; E. Burke; E. Gibbon; F. D'Arblay; G. Crabbe; W. Blake; M. Leadbeater; R. Burns; W. Wordsworth; Sir W. Scott; S.T. Coleridge; R. Southey; C. Lamb; W. Hazlitt; L. Hunt; G. Gordon, Lord Byron; P. B. Shelley; J. Keats; T. Hood; R. Browning and E.B. Browning; C. Brontë], xv+460pp., 1913.
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193 WALKER, HUGH and MILFORD, HUMPHREY SUMNER (sel.),
Selected English Short Stories (Nineteenth Century) [Spine: Selected Short Stories] [The two drovers, Wandering Willie's tale/Sir W. Scott; The witch aunt/ C. Lamb; Rip van Winkle/W. Irving; The snow-image, The threefold destiny, Dr Heidegger's experiment, Howe's masquerade/N. Hawthorne; Ixion in Heaven/B. Disraeli; The fall of the House of Usher, The pit and the pendulum, Eleonora/E.A. Poe; The squire's story/E.C. Gaskell; Rab and his friends/Dr. J. Brown; The seven poor travellers/C. Dickens; Malachi's cove/A. Trollope; The punishment of Shahpesh, the Persian, on Khipil, the builder/G. Meredith; Mr. Whittaker's retirement/W.H. White; The story of the unknown church/W. Morris; The dumb oracle/R. Garnett; Miggles, Tennessee's partner, The iliad of Sandy Bar, Mliss/F.B. Harte; Markheim, Thrawn Janet, Providence and the guitar/R.L. Stevenson; Christopherson/G. Gissing; The King is dead, long live the King/M. Coleridge; Saint-Pé/R. Crackanthorpe], intro. `The short story in English' Hugh Walker, xxxv+486pp., 1914.
Var: [change to spine; not to title page] Selected English Short Stories: First Series, 1928. [?]
Var: xxviii+468pp., 1947. [?]
Var: xxv+468pp., 1967.
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193 Selected English Short Stories, XIX-XX Centuries [one vol. edition, 193 with 228 and 315], xxxv+486+ix+483+viii+507pp., 1930.] [See Appendix II]
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194 BETHAM-EDWARDS, M.,
Lord of the Harvest, intro. Frederic Harrison, xiii+242pp., 1913.
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195 BARROW, SIR JOHN,
The Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty, intro. Sir Cyprian Bridge, xxiii+376pp. 1914.
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196 LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE,
Imaginary Conversations: A Selection, intro. Ernest de Sélincourt, list of persons introduced in this selection, xl+471pp., 1914.
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197 PRESCOTT, WILLIAM H.,
The Conquest of Mexico, Vol. I, intro. Mrs Alec-Tweedie, maps, xxi+375pp., 1915.
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198 PRESCOTT, WILLIAM H.,
The Conquest of Mexico, Vol. II, W.H. Prescott, intro. Mrs Alec-Tweedie, index, xi+410pp., 1915.
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199 WHEELER, C. B. (ed. and intro.),
Six Plays by Contemporaries of Shakespeare [The Shoemaker's Holiday/T. Dekker; The White Devil/J. Webster; The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Philaster/F. Beaumont and J. Fletcher; The Duchess of Malfi/J. Webster; No Way to Pay Old Debts/P. Massinger], x+595pp., 1915.
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200 SMITH, ALEXANDER,
Dreamthorp, with Selections from Last Leaves [Dreamthorp: Dreamthorp; On the writing of essays; On death and the fear of dying; William Dunbar; A lark's flight; Christmas; Men of letters; On the importance of a man to himself; A shelf in my bookcase; Geoffrey Chaucer; Books and gardens; On vagabonds; A selection from `Last Leaves': An essay on an old subject; On dreams and dreaming; Winter; The minister-painter], intro. Hugh Walker, xxv+319pp., 1914.
[DJ Blue on white; engraving from the book: `In summer I spent a good deal of time floating about the lake.' (Page 12); As an essayist Alexander Smith's place `is in the group which contains Lamb, and the Thackeray of Roundabout Papers, and R. L. Stevenson.'--Dr. Hugh Walker, [date?]] [?]
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201 JONES, EDGAR R. (ed.),
Selected Speeches on Foreign Policy, 1738-1914 [W. Pitt [Earl of Chatham]; R.B. Sheridan; W. Pitt [the Younger]; G. Canning; Sir R. Peel; Lord John Russell [later Earl Russell]; Viscount Palmerston; Henry, Lord Brougham; Earl Russell; Lord Stanley [later Earl of Derby]; J. Bright; W.E. Gladstone; B. Disraeli [later Earl of Beaconsfield]; Sir E. Grey; H.H. Asquith; D. Lloyd George], viii+550pp., 1914.] viii+550pp., 1914.
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202 WRAGG, H. (sel., arr. and pref.),
Letters Written in War Time (XV-XIX Centuries) [From the Paston letters; Queen Catherine; Queen Elizabeth; Sir E. Verney; O. Cromwell; Lady B. Harley; Charles I; Henrietta Maria; J. Evelyn; J. Locke; Duke of Marlborough; Lady M.W. Montagu; P.D. Stanhope (Chesterfield); H. Walpole; E. Burke; W. Cowper; G. Washington; C. Collingwood; H. Nelson; A. Wellesley (Wellington); Sir W. Scott; J. Taylor; George Gordon (Byron); Sir C. Napier], xii+266pp., 1915.
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203 GASKELL, ELIZABETH C., The Novels and Tales of Mrs Gaskell X:
Right at Last; and Other Tales, etc. [Right at last; The Manchester marriage; Lois the witch; The crooked branch; A dark night's work; The Schah's English gardener; Cumberland sheep-shearers; Sketches among the poor; Bran; The scholar's story; A Christmas carol; Preface to `Mabel Vaughan'; Preface to `Garibaldi at Caprera'; How the first floor went to Crowley Castle; Two fragments of ghost stories], intro. Clement Shorter, chronology, xvi+527ppp., 1915.
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204 TREBLE, H. A. (comp. and pref.),
English Prose: Narrative, Descriptive and Dramatic [Sir T. Malory; J. Lyly; F. Bacon; W. Shakespeare; B. Jonson; Ben Jonson with G. Chapman and J. Marston; J. Milton; J. Bunyan; D. Defoe; Sir J. Vanburgh; J. Swift; W. Congreve; J. Addison; R. Steele; G. Farquhar; H. Fielding; S. Johnson; O. Goldsmith; E. Burke; E. Gibbon; R.B. Sheridan; Sir W. Scott; J. Austen; C. Lamb; W. Hazlitt; T. de Quincey; T. Carlyle; T.B. Macaulay; W.M. Thackeray; C. Dickens; C. Brontë; E. Brontë; J.A. Froude; J. Ruskin; G. Eliot; G. Meredith; R.L. Stevenson], xi+510pp., 1916.
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205 HAZLITT, WILLIAM,
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays, intro. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, xi+287pp, 1916. [?]
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Var: [reset] xxxvii+276pp., 1955.
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206 JONES, EDMUND D. (sel., arr. and pref.),
English Critical Essays: Nineteenth Century [Poetry and poetic diction/W. Wordsworth; Wordsworth's theory of diction, Metrical composition/S.T. Coleridge; The Canterbury pilgrims/W. Blake; On the tragedies of Shakespeare.../C. Lamb; A defence of poetry/P.B. Shelley; My first acquaintance with poets/W. Hazlitt; Sacred poetry/J. Keble; Poetry with reference to Aristotle's poetics/J.H. Newman; The hero as poet; Dante, Shakespeare/T. Carlyle; An answer to the question: what is poetry?/J.H.L. Hunt; The choice of subjects in poetry/M. Arnold; Of the pathetic fallacy/J. Ruskin; Thoughts on poetry and its varieties/J.S. Mill; Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning.../W. Bagehot; Coleridge's writings/W.H. Pater; Shakespeare; or, the poet/R.W. Emerson; Wordsworth/J.R. Lowell], viii+610pp., 1916.
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Var: viii+522pp., 1947. [?]
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207 TAYLOR, COLONEL MEADOWS,
Confessions of a Thug, ed., intro. and glos. C.W. Stewart, map, xix+552pp., 1916.
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208 TOLSTÓY, LEO,
The Cossacks and Other Tales of the Caucasus [The Cossacks; The raid; The wood-felling; Meeting a Moscow acquaintance in the detachment (from Prince Nekhlyudov's Caucasian Memoirs)], trans. and pref. Louise and Aylmer Maude, list of characters [in each story], viii+371pp., 1916.
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Var: [enlarged; new title] Tales of Army Life [The raid; The wood-felling; Sevastopol in December 1854; Sevastopol in May 1855; Sevastopol in August 1855; Meeting a Moscow acquaintance in the detachment; The Cossacks: A tale of 1852; Preface to Ershov's `Sevastopol Recollections'], trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude, ed. note Aylmer Maude, map, xii+472pp., 1935.
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209 TOLSTÓY, LEO,
Resurrection: A Novel, trans. Louise Maude, intro. Aylmer Maude, pronunciation of Russian names, names of characters, xiv+461pp., 1916.
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210 TOLSTÓY, LEO,
Anna Karénina: A Novel, Vol. I, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude, xiii+493pp., 1918.
Var: rev. trans. with pref./intro. and notes Aylmer Maude, list of characters, list of Russian words, xiv+502pp., 1939.
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211 TOLSTÓY, LEO,
Anna Karénina: A Novel, Vol. II, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude, ix+438pp., 1918.
Var: rev. trans. with pref./intro. and notes Aylmer Maude, list of characters, list of Russian words, xiii+447pp., 1939.
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210 TOLSTÓY, LEO,
Anna Karénina: A Novel [2 vols in 1], [pagination?], [?date]. [See Appendix II]
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Var: intro and notes Aylmer Maude, lists of characters, list of Russian words, xiv+502+447pp., 1949.
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212 SMITH, D. NICHOL (intro.),
Shakespeare Criticism: A Selection [J. Heminge and H. Condell; B. Jonson; J. Milton; I.M.S.; T. Fuller; M. Cavendish; J. Dryden; E. Phillips; N. Rowe; J. Addison and R. Steele; A. Pope; T. Gray; J. Warton; H. Home; G. Lyttelton; S. Johnson; T. Whately; W. Richardson; M. Morgann; C. Lamb; S.T. Coleridge; W. Hazlitt; F. Jeffery; T. de Quincey; W.S. Landor; T. Carlyle],xxxi+416pp., 1916.
Var: [reset] Shakespeare Criticism: A Selection, 1623-1840, xxiv+371pp., 1946.
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213 NEKRASSOV, N.,
Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia?, trans. Juliet M. Soskice, intro. David Soskice, xxi+339pp., 1917.
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214 GASKELL, ELIZABETH C.,
Life of Charlotte Brontë, intro. Clement Shorter, index, xx+476pp., 1919.
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215 KEITH, ARTHUR BERRIEDALE (ed. and pref.),
Selected Speeches and Documents on British Colonial Policy, 1763-1917, Vol. I [I. The origin of representative government in Canada; II. The deadlock in Canada and the grant of responsible government; III. Responsible government in Australasia; IV. The Federation of Canada; V. The Commonwealth of Australia], xvi+381pp., 1918.
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216 KEITH, ARTHUR BERRIEDALE (ed.)
Selected Speeches and Documents on British Colonial Policy, 1763-1917, Vol. II [VI. The Union of South Africa; VII. The autonomy in internal affairs of the self-governing dominions; VIII. The relations of the dominions to foreign powers; IX The unity of the Empire], index, viii+424pp., 1918.]
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215 KEITH, ARTHUR BERRIEDALE (ed. and pref.),
Selected Speeches and Documents on British Colonial Policy, 1763-1917 [2 vols. in 1], xx+381+424pp., 1948.
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217 TROLLOPE, ANTHONY,
The Warden, v+266pp., 1918.
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Var: Map on front and rear endpapers, 1950 [?].
Var: [reset] intro. Richard Church, xiv+264pp. 1961.
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218 WHITMAN, WALT,
Leaves of Grass, sel., ed. and intro. Ernest de Sélincourt, index of titles and first lines, xxxix+392pp., 1920.
Var: [new title] Selected Poems, sel., ed., and intro. Ernest de Sélincourt, index of titles and first lines, xxxix+392pp., 1929.
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219 PEACOCK, WILLIAM (sel., arr. and pref.),
English Prose, Vol. I, Wycliffe to Clarendon [J. Wycliffe; Sir J. Mandeville; G. Chaucer; W. Caxton; Sir T. Malory; Lord Berners; Sir T. More; Sir T. Elyot; H. Latimer; W. Tyndale; T. Cranmer; R. Ascham; R. Holinshed; J. Foxe; Sir T. North; E. Spenser; Sir W. Raleigh; W. Adlington; P. Nichols; R. Hakluyt; J. Florio; Sir P. Sidney; R. Hooker; J. Lyly; C. Marlowe; Authorized Version of the Bible; F. Bacon; W. Shakespeare; T. Nash; J. Donne; B. Jonson; J. Hall; T. Shelton; S. Purchas; R. Burton; F. Beaumont and J. Fletcher; Sir T. Overbury; Lord Herbert; T. Hobbes; J. Selden; W. Drummond; I. Walton; J. Howell; J. Earle; O. Feltham; Sir T. Browne; T. Fuller; E. Hyde (Clarendon)], xv+590pp., 1921.
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220 PEACOCK, WILLIAM (sel. and arr.),
English Prose, Vol. II, Milton to Gray [J. Milton; T. Urquhart; R. Leighton; J. Taylor; R. Baxter; Sir R. L'Estrange; A. Cowley; L. Hutchinson; J. Evelyn; M. Cavendish (Newcastle); J. Bunyan; Sir W. Temple; I. Barrow; J. Tillotson; G. Savile (halifax); J. Dryden; J. Locke; S. Pepys; R. South; T. Ken; G. Burnet; W. Penn; D. Defoe; J. Swift; W. Congreve; B. de Mandeville; Sir R. Steele; J. Addison; H. St. John (Bolingbroke); G. Berkeley; W. Law; A. Pope; S. Richardson; Lady M.W. Montague; J. Butler; P.D. Stanhope (Chesterfield); J. Wesley; H. Fielding; S. Johnson; D. Hume; L. Sterne; T. Gray], xi+593pp., 1921.
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221 PEACOCK, WILLIAM (sel. and arr.),
English Prose, Vol. III, Walpole to Lamb [H. Walpole; G. White; T. Smollett; W. Robertson; A. Smith; Sir J. Reynolds; O. Goldsmith; E. Burke; W. Cowper; E. Gibbon; J. Boswell; W. Paley; H. Mackenzie; R.B. Sheridan; F. Burney; W. Blake; W. Cobbett; A. Radcliffe; M. Edgeworth; J. Foster; W. Wordsworth; M. Park; Sir W. Scott; S, Smith; S.T. Coleridge; R. Southey; J. Austen; C. Lamb], x+552pp., 1921.
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222 PEACOCK, WILLIAM (sel. and arr.),
English Prose, Vol. IV, Landor to Holmes [W.S. Landor; H. Hallam; W. Hazlitt; J. Galt; C. Waterton; W. Irving; J.H.L. Hunt; T. de Quincey; Sir W. Napier; T.L. Peacock; M.R. Mitford; Lord Byron; J.F. Cooper; H.H. Milman; Sir A. Alison; P.B. Shelley; J.G. Lockhart; T. Arnold; T. Carlyle; W.H. Prescott; T.B. Macaulay; J.H. Newman; E.B. Lytton; G. Borrow; R.W. Emerson; N. Hawthorne; B. Disraeli; E.A. Poe; C.R. Darwin; A.W. Kinglake; O.W. Holmes], viii+622pp., 1921.
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223 PEACOCK, WILLIAM (sel. and arr.),
English Prose, Vol. V, Mrs Gaskell to Henry James [E.C. Gaskell; J. Brown; W.M. Thackeray; C. Dickens; J.L. Motley; C. Reade; A. Trollope; C. Brontë; E.J. Brontë; J.A. Froude; C. Kingsley; G. Eliot; J. Ruskin; J.R. Lowell; M. Arnold; G. Meredith; H. Kingsley; S. Butler; W. Pater; H. James; R.L. Stevenson], viii+563pp., 1921.
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224 BORROW, GEORGE,
Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery, xv+622pp., 1920.
[DJ photo Photochrome/ mountain pass/ bio. of Borrow on back flap/ black and white illus; green lettering, 1951]
225 MELVILLE, HERMAN,
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, intro. Viola Meynell, xii+675+[1]pp., 1920.
[DJ Blue on white/ illus. of a sailor preparing to harpoon Moby-Dick, `Miss Meynell is right when she calls this book the crown of one's reading life. There is no other book like Moby Dick.', H.M.T in The Nation, 1925]
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on yellow, 1930]
Var: [reset] Moby Dick; or, The Whale, etymology, extracts, xxviii+583pp., 1952.
[Slip-case, 1952]
[DJI Lynton Lamb/ illus. of Ahab/ green, 1958]
Var: Chancellor Press edn, 1985.
Var: Oxford World's Classics edn, 1999.
[Possible var: sub-title: The White Whale 1923] [?]
226 COLLINS, WILKIE,
Woman in White, pref. to edn of 1861, vii+636pp., 1921.
[DJ Blue on white/ cover illus. man and woman [Walter Hartright and Anne Catherick] in front of a grave/ Caption: `The instant I pronounced that name...a scream burst from her...that made my heart leap with the terror of it.'[p. 100]. "In his illnesses Thackeray read novels `with the most fearful contentment of mind...once at Tunbridge Wells, th [?] thrilling Woman in White...I remember those [?] with a great deal of pleasure and gratitude. Think of a [?] day in bed and a good novel for a companion'.", 1926]
227 VIRGIL,
The Poems of Virgil [The Aenied; The Georgics; The Ecologues], trans. into English verse, and prefs. James Rhoades, xii+424pp., 1921.
[DJ Illus. of `Aeneas and the Sibyl. (Page 134)'. In lower box: first six lines of the Rhoades trans., 1926]
[DJI Diana Bloomfield/ green, 1962]
228 MILFORD, HUMPHREY SUMNER (ed.),
Selected English Short Stories: XIX and XX Centuries (Second Series) [The sailor uncle/M.A. Lamb; First going to church/C. Lamb; The maypole of Merry Mount, The grey champion, Roger Malvin's burial, Old Esther Dudley/N. Hawthorne; The purloined letter, The cask of Amontillado/E.A. Poe; The holly tree/C. Dickens; A terribly strange bed/W.W. Collins; `The sweetness of a man's friend'/W.H. White; Ananda the miracle worker/R. Garnett; The outcasts of Poker Flat, How Santa Claus came to Simpson's/F.B. Harte; Peppiniello/C. Grant; A horseman in the sky/A. Bierce; Owen Wingrave, Four meetings/H. James; The Sire de Malétroit's door/R.L. Stevenson; The birthday of the Infanta/O. Wilde; A poor gentleman/G. Gissing; The house of Eulalie/H. Harland; The gift of the Magi, A municipal report, Madame Bo-Peep, of the ranches/W.S. Porter (O'Henry); The gap in the wall, A witch in the peak/R.M. Gilchrist; The stowaway/G.W. Cornish], ix+483pp., 1921.
[DJ Photo of a woodland scene, 1923]
Var: [reset], viii+470pp., 1948. [?]
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229 TOLSTÓY, LEO,
A Confession; and, What I Believe, trans. and intro. Aylmer Maude, xii+390pp., 1921.
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Var: [new edn] A Confession, The Gospel in Brief, and What I Believe, xvi+539pp., 1940.
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ black and white on yellow, 1940]
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230 BENECKE, ELSE C. M. and BUSCH, MARIE (trans.),
Selected Polish Tales [The outpost/B. Prus; A pinch of salt, Kowalski the carpenter/ A. Szymánski; Forebodings/S. Zeromski; A Polish scene, Death/W. St. Reymont; The sentence/J. Kaden-Bandrowski; `P.P.C.'/Mme Rygier-Nalkowska], pref. Marie Busch, x+348pp., 1921.
[DJ Typographic design, black text on orange, floral device on front cover, 1921]
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231 KEITH, ARTHUR BERRIEDALE (ed.),
Speeches and Documents on Indian Policy, Vol. I [I. The East India Company and the foundation of British India, 1750-1858], preface, xxxi+386pp., 1922.] [?]
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on light blue, 1922]
Var: [photo. reprint] Delhi: Anmol Publications, 1985.
232 KEITH, ARTHUR BERRIEDALE (ed.),
Speeches and Documents on Indian Policy II [II. India as a British dependency 1858-1914; III The war and responsible government in India, 1914-21], vi+364pp., 1922.]
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on light blue, 1922]
Var: [photo. reprint] Delhi: Anmol Publications, 1985. [?]
233 TOLSTÓY, LEO,
War and Peace: A Novel, Vol. I, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude, intro. Aylmer Maude, List of Russian names, xxxii+439pp., 1922-1923.
Var: rev. trans., opinions of War and Peace, table of dates, maps, notes, xiv+564pp., 1933.
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[DJ Typographic design/ bright orange, black titling and white Oxford crest, white spine, 1942] [?]
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234 TOLSTÓY, LEO,
War and Peace: A Novel, Vol. II, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude, List of Russian names, xi+539pp., 1922-1923.
Var: rev. trans., table of dates, maps, notes, xv+564pp., 1933.
[DJ Typographic design/ bright orange, black titling and white Oxford crest, white spine, 1942] [?]
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ black and white on yellow, 1944]
235 TOLSTÓY, LEO,
War and Peace: A Novel, Vol. III, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude, List of Russian names, xi+548pp., 1922-1923.
Var: rev. trans., table of dates, maps, notes, xi+563pp.+12pp, The `Maude' Tolstóy, 1933.
[DJ Typographic design/ bright orange, black titling and white Oxford crest, white spine, 1942] [?]
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233 TOLSTÓY, LEO,
War and Peace: A Novel [3 vols in one], trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude, map, [pagination?], 1929. [See Appendix II]
Var: rev. trans., maps (some folded), xxviii+564+xii+564+viii+563pp., 1933. [?]
[DJ Typographic design/ band on cover: Three Volumes in One; spine: no series number; band: Three Volumes in One/ maroon on blue-green, 1942]
Var: plan, maps (some folded), notes to each vol., xxiv+564+xv+564+xi+563pp., 1941.
[Volume numbers bottom left corner every 33 pages]
[DJ Typographic design/ maroon on blue; no series number on spine, 1944] Var: xxvi+564+xii+564+viii+563pp., 1957.
[Series number appears on the signatures]
[DJ Typographic design/ maroon on cream, with series number on spine, 1957]
[DJI David Knight/ `The Maude Translation' under title/ French troops with Napoleon on a white horse, passing in front of the Kremlin; head and shoulders of a Russian character lower left/ spine: three stars/ lower spine: rose, sword and pouch/ black and white on orange/1958]
Var: xxvii+564+xii+564+viii+563pp., 1974.
[DJ Scene from the BBC TV production, 1974]
Var: See #898.
236 EMERSON, RALPH WALDO,
Nature and Other Miscellanies [Nature; The American Scholar; An address to the senior class....; Literary ethics; The method of nature; Man the reformer; Lecture on the times; The conservative; The transcendentalist; The young American], v+278pp., 1922.
[DJI ?]
237 BURKE, EDMUND,
Letters of Edmund Burke: A Selection, ed. and intro. H.J. Laski, index, xvi+430pp., 1922.
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on red, 1922]
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ bio. of Burke on back flap/ black and white on yellow, 1922 [?]]
238 MORIER, JAMES,
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan, ed., intro. and notes C.W. Stewart, map, xxiii+453pp., 1923.
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and yellow on buff, 1936]
[DJ Floral design with border; Persian motif [no attribution]/ black and white on magenta, 1963]
239 TROLLOPE, ANTHONY,
An Autobiography, intro. M. Sadleir, pref. Henry M. Trollope, xxxiv+335pp., 1923.
Var: Edn of 25 numbered copies; piece of paper tipped-in on title page bearing the printed legend "of [25] special copies number [ ]", 1923.
Var: rev. edn, rev. intro., pref., index, xxx+342pp., 1947.
Var: revised without portrait, xx+318pp., 1953.
[DJI Lynton Lamb/ Trollope in a railway carriage/ brown, 1961]
240 JONES, EDMUND D. (sel., ed. and pref.),
English Critical Essays (Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries) [An apology for poetry/Sir P. Sidney; From `Observations in the art of English poesy'/T. Campion; A defence of rhyme/S. Daniel; The nature of poetry/F. Bacon; Extracts from `Timber', To the memory of William Shakespeare/B. Jonson; Preface to Samson Agonistes/J. Milton; An essay of dramatic poesy, Preface to the fables/J. Dryden; From `The advancement and reformation of modern poetry'/J. Dennis; An essay on criticism/A. Pope; Chevy Chase, Criticisms on Paradise Lost, The fairy way of writing/J. Addison; Poetic diction, Dodsley's miscellany/T. Gray; Conjectures on original composition/E. Young; Heroic and Gothic manners, Spenser and Milton, The Fairie Queene/R. Hurd; Dryden as critic and poet, Gray/S. Johnson; Preface to Milton's minor poems/T. Warton], viii+460pp., 1922. [?]
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Var: [reset] viii+394pp., 1947.
[DJ Typographic design/ orange, 1968]
241 AKSAKOFF, SERGHEI,
A Russian Gentleman, trans. J.D. Duff, x+283pp., 1923.
[DJ Blue on white with portrait on front cover, 1923]
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242 AKSAKOFF, SERGHEI,
Years of Childhood, trans. and intro. J.D. Duff, appendix, vi+446pp., 1921.
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ black and white on yellow, 1951]
243 TOLSTÓY, LEO,
Plays: Complete edition including the posthumous plays [The First Distiller; The Power of Darkness; The Fruits of Enlightenment; The Live Corpse; The Cause of it all; The Light Shines in Darkness], trans. and pref. Louise and Aylmer Maude, xiv+398pp., 1923.
[DJ `A scene from "The Fruits of Enlightenment" (See p. 212)', 1928]
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on orange, 1933]
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest; portrait and bio. of Tolstoy on rear flap/ black and white on turquoise, 1950]
244 PEACOCK, THOMAS LOVE,
The Misfortunes of Elphin; and, Crochet Castle, intro. R.W. Chapman, xiv+282pp., 1924.
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on yellow, 1924]
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ black and white on red, 1937]
245 DOBSON, AUSTIN,
Eighteenth Century Vignettes, First Series,[Steele's Letters; Prior's `kitty'; Spence's `Anecdotes'; Captain Coram's Charity; `The Female Quixote'; Fielding's `Voyage to Lisbon'; Hanway's Travels; A garret in Gough Square; Hogarth's Sigismunda; `The Citizen of the World'; An old London bookseller; Gray's library; The new Chesterfield; A day at Strawberry Hill; Goldsmith's library; In Cowper's arbour; The Quaker of art; Bewick's Tailpieces; A German in England; Old Vauxhall Gardens; At Leicester Fields], frontis. Richard Steele, prefs, notes, general index, 308pp., 1923. [?]
[DJI ?]
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ black and white on green, 1937]
Related item: re-printed: New York: B. Blom, 1968. [?]
Related item: re-printed: St Clair Shores, MI: Scholarly Press, 1975. [?]
246 DOBSON, AUSTIN,
Eighteenth Century Vignettes, Second Series, [The Journal to Stella; At `Tully's Head'; Richardson at home; `Little Roubillac'; Nivernais in England; The topography of `Humphrey Clinker'; The prisoners' chaplain; Johnson's library; The two Pynes; The Berlin Hogarth; Lady Mary Coke; Ranelagh; Epilogue], frontis. Samuel Richardson, prefs, notes, general index, 306pp., 1923.
[DJI ?]
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Related item: re-printed: St Clair Shores, MI: Scholarly Press, 1975. [?]
245 DOBSON, AUSTIN,
Eighteenth Century Vignettes, First and Second Series [2 vols in 1], 308+306pp., 1951.] [?]
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247 DOBSON, AUSTIN,
Eighteenth Century Vignettes, Third Series [Prologue; `Exit Roscius'; Dr. Mead's library; Grosley's `Londres'; `Polly Honeycombe'; Thos. Gent, printer; The adventures of five days; A rival of Reynolds; Fielding's library; `Cambridge, the Everything'; The Officing Arbuteana; Matthew Prior; Puckle's `Club'; Mary Lepel, Lady Hervey; The tour of Covent Garden], frontis. `Tomb of Fielding in the English Cemetary at Lisbon', illus., notes, index, xv+367pp., 1923. [?]
[DJ Standard global map design/ black and white on red, [date?]]
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248 DOBSON, AUSTIN,
Four Frenchwomen [Mademoiselle de Corday; Madame Roland; The Princess de Lamballe; Madame de Genlis], prefs., illus., vi+212pp., 1923.
[DJ Blue on white/ portrait of Princess de Lamballe on cover, 1923]
Related item: reprinted: Essay Index Reprint Series, Books for Libraries Press, Freeport, NY, 1972.
249 DOBSON, AUSTIN,
Poems (Selected), viii+184pp., 1923. [?]
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Var: Selected Poems, rev. and enl. edn, pref. Alban Dobson, index of titles, index to first lines, frontis.: Love in Winter (G.H. Boughton), xii+247pp., 1924.
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Related item: re-printed: Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1972. [?]
250 FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN,
The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Written by Himself [Historical sketch (by John Nigelow) of the fortunes and misfortunes of the autograph Ms. of Franklin's Memoirs of his own life; Franklin's outline of the topics of his Autobiography; The Autobiography; Appendixes (4)], ed. John Bigelow, lxx+247pp., 1924.
[DJ Standard global map design/ title `Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin'/ black and white on red, 1936]
251 TROLLOPE, ANTHONY,
The Belton Estate, vi+432pp., 1923.
[DJ Blue on white/ with a drawing on front panel of a man standing and woman sitting: `"You cannot love me, then, as my wife?" (See page 62)'; `Were an examination in Trollope a thing of practical import, the examining board would be wise to make this book the test question of their paper', Michael Sadleir, Excursions in Victorian Bibliography, 1923]
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[DJI Lynton Lamb/ man and woman in classic nineteenth-century attire in rural scene with white clouds/ black, white and purple, 1964]
252 TROLLOPE, ANTHONY,
The Claverings, intro. G.S. Street, xvi+514pp., 1924.
[DJI Lynton Lamb/ woman (foreground) couple (background) walking; spine double volume/ black and white on olive, 1959]
[DJI Lynton Lamb/ woman (foreground) couple (background) walking/ black and white on olive, 1978]
253 MELVILLE, HERMAN,
White Jacket, or, the World in a Man-of-War, xx+380pp., intro. Carl van Doren, 1924.]
[DJ Cover art: circular panel of sailor in white jacket in front of a sailing ship/`"I had provided it with a great variety of pockets" (Page 35); In this book, descriptive of life in the American Navy of eighty years ago, a reader may find many curious parallels to his own Army life of a few years since'/ black border on yellow, 1924]
[DJ Standard typographic design with Oxford crest/ port. and bio. of Melville on rear flap/ black and white on red, 1929]
254 LEVY, REUBEN (trans. and intro.),
The Three Dervishes and Other Persian Tales and Legends, for the most part translated from hitherto unpublished Bodleian MSS [The three dervishes; The story of Salim the Jeweller of Wásit; The generosity of Hatim Tai; Jamshid and Zuhak; The story of the sailor and the pearl merchant; The treasure of Mansur; The Palace of Nine Pavilions; Khurshidshah and the Princess of China], glos., xii+211pp., 1923.
[DJ Illus. of two Persian knights jousting: `"I came upon him like the wind." (See page 42)'/ with passage from Tennyson: And many a sheeny summer-morn,/ Adown the Tigris I was borne,/ By Bagdat's shrines of fretted gold,/ High-walled gardens green and old;/ TRue Mussulman was I and sworn....; blue on white, 1928]
255 HAZLITT, WILLIAM,
Lectures on the English Poets [On poetry in general; On Chaucer and Spenser; On Shakespeare and Milton; On Dryden and Pope; On Thomson and Cowper; On Swift, Young, Gray, Collins, etc.; On Burns, and the Old English Ballads; On the living Poets], 256pp., 1924.
[DJ Portrait of `James Thomson (See pp. 131-9)', 1924]
256 DOBSON, AUSTIN,
A Paladin of Philanthropy, and Other Papers [A paladin of philanthropy (Gen. Oglethorpe); Goldsmith's poems and plays; Angelo's `Reminiscences'; The latest life of Steele; The author of `Monsieur Tonson'; Boswell's predecessors and editors; An English engraver in Paris; Old Whitehall; Luttrell's `Letters to Julia'; Changes at Charing Cross; John Gay; The Grub Street of the arts; Marteilhe's `Memoirs'; Appendix (`The burning of Whitehall')], index, frontis.: General Oglethorpe, vi+361pp., 1925.
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257 DOBSON, AUSTIN,
Side-Walk Studies [Mrs. Woffington; St James's Park; The Covent-Garden Journal; `Chinese Shadows'; `Dear Mrs. Delany'; The `Vicar of Wakefield' and its illustrators; Dr Johnson's haunts and habitations; Titled authors of the Eighteenth Century; The story of the `Spectator'; A walk from Fulham to Chiswick; On certain quotations in Walton's `Angler'; `Vader cats'], prefs., illus., index, vi+292pp., 1924.
[DJ Blue on white; engraving of Margaret Woffington; The title fairly indicates the remoteness of the majority of these studies from the glitter and bustle of the more frequented promenades of letters, 1924]
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258 DOBSON, AUSTIN,
Old Kensington Palace, and Other Papers [Old Kensington Palace; Percy and Goldsmith; Mr Cradock of Gumley; Madame Vigée-Lebrun; Sir John Hawkins, knight; Laureate Whitehead; Lyttelton as man of letters; Chambers the architect; Cléry's journal; The Oxford Thackeray; Appendix A (The prison of the Temple); Appendix B (The last messages)], frontis. Jean-Baptiste Cant-Hanet (otherwise Cléry), illus., index, [viii]+316pp., 1926.
[DJ Illus. of `Old Kensington Palace in 1725 (Showing Wren's South Front, and Queen Anne's Orangery', `The charm of language in which Austin Dobson clothes his erudition will always be a delightful help ot the student's memory.'--The Athenaeum, blue on white, 1926]
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Press, Freeport, NY, 1968. [?]
259 DOBSON, AUSTIN,
At Prior Park, and Other Papers [At Prior Park; The portraits of Carmontelle; Garrick's `grand tour'; Loutherbourg, R.A.; A Fielding `find'; The Bailli de Suffren; Eighteenth-century Stowe; Robert Lloyd; Gray's biographer; Appendix A (Carmontelle's transparencies); Appendix B (Exhibitions of the Eidophusikon); Appendix C and postscript (Death of the Balli de Suffren)], illus., index, xi+305pp., 1925.
[DJ Blue on white; painting on front cover, 1925]
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Related item: reprinted: Essay Index Reprint Series, Books for Libraries Press, Freeport, NY, 1970. [?]
260 DOBSON, AUSTIN,
Rosalba's Journal, and Other Papers [Rosalba's journal; Streatham place; Falconer's `Shipwreck'; Prior's `Peggy'; The Gordon riots; The early years of Madame Royale; A literary printer (John Nichols); Aaron Hill; A new dialogue of the dead; Notes to A new di