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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - - - -Title: Excursions in Victorian Bibliography - -Author: Michael Sadleir - -Release Date: September 22, 2016 [EBook #53118] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VICTORIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY *** - - - - -Produced by Richard Tonsing, MWS, Adrian Mastronardi and -the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at -http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images -generously made available by The Internet Archive/American -Libraries.) - - - - - - - - - - EXCURSIONS IN - VICTORIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY - - - “If it is true that the Victorian - time was ugly and vulgar, the - excitement of those years between - 1848 and 1890 was something like - that of a religious revival.” - - _The Early Life of Mark Rutherford._ - - - - - ANTHONY TROLLOPE - BENJAMIN DISRAELI - FREDERICK MARRYAT - WILKIE COLLINS - CHARLES READE - G. J. WHYTE MELVILLE - MRS. GASKELL - AND - HERMAN MELVILLE - - - - - EXCURSIONS IN VICTORIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY - - - BY - MICHAEL SADLEIR - - - LONDON - CHAUNDY & COX - 40 MADDOX STREET - MCMXXII - - - - - TO MY - FATHER - - - - - ERRATA - - - P. 24 line 33 for “first” read “second.” - P. 24 line 36 for “Finn” read “Redux.” - P. 29 line 20 for “invented for” read “'presented' in.” - - - - - ADDENDUM. - - - P. 72. The following paragraph should precede “1863/ A - WELCOME, etc.” - - - 1861 - - THE VICTORIA REGIA: A VOLUME OF ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS IN POETRY AND - PROSE. Edited by Adelaide A. Procter. London: Printed and Published - by Emily Faithfull and Co., Victoria Press (for the Employment of - Women), Great Coram Street, W.C. 1861. 1 vol. Royal 8vo (6¼ × 9⅜). - Pp. x + 349 + (1). No half-title. Red-brown embossed cloth, all - edges gilt, blocked in gold and blind. Red chocolate end-papers. - - NOTE.—Pp. 187 to 214 are occupied by a story by Anthony - Trollope entitled _The Journey to Panama_. This is the first - appearance in book form of a tale afterwards published in - _Lotta Schmidt and other Stories_. - - - - - CONTENTS - - - PAGE - - ADVERTISEMENT 1 - - A NOTE ON THE TERMS USED IN THE BIBLIOGRAPHIES WHICH FOLLOW, 10 - TOGETHER WITH OBSERVATIONS RELATIVE TO VICTORIAN BOOKMAKING AND - RECOMMENDATIONS TO COLLECTORS - - ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 16 - - ANTHONY TROLLOPE: Essay and Bibliography 21 - - FREDERICK MARRYAT: Essay and Bibliography 77 - - BENJAMIN DISRAELI: Essay and Bibliography 107 - - WILKIE COLLINS: Essay and Bibliography 129 - - CHARLES READE: Note and Bibliography 159 - - G. J. WHYTE-MELVILLE: Essay and Bibliography 183 - - ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL: Bibliography 203 - - HERMAN MELVILLE: Essay and Bibliography 217 - - INDEX OF BOOK TITLES 235 - - - - - EXCURSIONS IN VICTORIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY - - - - - ADVERTISEMENT - - -This book is so essentially an accumulation of notes and so emphatically -wanting in the qualities of completeness and learning proper to genuine -bibliography that I have sought, even on the title-page, to indicate its -limitations. It were indeed presumption to enter the field of -nineteenth-century bibliography, in which already so much fine and -skilful work has been accomplished, with the slight technical equipment -to which I may lay claim. On the other hand, the experience of -collectors conforms oddly to type, and where, in the study of certain -Victorian first editions, I have found perplexity and doubt, others in -the same study will likely find them too. Wherefore my annotations, in -this book set in order and to a certain point rounded off, should help -my fellow-students to a speedier knowledge of points and pitfalls in the -collecting of their favourites than was easily accessible to myself. In -time (maybe in short time) my work will be superseded by investigation -more accomplished, by analysis more detailed. At such time collectors -(and myself among them) will rightly substitute for this volume on their -shelf of bibliographies the later, more comprehensive, handbooks that -shall have taken its place. Meanwhile I dare to hope that the present -work, with all its shortcomings, will find appreciative users, and among -them a few who, realizing the difficulties that even so modest a -compilation has been forced to surmount, will forgive its imperfections -for the sake of its attributes. - - * * * * * - -With the general propriety of book-collecting I am not here concerned. -Men there are to whom all collecting is folly; others to whom every -passion is vile. To the logical asceticism of their private Utopias they -are welcome, provided the lover be left to enjoy his mistress, the -lepidopterist his butterflies, the bibliophile his books. Even the more -subtle critic, who admits the lure of collecting but maintains that the -craze of the first edition is senseless hysteria, shall not tempt me to -dispute. This is a book about first editions, and will be read only by -the initiate. If we be hystericals, we have at least our weakness in -common. Let us therefore shut the door and compare symptoms, for we are -all fools together. - -The superior and the sceptical are now excluded from the privacy of our -imaginary club-house. But a further reservation must be made. Although -it were impractical idealism to demand that the collector transcend in -his collecting every sordid consideration of market and fluctuating -value, it is reasonable to look askance at the mere speculator. From the -scope of this word I exclude, of course, the whole fraternity of -booksellers. They exist frankly for the marketing of books; and who -shall grudge them the profits of their toil? My animadversion is against -the private person to whom rare books are mere scrip, to be bought and -sold by telephone, their very titles meaningless, their contents utterly -unknown. No doubt, if this book is of service at all, it will be of -service incidentally to individuals of the kind described. That it -should be so is unpreventable. But on the general ethics of collecting -the compiler may be allowed the consolation of bearing his trivial -testimony. The private collector who buys what he likes to read merits -such reward as wise buying may earn for him. He, however, who buys by -rote, puts away and resells, is no collector at all, but rather a -trespasser on the preserves of the bookseller, taking advantage of a -noble trade while sharing none of its burdens. - -With this dictum I descend from the august to the particular. -Collecting, collecting books, collecting first editions of books—all -these are postulates. At this point is a parting of the ways. The -frontiers of dispute now lie across our path; for within the bounds of -the realm of first editions are to be found divergent tastes, -conflicting fancies, all the clamour and thrust of an enthusiasm that -grows ever more complex. - -The collecting of first editions is, in its present form, a diversion of -recent growth. Fifty years ago amateurs of books were few in number and, -necessarily, rich in gold, for only the great books of past literature -were regarded as fit material for collection, and great books, though -cheaper then than now, were never to be had for love. But the passage of -time has transformed, in another way than that of mere numbers, the -community of book-collectors. Not only are there nowadays more -collectors and a greater variety of books collected, but there has come -to its own the great principle of _original condition_. This is not so -pale a platitude as to many it will appear. A few book-buyers there have -always been to whom original binding, original end-papers, uncut edges, -incidental advertisements, errata slips, and half-titles have meant -perfection. But they were rare exceptions. To the large majority a first -edition was a book of a certain date without “Second” or “New Edition” -on its title-page. Buyers of this school were indifferent to the -disfigurement of library labels on side or end-paper; gave no thought to -errata slips; but shaved their favourites, fore-edge and tail, dressed -them in uniform calf gilt, affixed a bookplate, and went their way. - -Such collectors as these are still amongst us, but they are now awaking -to the folly of their past. The market—that indisputable witness to -human taste—gives hard but practical proof of their wrongdoing. “Good -and original condition” is nowadays three-quarters of a book's value, -and the fraction, if it alters at all, will with the passage of time -increase rather than decrease. - -Is it too much to hope that the importance of original condition has now -been permanently realized? The change, if it has really been effected, -is in the main a healthy one. Although—for it is undeniable—the craze -for the fine copy has produced its own extremism; although there are -to-day book-lovers who refuse even to open the pages of their books -lest, by such violation, they unsuit them for a mart in which, -conventionally enough, virginity is value; although advance prospectuses -and dust jackets of contemporary publications have scrupulously to be -preserved in order that a “set” be genuinely complete—the desire for a -book _as issued_ does at least argue a consciousness of its individual -personality. Standard authors, be they ancient or modern, can be -purchased in calf by telephone and at so much per yard; but the -obtaining of shelf furniture in original cloth is a matter of much -seeking and of progress measured in fractions of an inch. - -It has seemed well thus to emphasize the importance of “condition” to -the modern book-collector, because “condition” in the case of such -authors as those here examined is their admirer's greatest problem, and -because the few bibliographies that already exist, while listing dates -of publication and in one case at least supplying adequate collation of -the various volumes, do not provide any real description of the -externals of those volumes when in original state. - -This description I have endeavoured to supply. That my work contains -errors of omission I am certain; that it be free from errors of -commission I may hardly dare to hope. But the trouble I have had even to -arrive thus far on the way to completeness encourages belief that some -portion of the donkey work may now be regarded as done for good and all, -and that the trained minds of bibliographers proper may, if they -incline, turn their talent to such refinements of detail as surely -underlie many of the books herein examined. - - * * * * * - -To the collecting of first editions of Victorian novelists I came by the -honourable way of literary liking. Brought up on Jane Austen, Scott, and -Dickens, I read, during my years of flapperdom, Marryat, Trollope, and -Wilkie Collins. Oxford and the audacities of undergraduate curiosity -estranged me from all save the last quarter of the nineteenth century. -While many of my contemporaries made sour sacrifice at the altars of -disillusion, feeding their pessimism on Gissing and Butler, their taste -for paradox on Bernard Shaw, I sought disreputable refuge among fleshly -symbolists. The children of Baudelaire and Poe jostled the faint -offspring of Gaelic legend on my shelves, and, while the voluptuous -pallor of tuberoses shone against blue wall-paper, imagination floated -on the dim tide of decadence. Came reaction as swift and irrational as -were inevitable. From Paris echoed the clash of neo-barbarism, and -before the strident onslaught of the rediscovered primitive the faint -elegance of a pose too exhausted even for sin dissolved in air. They -were great days, those early days of the new brutality. Blues and mauves -gave place to orange checked with black, to vivid greens, to fierce -outrageous reds. From the scented secrecy of lamplit boudoirs the young -intellectual rushed into the wind and sunshine, and he who once made -tired love to Phryne on a couch of silk now clipped the milkmaid grossly -in a ditch. The way of other tastes went taste in letters and in art. -After d'Annunzio, Synge; after Verlaine, Verhaeren; after Pater, Hardy; -after Rops and Carrière, Gauguin and the rest. - -For a while all was well. Cubism, a false interpretation of the -synthetic doctrine of Cézanne, began its brief and rigid reign. Painters -and writers fled naturalism in a search for true reality. Some are still -wandering, drearily absurd, in the desert of their own bleak imaginings. -The rest found reality, truly enough and rapidly enough—in war. - -And now war has passed, leaving a world weary of fact and fever, weary -of striving, weary almost of its own ideals. For long enough yet will -persist turbulent discomfort and the clamour of quacks hawking the -millennium; but at last will be peace, and it is surely a longing for -that peace that has turned men's minds partly to high romance, but more -generally to the manners and genius of a century ago. Those of an older -generation than my own have, perhaps, never betrayed their gentle -Victorian heritage. One may envy and applaud their wisdom. But we -prodigals, returned from our rioting and sick with the husks of a démodé -violence, stoop to any self-abasement, to any denial of our own past -judgment, so we be allowed entry to the quiet courts and ordered -opulence of the age we once affected to despise. Literary enthusiasm -expresses itself in various ways. For my part to love an author is to -collect him, for I can read no borrowed books, and only with difficulty -such as are not first editions. Of the absurdity of this I am cheerfully -aware. We have each one of us our foible, and this is mine. Considered -broadly it is harmless enough, less cruel than killing birds, less -degrading than drink. Naturally, however, it cannot be indulged to more -than limited degree. Shakespeare and Sterne and Keats and Browning I may -own, but in reprint. And so with many another. But to the extent -possible in fact and a little beyond that permissible in money, I have -contrived, from one phase to another, to keep myself fairly supplied -with “reading firsts.” A decadent, I collected Verlaine and Mallarmé, -Rimbaud and the Anglo-Irish nineties; a neo-primitive, I bought Synge -and Verhaeren, Conrad and the chief Georgian poets of the new -simplicity. And so matters progressed, while gradually novels ousted -poetry from my shelves, and, again gradually, from the reading of modern -novels I came once more to Trollope and the writers of his age. - - * * * * * - -It is not until one undertakes seriously the collecting of the -less-known Victorian novelists that one realizes how prime the sport -that their assembling offers, how destitute of guide-posts is the maze -of their work. In the capacity of quarry few authors or groups of -authors can rival those with whom this volume deals. The essence of -collecting is the chase. The buyer of world-famous rarities, of which -the whereabouts is trumpeted abroad, knows nothing of the thrill of that -dusky provincial bookshop, among whose tumbled piles Victorians must -surely lurk. The dapper expert in ingenious moderns with his prefaces, -his cancel-titles, his censored (but disappointing) curiosa, his “works” -and “limiteds,” can set one joy alone against my dozen. He may, if the -gods be kind, on the shelves of bookshops proper find books that were -bought for new, but have not sold and still remain, lacking an entry to -the world of second-hand, still fresh, still offered at the published -price. But in the main his life is one of “inside information”; his ally -in the trade sells books instead of making them; it is the principle of -the turf in terms of Whatman paper and grey Michalet boards. To the -collector of Victorians (exception made, of course, of Dickens's parts, -of _Wuthering Heights_, of _Desperate Remedies_, of other far reputed -treasures) belongs neither the pursuit of “folios” across the world nor -the click of the tape pegging out details of obscure pamphlets. Copies -of three-volume novels by writers of reputation are hard to find at all, -and very hard in anything of condition. Nevertheless, when found, they -are often cheap. And then, when one is bought, there comes the reading -of it. - -And yet at times the collector feels forlorn and without guidance, for -maybe the book he buys is a little known one, of which the very name is -strange. Indeed, the lack of pointers obtrudes harshly, and in a sense -no less literary than bibliographical. Not only is information as to -actual titles scarce and unreliable, but among the great number of these -writers' books the student must perforce read his own way to a sense of -relative quality. At the cost of some hours of tedium and of many -mistaken purchases I have arrived at a general knowledge of what these -novelists wrote, when they wrote it, and what it looked like when it -first appeared. This knowledge is herein set out for the possible -assistance of all and sundry. - -The relative value as literature or as story-telling of their many books -makes more perilous judgment. I am no expert in comparative literature. -I cannot even claim to have read all or nearly all the books that are, -in the pages following, materially dissected. I have preferred therefore -to make no pretence to serious literary criticism, but have contented -myself with indicating at the beginning of each section the general -character of the work of the writer in question, into what groups (if -any) his novels fall, and have called attention here and there to -certain little known or unknown stories that have pleased me and may, -though hardly for that reason, please some of my contemporaries. Where -an author has little attraction for me, I have said so. Books of all -kinds are listed between these covers, and no single being will enjoy -them all. But this is certain: that among them the inquirer, be his -tastes what they may, will find reading to soothe him and to stimulate; -will come to seek in the solidity, whether downright, fantastic, or -lurid, in the quiet charm, in the dexterous sincerity of good Victorian -fiction, a satisfaction of spirit produced by the novels of no other -period of English literature. - -Those who for years have known and pondered these Victorian tales will -smile contemptuously at such pompous revelation of a stale secret. To -them, in scorn of self and lest they lose any of that pleasurable pride -allowable to old initiates who watch a novice at his scourgings, I offer -the apology that is my book. Others, arrogant in knowledge of -Dickensiana, in possession of priceless Borrows, of Jane Austen perfect -in her boards, will turn from this humble chronicle of humble writers -with the bored serenity of a brass hat on his way to conference. To them -I make obeisance, wondering secretly whether great collections were -amassed more joyfully than my little one. Last of all, however, may come -a few, to whom, as to me, Trollope is balm and meat at once, who love -three volumes of a novel for their very spacing and ornate -expansiveness, who find shelves of cloth or labelled triplets more -beautiful than any other shelves, to whom, in short, the collection and -the reading of Victorian first editions is romance and quiet happiness. -To them my book with all its faults will come kindly and joyfully, for -they will welcome in it the voice of one who thinks and loves, as they -do, the plaint of one suffering from the same sweet sickness as -themselves. - - - - - A NOTE ON THE TERMS USED IN THE BIBLIOGRAPHIES WHICH FOLLOW - - TOGETHER WITH OBSERVATIONS RELATIVE TO VICTORIAN BOOKMAKING, -RECOMMENDATIONS TO COLLECTORS, AND AN APPEAL TO THE EXPERIENCE OF OTHER - STUDENTS FOR ASSISTANCE AND CORRECTION - - -(i) I am aware that bibliographers proper designate by means of upright -strokes the alignment of wording on the title-pages of books subject to -their analysis. This mannerism I have eschewed, and for two reasons. In -the first place, a bibliography so displayed baffles the inexpert reader -by a suggestion of mathematical obscurity. Tempted by the desire to -attract a few such readers to a book that, for all its overplus of sinew -and lack of flesh, is in intention a tribute to a group of very human -and consoling writers, I have sought an appearance of readability at the -cost of a small technical sacrifice. The sacrifice _is_ small—and here -lies the second justification of my heterodox technique—because no -variety of any one of the books hereafter listed depends either on the -alignment of title-page wording or (save in a single case to which -attention is specially drawn) on the phrasing, absence or presence of a -note of reservation of foreign or dramatic rights. In short, that which -is required for the identification of a first edition I have given; but -beyond that—nothing. - -(ii) The first editions of almost any author include, in addition to -books written wholly by him, a number of works for some part of which -only he is responsible. These secondary items cannot be neglected by -collectors, for any _book_ in which for the first time is published an -essay, a story, a poem, or what not by one particular writer ranks as a -first edition of that writer. Naturally, however, complete works take -precedence over partial works, and I have grouped at the end of each -section of this book such partial or minor first editions as I have been -able to identify. - -It must be clearly understood that first _magazine_ publication is not -here referred to. The only periodical issue of a book that can rank with -book issue is that in _parts_, according to which the text of a novel -made its appearance in monthly or weekly sections, separately wrappered, -under its own title and unaccompanied by any extraneous matter save -advertisements. Part issues are essential to a collector; on the other -hand, the numbers of magazines in which this story or that made serial -appearance may be ignored. In many cases I have stated where (if -anywhere) novels were serialized, but such information is of general -rather than of collecting interest, save to those whose catholicity of -taste and house-room permit them the luxury of adding sets of magazines -to those of actual books. - -(iii) The terms used to-day to describe sizes in uncut books vary from -those of an earlier period. For example, the terms “Post 8vo” and “12mo” -are now rarely met with, whereas prior to 1880 they were in regular and -common currency. Fearing that the modern buyer or seller of books would -be puzzled by too frequent an encounter with technicalities virtually -obsolete, I have expressed book sizes in terms familiar to present-day -ears and as nearly equivalent to those replaced as makes no matter. The -“8vo” book of the fifties is the “Demy 8vo” of the nineteen-twenties; -“Post 8vo” has become “Extra Crown 8vo”; “12mo” has become “Foolscap -8vo.” The phraseology adopted, being familiar, will give an immediate -general idea of a book's dimensions; the measurement in inches, given in -brackets in all but a handful of cases, will supply to an eighth of an -inch any further detail required. - -(iv) The half-title is something of a bugbear to the collector of -Victorians. Its absence may be fatal; its presence may give pause. As -the nineteenth century progressed, methods of bookmaking became -standardized; but during the first fifty years publishers printed to -paper and their own convenience, regardless of uniformity even between -volumes of the same work. For this reason no certainty exists as to the -possession by any book of a half-title. Usually examination will show -whether, in a book lacking a half-title, the first sheet should rightly -provide one or no. The publisher who found his preliminary matter -adequate, without half-title, for four or eight pages, let it go at -that; if, however, he had two pages of his four or eight to spare, he -used them for half-title and verso. Wherever in the notes that follow I -have satisfied myself that an absence of half-title is correct, I have -drawn attention to that absence; wherever nothing is said, the silence -should be taken to signify that in perfect copies half-titles must -appear. - -(v) In the matter of binding it was the custom from about 1830 to 1850 -to issue many books both in cloth and in paper boards. The old fashion -for boards and labels died hard, and doubtless the trade found it paid -to humour at once the enthusiast for the new cloth and the conservative -lover of ancient ways. The collector who has the choice of a book either -in cloth or in boards (with which must be understood boards, -half-cloth[1]) and lacks either inclination or money to buy the two -should, if condition be equally good, buy the copy in boards. Such a -copy _may be_ of earlier but _cannot_ be of later issue than one in -cloth. Should the book be one of which the two styles were issued -simultaneously the copies will rank equally, although even in such cases -a board copy is preferable, seeing that probably fewer were published -than of those in cloth, and certainly fewer have survived. - -Footnote 1: - - For convenience' sake the word “cloth” is used throughout these - bibliographies to signify woven material used in binding. Technically, - in the transition period between bound books and those fully bound, - half-binding was carried out in “canvas,” cloth proper being of - somewhat later date. - -The phrase “boards (half-cloth) paper labels” is used in these -bibliographies to describe books which may be found _both_ in full-board -_and_ half-cloth styles. The colours of board and canvas vary greatly, -as different tones were often used for books belonging to one edition. - -(vi) It will be noticed that in the majority of cases I give the _month_ -as well as the year of a novel's publication. This, had it been -possible, I would wish to have supplied throughout, for by its help -alone can the vexed question of dated catalogues be properly determined. -Unfortunately, with the disappearance _in toto_ of many publishing -firms, the absorption of others under new names, and the surprising lack -of any complete files of lists and catalogues for the decades in -question, it has been impossible in every case to fix the dates thus -accurately. In determining the various issues of a first edition (for a -publisher does not bind his whole printing at once, but in lots as -required, and often at intervals of years), the date, if any, of the -catalogues of publications generally bound at the end of Victorian -novels is an essential factor. Where I give the month of publication in -the pages that follow, there can be no difficulty in detecting copies -bound up and issued after first publication. Elsewhere buyers can only -be advised to compare the date of title-page with that of catalogue. If -the latter predates or tallies with the former all _may_ be well; if the -catalogue date be later, the book is not a first issue, although still, -so far as the sheets are concerned, a copy of the first edition. In a -few rare cases, where numerous catalogues were printed during the same -year, the earliest date found in any particular first edition of that -year can be established only by experience. It is for this reason that -identity of year between title-page and catalogue _may_ rather than -_must_ indicate a true first issue. - -(vii) Advice as to condition is easily given. - -Never buy a rebound book or one of which the edges have been shaved.[2] - -Footnote 2: - - In this, as always, generalization fails. The vast majority of the - books here listed were first issued _uncut_; there are, however, a - few—and those among the books of later date—that were published cut. - The collector can identify these, if in original binding, by comparing - measurement with that here given. - -Be wary of books in cloth which bear no publisher's imprint on the -spine; a few are right, but the majority are remainder-bound. Only in -the very early days of cloth binding were spines unimprinted. Of course -_labelled_ books, whether in boards or half-cloth, never show -publishers' imprint at the tail of their spines. - -Always examine end-papers. The quality of Victorian end-papers cannot be -obtained to-day, and it is rare that the substitution in one book of an -old end-paper from another is so neatly done as to defy detection. - -Library labels and their horrid traces have no place in a fine copy. If, -however, a buyer inclines to accept ex-library copies pending better -fortune, he should prefer those marked _inside_ front covers to those of -which the actual cloth is disfigured. Should the choice be between a -copy in disfigured cloth and one of which the cloth is clean but the -end-papers renewed to obliterate some previous damage, the wise buyer -will take the first and leave the second. Better a dirty original than a -book neat but doctored. - -Do not reject an otherwise good copy of a book because the case is loose -or the back-stitching perished. Such deterioration is easily and -painlessly repaired. - -In the case of books illustrated with etchings or steel engravings, -compare the date often to be found on the plates with that on the -title-page. These dates should tally, or, if they do not, thought or -examination of prefatory matter should show the reason why. - -Several cases exist of books reissued more than once, but without -printed indication of reissue, in a style identical with that of the -first edition. In such cases the plates, more often than not, bear their -silent witness, and the careful buyer, momentarily uncertain of his -dates, is saved the purchase of a book he does not want. - -(viii) The volumes listed which I have not myself seen and examined are -asterisked and thus expressly noted as catalogued without personal -investigation. As may be imagined, some of the obscurer works of the -authors dealt with are extremely rare, and all my seeking has failed to -discover some of them. In every other case personal handling has -preceded analysis, even although collation may already have existed in -published form. - -(ix) In conclusion I would appeal to any reader of my book who can -emend, develop, or dispute the statements therein contained to send me -forthwith his criticisms and suggestions. To work of this kind can be no -finality. Freak copies, copies containing catalogues of earlier date, -copies in earlier varieties of binding—of such things is the sport of -bibliography composed. No individual can be sure that one particular -issue of any book is the earliest; comparative certainty comes only from -cooperation. Wherever possible I have compared several copies of the -same book, but this was by no means everywhere. Consequently to look -forward to revision and yet more revision is, in the circumstances, a -matter for hope rather than one for shame. - - - - - ACKNOWLEDGMENTS - - -Perhaps the most pleasant element in the compiling of this book has been -the generosity and enthusiasm with which persons able to help have -responded to inquiries. - -Among those who have contributed of their private knowledge facts that -but for them I could never have discovered, Mr. Richard Bentley must -have first place. Unique as an authority on Victorian publishing, Mr. -Bentley not only replied promptly and in detail to my importunate -inquiries, but made suggestions and gave information—often at -considerable personal trouble—which have greatly extended the scope and -utility of my book. - -Other publishers and editors were no less ready to give me access to -such records of the past as were still in their keeping. To Mr. Arthur -Waugh (of Messrs. Chapman and Hall), to Mr. Kelk and to Mr. Barnard (of -Messrs. Longmans, Green), to Mr. Spalding (of Messrs. Chatto and -Windus), to Mr. Herbert Virtue (of Messrs. Virtue and Co.), to Mr. -Farquharson and to Mr. Leonard Huxley (of Messrs. John Murray), to Mr. -Marston (of the “Publishers' Circular”), I tender my best thanks. - -Gratitude must next be expressed to booksellers and owners of books -whose contribution differed in kind but not in degree from that of the -foregoing. Mr. Walter Spencer put his unrivalled stock of Victorian -first editions wholly at my disposal, thus enabling me to examine many -rare items not elsewhere discoverable. He also lent me a series of -autograph letters from which certain details were obtainable. To Messrs. -Bain and Messrs. Maggs I owe opportunities of seeing books necessary to -my list. Mr. Hugh Walpole gave me access to his private collection, and -Mr. Cecil Davis, Mr. J. A. Green, and Mr. Clement Shorter helped to a -clearer understanding of the bibliography of Captain Marryat and of Mrs. -Gaskell. - -Further, I should like to set down my appreciation of the facilities -afforded to me by the authorities of the British Museum and of the -Bodleian Library. Their willingness to shorten in my favour the tedious -process of extracting scattered volumes from their stores and vaults -saved much fatigue and hours of valuable time. - -To my mother, to my wife, and to one of my publishers I owe thanks for -friendly collaboration at points where two heads and four hands had more -than twice the value of half their number. Lastly, and perhaps mostly, I -am indebted, for secretarial assistance and for help in the labour of -research, to Miss Martha Smith, whose accuracy and devotion have halved -my personal toil. - - - - - ANTHONY TROLLOPE - 1815-1882 - - - - - ANTHONY TROLLOPE[3] - - -Trollope's novels, like those of Jane Austen, are of the very essence of -fiction. Whatever they may lack in verbal subtlety, in passion, in -tragedy or in comedy of idea, they never lack that spiritual skeleton -without which no structure of a story-teller's imagining can survive. -Palaces more delicate, more romantic, more brilliant and more terrible -than those of Trollope have been erected and have stood to win the -admiration of posterity; but their splendour and their beauty are due -more to the solid material that upholds their walls and roofs than to -the skill and fancy of their decoration. Other palaces, because they -lacked such invisible but vital solidity, have drawn for an hour the -fickle favour of the crowd and then toppled into dust. It is easy, in -fiction, to create a nine days' wonder, but hard indeed to win the -esteem of ninety years. - -Footnote 3: - - For his consent to the reprinting of this Essay I am grateful to the - Editor of the “Nineteenth Century and After.” - -Trollope has achieved that victory. Oblivion can now never be his, for -he has lived his bad times and survived. As must any artist worth the -name, he suffered eclipse—temporary, indeed, but so severe as at one -time to threaten permanence. He was scorned as dowdy and parochial by -the brilliant metropolitans of a succeeding generation. Only in the -hearts of quiet folk and among readers uninstructed in the genius of -their own time were his books remembered and cherished. - -Until, slowly and slowly, opinion has begun to change. Quality has -outstayed vogue, and the latter comes smirking back to the smiles of a -lover yesterday despised. Indeed, Trollope is in a fair way to become -once again the fashion. For a while he will be honoured by the -enthusiasm of the intellectuals. Then, when they have turned their -volatile benevolence to some other quarter, he will settle firmly in the -respect of the critical. And that will at once be fame and his deserts. - -Any summary analysis of Trollope's individual novels is wellnigh -impossible, in view not only of the bulk of his work but also of its -scope and richness of content. His quality is more intangible and at the -same time more concentrated than that of the other writers treated in -this book. “Of all the needs a book has, the chief need is that it be -readable,” wrote Trollope himself. And again: “The primary object of a -novelist is to please.” Readability has, in these latter days, become a -term of condescension. But that is the fault of a superior age, and for -the ten who use the word contemptuously there are ten thousand who, did -they care to do so, would give it an older and a more honourable -meaning. To them, as always to the large public of novel-readers, -fiction, when it is not costume-romance, mystery-story, or topical -propaganda, is a revelation of their own lives. It is this demand for an -expression of emotions in which the normal reader can share that -Trollope so amazingly satisfies. No précis of plot, no indication of -social setting, of character types, nor of period, can in his case -convey the essence of any particular novel. - -Nevertheless his stories fall into certain specific categories, some of -which form actual series of tales with characters reappearing from -volume to volume, while others, although severally independent and -self-contained, may be classified as belonging to one type of fiction or -to another. - -The best known group of novels is that dealing with the society of the -city of Barchester and of the surrounding neighbourhood. _The Chronicles -of Barsetshire_, as they have been called, are six in number: - - THE WARDEN (1855), - BARCHESTER TOWERS (1857), - DOCTOR THORNE (1858), - FRAMLEY PARSONAGE (1861), - THE SMALL HOUSE AT ALLINGTON (1864), and - THE LAST CHRONICLE OF BARSET (1867). - -Although these famous stories undoubtedly contain much of Trollope's -best work, they do not contain the whole of it. It is a mistake to -suppose that they rank altogether higher than his other books, and one -of the most disastrous results of the disfavour into which his novels -fell after their author's death is that a wealth of really first-rate -material, just because it is included in books of which the late -eighties chose to forget the titles, lies hidden to-day and withdrawn -from the enjoyment of modern readers. - -Cases of such unmerited neglect are encountered immediately and among -the novels of Trollope's second continuous and interconnected series. -The “political” stories, like those of Barsetshire, are six in number: - - CAN YOU FORGIVE HER? (1864), - PHINEAS FINN (1869), - THE EUSTACE DIAMONDS (1873), - PHINEAS REDUX (1874), - THE PRIME MINISTER (1876), and - THE DUKE'S CHILDREN (1880). - -It is truly remarkable to what an extent these admirable tales have -fallen into oblivion. Not only do they introduce many of Trollope's most -masterly characters, but they present, vividly and with knowledge, the -minds and manners of the political aristocracy, the social hangers-on, -the Tadpoles and Tapers of the day. Speaking generally, the social -setting of the political novels is different from that of _The -Chronicles of Barsetshire_. Indeed, it could hardly be otherwise, seeing -that the whole series takes its tone from the personalities of -Plantagenet Palliser and his wife Lady Glencora, who, as the stories -progress and by natural course of inheritance, become the Duke and -Duchess of Omnium and the greatest of English nobility. Trollope's -method is not slavishly to serialize the life story of any individual -character or pair of characters. All the political novels have their own -clearly defined plot. They are, however, all tinged with the compelling -personalities of Lady Glencora and her husband, into which Trollope -threw all that he had of art and enthusiasm. - -_Can You Forgive Her?_ is a long novel, concerned primarily with the -troubles of a motherless girl who breaks an engagement with an -oppressively upright man in order to return to a youthful love affair -with a dissipated and unscrupulous cousin. Mr. Grey, the honourable man, -gets in the end the wife he wants; but Trollope does not hesitate to -show fairly the preference of a high-spirited girl for an adventurous -rascal, and there will be many who, when the book is finished, will -regret—a little ashamedly—that virtue has ultimately triumphed. In the -life story of Lady Glencora _Can You Forgive Her?_ is important, for it -pictures her newly married and literally on the verge of running away -from her shy, proud, inarticulate husband, with a beautiful young -reprobate, whose previous intimacy with her the reader may imagine at -his discretion. The fallibility of Lady Glencora is skilfully contrasted -with that of Alice Vavasor, the heroine of the book; their circumstances -are so similar, and yet the young women react to them so differently! - -_Phineas Finn_ is a tale of political ambition. The hero, by whose name -the book is called, is a poor Irishman who comes to seek his fortune in -Parliament. The ups and downs of his career; Lady Laura Kennedy, who -loves him but from family pressure marries millions; Madame Max Goesler, -the fascinating, mysterious widow who rejects flattering if dubious -proposals from the old Duke of Omnium, combine with a mass of other -material to make a really dramatic story that is continued, and equally -well continued, in _Phineas Redux_. - -Not the least remarkable feature of the second of these two books is the -hero's trial for murder. Trollope has a genius for trial scenes, and to -my mind it is an open question whether that in _Phineas Redux_ is not -finer than its more celebrated predecessors in _The Three Clerks_ and in -_Orley Farm_. - -_The Eustace Diamonds_ turns on the personality of Lizzie Eustace, a -selfish but attractive little woman who keeps possession, in the teeth -of lawyers and of her late husband's relations, of certain priceless -jewels to which she has no right whatever. There are two or three -subplots in the story, all of good quality; but the character of Lizzie -Eustace, who, for all her lying and her insincerity and her cheap -smartness, is seductive and appealing, stands out as the book's -essential achievement. - -_The Prime Minister_ and _The Duke's Children_ are the only two novels -of the political series in which Plantagenet Palliser, now Duke of -Omnium, is admittedly the central figure. The former book is so -constructed as to give prominence to the love affair and unhappy -marriage of Emily Wharton with Ferdinand Lopez, a stock gambler and -commercial adventurer. But although the history of the Lopez ménage is -admirably told, and gives scope for the reintroduction of Lizzie -Eustace, as well as other strange and disreputable people, the story of -the first premiership of the Duke of Omnium is the real story of the -book. By the time he came to the writing of _The Prime Minister_, -Trollope had become deeply interested in presenting in the person of the -Duke his ideal conception of an English aristocrat. No praise can be too -high for the skill with which he implies, but does not describe, the -divergent qualities of ambition possessed by the Duke and by his wife. -Throughout the book she is for ever striving to make him in the eye of -the world the greatest gentleman of the greatest kingdom of all time. -He, on the other hand, sees in his position only duty and responsibility -and disappointment. Not the least of his troubles are his wife's -insistence that the life of a public man is never private, and her -expressed conviction that give and take is the essence of political -compromise and therefore of premiership. - -In the interval between _The Prime Minister_ and _The Duke's Children_ -the Duchess of Omnium dies. The unhappy Duke is left to find, if he may, -in the achievements of his children that completeness and success to -secure which he feels that he has himself so utterly failed. Everything -goes awry. His only daughter gives her love to an unknown and penniless -commoner. His younger son, after ragging through his university career, -resorts disastrously to cards and racing. Finally, his heir—Lord -Silverbridge—stands for Parliament in the opposite interest to that of -his father, and, worse still, turns from the girl the Duke has chosen as -his bride, in order to throw his title and prospects at the feet of the -beautiful daughter of an American savant. The Duke struggles against his -own humanity; slowly and unhappily, as is his way, he adjusts himself to -the changing times; at the last he sacrifices his ideals of nobility to -personal affection. _The Duke's Children_ worthily closes a series of -fine novels. In some ways this last story of the political group is the -best, and it speaks a good deal for the author's power of sustained -imagination that he contrived, over a period of sixteen years, to -maintain the interest and develop the vitality of so complex a -collection of characters. - -The rough classifications of novels in themselves independent may, out -of respect for chronology, begin with the stories of Irish life. _The -Macdermotts of Ballycloran_ (1847), _The Kellys and the O'Kellys_ -(1848), _Castle Richmond_ (1860) and _The Landleaguers_ (1883), are the -four books which belong, properly speaking, to this category. Of course -there are Irish scenes in many other novels, for Trollope lived for -years in Ireland, knew it well and loved it, and was for ever -introducing Irishmen and Irish incidents into his work. The books above -mentioned are, however, wholly and deliberately novels about Ireland. -The first two have the faults of very early work, in that they are -prolix and lack that control of character and material that marks the -experienced novelist. Both, however, are worth reading, and the plot of -_The Kellys_ needs no excuse on the score of inexperience. _Castle -Richmond_, however, is definitely an unsuccessful book. It is packed -with information about the Irish famine, and the story is -over-melodramatic for Trollope's method. One of his most characteristic -qualities as a novelist is his refusal to keep the reader in suspense. -In direct contrast to Wilkie Collins, he goes out of his way to explain, -as he comes to it, each seemingly inexplicable event. It is as though he -scorns to save himself the trouble of characterization by erecting -between himself and the reader a screen of mystery. For this reason, the -secret power exercised by the unsavoury Molletts over Sir Thomas -Fitzgerald is, because it soon ceases to be secret, a weak foundation -upon which to erect a story. _The Landleaguers_, the book left -unfinished by Trollope when he died, is concerned to present the social -condition of Ireland in the early eighties, as was _Castle Richmond_ to -depict that of the famine-ridden forties. And yet what a difference! In -_The Landleaguers_ the novelist presents his picture of politics in his -actual story. There are no passages of blue-book instructionalism, but -it is doubtful whether a more vivid impression of the state of Ireland -at the time can be obtained from any other source. Even if there were no -others among Trollope's old-age novels to disprove the theory, _The -Landleaguers_ alone should put an end to the contention that toward the -end of his life he had lost his cunning or written himself out. - - * * * * * - -It is now necessary to examine that large and heterogeneous collection -of novels which, from one point of view or another, satirize -contemporary life or present some definite aspect of the English social -scene. Let me once more insist that the classification of Trollope's -books here attempted should not be understood too literally. All the -Barchester novels, all the political novels, are in one sense wholly -presentments of society; in the same way many of them contain passages -definitely satirical. But they have other claims to special grouping -which the numerous isolated stories now to be considered do not possess; -and, while satire is mainly incidental to the tales of Barchester and to -those of political life, it is in some at least of Trollope's other -books the principal purpose of the story. - -First, then, the books which may fairly be termed books of social -satire. The earliest in date is _The Bertrams_, which, although the -situations and characters are of the kind which Trollope was to make -essentially his own, is a failure even more complete than _Castle -Richmond_. The central theme is one to which the author more than once -returns. Caroline Waddington rejects George Bertram for reasons of -income and prospects. She marries his successful lawyer friend, only to -find that she has sold herself to a greedy tyrant. The parallel case of -Julia Brabazon and Harry Clavering immediately suggests itself; but -where in _The Claverings_ Trollope achieves an intense humanity, in _The -Bertrams_ he is dully mechanical. He allows the subsidiary plots to -disturb and obscure his main story. When, as frequently, he attempts the -comic in social enjoyment he comes clumsily to grief. The widow's -seaside picnic in _Can you Forgive Her?_ has only to be contrasted with -the excursion from Jerusalem described in _The Bertrams_ to make clear -the difference between successful and unsuccessful satire. And yet there -are points in _The Bertrams_. The close-fisted old man, the disposal of -whose money provides the motive of most of the incident, is drawn with -consistent restraint. There are touches in the description of society at -Littlebath that prepare the reader for the pleasure of _Miss Mackenzie_. -On the whole the book should be read. It is Trollope “off” (or rather -“not yet on to”) his game, but it was published at an important moment -in his career and helps to make clear his subsequent development. - -_Rachel Ray_ (1863) and _Miss Mackenzie_ (1865) may, without any -critical licence, be considered together. Both are bitter satires on -Evangelical Christianity. Trollope inherited from his mother a hatred of -the brimstone school of religious teachers, and in these novels he lets -himself go with considerable effect. The earlier of the two books -contains comparatively few characters, and those of modest social -position. Rachel herself is delightful and gives to the book, despite -its obvious weaknesses of construction, a freshness and charm that is -very pleasing. Mrs. Prime and her horrible clerical admirer are frankly -caricature, but that they should be so is not unnatural, seeing that -they represent the very puritanism that the book is intended to attack. - -In _Miss Mackenzie_ we are given the story of a spinster of thirty-five, -to whom unexpectedly a small fortune is bequeathed. She becomes -immediately the quarry of fortune hunters—shabby social, religious, and -commercial. Some of the best scenes in the story are staged in -Littlebath, where Miss Todd and Miss Baker (who help to retrieve _The -Bertrams_ from disaster) make welcome reappearance. As satire the novel -is more dexterous than _Rachel Ray_, but it lacks the attraction of a -real Trollope heroine, and throughout has a faint tinge of the sordid. -It is interesting to note on page 242 of the second volume a mention of -Lady Glencora Palliser, whom Trollope had 'presented' in _Can you -Forgive Her?_ - -Not until 1875 did Trollope publish another definitely satirical novel. -When he did so, the event marked an important stage in his evolution as -a novelist. Critics had begun to grumble at comedies of manners, which -spoke of the suavity of yesterday rather than of the competitive hustle -of to-day. England was moving step by step along the road to -commercialism. Trollope, with his county and clerical families, his -political aristocrats and comic tuft-hunters, was shrugged aside as out -of date. Such treatment was intolerable, and, with a gesture half -impatient, half appealing, he sent out into the world _The Way We Live -Now_. This long and crowded novel—perhaps, with the exception of _The -Last Chronicle of Barset_, the most abundant of all his books—presents, -in the person of Mr. Melmotte, the financial magnate of alien origin -proper to a truly modern story of English life. Whether the cavillers, -whose complaints spurred Trollope to so violent an effort, admitted, -after reading _The Way We Live Now_, that the old dog could in truth -out-modern the best of them, history does not relate; but undeniably -this book, in which he asserted his vitality and showed that in the -matter of satiric observation he was well abreast of the times, has no -lack of vigour or luxuriant invention. - -That _Mr. Scarborough's Family_ (1883) may reasonably be said to -conclude the list of Trollope's satirical novels is perhaps disputable. -And yet, because its power is mainly ironic, I prefer to mention it here -rather than treat of it as a purely social story. A while ago one -example was quoted of a first-rate book from Trollope's last period. -_Mr. Scarborough's Family_ is another. - -An aged and wealthy cynic suddenly (and, as it turns out, with -deliberate falsehood) makes public the illegitimacy of his eldest son. -With the complications of inheritance, with the changing relations -between old Mr. Scarborough and his two sons, of whom the elder is now -destitute and the latter coldly triumphant in his unexpected good -fortune, is involved an elaborate second plot, centring round the love -story of an amiable young man, whose fortunes depend on the favour of a -peevish and eccentric uncle. Analysis of a tale so full of happening and -character is impossible in a few lines. Sufficient to say that _Mr. -Scarborough's Family_, were it not for the date on its title-page, might -be thought to belong to a much earlier period, not only of Trollope, but -of fiction as a whole, to a period more lavish than subtle, more genial -and full-blooded than detached and sensitive. - -With _The Three Clerks_ (1858) opens the chronology of those novels -which, although partially satirical, are in the main straightforward -stories of English cultivated life. _The Three Clerks_ is one of the few -Trollope novels that has been seriously overrated. In its pages Mr. -Chaffanbrass, the notorious Old Bailey lawyer, makes his first -appearance, but he is infinitely more effective in _Orley Farm_ and in -_Phineas Finn_ than at his first entrance on the Trollope stage. In so -far as _The_ _Three Clerks_ gives a picture of the Civil Service that -the author himself knew, it has documentary value, but as fiction it is -formless and flaccid. Its young women are wholly devoid of that -freshness and frankness that place Trollope, as a creator of femininity, -apart from all other novelists of his generation; its menfolk are either -riotous dummies like those in Smedley's novels, or prigs and villains, -compounded so slavishly by recipe as to have little meaning beyond that -of the conventional types they represent. - -Of _Orley Farm_ (1862) it is unnecessary to speak, the novel being one -of the two or three outside the Barchester series which are still read -to-day. _The Belton Estate_ (1866), on the other hand, badly needs -rehabilitation. Henry James, in a review written when quite a young man, -concluded a long paragraph of hostile criticism with the words: “_The -Belton Estate_ is a stupid book.” One may venture that the obtuseness -was not all on one side. Using a cast of four principal and as few -subsidiary characters, Trollope fills three good volumes with the -matrimonial dilemma of Clara Amedroz, who has to choose between the -uncouth, well-to-do farmer to whom passes her thriftless father's -estate, and the polished, self-seeking Captain Aylmer—in parlance, -though not in fact, also her cousin—who offers her marriage because at -the deathbed of his rich aunt and as part condition of becoming her heir -he swore to do so. _The Belton Estate_ has, to a greater degree than any -other of Trollope's books, that art of concealing art which delights one -type of mind, but by another is dismissed as “stupid.” In a sense it is -the most difficult to appreciate of all the important novels, and, 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. - -_The Claverings_ (1867) and _He Knew He Was Right_ (1869) are very long -books, each of which turns on a theme highly characteristic of the -author. Mention has already been made of Julia Brabazon, heroine of the -former book, who jilts the nobody she loves for a rich invalid peer. The -price she has to pay is counted in full in the pages of _The -Claverings_, which also introduce a number of excellent characters, from -Sir Hugh Clavering, hard, savage, and selfish, to Sophie Gordeloup and -her scoundrelly brother, who play so desperately for the wealth and -person of Lord Ongar's lonely and embittered widow. _He Knew He Was -Right_ describes the steady growth in a husband's mind of unjust -suspicion of his wife's fidelity. As a crescendo of hysterical mistrust, -the book is a fine piece of sustained writing. As a novel, it would be -gloomy and distressing but for an admirable and humorous by-plot laid in -cathedral Exeter. It would, perhaps, be hypercritical and unappreciative -of his adroit handling of incident to blame the author for the very -liberal use of coincidence with which he aids the progress of his story. - -Of the six social novels that remain, one is first-rate, three are very -good second-rate, one is ordinary second-rate and the last frankly bad. -_Is He Popenjoy?_ (1878) may rank with _The Claverings_ as a book -undeservedly excluded from the upper room of every Trollope-lover's -mind. The Dean of Brotherton, son of a jobmaster, father of the heroine -and ultimately grandfather of a marquis, is a Trollope dignitary of the -first water. His daughter is as eminent in the world of heroines as is -her father in that of ecclesiastics. She is gay, loving, whimsical, -courageous, and always natural. Her dour husband with his excessive -sense of duty and inadequate sense of humour; her aristocratic -sisters-in-law, shrouding in ill-nature and good works the emptiness of -their lives and purses; the society siren; the society matchmaker; and -perhaps above all the ill-tempered, dissolute marquis, on the legitimacy -of whose son turns the whole mechanism of the story, are each one of -them fictional characters that only a master could create. - -_Ralph The Heir_ (1871)—the plot of which was pirated by Charles Reade -and dramatized under the title _Shilly Shally_—contains some good -characters and perhaps the best parliamentary election of all those -contrived by its author. The troubles and difficulties of the shy, -ineffective Sir Thomas Underwood, and the determination of Mr. Neefit, -the breeches-maker, to buy up a bankrupt young squire as husband for his -daughter would give distinction to any story. _Lady Anna_ (1874) is a -delicate elaboration of Trollope's favourite motif—projected or (as in -this case) actual misalliance. _The American Senator_ (1877) contains -some excellent hunting and much good general observation. _Ayala's -Angel_ (1881), like _The Belton Estate_ but less pronouncedly, is a book -that must be read to be realized, for it is quiet Trollope and a thing -of shades rather than one of definite, contrasted colours. - -There remains _Marion Fay_ (1882), once again a tale of misalliance. -This is undeniably the worst book that its author ever wrote. Everywhere -but here he contrives to keep either his hero or his heroine (and more -frequently both) sympathetic, sensible, and convincingly normal; but in -_Marion Fay_ he sinks to mawkishness and to a deathbed scene that is -frankly inexcusable. - - * * * * * - -Plenty of novels still remain of this astonishing and untiring writer. -They may, however, be somewhat summarily dismissed. The most interesting -group is that of the short, single-theme stories which succeeded the -publication of _The Way We Live Now_. It is not unreasonable to -attribute to the mood of challenge in which that novel was sent out the -noticeable change in the author's method during the years that followed. -It is as though he had determined to try his hand at the psychological -analysis which was just coming into fashion among novelists. And so we -are given in quick succession six little books, each written round a -single event or describing the reactions of one individual to a definite -set of circumstances. The titles are as follow: - - AN EYE FOR AN EYE (1879), - COUSIN HENRY (1879), - DOCTOR WORTLE'S SCHOOL (1881), - THE FIXED PERIOD (1882), - KEPT IN THE DARK (1882), - AN OLD MAN'S LOVE (1884). - -It so happened that _An Eye for An Eye_ was written before the -publication of _The Way We Live Now_, although not published until some -while after. It is, however, clearly the product (if an unconscious one) -of the same impulse as gave birth to the other books, and its theme—the -struggle in the mind of a young Englishman between pride of family and -desire to fulfil a marriage promise to a girl who has become his -mistress—is a theme of the type peculiar to these six brief stories and -distinctly foreign to Trollope's more bulky and eventful work. - -A further group of five stories may roughly be termed Trollope's -“oversea” novels. The first three—_Nina Balatka_ (1867), _Linda Tressel_ -(1868), and _The Golden Lion of Granpere_ (1872)—were written more or -less intentionally to form a distinct trio. They are semi-romantic -tales, staged respectively in old Prague, in old Nürnberg, and among the -Vosges mountains; pleasant enough, but quite definitely of minor -importance. The first two were published anonymously but achieved little -success, and were later reissued over the author's name. _Harry -Heathcote of Gangoil_ (1874) and _John Caldigate_ (1879) are novels of -Australia, based on the knowledge of that continent which the author -gained when visiting one of his sons who had established himself there. -I understand that as pictures of Australian life they are vivid and -reliable. Be that as it may, the untutored reader, seeking only for -Trollope, will find him abundantly in _Harry Heathcote_, which is an -eventful, almost an adventurous story, and to a very satisfying degree -in the longer book that appeared five years later. - -Of Trollope's various volumes of short stories nothing need here be -said. Of _Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite_ (1871) there is little -that can be said. Of _The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson_ -(1870) there is much that had better be left unsaid. One important -full-length novel remains, good in itself and at the same time -remarkable as the only one of the author's tales in which he arms -himself formally as a social crusader. - -_The Vicar of Bullhampton_ (1870) is a novel written in defence of the -“fallen woman.” It is quaint to read Trollope's solemn and tactful -preface, in which he almost apologizes to his public for venturing on -such indelicate ground. Fortunately the book is so feeble as propaganda -that, but for the preface, one would be unaware that it was written with -any special purpose. It can be enjoyed as a good story of village life, -with a delightful parson as central figure and the necessary complement -of charming Trollope ladies, gruff farmers, lonely landowners, and -aggressive Nonconformity. - -This novel, like all Trollope's really good work, impresses the reader -first and foremost with its Englishry. Perhaps it would not be too much -to say that the very greatness of the author himself springs from this -same quality. He is intensely English, with the quiet humour, the shy -sympathy masquerading as indifference, the delicate sense of kindliness -and toleration, the occasional heaviness, the occasional irritability, -that mark a man or a book as English. But if to these qualities he owes -his place in our proud heritage of literature, to them also he owes the -tarrying of due recognition, for they and the natures that possess them -are of all qualities and of all natures the most difficult to impress -upon the sceptical outsider, seeing that their very beauty and -preciousness and power lie in their elusiveness. - - - _BIOGRAPHY_ - - ANTHONY TROLLOPE: HIS WORK, ASSOCIATES AND LITERARY ORIGINALS. By T. - H. S. ESCOTT. London: John Lane, 1913. - -This book will be of interest to the general reader, although it is -rather overloaded with analyses of novel-plots and the arrangement is -not ideal. - -By far the most valuable feature of the volume is the bibliography of -Trollope by Margaret Lavington included at the end. For the help this -careful and documented compilation has given me I wish to make -acknowledgment, although I have throughout worked independently and from -original sources and taken none of the facts hereafter given without -verification. Miss Lavington's descriptions lack certain details -essential to the collector, she makes one or two actual mistakes, but, -within the limits she has laid down for herself, her work is wonderfully -complete and accurate. - - - I.—EDITIONES PRINCIPES - FICTION, BIOGRAPHY, TRAVEL-BOOKS, ESSAYS, ETC. - - - 1847 - - THE MACDERMOTTS OF BALLYCLORAN. By Mr. A. TROLLOPE. London: Thomas - Cautley Newby, Publisher, 72 Mortimer Street, Cavendish Square. - 1847. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. (ii) + 345 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. (ii) + 382. - - Vol. III. pp. (ii) + 437 + (1). - - No half-titles. Boards, half-cloth, paper label. White end-papers. - Also in dark brown cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Pale yellow - end-papers. - - NOTE—On the title-page of Vol. III. “Mortimer” should be - spelt “Morimer.” In the same volume, p. 437 is mis-paged - “743.” Copies of the first edition were reissued in 1848 - with title-pages so dated and differently worded, but with - no indication of reprint. On this second title-page the - misprint is corrected. The wording is as follows: - - THE MACDERMOTTS OF BALLYCLORAN: A Historical Romance. By A. TROLLOPE, - Esq., author of _The Kellys and the O'Kellys_. London: T. C. Newby, - 72 Mortimer Street, Cavendish Square. 1848. - - - 1848 - - THE KELLYS AND THE O'KELLYS: Or LANDLORDS AND TENANTS. A Tale of Irish - Life. By A. TROLLOPE, Esq. London: Henry Colburn, Publisher, Great - Marlborough Street. 1848. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7⅞). - - Vol. I. pp. (ii) + 298. - - Vol. II. pp. (ii) + 298. - - Vol. III. pp. (ii) + 285 + (1). Publisher's catalogue, 24 pp., - undated, bound in at end. - - No half-titles. Paper boards (half-cloth), paper label. White - end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in July, 1848. - - - 1850 - - LA VENDÉE: An Historical Romance. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE, Esq. London: - Henry Colburn, Publisher, Great Marlborough Street. 1850. 3 vols. - Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7⅞). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) + 320. - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 330. - - Vol. III. pp. (ii) + 313 + (1). No half-title to this volume. - Publisher's advertisement occupies p. (314). Publisher's catalogue, - 16 pp., undated, bound in at end. - - Paper boards, paper label. White end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in June, 1850. - - - 1855 - - THE WARDEN. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. London: Longman, Brown, Green and - Longmans. 1855. 1 vol. Ex. Cr. 8vo. (4¾ × 7¾). Pp. iv + 336. No - half-title. Publishers' catalogue, 24 pp., dated September, 1854, - bound in at end. Pale brown cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Brick-red - end-papers printed on inside front and inside back covers with - publishers' advertisements. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published in January, 1855. An - edition of 1,000 copies was printed, of which 600 were sold - during the first eighteen months of publication. The balance - of 400 was bound, very nearly uniform with the first issue, - in 1858 and a catalogue dated with that year inserted at - end. - - (ii) In 1879 Chapman and Hall published, under the series - title _Chronicles of Barsetshire_, Trollope's novels dealing - with the city and district of Barchester. _The Warden_ was - the first volume of this reissue, and was preceded by a - brief introduction by Trollope not previously published. - - - 1857 - - BARCHESTER TOWERS. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE, author of _The Warden_. - London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts. 1857. 3 vols. - Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. viii + 305 + (3). Publishers' advertisements occupy pp. - (307) and (308). Advertisement of _The Warden_ occupies p. (ii). - Half-title to this volume. - - Vol. II. pp. iv + 299 + (1). No half-title. - - Vol. III. pp. iv + 321 + (3). No half-title. Publishers' - advertisements occupy pp. (323) and (324). - - Pale brown cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Brick-red end-papers - printed with publishers' advertisements. - - NOTE—This book was published in May, 1857. The earliest - issue had end-papers of a much redder brown than those used - for later bindings of the first edition sheets. The latter - can also be identified by the date of a publishers' - catalogue bound in at the end of Vol. I. - - - 1858 - - THE THREE CLERKS: A Novel. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE, author of _Barchester - Towers_ etc. London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. 1858. 3 - vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. iv + 340. - - Vol. II. pp. iv + 322 + (2). - - Vol. III. pp. iv + 334 + (2). - - No half-titles. Paper boards, half cloth, paper label. White - end-papers. Also in dark grey-purple watered cloth, gilt, blocked in - blind, with yellow end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) Although dated 1858, this book was actually - published in December, 1857. - - (ii) I have seen a copy of this book in a binding of the - grey-purple cloth above mentioned, but with paper labels as - employed on the half-cloth edition. - - - 1858 - - DOCTOR THORNE: A Novel. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE, author of _The Three - Clerks_, _Barchester Towers_ etc. London: Chapman and Hall, 193 - Piccadilly. 1858. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. iv + 305 + (3). Publishers' catalogue, 32 pp., dated - April, 1858, bound in at end. - - Vol. II. pp. iv + 323 + (1). - - Vol. III. pp. iv + 340. - - No half-titles. Dark grey-purple cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Pale - green end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in June, 1858. - - - 1859 - - THE BERTRAMS: A Novel. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE, author of _Barchester - Towers_, _Doctor Thorne_ etc. London: Chapman and Hall, 193 - Piccadilly. 1859. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. iv + 335 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. iv + 344. - - Vol. III. pp. iv + 331 + (1). - - No half-titles. Dark grey-purple cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Pale - yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This novel was published in March, 1859. - - - 1859 - - THE WEST INDIES AND THE SPANISH MAIN. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE, author of - _Barchester Towers_, _Doctor Thorne_, _The Bertrams_ etc. London: - Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1859. 1 vol. Demy 8vo (5½ × 8¾). - Pp. iv + 395 + (1). Publishers' catalogue, 32 pp., dated November, - 1859, bound in at end. No half-title. Coloured map printed - separately facing title. Maroon cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Pale - yellow end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published in October, 1859. - - (ii) It is possible that the earliest copies of all - contained no publishers' catalogue, but I have been unable - to find a copy with a catalogue dated earlier than that - mentioned above. - - - 1860 - - CASTLE RICHMOND: A Novel. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE, author of _Barchester - Towers_, _Doctor Thorne_, _The West Indies and the Spanish Main_ - etc. London: Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1860. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. - 8vo (4¾ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. vi + 303 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. (vi) [p. vi is erroneously numbered iv] + 300. - - Vol. III. pp. vi + 289 + (1). Publishers' catalogue, 32 pp., dated - May, 1860, bound in at end. - - Dark grey-purple cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in May, 1860. - - - 1861 - - FRAMLEY PARSONAGE. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE, author of _Barchester Towers_ - etc. etc. With 6 illustrations by J. E. Millais, R.A. London: Smith - Elder and Co., 65 Cornhill. MDCCCLXI. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7⅝). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) + 333 + (3). - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 318 + (2). - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 330 + (2). Publishers' catalogue, 14 pp., dated - April, 1861, bound in at end. - - No half-titles. Each volume contains two line-engraved illustrations - printed separately. Grey-purple cloth, blocked in gold and blind. - Yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in May, 1861. The story - appeared serially in the “Cornhill.” - - - 1861 - - TALES OF ALL COUNTRIES. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE, author of _Barchester - Towers_, _Doctor Thorne_, _The West Indies and the Spanish Main_. - London: Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1861. 1 vol. Ex. Cr. 8vo - (4¾ × 7¾). Pp. (iv) + 312. Publishers' catalogue, 32 pp., dated - November, 1861, bound in at end. No half-title. Blue embossed cloth, - gilt, blocked in blind. Bright blue end-papers. - - _Contents_: La Mère Bauche—The O'Conors of Castle Conor—John - Bull on the Guadalquivir—Miss Sarah Jack, of Spanish Town, - Jamaica—The Courtship of Susan Bell—Relics of General - Chassé—An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids—The Château of - Prince Polignac. - - NOTE—This book was published in November, 1861. - - - 1862 - - ORLEY FARM. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE, author of _Doctor Thorne_, - _Barchester Towers_, _Framley Parsonage_ etc. With illustrations by - J. E. Millais. London: Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1862. 2 - vols. Demy 8vo (5½ × 8¾). - - Vol. I. pp. viii + 320. Publishers' catalogue, 32 pp., dated - October, 1861, bound in at end. - - Vol. II. pp. viii + 320. - - Each volume contains twenty illustrations. Brown-purple embossed - cloth, blocked in gold and blind. Pale yellow end-papers. - - This story originally appeared in twenty demy 8vo one shilling - parts, dated March (1861) to October (1862), bound in fawn wrappers - printed in blue and red, and containing the illustrations by J. E. - Millais afterwards included in the two-volume edition. Each part - contains two illustrations. - - NOTE—The first volume of this novel was published in book - form on December 3, 1861; the second volume on September 25, - 1862. Both title-pages are, however, dated 1862. - - - ORLEY FARM: PART ISSUE. - - The following advertisement pages, etc., should be found in - a complete set. The advertisements at the front of each - number are headed: “Orley Farm Advertiser.” All wrappers - except front covers are printed with advertisements. - - _Part I: Front_—16 pp., dated March, 1861. _Back_—10 pp., - unnumbered, of which the first two on pink paper. - - _Part II: Front_—8 pp., dated 1861. _Back_—4 pp., - unnumbered, of which the first two on yellow paper. - - _Part III: Front_—8 pp., dated May, 1861. _Back_—2 pp., - unnumbered, on lilac paper. - - _Part IV: Front_—8 pp., dated June, 1861. _Back_—2 pp., - unnumbered, on pale yellow paper. - - _Part V: Front_—8 pp., dated July, 1861. _Back_—4 pp., - unnumbered, of which the first two on lilac paper. - - _Part VI: Front_—Inset slip of yellow paper advertising the - serialization in “Great Expectations” of _A Strange Story_, - by Lytton. 8 pp., dated August, 1861. _Back_—6 pp., - unnumbered, of which the first two on yellow paper, the - third in coloured lithograph, the fifth and sixth on pink - (or green) paper, the fifth being blank and a sample of - cambric frilling being attached to the sixth. - - _Part VII: Front_—8 pp., dated September, 1861. _Back_—4 - pp., unnumbered, of which the first printed in colours, and - the last two a foolscap 8vo leaflet on blue paper - advertising “The Queen.” - - _Part VIII: Front_—8 pp., dated October, 1861. _Back_—2 pp., - unnumbered, on pale yellow paper. - - _Part IX: Front_—8 pp., dated November, 1861. _Back_—nil. - - _Part X: Front_—8 pp., dated December, 1861. _Back_—2 pp., - unnumbered, on yellow paper. [_Note_—This part contains - half-title, title, contents and list of illustrations (in - all 8 pp.) to Volume I.] - - _Part XI: Front_—8 pp., dated January, 1862. _Back_—12 pp., - unnumbered. - - _Part XII: Front_—8 pp., dated February, 1862. _Back_—2 pp., - unnumbered, on pale yellow paper. - - _Part XIII: Front_—Inset slip of yellow paper advertising - the serialization in “All the Year Round” of _No Name_, by - Wilkie Collins. 8 pp., dated March, 1862. _Back_—4 pp. - - _Part XIV: Front_—8 pp., dated April, 1862. _Back_—8 pp., of - which the first two (unnumbered) are on blue paper, the next - four are numbered, and the last two unnumbered. - - _Part XV: Front_—8 pp., dated May, 1862. _Back_—12 pp., of - which 1-4 unnumbered and the rest a publishers' catalogue - paged (1) to 8 and dated April 25, 1862. - - _Part XVI: Front_—8 pp., dated June, 1862. _Back_—10 pp., of - which the first two (unnumbered) are on yellow paper and the - remainder are a publishers' catalogue paged (1)-8 and dated - April 25, 1862. - - _Part XVII: Front_—8 pp., dated July, 1862. _Back_—4 pp. - - _Part XVIII: Front_—8 pp., dated August, 1862. _Back_—6 pp., - unnumbered, of which the first two on green paper. - - _Part XIX: Front_—8 pp., dated September, 1862. _Back_—4 pp. - - _Part XX: Front_—8 pp., dated October, 1862. _Back_—12 pp., - of which the first two unnumbered and on orange paper, the - next two unnumbered, and the remainder a publishers' - catalogue paged (1)-8 and dated September 24, 1862. - [_Note_—This part contains half-title, title, contents and - list of illustrations (in all 8 pp.) to Volume II.] - - - 1862 - - NORTH AMERICA. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE, author of _The West Indies and the - Spanish Main_, _Doctor Thorne_, _Orley Farm_ etc. London: Chapman - and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1862. 2 vols. Demy 8vo (5½ × 8¾). - - Vol. I. pp. viii + 467 + (1). Publishers' catalogue, 32 pp., dated - May, 1862, bound in at end. - - Vol. II. pp. viii + 494 +(2). - - In Vol. I. a folding map is inserted facing p. 1. Maroon embossed - cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Chocolate end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in May, 1862. - - - 1863 - - TALES OF ALL COUNTRIES: Second Series. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. London: - Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1863. 1 vol. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × - 7¾). Pp. (iv) + 371 + (1). No half-title. Blue embossed cloth, gilt, - blocked in blind. Uniform with _Tales of All Countries_: First - Series. Pale yellow end-papers. - - _Contents_: Aaron Trow—Mrs. General Talboys—The Parson's - Daughter of Oxney Colne—George Walker at Suez—The Mistletoe - Bough—Returning Home—A Ride Across Palestine—The House of - Heine Brothers in Munich—The Man Who Kept His Money in a - Box. - - NOTE—This book was published in February, 1863. - - - 1863 - - RACHEL RAY: A Novel. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE, author of _Barchester - Towers_, _Castle Richmond_, _Orley Farm_ etc. London: Chapman and - Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1863. 2 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. iv + 319 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. iv + 310 + (2). - - No half-titles. Maroon cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Cream - end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in October, 1863. - - - 1864 - - THE SMALL HOUSE AT ALLINGTON. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. With 18 - illustrations by J. E. Millais, R.A. London: Smith Elder and Co., 65 - Cornhill. MDCCCLXIV. 2 vols. Demy 8vo (5½ × 8⅝). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) + 312. - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 316. - - No half-titles. Vol. I. contains ten illustrations, and Vol. II. - eight illustrations. Green embossed cloth, blocked in gold and - blind. Chocolate end-papers, printed with publishers' - advertisements. - - NOTE—This book was published in March, 1864, and completed - its serial run in the “Cornhill” the month following. - - - 1864 - - CAN YOU FORGIVE HER? By ANTHONY TROLLOPE, author of _Orley Farm_, - _Doctor Thorne_, _Framley Parsonage_ etc. With illustrations. - London: Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1864. [1865, Vol. II.] 2 - vols. Demy 8vo (5½ × 8¾). - - Vol. I. pp. (viii) + 320. - - Vol. II. pp. (viii) + 320. - - Vol. I. contains twenty etched illustrations by Phiz, and Vol. II. - twenty illustrations [by a Miss Taylor], all printed separately. Red - embossed cloth, blocked in gold and blind. Yellow end-papers. - - This story originally appeared in twenty demy 8vo one shilling - parts, dated January, 1864, to August, 1865, bound in fawn paper - wrappers printed in blue and red, and containing the illustrations - afterwards included in the two-volume edition. Each part contains - two illustrations. - - NOTE—The first volume of this novel appeared in book form on - October 1, 1864, the second volume in August, 1865. The - title-pages are dated differently. - - - CAN YOU FORGIVE HER?: PART ISSUE. - - The following advertisement pages, etc., should be - found in a complete set. The advertisements at the - front of each number are headed “Can you Forgive Her? - Advertiser.” All wrappers, except front cover, are - printed with advertisements. - - _Part I: Front_—8 pp., dated January, 1864. _Back_—14 pp., - of which the first two unnumbered on buff paper, the next - four printed in blue on white paper, and the remainder a - publishers' catalogue paged 1-8 and dated January 1, 1864. - - _Part II: Front_—4 pp., dated February, 1864. _Back_—2 pp., - unnumbered, on pink paper. - - _Part III: Front_—4 pp., dated March, 1864. _Back_—6 pp. - - _Part IV: Front_—4 pp., dated April, 1864. Between pp. 2 and - 3 an inset slip on green paper advertising the part issue of - Dickens' _Our Mutual Friend_. _Back_—8 pp., of which the - first two on yellow paper and unnumbered, the second two - unnumbered, and the remainder a publishers' catalogue paged - 1-4 and dated April 1st, 1864. - - _Part V: Front_—4 pp., dated May, 1864. _Back_—14 pp., of - which the first four paged 1-4, the next two a reproduction - on green paper of the wrapper of Part I of _Our Mutual - Friend_, and the remainder a publishers' catalogue paged 1-8 - and dated April 30, 1864. - - _Part VI: Front_—4 pp., dated June, 1864, and printed on - buff paper as wrapper. _Back_—14 pp., of which the first - four and the publishers' catalogue the same as in Part V. A - wrapper of _Our Mutual Friend_, this time of Part II, - completes the total. - - _Part VII: Front_—4 pp., dated July, 1864, printed on buff - paper as wrapper. _Back_—2 pp., unnumbered, on yellow paper. - - _Part VIII: Front_—4 pp., dated August, 1864, printed on - buff paper as wrapper. _Back_—4 pp., numbered 1-4. - - _Part IX: Front_—4 pp., dated September, 1864, printed on - buff paper as wrapper. _Back_—Inset slip of yellow paper - announcing the serialization in “All the Year Round” of - _Never Forgotten_, by the author of _Belladonna_. 2 pp., - unnumbered, on yellow paper. - - _Part X: Front_—4 pp., dated September [sic], 1864, printed - on buff paper as wrapper. In later issues “September” - corrected to October. _Back_—8 pp., of which the last four a - publishers' catalogue paged 1-4 and dated October 1, 1864. - [_Note_—This part contains half-title, title, contents and - list of illustrations (in all 8 pp.) to Volume I. It is also - the last part illustrated by Hablot K. Browne.] - - _Part XI: Front_—4 pp., dated November, 1864, and printed on - buff paper as wrapper. _Back_—6 pp., of which 1-4 on lilac - (or blue) paper. [_Note_—Although the illustrator had - already been changed, the wrapper to this part still bears - the name of H. K. Browne.] - - _Part XII: Front_—4 pp., dated December, 1864, printed on - buff paper as wrapper. Inset slip on yellow paper announcing - _Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy_ as Christmas number to “All the - Year Round.” _Back_—8 pp., of which the last four a - publishers' catalogue paged 1-4 and dated November 25. - - _Part XIII: Front_—4 pp., undated and printed on buff paper - as wrapper. _Back_—2 pp., of which the first printed in - lilac. - - _Part XIV: Front_—4 pp., undated and printed on buff paper - as wrapper. _Back_—Inset slip of green paper and 2 pp. - unnumbered, printed on yellow. - - _Part XV: Front_—4 pp., undated and printed on buff paper as - wrapper. _Back_—Inset slip of blue paper and publishers' - catalogue 4 pp., dated February 28, 1865. Inset slip on - white paper advertising the part issue of the _Headless - Horseman_, by Captain Mayne Reid. - - _Part XVI: Front_—4 pp., undated, printed on buff paper as - wrapper. _Back_—Inset slip of yellow paper announcing the - serialization in “All the Year Round” of _Half a Million of - Money_, by Amelia B. Edwards. 6 pp., of which the last four - on pink paper. - - _Part XVII: Front_—4 pp., undated and printed on buff paper - as wrapper. _Back_—Nil. - - _Part XVIII: Front_—4 pp., undated and printed on buff paper - as wrapper. _Back_—Nil. - - _Part XIX: Front_—4 pp., undated and printed on buff paper - as wrapper. _Back_—8 pp., unnumbered, of which the first - four on pale blue paper. - - _Part XX: Front_—4 pp., undated and printed on buff paper as - wrapper. _Back_—Nil. [_Note_—This part contains half-title, - title, contents and list of illustrations (in all 8 pp.) to - Volume II.] - - - 1865 - - MISS MACKENZIE. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. London: Chapman and Hall, 193 - Piccadilly. 1865. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. vi + 312. - - Vol. II. pp. vi + 313 + (3). Advertisement of works by the same - author occupies p. (315). - - Maroon cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Yellow end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published in March, 1865. - - (ii) A binding of dark green cloth is more frequently seen - than that of maroon, but it is fairly certain that the - latter is really the first issue. I have come to this - conclusion after a study of other publications, for binding - which the two types of cloth used for _Miss Mackenzie_ were - employed. Both are patterned cloths, but differently - patterned. That used in maroon for _Miss Mackenzie_ was also - used—differently coloured, of course—for Trollope's _Tales - of All Countries_ (1861); Ainsworth's _Constable of the - Tower_ (1861); Mrs. Gaskell's _Round the Sofa_ (1859) and - _Right at Last_ (1860); Charles Allston Collins' _Cruise - Upon Wheels_ (1862); and Reade's _Love me Little, Love me - Long_ (1859). The pattern of cloth, on the other hand, used - in dark green for _Miss Mackenzie_ reappears on Trollope's - _Belton Estate_ (1866); Ainsworth's _John Law_ (1864); and - Wilkie Collins' _My Miscellanies_ (1863). I think these - facts provide sufficiently conclusive evidence that the - maroon cloth is of an earlier pattern than the dark green. - Publishers were probably inclined, then as now, to use one - type of cloth more than another at certain given dates - (possibly they tended to adopt novelties as produced by - their binders). This is independently suggested by the fact - that in the year 1863 alone an identical pattern of cloth - was used and by various publishers for Ainsworth's _Cardinal - Pole_, for Mrs. Gaskell's _A Dark Night's Work_, for George - Eliot's _Romola_, and for Mrs. Oliphant's _Perpetual - Curate_. - - - 1865 - - HUNTING SKETCHES. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. Reprinted from the “Pall Mall - Gazette.” London: Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1865. 1 vol. Cr. - 8vo (4⅞ × 7½). Pp. iv + 115 + (1). Publishers' catalogue, 32 pp., - dated May, 1865, bound in at end. No half-title. Red cloth gilt, - blocked in blind. Green-black end-papers. - - _Contents_: The Man who Hunts and Doesn't Like It—The Man - who Hunts and Does Like It—The Lady who Rides to Hounds—The - Hunting Farmer—The Man who Hunts and Never Jumps—The Hunting - Parson—The Master of Hounds—How to Ride to Hounds. - - NOTE—This book was published in May, 1865. - - - 1866 - - THE BELTON ESTATE. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE, author of _Can you Forgive - Her?_, _Orley Farm_, _Framley Parsonage_ etc. etc. London: Chapman - and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1866. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. iv + 284. - - Vol. II. pp. iv + 308. - - Vol. III. pp. iv + 276. - - Publishers' catalogue, 24 pp., dated December 1, 1865, bound in at - end. No half-titles. Scarlet embossed cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. - Yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in January, 1866. The story - appeared serially in the “Fortnightly Review.” - - - 1866 - - TRAVELLING SKETCHES. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. Reprinted from the “Pall - Mall Gazette.” London: Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1866. I - vol. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7½). Pp. iv + 112. Publishers' catalogue, 24 pp., - dated February 1, 1866, bound in at end. No half-title. Red cloth, - gilt, blocked in blind. Green-black end-papers. Uniform with - _Hunting Sketches_. - - _Contents_: The Family that Goes Abroad Because it's the - Thing to Do—The Man who Travels Alone—The Unprotected Female - Tourist—The United Englishmen who Travel for Fun—The Art - Tourist—The Tourist in Search of Knowledge—The Alpine Club - Man—Tourists who Don't Like their Travels. - - NOTE—This book was published in February, 1866. - - - 1866 - - CLERGYMEN OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. Reprinted - from the “Pall Mall Gazette.” London: Chapman and Hall, 193 - Piccadilly. 1866. I vol. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7½). Pp. (iv) + 130 + (2). - Publishers' catalogue, 24 pp., dated March 30, 1866, bound in at - end. No half-title. Red cloth, gilt. Green-black end-papers. Uniform - with _Hunting Sketches_ and _Travelling Sketches_. - - _Contents_: The Modern English Archbishop—English Bishops, - Old and New—The Normal Dean of the Present Day—The - Archdeacon—The Parson of the Parish—The Town Incumbent—The - College Fellow who has Taken Orders—The Curate in a Populous - Parish—The Irish Beneficed Clergyman—The Clergyman who - Subscribes for Colenso. - - NOTE—This book was published in April, 1866. - - - 1867 - - NINA BALATKA: THE STORY OF A MAIDEN OF PRAGUE. Wm. Blackwood and Sons, - Edinburgh and London, MDCCCLXVII. 2 vols. Fcap. 8vo (4¼ × 6¾). - - Vol. I. pp. (vi) + 228 + (2). Publishers' advertisements occupy pp. - (229) (230). - - Vol. II. pp. 215 + (I). Publishers' advertisements, 8 pp., undated, - bound in at end. - - The words: “Originally published in 'Blackwood's Magazine'” occupy - verso of half-title in each volume. Red-brown cloth, gilt, blocked - in blind. Chocolate end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published on February 1, 1867. - - - 1867 - - THE LAST CHRONICLE OF BARSET. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. With 32 - illustrations by George H. Thomas. London: Smith Elder and Co., 65 - Cornhill. MDCCCLXVII. 2 vols. Demy 8vo (5½ × 8⅝). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) + 384. - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 384. - - No half-titles. Each volume contains sixteen illustrations printed - separately, and line drawings in the text at the beginnings of - several of the chapters. Violet-blue cloth, blocked in gold and - blind. Yellow end-papers. - - This story originally appeared in thirty-two sixpenny demy 8vo parts - dated December 1 (1866) to July 6 (1867), bound in white wrappers - with a design in scarlet and dark blue, and containing the - illustrations afterwards included in the two-volume edition. Each - part contains one illustration. - - NOTES—(i) Vol. I. of the novel in book form was published on - March 16, and Vol. II. on July 6, 1867. - - (ii) The words “With 32 illustrations by George H. Thomas” - occur only on the title-page of Vol. II. - - - THE LAST CHRONICLE OF BARSET: PART ISSUE. - - The following advertisement pages, etc., should be found - in a complete set. Advertisements at the front of each - part are printed on lilac paper, except where otherwise - stated. All wrappers, except front covers, are printed - with advertisements. - - _Part I: Front_—4 pp., unnumbered, on grey paper; 8 pp., - numbered 1-8. _Back_—10 pp., of which the first is printed - in colours and the last four on yellow paper (or green). - - _Part II: Front_—8 pp., numbered 9-16. _Back_—4 pp., of - which the first is printed in colours and the last two on - blue paper (or pink). - - _Part III: Front_—8 pp., numbered 17-24. _Back_—Inset slip - (4 pp.) of Chapman and Hall publications. - - _Part IV: Front_—4 pp., unnumbered, on grey (or lilac) - paper; 4 pp., numbered 25-28. _Back_—Nil. - - _Part V: Front_—4 pp., numbered 29-32. _Back_—2 pp., of - which the second is printed in colours. - - _Part VI: Front_—4 pp., numbered 33-36. _Back_—Inset slip (4 - pp.) on yellow paper. - - _Part VII: Front_—4 pp., numbered 37-40. _Back_—Nil. - - _Part VIII: Front_—Inset slip (4 pp.) of Chapman and Hall - publications (as at back of Part III). 4 pp., numbered - 41-44. _Back_—Nil. - - _Part IX: Front_—4 pp., numbered 45-48. _Back_—Nil. - - _Part X: Front_—4 pp., numbered 49-52. _Back_—4 pp., - unnumbered. - - _Part XI: Front_—Inset slip (4 pp.) of Chapman and Hall - publications (as in Parts III. and VIII.); 4 pp., numbered - 53-56. _Back_—Nil. - - _Part XII: Front_—4 pp., numbered 57-60. _Back_—2 pp., - unnumbered, of which the second printed in colours. - - _Part XIII: Front_—4 pp., numbered 61-64. _Back_—Nil. - - _Part XIV: Front_—4 pp., numbered 65-68. _Back_—Nil. - - _Part XV: Front_—4 pp., numbered 69-72. _Back_—Nil. - - _Part XVI: Front_—4 pp., numbered 73-76; inset slip of lilac - paper announcing the appearance of Vol. I. of _The Last - Chronicle of Barset_ at ten shillings. _Back_—Nil. - [_Note_—This part contains title-page, contents and list of - illustrations (in all 4 pp.) to Vol. I.] - - _Part XVII: Front_—4 pp., numbered 77-80. _Back_—Nil. - - _Part XVIII: Front_—4 pp., numbered 81-84; inset slip of - lilac paper announcing the appearance of Vol. I. of The Last - Chronicle of Barset at ten shillings. _Back_—2 pp., - unnumbered, of which the second printed in colours. - - _Part XIX: Front_—4 pp., numbered 85-88. _Back_—Nil. - - _Part XX: Front_—4 pp., numbered 89-92. _Back_—Nil. - - _Part XXI: Front_—4 pp., numbered 93-96. _Back_—Nil. - - _Part XXII: Front_—4 pp., numbered 97-100. _Back_—Nil. - - _Part XXIII: Front_—4 pp., numbered 101-104. _Back_—Nil. - - _Part XXIV: Front_—4 pp., numbered 105-108. _Back_—Nil. - - _Part XXV: Front_—4 pp., numbered 109-112. _Back_—Nil. - - _Part XXVI: Front_—4 pp., numbered 113-116. _Back_—Inset - slip (4 pp.) advertising the “Charles Dickens Edition” of - Dickens' works. - - _Part XXVII: Front_—4 pp., numbered 117-120. _Back_—Nil. - - _Part XXVIII: Front_—4 pp., numbered 121-124. _Back_—Nil. - - _Part XXIX: Front_—4 pp., numbered 125-128. _Back_—Nil. - - _Part XXX: Front_—4 pp., numbered 129-132. _Back_—Nil. - - _Part XXXI: Front_—4 pp., numbered 133-136. _Back_—Nil. - - _Part XXXII: Front_—4 pp., numbered 137-140; inset slip of - lilac paper announcing the completion of _The Last Chronicle - of Barset_ in 2 volumes at 20s. _Back_—Nil. [_Note_—This - part contains title-page, contents and list of illustrations - (in all 4 pp.) to Vol. II.] - - - 1867 - - THE CLAVERINGS. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. With 16 illustrations by M. Ellen - Edwards. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 65 Cornhill. MDCCCLXVII. 2 - vols. Demy 8vo (5½ × 8¾). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) + 313 + (3). Publishers' advertisements occupy pp. - (315) and (316). - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 309 + (3). Publishers' advertisements occupy pp. - (311) and (312). - - No half-titles. Each volume contains eight illustrations printed - separately. Bright green cloth, blocked in black and gold. Pale - chocolate end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published on April 20, 1867. The - story appeared serially in the “Cornhill.” - - (ii) There are two varieties of binding to this book. It is - an open question whether the simpler design with no black on - the sides is earlier or later than that which is more - elaborate. - - - 1867 - - LOTTA SCHMIDT: AND OTHER STORIES. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. Alexander - Strahan, Publisher, 56 Ludgate Hill, London. 1867. 1 vol. Ex. Cr. - 8vo (4⅞ × 7¾). Pp. (iv) + 403 + (1). Dark red cloth, gilt. - Green-black end-papers. - - There is no list of contents. Titles are as follow: - Lotta Schmidt—The Adventures of Fred Pickering—The Two - Generals—Father Giles of Ballymoy—Malachi's Cove—The - Widow's Mite—The Last Austrian who Left Venice—Miss - Ophelia Gledd—The Journey to Panama. - - NOTE—This book was published in August, 1867. The original - sheets were reissued in 1870, without indication of there - having been an earlier edition. The reissue is cr. 8vo in - size, pp. (vi) + 425 + (1), bears the imprint “Strahan and - Co.,” and is bound in pale maroon cloth. Later still copies, - taken over in sheets by Chapman and Hall and also dated - 1870, were issued in bright green cloth, with chocolate - end-papers, printed with Chapman and Hall advertisements. - - - 1868 - - LINDA TRESSEL. By the author of _Nina Balatka_. Wm. Blackwood and - Sons, Edinburgh and London. MDCCCLXVIII. 2 vols. Fcap. 8vo (4¼ × - 6¾). - - Vol. I. pp. 216. - - Vol. II. pp. 215 + (1). - - The words: “Originally published in 'Blackwood's Magazine'” occupy - verso of half-title in each volume. Red-brown cloth, gilt, blocked - in blind. Chocolate end-papers. Uniform with _Nina Balatka_. - - NOTE—This book was published in May, 1868. - - - 1869 - - PHINEAS FINN, THE IRISH MEMBER. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. With 20 - illustrations by J. E. Millais, R.A. London: Virtue and Co., 26 Ivy - Lane, Paternoster Row. 1869. 2 vols. Demy 8vo (5½ × 8¾). - - Vol. I. pp. vi + (ii) + 320. - - Vol. II. pp. vi + (ii) + 328. - - No half-titles. Ten illustrations in each volume printed separately. - Bright green cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Pale yellow end-papers. - It may be noted that the author's name is not given on the spine of - this book. - - NOTE—This book was published in March, 1869. The same novel - still in two volumes and at the same price (25s. net) was - advertised in May, 1869, by Strahan and Co., who were at the - time closely identified with Virtue and Co. Copies with a - Strahan imprint, if such exist, are not of the first issue. - The story appeared serially in “St. Paul's Magazine.” - - - 1869 - - HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. With 64 illustrations by - Marcus Stone. Strahan and Co., Publishers, 56 Ludgate Hill, London. - 1869. 2 vols. Demy 8vo (5½ × 8⅝). - - Vol. I. pp. ix + (iii) + 384. - - Vol. II. pp. ix + (iii) + 384. - - Each volume contains sixteen illustrations printed separately and - sixteen line drawings in the text. Green cloth, gilt, blocked in - blind. Pale yellow end-papers. - - This story first appeared in thirty-two demy 8vo sixpenny weekly - parts, dated October 17 (1868) to May 22 (1869), bound in green-grey - paper wrappers, printed in red and black. Each part contains a - full-page line-engraved illustration by Marcus Stone, printed - separately, and one small drawing in the text. Each part, as well as - the title-page, etc., included in Part XXXII. bears the imprint of - Virtue and Co., but the novel, when issued in book form, appeared - over the imprint of Strahan and Co. - - NOTES—(i) Four weeks after the appearance of Part I. (early - in November, 1869) a parallel series of two-shilling - _monthly_ parts was inaugurated, of which the first, - containing the first four weekly parts, was immediately - issued, and the remainder at regular intervals. The earliest - part issue was therefore the weekly one. Margaret Lavington - in her Trollope bibliography, states that the first four - parts were wrappered in one. This observation was probably - made from an examination of a made-up set of parts composed, - as to the first four, of the second issue and, as to the - remainder, of the first (see above). - - (ii) The story appeared in two-volume form in May, 1869. - - - HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT: PART ISSUE. - - The following advertisement pages, etc., should be found in - a complete set. Advertisements at the front of each part are - printed on greenish blue paper except where otherwise - stated. All wrappers except front covers are printed with - advertisements. - - _Part I: Front_—6 pp. _Back_—4 pp. - - _Parts II to XXIX: Front_—4 pp. _Back_—Nil. - - _Part XXX: Front_—Inset slip of orange paper announcing the - serialization in “S. Paul's” of _The Three Brothers_, by - Mrs. Oliphant. _Back_—Nil. - - _Part XXXI: Front_— Nil. _Back_—Nil. - - _Part XXXII: Front_—Nil. _Back_— Nil. [_Note_— This part - contains half-title, titles, contents and lists of - illustrations (in all 24 pp.) to _both_ volumes of the - novel.] - - - 1869 - - *DID HE STEAL IT? A Comedy in three Acts. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. Printed - for private circulation. 1869. - - NOTE—This is a dramatization of an episode in _The Last - Chronicle of Barset_, which Trollope prepared by special - request, only to have the play rejected by the commissioning - manager. - - - 1870 - - THE VICAR OF BULLHAMPTON. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. With 30 illustrations - by H. Woods. London: Bradbury, Evans and Co., Bouverie Street. 1870. - 1 vol. Demy 8vo (5½ × 8¾). Pp. xvi + 481 + (11). Publishers' - advertisements occupy pp. (483) to (492). Brown cloth, blocked in - gold and black. Grey end-papers. - - This story originally appeared in 11/12 demy 8vo monthly parts, dated - July 18, 1869, to May 18, 1870. Parts I. to X. cost one shilling, - and the last double part (XI./XII.) half-a-crown. The parts are - bound in blue-grey paper wrappers, with a design in red and black, - and contain the illustrations afterwards included in the one-volume - edition. Parts I. to X. each contain two full-page illustrations; - Part XI./XII. contains four, of which one is a picture title-page. - - NOTE—The novel was published in volume form in April, 1870. - - - THE VICAR OF BULLHAMPTON: PART ISSUE. - - The following advertisement pages, etc., should be found - in a complete set. The advertisements at the front of - Parts I. to III. are headed “The Vicar of Bullhampton - Advertiser.” All wrappers, except front covers, are - printed with advertisements. - - _Part I: Front_—12 pp., dated July, 1869. _Back_—4 pp., - printed in colours and unnumbered. - - _Part II: Front_—4 pp., dated August, 1869. _Back_—Nil. - - _Part III: Front_—4 pp., dated September, 1869. _Back_—Nil. - - _Parts IV to X_ inclusive contain no advertisement pages. - - _Part XI_ (double number): _Front_ (or back)—10 pp., - publishers' advertisements, unnumbered and undated. - [_Note_—This part contains half-title, title, preface, - contents, list of illustrations and frontispiece to the - complete novel. This preliminary matter is paged (i)-xvi, - despite the fact that frontispiece and title-page (4 pp.) - are printed separately.] - - - 1870 - - AN EDITOR'S TALES. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. Strahan and Co., Publishers, - 56 Ludgate Hill, London. 1870. 1 vol. Sq. Ex. Cr. 8vo (5⅛ × 7¾). Pp. - (viii) + 375 + (1). Publishers' advertisement occupies p. (376). - Brown cloth, gilt, blocked in black. Chocolate end-papers. - - _Contents_: The Turkish Bath—Mary Gresley—Josephine de - Montmorenci—The Panjandrum—The Spotted Dog—Mrs. Brumby. - - NOTE—This book was published in July, 1870. The stories had - appeared in “St. Paul's Magazine.” - - - 1870 - - THE STRUGGLES OF BROWN, JONES AND ROBINSON: BY ONE OF THE FIRM. Edited - by ANTHONY TROLLOPE, author of _Framley Parsonage_, _The Last - Chronicle of Barset_ etc. etc. Reprinted from the “Cornhill - Magazine.” With four illustrations. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 15 - Waterloo Place. 1870. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7½). Pp. iv + 254 + (2). - Advertisements of works by the same author occupy pp. (255) and - (256). No half-title. Frontispiece and illustrated title-page, in - line engraving and printed separately, precede the printed title. - Brown cloth, blocked in black and gold. Pale yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in November, 1870. The story - had appeared serially in the “Cornhill” in the years 1861 - and 1862. Its unpopularity as a serial accounts for the - delay in its book publication. - - - 1870 - - THE COMMENTARIES OF CÆSAR. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. William Blackwood and - Sons, Edinburgh and London. MDCCCLXX. 1 vol. Fcap. 8vo (4¼ × 6¾). - Pp. (x) [paged as vi] + 182. Publishers' advertisements occupy pp. - (i) to (iv), and a list of volumes in the Series “Ancient Classics - for English Readers” occupies p. (vi), facing title-page. Brown - cloth, gilt, blocked in black. Chocolate end-papers. - - - 1871 - - SIR HARRY HOTSPUR OF HUMBLETHWAITE. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE, author of - _Framley Parsonage_ etc. London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13 - Great Marlborough Street. 1871. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo (5 × 7½). Pp. vii + - (1) + 323 + (1). Publishers' catalogue, 16 pp., undated but paged, - bound in at end. Scarlet cloth, gilt, blocked in black. Black - end-papers. - - NOTE—Although dated 1871, this book was actually published - in November, 1870. The story appeared serially in - “Macmillan's Magazine.” - - - 1871 - - RALPH THE HEIR. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE, author of _Framley Parsonage_, - _Sir Harry Hotspur_ etc., etc. London: Hurst and Blackett, - Publishers, 13 Great Marlborough Street. 1871. 3 vols. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × - 7⅜). - - Vol I. pp. (iv) + 342. Advertisement of _Sir Harry Hotspur_ occupies - p. (ii) facing title. - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 338. - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 347 + (1). - - Publishers' advertisements, 16 pp., printed on text paper and paged, - bound in at end. Brown cloth, gilt, blocked in black. Blue-black - end-papers. - - This story originally appeared in parts, which were issued as - supplements to “St. Paul's Magazine.” The instalments were paged - continuously, but separately from the rest of the magazine. - - Parts I. to XI. were enclosed in fawn paper wrappers printed in - black and red and dated January, 1870, to November, 1870. Parts XII. - to XVIII. were not wrappered at all, but merely stitched in at the - end of the numbers of the magazine with their own pagination. The - series contained eleven full-page line-engraved illustrations by F. - A. Fraser, the last of which appeared in Part XI. - - Apart from that printed on the back wrappers of Parts I. to XI., no - advertisement material was included with the part issue. Title-page - and contents (4 pp.) for the one-volume edition were supplied with - the eighteenth and last instalment. - - Although the real first book edition of the novel (published in - April, 1870) was in three volumes cr. 8vo. as described above, the - type and illustrations of the “St. Paul's” issue were used in a - one-volume demy 8vo (5⅝ × 7⅞) edition (pp. iv + 434—no half-title or - list of illustrations) issued by Strahan and Co. in 1871, after the - story's serial completion. This one-volume edition is bound in green - cloth, gilt, blocked in blind, and has dark yellow or terra-cotta - end-papers. - - NOTE—The three-volume edition was published on April 6, - 1871. I have failed to establish the exact publishing date - of the one-volume edition, but it was in June or July of the - same year. Oddly enough the later issue is rarer than the - earlier, for the sheets were quickly taken over by Routledge - and issued in a different binding in 1872. - - - 1872 - - THE GOLDEN LION OF GRANPERE. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE, author of _Ralph the - Heir_, _Can you Forgive Her?_ etc. London: Tinsley Bros., 18 - Catherine Street, Strand. 1872. 1 vol. Ex. Cr. 8vo (5⅛ × 7¾). Pp. - (iv) + 353 + (9). Publishers' advertisements, paged 1 to 6 and dated - May, 1872, occupy pp. 355 to 363. Red-brown cloth, gilt, blocked in - black. Pale yellow end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published in May, 1872. The story - appeared serially in “Good Words.” It had been written in - 1867 for “Blackwood's,” but had proved unacceptable. - - (ii) Copies are sometimes found in dark brown cloth, - lettered and blocked less heavily and with lighter boards. - These are probably later in issue. - - - 1873 - - THE EUSTACE DIAMONDS. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. London: Chapman and Hall, - 193 Piccadilly. 1873. 3 vols. Cr. 8vo (5 × 7¼). - - Vol. I. pp. viii + 354. - - Vol. II. pp. viii + 363 + (1). - - Vol. III. pp. viii + 354. - - Brown salmon cloth, gilt, blocked in black. Yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—Although dated 1873, this book was actually published - in December, 1872. The story appeared serially in the - “Fortnightly Review.” - - - 1873 - - AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. London: Chapman and - Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1873. 2 vols. Demy 8vo (5½ × 8½). - - Vol. I. pp. (viii) [paged as vi] + 533 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. (viii) + 516. - - Vol. I. contains a coloured map as frontispiece printed on text - paper, and two folding coloured maps mounted on linen at end. Vol. - II. contains folding coloured map mounted on linen facing p. 1; four - folding coloured maps mounted on linen at end. Orange brown cloth, - gilt, blocked in black. Dark green end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published in March, 1873. - - (ii) The text was later split up and issued in four small - volumes, each dealing with a definite province or provinces - of Australia and New Zealand. These little books have no - importance as “editions,” for they contain no matter not - include in the original two-volume issue. - - - 1874 - - PHINEAS REDUX. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE, author of _Phineas Finn_. With - illustrations engraved on wood. London: Chapman and Hall, 193 - Piccadilly. 1874. 2 vols. Demy 8vo (5½ × 8⅛). - - Vol. I. pp. vi + (ii) + 339 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. vi + (ii) + 329 + (3). - - Each volume contains twelve illustrations printed separately. Blue - cloth, gilt, blocked in black and gold. Yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—Although dated 1874, this book was actually published - in December, 1873. The story appeared serially in “The - Graphic.” - - - 1874 - - LADY ANNA. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. London: Chapman and Hall, 193 - Piccadilly. 1874. 2 vols. Cr. 8vo (5 × 7¼). - - Vol. I. pp. viii + 317 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. viii + 314. - - Red-brown cloth, blocked in black and gold. Yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in May, 1874. The story - appeared serially in the “Fortnightly Review.” - - - 1874 - - HARRY HEATHCOTE OF GANGOIL: A Tale of Australian Bush Life. By ANTHONY - TROLLOPE. London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Low and Searle, Crown - Buildings, 188 Fleet Street. 1874. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo (5 × 7½). Pp. (iv) - + 313 + (3). Publishers' catalogue, 48 pp., dated October, 1873, - bound in at end. No half-title. Bright blue cloth, gilt, blocked in - blind. Cream end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published in October, 1874. The - story appeared serially in “The Graphic.” - - (ii) The sheets of this edition were, in the year of - publication, cut down and issued in a volume measuring 4½ × - 6¾, together with six full-page line-engraved illustrations, - printed separately. This later issue is bound in green or in - violet cloth, blocked in gold and black, and contains at the - end a 40 pp. publishers' catalogue dated October, 1874. - - - 1875 - - THE WAY WE LIVE NOW. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. With forty illustrations. - London: Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1875. 2 vols. Demy 8vo (5½ - × 8½). - - Vol. I. pp. (viii) + 320. - - Vol. II. pp. (viii) + 319 + (1). - - Each volume contains twenty illustrations printed separately. Bright - green cloth, blocked in gold and black. Dark brown end-papers. - - This story originally appeared in twenty one-shilling demy 8vo - parts, dated February, 1874, to September, 1875, bound in - greenish-blue wrappers printed in black and containing the - illustrations afterwards included in the two-volume edition. Each - part contains two full-page illustrations. - - NOTE—The novel appeared in book form in July, 1875. - - - THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: PART ISSUE. - - The following advertisement pages, etc., should be - found in a complete set. The advertisements at the - front of each number are headed: “The Way We Live Now - Advertiser.” All wrappers, except front covers, are - printed with advertisements. - - _Part I: Front_—8 pp. _Back_—16 pp., paged in fours, of - which the last eight publishers' lists. - - _Parts II to VIII: Front_—4 pp. _Back_—Nil. - - _Part IX: Front_—4 pp. _Back_—4 pp. - - _Parts X to XV: Front_—4 pp. _Back_—Nil. - - _Part XVI: Front_—4 pp. _Back_—Publishers' catalogue, 20 - pp., dated April 10, 1875. - - _Parts XVII to XIX: Front_—4 pp. _Back_—Nil. - - _Part XX: Front_—4 pp. _Back_—Nil. [_Note_—This part - contains half-titles, titles, contents and lists of - illustrations (in all 16 pp.) to both volumes of the novel.] - - - 1876 - - THE PRIME MINISTER. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. London: Chapman and Hall, 193 - Piccadilly. 1876. 4 vols. Cr. 8vo (5 × 7½). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) [paged as vi] + 337 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. iv + 342. - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) [paged as vi] + 346. - - Vol. IV. pp. (iv) [paged as vi] + 347 + (1). - - No half-titles. Red-brown cloth, gilt, blocked in black. Cream - end-papers. - - This story originally appeared in eight cr. 8vo five-shilling parts, - dated 1876 (no title-pages in Parts I., III., V., and VII.), bound - in grey paper wrappers, printed in black. Part I. appeared in - November, 1875, and subsequent numbers at intervals of one month. - - NOTES—(i) The novel was published in volume form in May, - 1876. - - (ii) Sets of the parts are sometimes met with, bound - separately in red-brown cloth and lettered on spine only - with the title of the book and the number of the part. I - cannot establish the relative dates of the regular - four-volume cloth issue and of the eight clothbound parts. - - - THE PRIME MINISTER: PART ISSUE. - - Apart from that printed on the wrappers, no advertisement - material was included with the parts of this novel, save - that at front of Part VI was inserted a 4 pp. leaflet (4 × - 6⅜) of Chapman and Hall's Popular Two Shilling novels. Note - should, however, be taken of the incidence of preliminary - matter. - - _Part I_: (iv) + 1-162. The preliminary matter consists of: - Section half-title, reading: PART I., Vol. I. Verso blank. - Title, reading: _The Prime Minister_. By Anthony Trollope. - London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. 1876. Verso - blank. _No_ list of contents. - - _Part II_: (ii) + 163-337 + (1). Preliminary matter: Section - half-title: PART II., Vol. I. Verso blank. - - _Part III_: (vi) [paged as iv] + 1-170. Preliminary matter - consists of: Section half-title, reading: PART III., Vol. - II. Verso blank. Title, as in Part I. Verso blank. Contents - of Vol. II. (2 pp.). - - _Part IV_: (iv) + 171-342. Preliminary matter: 2 pp. blank. - Section half-title: PART IV., Vol. II. Verso blank. - - _Part V_: vi + 1-174. Preliminary matter consists of: - Section half-title, reading: PART V., Vol. III. Verso blank. - Title, as in Parts I. and III. Verso blank. Contents of Vol. - III. (2 pp.). - - _Part VI_: (iv) + 175-346. Preliminary matter: 2 pp. blank. - Section half-title: PART VI. Verso blank. - - _Part VII_: vi + 1-168. Preliminary matter consists of: - Section half-title reading: PART VII., Vol. IV. Verso blank. - Title, as in Parts I., III., and V. Verso blank. Contents of - Vol. IV. (2 pp.). - - _Part VIII_: (ii) + 169-347 + (1). Preliminary matter. - Section half-title: PART VIII. Verso blank. - - It is evident, from a comparison between the foregoing - details and the collation of the four-volume edition - previously described, that the publishers were compelled, to - complete the latter, to print a contents list to Vol. 1. and - to add the words “In four volumes, Vol. 1.,” etc., to the - title-pages. It will be seen that they had so mismanaged the - pagination of the preliminary matter during part issue, that - only one of the four final volumes was correctly paged - throughout. - - - 1877 - - THE AMERICAN SENATOR. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. London: Chapman and Hall, - 193 Piccadilly. 1877. 3 vols. Cr. 8vo (5 × 7⅜). - - Vol. I. pp. viii + 293 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. viii + 293 + (1). - - Vol. III. pp. viii + 284. - - Yellow-ochre cloth, gilt, blocked in black. Yellow end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published in July, 1877. The story - appeared serially in the “Temple Bar Magazine.” - - (ii) There is a remainder binding for this book, but the - blocking is lighter and the sheets are cut to a smaller - size. - - - 1878 - - SOUTH AFRICA. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. London: Chapman and Hall, 193 - Piccadilly. 1878. 2 vols. Sq. Ex. Cr. 8vo (5¼ × 7⅞). - - Vol. I. pp. vii + (1) + 352. - - Vol. II. pp. vii + (1) + 352. - - Folding map in colours faces p. 1 of Vol. I. Red cloth, gilt, - blocked in blind. Black end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in March, 1878. - - - 1878 - - IS HE POPENJOY?: A Novel. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. London: Chapman and - Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1878. 3 vols. Cr. 8vo (5 × 7½). - - Vol. I. pp. vii + (i) + 301 + (3). Publishers' advertisements occupy - pp. (303) and (304). - - Vol. II. pp. vii + (i) + 297 + (3). Publishers' advertisements - occupy pp. (299) and (300). - - Vol. III. pp. vii + (i) + 319 + (1). - - Red-brown cloth, gilt, blocked in black. Yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in April, 1878. The story - appeared serially in “All the Year Round.” - - - 1878 - - HOW THE 'MASTIFFS' WENT TO ICELAND. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. With - illustrations by Mrs. Hugh Blackburn. London: Virtue and Co. - Limited. 1878. 1 vol. Demy 4to (8⅝ × 11⅛). Pp. (vi) + 46. Bright - blue cloth, blocked in gold. Dark grey end-papers. Coloured map as - frontispiece in lithography; fourteen pencil drawings in - lithography, and two silver print photographs, mounted, throughout - the text. All illustrations printed separately. - - - 1879 - - AN EYE FOR AN EYE. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. London: Chapman and Hall, 193 - Piccadilly. 1879. 2 vols. Small Cr. 8vo (4⅝ × 7⅛). - - Vol. I. pp. (viii) [paged as vi] + 215 + (1). Publishers' catalogue, - 32 pp., dated December, 1878, printed on text paper, bound in at - end. - - Vol. II. pp. (viii) [paged as vi] + 288. - - Greenish-ochre cloth, blocked in gold and black. Yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in January, 1879. It was, - however, written in 1871. - - - 1879 - - THACKERAY. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. London: Macmillan and Co. 1879. 1 vol. - Cr. 8vo (5 × 7½). Pp. vi + (ii) + 210 + (2). List of volumes in the - “English Men of Letters” Series occupies pp. (211) and (212). A - volume in the “English Men of Letters” Series edited by John Morley. - Buff cloth, paper label. White end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published in May, 1879. - - (ii) The first issue was bound as described above. Later - issues of the first edition sheets were bound in scarlet or - in yellow-ochre cloth, blocked in black with the Series - design, and had black end-papers. These later copies were - slightly cut, the pages measuring 4⅞ × 7⅛. - - - 1879 - - JOHN CALDIGATE. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. London: Chapman and Hall. 193 - Piccadilly. 1879. 3 vols. Cr. 8vo (5 × 7⅜). - - Vol. I. pp. vi + 290. - - Vol. II. pp. vi + 296. - - Vol. III. pp. vi + 302 + (2). - - Grey cloth, gilt, blocked in black. Yellow end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published in June, 1879. The story - appeared serially in “Blackwood's Magazine.” - - (ii) There are two varieties in the lettering and blocking - of the volumes of this novel. In one the words “Vol. I.,” - “Vol. II.,” “Vol. III.” on the spines of the volumes are in - thicker roman capitals than in the other. There are also - slight differences of decorative blocking. Which style is - the earlier I do not know. - - - 1879 - - COUSIN HENRY: A Novel. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. London: Chapman and Hall, - 193 Piccadilly. 1879. 2 vols. Cr. 8vo (4⅝ × 7⅛). - - Vol. I. pp. viii + 219 + (5). Publishers' advertisements occupy pp. - (221) to (223). - - Vol. II. pp. viii + 222 + (2). - - Light blue cloth, blocked uniform with “An Eye for An Eye” in black - and gold. Pale yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in November, 1879. - - - 1880 - - THE DUKE'S CHILDREN: A Novel. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. London: Chapman and - Hall, Limited 193 Piccadilly. 1880. 3 vols. Cr. 8vo (5 × 7½). - - Vol. I. pp. viii + 320. - - Vol. II. pp. viii + 327 + (1). - - Vol. III. pp. viii + 312. - - Publishers' catalogue, 24 pp., undated but paged, bound in at end. - Dark blue-green cloth, gilt, blocked in black. Pink-cream - end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in May, 1880. - - - 1880 - - THE LIFE OF CICERO. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. London: Chapman and Hall - Limited 193 Piccadilly. 1880. 2 vols. Sq. Ex. Cr. 8vo (5⅛ × 7⅞). - - Vol. I. pp. vii + (i) + 419 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. vii + (i) + 424 + (1). - - Dark red cloth, gilt. Black end-papers. - - - 1881 - - DOCTOR WORTLE'S SCHOOL: A Novel. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. London: Chapman - and Hall Limited, 193 Piccadilly. 1881. 2 vols. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7¼). - - Vol. I. pp. (viii) [paged as vi] + 237 + (3). - - Vol. II. pp. (viii) + 246 + (2). - - Publishers' catalogue, 28 pp., dated November, 1880, printed on text - paper, bound in at end. Grey cloth, blocked in gold and black. Pale - yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This novel was published in February, 1881. - - - 1881 - - AYALA'S ANGEL. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE, author of _Doctor Thorne_, _The - Prime Minister_, _Orley Farm_ etc. etc. London: Chapman and Hall - (Limited) 11 Henrietta Street Covent Garden. 1881. 3 vols. Cr. 8vo - (4⅞ × 7⅜). - - Vol. I. pp. iv + 280. - - Vol. II. pp. iv + 272. - - Vol. III. pp. iv + 277 + (3). - - No half-titles. Orange cloth, gilt, blocked in black. Blue-black - end-papers. - - NOTE—This novel was published in June, 1881. - - - 1882 - - WHY FRAU FROHMANN RAISED HER PRICES: AND OTHER STORIES. By ANTHONY - TROLLOPE, author of _Framley Parsonage_, _The Small House at - Allington_ etc. etc. London: William Isbister Limited 56 Ludgate - Hill. 1882. 1 vol. Large Cr. 8vo (5¼ × 7¾). Pp. vi + (ii) + 416. - Pale olive-green cloth, gilt, blocked in black. Dark chocolate - end-papers. - - _Contents_: Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices—The Lady of - Launay—Christmas at Thompson Hall—The Telegraph Girl—Alice - Dugdale. - - NOTES—(i) Copies of this book were also issued in two - volumes, but with the same pagination and composed of the - same sheets as the more usual one-volume issue. A new - edition, with a frontispiece, was issued in November, 1882. - - (ii) In 1885, under the title _Thompson Hall_, the third - story in this volume was issued separately by Messrs. - Sampson Low. In some quarters the little book is regarded as - a first edition and highly valued accordingly, but in truth - it is not bibliographically an item of any importance, being - a textual reprint of _Christmas at Thompson Hall_, under a - slightly different title and with the addition of a few - second-rate illustrations. For the benefit of those - interested, the description and collation of the book is as - follows: - - THOMPSON HALL. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE, author of _The Prime Minister_, - _Orley Farm_ etc. etc. With illustrations. London: Sampson Low, - Marston, Searle and Rivington. Crown Buildings, 188 Fleet Street. - 1885. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7). Pp. 127 + (1). Publishers' - advertisements occupy pp. (iv) and (128). Eight line-engraved - illustrations printed on text paper. Grey paper boards, printed in - dark blue and brown. White end-papers. - - - 1882 - - LORD PALMERSTON (English Political Leaders). By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. - London: Wm. Isbister Limited 56 Ludgate Hill, 1882. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo - (4¾ × 7¼). Pp. (iv) + 220. No half-title. Smooth red-brown cloth, - lettered in black. Black end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was reissued the following year with - title-page dated 1883 but without any indication of there - having been a previous edition. The later issue is bound in - _grained_ cloth of the same colour as that originally used - and has _white_ end-papers. - - - 1882 - - KEPT IN THE DARK: A Novel. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. With a frontispiece by - J. E. Millais R.A. London: Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly. 1882. 2 - vols. Short Cr. 8vo (5 × 7). - - Vol. I. pp. (viii) + 253 + (3). - - Vol. II. pp. (viii) + 239 + (1). - - Publishers' catalogue, 32 pp., dated July, 1882, bound in at end. - Grey-green cloth, gilt, blocked in black and red-brown. Blue and - white decorated end-papers. Line-engraved frontispiece to Vol. I. - printed separately. - - NOTE—This book was published in October, 1882. - - - 1882 - - MARION FAY: A Novel. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE, author of _Framley - Parsonage_, _Orley Farm_, _The Way We Live Now_ etc. etc. London: - Chapman and Hall Limited, 11 Henrietta Street. 1882. 3 vols. Cr. 8vo - (4⅞ × 7½). - - Vol. I. pp. viii + 303 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. viii + 282 + (2). - - Vol. III. pp. viii + 271 + (1). - - Yellow-ochre cloth, gilt, blocked in black. Dark brown or yellow - end-papers. - - - 1882 - - THE FIXED PERIOD: A Novel. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. Wm. Blackwood and - Sons, Edinburgh and London, MDCCCLXXXII. 2 vols. Small Cr. 8vo (4¾ × - 7). - - Vol. I. pp. (vi) + 200. - - Vol. II. pp. (vi) + 203 + (1). - - The words “Originally published in 'Blackwood's Magazine'” occupy - verso of half-title in each volume. Dark red cloth, gilt. Dark green - end-papers. - - - 1883 - - MR. SCARBOROUGH'S FAMILY. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. London: Chatto and - Windus, Piccadilly. 1883. 3 vols. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7¼). - - Vol. I. pp. vii + (i) + 308. Publishers' catalogue, 32 pp., dated - March, 1883, bound in at end. - - Vol. II. pp. vii + (i) + 326 + (2). - - Vol. III. pp. vii + (i) + 325 + (3). - - Greenish-blue cloth, gilt, blocked in red-brown. White end-papers. - - NOTE—This novel was published in May, 1883. The story - appeared serially in “All the Year Round.” - - - 1883 - - THE LANDLEAGUERS. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. London: Chatto and Windus, - Piccadilly. 1883. 3 vols. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7¼). - - Vol. I. pp. vii + (iii) + 280. Note by Henry M. Trollope occupies p. - (ix). - - Vol. II. pp. vii + (i) + 296. - - Vol. III. pp. vii + (i) + 291 + (1). - - Publishers' catalogue, 32 pp., dated October, 1883, bound in at end. - Dark green cloth, gilt, blocked in yellow. White end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in October, 1883. - - - 1883 - - AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. Wm. Blackwood and Sons, - Edinburgh and London. MDCCCLXXXIII. 2 vols. Sq. Ex. Cr. 8vo (5⅛ × - 7⅝). - - Vol. I. pp. xi + (iii) + 259 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. vi + 227 + (5). Publishers' advertisements paged 1 to 4 - occupy pp. (229) to (232). - - Publishers' catalogue, 24 pp., undated but paged and printed on text - paper, bound in at end. Portrait in photogravure as frontispiece to - Vol. I. Dark red cloth, gilt, blocked and lettered on side in black. - Dark green end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in November, 1883. - - - 1884 - - AN OLD MAN'S LOVE. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. Wm. Blackwood and Sons, - Edinburgh and London. MDCCCLXXXIV. 2 vols. Sm. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7). - - Vol. I. pp. (viii) + 226. - - Vol. II. pp. (vi) + 219 + (1). - - Publishers' advertisements, 4 pp., numbered 1-4, and printed on text - paper, bound in at end. Red cloth, gilt, uniform with _The Fixed - Period_. Dark brown end-papers. - - - II.—BOOKS PARTIALLY WRITTEN BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE - - - 1861 - - THE VICTORIA REGIA: A VOLUME OF ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS IN POETRY AND - PROSE. Edited by Adelaide A. Procter. London: Printed and Published - by Emily Faithfull and Co., Victoria Press (for the Employment of - Women), Great Coram Street, W.C. 1861. 1 vol. Royal 8vo (6¼ × 9⅜). - Pp. x + 349 + (1). No half-title. Red-brown embossed cloth, all - edges gilt, blocked in gold and blind. Red chocolate end-papers. - - - 1863 - - A WELCOME: ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS IN POETRY AND PROSE. London: Emily - Faithfull, Printer and Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, Princes - Street, Hanover Square, and 183A Farringdon Street. 1863. 1 vol. - Imp. 16mo (5½ × 7¾). Pp. vi + (ii) + 291 + (1). Green cloth, full - gilt, blocked in gold. Pale pink end-papers. A story by Anthony - Trollope entitled _Miss Ophelia Gledd_ occupies pp. 239 to 283. This - is the first appearance of a story later included in _Lotta Schmidt - and other Stories_. - - NOTE.--Pp. 187 to 214 are occupied by a story by Anthony - Trollope entitled _The Journey to Panama_. This is the first - appearance in book form of a tale afterwards published in - _Lotta Schmidt and other Stories_. - - - 1868 - - BRITISH SPORTS AND PASTIMES 1868. Edited by ANTHONY TROLLOPE. London: - Virtue and Co., 26 Ivy Lane. New York: Virtue and Yorston. 1868. 1 - vol. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7¾). Pp. (vi) + 322. Bright green embossed - cloth, gilt, with title printed both on spine and side. Pale yellow - end-papers. - - _Contents_: On Horse-Racing—On Hunting—On Shooting—On - Fishing—On Yachting—On Rowing—On Alpine Climbing—On Cricket. - Trollope was responsible for the preface (pp. 1-7) and the - Essay “On Hunting” (pp. 70-129). - - NOTES—(i) This book was published in November, 1868. The - contents had appeared in “St. Paul's Magazine.” - - (ii) The sheets of the first edition were later issued - without change of date in a slightly different green - binding, without the title in gold on the side, and bearing - as imprint on spine, Daldy, Isbister and Co. The reissue was - cut down to cr. 8vo, and the end-papers were chocolate - instead of yellow. - - (iii) A still later issue of the book in its reduced format - was bound in bright blue cloth, blocked in gold and black. - This binding bears no imprint on spine, and was probably - carried out by W. H. Smith and Son for a balance of edition - purchased by them. George Eliot's novel _Felix Holt_ was - treated in this way by Smiths some twelve years after - publication, and the binding is very similar to that now - under consideration. - - - _NOTE_ - -It is stated by Margaret Lavington in her appendix to Escott's book that -Trollope “printed but never published” several of his lectures. I have -been unable to trace any privately printed lectures, but feel sure that -Trollope's first bibliographer would not speak of them as she does -without certain knowledge of their existence. The titles mentioned are: - - THE CIVIL SERVICE AS A PROFESSION, - THE WAR IN AMERICA, - ENGLISH PROSE FICTION AS A NATIONAL AMUSEMENT, - THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN. - -No dates or other details are given. - -From the same source I borrow a statement that a study of Thackeray by -Trollope, originally printed in the “Cornhill,” was republished as part -of Theodore Taylor's book _Thackeray: The Humourist and Man of Letters_, -which was issued in 1864. It is noticeable that Margaret Lavington -speaks of the publisher of this book as Appleton of New York. A book of -the same title by the same author was issued in the same year by Hotten -of Piccadilly, and it is a fair presumption that the volumes are -identical, but, although I have been carefully through the volume issued -by Hotten, I cannot identify any section as contributed by Trollope. - - - - - FREDERICK MARRYAT - 1792-1849 - - - - - FREDERICK MARRYAT - - -The reputation of Captain Marryat has suffered at the hands of time -somewhat differently from that of many of his contemporaries. -Superficially he has fared better than they, for, if little read except -by boys, he is at least acknowledged as a classic, and there are few -adult novel readers who could not from their own childhood gather -sufficient memories to characterize in summary some of his best known -books. - -Nevertheless, it is arguable that the forgotten author is happier than -he who is accepted but unread. A revival of interest in the books of a -man not already docketed and filed in the appreciation of his age may -develop a new perspective. The body of his work may be exhumed and -permanently lodged in its proper niche of the catacombs of literature. -More hardly shall this befall such a one as Marryat, who is “placed” -already as a writer of sea stories for boys and as an instructor in -adventure for young people. - -Who shall deny that he is all of this? His fame as a novelist of naval -escapade, of risk and makeshift among pirates and barbarians, is fame -deserved. The difficulty for one concerned to reappraise his work lies -in the fact that there is more to him than is here implied. He is the -only writer in the tradition of Fielding and Smollett who can claim -consideration on the same plane as these famous authors. That he is -overtopped by _Tom Jones_ no one will dispute, but that he ranks with -and not after Smollett is a contention that permits of argument. - -The first result of an attempt to classify the books of Captain Marryat -is a realization that two of his finest works are—the one wholly, the -other mainly—unconcerned with ships or seafarers. _Japhet in Search of a -Father_ (1836) is a picturesque tale of vagabondage and social escapade. -_The Pacha of Many Tales_ (1835) is an adaptation of “The Arabian -Nights,” a series of narratives held together by a framework of Oriental -despotism. - -_Japhet_ is partnered by two later novels—_Joseph Rushbrook; or, The -Poacher_ (1841) and _Valerie_ (1849). All three are land as opposed to -sea novels, and the first two show the fertile invention of the author, -his power of describing rogues and fashionable grotesques. But whereas -_Japhet_ is the best book Marryat ever wrote, _The Poacher_ is a little -weary, for it dates from the last period of the writer's life, when -ill-health and money troubles were pressing hardly on a man already -exhausted by a reckless youth; while _Valerie_, the autobiography of a -French girl cast on her own resources in Paris and in London, had better -have been left, as Marryat left it, a fragment cut short by sickness and -by death. - -_The Pacha of Many Tales_ stands quite alone and stands proudly. -Marryat's humour is in this book congenial to the modern reader, while -of fantastic happening few works of fiction can show so rich a store. It -is hard to understand why this admirable parody of the “Thousand and One -Nights” is to-day so little read. Perhaps some enterprising publisher -will extract the story of Huckaback and issue it, grotesquely -illustrated. It should find its market. - -The sea stories proper need little comment. They are eleven in number: - - THE NAVAL OFFICER; or, FRANK MILDMAY (1829), - THE KING'S OWN (1830), - NEWTON FORSTER; or, THE MERCHANT SERVICE (1832), - PETER SIMPLE (1834), - JACOB FAITHFUL (1834), - MR. MIDSHIPMAN EASY (1836), - THE PIRATE. THE THREE CUTTERS (1836), - POOR JACK (1840), - PERCIVAL KEENE (1842), - THE PRIVATEER'S-MAN (1846). - -The first of these titles is pure autobiography and, as the author -himself admitted, lacks most of the essentials of fiction. The story is -of the slightest and most perfunctory, the book being little more than -an account of Marryat's own early adventures at sea. David Hannay, in -his excellent little _Life of Marryat_, remarks acutely on the peculiar -meanness of the hero's character—a meanness that makes an even more -repellant appearance in the last but one of the sea stories—_Percival -Keene_. Seeing that Marryat was writing of himself and that the events -in the life of Frank Mildmay must have been easily recognizable by naval -contemporaries, it is remarkable that he should present his central -figure so unsympathetically, _unless he failed to realize the young -man's shortcomings_. Perhaps in part he saw his mistake, for in the five -novels that followed _The Naval Officer_ he offers the reader more -respectable but more colourless heroes. When the time came for writing -_Percival Keene_, either he had forgotten the warnings of twelve years -before or else he was tired of erecting dummy humanity to placate the -idealism of his readers. - -The constructional weakness of _The Naval Officer_ Marryat took pains to -correct in his succeeding books. _Peter Simple_, _Jacob Faithful_ and -the rest may depend for their vitality and attraction on the excitements -encountered by their heroes while voyaging the seas or fighting in the -wars. Certainly the by-plots are unimportant and conventional. But the -author was careful in them all to give to the _course_ of the heroes' -adventures a real prominence and coherence, so that we read with an -anxiety to know what happens next and are not, as in _The Naval -Officer_, continually brought up by naval “shop” or invited to feel -indignant sympathy with the members of a noble but scurvily treated -service. - -_The Pirate_ and _The Privateer's-Man_ are exciting tales of ocean -brigandage, the latter having in addition an antiquarian interest, for -the first portion of the story is based on the actual life-record of an -old time sea-rover. _Poor Jack_, although told in the first person and -comprising scenes on shipboard and adventurous happenings at sea of a -kind to suggest comparison with _Mr. Midshipman Easy_, has an historical -interest apart from its value as fiction, because it is an account of -Greenwich Hospital, in those days a retreat for wounded seamen. - -Two groups remain among the stories of Frederick Marryat. _Snarleyow_ -(1837) and _The Phantom Ship_ (1839) stand definitely apart from the -rest of the novels. Both tell of Dutch seafaring in the old days and -both introduce a strong element of the weird and the mysterious. That -Marryat should in these books have come under the influence of the -“terror” motive in fiction is surprising and interesting. After reading -_Japhet_ or _Mr. Midshipman Easy_ one would declare that nothing was -farther from the talent of their author than an excursion into the -“horrid.” And yet both _Snarleyow_ and _The Phantom Ship_ are excellent -books, which rank high among Marryat's novels for liveliness and for -characterization and, in addition, merit notice for their fearsomeness. -Of their value as historical documents I am unqualified to speak, but it -may be presumed that before writing them the author studied the lives -and methods of seventeenth and eighteenth century Dutch mariners, for -both books are circumstantially staged and show no desire to shirk -description of contemporary fact. - -Of the stories written definitely for children the best known (and -rightly) is _Masterman Ready_ (1841-1842). It was followed by _The -Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet_ (1843); _The Settlers in -Canada_ (1844); _The Mission; or, Scenes in Africa_ (1845); _The -Children of the New Forest_ (1847); and _The Little Savage_ (1848-1849). - -_Monsieur Violet_ is an improbable and tedious tale of Red Indians and -Mormons. The rest—with the exception of _The Children of the New -Forest_, which is a story of Cavaliers and Roundheads—tell in one form -or another the eternal tale of young adventurers in wild countries. - -Marryat loved children and knew how to tell stories that they could like -and understand. This to-day is undisputed. But that he is equally a -novelist for the critical sorely needs reaffirmation. His juvenile -public has been more faithful to him than that of maturer years, and one -can only hope that time will restore him to the affection of the adult. -_Masterman Ready_ is as fresh to-day as when, eighty years ago, it first -appeared; but the freshness is due as much to Marryat as to his youthful -admirers, and that same freshness is no less present in the best of his -other books than it is in this children's classic. Let the modern novel -reader have no fear. In taking up _Japhet_, or _Peter Simple_, or _A -Pacha of Many Tales_, he will take up a fine book and good literature, -and not merely a poker with which to rake among the ashes of his own -vanished childhood. - - - _BIOGRAPHY_ - -Two books have appeared dealing with the life and work of Frederick -Marryat: - - LIFE AND LETTERS OF CAPTAIN MARRYAT. By FLORENCE MARRYAT. 2 vols. - London: Bentley, 1872. - - Like so many loyal and affectionate biographers, Mrs. Ross Church is - too casual a user of dates and too summary an adherent to chronology - to allow to her book great reference value. - - LIFE OF FREDERICK MARRYAT. By DAVID HANNAY. London: Walter Scott. - 1889. - - This is an admirable little book so far as the main text is - concerned. Its bibliography, however, although valuable for the list - given of biographical and critical articles devoted to Marryat, as - well as for facts regarding subsequent editions of Marryat's works, - is very unreliable as an authority on first editions. - - - I.—EDITIONES PRINCIPES - FICTION, ESSAYS, NAVAL TECHNICAL BOOKS - - - 1817 - - A CODE OF SIGNALS FOR THE USE OF VESSELS EMPLOYED IN THE MERCHANT - SERVICE. By CAPTAIN MARRYAT, R.N. Dedicated to the Committee of the - Association of Shipowners of the Port of London. London: J. M. - Richardson, 23 Cornhill. 1817. 1 vol. Royal 8vo (6⅛ × 9¾). No - pagination, the book consisting wholly of tabulated code. - Frontispiece, folding plate, and one full-page plate in colours. - Paper boards, paper label on side only, printed in black. White - end-papers. - - NOTE—I have only been able to consult the sixth edition of - this book as issued revised in 1837 and a seventh edition, - further revised, as issued in 1840; but that it appeared - originally in the same form and over the same imprint is - proved by the retention in the later edition of the author's - original prefatory letter, dedicating his work to the - Association of Shipowners. - - - 1822 - - SUGGESTION FOR THE ABOLITION OF THE PRESENT SYSTEM OF IMPRESSMENT IN - THE NAVAL SERVICE. By CAPTAIN MARRYAT, R.N. (Quotation.) London: - Printed by W. Hughes, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden. Published by J. M. - Richardson, Cornhill and sold by all booksellers. 1822. 1 vol. Demy - 8vo (5½ × 8¾). Pp. (iv) + 64. The half-title serves as front wrapper - and bears the words “Price 2/6d.” No back wrapper, p. 64 being the - outside back page of the pamphlet. - - - 1829 - - THE NAVAL OFFICER: Or SCENES AND ADVENTURES IN THE LIFE OF FRANK - MILDMAY. (Quotation from Don Juan.) London: Henry Colburn, New - Burlington Street. 1829. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7⅞). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) + 297 + (3). Publisher's advertisements occupy pp. - (299) (300). - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 310 + (2). Publisher's advertisements occupy pp. - (311) (312). - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 270 + (2). - - Paper boards, paper label. White end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published on March 14, 1829. - - - 1830 - - THE KING'S OWN. By the author of _The Naval Officer_. (Quotation from - Shakespeare's _Pericles_.) London: Henry Colburn and Richard - Bentley, New Burlington Street. 1830. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7⅞). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) + 324. Note of erratum occupies verso of - half-title. - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 325 + (1). Note of errata occupies verso of - half-title. - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 327 + (5). Note of errata occupies verso of - half-title. Publishers' advertisements, paged (1), 2, 3, (4), occupy - pp. (329) to (332). - - Paper boards, paper label. White end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published on April 15, 1830. - - - 1832 - - NEWTON FORSTER: Or THE MERCHANT SERVICE. By the author of _The King's - Own_. “Honesty is the best policy.” London: James Cochrane and Co., - 11 Waterloo Place, Pall Mall. 1832. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7⅞). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) + 270 + (2). Publishers' advertisements occupy pp. - (271) (272). - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 295 + (1). - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 260. Publishers' advertisements occupy pp. - (253) to (260). - - Paper boards, paper label. White end-papers. - - NOTE—Although dated 1832, this book was actually published - in December, 1831. - - - 1834 - - PETER SIMPLE. By the author of _Newton Forster_, _The King's Own_ etc. - London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street. 1834. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. - 8vo (4¾ × 7⅞). - - Vol. I. pp. vii + (i) + 328. No half-title. - - Vol. II. pp. viii + 343 + (1). Half-title to this volume. - - Vol. III. pp. viii + 380 + (4). Publishers' advertisements dated - November, 1833, occupy pp. (381) to (384). No half-title. Inserted - in Vol. III. should be a list of errata. - - Paper boards, paper label. White end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) Although dated 1834, this book was actually - published in December, 1833. The story ran serially in the - “Metropolitan Magazine” from June, 1832, to December, 1833. - Marryat edited this magazine from 1832 to 1836. - - (ii) An edition of the book, illustrated by R. W. Buss, was - published by Saunders and Otley, in 1837, in three volumes. - Extra cr. 8vo. Dark green embossed cloth, gilt. Yellow - end-papers. - - - 1834 - - JACOB FAITHFUL. By the author of _Peter Simple_, _The King's Own_ etc. - London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street. 1834. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. - 8vo (4¾ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. viii + 304. Advertisement of _Peter Simple_ occupies p. - (ii). No half-title. - - Vol. II. pp. vii + (i) + 301 + (3). Publishers' advertisements - occupy pp. (303) (304). No half-title. - - Vol. III. pp. vii + (i) + 307 + (1). No half-title. - - Paper boards (half cloth), paper label. White end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published in November or December, - 1834. The story ran serially in the “Metropolitan Magazine” - from September, 1833, to December, 1834. - - (ii) An edition of the book, illustrated by R. W. Buss, was - published by Saunders and Otley in 1837 in three volumes. - Ex. cr. 8vo. Maroon embossed cloth, gilt. Yellow end-papers. - - (iii) It was the intention of the publishers to bring out an - illustrated edition of all Marryat's novels, one novel to - appear each month, beginning on April 1, 1837; but only - _Jacob Faithful_ and _Peter Simple_ were issued, and the - series was abandoned, doubtless because in that year Marryat - quarrelled with Saunders and Otley and found a different - publisher. - - - 1835 - - THE PACHA OF MANY TALES. By the author of _Peter Simple_, _Jacob - Faithful_ etc. London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street. 1835. 3 - vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) + 308 + (4). Publishers' advertisements occupy pp. - (309) to (312). Advertisement of books by the same author occupies - p. (ii) facing title. - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 300. - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 312. - - Paper boards (half cloth), paper label. White end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in May, 1835. The stories - appeared intermittently in the “Metropolitan Magazine” - between June, 1831, and May, 1835. - - - 1836 - - THE PIRATE, AND THE THREE CUTTERS. By CAPTAIN MARRYAT, R.N. - Illustrated with twenty splendid engravings from drawings by - Clarkson Stanfield Esq., R.A. London: Published for the Proprietor - by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman. 1836. Large Med. - 8vo (5⅞ × 9⅛). Pp. (viii) + 315 + (1). The book contains twenty - full-page illustrations in steel engraving, of which two—an engraved - portrait frontispiece and picture title-page—precede printed title. - Cream paper boards, gilt, lettered on spine in gold THE PIRATE BY - CAPT^{N.} MARRYAT. Yellow end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) Although dated 1836, this book was actually - published in December, 1835. - - (ii) Copies are more frequently met with in maroon cloth, - blocked in gold and lettered on spine MARRYATS PIRATE AND - THE THREE CUTTERS. This cloth binding (of which two styles - at least are extant) is probably not so early in date as the - paper-board binding described above. Definite information is - impossible to obtain, but the evidence of similar - illustrated books of the period (_e.g._, Lytton's _Pilgrims - of the Rhine_) supports the theory here laid down. - - (iii) A large paper edition, imperial 8vo (11 × 7½), was - issued simultaneously, with plates printed on India paper - and bound in green paper boards, half dark-green figured - cloth, cream paper label, the last being lettered in gold: - THE PIRATE BY CAPT^{N.} MARRYAT. White end-papers. Copies of - the large paper edition also exist in maroon cloth, blocked - in gold and blind and lettered on the spine: MARRYATS PIRATE - AND THE THREE CUTTERS. As with the ordinary edition, these - full cloth copies are of later issue than those in boards. - - (iv) In all Longman's first editions the plates bear the - following legend: 'Published Dec^r. 1, 1835 for the - proprietor by Longman and Co., Paternoster Row.' The book - was, however, never issued with a _printed_ title of that - year. That the actual plates were published prior to the - Longman book edition is proved by the fact that I have - myself a set, both before and after “letters,” bearing the - legend: 'London. Published Oct^r. 1835 for the proprietor by - Charles Tilt, 86 Fleet Street.' In every other respect, even - down to the page references, the wording on these early - dated plates is identical with that used for Longman's book - edition. - - (v) A curious feature of this book's publishing history is - its issue in parts, nine years after its appearance in book - form. In 1845 there appeared over the imprint A. Fullarton - and Co., 106 Newgate Street, London; 67 Abbey street, - Dublin; Steads Place, Leith Walk, and 5 Nicholson Street, - Edinburgh, fifteen shilling parts (6 × 9½), bound in buff - paper wrappers printed in red-brown, and illustrated with - steel engravings after Clarkson Stanfield. These engravings - are twenty in number and identical with those in the first - book edition, except that the Longmans imprint has been - substituted on the plates by that of Fullarton, and the - printer's name and the date of issue have been expunged. The - distribution of plates among the fifteen parts is as - follows: Parts I. IV. VI. VIII. X. contain two plates each; - Parts II. III. V. VII. IX. XI. XII. XIII. XIV. and XV. - contain one plate each. Publishers' advertisements occupy - outside back wrappers. No date appears on the parts, but a - title-page (with other preliminary matter) enclosed in Part - XV. is dated MDCCCXLV. - - The text of the book was clearly reset for this part issue, - so there can be no question of a refurbishing of Longman - sheets. It may be noted that, according to the wrappers, the - plates were “engraved under the superintendence of Mr. - Charles Heath.” (This person was responsible for the - principal Books of Beauty, Keepsakes, and similar gift - publications issued in large numbers toward Christmas time - between 1840 and 1850 and distinguished by their beautiful - steel engravings.) - - There being no indication that the plates were re-engraved - for the Fullarton edition, it may be presumed either that - Heath superintended their original production in 1835 but - had not at that time the “selling name” that by 1845 was - his, or that Fullarton, anxious to give to their reissue - something of novelty, paid Heath for a supervisory activity - of a nominal kind in order to have the use of his name on - their wrappers. - - - 1836 - - JAPHET IN SEARCH OF A FATHER. By the author of _Peter Simple_, _Jacob - Faithful_, etc. London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street. 1836. 3 - vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7⅞). - - Vol. I. pp. viii + 304. Advertisement of other works by same author - occupies verso of half-title. - - Vol. II. pp. viii + 299 + (1). No half-title. - - Vol. III. pp. viii + 319 + (5). Publishers' advertisements occupy - pp. (321) to (324). No half-title. - - Paper boards (half cloth), paper label. White end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published early in January, 1836. The - story ran serially in the “Metropolitan Magazine” from - October, 1834, to January, 1836. - - - 1836 - - STORIES OF THE SEA. By CAPTAIN MARRYAT, R.N. author of _Peter Simple_, - _Japhet in Search of a Father_ etc. New York: Published by Harper - and Brothers, No. 82 Cliff Street. 1836. 1 vol. Sm. Cr. 8vo (4½ × - 7¼). Pp. (236) [paged as 232 + (2)]. No printed half-title, but 2 - pp. blank precede title and form part of the book, although omitted - from page reckoning. Advertisement to the American edition, dated - January, 1836, occupies p. (3). Figured maroon cloth, paper label. - White end-papers. - - NOTE—This book is the American edition of _The Pirate and - the Three Cutters_. It also contains Marryat's story - _Moonshine_, which originally appeared in _The Keepsake_ and - was not published in book form in England until its - inclusion in _Olla Podrida_ in 1840. - - - 1836 - - MR. MIDSHIPMAN EASY. By the author of _Japhet in Search of a Father_, - _Peter Simple_, _Jacob Faithful_ etc. Saunders and Otley, Conduit - Street. 1836. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7⅞). - - Vol. I. pp. vii + (i) + 291 +(1). Advertisement of author's previous - works occupies verso of half-title. - - Vol. II. pp. vii + (i) + 306 + (2). Publishers' advertisement - occupies verso of half-title, and 2 pp. publishers' advertisements, - dated July, 1836, occupy pp. (307) (308). - - Vol. III. pp. viii + 314 + (2). Publishers' advertisement occupies - verso of half-title and pp. (315) (316). - - Paper boards (half cloth), paper label. White end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in September, 1836. One - instalment was printed in the “Metropolitan Magazine” in - July, 1836, but serialization was never completed. - - - 1836 - - THE DIARY OF A BLASÉ. By the author of _Jacob Faithful_, _Peter - Simple_ etc. Philadelphia: E. L. Carey and A. Hart. 1836. 1 vol. Ex. - Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7¾). Pp. 197 + (1). Paper boards, paper label. White - end-papers. - - NOTE—I cannot establish the month of publication of this - book, but twenty-eight chapters of a work entitled _The - Diary of a Blasé_ appeared serially in the “Metropolitan - Magazine” to July, 1836, at which point the narrative was - left incomplete. It made no separate appearance in book form - in England, being included under the title _Diary on the - Continent_ in _Olla Podrida_ (see below—1840). - - - 1837 - - SNARLEYOW or THE DOG FIEND. By the author of _Peter Simple_, _Frank - Mildmay_ etc. London: Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13 Great Marlborough - Street. 1837. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7⅞). - - Vol I. pp. viii + 307 + (5). Publisher's advertisements occupy pp. - (309) to (312). - - Vol. II. pp. vii + (i) + 299 + (1). - - Vol. III. pp. viii + 307 + (1). - - Paper boards (half cloth), paper label. White end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in June, 1837. The story ran - serially in the “Metropolitan Magazine” from February, 1836, - to July, 1837. Marryat changed his publisher with this - novel, because Saunders and Otley refused to pay an advance - on royalties. - - - 1839 - - THE PHANTOM SHIP. By CAPT. MARRYAT, R.N. Author of _Peter Simple_, - _Jacob Faithful_, _Frank Mildmay_ etc. London: Henry Colburn, - Publisher, Great Marlborough Street. 1839. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × - 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) + 300. - - Vol. II. pp. (ii) + 289 + (1). No half-title. - - Vol. III. pp. (ii) + 266. No half-title. - - Paper boards (half cloth), paper label. White end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in April, 1839. The story - appeared serially in the “New Monthly Magazine” during 1837. - - - 1839 - - A DIARY IN AMERICA: WITH REMARKS ON ITS INSTITUTIONS. By CAPTAIN - MARRYAT, C.B. Author of _Peter Simple_, _Jacob Faithful_, _Frank - Mildmay_ etc. London: Printed for Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and - Longmans, Paternoster Row. 1839. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) + 321 + (3). - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 319 + (1). - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 311 + (1). Note of errata to Vol. I. occupies - p. (312) of Vol. III. - - Paper boards (half cloth), paper label. Also full green grained - cloth, paper label. White end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in October, 1839. - - - 1839 - - A DIARY IN AMERICA ETC. PART SECOND. By CAPT. MARRYAT, C.B. Printed - for Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, Paternoster Row. 1839. - 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) + 304. - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 293 + (1). - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 362. - - Vol. II. contains two folding maps, which precede p. 1. Paper boards - (half cloth), paper label. White end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in December, 1839. - - - 1840 - - POOR JACK. By CAPTAIN MARRYAT, C.B. With illustrations by Clarkson - Stanfield, R.A. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, - Paternoster Row. 1840. 1 vol. Large Med. 8vo (5⅞ × ¼). Pp. x + 384. - Because the volume is composed of bound-up parts, the half-title is - p. 1 of the story itself and does not precede frontispiece. The book - contains forty-seven wood engravings after Clarkson Stanfield, of - which thirty-six printed separately and eleven in the text. Dark - green cloth, blocked in gold. Yellow end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published on December 1, 1840. - - (ii) _Poor Jack_ first appeared in twelve monthly shilling - parts (5⅞ × 9), bound in buff paper wrappers, printed in - black. The first was published at the beginning of January, - and the last at the beginning of December, 1840. Each part - (subject to the variations stated below) contained three - full-page wood engravings after Clarkson Stanfield, printed - separately. Eleven small engravings appear throughout the - text. - - Included in Part XII. were title-page and preliminary matter - (x pp.). - - Parts I. to III. were undated; Part IV. was dated April 1; - and each succeeding part was dated similarly with the month - of its appearance. - - Part I. should contain at front or back publishers' - catalogue, 8 pp., dated January 1, 1840, and entitled “Poor - Jack's Advertising Sheet.” Also at back an illustrated - advertisement of _Paul Periwinkle_. - - Part II. should contain at front publishers' 4 pp. list, - dated February, 1840, and a prospectus (8 pp., enclosed in - buff wrappers) of McCulloch's Geographical, Statistical and - Historical Dictionary. - - Parts III. to XI. contained (so far as I can discover) no - advertising matter apart from that printed on the wrappers - themselves. - - Part XII. should contain 2 pp. publishers' advertisements - both at front and back, printed on the buff wrapper paper. - - - NOTES ON THE PLATES. - - (i) No plates were issued with Part IX., but six instead of - three with Part X. A slip should be found inserted in Part - IX. calling attention to the arrangement. My own set shows a - similar happening in the case of Parts VII. and VIII., but - there is no sign of a slip having figured in the former to - explain the absence of illustration. - - (ii) In two cases there are variations in underline between - part and book issue: (_a_) One of the plates included in - Part XI. is entitled “The Euphrosyne in the Downs,” but this - legend is omitted altogether in some copies of the book. - (_b_) Included in Part XII. is a plate entitled “The Prize - at Sheerness.” This underline reads in most copies of the - book “The Prize in The Medway.” Collectors anxious to - possess the actual first issue of the book—_i.e._, that - bound up from actual parts—should examine these two points - in copies they consider purchasing. - - - 1840 - - OLLA PODRIDA. By the author of _Peter Simple_ etc. etc. London: - Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, Paternoster Row. 1840. 3 - vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. vi + (ii) + 310. - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 362 + (2). - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 332. - - Paper boards (half cloth), paper label. White end-papers. Also - issued in ribbed maroon cloth, gilt. Yellow end-papers. - - There is no contents list to Volume I. The complete contents - are: Diary on the Continent—The Monk of Seville (a - play)—S.W. and by W. ¾ W.—Ill-Will (a charade)—The Sky-Blue - Domino—Modern Town Houses—The Way to be Happy—How to Write a - Fashionable Novel—How to Write a Book of Travels—How to - Write a Romance—The Legend of the Bell Rock—Moonshine. - - NOTE—This book was published on December 1, 1840. Of the - contents the “Diary on the Continent” appeared serially in - the “Metropolitan Magazine” (see above, _Diary of a Blasé_, - 1836), and the shorter pieces partly in the same journal, - partly in the “New Monthly,” and one (“Moonshine”) in _The - Keepsake_ (see above, _Stories of the Sea_, 1836). - - - 1841/2 - - MASTERMAN READY OR THE WRECK OF THE PACIFIC. Written for Young People. - By CAPTAIN MARRYAT. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and - Longmans, Paternoster Row. 1841 (Vol. I.), 1842 (Vols. II. and - III.). 3 vols. in all. Fcap. 8vo (4¼ × 6¾). - - Vol. I. pp. viii + 287 + (1). Publishers' catalogue, 16 pp., dated - February, 1841, bound in at end. - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 269 + (3). Publishers' catalogue, 16 pp. (maybe - two catalogues each of 16 pp.), dated April, 1842, bound in at end - or, in some cases, after first front end-paper. - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 225 + (3). Publishers' catalogue, 30 pp., dated - October, 1842, bound in at end. - - Each volume contains frontispiece (that to Vol. III. is a map) and - several text illustrations, wood engraved and printed on text paper. - Dark green cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Yellow end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) Vol. I. was published in May, 1841; Vol. II. in - April, 1842; and Vol. III. in December, 1842. - - (ii) Because the book was first planned to occupy one volume - only, there is no indication on Vol. I. of its being the - first of a series. Vols. II. and III., however, are so - described on title-page and on binding. - - (iii) Vol. I. was catalogued on its publication as bound in - “boards.” This indicates that copies were first issued with - paper label and in half cloth, but I have never seen one so - bound. - - - 1841 - - JOSEPH RUSHBROOK: Or THE POACHER. By the author of _Peter Simple_. - London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Co., Paternoster Row. 1841. - 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. viii + 275 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. viii + 293 + (3). - - Vol. III. pp. viii + 269 + (7). Advertisements of works by the same - author occupy pp. (270) to (276). - - Paper boards, half cloth, paper label. White end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in June, 1841. The story - appeared serially in “The Era.” - - - 1842 - - PERCIVAL KEENE. By CAPTAIN MARRYAT, author of _Peter Simple_, _Jacob - Faithful_ etc. etc. London: Henry Colburn, Publisher, Great - Marlborough Street. 1842. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) + 293 + (3). - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 279 + (1). - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 315 + (1). - - Paper boards, half cloth, paper label. White end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in August, 1842. - - - 1843 - - NARRATIVE OF THE TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF MONSIEUR VIOLET IN - CALIFORNIA, SONORA AND WESTERN TEXAS. Written by CAPTAIN MARRYAT, - C.B. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, Paternoster Row. - 1843. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. viii + 312. - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 318 + (2). - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 299 + (1). - - Folding map faces title-page of Vol. I. Paper boards, half cloth, - paper label. White end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in October, 1843. - - - 1844 - - THE SETTLERS IN CANADA: Written for Young People. By CAPTAIN MARRYAT. - London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, Paternoster Row. 1844. 2 - vols. Fcap. 8vo (4⅛ × 6¾). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) + 356. Publishers' catalogue, 32 pp., undated or - dated September, 1844, or earlier, bound in at end. - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 374 + (2). - - Each volume contains frontispiece in wood engraving printed on text - paper. Grey-brown cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Pale yellow - end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published on September 7, 1844. It - is possible that the earliest issue contained an undated - catalogue, but this can only be established by comparison - between a larger number of copies of the book than I have - contrived to examine, and a careful investigation of the - books listed in any such undated catalogue. - - (ii) I have seen an announcement of this book as in - “boards,” but have never met with copies so bound. - - - 1845 - - THE MISSION: OR SCENES IN AFRICA. Written for Young People. By CAPTAIN - MARRYAT. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans. Paternoster - Row. 1845. 2 vols. Fcap. 8vo (4¼ × 6¾). - - Vol. I. pp. (vi) + 328. Publishers' catalogue, 32 pp. and undated, - bound in at end. - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 374 + (2). - - Each volume contains frontispiece in wood engraving, printed on text - paper. Vol. I. contains, following title and also on text paper, a - map. Brown cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Pale yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in June, 1845. - - - 1846 - - THE PRIVATEER'S-MAN: ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO. By CAPTAIN MARRYAT, R.N. - London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, Paternoster Row. 1846. 2 - vols. Fcap. 8vo (4¼ × 6¾). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) + 379 + (1). Publishers' catalogue, dated July, - 1846, or earlier, bound in at end. - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 361 + (1). - - Grey-green cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in July, 1846. The story - appeared serially in the “New Monthly Magazine,” which - periodical had just been purchased by W. Harrison Ainsworth. - - - [1847] - - THE CHILDREN OF THE NEW FOREST. By CAPTAIN MARRYAT, R.N. London: H. - Hurst, 27 King William Street, Charing Cross. 2 vols. Fcap. 8vo (4¼ - × 6¾). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) [enclosing inset title-page printed in red and - green] + 288 + (2). - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) [enclosing inset title-page printed in red and - green] + 298 + (4). - - Vol. I. contains eight and Vol. II. four steel-engraved - illustrations by Frank Marryat, printed separately. - - NOTES—(i) This book was the first story in _The Juvenile - Library_. Vol. I. was published in July and Vol. II. in - October, 1847. In all the copies I have been able to examine - pp. (299) to (302) of Vol. II. are occupied by an - announcement of this library and by reviews of _The Children - of the New Forest_ itself. Whether the book, on its actual - first appearance, had these pages blank or otherwise - occupied I do not know, but it is certainly curious to find - press notices of a story in any but subsequent issues of - that story. It should be noted that the pages in question - are not inset, but form the last quarter of a 16 pp. sheet. - - (ii) It is rumoured in some quarters that the book, as - originally issued, was dated on the title-page. I have never - seen a copy so dated. - - - 1848/9 - - THE LITTLE SAVAGE. By CAPTAIN MARRYAT, R.N. In Two Parts. Part I. - First edition. London: H. Hurst, 27 King William Street, Charing - Cross. 1848. Part II. First edition. London: H. Hurst and Co., King - William Street, Charing Cross. 1849. 2 vols. Fcap. 8vo (4¼ × 6¾). - - Part I. pp. (iv) [enclosing inset title-page printed in red and - green] + 298 + (4). Advertisements and reviews paged 1-4 of _The - Juvenile Library_ and _The Children of the New Forest_ occupy pp. - (299) to (302). - - Part II. pp. (iv.) [enclosing inset title-page printed in red and - green] + 280 + (4). Advertisements and reviews of Part I. and of - _The Children of the New Forest_ paged 1-4 occupy pp. (281) to - (284). - - Each volume contains four line engravings printed separately. - Grey-green cloth, blocked in gold. Uniform with _The Children of the - New Forest_. - - NOTES—(i) Part I. was published in December, 1848, and Part - II. in February, 1849. - - (ii) The second edition of Part II. differs from the first - in that there are preliminary pages (viii), of which p. (v) - bears a note by the author's son referring to Captain - Marryat's death. Frontispiece and title-page are, as - previously, inset on different paper, and the latter printed - in red and green. - - (iii) Of Part II. only two chapters were written by Marryat. - - - 1849 - - VALERIE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. By CAPTAIN MARRYAT, R.N. Author of _Peter - Simple_, _Frank Mildmay_ etc. London: Henry Colburn, Publisher, - Great Marlborough Street. 1849. 2 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) + 312. Publisher's advertisements, 2 pp., printed - on text paper bound in at end. - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 287 + (1). Advertisement of _Frank Mildmay_ - occupies p. (288). - - Paper boards, half cloth, paper label. Also grey-green cloth, gilt, - blocked in blind. White end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in June, 1849. The story—to the - end of Vol. II., chap. iii.—appeared serially in the “New - Monthly Magazine” during 1846 and 1847. Owing to illness, - Marryat was unable to complete the book, which was finished - by another hand. - - -II.—A BOOK ATTRIBUTED TO MARRYAT, ONE EDITED BY HIM AND OTHERS POSSIBLY - WRITTEN WITH HIS HELP - - - 1836 - - THE FLORAL TELEGRAPH: A New Mode of Communication by floral signals. - With Plates. London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street. MDCCCXXXVI. - 1 vol. Fcap. 8vo (4¼ × 6¾). Pp. xv + (i) + 307 + (11). Publishers' - advertisements occupy pp. (309) to (318)—others face title-page. The - book contains six hand-coloured plates, printed separately. - Olive-green cloth, blocked in gold and blind. Yellow end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published in December, 1836. It was - reissued, probably in 1850, with a cancel title-page - reading: “The Floral Telegraph or Affection's Signals” by - the late Captain Marryatt [_sic_] R.N., author of _Peter - Simple_ etc. London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street. The - pagination reads: xv + (i) + 324. Pp. xv + (i) + 189 + (1) - are identical in the two editions, which are probably to - this point composed of the same sheets. The second half of - the book has, however, been reset, altered, and extended. - The illustrations are the same as in the earlier edition, - but they are much more coarsely reproduced and mechanically - coloured. Olive-green cloth, similar to the first edition, - but differently blocked in gold. Yellow end-papers. - - (ii) It is a moot point whether or not Marryat was the - author of this rather foolish little book. That he had, - however, definite connection with it is suggested by the - fact that on its first publication the “Metropolitan - Magazine,” at that time closely identified with Marryat, - devoted to it a three-quarter-page highly laudatory review, - of which, after praising the introduction, the writer said: - “Though no name is found on the title-page, it is evident - that the work is from a practised and popular writer.” - Further, if Marryat were not the author, it is difficult to - understand the publishers' motive in reissuing it - immediately after his death with his name on the title-page. - If he deserves responsibility for the book, the manœuvre is - comprehensible enough, especially on the part of a firm with - whom he had severed relations in 1837, and thus deprived - them of the profitable exploitation of his established - reputation. - - - 1836 - - RATTLIN THE REEFER. Edited by the author of _Peter Simple_. “All hands - reef top-sails—Away, Aloft!” London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington - Street, Successor to Henry Colburn. 1836. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × - 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. xii + (ii) + 301 + (3). Note by Marryat stating his - connection with the work occupies p. (iv). Publisher's - advertisements occupy pp. (303) (304). - - Vol. II. pp. viii + 300. No half-title to this volume. - - Vol. III. pp. viii + 344. No half-title to this volume. - - Each volume contains three full-page etched illustrations by A. - Hervieu, of which one is a frontispiece and the other two in the - course of the text. A list of illustrations for the three volumes - occupies p. (xiii) of Vol. I. The illustrations are dated 1836. - Paper boards, paper label. White end-papers. - - NOTE—This book, which was written by Edward Howard (see p. - 100), was published on July 23, 1836. A second edition - appeared on August 5 of the same year. A dramatic version by - J. T. Haines (who also dramatized _Jacob Faithful_) was - issued in February, 1893, as No. 2008 in French's Acting - Editions of British Plays. - - Two-thirds of the story appeared serially in the - “Metropolitan Magazine” under the title, _The Life of a - Sub-Editor_. Reviewing the book in its three-volume form, - Marryat himself explained fully how and to what extent it - had been transformed from a record of autobiographical fact - to a frank experiment in fiction. - - - _NOTE_ - -The six items that follow are, like _Rattlin the Reefer_, the work of -Lieut. the Hon. Edward Granville George Howard, who worked as sub-editor -to Marryat on the “Metropolitan Magazine.” At one time the actual -authorship of Howard's books was ascribed to Marryat himself. This is -now proved to be a mistake. Indeed, apart from the note of -recommendation to _Rattlin the Reefer_ and Marryat's review of that book -in his magazine, there is no printed evidence that he had any share -whatever in the composition of any one of them. On the other hand, he -and Howard were very intimate; the stories of the latter are clearly -influenced by the work of his chief; and Marryat collectors have been in -the habit of regarding Howard's books as desirable adjuncts to a Marryat -collection. For which reasons, and because it is no less probable than -improbable that Marryat, in conversation if not by actual pencraft, -helped to give his sub-editor's books their final shape, I have thought -well to include them in this bibliography. - - - 1837 - - THE OLD COMMODORE. By the author of _Rattlin the Reefer_. “Nestroque!” - London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. 1837. 3 vols. Ex. - Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7⅝). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) + 306. - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 304. - - Vol. III. pp. iv + 307 + (1). - - Paper boards, paper label. White end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published on September 16, 1837. - - (ii) The above reckoning was made from a rebound copy from - which clearly flyleaves were missing. - - - 1838 - - OUTWARD BOUND: OR A MERCHANT'S ADVENTURES. By the author of _Rattlin - the Reefer_, _The Old Commodore_ etc. London: Henry Colburn, - Publisher, Great Marlborough Street. 1838. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × - 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) + 299 + (1). No half-title. - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 308 + (2). Half-title to this volume. - Publisher's advertisements occupy pp. (309) (310). - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 326. Half-title to this volume. - - Paper boards (half cloth), paper label. White end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in March, 1838. The story - appeared in part as a serial in the “Metropolitan Magazine” - under the title _Ardent Troughton_. - - - 1839 - - MEMOIRS OF ADMIRAL SIR SIDNEY SMITH, K.C.B. ETC. By the author of - _Rattlin the Reefer_ etc. London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington - Street, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty. 1839. 2 vols. Demy 8vo - (5½ × 9). - - Vol. I pp. vii + (i) + 400. - - Vol. II. pp. vii + (i) + 411 + (5). Publisher's advertisements - occupy pp. (413) to (416). No half-titles. - - Steel-engraved portrait frontispiece to each volume, printed - separately. Pale blue ribbed cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Yellow - end-papers. - - - 1840 - - JACK ASHORE. By the Author of _Rattlin the Reefer_, _Outward Bound_ - etc. etc. London: Henry Colburn, Publisher, Great Marlborough - Street. 1840. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. xvi + 310. - - Vol. II. pp. viii + 300. - - Vol. III. pp. vii + (i) + 323 + (1). - - Steel-engraved portrait frontispiece to Vol. I. printed separately. - Paper boards, paper label. White end-papers. - - - 1842 - - SIR HENRY MORGAN: THE BUCCANEER. By the author of _Rattlin the - Reefer_, _Outward Bound_, _Jack Ashore_ etc. London: Henry Colburn, - Publisher, Great Marlborough Street. 1842. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × - 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. vii + (i) + 295 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. vi + 307 + (1). - - Vol. III. pp. vii + (i) + 315 + (1). - - There is a portrait frontispiece to Vol. I., lithographed and - printed separately. Paper boards, half cloth, paper label. White - end-papers. - - - 1859 - - TALES FROM BENTLEY. Vol. I. London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington - Street, 1 vol. Pott 8vo (4 × 6¼). Pp. (iv) + 96. Buff paper wrappers - printed in black. Also in boards. _The Marine Coast_, a story by the - author of _Rattlin the Reefer_, occupies pp. 55 to 88. - - NOTE—This first series of _Tales from Bentley_ was published - in September, 1859. - - - _A NOTE ON MARRYAT AS ARTIST_ - -It is well known that Captain Marryat was a painter as well as a writer. -Collectors of his written work will perhaps also be interested to know -of a published book containing in reproduction some of his drawings. In -1825 or 1826 there appeared the following work: - - ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BURMESE WAR. Both Series. With twenty-four plates - after drawings by Captain Marryat, Thornton and Moore displaying the - Operations of the British Forces. London: Published by Thomas Clay. - (N.D.) The volume measures 20½ × 13¼, is bound in thick grey paper - wrappers lettered in black as above, and contains five engravings of - pictures painted by Stothard and D. Cox after drawings by Captain - Marryat. The name Kingsbury and Co., 6 Leadenhall Street, appears at - the foot of the engravings as their publisher, together with the - date 1825. - - - - - BENJAMIN DISRAELI - 1804-1881 - - - - - BENJAMIN DISRAELI - - -It is easier to blame historians and political critics of the life and -statesmanship of Disraeli for neglecting his novels, than it is oneself -to judge these novels as literature, apart from the huge mass of -incident, ambition, and achievement that went to make up the character -of their extraordinary author. To attempt in a few pages an estimate of -Disraeli as a man of letters were manifestly absurd, seeing that he was -rarely that and nothing else. It were doubly absurd, even if possible, -to treat in summary of the interactions of his political and literary -genius when one of the finest biographies of modern times (and that in -six volumes) has already covered every inch of the ground. The only -purpose, therefore, which these unauthoritative notes may serve is that -of indicating in a few words the development of Disraeli as a novelist -and the respective content of his principal books. - -Although his novels fall into distinct and different groups, they are -all primarily satirical in character. From the moment of the anonymous -but sensational appearance of _Vivian Grey_ to that of the publication -of _Endymion_ which bore on each of its three volumes the name of the -most distinguished statesman of the world, Disraeli held up alike to the -follies and the ideals of his age the mirror of a keen and ruthless -mind. - -But if he gazed on his contemporaries more often from the angle of -satire than from any other, he enclosed in their various frames the -period portraits that are his books. As a very young man—unknown, -ambitious, at once receptive and intensely sensitive—he used as material -for fiction not only the incidents of his own life, but, even more, the -thoughts and aspirations that filled his teeming brain. _Vivian Grey_ -(1826-7), _Contarini Fleming_ (1833), and _Alroy_ (1833) are mainly -interesting as autobiography, and to the use of personal experience as -material for novel-writing he returned in extreme old age when, looking -back from the splendid eminence of his power, he described in the pages -of _Endymion_ the long road that he had travelled from obscurity to -fame. - -_Vivian Grey_ appeared in five volumes, with an interval of a year -between the issue of the first two and that of the last three. But for -the brilliant publicity given to it by Colburn, the book would have -attracted little or no attention. It is a showy, careless pastiche of -the society of the day, a gallery of isolated portraits rather than a -single composition, attractive to the fashionable public of the time for -its thinly veiled presentment of well-known men and women. The reader is -further unpleasantly aware that the author's interest in his book did -not extend much beyond the first of the five volumes. Young men find it -easier to start a book than to finish one, and Disraeli was clearly no -exception to the rule. - -_Contarini Fleming_ and _Alroy_, written after an extended tour in the -East, show, at its most luxuriant and ornate, the author's talent for -heady, rhetorical prose. Like most of his race, Disraeli was more -susceptible to magnificence and to decoration than to severe simplicity, -and throughout his books was prone to an excessive use of epithet and -metaphor. If these two early books show his love of ornament more -shamelessly than those written at a maturer age, they can claim -nevertheless to have received more careful and conscientious working, so -that their embellishments, if too lavish, are at least scrupulously -fashioned. - -Between the publication of the last three volumes of _Vivian Grey_ and -that of the story of _Contarini Fleming_ Disraeli published two works of -fiction which, although in the matter of primary characteristic isolated -from the rest of his work and from each other, contain elements that -constantly reappear in the books of his later life. - -_The Voyage of Captain Popanilla_ (1828) is a satire on English -political and social institutions cast in the form of an inverted -_Gulliver's Travels_ or _Erewhon_. Instead of an Englishman reaching an -imaginary and fantastic land, where he finds conditions that correspond -partly to the prejudices, partly to the ideals, of the author, the hero -of Disraeli's satire is a being from a mythical world, who comes over -the sea to an island that is, in all but name, England as Disraeli saw -it. As an example of pertinacious and aggressive parody _The Voyage of -Captain Popanilla_ is witty and readable enough, but it fatigues, as do -all pastiches of the kind, by its somewhat literal pursuit of -contemporary activity. Disraeli should have limited his prospect of -satire, for the individual beauties of any view are appreciated in -proportion to the smallness of their number. _Popanilla_ is overcrowded, -and the reader's mind tires with the effort to solve the riddle that is -contained in nearly every paragraph. - -_The Young Duke_ (1831) was written to make money. One may go farther -and confess that the author, seeking frankly to profit by the -contemporary popularity of the novel of fashionable life, wrote a tale -of society into which he crammed all that he knew of character and -incident likely to appeal to the mood of the moment. With such -antecedents it is surprising that _The Young Duke_ is not a worse book -than it is. Inevitably it reads artificially, and the young writer had -not the skill entirely to conceal the wilfulness with which the work was -put together. On the other hand, the heroine deserves the attention of -Disraeli students, for she is the direct forerunner of Sybil, and that -part of _The Young Duke_ which depends on her personality is not without -a touch of the four great political novels upon which Disraeli's fame as -a writer must rest. - -It was four years after the publication of _Alroy_ that Disraeli next -appeared as a novelist. He then published, within six months of one -another, two stories that stand markedly apart from the rest of his -work, in that they are wholly without political significance. Even amid -the extravagance of _Contarini Fleming_ and _The Young Duke_ occur -passages that depend for their significance on political movements or -political thought of the time. _Vivian Grey_, being a _roman à clef_ of -high society, and _Popanilla_ being a direct satire of institutions, are -naturally full of what was, even in those days, the author's ruling -interest. But _Henrietta Temple_ (1837) and _Venetia_ (1837) are -romances pure and simple. They may be said also to have no -autobiographical significance, save in so far as the first part of the -earlier book was written under the stimulus of a real love affair. It -must be admitted that _Henrietta Temple_, once it gets beyond the -boundary of Disraeli's own passionate experience, is a tame and careless -book. The interval that passed between the writing of the earlier and -that of the later portion seems to have extinguished his enthusiasm for -the work. Colburn was clamouring for a novel, and Disraeli, as always -hard pressed for money, raked out his incomplete manuscript, furbished -it up, finished it off, and delivered it to the publisher. _Venetia_ has -not this fault of interrupted fashioning. It is, however, in one -reader's opinion at any rate, a very tedious affair—rhetorical, unreal, -and sluggish in movement; but this view is contrary to that held by -many, who consider that the book's portraiture gives it value as -commentary on the life of Byron and other famous people. - -There follows, this time after an interval of seven years, the first of -the four famous political novels that, whether or no they can be said to -have introduced a new genre into English fiction, are undoubtedly the -finest achievements of Disraeli's literary career. _Coningsby_ (1844), -_Sybil_ (1845), and _Tancred_ (1847) are too well known to need -description here. Because, however, their interdependence as parts of a -general scheme in the mind of the author tends to become obscured by -consideration of their respective quality, note may be taken of the fact -that _Coningsby_ is a novel of political views, _Sybil_ one of social -conditions and classes among the people, and _Tancred_ one of religion -as an influence in national life. Of the characters in _Coningsby_ many -reappear in _Tancred_, while Tadpole and Taper, whose names have become -part of English political slang, pull their wires and cadge their jobs -as assiduously in _Sybil_ as in the story that preceded it. It would be -interesting to work out a comparison between Disraeli and Trollope as -political novelists. Probably one would come to the decision that those -of Disraeli are the better political novels and those of Trollope the -better novels of politics. In other words, Disraeli is the cleverer -publicist, but Trollope the finer artist. _Coningsby_ and its fellows -depend very much on contemporary fact and personality for their full -understanding and significance. Surely it is not hyperæsthetic to demand -that literature be its own interpreter? In so far as a work of art -requires outside knowledge for its proper appreciation, to that extent -it falls short from what in art is highest and most perfect. - -The appearance of _Lothair_ in 1870 caused something of a scandal in -serious political circles. The Briton is accustomed to take his -statesmen seriously, but his novelists with frivolity and in the leisure -hour. Wherefore he regarded it as unseemly that the name of an ex-Prime -Minister and of a man whose political career was by no means run should -figure on the title-pages of a three-volume novel. Curiosity conquered -disapproval and, as on an hundred other occasions, a book condemned for -its very existence was purchased and read in tens of thousands. -_Lothair_ is the work of a man who knew everybody and almost everything. -The personal satire, the constructive and destructive fervour of -_Coningsby_, _Sybil_, and _Tancred_ have given place to a greater -gravity and restraint, to an ironic vision more general and less -individual. Taking as his subject the power of the Catholic Church, the -rival power of revolutionary free thought and the indeterminate central -position of the Church of England, Disraeli built up his fourth and most -extensive picture of the England of his time. If we miss the idealist -conviction that gives to some of the passages in _Tancred_ the force of -a splendid sermon, we gain a certainty and a dignity of thought which -were inevitably lacking in the books of the earlier period. We also -continue to enjoy the epigram, the vivid minor portraiture, the -lightning grasp of fact and of every implication of fact, that give to -the political novels of Disraeli their unique flavour and importance. - - - _BIOGRAPHY_ - - THE LIFE OF BENJAMIN DISRAELI, EARL OF BEACONSFIELD. By WILLIAM - FLAVELLE MONYPENNY and GEORGE EARLE BUCKLE. 6 vols. London: John - Murray. 1912-1920. - - - I.—EDITIONES PRINCIPES - FICTION, POETRY, ESSAYS, LETTERS, ETC. - - - 1825 - - AN ENQUIRY INTO THE PLANS, PROGRESS AND POLICY OF AMERICAN MINING - COMPANIES. London: John Murray. MDCCCXXV. 1 vol. Demy 8vo (5¼ × 8½). - Pp. 135 + (1) of which p. (6) is paged vi. Paper boards, paper - label. White end-papers. - - NOTE—These observations were made from a third enlarged - edition published in the first year of issue, and it is - likely that the first edition, although similar in format, - etc., contains fewer pages. - - - 1825 - - LAWYERS AND LEGISLATORS: Or NOTES ON THE AMERICAN MINING COMPANIES. - (Quotation from Hooker.) London: John Murray. MDCCCXXV. 1 vol. Demy - 8vo (5¼ × 8½). Pp. (viii) + 99 + (1). No half-title. Paper boards, - paper label. White end-papers. - - - 1825 - - THE PRESENT STATE OF MEXICO: As detailed in a Report presented to the - General Congress by the Secretary of State for the Home Department - and Foreign Affairs at the Opening of the Session in 1825. With - Notes and a Memoir of Don Lucas Alaman. London: John Murray, - Albemarle Street. MDCCCXXV. 1 vol. Demy 8vo (5¼ × 8½). Pp. 130. - Advertisement of Disraeli's two earlier pamphlets occupies verso of - half-title, facing title-page. Pp. (6) to 55 are occupied by a - Memoir of Don Lucas Alaman, written by Disraeli. Alaman's report - begins on p. 57. Paper boards, paper label. White end-papers. - - - 1826/7 - - VIVIAN GREY. “Why then the world's mine oyster which I with sword will - open.” London: Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street. 1826 (Vols. I. - and II.), 1827 (Vols. III. IV. and V.). 5 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × - 7⅝). - - Vol. I. pp. (vi) + 266 + (2). - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 236 + (4). Publisher's advertisements occupy pp. - (237) to (240). - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 333 + (3). Publisher's advertisements occupy - pp. (335) and (336). - - Vol. IV. pp. (iv) + 362. - - Vol. V. pp. (iv) + 324. - - Paper boards, paper label. White end-papers. - - NOTE—Vols. I. and II. of this story were published on April - 22, 1826; Vols. III. IV. and V. on February 23, 1827. - - - 1828 - - THE VOYAGE OF CAPTAIN POPANILLA. By the author of _Vivian Grey_. - “Travellers ne'er did lie though fools at home condemned 'em.” - London: Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street. 1828. 1 vol. Ex. Cr. - 8vo (4⅞ × 7¾). Pp. viii + 243 + (1). Paper boards, paper label. - White end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published on June 3, 1828. - - - 1831 - - THE YOUNG DUKE: “A moral Tale, though gay.” By the author of _Vivian - Grey_. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington - Street. 1831. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (7⅞ × 4¾). - - Vol. I. pp. iv + 300. No half-title. - - Vol. II. pp. (vi) + 269 + (3). Text ends p. 269; note occupies p. - (271). - - Vol. III. pp. (vi) + 265 + (3). Publishers' advertisements occupy - pp. (267) (268). - - Paper boards (half cloth), paper label. White end-papers. - - NOTE—The only copy of this book I have been able to consult - in its original state contained at the end of Vol. I. a - publishers' catalogue, 8 pp., dated April, 1832. Clearly it - did not belong to the first issue, but what date should be - found on a catalogue of the earliest issue, where in the - three volumes such a catalogue should appear, or whether - there should be a catalogue at all, I do not know. - - - 1832 - - ENGLAND AND FRANCE: Or A CURE FOR THE MINISTERIAL GALLOMANIA. - (Quotation from speech by Duke of Wellington.) London: John Murray, - Albemarle Street. 1832. 1 vol. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7¾). Pp. viii + - (xii) + 268. Paper boards, paper label. White end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published in April, 1832. - - (ii) The above observations were made from a rebound cut - copy, and details of measurement are therefore conjectural. - - - 1832 - - CONTARINI FLEMING: A Psychological Autobiography. London: John Murray, - Albemarle Street. MDCCCXXXII. 4 vols. Fcap. 8vo (4¼ × 6¾). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) + 288. - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 247 + (1). - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 194 + (2). Publisher's advertisements occupy - pp. (195) (196). - - Vol. IV. pp. (iv) + 230 + (2). - - Paper boards (half cloth), paper label. White end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published in May, 1832. - - (ii) The sheets of the Murray edition were issued in 1834 by - Edward Moxon, Dover Street, over the name: “D'Israeli The - Younger, author of _Vivian Grey_, _Alroy_ and _Ixion in - Heaven_,” with a new preliminary signature (8 pp.) to Vol. - I. containing a preface in explanation of the author's - action in putting his name to the book. Consequently from - the purist point of view the Moxon edition of 1834 should be - collected as containing fresh matter. It was bound in pale - maroon cloth, with paper label. Yellow end-papers. - - - 1833 - - THE WONDROUS TALE OF ALROY: THE RISE OF ISKANDER. By the author of - _Vivian Grey_, _Contarini Fleming_ etc. London: Saunders and Otley, - Conduit Street. 1833. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. xxv + (iii) + 303 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 305 + (3). Publishers' advertisements, dated - February, 1833, occupy pp. (307) and (308). - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 324 + (4). Advertisements of works by the same - author occupy pp. (325) and (326). - - Paper boards, paper label. White end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published on March 5, 1833. - - - 1833 - - WHAT IS HE? By the author of _Vivian Grey_. (Extract from a Letter.) - London: James Ridgway, Piccadilly and E. Lloyd, Harley Street, - MDCCCXXXIII. 1 vol. Demy 8vo (5⅜ × 8½). Pp. 16. Half-title serves as - wrapper and bears the words “Price Sixpence.” P. 16 serves as back - wrapper. Advertisements occupy p. (2). - - NOTE—The above notation was made from a copy of the “New - Edition, Revised” of the pamphlet. Since, however, this - first appeared in the same year and over the same imprint, I - have ventured to assume comparative uniformity of size and - appearance. - - - 1834 - - THE REVOLUTIONARY EPICK: THE WORK OF DISRAELI THE YOUNGER. Author of - _The Psychological Romance_. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street, - MDCCCXXXIV. [The title-page to Vol. II. reads in addition: “Books - II. and III. containing The Plea of Lyridon, the Genius of - Feudalism; and the First Part of the Conquest of Italy.”] 2 vols. - Large Post 4to (8¼ × 10½). - - Vol. I. pp. viii + 89 + (3). - - Vol. II. pp. xi + (i) + (91) to 206. - - Advertisement of _Contarini Fleming_ (differently worded in each - case) faces title in both volumes. Paper boards. Paper label on - sides. White end-papers. - - NOTE—Only fifty copies of this edition were printed. See - preface to the second and revised edition published in 1864, - details of which are given below. - - - 1834 - - THE CRISIS EXAMINED. By DISRAELI THE YOUNGER. London: Saunders and - Otley, Conduit Street. 1834. 1 vol. Demy 8vo (5½ × 8½). Pp. (iv) + - 31 + (1). - - NOTES—(i) This pamphlet was issued in December, 1834. - - (ii) The above observations were made from a rebound copy, - wherefore the style of binding is an assumption, and I - suspect that two or more flyleaves—maybe printed with - advertisements—should be added to the reckoning here set - down. - - - 1835 - - VINDICATION OF THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION IN A LETTER TO A NOBLE AND - LEARNED LORD. By DISRAELI THE YOUNGER. London: Saunders and Otley, - Conduit Street. 1835. 1 vol. Tall Demy 8vo (5½ × 9). Pp. ix + (i) + - 210 + (2). Publishers' advertisements occupy pp. (211) and (212). A - four-page leaflet of publishers' advertisements should be found - inserted between the front end-papers, and an erratum slip at p. - (v). Paper boards, paper label. White end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in January, 1835. - - - 1836 - - THE LETTERS OF RUNNYMEDE. “Neither for shame nor fear this mask he - wore That, like a vizor in the battle-field But shrouds a manly and - a daring brow.” London: John Macrone, St. James's Square. - MDCCCXXXVI. 1 vol. Slim Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 8¼). Pp. (xxiv) [paged as - ii + (v) + vi-xx + (ii)] + 234 + (6). Publishers' advertisements, 2 - pp., dated August 1, 1836, occupy pp. i and ii. The half-title is - inset on different paper between p. ii. and title-page. Paper - boards, paper label. White end-papers. Also in dark blue embossed - cloth, gilt, yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in July or August, 1836. - - - 1837 - - HENRIETTA TEMPLE: A Love Story. By the author of _Vivian Grey_. “Quoth - Sancho, Read it out by all means; for I mightily delight in hearing - of love stories.” London: Henry Colburn, 13 Great Marlborough - Street, MDCCCXXXVII. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7⅝). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) + 299 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 309 + (3). Publisher's advertisements occupy pp. - (311) and (312). - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 331 + (1). - - Paper boards, half cloth, paper label. White end-papers. - - NOTE—Although dated 1837, this book was actually published - in December, 1836. - - - 1837 - - VENETIA. By the author of _Vivian Grey_ and _Henrietta Temple_. “Is - thy face like thy mother's my fair child?” “The child of love, - though born in bitterness and nurtured in convulsion.” London: Henry - Colburn, Publisher, 13 Great Marlborough Street. MDCCCXXXVII. 3 - vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7⅝). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) + 346. - - Vol. II. pp. (ii) + 377 + (1). - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 324. Publisher's advertisements occupy pp. (i) - and (ii). - - No half-titles. Paper boards, half cloth, paper label. White - end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in May, 1837. - - - 1839 - - THE TRAGEDY OF COUNT ALARCOS. By the author of _Vivian Grey_. London: - Henry Colburn, Great Marlborough Street. 1839. 1 vol. Demy 8vo (5½ × - 8½). Pp. vi + (ii) + 108. Errata slip facing p. 1. Paper boards, - paper label. White end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in May, 1839. - - - 1844 - - CONINGSBY: Or THE NEW GENERATION. By B. DISRAELI ESQ., M.P., author of - _Contarini Fleming_. London: Henry Colburn, Publisher, Great - Marlborough Street. 1844. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. iv + 319 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. (ii) + 314. - - Vol. III. pp. (ii) + 354. Advertisements occupy pp. (351) to (354). - - No half-titles. Paper boards, half cloth, paper label. White - end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in May, 1844. - - - 1845 - - SYBIL: Or, THE TWO NATIONS. By B. DISRAELI, M.P., author of - _Coningsby_. (Quotation from Latimer.) London: Henry Colburn. - Publisher. Great Marlborough Street. 1845. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × - 7¾). - - Vol. I. p. viii + 315 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 324. - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 326 + (2). Publisher's advertisements occupy - pp. (327) and (328). - - Paper boards, half cloth, paper label. White end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in May, 1845. - - - 1847 - - TANCRED: Or THE NEW CRUSADE. By B. DISRAELI, M.P., author of - _Coningsby_, _Sybil_ etc. London: Henry Colburn, Publisher, Great - Marlborough Street, 1847. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7⅞). - - Vol. I. pp. (ii) + 338. - - Vol. II. pp. (ii) + 340. - - Vol. III. pp. (ii) + 298 + (12). Publisher's advertisements occupy - pp. (299) to (310). - - No half-titles. Paper boards, half cloth, paper label. White - end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in March, 1847. - - - 1852 - - LORD GEORGE BENTINCK: A Political Biography. By B. DISRAELI, Member of - Parliament for the County of Buckingham. “He left us the legacy of - heroes; the memory of his great name and the inspiration of his - great example.” London: Colburn and Co., Publishers, Great - Marlborough Street. 1852. 1 vol. Demy 8vo (5¾ × 8¾). Pp. viii + 588. - Publishers' catalogue, 8 pp., and measuring 5 × 8, bound in after p. - 588. This catalogue is followed by a further single sheet (2 pp.) - advertisement, measuring 5 × 8½. Dark olive-brown cloth, gilt, - blocked in blind. Yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—Although dated 1852, this book was actually published - in December, 1851. - - - 1853 - - *IXION IN HEAVEN. THE INFERNAL MARRIAGE. THE VOYAGE OF CAPTAIN - POPANILLA. THE TRAGEDY OF COUNT ALARCOS. By BENJAMIN DISRAELI. - London: David Bryce, 48 Paternoster Row. 1853. 1 vol. Cloth. - - This little book—a volume in a cheap reissue of the novels and - romances of Disraeli—is the first _book_ edition of _Ixion in - Heaven_ and _The Infernal Marriage_, which first appeared in the - “New Monthly” in 1829 and 1830, and had not been reprinted in the - interval. - - - 1864 - - THE REVOLUTIONARY EPICK. By the Right Honorable BENJAMIN DISRAELI. - London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green. 1864. 1 vol. - Small Cr. 8vo (4½ × 7⅛). Pp. (xiv) [paged as (ii) + x + (ii)] + 176 - + (2). Preface (in dedication), dated Easter, 1864, occupies pp. - (vii) and (viii). Preface reprinted from the original edition - occupies pp. (ix) to (xii). Brown cloth, gilt. Chocolate end-papers. - - NOTE—The text of this edition differs extensively both in - wording and length from that of 1834. In his preface the - author states that the work was completed in 1837, but, - through press of political duties, he made no arrangement - for its issue before the present date. He also avers that - only fifty copies of the edition of 1834 were printed. - - - 1870 - - LOTHAIR. By the Right Honorable B. DISRAELI. (Quotation from - Terentius.) London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1870. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. - 8vo (4¾ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. (viii) + 328. Publishers' advertisements, 32 pp., dated - January, 1870, bound in at end. - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 321 + (3). - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 333 + (7). Publishers' advertisements occupy - pp. (337) to (340). - - Green cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Chocolate end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in May, 1870. - - - 1880 - - ENDYMION. By the author of _Lothair_. “Quicquid agunt Homines.” - London: Longmans, Green and Co. 1880. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7⅝). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) + 331 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 337 + (3). - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 346 + (2). Publishers' advertisements occupy - pp. (347) and (348). - - Scarlet cloth lettered in silver. Grey and white decorated - end-papers. - - NOTE—There are two styles of blocking for the binding of - this book; that most worked and bearing publishers' imprint - at foot of spine is the earlier. - - - II.—BOOKS PARTIALLY WRITTEN OR EDITED BY BENJAMIN DISRAELI - - - 1825 - - THE LIFE OF PAUL JONES. From original documents in the possession of - John Henry Sherburne Esq., Register of the Navy of the United - States. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street. MDCCCXXV. 1 vol. Ex. - Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7¾). Pp. xii + 320. Paper boards, paper label. White - end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) With reference to this book Monypenny says: “The - exact relationship of the English book to the American - original is not clear; but the former seems also to have - been written by an American, and the original MS., which has - been preserved, shows that Disraeli's share in it was - limited to the introduction here and there of a word or - phrase where the excision of a passage rendered such - amendment necessary.” In addition to the corrections thus - described Disraeli contributed an anonymous preface to the - book. - - (ii) It is interesting to record here that in 1844 Captain - Marryat was asked to write a life of Paul Jones. He was - interested in the project, but it never materialized. - - - 1826 - - THE STAR CHAMBER. A Weekly Magazine published by William Marsh, 145 - Oxford Street. 9/8 numbers Demy 8vo (5½ × 8¾) were published: No. 1, - April 19, pp. 1 to 20; Nos. 2 and 3 (double number), April 26, pp. - 21 to 58; No. 4, May 3, pp. 59 to 74; No. 5, May 10, pp. 75 to 90; - No. 6, May 17, pp. 91 to 110; No. 7, May 24, pp. 111 to 126; No. 8, - May 31, pp. 127 to 142; No. 9, June 7, pp. 143 to 154. - -After the completion of the 9/8 numbers, a four-page sheet of -preliminary matter was issued, of which p. (i) reads: - - THE STAR CHAMBER. Vol. I. Part 1. April 19 to June 7, 1826. (Quotation - from Cavendish, “Wolsey.”) London: William Marsh, 145 Oxford Street. - Pp. (iii) and (iv) are occupied by contents list. - - NOTES—(i) At one time the responsibility for the whole - contents as well as for the editorship of the “Star Chamber” - was fathered upon Disraeli. Monypenny, however, combats this - theory. He says: “The 'Star Chamber' was founded by a - certain Peter Hall, a friend of Meredith's at Brasenose, - who, through Meredith, had become acquainted with Disraeli. - Disraeli contributed some fables with a political - application under the title of _The Modern Aesop_, and - perhaps other matter. But in later life he expressly denied - ('The Times,' November 3, 1871; the 'Leisure Hour,' November - 4, 1871) having been editor, if indeed there ever was an - editor.” This represents, of course, the most recent and - authoritative opinion on the matter; but it is interesting, - on p. 150 of the catalogue of the Hope collection of - newspapers, etc., in the Bodleian Library at Oxford (1865), - to find reasons given for the suppression by Disraeli of all - copies of the “Star Chamber” upon which he could lay his - hands. The Peter Hall referred to above was the Reverend - Peter Hall, B.A., editor of “The Crypt.” - - (ii) It is because the “Star Chamber” has come to be looked - upon as a Disraeli item that I have included it here, - despite the fact that in so doing I exceed the limit of - these bibliographies, which take no account of magazine - contributions of the authors concerned. - - - 1849-1859 - - THE WORKS OF ISAAC DISRAELI. Edited with Introductions by BENJAMIN - DISRAELI. - -Disraeli started work on a new edition of his father's books in 1847, -but the actual publication was, for various reasons, spread over a -period of ten years. The following are the dates and details in outline -of the first issues of the various titles: - - 1849. CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE. London: Edward Moxon. 3 vols. Demy - 8vo (5½ × 8¾). Dark green cloth, gilt. Yellow end-papers. Vol. I. - contains “A View of the Life and Writings” of Isaac Disraeli written - by his son and extending to over thirty pages. - - 1851. COMMENTARIES ON THE LIFE AND REIGN OF CHARLES THE FIRST, KING OF - ENGLAND. London: Henry Colburn. 2 vols. Demy 8vo (5½ × 8¾). Dark - green cloth, gilt. Yellow end-papers. Vol. I. contains a brief - preface by Benjamin Disraeli. - - 1859. THE LITERARY CHARACTER Or THE HISTORY OF MEN OF GENIUS; and - LITERARY MISCELLANIES and AN ENQUIRY INTO THE CHARACTER OF JAMES THE - FIRST. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo. - - 1859. THE CALAMITIES AND QUARRELS OF AUTHORS. 1 Vol. Cr. 8vo. - - 1859. AMENITIES OF LITERATURE. 2 vols. Cr. 8vo. - -These last three items were all published in London by Routledge, Warnes -and Routledge, and bound in dark green cloth, with yellow end-papers. -They contain no prefaces by Benjamin Disraeli, who contented himself -with care for the text of his father's work. - - - _NOTE_ - -To a collected edition of his novels issued in 1870 Disraeli wrote an -important preface, characterising the work of his youth from the -viewpoint of a man in his sixties and indicating the considerable -revisions carried out in nearly all the books. - -No attempt has been made to include in the foregoing bibliography the -reports of and selections from the speeches of Disraeli, which—not -surprisingly—were issued in large numbers during his later life. Also -are omitted two volumes of his early letters, published after his death. - - - - - WILKIE COLLINS - 1824-1889 - - - - - WILKIE COLLINS - - -Few novelists have enjoyed greater glory than did Wilkie Collins at the -height of his fame; to few did loss of popularity in later years come -more bitterly. For fame at one time undeniably was his. Not only had he -a large and enthusiastic public; not only were his works translated into -half a dozen languages within a month of their original publication; not -only was he pestered by the editors of two hemispheres for stories and -serials; but also he figured prominently in the professional literary -life of the time, was the intimate friend of Dickens, and a member of -the innermost ring of artistic and intellectual society. Probably to his -intimacy with the chief literary personalities of his time is due the -considerable survival of his reputation. Despite the fact that during -the last period of his life he suffered severe eclipse, and although, -beyond _The Moonstone_ and _The Woman in White_, none of his books are -regularly read to-day, he is a name more familiar to the world than -Trollope, a name more notably literary than Marryat. In the sixties, no -less than in the nineteen-twenties, to belong to the writing set was -two-thirds of reputation. There is no log-rolling so expert, no -admiration so mutual as that existing among members of the various -groups that practise the arts. Whence it has come about that the name of -Wilkie Collins—who as an artist may not be mentioned in the same chapter -as Trollope or Marryat, or even Mrs. Gaskell—is a household word, while -those of his greater fellows sound strangely, as the notes of some -old-fashioned melody. - -I do not seek to imply that Collins' survival is in no way due to the -quality of his work. He won the admiration of his own age and may claim -that of posterity as a superb teller of stories and, in his latter days, -as a pathetic and courageous figure. But apart from his dexterity in the -contriving of plot, apart from a great (if intermittent) talent for the -portrayal of abnormal character, he is inferior as a painter of life to -many writers of his time whose very existence is nowadays forgotten. - -And yet he would, perhaps, himself be content to have it so. That it was -the novelist's primary duty to tell a story was his own creed, and -faithfully he abode by it. He does not reveal to us human nature as does -Trollope; nor, like Disraeli, pique our interest with satiric brilliance -on topics of follies of the day; he has none of Marryat's gay -familiarity with the winds that blow and the sun that shines on the -crossroads of life's pilgrimage; he has no fund of rough but genial -humanity like Reade; he is not tender like Mrs. Gaskell, nor mystic -visionary like Herman Melville; even Whyte Melville, with his stilted -rhetoric and clumsy naïveté, has at times an attractive freshness that -Collins lacks. But if we rid our minds of all thought of him as seeking -to throw on the dark places of existence the light of interpretation, -looking to him rather for entertainment and for excitement, for deft -mystery and for extraordinary coincidence, he will not disappoint us. - -Of his novels the largest category, and that including all the books -(save perhaps two) that bear re-reading nowadays, is that of the -dramatic and mystery stories. - -The first to appear was _After Dark_, published in 1856. To the modern -reader, the unmistakable first appearance of the real Collins in these -excellent tales comes with a pleasurable shock after the mild -bohemianism of the preceding novel, _Hide and Seek_. _After Dark_ -consists of six narratives of varying length and subject, ingeniously -woven together into the pattern of a single story. At their best they -are as good as anything the author ever wrote; even at their worst they -are free from the perfunctory carelessness that mars so much of his -later work. - -_The Dead Secret_ (1857) and _The Queen of Hearts_ (1859) show the -novelist carrying farther his talent for dramatic construction and his -experiments in technique. Both books contain descriptive passages of -sombre power. - -There follow successively the four best books of Collins' career. _The -Woman in White_ (1860), _No Name_ (1862), _Armadale_ (1866), and _The -Moonstone_ (1868) are story-telling as fine as the nineteenth century -can show. But they make evident that, even at his zenith, Collins was no -reader of other men's hearts. He could fashion ingenious puppets to his -will, entangling them in the meshes of his intricate and faultlessly -constructed plots; but neither Count Fosco nor Captain Wragge, neither -Miss Gwilt nor Sergeant Cuff, remains with the reader as a new friend or -as a new enemy. Each is remembered, rather, as a striking and skilfully -designed marionette, jerking through a Collins drama at the bidding of a -delicate mechanism of strings. - -After _The Moonstone_ the decadence began, and, to a point, accountably -enough. In the first place, the author threw himself into the production -of propaganda fiction, with results (as may be seen) praiseworthy but a -little ridiculous. Secondly, he paid the usual price of success and -began to over-write. Whereas between 1850 and 1868 he published eleven -novels and books of tales, between 1870 and his death in 1889 he -published eighteen, in addition to a mass of short stories for -magazines, plays, and other incidental work. Thirdly—although not until -late in the seventies—his health began to fail. With reasons as good as -these for a falling off in Collins' work, it were ungracious to inquire -whether, had he eschewed reform, controlled his pen, and retained his -strength and eyesight, his fiction would have advanced from strength to -strength. Perhaps; perhaps not. Let us return from hypothetical dilemma -to melancholy fact. After _The Moonstone_ the decadence unmistakably -began. - -When next he came before the public with a novel of plot, and left for a -moment the righting of public wrongs, his offering was mechanical -enough. _The Two Destinies_ (1876) is built on a series of coincidences -so incredible, that even Collins' candid claim to search the very -border-line of impossibility for material of which to make a story -cannot reconcile us to their unlikelihood. - -_The Haunted Hotel_ (1879), _Jezebel's Daughter_ (1880), and _I Say No_ -(1884) mark a slight improvement, and can be read with pleasure for the -unfailing ingenuity of their design. _The Evil Genius_ (1886) is in the -nature of a bad relapse, from which the dramatic tales never wholly -recover, although, of the three remaining, _Little Novels_ (1887) and -_The Legacy of Cain_ (1889) are not without flashes of the old skill and -invention. _Blind Love_, finished by Sir Walter Besant and published -posthumously, may perhaps claim immunity from criticism. - -As a novelist of indignation Collins is pathetic rather than -blameworthy. He had the usual fanaticisms of the invalid -intellectual—hatred of athleticism, of sport, of legal injustice, of -religious intrigue, of social insincerity; and his propaganda novels -give expression to his passionate dislikes with a petulant but rather -impressive sincerity. Fortunately for the modern reader of books which -by their very nature are now out of date, Collins did not fail, even in -his tilting at windmills, to regulate his movements with practised -skill. Wherefore all but one of the propaganda novels have -well-contrived plots and continuity of interest, which those will enjoy -who can disentangle the fictional from the instructional in the stories' -purpose. These “indignation novels” are six in number: - - MAN AND WIFE (1870), - THE NEW MAGDALEN (1873), - THE LAW AND THE LADY (1875), - THE FALLEN LEAVES (1879), - THE BLACK ROBE (1871), and - HEART AND SCIENCE (1883). - -That in other books are present elements of reforming zeal I am -aware—for example, the abuse of private asylums figures in _The Woman in -White_ and, as mentioned below, there is a propaganda aspect to _Basil_; -but the six above named have their origin wholly in the author's -loathing of some injustice or some social evil. - -_Man and Wife_ illustrates the cruel working of the marriage laws of the -United Kingdom and, incidentally, voices the author's conviction that -athleticism was at the time rapidly brutalizing the youth of England. -_The Law and the Lady_ ventilates another grievance against legal -injustice in matters sexual. _The New Magdalen_ and _The Fallen Leaves_ -are protests against the outlawry of the prostitute and of the girl who -gives herself, unhallowed by the religious rite, to love. It is strange -that, of two books on the same subject, one (_The New Magdalen_) should -be the best novel of its class and not far below the highest level ever -attained by the author, while the other (_The Fallen Leaves_) should -hold the last place among everything that Collins wrote. _The New -Magdalen_ is a moving and dignified treatment of a very difficult theme; -_The Fallen Leaves_, from its aggressive preface to its sugary, unreal -end, is tragic proof that high motive and technical efficiency may yet -come together and produce only imbecile hysteria. - -_The Black Robe_ is anti-Jesuit; _Heart and Science_ anti-vivisection. -Both are readable, and the latter something more. It may be noted that -Collins himself called _Heart and Science_ his best novel since _Man and -Wife_. Probably opinion to-day would set it above that humourless and -over-appendixed story, but it must rank below _The New Magdalen_ and, -possibly, also below _The Haunted Hotel_. - -The novels that remain may hardly be classified. _Antonina_, the story -of Ancient Rome, with which in 1850, and following a fashion of the day, -he began his novelist's career, is essentially a first book—painstaking, -over-elaborate, and dull. - -It was succeeded by _Mr. Wray's Cash Box_ (1852), a brief and -sentimental tale, mainly interesting for the evidence it provides of -Dickens's influence over the young Collins at the very beginning of -their long friendship. Those who enjoy hearty Christmas jollity, lovable -if ludicrous old age, uncouth fidelity, incompetent villainy, and sweet -simple maidenhood will find _Mr. Wray's Cash Box_ pleasant enough. - -_Basil_ (1852) and _Hide and Seek_ (1854) are novels of contemporary -life, a little sombre, emotionally a little exaggerated. There is a hint -of crusading fervour in _Basil_ (against drunken nurses and hospital -routine), but the motif is not strong enough to class the book as a -propaganda novel. The young author (as many both before and since have -done) found stimulus for these books in the pathetic figure of the -debauched girl; but she receives at his hands treatment little different -from that usually given her by serious neophytes, eager to paint her -tragic isolation for the improvement of the novel-reading public. - -There is in _Hide and Seek_ an element of interest apart from that of -the story itself. Much of the action takes place in a painter's studio, -and Collins has full scope for showing his fondness for art, an -enthusiasm suitable enough in the son and biographer of a distinguished -painter, but somewhat uncommon among novelists of his age. Throughout -his work he makes play with knowledge of contemporary painting, -displaying decided and on the whole admirable taste, often well in -advance of his time. - -_Poor Miss Finch_ (1872) is more a story of contemporary social life -than either a novel of mystery or one of propaganda. It may therefore -appear here as pendant to the two early books just described. The -central figure is a blind girl. In _Hide and Seek_ the author took -credit to himself for introducing a deaf mute, but as the affliction -plays no part in the story one must refrain from joining in the -applause. The blindness of Miss Finch, on the other hand, is the pivot -of her tale, and a very elaborate, improbable, and overcrowded tale it -is. The fact is regrettable. Neatly contrived, related in a series of -narratives from different sources and from different points of view, -based largely on the antagonism of two brothers, and pervaded by the -wise spirit of an elderly governess-companion, this novel is so nearly -an epitome of the methods and tricks of Wilkie Collins, that one could -wish it more thoroughly a success. - -And here, save for scattered volumes of short stories and one or two -brief and unimportant novels, ends the tale of Collins's books. He is a -writer for tired minds, capable—thanks to his perfect control of the -mechanism of incident—of holding the interest without calling on the -emotional reserves of his reader. His influence on the novel of -sensation has been enormous. It is the least of his due that a -generation brought up on the mystery stories of his disciples should -find time to turn over the principal works of the master himself. - - - _BIOGRAPHY_ - -The only biography of Wilkie Collins which has yet been published is an -insignificant German book issued in 1885. - - - EDITIONES PRINCIPES - A.—FICTION, ESSAYS, BIOGRAPHY, ETC., AND ONE BOOK WRITTEN IN - COLLABORATION - - - 1848 - - MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF WILLIAM COLLINS, R.A.: WITH SELECTIONS FROM HIS - JOURNALS AND CORRESPONDENCE. By his son, W. WILKIE COLLINS. London: - Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans. MDCCCXLVIII. 2 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo - (4¾ × 7⅞). - - Vol. I. pp. xii + 348. Publishers' catalogue, 32 pp., dated April - 29, 1848, bound in at end. - - Vol. II. pp. vi + 354. - - No half-titles. Brown-purple (or grey-blue) cloth, gilt, blocked in - blind. Yellow end-papers. Vol. I. contains engraved portrait after - Linnell and engraved title-page after Collins, immediately preceding - printed title. Vol. II. contains engraved title-page after Collins, - immediately preceding printed title. - - NOTE—This book was published in November, 1848. - - - 1850 - - ANTONINA: Or THE FALL OF ROME. A Romance of the Fifth Century. By W. - WILKIE COLLINS, author of _The Life of William Collins, R.A._ - (Quotation from Scuderi.) London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington - Street. MDCCCL. 3 vols. Tall Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 8). - - Vol. I. pp. xiv + (ii) + 295 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. (viii) + 338 + (2). Publisher's advertisements occupy - pp. (323) and (324). - - Vol. III. pp. (viii) + 338 + (2). Publisher's advertisements occupy - pp. (339) and (340). - - Cream embossed cloth, gilt. Yellow end-papers, printed with - publisher's advertisements. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published on February 27, 1850. - - (ii) Copies in paper boards, half cloth and with paper - label, were probably also issued. - - - 1851 - - RAMBLES BEYOND RAILWAYS: Or NOTES IN CORNWALL TAKEN A-FOOT. By W. - WILKIE COLLINS, author of _The Life of William Collins, R.A._, - _Antonina_ etc. With Illustrations by Henry C. Brandling. (Quotation - from _A Winter's Tale_.) London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington - Street, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty. 1851. 1 vol. Sq. Demy - 8vo (5½ × 8¼) pp. (viii) + 304. No half-title. Twelve full-page - illustrations in tinted lithograph, printed separately. Cream-brown - cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Yellow end-papers, printed with - publisher's advertisements. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published on January 30, 1851. - - (ii) The second edition (January 9, 1852) contained a - frontispiece differently tinted. - - - 1852 - - MR. WRAY'S CASH BOX: Or THE MASK AND THE MYSTERY: A Christmas Sketch. - By W. WILKIE COLLINS, author of _Antonina_ etc. London: Richard - Bentley, New Burlington Street. 1852. 1 vol. Fcap. 8vo (4¼ × 6¾). - Pp. viii + 171 + (5). Publisher's advertisements occupy pp. (173) to - (176). Grey-blue cloth, gilt. Yellow end-papers. Etched frontispiece - by J. E. Millais, dated 1852, and printed separately. - - NOTE—This book was published in January, 1852. - - - 1852 - - BASIL: A Story of Modern Life. By W. WILKIE COLLINS, author of - _Antonina_, _Rambles Beyond Railways_ etc. London: Richard Bentley, - New Burlington Street. 1852. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. 300 pp. (6) to (21) are paged in roman numerals. - Half-title to this volume. - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 303 + (1). No half-title. - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 301 + (1). No half-title. - - Paper boards, half cloth, paper label, white end-papers. Also in - bright blue embossed cloth, blocked in gold and blind. Brick-red - end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published on November 16, 1852. An - one-volume edition (1862, magenta cloth, blocked in gold and - blind) contains a dedicatory letter not elsewhere published. - - - 1854 - - HIDE AND SEEK. By W. WILKIE COLLINS, author of _Antonina_, _Basil_ - etc. London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. 1854. 3 vols. - Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. viii + 297 + (3). Publisher's advertisements, dated - June, 1854, occupy pp. (299) and (300). - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 322 + (2). Publisher's advertisements, dated - June, 1854, occupy pp. (323) and (324). - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 332. - - Paper boards (half cloth), paper label. White end-papers. Also in - pale maroon cloth, gilt, blocked in blind, pale yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published on June 6, 1854. - - - 1856 - - AFTER DARK. By WILKIE COLLINS, author of _Basil_, _Hide and Seek_ etc. - London: Smith, Elder and Co., 65 Cornhill. 1856. 2 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo - (4⅞ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. viii + 315 + (1). Publishers' catalogue, 16 pp., dated - January, 1856, bound in at end. - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 322 + (2). Publishers' advertisement occupies p. - (323). - - Boards, half cloth, paper label. White end-papers. Also in dark - grey-green cloth, gilt, blocked in blind, yellow end-papers. - - _Contents_: Vol. I., A Terribly Strange Bed—A Stolen - Letter—Sister Rose. Vol. II., The Lady of Glenwith - Grange—Gabriel's Marriage—The Yellow Mask. - - NOTE—This book was published in February, 1856. - - - 1857 - - THE DEAD SECRET. By WILKIE COLLINS. London: Bradbury and Evans, 11 - Bouverie Street. 1857. 2 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. viii + 303 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 331 + (1). No half-title. - - Grey-purple cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Pale yellow end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published in June, 1857. - - (ii) Copies in brown cloth, with yellow end-papers, printed - with Chapman and Hall advertisements, are of later issue. - - - 1859 - - A PLOT IN PRIVATE LIFE AND OTHER TALES. By WILKIE COLLINS, author of - _After Dark_, _Hide and Seek_ etc. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz. - 1859. - - 1 vol. (4½ × 6¼). Pp. (viii) + 294 + (2). Paper wrappers of usual - Tauchnitz style. - - _Contents_: A Plot in Private Life—Mad Monkton—The Black - Cottage—The Family Secret—The Biter Bit. - - - 1859 - - THE QUEEN OF HEARTS. By WILKIE COLLINS, author of _The Dead Secret_, - _After Dark_, etc. etc. London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, - Successors to Henry Colburn, 13 Great Marlborough Street. 1859. 3 - vols. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7½). - - Vol. I. pp. iii + (i) + 314. Publishers' catalogue, 16 pp., undated, - bound in at end. - - Vol. II. pp. (ii) + 359 + (1). - - Vol. III. pp. (ii) + 307 + (1). - - No half-titles. Dark grey-green cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Pale - yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in October, 1859. - - - 1860 - - THE WOMAN IN WHITE. By WILKIE COLLINS. Author of _The Dead Secret_, - _After Dark_ etc. etc. London: Sampson Low, Son and Co., 47 Ludgate - Hill. 1860. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. viii + 316. - - Vol. II. pp. (ii) + 360. - - Vol. III. pp. (ii) + 368. - - No half-titles. Preface to Vol. I., dated August 3, 1860. Violet - embossed cloth, blocked in gold and blind. Pale yellow end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published in September, 1860. The - first one-volume edition (1861, magenta cloth blocked in - gold and blind) contains a special preface. - - (ii) I am uncertain whether or not the earliest copies of - this novel contained in any one of the three volumes a - publishers' catalogue. The first editions I have seen show a - 16 pp. catalogue at the end of Vol. III., but dated - November, 1860, so that they belong clearly to a subsequent - issue. _The Woman in White_ is a case over which the buyer - should take great care. A so-called “New Edition” was issued - in the year of publication and _with binding identical_ to - that of the first edition, for which reason only the right - advertisement matter can show that a copy is untampered - with. I should welcome information tending to establish - whether a catalogue (and if so where and of what date) - should properly figure in a “right” copy of the novel. - - - 1862 - - NO NAME. By WILKIE COLLINS, author of _The Woman in White_, _The Dead - Secret_, etc. etc. etc. London: Sampson Low, Son and Co., 47 Ludgate - Hill. 1862. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. ix + (1) + 339 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 363 + (1). - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 408. - - Scarlet embossed cloth, blocked in gold and blind. Pale yellow - end-papers. - - NOTE—Although this book is dated 1862, it was not actually - published until January, 1863. - - - 1863 - - MY MISCELLANIES. By WILKIE COLLINS, author of _The Woman in White_, - _No Name_, _The Dead Secret_ etc. etc. etc. London: Sampson Low, Son - and Co., Ludgate Hill. 1863. 2 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. vi + (ii) + 291 + (1). Publishers' catalogue, 16 pp., - printed on text paper, and dated November, 1863, bound in at end. - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 300. Publishers' catalogue, 16 pp., printed on - text paper and dated November, 1863, bound in at end. - - Green embossed cloth, gilt. Green-ochre end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published in November, 1863. - - (ii) Copies in brown cloth gilt are of later issue. - - - 1866 - - ARMADALE. By WILKIE COLLINS. With Twenty Illustrations by George H. - Thomas. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 65 Cornhill. 1866. 2 vols. - Demy 8vo (5½ × 8¾). - - Vol. I. pp. (viii) + 304. - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 372. - - No half-titles. Vol. I. contains nine illustrations, Vol. II. - eleven. Red-brown cloth, blocked in gold. Yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in June, 1866. The story - appeared serially in the “Cornhill.” - - - 1868 - - THE MOONSTONE: A Romance. By WILKIE COLLINS, author of _The Woman in - White_, _No Name_, _Armadale_, etc. etc. London: Tinsley Brothers, - 18 Catherine Street, Strand. 1868. 3 vols. Cr. 8vo (5 × 7½). - - Vol. I. pp. viii + 315 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 297 + (1). Publishers' advertisements (2 pp.) - inserted before half-title. - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 309 + (1). Publishers' advertisements (2 pp.) - inserted before half-title. - - Violet cloth, blocked in gold and blind. Cream end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in July, 1868. - - - 1870 - - MAN AND WIFE: A Novel. By WILKIE COLLINS. (Quotation from Bunyan.) - London: F. S. Ellis, 33 King Street, Covent Garden. 1870. 3 vols. - Cr. 8vo (5 × 7½). - - Vol. I. pp. xiv + 356. Publisher's advertisements, 8 pp., bound in - at end. - - Vol. II. pp. vi + 359 + (1). - - Vol. III. pp. vi + 348. - - Maroon cloth, gilt. Black end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in June, 1870. - - - 1872 - - POOR MISS FINCH: A Novel. By WILKIE COLLINS, author of _The Woman in - White_, _No Name_, _Man and Wife_, etc. London: Richard Bentley and - Son. 1872. 3 vols. Cr. 8vo (5 × 7½). - - Vol. I. pp. ix + (iii) + 314 + (2). Publishers' advertisements - occupy p. (315). - - Vol. II. pp. iv + 316. - - Vol. III. pp. iv + 320. - - No half-titles. Purple-brown cloth, blocked in black. Cream - end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published on January 26, 1872. The - story appeared serially in “Cassell's Magazine.” - - (ii) Copies in bright blue embossed cloth, gilt, without - imprint on spine, are of a later issue. - - - 1873 - - THE NEW MAGDALEN: A Novel. By WILKIE COLLINS. “Lead us not into - temptation.” London: Richard Bentley and Son. 1873. 2 vols. Cr. 8vo - (5 × 7½). - - Vol. I. pp. vi + 297 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. iv + 298 + (2). Publishers' advertisement occupies p. - (299). - - No half-titles. Red-brown cloth, blocked in gold and black. Cream - end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published on May 17, 1873. The story - appeared serially in the “Temple Bar Magazine.” - - - 1873 - - MISS OR MRS.? And Other Stories in Outline. By WILKIE COLLINS. London: - Richard Bentley and Son, New Burlington Street, 1873. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo - (4⅝ × 7⅛). Pp. viii + 325 + (3). Publishers' advertisement occupies - p. (327). - - No half-title. Brown cloth, gilt, blocked in black. Pale yellow - end-papers. - - _Contents_: Miss or Mrs.?—Blow up the Brig!—The Fatal - Cradle. - - NOTE—This book was published on January 17, 1873. The - stories first appeared in “The Graphic” and in “All the Year - Round.” - - - 1874 - - THE FROZEN DEEP: And Other Stories. (READINGS AND WRITINGS IN - AMERICA.) By WILKIE COLLINS. London: Richard Bentley and Son, New - Burlington Street. 1874. 2 vols. Small Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7). - - Vol. I. pp. viii + 248. - - Vol. II. pp. vi + 282 + (2). Publishers' advertisements occupy pp. - (283) and (284). - - Blue cloth, gilt, blocked in black. Pale yellow end-papers. - - _Contents_: Vol. I., The Frozen Deep—The Dream Woman. Vol. - II., John Jago's Ghost; or The Dead Alive. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published on November 2, 1874. The - title story appeared serially in the “Temple Bar Magazine”; - the remainder were first published in “Household Words” and - in the “Home Journal.” - - (ii) Copies in brown cloth, with yellow end-papers, printed - with Chapman and Hall advertisements, are of later issue. - - - 1875 - - THE LAW AND THE LADY: A Novel. By WILKIE COLLINS. London: Chatto and - Windus, Piccadilly. 1875. 3 vols. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7⅜). - - Vol. I. pp. vi + (ii) + 246 + (2). Publishers' catalogue, 40 pp., - dated December, 1874, bound in at end. - - Vol. II. pp. iv + 269 + (3). Advertisement of author's previous - works occupies p. (271). - - Vol. III. pp. iv + 341 + (3). Advertisement of author's previous - works occupies p. (343). - - No half-titles. Dark green cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Pale - yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in February, 1875. - - - 1876 - - THE TWO DESTINIES: A Romance. By WILKIE COLLINS. London: Chatto and - Windus, Piccadilly. 1876. 2 vols. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7⅜). - - Vol. I. pp. (viii) + 311 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. iv + 301 + (3). No half-title. Publishers' catalogue, - 32 pp., dated April, 1876, bound in at end. - - Bright green cloth, gilt, blocked in black. Cream end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published in September, 1876. - - (ii) I have seen a copy bound in _brown_ cloth, blocked and - lettered identically to those in bright green, and - containing a publishers' catalogue dated _September_, 1876. - Whether the brown binding is necessarily later than the - green, or whether one variety is a trial binding and the - other that finally adopted, I do not know. - - - 1878 - - A SHOCKING STORY. By WILKIE COLLINS. Author of _Man and Wife_, _Woman - in White_ etc. New York: A. J. Barnes and Company, 111 and 113 - William Street. 1 vol. (4½ × 6½). Pp. (ii) plus 57 + (3). This - pamphlet is not wrappered, but pp. (i) and (60) form outside covers. - Both are plain without printing of any sort. - - NOTES—(i) The date 1878 appears under the note of copyright - on verso of title. - - (ii) This story was issued in the November number of the - “International Review,” an American periodical published by - Barnes and Co., who brought out the pamphlet described - above. In Great Britain the tale appeared in the “Belgravia - Annual” (December, 1878), published by Chatto and Windus, - but was not reissued in other than periodical form. - - - 1879 - - THE HAUNTED HOTEL: A Mystery of Modern Venice, to which is added MY - LADY'S MONEY. By WILKIE COLLINS. With six illustrations by Arthur - Hopkins. London: Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly. 1879. 2 vols. Demy - 8vo (5½ × 8¼). - - Vol. I. pp. viii + (ii) + 230 + (2). Publishers' catalogue, 40 pp., - dated October, 1878, bound in at end. - - Vol. II. pp. (viii) + 259 + (1). - - Vol. I. contains five illustrations and Vol. II. one illustration, - line engraved and printed separately. Dark brown cloth, gilt, - blocked in white. Blue-black end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) This book, although dated 1879, was actually - published in November, 1878. - - (ii) _My Lady's Money_ was issued by Tauchnitz in 1879, - together with _The Ghost's Touch_, a story I cannot trace to - have appeared in book form in Great Britain. - - - 1879 - - A ROGUE'S LIFE: FROM HIS BIRTH TO HIS MARRIAGE. By WILKIE COLLINS. - London: Richard Bentley and Son, Publishers in Ordinary to Her - Majesty the Queen. 1879. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 6⅞). Pp. iv + 188. No - half-title. Red cloth gilt, blocked in black. Black end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published on April 7, 1879. It is the - first edition in book form of a tale issued periodically in - the early fifties in “Household Words.” The text was - slightly revised by the author before publication. - - - 1879 - - THE FALLEN LEAVES. By WILKIE COLLINS. First Series. London: Chatto and - Windus, Piccadilly. 1879. 3 vols. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7⅜). - - Vol. I. pp. (viii) + 275 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 269 + (3). Publishers' advertisements, 40 pp., - dated May, 1879, bound in at end. - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 295 + (1). - - Olive-brown cloth, gilt, blocked in black. Black and grey-blue - decorated end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in July, 1879. - - - 1880 - - JEZEBEL'S DAUGHTER. By WILKIE COLLINS. London: Chatto and Windus, - Piccadilly. 1880. 3 vols. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7⅜). - - Vol. I. pp. viii + 282 + (2). Publishers' catalogue, 32 pp., dated - February, 1880, bound in at end. - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 281 + (3). - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 296. - - Pale buff cloth, gilt, blocked in black. Dark green and white - decorated end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in March, 1880. - - - 1880 - - CONSIDERATIONS ON THE COPYRIGHT QUESTION ADDRESSED TO AN AMERICAN - FRIEND. By WILKIE COLLINS. London: Trübner and Co., Ludgate Hill. - 1880. 1 vol. Cr. 4to (6¾ × 9¼). Pp. 12 + (4). This pamphlet is not - wrappered, pp. (1) and (16) forming outside covers. P. (1) is - lettered as above, and serves both as front wrapper and title-page. - - - 1881 - - THE BLACK ROBE. By WILKIE COLLINS. London: Chatto and Windus, - Piccadilly. 1881. 3 vols. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7⅜). - - Vol. I. pp. vi + 320. - - Vol. II. pp. vi + 296. - - Vol. III. pp. vi + 266 + (6). Publishers' advertisements occupy pp. - (267) to (272). Publishers' catalogue, 32 pp., dated March, 1881, - bound in at end. - - Black cloth, gilt, blocked in white. Blue and white decorated - end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in April, 1881. - - - 1883 - - HEART AND SCIENCE: A Story of the Present Time. By WILKIE COLLINS. - London: Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly. 1883. 3 vols. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × - 7¼). - - Vol. I. pp. xvi + 294 + (2). - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 293 + (3). - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 302 + (2). Publishers' catalogue, 32 pp., dated - March, 1883, bound in at end. - - Grey-blue cloth, gilt, blocked in chocolate. Pale green and white - decorated end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in April, 1883. - - - 1884 - - I SAY NO. By WILKIE COLLINS. London: Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly. - 1884. 3 vols. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7¼). - - Vol. I. pp. (viii) + 295 + (1). Publishers' catalogue, 32 pp., dated - March, 1884, bound in at end. - - Vol. II. pp. (viii) + 296. - - Vol. III. pp. (viii) + 324. - - Slate-blue cloth, gilt, blocked in magenta. Pale green and white - decorated end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in October, 1884. - - - 1886 - - THE EVIL GENIUS: A Domestic Story. By WILKIE COLLINS. London. Chatto - and Windus, Piccadilly. 1886. 3 vols. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7¼). - - Vol. I. pp. viii + 284. - - Vol. II. pp. vi + 304. - - Vol. III. pp. vi + 265 + (1). Publishers' catalogue, 32 pp., dated - May, 1886, bound in at end. - - Dark grey-green cloth, gilt, blocked in black. Grey and white - decorated end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in September, 1886. - - - 1886 - - THE GUILTY RIVER. By WILKIE COLLINS, author of _The Woman in White_, - _Armadale_, _The Evil Genius_ etc. Arrowsmith's Christmas Annual, - 1886. Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith, 11 Quay Street. London: Simpkin, - Marshall and Co., 4 Stationers' Hall Court. Price 1s. 1 vol. Fcap. - 8vo (4½ × 6½). Pp. (viii) + 188 + (12). No half-title. - Advertisements occupy pp. (i) to (vi), p. (vii) is title-page, p. - (viii) is occupied by advertisements, as also pp. (189) to (200). - Buff paper wrappers, printed in dark blue, black and yellow. - Advertisements occupy back outside wrapper and spine, which is not - printed with title of story. - - NOTE—The wording given above is that of wrapper, not of - title-page, because there exist several varieties of the - book (all of later date), which can most easily be - identified by the discrepancies between their wrappers and - that of the first issue. - - - 1887 - - LITTLE NOVELS. By WILKIE COLLINS. London: Chatto and Windus, - Piccadilly. 1887. 3 vols. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7⅛). - - Vol. I. pp. (vi) + 319 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. (vi) + 331 + (1). - - Vol. III. pp. (viii) + 303 + (1). Publishers' catalogue, 32 pp., - dated April, 1887, bound in at end. - - Bright blue cloth, gilt, blocked in red. Grey and white decorated - end-papers. - - _Contents_: Vol. I., Mrs. Zant and the Ghost—Miss Morris and - the Stranger—Mr. Cosway and the Landlady—Mr. Medhurst and - the Princess—Mr. Lismore and the Widow. - - Vol. II., Miss Jeromette and the Clergyman—Miss Minor and - the Groom—Mr. Lepel and the Housekeeper—Mr. Captain and the - Nymph—Mr. Marmaduke and the Minister. - - Vol. III., Mr. Percy and the Prophet—Miss Bertha and the - Yankee—Miss Dulane and My Lord—Mr. Policeman and the Cook. - - NOTE—This book was published in May, 1887. - - - 1889 - - THE LEGACY OF CAIN. By WILKIE COLLINS. London: Chatto and Windus, - Piccadilly. 1889. 3 vols. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7). - - Vol. I. pp. viii + 289 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. vi + 263 + (1). - - Vol. III. pp. vi + 281 + (1). Publishers' catalogue, 32 pp., dated - October, 1888, bound in at end. - - Blue cloth, gilt, blocked in red and black. Pale grey and white - decorated end-papers. - - NOTE—Although dated 1889, this book was actually published - in November, 1888. - - - 1890 - - BLIND LOVE. By WILKIE COLLINS. With a Preface by Walter Besant, and - Illustrations by A. Forestier. London: Chatto and Windus. - Piccadilly. 1890. 3 vols. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7⅛). - - Vol. I. pp. x + (ii) + 302 + (2). - - Vol. II. pp. vi + (ii) + 303 + (i). Publishers' catalogue, 32 pp., - dated October, 1889, bound in at end. - - Vol. III. pp. vi + (ii) + 316. - - Blue cloth, gilt, blocked in black. Pale grey and white decorated - end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in January, 1890. - - - 1890 - - THE LAZY TOUR OF TWO IDLE APPRENTICES. NO THOROUGHFARE. THE PERILS OF - CERTAIN ENGLISH PRISONERS. By CHARLES DICKENS and WILKIE COLLINS. - With Illustrations. London: Chapman and Hall, Limited. 1890. 1 vol. - Ex. Cr. 8vo (5¼ × 7⅞). Pp. vi + (ii) + 327 + (1). Dark green cloth, - gilt, blocked in black. Black end-papers. Eight full-page - illustrations in line, printed separately. - - NOTE—Of the stories here published in book form for the - first time _No Thoroughfare_ first appeared as the Extra - Christmas Number to “All the Year Round” for 1867 (1 vol. 6⅝ - × 9¾, pp. 48, bright blue paper wrappers, printed in black) - and _The Perils of Certain English Prisoners_ as the - “Christmas Story for 1857” in “Household Words” (1 vol., 5⅝ - × 8⅞, pp. 36, buff paper wrappers printed in violet, red and - green). - - - B.—PLAYS, WRITTEN ALONE AND IN COLLABORATION - - - 1861 - - A MESSAGE FROM THE SEA: A Drama in Three Acts. By CHARLES DICKENS and - WILKIE COLLINS. London: Published by G. Halsworth, at the office of - “All the Year Round,” Wellington Street, Strand. 1861. 1 vol. Cr. - 8vo (4½ × 7¼). Pp. 68. Buff paper wrappers, printed in black. - - NOTE—The story upon which this play is based appeared as the - Extra Christmas Number to “All the Year Round” for 1860 (1 - vol., 6½ × 9¾, pp. 48, bright blue paper wrappers, printed - in black). - - - 1863 - - NO NAME: A Drama in Five Acts. Founded on, and adapted from, the story - so entitled. By WILKIE COLLINS Esq. London: Published by G. - Halsworth, at the office of “All the Year Round.” 1863. 1 vol. Cr. - 8vo (4½ × 7¼). 60 pp. Pink paper wrappers, printed in black. - - NOTE—This play was also issued in De Witt's Acting Series - (No. 104), published by Robert M. de Witt, New York, in pale - yellow wrappers printed in black. The pamphlet is undated. - - - 1866 - - ARMADALE: A Drama in Three Acts. (Altered from the novel of _Armadale_ - for performance on the stage.) By WILKIE COLLINS. London: Published - for the author by Smith, Elder and Co., 65 Cornhill. 1866. 1 vol. - Cr. 8vo. Pp. 76. Pink paper wrappers, printed in black. - - - 1866 - - THE FROZEN DEEP: A Drama in Three Acts. By WILKIE COLLINS. (Not - published.) 1866. 1 vol. Fcap. 8vo (4 × 6½). Pp. 46 + (2). Buff - paper wrappers, printed in black. - - - 1867 - - NO THOROUGHFARE: A Drama in Five Acts. (Altered from the Christmas - story, for performance on the stage.) By CHARLES DICKENS and WILKIE - COLLINS. London: Published at the Office of “All the Year Round,” 26 - Wellington Street. 1867. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7¼). Pp. 89 + (1). - Buff paper wrappers, printed in black. - - NOTES—(i) Another issue was made of this play under the same - date and with identical format and title-page, except for - the addition, beneath the imprint, of the words: Entered at - Stationers' Hall. This issue consists, however, only of pp. - 78 + (2), and the text of the play is different from Act - IV., Scene III., to the end. - - (ii) The story upon which this play is based appeared as the - Extra Christmas Number to “All the Year Round” for 1867 (see - above, _The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices_, 1890, note). - - (iii) Collectors will be interested to note, as an item - in Collinsiana, an American dramatic version of _No - Thoroughfare_ which appeared as No. 348 in French's - Library of Standard Drama. This version is entitled: - - IDENTITY OR NO THOROUGHFARE by Louis Lequel. Dramatized from - the Christmas Story of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. - New York: Samuel French, Publisher, 122 Nassau Street. - - 1 vol. (4½ × 7½). Pp. 44. Yellow paper wrappers, printed in - black. - - The booklet is undated, save for the statement that the play - was entered in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of - the United States for the Southern District of New York in - 1867. The wrapper bears French's London as well as his New - York imprint. - - - 1869 - - BLACK AND WHITE: A Love Story in Three Acts. By WILKIE COLLINS and - CHARLES FLETCHER. London: Printed by C. Whiting, Beaufort House, - Strand. 1869. 1 vol. Slim Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7½). Pp. 56. White paper - wrappers, the first page of which serves as title and is printed as - above. - - - 1870 - - NO NAME: A Drama in Four Acts. (Altered from the novel for performance - on the stage.) By WILKIE COLLINS. London: Published by the author, - 90 Gloucester Place, Portman Square. 1870. 1 vol. Sm. Cr. 8vo (4½ × - 7¼). Pp. 160, of which pp. (1) to (4) are unnumbered. The rest of - the book, being printed on one side of the paper only, is paged (5) - to 82. Buff paper wrappers, printed in black. - - NOTE—This is a different text from that published in 1863. - - - 1871 - - THE WOMAN IN WHITE: A Drama in Prologue and Four Acts. (Altered from - the novel for performance on the stage.) By WILKIE COLLINS. London. - Published by the author, 90 Gloucester Place, Portman Square. 1871. - 1 vol. Sm. Cr. 8vo (4½ × 7¼). Pp. (172), of which pp. (1) to (4) are - unnumbered. The rest of the book, being printed on one side of the - paper only, is paged (5) to 88. Buff paper wrappers, printed in - black, uniform with _No Name_. - - - 1873 - - THE DREAM WOMAN: A Mystery in Four Narratives and Two Parts. By WILKIE - COLLINS. Altered and enlarged for reading in public from the - original story published in the collection called _The Queen of - Hearts_. Boston: Privately printed for the author. 1873. 1 vol. - Short Med. 4to (9 × 11⅛). Pp. 110, of which pp. (1) to (3) are - unnumbered. The rest of the book, being printed on one side of the - paper only, is paged 5 to 55. No half-title. Grey paper wrappers; - quarter grey-purple cloth. The wrappers are plain, without printing - of any sort. - - - 1873 - - THE NEW MAGDALEN: A Dramatic Story in a Prologue and Three Acts. By - WILKIE COLLINS. (Represented for the first time in London at the - Olympic Theatre, May 19, 1873.) London: Published by the author, 90 - Gloucester Place, Portman Square. 1873. 1 vol. Sm. Cr. 8vo (4⅜ × - 7⅛). Pp. 158, of which pp. (1) to (4) are unnumbered. The rest of - the book, being printed on one side of the paper only, is paged 5 to - 81. Buff paper wrappers, printed in black, uniform with _No Name_. - - - 1875 - - MISS GWILT: A Drama in Five Acts. (Altered from the novel _Armadale_.) - By WILKIE COLLINS, printed for performance at the Theatre only, not - published. 1 vol. Demy 8vo (5¼ × 8½). Pp. 104. Pp. 1 and 104 act as - outside wrappers. - - - 1877 - - THE MOONSTONE: A Dramatic Story in Three Acts. (Altered from the novel - for performance on the stage.) By WILKIE COLLINS. (This play is not - published. It is privately printed for the convenience of the - author.) Charles Dickens and Evans, Crystal Palace Press. 1877. 1 - vol. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7⅛). Pp. 176, of which (1) to (4) are unnumbered. - The rest of the book, being printed on one side of the paper only, - is paged (5) to 88. Paper wrappers, printed in black. - - - - - CHARLES READE - 1814-1884 - - - - - CHARLES READE - - -If no judgment is here attempted of the work of Charles Reade, it is -because he refuses to be “placed,” in the opinion of the present writer. -At times he is so fine, so resilient, so impressive; at others, the -dullest of pamphleteers, a cramped Meredith in style, a very waxwork -among sensationalists. Fortunately certain aspects of his powerful but -clumsy mind have of late been admirably presented. The “London Mercury” -for June, 1921 (Vol. IV., No. 20), contained an article by E. W. Hornung -which all interested would do well to read. In the matter of biography -proper students may be referred (but without confidence) to: - - CHARLES READE: DRAMATIST, NOVELIST, JOURNALIST. A memoir compiled - chiefly from his literary remains by CHARLES L. READE and the Rev. - COMPTON READE. 2 vols. London: Chapman and Hall Ltd., 1887. - -This pious work is too rhapsodical to possess more than personal -interest. - - CHARLES READE AS I KNEW HIM. By JOHN COLEMAN. London: Treherne and Co. - 1903. - -Reference is made below to the useful list of plays which concludes this -otherwise rather chaotic book. - - - I.—EDITIONES PRINCIPES - A.—FICTION, ESSAYS, ETC. - - - 1853 - - PEG WOFFINGTON: A Novel. By CHARLES READE. London: Richard Bentley, - New Burlington Street. 1853. 1 vol. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7¾). Pp. (iv) - + 331 + (1). No half-title. Paper boards (half cloth), paper label. - White end-papers. Also maroon cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Pale - yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This book, although dated 1853, was actually published - on December 17, 1852. The first edition was of 500 copies. - - - 1853 - - CHRISTIE JOHNSTONE: A Novel. By CHARLES READE Esq., author of _Peg - Woffington_. London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. 1853. 1 - vol. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7¾). Pp. (iv) + 334 + (2). A note occupies p. - (335). Paper boards (half cloth), paper label. White end-papers. - Also in maroon cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published on August 25, 1853. The first - edition was of 500 copies. - - - 1856 - - IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND: A Matter of Fact Romance. By CHARLES - READE, author of _Christie Johnstone_, _Peg Woffington_ etc. London: - Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. 1856. 3 vols. Slim Ex. Cr. - 8vo (4¾ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) + 395 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. (ii) + 349 + (1). - - Vol. III. pp. (ii) + 344. - - Paper boards, half cloth, paper label. White end-papers. Also pale - maroon cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Yellow end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published on August 1, 1856. The - story is based on the play _Gold_ (see below, p. 171). - - (ii) Reade replied to certain charges brought against the - novel in a pamphlet, but I cannot determine the details of - its title and appearance. - - - 1857 - - THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE NEVER DID RUN SMOOTH. By CHARLES READE, author - of _It Is Never Too Late to Mend_, _Peg Woffington_ and _Christie - Johnstone_. London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. 1857. 1 - vol. Cr. 8vo (5 × 7½). Pp. (ii) + 269 + (3). No half-title. Blue - cloth, blocked in gold. Yellow end-papers. Also in pink picture - boards. - - NOTE—This book was published on September 28, 1857. The - cloth and boards editions were simultaneous. - - - 1857 - - WHITE LIES: A Story. By CHARLES READE. London: Trübner and Co., 60 - Paternoster Row. 1857. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. v + (i) + 300. - - Vol. II. pp. (ii) + 237 + (1). - - Vol. III. pp. (ii) + 231 + (1). - - No half-titles. Dark green cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Pale - yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in December, 1857. The story, - which appeared serially in the “London Journal,” was based - on Reade's play _The Double Marriage_, itself an adaptation - from the French (see below, p. 174). - - - 1857 - - *THE BOX TUNNEL. By CHARLES READE. Boston, U.S.A. - - NOTE—This short story, published in “Bentley's Miscellany” - in November, 1853, was only issued in book form in America. - - - 1858 - - CREAM. By CHARLES READE, author of _White Lies_ etc. Contains JACK OF - ALL TRADES: A Matter of Fact Romance and THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A - THIEF. London: Trübner and Co., 60 Paternoster Row. 1858. 1 vol. Ex. - Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7⅝). Pp. 270. Bright blue embossed cloth, gilt. - Red-chocolate end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in March, 1858. - - - 1859 - - LOVE ME LITTLE LOVE ME LONG. By CHARLES READE, author of _It is Never - Too Late To Mend_, _White Lies_ etc. London: Trübner and Co., 60 - Paternoster Row. 1859. 2 vols. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7½). - - Vol. I. pp. (viii) + 390 + (2). - - Vol. II. pp. 358 + (2). - - Green embossed cloth, gilt. Pale yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in April, 1859. - - - 1860 - - THE EIGHTH COMMANDMENT. By CHARLES READE. London: Trübner and Co., 60 - Paternoster Row. 1860. 1 vol. Demy 8vo (5⅝ × 8¾). Pp. (iv) + 379 + - (1). Dark purple-brown embossed cloth, gilt. Chocolate end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in July, 1860, at the author's - own expense. Written in assault of those who had infringed - Reade's rights in _Poverty and Pride_ (see below, p. 172), - it proved too contentious for publishers' tastes. - - - 1861 - - THE CLOISTER AND THE HEARTH: A Tale of the Middle Ages. By CHARLES - READE, author of _It Is Never Too Late To Mend_, _Christie - Johnstone_, _Peg Woffington_ etc. London: Trübner and Co., 60 - Paternoster Row. 1861. 4 vols. Small Cr. 8vo (4½ × 7¼). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) + 360. - - Vol. II. pp. (ii) + 384. - - Vol. III. pp. (ii) + 328. - - Vol. IV. pp. (ii) + 435 + (1). - - No half-titles. Grey-green cloth, gilt. Pale yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in October, 1861. - - - 1863 - - HARD CASH: A Matter of Fact Romance. By CHARLES READE. London: Sampson - Low, Son and Marston, 14 Ludgate Hill. 1863. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ - × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) + 356. - - Vol. II. pp. (ii) + 365 + (1). - - Vol. III. pp. (ii) + 369 + (5). Publishers' announcements, dated - December 10, 1863, occupy pages (371) to (374). - - No half-titles. Grey-green cloth, blocked in gold. Pale yellow - end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published on December 15, 1863. The story - appeared serially in “All the Year Round,” for which - magazine it had been commissioned by Dickens. - - - 1867 - - GRIFFITH GAUNT: Or JEALOUSY. By CHARLES READE. London: Chapman and - Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1867. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) + 302. - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 318. - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 328. Publishers' catalogue, 16 pp., dated - October, 1866, bound in at end. - - Violet cloth, gilt, blocked in gold and blind. Pale yellow - end-papers. - - NOTE—Although dated 1867, this book was actually published - in October, 1866. The story appeared serially in the - “Argosy.” - - - 1868 - - FOUL PLAY. By CHARLES READE and DION BOUCICAULT. London: Bradbury - Evans and Co., 11 Bouverie Street. 1868. 3 vols. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7½). - - Vol. I. pp. (vi) + 277 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 278. - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 261 + (1). - - Red cloth, gilt. Cream end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in November or December, 1868. - The story ran serially in “Once a Week” from January of the - same year. In 1881 F. C. Burnand published a parody of the - novel under the title: _Chikkin Hazard: A Novel by Charles - Readit and Dion Bounceycore_. This parody appeared in “Our - Novel Shilling Series,” published by Bradbury, Agnew and - Co., of which the other volumes are pastiches of novels by - Ouida, Victor Hugo, Hawley Smart, and Rhoda Broughton. - - - 1870 - - PUT YOURSELF IN HIS PLACE. By CHARLES READE, author of _It Is Never - Too Late to Mend_, _Hard Cash_, _Foul Play_, etc. etc. (Quotation - from Horace.) London: Smith Elder and Co., 15 Waterloo Place. 1870. - 3 vols. Cr. 8vo (5 × 7½). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) + 317 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 318 + (2). - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 332. - - Green cloth, gilt, blocked in black. Chocolate end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in June, 1870. The story - appeared serially in the “Cornhill.” - - - 1871 - - A TERRIBLE TEMPTATION: A Story of the Day. By CHARLES READE. London: - Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1871. 3 vols. Cr. 8vo (5 × 7⅜). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) + 303 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 310 + (2). - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 300. - - Purple cloth, gilt, blocked in gold and blind. Yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in August, 1871. The story - appeared serially in “Cassell's Magazine.” - - - 1873 - - A SIMPLETON: A Story of the Day. By CHARLES READE. London: Chapman and - Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1873. 3 vols. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7⅜). - - Vol. I. pp. ix + (i) + 272. - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 267 + (1). - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 305 + (1). - - Maroon cloth, blocked in gold and blind. Yellow end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published in August, 1873. The story - appeared serially in “London Society.” - - (ii) Copies in blue cloth, gilt, are of later issue. - - - 1874 - - A HERO AND A MARTYR: A True and Accurate Account of the Heroic feats - and sad Calamity of James Lambert. By CHARLES READE (2 Albert - Terrace, Knightsbridge). London: Samuel French, 89 Strand, - Publisher. 1874. 1 vol. Royal 8vo (6¼ × 9⅝). Pp. (viii) + 40. Orange - or green paper wrappers, printed in black. Publisher's - advertisements occupy inside front, and inside and outside back - wrappers. Wood-engraved frontispiece printed on text paper. - - - 1875 - - TRADE MALICE: A Personal Narrative, and THE WANDERING HEIR: A Matter - of Fact Romance. By CHARLES READE. London: Samuel French, 89 Strand, - 1875. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo (5 × 7½). Pp. (viii) + 279 + (1). Publishers' - advertisements occupy pp. (vi) to (viii). Green cloth, gilt. Yellow - end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in April, 1875. _The Wandering - Heir_ was first printed in the “Graphic.” - - - 1877 - - A WOMAN HATER. By CHARLES READE, D.C.L. William Blackwood and Sons, - Edinburgh and London, MDCCCLXXVII. 3 vols. Cr. 8vo (5 × 7½). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) + 280. - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 285 + (3). Publishers' advertisements occupy pp. - (287) and (288). - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 282 + (2). Publishers' advertisements occupy - pp. (283) and (284). - - The words “Originally published in 'Blackwood's Magazine'” occupy - verso of half-title in each volume. Bright blue cloth, gilt, blocked - in black. Dark brown end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in June, 1877. When serialized - the story was anonymous. - - - 1877 - - *GOLDEN CROWNS: Sunday Stories. By CHARLES READE, D.C.L. Manchester: - Tubbs and Brooke. 1 vol. 18mo. - - NOTE—This publication was of a kind known as an “18mo - packet.” It consisted of a number of loose sheets enclosed - in a paper wrapper, designed either to gum or to tuck in, - but wholly detached from its contents. Never having seen a - copy of the packet in question, I cannot do more than - conjecture that the loose sheets bore each a brief moral - tale, which a devout parent could administer Sunday by - Sunday to the deserving young. - - - 1883 - - READIANA: Comments on Current Events. By CHARLES READE, D.C.L. with a - steel-plate portrait. London: Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly. 1883. 1 - vol. Cr. 8vo (5 × 7½). Pp. vi + 329 + (1). Frontispiece and - title-page, printed together but not on text paper, are inset - between pp. (ii) and (iii). Publishers' catalogue, 32 pp., dated - July, 1882, bound in at end. Publishers' advertisement occupies p. - (ii). Red cloth, gilt, blocked in black, uniform with the cheap - edition of Reade's novels published just previously to this book's - appearance. Brown-purple and white decorated end-papers. Engraved - portrait frontispiece printed on same paper as title. Line engraving - on title-page. - - NOTE—Although this book is dated 1883, it was actually - published in October, 1882. - - - 1884 - - SINGLE HEART AND DOUBLE FACE: A Matter of Fact Romance: By CHARLES - READE, D.C.L. London. Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly. 1884. 1 vol. - Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7⅜). Pp. (iv) + 240. Publishers' catalogue, 32 pp., - dated December, 1883, bound in at end. Fawn cloth gilt, blocked in - red and blue. Pale green and white decorated end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in July, 1884. The story - appeared serially in “Harper's Magazine.” - - - 1884 - - GOOD STORIES OF MAN AND OTHER ANIMALS. By CHARLES READE, D.C.L. - Illustrations by E. A. Abbey, Percy Macquoid and Joseph Nash. - London: Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly. 1884. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo (5 × - 7½). Pp. (ii) + 287 + (1). Frontispiece and title-page, printed - together but not on text paper, are inset before p. (i), pp. (i) and - (ii) forming a single leaf pasted to back of title. No half-title. - Publishers' catalogue, 32 pp., dated October, 1884, bound in at end. - Four illustrations in line, of which one is the frontispiece; all - printed separately. Red cloth, gilt, blocked in black. Uniform with - _Readiana_. Green and white decorated end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in October, 1884. - - - 1884 - - THE JILT: And Other Stories. By CHARLES READE, D.C.L. Four - Illustrations by Joseph Nash. London: Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly. - 1884. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo (5 × 7½). Pp. (ii) + 282 + (2). Frontispiece - and title-page, printed together but not on text paper, are inset - before p. (i), pp. (i) and (ii) forming a single leaf pasted to back - of title. No half-title. Publishers' catalogue, 32 pp., dated - September, 1884, bound in at end. Four full-page illustrations in - line, of which one is the frontispiece; all printed separately. Line - engraving on title. Red cloth, gilt, blocked in black. Uniform with - _Readiana_. Green and white decorated end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in October, 1884. - - - 1884 - - A PERILOUS SECRET. By CHARLES READE, author of _Hard Cash_, _Put - Yourself in His Place_, _It Is Never Too Late To Mend_, _Griffith - Gaunt_ etc. London: Richard Bentley and Son, New Burlington Street, - Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen. 1884. 2 vols. Cr. - 8vo (5 × 7½). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) + 296. - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 312. - - Red flowered cloth, gilt. Green and white decorated end-papers. - - NOTE—Although this book is dated 1884, it was not actually - published until March 10, 1885. The story appeared serially - in the “Temple Bar Magazine.” - - - 1888 - - BIBLE CHARACTERS: By CHARLES READE, D.C.L., author of _It Is Never Too - Late To Mend_ etc. London: Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly. 1888. 1 - vol. Fcap. 8vo (4⅛ × 6½). Pp. (vi) + 106. Publishers' catalogue, 32 - pp., dated September, 1888, bound in at end. Dark red paper - wrappers, gilt. Black end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in September, 1888. - - - 1910 - - A GOOD FIGHT. By CHARLES READE. Original version of _The Cloister and - The Hearth_, with an introduction by ANDREW LANG. London: Henry - Frowde. 1910. Fcap. 8vo (4½ × 6¾). Pp. (xii) + 208. Fifteen - illustrations after Charles Keene printed on text paper. Dark - olive-green cloth, blocked in gold. White end-papers. - - NOTE—This is the first edition in book form of a story which - appeared in 1859 in “Once a Week.” Reade afterwards expanded - his idea into _The Cloister and the Hearth_. - - - EDITIONES PRINCIPES (_Continued_) - B.—PLAYS: ORIGINAL, TRANSLATED, AND WRITTEN IN COLLABORATION - - - [1834 or 1835] - - *PEREGRINE PICKLE. - - NOTE—Reade has himself left a statement that while at Oxford - he printed at his own cost a few copies of this dramatic - version of Smollett's famous novel. - - - [1851] - - THE LADIES' BATTLE: Or UN DUEL EN AMOUR. A Comedy in Three Acts. - Hailes Lacy, Wellington Street, Strand, London. 1 vol. Fcap. 8vo (4¼ - × 7¼). Pp. 35 + (1). Note on p. (3) initialled “C.R.” Salmon-pink - paper wrappers printed in black, uniform with the other volumes in - Lacy's Acting Edition, of which this is No. 47. - - - [1851] - - ANGELO: A Tragedy in Four Acts. Adapted to the English Stage by the - author of _The Ladies' Battle_, _Peregrine Pickle_ etc. London: - Hailes Lacy, Wellington Street, Strand. 1 vol. Fcap. 8vo (4¼ × 7¼). - Pp. 24. Salmon-pink paper wrappers, printed in black, uniform with - the other volumes in Lacy's Acting Editions, of which this is No. - 57. - - - [1852] - - THE LOST HUSBAND: A Drama in Four Acts. Written and Adapted from the - French by the author of _The Ladies' Battle_. London: Thomas Hailes - Lacy, Wellington Street, Strand. 1 vol. Fcap. 8vo (4¼ × 7¼). Pp. 36. - Salmon-pink paper wrappers, printed in black, uniform with the other - volumes in Lacy's Acting Editions, of which this is No. 86. - - NOTE—This play is based on a French drama, _Les Dames de la - Halle_. - - - [1853] - - GOLD: A Drama in Five Acts. By CHARLES READE, one of the authors of - _Masks and Faces_ etc. Thomas Hailes Lacy, Wellington Street, - Strand, London. 1 vol. Fcap. 8vo (4¼ × 7¼). Pp. 48. Salmon-pink - paper wrappers, printed in black, uniform with the other volumes in - Lacy's Acting Edition, of which this is No. 152. - - - [1854] - - THE COURIER OF LYONS: Or THE ATTACK UPON THE MAIL: A Drama in Four - Acts. Translated from the French of MM. Moreau, Siraudin and - Delacourt. Thomas Hailes Lacy, Wellington Street, Strand. 1 vol. - Fcap. 8vo (4¼ × 7¼). Pp. 43 + (1). Advertisements occupy p. (44). - Salmon-pink paper wrappers, printed in black, uniform with the other - volumes in Lacy's Acting Edition, of which this is No. 220. - - - 1854 - - MASKS AND FACES: Or BEFORE AND BEHIND THE CURTAIN: A Comedy in Two - Acts. By TOM TAYLOR and CHARLES READE. London: Richard Bentley, New - Burlington Street. 1854. 1 vol. Fcap. 8vo (4¼ × 6¾). Pp. (viii) + 71 - + (1). Mustard-yellow paper wrappers, printed in black as - title-page. - - - 1854 - - TWO LOVES AND A LIFE: A Drama in Four Acts. By TOM TAYLOR and CHARLES - READE. Produced at the Theatre Royal, Adelphi, April 1854. London: - Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. 1854. 1 vol. Fcap. 8vo (4¼ × - 6¾). Pp. (viii) + 85 + (3). Mustard-yellow paper wrappers, printed - in black as title-page. - - - 1854 - - THE KING'S RIVAL: A Drama in Five Acts. By TOM TAYLOR and CHARLES - READE, authors of _Masks and Faces_, _Two Loves and a Life_ etc. - etc. First produced at the Theatre Royal, St. James's, October 4, - 1854. London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. 1854. 1 vol. - Fcap. 8vo (4¼ × 6¾). Pp. (viii) + 72. Mustard-yellow paper wrappers, - printed in black as title-page. - - NOTES—(i) The three preceding items were also issued as one - volume bound in maroon cloth, blocked in gold and blind, and - lettered on the spine “Dramas by Tom Taylor and Charles - Reade,” and with pale yellow end-papers. The sheets used - were those of the original pamphlet issue, the separate - title-pages and half-titles being preserved, but the sheets - being cut to measure 4⅛ × 6⅝. - - (ii) In their original separate form _Masks and Faces_ and - _Two Loves and a Life_ were published on July 1, and _The - King's Rival_ on October 17, 1854. - - - 1857 - - POVERTY AND PRIDE: A Drama in Five Acts By CHARLES READE. Being the - authorised English version of _Les Pauvres de Paris_, drama by - Messrs. Edouard Brisebarre and Eugène Nus. London: Richard Bentley, - New Burlington Street. 1856. 1 vol. Fcap. 8vo (4¼ × 7¼). Pp. 64. - Paper wrappers. - - NOTE—This book was published on August 12, 1857. - - - 1857 - - THE HYPOCHONDRIAC. Adapted to the English stage from the _Malade - Imaginaire_ of Molière. By CHARLES READE. London: William Clowes and - Sons, 14 Charing Cross. And Ticknor and Fields, Boston, U.S. 1857. 1 - vol. Fcap. 8vo (4¼ × 7⅛). Pp. 59 + (1). Light brown paper wrappers, - printed in black; wording as title-page. - - NOTE—This play was later acted under the title _The Robust - Invalid_ (June, 1870). I do not know whether a printed text - exists with this title. - - - 1859 - - LE FAUBOURG SAINT-GERMAIN. Pièce en deux Actes. Ecrite en Français par - CHARLES READE. Paris. Typographie: Morris et Comp. Rue Amelot 64. - 1859. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo (5⅛ × 7⅜). Pp. 69 + (3). Pale blue paper - wrappers, printed in black; wording as title-page. - - - [?1867] - - DORA: A Pastoral Poem in Three Acts. With New Scenic Effect and - Appropriate Music. Founded on Mr. Tennyson's poem and written by - CHARLES READE. London: Printed by W. Clowes and Sons, Stamford - Street and Charing Cross. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7⅜). Pp. 53 + (3). - Yellow paper wrappers, printed in black with the single word “Dora” - enclosed in decorative frame. - - NOTES—(i) This play was reissued about 1872 or 1873 by - Williams and Strahan, 7 Lawrence Lane, Cheapside, in a - fifty-page pamphlet measuring 4⅛ × 7⅛ and wrappered in buff - paper, printed merely with the word “Dora” in black. The - text shows slight variations from that of the first issue. - - (ii) The date of the first of the above issues is doubtful. - _Dora_ was written in 1863 or 1864, but evidence is wanting - to show whether it was then printed, or not until its first - production in 1867. It was revived in the early nineties. - - - [?1867] - - THE DOUBLE MARRIAGE: A Drama in Five Acts. By AUGUSTE MAQUET and - CHARLES READE. London: Printed by W. Clowes and Sons, Stamford - Street and Charing Cross, 1 vol. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7½). Pp. (iv) + 80. - Yellow paper wrappers, printed in black, with play title only - enclosed in decorative frame. This pamphlet is uniform in style with - _Dora_. - - NOTE—This play is based on _Le Château Grantier_ by Maquet. - The date of printing is conjectural, being that of its first - production. Reade's novel _White Lies_ (see above, p. 161) - is a fictional version of the same plot. - - - [?1869] - - KATE PEYTON: Or JEALOUSY. 1 vol. Fcap. 8vo (4¼ × 7⅛). Pp. 84. Pink - paper wrappers, printed with play title only. - - NOTES—(i) This booklet bears no printer's name, date, or - other mark of identification. The text differs slightly from - that issued in 1883 and described below. - - (ii) The date is purely conjectural. Coleman mentions no - play of this title, but speaks of _Griffith Gaunt_ as having - been produced in 1868 or 1869. The above item being a - dramatic version of _Griffith Gaunt_, I am inclined to think - that this is the play referred to, and have accordingly - dated it as having been printed about the time of the first - production. - - - [?1872 or 1873] - - IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND. Drama in Five Acts. By CHARLES READE. - Author of _Gold_; _Rachel the Reaper_; _Ladies' Battle_; _Nobs and - Snobs_; _The Lost Husband_; _The Double Marriage_; _Kate Peyton_; - _Foul Play_; _Put Yourself in His Place_; _The Wandering Heir_; - _Shilly Shally_; _The Courier of Lyons_; etc. etc. And one of the - authors of _Masks and Faces_; _Two Loves and a Life_; _The First - Printer_; _The King's Rival_. London: Printed by Williams and - Strahan, 7 Lawrence Lane, Cheapside. 1 vol. Fcap. 8vo (4¼ × 7) Pp. - 97 + (1). Buff paper wrappers, printed in black with the play title - only. - - NOTES—(i) This play was reissued in 1890 in a pamphlet - printed for private circulation by W. Spearing, 1, Great - Queen Street, W.C. The booklet measures 5½ × 8½; contains - pp. 148—of which (1) to (4) are regular prelims., (5) to - (146) are printed alternately and paged (5) to 76, and (147) - and (148) are blank—and is bound in grey paper wrappers, - printed in black. The text of this second version shows - considerable variation from that of the first, and the play - is in four acts instead of five. - - (ii) The date at the head of this item is conjectural. - Reade's first original dramatization of _It's Never Too Late - to Mend_ was written by 1864 and produced in 1865. Coleman - speaks in that year of receiving from Laura Seymour a - “yellow covered book” of the text of the play, and this - book, if printed, was the real first edition. But I cannot - prove the existence of a printed text at that date, and - prefer to give first place to the pamphlet here described, - although, because of the other plays mentioned on the - title-page, it cannot be of earlier date than 1872. - - (iii) In July, 1860, a dramatization of Reade's novel had - been issued in Lacy's Acting Edition. Reade was rightly - furious at the unauthorized issue of this version, and - hastened to prepare one of his own. For the benefit of those - interested I append details of the pirate booklet. - - - [1860-July] - - NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND. A Drama of Real Life in Four Acts, founded on - MR. CHARLES READE'S Popular Novel. By COLIN HAZLEWOOD, author of - _The Return of the Wanderer_, _Jenny Foster_, _Trials of Poverty_, - _Going to Chobham_, etc. etc. Thomas Hailes Lacy, 89 Strand - (opposite Southampton Street, Covent Garden Market), London. 1 vol. - Fcap. 8vo (4¼ × 7¼). Pp. 65 + (1). List of plays occupies p. (66). - Salmon-pink paper wrappers, printed in black, uniform with the other - volumes in Lacy's Acting Editions. This volume is unnumbered. - - - [1877] - - THE LADIES' BATTLE: Or UN DUEL EN AMOUR: A Comedy in Three Acts. By - CHARLES READE Esq., author of _Gold_, _Art_, _The Lost Husband_, - _The Foster Sisters_, and one of the authors of _Masks and_ _Faces_, - _Two Loves and a Life_, _King's Rival_ etc. etc. London: Samuel - French, Publisher, 89 Strand. New York: Samuel French and Son, - Publishers, 122 Nassau Street. 1 vol. Fcap. 8vo (4¼ × 7¼). Pp. 41 + - (3). Advertisements occupy pp. (43) and (44). Salmon-pink paper - wrappers, printed in black, uniform with the other volumes in - French's (late Lacy's) Acting Editions, of which this is No. 1609. - - NOTE—This is a revised version of the play originally - published in 1851 (see above, p. 170). - - - 1878 - - THE WELL BORN WORKMAN: Or A MAN OF THE DAY. By CHARLES READE, author - of _Never Too Late to Mend_, _Foul Play_ etc. London: Printed for - Williams and Strahan, 74 New Cut, Lambeth. 1878. 1 vol. Fcap. 8vo - (4¼ × 6⅞). Pp. 82 + (2). Buff paper wrappers, printed in black, with - the title and sub-title of the play. - - - 1883 - - FOUL PLAY. Drama in a Prologue and Five Acts. By CHARLES READE. - London. 1883. Printed by J. C. Durant, Clement's House, Clement's - Inn Passage, Strand, W.C. But not published. 1 vol. Demy 8vo (5½ × - 8½). Pp. 72. Grey paper wrappers, printed in black as title-page. - - NOTE—This play was written in collaboration with Boucicault - and produced early in 1868. It was attacked on the ground - that it was pirated from a French drama: _La Portefeuille - Rouge_. Reade hotly denied that he had read or even heard of - this French play, and Coleman considers the denial to have - been genuine enough. He is, however, less certain that - Boucicault was not familiar with the supposed French - original. _Foul Play_, as first acted, was later revived - under different titles—_The Scuttled Ship_ and _Our Seaman_. - Perhaps the text described above and bearing Reade's name - only is a different version from that produced with - Boucicault. Of the text in collaboration I can trace no - printed issue. - - - 1883 - - KATE PEYTON: Or JEALOUSY: A Drama, in a prologue and Four Acts. By - CHARLES READE. London: 1883. Printed by J. C. Durant, Clement's - House, Clement's Inn Passage, Strand, W.C. 1 vol. Demy 8vo (5½ × - 8½). Pp. 76. Grey paper wrappers, printed as title-page. - - - 1883 - - LOVE AND MONEY: An Original Drama in a Prologue and Four Acts. By - CHARLES READE and HENRY PETTITT. London. 1883. Printed by J. C. - Durant, Clement's House, Clement's Inn Passage, Strand, W.C. But not - published. 1 vol. Small Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7). Pp. 53 + (3). Grey paper - wrappers printed in black. - - NOTE—There being no title-page to this pamphlet, the - lettering given above is that of the wrapper. - - - 1883 - - THE COUNTESS AND THE DANCER: Or HIGH LIFE IN VIENNA. A Comedy Drama in - Four Acts. Altered from a masterpiece of VICTORIEN SARDOU by CHARLES - READE. London: 1883. 1 vol. Demy 8vo (5½ × 8⅜). Pp. vi + 60. Grey - paper wrappers, printed in black; wording as title-page. - - - NOTE - -The bibliography of Reade's plays is obscure and confusing. I have -listed in the foregoing pages only those of the printed issue of which I -have found certain evidence. He is known, however, to have written many -more, some at least of which were probably printed privately. Wherefore -it seems desirable here to supply such particulars as can be found of -the writing and acting of Reade's other plays. The facts are taken -mainly from Coleman's book, which contains as an appendix a good list of -titles and dates of production. Unfortunately the book itself is so -confusingly put together that text and appendix are far from -complementary and at times even in conflict. - - - A. EARLY UNACTED PLAYS, WRITTEN BEFORE 1851. - - THE WAY THINGS TURN. - - THE DANGEROUS PATH. - - THE LOST SISTERS. - - MARGUERITE. - - LUCREZIA BORGIA. - - A LADY'S OATH. - - CHRISTIE JOHNSTONE - - (The novel of the same name was built, long after, on the ruins of - this unacceptable play). - - - B. ACTED PLAYS, WITH DATES OF FIRST PRODUCTION AND OTHER AVAILABLE - DETAILS. - -THE VILLAGE TALE (produced 1852) - - (Based on _Claudie_, by George Sand. Revived in 1872 under the title - _Rachel the Reaper_). - -ART (produced 1852) - - (An adaptation of _Tiridate_ and later christened _Nance Oldfield_). - -NOBS AND SNOBS (produced 1854) - - (Revived in 1865 under the title _Honour before Titles_). - -THE FIRST PRINTER (produced 1854). - -FREE LABOUR (produced 1870) - - (A dramatic version of the novel _Put Yourself in his Place_). - -SHILLY SHALLY (produced 1872) - - (An unauthorized dramatization of Anthony Trollope's novel _Ralph - the Heir_. Reade's action in appropriating the story was deeply - resented by Trollope). - -THE WANDERING HEIR (produced 1872 or 1873) - - (A dramatic version of the story of the same name). - -JEALOUSY (produced 1875) - - (An adaptation of Sardou's comedy _Andrée_, and not to be confused - with Reade's dramatizations of his own novel _Griffith Gaunt_). - -RACHEL THE REAPER (produced 1876) - - (See above: _A Village Tale_). - -JOAN (produced 1876) - - (Dramatized, without permission, from _That Lass o' Lowries_, by - Mrs. Hodgson Burnett). - -DRINK (produced 1879) - - (Adapted from _L'Assommoir_ by Emile Zola). - -SINGLE HEART AND DOUBLE FACE (produced 1882) - - (A dramatic version of the story of the same name). - - - - - GEORGE JOHN WHYTE-MELVILLE - 1821-1878 - - - - - G. J. WHYTE-MELVILLE - - -Although as an authority on matters sporting Whyte-Melville stands -alone, it is yet impossible, with the best will in the world and with -all the respect due to his personal chivalry and courage, to regard him -in the rôle of novelist as anything but absurd. - -His books, where they deal with the science and the joys of hunting, -have the vivid appeal that only delighted conviction can give; but as -fiction, as readings of life adequately expressed in English prose, they -are negligible and often ludicrous. - -Whyte-Melville, the sportsman, is a figure of dignity and inspiration; -Whyte-Melville, the social novelist, is Ouida in breeches. That the -breeches are of perfect cut may not disguise the conventional swagger of -the legs they cover. The ways trodden by this author in his search for -character and incident are the exclusive ways of Victorian landlordism. -Their pavements are thronged with fair ladies and brave gentlemen, while -in the roadway crowd the lower orders—some mildly criminal, some a -little comic, but the majority joyous in their privilege to serve the -brilliant purpose of their betters. The antics of these humble creatures -are watched with kindly patronage by those to whom wealth and pleasure -are a normal birthright. Conversing among themselves, heartily but with -elegance, the Guardsmen and squirelings of the fashionable clubs find -time to exchange gracious greeting with their poorer neighbours, whose -uncouth speech strikes quaintly pleasant on their cultured ears. An -instruction is given; half a sovereign changes hands; a cap is dutifully -touched. God willed that of His creatures some be rich and others poor; -let the former bear themselves honourably and remember (when not -otherwise engaged) the duties of their station; let the latter be happy -in the lot to which Providence has called them. - -But genial condescension to his dependants is not the only or even the -main business of the Whyte-Melville gentleman. His life has two -absorbing interests—horses and ladies. To a point these interests merge. -With identical _expertise_ he takes the points of a fine girl and of a -blood mare. The former in her drawing-room, the latter in her stable, -await in gleaming beauty his appreciative caress. At their point of -ultimate usefulness, however, femininity and horseflesh part company. -The latter is the hero's ally, the former his quarry in the chase; and -while his adventures on horseback are told with the zest and knowledge -of real authority, his exploits in lady-killing have the tedious -unreality of a tale only half imagined and not a quarter lived. - -It is for the falseness of his emotional writing that Whyte-Melville -challenges comparison with Ouida. And, the comparison made, one is bound -to concede victory to the latter. Both deal in the passions of the nobly -born; but while the woman has at least the courage of bad taste, the -man, fettered by good form, achieves no taste at all. Whyte-Melville's -novels, like _Hamlet_, are full of quotations. He is the father of -novelette; the wellspring of cliché. His lovely ladies are not women nor -his gallants men: they are the dummies of suburban melodrama, -exquisitely gowned, faultlessly tailored, mouthing the phrases of -drawing-room passionates, but, even as dummies, failing to achieve that -semblance of gilded sin that is their only purpose. - -Nevertheless, despite their ineptitude, the books of Whyte-Melville -compel a curious and obscure respect. Respect for what it were hard to -say, for his written word is his own deadliest accuser. Sentences might -be chosen almost at random from the novels of social life that would -prove his possession of every fault possible to a novelist and to a -writer of prose. And yet, through the screen of their fatuity, one has -glimpses of the personality of the author himself—a personality at which -one may make mock, but only with affection. This country gentleman -turned novelist was an upright, guileless creature, hard riding, -generous hearted, as unconscious of his innate snobbery as of his -natural modesty, conventional because unaware of any world or school of -thought beyond the narrow limits of his own. His pictures of England are -as dull and as unreal as the pretty garden scenes in water-colour -produced by county ladies to this day; but both the painter of these -lifeless pictures and the comfortable amateurs responsible for horrid -views of moorland and herbaceous border command a sort of wistful -admiration. There is something so clean and easy and contented in the -mentality from which these books and drawings spring that, if only it -were not so stupid, so impenetrable to variety of idea, its passing -might well be looked on with regret. Whyte-Melville's qualities, like -those of the type he represents, are more obscure than his defects. The -class of country gentleman to which he personally belonged is rapidly -disappearing; when it is gone we shall wonder a little perplexedly why -we miss it. It was so easy to ridicule, so pathetically a target for -mockery and persecution. In our greater wisdom we have shot it to -pieces, riddling its obtuse selfishness, its bland complacency, with the -bullets of reforming zeal. But something fine will have perished with -it, something indefinable but leaving a sense of gap, to remind us that -destruction is never quite the discriminating triumph that iconoclasts -claim for it in advance. - -This, then, is one contemporary view of Whyte-Melville's novels, whose -only demonstrable virtue is their sportsmanship. One may quote from -_Market Harborough_, from _Riding Recollections_, even from the social -stories, passages of speed and exhilaration, passages of unaffected -wisdom and perception, descriptive of the hunting that, next to honour, -he loved best of all that life could offer. In opposition may be printed -page after page of stilted rhetoric, mawkish humour, the falsest of -sentiment, the most wanton elaboration of noun and adjective. But after -all quotation is done and a balance struck, there will still remain the -elusive quality that gave character to the class from which the author -came, an essence of breeding and tradition that no phrasing can -crystallize, that vanishes in the moment of its expression. For this -spiritual quality Whyte-Melville is admirable; for his literary faults -he is unreadable. Such, in a nutshell, is the judgment of one reader who -cannot excuse a book stupidity and pretentiousness for the sake of -isolated passages of hunting lore, but seeks to appreciate in the -character of a social generation that is fading fast, a distinction that -to all seeming will fade with it. - -There are, however, readers of other kinds, and for their sake and -because among our grandmothers and our aunts the stories of -Whyte-Melville were avidly admired, a summary classification of his -books shall be attempted. - -He began as a writer of autobiographies, of the part-fashionable, -part-sporting, part-knockabout kind, the tradition of which came down -from the eighteenth century, through Frederick Marryat, to a dozen -writers of the hard-drinking, riotous forties. _Digby Grand_ (1853) and -_Tilbury Nogo_ (1854) are essentially novels of this type, while in -_Kate Coventry_ (1856) the author merely adapts the recipe to the needs -of a girl heroine. _The Interpreter_ (1858) strikes a note of its own, -for the scenes in the Crimea and in Turkey were drawn from the writer's -experience and give a convincing picture of the period and its -happenings. Apart from them, however, the book is an ordinary -first-person record of the social wanderings of a young Englishman of -family. - -Between the second and the third of the books above mentioned had -appeared _General Bounce_ (1855), a transitional novel, not wholly apart -from those that preceded it, but halfway to a place among the stories of -contemporary love-making and sport, of which the author was to produce a -lengthy list. These novels of English society contain much of the most -repellent of Whyte-Melville's work, although many have refreshing -interludes of hunting and scenes on the racecourse or in the stable that -will endear them to specialists in the genre, if they cannot reconcile -others to the artificial tedium of the love stories and the clumsy -contriving of the plots. Here are the titles of the social novels: - - GENERAL BOUNCE (1855), - GOOD FOR NOTHING (1861), - THE BROOKES OF BRIDLEMERE (1864), - THE WHITE ROSE (1868), - M OR N (1869), - CONTRABAND (1871), - SATANELLA (1872), - UNCLE JOHN (1874), - ROY'S WIFE (1878), - BLACK BUT COMELY (1879). - -Next in numerical importance are the costume novels, beloved of an -earlier generation, but to the critical modern reader the poorest of -poor stuff, so compact of Wardour Street, of hollow sentiment, and of -forced, démodé attitude as to be intolerable. - -HOLMBY HOUSE (1860) - - (A tale of the Civil War with a strong bias in favour of the - Cavalier party), - -THE QUEEN'S MARIES (1862) - - (A romantic tribute to Mary, Queen of Scots), - -THE GLADIATORS (1863) - - (A novel of Rome and Judæa at the time of Christ), - -CERISE (1866) - - (An eighteenth-century tale), - -SARCHEDON (1871) - - (A novel centring round the figure of Semiramis), - -SISTER LOUISE (1876) - - (A novel of seventeenth-century France), - -ROSINE (1877) - - (A novel of the French Revolution). - -There remain two books of purely sporting significance, and -_Katerfelto_. - -_Market Harborough_ (1861), the pride of the Pytchley, is hardly a -novel. It is a string of hunting and horse-dealing episodes into which -Whyte-Melville threw all that he had of science and of enthusiasm. -_Riding Recollections_ (1878) are what their name implies. It is not for -any but the expert to criticize these books, which are held in some -quarters to be essential textbooks to a hunting education. _Katerfelto_ -(1875) will also escape comment here, but for a different reason. Among -my childhood memories this Exmoor tale glows adored, uncriticized. How -will it read to-day? To put it to the test frightens me. I dare not open -it. - - - EDITIONES PRINCIPES - FICTION, POETRY, ESSAYS - - - 1850 - - HORACE: ODES, EPODES AND CARMEN SÆCULARE Translated into English verse - by G. J. WHYTE MELVILLE Esq., late Coldstream Guards. London: - Simpkin, Marshall and Co., Stationers Hall Court. 1850. 1 vol. Demy - 8vo (5½ × 8½). Pp. (viii) + 120. Dark green cloth, blocked in gold - and blind. Yellow end-papers. - - - 1853 - - DIGBY GRAND: An Autobiography. By G. J. WHYTE MELVILLE. London: John - W. Parker and Son, West Strand. 1853. 2 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. (viii) + 303 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. iv + 312 + (4). No half-title. Publishers' - advertisements, paged 1-4, occupy pp. (313) to (316). - - Red cloth, gilt. Yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in February, 1853. The story - appeared serially in “Fraser's Magazine.” - - - 1854 - - TILBURY NOGO: Or PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF AN UNSUCCESSFUL MAN. By the - author of _Digby Grand_. London: Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. - 1854. 2 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 8¾). - - Vol. I. pp. iv + 310 + (2). - - Vol. II. pp. (ii) + 348. - - No half-titles. Brown cloth, gilt. Yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in June, 1854. The story - appeared serially in “The Sporting Magazine.” - - - 1855 - - GENERAL BOUNCE: Or THE LADY AND THE LOCUSTS. By G. J. WHYTE MELVILLE. - London: John W. Parker and Son, West Strand. 1855. 2 vols. Ex. Cr. - 8vo (4¾ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. viii + 296 + (4). Advertisement of _Digby Grand_ - occupies verso of half-title. Publishers' advertisements, numbered 1 - to 4, occupy pp. (297) to (300). - - Vol. II. pp. iv + 278 + (2). No half-title. Publishers' - advertisements occupy pp. (279) to (280). - - Pale brown cloth, gilt. Pale brick end-papers. - - NOTE—Although dated 1855 this book was actually published in - December, 1854. The story appeared serially in “Fraser's - Magazine.” - - - 1856 - - KATE COVENTRY: An Autobiography. Edited by G. J. WHYTE MELVILLE, - author of _Digby Grand_. Originally published in “Fraser's - Magazine.” London: John W. Parker and Son, West Strand. 1856. 1 vol. - Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7¾). Advertisement of books by the same author - occupies p. (323) and publishers' list p. (324). Scarlet ribbed - cloth, gilt, blocked in black. Chalk-blue end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in October, 1856. - - - [1857] - - THE ARAB'S RIDE TO CAIRO: A Legend of the Desert. By G. J. WHYTE - MELVILLE. Illustrated and Illuminated by Mrs. Wolfe Murray. Seton & - Mackenzie, Edinburgh. Houlston & Stoneman, London. 1 vol. Fcap. 4to - (6⅞ × 8¼). Pp. 14. Red cloth, full gilt, blocked in gold, or green - morocco, full gilt, tooled in gold and black. Yellow end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) This volume was published in January, 1857. - - (ii) It is hardly a book in the ordinary sense, consisting, - as it does, of 14 pp. of stout card printed on one side - only. Each page is printed in three or more colours, vaguely - after the style of an illuminated MS. Pseudo-gothic - lettering is used throughout, and the whole volume is - typical of the Victorian table book at its most ornate. - - - 1858 - - THE INTERPRETER: A Tale of the War. By G. J. WHYTE MELVILLE, Author of - _Digby Grand_, _General Bounce_ etc. etc. Originally published in - “Fraser's Magazine.” London: John Parker and Son, West Strand. 1858. - 1 vol. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7⅝). Pp. iv + 431 + (1). No half-title. - Publishers' catalogue, 8 pp., bound in at end. Red cloth, gilt, - blocked in black, uniform with _Kate Coventry_. Chocolate - end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in January, 1858. - - - 1860 - - HOLMBY HOUSE: A Tale of Old Northants. By G. J. WHYTE MELVILLE. Author - of _Digby Grand_, _The Interpreter_ etc. Originally published in - “Fraser's Magazine.” London: John Parker and Son, West Strand, 1860. - 2 vols. Cr. 8vo (5 × 7½). - - Vol. I. pp. (viii) + 325 + (3). Pp. (i) and (ii) precede - frontispiece and form technically a half-title, but p. (i) is not - printed as such. Publishers' advertisements occupy pp. (327) and - (328). - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 344 + (4). No half-title. Publishers' - advertisements, numbered 1 to 4, occupy pp. (345) to (348). - - Frontispiece in coloured lithograph to Vol. I., printed separately. - Red-brown cloth, gilt. Chocolate end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in March, 1860. - - - 1861 - - MARKET HARBOROUGH: Or HOW MR. SAWYER WENT TO THE SHIRES. London: - Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1861. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7½). - Pp. viii + 312. Olive-green cloth, gilt. Yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in April, 1861. - - - 1861 - - GOOD FOR NOTHING: Or ALL DOWN HILL. By G. J. WHYTE MELVILLE. Author of - _Digby Grand_, _The Interpreter_, _Holmby House_ etc. Originally - published in “Fraser's Magazine.” London: Parker, Son and Bourn, - West Strand. 1861. 2 vols. Cr. 8vo (5 × 7⅜). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) + 298 + (2). Publishers' advertisements occupy p. - (299). - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 265 + (3). Publishers' advertisements occupy pp. - (267) and (268). - - No half-titles. Maroon cloth, gilt. Chocolate end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in December, 1861. - - - 1862 - - MARKET HARBOROUGH: Or HOW MR. SAWYER WENT TO THE SHIRES. 4th Edition. - INSIDE THE BAR: Or SKETCHES AT SOAKINGTON. By the author of _Digby - Grand_ etc. London: Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1862. 1 vol. - Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7½). Pp. iv + 393 + (3). Buff cloth, printed, in red - and black. White end-papers, of which the first inside front is - printed with publishers' advertisements. - - NOTE—This volume is the first edition of _Inside the Bar_. - It was published in April, 1862. - - - 1862 - - THE QUEEN'S MARIES: A Romance of Holyrood. By G. J. WHYTE MELVILLE, - Author of _Digby Grand_, _The Interpreter_, _Holmby House_, _Good - for Nothing_ etc. London: Parker, Son and Bourn, West Strand. 1862. - 2 vols. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7⅜). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) + 304. - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 254 + (2). Publishers' advertisements occupy p. - (255), and 8 pp. advertisements, printed on text paper but numbered - 1 to 8, are bound in at end. - - No half-titles, but in Vol. II. 2 pp. blank precede title. Violet - cloth, gilt. Chocolate end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in July, 1862. - - - 1863 - - THE GLADIATORS: A Tale of Rome and Judæa. By G. J. WHYTE MELVILLE, - author of _Digby Grand_, _The Interpreter_, _Holmby House_, _The - Queen's Maries_ etc. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts and - Green. 1863. 3 vols. Cr. 8vo (5 × 7½). - - Vol. I. pp. iv + 324. - - Vol. II. pp. iv + 305 + (1). - - Vol. III. pp. iv + 291 + (1). - - No half-titles. Red embossed cloth, gilt, blocked in gold and blind. - Pale chocolate end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was announced for publication by Parker in - November, 1863. In January, 1864, it appeared over Longmans' - imprint, but dated 1863. Whether any copies are in existence - with a Parker imprint I do not know; if so they are the real - first edition. - - - 1864 - - THE BROOKES OF BRIDLEMERE. By G. J. WHYTE MELVILLE. Author of _The - Gladiators_, _Digby Grant_ (sic), _The Interpreter_, _Holmby House_, - _The Queen's Maries_ etc. London: Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. - 1864. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) + 293 + (3). - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 307 + (1). - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 293 + (3). Publishers' catalogue, 36 pp., and - dated October, 1864, bound in at end. - - No half-titles. Red cloth, gilt. Pale yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published on October 29, 1864. - - - 1866 - - CERISE: A Tale of the Last Century. By G. J. WHYTE MELVILLE, author of - _The Gladiators_, _Digby Grand_, _The Brookes of Bridlemere_ etc. - London: Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1866. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo - (4¾ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. iv + 309 + (3). - - Vol. II. pp. iv + 301+ (3). - - Vol. III. pp. iv + 318 + (2). - - No half-titles. Magenta cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Pale cream - end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published in April, 1866. - - (ii) _Cerise_ was rapidly reprinted, and it is curious to - report that copies of the _third_ edition exist with - publishers' catalogue at the end of Vol. III. dated March, - 1866—_i.e._, prior to the book's _first_ publication. The - first edition contained no catalogue. - - - 1868 - - THE WHITE ROSE. By G. J. WHYTE MELVILLE, author of _Cerise_, _The - Gladiators_, _Brookes of Bridlemere_ etc. London: Chapman and Hall, - 193 Piccadilly. 3 vols. Cr. 8vo (5 × 7½). - - Vol. I. pp. vii + (i) + 262 + (2). - - Vol. II. pp. vii + (i) + 263 + (1). - - Vol. III. pp. vii + (i) + 252. - - Red-purple cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Pale yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in February, 1868. - - - 1869 - - BONES AND I: Or THE SKELETON AT HOME. By G. J. WHYTE MELVILLE. Author - of _The Gladiators_, _Cerise_, _Digby Grand_ etc. London: Chapman - and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1869. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7⅜). Pp. iv + - 287 + (1). No half-title. Brown cloth, gilt. Pale yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in June, 1869. - - - 1869 - - SONGS AND VERSES. By G. J. WHYTE-MELVILLE. London: Chapman and Hall, - 193 Piccadilly. 1869. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo (5 × 7½). Pp. vii + (i) + 136. - Errata slip inserted at p. 1. Dark red cloth, gilt, blocked in - black. Pale yellow end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published in September, 1869. - - (ii) The author revised and added to the poems in this book - on several occasions after its original publication. - Strictly speaking, any new edition which contains even one - fresh poem may rank as a first edition, and collectors of - Whyte-Melville, who are also purists, may therefore be - advised not to pass over any one of the first six or seven - editions of _Songs and Verses_ without satisfying themselves - that no fresh matter distinguishes it from its predecessors. - - - 1869 - - M. OR N. “SIMILIA SIMILIBUS CURANTUR.” By G. J. WHYTE-MELVILLE. Author - of _Digby Grand_, _Cerise_, _The Gladiators_ etc. London: Chapman - and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1869. 2 vols. Cr. 8vo (5 × 7½). - - Vol. I. pp. vi + 312 + (2). - - Vol. II. pp. vi + 313 + (3). Publishers' advertisements occupy pp. - (315) (316). - - Light brown (or brown) embossed cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Pale - yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published on October 15, 1869. I do not - know which shade of binding is the earlier. - - - 1871 - - CONTRABAND: Or A LOSING HAZARD. By G. J. WHYTE-MELVILLE. Author of - _Digby Grand_, _Cerise_, _The White Rose_ etc. London: Chapman and - Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1871. 2 vols. Cr. 8vo (5 × 7⅜). - - Vol. I. pp. vi + 307 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. vi + 281 + (1). - - Bright blue cloth, blocked in gold and blind. Yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—Although this book is dated 1871, it was actually - published in December, 1870. - - - 1871 - - SARCHEDON: A Legend of the Great Queen. By G. J. WHYTE MELVILLE. - Author of _The Gladiators_, _Holmby House_, etc. London: Chapman and - Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1871. 3 vols. Cr. 8vo (5 × 7⅜). - - Vol. I. pp. (viii) + 289 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. (vi) + 270. - - Vol. III. pp. (vi) + 251 + (1). - - Bright blue cloth, gilt, blocked in black. Pale chocolate - end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in July, 1871. - - - 1872 - - SATANELLA: A Story of Punchestown. By G. J. WHYTE-MELVILLE. London: - Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1872. 2 vols. Sm. Cr. 8vo (5 × - 7¼). - - Vol. I. pp. vii + (i) + 260. - - Vol. II. pp. vii + (i) + 267 + (1). - - Lithographed frontispiece to each volume printed separately and one - other similar illustration in vol. ii. Red (or maroon) cloth, - blocked in black and gold. Pale yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in June, 1872. I do not know - which shade of binding is the earlier. - - - 1873 - - THE TRUE CROSS: A Legend of the Church. By G. J. WHYTE-MELVILLE. - Author of _The Gladiators_, _Sarchedon_ etc. London: Chapman and - Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1873. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7⅜). Pp. (iv) + 241 - + (1). Publishers' catalogue, 32 pp., dated January, 1873, bound in - at end. Green (or chocolate) cloth, blocked in black and gold. Pale - yellow end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published in March, 1873. - - (ii) Copies in red-brown cloth, gilt, without decorative - blocking, are of later issue, although they sometimes - contain a catalogue of the original date. Which shade of the - original binding is the earlier, I do not know. - - - 1874 - - UNCLE JOHN: A Novel. By G. J. WHYTE-MELVILLE. Author of _Market - Harborough_, _The Gladiators_, _Kate Coventry_, _Satanella_ etc. - etc. London: Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1874. 3 vols. Cr. 8vo - (5 × 7⅜). - - Vol. I. pp. (viii) + 267 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. (viii) + 236. - - Vol. III. pp. (viii) + 218 + (2). - - Green cloth, blocked in black and gold. Pale yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in August, 1874. - - - 1875 - - KATERFELTO: A Story of Exmoor. By G. J. WHYTE-MELVILLE, author of - _Digby Grand_, _Cerise_, _Uncle John_ etc. With Illustrations by - Colonel Hope Crealocke, C.B. London: Chapman and Hall, 193 - Piccadilly. 1875. 1 vol. Demy 8vo (5⅝ × 8⅝). Pp. (iv) + 291 + (1). - No half-title. Publishers' catalogue, 34 pp., dated November, 1874, - bound in at end. Twelve illustrations in lithograph, printed - separately. Dark red cloth, blocked in gold. Pale yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—Although dated 1875, this book was actually published - in December, 1874. - - - 1876 - - SISTER LOUISE: Or THE STORY OF A WOMAN'S REPENTANCE. By G. J. - WHYTE-MELVILLE, Author of _Digby Grand_, _The Gladiators_, - _Katerfelto_. With Illustrations by Miriam Kerns. London: Chapman - and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1876. 1 vol. Demy 8vo (5⅜ × 8⅝). Pp. xii + - 268. Publishers' catalogue, 32 pp., dated December, 1875, bound in - at end. Eight illustrations, roughly lithographed. Green cloth, - gilt, blocked in black. Chocolate end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) Although dated 1876, this book was actually - published in December, 1875. - - (ii) Copies without catalogue and with yellow end-papers are - probably of a subsequent issue. - - - 1877 - - ROSINE. By J. G. [_sic_] WHYTE-MELVILLE, Author of _Cerise_, - _Katerfelto_ etc. etc. With illustrations by Miriam Kerns. London: - Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly, 1877. 1 vol. Demy 8vo (5¾ × 8⅝). - Pp. (vi) + 266. Publishers' catalogue, 36 pp., dated December, 1876, - bound in at end. Eight illustrations. Magenta cloth, gilt, blocked - in black. Very dark green end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) Although dated 1877, this book was actually - published in December, 1876. - - (ii) Copies in maroon cloth, gilt, blocked in black but - without other decoration on side save a simple rectangular - frame are of later issue. - - - 1878 - - RIDING RECOLLECTIONS. By G. J. WHYTE-MELVILLE. With Illustrations by - Edgar Giberne. London: Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1878. 1 - vol. Ex. Cr. 8vo (5¼ × 7⅞). Pp. xii + 251 + (1). Publishers' - catalogue, 32 pp., dated November, 1877, bound in at end. Eight - illustrations, being photographs from drawings pasted on to thin - card. Dark brickish-red cloth, blocked in black and gold. Yellow - end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in April, 1878. - - - 1878 - - ROY'S WIFE: A Novel. By G. J. WHYTE-MELVILLE. London: Chapman and - Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1878. 2 vols. Cr. 8vo (5 × 7⅜). - - Vol. I. pp. vi + 299 + (1). - - Vol. II. pp. vi + 310. - - Olive-brown cloth, gilt, blocked in black. Cream end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in July, 1878. - - - 1879 - - BLACK BUT COMELY: Or THE ADVENTURES OF JANE LEE. By G. J. - WHYTE-MELVILLE. London: Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1879. 3 - vols. Cr. 8vo (5 × 7½). - - Vol. I. pp. viii + 303 + (i). - - Vol. II. pp. viii + 304. - - Vol. III. pp. viii + 292 + (4). Publishers' advertisements occupy - pp. (293) to (296). Publishers' catalogue, 32 pp., dated December, - 1878, bound in at end. - - A four-page slip of publishers' advertisements should be found - inserted between the front end-papers of Vol. I. This slip predates - the catalogue in Vol. III. Blue-grey cloth, gilt, blocked in black. - Yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in January, 1879. - - - [?1879 or 1880] - - THE BONES AT ROTHWELL: A Lecture delivered by the late Captain WHYTE - MELVILLE, being an account of the remarkable bone cavern beneath - Rothwell Church. Price 1d. Rothwell, printed by Ed. Chamberlain, 3 - Market Place. (Quotation from Gray's _Elegy_ heads title-page and - wrapper.) 1 vol. Cr. 8vo. 16 pp. White paper wrappers, printed in - black. Outside back wrapper occupied by printer's advertisements. - - NOTE—This is the text of a lecture delivered by - Whyte-Melville on January 3, 1862, to the Moulton Religious - and Useful Knowledge Society, and printed in the - “Northampton Mercury” for January 11 of the same year. When - first the pamphlet above described was issued I cannot be - certain, but R. B. Wallis, in a booklet published in 1888, - and entitled _All About the Rothwell Bones_, speaks of the - lecture as obtainable in pamphlet form from Chamberlan of - Rothwell. Certainly, therefore, the publication predates - 1888, and I have ventured above on the date of the year - following Whyte-Melville's death because it seems possible - that the lecture was first issued in pamphlet form to - combine the interest in the Rothwell Bones with that likely - to be created in Whyte-Melville by his decease. The - clumsiness with which Whyte-Melville is spoken of as “the - late,” but at the same time given the rank of “Captain” - instead of that of “Major,” implies a hasty reprint from the - file of the “Northampton Mercury,” by someone aware of his - death but careless of the military rank to which he finally - attained. - - The colour of the paper wrapper varies with different - issues. In addition to a white copy, as above described, I - have seen one in a pale yellow cover. - - - - - ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL - 1810-1865 - - - - - MRS. GASKELL - - - _BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICAL REMINISCENCE_ - - MRS. GASKELL: HAUNTS, HOMES AND STORIES. By ESTHER A. CHADWICK. - London. 1910. - - MRS. GASKELL. By the same. London. 1913. - - MRS. GASKELL. By A. E. BAYLEY. (Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's - Reign.) London. 1897. - - MRS. GASKELL AND KNUTSFORD. By G. A. PAYNE. London. 1906. - - - _BIBLIOGRAPHY_ - -Much valuable bibliographical information is contained in two little -books by Mr. John Albert Green of the Manchester Reference Library: - - A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE TO THE GASKELL COLLECTION IN THE MOSS-SIDE - LIBRARY. Manchester. 1911. - - CATALOGUE of an Exhibition of Books and Autographs illustrating the - Life and Work of Mrs. E. C. Gaskell. Manchester. 1911. - -Students may also be referred to: - - GASKELL BIBLIOGRAPHY. A list of the writings of Mrs. E. C. Gaskell and - of the Rev. William Gaskell. By Wm. E. A. and Ernest Axon. - Manchester. 1895. - - - I.—EDITIONES PRINCIPES - FICTION, BIOGRAPHY, ETC. - - - 1848 - - MARY BARTON: A Tale of Manchester Life. (Quotation from Carlyle.) - London: Chapman and Hall, 186 Strand. MDCCCXLVIII. 2 vols. Ex. Cr. - 8vo (4⅞ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. (x) [paged as viii] + 317 + (3). The place of half-title - and verso is taken by a publishers' advertisement, 2 pp., listing: - “Chapman and Hall's Series of Original Works in Fiction, Biography, - and General Literature.” - - Vol. II. pp. (ii) + 312. - - No half-titles. Ribbed mulberry cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. - Yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in October, 1848. - - - [1850] - - LIBBIE MARSH'S THREE ERAS: A Lancashire Tale. London: Hamilton Adams - and Co. 1 vol. 16mo. Pp. 72. Paper wrappers printed with title of - story. - - NOTE—This story first appeared in 1847, in Vol. I. of - “Howitt's Journal,” over the pseudonym “Cotton Mather - Mills.” It was issued by Chapman and Hall over the author's - name in 1855 as a fourpenny pamphlet of twenty-four pages. - - - 1850 - - *THE SEXTON'S HERO AND CHRISTMAS STORMS AND SUNSHINE. Contributed by - the authoress of _Mary Barton_. For the benefit of the Macclesfield - Public Baths and Washhouses. Manchester: Johnson, Rawson and Co. - 1850. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo. Pp. 28. Paper wrappers. - - NOTE—These stories first appeared in 1847 and 1848 in Vols. - II. and III. of “Howitt's Journal,” over the pseudonym - “Cotton Mather Mills.” They were reissued under one cover by - Chapman and Hall in 1855 over the author's name. - - - 1850 - - *LIZZIE LEIGH: A Domestic Tale from “Household Words.” By CHARLES - DICKENS. New York. Dewitt and Davenport. 1850. 1 vol. 12mo. Buff - paper wrappers printed in black with wording as above. - - NOTE—This pamphlet was a pirated edition of a story - published anonymously in “Household Words” and rashly - assumed by the pirates to have been written by Dickens. It - made a further appearance the next year in _The Irving - Offering_ (New York, 1851), still over Dickens' name. - - - 1850 - - THE MOORLAND COTTAGE. By the author of _Mary Barton_. With - illustrations by Birket Foster. London: Chapman and Hall, 193 - Piccadilly. 1850. 1 vol. Fcap. 8vo (4¼ × 6¾). Pp. (viii) + 182 + - (2). Advertisement of _Mary Barton_ occupies p. (183). Line-engraved - frontispiece and picture title-page precede printed title-page. - Other line-engraved illustrations here and there in the text. Maroon - cloth, full gilt, blocked in gold and blind. Pale yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in December, 1850. - - - 1853 - - RUTH: A Novel. By the author of _Mary Barton_ (Quotation from Phineas - Fletcher.) London: Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1853. 3 vols. - Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7⅞). - - Vol. I. pp. (ii) + 298. Publishers' advertisements, 36 pp., dated - 1853, bound in at end. - - Vol. II. pp. (ii) + 328. - - Vol. III. pp. (ii) + 311 + (1). - - No half-titles. Dull purple cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Yellow - end-papers, of which those at front of Vols. I. and II. are printed - with publishers' advertisements. - - NOTE—This book was published in January, 1853. - - - 1853 - - CRANFORD. By the author of _Mary Barton_, _Ruth_ etc. London: Chapman - and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1853. 1 vol. Fcap. 8vo (4¼ × 6¾). Pp. iv + - 324. No half-title. Olive-green embossed cloth, blocked in gold and - blind. Yellow end-papers. - - - 1854 - - *TWO LECTURES ON LANCASHIRE DIALECT. By the author of _Mary Barton_. - London: Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. Fcap. 8vo (4¼ × 6¾). Paper - wrappers. - - - 1855 - - LIZZIE LEIGH AND OTHER TALES. By the Author of _Mary Barton_, _Ruth_ - etc. Cheap Edition. London: Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1855. - 1 vol. Sm. Cr. 8vo (4½ × 7). Pp. (viii) + 304. Yellow paper boards. - - _Contents_: The Well of Pen Morfa—The Heart of John - Middleton—Disappearances—The Old Nurse's Story—Traits - and Stories of the Huguenots—Moreton Hall—My French - Master—The Squire's Story—Company Manners—Mr. Harrison's - Confessions—Libbie Marsh's Three Eras—The Sexton's - Hero—Christmas Storms and Sunshine—Hand and Heart—Bessie's - Troubles at Home. - - This is the first edition of all the above stories, with the - exception of _Lizzie Leigh_, _Libbie Marsh's Three Eras_, - _The Sexton's_ _Hero_, _Christmas Storms and Sunshine_, - _Hand and Heart_, and _Bessie's Troubles at Home_. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published in September, 1855. It is - a volume in Chapman and Hall's Select Library of Fiction, - published at two shillings. - - (ii) It may be of interest to enthusiasts to know that - _Lizzie Leigh_ was adapted for the stage by W. R. Waldron - and published in May, 1872, as No. 1393 in Lacy's Acting - Editions of British Plays. Mrs. Gaskell must be absolved - from all responsibility for this dramatization. - - - 1855 - - NORTH AND SOUTH. By the author of _Mary Barton_, _Ruth_, _Cranford_ - etc. London: Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1855. 2 vols. Ex. Cr. - 8vo (4¾ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. (viii) + 320. Advertisement of previous works by the - same author occupies p. (i), preceding half-title. Publishers' - advertisements, 4 pp., bound in at end. - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 361 + (1). Dark brown cloth, gilt, blocked in - blind. Yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in March, 1855. - - - 1855 - - *HAND AND HEART and BESSIE'S TROUBLES AT HOME. By the author of _Mary - Barton_. London: Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1855. Fcap. 8vo - (4¼ × 6¾). Paper wrappers. - - - 1857 - - THE LIFE OF CHARLOTTE BRONTË, AUTHOR OF _Jane Eyre_, _Shirley_, - _Villette_ ETC. By E. C. Gaskell, author of _Mary Barton_, _Ruth_ - etc. (Quotation from _Aurora Leigh_.) London: Smith Elder and Co., - 65 Cornhill. 1857. 2 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 8). - - Vol. I. pp. viii + 352. - - Vol. II. pp. viii + 327 + (1). Publishers' catalogue, 16 pp., dated - March, 1857, bound in at end. - - Three illustrations in steel engraving—two in Vol. I., one in Vol. - II.—all printed separately. Dark brown cloth, gilt, blocked in - blind. Yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in April, 1857. - - - 1859 - - ROUND THE SOFA. By the author of _Mary Barton_, _Life of Charlotte - Brontë_ etc. etc. London: Sampson Low Son and Co., 47 Ludgate Hill. - 1859. 2 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7⅞). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) + 340. Publishers' advertisement slip, printed on - yellow paper, should be found inserted between the front end-papers. - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 297 + (1). Publishers' catalogue, 12 pp., - printed on text paper and dated March, 1859, bound in at end. - - No half-titles. Scarlet embossed cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. - Yellow end-papers. - - _Contents_: Vol. I., Round the Sofa—My Lady Ludlow. Vol. - II., The Accursed Race—The Doom of the Griffiths—Half a - Life-time Ago—The Poor Clare—The Half-Brothers. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published in March, 1859. - - (ii) It should be observed that only Vol. II. contains a - list of contents, the corresponding page (iv) in Vol. I. - being occupied by an author's note. - - - 1860 - - RIGHT AT LAST: And Other Tales. By the author of _Mary Barton_, _Life - of Charlotte Brontë_, _Round the Sofa_ etc. etc. London: Sampson Low - Son and Co., 47 Ludgate Hill. 1860. 1 vol. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7¾). - Pp. (vi) + 318. No half-title. Scarlet embossed cloth, gilt, uniform - with _Round the Sofa_. Yellow end-papers. - - _Contents_: Right at Last—The Manchester Marriage—Lois the - Witch—The Crooked Branch. - - NOTE—This book was published on May 10, 1860. - - - 1861 - - LOIS THE WITCH AND OTHER TALES. By E. C. GASKELL, author of _Mary - Barton_, _The Life of Charlotte Brontë_. Copyright edition. Leipzig: - Bernhard Tauchnitz. 1 vol. (4½ × 6¼). Pp. (viii) + 338 + (2). Usual - Tauchnitz paper wrappers. - - _Contents_: Lois the Witch, The Grey Woman, The Doom of the - Griffiths, The Half-Brothers, The Crooked Branch. - - NOTE—This is a first edition of _The Grey Woman_. - - - 1863 - - SYLVIA'S LOVERS. By Mrs. GASKELL, author of _The Life of Charlotte - Brontë_, _Mary Barton_, _Ruth_, _North and South_ etc. (Quotation - from Tennyson.) London: Smith, Elder and Co., 65 Cornhill. - MDCCCLXIII. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7⅝). - - Vol. I. pp. (viii) + 310 + (2). - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 294. No half-title. - - Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 284 + (4). No half-title. Advertisement of _The - Life of Charlotte Brontë_ occupies pp. (285) to (288). - - Magenta cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Greenish-buff end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in March, 1863. - - - 1863 - - A DARK NIGHT'S WORK. By Mrs. GASKELL, author of _Sylvia's Lovers_, - _Life of Charlotte Brontë_, _Mary Barton_, _Ruth_ etc. etc. London: - Smith Elder and Co., 65 Cornhill. MDCCCLXIII. 1 vol. Slim Cr. 8vo - (4½ × 7⅝). Pp. (iv) + 299 + (1). Brown cloth, gilt, blocked in - blind. Cream end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in May, 1863. - - - 1865 - - THE GREY WOMAN: And Other Tales. By Mrs. GASKELL, Author of _Mary - Barton_, _North and South_, _Sylvia's Lovers_, _Cousin Phillis_, - _Cranford_ etc. Illustrated Edition. London: Smith, Elder and Co., - 65 Cornhill. MDCCCLXV. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo (5 × 7½). Pp. (iv) + 280. No - half-title. Wood-engraved frontispiece and picture title-page - precede printed title. Two illustrations in course of the text, wood - engraved and printed separately. Red embossed cloth, gilt, blocked - in blind. Yellow end-papers. - - _Contents_: The Grey Woman—Curious if True—Six Weeks - at Heppenheim—Libbie Marsh's Three Eras—Christmas - Storms and Sunshine—Hand and Heart—Bessie's Troubles - at Home—Disappearances. - - NOTE—This book was published in October, 1865. It is a first - edition of _Curious if True_ and _Six Weeks at Heppenheim_. - - - 1865 - - COUSIN PHILLIS: And Other Tales. By Mrs. GASKELL, author of _Mary - Barton_, _North and South_, _Sylvia's Lovers_, _Cranford_ etc. - London: Smith, Elder and Co., 65 Cornhill. MDCCCLXV. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo - (5 × 7½). Pp. (iv) + 286 + (2). Publishers' advertisements occupy - pp. (287) and (288). No half-title. Wood-engraved frontispiece and - picture title-page, printed separately, precede printed title. Two - illustrations in the course of the text, wood engraved and printed - separately. Red embossed cloth, blocked in gold and blind. Uniform - with _The Grey Woman_. Cream end-papers. - - _Contents_: Cousin Phillis—Company Manners—Mr. Harrison's - Confessions—The Sexton's Hero. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published in December, 1865. - - (ii) It is a first edition of _Cousin Phillis_, which story - appeared serially in the “Cornhill.” - - - 1866 - - WIVES AND DAUGHTERS: An Everyday Story. By Mrs. GASKELL. With 18 - illustrations by George du Maurier. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 65 - Cornhill. 1866. 2 vols. Demy 8vo (5½ × 8⅝). - - Vol. I. pp. (iv) + 336. - - Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 332. - - No half-titles. Ten illustrations in Vol. I. and eight in Vol. II., - all wood engraved and printed separately. Maroon cloth, blocked in - gold. Pale yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in February, 1866. The story - appeared serially in the “Cornhill.” - - - _NOTE_ - -The Knutsford edition of Mrs. Gaskell's works (Smith, Elder and Co., -1906, 8 vols.), edited by A. W. Ward, contained in Vols. I., III., VI., -and VII. material not previously issued in book form. Further additional -matter (notably a chapter of _Cranford_) was published by Clement -Shorter in the edition of Mrs. Gaskell's works edited by him for The -World's Classics. The same authority published an edition of _The Life -of Charlotte Brontë_ in 1900 (Smith, Elder) with many valuable notes. He -has also issued a privately printed edition of Mrs. Gaskell's Letters on -Charlotte Brontë, but this booklet, in accordance with the plan of the -present volume, is not herein specifically listed. Full details of the -various appearances of Gaskell miscellanea (with the exception of that -last mentioned above) will be found in J. A. Green's Bibliographical -Guide to the Gaskell Collection, referred to on p. 203. - - - II.—BOOKS PARTIALLY WRITTEN, ATTRIBUTED TO, OR EDITED BY MRS GASKELL. - - - 1840 - - VISITS TO REMARKABLE PLACES: Old Halls, Battle Fields, and Scenes - illustrative of striking passages in English History and Poetry. By - WILLIAM HOWITT, author of _The Rural Life of England_, _Boy's - Country-Book_ etc. Illustrated by Samuel Williams. London: Longman, - Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans. MDCCCXL. 1 vol. Med. 8vo (5¾ × 9). - Pp. vii + (i) + 526. No half-title. Wood-engraved vignette on - title-page and numerous other illustrations. Pp. 130 to 146 are - occupied by an account of Clopton Hall, written by Mrs. Gaskell. - Fawn cloth, blocked in gold. - - - 1853 - - *THE SICKNESS AND HEALTH OF THE PEOPLE OF BLAEBURN. By the author of - _Mary Barton_. Boston. 1853. 1 vol. 12mo. Paper wrappers. - - NOTE—This is a reprint (unauthorized) of a story that - appeared anonymously in Vol. I. of “Household Words.” The - attribution to Mrs. Gaskell is a mistake, Harriet Martineau - being the real author of the tale. - - - 1857 - - MABEL VAUGHAN. By the author of The _Lamplighter_. Edited, by - arrangement with the author, by Mrs. GASKELL, author of _Mary - Barton_. London: Sampson Low, Son and Co., 47 Ludgate Hill. 1857. 1 - vol. Fcap. 8vo (4¼ × 6¾). Pp. viii + 459 + (1). Publishers' - catalogue, 12 pp., paged but undated, bound in at end. Line-engraved - frontispiece, printed separately. Dark green cloth, blocked in gold - and blind. Pale yellow end-papers. Also issued simultaneously in - boards. - - NOTE—This book was published in September, 1857. - - - 1862 - - GARIBALDI AT CAPRERA. By COLONEL VECCHI. Translated from the Italian. - With Preface by Mrs. GASKELL. Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., and 23 - Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. London. 1862. 1 vol. Fcap. 8vo (4¼ - × 6⅝). Pp. xi + (i) + 130 + (2). Publishers' advertisement occupies - p. (131). Publishers' catalogue, 16 pp., undated, bound in at end. - Frontispiece in tinted lithograph, showing Garibaldi's house. - Scarlet cloth, blocked in gold. Chocolate end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in February or March, 1862. - - - - - HERMAN MELVILLE - 1819-1891 - - - - - HERMAN MELVILLE - - -At intervals during the last forty years, Herman Melville has been -discovered by intellectuals, belauded, a little read, and once more -forgotten. It is typical of the man and of his perverse withdrawal from -the lettered world, that even before his death he was the subject of -spasmodic battues by appreciative readers, who sought to startle into -activity their idol's reputation by methods suited to the enlivenment of -an author long dead and hidden by the undergrowth of time. - -The latest and the most thorough stimulation to which the repute of -Melville has been subjected is now at full stretch. Whatever its -critical shortcomings, this concerted attempt to write a new name on the -roll of nineteenth-century genius bids fair to achieve one important -triumph—the immortalization of _Moby Dick_ and, consequentially, of the -man who wrote it. - -A very minor result of the same Melville boom is his inclusion in this -book. Save in the matter of date, he has little in common with the other -writers here treated. They are of Victorianism Victorian; he, if he -belongs to any period or to any genealogy, is of the ageless, race-less -family of the lonely giants. That his fellows between these covers are -all lesser novelists than he, I am unprepared to admit. Trollope excels -him in humour, wisdom and depth of understanding; he must rank, as -master of technique, below all save Whyte-Melville and perhaps Disraeli. -But he has a quality of grandeur, a majesty of isolation that they lack, -and his very inchoate bitterness of spirit transcends by its -datelessness their well-rounded friendliness and their complacent wit. - -If that were not enough, he differs from them also in the very texture -and subject of his work. His mysticism, for all its yearning and its -gloom, is of a spiritual quality far rarer than that of their -materialism, for all its vivacity and its aspiration. Between him and -Reade is a certain soul resemblance, but the advantage in this is -Melville's. He directly influenced the Englishman,[4] and beside his -remote immensity Reade, even at his most massive and his most -contentious, seems but a dwarf, roaring disgruntlement against the walls -of Grub Street. - -Footnote 4: - - There is in existence the copy of _Moby Dick_ in which Reade made - extensive notes and excisions, maybe with the idea of issuing an - abbreviated version. Readers of _Love Me Little, Love Me Long_ will - immediately detect the influence of Melville's great book on the - whaling narrative related by Frank Dodd to Mr. Fountain and to his - lovely niece. - -Melville's books are the strange mirror of a strange life. The young -writer, famous at thirty, who yet lives out a diminuendo of appreciation -to an old age of disappointed poverty, is no unfamiliar figure. One -thinks immediately of William Harrison Ainsworth, from the foppish -eminence of his early twenties to the last sad years in a Tonbridge -villa, when he laboured at the regular production of three-volume -fiction—one novel a year at seventy-five pounds the time—alone amid the -memories of vanished splendour. But the man who as a youth wins -reputation in letters and passes, of deliberate purpose, maturity and -age in other, non-literary, pursuits is a scarcer type, of which -Melville is an unusual example. - -Born in 1819, he published _Typee_ at the age of twenty-seven, _Moby -Dick_ five years later, and _The Piazza Tales_ in 1856. From then until -his death, in 1891, he wrote little, and, to the even greater detriment -of his fame, withdrew entirely from the society of writers, hiding his -name and his very existence behind the screen of an obstinate reserve. - -I have no intention here either of summarizing the life or of passing -judgment on the works of Herman Melville. The former is related in -detail by Professor Raymond Weaver, whose large biography is of so -recent date that any shorter presentment of the facts must merely be a -précis of the information therein contained. The respective merits of -the outstanding books are already (and will remain for long enough) the -sport of literary publicists, to whose views and counter-views I refer -the curious. One feature, nevertheless, of contemporary opinion -challenges to protest my amateur temerity. Apart from _Moby Dick_, the -neo-Melvillian has little beyond patronizing approval for the books of -his hero; _Typee_ (1846) and _Omoo_ (1847) are interesting records of -travel, remarkable mainly for the early date of their appearance and as -forerunners of the South Sea School in letters and in painting. _Mardi_ -(1849), _Redburn_ (1849), and _White Jacket_ (1850) claim respect as -autobiography and for passages that reveal their author's genius -struggling toward a more complete expression. These are the rising steps -to the crowning summit of Melville's work. There, unique and peerless, -stands _Moby Dick_; beyond it the terraces fall away again, and even -more steeply than they rose. - -Is this opinion a just one? I am a little uncertain. With no desire to -denigrate _Moby Dick_ or to deny it the first place in _importance_ -among Melville's books, I would venture that his genius is more -perfectly and skilfully revealed in a volume of stories belonging to the -so-called decadence. _The Piazza Tales_ are liable to be dismissed by -the critic of to-day with kindly condescension as “the best of the later -work,” a judgment as misleading as it is easily explained. In some -degree the worship of _Moby Dick_ and the comparative neglect of the -other work are inevitable corollaries to the Melville boom at its -present stage. During the first period of any new æsthetic wonder, the -peculiar transcends the normal in the imagination of disciples. Let the -case of Melville be paralleled with that of Tintoretto's pupil, Greco. -When first set in the revival of interest in this painter's work, he was -most admired when most bizarre. He won favour for the contrast he -presented to his immediate forerunners and his contemporaries. The name -of Greco stood for certain mannerisms in colour and composition, and, -the more a Greco picture revealed those mannerisms, the better a Greco -it was judged to be. Already, from the hand of time, this formula of -appreciation is suffering adjustment, but Melville is to-day precisely -at the point where yesterday Greco stood. Like the master of Toledo, he -has peculiar and noticeable tricks of matter and of style. Because _Moby -Dick_ is of these tricks more redolent than the author's other books, it -tickles the palate of contemporary enthusiasm more thoroughly than do -they. - -Such preference is by its very nature tenacious. _Moby Dick_, for all -that it is unmistakably Melville, is far from flawless. What if Melville -recognized its weaknesses? What if he deplored those very -characteristics that are to-day lauded as his priceless individuality -and chief claim to fame? With all its vastness and its wonder, the epic -story of Ahab and the great white whale displays the faults of its -author as strikingly as it reveals his talents. In years to come, when -the glamour of oddity has paled a little, it will be admitted that the -book labours under a sad weight of intolerable prolixity. Nor is this -prolixity implicit in the greatness of Melville's writing. This is -proved by the two chief stories in _The Piazza Tales_. _Benito Cereno_ -and _The Encatadas_ hold in the small compass of their beauty the -essence of their author's supreme artistry. They are profound and lovely -and tenderly robust, but they are never tedious and never wilful. Surely -it were generous to admit that Melville sought to improve on _Moby Dick_ -and that, in the matter of technical control, he succeeded? These two -stories cannot as literary achievement compare with their vast and -teeming predecessor. That is natural. But they may not be ignored as the -last glimmer of a dying lamp. They mark the highest technical level of -their author's work, and, had not within a year or two of their -appearance the darkness of self-distrust descended on him, might well -have proved a revelation of something yet to come from the brain of -Herman Melville, something destined—but for the treacherous inhibition -of human frailty—to excel in power everything to which that brain had -previously given birth. - - - _BIOGRAPHY_ - - HERMAN MELVILLE, MARINER AND MYSTIC. By RAYMOND M. WEAVER. New York. - Doran. 1921. London: Humphrey Milford. 1922. - - This long and careful book is based on the papers and information of - the Melville family and represents the sum of present-day knowledge - of Melville's life and ideas. - - - _NOTE_ - -Collectors should observe the fact that it was the custom of American -publishers in the fifties and sixties to bind one edition in cloths of -various colours for the purposes of window display. Consequently -Melville's first American editions are met with in a variety of -colourings which, in the matter of date of issue, rank equally. - - - I.—EDITIONES PRINCIPES - FICTION, POETRY, TRAVEL - - - 1846 - - *TYPEE: A Peep at Polynesian Life during a Four Months Residence in A - Valley of the Marquesas with notices of the French Occupation of - Tahiti and the Provisional Cession of the Sandwich Islands to Lord - Paulet. By HERMAN MELVILLE. Part One. (Part Two.) New York. Wiley - and Putnam, London: John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1846. 2 vols. Sm. - Cr. 8vo (5 × 7¼). - - Vol. I. pp.[5] Vol. II. pp.[5] - -Footnote 5: - - That the pagination of these volumes must be omitted is a - misfortune that was unpreventable. A detailed description of the - books was sent me from America, but the slip on which the actual - pagination was set out did not arrive. - - The half-titles to both volumes read: Wiley and Putnam's Library of - American Books: Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life. On the verso of - half-title to Vol. I. is a list of books of travel; on that to Vol. - II. the titles in the Library of American Books. Vol. I. contains a - map. Dark green cloth, gilt. Fawn end-papers. - - - 1846 - - NARRATIVE OF A FOUR MONTHS RESIDENCE AMONG THE NATIVES OF A VALLEY OF - THE MARQUESAS ISLANDS: Or A PEEP AT POLYNESIAN LIFE. By HERMAN - MELVILLE. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1846. 1 vol. Sm. - Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7). Pp. xvi + (ii) + 285 + (1). Publisher's - advertisements, 16 pp., dated March, 1846, bound in at end. A sketch - map of the Marquesas Islands on page (xviii) faces page (1). Red - cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. White end-papers. - - NOTE—A volume in Murray's “Colonial and Home Library” (No. - 15). Subsequently named _Typee_. The lettering on the spine - reads: Colonial and Home Library Vol XV Melvilles Marquesas - Islands Murray. - - - 1847 - - *TYPEE: A Peep at Polynesian Life during a Four Months Residence in A - Valley of the Marquesas. Revised Edition with a Sequel. By HERMAN - MELVILLE. New York: Wiley and Putnam. London: John Murray, Albemarle - Street. 1847. 1 vol. Sm. Cr. 8vo (5 × 7¼). Pp[6]. Of this book pp. - 291-307 are occupied by the sequel to _Typee_ entitled _The Story of - Toby_, and not previously published. Map faces title-page. - -Footnote 6: - - See footnote to previous page. - - - 1847 - - TYPEE: Or A NARRATIVE OF A FOUR MONTHS RESIDENCE AMONG THE NATIVES OF - A VALLEY OF THE MARQUESAS ISLANDS: Or A PEEP AT POLYNESIAN LIFE. By - HERMAN MELVILLE. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1847. 1 vol. - Sm. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7). Pp. xvi + 301 + (1). Pp. 287-301 are occupied - by _The Story of Toby_, a sequel to _Typee_ not previously - published. Publisher's advertisement precedes half-title proper, - occupying reverse of a series half-title of “The Home and Colonial - (_sic_) Library,” these two pages being inset on other than text - paper. Publisher's catalogue, Fcap. 8vo, 16 pp., dated March, 1847, - bound in at end. Red cloth, gilt, uniform with preceding item. - Yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—The lettering on the spine is identical with that of - the 1846 issue. - - - 1847 - - OMOO: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas. By HERMAN MELVILLE, - author of _Typee_. New York: Harper and Brothers, Publishers. - London: John Murray. 1847. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7⅜). Pp. (408). The - pagination of this volume is very confusing. Pp. (1)-(16) are paged - xv + (i). Pp. 17-389 are so paged, p. (390) is unpaged, pp. - (391)-(399) are paged (xv) to xxiii, p. (400) is unpaged, and pp. - (401)-(408) are paged (1) to 8. Title-page printed in red and black, - half-title in red. Line-engraved map printed separately facing - title. Blue cloth, blocked in gold and blind. White end-papers. - - NOTE—As an example of the varieties to be met with among - American publications of this date, I append a collation of - this same book, made by a friend from a copy seen in the - United States. The variation of binding and end-papers is - unimportant (see note on p. 220). - - - 1847 - - *OMOO: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas. By HERMAN - MELVILLE, author of _Typee_. New York: Harper and Brothers, - Publishers. London: John Murray, 1847. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7⅜). Pp. - 398, of which (1)-(9) are unpaged, (10)-(17) are paged in roman - numerals, 18-389 in arabic numerals, while pp. (390)-(398) are - occupied by publishers' advertisements. Publishers' catalogue, 16 - pp., bound in at end. Title-page printed in red and black, - half-title in red. Line-engraved map facing title-page. Brown cloth, - blocked in gold. Marbled end-papers. - - - 1847 - - OMOO: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas, being a sequel to - the _Residence in the Marquesas Islands_. By HERMAN MELVILLE, author - of _Typee_. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1847. 1 vol. Sm. - Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7). Pp. xiii + (i) + 321 +(1). Line-engraved map - printed on text paper facing title-page. Red cloth, gilt, uniform - with preceding item. Pale yellow end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) The lettering on the spine reads: Adventures in - the South Seas Murray. - - (ii) A volume in Murray's “Colonial and Home Library” (No. - 22). The Preface is dated New York, January 28, 1847. - - (iii) Contemporary announcements of Murray's “Colonial and - Home Library” speak of an issue of this book in _two parts_, - “_sewed_,” and numbered respectively 43 and 44 of the - series. I have never seen such wrappered issues, but, to - judge by their numbering in the Library, they postdate the - edition above described. - - - 1849 - - MARDI AND A VOYAGE THITHER. By HERMAN MELVILLE, author of _Typee_ and - _Omoo_. London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. 1849. 3 - vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. x + 336 + (2). - - Vol. II. pp. x + 335 + (3). - - Vol. III. pp. viii + 348. - - Titles printed in two colours. Pale apple-green cloth, gilt, blocked - in blind. Blue and white decorated end-papers, printed with - publisher's advertisements. - - NOTE—This book was published on March 16, 1849. The English - edition predates the American one. 1,000 copies were - printed. - - - 1849 - - MARDI: AND A VOYAGE THITHER. By HERMAN MELVILLE. New York: Harper and - Bros. Publishers, 82 Cliff Street. 1849. 2 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × - 7⅜). - - Vol. 1. pp. (376). The paging is very irregular. Pp. (1) to (6) are - blank and unpaged; p. (7) is title-page; p. (8) bears note of the - book's official registration; p. (9) bears dedication; p. (10) is - blank; p. (11) bears preface dated New York, January, 1849; p. (12) - is blank; p. (13) is half-title; p. (14) is blank; pp. (15) to (18) - are occupied by List of Contents paged (ix) to xii; pp. (19) to - (371) are paged (13) to 365; pp. (372) to (376) are blank and - unpaged. Pp. (1) (2) and (375) (376) are pasted down to front and - back inside end-papers. - - Vol. II. pp. (408), of which pp. (1)-(6) are blank and unpaged; p. - (7) is title-page; p. (8) bears note of the book's official - registration; p. (9) is half-title; p. (10) is blank; pp. (11)-(14) - are occupied by List of Contents paged (ix) to xii; pp. (15) to - (393) are paged (9) to 387; p. (394) is blank and unpaged; pp. - (395)-(402) are occupied by publishers' advertisements paged (1) to - 8; pp. (403)-(408) are blank and unpaged. Pp. (1) (2) and (407) - (408) are pasted down to front and back inside end-papers. - - It should be noted that in each volume the printed half-title - follows the title-page. - - Dark green cloth, blocked in gold and blind. Yellow end-papers. - - - 1849 - - REDBURN: HIS FIRST VOYAGE. Being the Sailor boy confessions and - reminiscences of the son of a gentleman in the Merchant Service. By - HERMAN MELVILLE. Author of _Typee_, _Mardi_ etc. London: Richard - Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1849. 2 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. viii + 316. No half-title. - - Vol II. pp. viii + 314. - - Dark blue cloth, gilt, blocked in blind, white end-papers patterned - in blue and printed with publisher's advertisements. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published on September 29, 1849. The - English edition predates the American one. 750 copies were - printed. - - (ii) I have seen a copy of this edition bearing on the case - the name of T. C. Newby as publisher, but with the Bentley - title-page. This was probably a “remainder” copy, for Newby - frequently bought sheets of books that had not sold when - originally published, and issued them at a cheaper price - wholly or partially over his imprint. - - - 1849 - - REDBURN: HIS FIRST VOYAGE. Being the sailor boy confessions and - reminiscences of the son of a gentleman in the Merchant Service. By - HERMAN MELVILLE, Author of _Typee_, _Mardi_. New York: Harper and - Bros., Publishers, 82 Cliff Street. 1849. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7½). - Pp. (420). The numbering of pages is very erratic. Pp. (1)-(6) are - blank and unpaged; p. (7) is title-page; p. (8) bears note of the - book's official registration; p. (9) bears dedication; p. (10) is - blank; pp. (11)-(17) are occupied by List of Contents paged (v)-xi; - p. (12) is blank; pp. (13) to 390 are so paged; pp. (391)-(394) are - unpaged and occupied by advertisements of other works by Melville; - pp. (395)-(406) form a publishers' list, dated October, 1849, and - paged (1) to 14; pp. (407) and (408) are occupied by publishers' - advertisements, undated, but paged (1) and 2; pp. (409)-(412) are - blank; pp. (413) and (414) are pasted down to inside back end-paper. - No printed half-title. Purple-brown cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. - Yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—Copies of the first edition are found with fewer - advertisement pages at the end. These may well, in view of - the irregular nature of American bookmaking at that period, - be contemporary in issue with those more extensively - furnished, but the collector will naturally prefer a copy as - complete as possible. - - - 1850 - - WHITE JACKET: Or THE WORLD IN A MAN OF WAR. By HERMAN MELVILLE. - London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1850. 2 vols. Ex. - Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. vi + 322. - - Vol. II. pp. iv + 315 + (1). - - No half-titles. Pale blue cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Yellow - end-papers, printed with publisher's advertisements. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published on January 23, 1850. The - English edition predates the American one. 1,000 copies were - printed. - - (ii) Vol. I. pp. iii and iv contain a preface dated October, - 1849, and different in content from the note on p. iv of the - American edition, dated March, 1850. - - - 1850 - - WHITE JACKET: Or THE WORLD IN A MAN OF WAR. By HERMAN MELVILLE. Author - of _Typee_, _Omoo_, _Mardi_ and _Redburn_. New York: Harper and - Bros., Publishers, 82 Cliff Street. London: Richard Bentley. 1850. 1 - vol. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7½). Pp. (484). Here again the paging is - irregular. Of the preliminary matter pp. (1)-(6) are blank; p. (7) - is title-page; p. (8) bears note of the book's official - registration; p. (9) bears quotation from Fuller's _Good - Sea-Captain_; p. (10) bears author's note, dated New York, March, - 1850; pp. (11)-(13) are occupied by List of Contents and are paged - in roman numerals, (v) to vii; p. (14) is blank; pp. (15) to (471) - are paged (9) to 465; p. (472) is blank; pp. (473)-(476) are unpaged - and occupied by advertisements of other works by Melville; pp. (477) - (478) are also unpaged and occupied by publishers' advertisements; - pp. (479)-(484) are blank and unpaged. No printed half-title. Dark - brown or blue-grey cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—The varieties of binding are of simultaneous date. - - - 1851 - - THE WHALE. By HERMAN MELVILLE, author of _Typee_, _Omoo_, _Redburn_, - _Mardi_, _White Jacket_. (Quotation from _Paradise Lost_.) London: - Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. 1851. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo - (4¾ × 7¾). - - Vol. I. pp. viii + 312. - - Vol. II. pp. iv + 303 + (1). - - Vol. III. pp. iv + 328. - - Quarter cream cloth blocked in gold; bright blue embossed cloth - sides, blocked in blind. Pale yellow end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published on October 18, 1851. The - English edition predates the American one. 500 copies were - printed. - - (ii) Vol. I. only has half-title, on which the story is - described as _The Whale or Moby Dick_. - - - 1851 - - MOBY DICK: Or THE WHALE. By HERMAN MELVILLE, Author of _Typee_, - _Omoo_, _Redburn_, _Mardi_, _White-Jacket_. New York: Harper and - Bros. Publishers. London: Richard Bentley. 1851. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ - × 7⅜). Pp. (xxx) [paged as xxiii + (i)] + 634 + (12). Epilogue - occupies p. (635). Publishers' advertisements, 6 pp., occupy pp. - (637)-(642). Pp. (i) (ii) and (647) (648) are pasted down to front - and back inside end-papers. No printed half-title. Slate-blue or - scarlet cloth, gilt. Orange end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) The varieties of binding are of simultaneous date. - - (ii) This book was expurgated for publication in England, - the American text containing thirty-five passages not - included in Bentley's edition (see previous item). - - - 1852 - - PIERRE: Or THE AMBIGUITIES. By HERMAN MELVILLE. New York: Harper and - Bros., Publishers, 329 and 331 Pearl Street, Franklin Square. 1852. - 1 vol. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7⅜). Pp. (xii) [paged as viii] + 495 + (6). Pp. - (i) (ii) and (501) (502) are pasted down to front and back inside - end-papers. No printed half-title. Dark grey cloth, gilt, blocked in - blind. Dark grey end-papers. - - - 1852 - - PIERRE: Or THE AMBIGUITIES. By HERMAN MELVILLE. London: Sampson Low - Son and Co., 47 Ludgate Hill. 1852. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo (5 × 7½). Pp. - viii + 495 + (i). No half-title. Blue embossed cloth, gilt, blocked - in blind. Pale yellow end-papers. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published in November, 1852. - - (ii) This English edition consists of American printed - sheets with cancel title. It is as scarce as, if not scarcer - than, the American edition, the bulk of which was destroyed - by fire. - - - 1855 - - ISRAEL POTTER: HIS FIFTY YEARS OF EXILE. By HERMAN MELVILLE. Author of - _Typee_, _Omoo_ etc. New York: G. P. Putnam and Co., 10 Park Place. - 1855. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7⅜). Pp. (280) [paged as (2) + 276 + - (2)]. No printed half-title. Purple-brown cloth, gilt, blocked in - blind. Yellow end-papers. - - NOTE—On the case, this book is entitled “Fifty Years Exile.” - A pirated edition, under the title _The Refugee_, was - published in Philadelphia in [1865]. - - - 1855 - - ISRAEL POTTER: HIS FIFTY YEARS OF EXILE. By HERMAN MELVILLE, author of - _Typee_, _Omoo_ etc. London: G. Routledge and Co., Farringdon - Street. 1855. 1 vol. Fcap. 8vo (4 × 6½). Pp. 174. Bright yellow - paper wrappers printed in black. The outside back wrapper is - occupied by publishers' advertisements. Also issued simultaneously - in cloth. - - NOTE—This book was published in April, 1855. - - - 1856 - - THE PIAZZA TALES. By HERMAN MELVILLE, author of _Typee_, _Omoo_, etc. - etc. New York: Dix and Edwards, 321 Broadway. London: Sampson Low, - Son and Co. 1856. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7⅛). Pp. (vi) + 431 + (11). - No printed half-title. Publishers' advertisements, unpaged and - undated, occupy pp. (433)-(439). Purple-brown cloth, blocked in gold - and blind. Grey-blue end-papers. - - _Contents_: The Piazza—Bartleby—Benito Cereno—The - Lightning-Rod Man—The Encantadas; or Enchanted Islands—The - Bell-Tower. - - NOTES—(i) This book was published in May or June, 1856. - - (ii) It is doubtful whether copies of this book were ever - actually issued in England, despite the fact that Sampson - Low and Co. advertised the book at 9s. in June, 1856. At the - most, copies may exist with an English cancel title, but - even this is improbable in view of the joint imprint on the - New York edition. It will be noted that when previously Low - imported Melville sheets (_cf._ _Pierre_, 1852) they - inserted their own title-page and bound the book differently - for English issue, but in that case their name was not - printed on the American edition. - - (iii) Copies of the first American edition exist, with pale - yellow end-papers. These are thinner in quality than the - grey-blue ones above mentioned, and not chalk surfaced to - the extent usual with American tinted papers of the period. - Indeed, they have more the appearance of English than of - American end-papers, but it is difficult to believe that - Sampson Low and Co. could have imported sheets and cases - from America, merely carrying out in this country the - process of binding. - - - 1857 - - THE CONFIDENCE MAN: HIS MASQUERADE. By HERMAN MELVILLE, Author of _The - Piazza Tales_, _Omoo_ etc. etc. New York: Dix Edwards and Co., 321 - Broadway. 1857. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7½). Pp. (x) [paged as vi] + - 394 + (4). No printed half-title. Purple-brown cloth, gilt, blocked - in blind. Dark green end-papers. - - - 1857 - - THE CONFIDENCE MAN: HIS MASQUERADE. By HERMAN MELVILLE, author of _The - Piazza Tales_, _Omoo_, _Typee_ etc. etc. Authorized edition. London: - Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts. 1857. 1 vol. Fcap. 8vo - (4¼ × 6¾). Pp. vi + 354. No half-title. Publishers' catalogue, 24 - pp., dated September, 1855 [_sic_], bound in at end. Yellow-brown - cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Brick-red end-papers, partially - printed with publishers' advertisements. - - NOTE—This book was published in April, 1857. - - - 1866 - - BATTLEPIECES AND ASPECTS OF THE WAR. By HERMAN MELVILLE. New York: - Harper and Bros., Publishers, Franklin Square. 1866. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo - (4¾ × 7⅜). Pp. (298), of which pp. (i)-(6) are blank and unpaged; p. - (7) is title-page; p. (8) bears note of the book's official - registration; p. (9) bears dedication; p. (10) is blank; p. (11) - bears Author's Note; p. (12) is blank; pp. (13)-(16) are occupied by - List of Contents paged (vii)-x; pp. (17) to (278) are paged (11) to - 272; pp. (279)-(284) are blank and unpaged. No printed half-title. - Brown or violet cloth, gilt. Chocolate end-papers. - - NOTE—There was no English edition of this book. - - - 1876 - - CLAREL: A Poem and a Pilgrimage in the Holy Land. By HERMAN MELVILLE. - In four parts. I. Jerusalem. II. The Wilderness. III. Mar Saba. IV. - Bethlehem. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, No. 182 Fifth Avenue, - 1876. 2 vols. Sq. 16mo (6⅞ × 5⅛). - - Vol. I. pp. (304), of which pp. (8) and (9) are paged ii and iii, - pp. (10) and (11) unpaged, and pp. (12)-(304) are paged 8 to 300. - - Vol. II. pp. (312). In this volume the paging is even more erratic; - pp. (i)-(5) are unnumbered, p. (6) is numbered iv, pp. (7), (8), and - (9) are unnumbered, pp. (10) to (309) are numbered 304 to 571, pp. - (310) to (312) are unnumbered. - - Bright green cloth, gilt. Chocolate end-papers. - - NOTE—This book was published in July, 1876. There was no - English edition. - - - 1888 - - JOHN MARR AND OTHER SAILORS, WITH SOME SEA PIECES. New York: De Vinne - Press. 1888. 1 vol. Fcap. 8vo (4½ × 6¾). Pp. (iv) + 103 + (1). Cream - paper wrappers printed in black. - - NOTE—Only twenty-five copies of this edition were printed. - - - 1891 - - *TIMOLEON etc. New York: Canton Press. 1891. 1 vol. (4½ × 7). Pp. - (72), of which (1)-(5) are unnumbered, (6) is paged in roman - numerals, pp. 7-70 in arabic numerals, and (71) and (72) unnumbered. - Buff paper wrappers, printed in black. - - NOTE—Only twenty-five copies of this edition were printed. - - - II.—BOOKS PARTIALLY WRITTEN - BY HERMAN MELVILLE - -There are only two items that it is possible to list under this heading, -and to each one of them Melville's contribution is so slight as to make -unnecessary their detailed collation. P. 30 of the _Memorial to James -Fenimore Cooper_, published in one volume by Putnam, New York, in 1852, -bears a letter from Melville in praise of Cooper addressed to the -Committee organizing the Cooper celebration. Pp. 399 and 400 of _The -History of Pittsfield, Massachusetts from 1800 to 1876_, by J. E. A. -Smith, and published in Springfield by C. W. Bryan and Co., 1876, bear -an account of Major Thomas Melville written by Herman Melville, but not -nominally attributed to him. - - - - - INDEX OF BOOK-TITLES - - - AFTER DARK (Collins), 130, 139 - - AMERICAN SENATOR, The (Trollope), 33, 64 - - ANGELO (Reade), _Play_, 170 - - ANTONINA (Collins), 136 - - ARAB'S RIDE TO CAIRO, The (Whyte-Melville), 191 - - ARMADALE (Collins), _Novel_, 131, 142 - - ARMADALE (Collins), _Play_, 152 - - ART (Reade), _Play_, 178 - - AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND (Trollope), 60 - - AUTOBIOGRAPHY, An (Trollope), 71 - - AYALA'S ANGEL (Trollope), 33, 68 - - - BARCHESTER TOWERS (Trollope), 22, 39 - - BASIL (Collins), 134, 138 - - BATTLEPIECES AND ASPECTS OF THE WAR (Herman Melville), 232 - - BELTON ESTATE, The (Trollope), 31, 33, 49 - - BERTRAMS, The (Trollope), 28, 29, 40 - - BESSIE'S TROUBLES AT HOME (Gaskell), 207, 210 - - BIBLE CHARACTERS (Reade), 169 - - BLACK AND WHITE (Collins), _Play_, 153 - - BLACK BUT COMELY (Whyte-Melville), 187, 199 - - BLACK ROBE, The (Collins), 132, 133, 148 - - BLIND LOVE (Collins), 132, 151 - - BONES AND I (Whyte-Melville), 195 - - BONES AT ROTHWELL, The (Whyte-Melville), 200 - - BOX TUNNEL, The (Reade), 162 - - BRITISH SPORTS AND PASTIMES (Trollope), 72 - - BROOKES OF BRIDLEMERE, The (Whyte-Melville), 187, 194 - - - CAN YOU FORGIVE HER? (Trollope), 23, 24, 28, 29, 45 - - CASTLE RICHMOND (Trollope), 26, 28, 41 - - CERISE (Whyte-Melville), 187, 194 - - CHILDREN OF THE NEW FOREST, The (Marryat), 80, 95 - - CHRISTIE JOHNSTONE (Reade), _Novel_, 160 - - CHRISTIE JOHNSTONE (Reade), _Play_, 178 - - CHRISTMAS STORMS AND SUNSHINE (Gaskell), 204, 206, 210 - - CLAREL (Herman Melville), 232 - - CLAVERINGS, The (Trollope), 28, 31, 32, 52 - - CLERGYMEN OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND (Trollope), 49 - - CLOISTER AND THE HEARTH, The (Reade), 163 - - CODE OF SIGNALS FOR THE USE OF VESSELS EMPLOYED IN THE MERCHANT - SERVICE, A (Marryat), 82 - - COMMENTARIES OF CÆSAR, The (Trollope), 57 - - CONFIDENCE MAN, The (Herman Melville), 231, 232 - - CONINGSBY (Disraeli), 110, 111, 119 - - CONSIDERATIONS ON THE COPYRIGHT QUESTION (Collins), 147 - - CONTARINI FLEMING (Disraeli), 107, 108, 109, 115 - - CONTRABAND (Whyte-Melville), 187, 196 - - COUNTESS AND THE DANCER, The (Reade), _Play_, 177 - - COURIER OF LYONS, The (Reade), _Play_, 171 - - COURSE OF TRUE LOVE NEVER DID RUN SMOOTH, The (Reade), 161 - - COUSIN HENRY (Trollope), 33, 66 - - COUSIN PHILLIS (Gaskell), 210 - - CRANFORD (Gaskell), 206 - - CREAM (Reade), 162 - - CRISIS EXAMINED, The (Disraeli), 117 - - - DANGEROUS PATH, The (Reade), _Play_, 178 - - DARK NIGHT'S WORK (Gaskell), 209 - - DEAD SECRET, The (Collins), 130, 139 - - DIARY IN AMERICA, A (Marryat). Part 1, 89; part 2, 90 - - DIARY OF A BLASÉ, The (Marryat), 88 - - DID HE STEAL IT? (Trollope), _Play_, 55 - - DIGBY GRAND (Whyte-Melville), 186, 189 - - DOCTOR THORNE (Trollope), 22, 40 - - DOCTOR WORTLE'S SCHOOL (Trollope), 33, 67 - - DORA (Reade), _Play_, 173 - - DOUBLE MARRIAGE, The (Reade), _Play_, 174 - - DREAM WOMAN, The (Collins), _Play_, 154 - - DRINK (Reade), _Play_, 179 - - DUKE'S CHILDREN, The (Trollope), 23, 25, 26, 67 - - - EDITOR'S TALES, An (Trollope), 56 - - EIGHTH COMMANDMENT, The (Reade), 162 - - ENDYMION (Disraeli), 107, 108, 122 - - ENGLAND AND FRANCE (Disraeli), 115 - - ENQUIRY INTO THE PLANS, PROGRESS AND POLICY OF AMERICAN MINING - COMPANIES, An (Disraeli), 113 - - EUSTACE DIAMONDS, The (Trollope), 23, 24, 60 - - EVIL GENIUS, The (Collins), 132, 149 - - EYE FOR AN EYE, An (Trollope), 33, 34, 65 - - - FALLEN LEAVES, The (Collins), 132, 133, 147 - - FIRST PRINTER, The (Reade), _Play_, 178 - - FIXED PERIOD, The (Trollope), 34, 70 - - FLORAL TELEGRAPH, The (Marryat), 98 - - FOUL PLAY (Reade), _Novel_, 164 - - FOUL PLAY (Reade), _Play_, 176 - - FRAMLEY PARSONAGE (Trollope), 22, 41 - - FREE LABOUR (Reade), _Play_, 178 - - FROZEN DEEP, The (Collins), _Story_, 144 - - FROZEN DEEP, The (Collins), _Play_, 153 - - - GARIBALDI AT CAPRERA (Gaskell), 213 - - GENERAL BOUNCE (Whyte-Melville), 186, 187, 190 - - GLADIATORS, The (Whyte-Melville), 187, 193 - - GOLD (Reade), _Play_, 170 - - GOLDEN CROWNS (Reade), 166 - - GOLDEN LION OF GRANPERE, The (Trollope), 34, 59 - - GOOD FIGHT, A (Reade), 169 - - GOOD FOR NOTHING (Whyte-Melville), 187, 192 - - GOOD STORIES OF MAN AND OTHER ANIMALS (Reade), 167 - - GREY WOMAN, The (Gaskell), 209, 210 - - GRIFFITH GAUNT (Reade), _Novel_, 163 - - GUILTY RIVER, The (Collins), 149 - - - HAND AND HEART (Gaskell), 207, 210 - - HARD CASH (Reade), 163 - - HARRY HEATHCOTE OF GANGOIL (Trollope), 34, 61 - - HAUNTED HOTEL, The (Collins), 132, 133, 146 - - HEART AND SCIENCE (Collins), 132, 133, 148 - - HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT (Trollope), 31, 32, 54 - - HENRIETTA TEMPLE (Disraeli), 110, 118 - - HERO AND A MARTYR, A (Reade), 165 - - HIDE AND SEEK (Collins), 130, 134, 138 - - HOLMBY HOUSE (Whyte-Melville), 187, 191 - - HORACE (Whyte-Melville), 189 - - HOW THE 'MASTIFFS' WENT TO ICELAND (Trollope), 65 - - HUNTING SKETCHES (Trollope), 48 - - HYPOCHONDRIAC, The (Reade), _Play_, 173 - - - ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BURMESE WAR (Marryat), 103 - - INFERNAL MARRIAGE, The (Disraeli), 121 - - INSIDE THE BAR (Whyte-Melville), 193 - - INTERPRETER, The (Whyte-Melville), 191 - - I SAY NO (Collins), 132, 148 - - IS HE POPENJOY? (Trollope), 32, 64 - - ISRAEL POTTER (Herman Melville), 230 - - IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND (Reade), _Novel_, 160 - - IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND (Reade), _Play_, 174 - - IXION IN HEAVEN (Disraeli), 121 - - - JACK ASHORE (Howard), 101 - - JACOB FAITHFUL (Marryat), 78, 79, 84, 85 - - JAPHET IN SEARCH OF A FATHER (Marryat), 77, 78, 81, 87 - - JEALOUSY (Reade), _Play_, 179 - - JEZEBEL'S DAUGHTER (Collins), 132, 147 - - JILT, The (Reade), 168 - - JOAN (Reade), _Play_, 179 - - JOHN CALDIGATE (Trollope), 34, 66 - - JOHN MARR AND OTHER SAILORS (Herman Melville), 233 - - JOSEPH RUSHBROOK (Marryat), 78, 93 - - - KATE COVENTRY (Whyte-Melville), 186, 191 - - KATE PEYTON (Reade), _Play_, 174, 177 - - KATERFELTO (Whyte-Melville), 188, 197 - - KELLYS AND THE O'KELLYS, The (Trollope), 26, 37 - - KEPT IN THE DARK (Trollope), 34, 69 - - KING'S OWN, The (Marryat), 78, 83 - - KINGS' RIVAL, The (Reade), _Play_, 172 - - - LADIES' BATTLE, The (Reade), _Play_, 170, 175 - - LADY ANNA (Trollope), 33, 61 - - LADY'S OATH, A (Reade), _Play_, 178 - - LANDLEAGUERS, The (Trollope), 26, 70 - - LAST CHRONICLE OF BARSET, The (Trollope), 22, 29, 50 - - LA VENDÉE (Trollope), 38 - - LAW AND THE LADY, The (Collins), 132, 133, 144 - - LAWYERS AND LEGISLATORS (Disraeli), 113 - - LAZY TOUR OF TWO IDLE APPRENTICES, The (Collins), 151 - - LE FAUBOURG SAINT-GERMAIN (Reade), _Play_, 173 - - LEGACY OF CAIN, The (Collins), 132, 150 - - LETTERS OF RUNNYMEDE, The (Disraeli), 118 - - LIBBIE MARSH'S THREE ERAS (Gaskell), 204, 206, 210 - - LIFE OF CHARLOTTE BRONTË (Gaskell), 207 - - LIFE OF CICERO, The (Trollope), 67 - - LIFE OF PAUL JONES, The (Disraeli), 123 - - LINDA TRESSEL (Trollope), 35, 53 - - LITTLE NOVELS (Collins), 132, 150 - - LITTLE SAVAGE, The (Marryat), 80, 96 - - LIZZIE LEIGH (Gaskell), 205, 206 - - LOIS THE WITCH (Gaskell), 208, 209 - - LORD GEORGE BENTINCK (Disraeli), 120 - - LORD PALMERSTON (Trollope), 69 - - LOST HUSBAND, The (Reade), _Play_, 170 - - LOST SISTERS, The (Reade), _Play_, 178 - - LOTHAIR (Disraeli), 111, 122 - - LOTTA SCHMIDT (Trollope), 53 - - LOVE ME LITTLE LOVE ME LONG (Reade), 162 - - LOVE AND MONEY (Reade), _Play_, 177 - - LUCREZIA BORGIA (Reade), _Play_, 178 - - - MABEL VAUGHAN (Gaskell), 212 - - MACDERMOTTS OF BALLYCLORAN, The (Trollope), 26, 37 - - MAN AND WIFE (Collins), 132, 133, 142 - - MARDI AND A VOYAGE THITHER (Herman Melville), 219, 225 - - MARGUERITE (Reade), _Play_, 178 - - MARINE COAST, The (Howard), 102 - - MARION FAY (Trollope), 33, 69 - - MARKET HARBOROUGH (Whyte-Melville), 185, 188, 192 - - MARY BARTON (Gaskell), 204 - - MASKS AND FACES (Reade), _Play_, 171 - - MASTERMAN READY (Marryat), 80, 81, 92 - - MEMOIRS OF ADMIRAL SIR SIDNEY SMITH (Howard), 101 - - MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF WILLIAM COLLINS (Collins), 136 - - MESSAGE FROM THE SEA, A (Collins), _Play_, 152 - - MISS GWILT (Collins), _Play_, 155 - - MISSION, The (Marryat), 80, 94 - - MISS MACKENZIE (Trollope), 28, 29, 47 - - MISS OR MRS.? 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(Disraeli), 116 - - WHITE JACKET (Herman Melville), 219, 227, 228 - - WHITE LIES (Reade), 161 - - WHITE ROSE, The (Whyte-Melville), 187, 194 - - WHY FRAU FROHMANN RAISED HER PRICES (Trollope), 68 - - WIVES AND DAUGHTERS (Gaskell), 211 - - WOMAN HATER, A (Reade), 166 - - WOMAN IN WHITE, The (Collins), _Novel_, 129, 131, 132, 140 - - WOMAN IN WHITE, The (Collins), _Play_, 154 - - WONDROUS TALE OF ALROY, The (Disraeli), 108, 116 - - WORKS OF ISAAC DISRAELI, Ed. B. Disraeli, 124 - - - YOUNG DUKE, The (Disraeli), 109, 114 - - PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY BILLING AND SONS, LIMITED, GUILDFORD AND - ESHER. - - - - - TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES - - - 1. Made corrections indicated in Errata and Addendum. - 2. Silently corrected typographical errors. - 3. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed. - 4. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. - 5. 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