PRESENTED BY STEVENSON AND HENLEY TO

SIDNEY COLVIN

58. STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS). AND HENLEY (W. E.). Admiral Guinea. A Melodrama in Four Acts. 8vo, original eream colored wrappers, uncut. In a brown levant case.

Edinburgh: Printed by R. & R. Clark, for Private Circulation Only, 1884

THE EXTREMELY RARE FIRST ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION. This is one of a very small number printed for copyright purposes, the Play not being published until 1892. PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHORS. On the title-page is inscribed in Stevenson's autograph: "Sidney Colvin from the Authors, 29/10/84," and the cover is initialed; "W. E. H." A number of manuscript corrections appear in the text.

59. STOWE (HARRIET BEECHER). Uncle Tom's Cabin. Illustrations. 2 vols. 12mo, full green levant morocco, Jansen style, gilt tops, original covers bound in, by Stikeman. Boston, 1852

A CHOICE COPY OF THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS CLASSIC. 60. SWINBURNE (A. C.). Erectheus: A Tragedy. 12mo, original cloth, top edges uncut.

London, 1876

FIRST EDITION. Inscribed in the hand of Miss Rossetti; "Christina G. Rossetti, from the Author December 1875."

61. TENNYSON (ALFRED). Poems, Chiefly Lyrical. 12mo, full green levant morocco, gilt back, gilt corner ornaments, gilt top, uneut, by Rivière.

London, 1830

FINE COPY OF THE RARE FIRST EDITION, with the leaf of Errata, and the leaf of Book Advertisement at the end.

LEWIS CARROLL'S COPY OF TENNYSON

62. TENNYSON (ALFRED). Poems. 12mo, contemporary green morocco, gilt edges. London, 1851

THE REV. CHARLES L. DODGSON'S COPY. His autograph is written on the half-title and he has stamped his name on the inside of the front cover. Throughout the volume Dodgson has written the variations in the reading of this edition as compared with the original publication, and in addition has written the whole of such poems as were suppressed.

63. Maud, and Other Poems. 12mo, original cloth, uncut. London, 1855

FIRST EDITION. Inserted is an A.N. by Tennyson: "Mr. Alfred Tennyson presents his compliments to the Mayor of Lincoln and begs to thank him for the honour of his invitation" etc. Also the invitation card from the Mayor of Lincoln.

64. THACHER (JAMES). A Military Journal during the American Revolutionary War, from 1775 to 1783. 8vo, original boards (covers loose and pp. time-stained), uncut. Boston, 1823

FIRST EDITION.

THACKERAY DEDICATION COPY

65. THACKERAY (WILLIAM M.). The Irish Sketch-Book By M. A. Titmarsh. With numerous engravings on wood, drawn by the author. 2 vols. 8vo, original cloth, uncut.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1843

FIRST EDITION. THE DEDICATION COPY TO CHARLES LEVER. At the foot of the Dedication, Thackeray has inked out his printed name, and signed his name; and under the printed date of April 27, 1843, he has written 5 May."

66

Inserted in the volume, is a 2pp. A. L. s. from Thackeray to Percival Leigh, dated Thursday 20," with Seal. THIS LETTER REFERS TO THE PRESENT VOLUME.

"Did Leech impart to you the modest service I want of you? A notice of half a dozen pages for Fraser will be accepted and acceptable. Not a puff you understan-hit as hard as you like but in a good natured way and 80 as not to break bones.''

The book is dedicated to Lever: and the preface says that it was to have been called the Cockney in Ireland but for the remonstrance of the publishers who were so pathetic that the author was obliged to give way. In a second edition it is to be changed, etc.

WITH ORIGINAL PENCIL DRAWING FOR THE

FRONTISPIECE

66. THACKERAY (W. M.). Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo, by way of Lisbon, Athens, Constantinople and Jerusalem: Performed in the Steamers of the Peninsular and Oriental Company. By Mr. M. A. Titmarsh. With colored frontispiece and woodcuts in the text designed by Thackeray. 12mo, original red cloth, with gilt design on fore cover, uncut.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1846

FIRST EDITION. In this book Thackeray first revealed his identity with Michael Angelo Titmarsh. In his dedicatory letter to Captain Samuel Lewis of the Steamship Company, he signs himself "W. M. Thackeray.” INSERTED IS THE VERY BEAUTIFULLY FINISHED PENCIL DRAW.NG, "A STREET VIEW IN CONSTANTINOPLE, EXECUTED BY THACKERAY TO SERVE AS THE FRONTISPIECE.

CHARLES DICKEN'S COPY OF "VANITY FAIR"
WITH AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO DICKENS
CONTAINING AN ORIGINAL DRAWING

67. THACKERAY (WILLIAM M.). Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero. With illustrations by the author. 8vo, half green London, 1848

morocco.

FIRST EDITION. OF GREAT INTEREST, BEING CHARLES DICKENS' COPY, with his bookplate and Sale label.

THIS FINE ASSOCIATION COPY is further enhanced by having tipped in, on the leaf of Dedication, an A. L. s. (with initials) from Thackeray to Dickens, WITH A HUMOROUS DRAWING, in ink. 1p. 8vo, March 30, no year:

"I am very sorry I am engaged on Saturday and as for little Crawley now that Lord Steyne & he have quarrelled who cares what happens to the little beggar... Pitch into him he has got no friends," etc.

[SEE FRONTISPIECE]

PRESENTATION COPY FROM THACKERAY, WITH ORIGINAL DRAWING OF UNPUBLISHED

FRONTISPIECE TO THE WORK

68. THACKERAY (W. M.). The History of Pendennis. Illustrated by the Author. First Edition. 2 vols., 8vo, old calf, worn (in slip case.) London, 1849-50

BELONGING TO MISS SOPHIA HOBHOUSE, WRITTEN BY. M? WILLIAM THACKERAY, PRINTED BY W. BRADBURY & EM.EVANS OF

RANDLE OF DEVIZES

[NUMBER SIXTY-EIGHT]

In Lord Broughton's (John Cam Hobhouse) "Recollections of a Lon Life" is the following description of a visit by Thackeray to him "Thackeray the author of Pendennis is also staying with me. He is most agreeable man, very tall and big with a broken nose and alway wears spectacles. He gave my daughter a spoimen of his power o sketching by making a frontispiece to Pendennis in pen and ink."

THIS COPY IS THE IDENTICAL COPY BELONGING TO LORD BROUGHTON' DAUGHTER AND CONTAINS THE ORIGINAL FRONTISPIECE DRAWN BY THACKERA IN PEN AND INK, WITH HIS INSCRIPTION "BELONGING TO MISS SOPHI HOBHOUSE, WRITTEN BY MR. WILLIAM THACKERAY, PRINTED BY W BRADBURY WM. EVANS OF LONDON BOUND BY RANDLE OF DEVIZES’’ Sophia was the third daughter of Lord Broughton, married in July, 185 to the Earl of Roden and the volumes have remained in the family unt recently.

Thackeray gave very few of his book away, and these in most case were his minor books and not his great novels. A few of his minor book are in existence in which he made a small drawing for presentation pu poses, BUT THIS VOLUME SEEMS TO BE UNIQUE IN HAVING A NEW AND U PUBLISHED DESIGN FOR AN ILLUSTRATED TITLE FOR ONE OF HIS GREATI WORK. The volume also bears in itself the facts that declare its auther ticity, in Lord Broughton's statement and the drawing with Thackeray inscription.

[SEE ILLUSTRATION]

69. The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in th Service of Her Majesty Q. Anne. Written by Himself. 3 vols. 12mc original cloth, paper labels, uncut. London, 185

Clean copy of the FIRST EDITION.

THACKERAY'S OWN COPY

70. THACKERAY (WILLIAM M.). The Luck of Barry Lyn don: A Romance of the last Century. 2 vols. 16mo, original re cloth (a little worn), in red straight-grain morocco solander case New York: Appleton, 185

THACKERAY'S OWN COPY OF THE GENUINE FIRST EDITION, WITH HI AUTOGRAPH, "W. M. Thackeray, Baltimore, Feb. 11," on fly-leaf c volume one.

This edition, issued three years prior to the First English Edition contains passages omitted in that issue.

PRESENTATION COPY TO MRS. STODDARD 71. THACKERAY (WILLIAM M.). The English Humourist of the Eighteenth Century. 12mo, original cloth, uncut.

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 185

FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH THE IN SCRIPTION IN THACKERAY'S AUTOGRAPH "Mrs. Stoddard with the author' very best regards. July 1853.''

72. The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Fam ily. Edited by Arthur Pendennis, Esq. With Illustrations on Stee and Wood by Richard Doyle. 2 vols. 8vo, light blue levant, tooled backs with the "Cherub" Portrait of Thackeray in panels beneath the titles, gilt tops, uncut, with an original pictorial wrappe bound in each volume, by Wood.

London: Bradbury and Evans 1854-185

FIRST EDITION. Very handsome Copy. Inserted is a very importan A. L. S. to Bradbury and Evans, his publishers, in regard to the printing and illustrating of The Newcomes."

"My dear B and E. I am come back (from America) with 4 numbers and want very much to see you about the Illustrations. An American Letter too has missed me in my absence offering me £10 a number from Harpers, provided they could get my numbers 6 weeks before it was printed here—so unless we put off till Nov I lose £240. Query: Shall I or shant I break faith with the Public? Shall I have Doyle to illustrate? These are the points to be determined by you and yours W. M. T. Send a Boy to Kensington with a line in the morning." 8vo, Whitefriars, 1853. Signed with initials.

An extremely valuable and interesting Thackeray Autograph. He had intended to illustrate "The Newcomes' himself and actually commenced two sketches for the first number, but for some reason unknown it was decided that Doyle should furnish the drawings, and the two sketches already designed were redrawn by him.

WITH ORIGINAL DRAWING IN COLOR BY

THACKERAY

73. THACKERAY (WILLIAM M.). Roundabout Papers. Reprinted from "The Cornhill Magazine." With illustrations. 8vo, full purple levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, the original covers inserted as doublures, by Rivière.

London: Smith Elder and Co., 1863

FIRST EDITION. At page 91 is inserted AN ORIGINAL DRAWING, IN COLOR, BY THACKERAY, of the woodcut which appears at the commencement of the chapter "Tunbridge Toys," and at page 121 is a PROOF ON INITIAL PAPER, of "A Latin Grammar.''

This ORIGINAL DRAWING is the one sent by Thackeray to Swain, the engraver, but to which Swain was unable to do full justice. The India Proof, iS FROM THACKERAY'S OWN COLLECTION, and is the PROOF sent by SWAIN to him.

74. Thackeray the Humourist and the Man of Letters. The Story of his Life, including a selection from his characteristic Speeches, now for the First Time gathered together. By Theodore Taylor [John Camden Hotten.] Illustrations, including a photograph of Thackeray. 12mo, original cloth, uncut.

London: John Camden Hotten, 1864 FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Charles Dickens' copy, with sale label on inside front cover.

75. Thackeray the Humourist and the Man of Letters. The Story of his Life and Literary Labours. By Theodore Taylor John Camden Hotten.] Illustrations. 12mo, original cloth.

New York: Appleton, 1864

Issued the same year as the English Edition, but contains "In Memoriam" by Charles Dickens and "A Sketch" by Anthony Trollope, which did not appear in that edition.

This was Trollope's own copy, with his bookplate, and HAS THE ADDED INTEREST OF BEING A PRESENTATION COPY FROM EMERSON TO CARLYLE, as the latter has written on the recto of frontispiece: "From Emerson my American Friend. T. Carlyle."'

LETTER FROM THACKERAY DECLINING TO PUBLISH MRS. BROWNING'S POEMS

મ

76. WILLIAM THACKERAY, (MAKEPEACE). A. L. S. pp 8vo. 36 Onslow Sq., April 2, 1861. To Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. With envelope. 2 pieces.