Trollope Italy Illustrated

Trollope, Thomas Adolphus (Editor): Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna, New York Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong 1877

468pp. Brown full leather binding by R.W. Smith, gilt filletted, gilt dentelles (exterior and interior), 5 raised bands gilt lettering and decoration to spine, all edges gilt. Illustrated with over 100 full-page and 300 smaller engravings. Contains 3 sections ; 1) From the Alps to the Arno by Karl Stieler, 2) From the Arno to the Tiber by Edward Paulus, and 3) From the Tiber to Etna by Woldemar Kaden. Front cover is detached but present, tape and tape residue on joints, covers edgeworn and scuffed. Foxing on title page and preliminary pages, and marginal water-staining and foxing to pages 463-468, occasional other foxing. Needs repair but will make a very handsome book after restoration. Hard Cover Folio - over 12" - 15" tall

[SW: Binding Rome Milan Como Florence Italia Travel and Geography]

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PALGRAVE / MEREDITH, GEORGE / THACKERAY, Miss Anne Isabella / etc., etc.: THE CORNHILL MAGAZINE. Vols. 18 - 28, 1868 - Dec. 1873

UNINTERRUPTED RUN OF 11 VOLUMES. Uniformly bound in maroon hf.morocco binding with wide raised bands in gold and gold lettering. Marbled covers, endpapers and edges. Profusely illustrated. An attractive binding, a little bit rubbed. Overall mostly very clean. A little bit of fading on spine of a few volumes. Vol. 27 leather is a bit cracked top side of spine (but nothing loose). A very good set. Contains many works by well-known authors, published here for the first time. Incl.: Lettice Lisle, Fat Boy of Norcott's, Put yourself in his Place, Fifty brides, Against Time, Shamrockiana, Against Time, The Adventures of Harry Richmond by MEREDITH, GEORGE , Lord Kilgobbin, Carita , Harry Richmond, Old Kensington, by , Miss Anne Isabella THACKERAY / Pearl and Emerald , The Last Master of an Old Manor House, The Scientific Gentleman, Zelda's Fortune, Young Brown, ARTICLES: history of the French silk trade, Earthquakes, the murder of Escovedo, Palgrave: The Turkomans and other Tribes of the North-East Turkish Frontier, pp. 539 - 550, vol.18 / Witches and their Craft / Wallenstein and his times, Parts 1 & 2 / Railway Signalling / Indian Railways/ Silkworm Campaign in Italy, 1869 / The Barbarossa Legend / The log of the Canoes "Nautilus" and "Isis"/ The Agricultural Labourer / Captain Marryat: Sea Novels / The Cornhill Magazine was founded by George Smith in 1860. The first editor was William Makepeace Thackeray and the journal specialized in the serialization of novels. This included the work of Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and Thomas Hardy. The Cornhill Magazine also published the poetry of Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning. The sale of the magazine, at a shilling, exceeded all expectations, and the first number sold 110, 000 copies. The Cornhill Magazine ceased publication in 1975.

[SW: Literature first edition Magazines cornhill magazine fine binding anne thackeray, george meredith]

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