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Ten thousand a-year
by [WARREN, Samuel]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1841. In three volumes. viii, 403, [1]; [4], 389, [1]; [4], 429pp, [1]. With half-titles. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, brown cloth boards, contrasting red and black morocco lettering-pieces, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed and sunned. Marbled endpapers, scattered spotting. Contemporary ownership inscriptions of J. T. Coleridge to front blank fly-leaves of Vols. II and III. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of title page of Vol. I: 'The Honble. Mr. Justice Coleridge / with the author's / compliments / 13th Nov. 1841'. A choice presentation copy of first British edition in book form (the text was pirated and published in Philadelphia in 1840-41, a few months before this first authorised edition) of British barrister Samuel Warren's (1807-1877) second novel, initially serialised in Blackwood's Magazine from 1839 to 1841. An immediate best-seller, the novel was one of the earliest narratives concerned with the legal system, and is said to have influenced Dickens, who appears to have borrowed numerous images and ideas, particularly for Bleak House (1852-53). In spite of the negative reaction of Edgar Allan Poe, who called in 'shamefully ill-written' (Graham's Magazine, November, 1841), the book was a sensational commercial success, with new print runs and updated editions published regularly to the turn of the century. Fittingly, this copy was presented by the author to John Taylor Coleridge (1790-1876), himself a judge, the nephew of the Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and sometime editor of the Quarterly Review. . First edition. 8vo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ24966
- Title
- Ten thousand a-year
- Author
- [WARREN, Samuel]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Blackwood and Sons
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh and London
- Date Published
- 1841
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Literature
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Antiquates Ltd
Antiquates Ltd was established by Tom Lintern-Mole in 2007; we travel far and wide to buy, sell, and advise on rare books and manuscripts.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
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We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
About the Seller
Antiquates Ltd
Biblio member since 2008
Wareham, Dorset
About Antiquates Ltd
Mail Order and Internet, but in normal times we have an antiquarian bookshop in the Dorset countryside.
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