Excursions in Victorian Bibliography. Michael Sadleir
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Michael Sadleir
Excursions in Victorian Bibliography
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066152482
Table of Contents
I.—EDITIONES PRINCIPES FICTION, BIOGRAPHY, TRAVEL-BOOKS, ESSAYS, ETC.
II.—BOOKS PARTIALLY WRITTEN BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE
I.—EDITIONES PRINCIPES FICTION, ESSAYS, NAVAL TECHNICAL BOOKS
II.—A BOOK ATTRIBUTED TO MARRYAT, ONE EDITED BY HIM AND OTHERS POSSIBLY WRITTEN WITH HIS HELP
I.—EDITIONES PRINCIPES FICTION, POETRY, ESSAYS, LETTERS, ETC.
II.—BOOKS PARTIALLY WRITTEN OR EDITED BY BENJAMIN DISRAELI
EDITIONES PRINCIPES A.—FICTION, ESSAYS, BIOGRAPHY, ETC., AND ONE BOOK WRITTEN IN COLLABORATION
B.—PLAYS, WRITTEN ALONE AND IN COLLABORATION
I.—EDITIONES PRINCIPES A.—FICTION, ESSAYS, ETC.
EDITIONES PRINCIPES (Continued) B.—PLAYS: ORIGINAL, TRANSLATED, AND WRITTEN IN COLLABORATION
GEORGE JOHN WHYTE-MELVILLE 1821-1878
EDITIONES PRINCIPES FICTION, POETRY, ESSAYS
ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL 1810-1865
BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICAL REMINISCENCE
I.—EDITIONES PRINCIPES FICTION, BIOGRAPHY, ETC.
II.—BOOKS PARTIALLY WRITTEN, ATTRIBUTED TO, OR EDITED BY MRS GASKELL.
I.—EDITIONES PRINCIPES FICTION, POETRY, TRAVEL
II.—BOOKS PARTIALLY WRITTEN BY HERMAN MELVILLE
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 In time (maybe in short time) my work will be superseded by investigation more accomplished, by analysis more detailed.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