The Life and Times of Louis the Fourteenth. Four Volumes by G.P.R. James, Esq - 1839

New-York.: Harper & brothers, 1848. Paperback. Livre en anglais. Couverture souple. Library on select novels. N° 117. 16 x24 cm. Edition populaire défraîchie et réparée. 148 pages. Rousseurs. (ref. 118936)

London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman's, 1840. First Edition. Good. Octavo : complete in three uniform volumes : [6] 323 (324); [2] 341 (342); [2] 325 (326) : plain eps : all edges speckled : leather spines over dark green boards : "Lovejoy's Library" labels pasted over the title labels on the front boards : title, author and volume lettered in gilt to the spines : Lovejoy's Library title labels pasted onto the feps. Corners bumped and abraded; joints rubbed and starting at the heads; spines rubbed, scuffed and tender at the heads; boards are scuffed; remains of old tape repair on top label volume one; occasional foxing and light soiling throughout. George Payne Rainsford James (1799 - 1860) was an English novelist and historical writer. Both Walter Scott and Washington Irving encouraged him in his writing and during his lifetime he produced numerous novels and historical works as well as poems and plays. "Eliza Langley (?-1897) was the proprietress of a well-known bookselling, library,… Read More

London: T. & W. Boone, 1847. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 3vol. 8vo. [3], iv-vi, [1], 2-432, [2]; [3], 2-427, [3]; [3], 2-410, [2] pp. Contemporary half black morocco over marbled boards, spines in six compartments with gilt lettering and decorations, marbled endpapers and pastedowns; top edges gilt. Volume one illustrated by a frontispiece portrait of Henry IV. Oxford DNB, Barczewski, Stephanie L., "James, George Payne Rainsford". George James was a prolific British Romantic novelist and politician, and spent time in both the U.K. and the United States. He was appointed historiographer to William IV in 1836, and spent the 1840's writing novels and histories of important British and French figures. A nice set of James' Henry IV, a monumental figure in the history of English monarchy whom some historians speculate precipitated the War of the Roses. A Very Good set with a few spots of wear to the extremities.