The keepsake for MDCCCXXXIII
by [SHELLEY, Mary]. REYNOLDS, Frederic Mansel [editor]
- Used
- Condition
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- Seller
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, [1833]. 308pp. With an engraved presentation plate, an engraved frontispiece, an additional engraved title page, and a further 14 engraved plates. Contemporary richly gilt-tooled red morocco, A.E.G. Minor shelf-wear. Internally clean and crisp. An attractively bound anthology of prose and verse, including contributions by Agnes Strickland, Letitia Landon, and, most notably, two short stories by Mary Shelley, billed as 'the Author of Frankenstein; 'The Brother and Sister, an Italian Tale' and 'The Invisible Girl, a Tale'. The former, set in Siena, is an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet; indeed the opening lines reference the Bard directly: 'It is well known that the hatred borne by one family against another, and the strife of parties, which often led to bloodshed in the Italian cities during the middle ages, so vividly described by Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet, was not confined to the Montecchi and Ciapelletti of Verona, but existed with equal animosity in almost every other town of that beautiful peninsula'. The latter is the first appearance of a tragic tale set on the coasts of Wales, that interweaves motifs characteristic of Gothic fiction, including a tyrannical guardian, a persecuted heroine, and a supernatural apparition. Faxon 1494.. 8vo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ24194
- Title
- The keepsake for MDCCCXXXIII
- Author
- [SHELLEY, Mary]. REYNOLDS, Frederic Mansel [editor]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- [1833]
- Keywords
- Literature
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
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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
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Wareham, Dorset
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Glossary
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...