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Verlag: ARKOSE PR, 2015
ISBN 10: 1345676786ISBN 13: 9781345676785
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Gebunden. Zustand: New.
Verlag: ARKOSE PR, 2015
ISBN 10: 1344104657ISBN 13: 9781344104654
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Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original w.
Verlag: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., London, 1824
Anbieter: Anybook.com, Lincoln, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Fair. Volumes 1, 2 and 3. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Red covers; gilt title on spine; some loose pages. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,4150grams, ISBN:
Verlag: Published by Hurst, Robinson, and Co., Printed by James Ballantyne and Company, at the Border Press, London, 1821
Anbieter: McNaughtan's Bookshop, ABA PBFA ILAB, Edinburgh, Vereinigtes Königreich
10 vols, 8vo, pp. xv, [i], xxviii, 794; xii, xlii, 684; x, 721, [1]; xviii, xxxvii, [i], 841, [1]; viii, lxxxvii, [i], 659, [1]; xxv, [i], xlviii, 728; xix, [i], 786; xxii, 791, [1]; [iv], v, [i], lxx, 776; [vi], xxxix, 764. Contemporary biscuit calf, boards bordered with a blind roll inside a double gilt rule, spines divided by wide raised bands, green and red morocco labels (?Ballantyne?s Novelists? and a vol. number on green, a list of titles in each vol. on red), other compartments with central flower tools within corner sprays all gilt, marbled edges and endpapers. A little minor spotting. Bindings rubbed, extremities worn, several joints splitting (but all sound). Armorial bookplates of Alexander Grant to front pastedowns, over that of James Webster, small bookseller?s stamp of Williams Library Cheltenham to verso of flyleaves. A complete set of ?Ballantyne?s Novelist?s Library?, a commercially unsuccessful but critically important step in the development of the canon of English prose fiction. Following a suggestion by John Murray and the production of Barbauld?s ?The British Novelists? of 1810, Walter Scott had considered the possibility of a compilation of novels but did not formally initiate the project until his friend and business partner John Ballantyne was on his deathbed a decade later. Unlike Barbauld?s project, which had selected individual novels of merit, Scott put the authors front and centre, reprinting the majority of the works of Fielding, Smollett, Richardson, Radcliffe, etc. - plus a few miscellaneous inclusions. Scott further contributed prefatory essays for each of the 15 authors, bringing the model of Johnson?s Lives of the Poets to the newer literary form. Later collected as The Lives of the Novelists, they form ?one of the most important bodies of novel criticism in English? (Corman, Women Novelists before Jane Austen, p. 39) - or at the very least, a significant early contribution to the treatment of the novel as worthy of criticism. The ?Library? petered out after 10 volumes due to slow sales and the loss of John Ballantyne?s support after his death in 1821 - some also thought the small, double-column type an obstacle to success - and is now scarce to find complete.