nicolas sir nicholas harris (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: GOOD. 1846. Henry Colburn. Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE Gilt titles, half leather with patterned boards. Front board is detached. Extremities are worn. 9x6.

Half-Leather. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition, Thus. 16mo., (5)144pp. Lacking half-title. Beautiful First Separate Edition. Finely bound in half 19th century polished calf over marbled paper-covered boards. All edges speckled red. Engraved frontis portrait of Chaucer by W.H. Worthington. Raised spine bands with compartments ruled in gilt. Title in gilt upon brown leather label in second compartment. Gilt monogram and coronet stamp in the first compartment of Baron Henry Peter Brougham of which this volume is dedicated to with the inscription, "To Lord Brougham and Vaux, from the Author". Lord Brougham, raised to peerage as the first Baron Brougham and Vaux, (1778-1868), was a Scottish born British statesmen who became Lord High Chancellor. A prolific author himself, who wrote numerous treatises on science, philosophy, and history, was famously the designer of the brougham, a four-wheeled, horse-drawn style carriage that bears his name. (Wikipedia) Nicolas, (1799-1848), a barrister who studied and wrote about genealogy and history, went on to edit six volumes of Chaucer in the Pickering Aldine Poets series in 1845 and 1852. (PRBM) Square, tight and clean throughout with no toning or foxing. A few tiny nicks to the outer of edge of page 53, not affecting text. Mild rubbing to edges and tips. Small bookplate of noted American collector Albert A. Howard on the rear paste-down. A label "Q" affixed to the top corner of the front paste-down that may be a shelf-marking. A very pretty collectable copy of a scarce title in general and a quite unique presentation and association.

7 volumes. Tall 8vo. Bound in contemporary three quarters blue leather bindings with elaborate gold decorations and lettering on spines. Marbled boards, edges & endpapers. In good condition. Leather a little rubbed to edge & on raised bands. Each volume with private bookplate on front endpaper & name inscription head of half title. Inside some tanning, a few pages early on in each volume have a little bleeding top edge. Else generally clean & tight. Size 8.5 x 5.5 inches Portrait, folding plans, 4 sets facsimile letters. "This is the standard work of reference for Nelson's correspondence and the principal source from which his biographers have drawn (and still do draw) their material. It contains some 3,500 letters, including what are now the Nelson and Bridport Papers at the British Library, but not the Nelson Papers at the Nelson Museum, Monmouth." In volume 1 are added more letters in Dr M'Arthur's possession , amongst others, to the edition published 1844.

First and only contemporary edition of "the standard work of reference for Nelson's correspondence and is the principal source from which his biographers have drawn (and still do draw) their material" (Cowie). In the foreword to the late 1990s reprint, Michael Nash notes that "The 'Nicolas', as it is generally known, has never been superseded". Calling on his extensive social contacts and personal reputation Nicolas (1799-1848) obtained access to numerous collections of correspondence, including "the mass of papers inherited by Nelson's niece, Lady Bridport", and "although it is at first sight simply a collection of letters, Nicolas took care to arrange his material in strict chronological order, adding extensive and very helpful footnotes where necessary to give biographical details of everyone who appears in the text, and also backing up the letters with additional documents relating to Nelsons' career. As a result it is as good as a biography" (White, pp. 185-6). Eminent naval historian J. K. Laughton described it as "the only work treating of Nelson's professional career which is to be implicitly trusted" (DNB), in the estimation of Nelson biographer Carola Oman it was "the Bible of the Nelson student", and for Oliver Warner, the 20th century's greatest Nelson scholar, it was the foundation for all serious study of Nelson and his life. In 1846 on completion, The Standard considered that "the family that shall want this book must be ungrateful to the memory of Nelson" - a sentiment that Colburn judiciously, but vainly, quoted in a puff for his never to be completed parts issue - so it is surprising that the set is so uncommon, particularly when compared to Gurwood's Wellington's dispatches, published around the same dates and far more frequently encountered. This set is in excellent unrestored contemporary condition, with an inked note verso of the front free endpaper of volume I revealing a country house provenance, "Bought by Sir Peter Pole Bt. at Edmund N Kershaw Esqre's Sale, Tidmington, March 1853". Cowie 144. Colin White (ed.) The Nelson Companion, 1995. Seven volumes, octavo (218 x 138 mm). Contemporary calf by Webb of Liverpool - stamp verso of front free endpaper volume I - red and black morocco labels, narrow flat bands with double gilt roll, compartments gilt with floral tools, double gilt ruled panel with rosette corner-tools to the boards enclosing a dotted roll in blind, floral edge roll in gilt, Nonpareil marbled edges and endpapers, turn-ins milled in blind. Portrait frontispiece of Nelson by Freeman after Abbott to volume I, 4 folding facsimile letters, 2 of them double-sided, 4 plans, 3 of them folding, in all. A little rubbed, slight discolouration and a few minor bruises to the boards, portrait somewhat browned as usual and with some offsetting, light toning else, overall very good, a handsome set.