London publishing trade shows dull season as bridges lures buyers
London witnesses a lethargic book market with publishers reporting empty lists while card games entice buyers. The Outlook previews an article on Bridge versus Books as a key factor driving demand away from literature. Authors like William Le Queux expand into serialized fiction and publishers announce new works including Ashley edited studies and a Pepys Club proposal gaining traction.
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Ondon
London
Ands
Fine London Sale Reaches Records at Sotheby’s Auction
Reports detail the May 21 sale at Sotheby’s where 1,077 lots totalled £12,045 1s 6d, with many items fetching record prices. Notables include Congreve Incognita 1692 at £101, Chettle Englands Mourning Garment, Basilika 1662 once for Charles II at £140, Defoe Robinson Crusoe 1719, Lamb Elia works at £41, Paradise Lost 1667 at £335, and Scott Waverley novels at £500.
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Messrs
Jotheby's
Col
Imm
Chettle
Shakespeare
Charles E
Morocco
Charles II
Samuel Mearne
Defoea
Robinson Crusoe
London
Lamb
Elia
Equioli
Auction fragment notes rare book records and bids
Fragmentary auction record mentions a rare imprint tied to Shakespeare 1664 with a fine binding. Two topics surfaced, one linked to London Library, listing Lot 1008 Taylors Antiquitates. Describes a bound volume measuring about 12 by 4 inches and a record price context.
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Wrodd, Mead & Co
Milton
Paradise Wlost
Arnold Ebpy
Robson
Yeeres
Rolle
Rede and Love of God
London
Wynken de Worde
Scott
Guy” Mannering
Shelley
Harriet
Walton
Pickwick Papers
Hawking
Lened
Berenson's New Art Book on Florentine Drawings
Berenson prepares The Drawings of the Florentine Painters in two volumes for EOFP with Dutton and Cots holding American rights. The catalog raisonné classifies drawings by authorship, distinguishes imitators, and includes facsimile reproductions. It reshapes Florentine art history from Fra Angelico to Michelangelo, highlighting new artists and extensive analyses.
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EOFP
Dutton & Cots
Bernhard Berenson
Berenson
Nardini
Andrea
Ometta Paoline
Bartolommeo
Sebastiano del Piombe
Raffaello di Montelupo
Michelangelo
Raffellinos
Florence
Carli-Capponi
Raffaellino
Raffaelino del Garbo
Vasari
Fra Angelico
Amico del Sandro
David Ghirlandaio
Alanno di Domenico
Another View of Industrialism by Bowack to be published
Article previews William Mitchell Bowack’s book Another View of Industrialism from E. P. Dutton & Co. It argues the era’s forces such as railways steamships and telegraphs reshape political economy and that the book presents a charged synthesis rather than polemics. It lists chapters including The Main Business of Life The Objects of Industry and Capital and Interest.
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William Mitchell Bowack
E. P., Dutton & Co
Lis
Post
Adam Smith
Silas Marner in Bodley Head Pocket Library
The Bodley Head Pocket Library edition of Silas Marner, the Weaver for Raveloe, by George Eliot, is a well printed tiny volume with clear type and decent paper. First published in 1861, this edition is praised as the most perfect composition of its author.
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Bodley- Head Pocket Library
New York
John Lane
Silas Marner
Raveloe
George Eliot
Master of Millions novel to be published by Fleming Revell
Advance readers hail The Master of Millions a powerful well wrought study. Rev. Dr. George H. Ki aa is referenced in connection with the forthcoming publication and author.
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Fleming H. Revell Company
George H. Ki Aa
Edinburgh born Dr Lorimer writes his first novel
The scene unfolds in Edinburgh and London with Australia as a backdrop. Dr Lorimer, born in Edinburgh and familiar with London, brings varied experience to his first novel. The psychological interest is strong and the work is expected to attract much interest.
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Edinburgh
Dr. Lorimer
London
Australia
New Illustrated Edition of Kingsleys Works Announced
Charles Kingsley’s works get a two volume serviceable edition edited by his son Maurice Kingsley of New Rochelle New York. J and Tasdor Co publish with University Press Cambridge Mass handling the typography and illustrations. The edition includes Hereward the Wake with editor’s introduction and biographical preface and will contain Alton Locke Yeast Hypatia Westward Ho Poems Two Years Ago and Letters and Memories.
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Charles Kingsley
Maurice Kingsley
New Rochelle
N.Y
Messrs. J. &. Tasdor & Co
University Press
Cambridge
Mass
Hereward
Alton Locke
Out of the Past essays to be issued in two volumes
FE P Dutton and Co announce twovolume edition of biographical essays by Mountstuart Duff Grant covering Chesterfield to Epitaphs. Contents include speeches, recollections, and quotations from subjects such as Palmerston, Cobden, Gladstone, Bagehot, Arnold, Acton, Frederick, and more with full index in Volume II.
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P. Dutton & Co
The
Banffshire Journal
Ther
Oxford
House of Commons
Elgin
Palmerston
Cobden
Gladstone
Lord Beaconsfield
Disrael
Henry Reeve
Duke of Argyll
Frederick
Resignation of Dr William Griffis From Ithaca Church
Dr William Elliot Griffis resigns as pastor of the First Congregational Church of Ithaca effective Sept 1 after nine years in Schenectady seven in Boston and ten in Ithaca to pursue a broader ministry and literary work He plans to focus on historical writing and teaching across denominations and hopes to add to American historical literature in the coming decade
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William Elliot Griffis
First Congregational Church
Ithaca
Japan
Wordsworth by Walter Raleigh Admirably Reviewed
Raleigh's Wordsworth praised in a strong review. The work is published in the country by Messrs. Longman, Green & Co.
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Walter Raleigh
Wordsworth
Mias BE
Comple tion of a Great Work FitzGerald Volumes Issued
An advertisement notes the seventh and final volume of The Works of Edward FitzGerald. It highlights De Vinne printing and special paper, praising typography and binding. Notices from New York Sun and Tribune commend the edition as luxuriously crafted and well edited. The coupon offers full details and sample pages.
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Edward Fitzgerald
Messrs. de Vinne
Theodore de Vinne
the FitzGerald
New York Sun
He Tribune
Variorum
FitzGerald
Yque
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