Excursions in Victorian Bibliography

Excursions in Victorian Bibliography

THE VICTORIA REGIA: A Volume of Original Contributions in Poetry and Prose. Edited by Adelaide A. Procter. London: Printed and Published by Emily Faithfull and Co., Victoria Press (for the Employment of Women), Great Coram Street, W.C. 1861. 1 vol. Royal 8vo (6 9). Pp. x + 349 + (1). No half-title. Red-brown embossed cloth, all edges gilt, blocked in gold and blind. Red chocolate end-papers. NOTE.Pp. 187 to 214 are occupied by a story by Anthony Trollope entitled The Journey to Panama. This is the first appearance in book form of a tale afterwards published in Lotta Schmidt and other Stories. This book is so essentially an accumulation of notes and so emphatically wanting in the qualities of completeness and learning proper to genuine bibliography that I have sought, even on the title-page, to indicate its limitations. It were indeed presumption to enter the field of nineteenth-century bibliography, in which already so much fine and skilful work has been accomplished, with the slight technical equipment to which I may lay claim. On the other hand, the experience of collectors conforms oddly to type, and where, in the study of certain Victorian first editions, I have found perplexity and doubt, others in the same study will likely find them too. Wherefore my annotations, in this book set in order and to a certain point rounded off, should help my fellow-students to a speedier knowledge of points and pitfalls in the collecting of their favourites than was easily accessible to myself. In time (maybe in short time) my work will be superseded by investigation more accomplished, by analysis more detailed. At such time collectors (and myself among them) will rightly substitute for this volume on their shelf of bibliographies the later, more comprehensive, handbooks that shall have taken its place. Meanwhile I dare to hope that the present work, with all its shortcomings, will find appreciative users, and among them a few who, realizing the difficulties that even so modest a compilation has been 2forced to surmount, will forgive its imperfections for the sake of its attributes. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 53118
Author: Sadleir, Michael
Release Date: Sep 22, 2016
Format: eBook
Language: English