Accession number
PML 19161, 19290, 195723
Published
London [etc.] : D. Bogue [etc.], 1828-1857.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Notes
1852 contains The opera by Thomas Carlyle and To be read at dusk by Charles Dickens.
1853 contains The pen and the album by W.M. Thackeray; "I number none but sunny hours", by Edmund H. Yates; Lines to Lady Cochrane (now Countess of Dundonald), by Sir Walter Scott; A recollection, by Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton; To Mdlle. Luigina de Sodre, by Walter Savage Landor; To ---, by Edmund H. Yates.
1857 contains Amy's cruelty by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Uttoxeter by [Nathaniel Hawthorne]; Mary and death by Robert Browning; The Brill. A lay of Brighton by Edmund Yates.
Added t.p.s, engr.
Editors: 1829-35, F. M. Reynolds; 1836, Hon. Mrs. Norton; 1837, Lady E. S. Wortley; 1841-50, Countess of Blessington; 1851-57, Miss Power.
Morgan has 3 volumes: 1852 (PML 19290), 1853 (PML 195723), and 1857 (PML 19161).
Vols. for 1845-57 have subtitle: With beautifully finished engravings, from drawings by the first artists, engraved under the superintendence of Mr. Charles (later "Mr. Frederick A.") Heath.
1853 contains The pen and the album by W.M. Thackeray; "I number none but sunny hours", by Edmund H. Yates; Lines to Lady Cochrane (now Countess of Dundonald), by Sir Walter Scott; A recollection, by Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton; To Mdlle. Luigina de Sodre, by Walter Savage Landor; To ---, by Edmund H. Yates.
1857 contains Amy's cruelty by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Uttoxeter by [Nathaniel Hawthorne]; Mary and death by Robert Browning; The Brill. A lay of Brighton by Edmund Yates.
Added t.p.s, engr.
Editors: 1829-35, F. M. Reynolds; 1836, Hon. Mrs. Norton; 1837, Lady E. S. Wortley; 1841-50, Countess of Blessington; 1851-57, Miss Power.
Morgan has 3 volumes: 1852 (PML 19290), 1853 (PML 195723), and 1857 (PML 19161).
Vols. for 1845-57 have subtitle: With beautifully finished engravings, from drawings by the first artists, engraved under the superintendence of Mr. Charles (later "Mr. Frederick A.") Heath.
Description
30 v. : plates, ports.
Provenance
PML 19161, purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911. PML 19290 and 195723 with autograph inscriptions of Queen Victoria to Lady Ely (Jane Loftus), dated Dec. 24, 1851 and 1852 respectively; presumably purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911 (at same time as PML 19161).
Binding
PML 19161 rebound full red morocco, by Duprez Lahey, 1948. PML 19290 and 195723 in original gilt-tooled red cloth, signed "JL" (John Leighton).
Classification
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