Search Results: Mandeville a Tale Of the Seventeenth Century In … by William Godwin

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Edinburgh:: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co.,, 1817.. First edition.. rebound in old half morocco over marbled boards, t.e.g.. Some scattered inoffensive foxing; two joints split but cords still holding; corners rubbed (one corner heavily rubbed); shallow chipping to the extremities of two of the spines. . 12mo,. With half-titles in each volume.

Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co., 1817. In three volumes. xii, 306; [4], 316; [4], 367pp, [1]. With half-titles. Recent cloth-backed marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt. Pencilled ownership inscription of William St. Clair to FEP of Vol. I, early inked ownership inscription to head of title, loss to leaf A2 of Vol. II - touching text, without loss of sense, foxed. William Godwin (1756-1836), English philosopher and novelist, husband of Mary Wollstonecraft and father of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Mandeville was the author's fourth, and arguably most Gothic novel; it provoked an anonymously published spurious fourth volume, and was also one of several influences of Peacock's Nightmare Abbey. Set in seventeenth-century England, it follows the trials and social tribulations of Charles Mandeville, an orphan with Anglo-Irish connections, who loses his honour, his sister and finally his facial figurement through involvement with his most popular Winchester School colleague,… Read More

Edinburgh : for Archibald Constable & Co., 1817. First edition. "Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain" - the originator of the psychological novel, "intimately skilled in the perversity of the human mind, and in all the blackest and most horrible passions of the human heart" (Quarterly Review, 1817), takes on the issues of the English Civil War. Published not long before his daughter Mary Shelley produced "Frankenstein" and much admired by Shelley himself, who immediately sent a copy to Byron, describing it as Godwin's best. Three volumes. Demy 12mo (186 x 105mm). xii,306; [iv],316; [iv],(368)pp. Bound in a pleasant later (early twentieth-century) half tan polished calf, banded and gilt; olive labels; top edges gilt; marbled endpapers; text a little browned and spotted in places; neatly repaired tears to a couple of leaves, but overall a very good set. With the nautical bookplate of the book-collector Robert James Hayhurst (1929-2016). Wolff… Read More

Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co. and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Ornme, and Brown, London, 1817. First edition, 3 volumes, 12mo, pp. xii, 306; [4], 316; [4], 367, [1]; original blue paper-covered boards, brown paper shelfback, printed paper labels on spines; a very good set. Ownership signature in volumes II and III of E. Hornby. Blue cloth slipcase with red morocco label lettered in gilt. "Mandeville was an unexpected novel, coming from the philosopher who laid such stress on the role of reason. Written at the period when his stepdaughter, Fanny, hanged herself, and his daughter, Mary, and Shelley were married at St. Mildred's in Broad Street [27 December 1816], Godwin's novel was set in the civil war, with a poor plot but vivid characterisation turning on the unreasoning hatred of the sour and puritanical Mandeville for the pleasure-loving, charismatic and noble-blooded Clifford. 'Even more than in Caleb Williams, Godwin wields his metaphysical dissecting knife to lay bare the deepest involutions… Read More