1854 Edition of Allingham's Day and Night Songs

Allingham, William, DAY AND NIGHT SONGS (London: Routledge, 1854).  First edition, 17 x 10.5cm (8vo), in later plain grey card wraps, a.e. untrimmed, [64] pp. w/titlepage wood engraving after Walter Howell Deverell.  Printed by Savill & Edwards, London.  Binding Near-Fine; contents Good (moderately soiled & creased).  Athenæum 29 Apr. 1854 p.518 (by W.H. Dixon), Fredeman 46.3, Colbeck 3, Lasner 2 (his "Binding variant").  (Inv. #413)  C$400






First Illustrated Edition of The Music Master

Allingham's Music Master
Allingham, William, THE MUSIC MASTER, A LOVE STORY. AND TWO SERIES OF DAY AND NIGHT SONGS (London: G. Routledge & Co., 1855).  First edition thus, 17 x 10.5cm (8vo), in publisher's dark blue vertically ribbed wavy-grain cloth w/blind-stamped decorations (lyre device framed by a decorative border) to covers & gilt decorations & title to spine, pale yellow ep.s, [i-vii] viii-xiii [xiv-xvi], [1-3] 4-221 [222], [1-2 publ. adverts] pp. +tipped-in wood engraved frontis & 8 plates (Milly in facsimile) by the Dalziels after Arthur Hughes, D.G. Rossetti & J.E. Millais, & numerous vignettes & ornaments after Hughes.  Printed by Savill & Edwards, London.  With the ticket of W. & E. Pickering, Bath to fr. pastedown, & small sig. of Ralph Abercrombie to recto of fr. ep.  Binding Very Good (extremities sl. rubbed, & spine a bit darkened w/head reinforced); contents Very Good (some foxing to a few leaves).  Athenæum 15 Aug. 1855 p.943 (by H.F. Chorley), White passim, Rossetti 1 (p.41), Reid passim, Fredeman 46.4 & 90.2 (see also p.186), Lasner 4.2 (his "primary" binding), de Beaumont 7, Goldman 6 (see also p.2).  (Inv. #638)  C$700






1884 Edition of Day and Night Songs

Allingham, William, DAY AND NIGHT SONGS (London: G. Philip & Son, 1884).  First edition thus, 16.5 x 13cm (8vo), in publisher's cream parchment w/gilt title design (by D.G. Rossetti) to fr. cover, gilt floral decoration to rear cover, & gilt decorations & title to spine, t.e.g. (others untrimmed), cream ep.s, 158 (x) pp. (several unopened) w/numerous decorative head & tail-pieces.  Unstated "Edition-de-luxe" printed on watermarked handmade paper by Ballantyne Hanson & Co., Edinburgh & London.  Presentation copy inscr. to recto of 2nd blank: "Lilian Scott from H[elen]. Allingham, Hampstead Aug. 1903."  Binding Good (spine darkened & covers somewhat stained & rubbed resulting in moderate gilt loss); contents Very Good (some stains to prelims & ep.s w/minor loss to fore-edges).  Fredeman 46.12, Colbeck 24, Lasner 20 (his "Superior binding variant").  (Inv. #595)  C$400



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