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THE BOOKMAN Ed R W NICOLL, St.ohn ADCOCK, H ROSS-WILLIAMSON |
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This magazine of the literary & artistic world includes practically every notable and influential writer of the time. Each issue is profusely illustrated with photographs & drawings, relating to the articles. These provide an invaluable source of biobibliographical information. The reviews relate to new books recently published. Contributors are enclosed in brackets. Generally the wraps are a little frayed & the staples tend to be rusted otherwise the contents are very good other defects being noted. 1892 April. (Articles on the Carlyles with presentation portrait, Quiller Couch interviewed& with a full page portrait of him: unpublished letter by Ruskin, etc.) 1900 Sept. (Mark Twain, 6pp article plus presentation plate & many pertinent illustrations; Reviews of new books by R Garnett, C Kernahan, etc.) Original wraps loose. £15.00 1901 March . (Articles on Tolstoi by G H Perris & E Garnett, 8pp with presentation plate &
many pertinent.llustrations; London Publishing Houses, Messrs.Longmans, Green& Co.) 1901 Oct. Issue devoted mainly to Robert Louis Stevenson by W Robertson Nicoll profusley illustrated with pictures of Stevenson , including a full page protrait, throughout.is life & his family; Poems by J M Barrie & W Robertson Nicoll; Article on Messrs Smith, Elder & Co-a London Publishing Houses: Reviews of new books by W Barry, Q, F E Page, W Wallace, W Canton ,T Page, etc.) Lacks wraps. £10.00 1902. Jan. (R Garnett on Jane Austen profusley illustrated throught the issue with pictures relating to her & a full page portrait of her; E J Dillon on the work of M Gorky; G Douglas on Poetic Melancholy; Reviews of new books by A Mavalister, Q, W Barry, A MacDonell, etc. ) Wraps dusty & staples rusty but otherwise a very good source on the life & work of Jane Austen. £15.00 1902. March. (Articles on Walter Scott with presentation plate & many illustrations)
edited by W S Crockett.4pp; R Garnett, W Canton, etc.) 1902 July. One short review has been neatly removed & the covers & adverts are missing but otherwise an interesting issues on the Poets Laureate of England by T Seccombe, profusely illustrated with their portraits & a full page one of Alfred Austin; Y Y –The Literary Harvest of the War; J Dawson writes about Mrs Atherton, Miss Van Vorst & Mrs Rawson; other contributions by T Page, W Lewin, M Dods, E Garnett, A Macalister, W Barry, etc. £10.00 1903 Feb. (G K Chesterton & L Melville on Thackeray; W M Ramsay-A Note on Shelley.) Lacks wraps. £6.00 1903 May. (The Centenary of Bulwer Lytton by L Melville profusley illustrated with presentation portrait; W B Yeats-A Canonical Book-a review of Poets and Dreamers by Lady Gregory. Other reviews include Q, E V Lucas, W Whitten , L Melville, etc.) Original wraps frayed. £15.00 1903 Oct. Double number mainly devoted to Shakespeare (presentation plate) with articles on him by T Seccombe, H Snowden Ward & W E Henty; Reviews of new books by M H Spielman, R Garnett, etc. Profusley illustrated.) Original wraps frayed. £15.00 1904 Jan. Issue mainly devoted to the Kingsleys by A St John Adcock-6pp profusely illustrated. Fanny Burney by R Garnett-2pp; Some Memories of Herbert Spencer, etc.) Original wraps frayed. £15.00 1904 June. (Three Nature Writers-I Walton, G White & R Jefferies by F Scott, amply illustrated & with a presentation plate of Izaak Walton; Review of new books by A St John Adcock S Crockett, W Barry, J H Lobban, etc. H Maxwell on Andrew Wauchope; etc.) £15.00 1904 Aug. (V Hugo Number with articles on him by T Seccombe, L M Brandin, D H Flemming & with a presentation plate & many illustrations; articles on Musset & Georges Sand. Maria Edgeworth by R Garnett, Burns, etc) £15.00 1904 Sept. (S T Coleridge Number with articles on him by T Seccombe & Canon Rawnsley; H Belloc on The French Revolution, 3pp review.) £15.00 1905 Feb. (Cervantes (presentation plate) Number with articles by M Hume & H Bernard. Historians & Critics by A Lang, A St John Adcock on Anthony Hope's new novel; etc.) Original wraps a little frayed on the spine. £15.00 1905 Mar. (Disraeli (presentation plate) Number with article by T Seccombe. Review by R Garnett, etc.) Lacks rear wrap. £6.00 1905 May (Schiller Number with articles on him by E Lee, 6pp; John Davidson the Bookman Gallery; R Garnett reviewing William Bodham Donne & his friends.) Wraps loose. £10.00 1905 July (G B Shaw (presentation plate) Number with articles on him; Reviews of new books by Belloc, Adcock, Rhys...) £15.00 1905 Sept. (The Work of M Hewlett by A MacDonell; Reviews of new books by R Garnett, J St. John Adcock, etc.) Wraps loose. £6.00 1905 Oct. (Main article on Byron (4 different plates including a presentation plate) by J Wright Duff; The first part of The Bookman's Illustrated History of English Literature by T Seccombe & W R Nicoll.) Tip of spine reinforced with clear tape otherwise a very good copy. £15.00 1906. Jan. (Shelley by H Buxton Forman profusely illustrated. Liberal Leaders in Literature by T Seccombe-illustrated; A Noyes on Fiona Macleod (William Sharp); Other articles by S Richardson, E Dowden, R C Lehmann, H C Beeching,etc. First few pages are loose and there are no wraps. £5.00 1906 March. (The Schoolboy in Fiction by W E W Collins-profusely illustrated & with a presentation portrait of Augustine Birrell-President of the Board of Education, & another of Rev Canon E Lyttelton-Headmaster of Eton College; School Memories by H Maxwell(Eton), Reviews of new books by R S Wallace on Robert Greene; R L S on Style by L G Brock; C C Penrose Fitzgerald on the Voyage of the Discovery; Arthur Ransome-Prehistoric Stories; A St John Adcock, etc.) Original wraps frayed on the spine otherwise very good. £15.00 1906 June (Dr Richard Garnett.presentation plate. In Memoriam by F Madox Hueffer, A W Pollard, B Harraden, A Zimmern, etc. Reviews of new books by Edward Thomas- The Heart of the Country; C Lever, W Barry, G Saintsbury, T Page, W R Sorley, R C Lehmann, H Maxwell, etc.) £15.00 1906 July. (William Hazlitt by.y Churton Collins with a presentation plate; Poem by W De La Mare; Japanese Poetry by Arthur Ransome, Reviews of new books by W Barry(Gissing's short stories, J H Lobhan, T Lloyd, A Noyes, W R Sorley, T Page, A St. John Adcock, L Melville, G K Chesterton(The Saint), etc.) £15.00 1906 Aug. (Saintsbury on W Pater (presentation plate & many illustrations; Reviews of new books by R C Lehmann, Edward Thomas-The Religion of Nature; H Maxwell on Robertson; W S Crockett, A St John Adcock on Wilfred Campbell , etc.) £10.00 1906 Oct. Keats double number with article by H Buxton Forman & with 4 full pages pictorial llustrations & presentation portrait; A Noyes on Mr Chesterton's Dickens;
W De La Mare reviews Tristram & Iseult by J Comyns Carr; other Reviews of new books by W H James, J Moffat, M Dods,
C Grant Robertson, R Igpen, Arthur Ransome, etc.) 1906. Nov. (Lord Macaulay by T Seccombe amply illustrated & with a presentation portrait of Macaulay; Reveiws by R C Lehmann, H Beeching on Mr Yeat's new poems;
W E A Axon on Mrs Gaskell; A Noyes on Kipling the Mystic; E Clodd on Oriental Religion; O Elton, S Reynolds, F G Bettany-Reminiscences of Irving; etc.)
The staples have rusted and the damp has cauised loss of the spine edge of the wraps. 1907 Oct. (Reviews of new books by Edward Thomas, Arthur Ransome, etc. Articles on Mary Queen of Scots, with 2 presentation plates & many other illustrations by H Maxwell, A Lang; A Noyes, Arthur Ransome, etc. Other Reviews of new books by Arthur Waugh, R Campbell Macfie, Neil Munro, W Jerrold, A St.John Adcock, T Secombe, Edward Thomas-An Open-Air Classic; etc.) 1907 Nov . (Some English Humorists including S W R Gilbert (presentation plate) by R C Lehmann; M Corelli, T Watts Dunton, R S Hichens, etc. on The Fleshly School of Fiction; etc.) £15.00 1908 March. (The Mystery of Edwin Drood by B W Matz-7pp with presentation plate & many illustrations; W De La Mare reviews English Prose; A Noyes- Edinburgh;
Edward Thomas-Memoirs of Mistral; Arthur Ransome-French Views; F Sidhwick, S Reynold's-The Beliefs of an Agnostic, etc.) 1908 Christmas. (Arthur Ransome on L Hearn; Edward Thomas on A Poor Man's House by S Reynolds. Other articles on P Gibbon, Lady Randolph Churchill, Milton ,etc. The Impolite Dramatist & the Dramatised Novel by W J Locke, J H Carter, J Fobes-Robertson, C Wyndham, etc.) Lacks wraps & the Rackham frontis. £6.00 1909 Apr. (Samuel Pepys by H B Wheatly with presentation plate of both Pepys & Jane Welsh Carlyle. The Real Boswell by Y Y Carlyle; Love Letters from Jane Welsh by W R Nicoll; etc.) Lacks the review by W de la Mare. £6.00 1909 June. (Articles on A C Swinburne by G Saintsbury, E Gosse, I Zangwill, W Crane, G B Shaw, J Todhunter, J Douglas,B W Cornish; Edward Thomas reviews a new book about Nietzsch; Coulson Kernahanm etc.) Spine frayed. £10.00 1909 July. (Articles on G Meredith (presentation plate) by J Moffat, M Sturge Henderson, M Buxton Forman, 13pp, profusely illustrated; The Poet Laureate of the Sea-A C Swinburne., Coulson Kernahan, A new poet-Ezra Pound; etc.) £15.00 1909 Aug.(Oliver Wendell Holmes Centenary Number with articles on him by Walter Jerrold& S Paget with the presentation plate of Meredith laid in. H Baerlein on Anatole France ; etc.) Spine frayed. £15.00 1910 Mar.(Centenary of Sir Samuel Ferguson by A P Graves 9pp; Holbrook Jackson reviews French Impressionists; Sheridan by L Melville, 8pp; H Baerlein, A St John Adcock, Holbrook Jackson, etc.) Spine frayed. £10.00 1910 Apr. Spring Double Issue. (Articles on M Maeterlinck by Holbrook Jackson, J T Stoddart, W Purvis , T M Wood, A Sutro, with presentation plate & many illustrations; A Lang-The Reformation in Scotland; W Jerrold, F G Bettany, etc.) Original wraps loose. £15.00 1910 Aug. (St John Adcock on William de Morgan profusely illustrated together with a presentation portrait of the author; Japan and Japanese Art by Y Markino; Reviews by K Tynan, L Melville, F G Bettany, etc.) Original wraps frayed. £10.00 Aug 1911 . (W H Hudson on Montaigne; G S Layard on M Beerbohm, A N Lyons by Ashley Gibson; Reviews of new books by W H Hudson, Edward Thomas-The Celtic Spirit; H Baerlein-West.eets East;etc. ) Lacks wraps. £6.00 1912 May. (Browning Centenary Number with articles on him by W R Nicholl, G Saintsbury, R Ingpen, 14pp & presentation plate;Reviews of new books by Edward Thomas-the True Traveller; Coulson Kernahan, Darrell Figgis, etc.) £15.00 1913 Jan. (Scottish Life & Poetry by J Moffat; Lord Morley as a Man of Letters by A Mackintosh, lacks presentation plate, 6pp; Reviews of new books by Edward Thomas on Poetry, H Munro on Stevenson, R Curle-Gitanjali, R H Benson on Cardinal Manning, W W Gibson-on Galsworthy's Plays, etc.) £10.00 1913 Feb. (C Reade (presentation plate) by L Melville, 7pp; G Saintsbury by T Seccombe; Reviews of new books by R Curle, W H Hudson, K Tynan, Edward Thomas; M Baring by R Birkmyre, 2pp;etc.) £15.00 1913 March. (Henry James by Dixon Scot; Some recent poets by Edward Thomas;
P Gibbon on the War Poems; B W Matz on Dickens; F E Green on W Cobbett;
A St John Adcock on Butler's Note-Books; A E Waite-Writ in Water; etc.) 1913 Apr . Double Number with presentation portrait of G F Watts, & articles on him by M H Spielmann, C T Bateman, 12pp; Reviews of new books by Edward Thomas-Georgian Poetry; K Tynan, R Lynd, Brimley Johnson, Holbrook Jackson, A St John Adcock; etc.) Original wraps loose. £15.00 1913 June. (E Gosse (presentation plate) by T Seccombe; Dickens in America by W Roberts; R Curle on Strinberg, Swinburne by Saintsbury; J Drinkwater on Masefield; F Swinnerton, T Seccombe on E Dowden; A St John Adcock on William Watson's Poems; Victorian Verse by T Seccombe; J Middleton Murry, Darrell Figgis, K Tynan-The Spirit of Christmas; etc.) £15.00 1913 July. (L Sterne (presentation plate) by Saintsbury-6pp; W Morris by F Bickley; E Pugh, John Bright by R Whiteing; K Tynan on Mrs Meynell's Collected Poems; Mary Wollstoncraft by R Ingpen; J Austen by W H Helm; M P Willcocks reviews The Women of Today.) £15.00 1913 Aug. (F Thompson by K Tynan-2 pp; Baroness Orczy by A Rutland 9pp; V Hugo by G Sampson-2pp illus; Borrow's Romantic Ballads; The Renaissance and its Makers by Haldane Macfall; Edward Thomas on Recent Poetry; R Curle on Philip, Duke of Wharton; W Jerrold-an Eighteenth Century Egoist, Haldane Macfall.) £15.00 1913 Sept.(G B Shaw (presentation plate) by Dixon Scott.1pp; Darrell Figgis on Shakespeare & the Theatre; R Curle on Strindberg; Edward Thomas-Peacock's Pie; Holbrook Jackson, etc.) £15.00 1913 Oct . Autumn Double Number. (Articles on H Fabre, G B Shaw & G Borrow (presentation plate) by T Seccombe, A T De Mattos & Dixon Scott. Reviews of new books by Edward Thomas, L Melville, E Pugh, 1913 Nov. (Articles on W Pater by T E Page; W T Stead by R Whiteing; J Galsworthy (presentation plate) by R Curle; Reviews of new work by Edward Thomas on W H Davies, R Brimley Johnson, H Baerlein, W Sichel, etc.) £15.00 1914 Jan. (Review by Edward Thomas; M Maartens by A St John Adcock(presentation plate); W B Maxwell by R Birkmyre, Holbrook Jackson, New poetry by Edward Thomas; etc.) £15.00 1914 Feb. (D H Lawrence by W L George; A France (presentation plate) by T Seccombe, W Stephens & A L Coburn; Reviews of new books by K Tynan, Edward Thomas on A Symon's poems; H Massingham, Haldane MacFall, R Curle-Tagore, etc.) Spine frayed. £15.00 1914 May. (I Zangwill by Holbrook Jackson 6pp; Dixon Scott on Whitman 2pp; 1914 June. (W L George by M H H Macartney; R Sabatine by R Biremyre; Ouida by W Sichel; W Barry on Dante's new Interpreters; S R Crockett. W W Gibson on M C Stopes' poetry; lacks 2 pages.) £5.00 1914 July. (Ireland's Iliad by P Colum; Granville Barker by Dixon Scott,10pp; 1914 Aug. (G A Birmingham 4pp by St. Ervine; Bookman Gallery on Holbrook Jackson 2pp; Reviews of new books by E Pugh & R Curle etc.) Wraps loose. £10.00 1914 Sept. (Edward Thomas-Poems & Legends; A Rutland on Charles Garvice; G S Layard on Walter Bagehot, H Massingham on Gorky; R Curle on Nietzsche; F Swinnerton, R Curle, Brimley Johnson, etc. Presentation plate of Mrs M E Braddon; etc) £15.00 1914 Oct. (Articles on The Poetry of War by St John Adcock, F Bickley; Reviews of new books by Edward Thomas-The Green Roads of England, W Jerrold, R Curle, H baerlein, W Jerrold, The Music of Our Allies by G Sampson; etc.) £15.00 1925 SPECIAL CHRISTMAS NUMBER. (Dialogue playlet by C Bronte-here first published. The Bronte Cult by A St John Adcock who also writes about A Milne;-illustrated;
L Aas on Knut Samsun;
H Melville by A T Sheppard; J Freeman on J E Flecker;
other articles on A A Milne, Blake, T Hardy, 1927 CHRISTMAS NUMBER . Articles on John Bunyon by A Birrell, R Lynd, R Ellis Roberts, A St John Adcock. F Swinnerton on Two Lost Leaders-Bismarck & Disraeli; A Noyes on Barry Pain, other articles/reviews by T Moult, F Rutter, R L Megroz, H Ould, J Freeman, R L Megroz, H I'Ansson Fausset, B Lynch, etc.) Spine frayed. £25.00 1929 Nov. (K Tynan on A Meynell, W W Gibson on E Blunden's new poems; Arthur Mee on Harold Begbie; C Kernahan on Barrie; H Fyfe on Ramsay MacDonald; R Flower on John Freeman; etc.) £15.00 1929. CHRISTMAS NUMBER. (G K Chesterton-Magic & Fantasy in Fiction;
A Noyes-The Supernatural in Poetry; M R James-Some Remarks on Ghost Stories; Dreams & Fairies by A Blackwood; E Wallace on Mystery Stories;
The Mysterious in Real Life by J D Beresford, W W Jacobs, H De Vere Stacpoole,
W Deeping, H A Vachell, E Jepson, H Williamson, etc. .J Moffatt on Meredith; 1929 CHRISTMAS NUMBER. As above lacking 3 plates by R Hilder, C M Barker & R Green. Spine very frayed affecting spine edge of rear page . No portfolio. £30.00 1930 Aug. (H M Tomlinson by H L'A Fausset; Charles Lamb by J M Turnbull; E J Trelawney by S M Ellis. Articles on Frank Kendon, Sir A Pinero, Ambrose Bierce, Hartley Coleridge. The Poetry of E Sitwell by M A Sutherland.) Tog with Index Vol LXXV11 Oct.929-March 1930. Wraps loose. £15.00 1930. Christmas Portfolio of John Masefield by E Hastain. 4 plates illustrating his work together with his portrait. £15.00 1931 SPECIAL CHRISTMAS NUMBER. (Articles on Frank Harris by H Kingsmill; Mary Butts
by H R Williamson; The Ideal of Peace in the 19th Century by G Childe; J A Steuart on Hall Caine;
A Wareing on L Pirandello; Other contributors include W W Gibson, M Bowen, Mary Butts, Leavis, 1932 April. (Sir Walter Scott by H Walpole, S M Ellis, J R G Bolton & Burdett, 17pp; Goethe by F Watson, H Walpole by J Morrison; H Kingsmill & W N Nichols...) Original wraps frayed. . £10.00 1932 Christmas. (R Le Gallienne on J E Fletcher; The Sedate Christmas of Jane Austen
by Rowland Gray; I Shipton on Mary Web; E A Osborne on Turgenev; W Holtby,
Mary Butts, M Bowen, R Fyleman, H Ould, etc.. Portfolio containing 4 coloured illustrations by J Simpson on Priestley's Angel Pavement. Other colour illustations
by W Blake, E H Shepard, N Hepple , S Tresilian & A K Macdonald. Full page portraits & drawings of W Rothenstein, E Underhill, Epstein, P Gubbs, N Angell, G D H Cole, G B Stern, J Drinkwater, J S Fletcher, Thomas Burke, Phyllis Bentley & Beverley Nichols; black & white illustrations by John Hassall, F Daglish, R Gibbings, D Tegetmeier, W Rothenstein, H M Brock, F C Pape, etc) Original wraps loose. £35.00 1933 CHRISTMAS NUMBER . (Wyndham Lewis-What are the Berbers? H Walpole-Some Books I have enjoyed in 1933; Politics & Literature in 1933 by S Spender; M Butts-Magic of Person or Place; C P Snow on Science of the Year; O Blakeston on the Cinema in 1933; Story by t. Powys; Iola Wiliams on Christmas Broadsheets; Other contributors G Grigson, H l'anson Fausset, Arthur Waugh, G Barker, F Rutter, Other reviews of books by O Burdett, E Muir, etc. Coloured illustrations by Lawson Wood, A Rackham, V Mason, etc. Portraits of Sir Henry Wood, H Waddell, R Lynd, R H Wilenski, etc. No portfolio. £50.00 1934. Christmas. (Contains review by Samuel Beckett, “Dylon” Thomas with other contributions
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W Plomer, T F Powys, A J Cronin, R Graves, A G Street. J Hilton, O Blakeston, G Grigson, R Herring,
I O Williams, J Lindsay, etc. Susan Buchan's dramatisation of The Wife of Flanders by J Buchan.
Poems by R Todd, M Carpenter, P Lindsay,
D Hawkins, D Delvin, etc. Profusely i llustrated with portraits, etc.
The “Retrospect” section contains the reprinting of 5 pieces by W B Yeats & others by Chesterton, Shaw, A Bennett, Conan Doyle, Compton Mackenzie, etc.) £50.00 BOUND VOLUMES in publisher's original cloth v.3. Oct.892-March 1893. (W B Yeats-A Mystical Prayer-an unsigned letter, Fiddler of Dooney & 2 reviews; K Tynan, A C Benson, R Le Gallienne, W Watson, T Wise, etc.) £85.00 v.21. Oct.1901-March 1902. (Articles on G Borrow(presentation plate), T Hardy(presentation plate), Famous Publishing Houses-Blackwood with facsimile of letter from Lockhart, Walter Scott(presentation plate), J Austen(presentation plate), R L Stevenson(presentation plate), Rossetti, R Kipling, R Buchanan, Byron's Last Letters & Journals, etc. by W Pett Ridge, G K Chesterton, R Garnett, Q, M H Spielmann, W Canton, J M Barrie, A Macdonell, T Seccombe, etc. £45.00 v.24. April-Sept. 1903. (A St John Adcock, W Archer, W S Crockett, E Dowden, E & R Garnett, v.25. Oct.1903-March 1904. (A St John Adcock, G K Chesterton, R Garnett, L Melville, May Sinclair, M H Spielmann, etc.with articles on W Shakespeare(presentation plate), W E Henley, Dante(presentation plate), C Kingsley(presentation plate), H Spencer, Fanny Burney, Goethe(presentation plate), Milton(presentation plate), etc. £40.00 v.26. April-Sept.1904. (A St John Adcock, H Belloc, G K Chesterton, E & R Garnett,
W Meynell, Canon Rawnsley, etc. with articles on W Cowper(presentation plate), Cardinal Newman(presentation plate), Disraeli, Rossetti, I Walton(presentation plate), V Hugo(presentation plate), v.27. Oct.1904-March 1905. (A St John Adcock, G K Chesterton, A Lang, R Garnett, C L Hind, Postage at Cost. |
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