RARE COPY IN WRAPPERS
The Fair Isabel: or the Fanatics of the Cevennes. Translated by William H. Herbert, Esq. With original illustrations by the Translator.
New York: Richards and Company, 1846.
Price: $1,000.00
About the item
First edition. With two frontispieces on wrapper stock, vignette title pages, woodcuts throughout. Pp. [i, half title], [ii, blank], [iii, title], [iv, blank], [v, Author’s Preface], [vi, blank], [7]-231, [1, blank],; [7, ads] [1, blank] pp. Stereotyped by Francis F. Ripley. Text in two columns. 1 vols. 8vo. RARE COPY IN WRAPPERS. Original biscuit pictorial printed wrappers, “Price 50 Cents”. Very good plus copy (minor foxing). Green cloth slipcase and chemise. BAL 8095 (“Almost certainly issued in printed paper wrapper”); Van Winkle, p. 104 (“Issued in wrappers but no copy available for collation. Collation taken from a bound a cut copy”). OCLC: 11978468 (Princeton (in wrappers), Yale, Univ. of Penna., UVa).
Item #321013
BAL surmises the existence of wrappers and provides a collation omitting the half title leaf; Van Winkle’s collation also did not see the half title; BAL and Van Winkle do not record the ads, for works by Eugene Sue and others: [1] The Godolphin Arabian; or, The History of a Throughbred (E. Winchester). [2] The Temptation; or, The Watch-Tower of Koat-Vën, a Romantic Tale (E. Winchester); [3] The Wandering Jew. Translated by William H. Herbert (Richards & Company, Agents); [4] Kernok the Corsair and other Tales of the Sea (E. Winchester); [5] Lautreamont; or, The Court Conspirator (E. Winchester); [6] The Hotel Lambert; or, The Engraver’s Daughter (E. Winchester); [7] The Nevilles of Garretstown. A Tale of 1760. By Charles Lever.
Van Winkle notes The Godolphin Arabian and The Temptation among the writings attributed to Herbert.
The inside front wrapper is blank; the inside back wrapper is an ad for Old Cro’ Nest; or, The Outlaws of the Hudson, by Robert F. Greeley (Ward & Co.); the back cover is an ad for The New-York Saturday Emporium (Ward & Co.), headed “To The Public,”.
RARE IN THE ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS.
