Victorian Period from Adamstown Books

Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1981. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 2nd Printing. Hardcover, 367 pp. w/ b&w photos, illustrations, and building plans throughout. Author Hayden explores the material feminism movement that sought to redraw domestic life from child rearing to building design to advance women's equality. Their ideas included urban planning (community kitchens, daycare… Read more about this item

Knoxville TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition hardcover, 203 pp. Examines the role of literature in the lives of New Englanders before the Civil War. Using primary sources, the effect of books, lectures, and speeches show across socio-economic groupings and show how the written word addressed… Read more about this item

Routledge, 1995. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition. Hardcover, 316 pp. w/ b&w plates throughout. "Powerful images from dozens of Victorian artists...are used to illustrate the five key paradigms of masculinity...The author concludes that maleness was, and is, learned and that 19th century ideas still influence the construction of manhood..." … Read more about this item

London, England: William Heinemann Ltd., 1923. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Hardcover, 432 pp. Series of lectures on various poets - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Rbert Browning, Charles Swinburne, George Meredith, William Morris, Robert Nuchanan, Robert Bridges - by Lafcadio Hearn. Book Condition :Good, Ex-College Library; bookplate inside front cover; label on spine… Read more about this item

Berkeley CA: Univ of California Press, 1978. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Presumed 1st Edition. Hardcover, 519 pp. w/ 131 primarily b&w illustrations and several color tipped-in plates.24 essays offer "a comprehensive investigation of the response to Nature in the 19th century". Sections examine Victorian responses to Nature in - city, suburb,… Read more about this item

Rye Brook NY: Museum of Cartoon Art, 1989. Book. Very Good. Softcover (Side-stapled). 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Booklet issued in conjunction with 1989 exhibit at the Museum of Cartoon Art. Oversize side-stapled softcover, 16 pp. w/15 B& w plates. Chronicles the rise of fantastical illustrations in children's books during the Victorian Era. Includes examples from Maxfield Parrish,… Read more about this item

Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 1998. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition hardcover, 203 pp. Examines the literary sketch (and the Golden Age of magazines) as a genre more accessible and less confined by critics than the novel. The author sees this as playing an important part in the shaping of American… Read more about this item

Ams Pr Inc, 1992. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, 267 pp. 17 essay collection originally part of Georgiua State Literary Studies series. "Each of these essays demonstrates how 18th century authors and texts fulfilled their instructive intent by vexing the reader, to echo Swift's famous phrase..." Authors covered include Swift, Pope, Fielding, Philips,… Read more about this item

New York NY: Haskell House, 1971. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1971 Haskell House reprint of 1935 limited edition. Hardcover, 90 pp. w/ b&w frontispiece photo.Twenty two letters by Barrett Browning to two of her sisters from 1846-1857 beginning with her first writing them after she eloped with Robert Browning and journeyed… Read more about this item

London, England and New York NY: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1930. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Stated 1st Edition. Hardcover, 216 pp. w/13 b&w photos. Full length sympathetic biography of the Victorian poet. Book Condition : Very Good; no text marks; light bumping to spine ends; two small smudges at top of… Read more about this item

Greenwich CT: New York Graphic Society, 1972. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st American Edition. Hardcover, 184 pp. w/12 color plates and 120 b&w illustrations. Traces the introduction of mass production techniques into ceramic tile design and distribution in Great Britain and America in the 19th century. Includes information on the role of Arts and… Read more about this item

Chicago IL: Chicago Review Pr, 1996. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 1st American Edition. Hardcover, 88 pp. w/ color and b&w plates throughout. Examines the role of flora and nature in the life and work of William Morris, a seminal figure in the Arts & Crafts and Pre-Raphaelite movements in Victorian England.… Read more about this item

New York NY: Clarkson N. Potter, 1966. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Presumed 1st Edition. Hardcover, 159 pp. w/ 58 b&w and 3 color plates. Following an introduction, 60 Victorian paintings are presented with descriptive and critical commentary on the facing page. Book Condition : Very Good; no text marks; light… Read more about this item

New York and London: Benjamin Blom, 1968. Book. Illus. by Thomas H. Shepherd. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 1968 facsimile printing of 1829 edition. Hardcover, c. 300 pages (plates are unpaginated) w/ 190 b& w plates. "Illustrated by a Series of Views from Original Drawings by Thomas H. Shepherd with Historical, Topographical & Critical Notices… Read more about this item

Charlottesville VA : University of Virginia Press, 1999. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, 1st Edition, 201 pp. Reassesses Gaskell's ideology and feminism through the Victorian literary marketplace, arguing that her popular standing allowed her to express or suggest previously hidden or unconventional views. Part of UVA's Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Book Condition… Read more about this item

London, England and New York NY: Lincoln MacVeagh/The Dial Press, 1928. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1928 possible 1st Edition. Hardcover, 317 pp. w/ 10 b&w illustrations. Seeks to illuminate 5 years of Arnold's life, in his youth, that hadn't been fully explored by previous biographers. Kingsmill argues that Arnold's experiences with romance and travel… Read more about this item

Charlottesville VA : University of Virginia Press, 1998. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Argues that there is an additional tradition in Victorian literature, feminine political fiction. This emerged as women authors (Bronte, Gaskell, Gissing, and more) imagined more involvement in the public political sphere during the Industrial Revolution. Book Condition : Near Fine; check… Read more about this item

Chicago IL: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1904. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Limited large paper edition, unnumbered of 250. 230 pp. including c. 60 b&w photos. Collection of poetic works by Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning related to Florence Italy where they lived for15 years. Includes Casa Guidi Windows, Old Pictures in Florence, Book One… Read more about this item

Philadelphia PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1986. Journal. Very Good. Softcover (Side-stapled). 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. This well illustrated Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin, focused on jewelry, contains two articles : A Celebrated Miniature of the Comtesse d'Olonne, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Taste for Archaelogical-Style Jewelry. The latter includes the role of jewelry in Robert… Read more about this item

New York, NY: G. K. Hall & Co., 1993. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This is a comprehensive reference work, the annotations to the sources are invaluable for anyone researching Barrett Browning. The format is chronological with special notation in bold given to reviews of the works EBB published that year. This bibliography… Read more about this item