Westward Ho!; Hereward The Wake; Hypatia; Two Years Ago; Alton Locke -
Charles Kingsley
1896-1900 - Macmillan and Co., London -
A finely bound five volume set of Kingsley’s best known historic novels, ‘Hypatia’, ‘Hereward the Wake’ and ‘Westward Ho!’, the classic action-packed saga of romance and seafaring adventure set against the dramatic backdrop of Elizabethan England, the battle of the Spanish Armada, and the exploration of North America, illustrated by Charles Brock.
Together with ‘Alton Locke’, the story of a tailor-poet who rebels against the ignominy of sweated labor and becomes a leader of the Chartist movement, and ‘Two Years Ago’ about a doctor named Tom Thurnall and his friends as they deal with the effects of the Crimean War and a cholera epidemic, reflecting on social issues of the time, such as public health, slavery, and social reform. Full titles: ‘Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet - An Autobiography’; ‘Two Years Ago’; ‘Westward Ho! or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the County of Devon, in the reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth. Rendered into modern English’; ‘Hereward The Wake ‘Last of the English’’. and ‘Hypatia or, New Foes with An Old Face’.
Five small octavo volumes (binding size 19x13.2cm), pp.xi [1] 591 [1]; [2] viii373 [1]; [2]xvi 345 [1]; [2] lxxxiv 307 [1]; [2] vi 469 [1]. Bound for A & F. Denny, 147 Strand in contemporary three quarter brown morocco over matching cloth, spines with gilt lettering, motifs and tooling, marbled endpapers and edges. Condition: Fine in near fine bindings with uniformaly sunned spines and light wear to corners and spine ends. Ref: 112379 Price: HK$ 4,000
Together with ‘Alton Locke’, the story of a tailor-poet who rebels against the ignominy of sweated labor and becomes a leader of the Chartist movement, and ‘Two Years Ago’ about a doctor named Tom Thurnall and his friends as they deal with the effects of the Crimean War and a cholera epidemic, reflecting on social issues of the time, such as public health, slavery, and social reform. Full titles: ‘Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet - An Autobiography’; ‘Two Years Ago’; ‘Westward Ho! or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the County of Devon, in the reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth. Rendered into modern English’; ‘Hereward The Wake ‘Last of the English’’. and ‘Hypatia or, New Foes with An Old Face’.
Five small octavo volumes (binding size 19x13.2cm), pp.xi [1] 591 [1]; [2] viii373 [1]; [2]xvi 345 [1]; [2] lxxxiv 307 [1]; [2] vi 469 [1]. Bound for A & F. Denny, 147 Strand in contemporary three quarter brown morocco over matching cloth, spines with gilt lettering, motifs and tooling, marbled endpapers and edges. Condition: Fine in near fine bindings with uniformaly sunned spines and light wear to corners and spine ends. Ref: 112379 Price: HK$ 4,000