1834: 1     ANON.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND LETTERS OF ARTHUR COURTENAY.
London: T. Hookham, Old Bond Street, 1834.
216p. 16mo. 6s (ECB).
ECB 139 (July 1834).
Corvey; NSTC 2C39870 (BI BL, C, O); OCLC 2354248 (1 lib).
Notes. This work has been sometimes attributed to ‘Arthur Courtenay’, but there is no evidence that such a person existed. The ‘Autobiography, &c.’ occupies pp. [1]–193, followed by a note, signed ‘ED.’ (p. 194), and four letters (pp. 195–216). The note on p. 194 reads: ‘Mr. Courtenay does not appear to have continued his Autobiography beyond this period; but I am indebted to the kindness of his old and tried friend, so often mentioned in this narrative, for the annexed Letters, written subsequent to the melancholy death of Adolphe de Beaulieu, and which, if the reader is sufficiently interested in the foregoing narrative to peruse, he will find, brings it down to the period of our meeting, in the North of England’. Adv. list (2 pp. unn.) at start of vol. for books ‘Lately Published, by T. Hookham, Old Bond Street’. Printer’s mark of J. and C. Adlard, Bartholomew Close.

1834: 2     ANON.
BARNADISTON[.] A TALE OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1834.
I ix, 331p; II 291p; III 275p. 12mo. 21s 6d [sic] (ECB); 31s 6d boards (ER, LG).
LG 882: 796 (14 Dec 1833); ER 58: 553 (Jan 1834); ECB 40 (Dec 1833).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47103-6; NSTC 2B8469 (BI BL, C, E); xOCLC.
Notes. Erratum (one item only) verso facing half-title in vol. 1. Preface, pp. [v]–ix, acknowledges that the work ‘teemeth with faults’, it being the author’s ‘first attempt in this way’, adding that ‘the avocations of a military life […] are little suited to the encouragement of literary occupations’ (pp. [v]–vi). Adv. list (4 pp. unn.), dated ‘Conduit Street, Dec. 1833’ and featuring ‘Valuable and Interesting Works’, at end of vol. 3. Printer’s marks and colophons of Ibotson and Palmer, Savoy Street, Strand.

1834: 3     ANON.
CATHERINE DE MEDICIS, OR THE RIVAL FAITHS.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., Cornhill, 1834.
380p. 12mo. 10s 6d (ECB, MC); 10s 6d cloth (ER, LG).
LG 903: 334 (10 May 1834); ER 59: 528 (July 1834); ECB 101 (Apr 1834).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47238-5; NSTC 2C11482 (BI BL, C); OCLC 32033113 (3 libs).
Notes. Dedication (1 p. unn.) to ‘the Right Honourable Lady Ward’, signed ‘The Author’ and dated ‘Mount Radford, Exeter, April, 1834’. Printer’s mark and colophon of Stewart and Co., Old Bailey.

1834: 4     ANON.
CHILDE ROELIFF’S PILGRIMAGE, AND OTHER TALES. BY SEVERAL AMERICAN AUTHORS. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Printed for A. K. Newman and Co., 1834.
I 292p; II 252p; III 262p. 12mo. 15s (ECB, Star); 15s boards (ER, LG).
Star (13 Nov 1833); LG 879: 750 (23 Nov 1833); ER 58: 553 (Jan 1834); ECB 110 (Nov 1833).
BL N.1005; CME 3-628-51004-X; NSTC 2P7318 (BI C, E, O); OCLC 27254614 (3 libs).
Notes. Vol. 1 comprises: James Kirke Paulding, ‘Childe Roeliff’s Pilgrimage; a Travelling Legend’, pp. [1]–142, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick, ‘Le Bossu’, pp. [143]–292. Vol. 2 contains: William Leggett, ‘The Block House; a Western Story’, pp. [1]–165, and R. C. Sands, ‘Mr. Green’, pp. [169]–252. Vol. 3 consists of: James Kirke Paulding, ‘Selim, the Benefactor of Mankind’, pp. [1]–118; William Cullen Bryant, ‘The Skeleton’s Cave’, pp. [119]–200; Anon., ‘Medfield’, pp. [201]–262. Printer’s marks and colophons of J. Darling, Leadenhall Street. Corvey copy missing vol. 2, pp. 166–168. All the tales in this compilation were previously published as part of Tales of Glauber-Spa (1833: 12). Originally published New York 1832 (NSTC).

1834: 5     ANON.
MAKANNA; OR THE LAND OF THE SAVAGE. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Simpkin and Marshall, Stationers’ Court, 1834.
I xxi, 316p; II 316p; III 340p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB).
ECB 364 (Feb 1834).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48151-1; NSTC 2M10681 (BI BL, C); OCLC 46915954 (1 lib).
Notes. ‘Prefatory Hints’, pp. [v]–xxi, dated ‘London, 1834’, in which the author figures himself as the ‘editor’ of a manuscript found in an ancient trunk. ‘Notes’ occupy pp. [307]–316 in vol. 1. Printer’s marks and colophons of C. Whittingham, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane. ECB lists Whittaker as publisher.
Further edn: German trans., 1835 (OCLC).

1834: 6     ANON.
SIR RODOLPH OF HAPSBURG. AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: M. Iley, Somerset Street, Portman Square; and Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh, 1834.
I 316p; II 299p; III 354p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d boards (LG).
LG 891: 122 (15 Feb 1834); ECB 539 (Feb 1834).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48746-3; NSTC 2R20130 (NA DLC); xOCLC.
Notes. Printer’s marks and colophons of W. Davy, 8, Gilbert Street, Grosvenor Square, Oxford Street.

1834: 7     ANON.
YOUNG HEARTS[.] A NOVEL. BY A RECLUSE. WITH A PREFACE BY MISS JANE PORTER. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1834.
I viii, 279p; II 258p; III 267p. 12mo. 30s (ECB); 30s boards (ER, LG).
MC (9 Jan 1835); LG 931: 790 (22 Nov 1834); ER 60: 535 (Jan 1835); ECB 652 (Nov 1834).
BL N.1141; NSTC 2P22416 (BI C, E, O); OCLC 7129820 (6 libs).
Notes. Dedication (1 p. unn.) to ‘Lady Hamlyn Williams’, signed ‘The Author’ and dated ‘Nov. 1834’. ‘Preface by Miss Jane Porter’, pp. [v]–viii, dated ‘Nov. 1834’, notes: ‘This simple tale of Young Hearts, is written by one well acquainted with generous throbs of the inexperienced age she treats of’ (p. [v]). Printer’s marks and colophons of E. Lowe, Playhouse Yard, Blackfriars.

1834: 8     [?ADDERLEY, C. F. or ?FITZATHERLEY, Mrs].
OUR TOWN; OR, ROUGH SKETCHES OF CHARACTER, MANNERS, &C. BY PEREGRINE REEDPEN. IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1834.
I viii, 328; II 346p. 12mo. 21s boards (BP); 21s (ECB, LG).
BP (20 Mar 1834); Star (12 Mar 1834); LG 896: 214 (22 Mar 1834); ECB 427 (Mar 1834).
Corvey; CME 3-628-52901-8; NSTC 2R4980 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA MH); OCLC 43881920 (2 libs).
Notes. BLPC, NSTC, BP, Bentley MS List attribute to C. F. Adderley, while Block and OCLC identifiy ‘Mrs Fitzatherley’ as author. Introduction, pp. [iii]–viii, subscribed ‘Peregrine Reedpen’s Observatory, Our Town, March 1834’. Lists of contents (1 p. unn. each) precede main text in each vol. Vol. 1 comprises: ‘Our Town’, pp. [1]–24; ‘Shops and Shopkeepers’, pp. 25–36; ‘The Survey Continued. Odds and Ends’, pp. 37–63; ‘The Professor’, pp. 64–78; ‘Beauty. The Beauties of “Our Town” ’, pp. 79–104; ‘The Dashaway Administration’, pp. 105–159; ‘The Curate’, pp. 160–175; ‘The Bishop of Burleigh’, pp. 176–203; ‘A Walk out of the Town’, pp. 204–232; ‘The Turnpike-Gate’, pp. 233–244; ‘The Return’, pp. 245–259; ‘The Abbey’, pp. 260–282; ‘Clever Men, and Clever Women’, pp. 283–312; ‘The Clergyman’, pp. 313–328. Vol. 2 contains: ‘The Poacher’, pp. [1]–40; ‘The Temple of Hope’, pp. 41–70; ‘Delicate Pleasures for Susceptible Minds’, pp. 71–108; ‘A Party’, pp. 109–129; ‘The Lawyer. A Candidate for the Vox Populi’, pp. 130–163; ‘Rivalry’, pp. 164–175; ‘The Tea-Table’, pp. 176–217; ‘Music-Conversation’, pp. 218–251; ‘Supper’, pp. 252–277; ‘The Reefer’s Tale’, pp. 278–315; ‘The Departure’, pp. 316–322; ‘A Scene’, pp. 323–342; ‘ “Our Town” in an Uproar’, pp. 343–346. Printer’s marks and colophons of Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street. Bentley MS List records print run of 750 copies.

1834: 9     [AINSWORTH, William Harrison].
ROOKWOOD: A ROMANCE. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. (Successor to Henry Colburn.), 1834.
I 324p; II 364p; III 464p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP, ER); 31s 6d (ECB, LG).
BP (3 May 1834); Star (12 Apr 1834); LG 903: 333 (10 May 1834); ER 59: 528 (July 1834); ECB 10 (Apr 1834).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48511-8; NSTC 2A5897 (BI BL, C, Dt, E, O); OCLC 6536987 (11 libs).
Notes. Dedication (1 p. unn.) to the author’s mother. Main text divided into various Books, viz. ‘The Wedding Ring’, ‘The Sexton’, ‘The Gipsy’, ‘The Highwayman’, ‘The Oath’. Printer’s marks and colophons of T. Brettell, Rupert Street, Haymarket. BP notes: ‘The chatacter of “Ruffler” in this novel is drawn from life, and taken from a maltster of the name of Thom, popularly known as “Sir W. H. P. Courtenay, Knight of Malta,” a madman who was shot down by the military, at a cost of ten lives, in May, 1838.’ According to the DNB, Ainsworth began the work in 1831. BP note to 1837 Standard Novels edn. states: ‘A Fourth Edition, in one volume, was brought out with illustrations by George Cruikshank in 1836 by Mr. John Macrone of St. James Square, “a young and spirited publisher,” says Mr. Ainsworth (in Preface), “whose premature death occurred while the present edition was passing through the press.” ’ Bentley MS List records print run of 750 copies.
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1834 (BP: 13 Aug 1834, 31s 6d boards; Bentley MS List: 275 copies); 2nd edn., ‘corrected and revised’, 1835 (NSTC, OCLC); 4th edn., revised, 1836 (NSTC, OCLC); 1837 (NSTC, OCLC; BP: 27 Oct 1837, 6s); 1849 (OCLC); 1850 (OCLC); [at least 6 more edns. to 1870]; Philadelphia 1834, from the London 2nd edn. (OCLC); French trans., 1836; German trans., 1837 [as Rookwood oder der Straßenräuber. Ein Roman. Nach der 4. Auflage des Originals].

1834: 10     BODDY, J[ames] A[lfred].
EUSTON HALL: A TALE. BY J. A. BODDY.
London: Suttaby & Co. Stationers’ Court, Ludgate Street; and J. Murray, 3, Coventry Street, Haymarket, 1834.
iv, 183p. 12mo. 5s (ECB, s.l.).
ECB 63 (May 1834).
ABu SB.82379.Bodd; NSTC 2B39127 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA MH); xOCLC.
Notes. Preface, pp. [iii]–iv, asserts Christian purpose, and quotes Mary Brunton regarding the efficacy of the novel as a medium. Evangelical outlook, with sense of orientation towards youthful readers (though this is not made obtrusive). Colophon of J. Powell, Hand Court, Upper Thames Street. Collates in sixes.

1834: 11     BRAY, [Anna Eliza].
WARLEIGH; OR, THE FATAL OAK. A LEGEND OF DEVON. BY MRS BRAY. AUTHOR OF “FITZ OF FITZ-FORD,” “THE TALBA,” “THE WHITE HOODS,” “DE FOIX,” &C. &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, Paternoster-Row, 1834.
I 358p; II 383p; III 384p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d boards (ER, LG).
LG 928: 742 (1 Nov 1834); ER 60: 535 (Jan 1835); ECB 72 (Oct 1834).
BL N.1073–1075; NSTC 2S42927 (BI C, E, O); OCLC 13314922 (6 libs).
Notes. Dedication to ‘Robert Southey, Esq., Poet Laureate, &c. &c.’, signed ‘Vicarage, Tavistock, Jan. 1 1832’. Adv. facing first page of main text for ‘Letters to the Laureate […] by Mrs Bray’ (‘In the Press’), and for ‘Trelawny of Trelawn; or the Prophecy. A Legend of Cornwall’ (‘Preparing for the Press, by the Same Authoress’). ‘List of Mrs Bray’s Works, published by Messrs. Smith and Elder, 65. Cornhill; Messrs. Longman and Co., Paternoster-Row, London’ (2 pp. unn.) at end of vol. 1, with an assortment of review extracts. Printer’s marks and colophons of A. Spottiswoode, New Street Square. Originally adv. in Star (14 May 1835). Longman Archives (A4, 36; H12, 197) record print run of 500 copies.
Further edn: 1845 (OCLC); German trans., 1837.

1834: 12     [BRENT, John].
THE SEA-WOLF. A ROMANCE OF “THE FREE TRADERS.”
London: Smith, Elder and Co., Cornhill, 1834.
323p. 16mo. 6s (ECB); 6s cloth (LG).
LG 897: 229 (29 Mar 1834); ECB 524 (Mar 1834).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48627-0; NSTC 2B46973 (BI BL, C, E, O); OCLC 27694936 (7 libs).
Notes. Series-t.p. precedes t.p. proper, and reads: ‘The Library of Romance. Edited By Leitch Ritchie. Vol. XI. The Sea-Wolf. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 65 Cornhill. 1834’. List of ‘Errata’ (1 p. unn.) follows main text with adv. for vol. 12 of ‘The Library of Romance’ (‘The Jesuit […] Will be published on the 1st of June’) on same page. Printer’s mark and colophon of Stewart and Co., Old Bailey.
Further edn: 1837 (OCLC).

BRONIKOWSKI, Alexander
See OPPELN-BRONIKOWSKI, Alexander

BRUCE, Carlton
See MOGRIDGE, George

1834: 13     [BULWER LYTTON, Edward George].
THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII. BY THE AUTHOR OF “PELHAM,” “EUGENE ARAM,” “ENGLAND, AND THE ENGLISH,” &C. &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London : Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street ; Successor to Henry Colburn, 1834.
I xvi, 315p; II 296p; III 315p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP, LG); 31s 6d (ECB, ER).
BP (29 Sept 1834); Star (1 Sept 1834), ‘on the 14th September’; LG 923: 661 (27 Sept 1834); ER 60: 535 (Jan 1835); ECB 84 (Sept 1834).
BL 12639.pp.24; NSTC 2B57413 (BI C, E, O; NA DLC, MH); OCLC 38824791 (43 libs).
Notes. Dedication ‘To Sir William Gell, &c. &c.’, pp. [iii]–iv, signed ‘The Author’ and dated ‘Leamington, September 21, 1834’. In this the author touches on the significance of historical facts for the composition of historical novels: ‘But I may add a more general hope, that you will long have leisure and inclination for those literary pursuits, to which you bring an erudition so extensive […]’. This is followed by a Preface, pp. [v]–xvi, which expatiates on how the author was induced to write the novel by a stay near the ruins of Pompeii. Also, it gives a historical and cultural summary of Pompeii. List of ‘Errata’ (1 p. unn.) tipped in front of half-title of vol. 2. Printer’s mark verso facing t.p. reads: ‘Printed by J. Smith, 16, Rue Montmorency’. Bentley MS List records print run of 2,750 copies.
Further edns: 2nd edn., revised and corrected, 1835 (NSTC, OCLC; BP: 30 Mar 1835, 31s 6d; Bentley MS List: 500 copies); 1839 (NSTC, OCLC); 1840 (NSTC, OCLC); 1849 (OCLC); 1850 (NSTC, OCLC); [at least 12 more edns. to 1870]; New York [also Chicago] 1834 (NSTC, OCLC); French trans., 1834; German trans., 1834; Italian trans., 1835–6; Dutch trans., 1846; Danish trans., 1856; Spanish trans., 1865.

1834: 14     [BULWER LYTTON, Edward George].
THE PILGRIMS OF THE RHINE[.] BY THE AUTHOR OF “PELHAM,” “EUGENE ARAM,” &C.
London: Saunders and Otley Conduit Street, 1834.
xxxvi, 341p, ill. 8vo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d boards (LG).
LG 891: 122 (15 Feb 1834); ECB 84 (Feb 1834).
BL 838.h.12; CME 3-628-51304-9; NSTC 2B57444 (BI C, Dt, E, NCu; NA MH); OCLC 1025245 (51 libs).
Notes. Frontispiece illustrating ‘Thurmberg’ on verso facing engraved t.p.. ‘Advertisement’, pp. [v]–vi, followed by list of contents, pp. [vii]–x; table of ‘Illustrations Engraved by, or under the Superintendence of, Mr. E. I. Roberts’, pp. [xi]–xiii; ‘Argument’, p. [xv]; a portrait of ‘The Author of Pelham’, p. [xvi]; and ‘Prefatory Poem: To the Ideal’, pp. [xvii]–xxxvi. Adv. at end of vol. (1 p. unn.)  listing large paper (Imperial 8vo) edn. of the work at three guineas, and large paper sets of the illustrations, ranging from two to five guineas. Printer’s mark of Bradbury and Evans, Whitefriars. (Late T. Davison.). ECB gives publisher as ‘H. Bohn’.
Further edns: 1840 (OCLC); 1849 (OCLC); London and New York 1849 (OCLC); 1850 (NSTC, OCLC); 1854 (NSTC, OCLC); [at least 4 more edns. to 1870]; New York 1834 (NSTC, OCLC); French trans., 1834; German trans., 1834; Danish trans., 1856; also selective trans. in Spanish (1838) and Swedish (1851).

1834: 15     [BURY, Lady Charlotte Susan Maria].
THE DISINHERITED. AND THE ENSNARED. BY THE AUTHORESS OF “FLIRTATION.” IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. (Successor to Henry Colburn.), 1834.
I 316p; II 312p; III 296p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP, ER, LG); 31s 6d (ECB).
BP (8 July 1834); Star (23 June 1834); LG 911: 470 (5 July 1834); ER 59: 529 (July 1834); ECB 88 (June 1834).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47452-3; NSTC 2C4343 (BI BL, C, E, NCu; NA MH); OCLC 9580252 (12 libs).
Notes. Dedication (1 p. unn.) to ‘Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Esq.’, signed ‘the Authoress’. This notes the dedicatee’s distinction in botanical science (the name in the heading is followed by three lines of honours!) and expresses gratitude, as an ‘affectionate Cousin and Friend’, ‘for having afforded me an asylum at a time of distress and destitution’. ‘The Disinherited’ runs to vol. 2 (p. 57), followed by ‘The Ensnared’ (from p. [59]). Preface to ‘The Ensnared’ (p. [61]) notes: ‘The following tale was written with the express endeavour to show the ultimate misery and wide-expanded mischief which are the inevitable consequences of all attachments that are not founded on principle and sanctioned by virtue’. Printer’s marks and colophons of Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street. Bentley MS List records print run of 750 copies. Announced in Star as ‘Lady Charlotte Bury’s New Work’.
Further edn: Philadelphia 1836 (OCLC).

1834: 16     CANDIDA [pseud.].
TALES FOR THE BRITISH PEOPLE. BY CANDIDA.
London: James Ridgway and Sons, Piccadilly, 1834.
xviii, 255p. 12mo. 6s (ECB).
ECB 575 (Sept 1834).
BL N.1255; NSTC 2C5772; OCLC 13054056 (2 libs).
Notes. Attributed by Rolf Loeber and Magda Stouthamer-Loeber (‘Bibliography of Irish Fiction’ — work in progress) to ‘Mrs Frances Peck’, but no further information discovered to corroborate this attribution. Dedication to ‘the Man of all People!!! Daniel O’Connell, Esq. Member of Parliament, &c. &c. &c.’, pp. [iii]–iv, dated ‘Dublin, Sept. 1834’, and signed ‘Candida’. A list of contents occupies pp. [v]–ix, and is followed by a Preface, pp. [xi]–xii, which begins: ‘The following lucubrations are the result of close and anxious observation of the present times: and of a sincere desire, as far as in the author lies, to strip the counterfeit of its tinsel, remove the curtain that screens imperfection, and exhibit folly and vice to public scorn and reproach, in their own scarring deformity’ (p. [xi]). An ‘Introduction’ follows, on pp. [xiii]–xvi, and is succeeded by an address ‘to the British People’, pp. [xvii]–xviii, which states: ‘The following sheets are the production of one of your fellow-subjects, for the common benefit of all. That it emanates from the Emerald Isle, it is hoped, will not diminish its merits with you, for it advocates your rights and privileges, as much as those of the all-suffering Irish themselves’ (p. [xvii]). The vol. contains: ‘The Sojourner in Dublin’, pp. [1]–114; ‘The Modern Pharisees, of the City of Shim-Sham, in Ireland. A Serio-Comic Drama, Enacted in our Own Times’, pp. [115]–148; ‘Life in the Irish Militia’, pp. [149]–191; ‘A Visit to the Lakes of Killarney’, pp. [193]–210; ‘An Allegorical Tale’, pp. [211]–245; ‘ “A New Earth, a New Heaven.” A Fragment’, pp. [247]–255. Each piece has its own separate t.p. Final tale ends with phrase ‘to be continued’—whether this is a narrative device or indicative of the intention to produce further vols. is unclear. A list of ‘Errata’ appears at the bottom of p. 255. Colophon of Norman and Skeen, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden.

1834: 17     [CARLETON, William and others].
POPULAR TALES AND LEGENDS OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY SAMUEL LOVER, ESQ. R.H.A.
Dublin: William Frederick Wakeman; sold in London by Simpkin & Marshall and Richard Groombridge, and by Fraser & Co. Edinburgh, 1834.
404p, ill. 12mo. 7s 6d (ECB, LG); 7s 6d cloth (ER).
LG 901: 301 (26 Apr 1834); ER 59: 528 (July 1834); ECB 463 (Apr 1834).
BL 836.c.25; NSTC 2L23317 (BI C); OCLC 26916310 (6 libs).
Notes. Frontispiece taken from ‘The Three Devils’. ‘To the Reader’ (1 p. unn.) notes: ‘The Editor of this Volume deems it but fair to mention, that three or four of the stories appeared originally in “The National Magazine and Dublin Literary Gazette.” […] One of the stories is from the pen of Mrs S. C. Hall, and two others by the author of “Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry.” [i.e. William Carleton] The remaining sketches, as will readily be perceived, are the production of practised writers, well acquainted with Irish life.’ This is followed by a list of contents (1 p. unn.). The work contains: ‘Alley Sheridan, or the Runaway Marriage’ (William Carleton), pp. [1]–62; ‘Kate Connor’ (Anna Maria Hall), pp. [63]–77; ‘Charley Fraser, or the Victim of Jealousy’ (Selina Bunbury), pp. [79]–115; ‘The Whiteboy’s Revenge’ (‘By Denis O’Donoho’), pp. [117]–134; ‘Laying a Ghost’ (William Carleton), pp. [135]–153; ‘The Wife of Two Husbands. A Tale Founded on Fact’ (‘By J. L. L.’), pp. [155]–171; ‘Reminiscences of an Irish Landlord. The Rebel Chief—1799’ (‘By P. D. H[ardy?].’), pp. [173]–205; ‘Mick Delany’ (‘By Denis O’Donoho’), pp. [207]–244; ‘The Lost One’ (‘By J. L. L.’), pp. [245]–262; ‘The Abduction and Rescue’ (‘By Denis O’Donoho’), pp. [263]–284; ‘The Dance’ (By J. L. L.), pp. [285]–303; ‘The Shooting Excursion’ (‘By Denis O’Donoho’), pp. [305]–335; ‘The Unwedded Mother’ (‘By Denis O’Donoho’), pp. [337]–371; ‘The Fetch. A Tale of Superstition’ (‘By J. L. L.’), pp. [373]–393; ‘The Three Devils’ (‘By B. A. P.’), pp. [395]–404. Printer’s mark (verso of t.p.) reads: ‘Dublin: Printed by P. D. Hardy, Cecilia-street.’ LG lists as ‘by S. Lover’.
Further edn: 2nd edn. 1837 (NSTC, OCLC).

1834: 18     [CARLETON, William].
TALES OF IRELAND. BY THE AUTHOR OF “TRAITS AND STORIES OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY.”
Dublin: William Curry, jun. and Company[;] Simpkin and Marshall, London, 1834.
xiii, 366p, ill. 16mo. 7s 6d (ECB); 7s 6d cloth (ER, LG, Star).
Star (31 July 1834); LG 916: 550 (9 Aug 1834); ER 60: 534 (Jan 1835); ECB 575 (July 1834).
Corvey; CME 3-628-51152-6; NSTC 2C7499 (BI BL, C, Dt; NA DLC, MH); OCLC 8998551 (15 libs).
Notes. List of ‘Works on Ireland, Published by W. Curry, jun. and Co. Dublin’ (1 p. unn.), and statement ‘The Etchings by W. H. Brooke, Esq. R. H. A.’ (1 p. unn., verso of half-title), precede main t.p. in vol. 1. Preface, pp. [vii]–xiii, dated ‘Dublin, April, 1834’. This notes that ‘all the stories it contains, except “Neal Malone,” and “The Dream of a Broken Heart”—both recently published—have appeared before in an excellent periodical, whose circulation, however, in consequence of its serious character, is more limited than that of a magazine merely literary’ (p. [vii]); it also states that ‘Most of the following stories will be found to illustrate, more clearly than any I have yet written, the religious prejudices and feelings of the Irish people’ (p. viii). List of contents (1 p. unn.) precedes preface. The tales consist of: ‘The Death of a Devotee’, pp. [1]–40; ‘The Priest’s Funeral’, pp. [41]–109; ‘Neal Malone’, pp. [111]–146; ‘The Brothers. A Narrative’, pp. [147]–253; ‘The Illicit Distiller’, pp. [255]–285; ‘The Dream of a Broken Heart’, pp. [287]–334; ‘Lachlin Murray, and the Blessed Candle’, pp. [335]–366. Adv. (2 pp. unn.) for ‘The Dublin University Magazine’ follows main text. Printer’s mark and colophon read: ‘Dublin: Printed by P. D. Hardy, 3, Cecilia-street’.

CHERRY and FAIR STAR
See DISRAELI, Benjamin and Sarah

1834: 19     CHORLEY, Henry F[othergill].
SKETCHES OF A SEA PORT TOWN. BY HENRY F. CHORLEY. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, (Successor to Henry Colburn.), 1834.
I viii, 336p; II 323p; III 301p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP, ER); 31s 6d (ECB).
BP (14 Feb 1835); MC (30 Jan 1835); ER 61: 259 (Apr 1835); ECB 112 (Feb 1835).
ABu SB.82379.Cho(s); NSTC 2C19706 (BI BL, C, E, O); OCLC 21096122 (4 libs).
Notes. Dedication (1 p. unn.) ‘To John Rutter, Esq., M.D.’, signed ‘your affectionate nephew, Henry F. Chorley’. Preface, pp. [vii]–viii, dated ‘London, June 1st, 1834’. List of contents in each vol. (1 p. unn.), itemizing ingredients, which run as follows. Vol. 1: ‘The Streets, No. 1. Characters’, pp. [1]–14; ‘The Captain’s Widow’s Tale’, pp. 15–44; ‘The Streets, No. 2. The World upon Wheels—A Fantasy’, pp. 45–57; ‘Society in a Seaport Town. Birds of Passage’, pp. 58–71; ‘The Furnivals’, pp. 72–154; ‘The Streets, No. 3. Sounds of a Summer’s Evening—Sunday in Town’, pp. 155–174; ‘The Missionary and the Actress. A Tale’. Vol. 2: ‘The Missionary and the Actress’ continued, pp. [1]–57; ‘The Three Funerals’, pp. 58–77; ‘Parson Clare’, pp. 78–153; ‘The Streets, No. IV. Broker’s Shops’, pp. 154–167; ‘The Blessings of Neighbourhood’, pp. 168–184; ‘A Chapter upon Suburbs’, pp. 185–201; ‘The Adventures of a Merchant of Chance’, pp. 202–323. Vol. 3: ‘The Adventures of a Merchant of Chance’ continued, pp. [1]–190; ‘The Streets, No. V. Night in the Streets—Snow’, pp. 191–203; ‘The Story of Madame Fabbroni’, pp. 204–286; ‘The Streets, No. VI. A Procession Day’, pp. 287–301. Adv. list (2 pp. unn.) for ‘New Novels and Romances Just Published by Richard Bentley, 8, New Burlington Street’, at end of vol. 3 (11 titles listed), and headed by ‘Mr. Bulwer’s New Romance […] The Last Days of Pompeii’. Printer’s marks and colophons of Schulze and Co., 13, Poland Street. Bentley MS List records print run of 500 copies. BP notes: ‘The author’s first work—“a volume of sketches and tales chiefly drawn from observations of Liverpool life.” See “Autobiography of Henry Fothergill Chorley,” vol. i., p. 123.’
Further edn: Philadelphia 1836 (NSTC).

1834: 20     CORNER, Julia.
THE BARONET. A NOVEL. BY MISS JULIA CORNER.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., Cornhill, 1834.
311p. 16mo. 6s (ECB); 6s cloth (LG).
LG 889: 85 (1 Feb 1834); ECB 41 (Jan 1834).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47339-X; NSTC 2C38160 (BI BL, C, E, O); OCLC 19903043 (7 libs).
Notes. Series-t.p. precedes t.p. proper, and reads: ‘The Library of Romance. Edited by Leitch Ritchie. Vol. X. The Baronet. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 65 Cornhill. 1834’. Long adv. list (26 pp. unn.) headed ‘Works recently Published by Smith, Elder and Co. Cornhill’ at beginning of book, preceding titles. Notice (1 p. unn.) at end of vol. stating: ‘Volume XI will appear on the First of April, containing The Siege of Vienna. By Madame Pickler’. Printer’s mark and colophon of Stewart and Co., Old Bailey. LG lists as ‘by a Débutante’.

1834: 21     [DALTON, James].
THE OLD MAIDEN’S TALISMAN AND OTHER STRANGE TALES. BY THE AUTHOR OF “CHARTLEY;” “THE INVISIBLE GENTLEMAN;” AND “THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK.” IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Bull and Churton, Holles Street, 1834.
I 307p; II 296p; III 324p. 12mo. 27s (ECB); 27s boards (LG).
LG 893: 158 (1 Mar 1834); ECB 422 (Feb 1834).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48251-8; NSTC 2D1303 (BI BL, E, O; NA MH); OCLC 42704802 (1 lib).
Notes. ‘The Old Maiden’s Talisman’ runs to vol. 2 (p. 154), followed by ‘Peter Snook: A Tale of the City’, vol. 2, p. [155]–vol. 3, p. 146; ‘Follow Your Nose’, vol. 3, pp. [147]–204; and ‘The Lodging-House Bewitched’, pp. [205]–324. Printer’s mark and colophons of Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street. OCLC entry gives title as ‘The Maiden’s Talisman and Other Strange Tales’.

1834: 22     DAVENPORT, Selina.
PERSONATION. A NOVEL. BY SELINA DAVENPORT, AUTHOR OF ITALIAN VENGEANCE AND ENGLISH FORBEARANCE; PREFERENCE; QUEEN’S PAGE; AN ANGEL’S FORM AND DEVIL’S HEART; ORIGINAL OF THE MINIATURE; HYPOCRITE, OR MODERN JANUS; DONALD MONTEITH[;] THE UNCHANGED, &C. &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Printed for A. K. Newman and Co., 1834.
I 295p; II 273p; III 277p. 12mo. 16s 6d (ECB).
ECB 153 (1834).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47374-8; NSTC 2D3613 (BI BL, C, E, O); OCLC 11913681 (3 libs).
Notes. Dedication (1 p. unn.) to ‘the Noble and Learned Members of the Travellers’ Club’, signed ‘a Descendant of the much-reported and esteemed Traveller in the East, late Sir George Wheler, Bart.’ and dated ‘April 21, 1834’. Adv. lists of ‘New Publications’ at end of vol. 1 (1 p. unn.), vol 2 (3 pp. unn.), and vol. 3 (1 p. unn.). The last includes ‘Lucy Chamont, or Pride Humbled, by Charles Lucas, 3 vols.’ (16s 6d), which was also adv. in Star (16 Sept 1833), but has so far not been discovered. Printer’s marks and colophons of J. Darling, Leadenhall Street.
Further edn: OCLC lists Newman edn. 1843, but possibly in error.

1834: 23     [DISRAELI, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield and DISRAELI, Sarah].
A YEAR AT HARTLEBURY OR THE ELECTION. BY CHERRY AND FAIR STAR. IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1834.
I vii, 292p; II v, 302p. 12mo. 21s (ECB).
ECB 651 (Mar 1834).
O 34.247; NSTC 2Y522 (BI BL, C, E); OCLC 5654540 (3 libs).
Notes. Commonly attributed to Disraeli and his sister Sarah. Preface, vol. 1, p. [iii], states: ‘Our honeymoon being over, we have amused ourselves during the autumn by writing a novel. All we hope is that the Public will deem our literary union as felicitous as we find our personal one.’ Each vol. has its own list of contents preceding the narrative (vol. 1, pp. [v]–vii; vol. 2, pp. [iii]–v). Printer’s marks and colophons of B. Bensley.

1834: 24     EDGEWORTH, Maria.
HELEN, A TALE. BY MARIA EDGEWORTH. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1834.
I 336p; II 336p; III 322p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP, LG); 31s 6d (ECB).
BP (22 Feb 1834); Star (18 Feb 1834), ‘on the 22nd inst.’; LG 893: 158 (1 Mar 1834); ECB 178 (Feb 1834).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47569-4; NSTC 2E2219 (BI BL, C, Dt, E, O; NA DLC); OCLC 796375 (53 libs).
Notes. Printer’s marks and colophons of Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street. BP notes: ‘This story had almost the largest circulation of any novel of its time in three-volume form, except Sir Walter Scott’s. “Helen” was begun in 1830.’ Bentley MS List records print run of 3,000 copies. BP note to 2nd edn. comments: ‘A facetious reference to the Publisher’s payment (£1,200) occurs in the Gentleman’s Magazine for August 1834, p. 165.’
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1834 (NSTC; BP: 24 Oct 1834, 31s 6d boards; Bentley MS List: 500 copies); 1838 (NSTC, OCLC); 1850 (NSTC, OCLC); Philadelphia and Boston 1834 (NSTC, OCLC); French trans., 1834; German trans., 1834; Swedish trans., 1836–7.

1834: 25     {F., S.}.
THE STRANGER CHIEFTAIN; OR, LARA AND HIS PAGE. A TALE. IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: Printed for A. K. Newman and Co., 1834.
I viii, 277p; II 306p. 12mo. 21s (ECB).
ECB 565 (Mar 1834).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48677-7; NSTC 2F256 (BI BL, C, E, O); OCLC 1880317 (3 libs).
Notes. Dedication, pp. [v]–vi, to ‘Mrs. Golland, Authoress of The Foundling of Devonshire, Elinor, &c.’, signed ‘S. F.’ and dated ‘Leamington, March 13, 1834’. This notes that ‘The following tale was […] written at intervals, and under the pressure of many evils; hence the language, like a mirror, may have too much reflected my own melancholy ideas’ (pp. [v]–vi). Unheaded prefatory notice, pp. [vii]–viii, states that ‘the author’s object was to preserve a continued likeness to the original tales in verse, (Lara and the Corsair,) and was therefore unwilling to bring more persons than could be avoided into the scene’ (p. [vii]). Chapter mottoes frequently introduce poetry of Byron and Scott. Lists of ‘New Publications’ at end of vols. 1 (1 p. unn.) and 2 (2 pp. unn.). Printer’s marks and colophons of J. Darling, Leadenhall Street.

FITZATHERLEY, Mrs
See ADDERLEY, C. F.

1834: 26     FLETCHER, Grenville.
VANDENBURG, OR THE FATAL INJUNCTION. A ROMANCE. BY GRENVILLE FLETCHER, ESQ. AUTHOR OF “ROSALVIVA, OR THE DEMON DWARF,” “RHODOMALDI,” “CASTLE OF ROVEGGIANO,” &C.
London: Marsh, Oxford Street, 1834.
235p. 12mo. 7s (s.l.).
C 8000.d.336; xNSTC; xOCLC.
Notes. Adv. on verso of p. 235 states: ‘In the Press. Madelaine, a Romance in Three Vols. By the Author of “Vandenburg” ’, but no record of the publication of such a work by Fletcher survives. Colophon of W. Shrubsole, 13, Rathbone Place’.

1834: 27     FLINT, [Timothy].
FRANCIS BERRIAN; OR, THE MEXICAN PATRIOT. BY MR. FLINT. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Printed for A. K. Newman and Co., 1834.
I 310p; II 296p; III 295p. 12mo. 18s (ECB); 18s boards (ER, LG).
Star (26 Mar 1832), ‘in a few days’; LG 879: 750 (23 Nov 1833); ER 58: 553 (Jan 1834); ECB 209 (Nov 1833).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47468-X; NSTC 2F8821 (BI BL, C, E, O); OCLC 6754886 (4 libs).
Notes. List of ‘New Publications’ (1 p. unn.) at end of vol. 3. Printer’s marks and colophons of J. Darling, Leadenhall Street. Adv. in Star quotes: ‘ “Mr. Flint’s ‘Francis Birrian’ [sic] is delightful. There is a vigour and freshness in his writing that is exactly in accordance with what one looks for in the literature of a new country.” — Mrs. Trollope on America.’ Originally published Boston 1826 (NSTC, OCLC).
Further edn: 1841 (OCLC).

1834: 28     [GLASCOCK, William Nugent].
NAVAL SKETCH BOOK: OR, THE SERVICE AFLOAT AND ASHORE; WITH CHARACTERISTIC REMINISCENCES, FRAGMENTS, AND OPINIONS. BY THE AUTHOR OF “TALES OF A TAR.” SECOND SERIES. IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: Printed for Whittaker & Co. Ave Maria Lane, 1834.
I viii, 239p; II 288p. 12mo. 21s (ECB, LG); 21s boards (ER).
Star (26 Apr 1834); LG 901: 301 (26 Apr 1834); ER 59: 528 (July 1834); ECB 408 (Apr 1834).
Corvey; NSTC 2G9533 (BI BL, C, Dt, E, O; NA DLC); OCLC 12316212 (7 libs).
Notes. ‘Advertisement’, p. [v], notes: ‘Some few of the following sketches have already appeared in periodical publications, the others now make their debût in print’. List of contents, pp. [vii]–viii, precedes main text in vol. 1. List of contents (1 p. unn.) and ‘Erratum’ (1 p. unn.) precede main text in vol. 2. Vol. 1 comprises: ‘The Chase’, pp. [1]–117; ‘Strictures on Smollett’, pp. [119]–140; ‘Notes for Naval Maxims. (Found in the Pocket–book of a Post Captain.)’, pp. [141]–145; ‘Jack’s Eccentricities’, pp. 147–159; ‘A New System of Signals, by which Colours May Be Wholly Dispensed with’, pp. [161]–198; ‘Dialogue of the Deck’, pp. [199]–266; ‘Recreations in Rhyme’, pp. [267]–275; ‘Leaves of the Private Log of a Captain on Half Pay’, pp. [276]–279; ‘Jack in Parliament: Dialogue of the Deck’, pp. [280]–293. Vol. 2 contains: ‘Impressment of Seamen’, pp. [1]–56; ‘Jack the Giant’, pp. [57]–84; ‘Original of the Shipwreck in Don Juan’, pp. [85]–106; ‘Naval Humourists’, pp. [107]–118; ‘Jack the Oporto: A Dialogue of the Deck’, pp. [119]–288. Printer’s marks and colophons of Gilbert & Rivington, Printers, St. John’s Square. For details of 1st ser., see EN2, 1826: 39. Originally adv. in Star (5 Apr 1834), as to be published ‘in a few days’.
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1835 (NSTC, OCLC); ‘2nd edn.’ [sic] 1836 (NSTC); 1843 (NSTC, OCLC); Philadelphia 1835 (NSTC, OCLC).

1834: 29     [GLEIG, George Robert].
ALLAN BRECK. BY THE AUTHOR OF “THE SUBALTERN,” “COUNTRY CURATE,” &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. (Successor to Henry Colburn.), 1834.
I 324p; II 340p; III 324p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP, LG); 31s 6d (ECB).
BP (28 Jan 1834); Star (27 Jan 1834); LG 889: 85 (1 Feb 1834); ECB 13 (Jan 1834).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47044-7; NSTC 2G10261 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA DLC, MH); OCLC 12326794 (20 libs).
Notes. Printer’s marks and colophons of Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street. Bentley MS List records print run of 1,500 copies. Adv. in Star (18 Feb 1834) lists as ‘Mr. Gleig’s New Work’.
Further edn: Philadelphia 1835 (NSTC, OCLC).

1834: 30     [GORE, Catherine Grace Frances].
THE HAMILTONS OR THE NEW ÆRA[.] BY THE AUTHOR OF “MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS[.]” IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1834.
I 308p; II 308p; III 321p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d boards (LG).
LG 894: 179 (8 Mar 1834); ECB 253 (Feb 1834).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47623-2; NSTC 2G14837 (BI BL, C, E, O); OCLC 21322935 (3 libs).
Notes. Vols. 1 and 2 have epigraph from Gulliver’s Travels before main text. Note ‘To the Reader’ (1 p. unn.) following main text in vol. 3 reads: ‘Indulgence is solicited towards whatever errors of the press may appear in the foregoing volumes;—the author of “The Hamiltons” being resident on the continent’. List of ‘Interesting Works Published by Messrs. Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, Hanover Square’ (2 pp. unn.) at end of vol. 3. Printer’s marks and colophons of B. Bensley.
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1834 (OCLC); 1850 as The Hamiltons; or, Official Life in 1830 (NSTC, OCLC).

1834: 31     GRIMSTONE, [Mary] Leman.
CLEONE, A TALE OF MARRIED LIFE. BY MRS. LEMAN GRIMSTONE, AUTHOR OF “WOMAN’S LOVE,” “CHARACTER,” &C.
London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, 1834.
I viii, 368p; II 342p. 12mo. 21s boards (LG).
LG 897: 229 (29 Mar 1834).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47773-5; NSTC 2G23373 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA MH); xOCLC.
Notes. Preface, pp. [iii]–viii, stating humanist position: ‘I wish all who possess influence, political, social, or domestic, could be convinced that to create happiness is to produce virtue’ (p. viii).This is followed by list of ‘Errata’ (1 p. unn.). Adv. list of works ‘published by Effingham Wilson, 88, Royal Exchange’ verso facing t.p. in each vol. Printer’s marks and colophons of G. H. Davidson, Tudor Street, Bridge Street, Blackfriars.

1834: 32     [GROVE, Harriet; afterwards CRADOCK]; LISTER, Thomas Henry (editor).
ANNE GREY. A NOVEL. EDITED BY THE AUTHOR OF “GRANBY.” IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1834.
I 306p; II 320p; III 322p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB, LG); 31s 6d boards (ER).
LG 927: 725 (25 Oct 1834); ER 60: 535 (Jan 1835); ECB 20 (Oct 1834).
BL 1033–5; NSTC 2G24190 (BI C, Dt, E, O); OCLC 12101994 (14 libs).
Notes. Grove was the sister of Lister. ‘Advertisement by the Editor’ (4 pp. unn.), dated 15 Sept 1834, notes: ‘Appearing as “Editor” I will briefly explain what that word is, and is not, here intended to imply. It does not imply that I originally suggested, or have participated, in the composition of the following novel. […] It implies only my cordial approbation of these volumes—that I incur with pleasure the pains and penalties of literary sponsorship, and that while the writer is pleased to remain unknown. […] I am permitted to state that this is a first publication, and that it is the work of a female hand.’ Printer’s mark and colophons of vols. 1 and 3 of B. Bensley.
Further edn: New York [also Philadelphia] 1835 (NSTC, OCLC).

1834: 33     HALL, James.
KENTUCKY. A TALE. BY JAMES HALL. IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: Printed for A. K. Newman and Co., 1834.
I 230p; II 242p. 12mo. 10s (ECB).
ECB 251 (Jan 1834).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47467-1; NSTC 2H3043 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA DLC); OCLC 21556046 (9 libs).
Notes. List of ‘New Publications’ (2 pp. unn.) at end of vol. 1. Printer’s marks and colophons of J. Darling, Leadenhall Street. Originally published Philadelphia 1833 as The Harpe’s Head, a Legend of Kentucky (OCLC).
Further edn: 2nd edn. 1845 (OCLC).

1834: 34     [HART, Joseph C.].
MIRIAM COFFIN, OR THE WHALE FISHERMEN: A TALE. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Whittaker and Co., Ave-Maria-Lane, 1834.
I lxiii, 179p; II 221p; III 236p. 12mo. 18s (ECB, Star); 15s boards (ER); 18s boards (LG).
Star (15 Sept 1834); LG 920: 614 (6 Sept 1834); ER 60: 535 (Jan 1835); ECB 388 (Aug 1834).
ABu SB.82379.Mir; NSTC 2H10432 (BI BL, C, E, O); OCLC 6827071 (8 libs).
Notes. Dedication to ‘Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, Bart.’ Extensive Introduction, with account of fishing in New England based on first-hand knowledge, and concerning legislation on fishery in the United States, dated ‘New-York, April 25th, 1834’. ECB also lists Newman edn., 3 vols., 12mo, 15s (Aug 1834). Printer’s marks and colophons of William Clowes, Duke Street, Lambeth. Originally published New York and Philadelphia 1834 (NSTC, OCLC).

1834: 35     {H}[AYLEY], {W}[illiam] {T.}.
DOUGLAS D’ARCY; SOME PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF AN ADVENTURER.
London: F. J. Mason, 444, West Strand, 1834.
xii, 340p. 16mo. 6s (ECB); 6s cloth (ER, LG).
LG 904: 349 (17 May 1834); ER 59: 528 (July 1834); ECB 169 (Mar 1834).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47506-6; NSTC 2H14081 (BI BL, E, O; NA MH); OCLC 38702160 (4 libs).
Notes. Introduction, pp. [v]–xii, signed ‘W. T. H.’. In this the author distances himself from the gothic device of the mysterious manuscript: ‘Unfortunately for me, it is rather passé to find mouldering MSS. in ponderous oaken chests. Even a supernatural roll of parchment, solemnly presented by a mysterious figure, clad in dazzlingly white raiment, would scarcely be tolerated at present. […] As, thanks to the revolutionary effects of the Waverley Novels and Political Economy, I am thus prohibited from poaching on the domains of Leadenhall Street, and, as moreover, I am by no means blessed with the organ of Imaginativeness, I think that my best chance of getting successfully through the difficult feat of an introductory chapter will spring from my telling the truth; a piece of author-craft which will, at least, have the charm of novelty to recommend it’ (pp. [v]–vi). He then proceeds to present the work as having derived from autobiographical papers left by one of his former school fellows. Printer’s mark and colophon of G. H. Davidson, New Bridge Street, Blackfriars.

1834: 36     HILL, Isabel.
BROTHER TRAGEDIANS[.] A NOVEL BY ISABEL HILL. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit-Street, 1834.
I iv, 256p; II 246p; III 286p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB): 31s 6d boards (ER, LG).
LG 906: 381 (31 May 1834); ER 59: 528 (July 1834); ECB 269 (May 1834).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47705-0; NSTC 2H21597 (BI BL, C, E); xOCLC.
Notes. ‘Introductory Appeal’, pp. [i]–iv, in discussing theatrical focus of the novel, alludes to Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (EN2, 1824: 40) and ‘The Bohemian’ in Barry St. Leger’s Tales of Passion (EN2, 1829: 70). Note (1 p. unn.) following main text in vol. 3, signed ‘I. H.’, reads: ‘An Errata, pointing out the mistakes of Printers, is, I believe, an impolitic affair. Therefore, as I have not seen revised sheets of this venture, should any inaccuracies remain uneffaced, I have but to trust that they will be pardoned as unavoidable, and not of sufficient consequence to impair my meaning’. ‘Critical Notices of “The Prediction,” A Novel in Three Volumes’ (2 pp., new sequence) at end of vol. 2. List of ‘New Works, Published by Messrs. Saunders & Otley, Conduit-Street’ (4 pp.) at end of vol. 3. Printer’s marks and colophons of Henry Cremer, Cornhill.

1834: 37     HOFLAND, [Barbara].
THE CAPTIVES IN INDIA, A TALE; AND A WIDOW AND A WILL. BY MRS. HOFLAND. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. (Successor to Henry Colburn.), 1834.
I 327p; II 320p; III 338p. 12mo. 31s 6d quires (BP); 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d boards (ER, LG).
BP (7 June 1834); Star (16 July 1834); LG 908: 422 (14 June 1834); ER 59: 528 (July 1834); ECB 275 (May 1834).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47676-3; NSTC 2H29377 (BI BL, C, E, O); OCLC 21365259 (6 libs).
Notes. ‘Advertisement’ (1 p. unn.), dated ‘Newman Street, August 1832’, notes: ‘The friends and relations of the late Mrs. Fay, will perceive that I have interwoven her first overland journey to India in my story; an account of which has been published in Calcutta, but has never, I believe, reached England’. Footnote keyed to the date of the same Advertisement reads: ‘Various circumstances have delayed the publication of these volumes’. ‘The Captives in India’ runs to vol. 3 (p. 235), followed by ‘A Widow and a Will’ (from p. [237]). Printer’s marks and colophons of Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street. Bentley MS List records print run of 500 copies.
Further edn: Washington 1835 (NSTC, OCLC).

1834: 38     HOOD, Thomas.
TYLNEY HALL. BY THOMAS HOOD. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: A. H. Baily and Co., 83, Cornhill, 1834.
I xx, 288p; II 311p; III 308p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d boards (ER, LG).
Star (28 Oct 1834); LG 927: 725 (25 Oct 1834); ER 60: 535 (Jan 1835); ECB 280 (Sept 1834).
BL N.1082–4; NSTC 2H28782 (BI C, E, O; NA MH); OCLC 2914135 (16 libs).
Notes. Dedication, pp. [v]–vi, to ‘His Grace the Duke of Devonshire’, signed ‘Thomas Hood’ and dated ‘Lake House, Wanstead, October 20th, 1834’. Introduction, pp. [vii]–xx, contains a fictitious dialogue between the author and two other persons: ‘Mr. Maurice’, ‘the reader at Messrs. Stukeley’s printing office’, and ‘Mr. Collins’, ‘the reader at Messrs. Burnett’s’ (p. ix). ‘Postscript’ at end of vol. 3 (pp. 307–308) gives details about further lives of the dramatis personae. Vol. 1 has printer’s mark and colophon of G. Woodfall, Angel Court, Skinner Street. Vols. 2 and 3 have printer’s marks and colophons of Bradbury and Evans, (Late T. Davison,) Whitefriars.
Further edns: revised and corrected, 1840 (NSTC, OCLC); London and New York 1857 (NSTC, OCLC); Philadelphia 1834 (NSTC, OCLC); German trans., 1842.

1834: 39     {JAMES, George Payne Rainsford}.
THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF JOHN MARSTON HALL. BY THE AUTHOR OF “DARNLEY,” “RICHELIEU,” “HENRY MASTERTON,” “MARY OF BURGUNDY,” &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, Paternoster-Row, 1834.
I v, 333p; II 320p; III 321p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB, LG).
LG 901: 301 (26 Apr 1834); ECB 344 (Apr 1834).
Corvey; NSTC 2J2130 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA DLC); OCLC 13402998 (17 libs).
Notes. Dedication, pp. [iii]–v, to ‘Her Imperial Majesty Alexandra Feoderowna, Empress of all Russias’, signed ‘George Payne Rainsford James’. List of ‘New Works and New Editions Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman’ (2 pp. unn.) at end of vol. 3. Printer’s marks and colophons of A. Spottiswoode, New Street Square.
Further edns: 1848 (OCLC); 1851 (NSTC, OCLC); 1853 (NSTC); London and New York 1858 (OCLC); 1865 (OCLC); New York 1834 (NSTC); German trans., 1835.

1834: 40     [JOHNSTON, Dr].
THE CONSPIRACY. A VENETIAN ROMANCE. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. (Successor to Henry Colburn.), 1834.
I 320p; II 318p; III 311p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP, LG); 31s 6d (ECB).
BP (19 Apr 1834); Star (12 Apr 1834); LG 900: 285 (19 Apr 1834); ECB 131 (Apr 1834).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47320-9; NSTC 2J9253 (BI BL, C, E, O); xOCLC.
Notes. List of ‘New Works of Fiction by Distinguished Writers, just Published by R. Bentley, New Burlington St. (Successor to Henry Colburn.)’ (2 pp. unn.) at end of vol. 2. Printer’s marks and colophons of Ibotson and Palmer, Savoy Street, Strand. Bentley MS List records print run of 500 copies. BP notes: ‘This work was written two or three years before the date of its publication.’

1834: 41     JONES, Hannah Maria.
THE GIPSY MOTHER; OR THE MISERIES OF ENFORCED MARRIAGE: A TALE OF MYSTERY. BY HANNAH MARIA JONES, AUTHORESS OF EMILY MORELAND, ROSALINE WOODBRIDGE, SCOTTISH CHIEFTAINS, &C. &C.
London: Printed by C. Baynes, 13, Duke Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields; published by Virtue, Tallis, and Co. 2 Northampton Square, n.d. [1834].
iv, 858p, ill. 8vo. 18s (ECB).
ECB 311 (c.1835).
O 33.462; NSTC 2J10428; OCLC 13306938 (3 libs).
Notes. Main t.p. lacks date: Bodleian copy described above has ‘1833’ written in ink by hand, but for reasoning behind 1834 dating for the completed work see account of plates below. Additional engraved t.p., also undated, precedes t.p. proper. This carries the heading: ‘Victoria Edition of the Original Copyright Works’. Dedication to ‘Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra Victoria’ occupies pp. [iii]–iv. Frontispiece bears legend: ‘London: Virtue, Tallis & Co. 2 Northampton Square. 1833’; the vol. contains nine other engraved illustrations, with ‘Directions to the Binder for Placing the Plates’ below end of main text on p. 858. This latter also states that ‘The Reader may have the work bound up in one, two, or three volumes’. Last engraved plate (facing p. 795) bears legend: ‘London: Tallis & Co. April 26th 1834’. Colophon of C. Baynes, Duke Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Collates in fours. BL copy (12625.f.1), dated by BLPC [1835?], is bound in 2 vols., but with otherwise identical pagination.
Further edns: [1835?] (NSTC); 1835 (OCLC); 1835 (OCLC); [1840?] (BRu ENC, OCLC); 1854 (Summers).

1834: 42     {L}[ANDON], {L}[etitia] {E}[lizabeth].
FRANCESCA CARRARA[.] BY THE AUTHOR OF ROMANCE AND REALITY, THE VENETIAN BRACLET, &C. &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, (Successor to Henry Colburn.), 1834.
I 323p; II 328p; III 368p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP); 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d boards (ER, LG).
BP (19 Nov 1834); Star (19 Nov 1834); LG 931: 790 (22 Nov 1834); ER 60: 535 (Jan 1835); ECB 328 (Nov 1834).
BL N.1136; NSTC 2L3455 (BI C, E, O; NA DLC, MH); OCLC 13370454 (11 libs).
Notes. Dedication ‘to Mrs. Wyndham Lewis’ (1 p. unn.) appears at beginning of vol. 1, and is signed ‘L. E. L.’ Printer’s marks and colophons of James Moyes, Castle Street, Leicester Square appear in each vol. Bentley MS List records print run of 1,250 copies. Advertised in Star as ‘New Romance. By Miss Landon’.
Further edns: London and New York 1862 (NSTC, OCLC); Philadelphia 1835 (OCLC); German trans., 1835.

1834: 43     [LEA, Mrs].
ENGLISH SCENES AND ENGLISH CIVILIZATION; OR SKETCHES AND TRAITS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., Cornhill. Booksellers by Appointment to Their Majesties, 1834.
I iv, 349p; II 355p; III 344p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d boards (ER, LG).
LG 912: 486 (12 July 1834); ER 59: 529 (July 1834); ECB 188 (July 1834).
Corvey; NSTC 2E10352 (BI BL, C, Dt, E, O); OCLC 3300651 (3 libs).
Notes. BLPC notes: ‘Another copy, in private ownership, gives the author’s name and address in MS. on a small piece of paper, bound into the end papers of volume 2: Mrs Lea of 5 [or 8] South Crescent, Bedford Square, London. Autograph of the author [Lea].’ ‘Note’, pp. [iii]–iv, dated ‘April, 1832’, followed by ‘Second Note’ (1 p. unn.), dated ‘March, 1834’. The latter mentions that the publication has been delayed and that ‘these volumes’ ‘were written some time before the date of the foregoing preface’. Half-title in vol. 1 reads: ‘The Neighbourhoods of Uppinghurst and Abberley’; in vols. 2 and 3: ‘The Neighbourhoods of Uppinghurst and Abberley at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century’. Running title varies according chapter headings. Printer’s marks and colophons of Stewart and Co., 15 Old Bailey.

1834: 44     [LEWIS, Lady Theresa]; [PARKER, Frances], Countess of Morley (editor).
DACRE: A NOVEL. EDITED BY THE COUNTESS OF MORLEY. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, Paternoster-Row, 1834.
I 298p; II 348p; III 347p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB, MC): 31s 6d boards (ER, LG).
LG 910: 454 (28 June 1834); ER 59: 529 (July 1834); ECB 149 (June 1834).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48332-8; NSTC 2L17177 (BI BL, O; NA DLC, MH); OCLC 5794576 (21 libs).
Notes. Printer’s marks and colophons of A. Spottiswoode, New Street Square. Longman Archives (H12, 189) record print run of 1,000 copies.
Further edn: Philadelphia 1835 (NSTC, OCLC).

LISTER, Thomas, ANNE GREY
See GROVE, Harriet; afterwards CRADOCK

1834: 45     {LOMAS, J. R. W.}.
DE LA MACY, A TALE OF REAL LIFE. IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, 1834.
I viii, 310p; II 382p. 12mo. 20s (ECB); 20s boards (ER, LG).
LG 929: 758 (8 Nov 1834); ER 60: 535 (Jan 1835); ECB 157 (Oct 1834).
BL N.1096; NSTC 2L20010 (BI C, E; NA MH); xOCLC.
Notes. Dedication ‘to Edward Lytton Bulwer, Esq. M.P.’, pp. [v]–vi, signed ‘J. R. W. Lomas’, is followed by a Preface, pp. [xii]–xiii. Advs. (2 pp. unn.) appear at end of vol. 2, listing works ‘Published by Effingham Wilson’, including ‘Mrs. Grimstone’s New Novel. This day, in 2 vols. post 8vo. Price 21s. Cleone, a Tale of Married Life’ and ‘Victor Hugo’s New Novel. This day, in 3 vols., with a Portrait of the Author, price 24s. Notre-Dame; a Tale of the “Ancien Regime” ’. Printer’s marks and colophons of Marchant, Ingram Court.

1834: 46     LOVER, Samuel.
LEGENDS AND STORIES OF IRELAND. BY SAMUEL LOVER, ESQ. R.H.A. SECOND SERIES.
London: Baldwin and Cradock, Paternoster Row; and sold by W. F. Wakeman, Dublin, 1834.
x, 324p, ill., music. 16mo. 7s 6d (ECB); 7s 6d cloth (ER, LG).
Star (7 Oct 1834); LG 909: 438 (21 June 1834); ER 59: 528 (July 1834); ECB 354 (June 1834).
Corvey; CME 3-628-51095-3; NSTC 2L23351 (BI BL, C, O); OCLC 40651910 (1 lib).
Notes. Dedication, p. [v], to ‘Thomas Moore, Esq.’, signed ‘Samuel Lover’. ‘Notice’, pp. [vii]–viii, in which the author disavows authorship of ‘A Book, entitled “Popular Stories and Legends of the Peasantry of Ireland, with Illustrations, by Samuel Lover,” […] lately […] published in Dublin’. This adds: ‘Six illustrations for the volume were supplied by me, and those who are answerable for the work should have let the public distinctly understand that so far only was I concerned, and not have imputed to me, by a questionable use of my name, an authorship which I feel it necessary to disavow. // From the duplicity of this title, many have been induced to imagine that the work, to which it is prefixed, is my Second Series of Legends and Stories; and this very name, too, has been assumed, with a mere transposition, the book being entitled “Stories and Legends”, although there is not a single legend in its pages’ (p. viii). The work in question is probably Popular Tales and Legends of the Irish Peasantry. With Illustrations by S. Lover (see 1834: 17). An addendum to the same Notice reads: ‘The very great popularity with which Barny O’Reirdon, the Navigator, was favoured on its appearance in the Dublin University Magazine, has induced me to add it, along with Little Fairly, from the same quarter, to the following Collection of Tales, which, with these exceptions, I place, for the first time, before the Public, in hope of their continued indulgence’ (p. viii). In an ‘Address’ to the reader, pp. [ix]–x, the author notes that his ‘first exercise’ has already been promoted ‘to the rank of third edition’ (p. x). List of contents (1 p. unn.) precedes main text. The tales consist of: ‘Barny O’Reirdon, the Navigator’, pp. [1]–65; ‘The Burial of the Tithe’, pp. [67]–106; ‘The White Horse of the Peppers. A Legend of the Boyne’, pp. [107]–186; ‘The Curse of Kishogue’, pp. [187]–216; ‘The Fairy Finder’, pp. [217]–250; ‘The Leprechaun and the Genius’, pp. [251]–257, in verse; ‘The Spanish Boar and the Irish Bull. A Zoological Puzzle’, pp. [259]–272; ‘Little Fairly’, pp. [273]–315; ‘Judy of Roundwood’, pp. [316]–324. Printer’s mark reads ‘Chiswick Press: Printed by C. Whittingham’, with similar colophon: ‘Chiswick: Printed by C. Whittingham’. NSTC entry gives Chiswick as place of publication. For details of the 1st ser., see 1831: 44.
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1837 (Corvey, CME 3-628-51095-3, NSTC, OCLC). With 1st ser: London 1847 (OCLC); London 1853 (OCLC); London 1860 (NSTC, OCLC); London 1870 (OCLC); Philadelphia 1835 (OCLC); French trans. 1856 [as Légendes irlandaises, serially published in the periodical Le Moniteur universel].

MACKENZIE, Henry, THE MAN OF HONOUR, AND THE RECLAIMED
See MORIER, James Justinian

1834: 47     [MANCUR, John Henry].
HENRI QUATRE; OR, THE DAYS OF THE LEAGUE. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Printed for Whittaker & Co. Ave Maria Lane, 1834.
I 317p; II 300p; III 288p. 12mo. 27s (ECB); 27s boards (ER).
ER 60: 534 (Jan 1835); ECB 264 (July 1834).
BL N.1157; NSTC 2M12162 (BI C, E, O; NA DLC, MH); xOCLC.
Notes. Dedication to ‘James White, Esq.’. Printer’s marks and colophons of Gilbert and Rivington, St. John’s Square. Originally published New York 1834 (OCLC).

1834: 48     [MARRYAT, Frederick].
JACOB FAITHFUL. BY THE AUTHOR OF “PETER SIMPLE,” “THE KINGS’S OWN,” &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1834.
I viii, 304p; II vii, 301p; III vii, 307p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d boards (ER, LG).
LG 922: 646 (20 Sept 1834); ER 60: 535 (Jan 1835); ECB 304 (Sept 1834).
BL N.1019–1021; NSTC 2M15103 (BI C, E, O; NA MH); OCLC 1955557 (23 libs).
Notes. Originally serialized in the Metropolitan Magazine, Sept 1833–Dec 1834, but first published in book form Philadelphia and Baltimore 1834 (OCLC, Sadleir). Adv. on verso of t.p. in vol. 1 for the 3rd edn. of ‘Peter Simple’. Lists of contents occupy pp. [iii]–viii in vol. 1 and pp. [iii]–vii in vols. 2 and 3. Printer’s marks and colophons of Ibotson and Palmer, Savoy Street, Strand.
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1834 (OCLC); 3rd edn. 1835 (NSTC, OCLC); 1837 (NSTC, OCLC); 1838 (NSTC, OCLC); 1844, a reissue of 1838 (NSTC); 1850 (NSTC); [at least 5 more edns. to 1870]; German trans., 1835; French trans., 1837.

1834: 49     [MARRYAT, Frederick].
PETER SIMPLE. BY THE AUTHOR OF “NEWTON FORSTER,” “THE KING’S OWN,” &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1834.
I vii, 328p; II viii, 343p; III viii, 380p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d boards (ER, LG).
LG 878: 733 (16 Nov 1833); ER 58: 553 (Jan 1834); ECB 444 (Nov 1833).
BL N.1010; NSTC 2M15135 (BI C, E, O; NA MH); OCLC 6898260 (15 libs).
Notes. Serialized to the end of ch. 42 in the Metropolitan Magazine, June 1832–Sept 1833, during which time Marryat was the editor (BP), but originally appeared in vol. form in Philadelphia and Baltimore 1833 (OCLC). List of contents precede narrative proper in each vol. Vol. 3 has ‘Corrigenda to Vol. III’ pasted on last page. Printer’s marks and colophons of Ibotson and Palmer, Savoy Street, Strand. BP note on 1837 Standard Novels edn. states: ‘The copyright of this work was purchased from Messrs. Saunders and Otley. […] The character of Capt. Savage of the Diomede is understood to be founded upon that of Lord Dundonald, under whom Marryat served in the Imperieuse. // The account of the hero’s escape is said to be partly derived from a geniuine autobiographical work entitled a “Narrative of a Captivity and Adventures in France and Flanders between the years 1803–9,” by Captain Edward Boys, and partly also perhaps from the narrative of the adventures of Lieutenant Henry Ashworth, which appeared in the Naval Chronicle, vols. xxviii–xxxi. and xxxiii.’
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1834 (Corvey, CME 3-628-48433-2, NSTC, OCLC); 3rd edn. 1834 (NSTC, OCLC); 1837 (OCLC); 1838 (NSTC, OCLC; BP: 30 Dec 1837, 6s); London, Edinburgh, Dublin 1839 (OCLC); [at least 6 more edns. to 1870]; French trans., 1834 [as Pierre Simple, ou Aventures d’un officier de marine, par le capitaine Marryat]; German trans., 1834 [as Peter Simpel, ein humoristischer Roman]; Swedish trans., 1837; Spanish trans., 1852; Danish trans., 1855.

1834: 50     [MARSH-CALDWELL, Anne C.].
TWO OLD MEN’S TALES. THE DEFORMED, AND THE ADMIRAL’S DAUGHTER. IN TWO VOLS.
London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1834.
I 307p; II 308p. 12mo. 21s (ECB); 21s boards (ER, LG).
LG 902: 317 (3 May 1834); ER 59: 528 (July 1834); ECB 605 (Apr 1834).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48847-8; NSTC 2M15322 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA DLC); OCLC 22458412 (8 libs).
Notes. ‘The Deformed’ occupies vol. 1 (up to p. 222), and ‘The Admiral’s Daughter’, vols. 1 (from p. [223]) and 2. Running-titles match the individual tales. Printer’s marks and colophons of B. Bensley. A 2nd ser. was published, with the new title Tales of the Woods and Fields (1836: 49).
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1834 (NSTC, OCLC); 1836 (OCLC); 1844 (NSTC, OCLC); 1850 (NSTC, OCLC); [1862] (NSTC); [1863] (NSTC); New York 1834 (NSTC, OCLC); French trans. of ‘The Admiral’s Daughter’, 1866.

1834: 51     [MAURICE, John Frederick Denison].
EUSTACE CONWAY: OR, THE BROTHER AND SISTER. A NOVEL. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, Successor to Henry Colburn, 1834.
I 300p; II 311p; III 288p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP, LG); 31s 6d (ECB).
BP (7 Apr 1834); Star (1 Apr 1834), ‘on the 8th instant’; LG 899: 269 (12 Apr 1834); ECB 193 (Mar 1834).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47613-5; NSTC 2M20780 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA MH); OCLC 12769128 (9 libs).
Notes. Printer’s marks and colophons of A. J. Valpy, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. BP notes: ‘An account of the progress of this story during the freezing cold of February, 1830, will be found in the “Life of Maurice,” Vol. I, page 104. Its length was reduced by the advice of Mr. Colburn. It was accepted in 1831. […] Introduced by John Sterling. The novel, originally entitled “Ellen,” was copied out by the mother of the author in the early months of 1829. A letter form Richard Bentley to the author is given in “The Life of Maurice,” Vol. I., page 163, regarding the accidental use of the name Captain Marryat for one of the bad characters in the novel. On the following page is a letter from Sterling in which he says that Coleridge “had read about half ‘Eustace Conway,’ and liked it exceedingly. He spoke of it with very high and almost unmingled admiration.” ’ Bentley MS List records print run of 500 copies.

1834: 52     [MAXWELL, William Hamilton].
THE DARK LADY OF DOONA. BY THE AUTHOR OF “ STORIES OF WATERLOO,” “WILD SPORTS OF THE WEST,” ETC. ETC.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., Cornhill, 1834.
306p. 16mo. 6s (ECB); 6s boards (ER, LG).
LG 880: 765 (30 Nov 1833); ER 58: 553 (Jan 1834); ECB 152 (Nov 1833).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47420-5; NSTC 2M21407 (BI BL, C, Dt, O); OCLC 21467686 (12 libs).
Notes. Series-t.p. precedes t.p. proper, and reads: ‘The Library of Romance. Edited by Leitch Ritchie. Vol. IX. The Dark Lady of Doona. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 65 Cornhill. 1834.’ Printer’s mark and colophon of Stewart and Co., Old Bailey. Notice (1 p. unn.) at end of vol. announcing that vol. 10 of the ser. ‘will appear on the first of February. Containing the Baronet. By a Debutante’.
Further edns: 1834 (OCLC); 1836 (NSTC); [1837] (NSTC); 1846 (NSTC); Belfast 1846 (OCLC); 1850 (OCLC); [at least 3 more edns. to 1870]; New York 1835 (NSTC, OCLC); French trans., 1834; German trans., 1834.

1834: 53     [MOGRIDGE, George].
MIRTH AND MORALITY: A COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL TALES. BY CARLTON BRUCE.
London: Printed for T. Tegg and Son, Cheapside; R. Griffin and Co. Glasgow; J. Cumming, and W. F. Wakeman, Dublin, 1834.
226p. 16mo, ill. 6s (ECB); 6s cloth (ER).
ER 60: 535 (Jan 1835); ECB 388 (Nov 1834).
BL N.1222; NSTC 2B54197 (BI O; NA MH); OCLC 4175910 (16 libs).
Notes. Vignette t.p,. preceded by extended half-title, which notes: ‘Mirth and Morality: A Collection of Original, Entertaining, and Instructive Tales. Embellished with Twenty Beautiful Cuts, from Drawings by George Cruikshanks [sic].’ List of contents (1 p. unn.) precedes main text. The work consists of: ‘The Village Auction’, pp. [1]–16; ‘Elm Tree Hall’, pp. [17]–28; ‘The Mad Dog’, pp. [29]–40; ‘Blindman’s Bluff’, pp. [41]–50; ‘Belleville School’, pp. [51]–60; ‘The Hailstorm’, pp. [61]–70; ‘Palm Sunday’, pp. [71]–80; ‘The Butterfly’, pp. [81]–90; ‘Wassailing the Cow’, pp. [91]–101; ‘The Narrow Footpath’, pp. [103]–109; ‘The Dancing Bear’, pp. [111]–120; ‘The Heavy Cross’, pp. [121]–136; ‘The Wasp’s Nest’, pp. [137]–146; ‘The Sad Disaster’, pp. [147]–154; ‘The Waterspout’, pp. [155]–164; ‘The Childish Pursuit’, pp. [165]–176; ‘The Tithe Dinner’, pp. [177]–188; ‘Snowballing’, pp. [189]–200; ‘The Hard Task’, pp. [201]–207; ‘The Alarm’, pp. [209]–216; ‘The Hamper’, pp. [217]–266. Printer’s mark reads: ‘Chiswick Press: C. Whittingham, College House’, with colophon ‘Chiswick: Printed by C. Whittingham’. ECB 388 and 390 gives as by ‘Geo. Mogridge’; NSTC identifies ‘Carlton Bruce’ as Mogridge’s pseudonym.
Further edn: 2nd edn. 1835 (NSTC, OCLC).

1834: 54     MOLESWORTH, J[ohn] E[dward] N[assau].
OVERBURY; OR, SOME ADVANTAGES OF AN ESTABLISHED & ENDOWED CHURCH; AND SOME EVILS OF THE “VOLUNTARY SYSTEM:” A TALE. BY THE REV. J. E. N. MOLESWORTH, M.A. RECTOR OF ST. PAUL WITH ST. MARTIN, AUTHOR OF THE “RICK-BURNERS,” AND “TALES FROM THE SCRAP BOOK OF A COUNTRY CLERGYMAN.”
London: Printed for J. G. & F. Rivington, St. Paul’s Church Yard, and Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, 1834.
90p. 18mo. 1s 6d (ECB).
ECB 391 (1834).
BL T.1471(8); NSTC 2M32293 (BI C, E, O); xOCLC.
Notes. List of contents (2 pp. unn.) precede narrative proper. Plot consists of problems facing sensible Anglican clergyman caused by Dissenters in his parish, with the eponymous Overbury beginning as an elected Dissenting minister before being ousted due to his reverence for the Established Church, and subsequently dying of cholera. A ‘Postscript to the Reader’ fills pp. [80]–90. Printer’s mark and colophon of Gilbert and Rivington, St. John’s Square.
Further edn: 2nd edn. 1860 (NSTC).

1834: 55     [MONKLAND, Anne Catherine].
VILLAGE REMINISCENCES. BY AN OLD MAID. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, (Successor to Henry Colburn.), 1834.
I 310p; II 334p; III 321p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP, ER, LG); 31s 6d (ECB).
BP (17 Nov 1834); Star (24 Oct 1834), ‘ready for publication’; LG 930: 773 (15 Nov 1834); ER 60: 535 (Jan 1835); ECB 614 (Nov 1834).
BL N.1135; NSTC 2M33116 (BI C, E, O); OCLC 13346480 (4 libs).
Notes. ‘Errata’ lists verso of t.p. in each vol. Introduction outlines the persona of the ‘old maid’ and the village of ‘Southend’. The constituent parts are as follows. Vol. 1: ‘The Rector’, pp. 15–69; ‘The Heiress’, pp. [71]–229; ‘The Convict’s Wife’, pp. [231]–310. Vol. 2: ‘The Merchant’s Daughter’, pp. [1]–278; ‘The Moated House’, pp. [279]–334. Vol. 3 contains ‘The Recluse’. Printer’s marks and colophons of C. Whiting, Beaufort House, Strand. Bentley MS List records print run of 500 copies.

1834: 56     [MORIER, James Justinian].
AYESHA, THE MAID OF KARS. BY THE AUTHOR OF “ZOHRAB,” “HAJJI BABA,” &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. (Successor to Henry Colburn.), 1834.
I vii, 317p; II 330p; III 335p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP, ER, LG); 31s 6d (ECB).
BP (30 May 1834); Star (22 May 1834), ‘on May 27’; LG 906: 381 (31 May 1834); ER 59: 528 (July 1834); ECB 396 (May 1834).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47086-2; NSTC 2M36633 (BI BL, C, E, NCu, O; NA MH); OCLC 2680379 (39 libs).
Notes. Dedication, pp. [iii]–vii, ‘to the Travellers in the East’, signed ‘The Author’ and dated ‘London, 20th May 1834’. This notes that the events described in the story ‘are supposed to have taken place some twenty years ago’ (p. vi). Printer’s marks and colophons of Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street. Bentley MS List records print run of 2,000 copies. Originally adv. in Star (14 May 1834), as ‘just ready’.
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1834 (NSTC; BP: 20 Nov 1834, 31s 6d boards); 1846 (NSTC, OCLC); 1856 as The Maid of Kars, “Ayesha” (OCLC); Philadelphia 1834 (OCLC); French trans., 1834; German trans., 1835; Swedish trans., 1836.

1834: 57     [?MORIER, James Justinian].
THE MAN OF HONOUR, AND THE RECLAIMED. IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. Successor to Henry Colburn, 1834.
I 271p; II 303p. 12mo. 21s quires (BP); 21s (ECB); 21s bound (ER); 21s boards (LG).
BP (16 Aug 1834); Star (9 Aug 1834), ‘August 12th’; LG 918: 582 (23 Aug 1834); ER 60: 534 (Jan 1835); ECB 365 (Aug 1834).
BL N.1115; NSTC 2M36636 (BI C, O); xOCLC.
Notes. Block, NSTC, and OCLC ascribe to Henry Mackenzie, author of The Man of Feeling (1771), but BP notes: ‘By James Morier, author of “Ayesha,” which was published this year. Hence probably no clue to its authorship appears on the title-page.’ However, adv. in Star gives: ‘The Man of Honour and the Reclaimed. By a Lady of Rank’. The work consists of: ‘The Man of Honour’, vol. 1, pp. [1]–196, and ‘The Reclaimed’, vols. 1 (from p. [197]) and 2. Printer’s marks and colophons of J. B. Nichols and Son, 25, Parliament Street. Bentley MS List records print run of 750 copies.
Further edn: Philadelphia 1836 (OCLC).

1834: 58     {NEALE, William Johnson}.
WILL WATCH. FROM THE AUTO-BIOGRAPHY OF A BRITISH OFFICER. BY THE AUTHOR OF CAVENDISH, ETC. ETC. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: James Cochrane and Co., 11, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, 1834.
I viii, 331p; II 321p; III 403p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB, Star); 31s 6d boards (ER, LG).
Star (2 June 1835); LG 929: 758 (8 Nov 1834); ER 60: 535 (Jan 1835); ECB 638 (Oct 1834).
BL N.1112–14; NSTC 2N2348 (BI C, E, O; NA DLC); OCLC 35916854 (4 libs).
Notes. Adv. facing t.p. of each vol. draws attention to another work by the same author, ‘Wortley Montague; or, the Confessed Wanderings of a Merry Philosopher’, as preparing for publication. Preface, pp. [vii]–viii, signed ‘William Johnson Neale’ and dated ‘34, Pall Mall, 1834’, notes: ‘This Work was originally composed with a view to sustaining it as anonymous. This design being now however abandoned […] it may be proper to inform the reader, that he can obtain a more full account of the various transactions alluded to in the singular paper left to Charles Arran (whose real name was Charles Hamilton) by his father. This account will be found in a volume written by the latter gentleman, and entitled “Transactions during the reign of Queen Anne” ’ (pp. [vii]–viii). ‘Statement and Correspondence Relative to Captain Marryat’ occupies pp. 377–403 in vol. 3. This is signed ‘William Johnson Neale, Author of Cavendish’ and is dated ‘November, 1834’. It consists of a correspondence, in which Neale accuses Marryat of having exposed his name to the public and of having severely attacked his work The Port Admiral (1833: 52) in the Metropolitan Magazine. In his report of the argument Neale notes that ‘being totally unable by the use of any terms to bring him [Captain Marryat] to the field, nothing remained for me but to place upon him such a mark of public opprobrium, as should effectually exclude him without the pale of gentlemanlike society. In resorting to corporeal conflict with an individual of twice my own personal weight and strength, and age, it could not be the gratification of angry feeling which I sought, but simply the discharge of a public duty […] This duty I performed then on the afternoon of Wednesday the fifth instant, in open day-light, in Trafalgar Square, Charing Cross. A correct statement of these circumstances appears in the Sunday Herald’ (pp. 397–398). The following pages (pp. 398–399) quotes extensively from the Sunday Herald: ‘Captain Marryat […] began to untie his cloak which Mr. Neale gave him full time to do, and, stepping into the road, placed himself in a position for the attack, which he evidently mediated […] Several blows now quickly passed between the combatants […] [when] two or three individuals rushed forward, but the only one who interfered was Mr. Neale’s brother […] who to this moment had contented himself with quietly looking on […] Mr. Neale at the same time made a violent effort, and Captain Marryat rolled over in the mud. Neale now sprang to his feet, as did also the gallant Captain, who was again advancing to the attack of his unarmed foe, who having lost his stick, caught up some of the rubbish […] and directed it at the Captain’s face […] “Both parties now called out for the police, but none arriving, Mr. Neale […] walked very deliberately away, and wished the gallant Captain ‘good morning’ ” ’. Printer’s marks and colophons of G. Woodfall, Angel Court, Skinner Street.
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1835 (NSTC, OCLC); 1860 (OCLC); Philadelphia 1835 (OCLC).

1834: 59     [OPPELN-]BRONIKOWSKI, Alexander [August Ferdinand von]; [KRASINSKI, Walerjan Skorobohaty, Count Hrabia (trans.)].
THE COURT OF SIGISMUND AUGUSTUS, OR POLAND IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. BY ALEXANDER BRONIKOWSKI: DONE INTO ENGLISH BY A POLISH REFUGEE. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1834.
I lxxii, 270p; II 324p; III 313p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d boards (ER, LG).
LG 919: 598 (30 Aug 1834); ER 60: 535 (Jan 1835); ECB 77 (Aug 1834).
BL N.1062–64; NSTC 2B50183 (BI C, Dt, E, O; NA DLC, MH); OCLC 11634101 (16 libs).
Notes. Trans. of Hippolyt Boratynski (Dresden, Leipzig, 1825–6). Dedication, p. [v], to ‘Thomas Campbell, Esq.’, signed ‘The Translator’. ‘Translator’s Preface’, pp. [vii]–xi, dated ‘London, August 1st, 1834’, describes how the translator emigrated to England, expatiates on the political situation in Poland, and adds: ‘The present work is a free translation from the German of my Countryman Alexander Bronikowski […] Bronikowski, though descended from one of the most ancient Polish families was born in Saxony […] [and] educated in Germany until he entered the Polish Army’ (p. ix). It also notes: ‘he left the service, and retired to Germany, where he has since devoted himself to literary pursuits’ (pp. ix–x). Introduction, pp. [xii]–lxxii, summarizes the history of Poland. List of subscribers (pp. [xiii]–xvi) includes c. 150 names. Notes occupy pp. [257]–270 in vol. 1, pp. [317]–324 in vol. 2, and pp. [311]–313 in vol. 3. Printer’s marks and colophons of Richard Taylor, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street.

1834: 60     [PARDOE, Julia S. H.].
SPECULATION[.] A NOVEL[.] BY THE AUTHOR OF “TRAITS AND TRADITIONS OF PORTUGAL.” IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1834.
I 319p; II 293p; III 296p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB, LG); 31s 6d boards (ER).
LG 901: 301 (26 Apr 1834); ER 59: 528 (July 1834); ECB 553 (Apr 1834).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48669-6; NSTC 2P3017 (BI BL, C, E, O); OCLC 3080149 (9 libs).
Notes. List of ‘Valuable and Interesting Works, recently Published by Messrs. Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, Hanover Square’ (2 pp. unn.) at end of vol. 2. Printer’s marks and colophons of E. Lowe, Playhouse Yard, Blackfriars.
Further edn: New York 1834 (NSTC, OCLC).

1834: 61     PICHLER, [Caroline].
THE SIEGE OF VIENNA. FROM THE GERMAN OF MADAME PICHLER.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., Cornhill, 1834.
337p. 16mo. 6s (ECB); 6s cloth (ER, LG).
LG 928: 742 (1 Nov 1834); ER 60: 535 (Jan 1835); ECB 537 (Oct 1834).
BL 635.b.5; xNSTC; OCLC 5507214 (6 libs).
Notes. Trans. of Die Belagerung Wiens (Vienna, 1824). Series-t.p. precedes t.p. proper, and reads: ‘The Library of Romance. Edited by Leitch Ritchie. Vol. XIII. The Siege of Vienna. London: Smith Elder and Co., 65, Cornhill. 1834.’ Printer’s mark and colophon of Stewart and Co., Old Bailey.
Further edns: 1838 as The Siege of Vienna: An Historical Narrative, detailing One of the Most Important and Memorable Events of the Seventeenth Century (NSTC 2P15724, OCLC); Philadelphia 1835 (NSTC).

1834: 62     [PICKEN, Andrew]; {PICKEN, John Coxon (editor)}.
THE BLACK WATCH. BY THE AUTHOR OF “THE DOMINIE’S LEGACY.” IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. (Successor to Henry Colburn.), 1834.
I 318p; II 322p; III 332p. 12mo. 31s 6d boards (BP, ER, LG); 31s 6d (ECB).
BP (24 Dec 1833); Star (31 Dec 1833); LG 884: 825 (28 Dec 1833); ER 58: 553 (Jan 1834); ECB 449 (Dec 1833).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47201-6; NSTC 2P15795 (BI BL, C, E, O; NA DLC, MH); OCLC 11216976 (10 libs).
Notes. Dedication (1 p. unn.) to ‘Sir Charles Forbes, Bart. &c. &c. &c.’, signed ‘John Coxon Picken’. This notes: ‘It was the intention of my late father to dedicate to you the following Tale, illustrative of the martial character of the Highlands of Scotland. But death has withheld him from indulging in this wish’. List of ‘New Works of Fiction by Distinguished Writers, just Published by R. Bentley, New Burlington St.’ (2 pp. unn.) at end of vol. 1. Printer’s marks and colophons of Ibotson and Palmer, Savoy Street, Strand. Bentley MS List records print run of 750 copies. Originally adv. in Star (12 Dec 1833), as to be published ‘in a few days […] By Andrew Picken, Esq.’.
Further edns: Philadelphia 1835 (OCLC); German trans, 1834.

PORTER, Jane, YOUNG HEARTS
See ANON.

1834: 63     [PRINSEP, Augustus].
THE BABOO; AND OTHER TALES DESCRIPTIVE OF SOCIETY IN INDIA. IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 65, Cornhill, 1834.
I vi, 333p; II 372p. 12mo. 21s (MC); 21s 6d boards (ER, LG).
LG 885: 12 (4 Jan 1834); ER 58: 553 (Jan 1834).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47085-4; NSTC 2P27007 (BI BL, C, E; NA MH); OCLC 21954377 (6 libs).
Notes. Preface, pp. [iii]–vi, dated ‘London, January, 1834’. This identifies the author as ‘a civil servant of the Bengal establishment’, who ‘during illness, and amidst the discomforts of a sea voyage, undertaken in consequence’, had failed to ‘give the finishing hand’ to the first tale; this and the other tales are published by his widow, who ‘as the issue is necessarily uncertain […] will be pardoned for withholding at present the declaration of his name’ (pp. [iii], vi). Main text of each vol. preceded by motto subscribed ‘Stanzas MS.’. ‘The Baboo’ runs to vol. 2 (p. 271) followed by ‘Theodore; or Cœlebs the Younger’, pp. [273]–324, and ‘A Man of Sentiment in the Mofussil’, pp. [325]–365. Glossary of oriental terms appears at end of vol. 2 (pp. [367]–372). List of ‘Works in the Press, and recently Published, by Smith, Elder and Co. 65, Cornhill, London’ at end of vol. 1 (2 pp. unn.), featuring further oriental novels and travel literature. Printer’s marks and colophons of Stewart and Co., Old Bailey.

1834: 64     [REYNOLDS, Frederic Mansel].
THE COQUETTE. BY THE AUTHOR OF “MISERRIMUS.” IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Thomas Hookham, Old Bond-Street, 1834.
I 335p; II 357p; III 376p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d boards (ER, LG).
LG 884: 825 (28 Dec 1833); ER 58: 553 (Jan 1834); ECB 135 (Dec 1833).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47334-9; NSTC 2R7938 (BI BL, C, E; NA MH); xOCLC.
Notes. ‘Advertisement’ (1 p. unn.) notes: ‘The Author of “Miserrimus” was advised by a critic, in a periodical publication, to “quit his German absurdities, and turn into the paths of pleasantness and peace.” He has endeavoured to follow this advice.’ ‘Erratum’ (1 item) precedes main text in vol. 1. Running title varies according chapter headings. Adv. (2 pp. unn.) at end of vol. 2 for the 2nd edn. (‘just published’) of the same author’s Miserrimus, with extensive extracts from three reviews. Printer’s marks and colophons of W. Wilcockson, Whitefriars.
Further edn: Philadelphia and Baltimore 1835 (NSTC)

1834: 65     {RICHARDSON, Daniel [pseud.?]}.
TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS; COMPRISING THE CONVICT’S DAUGHTER, AND THE CONVERT’S DAUGHTER.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., Cornhill, 1834.
vi, 405p. 16mo. 7s 6d (ECB); 7s 6d cloth (ER, LG).
LG 908: 422 (14 June 1834); ER 59: 528 (July 1834); ECB 492 (June 1834).
BL N.1493; NSTC 2R9467 (BI C, O); OCLC 22329887 (1 lib).
Notes. Frontispiece portrait of ‘Jane Latimer’, carrying the imprint ‘Published by Smith, Elder & Co. 65, Cornhill.’ Dedication, pp.[v]–vi, to ‘Geo. Spenser Crackenthorpe, Esq. of Grassdale Lodge, Chumberland’, signed ‘Daniel Richardson’ and dated ‘Baker-street, 24th April, 1834’. This work is attributed to William Pitt Scargill, in a letter, listing his works, to the Morning Chronicle, 26 July 1855 (RLF see 27: 839, Item 8), this opening up the possibility that ‘Daniel Richardson’ might be a pseudonym. List of contents (1. p. unn.) precedes main text. The work consists of: ‘The Convict’s Daughter’, pp. [1]–213, and ‘The Convert’s Daughter’, pp. [215]–405). Printer’s mark and colophon of Stewart and Co., Old Bailey.
Further edn: Philadelphia 1834 (OCLC).

1834: 66     ST. CLAIR, Rosalia [pseud.].
THE PAUPER BOY; OR, THE UPS AND DOWNS OF LIFE. A NOVEL. BY ROSALIA ST. CLAIR, AUTHOR OF BANKER’S DAUGHTERS OF BRISTOL; FIRST AND LAST YEARS OF WEDDED LIFE; ELEANOR OGILVIE; ULRICA OF SAXONY; SON OF O’DONNEL; SOLDIER BOY; SAILOR BOY; FASHIONABLES AND UNFASHIONABLES; CLAVERING TOWER; DOOMED ONE; &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Printed for A. K. Newman and Co., 1834.
I 287p; II 296p; III 314p. 12mo. 18s (ECB).
ECB 511 (June 1834).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48498-7; NSTC 2S1998 (BI BL, O); xOCLC.
Notes. List of ‘New Publications’ (1 p. unn.) at end of vol. 1. Printer’s marks and colophons of J. Darling, Leadenhall Street.

1834: 67     [SCARGILL, William Pitt].
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A DISSENTING MINISTER.
London: Smith, Elder, and Co. Cornhill, Booksellers to their Majesties, 1834.
vii, 227p. 16mo. 4s 6d (ECB).
ECB 33 (Oct 1834).
BL 1124.b.26; NSTC 2S5999 (BI C, O); OCLC 16397852 (5 libs).
Notes. NSTC also lists this title under ‘Gathercole, Michael Augustus’, citing Dt as its source. It is likely that this is a mistake stemming from Gathercole’s authorship of Letters to a Dissenting Minister (1834), although it is perhaps significant that no mention is evidently made to Scargill’s authorship of this title in the record of the appeals made to the Royal Literary Fund by Scargill’s widow (RLF 27: 839). Printer’s mark and colophon of Stewart and Co., London.
Further edns: 2nd edn. 1835 (NSTC); 3rd edn. 1835 (NSTC); 4th edn. 1835 (NSTC, OCLC); 6th edn. 1843 (OCLC).

SCARGILL, William Pitt, TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS
See RICHARDSON, Daniel

1834: 68     [SEYMER, John Gunning].
THE ROMANCE OF ANCIENT HISTORY. EGYPT.
London: Cochrane and M‘Crone, 11, Waterloo Place, 1834.
I ix, 364p; II 339p. 12mo. 21s boards (ER, LG); 21s (Star); 42s for both ser. (ECB).
LG 903: 333 (10 May 1834); ER 59: 528 (July 1834); ECB 529 (1834–5).
BL G. 17995–98; NSTC 2S14499 (BI C, NcU, O); OCLC 42831360 (2 libs).
Notes. Dedication to ‘the Right Honourable Thomas Grenville’, pp. [v]–vi. Preface, pp. [vii]–ix, notes: ‘The stories presented to the public are taken from the second book of [Herodotus’] history; because Egypt, whose annals embrace the utmost verge of antiquity, is the subject of that portion of it’ (p. viii). Vol. 1 contains: ‘The Origins of Egyptian Song’, pp. [1]–33; ‘The Story of Nitocris, Queen of Egypt’, pp. 34–142; ‘The Story of Sesotris in Arabia’, pp. 143–325; ‘The Story of Rhampsinitus and the Architect’, pp. 326–364. Vol. 2 contains: ‘The Degradation of Egypt’, pp. [1]–94; ‘The Oracle of Woe’, pp. 95–233; ‘Preliminary Note’, pp. [234]–235, to ‘The Invasion of Egypt’, pp. 236–339. Printer’s marks and colophons of Schulze and Co., 13, Poland Street. BL copy examined is collected (but not bound) with the 2 vols. of the 2nd ser., which had the modified title The Romance of Ancient Egypt (see 1835: 87), and was the personal copy of Thomas Grenville. All 4 vols. are bound identically, with Grenville’s coat-of-arms and the legend ‘Rt. Honble. Thos. Grenville’ embossed in gilt on front cover. Bound at the start of vol. 1 of the 1st ser. is an autograph note from Seymer to Grenville, which accompanied the presentation copy, and reads: ‘Sir, May I request you will do me the honour of accepting the copy of my work which accompanies this. I beg to subscribe myself Sir, your greatly oblig’d, and obedient humble servant. John Gunning Seymer. 3 Michael’s Place, Brompton. April the 25. 1834.’

1834: 69     [SHEE, Sir Martin Archer].
CECIL HYDE. A NOVEL. IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1834.
I 311p; II 296p. 12mo. 21s (ECB); 21s boards (ER); 21s 6d boards (LG).
LG 883: 813 (21 Dec 1833); ER 58: 553 (Jan 1834); ECB 103 (Dec 1833).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47242-3; NSTC 2S18170 (BI BL, C, Dt, E; NA DLC, MH); OCLC 22190653 (5 libs).
Notes. Printer’s marks and colophons of B. Bensley.
Further edn: Philadelphia 1834 (OCLC).

1834: 70     [SOANE, George].
THE FROLICS OF PUCK. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Bull and Churton, Holles Street, 1834.
I xii, 290p; II 355p; III 280p. 12mo. 27s (ECB).
ECB 219 (Jan 1834).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47844-8; NSTC 2S29992 (BI BL, C, E, O); OCLC 41481271 (4 libs).
Notes. Dedication, pp. [v]–vii, to ‘Mr. Alderman Now’, in facetious mode and signed ‘The Author’. Preface, pp. [ix]–xii, notes: ‘I would willingly look forward to these volumes obtaining so much favour as to justify a second series, in which case I propose bringing forward, under the name of “The Children of the Year,” a mass of popular traditions that are but little known to the general reader’ (p. xi). It later adds: ‘I remember the amiable and talented Andrew Picken, in a conversation only a fortnight before his death, lamenting that he could discover neither traditions nor superstitions in this country; but he, too, had been toiling amongst our old chronicles, where such things do not, and, indeed, could hardly have been expected, to exist; the faith of the people is to be sought amongst the people’ (p. xii). Lists of contents (1 p. unn. each) precede main text in each vol. Printer’s marks and colophons of Bradbury and Evans, Whitefriars (Late T. Davison).
Further edn: New York 1834 (NSTC, OCLC).

1834: 71     SPINDLER, C[arl].
THE JESUIT; CHARACTERISTIC OF THE EARLY PORTION OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; FROM THE GERMAN OF C. SPINDLER.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., Cornhill, 1834.
393p. 16mo. 6s (ECB); 6s cloth (ER, LG).
LG 906: 381 (31 May 1834); ER 59: 528 (July 1834); ECB 308 (1834).
Corvey; CME 3-628-47469-8; NSTC 2S34248 (BI BL, C, E, O); OCLC 14761786 (5 libs).
Notes. Trans. of Der Jesuit. Charaktergemälde aus dem ersten Viertel des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts (Stuttgart, 1829). Not to be confused with John Frederick Smith’s title of the same name, which was published in 3 vols. (see 1832: 79); Summers notes that ‘Professor B. Q. Morgan, misled by the English Catalogue […], confuses Smith’s novel with a translation from Karl Spindler, having the same title’ (p. 376). Series-t.p. precedes t.p. proper, and reads: ‘The Library of Romance. Edited by Leitch Ritchie. Vol. XII. The Jesuit. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 65 Cornhill. 1834.’ 1 p. unn. at end of vol. advertises: ‘Vol. XIII. Containing The celebrated historical Romance of The Siege of Vienna, Condensed and adapted from the German of Madame Pichler, Will appear on the 1st of August’. Printer’s mark and colophon of Stewart and Co. Old Bailey.
Further edns: 1835 (NSTC); [another trans.] 1839 as The Jesuit, a Picture of Manners and Character from the First Quarter of the 18th Century (NSTC); 1854 as The Jesuit: A Tale Showing the Character and Policy of the Order (NSTC); New York [1844], as The Jesuit, a Historical Romance, Illustrating the Principles and Practices of the Celebrated Society […] during the Early Portion of the 18th Century (NSTC).

1834: 72     STANFORD, Jane Kinderley.
THE STOIC; OR MEMOIRS OF EURYSTHENES THE ATHENIAN. BY JANE KINDERLEY STANFORD.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., Cornhill, 1834.
111p. 16mo. 4s (ECB); 4s cloth (ER, LG).
LG 885: 12 (4 Jan 1834); ER 58: 553 (Jan 1834); ECB 558 (1834).
BL 837.d.32; NSTC 2S36053 (BI C, E, O); OCLC 13392607 (5 libs).
Notes. Dedication (1 p. unn.) reads: ‘To my Brother, Edward James Smith, I Dedicate my little Book, with my Affectionate Love. Jane Kinderley Stanford’. Note (1 p. unn.), dated ‘Norwich, 1834’, preceding main text reads: ‘The following tale was originally written without the most remote idea for its publication; its composition was the amusement of many hours of loneliness and of bodily suffering, which it enabled me to bear without weariness and impatience. The kind approbation of a few friends induces me to send it forth to the world; and I rely upon the mercy of my readers, not to judge harshly of a first attempt at authorship.’ ‘List of Works Consulted’ (1 p. unn.) follows main text. Adv. list (24 pp. unn.) at end of vol. for ‘Works recently Published by Smith, Elder and Co., Cornhill’. Printer’s mark and colophon of Stewart and Co. Old Bailey.
Further edn: Philadelphia 1836 (OCLC).

1834: 73     [STEWARD, Isabella Travers].
THE PREDICTION[.] IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1834.
I 364p; II 404p; III 435p. 12mo. 31s 6d (ECB); 31s 6d boards (ER).
ER 58: 553 (Jan 1834); ECB 468 (Nov 1833).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48369-7; NSTC 2S39878 (BI BL, C, Dt, E, O; NA MH); xOCLC.
Notes. The author’s surname is sometimes spelled Stewart. Adv. list (2 pp. unn.) preceding t.p. in vol. 1, headed ‘Conduit Street, November, 1833’, itemizing ten works of Saunders and Otley ‘just ready for publication’. Printer’s marks and colophons of Henry Cremer, Cornhill.

1834: 74     STICKNEY, Sarah.
PICTURES OF PRIVATE LIFE. SECOND SERIES. BY SARAH STICKNEY.
London: Smith, Elder, and Co., Cornhill, 1834.
ix, 410p, ill. 16mo. 7s 6d (ECB); 10s 6d cloth (LG).
LG 887: 44 (18 Jan 1834); ECB 563 (Jan 1834).
BL N.1481; NSTC 2S40632 (BI C); OCLC 35720997 (1 lib).
Notes. Frontispiece illustrates an episode from the 1st story, and is entitled ‘The Misanthrope’. Dedication to Lord Morpeth. Preface, pp. [v]–ix, notes: ‘It has been said of the First Series of this work that the religious sentiments it contains are not sufficiently decided. If by decided is meant sectarian, I freely acknowledge that I have, both in the first and second volume, studiously avoided every sentiment, and every mode of expression, not common to Christians of every denomination, deeming the fundamental principles of religion all-sufficient for my purpose. […] It must also be remembered that my object is rather moral than religious’ (pp. [v]–vi). The vol. contains ‘Misanthropy’, pp. [1]–213, and ‘The Pains of Pleasing’, pp. 215–410. Printer’s mark and colophon of Stewart and Co., Old Bailey. For details of the 1st ser., see 1833: 72; a 3rd, and final, ser. was published in 1837.
Further edn: 3rd edn. 1834 (OCLC); ser. 1–3—6th edn. 1845 (OCLC); 7th edn. 1850 (NSTC, OCLC); New York 1844 (NSTC).

1834: 75     TALLANT, Anne.
OCTAVIA ELPHINSTONE, A MANX STORY. AND LOIS, A DRAMA, FOUNDED ON A LEGEND IN THE NOBLE FAMILY OF ———[.] BY MISS ANNE TALLANT. IN TWO VOLUMES.
London: J. Hatchard and Son, 187, Piccadilly, 1834.
I vi, 304p; II 316p. 12mo. 21s (ECB); 21s boards (ER, LG).
LG 923: 661 (27 Sept 1834); ER 60: 535 (Jan 1835); ECB 576 (Sept 1834).
ABu SB.82379.Tall; NSTC 2T1611 (BI BL, C, E, O); OCLC 22329412 (3 libs).
Notes. ‘Address to the Reader’, pp. [v]–vi, end-dated ‘Lincoln, August 28th, 1834’. This states: ‘Octavia Elphinstone was written in 1826, Lois was finished early in the present year’ (p. vi). ‘Octavia Elphinstone’, a conventional novel, finishes at vol. 2, p. 216; the rest of the work is occupied by ‘Lois’, a drama in blank verse. Adv. list (1 p. unn.) at end of vol. 1, featuring the 2nd edn. of The Practice Book; containing Lessons in Dictating, ‘by the same author’. Printer’s marks and colophons of Ibotson and Palmer, Printer, Savoy Street, Strand.
Further edn: 1835 (NSTC).

1834: 76     [TRUEBA Y COSIO, Joaquin Telesforo de].
SALVADOR, THE GUERILLA. BY THE AUTHOR OF “THE CASTILIAN,” &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, Successor to Henry Colburn, 1834.
I xxvi, 295p; II 318p; III 292p. 12mo. 31s 6d (BP, ECB); 31s 6d boards (LG).
BP (10 Mar 1834); Star (27 Jan 1834); LG 895: 198 (15 Mar 1834); ECB 513 (Mar 1834).
Corvey; CME 3-628-48506-1; NSTC 2T18808 (BI BL, C, E, O); OCLC 22332918 (4 libs).
Notes. Wolff (Item 6869A) notes: ‘This novel is sometimes (e.g. by Block) mistakenly attributed to Thomas Noon Talfourd, because he too published a novel called The Castilian (in 1854).’ Introduction, pp. [v]–xxvi, summarizes history of the Peninsular War, and concludes: ‘compelled, as I was, to present a fictitious hero to serve the purposes of the fable, it is as well to know that I have endeavoured to embody in his career many of the deeds and adventures of the various guerillas’ (p. xxvi). Adv. list (4 pp.) in vol 2 of ‘New Works of Fiction by Distinguished Writers, just Published by Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street’. Printer’s marks and colophons of Baylis and Leighton, Johnson’s Court, Fleet Street. Bentley MS List records print run of 500 copies. BP notes: ‘The author, Don Telésforo de Trueba y Cosio, was born at Santander in 1805, and died in Paris in 1835. He was a member of the Cortes, and the author of many works in English of history, fiction, and plays.’
Further edn: German trans., 1834.

1834: 77      [ZAGÓSKIN, Michail Nikolavič]; [?MACKENZIE, Colin (trans.)]; CHAMIER, Frederick (editor).
THE YOUNG MUSCOVITE; OR, THE POLES IN RUSSIA. EDITED BY CAPTAIN FREDERICK CHAMIER, R.N., AUTHOR OF “THE LIFE OF A SAILOR,” &C. IN THREE VOLUMES.
London: Cochrane and M‘Crone, Waterloo-Place, Pall-Mall, 1834.
I xxiv, 309p; II ii, 293p; III ii, 378p. 12mo. 28s 6d boards (ER, LG); 24s boards (Star).
Star (11 Nov 1831), ‘in the course of this Month’; LG 851: 301 (11 May 1833); ER 57: 556 (July 1833); ECB 654 (Dec 1831).
BL N.1079–81; NSTC 2Z111 (BI O; NA MH); OCLC 21257047 (3 libs).
Notes. Possibly a trans. of Jurij Miloslavskij, ili Russkie v 1612 godu (Moscow, 1829), but at present this cannot be verified; the principal reference appears in the Cambridge History of Russian Literature (1989), which notes that Jurij Miloslavskij ‘is a lively tale of the Russo-Polish conflict from the Time of Troubles employing the usual Scottian formula of lovers separated by the fortunes of war against a colourful canvas of past events and historical figures’. List of contents appear in each vol. (vol. 1, pp. [iii]–iv; vols. 2–3, pp. [i]–ii). All 3 vols. supply additional notes, occupying pp. [285]–309, [267]–293, and [361]–378 respectively. The Preface, pp. [v]–xxiv, states: ‘A Manuscript Translation,—by a Russian Lady of high rank and her two amiable daughters,—of an Historical Novel, entitled “Youri Dmitrich Miloslawsky”, originally written by Michael Zakosken,—was, about two years since, sent from the City of Moscow to one of the Editors of the present work; accompanied by an urgent request that the same might be published in this country.—The Manuscript in question was Dedicated to our immortal Novelist and Poet, the late Sir Walter Scott, Baronet’ (p. [v]). The preface also supplies biographical details of Zakosken and an analysis of the text. Each vol. has announcement on verso of t.p., stating: ‘Speedily will be published, a New Work, by the Author of “Cavendish,” [i.e. William Johnson Neale]—“The Port-Admiral,” &c. In Three Vols. post 8vo.’. Vols. 1–3 have printer’s marks (versos of t.ps.) reading ‘Baylis and Leighton, Johnson’s-Court, Fleet-Street’, with identical colophons in vols. 2 and 3; vol. 1 has colophon reading ‘Henry Baylis, Johnson’s-Court, Fleet-Street’. The BL copy examined has a handwritten note on t.p., stating that the work was ‘written by Colin Mackenzie Esqr author of “The Clubs of London” &c.’ NSTC includes London 1833 edn. held in DLC, but not discovered in this form. Listed in Star as ‘from the pen of Michael Zagosken. Dedicated to Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Translated by a Russian Lady of Rank, and Edited by Captain Frederick Chamier, R.N.’
Further edn: New York 1834 (NSTC, OCLC).