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Brown crushed morocco du cap [sic], signed on the front
turn-in: The Hampstead Bindery. Bindery founded by Frank Karslake who
also helped form the Guild of Women-Binders. S&EH.To:
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Lucile's first publisher, Chapman & Hall seems to have had a working relationship with Ticknor & Fields, who brought out the first American edition a short time after the English edition appeared.
Known copies:
1860. 360p, 185mm. Printed by Clowes & Son. Green cloth, board stamped with ornate plate featuring tree motif, spine gilt. Wellesley College: NL0594576 inscribed "Respectfully presented to Her Royal Highness the Princess Frederick William of Prussia [i.e., Queen Victoria's oldest daughter] by the author", with her bookplate; University of Chicago; Huntington Library; Stanford NUC Supp NSL 0043398, cf. Harlan, p.267.
----. Red cloth stamped blind and gold as above. New York Public Library: Arents S1201.
----. Cloth, details not confirmed: University of Illinois NL0594576; Columbia; Yale NL0594576; Whitman College NL0594576.
----. Green goatskin, gold tooled. University of Rochester: inscribed "Respectfully presented to Her Royal Highness the Princess Frederick William of Prussia [i.e., Queen Victoria's oldest daughter] by the author", with her bookplate.
----. Goatskin: Brigham Young: stamp differs from Rochester copy.
----. Purple goatskin. Cornell: signed under dentelle "Morrell, Binder". Marbled paper endsheets but original yellow glazed flyleaf retained, inscribed "[W. Thos.?] Blane, 1861 / A Souvenir of Woodlands-".
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Brown crushed morocco du cap [sic], signed on the front
turn-in: The Hampstead Bindery. Bindery founded by Frank Karslake who
also helped form the Guild of Women-Binders. S&EH.
----. Rebound: University of Texas Austin, HRHRC; University of California Riverside.
1867. An English eBay seller (gardiner1900) in December 2007 offered The Poetical Works of Owen Meredith Vol, II Lucile, a "new edition" dated 1867. This sounds parallel to the Ticknor & Fields "Cabinet Edition" (first published by them in 1865), but the book was not pictured, making it impossible to judge size and format. With the DuMaurier illustrations in process, it seems odd Chapman & Hall would invest in a competing edition; but perhaps they simply purchased Ticknor & Fields sheets and bound them with their own titlepage.
1868.
150x220mm, 261p. 24 DuMaurier illustrations. Green cloth stamped
black and gold, aeg, beveled boards. S&EH: Westley binding ticket
inside rear boards.
----. Cloth stamped green and black, but floral tools have been added to circles on board frame, spine stamps changed, and "LUCILE / BY / OWEN MEREDITH" is stamped inside frame. University of British Columbia.
----. Green cloth, board stamped black only, without smaller decorative stamps, spine gilt but simplified. University of North Carolina: bookplate of Derek Pepys Whiteley; New York Public Library NL0594582.
----. University of Virginia: rebound in later, now deteriorated, half calf with marbled sides; a second copy with binder's stamp of Root & Son.
----. Details not confirmed: University of Illinois
----. NL 0594582 University of Vancouver is lost; Bancroft rebound.
1876. 110x170mm, 320p. Half-title reads "Robert Lord Lytton's Poetical Works / Vol. III." Advertisement reads "Uniform with Fables in Song, v.1 & v. 2, Lucile, The Wanderer, and Poems Historical & Characteristic." Green cloth stamped black, spine title and imprint gilt. Cornell; Brigham Young.