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77.ClarKe, mrs Charles. high-class cookery recipes as taught in the national training school for cookery south Kensington. William Clowes and Son, 1906.
£98
8vo., original cloth, lettered in gilt on upper board and spine, a very good copy.
tenth edition. Mrs clarke, born edith nicolls, became one the school’s first pupils in 1874 and by 1875 was lady superintendent, a post she held for 45 years.
‘contains an unusuallY luciD anD cool
consiDeration oF the situations oF the slaVes anD Planters’
78.ColeridGe, Henry nelson. six Months in the West indies, in 1825 ... third edition, with additions. London: William Clowes for John Murray, 1832.
£350
8vo (139 x 87mm). late 20th-century full green crushed morocco gilt by J. May, london, boards with gilt diaper pattern of broken lines interspersed with gilt star tools, enclosed within gilt-ruled border, spine gilt in compartments, lettered directly in 2 and dated at the foot, gilt board- edges, turn-ins richly gilt, all edges gilt, marbled paper slipcase trimmed in green crushed morocco; pp. [8 (half-title, verso blank, title, imprint on verso, preface, verso blank, contents, verso blank)], 311, [1 (imprint)]; one folding map by J. and c. Walker; occasional light spotting or marking, some light offsetting onto map and title, small paper-flaw on B1, otherwise a very good, clean copy in a richly gilt and decorated full morocco binding.
third enlarged edition and the first to be published under the author’s name. the barrister and writer h.n. coleridge (1798-1843) was educated at eton college, ‘where he became part of the brilliant academic circle, led by W. M. Praed, which produced The Etonian magazine. this evolved into Knight’s Quarterlywhen the contributors went up to cambridge, and henry coleridge contributed to it under the pseudonym gerard Montgomery. he achieved great success at King’s college, cambridge, standing second for the university scholarship in 1819, winning both the latin and greek ode prizes in 1820 and the greek ode prize in 1821, and eventually becoming a fellow’ (oDnB). he was also a nephew of the poet samuel taylor coleridge, and at christmas 1822 he met his cousin sara coleridge (1802-1852, daughter of the poet), and by March 1823 they had become engaged: ‘his only sister Fanny, the only person to know of this [engagement], anticipated family disapproval and cautioned that it should be kept secret, but a year later henry coleridge told his father and shortly afterwards was sent to the West indies to accompany his cousin, William hart coleridge, who was to become bishop of Barbados. the reason for his trip was ostensibly to improve his health, which was indeed poor throughout his life, but it is likely that the real reason was his family’s attempt to break off the engagement. however, in 1826, henry coleridge’s account of his excursion, Six Months in the West Indies, was published anonymously and not only upset some members of his family by its flippant tone and lively anecdotes but also included a thinly disguised reference to his love for sara’ (loc. cit.). the work is particularly interesting for the author’s strong abolitionist sentiments, which are given full and fluent voice in the penultimate chapter, ‘Planters and slaves’ (pp. [285]-308), and ragatz comments that the work ‘contains an unusually lucid and cool consideration of the situations of the slaves and planters, maintaining that, all things considered, the farmers’ lot was very comfortable indeed [...] urges the opening of schools for the slave children, increased means of public worship, the abolition of sunday markets, a revision of colonial codes and a reformation of island juridicatures, permitting the purchase of freedom at market price on the part of any slave desiring it [...] the work attracted a great deal of attention’. the first edition did not include the map — which was introduced in the second — and this third was the first to be published under the author’s name, for reasons which he explains in the preface: ‘in this edition i have inserted a note and a few verses, but omitted nothing [...] But in this awful crisis of our country [...] i will no longer scruple the expedience of putting the author’s humble name to a work, which was written in a deep conviction of the immense importance of the West indies to our maritime superiority, and of the truth of the political views of which, in respect of the conduct of the abolitionists, the events of every day and hour more and more persuade me’.
Cundall 2181; Goldsmiths 27375; Sabin 14319; cf. Ragatz, A Guide for the Study of British Carribean History, 1763-1834, pp. 221-222 (New York: 1826 ed.)
79.Conrad, Joseph. the secret agent. a Drama in three acts. Privately Printed for Subscribers only by T. Werner Laurie Ltd. 1923.
£4,500
8vo. original boards, printed spine label, edges uncut, with defective dust wrapper. Portrait frontispiece. a very good copy.
First edition of conrad’s dramatization of his novel about revolutionary anarchists. this edition was limited to 1,000 numbered copies signed by Joseph conrad. this copy however is a publisher’s review copy with their round ink stamp on the front-free endpaper and does not include the signed limitation leaf.
the copy is inscribed by conrad on the title-page “signed for M evans Jr with regards by Joseph conrad.”. With Montgomery evans’s bookplate designed by the illustrator s.h. sime on front pastedown. We presume that this copy without the limitation leaf was one of a handful given to conrad by the publishers for personal presentation.
Montgomery evans was born in 1901 and formed friendships with many of the literary figures of the time. he was friends with hunter stagg, an editor of the southern literary magazine The Reviewer, and it was through him that he was able to network and associate with some of the well-known literary figures of the 1920s. evans and stagg went together on a european tour in 1924 during which he spent time with gertrude stein, ernest hemingway, sylvia Pankhurst, and sylvia Beach, and eventually became friendly with augustus John, arthur Machen, lord Dunsany, Walter de la Mare, and aleister crowley.
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