1896 HEADLONG HALL & NIGHTMARE ABBEY BY THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK - ILLUSTRATED BY H. R. MILLAR - BINDING AND ENDPAPERS DESIGNED BY A. A. TURBAYNE

1896

HEADLONG HALL
AND
NIGHTMARE ABBEY
BY THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK

ILLUSTRATED BY H. R. MILLAR

BINDING AND ENDPAPERS DESIGNED BY A. A. TURBAYNE

*** RARE ANTIQUE EDITION ~ BEAUTIFUL ART NOUVEAU FINE BINDING ~ CLASSIC ***

London and New York: MacMillan & Co., 1896.

• measures about 7.25" x 5"
• beautiful original publisher's decorative cloth Art Nouveau fine binding designed by Albert Angus Turbayne (stamp-signed with his cipher)
• detailed embossed gold gilt stamping with peacock motif
• textblock all edges gilt
• pictorial endpapers
• frontispiece with tissue-guard
• many full-page plates and part-page pictures

Nightmare Abbey is a Gothic topical satire (akin to Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey) in which Thomas Love Peacock parodies the romantic movement in contemporary English literature, in particular its obsession with morbid subjects, misanthropy, and transcendental philosophical systems. Most characters in the novel are based on historical figures.

Headlong Hall is the first novel by Thomas Love Peacock, written in 1815 and first published in 1816. Peacock assembles a group of eccentrics, each with a monomaniacal obsession, and derives humor and social satire from their interactions and conversations. The setting is the Welsh country estate of Squire Harry Headlong Ap-Rhaiader, Esq.

1895-1905 SET OF ELEVEN TRUE MINIATURE BOOKS (2.5 X 2 INCHES) ~ CONTEMPORARY WHITE VELLUM LEATHER ~ ANTIQUE CUSTOM MAHOGANY BOOKCASE

1895-1905

SET OF ELEVEN TRUE MINIATURE BOOKS (2.5 X 2 INCHES)
EACH BOUND IN CONTEMPORARY WHITE VELLUM LEATHER
WITH ORIGINAL ANTIQUE CUSTOM WOODEN BOOK CASE

TITLES:
THE COMPLEAT ANGLER BY IZAAK WALTON
THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS BY JOHN BUNYAN
THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD BY OLIVER GOLDSMITH
THUMB READY RECKONER
THE IMITATION OF CHRIST BY THOMAS À KEMPIS
MY MORNING COUNSELOR
MY EVENING COUNSELOR
COMMON PRAYER
HYMNS
THE CHRISTIAN YEAR
THUMB NOTEBOOK

*** RARE ANTIQUE EDITIONS DATED 1895-1905 ~ BEAUTIFUL ART NOUVEAU ERA FINE BINDING WITH GILT STAMPING ~ CLASSIC LITERATURE ~ MINIATURE BOOKCASE ***

London: Henry Frowde, 1895-1905.
Printed by Horace Hart at The Oxford University Press

• each book measures 2.5'' x 2''
• beautiful vellum leather over blue cloth
• leather title label to spine with gilt lettering
• decorative embossed gold gilt spine stamping and gilt rule to front board
• textblocks top edge gilt
• silk ribbon bookmark and headbands
• frontispiece to seven of the volumes
• printed on high quality thin paper
• housed in an antique mahogany wood case, apparently custom made for this set