XIX Century Fiction, Michael Sadleir
Limited facsimile reprint, one of 350 copies, of Sadleir’s landmark two-volume bibliography of nineteenth-century English-language fiction, based on the celebrated collection now held at UCLA. Volume I records first and selected subsequent editions and includes Sadleir’s comparative-scarcity notes; Volume II surveys yellow-backs and such publishers’ series as the Novelists’ Libraries, Standard Novels, and the Parlour Library. A standard working reference for collectors and booksellers of Regency and Victorian fiction.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Maurizio Martino Publisher, n.d. [1992]. Two volumes, quarto; xxxiii, [1], 398, [1]; [8], 195 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white plates reproducing bindings, title pages, and other bibliographical points. Publisher’s maroon cloth, spines lettered in gilt; issued without dust jackets. A very good set, with some rubbing, scuffing, and small pale abrasions to the boards; bindings sound and contents clean.