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TADEMA ( Laurence Alma ). Love's Martyr. By Laurence Alma Tadema. Longmans, Green

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TADEMA ( Laurence Alma ). Love's Martyr. By Laurence Alma Tadema. Longmans, Green

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 19 @ 18:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
TADEMA ( Laurence Alma ). Love's Martyr. By Laurence Alma Tadema. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886FIRST EDITION, pages (6), 208, 8vo, original red cloth : binding worn and stained, inside joints cracked, internally clean and otherwise a very good copy.Uncommon. Not in Sadleir. Wolff has only 'The Wings of Icarus', her second novel. "Tadema (1864-1940), elder daughter of the painter, was, in the 1880s and 1890s, an important contributor (prose and verse) to The Yellow Book. Her fiction presents passionate, suffering women. Love's Martyr, her first novel, memorably describes intellectual and emotional victimization. A widower writes of his half-French wife, orphaned by the guillotine and reared in England in 'a dense wall of ignorance, neglect and misery against which her darkened soul beats itself to death' : she loves the first man to extend sympathy, marries another from gratitude, and dies tragically." Blain 1053.ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1) WALLACE ( Edgar ). Writ in Barracks. Methuen & Co., 1900. FIRST EDN, pp x, 121, (3, blank), 47(ads), cr 8vo, original red cloth, gilt : very good. (2) PRAED ( Winthrop Mackworth ). The poems of Winthrop Mackworth Praed. With a memoir by the Rev. Derwent Coleridge. Edward Moxon, 1864. FIRST AUTHORISED COLLECTED EDITION, with a portrait, pages 8(adverts dated August 1864 tipped in at front), lxvii, 390, (8), (2, blank) : viii, 437, 2 vols, cr 8vo, original brown cloth, giltt : a bright, fresh and attractive copy.Praed (1802-39), distinguished minor poet, satirist, barrister, MP, &c. As the schoolboy editor of the 'Etonian' (1820), in which some of his best verse appeared, he early achieved a minor literary reputation. While much of his verse is political. his best work is considered to be his graceful, amusing vers de société published in numerous periodicals and here collected. Tinker Library 1683. (3) COCHRANE ( Thomas ), tenth earl of Dundonald. The Autobiography of a Seaman. London : Richard Bentlry … , 1861. FIRST ONE-VOLUME EDITION, with portrait frontispiece and 4 charts (2 folding), pages xvii, (1), 517, 8vo, original blue blind-stamped cloth by Westleys, with their ticket : the binding lightly dampstained and discoloured but strong and the inside joints not cracked, penciil notes on the blank portion of two pages, otherwise a clean and very good copy. A classic autobiography of a British naval hero and a controversial figure during the Napoleonic era. He was used as the model for the fictional Horatio Hornblower and Jack Aubry characters. (4) SINKER ( Wm. ). By Reef and Shoal, being an account of a voyage amongst the islands in the south-western Pacific. Eighteenth thousand. SPCK, 1914. With a map and 7 full-page illustrs, 64-pp, 12mo, original red cloth : a very good copy.The author was commander of the Melanesian Mission's steamer "Southern Cross".(6)ENGLISH LITERATURE; NOVELS; FICTION; WOMEN WRITERS; MODERN FIRSTS; VERSE; HISTORY; NAVAL; MARITIME; BIOGRAPHY; TRAVEL; AUSTRALASIA