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1889-c1910 A Collection of G. A. Henty's Novels for Boys
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Description
Decorative Binding, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding
Eighteen volumes. Through the Fray: A Tale of the Luddite Riots (c1895) - With a frontispiece and eleven plates. With Wolfe in Canada: Or the Winning of a Continent (c1895) - With a frontispiece and eleven plates The Treasure of the Incas: A Story of Adventure in Peru (c1910) - With a frontispiece, seven plates and a map Winning his Spurs: A Tale of the Crusades (c1910) - “Thirty-seventh thousand”. With numerous in-text illustrations A Jacobite Exile: Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles XII of Sweden (c1910) - With a colour frontispiece and four monochrome plates A Knight of the White Cross: A Tale of the Siege of Rhodes (c1910) - With a colour frontispiece and four monochrome plates By England’s Aid: Or, the Freeing of the Netherlands, 1585-1604 (c1910) - With a frontispiece, seven plates and four maps Collated, complete.
Comprising a mixture of first editions (stated as such) and new undated impressions. These undated copies have been dated either from Jisc or the the years aligning with the changes in the publisher's address (hence the use of circa).
Henty is best known for his historical and adventure novels, notably The Dragon and The Raven, For the Temple and In Freedom's Cause. Noted for his thorough research (and sometimes first-hand experience) in the events he set his stories within, Henty was the most popular Boy's author of his day, inspiring other other writers to attempt writing juvenile adventure stories in his style, including Herbert Strang, Percy F. Westerman and Henry Everett McNeil.
In the original decorative cloth bindings.
The entirety of this set includes the following titles:
The Lion of St. Mark: A Tale of Venice (1889) - First edition, second impression. With a book by Harry Collingwood entitled The Missing Merchantman to p.12 of the catalogue of advertisements (Newbolt, 36.2). With a frontispiece and nine plates.
The Cornet of Horse: A Tale of Marlborough’s Wars (1892) - Illustrated with a frontispiece, seven plates and five folding battle-field plans.
St. Bartholomew’s Eve: A Tale of the Huguenot Wars (1894) - First edition (Newbolt 63.1) - With a frontispiece, eleven plates and a dual-spread map.
Condemned as a Nihilist: A Story of Escape from Siberia (c1894) - An early edition, retaining Edinburgh in the publisher’s address, which was not used after 1894 (Newbolt 58.2). First published in 1893. Illustrated with a frontispiece, seven plates and a dual-spread map of Russia.
For the Temple: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem (c1895) - With a frontispiece and ten plates.
Wulf the Saxon: A Story of the Norman Conquest (1895) - First edition - Illustrated with a frontispiece and eleven plates
The Dash for Khartoum: A Tale of the Nile Expedition (c1901) - With a frontispiece and nine plates
By Conduct and Courage: A Story of the Days of Nelson (1905) - First edition, first impression. To the preface it states “Henty, who died in November, 1902, had completed three new stories… the present story is therefore the last of Mr. Henty’s great series of historical stories for boys”. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates.
A Chapter of Adventures or Through the Bombardment of Alexandria (c1906) - With a frontispiece and five plates
By Pike and Dyke: A Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic (c1906) - With a frontispiece, seven plates, two maps and two plans.
Condition
In the publisher's decorative cloth bindings. Externally, smart, with only mild rubbing and bumping to the majority of the volumes. Fading to the spine of 'Incas'; hinges to this volume are also starting, but firm. The odd marks to the boards. Prize bookplate to the front pastedown of 'Nihilist'. Pages are bright and generally clean. With offsetting to the endpapers of several volumes and scattered spots concentrated to the first and last few leaves. Most notable instance to 'England's Aid', which has a few scattered spots throughout. Contemporary ink inscription to the front free endpaper of 'Khartoum', ffep of 'Saxon' and to the verso of the ffep of 'Through the Fray'.
Very Good
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