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Select Books Published by Mr. T. Fisher Unwin
T. Fisher Unwin (Firm)
A window into the late Victorian imagination, this catalogue captures the intellectual landscape of the 1880s through a curated collection of history, travel, and literature.
Shadow over Asia
T. A. (Thomas Arthur) Bisson
This concise chronicle traces the rapid ascent of Japan from an isolated feudal state to a formidable military power. It examines how domestic political maneuvers and economic shifts fueled an aggressive expansionist agenda that ultimately drew the nation toward global conflict.
The American Missionary
Various
This collection of reports and correspondence chronicles the mid-nineteenth-century efforts of a religious organization to establish schools and churches for emancipated people in the American South and for immigrant communities in the West.
The beautiful garment, and other stories
A. L. O. E.
These stories explore the fragility of human pride and the necessity of spiritual humility, using domestic narratives to illustrate the transition from self-reliance to reliance on divine grace.
The Bible, King James version, Book 30: Amos
Anonymous
An unvarnished prophet from the pastures of Tekoa stands against the opulence of his age, warning a nation that its prosperity is a mask for moral rot. His message arrives with the force of a tectonic shift.
The Bible, King James version, Book 60: 1 Peter
Anonymous
A resilient spirit defines this correspondence, written to comfort those facing persecution by reframing their suffering as a path to glory. It offers a blueprint for maintaining integrity in a world that feels increasingly hostile to one’s beliefs.
The Discipline of War: Nine Addresses on the Lessons of the War in Connection with Lent
John Hasloch Potter
The Great War of 1914 provides the somber backdrop for a series of Lenten meditations that urge a nation to seek spiritual renewal through the crucible of national sacrifice.
The Druriad
Anonymous
A sharp, rhyming critique of the late eighteenth-century stage, this work serves as an acerbic guide to the actors, managers, and evolving tastes of London’s Drury Lane Theatre. It captures a moment when the grandeur of classical performance clashed with the rise of modern spectacle.
The Ducks and Frogs, a Tale of the Bogs
Fanny Fire-Fly
Gazing across a sunlit morning marsh, two wandering ducks happen upon a gathered council of distraught frogs pleading for relief from their tragic destinies.
The Elephant's Ball, and Grand Fete Champetre: Intended as a Companion to Those Much Admired Pieces, the Butterfly's Ball, and the Peacock "At Home."
W. B.
The animal kingdom convenes for a night of music, dance, and indulgence in this whimsical, rhyming caper that celebrates the splendor of a grand forest gathering.
The hoe cake of Appomattox
Ellis Spear
The experience of a soldier is often measured not by the grandeur of battles, but by the relentless, gnawing reality of hunger. This reflection explores the physical and social landscape of the Civil War through the lens of a single, hard-won meal.
The Impostor
Harold Bindloss
A hardened prairie farmer assumes the identity of a disgraced gentleman to claim a disputed inheritance, risking everything to save a struggling Canadian colony from ruin.
The Ink-Stain (Tache d'encre)
René Bazin
A young man’s pursuit of a woman he loves becomes a test of patience, humility, and the unexpected kindness of friends. This gentle narrative explores the transition from the aimless, romantic idealism of youth to the grounding realities of family and professional life.
The Journal of Ophthalmology, Otology and Laryngology. Vol. XII. July, 1900. Part 3
Various
This collection of clinical reports and observations offers a candid, historically layered window into the diagnostic struggles and evolving therapeutic practices of medical practitioners at the turn of the twentieth century.
The Lay of the Sheriff
Philip Lybbe Powys Lybbe
A nervous, reluctant gentleman finds himself unexpectedly appointed High Sheriff of Oxfordshire, an office that demands a grand display of public decorum he feels entirely unequipped to provide.
The looker-on
William Le Queux
A journalist and a seasoned detective track a web of impersonation and murder, only to find the truth hidden within the shifting loyalties of a beloved woman.
The Lure of San Francisco: A Romance Amid Old Landmarks
Elizabeth Gray Potter
A spirited local guide escorts a skeptical Easterner through the historic streets of San Francisco, revealing that beneath the city’s modern facade lies a rich, romantic past waiting to be rediscovered.
The Mail Pay on the Burlington Railroad: Statements of Car Space and All Facilities Furnished for the Government Mails and for Express and Passengers in All Passenger Trains on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Unknown
The railway system of the early twentieth century functioned as the lifeline of American commerce, but beneath the rhythmic clatter of the tracks lay a bitter, unresolved fiscal dispute between the private companies and the federal government. This examination of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad exposes…
The Manhattaners: A Story of the Hour
Edward S. (Edward Sims) Van Zile
A collision of high-society restlessness and the grit of the newspaper office, this story explores the search for genuine connection in a city defined by performative elegance.
The mathematicians
Arthur Feldman
An interstellar invasion transforms Earth into a brutal colony until a single human psychiatrist uses a strange, psychological weapon to force the invaders back to the stars.
The Memoirs of Count Grammont
Hamilton, Anthony, Count
A portrait of a legendary courtier whose life of wit, gambling, and military bravado defines the glittering, precarious world of the Restoration.
The Minus Woman
R. R. (Russell Robert) Winterbotham
A lonely asteroid becomes the stage for a cosmic collision between two realities, where the laws of physics dissolve into the arrival of an impossible visitor.
The Minute Boys of Philadelphia
James Otis
HOOK Teenage boys in occupied Philadelphia risk their lives to gather intelligence for General Washington, navigating a city filled with enemy soldiers and treacherous local Loyalists.
The Nursery, October 1881, Vol. XXX: A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
Various
This collection of stories and verses from the autumn of 1881 offers a gentle, window-like view into the Victorian childhood, where the simple rhythms of farm life, nature study, and domestic play define the world.
The return of Lancelot Biggs
Nelson S. Bond
HOOK A brilliant but awkward young officer must outsmart a pompous efficiency expert to save a spaceship from a lethal solar trajectory. It is a battle of wits fought through technical sabotage and high-stakes manipulation.
The three glass eyes
William Le Queux
A wealthy financier’s secret life, shadowed by a mysterious murder, ensnares an innocent man in a web of deceit, requiring a daring quest to uncover the truth. Behind the facade of London’s elite, the masks of the powerful are torn away.
The Trial and Conviction of That Infamous Hypocrite John Church: The Surrey Tabernacle Preacher, Borough-road, St. George's Fields, for an Abominable Offence
Anonymous
This document chronicles the public downfall of an influential London preacher exposed for predatory behavior, serving as both a legal record and a scathing indictment of religious hypocrisy in the early nineteenth century.
The Wedding Day: The Service—The Marriage Certificate—Words of Counsel
Unknown
This volume serves as a formal, earnest guide for the newly wedded, blending liturgical ceremony with pastoral advice on cultivating a virtuous and harmonious domestic life.
'Trusty and well beloved'
E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
This intimate collection of letters offers a poignant, unvarnished window into the experiences of a young British officer during the early months of the Great War. It captures the rapid transformation of a spirited schoolboy into a front-line soldier who remains remarkably steadfast.
Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West: The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I)
Samuel Strickland
Braving the untamed wilderness of early nineteenth-century Canada, an English settler documents his transition from a greenhorn in the backwoods to an established landowner amidst the rigors and rhythms of colonial life.
Vocation
George O. (George Oliver) Smith
In a world where Earth is held back from the stars, one man’s obsession with a suppressed secret leads to a confrontation that changes his understanding of humanity's place in the universe.
Wupatki National Monument, Arizona
United States. National Park Service
The eruption of a volcano transformed an arid wasteland into a fertile sanctuary, drawing disparate tribes together into a vibrant, stone-built civilization that thrived for a century before vanishing.
Zephyrs
Kate R. Stiles
A collection of nineteenth-century devotional verses, this volume seeks to offer solace to the grieving and encouragement to the weary through simple, sincere reflections on faith, nature, and the promise of the afterlife.
Zicci: A Tale
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
A young man’s obsession with a mysterious, god-like figure leads him to the edge of both his own sanity and the supernatural, all centered on a beautiful, vulnerable actress in 18th-century Naples.
A Ghetto Violet: From "Christian and Leah"
Leopold Kompert
The shadow of a father’s ruin threatens to consume his children, but they find strength in the fragile, enduring hope of a mother’s memory. It is a haunting portrait of love surviving in the narrow confines of a Ghetto.
A Modern Chronicle
Winston Churchill
The pursuit of a grander existence often leads to a hollow center, where the brilliance of high society reveals only the fragility of one's own identity. This narrative explores the cost of such an ascent.
A Sermon Preached in Christ Church, Hartford, January 29th, 1865: In Commemoration of the Rt. Rev. Thomas Church Brownell, D. D., LL. D., Third Bishop of Connecticut, and Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States by his Assistant and Successor
J. (John) Williams
A profound, formal tribute to the life and episcopal legacy of an influential American religious leader, delivered by his successor at the close of the nineteenth century’s mid-point.
Alf the Freebooter, Little Danneved and Swayne Trost, and Other Ballads
George Borrow
Sanguinary Scandinavian feuds and chivalric courtly rivalries meet pastoral Spanish romance in verse that captures the raw, unforgiving machinery of fate.
An ode
Charles Sprague
This ceremonial poem serves as a solemn meditation on history, identity, and the moral responsibilities of a city built upon the foundations of religious exile and the displacement of others.
An Unpardonable Liar
Gilbert Parker
The past rarely stays buried, especially when it is tethered to a secret kept for twelve long years. A chance encounter in a quiet English town forces a reckoning between those who have moved on and the ghosts they left behind.
Arachne
Georg Ebers
HOOK In the heat of ancient Egypt, a headstrong sculptor battles the constraints of tradition and his own turbulent desires to capture the elusive essence of human reality.
Barrier beaches of the Atlantic coast
Frederick J. H. (Frederick James Hamilton) Merrill
The shifting sands of the Atlantic coastline hold a complex, restless history. These natural barriers exist in a state of constant transformation, governed by the relentless interaction of tides, currents, and human ambition.
By foul means
Patrick Leyton
A beautiful, unhappy heiress is drawn to a crumbling Scottish tower, where a mysterious signal pulls her into a dangerous web of international intrigue and a long-buried past.
Canal Reminiscences: Recollections of Travel in the Old Days on the James River & Kanawha Canal
George William Bagby
The James River and Kanawha Canal once promised to bind the heart of Virginia, but this meditative chronicle captures the quiet, rhythmic life of that waterway just as the steam engine arrives to render it obsolete.
Captain Jim
Mary Grant Bruce
Amid the shadow of the First World War, an Australian family in England turns their home into a sanctuary for the wounded, finding grace in the face of loss and the quiet endurance of duty.
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 31, Vol. I, August 2, 1884
Various
The world of the late nineteenth century is captured in this multifaceted collection, where scientific inquiry, domestic drama, and the quiet heroism of everyday life converge within the pages of a popular Victorian periodical.
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 751, May 18, 1878
Various
This collection offers a nineteenth-century window into the Victorian mind, blending travelogues of French provinces, cautionary tales of social decorum, and curiosities of the natural and human world.
Cleopatra
Georg Ebers
The final days of an Egyptian queen unfold through the eyes of those who loved her, capturing the tension between personal devotion and the inexorable collapse of an empire.