HAMILTON, ANTHONY SIR WALTER SCOTT, EDITOR (3 resultados)

Hardcover (Illustrated Boards). Condición: Fair. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated Ilustrador. Reprint. biographical sketch of Anthony Hamilton by Sir Walter Scott, Epistle to the Count de Grammont by Anthony Hamilton and index of names. Dark brown coloured endpapers. Illustrated frontispiece of Anthony Hamilton. The text is illustrated with reproductions of engravings by C. De Lort. Blue coloured cloth covered boards with gilt embossed family coat of arms to the front panel and gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Gilt to the top textblock edge. The memoirs of a French aristocrat in the court of Charles II. Dealing mostly with amorous adventures. The book is showing its age. Softening, rubbing and slight fraying to the head and to the heel of the backstrip and to the book corners. The lower edge of the front panel and along the front fore book edge. There has been erosion of the cloth and under lying board is visible. Heavy rubbing, flecking, and marks to the book panels, predominantly to the front panel. The pages have been hand cut, but there are some pages that have not yet been separated. Browning of the textblock edges and light age toning to the internal pages. The front hinge has cracked and underlying webbing is visible, the endpapers show rubbing and a few marks. Gift inscription to the page following the free front endpaper, in lead pencil. The illustrations have tissue guards, the first illustrations' tissue guard has been cut away. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (3), IV-XXXVI, (2), 396, pages, Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Biography & Autobiography; England; Renaissance 16thc to 17thc; Inventory No: 0113998.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No dust jacket as issued. Two Volume set bound with half leather over marbled boards, 1888. Signed by binders Pfister Co., NY. Ornate gilded spine titles with five raised bands. Rubbing to the edges and corner tips and Volume One has a 1 1/4" water stain on the rear cover. Still a Very Good copy. Extra-illustrated edition with numerous full page portraits. Some foxing to the plates. A previous owner's vintage bookplate and penciled inscription are on the endpapers. Insured international shipping and domestic Priority Mail may require added postage charges.

Cloth. Condición: Good. None Ilustrador. A limited edition copy of this biographical work exploring the life and times of the French nobleman Philibert, Count de Gramont. Limited edition, number 159 of 780 copies printed for England and America. Written by his brother-in-law Antoine Hamilton. Count de Gramont was the younger half-brother of Antoine III of Gramont and uncle of Catherine Charlotte de Gramont, Princess of Monaco. Illustrated with thirty four etchings on India paper by C Delort. This biography was first published in 1713 after being composed between 1704 and 1710. It has been said that some of the work was written at Gramont's dictation. This work made Hamilton one of the classical writers of France. This edition has been edited with notes by Sir Walter Scott. In original cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine and front board. Externally, generally smart with small areas of bumping to the extremities and to the head and tail of spine. Small patches of slight rubbing to the joints and to the head and tail of spine. Front hinge is slightly strained but firm. Bookplate of one Lily E X Routhe by E M Blake to the front pastedown. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright with spotting to the first and last few pages with instances of occasional spots throughout. Good. book.