Portico library (7 resultados)

Condición: Very Good. 8 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 16 x 26 cms. Category: John Rylands Library; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Paper covers. Condición: V.g. No Jacket. 1st edition. Exhibition catalogue. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.

Hard covers. Condición: V.g. No Jacket. Scarce. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.

Hard covers. Condición: V.g. No Jacket. Scarce. Spine cracked along hinge. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.

Hard covers. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. 1st edition, vol. 2 only. Half leather binding, front board detached. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.

First edition. 8vo. ( 207mm. ) Pp.xvi, 207. Marbled edges. With a half title, tending loose. Contents clean and bright. Half black calf over royal blue cloth backed boards.Yellow endpapers. With the circular embossed bookplate of Edward [ " Eddie " ] Cass, of Manchester. on the front endpaper. The Portico Library was established in 1806 by 400 subscribers all men until the Married Women's Property Act of 1870 allowed for the provision of female members. A very good plus copy and rare. The Library Hub Discover ( on - line 5 / 22 ) locates only one copy - Chetham's Library , Manchester. The first volume of the Portico Library Catalogue was published in 1856 , William Axon in his - Handbook of the Public Librariesof Manchester and Salford. Manchester. 1877, page 14, comments on the catalogue - ' It would be an ungracious task to point out the errors which may be noticed in it, especially as on the whole they are not of a character to detract greatly from its usefulness '.…

First edition. 8vo. ( 209mm. ) Pp. vii, 391. Contents clean. Publishers original limp drab card wrappers, printed paper label on the upper wrapper, original cloth spine chipped. With the circular embossed bookplate of Edward [ " Eddie " ] Cass, of Manchester on the front endpaper. The Portico Library was established in 1806 by 400 subscribers all men until the Married Women's Property Act of 1870 allowed for the provision of female members. A very good copy in the original binding. Seemingly unrecorded, the Library Hub Discover ( on - line 05 / 22 ) does not locate any copies. The first volume of the Portico Library Catalogue was published in 1856,William Axon in his - Handbook of the Public Librariesof Manchester and Salford. Manchester. 1877, page 14, comments on the catalogue - ' It would be an ungracious task to point out the errors which may be noticed in it, especially as on the whole they are not of a character to detract greatly from its usefulness '.…