Purves d laing (44 resultados)

Hard Cover. Condición: Fair to Good. No Jacket. 624 pages plus advertsing pages with catalogue of popular and standard books published by William P. Nimmo, Edinburgh. "Edited for popular perusal with current illustrations and explanatory notes by D. Laing Purves." Gilt top edge. Heavy green cloth over bevel-edged boards. Corners…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Published w/out dj. Later edition. Edinburgh, Scotland: Nimmo, 1873. Later edition, printing unknown, VG+ Rebound in dark yellow, full leather binding with gilt trim, five raised bands, black leather label with gilt lettering, gilt designs on spine, all edges gilt. Ge…

Condición: Fair. 1899. No Edition Stated. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Red pictorial cloth. Two parts in one book, thus unpaginated. Pages are moderately tanned at the edges, with notable foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends…

Octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration/illus to spine, black lettering & illus to front board, patterned eps, frontispiece, 288pp + 16pp catalogue to rear, VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing & soiling/discolouration to spine & boards, moderate soiling & tanning to page edges, light foxing to eps, moderate foxing…

Condición: Fair. 608 p., immaculate and unmarked--not ex-lib., no former owner's name; frontis. engraved portrait of Dr. Swift, with tissue guard; paper only mildly age-toned but some chiping at edges of front matter; text block firm (royal 8vo), but front board detached.red boards unfaded but smudged and bumped in places, black…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Lacks front free endpaper. Brown boards with gold titling and lovely colorful gradient illustration to front panel and spine. Good with moderate edge wear, some scuffing and scrapes to either panel. Spine squared. Binding cracked between end of Cook's Voyages and 2nd title page [after p. 351] else int…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. authentically oldEdinburgh: Nimmo, 1873. 1st edition, later printing (preface is dated 1868), NF/. Book has soiling to preliminary pages (front & rear), extending (and gradually lessening) to a few pages in at both ends. Double-columned text (with footnotes) covers all his…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. First printing of the first single volume edition of "The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift". With a finely engraved steel-engraving full-page portrait of Jonathan Swift to the front free endpaper, with a tissue-guard protecting this engraving, and also the tit…

Condición: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Large octavo. viii, 624pp. Original dark green cloth with gilt spine titles. Covers with some wear and chipping, re-cased with repairs to backstrip tears, slight wrinkling to endpapers, faint marks to frontis and illustrated title page, slight creasing to title page, otherwise very…

First Edition. Good copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked and blind-bordered cloth, edges very slightly toned. Some wear and tear as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Includes previous owner's inscription. Physical description; 616 pages. Subjects; The Canterbury Tales. Faerie Qu…

Leather. 1st thus. 1st thus, royal octavo, full leather binding, spine decorated in gilt with red spine title label, all edges gilt, gilt decorated edges, marbled endpapers, pp viii, 616. Engraved author portraits of Chaucer and Spenser. Tipped-in photo postcard of Canterbury Cathedral. Tipped-in reproduction illustration (Jacom…