J r wilson (65 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. Eighth Edition. Half Leather, Paper Over Bds. Eighth Edition. 6 1/'4" x 9 1/4" (Oblong). 357p. + 3p. index. A fair copy, the covers are very soiled and are worn along the edges, the leather spine is worn and chipped at the bottom, smallish pieces of the paper cover have chipped away, especially near the spine, there is a waterstain at the back on pages 333-60, there is some foxing here and there, the back endpaper is very partial, and the front endpaper has two tears. Size: 6 1/'4" x 9 1/4" (Oblong). Book.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound in contemporary calf-leather over boards, stamped gilt borders to spine, gilt lettering of Tatler over burgundy label at spine, but half of each is chipped away. Bound in at frontis is a piece by Richard Steele, an item dedicated to William Lord Cowper, set in overlarge type-face, then begins with Tuesday, January 3rd, 1709 issue (#115). The interior is remarkably bright, with some scuffing along edges, tips, joints, else quite nice. The Tatler was a gentleman's art, culture, politics, newsy rag of sorts--current events rumor and gossip and humor in about equal measure. This appears to be an omnibus edition, with a publication date of 1764 at title page but reprising short pieces back to 1709-1710. Assembled by Richard Steele, editor, raconteur, and with pieces by and about him, Isaac Bickerstaff, and others, in the form of letters and obituaries, discourses upon manners, foods, wines, architecture and the like. It mimicked Addison and Steele's The Spectator, Samuel Johnson's The Rambler and The Idler, and Goldsmith's Citizen of the World. 318 pp. plus a complete index, letter by letter.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.…

Soft cover. Condición: Good. Duodecimo. x, [ii], 60pp. With the half-title present. Disbound. ESTC T105934. 0.

Full Calf. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket as Published. VOLUME I ONLY - Memoirs of the life and writings of Mr Gray, (xxiv), 239pp, very occasional foxing, pages clean in the main, full calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettering on a red label, all edges rather rubbed, spine leather creased/starting to crack. Size: 6.75 x 4 Inches. Biographical.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Lacks backstrip and rear board. A binding copy, Clean tidy page block. Front boards loose, but not fully detached, rubbed and marked, marble endpapers, lightly foxed edges and prelims, ink inscription to title page. Clean throughout. Fair. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st ed. 60p. Disbound. Adapted from Metastasio's L'isola disabitata', by Arthur Murphy. Long critical appreciation on title page verso in a contemporary hand.

Full Leather. Condición: Good. First Edition Thus. 259pp + 5 of printer's list. Still well bound with wear to cover. Interior in nice clean condition. Owner's name on 1st blank. Picture of this book available.

Full-Leather. Condición: Fair. 1st Edition. Leather boards, rubbed and discoloured, the rear one with four holes exposing the underlay; solid spine lettered and decorated in gilt with maroon and black labels. with 1 cm x 2 cm chip at top. Internally marbled endpapers have no weakness in gutter; contemporaneous name and address to second blank; foxing to title and contents page largely absent thereafter; only four of the six plates called for are present; pp 123-126 and pp 209-210 missing; slight browning to page 449 develops into a significant stain by page 478 (the end) affecting pull out plate at rear and the three subsequent blanks. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. …

Hardcover. Condición: Good-. Hardcover, full leather. On front pastedown is the bookplate of Alexander Pitt Buchanan(Virginia and Maryland). Book has large foldout map as frontis and two foldout images in rear of book. Pages are clean with minor foxing, front board starting to split at spine and is only about 30% attached.…

Paperback. Condición: Good. First Edition in This Form. 32 pages, February 22, 1935. Binding Good, minor corner fold, and a couple of stains, rusting stapes. Contents mostly good, clean & tight, some minor edge folding, centre pages loose due to rusting from staples & a couple of minor stains. This issue contents include Four Imperial Policies, Europe in the Dock, American College Life, Defense of the German Communists, Utopian Extravaganza, American Justice, Union Debate, Coaching by Steve Fairbairn, full page woodcut by Colyer, with reviews of the theatre, cinema & sport etc. This was in a time of European turmoil with Hitler coming to Power. Written almost exclusively by Cambridge undergraduates, Editor from Magdalene College . 21.5 x 28cm Apporx.…

Klein-8°. 17 cm. xxxii, 209, 302, 255 und 288 Seiten. Ganzlederbände mit goldgeprägter Rückennummerierung. Ein Band mit goldgeprägtem Rückenschildchen. Englischsprachige Ausgabe. 3 der 4 Bände ohne Rückenschildchen. Mit 4 Frontispizen, einigen zwischengebundenen Kupfern und Titelvignetten. Einbände deutlich berieben, Rücken mit mehreren kleinen Fehlstellen im Bezug. Vorsätze mit Namenseintrag von alter Hand. Innen schön erhalten. English language edition. Full leather bindings. 4 volumes (complete). One volume with leather label on spine, the other 3 missing. With 4 frontispieces and some copper engravings. Covers considerably rubbed, spines with some small missing parts. Endpapers with name inscription by old hand. Nicely preserved on the inside.…

Full-Leather. Condición: Good. Reprint. Later edition from 1771 in five volumes but missing volume V: I (311pp including essay), II (300pp), III (340pp) and IV (335pp). Contemporary full leather binding. The title and volume number panels have been lost on all the volumes. The volume numbers are stamped on the spines. The spines have chipping at the tops and bottoms with some vertical cracking to the surfaces. There is also little cracking to the edges - the binding is firm with the exception of volume I where there is a gap along the top half. The corners are bumped with some rubbing and fraying and there is some light surface wear to the front and rear panels. Name of a previous owner in ink to the title pages - Lady Wale of Shelford near Cambridge - and there is the name of an earlier owner above this. Browning and some spotting to the endpapers. Volume I has a little more wear to the spine than the other volumes and there is a little edge creasing and tearing to the fold-out illustration of Troy. Volume II has two pages which protrude slightly with some edge wear. Volume III has quite heavy staining over half the surface of the front panel and a large stain which affects the top half of the pages through to page 30 and then diminishes gradually through to page 150 with these pages only a little affected. There is also a little creasing to the top corners of pages 77 to 86. Volume IV has an eight page section of the text which protrudes a little with some edge creasing. There is light browning to the pages with some spots and marks in places and in particular to the pages at the front of the books but the pages are otherwise generally unmarked. Heavy item due to it being four volumes so there will be an additional postage charge for overseas orders.…

Half-Leather. Condición: Very Good. 3 works in 1 volume, 1793/1793/1796, printed by T Colvill / T Colvill / R Morison , 83 [1]: 43 [1]: 98 [2] pp, later half morocco, plain boards (rubbed), last work has a folding table at the end, the first work is state A (last leaf with advert and errata to verso) but lacks plates and map called for by ESTC (my state B copy also has no plates or map - see my book number 9132), small hole in B2 of the second work with the loss of2 letters, some light browning (heavier in the third work), 8vo (217x134mm), ESTC T64556/122447/180007 (showing only 3 copies of the last work worldwide - all in the UK).…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. The Third Edition; In Two Volumes; .To which are prefixed, A History of the Language, and An English Grammar.; Remnants of original cover leather laid over new leathers, gilt spine title on red & black Morocco labels, 6 heavy raised bands, & title page in rubric; A good or good+ tight set with even wear but no glaring defects, note: armorial bookplate inside each front board of Geo. Burrish, also, large ink signature on fep each volume of William H. E. Worship; This set has its own walnut furniture for storage & use (20.5"x17"x21.5") consisting of a lecturn with two drawers, one for each volume; Unpaginated. Size: 10.25"x16".…

New edition. Poor copy in the original paper-covered boards. Spine and covers worn. Spine bands and panel edges rubbed and bumped as with age. Internally, bright and clean. Physical description; 605 pp., [1] leaf of plates : ports. ; 22 cm. Subjects; English language Rhetoric. Literature History and criticism. 1 Kg.…

New edition. Poor copy in the original paper-covered boards. Spine and covers worn. Spine bands and panel edges rubbed and bumped as with age. Internally, bright and clean. Physical description; 605 pp., [1] leaf of plates : ports. ; 22 cm. Subjects; English language Rhetoric. Literature History and criticism. 1 Kg.…

paperback. Condición: Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing, fanning, inscriptions, margin notes, yellowing, staining on edge or cover or pages, bumps, scuffs, etc etc (sometimes multiple of these). It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.…

First Edition. Good copy in the original full leather boards, now lightly scuffed and edgeworn; top rear corner bumped. Spine with raised bands, somewhat rubbed and lacking labels. The interior shows minor dust-dulling only to the preliminary and final leaves, remaining remarkably tight, bright and clean for its age. A well-preserved example overall. Physical description; 439 pages : portraits ; 22 cm. Notes; Vol. 3 of 3. Memoirs of his life by M. Maty (Matthew Maty, 1718-1776), late Principal Librarian of the British Museum and Secretary to the Royal Society. Subjects; Statesmen Great Britain Correspondence. Authors, English 18th century Correspondence. Great Britain Politics and government 18th century. Great Britain Social life and customs 18th century. English letters 18th century. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Good copy in the original full leather boards, now lightly scuffed and edgeworn; top rear corner bumped. Spine with raised bands, somewhat rubbed and lacking labels. The interior shows minor dust-dulling only to the preliminary and final leaves, remaining remarkably tight, bright and clean for its age. A well-preserved example overall. Physical description; 439 pages : portraits ; 22 cm. Notes; Vol. 3 of 3. Memoirs of his life by M. Maty (Matthew Maty, 1718-1776), late Principal Librarian of the British Museum and Secretary to the Royal Society. Subjects; Statesmen Great Britain Correspondence. Authors, English 18th century Correspondence. Great Britain Politics and government 18th century. Great Britain Social life and customs 18th century. English letters 18th century. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Two volumes (complete). Two comfortable books. Full leather. Gilt monogram of the 5th Earl of Essex (a most wealthy Earldom that allowed George Essex to safely and smoothly move from sinecure to sinecure; his wealth however enabled him to entertain, and commission from, artists such as Turner, Pugin, Horsley, David Wilkie and Landseer). Gilt borders and titling. The spines have wear about the seams and head and feet. The boards have shelving and handling wear about the edges and corners. The boards and spines are comfortable and steady. The contents are most pleasing - especially taking their age into account. They are fresh, clean, clear, only very occasionally smeared with shallow foxing, certain, companionable and assured, all very charming. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. The Spectator began publication in 1711 and ended in 1713, and at its height sold 20,000 copies a day, according to its authors, covering all manner of subjects pertinent to 18th Century life in London. It is thought to have actually had a daily circulation of 3,000, with many more actual readers who would have read it in London's subscribing coffeehouses. It was also widely read in the American colonies. Originally issued as a paper, the issues were later collated into sets such as this one, reprinted, and continued to be widely read, long after it ceased to be published. The Spectator, in Eight Volumes (complete). All volumes dated to 1791. Printed by David Niven of Glasgow in 1791. Printed for J. Duncan, J. & M. Robertson, Dunlop, & Wilson, J. & W. Shaw, R. Farie, A. Orr, A. M'Goun, and A. Macaulay, Glasgow.; J. Dickson, E. Balfour, P. Hill, J. Hunter, and J. & J. Fairbairn, Edinburgh; and W. Coke, Leith. A very good set. Each volume in full tree calf leather hardback with burgundy and gilt morocco title label to spine, along with dark green morocco volume number label. Gilt decal borders to covers. Covers with rubbing, bumping and wear. Some outer joints worn, but all still bound. Volume 6 spine a little more worn than the others.  Each volume with pictorial frontispiece preceding the title page. Lower edges of frontispiece pages often trimmed shorter than main text at margin. With some offsetting opposite images. Text is nice and clean throughout, making for a very readable set. Text with a few minor flaws - one volume with some marginal tears at title page, and one with gutter tear to title page, meaning page is loose, but still attached. Occasional minor nicks or corner crease. Lower edge of blank endpaper in Volume 8 is roughly torn at lower edge. Some offsetting and minor age spotting to endpapers. Overall an attractive and desirable set, complete in 8 matching bindings. A particularly nice feature is the coloured line decoration to the edge of text block. Text in English. Pagination: Volume 1: 313pp + (10pp) Index;  Volume 2: 224pp + (10pp) Index;  Volume 3: 302pp + (9pp) Index;  Volume 4: 282pp + (6pp) Index;  Volume 5: 285pp + (7pp) Index;  Volume 6: 291pp + (13pp) Index;  Volume 7: 316pp + (8pp) Index;  Volume 8: 273pp + (7pp) Index.  Dimensions: Each volume approximately 184mm x 109mm x 25mm. Set weighs approximately 2.65kg unpacked. Extra postage may be payable for overseas orders. More photos on request. …

pp. xxiv, 485, Corrections leaf. 8vo. Some foxing. Half calf, marbled boards. Front hinge cracked but firm. Previous owners's bookplates.

12mo, pp. [iv], xix, [i], 5-170; with vignette on title; contemporary calf, spine gilt (minor wear, lacks label). First Dublin edition. This inexpensive Irish edition, no doubt unauthorised, does not contain West's long dissertation on the Olympic games; among the other translations appearing in the London quarto, only the ode of Horace has been preserved. Provenance. Signature on a flyleaf of Thomas Vokes, dated 1758. Another inscription has been erased from the title verso.…

[2], x, 86, [2], [16 ("Books Printed for J. Debrett.")] pp. Half-title present. 8vo. 8-1/8" x 5" General age-toning & soiling to text. Very Good. Disbound. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve 1st edition, issue with press figures (ESTC T136079).

Leather. Condición: Good Only. The scarce second edition of this eighteenth century study of the church of St Peter in York, illustrated with various folding plates. The second edition with additions of this work by Francis Drake.A fascinating study of the Cathedral and Metropolical Church of St Peter in York, from its foundation to the late eighteenth century. With the history and a description of the Church, to which is also added a catalogue of the archbishops, deans, sub deans, chancellors, treasurers, precentors, and succentors.Illustrated with fourteen folding copper plates, consisting of different views and plans, as well a translation of all the Latin epitaphs. Collated, complete. In full calf binding. Externally, the front board is detached but present. Cracking to the front and rear joint as well as slight handling marking to the rear board. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are slightly age toned, as usual, with only the odd spot to the occasional leaf. Illustrated throughout. Collated, complete with fourteen folding plates illustrating the Church of St Peter. Plate ten has a slight closed tear. Good Only. Unnamed (ilustrador). book.…

ESTC T125261. Gaskell, p.16. Size: Two volumes. Small 8vo. [xxvi], 239; [ii], 249, [i] pp. Polished calf (edges cores rubbed), with leather spine labels. Frontispiece. Ownership signature, stamp, date, and armorial bookplate of Jonathan Hayter. Two volumes. Small 8vo. [xxvi], 239; [ii], 249, [i] pp.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Photographs are insitu for all book listing. This is 'Universal Gazetteer or Geographical Dictionary or sometimes known as Brooke's and Walkers Gazetteer by Longmann' and is founded on the works of Brookes and Walker with numerous maps. It was produced by multiple publishers as listed in 1840. This is a cloth hardcover book in a green shade with titling attached to a paper plate on the spine. This book has no dust jacket and shows significant bumping to corners, edges and spine, plus noted scuffing to all cover aspects including fading to spine. There are noticeable usage and handling marks with the spine displaying dirt marking and a tear to cloth cover at top and centre. The interior has owners label attached to interior cover, yellowing and age spotting to pages and usage marks to handcut page edges. Dimensions 23cm x 14.5cm x 6cm.Regrettably, with heavy or large books I may request additional postage/shipping costs, however I will do my best to keep within quoted cost.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, in a series of letters to John Watkinson, M.D, Thomas Campbell, Publisher: W. Whitestone, W. Sleater, D. Chamberlaine, J. Potts, T. Wilkinson, J. Williams, W. Coles, W. Wilson, C. Jenkin, R. Montcrieffe, T. Walker, T. Stewart, W. Gilbert, R. Jackson, L. White, J. Beatty, J. Exshaw, and G, Perrin, 1778, 1st Edition. Condition: Very good for its 246 years, full leather binding, scraped and rubbed covers, binding strong (may have been repaired?), pages clean, colored from age, illustrations intact, a bit of water stain, all in all a sound nice copy. …

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st ed. 3 vols: 400p; 402p; 292p + 22 plates, some folded (closed tears to some folds, without loss). Some foxing to some plates, and occasionally in the text, mainly marginal. Modern quarter cloth over marbled boards. Attractive shelf appearance. Sometimes attributed to William Combe. …

First Edition. Worn binding copy bound in full aniline calf with a leather gilt-blocked label to the spine. Some wear and tear to the spine and panel edges as with age. Physical description; xvi, 478 p., 5 plates (some folded) : ill. ; 21 cm. Notes; See detail records for Notes relating to this item. Subjects; Campbell, Thomas (1733-1795) Correspondence Early works to 1800. Watkinson, John M.D. Correspondence Early works to 1800. Campbell, Thomas (1733-1795). Ireland Description and travel 18th century Early works to 1800. Dublin (Ireland) Description. Ireland Description and travel Early works to 1800. Ireland Early works to 1800. Genre; Illustrated. 1 Kg.…