r g roberts (13 resultados)

Hard Cover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Former library copy - usual marks. Minor ink marginalia. 1871 Hard Cover. vii, 540 pp. Volume Two. The Baronetage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets Now Existing: With Their Descents, Marriages, and Memorable Actions Both in War and Peace. Collected from Authentic Manuscripts, Records, Old Wills, Our Best Historians, and Other Authorities. Illustrated with Their Coat of Arms, Engraven on Copper-Plates. Also, a List of All Baronets, Who Have Been Advanced to That Dignity, from the First Institution Thereof. To Which Is Added, an Account of Such Nova-Scotia Baronets as are of English Families. And a Dictionary of Heraldry, Explaining Such Terms as are Commonly Used in English Armory.

Full-Leather. Condición: Very Good. (xxiv) 384 [6]pp, contemporary gilt ruled calf (rather worn with loss of surface leather particularly to rear board), internally very clean, small amount of lower corner gnawed away, 12mo (10.5x17cm), ESTC T75661.

Condición: Good. 1st edition. Half calf, G+. ivi+[x]+[ii]+288pp, engraved frontis, subscribers list & a single page of adverts after the preface & before the main body of the text, signatures L & L3 are cancels, upper board detached, leather a little rubbed & worn, occasional foxing & yellowing of the paper, a fair copy of an uncommon work. The work contains a preface in which Fawkes thanks the help he has received from his peers including Zachary Pearce, John Jortin, and Samuel Johnson. Burnaby furnished the Essay. Francis Fawkes [ 1721 - 1777 ] English poet & translator, who was, in the latter role, considered by his contemporaries to be the best since Alexander Pope. His translations are still selected for modern anthologies to this day, such is their merit. 500 grams.

Full Leather. Condición: Good Only (Book Condition). A serviceable copy with original front covers of vols 2 and 4 detached but present. Vol 4 spine split with binding, meaning several signatures detached but present and complete. General wear to covers but text clean and bindings otherwise solid. As is. [ Our rating system: 1. Fine 2. Near FIne 3. Very Good 4. Good 5. Fair ].

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. 2nd Edition. 12mo. Pp xii, 277, [11], 48 plates. Contemporary calf boards detached but clean internally.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dustjacket. 8vo. Full leather with 5 raised bands at spine and lettered gilt on red spine label. pp [xxii] 384. Frontis portrait. Covers very slightly stained, spine hinges very slightly split but a sound decent VG copy.

Full Leather. Condición: Good Only (Book Condition). A serviceable copy with original front covers of vols 2 and 4 detached but present. Vol 4 spine split with binding, meaning several signatures detached but present and complete. General wear to covers but text clean and bindings otherwise solid. As is. [ Our rating system: 1. Fine 2. Near FIne 3. Very Good 4. Good 5. Fair ] Size: 12mo. Book.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original, full aniline calf. Professionally and period sympathetically re-backed with a red Morocco gilt-blocked label; very impressively finished. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 384 pages; Physical desc. : [22], 384, [6] p. : ill. (front. ) ; 17 cm. (12mo) . Referenced by: ESTC T198003. Notes: With three final contents leaves. 3 Kg.

[xxii] pp including preface, postscript & dedication, 384 pp, [6] pages of contents, frontis plate. lxxii, 356 pp, frontis plus one other plate. [The 2nd volume is printed for W Strahan, J & F Rivington.Robinson & Roberts, 1777 Volume the 2nd, 5th edn. To which is prefixed, The Life of Mr Prior by Samuel Humphreys, Esq]. Contemporary full sprinkled calf with olive green and dark green calf gilt spine labels, raised bands, decorative gilt compartments, double ruled gilt border to sides, marbled endpapers and leaf edges. 18 cm x 11.5 cm. Wear with minor loss to spine heads, rear upper joint of volume 2 starting to crack, light wear to corners, dark green spine labels losing some colour,pencil notes to front free endpaper verso, ink signiture to preliminary of each volume.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original, full aniline calf. Professionally and period sympathetically re-backed with a red Morocco gilt-blocked label; very impressively finished. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 384 pages; Physical desc. : [22], 384, [6] p. : ill. (front. ) ; 17 cm. (12mo) . Referenced by: ESTC T198003. Notes: With three final contents leaves. 1 Kg.

1st edition. Good copies in the original full aniline calf. Raised bands with a red morocco gilt-blocked label. Spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and bumped as with age. Remain quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 3 v. Contents; Vol. 1. Alcibiades. Don Carlos, Prince of Spain. Titus and Berenice. The cheats of Scapin -- v. 2. Friendship in fashion. The soldier's fortune. The atheist, or, The second part of the soldier's fortune -- v. 3. The orphan. The history and fall of Caius Marius. Venice preserv'd. Poems and letters. Subjects; Otway, Thomas 1652-1685 ; Correspondence. Portraits. English drama 17th century. 3 Kg.

1st edition. Good copies in the original full aniline calf. Raised bands with a red morocco gilt-blocked label. Spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and bumped as with age. Remain quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 3 v. Contents; Vol. 1. Alcibiades. Don Carlos, Prince of Spain. Titus and Berenice. The cheats of Scapin -- v. 2. Friendship in fashion. The soldier's fortune. The atheist, or, The second part of the soldier's fortune -- v. 3. The orphan. The history and fall of Caius Marius. Venice preserv'd. Poems and letters. Subjects; Otway, Thomas 1652-1685 ; Correspondence. Portraits. English drama 17th century. 1 Kg.

Fourth Richardson Edition. in contemporary mottled calf, the spine gilt in compartments with raised bands, red goatskin label lettered in gilt, binding slightly rubbed and headcap chipped, but generally a good, sound copy. 8vo (172 x 100 mm), pp. [ii], xxxiii, [3], 192, with an engraved title-page and 25 engraved plates, each with multiple images illustrating each of the 244 fables, An attractive copy of the fourth of five illustrated editions with Richardson?s Life of Aesop. It was first published in 1739, with a title-page dated 1740, with subsequent editions in 1749, 1753 (two issues) and 1775. All of the editions are scarce, with ESTC listing four copies of the first edition, two copies of the second, five of the third edition. The 25 engraved plates include delightful illustrations in miniature for each of the fables, with a brief caption and fable number given above each illustration. The engraved title-page is also very attractive, with an idealised illustration of a landscape peopled with different animals. ESTC t118432, listing BL, Bodleian, Szczecin Public Library, Louisiana State University, Rice, UCLA and Yale.