COTTON, SIR ROBERT (10 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. 20.

Zustand: Brand New. In Stock.

Zustand: New. 2016. hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Reprint. Re-issue of the original 1659 edition in publisher's black lettered tan coloured wrappers; age toned, darkened and rubbed. Size: square octavo (200mm x 160mm). Collation: pp. iv, 30 and frontispiece portrait. Title-page printed in red & black. References for the 1659 edition: Wing S2083 and Sabin 78362. Scarce item in very decent condition.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A splendid antique engraved portrait. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive and decorative. Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, 1st Baronet (22 January 1570/1 - 6 May 1631) was an English politician, founder of the famous Cotton library.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Reprint of the 1659 pamphlet. Square octavo. iv, 30pp. Frontispiece portrait. Printed tan wrappers. Age-toning, about very good.

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. Frank Gillert; J. K. Maxton; Paul Hardy; W. H. C. Groome; A. Pearse; J. Eyre (illustrator). A lovely illustrated collection of Collins classics, including the likes of Dickens, Stevenson and Scott, smartly presented in red, predominantly morocco, bindings. Collection comprised of:The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell;Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, ill. by Frank Gillert;The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale by Robert Louis Stevenson, ill. by J. K. Maxton;Quentin Durward by Sir Walter Scott, ill. by Paul Hardy;Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens, ill. by W. H. C. Groome;Les Miserables by Victor Hugo;The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte, ill. by A. Pearse;The Count of Monte-Cristo: Volume II by Alexandre Dumas;The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton, ill. by J. Eyre;The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis;The Greatest Thing in the World by Henry Drummond.The Life of Samuel Johnson and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeare bound in the publisher's original red cloth. All remaining copies are bound in the publisher's original maroon morocco soft covers.All works are dated circa 1920 by copies held by the British Library and University of Cambridge Libraries.Les Miserables is comprised of two parts, bound as one.Excluding The Imitation of Christ and The Greatest Thing in the World, which only contain the frontispiece, all volumes are profusely illustrated, including with a frontispiece and vignette title page.Les Miserables similarly lacks a vignette title page but contains four plates, as does The Life of Samuel Johnson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and The Count of Monte-Cristo. The Master of Ballantrae and Quentin Durward both contain five further plates, and Nicholas Nickleby and The Compleat Angler include six plates, respectively. The Life of Samuel Johnson and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeare bound in the publisher's original red cloth. All remaining copies are bound in the publisher's original maroon morocco soft covers. Externally, very smart with slight bumping and rubbing, more so to the top edge of Nicholas Nickleby, and a few marks to boards. Internally, generally firmly bound, the front hinges a little weak at points. The occasional spot, more common to the first and last few pages of each volume, otherwise a very bright and clean collection. Very Good. book.

Zustand: Good. . Hardcover. Published 1675. .With a Short View of the Life and Reign of Henry the Third King of England, by the same author. The Second Edition, Very Much Corrected, and a Preface Added by Sr. John Cotton Baronet. Caption title: Propositions of war and peace delivered to His Highness Prince Henry by some of his military servants. "A short view" and "The French charity" each have special t.-p., dated 1675 and 1665 respectively. Rebound in full contemporary calf, five raised bands & gilted leather title labels on spine, light edgewear. All edges marbled & interior remains in v.good condition for its age. Exceedingly rare. . . . .

Zustand: Good. . Hardcover. Published 1675. .With a Short View of the Life and Reign of Henry the Third King of England, by the same author. The Second Edition, Very Much Corrected, and a Preface Added by Sr. John Cotton Baronet. Caption title: Propositions of war and peace delivered to His Highness Prince Henry by some of his military servants. "A short view" and "The French charity" each have special t.-p., dated 1675 and 1665 respectively. Rebound in full contemporary calf, five raised bands & gilted leather title labels on spine, light edgewear. All edges marbled & interior remains in v.good condition for its age. Exceedingly rare. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Rare first edition (here in the 1657 issue, but first published in 1655) of a political history of England written in 1610 by the famous antiquary and politician Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (1571-1631). Although the title-page names no author, he signs the text on G8v: "Robert Cotton Bruceus" and The French charity, added with a separate title-page as a sort of appendix, has also been attributed to him. Although The French charity is not named on the present title-page, it was named on the 1655 title-page and is clearly intended as part of the edition. Cotton wrote this political history of Great Britain in 1610 at the request of King James I for the education of his sixteen-year-old son, the Crown Prince Henry, Prince of Wales, who died two years later. In 1657 he reissued it with a cancel title-page (still under Oliver Cromwell, but now referring to the state as the "Commonwealth", a term now usually reserved for the period before 1653) and in some copies also a frontispiece portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh (not present here). Cromwell had secured a declaration of war against Spain on 15 October 1655, and perhaps for that reason the 1657 title-page changes the tome with regard to war, suggesting that kings were too often preferred an unjust peace to a just war. Further editions appeared after the Restoration under various titles. The translator of The French charity (not known to have been published in the original French), described as "F.S.J.E.", has been supposed to be John Evelyn, but the "F.S." remains puzzling (Evelyn became a Fellow of the Royal Society only in 1663, and the Society was not established until the Restoration in 1660). Cotton was an avid collector of books, manuscripts, coins and antiquities. His Cottonian Library contained the richest collection of manuscripts ever assembled by a private person. The collection now resides in the British Library.Spine damaged; binding rubbed. Lacking the cancel-title and portrait. Otherwise in good condition.l ESTC R221452; Wing 6505. Pages: [2], 96; [2], 10 pp. Including: [COTTON, Sir Robert Bruce]. The French charity; written in French by an English gentleman, upon occasion of Prince Harcourt's coming to England; and translated into English by F.S.J.E.London, William Shears, 1655. Small 8vo. Woodcut head- and tailpieces & initials. Contemporary calf.