blacker morgan (8 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1885. No Edition Remarks. 190 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Burgundy cloth. Limited edition. This copy is no 85. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Stamp to text block edges. Front endpaper is missing. Inscriptions to title page. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Boards are slightly bowed. Small dewy label taped to bottom spine.

Zustand: New. In.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

First Edition. Poor to good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Some foxing to spine cover. Scattered foxing internally. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 9 unnumbered pages, 10-18, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : frontispiece, illustrations (black and white), plates, facsimile ; 30 cm. Subjects: Law, William 1686-1761. Northamptonshire (England) King's Cliffe Description and travel.King's Cliffe (England) Description and travel.King's Cliffe, Eng Description. King's Cliffe, Eng Description and travel. 3 Kg.

ix + 26pp + 5 plates. 1st ed., fine in slightly worn original boards. 8 x 10.5" Analysis of the letter sent to warn Lord Monteagle not to attend Parliament on the day of the Gunpowder Plot with photo plates of the letter and an explanation of who the writer probably was.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. x, 28pp, with five plate facsmilies, three of which are loosely laid in (as issued) in order to facilitate comparisions. In paper-covered boards, with tan cloth spine. Signed and inscribed by George Blacker Morgan to Sir Charles Wakefield (then Baron of Saltwood and Lord Mayor of London, but later Viscount Wakefield of Hythe). 8vo. Boards worn and rubbed at edges, discoloured and marked, pushed at spine ends. Endpaper and prelims have light foxing, pages browned at edges else internally neat, clean and tidy. This is a scholarly work examining the anonymous 1605 letter to Lord Monteagle waring him not to attend the State Opening of Parliament on 5 November that year. The letter was a key factor in uncovering the Gunpowder Plot - the conspiracy to blow up the House of Lords and assassinate king James I. It analyses tehe handwriting and identifes the author as William Vavsour, an associate of Francis Tresham. Sir Charles Wakefield was a Liverpool entrepreneur, founder of the Britis oil company, Castrol, who served as Lord Mayor of London from 1915-16).

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Pbk, 94p. London: Printed 1668. Privately Re-Printed 1885. 'This edition is limited to twenty-five large-paper copies (demy quarto) on Whatman's hand-made paper, and seventy five small-paper copies (crown quarto) on antique paper. This copy is numbered 57.' Parchment wrappers dust-dulled with head, tail of spine and edges slightly chipped o/w a clean unmarked copy in good condition. j195 / m6675.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. None (illustrator). A remarkable account of London's burial places written after the Great Fire of London, reprinted in 1885. Written by Payne Fisher, a poet active in the seventeenth century. Left a pauper after fighting for the wrong side during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, he wrote a great deal of Latin verse; while locked up in Fleet Prison, he undertook this work along with one on the tombs of St. Paul's Cathedral. Both of these catalogues saw later revised editions, demonstrating their importance.This was initially published in 1668, two years following the fire, and lists the tombs and gravestones of extant churches from 'St. Katherines beyond the Tower to Temple Barre'.A limited edition, No. 72 of one hundred copies printed. In the original paper wraps. Externally generally smart, with some age-toning and chipping to the extremities, in particular around the tail of the spine and to the front board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are uncut, and with just the occasional spot. Good. book.